skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://alibris.com gets many of its books from libraries rotating their collections. Think of it as adopting a "rescue book." :-)
Why couldn't the OS just put the microcode update into the EFI bootloader?

I know some recent Intel parts can't even run the EFI firmware without first getting a microcode update, but is Skylake like this too or can the EFI bootloader run without first getting microcode downloaded?
I've been to Etherium's website, I've looked over the wikipedia entry, but I still don't understand what it actually is. Best I can figure, it's a replacement for "the internet".

I'm pretty technically literate, but I have to admit I'm at a complete loss as to why this project matters (let alone what it does). Could you enlighten me?
On one hand, yes, I think you can say that to be a winner, you had to dope. But if you took all of the dopers out, we would still have a winner.

Consider Cadel Evans. In my opinion, I don't think he doped. He was always in the conversation with Vinokourav, Ullrich, and the other top guys. For years.

He eventually won, but the sport was much cleaner by then.

I was a huge Armstrong fan. When I heard that Hincapie admitted to doping, I knew it was over. Over because Hincapie was always Lance's right-hand man, and also over because Armstrong wouldn't go after Hincapie.

I think Armstrong was one of the best cyclists ever, but he is tarnished now just like the others. It's a cruel sport.
The country that supplies eyes
How to Build a Streetcar That Works
Well, actually we didn't believe them, which is why we conducted the experiment. And point of fact, there were actual stores that did offer the lowest price, but you needed to do your research and frankly, get lucky.
1) Wheaton's Law.

2) You have to enjoy mentoring/assisting. If you don't, then don't do it, but also obey (1).
I'm working on https://percht.com (still under high development). If we could use your payment and shipping info (entered once on percht) and make the purchase for you on bestbuy, target, etc., would that be convenient enough to take advantage of these deals? Also, electronics deals usually save you $100s not $10s.
Am I the only one who thinks we need a better name for this kind of thing than realtime server ?
Art!? Advertising is blatant manipulation, and fraud as we see in this case. But it's okay - without advertisers nobody would know they exist and the sky will fall. So we need them.
Yea it looks like I was banned and it looks like I was banned more then once. I have an @gmail email address, and one at a custom domain I use professionally.

I cant login to either.

It also seems like I am not the only one: https://np.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1wpbhv/i_e...

That was linked in the article.

I spent that entire week upset because I felt I did something wrong (this was back when I was like 14, 2 years into programming and still very much an emotional edgy teen).

I'm very lucky that I eventually brought it up to a long time IRC friend and programming "mentor" of mine Steve who said that he was also banned. To me this was crazy as I could not understand how he could have been banned. He was, and still is, my last go-to resort for programming help; basically Mister Miyagi.

Because of this, I have surmised that to be good at programming, you need to be banned from SOF for asking a perfectly reasonable question.

Edit: I was banned when I asked for help with writing a 3D matrix camera with not problems from gimbal lock and another time for asking if there was a datatype for allowing two threads to mutate the same state.

Back then, I did not know about locking, concurrency, and all of the cool jazz. I learned most of what I know myself.

Thank god google indexes all of the closed SOF posts or I would have never been able to.
and blow the cover of the agents who got you the info?
"The researchers, who have been studying and writing about encryption policy, sniffed around with a Tor browser and found 1,547 out of 5,205 total websites live on the dark web engaging in illegal activity."

It is one of the most common ways for distributing those three things, so yes, that "meme" is correct.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3031661/internet/drugs-g...
I would like to, as warmly as possible, point out the blind spot in your response. Why is the gender/sex of the person asking important? I think your response would be better as "would this be the answer you give to a 12 year old ... Or a single parent ... or one of your own parents?" Your response appears to insinuate that females are more delicate than males and unable to handle abrasiveness. That is all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor
Everyone that wants prohibition to continue likes to manufacture necessities and construct parallels that don't exist in the physical world.

If you look at the underlying differences in biochemistry and effects on behaviour, I think you'll find that regulating cannabis with the tools made for alcohol makes no sense.
In the hardware vertical YC has also partnered with Bolt [1][2][3], but that seems to be a partnership rather than acquisition, and I'm not sure if Bolt considers themselves an accelerator.

[1] https://medium.com/@BenEinstein/bolts-partnership-with-y-com...

[2] http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-for-hardware

[3] https://www.bolt.io/
It's a state law, but I would be shocked if there were any state where that term was legally enforceable. I live in Massachusetts, and I would LOVE it if, after a 9 day vacation, my landlord started selling my belongings. The lawsuit would, not only be lucrative, but fantastically entertaining.
Cloud Sandboxes Are Becoming the Uber Containers for the DevOps Cycle
And at 3,686m about 12000' that wouldn't help evaporation either.
Neurosync – A client-side JavaScript ORM that is offline and real-time capable
Alternative title: "Some stores offer more consistent prices than others. Some stores have lower average prices than others."

