skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I was part of a project that became a startup. We got a Bizspark license and originally developed for MS SQL. Later we added in support for Postgres/MySQL. Running unit tests against Postgres/MySQL was pretty easy on my Linux box, but for MS SQL I'd have to start a VM and provision SQL Server 2012 (at the time).

I jumped on the Linux version as soon as I heard about it. I never got an invite to the preview, but once the Docker container was released, I fully integrated it into our tests:

https://github.com/BigSense/BigSenseTester/blob/master/docke...

I can now pull up all three DBs in containers (mysql/pgsql/mssql) and three instances of BigSense and run tests over all three in a deterministic manner.

I had started working on automating a Windows Server with automatic SQL installation in Vagrant, but that was starting to look really complicated. If it wasn't for MS porting their database to Linux, we probably would have dropped it from the project.
Look around, think, and read the next paragraph or two. Not a big deal, if you still finish the damn book.
http://www.bfilipek.com/ C++ stuff
Psicology in trap, skeet and target shooting
start with phpStorm
Anyone have knowledge about this project? Looking at their website, the best I can tell is it's just a wallet? Looks pretty sketchy to me.

http://veritas.veritaseum.com
I recently read that while 80% of Democratic voters support single payer, their members of Congress prefer something that keeps insurance companies in the loop snd profits high for the medical industry. Presumably because of donations.

If that's the case, then the difference between Democrats and Republicans is that the Dems want to insure the poor while still ensuring high profits for the industry, while the Republicans want to screw the poor while ensuring high profits for the industry. They differ on one very important issue, but are still mostly the same.

Actually reducing medical costs requires a far more thorough overhaul of the system.
Anything JetBrains makes
Filecoin runs on top of IPFS and with IPFS, you don't host anything you didn't chose to host.
How is the job market going to be skewed towards the employer? That statement needs some clarification.

The way it seems to me, it would make sense that actually jobs would shift away from menial tasks (which will be replaced by automation eventually anyway) in favor of things that people actually consider a valuable use of time. You can't get people to do jobs they don't want to do if they don't have to do them. At least, not at a scale that leads to the situation you seem to be implying.

If you had $2000 in your pocket every month why would you waste your time on a job that pays $9/hr? Maybe you'll find some people who take 5- or 10-hr/wk contracts so they have a little extra beer money, but it definitely would eliminate the need to submit yourself to the job market woes that currently plague the poor. People value their time with a money analogue, since this is a moneyed system we're living in, so you won't find many who will choose to earn less than what they can see themselves paying on a daily basis.
> Well you are free to continue to pay the higher price for the person of the culture you prefer. Others who don't care can pay a lower price. Isn't that capitalism?

This is not how it works in Germany: migration proponents want tax paying citizens to sustain their utopic dream. Once they have to pay out of their own pocket, the position changes drastically.
It's not so much that I couldn't have figured it out (though I seem to recall it was not immediately obvious how to do anything, to me), rather it changed my selected applications. I'd set it up the way I liked it, with software I was familiar with and happy with...and an OS update removed that configuration and pointed to Paint 3D instead, an application I hadn't asked for, and seemingly could not uninstall (at least, I couldn't figure out how to uninstall it using the normal process for uninstalling applications).

I should be clear: I don't know Windows. I've used it very rarely over the past couple of decades. I keep a Windows partition around for gaming and audio work (though even that no longer really requires Windows these days, as my favorite games are on Linux and even audio isn't awful under Linux anymore). So, if someone knows their way around Windows, my complaints might seem sort of stupid. Maybe it's trivial to fix all of the annoyances I had; but they were frustrating for me. For me, there was just mysterious stuff happening on my machine and I didn't know how to fix it and I didn't like it.
A reinvention of quaternions and Clifford Algebra?
There is also a very good book by David Hestenes about the application of Clifford Algebra in 3-D space (http://www.springer.com/de/book/9789027716736).
There are several things happening here. I make a reference to a (rather famous?) book by Dale Carnegie, called How to win friends an influence people (that's the part after the asterisk).

