skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100 years ago, the mother would have died from blood loss and septic shock and the baby from a diarrhea a few weeks later. Also, the baby's father would be in the trenches somewhere in the North of France and the baby's grandmother would have 3 years to live before the 1918 flu kills her.

I'm good now ;)
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Also the creep-app (...) seems to be permanently logged in

That's terrible. My bank's app is actually really insistent on logging me out; just locking the screen or switching apps will immediately lock it - though it doesn't lose internal state, which is nice.
Mapquest Open lists "Traffic data © 2014 INRIX, Inc" as one of its data sources: http://info.mapquest.com/attributions/ - and their maps are from Openstreetmap.
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The announcement from NASDAQ has some important details the original article left out:

http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/nasdaq-launches-enterpri...

Specifically, this article points out that Colored Coins will be used, together with the Open Assets protocol.
Yes, I was just working with a heavy coat, gloves, and looking for ear protection a few weeks ago. Yet, that's exactly what I heard when I tried to fix it.
OSM probably has a much larger community of editors. Both in absolute numbers and as a share of the users.

Because OSM is a community project, editors are more likely to feel responsible for map quality. On Map Maker, users also have limited possibilities once they find problems. I once tried to undo a malicious edit, and as far as I can remember my only options were to comment on it, and to "report a problem".
Only in the sense "all cars have four wheels, so a Indy 500 car is just like a dump truck". Google has "this will go through Our Glorious Administration and we might decide to look at it." In OSM, it is possible (and encouraged) to first contact the original mapper for clarification in good faith - much faster and more efficient.
But they know you locale and could do the right thing. Is not at all hard.
> The bug is in the design of 2FA

While 2FA is often phrased as “Something you know and something you have”, I find that misleading. Knowledge is acquired from information, and the way they check what you have is through information alone.

What it really proves is that the telephony system authenticates you as part of their network. That authentication is done by the SIM card, which it is assumed you have unlocked with a password of entropy 13.3 if it's a PIN code with four random digits.

That, and your actual password.

By far the easiest way to get incorrectly identified through the telephony system is to break the PIN code, which requires to have physical access to your SIM card. But if all your secure HTTP cookies and/or your keyrings are only protected by that as well, then yes, your 2FA has a single point of failure. It goes from an arbitrarily strong password and something you have to a 13-bit entropy password and something you have. Or, if like so many you leak PIN code information from your life or the traces you leave on the surface of your phone, just something you have.
[And on video](http://www.cnbc.com/id/101733893)
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I've mentioned it on the blogpost but: Do you have some metrics about the success of your candidates replying to those questions?
Why is that funny, really? Some of his grievances can really only materialise because he uses the products. I have never had many of these problems, because I use none of these products. The point is that he wants to use "all Google products", yet they are in such a state as to make that impossible, at least for him. Somebody who would use them if they could use them is a much worse case for Google (or any other company, for that matter) than somebody who rejects them without an actual will to use them.
To quote RZA watching Bill Murray drink straight from the pot- "Coffee causes serious delirium."
This is a great comment and I hope that people think carefully about what you are saying.

One problem with discussing our biases is that sexism and racism are considered moral failings in many places, and so a discussion of possible sexist behavior is seen as a discussion of sin. This is why so many replies are along the lines of, "I am not a bad person! Also, look at my childhood problems!" These are reactions to a perceived personal condemnation, not a discussion of a sociological phenomenon. To those who have this reaction,

> It's OK to grow up sexist; if our current theories are correct, almost all of us do whether we like it or not. It's not OK not to learn about sexism and try to fight it now that we have a much better sense of how it works.
http://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/ is a quite impressive example for this. you may choose other layers in the right top!
There is no such thing as "reverse sexism." There is only sexism. Making decisions based on gender is always sexist.
Sadly, in the new world, we cannot just remove the battery to stop the machine from doing stupid crap.
>Self-driving cars have had 4 accidents

Two of which came while humans were driving and the others were not the fault of the car.
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OSM will eventually overtake Google Maps and others, so I predict GMaps will eventually use OSM.

Importing GMaps data into OSM would be a programming nightmare, and is basically never going to happen. Trying to merge those 2 databases! Yikes!
I assume 7 days is worst-case scenario, corporate-level drive quality (which is lower than consumer-grade) plus high temperature?

Is it becoming necessary to switch to a filesystem that ensures data integrity with redundancy and regular checksums?
Clients of a hypermedia REST API are supposed to have a priori knowledge of the link relations (the "rel" attribute). The fact the rel in this example looks like a URI is sometimes used as a convention (i.e., if the API supports it, a client may do a GET against the rel value, and get back a human-readable description of the purpose of the rel).

