skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok... but we've seen this new, better Microsoft behavior for like 2 or 3 years while they've been in a pretty down or leveled position after a history of bad behavior dating back to basically their inception. Have they genuinely changed or are they just being forced by their new market positions to behave better? None of your examples point to a MS doing things for the right reasons and trying to regain trust, they point to a MS that ran out of options. I don't trust a dog to not run away while he's locked in a kennel, I trust him to not run away because he has no choice.

What happens if they gain a dominant or monopoly position in something again, are we just supposed to trust that they won't behave badly once their market pressure is gone? A new CEO and a company the size of MS won't magically change their company culture overnight (especially with a CEO who was previously a longstanding MS employee who participated in past wrongdoings). Rebuilding trust takes more time than this.
Working on a side project to digitally clone voices. http://www.voiceclonr.com

Mixed results so far, but am keeping at it at nights.
"What do you consider a "serious language"?"

Ironically, you're being prickly in exactly the wrong direction. Perl is totally a serious language. I do most of my work in it, in fact. I qualify it with "serious language" because when I say it's one of the slowest serious languages, it's no fair to counter that by pointing out somebody's hobby implementation of Lispcheme that's a hundred time slower.

"In its class of languages Perl is one of the fastest."

Well... I suppose... since essentially all original C-interpreter implementations of the 1990s-style dynamic scripting languages have performance within about 20% of each other, that's not false... but the marketing-style implication that Perl is the fastest certainly is false. (Also LuaJIT is way faster, but does "compromise" relative to some Perl features to get there.) Drop the "C-interpreter" clause and Perl's in real trouble... Javascript isn't the C-speed language it sometimes gets presented as but JIT'ed JS really will handily beat Perl, and PyPy is... weirdly complicated from a performance perspective.

The point is still that talking about Perl as a perfomant language on almost any measure is... very weird. It's not. It's possible to name several serious languages which are as slow, but not one that clearly slower.
The thing keeping us from CD is a lack of faith in our automated testing, mostly because we don't have enough automated testing, but partly because our problem domain makes it very hard to automate the testing that we are really concerned about doing. Part of this is definitely lack of testing culture though.
It's great when it works, but without the dive you are screwed. In the present era, it's a gimmicky offense that fails spectacularly if your opponent is talented and prepared. You need only look at Paul Johnson's bowl record at GT to see what happens when a more evenly matched team is prepared for him. He victimizes schools that only have a week (or less) to gameplan for him. He only got his second bowl win in a good while last year, after many failures.

Again with UF, I am assuming you are talking about 2013 when they lost to GA Southern. The problem is, they lost to a lot of teams that year (4-8). They were a fundamentally bad team in the midst of a five game losing streak when they lost to GA Southern (not to take away from what the Eagles accomplished).

That GA Southern loss wasn't because of their offensive scheme. It was more about a team feeling that they failed fantastically, that some of their coaches were going to be removed, and that it's going to be seen as a lost season. The only two offensively strong teams they played wore them out (Missou 36-17 and FSU 37-7). Throw in a loss to an awful Miami (21-16) and an even worse Vandy (34-17!?!?).
Amtrak Passengers Share More Stories of DEA Harassment
The USCIS publishes this data in an excel sheet format. You can find the raw data here http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm . I made use of this data to negotiate salary and came out successful.
How is that not a neural network? This system is basically exploiting the property of action potential propagation down the axon to capture relative timing differences.

As an aside, there are a number of useful properties seen in biological neural networks that aren't yet incorporated into multi-layer perceptrons. E.g. short-term plasticity, axonal delays, spiking neurons, etc. I expect that some of these will find their way into the MLP formulation when we can figure out an effective mathematical way of doing so.
HGST was originally IBM's hard drive division. They probably have inherited much of the reliability secrets that the other manufacturers never bothered with for their consumer class drives (which Backblaze uses). Either that, or they learned a lot of stuff with the "DeathStar" model[0].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_...
What technologies did you use? XMPP? Node? ... I don't think your are infringing any copyright as long as you are not making profit from it. Reverse Engineering is legal, specially when done with the aim of interoperability... and what you are seeking is an interoperable server right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering#Legality
Great discussion. I totally agree with @mattzito about the opportunity to sell at the business unit level. At the same time the points about getting IT buy-in remain critical. I've watched too many SaaS uses shut down or "banned" under the guise of security/compliance/etc for failing to engage IT.

The reality is that IT has always pushed to be more than the control point or network. Different organizations have different ways to execute on the use of ITs skills in business units. The complexities of large organizations (budgets, accountability) make this dynamic very localized to a company and why the role of the account manager is so critical.

My own experience at Microsoft was going from a consumer company to a business unit focused sales effort to a top down IT/C-suite sale. Office was a classic bottom up sale at the time which morphed into a strategic sale over the course of a decade. Many people forget that in the early 1990's Microsoft was always a big question mark in the world of the enterprise.

