skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WHY? There's a reason we have the keyboard, and it wasn't a limitation of technology. The reason the "typewriter" interface was carried over to the PC is because it's GOOD. This is almost as bad as when MS decided Kinect would replace all game controllers because look hands free. It turns out we have hands for a reason. The speed and precision we can do things with our hands far exceeds basically anything else beyond a direct link to your brain.

Have you ever watched someone who is handicapped who has eye tracking for a keyboard? Have you paid attention to how slow and error prone it is? What on earth makes you want to have THAT as your primary input method???
Yes, but as I wrote this desire doesn't seem to be enough to renew generations.
You'll get IP banned if you go beyond a certain threshold, but looks like you can find other API endpoints by looking at browser requests.
It's impossible to determine the error rate - there is no way of knowing for sure if an account is a bot or not. If there was, this model would be useless. I'd be interested to know how they trained it though, given they didn't have any true data to check against
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Fair point, loads of other cities have figured it out.
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> The point of Communism isn't to evenly distribute property and wealth. It's to eliminate property ownership completely

No, just non-public ownership of the means of production (at least in Marxism and those forms of Communism whose approach on this point follows Marxism, which is not all of Communism); this is a frequent point of confusion in criticism of Communism because Communist literature and theory uses a different definition of “private property” than non-Communists are used to, which both leads to both accidental confusion of people not familiar with this fact, and intentional misrepresentation by dishonest critics who are fully familiar with the difference but expect that their audience is not.
That's what I do. I commute to Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. I get into the office at 6:30AM every day and leave by 2:30PM. It's still not a lovely commute---maybe 40 to 50 minutes each way---but it's half the time if I were forced to work 9-5. I pay for this with sleep. It's hard for me to get to sleep before 10PM. :-)
What does this do better than DokuWiki other than WYSIWYG?
I was kinda looking for something like this :)

Thanks
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We use it here (ZeroTier).

Pros:

- Very easy and robust clustering (Raft-based, automatic fail-over). This is huge for us.

- Streaming change feeds. This one is also huge. Makes any kind of real-time, reactive, or event driven programming very easy and IMHO is something that should exist in every database.

- It's kind of half SQL. It's a NoSQL document store but encourages a relational design and supports many relational queries.

- Rational and pretty easy to understand query language. It's much cleaner than Mongo.

- Easy to deploy and configure.

- It passed the Jepsen tests before Mongo did and overall has a solid history of not losing data.

Cons:

- It's a CPU hog, at least when compared with PostgreSQL.

- It's also an I/O hog, though we sponsored some improvements that are getting merged in the next version that will reduce this and also make table commit a configurable parameter. You'll be able to have fully and partially (long flush delay) in-memory tables for highly ephemeral data.
Almost, but not quite - based on their fuzzy descriptions, I had a feeling it's a similar area I do research and development in. Turns out I was right, but I had to find actual product documentation to confirm it: "nio is a highly-scalable stream processing engine that allows you to asynchronously process streaming data signals and act on them in real time. nio is the brain of your real-time application, particularly systems that require distributed processing." https://docs.n.io/getting_started/
Good points all around. Obviously it's up to the human beings to do the best they can in the face of limited information and control.

But where does your viewpoint meet up with someone like Chesley Sullenberger who says the pilots would have probably not crashed if the plane was a Boeing rather than an Airbus, because it would have had an angle-of-attack indicator?
Yeah, only apply the transaction to the block chain when it leaves their system, e.g. PayPal.
Sent you a follow-up about the Principal Security Engineer position, I'd love to have a chat.
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it is a 'lock your session' key : you have to enter your password or fingerprint in order to continue using the mac.
Unleashing my imagination is a terrifying idea. I have multiple safeguards in place to keep even the relatively harmless bad and dangerous ideas that live in my imagination from being able to escape.
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I'm not sure if the pun was intended, but if not, it would've made an excellent joke.
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Agreed, I was just paraphrasing from old memory. Only intended to get people interested in further reading. :)
Yes a big part is under the sea level, and would be a good first step. But the most of the potential for storing water is in higher level lakes and aquifer.
HAHA :D

I took a 5mi trip up the channel on jet skis on memorial day weekend. Holy smokes, I thought I was going to die. The channel chop is no joke!
Right! Until people know what you do - you've got potential and thus could be worth almost anything with lots of zeros in it.
Yeah I've done this for almost a decade now---read everything by an author I connect with then move on based on that experience---and I can't recommend the habit enough! It was a bit problematic in grad school since I'd spend all my time on one person at the expense of much else I had to read, but long term it was absolutely the better move.

