skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American here, I've seen it used that way in the wild. Uncommon, sure.
If anyone's interested, here's a good article about how one billionaire decided to spend his money - on better science.

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/john-arnold-waging-war-on-bad-...
What makes you think the data was all stored on standard hard drives? How about: CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, magneto-optical disks, Zip disks, USB thumb drives, high-density archive media that I'm not even familiar with...oh, and hard drives.

What does huge storage array even mean in today's context? I recently built a 20TB server at a price point less than a new 13" MacBook Pro for personal use that occupies a cross section the size of a notebook sitting at the edge my desk...all from commercial-grade hardware that's been on the market for at least 2 years. I would think that the home setup of any serious professional engineer who has been in industry for the better part of my adult life would have some sweet kit up his sleeves.

Imagine this: authorities confiscate anything that looks like storage media, storage capacity rough order of magnitude is calculated, figures reported to media, an assumption is made that it's all highly classified, spin some click bait article.

We're talking about a civilian contractor from private industry who supposedly played an "advisor" role, not some intern whose shoulder was constantly being looked over.
As a Canadian, that looks perfectly normal to me. Not sure if that's a colony thing or not.
I would see a conflict if it was selective as to which book. But this gives no preference to one book over another.

So I'm still not getting it. I see no conflict.
I (naively) popped into a Radio Shack about two years ago thinking that they might have some random electrical parts I was looking for. Once I got past the cellphones, remote control cars, and junk too cheap to be sold at Sharper Image, I found the four drawers of parts in the back corner, mostly empty. Perf boards were like $6/piece, and they sold an Arduino starter kit for like $200.

I remember the store nearest my house growing up having multiple AISLES of just power adapters and barrel connectors, etc, and it was a tiny store in a strip mall sandwiched between a Baskin Robbins and a Subway.

It was certainly a sad realization.
Do you have the link of GitHub Topic feature?
Is your awesome-topics project also available on the github?
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You hear alot of noise about young people who manage to achieve great success because that is the exception, not the rule. For most people, success happens as a result of what you do in the next 10-15 years and very little of what you did before matters.

However, I am starting to realize that the options I had before are simply no longer available as I get older. I'm never going to be a doctor or pilot or in the military, for example, as I chose to go into software instead. While I could have simply decided 10 years ago to drop everything and do something different, there's no time to do that now and expect to have the same level of success that I would have had if I kept going with what I'm doing now.
True, that's a possible reason, but I don't think the X server normally comes from the store. (Is there even an X server in the Windows Store?)
Termination may be the goal, but centralization is the result.
Wine emulates Win32 API, while Windows subsystem for Linux is based on NT API, a level below Win32 API. So, no, that won't work.
John Taylor Gato and you'll be free.
If you want to know what the department does, just look at its budget: https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget17/17action....

Eliminating the department doesn't necessarily mean eliminating all of its current functions. It just means that it will not exist in the same tier of government, with a cabinet member at its head.
Are u bill?
> probably on optical media.

I cringe thinking NSA would have DVD-burners connected to any machine on their campus. Sure in their labs they probably have every device ever made -- strictly labeled and used only for hacking. But it would be asinine to have their "corporate" machines equipped with them. I bet he either used a microSD card or just put HDDs in his pocket.
>you can easily run your own pkg repository with binaries compiled for multiple architectures (with build enviroments isolated with "jail") and providing the full range of compilation customization included in the ports tree.

Sure, if you're running a few servers. It doesn't help if you're running one though.

And it still takes time to compile and build.
The people lending the shares would still be long. If they own shares but don't believe in the company, and the shares are transferrable, they should sell.

Shorting a startup is super-dangerous. If the company fails, you effectively win the original value of the shares you shorted (since you sold them initially, and can now buy them to return to the lender for $0). If the company succeeds you can be out 10, 100, 1000x the original value. You'd need very deep pockets to get into the startup shorting business, and even you're right 100% of the time, the returns are modest (100% minus interest and fees over however many years until the company dies, which could easily mean less than 20% ARR). If you can be right 100% of the time about something, you can make a much higher ARR.
Well, my point isn't about safety, it's about usability. Escalators can still be used as stairs when they fail. Elevators can't be used at all.
>Debian doesn't always just work, because a lot of packages are very old.

If you need new packages, you don't run stable.

