skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at how volume and brightness control is done on a Macbook. They took function keys and repurposed them into crude up and down buttons. To get fine control you have to hold down the Shift and Alt keys. If you want to actually use the "function" part of the function key, you have to hold down the Fn button.

A touch control there could present a more intuitive interface--tap the control you want, then use a touch slider to adjust with great precision.

Another idea I saw in a blog post was to put a scrubber control there during video editing. Currently the trackpad has to serve double duty controlling the features of the application, and controlling the scrubbing of the content.

The function keys are a UI mess. Each serves double or triple duty, and the duties sometimes change with OS releases. For example, the Dashboard key on my Macbook Pro no longer activates the Dashboard.

This is just like the situation on smart phones when they all shipped with physical keyboards. Each tiny button on my Blackberry had at least 2 different functions. As Steve Jobs said, "we solved this problem with a bitmapped screen and a pointing device."
Michelbach is not even well-known, actually.
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Don't get me wrong, history is interesting, but so is chess. That does not make them important. Part of the trap is history is a great way for people with power to justify why they have power.

However, in a wider context the history of disease, the history of technology, and the history of systems of thought do more to shape our world than the history of people. Yet, sanitation for example is generally ignored relative to the story's of people.
The BBC article as far as I can tell doesn't actively talk about the OVH attack possible source change suggested: https://www.hackread.com/ovh-hosting-suffers-1tbps-ddos-atta...
Just to add on to this. The NTIA has never exercised much in the way of oversite/interference. The largest issue I can recall was they got involved when the .XXX tld was being implemented.

As you say the actual running of ICANN/IANA and the internet at large is really managed under a multi stake holder model and is very inclusive and diversified.

Arguments to the contrary are typically FUD.
Internet of insecure IPv4 things.
Are millennials so desperate for whats-old-is-new content that they're now reaching back to the 19th century for nihilism?
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Due to the way JS objects are used, modern runtime will generally try to use structures for them (e.g. "hidden classes" in V8/Chrome) rather than "general-purpose" hashmaps. Likewise JS arrays incidentally. They will often need to deoptimise back to general-purpose hashmaps, but they'll try pretty hard not to.
It would have passed static checking if using UDL (Urban Dictionary Language).
The problem is that since you use stuff you read from one source to help you evaluate stuff you read from another source, the more and the more disparate the sources the better. If you don't do that, than what you believe just tends to be what you want to believe, and what you want to believe tends to be the things that allow you to do what you want to do, and things that validate your past decisions (to fight guilt and regret.)

Millennials are growing up in an environment completely filled with a lot of paid for bullshit information, and can only find culture that isn't venal dishonest marketing controlled by Baby Boomers in the cracks between commercials. I get why they hate information. I'm from Gen X - I've had to walk for a half-hour to get to a payphone to call someone who may or may not be home (depending on if someone I ran into the day before told them that I would call, for which they remained home and near the phone.) Space was limitless back then. Millenials know they've been robbed, and that makes me happy with them and hopeful.
What does it mean to run R "within" SQL Server here?
A good book is a great form of escapism, and mostly cheaper and less self-destructive than getting drunk or high.
It is supposing Recurly doesn't have a better fraud story. Did you look at using one one "anti fraud" as a service companies or a different vendor that does subscriptions?
Church – is a Python library to generate fake data.
When you compare pip to npm, it's a no brainer, npm wins that battle. Pip is getting better but so is npm.

Js code looks a lot like python to me now as well, especially when referencing generators.

The speed of development is it's strongest advantage. However I do think that from an architecture point of view something like golang could be considered more sound.
Electric cars are SSDs, ICE cars are HDDs. See what I mean?
There are lots three letter agencies which are not external intelligence agencies, like the DEA or FBI.

External intelligence agencies would be kind of an exemption. But not in the case of the CIA, as they give information to internal intelligence agencies, although they shouldn't, at least by the law.
> It seems that once you figure out a good model in R, its almost always rewritten into either Scala or Java for real production work.

I wouldn't say 1% of programs in R written need that speed. I personally use it for small projects (Besides a few Spark side projects) and I am out putting Reports.

I really would like someone to show an actual example of this happening in 2016.
The increase in height observed over the past two centuries is mostly genetic? Would you mind providing a citation for that? Everything I've read attributes the recent increase in average height to environmental factors, such as improved nutrition and quality of life in the societies in which it is observed [1]. As with the increase in IQ, genes simply can't change that quickly to account for the change in height.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/human-height/
My point is that the word "AI" has been referring to "weak AI" for decades. Everything from video game AI, expert systems in the 80's, genetic algorithms, searching algorithms, etc, have been called AI. There is no point arguing about the word "AI" now.

