skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have heard this statement so many times and I feel it doesn't justify the truth. Here are some counter points. Nokia came back into my view when they started launching the Lumia phones. It was slick, fast and solid phones with amazing camera. Any mention of Nokia here on HN and Reddit before that was met with DOA as the top comment. When they started releasing the Lumia phones, the tune started to switch to "if they made an android phone, I would totally buy!". Remember the whole silly fiasco with even Siri calling Lumia 900 the best phone in the market? [1]

I think Microsoft gave it a premiere spot with Windows Mobile which would have otherwise gone unnoticeable in the Android market. Despite me jumping ship from Windows Phone, I still believe Windows Mobile was one of the best (*subjective) of all mobile OSes. Its extremely fast, less resource hog and well designed (flatness before it got trendy). Given the stereotypes about Windows OS, the mobile OS seemed nothing like it. Heck, I bought a $15 Lumia phone from Best buy and it seems like a $200 buttery smooth phone.

Lumia also had good set of apps, which created an amazing group of loyal buyers.
Offline GPS - You could download the maps for the entire world on your phone.
Offline Radio - Download the entire mix radio to you phone and use it where you went.
Camera Apps - Nokia cinematography, Live Images, Selfie, Panorama.

However, I do believe that Microsoft's Nokia buyout was a stupid idea. Nokia was amazing at advertising, viral marketing and creating a brand loyalty. Microsoft however sucks at both advertisements and marketing but they seem to be very good at pissing off even their loyal followers.

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/255508/siri_says_nokia_lumia_...
Yep it is completely immoral in this case.

In reddit's case they were providing real content, just created by them. In this case the content is completely fake.

I also think this would be harmful to the business. I have very few interactions with a service before I make a judgement on them, if most of my interactions go nowhere (as would be the case if they are fake) I would stop using the service.

However if the service was just slow I would be likely to still use it, just check it less frequently.

Of course one viable way of adding content would be to repost content from other sites - with suitable indications of course.
Face. In China (and Asia in general) it is perfectly acceptable to LIE in your face if the alternative could be embarrassing. Dont know something? Lie. Competition is better? Lie. Will miss the deadline? Lie with a wide smile while shaking your hand. Lying itself is _not_ embarrassing.
Better to have multiple, competitive companies vacuuming up the information than 1 company.
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Samsung only recently have gotten really strong, early Android days HTC was the king with Motorola being a close second.
I'm not sure, while Microsoft didn't sell that well (or well not at all), they did ship quite a few of pretty high end devices, Nokia has probably shipped more high end devices than Samsung prior to the S6/7.
Top 20 Data Science and Data Analysis Books
I heard about tup a while back and finally attempted to look into it today and try replacing some of my Makefile's with Tupfile's. Unfortunately my googling and researching all seem to indicate that tup simply doesn't support any type of .PHONY targets. To that end, `tup` also doesn't seem to support even "basic" stuff (from my POV) like a `clean` and `install` target - which is fine, except that without .PHONY targets you can't add support for such things in your Tupfile's. Even the tup project's Tupfile doesn't support any way of directly installing it, I had to just copy the files by hand.

IMO that's just a killer for me, which stinks because I don't really feel like such a feature should be that complicated, but the developers seem to take the stance that phony targets, and `clean` and `install` are unnecessary.
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http://animarathon.com/node/14821
Notebook.ai: a notebook for worldbuilding that grows and collaborates with you
Do you feel like you are using your PhD being a lead developer?
Putting my VB6 Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store
I'd recommend switching to talk radio. It would be far too easy to flag and filter syndicated television.
In this post, we have scraped various signals (e.g. reviews sentiments, online ratings, topics covered in the book, author influence in the field, year of publication, price, social media signals etc.) from web for more than 100's of Data Science books.

We have combined all signals to compute a Quality Score for each book using Machine Learning algorithms and published the list of Top 20 Data Science books.
If anything has ever needed a citation, it's that little gem. Suburbs are about the most dangerous place in the world for cyclists. You have lots of traffic, unlike the country, but it's moving really fast and unaccustomed to anything on the road but cars, unlike the city.

Source: lived in US suburbs most of my life. Still have a rib that aches some mornings from when I got hit years ago (the driver was shocked when I started calling the police).
https://voat.co/v/pennstatevmichigan/comments/1321539
1. Government website gets hacked

2. Government blames North Korea

3. ???

4. Profit! Err, I mean, government support goes up.

Well, maybe North Korea did it, maybe it didn't, but the current state of South Korean politics created a perverse incentive structure. The more severely the government is hacked (or otherwise attacked by North Korea), the more it is politically rewarded.

