skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see what you mean by Linux desktop systems being less stable than OS X, but I don't recognize what you say about it being difficult to tell whether a change you make is going to cause trouble. Things may crash if you do something weird, but "something weird" generally involves funny commands, not desktop settings.

The trouble with Windows is that there is just so much crap available for it. Everyone is trying to get market share and sell licenses, show ads or co-install crap from other people, who are also trying to get market share, and the cycle continues.

On Linux this could never happen because that kind of software wouldn't make it into the repositories. So while I know what you mean about Linux desktops being less stable than the two most mainstream operating systems, there are a hundred other things that can't go wrong on Linux, making it a lot more "foot-gun safe".
Well the potential audience is small, that's true for most TV shows out of the bat which is why competition is so hard.

Any show that can't be turned on at a random moment for some entertainment will be at a disadvantage which is why various talk shows/entertainment shows are usually the most popular ones.
And as far as serials go then vanilla shows tend to work best, this is why NCIS is one of the most popular shows even tho it's pretty darn dumb (I still like it somewhat, tho it used to be better, I can't deal with skinny Tim).

Scifi and Fantasy shows have not to only perform well but to outperform their competition by a mile because they are so expensive to make (a sitcom or a run of the mil cop drama costs nothing), same goes for historical/periodic shows which is why Rome got canceled (it actually was more expensive than GoT with the exclusion of maybe the last season of Got) and since the licensing was shared between BBC and HBO neither saw enough revenue to continue pouring so much money into it.

But yeah Fox butchered Firefly this is was one of the ads for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1iWbgQUpRo they sold it as a kick ass action show and the people who tuned in were dissapointed, it had action but it was more of a goofy space comedy than a serious thriller.
Yes. No computers ship with them, and haven't since the 90s. They are a super niche product.
Yep, true... however note that the current Redis incarnation of NNs don't use RNNs nor convolutional NNs that are the big news in the area, it's mostly stuff that was accessible 10 years ago or more. Just computers are now a lot faster even without GPUs, so that small feed forward NNs can be trained in little time and show that they can be pretty useful, especially in a context where the data ingestion and training are encapsulated into an easy to use API.

Nothing prevents us from incorporating more advanced NNs into Redis as a foundation for the API provided by Neural Redis, however with certain problems users face, they may not make much difference, but we'll try to explore new solutions.
> (If you can't see the infographic above check your ad blocking software hasn't mistakenly blocked it.)

uBlock Origin did indeed block it. Could someone explain this website would continue to use a layout that they knew was being blocked by major ad blockers?
In fact this is a common trick people use to make coke slushies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T68TvdoSbI
OT but F-16s look great even after all these years. Did it have a principle airframe designer?
Maybe I am confused.

At some point as the World chooses cheaper oil supplies and eventually runs to a new enegry source that is not oil. That trend is not something anyone nation can prevent, it will happen within the full next 100 years.

The worry is not that Saudi Arabia and Iran will collapse..that is going to happen in the next 100 years.
The concern is right now Saudi Arabia and Iran officially are still at undeclared war with Israel.. does any regime give us a worse set-up in the undeclared war with Israel?

But having both as failed stats woudl be something worse
How is Adam Baldwin vicious in real life?
I think browsers shouldn't really have tabs in the first place. That's the job of a window manager. And then you can decide which one to use. Do you want tiling or floating windows? Do you want workspaces? Stacked, tabbed, side-by-side layouts? Hotkeys or UI for navigation? Performance or features? And so on.
It worked fine for me!

I've had MacOS updates bork my machine and it was never News.
I am afraid Windows will "fix" this whenever this gets more popular though.
I always think of the universe as multiverse, so time travel doesn't seem paradoxical to me.
Totally agree, it was a great show. You can really see in the second season how the they dithered over killing it.

I believe it was originally set to be only 2 seasons, which is fine.

Then they decided to extended it, so they added the Sophie plot.

Then the execs changed their minds and cancelled it anyway without wrapping up the new plot. Doh!

Whilst I was sad Rome only had 2 seasons at least it's fairly self contained and ends well.

Deadwood though has to be my top pick for a bad incomplete ending.
I consider myself lucky to not be forced to use Windows: as a developer, everything I need runs on Linux. Haven't had trouble with updates or other crap from vendors ever since.
I agree that there are benefits to consumers to have an analog interface - I just don't see any incentives for vendors to implement then. (Aside from vendors serving niche markets as you described)
Consumer's life is fast and boring, so he cannot wait to entertain himself. I think it is called positive feedback.
Brittle is really the only way I can describe it. It's the only platform where simply installing something has rendered the system non-booting, there are hundreds or more of config files and often changing one will break another system. And I fully admit this might be self-inflicted, but its been my experience.

