skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that everyone except farmers are profiting from the data the farmers are helping to collect. Perhaps the better question is "why should everyone except farmers get to nickel and dime research in this way?"
It's a rough analogy, I admit. But the meaning of "public" vs "private", that's one of the central issues here. What rights does a random person have over an object in the public space? They don't own it, but somehow they should have some say. Maybe that's a bad question; this is not just about legal rights. Does the object suggest a sense of partnership, of shared ownership, of community? If I feel engaged in my city, I'll respect it, I'll take care of it, I'll help it develop. If not, I won't bother. Maybe it'll get littered, broken, tagged. Design plays a role here in forming that impression.
Thinking in SQL vs. Thinking in Python
Traveled to India ~2+ years ago. Landed in Delhi - couldn't make out the city at all from the air due to pollution. We drove to Agra (3 hr drive) and there was smog pretty much the entire way there.

This seems like a promising opportunity for startups to tackle...I wonder if there are any out there, would love to hear more.
Money from Messaging: The Impact of Brands in the Messaging Ecosystem
I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords.
Yes, I drilled a small hole near the top of the fish tank. I'll update my blog to mention this.
From the article:

"[...] it’s buggy and crashy, it needs to update my email library every few months when I open it (why does my email need a library?), and it lacks any sort of innovative feature set (or even support for things like snoozing)."
Common sense isn't common.
Realizing this touches several comments made already...

- What about pests? Will the fish control mosquito-larvae in the pool? ... and any other bugs that fall in? (Think southeastern US or other places where mosquitos can be a problem.)

- What about scavengers? Do the fish bed to be protected from raccoons out suburban/feral cats?

- Can you sell sub-kits? For example, I could use your source of kiddie pools and fish, but don't need to buy pex from you when there's a hardware store two miles away...

- What about erosion during times of hard precipitation? (Again, most places in the US do get some serious weather multiple times during the growing season.) Seeing my mature plants wash away would be rather frustrating.

I dig the idea, from one garden hacker to another, I just have a lot of questions ... and as I said: I'm not interested in a full kit, but a sub-kit with research would be really useful.
I run small web app for farmers (http://vitipad.com english website is not really up to date as I am active mostly on Czech market at the moment.

I am not selling the data, the app is used for storing their data and generating the reports for various govt agencies.

Selling to farmers is not easy, they don't have much time for administrative tasks, they are usually older and not really into new stuff anymore. Most of the software on market was created in 90s and there was quite a lot of acquisitions lately (mostly to wipe the market).

I can't wait to see new crop of tools entering the market, but mixing correct set of features will be hard.
I think the other side of the argument is primarily the following:

a) The Membership of the W3C have decided they want to work on DRM.

b) Like most industry consortiums, the W3C is ultimately beholden to its (industrial) Membership. (And it's not clear they can refuse an organisation from joining as a Member without opening themselves up to allegations of being a cartel and the legal complications that would involve.)

A lot of this comes down to the relationship between the W3C and its Member organisations, and whether the W3C can refuse to work on something its Members want to.

There's also some of what you alluded to, which I will call c) A number of Member organisations have made it clear that they will work on this in some public forum regardless of what that forum is.

Now, from a purely pragmatic point-of-view, what is gained by the W3C refusing to work on it? Apple, Google, and Microsoft will still ship DRM modules; the web will still start relying on DRM modules existing within browsers. The outcome is entirely unchanged, as ultimately because of c we've ended up with an interoperable API from JS one can use to deal with DRM modules.

Refusing the venue is purely making a political point, it doesn't change the outcome. Now maybe that political point is a goal in and of itself, but given most of the arguments people make against DRM I'd suggest the goal here isn't a political point but rather reduction of reliance of DRM on the web.

By refusing to work on it, you upset the Membership (because you're going against them), jeopardising your own future (because a industrial consortium is nothing without Members), and not changing the outcome.
Needle and thread to weave the core memory.
Doing Agile Without Micromanagement
https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646...
> Really? In what world do you live where Rockets render audio?

a shooter video game using procedural generation / sound synthesis?
That's my main complaint with it. Because you can only act locally around your little man you have slog all over the map, which doesn't add to gameplay much (the attacking monsters are infrequent, as far as i've gotten in the game, and easily dealt with by turrets).

I'm more interested, when playing the game, in making clever and efficient systems to move my bits around and the game, because of it's interface, makes that hard. Eventually I realize how many hours it's going to take to rearrange all my conveyers and I quit.
In Washington, DC, at least in some parts this is the rule. The builder of the McMansion next door had to jackhammer up part of the garage pad when he discovered he was going over the ratio. Neighbors down the street bought part of a neighboring lot not for use, but to offset an expansion they anticipated into their original lot.
CA	A	# SHOULD NEVER HIT THIS LOCATION

The 1969 version of "This should never happen".

