skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost all those mortgages were insured by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both of which have very strict documentation and qualification requirements to issue policies. If the big banks knowingly lied to them or to any other insurer about the mortgagees in order to obtain an insurance policy, and the insurer relied on these misrepresentations, they are guilty of fraud.
His class convinced me to become a CS major. He made computer science beautiful and fun, and was one of the kindest professors I ever had. Plus he'd take down college kids at basketball up until he was diagnosed with cancer.

We were all so happy to have him back when he beat cancer the first time. I can't believe he won't be around to touch another generation of students.
The point has nothing to do with anyone's sexuality. It is that Foucault writes in a way designed to elicit an emotional reaction from the reader (distress at the graphic depiction of human suffering), and yet denies the existence of the same emotional reaction when it comes to attributing motives for penal reform.

As for his flatly contradicting himself, opening his own book a practically random page brings up the following quote from a contemporary (Damhoudere) complaining that Foucault's executioners exercise "every cruelty with regard to the evil-doing patients, treating them, buffeting and killing them as if they had a beast in their hands." The fact that executions were public spectacles did not mean that people approached them with expectations of justice.
I think it does. After clicking this article, my top four search results for Paul Rand (without quotes) were the designer.
Same thing happened to me also.. This is one of those times when I really wished that my browser would tell me how the heck did I end up on this particular page..
Is it me, or does it sound a bit bloated:

> It now includes automatic app updates, Windows installers, crash reporting, notifications, and other useful native app features

* automatic app updates : We have distribution repositories for this.
* windows installers: Doesn't window have it's own like app store now (market something?)
* notifications: which we already had on all major OSs for years.
Just a thought: a FPS multiplayer game could use the proof of work generated by the Bitcoin mining network (e.g. a pool share 1/20th the difficulty of a block hash, which would be generated on average once every 30 seconds) as the seed for the RNG. This would be:

* unpredictable in practice (theoretically a player could reliably predict the hash, but only if they overpower the entire Bitcoin mining network, at a cost of billions of dollars in mining hardware)

* globally verifiable, allowing reliable synchronization

The only drawback would be that the time between proof of work shares meeting a particular difficulty target is somewhat random, in being a Poisson distribution that only averages to a particular value.
By the birthday property, this means that it is very likely to experience the exact same deck being played out more than once.
He will be remembered in the Haskell community.
Yeah, but returning 'this' to let you chain things like that? Definitely a trick. Not as obscure as Duff's device, but a trick, nonetheless.
A corporation being prohibited from donating is entirely irrelevant as we saw in the Sony leaks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9392872
Thanks for the advise. The library is currently at a very early stage, so no examples, no docs are available. It is now very tiny, as it grows it will perhaps be a lean alternative to Intel TBB. It uses C++11 standard library atomics and threads where possible.
Will you consider Google's wireless service?
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That'll be quite a trick with an MIT license, community promise on patents, and published language specs.
Wish there had been videos posted!
I wonder how they are rendering the text in WebGL like that, I couldn't figure out if they were using the write the text on canvas then extract and image and use that as a sprite / texture. It looks quite a bit smoother and scales better than my attempts using that approach.
That is indeed the goal and where the CLR is heading!

This work was done (almost) entirely without any MSFT involvement. Contributions were done by a bunch of guys affectionally called "the port team" whom you wouldn't want to meet in a (technical) dark alleyway ;)

@janhenke, @josteink, @ajensenwaud, @xied75, @kangaroo, @ghuntley, @qbit & @richlander (MSFT)

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/455

edit: Special shoutout to interoute.com and Paul Kelly whom comped the infrastructure needed for the team to collaborate on/test with FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

edit: Extra special shoutout to @kangaroo who was the first successfully merged pull request after MSFT open-sourced everything. His commits added support for .NET on OSX. He was awarded a custom, personalized/engraved scotch glass at the recent .NETFringe open-source .NET conference in portland a couple weeks ago.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23dotnetfringe
Visualization nicely done even on mobile.
They do that with blank cds in chicago all the time.
We see what you're trying to do--the problem is that the general "think of the one terrible case" has been tarnished rather heavily in the last decades by people talking about "well, what if it stopped 9/11", or "well, what if it stopped the OKC bombing" and so on and so forth.

The idea of "well, in this one specific extraordinary case it's totally reasonable" is kinda played out among anyone with half a brain, because it's been used to justify so much bullshit.

