skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something about the forum communities is that you couldn't isolate yourself from people that disagreed with you. On facebook you can limit who you interact with, so if your ego or your beliefs are challenged you can remove that person from any future discussions. In the forum communities this was impossible unless you were an administrator. Once you became an admin you were then under the microscope from the rest of the community to operate in a fair way, though this didn't stop some admin's from completely destroying their communities or turning the community into an echo chamber.
"If the product is portable, meaning that it can operate independently without a power cord, you may obtain warranty service worldwide. However, service will be limited to the options available in the country where service is requested. If the product is not portable, warranty service may be restricted to the country where the product is purchased."

https://store.apple.com/Catalog/Images/worldwidewarranty.htm...

Apple care is totally worldwide.
Of course not. But you aren't losing much. Dude simply thought his words would carry some weight, but you don't automatically get that at Google just because you're an authority elsewhere. You have to earn it like everybody else.
We want to be able to generate things like pivot tables (charts, graphs, etc) using location and/or time data from the records compared with many other fields in the record. We're feeding a little of the data into Microsoft SSRS, but setting it up is time-consuming and the results are slow and ugly.

I've done this in the past with OLAP cubes (SSAS) with much larger numbers of small records. The difference here is there are so many more fields and we have 20-30 new or modified fields each year. It doesn't seem like this should be a unique problem, but I'm having a hard time finding tools that might make it easier and less time-consuming. Maybe I'm just not asking the right questions.
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He tweeted it directly in response to the allegations that he had shared classified information.
It's not the employee's fault if a restaurant is "dead" for an evening. But the employees are required to be there, and thusly, are paid.

Same here. If the truck driver was free to go home, or whatever, sure dont pay them. But traffic jams are in transit between places they are told to go. It doesn't have to be the "fault" of the employer. But the employee is captive, and working, and absolutely should be paid with regards to time.
It's sad to see that they've harmed accessibility (no more transcripts) under some misguided notion that it helps keep secrets. The video of these talks is still available, of course. Maybe it's captioned?
I used to avoid Dell, but they've been solid for 2-3 years now.
I think it's more than fair to expect a company aiming to make the entire world population fully transparent to itself, to be transparent to the media/public.

Eric Schmidt believes you shouldn't do anything you wouldn't want to share with anyone (aka Google). Why doesn't that work both ways? Does Google have "something to hide"?

Or is Google exempt from the whole "privacy is a thing of the past" situation these companies are trying to force on us all?
good luck Polish government for destroying one if the three reasons I am considering visit of Poland (other two would be sand dunes on the beach and Osviecim)
Wow, the author invokes the free market in the article then whines that firms seeking to charge their clients exorbitant fees are losing customers to Vanguard.

Maybe this article is a round-about argument FOR investment firms to take the moral high ground. The author can't even make a cogent argument against the idea, using circular logic to justify the opposite, leading to nonsense.
That makes sense. Especially since devices can't be upgraded anymore you have to go to the biggest model "just in case you need it one day"
If anyone doubts the premise of this article, and still thinks that lack of supply is the problem, I encourage them to visit Vancouver.

There is construction everywhere, with 40-story towers springing up like mushrooms, all across the metro area, creating mini-downtowns. On the edges, mountainsides are being clear-cut, and replaced with suburbs.

Almost none of the infrastructure to support it is paid for by the people who are benefiting from the housing crisis. Most provincial funds come from taxing people who contribute value, by doing useful work, instead of leeching off the system.
Ok, can I just run the server to support the project? I have some Azure credits and would like to put them to good use.
Scott's invention made pretty drawings on soot-covered paper. Edison's invention allowed one to play back recorded sound. Just another example of how novelty will not succeed in the face of actually useful inventions.
I'd imagine the ban was much more of a political stick to bring Microsoft to heel than an actual change in policy.

In short though: thanks, NSA, for providing exactly the argument authoritarian nations around the world were looking for in order to meddle with US software.
What is the concrete ROI on being "enterprisey"?

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are definitely not enterprisey, and I don't think it has hurt their profits. I think they tend to be pretty frugal, overall, when spending their own money on hardware and infrastructure.

And I bet if the "enterprisey" company ever tries to compete with a company like Google, Facebook, Amazon, or Apple, they will be destroyed in that market.
Always raises the issues of due process.

An interesting challenge when I was there was leaving your workstation unlocked. You go up to get a soda or something and don't want to lock your workstation, go get your beverage, come back and reenter your password. But you should, someone in your cube or nearby could prank you and send an email to the group of an embarrassing nature. Of course they could also send an internal only email to re/code which if they didn't like you might get you fired.