Why is this practice so effective? I think it's partly because when we read we basically let another person directly poke at our mind for a while. And when you have a rich and subtle writer who really gets in there, over time you build up a whole different perspective. And when the writers you obsess over are all connected in some way, you can assume the same "perspective" (the same basic assumptions about what is significant, what is not) and naturally deepen your understanding in one area or another in a fairly unified way.
The GP said 'during school', so I assume it wasn't voluntary and instead something they had to do.

In your post you talk about on and off and don't give us any insight whether you (always? most of the time?) made that decision yourself.
Yes, of course. The line of "heresy" is before the current data and it would never never never be changed. Because, you know, science!
Ugh, the isometric view just makes my brain blow. Is there a standard grid view (ie, view from top). Not as fancy, but a lot more effective in my opinion.
Keyboards are still a highly precise and versatile text input method. Voice isn't good enough yet (and you may never get good enough voice recognition, thanks to homophones and the issue of making up new words).

While just putting a window on a nebula background works as a Proof of Concept, it does need further innovation. The keyboard, however, does not.
Indeed, they presented this at the last RIOT workshop in July [1] and it's a great way to support graphics without dealing with the grDevices package from GNU R.

[1] https://youtu.be/otXTGBTb-3w?t=985
We are looking to add something to filter warnings in the future. Thx for the feedback.
>For example, the An Lushan Rebellion may have killed 10-15% of all humans alive at the time.

Those numbers are highly discredited.

Historians such as Charles Patrick Fitzgerald argue that a claim of 36 million deaths is incompatible with contemporary accounts of the war. They point out that the numbers recorded on the postwar registers reflect not only population loss, but also a breakdown of the census system as well as the removal from the census figures of various classes of untaxed persons, such as those in religious orders, foreigners and merchants. For these reasons, census numbers for the post-rebellion Tang are considered unreliable. Another consideration is the fact that the territory controlled by Tang central authority was diminished by the equivalent of several of the northern provinces, so that something like a quarter of the surviving population were no longer within the area subject to the imperial revenue system.

So, in all, even less that 5%...
Clearly you don't have enough "interoperability"
I really enjoy RethinkDB. Partly, that's cause it's the first time I've really dug into a nosql database, and I'm loving the freedom of it... Being able to dump stuff straight from a websockets feed straight into the database is awesome! Also, I like the web interface. It's simple and shows me what I want to see with regard to performance and storage.

I haven't really gotten much into doing fancy queries or transforms or streams.

If someone could make a tool that let you use RethinkDB as a (more or less) direct back end for pandas... That would be killer
I feel most management folks box reportees into ‘talkers’ and ‘doers’. I see a lot more talkers these days being encouraged at the expense of the doers.
If https://www.defensetech.org/2013/09/27/ohio-class-subs-to-sh... is correct, then at least the Ohio class submarine drives the motor directly off the turbines, but the thing being designed to replace it will use electric motors. And actually, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia-class_submarine#Elect... talks about the same, but with some comments about the few submarine types that do this so far. And following the link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_electric_propulsion gives us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_electric_propulsion...

Looks like some of the most modern or in-design classes are using electric drive, but most things out there are using direct mechanical linkage to the turbines to drive the propeller.
Just wondering: why is it useful to know it's a PDF before clicking?
"Half dead company running on fumes"

And for good reason. I don't go to yahoo for its clever articles or its mail or its search function ... I go to download currency commodity and stock information.

At least they could have explored offering the million people like me the info for a couple of bucks a month ... 2 million a month is worth looking at.

