skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI both Github and Travis are a bunch of Sinatra apps. And they kind of support the whole open-source infrastructure. So you can shit of Ruby all you want I gave you a specific example where Rail wasn't used in a Ruby app yet it obviously scales. You're neither a Ruby dev nor a PHP dev so you don't know what you are talking about.
Protonet: secure, private, and beautiful cloud servers
The original premature optimization quote is not at all talking down. 3% of my code is pretty close to what fraction benefits from microoptimizations, and it is about "small efficiencies." It is useful advice for a novice and does not become less true as one gains in art.

"Don't optimize" would be the talking-down version.

"Don't optimize prematurely" is naturally tautological. "It is wrong to do X prematurely" is true regardless of X; if it isn't wrong to do X at this point in time, then doing X now isn't premature. It's closer to the pop-culture version of the advice, and like any tautological advice can always be wielded against someone. It's worse than "talking down," which can reduce the mental load on a novice, it's actually not-useful at any stage, as it provides no advice on when optimization is premature and when it isn't.

The pithy version of Knuth's quote might be "Don't microoptimize until you can tell the difference between the 97% of code that doesn't need it and the 3% of code that does" which is in line with pretty much the entirety of your comment.
It would be much more helpful for everyone if you explained where you think I'm incorrect, rather than mindless downvoting. Having worked professionally with Javascript for almost 20 years, I would hate to miss an opportunity to learn something more about it.
Kafka is very good for synchronizing data streams, but I can't imagine that it's suitable for RPC?
I think it's an effective satire on the existing implementations of the gag.
PiDrive 314GB Offers Power-Efficient Storage for Raspberry Pi
From a parallel conversation[0] on the Rust subreddit:

>Are you going to open source anything?

>Probably. We have an in-house futures-based I/O framework. We're going to collaborate with the rust team and Carl Lerche to see if there's something there we can clean up and contribute.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4adabk/the_epic_story...
> Perhaps people from MS trying to do damage control?

While I appreciate the rest of your comment, I personally find comment like these are obnoxious. I sincerely doubt that vote and comment brigading are anywhere near as prevalent as reddit and this community seem to so routinely imply. Perhaps I'm the naive one, but it is tiresome to so regularly see comments (especially those close to one's own personal beliefs) consistently labeled indicators of a social media PR campaign because someone just can't believe they might be genuine.

Or maybe I should get my head out of the sand, I do not know.
Take it with a grain of salt, but here:

http://www.aptuz.com/blog/is-postgres-nosql-database-better-...
>Not sure how that would fly

I think it's generally accepted that, barring mental illness, we're accountable for our previous brain states.
On the other hand, if you own that email you have access to most IT systems of the world. Let me look up your account with my admin@example.com account ;)
Microsoft Opens Door for Cross-Platform Play Between Xbox One
> Are you using spindle or ssd or flash? (admittedly I dont know if you consider flash and ssd to be the same)

We have flash caches (NVMe) in the machines, but the long-term storage devices are spindle--PMR and SMR.

> What is your price per GB raw?

I cannot disclose, exactly, but it is well below any other public price I've seen.
The integration issues will clearly be very different if the engineering/programming teams will be co-mingled and working on the same product. If they will be combined to work on a single unified product then you are right there will be significant integration costs.

On the other hand if you are buying a company with a product that will continue and the "integration" is at a higher level of abstraction the integration might not be so bad. Support each product on their own stack and integrate at the API level.
Halolife (YC W16) Brings Transparency and Ease to the Process of Planning a Funeral
Microsoft kicks Okta out of its conference
How about a scalable web crawler/image indexer? ;)
> Consider programmatically working with email

I'm not sure what you're getting at, Working with email is a nightmare in any language, Go or Rust or language of the moment X included.
LambdaBro, love that expression :-)
Police should not be accorded any presumption of correct behavior or professionalism. Any use of force by state actors should be treated with maximum skepticism.
You can substantially change the economics if you design your own power distribution systems.
In what way? I've been planning to remain on Windows 7 for the foreseeable future and 7's security wasn't really on my radar.
From [1], "The primary goal of the ExoMars programme is to address the question of whether life has ever existed on Mars. ".

