skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You caught the elephant. FTP is established and people know how to use it. And yes, kind of like IE6.
I'm not saying that I personally wouldn't want something different (I do), but I know of nothing else as established I can easily give to IT departments.
Command line I was referring to rsync. Try to explain all those cryptic arguments to some IT guys or worse a marketing department.

The world changes slow in some areas, especially slow in the enterprise world. That is the world FTP thrives (plus your average joe we hosted).
That's not where RStudio outperforms console R. You don't have to save a chart and open it with some other program, it opens a dedicated window for plots that you can put anywhere you want. Functionally it's the same thing.

RStudio shines when it comes to viewing data, global variables, and command history. Personally, I found the editor itself to be far too restrictive so I switched back to emacs and the command line. Also, as far as I know there's no way to get a true dark theme in RStudio where the entire application is dark, not just the code.
That's correct, we offer largely older gear. We had a stack of E3-1225v3's at $39 recently though. We primarily offer services in Atlanta right now, but we're expanding to Los Angeles & NYC this month.

We have a few customers who purchase servers by the chassis (16 blades) to use for crawlers and other applications where they can scale horizontally. When you compare the E5420's at $20/month to even a lot of cloud hosts, you're getting quite a bit of dedicated resources vs. smaller allocations on newer shared gear.

Totally depends on what you're running though.
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> it used to speculate that the supposed linux distro would be MIT licensed.

Not even Microsoft could pull that one off.

> ...There are several things I don't like about this article.

It reads like an April Fool's Joke circa 1996, you mean?
Everyone has a smart phone these days when they used to have a feature phone (or even earlier, no mobile phone).

That's a big benefit to billions of people. The few people working in phone factories are a drop in the ocean.
Does an annotated copy of the TTP exist anywhere?
Do we have statistics on that?
It's a basic human bias to believe that anything that you don't have to do (or know how to do) "just needs money" to get done.
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As of now confirmed on twitter: https://twitter.com/Netflixhelps/status/707699033473585152
Tried weightlifting?
As always, the devil is in the details. It is still a cool experiment though
> D is generally considered unsatisfactory, [...]

In what sense? I mean, what happens if you get too many Ds? (Or even Fs?)
can't connect from the UK...
I cannot possibly imagine how this could be true.

Linux is, legally, not Unix, and it is released under a license which does not discriminate based on who you are.
I use Siri a few times a week for setting timers and alarms, looking up various trivia while in conversation with friends, and identifying background music in restaurants/bars.
Would need to Kickstart or Patreon it.
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It hasn't happen only because the number of rooted smartcars so to speak is negligible compared to the total number of cars.

Just like drone accidents, each year we get closer and closer to an actual kill as their number increases (https://youtu.be/MvF49R_ZX5E). One day heavier drones will be required to run only certified software if flown over crowds, and rooting those drones will raise the same question.
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> is flat-out illegal without judicial approval

That was my original point... how long until domestic spying is no longer illegal
I designed supraliminal posters[1] to counter the covert forms of persuasion like Low Attention Processing marketing[2]. I definitely find them helpful, especially for meditation.

[1] http://zenpusher.com

[2] http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/low-atten...
As much as like I EFF's coverage in general:

> And we will continue to press our partners to allow digital information to cross borders unimpeded. We are working to preserve a single, global Internet, not a Balkanized Internet defined by barriers that would have the effect of limiting the free flow of information and create new opportunities for censorship.

This is technically correct. It doesn't create new opportunities for censorship. These opportunities always existed.

> The TPP illustrates these shortcomings well. Its free flow of information rules would only be enforced for foreign enterprises, and only those entities based out of countries that have signed the TPP. So if a country were to enact a law banning some type of online content, the TPP's free flow of information rules would do nothing to prevent the enforcement of that censorship against websites or platforms that are locally-owned in that country.

Yes and nothing prevents that already. The TPP doesn't alter the sovereignty equation, it is a trade treaty.

The TPP makes things worse but such weak attacks against statements that are technically correct are largely ineffective.

Posts like these are much more effective as they show legitimate problems that could have been resolved favorably (for the general population) in a trade treaty:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/new-infographic-tpp-an...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/sneaky-change-tpp-dras...
Google doesn't need to use search results to manipulate voting behavior -- they have Google Now.

Google Now currently displays cards to remind people to vote on voting day. Maybe it just happens to be more likely to show up for people that have been profiled as likely to vote for Google's favored candidate.
The libertarian case usually includes a chapter on removing those support systems, minimal taxation and governments that only defend the borders and enforce criminal and civil law.

