skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best I can tell, Epiphany is designed as a co-processor, so it's not booting the OS and relies on a host (like an ARM/x86) to run the show and issue commands.

The Epiphany cores have significantly more functionality than GPU cores, so they're useful for things beyond computing FFTs and other number-crunching tasks. For example, you could map active objects one-to-one onto Epiphany cores.
>You needed to ask for permission for those things at install time

No, apps didn't have to ask. They had to tell you, but they didn't ask - you couldn't say no. All you could do is never install the app, which we all know is not realistic. Everybody's just clicking straight through that screen because every app simply requests almost every permission. People aren't gonna buy a 1000$ phone and then not install Facebook because it needs Contacts permission.

Personally, I just gave up on Android and got an iPhone.

> Any app that targets Android 6 or later is required to use it.

Sure, but apps can simply target Android 5 to avoid it. It's not like enough Android phones get updates for apps to be able to be exclusive to anything less than Android ~4 years old.

I'll concede my wording should've been more specific, but my main point is correct.
Not quite yet, orbital missions are much higher energy than lobbing something to space.
Specific energy of New Shepard booster at apogee: ~1000 KJ/kg
Specific energy of Falcon 9 booster at MECO: 2500 - 3400 KJ/kg
Anybody who objects to such an anodyne project that strenuously with such disingenuous arguments immediately makes me think they're hiding something.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/opinion/why-we-know-iraq-i...
Was it Keynes who suggested that governments bury money underground for workers to excavate in the case of chronic mass unemployment?
When I click the link in the footer now, it directs to the homepage. The /technology page is still 404.
Vyvanse
Can you point me to a published paper where the entire meaning changed because of poor grammar?
While it's unarguably fun, I can't believe the effort required to become actually good at vim (as opposed to just using a few of the easier features) will ever pay itself off. (These days, at least - if you spend your days editing code in a terminal over a dialup connection, then it's absolutely worth it!)

Maybe there are scenarios where the busywork of text editing really is on your critical path, but even as a fluent coder who uses some verbose languages at times (my current project is C++ and IEC Structured Text, does it get any more blabby?) I still spend far more of my time looking at, and thinking about, code than I do actually typing. Any extraneous cognitive load just takes focus away from what I'm actually meant to be doing.
Sure, for the main loop. But you probably don't want any function called from the main loop to run forever. (In JavaScript, any single event handler should terminate quickly or it becomes unresponsive.)
Generics, not templates.

They're not opaque. Templates are more opaque because of the lack of self documenting bounds, perhaps (i still wouldn't call them opaque, just more so than Rust generics)

This is the millionth time you're repeating that garbage about imperative control flow. It boils down to a use of closures in a few stdlib functions. We've had this argument before, the essence of your point is that it is different from C. Of course there is a learning curve but that is there the other way too. Once you get used to it the control flow is pretty straightforward. And in most cases you can avoid the closures and write your if or loop manually.
If I had to speculate, I'd say that they spent a long time in development before monetizing, longer than investors were willing to entertain. It's hard for a B2B company to raise a Series B without a thoroughly proven revenue engine.

I don't know how this could have been fixed though. Databases are hard to develop and it's a tough market to crack. Enterprises aren't going to buy an incomplete product, especially not a database, which is arguably the most critical component in the entire stack. Anyone investing would have to know that this would be a years-long effort to build a solid product before the first dollar.

Perhaps RethinkDB could have shortened their development time by not pivoting around (originally SSD optimizations, later realtime. also Horizon is a bit of a mini-pivot), but I don't know by how much.
That is very good to hear. We just ported our backend to use it after evaluating many other options including managed databases.

It's really a top quality piece of software in every respect, combining much of what's good about nosql with relational features and robustness. The ease of clustering across data centers is just phenomenal.

Would still recommend it in spite of this bit of uncertainty.
I currently pay someone else to host a rethinkdb cluster. I'd rather pay rethinkdb.com to do that, but they didn't offer.

