skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is good but goes overboard in explanation. AWD and 4wd by all accounts are just buzz words for having front and rear differentials. In actual use, a 4x4 (a term I mean to refer to both 4x4s and awds as its just a buzz word) has three differentials. A center diff splits power from the transmission out to the other diffs, which split power to the wheels. There are three general types of diffs, whether centered or front or back:

Open (just gears, sends power the the least resistant path)

Locked (a spindle connects the input directly to the output and all three spin proportionally)

Posi (multiple ways of actuating this, can be viscous clutch, electric or air powered actuation, or mecanical geared torsion style - regardless the point is to keep power at all wheels, some with variable speeds allowing for turns - others act like a spindle)

Most "awd" cars have a open gear in all three diffs. My jeep has a spindle in the front and center and an air locker in the rear (not the stock design). My old BMW 325ix has a viscous clutch in the center and in the back, and open in the front. My dad's audi has open gears all around and uses the brakes to actuate were the power is delivered. At the end of the day tho, its three differentials.
If you turn off the QA servers, then production is your QA server. This may be the surest sign in the entire comment section.
Those real-time notifications definitely make a difference.

When I was searching for apartments in the NYCish area, I asked Zillow to ping my phone when a good listing came in.

One day, I got a ping during class and called the broker as fast as I could. "Yeah," he said, "I posted that listing 20 minutes ago but you're like the 6th caller. You almost certainly won't get it, sorry."
as a newcomer to machine learning.. how does one build a training set of "tens of millions of emails" ? This is one of the things I have struggled with... its probably much harder to build a training set than the libraries and the algorithms themselves.

are there companies that build training sets for you... or something else ?
its probably fair to say that both can be used: cellphones for indoor and outdoor tracking, airborne video for outdoor tracking.
I find it fascinating that the US could change colour to color which seems a completely useless and trivial change but still hasn't managed to adopt the international system of units.

I suspect both the spelling change and resistance to unit changes have far more to do with protectionism than anything. Both isolate the US and stop them from importing books, particularly textbooks. Someone has probably made a lot of money from that.
So doesn't that make that position downright dangerous? As a 3rd party to this argument, now I agree with the other guy.

edit: to clarify I mean I should join the opt-out side to help stop it from becoming socially unacceptable
thanks for the project :) One query - Is it actively maintained? The reason is I see "2012-2014 Debian Code Search" on the footer. So just wanted to check!
I get it about normalised data spread across multiple tables - but usually (from how I interpret it), they seem to be talking about number of rows - i.e. "We think only 10,000 users had their information compromised...".

I believe in the case of the LinkedIn breach, they said that something like "less than 20% of their user passwords were leaked". I take that to mean that not all rows were exposed, but only some - that's why I am intrigued as to whether the query was shut off mid stream, or the bulk download of exported data was detected and cut off or similar?
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That's often a harder task than the actual machine learning. Also, the reason why established big companies have another upper hand in this space.
Let's look at some August 24, 2006 posts from the peanut gallery...

Here's a skeptical comment[1] from Slashdot that was scored by that community as "5:Insightful":

>"Sun's grid effort has pretty much laid an egg. Perhaps I have the economics wrong, but isn't it more cost effective to build your own cluster out of discarded PCs?"

As counterpoint, here's a positive comment[2] to that same announcement that was more enthusiastic about the possibilities:

>Jeremy Wright • 10 years ago: Holy @#$@... We were about to move to Rackspace mainly for uptime support.

If you take Jeremy Wright's research into the new economics of cloud computing and multiply it by a hundred thousand like-minded people, you can trace a direct line from that kind of post to the Rackspace sale to private equity that made the HN front page yesterday[3]. The seeds of Rackspace's sale 10 years later were sowed from the very moment of Amazon's EC2 beta announcement.

[1]https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194921&cid=15971136

[2]http://disq.us/p/16wj3u

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12365956
iup? It's uglier than Tk though.
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That's a valid distinction to make, but as long as you accept that small punishments like fines will have the full force of the legal system behind them, it's disingenuous to pretend the punishment for not paying taxes is anything other than a fine backed by the legal system.