The word AGI is pretty established. There are AGI conferences. I've heard it used by a wide variety of people, not just singularitarians. "Strong AI" is another common term.

I don't think there is much doubt at this point that neural networks are on the right path for AI. They are extremely general, have made remarkable progress in widely different AI domains, and are the closest AI approach to the human brain.
Afaik Bloomberg uses it extensively for internal data visualization tools.
> as the web makes information more available, we realize nobody knows what they're talking about.

When I realized this, I stopped feeling guilty about pretending to be knowledgeable about topics I truly know nothing about. Outside the realm of the hard sciences, where objective data are sovereign, the experts are pretty much just better bullshitters than everyone else.

In a world where "might makes right" is still the deepest foundation stone of civilization, convincing the mighty to agree with you makes you right. While being technically correct is still the best kind of correct, being believable gets you paid more.

What really chaps my backside now is reading my kids' textbooks.
It should be, at least on audio level it would work. It would make a nice VST :)
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Maybe kids in general have access to different forms of communication, now that data transfer is so cheap and abundant. Pictures and video now probably take up about 50% of how things are communicated. So actual reading is less necessary.
The Active Directory integration alone would take 5k lines.
I do it at my company. I prototype in R, and then end up having to rewrite chunks of it in Python so it can be worked into our application, which right now is exclusively Python.

It's not a matter of performance, it's just because it would be an enormous amount of engineering overhead to start calling R from inside the Python app
I don't have much to contribute to the conversation on this other than that it's incredibly cool.
It doesn't really need to be a transaction since it is okay if it is eventually consistent (e.g. they have a cleanup job if a transaction is lost), that would be fine.
Honestly, I think implying that rebuilding the hash table is an O(1) operation is worse. :P But judging by the downvotes I'm getting on that particular comment, it seems that most people agree with you that rebuilding is indeed free. So it seems you won this argument on several fronts ;)
Web hosting company OVH said it had been attacked by a botnet (zombie army) of hacked devices such as webcams.

It's scary to think about the potential for leveraging IoT devices for DDoS attacks. Your dishwasher, fridge, thermostat, mattress, chairs could all be partipants without you even knowing.
CEOs are primarily paid to bear risk, so this makes perfect sense to me.
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How popular are top loaders vs front loaders in the US? This seems a flaw inherent to top loading machines. Gravity stops uneven loads in front loaders.
> As someone who lives in Manhattan below 125th street, you could not be more wrong.

I've lived in NY for 30 years. I've lived below 125th street in manhattan for a decade of that. The wealth of statistics available to defend your point is at your fingertips. And... you went with "nuh-uh". That doesn't really convince me of much.

For some anecdata, I've only known 1 person to take a cab in both directions every day. The only reason was because they got a new job. 3 months later their lease was up and they moved to a more convenient spot. I know plenty of people who take cabs several times a week, but that's also not a demographic it will be taking from.

> Also you are using figures of user who live "outside" Manhattan which do not at all benefit from Uber POOL.

That was my point. I'm pointing out that the majority of the traffic comes from elsewhere or non-commuter traffic, meaning that the impact of this would be insignificant in the big picture.
Isn't it more fun reading these articles from the other side? I find reading such fun and interesting, and you always gain something from them, like the 4% rule in this one, which was new to me. Of course you can intuitively plan something which is similar.

Retirement is not for me. Freedom to work on projects of choice is. Some financial independence or close to it, is needed for both, so this article and especially the story/plans of others were very illuminating. Although, my geography is different. So numbers change and I don't think its a linear on the cost of living scale, due to cultural reasons. In India for example, parents sometimes pay up to not just college, but also the marriage expense of their children. :-)
SQL Server R Services https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt604845.aspx

New for SQL Server 2016
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Writing a call option. Say the underlying security is trading at $100. You write a call option with a strike of $110, 3 month expiration and sell it for $10.

If the underlying never goes above $115 in those 3 months you make money. If it discovers the cure for cancer and gets a hostile takeover offer sending the price to $5000 well then you're out $4885.

An experienced options trader will limit their potential loss in this situation by say buying a call at $150 for $1.

There are lots of examples like this. Warren Buffett once likened this to picking up pennies in front of a bulldozer.
"Two! Four! Six! Eight! Homer's crime was very great!"

"Great, meaning large or immense!"

"We use it in the pejorative sense!"

