skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I knew the MSR page and that you have to basically start at their front page. Because of course you can't just remove the file from the paper URL and get an overview or something like that, that would be to easy...

It seems to me like the internals of their content management system are showing through and making it complicated. "Oh, a video? That's something completely unrelated and a stand-alone artifact"

FWIW, I think submitting papers with a [PDF] in the title is fine, because many people seem to start in the comments anyways, but that's just my opinion.
It isn't just about loss of life, the dam constitutes a good chunk of Iraq's power generation. It is still a strategic military target.
Holy crap, I remember seeing these kinds of threads before and being amazed by people making good money from a side-project, I can't believe I'm now one of them!

My project is BugMuncher - https://www.bugmuncher.com - a website feedback tool I created back in 2011, and it's currently making $1,489 Monthly Recurring Revenue.

Strictly speaking it's not a side project anymore, as in Sept 2015 I fired all my freelance clients to focus on BugMuncher full time, but I've never taken funding, and I'm the only person working on it, so it still feels like a side project :)

If anyone is interested I've been writing a blog series about my mission to go from side project to profit, which starts here - https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/10/22/from-side-project-to-...
"Valuations are based on what the company might accomplish (potential energy), not what it's actually accomplishing (kinetic energy)"...

I'm not exactly sure why but for some reason this metaphor irks me. Just seems like a stretch, I'd probably be happier leaving the actual physics terms out of a statistics/financial discussion.
I believe fixed-based cranes in many countries get inspected and certified to a specific job/load after installation while mobile cranes do not have this requirement.
> Such events highlight the awesome and scary power of cranes

On the one hand, I like that expression, on the other hand it sounds a little... dramatic.
I really hope unikernels take off because I really hate dealing with both (particularly docker more so than systemd).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11216976
The article also says "Unlike with other American big-box grocery stores (and Trader Joe’s parent company, the German supermarket chain Aldi)..."
Apparently Mini (also made by BMW) has a similar update structure, and that runs QNX, so it's likely this does too:

http://rene.rebe.de/2013-03-31/mini-connected-runs-qnx/
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I don't see any shame and blame yet. The only thing these emails show is the claim by BMW that no software not developed or fully owned by BMW is running on their cars infotainment system.

A shame and blame game would start when one analyzes the software updates, is able to prove that the above statement is a lie, and make a big fuzz about it. This would BMW fear loosing their face and be counter productive, I fully agree.
Considered means had a study done to see what the effects would be. It doesn't mean that was the preferred strategy.

There are people in the Pentagon considering all kinds of crazy scenarios all the time, so that when crazy actually happens the leaders can make a quick decision based on a briefing book that took a while to put together. It sounds ominous in the press, but it's really innocuous.
Hey buddy want to bet that Amazon is using this massive collection of voice to text to sell to other companies like Apple and Google?
the way I read its is that no, BMW is NOT legally required to release it as it is in a proprietary piece of HW, and releasing the code could thus cause harm to their business. and while they ARE using it for 'gain', no one can prove that they were HARMED or had a loss of income or even IP (outside of copyright) by their (BMW's) use of such as it is essentially 'free' in that no money or barter items were exchanged. They MAY have a copyright claim at best, but again, I am not a lawyer. That's just how I see it.

Is there a precedent to enforce GNU licensing outside of copyright infringement?
I wonder if the Win64 version is built without zlib or similar.
Trader Joe's used to have a fun iOS app with animations and new product info.
They consider everything.
Zero chance of that.

AWS will likely be a $100-$150 billion market value business in five years, with $6-$8 billion in operating income. They're tracking to $3.x billion in operating income in the next four quarters. It'll be valued as highly as Intel and Oracle.

A device that tells you the weather, orders an Uber, or orders more low margin merchandise off of Amazon, is not going to generate that kind of massive financial return. You can look at every lucrative business Echo could touch, and there's no scenario under which it could extract a large amount of monetary value. Ads? Not a chance. Sales referrals? No, the high margin stuff people want to visually browse for. Services? It could be 50 times larger than Angie's List and still not match AWS. Ordering Ubers? Ordering food? Ordering movie tickets? Relatively small sales, small percentage cut businesses.
Your username matches your comment perfectly, and your comment doesn't seem to convey anything relevant other than "I shit on you". In case you're actually curious, it's a traditionally Eastern emoticon to mean "troubled".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons#Eastern
You're thinking too much like an engineer :-) It's not a speech recognition breakdown but it's certainly a voice interface breakdown in the sense of I can't get the device to do what I want it to do. As a user, I don't care where in the pipeline my attempts to communicate a desired action break down. I just know that they do.
wget is on homebrew.
I suppose that it would be theoretically easy to disable the ejection handles when the plane had the canopy open, was not moving, and/or was on the ground. But if the plane was damaged and the sensors or circuits that managed that decision were destroyed, the pilot couldn't eject.

