skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's interesting is that in many really large Windows based enterprises I've seen. The space your desktop points to is on a network someplace. You can use this for roaming profiles and all sort of other things (quotas, centralized virus scanning etc.) Everything else on the system is not accessible to the user. So even if you archive your outlook stuff into a PST on your desktop, it's still on the network someplace an admin can get to it. I've even seen this used to recover emails from terminated employee's accounts.

Why archive at all? My guess is that their exchange server has some absurd quote that requires you to purge after you hit 50MB of mail or something. Nobody wants to delete things, so users generally just move old mail into PST files.
I thought that the original justification for eventual consistency was that, for some kinds of data, availability is much more important than consistency. It could be that, in reality, that kind of data doesn't exist, because any data worth keeping is worth the trouble of keeping consistent. Or, it could be that the use case exists, but it's uncommon and seldom worth maintaining a separate database system if you are not Facebook. The article didn't make those arguments, though. It argues that weak guarantees by the database make client code harder to write, which ought to be kind of obvious, if consistency is what you need.
This is great! Although if your goal is to make this more approachable, may I suggest that you include a diagram in your documentation, explaining how the layers look and how they are interconnected? I studied ANNs in university, but after 10 years, even I have trouble recalling some details.
Except that eigenvectors play different role in facial recognition as from pagerank.

In the former, eigenvectors are an orthogonal basis for representing the set of human faces: first, the vary in this respect, then next most significantly in this respect, and so on.

In the latter, the primary eigenvector tells you which nodes are the most significant. The eigenvector not looking like a good site (or typical face) has little to do with whether it's informative about the goodness of a site.

Also, the point of using morality eigenvectors is to quantify relative morality of positions, not to find a compromise between currently-popular positions, so the bimodality issue is not a problem in this respect.
k-NN Algorithm in Golang and Haskell
Also worth looking at Kiva's response to that article, though the editor of the piece you linked to many of Kiva's responses.

http://www.nextbillion.net/blogpost.aspx?blogid=3731
First-class mail doesn't pay the bills at the USPS; junk mail does. The junk mailers are the customer, and as the saying goes about online services, "If you're not paying you're the product."
How To Create A Capture Page Free – Inner Circle List Building Webcast June 20
>>has to rely on magic unicorns that another engineer (who build the DB) put it in the product

Where can I get these?
Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Fundamentalism (1996)
Unfortunately, those direct mailers are the U.S. Postal Service's customers.

There is a rather inflammatory statement from the Postmaster General in the story about the demise of Outbox. “You mentioned making the service better for our customers; but the American citizens aren’t our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers. Your service hurts our ability to serve those customers.”

http://www.insidesources.com/outbox-vs-usps-how-the-post-off...
Nvidia  ignores issue with kernal error
Well many people are having problems with NVIDIAS cards crashing and recovering. Usually followed by an error message stating NVIDIA Kernal error has stopped working and has successfully recovered. Now, borf you might be saying why is this such a big deal? Why is this not just being brought up on their site or support threads. Now this is where i backup my claim that NVIDIA is obviously hoping this problem goes away and continues to provide... frankly pointless runaround blaming peoples hardware when clearly its their faulty cards. They dont respond in an orderley manner and instead want people to clean their drivers and do all these things that MIGHT fix it. Not to mention this problem has been big since 2006. Yep you heard me. 2006 .... Nvidia has swept this under the rug for too long and too many consumers constantly are on the recieving end of this laughable "support".<p>Here is a link to the official nvidia statement which provides us with info which we already knew
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/389688/geforce-drivers/nvidia-statement-on-tdr-errors-display-driver-nvlddmkm-stopped-/
On top of this shit pile they disable comments on possibly their biggest thread!? WHY!?<p>Clearly NVIDIA Can not handle backlash without public attention for fear of their product quality being questioned. You might say ok mine is working fine borf. Well ok, so you have a fine product, but say you were in our shoes. Many people bought their computers for up to thousands of dollars. Many people work hard for their items and then for them to not be abl to run a game let alone a youtube video for 10 MINUTES without crashing!<p>There are countless upon countless number of complaints if you look through the boards
https://forums.geforce.com/default/board/33/<p>This is not acceptable Nvidia and us consumers demand support.
I loved that talk. I found this lecture also instructive (not as entertaining as Jim's though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWkiO-F6X5E
Please see the full thread here https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/755362/geforce-driv...
He talks about wanting 1 senior for 5 juniors, with most firms having a 1 to 16 ratio. Is it really that bad? Or is the OP's definition of senior someone with 20 years experience?

