skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waiting for this silver bullet you call "marketing" to which attribute all success will kill your idea before it can become a business. It's a defeatist attitude.

Proactively looking for and contacting possible customers and building a feedback cycle and improving your product and how you pitch it will give you a chance to turn it into a business or company or whatever your ambitions are.
None of those things couldn't be added with a service pack, and several were. XP and 2000 are basically the same OS.

I have no idea what you mean by 'better internet support' so I can't say anything about that.

Remote desktop did exist in 2k, it was called Terminal Services. All XP did was bring a stripped down server to the client.

GDI+ is available as a patch for Windows 2000.

There was nothing preventing MS from releasing ClearType on 2k, they just didn't.

Media Player 9 was released on Windows 2000.

USB 2.0 and FireWire 400/800 are supported in Windows 2000, they're just device drivers. A little googling seems to indicate they were added in Service Pack 3 or 4.

XP wasn't like Vista where they changed the driver model or made changes to the authentication system with UAC. XP was just addons to 2000, holding back things like the firewall and the last patch to DirectX 9 were artificial limitations to make XP seem worth the upgrade.
But they are correct a librarian is a professional just the same as an engineer
I think the first task is to tell people about your product... why didn't you post your product?
I'm doing something similar and want to improve my newsletters (currently sitting around 1k). There isn't a PM function on the site, is there way I can reach you to talk more about this (Twitter, email, etc)?

I'd love to get more advice.

Thanks!
I was mostly saying WebDAV was less bad than FTP because many of its problems are (as you note) problems with the existing implementation, rather than inherent in the protocol design (though those problems do manifest a problem with the protocol design -- it tries to do too much for what most uses need and does so in a baroque manner.)
The best shapefiles source?
Why create a brand new account for a comment that doesn't make a lot of sense?
There is a fantastic book - "Why the west rules, for now" that deals with this question (the name sounds quite right-wingish, but it's actually a great history book). I highly recommend anyone interested in this topic to read it.

If I can bring some interesting observations of the author to this discussion, it's that West (including mid east+europe+later america) and East (mostly China+later japan) led at different times. West had a 2000 year head start and reached its peak during Roman empire. East finally caught up around 600 AD and was ahead till the eve of western industrial revolution. Backwardness in some period of history (whether it's in nature resource, technology, social organization), became advantages in others. So you see the power shift constantly happening.

The ultimate reason (obviously i'm doing a huge reduction here) the writer claimed that caused the last shift of power between East and West was simply that America was too far from China. China got the thoughts/technology it needed. Europe found a flood of new problems and solved them with new thoughts/technology.

While I don't completely agree with his arguments, it's nonetheless an interesting and well supported point of view and much better than many other books out there that deals with big history topic (eg. "Guns, Germs and Steel")
I'm actually annoyed that you got modded down. Your post brings up an excellent point although I don't think it's intended.

These days, it comes down to exposure and access. Back when I was a teen (early 90's) we didn't have the internet as it is. Sure there were BBSs but that was about as convenient as trying to get a dirty magazine. While I may had idle curiosity when I was pre-teen, I had zero access to it (my father didn't have any magazines, etc) and therefore it would've taken way too much effort to see it, so it was easily dismissed. In context, it was equally difficult to even see an R rated movie.

These days, my 8 or 10 year old self could be exposed to literally anything within a couple seconds. It's free and prevalent, and can show up in unexpected places. I don't have kids (will soon) but I don't look forward to dealing with those situations.

As for Janet Jackson, I agree that was overblown. If anyone needed therapy for that it was because their parents were overbearing. However, we aren't talking about a bare breast here, we are talking about simulated rape, bestiality, and some other things that just aren't my thing. But, hey, if they are someone's thing that's fine - let's just try to keep that stuff out of the hands of the kids until they are old enough to reason for themselves about what's really going on.
I assume this would be free person to person, then expand to buying things (particularly with the mobile app). You then charge a fee to the buyers.
Kickstarter kicks off in Australia & New Zealand
This web site makes me sad.

A much lesser problem, it doesn't work in Opera Mini, would be nice if it did, many of my friends are using it.
Flux is fantastic on my iPad - great for reading in the evening.
Oh. On re-reading, that makes sense. I recant my snark.
THE NSA Video - Narrated by Evangeline Lilly
The product is nearly greek to people except those who are

a) System Integrators (SAP BusinessOne and other possible systems)

b) E-commerce professionals

It's not an end-user thing, its not vertical market really either.
Seems a little scary, to be honest. It's plausible that malware (or even just somebody physically using your phone or computer for a minute) could generate and perhaps send these emails on a user's behalf (and then delete the confirmation and the "sent" copy, depending on the mechanism). If I were ever to use this service, I'd surely use a dedicated email address that's harder for me to casually send mail from.
Duolingo now has paying clients for translation service
My understanding is that US government salaries are high because the US private sector pays so well for comparable positions. The US is in the peculiar business of competing with itself, in a sense, or at least with its own economic model.

