skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expand into what exactly? Cloud hosting? Didn't work out. Home entertainment and automation? Sony and especially Microsoft have decades of r&d and experience. Amazon seems better positioned even. Then you have Apple. Things on the android side don't look too rosy. They are pissing partners every month and win10 is coming soon. Eric Schmidt sank novel with poor partner relations, just as a reminder.
> You say that like it's some huge number. 70 million or not, it's still 1%. Numbers get their significance relatively, not in themselves.

Relative to what? I can't believe I'm having this conversation.

70 million people is more than the number of people killed in both world wars. 70 million people is more than the population of the UK or Canada. Are you claiming that the world wars caused negligible deaths, or that the populations of the UK or Canada are negligible?

You can't just say 1% is a negligible amount without context. Whether 1% is a negligible margin of error is entirely dependent on context. 1% blood alcohol will probably kill you, 1% error on your taxes, if intentional, is enough to put you in jail, 1% error in floating point arithmetic is the difference between a missile that hits its target and a missile that lands in a civilian residence. But numbers get their significance relatively, right?

70 million people is a lot of people.
Given that @patio11 can have "late" checks, I presume there's already such a thing in place. The problem is what you do when they let 30 days fly by. Many of the recourses available to you aren't worth the risk of losing the client by being a hard-ass.
Redefining sex because of chimaerism? What is this, Nature Gender Studies?
Oh, yeah you're right. I don't use that feature, so I didn't really know the limitations. But looking at it, base jobs, while useful, are definitely not true deduplication.
Look at http://www.reversecoin.org/
Reversecoin allows transactions to be reversible within a specified period of time. Over time, I expect mechanisms like these to be build into Bitcoin itself.
Disclaimer: I am the lead dev for Reversecoin.
If you wait on the main page for like 5 seconds and don't type anything, people's last 10 queries will start to fade in.
Has the technology changed/evolved enough that that's credible? I was under the impression that it wasn't "fully confirmed" by the network until a new block was mined, or you could have double spend attacks?
It makes sense if you look at it as a correlation, not as causation. The point is that one cause (less review of experimental kernel features), which is known to underlie the "this crashes" problem, can also potentially cause the "it could have back-doors" problem.

Of course, as you say, not-crashing back-doors can make it into releases, too. Open source's generic promise that more eyes will make bugs shallow is not a guarantee.
Is there a way to get rid of the blank space between rows in the structure view? Besides being a poor use of space, it has twice as many horizontal lines as necessary: visual clutter. The content view with single thin separating lines is much preferred.
AB testing uses the conclusions of participants who don't use AB testing to come to conclusions, therefore AB testing doesn't even use AB testing.

You are confusing my personal feelings for a rigorous test suite. Your point didn't concern how I feel.
Likewise, I'm somewhat excited by what 0xDBE, the upcoming database "IDE" for DBAs and devs, from JetBrains...
In the first voxel engine I worked on, I also attempted RLE (for network performance). Doing it in 3 dimensions is not trivial, as you show. I decided for some reason that doing it in a single pass was the "smart" way to do it.

Important thing is that you are having fun and learning. Your first attempt(s) will usually not serve much more purpose than this.

Anyhow, Lemma looks promising (and pretty amazing for your first game to hit shelves) - I was aware of the game but interesting to see how it came about. :)
Maybe requiring a full VM when a standalone self-contained application will do is not the winning strategy.
One of the main purposes of zoning, for example, is (to use your words) to restrict "the ability to do what I want with my property." Would every use restricted by zoning harm me? Probably not. But some unit of local government has chosen to enact some set of restrictions that local residents believe will serve to reduce potentially harmful activities.

None of this is perfect of course. And rules can get pretty silly especially when you start talking about homeowners associations and historical districts and the like. But in the aggregate, these laws serve a useful purpose.
Numbers are perfectly significant in being themselves large. 70 million is a great market for a set of niche clothing lines, self-help books, sex toys, etc. It's just not enough of a market for governments to spend an extraordinary amount of effort on dealing with the specifics. This is a long-tail number, too; 'Male', 'Female', and 'Other' probably makes sense if you expect 1% of respondents to select other. However, 1% don't select other; They get offended that you don't have Facebook's 72-pronoun list, and even if you do, that doesn't cover their particular favorite.
I just want to say that you're one of my favorite designers out there and I enjoy your various posts out there on the web. Thanks so much for sharing your talent for us developers to peek inside!
The customer believes that it paid NET 30 ("You received the check within 30 days of us deciding to send you a check. NET 30!") and that I can speak to Legal if I want to press the issue, which (naturally) I don't.

As near as I can tell, this is just priced into everyone's expectations.
A strong case can be made because the line is extremely blurry and there can be severe consequences for forcing a category on people that doesn't fit.

