skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It for simple reason that for vast majority of Indians (non-urban, big and small towns, villages etc.) there is simply no alternative if they want to buy a mobile or a SD card for mobile, or a particular book, or that latest Levis, sneakers, and so on… Heck even in big cities it is a struggle to find things.

This is so true. Even today. Moreover there is an impression of complete lack of transparency in brick and mortar stores, since you are never sure when a shopkeeper is fleecing you.

But sadly Flipkart has pivoted away from customer satisfaction to seller satisfaction as an end goal. As a result their quality of service has gone for a toss, whereas Amazon has always been single mindedly pro-buyer.

Brand inertia will help them retain customers for some time and this also helped because Amazon's android app is just not good enough, but eventually they will crash if they keep ignoring customers.
Serial Experiments Lain should entertain you.
For C# based environments, you should use T4[1] actually. It comes with Mono[2] as well as the normal CLR. It has an API and a command-line tool.

[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb126445.aspx
[2]: https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/tree/master/main/src/add...
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I actually visit Flipkart once in a while to see if the prices have changed and in every visit I provide feedback that the prices are ridiculously high and that I'm buying from Amazon or Paytm. I don't believe anyone in Flipkart with the authority to do anything reads the feedback or wants to act on it. I've done this several times over the past couple of years and Flipkart still remains the most expensive for the electronic/electrical products I'm interested in.

I've narrowed down to Paytm as the first source and Amazon.in as the second source to look for products at good prices. Snapdeal comes a distant third.
Google already does this. The cars have virtually driven nearly as many miles as they have on the road by now. And every time there's a near accident, or one of the various accidents where other vehicles were at fault, they feed in the data and run simulations on how the car could have avoided the accident.

Even if they're not perfect, they're still already better than the median driver in the majority of daily driving. They don't need to be perfect, just better than most and you're drastically reducing deaths. Below median drivers cause more accidents than above median.

Most accidents come down to awareness and reaction (both reaction speed and the ability to evaluate the right course of action). These are two things that a sufficiently advanced computer system will always be better at. A human gets distracted, doesn't have 360-degree constant vision, doesn't have thermal imaging or the ability to range-find obstacles through fog. A human can't use perfect situational awareness of obstacles and road conditions to avoid an accident.

Anyway, the plural of anecdote isn't data. Google is in the data business and has a firm grasp of what they're attempting. I doubt they're going to be proven wrong.
I find a lot of coders underestimate their own value. Take a look at the market, maybe do some interviews - even if you are happy in your current job, it's well worth knowing your market value.
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After reading this, I was so glad that I was born in the 21st century!
I can feel the pain by just looking at the monitor. The pain travels from thousand years ago and reaches my teeth!!
A realisation I made quite early whilst growing up is that the system is set up to make the working class look like crazy fools.

In Britain it's basically the hallmark of being middle class - politeness, stiff upper lip.

This article does read badly, it sounds irrational, crazy, angry. And that's rational and makes sense.
If you're interested in front-end work I'd be happy to help you out. Send me an email to this username at gmail.
Also, Google never said the cars were incapable of driving on snow. Just that they weren't prioritizing tests and development with that in mind yet. They want to nail typical San Francisco/Mountain View driving before branching out into other road condition types.

"Haven't yet attempted" isn't a "cannot."
Also, regarding (b):

Already many cities today operate busses by taking unemployed people and forcing them to take the job as bus driver for no pay (they'd have to continue living off of welfare), otherwise they'd lose 50% of their welfare money.

That's how you get bus drivers for free — automated vehicles can't really beat that.
A slave could have chosen not to work and would have been beaten. She could have chosen not to work and wouldn't have been able to feed herself and her children. To me this looks like a situation which is at least related. Not exactly the same, but not completely different.
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Your middle aged childless white guy may well have caring responsibilities to his elderly parents or disabled sibling, which he didn't feel comfortable telling you about as you appear to be unsympathetic to some kinds of employees.
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http://bootstraptour.com/ is very similar to this.
Could someone please give me some feedback. I do a lot of optimization work and I've recently been diving into ARM specific optimization. At the moment I'm interesting in speeding up low level calls/NDK stuff for Android (mostly computer vision stuff).. you know SIMD(NEON) stuff and OpenCL

I'd like an ARM system I can develop on natively (the toolchain is a lot easier than the cross compilation messyness). I've tried to use a Chromebook and it sorta works but I've come up on some limitation with Crouton (specifically you have a small selection of distributions and the kernel version for ChromeOS doesn't match what Debian wants - so no linux-tools and some weirdness with the filesystem)

I've been eyeballing getting an ODroid
http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code...

but something like a RPi would have a lot more support and might be adequate.

