skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen people drink themselves over the course of a year into a state of health similar to what you allude to with "a year of meth, oh my". I've also known meth users who were highly functional and used it for years with no significant health issues. All in all, I'd say they're about equal.
More clearly I meant the right choice, but still a choice.
Talking to the Apple engineers it really didn't seem to be an issue of computation. They seemed genuine in their belief that they could solve data integrity with device qualification. While I asked them 100 questions they asked me 2: had I ever actually seen bit rot (yes), and what kind of drives did we ship with the ZFS Storage Appliance (mostly 7200 nearline drives).
I've found SQLite absolutely amazing for getting the power of SQL for R data frames.
Exactly. Good question.
This doesn't seem to match up with what one of the commenters said about Dreamhost: https://twitter.com/cleverdevil/status/744622945096503297
You're lucky if weather is the big topic in your area - usually all I hear are bowel problems.
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tl;dr - Greene convinced Google to get serious about providing cloud services to enterprise.
I read that but the high tech toolers of today are metric understandably. My point was that the industry may have balked but the populace just don't care enough. It's not like the tech industry makes the rules.
There are routinely articles in the Australian media about a glass of red wine a day being good for your health, likewise with chocolate, etc.
He's right, it _does_ already have a name. A few, in fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)
The tests are not as hard as the study guide would make you believe. And frankly (at least when I took them a few years ago) were not put together very well. I wasn't working through practice test apps very long before I picked up a lot patterns to the questions and answers.

If you passed college physics, you can study enough to pass technician and probably general in a weekend. I passed all 3 in one sitting on my first go.
> The network effects of popular but privacy invading platforms are what allows the lack of privacy to spread.

That's just a bunch of handwaving. Be specific about causality. "Network effects" is pretty much equivalent to "stuff just happens for some reason."

> Someone who's not even on Facebook but just happens to know you now has a shadow profile and their biometric data indexed somewhere in Facebook's database.

I don't believe that for a second. That's a wild accusation made with no evidence.
You vandalised property and cost the school money.

You obviously don't deserve prison time, but you didn't get it either. It shouldn't have gotten as far as it did though.

But do you think the person/IT responsible for the website was not harmed? You get they are human and 'possibly' went under an amazing amount of stress?

They may have been disciplined for what happened, either officially or off the books.

There would have been a lot of hours work post mortem trying to fix the problem. This is money on a possibly tight IT budget. If the people who run the website care, which many do, this also is stressful.

I'm not saying don't prank or even don't do this prank. Pranks come at a cost, but they also make the world a better place. But be self aware of your own actions. You hacked and got caught it really has nothing to do with the CFAA.
I was a volunteer ham working a first aid station during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The cell bandwidth was rapidly overwhelmed. Ham continued to work, including amazing professionalism on the part of Net Control when things got really busy. It's battle proven.

FMI http://www.arrl.org/news/radio-amateurs-provide-communicatio...
> Screen contents persisted through full-screen programs: in Screen, you lose your terminal's previous contents after leaving a full-screen program like an editor. Tmux doesn't have this problem.

Does this mean I can preserve scrollback among each terminal? If so, I'll switch tomorrow morning. That's screen's biggest drawback.
One solution to this problem is making "flipped classroom" a mandatory at all the schools.i.e. students go thru lectures/videos at home and do homework collaboratively in the Classroom. The Real world is more collaborative compared to our schools. Flipped Classroom is proven to increase scores as well. Question: What efforts are you willing to put in making this happen?
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No - It did not stall. The contributions graph are ONLY for commits on master branch. As you can switch to other branches - you can notice that they have 2k,3k or 4k commits ahead of master. Its being actively developed. But not much on master branch. Just on different branches. Mostly on v4-dev branch.
No - It did not stall. The contributions graph are ONLY for commits on master branch. As you can switch to other branches - you can notice that they have 2k,3k or 4k commits ahead of master. Its being actively developed. But not much on master branch. Just on different branches. Mostly on `v4-dev` branch.
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I just spent a few thousand dollars on new furniture for an apartment I just moved into.

But I know I don't have this problem because my credit card company immediately blocked the transaction and called me to make sure it was me because it was "not in line with my previous purchase history."

If I keep it up, something tells me they won't call back to warn me I might be succumbing to the Diderot effect. Hmm. Funny how that works.
I am nowhere near skilled enough to even understand the majority. Shoots, I just installed my very first personal home router. Also, I might add, this reminds me of the Intel management engine, which to my eye is like a router built-in in some ways.
That'll all work great for the government workers, but there's always going to be a window between when those comms are available for the government and when cell service is restored to the point you can coordinate with family and friends reliably.
I use screen on old servers and have tried to craft a tmux config that works several times, and failed.

