skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would normally agree, but Microsoft have a very well known pattern of astroturfing. Hell, they invented practically invented the Internet version in 2001.

I'd like to think that under Satya Nadella's reign they would have stopped, but they are still doing dodgy shit like forced upgrades to Windows 10.

To say that this is an utter PR nightmare is a complete understatement. If, as some comments indicate, they have bricked hardware then I think a class action lawsuit wouldn't be out of the question!

Whoever made the decision to auto upgrade literally hundreds of millions of computers should be fired. I believe that before the auto upgrade Microsoft said there were 110 million installs of Windows 10, but that was still only roughly 10% of total computers. There were still something like 40% of computers running Windows 7. Even if only 1% of computers that get upgraded automatically get bricked due to incompatible drivers, or whatever then that's still well over a million computers Microsoft have borked due to this stupidity.

Look, I can accept automatic upgrades for an existing operating system on consumer grade workstations. But I cannot understand or accept that automatically upgrading to a new major release is a responsible business decision. Microsoft are getting this in the neck, and rightly so. This alone is a good reason for me to recommend to my friends and family that they only buy a Mac, and if they can't that I work out if it's worthwhile installing Ubuntu or Fedora and spun up a VirtualBox VM to run their legally purchased copy of Windows.
He is a white male, the tweet about having a boyfriend probably means he is gay however i doubt that he was in drag singing it's raining men when he was arrested so it doesn't look like the police could even profile him for that.
I sometimes post positive stuff, both here and elsewhere. It tends to get little to no attention.

This is possibly in part because good news tends to not be a danger to your welfare, whereas bad news is something we need to pay attention to for purposes of self preservation. Similarly, you see endless arguing online in part because there is more to say if you disagree with someone then if you agree.

I largely stopped following mainstream news years ago because news = bad news.
Interestingly, Minsky had a large influence on the MMT economists, and you're essentially paraphrasing his financial instability hypothesis http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp74.pdf
I liked! Already done the first 3, the music didn't bothered me neither the voice (i'm not a native english at all.). As for the concept explain, it's true that some equation are a little bit out of reach for someone that has less mathematical background. But i understand the concept so far, which are well explained.

I'm not sure i would be able to just write (or decide) the equation for the neural network. On what criteria can you decide this will work better or not? What are your key to make a decision?
Purchase page:

http://wdlabs.wd.com/products/wd-pidrive-314gb/
In addition to 80 mgs of caffeine, a redbull has 1000 mgs of a stimulant called taurine.
I didn't realize Putin was 5'6"-5'7". Would've thought ~6'0". I guess his image manufacturing works pretty well.
Well good news is you can always surround yourself with shorter people like him.
> MS is getting pretty draconian with the Windows 10 shtick

They likely have a long term strategy around Windows 10, what it is I don't know but I know for a fact that it requires pushing W10 on as much PC as possible, whether the user wants it or not. I'm on W8. I will upgrade one day, I don't want to do it now (I'm working with an old soundcard that barely supports W8, so there is a risk with upgrading to 10), yet everyday I get a "Upgrade to 10" popup which almost tricked me into upgrading once. They are so aggressive about updating I fear this "free" upgrade might be a trap on the long run. I feel like I'm no longer in control of some software I've bought( yes, because licenses aren't free).
Tall women get screwed in other ways -- guys tend to be intimidated by them, and the more assholely among us will consider them "fat".

In my unscientific observation, tall woman / short dude is usually linked to a relatively older woman.
Windows 8/10 has some newer security mitigations, so technically they are somewhat harder to exploit.
Doesn't this simply lead to the development of better deniable encryption products?
So - for a large site with say 25,000 average concurrents peaking at 250,000 once in a while, how much computing power on heroku or AWS would I need to run this setup?
To be fair, it was a pretty shitty comment, and the sarcasm was pretty poorly done.
That link mentions that it's both a server and a client, which made me realize i didn't mention what i used server side. I used https://github.com/sitegui/nodejs-websocket/blob/master/READ... which is extremely easy to set up and use. i don't doubt the value of socket.io but I for my purposes it was not optimal.
I can't tell if this is serious or not.
> literally security by obscurity

You've said that a lot, but there is no obscurity here. Or security. If you actually want to use this for serious spam filtering, you'd discard all emails without a valid + suffix with a whitelist.
Might have been $3M had they switched to a functional language
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"Chemotherapy, for most cancers, achieves tumor shrinkage and a temporary extension of life, at the cost of severe life quality degradataion."

This is just not true.

