skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been many years now, but if memory serves...

The precursor system to Curse was actually originally a shared SVN server a group of addon authors (called Wowace; still around somewhat) were using to collaborate on addon development. SVN checkouts were so convenient for distributing addons that the authors started using it to keep their own addons up to date, and then usage started to rapidly spread among "ordinary users".

Unfortunately, the traffic every time a new patch came out absolutely smashed the server and generated enormous bandwidth bills. Various attempts to fund it via donations or sponsorship went nowhere.

Curse had been knocking around in various forms for a while (I think they were a guild at one point, and already had a failed pivot to a "gaming community" behind them), but they rose to prominence by, basically, taking over the SVN server and finding ways to keep the lights on.

Switching to github would be coming full circle in many ways. And it would have some advantages, but I'm not sure how happy github would be to act as a distribution network for addons.

Note that 1.1 million clones and fetches in a week for the CocoaPods repo caused major strain:
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/03/08/cocoapods-popular-basica...

Using github as the backend for a Curse-clone would probably exceed that handily.
It seems you have to add the "build-scan" dependency to the build, agree to its license, then run your builds with an extra flag before it sends data off to their services.
Is there something about the Equation dump that is not relevant to HN? Seems that most stories related to it are rapidly flagged off the front page, despite obvious interest.
Interesting feedback, thank you!
I downloaded the plain text, stripped the line wraps, and put it on Genius.

http://genius.com/Mark-zuckerberg-how-to-build-the-future-ma...
I'm curious about which business units this affects most. I expect it to affect hardware development as the company increases its focus on security.
Alright, I understand that. You suggest it's an ethical decision rather than economic; that streamers deserve the support. But why?

I fund a few YouTubers on patreon, because they create content in the traditional sense, e.g., research, writing, filming, editing, etc. That's hard work.

Streamers don't do any of that; they literally sit in their basement and play video games all day. Why do they need support?

Sure, watching a stream is entertaining, but when I think "supporting a content creator", I have to imagine that my support enables their creativity in some way. Does a streamer with more support produce better content than a streamer with less support?

The only thing I can think of is more support might allow a streamer to devote more of their time to streaming.
> Botnets appeared as a way to get around RBLs, and in response spam fighters mapped out the internet to create a "policy block list" - ranges of IPs that were assigned to residential connections and thus should not be sending any email at all.

This is the wrong way to do it.

It may make things easier for Google. It may save them time, money, and worries.

This is still the wrong way to do it, for one simple reason: it is now impossible to send email from home. Instead, you have to have a relay or a VPN that does it from a fixed IP that'd better not belong to a subnet in disrepute. It keeps the email network centralised, an antithesis to its origins, where an email went straight to the machine of the final recipient, from the machine of the original sender —with no intermediates besides the DNS servers.

I cannot help but notice this centralization is convenient for Google and other huge mail providers. Whatever their actual intentions when they did this I don't know, but they clearly have no incentive to change that back (their business is to read your email for profit after all —the fact this is all automated only makes it worse, not better).
Wait they threw away the Super Soaker branding on purpose? This is madness.
Doesn't Lojban try to have pretty easy phonotactics or something? They do have consonant clusters, but I thought they did some kind of study and chose their phonemes and some rules on the basis of things that most languages wouldn't find too difficult.

Edit: not suggesting that Lojban's solution is somehow preferable to your advice, just trying to remember what they did about this issue.
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100% agree. We put most of our business transactions on Amex. You can buy some significantly cool items and/or experiences when you generate hundreds of thousands of points per year! I am surprised the OP is not already doing this.
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> Actually, startup ideas are not million dollar ideas, and here's an experiment you can try to prove it: just try to sell one. Nothing evolves faster than markets. The fact that there's no market for startup ideas suggests there's no demand. Which means, in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are worthless.