In the human readable description of the "/linksrels/slot/book" link relation, information should be given about what generally can be done with such links (like if GET or POST is supported, etc). This allows you to build your client applications. The value of the actual link (the 'uri' attribute) should be completely opaque to the client.
thank you, for beeing open to be convinced :)
Hopefully those mappers will move over to OSM where their changes are saved and shown within minutes.
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If I was in your shoes, I would try to optimize my output instead of optimizing the hours behind my computer. Think about it.

You say you still have time to do research, so do some research on working 40+ hours for more than 1 month. With your 80+ hours/week for 11 months, your productivity has turned way negative compared to doing half of those hours.

Let me put this in other words: If you had worked the past 11 months at 40 hours a week, you would have produced more than the 11 months you did now on your insane 80+/week.

Take a day off, get some good night sleep, read this again, and think about it. Don't believe me? Do some research.
Certainly. But OSM allows you (or anyone else) to use their data, make a startup or non-profit to implement such functionality.

Google Maps, in contrast is a data silo. Even if you put data in by contributing it, it's Google's data. The possibilities to implement new ideas on top of it is very limited.

As others say, the stuff that people do with OSM is terrific. E.g. you have communities of mountainbikers who enter data about small paths, level of difficulty in the uphill/downhill direction, etc. You can extract a MTB-specific map out of it (which is exactly what openmtbmap does), which renders on your GPS such that all relevant information for mountainbiking is there, routing is adjusted such that you mainly use interesting paths, etc.

There are a gazillion other interesting applications that are not possible at all with proprietary maps such as Google maps.

Also, these days, the point of interest annotations are better than nearly any other map. Heck, in my area in Germany, even picnic tables, etc. are generally in there.
Oh, this mail exchange is golden. Note in particular one of the responses to Bill's concerns:

"One of the biggest issues today is that WU provides no way to
promote a download to an end-user. We want to promote MM2 and WMP98 to end-users as something new and cool that they can get for Windows. Three lines of text describing it buried under "Windows XP" in a page thal the user has to purposeful~/go find just isn’t good enough. Why can’t the WU client-s~de piece proactively display a bubble "Look! Cool, new features for Windows XP" and the option to display a much richer "advertisement" for the feature if the user wants to read more"

(WU is Windows Update)

This is how we end up with so much crap in software. It's like there are people in important positions who live in alternate reality where those ideas don't immediately sound fucking insane.

Thank you for posting this rare opportunity to look into the minds of people that are responsible for all this mess we have to deal with.
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But AJAX!
And thinks that Thomas Piketty is talking rubbish. So he has that in his favour.
10 years ago was 2005.

I had a Fujifilm digital camera which saved photos to an xD card. I'd plug it into my computer's USB port, it registered as a mass-storage device, and I'd pull the photos. If I wanted to send them privately, I could email them. If I wanted to share them with the public, I'd throw them up on a web host and link them from my LiveJournal (I was actually hosting my own site at the time, through a server in my living room, but any of the gazillion free webhosts at the time would've worked).

There were other options, too. My cousin used Ophoto. I think Flickr was around then. Facebook Photos came out about 9 years ago, I think, so I wouldn't have long to wait.
A: I'm not sure how much MS really cares about enthusiasts. Reading the Win 10 forums and user voice, most of them seen like idiots, with all sorts of stupid suggestions and just plain drama. Though I agree "lifetime of the device" is a bit worrying.

B: I've talked the to the person responsible for MS Accounts in Windows 8. Really cool, smart guy. It was a hard thing to get right, and their intentions were not malicious like it might seem. For most users, using an online account is simply the better solution. Their photos and documents will automatically sync. Apps will automatically sign in and work. They can enable full disk encryption without worrying about losing keys. Enthusiasts can make two extra clicks to avoid it. While it personally annoys me and makes machines easier to compromise (by government), it's the only competitive option for most consumers.

Windows 10 is unpolished and downright janky, but if they get it cleaned up, there's little doubt it'll be pretty well accepted. If they had kept the start menu and not made metro apps so dumb in Win 8, it'd have been fine. Though they do need to make calc and other simple apps open as fast as they do on my bloody phone...