I provide you with this list of cases where chemotherapy can cure people (established in phase III double blind randomised controlled trials):

Early stage breast cancer

Early stage colon cancer

Acute myeloid leukaemia

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Diffuse large B-cell Lymphoma

Paediatric neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma, nephroblastoma
etc etc

Testicular seminoma and non-seminoma

Testicular germ cell tumours

Note that breast and colon cancer are among the top 3 most common cancers.
On the other hand if you don't have plenty of money as a man of certain age you are pretty much toast too.

The good thing is that there are plenty of men whom would date a woman their age and plenty of women that would date a guy who isn't rich. They are just not as vocal and live their lives quietly.
Prompted by Windows 10 privacy issues, I switched to Mint on my laptop recently and was pleasantly surprised. I've been constantly trying to switch to Linux but having to revert because of driver incompatibility. That has completely changed in the past 3 years.

It makes my laptop feel speedy again. Before it was really slow with Microsoft sitting on top of it. I recently slapped an SSD into it and it's even better. Turned a no starter laptop into a real machine.

It's still not an operating system that can be used by new users, but I have a lot of fun with it. It helps a lot that Steam has a Linux client now and I don't play many big name titles.

Windows 10 isn't that bad if you don't mind buying a new computer, but I think it may be the bane of people like my parents who use a computer for 10 years without upgrading. You would think that with the minimal changes to the Windows kernel that the driver support wouldn't be an issue. The invasive marketing and privacy violations aren't anything new. Just more so.
Thanks for the mention. If you have any questions, let me know and I'll write a follow up. I think one member of the site is up to 70,000-something digits of pi, and another has memorized 50,000.
That's an understandable motivation but it has to be balanced against the risks of keeping your users vulnerable for longer periods of time. It's rather expensive to have a 24x7 security team to review & push updates.

For something like Chrome that's probably a net loss because the Google team is very good and browsers are both Internet-exposed and generally self-contained. For something like Windows, the reverse is true because there are a lot more things to test, many with local apps or settings which have a lower chance of being tested upstream in the exact combinations which you use.
This is a great idea.

A huge part of the success over the last 10 or 15 years in the cafe and coffee industry has been about branding and design.

Starbucks knows this: bright green straws, red holiday cups, etc. You can see a Starbucks cup from 100 feet away.

Why should Starbucks, Blue Bottle, Coffee Bean, and Dunkin all capitalize on this, while a lot of the mom n pop shops that make the best coffee are serving their brews in 16 oz paper cups that they buy in bulk from Costco?
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I don't doubt that statistic is true for the US in general, but it's definitely possible to end up in some small micro-segment of the population where the average male height is much closer to 6' than 5'10" and where heights of 6'2"+ or even 6'4"+ are somewhat common. I believe that through some sequence of events I've found myself mostly existing in such a segment of the population. For instance, I'm the shortest male in my family (both sides), including at least one cousin who isn't even done growing yet.
Stored procedure reflection API
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i was hit by a cop in his car in austin walking home from dinner with my so

he slammed on his brakes the moment he realised and the first thing out of his mouth was, 'sir! back up onto the curb!(to my so) sir! sir, have you been drinking?'

my so and i replied, 'WHAT?! you hit me, there is still 10 seconds on the walk clock!' pointing at the crosswalk clock for our direction.. the cop ran his red light

the next second three other cop cars sped onto the scene blocking the traffic in three directions

all of their officers got out of their vehicles and rushed over to the officer who hit me and asked him, 'what's going on here?'

then he walked them out of earshot and was gesturing wildly with his hands and pointed at us

i walked over to their kafka'esque huddle and stated, 'why are you asking him? he's the one who struck me with his vehicle'

they asked for 'my version' of the story then if i needed an ambulance to come and take me to the er, and i said i would be unable to afford an ambulance and hospital stay so they said, 'well, then everything is fine here' and all four officers got in their cars and drove off

leaving my so and i in the middle of the intersection of 7th and melina confused and infuriated

if i was alone i'm sure i would have been bagged as well for following the rules of road but finding myself under the bumper of a red light running cop

the fact that this was during sxsw 2014 had previously been uninteresting to me

..edit, said 'last year' but i lived in austin in 2014, yup, time flies
To add to this, it isn't too bad of an inconvenience. You can remember a device for 30 days, so you take an extra 20 seconds 12 times per year.
You mean there's a whole continent where I am considered average? This is great!
There are literally millions of businesses with no IT department who bought consumer workstations or laptops running outside of a domain. There are millions of small businesses who literally don't have the expertise (or frankly, the need) to run a domain controller, and who certainly don't have enough money to justify purchasing a server and a Windows server license to do so.