> Frankly, most people would rather continue to ban drugs than pay for treatment for people who abuse them.

But what happens is that they get both. They ban drugs and pay for treatment. And they pay for the consequences of the criminal activity behind drugs. The property crime and violence and all that.

The consequences of drugs get so out of hand because of the legal status. People who use illegal drugs have to hide and so they don't get the help early enough, if at all. They also have to interacts with criminals, and are exposed to additional risks, like not knowing what the heck they are actually putting in their bodies.
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Ask HN: How does one get started with data analytics and data science?
For much of my career, I've always enjoyed messing around with large datasets (vs JS or CRUD stuff), but I never truly got a chance to learn more than very basics. I don't know how to do this as a career (or build a biz out of it - products, consulting whatever). How do I get started? What resources are the best? What topics should I start with? And finally, where do I look for projects that I can use as a launchpad for a career in this field?
You're right, even with Let's Encrypt HTTPS is still more work than speaking insecure HTTP. But it's a brand new project, and we're working to ensure the amount of effort involved is monotonically decreasing.

In the next few months we'll be shipping an Nginx installer plugin and model renewal scripts for operating systems to provide native automated renewal with their packages of the client. Both of those should help to reduce the amount of work for your use case!
He clearly should have added a salt to that hash..
Why not english proper written title whwy not?
Just out of curiosity, how much do you pay in taxes? If you're a sillicon valley engineer on the higher end, you end up paying 30-40% federal + 10% state and local taxes.
> Libertarians like free markets, right? Has anyone tried applying free market principles to drug use?

In a completely free market, there are no labeling laws, and no way to enforce purity until after someone has died or been harmed by a bad product and has an estate or next-of-kin capable of suing the producer. And that, of course, assumes the producer is both still in business and is going to be dissuaded from making bad product just because it lost one lawsuit, which might only amount to less than one percent of its total income.

I'd rather avoid that.
Not a single mention of PAX?
At speed c/10, "one tenth of a cell in each iteration", or, better said: after ten iterations, the pattern has moved one cell, but is otherwise unchanged. That's why it is called a glider; it glides through the grid (a puffer stays at its location and returns to its original snape after some time, but periodically sends out gliders)

What's new here, apparently, is that this is the first glider discovered with that speed. It also is surprisingly small.
I'm not sure the law about drunk driving has much to do with logic anyway. If I can't drive a car under influence because that makes me unable to evaluate risks and in general to act responsibly - then how can I be considered completely responsible for the choice of driving, if I made it when I was already drunk?
I know! There is probably some corollary to Rule 34 that states that for every obscure topic there is an internet forum of people dedicated to it.
~50% of customers were back online within 14 hours. 96% were online within 24-28 hours. There were a few that stretched approximately 3.5 days due to disk/psu failures, etc. It was our first (and hopefully only) large outage.

We released a full RFO to our customers, but it was a really unfortunate series of events involving losing phase, burning out compressors/pumps for HVAC equipment, overnighting replacement parts from up and down the east coast and some from LA.

We had to keep ~10 racks of blades (doesn't sound like much, but that's over 500 customers) offline to manage heat as we brought up the HVAC equipment and added more spot coolers.
There is still contention, but not as much. With, say, 8 threads it probably doesn't matter much. But with 128, it starts to matter.
This is in principle no different to people modifying their cars, which they've been doing for about as long as cars have been sold.
I see it slightly differently, the issue is money. When page rank was simply an internal relevance metric it was fine, but when page rank was the way to change how much revenue ads on your page brought you, well then it became much more than "relevance."

Brad Templeton made the observation way early on that his humor mailing list went to over ten million people. If people sent him a penny if they laughed, and only 1% did, he would make $30,000 a month or $360,000 a year just for curating jokes. Scale + pennies can add up to big dollars on an individual level.

PageRank, AdSense, AdWords, all fed this mechanism with a way to turn a small amount of work by an individual into disproportionate returns. It really has been no surprise that the web spam problem became much much worse than the email spam problem. There was a better built in payment mechanism.
Gaining access to safety critical hardware is a questionable right.

What if you are the owner of a building and you decide you want to "optimize" the fire detection/fighting system because you have some ideas in this area, or maybe you want to run an "open" software on it, with better reporting, and as a result some people die in a fire.

Yes, is totally hypothetical, but you seem to be saying that one is not responsible if he does that, because he was just "hacking", with no mens rea.
To a first approximation all the engineers producing these products were already at Microsoft before Nadella became CEO. Microsoft's first open source project is more than ten years old. Scott Hanselman's Hansel Minutes podcast covers the period before and after his hiring and documents his experience of the long cultural shift, e.g. ASP.NET MVC, Microsoft's relationship with Mono and Moonlight, and a bunch of smaller projects.

