skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I can't seem to find the raw source material -- but here's a news article about the relative accuracies of Google vs. Siri. 86% accuracy (Google) vs. 68% accuracy (Siri).

This is not surprising. Google has been doing question answering on web search for many years now. I believe it started answering direct free-form questions in its oneboxen in 2007 -- maybe earlier.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/29/minneapolis-street-te...
Or just use Far Manager - http://www.farmanager.com - it's Midnight Commander, Norton Commander type of program.
Would you hire a Charles, or would you hire a CharlesPrime who does exactly the same thing as Charles minus all the time spent playing space invaders at work?
Outrageous! People using their sexuality to get ahead! First-wavers fought so hard to get rid of this type of behavior. When will everyone wake up and see the value in a meritocracy?!
There is also busybox for Windows - https://github.com/pclouds/busybox-w32
Wait they are? Why wasn't that posted on HN? I'm off to TMZ......

In other news - it matters to Apple. Those that say it doesn't say that simply because they want to believe it doesn't matter to Apple. Who knows the exact day MSFT went from an exciting scrappy start up helping to put a PC in everyone's home and taking on the likes of IBM to the despised Death Star. I don't know - but it always starts with a change in public perception from doer of good to capitalist money hogging evil guy. It always catches the corporation off guard because they haven't really changed any business practises - it's just suddenly they're now Goliath and no longer David in the public eye.

I can see Apple winning the battle and losing the war here.
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Doh, of course you're right. The mass of water displaced is only greater if the ice is submerged.
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Same here. Up to last week I was actively looking to buy a Macbook Air. Was gonna actually buy it next month. If this happened a month later, I would own a mac product. Now I'm officially boycotting apple. I'll have to contend myself with a worse product because of social activism. Apple is making the world a worse place. I won't give them my money.

The comments about "they're all doing the same" are extremely close minded. No, they're not all the same. Look up context and who is defending instead of attacking. If microsoft and apple didn't start this. We wouldn't be in this whole mess in the first place.
It is reading things like this that make me sad that physiologically I am just unable to run long distances anymore. After some period of time, maybe 20-30 minutes of running, my knees start to become unbearably sore and painful. I've tried everything that I know to. I've modified my stride, new shoes, barefoot running (actually running in vibrams led to one of the most productive fitness periods of my life, including running 6-7 miles a day), and strengthening accessory muscles/connective tissue through weight training. Even at my second-lowest lifetime weight (170ish lbs, second only to my weight right after USMC boot camp of 149lbs) the pain persisted.

Through it all unbearable leg pain caught up with me and stopped me short of truly being able to run as much as I want. The longest I've run was 13 miles and that was only by running until knee pain, then "walking it off" then resuming running, repeating until the end.

I miss running.
Remember @thechut this is only part one. They'll probably go over the features you had mentioned. I think they did a fine job of analyzing the design and pixels, although i didnt notice the issues initially im glad they provide a second set of eyes.
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Although we have been here for a while, we have been doing significant changes to our system which will be an exciting opportunity for some one to own and work on large scale machine learning projects. The company is profitable, has the usual goodies (nice salary, 401K match, gym, Uber/Commute reimbursement etc). Anyways, if any of this sounds interesting to you, email me @ eshvk@stumbleupon.com and I will answer any of your questions and help get you in touch with the right recruiters ASAP.
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Idleness is just as much a tray as busyness. You can spend weeks "not seeing people I know, remembering stink bugs and the stars, and reading"... and then one morning you wake up and realise you have no friends and nothing to live for.
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> Apple didn't take any risk, they simply polished existing products and started to sell it with much higher price tag.

This comment invalidates everything else you wrote.

Apple's investment in R&D for mobile handheld usability and devices predates even the existence of some of these litigants, and predates the "smartphones" by them.
That's classic ad hominem 101. "It doesn't matter if what you're doing is wrong or not. You... you.. you're dirty! And a jew! You should get sued!"
Months ago I outlined the history with cases here in long comments. I'll look it up again and comment here later today or tomorrow.
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Here is how you do it:

Put on gloves

Stuff cash into an envelope

Send it to the guys at prq.se

???

Publish
What IP holders are arguing here is considerably stronger: that I need their permission to sell a product in a country even if it is a legitimate, non-ripoff product that I myself own. This is not about unlicensed, counterfeit products, as in your Mexico hypothetical, but about licensed products that were produced with authorization of the rightsholder and then legally purchased. The question is if, once that purchase has taken place, the new owner needs to go back and get permission a second time from the rightsholder if they want to do something with their property.

IP holders are arguing that if I buy a Nike shoe in Japan, and then want to sell it on eBay in the United States, I need Nike's permission, because they never licensed me to distribute their trademarked shoe in the USA. But I own the shoe! And it's a genuine Nike shoe, not a ripoff! They licensed its production, then authorized its sale to me, and at this point the shoe should be my property, and they should not be in the picture anymore.

This is essentially in non-book form what the first-sale doctrine put an end to in books: the rightsholder trying to control resale of the goods for their entire lifetime, past the initial sale. Which of course makes a mockery of the idea of "property". If I can't sell my shoes without getting permission of the shoemaker, I "own" my shoes in a sense considerably weaker than the traditional definition of property.
Bloomberg is a big company; you should know that this gig at BB is the real deal. Andrew and his team get absurdly fun projects working with data at a volume and of an importance very few startups ever get to touch. They're like the Google of money. Also, I worked with Andrew at a startup we did in '00 and would easily put him on my top 5 people I'd want to work with again.