The key is keeping the investigation folks above reproach. If they can't convince that they have done a fair job investigating, you open yourself up for a lot of issues down the road.
I think you're confused. I bought a Macbook in New Zealand, and had it's motherboard replaced for free in the US. Then later bought a new Macbook in the US and it serviced in Germany.
I bought my condo less than 2 years ago. The same unit, 11 floors lower, is now for sale for 80% more than I paid. Same condition, just worse view from the balcony.

Toronto maaaybe has a bubble going on.

(If I can sell for $1m more than my mortgage, I'm going to retire in my 30s and move somewhere cheaper. So far, that looks like it could actually happen).
I like python_prompt_toolkit, though I think the learning curve can be a bit steep. It gives you a ton of flexibility, which I really appreciate, but I have a hard time remembering how all the pieces interact. I hope I don't sound overly critical of people's open source work, because I've used and really appreciate both Inquirer and PPT. Just seems like there's yet to be a canonical library for this problem set.
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Looks useful. Glad there's a dev tier - I won't need to build a rails backend at a hackathon ever again.
I don't know if you own one or not, but as someone who has owned one for several years now, I can tell you I've NEVER had a problem using mine, with the keyboard, on my lap.
you got downvoted - as though this is not a serious response - but you're a very high-karma user so let me ask - this is a joke, right?
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Reportedly starting with Windows 8:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/china...

http://thediplomat.com/2014/05/why-china-banned-windows-8/

Maybe you can get a better understanding/verify from the original Chinese source:

http://www.zycg.gov.cn/article/show/242846
I think it'd go a long way to make laws that require software that is embedded on devices to 1. be patchable by the user and 2. The software has to be open source if the company is no longer able to maintain it.
There usage and perception is the same.

The usage and perception of a laptop with a detachable keyboard, full touch screen, and a stylus is the same? I don't think so. Perhaps they're very similar, but I think it's a stretch to equate them.

one of these products (Surface) really matter because Microsoft is just buying time and expertise with the Surface line. HoloLens will change everything, as soon as it drops. Microsoft will be working furiously to spin down the Surface line and ramp up its new platform. It is the gold key. We don't always have our phone in our hands but imagine you have these lenses on all the time to help you experience a deeper world.

I think you're slightly overly optimistic about the future here.
Just checked on a VZW device (normal data plan) in the US and saw the footer on m.facebook.com and it indeed hits a domain like "lm.facebook.com" before redirecting to the Verizon page, which was in German.

I think the message is just something about the domain being inactive. It must be some old marketing WAP page that's no longer in use.
here's an 8 byte demo :> http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63126

asm file is included
I don't really disagree, my larger point was that I question whether the US would go to war over the baltics, but I don't question that they would go to war over Germany. The alliance may fall apart if they didn't go to war over the baltics, but there is no question in my mind that, if instead of attacking the baltic, the Russians attacked Germany that the US would be full-on in Germany's defense.
I am sure you know that most of us don't experience it that way. 40 hours is usually the minimum hours worked. And this minimum is enforced. The only allowed deviation is to work more.
Interesting article.

I found this youtube video showing a similar setup in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMaDqaRzDm4
Well, you can still support individual/grassroots property rights while rejecting corporativism
pretty sure they meant the new version of Windows available at the time of ban, not the WXP powering half of China
Forward this article?
It really depends on what type of querying you're doing.

If the data is wide as you say, but you end up performing a large number of aggregate queries on columns, like SUMming a bunch of values, then it might be worth looking at a columar store which structures your data on disk by column rather than by row.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS examples include AWS Redshift or even just Postgres with some bells and whistles that end up doing the same thing.

Again though, I go back to my first point and try and get a good characterization of how the data is typically access, a million rows per year isn't much and you might just get a lot further with some indexing strategies in your regular RDBMS.
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I don't think that's a good definition. "One machine" of data is highly variable; everyone has a different impression of the size of "one machine". Does "fit" mean fit in memory or on disk? Why is "Big Data" automatically superior to sharding with a traditional RDBMS, or a clustered document database?
Interesting that Ruby was targeted (.rb), but not Python (.py).

Also odd that .m4a wasn't targeted, while .mp4 was.
It's also not true in the other direction! When I was still using Macs (I now use Windows), I had to buy a new MacBook Air while on the road in Germany when my mac blew up. Back in the U.S. they wouldn't honor the warranty because it was purchased overseas.
Best Version of Wrecking ball ever
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14401074
> your device MUST cover all those real people with families and children

Are you talking from a regulatory standpoint? Why couldn't Apple (or anybody) make a device that works on a limited range of skin colors? If you can't help everybody, does that mean you shouldn't help anybody?
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Unless they installed a MITM certificate on his device, I certainly hope not.
> Until the Arabs came up with the concept of zero, no human had any idea about zero, nor did mathematicians use the zero.

