skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good thoughts, and I'm thinking of possible hazards and pitfalls of the approach.

There's already a concept of setting flags to avoid traversal of certain filesystems, and given the proliferation of virtual and networked filesystems, this seems useful: /proc, /sys, /dev, /udev, and a few others (it's getting to the point I don't recognise a full mounts listing readily anymore under Linux).

With the concepts I'm considering, in particular, of the tree as being essentially search traversal rather than a static filesystem (not even one with lots of symlinks all over the place), the potential to create some deep dives or recursive tangles is pretty high.

Another example: tools such as 'locate' or Spotlight shouldn't attempt to traverse this tree when generating indices. Instead, they should query it when requests are made.

Information and metadata leakage is another key consideration when moving data off local host and/or caching among hosts.
Yahoo thought the media they provided users was important, Google thought user data was important -- it's possible Mayer tried to bring some of Google to Yahoo. But I don't think it was enough to bring Yahoo anywhere close to competing.
DOS? I still have to maintain basic CP/M proficiency as one of the pieces of heavy machinery in our workshop is controlled via an über-proprietary interface firmly embedded in an M68k machine.

We only got rid of the VMS controlled CNC lathe a couple of years ago - it ran off a VAXstation something-or-the-other. A 2100, methinks.

Granted, these machines didn't pose much of a problem besides scarcity of spare parts - neither of them had any need for a network, anyway.
It would have wires as thick as a tree.
Those decisions are often hard to understand although there may be a specific reason once you ask.

I just saw a system that used Java applets. Java applets are outdated so they rewrote it in ...drumroll... Flash.
So:

c) crashed the car that was worth $50,000 but is now worthless
Really, thank you. The language here is pretty spot on, I've been looking for this for a long time.

"But the notion that the two spheres must be kept apart in order not to contaminate each other with their separate priorities and aspirations — something Adorno terms a “bi-phasic pattern of life” — is one immensely limiting of our humanity:

While the advice may offer advantages in terms of economic rationalization, its intrinsic merits are of a dubious nature. Work completely severed from the element of playfulness becomes drab and monotonous, a tendency which is consummated by the complete quantification of industrial work. Pleasure when equally isolated from the “serious” content of life, becomes silly, meaningless and sheer “entertainment” and ultimately it is a mere means of reproducing one’s working capacity, whereas the real substance of any non-utilitarian activity lies in the way it faces and sublimates reality problems: res severa verum gaudium [true joy is a serious thing].

This, Adorno argues, is one of many maxims inherited from the earlier development of middle-class society, which no longer serve us or apply to the technological and sociological realities of our daily lives, yet ones to which we continue subscribing."

"I have always found the notion of compromising — particularly when it comes to this unfair tradeoff of work and life — to be a double-edged sword of meaning: on the one hand, a compromise implies reaching a happy medium between two conflicting needs; on the other, to compromise requires the trimming off of excess in one area in order to alleviate a deficit in the other, which invariably means compromising — in the sense of undermining — the area deemed excessive. And yet, as Anaïs Nin memorably remarked her passionate case for the importance of excess in creative work, such compromising hardly benefits us in the end."

"Good work like a good marriage needs a dedication to something larger than our own detailed, everyday needs; good work asks for promises to something intuited or imagined that is larger than our present understanding of it. We may not have an arranged ceremony at the altar to ritualize our dedication to work, but many of us can remember a specific moment when we realized we were made for a certain work, a certain career or a certain future: a moment when we held our hand in a fist and made unspoken vows to what we had just glimpsed."
Right, but I'm talking about the pandas API. Stuff like how easy it is to remember exactly how to do aggregations, transformations, etc.
"Lower fees mean that miners make less money" - not really. There are two mechanisms:

1. The congestion would mean bigger fees
2. In bigger blocks there will be more transactions - so more fees in the block

The most probably cancel each other.

Actually the big miners seem to be in favour of the Bitcoin Unlimited big blocks. What they want to stop is SegWit which is needed for scaling bitcoin off chain with Lightning etc. There is a conspiracy theory about that - and it actually makes sense to me - which is that SegWit would eliminate ASICBoost (which is an optimization technique that is implemented in some ASIC miners). But there is also another narrative that Lightning would mean banking entering the Bitcoin community - and that is why it should be stopped.

Bitcoin can never become a good payment processor - this would require many orders of magnitude bigger blocks (now bitcoin can process about 7 transactions per second, VISA can process 50K transactions per second). And while storage for bigger blocks grows linearly - the other algos have probably worse complexity.
Why can we detect that people are looking at us?
Yo, good stuff on the added features. I'm currently using Huginn to scrape data, use a portion of that data to format a post request, and then combine the results of the post request with the scraped data, finally output as rss. Maybe some features to consider: ability to format get/post/put/delete request, ability to correctly (in order) merge objects (I haven't had the chance to try out your merge block yet). The merge, in my opinion, would be the biggest consideration as I have to use a custom agent to merge my Huginn events, and it's really a pain. Great start to the service man, keep up the good work!

edit: I just tried the download agent on a site (http://www.plndr.com) and it's throwing parse errors, and clicking the [x] won't close the output box, but the red portion works.
Not trying to sound rude at all, but you should actually read the link...