You run stable if you need things, well, stable and "just works".
Meanwhile David Petraeus stole classified information and leaked it to his biographer, then lied about it to the FBI, and got a slap on the wrist. Let's see if Harold gets such a plum deal.
> hand code just the 50 lines of js/CSS I actually need

That's the problem. If you do legitimately need it, then yeah, it might be, but my experience says you probably don't need that.
"Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

-- Character Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
For you it's bandwidth from 98. If you go outside your obviously modern country it's a 2017 problem and it will stay this way for a long time. It's not so much about backwards compatibility... it's more like "keep it working" with slow bandwidth. Posting this from Philippines where I'm currently happy with a stable 750Kb/s connection.
Here's another pretty good humor piece on the shack: http://www.theonion.com/article/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-how...
Thanks for reminding about Andrew's course. Had to contribute after that :)
I was on the edge of donating or not donating and your comment was just the tiny push that got me to give a little money.

Peer pressure works, apparently, at least sometimes.
Your kind of proving my point. If you add these things in, it's more work. If you make a plain html site, which is what these sites should be doing, then you aren't going to add that stuff in, which means less work.
It does. I'm on 2G and HN and the article site are the only usable things I've encountered today [on TMobile's intl roaming thing]
I enjoy the reprieve from Chekhov's gun.
You said it yourself—Octave isn't trendy or cool.
This is good news.

Musks target of 500,000+ cars a year of velocity in 2018 is an insane goal!

By the numbers:

- They have just shy of 400,000 of the 3's on deposit, along with a backlog of other models.

- Last year Tesla shipped about 76,000 cars.

- Their Q4 delivery numbers were <25,000 cars and trailed expectations by about 5%.

- They blamed last quarter on autopilot hardware issues, eg OEM supplier / component issues.

- They made a significant uptick in velocity between Q2 (14,000 cars) and Q4 (22,200 cars).

I can't imagine how hard Tesla is pushing - for any Tesla HN's good luck! We are rooting for you :)

If, somehow, Musk reverses the chronic lateness and hits 500,000 in 2018 it's going to be quite the fireworks show.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/tesla-fal...
You just made my commute way better.

I lost it at the end when you played the modem sound.

Also asking how to spell romeo was hilarious.
> “What you need to understand as you are doing the ironing is that Wikipedia is no place for a woman.” –An anonymous comment on a user’s talk page, March 2015

Two years ago, an anonymous person said something bad, this must be a serious issue.

Their choice of quote is obviously hinting at harassment on women being the issue here (Why else go back two years), yet they have the data if women are harassed more, yet no comment.

I can't find the original quote in the talk pages, can they be censored?
> Will he be whiteboarded?

I like the way you word it - it makes it sound like a form of torture.
I'm really hoping that Model 3 production is not delayed because every delay makes it less likely that I will get the full $7,500 federal tax credit.

Once Tesla sells its 200,000th US car the credit will be cut by 50% to $3,750 after a period of up to two quarters. That puts the likely cut time at July 2018.
It's a component of your income stream, not a complete solution.

If you're doing open-source software as a living it's essential you have:

1. Books: You should at the very least write the canonical book on using a package, tool or application you've written. Amazon residuals might not be high, but they're non-zero. The effort involved in writing a book is considerable but they can pay dividends for a long time. It's also something you can chip away at over time.

2. Patreon: You need some way of measuring community enthusiasm for your project and what better way than to see how much they're willing to pay for it. Reward tiers can also help by allowing more generous patrons to help with advice, like feature requests, early code review and so on. This builds engagement.

3. Support Contracts: These might be super obnoxious, customers can be very difficult, but if you're in it to win it you absolutely need to cover this off. At the very least offer incident-level consulting to get people out of a jam. Figure out what the hassle's worth and price accordingly. $200/hr? $500/hr?

4. Corporate Sponsorship: I like it when companies step up and help fund open-source software directly, like how Redis has been supported by various companies along its lifepan (https://redis.io/topics/sponsors). If you find a good partner it's not "selling out", it's validation that your project is meaningful. They'll respect your decisions and not interfere.

5. Talks: Get out there and talk about your project. At the very least make videos, or get people to make them for you, that introduce how your tools work, how they can be used, and where you're going with the project. Being a speaker at an event might be daunting for some, but it's a great way to make connections and find opportunities.

Too many developers want to focus on nothing but the code. That's not how the world works.
That is because open source IS NOT an bussines model. is a distribution model (of code, instead of binary).

You need to plug the bussines model to sourcecode, similar how you need to plug one to binary.

Unfortunately, give source is in a lot of ways give the MOST SIGNIFICANT VALUABLE OUTPUT a programmer do.
I remember my family's pre-PPC Mac could play MP2, but not MP3.
it wouldn't be surprising that a guy who spent his life in infosec/IT might have a 50tb NAS at home.

My guess is he was addicted to "stealing", the same way some people shoplift for the thrill. It can feel empowering to steal because it gives the thief control. So subconsciously he's thinking "huh, NSA thinks they're so tough and powerful, but look how I can break their rules right under their nose and they can't even figure it out". Or perhaps he exfiltrated people's phone calls/emails. Thats another power theory: "I'm as big and mighty as the NSA because I can tap communication lines and invade privacy just like they can".

