skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a faxed signature counts as a "wet" signature. Also it's easier to sign then feed into a fax machine than:

- sign
- scan (usually sent as a weird filename to your corporate email)
- save the attachment, rename the file, create a new email, attach the file, send
I feel you. As a manager/leader, I feel the same way.

Here's how I would deal with the situation: You work as hard as you can and support your team as much as you can. At some point, you'll need to build their trust and respect such that they will be willing to work even when you're not there.

You'll have to learn new ways to motivate your employees to work as hard. It's about them learning how to let them take ownership/responsibility over tasks.

With regards to 5pm questions, that's the reality of managers/leaders. We're there to support and assist as much as we can.

If they can feel that you're there for them, they will work for you. Sometimes it might take you bending your back for their needs. Talk about non-work related stuff. Figure out what motivates them and makes them excited and help them get to where they want to be.

Some people may never feel motivated to work beyond what their tasked to do and that's ok. You do what you can but at the same time, know that you can't change everyone. People have to want to change themselves. You're just there to guide.
Advanced phishing with reverse proxies
> It is a moderately better situation than living in a college dorm.

That is not a good situation by any standard.

Maybe that's okay when you're a broke 20 yo student with no income.
Out of curiosity: Which way do you see the media being biased?
Me too, I would love to see the same list but for Democrats.
The issue is that this person wrote the software and then profited and advertised it specifically for malicious uses. That implies intent, and intent matters.
FLAVOR: All

HEADLINE: Allow safe sensible package fixes

DESCRIPTION: Sometimes the distribution version of a package is broken and the problem is marked WONTFIX because it involves a version bump, even in the case where it is not a library or the version bump is only there to fix a typo in a config file. This is extremely frustrating for end users when they learn that mplayer will never have GUI support in any version of Ubuntu 14 or there will never be manpages for zsh. If something is a bug and there is no reasonable chance that another package depends on the buggy behavior, allow the package to be fixed.
2017 GPU Hackathons
MDXC: A tool to create React components from Markdown
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Disable Mouse battery power estimator

DESCRIPTION: The ability to disable the mouse battery power level estimator in the top nav bar, e.g. http://askubuntu.com/questions/361022/how-to-disable-mouse-p....

That status indicator drives me crazy. I don't care how much juice is left in my mouse battery.

When it dies I just swap it out for a new one, but I look at it and think my laptop is unplugged and on limited battery power.

The fact that it can't be disabled seems a little absurd. Can't there be a setting to disable this? The only power level I care about is my battery, unplugged.
Or.. we just greatly overestimated what our brains were doing all along..
The main project site is at:

http://gobuffalo.io/
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: MATE as default desktop
- DESCRIPTION: It’s fast, it’s stable, it’s GTK3, it’s a proper desktop, what more could you want!
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: software dev
Oh and give that Wimpy guy a raise! ;)
Physics in 100 Years – Frank Wilczek (2015)
Cool! I really think this is a "the more the merrier" space. More tools = good.
Snap Debuts a New Search Tool, the First Major Product Since IPO
I wonder how much that outlay spread shrinks once you count for the fact that you need many times more roads, pipes, electric lines et al. when you spread out?

Imagine a small town as a square of 16 100 story towers. You wouldnt need much roads, public transit, cabling, pipes etc. You'd only need 1 police/fire hall (albeit a big one).
When is it OK to shoot a child soldier?
Google Cloud Machine Learning managing weather conditions
Look at how people in the 1950s lived: do you really want that. They had ONE black and white 13 inch TV - 19 inch color TVs existed but only the rich could afford them. They lived in smaller houses than we live in today, and the furnishing where more utilitarian. They had one car (odds are the women wasn't allowed to drive though this part of culture was changing), it didn't have AC, you might or might not be able to afford the optional heater and radio (it broke down often despite doing tuneups all the time). They had one phone - it was a party line so they could share some of the costs with their neighbors...

Today we have a much higher standard of living. We have decided that the toys, space, and luxury is worth more than the time we have to work to pay for it. Is this the right choice? That is an interesting discussion: I can take either side of it.

I know of a few people who have chosen to work less. They live a sparser life - generally working at WalMart or some such because the better paying jobs won't even give you the option of working less hours - this is a choice they made and they are happy with their life.

It is well known that there is a spike in deaths just after people retire: most people don't actually know what to do with more leisure time, and their work hours also double as part of their social hours. As such for many people working for luxuries is the correct choice.
There is a pretty good conspiracy that Alex Jones is actually Bill Hicks after the CIA gave him a make-over and use him as a controlled opposition source.
Since the provenance of other evidence usually is a matter of personal testimony except where the provenance is not in dispute, I'm not sure why that would be necessary; the reliability of evidence is already determined by evaluation of personal testimony.

