skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a really insightful strategy. Amazon wins by not needing to sink more development time into cheaper hardware by getting P&G to offset costs, while P&G wins by effectively pays a one-time fee per customer per product to ensure a steady stream of sales.

Hadn't thought of that angle at all. Enlightening comment!
Box of Rocks
What is it that you find so painful about the work? Not having coworkers or the actual work?
> In the end its about the job you do, not how many time you spend on it.

Unfortunately most employers don't see it this way. Especially at corporations where the number of employees is large, I mean like > 1000 headcount. It becomes impossible for HR not to completely manage people's time through strict enforcement of working hours policies.

They employ you for 40 hours a week and thus expect you to be there for 40 hours a week. If you work for less than 40 hours it means either you're overqualified, i.e. being payed too much, they could replace you with someone that costs less and works slower, or they need to give you more work to do to make up for that 40 hours a week they're paying you for.

I hate it.
It's quite normal for submissions to be reposted and make it to the front page again.
The ESP8266 has peak draws of almost a watt when transmitting, unless Amazon releases a crank-to-order device that doesn't seem particularly plausible. I'm slightly surprised that they didn't use the Espresso solution here to keep their part count down, but it is possible this model is just to gauge market interest.
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How to give the perfect handjob?
Huh? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elec...
> unless you want to get stuck at the house on weekends, you will need a car, unless you want to live in the city center.

There are buses, trains and trams to the countryside.
> the country is rebuilding itself post-Nokia

Surely you mean "post financial crisis". Nokia was big, but not that big, certainly not compared to the might of Samsung. Finland has been doing fine ever since joining the EU, and the ups and downs have been the same as most EU countries, with or without Nokia.
To give a counter-opinion in favour of Samsung, I am using a Galaxy Tab S 8.4, and I find useful some of their custom ROM features like Power Saving mode (which restricts background data and runs in black-and-white mode), the split screen mode (very useful when say comparing excerpts from 2 book, or say running a calculator and another app.

Yes, they do try to bundle a few additional third-party apps like Flipboard, Evernote, and Dropbox. I wouldn't call these bloatware as these are high quality apps that most people would actually like and find useful, but I am mildly annoyed at the imposition. They also have a few of their own google-like apps and services like S Voice, S Planner and S Finder. These are basically attempts by Samsung to pull a Google (which frankly, they don't have the chops for). On the whole, i would say these additions are only mildly annoying since performance hasn't been much impacted, probably because of the hardware(but this may change with time and updates).
Yeah, storage seems somewhat rough in particular.

This wasn't meant to be a Docker post. AWS or any cloud that allows messing with load balancers gets you pretty much there too.

However, I like that it provides a localized image builder a lot, and I like docker files themselves a lot, and the idea that it's cross-cloud. I think the other edges can get smoothed out.
virtual handojobs
> Pet transportation is limited.

My local tram network has 2 types of tickets: (a) Adults or (b) Children/pets.
The mechanic/feel is okay, but the castrated layout is nuts.
I agree with the sentiment: electrically tinkering with my brain is not something I would think a good idea, but is it really much different from ingesting various chemicals/pharmaceuticals for essentially the same purpose?

I'm actually not so surprised by the racial prejudice effect. Many low-IQ people I've encountered are execeptionally friendly, accepting, and non-judgemental. Not to say that is evidence of anything, just my experience.
I just got my 5.0.1 update for Verizon Samsung S4. 5.0 has been out for how long, I'm thankful I didn't get the original included memory leak
I am sure that a) now actual hardware was actually broken by upgrade to iOS7 and b) nobody forced you to install it.
OTOH I also had iPhone 4 with iOS 7, no problem.
Venice is the only one I can think of right now. But it's definitely an outlier.
Not right now, but is there a reason why it won't be?
Ask HN: Is it worth doing an MS in a university from US?
I am having total 4yrs of experience in the software industry currently working as a software engineer in India. I have also been the co-founder of a startup. Now i want to pursue MS in computer science from a US university just because I want to improve my skills in this field and moreover, I have a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engg. Do you think doing an MS is worth it at this time?
More revenue.
When I'm old and weak, I don't need any perfect life extending care, I just need TLC until I die. My desire is not to get old and needy, my desire is to live a fulfilling life that is hopefully an example and inspiration for many others.
> Any religion that fundamentally doesn't tolerate the existence of other religions and calls its followers to slaughter those who don't convert is "bad religion". Islam is a "bad religion".

