skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could someone explain the hate for affiliate links? Maybe I'm just being naive, but as long as there's no suspicion of ratings bias, I'm fine with them.

Ex: I've used thewirecutter.com recommendations for home supplies--and I'm happy to give the creators a kickback for their effort (at no cost to me).
The whole google cloud platform doesn't get enough cred. Would be nice to add it to the list.
I actually just bought one of these a few weeks ago https://www.amazon.com/RTL-SDR-Blog-RTL2832U-Software-Telesc...

It'll do 500k-1.7GHz, I've used it with this software (urh) as well as gnuradio, works fantastically!
by the way, it is a ports from 11 lines python version here: http://iamtrask.github.io/2015/07/12/basic-python-network/, isn't it more readable concise and beautiful than python version?

if our all ML codes use apl, it will be a cool world.
Nice excerpt from his book "Hard things about hard things" - can absolutely recommend it.
You're being unreasonable and harsh. The infographic and its methodology are straightforward; as the footnote at the bottom of the infographic notes,

> The index is a gauge of startup activity that equally considers capital raised, deal count, first financings, and exit count. Each of the input factors is normalized for its historical volatility and then the normalized factors are combined in equal proportions to form a normalized index for constructing this barometer.

That's a very straightforward and defensible methodology. Really the only bone I would have to pick is that (AFAICT) the data is rebased to April 2007, which is a bit arbitrary -- but not sure how else I would have established base values if it were me doing it.
Yet it happened the day after his speech[0]. A fertile ground for various conspiracies.

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/21...
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Fun fact: The Lost Vikings was created by Silicon Synapse. They were later renamed "Blizzard Entertainment" and went on to make Warcraft/Starcraft. The Vikings are now featured in Blizzard's game Heroes of the Storm: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/the-lost-vikings/
VCpkg (and ofcourse CMake support, without it I don't use VS honestly) made me to make that switch ! it is awesome, it is one thing as C++ dev I always dreamed of
> - Visual Studio can compile with GNU/Linux C/C++ tools, gdb, linker etc

First VS Core, now VS proper. Impressive!

(going back to my ddd window on Linux, crying a bit inside).
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And you are not believing stats released by one of the least corrupt democracy of the West.

There was one grenade launched in Sweden in August last year. There's at least 1 killed by a semi auto in the US per day. Sweden has near zero homicide rate.

edit: it seems there was more than 'one' explosions in Sweden, but looking at the wikipedia article history linked below doesn't fill me with confidence considering how the language used has changed between august when the article was made and now. Also note how the wikipedia editors write about organized crime using old grenades from WWII and not migrants bombing Swedish people.
This is probably why i'm going to be replacing my 2014 with a 2017 MBP (hopefully they're not worse...), despite wanting to go with Linux.

I can't stomach dealing with driver/etc issues. I can't handle paying $2k only to deal with debugging things that i want to "just work".

Sure, it might work perfectly, or it might be a nightmare. I've had both experiences on desktop linux.
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NetBSD is built using build.sh + bmake, including inside of the debian-provided jenkins.

The output of those jenkins builds is then run through debian-provided test suites to validate the reproduce-ability of aforementioned NetBSD builds.
The police can’t just share the contents of a seized iPhone with other agencies
No kidding! It's a complete nightmare to set up, urh is significantly simpler to set up and to use.. though of course the other side of that is it's not as powerful as gnuradio
Nice job and a useful website. One nitpick: there were free ssl certificates before Let's Encrypt, but not nearly as easy to use.
I'm pretty sure from own experience that supplying solutions to business customers at scale is not easy without being a proven business yourself. The other way round is doing contract work for them, essentially selling your solutions very cheap. In the middle, you may want to become an r&d employee in order to achieve financial security while working on your own project for a single customer aka your employer. In the latter case, bonuses and intellectual rights exploitation may be agreed, if the interest is mutual and your solution is big.
> Yes, that's Haruhi Suzumiya. But it's also someone in a much older franchise you might have heard of.

Let's not be coy. Does the author mean God here? Or something else?
I've seen excellent articles in National Review from time to time. I'm not a regular reader by any means, but a blanket statement like this isn't useful. It leans conservative, but it's also pretty upfront about that fact.
The Brand X decision killed local loop unbundling in the US. So unless you own the copper plant this is a no-go. If you are outside the US, even then there are problems as access to subloops can be hard to get.
Not since Windows 2000 have I been so interested in an upgrade to a new Windows release. Only at work do I have to suffer through Windows, but this would make things much nicer there.

I hope/pray that readline and/or editline work correctly on bash et al?

Do Windows CI services like Appveyor support WSL? If so I would hope that deploying to windows for lots of high level software is relatively painless.

