skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Google isn't really a search company-- it's a machine learning company."

No, it's an advertising company. That's who pays the bills. At the end of the day all this cool tech is to better understand and model human beings in order to better push ads.

Sometimes it depresses me that so many of the world's most brilliant minds are working on that, but a generation or two ago they'd all be building doomsday bombs. I guess that's some progress.
My housemates were just talking about this Japanese issue yesterday and coming up with all sorts of conclusions and hypotheses as to why this cultural phenomenon might occur, when actually there is no hard evidence that it exists!
...what else do you expect? HN is full of young idealists convinced they both understand and can change the world. In the realm of computer software where most have spent their lives, they could be right. In other areas ... not so much.

It's incredibly difficult to fix what you don't understand, and most of the world doesn't understand politics. Especially young people. Most especially young people who have dedicated all their time and energy to something that isn't politics.
Doing customer development (and stop wasting your time)
IBM’s Cloud Platform Strategy is Getting Legitimate
AHA! I knew it! ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES. What can't you accomplish with this library?

http://principiadiscordia.com/book/23.php
Does it? on here I have seen a lot of comments that you have to go to the right University in the USA. And getting a good law job seems to require an extra degree from a small number of law schools

And I suspect that France is worse give the lock the tiny number of universities like ENA have on the Civilservice
Hard to design passenger planes for what is a (suspected) rocket though....
Some interesting info on the speculation it was shot down:

A defence expert has told the BBC that shooting down a plane at 10,000m (9.7 miles) would have required a long- range surface-to-air missile - possibly guided by radar.

That suggests it is unlikely it could have been downed by a portable air defence missile, or Manpad, which has a much shorter range.

The only other possibility is for an aircraft at that height to be downed by a fighter carrying air-to-air missiles.

The US will have access to satellite imagery that should be able to identify ultra-violet plumes if a long-range surface-to-air missile was fired.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28354856

Edit:

Amateur video reportedly showing aftermath of the crash (from a distance):

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/17/malaysia-...
What is the smallest SAM that can reach that altitude?
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Thanks for the info. Very informative, considering I work in a tiny company and we have 3 developers, with 1 (me) working on the bit that people actually use daily (the entire GUI bit on multiple platforms).

I used to work in a larger team in a different company but we only had 1 PM who frustrated us all, sadly. How do they balance 3 PMs? Do they argue between themselves?
Hard to blame the airframe if it really was a SAM....
> hand picked by members of the community, then voted on by the community

I'm looking over the submitters' profiles and I see many of the same people submitting different items... so I'm deducing that 'members of the community' != 'the community'.
Flight track: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/489795658879348737/...
Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
It just shows how reliable is 777
Interfax claims it was flying at 10km:
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/489794112212959232
Well I didn't actually say that they were incompatible, although putting the two sentences in the same paragraph may had caused to to read that meaning into what I wrote. I've split them to (hopefully) avoid this, and because I agree with your comment. Thanks!
Ever since I tried almond milk, I've never gone back. I was never a big fan of dairy milk in the first place, but almond milk makes cereal and anything else milk-based so much more pleasant. it never has the tendency of tasting or smelling 'off' like cow milk, and many manufacturers add about 50% more calcium than a glass of regular milk. What's not to like?

as for the price markup, if it means that I'm not gonna have to buy almonds, grind them up and do all the filtering myself, then that's fine, I think it's worth it.
This ignores marketing and other pricing and sales techniques specifically designed to trick someone into thinking a choice is in their best interest when it is not. One could simple look at politics for plenty of easy to understand examples.

Also, many products are shaped and designed over time to be as addictive as possible. Video games, television, soda, fast food, facebook, tobacco etc etc. All of these things are generally outside of a persons best interest beyond light moderate use. The are specifically designed and adjusted over time to cause people to go well beyond that threshold of moderate use.

By simplifying the situation to "rational actors" you are doing exactly as I described. Refusing to take responsibility for those who are less able to deal with the forces and influences I described above.
There absolutely is precedence for this.

The US shot down an Iranian airliner in 1988:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

And the Russians shot down a Korean airliner in 1983:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
This is not the first case of missiles hitting a plane in Ukraine in recent history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812
Sometimes, instead of "I don't feel like doing the proper solution," it's "I haven't yet figured out the proper solution," or "A cleaner solution means adding 250 lines of code to address problems we may not have."
Yes, I'm not saying this will happen, just that it should happen.
Plenty of them:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_in...
Let me tell you my raw impression of PH as an outsider.

It's a cool kids club for cool SV startups as selected by founders and employes of equally cool SV startups, where it's specifically "cool" rather than "notable" or "innovative". Secondly, while you can't join their ranks at will, you will be given a membership to comment on your own product should some cool kid submit it to the PH. Essentially they exchange memberships for adding content to PH and helping build PH's credibility. It's a reasonable approach, but they are just being ... too blunt and obnoxious about it.
If only parents taught their children to behave in a civil way, bullying wouldn't exist in schools.

