skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world where employees care more about management satisfaction than customer satisfaction? And it's difficult to prove that bothering some customers here and there is impacting corporate revenue. Policies like this slip through the cracks.
Thanks for the update. Most of the queries I am testing now are 'mean' and 'group by' aggregation for downsampling and visualization in Grafana. Looks like the problem is CPU bound as I see all 8 cores got maxed out when processing the queries. Currently there are about 50 series and 5B data points in total.
I'm curious what the Weismann score they get.
Oh.ho. When did this happen? I seem to have no recollection of reading about this.
From the blogpost:

> Image IDs now represent the content that is inside an image, in a similar way to how Git commit hashes represent the content inside commits.
Beyond Sean Penn’s Fiasco: Mexico’s Alleged War on Drugs Is Not a Movie
This is a very odd thread.

I'm in no way involved in influx, we're just evaluating it, but this entire thread reads like complete FUD at the moment, so it's odd that you're calling out a maintainer or whoever pauldix is for "disappearing".
This is a fun walk through of a malicious stack overflow... And a great reminder that being familiar with assembly can greatly said in understanding what is happening when you do certain things.
I guess they are gone but I would really like a invite: martindk at mailbox.org
But people aren't trading trips. People have to go where they need to go. It's better to have the person travelling 30000 year do it in a less polluting vehicle over the person driving 3000.
> If 45% are preventable, then are the rest NOT?

We will find out more causes of cancer as time goes on. And then more will be preventable. I am sure that environmental pollution causes are a big one that isn't included in this report -- and also various chemicals we encounter in our daily lives (soaps, etc) are likely contributing to cancer as well.
Paywall, skip ...
I've been using Apple hardware since cutting my teeth on an Apple //e and then progressing through a continuous chain of Macs now totaling well over a dozen since the late 80s, and my perception is not that things have gotten worse of late—it's been up and down the whole time. My take on this is that Apple has actually improved at their traditional weakness of cloud services to the point where now people use it enough to complain.

Cloud services is the one area where newer companies like Google and Facebook have a distinct advantage over Apple and is really the only threat (Android can never be as stable as iOS because of the vertical integration). Cloud services are amazing because they add so much value in the mobile era where you can easily operate from multiple devices without syncing nightmares. Google's cloud services are the thing which makes Android better than iOS in the areas its superior.

Up until now Apple's offerings were so ridiculously terrible than no one even used them, whether it was iDisk or MobileMe or whatever other branded services they churned through—they were utterly unusable. In the iCloud era it's actually become usable which exposes all the warts in new features which would have been hitherto impossible, whether it's iCloud app developer woes, message syncing issues, or Photos complaints, these things have all become usable now and at least arguably competitive with Google's offerings in the same spaces.

Sure there are warts, and sure it's annoying OS X doesn't get the love it deserves as iOS drives the company, and sure they're struggling with the scope of maintenance they're now saddled with, but that's not really the sky-is-falling narrative that tech bloggers have been pining to snap onto the Tim Cook era.
A product that no ones wants is not a great product. Great software != great product.
<The federal fuel tax in 1993 was 18.4c per gallon (and remains at that level), while crude oil that year cost as little as $13/barrel. That's a 57% tax.>

Your math eludes me. National average gasoline price for 1993 was $1.10, yielding less than 17% tax.
Did they solve their untenable business model of assuming that cleaners are interchangeable service workers AND assuming that cleaners aren't smart enough to cut out the middle-man who literally does nothing after the initial introduction?
And don't eat antioxidants... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983214
what about carbon foot print of Gates' businesses -building and running costs
Again, this is a stupid statistic that inaccurately counts currently indebted but huge earning potential people (say, for example, a recent graduate of Harvard Business School) as "poorer" than a sub-Saharan subsistence farmer. Longer explanation here: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/04/stop-adding...
IIRC, OpenSSL is dynamically linked by default in a custom compiled nginx — the same as it would be if you didn't custom compile it, and you have the same amount of work either way maintaining OpenSSL. I maintain a custom compile of nginx, but the custom ends at the boundary of nginx: it uses Ubuntu's libssl, so OpenSSL patches that make it to Ubuntu apply normally to my custom build. The config for nginx is the same: /etc/nginx/…. I can tell you it's exactly the same, as we transitioned from a config from Ubuntu stock nginx to my custom build (and went up a version) with zero issues.

The only real thing that is different is the binary itself, and the installation location. (But I did the latter on purpose, because I didn't want to collide with apt/dpkg's management of /usr/bin.)
You have a valid point, but what isn't obvious is my technology isn't really dependent on GitHub. The only thing that can cripple me is Git becoming less vogue. There are two parts to my technology:

- There is the front end which is 100% JavaScript and this is important since it allows me to build on top of existing web solutions like GitHub

- There is the indexing engine which was insanely hard to develop and is what makes my solution unique.