So, expect nothing to change any time soon.
Casio sold some a while ago https://youtu.be/qZ7TUJQjH74?t=68
Slightly unrelated to your offer but I am curious that you have lots of PhDs. Is this a requirement for the position or is it just by chance?
I warned Goodluck Jonathan about recession
One thing that worked for me was volunteering. I didn't volunteer to meet people, I only volunteered because I had time and wanted to do something useful. I met very interesting people this way, which was a surprise (to me) side effect. Another awesome thing is the type of people you get to meet - they are friendlier, more sincere and nicer than the ones you meet at normal networking (meetup.com, bars etc) events.
When I built https://emailoctopus.com I was in a different full-time role. Unless such a clause is written in my contract, why should anything I do in my spare time need sign off from an employer?
May have to try Visual Assist again since ReSharper moved to this awful licensing model and is getting increasingly slower with every release.
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Bike lanes and signs are important, but perhaps more than all that is just having lots of other cyclists. When drivers become accustomed to looking for cyclists, or even are more likely to be cyclists themselves who happen to be driving at the moment, it makes a world of difference.
I unplug at the gym.
As someone who uses visual studio at work everyday I often find it incredibly slow and thats even without any extensions. I am curious if you use VS do you use it on windows severs or are you running windows 10? Also as far as the slowness often how large are you projects? Do you run your TFS work space local or server?
It would be funny to let it listen to a Numbers Station[1] all day long. If they are actually listening and processing, it might make for a fun feedback loop particularly of any theories about those stations are true.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Well, the bay is big. I was unfortunate enough to work in Newark (CA) for about 8 months and got yelled at a lot just riding from Fremont BART to my job. Working in SF was much better, unsurprisingly.
>there is a crisis of unreasonable expectations and spoiled people.

We do have a crisis of entitlement: people feel entitled to hold the vertical space in their neighborhoods empty when it is worth much more than they're willing to pay.

The unreasonable luxuries being demanded here are unobstructed views and a cozy small-town feeling for the price of one house purchased decades ago, when they are worth the price of several dozen skyscrapers.
Think it's a "process Graph"... and Process ID 1 is systemd on the[/her] machine.
Edit: turns Out, she explains:
[...]systemd: rkt will run a program called systemd-nspawn as the init (PID 1) process inside your container. This is because it can be bad to run an arbitrary process as PID 1[0] -- your process isn't expecting it and will might react badly. It also run some systemd-journal process? I don't know what that's for yet.[...]"

[0] https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2016/01/dumb-init-an-init-f...
Have you ever used the N97 and an iPhone 3g?

The N97 had a touchscreen with a higher resolution than the iPhone 3g, the camera was considerably better, it had more storage and an SD card, could record and play video, could be easily connected to a TV, had a better browser (w/ flash support which was important 7-8 years ago), heck many of the early apps like Facebook worked considerably better on the N97...

The N97 also had things like notifications, widgets and many other things before they came to the iPhone.

What it didn't had is a good app store.

Browser comparison N97 vs iPhone 3G https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9HmJgPRbW0
Here is a technical overview of the Software radio approach to satcom.

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/679473/20514128/134930...
You're the one who asked me what you should call the people that murdered your grandmother because of her race since I'm using the term "racist" too loosely for your taste.

I'm saying, call them racists just like the people today that would gladly return to a time where people get killed just because of their race, as evident by their espoused politics.
I just looked up the sizes of steak...

It turns out that the steaks that my flatmates eat in a well balanced diet are much smaller than most pictures I can find online.

I'll be honest, if my meal was so large that a 20th bite of something that was a third of the plate was coming up I would be much more inclined to share my plate than I am now.
good time to job hop
I have some feedback for you.

First, your business has to solve a very intense chicken or the egg problem. Quality freelancers will not join until there are good projects. And you won't get good projects until you have quality freelancers. In freelancing, the problem is even more difficult to solve as both sides of the exchange require quite a large investment in time. Listing yourself as a freelancer (and building a high quality listing) takes work. And listing a project also takes work. This is an obscenely difficult problem to solve and networking alone will not get you there.

Second, you decided to enter a market with a ton of competition. Your competitors range from the simple but effective (Craiglist) to the complicated but mostly useless. People who list projects are wise to the game - they know that most sites deliver shit. And freelancers are also wise. Whenever I've joined a freelancer website, I've been inundated with 'offers' to do 200 hours of work for $500 USD. How do you provide better value to both sides of the market?

Third, your website is quite bad. If I just navigated there by chance, I'd have no idea what I was even looking at. Much less would I have any idea what to actually do. Your language and choice of words betray a serious lack of professionalism. Work on your copy a touch and maybe find someone to read it over - preferably someone who will tell you the unvarnished truth.

Consider:

"Due to some amount of trolling on the site, filters to be implemented and the site will be cleaned up within the next 24 hours."

That's not only a grammatical nightmare, but you're coming right out and telling people not to trust you!

