skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a more comprehensive listing of cashback programs, try using Cashbackholic [0]. You type in the store you're buying from and it lists almost every cashback program that offers additional cashback on that store.

[0]: http://www.cashbackholic.com/
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Gravitational lensing has pretty distinct other characteristics that would be noticeable.
About #2 (or, maybe really about #4), it's interesting how computers are better than people on chess, but still recognizably non-human.
Search within emails is good and supports advanced search with "from:", "to:", "after:" and things like that. And if you're using a desktop client, like Thunderbird, search through IMAP with FastMail feels faster.

The only difference I found is that Gmail also indexes attachments, like PDFs. Which is a cool capability, but I wished for that only once in the last year and that's only because somebody sent me a PDF without a textual description of what it is. So it can be useful, but not a deal breaker.
Back in the 2000's Sabre purchased spare parts from the soviets to keep their ancient mainframes running.. I can't imagine how hard it must be now.
We now use Kanban on our team, after using Scrum for a couple years. Pointing is a process to discover unexpected hurdles or uncover hidden knowledge from coworkers, and as a guideline. By not having sprints, you just focus on your current ticket, and not artificial deadlines or points. Tickets will be done when they are done, and managers don't have expectations of completeness that as disconnected from reality. We've added priority swim lanes to our process. We have a prioritization meeting with PMs every week to assign priority to tickets, order items in the high and medium priority lanes, and review blocked items to see if anything can be nudged back to a working column. The process is clear, the expectations are fluid, the work gets done in the time it needs to get done.
That last statement is very debatable.

This [1] 2015 data puts us at 20th of around 150 countries with 3.3% of GDP. And most of the countries high on the list have pretty understandable reasons, like a history of local violence, aggressive neighbors, or in the case of Russia, themselves being aggressive.

The EU together is reasonably comparable to the US in population, GDP, values, and enemies, but is actually closer to most threats, yet they come in as 1.5% of GDP.

The US seems to me to put a rather high allocation toward military spending considering it has no significant enemies in the same hemisphere. None capable of projecting so far logistically.

Then there's also what considering only GDP hides, which is the fact that even if every possible enemy to the US combined, the US net military spending would be significantly greater. And if an existential threat arose and warranted redirecting attention to the military, the US has a great deal of raw capacity it could bring to bear fairly quickly, which combined with having no enemies capable of quickly projecting into the US homeland, means there would likely be little issue ramping up in time for any crisis.

In other words, I'd be curious to hear a justification for the US military expenditure not being unreasonable, because it seems to me it could be less than half what it is, and still leave the country totally secure against foreign threats.

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?year_h...
90% of the time I'm just searching for messages from a particular sender. Like GMail, FastMail autocompletes contact names in search so this works great for me.
The more, the better. I've 1600 learned spam and 7677 learned non-spam. The spam filter works pretty well for me. Occasionally one slips through, but that happened on gmail as well. So I'm very happy with FastMail.
Sounds like the SpamAssassin default settings.
Yeah Walmart labs is quite progressive. They're very active in the clojure community and do some interesting work.
It's just a few generations ago, my grandmother's lifetime, that women started to have any say whatsoever in who is the elected leader of the country, much less getting elected themselves.
The Canadian housing market is currently in a bubble. The same can be said about the Australian housing market.

Canada

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1100960/thumbs/o-BMO-HOUSE-PRICES-...

http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/54aea0136da8118f2ae...

Australia

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NuIUphAP17w/Vth6P3w2FzI/AAAAAAAAC...

http://www.propertyobserver.com.au/images/stories/keenjan2.p...
I had huge problems with spam on Fastmail, enough that after my year ended I moved to another provide. I really liked Fastmail, and the service was pretty good (although when I asked them why my domain was getting put into spam filters they couldn't really help much).