I've attached some screenshots that shows how I'm using my JavaScript technology to integrate with Bitbucket here:

http://imgur.com/a/7AME6

I've also uploaded some screenshots that shows how I monitor/manage indexing. Right now, my indexing engine can easily process 10s of thousands of repositories with millions of branches on a single machine. The indexers are designed to scale horizontally and developing them was insanely hard and that's what I'm really selling. There is a reason why GitHub stopped indexing commits a few years ago. And why Bitbucket has a 5 year old ticket about code searching:

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/2874/ability-to-sea...

Should the worst happen and I get shut out by GitHub and Atlassian, there is always GitLab, Gogs, etc. For now, I'm more than happy to build on top of GitHub and ensuring my solution works with their Enterprise offering.
How to Secure Your Business's Online Presence (for Non-Experts)
I'm looking for a good host, was considering DO, but now I'm not. Any suggestions?
What Ivy League students are reading
It's things like this which become annoying. Almost like an old school corporate mentality... despite being an open-source platform. I'm trying to get into using Firefox again but the lack of transparency from Mozilla Inc. is frustrating.
Weren't people paying the equivalent of $10/barrel more just a few months ago? It seems unlikely that a new crop of people could suddenly afford the multi-thousand dollar, ongoing investment in a vehicle because they'd pay $0.25/gallon less for gas.

Besides, we've hidden the 'true cost' of driving from consumers by refusing the raise the current fuel tax. It doesn't even come close to paying for the roads. We should raise the tax on it for that alone.
An awesome project for professionals is coming soon
Well, large corporations using political influence to extend copyright terms effectively forever to prevent works from ever entering the public domain against the express intent of the Founders (at least in the U.S.) aren't exactly the white knights in this story either.

Look, I'm a filmmaker. I believe in copyright (for limited terms), and I believe in using the law as a mechanism to enforce the interests of copyright holders. But making it a crime to link to a page that contains unlicensed material is going way too far IMHO.

(BTW, the sleaze and malware make pretty effective deterrents for the general public to use the PB. You may have noticed that Hollywood is still in business despite the fact that the PB is still operating.)
Nope, the only assurance you can get is you won't be access your data, I am not sure how one can come down with conclusion of "no way they have a copy or keep it in archive/deep backup"

Having a backup and letting you to access it are two entirely different issues, and most of the time customer service staff don't know how the data management is being done by the engineering/operations team.
wow, I couldn't put my finger on it, but this is why I am starting to hate apple. I spend a lot of time on the computer so I like a lot of things apple does, mostly the interface and the UI. To clarify what UI means to me, it is how simple and intuitive it is to use the device, and give it the instructions to do what I want. I am willing to forgive a lot because this is good.

Apple has always been a fairly closed system and it didn't bother me more than not having the features I wanted. In El Capitan, it was different. Things didn't work well and Apple took over my whole system. With SIP(system integrity protection) I had no control. It would seem to turn protection back on after being disabled, and it takes a nontrivial amount of time to turn it off because you have to reboot the entire system into recovery mode, wait for it to connect to the internet and download a bunch of apple shit, and then select a language preference and then type a command into bash and reboot.

Deleting apps is difficult, changing settings is difficult, having siri take up 10% of my iphone is annoying, removing apps destabalize the system, installing my system from time machine reinstalls their system and settings and overrides mine.

I disabled most of apples applications and processes, the system in fairly stable, although I think I went to far with disabling notification center, but your point is correct.

tl;dr users are willing to accept a lot for revolutionary changes. Evolutionary changes with only marginal improvements are not going to make me forget that they unpredictably disallow me from using sudo and are fucking up all my devices doing things I don't want them doing in the first place.
That sounds like the right thing to do?
> the awful "inspirational" memes I see so often on my LinkedIn feed

Heh- my instagram feed is clogged up with inspirational memes. Interestingly, they're posted the most by the least successful people.

Linkedin skeeved me out and I stopped using it after they started spamming me constantly to add all these random people I barely know to my professional network, like a dude I sold a couch to on craigslist in 2007. No thanks, Linkedin. No thanks.
The problem with /etc/hosts is that it is too easy to simply undo. I use https://selfcontrolapp.com, which lets you block a list of sites for a set period of time and does not have a way to circumvent that.

Well, since the app is open source, you surely could just read the code and figure out a method. However, doing that requires enough focused effort to source-dive and debug something. It is much much easier to prevent oneself from doing that than to keep oneself from editing a file.

If anyone is thinking of responding to this comment by speculating how to circumvent the tool, take that to another thread.
No, it won't be as my advice has thousands of years of backing. Historical and biological evidence, in this case, worth more than corrupt nutritional science. People eat breakfast thanks to the commercial interest of Kellogg's - you can do your own research about "the most important meal of the day"!
I've used them for a customer processing more than 20 million dollars/year and we didn't have that. The merchant account does take a small percentage as a rolling reserve though (3% if I remember correctly).