We're not entitled to low nor consistent prices. We should expect pricing to fluctuate.

Buy at a price where an item is worth as much (or more) to you than the price you pay, and you'll always get your money's worth. Sometimes this means not buying the item.

If you want to know which stores practice consistent pricing, or want to know which stores fluctuated low in last year's known-big sale days, this article is useful.
You can train your body into thinking it’s had medicine
How to go from idea to profit
As someone who works in JS day in day out, I'm becoming less and less sure the entire ecosystem isn't an elaborate parody.

Replacing one monolithic structure with another one because the component parts aren't right? Just skip the monolith part and use the components you want.
I disagree, Sam.

By doing many things, you are naturally exploring new trends and topics that will bring the next AirBnB. It's a necessary cost.
Five ways particle accelerators have changed the world
CentOS 7 for ARM (Raspberry Pi, Etc.)
Yes, the article links to the study, from where you can download the PDF.
As best i can tell, what you suggest happens on one to one messages. But there seems to be something in the way iMessage stores group messages, and use whats stored when responding, thats the problem.

If i am to guess, the client-server protocol only sends a single message id, and thus when one part of a group fails, the server has to invalidate the whole group.

And Apple would be loath to do that as it would perhaps be seen as an inconvenience to the user.
Rogan was way too nice with Armstrong IMO.
Marc Andreessen Offends India Defending Facebook’s Free Basics
Had to Google a bit to find that the default login is "root" password "centos". Read the /root/README file for info on how to get it to resize the disk image. Other than that it's stock CentOS and works great.

No EPEL unfortunately though... yet. There's some talk of it.
Neutrinos on a seesaw
This worked! Just a couple of problems. Hashrocket needs dev version of Ruby and pg wouldn't build, but StackOverflow told me I needed to install libpq-dev. Then I had to install postgres, but wasn't hard.
Does it mean that WealthFront mis-represents their AUM?
It looks WealthFront started to misrepresent AUM on their web site. Their website now shows $1,550 million AUM for Month 34 (~September 2015). https://www.wealthfront.com/two-billion#100-million

Their SEC 13F Holdings Report for the year ending 9/30/15 shows $2,501 million AUM http://www.secinfo.com/d12Pk6.m1945.htm
> There is no scientific study that proves this but you will note through common sense that males and females tend to act within their gender role over 95% of the time.

Then I propose such a scientific study be performed.

I don't like appeals to "common sense" in political matters (and unfortunately gender and sexuality is very political right now). Because, hey, if you're wrong, wouldn't that be an interesting result?
It's a sneaky kind of authoritarianism.

Regular people are dismissed.

Only the faceless, invisible authority is respected.
Climate change can happen independent of man's actions. The disagreement that separates many is how much effect does man have on climate, can it accurately be measured, and how much effect can man have on it; different from first case.

cherry picking by either side only identifies those who don't want to participate in the discussion
Polling can be a fine place to start and is better than nothing. The speed of realtime updates does matter though. Even for seemingly boring use-cases like synchronizing CRM screens or something, it's still best if updates happen within a few seconds. And instant (sub-second) updates add an extra level of polish. Similar to non-flickering graphics and smooth scrolling, fast updates are impressive and can increase the appeal of an app.
("NOT primarily about taxes" != "taxes are not an issue". My biggest complaint is precisely the expensive reporting requirements.)
It's fully redundant for .onion sites. Traffic destined for them never goes through exit nodes. It is only ever encrypted in a way that is readable only by the specific .onion destination.
Are you addressing me, or just speaking in generalities?

Teaching and pedagogy is a broad topic, and there are certainly things that can be done to improve most existing models. However, a willingness to tolerate some modest level of adversity will remain necessary.
What a nightmare, I know C but wouldn't want to touch it for anything that does any type of anything with strings.

And of course you have the crowd that's been writing C for 20 years saying "it's not that bad". Folks, the god damn plane has crashed into the mountain.
> Are you saying that bypassing the bootloader with a live USB, etc, could give an attacker access to the data stored on the encrypted drive (outside of the boot partition, of course)?

No, of course not. (Well, disregarding cold boot attacks).

But it gives access to data stored inside the boot partition, allowing for fun things like patching your kernel to send dm-crypt keys to http://fbi.gov/submit_key.cgi - makes sense now?
The closest concept I can think of is the concept of "strong typing," that a value does not change type based on its context, which is a fairly widely used term. It seems like Julia has some form of weak typing, at least between the different numeric primitives, and "type stability" refers to avoiding any usage of weak typing. I don't know a lot about Julia, though, so I could be way off here.
I like the idea of this; it's really what Meteor should be but they'd provide support/hosting/etc.

