skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Sailthru is the leading provider of personalized marketing communications technology. We automatically aggregate and analyze disparate user data sets for leading enterprise companies to create holistic, highly personalized customer experiences that lead to bigger revenue opportunities.

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Tame the Trolls – Mark Cuban
And how would that work?

Take their example question - 'Will North Korea launch a new multi-stage missile before May 1, 2014?' That's a yes/no question. But none of the participants knows the answer. They are just trying to forecast the future based upon the balance of probabilities. So if NK does launch a missile, the people who answered 'no' were wrong, but the reasons upon which they came to pick 'no' could still have been right. So giving feedback to these people and telling them that they were wrong does not magically aid/improve predictions.

Perhaps a simpler example could be used. 'Will the next roll of this dice score 3?' Well, it's obviously more likely that some other result will happen. But if the 3 does come up, you can't say that all those people who said 'no' are worse at predictions...
> Are we planning on throwing a fit every time somebody, somewhere doesn't agree with us?

It's one thing to disagree about optimal economic policy or how prisons should be run. For these issues there are legitimate, differing views with different goals and different ways of reaching those goals. And indeed, it would be silly to throw a fit over such a disagreement.

Using your power, whether it's your vote, your money, or your vocal platform, to deny other humans basic rights for no valid reason other than "some old book kinda says it might be wrong if you read it in this particular way" is not that kind of issue. There is a right and a wrong side here, just as there is in human slavery or giving all adults the right to vote. It's entirely reasonable to throw a fit when someone is using their power to deny you, your loved ones, or simply your fellow countrymen their basic right to happiness.

It is baffling to me how you can write off fighting back against real and effective attacks on the basic rights, dignity, and even humanity of homosexuals as "getting offended."
The TOS don't make any promises:

GitHub does not pre-screen Content, but GitHub and its designee have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or remove any Content that is available via the Service.

and

We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and Accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Service.
Surely this relies on the successful identification of the regulators? While novel, it doesn't fundamentally solve the grand game of cat and mouse, just moves it to the realm of ip addresses and browser sniffing. Or am I misinterpreting the article?
I see a lot of talk about the technical good Eich could do to the Mozilla community if only his views were ignored... but it seems some of his very questionable technical decisions are being ignored.

I for one would like an actual discussion on whether Eich is a good pick for Mozilla CEO at all.
a) why is it that people suddenly realize that marriage is useless when gay marriage is debated? it's really off topic on this thread.

b) "The tactic .. does not work" - this is just plain false. many important social changes were brought about through protesting against injustice.
Yeah, I think dogfooding is the only reason they should still use SVN. However, it's such an important reason that they should not switch to anything else.
ESA Summer of Code in Space 2014 has started
Unfortunately, "quatrevingt" won't sound exactly like "quatre" followed by "vingt" (in "quatrevingt", you will make the sound for the "e" very clear while muting it in "quatre").

Of course, you could just use more developed algorithms to connect words but then why not just use a voice synthesizer base only on recorded syllables?
actually, Eich could just step down. problem solved. no need for all the drama, dude ;)
Freedom of expression only works if we allow for and extend it to expression we find distasteful. That's the entire point of the 1st Amendment. There is no use for it otherwise.
> The issue is that people should be free to support the political movements they like, and not be punished for it.

Do you have a loved one? Suppose I use my political clout to separate you from them, permanently. You can never see your partner again.

Do you think I should be punished for such behavior?
And plausible that a bunch of respected developers could actually be that nasty to each other in a ticket thread.
> It also works everywhere where there's an Unix shell

This really is Tarsnap's key differentiator (for me).

It's also worth noting that Arq does have command line functionality[1] (on OSX) as well as an open source CLI restore tool[2].

[1] http://www.haystacksoftware.com/support/arq_help/pages/scrip...

[2] http://sreitshamer.github.io/arq_restore/
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I'm a Scala/Java full-stack programmer with extensive experience, looking for interesting and challenging projects to work on. Particular areas of interest for me include distributed systems, high-throughput and low-latency services, and large-scale data. I'm also quite happy in technical leadership and architecture roles.

Please feel free to get in touch to discuss projects and timelines. My email is my username @ gmail.
It's an escrow service, not a wiretransfer company.

The bit that I don't get is that escrow.com (the one party that didn't actually do anything wrong here) now has acted in a way which they probably should not have done, from their point of view the transaction actually is legit (buyer has control of the domain name, so funds should be released).