Now I'm with Mailbox.org, and they're really good. A little cheaper too.
Can't agree with you more. I'm currently in the business with FP7 and Horizon. What a pile of... It's all about buzzwords and overly complicated "architectures" which should be as general and vague as possible to dazzle the reviewers.
> immaterial

> 1. Having no matter or substance.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immaterial
Red countries like Libya?
That will mean Technical Debt is dependent on what features you want to implement as to how much code has to change to support it. Still makes it rather subjective and hand-wavy.
Jet.com ran a contest where they gave 100,000 shares as the top prize for the most signup referrals. This Guy is probably one happy guy right now. He spent $18k and the value of those stocks are probably worth in the millions.

http://www.businessinsider.com/jet-insiders-referral-program...
Scattered reasoning across multiple points that don't tie together.

I can't even agree or disagree with the author. Not cogent.
Ask HN: What's the best way to read a code base?
Do you do breadth-first, depth-first, or something else entirely?
Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Native two factor auth (like U2F integration) alongside mobile apps would be the big ones.
It ain't HN without some good ol' cynicism.
Machine Learning Predictions for Olympic Gold Medal Counts in Spreadsheets
> One last note: Out of C, A, and P, you can’t choose CA.

I have my own, which is not obvious I think:

"CAP doesn't mean your system is automatically CP or AP, it also means, it could be neither"
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/Apps/l-TmEzzF...
I want to make bad, difficult to maintain code, I want to spend more money doing it, and want to extract all of the enjoyment out of programming for those on the project so that innovation is stifled. Would Scrum be a good choice?
Everyone would probably also prefer to spend the weekend with their high-rolling free-spending uncle, who will be bankrupt in a year but will guarantee you a great time in Las Vegas, than with their budget-conscious boring aunt who will reliably save money away for all the kids' college educations.
Probabilistic Programming predicts Olympic Mens Tennis results in spreadsheets
Depending on what your threshold for needs is, Rackspace Email is a pretty solid solution for about $2 / user / month.

Been pretty happy with them for my needs. YMMV of course.
That's still the same argument. It's possible Martian life has already been decimated by microbes from earth, but does that possibility justify carelessly introducing new extremophiles? There is a short window, less than a century and perhaps only a couple decades, before we start sending humans in which we can study what may have lived on Mars, originating from there or not, prior to colonization.

Conley is not trying to prevent Mars exploration or colonization. When we contaminate Mars, we should only do so as a deliberate choice, aware of the consequences, as there is no going back.
Kids can now learn to code with Pocky, the delicious Japanese snack
No, it is not. The idea behind the book is as sound as it is simple: shoehorning normal distributions in places where they shouldn't go just to make problems tractable will end in disaster due to an excess of fat tails in the real world.

However, Taleb has been pontificating on that single idea for fifteen years now and has parlayed twenty pages worth of ideas into three books, a collapsed hedge fund and numerous academic positions.

Skim the first three chapters of any of his three books, and you will have learnt all there is to learn from him.
> How does it compare to the maintainers-and-build-bots infrastructure of other open source operating systems?

Most other operating systems are badly run as well. Doesn't mean that adding another layer of potential insecurity is justified.

> Does trusting mtier really make that big a difference?

Yes. Is mtier running similar ship to mint? Do you have convincing argument that they don't?
Although I do know tech people who work from home in rural areas with just satellite. It's expensive and not ideal--and you give up things like Netflix--but it apparently can be done for a lot of circumstances.
I'm currently working on a cute little rasterizer in JS; a software radiosity engine would be really fun! Would you mind shooting me an email (link in profile) with any links/resources you think might be helpful for a noob?
"poor mans internet" they said.
YES! My favorite book! Make sure to get the unabridged version in particular the Robin Buss translation. Love introducing people to this great work of literature.

https://www.amazon.com/Count-Monte-Cristo-Penguin-Classics-e...
> How are they monopolizing the market?

By turning Internet access into Facebook access. Try explaining how it's not a monopoly.

