skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course everyone is lying. It's the law: you can't divulge this info, you must lie.

Such naivety.
The Quiet Place Project
Yeah, probly. But I want a company to wrap all of it up in a nice predictable package. Dealing with understanding AWS pricing complexity alone is enough of a service to spawn healthy-margin companies.
Jesus that's a spike
It is likely that we will never know. I suppose "forever" counts as a while.
For me, there are three potential types of applications:

a. Those that run fine on the Chromebook.

b. Those that would run fine on a larger laptop or desktop, but not on the Chromebook.

c. Those that need to be deployed to some sort of server.

I don't write anything that falls under (b). If a program is expecting to be run on 10 disks, or with 48gb of RAM, or across a cluster of 12 nodes, it's highly unlikely that my personal dev machine will work out, so (c) will be used. That's also how I'd want to test any production-level deployment.

The gap between (a) and (b) is actually quite small. The Samsung 3 Chromebook specs are a bit better than almost every smartphone, so pretty much any Android app could be placed under (a). Pretty much any unit test for a (c) app fits under (a).

Compiles would be faster with a beefier dev machine, but the fact that the Chromebook comes with an SSD already places it ahead of the default corporate machine (at least in my experience - perhaps employees get SSDs in their Dells nowadays). Certainly a MB Air has a faster CPU, but the difference isn't that dramatic for development purposes.

As one counterexample, I'll point out that my wife spends most of her work day in Photoshop and Illustrator. Even if those apps ran on Linux, my guess is that the resource needs would still make an Air or a MB Pro a much better choice.
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Startpage.com is doing pretty well, too (and is not based in US). They've just reached 4 million searches per day:

https://startpage.com/eng/press/pr-four-million.html
Maybe. If the article is to be believed, they obviously aren't being promoted enough. One thing we do have here in Canada is a lot of education propaganda (which is basically the only kind that I like). I suppose in the US that kind of thing varies from state to state.
It _was_ installed on every Linux server on the planet. Pretty much all of them are abandoning it for MariaDB.
What has changed in technology in the past 12 years to
enable home grocery delivery?

Perhaps home grocery delivery has been feasible the whole time, and Webvan's failure was one of execution and management. Perhaps Webvan just scared off VCs until now.
I take piracetam for protection from hypoxia, vs. reversing a condition which causes hypoxia, as the condition is self-induced =) I've been tapering off as my habit draws back, but for nearly two decades I smoked on average 30 cigarettes per day. The CO load from smoking at that level was having effects on my memory which were noticeably reduced over time after that level of piracetam. For a period where my smoking was much reduced (nearly quit), I pulled back to 1600mg per day.

I'm not keen on other drugs, as piracetam has been the only one out of the lot I've taken that didn't have other serious side-effects which created problems for me. Pentoxifylline is contra-indicated with other parts of my health profile, you could say.. =)
This is basically what I need for Office Snapshots. I keep all of the original photos submitted so that I can use the full images in the future (if need be) and would love to store them somewhere other than my laptop.

If I could browse locally with smaller images (as you describe) like I currently do with Picasa (galleries, tags, etc) and then have the ability to download the original images when and if I need them, I'd be in heaven.
C# is a small node. it influenced java a lot.
Great example of this in literature!
"So, if you're under oath, you're not allowed to lie"

Yeah but what stops you from doing so? I mean, not lying, just giving the "least untruthful" statement you can:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/james-...
The Search Engine that Vows Not to Track You [video]
I think it is an abbreviation for signals versus noise (s/n) which used to be the title of their blog.
Because Ray Bans parent company owns all the other brands in the store and also likely owns the store itself.
Meet the New Tech.Pro
I had a professor who did optics research sponsored by the NSA. They didn't tell him the intended application, but he suspected it was to tap optical fibers by evanescent wave coupling (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evanescent_wave#Evanescent-wave... ). It's as if photons are quantum tunneling out of the fiber, so there is no need to physically cut into it. That would have made the tapping nearly undetectable.
That's not really true, there are VCs. Crane [1], for example, is a network of angel investors in Croatia.