My experience is that mentorship is 1 to 1. (Just like the Sith!) If you're doing a wide pyramid project, perhaps 1 good engineering manager with tech skills can oversee the work of 2 senior programmers and 2 juniors.

Or has my experience been the exception?
But as instantiated, the secrecy that the US Trade Reprentative uses and imposes is not this kind of secrecy at all. At least as near as those of us outside the TPP/ACTA negotiations can tell. The treaties do not become public until after they're negotiated and signed.

From leaked documents, it appears that inside the negotiations, there's really not the kind of secrecy you're imagining. Every part to ACTA, for example, just marked it up as they thought it should be, and then there was a lot of something (not public) to get to a final draft. That's not keeping a maximum (or minimum) position secret in order to gain advantage, that's just deciding how much of something can be foisted upon the global public without causing a revolution.

From my standpoint, the secrecy we get is of no use to anyone but corporate fat cats and insiders.
Yes. This is great for improving the quality of the immediate next hire, but not great for the diversity of the system.
Has it also been uploaded somewhere? Thanks
HQ2X implementation in Verilog
I don't think this is comparable to recent NSA actions. The Post Office is a government agency. It's not reasonable to expect the government not to keep track of the mail it delivers.
I suspected this months ago, and I pointed out how trivial it would be to log addresses on reddit. I was called a conspiracy theory nutcase.

I'll go one further: the high-speed sorting machines for envelopes could easily be modified to photograph the interior of envelopes and that this is already happening. You only need to shine a light through them to do this.
The Stasi did mail tracking on a massive scale in the GDR before the wall came down. Funny/Sad how things seem to go in circles.
I hear you, willu! Currently the product isn't ready for completely open comments. It will get unwieldy if there are 100+ comments on each product and we don't have the team to handle potential spam yet.

We're in the process of building an recommendation system so people in the community can invite new contributors (a la dribbble). Here's a screenshot: https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/480377375192932352

Thanks for your patience and sorry again to limit access but we're working to open it up!
> For instance, I'm sure we could use this data to track down every evil junkmailing sub-human

The USPS and junkmailers are friends. They are losing money delivering legitimate mail. Their profits come from junk mail.

The USPS is the largest spammer in the world. Which makes it ironic that all the college hippies are groaning and crying that it might go under. We should just get rid of the pony express.

These are the fuckholes that killed Outbox, after all.
Let them fill their ranks with a homogenous set of people without breadth or depth of experience, and see how it works for them.

Those job reqs are also code for "low pay and long hours".
I think the most likely possibility is that it is fixed to some extant - i.e. your genetics give you a baseline. Then, of course, your environment effects how much you grow above your baseline.
If you can identify legitimately bad employees, fire them; they are not just a waste of money but an anchor around the neck of the employees who aren't bad.

Of course, this assumes a lot of things such as that you have USA/California style "at will" employment, you are capable of determining that the employee(s) in question are legitimately bad and not just hamstrung by stupid process or demoralized due to reasons you could reasonably fix, etc.
Pick any failed cases from "Call Me Maybe" series. In general unicorns materialize better if you read only marketing materials and follow PR pieces in picking your databases. Then they tend to disappear when written data is silently dropped on the floor.
"Mailers use Standard Mail to send:

Printed matter, flyers, circulars, advertising.

