skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assume N is the total number of buses. Where N=1 your solution works. For N>1 the engineers can still be hit by a bus. This also ignores all other vehicles such as garbage trucks, semis and stealth bombers, all of which can take out your bus.
Control can be taken and views/visions can be different. That's the great thing about open source. The community or even other participants can fork and continue their own vision. Projects shouldn't make a habit out of it so.
> what the company is best at, which is being the platform where people weigh in on live events.

This is odd to me, since from what I see, the people who are most engaged with twitter don't use it for live events at all. They use it for jokes.
>Microsoft says four copies have even been sold to people in Antarctica

Does anybody know who these people might be?
Just for another data point, I double majored in English Literature and Mathematics with a CS emphasis, and I did have to work harder to get a lower grade in the advanced math and CS classes.

Just to be clear, I do consider humanities to be an excellent subject for study, and philosophy and literature, when studied with integrity, are rigorous fields. There's also, of course, a chance that I'm just naturally a bit stronger at humanities and weaker at math, and I suppose it might be the opposite for you.

I did have to work meaningfully for my "A"s in humanities, but I had to struggle hard for my B+ in real analysis.

Also, I do recognize you mentioned CS, not upper division math, but lower division data structures and algorithms pushed me pretty hard. And the course I saw my friends go through at Berkeley looked insanely difficult.
attic was removed from Debian after a data-loss bug went unfixed upstream for some time: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802619 It is fixed in the borg fork.
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Someone needs to change teams. Sounds like you have a toxic org.
Not for a single incident. If production outages become a frequent occurrence, the VP of engineering or Ops may not be around much longer.
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^^^ Misspelled Toronto as Tortono, so a simple search missed it. Here's the greppable version :)
The worlds most popular operating system and a government's investigation organization.

Yes.
Definitely true -- if it's possible for a single person's change to break Amazon's search, then something is wrong with the system of testing, code review, deployment, etc. It's never just a single person's fault, even if they wrote the causative line of code.
You are assuming that all simulations run at the same speed. A simple way to look at it is if you have half as much computing power to apply towards the simulation, run it at half speed. This is undetectable from within the simulation.
The fact that this is called the "USA Freedom Act" tells you everything you need to know.
Strange! I don't remember. Something in Boston.
India has a law that a seller must source at least 30% of a product from intra-India businesses in order to do business in India.

In my opinion, this is a very intelligent law. It's goal is to induce industry in India and limit (predatory/highly desired) products that remove wealth from the country, a country that needs desperately work for it's people.
I work for a large retailer as an analyst/Developer.
The problem is more the reverse scenario.

EG: A more legitimate media outlet runs some investigative reporting that exposes legitimate wrongdoing of company run by billionaire. Billionaire responds by funding tons of frivolous lawsuits in attempt to bankrupt / silence the media outlet.

The way the justice system in too many countries works these days, it's possible that if the outlet doesn't have deep pockets, they're in trouble.

This scenario is not out of the question. One past example that comes to mind immediately is Silvio Berlusconi, who was really fond of the libel lawsuit to quell any little bit of criticism.

Now, I personally have no problems with the Gawker outcome, but I can also see the reason for concern behind Thiel's methodologies.
Whoa, I'm installing it right now.
I think when leisure time becomes cheaper this prediction becomes true. Leisure still depends somewhat on others working while you don't
Look at Bill Gates and tell me the man is greedy.
> How many companies can say they triggered revolutions?

United Fruit Company, British Petroleum?
"Can't companies and products simply hit a natural limit?"

I think of craigslist when I read that. It's just a useful thing that works. Nothing else. I wish there were more things like that.
Thanks I'll check that out.
"You're holding it wrong."

He did have a backup. Having it also be mysteriously borked certainly violates the principle of least surprise.

That's a bug like Fukushima is an industrial accident.
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>since she is a woman (perhaps also importantly an attractive young woman)

She's not looking so hot in her latest photos. She's only 32 IIRC, and she looks pretty worn-out.
> but the API, and all of Developers in the "Twitter Sphere", are such a small portion of what Twitter "does" it would be out of scope for their investors to bank on TwitterAPI to reach projections.

I don't think so. The development ecosystem is (or was) a way to reinforce the platform, it is a kind of partnership where you stimulate Twitter use because you can build or take value on top of it. Many startups or businesses in general look elsewhere for the information that is available on Twitter.
Majority of Minecraft comes from console/mobile. Minecraft mobile surpassed Minecraft desktop in 2013, with consoles doing same thing later. Most people don't play the original java version that has mods. Most people don't play with mods.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/225643/Understanding_what...

http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/29/5665834/minecraft-sales-15m...
This is really horrible news for Apple. According to this article [1], their sales volume fell from 55% to 37% in India in the first 1/4. Meanwhile, Samsung goes from 35% to 62%.