[1] http://www.crane.hr/
> Crime is at an all-time low yet spending on police is near an all-time high.

Two words: public unions.
Having written my own naive Clojure dot product, I can definitely appreciate what you guys have done!

Any plans to attack sparse vectors? Performance on the sparse vector operations I wrote was poor, but being new to Clojure it wasn't a great implementation.
Those would not be theories, those would be observations.

Theories attempt to explain why things happen as they do, observations are statements that something has or has not happened.

Gravity is an observation. Let go of an object, it travels towards the surface of the planet (usually). Gravitational theory attempts to explain why gravity happens.

Evolution is an observation. Over time, random variance occurs in living things, and when these variances are beneficial to the life of the living thing, the variance tends to spread through the species over time (give or take). Evolutionary theory is an attempt at explaining how and why this occurs.

Obama has changed his position on issues X, Y, and Z. are observations. That he has done this because he's an evil, blood-sucking politician who says anything to get approval is an attempt at explaining why Obama has changed his positions over time.
This probably helps cyclists get support from the people there. I guess it is a chicken and egg problem. I have been almost hit many a times by cyclists who think they are supposed to ride on the sidewalk. I suppose they don't know any better.

I am stealing this soapbox to remind everyone (I assume some are cyclists):

* Never ride on the sidewalk, ever.

* Never ride against traffic.

and finally, I don't know how to enforce this without a flamethrower/rocket launcher:

* Do not let cars force you off the road. You have the right to a full lane. A car may not ride beside you in the same lane.

We read about cyclists following the rules getting hit by idiot drivers and think it might be safer to ride on the sidewalk. Maybe statistics shows more cyclists get injured on the road than on the sidewalk.

However, this anecodote is apt. More pedestrians get hit by cars on sidewalk than in the middle of the road. This does not mean pedestrians should walk in the middle of the road. Similarly, more cyclists get injured while riding on the road. That does not mean you should ride on the sidewalk.
That's correct. I changed the post to say "accredited" - thanks!
I am not sure what OP wants to say with this submission... Is it that the US treats differently people who defect to them than people who defect from them? That's... not very surprising. In some way it feels more fair than the way the Soviets treated Kim Philby, a British spy and defector: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby (tl;dr: he wasn't a KGB colonel like he was promised, he was kept essentially in house arrest, and had a 500 rubel allowance).

As for Kukliński, being a Pole myself, I have mixed feelings. I very much prefer that my country is in the American sphere of influence (and not the Soviet as it used to for almost 50 years). However, if WW3 had happened, we would've been be on the Soviet side. Zbigniew Brzeziński said that Kuklinski’s information had permitted them to make counterplans to disrupt command-and-control facilities rather than only relying on a massive counterattack on forward positions, which would have hit Poland. However, I have no dellusions that anybody in the US would have any doubts about turning Poland into a radioactive wasteland if that served the American interests of the moment...

Also, the Polish government after the fall of Communism wasn't very eager to pardon Kukliński. That happened only after Clinton's administration threatened to block Poland's NATO accession if he weren't exonerated.
Anyone else facing issues with Google maps since last 3 weeks?
Issues :

1. Takes longer to load (In chrome & FF) or the main page doesn't load at all

2. Parts of the map do not load - especially the tiles west of Wyoming & East of Indiana.

3. Directions on iphone are incorrect

Point 1 & 2 have happened just too often for me since the last 3 weeks.

First I thought it was happening from my office laptop/network only, but I've discovered the same from my home network+laptop.

Just me ?
To each his own, but I think the name is endearing and cute.

I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine ever since the NSA fallout came, and the results are surprisingly usable for most common tasks. In some cases they feel better than Google because I'm seeing some useful sites that Google doesn't ordinarily show.