One thing I'm concerned with in general with stacks like this is their use in mobile stuff - even React+React Router+Redux+redux-form adds a fair bit to a payload, even before you start developing an app. As nice as it is to use, for mobile I roll my own.
Men served but the little example JS`/inc/loop.js` only pulls in feminine names. May want to alternate a bit more. It comes off as a women's product until I go to the order page.

This is the price point of my current stuff. I've sent a link to myself and will try it out when I get home. If you guys can actually create me the "perfect shampoo" for my needs at that competitive of a price, you've won yourself a customer.
Not that it justifies the behavior I'm curious if there are any disciplines of where there isn't friction between professionals and beginners. In academia I noticed a similar friction. I would imagine politics to be similar... sports... they won't even let you play if your not good.
They believe the haast eagle evolved from the little eagle diverging just 700 000 years ago. That's going from one of the smallest eagles(0.8kgs) to the largest (11.5-14kgs) in under a million years.
Technology tools for the lazy marketer
The Scientists Who Are Deciphering 'Unreadable' Ancient Texts
I'm surprised 3/4 aren't illegal!
I went there (Aralsk, specifically) four years back, while en route to shymkent from aktobe. It's a sad, sad place. Photos don't do it justice - you drive for hours through barren desert, passing next to nothing, and then you reach Aralsk - a nothing harbour city in the middle of nothing, with a tide that went out to never return. Everything is dilapidated, dusty, everyone is old, the smell of diesel mixed with shit and mud is overpowering - the sea looks dry, but under a thin crust is meters of gloopy dumped oil and sewage. Learned that the hard way.

It used to be a bustling place, full of greenery, and the desert around it was green - but the Soviets drained it from the Uzbek side, and whether it can ever be refilled more rapidly than it evaporates is anyone's guess.

Central kaz could have been a place. Instead, it's nothing, and probably will remain such.

Easy to go "oh it's just a lake", but it turns out humans need water.
In what other context anywhere in programming is it considered a good idea for everyone to hand-roll their own, separate, subtly-incompatible, surely-bug-ridden implementation of functionality that everyone needs? Gahhh.
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> That's sort of laughable, considering the only major legislation passed since the WWW became legit has been Net Neutrality.

This is false in two ways:

(1) Net neutrality has never been passed as legislation,
(2) Lots of other legislation has been passed (some later struck down as unconstitutional, other that have stuck) directed toward online life since the web became commonly used on topics other than net neutrality (including some on privacy -- both for and against) -- examples include COPA, CIPA, COPPA, DMCA, USA PATRIOT, and USA FREEDOM, among others.
Also used for game AI, like the MCTS that dominated computer go for ten years.
So if i understand it right, a whole web hotel was taken down because a few of the customers were hosting illegal material?

Do the fed customary burn down whole motels because a few of the rooms were used for illegal activities?
Mappilary.js repository: https://github.com/mapillary/mapillary-js
> Ask yourself, would this be the answer you give to a 12 year old girl who's taken an early interest in programming? Or a single mother who's trying to switch careers to improve her lot in life? Or your own mother, for that matter? Is it really constructive to be so abrasive?

An important bit of context is implicit in both your comments, and I think the context is different, which is where some of the differences in your stances are.

It's very important to know the purpose of the asker when answering a question. If the little girl or a single mother are trying to accomplish a single thing, right now, and their purpose is not to learn, then yes, just answer the question or don't bother commenting. If their purpose seems to be to learn, then teaching them both skills on how to better teach themselves and on better ways to approach the problem are ultimately more useful.

Does it really help that single mother trying to switch careers more to be told how to fix her HTML parsing regex[1], or would she be better served with a suggestion on a library that provided a more sane way to accomplish that capability? Of course, as a community we could do better at being more civil, and providing both answers, but if ever there was a place where the "teach a man to fish" parable fit, this is it.

1: Not to start an inflammatory discussion on that. I regularly use regexen to parse well formed specific HTML pages. The trick is knowing where it's appropriate and where it's not.
Intel tried that, the Itanium didn't really work out so well. Anyway, a sane instruction set doesn't mean you'll include the proper division tabels in silicon, so you probably still need to have updatable microcode to fix that.
If you had hit the automatic question block, you would still be able to log in. And if you were manually suspended by a moderator, you also would be able to login.

Account deletion is only used for spammers, sock puppets used for vote fraud and for persistent trolls.

You can get blocked on SO from asking questions if you ask too many heavily downvoted and/or closed questions without a lot of positive contributions, but accounts aren't deleted just because someone asks a few bad questions.
Towards an Open Banking API Standard
300 sponsors? There is something else in that bill they want, I assure you.
A prevarication is a lie in practical terms. Automatic budget increases are justified at the end of every fiscal year by spending all of the leftover money, i.e. unneeded money that was automatically budgeted is spent on crap solely to justify getting more unneeded money.
Why You Should Be Collecting Customer Information with Stripe
Saying "Google it" or "RTFM" isn't showing them anything, it's brushing them off. Unless you are talking about actually linking them to a page that contains the answer.
Yeah those must be some very long nights in the office. Makes me wonder where my billions went the many days I worked 9AM-3:30AM launching websites. Lost my sanity and health, but didn't even receive my million.