> Government is forcing them to not use Facebook.

No, government is forcing Facebook to play by the same rules as everyone else. That's fair and necessary. If Facebook wants to be exempt from data caps, then all traffic and services should be.
I'm a FastMail user for about a year now. The one thing about the android app is that you get real push notifications. This is a great feature, that you don't get with ANY OTHER mail app for android. The interface of the android app seems to be a web-view, and I don't like it at all. The resolution is low, and it takes a long time to load. Overall, the push notifications is huge for me. I tried using the Gmail app connected to FastMail's backend, but emails would be delayed up to 15 minutes sometimes.

If you're a big Google Drive user, you'll most likely miss Gmail's built in integration with Drive, but FastMail has a simple file storage feature, where you can save attachments to your allocated space, and attach files from your files.

Another advantage for using FastMail, is that they do Email as their primary business, so it seems.
The Absurd Things I Heard Through the Vents in My Prison Cell
Reminds me of another study that came out in May. It reiterates what you said, but basically after you're out of school you stop making new friends, you prioritize who you consider a friend based on what their value is, etc.

The only way around it is to go waaaay out of your way to reverse it. Throw parties and shit even though you're way too old to stay up past 10pm. ;-)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/people-lose-friend...
Hmmm, I don't think they'd forgive liquidation preference in that scenario. I can think of a few specifically that I won't name where that's exactly what happened. The big co co-invests with other VCs, who put together the terms. The big co (or rich celebrity entrepreneur) wants the capital gain; it's not just moving money around.
I hope they don't scrap jet.com (but I suppose they will). My wife and I just discovered it rather recently :(

Am I the only person who would rather pay more than have to order anything from walmart.com?

Aside from serious ethical issues, my issue with Walmart is that manufacturers produce lower-quality brand-name items just for Walmart. Its hard to know what you are actually purchasing.
Where's that?
Joeyh is creating worthwhile software that might last
the tax doesn't apply to permanent residents. just resident temporary foreign workers and non-residents
I've always wondered about using OS X Server to handle my email on a Mac Mini. Looks like a pretty clean solution to run your own.
The most important agile practice, imho, is far and away the Retrospective. A good retrospective process will fix all other problems.

In the post, you sort of dismiss it out of hand because it is supposed to be a discussion limited to scrum, but that is an arbitrary and self-imposed restriction. You are doing it wrong. Remove that restriction and the doors will open up.

The retrospective is about creating time for the team to review what works and what doesn't about the software development process in general (no need to limit to scrum).

I've seen retrospective discussions veer into company culture, the need for faster hardware, testing processes, etc. Anything related to making the software, the software development process, or the team better should be on the table.

A good retrospective enables the team to use its sprints as experiments to try different things, to evolve the practices to better fit the needs of the team and organization. If stand-ups aren't working, go a sprint without them, or doing them differently -- whatever change would address the weakness identified by the team -- then in the next retrospective reflect on whether it actually improved things. Rinse and repeat. Done properly, a good retrospective will enable your team to evolve and get better and better with every sprint.

Points can be frustratingly fuzzy, but they serve a valuable purpose. They give a measure of team productivity (e.g. velocity), even if imperfect. Yes points can be gamed, but a team should learn quickly that gaming only serves to fool themselves. Because of they can be gamed, I'm not a fan of using points as an externally visible "vanity metric". They should only be used or shared within the team. They should not show up in performance reviews or presentations to management. But points can be very useful as an internal metric for the team to measure whether or not tweaks to the process made a positive impact. You need some way to objectively measure the success or failure of your process experiments.

Of course, any metrics used are themselves certainly deserving of scrutiny and fine-tuning, as poor metrics lead to poor decisions. To me the benefit of points (or t-shirt size estimates) over something like hours is that in software development, hour-precision estimates give a false sense of accuracy. It requires more effort to provide more precise estimates, yet they won't be any more accurate (given the inherent non-repetitive nature of software development). Thus, the use of a coarse-grained measure like points serves to re-enforce the notion that the estimate are inherently imprecise and that we don't want to waste effort on greater precision estimates.