Or in other words: You started the discussion by saying it's terrible to "threaten to throw someone in prison" for X. The normal interpretation of that phrase is that the direct punishment you get is prison. But that's not true, the direct punishment you get is a fine. The sense in which you could go to prison is equivalent to the statement "the law is actually enforced". You have to fight pretty hard to end up in prison over it. It's not a violation of human rights to have some fees for things, and it's not a violation of human rights that laws are actually enforced.
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I fail to see how it's a violation of human rights to make fraud illegal.
Well, they teach us in schools about that family, so this is kinda common knowledge in russia
The article claims "Over the years Yerofey Sedov looked out for 71-year-old Agafya", but it fails to mention that Agafia did not find him helpful and that he did a 'sinful act' and blackmailed her. https://youtu.be/tt2AYafET68?t=1141
If you liked the sound of this article, there is even better news:

* solar panel prices have dropped a whole lot in 2016 already. Chinese PV panels now cost about 43 cents a watt. Production costs are around 37 cents a watt. (that's for Jinko Solar)

* utility solar is seeing improvements in construction (more robots), cable management, medium voltage something or other at the power plant, etc.

* China PV makers are moving to PERC and maybe more to Mono. This means a little more efficiency. First solar supposedly has their CdTe response.

* be careful before you go and invest in solar. (FSLR, SPWR, JKS, CSIQ, JASO) As I learned, there is a coming shakeout in 2017. The long term extension of the ITC in the US ironically caused a slowdown in deployment b/c utilities are no longer under the gun to receive the ITC. China also lowered their subsidies for the second half of 2016. Meanwhile PV makers increased production.
My point is not about how you got there. My point is that you undervalue what you have.

Perhaps the most important point, and one not made here elsewhere, is that merely the fact of starting to create a company will impact your existing revenue stream. You will instantly become distracted by "working on the company", and whatever your current magic formula is will suffer and revenue will go down. The moment you start to "make a company" your magic formula will get less and less magic until soon you've got 10 employees, a lease on an office, taxes, problems, a sales team, politics, accountants, hiring and recruiting, and then you need to feed that beast with ever increasing numbers, and you'll stop taking all that juicy cash for yourself because you'll be "investing it in the company", which is to say "spending it/getting rid of it". Your magic formula will be gone and you'll be just another ordinary company.

And if it did take ten years to get to this point then why the heck are you in such a damn hurry to change your situation.

I think what you should do is change the way you see your current position.

Currently you are WILDLY SUCCESSFUL. You seem desperate to risk that for what - greater success?

What you propose makes no sense. Just keep doing what you are doing. Keep raking cash off the table and start to think to yourself "wow, I'm one of the most successful people in business".

The problem for you is you are addicted to "entrepreneur porn" - you are reading about all these other people who run REAL companies, who EMPLOY people, have OFFICES, and INVESTORS and IPOs. All that stuff is nowhere near as valuable as it is made out to be. You have done the most incredible thing which is to pull in huge amounts of cash with none of that crap. Wow. But you seem to feel that it's not enough success. Readjust the way you see your achievements to date and readjust what the real value is of "having a company".
> triangles drawing triangles

Reminds me of a Sierpinski triangle[1]. Can you have a turtle infilled with the Sierpinski pattern, or maybe a Sierpinski triangle being drawn by a turtle?

Also, you could get a tattoo with something like:

to e :s :l
if :l>0[repeat 3[e :s/2 :l-1 fd :s rt 120]]
end
e 99 5

Which is Logo code to draw a Sierpinski triangle (main credit [2], you can demo at [3]).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle
[2]: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/10793
[3]: http://www.calormen.com/jslogo/
I just assumed this was the case. Seems like the most likely explanation to me, at least based on the technologists I know.
> the real primitives had to look out for predators (lions, tigers, etc), for other human attackers and so on.

I'm not sure what you're imagining pre-history to be like, but humans are generally the top of every food chain. It's also very rarely worth it to attack another human without desired resources. The big risk in Eurasia would be wolves, who would have to be very hungry. Non-pack animals usually are a threat when sleeping or to children, not an awake adult who can, well, walk away or climb a tree.

Point is: you're much more likely to die from starvation, infection, or disease while pursuing technology. Time was a major issue: any time not spent feeding yourself had better help you feed yourself later.
They do. Elon Musk's SolarCity for instance.
This sounds like a class action suit. There are sites for starting them, maybe the victims should start posting on them.
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So where is the FCC and its "20 year monitoring of Facebook's privacy policies" now?

Or was that just lip service to appease the public that Facebook is doing nothing wrong, because after all, it's being watched by the FCC?

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb...