Really? Why is so much money spent, seemingly on just that goal? It seems such a waste to search for life on Mars when it's so unlikely. Sure finding signs of past life would be a great discovery, but it seems unlikely after the number of missions that have gone already. Surely there are better goals for a mission.

If you're really searching for tiny signs of life in a nook or layer of dirt, wouldn't you have to send 100s of thousands of probes, not just one additional lander?

Rant ends. Sorry.

[1] http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars/What...
You read our mind. ;)
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Website content-wraps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrK7X_XlGB8
What happen if you set light for 1,000 big sparklers at once
You could also add shy people, nonathletic people, ugly people, disabled people and other groups to that list.
Some references here: http://hal.pratt.duke.edu/sites/hal.pratt.duke.edu/files/u7/...

There are various other papers from the same lab.
What they probably mean is that Dropbox has its own cloud. I'm assuming that they do have some kind of system similar to amazon ec2 to start and kill vms at will, and other similar basic cloud services.
+4 - 1 + 4 - 3 - 4 = 0

C. Final answer.
What about https://snowdrift.coop/?
Given that it appears to partially work, I would guess that the auto-updated driver doesn't work properly on Windows 10. Can you determine the model / chipset of the wireless card?
afair PHP was almost always faster than ruby/python for normal web sites

The problem was usually the frameworks.

I remember benchmarks that went down in orders of magnitude as soon as you loaded a framework. That experience was 7-10years ago. I assume this changed by now.
> Nobody who has been arrested has ever been guilty

What are you talking about?
CAF deal ran out?
> Now I am taking proper ADHD meds
You've replaced one stimulant with another, it seems. The meds don't come along with a bunch of calories, so that's a plus, though ADHD meds do have their own set of side effects.
Not related to Magic Pocket, but when the article talks about Dropbox in house cloud, are they saying that you have your own instance of some minimal cloud-computing services? If you're permitted to disclose, I would love to know whether its based off OpenStack.
So tineye?
It never occurred to me how easy it is for a police officer to scan your phone sensor across your finger while physically holding you down. In many places they can't force you to give them your password but this bypasses that.
Perhaps it has been discovered before, maybe many times. But the only way to know a discovery in math, or any science, is the first time is to search all the academic journals, an activity that's only feasible if you're a part of the university mathematics research industry, especially considering how much some academic journals charge for subscriptions. Then you need to announce your discovery, after peer reviewing of course.
's British. The Queen's and allat.
"We aren't talking about making decisions"

I was talking about decisions and not writing code and was pretty clear about that.
High-end Mercedes/BMW/Audi/Lexus have had these features for years now, although they still force you to keep your hands on the wheel, presumably for liability issues.

(And it's still awesome, it makes stop-and-go traffic bearable)
T460, just got it and love it.
Obama used the "think of the children" canard when talking about privacy at SXSW the other day. Now, with this, it sounds like the government really wants to think of the children. All the time.
Accountable to who? This sounds like mind police. Who can examine your actual brain states anyway?
Best way to reach the moderators is to email hn@ycombinator.com. They've been quiet responsive in the past. Personally I think it's one person only.
I think you can also get access to the ACM library via membership. When I was in college I paid for a student membership, I think its was $25/year or something generally reasonable. Probably a better value proposition than my actual CS degree, not that its a great point for comparison.
Mercedes has some sort of timer, if the car's been stopped for more than maybe five seconds, I have to tap the gas to get it rolling again.
Forgive the delay in responding.

Itsosticky was designed from the outset to be an image sharing service with community potential, contrasted with image hosting, it's a service that facilitates quick sharing of an image or screenshot with a friend or group.

