skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question, does such an API to replace Cortana in Windows 10 exist?

Or is it like Internet Explorer, too deeply embedded in the OS to be able to remove?
Ha! Reminds me of Nick Lowe's reaction to David Bowie's Low.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f6/a2/a1/f6a2a1ca4...

https://tomhuntington.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/bowi-and-r...
I'm actually surprised people are asked to justify why harder jobs should be paid more.

Someone considering that they deserve the same as someone else for doing and easier job is a kind of entitlement. I'd like to see someone justify that.
What Werewolf teaches us about Trust and Security
The means of production that you use are privately owned by your employer, that's all they provide. Maybe they also do some managerial/clerical labor to lubricate the interaction of the commodity with the market, but this is really only the case for small businesses.

Imagine a shirt that sells for $20 on the market. The shirt is composed of $5 from raw materials and depreciated tools and $15 from your transformative labor. The boss pays you $5 for your work and makes off with $10. The boss steals way more than their investment. They'll tell you (e.g. Paul Pester from the article) that they have more responsibility: this is a bold-faced lie. Corporations are never held responsible for the havoc they wreak on society and the Earth.

The result of this arrangement is the obvious wealth inequality graphs that we've all seen. This is the true injustice. The CRUD worker making $150k and the food laborer making $40k are fighting for scraps. We should focus our fighting upwards.
I think they calculated wrong and forgot to spend all the money. They mentioned that Cloud Services was unusually more profitable this quarter.
The death of Cortana.
I work at a large enough company that we do this type of job movement fairly often. It's often desirable to find right fit for somebody once they're hired rather than get rid of them and find somebody else. For example, an existing employee already knows about the corporate culture, how to do their timesheets, etc. and doesn't need that ramp up time.

Often, especially with early career employees, what they're good at doing, and what they went to school for are wildly different. And they don't yet know their own competencies and aptitudes until they hit a job. I've had a few employees who were spectacularly unable to do the job we hired them for, but blossomed in other positions.
Dictionary words can still be trademarked.
Google Trips: Your All-In-One Travel App
Yes. You said "He'd be out by now". To get out means you must have been in, and jailtime is what you were responding to.
> Free speech cannot be used to protect people who commit crimes against the economy.

That's a tautology, and not very defining or useful. Of course the things that are crimes are not covered by free speech. But the question was, where do you draw that line? Sure, willfully misleading people can be fraud in some situations (note that lying is protected speech in some situations[0]). But there's a whole continuum of situations relating to speech and the economy. Is it free speech if you publish (true) information about a company that results in the stock price changing? Is it free speech if you publish wrong information that you believe to be true and it results in the stock price changing? What if you publish wild speculation without solid evidence (as people frequently do for predictions of Apple products) and that causes the stock to change?

[0] http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/lying.h...
The war on elephants
If it worked for Patent Trolls and Texas, why wouldn't it work for the FBI?
"The numbers for Ashburn, Virginia, the top U.S. city with nearly 100,000 Sci-Hub requests, are harder to interpret."

Am I the only one who thinks this is just the location of AWS us-east-1? People might be using proxies located there or have bulk download jobs.
Literally earth-shattering perhaps. Why have we never discovered alien life despite statisticians saying there must be thousands of alien civilisations? Probably because they blow themselves up looking for new particles.
It's pretty unreasonable of them to assume Dropbox even heard of their company or what they were building, when using an extremely common dictionary word.
Nobody believes that, Google would have helped for free in any integration needed, maybe using a "cortana" chrome extension.

And even if that's false, is still pretty easy to set up the implementation to be generated HTML that works on any modern browser.

The know nobody wants to use Bing, this is just another shady move Microsoft.
Babbage's Difference Engine was later built by others shortly after, producing log tables. The original idea was Müller's who preceeded Babbage. Babbage produced a workable implementation.

The mechanical method of finite differences was built in many successor machines, mechanical calculators are myriad til the 1980's.

The methods were also used by the original computers, rooms of people computing parts of a sum - these very methods were used at Bletchly Park during the war.

Turing had read Babbages writings. The methods of mechanical calculation informed his Bombe machine.

The Analytical engine though never built directly inspired most early computer pioneers just to believe it was possible.

Lovelace's vision of automatic computation of numbers representing algebras, thoughts & music - directly inspired Alan Turing and A.I.

Punch cards were used in most early computers but this idea originates much earlier with Jacquard and his programmable weaving looms.

Babbage also proposed a packet switching semaphore network on church steeples, never built but his exposition of the efficiencies of packet switching was part of its history.
>Does it really cost £2.00 to print a hardcover and ship it across the Atlantic

That's actually probably pretty close to correct.