Newsletters, bulletins, and catalogs.

Small parcels."

(via http://pe.usps.com/businessmail101/classes/standard.htm)

USPS Q2 FY2014 Revenue from Standard Mail: 4,228,705

USPS Q2 FY2014 Total Revenue: 16,732,651

(via http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/revenue-pieces-w...)

Junk mail accounts for a quarter of USPS revenue. I don't suppose the USPS wants to encourage harassment of junk mailers.
Pierre Sprey's Anti-F-35 Diatribe Is Half Brilliant And Half Bull****
To be fair, some of your information are public because they are required by laws. For example, your home ownership. As soon as my parents bought a home, a mail came to my new home address addressed to my family.

Most people who actually send junk mail to us are via agency, and these people are small business owners.

Also, some junk mail are delivered via cheap labor, actually walking to people's home and drop off (local supermarket for example), not via USPS. So that's another "direct mail marketing" and yet a lot of people enjoy them!

I just throw junk mail away. My philosophy is that as long as they don't kill me I am giving these small business owner the opportunity to grow.

The only kind of junk mail I don't want to receive is the annual yellow page book.
I'm amazed by Amazon. Some of their moves follow a playbook. Books -> Clothes -> Diapers. A non-technical CEO turning the company into an API machine that outsources it's own technology... Every textbook would say crazy, but he's on to something. Makes one wonder about the drones.
“This Is Bull#%*t”: Masayoshi Son on Verizon, AT&T and Comcast
This reminds me of a paper I read in college, "The Dangers of Replication."[1] It lays out the fundamental limits on distributed updates, and it's a good one to read if you haven't seen it before.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~natassa/courses/15-823/current/papers...
Except they had to do it all old-school: no modern databases, no quick lookup and correlation of geographic info, no optical character recognition.
You did geometric proofs in drafting class?
Airport advice all around the world
What are some popular skills relevant in today's industry?
I have a couple summer projects I wanted to work on, and was wondering which one to do. One is a data analysis project focusing on learning R, Machine Learning, Big Data, and Statistical Methods. Another one is setting up my own selfstarter clone in node.js, with social sharing, and accepting Bitcoin payments (Stanfords Startup Engineering course), working with the Kinect, or building an ios app in Swift. Any advice? I'm kind of interested in the Startup Engineering project but I feel like the first project will give me more skills and experience.
Then you should love this: The university in my town is allowing students to check drones out of the library.

http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/2014/06/20/students-tam...

Luckily, there are considerable safety measures so far.
FYI, The 3 startups I tweeted about are confirmed. I've spoken directly with the investors.
I liked DarkSky too (I actually use Weather Line [1], which is powered by them, switched a while ago, better UI), but I've seen it take a noticeable dip in accuracy over the last 2 years or so.

On PC I use they site Forecast.io. I could never use Weather.com or any of those other sites, too many ads and other junk making it hard to use. I want to know tomorrow's weather, not the pollen count forecast fort this summer.

[1] http://weatherlineapp.com
Caribou defecate where they ruminate, not standing on the snow.

[1] http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/viewFile...
> In (fairly) common parlance, "regulation" means governmental rules that violate individual sovereignty.

Common parlance is found on Wikipedia: "A regulation is a rule or law designed to control or govern conduct."

The narrower, ideological definition you supply may be to your liking but isn't (even fairly) common parlance.

A clearer term for you to use would simply be 'bad regulation'.

Your definition also implies that governmental rules that protect individual sovereignty (or don't impact upon it) are not the 'regulation' you protest against, and a clearer term for that would simply be 'good regulation'.

There are obviously regulations which protect individual sovereignty: environmental laws stopping anyone or any entity dumping toxic waste which impacts on the health and well-being of those individuals is but one of many obvious examples.

So there are good regulations and bad regulations, and you are against bad regulations, but you choose to call them simply 'regulations' which is rather confusing.

You also conclude: 'Thus, regulatory laws are wrong'.

