skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate that you're defending the pre-Renaissance period from being called the Dark Ages (a term worth abandoning if there ever was one) but I think you're being led astray here by equating a breakdown in "the human condition" with the status of scientific knowledge.

The demographic/epidemiological/economic/political crises of the 17th century, after all, overlapped with the period that's traditional considered the high point of the Scientific Revolution - heck, Newton even began working on his optics and calculus during an outbreak of the Plague! - so it's not clear to me that two actually have much to do with one another. Granted, a certain baseline for material conditions and political stability needs to exist for scientific work to take place, but beyond that I don't buy the argument that something like, say, wars of religion or periods of plague necessarily leads to intellectual stagnation. From the 17th century crisis to WWII, I'd actually say that it's arguably the opposite.

I'm also struck by the fact that the period where you consider science to have "stopped dead" overlaps with Copernicus, Bacon, and Galileo! All this isn't intended to be argumentative at all, I just find debating this stuff to be interesting, and I'm an early modern historian so I couldn't resist being pedantic about it.
What sizes of data are you talking about here? 1e5 or 1e8 (or higher)?
It's important to note that when the investment was made, enterprise tech companies (like Workday) like were getting a really high valuation, whereas consumer tech companies weren't doing so well. Investors like a16z probably wanted to invest as much as possible before the enterprise IPO market would go south. Moreover, I am sure investors probably had strong liquidation preferences, ensuring a profit in the case of an exit or IPO.

We're now seeing the downsides of their thesis. Workday's market cap has since cratered, down 33% in the past year, indicating a weakening interest in the enterprise IPO market. Zenefits itself has a number of growing concerns- regulatory and competition concerns (ADP is only getting better by the day).
I'm probably a bit old-fashioned, but I think that the set 'literature' does not intersect with the set 'bounces a giant angled magenta byline in my face' (the "find a $100 smartphone" bit)

Actually, one question I used to like to ask people: "In bookshops, what qualifies a book to move from 'fiction' to 'literature'?" (yes, you can get poetry and whatnot in the literature section, but it's primarily fiction-based)
If you find the right discount code or sales person (over the phone) you can get the price down. Many employers also have deals with Dell that give you 10-15 percent off.

My issue is that the variant isn't available at all.
I don't really understand what is going on with the legal system in the US lately? We have all those nice protections for the buyer ... unless the seller chooses not to provide them. We have all those nice protections for consumers, like being able to sue in case something goes wrong ... unless the other party decides not to play this whole 'legal system' game and includes an arbitration clause in the initial agreement, which basically means "we can break the agreement but you don't". What's up with that?
Same thing happens here along the Northern California coast. With El Nino this year, the waves are bigger and more powerful than a typical winter and catch people unaware. There are occasional "sneaker" waves that break on the beach and knock people down.

Recently:
http://www.mercurynews.com/central-coast/ci_29405514/san-jos...

http://abc7news.com/news/pacifica-man-drowns-trying-to-save-...
Passwords (or passphrases) are really the only way to securely verify the "something only you know" factor of authentication. Alternatives either devolve to storing a password somewhere else (password safes, passwordless, etc) or to "something only you have" (tokens, smart cards, biometrics). It's easily arguable that the "something only you have" factor should be the primary factor, especially for low security systems, with "something only you know" being the secondary factor for high-security systems, but the economics have tended to reverse the situation. It's a lot cheaper to ask a user to memorize a password than to get smart cards or fingerprint scanners for everyone.
Don't you get annoying hardware incompatibility when running Linux on Apple hardware? The Arch Linux wiki on Macbook Pro, for example, doesn't suggest running Linux on it is simple.
Comparable AUC metric to xgboost and faster? That's... pretty interesting.

Does that include the dataload time into MLDB?
You should read one (or all) of Al Ries's books. http://www.ries.com/books/

My bet is that the talk you saw is based on his research and theories that date back to the 1970s.
In a college town like Boston, many (most?) of the student rentals turn over on Sept 1, so Aug 31 and Sept 1 are an utter shitshow, especially when mixed with the inbound collegians, and the inevitable dim bulb who decides to stuff their moving truck under one of the bridges on Storrow or Memorial Drive.

