skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Just for the sake of argument, why rent when you can own? For $99 a year, you can buy a 2-TB external drive (Seagate's is $90 on Amazon at this time) and keep backing up your stuff to fresh hardware.

I do this (home backups), but I also value having offsite backups.

I don't see Prime photos as a reason to signup for Prime by itself, but hell, as a longtime Prime member who has signed up just for shipping, I'm obviously very happy with how they've continued to role out perks.

I don't even plan to use Photos (OS X isn't supported yet, anyway), but I love the demonstration of their commitment to Prime members. More than anything, that's where I think things like this are valuable.
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Very cool! I'm not a Scheme fan (Common Lisp all the way!), but it looks like some nifty stuff. Nicely done.
This article desperately needs to pull some numbers out of proper studies instead of asking a doctor whether or not it's good to stay seated.

Because it's not. We know that, we want to know how bad.
Oddly enough, I tried but was unsuccessful:

exiftool -gps:all= IMG_2273.JPG

ended up changing the Thumbnail Offset within that file, which is a protected EXIF item that I don't know how to change.
Why not just use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS and Avahi?
Also there are many other variables that could affect this analysis that aren't explored or mentioned. Just two I can think of off the top of my head:

- Users logged into stripe probably buy more stuff online. Maybe they donate more money because they have more money.

- The fact that a ton of repeat donations came in the last week might have been due to email campaigns or some other external thing. It isn't necessarily a fundamental principle of fundraising drives (though it certainly could be). Same thing could explain mobile usage driving up (SMS campaign or something).

Overall I think it is cool that data is being shared like this, and it is interesting. But at the same time, the post shouldn't be speaking about data in such absolutes... no confidence intervals, few caveats mentioned or explored, conclusions are made with bolded certainty.
A home requires: pmi (possibly, often on jumbos) until 80% ltv; insurance, at $300-$350 per month per million dollars; taxes, at roughly $1k per month per million dollars; earthquake insurance, particularly if you're near a fault line; and maintenance, of which I'd budget $5k/year on a million dollar home. Maybe more for CAs housing stock. So that $6k becomes $4k for a mortgage.

Using a house for retirement savings is for idiots; that's an enormous gamble on the future of CA 35 years from now.

The Madison house, btw, is in a location walkable from many offices; Madison is more competent than the bay area, so while buses aren't great, the roads are very drivable in many directions. Someone with even an hour long round trip commute has a very long commute there (except, perhaps, after snowfall.) So you could probably use one car, or one commuter car and one beater car for a couple. Not two cars as you need on the peninsula or sf for a couple with kids.

Not to mention that $70k doesn't capture all the other things significantly cheaper in Madison: food, daycare, and education (many Madison schools are quite good) being the most important. Many peninsula schools are quite good, but not in sf.
Or all in one go: http://vimeo.com/91200667
The expert in this article is very subtly suggesting that parenting that does not acknowledge a biological difference in behavior between boys and girls is a factor in fewer women in the sciences.
Office has always been the exception to that rule. Look at the long, long, long history of Office on Mac.
> No they couldn't

Of course they could, because you gave them a license to do so.

Facebook and Google do this explicitly already: they use your images and written content, which you presumably have the original copyright on, to sell their products and services (customized ads and the like). They haven't done it with Stross' novel yet, but the legal issues are the same.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/11/you-make-ads-better/
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I am building https://www.rdrbot.com to (among other sources) aggregate RSS feeds. So far 100+ RSS feeds have been setup most are fairly active.
Probably because I submitted it at lunchtime.
You state this as if I've claimed that I'm going to create a Netflix clone just to prove something, which of course is nonsense. Netflix is a large company that has been around for years, yet their solution remains relatively simple for the scale of their operation.
People don’t get their news from Facebook, they get it from journalists
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Erm ... what "doesn't work this way"?

The GP said there were numerous issues identified with Telegram's design, all of which were brushed aside by Telegram devs. I asked to name a couple of them.
Those who are interested in this will want to read the book "The drama of the gifted child."
An appreciation: “Command H.Q.”
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Doing exactly what you are suggesting, I will tell you why it's a much bigger cost than just the cost of the drive.

- The Seagate drive you mention has horrible failure rates, IIRC.

- Unless you know how to set up and monitor a ZFS pool, don't bother. Your data will not survive without this.

- Are you confident enough in your backup solution? Are your backups offsite? Are they offsite on another ZFS pool, or similar mechanism? Do you check your backups for integrity? What is your strategy for when backups (or original data) is corrupt?

- Does your home grown solution provide a secure sync capability between all your devices? Alternatively, do you have access to the photos from all your devices?

- Does your home grown solution allow your friends and family to view/download a subset of the photos from any of their devices?

- Is your solutions online a reasonable percentage of the time?

