skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I toured the council CCTV office where I live, and was impressed by the fact (well, claim) that it was operated by council employees, not police officers (seemed true), and that the police could ask them to look out for things or for footage, but any kind of operational use by the police required high-level authorisation (the reverse wasn't true; as the parent indicates, the CCTV operators can and do alert the police to crimes and direct them to the perpetrators.)

> That reassured me it couldn't at that point be used as a dragnet.

Who gave you the tour? How do you know those procedures are followed? Is there any reliable oversight on what they actually do?

There are many cases of procedures like that not being followed. In fact, most organizations I've worked in, in any field, have a difficult time following procedures.
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I'm going to strongly disagree with this argument. You don't see wine critics advocating downing 1.5L bottles of grocery-store wine, you don't see food critics telling you to stuff your face with McDonald's.

If anything, presenting high-bar critiques has the potential to reduce abuse of cannabis by focusing on quality over quantity.
Here is a blog post announcing the project: http://www.ibuildthecloud.com/blog/2014/11/11/announcing-ran...

It looks like this is a renaming and refocusing of Sstampede.io, which was discussed before at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8210100
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but are the following all true

- You're running this business as a UK limited company named after the founders, who are based in the UK

- Your scheme involves third parties, probably outside your control, performing arbitrage trades on third party platforms in an unstable asset with variable liquidity characteristics in order to turn BTC into more BTC

- You're marketing a service as a "loan" offering a "return" within a specific range and offering assurances about vetting third parties using the service and covering losses, but don't include even a boilerplate terms of service or risk warning

- Nobody on the team has a background in compliance or due diligence

- You're not Bitcoin billionaires

Assuming the above are true, I hope you have a very good lawyer. Since at a glance you actually appear to be real, traceable people I'll assume you're acting in good faith and not running a Ponzi scheme which would be my first assumption based on the website's claims otherwise, but the chances of you heading in the same direction as Ponzi-scheme operators in the likely event of something outside your control going wrong are very high indeed. In all sincerity, I'd encourage you to trade less unless you have the backing of someone with a deep understanding of relevant UK law and even deeper pockets.
Unless something changed with regard to the crew (rowing) program (which historically had more mindshare amongst MIT students), it's likely largely random. In Division III sports, you tend to have high variance in performance, since athletics are seldom the top priority of any of the students. It's probably a combination of solid coaching with luck off the field (which athletes the team was able to recruit) and luck on the field.

Next year, the football team will have a recruiting advantage over the crew (rowing) team, and you may see a long-term shift in football performance relative to crew performance. On the other hand, most US high schools have football teams but no crew teams. Incoming MIT students who didn't play on their HS football teams (most of them) perceive they're at less of a disadvantage competing in crew vs. competing in football. At least, these were my perceptions as an MIT freshman almost 2 decades ago.
\displaystyle makes things in $...$ format like things in \[...\] but still inline, so it doesn't squash fractions. \dot puts a dot, usually meaning a time derivative.
bzr is so strange. If its connection got stalled (third-world GSM or WiFi) its "stream" would hang. If a process has been killed due to a signal, garbage would remain. And if you run bzr check it will use about half GB of traffic, as if comparing the whole repo byte-by-byte.

git is much saner.
I like StackExchange sites. My favorites stackoverflow.com and programmers.stackexchange.com
You can chat with people there, discuss the white-board questions etc
> Or you being from a minority routinely targeted by police. These are not things you'd expect or even fathom in the UK but it happens.

How about Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians?
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"physics math" is pretty good for a biologist http://xkcd.com/435/.
> Looks like you are the same jdoliner behind RethinkDB
There are many great people behind RethinkDB, 2 of them are involved in pfs actually. I am however the only one named jdoliner :)

> Why Btrfs and not ZFS? Licensing? Features? Lack of availability of ZFS hosts? [1]
This came down to minimizing dependencies, Docker uses btrfs so we know it's going to be installed anywhere we deploy. I actually think that ZFS is better and am interested in using it in the future.

> Joyent just open-sourced Manta, is the timing a coincidence?
Yeah total coincidence, I haven't gotten a chance to read a ton about it but it seems interesting. One big difference is that we intend to fill out a full set of git-like with things such as branching and merging. Another is that our model of MapReduce is very deeply intertwined with this set of git-like semantics.