When I was renting, I always tried to get a few days overlap, but in some markets it's very difficult. After all, if I'm moving into my new place on 9/1, you can't very well move into my place a few days early, and vice versa.
It's important to realize that Apple cannot be seen as voluntarily handing over data. Sometimes this is as simple as "Yes we can help, but please force us to". That saves them from PR damage and potential liability.

This was also the basis for several of the warrantless phone collection cases, according to the leaks. One or more of the major telcos was eager to cooperate, but politely asked that they be "forced" to. The FISA court was happy to oblige.
Apple ordered to bypass auto-erase on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone
>2015 RMBP keeps resetting USB3 ports

Do you know who OEMed those ports? I've had a horrible run of luck with crappy USB3 chipsets in desktops - with the same symptoms as you're having. Do you still get the resets in Windows 8.1/10?
funny idea but not at all how git works lol
Now if only we could get those on chemotherapy to run!

I do not know which would be more difficult, getting patients on chemo to run or obese Americans? Both are likely to soon die. (Sad but true)

At least the running for the mice was voluntary.
ThinkPad P50 might be for you: http://www3.lenovo.com/au/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p-ser...
Tcl, PHP, any language without closures.
That's lame they don't sell those there. I got a 9350 myself and loaded Ubuntu onto it and it's been fantastic. What do they limit you to? Just the basic XPS 13 models?

Also, what if someone in the US bought one and had it shipped to Australia? Is that doable?
I have a Toshiba p835-z370. It's a few years old but it still runs like a champ and all the hardware is supported on Ubuntu. Toshiba build quality is pretty good.

Here's the teardown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMH0r76zdt0 . It's only upgradeable to 6gb though. Would love it if they had a 16gb upgradeable version.
https://pcpartpicker.com/
The Precision M3800 is also a great 15" laptop for running Linux (but you can't trust them not to screw up the bundled Ubuntu distro, and need to write some systemd wifi-restart scripts).
Take your RMBP back to Apple, that shouldn't be happening.
We are trying out a few of Intel Xeon D 1520 machines as the primary servers for https://Clara.io. They seem to be working fine at a low cost.
Really, the only caricature I see is the fact that they use particular kinds of vocabulary as a substitute for exclamation marks.
That was a pretty quick dismissal of Lenovo, and a warped portrayal at that. As far as we can tell, Superfish was not intentionally installed by Lenovo, and any money it made didn’t go to them since it wasn’t their software. There’s nothing here to suggest that this is a sign of anything untrustworthy happening at Lenovo, any more than there is at any other major laptop seller. It seems like this was just a case of their software QA being not quite on par with their hardware QA. Also, all websites suck. Just sayin’.

tl;dr: “Picky, picky! wags finger”
One tangential connection...Startup makes progress flouting the law, they hit a wall they can't overcome (get persecuted for). Uber has run the same risk (more lax laws), but approach was basically the same.
None of the systems include the data load time, but for mldb and the other non-distributed systems, it's only a few seconds.

(edit: my grammar is good not)
The experience of a new user in your app can turn out to be a pretty critical moment when it comes to retention. Having a flow specifically for new users is common and does the job of easing them into whatever necessary complexity exists in your default state.
Exactly right. The best vote you can cast for this - and the only one that matters - is to go out and rewrite something.
I shouldn't complain too much, the 8GB / 256GB version is the highest they offer here. It's just that I'd like to run VMs on the thing and 16GB of RAM is needed.

My other constraint is weight, for $REASONS - I don't really want something >1.5KG.
> Do you know who OEMed those ports?

Looks like Intel:

PCI Device ID:	0x9cb1
PCI Revision ID:	0x0003
PCI Vendor ID:	0x8086

> Do you still get the resets in Windows 8.1/10?

