skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The format of this vid is interesting to me. We've played different media formats for our engineering talks at g33ktalk (audio, video, slides and sometimes screencaps/demos) and it's been somewhat challenging to find the best format. Of course, ultimately it depends heavily on an individual user's prefs. meaning there's no perfect answer.

I find this format compelling since it's relatively short (19 mins) has high quality audio, and the only visuals are the main points represented as motion graphics.
That's just small potatoes. The really big stuff is almost invisible. That's because the liability is too large, but every now and then you can see how things are going. Check out the IRS modernization efforts. (The quote and link are probably 5-10 years old. Haven't heard much about it one way or the other lately)

...The IRS has failed twice to modernize its system, in the 1970’s when taxpayer privacy issues surfaced and in the mid-1990’s when the IRS spent ten years and $2 billion on the project and had little to show for it. The current project launched in 1999 with a budget of $8 billion. The project is late and over-budget; problems have been well publicized after the release of the IRS Oversight Board investigation...

http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/student/courses/tech914/...

AFAIK, the IRS dropped $10 Billion in IT money in just over a decade with little to nothing to show for it.

I used to joke around and say heck, they could have paid me 2 Billion and I would have also provided them nothing, but look at the money they would have saved!
I am quite certain you don't know what the word "observation" means, as you use it incorrectly twice. For that, you should be lambasted.
Your experience mirrors mine exactly, and I think that is why the customer loyalty for Amazon goes well beyond simply cheaper prices. It's the whole package that makes the company awesome.
You can go ahead and downvote it since it's all fixed now. Worse yet, the migration ended up only taking two minutes, so downvote this one while you're at it.
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I think that if Amazon starts to become more like Paypal, then we'll see more stories of them freezing funds and locking accounts. I would be much more upset if my established Amazon account was frozen over a trivial payment issue.
At the moment Paypal has the initiative because a) it's global and b) it's so darn easy to set up and use with an email.

But for how long, once word of this Amazon alternative starts to spread?
Screw the models: look at the physical and biological evidence. Permafrost is melting (Google "drunken forests"), bird migration is altering significantly, growing seasons are lengthening, ranges of species are changing. Cumulatively, it's willful ignorance to deny climate change, anthropogenic or not.
I think bitstamp.net is good.
Also, check out coinbase.com and of course, https://localbitcoins.com
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Less speech, more stories and research. I know I come off a little aggressive and that's on purpose. Probably a little less cynical than you, but 4 months working for the gov't has moved the needle in your direction, especially with the shutdown.
Many municipalities have gotten waivers for police & rescue to use drones. I don't see why the fire department would have any issues in getting clearance to ultimately help save the lives of firefighters & fire victims.
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Good point, I forgot about Play.
As surprising as it may be, Netflix requires Xbox Live Gold.

This is different than say the PS3 which does not require PS+ for Netflix.

This is one of the many reasons that while I may eventually own an Xbox One (I own 2 different Xbox 360s now), my first "next gen" console will be a PS4.
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So I did some googling and it turns out this Micro-soft is one of the biggest tech companies in the world with software used by about 11 thousand billion people.

Not that surprising that there happened to be three stories at once involving them.
This profile of Bezos sounds a lot like the Bezos Steve Yegge wrote about here https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesv... and here https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV...

From the article:

“He had no background in control theory, no background in operating systems,” Jones says. “He only had minimum experience in the distribution centers and never spent weeks and months out on the line.” But Bezos laid out his argument on the whiteboard, and “every stinking thing he put down was correct and true,” Jones says. “It would be easier to stomach if we could prove he was wrong, but we couldn’t. That was a typical interaction with Jeff. He had this unbelievable ability to be incredibly intelligent about things he had nothing to do with, and he was totally ruthless about communicating it.”

And from Steve's second post:

Trust me folks, I saw this happen time and again, for years. Jeff Bezos has all these incredibly intelligent, experienced domain experts surrounding him at huge meetings, and on a daily basis he thinks of shit that they never saw coming. It’s a guaranteed facepalm fest.

Steve's posts give a much better account, though, since the control theory guy doesn't say what the argument was about, and why Jeff was right. Steve goes on to desribe his presentation to Jeff on what an engineer should know, how he hacked the presentation to make it intersesting for Jeff by removing enough from the presentation that Jeff had to mentally fill in the gaps, and what Jeff pointed out that Steve didn't add (machine learning or data mining).

A CEO that appears to know everything is a common theme in large founder-controlled companies:

Steve Jobs: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/eric-schmidt-on-steve-j...