When used for its intended purpose, direct sharing, as opposed to free hosting for hotlinking, there are features that make it worthwhile sharing an Itsosticky resource URI rather than a direct link to an image file. For example, zoom capabilities, that some people may find superior to those available natively in a web browser, albums and easy social sharing links, and not least, fast uploads from phones without the need for a dedicated app.

All users are invited to publish their images to the gallery for greater social participation or exhibition.
React itself is already pretty simple if you ignore all the extraneous tooling. The core API is just about a dozen lifecycle methods.
This seems like a niche that has been ripe for occupying for a while. Packaging for products has become more and more ornate and is a design job that needs a full team. Good luck to Georgette.
Here’s What the Future Looks Like When Freelancers Make Up 40% of the Workforce
Anyone who believes that it's okay to force unwanted updates onto someone's computer without unexpectedly and without their consent is a bit obnoxious.
Does the algorithm generate a binary hash? or does it generates a real valued vector?

I have been using Tensor Flow to build something similar, though its significantly more computationally expensive but can allow you to find semantically related images. I still have to find an optimal encoding scheme for efficient nearest neighbors.

E.g.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AKSHAYUBHAT/VisualSearchSe...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AKSHAYUBHAT/VisualSearchSe...
I'm not going to go into detail right now, but believe me it happens from Microsoft more than any other company I've seen.
Ah, good catch. I hadn't noticed that. I miss words all the time when listening to British people speak.
Building a massive, super-reliable storage system was not really feasible given Dropbox's resources back when it first started up.
This is exactly what I was getting at. For individuals and small organizations that often have no dedicated IT staff at all, they're the ones who'll get hit by Microsoft's forced-upgrade policy.

But for any large organization with deployed Windows systems, that absolutely requires a managed Windows environment for an ocean of reasons. That means a competent Windows IT staff that handles all those things, including: security configuration and updates, controlled testing and release of updates, data retention and deletion policies, and on and on.

For such shops, handling a change like this from Microsoft is already day-in-the-life. They already have to vet updates that may (and do) break business-critical software, while also ensuring that critical security updates are pushed out in a timely manner, etc.
I still have problems with the ssh agent when running tmux. No amount of hacks or symlinking sockets everywhere seems to give me a reliable (re)connection to the agent when detaching and reattaching to tmux across machines and ssh sessions.
Yeah, tmux has two functions, and that's my (and others') problem with it. Instead of doing one thing well, it does two things poorly. It's not a very good window manager; when you use tmux you can't easily put a graphical window between two terminal screens. Even as a text-mode-only window manager it's lacking. It has poor mouse support, and every command you send to it has to first be announced with a prefix keystroke.

It's also not very good at keeping programs running. It can't survive a reboot, for example. It's possible to do that, and there's stable software that does it. Generally any program that can handle a suspend and resume can handle being persisted across reboots.

Not that I have a great suggestion for alternatives — I'm not really in the market right now. I use i3 for window management (not 100% satisfied, but it's definitely high quality software). I don't often run long-lived processes in ssh sessions these days. When I do, I use tmux, which is fine, I guess, if I don't have to do it often.
Interesting that you mention migraines. I get occasional (very rare) migraines, and my mother and brother also get them, although they have it worse than I do. My mother used to take caffeine to make a migraine go away, but she believed that the continued use of caffeine (even only to mitigate migraines) made the migraines worse in the long run. It had something to do with the effect of caffeine on blood vessel size, but I don't remember the details. She has given up caffeine almost entirely and switched to large daily doses of vitamin K on the advice of her physician.

I've tried to figure out if she was right but all the literature on the subject seems to say the same thing: "There's a lot we don't understand about how caffeine affects the brain, and there's a lot we don't understand about migraines."

For what it's worth, I mostly gave up caffeine fifteen years ago. My friends would have caffeinated drinks but at five o'clock when the party is dying down, I'd be the only one left with any energy. Anecdotally, it felt like caffeine didn't give you energy, but it let you borrow energy. (Later in life I discovered caffeine could also trigger hypomania.)