Not defending the Kindle pricing but printing and distribution of physical books is a lot cheaper than many assume it is.
People work on what is accessible to them. Apps are very easy to get into. I'll be happy to work on nuclear power reactors, got one to spare? ;)
"The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality" by Brian Greene.
I know, 3 seconds is really bad. that happens because of python-mode plugin that I use.

https://github.com/klen/python-mode

It takes 1300 ms (of those 2800 ms)

I am still trying to trim it down or maybe soon will abandon it.
A for profit news editorial site based on sensationalism. Why is anyone surprised? That's "news" today. Just turn on the television in the US. I haven't been able to watch CNN since the mid-90's.
I am curious, what distro/laptop/kernel are you using ?
How does this compare to stream fusion? http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.104.7...
Seriously? Where were you during 2008?
The last time this was posted, it was mentioned that the new default C++ language mode is c++14, but it's actually gnu++14, which is more a superset of c++14.
I don't believe that's a good analogy unless Cortana is renamed "Bing", because then the user expectation of saying "OK Bing" has a more clear intent about using Bing search engine only.
Lots of discussion from two days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579676.
Distancing yourself from early failures is never a good strategy. Too often we flee from our past failures. For me, I don't shy from them but admit they occurred, and that I have learned from them since.
ZH's response: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-29/full-story-behind-b...
All this talk about supply and demand and compensation for risk is a load of bullshit.

The salary of people higher up in an organisation is not higher because they are so brilliant; it's higher because these people can decide how to distribute the money.

This is true in all areas of the economy. People who are close to the money will always make more than people who do the work. A realtor will earn a lot more from the sale of a home than the plumber who laid the pipes. The outsourcing agency will earn significantly more than the workers who end up doing the job. Temp agencies have a markup of more than 100% on the salary of their temporary workers.

All that talk about "negotiation skills" and "compensation for risk" is just bullshit that people tell themselves to justify a higher salary. Why is it so hard for people to accept that they are lucky to earn so much? Why do people always have to find an excuse why it's only fair that they earn more than others?

We're all grown ups, we all know that the world isn't fair. There's no need to come up with elaborate explanations why pay inequality is a good thing.
Do you have any evidence to support that? I don't see that any software companies now do anything like engineering. Whether it's open source or not, "Software Engineering" is still basically just hacking.
Well, with LuaJIT you get speed.

How much speed?

CloudFlare's firewall system uses LuaJIT to analyse approximately 4 million GET requests per second.

(Small pause, reread)

That much speed. That was the figure in June 2015, at least.

Some of the autogenerated code looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/F5aT0NF.png (snagged via pdfimages from http://www.slideshare.net/jgrahamc/lua-the-worlds-most-infur...)

This video was where I had my major TIL moment: http://www.thedotpost.com/2015/06/john-graham-cumming-i-got-...

I also got the impression from the one other page of autogenerated code briefly visible in this video that the firewall logic is also full of regular expressions. And yet, it completes its analysis in roughly less than 1 millisecond.

It's almost a crime I haven't learned LuaJIT yet. :P

That said, looking at the slideshare link, you can see that Lua as a language has some pretty annoying syntax, so I've sorta been shying away from it.

So maybe I'll learn HaXe instead. :D
Greed is easier to fabricate (just turn the inequality knob up) than creativity or some other source of intrinsic productive motivation.

Fear similarly so.
U.S. Millennials Watch Netflix Series More Than Broadcast TV Hits
Also, on most websites, the logo/brand in the top left is a link to the homepage. I clicked it a couple times until I saw the "Home" link next to it.
Although they don't use a browser

That's debatable.

Android WebView is a system component powered by Chrome - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Llvm-Dev RFC: XRay – A Function Call Tracing System
I really think that we are getting way too sidetracked into the discussion, but I think you are underestimating the amount of fitness (in the evolutionary sense) it is required to be in the top 0,01% compared with the top 1% of any sport. Being a "pretty decent soccer player" will get you nowhere near any league.

Don't even need to get out of football to think of an example where this experiment has failed. Falcão is to this day considered one of the greatest players of indoor football. He tried to get into football by playing for São Paulo FC and stayed in the bench for most of the season, then went back to futsal.

Or if you want to go back to Basketball: Michael Jordan and his baseball career.
It's not just how it's supposed to work (I'm agreeing with you), it's how it often works.

Most of us on here work in software - how many times have we seen tech companies get their products and services deep inside an organization and milk it for years once they have leverage. Once it gets too bad, alternatives begin to come in to the marketplace. These are usually cheaper/better.

But still the practice happens over and over again. This means that those years of milking it is worth it.
Right, you probably can't do it yourself. Even established journals often have a group of peer reviewers etc. Probably the best idea is for a group of academics to get together and start "sharing" the papers they found useful, acting as a "peer review" group of sorts.

