skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with Codhisattva that in many cases people who are very drunk are not in control of their behavior. Moreover, an alcoholic is, by definition, not able to control his behavior. I have heard first hand accounts from self identified alcoholics of such situations, some of which resulted in a death that the person in question could not even remember. I don't mean to suggest that this is an excuse; in the stories that I refer to, the guilty parties said they were sorry, and went to prison. Of course a person could be a jerk and a drunk. This guy was driving drunk in a stolen car from the next town over -- it seems like there might have been some opportunities to exercise sober judgment somewhere along the way.

My point is that the fact that you or I believe that we can control our behavior when drunk, or that drinking does not alter our essential character (e.g. "people only do things when drunk that they wanted to do anyway) does not imply that the same is true for everyone unless you don't believe in alcoholism.

I think that not believing in alcoholism because you aren't an alcoholic is harmful.
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From data so far it appears that no other country out there had any good radar system. That is why the airliner was not registered on any of those radar systems.
Eh, I never do "real work" directly on a laptop anyway. For me, "real work" happens on a compute farm by necessity.
https://www.repustate.com/sentiment-analysis-excel-plugin/
Distrust adding to Malaysian jet confusion, say analysts
I get the poart about already having it set up, but is Dropbox usability that different from Google Drive? My phone uploads photos automatically, and the rest seems equally easy to set up.
Fwiw this is both part-time and temporary, not a full salaried position you'd want to move to Boston to accept. Probably most useful for someone who's already got another gig in Boston, but one that's flexible enough to let them take on a potentially interesting side job. Pay is $16/hr for 15 hours/wk (i.e. about $1k/mo), with a contract term of 13 weeks.

Details: http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=8583
The problem is in what to do about the "probably".

As one paper humorously pointed out, there's no double-blind random crossover trial to see if parachutes are effective.

More seriously, astronomy deals with a bunch of singular events. How do we do double-blind random crossover trials of a comet crashing into Jupiter (like Shoemaker–Levy 9)?

Closer to home, and closer to the point, detecting rare but deadly drug side-effect (and especially drug combination effects) cannot be done blind, since the drugs are on the market and people know what they are taking.
What network effects? Its just as easy to share files with someone who has Google Drive as it is Dropbox. In fact probably easier with Google Drive because more people have a Google account (800M ACTIVE gmail users was the last number I read).

As for switching costs, its pretty easy right? Drag from one folder to another?

Delta sync is a real issue, but what do you mean their mobile app pushes you to Google+, havent seen that....
3. Google Drive client frequently crashes after sleep / wakeup in my Windows machine, I run Dropbox as well, never crashed, not even once.
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No, it's $10/month on Drive, and 2 * $49.99/month on Dropbox (or 2 * $499/year).
My biggest hope w/this announcement is that DropBox responds with a stronger 500 GB offering which, presently, is $500+ a year.
Not much better than nothing; results are useful after others have replicated them, until then one should assume the trial was flawed.
If you only care about the file storage (you don't have 1TB of Docs do you?), there is also NSA-free Hubic from OVH.
https://hubic.com/

$13.50 per month for 10TB!
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tl;dr: Target had recently installed what sounds like it might be an above average intrusion detection system from FireEye, a Bangalore office was monitoring it and reported several incidents, one of which sounds like a solid tell, to the Minneapolis security operations center, where all were ignored.

Unknown: did the system produce a lot of false positives? Was, or could the Bangalore team be any good at filtering them, if there was such a problem?

A couple of bottom lines: they're going to get figuratively crucified for this. And maybe we understand just a bit more why they've been so opaque in reporting on this debacle.
I agree, but it made me feel better (poor wording?) to see Jonathan's blog post on 01/19/2014 (the earliest post to be tagged "cancer"):

I have told my children that if I should lose this fight that there will not be a funeral, there will be a party, a celebration with music and cake and ice cream and friends and family and dancing and laughing and singing.
I injured my foot a few months ago, and as a result had significant swelling in my foot. The best solution is to elevate the foot, which has led me to working much of the day from a recliner (I work from home), with the laptop in my lap. It's been surprisingly comfortable. I'm not sure I could do it forever though.
The Django community is focused on web apps, not e.g. off-line reporting, so a large percentage of the things which the ORM doesn't help with simply aren't a priority for most users. For something like 90% of the queries most people write, Django's ORM is easier to work with and the tight integration with model forms, the admin, etc. is a big selling point for the typical project on a deadline.

When you do need to do complex joins or use database-specific features, the .raw() / .extra() queryset methods handle enough to avoid it being a deal-breaker, particularly since the crazier your performance / feature requirements the more likely it is that you're going to need to ditch an ORM altogether.