Not only has it been happening for years, Simpsons writers have already mined the comic self-seriousness of self-appointed "helpers" who think it's a problem...
This requires no more up front work than a Markov-based technique, but produces results on par with an L-grammar. It may be generally applicable to the problem domains of both!
Drop me an email if it's something you're curious to work on - this is an idea I've been planning to have a crack at eventually…
For most people, using fingerprints for authentication is fine. Any security measure has pros and cons. If they're too hard to use, people will circumvent them or the usefulness of the device or service will be degraded. It's just a matter of cost-benefit. I could use a 6-figure passcode on my phone, or a 4-figure one or my fingerprint. I choose to use the latter, with a 6-figure code as backstop, knowing that this is in some ways a less secure option. It's my choice and I'm glad I have it. Still, stunts like this serve a useful purpose in making sure we're all very much aware of the limitations of the security options available. That's valuable to know.
I wouldn't be surprised, they are very happy to pay smart people to work part time on their favorite problems (Simon Peyton Jones for example)
Southwest Idaho here. Haven't filled my windshield fluid more than once since I moved here 8 years ago... Very little rain. Very little muck on the roads. Minimal bugs. Park car in the garage every night. When I lived in the Northeastern US I used far more windshield fluid.
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Could the need to manually refill water periodically be replaced by a condenser that constantly pulled ambient moisture out of the air? The total amount of water they are talking about is not very much. This seems like it could be solved without constant topping off.
Oops, I do that all the time. (I'm thinking container engine).
They had a forward contract, which is not the right, but the obligation to buy citi shares at some price (though it was cash settled). If citi tanks, you can lose more than just the initial investment. The put was so that they only lost all their money, not more than all their money.

The forward is identical to (long call, short put). You can see that would be bad if the stock goes down. So they bought puts to close out their short put position, leaving them with a long call which expired worthless.
Time to start calling IoT what it really is - the Internet of Threats. No, I didn't come up with that myself:

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/kaspersky-smart-fridges...

In just a few years we may be dealing with tens of Tbps DDoS attacks thanks to the "explosion of IoT", unless IoT manufacturers get their shit together (perhaps also encouraged by aggressive government actions and fines against those who don't follow some set best practices on security).
Touch ID is a fun case in security where bad is better. Fingerprint authentication on a fingerprint magnet seems like a foolish idea until you realize the alternative (for the majority of users) is 4-digit PINs[1], not strong passwords.

[1] http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/
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Yeah it depends on the task in question but I was thinking in general- Appliances should look and work as such.

The most important thing though is getting rid of the PC where it isn't necessary and making the whole thing an appliance. Otherwise the PC will be the weakest link in the system. It can be replaced but it's expensive and cumbersome (updates, security, etc) if all you want is the appliance for balancing axles.

I doubt there are any difficult hardware requirements for a task like this, if it's like balancing wheels it's no harder than (slow) analog sampling. I have done it with a cheap analog io card on a 386 with DOS for regular auto shop balancing.
Warning: not actually git commands, rather TFAA's aliases for possibly useful combinations of switches and/or commands.
Maybe it'll make windows better.
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My guess when confronted with the number of lines of Python code for the front page was 5000 SLoC. I lowballed it intentionally because I was under the suspicion that it might be lower than one might normally guess. (Don't we all take pride in keeping our SLoC count as low as we can for any given problem?)

The video had some closing points, including "NoSQL sucks for reports", which was explained briefly. OP, if you could, I would like for you to elaborate a bit more on this point. I am not doubting that it's true for Google App Engine, just interested to hear about the particulars.
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lower framerate, or lower playback speed?
Part of that may stem from R and most (all?) of its libraries being licensed under GPL.
California native here. What is this 'winter' you speak of?

In all seriousness, it takes about a month or more worth of dust buildup before the view out of my windshield can be considered to have been obscured in any way. Thankfully it rarely gets to that point since I usually clean my windows when putting gas in my vehicle.
Finding a map for the entire world that denotes what is public and what is private property is going to be difficult.
Are you trying to make a point?
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Not an engineering expert --- but isn't this the same idea that was being used in aircraft engines to get the max power out of turbine engines?

The B-52 is the classic example (nasty exhaust plume is the hallmark of these water injected engines):

https://youtu.be/xfTdRF66QPo?t=218

edit: I thought they phased this out in the 60's but was surprised to see the video above was from 1989!
Yeah, and these things will continue to proliferate. Probably near hopeless to expect all of these manufacturers to stem this.

But, it seems that ISPs could play a more pivotal role in combating this, and that they'd have financial incentive to do so.

For instance, what if we built more security/detection into routers/gateways (especially those that ISPs push)?