If Escrow.com can't be trusted to release the funds when the recipient has the goods then what point is there to use them in the first place?
The explanation I heard as a kid was that the stripes confused predators. When they stand in a group the stripes allegedly make it hard for predators to attack from the rear.
I'd love to see these British houses with "No thermostat and you can't control anything".

Every house i've ever lived in has has not just a main thermostat but most have thermostatic vales on the radiators too!

I'm 31 now and have lived in lots of houses both brand new and old victorian. They do realise it's customary to modernise older houses after a while don't they? Maybe not!

Talk about inventing a a problem that no one actually has!!!
> "...and its designee..."

Can someone explain to me whom this portion of the clause refers to?
Forks of https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app are still online. Beware the speculations until you hear a statement from either the developers or github.
I also literally know no SCM, ever, that was not maintained on itself, except insofar as we might be able to have an epistemological discussion about early versions of CVS v. RCS. Bitkeeper, Mercurial, Git, Subversion, Perforce, tla, Monticello, Bazaar, darcs, Fossil, Monotone, and TFS are all maintained on their own systems. Subversion maintaining itself on Git would not exactly be a vote of confidence for me.
No. Unless you're implying gay people are less important than women?
I'm not sure when the site was updated, but it looks like it goes the way of muxtape - http://getpopcornti.me/

Edit: Looks like this was written almost a couple weeks ago (March 14th, 2014 according to the time stamp on their medium post https://medium.com/p/93f890b8c9f4)
Projects are allowed to use Git instead of Subversion, and there's a workflow in place, as noted in the ticket. Many projects have moved, and many haven't. They seem fairly undogmatic in that aspect.
Sieve, financial search engine and visualizer from 2-day Hack Reactor hackathon
Sure, and we could bleach skin or perform surgery to alter other characteristics of people. And yet, discrimination based on physical characteristics is illegal.
I agree it does a lot of magic but this shouldn't be a bad thing. I learned Spring framework and hibernate on different projects and it helped a lot in understanding (and appreciating ;) ) all the magic.
I found it slow in start too, but found it quite fast on compile time
BlackBerry Breaks Up With T-Mobile
What? I don't believe this. Git has nothing that hg devs would want, and lacks many features that hg aficionados like me love. Where did you see this move?
http://popcorn.cdnjd.com/ seems to be down.
NTFS uses BTrees I believe. And matches your requirements.
So you need the same number of samples whether you use 80+12 or 90+2.
If you want a service that allows the sender to verify name before sending, make it a feature that both:

(1) is opt-in on the recipient's side and fails with something like "that recipient email address doesn't have an account, the name doesn't match, or they haven't decided to allow name verification"

AND

(2) is only available on payments above your highest guess at the expected value of matching an account-email-name triple for spearphishing, and the error messages (and timings) are identical if the name doesn't match or the given email address doesn't have an account.

I imagine there are few profitable attacks where an answer "yes, email_address with name has a Coinbase account" costs a minimum of 100 USD to an attacker and getting an answer "Either email_address doesn't have an account, that name doesn't match our records, or they've chosen not to share their name" costs 0 USD. However, I'd have to think a bit more about that 100 USD minimum.
Women's suffrage, many, many years ago, would have been in the same boat that gay rights are now. Go back many years before that, and slavery would be similarly as controversial. Do you not understand that?

Saying that gay rights aren't as fundamental of an issue because it's not as cut and dry today as women's suffrage and slavery are today is patently ridiculous. Those issues have had decades to pass from controversial to relatively settled to settled.

Age of an issue does not dictate importance.
who got the latest fork?! :D Need to clone asap
That the 2nd law can be temporarily violated on nanometer scale is not news: that was already experimentally demonstrated years ago. The interesting thing in this publication is that they experimentally verified a certain theoretical description of that phenomenon.
This is what I thought as well. This seems like a really poor joke. A press release describing such a planned move that praised git and slammed subversion might have been funny. By an actual JIRA ticket is inappropriate.
And when you consider the type of owner (Who gives a toss they are only students landlord) are they ever going to upgrade to a normal system let alone nest.

