skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, there's a division called "Cloud and Enterprise Engineering Group". This suggest that either it encompasses non-cloud offerings specific to enterprise or the cloud they're building is targeting specifically enterprise.

Either way, they will not be focused on making Azure a product I wouldn't be interested in: 1 of 2 focuses or targeting someone I'm not.

Furthermore, looks like they've split sales/marketing from engineering which will probably help them build more features which are irrelevant to me and put as many PMs between the clients and engineers as possible.
Sony's PS4 self-publishing principles: 'Every developer is a publisher'
How do you differentiate between useful dwell and useless dwell? I often need to spend some time on a page before I realize this is not what I'm looking for. How will you tell?
And now that we're talking about search, I had an experience on google that I found very odd. I was looking for the Richard Marx song, "Suspicion" from the album "My Own Best Enemy". I knew the song and the album, but I couldn't remember the name Richard Marx. Problem was instead of typing "My Own Best Enemy", I was typing "My Own WORST Enemy". Google had no clue. Shouldn't a good search engine be able to tell it's just one word wrong?
I deleted my Facebook account a few years ago through this process. I was very careful not to log back in, and when I tried a few months later I was rejected - no account linked with that email address.

Six months later I signed up with a different email address, and Facebook forced me to confirm my account with my phone number. Javascript Error - that phone number is associated with another Facebook account. I click OK, and I'm redirected to my "new" account with all my old Facebook friends (on the opposite side of the country) showing up as "people I may know."

Nothing is deleted from Facebook, ever.
The need for the dictionary shows up when your text gets significantly large. Each call to `words.count` is going to re-examine each word of the text to count 'em up, so, if n is the number of words in the text, and m is the number of distinct words in the text, then this solution is at least O(mn + nlog(n)) whereas the dictionary-based solution is O(nlog(n)). That is, we're re-reading the word list over and over, whereas the dict-based solution only reads it once. It's therefore more likely to be more efficient.

But I like the readability of this solution and there's a strong argument to be made for it on that basis, especially if the string is short. If this were a job interview, this would be a totally acceptable solution, though it'd be important to be able to discuss why other solutions might be faster and why you prefer this one anyway.
There's a huge first-mover advantage in that, though. As I said- like with Samsung and Android. They're going to be incredibly difficult to shift now.
So this essentially turns a flash drive into a NAS that's accessible over the internet? I'd like to know how it's web-accessable. Is there a web server built into the plug device?
The best policy argument I know of for taxing companies is that it adds a financial incentive to reinvest profits into the company to avoid taxation.

Raising corporate tax rates might or might not result in higher consumer prices. Depending on the company or industry, it might instead result in lower profits (which harms investors not consumers), or different management decisions--for example it might lead companies to invest in more growth abroad than domestically since the tax rate is lower abroad.
This memo would only have been relevant if it had come from a new CEO.
> What's to stop my friend Joe Blogs coming over my house and being able to read my email ...

The PIN.

X.509 certificates are protected by a PIN in the same way that an SSH key pair is protected by a passphrase. Even if you "physically" obtain the private key, you still need the PIN that protects it before you can use it.

(side note: you can use an X.509 certificate for SSH authentication)
I wouldn't expect people with python to necessarily have numpy, though.
In fact, why wouldn't improving education help with the claim that people are inherently lazy. I don't understand the objectivist assumption that there are huge numbers of lazy people who will always leech off of others. Instead of assuming that schools would be closed because they wouldn't need to be open to educate people, and that those people aren't worth it anyway, why not educate people and develop their curiosity, motivation, and empathy for others. It is those qualities that most people learn and then cultivate intrinsic motivation into passion to pursue goals that are not purely financial.

Helping people, building something great, improving the world are goals that can and are being taught in schools now. Unfortunately, the state of education is far from perfect. It seems feasible to correlate the laziness that is so feared by opponents of BI with a flawed education system. It is difficult to believe that better education cannot improve the intellectual curiosity and motivation of the supposedly "lazy." A flawed education system produces ignorance, laziness, and stifles intellectual appetite.

Instead of falling back on fundamental attribution error to assume there's something inherently wrong with the "lazy" person, maybe realize that without proper education and being shown opportunities and paths for contribution, people will certainly seem lazy. Not to say that university admissions are a perfect filter for people who are willing and capable of working hard, but even at top tier universities in the U.S., "Undecided" is a common major among students. Students who have a high school degree and have made it into selective schools, demonstrated at least some ability to work, but still don't necessarily know where to contribute.

