skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, my comment wasn't at all clear, but I was talking about inclusion on web pages, where you'd be flicking forward and back between them. In which case even 50ms on top of the rest of a page load would be hurting you.

I'm sure it's fine for a SPA, and for a mobile app it's a total non issue. Actually I'm planning to use it for one with React Native myself.

Luckily, people will probably not be including the full compiler lightly; I just wanted to point out that it's not as cheap as a jpg of the same size would be, an impression I thought the parent comment was giving.
Author of the post here.

Nice to hear more Joyent success stories!

How do you handle load balancing?
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And, noting that they don't use the word "unicorn".
You mean, on WIndows they e.g. use FFmpeg and on mac Libav (example, I don't know what they pick) ?
You can start from here http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57805 or read the whole thread.
And now I want to play magic carpet...
I find the arguments made on this page to be skeevy and dehumanizing to those that fall outside gender norms, but I'm posting it so to save you from wasting anymore electrons back and forth:

http://discussingmarriage.org/

Those are the "best" and least bigoted arguments that the "con-" side can muster.
I think this guy brings up a lot of good points about windows 10, but isn't that the point of this OS, to be incrementally updated based on all the user data they are pulling from us?

They could use more polish, but I they got rid of one thing that bugged the hell out of me from windows 8. Apps. Every time I slid my mouse to the right I inevitably was on the edge and opened the last app. Infuriating. I had to disable that feature every time.

Windowed apps are an improvement, and I really hope they listen to their customers and improve the OS.
Virtru Exposes 460 User email addresses
Virtru Exposes 460 User email addresses. Virtru emailed 460 clients telling them to update Virtru. My email was included.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: John Ackerly <jackerly@virtru.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:25 PM
Subject: Our Sincere Apologies for Our Earlier Email
To:
Cc: Will Ackerly <willackerly@virtru.com>

Earlier today, we sent an email notifying just over 460 of our users that their browsers had not yet updated to the latest release of the Virtru browser extension.

Our Company policy when sending this type of notification is to include user email addresses in the "bcc" field to maintain anonymity. In this case, the email addresses were inadvertently added to the "CC" field.

This type of mistake is unacceptable to Will, me and all of us at Virtru. We take any such incident very seriously. We are evaluating our systems and processes to determine how this happened. We will take corrective action and add additional safeguards to ensure that this can never happen again.

Please accept our sincere apologies for this mistake. We are deeply remorseful, and accept full responsibility for the incident. If you would like to discuss this matter, or anything else, please feel free to contact either Will or me directly.

Sincerely,

John and Will

John Ackerly
Chief Executive Officer
Virtru | Simple Email Privacy
202.549.3328
www.virtru.com

Need to send me private email? I use Virtru.
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Maybe it's just because they jumped straight from Windows 8 to Windows 10. They skipped the good version this time around.
Can confirm. We were also seeing SQS errors around that time. We had some Opsworks instances reboot as well, but only minor outages overall (us-east and us-west).
This is true. We can separate out which cities have liberal views from which cities have put liberal urban planning policies in place.
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I too find it to be a step up from Windows 8, but it broke some things related to tablet use, which Microsoft got right with 8.
I did a similar personal review when 8 came out, and did not write about it, because while Metro was outrageous, it was more or less well confined (you could use the desktop and not worry about it). Now they went further with the integration but still left it unfinished/unpolished.
If you get a chance to watch the presentation, do. It's pretty clear from the tone of the presentation that hostility towards badgers is not the aim, they are clearly grateful for those that supported them, badgers and squirrels alike, and even make fun of the hostile turnips among us!
The anecdotal reason (from reddit[1]) was that it would have broken to much third party code doing checks for Windows 95/98.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_wind...
cool. good luck.
You can't say so without looking at the bottom line. Henry Ford did the same and it worked out quite well for the company.
Except that OS X versions are generally not this buggy on release IMHO. Really the dual interfaces to the same thing are the worst part of Windows 10 right now.
The tag bits are zero when using the pointer as a pointer, so nothing special needs to be done in order to dereference them. The tag bits are only non-zero when non-pointer data is packed into the pointer, and in that case you inherently need special handling anyway.
More users (i.e., your friends) drive higher service levels (more Uber drivers and quicker service times, which spirals). There is no "forcing," just as no one "forces" you to have a Facebook account.

If you want bad service (long wait times, high prices) then your argument makes sense. However, the more people that use Uber will lead to better service levels and lower prices. Drivers benefit by minimizing wait times and being able to depend on the money.

And if you went to London, you get the convenience of not having to download a local app. You simply use Uber (what you're used to, what you depend on, what you trust), and you have one less thing to worry about in your travels.
Total Commander, been using it since I was 7 years old, I can't even use a Windows computer without it.
Technical difficulty of stripping the DRM? FairPlay was easy enough, I'm sure this wouldn't be much harder.
They probably also thought ahead a bit on how it would wind up getting abbreviated, used, or misused by the public. I recall when the XBox One came out and everybody called it the XBone, several folks on the XBox One team were upset about it.