Thanks for the kind words and zfshosting looks awesome. I'd love to chat about ZFS with you sometime.
That seems like a pretty good business idea. Even for 25c I'd buy it. Especially at like airports.
What's the license? I don't see anything in any of the source files, nor the README, nor any files such as LICENSE/COPYING/etc at the top of the repo.
Evian is the only non flavored water that I have tasted that actually has a different taste to it.

Either way I dont drink bottled water because I dislike tap water. Most of the times I dont have a container or a tap to fill up with water. So I am stuck getting a Dasani or Evian from a gas station or vending machine at work.
agree, it's definitely not enough for anyone who wants to really understand git, but definitely enough to at least get people in the right ballpark of how things work, and maybe draw analogues to whatever system they came from (hg/SVN/whatever)
I like this way of using numpy. This resembles the sieve of eratosthenes, so you'd think it was fast.

However `n%p[-1]` isn't fast to do, your inner loop ends up taking nearly linear time. At least linear in the final number of primes, which is larger than `N/logN`. Hence your algorithm runs in `N^(3/2)` whereas eratosthenes is `NloglogN`.

Funny how many versions of this algorithm there are out there.
This reads like the blog post of an Illuminati truther, or something I'd read that comically proves Gabe Newell's latest public appearance confirms Half Life 3 is going to be released.
These hex strings are beginnings of md5 checksums of these files:

sh-4.3$ md5sum error.33ab1eb5.svg
33ab1eb5129ee5085793166d2f691dae error.33ab1eb5.svg

I believe the point of appending them to the name is a kind of versioning: one'd want to be able to change these files and cause everyone to drop their cached version. This way when one changes a file, the filename changes too (most likely), so the cached old version will not be used.
"As a language maybe but for usage, not so much"

Yeah, I agree with your points. Which is a shame really.
And then biggest to stagnation or collapse. We've seen that no market or country can ever avoid this faith. It just takes longer and more catastrophic in countries where government puts a veil on everything to keep from prying eyes, and alarm ringers.

I mean if Li Kai Shing, the richest guy in HK sells all his real estate assets in China, it says something.

Some warning signs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcGM5nWYcmw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbDeS_mXMnM
+1 what dagw said, also if you have a c720 like me, you will probably be interested in this: http://www.reddit.com/r/chrubuntu/comments/1rsxkd/list_of_fi...

The c720 touchpad drivers made it into the most recent (3.17) kernel, which is good, but with most distros this will require you to compile the kernel yourself. I've had issues both with a normal linux installation and crouton chroots; it's hard to recommend either option wholeheartedly. Generally my experience has led me to use cloud-based alternatives when I can; it's a nice experience to boot Chrome OS for the first time, sign in, and have all my Chrome apps, settings, and wallpaper available in at most a couple minutes. I can particularly recommend cloud9 as an IDE. Together with a VPS for my "real" linux work, I am becoming more accustomed to using Chrome OS exclusively.
There is a nice DNN (DotNetNuke) community, it's web CMS written in .Net. Lot's of JavaScript (no C though). you're welcome to join and contribute.
So how does this compare to actually using React/Flux? It looks like all the virtual DOM stuff no longer exists, which seems to me like you would lose a lot of the niceties of React. Why not just use the actual Flux architecture with Backbone as stores and React as the view?
A bit meta, but companies use someone like Sheet Labs to offer API's as a product.

https://sheetlabs.com/
Works fine with http://aspell.net/win32/ and two lines of elisp.
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I was just thinking about this the other day. Yes, a memory-mapped-file is different, because the API is still that of a file. The memory mapping is just a behind-the-scenes optimisation.
25k is for 100 developers, and we actually have more users than that. GHE is really pricey. However, I don't hear complaints about GitLab, probably because everyone was coming from SVN, and they have little experience with GH.
If they were flexible enough to be collapsed then shipping and storage would be significantly cheaper than bottled water too.
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that breaks on arrival
If you do, I highly recommend avoiding the types of graphs that git draws for you and that some tools show. (The ones that show the branching history.) As a beginner, I found the graphs way more confusing than what was actually happening, as it didn't communicate anything I could understand. In fact, it made it look like something else was happening than what actually was.
Right, in the case of the roomba and the vending machine, the human decision is 'turn on the roomba' and 'push the vending machine button'

The assumption of the roomba creator is that 'anything on the floor can be vacuumed, living or otherwise.' The moral choice, with regards to the life impacted by the roomba, is to disregard the potential value of the life. It's all debris.