> —PG, Ideas for Startups (2005)

http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html
> even with normal population growth, you would eventually need to build new prisons

Other countries are shutting down prisons...

http://qz.com/644914/the-netherlands-keeps-having-to-close-i...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/sweden-closes-...
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Why would hardware development not be important to security?
I think this is the kind of bias that the OP is complaining about. If there is a doubt about you being biased when you like someone, why there shouldn't be a doubt about it when you don't like someone?
The modern ones don't suck. The highest end Intel integrated graphics offerings complete pretty well with the AMD/Nvidia mobile offerings.
Honestly, it seems as if the article is just bending the definition of listening. It appears their idea of "the best listener" is the person who engages you the most in conversation. Sure, that person might be a more valuable person to talk to, but I fail to see why that has to be the definition of a great listener.
There are degrees of how difficult it is for people to manage boring. In college I failed English I, Public Speaking, Ethics and a 1-credit seminar course. Multiple times. I also had solid recommendations from several computer science professors where I was top of the class and worked doing research for some time. Mornings are also pretty hard, but that's another thing entirely.
Curious, security always seems to be first one to go.
With all of these studies on the affects of "sitting," I'm curious if there is any distinction made between "passive sitting" and "active sitting." E.g. a yoga ball vs. a chair. If you are sitting in a position that forces you to work muscles, is that only marginally better?
Can't talk about the specific complaints the author has, but there are a bunch of datetime libraries for python with often intentionally different behaviors. Submitting "fixes" requires the other libraries' authors to see what you want to fix as a defect and not a design decision/feature/to irrelevant to justify breaking changes.

At least that was my impression from trying to find a combination of libraries I like and reading various bug trackers in the process. In the end I pick and choose the pieces that do what I like for each part of the process, luckily the datatypes are mostly compatible or easily adapted.
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Yes to all of this. I'm really surprised they didn't compare costs in this blog post. Ignore the DGX-1 row of their table; the really damning comparison is between the 2nd and 4th rows of the table.

With a single 4x GPU server costing around $7k in total (row 4), you get nearly double the performance you get from spending $28k on four Xeon Phi servers (row 2).

And that's assuming you've spent the time and disk replicating your data on all four of those Xeon Phi servers, or went to a likely relatively large amount of engineering effort to ensure that network IO doesn't bottleneck training.
We already have many, many, many pesticides that do this, but neonicotinoid pesticides are really useful for a couple of reasons:

1. Very low toxicity to mammals. Neonics are used in flea collars, and to kill lice in farm animal bedding materials for this reason. Neonoics are also very safe to apply by human applicators.

2. Neonics are systemic pesticides in plants. They are absorbed into the plant and provide long term protection against insects pests. Less pesticide drift, less danger to applicators, BUT it also gets into floral nectar, causing problems for bees and possibly other insect pollinators.

3. Neonics are cheap. I can buy 5lbs of Marathon 1G, a neonic pesiticde for about $80. Something more targeted, such as Rycar is more than $500 for a similar quantity, and Rycar is not systemic, it has to be applied several times.

There is a move towards more targeted pesticides such as Rycar, Floramite, Kontos, etc. but they are expensive, and in many cases more difficult to use. That's the darn problem. Neonics are terrible for bees, but for agriculture, they are really useful and there is no clear replacement.
> In a study published October 9 in Nature Neuroscience, researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London) show that people who are very optimistic about the outcome of events tend to learn only from information that reinforces their rose-tinted view of the world. This is related to 'faulty' function of their frontal lobes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111009140201.h...
He got to learn from Myspace and got to build Winklevoss's Harvard Connection for them. After that became great, he did some entirely new stuff thanks to his prepared mind... wait, no, he just ran off with others ideas to implement them himself on a bigger scale... stealing all the glory. Not in same category as Einstein or Shannon at all. ;)
Eventually it's about"forecast" by algorithmia
https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/TimeSeries/Forecast
> The other problem was that the CE UI was not adapted for mobile

I had the AT&T flip-phone pictured in the article and it is my favorite phone ever. The CE shell and bundled apps for non-touch devices were extremely well adapted to the constraints. The one thing I remember well is that I could open it up, punch in 666, and besides showing dialing that as a number it would bring up a list of matching contacts to select from. 666 == MOM. I've never held another smartphone which did that.

