skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, no. If they provide cross-platform support, open source it, and make it easily pluggable into existing scripting toolchains (ie, Selenium WebDriver or some such), then I'll call it a modern and open browser. Open source isn't actually necessary, so long as its easily installable using native package managers so that SysAdmins don't have to run/write custom installation scripts for CI support.

I honestly couldn't care much if they supported Android or iOS. I'm simply pointing out that the competition -- Chrome, Firefox, Opera -- all have these features, and are what people consider "modern." You can't go backwards on featureset and still be considered modern.
Apple is a heavy user of Teradata which according to this article they were the quickest to reach a petabyte. It is now 2 years later and they could be in the tens of petabytes given the success of iPhone 6 and integration with Beats.

https://gigaom.com/2013/03/27/why-apple-ebay-and-walmart-hav...

Teradata is VERY expensive and my guess is reaching also scalability limits.
I probably shouldn't post via audio. Looks like I am drunk.
ISDS does not "trump national sovereignty" and in no conceivable way can a business "strong-arm" sovereign entities. This is complete nonsense.

The "tribunals" are arbitral tribunals and as such are manned by lawyers chosen and agreed on by BOTH sides - just like any other arbitral tribunal. They can apportion compensation for damages caused by breaches of international law. No international court can "force" a state to change a law (this is constitution 101), and it is not the case here.

Philip Morris is seeking compensation for the purported expropriation of intellectual property rights (their brand). Almost no-one believes they have any chance of winning. In fact, it seems that they are doing it solely to press for time in other jurisdictions: i.e. some countries are waiting for the result of the arbitration before introducing similar laws. They probably figured out that potential lost profits in foreign markets in that time frame are likely higher than legal fees.

Not one of your points is accurate (and you reference John Oliver and a comic).
I feel fundamentally different from this author about what the Internet is doing to my interpersonal relationships, but she makes some good points. I like Facebook very well because, duh, my friends are there. I have lived overseas back in the era when I couldn't possibly afford regular international telephone calls, and relying on aerograms (remember those?)[1] to communicate by postal mail meant a rather slow response time to anything I said to old friends back home.

After living overseas twice in my life (two separate three-year stays), I now live in the same metropolitan community where I grew up, as the author didn't when she had the experiences that shaped her opinion. ("My own peak use of social media arose during a period of painful isolation. It was the autumn of 2011, and I was living in New York, recently heartbroken and thousands of miles from my family and friends.") Some of the people I interact with online have known me since almost fifty (!) years ago, a few of them continually over all that while. Those friends who are still in this town I see in person once in a while, but I hear a lot more of their news in between face-meeting through online communication.

Because I've lived in more than one country, and some of my classmates and colleagues and one child have scattered hither and yon, there isn't anywhere on the planet where I can face-meet with all the people I like at the same time, but my second stay overseas (1998-2001) illustrated the power of the Internet to reduce feelings of loneliness and lack of connection while far away from most familiar friends, and helped me learn how to use online networks to enhance real-world friendships. These days, Facebook comes pretty close to being with all my friends all the time, and I like that. I come here on Hacker News, of course, pretty often, and here I can sometimes make a new kind of friend over shared interests.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogram
You are entitled to that opinion. I agree that Y Combinator is the best, especially for those that are really hungry to win and can make the most out of its unstructured program. YC gives you access to the best.

However, I don't believe accelerators #2-10 are the worst in the world. Which I also think is a disingenuous statement. To others.. things like location, industry relevance, program structure, etc. is a better fit for them or their team. I have friends that have gone through YC and failed miserably. I friends that have gone through TS and have succeeded greatly, by YC standards.

Does the market have too many accelerators that offer little-to-no value? Yes.
This is a vastly better article, and actually makes a reasonable case. Thanks.

Still, I don't think it's fair to say the context is "fundamentally different". In Franklin's situation, the trade-off was to give up a degree of the colony's self-governance (with power taken by the unelected governor) in order to get safety from the war being fought on their frontier. Yes, in his case it wasn't so much personal (individual) liberty as it was the notion of colonial self-governance. But I don't think it's so vastly different as to say the quote's original meaning has been greatly distorted.

Here's the original letter:

http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/framedVolumes.jsp?vol=6&p...
Hyperboria / Project Meshnet are definitely in need of technical writing :)

We've been building a routing protocol (cjdns) and accompanying software for desktops, servers, phones, and home routers.

> Cjdns implements an encrypted IPv6 network using public-key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing. This provides near-zero-configuration networking, and prevents many of the security and scalability issues that plague existing networks.

