skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, while the OP says they like Docker, they pretty much recommend against using Docker for the things/purposes that most Docker hype recommends it for.
Doesn't the US impose privacy guarantees on those storing data about the under-13s anyway?
Agreed. Doesn't everyone wonder why everyone wants to have their own offering that you can speak to?
there is large difference between ads in your face and ads "once I've explicitly indicated I'm looking to shop because I clicked on the App store"
They should allow down votes on stories - I always hesitate with flagging as I don't really know what it does.
"Filing a counter notice" is a much lower standard than "proven innocent"
IE and other browsers configured to use Bing have done this for a while. I discovered it while packet sniffing for something else and seeing HTTP requests for the things I was typing in the Address Bar.

I can't say I'm surprised, though saddened, to see this elsewhere in the OS.
Why do most people drop out of school?
I switched to Safari on my Macbook a long time ago because I noticed it was a lot warmer whenever I used Chrome to watch Youtube. It's kinda cool to see these graphs confirm my crude assumption.
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this is actually caused me to switch to Safari from Chrome some time ago - I noticed a lot better battery, but also the fan kick in less on my MacBook Pro.
http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1823#comic
Hi, sorry for not listing them yet. We are currently not able to provide any numbers, as we are figuring out how much resources the various models will need.
Good point about it not being an optimization – calling it "tail call elision" would be more correct. And it's true, as @pflanze's comment correctly points out and I think you're getting at, that loops aren't sufficient – but gotos are. Of course, then you're programming with gotos, which may not be awesome. But point taken.
Emoji at scale: Render performance of CSS sprites vs. individual images
Appreciate it. I will look at these and decide where to ask.
Hmm I liked the python types embedding and never really worried about dealing with errors that way that much but you're right that should be improved. Thanks for the suggestion.
Oh, no doubt. Drugs or not, that was an amazing ride with a large amount of risk that paid off. Even knowing what I know now, if it showed up on my TV screen I'd watch it again. Because even if Landis was pumped to the gills with testosterone, he still had to put out a huge amount of effort to pull it off.
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Those are all problems, not solutions. Problems aren't patentable. A method for solving problems is - and even then, only if it's a novel, nonobvious method.
As I noted here: http://www.thedreaming.org/201... you shuld also go to "Settings" -> "Accounts" -> "Sync your Settings" and turn off Password syncing, which is enabled by default. I would hope that passwords are encrypted with my Microsoft account password (and I would further hope that only a hash of this password is stored on Microsoft servers) but no where is any of this explained. There's a "How does sync work" link at the top of the page, but clicking on it takes you to a Bing search which explains how to turn syncing on and off.
If it was "slow" it would use up more CPU time to perform a task and use more battery power.
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We're trying hard to reach scale in the next few months. We charge a flat $99 upon collection. I would love if we could charge the debtor the fee but the first rule of collections is you grab what you can get.
Our commercial collection attornies can tax the costs of the action (court filing fees, service fees,etc) to the debtor, which then becomes part of the judgment but most of the time when the freelancers has the option of getting paid before there is a judgment then those fees tend to get waived.
Right, that's a fair point. If you have goto, however, you don't need TCO, but then you're programming with gotos. This is not the argument most people make when arguing for TCO – they often talk about recursive algorithms for walking data structures – which usually are not actually eligible for TCO at all.
"especially because I teach American history in a way that is more inclusive and challenging of dominant myths than most of them were exposed to in high school."

Sometimes I think that just what is politically correct has changed, and a different set of myths is now taught.

"to teach painful histories — histories of slavery, Native American genocide, Jim Crow and lynching, Japanese internment"

There's a heluva lot more to American history than the bad things.
The problem of good stories not escaping /newest is real. There is a bit of sample bias in your question, though. Your two submissions before those four did ok: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8881488 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8589671. Two out of six doesn't sound as bad as zero out of four.

