skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU warranty regulations are always about the relationship between the customer and the retailer, never with the manufacturer.

Manufacturers are free to offer an additional warranty, and many of them do, but it's got nothing to do with EU regulations, and can be better or worse than the retailer warranty (e.g. in terms of who needs to pay for shipping, covered problems, proving who's to blame).

If your device breaks in the first months, you often have the option of either going to the retailer or the manufacturer.

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/shopping/shopping-abroa...
Seems to me that if a person is leaving a company for a different opportunity, they're making a clear comment on their perceived future value of the company.

That is, who would leave Google in 2002? Dell in 1993? Facebook in 2006?

In my opinion, the best stock exercises are cashless, one time events, paying full short term capital gains. Those trades represent almost no risk to the exerciser (exercisor?) and are pure financial upside.
This was actually done in some early DEC Alphas, I believe.

OoO engine were able to issue address calculation from loads (if address register is ready) ahead and thusly when real load instruction execute the data is already in cache or closer to cache.

It is really easy to do, actually. It can even simplify page fault handling in CPU.
How exactly does one use it? Are there open source clients? Can I use it on Linux? What kind of limitations are there to file size or number? How fast is it to store/retrieve?
My Macbook died last month after 15 months, outside of the 1 year warranty. I had bought it from Apple's website.

The local certified shop wanted £99 to diagnose the problem. Apple weren't particularly helpful when I asked for help to get the fee waived (their staff in the US don't know about the UK Sale of Goods act, understandable perhaps), so I had to take a 40 minute train journey to my nearest Apple store.

The Apple store diagnosed the problem and immediately offered to repair it for free 'under UK consumer law'. I was pretty happy with the experience, but would have preferred if the local certified shop had been able to diagnose and repair the laptop for free instead.
Privilege escalation, even with UAC at its strictest, is trivial on Windows with the malware that's floating around these days.

I worked full time for 5 of the last 6 years on Windows malware research. Windows is a swiss-cheese joke of an operating system that won't progress because of a(n at this point pathological) need for 20 years of backwards compatibility. Microsoft: make use of that XP mode VM and extend that trend forwards, you fools.
I'd argue that the best protection is the advice of a lawyer, and not to mix trust with financial matters. History is strewn with tales of people who trusted other people with their money.
Interestingly, someone else holds a patent for this.

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/532796/who-own...
I'm not sure which Observer you are referring to, but the well-known one with a famous style guide (http://www.theguardian.com/info/series/guardian-and-observer...), the Guardian / Observer, consistently use "iPhone"

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:theguardian.com+iphone

See the sections "capitals" and "company names" here http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-c

In particular:

"In general, we use the names that companies use themselves: c2c, Capgemini, easyJet, eBay, ebookers, iSoft Group, etc."
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> I only skimmed the article.

Bad idea. You should read the whole article and the linked ones too. There's a lot of information there and it's really important to understand what's going on (as well as understanding how MtGox operated).

> I'm assuming that the bitcoins existed and the trades actually happened -- it would be straight forward to tell from the block chain.

That's a big assumption. You can't tell from the blockchain since trades were done within MtGox's database, while the blockchain was only used for BTC withdrawals.

In fact, AFAIK we can't even tell if the data is real, since this is a leaked log dump and could be altered to frame someone.
> I don't want to give my CC details and/or my personal information to every merchant

Why?
I had the same problem with my mid 2010, they replaced the motherboard/logic board for free last year and it never happened again.
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The site says "Layers is built into the WordPress core.." That means any site built with Layers could potentially break horribly when you update Wordpress. Doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
Well, if I'm sending out payments then that's several days of "float" where I'm still earning interest on the money because all those physical pieces of paper are still in transit. So given the choice, why wouldn't I go with the less efficient process?

(That's a rhetorical question - but feel free to answer it if you feel so inclined.)
I was initially sceptical, but these ideas seem like genuinely sensible uses for old turbine blades. The bus shelter in particular seems rather appealing.

I'm reminded of the use of crumb rubber from recycled tyres as a paving material. Rubberised asphalt is an excellent material for many applications, but would be largely uneconomic without the supply of very inexpensive rubber from discarded tyres. These structures made from repurposed turbine blades may not be ideal, but they may make a great deal of sense if the raw material is basically free.
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People don't dislike learning C or C++ because the languages are supposedly hard to learn. They dislike them because the tools used to build and distribute their work are archaic.
> let's not forget the very important fact that, currently, the user ultimately still has the ability to modify the software on the machines he/she owns

What about hard-disk firmware being re-flashed by the "Equation Group" [0]? No easy possibility to detect if you are infected, nor what it is actually doing, not even to reinstall. Hard-disk firmware is software too.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9058701
What's the significance? Do we need to panic?
> "We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns" is a laughable statement to have issued.