EDIT: in case it wasn't clear, I have a ton of respect for SQLAlchemy. Nothing above should be seen as saying SQLA isn't good, merely that the choice of ORM usually isn't the most important factor in a project's decision.
They refused to pay without representation. But US expats can actually vote from abroad.

(Not that the votes seem to matter - you get to choose which faction of the military-industrial faction gets a salary this year, but not anything of consequence)
is there a OSX backups solution akin to time machine / arq that takes advantage of google drive?
I imagine this will lead to more ad clicks since people know by now that the peach background means that's an ad.

Also, it makes more sense to go to the real source: http://searchengineland.com/googles-new-look-search-results-... which has covered this many times before.
He's using a Kinesis keyboard, which does seem to come up a lot in ergonomic discussions. Does it offer anything over a Tek (https://www.trulyergonomic.com/store/index.php)?
NSA is a much much bigger problem than price.
If memory serves, it just means it's not an Extended Validation certificate, which is supposed to physically verify the identify of the issued business/person, rather than just be a generic (but fully secure) cert.
I'd probably bet on Google putting Dropbox out of business with competition, then getting rid of Drive because it's no longer a growth area.
Very cool, and illuminating. I'm actually a little surprised to see that lower corruption correlates so well with higher income. Admittedly, I could believe that part of that is a self selecting phenomena - IE, people with money immigrate to non-corrupt places. It may also be that alot of the money that's corrupting the cheap places is flowing from the wealthy ones.
You'd want that your physician has more training than just having read some WebMD articles. How can you be sure?

What about liability in case they're wrong? A coworker lost a relative last year because the doctor missed an obvious case of septic infection. How do you take an anonymous physician to court for a mistake like this? Hard to pay restitution when the injured party dies.
No one's saying your personal experience is wrong, just your extrapolation to "this is a pump & dump scheme"
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competitive advantage compared to Linode - SSD drives, cheaper. That's it. Start process on Linode is just as easy and docs are as good or better, DNS support is there etc.
Sets in spreadsheets still works for me. Edit: When the feature was "retired", there was a note that it would be replaced with a better version. https://support.google.com/drive/answer/3543688
The story that trains are superior for high density is not necessarily true. Buses with dedicated lanes appear to have high throughputs and lower infrastructure costs ( not to mention can continue to run into lower density areas or have routes more easily changed as the population density shifts).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit#Comparison_wi...
XtreemFS 1.5 released: Ready for Hadoop
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Raises an interesting idea. (At relatives house raises security questions..)

A storage company which essentially takes a drive that you clone from your home machine (snapshot). Then they mount that drive in a data center. You then use rsync (or a client) to get them the deltas. Or, they merely store the drive and mount it when you want to do an incremental (say every week). Otherwise it goes in a vault. Cameras in vault and drives have numbers so you can literally see where your drive is sitting at any point in time. For that warm and fuzzy feeling.

The original hard drive is shipped to them (to save you the trouble of having a tb cross the network or whatever you have.). And anytime you want they ship the drive back to you. Each drive is mounted on a VPS which only you have access to. Drive spins all the time but isn't being used all the time. Hence in theory more reliability. You also keep a local backup disk as well (this is in case your house is broken into or fire etc.).

The service would only do one thing, mount the drive and provide access to the drive.

Not a big market for this for sure. But a market no less of some size. Even for company disaster recover purposes.
> I'm (also) a Ubuntu Linux user and Google apparently doesn't care about me enough to provide me with a client. Apparently I'm so unimportant to them that they can't justify the cost of a couple of man-months.

Apparently around half of the 20,000 Google employees use a version of Ubuntu ('Goobuntu'), so I wouldn't say they don't care about Ubuntu...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu
And It took me 10 mins to download the proper files andrun it using Intel virtualization, and my app runs faster than on my smartphone..
It's more of a get-off-my-land issue. No government is going to secede land to some fringe group (let alone another government). Look at the situation in Ukraine. The only reason the Crimeans are able to secede from Ukraine is Russia's backing. If you remove Russia from the equation then the Crimeans are left to fight the Ukrainian army and its allies.

The point is you are going to be forced to live under the rules of another no matter where you live (I'm sure there are some Crimeans that would rather not be part of Russia or any other country). Bitcoin has the potential to disrupt the economy, but it cannot provide freedom of movement or freedom from taxation.
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Zuckerberg Expresses Frustration Over Surveillance
I didn't even read Bill's article. My comment is not a commentary on the person, but the "feel" of articles like these.