I am sure they considered it and figured it wasn't a good model for them. It is unfortunate that I have (with much pleasure) used rethinkdb in several projects, yet haven't had a chance to pay them for a service that would be useful to me.
"Had to be..." is not quite true. How the SSME/RS-25 was designed to operate and could be operated is not the same as how NASA chose to operate it. Particularly after Challenger.
Recent article and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12612856 (A Hoare Logic for Rust)
Yeah,spacex had similar hover landing long ago, the trick is handling the suicide burn. BO is grabbing attention.
Your hunch is sane because this is basically how the stock market works most of the time :-)
Iconic: An auto-generated icon font library for iOS and tvOS (check it out)
Good point - and I do have a registry of installers and serial numbers for my crucial development software. However, I have literally hundreds of audio plugins and utilities that are tedious to track. End of the day, it is an admin cost to maintain such an archive - and some days I think it is far easier to outsource that archival maintenance and recording to a third party... such as an App Store... :)

NB: A lot of my audio software is licenced via an iLok device. Whilst I HATED the idea of a 'dongle' like an iLok before, this hardware upgrade has made me appreciate the fact that I didn't have to worry about re-licencing all of my audio production software the used the iLok either.
>> Please say why C is wrong
> manual memory management

This is arguable.

There are cases where automatic memory management is not a viable option, and other cases where it is a poor choice. Just one example: consider all the trouble people go to with off-heap allocation in Java in order to get reliable low-latency operation.
The hourly one is cleaner and more readable only because they've insisted on using a symbol for each datum which obscures the line itself... I'd like this one 6 times more than the original, otherwise.

Personally, I don't understand why anyone would want to look at timeseries data with anything less than the maximum possible information density & precision (accuracy is not the problem). Maybe if you're looking for cleanliness/aesthetic reasons, but that's not really the point of these charts. Obviously if they are noisy something needs to be done. But binning only really makes sense to me in histograms, not timeseries.
Only a few months ago, shares were at $14 plus change. Not much hope of significant profit in the near future. Perhaps some Chinese investors flush with capital might entertain an offer. Tencent?
If I were to open a market position on TWTR, is the stock price still hyped and would it be a good time to short to stock?
Looks like the stock could reverse it's uptrend from the previous months and reach the 10-15 range again.
Yes, I think I misunderstood you originally - and instead of trying to explain it, I'll just say thanks for the thoughtful follow-up posts :)
Too bad. While Google has a rep for dropping product lines (have they ever killed a product-via-acquisition of significant size, vs. things like Reader/Buzz?), Twitter seems like it could easily add to Google's core data and revenue work, even without Google doing much additional work. I'm assuming Google's current access to the Twitter firehose is already being used or at least studied for a SERP signal. Twitter's social network provides additional ways for Google to facet and classify data. It also seems possible that Google could improve advertising on Twitter enough so that it's not just a money pit.

I don't know enough about Salesforce beyond a few of its products to imagine scenarios where Twitter has comparably low-friction integrations. Unless Disney makes a concerted effort to give Twitter autonomy...can't see how they could leverage it into something that's not just a loss-leader for entertainment. Maybe additional branding opportunities for ESPN and athletes, as well as another way to broadcast events?

edit: Any reason why Amazon isn't in the mix? Other than the obvious reason that they haven't made noise about it? Would an acquisition of Twitter's size be too unwieldy for Amazon?
Location: Sydney
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Resume: On request
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Looking for a 3-day-a-week work on cool stuff that has to do with ML and data science. I've been doing machine learning/statistics stuff for about a decade, and the part time nature of this is because I'm also running my own startup.
I thought I was supporting your argument about network effects and will to change.
As a product creating so much job opportunities gloablly and didn't take you $0.01, I would like to ask: How shameful is it?
maybe they would have to have a functioning product also
> Spend your precious time contributing (beyond tossing out criticism), try to sing the praises of good things when you get the chance, and you might not be filled with regret in your later years.

No. Any fool can sing praises. But instead, try to criticise and question every one of those supposedly good thing that gets thrown in your way. Or else you might not have a later year at all...

The reason we are in this mess in the first place, is that there were too many to sing praises and too few to look beyond the immediate future, and all those voices that did look beyond the immediate future and warned about it, were overwhelmed, and were looked down as you now look down on me and my comment...
It's becoming irrelevant possibly because you have to pay for stable patches now:

"Grsecurity stable patch downloads are available to customers only."

edit: that's for grsec only, not PaX + grsec.
Google TechTalks Personal Growth Series: William Dement on Healthy Sleep and Optimal Performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hAw1z8GdE8
I'm not sure if anyone else ran into this, but I evaluated RethinkDB for three separate projects over the years, and there was always that one missing feature. I don't remember exactly what they were, but I think the first time it was secondary indexes, the second was full text search and the third was geo indexes.

Went with Postgres for all three.