Head scratcher from the video:

> What if I want to open this file in notepad?

> ... <demonstrates opening notepad from bash>

> audience applauds

Ugh, the only thing worth applause here would be if instead he had said "and we finally taught notepad how to work with different line-endings" or "and we finally deleted notepad". The demo clearly shows the shebang line mashed in with the rest of the file contents. "This was a very popular ask" -- from whom‽ To present things as a dichotomy between vim and notepad is not honest.

EDIT: comments below have clarified: the feature refers to launching Windows processes from linux ones, not notepad specifically.
It was published by Electronic Arts, who are doing quite well :)
Except then nonsense like the "PewDiePie is a nazi" articles happens

At the risk of getting very meta here in a discussion about trustworthiness. I cannot find any article on the WSJ site where they claimed that "PewDiePie is a nazi". Could you please provide a link?
It's honestly none of your business who she sleeps with.

And what you're implying--that because of a personal issue in her past, it was ok to harass her out the door at Reddit--is offensive and a classic tactic against women in the workplace.

How many coworkers has Huffman slept with during his career? You don't know, because it never comes up, because he's a white guy. But we know that in his actual job as CEO as Reddit, he has abused users' trust in the system for his own benefit; but apparently Pao is still a worse villain. The double standard stands intact.
Tru64 featured AdvFS, which was awesome for the time (pre-ZFS).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdvFS
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These goods are not even zero-sum, they're negative sum! This is one of the reasons large inequality is inefficient: larger and larger amounts of our production go to competition over these scarce goods without actually increasing the amount of them available to go around.
Thanks. Sorry about the bad quality link, I got it from their Twitter account. I'd rather just see it on their own site or YT/Vimeo too.
>> Why wouldn't Boeing make their own?

As this article points out, the new facility in Australia is state of the art. They claim it may produce better carbon fiber than anywhere else. So imagine Boeing made a massive investment in equipment to make their own, only to have someone come along and do better. They make airplanes and let the industry figure out how to make the fiber, that way they can always buy the best if they want to.
+1 You can run a fairly decent amount of traffic on free-tier App Engine
Zuckerberg was talking about his opinion that "hate speech" doesn't have a place on Facebook and that they "need to do some work".

Merkel merely asked "are you working on this"?

Somehow Infowars turned this into the following headline:

"Mark Zuckerberg Caught on Hot Mic Saying Facebook Will Censor Anti-Migrant Posts"

Other, more credible outlets said that Merkel was "pressing" Zuckerberg. Like asking a question puts so much pressure on someone.

I for one would like to see headlines like this rewritten, "Saved you a click" style. People often read nothing more than the headline.

Words matter.
Full text: http://m.pnas.org/content/113/18/4909.full
I was afraid I wouldn't be able to make an ISO of the disc, because it's so damaged... HOWEVER, it turns out someone ALREADY backed up v1.2 of this disc to archive.org back in 2013. :)

https://archive.org/details/Star_Wars_-_Rebel_Assault_1993_L...
I'm generally a slack fan, but isn't that just plain ol' illegal false advertising?
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Thank you very much for the advice, I will definitely do that!
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Yep, but regarding my remark I actually meant both.
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I somewhat agree, except that I don't think there is a useful objective metric for ranking search results. Or what would you suggest? PageRank can be played with SEO shenanigans.

So if somebody searches for vaccines, how should the anti-vaxxers and pro-vaxxers be ranked? Just because somebody has an opinion, does it deserve to be presented as likely as every other opinion? What if I start a new movement vaccines have a chance to turn people into spiderman, should my theory also rank equally to other vaccine sites?
you've pointed out something wrong with politifact but think about how many times it has been used to debunk falsehoods. One bad case doesn't negate the whole source, that bad case just needs to be fixed.

it seems we're taking a step back with education, and credible news sources are being actively de-legitimized which will no doubt lead to more confusion and fake/propaganda news affecting large numbers of voters beliefs.

I think Google has an opportunity to help with this problem. I think all tech companies should take this problem on so that voters are at least making their decisions based on facts. I think this should be the biggest priority right now.
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That's very interesting! I figured I could save some money from switching Spamnesty (http://spa.mnesty.com/) to Sparkpost, but they don't seem to support receiving email?
I couldn't read the WSJ article through that link or through a google search.

I read through the NR article, and while the attempts to contact the authors of the fact check was lacking, I don't see the problem in the fact check itself.

ACA was basically saying you can't discriminate against any state licensed and certified health practitioner.

While I think homeopathy is bullshit, I don't see how else to do it, and claiming it gives "elevated legitimacy to alternative medicine" is misleading at best.