More concerning is the Windows Store, which is a cesspool, and MS shows no signs of caring. I've spoken to several ISVs that simply cannot get MS to help or respond to removing fake/scam/phishing apps. Even Netflix had trouble with this, FFS.
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Even without knowing the locale, it pretty easy to know which are NoOps and which mean something.
Except that OpenStreetMap is a real wiki map and is producing a real map to rival Google Maps. We can have nice things, We have OSM
Dropbox offers 1TB of storage for $10/mo (or $100/yr), and their "Carousel" app isn't terrible. And you get direct access to the damn files on all your devices (regardless of platform). It's a much better service than what Apple or Google offers for these reasons alone.
The fact that the phone can continue to access storage while connected, so apps can get to their data (or apps moved to SD can continue to run).
Do you have a stat for this? Map maker seems much more know and to have a rather large community based on the Google product page. If anything I'd think the community is much larger for the Google project than it is for OSM.
What humans do on the interwebs matches exactly what humans do in real life. I don't think there's a technical way to avoid that.
Badly misquoted, probably.

Also, I find it doubtful that one would play WoW for a year with only one class. So it is likely he got max levels in many classes, then went raiding to get gear and stuff like that.
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I think cbloom's "finishing team" idea is great.
In the U.S., private prosecutions are not usually allowed. Additionally, government officials with prosecutorial authority have some amount of discretion in choosing which cases to prosecute and limited resources that prevent them from prosecuting every possible case. A private citizen cannot force prosecution, no matter how meritorious the case.
One thing I feel the NB never quite achieved was "state". It sort of worked, but sometimes not the way expected. It turns out that "state" - like a door open or closed, is not easy to keep track of reliably. Caution is needed for anything else in the chain eg "if door open for longer than 30 sec, sound alarm".

In the end, nothing beats a physical switch on the door (wireless battery operated), with hardware on/off states. Then the door can't be mistaken ever as open or closed due to mis-matches in sending the state, or whatever other interference cause the "door open" state to get out of sync. If Ninja Blocks had made their own special little purpose-built wireless sensors and switches rather than use aftermarket, then things like state could have been sorted out early on IMHO.

The supplied door switch for example that came with the NB, triggered the same thing whenever the pin was moved in or out. The switch had no concept of open or closed or on/off, it just blurted the same signal each time it was triggered. Attempting to build "state" from such trigger data is never going to be reliable.

Knowing without doubt that your garage door is open or closed when looking at the app on your phone, is not something you want your security device to be wishy-washy about. You want the truth. Ninja Blocks (in combo with the basic remote sensors) simply couldn't give you the truth, it could only give you a "pretty sure, quite likely, almost certainly the door is closed". This isn't good enough for security.
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That's my thought too. Is it the coffee itself or is it the lifestyle that goes along with drinking five cups of coffee a day? I'm pretty sure that no one is drinking five or six cups of coffee a day and just sitting on the couch and watching TV.
It's funny how this turn to all-white came along just as screens that use less power the more black colour is displayed became popular...
funny... my blackberry still shares files easily... perhaps its the icrap ?
That's the emacs that comes with the BSD OS.

You can download and install 24.5-1 at http://emacsformacosx.com/ without having to use homebrew.
OSM has less whining, probably because there is often less amibugity. Someone on StackExchange might wonder if a question is really off-topic, but on OSM, there'll be very little disagreement about whether the thing is a lake or a postbox.
"help alleviate side effects"

My engineering advice is your complicated solutions to avoiding the results of screen glare and the results of background noise would be to clean up at the source rather than at the symptoms. Don't require exotic vision hacks to work around screen glare if you invest in good lighting and top quality matte screens, don't require special comfy headphones if you're in a good (quiet?) acoustic environment. If your environment sucks, change it don't adapt to it

You do correctly implement that strategy with posture and the chair, I've met many people thrilled to spend tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on chiropractic and back pain therapy just to avoid spending hundreds of dollars on a really good chair and hours working on posture, meditation, tai chi type stuff and/or stretching.
Has A16Z made a non-Series A investment in the last three years that didn't require perfect execution and everything to break right for them to come out ahead?
MTP? The digital camera I got in 2005 was USB mass storage.
This is all well and good. I drink my locally roasted, manual ground, aeropress brewed coffee for pleasure and taste. Everything else.. meh.. Actually most/all coffee lovers I know drink coffee because they like it, not because they expect a lot of health benefits from it. But... good to know..
Any edits I have made on Google Maps have also had the same kind of responses within a day or two. Sure you have to wait a little longer, that makes sense. It really depends on your area in Google Maps.