Why o why does "investigated this technology" even imply that somebody (technical) looked at it?

Lead: Hey vendor, is your product secure?

Vendor: Sure it is. It helps people find products they want.

Lead: Aye! That's cool. Deal!

Vendor: Aye! Let's hand it off to the mere mortals to implement the plan...

Customer (formerly known as lead): Nice doing business with you. I like we have a relationship based on trust and honesty.
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Hey Onion, I think we need to tweak that copy. Quite the opposite will happen. We haven't touched the actual core of WP but instead made sure to use what WordPress already offers and work to improve the UX around it. If WP released an update tomorrow Layers + WP would still work as promised. Dave
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I knew a guy who mumbled so much you could never understand him. It was really irritating, but also the secret of his success. His job was to liaison with a number of governmental/bureaucratic organisations - involving customs clearance and things like that - and he was incredibly successful. No one knows for sure how exactly he managed it, but a leading school of thought was convinced that it was his mumbling. The bureaucrats just gave him whatever the hell he wanted as quickly as possible so that they could get him out of their offices asap.
So the Node.js is dead now?
Bytemark (an incredibly awesome UK hosting company) actively discourage working overtime and state it in their employment page https://www.bytemark.co.uk/company/employment/

DISCLAIMER I don't work for Bytemark, just been a customer for 10+ years and love the work they do and service they provide
Also Perl: 5.20 is current stable, 5.21 is unstable but will eventually lead to 5.22.

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq1.html#How-often-are-new-vers...
The beauty of Slack isn't that it's IRC for ordinary people; it's that there are a bunch of APIs to get data into and out of a Slack channel very, very easily. Binding a webhook to an IRC channel (and dealing with netsplits, channel takeovers, servers being down, etc) is a pain. Slack made it trivial.
Should humanity keep schtum about its existence?
I think you are exaggerating somewhat, I was just saying I didn't like it and even caveated that this could be just me being oversensitive.

However if you can't see why someone may feel a bit weird reading "You'd be there, banging away at your regular girl" then I'm not sure what I can say. It's not rolling-in-the-aisles piety, it's just that our community already has a bad image and stuff like this isn't helping.
You are right; this does just shift the bias, which is sometimes all you need (you have a simple algorithm, presumably for a reason).

I did misunderstand that you don't have a training set, just a list of positive and negative words. You could still apply a similar idea.

You could test your hypothesis that the score is biased by looking at the average number of positive and negative words per document, and slightly modify your factors. For example if you found that the average document had 6 negative words and 4 positive words, but you think that the average sentiment is neutral across your documents, you could multiply the positive word count by 1.5. It's a less brutal way to accomplish a similar outcome without increasing the complexity of your algorithm.

Otherwise, you will need to use an algorithm that has more discrimination power, and this will likely mean you need a training set. You can go very deep down that rabbit hole, but I would consider starting with Naive Bayes which is essentially learning a weight per positive and negative word and combines them in a similar manner to how you're doing so now. It has the advantage of being a simple algorithm.
It's not yet clear who will ultimately own this IP, of Doudna, Zhang, Church (in the US, the European patents have other contenders). Last I heard, Doudna and Zhang were set to have dueling lab notebooks. I wouldn't underestimate Church's position either given his record of visionary patents (e.g. Nanopore sequencing). Disclaimer I work in the Church lab.
Not technically a backup app, but camlistore (http://camlistore.org/) kind of does that:

- you push your files to it

- it optionally encrypts the content and hierarchy

- and stores it pretty much anywhere it can handle (on your disk, on S3, on MongoDB, on GCS, on another instance of camlistore, ...)
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This is probably silly of me, but if you had an understanding of the mach subsystem this is pretty straightforward to understand, no comments necessary.
Sundar says this is rolling out: https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/568479868427632640
Apple wants to sell cards in a few years
Well, if the language you used above is any indication of the comments you left on their site I am not surprised that someone was offended. I imagine this will offend you but you might want to soften you language. Given the language you are using you are an enemy of your own message.
I'd be stunned if they didn't have employees embedded at Google and other major technology firms.
It's already been used in larger animals. http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v9/n8/full/nprot.2014.13...