The assumption with the vending machine is similar. The only value considered by the creator is in the transaction involving the operator's money and producing the material the operator wants. Anything else is considered without moral value.

Morality can be as much about the lack of value placed on something as it is about the value placed on something. I'm talking about moral agency, the implications of operating a device, and not about how a robot "feels" about doing something, for the lack of more accurate word.
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You meant.. luckily!!
You can always start your own projects.
Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document.
Insists on cookies, they do. Read their page? Not I!
Because Debian doesn't provide enterprise support.
Let say that you've got a critical bug somewhere, do you really think you can tell your boss 'Yeah I asked on IRC / forums / mailing list to get an ETA'
Few benefits:

- no need to diff the whole DOM tree

- no need to write JSX, you can simply use DOM nodes

the render() method still gives you most of the niceties of React, ie a declarative view of your DOM, without the nasty inclusion of HTML inside your JS controllers.

PS ToDoMVC performance benchmark shows the to-do app to be about 3-4x faster than React.
That was... an awesome explanation :)

Thank you
Thank you, I'll certainly check it out. I do have some (admittedly outdated) experience in .Net as well.
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Yes. It's called math.
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Remember, bonuses are discretionary and subject to the overall financial health of the company. What affects your bonus the most is if there is any money available for bonus payments regardless of your eligibility. Everyone on the team may be doing awesome, but if you are not turning a profit, then where is that money going to come from?
Do you have an understanding about the options mental health care has available?

It does not matter that people that create startups are logical, etc. This doesn't mean science-based medical health won't help. From what I have observed, mental health care includes things like medicines to help with inbalances as well as offering things like groups, help with stress management and coping skills for a person's situation. It isn't about changing your world view, it is about helping you not be miserable.

All of which are individualized to the person's needs as possible. 'Do what works and discard the rest'.

As far as 'extending beyond the boundary of humanity today' ... that's a bit diffficult to even think about if I'm having trouble convincing myself that I do, indeed, need to shower and cook food and go to work today. Research? Have to have concentration for that. The therapist isn't there to research everything, just to get you to the point that you can research yourself and help you if needed.
Every maintainers dream, lazy contributors!
Figure out how to break the monopoly on decent broadband that these companies have. If I had a viable alternative, I'd have switched away from Comcast as soon as they made NetFlix pay extra. There's an Ars Technica article about how hard it is to start a new ISP. We could address some of the roadblocks to starting an ISP. That'd help some.

Does the conflict of interest between streaming video and cable tv have any legal effects? Maybe anti-trust laws?

Ultimately, power given to the government is seldom taken back. I prefer the dangers of our current system to giving the government more power.
People who haven't applied to Google yet: be warned that it's a long process that will take you a lot of time, and that the rejection rate is really high.

On the plus side: you will probably learn a lot.
I do have a very small handful of my own projects on the go, for sure. I just wish I could do a little bit more to contribute back to a community that I've drawn a lot from (knowledge and tangible products).
I disagree. To me it's more like saying "Tylenol" instead of paracetamol.
Here's my .emacs setup for spell checking in Windows [1].

(setq-default ispell-program-name "c:/Aspell/bin/aspell.exe")

For on-the-fly spell checking in various modes.

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda() (flyspell-mode 1)) )
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook (lambda() (flyspell-mode 1)) )

[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AspellWindows
The article did update with a benchmark link comparing a couple of models to a fusion io card.

http://www.percona.com/blog/2014/08/12/benchmarking-exflash-...

So the 95%, write latency is 1-1.5 msec for one model, and 2.5-3.5 msec for another model. Maybe representing SLC/MLC flash?