If there's a Windows 9 it might eventually turn into Roman numerals, so then you've got Windows IX, which could turn into Winix or Wix, or in a particularly bad case "Windows Icks".
> but you should take solace in the fact that you do not now work at a company where they have these kinds of issues. Keep your head up!

It's still pretty frustrating, but this fact helps a bit knowing I may have indeed dodged a bullet. Thanks!
OSX not buggy? Have you not updated in the last ~3 years or something?!
Worms has been a common suggestion (as well as Scorched Earth) - definitely not a bad idea and I will likely incorporate some aspects of these games at minimum.
You can do that for about 25 years or so and then you're going to slow down no matter what.
Purely out of curiosity, do you know of any talk that would explain in detail why things like swift's protocol extension can be implemented in conjunction with generics, and go interfaces can't ?

From the outside, the two features (swift's protocol with extensions and go interfaces) seem a bit close, so that made me wonder. I didn't have the time to think too much in detail about it, so i'm just wondering if anybody already had.
I don't see any reason to think the author dislikes Bombadil! If anything, they'd have to like him quite a bit to research his background and come up with this sort of wild theory about him.
I got one other suggestion for Rampart from another person - definitely a possibility. I would like to take advantage of building stuff. :)
Another point though, the CTO of Ubeam had a MS in nuclear engineering from MIT and was a deputy director of innovation at Raytheon -- I expect he knows a bit of physics too. Their VP of Engineering has a PhD in acoustics and they employ other specialist PhD electrical engineers..

I appreciate a good 'take-down' as much as the next person but I don't think it's as clear cut as the napkin-math suggests.
Ah, right. Brain infarction.
Basically, the argument boils down to 2 points:

1. Fahrenheit is more granular, by design

2. Americans are used to Fahrenheit and learning new things is not cognitively free.

Fahrenheit, as a scale, was created in a similar fashion to Celsius. But then the Fahrenheit scale was multiplied by 4. Like Celsius, Fahrenheit starts at freezing and boiling points - of brine (salt water), not pure water. This gives a lower freezing point (and boiling point?). Then that output was multiplied by 4, giving us the scale we have today.

My preferred solution is a compromise -- create a new temperature scale that is just Celsius multiplied by 4. On this scale:

* Water freezes at 0 degrees
* A nice room temperature is 80 degrees
* Water boils at 400 degrees
* Your oven dial would run from 260 degrees to 1040 degrees.
That COULD have been the point but when you push (hard) to get everyone to upgrade on release day you can't really hide behind that IMHO. Using Win10 previews regularly made me want to pull out my hair (which was my general feeling with Win8 as well).
Variants of BASIC are also unstructured and teach bad habits, such as the construction of goto-laden messes. Smalltalk by contrast is both simple (for example, having only three levels of precedence) yet also a modern, pure OO language coupled with a graphical, live programming environment.
Thanks, I am honored :)
> "Most companies are not Facebook or Google," Paroski says.

This is a very accurate statement, for as long as there are more than four companies.
If they keep the trend there will also be at least 4 different folders called Photos in 4 different places by default, and none of them goes to the same photos.
You certainly can implement Go-like interfaces alongside generics. There's nothing inconsistent about them.
The last few OS X versions have been notorious for the amount of bugs they introduced (both general software and driver issues)

Coming from a company that only sells on a narrow range of hardware, these is even more unacceptable.
IIRC, 10.7 was buggy as mad hell.

I'm surprised Microsoft still hasn't fixed the dual interfaces problem, though.
It is. Except for geothermal energy brought on by radioactive decay, all energy on earth originally comes from the sun. Fossil fuel is sunlight that was absorbed by plants which then either decomposed into fuel over millions of years, or were eaten by animals which later decomposed into fuel over millions of years. Our cars are powered by very old, stored sunlight.
> 87% of squirrels work in a profession hostile to badgers, and 88% of badgers work in a profession hostile to squirrels.

This is a good point, and I think this mindset could go a long way towards avoiding the sort of demonizing that often undermines conversations on this topic. Surely a large part of the dynamic is that the statistical majority can naturally come to regard itself as "normal" (in the normative as well as statistical sense).

I do think we miss something, though, if we overlook the fact that, taking a step back, the vast majority of professions (especially lucrative ones and those that come with a substantial amount of social power) are badger-dominated. This is probably not an accident and, whatever the cause, there are good reasons to think this situation is systematically unfair to squirrels. And while it doesn't doesn't come about because badgers are all jerks, we also need to remember that personally exonerating all the badgers is not really the point, and will not solve our problems.
So this is a surprise for you? Which Microsoft software was finished at its release date?
The Tesla Beetle, if they made that it might beat out the Model T sales count!
I implore people to support something far more practical like http://www.solar-aid.org/ than this.

