skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me address two things: the content of the article and Forbes in general.

First, the article doesn't really cite anything-- but if you dig around you find that what MSFT is doing is setting up a subscription model where if you want to license Windows in enterprise as part of a subscription you can. MSFT has world's most complex enterprise licensing schemes and this is just another option.

Second, Forbes basically lets anyone contribute. They are cashing in on the name recognition of Forbes with click-bait articles. Is it to much to ask for professional articles? Perhaps one where facts are outlined and some amount of research is gathered? Instead, the author seems to have grabbed a headline from the Internet and then extrapolated that MSFT is on their way to charging everybody-- with no evidence.

I'm sick of low-effort, crap journalism. It's not even journalism-- it's a blog post under the guise of journalism.
I think it would scale pretty far based on my experience with the process on our team. I'd see more blockers to scaling team size coming more from other factors rather than the merge strategy -- things like the quality of tests and probability of problematic merge conflicts -- which I think would depend ultimately more on the code organization/team-member communication than the merge strategy.

I think Facebook uses a souped up version of this strategy (based on how I interpret their presentation on it anyway). It seems like the engineer ships off a commit, and then it goes into a review branch where it gets automatically rebased against master continuously while waiting for review. When it passes review it goes onto master as the newest commit -- if a conflict happens before the review completes or during the final rebase then the engineer is notified to resolve the conflict and push again -- I think review needs to happen again in this case -- but it makes sense to do so as the first review was done without awareness of the change that caused the conflict ... I'm sure I don't describe their actual process accurately but I think it something along these lines ...
Their data also equally supports the exact inverse conclusion: that people do have innate biological musical preferences for certain intervals, but remote and isolated cultures can override these and train people to be indifferent to them.
As this is happening in the future, the gun was probably 3d printed by the kidnapper.
This is also the case in countries down south like Thailand. Everyone who is anyone is on LINE, and businesses display their LINE ID before anything else.
Re: sustainable, it certainly was before everyone was trying to get rich from the Internet, and IMO the content was typically much better back then, since it was published not to make money but to further humanity and spread knowledge. That's the Internet I wish we could go back to, not some free-market micropayment dystopia.
> When you "require new physics" you have falsified the old physics.

Sure, there lots of things that could falsify our current understanding of physics (and elements of that understanding are falsified all the time without any negative impact on Secular Materialism).

But all that says is that the current models of physics are falsifiable, which wasn't in question. Falsifying them, however, doesn't falsify Secular Materialism.

> Sure, but that as-yet-unknown cause could be (say) a deity.

Not in any non-physical sense.

> Science does not rule out that possibility a priori.

Science does not admit any entity that cannot be reduced to physical mechanism, nor does it need to admit any such entity since its framework allows explaining any predictable relation between observable cause and observable effect as such a mechanism, and it doesn't concern itself with anything other than such relationships.

(Whether this is all there is "in truth" is a question that goes beyond science -- secular materialism is the affirmative answer to that question -- and which is irrelevant to science.)
I made no attempt to dismiss or excuse the South's role in upholding slavery. Your quibble is not with me.
Also, pay them more.
PNG is a very nice, extensible container format. In principle you can use it to store arbitrary image data, and still make use of all established metadata fields.

In practice you probably shouldn't do that without changing the file extension and the magic bytes to avoid confusion among users and poorly written software.
Gotta wonder how much of a negative impact on drunk driving the technology had... I have to imagine it's a lot harder to pull off when everything is a non-synchronized manual transmission.
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>> almost live real-time sync

Is there a reason not to use Dropbox for this use-case? It does live, real-time sync fairly well.
My understanding is it's the other way around. A research university teaches undergraduate education almost by accident, to help pay the bills when funding is short and provide able bodies to run experiments.

Look at UCSF, they don't even have an undergrad program.
I'll agree with this, but definitely recommend working with a good CFI, not just a prior student building up hours.
Crashed drone in Somalia shows how the military hides its eyes in the sky
Interesting personal perspective, thanks for posting!

It sounds like other than the very slow database, the biggest impediment in this space is the lack of new talent familiar with the environment.
Rands.js: generate random numbers from various distributions
You have the opportunity to get paid to learn another language. Give it a go, if you don't like it look for something else and by that time you'll have proof that you can pick up new (not 'recent') languages quickly.

But if they ask you to work with PHP 5.3, leave.
Web app for browsing tech jobs
It doesn't produce any useful search results for me?
Every year the market grows tighter, and federal money for research grants, which support most of this research, remains flat.

This makes me think we (as a country, a people), having trained all these scientists, have a market opportunity for inexpensive research, and we aren't taking advantage of it. Sure, the best and the brightest might fight their way to the top, but we can get perfectly good science out of the middle of the bell curve too.
Motion[0] is pretty nice too.