Arguably those two were more appealing HN submissions than the subsequent four. The font post and the WebGL demo are both the sort of thing users have seen a lot of, and the other two were pretty specialized. But there's so much randomness in what gets traction that it's impossible to know for sure.

To mitigate this randomness, a small number of reposts are ok when a story hasn't had significant attention yet. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, plus a recent discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828818. But please don't delete an earlier submission in order to repost it. Instead just use a slightly different URL to get past the duplicate detector.

Titles may make a difference. I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546872 buried the lede: "Algorithms, physics and pictures from the Ising model (ipynb and c++ program)" isn't as clear as the article's actual title: "Magnets: How do they work? Exploring the 2D Ising model". Not everyone knows what the Ising model is, but everybody loves magnets. Similarly, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9605938 should at least have had "Show HN" on it, and maybe could have been clearer.
Site looks great, the video down the bottom has a pricing model in it, and the sites does not. From the looks of it, the price model in the video was just set for development reasons because it's listing at $0.2/month.

I would fix this, you don't want to give people any wrong ideas about your price model if you haven't finalized it yet.

The software and setup ease, from what I'm able to read, seems pretty nifty. There's a good product here just be careful not to sell yourself short.

From a product identification point of view, I think it would be good for you to list the specifications (at least hard drive space for example) of the VPS you're using in the backend. It would only make sense especially for some of the apps you want to provide such as OwnCloud which is basically to stores files and such.

These were just some thoughts from a first look at the site, take them with a grain of salt.
Not nearly as fast as cloud recognition has. Especially with all three of the big companies having serious cloud-based recognition offerings and focusing on them.

And seriously, Cortana would be useless without the cloud aspect. Half the things it does revolve around connecting your digital life together by accessing various things about you. Without the cloud, it's literally just Windows 8 search.
Step 1: Order exascale computer. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit.

U.S. and other countries have been in a race for exascale. The thing holding us back isn't funding or political will: exascale is so ridiculously hard that it requires fundamentally different architectures. The main issues are making our CPU's do more work, eliminating memory bottlenecks, and dramatically improving energy efficiency of both. It's just very tough, technical challenges that might also have to operate on process nodes that are themselves tough.

Rexx Computing is one attempt whose founder posts here a lot [except in one thread dedicated to it lol]. I'm curious if any other exascale researchers read HN and can post their concepts as it's probably interesting stuff. Here's some links for readers interested in this stuff.

LLNL gives data on exascale and its challenges
https://asc.llnl.gov/content/assets/docs/exascale-white.pdf

Also describes problems but skip to Venray's TOMI approach
http://www.edn.com/design/systems-design/4368705/The-future-...

Rexx Computing's approach
http://www.theplatform.net/2015/03/12/the-little-chip-that-c...

Intel's relatively conventional approach
http://www.exascale-computing.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/...

Architecture from Univ of Texas and NVIDIA
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/skeckler/pubs/SC_2014_Exasca...

Boise exploring non-Von-Neuman with ParalleX
http://cswarm.nd.edu/news-events/assets/PSAAP_II_Kick-off_CS...

Same group enlightens on details that all fight with
http://sites.ieee.org/boise-cs/files/2015/04/Thomas-Sterling...

Bonus: 1,000 core, cache-coherent, optical interconnect. Sort of thing might be useful in exascale.
http://dspace.mit.edu/openaccess-disseminate/1721.1/67490

Have fun with these. Submit a link if I left out any chip architecture in exascale race that's pretty cool.
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I'll patent "do something meta"
the bank is paying interest in aggregate,

So, YOU ARE earning interest on the savings. This is completely contrary to your earlier statement:

No, we do not earn interest on the savings.

Do you not see how someone in my shoes sees this as a little deceptive? You're middling in technicalities and details while ignoring that overall, the two descriptions create the same outcome.

we are redistributing that interest back to the individual.