Bill Gates: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html

Stephen Wolfram: http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/starting-long-ter... Start at "I insist on really understanding everything." (Wolfram Research isn't a large company but that appears to be partially by choice)

James J. Hill (railroad magnate): http://books.google.com/books?id=1itXgy8gAHYC&lpg=PP1&dq=jam...
You can certainly run a basic app on a micro instance, unless it has to run in a JVM, maybe.
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> Poverty/wealth is, on the whole, a consequence of chosen behavior

So the poor can only blame for themselves for their own poverty? really?

This is the common liberal speech so popular in america..

Thats what the 1% tell to other people so they can rule over them, and rise their profit margins using this meek labor force.. but the bad in all this is the 99%, repeating this out loud.. like if it was some sort of inherent truth..

This leads to the conformism of the lower classes, this make them work like a dog for the upper class.. pure and simple
The thing that's nice about Linq is the integration. You can directly reference variables in the things you're querying, and then either fill in an instance of an existing class, or generate an anonymous object.

For example:

var query = from c in customers
join o in orders on c.ID equals o.ID
select new {
c.Name,
o.Product,
Address = c.MailingAddress
};

Of course, anonymous objects in C# can be a pain in the ass, since you can't usefully return them from a method. Something like Scala's structural types would solve that problem.

I don't really like C# that much as a language, but I do like the Linq approach.
That's only the static information and FAQ site, not the marketplace.

From the readme:

>This project does not include any source code for the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace (the online systems located under www.healthcare.gov/marketplace.
Your thought experiment doesn't really prove anything except that you can have two identical beings in the same room and they can be aware they are made of different atoms. But they are still the same person.

Perhaps you are hung up over the fact they diverge by a few seconds of experience? I would trade losing some memories for immortality. People take drugs or suffer from brain damage which has similar effects and I don't consider them "dead". In any case making a copy of the person is likely to be a destructive process, so that isn't even an issue (there's no reason to keep your physical brain after you upload it to a computer.)

Making a copy of the person isn't any different than if I just took the person and replaced all the atoms in their brain instantly with different ones. Hell this could be happening to you every second and you would have no idea. (In our universe, at least, it isn't even possible, since atoms are all identical and don't have little tags saying "atom 1250". I'm just trying to give an idea why basing your identity on a physical object makes no sense.)

If you don't consider your experiences and brain state to be you, and you don't consider the physical object of your brain to be you, then I have no idea how you define personal identity.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/pm/identity_isnt_in_specific_atoms/
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This is all right, but a little vague. Here are some more specific problems: http://blog.dobt.co/post/63655420372/how-healthcare-gov-went...
Windows is going to wrecked in the low-end hardware market since switching to Android could shave $100 off the cost of a cheap machine.
That's more than a bit of a strawman you've constructed.

I for one am willing to admit that I'm not smart enough to construct a path to a "free market" (a phrase I've never used in this discussion till this message) system after three quarters of a century of massive government intervention.

Heck, it would require an end to "democracy", and/or a few generations of radically changed public schooling, and/or "reeducation" camps for starters. Enough of the people want "socialism", and right now we're seeing the wisdom of Menken's "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.", after the Left has captured just about every institution that matters. The very idea of free market anything in the current environment is ludicrous.
I think it's time to get into the counter drone systems business. What's an easier target than a drone that flies for five years or just simply continuously. I wonder how much the cartels would pay for systems that can detect, track, and integrate with a means for "dealing with them". No, not necessarily in a destructive manner.

Attack pigeons, anyone?
So, a bit of Trivia. From what I remember, Kippt came out of Forrst's first (and only) app contest.

http://forrst.com/posts/Kippt-y39
I have a Lenovo W520 with 32GB of RAM, discrete graphics, 4G wireless and all kinds of other goodness. It's a little ugly but spec-wise it is day-and-night better than anything from Apple.

I just have to make sure it never goes into hibernate mode because it takes a long time to wake up.
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I agree that this is a problem on the desktop. However, it is the main reason I stick with my BlackBerry Z30: the unified inbox.
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"Unless the bird can eat in the air somehow."

By, say, catching airborne insects. Which is how swifts (and also swallows) typically feed themselves.
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What? Why would you give them your private key in the first place? You only need to sent in your public key to have it signed. The only two scenarios I can imagine is if they had generated both the public and private key for you or if they had offered to backup it up.
a new “exploitation technique” in Windows, which will allow it to develop defenses against an entire class of attacks

- the OP

new mitigation bypass technique

- http://www.contextis.co.uk/news/congratulations-james-forsha...