The only area where DuckDuckGo searches have been lacking for me is in finding useful technical articles and code results. Sometimes when I have to search for a complicated error message or research some programming problem to see how other people have approached it DDG will not work for me and I have to resort to Google or directly search Stackoverflow or something.

But it's already usable for the average person IMO.
I don't think you understand the concept of price fixing - The intent is that Apple is making the decision for the Publisher's by proposing an offer that isn't in the sense of "pros vs cons", but rather "right vs wrong". Of course most Publishers agreed because it was for the greater good of their company, and the only one hung up with the bad rep is their ring master.

"You can either join us, or we'll collectively squash you."
Nah, it's just a "bam, you got owned" image macro. The GIF plays right as the Revenant is destroyed.
The really crappy part was, the traction was starting to pick up this last month. :(
You have to wait for an "update" before you can take that page down?
>US has a fatality every 5.3 km.

did you mean every 5.3 million km?
Google is an advertising company. The rest of their products suck.
If you're using a newer MacBook Pro I've seen some people swap out the disk drive bay for a 2nd SSD. This doesn't sound like much but that allows them to run a RAID 1 setup on their laptop (1 drive with a mirrored second drive).

These guys talk about doing that with a RAID 0 setup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKaXZVHcdGM
This is awesome! Thanks for this.

How do I search for VCs who find companies in a given sector (say education)? Currently I see the startups in a sector and have to explore each in turn to see who have funded them.
Introduction to Cassandra | K Lautaportti  Europython 2013
That is a rough approximation of Max Weber's theory from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which is an amazing and surprisingly readable little book.
Encryption using ephemeral keys is UI transparent, and requires no key management.
The New York Times Open Source Science Fair is back
Were there large import tariffs or something making it prohibitively expensive to get Apple computers from the US, or did Apple not market the machines internationally?

Countries such as the USSR and Brazil simply made their own Apple clones. I'd suspect Western Europe did not do so because of legal ramifications.
Not just you. Couldn't get Android version to work reliably on July 4.
Get up and Running with Cassandra on Google Compute Engine
I've always been a vim/screen/bash user rather than an IDE, so I can't speak to the experience of using Eclipse/IntelliJ on a Chromebook. The fact that I'm doing everything console based certainly lowers the resource needs since the chroot isn't running another windowing system.

I know the JVM isn't often associated with low memory applications, but it seems like it should be possible. As I mentioned in my other reply, the Chromebook has more resources than the average Android phone, so all those Java Android apps should run fine (albeit under Dalvik rather than Sun's JVM).
Here's another take on it, albeit more for financial computations.

Includes a formula preview:
http://numbercanvas.com/
Moxie the founder of whisper systems is for real, and whisper systems is owned by twitter now and I'm not sure how much they are supporting it.

Silent Circle is Phil Zimmerman who is also for real (PGP real).

Trust apps that are developed by heavies with a history of first class crypto work. Be wary when a group of people with limited crypto experience launches a secure communications app especially if the app runs in the browser.
A Simple Guide to How Extradition Works
The US bandwidth situation is the elephant in the room.

There really is no good solution to automated offsite backup when it takes several days of uploading to handle a single day's worth of data capture. To make any internet-backup service work, you'd first have to pitch the photog on switching from their residential broadband package to something more expensive -- if that's even available short of their leasing office space somewhere.

I guess you could try to build out a reverse-CDN sort of network, with local relay nodes scattered across the various ISP networks, that might achieve faster uploads from the user (and maybe not get counted against bandwidth caps) which then use a fat pipe to send that data to larger regional storage nodes.