Can't imagine how hard a billionaire worked.
The programming professional culture described in the article is a grown-up version of hacker culture seen in old newsgroups and IRC rooms. It's somewhat of a rite of passage for a beginner to first lurk in these communities and learn just enough to know how to ask the right questions to not get yelled at.
Most of the winners have won through illegal actions or government collusion. That's not free market capitalism.
>No, just no. There is no point to any of all this search technology and this accumulated knowledge if no one uses it.

Is there a manual? Is it searchable? Is it up to date? Is it common knowledge or has it already been pointed out? Was it written for programmers or does it require business/domain knowledge to understand?

You could theoretically plop someone with the ability to read English in front of a computer with internet connection and they could learn just about anything out there, but a little guidance is going to massively improve their productivity.

The way we should handle this at work is when someone comes asking for a fish, go on a little fishing expedition. If they don't get the fish themselves, provide them one. Keep an eye open for the ones who are learning and the ones who don't care to learn and respond accordingly.

Outside of work it has to work a bit differently for a number of factors. You don't have nearly the obligation to help others work together, there are far more people, there is less direct communication. I'm not sure if there is a better rule that doesn't end up being abrasive.
Not a direct answer to your question but you might also check out https://appbase.io/ which is Elasticsearch compatible.
If you can simultaneously match or beat Amazon on price, customer service, reliability, and speed, you'll win. Hard to do, but surely not impossible.

I've been surprised the extent to which Amazon's achieved voluntary lock-in for me. Amazon's good-enough in my spot-check price comparisons, and instantaneous with zero marginal-cost shipping, that they're now my default place to search for many products.

Find a niche to live in. Taking on Amazon directly is probably trouble.
> Rules in society are also pretty stupid.

I believe the contrary: the rules (do not kill, do not steal, pay your taxes etc.) are the thing that prevents society from breaking down. There are examples of states which were too weak to enforce these rules and consequently got eradicated from the map.
> People who refuse to install the Amazon app are also very unlikely to visit the Amazon store. Just get your books elsewhere.

Exactly...that's what my original post said I was going to do, so we agree.

I don't really understand what the big deal was.
I wonder if science is doing us a disservice here. I get the feeling that just a single vulnerability (no matter how complicated it may be to exploit) is enough to claim "fundamentally insecure". Meaning that we are looking at the topic like we are trying to disprove a scientific hypothesis.
Most people probably don't think of the things they support as "hindering others" - they think of it as "making the market take externalities into account" or "preserving the character of the neighbourhood" or "ensuring safety for customers of our industry" or "bringing our short-term incentives in line with our long-term incentives"
Retail stores play all kinds of games. Offering a low price on something, with limited quantities, to get you in the store. Once you're there, they'll try to sell you other things that are marked higher.

I'd like to know the tricks that online stores use. I know that two people can click at the same time and get two significantly different prices on Amazon, for instance.
ENCRYPT Act [pdf]
Analyzing source code of WPF examples by the Infragistics Company
What Is AWS? – Amazon Web Services
The Kalpana One Orbital Space Settlement
Looks like a great way to buy a bestseller from Amazon without having to wait for shipping. But it's not going to appeal much to the kind of people who are willing to spend hours wandering the aisles of a real bookstore. One of the things that makes me a very happy Portlander is that Powell's City of Books (http://powells.com) is always crowded with blissed-out bibliophiles perusing the million-plus new+used volumes.

But I could be all wrong. I don't understand the business of books at all, because I would think that a store like Powell's would flourish in other literate locations (e.g., Minneapolis / St Paul), and yet it remains sadly unique in the U.S.
Had a similar thought – definitely qualifies as graphic content and could have done with a fair warning. Tough image to confront first thing in the morning.
> No, just no.

This is exactly why I just learned as much as I could on me own. I'm inviting downvotes by saying this, but you're being a dick. That's the point of his blog post, don't be a dick. I definitely agree that new people should come in and.. read posting guidelines and be receptive to feedback. The problem is that if we want them to be receptive.. responding like this will not help
As an economist, I am also aware of the logical contortions we have to go through to be able to run regressions on historical data (i.e. pretty much all of economic data). None of this applies here. The data generating process consists of the minds of the writers.

For your reasoning to be applicable here, you have to put together a model of the data generating process from which you can derive a proper model that allows inference. What exactly are the assumptions on P( word_i | character_j ) that make it compatible with these particular tests' assumptions?