By the way, even if what Facebook is doing now doesn't violate that settlement with the FCC, I'm 100% certain Whatsapp was already sharing phone contacts with Facebook many months before this policy change. So at least that should've violated the settlement. It's just that they didn't get caught doing it before any official noticed.

The reason I say I'm confident they were doing that is because I barely use Facebook at all on the PC, I never installed Facebook's app on my phone, and yet Facebook started suggesting me people I was talking to on Whatsapp to add as friends. And I've seen quite a few other people mention similar situations on the web as well.

Why is the FCC sleeping on the job?
AWS has offered fairly significant discounts to organizations I'm familiar with that are well over $1M+ / month in usage, but this discount pales in comparison to how much they have saved in labor and availability compared to internal managed IT even completely ignoring the business agility kinds of arguments.
Why not instead of terse mathematical notation use a simple visual representation using balls and teddies for clarity, especially for those who lack mathematical and coding education?

Anyone who wants to read articles that contain math should learn notation.
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Strange island that rotates on its own axis
It can be difficult to verify the quality of code in GitHub. Even well know products that work really well can be implemented with awful code. I suspect the vast majority of projects on GitHub are experimental and unfinished. Using this feature would be very unlike a system like Stack Overflow where there are strong incentives to provide good answers.

Still, if the user is aware of these pitfalls then it could be quite useful. Perhaps it could be improved if GitHub provided some incentive for developers to showcase their better work as 'known good' examples and let the community vote on the quality, similar to the Stack Overflow model.
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It's all about Making the World a Better Place™ ;)
I built something like this a couple of years ago for my own apartment hunt, but my IP got blacklisted. Has Craigslist changed their policy on scraping?
i3 already does multimonitor pretty well, iirc, and I don't have multiple monitors yet. Also, I really like i3's keyboard shortcuts. So I'll stick to i3 for now.

Honestly, I think i3 is probably closer to dwm than any of the others you mentioned, and I kind of like it for that. dwm goes a but too far with its configuratiob system, but i3 hits the sweet spot. I want my WM to work, and get out of my way: I have enough things to tinker with.

Although, if I'm ever convinced to go back from tiled managers, I may try sawfish. I do love lisp...
AWS is somewhat lucky in that its best market was primarily organizations where an offering like it was actually very simple and transparent is what is desired and that price / performance is not what it competes well upon. This is rather different from their main business that's very focused upon lowering costs and merely by being online is in its own way performance.

Internal IT in enterprise is so unbelievably terrible in the Fortune 500 that even the worst mass shared hosting provider probably offers more compelling value. Amazon didn't have much of a bar to cross in technicals as much as in value proposition to encourage a transition worth future benefits.
Wondering if Phiona, the subject of this film and book, might be able to transfer her chess talents to tech fields -- such as Cisco networking, open source programming, etc... Read the book. It's very well written.
While interruptions are bad for your own productivity, they may really boost the productivity of the person doing the interrupting. I'd rather have a junior dev interrupt me when he needs a quick answer to a question instead of spending an hour googling and copy-pasting a dangerous hack from Stack Overflow. What's the point of sitting in an office when you don't collaborate?

The trick I use to reduce the effect of interruptions is to not respond right away if I'm in the middle of something. I just say "I'm in the middle of something, let me just finish this!" and then I get back once I'm at a point where my "mental load" is reduced.
I also have neither, but it's extremely hard.

Some people will understand why you don't have Facebook, but not having WhatsApp is downright mad. Specially if you work with technology.

The only people I know that don't have it are luddites or very old people, and even they are far and few between.
The law disagrees with you virtually all over the world. What you call "theft" in the case of your example is called copyright infringement, and in the case of large scale infringement with a commercial motive it's called piracy. (Yet not within a UN or EU setting, due to actual seafaring pirates being mentioned in various treaties.)

These are facts I just presented to you, now please take into account that sensible people tend to discuss facts, and debate opinon; not the ohter way round because that would seem ehhwr, you probably get the point.

Besides the legal reality contradicting your statement, both ontological and metaphysical reality also contradicts you.
One of the characteristics or nature of "theft" is that the (previous) owner is being left empty handed... Due to the nature of a copy, this is clearly not the case.

Enough words spend on the ludicrous "theft" hollywood spindoktering "word". Let's be adults here.

