skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who cares how many times a question comes up? That is just such a non-issue, a peeve of a minority of replaceable people, because people are always replaceable, including the ranks of those who answer the most questions. Resurfacing questions is helpful for people new to programming topics and who are just discovering the lay of the land by using the New filter on StackOverflow. Novelty for advanced users should be an incredibly low priority, yet because advanced users have power, it becomes a big priority. The fact is, if some advanced users get bored by the stream of novice questions and leave, that's fine, there will always be new experts to take their place: SO is extremely popular that way.

What really frustrates me is that the usual interface to SO is Google, yet SO closes so many questions as duplicates that this interface is massively under-optimized. It would be much easier to find the solutions to problems if there were variations in Google's index for every different way a question's been asked (and answered).

And answering questions is a great way for intermediate developers to concretize their own knowledge. There's always a new wave of developers needing to learn. Why on earth SO fetishizes itself now as a DRY repository of programming questions is beyond me. Ok, it's not actually beyond me, it's because SO is made up of programmers, and programmers tend be compulsive about DRYing up everything in sight even when that's not the best solution to the problem.

The complaints of SO's elites are the same I've seen since always on mailing lists and forums by the folks who have the most power and thus force their ideals on everyone else. It repels novice users and creates a hostile environment for mentoring and learning. What's sad is that when SO first came out, it was set apart from these incumbents for being welcome, open, and friendly.

Another side issue is that the SO culture almost certainly is not receptive to female developers. I thought of this the other day when I saw some woman's post in the negatives. The sort of chest-thumping, rule-brandishing nitpickery that's the order of the day is an intimidating turn-off for a large swathe of people.

What's happened to SO is why every institution has to be replaced eventually, as SO will be, by some question and answer site that returns to SO's roots. The world is crying out for it again the same way it was when SO was founded.
Simpler Exploratory Testing with Bug Magnet
There are some ways you can integrate the two. E.g. Streaming allows you to apply arbitrary RDD transformations, and thus you can pass a physical plan generated by DataFrame into streaming.

We will work on better integration in the future too.
> Because a "preview build" and a "final product that is not even released yet" are different things, you know...

Did "preview builds" of previous Microsoft Windows versions have a comparable terms of service stipulation on user tracking and data collection? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/07/windows_10_data_coll...

Microsoft says they are moving to "Windows as a Service". Yes, we can wait until GA to find out what that means. Some IT professionals are paid to decide what that means, before GA, so their business can make strategic purchasing decisions. Microsoft is releasing information incrementally in response to customer feedback, so anyone who cares about this topic and is paying for Software Assurance is free to add their voice to the chorus of questioners.
Minified Assets and the Long Web
I agree that SO gets overzealous about closing questions but I don't think I needed a page-long summary of the Market Basket saga (as if I didn't hear enough about it this summer) and the rest of it to get to that point.
Ummm, for you to use Gmail, they HAVE to have your data... Where do you think that email is stored?
I'm one of the authors of the blog post as well as this new API. Feel free to ask me anything.
> It used to be that you just trounced the enemy army and didn't give a damn about what the country looked like afterwards.

You're forgetting the Marshall Plan.
Life Beyond Rails: A Brief Look at Alternate Web Frameworks for Ruby
TANSTAAFL.

You can't get any energy out of a battery until you put energy in ... alas more in than out per the laws of thermodynamics.
I'm building distributed ml on top of spark and found it to be good overall. I've had to work out issues with partitioning and mini batching, but I've had a good time so far. The data frame initiative will certainly help things. The JVM ecosystem needs a scientific environment like python (pandas,scipy,..). The potential is there with scala as we're seeing here today.
Hi, there! We'd love to get your feedback and criticism of meshtrip.com. Feel free to leave it here or at info@meshtrip.com. Thanks!
I totally agree with the comments saying that Uber and others are trying to get employee-level control over people with contractor-level benefits. The guys who drive Uber for 20,30, even 50 hours a week are definitely employees and should be treated as such.

