skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered that the content you're sharing is not really on-topic for HN? Do you have some links? There's nothing listed as submissions under your username.

Quite a few people share mostly only their own things and they don't get banned.
I'm looking forwards the the smart people [...]

I'm not sure that a corporate headquarters is going to bring the kind of people you're assuming that it will bring into Boston.

Also, perhaps this win will offset the impending EMC layoffs. It's a good way for a politician to say they are doing something about the state jobs market, even though the package being offered to GE seems very generous and costly.
I recall (meaning, I can't substantiate this) some years ago that someone concluded that corporate welfare (this included sports stadiums) ended up being a net loss in most cases. Sure wish I knew where to even start to find that.
Also the Kindle sample is long enough (which unfornunately is not always the case) to give you a reasonable impression.
We went back and forth about it. We ended up doing it this way for consistency's sake, since the questions are anonymized and different partners will be answering different ones. But this might change. I think it could make more sense for the partners to sign their names.
This is hilarious. Is there any technical reason it couldn't have been written twenty years ago?
There's no pause between both syllables in either way of pronouncing the word. And you are right, it's not pronounced the same way, but if you intend to mock the car, you just stress the other syllable.
> Does the US government literally write the words? Do they just dictate what they should report on? Do they send them pre-produced bottled reports? It is unclear, but what is clear is the ultimate result: pure dripping pro-US government propaganda of the worst kind.

They often attack and upset the government, including leaking government secrets and sometimes getting prosecuted for it. I don't think it's at all comparable. Is Fox a mouthpiece for Obama? Was MSNBC a mouthpiece for Bush? The NY Times, to its credit, is criticized by all sides a being on the 'other' side.
But this is the thing, other sites have similar idea of "censorship", you cannot post your own things. So, if people are centred on specific sites, where can you post?

Maybe they will not kill you physically but surely they will kill your electronic life.

Also question is following if people gather on private site are those sites private or public?
One data point: I signed up for the service ~ 6 months ago. I do ~ $200 in Amazon purchases a month.

I got my first rebate last night: 50 cents back on some RAM that had dropped in price the day after I purchased it. For anyone who is concerned about email permissions, here's the email (automatically sent from my personal account) to Amazon:

Subject: I was charged more than current price

Hey,

I am writing you to ask for a price adjustment review on a recently placed purchase. Please reference: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/xxxx and xxx.

I ordered a Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3L-1600 SODIMM Memory for Mac (CT2K8G3S160BM ) for $66.99 on January 10.

However this afternoon I noticed that the price is $0.50 less than the amount I was charged, as it decreased to $66.49. As I bought the item recently, and the price has been significantly discounted, would it be possible for you to please start processing a post-order price adjustment refund?

Many thanks for your outstanding customer service.

Best,
Roy Murdock

The service also attaches a screenshot of the shipping confirmation to the email automatically, which is pretty cool.

I suspect that I would get more value from the service if I purchased a higher volume of commodity/low price goods on Amazon, especially computing parts that are essentially guaranteed to go down in price within the near future. Overall, it's great to have this sort of protection from dropped prices and is definitely worth the email access permissions in my opinion - but at the first sign of a data breach or privacy issue, I will drop the service immediately. I am not affiliated with Paribus in any way.
Great idea! We're looking to build out and extend a callback API so you can have it post data to whichever end point you want. Some integrations I've been toying with are: alerts in a slack channel, SMS notifications, push issues to git, get continuous integration to block unless it's 'ok', have it call my mom and have her yell at me till I patch my servers!
The results of the pirate game seem a lot like the stock allocation at my company. A billion dollar acquisition and Pirate A figuring out how to distribute the coins... guess where they end up!

Note to self: don't get thrown overboard.
Wow! Your comments on the site are usually great, and higher in this thread is the first time I've read something you've written and said "no, that's completely wrong!". Coming to the bottom and finding that you've already done the math to prove yourself wrong is wonderfully enheartening. I hope that I can have the grace and ability to do the same the next time I make a similar mistake.
Uh, I'm not sure about that. TOR uses many layers of obfuscation in its attempt to hide where your traffic is going. I think Signal does no such thing, and this metadata is insecure. Also, I think your mention of browsing history is a non sequitur.
http://LetmeGooglethatforyou.com/?q=Points2Shop+Point+genera...
But you can't get funding for that...

http://andrewchen.co/why-investors-dont-fund-dating/
There were lots of "average" people with computers in 1985 -- largely to play games with, That was the time of "home computers" like the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Apple ][.

What people didn't have was laptops.
indeed it is. i think i'm especially bad at it, but a lot of people probably feel that way.
The amazing thing is that this isn't a ROM hack, it's all done by exploiting glitches and completely hijacking the game. And it's done in real time on real hardware. The stream is worth watching.
Are you ok with that?

