skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a major release with ton of changes - there are going to be bugs. That doesn't mean entire release was useless.

Besides this article isn't about execution quality - it is about where Google's alleged lack of focus is - it said Lollipop was all about Material design focus where as in reality feature focus wise it was a well balanced release.
Actually in the US you can find some 'alternative' places to stay under $30 a night. A "hostel" with a shared shower is not bad at all if you're the only adult who wakes up early in the morning.
I use both -- Dropbox and Arq/Glacier. Dropbox does have fantastic accessibility and it's irreplaceable for sync, but for stuff like family photos it's nice to have a very cheap backup-of-my-backup
Windows is openly licensed. You just roll up to the website and sign up, then you can do what you like.

Under the US Government-imposed anti-trust rules, Microsoft wasn't even allowed to charge the top OEMs different prices. Otherwise it could have discriminated against the "bad" ones.
For the non-technical, can you explain the search engine you are building.

Also, what is your interest? Are you more interested in coding the search engine, or is the project irrelevant and you just wanted to stream yourself coding? In other words has the streaming of yourself coding become the project itself? If you are going to stream another project after the search engine, are you looking for ideas or do you have other pet projects you want to work on?

My suggestion, if you are trying to build an audience, crowd source your next project idea. Maybe give your audience a few ideas, allow them to nominate other ideas, and then have them vote. This way you build in the largest audience prior to beginning...and not unsurprisingly I have a project idea if you are interested.
Just amazing idea !
I use Mint 17 Mate Edition--Mate is the fork of Gnome 2. It just works and gives me a familiar interface.

You might want to check out guake as a terminal and gnome do as a quicksilver replacement.
On the same note as Synapse, give Albert a try; it's inspired a bit more directly by Alfred

https://github.com/ManuelSchneid3r/albert
Site is not loading. I can only view cached version (via Google)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
> Microsoft have never been a consumer software company

I guess you've forgotten that people lined up to purchase Windows 95 the way that people used to line up to by the early iPhones.

Microsoft has always been a consumer company; they just haven't always been good at it.
Is there a proof of concept that exploits this ?
It makes far more sense to simply buy an international SIM card upon arrival. In Thailand for example you can get seven days unlimited 3G (faster than in the usa) for just $5 at 7/11. Now that carriers must unlock phones you can do this far more easily.

The downside is you get a new phone number. If you travel frequently it might make sense to abandon calling altogether and simply setup an SIP forwarding solution.
Would it not be easy to print a fake?

I don't really understand why "can be easily faked" is how you're justifying this.
I really wanted to use it with Ubuntu but it was incompatible with an encrypted /home. The daemon would start at boot and, unable to mount my target directory in /home, would create a new target directory in / and fill that up.

I opened a ticket and their support people seemed confused by Linux, and told me to check the user forums. Since this is a paid product I saw this a poor service and cancelled.

It did look interesting but I got the impression that Linux wasn't really supported - just that a Linux client existed.
Your app might be better than an open protocol if the open protocol doesn't do what you want it to. RSS is great, until you want to add a feature that RSS doesn't include. And let's face it, if you tie your business to standards ratified by standards bodies you're going to need funding for the next ten years or however long it takes them to ratify something.
I think that the actual chasm is in the lack of understanding of the architecture process that the OP shows. Also, I think he means "A function, not a job" because Role is actually a synonym for Job in IT services. Not being picky, just a little bit pricky. :-)
There IS an army of developers waiting to make this happen.

https://www.myvessyl.com/

Look. It's a cup that tells you what you're drinking and records it. Why? I don't know. To lose weight? Why not just drink water? I don't know!

And it gets stupider from there. We have an obsession here with recording every little thing. That's great, if that data changes behavior. But some data just tells you what you already know, and stresses you out.

People in the 1st world have enough data. What we need is clarity! I want to retreat to a monastery sometimes.
A buffer overflow is a honest security mistake. This was a security sabotage.
I think it rapidly turns into "How much effort are you willing to use to make yourself more secure?" There's diminishing returns as you increase your money and effort devoted. $50 and a couple hours will get you another hard drive and a Linux install. How much are you going to spend to guarantee that your BIOS and firmware aren't compromised?

There's a reason why security-conscious folks spend an enormous amount of money on the stuff that we buy for a couple hundred bucks. I'm sure that the NSA pays thousands for $100 hard drives.
dotNET is a MS only platform.

These people would like to disagree:
https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
https://github.com/ajensenwaud/coreclr
http://www.mono-project.com/

And does Java support unsigned integers yet?
Yes, Hubble has been around for 25 years.

There's a question of cost though. Each repair job costs about $1 billion and has a ~1% chance of killing the crew. (When Hubble was designed, it was thought that the Shuttle would be cheaper and safer than it was.)