Microsoft lost because their successful platform was a fantastic phone with so-so data features and the iPhone flipped the game around.
What does Cisco sell besides hardware?
Long story short: I think that, in the next year, we will see a marked shift toward subscription pricing. Amazon pushing subscriptions. Dollar shave club for X. Same for Cisco - getting recurring revenue through security/SDN/SaaS subscriptions rather than one-time hardware sales seems to be a safer long-term bet.
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Also recognize that getting in there may not be what you really want, despite reasonable compensation and having them on your resume. Aspirants are, more often than not, hired into a candidate pool and don't know what they'll be working on at interview time. If being a Googler is worth years of working on crufty ad sales dashboards, then have at it.
No, it is not arbitrarily changing the definition. They did a study where they asked people to identify how good others were at listening, and then studied what behaviors distinguished those who got the highest ratings.
To guess, I think it is because Cisco will pursue a strategy of software defined networking. That means more consolidated hardware development by fewer employees.
After you've had success in the valley, people are willing to fling money at you for just about anything.

This factor alone accounts for a large percentage of repeat successes. Square probably never would have obtained the capital necessary to become competitive, had it not been for Twitter.

But honestly, for all their funding, even most of these second tries turn out to be failures. What you're really doing here is confusing selection bias with skill: take a pool of enough entrepreneurs, and eventually, just by chance, you'll find someone who has repeat successes.
Look at all of the recent acquisitions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Cisco_...

And look at the strategy playing out:

https://blog.opendns.com/2016/07/08/new-integration-anyconne...
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Well yeah. If remaining silent was considered "good listening" then people would talk to walls.
Sweet jesus that's a lot of people! I'm having trouble wrapping my head around that many people being fired.
I had no idea that "action shots" of standing desks could be consider racy!
The bummer here is that you have to heat treat very quickly and that means it won't work for thicker shapes.
Full disclosure: I support one streamer.

I support him because the streams and let's plays that he does are games that I would like to play. But have very little time to actually play due to work, family and life. My support, along with many others allows him to stream full time, and I am able to enjoy the games and his streams during work, so I get to see the game content that I otherwise wouldn't have time to play myself. And for the cost of a game per year. It's a pretty cheap way to enjoy games that I otherwise wouldn't.
You don't have to know that tomatoes are fruit for that? Your reply makes no sense at all. I say "you don't need to know H" and your reply is "but you do need to know Y"! Not to mention that specifically your reply is something only worth knowing when when does know that tomatoes are fruit, and not when one doesn't.
> ...as the company transition from its hardware roots into a software-centric organization.

With all these companies exiting the hardware space, who is going to be doing the hardware?

Will hardware remain a niche department within these software based companies? Are off-the-shelf systems-on-a-chip now powerful enough that there is now no need for hardware, beyond a generic universal SoC based device? Is it going to be an unserviced niche for new players to move into?

To use the specific example of Cisco: what hardware are Cisco planning to have their software running on in (for example) 5 years time?
I think hardware will take a hit for sure. Cisco will consolidate development around software defined networking hardware and then charge a yearly subscription fee to use its network OS.
Cisco is probably seeing their margins being eaten by commodity competitors.
Powerful NSA hacking tools have been revealed online
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/david-goeckeler-ove...
PeerJ paper on Zenkerella at [1]. I find it irritating that the article says "in a study published Tuesday in the journal PeerJ..." then never explicitly links to it.

[1] "Ancient phylogenetic divergence of the enigmatic African rodent Zenkerella and the origin of anomalurid gliding" [ https://peerj.com/articles/2320/ ]
You'll find instead that it will turn any community into an echo chamber. This sort of tone policing accomplishes nothing but belittling differing viewpoints and alienating users who may (publically or privately) disagree with charitable interpretations.

When the dust clears, you'll have a harmonious web forum -- in which no information is exchanged.
Ok, so lets make bees more resistant to Neonics.

:P
Think of it this way. One day, guaranteed, you will have at least one very serious problem. Be happy that day isn't today. Study history and realize how much worse your life could be, random or not, and be happy you aren't in that hell.

An old yet succinct term would be, "count your blessings." You should find things to be thankful for every day. Your health, your family, the fact that you aren't starving. The fact that you have access to clean water. And for Christ's sake, stop consuming news for a while.

If you have to worry, pick the top 3 things to worry about and ditch the rest.
Mainly, its API which tries to be as close as possible as the one provided by the standard datetime library while providing a bunch of helpful methods.

Also, Pendulum is not just about datetimes but also provides both the Interval class and Period class which are improvements over the native timedelta class.