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646...
title should be "the hypocrisy of the so called web developers"

let's see. they blatantly ignore most browsers to focus on the one they use. and then cames up with excuses ("its over 50% of my visitors") just like IE6.

then they get confortable with things that browser does that are proprietary, just like with IE6.

then they blame all the other browsers in the word for not dropping everything else and go imitate the proprietary behaviour. they even points out that chrome is the only one not following the standard, and still gets praised, just like IE6.

"What should be important is that browsers put consistency across themselves first" is what they say on the article about other browsers not ignoring standards and following the proprietary browser they like.

google arrogance over standards and this developer lack of memory and abundance of hypocrisy will give us IE6 all over again.

damn you all
I'm surprised the article didn't mention it, but check out the last page of the autopsy. They found chlordiazepoxide, diazepam, temazepam, and oxazepam in his bloodstream, which could have had some terrible interactions with alcohol. This sounds more to me like a drug overdose that caused a psychological episode than just the alcohol-fueled suicide they make it out to be. Very strange.
It's not a deficiency, I'm a firm believer in people using what they enjoy. Life is far too short to tell people they're wrong because of what they use to read their email.
Dupe, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12049385
I think I agree with this.
The suicide is tragic. However, no one seems to have investigated the police beatings he alleges he received the day before he died: "They beat the shit out of me twice," he says.

Just look at the autopsy report under "BLUNT FORCE INJURIES" for all the bruises:

https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/07/07/ian_murdock.pdf#page=10

The autopsy reports alcohol and sedative drugs, and friends and family report that he was breaking up with his girlfriend, facing eviction, and other distressing things. Does that make it likely that he'd make false accusations against the police? I don't think so.
I'm not sure I have an absolute "definition" of sovereignty, but I think it is approximately a measure of how much power an individual or group have over their own affairs. A failure to recognise that power can be restricted by external agents is simply a failure to confront reality.

pjc50's sibling comment says that maximising sovereignty by declaring one's personal independence accords with most people's intuitive understanding of the word, but I really think that can only be at the most basic level of analysis - a moment's additional thought leads you to how you interact with others, and whether they might, for example (and to be not unhistorically hyperbolic) enslave you.

Sovereignty is about being able to make decisions, and in practice (which is all that really matters) that requires deciding which other people you are going to interact with, and how, in order to get along in the world.

As to your final question, I don't have a good answer. My instinct is to be against TTIP, largely because of the people negotiating it - I imagine it will increase their sovereignty quite a lot, but probably not mine ;-).
> Where is the best place to find CoFounders?

I'd say you're there already!! :-) All the best.
Yes, ideas that have been widely suggested as being extremely bad by adding even more uncertainty to already chaotic systems that are becoming destabilized.

If history is any indication, fertilizer runoff from rivers causes anoxic events in the ocean. That is shit is not to be fucked with; you can trivially destabilize an ecosystem and destroy it, as has already happened in many places.
> ..it makes you think.

It does, but to me it says a lot more about how hedonistic and consumer focused the middle+ classes of western society are than of some sort of inherent negative associated with having children.
I did a large production SSD deployment a few years ago on a db fleet backing a large video hosting site (probably the first one you think of).

tl:dr the benefits were astounding. The failure rates were super low. We saved something like 2 million dollars by significantly increasing the I/O performance of the fleet preventing the need to re-shard.

Choosing a drive
We went with an Intel MLC (consumer class) drives. No other drive had such low DOA rates and good match between performance and price. We set the max lba to 80% of available capacity. (Actually recommended by Intel) This change eliminated the pathological case where a full drive continually overwrites the same sectors. The consumer drives suddenly had a lifespan comparable to enterprise drives (though a slightly slower read speed- which was fine because we needed balanced reads and writes)
We also exported and monitored the wear leveling stats (available via a SMART value) so we won't run into the case where they all unexpectedly wear down at the same time. The projected lifespan looked really good and in most cases exceeded that of the servers. (in retrospect this turned out to be true)

Raid config
We ran in Raid 0 (because I love to live on the edge- No, actually because we split the boot, data and bin log volumes and data integrity was preserved by redundancy within the the fleet.) The conversation I had with the dbas about this was one of the most eye opening conversations of my career. Turns out if a replica failed or lagged too much they simply tossed the data and started a new one. They didn't actually need or want RAID10 and that changes the economics of the picture significantly.

