skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a typical BetaNews "Microsoft thing is dead" post. They put out a Windows Phone is dead post monthly like clockwork.

In reality, the rumors are that they wanted to get the Band running Windows 10 (like everything else Microsoft puts out) rather than the custom firmware it presently has. They had a lot of difficulties getting it to work. If their existing team wasn't proficient at working with Windows 10 so much as the Band-specific software, they may have wanted to change out the team. And obviously, all the delays mean they definitely have nothing to show for 2016 release.

Whether or not they'll still work on a Band 3, of course, is up for debate, but if they intend for their next model to use a completely different software setup, them retiring the existing Band SDK doesn't tell us much.
> Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings using a machine learned model instead of a raw data average.

A machine learned model optimizing what output measure? Ideally, a machine learned model for ratings should optimize for what I, as a potential consumer, would most likely rate the product were I to purchase it.
> "optional types" means "no types"

While it is possible to write Dart code without using types (hence "optional") - the vast majority of Dart code is written using types.

The new Dart compiler also provides a "strong mode" which enforces strong typing in order to generate cleaner Javascript code.
Really?! Where can I see this? On an app? I admittedly only use Google Maps when I'm in Sydney.
> the closure size of a minimal NixOS container went down from ~424 MiB in 16.03 to ~212 MiB in 16.09

Oh nice. Very impressive.
I am bummed that you got the impression that you felt ignored for not having security expertise. I am not certain when you applied but I know our focus lately has been on senior engineers so that likely contributed to our response. Regardless, if we didn't do a good job relaying that information to you that is not good and I personally apologize (it was likely my fault as I handle a good chunk of the initial responses to applicants).

Thanks for the feedback though. It is appreciated.
Yeah - no worries. Except for E-myth Manganager - I didn't either until a couple of years ago my younger brother was going to open up a clinic and was talking about "E-myth for Doctors" or some such. Now I think he has one for all walks of life (like the "One minute Manager" or something). To me, it dilutes the message. My opinion is not the one that counts! :-)

I still think it (the original) is a great book.
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Regarding the review hounding, I use Google labs experimental feature to auto reply to such posts. If any emails match the domain (something.amazon.com) and have the word "review" in them they get sent straight to the trash and get an automatically generated reply telling them that I will leave them a one star review on both their product and seller account on Amazon and to not further contact me.

I haven't thought about it since I did that, and I can only hope its sending a message that harassing your users without consent for reviews is not acceptable.
First thought was that he might be including the actual bible as part of his LOC.
Richard Hamming said "Just as there are odors that dogs can smell and we cannot, as well as sounds that dogs can hear and we cannot, so too there are wavelengths of light we cannot see and flavors we cannot taste. Why then, given our brains wired the way they are, does the remark, Perhaps there are thoughts we cannot think, surprise you?"
Why would they be forced to sell their organs?
Yes I'd certainly add attitude and openness. Except I don't have any quantitative research to back that up, so you're just winging it at that point. Which ends us back exactly where we started.

GMA, work sample and integrity however DO have quantitative research to back them up.
I get the point that you are making, but if something really only takes 15 minutes to do, I wouldn't necessarily use an open source solution just because one exists.

Depending on the situation, the library may have a ton of extra bloat that your application will never use. Also, recklessly deferring to open source libraries can potentially snowball into something like the left-pad fiasco[1].

[1]: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm
That actually looks like fraud of the kind that the FTC should look into. Just saying "the algorithm made me lie" isn't a good enough excuse.
Perhaps the reputation you speak of transfers over from the B2C side, where Google makes services for billions and can't offer the human touch as easily.

Have you had bad experiences with Google Cloud platform support specifically?

I can only offer some customer voices:

- Quizlet calls out support as a major reason for choosing GCP over AWS (among other things) [0]

- "Paid Support is top notch" [1]

- Spotify calls out the human side specifically [2]

[0] https://quizlet.com/blog/whats-the-best-cloud-probably-gcp

[1] https://lugassy.net/why-we-moved-from-amazon-web-services-to...

