skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like an arrangement that's just waiting to be abused/made use of at some weird and critical juncture in history. Maybe it's useful as an "escape clause" should the nominally representative government go astray?
It must be satire… but even the chance that it’s real is disturbing.
Uber is using bits to transmit the video of the atoms.
> post-hipster aesthetic

It's more than that. It's anti-aesthetical postmodernist anti-intellectualism wrapped up into into a single construct of pure and utter nonsense. This is what happens when herd mentality really takes off at a company. You produce work in a vacuum.
You say: "Laws that practically apply to a small group or single person are not unconstitutional as a class" - but isn't that exactly what would be needed to define the actions of this scumbag as illegal and punishable by fines and imprisonment? This doesn't seem irrelevant to me.

I've read some of the laws protecting billionaires. And they can be very specific, applying only to people who live in a particular town and who have entered specific agreements. So, if we can use these laws to absolve the rich, we should be able to use them to define criminals against our society.
Genius. I haven't laughed this hard in ages.
;) I wish I was paid by LM.

Thing is, everyone has an axe to grind with the F-35. Despite its shortcomings, its all we have in the pipeline, until the 6th gen fighters come online in a decade or so. Without something like the F-35 paired with the F-22, we have no chance of penetrating a modern IAD.
FAA bans drones from 32 miles around the Super Bowl
Angular or Angular 2, or both?
About damn time this happened. I've been wanting to have my users ditch PC's for a while. Getting them to Dock a phone into a keyboard/monitor will make my life tons easier.

Anyone know if you can wipe debian and stick another distro on it? I have a fetish for gentoo, but chromiumOS would be cool too.
>I oppose preventing immigrants from going back home to be with their familU.

You're not making any sense. I'm British and met my husband when working in Canada. One of us has to immigrate somewhere in order for us to be together.
They have revenue and are cash-flow positive. Their problem is that they aren't profitable enough to give good returns on the investments made in them, not that they're in any danger of going out of business.
Maybe high volume processors looking for reduced fees?
I wonder if their funds transfer service will support payroll or rent payments, and if so, what fees are negotiable based on volume.
> A majority of Americans believe that aliens have visited earth and that the government is hiding evidence of UFOs. By your logic I should conclude that all Americans are stupid, which wouldn't be that extreme, given the popularity of Donald Trump. I then could come up with a rhetoric that it's irresponsible to let americans go to vote. But all of that wouldn't be fair now, would it?

What's your point?

You have straw-manned my argument quite a bit, but let's ignore that for the moment ...

If, say, electing Donald Trump for president were to lead to world-wide nuclear war, and people were to vote for him, how would it not be irresponsible to let americans vote on that if you had any chance to prevent it? Also, how does fairness get into this? How does the fairness of a decision-making process change anything about the consequences of any given decision and that it is irresponsible to not prevent harm that you easily could prevent.

> In our times astrology is nothing more than a fun conversation piece.

For one, that's not actually true. But more importantly: Why is the same not at least mostly true for christianity, islam, judaism, hinduism, ... ?

> I do wonder what your definition for "good" and "bad" is.

The short version: Good is what reduces harm, bad is what increases harm.

Now, I wonder what your definition is if it doesn't agree with mine, at least roughly.
They'll give you a VM with everything in it to run locally.

But yeah, I'd rather run GitLab.
Thanks for your response...

>Technically, half are at or below median, not mean.<

My use was colloquial, not technical, thus I think the use of "average" appropriately serves to illustrate my point...

If you are into statistics, and want to provide a similar example with sample size n=320 million(approximately), I'd be interested in taking a look at it...

Giving you an up-vote for tenacity...!
The sentiment behind it reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GMQhOm-Dqo

Problem is, it seems a little disingenuous
You think it sounds funny for a reason :)

I think that it's an awkward pairing that needs context. You're immediately thinking "once removed from what?" and then scanning for what it is. This can be a burdensome way to end a sentence. Better to build up to something than to force the listener to look backwards and reconstruct IMO.
Cross device usability suffers, then. Credential locked keyfiles stored server side could be served to end users without revealing the key to the server - you would still need to input the credential locally to open the keyring, but then you could just login to a client rather than having to copy public keys around by file.