In term of programing, I much prefer dealing with Braintree but Cybersource is not too bad (not the worse gateway I've dealt with, less issues tha Authorize.net)
I had to pay $100 extra for the Windows license that came with my Lenovo Ideapad.

And Lenovo wouldn't let me buy their laptop without the windows license.
Now a days everyone using mobile more than desktop or laptop..If any entrepreneur wants to grow his business then he/she should make his website mobile freindly so that everyone can have access to it easily...also mobile apps can increase sals...
If you find that this is actually not your experience and you find that you are addicted/distracted for an extended period of time, know that you are not alone.
Ordinary soap? That seems like a stretch.
In case there is any confusion on the matter, Homeaglow is the operating name of ABAP Holdings, incorporated in Delaware in August 2015. The company has two employees, and Mr. Aaron Chueng is listed as a co-founder and principal contact.
Fortunately, any kind of displacement-based tax on vehicles would have to be a state-run affair (A Federal Department of Motor Vehicles would be far, far too Kafkaesque or perhaps even Lovecraftian). So good luck, California, you seem to like trying out this kind of stuff :-)

Although excise taxes that you already pay at the DMV are probably a decent proxy for engine displacement already. 5.4L V8 pickup truck = $45k sticker price, vs $15k 1.3L shitbox subcompact.
OK, that's different, but the vinyl-only theme isn't stated anywhere on the home page.
Good answer. :)
Technically 9x line ended since Windows XP was NT-based and not 9x-based.
> you're missing the part where corporate profits are zero in a perfectly competitive market.

I'm well aware of what defines a perfectly competitive market.

> If corporations always operate at revenues=expenditure

That's not what zero economic profit means. Taxes can also come out of the owner's opportunity costs if the have low elasticity of supply.
They can absorb a tremendous amount. The total market cap of the S&P is ~$18.5 trillion. [0] Total VC investment is ~$50 billion annually. [1] Let's say that each VC investment returned a 3X return (a reasonable average) then the S&P would only need to dilute itself by 1% per year to buy the entire stock of VC companies in that year.

Another way to look at it... In just one quarter [2] the S&P 500 spent more than $150 billion in stock buybacks, that's triple the annual amount of VC investment.

There is a tremendous amount of room for the market to absorb innovative real companies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500_Index
[1] http://nvca.org/pressreleases/annual-venture-capital-investm...
[2] http://www.factset.com/websitefiles/PDFs/buyback/buyback_12....
That was my intention. Dion Hulse really pulled through on WP's end, and he's quick to pull in upstream changes into their trunk branch for testing. :)
It's standard practice for states to salt their voter lists with fake names. If, e.g., a non-political solicitation shows up to the fake name, the sender is caught. Same thing with FEC data -- politicians have to list their donors publicly, but it isn't legal for other politicians to solicit those people, and the FEC enforces it with salting.
I believe you, and didn't think that you meant to communicate that. The trouble is that individual signals that aren't objectionable compound into global problems at scale. It's a community problem more than an individual one, which is why it's so hard to correct.

One thing we've learned is that you can't judge this phenomenon accurately by upvotes. Indignation of any kind reliably gets more upvotes than anything else, by a large margin.
I was implying they should lop of the 0 and go with 1 free GB.
You might also find that a different cadence than 25 minutes works better for you. I personally use 90 minutes because I find that if I make it shorter than an hour, that the timer is just an annoying interruption.
Podcast interview with Keybase founder Rick Krohn which discusses this among other things: http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/?s=keybase+
IndieBio SF’s Second Cohort of Biotech Startups
Yeah, for years, I was putting ghee and coconut oil in my coffee, but in the past 7-8 months I stopped. I think what I did is a good approach to shift your habits. Because the fat coffee was a good transition from breakfast to no breakfast and now I don't need the fat. Most interestingly, my eliminating fat, I reduced my caloric intake by at least 1,000 calories, but didn't lose any weight, i.e. the idea that fat doesn't make you gain fat has been proven right for me at least.
What domain blocker is there available on chrome for mobile?
> If you are not trying to make money, then you can't call it a "product".

You could, however, say you are testing a product. Which is probably how users should treat startups that don't know how they'll make money yet -- as a product in testing.
I know some people there. They set a high technical bar, on par with Google (their reputation in SV is actually that they're tougher than Google/Facebook, which may or may not be true, I can't be too sure since the small sample of interview questions I've heard of were not any more difficult than Google questions). Expect a typical mix of algorithmic/systems design questions. Like Google/Facebook/etc, they draw heavily from elite colleges. Lots of Stanford, Harvard, MIT grads. The organization is very flat; not a lot of hierarchy.