When Windows Phone 7 came out, without background tasks, MS was quick to point out that the iPhone didn't originally have it either. It was a silly argument; Neither Apple nor Google were selling phones without that feature at that time.

I'm not saying Rethink did anything wrong. And by bringing up MS, I don't want anyone to think Rethink had the same sense of entitlement as Microsoft.

Your v1 has to compete against your competitors current version, not their 5-year old v1. RethinkDB had a lot of powerful features, but it also lacked a lot of features that for me, and I have to suspect many others, made it an impossible choice.

(Also, I hated the query syntax. I was willing to fight through it, but I often wondered if that was turning people off)
How would they generate ROI on the investment? Google has no track record with social media, if anything they lack creativity more than Twitter does. There is also no argument for a supplementary role to their other product lines.

Twitter just has to be allowed to be Twitter and not some amalgamation that competes with Facebook in usage metrics when it's an entirely different experience. I know, whatever was on those slides promising the world to early investors are going to make for a hard pill to swallow, but Twitter is reasonably successful imo.
Did you take the time to learn vim? Just start using it. With only a small subset of commands you can be pretty damn efficient. The fact that you can compose actions means that you don't need to remember every command - you can just create them yourself. After a very short while you will "get" it. You can say to yourself "I want to change the next three words" and immediately do it by pressing "c3w". Or you can move around with your mouse. The former is much faster.

BTW, I rarely use escape. I am using Spacemacs with evil-mode, and the default "fd" is perfect for me. It's much faster than using ESC.
argumentum ad antiquitatem
State Supreme Court decisions have never been made based on the statement that all police in the US are racist.

You gave links only supporting the behavior in Boston, so the only conclusion that can be made is about Boston. Assuming the demographics of Boston are the same as Los Angeles or Atlanta requires a level of stupidity that would preclude you from operating a computer, so I assume you are being willfully misleading to grind an ax. Take it to another forum or discuss it with a therapist.
Firefox for Android & Yandex.Mail on Yandex.Store. Here you go three examples.
>$160,000 tuition bill per child

This is the approximate tuition for 4 years at Harvard (@ $40k/year), and not at all representative of the the real cost of university degrees in the US. Tuition at state schools, which are often quite good, is much less. CSU schools, where I went to school, estimate total cost of attendance at about $25k/year [0] split roughly evenly between school costs and living costs... on the high end (less if you live with family, or in a lower cost area of California). Anecdotally, I can verify these numbers.

Unless you are a very high net worth family, $160k for college tuition is overpriced.

[0] http://www.calstate.edu/sas/costofattendance/
Presenting your ideas is an important part of most, if not all, high complexity works. If you're an engineer - present your ideas and results, so you can get better feedback, if not more appreciation. If you're a product person, explain the results to practically anybody - improves conversations which lead to better mutual understanding. For executives it's even more straightforward - remember how many hours Steve Jobs spent preparing demoing first iPhones?
I work in IT so I'm used to weeks without results.

But yeah this is going to be a huge black mark on people's resumes and how the hell do you hide 3 years with a company that was basically all about committing fraud?

"I didn't know and I was doing good work," probably isn't going to fly.
Twitter brings a lot of political heat in countries where Google does business. At first I was baffled by Google's unwillingness to bid. But now I suspect owning Twitter may be bad for business and they don't want the headache.
Between playing around on mastodon, and my family's own/private gnu social instance, and matrix.org, i honestly don't know which to give my attention...In any case, it is exciting that there are a few efforts underway that have to do with decentralized communication. Funny how email - and its decentralized-ness - still lives on. I grant you that other platforms might get their attention (sometimes short-lived), but decentralized platforms - yes like email - just don't die...and i think that's great because among other reasons decentralization fends off death.

Kudos to the Mastodon team!
I still want maps, I just don't want my every move logged or sent to Google.
You are a gem.
And then they will be arrested for murder if they acted inappropriately.
Computer Q
True. Not saying it's good, just providing some pathology.
You can have sandboxing without an App Store (macOS supports it)
cited as influential (in greater or lesser unfortunate ways)

I definitely mean in the greater of unfortunate ways. That there's zero similarity is irrelevant, they keep showing up in the same places. They're not brothers, they're friends.
My source is I saw it on live TV.