I personally have no doubt that the above response was not written by bot. At this current moment in history -- mind this was written on 2017-07-25 (ISO, EDT, YMMV, HHGTTG, etc.) -- bot technology had not yet progressed to the stage that all HN comments were being persused by bots that knew that dead prez was written in lowercase, not uppercase.

I'd like to thank my bot for calling this to my attention so that I could answer personally. He only deploys on special occasions -- I doubt that any more than 0.4% of HN comments have been made by him.

<random quote>
For we are the future, and we are the past. We are not the present -- this is not a gift.
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Wow. The comment box on every LateStageCapitalism post says "Do not defend capitalism. You will be banned."
With GPU passthrough becoming quite usable I don't think I'll ever put windows on bare metal again. And in my VMs I'll just be using evaluation copies.

I left MS office for open/libreoffice a few years ago and haven't looked back. The idea of having a store built into my operating system makes me ill, I already have enough of that with android. I can't really imagine giving MS any more money (except possibly when buying a laptop), and I'm not sure what they can do to change it.
Well, I have now no physical books at home (used to have a nice library, but moving through 6 countries and 30+ living places in the last 10 years pretty much excludes the possibility).

But my Goodreads account is still alive and kicking, and my Kindle account is full of crispy new releases which I do read. Books are the world.
I did intermittent fasting 2 days a week for 2 years (2013-2015). Initially I lost weight, which was good. Energy levels were elevated, minor health problems seemed to have gone away or lessened. Towards the end, I think I was being rather too "soft" on myself, so wasn't really reaping the benefits, and it got to be a grind. I then had some rather unpleasant emotional issues to deal with, and found I didn't have the emotional energy to continue: I have pretty decent willpower, but when I'm badly emotionally stressed, it crumbles. I've been intending to get back into I/F ever since, and though I'm emotionally in a far better place, I haven't managed to muster the emotional energy for it yet.
> just an advertisement for the author's blog

Well... It's one of the many "blogs" worth reading. And a very old one. (sidenote: I'm really not sure you can even call it a "log" of any kind)
Are you asking whether average people would start knowingly using blockchain apps?

Because there are applications for blockchain, like medical records, that don't require the user to know she's using it. To them, it can be an implementation detail.
How do you fact check Fox?
Out of Coursera's 18 million registered learners, 1.3 million are from India with top registered learners hailing from Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad, the website said today.

Driven by the vast interest coming from Bengaluru, technology hub, nearly half of enrollments in the country are in technology courses such as computer science (25 per cent) and data science (18 per cent).

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/educat...

Top Freelancing countries on Elance:

India $312,865,112/649,566 freelancers

United States $310,023,579/1,123,935 freelancers

Ukraine $72,429,514/29,341 freelancers

Pakistan $71,061,107/176,011 freelancers

United Kingdom $35,320,646/126,670 freelancers

Canada $31,379,228/85,639 freelancers

Romania $28,062,831/44,305 freelancers

Russia $27,416,743/21,045 freelancers

Philippines $18,261,489/178,725 freelancers

Argentina $17,796,295

China $17,518,704/28,752 freelancers

Serbia $13,600,638/18,577 freelancers

Bangladesh $11,092,326/66,970 freelancers

https://www.elance.com/trends/talent-available/geo#GeoRankin...
It is trivial in todays market to do this anyway, if you were so inclined. shapeshift.io allows you to exchange a crypto for some other crypto, and it doesn't even require a login. Peer-to-peer across blockchains. When lightning is deployed trivial will become less than mundane.

