skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every command has a name, and you can do M-x and type in that name, with tab completion, if you forget the keyboard shortcut. Even better, you can enable ido-mode and install ido-vertical-mode, and see a list of possible command completions without pressing tab.

I also highly recommend remapping your caps lock key to control.
Since this link is from 2014, it doesn't mention rBokeh, which is a very powerful interactive viz library for R: http://hafen.github.io/rbokeh/
Bill Maris, the CEO and Founder of Google Ventures, Is Leaving
It's only ad absurdum if you're completely unaware of the fact that UNIX (in this case not GNU/Linux, but illumos / SmartOS) is a high performing operating system with extensive facilities for preemption and traceability, which makes it ideal for web applications, and at scale, too. Haven't heard of SmartOS yet, have you, since you claim UNIX unfit for cloud applications?
> Javascript based desktop IMAP client

Nylas N1 is an example of this (and excellent, might I add)!

https://nylas.com/
Very insightful!
If you must, serve up the authors as an array that is a sibling of the posts array. So if you have 100 posts written by only 3 authors, you have:

{
posts: [ /* 100 records */ ],
authors: [ /* 3 records */ ]
}

Each post references the author by ID only and all required data is sent in one API call.
I agree that Autopilot was the wrong choice of name, I'd say it's reckless bordering on seriously negligent.

The name was chosen on its marketing merits not based on its relation to the actual function it performs. That might be ok if you're designing a feature for the car stereo, not so for "Cruise Control v2.0"
Patrick Gray from the Risky Business podcast appears to have the inside scoop on what actually happened. Here's his latest sequence of tweets (link references below):

"The things I'm hearing about #CensusFail are absolutely mind boggling. I'll be on @theprojecttv tonight talking about it.

Geez, ya'know, rebooting your firewall when you haven't sync'd your ruleset to your secondary is kinda dumb, ABS. Also, relying exclusively on geoblocking from your ISP instead of actual, you know, REAL DDoS mitigations is also pretty fail.

As is declining your upstream provider's offer to help with said mitigations to save money.

The funniest part? They detected exfil, thought the DDoS was a distraction. That's when they pulled the pin. Was a false positive.

This also explains why ASD are involved -- they're running incident response on a fucking false positive! This can't get any more hilarious!

.@OaaSvc There was no exfil. It was their own reporting traffic to offshore that tripped the alerts. You can't make it up.

There's more: that "router" that went down for a few minutes? That was likely the firewall reboot. Secondary didn't kick in b/c no rules.

They didn't need to fix it.They needed to clear the state table because they had a whopping 2gbps of ICMP and DNS reflection traffic inbound

Please, oh please, read this sequence of Tweets all at once. Then sit back and let your mind BOGGLE."

https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/763581261487091712

http://risky.biz/censusfail // https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/763605906047107073
Please don't apologize, this is an excellent paper! In retrospect I feel a little bad for nitpicking, honestly -- it's a really fascinating read :)
she must have gotten that domain early on
> But it's ok if Samsung, Google, Apple or whoever else lock you out of the device? Or at least they're not doing it to protect their monopoly.

No, it is not ok. Kindly point me to the place where I said it is ok. (That said, Google sells phones with unlocked boot loaders, and have similar "Developer Mode" support for Chromebooks. Samsung and Apple to the best of my knowledge do not sell unlocked phones but do sell unlocked laptops).

> Also, we're talking about Microsoft ARM based devices so what monopoly are they trying to protect? The monopoly on landfill space they used to dump all the Windows RT devices they failed to sell?

Ah, but they wouldn't have produced millions of these devices if they didn't think they could sell them. The ARM based devices were a test of the waters.

Microsoft requires, on x86, that trust of the MS key be preinstalled and that it be possible to turn off UEFI - but they do not require (e.g.) that there be an ability for the user to remove the MS trust or add new trust. (All of these requirements support their monopoly).

I cannot know, but I suspect Microsoft is playing the long game here, and that at some point after Win7 extended support (4 years from now), they plan to require that UEFI cannot be turned off for a machine to be certified to run Win10 "dominion edition". They've started with restricting kernel drivers in the "anniversary edition". I suspect The ARM UEFI was a test for this.

If I am right, the failure of WindowsRT will not change the course of this long game; hopefully something else will (right now, the emergence of reasonable Chromebooks is the only thing that appears to have the potential to stop it)
Companies shouldn't hire employees they don't trust. They may choose to watch out for bad behaviour (i.e. not answering emails when expected), however employees should never need to be watched at the level you're suggesting.
Fatherhood hasn't done much for your typing, either!

Did you ever consider the possibility that having children also coincided with you getting older? That might seem obvious but many things can be explained by the inevitable march of physical decline.