Without data, but anecdotally I hear of many relatively wealthy middle-aged people who could retire comfortably, but don't, or they pursue a different productive interest (like teaching or volunteer work) after switching from their previous career. It seems reasonable that a better education system would go far to encourage people to better themselves and the world even in a BI scenario. It is hard to imagine someone who has learned curiosity, intrinsic motivation to contribute something, and empathy for others would sit around and leech from others all day.
Is it very difficult to find a good apartment for rent in NYC? What do people need to know who are unfamiliar with the landscape?
> If you have a point to make, please try doing it without blatantly lying.

I'm not blatantly lying. US taxes on labor income are disproportionate to taxes on other income sources, both because of the favorable rates applied in the income tax system to capital income, and because labor income is subject to additional taxes.

> It's common knowledge that the US has substantially higher corporate tax rates than almost anywhere else

Whether that's true or not, its entirely irrelevant the claim I was making.
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There are already companies in this space though.

One example is secmaker.com, but I don't know if they operate outside .se yet.
We could start by getting corporations to pay their taxes. As I mentioned above, corporate profit margins have hit an all time high, and that money will circulate far faster if it’s placed in the hands of consumers.

This is very wrong when you think about large scale. The model simply can't work when you apply it to all the population. Think about the point when it'll break.

There is no free money. Giving money to someone by taxing someone else, is not a stable equation. This will create a tension between those who produce and those who consumes. Corporations will move to States/Countries with better tax schemes.

My strategy is simpler: Liberalize everything. Everybody pays for his own consumption; and shared resources are paid by people equally. There should be no taxes, and also no subventions. That means people pays for the gov. bills equally.

Well, but that's only on my perfect world view.
We have built BayesHive, a web application for Bayesian statistics that allows users to upload their own data and then build statistical models using a point-and-click user interface. This works with simple models and data or with much more complicated time-series data using stochastic differential equations that allow you to forecast financial timeseries or price options in a probabilistic way. Analysis results end up in literate documents that you can edit and share, and more complicated models based on specific equations can also be shared so other users can run shared model against their data.

http://bayeshive.com

We also just released as open source our AngularJS+D3 visualisation library: http://openbrainsrc.github.io/Radian/index.html

EDIT: link
> <h3>Less distruptive workflows</h3>

Quick, somebody submit a pull request to the blog repository! :)
Look for "Your storage is fast and private" (it's near the bottom). This image is directly below the title:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000/719/145/cd13e6df1821...
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By this logic, Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Livejournal.com, Thumblr, Flickr, and every other free site that allows you to post content is a 'content farm'.

I'd argue that we should use a stricter definition: content farms are those where the company contracts out for cheap content, writes it internally, or creates it algorithmically though markov chains and copying other sources on the internet. It's something where all the information within is directive, and no interaction is required by users except to simply consume and perhaps click on ads.

About.com and its ilk? Content farms.

Those sites that copy StackOverflow.com posts? Content farms.

Those SEO sites you keep pulling up when you search for your domain name? Content farms.
I take both points (marketing, maths education) but can the man not pay a speech writer?

OK for JFK, LBJ, Obama et al
If it's anything like Last.fm, it should be really good at recommending super popular sites that the user already knows about and does not use.
Eh? Surface RT came with Office.
The headline U.S. corporate tax is higher than that of many other countries, but it also has many more loopholes than the corporate tax of many other countries. As a result, the effective corporate tax rate in the U.S. is relatively low, around 13%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Effective_Corporate_Tax_Ra...

However I believe the parent's point was just that taxes on personal earned income represent a much larger share of total U.S. tax receipts than taxes on corporate income do, i.e. the U.S. mainly taxes labor income. And that is true; the corporate income tax accounts for only 10% of federal tax receipts: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3822
Over time it tends to even out - the early up/down voters tend to be superficial and react quickly, but over the next day or so the system seems to work pretty well. It's like early votes on IMDb - you shouldn't really pay much attention for a week or two, there.
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Nice catch about GitHub's Terms of Service.

From https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service:

> ...by setting your pages to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow
> others to view your Content. By setting your repositories to be
> viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your
> repositories.
I disagree with this article almost entirely. Yes, labor jobs are on the decline, but service jobs are staying steady if not increasing. The "demand for unconditional basic income" is a joke, yes it's possible to attempt to initiate something where every person receives $10,000 a year, but the money has to come from somewhere.

If the money for this basic income comes from taxation, then both the government loses net income and the corporations lose as well. You can think about it an entropy or friction, there is always a cost for doing something. If corporations essentially pay their customers (via the government) to buy their goods the world would eventually collapse.