Ubuntu repos include a nice package called byobu[1] that is a layer on top of tmux (or screen) that mostly makes copy/paste work like screen, while keeping the working scrollback from tmux instead of making it compatible with the usually-broken (in my experience) screen scrollback.

Byobu works well for me, so I'm using tmux on most of my servers now but it feels almost like screen.

[1] http://byobu.co/
Whatever. I got your email and it gave me a playstore link. Forget it.
> The engineers contend that Apple devices basically don’t return bogus data.

Holy shit.

I guess that explains why my Mac recently had a bunch of daemons burning all cpu crashing repeatedly in a tight loop when getting sqlite errors on a db in ~/Library. Cause disk corruption never happens.
> When pointing out that Microsoft also offers a computer vision API, translation services, and APIs for Office 365, and that IBM also offers weather data and language services, and so on, Greene's got a comeback ready.

"We have Chromebooks."

Is she joking? I can't see how they make Google's cloud more attractive than others. Am I missing something here?

Edit: I also wanted to add that there wasn't much concrete information in this article at all. Sounds like a fluff piece/advertisement to me (IMO).
There are other articles like that, of course.
What I found works best is that you assume that successful managers are just lucky. Treat them like an addicted gambler and you will be successful. More of what they think made them successful, never pointing out the odds and the fact that you'd expect people to succeed on occasion with pure randomness.

Treat them like they know best and never pin them down demanding a response from them, because they don't have an answer, just "work" to create an answer. Yes technical people who bubble up are an exception to this for the first few years of being manager but it doesn't last.
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Small issue to potentially give up privacy for. This is rather a job for the police and sensibilisation campaigns.

Also think of this way: if you both tailgate, and you have to brake, you will be hitting both the one in front of you, and getting hit in the back. If you don't tailgate and only get tailgated, you will only get hit in the back. (And have a way better defence for your insurance company.)

(PS I'm going to assume this is tailgating on the highway ?)
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I have tinnitus and visual snow (disturbed vision) since 2011. I also have a bad neck due to poor posture (loss of cervical lordic curve);basically straightening of cervical curve. I have this inkling that the two are related.

I totally freaked out in 2011 when these problems cropped up. I got my eyes/ears checked, brain MRI done. Nothing came up in any of them. Now my doctor/family thinks that I'm a hypochondriac and I imagine all of these.

Over a period of time I've made peace and I'm grateful to be alive.

Thanks for sharing this article.
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GCP will be adding 2 new regions by the end of 2016 and bringing an additional 10 regions online by the end of 2017. How does this compare to the scale of AWS?
There's also a lot to be said for having the gear to be able to coordinate with friends/family until normal comms are restored for non-responders.

Just because you aren't coordinate the "real" help doesn't mean having your own communications in the short term won't be handy.
>The percentage of alcohol users (ie almost everybody) who become alcoholic is quite low. The percentage of heroin or meth users who become heroin or meth addicts is very high indeed.

Do you have a source for this? Every study I've seen shows addiction rates among users in the 10-15% range for all three.
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The Seif project is an attempt in that direction
To be fair Scala does have access to the Java ecosystem
There's a difference between what a program should accept as input and what it should generate as output. The standard just says to expect a BOM on input and suggests not generating on output. In other words "A UTF-8 BOM is a bad idea but some yutz out there stated doing it so we should ignore it on input". Someone else mentioned that the yutz was Microsoft.

I misread what you wrote about where you saw no idication that it was UTF-8. You were talking about places other than the web.

BOM for UTF-8 text files seems to be a Microsoft thing. Everyone else just defaults to UTF-8. But you can't be sure that it's a UTF-8 BOM or some other encoding. Most editors let the user overide what it is.

