skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never had that issue to be frank. I use it on my laptop, my desktop, and my phone, and sync has been instantaneous and problem-free. I did face some issues with files blocking the sync operation, but that was fixed a while back.

One of the best features you get with OneDrive is full Office integration. You can either access your documents using Office Online, which are full-blown browser versions of Office apps, or you can open your files in Office on your computer. Changes you make to the document are live synced and versioned, so it's great for collaboration.
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"comparing starting circumstance in an attempt to one-up each other on the tragedy train"

This kind of thing is all too common among those who advocate for ideologies which they believe would make the world a better place. They lose the audience, and undermine their own claimed goals. As someone that cares about social justice, I think shining a light on this (and other unfortunate parts of 'the movement') is one of the most important things to do at this point.
There isn't a big conspiracy at McDonalds, the sliced apples are real food:

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/product_nutrition.snacks...

> Ingredients: Apples, Calcium Ascorbate (a blend of Calcium and Vitamin C to maintain freshness and color).

Scary stuff! I guess the wax that is on apples at the grocery store is missing, but hey it still seems like real food to me.
Why don’t we have universal basic income?
Does it give you all the relevant formats (woff/ttf/etc) and the css? If not it's just unuseful.
I'm not sure that the time needed to affix the label to every product is less than the saved time due to faster scanning.
What's this serverless thing anyway?
They are very good at withstanding compressive forces, at least on small scales. It's shearing forces that I would be concerned with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_properties_of_diamond...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_anvil_cell
Discussion from 5 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11872829
Couldn't you say the same about any death? Regardless of reason?
You can't attack others like this here. We've banned this account for breaking the HN guidelines. If you don't want it to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com.
> then someone suggested that IPFS would be ideal for being the 'canonical' source of the file while the other protocols (HTTP, BT, WT) are merely ways to access the file.

Hey! That was me! I still believe its a great idea ;)
But this isn't that. This is people getting content served to them after it was initially denied.

You still haven't explained why you're entitled to their content for free. How do you expect them to actually pay their bills? And if you don't care about that, then why are you reading their content?
Was it lost? Or did those who could build such a thing simply did not think it was worth doing so?

The astronomy knowledge and the mechanical theory needed to make the Antikythera mechanism were well known in ancient times, and I don't think those were ever lost. The mystery of the Antikythera mechanism is how it was actually built.

But do we know how long it took to build?

If it was built in a short time frame, then yeah, the maker probably used techniques that were lost not too long afterward, and not rediscovered until maybe the 14th century.

But what if it were built over a much longer time frame? It could have been someone's lifetime project. Then simple techniques might work. For instance, if you need a piece of metal shaped to very tight tolerances, just get it close and then use a hand file to very slowly make it what you need.

If this were the case, I can easily imagine that plenty of people between the time it was made and the 14th century knew how to build one, but simply were not interested enough to make building it their life's work.
I'll likely stop visiting facebook in five years.
Awesome - I've got to reread more thoroughly when I have more time at home. The cross-platform distribution and cross-compilation stuff at the end might be some of the most valuable.
I have done a lot of interviews, and also been interviewed a few times.

I think:

- Interviews are significantly easier in a higher level language. You will get more done in less time in Python than C in general. Also less tripwires I think.

- Even more important, choose a language you know really well. If you can pick the language I will assume you pick one you know well, so if you don't know something basic that is a major red flag.

So I think learning a new language for interviews is a bad idea. Use it on some hobby projects first at least.
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"But these days, recruiters at tech companies are not turning people down due to their opinions about their race."

Not even github? They seemed to want to aggressively reduce the percentage of white males at their company, and bragged about their success in doing so.
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Is multi-thousand year old bog butter safe to eat? I would like to try it.
Well, specifically for an engagement ring, "I'm cheap" is the opposite of the message you want to send. There's lots going on at the interpersonal level that's all about "You're worth it" (and "I can afford it") that isn't about cold, rational utility calculations at all.
heapq is in python's standard library...
This isn't a new standard. "Don't take shit you haven't paid for" has been a standard for quite some time.

Seriously, at the end of the day, why do you feel entitled to their content, instead of simply not going to their site?
I understand why it seemed that way but in this case the charitable interpretation, that zepto was genuinely curious about what the OP meant about stigma, seems also to be the correct one.
Yes, I've had lots of suggestions for applying the tech to other things but the problem is I have no interest in those other things :)
Then the people that live there should make an effort to move out west. Again, not hard -- take some CodeAcademy classes.
The means in such arguments are implied to be unethical or somehow violate the rights of someone. When that's the case, the proposed end result is used to justify the otherwise unethical action.