[2] https://news.spotify.com/au/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-in...
> Ubuntu 16.04 on my modern workstation gets progressively slower with each systemd update

I hadn't noticed a noticeable slowdown on my Ubuntu 16.04. I wouldn't even know about the controversy except people keep mentioning it.
Well there's that of course.

But a huge problem also is that many relatives will baulk at the idea of their loved ones being harvested and also some religions have injunctions against this
Should be simple enough: https://github.com/chungy/xkcd-uri
>> I was assuming that JavaScript would already be known to a certain degree.

That's totally fair and then I would completely agree with your comment.
I wonder how long until they start charging a commission, or a listing fee, or whatever.
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I wish I was at home so I could type out a full reply. I have lots of thoughts on this as I found out my kidneys were failing a short time ago. At least for kidneys I think we need to attack the problem well before it reaches transplant stage. Better proactive screening would help a lot. Some simple medicines would help a bit it given earlier. There is some research on alternatives to transplants. UCSF has plans for an artificial kidney but they are still looking for more funding. There is also some early work to use stem cells to heal kidneys. This stuff needs more research. With a little bit of assistance many could stretch their weakened kidneys through their lifetime. Transplants are not a cure. One has to live with a life of anti rejection drugs with their risks.
Isnt that whole idea?
I would stop my child(ren) from that, but that's because I don't agree that children have that unrestricted right.

Even if I did, I might still stop them (or an adult) if I believed their actions were unintentionally putting themselves in harms-way or if they were endangering others (pedestrians below or roadway users).
Why not just use css modules with the extract text plugin to put everything in a single stylesheet to solve that problem? For Dev it supports hot reload, and other environments get an extracted stylesheet that works with sever rendering and avoids fouc's. Plus you can autoprefix the output, and because of the css modules design you get encapsulated component css for free. The annoyance is working with a css framework or its js library, i.e.: bootstrap or material as each one seems to have a different approach to css dependencies. But I think those frameworks are becoming less relevant or can have their limitations worked around usually depending on which one you choose.
exFAT suddenly dirty-dismounts both on windows and osx, and is hard to mount again for regular user. Tried it as common r/w storage for bootcamp -- complete trash, cannot be used for long-connected drives, hyperactive torrents, big files. Copying some files forth-back is okay though.
Azure coming to France
Why the Best Leaders Want Their Superstar Employees to Leave
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>"everything that happens in your Ember app is deeply tangled in Ember internals which are very complex."

and

>"it's fundamentally at odds with what I would consider the Node Ethos, which is small packages that do one thing cleanly."

You could substitute "Ember" with "Microsoft Windows" and "Node" with "UNIX" and be just as correct.

I wonder how frequently this design/philosophy decision comes up.
Is this for real?

I saw this post last month as well. Has anyone been in contact with the Fu Team?
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Very cool, but here's a tip - if you're going to use Geolocation based on IP, don't be more precise than your dataset is accurate. My stamp shows me as being in a city ~1hr and bridge and county away from me. Something less precise like Northern California would be much more useful than presenting that everyone who's on a Comcast Business line lives in South SF.
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I don't have worry about the welfare system not giving aid. The condition are generally often quite reasonable and there are going to be plenty of organisation to watch that over.

What I worry about, is in countries like the US/UK where "having a student debt" has somehow become a badge of honour, I can see "selling a kidney" to get through university becoming the same honourable demonstration that you are committed to do what it take to succeed.

... and by extension, show people who are not as committed. You can see it coming: "my son sold his kidney to succeed, why should we give even more to the people that are not even ready to take such a small step".

In general, we seem to expect people to take an ever growing amount of risk for the reward of maintaining their social standing. Being able to sell your body in piece is just raising the bar even higher.
I can't figure out why it seems to think I'm in SF when I'm actually in PDX. Is there a way to force it to update location?
I started out on email about 1984/85, using the 'mail' utility on Unix at school. They rolled out Elm[1] shortly thereafter and it caused something of a sensation.

I do remember one of the profs grousing that "if you can't read your email with 'cat' then you are subscribed to too many email lists."