I know there is one paper that describes curing a liver disease (in a mouse I think) using CRISPR-CAS but I can't find the reference right now.
Human DNA enlarges mouse brains
> Also business logic is written with less LOCs due to having AngularJS at its core.

I fail to see how your business logic has anything to do with angularjs which is a presentation framework. AngularJS doesn't come with models like Backbone or Ember.

I fail to understand how people can ask other people this question when they say absolutely nothing about what they are developing. That's the easiest way to make the wrong decision in a project.

> In most cases user acquisition happens through the mobile web channel, then one may lock in customers with a native app.

What does that even mean? I doesn't mean anything. Again what is your product? we don't know.
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I like the power and price advantage of paying only the retail price for storage and memory upgrades and installing them on my own. Size is a very distant third, and mostly a cosmetic issue at this point.

You may be right about the long-term trend (but I hope not). In the short term my annoyance at this has me considering something other than a Macbook Pro as my next machine, which I never would have believed if you'd told me it a few years ago.
People get jobs because they need to, not because they want to.
Ha, that's interesting. Yes, same Observer, but they've changed the style guide since I saved a copy. For reference, this is the full context I was referring to:

"Adidas:  use initial cap on this and any other firms that use the lower case for their initial letter. Keep caps that break up a one-word name (cf EastEnders) as in EasyJet.  In general, where companies have resorted to unusual typography for undoubtedly innovative and exciting reasons of branding and marketing, we will follow our style, not theirs."

When I was editing a consumer magazine, the - highly subjective - rule I followed was "initial cap unless it looks stupid, and don't capitalise articles". So EasyJet, C2C, but iPhone (fails "looks stupid" test) and the Times (definite article).
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Doesn't seem like it, it's just the "RHEL" edition when compared to "Fedora" - slower, steadier release pace that focuses on stability, not features.

EDIT:

Downvotes ahoy.

Let's be honest here. Stable code (especially stable threaded code) requires QA time after adding new features. There are commits in this release which are less than 5 days old. 5 days is not enough time to shake out bugs.

Given that the developers are human, unit tests are incapable of finding all issues, and QA resources cost money, there is no way that this release could be considered to be stable.

A company would deploy this at their own risk, knowing that it's likely to have bugs which will have to be reported and fixed.

Not all companies can afford to take on that kind of risk, ergo a release like Node.js, which trails behind the bleeding edge of these technologies, makes sense to exist.
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Ephemerality of a phenomenon does not mean ephemerality of it's effects. Just because LINE might be gone 5 years from now, does not mean all cultural change it might have brought around will just revert.
> "Eh, this can also denote synergistic group think or collective creativity."

I think you've missed my point. I was mostly referring to things like meetings, where people typically are trying to reach an agreement (or decision) about something. If those people are from different cultures, then a mismatch can arise where people think they're talking about the same thing but only realise later that things have gone wrong. Even then, people tend towards recriminations, rather than root-causing and realising that their terms mean different things. Take the example from the end of the post itself (where 'skiing' meant different things to both people -- if they hadn't clarified, they'd have parted with vastly different views on what was discussed).
As far as I can tell, The Bloomberg Way is the only major guide that encourages that, and Bloomberg's own editorial standards are inconsistent such that they only use it half of the time: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:bloomberg.com+iphone
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svSGKJFSl-8
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Yes, that is what Peter Woight at Columbia keeps saying on and on: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/. It is a sad world in which scientists dare (in the XXI Century) call "science" something which cannot be either verified of falsified...
I'm not aware of any major breakthroughs in the past few years, but lead-free solder alloys are an active research area right now. Here's a SANDIA report from 2012 that has some context and some cool micrographs; you can find lots more by searching the web for tin whisker growth in lead-free solders.

(edit: pdf warning)
http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access-control.cgi/2012/12051...
Great research and I like the level of detail

