skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can look at a simple counter example to see the trivial findings compared to the title. Siblings can have completely different musical tastes.
The size of the framework is really not relevant in the context of Python server-side development. You just import what you need and ignore what you don't.

For example, I develop single-page apps with Django+DRF and Ember, so I never use Django's template engine. If you really want to minimize your setup, you can even go into your settings.py file and turn off the middleware you don't need.

Put another way, it's not like client-side JavaScript where the entire framework is sent to the user's browser.
Good quality ingredients is the most important part, some chefs would say. You're right, but all you'd have to do is build an opinionated "skin" over Emacs, bringing together and properly configuring existing plugins, writing some new ones, and packaging it nicely.

I recently started using Spacemacs[1], and I'm basically sold on Emacs as an IDE-building toolkit. And I say that as a decades-long Vim user (I still use Vim, just as key bindings within Spacemacs).

[1] http://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
Point a megapixel b&w camera at something (maybe your triplet written on a napkin) and when you press the shutter button it will choose a single coordinate in a million-dimensional space. No annotation needed!
Can I ask you why you say it would be too high for NYT to afford it, when many companies with significantly more traffic have site-wide TLS?
Why is this news? We've been doing the same thing at deregulated US RTOs for at least 6 years.
> See also people getting angry about female Ghostbusters

Oh come on. From the reviews leaking out it sounds like Ghostbusters is a legit shitty movie. A spoiler for the ending is out there; go read it and tell me this isn't something a 5th grader would write. No, I haven't seen it, and I probably won't, and it has nothing to do with the fact that it is a female cast, but because it doesn't sound like something, based on the trailers and previews, that I would willingly spend money on.

No one complained when the main protagonists of Star Wars VII were a woman and a black man. (Or did they? I don't know, I certainly don't remember hearing it if they did.)
Block, it deduplicates based on 4MB blocks.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478595
The Darkening Fate of Bees and Why It Matters
New Russian Bomber to Be Able to Launch Nuclear Attacks from Outer Space
The "afraid of the security practices" was more of a joke than an actual serious jab. But I do still hold that site-wide TLS should be default by all major websites at this point in time.
Pretty sure a diluted form of the broken cert treatment for HTTP is available behind a flag in Chrome, so it might be in the pipeline.

Source: http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

See:

--mark-insecure-as
Note: if you want to bring upstream changes into your fork, as in [1], use a rebase instead of a merge. Otherwise, you will be fighting with merge commits from now on.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/
In the US, we have private leased lines to connect with some of the major banks. But the banks most likely use something else to connect to the ATMs.

Most attacks are physically breaking into the cash safe but there were some attacks a couple years ago where people were plugging into the USB port and getting money or something.
Guess that's all a matter of where in the US you are. It's a big country.
--force-with-lease instead of --force. It does the same thing as force but checks to make sure the branch hasn't changed since you fetched it. Still very likely to piss off your co-workers, though.
If you are interested in books, "Elixir in Action" is quite a nice introduction to OTP.
> I bet you'd find similar backtracking among people who fervently believe in failed apocalypses, for example.

I used to be a JW, I can tell you they pulled the 'sell everything and wait for the end' stunt in the 70s. They are still around even though a large number 'fell away' due to the prophesy not being filled.

What happens is the old literature is adapted or ignored. Then the new line is repeated so many times the followers eventually believe it was the old one and there is no inconsistency. If you've ever played the game where you say a word dozens/hundreds of times until it loses its meaning then you have an inkling of how that could occur with contradictory information. It helps that they don't revisit their old books much or they'd get some surprises.

Their organization has 'gone digital' and become much more centralized as they continue to go into the red, which makes analysis more difficult.

Presently they are gearing up for their new apocalypse. They have been making some fairly weird videos involving them escaping to shelters/basements with a survivalist vibe about it.

There's a video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wackkicmf4k

Obviously they are larping. They have no clue how you'd practically survive an actual conflict. I see my relatives packing go-bags but they have no idea what they are doing. The instructions they're getting are becoming weirder like they did with the now forgotten aluminum saucepan controversy.

Well, at least they're not ISIS!
PBS Idea Channel's most recent script was written by AI
I don't really follow American politics too much (I'm a Canadian), but as I see it, the people who stand be really adversely affected by Trumps policies are illegal Mexican immigrants and people from Islamic countries, and to be honest, I don't think they will actually be affected. I think trump is lying about those campaign promises. For one, it's just not practical from a logistic standpoint to deport all those millions of Mexican illegal immigrants, the process would bankrupt the country, and Trump has got to now that.

It's also not practical, in a globalized world, to have a ban on immigrants from Islamic countries. It would be financial suicide.