Regarding pricing, here's a post I did a while back on SaaS pricing. http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/16/the-price-is-right-for-earl...

--Steven
The "fines" that result are so few that I wonder if most of the pod contents are basically 'instant coffee' espresso powder.
Ah! Okay, this makes more sense - it's extra metadata.
Company culture was a huge part of it - lack of owner interest, previous architect apathy, intense micromanagement, ticket/maintenance focus encouraged small targeted fixes instead of necessary rewrites, circular DLLs heavily complicated development.

And brain drain - not many developers (or engineers or anyone else) willingly stay in environments like this. So the people who have spent years learning the application and how to maintain it find other work, and are replaced by people who have to analyze the system anew.

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A little more targeted:

- TFS 2013 has AD integration, but it works in the dumbest way possible - you can't just add someone to an AD security group and they get TFS permissions, nope you have to go into TFS and find their AD account and add them.

- It's difficult to debug websites on IE8 because it doesn't have modern debugging tools. Would it be possible at all to have a browser release with the IE8 engine and the IE11 debugging tools? (I'm currently working at a job with an IE8 dependency on a web app, so I understand why it's still around.)

- Sharepoint Online is a decent document repository, and TFS is a decent document repository - both have their advantages and disadvantages. But they in no way integrate. This caused major issues when I was providing Ops documentation from a Sharepoint Online site, trying to work with Devs putting their documentation in our local TFS. (Working with either in Jira is beyond painful)

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Unrelated, I wish WDS and WSUS were more integrated - when I push an image from WDS, I want it to have all security patches slipstreamed in from WSUS. Instead, I deploy an image with one and use the other to patch it.
Another vote for Arq if what the OP wants is backup. This lets you pick and switch storage providers. I don't think you should plan on staying with any provider for more than 2-3 years, the landscape changes too fast. Arq lets you be independent.
I think the UK situation is fair. If the uber app lets you go to random destinations, or charges you extra per the mile, then it is a meter.

Uber should be just like a black car service: point A to point B, with no extras. If Uber doesn't find this as profitable, they're free to open a segment of their company that actually is a taxi service and follows regulation in exchange for picking up the public and being able to run a meter on public traffic.
The bit about the ST3000DM001 is fascinating - they've a longer article on it at https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure - I have had four (out of the four I bought - two internal, two "shucked") of these die on me over the years, on the first occasion simultaneously in a raid-5 array that I'd just downloaded several TB of irreplaceable video to from SD cards. Now at least I know why.
I highly doubt Google would close a data storage service (like Nearline or Drive) without ample time for users to move elsewhere.
They won't compete. There's a reason that the ADA exists and it's not because people are mean, it's because it's more expensive to support people with disabilities. And because disabled customers are a very small portion of the total customers service providers would just forgo their business. The end result being there is no competition and without a legal requirement, there would generally be no accommodations.
Sucks for them. They came to me, they need me, not the other way around. Thus, they have to appease me. That's the way markets work.
This seems like it would be prone to abuse. What is the advantage of transacting outside the purview of the central authority while still being subject to the prerogatives of the central authority? If I strike a deal with someone behind closed doors, then that person later claims that I actually stole from them, I have to trust that the central authority will make the right decision regarding the nature of the transaction, otherwise I may end up getting retroactively screwed in the deal. The reverse is also a concern; someone could steal your coins, then claim that you're only filing a grievance because now you regret the deal. All this does is give the central authority less information from which to draw an accurate conclusion.
> doesn't a speed change imply a force on the bearing .... imply friction

Not necessarily. A speed change could also be because the track is longer. That's how trains stay on the tracks, the wheels are slanted, and if they turn off the track the length of the wheel changes, which changes the speed (relative to the wheel on the other side) and steers it back onto the track.

Feynman explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7h4OtFDnYE
> Elon [Musk] is very worried about existential threats to humanity (which is why he is building rockets with the idea of sending humans colonize other planets).

It's an odd solution. Won't a capable AI be able to reach humanity even on Mars if it needs to?
My wife used to work at a public university and their salaries were publicly available on the university website.

You could literally search "EMPLOYEE NAME salary" on their site and find any employee's annual income.
Open core is a double edge sword, but we try to enlarge the advantages (resources to do release management, fix bugs, upgrade dependencies, investigate security reports) and minimize the downsides (no artificial limits in CE, no crippleware).

Looking at the EE code is fine but you can't use the code. So merge requests that add EE code into CE will not be accepted.
I'm always suspicious of claims of extraordinary gains from very old technology, and this is no different, but I don't understand the physics well enough to make a serious case for why. I figured someone on HN would debunk it, though I don't think that's entirely happened yet in this thread.