But why take actually photographs of the computer screen instead of just using native screen capture? The lights and reflections are super distracting. A minor nit, yes but still...
Maybe you can enlighten me, but how can any of this be patented in the first place?
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Exactly, nobody ever says that a CEO, politician, or a rich owner are unemployed. They are "pursuing other interests".
If only he had been given the opportunity to get a good job...
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yeah you should rewrite that i didn't understood what you mean wile reading.
Isaac Schleuter and Mikeal Rogers was recently in Javascript Jabber talking about io.js and mostly answers questions below.
http://devchat.tv/js-jabber/147-jsj-io-js-with-isaac-schleut...
I'm curious to know why is this a hardware fix. The problems on my mid-2012 mbp only started after the upgrade to Yosemite, and this seems to be the case from many reports on forums out there.
It depends, but I'm doing a lot of compilation and playback of videos, and the bottleneck is now more and more I/O and RAM than pure CPU speed.
Company behind Superfish claims its under DDoS attack
So much for renewables not creating pollution.
This is nice. Did you consider releasing the source file to let people create translations? I'd be happy to hang it in our office, but my teammates are still struggling with english :)
It's not removed, it's just not in the default list anymore. You can re-enable it with an option if you really do care.
"larger species likely took advantage of being able to move faster, burrow better in sediment, or eat larger prey" -- larger species burrow?
Nice I didn't even know such a thing existed...now off to find and try something that seems acceptable.
The technology behind facial recognition
The best reference is Jaynes's Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. The first three chapters are online for free and explain the development of probability theory as a logic for plausible reasoning [1]. If you want to get a quick taste, I wrote a short blog post that introduces the theory while working through an interesting coin-toss problem [2].

[1] http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf

[2] http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2010-12-20-more-on-the-evidenc...
That looks fairly clean for a Yacc parser. I do wish there was a more modern, friendlier parser-generator; yacc C++ tends to leak AST objects on error unless you use a pool allocator.
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In a way, all mutations in single-celled organisms that are inherited by daughter cells are acquired during the mother’s life-time, so they’d all meet some definition of Lamarckism. CRISPR isn’t that special in this regard.

Many evolutionary biologists also prefer not to call this Lamarckism – not because it would be entirely wrong, but because it is misleading to many lay people, who imagine that this would somehow be in conflict with Darwinian evolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection (it’s a hobby of many creationists to search for press releases mentioning Lamarckism to crow “ha! Darwin is refuted again!”). This choice isn’t a problem in practice because Lamarckism – unlike neo-Darwinism – doesn’t offer explanatory models which are essential to understand and reason about these processes.
This sounds really useful but how is this possible?
To be fair io.js also focuses on stability and communicating the stability through proper use of semantic versioning. It's not like io.js wouldn't be production ready.
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There are plenty of workstation class laptops available, pick one of ultrabook / powerhouse.
Can you share a un-minified version of this? I would love to see how you are using the animate lib to do this. Using a beautifier is still to hard to read for me :/
This trick is rapidly getting on to my list of Tricks I'd Ban In My Alternate-Universe Constitution: No passing laws that take effect so far into the future that you won't be around to take the heat when it gets implemented. Hammering that down into something solid would take some work... I deleted what was turning into a multi-paragraph exploration of that. But it breaks the electoral feedback loop that is so critical to Democracy for laws to come into effect that just sort of happen with nobody to point at... it's not the current guy's fault, it's not those old guy's responsibility, it's not just "the Bureaucracy", shrug guess you're just stuck with it, citizens...!
From what I understand, the "stability" argument, made by many for node.js, is a bit meaningless.

Node.js uses an old V8 version ( Google doesn't support it anymore, and they don't even apply security patches to it ) while io.js has the latest V8, plus all the security patches and bug fixes from the io.js codebase, that node.js does not have.

Same story with libuv, the "main" library under the hood.

( most of this explained in this podcast http://devchat.tv/js-jabber/147-jsj-io-js-with-isaac-schleut... )

If older === more stable, then I guess you should use the oldest version in everything. Makes no sense.
Yahoo uses "Yahoo" outside of their logo. So, usually, yes.
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> And if so, for how much longer?

Apple stores stop stocking parts and offering any support 5 years after the model date. After that the only thing they will do is offer to clean your screen. If they have parts you can still mail it into Apple, or else you can look for parts at a third-party supplier, but that's about it. Not entirely clear what will happen in this case.
A versioning system does not ensure stability. Moving quickly in software generally means less stability over time, semantic versioning or not.
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Yes, same issue on retina Macbook Pro 15, bought 2013. Apple refused to repair the screen. It is clearly that the scratches match the structure of the keyboard. Previous model does not have this issue and is used identically. I bought the laptop in Japan and requested repair in Czech Republic. Apple refused my claims because "international" warranty is only for 1 year (I asked for repair after 2 years). The result? Screen is not repaired and difficult to use unless completely dark. This issue is quite common and It would be nice if Apple change its policy in this case as well.
There was a lengthy discussion of this when it was posted some 14 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829993
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