Solar lights are many times more thermodynamically efficient, cheaper to make, smaller and much more robust (no moving parts!).

This "lifting weights" thing is a silly gimmick. A lifted weight stores a miniscule amount of energy compared to a battery that's been charged by the sun.
Then why not Windows 11? These guys are just not ambitious enough.

I imagine it did play some role but as a child comment notes, the regex checks for Windows 9\d* in order to capture both 95 and 98 in a few languages that exposed versions like that probably played a much larger role. Accommodations that were made for those incredibly old systems could very easily have caused some big problems if they matched on Windows 9.
But it is a network effect. The more people that use the service, the better that service will be. If only a few people used Uber, there would only be a few drivers. This would lead to high prices and poor service levels. The more people that use Uber, the more drivers there are, and the lower the price and better the service. That leads to consolidation to those services with a high number of users, and those services will be the only ones that survive, hence the network effect.
This is great. Local problems solved by local companies in an otherwise underserved market, all aided by simple tech. Twilio should be using this as an example app.

What I don't understand is why it took $10M of HP product to do this. Perhaps I'm not understanding something here but it sounds like they generate random 12-digit numbers, have some metadata on what that's attached to, and have an SMS-interface in? Granted they may need physical servers in the telcos, but couldn't one $1-3k bare metal postgres instance handle most of this (500M rows, majority of which have been used and won't be seen again), and some separate $1-3k bare metal SMS gateway and REST api for static pages? Or what, you scale both of those components 1-3x more? Still no where close to 100k left alone 10M.

I shipped a server to Haiti to power a voice-based jobs board post-earthquake. It was a single $2k Dell server with a $1.5k ISDN card -- that 1U went into Digicel and handled 16 concurrent calls for thousands and thousands of people. And that was voice!
And people focused on HTTP because it mostly worked as everyone adopted NAT routers, as home networks grew beyond what your local expert was willing to support. NAT's implied firewall made security (and uselessness) the default, and was good enough to get paid.

You can see other echos of NAT in today's slow adoption of IPv6... Since lots of software thinks it can safely run on a LAN without you caring about it, lots of systems (even Linux environments) start up with that in mind (even if only subtly, by listening on all interfaces instead of just localhost), and that fosters the fear of dropping that NAT firewall, which is the obstacle to decentralized (and truly competitive) services.

Edit: A recent comment showing the mindset I'm talking about above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9983056
Yes, for-profit education centers. I'd really like to look into this more...Do you have any sources I could read into regarding decline and/or stigma? I feel there is more of a stigma on the larger "vocational" schools like University of Phoenix that offer college-esqe experiences and soft skills vs. blue collar/technical schools that have clear job paths and hard skills after graduation. True? Or are they all stigmatized?
If I'm reading it right, the directory service today is a single host. That was very misleading after these statements (which suggested something closer to netflix eureka):

"Zookeeper provides a strongly consistent model; the directory service focuses on availability."

"Baker Street doesn't use Zookeeper or the other popular service discovery frameworks because we wanted a simple, highly available service, not a strongly consistent one."

Edit: Which is not to say that the project isn't interesting, just that some of the copy felt like a bait and switch. :)
Smalltalk is that, at least for OO (though it does have lambda objects too).
My apologies for being glib, but I intend to skip Windows 10.

Microsoft traditionally releases a revised edition within a year or so, and so I intend to wait for this revision before upgrading.

Will it be named Windows 10.1? Will it be named Windows 11, or even Windows 12? I am unsure about the name, but I will hold out for this OS.
Yes - it is relatively difficult to make anything that stands out, and venturing into engines is like making two games (or more) in the span of time allotted for one game.
This sounds very much like the central thesis of "When Nerds Collide". Is that intentional?
On Defaults (in Win10)
"Where young, hopeful people want to strike out to do something new."
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I do have papers. I recently wrote a paper where we used backscatter from container ships to calibrate our radars. I'll try to email it to you, but here it is:

http://euler.msi.ucsb.edu/papers/2014_emery_apm_from_soo.pdf

It has some of the basic processing techniques.
"Oh I already know how to fly" said Little Bear, "Although, so far I only know how to fly straight down."

I suspect that the risk factor helps in focus. In general exercise seems to improve cognitive function, exercise which requires thinking and planning seems to help more than just simple exercise.
I'm on Ubuntu 15.04 with Firefox 39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1, and with my window maximized the <body> alternates between 1411x689px and 1404x689px (with the difference being related to the size of the scrollbars that keep (dis)appearing.