Why are pepole ok with sharing other people things, but it is not ok to share your own things?
Finally! You know I was mimicking the same with a picnic basket but never thought to have a two-step arrangement so that the keyboard could be at a lower height.

This is fantastic.

Do you ship to the UK?
I think it has more to do with society being class segregated, and the habits that could raise your class (or raise your chances of getting out anyways) are not the social norms in the lower classes.

Then desire to escape step isn't even necessary.
All media has a hidden agenda - its nice to get a different one sometimes, because when you're only exposed to one all the time you start to forget it has an agenda. There are many things not said and topics not covered in US media, the first and foremost being any direct representations of people suffering from US-led military ventures.
Sling TV. $15 a month (ESPN/ESPN2 are included).
Stadiums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwJt4bcnXs

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/if-you-b...

http://agrilifecdn.tamu.edu/cromptonrpts/files/2011/06/Full-...
I've been working from home for the last 12 months. There was a very nice tweet about it [1] :

STAGES OF WORKING FROM HOME

- Yay I get to work from home

- It would be nice to talk to people

- I hope that pigeon sits in the window today

1 : https://twitter.com/MarkAgee/status/620990471720992768
In the Defence industry, they can and will search vehicles and property. Accepting a job is assumed (sometimes explicitly contractually stated as) giving consent. You must generally assume that company machines and comms means are monitored at all times.
No offense, but you really should have done some research before you plunked down the cash... its exactly what you say it it is a foundation computer science book. literally.
You're not listening. Other people do share their own stuff, and don't get banned, and the items don't get flagged.

GIVE US SOME EXAMPLES!
It does not, that's covered in the original article.
Attracting employers is at least a goal; but, states should not discriminate in order to achieve their goals.

Why does GE get special treatment (at everyone else's expense)?
The average person could run a spreadsheet. They could use a word processor. They could run a windowed operating system in color. They could learn to program. They could play games. They could paint in color on a computer. They could compose music on a computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga

Having used a 1985 computer like that it's actually a bit sad that now that we have computers and phones and tablets for $50 that are a thousand times more powerful than an Amiga but are not a hundred times more useful.
It is pride because the person thought they could defeat decay, which is undefeatable.
Well, mostly the French language. It's certainly not France culture, which is why I assume you're using the scare quotes, although of course there's quite a bit of cultural exchange coming from France.
I was using this for a couple months and it saved me a bit of money, but in the end I couldn't get over the idea of a third party having total access to my email account -- which is total access to every account I own (banks, social media, everything). It just weirds me out. I canceled the service and changed my email password.
>isn't on AppleTV

You can use your Sling membership credentials to sign into ESPN's app. The app does not crash from my experience - works a charm.
A handy random statistic from https://what-if.xkcd.com/19/ for anchoring the discussion:

"Astronomer Alan Harris calculates that a person’s lifetime odds of death from a comet or meteorite impact are about 1 in 700,000."
Depends on how much you care about your users but yes, I would.

CDN's are very cheap and easy to setup. No big contracts or commitments these days. You can use them just for the static assets or for your entire site to make it faster for everyone while also reducing requests to your origin server.

MaxCDN is cheap and effective or you can use CloudFlare and get their security features too and not worry about bandwidth.
What 3rd party binaries? You mean the ~9000 packages?
Microsoft open sources Edge web browser's JavaScript engine, plans port to Linux
Arrr matey, it certainly would help because

a) not once have I seen an 'Arrr matey' in the comments
b) the article didn't mention walking the plank at all
c) I don't think that we can count on lower level pirates to be competent at complex logic
Please explain how all forms of energy (especially potential, but also kinetic) is a real physical property, and not virtual "information".
We have no developers on call
The country we were in was Switzerland, if memory serves...
That's pretty much the exact scenario I had imagined.
I got a used set for $6 and I felt that was a good investment.
I am both amazed and terrified. I'm amazed that we're in an age where the processor I'm using to do all the things I do has it's own processor that's running it's own OS, has a Webserver and running a Java stack. I'm also terrified about what this processor could do at any moment. Is there away to inspect the IME bytecode to see if they put any backdoors in there? How is this code updated?
pipeline stalls, designing for cache performance, branch prediction, multithreading, etc.

Those are issues for a subset of computer hardware. Embedded computing is still huge and has drastically different performance requirements. TAOCP is designed to stand the test of time, not focus on micro-optimizations that generally have limited performance impact and are a waste of time 99% of the time.
I guess 20 years ago CS students weren't told to "write a Doom-like game" as an awk homework =)
The original point was about the whole thing, so I thought I'd sort of reply to both ;)
Writing Up a POC
Welfare is awesome when it brings to your state pretty much the only thing voters care about: jobs.
In answer to your update:

[Update] Additionally, why is sharing other
people things considered ok but sharing your
own things consider bad and banned?