They decided to err on the side of allowing the pilot to eject, possibily in a state of panic or confusion, under conditions that could be fatal. They did this instead of preventing this death caused by human error but opening the remote possibility that the best redundant system they could devise would fail and leave the pilot unable to eject. That says something interesting about their safety philosophy.
Home brewing is something I'd really like to get into.

I imagine I'll have a lot of failures though, before I start producing anything decent - can the quantities given be lessened, e.g. quartered, and still get the same taste result?
While indeed creepy, I ordered the original Echo as soon as it was made available, but I'm probably a special case. I live by myself and barely even speak out loud at home.

If Amazon can somehow monetize my primary use of Echo as a glorified kitchen timer I will be impressed.
I have attached a few photos that were released by MSC. The first link is a general directory for the entire T-ARC fleet. The USNS Zeus (T-ARC-7) is the only remaining cable laying ship in the Navy.

Another cool thing you can do is use the 3rd link to track a lot of the ship! The Zeus is currently underway in Bermuda. It's not on a mission right now AFAIK. If it goes dark you know it's on a mission for a more secure cable line.

I can confirm that the drum linked above is not on the Zeus. The Zeus has two huge drums like that, but they are below main deck. The Zeus also has a cool as fuck hat that I really want, but so far no crew will give me one. A unidentified high officer said he would give me his if I kept the steering wheel for him after it's removal. Sadly, that'll be in the possession of NASSCO/Shipyard and then MSC after the work.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/27/27idx.htm
http://www.msc.navy.mil/PM4/images/Zeusatsea2.jpg
http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-70/centery...
Technology isn't that important here, it's what stems from it is. Adoption, infrastructure, tools, community.

There's also a price for doing it differently. And believe you me, using BSD nowadays is the definition of doing things differently. What for? What I'm getting for losing my time and reinventing the tools that are already available and much more polished?

Dockerfiles can be replicated. Docker Hub can be replicated. Missing things can be compiled from sources, probably. But all that costs time for little to no gain.
Or they can move to a steam engine which are much more stable, secure, and tested than cars consuming gasoline.

Embrace the change, it's for a better future.
That's awesome! At 3 hours a week you are truly living the dream. What are your plans for a premium pricing model?
For digital products, it's quite common to have an internal policy of refunding with no question asked. It prevents chargebacks and is a good way to appease customers.

In those cases, it's still good to know if the user actually made the purchase and note it in a file associated with that customer so that in case of future support request that information is present and easy to see.
I'm having to use aria2 more and more to maintain decent download speeds, occasionally even from Akamai and CloudFront. S3 seems to be the exception.
Uber creates a 10% drop in DUIs
Literally hundreds of millions of people. McDonalds alone has 62 million followers on Facebook. If half of the people on Facebook or Twitter follow a brand, that's over a half billion.
The thing is, you can ask Cortana or Google Now or Siri about the weather, shopping (at least Cortana has reminders, not sure about the other two) and the other things you mention.

So, at the moment it's feels like a redundant device that one has to purchase in order to do the same thing I can do with the phone and/or computer that I already own.

I mean, I find it kind of cool (except for the creepy "I'm listening to what you say", which applies to all assistants anyway), but I find it hard to find its place in the world as things are right now. Perhaps is that I do live in a small studio and my laptop or phone or tablet are always at hand.
> History has proven over and over again that this kind of public shame and blame approach doesn't help in any way, quite the opposite.

Is this true?
Are you saying that any competent military would consider racking up a civilian death toll on the order of the Auschwitz death camp in the matter of days?

Thank god the US military isn't competent then.
my apologies, HN formatting mistake I meant the double star syntax: "<start><star>/<star>.txt"
Location:New York
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Depend on location
Technologies: Objective-C, iOS
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wleofeng
Github: https://github.com/wleofeng/
Email: wleofeng@gmail.com
I'm confused here. Where is the evidence that they've modified GPL'd software, which they are then distributing, and are refusing to distribute the source code for their modifications?
They can try to take light switches from my cold, dead hands!

Light bulbs are literally the last thing on earth that I want to research for security exploits before I purchase.
Location: New York
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Depend on location
Technologies: Objective-C, iOS, Core Data, Object-oriented Design, Mobile Design, SDK, API, Cocoa Pods, Git
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wleofeng
Github: https://github.com/wleofeng/
Email: wleofeng@gmail.com
I don't think the window edges violate fitt's law. To use the scroll bar, you slam your courser to the edge of your screen and then move a known amount over, which are two things that don't involve fine grain hunting.