In the modern society, parents do not pay enough attention to their children, and so the children grow up without learning how to behave in a civil manner.

In fact, what children learn is to behave aggressively like their parents do when the parents confront other people external to the family.

The problem of bullying starts in the family.
Here's an example: https://github.com/nfriedly/Meteor-ODB-II/blob/master/deploy...

This script runs the meteor deploy command as part of my CI loop every time new code gets pushed to github. The deploy command expects me to type in a bunch of information, and expect does that for me.
Looks like there were quite a few incidents:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inci...

(The only one I've heard of before was Iran Air Flight 655)
Somebody really really wants this war to proceed and won't take no for an answer.
Iran Air Flight 655, Siberia Airlines Flight 1812, and of course Korean Air Lines Flight 007, but it was shot down by air-to-air missile.
I love how Ruby isn't even included in the list. RUBY THE BEST
You can use it to study block device I/O details, confirming latency outliers, and analyzing device, size, and offset patterns. It's the COMM and PID columns that aren't reliable -- they show what's on-CPU at the time of block device issue, which is usually the origin PID, but sometimes not. This has always been the case for iosnoop (all versions). I'm explaining this caveat better today than I have in the past.

As for the origin PID... I usually trace that from a different layer of the stack (vfs, file system, or syscall). But this approach has different caveats: the overhead is much higher (more frequent requests), and if I want to associate it with the block I/O, then many solutions are going to require debuginfo, and/or a different tracer. Also, what if a process buffers minutes of disk I/O then exits, and then that PID is reused by a different process calling disk I/O? It's a remote possibility, but I just wanted to mention another problem in this area.
As with all tragedies, be skeptical of early reports. Especially those that identify a cause.
The Dangers of Private Planes
Unrelated but relevant: TWA 800 crashed off the coast of NY on July 17, 1996, 18 years ago.

[Why the downvotes? Clearly stated _unrelated_. Just a stupid fact.]
You assume that all learning takes place over the cramming phase, then all practices is about keeping the knowledge fresh.

It is most likely that the cramming phase is an effective though limited way to break the novice threshold, though any knowledge gained here will be by necessity shallow. A later phase of slow and deliberate practices allows this initial mental structures to be settled in a pattern of competence an maybe provide the seedlings of insight that may be cultivated into true mastery of the subject.
It does seem less likely for an acquisition of a large company to be successful than a small one.

The last three you mentioned are all tiny companies acquired for huge amounts of money.

YouTube had something like 60 people at acquisition -- definitely under 100. Instgram had under 20 I believe. Not sure about Paypal but I'm sure it was dwarfed by Ebay.

There is something to that. I think a smaller number of people can be integrated into a larger one, but when two massive companies like Microsoft and Nokia come together, there is bound to be friction.

Not sure what happened with Google and Motorola, but the companies were I think wisely kept separate, whereas it sounds like Nadella wants more "integration synergies".
I really begin to like sourcegraph, nice job! I don't know how to ask the question without sounding too negative: any chance it might get faster? I took about 10 seconds (just a feeling, didn't measure it) to load the page.
They aren't all developers.
Getting promoted: why you should focus on making friends first
As this is the UK this is very unwise stating that you discriminate against those with young kids or those planning to start a family is insane.

If that came to court you would lose automatically.

It strikes me they need to hire some one with a basic knowledge of employment law.
This. All I need to know what happened.
How to deploy your Eclipse RAP application to Heroku
I understand that you want the startup to interact with the comments and I also understand you don't want them to miss an opportunity of receiving and answering feedback, but I'm wondering if it would make more sense to have these automated messages come from a Product Hunt twitter account that's not associated to a person. I believe this would solidify that it's an automated message.

I get the feeling that you're trying to play the messages off as not being automated as they come from Erik, but people already know they're automated. The gig is up. You could simply create an account such as "ProductHuntNotifier" or equivalent and remove any ambiguity.

I still think that the messages are both relevant and important.

You're in a unique position where you can even manually add and promote new startups to Product Hunt yourselves followed by automating a tweet out to the founder(s) and growth hack user acquisition that way. This seems to be the approach you're taking. I do applaud the fact you go so far as to do the legwork of finding the twitter accounts associated with the startup; that task is by no means automated. Most people can't take this approach as they have nothing beneficial to offer the user they're tweeting to.

Because there's some value add to what they're doing, I'm not sure I'd say it's a cut and dry case of calling it spam given it's not fully automated and the startups in question are getting promoted. It seems mutually beneficial in many ways.
I know it's early but Sky is reporting that Ukraine confirms it was an attack:

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/489796240163745793
Alternate speculation

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_29/Donetsk-militia-tak...