[0] http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome
you can't stop, can you!

My point is pretty clear. The Irish don't hate the "british" because of historical matters. As much as you'd like to think otherwise.
How does it compare to Clearbit's? http://blog.clearbit.com/slack-notifier/

Seems to have a little less information from the gif.
Do we really use the term "darknet"? I thought it was a layman's term and frowned upon.
Nintendo shares up more than 50% since Pokemon Go release
How is this better than searching youtube auto closed captions?
Apple already had the iTunes Store and a lot of very mature associated infrastructure. The App Store was built on that, and a year sounds like a pretty generous estimate for the project.
Well it's really a balance. Looking at the CPU, these days the x86 instruction set is a total illusion--the CPU decodes those instructions so a totally different underlying architecture can take action on them. The block diagram for a modern processor is astounding.

Back when I was working on Motorola 68K processors and creating hardware drivers, learning to work with assembly helped me tremendously with basic principles like pointers/registers, stack/heap, memory-mapped IO, and so-forth. How the processor worked inside wasn't really the point; working with assembly made me a better C programmer.

The point isn't so much that you have to keep peeling back the layers of the onion so far that you can understand how the silicon is laid out, you just need to peel back a couple more layers than you're used to. If you're a Ruby programmer, for example, write a C extension. It'll be enlightening.
I desire a time machine.

Checkmate.
Legal protections like what, FISA court orders?

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/fisa-court-nsa-spyin...
Did you actually like it?

I prefer my metal bikes, steel most of all. Carbon is so harsh.
> From my perspective a single centralized government(e.g.: the EU) can only really benefit the multinational corporation

From my perspective it's the other way around since it's much easier to regulatorily capture smaller governments than larger ones. A large French company can easily capture the French government, especially when the competition is German or Spanish, by leveraging local power and appealing to nationalist sentiment, whereas that wouldn't fly in Brussels.
Do you have a link to "that book?"
Well, it's kind of funny. My degree is chemical engineering, my advisor is materials science, yet all of my work is HPC/computational. A lot of this stuff has become very interdisciplinary (I studied more computer science papers than anything over the last year).
I studied chemical engineering: all of our PhD grads chose industry over academia, and most of our young professors had come out of physics, chemistry, and biology departments. It was an interesting culture mix, partly created by the fact that ChemE is either disappearing as a field or changing to the point of being unrecognizable (depending on who you ask).
One thing the EU does is prevent a "race to the bottom" with regards to foreign trade agreements and tariffs. For example, if Poland wants to trade with China, they cannot negotiate directly. They must go through the EU. This prevents China from playing EU countries against each other to get better and better trade deals.

The EU also has labor and human rights protections built into it, so factories that move from Germany to Romania see far less benefit than a factory moving from the US to Mexico.
Biodiversity falls below ‘safe levels’ globally
> most devs go from OO to FP,

Most devs go from OO to FP because of dominance of OO in industry (with knock-on effects on pedagogy) from sometime around the late-1980s/early-1990s until recently. Shortly before that, the same would be true of procedural to either OO or FP. And probably at one point the same would have been true of unstructured imperative to procedural.

But that doesn't mean that concurrency in popular OO languages of today is easier than concurrency in Erlang/Elixir (which may be examples of functional-ish languages, which I assume is the relevance of your OO to FP statement), nor does it mean that concurrency in formerly popular procedural languages is easier than in any particular OO language, or that concurrency in unstructured imperative languages is easier than in any particular procedural language.
> the sudden ignition of underground oil at the Yucatán impact site could have jetted into the upper atmosphere a mass of fine black carbon, also known as soot ... black carbon injected into the stratosphere would ... [act] as a long-lived sunshade that could abruptly cool Earth and inhibit photosynthesis over a period of years
An open letter from technology sector leaders to Donald Trump
AI is the new Nanotechnology
Sure do. It takes a lot of murder and poison to offset a 20% drop in cirrhosis. Read the paper linked below.
I nearly ran into a big purple hot air balloon when landing a Cessna 152.

It was down and to the right and it was exactly in line with a row of evergreen trees so I think I could be forgiven. And it wasn't like the balloon was speeding along.

My instructor saw it immediately then again he did tell me to land as a passenger plane was approaching the other end of the runway.

I've dabbled with programming for at least 33 years but I don't seem to have the patience or focus. I love it but i just can't concentrate enough to follow complex sequences.

I suck at guitar too a lot of things, I'm good at sucking at many things.
From just above: "Interestingly, more and more of my colleagues (and myself included) are moving house to their favorite places to live."