Of course, eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable even when not intentionally deceptive, and testimony is much easier to falsify even without any technical aid than any other form of evidence, so relying solely on personal testimony wouldn't really help to avoid fabricated evidence, anyway.
Linux Foundation offers Hadoop training
I'm conflicted on upvoting this comment, because if I do I'm just part of the problem right?
> Would be a great step to have a phone that: Fully open source.

Two problems remaining why this won't happen:

a) Baseband (which in some cases has direct access to the microphone, or worse, DMA link to the CPU, or even worse, integrated into the SoC) firmware

b) Linux kernel. So many manufacturers either blatantly ignore the GPL by not releasing kernel source code, and nearly all of them, instead of cooperating with upstream, fork the kernels and add literal crap on their trees. The horrors I have seen, especially in leaked Mediatek source trees... unimaginable. I can certainly understand why Mediatek does not want to release kernel sources.

Also this is the biggest threat to the Android ecosystem. Either some kernel contributor sues Mediatek and other shoddy OEM/ODMs for enough money that they go down (unlikely), or the kernel forks by manufacturers will go so hard out of sync that new userlands of Android will simply not work with fossilized kernels. Same as in the embedded-Linux world...

I believe a lot of manufacturers operate by "lets either not release code at all or code so shoddy no one else wants to release anything based on it", and thus holding privacy, security and competition hostage. Especially as competition is stuff like cyanogenmod which removes all the nasty tracking/adware whose data sales the OEMs intend to monetize...
Basically everyone I know in the bay area lives with a roommate, and these are well paid software engineers.

Renting out the living room of your apartment is usually a pretty good deal, and is perfectly normal.

Sure, if you start to talk about hacker house levels of bad, that sucks. But this is NOT that.
Agree, useful/helpful, disagree, not relevant, spam, illegal, inflammatory, etc...

Now limit the number of times I can vote within a given time period, and you've reinvented Slashdot.
Major factor in DRAM latency is in moving these charges around the chip (between the array and sense amplifiers). The wires in the array have some finite conductivity and current handling capability thus this cannot happen instantenuosly.

On the other hand sequential access bandwith is limited almost entirely by the external interface and has more to with economical factors (pin count is major part of IC price) than any physical limitations.
GraphQL and REST solutions will almost certainly be much faster than any CRDT solution. I think that the REST solution should be more efficient than the GraphQL solution but it probably won't be a drastic difference.

The essence of the REST philosophy is to deal with data as small atomic building blocks - I think that this is one of the most important and well-tested ideas in software engineering so on that basis, I would go with REST. Though you could also argue that the idea of querying (which is what GraphQL essentially is) is also well tested.

CRDTs are bad with bandwidth and they require very heavy/complex clients that are difficult to implement - Once implemented, they make life easier for many use cases but take away flexibility and customizability.

I think the main challenge with GraphQL actually might be doing access control on the back-end. If you have a GraphQL query that fetches many different resource types, it's a lot more difficult to establish whether or not a user is allowed to access all these resources at once (GraphQL approach) vs just a single resource at a time (REST Approach).

With GraphQL you may have to deal with partial access rights - where the user is only allowed to see part of the query's result. With REST, each request can only have a single allowed/blocked response.
The map-to-photo only seems to work because there is a limited training set built with the exact same photographic tile as the vector map. It's reproducing features that are not possible to infer.
i would agree advertising is definitely polluting the content

Im taking a genomics class, so I figured I'd look up to see if there are any videos for more information on some topics...

Turns out there seems to be a cottage industry of having the computer read a definition, and post it on YouTube: for example this user. These videos show up often in searches and crowd out some of the more interesting stuff.

https://m.youtube.com/user/medicaldictionaryapp
>If 512M is not enough space for /boot you're doing something wrong.

I don't know what planet you're living on but it's certainly not this one. Between a Ubuntu desktop, a laptop and personal server with multiple Ubuntu VM's on it, all of which are kept up rigorously to date, I fix this problem at least three times a year, every year.

The command line process to fix it[1] is a multi-stage mess of dense bash-foo that comes with a 140 word, two paragraph explanation so that /ubuntu veterans/ can figure out what is going on without resorting to scouring the man page for flags. The friendly GUI process to fix it relies on a third party tool that is no longer maintained[2].

It is not possible to explain to non-technical users what is happening here, which means the only thing they can do when they see this is call their technical friend and cry for help. This is exactly the kind of user experience that makes people think Linux is not ready for widespread desktop use.

This is definitely something the OS should take care of itself. I'm ignorant of the challenges that caused it to be this way in the first place, but in my ignorance I would advocate that:

a) the partition be made larger by default
b) the OS auto-purge any kernel package more than three revisions old

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/89710/how-do-i-free-up-more-...
[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/
Agreed. Load times were bad in the past.