There are certainly CEOs that I admire and I'm not advocating that we stick our heads in the sand. But, good grief, how many articles, books, blog posts, talks, etc. about "what successful people do" do we really need?

I hate the fallacies they promote: a.) you are too stupid to figure out how to succeed, and b.) you should therefore worship others to the point that you mimic them as a path to success, and c.) that (by implication) if you are not succeeding, then it's because you haven't studied and imitated others enough.

BTW, it's another fallacy that if we just all go out and do X, then we can succeed too. It's ridiculous, really. A little advice is fine, but there is this culture that we all need to swim in the same direction, following the anointed few who have figured it all out when we could not. Go to the mountaintop to confer with Tim Ferriss or Jason Fried, and all will be well. Well, maybe they got lucky. Maybe if they'd studied what the reader did every day, they'd be 12 times more successful.

It's so stifling, condescending, and flat-out unworkable. It is also potentially demoralizing to founders who are working hard to gain traction. Insidiously enough, this, even while it appears to be inspirational.

If you were thinking and working hard every day at the incredibly complex and difficult task of lifting a startup off the ground, and you read one of these types of articles a day, you would run in circles and fall into a deep depression. Meanwhile, the actual extent to which the cacaphony of such advice will move the needle for such a founder is miniscule.

How about this? Think and work as hard and as smart as you find you need to. Listen to your own instinct and use your judgment, even in taking advice from others (including mine). You have what you need to succeed. Screw the people who keep trying to "help" you by implying that you are deficient; whether in books they are selling, facile articles with linkbait titles, or otherwise.
What's the most intellectual joke you know?
Phracking: a portmanteau of phreaking (phone system manipulation) and hacking (computer system manipulation).

Fracking: short for "hydraulic fracturing", the fracturing of rock via pressurized liquid.
Yes. Check out the interview the Trello team did on the NodeUp podcast: http://blog.fogcreek.com/trello-server-team-on-nodeup-podcas...
I would be tempted if there was something like gsutil for Google Drive like there is for Google Cloud Storage. But putting a cheap slackware box in the rack at work and mounting a folder via sshfs is free.
This type of layout is generally limited to social feeds, where pagination is pretty much mandatory (you have to request more results from an API). Anything entirely client-side typically uses fixed height rows.
Glacier has 4-8 hour retrieval times, as well as retrieval costs, depending on how much data you're taking out over a sliding window of time.
Well, I'd love to see some tech a la "Ghost in the Shell" that can just break down all the alcohol in the bloodstream on command, or otherwise maintains the euphoria without getting to the point of "I'm going to go drive my car through Red River tonight." When you're ready to go you just activate the tech and poof, you can drive again. And you avoid the hangover too.

But in the meantime, it certainly seems that the best we can do is prevent others from getting behind the wheel at all. Which really only works in an environment of peer pressure, backed up with at least one person that will go beyond words and physically restrain the would-be driver if necessary. Avoiding the bystander effect is difficult enough as it is, but when the person is drunk at home and decides that they want to go get some McDonalds...
I don't use Google Drive on any of those platforms (that I'm aware of).

Meanwhile, Picasa integration was strong enough that it took years for me to figure out how to get rid of the screenshots I used on my blog 6 years ago out of the Photos app on my phone. But I wouldn't bet on Picasa being around for the long term.

Basically, I can easily see Google pivoting away from Drive being a sync client and towards some kind of always-online thing with a light local cache.
I think it's a great paragraph, actually. This described future is not that different from what we have now. You would still have licences and doctors checked and examined. However, it would be done not by one monopoly (state), but rather by various organizations. Don't you think this would actually increase professionalism? So imagine doctors would actually have to comply with various rigorous standards different accreditation agencies demand, since they want to be able to treat more patients (that is, have more customers). Isn't such a system better? And wouldn't it be more flexible since those accreditation agencies would be able to quickly adjust their standards according to what market demands? On the other hand, there are plenty of medical professionals that don't really need some standardized kind of training that state currently requires them to have. Thus, it's a waste of time and resources for them (and higher prices for consumers). In a free system, they could simply skip to what they believe best suits their specialty.

CoinMD may be at its infancy now, but I can totally see it becoming one of such agencies in the future. It's not gonna be like Amazon reviews of course, more like professional accreditation, audit and licencing - but on the free market.
500k Euros is a low amount but they have already raised money from 3 other investors:
[1] European Union
[2] Creative Industries Fund NL
[3] BDO Accountants

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Sure is straw man in here.