- Is your home grown solution as fast as AWS? As in, if you are traveling and want access to your data, how fast will it download/upload?

Basically, unless you plan on spending quite a bit of time setting this up, and know what you are doing, it is much much cheaper to pay from Prime, or similar.

Edit: BTW, the box you put these drives into must have ECC RAM. Without it, expect corruption. Same goes for your other box, the backup you host offsite.
F# is a remarkably less powerful language than scala. Along with the cost of Visual Studio + windows licenses, the Scala/open source ecosystem is just a better choice.
Which is also why we don't get a good release of WKRP. It leads to the idiocy of no money coming in is better than some money coming in.
Hear a homemade synthesizer turn weather into music
gradi3nt had it right

Free fall feels like floating
Standing still (in the presence of the Earth's gravity) feels like being accelerated.
Balls reminds me of Tetrisphere for Nintendo 64. Neat.
From our users, the most feedback we have heard about this functionality is: "I want to change my card details, but it keeps bringing up my old card"

The solution is to put the cursor in the card number box and hit delete, but this is not obvious in the UI.

I am not aware of Mayday users raising the concern that their details have been saved.
AS a former record label owner and recording studio of mostly Punk and hardcore music I say 100% it wasn't different. It was for the majority of people the desire of the same and acceptance.

Acceptance is the reason why anyone dresses (99% of the time) so if you dress this way to make certain people mad your doing it to be accepted by the people who are happy you did.

I just wore plain Levi's, Doc Martin shoes (Still do) and polo shirts. I stood out in the crowd and the pit as "The Old Guy". I was accepted by the tattooed and the pierced just the same as accepted by the main stream. Point being everyone just ends up fitting in somewhere that will accept them.

That's the reason people dress as "Nerds" and coders dress as coders and CEOs as CEOs.
Take this as my own personal opinion, but before I went back into engineering, I worked with a bunch of developers out there to integrate with all kinds of our stuff - and outside of game development, C/C++ isn't the most popular choice. We have some code samples [0], but I see what you mean.

The office team moving away from the old plugin model and opening up the gates for JS apps and REST APIs made life dramatically easier for a lot of folks. So I assume that samples were written with the most popular choices in mind. Internally, C++ is king [0], of course.

It's also worth pointing out that we always accept code samples from the community :)

[0]: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/site/search?f%5B0%5D....
[1]: http://cppcon.org/bonus-talk-cxx-in-ms-office-2014/
Hipsters are people who appropriate bits of other subcultures, without paying their dues in those subcultures. A guy who went to art school supported by wealthy parents and now works in an office designing brand logos, will grow a beard and get sailor tattoos and wear the clothes of a manual worker, and he'll claim this makes him "authentic" - to anyone who'll listen, with the clear implication that he is superior to them in some inexplicable way.

That's why people hate hipsters - what they call irony is actually "being an asshole".
The problem with the read-everything-into-memory approach is that this is not how the JVM ecosystem works. Things written for the JVM use the classpath primarily, and things in memory secondarily if at all.

We can't control the fact that the CLJS compiler, for example, is looking for source files on the classpath instead of in some FileSet object proxy. If we admit the use of tools written by the Java community at large we suffer by adding another leaking half-abstraction to the mix.

We actually did some experiments with fuse filesystems but the performance is just not there yet. When fuse performance becomes comparable to Java NIO it may become a viable option, and would solve all of these problems. You could then have a "membrane" approach, where the JVM is only manipulating a filesystem proxy, and you have complete control over when and how to reify that and write to the filesystem.
>I don't think Scala usage will grow much more now that Java 8 is released

Do you think the main reason people use Scala is because of lambdas and type inference?
Maybe I don't quite understand this article but I am having problems with quite a few statements there.

For example:

“If I try 20 things,” Harvey says, “then there’s a 95 percent chance that I’ve got a false positive. Just by chance, something is going to correlate.”

Yes, this is true and we also knew this before from statistics. But what does this have to do with investment research? Is he saying that just because two things are correlated, they are good investment candidates? I certainly hope not. You need Causation, not Correlation, i.e. you need leading indicators of the right kind.

Does Causation suffers from the “multiple testing” problem? I suspect, Yes, you might find something that is a leading indicator more easily. I am not sure that it's a problem for investment research though, because Causations are rare and you could use anything you could find.

If the authors think that correlations are good enough for investment research, I kind of doubt their qualifications to write about investment research in a first place. :-)

Btw, I agree with their conclusion that most investment research accessible to public is bogus.

Another example:

"Even if a fund does consistently beat the market, it may just be a coincidence. With so many investment funds out there, some will overperform in a way that seems statistically significant just by chance."

This is very true as a conclusion, but is Statistics really the cause? If a fair coin continues to come up "heads", this is certainly possible, but such an event becomes increasingly unlikely.