Then again, the people making extraordinary claims are the ones with the responsibility to provide extraordinary evidence, which they clearly haven't done. But, Popular Mechanics is excited about it, so it must be awesome. Those guys are all about bearings.

Anyway, this should be perfect for my perpetual motion machine. Less friction means it'll run for more forevers before it stops.
Writing a chapter book starring lots of semi-functioning robots.
Taxis are regulated primarily because they do business on public streets. If the only way to get a taxi were to call them up, there'd be far less of a reason to regulate them.
I think a similar problem needs to be solved in the language generation neural networks. While generated sentences often are formed syntactically correct, they don't make a lot of sense -- there's no over arching thought that it is trying to express. This is even more apparent when you read the subsequent sentences generated. It's clear there's no conceptual goal it's trying to convey.
In poor countries? Like the UK or anywhere else where missed calls are free?

Me and my friends still do this. If one person has an unlimited or cheap contract then the person without sends a missed call and is called back.

I am not sure how well this would work in the US as apparently you can be charged for inbound calls there.
Dying? Tablet sales are declining.
Edward Snowden: a right to privacy is the same as freedom of speech
I wonder if that's due to over-built drives (a quality standard independent of other factors) or if it's related to the specific controllers and other hardware in the Backblaze environment (independent of each manufacturer's drive quality).
That's the traditional way to do it afaik, just tile a gif over the whole viewport.
Curious: Does gitlab support really large files?
Or you can use https://wageoffer.com
Who developed the language Angular 2 will be using?
25 million French households * .75 (% of households that don't own) ^ 15 (number of households you are close enough to drink their coffee) = ~334,000 households that neither own nor know owners of this coffee style.

note: I made 15 up, but it's 5.9 million at 5 households and 18k at 25. I'm not French nor really a household but I think the actual number is somewhere between 5 and 25, and the numbers in that range aren't horrible.
I agree. Their statement is that they are a black car service, not a taxi service.

Personally I think having a meter in the car makes them a taxi, and I'm glad to see the UK government agrees.

However, if they simply take out their meter they are a black car service and only have to comply with the rules set about for those.

Just being a better private car service, doesn't make them illegal by default.
Yeah, I think insofar as Elon Musk expresses concerns about various supposed existential threats to humanity, the relationship of those to any of the things his companies actual work on is so distant that, if there is a relationship at all, its that the expressions of concerns are a rhetorical/marketing trick directed at people who think things through shallowly, if at all.

Alternatively, the expressions of concerns are unrelated to his business activities, except that both are born out of his interest in and thoughts about technology, and people are drawing spurious connections between them (I don't follow Musk closely enough to have a strong opinion on which is the case, particularly, I don't know if he's ever connected the concerns he expresses to his companies' activities.)
I'm working on a distributed digital archive built on Git and git-annex. https://github.com/densho/ddr-cmdln
I run Ubuntu Trusty with kernal 3.19 on HP Chromebook 14 4GBRAM on which I upgraded the SSD to 64GB as my personal dev machine.I mostly work with Go, JS which work very well & Android Studio - the last is a bit slow but bearable - battery life is excellent. The most important enablers were buying a Haswell processor based model with support for Legacy boot and upgrading the ssd without which it's not really feasible to use it as a dev machine.
http://chromebook-falco.blogspot.in/?m=1

Look up the ChrUbubuntu script for pointers on partitioning but it's not really needed as newer Linux kernals have most of the patches it applies.
http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.in/2013/10/chrubuntu-for-new-c...
>and Airbnb, the home rental service, will be worth more than $200 billion by 2020.

How is this influenced by city regulation? There are several cities that are now taking measures to ensure that homes cannot be used in an Airbnb fashion and it hurts Airbnb business.
I think that precedes any Unix revision control finer than ‘Sixth Edition’. (PWB, which included the SCCS port, was built on V6.)
My side project was featured on Product Hunt on Monday: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/serializer-io

All the code's here: https://github.com/charlieegan3/serializer Still working a bit on that.
Exactly. Even though current prices are close to peak 2000 prices, it's worth remembering that the economy has been growing for 15 years, so stocks have a much greater fundamental value than they did in 2000.

For comparison, US GDP in 2000 was $10 trillion and GDP today is well over $17 trillion.
Off topic, but: I like your blog! Thanks!
Taking from tlb's currently-top-rated comment:

> Rolling friction is due to the balls compressing as they roll

So I'd assume these have extremely low rolling friction?
FWIW, I work at Mozilla, but I don't work on this particular project. But, I care because I <3 the web.

What I think a lot of folks are missing here is that this is an attempt to change how ads are done. Whether you like it or not, ads are how most of the web gets funded right now.

Yes, funding Mozilla would be nice. Even better would be if ads on the web in general were less intrusive and better respected privacy.