Why would you store text in a blob column? If a database can't handle UTF-8 in it's text column it needs to be fixed (or taken out back an shot).
Or if you just want to screw around in the field, you can pick up RTL-SDR dongle for $10-20. One of the most fun things I've experimented with recently was trying to receive local police and bus radios, pretty interesting stuff. You can also use it to pick up amateur radio conversations on some bands and to learn some general radio stuff.
We're also really large. So those flood and fires only take out a certain portion of our agricultural output at any given time.
It is difficult to look at "% of users who become addicts" in a vacuum, since it's a population selected for willingness to take illegal drugs and hang out with the sorts of people with access to them.
completely agree with this. Obviously nothing is certain but it's a strong factor and time brings this out.
Which socialist countries?
link to press release:
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/worlds-first-1000-processor-chi...
Like she said - Chromebooks are very secure and easy to administer. They're also the ideal choice for running Google Apps in the enterprise.
"If the Flying Spaghetti Monster did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
I moved from AWS EC2 to Google Cloud a few days ago. Google really seems to have beaten AWS, at least in pricing and flexibilty. On AWS (Singapore region) a 2-vCPU, 7.5G RAM instance costs $143/month (not including IOPS and bandwidth costs), while a similar one on GC works out to about $56/month. That's a massive difference. In addition, GC allows me to customize cores and RAM flexibly to a point, which is important for me.

Also, AWS's reserved instances are somewhat of a nightmare. There are only certain upgrade paths you can take, and you're locked in to them for a year. And if you're not in the US, you can't even sell the instance.
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While the specific policies in Venezuela have definitely been a disaster, I don't think its prudent to use that as an argument in the "control to free enterprise" debate. Despite the existence of free enterprises, it is well within the power of the Chinese government to take over any enterprise when it wishes to.
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Back in college I was in a high-energy astrophysics class. The professor noted that understanding neutron stars was the most difficult problem in physics. In order to understand neutron stars, you need to use every single branch of modern physics: general relativity, solid-state physics, nuclear physics, and fluid dynamics, among other things are all important.
Hmm, I guess like there is the "sufficiently smart compiler" falacy, there is now the "sufficently reliable hardware" falacy.

But on another level, I guess if hardware fails, then well, you buy more hardware, which is good for Apple. Presumably people who bought in the past from Apple won't turn around and buy an Acer or HP laptop. They'll still buy Apple.
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In my experience as both a cyclist and a driver in the Bay Area, I have no interest in the opinions of other cyclists on driver behavior. Cyclists largely disregard the rules of the road and then blame drivers.

As a driver, I have been at the receiving end of abusive gestures and language even when following the law. In one case, I yielded to a bicyclist who was in blatant violation of the law[0], because failure to do so would have endangered him. He showed me his middle finger. Another was angry that I was in the bicycle lane making a right-hand turn, as required by law and common sense.

As a cyclist, I have given up trying to educate my fellow cyclists, and generally won't ride with others anymore.

[0]I was already turning through the intersection after having made a stop. The bicyclist arrived in the middle of my turn and entered the intersection without stopping for the stop sign.

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Is there a publicly accessible API that can geocode photos, to a degree of accuracy? I'd like to be able to decorate digital photos taken before geocoding was a thing with geo data. I figure photos I have taken off St. Marks Square in Venice have probably been taken a million times by other people, some of whom have probably added GPS coordinates to theirs, so a smart CV offering should be able to figure it out to a sufficient degree of accuracy (for reasonably well photographed and unchanging locations of the earth).

EDIT: I see Google Cloud Vision has landmark detection, that might be useful if the API returns the GPS coordinates of the landmark.
How is this any different from capitalist oligarchies? In that case, the power and resources are not aggregated in a single government, but split over many private individuals.
>"Network effects" is pretty much equivalent to "stuff just happens for some reason."

"network effects" simply means "everyone I know is on Facebook (or social media platform x), so I should probably be on (x) as well."

>That's a wild accusation made with no evidence.

It's a straightforward extrapolation based on what's known about the way Facebook operates.

Facebook creates "shadow profiles" of people who may not even be members, based on data provided about them by third parties:

https://motherboard.vice.com/blog/facebooks-shadow-profile-b...

Facebook also has facial recognition algorithms which allow it to identify the subject of photos, to automate tagging:

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/05/18/477...

It's not unreasonable to assume that they build shadow profiles on every potential subject they can identify and can begin to graph relationships from, including every face they can isolate from a photograph, even if those faces don't belong to Facebook account holders.
> I get that maybe a checksumming filesystem could conceivably be too computationally expensive for the little jewelry-computers Apple is into these days, but it's a terrible omission on something that is supposed to be the new filesystem for macOS.

Checksumming has another cost that isn't immediately obvious. Suppose you write to a file and the writes are cached. Then the filesystem starts to flush to disk. On a conventional filesystem, you can keep writing to the dirty page while the disk DMAs data out of it. On a checksumming filesystem, you can't: you have to compute the checksum and then write out data consistent with the checksum. This means you either have to delay user code that tries to write, or you have to copy the page, or you need hardware support for checksumming while writing.