I'm larsg in #cjdns on EFnet IRC in case you wanna hear more.
Direct Approach Neural Networks
Whether you work or not doesn't cost me anything. But if you're hoarding a natural resource and playing games with the supply then you're costing me in increased rents; not just for me but for everyone around me. Your actions are creating a negative economic externality that I am not being compensated for. Extracting rents is a form of theft from society; a diffuse and difficult to trace theft but real, damaging and if allowed to continue unchecked a threat to the stability of society.
Darpa wants an army of drones to overwhelm the enemy
Oregon is in drought too, actually, though it is not nearly as bad as California. The trouble with Oregon is that there are mountains in the way — the very same mountains that keep all the rain in Oregon, as a matter of fact. So to sell their water to California, they'd have to pump it over the top, which would negate anything you'd save vs desal. Keystone XL only works in the great plains.
I'm a non developer working on the MySQL team.

One of the ways that I try to help is by collecting feedback from our community of users and passing it back to the developers.

Some examples:

http://www.tocker.ca/2015/01/05/what-defaults-would-you-like...

http://www.tocker.ca/2015/02/24/proposal-to-change-additiona...
I ask every enterprise I walk into what the patch management strategy is. There's always herds of testing, that often takes months. Recommendation? Patch first, deal with compatibility later. In most cases (note, not all) being hacked is more expensive than a temporary, self-imposed denial of service.

Edit: Thing I forgot to add is that an aggressive patch management strategy just so happens to do great things for technical debt.
LSZH Crosswind Landings (2015-3-31)
Translation: "Intense storm Niklas did not spare the Zurich airport. On 31.03.2015, pilots had to fight wind speeds up to 80 km/h at lunchtime on their final approach to runway 28. Despite tripod it was very difficult to hold the camera still, as I had no slipstream available and I was exposed to the same gusts as the aircraft."
You're reading something into the title that isn't there. The author says "7 bits aren't enough for 2-digit accuracy" and you're reading it as "7 bits aren't enough to represent 2-digit numbers." The post is about converting base 10 floating point numbers (with 2 digits accuracy) to base 2 floating point numbers and back, not representation of integers.
Shares of the music-streaming company Jay Z bought spiked 938% on Tuesday
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It's way beyond IE11, what the article was referring to is the score of the IE11 version running with all the optional flags of the Edge rendering engine, which you can't configure in Spartan yet.

Honestly I think it'll have surpassed Firefox before the beta of Windows 10 finishes.
Comparing Google's Internal Discussions with Its Public Claims
Yup, it works in conjunction with other build tools. nix knows how to build make projects, cmake projects, cabal, etc. This is what allows you to depend on pretty much anything. Then I just use nix-build and it will build all the dependencies in a virtual environment and symlink the result when its finished.
Also - https://github.com/django/django/pull/4427

1.9 will have support for jsonb, but you could always copy the above PR into your own project if you need that functionality.
When it came out a few weeks back, I noticed that it went to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, which is the popular one. Going to the North Rim would save over 100 miles of driving. To be sure, the South Rim has the better view.

It also can't be done in winter, as its route through Yellowstone isn't open then.
Or, to flip that around -- if your residents use less water, the price per gallon will increase. Seattle has nearly the lowest per-capita water usage on that list.

http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2010/world/u-s-urban-r...
Does their cost/benefit analysis incorporate the cost of paying data scientists to build these models?

I'm really confused as to how the weight of a SKU is not information that's readily available to them from the manufacturer, or why a missing weight can't be determined as part of the fulfillment process. After all, you only need to weigh a SKU once, so it's only a problem the first time that item is packed. You'd think knowing the weights of products in your warehouse would be a solved problem by 3PLs and not one requiring the services of people with graduate degrees in statistics.
The former interpretation is what I meant and I have updated my comment to reflect it.
> I would phrase my criticism entirely different if the recipient was someone who asked for my commentary and not someone who felt confident enough to write a blogpost on how to start refactoring code.

Right, because we should seek out excuses to be nasty to others. How about we just try to be constructive as much as possible?
Thanks for link. Will keep eye on it :)
> I'm a big fan of his, but isn't it extreme to demote Dawkins to just a journalist?

He's just adopting Wilson's attack on Dawkins [0], when Wilson said: "There is no dispute between me and Richard Dawkins and there never has been, because he's a journalist, and journalists are people that report what the scientists have found and the arguments I've had have actually been with scientists doing research."

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/07/richard-dawki...
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I am a design-savvy developer with a passion for iOS. My skills extend to Android, web (Angular) and server side as well. Additionally, in my last project I worked on integrating with Bluetooth Smart (Low Energy) devices, proximity and reporting back where the devices have been using location data.

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Highway commutes will be significantly streamlined when merges are done in a perfectly interlaced fashion with autonomous drivers. Anyone who has tried to get on the highway in the US during rush hour probably knows exactly what I am talking about.

Imagine driving on roads where all the vehicles followed the rules and you didn't have to pay attention and the road system worked with the vehicles to improve efficiency.
Commuter trains have to stop and let people on and off.