I imagine the later isn't impossibly complex, but would require slick engineering to get over the barrier of expectations most people have.
Their new logo always makes me think I have an app on my iOS home screen that is not quite finished installing! Annoying!
> The new manifest format in Docker 1.10 is a full Merkle DAG, and all the downloaded content is finally content addressable.

Can someone elaborate on this a bit more? From a CS point-of-view, sounds like a problem where a data structure came in handy but I'm not sure what it solves. Thanks!
At GitLab we learned that indeed large enterprises don't outsource it, they run something (GitHub Enterprise, GitLab CE/EE, etc.) on-premises.
> sales people can make a habit of selling things that the product can't currently do

Maybe this is a trope from the 90s and 2000s or from a Scott Adams cartoon, but I disagree this is representative of most enterprise sales these days. Maybe I'm just spoiled, but every company I've worked at the past decade has had a knowledgeable sales force. I've been asked plenty of times, "can you add this feature for a huge customer?" and been able to say "no, that is not realistic for us to complete in a reasonable amount of time."
Cool hardware, but it doesn't look like their product tried to also be your mobile phone

It tried to be a text message/email/personal assistant that was also your PC. There were mobile phones back then, and even PDA/phone mashups, but the iPhone wouldn't be around until the 7th year of the company.
> Uber's 'connecting the bits and atoms for the first time' just pushed me so far beyond eyerolling that it felt like I was being shown a video of Kalanick huffing his own fart.

As a San Francisco company they should fit right in at the smuggiest city in the country:

http://southpark.cc.com/clips/104282/smuggy-san-francisco-to...
Does offline not work where you are? https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/6291838?hl=en
Any idea how to get this working on Arch? The latest version looks to be about 2 weeks old.
Your right, but the routes to market for hardware devices are quite limited.

It's slightly easier to get tablets into market, but the major OEM's are very conservative.

For Phones the issue is that people buy hardware from their network provider - there are very few other routes to market. First, the network operators primarily focus on 'general' consumer users so they are conservative about the options they choose. Second their scale means that unless they believe they can sell _millions_ of units there's nothing in it for them. Finally, the rest of the market for mobiles is completely locked down - there are only a few alternative routes to market. All the software vendors (ie Mozilla and Canonical) have been trying to work with alternative (primarily online) providers.

The raft of issues is massive and far beyond the essential problem of creating software that's good enough!
Huh.

Okay, I guess that makes as much sense as anything really. I can see the advantage in something turnkey.
I actually know people who worked at Apple doing internships. Word from management was to code quickly and don't worry about bugs. I guess management's to blame, these are sharp coders.
The Current State of CarPlay
Nonsense. What is harm? There's not an objective measure without asserting some purpose to existence. That's religion.
Sales people don't make this happen, management makes this happen. An org within a company only has as much power as management gives it.
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Do you consider yourself a Bitcoiner? #superBitcoiner
Git is a steps away from being decried as "monoculture". Everything is on github because everyone uses it, and everyone uses it because everything is on github. Github won for a few reasons.

Their only real competitors were Bitbucket (which was originally Mercurial and was late to the git party) and Google Code (which was taken to pasture along with Wave and Reader). Bitbucket is not targeted at individual users. It is targeted at teams and companies. Atlassian has played in the small business/enterprise market for a while. As evidence by Atlassians "defeat" of FogBugz. http://movingfulcrum.com/why-fogbugz-lost-to-jira/ Google just kind of gave up on Google Code and closed the doors because it wasn't the biggest kid in the playroom.

Also the explosion of repo/package tools (Bundler, npm, cargo) and automation lead people towards browsing repos instead of static assets. Github provides a ton of tools to deploy to package managers like npm or PaaS's like Heroku dead easy. Github is not just a code repo, but a base for Continuous Deployment/Integration. "

Github would benifit from the platform route over the software route. A cloud based software repo isn't particularly special. A one stop for managing code, deploying software, working tickets, hosting docs, and more is special. Github has great tooling around pushes/commits but not issues/docs. Markdown is great if you're a browsing a repo, but isn't nice for non programmers. I would much prefer something like readthedocs.org integrated in.

Also github could look into offering services for enterprise customers. Github is fairly self service right now. They stand to make a fair amount of money charging for setting up deployments to AWS or Travis for you. Enterprise customers definitely overpay for simple stuff that could be done in an hour with proper docs.
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Totally can see this happening... it's unfathomable to me how this pile of nonsensical steaming dogcrap could get approval through multiple layers of professional review before it went live. It's the tone deaf airbnb ads happening all over again.