And finally, it handles properly time shifting around DST transition times and normalization of datetimes when creating them which neither Delorean nor Arrow do well.
I don't really disagree that all human actions have self-interest as the core motive. I'm just saying that in an interdependent social environment, a phenomenon best described as altruism naturally emerges, either because instincts initially developed for self-serving purposes develop a life of their own, or because the still-existing individual benefits are obscured (i. e. a sort of game-theoretic justification for a middle class person to support welfare).

I'm mostly taking offense with the characterization of such "feelings" as "not real" or of lesser value than the "pure" thought of rational egoism:

1. If we take altruism as a highly developed extension of egoism, it's worth to consider it an invaluable heuristic trained over thousands of generations to intuitively make good decisions. Where a cold analysis may tell you that giving money to a poor person is wasteful, I'd say that the warm fuzzy feeling we get from giving is an encoding of results gained over millennia of experience.

This also touches another point: I'd suspect that most altruistic behaviors are actually net-negative for the individual but, when practiced by large parts of the population are beneficial for everyone. Here, emotions serve as a prehistoric solution to the tragedy of the commons. It's an idée fixe in some circles, most notably libertarians and the Ayn Rand crowd to replace this with a system of contracts or simply force but that disregards (amongst other things) that almost no idea in psychology has more empirical support than the beneficial effects of helping.

2. If we consider altruism as an emergent behavior, a sort of instinctual moral code, it should be revered as one of the highest achievements of humanity on a level with art or science.
Correct, in fact there is probably no one better for a startup's first bank account (it was my first startup's bank account)! But be careful, if your transaction volume gets too high you might need to invest in a sizable mailbox ;)
In the past, i would agree. There seems to be a push into by the military industrial complex into "Cyber Warfare", so i think Cisco is angling for some Government contracts.
Politeness + Insight + Empathy. It's easy as PIE!
And, when/if they say no?
What really interests me is that it sounds like this isn't something high tech, just "never figured out before". It's a variation on the existing processes and yields a huge improvement at lower cost.

How many more opportunities are the out there just sitting in front of us, unconsidered?
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yep! it's single sided. the box is also filled/packed with the side tearoff stuff (not sure the name for it) which you can sort of see in the gif. Must have been terrible to have to rip it all off for this many pages!
This may fall outside of what you're trying to do, but I always thought the best form captcha would be to extend Uber to do real human to human verification.

You send a request to a driver, the driver shows up and confirms the person applying, completing or w/e is actually a person.

This can have potential legal/government related application.
It's the energy in the passenger's body that is usually the issue.

For instance, seat belts absorb the energy instead of the body flying through a window, crumple zones increase the time it takes to push the energy into a seatbelt (which decreases the force and thus the damage).
Simply because I do not really like the API of the existing libraries (Arrow or Delorean) and I just can't fix the design decisions made by the authors.
Is this from government pressure? Probably some underground stuff going on...
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As someone who has taught and researched listening skills, I found this article very insightful.

However, let me add that the simple skills they described at the beginning (not interrupting, saying "um-hum," and being able to repeat back), are still good to teach because they are better than what most people do much of the time.

Here's another HN link on listening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12228062
> With all these companies exiting the hardware space, who is going to be doing the hardware?

There's a ton of smaller players ready to jump in. They're not household names, but they have the expertise to fill the gap. I wouldn't worry about it. Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, etc
or Elixir or anything that targets BEAM :)
They know that traction doesn't matter to them since they have almost a billion people using Snapchat. They want the team, the current software, and implement it just to stay ahead of the competition (whatsapp, etc). Vurb was in the right place at the right time and in this case traction doesn't matter.
Good, because arrow is effectively dead at this point
The ultimate takeaway is that abuse is the price you pay for anonymity--the more you give leeway for people to be jerks with minimal repercussions, the more jerks will take advantage of it. Reputation analysis for email drove down the anonymity (in the sense that email service providers have a much greater stake in policing their users to prevent abuse), and it remains the single most effective anti-spam strategy.
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I think that's a key component, but is it not true that at a policy level, Trump is more in line with Putin than Clinton is?
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That's a logical pivot; I'm slightly surprised they didn't try beefing up their extended support or doing a soft rollout first. Did they lay any groundwork or expectations for migrating their platform?
I don't follow. What government pressures companies to lay people off?
> They'll ask for things like your businesses tax return from the previous year when you try to open an account

What? I've done this in a few hours, both in Colorado and Ontario. Go online, register, print out registration, go to bank, open account.

Or is this a different kind of account or something?