Cities like Chicago have long distance commuter trains, but the commutes are still long. You can take a train from the near west side of Chicago to HArvard, IL (where Motorola built a huge campus and then abandoned it) in about an hour and 45 minutes. But it would be a 70 mile drive. But that skips over a bunch of farmland.

Chicago to Cary, IL would like SF to Mountain view. Train ride is 1:15 minutes. But then you need to get from the train stations to each door on both ends. Realistically its more like 1:45 door to door. People do it.

But living in a high rise is much more preferable to me.

I don't get why'd you make an low speed maglev.
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Proof read our website: emberui.com and submit patches in the documentation repo :)
Remote anywhere or US only?
> I'm not sure what you are saying here -- the very notion of pointers do not exist in Java. This decision was made while creating the language, and avoids an entire class of programming errors. Java is strictly pass by value.

To clarify: the GP is probably referring to boxed and unboxed data types. IIRC, Java has some unboxed data types ("primitive" types?), but mostly everything is boxed behind a pointer.
From the article:

In addition, the state and local governments will offer temporary rebate programs for homeowners who replace old dishwashers and washing machines with water-efficient models.
I am torn. On one hand, social media has absolutely brought me closer to my family. My family is scattered between Bangladesh, Australia, Canada, and Germany, while my wife's is in Oregon and Washington. Nobody is close to where we live in D.C. But they can all watch my daughter grow up on Facebook.

On the other hand, it's hard to have deep relationships over social media. Tweeting and like-ing are pretty superficial. I feel like the internet has regressed in a way. My late-night conversations over AIM were a lot more meaningful than any interaction I've had over Facebook. Yeah, there's FB Messenger, but it doesn't seem as pervasive or as convenient as AIM was back in the day.
Clone Zone Grabs $1.8M to Help Democratize the Internet by Cloning Websites
Hey everyone, the site is having a hard time responding (obviously), I am working to get it back going, Thanks for hanging in there!
That is one thirsty fucking site. Something popping up every five seconds saying "Subscribe! Retweet! Look at meeeeee!!"
Google’s ARC Now Runs Android Apps on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac, and Linux
You have a point. I just thought water bottlers like Nestle, who continue to use CA water for bottled water, are considered different from agriculture.

Besides I feel that people are missing my main point, which is what's wrong with going after low hanging fruit? Reducing our water intake in the form of lawns and in the bathroom is neither a major inconvenience nor is it a financial burden. In fact, it saves people money.
"there are no high-quality virtual environments"

But there are high-quality cities - tech hubs. That answers your question.
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So a bit like virtualenv + pip for anything. That sounds fun.
> If I bought stock in Apple years ago, because I thought it was a smart thing to do, and I simply held the stock, should other people get a cut of my gains when I sell?

They already do, indirectly, through cap gains taxes
amazon sold 20+ million units?
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...because you don't see any laws that goes against the constitution being ruled everyday.
That is very shallow logic. If there is a land tax, any product or service that uses land will become more expensive for everyone. Whatever gain in productivity we might get by making vacant lands usable will be simply negated by the loss in productivity due to the land tax.

Also, taxation is meant for government to run to do its primary duties and not affect the market forces.
Holding own to 28% after 7 rounds seems... optimistic?
I don't think we need another build system, what we really want is a package manager that knows how to fetch and build dependencies and gets out of your way. This is why people like npm. This is why nix is awesome.
Government to sell-off playgrounds - kids don't play outside anyway. Proceeds to be used to build digital parks inside Minecraft.

http://daily.koalasafe.com/

Got picked up by a few places in Australia.
I wouldn't call giving free reign to eminent domain "lifting barriers."

I don't think Manhattan is a good example of a place with too restrictive laws. But SF and DC certainly are. In DC for example, you wouldn't see 80 story apartment buildings in Georgetown, but you would see them in Chinatown, NOMA, NavyYard, and other places.

Instead lower middle class black neighborhoods are converting to overpriced condos as fast as house-flippers can do it.
1. What data store can scale linearly on performance and storage (with no bounds)? I'm not sure it exists (or is even possible). We decided on horizontal partitioning with hashed URLs/IPs as the key.

2. We also wanted to provide real-time stats for pages, sites, and hosts. This requires IDing the user and page in a reversible way. Even if it's not reversible, you could easily use a rainbow table to reverse, especially with the limited IPv4 namespace.

However, it seems that such URL collection isn't too big of a concern among the general population.

You also have to maintain plugins or extensions across all the major browsers, which is a pain.

This was a project I was working on before completing a CS degree and/or getting exposure to some of the solutions that could be used. I'd be interested in exploring it again, but I have a few more interesting projects on the stack for now.
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Weakly supervised memory networks [pdf]