Relevant excerpts:

"Tests 1-6: Bare gelatin, heavy clothing, automobile sheet metal, wallboard, plywood, and vehicle windshield safety glass, were shot a distance of 10 feet from the muzzle."

"Tests 7-13: All involved shots through heavy clothing, safety glass and bare gelatin at 50 to 100 yards, concluding with internal walls, external walls and body armor at 10 feet."

"The Bureau’s research also suggests that common household barriers such as wallboard, plywood, internal and external walls are also better attacked with pistol rounds, or larger caliber battle rifles, if the objective is to "dig out" or neutralize people employing such object as cover or concealment."

"If an operator misses the intended target, the .223 will generally have less wounding potential than some pistol rounds after passing through a wall or similar structure."

Really unsure as to how you could possibly have come to that conclusion after reading the link....

Edit: now that I think about it, people unfamiliar with ballistic testing might not know that gelatin is almost always used to find out data about efficacy downrange regardless of what other things are being tested, so I can kinda see how you might take my comment at face value and feel that it was immediately contradicted if you didn't read the entire summary (which is a bit long).
"the ccc" usually refers to "The Chaos Computer Club"
> every data scientist I know who uses pandas says they are constantly having to google how to do things due to a somewhat confusing and inconsistent API.

That's a design error, not necessarily something that money will fix for you. This is why you need to think really long and hard before deploying a public API, it is very hard to change those.
No, it really shouldn't be. Math, science, language arts, etc should be taught in schools, like, you know, every fucking first world country in the world.
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That's a great point I hadn't considered.
I think after a while, Steve Jobs himself felt he was underpaid that's why he backdated some stocks.
> do things with money without human help 24 hours per day

This was already possible before cryptocurrencies, hence how I'm able to buy anything online at any time of day and have it delivered to me within 24 hours.
free/open/libre software takes time and skill to create. more companies should probably be paying some kind of support or at least donating since they are no doubt using it to extract some kind of value from the market.
His backup HDD is airgapped, I assumed. Maybe rather he wipes and reinstalls, making it relatively impossible for malware to stay.
And was that before or after they allowed the NSA access to their servers?

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yahoo-government-...
Sadly, that is where they seem to coalesce, in management positions.
It's pretty easy to migrate off GitHub, if one cares to. I'm not sure why you'd be bonded really.
Chaos Computer Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club
What is keeping that VC cash in America then? If they can get a higher return on a smaller buy-in in Canada, then why don't they?
Why is it worse to be called [title] [lastname] than just [lastname]? Isn't it just different?
The same thing happened to me last week. Noticed a number of Uber charges being hailed from Moscow, Russia which was brought to my attention by Chase's fraud prevention. They recognized the charges as suspicious and denied to let any of them through so I ended up not losing anything besides my debit card which I had to cancel. Changed my password and ordered a new debit card and everything is resolved. However, I was very surprised to see a hacking effort towards an Uber account versus something like an Amazon account...
The article I linked to summarizes multiple studies showing the 3x effect. I don't know of any that show a 10x effect. It's not just my imagination.
The word "vinegar" is notably absent from that link. That solely shows that harsh soaps are harsh (which as you may have noticed is axiomatic), not that vinegar isn't.
my perspective was if public traded I need to be exposed information as I see fit. In one form or another should they not disclose their details for a buyer or customer who is going to invest (potentially )
Why not over a million years? That would still only be 0.1% of bits flipped, and it should be possible to design a code with enough redundancy or error correction to take care of that. Is there some compounding effect I'm not thinking of? Or simply that it's hard to keep a species alive for a million years?
Hi @codedokode, I'm one of the authors of the post. There's a lot of background material at the top but if you skip to the use of our new module (direct link: https://github.com/mixmaxhq/cors-gate/#usage) I think you'll find it simpler in both code and infrastructure than a typical CSRF setup. https://github.com/expressjs/csurf, for instance, requires you to lock down every API both server-side and client-side, and by default requires session middleware; whereas with cors-gate you can register it once, server-side, before any API routes.
> Where threads needed, isolate usage in threaded application kernel: keep most of code single-threaded.

This is the point where performance tops: each CPU is filled with operations, and operations that don't need to wait for the result of other threads.
> but dudes never get called "first name", only "last name".

Mayer is a really common name. The only way to distinguish her from the 15 Mayers I know is by full name. But in a conversation about her, I'll use whatever's shorter.