This would have been 4 years ago now. We deployed several thousand drives. Of that only one ended up with abnormally high wear level. (I proactively threw it out when we decommissioned the hardware to prevent a problem for the next guy). I had a handful of drives which didn't pass the pre-service checks and a another handful that failed in production.

Compare that to 10k spinners which appear to have an annual failure rate of 1 in 20.

SSD Failure profile:
We would typically see a drive failing to respond properly (announcing a crazy size, not showing up at all, failing to save its max LBA). Most of this happened in the pre-production check phase. Post deployment failures you can count on one hand (I have the normal number of fingers ;-)

Qual process
We qualified 6-8 different manufacturers, high end enterprise to the dirt cheap vendor with a three letter name now synonymous with garbage (I won't even say the name here). The cheap drive had high DOA rates, and the unsettling tendency to spontaneously reset itself causing a several second pause (not so good for our uses, but might be tolerable in other circumstances)
I personally draw the line of acceptable and unacceptable discrimination at "if the disadvantaged person can change that aspect".

Skin color cannot be changed, but zipcode certainly can. There is no rule I'm aware of that restricts visible minorities from living in rich neighbourhoods.
I don't agree with you. Like with anything else, less abstraction = more performance. Creating a specific/targeted way to index, store and manage email data has its benefits too.

I'd hazard a guess that most proprietary formats are similar to the maildir format. Its just that the individual files are opqaue at the filesystem level. If you create thousands of tiny files then you are hoping that the file system design - which like any other design can only be optimized for specific workloads - can handle it better than a database type format specifically designed for email.

Then again a generic full text search system (which probably won't even know that they're email files) over those thousands of files would have to be better than a targeted design for email data.

You would miss certain optimizations like.. (making one up now) extracting and storing just the email headers in a separate region to speed up indexing and having some indirection built in to lookup that specific email.
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I used Nylas for a while when it first came out and liked it alot. Then out of the blue one day I started to get errors that it couldn't/wouldn't sync, spent more time than I should've trying to get it to work again with no success, so I had to ditch it.
To be fair, the credit score (VantageScore 3) you provide is not the credit score (FICO) most people are interested in, and that is used for most credit decisions.
I'd guess it's like bikeshedding. Everyone understands the results of this type of study.
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No catch actually. We want to show case and market ourselves too. However if the app is complex or would take lot of time, we will try to limit the features to 3 months of effort. You don't need more time than that for 1st version in most cases
As a father, I still cant believe how someone might be happier without children, or kids have not made him happier... it is a most fulfilling thing to have a relationship with ones own kid. I also do not personally know anyone who said kids didnt make him happier. I am from Europe, not USA, but it is unlikely people are that different there.
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Give me a decent way to digg out and manage attachments and I'd be over the moon.
> an explanation that accurately describes why you were rejected would likely be too complex to be understandable.

This is the core of the problem. Have you ever tried to explain a statistical segmentation to someone? It requires them to let go of how they think about if-x-then-y criteria and attributes. Very intelligent people who understand statistics, weighting, clustering, etc. struggle with it--think about an "average" person.

You can back into a reason: "Here's the attribute(s) on which you deviate the most from the median of the segment of which you want to be a part." But it's not a linear, single-variable "fix".
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I use palemoon. They are right now extremely upset that Google fonts is buggy, doesn't comply to standards, and Google not only refuses to fix it, but keep making changes that break palemoon workarounds. the project lead has seemly in the past months working more to create google font workarounds than on the rest of the browser.
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OpenTPM an open-source TPM – Why so little development in this field?
Because posts without URLs get penalized, it might be better to post a link to the blog post. Good luck.
According to Intel themselves[1], REP MOVS is optimal only for large copies, above about 2kb. Below that the large startup costs of the microcode sequence can be beaten by hand-written code for the target architecture. Which explains why glibc takes that approach. The linux kernel on the other hand, just goes with:

shrq $3, %rcx
andl $7, %edx
rep movsq
movl %edx, %ecx
rep movsb

Torvalds justified it as a way to force Intel and AMD to do the right thing and optimize the rep movs* instructions. He was annoyed at the code complexity of "more optimal" apporaches, and like you, concerned about icache effects.

A hand-written memmove is faster in microbenchmarks, but the icache effects may make the overall performance difference smaller (or even negative.) That's harder to measure.

AFAIK glibc does get better results than the kernel approach, but they've also introduced bugs[3] that way and the code is very complex by comparison. Also worth noting is that the kernel usually runs with a cold(er) icache, which is why they compile for size rather than speed (last I checked anyway, which was long ago) and why their memmove may make more sense in the context of the kernel. Also I suspect copies in the kernel are more likely to be larger (e.g. packets, pages, blocks) as opposed to small objects in userspace.