It's really far fetched as an attempt to show politifacts questionability.

I'm more inclined by the lack of evidence to the contrary to consider them generally trustworthy.
Just for reference, I've been doing this for a few months now. I'm not sure what's changed, but you'll need ubuntu 16 (you can uninstall 14 and reinstall WSL to get it) in WSL to do it.
To be fair, trump does tell _his_ truth. His statements are generally wrong not for any conniving purpose, but because he genuinely has no idea what is going on.
We are living in the Post Fact World where you no longer need to provide evidence or cite your sources.

These days saying “I was given that information.” or “Actually, I’ve seen that information around." is all you need to convince half of Americans of whatever you want them to believe.
VK still offers almost any MP3 you can imagine, slightly less than than Movies and PDFs, and much more than that adult video content. At same time 90% of Russia using VK. You don't need to imagine that, it is reality.
> Gross domestic product, producer price indices, consumer price indices, employment statistics, housing starts, manufacturing and trade inventory levels and flows and stock indices are not practical? I think you underestimate the role and prevalence of econometric methods.

They're very prevalent, I have no qualms about that. But, economics is a young field and we're starting to see the old methods come apart. Specifically, GDP. It has been touted as the end-all-be-all to measure a country's wealth (quality of life), however this notion is incorrect[0].

> The S&P 500 has a clearly-stated goal and methodology [1]. It's used as a shorthand for U.S. large cap equities because it's well designed for that purpose.

I am speaking purely of a practical sense. That is, what use do market practitioners (investors, speculators, etc.) assign to it. The group of S&P indices (not just the popular 500) is used as a quick tool to gauge segment "health," i.e current level compared to all levels and means before it. This is the same reason this barometer is supposed to serve.

>The Bloomberg "barometer" doesn't do any of these. Is it supposed to forecast valuations? Ease of fundraising? IPO conditions?

It's supposed to be shorthand for the "startups" segment. However, since most startups (and in particular the technology startups that dominate this segment) are difficult to assign accurate valuation (due to: risk, intangible assets (see: goodwill), opaqueness of financials, private ownership, etc.), there is very little work with.

>Nailing down what an index is designed to do, practically, is important because that directs which data one uses and how one weights them. Calling this a "quick reference" is a farce--it's an obfuscated infographic that fails to make a point.

I believe it's a step into the right direction, but it definitely will need updating moving forward as we learn more about the nature of startups.

[0]http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21697845-gross-domest... (as only one quick example)
The difference is that it's not a evaluation about whether the content is correct, just about the type of content. It's akin to marking links as "PDF" or "Video".
> This video is not available.

> Sorry about that.

Oh, Youtube...
> If you can guarantee a rate of return, getting money from any bank sounds easy.

Sadly this isn't true. Banks lend you money if you have collateral.

> And if take rate is 60%, then those that take the offer have to pay 100%/60%=166% of what they would have payed with a 100% take rate.

That only works if the customers are willing to pay 166%. The shit really hits the fan if you get the take rate wrong and your costs exceed what your customers have agreed to pay.
And?

The alternative is to ban sorting news articles at all.
I confirm - RDP is super awesome, a reason why I converted my home 'server' from mac to windows.
The other time this story was discussed here (probably in 2011, linked to techcrunch) someone pointed out very insightful comment from person claiming to be employed at a time at the Netscape in Marketing (or Sales?). According to this employee the real reason why the web server was selling was not the regained technical supremacy, but mere fact that it was boundled with mail and directory servers that customers were actually interested in. I have no way of checking whether it's true, and there are no comments on this story today on both a16z site and techcrunch, but the idea that even someone who made the company succeed and have learned valuable lessons from it may have not seen the whole picture left a deep impression on me.
Visual studio team services is with looking at. Includes git, release management and continuous integration with a free tire
Really, no Azure? They have great linux support (if that is your thing).
I am so happy with scaleway that I do not understand it is not in this list.
Unclear why GC and Azure, both with amazing offerings, are not listed.
Now all we need is a first-party X server...
Sounds like a manifestation of the 6 p's: Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
I wish I could eat some of these foods but one thing really hold me up which is how sensitive my gut is to certain fermented foods like sauerkraut. I don't think I could gently adapt to it because even a small amount of such food causes a very painful reaction. So, I think I'm boned when it comes to eating anything beyond boring US processed foods.
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I think they mean launching Windows-side apps from the Bash CLI.

This had nothing specifically to do with Notepad, I would bet they just used it as a simple example.
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It kind of reminds me of cell network "unlimited data" where they just start aggressively throttling customers after a certain amount of data use.
I think this means that you can finally run EXEs in an easy way, directly from WSL. Without installing cbwin.