But let's also address the partial vs full name argument that commonly comes up. I hear that argument a lot. Warren Buffett is a good example. Nearly every time he's mentioned, it's by full name unless you're already talking about investment. Using his full name adds a bit of gravitas.

Partial name usage over full name is usually indicative of a few things:

1. Familiarity: The speaker feels familiar with the person - either through personal contact, proximity or extensive exposure.

2. Uniqueness within context: There's only one person with that last name that people would think of when you mention the name. If you're talking about operating systems, saying Gates or Torvalds is often enough to understand. And if you're on stage sweating and awkwardly chanting at a tech conference, people will understand that you're "pulling a Ballmer".

3. Brevity: If you talk about a person long enough in a monologue or discourse, or over a long period of time you'll get tired of mentioning their full name. Last name is usually preferred culturally unless there's a chance of confusion with another person.

4. Personal preference: Sometimes some names roll off the tongue better than others. If a speaker finds a name hard to pronounce or spell, they might pick another.

5. Cultural unfamiliarity: Nadella was easier for me to remember by his last name than his first name "Satya".

6. Rhetoric: You might be trying to appeal to a well-known authority by their most common reference to add panache (e.g. "Gandhi" vs "Warren Buffet"). And this reference can depend on whether you're trying to put a positive spin vs. a negative one. "Barack Obama" vs "Obama" is a good example, with the first/last combo being used more frequently by supporters and just the last name (or the first/middle/last combo) used by detractors.

On the other hand, long names might be preferred due to alliteration or rhyming ("Marissa Mayer" and "Rami Rahim" just flow really well), possible confusion with regular nouns ("Elon Musk", "Steve Jobs"), or that's how they were introduced ("Tim Cook").

Finally, insiders (employees and/or industry partners) will refer to a person differently than outsiders.

So, no, it's not about sex. Sex might be a contributing factor to familiarity or rhetoric depending on the person. But there are plenty of famous men that are referred to by their full name with respect (Buffet) or scorn (Ballmer).
I have no argument with that.
I really really really want to use DuckDuckGo.com but the search results are probably 10% as helpful as Google. As a developer it's nearly impossible to find a really specific answer using ddg whereas google will have 3 super-relevant links.
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I would bet that 90% of SaaS is storing everything except passwords unencrypted.
Best advice I've accumulated so far:

1. Don't plan to drive anywhere on eclipse day (90% of the US lives within an 8hr drive of totality, so traffic will be horrible)

2. A 600-800mm lens is optimal for photography. Anything short of 200mm is useless.

3. Don't make any solid plans until 3-4 days before. Most places only have about 40% chance of it being clear.

4. If you're photographing the partial phases. Stop and check everything (batteries, memory card, focus, etc) about 5 min before totality.

5. If you have any technological issues during totality, just sit back and enjoy watching it.

6. On eclipse day, if you're in a place that has 2 min or more of totality, just stay there. There's not a lot to be gained by risking moving.

7. All across the US, the sun will be high in the sky, good horizons aren't necessary.
Not a YC alumni, but I've always believed the single most powerful benefit of joining YC would be the connections and PR opportunities involved.

So to answer your question... yes.
Holy data leakage Batman!

Because the data augmentation is performed prior to the random train/val/test split, nearly identical instances may be found in each set. In other words, a 1 degree rotation of training image X may be found in the validation or test set which would artificially inflate performance.
FWIW, doessn't take that long for me by a long shot; sub-1sec page loads across the site.
I'm sure you could find some oss projects
Here's some specific examples:

https://twitter.com/Chris_Said/status/715249097326768128

https://twitter.com/Chris_Said/status/861244045535756290

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that these would be solved by pandas API design improvements, not with numpy improvements under the hood. (NB: As always, a big thanks to the developers for all their work.)
true unless NYSE or other exchanges expose data in this modern world in all possible means for potential buyer. Is this not a fair ask ?
Then you should get a checkbox to indicate as such, not the other way around.
I've worked on software for large pharma companies and several of our customers required escrow agreements. In our case it was to protect against us going under rather than just not wanting to do updates any more.
Citation? (From curiosity, not skepticism.)

Edited: Ahh. Fake news announcement. http://bitsonline.com/fluffypony-speaks-troll-monero-market/
I've been writing daily notes in the same text file since 1996. Fascinating to look back through old entries.

Format is dirt simple: date alone on a line is the only special element. The main thing I really miss is the ability to scribble drawings inline.
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I've been using Nightly for as long as I can remember, and I'm surprised to hear that this behavior hasn't made it out into stable yet. It's a very lovely feature that makes queuing up dozens of videos a breeze. Frankly I thought it was a change on YouTube's part, not Firefox's.
For a more detailed, albeit less well organized, view of functionality yet to be added to the WebExtensions API, there's also the relevant Bugzilla whiteboard [1].