If the money for basic income comes from printing money (or equivalent) it devalues to insignificant amounts too quick to do virtually anything with it.

This idea is a fantasy, perhaps the population of the world needs to DECREASE to maintain its stability in a technological world. If there are less jobs, maybe there's less need for humans.. If this is the case, perhaps it is time to move to Mars or something, like a cell that has replicated enough DNA/organelles to split in two and create a new daughter cell.

You cannot suitably hold by basic unconditional income. Any college economics class/text book would probably make this much more clearer than I, but the "trends," conclusions and potential sources for the basic income would fall apart under close inspection. For example, if the need for labor decreases, the cost of labor decreases (the net company expense), therefore people may have worse pay, but also the products are cheaper.

The point is basic economic theory define this as an impossibility.
Can you elaborate over what you find so wrong with that?
"Good thing Satoshi wasn't scared of cryptography or we wouldn't have bitcoin."

...a system for which there is no security definition, no security proof, a known polynomial time attack (for some vague notion of "attack"), etc. I do not think this is the best example you can come up with.

One of the problems here is that cryptography cannot just be cobbled together from component pieces. Things do not always compose securely. Bitcoin is not a signature system, so even if the ECDSA implementation is perfect it does not guarantee that Bitcoin is secure. One of the things that makes cryptography, especially in the public-key setting, difficult is the very precise assumptions and very precise definitions of security; it is easy to make an assumption that is not implied by a security definition, and very easy to violate a key assumption without even realizing it. Worse, cryptosystems must be composed with other software, and such compositions can be insecure (which is basically what happened with Skype).

It's not that people should be scared away. Rather, we need to develop better tools that help programmers catch or avoid these kinds of bugs.
TBH I don't perceive UAC popups as "something intrusive", they could be better, but they do their work fine: to stop non-tech savvy users from screwing up the PC.
If 40 hours working at minimum wage is not enough to live on, shouldn't the minimum wage be raised?
Hmm. Plug will apparently retail for $150. If I look at the dual band 802.11n router I have which happens to have a USB host port for NAS (which seems to be common these days?), it's $87 on Amazon, and of course if you don't want the router part you can get something for much less, or just use an existing desktop if you don't mind the power bill.

Of course much of the value is in the convenience of setup and the full-featured set of client software that they've developed. But $150 seems like a huge markup.
Looks to be back up.
Sure, there are degrees of contribution, and direct is clearly more intentioned than indirect, but at the end of the day the beast doesn't care if it's fed willingly or unwillingly, and the vast majority of government funding is involuntary. If it's going to die, it needs to be unable to feed, what people are willing to contribute is irrelevant when its primary income is violently coerced.

I have thought long and hard about that underlying argument and at the end of the day I both could not find a flaw with it, and was subsequently compelled to become a globally nomadic anarcho capitalist, just to avoid being forced to contribute to what amounts to only a fairly tame by comparison lackey of the US.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic (it's the internet)...

I'm not economist but how would this work...? It seems like an awful idea
41 megapixels can't be nice on a crappy sensor and lenses system. 41 megapixels would be interesting on a real camera unless someone wants to print oversampled stuff.
The fact that the instructor may perhaps (or perhaps not) be mistakenly attributing to Korean ethnic-culture certain worrying aspects is completely unimportant. The real cultural problem is that an instructor perceives pressure to pass students he believes should fail. That simple perception, regardless of underlying cause, is a problem that sabotages efforts to improve.
Hopefully you're being sarcastic?

If not, my response to that there should never be a 'comfortable wage'. Everyone needs that crappy job they hate - dishwasher, ditch digger - that pays nothing in order to motivate them to get out of said situation.

We all (most of us) worked that crappy job when we were younger, and hated it, and one of many reasons I stay motivated to provide value now is, well, because I don't want to be a dishwasher.

That's the beauty of The Market.
This is very exciting because I feel this addresses one of the cornerstone technology failures that keeps me from enjoying the computing model I want, which I call PAO [1]. Namely, it deals with the failure of VPNs to evolve into something that regular consumers can understand. Plug in this device, add a hard drive, and access your data on your various computing devices from anywhere on the Internet. VPNs have had the underlying capability to provide that access to personal data, and those savvy enough to implement a personal VPN server do so. I don't use cloud file servers because I can access my home network's file server over an IPSec VPN from all of my devices. But what a pain in the ass.

Most people defer the responsibility to manage their data to cloud vendors because cloud vendors solve the key pain point (I need my data everywhere) at the seemingly low cost of just losing control and some added friction. But the alternatives where control is retained have classically been user interface disasters. I imagine my mom setting up an IPSec/L2TP VPN--yeah, not happening.