I think Trump is going to backtrack on both these promises, I think the Muslim ban is going to become a ban on "non approved" immigrants from Syria, Iraq and Yemen where there are major conflicts and he's probably going to backtrack on the Mexican issue claiming impracticability.

I mean really, it's not like anyone holds you the promises you make during primaries. I remember Trump also made a promise to shut down congress over the abortion issue (which is impossible for congress to overturn because it's been ruled a Constitutional right) and then just a few days later, I saw him on the news praising planned parenthood for the great work they do.

I think the guy is just playing to the crowd and saying what it takes to get the nomination. Trump seems to me to be one of those guys who is determined and will do what it takes to succeed at what he sets his mind to. I think a lot of his more radical statements during the Primaries is just election talk aimed at getting single issue republican voters to rally behind him (the Christian right over abortion, the nationalist right over immigration etc).

Also Theil is a huge pro-immigration advocate, I can't see him supporting an anti-immigration candidate .
I really admire Dropox for open sourcing this, it shows their commitment.

Saving almost a quarter of space for most images stored is something that truly gives a competitive edge. (I say most because people probably primarily have JPEG images).

Especially considering how many images are probably stored on services like Dropbox.

And they just gave it away to their competitors.
5 Google Ranking Factors That You Shouldn’t Ignore
Sure, if you have reliable access to a Stradivarius violin, there's no reason to switch, but if you don't, it's no loss.
As someone who makes a living off Windows software, surely you have paid for your license? Else you got absolutely no right to complain about anything breaking.
The problem is that the latent space of a model trained on all comments is still massive. For any sort of coherence, you need to condition the probabilities on smaller spaces, or enforce structural bounds.

Here's an example of a paper where they simultaneously optimize high-level semantics with token-level sequence probabilities: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.00776v2.pdf.
Interesting develoment, seems similar to what APEX (Airline Passenger Experience Association, an industry org consisting of airline companies) is establishing: http://apex.aero/2016/04/06/Official-airline-ratings-APEX-an...

Wonder who'll come out on top. From my understanding, the APEX one has an Amazon-like 'verified traveler' system where only those who traveled on those flights will get to rate them (though it might be limited to partner airlines, not sure about the specific details).

(Full disclosure: Used to worked for an agency that did work w/ APEX)
Play poker or make options trading?
Yes, they likely need to comply. But there are limited exceptions to these laws, and the relevant question seems to fall into one of those exceptions.

For example, the Playboy Club was allowed to discriminate on the basis of sex for its performers, because it has a "bona fide occupational qualification" (BFOQ), and a church is allowed to discriminate on basis of religion when hiring a pastor.

I don't know the ADA law, but reading up on it now, the relevant exception is 42 U. S. C. §12182(b)(2)(A)(ii) in the US code, at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/12182 , "... unless the entity can demonstrate that making such modifications would fundamentally alter the nature of such goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations".

PGA Tour v. Martin (2001) is perhaps a relevant comparison. Martin was born with a disorder that makes it very painful to walk. He wanted to use a cart to go between the holes. The PGA argued that the fatigue of walking was part of the sport of golf, and did not allow him to compete. The Supreme Court said that under the ADA the PGA was required to let Martin use a cart to travel between the holes, but that doesn't mean that all changes to the sport to support someone with a handicap are required.

You can read the decision at http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/532/661.html .

It comes down to what it means to "fundamentally alter the nature" of the game or sport. If Pokemon Go is fundamentally about finding Pokemon characters as they appear to occur outside, then there's no ADA issue.

As another way to think of it, the Boston Marathon must accommodate visually impaired runners (like the 40 in http://www.today.com/health/running-blind-40-sightless-runne... ) because the ability to see is not a fundamental part of running. However, they needn't accommodate those with a fear of crowds, because running as part of a crowd and with a crowd of onlookers is a fundamental part of the Boston Marathon.

Note that the key concern in the law about if a change will "fundamentally alter the nature" was not mentioned in this essay. I think that is to the detriment of the author.
> > What I'm saying is that it's possible to love yourself and serve yourself while still making things better for everyone without any kind of contradiction in motivation.

I think I was just trying to make a very narrow point, which is that our society does not actually perfectly align self interest with group interest, and so truly selfish agents would actually wreak havok.

You're saying it's possible to serve both at the same time, but purely selfish agents wouldn't care about that, which is why I don't think it's a good idea to encourage pure selfishness.

> The meaning of selfishness changes when a person sees the people and things around them as an essential part of themselves.

Yes, but that's generally not what people would hear if you tell them 'love yourself first'. Randian Objectivists seem like a bunch of selfish assholes to me :)

> For a perfect example of this, look at Soviet propaganda, always emphasizing sacrifice for the greater global workers' struggle.