95% read latencies are maybe 350 or 250 usec.
We actually haven't spent time thinking about this yet. Sorry about that we'll have one up soon.
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if you can implement those policies without NSA surveillence overreach or police abusing their powers with civil asset forfeiture or Obamacare raising the cost of insurance or setting up a financial system with banks too big to prosecute, then I'd be all for it. Over the past year or so I'm convinced this is impossible, and that the existing value system the U.S. Is built on is flawed. I hope this has not struck you as strange.
I do know, and Dan has an enormous amount of empathy and kindness. But it is a hard job, it takes a toll, and I think this thread demonstrates how much he's willing to re-visit what he's said. (Even though I'm quite sympathetic to what Thomas said upthread.)
From my experience, most people issues with git is because they do not really understand how it works (or try to apply what they've seen with other cvs).
Now I agree that having to understand internals might be seen as an engineering failure, however
* internals are pretty quick to cover
* for students learning software development, I thought it would be interesting to see that you can have very few low-level objects that offer powerful high-level actions
From the article: "On average, the marijuana users who participated in the study consumed the drug three times per day."

^ Of course there's a brain decline if you smoke it 3 times a day. That's being perpetually high. If you drink alcohol heavily 3 times a day you'll also decline pretty rapidly.
Every reason mentioned except the main one - that you can't charge $4 for a cup w/tap water in it? Also when fast food/day-to-day restaurants give you a cup for water, it's tiny and uncovered.

I would prefer tap water in all cases. It is never a convenient choice.

edit: If you wanted to legislate effectively (rather than in a Bloombergian manner), just require that tap water be a first class citizen at restaurants (same cups, same sizes), and that the purchase of soda/bottled water cannot be involved in a package discount, unless tap water would give you the same discount.
> I bet I can find 10 succeeding that use ruby or node for everyone that uses Erlang.

But that's not the question, is it? There are a lot of companies succeeding with ruby or node, but also a lot of companies failing with them. I'll bet the strike rate is better for Erlang companies.
The tap water in my apartment is disgusting. I tried filtering it, but it still tastes terrible. It doesn't even do a good job of cleaning my dishes in my dishwasher. I buy Poland Spring by the case, keep it in the refrigerator, and drink that instead. I have nothing against drinking tap water in principle, but my actual tap water leaves a lot to be desired.
Not even close:
"Debian-LTS will not be handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success (with some overlap in people involved)."
>There is no conceptual difference between Alexa and Siri, Google Now or Cortana.

Yes there is. Alexa is always listening, even when I'm not saying anything it needs to hear. And by "listening," I mean "sending audio data back to Amazon Cloud for processing.

No, thank you.
I'm trying to tackle this problem here (as in, just starting up again after brief hiatus): https://github.com/atomirex/umbrella

My approach is to store files in a (J)Git repo which then get indexed on each device for structured data, rather than replicating structured data directly. (i.e. imagine a contacts database where each contact is in the repo as a separate JSON doc or similar). Java only for now, thanks to the amount of libs it needs to integrate, and that it hasn't reached proof of concept yet.
Totally agree. Many of the lessons learned in reliable systems on the internet are only beginning to be applied in the POS space.

Compared to the pricing that retailers are used to paying (easily $5000-$25000 per terminal) an iPad is a deal even if it must be replaced more often.

As you say, the depth to replace an entire Micros or Aloha setup would take years of development. (I have extended and developed POSs myself.) That is why I think the POS(s) with open data standards will win out, by integrating with existing inventory and financial tools.

There is a ton of room and will be competition, so focus will be key. The POS vendor no longer needs to develop the hardware or database, just the software. But -- high-volume POS UX is unlike any normal web or app UX. A intuitive POS that drives sales and proves it with easily exportable/readable data? I don't think there's a clear leader yet.
Windows 11? There isn't going to be a Windows 11, the version after 10 will be Windows 20, or maybe just Windows Cloud.
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-Tom Chi (co-creator Google Glass)

-Grady Booch (creator the Unified Modeling Language)

-David Heinemeier Hansson (inventor of Ruby on Rails)

-Brian Fox (invented the GNU Bash shell)

-Hakon Wium Lie (inventor of CSS)

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Fiji is unique, because it's softened more so than others. In my opinion, it's delicious. While I normally don't buy battled water, if I must, it's Fiji, if available.
Groupon says it'll end trademark spat with open-source community (update)
PHP's new trippy logo?
And yet, this is the help page for git push:

Updates remote refs using local refs, while sending objects necessary to complete the given refs.

That's helpful! Thanks Git!