I'm genuinely curious as to whether I'll be down voted for this. It's completely the case, and I'm not asking not to be downvote do, but could folks at least explain why they don't like the comment?
I agree with everything you say, and to me the goalposts shifted because he was purposely ambiguous in the way he announced autopilot at the same time as promising a fully self-driving car soon. So now a self-driving car isn't going to be a whole new product, but an accumulation of added features, one of which is autopilot. The implication is that cars with radars and lane detection are already self-driving cars that just need a few more upgrades to cover that other 20% of the time that you're not on the highway.
I recall my college years where I felt like I was around giants, both genders.

(also 5"8')
I am aware that if you are male and truly destitute, the odds of getting female companionship are pretty poor. But, in the aggregate, men tend to have more money than women. So, I don't think you need to be rich per se to stay in the game. You just need to be better off than the women you are interested in. That seems like a somewhat low bar to me.
Awesome looking site and a real opportunity I think.

My ex-wife is a cupcake and deco cake maker and I sent her the link, she is really interested and will be contacting you guys soon.

Best of luck to you!
Shutup10 gets rid of the nagware, anti-beacon stops the phone home.
"the computers of some large justice/gov systems around the world"
I hear you. I wouldn't say you need to understand any cat theory. Just be able to read types, and you are fine. Problem is, people aren't used to that,
Are there any provisions for redundancy?
These are standard-width rackmount chassis btw. They're 1.5x depth but otherwise it's standard 4U.

The dimensions given are just an approximation.
Dude. Personal attacks aren't welcome here. I think you know this, as you are using a throwaway account.
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Yeah I was annoyed the article conflated height and weight. Height cannot be controlled, but obesity is the result of poor lifestyle choices (except for rare medical situations). I think most people assume being overweight correlates with other bad habits like poor self-control and general personal sloppiness. My own weight has fluctuated over the years between normal and obese and I'm definitely more on the ball, much more confident, and higher energy when I'm fit.
Sounds more like you want a setting of "syncing is not important to me"

Doze backs off sync period, trading timeliness for battery life. That's why significant motion prevents it from happening, it assumes that if it's on your person then syncing is important. Which is a generally true assumption.
No, you weren't, and I quote

> That could mean a simple API wrapper that can later on be optimized

That's code. That's what I'm responding to, you insulted those who believe in not writing code before it's necessary, called them sad, and now you want to deny the very thing being replied to? Really? Forget it, you don't know how to discuss something.
Not quite, it's still someone else that takes care of the physical aspect and the hardware fail-over for you. Even so the distinction is becoming more and more blurry.

The long term point of convergence is that the whole concept of a 'machine' will go away as far as the cloud is concerned. It will still involve machines but you won't know (or care) about how many of them and where they are located.

Something along the lines of Heroku, only then a bit more generic. Computing-by-the-yard, if you wish.
Inversely, why should you have to pay extra to get your great craft brewed coffee in a fancy paper cup? Branding like this is much less important for local businesses than national franchises/chains.
Dell Wireless 1703 802.11b/g/n is as much detail as I've been able to get. She's trying to download some drivers from the Dell site at the moment (I'm very fortunate that she is computer literate enough to do this much).
But cats and scalaz are based/implement category theory concepts. You would only use either library if you understand what they do and why you need them. Otherwise, it is like using OpenCV to search through database and then complain about complexity and overhead
Samsung's experimental headphones send electric impulses to your brain
There is little concept of the typographic baseline on the web — but maybe we can correct for it. In this post I've explored a number of vertical rhythm systems and writings that have influenced how we set type on the web. It's clear that there's a disparity between the way designers set type and the way browsers render text — so I'd like to introduce our solution — a new open source tool we've named MegaType.
1) I'd be very interested in such a service.
2) Yep, it's a lot, but that query is quite a lot bigger than most. Assuming some constraints on the layout of the index, I estimate you'd spend roughly $70 plus taxes and compute time retrieving the indexed documents from S3 for that query. You'd always be able to reduce or expand the keywords to and only retrieve as much as you could afford. I think there's value in both allowing people to tackle querying the index by themselves and providing a paid-for managed service that automates much of that.
So this is basically a study on success as related to self confidence? Why is this news?

Also one of these conditions is basically curable. Two once men become more fashion accepting.
For those who have Mathematica and want to experiment with this, here's a quick function to generate the data:

f[n_, base_] :=
Module[
{m, d, dpairs},
d = Table[Last[IntegerDigits[Prime[i], base]], {i, 1, n}];
dpairs = Table[{d[[i]], d[[i + 1]]}, {i, 1, Length[d] - 1}];
Map[#[[1]] -> #[[2]] &, Tally[dpairs]]
]

For the first n primes in a given base, it returns the mapping {i,j}->count for the all pairings of digit i followed by digit j. E.g., for the first million base 5 primes

{2, 3} -> 68596
{3, 0} -> 1,
{0, 2} -> 1,
{2, 1} -> 64230
{1, 3} -> 77475
{3, 2} -> 72827
{2, 4} -> 77586
{4, 3} -> 64371
{3, 4} -> 79358
{4, 1} -> 84596
{1, 2} -> 79453
{4, 2} -> 58130
{4, 4} -> 42843
{1, 1} -> 42853
{3, 3} -> 39668
{2, 2} -> 39603
{1, 4} -> 50153
{3, 1} -> 58255
This depends a lot on your workflow. Sometimes I've lived by screen/tmux session management, but more recently I almost never need it. Yet tmux+vim is a vital daily part of my workflow. In its current role, tmux serves primarily as a window manager.