"We know that he has the infrastructure, nuclear scientists to make a nuclear weapon. And we know that when the inspectors assessed this after the Gulf War, he was far, far closer to a crude nuclear device than anybody thought -- maybe six months from a crude nuclear device. The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
Gompertz's law looks very grim. The death RATE grows exponentially with age. And it's such a nice straight line on a semilog plot, from age 40 through 100. I don't see how medical advances can budge that one.
> And could you elaborate on how “nearly every Unicode program handles them wrongly”?

A good chunk don't do surrogate pairs correctly (or are even aware of them), the rest get tripped up by the combining character issue. Even for those who understand it, there are no clear answers: "should a combining character compare equal to a precomposed one?" And of course there are 3 levels of UCS support.

The whole existence of an unnormalized form is a gigantic mistake that could have been easily avoided - simply make the unnormalized form an illegal sequence to begin with.

Unicode programming hasn't gotten as bad yet as timezone programming, but they are well on their way :-(
Wear devices have to be paired with a phone and browsers don't really have the constant access they want for this.
I echo the sentiments of Kolbe. There really is no way to make a Kalman filter simple or intuitive. What I have found helps though, is to write one yourself based on the math before using the libraries you find.

Write one, print out every intermediate value to see how the matrix changes. It will be not-quite-correct, but it will give you insights to how exactly a kalman filter works
After looking at Mr Appelbaums Linkedin entry I wondered why anyone would listen to his opinions about this as opposed to any one elses.
While it is definitely to the benefit of all that the bot emails authors when it finds mistakes, emailing when it doesn't find anything is a dark pattern. Reminds me of those bots that spam me after scraping my linkedin.
My favorite explanation of Kalman filters is this tutorial in Python: https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyt...

It's geared towards software engineers and doesn't assume much math background. Highly recommend.
That's why it's easier to just outfit the cops with the equipment necessary to respond to someone with a gun. Do you realize the population density of places like the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana (the area I'm talking about)? Having enough swat teams to respond within even 15 minutes of every small town is completely unsustainable.
You seem to skate past the substance of what I said, which is unfortunate.

Professional experience matters. Plenty of people are amateur cooks, but that doesn't mean they can step into a restaurant and do well. My brother does furniture-making and carpentry for a living, and it's the same thing there. I imagine it's true for most professions. That you can't see a difference does not mean there is no difference.

If you really think you can handle the work, then I'd suggest you apply at places without "hiring departments". Find small companies, where the person you first deal with is the hiring manager. The more people involved in deciding to make an exception, the less likely it is to happen. But you'll have a much larger chance of getting that exception made if you can see yourself through their eyes, which is as a person who's probably going to need a lot of help.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NRQOR26/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

Eerily prescient.

Basically, my attitude is look at a place before a lot of humans got there that had technology that could bring water and climate control.

That's probably what it's going to go back to at some point. You can only buck mother nature for so long.
No, I understood it pretty well earlier thanks. It's nice if this exercise helped you though.
Public domain isn't a license. It's legally problematic to release something as such.
Dimensions and directions are useful for describing stuff, though
Our personal information is worth money. The more of it they can gather the more they can earn. Offering free storage for all your pictures, free email, assistants, etc is part of the plan. Giving away Android and selling cheap Chrome books was genius.

We have become the product and at the same time give them money to take our personal information and sell it to who ever wants it.

It's messed up....
The launch story of Hipmunk
"nearly all of the flowering heads of the 13 female plants had been cut off before they were placed on the body" - looks like this guy's friends already smoked most if it before they buried him!
Something is strange with this story. On adwords, to spend money and only be charged at the end of the month you have to be accepted into monthly billing. You have to apply for it. It's not something that you do by accident because you confused adwords with adsense.
I have mine set up like this:

https://gist.github.com/asummers/7784d40b1bc53ee309777274e9d...

That way I can hit M-w when I don't have a region and get the copy behavior for the whole line.
Canada still has payphones.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/canadians-...
Yeah, and Falcon 9 is several times the size of New Shepard. There are several nice graphics here that explain the differences between Falcon 9 and New Shepard: http://space.stackexchange.com/a/13188
Thanks for writing the article, I'm better at DBA for reading it. You are indeed a "Database Whisperer".
Why are you so eager to deliberately misrepresent information to make things seem significantly worse than they actually are? When you do that and people find out that you effectively lied, you lose credibility and they stop listening. How do you plan to affect change with that strategy? Get the people stupid enough to believe your lies to riot?
Now if they can just copy my a and reproduce it so I can then have sex with myself. That would be THE product.