Sex and gender are shoved in people's faces practically every waking moment which means this "highly accurate approximation" breaks down billions of times a day with consequences ranging from discrimination and depression to sterilization and death.

How certain are you that you or some close doesn't fall outside the binary?
It's double-negative elimination that does hold constructively, namely, not-not-A => A. In both classical and constructive logic, A implies not-not-A.
why is the answer always a link to wikipedia?

I asked, "What time is it?", "Poop", and "What is the square root of kanye west?" All sent me to wikipedia.
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Ask HN: What are some good books to improve on object oriented design?
What books would you recommend to improve on object oriented design? I know nothing beats experience, though I would like to know what books have you read that has improved your knowledge on OO design and you highly recommend.

I have been planning to read Code Complete and The pragmatic programmer. What are your thoughts on these books?
Typo on the /new-account page:

"Your only a moment away..." should be "You're" (or "You are") not "Your".

Looks clean and simple, though. I like that pricing is based on data stored instead of number of repos or users.
You can type column comments in the blank space.
> Depends on what you're dealing with

We're dealing with people.

> and the significance of it.

People are generally pretty significant. 70 million people is very significant.

> 70 million is not a significant number of atoms of most things, for instance.

70 million people is a pretty significant number of people.

> The important question is the second one I posed. What is the acceptable level of error in an approximation?

Since you seem to have mistaken my rhetorical question for an actual question, I'll restate it as a statement: 70 million people is not an acceptable level of error in an approximation.
I've been listening to Alastair Reynolds Blue Remembered Earth and On the Steel Breeze. The notion of ubiquitous surveillance is an underlying concept, affecting how characters can behave as the plot moves forward. While it is an underlying concept, I'd love pointers to books where this concept is taken head-on.

So far, I don't see how we can avoid ending up with a "surveilled world", though it scares me to death (we don't have the benevolent AI overseer to watch it). With the progress of technology coupled with ubiquity of networks, it is going to be hard to avoid.
Thanks! I'll take a look at the pull request.
Does the left usb port support full power devices like hard drives? The 2013 model didn't.
to be fair onedrive's previous iterations (livemesh, skydrive) predate dropbox
> What's the acceptable level of error in approximations?

I'm fairly sure the lifes of those affected negatively by the error are outside the "acceptable level". We're talking about humans here, not mathematical rounding errors.
Not really. Large companies have to do that sort of thing all the time. Amazon collects sales tax, which is even more complicated. Airbnb is certainly sufficiently well funded to be expected to be able to deal with this sort of thing.
> Just fine them and/or shut them down, possibly go after the people running the company.

And New York has experience in exactly how to do this, hence my recommendation! Don't walk the trail of broken glass someone else already has.
This laptop will most likely get official support for Ubuntu 14.04.
Yea obviously. Sales absolutely hates when they get their commissions frozen because the customer hasn't paid in 3 months.
I don't think userbase has much of a correlation to price stability. Even commodities like gold or oil have exhibited periods of high volatility even with a large "userbase"

Also, while we're talking about price, people sometimes conflate bitcoin transaction volume with bitcoin price, forgetting that for every buyer there is a seller. As a means of transacting, bitcoin is great, especially for small amount or across borders. It makes no difference what the price of bitcoin is as long as the buyer and seller are immediately converting out of bitcoin and into their local currencies - and that has no long term impact on price.

Unless of course many people notice rising transaction volume, confuse the trend, and then invest in bitcoin, which then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I miss that too. Also the Party Gorilla was fantastic. Either way, glad to see the project has grown!
I think you're describing questions that, before DNA analysis, were explored through traditional police investigations all the same. It would be just as disruptive if a detective figured out that the suspect is the result of an affair through tracing birth certificates and interviewing doctors and nurses as by matching DNA samples.

Additionally, your hypothetical also assumes that the person(s) related to the supposed subject have their DNA on file or are somehow compelled to provide it as evidence - precluding some kind of existing database, or a kind of chicken|egg situation. That is out of scope of this argument.
14.04 is almost a year old?
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While this may be helpful, I can't see it being a game-changer at all. Have retailers like NewEgg or Overstock seen any sort of drastic revenue increases or activity from accepting Bitcoin?

The problems with Bitcoin are almost entirely on the acquiring -side and not spending side. Getting a Bitcoin is a PITA and I don't think the demand from most consumers is there to overcome the pain.

