skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree; the timing is curious to me though. Given how savvy he and his team (i.e. the reporters he's been working with) are with manipulating the media, I wouldn't be surprised if this is just becoming public because the US is entering into a presidential election cycle.

IMO the best political outcome for the democrats would be to have Obama pardon him as part of the presidential pardons every president issues on his last day in office. Bush actually gave last-day pardons to people accused of much more dangerous leaks of classified information (the whole Valerie Plame scandal), so it's not unprecedented.
It doesn't come with its own cardboard microwave holder?
looking at the first linked product from that search url you posted: http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Touch-Bluetooth-Pre-installed-T...

all the reviews shown are from verified purchases.
As someone who played Sierra city builders almost exclusively when I was growing up, please do. Hasn't been a good game in that style in ages.
I can definitely see this work in an office environment. Working remote, collaborating and sharing could be easier. But a lot of companies might actually demand on-premise setups though.

When I'm using AWS here in India, with my server there in the US, I face a clear lag. And that too in the terminal. I've seen browser testing tools like BrowserStack lag. I'm curious how Paperspace tackles this. And I sincerely hope they open source their wizardry!
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If the whole leak showed something, than that the Agencies just continue to work as they did. No matter what.
Female company president: “I'm sorry to all the mothers I worked with”
As a component of discourse, asking for a source during an online discussion implies that such a source is not trivial to find, and thus calls into question the assertion for which a source is being asked for. Prepending your inquiry with "Really?" also contributed to that note of incredulity.

Particularly in a case where a source or citation is extremely easy to find, asking for one comes off as less of an honest inquiry and more of a rhetorical device designed to discredit the person making the assertion, regardless of intent.
What do you mean by doesn't seem active, are you referring to its cosmetic?
What are the advantages to this over something like Amazon Workspaces? With that I can use a thin client, ipad / android apps, desktop apps, etc.. We can use AD, NAT, images or none of it.

It looks awesome, but I can't think of a recent time when I had access to a modern browser only. Does it have a good support for tablet access / extra controls?
Yes. That was explained in this thread. People who bought the device were offered a free slipcase if they left a positive review.
> I see a developer wedge his git repo with a pull + rebase about once a month. And then somebody needs to walk over and explain. DVCS fundamentally introduce complexity that is not always needed.

Rebase and DVCS are orthogonal concepts. Rebase is a consequence of offline commits, not of decentralization. And I greatly prefer dealing with a `git rebase` issue than the equivalent in Subversion, which is to have your uncommitted local changes get irrevocably modified by the `svn update`, with conflict markers placed in your code and no way to abort the whole process.
Many companies mirror maven, so having mavencentral go down is not a big issue. Does composer make it possible to deploy a mirror of its dependencies?
Am I incorrect in my normal usage of "x" when conveying relative performance? With 120.8498 vs 120.4320 being conveyed as "1.00 x slower". Is this the correct terminology for results that are on par with each other? Really, these results are (relatively) unchanged. Shouldn't it be 0.003x slower, with the formula being (Old / New) - 1.

From the page:

Result Node.js v0.12.0

Called v2, util.yo("man") 100.000.000.000 times in 120.849870219 sec (1.00 x slower than v3)

Called v3, util.yo("man") 100.000.000.000 times in 120.432087601 sec
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Yes this article and the recipes sound mostly north Indian centric. For instance there is no such thing as Indian curry. It is a western word for some mixture of spices and ingredients. If you say "I like Indian food, I love curry" they will understand you nothing about Indian food. Curry is what a restaurant will call something when someone asks what the dish is.

Another example is that in western India they hardly use garam masala. It is much more north Indian centric. The main ingredient in garam masala, cloves, can be very overwhelming.
If OJ can escape mob justice, pretty sure Snowden will be fine.
Google has developed technology to tell whether ‘facts’ on the Internet are true
> Are people then willing to trade personally-identifiable information for a Snickers bar?

Not as cheap as a Snickers, but I once had a CS professor do a straw poll of the class for this experiment. Back in the day the most evident tracking was through customer loyalty cards at grocery stores. He asked the class: how much money do you save per visit using your loyalty card? $10? And would you instead pay $10 each time to not be tracked?

Perhaps not surprisingly, in 2007 a room full of undergrads would take the discount.
Right, but if you're an FSB officer you're thinking "No way this guy doesn't have access to the documents. Let's keep him here and spy on him in case he leads us to them." After a few years, they realize he was telling the truth, and he's suddenly of a lot less value to them.