Just running latest OSX El Capitan.
It's a common scam to sell flash drives with modified firmware that causes it to report a larger size than the underlying flash chips provide. Usually once you write past that point, the writes will loop around or drop the data entirely. It's likely that the $17 flag drive you linked to is a scam.

Beyond that, flash drives tend to have low write durability and horrible performance on large writes (because of poorly implemented garbage collection).
A one minute google search reveals:

Radioactivity. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/themes/physics/curie/

Nash equilibrium. http://rbsc.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/Non-Cooperativ...

Emergence of digital circuit design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_a...

A pretty ridiculous thing to claim.
> disheartened, emotionally drained

So he wasn't offended, he just had his feelings hurt?
I have the first-generation X1 Carbon and a Dell Precision M3800, both running Ubuntu, and I am very satisfied with both.
The assumption here is that the growth without revenue you're doing so you can get that 100x is going to be translatable into revenue. When you start generating actual revenue the team as a whole learns a lot. You don't just "pull the revenue lever". Business doesn't work like that. It's a gradual process of figuring out what the customer will pay for, understanding how to charge, optimizing, etc. It's a huge learning curve and a long process. Many startups don't want to hear this because if you believe it, then it's tough to pitch VC's when all you have is growth.

So really you absolutely need to generate revenue now or you won't be able to later. It's part of figuring out what business you're in and validating the model.

So just by going for revenue, you're absolutely not removing the ability to also do growth. You're just making sure that you can fund yourself and that the business you're in is a real business instead of just a fantasy one.

I should caveat this though. There are two strategies where revenue doesn't matter at all:

1. If you want to build a growth machine with no revenue purely in the hope of being a strategic threat to a big player so that they'll acquire you, then pure growth is a valid strategy. There are many success stories like that but I don't consider them real businesses.

2. If you want to be talent acquired, then you raise and make your core competency recruiting and your target market whoever is hiring engineers. You'll make some money and forever join the halls of those who have no idea how to run a real business that creates jobs.

I think the holy grail in entrepreneurship is creating a job creation machine that is self sustaining. That's what entrepreneurs were born to do and it's how we make the biggest contribution.

If you only consider Google (and there are so many more examples) - think about the effect that it has had on job creation, innovation, funding by the Google founders, the super angels it created, the angel investors, the funding projects that Google itself has and the quality of life it has created for tens of thousands of employees. That was just one success story that has had an enormous positive impact on the global economy.

When you talent acquire or strategic acquire a startup, you remove the possiblity of it ever becoming a Google or Facebook or Apple or Amazon and you remove all those positive benefits. So that's why I hate growth machines and talent shops.
Places I rented never had the period starting on the 1st. Maybe that's a standard somewhere else, but I didn't experience it in the UK. It seems like a nightmare to both the renters and landlords...
I like the concept of freedom as an American, but as a cotton farmer not so much.
If everyone agrees it is a "silly" requirement (especially because it was circumvented so "easily"), why are we so mad at Zenefits?

We certainly don't want giant companies influencing policy changes (though, that happens frequently). I think a good indicator of whether a policy can justifiably be circumvented is if it actually hurt anybody. Has the "macro" hurt anybody yet? The articles have been vague.
Set the work iPhone's clock to 1/1/1970?
Hacker unleashes 17.8GB trove of data from a Turkish national police server
I have a Lenovo X1 carbon and I re-installed Windows to remove all the Lenovo crapware after I bought it. Windows is easy to download and install now. It will save your license, but blow away everything else. It only takes about 30-45 minutes. But I do agree, this is totally ridiculous that you have to do this.