Now I just use caffeine to medicate my lack of interest in my current job.
Kalamazoo shootings: Uber driver blames app
I love it. We had servers, then we had clouds, and now we have personal clouds. Uh, isn't that a server?
"Most women reject short men as mates"

Are you sure? Because this, why being `obvious' after 15 seconds of thinking, may be or not be true.

My anecdotal observations reveal an unusual number of pairs where a tall woman happily dates below average height man. It works the other way too, short women often date tall men.

Anyway, no person really need most people of opposite genre accepting them as a mate. A few is usually enough.

If you'll prove that tall men have more successful marriages, it would be a huge deal, so I assume that no such correlation exist.

Successful marriage is a complicated thing and I assume that its relation to ease of dating and partner selectivity is very non-linear.
MS is getting pretty draconian with the Windows 10 shtick. I'm not sure why there's such a push, just let people buy a Windows 10 computer when the Windows 7 machines fail.

Fighting MS on this is a losing battle, all the workarounds are going to be a non-stop, futile exercise. Unless I have a specific needs for Windows, if this makes anyone uncomfortable to read (like myself)- I think this is the ideal time to jump on Mac, Linux Mint, Ubuntu Mate or Antergos.
No, it is not one person. There is one paid moderator who is the face of HN. But, I know there are others who do moderation work.

I am not clear on the details. My impression is they have no plans to divulge all the details.
> BTW, it designed like that so, you know, you don't ever want to come back. That's the whole point.

Seems to contradict

> I have been locked up over 20 times in my life.

Now going on the assumption that you did not want to go back it looks as if that alone is not enough to stop it from happening.
I'd agree that tiling is the less useful function, but the name refers to the tiling. Tmux is short for Terminal Multiplexer, in other words, it's a program that turns one terminal into multiple terminals, by way of tiling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY (Stephen Fry explaining his position on this particular form of pedantry, amongst other things).

It rubs me the wrong way as well, since my parents (well, my mother; my father grew up bilingual, so precision in english was certainly not as strong a part of his upbringing) were quite insistent that I used the correct adjectives and conjugations in english as I was growing up.

However, the less vs. fewer debate is over, common usage replacing 'fewer' with 'less' vastly outnumbers proper usage of fewer v. less; time to drop the pedantry as it is of nebulous benefit to begin with (in this particular case).

"You can't pour a glass of <some obviously enumerable item>" really doesn't matter anymore, and I feel the difference in the adjective never really conferred any meaning at all (unless, perhaps, the item you were speaking of was not obviously enumerable, but I can't think of any reasonable examples of that).
Shouldn't be a problem, from what I understand in cryptography you randomly generate numbers and check if they're prime, the result is a uniformly random prime. Even if you know exactly which numbers are prime that still doesn't help you in figuring out which prime was used.

Unless the random number generator was flawed of course, but that's a different issue.
I didn't say it's included, I'm saying anyone capable of a bachelor's degree in STEM is capable of picking it up. And if you think you were a "theory" person, but don't know the basics of abstract algebra, then you have an incredibly naive idea of what theoretical computer science entails. Hint: there's a lot of abstract algebra.
Agreed. Where do the shills like shanselman go when you actually have a genuine criticism?
One of the issues I have with the article, and many simple financial articles is the assertion that the Fed "stopped" purchasing bonds in late 2014.

The Truth is the Fed Continues to purchase Treasury Bills and Mortgage Backed Securities for all that reach maturity. More than half of the purchases during QE mature within 5 years, as it stands now rather than allowing the Bonds to Mature and Come off the balance sheet the Fed simply repurchases them, what they aren't doing is increasing the amount of purchases as they were during QE.

This is why the amount of Treasuries and MBS owned by the Fed has remained constant more than a year after QE ended.