I was just commenting about how to get around the "the journal isn't prestigious so no important research is published in it so it's not prestigious" problem.
What are Infinit using for the Windows file system? Dokany? How is it working?
How Do We Know Our Software Works?
You can meet all the requirements and still make compromise in quality to reach expected price point. Cost doesn't get slashed out of thin air.
>> "Bloomberg LP competes with Zero Hedge in providing financial news and information."

Translation: "Yes, we're attacking the competition."

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Reply-To-Comments-Below:

All editors make choices, and to me, this was the wrong choice.

All this does in validate ZeroHedge is a threat and makes Bloomberg look like a wannabe thug.

Beyond that, appears ZeroHedge made something of this disclaimer too:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-29/full-story-behind-b...
Yeah very early but the detected the signal in both ATLAS AND CMS but well below the 5 sigma rating currently. I'm excited to see what happens next
App store optimisation ASO – search keywords, application optimisation
Which experiment proves existence of time (apart from some physical process), especially its slowdown and acceleration, like in famous theoretical example with accelerated clocks?

As far as I remember, in the philosophy of science a single contradiction is enough to refute a hypothesis and is the reason to check one's premises..

Some himera made out of math and popular but unproven theories is a himera nevertheless.
Vivi: a HUD for doctors
The value in ZH is that their sensationalism is pretty much the reverse of most other mainstream media. "Anti-establishment" as they say.
Yes, but apart from the women's integration into the workforce scenario, how relevant is this? It doesn't feel like that huge trades happen with "transaction of favor", instead all probably use money.
In theory, things like EITC and progressive rates should account for the fact that low income people spend all their income on living, while high-income people accumulate capital that they can invest and create more income. Also, in theory, this approach is less intrusive than asking people to account for their spending and try to find which spending is actually a "cost" the way it would be for a business, and what it some frippery that should (for some definition of "should") be taxed.
165ms for 2000 or so lines of C for VIM 7.4.52 on a HP envy running arch
When found in the wild, it is more a fallacy than anything else.
Russia is considering legislation to send Bitcoin users to jail up to 7 yrs
Geolocation API removed from unsecured origins in Chrome 50
But I guess he can't be fired as CEO if he has voting majority?
‘Dial’ by Will.i.am; Will It Move Past Its Predecessor’s Disaster?
I would go further. My clients' money is their money. As it's their money, they can do what they want with it. If they choose to give it to me, it's now my money.

Similarly, if you have a job, the money your employer gives you is now your money. If you have a business, the money your customers give you is now your money.

It's true that someone making £60k a year probably works harder, with more responsibility, and has invested more up-front in their own skills than someone making £20k a year. However this shouldn't be used as the justification for their higher salary; the justification has to be that freedom and property rights are inviolate principles.

If you cede those principles -- e.g., by conceding that hedge fund traders and CEOs cannot possibly be "worth" their high salaries, and so they should not be permitted their salaries, and so they and their employers do not have a right to their own money -- you effectively give free reign to the government to interfere with any economic transaction in the name of "fairness" or "justice".
This is odd. Mind you, lots of things about Go made me think "this is odd" the first time I saw it.

I like the fact that we can now sell libraries more easily if we want to. There was a reasonable indie industry for years selling stuff out of the back of Dr Dobbs back in the 1990s, and being able to support that community is good. If you don't want that community to exist, fine, write better code and release it open-source and kill the market. I would be happy to try and sell a library and see sales dry up because I was unable to out-compete the wider market.

I suspect there might be the rise of people selling packages that are in essence tweaks of open source packages, but that's a problem the industry has irrespective of language. It is after all the business model of several firms.

I also think this might help with the quest on compile times. We're really keen on getting compile times down, and being able to build a package over there and as I'm working over here, it can pull in the binary is actually really quite nice. I think it'll be a while before that becomes a default thing for Go to do, but you can now see it as a possibility.

What is a little odd though is to make this work, you still need "a" source file, even if it's not "the" source file. From the bottom of https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/2775-b...

The package source code itself must be present in some form,
or else we can't tell if the package was deleted entirely
(see background above). The implication is that it will
simply not be the actual source code for the package. A
special comment is a natural way to signal this situation,
especially since the go command is already reading the source
code for package name, import information, and build tag
comments. Having a “fake” version of the source code also
provides a way to supply documentation compatible with “go
doc” and “godoc” even though the complete source code is
missing.

That, you have to admit, is different.

Also, perhaps making it less useful for commercial purposes was the last paragraph:

The compiled form of the package does contain information
about the source code, for example source file names, type
definitions for data structures used in the public API, and
inlined function bodies. It is assumed that the distributors
of binary-only packages understand that they include this
information.
Zerohedge is one of the most remarkable web sites today. I started reading it after 2009 and today it's (along with HN) my daily read.