To put it another way, Nadella's appointment wasn't a coup d'etat. Microsoft under Ballmer ejected several hard chargers in line for the throne and they weren't the one's who saw open source as the way forward.
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It's the only downtime we plan to have. I get Nam flashbacks just thinking about it.
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Almost exactly.

And, more to the point: the "predictable reasons" involve predicting how many people will be unwilling to hold the assets because of the evil. The more people who are thus unwilling, the higher the predictions will be in future and the lower the price of the asset will go. Your choice whether to hold the assets affects the prediction.
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Very nice!

You might be interested in a simple proof I found of why c/2 and c/3 are speed limits for orthogonal and diagonal spaceships respectively.

Definition: In a gameplay of life, an "infinite lifeline" is a sequence of pairs (c_i,n_i) such that each c_i is alive in generation n_i and either c_(i+1)=c_i or c_(i+1) is adjacent to c_i.

Lemma ("Two Forbidden Directions"): Let x,y be any two 'forbidden' directions from among N,S,E,W,NE,NW,SE,SW. In any gameplay of life that starts finite and doesn't die out, there is an infinite lifeline that never goes in either direction x or y.

The lemma's proof uses biology. Say that (c,n) is a "father" of (c',n+1) if c' is the cell adjacent to c in direction x or y. Otherwise, (c,d) is a "mother" of (c',n+1). By the rules of the game of life it's easy to show every living (c,n+1) has at least one living father and at least one living mother. It follows (modulo some more details) that since the gameplay doesn't die out, there must be an infinite lifeline where each cell is a mother of the next, i.e., an infinite lifeline that never goes direction x or y.

Proof of c/2 orthogonal speed limit: If a spaceship went faster than c/2, say, northward, by the lemma, it would have an infinite lifeline that never goes N or NE. The only way it could ever go northward would be to go NW. Every NW step would have to be balanced out by an eastward step (of which NE is forbidden) or the spaceship would drift west. So every northward step requires a non-northward step, QED.

Proof of c/3 speed limit for diagonal: A diagonal spaceship faster than c/3, say, northeastward, would have an infinite lifeline that never goes N or NE. The only way for it to go northward would be to go NW. Each NW step would need at least two eastward steps in order for the ship to go eastward, QED.
No worries! I just meant to confirm your suspicions :)
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Personally I don't consider myself such a good judge. If someone's in need, I like to think I will help them in whatever capacity I can. Many things lead to people making bad decisions, and they aren't all internal 1-sided factors.
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Absolutely, judging from what people are willing to pay.

Arguments against heroin are invariably rooted in negative externalities. I have never heard anyone argue that there is no demand for heroin.
It used to be my job to pull data for a large state's prison population. I can tell you unequivocally that it is NOT rare for drug users to be imprisoned. In fact I can say with certainty that most of the people attending prison use drugs.
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That's great and all, but it's already been done by much more simplistic algorithms by abusing the mechanical nature of the game.

Some units are balanced by the fact that no human can manipulate them to their full potential. Once you remove that restriction, the AI can abuse the speed of execution, acting as a force multiplier that will cover any strategic lackings.

If they want DeepMind to really "play" Starcraft in the traditional sense, i.e. make it win based on decision making and reasoning about the game, then they'll need to artificially rate limit its APM.
If you want to use JavaScript, Tonic (http://tonicdev.com) is exactly this workflow. It has every single package on npm already pre-installed (so absolutely no set up - straight to code), and gives you a complete node environment to play around with. It also has time-traveling abilities that can rewind the entire state of the computer (http://blog.tonicdev.com/2015/09/10/time-traveling-in-node.j... ). When you are done you can download the file and it will work exactly the same in node.

Would love to hear your thoughts if you try it.
An implementation of image similarity search based on deep convnets can be found at https://github.com/beniz/deepdetect/tree/master/demo/imgsear...
Not all crimes require mens rea. Drunk driving, in particular, is a good example of a serious crime that is strict liability. Normally, however, strict liability is only applied to lesser offenses.
Very well done! Just a small QA note for the creator, it's possible to hit the "next" arrow until you reach a broken page [1].

[1] http://essenmitsosse.de/pixel/?showcase=true&slide=7
Just join the reactiflux channel (on discord) and go to #react-native .. tag your posts with [Q&A] and he will answer them! Eric created the new navigator component for React Native recently. Here is some more info on Eric: https://medium.com/@patcito/reacteurope-2016-interview-3-eri...
I think you make an excellent point, and my assumptions are probably not sufficient to lead to my conclusions.