If we could build an launch a Hubble for $1 billion, then it's obviously cheaper to send up a new one than repair it each time. If it lasts for 10 years, then if the unit cost to launch were under $3 billion then it would still be cheaper to launch a new one than fix one in-place.

So how much did Hubble cost? Wikipedia says $2.5 billion to construct. http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/499224main_JWST-ICRP_Report-FINAL.pd... says "Again, to put this in context, HST, which was a much less complex mission [than Webb], had a total cost-to-launch of approximately $5 billion in current dollars. Hubble’s LCC was approximately double this because of servicing costs over 20 years." (Those are 2010 dollars.)

Hubble also had huge cost overruns. The KH-11 has an estimated unit cost, including launch, of US$2.26 to 3.16 billion in 2015 dollars, says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennan#Cost . We've built several of those, which I assume helps reduce the per-unit costs.

If we could get the Hubble-like unit cost, including launch, down to $2.5 million, and with a 10 year life time, then we could launch 4 for what we've spent on Hubble, and lower risk through redundancy. "No serviceability" = "cheaper design" = "can launch more" = "lower risk". Again, this is based on the experience since the 1970s that manned missions are expensive and risky.

Regarding just because - your original question was "How would you have gotten even one HST sized telescope into orbit without a manned mission?" That's all I'm addressing.
Yes, is it really that hard to take 5 seconds out of your day and check snail mail? I get that people don't like it, but let's be real, it's not that big of an inconvenience.
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Wow, a very impressive lineup. Their performance laptop even has the optional second GPU - never seen that in a laptop before.

If only they had a trackpoint style pointing device, that would be my perfect next laptop!
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> Let's make broad claims about how people in tech marketing must be idiots!

That's not really where I was going with it, just pointing out that sales and marketing start out with reasonable "what if I could..." scenarios and don't really care about the implementation.

> I don't think any reasonably competent marketer would ever suggest installing some adware as a "feature" so that they could market it.

You're right, because they don't think at the implementation level. What I think _did_ happen, if my experience is any indication, is that someone said "I think showing users suggested products would be a tremendous value add! Let the eggheads figure out how to do it." What you end up with is what needs to be done at a technical level in order to fulfill marketing's requirements. It ain't always pretty.
This is a great idea. Discovery is becoming a much needed tool with the explosion of indie gaming.
Such is the innate aspect of data gathering and analysis. The more (relevant) data, the better. (What determines relevancy is not discussed here for brevity.)

Partial data will only serve as a distraction if you allow it to. EDIT: If you falsely present partial data as important, yes, then it very well probably is distraction because by you are facilitating it to be a distraction by virtue of presenting thusly. As consciousness, you should try to be aware of inappropriately disproportionately presented data expressed by others in your environment and to not let it serve as a distraction to you as an observer. For example, Fox News and how it goes about its interactions displaying information (true information, false information, incomplete information, etc.) with the masses is a popular subject for case study in this type of scenario.

If you are aware that it is an incomplete picture, then you should be fine. Again, the more data, the better. Be aware of limitations and incomplete pictures. Be aware of context. Same old story of much everything in life. Always be exploring further. Always keep on questioning what's happening in the environment and the universe. Ignorance is bad. Of course, balance is needed. Pros are something that exist. Cons are something that exist. Things exist. Actions exist. Interactions between things and other things with actions exist. Systems of interaction exist. It's turtles all the way down. But yes, based on history, most humans fail at comprehending their own basic existence, their interactions with others, and anything else contained within their neck of the universe. Rather depressing actually. Nothing new here.

EDIT: As far as what belongs or doesn't belong on a dashboard, that would take a long time for me to discuss. In this particular example provided in the original posting, yes, it has various flaws. Not discussing that.

Also, with regard to "the more data, the better", yes, irrelevant data has negative consequences and must be dealt with accordingly. Of course, the a perspective exists where you should try to identify irrelevant data and not gather it to begin with. Conversely, there is a perspective where you should gather it all so as not to presumptuously exclude and that the data itself will tell you what is relevant and irrelevant during analysis. Both approaches express certain positive merits and also negative qualities. Identifying what is irrelevant and what is relevant has its own intricacies which are not discussed here in any relatively significant capacity.
Is it true that an antivirus program like Microsoft Security Essentials installs a cert into the system cert store in order to MITM all network traffic?
Ideally, glacier is your backup of your backup. You only fall to it if your tapes fail, your disk-to-disk blows up, your datacenter melts in a fire, crashplan/backblaze go out of business.
And so they should. These companies are going after markets that have been resisting IT for years, never trully taking advantage of any innovation for higher efficiency and consumer benefits and therefore are just sitting ducks for startups coming in and disrupting their economies and processes.
If they are willing to compromise you on a software level, what makes you think they aren't prepared to do so on the hardware level (presuming they already aren't).
I don't totally disagree, but it's worth noting that when I read about iBeacons "on the internet," that was likely just a sophisticated ad, disguised as a review or blog article.

