skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had been reading that as Richard Branson instead of Benson for most of the article. Was very confusing.
I currently have a site that is generating upwards of £4,000 a month in ad/affiliate revenue...

Should I consider moving to a subscription based modal and charging for my service as a way of managing the risk and fluctuations from the ad/affiliate model?
BMW i models Q1 sales lower than last year by 23%. Maybe bonuses were really the cause for all this --- http://insideevs.com/bmw-sold-5128-bmw-i3i8-in-the-first-qua...
No, Graal emits target instructions for its backend (usually machine code for CPUs or GPUs, but it could emit anything). Java bytecode is one of Graal's two frontends, the other being Truffle. I believe both Truffle and byteocde are then represented as internal Graal ASTs. In any event, Truffle is not translated to bytecode (although the opposite is possible: you could write a Truffle interpreter for bytecode).

I guess it's also theoretically possible to have a bytecode backend for Graal, but that wouldn't make sense except maybe to make Truffle languages executable on non-Graal JVMs for compatibility; I don't know how useful it would be because I think Truffle has an interpreter fallback.
2D maps can be rendered by a GPU just fine. However, when you're doing the upgrade from CPU rendering to GPU rendering anyway, you likely want to have some returns, so they probably just went to 3D in the same step with few extra development cost.
It's tricky even with a GC.
I would have liked to have seen what the patent is... at least a reference so I could go read it...
I enjoyed your writeup too. If I had to choose between being able to low level do everything without having a high level understanding of how they fit together and on the other hand having this high level understanding with no low level applying skills I would definitely choose the high level view. It is IMHO far more valuable to know how they fit together.
> Data analysis in C++ or any compiled language, just doesn't make much sense.

I rather use a programming language with REPL that gives me the option to compile to native code, instead of being forced to write extensions in another language.

Plenty to choose from, doesn't need to be C++.
Washington D.C. and the companies in the NOVA area in general have excellent policies regarding electric cars. You can take the HOV lane to work, and there are free electrical charging stations at the office parks and in public garages in many areas (Reston, for example.)

I see multiple Teslas daily, both the Model S and the older roadsters. I occasionally see a BMW i8, and there's an i3 on my block. But, I've also seen electric prototypes on the roads around here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car) of which there are only a few hundred in the world, so YMMV.
How much photosynthesis do you think the average planet does with its star? Enough to justify chloroplasts?

How much complexity do you think the average mind generates with its time? Enough to justify the ATP?

How much thinking do you think the average human does with his brains? Are brains worth it? Stay tuned.
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> We (BitKeeper folks) did our GUI interfaces in Tcl/Tk years ago because it meant we could have one gui person and get the same gui tools on Windows, Mac, Unix, and Linux.

Ok, sounds reasonable. Except... now you have to hire another person to do language development/maintenance :)
That capitalism is unfeeling doesn't make it unworthy of our projections. Besides those aren't human traits. They're the lack of them. Ruthlessness is the lack of compassion and the unrepentantance is... Well that's obvious. My statement was that modern capitalism is unworthy of those projections. It would be much more appropriate to say that a capitalistic system with UBI was compassionate. The inclinations of a machine can be anthropomorphized without harming anyone who understands the limits of such characterizations. It can aid understanding and is useful. This whole site is way too sensitive to flame wars. Just let it burn. Quit repressing shit. Implement collapsible comments.
I won't sue either, but as I had to pay actual money to be able to use the promotional key — and now lost the ability to use it — I'll do a chargeback via PayPal.

I thought about going to the Verbraucherzentrale, I mean, it's their job to do this.

Prolongation of the deadline wouldn't help me much either, though, because I'd need at least half a year — which they definitely won't give me, I've already asked.