The only downside is that the GPU doesn't seem to allow for OpenCL development.

Thoughts??
Then nobody can mine new blocks (not profitable enough).
Datapath.io is out on a mission to change the face of the internet. We want it to look and act more like "the Flash" than "Hulk". So we came up with a way to dress it up and make it run fast.

Datapath.io probes upwards of 600,000 network prefixes in real time and collects performance data of every path through the network. This data is then processed and analyzed to determine the best path through the network with the lowest latency, congestion and packet loss. DevOps personnel then have the ability to create rules to automate network traffic routing and in the process minimize network performance issues.
At datapath.io we believe in democratizing the internet backbone. We believe that service providers have the right to get through to consumers over equally well performing internet routes. That is why we provide a platform where service providers are given the ability to choose their own routes over the internet based on their performance requirements.
Is "I would rather you did..." odd too? Not a native speaker here :)
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The problem seems to be Java/Oracle's root store, where IdenTrust is not included. Let's Encrypt has stated that they have applied to Oracle's root program with their own root certificate, so hopefully this will eventually be solved in a future Java version.
How to Build a Better Behance Case Study
> One time she missed work because she couldn't find her car keys.

You mean she was late because her 3 yr old child hid her keys in the hopes of spending more time with his mother. Completely unacceptable indeed.
Imho, if you are a single parent, maybe you should postpone collage too. She was losing at least $1700 a month.
Credit cards are just one way to manage payments. Whether they're addictive or not depends on the person. Some people even move money out of their savings accounts into some other bank account in a deposit they cannot easily access because having "cash at hand" is a problem for them. That doesn't make bank accounts addictive or problematic overall.

More to your point, there are many in the cities who have credit cards and use them often because they're convenient. Carrying cash or using debit cards when more people are moving to credit cards is foolish and a way to subsidize the people using credit cards.

I have credit cards that I use wisely. Always pay fully on time (no interest), make the most of the credit period by timing purchases as much as possible, etc. I don't have to worry about carrying lots of cash and getting change (or worse, rounding things up while paying). Taking advantage of marketing related discount offers from credit card providers is also another positive. Overall, credit cards provide a lot of value for me, although the social benefit could be argued one way or the other.
Hey, thanks for the feedbacks. I will try to fix them in the next version. Cheers.
That argument works well with the Star Trek wiki as example. I don't think it goes as well with the Minecraft wiki.

Fan wikis like this are targeted at people that already have a fairly good understanding of what the article is about. This allows them to ignore certain aspects and assume a lot of things are already known.

In case of Wikipedia you have to assume much less prior knowledge and you have to start at the very beginning with each article. If you're already in the know, this gets boring very quickly.

This means that there is always going to be a space for separate wikis that cover specialized topics in detail for a different audience.
Because that's an enourmous amount of work and likely to attract hostile legal action? They didn't even create their own operating system for their phones.
> When my father died last year

I'm sorry. :(

> I was immediately offered (without me even asking for) up to two weeks payed leave.

That was really good of them. My hope is that the author (and everyone) will choose to work for a company that would be as good to her as yours was to you.

But a job is just an offer. The employer can't ensure that the offer makes sense for any individual's situation. I personally think Yelp's offer totally sucks, but my situation is different from others', so I look for whether or not they were deceptive or failed to hold up their end of the deal. Were they? Right now I'm not seeing it.
Lightness? Foucault’s Pendulum was possibly the meanest, least constructive book I've read.
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this, only this. some people dont get it though.
It's a software freedom project, so commercial success is irrelevant.
Any security folks have some specific practical examples of how running processes as root inside the container is dangerous? I understand how root in the container mapping to root on the host is risky (this is what user namespaces are for) but I don't have enough experience to know why it matters inside the container.
Now redirects to the URL given in the submission. Not much to see here.
Currently in the process of moving the family back to the US from Sweden, and this is one of the things that scares me the most about life in US. At most workplaces, managers treat you like cattle, and people in IT are still so blessed when I compare to the crap my wife had to go through working hospitality/restaurants and hospitals.. The situation is unacceptable.