Neither seems particularly plausible at scale.
OVH has a history of suspending service at the drop of a hat. I'd avoid them for anything business-critical.
you just choose to not understand my point, working in mine is also hard work , working in mine for free is hard work and plain stupid

I don't consider family interactions work , it can be hard but it is not my definition of work. You can stretch definition to suit your justification of your lifestyle but I am happy with my 133 hours/week left for me after I call quits :-)

YMMW
Outsourcing your social media? You likely don't have any idea what you're doing
Thanks for the info. I wish I had this back in the 90s.

Did they try Ruby Shoes (or whatever replaced it) as a fun side GUI project?
Linden Lab acquires Desura
This is good to hear. BTW, it might help if you had a little more info on your landing page about the service. For example, I can't tell if this is going to be aimed at true pros who are willing to shell out a decent amount of money, or if I'm going to be able to afford it for my own pro-sumer needs. Having to sign up for a mailing list and wait in order to potentially find out that I'm nowhere near the target audience is frustrating.
I see Buzzfeed's innovation as largely around the continued development of the "Contributor Model" for content, which drives down the per-unit cost of content by turning to non-fulltime outsiders to help create content along side full-time staffers. Medium taps into this, as did Quora before it.

Vice is pretty innovative around web content but no new formats that I know of and a typical "stringer" model with high editorial touch. Quartz is visually different (super slick JS based webapp) but the underlying news is the same that you get elsewhere.
The thing about "and" and "or" is that there is obvious grouping--it stems from boolean logic where there is an order of operations ('or' is like '+' and 'and' is like '\*'). There's really no excuse to pander to people that can't or won't memorize the order of operations for boolean logic.

BTW, I don't like coming across super critical, but this is a pet peeve of mine. This particular issue really gets under my skin (I always pass -Wnoparenthases to gcc). Overall I am very impressed with Gorillascript. I love the macros, the functional programming stuff and the basic terseness of it all.
Understanding the Yoneda Lemma
I like the idea but I don't understand how you could switch to a site that ugly.
We have sparse vector code built on hiphip that's slated for open-source release down the road (once we get the resources to polish it) -- stay tuned!
Smugmug's SmugVault

"SmugVault is an added service to your SmugMug account that lets you store almost anything for next to nothing. Including files not normally supported by SmugMug."

http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/84562-more-...
This is an awful generalization, there are many veterans that see this as excessive and abhorrent. They left the Middle East to trade the military environment for quiet(er) civilian life.
It seems really plausible that the flexibility would lead to resentment. But isn't that reaction negative? What does it take to convince employees, not just management, to look at output?
You're likely thinking of quantum communications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution
Holy crap. I started mulling over the idea of using Glacier as a cloud backup to my Synology NAS, but this makes me extremely hesitant.
What's wrong with technological fixes?
Gone In 60 Frames Per Second: A Pinterest Paint Performance Case Study
We're working on the update now...
The skills required to get a job: resume writing, professional networking, interviewing, are often not the same skills that actually qualify you for the job. One could be a very good resume-writer and interviewer (dare I say B.S.er?) but not be the right match for the day-to-day job duties. On the other hand, one may be technically qualified, but just not good at resume-writing or smooth talking during the interview.

It reminds me of back in high school, where there were always those really smart kids who were just bad at standardize testing. They risked falling through the cracks because the testing was the only method used to judge one's scholastic ability.

Perhaps the standard "personal reference -> resume -> phone screen -> interview" pattern could use some disruption. Is there a way to match candidates with jobs that's better than keyword-matching resumes and sitting in a conference room talking about a time in the past when you learned from a mistake? Given that there are simultaneously tons of companies saying they can't find talent and tons of unemployed (and under-employed) talent looking for work, you could conclude that something about the current job matching system most companies use is not working.
Last write wins is certainly a horrible default behavior. It seems like Basho has worked on a CRDT cookbook to make it easier to deal with conflict resolution. With that in place for critical mutable values, it's a lot easier to swallow the immutable values approach for the rest of your data (similar to Datomic), which completely sidesteps this problem.
Okay I get it. That was my hangup. Thanks!
Wow, now that's a spike. Kudos to DDG.