And I was actually planning to switch a new hoster with my servers this month. Won't be DO now.
Treating occupied enemy territory the way that Israel has treated Palestine violates international law in so many ways it's frankly ridiculous. They really are acting like a military dictatorship.
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cool! another approach to that task: http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/imc/2015/papers/p495.pdf
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I agree. It doesn't help that the git CLI is so awful. SourceTree is a much nicer interface (although it is too damn slow).
D&B on private companies is useless. The data is all self reported and verified with insiders.
I disagree about teaching. Public school teachers are overworked, tired and do a crummy job. I'd rather have 7 hours of Khan Academy videos and 1 hour of solid instruction. You're right about anything involving manual labor. But even then the notion of an energy tank absolutely applies.
Qualitatively, the South / Peninsula SF Bay Area hasn't had many significant earthquakes in recent years compared with the 80's-90's. I remember the 89 Loma Prieta doing algebra homework at 5:04 pm in the setting sun, shaking that kept on going for seemingly an eternity (lost half the contents of our pool) and aftershocks all night.
What is the "invention" or "technology" claimed? Anyone know?
More generally "-" is an alias for the previous branch, so it can be used in other commands as well (ex: git merge -)
I think this is the patent in question:

https://www.google.com/patents/US7177798
The i8 isn't messing around. It's a 0-60 in 3.6 second 29 mpg car, with a completely different design than Tesla. It's a genuine production vehicle, not a concept.

That's not too bad for a stodgy old company. Large ships turn slowly, and sometimes it takes a while for management to see the writing on the wall.
In Git's early history the vast majority of its users were people who significantly preferred the command line interfaces over GUI tools because they can be much quicker (if that is how you work normally at least) and easier to automate. In fact at first there were no GUI tools at all. There is an amount of momentum in tutorials being written for the command line, so people learn from the command line, so people write their procedures/tutorials/other from that perspective.

And it makes sense to learn the basics in its native form and then learn the useful trinkets that are added on top - then your initial learning is restricted to the core so you are learning that which is transferable to all Git front-ends rather than learning specific to a particular GUI.

The way advanced users tend to work in my limited experience (I'm am very much not an advanced user) is to use the command line for the basic day-to-day working and then the GUI tools when anything more complicated (large and/or partial merges) is required.
Yes, precisely. Install software from verified sources (either signed packages or fetched from encrypted, identity verified websites). Whether you use curl or not is irrelevant.
Even if that is the case this third party would then assume that the secretary is "with" the other person. Not some other person that no one have ever talked to or met or etc.
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What category of site is it?

Have you tried removing advts for paid customers? How many signed up?
So, in best case, the integrations are equivalent to the whole ecosystem of IRC integrations in existence?

That's interesting. And still leads to the question "why slack, not IRC"?
As compared to the environmental impact of coal, oil and gas, really? Are you joking?
FEMA's Brooke Road Facility (BRF - "the barf") is quite the eye sore [1]. Luckily it's not in a super visible/residential area, but I always found it depressing that people actually work there.

The outside is bad enough, but the inside is even worse. They're all stuffed into cubicles, no windows that I recall, dirty/decrepit bathroom, just a depressing place overall, hard to explain.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1989182,-78.1524764,3a,75y,1...
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Agreed 100%. Things installed on your machine have privileges regardless of how you install them.

Install software from verified sources.

Whether you use curl or not is irrelevant.
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It should come as no shock that, right now, the elderly in South Korea lack social security in absolute squalor and dignity. Most are abandoned by their families and left alone to kill themselves, usually by jumping off a bridge. There is some occassional food assistance, but there is rarely enough to go around.
I have seen this among all my friends that aren't that computer knowledgeable.

They just search for an email with the same set of people that they want to sent an email to, choose reply all and change the content.
US also loved Franco in Spain, and a bunch of undemocratic latin-american governments.
I don't think this is sensationalist or clickbait at all.

If I were a competitor trying to steal away an entire division, this is exactly how I'd start.

You think the four departed executives haven't already texted senior engineers saying, "let's talk in the next couple weeks"?

Generally speaking, the big considerations for engineers thinking about moving to a competitor are whether the business unit they'd be going to has a valid mission, good funding, and (perhaps most importantly) room to maneuver under leaders in whom the organization has invested and who have political clout to get stuff done.

Making a big splash by hiring four of the most accomplished guys in the electric cars game is an excellent way to signal that their new home takes this seriously. Expect engineers to follow.
While i nether have the room nor the time to do this, i love the idea. I also love the "Why" section of the website, so simply yet so mighty.
> Correlary to the previous question: How do I uninstall it? Maybe all files were installed to a hidden folder in ~/, maybe there's some stuff in /opt, or /usr/local, or who knows where else.