It's human nature to look towards selfish interests first. It's completely natural that states, which need to mobilize people to work together, would urge otherwise.

The genius of modern capitalism is that it claims we can have our cake and eat it too -- look towards your own interests, and you will also benefit society. What people have forgotten is that is only true within a framework where capitalism is tightly constrained and controlled.
Good read! I can understand ...
Chemical Drones: UK Scientists are trying to grow drones in a lab
Google already shows different results for all their sites, including google.com depending on your location – both because they want to provide more targeted results and due to legal reasons. Here in Germany I can't see a few results deemed harmful to the youth (which is done more or less voluntarily by Google under a negotiated agreement) or news articles removed under the 'right to be forgotten'. The TLD used is not a good indicator of jurisdiction and regulators would never accept such a solution.

The same search on the same site returns different results as soon as I run my traffic through a US network.
I really dislike this headline - though it's true. It implies that terrorists & encryption are somehow related. It _is_ true that terrorists use encryption, but it's a little like "how terrorists acquire weapons" - yes, terrorists acquire weapons, but there are plenty of legal reasons for non-terrorists to acquire weapons.

That said, I am curious about the subject, so I suppose the headline was effective for me.
Failing to understand that different people have different preferences isn't a terribly interesting stance to take in public. These sort of sentiments are better worded as a search for knowledge, instead of this sneer.
This is very impressive for archiving images.

For a quick test, I run it over ~1.3GB JPEG pictures I had locally, the finally result is 810M, that's 66% of the original size, very impressive considering it's lossless. It only deals with jpg file though, no png, no iso, no zip, no any formats other than JPG.

If someone can do this over video files that will be PiedPiper comes into real life.
Google is paying Apple billions to be the default search engine on iOS.

I am sure a two person startup can do that. /s
Open the Door Hal, its my spouse, she wants in.

> Im sorry, but your true love is allready home.

Turns down the heat in the stairwell.

Do we really have to humilate burglars into prentending to be dogs?
It's funny that you use the 2 lb Macbook as an example. Mine has a terrible problem with its wifi, requiring me to restart it every minute or so. It's unusable with Cloud9's IDE.

Furthermore, their IDE is extremely slow and vim mode is broken. Other than that, I share your ambition and hope that one day some other company will solve this. Perhaps Microsoft will be the first. Visual Studio Code has as a nice web-based editor.
When is Tesla going to stop blaming the drivers? Whether it's their fault or not, it looks bad.

To be honest I don't feel comfortable with that kind of data collection anyway. I'll never even think about getting a Tesla until they give us an option to turn their tracking systems off. It's creepy and unnecessary.
Not entirely relevant but Google also has a public IDE of sorts:

- https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/using-sour...

- https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/features

Personally I think it's really nice.
I wonder if they use a rolling checksum too, to avoid duplicating a complete file if only a view bytes shifted (for example adding a line of text in the beginning of a file)

The backup tool bup (https://github.com/bup/bup) does this.
What are the other devs backgrounds on the team?
We just switched from PHP to Python and the whole team loves it.
> did not have a training regimen anything like today's pros

I don't think anyone is saying modern runners are genetically different than historical ones. Of course the difference is in how they're trained.
Yeah I guess this is actually pretty good for an SoC the size of the iMX.
Highly recommend Fareed Zakaria's "Why they hate us", which explores the motives and evolution of ISIS:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/08/opinions/why-they-hate-us-zaka...
It's not too late for access control (JDK 9 / Jigsaw)
They will once Silicon Valley takes them to task for it. Just like season 1 pretty much wiped "making the changes world a better place" from the lingo of SV companies.
If you are open to people applying that don't quite meet the requirements of the position, you should change the position description. It's well documented that this type of approach tends to reduce the diversity of applicants.

(Not to be a nag - I think it is great that you folks are sharing this, and it sounds like a great place to work.)
"Q1’17
2017 will see a focus delivering to our release audience the first Context Graph feature, a test pilot validated Activity Stream replacing the home page." am I the only one who thinks this is unnecessary?
I hope there's at least going to be some agreed-upon best practices. Pokemon Go seems to draw from the Ingress dataset of interesting places, which excludes a lot of private residences, unless your house is particularly interesting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/07...

I'm glad that guy seems okay with it, but there are real repercussions to a third party instantly turning your home into a location in a game without your permission or even giving warning. If these sorts of games become more popular, someone will start raising a stink.
Ring that automatically measures calorie intake
Often on HN, you read the argument on here that "polls only show people support X because the mainstream media brainwashes them to believe it." I don't think that's true, but if it is, isn't it rational to want to keep your people from being exposed to that content?
I see it as a positive step forward. Since the Web API now supports calling, it will be easier to add it to other IM programs.
Hmmmm. Yeah, probably with subtle differences. For example, you'd probably want a proper track-prepped car to learn on, because the feedback to your inputs is just, frankly, BETTER. You don't necessarily want a "faster" (eg, more powerful) car, because the power hides your corner speed mistakes. Hence the aphorism "it's better to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow". But overall, I think you're right, driving a tool that's better for the job probably makes you learn a lot faster.
We have a pure DRF tutorial coming out on Thinkster in ~2 weeks, so stay tuned!
Aside from marketing, which you mentioned, the quality McDonald's pays for is standardization.