Also, the entire dichotomy of warranted/unwarranted is suspect, but that's a different rabbit hole altogether.
"""1. Lease a pile of servers from Dell or HP

You already lost the game. The entire point of cloud computing is you don't need any of the features that Dell and HP heap onto their servers. Every port, every button, every LED costs you another couple hundred mW.
> who was judged to be innocent

Because this was not a criminal trial and therefore the judgement does not determine "guilt" or "innocence?"

Because monied interests always have more power whether they are the plaintiff or the defendant in a case?
It's an interesting technical achievement and serious question without trolling - is there demand for running .NET apps on anything except Windows? If you're in the .NET world why would you want to do anything else?
Absurd. All early stage tech industries are male-dominated, from the early PC industry to the early internet to the current maker industry.
With superior software giving you higher utilization of the real server, you could theoretically turn a profit by reselling AWS capacity at prices cheaper than what AWS itself charges.
Well, for one, it's completely integrated with the jvm and its runtime, so it can make use of the rich ecosystem of java libraries.
How would it go away? Ellen Pao's going to appeal against the verdict which will lead to Kleiner-Perkins being in the news again.
That is really nice to see. I remember really liking c# but ultimately wanting something with better Unix support. I'd really like to see this succeed.
Sure - Linux VMs can be cheaper.
> "Promise not to pursue this case any further or we will try to collect $1 million from you"

Fixed that for you. There is no guarantee that they will recover all or part of those costs if they decide to pursue it.
I'm not on that very project, but my guess would be that sessions are not completely stateles on the server side so they have to have session timeouts to drop obsolete sessions. I'll ask when I meet someone from that project.
Not in the .NET world but I found it to be rather pleasent to work with in the past and I certainly wouldn't mind another option on Unixes.
Have you explored Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE)? http://lfe.io/ It is another way to participate in the BEAM ecosystem and might align well with your Racket interest.
What's the upside for Microsoft in that?
Reducing big data using ideas from quantum theory makes it easier to interpret
There is an interest, examine prior threads re: CLR and open source on HN.

That said, as a FreeBSD fan (my own domain runs it, I've been running servers on FreeBSD for 14+ years), I'm a bit embarrassed I didn't know about this project -- work at MSFT in an evangelism role.

Glad I learned something new to explore tonight.
Actually being multiplatform (not just variants of Windows) has real value. From my perspective, that means being able to use F# (a sort of OCaml.NET) anywhere. That, and true competition.
Having read a few of this person's reviews, I think they're doing a decent job. The reviews are factual, sometimes highlighting issues that you wouldn't find in the product description, there is a conclusion that, at least in some cases, proves that this person took the time to test the product.

As for gaming the system for own benefit -- obviously people are getting some free stuff, but is it as tempting as it sounds? I don't know. A few years ago I was invited by Amazon to join their UK Vine programme. I was obviously very happy to do so and get things for free just to write a review. After a few (two or three) months I stopped asking for items to review for the following reasons:

1. Most of the non-book stuff I got were things I wouldn't care about unless they were for free. And when I did get something I did like (e.g. headphones) I wasn't impressed with the quality of the product.

2. Some of the books I reviewed were really not that good, and were a proof-read copy filled with typos.

3. With Amazon Vine, you aren't supposed to sell (or give, or throw) the items you receive. I realised that I will quickly fill my house with things I didn't want and didn't like.

4. Writing a review about something I didn't care at all about was a tedious job. I used to like writing reviews about things I felt I had something to say about before joining Vine. Not so much anymore.

Since this person is not part of the Vine programme, I guess only #3 doesn't apply to them, but I still don't envy anyone who makes their living by testing a set of spatulas and then sell it on Ebay or wherever.

So, since I think they're providing useful information in the reviews (and maybe review stuff that other people wouldn't bother reviewing), and since I don't envy them, I'm not really annoyed by them. I haven't reviewed the other top 50 reviewers, but I suspect that I'd feel more or less the same about all of them.
> It is an imperfect way of organising the needs of people, but it is superior to everything else that has been tried, by an order of magnitude.

This is extremely important to remember. The fear of the unknown should not stop us from trying new economic systems that may be superior to capitalism.
A big difference is that SCO spend years in "discovery" always claiming that some sort of evidence was just around the corner. The only reason that judges allowed that charade to go on was out of an extreme abundance of caution (probably too much).