Better to use the clearer, more correct statement 'Thus, bad regulatory laws are wrong'. Very uncontroversial and agreeable.

I think it could actually be argued that redefining a term like 'regulation' as you are doing is actually harmful to individual sovereignty. The common meaning of 'regulation' also covers regulation that is protective of individual sovereignty, and trying to promulgate a pejorative sense of the term merely enables moochers and looters to further hijack the term to weaken those regulations which protect individual sovereignty.
Businesses being extorted for "tribute" of 1 BTC
Yes. Literally. Indentured servitude is when someone voluntarily enters into a contractual agreement to serve for a certain number of years in return for a payment. What did you think it meant?

edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude

"Farmers, planters, merchants, and shopkeepers in the American colonies found it very difficult to hire free workers, primarily because it was so easy for potential workers to set up their own farms. Consequently, a common solution was to transport a young worker from Britain or a German state, who would work for several years to pay off the debt of their travel costs. During the indenture period the servants were not paid cash wages, but were provided with food, accommodation, clothing and training. The indenture document specified how many years the servant would be required to work, after which they would be free. Terms of indenture ranged from one to seven years with typical terms of four or five years"
> Yet the European systems of higher education are generally worse than those in America

Wait, what? Can I get a source on that, bub?
The first time I experienced the quote was through a Banksy piece: https://i.imgur.com/gJMEniP.jpg
It never ends. Counter measures, counter-counter measures etc.

Most of the time, though, the police will use another method, as the law has more than anti-forensics in their armoury.
I agree with the key point that "Not everything is in the act of disrupting or being disrupted." There are businesses that can maintain incremental improvements for a long times, especially in services. The folks mowing my lawn and doing the dry cleaning don't seem to be in need of disruption as much as improvement. (ok - so I don't have a lawn, and my dry cleaner is ok, but the point is the same)

On the concept of Christensen cherry picking his cases... Well, that's what they do at HBS. They use the case method to explain things. It works for strategy, which is almost impossible to quantify anyway. (Too many moving variables, and the answers seem obvious afterwards) For proper economics, that's another story. Go to the University of Chicago instead.
That's a lot better. I'd like to see it try to snap when dragging. I notice I can click once (compass) and click again on a point, but a click-drag to a point doesn't seem to snap to the point.
He was one of the best rated SEM guys on Elance. His name is Josh May, I believe. I contacted him later for another project, but he was no longer taking on new work.
I used to believe the same thing too:that what is genetic is somehow fixed.But then i noticed how human action can alter genes.
Brain damage can lower intelligence, and I see no reason why it could not be raised as well. Even if genes provide something "defaults" or "limits," environmental effects are still relevant.
Oh, I believe you on those three :) I suspect there's been a handful of others, if not many more, where investors decided to call up the startup after it was product-hunted. I am just not a big fan of link-baiting. If I am to spend time on an article, I want evidence, not speculation. Just me, maybe.
Very impressive. How things have changed - we did nothing quite so fun and practical in first year computing at Imperial back in 1995!
Plus, now I feel old :)
You cannot draw a conclusion to an experiment you are yet to perform.At the very least, it does not count as scientific.
nooooo i cannot unhear it! #foreverstuck
The official party line from Koskinen's testimony this week is that IRS staff members are individually responsible for determining what email is "official" IRS correspondence, then...I shit you not...printing hardcopies of those emails and filing them into physical file cabinets. All other email is subject to a capacity quota, and staff members are instructed to rotate out the email sitting on the servers to free up space when needed, rotating the old email into PSTs on their IRS-issued laptops/desktops (they use Exchange/Outlook).

I would be interested to find out what the email lossage rate is for IRS staff. Not just the 6-8 individual members identified in relation to the Lerner issue, but across the entire organization (even more interesting would be a statistical analysis of the Lerner Group's lossage rate compared to the organization-wide rate).