The game-changer for Bitcoin will be when someone answers the question: "Why should I switch from paying with my credit card to Bitcoin?" with something compelling.
I haven't even been fired- I'm six months out from (finally) graduating, and the only offer I've gotten I couldn't afford to take. I'm losing my mind.
> 70 million people is more than the number of people killed in both world wars

Not that I necessarily disagree with your sentiment, but the world population was lower when those wars happened, so the the same number of people dying was far more than 1% at the time. Looks like WW2 alone was 3-4% of the global population. The world wars were also important for reasons other than number of deaths anyway.
AnandTech says it's genuine: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8983/dell-xps-13-review/6.
>> I don't know what you mean when you say backed by the Apache Community

It's a matter of who does the releasing (i.e. curating of patches, responsibility for building community, etc.): Solr is governed by the Apache Software Foundation and associated volunteers, ElasticSearch is governed by the private entity.

IMO (and this is an increasingly rare opinion) the license is the most important piece and they're both under the ASL 2.0.
Bowery.io 3.6.0 supports Dockerfiles
Agreed! By design MUI only implements some of the core features of Material Design so that sites don't start to feel like they were designed with a certain framework.
> currency is not that stable

Do you mean like a currency that was worth $650 against the US dollar a year ago, and today is worth $250 against the US dollar? That kind of stability?
Question for Stripe folks.

At creation, Stripe guarantees an exchange rate that is usable for 10 minutes. If the customer sends bitcoin to the receiver after the 10 minutes have expired, we’ll still process the transaction but the conversion amount will no longer be guaranteed.

Say I am a merchant, and I want to make $10 on my transaction.

With a 0.5% fee:

- Without BTC, I charge $10.05 to the user, you take 5 cents, and I am left with $10.

- With BTC, I charge $10.05 to stripe, which gets converted to BTC at some exchange rate, and gets charged to the user. Does Stripe guarantee me $10? Or am I subject to the fluctuations of Stripe's exchange rate (say the user takes 20 minutes to finish the transaction)? Is there any way to guarantee that I get paid $10 or the transaction fails?
Do you ever consider charging more as a premium for the delay?
If you're a startup selling to the enterprise, I would highly encourage billing upfront. Collecting cash upfront has huge ramifications for cash flow and how fast you can grow the business.

In terms of payment, it really depends on the company and size of deal. For some companies you can send an invoice and they'll send you a check back quickly, but the larger enterprises usually will need you to fill out a PO, you'll certainly go through procurement, and then you'll be able to invoice. I've typically seen Net 30 days for payment due date, but some companies may push back to Net60.

Credit Card usually only works for smaller transactions (<$10k) or monthly recurring charges.
At least you have a gmail app. I'm on windows phone, aka the platform that google shuns completely and utterly (to the point of taking apps out of the market when they buy a company that has a windows phone app). I used to do everything in google's ecosystem because they were OS agnostic, but now they just want to lock me into android and chromebook. Thanks but no thanks. Microsoft has been forced to get it, their stuff works great on all platforms.
Or free to choose.
A warrant makes little difference in these cases, so why bring them up?
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The Golden Age...thanks! Bought on Kindle.
This is outdated information. FOBS are not deployed, and there are no US/NATO aircraft on alert. I don't know who you are speaking for regarding confidence in ABM's, but it's not the community of technical professionals that analyze strategic defense and deterrence. SLBM's are not a trump card, since if they are what you are relying on for counter-strike, your nation has been annihilated.
This is really good to know because I think I fall into the "try something in code, test, and debug my way through it" category a lot.

Do others agree that thinking it through completely before hand is optimal?

Are there any studies out there which compare amazing programmers to just average ones on brand new material (where the more experienced programmer doesn't necessarily have the advantage of just more knowledge but has better principles/strategies of breaking down the problem)?
How to remove Superfish adware from your laptop
I'm perfectly fine with pgAdmin. It's not pretty, but it does everything I need. And it's free and cross-platform.
If you broke the law, you can, should and will be punished for it; this is not usually negotiable, and they are doing you a favor by not prosecuting you.

The moral/ethical grey area here is that forcing someone to work for the government in exchange for not seeking what the law would call 'justice' is the equivalent of indentured servitude, a form of slavery.

With blackmail, you might normally have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and a reasonable expectation that someone will not intentionally harm or injure you. The government is not seeking to harm or injure you (well, not theoretically) when it enforces the law.

We've all signed the social contract that says that if we break a law, we will suffer the consequences, so it's not unfair for the government to prosecute crimes you have actually committed. It is also fair for them to give you a way out of them, as most cases are pleaded down, prosecutors change offenses to lesser degrees for a good track record, etc.

It's also definitely a grey area how prosecutors will often tack on "trumped-up" charges in the expectation that a judge will knock them down to a smaller list but still apply some. Both these practices need to end, or be curtailed greatly.
Lenovo actively circumvented your security and sold access to your computer to Superfish. If you want to compare it to windows, it's like a security door salesman who sells extra keys to organized crime on the side.
He's probably more referring to the customers side.