It's definitely better than the ads that ghostery blocked, but ads aren't going away and they were still important to the discovery process.
I'm just curious what parts you find not quite user friendly enough?
There's a huge difference between bloat and malicious advertising software that creates real security holes that are invisible to the average user.
I would say Microsoft has more in common with 1990 IBM i.e. huge entrenched profitable companies that missed the biggest shift in technology in the previous decade that they should have dominated (IBM: PCs, Microsoft: mobile). I still don't think people appreciate just how much Microsoft blew it by not owning the dominant mobile OS.
By default yes, but you can easily change it in the options.
I heartily second this recommendation (Being Mortal). It is very well written and thoughtful.

In fact, when my wife gave it to me, I wasn't even interested in end of life issues - who wants to read about death in the middle of winter? But I was immediately sucked in and enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Not a bad start. A few nitpicks though:

When I middle-click on a game's title to try to open its page in a new tab, the page opens up in both the new tab and the current one, which is annoying.

It's also a little frustrating to click through to a game's page, and instead of seeing a bigger version of the banner image, or more screenshots of the game, the only thing you're presented with is a blurry version of the exact same image, with not much more information than the preview gave you.

In the end, though, a thing like this is as good as its community. I can see this doing well if you manage to make it a hub of activity.
Also cell phones often don't work well in hotel buildings.

I stayed at the Thompson in Beverly Hills and couldn't use the phone in my room thanks to the rebar in the building frame and the fact that it's about as easy to put a cell phone tower up in BH as it is to open a pot dispensary.

Later on I stayed in a hotel in a less substantial building that was at the very foothills of the Hollywood Hills, about three blocks from the El Capitan Theatre. My phone didn't even work outside because of the insane topography.
I've never seen an ad for Uber. I know about them because I keep up with startup news. They were in the news plenty before the legal issues.
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People don't pay for open protocols.
Since when is using nmap or its kin illegal?
Is the battery controller programmable from Linux? E.g. can you set charging thresholds?

Is there any hardware in it that doesn't work in Linux?
Or use Nginx as a proxy, or something. It's frustrating, but I can see the argument for Solr to just delegate this kind of task to other projects that do it better.
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RSS to HipChat integration in under an hour
No Apple Watch jokes? I'm disappointed in you people.
Tried Hi res on a Dell M3800, Gnome works well, kde doesn't, and for programs, chrome does not render well.
I don't know for other programs
I'm in the same boat, but I'm worried I won't find a music library manager as robust as iTunes. Most I've found don't have support for things like smart playlists and shuffle by groupings.
The number one source of viruses on a Mac is anti-virus software, don't install it. No system is impervious, there are levels of risk. Apparently the highest possible risk is running a stock Lenovo.
Crashplan does. I run it on my RaspberryPi.

Also, Crashplan never deletes anything while Backblaze, last I checked, requires something like an external HD to be connected once every 30 days. A true backup, not offsite storage, in a sense.

It also has a family plan which is great, allowing 5 machines for U$ 13/month I think.

But the whole Java thing is a nightmare.
When I try to load it, the images only load part-way. :(
> Nobels are increasingly awarded to older people

It was my impression that the things the Nobel prize is awarded (at least the more famous ones) are one's that were discovered when the recipient wasn't that old, just that the prize is awarded a considerable time after the discovery. After all, the discovery has to prove its importance and stand the test of time.

Also, and it's pure speculation — if I were a Nobel prize laureate, I'd be able to discuss professionally interesting topics with more or less whomever I'd like, live, or in private or group correspondence, instead of a public forum.
The only way to get out of being drafted in Israel is to be pregnant.

No way out for a male.
Another consideration is time, stamina, and commitments. A person fresh out of college doesn't necessarily have anything holding them back from devoting time and resources to learn and master something. A person who's even younger will have more time and possibly more family support/coercion (how many violin prodigies do you think picked up the violin entirely of their own volition?)

Someone in their 40s may have a time-consuming job and a family to support, which precludes ditching the time-consuming job in favor of putting in long hours to master something. Maybe they can only spare an hour or two a week, and maybe they're so exhausted from work that every now and then they can't even do that.

Older adults may be more risk-averse, but that doesn't mean they're incapable of mastering something, just that they're less likely to choose to do so.
Could anyone that did Youtube videos for a living live with only Linux? Is there a very good solution for recording your screen?
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> Why stop buying Thinkpads?