Instead blaming statistical effects, an alternative explanations could be that the fund is using "writing insurance" investment strategy. For example, selling naked put options for years in a row. They would get an nice additional income, thus "beating" the market. Until one day, the underlying stock tanks and the hedge fund will loose a lots of money. All the gains in previous years will be wiped out and, yes it was a coincidence that they "outperformed" the market before. Of course, hedge fund does not care much, since they collected fees from you in previous years.

My point is that this may not have much to do with statistics, especially if a fund outperform for multiple years in a row.

A lighthearted joke (please don't take it seriously) - change the title to:

"Duke economist: Most research on why investments do well is all wrong, including the paper I just published!" :-)
"Obey"
Yes, yes -- this is a good comment.

shoots your comment into the all-consuming hellfire of the sun
What is JSON?
Upgrading car for UberX
The sign up workout actually looks pretty good.
Teaching kids in Mexico to code
This should be common knowledge to anyone not on the autism spectrum.

You don't say "I really love your design." and end it there.

"What inspired your design?"

"How did you choose that X?"

"Why did you make Y like that?"

And suddenly you're conversing and inspiring.
So how is it fundamentally different from what they had before - the Compute Engine, App Engine, BigQuery, Prediction API, etc?
So does this ability to edit in the Dropbox app mean I no longer have any need to buy the iOS versions of Office?
Retrocausality could send particles' information back to the future
Like what, for instance?
Interesting to think that complexity can be a result of trying to do proper software architecture. It occurs to me that the way software is typically built probably approaches the problem of complexity in software architecture from the wrong end. We try to build software systems that minimize complexity, have predictable behavior and operate under controlled conditions. Most software has extremely low tolerances for aberrant behavior.

Looking at biological systems though, that is the opposite of how reliable systems are constructed. If we design from the assumption of failure and runaway complexity, with watchdog and recovery processes, and using emergent behavior from small discrete components to obtain large-scale results, then we can build software components that are much better able to recover from unexpected interaction and produce more reliable systems. It seems to me that this is what the theory should be. I just have no idea how to do that in the real world when building a web app, aside from recycling server processes every now and then.
Hipster - noun, a fashionable person you dislike.
Doubling is actually pretty memory efficient in real world scenarios. i.e. in libxml, using 2n buffers wasted less memory than an additional 10 bytes on the end of each.

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2012-May/msg00009.html
Scientists reverse aging process in mice; early human trials 'promising results'
Uber and Partners Are Pushing Drivers into Subprime Loans
That's a fair concern. The sample sizes here are relatively high: you can probably back some estimates out yourself from the numbers given in the post (millions of dollars raised, mean donation of $88, 14% of donations in the last week were repeat, etc). I'll also say that the comparisons in the post are significant to a 99% confidence level.
We were in two primaries, and our candidate won in one of them, in another he moved from 9% to 24 or so of the vote.

Today is the day we learn more. Hopefully some of our candidates will win. Another important factor to keep in mind is that this an experiment. The knowledge we generate about what it takes to move elections on this issue, and the attention we have brought to the issue of money in politics are an important part of our goals.

(Disclaimer: I work for Mayday)
You could purchase them in iTunes on your computer and then on your phone, go to App Store -> Updates -> Purchased and install from there.
I've been thinking about this (JavaScript object persistent storage) for a while: The dilemma is circular objects and the prototype chain. What should be taken from the run-time and what should be taken from the persistent object?
I wrote this post about how to be more productive for starters
> Best case, say we lie on a number of the form 2^2r, e.g. 64.

> We travel 1, -2, +4, ... , -32, 64.

> We've travelled 127 steps.

I think it's 190 = 64+2*(2^0+2^1+2^2+2^3+2^4+2^5) = 64+2+4+8+16+32+64

> Overall this takes method travels approximately between 2n and 8n.

I think asymptotically the range is [3n,9n]
Thanks to the EFF for doing this!
product is engineering (as in negotiation of constraints) as much as building. i look for that.
Technology groups hit back at spy chief claims
From the conclusion:

The data indicates functional languages are better than procedural languages; it suggest that strong typing is better than weaking typic; that static typing is better than dynamic; and that managed memory usage is better than unmanaged.

Obviously not the last word, but interesting study nonetheless.
Wow this is insulting.
This is Mario from Mayday PAC. Yeah, our last release had those 2018 issues. The data actually comes from several different vendors and we plan on normalizing it all better post election. The 2018 data should have been registered as 2014. (Obviously not 2018)
I was looking for that too, it seems to be missing indeed. Opened an issue[1].

[1] https://github.com/techfort/LokiJS/issues/14
Pairing is an equivalent of connecting devices with a physical wire. When you stream music you want to know exactly where it goes, or e.g. which BT headset is connected to which phone in the room.