Selling used iPhones there would have allowed them to dramatically increase sale volume in the low-end market which could have helped them regain some ground.

[1]: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/gadgets/samsung-...
Usually my Amazon purchases start with a Google search that links me directly to the Amazon product page. I rarely use the actual Amazon search.
So you sue Walmart for 20K on some legitimate grounds but loose to their AAA legal team. Now you are on the hook for 700K of their legal expenses. It's already the case that a large players ability to outspend the small challenger serves as huge deterrent for smaller players to take on the big guys you want to make that deterrent X10 more powerful.
It's only partially true though. There are tons of teams that Amazon that do not use AWS. They use legacy internal data centers that do not have an ounce of AWS infrastructure. And for some reason it is nearly impossible for them to transition.
There used to be a Decision Science class at Stanford, where this exact scheme was used. Students were warned all the time to never indicate 100% certainty on any question, because if you ever did that and turned out to be wrong, you would fail the entire course because of that one question: even if it happened to be a minor homework assignment. I always thought this was a great way to teach people the lesson that you should (almost) never claim 100% certainty in anything, and that you should view knowledge through a probabilistic perspective.
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"(Note to Jack Dorsey fans: if you want to downvote downvote with arguments)"

Don't discuss your own votes.

Don't interrupt the actual discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system.
> If the universe is of infinite age

An assumption for which there is no evidence (in fact, there is considerable evidence that the universe is not; the simulation scenario requires assuming that our universe is not the "root" universe, and that some other universe exists outside of it -- which is not only something for which no evidence exists, but is something for which no evidence can exist.)

The "infinite age" conjecture is already assuming that our universe is a simulation (or, at least, an pocket universe embedded in some other universe.)

> the chances of our being the first civilization in infinity to create a realistic simulation is one in infinity.

No, that's only true if there are an infinite number of civilizations in the history of the universe, not merely if the universe is of infinite age. The two assumption are not equivalent.

And, in any case, its irrelevant, because not being the first civilization to develop a simulation doesn't mean we're in a simulation. If, say, the ancient Greeks had a breakthrough and were the first civilization to develop universe-level simulations, that wouldn't make the ancient Chinese living in a simulation.

> It's not magic, it's the simplest possible train of thought.

Its the sloppiest possible train of thought, that starts with assuming most of its conclusion, and then proceeding by unwarranted leaps to conclude the rest of it.
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Unless you're arguing with someone that will take any missing confidence as sign that you're completely wrong.
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Some places like Google don't care if you have organizational skills. They have organization skills; they are the brain and you are the body.
> but I would have hoped for better from HN

Don't worry about it. Some guys just mistake their experience with traditional storage systems as meaningful here.
The world is slowly learning from China.
Or, to put it another way, "could god create an emulator that runs faster than the computer it's running on?"
Thank you for linking me to that short film - it's wonderful.
I've never signed up for myspace, and yet it tells me one of my emails is compromised there.

I'm not sure what to make of that information, since I know it's not a recycled email address.
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Of course a top University in the UK cares about the Lees. If you were like Lee Hsien Loong and nearly guaranteed to be a next generation political leader, any sane self-interested educational institution would give you preference.

Universities do this all the time, accepting children of foreign oligarchs who have CVs and test results padded with dubious measures. Why do you think the LSE brushed under the table Saif Gaddafi's ghostwritten doctorate? (a) because they didn't notice, or (b) the network effect of having the presumed (at that time) next dictator of Libya?

Cambridge never needed to put the thumbs on the scale for the current generation of the UK Royal Family because they never applied.

Lee Hsien Loong's story just seems like a propaganda story tailored for the perfect Singaporean technocrat (clever, driven, and can fit himself into any institution). While he's no idiot, his life could have been dreamed up by the North Koreans, a meteoric career in the army, receiving the title 'Chief Wrangler' at Cambridge. It sounds like propaganda.
I don't think this would surprise anyone that has used Docker Hub in their CD pipeline. So many reliability issues.

We moved off it last year. When we went to cancel our subscription the other month downgrades/cancellations were broken on the site as a known issue; had to open a support ticket. Most of the UI issues were still present along with some new ones.
My thought exactly. And it's even more specific than California - I've been pretty disappointed with the number of positions posted for LA, and haven't noticed an upward trend. I would be very curious to see how % and # of positions in SF vs. other cities has changed over time.
> I do, however, feel concerned that a rich person like Thiel can buy litigation. That's a highly dangerous capability.