Instead a cryptic adios ... its brand suicide (or murder seeing how verizon owns them now)
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Anecdotal evidence: I'm a software architect/developer. The last three companies I've been with do not support remote work on a large scale because the IT Leadership did not want to fight against the managers of the departments who logistically _couldn't_ work from home.

Anecdotal, but I doubt I'm the only one where this is true, the mentality of "if we all can't do it no one can".
> the second is the act of of entrepreneurship independent of what politico-economic context it occurs in.

Given that it can't occur under socialism or communism, I don't think it is independent of the socio-economic system.

But, that aside, you have a point. However, that aside, I see no reason to believe the other person wasn't talking about both.
Welp! I distinctly remember hunting for such a setting and giving up after a few minutes. Will have to try this.
Usually, again this is just in my experience, it's typically tied to a single service that makes up a larger system. So they might have some data in MySQL that has an API fronting it that is managed by one team. Then they have another service that uses SQL Server fronted by another API and managed by a different team. Both of those APIs are used by something larger.

Sometimes it's because a long time ago the service was done by a whole different set of people and now some other group has inherited it and just doesn't want to port it to something else even though everything else they use is open source. These are typically the groups who go to the Azure SQL PaaS service because they don't want to manage something that they don't really care for.

There is a ton of fragmentation out there :)
What should he have done? It was literally stuck on his wall. Would it stay art if he ripped the wall out?
There are some issues with the Linux binaries which we are already working on. THAT IS THE REASON IT IS IN BETA.

Still working on these kinks.

What flavor of Linux are you running? I would appreciate if you could email me some details at veer@totalcloud.io
Doh! Will fix that. Thanks for pointing it out.
I'd rather endure the FOMO when I don't understand its value than lose money when I had my doubts. Feels like it'll be the former for a while...
Or maybe 18 million to get me started according to the the same article.

Which one? Let's take something in between. 37 million. Now I have to find 63 million instead of 45.
But that's only part of the problem. The other part is how exactly do you know all of these deaths are result of communism directly. Because you see, no matter communism or capitalism people are generally violent creatures. They like killing other people so maybe if the capitalism prevailed after the WW2 maybe there would have been 46 million deaths.

There is correlation between communism and increased number of deaths in a state. There is also correlation between capitalism and increased number of deaths in foreign states (especially if population is brown). But as we all know correlation is not causality.
This is a repost. What these kids are doing, is what Twitter is doing.

Do these kids not think that Twitter has the ability to do this.

This article comes off as if Twitter does not know what they are doing, which I think is hard to believe.

What I think these kids are going to find out, it's not that easy as it sounds.

Couldn't anyone do what these people are doing with a couple hundred bucks using Google cloud services and their natural langage API to label positive and negative tweets.

Seeing news like this which is not news, makes me realize how gullable people are about what goes into 'models'.

People have no idea how hard nlp is. That is all lol.
We can make the camera angle configurable, so that users can set it to what they want. Noted
Dell XPS 9350 has one Thunderbolt port [0] and Dell Thunderbolt Dock TB16 has attached Thunderbolt cable [1]. I agree it's not a big, representative sample but still...

[0]: http://cdn2.ubergizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/dell-xp...

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I can't help but think of a story (and a company) that helps people out when they can't escape a bad Google search result. For example, you search Bill Smith and only bad things come up.

For a long time, the play book to improve your online reputation was to get rid of those bad links. However, a company (and I can't remember the name) decided it might be easier to just create better links/stories about the person and let google bury the bad stuff. Therefore when someone searches Bill Smith, they see the good stuff.

Anyways - back to the topic at hand here. Perhaps the solution to these bad bots isn't to try and stop them, but to build better bots that spread #realnews and aren't as toxic? Maybe it wouldn't work, clickbait and catchy headlines are more "share worthy" than the latest WSJ front page article, but maybe we need a new strategy?
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Amen. If people aren't willing to pay for your content, then it's literally not worth paying for. You're still welcome to create it and distribute it for free. If you don't care that much, others probably don't either and we'll all be better off with less crap content swirling around out there.