> Making claims one is unable to substantiate and dragging a case through discovery is normally considered an abuse of the legal system

A judge can decide to kill said "fishing expedition" too. It's not like these fishing expeditions just "happen" and once initiated are unstoppable. If it was ludicrous, then the judge should have denied it.
The bigger picture for MS now is building out Azure. They don't care what OS you are running on Azure as long as you aren't using AWS. You know Azure is forecast to exceed the revenues of Windows and Office by 2020, right?
If you really want to store a "lifetime of photos", you should probably consider having a better long-term backup strategy than just putting it in locations that are managed by a single piece of software. :-)

Sure, some of these applications store a copy both online and on disk, but if your application chooses to run amok and delete everything, that's not really going to matter in many cases. I've seen horrifying things happen when iPhoto tries to sync with the cloud before. :-(
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To answer my own question, I guess it injects life into C# and perhaps enables them to sell more Visual Studio and maybe brings developers back into the Windows platform ecosystem. Even so, it does so at the cost of Windows server licences and potentially starts to erode the need to run Windows servers at all.

Leads me to think back to when Steve Jobs came back to Apple and one of the first things he did was kill all the Apple-licensed Mac clones.
I disagree. Obviously they have a template for their reviews -- how creative can you be about ceramic knives? -- but some reviews clearly show there's a person there who actually used the item they're reviewing. They also have some non-sponsored reviews in which they don't follow their own template.

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They are hoping to sell more Azure services on the back of all this.
My current project at work is .Net based and I would love to have it run on *nix, as would the rest of the tech team. All of our infrastructure is based around Linux and I've had to spend quite a bit of time porting stuff over for use on Windows. The major holdup keeping us from using Mono or CoreCLR is that the tech we've licensed is .Net based but links against the Win32 API (for silly reasons like reading XML files to boot). Hopefully the vendor will move away from that in the future.
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we are designing a static website for our student community at PESIT,bangalore.
Feels risky, like something Microsoft might pull the plug on. Like Internet Explorer for Mac.

Microsoft has always been very stop/start about supporting other platforms - projects come and get cancelled and go.
Those are definitely great cases, but they only apply when the upstream can actually give you data that fast. My question is more - are there enough upstreams providing pipes big enough that gigabit users can actually use what they're paying for on a regular basis?
I think it's even worse that we _started_ moving towards gigabit (the NBN was going to announce gigabit service just after the last election) and then elected a government that's moving us _back_ to cable.
Different machines have different internal precision. See http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/flo...

Games I've worked on have used libraries e.g. http://nicolas.brodu.net/programmation/streflop/index.html
She lost the case. Sure. Can you enumerate why you are asserting she was "pretty clearly in the wrong?"
asteriskmethod@gmail.com , perfect timing i was looking for a domain for my github page thanks mate.
FWIW, that same creator created Jade and Stylus which are pythonic like CoffeeScript. What's wrong with HTML and CSS? I could never take his stance against CoffeeScript seriously.
Interesting that the 32-bit speed is skewed more in Java's favor. I suppose the JVM was first 32-bit optimized where Go needn't be.
Your feelings couldn't be more wrong on this. Making .NET cross-platform is one of their major initiatives towards creating a more open and future-proof Microsoft and part of the foundation for the next generation of their ecosystem. It's the very reason why Core was split off of .NET. They are betting the barn on this, its not some flimsy side project.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-i...
Well coreclr at least has 778 forks on github currently, so it will be a bit harder to pull the plug on hopefully.
It's also mit licensed and has a patent promise.
IANAL but it looks pretty safe, especially with the mono project picking up the code and integrating it (in theory).
Yep. The niches carved out by vimeo and liveleak are interesting in their own right.

But I mostly wanted to say, youtube is pretty fucking great.
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To develop in a great language with great tools and deploy to a great OS.
Wouldn't running .Net on Unix/Linux natively no longer be necessary with your .Net apps Dockerized?
It reads the next number in the list, it's not a random lookup. See https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/linuxdoom-1....
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Anyone knows what the hell this is ? None of the startup I visited look like a startup to me.
Its national news when unarmed people are shoot by cops and eyewitness reports or other early evidence suggests there is no good cause for the shooting, which for some reason happens more often when white cops shoot black people than any other combination.
You're looking at quarterly numbers, the original poster was almost certainly talking of annual ones.
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Exactly or maybe 20% discount on your favorite meal depending on the store/time of day/user profile etc. This can to some extent ensure the overall utilization of the retail store and thus profitability are improved. I'm pretty confident retailers wouldn't mind paying for this on a saas basis or some other similar model. This will also help on the user acquisition side as there's now a really cool incentive for downloading/using the app!
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> I fear go may be headed back to IDE-land if it starts relying too much on tools (we have goimports today, the go generate command is to be used for code mangling before compiling ...)