Private vs. public isn't such a teeth-gnashing, nail-biting dilemma for many other countries, who generally seem to do a better job of mentally separating the two sectors. The general agreement in other countries is that public = stable job, lower pay, higher "public service" calling; private = higher salary, less stability, etc.

Of course, this isn't taking into account countries like China -- where a government position is the best route into cushy, lucrative gigs in the private sector, and in fact, that's often the entire point. (To some degree, this is also the case in the US, at least at the higher levels of public service.) But I digress.
I think it would be difficult to have a modern car that is REE-free.
If it makes you feel better csharp, I can tell you that there are very few C# topics thus far!
It's certainly personal data within the meaning of the law in all the EU states.

Everyone on here has a blue fit over the NSA but is fine with this!
Mark Cuban not guilty in insider trading case
EXIFzero.py - take all the metadata out of your photos
I don't see Penflip as a replacement for Google Docs, but there are some cases where Docs breaks down - specifically when there are too many collaborators and when the content is too complex. Another interesting aspect is the need for multiple versions of the same core content - like a syllabus or textbook - with minor variations and modifications as needed. Something like this is unacheivable with Google Docs.

For small groups working on a short research paper, Google Docs is great. But could you imagine a book being written with Google Docs, especially with multiple people? That'd be completely unmanageable.

I love the HoTT book [1], because it's a great example of using GitHub to write a book with multiple contributors, and really illustrates the shortcomings with other technology [2].

[1] https://github.com/HoTT/book

[2] http://math.andrej.com/2013/06/20/the-hott-book/
More information on what cperciva is saying (from Daniel Abadi)

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2012/10/ieee-computer-issue-...

Quoting from the post:

"my past criticism of CAP not actually being about picking two of three out
of C (consistency), A (availability), and P (partition tolerance) due to the
fact that it does not make sense to reason about a system that is ‘CA’. (If
there is no partition, any system can be both consistent and available ---
the only question is what happens when there is a partition --- does
consistency or availability get sacrificed?)"
I've been so busy working on my prototype that I almost forgot about Winter 2014. Had I not read this article I would likely have forgotten.
I can't think of languages, but I can think of environments where it can be difficult. Maintaining software for embedded systems developed ages ago, for example. Unit testing of your new algorithm is, on the platform, not feasible. You may be able to put the code segment and mock up the rest of the software/hardware environment on your PC, but then you'll find out about undocumented features when you push it to the platform, or performance characteristics that make one algorithm less suitable than another (memory usage, time consumed). And you have to persuade those above you to give you the time to do this, when they don't see the value and want to get the code changed, reviewed and pushed to their normal testing procedures (which might be white-box testing, but is likely black-box testing at its finest).

And when your office has been built around this model for years, decades likely, introducing unit testing for new desktop apps (support apps like I make), is hard because they don't see the value of it. They have a process, I should just stick to it (that's their attitude, not mine).
Please understand I don't mean to discredit your site in any way and what I'm about to say below is no reflection in your commitment.

But this is a good opportunity for me to make an important point regards a discussion that took place here a few days ago.

You see - This website serves no purpose in the East or Eastern ethnic minorities.

It's not part of our culture to lose contact with our parents. I saw my parents on the weekend, my wife saw hers and we both spoke to our parents today on the phone. We live 3hrs away.

I'm 33 yrs old. I've never not spoken to my parents for more than 14 days ever in my life.

Why am I telling you this?

Because in the last discussion that took place - the rant about culture in India, many commented that people need to get more mature but what they dont realise that its culture holding them back

Your website proves my point.

Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6546587
He isn't trying to qualify for the US team, there will be a minimum standard that he will have to achieve but he isn't competing for a place with anyone else from the same country.

I know several people who have competed at the Winter Olympics in Alpine Skiing for countries that don't have a tradition in the sport.
Everyone is focusing on the machine vision problem but the OP had a good idea:

>There are already a few image based search engines as well as face recognition stuff available so I am assuming it wouldn't be rocket science and it could be done.