Except it says the exact opposite on your website, quite clearly.

currently the way we are storing money does not earn interest at all. But this will change in the near future, and when it does earn interest, we will redistribute as described above. If money you've saved with Even earns interest, you keep it.

Just trust us.

I wish you luck going forward, but I think you are in for a world of hurt when the regulators come knocking.
I haven't paid for a hammer since I was in college and Hammer XP was $5. I keep buying nails that come with Hammer Home Edition and setting up servers with Hammer LTS and replacing Hammer Explorer with HammerFox. All free.

I'm not Microsoft's target client because I'm a pathological customer. Every home MS desktop user is a pathological customer. They know that.
If node is a list of children that are wrapped in Maybes you could do something like this:

map process $ catMaybes node

(catMaybes :: [Maybe a] -> [a] - The catMaybes function takes a list of Maybes and returns a list of all the Just values.) https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=catMaybes

edit: and even if it's not a list, there's a more general implentation of catMaybes for any type that fulfills isSequence here: https://github.com/snoyberg/mono-traversable/blob/master/src...
UK only. This would never fly in the US, where insurance is fairly heavily regulated and on a state-by-state basis.

Europe in general has far more flexibility around insurance products and pricing.
Why are you complaining about having to wear a bag over your head whenever you go out to pick up your prescriptions or meet your mistress, citizen? It's a small, reasonable step to go off the record. What is the alternative?
Don't take this the wrong way, but at 23 you're not old enough to have lived through Microsoft's history, and it is likely that what you have heard is the agreed upon myth. Netscape's founders had a multi-billion dollar exit that allowed Marc Andreesen to become a VC and Jim Clark to once own a 90 meter yacht. In actual history Apple sued Microsoft, not vice versa and it was Microsoft's executive team who made 10,000 millionaires from its employee option pool.

Microsoft has open-sourced .NET and C#. It's been helping Miguel de Icaza develop Mono for many years.

That said, pick the opportunity with the best team. Pick the opportunity which will push you the furthest. Pick the opportunity where you will learn the most. Pick the one that takes you out of your technical comfort zone the furthest. Pick the opportunity to work with people who make decsions on technical merit.

Good luck.
While not a college course, James Burke's "Connections" series are excellent for that.
See my comment above. Has all the numbers you might need.
The idea here is to get a smooth logarithmic division of each order of magnitude (power of 10). To get x steps that perfectly divide the order of magnitude, just use the xth root of 10 as your factor. In Ruby:

def series(x, precision=2)
root = 10 ** (1 / x.to_f)
return x.times.map {|i| (root ** i).round(precision)}
end

> series(2)
=> [1.0, 3.16]
> series(5)
=> [1.0, 1.58, 2.51, 3.98, 6.31]
> series(10)
=> [1.0, 1.26, 1.58, 2.0, 2.51, 3.16, 3.98, 5.01, 6.31, 7.94]

And of course, if you want more aesthetically pleasing increments (like for axis markers on a logarithmic graph), just round each increment as desired. I usually find that the [1, 2, 5] series is sufficient.
Can individuals customize their investments as well or is it all set at the company level?
I suspect people are downvoting your cynicism.
We must demand and support innovation from the teledildonics sector!
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I've never understood how people can truly believe that by checking (or unchecking) a checkbox their privacy will be fully protected. Especially since we're talking about a closed-source OS.

I mean I cannot possibly verify what exactly goes on in the annals of the operating system and what happens to my data, where it is logged and where it is stored and how it is sent.

So regardless of the settings, I always assume that my data is logged and read by some creepy agent in the Ministry of Truth.

If it's not, then I'm just lucky.

Having grown up in a totalitarian state, that's the default way I think about this stuff and no amount of promises (except the source code which I can personally compile) can make me trust any 3rd party corporation.
> Surely biometrics in all sorts of shapes and forms comes with it's own issues and shortcomings.