[1] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tech...

[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/lib/m...

[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c99
For me, having kids is the most fulfilling thing happening in my life. Honestly, that advice is terrible.
27 years? One would hope by 18 years of age one's child (in the descendant sense) would be fairly independent.
It's highly contextual. Macs gained a lot of popularity with OSX because of it's BSD underpinnings that allowed developers to go mobile and disconnected without having to run Linux Desktops. However Macs have always been popular with designers, artists, and creative nontechnical users because of their simplicity and intuitiveness.

A lot of the hate comes from having to deal with the later group, not the former.
nop. 27.24%
not all citizens, but only Moscow residents were allowed to participate, so probably 40m+
Reading the docs, this seems to be targeted towards personal data backups for individuals. References to photos, interactive usage, support for consumer cloud storage backends, etc.

Thus it surprises me that a tool for personal data backup on the cloud has a fair bit of community support (1651 stars on github) when the encryption features remain a vague notion after 4 years of development. Nor is there any recommended encryption workflow using an external tool.

Does our culture still find it acceptable that, in 2016, personal data, and almost certainly in many cases very sensitive private data, is being seen unencrypted by cloud providers?

I think that, while the norm is to not think twice about letting a private entity have practically unlimited access to your personal data, we as community need to focus on tools that keep an individual's data private by default.
I agree. Mail.app works perfectly for me. It does what it stated it was going to do, provide a simple interface on top of 'pine' like functionality/usability. I have multiple email accounts and have a solid preference for POP3 over IMAP. I've been using email since the early 1980's and operate on multiple machines (Laptop, Workstation, iPhone, etc.) without issue.
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The bank already knows their assets and income. The question is if an equally poor and educated white is just as likely to repay a loan as an equally poor and educated black. I imagine most of the difference would go away. Unless you really believe black people are inherently less likely to pay back loans, all else equal.
About 10 liters of gas will see me through the mowing season in a moderately sized lot. Now, I could probably manage that decently with a push mower, and the folks out in Great Falls or Potomac on quarter-acre lots must be burning more.

Lots are eco friendly in the sense that they make very good ground cover: the dirt under my lawn is running out to silt up the Chesapeake Bay. And they are permeable: most of the rain that falls on the lawn goes into the water table rather than running off into storm sewers.
How much worse is the air pollution in New Delhi compared to a relatively polluted US city such as Los Angeles?
Most content online doesn't require quite the attention span and focus of reading a book. There's just no equivalency between Facebook and The Republic. Books usually have better vetted sources and an editor going over it. I've never seen anything that originated online like The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. Except maybe The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

And I doubt that the next "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" will originate online either. It might be advertised online, eventually people will pirate it in epub form but no one is putting a great work online first. Because what I'm saying is true.

"I've read a ton of truly insightful, well worded and interesting stories, posts, discussions online"

As have I. It's not worthless, I love the internet. It's just not replacing books. When all the drives fail that store this conversation, there will be a million copies of The Iliad still in existence. I stand by my original statement, books dwarf all these other mediums.
As someone who grew up in New Delhi, I think the government has taken quite a few steps like passing laws that require all public transport to run only on CNG, mandating industries to be positioned outside the city and more recently having policies to curb number of cars on the road. But the problem of pollution never seemed to improve. Optimistically I've told myself that if those measures weren't taken we would have been in a worse position much earlier. Though that does little good in the long run. Unless action is taken to effect negative growth to pollution I think anything you do won't quite cut it.

To be fair though, like in any Indian metropolitan, there is immense pressure on the infrastructure that takes solving such problems to the next level. The sheer growth in population(primarily due to immigrants from other parts of India) on a daily basis would put any government in a quandary.
A friend uses MailMate[0]. It seems to be a bit pricey (50 USD), but considering it shot the fundraising campaign for the next release by 170%[1], I'm sure there are fans here.

[0]: https://freron.com/

[1]: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mailmate-2-0-the-email-cl...
OK, so we're assuming supervised learning. In that case, how were the features of the training set chosen? And how was the training set labelled?

Most of the time, outside of semi-supervised learning, those things are not in the data, someone has to (painstakingly) decide them. That can very well be explained I believe.

More generally, what I mean to say is that you can learn any number of models from the same data, so to a great extent you choose what your model learns by manipulating your algorithm's (hyper)parameters, the training set's features, choosing what goes into the training set itself etc etc. That process leaves room for a lot of regulatory oversight.

- in principle. In practice I expect since we're talking about people lending money or selling insurance we're only ever going to get those details out of their cold dead hands, and only with considerable effort at that.