Eventually, Russia will want to warm up relations with the US. When that day comes, Snowden's time in Russia will be at an end. It's convenient for Putin to be able to use the US as a punching bag, but Putin will not be in power forever. It's probably better for him to find an exit now and have a bit more control over his own destiny.
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I'm not sure why it hasn't come up, but my biggest fear is that a powerful nation will use AI for their own advantage, mostly in the form of propaganda and mass manipulation through Internet. That's at least my fear, and I think that "AI taking over" is complete bullshit. Although, if let loose, AI could even accidentally manipulate humanity into any non-positive state. We know that being easily manipulable is probably the biggest vulnerability of humans (and there's lots of history to prove that).

What comes to regulations, I think it should be required by law that AI identifies themselves as AI on the Internet discussion boards and social networks. I'm not sure how it's possible to enforce this requirement (without needing proof from everyone that you're human). Captchas are already too difficult (only bots get in these days). Popular captchas (such as Google's ReCaptcha) are also centralized, which is dangerous because it gives the captcha-owner a controlling position.
There is no such thing as "curry" for an Indian cook. That is an Indian restaurant thing for westerners.
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In summary, the original LM protocol used a "hash" based on 56-bit DES. NTLMv1 supports both the older LM hash and the newer NT hash based on MD4, but still used 56-bit DES encryption to encrypt them (this is what CloudCracker was designed to crack though nothing stops it from using it to crack any DES encryption). NTLMv2 uses HMAC-MD5 instead which fixes the problem.
Ugh. I'm really regretting upgrading right now.

a) There is no functionality to "upgrade" a folder from 1.4 to 2.0

b) Sync 2.0 completely clutters the namespace. I don't necessarily want all "sync'ed" folders to show up on all machines.

c) I used to be able to define where Camera Backup from an iOS device went. Now it forcibly makes me use "<devicename> Camera Backup"

d) The ability to dynamically change "sync'ed" folder names as well as folder paths still does not exist.
Well there is, but it's unreliable in certain edge cases. At least not reliable enough for a backup solution.
Manning was subjected to the military justice system. Snowden will be subjected to the civilian justice system. They are very different.
>How about giving the domain to another entity that is willing to pick up the hosting and/or redirection costs?

GitLab bought Gitorious so they could shut it down, not so they could give it to someone else. That is the purpose of acquisitions within the same field.
I am legitimately surprised they're using a binary format for scenes. That is very anti-source control in general. The only binary blobs in the entire project should be assets (e.g. textures, sounds, etc). Everyone loves to whine about XMl, but I'd happily take XML for scene layout over a binary blob.
The CNBC article jive with what I've seen $40 - $70 / $80 is the break even price for shale in ND & Texas (although one section in ND is listed at $36 from other sources). I keep seeing quotes like the second one ($70 in most cases) that quote the top of range. I'm still collecting a bit of research, but it looks like the majority of wells are closer to the bottom than the top.
>Well, you do that anyway when you allow people to check out a local copy of the code.

You grant that permission to the person legitimately checking out code, but not to the person finding or stealing a laptop with a clone of a repository. The latter is a side-effect of how a DVCS works. In SVN you don't even need to expose the full history, you can grant access to the last revision only.

> Just as in most VCSes, you can set up a git server to only allow checkout of specific branches

In SVN for example you can restrict people to single directories (or even files - I don't remember exactly). That at least is impossible in git. I can prevent pushes using hooks but not reads.
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Cutting down a forest is only a problem if I'm not growing suitable new forest to replace it.

If I'm buying meat in the store I'm definitely paying for it to be replaced.

I don't see why a good reason is necessary when it comes to a renewable resource.

I support demanding good reasons for non-renewable resources.
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I am very excited about this, however I found the copy on the website to be extremely confusing. Here is what I think is going on, would love confirmation/clarification:

* Paperspace is running some sort of super low-latency system to serve me a VM in my web browser
* The paperweight is a computer that runs such a web browser so I can attach it anywhere I have a monitor (like a raspberry pi?)
AFAIK, syncthing still does not support the use case of shared 1Password.

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/220

BTSync seems to be handling this for now.
The problem is that it's not uncommon for a dev/designer/etc. to not understand some of the reasoning for why a PM is requesting changes be made. We all snicker at the incompetent PM who just wants to "make their mark" on a project, but very often the demand that may appear that way is motivated by entirely legitimate concerns. (And yes, the PM should bring the dev along with them, etc.) If you "add a duck" and the PM ends up missing the legitimate concerns as a result, everyone loses.