Just do a reverse image search for the image, see if it comes up on any porn sites or is associated with porn words.
Does anyone know the relative merits of induction vs brushless with regards to regenerative braking?
Oh, I did not mean to describe your comment exactly as such. That was a polite and concise point-out by you. "Up-in-arms" was what I was expecting to come, not yours. I just found it amusing to immediately read your first sentence just as those thoughts were flowing in my head. Sorry for confusion.
Well we wanted to build a similar project maybe more complex a few years ago and we tested some standard drones and some custom made ones for it and then we wanted to launch a service like this. We did some research about it and there weren't any regulations for drones so we waited...and we are still waiting...probably 2015 will be the year.
But anytime you become close-minded and think that you are the best in the world, you close yourself to alternative ideas beyond your borders and will inevitably decline.

I kind of have the feeling that's been going on here in the USA since WWII. The 40s gave us a really good reason to be arrogant about our own superiority in the 50s and into the 60s, but since the 70s things have been going downhill and no amount of "USA! USA!" chanting seems to help.

>Traditional Chinese Medicine used penicillin indirectly, but never managed to understand or extract it.

That’s an implicit value judgment that Western medicine that focuses on pharmacodynamics and pharmakinetics is superior than the holistic take of Chinese medicine.

My take on Chinese medicine, and this goes for a lot of non-western 'science', is that it's based on very-long-term observation of cause and effect, with untestable/untested theories to explain 'why' the cause causes the effect. In contrast, western science is much more focused on breaking down causes and effects into very small pieces and doing repeatable experiments to discover 'why' in ways that can be applied more generally.

For example, acupuncture: Chinese doctors learned through observation that if you stick a bunch of needles along this line, and give them a little tweak, it'll help that organ over there to function better. "Why?" "Well, there's this energy you can't see flowing though you, and the needles make it flow better." "Oh, neat." As long as the explanation is internally consistent with the observation, the theory is sufficient. It just can't be used to accurately predict new causes and effects that haven't been observed yet.

The big drawback to the western approach is that by focusing on the details, it looses the holistic overview, and we wind up with drugs that help one particular health issue while causing a bunch of other health issues. Thankfully, as you mentioned, western medicine is moving back towards the holistic viewpoint, but now it's based on fundamental understanding of the individual biologic processes unlike traditional Chinese medicine. Best of both worlds, I think.
Neutrino Experiment Intensifies Effort to Explain Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
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IBM Cloud Revenue in Q3 up by 70%, $1B revenue
Definitely true. Facebook had a dust-up when a woman posted a topless photo of herself after she had had a double mastectomy.

That said, not all sites are like Facebook and we aren't talking about filtering all the images on the internet, just ones on specific sites. One example I can think of is that a forum for a sports team might not want NSFW pictures posted as it would be irrelevant.
I am 52, and I do 27 miles each Saturday on a longboard. It takes around 2:20 to do it. When I am 70 I may not be on the longboard for those distances, but no problem on abike i'd bet.
Well there is a distinction between the language and the language implementation. Being scripted or compiled is a feature of the implementation but a lot of people think that it's a feature of the language. It is kind of a pedantic point to make but there are for example CINT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CINT) which is an interpreter for C/C++ or BeanShell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeanShell) which is an interpreter for Java.
Get involved in cycling communities and you realise that this, while not particularly easy, is not particularly hard either. Especially for spryer-than-average 70-year-old.

An average unfit person of almost any age, can, within a couple of weeks of regular riding, achieve 100 km in a day.
awk and sed don't have REPLs, and they are undoubtedly scripting languages.
> Colonial conquest of foreign cultures is a very Western concept.

The Persian, Arab and Mongol empires would beg to differ with you on that one.
Jury says Mark Cuban did not commit insider trading
CAP is about choosing which are the main guarantees of a system. When you say P in CAP it means "If there's a network partition which affects n machines, the rest of the system will take charge of that load and continue working just fine" for a variable number of n. Saying "they chose CA" means they don't provide that guarantee and there could be problems related to a network partition (which by the way is how SQL databases usually operate). In RethinkDB's case they chose to sacrifice availability by default in those cases (but you can tune it).

Take for example Riak, they chose "AP" which means the system will continue working just fine through a network partition at the expense of not giving a strong consistency guarantee (eventual consistency). That doesn't mean that the data isn't consistent at all, just that it isn't its main concern.
Coming from a banking and healthcare background it seems pretty suboptimal to build a process around waiting for stuff to break in production.

It also seems rare to find bugs in production that cannot be replicated on developer machines so I don't think getting an exact match on the preprod environment is a huge obstacle.
check out the "award bonus" column :)
MediaTemple’s New Spin on GoDaddy’s SOPA Story
Falcon 9 demo flight, including a shot of the 1st stage initiating reentry
Python is compiled into Python byte code. Is Scala compiled or interpreted? (it has a REPL...)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2998215/if-python-is-inte...

Do we need to compile to machine languages? What about a VM? What about the Python VM is different than the Java VM or the .NET VM? Is C# therefore a scripting language or a ______ language. (fill in the blank)

ActionScript? What about JIT compilers? JavaScript?