On sleeping children, I agree that too much emphasis is placed on getting children into their own beds, but I also think that in the USA there is too much New Age claptrap about family sleeping as well. If the child is in your bed they could be asleep and slapping you every minute which isn't going to help you at all.
How would it have? What you have isn't a spelling error, it's a grammatical/word choice error.
I think that can be fixed at a cultural level, so it's no guarantor of crime.
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I'm Swiss and I do think it's pretty crazy doing that even though the flight time itself is not that much. It's probably just not being used to people flying so often as it's not that common (at least it's the first time I hear a story like this). Also 1.5h is probably an understatement given that you also have to go through customs every time.
The 90's desktop market was more interesting. Yet, you must have never met anyone doing applications that require fast CPU's and plenty RAM.

Plenty of RAM? Yes, but on supercomputers. My machines were sgi Origin 2000's and 3800's running a single compute intensive application doing finite element analysis and using 16 GB of RAM, across all the CPU's in the system. A single calculation would usually take a month.

On the desktop, you couldn't be more wrong: I was part of the cracking / demo scene, and we literally counted clock cycles in order to squeeze every last bit of performance in our assembler code, me included.
Kinda related, the complexity of a basic SD card is insane. They have full 32-bit micro-controllers for data handling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPEzLNh5YIo

Not anywhere near as complex as a full SSD, but still very interesting if you're into storage technology.
We tried to use Brita but after a few months we gave up and bought a real water filter. Kids noticed change in taste of water.
And because CPUs are optimized for both gamers and Windows, the world has access to lots of cheap, powerful hardware. I'm not a Microsoft fan, but I'm very appreciative to them for making this ecosystem possible.

In fact, games have always driven the modern computer industry. Even Unix started because of a game (http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html).
I think the later Barefoot controllers were public enough, with the two different speed grades of Barefoot 3 being used in the OCZ Arc 100 and Vector 180 (which still exists as the VT180): http://www.anandtech.com/show/9009/ocz-vector-180-240gb-480g...

But it's a dead end and last I heard Toshiba doesn't plan on doing another revision of the silicon to update it with anything like support for SATA link power saving modes.
Do you live anywhere near a dry cleaner, fuel station, military base, rail yard, airport, freeway, smelter, or mine? If so you are doomed.
Get a focus group of 100 average Joe consumers.

Ask them whet they think and autopilot feature is.

The vast majority of them will say. "Err... a car that drives itself"

Of course I'm speculating. But if someone did run such a focus group and the majority didn't give a definition which boiled down to "a car that drives itself" then i'll eat my hat.

The pedantic "true meaning" of a term doesn't matter. Particularly when naming a feature that not only has the capacity to kill, but has now actually done so.
Using 1Password on my Mac and iPhone. Recently started playing with 1Password for teams.

I generate a random password for every site which requires a login.
Job interviewers shouldn’t be asking for your salary. Here’s why
Peoples rights are either taken, defended or given. There is no such thing as a natural right to anything for any of us.

The US government don't have the right to control the US continent anymore than the British do England or Swedish Sweden and so on. They took it and is defending it through the sheer use of power.

There is no justice in how land is distributed, no right or wrong only the power to claim and hold it.

And so it goes with taxation; there is no right or wrong taxation, it's the price to live in a society for any of us unless we can find a way to change it through the system, build our own or find some isolated place where no one will bother us.

Neither homesteading nor claims of natural laws changes that.
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That's why I always pick the highest number for my keys.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned MGRS as a somewhat similar system. Coordinates look like so; 4QFJ 1234 5678.

That means the coordinate is in the 100km grid-square named 4QFJ. At 12,340m North and 56,780m East of the SW corner.

It's easy to reason about the coordinates if they're on the same square, and given how big squares are they usually will be. You do need to memorize some letters and numbers, but since the relationships between coordinates are clear, you should only need to memorize the least-significant digits for nearby locations.
Not sure how it's done these days, but many moons ago (round 1996 from memory) I worked for ABS on the census side of things.

What your friend says was utterly correct at that point in time.

Further more, you couldn't even dial up a post code and get meaningful data of that precise post code.

The more specific the geographic area the more "representative" the data got. Privacy was taken very seriously.
It isn't easy.

A lot of folks in silicon valley percieve that the FDA is holding back leviathan innovation for drugs. Just not the case.

How is it possible that the technologies that most people think are important for drug discovery have become hundreds, thousands, or billions of times cheaper, while the cost of R&D, per drug discovered, increased roughly 100 fold between 1950 and 2010.

Even with all those great advances. Eroom's law is still a pervasive thing. The proof is in the pudding and suggests that brute-force techniques don't relate to ROI.