Pop! The genie is seriously out of the bottle. If you don't know about how these things work, you should probably take some time to at least start to understand it.
> and the reviews aren't trustworthy the way they used to be

You can say that again. I recently bought a kitchen knife with Amazon Prime that had ~100 reviews, an average of 5 stars. It cost £33, so wasn't particularly cheap. Just after I bought it the seller sent me one of those nagging emails asking for a review which I ignored. A week after they sent me another email, a copy of the first one. By the time I've already used the knife and found out it wasn't very sharp (my >5 year old knife of a different brand was still sharper), so I thought "be careful what you ask for, 'cause you may get it" and gave them an honest 3 star review. Not even 2 hours later I get an email from their rep apologizing for a "faulty item" and offering either send me another one or issue a refund and I can keep the knife in both cases. I realized what was the catch, but opted for a refund and removed my review when they asked me on the next email (obviously). So now this knife is still sold on Amazon, with 100 reviews and counting, only one 4 star review and the rest of them 5 stars.
Books don't give you just what others go through, but also what others think - their state of mind. If you prick us, do we not bleed? only works for psychological "pricks" if you can imagine the person psychologically bleeding, and books can let you experience that.
Well, I'll just install Paint.NET then.
He isn't claiming that this is how the brain works, he is just proposing a model. He describes in some of his talks that his work isn't about replicating the brain, it's about distilling algorithms from brain function/anatomy.
The article says Microsoft ported SQL Server to Linux using a 2011 Microsoft Research project called "Drawbridge":

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/
Update: Sorry this comment does not quite fit with parent, I actually wanted to post it as a root comment.

My big hope for reducing time spent on current society's tasks is robotics. There already are robots for a lot of tedious tasks, in theory - vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, even window and BBQ grill cleaners. Alas, except for maybe vacuums and mowers, those tend not to buy time but just shift your work from the basic activity to maintaining the robot.

But I think a universal, affordable household robot is absolutely within reach, and it would not require general intelligence, but just well implemented capabilities. From sorting dishes to vacuuming, stairclimbing, taking out the trash to a predefined location, sorting in groceries, to maybe cooking with the help of standardized storage and equipment - I don't care if it's all highly specialized tasks, it just has to do enough of them.
"that the user has allowed to be shared."

I appreciate your optimism, but this is or will be probably part of ToS when registering the app and you can't use the Roomba without "aggreeing to share".
What makes it even worse is they carried this over into a support FAQ stating the OS didn't come with an antivirus because X-security features.

If anyone remembers the vintage of this I'd love to dig an archived copy up.
Very clever. Your response is only 168 characters. If you were trying to fit it in a tweet, however, you'd have to make it only this long :)
..or you can order online then go to shop and collect your order for free. It's usually the fastest method (except going to the shop and look for things yourself). I hate shopping so this is my preferred way of getting things locally.
Yeah, I just stuck tape over my camera though.
Maybe work satisfaction is like a bell-curve? There are a small amount of people who absolutely LOVE what they do and also a very small amount of epople who absolutely HATE what they do with a large majority in the middle.
Is 5000 books very many ? I can't tell how many books I've read since I was 6 and read Lotr, it might be in the thousands I guess ?

But what is "many books" ? Some books are 30 pages long and life time deep.
Same thing in French. inexplicably, "key" (I suppose) is translated not as "touche" (or wrongly but understandably as "clef") but as "robinet" ("sink tap").
Oh I just got it. The original in some other language probably is equivalent to the verb "press", translated to "tap", then to "robinet" which is comically absurd.
Luckily, those mostly slot in at clean locations in the presentation: amdgpu replaces radeon, vulkan replaces the bottom half of mesa.
It's PayPal that needs to check that stuff then. And even then fraud can occur to one's service.
How can/could Elon Musk read two books a day?
iRobot wants to sell your floor plan data to Amazon, Apple or Facebook
The best solution is to created a trusted privilege level above the TEE, that can determine whether to trust things in the TEE or not.