Due to existing legislation, the so called rights holder has a reasonable expectation regarding the amount of income he can generate due to copyright legislation.
In almost every country, it's a legal principle to be able to draw certainty from the law.
This works out pretty well in almost every field of law yet it absolutely does not in the case of copyright legislation due to the fact that virtually everyone commits copyright infringement with incredible ease plus the fact that compelling people to comply with the law can basically only be properly executed post instating a surveilance/police state.

What we see here, is legislation dictating how we run our business, almost drafting complete businessmodels; followed by "promises" granted by this very same legislation not being uphold and potentially costing us a lot of money. This is a problem, and obviously undesireable.
Business should decide on their business models within the boundaries of the law. Not legislators. From this notion forward we might actually be capable of finding a solution that works for everyone.

Dropping words like "Theft", and criminalizing humanity while assaulting their associated rights and proclaiming that the current situation should be uphold is going to get us nowhere besides more of the same problems.
By now, 2016, it would no longer be strange to conclude that both friend & foe, citizen & creator, are done with that type of Sht and desire real solutions on the table a.s.a.p !

So please, i beg you. Next time in a similair situation; explain to people how potentially lost income plays a role in someone his daily life and how unfair this can be, add appropriate details, arguments, facts, whatever you like!
But please* cut the "theft" crap. Thank you in advance!
IIRC, that's exactly how it protects you: if your ssh drops, your buffer won't close. check the docs, though. I'm not 100% sure.
Last month I installed OpenBSD on my laptop, and was frustrated with its boot time.
I'm using an SSD. Debian 8 with KDE boots up in a matter of seconds. OpenBSD on the other hand needed at least 20 seconds to boot up.

I had done some research at the time, and came to the conclusion that it was systemd that allowed Linux to boot up so fast.

What is your experience with OpenRC?
This video explains it better than I can: http://www.securitytube.net/video/1084 Changing Threats To Privacy From Tia To Google (Blackhat 2010) by Moxie Marlinspike

The relevant part:

"I think if you look at the way that people tend to organise in groups and communities, there are often informal communications networks that bind them together, that allow them to communicate, make plans, coordinate activities. If you introduce something like the GSM cellular network to this group, and if I start using it, I am subject to something that is very well known called the No Network Effect. If I am the only one with a cell phone it's really not worth very much. The value of the network is in the number of people that are connected to it and that if I'm the only one I can't really communicate with anyone.

However if I somehow manage to get everyone to start using my communications network it becomes very effective and very valuable. But there is an interesting side effect, which is that the old informal mechanisms people use to communicate and to collaborate disappear, that they are destroyed by the introduction of technology. The technology actually changes the social fabric of how people communicate and coordinate. Mobile phones, there are many obvious examples. People used to make plans, they would say: "I'll meet you on this street corner at this time on this day and, you know, we'll do something" and now people say "I'll call you when I'm getting off work" or "I'll text you" and if you don't have a mobile phone you can't really participate in this type of organisation and you begin to find yourself kind of alone. Because if I now make a choice not to be a part of this cellular network, there is sort of an interesting thing where once again I am subject to the no network effect. The network that used to exist, the informal communications channels, has been destroyed.

So yes, I made a choice to have a mobile phone, but what kind of choice did I make? I think this is sort of an interesting phenomenon. What happens is a choice is introduced; it starts as a very simple choice: the choice of whether or not to have a mobile phone, a simple piece of technology. But slowly things happen to expand the scope of that choice until eventually it's so big as to encompass not just whether you have a mobile phone or not but whether you want to be a part of society. In some ways the choice to have a mobile phone today has become not necessarily just whether you have a piece of consumer electronics in your pocket but whether or not you are even a part of society, and that's a much bigger choice. Maybe not one that we should have to make, or at least maybe one that isn't really a choice at all."

END QUOTE

There's some irony here now that Moxie has teamed up with Facebook to work on WhatsApp.
Mostly that it removes carbon from the atmosphere, I would think.
What you'll notice is that Lignite (=Brown Coal)+Nuclear+Biomass+Water (i.e. the base generation) are sitting at the lowest point of consumption for the day.

Solar will only be able to increase (without storage) until there is no black coal used.
I went hunting for a flat a while ago here in New Zealand, I gave up pretty quickly and just ended up staying with relatives. I've now moved cities and I live in a backpackers because I can't be bothered finding a flat (plus interesting people here!).

It's just so draining to have to contact all these people, and view their places. I guess it's like job hunting, except you're paying money. It doesn't help that I'm not very good with strangers.