I haven't noticed the menu divider issue. You already have to wait until your menu item is highlighted before clicking, so that is what you focus on. It is an odd choice though.
Nginx reverse proxies retries PUT/POST/DELETE on response timeout by default
Since the processing is cloud based, and they know my identity, why don't the devices recognize this fact and cooperate. Instead of just 7 beam forming mics in the Echo, if you have two within hearing distance you could have the benefit of 14 and a unified response.

The echo and noise reduction software that I'm aware of can't really do that in a reasonable fashion.

With current solutions, you've got one DSP that's receiving all the audio streams simultaneously, and they need to be exactly synchronized in time. Then, using basically pattern-matching, it figures out what direction the user's voice is coming from, and combines some/all of the audio streams together to eliminate environmental noise and make the speech as clear as possible.

To do this with separate devices, you'd want extremely precise time synchronization. Which is possible, but I wouldn't want to implement it.

The extra processing and synchronization would take longer, and delay input to the speech recognition engine. I don't think it would enhance the user experience.

Edit: spelling.
The moment you clamored for MIT embedded Linux software and the "let's kill all the GPL it's bad for startups" meme came up.

So now this cool audio controlled personal assistant is just another gadget to buy more stuff from Amazon, instead of something you control.
Better exception responses in Rails 5 API apps
I am glad to see this step towards economic growth for Buffalo. This project has helped out a lot of people in the area by providing jobs. Hopefully that progress continues.
Is she getting paid? Was she paid in the past?
Is the company profitable?

Why should she, who is leaving, get paid in more equity?

Can you raise equity $$ from the remaining shareholders, asking her as well. If she fails to subscribe for more shares = diluted down.

You can not afford a non-productive slug on the wall in control of 50% = ability to stall progress.
A. It's the company's money not mine, so why should I care? And depending on how big the in-app purchase was, spending even more time on the ticket would cost more than undoing the refund would be worth.

E is for edgy anons from 4chan and most likely will get you in trouble in the real world (threatening a co-worker).
Amazon’s new Echo Dot is a mini speaker that brings Alexa to any room
> Where is the evidence that they've modified GPL'd software

There's a Linux kernel and systemd in the 'i3'. See the links in the first few sentences of the article.

> which they are then distributing

BMW is a Bayerische Motor Work, a car company that distributes cars

> and are refusing to distribute the source code for their modifications?

The letters from BMW to the people asking for a copy of the source, stating they are refusing to distribute the source code for their modifications, linked to in the article.
It's a remark by the author and is simply an opinion - I wouldn't say this book has been 'discredited'.
> the 'immersive' media in films is the audio, not the visual components

That's a non-falsifiable opinion, really (even if it does apply to the majority of the population). I'm living proof you can enjoy movies without the audio.

It's the sum of our experience that colors our perception -- almost irrevocably in this case, since I imagine it would be difficult for the typical person to really be able to enjoy something in complete and utter silence.
I am a bit with Cantrill on unikernels they sound cool to play with, but I would hate to debug issues with them in production.
Pricing is more or less the same across all the watermarkers out there - any lower and it is just not worth the time!

Marketing wise I primarily offer great and fast support also in building additional features, this drives a lot of user reviews and reccomendations on forums.

Email me if you want more insights, I will be happy to help you building something different!
I agree the CEO seriously fucked up -- I'm arguing it is actually worse, because he didn't need to do that to build a great business, either -- it was just a lazy shortcut. Zenefits could be a great company without doing things like the macro, and while being compliant with the regulations (or, in cases where the regulations are ambiguous or wrong, at least breaking them in ways which are defensible legally and in the court of public opinion.)
Throw a rock in downtown DC and it'll probably hit an imposing building. (And then you'll get hauled off.)

Wandering a bit, one thing that always strikes me about that area is how not striking the White House is. There are tons of massive, imposing buildings, including monuments, museums, and offices. Then you wander over and there's... a house. A big house, sure. A mansion, even. But considering it's the residence of the most powerful guy around, it's pretty indistinct in context. If you're not close to the fence, it's easy to lose it in the trees.
Not to pick on you :-), but I have these things called light switches in my house that work pretty well for turning on and off lights. I confess to not seeing much attraction to smart lightbulbs with names.