- http://blogs.technet.com/b/bluehat/archive/2013/10/08/congra...
You can think of a record like a C struct. It's key value pairs, but the keys and their types are chosen at compile time. There are no methods or anything on them, they are just data.

An example from OCaml:

type person = { first_name: string; last_name: string; age: int }

In a language that has some form of anonymous records (like C#'s anonymous object) and structural typing, this would let you work with relations in your language, much in the way you'd use them in SQL.

I personally like treating data as data. It should be immutable, and therefore there is no state to hide, which means there isn't much value in your types being objects.

It also allows for nice things like pattern matching to work with your data.
I think it can be done, but you have to start with that goal in mind from day one and keep all your application develpers held to that goal. The Win8RT platform avoids the legacy baggage of the main Windows desktop OS, and most users say it succeeds quite well at being a good netbook/tablet OS.
Why don't you give HN members a free PDF? I thought we were friends.
It's possible they could even update the Xbox 360 to do this as well (though without heavy branding to show that the update improves networking, users would likely be upset at a new 'you dont support ipv6' interstitial)
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The Blackberry Hub (i.e., the unified inbox) is one of two reasons I'm still using a Blackberry (the other reason, of course, is the physical keyboard).
To be honest I can't afford to commute and do nothing, I have to plan new features for my products, redesign existing ones, or at least read a tech book/article, otherwise I feel really frustrated because I dislike to stay still.

The best ideas I have ever had happened during my commute, so I feel familiar with the "I wrote FAT on an airplane" statement.
I don't see anywhere in the spec where is says that's okay to do.
I love how simple and relevant the idea is - great job!
They're $170 with Namecheap
FWIW, they have told me I was one of their largest (I vaguely remember three years ago "the largest") customers "on mobile", and I was at a level where I was having nearly routine meetings with at one point a whopping seven people on their end climbing up the management hierarchy (who would, of course, tell me they could not provide ETAs on anything being fixed, and over the course of six months in contact, and now two months since I bothered talking back to them, still not even the most trivial of fixes have happened).

If you would like to compare how your company will fare in such a situation, I move a few million dollars a year through their service. I consider that tiny in be grand scheme of things (so I use that term), certainly in comparison to Amazon itself, but I am a giant in comparison to most of the other people who will be looking at their service seriously (I feel like most people who reach my size prefer not to rely so much on third-party payment networks; in fact, I don't even want to anymore, and am hoping to start doing direct credit card billing soon, ironically via PayPal Payments Pro, at which point Amazon is getting the axe).

But really, the most important points I made are very general: 1) this isn't new, as they've been in the PayPal-competitor business since 2008, and 2) to the extent to which this is somehow a new launch for Amazon, it is demonstrative of a pattern wherein they keep releasing new payment services without showing how they are related to each other and without having any kind of feature parity: this isn't a new service... this is a new feature of an existing service... and that's exactly how companies like PayPal and Alipay both added it... years ago.
Great insights here. I think there is a common pattern - one that I've experienced as well. Growing a new piece of technology with no customers to an evolved product that scales and has a growing engineering team behind it introduces lots of new issues that have to be dealt with. I'm not necessarily a process freak, but from my experience, having a few solid processes really goes a long way and should be put in place early. Especially revolving around communication of issues and development priorities. When there's a major fire or conflict on teams, there's a big microscope that should be looked through in order to add improvements that will help a company get past future stages of growth more smoothly.
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From 12BitSlab in article's comments

> I don't mind if billg gets a little arrogant at times. One merely has to look at how he wrote the ROM code for the Altair to realize his abilities.

> Also, ALL of the concepts embodied in modern tablets and smartphones were "invented" by billg when he wrote the code for the Tandy 100. Things like "instant on", data stored in non-volitile memory, small productivity apps, continue from the same point after power down, etc. Persoannly, I put billg in the Top 5 of all-time CS people who contributed to computing.

This is an interesting claim, I was always under the impression that while Gates could code, he wasn't at all a CS giant.
I really like the fact that they mention "ambiverts". So many people think you're one or the other extreme.
Consoles figure it all out on the fly, on their own. Any kid can open a port in the NAT firewall, but it's more challenging to write software that can consistently do that on every network.
I'm sorry, I don't really see how any of those explain the government being granted money (in staggering quantities), then spending it, then having nothing. Are you implying that because businesses have a short-term approach to making money that therefore, the government is forced to give money to unproductive contractors? Are you saying that because "the people" don't have a concept of "public good" that when the government bids something out they can't help but use a bidding approach that virtually guarantees failure?