Or, consider "no bullshit listings for freelancers." At best, that's an extremely unprofessional attempt to sound edgy and hip.

Good luck with this!! You seem like a good person and I'd love to see you fix this (badly broken) business.
MySQL gained popularity in the late 90s/early 2000s because they took the opposite tactic to PostgreSQL. While PostgreSQL aimed to be a complete SQL rdbms and then become a fast one MySQL aimed to be fast then complete. Also MySQL chose defaults suitable for web application hosting so needed little out of the box configuration.

This meant MySQL was popular in the dotcom boom, and certainly with PHP developers. So MySQL got mindshare even if it has many flaws. Similar to how perl was the language to use in the early web days.
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I might as well call them "people", in that case. The term racist has no real impact if it's used as loosely as you're using it.
While not exactly a debate -- more of a fundamental difference in outlook -- these are interesting, completely opposite claims:

Bob Harper[1]:

> There is an alternative… without… reference to an underlying machine… [W]e adopt a linguistic model of computation, rather than a machine model, and life gets better! There is a wider range of options for expressing algorithms, and we simplify the story of how algorithms are to be analyzed.

Leslie Lamport[2]:

> Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts. Computer science should be about concepts, not languages. … State machines… provide a uniform way to describe computation with simple mathematics. The obsession with language is a strong obstacle to any attempt at unifying different parts of computer science.

[1]: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/languages-a...

[2]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/s...
Oops, right. Too bad you can't edit a tweet.
I'm having issues with Variety's website being awful.

I previously read another take on that source on AndroidPolice[1] where it was framed more as "If you include Google Home you cannot include another Digital Assistant (e.g. Alexa)" which makes a lot more sense (obviously you can't have two assistants running at once) - though allowing it to be switchable would be nice.

It'll be interesting to see what the truth of the matter is.
Lithium isn't in the top 10 most abundant chemical elements in the universe ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem... ). The most abundant, of course, is hydrogen, making up close to 74% of all the baryonic mass, followed by helium ~24%. Lithium can be fused into heavier elements and the conversion happens efficiently in stellar environments where it is produced.

For every 10^6 atoms of silicon, there are only 10^3 atoms of lithium in the Earth's crust ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth... ).
the vast majority of defendants plead guilty before trial because (1) there's a shit-ton of evidence of guilt and (2) they'll get a much better deal than going to trial. If you know you're going down, why not plead to three years now instead of five after trial?

Invoking your right to counsel as early as possible solves #1.

I know the media (and prosecutors themselves) like to portray prosecutors as zealous, aggressive advocates who go after crimes no matter how thing -- but the reality is that as a group they are political, timid and ass-covering. They only bring cases they know they can win because a loss is extremely embarrassing and sometimes career ending. And not coincidentally, this is part of the prosecutor's ethical obligation: to only bring cases where there is a ton of evidence of guilt.
"I can't deal with the details because all humans are equal"

You appear to have misquoted. The word was not details; it was death:

“I saved lives because I can’t deal with unnecessary deaths — I just can’t,” he told me. “All humans are equal, whatever their origins, their beliefs, their skin color,” he later added. “There are no superiors, no inferiors. That is not acceptable for me.”
They had talk, voice, buzz, hangouts ... have a messenger app ... now 2 more ... all of them incomplete, slow, confusing, ugly ... it's amazing how, with the immense budget they have and with so many smart people , they cannot come up with something decent

These 2 new apps are destined to fail

I still use hangouts cause it's linked with Gmail ... but I hate it cause it's slow and unreliable
Rivers were deprecated and removed from 2.0. The syncing story isn't terrible but it's not as simple as it used to be.
The best modern analysis of Dijkstra's original letter I've seen is is David Tribble's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful: A Retrospective" which dissects it line by line and explains it in the historical context in which Dijkstra wrote it.

http://david.tribble.com/text/goto.html
Interesting that she's got a full body.
At the end of the day it boils down to consistently making content and publishing it in multiple channels. Read Content Machine by Dan North and Authority by Nathan Barry. Both books give you really good insight into how to make "sticky" content. You will need to write articles on Medium.com and answer Quora.com questions - each piece should reference each other creating a web that drives traffic back to your central brand website.
Look at the Garry Vaynerchuck course on Udemy, he describes how to use the various social media channels to build a personal brand. My website has been tracking how well his course has been performing http://www.coursenut.com/courses/udemy-building-a-personal-b...

Finally host your own landing page, stick Google analytics on it, and track how your visitors behave with Inspectlet.com and experiment with A/B tests (split tests).
If you want to learn how to do this on AWS check out my course and I'll throw in a coupon and save 70% https://www.udemy.com/go-landing-pages/?couponCode=HACKERNEW...