Aside from spying on you from every angle, Google is now unusable, almost everything on page one is ads, ads, ads and Google "content." http://news.yahoo.com/google-search-displays-only-13-organic... What a shame, they sold their soul for short term and temporary gains.

We should go a little out of our way to support new search engines, having so much power in one hand is too dangerous for the web and businesses.
Love the name. That sort of pun brings a smile to my face.
What brought you to develop this library rather than relying on Incanter/Colt?
The scope of HipHip seems different, of course, but there is enough of an overlap to warrant the question.
Sounds like you need something based on mailing drives.
Feel like OBJ-C and Ruby should be closer :)
We're also anxiously awaiting this -- it seems with gvecs and reducers and primitive fns the pieces are all there, we just need the glue to put them all together. Unfortunately, for now I think we're stuck with arrays, and we're trying to make the most of it :)
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Would it be feasible to simply dupe the drive and find a secure off-site place within driving distance to store it or a storage machine, and then mail drives to glacier (Amazon will import a HDD via mail for around 100USD) as the storage machine fills?
Would such a splitter give you 1% of the messages passed, or 1% of a message?
"Those would not be theories, those would be observations.

Theories attempt to explain why things happen as they do, observations are statements that something has or has not happened."

You are very confused. The observation is that it appears as if the Sun is moving across the sky. The theory is that that's because the Earth is rotating.

You should be able to work out the rest for yourself.
Agreed. I don't know how "important posts only" are determined in Facebook, but it works well for me. I've got probably 50% of my FB friends on important only status. It makes the site much more pleasant to visit.
We could use this argument to remove warning labels from all dangerous things.

If you want to drive your vehicle without a seatbelt, who am I to force you to? Your seatbelt choices have no impact on anyone else except you, right?!
I was wondering something similar. Does Glacier have any way to see a preview of the images you are downloading? If I upload 100 images with serialized file names (001.jpg, 002.jpg) how do I know which images to download?
Startup Vitamins founder on journey to 14 successful companies — and 11 failed
Great article just posted by Ars: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/how-apple-led-an-...
Being on the Soviet side would have been worthless as well of course, as it was clear that central Europe would be a nuclear wasteland in any case.

Operational plans of the Soviets against NATO foresaw the first wave of attack led by troops from Warsaw pact nations (East Germany, Poland, etc.) - which would have been completely wiped out by NATO defenses, but depleting their arsenals. The second wave would have consisted of fresh Russian troops which then would have swept through the rubble of Europe.

These plans have been made public a few years ago and here in Austria they were part of a exhibtion. Austria would have suffered a similar fate, some plans seeing Soviet tank troops advancing along the Danube, some plans ignoring it but in both cases seeing nuclear weapons (tactical) be deployed by both sides. NATO would have nuked bridges instantly, the WP denied NATO Vienna as a bridgehead.

As a Pole myself it is pretty clear that if you're caught between two power blocks (Germans, Russia, NATO, Soviets, whatever) you're always fucked whatever "side" you're on. You're collateral damage in their power struggle.
Yes, you are correct. Allow me to introduce you to the concept of satire.
Nope, think they're just perfecting things!
I think people decided that Social Network must be equivalent to "People I know, who know me," and Facebook is great for that. If you want to add in "people I used to work with," then LinkedIn is fine, too.

But there's this interesting layer, for me, of other people that are interesting to talk to:

People who are willing to identify themselves publicly with their real name, and who are interested in the same things I'm interested in.

https://plus.google.com/communities

By joining Communities of like-minded people, it's very similar to subscribing to a sub-reddit. Except I personally see way less spam and trolling.

And I can mix that in, with the streams of other interesting people who are on G+.

Facebook != Hacker News != Google+

They're different. The reasons why most people SAY they don't use Google+ is because it's not the same thing as Facebook. I think they're wrong to have even thought of it that way.