On Linux, this type of delay is called "stable pages", and it destroys performance on some workloads on btrfs.
The set up is quite interesting. The sql data frames library will embed a dataframe in sqllite and let you use sql. It has been quite useful in transitioning our SQL data analysts to R.
Of professional writers, I find that droll is used correctly maybe half the time. Which is frustrating, because either definition is a polar opposite and has a pretty profound effect on a scene. It's only from context several sentences later do you figure out which definition they meant.
"The suggestion" is that different ways of naming events produce different gender ratios. This tweet isn't making any value judgments about competition. It is directed at people who want to know how to make their events seem more appealing to women.
Or if anybody else posts anything about you on such a site.
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There are many different kinds of indicators left behind in attacks, even very sophisticated attacks. Way more than just IP addresses. The entire recon, infection, exfiltration, pivoting, and C&C chain can leave hundreds or thousands of host-based, network-based, and identity-based indicators behind.

Of course, those indicators can be intentionally or unintentionally misleading or ambiguous. But by finding a dozen or more consistent IOCs/TTPs without any inconsistent ones, combined with a motive, often you can start making some possible accusations. Those assumptions will often remain unproven, but keep in mind government APT groups are still run by humans, and humans can always be sloppy.

Also, in some cases one state may have so thoroughly compromised another that they could find explicit evidence that an attack was ordered.
Despite her being given recognition for reforming the British Economy, it is arguably still up for debate whether her policies were ultimately successful. The Scandinavian countries have continued to preserve many govt. controlled industries without being bankrupt.
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As someone that played Quakeworld significantly for 8 years (a lot of people, me included, ignored Quake3 until popular mods like CPMA fixed it), I couldn't have imagined doing it with ranked matches, especially with how bad games like TF2 seems to have implemented that years later.
Could you expand on some of your use cases? An R data frame, by definition, has to fit into memory, so it would seem that any sort of map/filter/group/fold operation would be fastest if performed in-memory, as well. And I assumed that e.g. joining data frames (where you would run out of memory really quickly if your datasets are large to begin with) would be uncommon... am I wrong?
Seems like ago handles this well with its utf 8 runes.
Your post comes off as a ridiculous attempt to shape opinions. Just knowing the CIA has spent decades trying to destablize the Venezualian government instantly makes me suspend my judegements of who can be blamed for their current situation.

Yeah, it's possible that chavez's attempts at socialist policy created this. But having the intelligence agency of the most powerful nation in the world spend decades trying to fuck up your government might possibly have an impact, too.
The DAO, ultimately, is a human construct and subject to human laws. Just because you write a something in code and do a bit of hand waving, it doesn't mean that contract law, etc, magically ceases to exist.
Geographic reach is the significant thing holding GCP back at this point - despite being ahead on the tech. Not having a Singapore presence (or anything closer to India) basically kills it as a serious option for many Indian companies. I personally know of a couple of startups personally who would have loved to use GCP since they actually want to use things like BigQuery, but went with AWS due to this.

They have so far just mentioned they are adding two regions soon - but nothing about where. I fear its just additional options in Europe or something ... 2017 is still too far out for a startup considering options today.

Edit: Oh .... looks like I missed the announcement that the two new regions are Tokyo and Oregon. Looks like India is out of luck for now.
I was attempting to remove risk from a niche of the real estate funding market while providing small funds with more access to capital. Ultimately there was only weak demand for what I was providing. The switching cost from the way they were currently doing business was not overshadowed by what we were providing. I am happy to provide a more lengthy explanation if you are in that space. Just email me.
A useful rule of thumb:

If a non-radio device is picking up radio signals it can never be the Transmitter which is at fault.

It must be RF breakthrough caused by bad (eg cheap) design in the device.

Source: Retired EMC engineer.

P.S. I've never heard of people building an AM radio with a wire and a tin can. And if it were possible, any fault would be with the poor receiver not the transmitter.
The BSD license allows the software to be made non-free. The GPL doesn't. To me, this means the GPL wins on freedom.

Not everyone agrees. Hence, subjective interpretation. Saying otherwise is just trolling.
If hardware fails silently, you won't buy more hardware. You'll just come across something odd and say, hmm, typical Apple-bugginess.

It would be much nicer if your computer said, “I've detected a bit flip, please restore this file from backup”
While we're speaking of SQLite; one thing that has little exposure that could probably use more is that it now ships with Windows as a system DLL:

https://engineering.microsoft.com/2015/10/29/sqlite-in-windo...

Between that, and packages readily available on most Linux and BSD distros out there (and, in most cases, installed by default), it's well on its way to become a de facto standard system API for relational storage.