The NSA has proven the Federal Government has the wherewithal to record everything. I'd like to see what the arguments are against Congress mandating that all forms of communication (snail mail, email, voice comms, telex, etc.) at all Federal agencies for all Federal employees are continuously e-vaulted.
This is correct. TG basically carried the entire rest of the company for many years. Almost nothing else made enough money to support itself and the profits TG pulled in were enough to run the company for a long while. This was back when TG was still a pretty small outfit. As they've grown employee-wise, I'm sure more of the revenue has gone to sustaining this part of the business.

The basic problem is that so many of the other properties were virtually impossible to monetize and/or by the time attention got turned on them audience had moved elsewhere and the result was a mess.

It also didn't help that many of the senior people brought in to help turn the properties into money making operations really had never done business with this demographic.
If I were to try to understand this in terms of analogies, would [Sequence vs Cluster] be analogous to [DIY vs Outsourced]?
iOS development: Why MVVM instead of MVC?
Absolutely agree. This is one of the instant alarm-bell triggers for me when reading a posting.
"C++ now has closures and... [they're] not that awful"

Some high praise, that. C++ closures: they're not that awful.
The Medal of Honor and/or Victoria Cross are not rewards.
They do. And within a few years it will arrive amongst the world's best. Yet wine land is much cheaper there (and in Oregon) than Napa.
I thought it was clear. I would start with 1, not 0 for the first example of the derivation of Natural numbers via succession or the related Peano axiom. I know some texts start with 1 and others 0, but given counting most likely started with objects, it is more fundamental to begin with 1. The concept of nothing or zero just seems an abstract step away. Nice treatment of the lambda calculus.
So practical things look a lot alike? I don't know. But I'm almost certain you couldn't show a Pollock to a non-painting enthusiast and convince them it was a Picasso.
Most postal advertising is for scams -- misleading afs for mortgage refis, carpet ornduct cleaners that harass you for upsells once they have you cornered in your house. And a few bad restaurants. Legitimate businesses don't need mail adverting to reach new
customers.
Please explain your reasoning. It is not obvious.
I'm going to offer the contrary advice that hiring by employee referral is not a good approach, for these reasons:

1. Your genius employee does not necessarily know lots of other geniuses. In fact, he might not know anybody. Yes, there are brilliant programmers and engineers who are well-connected, but there are ten times as many brilliant programmers and engineers who are solitary, independent types. If you press them for a referral, you'll get a referral to his brother-in-law who took some computer courses or the guy that was nice to him in university but hasn't found a job yet.

2. Friends hiring friends leads to cliques. For a startup, two or three friends working together is ideal. But for a larger enterprise, you want to avoid that. Of course, cliques will form by themselves, but why create them from day 1.

3. It's very cynical to say this, but chances are that your employee is not going to recommend someone smarter or harder working than he is. Why make himself look bad? (One of Paul Graham's articles says that this is true of mediocre programmers, but not of the top ones. Perhaps when you're starting out, you want to work in a room full of geniuses, but what if you are the top dog in the room? Are you going to bring in someone that can obviously show you up?)

Many hiring methods lead to negative quality direction. Example: Making all your hires from Monster.com would be a negative trend. But a lot of people seem to believe that hiring based on employee referral is a positive. I'm sure it's not the worst way--and it's probably much better than relying on Monster.com for instance--but I think that employee referrals lead to quality loss over time.
Plus there are many ways the Singaporean government gives advantages to the very wealthy. Providing them with roads that everybody pays for but they don't have to share is but one of many.
Yes you can, it's called prediction.
This seems outdated. No mention of Thumb 2 and unified assembly, for example.
[SPOILER ALERT!]

The first time through, I heard "[jibberish jibberish jibberish] is at the next stop." (Perhaps I've spent too much time on public transport.) What does that say about my brain?

But yes, once I heard the whole sentence, I couldn't not hear it.
Just searched for new and recent grad jobs on LinkedIn. Found plenty: Amazon, Yelp, Visa, Intuit, Ericsson...Must not have read the story.