Well, if that's what Islam calls its followers to do, it's a good job most of those followers don't pay any attention. Even Iran permits Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians to worship within its borders: they are subject to discrimination and harassment, but not forced to convert to Islam under pain of death.
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Does it support Go 1.4? In Jan/February it was still only compatible with previous Go versions - the stable release.
The Ethiopian Jews do not observe Hanukkah, which would indicate that they split of from the rest of the Jews earlier than 167 BC.

Also "Ancient Isrealite Religion" should probably be "Ancient Caananite Religion". And a lot of things happened there before 500 BC - such as Yahweh becoming the dominant deity and King Hezekiah forbidding the worship of any other gods.
From 2006 to 2010, my primary role at Google was JavaScript execution in the indexing pipeline. I knew I was likely executing every known JavaScript engine exploit out there plus a good number of 0-days, and ran the javascript engine in a single-threaded subprocess with a greatly restricted set of allowed system calls.

Certainly the right combination of kernel zero-days and JS interpreter exploits could be used to take over the machine, but it would be non-trivial.
I don't agree with that, on the compartmentalization of the brain. Some of what we think in one compartment of the brain can work concurrently in another part of the brain, which can cause us to make all sorts of irrational leaps of reasoning that we abstract over and call logic or rationalization.

It's pattern matching, and some people get too carried away with it, because that pattern matching is typically what initially marked them as intelligent by everyone else, and it works, most of the time, except when we have paradoxes, which we just cover up with more symbolic logic, because we'd prefer to explain logic with more logic, than explain it with common sense.

Some people can think with perfect clarity and be seen as crazy by everyone else, just because people seem to want to observe things that way.

I mean, consider how the homeless who stole from this man may think. Many patterns of which to reason with, none of which are purely mathematical or logical.

I mean, on one hand, we use these things we've been taught mark intelligence and cunning, half truths dressed up in eloquent, alluring, and rhetorically deceptive wording, the rhythm and tempo of each sentence.

On the other hand, it's only the correlation between the Harvard 4.0 GPA and being fascinated with the random dreams and images one's mind presents to oneself day to day. You don't have to literally hallucinate in order to become convinced that your hallucinations are real. That's often a problem with language - day to day, we think some of it literally exists, and it doesn't (or we at least can not prove that it does).

I don't know what George Price symbolizes, because I don't pretend to understand him. But it gives me something to think about that is new.
Aww, you took a news item about Islamic fundamentalism in Bangladesh and put in a comment about gender politics in the US south. This is sure to get up-voted, because you know, Amerika is bad. But just to be sure, you put in 'I may get downvoted'. That was a cute touch. No one on HN can resist that combination.
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Yes; Verizon has an offering designed explicitly for rural areas[1], but it's expensive. The linked article is from 2012, and prices have since declined, but the general gist of the service is the same: a big antenna you bolt to your house or a tree and will pull from an existing account-level share plan (if you have one).

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/verizons-homefusion-now-brings-4g-l...
For most places in the US at least, given the ubiquity of the iPhone, I think the days of it being considered exclusive are long gone. If you want to make a fashion statement, there's always the 17k Apple Watch.
>Religion, held at any level above personal, is destructive to the larger population, in the long run.

This is simply not true. What is true is that group-think which allows people to completely disregard others in such a fashion that they are willing to murder, is destructive to the larger population.