(Don't laugh: Intel's been adding extra security layers for years)
Global Condemnation for Turkey's Detention of Innocent Digital Security Trainers
Also , it may make sense to write malware that looks like it wasn't a nation state if you are a nation state
Yeah, stopping people who openly say "Jews have to be eliminated!" from coming to Germany is definitely oppression...
Why don't we also get rid of prisons and allow any criminal to live freely? After all, restricting someone's movement is oppression.
You can also open up MS Word (almost guaranteed to be installed on a locked down corporate Windows machine), and paste the image into a blank document. For bonus points you can then right click the pasted image, and select 'Save As PNG'.
> attempts to reach out to Eventbrite folks are met with complete silence
"Windows Store is a secure app delivery platform"

Ha ha ...
signers should be more careful about the code they sign in the first place

I agree with your sentiment, but that's not going to happen.
Because it's more efficient. If your a software developer, 1 hour of your time could probably buy many hours of time from someone else.
You get mostly working Kerberos. It's not quite that reliable.
How good is spacemacs as emacs replacement?
What updates do you want to see in MS Paint? It's feature complete. Bug fixes?
Turning the pages of two books a day isn't hard.
My first indication something was wrong, was when Snopes made a determination about Hillary that smelled of journalistic corruption.

http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-lau...

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/06/clintons-1975-rape-case/

Snopes gave their own interpretation of the facts and intent as context, rather than the factual details which lined up ("mostly true" in other matters). I like the idea of an impartial fact checking body, but this partisan bend has gotten worse over time. Factcheck is at least able to recognize that much of the "fake news" is about misinterpretation, rather than the easily abused double-plus-good simplification that Snopes adopted for the ignorant masses (I can only assume). YMMV
I think it must have changed recently because you never used to be able to do that.
IETF 99, Prague: Thoughts from the IEPG Meeting
Spoken like a true businessman
hmm still won't work. I type in germany/ Cologne / Deutschland in Location and can't see the Pirate Summit one. If I type in Cologne, Germany I can see all entries ;)
TL;DR is the generation

I skim pretty often too. There are several reasons. One, a little of what the author was contending; it is harder to hold attention. But there is more to it. Most media is not worth my full attention. I used to love fiction. But most plots are old, and few scenarios are new to me anymore. News articles tend to be 1 paragraph of new information, then blah blah blah a recapitulation of everything I already knew. When I read science as part of my job, I read it in two ways. One I scan vast numbers of abstracts. This gives me a sense of the lay of the land. Then I do a deep dive of reviews. Then I read critical papers, with a pen, every sentence carefully, building ideas, bridging concepts, and also, evaluating the method. Can you imagine doing that with a report from cnn? Why?
Hey thanks for correctly my typo when you quoted my.
Apache revolver
That's just the Protestant Work Ethic.
That was an interesting read! Also shows the value of having side projects
TLS Wiretap Fear
I'm not certain, but I think HEIF itself is royalty-free.

HEIF is just an image container format. The current implementation of HEIF supports JPEG, H.264, and H.265. So, yes, if you use H.264 or H.265 inside HEIF then you have all of those attendant patent licensing issues. But if you use JPEG inside HEIF or if someone implements support for VP8 or VP9 or eventually AV1 then I think you should be able to use HEIF royalty-free.

The GitHub repository is at: https://github.com/nokiatech/heif

The "License Grant" section of LICENSE.TXT sounds like it grants a royalty-free patent license to the HEIF format itself, exclusive of any codec patent licenses as you'd expect. So I think once VP9 or AV1 support is added HEIF may be a nice container format for images.
I'm aiming at this these days. I'm cutting most shitty food (I allow some pastry in the week; but no soda, no fast food, no industrial meals). But I'm not mentally ready to cut the pleasure of a good meal. I'll better stop using my car and job between places and keep higher calories. I "believe" the benefits of good ingredients, close to no fat and no added sugar + regular sport is already significant. Later I'll move to more vegetables, less carbohydrates to trim my body fat even further.
Came here to post the same things. This article is yet another example of what seems to me a trend on the internet blog-scene in recent years: people trying to prove their point by cherry-picking studies (or pseudo-scientific articles) which actually don't even prove the point trying to be made.