My neighbourhood is barely in OSM, and when editing it I wasn't seeing any other editors in that area.
Programming would be the lesser of the nightmares involved: merging whatever n databases that Google has (licensed under something, only Google knows what), with ODbL-licensed OSM data would be the real nightmare. Opening closed data is always a pain.
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I'm sure there's automated ways of doing it within the Microsoft ecosystem... it's just not a specialty I want to acquire!
How do you mean powerful? Sure, traffic is hard to do, since you need real data. But if it's worse routing due to missing roads/paths, then you can improve the data.
Me too.

I think Google is taking a lot of wrong decisions in terms of strategy. I really liked Material Design and how they tackled the UI discrepancies in their products, but on the Android world this is just a mess. If you want it, you need Lollipop that is just the 5% of the Android world. Can a developer ignore the 95% of the Google Play store? NO.

Then they ported Google Apps, it was nice, but Google Apps wasn't requiring a real re-style, but a better integration with apps and with their services too. Nope, we got a new UI.

It looks like they are prioritizing things that people are not caring now, at least, not so much compared to other things...
According to a recent presentation by Seagate's Alvin
Cox, who is also chairman of the Joint Electron Device
Engineering Council (JEDEC), the period of time that data
will be retained on an SSD is halved for every 5 degrees
Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) rise in temperature in the
area where the SSD is stored.

"SSDs scary," says leading manufacturer of mechanical hard drives. "Mechanical drives good! SSDs baaaaaad! You like good, yes?" he added.
I know what you mean, this excerpt in particular makes him seem like someone with a very bitter inferiority complex:

"So he later saw Amazon as a heroic disseminator of knowledge and progress. “Screw the independent bookstores,” he told me. “There weren’t any near where I grew up. There were only ones in college towns. The rest of us could go pound sand.”"

I understand his point, but it seems more like 'I didn't get what I want so fuck you all' rather than something actually productive.
Can't someone learn these in a couple of months.

Why does a candidate have to know all these already?
Submitting in the comment box on the blog failed with "Could not open socket," so I'll post my question here.

Now that you have a notation (even if it may not be complete, you've raised the question in exercise 5), I am curious about computation.

1. Given two knots that are describable in this notation, is there an algorithm that decides if they are equivalent?

2. If so, what is the known (time/space) complexity of this problem?
I always never use landscape because it is not handy enough for me (I use a smartphone not a tablet). I actually turned the reorientation accessibility feature off.
You can still care about mapping an area and use Google Maps though. And I don't see the issue with helping a big corporation. They provide a free mapping service with realtime traffic data, satellite views, and more. I don't see how contributing back is so wrong. Why does it matter who made the software and runs it?
If she was willing to, and had the political backing to e.g. hand him over to the CIA, then it doesn't make sense, yes.

If she was merely told it would be beneficial to her career if she helpfully found a way to get him locked up, and others behind the scenes prepared to smooth the road towards getting him to the US, then it's not so strange.

She could have rattled a lot of cages and brought him in right away, but then they'd also need to be prepared to handle much more fallout.

Note that I'm not saying the US is behind this. I don't think it's the most likely motivation between Ny's strange behaviour in this case. But I also think that the two prosecutors different opinions about the case is the easy explanation for why he was allowed to walk free to the extent that he got the opportunity to leave before they were ready to arrest him.
well .. that bugfix have associated a few risks..

1. let's suppose a user have a password: (note the space)

" 123"

2. also you store the password using some hashing function, which prevents you from knowing the password.

3. two weeks later the bugfix goes live, the user cannot longer access the service.

Also, you cannot easily estimate how much benefit/annoyed users your _fix_ will endup having .. which makes it a higly risk change.
Licencing can be solved by the correct person in authority signing a bit of paper. Merging millions of roads in OSM with millions in GMaps?
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This reminds me of a similar problem with wikipedia. A well known celebrity (Author I think) noticed that his birth date was incorrect. He tried to get it changed, even stating that he was the actual person and knows his own birthday - only to have it rejected as not from a good enough source!
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If you are philosophically inclined, you realize that art is one of the few exceptions to that. Artists are people that try to achieve perfection in a way that ordinary society doesn't allow.
Days. The article pretty quickly diverts away from the subject of interview questions.

"The goal is to encourage our readers to review the dusty RFCs, get interested in the inner workings of the network stack and generally spread the knowledge about the protocols we rely on so much."
What harmful chemicals are those, exactly?
How's Tutanota any better? "End to end" but client side JS where you plop your key into the form they serve up. It's only as good as their TLS/server security, and your trust in them. In face of real opponents, it breaks down just as much as gmail-to-gmail emails.
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The reason they need permission to change your contact list is because Airdroid can change your contact list from your phone.
Mapquest I find is not very good though compared to Google Maps. Much harder to find a POI.