Air-To-Air Missile seems highly unlikely.

Rumors abound that Militia groups were bragging about downing a Ukrainian Transport

http://itar-tass.com/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1325017

Take everything with a grain of salt!
So, the blame is on Russia. https://www.facebook.com/butusov.yuriy/posts/802946763078955
Over generalizations. That is not the case for many SubUrban and Rural PDs. Arlington is not peaceful but Arlington PD has episodes of dysfunction that all the N.Tex folks are aware of. The Illegal drugs for "juicing" episode and drug peddling with in the PD is latest episode.
Most of the Arglington cops interact with ballpark, cowboys stadium and six flags/hurricane harbor folk. Even though its sixth biggest city in Texas - Arlington is more of a crowd management and driver safety-ish zone. So, not everything in Arlington is violent crime, no we are not talking about crompton or East LA - Arlington is way way better than those gang infested areas.

Your narrative is inaccurate at best.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but here's some relevant explanation of their color choices which largely seem to have been chosen for consistency with previous publications:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3292/pdf/sim3292_pamphlet.pdf
Page 10, search for the word color.
> Let's hope this plane won't be the Franz Ferdinand 100 years later.

I don't see how that's remotely possible.
There's a lot of idealism here. In general, I think it'd be great if the person pulling me over for speeding was different from the person who could violently shut down an armed robbery. It'd be great if the person arresting cyclists for biking unsafely, the person helping old ladies cross the street and the one breaking up family disputes was firewalled from the one with the gun. I live in a low-income apartment complex, and I try not to think much about the fact that my neighbor routinely calls people with guns to resolve non-violent disputes with her teenage daughter (I wish I was kidding or engaging in the slightest bit of hyperbole here.)

I also think it'd be great if cops had cameras on them at all times, and if they voluntarily did that themselves.

Unfortunately, that reality is a bit, well, unrealistic as well. My understanding is that APD has dash cams, but the footage often isn't released, especially in cases of suspected brutality, and often not even to those with an interest in clearing their names. Also, my understanding is that the Peaceful Streets folks arrested here never got their own cameras back, even though no charges were ultimately filed (I think the stolen camera count was at 4.)

I don't know what the solution is, but I don't think it is "let the watchmen wear their own cameras and decide what footage to release."
French blogger fined €1,500 for writing negative restaurant review
There's no evidence that the initial case for the acquisition was scrapped. On the contrary, it's almost a given that MS was aware of the post-deal costs. This is all quite normal for M&A deals.
There are numerous examples, although “like that” is of course a difficult requirement, given that we don’t know what happened yet :)

Some examples (in no particular ordering):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902 (air-to-air, not ground-to-air missile)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Rhodesia_Flight_825
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Rhodesia_Flight_827
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007 (air-to-air, not ground-to-air missile)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_TAAG_Angola_Airlines_Boeing_737_crash
looks like this is the flight

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS17/history/20140717/10...
Windows Phone on the Lumia 520 is indeed surprisingly fantastic. It's an easy recommendation for a phone that costs $50 new-in-box without a contract.
That popped into my head as soon as I saw this story as I was reading about TWA 800 recently. Strange coincidence considering how rare an event this is.
Clone your entire IT infrastructure in the cloud at the push of a button
Steady: Shoot Video With Cinematic Stabilization
Flightradar24 Live Flight Track of MH17
Bitter battle between motorists and bikers
> it's a brain-stem level parental instinct

Yep. We live on a quiet, somewhat-narrow street. There are always quite a few young families living on the block. Occasionally, a car will go speeding through the block to avoid a nearby stoplight. When our kids were little, every now and then we'd be in the front yard, chatting with neighbors, with various kids playing here and there. When a speeder came roaring our way, I would sometimes literally step into the street, stop the speeder, and "counsel" him (it always was a him) about safe driving with little kids around. Twenty years later, with our kids grown and gone, I don't have nearly so intense a reaction.
Downgrade and force some packages on Debian to a previous version
Same here. Just this morning I recalled TWA 800, the date always pops up from the calendar, I can't forget it.
Is it too much to speculate that Malaysia Airlines or Malaysia is being targeted?

Two flights in a year. Bringing a plane down from 33,000 feet is not that easy.
Windows needs better leadership and frankly someone from the outside at this point. Every time I hear Terry speak I have no idea what he is talking about (and I get the sense he doesn't either).

Kevin's management style is to give everyone a scorecard, Walmart Style, on metrics like "top apps achieved" or "total apps achieved" that drives all sorts of terrible behaviors in our field organizations working with developers. This is why we have a Kindle application on Windows Phone that is terrible quality. Nobody has any incentive to help Amazon make it great because its not on the scorecard.
> the good old boy networks you see in rural Texas

Arlington, a city of 370k smack between Dallas and Fort Worth is rural?