All that said, whether or not to use points or any measure of team productivity at all is a team decision. If the measure isn't serving the goal of improving the software and the software dev process, then change it or get rid of it. That's the beauty of the retrospective -- it explicitly encourages this sort of process-hacking and fine-tuning.

Embrace the Retrospective!
Or worth city states like Singapore and Luxembourg
Synchronizing firefly flashes with LEDs
I think the reservation system is SABRE, and likely they contract for some of SABRE's other services like crew scheduling, but other parts are pure Delta.
You still have to update the OS or whatever you're running the mailserver on. You have to make sure it's not compromised nor DDosed, it doesn't run out of space, it doesn't crash or get stuck for whatever reason, etc etc.

Again, Docker isn't magic.
Two of the articles you linked to are from 2011 or prior. Since then, it's been demonstrated that BBM can be intercepted.

Just a couple weeks ago, a Blackberry executive publicly criticized Apple for not assisting law enforcement when it came to mobile device security.

And if that isn't enough to cause you concern, Blackberry is in big trouble. Who's going to buy them? What are they going to do with all that data?
I'm not sure your point about humans vs other animals.

Are you suggesting sleep evolved for a different reason in humans than it did for our ancestors and the millions of other species that sleep?
Jet.com is a big user of the F# language. Will be interesting if they get Walmart on board too.
> I'm happier liking people, and I can like someone and be friendly even irrespective of if they like me or not.

That is extremely mature, and shows great perception of the complications of our perceptions and social interactions. Congratulations on reaching that conclusion.

Ina semi related note, I try to keep my distance with coworkers. The added factor of work responsabilities and possible conflics would be harder to manage with a friendship or more added to the equations.

But I tend to compartmentalize my relationships, so there's that.
https://www.servermx.com
Spot on analysis. WMT is really doing a talent acquisition here.

Jet.com differentiated itself from AMZN through concepts like "happier work culture", which, given WMT's reputation, is rich in irony.
In East Germany in 1949, you had a left coalition like in the 1948 Italian election. It gained 66% of the vote to the 34% of the opposition. In the 1947 Hungarian election, the communists got the most votes.

So how come we never hear that Eastern Europe became communist democratically? After all, they can point to election numbers as you do. Well, the Red Army occupied them some say. But the US armed forces occupied Italy - they still do. Well, the USSR, a foreign power meddled in the elections. The US and CIA admit how massively they meddled in Italy's 1948 (and subsequent) elections.

I can easily say that the non-communist and non-communist aligned parties in Eastern Europe "didn't even come close to winning" after World War II and the people of those countries democratically decided to become communist. After all, Hungary became communist after World War I without Russian intervention, a fact few in the West remember.

It's odd to see the US and CIA admitting after decades they interfered in and fixed the Italian 1948 elections, yet you still hold up the phony results, yet everyone can easily discount the elections in eastern Europe after World War II, where Russia simply did the same thing the US did.
Being locked into Jekyll is not such a huge deal, as the posts are all Markdown with some YAML frontmatter, and other systems use the same post conventions, such as Middleman. Github only provides the convenience of not having to install Jekyll on your own system in order to publish. If you want to throw it up to S3 or any other static file server, you just have to run `jekyll build` yourself.
Yeah? And where is your server hardware located? If it's on a VPS somewhere, well, how can you trust them? If it's at home, it's extra space and electricity that's being used.