When you think about it this product is so badly thought out on every level!
Open still is the question of why zebras have such short hair...Apparently this whole hypothesis is predicated on the fact biting flies are a problem unique to Zebras because their hair is shorter than the biting implements of the flies.
New BigData Suite Redefines the Economics Incl. UNLIMITED Hadoop to Enterprises
Yesterday.

Rotisserie Chicken was actually pretty funny.
LinkedIn sues recruitment firm HiringSolved over scraping
Rormix – discover emerging music videos, a cross-mobile app
Do you think I should be punished for such behavior?

I think you should be applauded for enacting laws that make it possible to protect a woman from an abusive man, or for locking up dangerous criminals.

Your example is a bit too vague to be useful.
Headline should read: "Apache SVN project to migrate to git after April fools joke gone wrong". This removes the way I read the headline; that the Apache web server was moving from SVN to git. Which doesn't seem funny at all :-D
Maybe in a week or four, when Australis is released.
My Client, The Dread Pirate Roberts
Audit Reveals How Travelers Are Using Online Travel Sites
Pre-heat leads for conferences – how to get the networking rolling
Those attacks only work when the attacker has some control over the plaintext. Backup services don't have that problem.
I'd say of you have to give hints for a joke then the joke's not good.
Fault Runs Deep in Ultrafast Trading
Internally, we have a graph editing tool which uses D3 (screenshot [1]) which I threw together based on some existing examples. I'd be happy to open up the source code if there was any interest, though it's really nothing all that special. The layout algorithm could definitely use some work for our use-case at least. It's force-directed at the moment, using stock D3 layouts, but really needs a hierarchical mode. While it's not perfect, it is intuitive enough that non-technical people "get it".

Beyond this, yEd[2] is really quite cool (even if it does have a very dated UI).

[1] https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/67c67a48-8b3d-4eac-b7ee...

[2] http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html
Teaching Computer Science To High School Students On The Way To Work
I'd wager that the output from "modern cryptosystems" is, for all practical purposes, not compressible at all.
Anyone who Github has said it does ("designated").
GNU Make Standard Library v1.1.4 released
Well im not convinced. For one, better skills/more experience doesn't necessarily make you faster, it might even make you slower because you put more effort into things others simply ignore, but the quality will be higher. Anyway, i see your point, i just don't think it translates into reality all that well. Not for longterm projects at least, which are hard to estimate anyway.
Velositey – Website Layout Builder for Photoshop
Eich hasn't had much of a chance to be discriminating yet - that's a big difference between being CTO and being CEO.

But the fact that he's mentioning places like Indonesia and their anti-gay-marriage stance as a bolstering rationale worries me. Then again, I have very little skin in this game.

And no, we're not talking about whatever Mr Hobby Lobby does - because that's wholly irrelevant to this discussion about Eich and Mozilla.
not only the repo, their website is down, http://popcorn.cdnjd.com/
well, for one thing, some people stick to their opinions. and say them, loud and proud. or, on the other hand, they keep them to themselves, fully aware that they might bring bad publicity to their work.

Eich does not seem to have decided that one yet. IMO, a CEO should be better at politics.

as for upsetting "a few people", everyone has the right to react when upset.
Zed: The Next Phase
I don't like the implication that this is a fad or that certain serialization formats are "hot".

If you're dealing with large data volumes, serialization can be the difference between a job that costs $500 to run vs. one that costs $200. If you're concerned about the user experience (i.e you are github, not Altassian) then you know that latency matters, and microserver architecture, properly done, can get latency way down.

The key thing about a microserver isn't a low line count it is the use of specialized data structures and algorithms that handle workloads with high efficiency.

For instance I have a system that uses MySQL. I found the latency of typeahead and fulltext search was way too high so I set up a Cleo server for typeahead and an ElasticSearch server for fulltext. These are so efficient that the hardware requirements are tiny.

Now I can live with the latency, but the running costs are more than I like. What can I do? There's one particular query that runs really slow, and if I replicate that data into a special database (even a MySQL with the bloat taken out of it) I can use a cheap machine to run the hard query and then use a cheap machine to host the rest of the MySQL.
>I personally feel more strongly about the rights of same-sex couples to marry than I do about not executing a convicted murderer (especially once you adjust for how many are affected by each issue)

"How many are affected"? How about "how MUCH they are affected"?

And what about those waiting in death row (or executed) only to be found innocent later (including those not so lucky to have a re-trial or a dedicated defense team):
http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/The_Innocent_and_the...