Pairing can be combined with connecting in a lot of situations though, and I believe the Bluetooth standard, as well as implementations are moving towards simplification. For example, I'd rather have a list of BT audio speakers around me directly in my music player app, then I'd just tap on one of them and hear music playing straight away. This is a protocol/API/UI issue rather than a fundamental limitation.
Yep, here is the video explaining how they did it: http://vimeo.com/105729794
Ah, that would make sense.
I invite everyone to read Leviticus and not laugh at the things that are hell-worthy. They shouldn't take my, your, or any other logical gymnastics as their opinion; reading the book is sufficient to determine how insane these trespasses really are.

But speaking to the correleation between Jesus and the Old Testament, everyone should also read Isaiah 52:13 through 54. This is the savior foretold in the old testament, and where matthew/john/paul/ringo draw most of their confirmation of Jesus' credentials. Does this sound like the Jesus we all know?
It sounds like one of those negative political ads, I've been called arrogant, ignorant, and disrespectful. Of course disenfranchised has to be thrown in there too. You're taking my statement way too seriously. Of course people will bitch whether they voted or not.

Believe me - Even with my party's candidate having almost no chance of winning, I still go vote. I'm voicing my opinion. I feel lucky to be able to do so. I know going in it won't swing the vote, doesn't mean I should just stay home then.
That's interesting, thanks for the response. I've been getting the email updates and it's hard to get the big picture from those.

So the biggest goal of this process is learning how to move elections?

I shouldn't be concerned that the media isn't mentioning MayDay as a factor in the elections or control of congress?
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You are welcome, glad that they were helpful. My recommendation going forward: try the official documentation first always, it is of very high quality.

* You are right on the usual workflow

* I haven't used Twine so I can't comment on it

Additional things you might want to look into:

* Using ssh[2] to upload to PyPI

* Signing distributions with OpenPGP

[1] http://buildout.org

[2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypissh
To the extent I think the label means anything, my definition of it includes not being very thoughtful.

So there is a sense where following a trend is less thoughtful than doing something you like (but I also think pretending that you can know this when you see it is the worse thing).

So my usage of it wouldn't really expect self identification, it would be a (slightly) negative judgement of the person.
Reading that design booklet was marvellous. I loved tracking the evolution of the idea.

However, I feel as if there's some risk taken in delivering an entire booklet that slowly tracks the germination of an idea. This risk seems to consist of two aspects:

1) the assumption is made that the entire booklet will actually be read, and that the reader doesn't become sidetracked by e.g. disagreeing with some statements early on

2) the idea proposed in the end has to be very good, a final proposition to merit the entire booklet. Booklet-style design probably doesn't lend itself to rapid, iterative generation of ideas.
There's always the possibility that you won't necessarily always want to direct so much of your shopping on Amazon as to recoup that Prime cost. A new player may enter or a current one change such that price, selection, service, etc. makes it more compelling to direct more of your commerce through them. There is also the possibility that Amazon itself changes to be less attractive as a commerce option.

This move by Amazon is absolutely about lock-in. Get their tentacles into as much unrelated to commerce as possible and you will likely keep your commerce with them too.
I've always thought BT pairing kind of backward - the computer is the 'master' in the protocol; the headset is the 'slave'. But its the headset I have picked up; I know which one I have in my hand, but the computer (iphone/music station) knows about many of them. So I have to select one from a list, and maybe I don't know which one in the list is the one in my hand. MAC address? really. How about vendor string? What if I have two of those? A mess.

Instead, the headset could scan for the computer, select it and voila we're bound.
Dissenters: yes, there are exceptions. I might absolutely insist on particular formats, spending more to hire an assistant to transfer discs to DRM-free despite the package including iTunes/Windows-Media/UltraViolet downloads providing clean transfers in convenient formats. I might have a sudden compulsion to watch 120 episodes of a half-century-old TV show right now (overnight delivery for $4 intolerable!), crappy amateur transfers from pre-VHS videotape being entirely tolerable on my HDTV.

But nigh unto all customers aren't so pedantic and technical. Most don't even know what "torrents" are. Most have a library of DVD/BD discs & multiple players and few qualms about expanding it. Most of those wanting digital versions are capable of following simple directions to download the included high-quality digital transfers, and find little value in DRM-free versions when the provided formats work just fine on what most people have. And most viewers won't be squeamish about shelling out a buck-fifty per episode.

Yeah, I used to share such pedantic geeky views. Then I discovered I had other things to do and get wound up about, having been burned too often by technical difficulties and crappy rips. For a few taps and a few hours' pay, I'll get the complete collection - in convenient & pristine form - in time for a mind-searing weekend of '60s campy superheros.

ETA: ok, it releases 11/11. We're talking '60s Batman, I can wait a couple weeks. For those vanishingly small number of people who can't, well, there's always torrents of crummy transfers from ancient videotape recorders.