Patent System as is.
We have a patent system that encourages developing drugs that interact with a small number of enzymes and molecules that we already know and understand how they operate. Low if not zero risk.

It turns out that predicting a protein's structure from it's amino acid chain sequence is really tough.

I think it's stupid to patent pathways, treatment methodologies, research tools, and assays. This is a paralyzing bottleneck for the industry.

But anyways, yeah, I'm excited to see what comes out of the NIH and things like this ontology tool.
> So far one person has faced lethal consequences.

This is the tip of the iceberg.

How many other Tesla owners aren't fully aware of how the feature works and are just relying on the vernacular usage? Even if 100% of Tesla owners are 100% aware of the feature's capability, what happens when a friend/coworker/spouse/child of the owner borrows the car and uses the feature based on their misunderstanding of the technology?
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My understanding was that that was what they _used_ to do - address information would be used to aggregate data to Statistical Area 1, 2, 3 etc levels (see http://nationalmap.gov.au/#share=s-fg7dcWhKqOxxyqyfbS43YsSKE...) which would then be kept. Starting around 2005 they started keeping address-specific data if you opted in, then from this census onwards they stopped giving you the choice.

http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censushome.nsf/home/privacy
It's not entirely true that no one bats an eye lid, although you're absolutely correct that it's going on in the consultancies here.

If you're out of the consultancy firms/big corporates/big gov, it would be considered pretty weird/out there.

I recently finished on a project where my company was flying in multiple consultants from Sydney to Melbourne each week. It went on for months/years. I made what I consider a friendship with one of the consultants, and apparently they were putting them up in hotels here each week, while his family stayed in Sydney. The consultants would fly back each Friday, then come back Monday morning or Sunday night and do it all again.

Now to say no one bats an eyelid...well, from our side of things, us lower downs viewed it as an example of how much of a joke the consultancy arrangement was and how much we were overpaying them. It also also solidified in our mind how poorly the consultancies treated their staff, and how we would never work for them if given a choice.

But we weren't the ones controlling the purse strings. Such is life :)
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Having worked at IBM on a bunch of terrible Aus Govt projects, I'm so glad they're finally catching some heat.
August 9 is the 'snapshot' night so you respond as from that night no matter when you fill it in.

Benefit of being overseas: didn't have to get caught up in the disaster
Are they the same price in 2006's dollars?
It is actually every citizen. I live in two share houses and everyone has to fill it out.

Although I'm away at the moment so didn't get counted!
I can't find a site to test on, but I believe it's sslv3 sites that FF won't let me override. I could be mis-remembering, but it's something similar to that.
Are you of the opinion that all beliefs are above ridicule, or just this one? Because in my opinion the idea of a government controlled key escrow is the most stupid thing I've heard suggested and its proponents are either willfully ignorant or just insane. Recent history is full of major failures on the part of the USG to properly safeguard data of the most sensitive nature, as well as cases where they had collected clear text intel and just failed to connect the dots. So there is nothing to gain and everything to lose; they have enough data, they should work on their analytics before they endeavor to intentionally weaken everybody's security.
I this is a little blinkered. You are making too much of merely verbal differences.

Government organisations do don't magically do what they were nominally made for. Like all providers, their work is the product of various human motitivations operating under under various kinds of control.

Approximately speaking: private providers are controlled by competition and regulation. Government organisations are controlled by politics and a command structure. Much of that is also regulation -- though sometimes under a different name.

What you call incompetence and corruption happens when those controls fail. The resulting organisation is very much like a private monpoly: it has no competitors, and the chain of bureaucratic control stops short of making anyone accountable to the public.
2 Gbps ? That's is ? What is this ? A DDoS by ants ?

My macbook handles 2 Gbps of small packets on a regular basis.
Hsve you tried getting any records from the VA yet?
What we need to do to save money, then, is make all neighbourhoods into nice and safe neighbourhoods.
Outsourcing is the last step before automation.

You have to follow your own rationale here trough.

What happens when mexicans become richer and also concerned about safety at workplace because now they can afford to worry about it?

This is why even china is outsourcing to even cheaper places, robotics or why when production sometimes comes back it's in fully automated factories.
in firefox, you can't
Ask HN: How does your team get books?
I run a small software company and would like to offer everyone access to whatever books they want.

Ideally the team could share books, so we could just order physical books on Amazon as needed. Some will use this, some probably won't use it much.

Or, we could subscribe to O'Reilly Safari books online, for $399 per year per head. A touch pricey if people don't use it.