I did buy an MS Surface and it was by far the best PC experience I ever had, however they don't make a keyboard cover with a touch-stick, that's the only reason I went back to a ThinkPad.
Is Wired.com now blocking ad-block users?
It seems like wired.com now checks for visitors using ad-blocking software and blocks them (instead of being able to read stories, I was met with a blank page telling me to either subscribe or white-list their site). Is anyone else seeing this?
Devil's advocate here: could you have gotten away with having a shell script (build-fish.sh?) that opened a `sh` shell and ran the build? Seems like a month spent on making a build script work with a minority's choice of (non-mainstream) shell is a lot. :-)

(I should note that I've been guilty of spending time on non-valuable things. So this is most certainly a bit of the pot calling the kettle black :)
Is it possible for this data to ever be useful? Given the time necessary to acquire the data, and the rate at which improvements are made to drives, cannot we make the assumption that drives purchased today probably won't operate in exactly the same manner as drives purchased a year ago?

I don't mean to insult, just to ponder the relevance of such long-term studies on tech that changes so quickly.
Avoid the dell developers edition xps13. There's no end key, the trackpad is unusable. Even worse, avoid getting the windows version and installing Linux on that: the trackpad is even less unusable (resets to lower corner intermittently on clicks), and in order to get the wi-fi working I had to recompile the kernel driver telling it that it was FOSS.
> Bonus points for calling apple website an icon of web design when it weights almost 100mb.

Plus calling Amazon.com 'simple and utilitarian' is questionable.

Does anyone really care a whole lot about the HP website?
Why is a decent website relevant at all? Would it make buying a laptop easier? Sure. But 90% of consumers are going to do almost all of their research off-site and enter the lenovo looking for specific products or categories. Not everyone follows the Apple-Disney ethos of design every consumer facing thing to be flawless.

I haven't done the research but I bet you could see lenovo pages ranking higher for long-tail keywords (specific products) than than more general pages.
E5 v3 CPU's are old, and the Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 at the top of their charts was released back in Q2 2014 - nearly 2 years ago. The new Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4 when it is released should blitz that.
EWD's argument why they should: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
We have a dysfunctional government that's clearly beholden to various powers, including ones whose business model relies on stupid laws not changing. (I'm not personally sure I would even call our government a plutocracy, since that implies some level of control or organization.) At this point the only way we are ever going to get change is if large numbers of people decide that stupid laws are stupid and ignore them. See, for instance, the multi-decade long campaign to decriminalize marijuana.

More generally, I don't see a good way for our society to collectively figure out the cost/benefit ratio for many regulations other than experimentation (the institutions that should be doing so are permanently out to lunch). It's not ideal, but from my standpoint startup companies pushing boundaries is the best solution we've got for dealing with stagnated industries.
yes, that would be incentive enough
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Well, good. It should require a court order (and the associated paper trail) before Apple opens up private user data to scrutiny.
I can't bring my desktop to any environment, therefore it's a non-starter.

I _do_ think it's interesting to think "maybe buying 1 (even 2) desktops is actually better for me than buying 1 laptop", but I cannot bring my desktop to the library. I feel like this comment is on the same level as "don't buy a phone, you can do better with a laptop", which is absurd on a similar level without extra context.
Except what the hell, where’s my desktop-grade GPU!? ;)
Wasn't there ab article about Lenovo getting around this solution? I did the same thing with my y40. Came with an absurd amount of bullshit, but overall its a great laptop.
That's a little scary, I recognised that Vendor ID without looking it up (Intel).

That's odd, Intel have been the ones that work the best in my experience (have also tried Renesas and Etron).
Where do you live that "dozen of authorities" can come around and inspect your property at will?

I see where you're coming from, but as is probably obvious, I don't subscribe to your "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" world view on government surveillance. This seems to be the root of our disagreement here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument#Argum...
Possibly due to word count incentive
You're dodging a bullet. (See my response to op)
I just had a https://www.thinkpenguin.com/ arrive and so far it seems good.

See http://www.linux.org/threads/how-great-is-the-korora.5955/ for a sample review.
I've always found ASUS laptops well built, great screens and very reliable. Their Zen books are nice.
Which data are you after? The ImageNet data is public and they released the pretrained model.

They've promised to release (or already have released) the models for Exploring the Limits of Language Modeling[1] which was trained on the 1 B Word Benchmark corpus[2] which is also public data.