How does one uninstall stuff on Linux anyway? My Linux boxes are always like thrash cans - I add and add new stuff until it's time to upgrade either the system or the machine, so it gets wiped and replaced. Never figured out how to delete stuff in a way that will not leave a ton of things behind...
original press release: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1492_en.htm
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Disclaimer: I'm a Graun reader, make of that what you will.

1) and 2) are largely a definition of a newspaper's purpose, educating their readers on something they don't know about. They also don't purely blame it on Thatcher, they make it clear that every government since Thatcher's has made this easier. They even single out 2001 as a key year in this process.

I'd also wager a large portion of the population don't know how easy and legal it is to create companies with no traceable actual human being responsible for their conduct.

Private Eye has been banging on about this for years thanks to Richard Brooks, but that's not exactly mainstream. (See "Where there's muck, there's brass plates" https://privateeye.subscribeonline.co.uk/Products/digital-ed... )
> If you don't trust the installer, you sure as hell can't trust the product

I can't think of ten pieces of software with excellent installers.

Software distributors generally pay very little attention to the installer. That is because installers are written by people who want to try and make it easy to install something, and don't really care about anything else. If they can get you to install something, helping you remove it isn't their problem.

If they can get you to install something, protecting you from really unlikely things like someone hacking their CDN and delivering malware is a high quality problem: Either they have enough users so that they will be forgiven, or they won't have enough users and the project is abandoned anyway.

I don't trust installers.

I don't trust installers to document what they're doing, or tell me where files go, because they don't.

I don't trust installers to deliver a secure transparent experience, because they don't.

I don't trust installers to consider conflicts, like what else do I have installed because they don't.

I don't trust installers to create security boundaries, protecting me and my files from bugs in the software, because they don't.

For things that are open source, I try to use the software in-tree without installing it. For other things, I evaluate using a virtual machine. Seriously, I don't trust installers because all of you are bad at them.

> The problem we face is, how can we make it easy to install something, while still being safe and maintainable?

Google, Apple, Microsoft, et al have recommended publishing platforms (aka "app stores") that are designed to specifically solve this problem.

For Debian and the derived, we can approach a Debian Maintainer and ask them for help getting it into Debian. For other distributions, we can take similar steps.

If we insist on publishing things ourselves, we can make our software really portable: Let it live in any directory, and not touch any files. Make it easy for the user to verify this.

If we can't do that, we can document the details: Explain all the files we touch and why, and recommend users create separate user accounts (or containers/virtual machines) to really protect themselves. Try to get people used to this level of care because having a positive experience with good software with excellent documentation[1] will give you pause when faced with anything else.

Honestly, the number of programs that want to run as root or as my user account is terrifying, and the amount of work necessary to sandbox unknown apps really makes me not want to bother. I know most people don't worry about this, so purely from a "hurr hurr move fast" point of view, this isn't anything anyone needs to worry about: `curl | bash` is good enough, and will likely be good enough for a long time.

[1]: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html
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If there's only both alternatives, that's right. There's at least another one: spend zero.

And don't forget that, after all win the minimum, that's the new zero.
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What task are you learning the features for? If it's classification, instead of treating it as a two step (feature generation followed by classification) problem, I suggest that you just use a multi-layer neural network with a sigmoid function at the final layer so that you directly predict the output class from raw pixels. This way the feature engineering is taken care of by the algorithm (the weights of the hidden layers).

To give an idea of what I mean, see: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/10/25/selfie/
Hrm it looks like I was using recogmission / pifilter, which now seems defunct:

https://recogmission.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/adult-image-de...
I'm not so sure that Google actually does have the same circular monopoly power as Apple, because really it's just about lock-in and - from experience - moving from Android to iOS is really easy. You don't lose any data and everything is cross platform by default. Going the other way by contrast, you'd have to deliberately move things into third party cross platform apps.

I'm also not sure whether that would count as a monopoly if they did have sufficient lock-in, given their vast market share - as a hypothetical. I guess probably yes.

I'd agree that neither should be investigated, but I do disagree that Apple have as much grounds to be - they just don't have the market share.