How does pay vary with location changes? If I live in SF now, and get that pay, then move, do I wind up getting paid less? If I start in a small town with low expenses, does that mean I can never afford to move to SF?
Absolutely. In many cases, universities can't afford their own IBM mainframe environment to allow students to learn how to use it. Many folks, such as myself, have to have on-the-job training in order to learn COBOL and how to use the IBM mainframe itself.
And that's ok. If the Professorships have value to anyone they'll get paid. If some positions are being removed then maybe they just weren't that useful.
How does a chat app need 2500 employees? Then again the same question applies to Twitter.
“We're not slack on privacy, and neither are our customers.”
Learning, but especially becoming well-versed with an additional language/platform is never a backwards step.

There are places that hire solely on what language you're using right now, but there are also companies that know better, and look at your total experience.
Why did Koding move away from containers and Docker to virtual machines
Since you don't even seem to disagree with the parent comment, I'm puzzled by how mean-spirited your second sentence is. "It sounds like you believe ${CARTOONISH_BAD_THING}" is the archetypical uncharitable response.
Sounds like good salesmanship.
There was a successful antitrust case against microsoft because of the way they abused their OS to get browser share with IE. I believe that the case was mostly because MS purposefully raised the switching cost by adding non standard features to their browser.
To oversimplify by a lot, Civil/Environmental = urban/industrial (e.g. industrial/municipal wastewater treatment, air pollution), Environmental = agricultural/resources (e.g. soil management, biofuels, soil decontamination for mining/oil).

That's roughly how it was divided at my college, anyway.
Since it's so cheap, the thing they're good at may very well just be making an ad to get clicks to sell a junk product or service. This also scales very well. Consider Coke; bad for your teeth and causes diabetes. Expensive for what it is and made with junk ingredients. Huge hit with consumers. Advertises like crazy.
Have you thought of pulling in the latest Ubuntu HWE?
On the other hand, if you want to sell the Actor model it might be good to first go through the complex techniques needed for trying to get concurrency right with threads.
As an avid gamer: that's why you keep your distance from the "AAAAAAA GIGAHITZ" currently steaming on the hype train ^^ There are tons of amazing, enthralling games out there so full of substance - Factorio for the latest example I came across
I'm tempted to believe these results, as I suspect a lot of the reputation of stradivarius violins is overblown. However, there is almost always a huge problem with these sorts of tests: the pepsi challenge problem. With subjective measurements it can often be difficult to robustly test the differences between two things in a short sample period. People may say one or another sounds better but that might only apply for a small sample. Or, people may just be unable to explicitly say which one they actually prefer when confronted with the choice in the moment. Whereas with regular use over extended periods of time they may be able to develop a stronger preference and be able to pick out differences explaining that preference.

As a sort of proof of concept, aurally, I've noticed that there are several popular songs which have very distinctive audio glitches in them (typically high pitched beeps). The thing is, these glitches are not noticeable by most people when casually listening (testified by the fact that the songs are out in public release with such glitches) but once you notice them you begin to notice them every time, and it detracts from the enjoyment of the song. Similar effects on a subtler level surely exist for almost all music, so I wouldn't take the idea that listening to two separate samples of music and being forced to express a preference in the moment is at all a reasonable measurement except in more pronounced cases.
Big Oil killed the dinosaurs.
"2/5ths of the increase during President Obama's presidency occurred during the first year while the country was still in the midst of the Great Recession."[0]

"The President doesn't have much control over the debt added during his first year in office. That's because the budget for that fiscal year was already set by the previous President."[1]

[0] http://politicsthatwork.com/graphs/debt-gdp-president
[1] http://useconomy.about.com/od/usdebtanddeficit/p/US-Debt-by-...
Haha the guy is normally pretty reserved but it was a good move to have the guitar right up by the counter. Quite the impulse buy
What's your endgame?

If you want to use this as a tool to get a new job, I'd recommend leetcode above all others.

If you just want a fun way to learn a new language's syntax, I enjoy grinding the easier problems in CodeWars.

If you're looking to get into competitive programming, I've heard good things about Codeforces, CodeChef, and TopCoder.
Even according to that article, Prohibition only worked in a public health sense if you considered a reduction in alcohol consumption an absolute public health good in itself. I don't know about you, but drinking 50 gallons a year of legitimate, old school, high-quality pre-prohibition beer and wine doesn't exactly sound worse than drinking 25 gallons a year of moonshine from questionable sources.
> "If the context is not specifically about sexuality, then I doubt it can cause any trouble."

It's not about causing trouble, it's about something that ends up detracting from the project. Imagine if someone released an IRC client called Dildo, would you expect some backlash about the name choice?
I mean, people have lost their lives fighting for our country, they're not around to brag. Yet, they gave the ultimate sacrifice.