For me as a Westerner there are few places where I can read non-mainstream opinions on things like the war in Syria, the oil price and currency wars, the daily SNAFU in the financial worldlike Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP).

To be sure, the headlines are often sensationalist but the content often exceeds whatever analysis you can get to read from mainstream media (= the big online newspapers in the US, and Europe).

Here is Zerohedge's response to the above article:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-29/full-story-behind-b...
Given that the use of something-gram is likely to cause confusion in the eyes of some, perhaps instagram ought to have given more thought to naming their product to begin with. I mean, any fool could see where this was heading if the app in its infancy was expected to be successful.

Car manufacturers and other industries spend fortunes on branding, app manufacturers by contrast appear to feel obligated to choose a random word and then scream "this is mine now talk to legal la la la I can't hear you".

Ianal but I would (theoretically and against my real lawyer's advice) argue in court that Instagram should have had better foresight than to use an already established word that is taken to mean "short message of indiscriminate content".

Of course the easy way out here is for Insta- i forget, oh yes gram, to pay the littergram bloke's costs for changing the name of his app and then help him to promote the new name. Saying as he is actually doing something a lot more worthwhile than sending shitposts from teen to teen. But why let decency get in the way of POWERSTRIDES THROUGH THE OFFICE LIKE A TRUE TECH-CONQUEROR SPITTING ON THE COMMONERS ... I FEEL SO STRONG NOW, NO-ONE CAN CHALLENGE ME.

I mean, the guy is trying to stop littering, he's not doing anything untoward.
Could you, please, give me a link for the proof of existence of time. Not some processes in the Universe, but time itself.
In the world of product branding and trademarks, companies pay people to make sure they're not stepping on toes and opening themselves up to be sued. To have a product that does the same thing and is called almost the same thing is pretty sketchy. The smartest thing for Dropbox to do is just rename it, especially since it hasn't launched.
I would go further. My clients' money is their money. As it's their money, they can do what they want with it. If they choose to give it to me, it's know my money.

Similarly, if you have a job, the money your employer gives you is now your money. If you have a business, the money your customers give you is now your money.

It's true that someone making £60k a year probably works harder, with more responsibility, and has invested more up-front in their own skills than someone making £20k a year. However this shouldn't be used as the justification for their higher salary; the justification has to be that freedom and property rights are inviolate principles.

If you cede those principles -- e.g., by conceding that hedge fund traders and CEOs cannot possibly be "worth" their high salaries, and so they should not be permitted their salaries, and so they and their employers do not have a right to their own money -- you effectively give free reign to the government to interfere with any economic transaction in the name of "fairness" or "justice".
The state university library here has a [membership program][0] that gives you access to the library and its various subscriptions -- so effectively library donors get access. Individual membership is under $50/year, so it's definitely an affordable option. Not sure if it gives remote access to their network (they used to have a web proxy server for off campus students, don't know if they still do); you may have to go to the library and use the computers there.

[0]: http://library.sc.edu/p/Develop/Society/ThomasCooperSociety
Does it matter? I can't see the Democratic Party nominating him. And after 2016 it will be a while before the Republican Party thinks that the rich business guy is a good idea.
Totally. Would not surprise me if, in a few years, Xfinity is spun off similar to Time Warner Cable.
Chiara Mingarelli: How stars and UFOs set one astrophysicist on her path
If no one has been to the site before here it is: http://www.zerohedge.com/

Believe it or not it has a huge following in the finance world due to it often being one of the first ones to break or provide color on important stories.

It's not uncommon at all to see a row of traders with tweet deck open allocating a single column to Zero hedge, they are just that prolific with their output.

The downside of the site is that they tend to have a very big bearish slant though. No one has ever accused them of being neutral.

I hope they continue to run the site. I find it provides a fair bit of value to me.
Syria Hospital Bombing: Are the Rules of War Breaking Down?
Interesting book, but one that got a bit formulaic in the later pages.
It has been a phenomenal few weeks. This series truly was great journalism, in the truest sense of the word.

Well done Atavast.

This run stands out as amongst the best long form journalism I've ever read, and I've read a lot of long form. I'm eagerly looking forward to more from this team.
I've been trained out of this because many company blogs link to the root of the blog, and not back to the company product website.

I don't bother clicking that logo anymore.
In a system of equal wages the supply of engineers would vanish because there would be no incentive to spend four years in college and whatever local licensing. Literally no one would know how to do the job.

In a system of equal wages the supply of coal miners would dry up because no one will risk their life doing backbreaking labor when there are much more safe opportunities out there.
Only on Android 4.4 onwards.

http://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/migrating.html

Which leaves out 26.2% of Android users:

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html