I've never seen a valid argument of that form and I use this particular phrase as a heuristic for validating arguments. If you have examples of arguments that best take that form, I'd be happy to entertain them.
If so, I'd say you were writing the wrong kinds of tests before. I work in JavaScript and almost never write type verification tests.
As someone who has invested countless hours reviewing attribution reports and has seen how it is handled by companies of all sizes (including up to Fortune 50 brands), I respectfully disagree with your statement that "attribution isn't that hard."

I have the fortune to also work with an incredibly bright Data Science team (several of whom have phenomenal stats backgrounds), and they all agree with me.

Many companies and agencies know last click has very real limitations. Likewise, for anyone that has started to go down the rabbit hole, you quickly find all of the other static models have similar limitations. Dynamic/data-driven attribution at the user path level is the way forward, and Adobe's econometric attribution modeling tools are the closest I've seen to getting it right. But even that has limitations (cost being just one of them). The free reports in GA and AdWords are a great start, but likewise have their own issues.

There are a LOT of variables in terms of sample sizes, data accuracy, inability to effectively isolate an experiment group due to other marketing efforts, etc. that all throw other major wrenches into this.

All of that said, I'd genuinely love to hear your solution for how to definitively solve attribution from an analytics and statistical analysis perspective. As much as I disagree with your statement, I realize I don't have all the answers, and if you have them, I (and many others) want to hear them.

Personally, I think this is the biggest challenge the industry faces right now. My gut says display and video CPMs are overvalued, but better analytics and better data are needed to really help advertisers answer the questions of things like "what is a view through worth?" or "how much revenue should I attribute to this display/video campaign?"
Profitable or cash-flow positive? Those are two different things.

Cash flow positive - normal situation where the cash inflows during a period are higher than the cash outflows during the same period. Positive cash flow does not necessarily means profit, and is usually due to a careful management of cash inflows and expenditure.
> I strongly suspect this article was created by Ken Dakin, who it appears has chosen to use Wikipedia to document the achievements of his career. We have recently deleted two articles which he created for a similar purpose; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IBM OLIVER (CICS interactive test/debug) and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SIMON (Batch Interactive test/debug).

Maybe Ken is an HN user? ;)
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You know what? I don't care. Electric companies are regulated the same way, and we all have the freedom to use our electrical devices how we want.

And you say "price controls" like that's a bad thing. It's not. Honestly, I wouldn't even be opposed to the federal government just nationalizing every ISP and carrier in the country.
They are so small, so that you just pass through the items into your shopping cart. Basically you don't have much of an option. If you shop without a shopping cart (like me buying just a few things that fit into my bagpack) the cassier might suggest that I take a cart next time.

Then there is this side-board across the checkout that you can use to bag your purchase.

What you also see a lot in Germany is people taking empty cardboard boxes from the shelves and use them instead of bags at the checkout. It is quick and convenient.
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Advertising with them has actually been shown to be detrimental. The Veritasium YouTube channel has bit on this.
Doubt that. .DS_Store are created by the Finder.... not the file system.
DeBeers can buy out these labs. The knowledge doesn't go away, however, and so more labs get started. DeBeers can keep buying them for quite a while, I suppose, but starting them continues to be profitable if DeBeers keeps buying them...
I assume that off-chip SRAM would not improve things much, right?
"Not to mention that class privilege trumps all other privileges combined by an order of magnitude."

Absolutely. I mean, there are numerous disadvantages that are race specific independent of class (rich black people were still disproportionately harassed by the police the last time I looked at the data), but on the whole, with regard to your overall empowerment, access to education, access to jobs, medical care, everything - class trumps race by far.
I've been an Aldi fan for more than a decade, buying almost all of my family's groceries there (four kids, it's cheap and doesn't require figuring out what is really on sale this week vs. what is really over-priced this week, or messing with Coupons). The quality of most of their products meets or exceeds that of the name brands[1] except in a few circumstances (their equivalents to Cheerios and Frosted Mini Wheats are very sub-par, but in the case of the Cheerios, they're about half the price for a much larger box, so we mix 'em).

I actually get a little stressed when I arrive with a cart full of groceries and an empty line -- they ring them up at about twice the speed I can pull them off the cart.

The Aldi process is very well thought out. They're the only cashiers I've seen that sit in a chair while ringing things up. They needn't move, nearly at all, beyond swiping things past the register to read those giant barcodes (on anything store branded, which is most things). I remarked to the cashier about their ridiculous speed and was informed they are also tracked, directly, on their speed and have targets to meet (and incentives if they're "the fastest").