Indeed. A behavioral biometric like this is probably most similar to gait recognition (identifying someone by they way they walk). It's slightly better than a 'soft biometric' like skin color and gender, but not good enough for any type of large scale deployment. Usually when researchers show this stuff it's more or less for novelty. With that in mind, there really shouldn't be a 'bigger vision' because recognition rates are usually not good enough to merit anything other than an occasional paper.
Safari on Yosemite also shows power usage per tab which is great for identifying rogue websites.

Also... TIL that some sites take more power to render than a 1080p stream!

This also of reinforces the argument for installing an ad blocker -- less elements to process on each page means less power used. µBlock is particularly promising as it's very lightweight.
See my comment above for exascale info. The single chip performance will vary wildly. The important measurement is how many operations of useful work per second per watt the system will do. That's the gist of it I've learned from HPC people.

Exascale is power-hungry so power must go way down and efficiency of calculation way up.
Absolutely. Or take for example my friend, who's a literary translator - she sometimes has to research online the most outlandish and obscure subjects, which have no bearing on her own interests...
It seems to me that a lot of the "Docker isn't good for production" stuff boils down to "Docker is a base layer that's not sufficient for production, and you need other tooling around it."

Like, if you're using Docker in conjunction with AWS's suite of tools (Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, etc.), a lot of these concerns are taken care of, you know?

So Docker doesn't solve everything, but it can be part of the solution.
I've been using gingko, its changed the way I take notes! Awesome tool.

https://gingkoapp.com/p/note-taking-app/
This is great!

I wrote up some ideas about "aQuery -- Like jQuery for Accessibility", which RobotJS would be very useful for implementing. It refers to the Mac accessibility API but it could work with any platform, and even abstract the differences between platforms just like jQuery does.

http://www.donhopkins.com/mediawiki/index.php/AQuery

Also, Morgan Dixon did some wonderful stuff with Prefab: The Pixel-Based Reverse Engineering Toolkit, which would be great to integrate into RobotJS.

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mdixon/research/prefab/

aQuery -- like jQuery, but for selecting, querying and manipulating Mac app user interfaces via the Accessibility framework and protocols.

So you can write jQuery-like selectors that search for and select Accessibility objects, and then it provides a convenient high level API for doing all kinds of stuff with them. So you can write higher level plugin widgets with aQuery that use HTML with jQuery, or even other types of user interfaces like voice recognition/synthesis, video tracking, augmented reality, web services, etc!

For example, I want to click on a window and it will dynamically configure jQuery Pie Menus with the commands in the menu of a live Mac app. Or make a hypercard-like user interface builder that lets people drag buttons or commands out of Mac apps into their own stacks, and make special purpose simplified guis for controlling and integrating Mac apps.

[...]

aQuery could apply the DOM tree searching and traversal and data association stuff to the Accesibility Tree, which is similar in a lot of ways to a DOM tree, and describes all the widgets and user accessible affordances and commands in an app, as well as non-tree-like relationships between them (this label describes that widget, this tab represents that panel, this icon represents that view, this editor manipulates that object, etc).

[...]

aQuery should provide ways of registering patterns and calling handlers when user interface items that match them are created and destroyed. jQuery doesn't directly provide a way to do that (handling page onload events and XHR request responses is usually sufficient), but of course there is a jQuery plug-in that does it: https://code.google.com/p/mutation-summary/ .

So when some user interface objects you're interested in controlling come into existence, you can wrap them with your own "widget" to glue them into whatever other user interface you want to provide. (pie menus, hyperlook, ar, speech recognition, etc).

[...]

I think aQuery should be independent of jQuery, but I like to use jQuery as a metaphor for how it works, even though that might suggest that it's tied to jQuery, or even HTML, which it shouldn't be.
Apple must have known this a few months back and the result was their privacy centric marketing campaign.
> we're talking about full computers

Worth mentioning: Windows 10 is not just for "full computers."
> Google sold your eyeballs to advertisers but not your data nor how it figured that it were your eyeballs that were most fit for the ad.