Religion has held together many a society which would have cannibalized itself time and again, over and over. It is simply the desire to abandon morality and murder a fellow living being which must be dealt with, and Religion definitely does not have a monopoly on this facet of our social existence.
I really like ZeroBrane Studio. Congratulations to the team!

I use it to play around with Lua and MOAI[0]. I started using it for the debugger, but the other features made it my default editor for Lua.

If you don't know Lua, give it a try. It's a really well designed language, with all the feautures you really need[1], and awesome performance.

[0] A multiplatform game development framework
[1] Well, almost. I'd like to have immutable data structures, like Python's tuples
Yes, an anecdotal example is my parents. They live 45 minutes outside of Columbus, OH and have a Verizon 4G adapter for their desktop. In fact some of the smaller carriers have poor cell/data coverage where they are.
How to keep up with new information even when you don't have time for it
After 1 year its a bit less terrible, I'll give you that. But still: Your kid isn't able yet to talk. If someone touches her/him you'll never know.

But in Holland, its even more worse. The Dutch send them into Day Care after 3 month. Some kids can't even roll around at that time. Then you have a day-care-mommy/kid ratio of 6:1. If you are lucky. Can't see them changing all diapers in time.

And about being bored: Well, if more mommies would be at home, they would eventually socialise more during the day and therefore the kids would have all the social interaction. But at least under the supervision of their own blood. Which loves them and doesn't see them as 'products' for their 'customers'.
Hit and miss. The #1 problem with PC manufacturers is that each iteration of the product will regress something major. The touchpad on my T430 is shitty, but at least it doesn't randomly lose input, unlike the one in my T450s. The FHD IPS screen on the latter machine might have been acceptable in 2011. The keyboard keys on the latter machine also have a cheaper feeling plastic than on the older machine. It's still good though, the best laptop keyboard you can get.

And of course, it's chock full of crapeware.
How do you reconcile this with the fact that religion seems to be intrinsic to human culture?

>Religion, held at any level above personal, is destructive
>to the larger population, in the long run.
> ...those individuals who have invested for decades in yellow medallions. So I believe it is important that we see the devaluation of the medallions as a crisis. [...] I believe we have to step up and help those individuals ... to give value to those medallions.

WTF? That's the most blatant public admission of being in the pocket of moneyed interests that I've ever heard from a politician. It's as if Ydanis Rodriguez has never even realized that having value as an investment was never the intended purpose of taxi medallions.
If that was the absolute top priority of this country, what would America look like?
Lenders like OnDeck can loan a business roughly 10-15% of your annual revenue in a day or two.
I think that's a memory bandwidth bottleneck, since with a single thread the Elbrus is close to Ivy Bridge in performance: it achieves 600MIPS at 500MHz which is 1.2MIPS/MHz, while Ivy Bridge with 4200MIPS at 3400MHz is 1.24MIPS/MHz.
Well, it's something that's been done for the Lascaux cave and more recently with the Chauvet cave in France, because allowing the public in the real caves would damage the paintings on the wall.

So if the integrity of the work is at stake, it's definitely something that might be done. But museum visitors are kinda like collectors but with less money: they want to see the real thing, not some cheap replica they could buy to put in their home.

Museums don't exist only to teach about art and its history, they exist for people who want the experience of seeing the real thing without being millionaires. Even though most people wouldn't see the difference between the original and the replica and would be subject to some sort of placebo effect if they think the replicas are the originals.
It's a question that can be done in any language and isn't especially difficult in a shell or scripting language. Every attempt I'd seen (except that one) in Java or C++ was a failure given the time limitation.

It is more of a test of "can you pick the right tool for the job, given limited time and resources?" In this case, a machine gun was chosen to squash an ant. A risky move, but if you can do it, then great.
Instruction 6 is a nop? if mem. 1 not-equals mem. 3, jump to 7, or else fall thru to 7?