No one's asked me yet why these smaller SSD thingys are so much more expensive than larger hard drives, but I prepared the answer a long time ago:

They make your computer feel 10x faster.

Only cheapskates and the stubborn would pass on an SSD.
Redbench – Benchmarking for custom Redis commands and modules
Ten Tips to Follow When Pursuing Social Media Marketing
Is it legal though? Both according to your lease and according to occupancy laws? (Referring to over-occupancy by renting out living rooms and/or multiple people per room.)
All the giant surface parking lots around BART and Caltrain stations are a ridiculous waste of prime real estate. If they got rid of the surface parking lots, narrowed nearby streets and eliminated most of the street parking, filled the 3-block radius with 3–6 story apartment buildings (ideally including a decent proportion of small studio and 1-bedroom apartments) with shops on the ground floor, and then let someone build a parking structure nearby, everyone would end up better off, especially “the taxpayer”.

That would be by far the best way to make a dent in the Bay Area housing shortage.
Ok, I'll bite, how do you spend 12,000$ on a desktop? Just keep throwing videocards at it?
How long does it take to send a page of fax? Their pricing is 0.007 per minute. I haven't seen many fax machines take more than a minute per page, but they would have to take 10 minutes to catch up to your pricing.

Edit: Fixed time to comparable pricing.
CMake, SCons, maybe. This question was closed as not constructive, but the discussion looks reasonable to me:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/600274/alternatives-to-au...
China is heavily investing in solar, not fission (at least from what I've heard). And I don't think that Australia has a strong edge on the iridium market (it's already super-rare) or the silicon market (we already have problems with beach erosion, so mining silicon = very bad for condos in Sydney).
America the Abundant
I've only recently started reading about deep neural networks, and the thing that strikes me the most about the literature is the lack of mathematics.

Open a NIPS paper from 2010 or so, and you'll see extremely dense mathematics: nonparametrics, variational approximation, sampling theory, riemannian geometry. But from my (admittedly small) sampling of the convnet / RNN literature there really doesn't seem to be much maths there. The typical paper seems to run along the lines of "We tried this, and it worked".

I'm not sure whether there's anything to learn from this observation, but I think it's striking all the same.
That's why we have DocuSign!
There are monsters out there. They hide in the edges of your social circle
Google Reader had "social" features? Heh, I never knew. And I was one of the people who got mad as hell when they shut it down and tried out ~30 clones before settling on a self-hosted TinyTinyRSS instance.
I'm the author of the tool used to generate the doc.
And yes this is just my mistake (I don't use back button so much during testing so never noticed this). Will fix it asap.
Which Chromebook do you mean?
very very cool. One thing I noticed that with image to image translation tasks the output tends to be a bit "organic" looking, like the photo to map example. With photographic output it's not noticeable, but it's very jarring for graphical output.

I wonder if there is a way to fix this, possibly by stacking another GAN on top?
Inside Twitter’s Obsessive Quest to Ditch the Egg
This begs a question: how do ISPs collect this data? I thought it was intercepting and analyzing http requests as they come from the cable modem. Are you saying that rather it's at the browser level? If so how do they control that?
Can this type of system be safely used in LEO?

Since the SpaceX launch recently I've been thinking about a system that would negate the need for an expendable second stage. If you had an "orbital taxi" sitting in LEO waiting to grab the payload from the first stage and boost it up to GTO, you could make the entire system reusable. The "orbital taxi" would have to be powered by some kind of nuclear reactor like this using VASIMIR propulsion (http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/VASIMR), as solar panels wouldn't be sufficient.

I'm sure this isn't a new idea so I'm wondering if anyone knows of such a design?
For a lengthy surgery, even though I'd be happy to watch, I think the surgeon needs to work fast. Not to worry about my feelings. The longer I'm open, the higher chance of infection. I'd hope the nurses would be able to speak up if doctor was an idiot.

On the other hand, when I had my wisdom teeth taken out, my friends suggested staying awake. If you're asleep the dentist is rougher and recovery is longer.

My dentist is my brother's friend. While he was taking one of the teeth out, I heard a large crack and he said "Awe fuck". Nothing serious, but my tooth cracked and it takes longer to finish. He'd prefer to pull out the tooth whole, root and all. Dentist knew I wouldn't care, but some people would be alarmed.
That's a fair point about garbage creation; I wouldn't do that in a tight inner loop, either. And now I know why that method doesn't just return an array to begin with. Thanks!
> The essence of the REST philosophy is to deal with data as small atomic building blocks

It's actually not; that seems to be something imposed after the fact by association of REST with a thin layer over a normalized DB model.