Many thanks and good luck!
We do "just run containers" for our entire CI pipeline. It's all lxc/lxd and just a bunch of shell scripts to start/stop them. Works surprisingly well. So if you are just using containers as a sandboxed work runner then you don't need anything fancy. The issue is that I think people would like to pretend that containers are just like VMs and this is where things start to break down.

They're not VMs in the sense that none of the tried and true methods for orchestrating VMs is available. You need new solutions for networking, new solutions for storage, new failover patterns, new tools for clustering and organizing them, new application patterns, etc. Basically all the stuff that would have been handled by the hypervisor and the software defined networking layer is now all of a sudden in your face and you need some way to deal with it.
Yea the Git CLI is a giant pile of steaming shit which is probably why there are plethora of visual tools for working with Git instead.
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"Professional" doesn't mean "Poorly designed". It means "designed so that people with lots of domain knowledge and experience with the tool find that it never gets in their way."

In that sense, git is a professional tool. If you know everything about it, it doesn't get in your way. The problem is when you don't know everything about it..
Years ago I had a program that turned ASCII diagrams like that into line drawing characters.

┏━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━┓
┃ Like this ┣━━┫ Box ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━┛ ┗━━━━━━━┛

It's an easy transformation. You only have to look at 3 lines at a time, and then only at 3x3 blocks of characters. This would be a fun
transformation to put in a text editor.

The line drawing characters in Unicode (and originally on the DEC VT100) aren't expressive enough. They lack arrows and round corners. With SVG, you can do more.

There are a lot of people who just can't use a draw program. Not sure why. I use Inkscape for this sort of thing, or sometimes LibreOffice Draw.
So by "attach 2 TB of data straight from an SQL table into the R runtime" you mean that Microsoft taught R to interact directly with SQL Server's storage engine? If so, I agree, data movement is almost always the bottleneck for large data sets, and I don't think PL/R can do that (though I am not sure if that's a necessity due to the way Postgres's language plugins work, or something that could be done with enough effort).

However, if all you mean is that SQL Server can transfer the data a tuple at a time to R on the same server (in memory), I believe that PL/R and Postgres interact like that already (again, maybe I'm wrong). And I don't know how much extra overhead that provides over talking directly to the storage engine, anyway.
Easy. It's simpler to use.

Even to this day I still have to Google how to list the databases in PostgreSQL on the odd occasion I need to investigate something. In most other databases eg MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra etc it's as simple as "show databases"
This was the one I was going to bring up as well. USC-ISI had several students working in this space in the early 80's. The other one which comes to mind are the arguments about AI and whether or not it was a thing or an artifact of better algorithms.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12621673
You consider his first post to be productive? You must be dreaming.

> ajkjk strikes me as someone making reasonable points

He is not making any point, so it's weird that you would say that. He hypocritically stated I was coming off as arrogant. Fair game, even though I really don't see how it remotely comes off that way, but you can't exempt yourself from your own criticism in a post that does not constructively further the conversation in any way.

> You are coming across as unnecessarily arrogant and prickly, and thus someone with whom it's best to avoid discussion.

Apparently so, but I don't see it. I gave my opinion, and that was it.

>you might reconsider ajkjk's criticism

I most definitely will not, as this is a technical discussion. I'm not going to muddle the waters. Nothing I said was needlessly "arrogant" (at what point was puffing myself up?) -- and if it was prickly then I'd question why it was chosen to focus on that aspect of it instead of directly countering what was stated.

When discussing technical matters: leave your ego at the door. At every turn I gave him a chance to actually discuss something and he refused to do so. The fact that you decided to continue this non-sense is mind-boggling to me. What's the point?
Can GNU Make handle filenames with spaces?
The "practically" modifier may be of interest to you here.
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Part of the fun. Hell, I asked "wanna try some o' me steak for some o' yer pasta?" on the first date with my fiancée!
I may have missed how but..

Cmake solves the problem of "locate the library FOO of version X.Y, add the compilation flags, link flags, include folder, link folder, static link options, dynamic link options" and all the other details needed to make use of another software component. Sometimes that component is found in my operating systems "default" spot and other times it's in an install directory that I explicitly input. How do I tell Tup to find these components/libraries and then have Tup also add in everything needed for all the commands related to building things that use that component.

Also, I often have very different components going into different build targets that my project makes. How do the rules chain and build. In other words, just because I link one of my libraries with libssl doesn't mean I want every single source file and library I create in my project to then be linked with ssl
Could a network be trained in software on powerful expensive hardware and then programmed onto some kind of neural FPGA that uses these memresistors to be used in power/space constrained systems?
It seems like non-Matt Levine Bloomberg writers are trying a little too hard to be more like Matt Levine.
Ok, then I'd start with a bibliographic serach in The Red Book, though for something like ISAM, previous editions might also be relevant.

http://www.redbook.io/
Dx-60 from 1962, not 80's.
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