In general, it's not. Maybe the stuff you're submitting is simply not regarded as on-topic for HN.

As I've said elsewhere, give us some examples, and we can give you some feedback.
You can check if a pair of coordinates is inside a certain individual area.
I imagine this will do little but raise housing rates.
Elephant toothpaste
What I have learned from 10,000 hours of programming
Yup, that's exactly what I was doing. :)
Fun article, I had one of those machines big and bulky. Probably weighed in closer to about 20 pounds at the time.

"Tandy, which started it all, are still producing their laptops, albeit with the almost unreadable liquid crystal display, or L.C.D"

I remember the days when CRT ruled the world and LCD was a trneding fad.
That blog post is from eight years ago.

I am currently driving a C-Max and some of your points aren't relevant:

- The dealer rep went to lengths to train me on the sync system even though I insisted I didn't need it. (Maybe it's different elsewhere)

- The USB connection is inside the cubby between the seats, so you don't need to leave mp3 players in visible locations.

- The sync activation is on the steering wheel, near the volume buttons, and is not at all difficult to tap.

All in all, Sync has a weird tiered command system which is why I don't use it much, but it's not for lack of physical design.
Their site, their property, their business.

There are plenty of sites where you can post pretty much whatever you want. HN likely frowns on self-promotion, as it would fast turn an informative news site into a bunch of "look at me!" content few are interested in.

Publicly-accessible privately-owned sites are still private, just like stores "open to the public" - you're welcome to come in and participate as the business sees fit, but promoting yourself (unless that's the point of the site) is usually frowned on and not leaving when requested is punishable trespassing.

No, they're not "killing your electronic life". Go to networksolutions.com (or wherever), register your own domain, and publish whatever you want (a few generally-accepted legal limitations aside, like libel or obscenity or state secrets). Promote it thru advertising, Twitter, Facebook, etc insofar as you're not violating their standards for objectionable/deniable content.

Freedom of the press does not mean freedom to use someone else's press as you see fit.
Optimization decisions that V8 team have made are much more universal than it might seem.

That's certainly possible, but maybe a competing VM can do better, but finds that everyone has coded specific V8 optimizations. They may be hesitant to push out their implementation. It may be a better optimization, but it causes existing code to run slower on their VM. Thus back to the original statement that implementation quirks find their way into developer code.

for (IWantThisVariableToEndUpOnGlobalObject in obj) { }

The variable has to be in the local scope and can't be in any higher or lower scope, not just a global scope (which your words acknowledge, but your code snippet doesn't). It's easy to end up sending the prop variable through a closure accidentally. Some real world examples[0][1][2]. Note that the solution requires pushing out to another function just to get around the deopt. With the sproutcore example being very clear, as they made the change specifically to satisfy the V8 VM.

[0] - https://github.com/paperjs/paper.js/issues/466

[1] - http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/performance/mystery/

[2] - https://github.com/sproutcore/sproutcore/blob/master/CHANGEL... (search "Removes V8 "ForIn is not fast case" warning")
I'll give it a try and will post my thoughts here.
Bitcoin or its relatives is an excellent way to drive down the cost of sending remittances. The US poor do not depend on them, but in many areas they are a substantial part of the local economy. Initial retail liquidity isn't as much of a problem as you'd think if you have the equivalent of wholesalers making a market.

But yes, in general the existence of new cash-like asset classes isn't that helpful to people with ~no cash assets.
Disclaimer, I only read the first book.

Depends what you want from it. I used the first book to study for my Bachelor's degree final state examinations, and it served me well :-)

In other words, yes it is very academical, in the truest sense of the word.

From what you say, that you want it to "mention of pipeline stalls, designing for cache performance, branch prediction, multithreading, etc.", you might find better use of Andrew S. Tanenbaum books. I have only read his Computer Networks [1], but it has saved me at least 14 hours of boring lectures at uni, and helped me with some protocols work. He still does research in distributed OS-es, so would hope, that rest of his books would have same amount of readability and usefulness as the one I have read :)

Back to Knuth, if think you have no use in mathematical formalism, or college math in general, you will probably find it little more than intellectual entertainment.

There are of course areas where having formal theory of a thing is beneficial when programming, even if you yourself don't apply it (i.e. the chapter on random numbers seems like something everybody touching any code related to security should read, i.m.o)

But even then, if you suddenly need to learn more math theory, there are probably better sources than Knuth.

As somebody who finished my Msc already, I like it as my intellectual entertainment just fine :)

[1] http://www.mypearsonstore.com/bookstore/computer-networks-97...
Apocryphal story:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Close_Encounters_...
I think they should discriminate. Why should MA try to attract a company in a dying industry? No, I think they should attract companies which fit into their future vision coupled with the characteristics of their present and predicted future workforce.