What if we combined this with mandates for ISPs to better monitor their traffic and established minimum standards for doing so?
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If you can afford one, this is good advice in my anecdotal experience as well. A family member had a supposedly fancy Fisher and Paykel (NZ) dishwasher that cost more than the Bosch they ended up sticking with, and didn't clean dishes nearly as well even after servicing it regularly and having it inspected by a company rep. Meanwhile, the Bosch cleans far better and more quietly though it does need its filter (?) cleaned more regularly, if I recall correctly.

Also, Miele vacuums are amazing for their reliability and durability compared to something like a Dyson, which has over the years evolved into an overpriced and poorly built item.
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> Books can also reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness by exposing us to others' intimate thoughts about life, some of which will match up with things the reader may have thought were unique to them—and here's proof that those thoughts and feelings aren't just not unique, they're probably not even rare!

I had this happen reading this book: http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Waterways

The main character described the experience of watching all his friends vanish as they started dating, feeling abandoned, wondering if something was wrong with him. It felt like a sick joke everyone was playing on me. I mentioned experiencing the same on Twitter (referencing the book), and the floodgates opened.

Apparently that's a very normal experience for gay people.
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Seems like it would be easy to use these tools to brick all these cameras/dvrs, saving everyone (but their owners) a lot of headache.
The author also talks about reading literature.

I feel that I'm cynical about facts like you are, but quality fiction is an amazing view into the world of the past or of different people. The thing about fiction is that it's not trying to convince you of something, its not true or false, its a story with some historical and cultural backdrops.

Read some Camus, Hess or Hemingway. Read literature that wasn't originally written in english like Season of Migration to the North, The yellow sofa, I am a Cat or something by Naguib Mahfouz.

Reading physical books is a great way to maintain your focus, you think differently when you are digging into a real book. It encourages you to think deeply and avoids the surface thinking that we are so used to with all our modern technology.

I'm totally with you on the absurdity of 'facts' these days, but good literature is something else all together.
That's not just cool, that's crazy!
Probably meant playback speed. Probably you knew this.
Some of the aliases are funny but could be renamed for brevity.

Also grog is making me feel extremely groggy.
I am addressing your original objection, that the sample size isn't large enough. The sample size is more than large enough. That comment you link raises entirely new and separate issues.

It's true they didn't say whether or not they properly randomized the boxes. But I assume they were competent enough to do that, and they certainly don't say that they didn't. They did say they had no issue in Europe and that the problems were entirely from the US. I really doubt it's with the quality of the tape or the automated systems, using a different kind of type shouldn't make such a huge difference.

It really seems like you are just looking for any reason you can think of to disregard the results. Religious bias is a huge problem in the US. Their hypothesis is totally reasonable. And their experiment, while not perfect, provides evidence for that hypothesis.
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Worst case scenario, they can just rebrand themselves.

Samsung does a lot of things: Cars, phones, refrigerators, TVs, life insurance... it's pretty diversified, so if there's a Samsung washing machine recall, I don't think that Koreans will cancel their life insurance policies.

Did you know Kenmore washing machines are actually LG? I didn't either until now... it's all too easy to just do a rebrand or latch onto somebody else's as a supplier, if things go nuclear.

To say nothing of calling in the emergency PR salvaging operation (like Lenovo did just recently with their BIOS update that locked out Linux on its consumer ultrabooks -- just have the press deflect blame on Intel for not jumping through onerous hoops to support Lenovo's crazy single-drive RAID scheme on Linux, but I digress).
How are these devices being accessed despite most houses having a router with a firewall? I thought IPv4, being so limited in possible IPs, pretty much forced everyone to use a router for NAT? So would mean unless these people who have these devices did something really dumb, they should be behind a firewll, no?

Why are these devices being exposed to the internet?
How not to retire at 40, if you're an American - go back to school after 30 and try to turn your hobby interest in programming into a second career.
I'm continuing your argument by replying to you.
Our experience has been that the "collateral damage to us" DDoS attacks vanished entirely from the "set of things we think about" which was not at all true in some of the colo's we were in.

In terms of application-specific attacks, we have used proxies in AWS to mitigate attacks against our colocated servers from time to time. AWS handles some of the volume and some of the types of attack traffic, and we scale and cache to handle others. This was much cheaper and easier than some of the Prolexic type solutions.

Agree that they aren't doing anything specific on a host or customer basis, but just inherent in protecting all of their customers, some of the specific problems also go away.
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Woah I didnt know there were other schools and the world was so rich. Thats cool. My numbers were incorrect.

I hope theres more of a fleshing out of the harry potter world in future books or movies.

An mmo would be pretty tight lol.