The ad model has left us mired in a suffocating heap of crap content people claim has "value" because they're able to hack the system and get ad revenue from it. But in reality the content is secondary and just an excuse for the ads.
They could check it against known bots though.
I think motion sensing is probably the way forward; voice control is intrinsically limiting in most (crowded) environments where computers are used today.

Considering humans can ride bikes, drive cars, play instruments, etc. (including typing on keyboards!), I think that indicates that non-verbal, physical interaction is not nearly saturated as a transmission channel.

Conversely, it's hard to imagine someone verbalizing "navigate to HN" in a loud open-space office, or "Excel, create a pivot table" or whatever. I think it's fine in private spaces like your home, but in public spaces, you're implicitly broadcasting your activity to everyone around you, which I consider to be a strong negative.
http://www.fast.ai/2017/09/08/introducing-pytorch-for-fastai...
Once the voting period is complete, in another week, there will be a mailing list for the project. We'll publish binaries from time to time for people to try. In the meantime, you can play with Quasar, to see if you like the model (although as Loom would be implemented in the JVM, we expect it to be more robust, more efficient and even more convenient).
Unless we can mine enough lithium to make grid-scale battery farms viable or can make large-scale flywheels work, both forms have issues with demand response that are currently being solved by natural gas.
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Even better, make the stations operable from either side. Then the yokes always orient in reality, and it's just the frame of reference of the pilot that changes.

Eg, if you're facing the dock, and push forward, you'll hit the dock. Take the other side and point your body to sea. Intuitive.
to reify means to make an abstract concept concrete (reified abstract classes...) but it's interesting that reification is actually the name of a formal logical fallacy: "Reification (also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)
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It looks like warships with electric drive are _just_ starting to go into production. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_electric_propulsion... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia-class_submarine#Elect... for some background.

Both the Ohio and Los Angeles class submarines use mechanical linkage propulsion, not electric, if I understand correctly.
I'm sure Twitter could.

I think the "won't" may be accurate as if Twitter did it and chose not to act that would look terrible. And the scope of the bot problem may make their user base look a lot less attractive if they admitted it.

Granted everyone suspects, but there may be a valid reason they don't want to "know" at Twitter.
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God, there is nothing quite like these houses and the photos of them, with their walls of glass, sunshine, the pools, and incredible atmosphere of wholesome relaxation, to just scream American post-war affluence. Beautiful houses and photographs.

I wonder what they were like to live in, though? Would they heat up with all that glass in the summer? I guess, they'd say, you'd have a pool to deal with that though.
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How do you handle the lack of transactions / atomic updates affecting more than one document?
Flagging feels harsh, hopefully that can be un-done.

This was the original post, but a larger conversation after one hour is on this dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619533

TL;DR: publicly classifying Twitter accounts as bot-or-not: https://botcheck.me/
Twitter didn't care. They let it happen because they're broke.
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Average? I've used it at least a dozen times in the last month, and it's worked perfectly every time. It may not be the fastest, but it's certainly the best... YMMV, of course.
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From a UK Bureau of Labor and Stats study, the average office worker is only productive for ~3 hours/day. People spend the majority of their time surfing the internet, socializing, eating/drinking, and looking for a new job. I wonder if it's worse in east asian countries where no one leaves before the boss.

Source: https://www.vouchercloud.com/blog/office-worker-productivity...

The last time I worked in an office, I got most of my work done in the morning or after 6pm when no one was in the office.
Just to clarify, I am talking about UX, not just UI. I use Windows 7 (classic style) at work and it's doable.

- Loads of things in the start menu that I don't need and cannot uninstall (like XBox games).

- Unwanted monitoring which needs to be explicitly turned off.

- Forcing Edge down my throat at every opportunity.

- Automatic updates still restart computer without warning.

- Unwanted wi-fi communication even in sleep causing huge battery drain.

- Ugly appearance.

I am sure there are other things that bothered me but I already forgot. They really lost their marbles.
Based on my personal travel experiences, I've long believed that Trip Advisor is being paid to delete bad hotel reviews. I came to that conclusion because I couldn't think of any other reason why some truly awful hotels lack the brutally honest negative reviews that they so richly deserve.
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