At the end of the day, email IS NOT secure. If you're paying for a service and they can say they're not reading your emails and they will respect your privacy, well that's good enough for me.
Grew a Garden,Harvested wheat,travelled ocean to boil salt,laughtered a chicken
Wiki-Reading: A Novel Large-Scale Language Understanding Task Over Wikipedia
Keep in mind the judiciary doesn’t directly control the police, including hiring/firing decisions; it can only really control what goes on inside of the courtroom. The exclusionary rule[1] is kind of weird, but nobody’s figured out a different, noticeably better way to protect against unlawful search and seizure that works in the States.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapp_v._Ohio
Another point to tack onto this: The value of the work itself is well worth paying for, even if it has hidden costs to it, like when we drive cars or buy things made in sweatshops. His books are beautiful, and were influential to me when I was younger, particularly Speaker for the Dead. If one bigot helps to inspire tolerance and introspection in millions of people, then he'll have done far more harm than good, no matter how he spends the money.

I was actually shocked to find out about his personal views years after reading his books. Perhaps he needs to give Speaker a read himself.
IceCube search for the ‘sterile neutrino’ draws a blank
Pretty cool. While this is almost certainly in violation of general solicitation SEC regulations, I doubt there would be any action taken by the regulator.

The surprising part is that Jet.com's legal department let this fly.
Wal-Mart is currently in the middle of a stock buy-back, which implies that management believes their shares are undervalued. From that perspective, using undervalued shares to purchase an asset would mean using too many shares to do the purchase, resulting in wasted money.

The inverse of this is why companies with "overvalued" stock fund acquisitions with stock.
This is what I tell people when they start telling me that they refuse to read his work, or pay for his work, etc.

But it's not like he's a painter; he tells stories of empathy, of understanding, of togetherness, of bridging chasms of understanding. He came up with the Hierarchy of Foreignness - he wrote stories of people emphasizing with insect hives, of aliens that have nothing in common with us, of people who suffer for others with no reward.

And yet, he can simultaneously see the other side of the Necker cube where two men kissing is somehow going to bring down America.

It's just... uncanny.
From memory, that's the BBC football page.

It's either the main page or the latest scores 'vide-printer' style service.

[hums MOTD theme to himself].
Just read the summary which I highly agree with and will quote here:

> So, in summary, Scrum

* wastes too much of the developers' time for management

* does not lead to good quality code

* is a control freak which does not leave room for new ideas and innovation.
If she's a PR then the tax doesn't apply...
FYI Bing maps has the UK OS maps down to 1:25,000 - which is awesome!
So the first AMA answered by AI?
Walmart.com is a pretty big user of Scalia already
If no employees get anything, why wouldn't they organize and threaten to quit together (leaving Walmart buying the name, a founder or two and some technology with nobody to run it) to try to stop the deal? Isn't the whole idea of accepting 1/2 salary at a start-up because of your glorious equity? Whenever I hear about these "deals" where employees end up with nothing or close to nothing, I wonder what they are thinking. Why accept that?

EDIT: I suppose if the alternative is "run out of money next month and everyone's fired anyway", then worthless equity and a possible job maintaining that code at Walmart doesn't sound so bad.
Python, Pitch Shifting, and the Pianoputer
I know that. But that wouldn't stop Microsoft from using it.
It's a quantitative tradeoff question -- for many programs it may be true at first that increasing the register count (say, from 16 to 32) allows more live values in-register and reduces memory traffic, but at a certain point there are diminishing returns, because the extra access time eventually becomes another cycle of latency and this hits all programs. Notable as well is that for many programs (and especially modern ones with large data sets), most cache misses occur because of accesses to large heap data structures, not because there were slightly too few registers and a few locals spilled to the stack.

There are also practical issues with increasing the architectural register set -- you'd have to define a new encoding for instructions, and this (i) adds significant cost (area, power, timing) to the instruction decoding logic, and (ii) imposes a giant cost on the software ecosystem -- new binaries, operating system support for context-switching, etc.
WiX gets the job done, but man, does it leak Windows Installer abstractions! You have to understand Windows Installer technology to be effective with WiX. It's definitely not "point-and-click!"

http://wixtoolset.org/