Basically this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38920710/how-can-a-run-wi...
8,462 users on a free plan with no intention of upgrading to paid.
Plus a large portion of the public in America doesn't pay for healthcare directly (they either get employer-based health insurance or declare bankruptcy) so it distorts incentives while retaining the profit motive. Furthermore American society is seemingly setup to avoid exercise and healthy foods at any cost.

The Japanese are just as wealthy, older, and they smoke more, but they have better health outcomes and they spend almost a third per capita on healthcare. Chile spends about a ninth on healthcare and their average life expectancy is a full year more than the USA.

On top of all of this is the fact that people can get into debt at 1% interest. Hard to be cost-conscious when dear old gran needs a $20k (only $50 per month!) treatment to live another three months. Same thing happened to education.
I was recently detained and made to miss my flight during preclearance (I arrived three hours early). They joked about me not making my flight, and locked me in a room with no one present and no explanation (under threat of strip search, or worse). Calling the local police got me out.

The official excuse? Someone else matched some portion of my exceedingly common name in an undisclosed location somewhere in the world.

I'm an American by birth. I live here. But next time I cross the border, I don't think I'll be making the return leg. The world's a big place.
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This is actually the (previously) missing feature that was preventing me from fully diving into Win10 + Bash.. very happy to see this
The idea is that you can probably open the file from other windows programs (like Sublime text).

For a while, it was impossible for windows programs and WSL content to mix (and if you could somwehow do it, it was highly discouraged).

But that's no longer the case. Notepad is just an example to prove this point.
Employers aren't supposed to call previous employers for references unless you OK it first, and many employers have explicit policies to not give references because of the potential for being sued.

Of course, it does happen, in various ways. The way to find out is to find a sympathetic recruiter (or, a "recruiter" who's really your friend), and have them call for a reference for you. There's good fodder for a lawsuit here.
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If you're referring to the Soros thing you've both:

* Drunk the Kool-Aid

* Ignored doing the most rudimentary test of replacing his name with any other and matching results.
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Being the best is overrated. Three times in my career I was on an engineering team that built an objectively best in class product. Three times it failed because the competition out marketed us and/or beat us in the customer service department. Despite them having inferior products.

Don't get me wrong. You need to have a good product. Your product can't be awful but it only needs to be about 80% as good as the competition before you can win in marketing and other ways.
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Sounds like most of the issues were due to not paying for the product. Which is fair given Slack's freemium model but I wonder if they were throttling free users after a certain point, causing performance issues. If I was this guy I would've reached out to Slack's sales team and explained the situation to see if they could offer a compelling deal. They might've seen a huge discount as worthwhile given it would get 5000+ coders using Slack regularly, many of whom would then promote in other companies.
Hmm, I wonder if this is more efficient than calculating mod 15 directly. It's basically something like

gcd15(int x) {
return ((x * 0xaaaaaaab) < (0xfffffff/3 + 1) ? 1 : 3)
* ((x * 0xaaaaaaab) < (0xfffffff/5 + 1) ? 1 : 5)
}

versus something like

gcd15(int x) {
LOOKUP_TABLE = { /* gcd(n,15) for n = 0,...,15 */ }
int q = (x * ((1 << 28) / 15)) >> 28;
return LOOKUP_TABLE[x - 15 * q];
}

Well, you're probably better of using the method in the article for the division, but this should work for small numbers.
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I think that was the point he was trying to make? That womens perception of bad treatment because they are women, might in fact be a generic bad treatment of employees as you say. I can agree that it might be plausible in the cases where the bad treatment is coming from a higher level, and is not blatantly sexual harassment.

Bad treatment amongst co-workers on the same level will almost always be because they either don't like you or [if you're a woman] because of your gender.

Now, I have no idea if the women that are complaining about bad treatment just defaulted to "I'm getting badly treated because I'm a woman" or if they considered that they're not well liked, but it might be an important distinction to make.
I guess you're past the edit window now to be able to update?
"Fake news" (along with Russia-panic) started its life as part of a propaganda offensive by the DNC and DNC affiliated media (CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, etc.) to justify why Hillary lost that didn't involve blaming her.

I think it was mainly targeted at Democrats/Hillary supporters rather than Trump supporters (they obviously didn't need to hear an excuse for why she lost).
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They finally "solved" the copyright problem with Night of the Living Dead by doing a new restoration, with a fresh digital transfer and some fixed audio. So they can claim copyright on that, just not the original material. I suspect it'll be released on blu-ray soon enough.
Not true. http://www.snopes.com/google-manipulate-hillary-clinton/

Maybe Hacker News needs fact checking integration also.
> You lose copyright if you fail to put a notice on it?

Only for pre-1978 things.