Still, sure there are great companies in the US that emulate perks and benefits that you take for granted in the rest of the western world, but for the most part, I have always felt I've needed to start my own business to rid myself of this craziness and be able to afford myself some basic measure of work/life balance.
Modern.ie redirects to this, not sure since when.
More to the point would how do the survivors feel about it.
Well, to be honest some countries don't have unjustified sick days, you can take unlimited ones, but with a doctor's note, otherwise it's taken out of your pay
Going Fast Slowly
OS-X (Yosemite + El Capitan) has displayed the message to me: "Your device tried to draw too much current and so the USB port has been disabled".

When I took the offending cable out, and tried with a different device, it worked straight away, no reboot required (not sure about earlier versions/alternative scenarios though, it's possible they do require a reboot).
> . I wont hire such a person.

I wouldn't hire someone with as little compassion and humanity as you. I feel as if you're projecting your anger for some reason.
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Cool! Yeah the hint feature was added recently.
Car drivers get away with killing people as well though.
Hmm, I don't have this problem. Are you talking about the introjs.com demo page?
One advantage is that the protected code will be syntax and typechecked even if it is "compiled" out. That will make it less likely to bitrot.
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Or the cars can set the driving culture and blockade aggressive drivers so they're forced to drive defensively.
In which a bunch of privileged males cast judgement from their perches on someone who's clearly had to make some unpleasant choices, some of which may even have been poor ones.
I think (I still don't know the details of their implementation) the confusion is caused by them using the term P2P servers. I think thats actually STUN/TURN servers that they use as help to get P2P (direct) connections between camera and your application. So in that sense it's not a P2P server as you imagine it but just a bad name for what the server is meant to help out with :) Again, I don't know but given that I've worked with these type of technologies for years it would make sense.
If you like series about technology, try out 'Black Mirror' on netflix... It has some interesting approaches...

Eg. What could happen if there exists a chip that stores all your memories. Is it good or bad? :-)
Thanks for the feedback!
We'll try to make it easier to figure out what it is.

The full docs are https://www.cesanta.com/developer/smartjs (linked from the github repo).

TL;DR: two pieces: multiplatform firmware focusing very small embedded devices + hosted services that help you build your IoT solution.

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The Smart.js firmware implements a bunch of networking protocols and a JavaScript interpreter that fits in <1KB of ram.

> Is it a web server/protocol ? Is it some other kind of control layer
We do provide a JSON+WebSocket based protocol and some tooling around it that help you build applications. It's designed to play nicely with devices that are not always online (e.g. power saving) and that might often change network.

However Smart.js it's not only that. You can use plain HTTP and plain WebSockets and (soon) MQTT and connect your device with whatever is the rest of your stack.

> What data does it deal with, etc.
We also offer a hosted service that can collect metrics, store logs, do pubsub messaging and perform unattended OTA updates of your firmware.
Working on it https://github.com/micro/micro
Or systemd /me ducks and runs :-)
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Yeah I know the issues with the Introjs but I will release a new version this month, trying to address all existing problems. Cheers.
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Maybe because of much bigger latency which makes debugging animations so sexy (almost impossible).
Problems with Amazon Refund/Return Process
Recently, I bought an item from Amazon and requested a Refund. The Refund was granted but it took around 2 weeks to get credited to my account. Has anyone else faced problems with the Refund/Return process?
Agreed, I was trying to help a friend implement the Actor model inside a container, and if you want to put every process in a different container, you basically have to talk tot he Kubernetes Daemon to do it (not fun).

I am fine with services. I am also fine with larger applications under duress. I think the format still makes operations lives easier. Containerize everything, is better than some things...
I would caution against Black Mirror. I felt it was mostly about tabloid style shock value and not about technology. Especially the first episode was just awful - e.g. the pig fucking scene.
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I think they mean this: https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/01/20/docker-and-the-pid-1-zomb...
From experience cycling in london cars don't belch as much nasty crap into the atmosphere and its the big vehicles buses and lorries lorries turning into you that are the real killers.
If you're going to give it its own lane anyway you might as well make a proper tram (which will have higher capacity and a smoother ride for passengers).
Employees of seed stage startups who have typical option grants can already hop around once they reach the 1 year cliff, since at the seed stage, the strike price is small and the valuation increase won't be substantial. You're maybe out of pocket $X00~$X000, which is a small fraction of one's base salary.