It's by no means a bad platform, but its not for me. I want a system where I need to do as little as possible to configure it, an I just want it to work. On my windows and macOS systems, I can completely wipe the machine, and be back up and running in a few hours.
Sleepless nights with MongoDB WiredTiger and our return to MMAPv1
Windows 10 is an absolute mess, and I would recommend a Linux distribution (Fedora in particular) over it even for the casual user. Nowadays Fedora just works.
Information is Beautiful Awards
Oh yeah, HP is totally in Microsoft's circle of friends. When they violated the EULA on Windows, Microsoft was like "oh but that's just a minor thing, we don't mind."
And we'll note that browsers usually write the stream to the disk and it stays there for an unbounded amount of time, so streaming is equivalent to downloading [most of the time].
In the current iteration, this only implements feed forward neural networks -- which are basic and can only resolve basic correlations.

For more advanced stuff (like image or video processing) you have to move to recurrent neural networks.
>Genetics and hard work are vastly inferior to information

All the more reason to make internet access a free commodity .
GitHub Dumps REST Calls for Facebook’s GraphQL
Racist much? I don't think a black schoolteacher or principal would have fared any better. But you, a typical racist on Hacker News, connects "black" and "janitor" reflexively.
>Most dev teams probably run Redis in production

Nope.
I have updated three computers -- a Lenovo laptop, a surface book, and a custom desktop -- all without any issues.

Its important to remember that everyone with a problem will make sure to say something, but everyone without a problem usually moves on and doesn't talk about it. Its extraordinarily easy to assume that everything is broken just because only people whom it broke for are talking about it.
You are asking this about a site called adlove?
Meerkat built a new app under a pseudonym, and almost 1M people are using it
Maybe somebody can elaborate on the fine distinction of Skill vs Talent?

Skill: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skill

Talent: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/talent

I'm slightly confused as both these entries in Wiktionary sound like each other!
Ask HN: Do my Google searches affect search results for other users?
ASK HN: I've been digging into someones past life and some of the obscure things I've found are starting to show up higher in search results. Some stuff is now showing up with searches on related names. If that's customized for me it's fine, but I don't want to end up doxing this person for anyone who types their name into Google. I'm not logged in to any Google stuff when I do this, and the changes seem to appear on all my devices. Am I rewiring Googles brain for everyone?
Not exactly what OP mentioned, but [1] is a potential starting point to look into. I didn't even know there were functional (as opposed to morphological) areas of the brain already mapped to a precision that size could be accurately compared between samplings, but there seems to be some MRI-based work on that [2]. Anything I could find on the changes between generations of the functional areas of the brain are along the lines of [3], at evolutionary time scales instead of successive generations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_brain

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705206/

[3] http://www.indiana.edu/~brainevo/publications/annurev.anthro...
I think that may depend on the kind of changes you want to make.

As a concrete example, on stock Debian stable, uninstalling LibreOffice and then updating and upgrading will result in the package manager cheerfully offering to uninstall most of the Gnome desktop. This is because of LibreOffice being a dependency of the gnome-desktop meta-package. There are ways around it.

My personal experience is that if I stay with the default desktop packages and just add things I need, the stability is quite good.
So is the government actually suing this guy or is the EFF just asking a court to say they can't in the future?
To encourage people to turn the blocker off. The ones that leave instead probably aren't worth a lot of revenue anyway.
11 Reasons Why Business Plan Competitions Should Die
It's in there, sixth equal just after Deadwood on the list of "highest average IMDB rating among canceled shows".

Damn good show it was too. Of all of the great series' that have been cut short, Carnivale was the one that I most wish hadn't been.
Mozilla wants to remove the whole plugin API that these tools were depending. And some of the reasons are "Plugins are a source of performance problems, crashes, and security incidents for Web users."[1]

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plu...
I had this exact same issue for two seperate updates (they didn't like a dual boot - same fix as yours). This is what convinced me to finally uninstall windows.
I think that someone with a good knowledge of reinforcement learning should give his opinion about exploitation versus exploration. First comment is about being strangled into a local maximum.
Good heavens, what was it that you installed!
Yeah I'm aware of Excelsior, but it would be cool to see AOT in OpenJDK.
> PAPD took (eg legally stole) about $500 from him during an arbitrary traffic stop

A very similar thing happened to myself and my uncle…in Mexico.
Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change
"Where Have All the Phantoms Gone?" (2008) is a good personal story about the QF-4's:

http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/where-have-all-...
Agreed. For many prediction / classification tasks you don't need much feature engineering. Or much data for that matter ;)
Maybe it would help to know a bit about your background. I get the feeling that the SDK+Petalinux workflow is aimed at FPGA/Hardware engineers.