Too many yes-men and everyone starts believing their own bullshit.
Download and try:
http://maruos.com/#/hardware
Visa invested in Stripe. Just FYI: http://fortune.com/2015/07/28/stripe-visa/
Been using most of __future__ for years to make the transition seamless for me. This is what Py 2.x devs should be doing now. It's not like the path forward hasn't been paved for us for many years.
No, the problem with that theory is that the whole rebrand as well as the video obviously cost a huge pile of money, and a CEO that burns cash "for shits and giggles" won't have his job for very long.
looks like a toilet seat to me
Actually, I wrote one as a senior project years ago. It worked exactly that way, with the exception that the number of positions was less, owed to the available computing power.

Concept was the same as you describe. No rocket science. I purposely read nothing beforehand, because I wanted to devise an approach and this seemed the most obvious.

Of course, nowadays that is not the only technique in use.

In any case, I'm not sure why you think it impossible to add any additional analysis to the program as it repeatedly scores millions of positions.
How would Bernie repeal the TPP, given that it's not law?

It's only signed, it still needs ratification in all the participating countries.
Valuation not cash on hand
is this nyc?
Dear OP, thank you. My brain must have gone into complete shutdown because I could only think of one word, "terrible" to describe this video. Such a terse dismissal is an obvious disservice to the level of awfulness that Uber continues to unleash on the world.
No clue, unfortunately ... I might have known at some point, but I unfortunately don't remember the source anymore either ...
It's a good move, but it seems unlikely that they going to block a site that's only using AdSense to serve up deceptive ads. Where is the announcement that adsense/adwords will detect those ads as well?
It's okay. The richest 85 people own the same amount of wealth as the bottom 50% of the global population (1). I'm sure after we spend 8 hours of our day helping them towards owning even more of it, they'll do us a biggie by paying for our food and tiny apartments.

1: http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2014/01/23/the-85-rich...
I think you're looking for:

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A simple immutable data structure can be implemented with a Merkle DAG. Merkle tree leaves store hashes of previous nodes and DAGs are directed graphs that don't loop around. Examples include simple blockchains. These structure provides immutable, versioned control of information. Containers are immutable, or like to think they are at least, so blockchains are an obvious thing to use in conjunction with deployments of said containers. At least that's what I keep telling everyone.
What was there ever to get? Their motto was "everyone's private driver", not "everyone's college buddy with a car"

People with private drivers get driven in expensive cars.
“The iPhone could not be synced because it could not be found.”
The company is still valued as if it has a whole lot of "real value"--even after tonight's precipitous decline, it is valued at $17B to be exact. Based on its slowing growth in the 30% range, it no longer deserves a unicorn multiple on its revenue. I think the company provides a useful service and will succeed in the long term, but there are two pieces to investing--company prospects and price. I would only buy under $75 which we may see in a coming bear market.
Thanks, this is pretty much exactly what I was hoping for.
If you want "Cut" functionality in Finder, you can Copy (cmd-C) followed by Move Item Here (cmd-opt-V). It's non-obvious, but it's there.
The other reason to keep the DB separate is that they have different IO patterns that are not always complementary, and it's easier to gather diagnostic metrics if the data isn't munged. In the days of physical servers you'd also choose different hardware for the DB machine.

Configuration capture is a big thing, and it separates the adults from the kids. I've had hardware failure of my dev box twice in my career, and when I tell certain people that I have to rebuild my machine you can see their faces blanche. These are the people I know I haven't converted yet.

Everything important, except for the handful of things I'm actively investigating, is always stored on shared machines. Version control. Wiki. Some sort of artifact repository. The instructions for getting an environment set up with version X of our software are also stored in one of those places, and have been vetted by every new developer and some of the QA team. I can have my machine back up and running in a couple of hours, and most of that is waiting for downloads, if we didn't have the presence to store copies locally.

Why do I care about this stuff? Seems sort of OCD on the face of it, and maybe you're right. But sooner or later you're going to have a high severity issue in production that should be an all-hands-on-deck affair, and if you haven't done this work, losing a hard drive on a dev laptop will be the least of your worries. Everyone busy doing work on X+1 needs to be able to get back to version X and all of its dependencies in under an hour, and by themselves, because the people who could help them are most likely on the front lines of fixing the bug as fast as possible.