Are there any other options?
Yeah, it feels too much like an advertisement of their product. All points mentioned are related to their product and I can think of some important aspects that were not mentioned, but are not addressed by their product.
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Beats me why the PM got involved at all. He should have just punted all questions to the relevant minister (Michael McCormack, Minister for Small Business) or to the head of the ABS.
Good point, well on the second load anyway.
This is awesome.

Whatever happened to BTDigg? for months now cloudflare just says it's down.
Stage 1: Bill Maris is read-only -- August 10, 2016

In this stage, you will no longer be able to create or edit Bills. Marking a Bill as read will also not be saved.

Robots that try to write to a Bill will stop functioning.

During this time, you will continue to be able to export your Bills using the existing PDF export feature. You’ll still be able to read existing Bills and access the Bill Maris client.

If you want to continue using Bill, there is an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature to import all your Bills from Google.

Stage 2: Bill Maris shut down -- Sept 1, 2016

In this stage, all the Bill Maris servers will be shut down and you will no longer be able to get to your Bills. Make sure to export any Bills you want to save before that time.
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i agree. it's a dangerous game Tesla is playing at
It is quite common, at least in the circles I work in. I had a couple of colleagues that would travel from Poland to the England on Monday morning and back to Poland on Friday evening. He told me that his airline ticket was about 80EUR per week and his accomodations needs are being met by the company.

For a country as large as Australia, I keep thinking that air travel would be an extremely popular travel mode, but I think the population is too small and scattered to support this.
Nobody got fired because everybody that recommended IBM retired a decade ago.
The smartphone version isn't the same as the desktop version - it was literally rewritten from scratch, and as such is much more performant, although it lost support for mods of the original version as a result.
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Met one of the founders at a conference last spring. Great guy and dedicated to improving how papers are written. While Authorea can help with interchange formats and publication formats, by itself it cannot begin to rite the ship of science publishing.
A thinly veiled sales pitch for a "data science collaboration platform" is trotted out as some profound measure of how attractive a given company is to prospective applicants for data science positions.

I'm wary of the Joel Test and others like it for one very simple reason: the points are goals to strive towards, not some filter by which prospective employers should be judged. Especially in the case of a fledgeling field such as data science, wouldn't you want to be deeply involved in laying down the foundation for all that this screener list seems to take for granted?

Almost every point on this list is far from a solved problem. This is an exciting time for the industry, a happening time when we begin to establish some semblance of best practices by groping in the dark. What good are prospective data scientists who recoil from the challenge of working with engineers on tools that will enable future research?
Bingo. I like the Domino guys but this is a transparent pitch for their particular platform. Last time they called, they weren't able to help with my use case. But my use cases are bizarre. Still, there are others like me. And they won't be well served by trying to shoehorn their work into Domino. Sometimes you end up having to build the platform yourself, because the existing ones can't do it.

Other times a pre-existing solution like Domino may help. I found out about sigOpt yesterday, for example, and balked at the price until I discovered they allow academics to use their platform for free. All of a sudden the hypercube searches I was dreading for tuning regularized tensor factorizations became a nonissue, and it costs me nothing.

If that becomes something that other people want to use (probably so, now that I think about it) I don't see why sigOpt shouldn't make a pile of money off it. And the Domino people have offered their platform free or cheap to our group in the past. It's not because of principles that I turned it down (my only real principle is "don't buy the cow if you get the milk for free"). It just didn't serve our group's needs. But the general principle of a shared, convenient store for data and analyses is a good one.

The other general principle that I tend to emphasize is that you should always see about a free trial beforehand. :-)
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>then from this census onwards they stopped giving you the choice.

The still allowed spaces as your address though...
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How the quantum eraser rewrites the past
I've had the displeasure of working with IBM Global Services as a partner in several occasions. In one instance where we had a connectivity issue, it took weeks of discussions before we finally got everyone on a conference call including some of their senior engineers. We were simply trying to make a call to a web service as part of an integration with another company. IBM managed their network. We had supplied our IP addresses and the client had put through a firewall change request to the IBM support staff.

We just couldn't get our requests through. Finally on that last conference call, one of their engineers piped up. "Is this white list rule supposed to be bidirectional? All traffic going back to you is blocked.".

"No shit Sherlock, or how can a HTTP request get a response back", was my answer, or words to that effect in a more polite manner.

"But the change request form only mentioned incoming traffic" said the IBM project manger. I internally screamed.

This kind of thing has now happened several times with IBM on projects I've worked on. I know they charge amazingly large amounts of money for what they do. They appear to have an brilliant sales team, and a bunch of under qualified junior engineers that can't deliver. Over sell and under deliver. Maybe I've just been unlucky, but I don't have a high opinion of them.
"If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
meh... for me number 1 should be: do they understand domain knowledge beats fancy analytics hands down most of the times or do they spend their time optimizing things nobody cares about?