I don't think you can depend on jumping in instruction 3, because you don't control the value of mem. 1, it's input. So if mem. 3 = 0, instructions 2 and 3 will always lead to instruction four.
There are some startups that make tools for lawyers. Non-lawyers probably aren't aware of them. FastCase seems like a fairly new company to me. Others mentioned Clio.

If the question meant, why aren't there startups replacing lawyers, possible answers include: 1) In the U.S., non-lawyers can't be owners or investors in law firms; 2) There isn't a lot of overlap between the tech industry and the legal industry; 3) Much substantive legal work is custom knowledge work that would require a human level AI to replace. An approximation won't work.

There is still plenty of money to be made with something that helps lawyers do their jobs. Suggest document assembly as ripe for disruption. Existing tools are too costly.
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> Considering that the x250 is pretty small, they have less displacement than other keyboards (coming from a T410)

The irony is that until the 40/50, X and T series had the same keyboards – an X201 and T400 used the same keyboard, as did the X220/T410/T420 and X230/T430. The form factor (which also didn't change from the X220/X230, i.e. same space available for the keyboard as on a T410) is not a justification for crippling the keyboard.

> There are minor changes in keyboard coming from the T series.

The new T series has almost the same layout, it merely retains the Insert key (while its usefulness for most users is debatable, Lenovo ties it to the Fn switch on the X250 – it's either End + ACPI hotkeys or Insert+Function keys, annoying).
It's harder to be confident about impossibility than about possibility, but I think this would require "cheating". I'm not sure if you meant it as a bug, but note that outside of a single-threaded context "pure" isn't referentially transparent - there seems to be a race condition that could lead to pure computing different values if impure is called during pure's execution.

Something with a similar form that would be more realistic to ask for would be a cache for a pure-but-expensive function and some IO operations to inspect/manipulate that cache. I believe you would need a call to unsafePerformIO, but that could be a reasonable thing to do.
The article is telling specifically that the machine is already replacing a person in some circumstances.

The kind of circumstances that it can manage are not going to shrink.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_egoism

RE: Misanthropy
I strongly recommend you read Medaka Box and reserve judgment on why I recommend it until you've finished it.
Yeah that's what I was referring to - still a lot of missing pieces. What type is X_train or Y_train? a list of dicts? Same question for prediction output?

I know enough about deep learning to grok the overall concepts and structure, but your docs aren't telling me anything about how to ACTUALLY get started with your lib.
Anecdotal data...

http://www.reddit.com/r/PaidForWinRAR

;-)
My primary role at Google from 2006 to 2010 was executing JavaScript in the indexing pipeline (not exactly in Googlebot, but close enough). I knew I was executing probably every known exploit out there, plus a lot of 0-days, and took lots of precautions (single-threaded subprocesss with very restricted list of allowed syscalls, etc.). It's not perfect, but breaking out of the sandbox would require a kernel 0-day in the subsystem used by our sandbox, plus a JS engine exploit.
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I have certainly seen truth in this with regards to beer. I moved to Spain a few years ago, and was drinking San Miguel.

Someone asked me, "Why are you drinking that crap?"
"This is San Miguel, premium lager"
"No its not, that's the crap struff"

Its marketed as a Premium lager in the UK. Likewise in Mexico, Corona is the bog standard crap lager, yet it is sold as a moderately expensive lager in many other countries.
I feel a Harrison Bergeron moment coming on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
> Said every intelligence agency everywhere.

Not everywhere. The ones in the USA already have free access to anything in Google. In fact, Google is a part of their network.
This is a false dichotomy. Some of the best open source work has been done by folks who do pull in a salary from a commercial venture. A few of those are designated open-source positions, but the vast majority are just people who contribute on the side.

And I hope you can appreciate how demeaning it is to call your time contributing to open source a "phase".
This is just it - worker protection in the Netherlands is much better than in the US or UK; an employer can't just fire someone, for one. An employee cannot work for more than X hours a week - and if it's requested to work overtime or odd hours, the employer has to pay for it (up to 200% if working Sundays).