It's like they discovered that if their stuff gets read by more critical-minded folks, those people expect proper science to back up claims, and they want to address that. That's a Good Thing, but: they set out to look for that science, and don't find proper peer reviewed studies which completely agree with their view. Then, instead of admitting their theory isn't backed by science (e.g. because it's too general, or just not proven, or just wrong) they collect articles/studies which are sort of related but in fact don't prove their points. I really wonder if they do this willingly, or just don't realize that is not how scientific evidence works.
> If a bigot or an intolerant wants to move to San Francisco, who the hell is a government official in san francisco to forbid him to do it.

And if the bigot/intolerant guy then throws acid in the face of your sister because she's wearing a skirt that's too short, for example? We see this quite often in London and other enriched European cities.
That is so annoying, in particular that you can't remove a lot of the junk.
Show HN: My new business card is a paperback book of my Medium posts
Your Mac should be "OK" as long as you don't log in as an admin account when the dodgy app asks.
I just got paid $6784 working off my laptop this month. And if you think that's cool, my divorced friend has twin toddlers and made over $9k her first month. It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less. This is what I do,
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The Road to Superintelligence (2015)
The English NHS gathers a lot of data. Here's some for the IAPT programme: http://content.digital.nhs.uk/searchcatalogue?productid=2447...

Here are my notes (not criticisms) of the article:

> offers virtually open-ended talk therapy

IAPT (Improved access to psychological therapy) is normally time limited to about 10 weeks. The range is something like 6 to 12 weeks. You can self refer again, but I guess some places would put limits on how often you could try it.

There's not much provision of the IAPT model for children, who normally have different services.

You can usually self-refer, you don't normally need a GP referral. (That's not true everywhere, but it is what's intended).

> at clinics

Some of it is telephone based, not face to face.

> The goal is to eventually create a system of primary care for mental health not just for England but for all of Britain.

Health is devolved in the UK. That means that there is a different health system in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. England can't force the other countries to take up IAPT.
I like it!

Edit: How about support for HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3?
If you had classified information behind your open door, you could be sued if anyone stole it (or worse, depending on the level of classification). Sometimes, one is legally required to take appropriate steps not to unwillingly disclose information. I believe users' personal information should fall under this category. (I believe it does in some cases.)

If your leaving the door open leaves not only you, but others, vulnerable, the discoverer of the broken lock may very well have a moral obligation to protect those innocent people, by whatever means appropriate.

What is appropriate depends on the situation. I expect in most cases, just telling you the door is open may be enough. But if you are being particularly obnoxious, threats may be the only way. In some extreme cases, burning the house down to avoid the disclosure of the sensitive information that would harm countless innocents may be the best course of action.

The legal system even have analogous situations, where a judge can order the orderly destruction of some unsafe building. The only (yet crucial) difference is, judges aren't vigilantes. But this is fixable: one could have the law allow the vigilante to send a cease & desist letter saying "fix your door or I'll have a judge burn your house down".
There's a popular study result that says it does:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/377
This is pretty normal, users who have this enabled would not have the admin permissions to install apps from sleazy websites. The store also includes things like games and social media apps which corporate love to block. IT support is another issue, if users can install random apps from the store then they will expect IT to support random apps.

We also had a look at the enterprise store recently to publish our own apps too, but the reliance on azure cloud means that we'll be publishing through other means for the foreseeable future.

It's amazing to see how MS destroying it's own platform.
At a minimum, an assurance it works in Windows 20+
I was surprised to be enjoying using Paint at times, and as a keyboard fan, my only regret is that it's hard to pick colors (so actually painting gets slower). If MS had improved that part, I'd be using it on a regular basis.
Why didn't you leave the review?