Babylon had a 0 symbol (𒑊, I think) by 300 BC. The Olmecs and/or Maya had the Long Count (and presumably a 0 symbol) by at least 100 BC, although the first known contemporary long count date with a 0 by around 357 AD.
It's the difference between an MVP and an MP. Just because it works, doesn't make it an M-V-P.
As a client I would have been comically outraged
You've made a very large, arrogant, and bombastic claim: "The world's most secure X.... guaranteed". While this is followed by a "* not guaranteed", implying it is some kind of joke heading, the tone remains, and given that, you must reasonably expect to get a hard time from HN / security experts. You might be able to back up this claim, but you really shouldn't feel frustrated by the response here given its tone.

Had you come on with something reasonable and descriptive like "Hardbin: a security-focused IPFS based pastebin", you might have received a more tempered response (though still, I'm sure, skeptical - as with all things security-oriented).
than you for the explanation. Do you believe in Ethereum?
Even if it isn't, I think it would still be a cash cow. I've never owned an Apple watch before, but if they got this working, I'd buy one in a heartbeat (assuming it's less than $1500). FWIW, I'm not diabetic, I just want the data.
Wait, so does this mean anybody who wants to run this project needs a copy of the whole internet on their machine? Or connect to someone who has a whole copy of the internet?

Regular bitcoin only deals with tiny transactions and already it takes days to download its blockchain on an older DSL link.

Also, how is this better than just, you know, running your own website? Is that too Web 1.0 for today's hip youth? How much aggregate computer power is necessary to deliver one page in this system? How about 10 years from now when it has petabytes of data to deliver?
>Sick of Google tracking the websites you visit? Use a search engine that doesn't track you....

I do use alternative search engines; however, look at the traffic on just about any website and you'll see Google ip traffic spewing in all directions. I'm quite confident that tracking still occurs, regardless of how I get from one site to the other. This can be locked down a bit, but not 100% and not without effort and maintenance.
I I may (I hope I'm not coming across as rude, I'm genuinely interested in running GuixSD):

How 'recent' are the packages?

I care for little things, but say.. libvirt or Firefox would be something I'd like to keep quite up to date.
Is it possible to run Firefox (not Iceweasel)?

Do you use any 'unfree' packages and how much hassle is it to acquire those?
I suppose the market will decide what gets sold.
What am I missing that makes this so expensive? Is it just a "Google Glass"-syndrome kind of thing?

This is a $5,000 whiteboard with an annual SAAS fee.
Yes, but if you try to design for what you anticipate to be the bottlenecks as you scale, you are almost guaranteed to discover the real bottlenecks are in a entirely different part of the architecture than you anticipated.

So there is still a good argument to be made for developing the Minimum Viable Product in whatever technologies are most productive for your developers, and figure out how to scale as you grow.

It's a difficult balancing act.
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Before the Surface, PC OEMs were building MacBook clones as their high-end laptops. The Surface's claim to fame is in fact that they showed that high-end PC portables didn't need to be MacBook clones at all.
It's not always that way though. We often suffer as if we have unique problems, but through house repairs (got a nice long chat with a couple GCs) and extracurriculars, I find that a lot of my problems look a good bit like other people's problems. I think the surface area thing is overblown.

There are always stories about innovators who simply apply established solutions from problem space A to problem space B and everyone is amazed. The surface area problem certainly exists for the entire domain of human knowledge, but domains pretty much exist to wrangle problems that are manageable in the first place, even if it makes you myopic in the process.

I get frustrated in interviews because everyone is just so convinced that the latest utility module is so new and unique and it's really just a retread of five other things. It might have some interesting semantics that change how you use it, but even that isn't always the case.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

I've just started telling people that 'how' ages faster than 'why'.
Ehhhh....that sounds like you're defining big data as distributed data.

Hadoop and Cassandra lend themselves to distributed nodes, but you can also use them without that. Or you can use solutions that work well with "big data" that aren't as opinionated about it, such as HDF5.

I guess the point is this: if I have 20TB of timeseries data on a single machine, and I have 20GB incoming each day, do I get to say I'm working with "big data" yet?

EDIT: My other complaint with this definition (perspective, really) is that it predisposes you to choose distributed solutions when you really do have "big data", which is not ideal for all workflows.
Is China establishing cyber sovereignty in the United States?
I think you're thinking of microsaccades.

Saccades in general are just rapid, ballistic eye movements: they don't have to be small and they're often voluntary. You often make saccades without explicitly thinking about it, but you can countermand these and hold your eyes still when you want to.
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Exactly.. I used to say that I didn't have "big data", but I have "annoying data".

clickhouse turns my annoying data back into something that I can query in 30 seconds.