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I'll offer a bit of critical advice and say that, even though you think you've done a lot of great stuff, having an overly high opinion of oneself can be a barrier to progress. Try having a little more humility. For example, it's not likely you've actually written 4 million lines of code in 16 years of programming. For that to be true, you'd have to have written roughly 685 lines of code a day. That's a tall order for even the most productive software developers. So consider whether or not you inflated that number and ask yourself why you felt the need to do so. Also, comparing your code to the Bible is self-aggrandizing. Egoism can be a pretty big turn off to some people.

I'd also suggest placing less importance on your individual background. No one in my family understands a thing about software programming. I found it on my own and had no one to "support" my interest in the subject in the sense that you're talking about. If you love technology and software, then that's the most important thing. Be thankful that you've found enough of the right situation to develop some skill in something you enjoy. Also be thankful you live in a world that values those skills. Even if your immediate world doesn't seem to place much value on programming, I can assure you that the world at large does.

Don't think that the point of being a developer is to score a job at a big, famous company. There are so many random factors that go into the interview process at a large corporation that you can't feel too bad when they don't pan out in your favor. Also, it's even true that the lives of corporate employees are not always that enviable. There's often a lot of dumb organizational crap that you have to deal with and it can be hard to stand out and develop your career when you're just an ant in the army.

Bottom line, if you're a smart, creative, productive person, you can find a way to make a contribution to the world that people will value. Just keep trying. As a young man, you've still got some time and you shouldn't feel overly pressured to attain immediate success.
There also appear to be satirical reviews. Consider the top one:
169 people found this helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars "Hitler highly recommends Comcast"
Adolf Hitler was quoted saying this about Comcast:
"Beeindruckend, das ist böse"
Rough translation:
"Wow, that's evil"
I only buy from Amazon when the product isn't available anywhere else: Between counterfeit products, external vendors that I don't know how to distinguish from Amazon itself, stuff "Available in 2 days" that gets delivered 2 months later, bought reviews, strange ratings and pictures which don't natch the description — I have a 70% chance of paying the return shipment.
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It's entirely possible that they already are/ have looked at it, and found this move to be more strategically effective.

Ultimately, Amazon's goal is to maintain a strong brand and keep stockholder confidence. This presents a much stronger move without admitting as much weakness, compared to allowing the behavior to continue and trying to mitigate it with AI (since the layperson -- ie most stockholders -- has a poor understanding of the efficacy of ML techniques).

Additionally even if if they did, they are less incentivized to publicize it. Secretly diminishing the voting power of particular reviewers works just as well, if not better, if they don't know it's happening at all, and prevents creation of multiple accounts to avoid said penalties.
So Ember's the right choice? :-)
Anecdotally, I browsed the Prime Video offerings for the first time this past weekend, and I found two TV series and a movie that I've wanted to watch but couldn't because they were not offered on Netflix. Prime also had HBO shows, which I could previously only access via HBO Go.
It's also written in TypeScript, nice!

A few days ago I was thinking about using GraphQL in future projects and didn't even find out about Apollo.

So it combines data retrieval via GraphQL with client side state management via Redux?
GIFs are not effective explainer tools if the text/cursor is difficult to parse due to the low resolution/compression. (And especially not with fade in/fade out transition)

This would be a case where a video is better to demonstrate the new functionality.
As well as a significantly stronger motivation to deceive in order to secure the payout. Assuming that verification procedures against a hostile donor can maintain quality vastly overestimates the tests.
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Fair enough. I guess its time to whip out the big guns then.

https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/7U/7088/SYS-7088B...

1. Eight socket R1 (LGA 2011) supports
Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800 v4/v3
family (up to 24-Core)

2. Up to 24TB in 192 DDR4 DIMM slots

That's 192 cores / 384 threads with 24TB of DDR4 RAM

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The amount that you can vertically scale with physical servers is far above and beyond what is offered by cloud services. Although I'm impressed that Amazon is now at the 2TB DDR4 RAM level.
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Ts seems awesome but it looked like kind of a pain with separate ts and js files, mandatory type definitions not being present for lots of dependencies, and back when I looked at it seeming pretty all or nothing. I like flow. The people that built ts are brilliant too though. Curious if anyone has a good comparison between flow and ts. I've heard ts has improved a lot lately.