$2.4 Trillion in Treasuries
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/TREAST
and $1.75 Trillion in Mortgage Backed Securities
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MBST
Useful! I've been looking around for template projects like these
That depends entirely on the framework in question.
Both my cofounder and I have experienced the pain of losing a loved one first hand. We are excited about using technology and our passion for online marketplaces to redefine how we deal with death.
Yes. Here's a really bad example of feature misunderstanding, a Volvo owner demoing the self-braking, where it plows into some pedestrians.[1] "Volvo spokesman Johan Larsson told Fusion the people in the video did not pay for the car’s “pedestrian detection functionality."

The levels of self-driving may need to be standardized, so that when a driver gets into a strange car, such as a rental, they know what to expect.

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/self-braking-volvo-fai...
> On the other hand I think this will drive people away from Windows and towards OS X and Ubuntu.

They already pushed too far. Was a life long Windows user, used at home for gamedev and Steam, chosen at work (mainly QA) because it's what I knew extensively, VS is great and it's what users used. Was literally the only Windows user in a sea of OS X machines at some companies.

Now? All my personal and work devices run Ubuntu or Arch. My partners devices now all run Ubuntu or Arch. Projects I'm planning that were going to be "Windows first" will now be "Linux first".

Sounds silly, but I was enjoying the progress Windows was making security-wise. From Vista to 7 and 7 to 8 (and even to 10) the "under-the-hood" part of Windows seemed to be making great strides in protecting the user, even if they were screwing up the UI.

But everything they've pulled with 10 have completely pushed me away from the platform. Adverts in my OS? The nagging? The "updates can be installed even if you really don't want them"? Phone-homeing I can't turn off at all with a consumer edition? I understand wanting to make it hard to turn it off so they can collect reliable stats or protect the consumer from themselves but as a technical user I want my OS to do exactly what I want it to do. MS completely killed that.
I'm a short guy (5'8") and don't doubt this is true. However, I also strongly believe that it can be completely overcome and then some. It would be a little immodest for me to explain why I believe that, but suffice it to say that my height has not held me back in any appreciable way in any area of life. I suppose it might matter more if I were to seek the Presidency, but the present evidence is that it would still be possible for me to at least be a temporary front-runner for a nomination (see Rubio, Cruz, Paul, etc.). Not bad.

In fact, there are a lot of elements of my height that I've always enjoyed. It's made me naturally athletic, in the sense that I've always been very agile. I've never not been able to trivially do pull-ups. I can do things in gymnastics without training that some much taller people with twice my strength cannot do with training. I also think that while taller people can be viewed as more dominating or powerful, at the same time shorter people can be viewed as more endearing, relatable, and morally innocent. I honestly believe that on more than one occasion I've been given the benefit of the doubt in some situation because my physical stature caused me to be viewed with more empathy and with less of a competitive spirit.
Why is this a big deal? Why should MSFT not do this? Here are a couple of reasons why...

Perhaps the machine hardware is not Win10 compliant

Perhaps a machine hosts software that requires significant regression testing before permitting an upgrade to Win10

Perhaps the machine's software is not Win10 compatible and needs to be rewritten before a Win10 upgrade

Perhaps the machine in question has specific greenzone periods and should not be upgraded without an agreed outage schedule between IT provider and user base. (Think banking, power generation, healthcare, airline sectors, etc.)

Perhaps your Mom owns the computer and you want to personally manage the upgrade when you visit at Christmas instead of having to spend 6 hours on the phone with her.

MSFT has no idea whether or not its SAFE to automatically roll out an update for their OS users. They make no effort to check hardware compliance status with all hardware manufacturers. They make no effort to check the compliance status of 3rd party software. They make no effort to ensure that critical infrastructure systems (power, health, banking) individual greenzones are followed to prevent unplanned outages.
> It appears to have the same transition probabilities as in base 5 (with the two center rows and columns swapped):

Well, yeah that's because 1,3,7,9 modulo 5 becomes 1,3,2,4 which is 1,2,3,4 with the centre two swapped.
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