What's more, someone probably needs to get versions X-1 and X-2 running to figure out if you need to warn people using older versions. So that's getting people running 3 or 4 versions of your software autonomously, so that you can identify repro steps, long and short term mitigation strategies, verify that they work, formulate a bulletin and provide patches for people. Not only do you need to get your configuration captured/documented, you need it captured 2-3 versions of your software ago, which means you need to start thinking about this stuff pretty early in your project.
Hm, who actually uses GitLab or Atlassian? Who else is getting lots of users en masse at this level that they become dependent on the software, if GH goes down, there goes a ton of open source and indie devs who depend on it. Re: enterprise sales, well that's startup life for you.

Re: hiring & sales - on a semi tangential noet

Honestly, when I visited GH last year and met the very (few) women that worked there (they were all in marketing), (it was the UE4 workshop with like 3 women in attendance, great workshop, but I noticed more and more of the staff at happy hour (their bar) was filled with lots of marketing/sales people -- something I hadn't really experienced other times I visited, usually its more devs than those folks (marketing/sales).
In the abstract the author writes:

Is it worth running as fast as possible to get less wet?

So the author is only trying to answer the question of whether you will get less wet if you run in the rain. He is not making any claims about comfort. The author's only premise is:

The purpose of this paper is to put an end to this kind of useless argument.

[edit:] clarity
Sighhhh, all the real info is in a buried link. Great encapsulation of both everything wrong with web journalism and web audiences, since the article is paywalled and I'm too cheap to subscribe.

https://www.theinformation.com/what-happened-at-github?token...
> illegitimate sovereign

And who, exactly is the illegitimate sovereign here?
What is the thing that allowed Uber to exist in the first place?

Cheesy? How about nonsensical and a sick laugh at their ignorant customers?
very nice! how is the content sourced and picked?
Well, it mattered in WWII. "The Man Called Intrepid" tells about the secret services swearing loyalty to the king. In the event that the Nazis conquered England, they could oppose the newly-formed government without feeling disloyal, because their loyalty wasn't to the government of England, it was to the king.
For those as confused as I was: "x^" is how the author renders "x̂" (or x-with-circumflex, for the font-challenged).
> Enterprise sales people can make a habit of selling things that the product can't currently do, and then forcing engineering to make it a reality on a compressed timeline because "this is a deal we can't afford to lose."

A million times this. I currently work at an enterprise software firm, and this is exactly what happens with each new client.

In addition to the compressed timelines and ridiculous feature requests that must be honored... in terms of the product itself, you have to do one of the following:
1) Maintain separate codebases for each client, or
2) Build the application so it can handle different features for each client, since each client will want different things.

Neither course of action is nearly as pleasant as having products that are the same for all customers.
This is a pretty speculative (one might say linkbaity) take on the deal. Google hasn't replaced Intel with Power8 and the Qualcomm deal is at a much earlier stage.
I once scraped every October posting from Slashdot to see long term trends. Short story: it's dying. I project the active userbase will be gone by 2020. Curiously the bulk of the posters were in the 100k to 300k UID range. There was also evidence of shenanigans with UID assignment where they were skipping even numbers and odd numbers at various times possibly to inflate their numbers.

This will get you IP banned BTW but I did get a full data set before their script caught me.
Uber just needs to get over themselves. You're a taxi dispatch company with an app. Stop fronting like you're using cutting edge technology to cure cancer or brokering world peace.
Actually NT 3.1. 3.5 followed, then 3.51, then 4.0, then 5.0 (2000), and then the NT line ended as it was unified with the non-NT line.
I would concur with the article's recommendation of a brisk walk, because when running in the rain you risk slipping and falling, which puts you contact with the wet ground, and prolongs the time you spend out in the rain.
Drivers are poorly paid in systems that have taxi medallions, too.
I go places on my Windows pc that I wouldn't dare take my Mac. I expect it to need repair.

My pc is my beater car, and it needs repair--regularly.

My Mac is the classic car in the garage, that only gets used for work, or safe places.
I wonder how demo day/funding will work. It'd be a bit mind numbing for VCs to watch 2000 presentations.
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