This is exactly correct, and it's why I prefer trusting Google with my data over anyone else. I'd rather have my eyeballs bought and sold by a company who's only competitive advantage is the fact that only they have my data.
If they can demonstrate an audit log of every admin who has escalated their permission to logon to the container of your data and access it, including the files they accessed, would that be good? (Because they do that.)

They are legally prevented from showing you such an audit log if a National Security Letter is involved.
Huh?

Most car insurance policies already cover lending a car to a friend. Am I missing something here?
As others mention, this seems to have directly copied the client code. However, I found this amusing:

> The Agario game’s distinctive style and graphics are known to tens of millions of players

Colored circles moving around on a checkered grid [1] is apparently "distinctive style and graphics".

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/h3rr9xc.jpg
All of the optimizations done to Safari are available for Chrome as well. They simply haven't done it.
The video is too tiny to see on iPhone 4s. People generally don't want video for this kind of stuff, a text description of what you're doing would be much better.

> - right, it expands by half but i believe it's just as secure as the one-time pad [this is what i want to verify]

This is the easiest bit to critique / attack.

For OTP to work the pad needs to be properly random; the pad needs to be bigger than the plain text.

Expanding something else probably stops it being properly random.

People get hung up on OTP because PROVABLY SECURE. They are secure, but they're also cumbersome to use.
Wi-Fi Sense is a huge security hole, and even if you don't have windows 10, if anyone you trust with access to your network upgrades to windows 10, that person becomes a security problem for you.

Obvious solution is to use a strong generated string for your password (so even if they get your password, they're not getting the password to anything else), and then configure your router to require each device connecting to be authenticated. Whitelist for MAC addresses + GPG + ?
Comparing Bitcoin miners to any supercomputer or server farm is meaningless at best and deceiving at worst. Current Bitcoin miners cannot do anything other than one specific calculation.
Thanks for raising that question. Actually the house was rented for the purpose of hosting the program, not the other way around.

Of course we're trying not to operate at a loss, but we're willing to accept that if necessary to accomplish the stated goals.
Thanks for hint, the video was taken by me from a developer build. We have not yet figured out the pricing model.
Then, don't make it a [Yes/No] question, make it an [Okay] with a barely noticeable "Change Advanced Settings" link; much like the dialog that the TFA complains about.
Yes, I agree that it's not really a problem for everyone. The issue isn't actually privacy. The issue is "find a reason to bash on MS for this month".

Now, I think the incentive structures for FOSS projects are a little different such that the FOSS environment isn't going to converge on the idea of collecting such data. But clearly, throw any sort of system that wants to make money into the mix, coupled with the fact that users just refuse to pay for software anymore, and every giganto corp from Mozilla to Canonical are going to independently come to the same conclusion of collecting this sort of data.

The problem is not that privacy is important. The problem is that privacy isn't as important to people as not having to pay cash for software. So the people who are complaining about this are never going to be happy with anything Microsoft does. Either MS collects too much data, or they are tone-deaf to the market and aren't keeping up with cutting edge features. Either MS "hides" non-default settings, or they are falling behind in the state of the art of UI design.

I mean, Apple or Google wouldn't have even given you the little link that people have been complaining about as "hidden", even though it's right there on the screen. They would have expected you to hunt the setting down in some settings dialog somewhere. What MS has done here is standard MS UI design theory, has been for over two decades.

But it's cool to bash on MS. And the only way such people are going to be satisfied and stay consistent, is to completely bail out of any software where anyone involved has a need to make income.
This is only really useful in the UK not the US.

In most states, comprehensive and collision coverage protects your vehicle regardless of who's driving it.

https://www.esurance.com/info/car/myth-car-insurance-follows...

Note: There are several edge cases, but it's generally not an issue especially if the person borrowing the car has their own insurance for their own car.