Take a more common example, ordinary people they don't have 100k a year, as you say, to donate, forget 10%.

If you're making < 40k, its just not manageable to donate much. Not 10%. Maybe not even 1%. Many people are barely making ends meet.

So understand, when I make claims you may not be in touch with reality and seem to overly simplify it to your own predicament, that in itself is kind of solipsistic. So people may nod and say 'yeah, uh huh', but have you realized, sometimes sacrifice isn't always advertised? It isn't always done through money?

It'd be an improvement to acknowledge, even for the sake of a qualifier, that people dedicate themselves to serving higher causes and never have engineer-tier paychecks.

Other people take jobs that pay less. They do jobs that pay nothing, because they want to take apply change on the cause they choose. That can be worth more than donating.

So while I appreciate what you're doing, if altruism is truly your goal, instead of showing off your own ethics and morals, shine the spot light on unnoticed people who themselves are sacrificing.
I remember trying to write down the weather listen to weather radio. It was a long list a jumble of letters and numbers it was one of the things I actually could do well.
Web development looking fun again now that Internet Explorer is out of the picture
Now apply this logic to other things traded on the darkweb.
Those tech companies should also provide high end machines to developers. I'm glad the last two places I've worked provided high end MacBook pros but also allow devs to use their own machines so inevitably there are a couple of Linux and Windows folks.

Interesting that for me it was the startups that provided good machines while the enterprises provided 4 years old lenovo laptops with not so good batteries not the specs needed to use a VM effectively
Twice in the README
I tend to feel the same way. These types of things are inevitable, you are never going to stop them from happening. However, when debating this point, I have a hard time defending my point when someone else says "so should we just not do anything? Wouldn't that increase the illegal activity? Should we let people buy guns too? Where do you draw the line?" I have to say, I'm not sure what to say about that. If the government did not actively fight this, successful or not, would it cause the markets and illegal drug users to proliferate?
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Two things:

1.) I am sorry that you are going through this.

2.) Your experience perfectly matches that of a good friend of mine. She has been doing excellent work, she has had some great pubs and yet she considers getting tenure to be about as likely as winning a lottery.

I wish I had something tangible to offer, but the best I can offer is my good wishes. Seriously, best of luck!
I honestly don't get it at all.

I pasted in some content. Left the page. And now have no idea how to find it.

So I guess it is kind important to copy the URL to keep up with this.

I would think there would at least be a way to see your own pages even it is was temporary based on cookies.

It does look cool though. Maybe I am just not a good candidate for this service.
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The Economist is a broadly targeted publication. That's a term that's widely "understood", so just as Internet (capital I) is sort of silly, I don't take umbrage with it in such settings.
Does GitLab do internships?
Pokémon: Scaling to Catch Them All
Yeah, the field has changed a ton. When my dad was working on his ChemE degree, they had a class strictly on galvanization (which was barely covered at all in my undergrad), and they were doing McCabe-Thiele diagrams by hand.
Disappointed, thought headline meant they replaced all the copyrighted art assets with fan-made open source ones. Won't run without original assets from SC install.
Yes. Now, more violinists than just the best ones have access to violins of the same quality.
I don't know if this was legally enforceable, but I have heard that the existence of Bell Labs was essentially a quid pro quo with the federal government in exchange for being granted a regulated monopoly on phone service. More generally, I have heard that corporate executives in the golden age of American industry had more of a sense that they owed a debt to the public for all the free stuff they had been given (cost plus defense contracts, government R&D, radio and TV frequencies, ect.). I think there are some rose-tinted glasses involved in that analysis, but it was probably part of it.
That's surprisingly much easier for me. I don't know why, but the other order just throws me for a loop every time, and I find myself carefully re-reading the same code multiple times. However, given the kind of metaprogramming power you get in Forth, I don't see why a more straightforward production couldn't be used in this case.
> He is a known libertarian and for his own reasons supports Trump

This is the craziest part to understand. Trump is about as libertarian as Hillary.
> Dependent types are the future

I think so too. Having a solver fill in my program from the proof obligations is way too amazing. I feel like there could be a connection from high-level specification -> implementation either by proof obligation or possibly synthesis via this route.

Plus I like ML/OCaml and would be happy to see more of it in the world.
If you actually want to stop the trade of anything, you go shut down the source - not the distribution channel that lets you keep tabs on what's being traded where, between whom.

See the somewhat recent media hysteria and stupidity around craigslist/similar sites and prostitution. The only thing accomplished was driving the distribution channels to other, less visible, less-easily-tracked places. Everything that was happening before is still happening now.