(To be fair, if I had a lot of lights not connected to switches as was the case when I moved into my current house, I'd probably have put in smart lightbulbs rather than doing as much rewiring as I did.)
> stable, secure, and tested

That is true, however jails lose a lot of power without VIMAGE. VIMAGE is not enabled by default yet, and it's pretty unstable (I use it). I really wish VIMAGE would mature, but we're not there yet.
ive always wondered how these static generators handle ajax or dynamic content?
I have strong doubts about that actually the case, I've seen what happens when water drips into molten metal (things go boom) and even if that wasn't the case the steam would be super heated which is enough to burn your hand to crisp.
Funny enough, it was writing a download accelerator that taught me about the Range HTTP request header.
... and also a way to introduce the concept of shopping via Alexa (I would imagine one of AMZN's primary long term goals for the project)
in Geneva, Switzerland, 100MBit upload & download via Swisscom (but good luck finding server on the other side which would work 100% with it), costs cca 80 USD/month.

in neighbouring France where salaries are maybe 1/3 of Swiss ones, in rather small town which is in mountains, but not some secluded lonely speck but Chamonix, world premiere site for of piste skiing and alpinism (among other activities), its... cca 45 USD for 2 fraking MBits (plus world of pain of dysfunctional bureaucracy when dealing with Orange, main provider in the area - 3 weeks after subscribing via already existing landline, still not working albeit activated on their side).

this world can be a strange place when it comes to internet connectivity...
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
How difficult is it to blow up the dam such that the water rushes out? I mean bombing a place to kill people is easy, but I have no idea if you have to hit specific spots on the dam or whether it is enough to just hit any area.
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> Embrace the change, it's for a better future.

Unfortunately, especially when you also factor in the impact of ZFS and DTrace, you are moving into the past, not the future.
Be forewarned - if I am invited into your home for any reason, and I see an Alexa device, I will vocally add a large shopping list of nonsense to your Amazon cart :)
It may be one of the latest generations, but no name clicks. All I remember is a term he coined that was close to fluid dynamics or derivative history (fields and waves, flows, you get the idea).
I read that, but isn't this is the lowest type of "violation" there is? People are just wanting them to host the source code that is already available in about a billion locations then?

My question still stands, is there evidence that they're modifying GPL'd code and then not distributing that code?
Not a spacecraft, but the Germans in WW2 developed an air-to-air missile [0] that had wooden fins. It wasn't going fast enough to create significant atmospheric heating and wood wasn't a strategically limited resource. I've seen one at a museum in the US, and the wood looks really incongruous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhrstahl_X-4
VMs, and VM-based languages, are applications that run on top of all that kernel programming.

Applications come and go so there's no reason to feel amazed that not everyone know how the Python VM works - especially considering the details aren't considered a core part of the Python curriculum, and they're almost completely inaccessible to a typical Python user.

But not understanding the heap or the stack has real implications for application performance and stability in whatever language or VM you're working in. The abstractions have gotten more abstract, but developers who no longer understand what happens when you run out of memory, or have a buffer under/overflow, or your stack explodes because you're using recursion without tail calls, are definitely a bad thing.

You seem to be arguing that anyone who does web or VM dev doesn't really need to know what happens inside a computer. I think that's an unhelpful view, because it implies that all those abstractions "just work" and no one who uses them needs to care how.

Do they really "just work"? I think the evidence suggests they don't. Perhaps if developers understood hardware better that could be improved.
That's not how the GPL works. If it would be inconvenient for BMW to incorporate GPL software and properly comply with the license by providing source, then their only alternative is not to incorporate the GPL software. Full stop. Harm or proprietary hardware has no bearing on the rights granted by the GPL.
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I disagree. The fact is that large companies like this are never open to "civil discourse and cooperative solutions" when it comes to copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property matters. BMW will see no reason to comply with the GPL. The only thing a big company responds to on such issues, other than bona fide legal action, is negative press. I think it'll be difficult to manufacture some over the technicalities of copyright compliance, but can't blame OP for trying and not wasting his time trying to navigate the corporate copyright labyrinth.

Source: I have a C&D from a Fortune 500 alleging that I violated some intangible rights. Their argument is weak, but I don't have the millions of dollars every lawyer I've talked to has said I'll need to see the case through (tens of thousands to even get started). I've spent 6 months trying to navigate their corporate structure and get in front of someone who matters. Everyone just tells me to sod off, with varying degrees of politeness. I have not yet been able to locate someone in the company who actually seems willing to have any discussion, and their law firm is obviously not open to this since their instructions were to shut me down. I'm considering the alternatives I have, and wondering if it's time to try to work the media and attempt to get some movement from them that way (though I don't really think this will work, it's becoming the only option).
The answer is obviously 'yes'. If there is a way for Amazon to listen to conversations then a court can compel them to give the FBI access.
I don't really look at GPL too closely, since I do not code for a living, or make commercial products, but I have to say my superficial understanding of opensource and GPL was piqued by the statement from @jackhat above with the 'legal rights of the property creators as owners.' If I take this statement to mean that GPL is the mirror-image of proprietary license agreements in that it is not free to use, since the stipulation is that you must publish your source code as the cost, would my understanding be correct? I just tend towards MIT or BSD licensed software to avoid any potential issues or problems with my future endeavors.