The tl;dr: is that, compared to the XUL API, WebExtensions provide a very limited set of functionality, such that many existing XUL add-ons can't easily be reimplemented in or ported to the new API. On the other hand, it's early days yet, and there appears to be a reasonable amount of interest and developer support devoted to extending the new API so that it offers capabilities comparable to the old. I'd imagine it'll probably be next year this time, more or less, before the dust has largely settled.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?f1=status_whiteboar...
I would say it's more akin to a huge portion of the population choosing to die than to sacrifice so those above them can live luxurious lives.

The only power the average worker/teacher has is their ability to say "No, I won't do that" and even then there is only power there if many are willing to stand and do that together. Sacrificing more and more so those above you can continue to say "see, it works fine. I can continue to extract as much capital out of this system as possible, because the teachers don't really need it" is a really terrible solution.

More workers need to say "NO", not bend over backwards because they are more empathetic than those at the top. The ones at the top count on that empathy and do use it against you.
If you're big enough, you can negotiate any contract you want.

And "if company ceases to maintain and release updates to product, we will receive the source code for our use" doesn't sound like too poison of a pill for Sales to push through.
The problem is getting the funding for such a thing approved when it's not already stipulated in the contract from the start. "Who cares if it's EoL at Microsoft? Is it broken? Will it break when they put it in EoL status? Alright then - leave them be."
How do firms like Fidelity , AmeriTrade get their information in real time ?
It's been in stable for a while - I think I first used it in 51, although can't confirm since that's no longer installed on any of my machines. It just isn't in about:preferences.
You only gotta ctrl-f to see that's not true. You can also see that male CEOs are referred to in multiple ways throughout the thread.

Your post is an interesting lesson in confirmation bias.
> So why isn't that included in contracts and support plans? Do banks and hospitals even care enough to ask how the supplier plans to deal with an EOL operating system?

Well, maybe there's more to a complex organization like a bank or hospital than software licensing. Maybe their service contracts had these exact contingencies but they've run into other problems that nobody could have predicted when XP was new, like:

* That there would be a Great Recession that would wipe out a lot of firms, including banks, hospitals and medical device manufacturers.

* That there would be a massive new piece of legislation that would tax medical devices heavily, thus changing the way that market works.

* That the same piece of legislation would encourage hospitals to merge into each other through various incentives that were intended to limit the cost of healthcare.

* That Microsoft would decide to break backward compatibility sharply compared to what they did before. Don't laugh at this one; they were business for nearly 30 years when XP came out and never broke backwards compatibility as much as they did in the past 10.
Dynamic arrays anyone?
So teams can only be stacked financially and not talent-wise?
Good and great developers think about the lifecycle of the code and managing unnecessary complexity so the greatest number of developrs can grow or be competent care takers beyond themselves.

Clear thinking and clever architecture that results in a simple but effective and flexible design will almost always trump any attempt by clever programmers (skilled or not) to build monuments to their cleverness.

The key skill that made a big difference to me is being able to build discipline.

Once I could buold discipline and apply it to learn anything (like improving focus), the effects multiply and compounded.

Discipline strangely is freedom to maximize things. Discipline for me started with being open to the fact that things (lkke 10x dev's) may exist even if I can't fathom it.

People have called me unusually productive, but compared to others I know I don't feel the way.
There are a lot of people using Typescript with React... it's not so bad, I don't see the point nearly as much as some, but it's definitely there, and pretty well supported.
> I prefer getting 1/10th than getting nothing, but the only fair outcome would be getting exactly what I lost.

Bankruptcy means that the outcome of “all creditors getting what they were owed” is off the table. What is at issue is their fair disposition of what is left which is known to be inadequate to the ideal.

> Sure, but the only reason we're even having this discussion is that MtGox fucked up. That isn't my fault.

The only reason it would matter to you is that you entrusted something to MtGox. That, arguably, is your responsibility.
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Maybe, it's also true that 100% of Linux users legally have access to the Linux source code.
>* Polyvore - $230m A fashion search engine run by people she used to mentor at Google

Your anti-female bias is showing here. Polyvore has been profitable for years. I have a friend who works there and loves it.
> No insurance in the US? They won't even assess you.

Do you have a source that goes into the reasoning behind this? I could guess, but I'd prefer to give the subject the respect it deserves.
> Don't plan to drive anywhere on eclipse day

> Don't make any solid plans until 3-4 days before. Most places only have about 40% chance of it being clear.

If you haven't made plans already, you are probably driving.

Best I could do was get a room in portland the night before. Gonna have to get up stupid early and try to make it. 3-4 days before is gonna be tough.
They really need to work on usability for the regular end user if they want to succeed. So many useful settings are buried deep down in about:config. The auto play settings should be super accessible.
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