REST is neutral about both the size and atomicity of resources.
"Between the Google play store, Android's general insecurity, and now cell carriers actively pushing spyware, what alternatives exist?"

There are no alternatives until we have an open baseband.

Every objection you state in your comment about android (and iOS) is dwarfed by the objections you would have if you truly understood the two other general purpose computers inside your phone that you have no control over - namely, your baseband processor and your SIM card.

Your carrier owns you. Your carrier owns you more deeply than any spyware author ever dreamed of owning you.

Your carrier can upload and run arbitrary java applets onto your SIM card without you ever knowing. Your carrier, depending on which SOC you have and how it is implemented, can access your CPU and memory directly. As in, read the passphrase of your cutesy encrypted chat app as you key it in.

We cannot begin to speak of a secure mobile platform or any kind of open source mobile platform until we have an open baseband and control our own SIM cards. We are very, very far away from this.

In the meantime, you have two choices:

1. treat your mobile device as fully compromised and behave accordingly. This is what I do.

2. Buy a non-cellular mobile device (for instance, the old "samsung galaxy player" devices that have no mobile chipset or SIM card) and insert a cellular modem into the USB port and segregate that function there, and use VOIP software. This actually sounds sort-of workable except for one interesting problem - in addition to handling cellular communications, the baseband also handles voice quality like noise cancellation and so on that also needs to be done in real-time and not interrupted by userland events ... and so your actual voice quality will drop as a result of using VOIP on a handset.
Being governor of a state, especially a state with a very large economy that spans most sectors, a large and diverse population, and a very diverse geography gives direct experience in a large fraction of what a President does. All that is really missing is commanding a military and making agreements with foreign governments.

Being a businessman doesn't give anywhere near that level of relevant experience.
> There is no good Indian radio or podcast online now…

"Good" is subjective of course, but here's a nice, categorized list of many of the best: http://rockingentrepreneur.com/list-of-indian-podcasts/

If you search for "best indian podcasts" you'll get many other thoughtful lists of great Indian podcasts.

If you're personally interested in podcasting, this is a unique time in the history of the medium. You could take advantage of the potential opportunity by starting your own podcast, or by creating an Indian podcasting network that helps others create India-centric shows.
"Other media" sadly does not include DVDs. As far as I know there is no officially blessed way to play a DVD on Ubuntu, and probably never will be.
>Doesn't `apt-get autoremove` remove those old kernels?

Of course it doesn't! Why would you assume such a silly thing? /s
https://askubuntu.com/questions/563483/why-doesnt-apt-get-au...
It ends in 2048(maybe before) -- Why call it a "law"? Probably easy to remember by giving a name, I guess.
To add another example: spiped is 6 years old and should build on any POSIX system with the Software Development Utilities option, /dev/urandom, and OpenSSL. Over the years I've collected a handful of workarounds for not-quite-POSIX systems, but the "check if we need any workarounds" step of the spiped build is still much faster and simpler than using autotools.
I'm guessing this won't get much discussion, many votes, and that lots of people will be uncomfortable and say it doesn't belong. However, I think it's important, and relevant to this community, and so I've submitted it.

Even if you don't upvote it, even if you flag it, please, at least read it.
A laptop that has working suspend, wifi, and audio.
A friend wondered how they can make their improvements to SAXPY and claim they're correct w/o using the restrict keyword.
I was in Boston last week on business, and I took a meeting at the Boston Public Library downtown in Copley. I had the exact same thought walking through that area on a Saturday morning. It was packed (although not quite to capacity). I casually observed what was on screens, and it was everything from Facebook, to games, to Wikipedia.
It does not take hours. Southwest turns a 747 around in 20 minutes. That includes baggage unload/reload, fueling, and pilot pre-flight.
That's only because it's cheaper to build a whole new facility
The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby's
absolutely not, automatically running auto remove may lead to bad things; on occasion autoremove flags other more useful packages for removal.

For example I'm using LVM with my installation on my Ubuntu laptop and after updating the kernel and running "apt autoremove" it removed the LVM package leaving me scratching my head shortly on reboot as to why it wouldn't find my root filesystem (frankly i have no idea how it became "unneeded").

A more sensible approach is how Red Hat do it with YUM/DNF, that is, to allow a certain number of the same packages to be installed, "installonly_limit" in yum.conf. Doing this means that when a new kernel gets installed the oldest is removed to keep the the system at the limit specified.

On my RHEL/CentOS machines I tend to narrowly provision /boot to around 250-500MB. set "installonly_limit" to 2 and the system will keep the most recent kernel and one back. it works for me.
Your injection of race in to this topic does nothing but belittle your criticism.
The API docs seem really elaborate for a April Fools joke. Plus if I sign into my account I can see all the new UI elements that talk about.