What's wrong with backing some reasonable legal action?

Surely you're not against that?

I suspect the actual issue people have, which doesn't have anything to do with Thiel, is that a lot of people don't have the money to effectively back reasonable legal actions.
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Yeah, that assertion is baffling. Flickr is a photo service, it absolutely could've worked well on mobile...one of the first paid apps I ever bought was a third-party app that made it easier to use Flickr. Flickr famously was caught unawares by the trend set by Instagram and, well, Hipstamatic. In the news business, Yahoo News is very well known. Again, nothing inherently un-mobile about that product.

Perhaps few of Yahoo products seem addictive enough to be mobile breakthroughs, but that seems like a chicken and the egg thing. I liked using Twitter a lot from the desktop, but having it accessible via phone made it even more addicting.
This is not correct about Amazon/AWS from what I've been told.

I have several friends that work at, or worked at AWS within Amazon. When something goes wrong, I hear it's a blame game. I hear that it's a witch hunt and the person that's responsible gets held accountable, even if they didn't cause it. Example: Employee is in charge of project, project hires subcontractors, subcontractors screw up, Employee is fired.

Sounds unfair. Sounds unreasonable. Happened.
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This is why I almost always put everything (bought online) on the save-for-later list for a few days.
We are talking about files they owned before they subscribed. Nobody would just resubscribe.

In any case, you are accusing Apple of using a deliberately deceptive and destructive business practice to retain an insignificant number of users with a massive downside if discovered.

It's both unprecedented and implausible.
Disclaimer: I work at Docker.

I believe commercial releases are downloaded from a separate infrastructure (to be confirmed).

Either way, the availability of Docker packages, free or commercial, is critical infrastructure and we should treat it as such. IMO our primary infrastructure team should have been involved, and someone should be on call for this. We'll do a post-mortem, find the root cause, and take corrective action as needed.

Apologies for the inconvenience.
So basically you're saying that people who are willing to spend time with the family will have more time to spend, and those who don't want to will make excuses? (Just making sure I've not missed a subtlety)
From the GitHub issue thread, I see a lot of people being angry for their production deployments failing. If you directly point to an external repo in your production environment deployments, you better not be surprised when it goes down. Because shit always happens.

If you want your deployments to be independent of the outside world, design them that way!
You misunderstood my post again. "chances are" is an idiom.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/chances+are

When used in a phrase it means highly likely. I'm not talking about probability here, rather his use of the idiom.
It's scary how most people in that thread seem to be more concerned about forcing an installation, rather than pause and consider why the hashes might be wrong and why it might not be a good idea to install debs with incorrect hashes.

If the apt repo was compromised (but the signing keys were not), this is very likely exactly the symptom that would appear.
This article shows how desp learning is different than true human-like understanding:

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/doug-lenat-artificial-intellige...
And I made a Skype bot. Persistence would improve some things about it but it works just fine without it.
I actually wrote about A9's existence a few days back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11742067

tl;dr, Amazon's product search engine actually is handled mainly at A9. They seem to attract decent talent.
He's also financing multiple cases, isn't he?
Minecraft tops 100M copies sold, 40M people play every month
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Their refusal to discuss reasons may indicate that a certain entity received a NSL or AWA+Gag to backdoor, and certain someones prefer to take their work to another entity not covered by said order.
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Preventing people from getting inexpensive foreign goods seems like a terrible way to increase the amount of wealth those people have, in my opinion.
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Any ideas on how to scale your mother's approach? I think you might be under-stating (or not have realized it) how much structure or guidance she may have provided you.
> We should expect there to be a limit on how powerful the computers we could build are, if we were in a simulation.

We should expect there to be a limit on how powerful the computers we could build are, if we are in a universe governed by the physical laws we now understand, whether or not we are in a simulation.
Next, I wish Amazon would stop knowingly selling counterfeit IT gear. :(

According to Amazon, if you add the word "generic" to any product description - even one with specific trademarked words in it - when selling your knock off item, you're in the clear. :(
Although getting enough sleep is important, it's surprisingly hard for people to get quality sleep. I work at ŌURA (https://ouraring.com), the wellness ring that is focused on analysing your sleep. It's pretty visible in people's sleep data that if they focused more on properly relaxing before they go to bed, they would sleep better. The time of the lowest heart-rate of the night is a good indicator how relaxed your body were when you went to bed. Alcohol, late workouts, stressful life situation all affect this.
Why would such a law work better economically than trade barriers in general? The net effect in this specific case seems to be an effective tax on the Indian consumer who would be happy with a refurbished iPhone 5S.
This article sounds like someone in OwnCloud wanted to build a box and not a platform:
http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2016/06/nextcloud-is-replacing...