I'd like to point out though, organ harvesting death row prisoners is on a vastly different scale of acceptance than organ harvesting less-informed cult followers who has harmed nobody except themselves. The former is unethical because it incentivizes unjust sentencing, but the wrong part is unjust sentencing, not necessarily organ harvesting(although this is controversial and can get philosophical); the later would affect many millions of people, enraging orders of magnitude more.

Bottom line, did Jiang order the crackdown of falun gong and resulting in some being tortured or even sentenced to die? Yes. Did he order organ harvesting of falun gong members? Most definitely not.
Actually the system supports "real" 120 Hz as well. Some of their demos have been using it. It's a tradeoff each developer can make for themselves.
> which have been biased by money. How does anyone consider this ethical?

Money itself is just a tool, it cant be (un)ethical. Best to focus on the human agents and incentives.

> should not be biased by monetary influence.

Influence will exist because it's part of human nature. Take away monetary incentives and you 'll have political influence, religious influence etc. We 've learned that from history.
What? No, I said there was clear evidence that our systems (as a whole, though I specifically referenced gut flora as the evidence) had adapted to our existence as agrarian grain eaters. And that makes argument from the position of "our systems are really intended to be scavengers" pretty suspect.

Basically, any argument of what we are "supposed" to eat in that context is pseudoscientific garbage. The real science says we need to pay attention to agriculture.
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I'm no life expert, but this proof doesn't work for me. Just because there exists some configuration that doesn't generate lifelines in your chosen directions, doesn't mean that any particular configuration doesn't generate lifelines in those directions.
VR simulations of cold environments are seeing success for burn victims.

http://www.firsthand.com/portfolio/pain.html

https://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrpain/

I've heard of Mindfulness Meditation being used to change the experience of pain from an act of suffering to an act of simple awareness. I don't know how widespread that technique is deployed though...
> Visual Studio Online (which is pretty much TFS in the cloud) is alive and well.

Visual Studio Online supports Git. So, no, it is not "TFS in the cloud." TFS and Visual Studio Online are very loosely coupled.

> Are you confusing TFS with Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC)?

I'm not confusing anything, I just picked one of Microsoft's many acronyms they use for it. Even Microsoft's own consultants call it "TFS" when talking about Visual Studio Team Services in Visual Studio Online. So if Microsoft's own consultants are "wrong" then I am in good company.

> I don't think TFVC is going anywhere anytime soon.

I do.

It doesn't work very well: it sends way WAY too many files up and down constantly, it has no concept of a pull request, offline mode sucks, branching/merging is expensive as all heck (inc. disk space, bandwidth, time, any metric), and even Microsoft's internal teams are utilising Git and Github.

I've used both on VS Online, no comparison, and Microsoft's own staff seem to agree. It is only a matter of "when" not "if" TFS will die and Git will take its place (although I suspect Perforce will survive on the Windows team within Microsoft).

There's a reason Git has taken over the world.
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I believe this is the updated version.

http://deeplearning.stanford.edu/tutorial/
Right; my "false" applies to the entire statement (if p then q).
It's only semi related, but Michael Geist has been going through the TPP and writing about problematic parts of it for Canada. He is very focused on Canada, but I imagine a similar list could be generated for any non-american country. Below is a link to the latest post, which contains links to the rest at the bottom:

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2016/03/the-trouble-with-the-tpp-...
Facebook apparently is just getting to this recently:

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1471778586452119/openbmc-for...
Engineers work on top-secret weapons all the time though...
Your cost is a little off. The Predator system costs $20 million which includes 4 aircraft and a ground station. Each aircraft is roughly $4 million.

According to Time Magazine the operating cost of a single MQ-1 Predator per flight hour is $3,679 which might actually make it cost effective depending on the size of the area to be imaged.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predato...
http://nation.time.com/2013/04/02/costly-flight-hours/
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Money is not just a tool. I think it would be possible to make the case that money as it interacts with our systems is inherently unethical in that it forces unethical behavior from agents trying to maximize their utility. And the legal system that we have built around it only amplifies this behavior.
What if your local library (you know, those old things) had a card catalog with "sponsored" results? If this already exists, then maybe we're already lost. But it seems to me that as a basic rule of information ethics, the salience of information in a given information system should not be biased by monetary influence.

But it is biased! The card catalog might be an unbiased representation of what the library has- but have you considered that what the library has is biased by monetary influence? What the book costs. Whether the book is demanded (advertising). Jacket design (you grab the most interesting-looking book).

The flaw to libraries is their naturally limited capacity.