The add-a-duck attitude fundamentally assumes that the dev/designer knows what's best for the end product and the customer, and while that happens some of the time, the reason the PM role exists in the first place is because that's not always true. :)
> The trash-pickers are independent entrepreneurs and the scrap yard is like Uber, facilitating their trade.

http://globalrec.org/2013/07/31/philippines-waste-pickers-fr...

Don't joke. Scrap pickers really do believe themselves to be independent entrepreneurs with an important job to do. You push on them, they push back. Its their way of life.
All of that is configuration, not code, any should never be in any repo external to one's company. Nor, frankly, should it be available to the developers. That's all production-specific, and should be restricted to deployment.

If your developers are deploying into production directly from their laptops, you have a problem.
I thought that was Team America, World Police.
Indian style cooking used to mean ayurvedic cooking. Nowadays it is a bit more modern and not so healthy. For instance the poha recipe you shared is quite traditional (except for the mushrooms and apples). The 6 tastes are definitely more prominent in Indian cooking. Most Indian people will enjoy a nice bitter preparation. That is not something which is common in western cooking.

North Indian cooking is younger because of the Moghul/Persian influence.
I've seen this type of comment before but usually in the context of someone that already knows either C# or C++. As someone that doesn't know either what factors make you want to learn C# over C++?
I've often wanted spaces in C. Because C makes heavy use of required punctuation, there aren't many places that a keyword can be adjacent to an identifier, or two identifiers can be adjacent, so for the most part I don't think spaces would introduce ambiguity.

Offhand, I can only think of a couple problem areas (but my C language lawyer days are long gone and I'm way out of practice--anyone else have some I'm missing?).

1. "goto foo;" could either be a goto keyword and the label foo, or a really stupid expression involving the variable "goto foo".

2. "int foo();" could be a forward declaration of the function foo, or an invocation of the function "int foo".

There would also be some questions about preprocessing. If I have something like "x pos = 12;", and I have a #define pos foo" in effect, does that apply to the "pos" in my "x pos"?
Most of the sauces are very similar, a tomato base with some cream thrown in. You start to get really sick of it.
Nice story, but the numbers don't add up at all. If you order managed colo at a provider like Rackspace (which is a much higher level of support and guarantees than AWS, basically 24x7 and 100% on network and cooling etc) and get dual or quad CPU machines (really standard, I think they don't even have single CPU as an option anymore) with 256 or 512 GB ram you can run 64 or even much more "AWS medium" nodes on 1 piece of hardware. Because the AWS "core" is based on a very old type of Xeon.

So in reality you could run this setup with fully managed network and a 100% SLA on 9 or 10 dedicated machines at Rackspace (or even a cheaper competitor of theirs). The price for that would be around 9x 800 and the cost of two dedicated firewalls for a redundant high performance setup. So I would guess 7 to 8k USD per month or 288.000 USD in three years. Which is over 60% cheaper than the proposed AWS setup.

So maybe if you buy way too much hardware and combine it with a lot of manual work that could be done cheaper by a good provider, then yes... AWS looks cheaper. But if you look at a realistic setup on that scale, hardware is much more cost effective.

The sweat spot for AWS is a small setup or very flexible load. If you're big with a steady load, a smart setup with a managed provider is much more effective.

(And as a last remark: both AWS and Google have huge discounts for long commitments, Google even does it without upfront commitment. So if you use those prices the two options end up much closer again)
Not at all personal on my side; hell, the story is probably apocryphal.

I never said he was right or that I agreed with him, in fact I hate Apple Mice and actually find them too small. No idea where you are even getting that.

My point is that Steve Jobs was renowned for an obsessive, manic attention to exactly these kinds of detail and usually knew what he wanted and would blow up when he didn't get it; so it takes a special kind of person to dodge Occam's razor and go looking for some other explanation.
so all of the obvious questions have been asked, but if I hear the video right, we're talking about $10/month?
Last I checked, Amazons own Workspaces product starts around $35/month, just no cool hardware interface, or fancy streaming optimization.
Source for "secret courts" that try U.S. citizens? Even citizens captured fighting against the U.S. in Afghanistan were transferred to regular courts once their citizenship became apparent.