However I'd like to throw in my own personal anecdote. I am a full time software engineer but I am signed up as a Postmates bike deliveryperson on the side. I do ~3 hours of work on Saturdays and Sundays because it's basically paid exercise and I like to explore. I am clearly NOT an employee of Postmates. If new laws are passed, would people like me just be told to go away? I think one of the coolest things about the gig economy is that there are a lot of people like me just taking on flexible employment because it's such an easy way to use idle cycles (no pun intended).
I know you're joking, but Wizard (http://www.wizardmac.com/) for OS X is a really nice place to start before delving into SPSS, Stata, and R.
We didn't invade North Korea, but we left behind a force to protect the South from a North re-invasion.
Batteries are the new ink cartridge ?
If you are serious about the offer - I would take it. I could explain it in detail via email as to why, but it really boils down to motivation and having somebody who supports you. Currently I'm learning Rails, and I'm having no luck landing a job, since there are so few opportunities in my city. Your help would mean a lot to me, because I'm pressured by just about everybody around me to find any job, just anything really. It stresses me out - I want to finish my projects and start applying to companies again. All I need is one month, and yet I don't have it. You could give me one month! I'll promise doing at least one meaningful commit a day, and I'll even start a blog and everything. If you were kidding then nevermind, I just had to try, since that is probably better than working for people who pay $3/h.
> I'm getting kind of tired of the pseudo-scientific smackdowns.

Were you expecting a scientific treatise on Slate?

Try this instead:

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
Thanks, I forgot to remove M=Nest that was beneficial in my previous attempts where I used 3 Nests.

But remember:

Never forget that it is a waste of energy to do the same thing
twice, and that if you know precisely what is to be done, you
need not do it at all.
--- E. E. ``Doc'' Smith (1930)

...the optimal solution avoids all pattern.
--- Douglas Hofstadter (1983)

http://djm.cc/bignum-results.txt

So I would recommend to avoid things like f@f@f@f@a where there is clearly a pattern.
The HIL was the backup to the backup.

[HIL]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-in-the-loop
You're 100% correct. Sorry about that, my fingers didn't translate what I had in my head in regards to pkgng replacing the old separate multi-component way of handling binary packages.

My understanding was that pkgng is a architectural overhaul in addition to a simple client clean-up - configuration is different for example. What I was trying to get to was that the newer design is barely two years old in production. I should have written this more clearly and did not, thanks and sorry.
Nitpick on the nitpick: George HW Bush (Bush I)
George Orwell, 1984 (1)

(1) http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/540674-the-problem-was-how-t...
Indeed. I was really surprised by that number, and by the sheer number of people with edit/delete privileges.

That's just begging for abuse.
> American oil companies are the ones who extract the oil.

No, they aren't. US companies comprise a fraction of the oil companies extracting oil in Iraq.[1] Moreover, for the American companies operating in Iraq, Iraqi oil supplies < 2% of their worldwide production.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Iraq#Serv...
[2] http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/06/25/are-these-w...
Seriously, this BUZZWORD meets BUZZWORD linkbait is getting old, especially the blockchain variety. Bitcoin is not the hammer to every nail. This is not a good idea and there is not even an attempt here to rationalize why this is a good idea.
Posting a photo is the worst way to get people to see your Facebook posts
Jason, great article, thanks for sharing!
Actually, 12 per hour is about 1900 a month. Not bad. Here in Italy, I'm doing development work at a University for far less than that.
That was a consideration after the war, not during. Nowadays we hold back from razing entire cities like we did with Dresden/Nagasaki/Hiroshima.
One of NSA’s most precious spying tools was just uncovered
My answer to that is "heartbleed". It is irrelevant if you trust the developers - sometimes those developers will make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes will be serious.

The less privileges your applications run with, the less likely it will be that exploits will affect you.
Did you even re-read what I wrote?

Lead acid batteries cost about $100/kWh nameplate. But at 100% depth of discharge they wear out VERY quickly. We'll assume 50%. That means they cost $200/kWh in actual capacity.

At 50% depth of discharge a lead acid battery will only get about 1000 cycles before it's not very useful anymore and needs to be replaced.

$200 / 1000 cycles = $0.20 per kWh per cycle.

That's the fixed cost of a lead acid battery. Every time you charge and discharge it, you've lost $0.20 per kWh in terms of the capital cost of the battery. This has nothing to do with the price of power, but it has to do with the depreciation of the asset.

Okay so now let's deal with power cost. It's 14p to buy low, 19p to sell high. Since I'm in the US I'm going to convert that to dollars at the rate of about 1.5 which means that the MOST money you can hope to make on the arbitrage of low price to high price is $0.06

Now let us compare $0.20 per cycle of cost with $0.06 per cycle of revenue (again ignoring the fact that in reality nothing is 100% efficient) and we can easily see that this is a losing proposition. It'll lose AT LEAST $0.14 per kWh per cycle for the person trying to operate this arbitrage scheme as a business and they'll soon go bankrupt. Problem solved.

Now if the cheap power was $0.01 and the expensive power was $0.50 then they might be able to make money. But from what I understand of the power pricing, that's not the case.