Even as someone who does have the ability to set up a VPN, I am left with routine annoyances associated with the abysmal user interfaces associated with managing VPN connections.

Of course, in addition to this, to realize PAO, I still need an OS-level application server concept with all my applications designed in a "responsive" model servicing multiple concurrent views. But providing always-on plug-and-play VPN connectivity and from-everywhere access to personal data is a leap forward.

Thanks for your work on this, guys!

Such a device has the potential to render all traditional cloud storage vendors obsolete, and I welcome that potential future.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao
How is cloning a benefit over forking? Either way you end up with the repository littering your list.

I suppose if you clone you could immediately delete the clone after submitting the patch, but that seems premature. In both cases, you can delete the repo after the patch is applied, couldn't you?
I became a South Dakota resident in January (while I was in CA.). Despite only having spent a week in the state last summer. I haven't been back since then.
We started with Mumble server but moved to TeamSpeak because it is more feature-rich. I have the website now able to link your TeamSpeak/Steam/Forum accounts and am working on an interface where we can create "events" (in-houses, all mid days, other games, whatever) and you will earn "points" for attending those events.

TeamSpeak's serverquery let me do a lot of cool things easier than Mumble/ice. There is a TeamSpeak client for linux (http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads)!
WP8 is getting a native Vine app, and with Instagram playing "me too" on video this may force them to develop a native WP app.

There is a feature equivalent WP app that uploads to Instagram that is an unofficial Instagram app, can't remember the name now though, but for users that want Instagram the reviews have been good. It's pretty much everything Instragram is sans name.
Nice article, though I'm not sure charging more will solve their problems. As long as the RIAA keep bellyaching that they aren't getting their fair share, almost all streaming music services will have the same challenges. FYI, this site has an "untrustworthy" WOT rating for some reason.
I didn't mean to sound like I was rebutting your original point about the 1/1.2" sensor -- Sorry about that.

I was just adding to the point about 1" sensors actually being as good as an SLR sensor, which they are.

Of course the RX100's optics limit some of its performance, but Sony's 1" sensor and the M43 sensor they sell to Olympus punch well above their weight, equalling or besting some existing APS sensors on the market today.
Satoshi is more than likely one or more individuals with significant crypto experience. Open{SSH/BSD/SSL} developers have significant crypto experience.

Don't get me wrong I am a huge Debian fanboy, but how much crypto code do Debian developers write?
> Sure, companies can "sit on their money", but they already can.

Not entirely, it is taxed at least once when earned (corp earnings tax).

Personally, high capital gains tax gives me a lot of hesitation, as you actually want to encourage people to invest and not dissuade them from doing it.

Not sure exactly how this works, but Switzerland appears to be taxing total networth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Switzerland#Propert...

A very low rate would still amount to a huge sum if you consider the total networth of all US "natural persons".
Are there any models that can prove/disprove these ideas? Like - take today's situation, plugin all the numbers starting from income taxes to welfare etc and simulate it and see? It would be very interesting to see that.

Also, these kinds of ideas should be tested on a smaller scale - may be a town of 25,000 people? That would be really interesting.
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To give one example the Google Car.
If this car works as advertised millions of jobs will get irreplaceable lost.
Cab drivers / Car Manufactures / Truck driver etc.
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My vote goes toward less hours, and higher wages. it's another way of solving the same issues. Everyone could work half as much, for twice as much, and you still double employment.
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Clearly there's a difference between minimum wage and living wage. What that difference is exactly eludes me, however.
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Why the Telcos are Still Doomed
The 928, Windows8 mobile and Nokia Maps are amazing. Best decision I made was waiting for Nokia to get its act together. Windows 8 phone could be the best mobile OS if they release some more APi's for musical production and get some better applications in the market.
I've always heard about the "test" but people tend to paint too broad a brush with this and lump everything in. I'm not saying that the movie industry isn't swayed one way or another, but it bothers me that there's such a lack of critical thinking when it comes to this "test". It seems to be used as a "sexist barometer" when it's anything but.

For example, a WWII movie will probably not have many scenes with women, especially if the movie concentrates on the battlefield. On the other end, some rom-com might pass the test but be an atrociously stereotypical and offensive movie.
I like to think of governments as old software programs. When they are first built, they are built with enthusiasm and passion to create the next new shiny thing. After a couple hundred years, they evolve into a giant pile of organic hacks for features to satisfy their users, and changes to fix existing bugs just result in regression. This is one of those patches, and it will regress.