[1] Their produce is consistently good (love the sweet, small, green grapes) and their Frozen Chicken Nuggets are better tasting than any I've purchased, including the organic ones at Costco.
I was about to post this and say that the parent comment does not remember this because it happened 4 years before their birth.
I've had the pleasure of speaking to people who have actually said that - or something along the lines. "Why are you studying Japanese? Don't they teach English in Japanese schools? You can just speak English with Japanese people."

I enjoy introducing English-only speakers to "The Chaos" by Gerard Nolst Trenité. It gives them a good idea of how terrible English can be - as even people who consider themselves "fluent" in English will struggle through the poem and mispronounce many of the words. ( http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html )
Hit me!
Seems js-ipfs[0] is not quite ready for prime time (though it's close) and the author had a requirement to do everything from a browser.

https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/
You've posted comments like this repeatedly. Please don't post any more of them. If you missed my earlier response, it's at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11890119.
They just remodeled the one in my town to be pretty comfortable. (Not quite as nice as that one in the photo someone else replied with-- no carpet for one-- but it's quite nice and much nicer than the other fast food places in town.)

I think your information is out of date.
So Paolonerd [1] comes in last October and adds his observation to this relatively flimsy wikipedia entry and we're supposed to all just accept that definition. I see.

> A public utility (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service.

Who is the organization that maintains the infrastructure of the Internet? Does it include my cable modem? My router? Why or why not?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Paoloner...
Which websites did you browse in order to find people that you recorded with?
True, but not scaling well has its drawbacks in voter participation and data management, no?

Like the post above me said, isn't the risk of peoples votes getting switched OK as long as people can verify their vote value?
That's just an a priori assertion that certain means are categorically unjustifiable (by anything, ends or otherwise) because they are inherently unethical, which is irrelevant to the form of the argument.

If you want to make the point that certain means are categorically unacceptable, make that argument (which will very quickly, I suspect, get to a root moral axiom on which no debate is possible, simply agreement or disagreement) rather than raising irrelevancies about the form of the argument.
I can't imagine a scenario where our carrier fleet is in imminent danger that doesn't qualify as an existential threat. We haven't faced that since WW2 and Japan did end up on the receiving end of nuclear arms.

US carriers carry over 5,000 sailors, having one taken out would be almost unimaginable (a one time event with more US deaths than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined).
"Software would be much more difficult to write leading to longer lead times for applications."

This is a problem we will need to solve. So far we've increased programmer productivity by sacrificing code efficiency because Moore's Law gives us more speed for free. We'll have to find ways to reduce this trade-off in the future by thinking harder and deeper about software since the hardware's not going to save us anymore.
"p4 revert ..."
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The sitting thing is common in England (and perhaps elsewhere in Europe). It definitely stood out to me when I was visiting.
See, for me it's the exact opposite.

"Oh cool, you dug up a shiny old rock that's been in the earth for millions of years."

vs for me, man-made diamonds say:

"We used cutting edge technology that can simulate the weight of an entire mountain over a tiny area to make an shiny thing!"

My wife and I are suckers for cool tech. A man-made diamond will forever be cooler than something that happened naturally over millions of years.
krebs is the only security guy I read, it's just interesting :)

unidentified tool is a simple sharp ended thing for wood carving. Like this: http://de.aliexpress.com/item/High-Quality-Newest-10pcs-Set-...
My opinion although I know others will feel differently.

Scala is a good language and serves its purpose very well when working with Spark. I think the environment surrounding it is still shit. I think Play is not good, and other related frameworks are still not where they need to be. Even the ORM solutions I think are more complicated compared to every other major language. Yes you can use Java with it, but then the benefits of using scala and switching between your Java and scala become burdensome. I think Scala has many more features almost to a fault. Its a large complex language, unless you have a dedicated team with a defined coding style it'll be hard to maintain. With that being said, I do like the language but I prefer opinionated languages like Java and Go
Just think about how long it took evolution to go from single-celled organisms to complex ones capable of growing diamonds!
I am actually working on my own company so I can't argue here I guess. Still the letter does come off as positive to me. He sounded like he is putting the problems out in the open. Maybe I'm just young and inexperienced.
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Your comments in this thread are crossing into personal attack. That's not allowed here, so please stop doing it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11892858 and marked it off-topic.
Indeed, but the fact that this problem persists raises a few questions, not limited to:

1) WHY does this problem still exist, considering all of the resources at FB's disposal?
2) Where do these click/like farms come from, and what's in it for them?
3) Why does FB only do sweeps annually? Why not daily?