At any rate, I think you're trying to say scripting langugage == interpreted language but there are probably interpreted languages (let's say Prolog) that you wouldn't call scripting languages and there are compiled languages that can be used for "scripting". I agree that typically scripting languages are interpreted. But I would call Python a general purpose language and not a scripting language.
I think all this makes it clear that it is a software issue and not a protocol issue.
That is my point here. People hate FTP (or SFTP/FTP-SSL/WebDav) because the software is implemented poorly. (NOTE: I know SFTP and FTP-SSL are different protocols.)
I agree. If you'd trained your whole life you'd feel great with this guy besides you, who found a loophole to get it when he didn't deserve it. And I can't believe any country would let someone become a citizen just to do this. They want this guy representing their country? I'm sure the Colombians will so proud when they watch him compete.
Judging by some of the names that are missing I am guessing congressional staff is also absent? And similarly, CBO?

Edit: Just after your quoted part it says:

> does not cover the White House, Congress, the Postal Service, and independent agencies and commissions.
> Colonial conquest of foreign cultures is a very Western concept.

I had a fantastic history teacher many years ago that described the differences something like this:

In the West, they look outward towards new horizons, to plunder and send goods back home. Always forward, but never time for home.

China looks at China, admiring the beauty of it. To get a better view of itself, China takes some steps back and, while admiring itself, may end up trampling nearby neighbors.
Holy hell people, touchy aren't we.
How about setting up a presentation/web conference? Then call and invite people over the phone. I think you're more likely to have success than cold email - I've got an ongoing project where we had 0 success with cold emailing, even with very personalized approaches. Hour for hour, the more you can engage someone via live exchange, the better.
I can't use this site on principle. A f*cking mobile-centric web design that geometrically scales up the exact same way, for desktop? Arrgghghhhhhh.
I find that letter even more disturbing than the alternative (where FISA is just rubber stamping applications).

In this case it means the court is working with agencies to build their surveillance policy. It is no longer an adversarial system, and the absences of any "defense" in this court means the court is now in a position where it is actively working to expand surveillance.
I teach a class at Arizona State University and one of my students asked why my laptop screen was pink. I then proceeded to give the class a 10 minute sales pitch on f.lux and how blue light inhibits melatonin production. It still surprises me what a profound sales channel raving fans can be.
Given that the government already knows, and either your employer or your accountant knows, and your bank has a pretty good idea, why do you think your income is to any meaningful extent still private?
Ah, so it is! I guess my mind saw 'sprint' and went to what was familiar to me.

That said, there is use in comparing something that (I'd wager!) many people know (running) to something far fewer people know(skiing times). Frankly I didn't know how hard 'finishing within 10 minutes' would be; but now I've got something to compare with.

And what that illustrates is that coming anywhere near a qualifying time is extremely difficult.
The try-with-resource block is used to delineate an atomic transaction, and is part of the SpaceBase API. An example in the code for a blocking call is the call to receive.

Quasar identifies blocking methods if they declare that the throw a SuspendExecution exception, marked with a @Suspendable annotation, or listed in an external file. Pulsar, Quasar's Clojure API, marks suspendable functions differently, but that's an implementation detail.
Have you tried cross-country skiing, my friend?

Cross-country merely has the lowest risk of death of the four named. The skill and co-ordination needed to be good are dramatically higher than the skill and co-ordination needed to make it to the finish line intact.
> Does the tesla have regenerative braking system, and I wonder if there are rare earth metals there?

As far as I understand it, they use the motors for regenerative breaking, and the motors don't contain permanent magnets. Where permanent magnets would be used, they use more coils, and thus can vary the strength of the magnetic fields, much like your car's alternator. This is also how they forgo the need for a gear box.
Illustrated: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
"The House passed a bill to prioritize payments that was not allowed to be voted on in the Senate. This is just plain a false statement."

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/10/10/house-debt-ceiling-...
I (32, not in good shape at all) started biking last year for the first time in years and was able to do 60 miles (100km) my second time out. with hills. It's about 5 hours at a very slow pace, but we did it in 3 1/2. My father (72) rides regularly with a large group of older bikers and does 150km twice a season, but 80-100km every weekend. My mother-in-law (60) recently got back from her second cross-country bike tour where she did 130km 6 days a week for a month.
Latinos beware Health is becoming a bigger issue in your culture
Heads up: "Please note Docker is currently under heavy developement. It should not be used in production (yet)."

https://www.docker.io/learn_more/
Fine, you have a problem. But XP lacks nothing for what I use it for.

Also, I don't think most sites are using SNI.