In other words, think ambitiously and progressively.
Sincerely thank you. Yes, it was a lot of hard work, but we had fun. Looking forward to working with the community.

Disclaimer: I work for Chakra team.
I was part of the Qt community at the time (and still am) and that's really not how it happened.
You're the only one who has used the term "conspiracy" here. Again (for the 5th time you've been told) Microsoft has used exceptionally broad terminology to describe what data they are collecting. Since you're the one drumming on about "evidence" for a "conspiracy theory", why don't you provide a definitive list of the exact data they are collecting?
There's a difference between "hey, I found something y'all might find interesting" vs "hey, I wrote something and I'm trying to promote it".
Perhaps a less punchy version of Tanenbaum's famous "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum).
The one thing I find missing on the site is, when would I use it? What benefit or problem is it solving?

Can anyone share when they've found this to be useful? For example, does it compress HTML for faster page loads, or fix invalid HTML (e.g. from wysiwyg editors).
TAOCP is a fundamental work teaching fundamental techniques. If you can master it, pipeline stalls, designing for cache performance, branch prediction, multi-threading, etc., are easily understood problems and you have the tools to then attack most any other computational problems that are likely to come along.

Sounds like what you want is a prescriptive tutorial addressing a set of specific computing problems. That's not what TAOCP is.
If a kid screams in the restaurant and they have a policy of giving him a free lollipop to calm him down, that doesn't mean we need an app to keep track of the restaurants you've visited without claiming your free lollipop and then hire a company to go around with an automated screaming device to coax dozens of lollipops out of the local businesses.

This seems like the kind of company that would spoil this particular form of customer service. It just seems like greed more than any real value.

Now, those old scummy companies that used to offer rebates while employing actuaries to calculate percentage chance that you won't cash the rebate, intentionally make the process difficult, and then profit? Go ahead and run those guys into the ground. If someone could upload a scan of the rebate and have you guys do the rest, I wouldn't mind that.
> CNN, MSNBC, and the traditional alphabet networks on the left

An important point, I think: The propagandists, most prominently today the News Corp outlets such as Fox and the WSJ, want to portray the whole world as ideologically driven. It innoculates their followers against anything anyone else can say (e.g., 'it's all left-wing propaganda, don't even bother') and justifies their own propaganda.

But everyone is not ideological. MSNBC is, at least it was the little I saw of them awhile ago, maybe NPR is, but I disagree that the rest are on the left. They are mostly straight-ahead journalism without significant ideology (though of course nothing is perfect in the world, and I'm omitting the unconcious ideology of the US popular perspective that people like Chomsky observe.)
Did it result in a decent job (if that was your goal)?
If you have a raspberry pi sitting around, you can contribute to the network by setting it up as a non-exit tor relay, which is completely safe.
Some people read it cover to cover, and the few I know also happen to be the best computer scientists I know of. It is hard to come by a comparable compilation of best algorithms in one place, so I occasionally have to refer to it. I wouldn't think of reading all of it, because I don't think I have the time, but it is a page turner if you are into algorithms.
What can you expect from someone who still uses an AOL account...
https://mulkku.tv/ Finnish porn website.
PressReader does this at a much bigger scale than Blendle. It's truly Netflix-for-newspapers-and-magazines. 5,000+ titles, full versions, current day, all-you-can-read model. It's paid for either by personal subscriptions ($30USD/month) or sponsored access is provided by businesses (airlines like Qantas and Virgin Australia, thousands of major hotels around the world, 20,000+ libraries, a partnership with Uber in France for the Cannes Film Festival, etc.) Users can download full titles onto their own device and save them for later reading too.

Full disclosure, I work at PressReader. But it surprises me sometimes when we're not mentioned in these conversations. We do huge business internationally, have millions of active users, have been profitable for years, and are growing at an absolutely insane rate. It's a win-win business model because readers get content (often for free since it's sponsored by a brand they're a customer of), publishers make money (we pay royalties when their content is read), and brands have the opportunity to offer something tangible and personalized to their customers.
Linking everything statically is not always an advantage...
> As a customer of MS, I despise these methods, as I continue to use their OS, because there simply isn't any other alternative.

There are many alternatives to using Windows as your host OS.
Grapefruit–drug interactions
Forking is always possible, but it was only practical because the community could plausibly claim to be able to put as much or more effort into building out their fork than Joyent could theirs.

Microsoft is a much, much, much bigger company than Joyent. If they decide they want to take things in their own direction, they can throw an awful lot of programmers at making that happen. Which would make standing up a fork that could plausibly claim to be at least as actively developed as Microsoft's would be much more difficult.
Forgot one point: battery life

The next phone manufacturer that will be able to make a smartphone / laptop that can last more than 1 working day on a single charge will rule the world of smart phones. Old cell phones could last 2, 3 even more days on a single charge. Battery life is currently the main thing lacking.