So the cops will get jumpy and start shooting once a hispanic kid shows up (which, one of them was) because they're good old boys from rural Texas (which Arlington isn't) should we keep digging or would you like to admit that your suppositions don't really have a foundation here?
If you are interested in this sort of thing, you might want to look up CopBlock or Photography Is Not A Crime. If you can tolerate the foil-hattery, this sort of effort also appears periodically on Prison Planet. And if you ever watched the television show COPS and wondered what it would look like if the footage were filmed from the suspect's perspective, just hit LiveLeak, Vimeo, or YouTube and search for "checkpoint videos".

The increasing prevalence of cameras in mobile phones, wearable action cameras such as GoPro brand devices, and over-the-air footage-uploading services such as Bambuser have really jolted this new niche of police brutality porn. Further court rulings, such as Glik v. Cunniffe, that reinforced a person's right to record police in public while performing their official duties, have only emboldened crusaders against the corruption behind the thin blue line.
I think it's safe to assume this also means the end of the Windows Phone/Android dual boot concept that has been floating around for a while: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2107863/microsoft-shakes-up-w...
> A defence expert has told the BBC that shooting down a plane at 10,000m (9.7 miles)

First off, 10,000m is 6.2 miles, not 9.7 miles.
Step Away From the Kool Aid
Malaysia Airlines should be shut down.

They can't keep track of their planes and can't properly investigate crashes.

Now they are sending a plane over an active war zone with air space restrictions (hint: even if its restricted to 10K, flying at 30K is not OK).

Feels like they are running a amateur shit show over there with little to no regulations.

I can picture bunch of ex-cab drivers who are no in charge of plane routing green lighting this flight in between their 100th smoke break.
I have no problem with research, my problem is with vague innuendo. More than that, most people aren't qualified to interpret such research, and people who talk about differences between the sexes are usually speaking about their personal beliefs while trying to wrap them in a veneer of science. I find it difficult to believe that a scientist who has done a thorough survey of the research would make a flippant remark like the one I replied to.
This is common in the UK you have an offer letter outlining the basics and accept on that basis

You have to have a contract within a month or 6 weeks(I cant remember off the top of my head) of starting.
There are some things in XPath that I really like. For example `x = ( a, b, c )' means: `(x == a or x == b or x == c)' which is quite handy sometimes. Also `(a,default)[1]' makes it easy to provide a default if a is null.
I recognize the irony. The reason it's ironic is because it's doomed to fail. You cannot raise money in order to lessen the influence of money. If this campaign does anything, it will simply invite opposing groups to raise more money in order to elect anti-campaign finance reform candidates.
Anyone have 4x recommendations for Android?
This just sucks. Ukraine used to be very nice and safe country for backpacking. Now it will turn into Somalia.
I think you're missing a "/s" at the end of your comment there...right?
What you describe is exactly what i am talking about. What you seem to fail to understand is that "without any driver" is nonsense and means "using the existing driver architecture".

You obviously dont understand the concept of a device driver or you would know that they dont "Live in a SoC in the device itself". What you experience with mass storage for example is a standardized abstraction layer for a very specific use case. Computers are used in broad circumstances with a multitude of devices which all require interfacing.

Let me try to simplify this for you: If you randomly draw a computer interfacable hardware device from a bag conainting one of each kind of these and plug it into either a Linux, OSX or Windows machine (3 of the most used home computers) the windows machine will get them working remarkably more often.
When playing the first Civ, my friends and I would start a game on one computer and then share the save file as a way to compete. Outside of MUDs and BBS games, I am trying to think of the first multiplayer game we played on token ring? Probably the Doom mod that let you do multi-player and run your own maps.
In terms of PM - I think many PMs (the good ones at least) should actually be dev leads. So maybe the right way of saying this is that we should fold them into the dev org as leads where they have the skills to do that.

The rest we should release.
> The commission is approved by parliament and suggested by the governments of the individual member states.

The EU parliament approval is done in secret. So you can't hold responsible your elected official for supporting someone you wouldn't support. What is the point of having EU Commisars selected in secrecy? What is the point of having EU Commissars elections where there is only one candidate?

Why they can't simply follow standard democratic procedures? Why all the secrecy and elections over one-candidate? What is it? An USSR polit-biuro?
Avherald might be slow, copy is at http://www.aeroinside.com/item/4365/malaysia-b772-near-donet...
While this is a neat idea, 600,000 titles seems to me to be a small figure.
Malaysia Airlines is a respected, professional airline. We have no idea what happened to either flight, and it's rather unfair to suggest Malaysia Airlines should be "shut down."