Note that for these, the trained models are often more immediately useful. The language modelling model was trained for 3 weeks on 32 Tesla K40s. That's not something many can replicate casually.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.02410v2.pdf

[2] http://www.statmt.org/lm-benchmark/
Dodging the law is risky but can have upsides. Maybe you get Aereo'd or maybe you can pull an Uber. Both airbnb and Uber exploited holes in current regulation.

Just breaking the law is stupid.
I disagree. Historians, scientists, engineers, prospectors, etc. will be thinking about this for a LONG time.
If you're going to buy a 350K property, you're going to want to have access to 10K in cash anyway. If you're buying a second (even temporarily), even moreso.
I was mostly drawing a comparison with the one sentence The majority of our planet is covered in something we can't even figure out how to build habitats on top of without piling up dirt underneath.

A town of 5,000 people that is situated on land will usually also import loads of fuel and food. So a cruise ship isn't really the same thing as a town, but it has quite a bit in common with it if you look at the town as a habitat.
Can I bring my desktop on a plane? To meetings at my client's offices? No?

Isn't that an interesting bit of nuance that you so blithely elide.
Anyone who visits Japan in late summer should try Okayama white peaches. Warning: may ruin you for all other fruit.
I have an Acer laptop I won from a church basket raffle. It only has a 1.5 Ghz AMD Dual core CPU and 3Gigs of RAM and 250 Gig hard drive. So it runs slow at first and takes a time to load everything.

It upgraded to Windows 10 Pro quite well.

It is one of those cheaper laptops and it has an AMD GPU as well. I don't know how user serviceable it is, but it hasn't needed any work yet.

I used to have Ubuntu on it, but my wife didn't like it so I had to put Windows back with it as we share the laptop. So I know it runs Ubuntu very well, and it runs Ubuntu faster than it does Windows.

But PC quality has gone down since they moved things to China. Motherboards, you are lucky if they last three years now. My son had an ATX custom system with an ATX motherboard for the Intel 1150 socket made by ASUS, and it went out and was replaced with an Intel brand motherboard that we had to buy from eBay because the socket is so old they don't make new motherboards for it anymore. Motherboard lasted maybe two years before it blew out. We got a Datavac to clean up dust from it and would replace the CPU resin every six months or so.
Here is the only way to shop Lenovo:

http://psref.lenovo.com/

Every SKU, every option, every detail, in a PDF.
Having done this computation a number of times, with these machines it would flip over to 'colo' at about 150 machines. The really interesting thing is that amazon costs scale linearly with size while owned infrastructure scale fractionally. So the advantage just keeps growing and growing.

Bottom line, if you can host your app and resources on less than a 150 machines in Amazon you win, more than that and you're leaving money on the table. Once you get to the point where you are deploying new datacenters to support your customers you get a huge boost in operational efficiency.
Does it brick the hardware protecting the secret key, or could it be attacked by saving and restoring the flash storage (or replacing it with simulated storage)?
R is great language but at the same time it can be a real pain.

Sometimes I imagine that some very wise guy designs a language much more consise and coherent, that could at the same time take advantage of the huge number of existing libraries written in R and C++... Maybe it's a dream but so many times I wonder if that's even be possible.
You're saying a bias against women among men is indicative of men being primarily gay/bi? I don't think there's any research to support that...
wait I wasn't paying much attention because I don't have a thinkpad but how would they have accidentally installed superfish?
> If you don't like the OS and the free software that's included, replace it. You weren't gonna stick with the OEM bloatware Windows install on the Thinkpad anyway.

Fair point. I've heard mixed reviews from people dual booting Linux on a retina MBP because Ubuntu has bad high DPI support.

> The author is correct, we need more competition, but for the time being a Mac is truly the best piece of kit you can get. It'll run any OS and doesn't ship with an ssl mitm.

Yeah, I think there's an untapped market for a well built standard laptop (not a tablet crossover, not a Chromebook) that's not a Mac!
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