Like others in this thread, I dont think he was a spy. A spy wouldn't hoard shit in his basement that could get him life in prison. He would have stolen it, sold it, and GTFO.
Yeah, I'm using Sam's TF wheel on RPi3 and it works great.

> it was not feasible to analyze every image captured image from the PiCamera using TensorFlow, due to overheating of the Raspberry Pi when 100% of the CPU was being utilized

Just put a heatsink on the CPU. It's like $1.50 ... $1.95 on Adafruit. I glue a heatsink to every RPi3 unit I build.

https://www.adafruit.com/products/3082

https://www.adafruit.com/products/3083

> it was taking too long to load the 85 MB model into memory, therefore I needed to load the classifier graph to memory

Yeah, one of the first things you learn with TF on the RPi is to daemonize it, load everything you can initially, and then just process everything in a loop. That initialization is super-slow, but after that it's fast enough. YMMV
Would you donate a recurring amount monthly to open-source software development?

Imagine a site that auto-bills your credit card every month. You can specify projects you want to support, or just support a portfolio of projects that someone else has devised.

If so, please fill out this quick survey. I'm curious if this idea has legs:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXIqUqsfDoUplWeWYs...
I just switched completely to Linux just recently and thought I'd have some issues with necessary Windows software. There was definitely some learning curve to getting Adobe Photoshop CC setup using PlayOnLinux/Wine but it seems to work well.

I'm very happy even with terrible bluetooth support in comparison to Windows. I couldn't get a Logitech mouse to pair with the Dell XPS Developer edition. Tried all the command line tricks with bluetoothctl and hcitool. I plugged in a really cheap Kinivo USB bluetooth dongle I had laying around from a headset and it worked easily. Go figure.
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Totally true but it's far easier to negotiate when you have a legally tangible asset for trade. Like if you express interest in buying my painting we might have different ideas on the price but there's no question about the basic idea that it could have a commercial value. If we lived in an earlier era and you commission a portrait of yourself or so it was quite questionable whether such things were even a commercial item.

Now digital distribution has upended the copyright model because you no longer need the resources of a publisher to distribute your work (good) but as creative work proliferates it's as hard as ever to polish and market it successfully and more difficult than it was to monetize (bad).

Of course it depends what you're doing. Some people make a fortune just yakking opinions into a webcam on YouTube or suchlike, and that's working out great for many many people. It's my bad luck that my tastes are a long way outside the mainstream and I'm not so brilliant that I can just crank out some commercial stuff on the side when I want cash.
I would love a Tesla but man those numbers would be a bit frightening if I were planning on purchasing one soon.. I don't see how they could scale up like that for a brand new model and not have quality problems. Best of luck to them!
That part has been fixed by https://flattr.com/ You either prepay or setup a periodic payment and then just click the flattr badges whenever you want. They get funded from your flattr pool. No need for the card every time.

Unfortunately flattr didn't really take off.
20TB less than the size of a notebook?

I'm not calling outright fibs here but we're talking 10 2TB sata's here or what?

I'd take maybe a 1U with SFF's, but then again I've not seen how big your laptop is ;)

edit: yep, ok, I missed the words 'server' and 'cross section' there and thought you were talking about some magic home setup...... apologies and: doh!
I went to a local Radio Shack the other day to get a cheap soldering iron.

There was one person in the store, sitting at a fold-up table with a Sprint table cloth over it. They explained that I wouldn't be able to buy anything except cell phones because the Radio Shack employee had gone on break.

I've said for 10 years now that Radio Shacks problem was its focus on cell phones. Employees were highly incentivised to sell phones, and everything else suffered as a result.

Just as mentioned in another comment...Anyone can sell phones now, and once that became a reality, they began competing with much leaner business models that focused on phone sales with much lower overheads.
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The problem is I think Octave missed its window. 20 years ago when I was in grad school, everybody was using Matlab and a competitive open source version would have been a killer app. I looked into Octave at the time, but it was basically a toy at that point. I looked into it recently, and it really has come a long way, and even has an official GUI similar to Matlab's, but these days Matlab is kind of fading out and R is what everybody seems to be using.
111MB for the setup download (at least on Windows)?! What's in it apart from a chat app and encryption library?
It's a cult. They're like LaRouchies.
This is a depressing way to see the value delivered by a startup to their users. Instead of making awesome things to their user, they are using messages to "engage" users to not abandon their product. I want to believe that they were doing the former. Believe or not, some of us are not trying to trick users or do anything to show growth, but actually trying to help our users.
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When the hardware was so specialized it made a lot more sense. Now that everyone has nearly identical hardware it's even stupider.