No, I'm hardly a statist. I'm just saying Bitcoin will not solve the problem.
The 15GB tier is free. Since you're only using 10GB, they've effectively dropped you from $5/year to $0/year. Not sure why you're complaining.
Preventing DUI is a difficult problem. A much easier problem would be to prevent speeding. Put a GPS in every car that prevents the car from driving faster than the speed limit. All the technology exists, and this would doubtlessly save lives, but somehow I doubt anybody would pass the required laws.
Linode packages have more cpu available and their drive speed is actually pretty good for being non SSD as well. As I'm sure people will point out, neither one of them has a perfect reputation lately, but I've used both for various purposes, just nothing mission critical on DO, just basic quick stuff that doesn't need security or much cpu
what did you guys think of the content?
Business T1 pipe?

As residential users we are I think prone to forget how much cheaper and faster our unreliable async connections are in comparison to business broadband.
Well, Russia sold Alaska to the US. So who knows. But I agree states are actually very aggressive and territorial. They're not going to give up land easily, even if this land is a desert.
I've found Box to be the "go to" solution for this as well. We don't have to share large collections often enough to justify a monthly subscription yet, but may in the future.

I just find it to be a shame that we pay for Google Apps, get our people used to and accustomed to using things like Drive and then have to find/pay for another SaaS solution (that's more than we pay for the entire suite of Google Apps) just because people outside our organization can't download a folder from Google's file hosting service w/o signing up for it themselves.
it's a general article with fairly general tips. but this is simply what happens when you direct list-making at an ambiguous topic.

although there was definitely some value there (templates are incredibly useful) i think a more interesting topic would have been time-management mistakes inexperienced CEOs make. because there are a lot and you don't find out what they are until you get absolutely obsessive about managing your time.
1) This isn't reddit.

2) Most of these aren't funny, knowing a large words doesn't make you smart. It just means you picked up a dictionary.

3) Most of these jokes are as the adage says, "Old as the hills."

4) This isn't reddit, we try to have serious discussions about technology, and technology businesses. Not jokes.
How does the two clients compare? I'm a long Dropbox 100Gb user and I've never been disappointed. Every updates is amazing.

But one bad thing is that I'm not putting all my videos up there because of the lack of space, I'm really considering switching to Google Drive now, but according to my small experience with it the client is not really good.
You have to put in cost of air travel to get there, and all the other extra costs of such a trip, but, otherwise, good point, though the truly adventurous people that I've met (and they don't even bother blogging, and no, I'm not one of them) love to travel in developed countries, because it's safer and they can pretty much get away for free, whereas in the poorer countries, the free stuff is already taken. Wow, that was a long sentence :-)
The main benefit of the Kinesis Contoured for me is that the Ctrl and Alt buttons are pressed by my thumbs, not my pinkies. No Emacs pinky for me.
any guesses where the .NET uptick in early 2013 is from?
Nice chair, but what's with the modified roomba?
Remote work interview with Nathaniel Talbott
In re: spiritual support, may I recommend "How to Want What You Have" http://www.amazon.com/How-Want-What-You-Have/dp/0805033173 which taught me to live in the moment when I was faced with my own seeming impending demise.

[I'm 39, have daughters aged 5 and 7, and had a fist-sized brain tumor removed just over a year ago. So, though I'm doing fine right now (next MRI is tomorrow morning, hoping for another clean scan), I can certainly relate.]

If you have the strength, try to take up running. My world-class oncologist (at MGH in Boston) said he wished all of his patients were runners. Not occasional joggers, but real runners as in 3 to 5 miles multiple times per week.

Also avoiding refined sugars and red meat can't possibly hurt and there's a lot of evidence that it can make a huge difference.

More generally, I urge you to fight to stay alive. Anything is possible if you just hang on and keep alive. The pace of innovation and understanding in medical science is accelerating, and “incurable” diseases have been eradicated. HIV was once a death sentence; now patients live about as long as never-infected people. Just keep breathing, and hang on. Positive change is coming.

Sending all my positive vibes and loving best wishes your way.
I know you're inundated with messages from strangers but if you read this and want to talk or I can do anything for you, please do reach out. I'm "cweekly" on twitter and gmail.

Love,
Chris

PS This excerpt from Alan Watts -- "Think of Nothing" -- also helped me cope, when I thought my end was near. If you're a devout Christian you might find it offensive, but I (a humanist with zen buddhist leanings) found it comforting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ5upMz0_ig&index=35&list=FLf...
Here in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), they saves lives. People are afraid to go out to drink driving and lost the car (with stay with the police) and the driver's license (1-year without the license and have to go through all the classes to get the license again) plus a fine of R$1,915.65(around US$980).

It works here, a lot of people are preferring a cab over the car to go out to places they know they will drink.
Yeah, they gotta have an internal Linux client.