The FISA court is no such thing. It was created by Congress review execution action that doesn't Constitutionally require judicial oversight in the first place. It's not empowered to try people for crimes or anything of the sort.
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Can you crack our online security given the SSL private key and user password?
I would have liked it if they would have dropped it all at the same time, this is obviously a marketing move to keep their KS relevant. I was on the fence on "Should Pebble be allowed to use KS are their e-commerce platform" and this pushed me over the edge. They didn't add a tier b/c they it some goal, they added it because it was planned from the start. I like to have all my options available to me when I make a decision and with Pebble it's not clear if we have more surprises in store. This means that I have to re-evaluate my options and I've got better things to do then re-decide what I want every week when they add/change KS reward tiers. Just my opinion and obviously not a popular one here on HN...
Hmm...I think AI will make us redundant, and we'll go away in time, but I don't think that makes it a foe. Not entirely sure how to answer.

I assume this poll is referring to strong AI. Maybe we'll be phased out before strong AI comes to pass, but if consciousness(?) is a thing the way we like to value it as a thing, they'll eventually develop it, either by becoming strong AI or recreating some meaty beings--or just going to find the other meaty beings that almost surely exists elsewhere in the universe.
the pagination is a little wierd, but thats fine.

also, is there supposed to be a 2-3px thin white line in the top of the site? or is it just because of firefox
For Google's purposes, this is immaterial. They already have core competencies in power, land, maintenance, staffing, R&D, etc that are sunk costs. Their point is that Amazon is enjoying 80-90% profit margins, and so this is a lucrative business for them to enter. Moreover, they're pointing out that they can offer you large cost savings sustainably to entice you to switch.

For a small business's perspective, the cost of overhead is absolutely material - but then, most of them probably wouldn't switch to bare metal anyway, but rather Dockerize their app and shop it around to whoever the lowest-cost IaaS provider is.
So after reading the page I can buy your computer to keep at home which can then connect me to a virtual machine in the cloud? As I was reading I kept feeling like I had to buy that $50 machine to do this but it sounds like I don't.
There's a certain tone in this article that bothers me a bit.

At least in software engineering, the idea of reviews is to find errors in code or design how ever small they are. When inspecting any code, we almost always find at least something, regardless of the level of quality. It's not about being fair, it's not personal, and it probably isn't even dependent on the reviewers personality. It's just that when the goal is to find deviations, that's what happens. It's just a process. The errors may be small or big, it doesn't matter, we just need to find them.

Some inexperienced developers often find the code review process intimidating and unfair. They take it personally. That's a wrong attitude.
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You can use your own repository, so at least in theory that should be possible. I haven't done that in practice, so I can't comment any further.
Thanks for your comment. I agree that the semantic of this can be misinterpreted.

It should have said "1.00 x the speed of v3". I'll change the text in my next run of this.

I'm currently working on a new benchmark test of promises and callbacks. All in the name of performance :)
My wife and I do something similar. We give our daughter (she's almost three) a few choices with most anything that involves a decision.

A trivial example would be that if we're eating something that is traditionally a finger food and she wants to use a fork. We'll respond "You can use your right hand or left hand, it's up to you." and it avoids the confrontation completely because she gets to decide. She chooses a hand and life goes on.

Another example is sitting in her chair at the table. She'll normally ignore me when I ask her to climb in her chair but the moment I put a decision before her of getting in the chair on her own or I'll do it for her she hops right up.

It becomes second nature after a while and for us it's been a lot less stress and a time saver.
HATEOAS only lets you discover something by going there, so to speak; it doesn't give you a complete index like a WSDL.

At the transport level you get much richer and more structured client code from SOAP. Automated HATEOAS clients are at this point purely theoretical, and anything you could put a content-type on and send over HATEOAS you could equally embed in a SOAP response. If the thing you wanted to embed can be expressed as XML, you can do much better.
I'm a member of ConsensusResearch group https://github.com/ConsensusResearch . We made some simulation tools around (Nxt-like) proof-of-stake consensus algo & published some papers around them.

One the possible improvements to proof-of-stake we're willing to investigate now is proof-of-stake + proof of-activity hybrid, where proof-of-activity is implemented like noted in PoW+PoA paper http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/452.pdf. From my personal point of view TenderMint is also about kinda PoS+PoA hybrid but implemented in another way. Do you Tendermint folks have simulation tools or may be even stricter models around your consensus algo to play with?
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Also love how they are completely ignoring the people who have literally assassinated a president.
I don't want an algorithm to do anything. I am not in the field, and I was curious whether any computer vision systems account for any (not all) optical illusions that humans are susceptible to. It's just a curiosity.
You mentioned

- having to find the number (or put in in your phone), and

- trust that they could deliver on what I expect

- I'd presume they hold all the pertinent info

Yet those three things are identical whether you use magic or your CC concierge service!

So you might as well have just written

> My Credit/Debit card offers concierge service but I've never used it. I don't like talking on the phone, but I don't mind SMS.
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