I just ran a random query to find what day had the most connections:

select day,count() as c from conn group by day order by c desc limit 1

And that took all of:

1 rows in set. Elapsed: 16.412 sec. Processed 1.43 billion rows, 2.87 GB (87.33 million rows/s., 174.65 MB/s.)
Maciej Cegłowski wrote an essay about his trip to Białowieża forest some number of years ago. Like everything on his site, it's worth reading.

http://www.idlewords.com/2012/02/bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_forest...
I fully agree with you, and that was my point.

Current generation developers don't seem to be able to program without doing "Stack Overflow driven programming".

So when you put them in front of a whiteboard, it is like their knowledge just vanished.

Now, what I am fully against is the complete disregard for the work experience of what one might have and reduce it to Data Structures & Algorithm exercises that many haven't done in several years, eventually decades.
True. Looks like it's FB adding the link.
Indeed it is! I'd love to know more about the technology backing it, but right now my options appear to be either the app developer tutorials, which reveal nothing, or deep-diving the core code, which I lack anything remotely resembling time enough to do.

What am I missing?
You seem to be confused. Written words are not violence.
This kind of thinking is what creates so much madness in the programming world. I don't know where you work but it sounds like hell.
Python generators and iterators are a terrible choice for processing billions of records. Python's iteration is notoriously slow.
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>What is the concrete ROI on being "enterprisey"?

Like most things that matter, the value of enterprise signaling is abstract, but it is undervalued at the company's peril. There are real consequences to getting it wrong, even if they're not directly measurable.

>And I bet if the "enterprisey" company ever tries to compete with a company like Google, Facebook, Amazon, or Apple, they will be destroyed in that market.

There are entire bodies of work on the question of when an enterprisey dynamic is better suited than a "disruptive" dynamic, to use Clayton Christensen's term, and vice-versa.

Such questions are not straightforward because in business, the winner is not the best technician. Good technology can give you an advantage if it's used right, but there is much more to business than just having the tech down. Most people cannot value the technology on its merits, and it therefore does not enter into their purchasing decision.
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This reminds me of the whole metadata collection scandal/argument, because this is what is being shared - metadata. Just because you don't name a person directly, does not yet imply anonymity.

Another observation - the article states that people aren't "usually" named. I don't see anything preventing the peoples names appearing later on, as this thing develops.
>I'm almost certain you're referring to Nazism.

No Eugenics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

It seems "smart people" need to start reading some history books.
To be fair, your employer is not concerned with your resume. They certainly don't pay you a premium for working on things that look boring or harmful on a resume.

If companies were serious about providing realistic advancement opportunities (in salary, in tech, in responsibility) there wouldn't be as much of an impulse to work on "cool" (i.e., marketable) projects.
In my 30+ years of experience with software development, computerisation, and general technological prowess, applied, I have this to say: yes. But: no big deal.

These things happen in cycles. Computers are nearly, entirely, a social substance. There is nothing at all valuable about computers unless there is a real social component.

Because of this significant aspect of its makeup, computing is necessarily cyclic. The shadows of industry, as well as many many bright lights of academia, shine directly through the world of computing, and specifically, computerisation.

You see, computers are absolutely useless, without the user.

And users change. Societies change. Markets change, people change, attitudes change, and so on. This is a natural state.

Users change.

Its the User who has become more demanding of the programmer, while individual developers have the danger of staying, relatively, static and attached to the things they know. The things they invest in.

Alas, its easier for a User to switch from one stack to another, than it is for Developers. Usually.

So .. all I really want to point out is, this is normal. Embrace the change of civilisation that is happening around you -all computer technologies, productive+ or -productive, are a consequence of the progress of humanity, as a whole.
Humorous, but true. For fellow developers that insist on using Bootstrap, I've been telling them to use the stable 3.* version.
Yes, this and also parallelizing disk I/O. For example you could fit a 5TB table on a single machine, but if you have an operation that requires doing a full scan (e.g. uniqueness count over arbitrary dates), that will take a very long time on one disk. Yes you could partition into multiple disks, but Hadoop offers a nice generalized solution.
At this point we need some kind of corporate blacklist of people like zuckerberg, page, and musk. And bar them from ever running for political office.
As a temporary workaround, consider connecting your IoT devices to a WiFi router that isn't connected to the Internet.
A lack of charisma might be desirable in an elected official but it is a huge problem for a candidate.

I also wonder why you think that a President understanding software would be especially important in reforming an agency; the actual day to day of implementing reform via software seems pretty delegable.
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