I use Vivado to build the bitstream for my Zynq board, but then just treat it as another ARM dev board and build the OS for it myself. Once the OS has booted you can compile your "hello world" application on the board itself.
Interesting case, with a lot of grey areas. I'd say there definitely are some differences between p2p (i.e. torrenting) downloading and streaming, where in p2p you are also actively distributing the illegal content, in contrast to streaming where you are only a consumer.

There's also the fact that the user has no real way of knowing if the content they're are watching is legal or not (most display ads before, like youtube), heck netflix could stream pirated content and no regular user would really know (not saying they do ofc).

Furthermore, in the case of streaming a clear target is the site that provides the stream, which is a lot easier to target than whatever user ends up watching it.
There are many parts of government that I disagree with, including many that I consider immoral. That's why it's important to participate in the political process. Government and law can be changed; it's a slow process and it requires a lot of work, but it's possible.

Picking and choosing where your taxes go a terrible idea, because government isn't à la carte[1]. Everybody has their own opinion on what they don't want to pay for, such as the religious fanatics that don't want to cover certain medical items (e.g. some types of birth control). The "market" is not a law of nature that fixes everything, so you're really advocating for a failed government where nothing is properly funded.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSQCH1qyIDo#t=170
This was 2003 no TiVo even, and Fox doesn't really do traditional syndication.

Scifi is expensive to make a scifi show has to outperform the competition to survive simply because of production costs.

This is why Shows like Buffy or X-Files worked because they didn't really need anything to set up the world, no need for expensive sets or special effects (buffy had some but you could always just do a filler episode with not much going on to balance the seasonal budget) a high school/small town setting and rural new jersey with a few wind breakers and 2 rental cars isn't going to break anyone's bank.

And also when Fox did try to monetize fans, the fans didn't coughed up the cash, Serenity made 25M at the US box office just to put it into perspective, xXx State of the Union and freaking DOOM made more money than Serenity.
By that logic rape porn should be illegal too. And many movies and video games of realistic violence / gore.

And that may be part of the argument, but I think the official position of the justice department is that each time a child porn image is viewed, additional harm is inflicted upon the victim in the image.
There is another way - disable windows update service. I use this and every month or so I enable it to update.
On average, probably four out of five work days a week for me.

My phone already indexes all of my podcasts and audiobooks, why wouldn't I want it to play them everywhere?
This is similar to the argument made in German law, which explicitly excludes (rough description) "transient copies that only exist as a detail of the technical transfer method" from protection.

AFAIK mostly intended to stop people nitpicking technical details (e.g. claiming that you infringed on copyright on an image that you are allowed to view, but did not have explicit permission to create a copy of it in your browser cache, or javascript in a website, ...), it also is used to defend streaming.
I'm feeling the same way.
Pretty cool, never thought of using it "positively", because when it happened to me randomly, popping the bottle cap trigger a less cute reaction, it basically grew solid tentacles toward the bottom, it was a bit horrifying. I thought it was some bacterial algae ... It became just weird as the busboy brought another one and we saw the same thing happen and the other employees just laughed realizing I just didn't know.
I would also suggest The R Inferno.
A previous interesting discussion of Abbot's Flatland: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11890436

And the article that sparked it: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/19/aspiring-to-a-highe...
Probably confusing with Alec Baldwin.
Let's hope no cardboard was used in constructing this OS.

In all seriousness, I've been meaning to play around with 9front so maybe this weekend is the time I'll finally get around to it
Eh, there's a lot of close-minded ignorance, intolerance and hate on the "liberal" side as well. Nobody and no shading of the political spectrum has a monopoly on being shitty people.
"Next up, live fire testing moves to Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. The military will ultimately use QF-16s for weapons testing and other aerial training."

http://www.boeing.com/features/2013/09/bds-qf16-09-23-13.pag...
That will only lead to more tax money being funnelled into law enforcement instead of public services.
I must be an exception, I use Windows insider builds daily for development on 2 PCs (one desktop and a laptop,a quite old one too) and other than virtualbox breaking with some updates which is easily resolved by updating virtualbox itself I never had any issues.
So, black people looting black people stores is a protest against the white system? I truly appreciate the huge mental gymnastics going on there.
I believe it was Docker! Through apt-get on an otherwise standard debian distro in a VM.

Never did figure out what happened, I ended up just hopping over to a debian laptop and doing it there and it worked fine.
You would be surprised how many people click on ads but say they don't. They just filter out that information and forget.
The problem is that - as a user - there is no other way to know whether a faulty update affects a significant number of users (or even just a small group of users that you happen to be a part of)

The only one with telemetry to obtain unbiased numbers is microsoft, and they might refuse to publish that data for PR reasons - or simply organisational ones. So what's a user to do?
<All advertising aims to triangulate

I was in fortune 10 and never heard of that.

Be cautious adlove that you don't become some ceos appetitizers when he or she brings years of advertising budget approvals and tears this apart.