As you might've read in the Updates section of the post, I came to the conclusion that these click/like farms, although not supported by FB, are still a pleasant surprise for FB, as FB vis-a-vis these farms TRICK unsuspecting low budget ad buyers into thinking that they're still getting something for their money.

In other words:
* Big corp with multimillion dollar ad budget = we put your ad in front of your desired audience, and you get lots of quality engagement.
* Those with smaller ad budgets = we put your ad in front of garbage accounts, and you get garbage engagement. It's still engagement, though, so be happy about that.

That, or (and prep your tin foil hats for this one) one of FB's business models is to covertly financially support these click/like farms so that they encourage ad buyers like myself to keep spending $5 here and $10 there on advertising with the belief that it's actually working for them.
[edit: I see a comment attributes creation to Ken Dakin instead of Dr. Robert Mais. I've made some adjustments as a result.]

Sometimes I cannot fathom the logic of Wikipedia, especially wanting to delete this article. From my understanding of the discussion, this is because the entry was made by one of the development team of WRS.

That's the same logic that would have articles created by Albert Einstein deleted because he was documenting his own work and that alone is sufficient reason to discard it, regardless of the actual content or how noteworthy it is/was.

I find the logic perverse as it actively discriminates against potentially valuable information being documented and detailed by original creators; the WRS gives good prior art on some uses of spreadsheet concepts (especially across time dimensions). You don't need to think too much to understand the value in documenting such a concept, especially by the creator/first implementor (which in normal mortal circles would be considered a coup).

While the intention is to stop any random person filling wikipedia with their random nonsense thoughts, it seems quite evident from a quick review of the article that it has merit on a number of levels.

I wonder what Ken Dakin did to upset the Wiki-Overlords?
Given the way that barcode scanners work, as the sibling comment points out, there is almost certainly some kind of 'debouncing' going on. The system is acquiring data fast enough that it probably has enough time to repeatedly read the code tens or even hundreds of times before you move it out of the field of view. So I'd guess it triggers on the first detection and you get a short dead time to move the product away.
I love this tired old trope.

It doesn't rot because there's no bacteria in it. There's no bacteria in it because it was cooked thoroughly.

Any well-done burger from any restaurant will last a similar amount of time. Try it.

BTW, what animal do they serve is "intelligent"? That one has me curious. The smartest thing on their menu I suppose would be the pork?
No, that is not a fact at all. It's a guess. A projection. You have no idea what the EU is going to look like in five years, let alone twenty or thirty.
"Prevention" implies force, and that's all I meant by it. I take no issue with talking to those whom have expressed the desire to commit suicide. My primary issue is when it escalates to calls to police/medical professionals and force of law is brought to bear.

I'm sorry you find my ethics so abhorrent, though I often feel that way about the ethics of others.
That's pretty silly. You both imply we can all fit in the bay area, and that poverty is a trivially solved problem. Both are definitely not true.
> The entire official nuclear policy of every single nuclear power (as far as I'm aware) is that they will only use nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear attack or an existential threat. Officially.

The US has never had such an official doctrine, nor to my knowledge has any of the other major nuclear powers.
If you enjoy this sort of curiosity, checkout https://reddit.com/r/barcodeporn
As a german in the US, I suddenly felt as if I had a OCD about the way to bag stuff. Store employees were more or less dumping things kind of randomly in bags without sorting by weight and by robustnes of the product. On the other hand declinining help with bagging seemed to be kind of unusual.

Other differences I noticed: Time at checkouts was at least 2-3 times longer than in Germany, even at the better german supermarkets cashiers are much faster. Also, in Germany I never encountered cashiers to comment on the goods I bought (I don't mind much, but it still felt a bit like an intrusion in privacy. I once bought a glass of Ghee - a common ingredient in southern german cuisine - and the cashier went on and on about how unusual it was that a white guy would buy it).
I've heard that in the UK there are bag boys who even carry it to your car. Is that true and are you then supposed to tip?
Indeed. I actually included (with links and credit) both of Veritasium's videos in the post.

The rest of my post explains in detail my own experience with this problem, including data, screenshots, and my own email correspondence with Facebook's Global Marketing Specialists.
What if, instead of deleting odd or bad behavior, wikipedia had pages for them. Like companies paying editors to polish or lie on their page. Or people being their own fanbase.