Maybe NextCLoud is skunkworks:
http://mashable.com/2016/05/08/silicon-valley-recap-skunkwor...
"I used rsnapshot for a long time and I can't recommend it over attic (https://attic-backup.org/) anymore."

rsync.net here. We agree. Attic (well, borg, but whatever) is quickly becoming the de facto standard for nicely versioned, secure, portable remote backups to an SFTP/SSH capable host.

We recommended duplicity for many, many years (and in fact, contributed to its development) but it no longer looks like the smart choice given the problems it has with periodic retransmission of the entire backups, etc.

FWIW, we support attic and borg and just rolled out borg v1.x into production:

http://www.rsync.net/products/attic.html
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SGI did it with MIPS processors in the 90s before they used Intel chips. For example: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=264107.264206

This was the system in which the directory logic was formally verified: http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/origin/compcon97_dv.pdf

I agree the author probably made a simple mistake, but it is misleading to people at the "enthusiast" level who then parrot things like this as flamewar fodder. A lot of respect is owed to computer engineers at corporations that are defunct or a fraction of their former greatness (e.g., SGI, DEC, HP).

As a further example, Bob Colwell's book, "The Pentium Chronicles", is a great read and teaches some powerful lessons about how to successfully do engineering in the kind of large organizations that can scale production of a design. But if you take it at face value, the book makes no meaningful attempt to inform the reader that other companies had done Out-of-Order well before P6. It leaves a naive reader with the idea Intel pioneered OOO as well, which is no way true.

I guess I'm just (maybe overly) sensitive to sloppiness and omission leaving an inaccurate impression of the history, especially when it's so easy these days to fact-check.
> Contrary to popular opinion, you can't sue somebody out of existence if they've done nothing wrong.

That's absolutely incorrect. There is ample precedent of people using the civil legal system to suppress the media.

Perhaps you heard of these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_law
> If the apt repo was compromised (but the signing keys were not), this is very likely exactly the symptom that would appear.

I don't think that's correct. It would pass a checksum test and fail a signature test with a "W: GPG Error". The checksum test is not about cryptographic security, it's just about files referenced by the Packages file having the same hash that the Packages file declares them to have. You don't need any signing keys to make that happen.
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> Yet it's puzzling how much it fails to improve its basic product.

What's there to improve? As someone else said here on HN "Twitter should have been an RFC."

The only thing that's broken here is not Twitter, it's the economic system that can't just let a useful invention be, but instead forces it into a fight-or-die, conquer-the-world-or-disappear nuclear arm's race.

Facebook was just fine as a place to keep in touch with friends and invite them to events, Uber is just fine as a Taxi service, Candy Crush was just fine as a silly iPhone game...

I wonder what we'll think of it all in a century, because there's no way this insanity can go on for much longer.
I will try and add this to the next revision. Location would be interesting to see. I will need to pull in a reference table of cities/states in order to properly match locations to the text in the job posts.
Obamacare is not that bad.

Obamacare rates are not far from what a private employer with a moderate number of employees would pay, and if your income is low in a particular year, the subsidies can get you to where you are paying $20 a month or so. If your income is unpredictable you get the subsidy first and can then pay the difference when you have the money.

The only plans that make sense to get on an Obamacare exchange are the "bronze" high deductable plans. If you look at the difference between those and the lower deductable plans the difference is pretty much the amount of the difference in the deductable, which is what you expect from adverse selection theory.

If you are having a good year in terms of money, make sure to fully fund a Health Savings Account because that has the same tax benefits as an IRA, you can spend the money like IRA money when you retire, plus you can use it to pay your health care expenditures NOW.
This is a great idea, but... honestly, I'm not sure how many people will want to donate to ownCloud. Maybe I under-estimate the size of their following.
Neat stuff. Would love to have something like this, but with a less narrow focus! Anyone holding?
If you are generally in good health then you might want to consider catastrophic insurance. Something that would cover you in the event you were in a car accident or suffered a heart attack etc.

A doctors visit for things like a sore throat or flu is around $30 bucks. Typically that might be a co-pay so it's a wash. What most folks want/need is to be protected if something crazy happens and that's where a catastrophic insurance plan can help.

It's typically less expensive than a full blown medical plan. Last time I had one was about 8 years ago and if I remember correctly it was around $1200 a year and covered me for any emergencies up to 250k or something like that.

I can't comment on Obamacare.
Also, how do they know the sales are in Antartica?
You may want to lock that GitHub thread soon, it's getting argumentative and not very helpful.
This is a great overview of a topic I find interesting -- thanks to Fastly for hosting it!
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