One of the things this does not do is send your browsing history to remote servers. Instead, the remote server sends you a pile of ads roughly based on your location & language. The browser decides locally what to show. That's a big change, shifting the bulk of the sensitive stuff to your own computer instead of black boxes in the cloud.

This isn't just your usual "slap a banner on it" ad network used in all the free mobile apps. And, if the model works in the browser, it might work on the web too.
H1B here. Two small caveats with these data sets.

1. They may be incomplete. My position (2010) does not show up at all here, though it does on one of the other similar salary trackers.

2. They do not reflect raises. My salary is ~14k more than my starting salary over 3 years.
What $50 billion would the investor be getting back?

Nobody is or has invested $50 billion into Uber.

And no investor will be getting their money back due to 'restrictions of some kind.' That is not legally how investing works, not even remotely close. The investors own part of Uber, they are the ones committed to Uber's business model (which they bought into). They are assuming risk like any other investment. If Uber fails, they'll liquidate the skeleton that remains, and get pennies on the dollar (if they're lucky), there isn't going to be billions sitting in a bank account waiting to be recovered.
The point being made above seems to be "Releasing the source for EE poisons dev efforts", because if I fork CE and add code that does something EE adds, GitLab might claim that I "stole" code from EE, or looked at EE and was tainted with knowledge from EE code.

Even if I hadn't copied code from EE, the claim could be made and would be destructive to the ability of community members to fork and improve the open source codebase
A blackbox implementation (no access to original source code) is clearly ethical. The purpose of an API is specifically to allow interoperability with software that you don't write; the presence of a competitor (open source or not) who re-implements the server side of your API is a Good Thing for a competitive market place.
Engineer on the Tiles team here.

That is not exactly true. We do not obtain the list if top sites.

What we receive is the list of non-history tiles that has been shown to the user. i.e. if the Tile is a "known" tile, we'll capture the impression, or click. If it's not, we will receive an almost empty placeholder for that site, barring for the frecency score.

This is along our philosophy of least amount of actionable data collected.

For instance, if a user had one Tile we know about at the 5th position, we'd get something like:

{"tiles":[{"score":42},{"score":32},{"score":22},{"score":8},{"score":3},{"id": 500, "score":2},{}],"locale":"ja","view":6}

The id allows us to count impressions, clicks and whatnot for that Tile, the "score" allows us to gauge frecency, i.e. how important is the tile for the user, together with the position in the array.

It's not nothing, but it's not your top sites.

Edit: formatting

Source code available at:

https://github.com/mozilla/onyx

https://github.com/mozilla/splice

https://github.com/mozilla/infernyx
> the kind that live near the Salton Sea

The Slab City folks?
> Wage listed may not include bonus, and other compensation.

Yeah, once you factor in RSUs and bonus my actual salary is about 40% higher than what was listed on my LCA.
I've been working for 15 years and get a lot of emails. OK, it's useful when I need a job, but about 1 in 30 is relevant. You know it's all keyword based, I haven't done Java for 8 years yet I get it all the bloody time!
That is senseless, you dont need citizen control to check that the salaries are prevailing wages, that is a job that can be done by the government with multiple different agencies at a very low level of cost or risk. Also, it doesnt make sense because it doesnt include US employees salary of the same companies which is what you need to make that fair/unfair comparison. Even worse, the immigrants themselves can't make that check, which is the most important one you need.

The fact that this information is available to citizens is a purely exclusion measure, that makes clear that immigrant workers don't have the same rights as US citizens.
Only if growth is 6%-10% per year (or as much as twice that depending on who you ask), and you have reasonable expectation of that growth continuing or accelerating for the foreseeable future. That kind of multiple isn't for a stable business with predictable sales.
> My goal is to ... lose none of my files

Duplicates. Perhaps two or three online services, plus local disk array at home. Check data integrity every year...

Every decade you will have to swap service or two, as companies evolve.
Can you tell me more about the last part? I am interning currently with an information security consulting company and most of what I will be doing is working on PCI-DSS audits. Accounting/Econ degree, I am having trouble finding salary ranges for professionals in this area.
Agree about the digital scale. For anyone looking for a good cheap scale, here's my favorite for kitchen use at $6.99:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BVXU3E8/

Weighs tenths of a gram (something you definitely want for coffee) and is quite rugged - have dropped it on the floor more than once, and our housecleaners for some reason decided to wash it out twice. The inside was filled with water, the display went to all 8's, and I thought it was a goner. I shook out the water, put it in the sun to dry, and it worked like new, each time. (And as clean as new too!)
They have a blog post about the whole consumer Vs. enterprise drive thing here:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/enterprise-drive-reliability/

The TL;DR is that the consumer drives had a better ROI since they failed at similar rates and were cheaper.