Standardization is why chain restaurants exist at all. They give people a way to get a meal they know is going to be of a certain quality at a certain price with a sufficiently low probability of being surprised. Surprises are, on the whole, generally negative: Good restaurants are few and far between, especially at the fast food price point, and a sufficiently bad surprise can have health implications. There's a reason one of the first chains was White Castle: White implies purity and a standard of cleanliness, as opposed to the local greasy spoon cafe where the only assurance of quality is that it hasn't been shut down yet.

So McDonald's pays for processes and materials that it can blast out into a million little restaurants, all the same, secure in the knowledge that minimum-wage workers can be sufficiently skilled and motivated to carry out those processes and use those materials the right way. Doing anything better might lead to a much improved experience in some restaurants but it will reliably lead to total disaster in others, which is utterly contrary to the business model.

By that standard, McDonald's is fairly high quality.
Today's the day Microsoft reduces your free OneDrive cloud storage
I've also noticed that there's a difference between products that demo well and products that serve well. Oftentimes the products I most rely on in daily life are really unimpressive when first introduced, and conversely, the products that make a huge splash in a demo are kinda annoying to use. I suspect this is behind many hyped-up, venture-funded startups that fail to get lasting traction in the marketplace.

Besides the novelty bias you've identified, I also think there's a context bias. Products that make a lasting impact on our lives do so by fitting into the context of our lives - they are well-adapted to the situation in which they will eventually be used. Products that demo well fit into the context of a demo - they look splashy and exciting when shown to a set of observers who are specifically judging the product. The set of qualities optimized for each of these situations differs.
What can one expect?

Productivity from native desktop development of tools like Delphi and XAML are probably bonn fire old tales that millenals hear from ancient grumpy old developers that cannot grasp how wonderful HTML 5 is.
Cloudflare does use SNI to talk to origin servers.
> Since wind and PV-power forecasts do not follow exact theoretical error distributions, the probabilistic power forecasts will be based on quantile regression coupled to artificial intelligence or data-mining methods. Additionally, methods such as kernel density estimation, ensemble dressing, or Bayesian model averaging, which have proved useful in meteorological applications, will be evaluated in this subproject.

Source: http://www.projekt-eweline.de/en/subproject2.html

AI is only mentioned as a possibility in the context of one subproject of three subprojects. Based on titles alone they've made only a single publication[1] involving AI and they've been publishing for a few years already. Saying that AI is used here may be technically correct but seems like a massive overstatement.

[1]: http://www.projekt-eweline.de/en/publications.html
Long-term success for Pokemon Go is in the opposite direction of more complex gameplay. Gamers - people who enjoy plumbing the depths of complex game systems and using their knowledge and skill to gain an advantage over the system and/or other players - are screaming for it, but they'll tire of it eventually, and adding it will put off the much larger casual audience. As Niantic representatives have already stated, people who want to play traditional Pokemon games can go play them.

Niantic's best move is to keep the hook baited for people who like the simple novelty of walking around to collect stuff and interacting with an augmented version of the real world and will casually integrate it into their life, like many have already done with fitness trackers. This kind of integration is now the gold standard for casual games - prepare to see a lot more apps/games with a GPS/maps component.

The biggest "gameplay" updates for PG aren't going to increase game system complexity, they're going to be more reasons for casual players to continue looking at their screens as they walk around (and gather in groups to continue to attract press attention). Random events, more stuff to collect, opportunities for personalization, a few buttons to press to casually influence the environment. The biggest updates will involve "business accounts" for those who want to own a piece of virtual property, advertise, attract players to a physical location, etc.

AR/GPS may well prove to be an awesome platform for "real", complex games, but Pokemon Go is not going to be one of them.
The double edged sword of ISIS expansion has been the destruction of capital through looting. In this situation an organization has to keep expanding or they will collapse.

From a strategic perspective a weak ISIS makes other places, such as Europe, more dangerous. Another alternative may see a much more destabilized Middle East if continued weak oil unravels the Saudi welfare state. One point of view is that the multi-decade US warmongering (Bush, Obama, Clinton) could result in a region where Israel is surrounded by failed nation states - the worst case scenario for all parties. When considered, the rebalance in favor of Iran may have been viewed as a pro-Israel move.