If you'd like to continue to argue, please do so with actual numbers that mean something and/or are based on reality, rather than belligerent trolling. Please see this link where I previously did the analysis that you couldn't be bothered to read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9063702
What are people commonly using these things for?
One desert night on a Marine base outside Basra, I chatted with an Egyptian interpreter hired by the US military. Knowing that Cairene Arabic is vastly different from that of Southern Iraq, I asked him if he had any trouble understanding the local dialect. He shook his head. “I have no idea what they are saying. I have a much easier time understanding you.” His English was excellent, which is presumably why he got the job, but his comprehension of Basrawi Arabic was almost nonexistent. But Marine officers, who inevitably spoke no Arabic, depended on him to explain what the locals were trying to tell them. Since the interpreter just made up what he thought his bosses wanted to hear, the Marines were operating with negative intelligence.

As good a synopsis of the last 60 years of this country's foreign policy, as any.
Like Yelp for Labor Rights: This App Rates How Restaurants Treat Workers
Facebook takes on Craigslist with new selling feature
Think about what you WANT to do rather than the best paycheck. Yes pay is important, but if you spend most of your waking life working, you might as well enjoy it!
Equation Group victim pleaded for help online in 2010
Why the code is so full of undocumented TODOs? Is this a finished product or work in progress? If the former then you need good documentation. Badly. If the latter then I'd only present it to HN after the work is finished.
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Would Dieharder have caught this?
I agree, and it's part of why I find startup-news increasingly depressing: Most of the biggest successes seem to be based on their capacity to... well, to "do evil".

Either it's about doing evil right now (skirt or violate laws and regulation) or it's about luring investors with something that could be evilly-monetized in the future (invade privacy, put ads on everything, sell all the users' data.)
cv-pls should be forbidden, plain and simple. It is detrimental to the quality and atmosphere of the site.
Preach it. I can think of all kinds of things I'd like to do if I had the time. I'd travel to bike polo tournaments and supermoto races, and host races in my hometown. I'd employ lots of artists and musicians to advertise for my events and entertain people at them. I'd build absurdly impractical project cars and bikes and take them to shows. I'd build a fleet of "guest" bikes and drag a different group of friends on trail riding expeditions every week. I'd become a master chef and a master artist. I'd probably be much busier than I am now, and contribute more to my community than I am at the moment (currently styling some buttons on someone's website). In fact, I do all of these things in my free time anyway (try to, at least), but it's tough to do as much as I'd like because the best hours of my consciousness have to be spent at work.
yeah I don't understand the sentence s/he formed there personally.
Why doesn't this cause a crash? Compatibility?
Wow, $789 is a little steep.
The Brits had always a good feeling for 'personal computers' (Sinclair, Amstrad, Acorn)
It is not just the language. It is the culture.

Americans live in their own isolated world. If you understand the culture you don't need to make the war or could reduce it to the minimum.

E.g. In the first Gulf war the Americans told the population to go against Saddam because they were to enter Iraq. A significant part of the people did.

But Americans left betraying those who had supported them. Repression by Sadam was terrible, over a million people died. Americans couldn't care less about them.

This action alone meant USA was never going to be trusted again in Iraq because families don't forget the betrayal, and never will until the widow of the man who was tortured and killed for helping Americans is alive.

Another example is how the Americans burned poppy fields in Afghanistan while not replacing it with anything that could make the families live.

Helping people growing food puts families on your side.

I had been in safe places of Afganistan and Iraq. The people there prefer non Americans like British army because they have much more experience helping native communities, and understand their culture much better.
The British had their own habit of falling back on technology to cover defects in strategy, though:

Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun#Use_in_colonial_warfa...)
To be fair, this has exactly zero effect on the NSA hacking your machine, especially if the hard disk firmware is compromised.
Can you expand on this a bit? I work at Nilas, which provides sync for email, contacts, and calendar sync, along with modern REST APIs. https://nilas.com/sync_engine

We've had a lot of developers choose to use our infrastructure instead of interfacing with the various different providers and protocols (include Exchange). Usually security/compliance isn't an issue, but I'm looking to learn more about where folks have concerns, and ways we can address them. (Potentially doing everything from FHE to shipping AMIs.)

Thanks! You can also ping me directly at mg@nilas.com.
You might find it interesting to check Linkedin for 94027 profiles with USAF backgrounds. There seem to a large number of USAF + Business profiles. Incidentally, that large network USAF veterans is a huge asset if you're looking for job opportunities.
Would this affect Bitcoin private keys generated with this kernel?
Very interesting article...a second corollary might be that we have become encumbered to the point where our enemies are running circles around us: http://www.projectwhitehorse.com/pdfs/boyd/patterns%20of%20c...
One Giveaway Tesla Doesn't Need
You did, in fact: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#UN_forces_cross_part...
Do you run everything as root? Why not, don't you trust the user?
For some reason China's "ghost cities" come to mind: enormous efforts expending tremendous resources, only to leave entire urban regions to decay unused.
That's an interesting argument, but doesn't it assume a small, non-real-world input/goal set?