I was probably too simplistic on education, it's a difficult issue for sure. My ICT teacher in school used to have a pretty big budget and spend it on toys because he got Windows hardware/software so ridiculously cheap. Microsoft had made the ICT curriculum in the UK entirely based on learning how to use their software and apps. All their stuff can be obtained between free and really cheap for students from school to university, and it's pretty much always the standard expectation to use it. And then you have iPads and Chromebooks taking over, probably not running Microsoft apps and probably like you said with no real plan. It's interesting and probably broken, but there's probably no monopolistic player there.
As an example of how even the most pedestrian industrial function can be in a beautiful building, here is a waste incineration plant in Vienna: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:M%C3%BCllverbren...
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There was a period of modernist architecture up through maybe the mid-70s--including but not limited to Brutalism--that has aged particularly badly for the most part. Even examples that were presumably designed to stand out, like Boston City Hall and the Boston Public Library addition (to the original beautiful Beaux Arts structure) look simply awful today.
Can the secret to the country’s happiness be found in its communal pools?

If you use suicide rate as an indicator, Iceland doesn't seem to be so happy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
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I don't think that's nearly as clever a counter-argument against curl|bash as they appear to.

A few points of the shortcomings of curl|bash vs RPM and others:

* curl|bash is not transactional. If you have an install/upgrade process in a different tab, and you close your terminal accidentally, how do you know if the install/upgrade completed?

* There's no obvious uninstall method, and you need to read the docs to see what, if anything, you should remove outside the main directory.

* There's no way of verifying if files have been tampered with post installation. This has negative security and operational consequences.

* It's much more vulnerable to MiTM attacks - a proxy with a successfully faked certificate can trivially modify a bash script on the wire and add a malicious command to it. This is hard for a user to detect. Packages are (on most distros) installed via package managers that verify GPG signing keys, making in-flight modification very very greatly more difficult.

* Packages are much more auditable - I can download a package and inspect it, and know that it will run the same actions on every machine it's deployed to. curl|bash can trivially serve different instructions to different requests, based on whatever secret criteria the server operator decides.

If you're going to try and argue that instead of doing what the generally accepted $good_thing is, and instead use $quick_and_easy solution that's widely perceived to be insecure, when you argue in defence of your position, you need to make very sure that you're not just trying to justify laziness. I don't think sandstorm have really thought about this hard enough.
Whilst everyone knows that corporate fraud and shell companies exist, it's highly unlikely that many know about the specific details mentioned in this article. And calling a whole group of people "hysterically uneducable" is laughably hypocritical in itself.

As for "find [..] someone abusing it", they also showed that the abuse was quite significant.

And for your claims about GMG tax avoidance, I'm not sure how you can say that with a straight face about 29.4%.
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Surely if you were making a "human level" AI with "feelings", you'd make it attracted to cleaning; or building cars; or whatever task it was built for?

http://hitchhikersguidetoearth.wikia.com/wiki/Sirius_Cyberne...
Not really. "prevailing wage" doesn't mean average wage at that company, it means the wage that posted on the Department of Labor website as the minimum wage for that county.

The posted prevailing wage for an EE with 5 years in Santa Clara county, for example, is about $70k (or at least it was back in 2009); so if H1Bs are paid more than that is compliant with the law.
This is a symptom of bad address books in the email software.
Iceland gets next to no sun November-February, leading people to depression, drinking, etc. It would likely affect you much more than the winter you know from other countries.

If anything, the social aspect of going to a hot pool in the winter is likely to keep people from committing more suicides.
I'm still using my Nexus 4, that thing has pretty much already set the "good enough" bar we've come to reference for why PC sales are tanking. The only problem is a lack of security updates, but we can't blame the hardware for that.

Incidentally I had a HTC Desire HD before and that became unusable on newer versions, as is the Nexus 7 now. These two clearly didn't have the good enough hardware specs.
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"a knowledgable user will most likely check the content first.". Really? I'm knowledgeable in that I understand that the script may contain evil, but I'm lazy as hell so I don't bother to check 99% of the time. Like I clone, build and run repos without checking every SLoC.
This mentions both iOS and Android, is it a mistake or are you expecting a consultant with skills in both?
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Oh btw. coala allows automatic fixes for source code, most tools like code climate are usually reporting only and can be more annoying than helpful.
They have to subsidize solar a bit so it can compete with the huge subsidies for carbon based fuels.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=42940.0
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The following generally works for me. It removes the installed files, including configuration files. Additionally it will remove any dependencies that were only used by packagename

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove packagename
Your package manager should have a remove operation.
Please, don't call it 'dieselgate' as it is only a VW group fraud.