If you're debating reaching out about this role: DO IT.
"Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'd be a little skeptical of an index which shows Japan as being relatively less corrupt than the US. If one were to read up on Japan, it's clear that for a first world country, it's rather corrupt --not the same way, say Indis is corrupt, but still, I feel more so than the US, specifically.

Dogs and Demons (A. Kerr) is filled with instances how corruption has contributed to massive misallocation of resources, coverups of environmental contamination, political favoritism, cronyism, etc. resulting in the paralysis which afflicts Japan.
Windows lacks fork(), or at least it's not documented. To implement the Cygwin folks have to go through a lot of tricks to implement it. And one of them is rebasing all dlls to start at different addresses.

There is a tool to rebase everything, and it's usually started after install. It's possible that after you have recompiled your own apps/dlls they might need rebasing too (speaking as a cygwin user, not developer).

The only thing that I found annoying in cygwin, is that I can't use all commands from the cmd.exe, because they make sense only under cygwin. For example "gcc" is just a cygwin symbolic link to "gcc-something.exe", and when you "run it" it gives "Access denied". The workaround is to run like this: sh -c "gcc <args>" from cmd.exe

But it might solve very hard problems, for example - redis (from antirez's depot) compiled with cygwin worked for me, and although there is much better windows version by the MSOpenTech guys, it just shows that sometimes it might be the only reasonable way. The other app that comes in mind is rsync.
I run a least six miles every day to force myself away from computers, phones and everything else.

It's calming.
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Author's primary argument is that Atwood is ignorant of PHP, but provides no evidence author isn't ignorant of everything but PHP.

I guess if you've lived in a box your whole life, a slightly bigger box must seem pretty good. Don't knock my box, you should have seen how small the last one was.
You shutdown your laptop? Why don't you power off the iPad?
As far as I know, it's impossible to anonymously pay for anything over the Internet.

He tried to use a prepaid credit card, paid for in cash, but since the PATRIOT act, prepaid credit cards only work in person (and not even always then).

You can't use prepaid credit cards online without supplying your address and SSN to the prepaid credit card provider first, which most prepaid card providers don't even support in the first place.

Question: doesn't Bitcoin provide for anonymous transfers? Or no?
I suspect that the author wants an anonymous VPS so that he has a computer that's not subject to physical seizure, e.g. TSA thugs grabbing it whilst entering or leaving the US. Plus the convenience of being able to access your VPS from anywhere you have a halfway trustworthy SSH connection.
The first tablet was a failure. It did not reach students, and the limited ones that eventually made to users had huge quality issues. I am not very hopeful of this version either, given the fact that it is promoted by India's notoriously corrupt bureaucracy.
From here: ( http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-... ) Refer the paragraph:

"Practical training may be authorized to an F-1 student who has been lawfully enrolled on a full time basis, in a Service-approved college, university, conservatory, or seminary for one full academic year. "
Because it was funny and because their audience probably doesn't want to watch bicycle/corvette races?
Would this work at starbucks?
Social.org for Sale on NameJet
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This makes me think that an analog to steganography could be a fruitful direction for privacy efforts to take - not looking like nothing, but looking like something unremarkable. If I remember correctly, Tor is already working on something like this, but what if this concept permeated the whole stack?
That may be what you wish the world was like, but you must realise that expecting that to actually happen is absurdly unrealistic. Don't expect anyone to take you seriously.
"The most glaring statement in the entire article is this one:"

WHICH ONE? WHICH ONE?
I was in Beijing a few days ago and in most of the restaurants/cafes I only had to ask the waiter for the wifi password. No id checks required.

Some of the "western" bars even have a vpn running so you can browse facebook when connecting to their wifi.
Thanks. I used to use GNUWin32 (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/), but this seems like a good alternative.
I will be the first one to admit that I don't know participate in the date aggregation point of the pipeline so my knowledge is rusty. Say one was designing a system where age, sex information was important. How do you keep track of this information:

1. Across multiple computers that the person might be using?

2. Expiring cookies?

Thanks
Wow, I was under the mistaken impression that Bitcoin was anonymous, but researching it more, it's not really.

Does anyone know if this was a deliberate political choice in designing Bitcoin (so it wouldn't solely turn into a network for money laundering), or if there just wasn't any way to make the cryptography work for truly anonymous transactions that could still be verified?
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I don't agree. It is also about cultures: people buying pirated software even if the time spend on that is more than the price of the product. For example, in Argentina people can buy pirated software in the streets and nobody care about original software, even if they have the money to do so.
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The number of men went up?
Because I made a personal decision that I wouldn't torrent anything but open source stuff. If I'm going to format shift, I will buy the item. The author deserves the money for continuing their efforts.
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Which you could do by deleting your other posts and editing your top-ranked one.
"Though I had no inkling of it back in 1992, what’s rapidly replacing the PC in our culture is the smart phone."

The desktop as a form factor will never go away. I know for me personally the day I need to turn in my machine (including keyboard/mouse/large monitors) for a smart phone or tablet is the day you can go ahead and just shoot me to put me out of my misery.
It'd be curious to know if they also blocked Bloomberg Professional. I'd venture they didn't, given that that would block important information from the financial (gov't) elites.
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Space flight is an absolutely infinitesimaly small portion of the national budget. You are wasting your brain-cycles worrying about it.
Detecting Memory Leaks in Node.js Applications
Australia introduces controversial carbon tax
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