Reminds me of when a "new advertising" program was going to do something new: Bundle.

The VP simple said "it's not new. The Japanese car manufactures bundled and beat US manufactures. Show me something new!" The VP continued and asked how many from the advertising staff was old enough to purchase an American car in the 70's. None.
Same here I'm surprised with all these posts describing issues I never experience, either we're exceptions or people facing problems are indeed louder.
> I wonder why they don't try to create more inventory.

They can't exactly conjure up more undeveloped land in the middle of Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal.

> AFAIK Canada has a lot of land

Yeah, where almost no one wants to live. 90% of the Canadian population lives within 100km of the US-Canada border.

If you ask people abroad about major Canadian cities, everyone knows of Vancouver and Toronto. Some people also mention Montreal and Ottawa, but after that very few people can name other cities (e.g. Calgary, Quebec City, Winnipeg)

> and a housing boom

Many people are now warning that Canada has a housing bubble. Given the country's history of policies, I wouldn't trust them to handle it well. The mortgage and banking industry are not as powerful as they are in America, but they have influence.

I grew up in Canada but am currently living abroad, so I get to talk to a lot of foreigners on their opinion/knowledge of Canada.
I'm not sure that makes a difference here, since a lot of the issues reported are with Surface devices.

At my org we found that Surface+WSUS+ Anniversary Update=dead Surface... And this is just 2 weeks after they fixed the issue where the batteries would stop charging.
Estate taxes are, in my humble opinion, unmediated evil. Retaxing generational wealth and savings that have already been taxed once as income is unconscionable, and unfairly penalizes those who are fiscally responsible and actually do save.
Life expectancy at 53 in USA is 27 and 30.5 years for men and women, respectively. Especially given that older people are wealthier than others, MLB won't be in trouble for a long time.
These are all from different countries. Just a quick image search. Would a visitor from another planet be entirely wrong to deduce that local regime propaganda aside, all governments have assumed a paramilitarized posture towards their citizens?

http://media.presstv.com/photo/20160325/1bd21648-c58b-4d39-a...

http://media.presstv.com/photo/20160323/f17b570b-68b6-4d7d-9...

http://media.presstv.com/photo/20150519/76bdc4b0-98ca-42b1-b...

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200704/r137524_467947.jpg

http://worldnews.indywatch.org/archiver/worldnews.indywatch....
I will say this. When it came time to upgrade my home laptop OS from win 7. I chose Elementary OS. As win 10 was seen to be full [edit: Of] MS spyware. That was the impression anyway. I haven't regretted that decision once. To be fair I was considering the move to Linux anyway.
I do this since Windows XP and it always worked. I don't know why so many were writing that updates can't be disabled anymore.
I think there's a kind of reverse effect to the one you described as well: several of the shows on that list had a weak performance during the early part of the season when they were cancelled but then picked up later, presumably after the decision had already been made and it was too late to renew for another season. Watching right through on a streaming service or box set, you remember the strong final episodes, but those probably weren't even considered yet by the time the show was canned.
I didn't have much success hiring a mentor. The people I wanted to give money to were too busy, or didn't want to take my money for personal reasons (being held accountable for me actually learning, feeling I couldn't afford it, etc.)

If I were to learn programming over again, I'm not sure if hiring a mentor would be a strategy I would pursue.
Talent is the input, skill is the output.

(Talent is what makes one start better or learn quicker)
Can't find anything nefarious on Alec's Wiki page but found this on Adam's[1]:

Baldwin is credited with having originated the GamerGate hashtag.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Baldwin
ALF was moved from Monday to Saturday and the ratings crashed. The show ended on the cliffhanger where ALF is caught by the military. Everybody assumed the show would be renewed, but it was cancelled. NBC exec Brandon Tartikoff later regretted cancellation feeling the show should have gone another season or two.
I hope stuff like this becomes something anyone could have access to, I'm super curious to learn more about how I think and how my brain works, I'd love to be able to just go to the mall and get a brain barcode and fmri done, heh. :)
Another possible source of speculative chaos might be any fallout if Deutsche Bank collapses. I have seen some really negative news articles about DB lately.
Thanks for the comment. Haven't watched it, guess I ought to.
> Its extraordinarily easy to assume that everything is broken

Just like it's easy to assume that everything is fine. Both are fallacies where personal experience is projected on everyone.

This is why it's important to have the choice to use or not use automatic updates. You cannot centrally manage the incredible complexity of all possible PC configurations and use cases; the decision about when to install updates needs to be made locally (which includes the option of deferring that choice to the vendor).
Ok. Now I ask you a question: how do you definitely disable the Windows firewall and Cortana? After every update they are enabled again.
Unrelated to the article and discussion of policing, but how does money work in border towns? Do towns close to the border accept both forms of currency? Do people just carry both? Does using a credit card just do the conversion behind the scenes?