On the plus side platform exclusives almost totally gone outside of the game is manufactured by the console makers themselves.
FWIW, I just tried this in Firefox (set javascript.enabled=false) and went to my bank's website to see how it would fare. Firefox crashed. Tried again with no other tabs open, still crashed. Crash report sent.

OTOH, in Chrome the website actually works fine and feels more snappy with JS disabled. So, thanks for the tip!
> This sounds like the reason widening roads doesn't usually ease congestion.

It usually does actually.

What is happening there is that you have different demand levels at different congestion levels. If you alleviate some congestion by widening the road then demand goes up.

That is only a problem if the demand without congestion is higher than what even the wider road can handle. As long as the new road can handle the higher but still finite demand you get when there is no congestion, there is no problem.

In other words, as long as you make the road wide enough for the congestion-free demand level to begin with, that doesn't happen.
If they can hit 500,000 cars by 2018 would you assume they would be able to fulfil all world orders of model 3 by mid-2018?

I'm in Australia and put a deposit on in the morning the day it came out, hoping I'll see the car this year but doubtful.. next year? Maybe.
They'd get a lot more retention if they just updated the app to be closer to the web version.

Half the charts and views are missing with no way to access things like net worth, change time frames for longer than 6 mo, filter to only chart things with certain accounts, etc.

It's all there on the web, but mobile has languished while they rush to get bill pay added. I'd heard rumors they were winding down the team but it has been over a year like this.
>You think they would be watching everything like a hawk.

They probably do...but...as they say, "locks keep honest men honest."

At some point, you have to have a level of trust that exists. A long term subersive employee will beat your locks eventually.
> back then it was awful

I think you'll have to expand on that. "awful" is neither useful nor constructive. Do you mean compatibility, interface, documentation, something else?
The lights in the conference room flickered intermittently, a slight buzz heard each time they dimmed. Something was dripping on to the ceiling tiles from above, a large orange colored stain had developed in the corner.

The interviewer leaned in again, his tie loose, his face covered in stubble. He'd been at this for four hours now and it was showing.

"Tell us your social media passwords."

The candidate flinched back, shaking his head.

"I told you, I...that's illegal, you can't ask for those."

The interviewer clasped his hands together, cracked his knuckles, and flashed a big grin. With a swift motion he swiped a marker from the table, flicked off the cap, and stabbed it in the direction of the candidate.

"Write a linked-list implementation in C. Oh, and because you've been such a tough-guy you only get to use malloc...once. In the main function."

A bead of sweat quickly ran down the candidate's face. He looked tense, fraught with concern. The sound of his teeth grinding together wasn't hard to hear.

"S-seven salamander six exclamation three five."
Shameless plug but I did something similar in 2014 and used PhantomJS to analyze the content of the top 1000 Alexa sites: http://dangoldin.com/2014/03/09/examining-the-requests-made-...
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Selling resistors and breadboards to hobbyists doesn't pay the rent on a physical store with employees. Raspberry Pis can be obtained online for cheap and you only have to wait a few days for shipping.
Just Web really -- JavaScript, SQL, some bash, a little less awk, extremely rarely Perl, and a lot of the dreaded PHP.

In principle I could imagine some languages might exist in which the concerns of developers are so confined to the smallest language bits and pieces -- at the expense of bigger-picture concerns -- that the drag of ever-present syntax cues is less of a drag.

But even from what I've seen of Haskell I can't imagine wanting to have those cues in my face all the time, unless I'm either learning the language or at my wits end trying to locate a (maybe) syntax bug ... in other words, when I'm not really writing or reading code. If anything, its proximity to math might make me more eager to be free of those cues.

I think in just about any significant code-making effort, we'll need to be able to think clearly about the meaning and intent of chapters, pages and paragraphs (and maybe sentences) without hundreds of little tethers constantly reminding us about commas and parentheses and subject-verb agreement.

All I can say really is that I had no idea how much of a drag those syntax cues were until I got used to being without them. Nobody has to do it just because it worked for me (and others). It's just a suggestion.
Great! and Musk hopes for a launch in India this summer.

Bad news for $TSLA short sellers. They have piled up more than $9 billion.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/short-sellers-getting-steamrol...
This is one of the reasons preventing me to switch from Sublime.

The other reason is slowness to open a single file from the CLI, it seems Atom doesnt reuse the already open shell like sublime does, there was a tracked issue for that one.
20TB of data can fit on 3 hard drives now...
Obviously he/she would have to stop contributing to Octave.
I'm sure Apple or Microsoft are looking for people with exactly his domain knowledge. Just imagine RMS as the Keynote Speaker for the next WWDC
American, and it didn't strike me as odd.
Hey, I used it in Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Cousera. It was that or Matlab.

Nothing trendier than ML, so I'd recommend going that direction.