A CEO could say "support our troops" and donate to that (which leads to tens or hundrends of thousands of deaths, invansions etc), and noone bats an eyes. But another is against gay marriage and everybody loses their minds.

>Does everything have to devolve into slippery slopes?

A slippery slope would be "if you do X, X*N will happen". I didn't say anything like that.

What I said is: there are tons of controversial issues -- from gay marriage, to the death penalty, to incarceration rates, to gun control, to supportig wars etc.

If you are against people for only one of those causes, while letting others with different opinions on other causes alone, then you are actually discriminating against them.

If you want to be consistent you can't just "prosecute" CEOs who backed a bill against gay marriage. Except if you think, and I cannot even fathom how one would, that that's the definining issue and everything else is secondary.
Tarsnap is excellent for mission-critical data.

But for most personal uses, a Glacier-backed variant of tarsnap would be extremely appealing.
If any SVN dev truly believes that svn is better than Git in any technical sense then
I wouldn't trust the engineering judgment of that developer.

Hi. Small-time Mercurial contributor and Kiln founder. I use both Git and Mercurial in my daily workflow, and only on very rare occasions touch Subversion.

Subversion is better than Git and Mercurial in at least several key areas:

1. Access controls. While this is not necessary for individual products, or even many
companies, only Subversion offers the kinds of access controls that some large companies
require. While you can *work around* that by sharding your code into tons of repositories,
not all companies want to do that, and I don't honestly blame them.
2. Very large repositories. Facebook's work on Mercurial finally allows Mercurial to
scale to those sizes (with significant trade-offs), but Git still cannot.
3. Very large files. Game companies in particular need to do asset management. Subversion
can work with large files directly, Mercurial can kind of "fake out" working with them
directly through largefiles, and Git forces you to use a third-party tool like Git annex
with a custom workflow.
4. Interop with legacy tools. Subversion repositories can be accessed trivially with WebDAV,
which, while I honestly think is mostly a antifeature, does allow random people in your
office to trivially access things in Subversion directly via Finder/Gnome/Windows WebDAV
support (and even commit, with proper settings, simply by saving).

Just because Subversion doesn't use Git's branching system and isn't distributed doesn't mean it's totally without merit, and someone so wrapped up in Git's ecosystem that they can find no merit left in Subversion is a developer who likely has an irrational approach to evaluating systems.
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Maybe, I will take a look when the next cycle of choosing tech comes.

Right now I am in middle of making a point and click adventure with Gideros (obviously, Moai being used for Broken Age was one of the reasons why I looked into it in first place, I assumed that if Tim Schafer found it good for that, maybe for us it would be too).

After I finish it and use the engine (I am making a engine to be re-used for several episodes) for a couple games, maybe who knows what we will decide.
can confirm this, it works if your change your WP/Lumia browser setting's website preference to desktop version. Though it's still apparently fetching/rendering the wrong sprite size.
Blade Runner: the watercolour cut
Seems super similar (not to say a clone) to movies.io
If this was GitHub's doing, it's yet another reason to not use GitHub. Move your repos elsewhere because GitHub thinks that censorship is a good thing.
I saw a news about this. Is it the successor? http://www.time4popcorn.eu/
A takedown of a GitHub repository also takes down forks. Therefore it wasn't a GitHub-actioned DMCA takedown.
Not into GitHub? Register a memorable domain and throw together a to-the-point portfolio page instead.

Or use another goddamned software hosting service? I'll never understand this sense of GitHub supremacy amongst trendies.

Otherwise, the advice in general is subpar.
"Soon"? All of those have long been sufficient criteria for some, and there's no "raising the bar" going on.

Some people will chose an establishment just because the owner is, or isn't, member of a specific church. An LGBT organization is unlikely to hire someone who walks in to the interview carrying a Chik-Fil-A lunch, or support another LGBT organization whose leader does the same.

Here's a case of boycotting a store chain because the owners (not the corporation) supported a politician: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Joaquin-Castr...

People express their offense and outrage all the time, about all sorts of issues. Sometimes it gets traction. Most times it doesn't.

The bar moves around, certainly, but that doesn't mean it ratchets higher. Few now call for boycotts of communist owned organizations and black-lists of communists like they did during the red scares.
Tips and benchmarks for running MongoDB on Google Compute Engine
Crowdsource prophet. This is not new, that happened before with the "peak oil community".