Why should I buy bitcoins for let's say $300 and risk them being worth $200 in a few weeks (which would cost me 33%) instead of keeping my money and paying directly (maybe 3% fees for the seller)?
It is the most recent Long Term Support release and will be supported into 2019. I expect that is why they are shipping that version.
If a guy is demonstrably capable of writing malware, and we all refuse to hire him to do anything else, he will probably write more malware rather than starve.
Sentiment analysis using Mahout naive Bayes
> Dell at one point offered clean installs but you had to pay something like $30 extra

And I'd hazard a guess (with no evidence) that very few people paid that extra cost. We undervalue our own attention, assuming that we can easily ignore adverts, so ad-supported products are disproportionately successful (preinstalled bloatware is just a special kind of advertising).

Does anyone know how well Amazon Kindles with 'Special offers' are selling?
To be fair, 4 years ago was the depth of the housing crisis and real estate was highly depressed. While 10% appreciation per year is evidently unsustainable, it's quite reasonable to expect that sort of appreciation coming out of a disruption like that. And it probably doesn't have much to do with SF money.
Then it's no longer race or gender--it's something else. Not that we'll be using anything like English or Spanish then.
It works like Bitpay where you are guaranteed that amount in USD after user pays with Bitcoin. They assume all price fluctuation risk.
It is really nice to get a laptop with no crap-ware. Apple laptops have always had a no-crapware advantage, but Microsoft with their signature editions levels the playing field somewhat. BTW, I was going to buy my HP laptop on Amazon but some good person posted a product comment suggesting buying from Microsoft to avid crap-ware - I had never heard of this program before either.
https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterpris...

> For example, a big company happily using the $250 a month plan could, quite possibly, be happy to upgrade to a $5,000 a month contract if you offered them the right incentive. (Twenty times as much, you ask? No, transitioning from "pocket lint" to pennies. Stop thinking like a human. Think like a corporation. Corporations are like humans whose smallest increment of currency is the largest paycheck you've ever received.)

> This is important: Enterprise pricing is discontinuous with normal pricing. If the $250 a month plan entitles you to 500 foozles and an Enterprise needs 5,000 foozles, that costs thousands or tens thousands of dollars per month. If an Enterprise only needs 500 foozles, that costs thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per month. If an Enterprise only needs 50 foozles, that costs thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per month. This is partially justified by the amount of pain you're signing up for by doing an Enterprise sales process, but is mostly just pure, naked price discrimination. Enterprises are not price conscious. Don't attempt to sell them based on your price. ( For prices customarily contemplated by software companies.)
An example how not to write press release. So much shit talk.. such a shame.
I think both you and dimtar are confusing SLBMs with cruise missiles. The Trident II has a range of over 4000nm, only half the Minuteman III ICBM's range, with a similar flight profile to the ICBM. SSBNs have a significant advantage in that they are mobile and to some degree hidden.

A first strike can target ICBM launch facilities and effectively neutralize them, meaning those birds either fly when the balloon goes up or they don't fly at all. SSBNs have to be hunted down and destroyed individually. This provides a retaliation capability that cannot easily be destroyed by a massive first strike. They are "second strike" in the sense that they will be available to respond to any nuclear attack, no matter how overwhelming, thus ensuring MAD remains an effective deterrent to nuclear weapons use.
Ask HN: Whats the hacker house that will let you stay for free if you interview?
A few weeks (or was it months?) back I saw a post about some startup mansion that offered a few days free if you were willing to interview - does anyone know the site?
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For me, it wouldn't be a backup of backups, but more a backup of expired files off my regular backups. So I'd keep say 3 months of files in my primary backup, anything older (up to say 3 years) would then go to Glacier. That's the best use case of it.
OK. Then what is an acceptable level of error in approximation when dealing with people? 7 million, at a scale of billions? 7? 1?
Redwoods are massive and they need a lot of energy just to stay alive. But, in classic 2d v 3d scaling they don't gain enough sunlight for rapid growth.

EX: A 250 foot tall tree with a 25ft diamiter base ~= 1,000 25 foot trees with 1 foot diamiter bases, but 1,000 25 foot trees would collect a lot more sunlight.

PS: Redwoods do grow fairly quickly when there 'small'.
No love for MS here. Nexus 5, Nexus 7. Battery and speed. The 7+lollipop was a bummer for me, I used to be kinda proud of it. Now it needs ongoing maintenance (cache clearing).
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The entirely fictitious:

[Superfish technology sends your data to a third party ad server. We then use this data to create behavioral profiles on you, we process this data, and we monitor it. Finally we record all this data in our backups for up to 10 years.]

is consistent with:

To be clear, Superfish technology is purely based on contextual/image and not behavioral. It does not profile nor monitor user behavior. It does not record user information. It does not know who the user is.

edit: clarified.
Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby, by Sandi Metz

Even if you code in a language other than Ruby, this book is quite easy to follow and chock full of great OO advice.
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