Since both the 90 day exercise window form of the options and this 10 year exercise window form of the options will both have the 1 year cliff until first vest, the ability to hop around is roughly equal for both.
You're definitely the one trolling here.
Considering even just the slice of human history that contained both written history and structured government, the 18th century is very recent. Personally I find it more 'blind' that we don't cite older sources.
That can be scary but there are scarier places in traffic.

Latvia does have a traffic-related death rate (per number of motor vehicles) that is twice as big (24.8) as neighbouring Estonia (11.8), or the United States (12.9), which are about on the same level, or over five times as high as Finland (4.4) somewhat further to the north.

On the other hand it's less than half of that in Russia (53.4), and one-fifth of that in India (130.1). In Ethiopia, the death rate is 200 times as big (4984).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
I just had a look at some of the urls in your profile. http://proof.social/ and http://whybase.com/ are down or dead but sounded interesting.
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If you looking for free alternative for intercom: https://userengage.io
> Except this GITS movie and Ex Machina, there are no other movie who really has a good, serious talk about AI.

The movie "Her" has a different take on what it is like with being an AI, and I liked it.
Psycho-Pass is to GITS what Equilibrium is to Orwell/Huxley: what happens if an idiot tries to rewrite the original. The form is there, but there is no substance.
A New York judge just ruled that the FBI can't force Apple to unlock iPhones
This one is nice but a bit short and sometimes slow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain

"Serial Experiments Lain (シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン Shiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein?) is an avant-garde anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, with character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda for Triangle Staff. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. The series is influenced by themes such as reality, identity, and communication,[1] and it demonstrates them by using philosophy, computer history, cyberpunk literature, and conspiracy theory."
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Thanks for your insight and encouragement. I actually studied compsci and creative writing, so I have a background in both. I am still working as a software developer / "data engineer" by day, and I am starting to sketch out a small book by night.
Yeah, the problem is getting them from each process in the container, then get them to the centralized logging. It can be done either way though. Especially with the syslog driver in Docker...
Why? I was planning on reading it as was recommend to me as one of Eco's better books.
Hi Jeremy, thanks for doing another AMA!

I recently watched a great video of you performing deep learning in Excel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnoLMkosHuE

I was particularly amazed after you made a few tweaks to your learning, which drastically reduced the error rate (i.e introduced adagrad, automatic learning rate/annealing, momentum...). I had never heard of these techniques before watching this - what do you find is the best way regarding how to stay up-to-date with the latest machine learning algorithms/improvements? Thanks
Great company, would love to work there but I lack the knowledge and motivation - my current company have worn me down too much.

Obviously they harvest + use personal information on a global scale, but for the amazing free products they put out that enhance my life (I ride my motorbike a lot and get lost, I live in Google Maps), that's a fair trade.

They do make some dumb decisions (i.e. the whole YouTube + Google+ thing) but what company doesn't.
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> I wish they offered torrents

Check out http://burnbit.com/
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Though things have improved considerably a while back with docker dropping most capabilities before starting a container, but without user namespacing on a shared kernel, ultimately root in the container == root in the host machine.

More specifically, uid 0 on the container == uid 0 on the host, so if container breakout occurs then you have root on the host.

As you mention, user namespaces and remapping the root user should solve this issue, but initial support for this was only released 7 days ago in docker 1.10.2 > https://github.com/docker/docker/commit/ed9434c5bb64f49db442...

[edit]: Preliminary support for user namespaces was added in 1.10, above commit is addressing a bug in userns support.
I don't think ML can solve the "human" part, i.e. like I said drivers, bikers and pedestrians looking at each other knowing what to expect and silently agreeing on what to do next, all happening in an instant. This is a crucial component of driving especially in cities with dense traffic and oftentimes unclear markings and signs, where the human factor becomes important.
> I look for whether or not they were deceptive or failed to hold up their end of the deal.

Does that even matter? The way her manager treated her was utter crap and that reflects badly upon the whole company. Her article is a subjective accounting of what happened, and I truly believe most of it is true. Having an accurate, objective picture of the situation is impossible.
History isn't a useful guide when our current system is broken, it only reiterates what we've been doing wrong all along. If you really think replication is a waste of time though, then you won't understand why journals are filled with junk science.

We used to think placebo controls and double blinds were a waste of time. One great thing about the history of science your version excludes is that the way we do science is subject to review too, and we continually throw out what doesn't work in favor of methods that do.