And if there weren't laws and worker inspections and whatnot in place already, people would go on strike - and that usually has a major effect, like nationally crippled transportation (of any sort) or rapid accumulation of trash.

Which TBF makes me a bit depressed about the Americans. Have all the Walmart employees unionize and go on strike - there's nothing the management can do, not even enforce their 'you cannot unionize' contract thing, if everyone goes against them.

Some people are afraid pushovers TBF. And the employers slowly turned them into that, by making them poor.
Many thanks. Your post is
a keeper.

I've got SQL Server working
now with notes on how I did it
and with some simple text files
with SQL commands to be run
with the Microsoft SQLCMD.EXE
for setting security.
For the connection string,
I found something that is working
and, of course, have it documented,
saved, etc. To define the
tables and columns, I have that also
as just simple text in a file
run with SQLCMD.EXE.

To keep SQL Server installation
problems from ruining my boot main
partition, finally I am good
at using NTBACKUP to get a
clean backup and know how to
restore it. So, before doing
anything like a SQL Server install,
I will use NTBACKUP to save
the main boot partition.
If SQL Server messes up, then,
boom, I will just restore the
boot partition and start over
with the SQL Server install.

The worst time with SQL Server
installs it wasn't clear what
the heck to click on, ended
up with two versions installed
side by side, tried to uninstall
one, and ended up with a sick
SQL Server that wouldn't do
even the simplest things.

Another time I wanted SQL Server
to use a database from
an earlier install, and trying
to do this got SQL Server sick.
Trying to uninstall and reinstall
ruined my boot partition.

But, as soon as I can get the
other work done, I will get
the first server computer
for my "server farm", install
some recent versions of Windows
Server, SQL Server, IIS, etc.
and go live. Then, with
Windows Server, etc., I will
be back into system management
again.

Today I am fixing a bug in
my Web site: I have two
Web pages where they use

server.transfer

to send a user from one to the
other, and I have a fairly
elaborate session state to be
saved in one page and restored
in the next one (instead of
Redis, wrote my own session
state store with just
de/serialization from/to
byte strings of instances of
my session state class and
two collection classes). But
going between the two pages
I must have coded when
half asleep and didn't get
quite right. So fixing that now.
Also putting in lots of documentation
to make it clear just what
is going on.

My wisdom in building a Web
site with ASP.NET: Start with
the class for the session state
you want for your site.
That is, concentrate on this
data, with essentially global
scope. The first crucial work
is just being really clear on
just what the session state data
is to be.

The second most
important thing is to be clear
on just how ViewState works.
ViewState is useful and
can save some coding.

Third, in positioning things
on the Web page, maybe
make good use
of instances of the class
Place Holder.

Fourth, have clearly in mind
all the data that is available
from a post back -- some of that
data can be useful.

Fifth, make good use of the
ability to write data to the
log file.

Last, have
clearly in mind when
routines

Page_Init

Page_Load

the button click routines

Page_Unload

etc. run.

After that, just keep it
all simple and clear for the
user.
support for wider range of hardware? backwards compatibility? the former has certainly improved a lot over the last couple of years
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This might be a good investment: AOL still has over 2 million dialup subscribers.

It's not unreasonable for a company that 'owns' the copper going to homes to also manage the dialup internet connections there as well.
At least in the U.S. an iPhone is a "status symbol" in the same way as Olive Garden is "fine dining." It's marketed as the premium option, but still priced such that most people can afford it.
What if the Dash becomes very popular? I believe we'd see an explosion of companies funding dash buttons which would, in my opinion, be a bad thing for the customer. I don't like the idea of locking myself into a brand for the life of the device.

I'd like to see a configurable button that orders, say, the cheapest paper towels that have at least a 4-star rating. The suppliers probably wouldn't be happy about the competition though.
If it was perfect, than everyone would be happy.
We wanted flying cars, but instead we got one-button branded soap ordering.