It's worth noting that I'm using other means to keep my state synced between my working environments (place) or between working sessions (time). Version control is part of that (such as private git branches), good environment automation is part (via Vagrant + provisioning, packagers like npm, etc.), and automated vim session save/restore is another part of that. For example, if a vim dies or if I quit, my entire session state is completely restored for that project when I start vim in that directory again. That all provides quite a lot of what I'd traditionally depend on tmux for.
I second that.

I learnt it/redux/react-router on Saturday.
Out of curiosity, are you an engineer there? If so I'm wondering how close you are and how much visibility you have into the marketing and PR side of things over there.

This strikes me as the kind of thing that engineers might be kept in the dark about, but some PR agency somewhere may have outsourced something like this and done so in a way as to provide plausible deniability. A quick googling shows this wouldn't be the first time MS has resorted to astroturfing [1].

So while I don't doubt the sincerity of how you or any of your immediate coworkers/HN reader peers tend to behave, I think the facts speak a bit more clearly to the possibility of other parts of the MS organism being willing to do this sort of thing.

[1] https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
?? Do you know how much has changed since the nineties? There's ecological EF deficit tests now(barkley's). Yeah like one guy getting an odd diagnosis is enough for you to continue your opinion.

This is just classical bayes rule dude, there will be a lot of false positives _no matter what_ unless the diagnosis rate is an absurdly high number. You're blaming other people for not knowing that's the way the numbers always come out?

https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/30002.6.shtml

> Suppose that you are worried that you might have a rare disease. You decide to get tested, and suppose that the testing methods for this disease are correct 99 percent of the time (in other words, if you have the disease, it shows that you do with 99 percent probability, and if you don't have the disease, it shows that you do not with 99 percent probability). Suppose this disease is actually quite rare, occurring randomly in the general population in only one of every 10,000 people.
It's suspicious as hell that Microsoft isn't being taken to task over this. If it had happened in the 2000->XP transition era, or even in the Vista->7 era, Ballmer would have been crucified.

Anyone who doesn't find the relatively tolerant/benign online reaction to Windows Update's recent behavior to be suspicious either a) hasn't been paying attention for about 20 years now; b) isn't very bright; or c) is being paid.

Downmod all you want, but somebody has to call BS on this.
What kind of "chances" did they take into account as far as professions go? One of the joys of working with software and servers, for example, and being able to make a living online in general, is code doesn't care if you are a mutated, half-bird, half-walrus, half-human living in a cave in some mountainous region in the wild. As long as you have wifi access, can write efficient and readable code, and communicate over text, you can use almost any picture you want for your avatar on github and contribute to open source projects and get your work noticed, and likely get hired for it at some point assuming you can communicate clearly with your voice as well.
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Like most other government surveillance programs, this just piles more hay onto the proverbial haystack. The needles are still there (San Bernadino shooters, Boston Marathon bombers, etc.) but they're even harder to find than before.
I guess I spent too long doing agile development. What's the point in making a plan to 100m when it's all going change anyway.
This seems very similar to Pakible (YC W15) https://blog.ycombinator.com/pakible-yc-w15-makes-it-dead-si...
This is awesome! Thanks for this.
Actually, the API looks remarkably similar. 1-1 even.
Height strongly signals healthy genes, longevity, and access to good nutrition... stands to reason that women would evolve to select for height when choosing a mate.
I don't think it's OK. Is that what you wanted?
Great comment. One thing I don't like very much about microservices is simply that my service often will have some such hard dependency. e.g. if the logging service is down, I lose all logs-based statistics. If the authentication microservice is down, I'm screwed. The parent comment made the excellent point about SPOF, but it seems like for microservices to work correctly, there will always be some SPOFs.

Maybe I'm being too pessimistic. I use microservices, but without significant engineering rigor, I think its a recipe for disaster.
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From a business sense, this is a great move. Amazon's cloud storage offerings are pretty expensive, even with various deduping strategies in place, Dropbox needed both store and move in and out massive amounts of traffic. If DB had reached the point where they could staff the extra over head of doing it themselves, and figure out how to spread the hardware cost out well, it will give them more pricing flexibility in the near future.