I think that it's kinda the opposite: rather than one monolithic IDE, it's lots of little pieces working together. Pretty much what one would expect from the guys who brought us Plan 9 and Go…
Universities exist for the benefit of society at large, not for the benefit of individuals.

If people are afraid or forbidden to speak their minds, then the university won't be able to function as a place to advance our understanding of the world.
I think this is great because other apps like SQL Server, VS etc will now come onto the *nix stack. And there is a ton of demand for that. I for one love SQL Server.
It seems like there's a conversation we're not having here, and a few people should not be allowed to force us to not have it.
I live in SF, but it's any midsize market (or larger) really. Loan officers are effectively sales people, they eat what they kill. The better ones have teams working for them in a sales-support capacity.

Its the same with real estate agents, a good one can be very wealthy. Some LOs hit annual comp > $1M, though that is rare. I found it pretty shocking when I first found this out.

Send me an email if you want to make the market more efficient, I'm working to build a modern mortgage bank :)
> For what its worth, it is only MSVC without support.

How recently? I've been enough versions back that clang documented pragmas haven't been available. The cleanup attribute... I can only find docs for GCC. Although I see LLVM bugs for it, so you're right about clang supporting it - at least on HEAD.

> gcc compiler extensions are otherwise still rather portable.

Portable or not, I'd say only about half the extensions I've sought out on clang have actually been available. If that.

> To clang and icc at least.

I should note in scenario #2 above I don't have these available either, since these are decent C++ compilers.
F# running on Unix :-)
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Lights need to stay on and mouths need to be fed every night. There isn't room in the budget to break contract, switch providers and buy a new phone.

Regardless, if you don't see the power play in the threat of being able to take one's communication and whereabouts out of context at any point, you need to look harder.
I can see the titles already

"Junk Data not so 'junk' after all"

"What many scientists believed to be areas of corrupt data in early 20th century 'e-books' turns out to be vital to our understanding of that period, from which so much was lost to proprietary formats and 'Digital Rights Management'. A group at the Luna City University for the first time managed to decode parts of ancient e-books and found them to contain notes and scribbles from the readers..."
Develop F# (or C#) with Visual Studio and deploy into Docker on CoreOS is the bright, bright future that is rapidly becoming a reality. See you later IIS, I've hated every moment dealing with you.
Ah, I see Priceonomics has completed its transformation into Medium. Kind of a strange pivot.
I remember Lou Gerstner predicting the rise of utility computing way back in 2002[1]. It was a great idea, but IBM were simply unable to execute on it.

As far as I can tell, Amazon were the first firm to actually execute and deliver.

[1] http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2002/gerstner
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That article doesn't support your point, except perhaps for IBM and it's hazy to me what exactly that revenue is. It's certainly not from the type of developer-targeted infrastructure services that AWS is.

As for Microsoft, quoting directly from your link: "One person has told Business Insider that Azure revenue is at $1 billion lifetime since its debut in 2011, but is accelerating quickly."
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It doesn't have to be out of context: not all comment threads are equal, and it makes a lot of sense to pull to your feed certain threads based on the aggregate upvote count of all comments in the thread (or just pull the whole thread if it has any highly upvoted comment). That's easily a good way to de-noise any popular thread (which could be a non-productive flame war)
indeed, but sadly I won't even get cable. My area is already 'serviced' by cable according to NBN Co. and isn't due for a rollout until after the end of 2016 and even then the current cable where available is overloaded as is. Even if I can get hooked up to it it will likely not be an improvement.
No evidence was found after lots of expensive legal discovery. If there was any evidence of guilt, they should have been able to find something that at least made them look bad, but they did not.

You are correct that the proper term for a civil case is "not responsible" but frankly that sounds silly to non-lawyers, as it's too similar to "irresponsible."
bute[sic] force that password relatively easily?

"Easily" conceptually, yes, but not computationally.
Would you rather program robots, or work on a car assembly line?
Try googling "in vitro meat" and you may find some answers, but I don't know if this problem is solved yet. This article mentions algae as a possibility:

https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/04/24/steak-of-...
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Quake 1 & 2 largely used fixed point arithmetic, for speed, AFAIK.