Vague platitudes about society at large aren't crashing government projects. Society at large aren't really involved in them, after all. Something specific between the interaction of the government and the government-chosen contractors is probably the problem.

In a way, you're probably proving far more than you mean, accidentally; if the problem really is "society at large", then there is no solution and these large projects can't work, and therefore the most effective thing the government could possibly do is stop trying and wasting money. (A project with a prerequisite of "change the larger culture's attitudes" is simply a guaranteed failure, after all.) I suspect that's not the point you're going for. You probably really want to be arguing for a much more local reason.
More like "imagines" said drone.

There are many companies involved in manufacturing solar drones; most of the industry heavyweights are in on the action. This company is not one of those. They have a small-scale prototype and are claiming a 60m wingspan (enormous), 65,000-feet-flight for 5 years. NASA among others haven't gotten a month. The model they have is a glider with solar panels. There is literally nothing new here besides the marketing. (They also didn't coin "atmospheric satellite", that goes back decades; AeroVironment had a company with the same concept in the 90s.)

This is a small group out of New Mexico with minimal funding and experience making wildly exaggerated claims. Five years is just laughably irresponsible for anyone involved in aerospace engineering.

In real engineering news, Astrium bought QinetiQ's solar UAV Zephyr program, and outlined last month an actual two-week high-altitude 70,000-foot solar flight here: http://www.astrium.eads.net/en/news2/first-flight-of-astrium.... This is a real engineering team with real money, real development and a real engineering feat.

Notice the lack of "five years" linkbait in Astrium's press release... which is why it wasn't spam-posted all over the web this week.
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I am going to build a very simple web app that allows people to post a picture and a description. I am going to be working with an overseas programmer. Why am I doing this? Because I can and I want to learn this process. I have wireframed the entire website (as I see it so far). I have some specific questions.

1. When someone creates an account how do I keep track of all of that information? Obviously it goes in to a database but is there a program that allows me to access that information. Should I hook it up with something like mailchimp?

2. Should I use github and Heroku?

3. I want to add in sharing (Facebook, Twitter, email). Is this hard? Should I build this in later?

Also I would be willing to pay an experienced programmer/engineer to help walk me through this process.

And spare the lectures about how this is a bad idea cause I know they are a coming ha. I am doing this to learn the process and if anything comes of it then that is a bonus.
The big failures exist in the 3rd-party apps and the home-screen. With a custom home-screen and a secondary app-store full of key/mouse-friendly apps? You could make a comfy Android/Netbook experience.
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Not exactly. I am a huge fan of code modularization, but what modularization offers you is the ability to decrease the exponent (i.e. to be devTime^1.01 instead of devTime^2). Some features though (including segment tuning, from the sound of it), will touch a ton of other features regardless of how well you modularize your code.

I work at a networking company (Arista), and a lot of the interesting problems come from this sort of interaction. Our entire OS was built so an agent would be resilient to changes in another agent, and this modularization means there is very little "spaghetti code". However, when you are building a feature (say, a new routing protocol), you have to be extremely conscious of how it interacts with everything else: various reliability features (i.e. Stateful switchovers), configuration features (saved configs, public APIs), resource contention (TCAM utilization), etc. etc. If that new routing protocol was the first thing we implemented on our switch, it would be a complete breeze. In the context of other features though, this becomes a more intensive project (though in codebases without proper modularization you'd find this task "herculean" as opposed to "intensive").
I now enjoy Quora when someone here posted appending ?share=1 to the url to read it without an account.
So, if one were to use this or something like it, how would you handle DOM interaction? Write JavaScript by hand for that, and have it call out to JSIL-generated code?
Evolutionary biologists are rightly slammed for having made many strong, wrong predictions. But I think it still has some value, if you just make weaker predictions. Instead of "a is necessary because of such and such living conditions", we think that "a might be more likely then b because of such and such living conditions". From certain assertions to potential hypotheses basically.
I'm surprised because most of the times Microsoft related posts on HN get downvoted really quickly.
Complete income inequality isn't even orthodox Marx - "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" goes the standard quote by Marx; but that was his study of a specific utopia. (The rest of the cited work in fact goes on to rip its jaws into a transitional programme wrought out of "effective politicking" - pointed stuff.) The official CPSU line was then "To each according to his contribution" in the "transitional" period - through Trotsky and Lenin; so goes the degeneration.

I wonder how long it then took to get to imposed equality.