Panasonic makes much higher quality hardware than Lenovo (and Apple for
that matter). Panasonic also doesn't preload bloatware onto Windows.

http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/semi-rugged-lapt...
Would you mind explaining which charges you'd get hit with? As a non-laywer, trespassing and entering (not breaking and entering, since you didn't break anything) are the only charges that would make sense to me in that context.
- Lenovo stopped preloading the software in January.

My X1C was ordered on Feb 4th, and shipped Feb 9.

I believe that my machine had this malware installed when I received it. On firefox, websites that would not normally have many ads, were filled with ads to the point where I couldn't use the sites.

I am unable to prove my claims, as I formatted the HD and installed Linux to get rid of all the obvious bloat-ware.

I really enjoy the laptop. But if I was less tech savvy and unable to format/installLinux I would probably have returned the machine (the ads were really really intrusive)
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I really enjoy Gnome on Arch. I have a lot of experience with Linux (i.e. most of my life), but it's been getting significantly harder to destroy your system by updating. Just make sure you do everything through the repo.

I chose Arch because it is usually on the ball with new kernels. Ubuntu and Debian (I found) had many issues with newer hard ward, though any hardware a year or two old was usually supported.
The writing was on the wall for MS's dev platform since open source dominates startups and the cloud. Nobody builds the next facebook or twitter using MS tools and Windows. If anything the rise of open source and linux put MS in a position where open sourcing their tools was the only option left to them to stay relevant. Making a show of 'loving' Linux was done in an attempt to give themselves a chance of getting a slice of the huge cloud computing market for hosting Linux. Make no mistake, Linux has put MS in a very uncomfortable position.
Google is trying and delivering a whole lot more than MS Research ( did MS ever have a public prototype for anything?) - Glass, Self Driving Cars, Google Now are all tangible things that show concrete effort to make entirely new products and also make existing products better. They may not all be instant consumer hits but the point was about complacency - and this isn't complacency, it's the exact opposite.

Microsoft became complacent with WinMO, even few office releases were meh. Windows stagnated until security blunders forced them to react. Google on the other hand isn't being complacent with GMail (Inbox), Android (Lollipop), Chrome (v41) or Search (Google Now).
Grocery shops have another trick up their sleeve - they lower prices on some products, but raise prices of complementary goods. So you can have a genuine discount on bread, and at the same time heavily overpriced cheese. They're betting on you not caring enough to split your shopping between multiple venues.

My mother recently told me how she's tired of keeping track of prices (or price/quality tradeoff) in 5+ different shops - she can save a lot of money and buy good quality products at the same time as long as she knows what to buy where. But she's doing bulk shopping. I probably wouldn't bother walking around the hood to get one item cheaper.
Last I checked bacula doesn't do deduplication in any normal sense of the word. It allows you to run a base job and then back up diffs, that's a far cry from normal dedupe.
Gnome Terminal is the shit. It's totally awesome and other terms seem to copy it, like xfce's terminal. It wraps text just fine for me, has profile switching and lots of other features.

Funny you mention that OS X is taking away options and features. That's how I feel about the Gnome team's approach to their desktop. But Gnome has a lot of small programs and widgets that I find useful. Even though I use stock Ubuntu and Unity on my main desktop, I use Xubuntu on all of my other machines. I'm using ubuntu and variants mainly because of the simple and comprehensive package management system. The variants are really cool too.

I'm not a fan of the Unity desktop either, but I find that once you get used to it, it's tolerable. It's like a useable version of Windows 8, more of a touch centric interface than a desktop interface. Fortunately all of the other Ubuntu variants have real menus. And the variants have a high degree of compatibility with stock Ubuntu so you can install and use things that are made for stock Ubuntu.
> dotNET is an MS only platform.

Not anymore. It's open source now, and that's the point the OP was making.

edit: Wait, downvoted? Am I wrong? I'd love to know if I have a misunderstanding of the situation. I thought MS opensourced .net and CLR and everything.
That's true about audio quality. Do you have suggestion for a good mic?
For your use case set up both and then do some testing.

Speaking for myself I did that and found that SOLR was a lot more performant. I needed a high-traffic solution without a bunch of servers.

I find that ES tries to do too much with all the dashboards and monitoring etc.

SOLR keeps it simple and thereby does not incur the performance penalty.

Also when an ES cluster goes south (cluster health "yellow" or "red") it seemed like a pain to troubleshoot and determine the real reason WHY. SOLR seems more durable and when something needs investigation you get a clear message in the log.

If you are starting something new and just don't know your traffic requirements and are scared of it "going viral" like a hot new mobile game ES may work for you though. The one thing it excels at is adding more ES servers to the cluster quickly. So if you need more servers ASAP and don't care about the cost ES has that covered.
But how do you disrupt the industry, then?