The company itself is essentially an elite technology consulting firm (albeit one that is actually technically competent). They have a set of core generic products (they have a finance analysis product, government analysis product, some other ones). BWStearn's description is accurate (a tool for analyzing entities and their relationships). But the key to their success is they take that generic product and then dispatch teams of engineers to customize each deployment for each client (hence consulting). Often clients will hire them because the client has engineering talent and has to hire Palantir because of that.

From what I've noticed the culture does learn fratty, but I didn't find it uncomfortably fratty. However, the people there work hard and they work long hours.
You make good points; we shouldn't automatically assume open source is more secure. It's definitely a more nuanced topic than whether or not the source code of something is available. Thanks for the reply.
I have a Samsung E-2600. Brilliant phone. The battery lasts for at least two weeks with moderate use and also it's light and compact. I have to admit, every time I see someone pulling out a behemoth with an 5.5" screen to talk puts a smirk on my face. The model is currently obsolete so I guess anyone interested will go for the next in line.
Interesting that you chose Slack as a _positive_ example. Their most recent release notes were exactly what I had in mind while reading this article:

"Revel in the ability create a whole new team from within the app!
Enjoy a whole new world of custom profile fields and bigger avatars!
Delight in being able to long-press on an emoji reaction to see who left it!"
oh thank you, I wasn't aware of that. I don't live in the US but I am glad they are being held accountable for it.
Intent is the key word here.

Profiting off illegal content is already illegal by itself and all these special cases should be left to courts to decide instead of throwing around overly broad blankets
The type of enterprise customers we have just don't go adding projects if they aren't approved by legal and IT departments.

Usually the projects are SDK only.

My current customer is using subversion and the third party projects, if any, use the internal Maven repository or vendoring for the C++ libraries.
Probably having more than 50g sugar per day etc? While the decade-long saturated-acid-bashing is controversial, there are things that are proven to help longevity, like eating fatty fish regularly or not eating more than you spend.
All except one of those "civilized" countries don't produce oil. They also all have much higher population densities where public transit makes sense and most people can't even afford to buy a car. That is not analogous to the situation here. There isn't a single European country with a population density so low it is close to Alaska [1]. Even Norway who is most similar to AK and is an oil producer has much smaller towns that individually are less spread out and are more easily served by public transit as a whole, norway has 30x the population density of AK[1]. In these civilized utopias most people can't even consider buying a car there due to artificially inflated costs from over regulation and taxes. I like a 4x4 truck that can get me to work in shitty weather. I like being able to afford to drive a boat around the ocean on the weekends and catch halibut. None of this pertains to my argument though and only serves to offer a bit of perspective.

Regardless of consumer costs ($10 more is still a far cry from $110) What really matters here is the supply glut which causes a shortage of demand per unit of oil. This kills margins and rules out any new investment and developments in Alaska. These are the things that drive jobs. High margins fund the state government and new development. Low prices mean layoffs across the board before we even think about a huge tax stabbing into demand. In other words, that tax will retard oil's recovery by artificially suppressing national demand for oil. US consumers can withstand it no problem. But at the moment that tax is equivalent to kicking Alaska's economy in the gut when we're already on the ground trying to tap out.

I love Alaska and I don't want to have to move. If you can't empathize with that I understand. Who cares about 700,000 rednecks and eskimos up north who like to fish and hunt. They're probably all like sarah palin anyway haha. (she screwed our oil industry with crazy taxes and pretty much single handedly ensured AK industry didn't take part in or benefit from the US oil boom and is not a popular person around here)

Like it or not. The US is a major oil producer now thanks to shale oil and technological improvements. High oil prices enabled us to go for harder to reach fields and the low price eliminates their feasibility. Like I said before, We produce as much oil as saudi arabia. Low prices will have a dramatic negative effect in many localized places like alaska. I understand if you don't empathize with us or care what happens to our economy but this kind of tax is not going to do alaska texas oklahoma idaho or north dakota any favors.

[1] norway has 14 people per sq/km versus 0.46 people per sq/km in alaska. Even Mongolia has 4x AK's population density! Russia is 19x our density.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.DNST?order=wbapi_...
It's not popular, but I've read some evidence that I cannot find. Even Dave Asprey defended coffee once and said it's not the type of antioxidant that kicks you out of ketosis. I will try to find the source and post it.
How to programmatically suggest matching emojis/kaomojis for a given text phrase
A little guidance to get a head start would be enough and highly appreciated.

Please note that I do not have any previous experience in natural language processing.
There's a migration script that can be used for moving old data to the tsm engine.
Looks like there's a Presentation class [1] for activities meant to run on a second display. Also see [2], a presentation about it that mentions HDMI displays explicitly.

[1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Presentat...

[2]: http://www.slideshare.net/ph0b/develop-for-miracast-on-andro...