I can see the style attributes of some <div>s are being manually updated by JavaScript, probably reacting to a window resize event caused by the (dis)appearing scrollbars changing the viewport size (which probably triggers the contents to change, which triggers showing/hiding the scrollbars...).
Whatever. 7 people in my office just upgraded from 7/8.1 in under a hour with all their documents, programs and settings unchanged and then continued working like normal. That's unreal considering how many different hardware combinations exist. People seem to like it and its only going to get better.
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Haha! Me too! And Norton Commander before that.

It's great to be able to use the commander without mouse. Just plain keyboard. Really boosts productivity (especially for a developer like me).
Also, Daggerfall had a fairly limited draw distance IIRC, which I didn't mind when I played it.
The client is the corporation, a distinct legal person from any of the managers or any of the shareholders.
Except that your gender reassignment request would probably not be thought of as resulting from a mental disorder. Not agreeing or disagreeing with the amputation...just pointing out a difference from this example.
To be fair, it only takes a minute to adjust your Windows 10 system settings to take care of most of the author's concerns. I made the obvious adjustments for increasing privacy and then a day later went back and shared a bit more information with Cortana.

This is the same issue that I have with Google Now. It is very convenient to give up some privacy for an effective digital assistant.

I now use Linux laptops (I have three of them) for much of my computing needs, but I still give up privacy on purpose when I use Google Now on my Android phone, perhaps with Microsoft 10, and perhaps with my MacBook.
The technical debt will catch Apple, it's not if, but when, and from my view it's getting worse with every release. I'm curious to see if Google's willingness to just abandon things that are holding them back will pay off.
A kerosene lamp probably converts ~2-3% of its energy into the light; I don't think they use catalytic burners.

Dynamos and LEDs are reasonably efficient in comparison, and also not fire-prone.
Windows 10 is fine... or will be, once they fix the bugs. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/review-windows-10-is...
They already had Windows 2000 ...
I find it baffling everytime someone refers to men and women as separate groups. What's the point of equality then if we're still so different?

(In my experience, if you want to talk about "groups" in programming companies, it's mostly geeks vs. non-geeks, with men and women in both groups.)
Not a bad idea actually - I have considered just pumping out a game every few weeks. It may end up sort of a hybrid of this path and focusing a bit more on the launch prototype.
Agree, outside of my comp sci. major, I took courses in cognitive psychology, history of science, and technical writing, and looking back, those were very useful.

However, it's frustrating that it's regarded as perfectly fine to require STEM students to take courses in breadth subjects, but completely preposterous to require liberal arts students to take breadth courses in hard science.
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I would not blame you, although the press seems to think that most people have been 'skipping' Windows 8/8.1 remaining on 7.

As for the next version, Microsoft made a big claim that this is the "last" windows version because they have made everything in the system upgradable. Thus all future upgrades will come as package changes through Windows Update and the "version" will forever be Windows 10 (so why not just call it Windows? I don't know)
> like in Star Trek where the most powerful weapon is obviously the teleporter but no one acknowledges that.

I'm not sure if that's universally the case in the Star Trek universe. At least in TNG, it seems to be recognized that teleporters (and similar technologies) can be used for military gain (such as covertly beaming away teams into hostile situations, beaming said away teams out of hostile situations, etc.), and the implication is that teleporter technology is not used very often as a direct weapon because of Starfleet's desire to explore rather than conquer.
If you follow the link to his page "I'm upset...Here is why", you can see that this person has a significant degree of "crankiness". These people through their perhaps not deliberate obfuscation, often manage to trick the mathematically naive into thinking there is substance there - "it is so hard and confusing, it must be real math."

It is a disservice to have links like this on Hacker News.
I'm curious about future versions too. It's possible there will be no more, and Windows 10 is just a rolling release. If that is going to be the case, then you'll need to wait until people tell you that the updates up to that point were enough to make it "OK enough".
> as far as I know, there is no other way to do the disk image backup or restore of my Windows computers without having to use the third party programs.

Since Windows 7, Microsoft has provided imagex.exe; it's typically used in high-volume disk imaging applications, but you can easily use it to snapshot or restore an entire installation.
Bugs in massive undertakings like a kernel are unavoidable. It's a bitter pill to get a big improvement.

Using the wrong UI framework for dialogs or having links going nowhere is easily avoidable, it just needs manpower.
Hey guys, Ryan here, CTO and Co-Founder of Locent. We're trying to make it super easy to sell (and buy) stuff over text. Let me know if you have any questions.
Just did the same on my work computer. And its working incredibly well too. Every program works fine and it only took an hour
That's actually not an entirely uncommon reaction - some people loved the iso mode, other people thought it looked too much like a F2P game. :)
Would it be possible to produce a stub? Two example "units" for two example "teams" (4 units total), 2 maps, but plenty of documentation, allowing the community to create a fuller game?