Dumb example off the top of my head: what if the input was the entire StackOverflow corpus with "accepted" information removed, and the goal was to predict as accurately as possible which answer would be accepted for a given question? Yes, it assumes a whole bunch of NLP and domain knowledge, and a "perfect" AI wouldn't get a perfect score because SO posters don't always accept the best answer, but it's big and it's real and it's measurable.

A narrower example: did the Watson team test against the full corpus of previous Jeopardy questions? Did they tweak things based on the resulting score? Could that testing/tweaking have been automated by some sort of GA?
Ok before I pluck $800 down, can I have some info on who's working on this? The website has no introduction to the team.
I actually agree with this sentiment, but learning the local language is the best first step to learning the local culture. It's much, much harder to really understand how people live without first understanding how they talk to each other.
The answer is at least partly related to the question he asks in the second paragraph: "how can America spend more on its military than all the other great powers combined and still be unable to impose its will on even moderately sized enemies?" What is "will" in a representative democracy? Even when the country is united with a strong plurality for action against some state, it doesn't extend to tolerating much bloodshed or internal discomfort. We may be the first post-modern nation that has simply become unwilling to project its power with the blood of its own citizens. I wonder what that might mean when the drone revolution really arrives?
Does careers require an invite or the "My Profile" part requires one? I have a careers account where I found my last job (but don't remember if I was invited or just signed up) but still need an invitation to create a "My Profile"
"Before Korea, America never lost a war."

Really? I feel like there's a decent case for the War of 1812 (the USA attempted to seize Canada and failed).
My mind is also unblown.
Not really. NATO Article 5 was invoked on 12 September 2001. In that way every country in the NATO alliance was de-facto at war as an attack on one is an attack on all. This go-ahead was given on the basis that evidence proving the guilt of Osama bin Laden would be provided later, so that was a 'provisional go-ahead'.

The effect of this NATO 'trick' was that no presidents or prime ministers had to show evidence or get their parliaments to vote for the war. In effect Tony Blair's mate at NATO made the war possible with one meeting and one press conference, claiming that he had seen the evidence proving Osama bin Laden's guilt. Whatever that evidence was is something that the world didn't follow up on with NATO.
Ask HN: What makes a successful partner program for SaaS companies?
I'm building a SaaS company and we've started a partnership program, which has helped us grow our revenue.

I was hoping to get some best practices from people that have built successful partnerships programs, as well as some feedback from web developers and consultants that have participated in these programs.
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> Hopefully we can take this into account when we look into the details here.

This is all I'm asking, and not the usual "I don't care about your usecase, you should just use GStreamer" that we get from the Gnome/RedHat/Systemd team.
I think the fact that MS has a good marketing is a better explanation.

Although I definitely agree that Word and friends are good products.
Seems like a shaky justification. I understand not offering things that are up for deletion but there wasn't even a way to do git pull --i-really-want-everything or some such.

If you push passwords and keys to your git server, then force-push those things out, you most definitey want to run a gc. Git is a flimsy security layer around this.
The other possibility is automation on the service-provider end. Once you've broken a task down enough so that a person can do it by following instructions from a cell-phone, the next step is to automate those instructions entirely. We're seeing this already with Google's self-driving cars vs. Uber, and I wouldn't be surprised if with recent advances in robotics & hardware startups, we start seeing Rosie the Robot taking over for Homejoy and Drone Delivery replacing Instacart.
Assuming that the place I worked at would always have work for me. I'm older, so I didn't have the newer philosophy of job hopping for experience, and believed I could make a career at this one place. I was there over 20 years and had 2 positions. It was union so I was making good money just from the seniority. I was on my 3rd supervisor (previous ones retired) and we didn't get along so well. I got laid off and trying to find a new job I was like a baby getting born -- didn't know a thing about the outside world. It's been tough.
Neat! So if I understand correctly, first you retrieve the "value" from the blockchain, which acts as the index into the DHT you're running separately?

Are you seeding the DHT with your own machines right now? At web scale, wouldn't the number of machines participating in the storage network (as opposed to the blockchain) need to be huge?
Sorry, didn't mean to come over completely negative.

I appreciate the work that's gone in to Spark and it's clearly well designed. Developing with Spark after coming from a Hadoop background was a very refreshing experience.
A side question: these pages that load with a gigantic graphic that covers the entire screen which I have to scroll past to get to the content have got to die. Is there a plugin which removes these from websites? I haven't found one, but I may be just searching for the wrong keywords.
Mischief via Android Through Google Play?