skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a ThinkPad T420s. The product key is on the CoA behind the battery not in the BIOS.
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The archeologist in this NPR story (http://www.npr.org/2015/07/28/425700788/bones-in-church-ruin...) reported that the box was too fragile to open. Likely opening the box would destroy all or part of it or its contents. Using MRI (or other scanning methods) as opposed to opening/disassembling is fairly common now in archeology when dealing with fragile objects.

But I agree with your skepticism regarding graves vs sites. I seriously doubt the folks who were buried or did the burying expected or wanted the remains exhumed for any purpose whatsoever.

Native Americans clearly considered this kind of thing grave robbing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_Graves_Protect...). I can't see a substantial difference here.

I'm not sure where the line is. It seems like there should be a substantial benefit beyond just satisfying curiosity.
Behind the scenes at the other Cloud9:

"Drop your stick. Drop your stick! DROP YOUR STICK!"

-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye4AkBocrro
Whatever the numbers are, developers are still sweating blood supporting old versions of IE. Let's get Windows users on 10.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/why-everyone-should-...
This is really cool. My suggestion is similar to (perhaps the same as) jameshart's. I want to be able to form a sequence of known steps in flat space (say, draw a square), then see what that same sequence of steps produces in other spaces. It may help build some sort of intuition for the different spaces.
They do not fly simulated IMC ("under the hood") in F-16s. By the time the pilot gets anywhere near a F-16, they have already trained for IMC in multiple trainer aircraft.

FAR 91 doesn't apply to military aircraft, although military rules require they maintain a visual scan outside the aircraft.
Because "pretty common use pattern" should not be the bar for what is allowed on facebook. To give you another example: in India, it is very common to use a picture of your favorite Bollywood actor as your profile picture on social media. Should this be permitted by facebook just because it is a common pattern in India? In my opinion it shouldn't be permitted because it hurts the core of facebook: people using real identities to connect with one another.

I can also flip your argument and say that why do people who use fake names want to impose themselves on Facebook? They could just as well abide by Facebook's guidelines or just not use it.
A lot of people have concerns about the methodology here, but I haven't seen this really big one addressed: what does "perform" mean? Are we talking about the performance of the startup, or the performance of First Round's investment? If we're talking about the performance of the investment, then these stats are skewed towards those founders who are willing to accept lousy terms.
So just like my car insurance, I'll have to purchase "uninsured drone operator" insurance to cover my house when a uninsured or unidentifiable drone drops on my house?
Of this 330409 lines of Javascript code, the majority (223414 lines) of it is stuff in the node_modules subdirectory, which probably is what you mean by dependencies...? E.g, there is one file in there https://github.com/c9/core/blob/master/node_modules/ace/lib/... that contains 54209 lines of code.
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It's always nice to know that your masters programme requires more of you in just an exam (building a Relation Extraction pipeline including POS tagging and a NER system).

Having said that, it's been shown pretty well that CRF's outperform the Stanford Parser with simple features (it can get even better with better features - particularly for organisations), which also beat out HMM's but it could be interesting to see how neural networks would do.
I doubt anyone with hardcore spreadsheet data would trust a third party plugins. My employer rolls most software (incl Excel plugins) in-house for that exact reason - can't let outsiders near the data.
Completely right. Applying a neural network is much faster than training one. The main trick here is fitting the trained model into cache (or smaller) so that the matrix multiplies are fast.
This could be a good approach. Let people figure out optimal workflow with their spreadsheets, and when those spreadsheets stabilize, then help them move to a database. Aside from data entry speed, part of the reason is flexibility, especially when you're just figuring out what's the best way to collect and process data for a particular task.
Down-voting can be used as censorship, if not used properly. As in downvoting because you don't agree with the opinion, rather than because the post is irrelevant, ad-hominem, or content-free. If you don't agree, post a rebuttal.
> Well, actually... you can remove all negative words from the language like it was suggested by George Orwell in 1984 novel [1]. Then "bad people" will have no words to express what they're thinking.

The idea that that works seems to depend on linguistic determinism, which is far from established.
It's still a problem if your social world, project goals, skill-set goals, personal finances, or daily routines go into turmoil because some executive or middle manager decided to let you go for whatever reason. Even if it never happens, the possibility of it is stressful to some people.
Opening it would break it. There wouldn't be any DNA after that amount of time. Scans of the box have already allowed 3d prints of its contents.
Privacy is dead. Not just as we knew it, but every dystopian prediction of the future where we are ID'd, tagged, and tracked at every action has already come true.

Not for the sake of some vast government surveillance apparatus (while they are one of the factors behind this movement, the US government is too bloated and largely too incompetent to be effective at this even if they wanted to) but because there is money to be made in knowing our every detail. In our consumer society, marketers/retailers and the companies that cater to their businesses find great value in this information, and as consumers, we largely benefit from having the efficiencies of amazon product recommendations, facebook/twitter suggestions, tailored advertising, etc... at the cost of some loss in privacy. And people have largely silently accepted this, unknowingly or otherwise.

I have a facebook, linkedin, google, github, multiple handhelds, multiple email accounts, I'm a former federal employee, I've had the same phone number for the past 15 years, and countless other retail/online accounts. If you know my name and middle initial, you can find most of my personal information - age, former/current addresses, relatives - through a quick google search on Intelius. I've requested they take down my information several times, and it seems to disappear from their public listing for a while, but reappears after a couple years or after I've moved again.

I accepted long ago that any/all information I post online (and even locally on my Macbook in some cases) is being scraped, compiled, and stored in some DB somewhere. It would only take a little focus and some link analysis to build a comprehensive profile of nearly every detail of my life using some basic selectors - primarily my email and phone. I assume every link, website (yes, including every porn - pornhub has an analytics team!!!), email I write/send, emails I draft but don't send, fb picture I stalk, youtube video I watch is being tracked/stored/compiled somewhere. If it's not by default made public information or being used by the company in question for their profit motives, I assume it will be in the future when the information is hacked/sold/"leaked" for whatever reason.

As I sit here on my school's public WiFi, I know my IP/MAC address/cookies are exposed to those with the know-how, but I've since given up trying to avoid that. Encryption protocols have been broken too many times to count, and while we continually fight for better security methods, those with enough motivation will find ways around - e.g. NSA firmware hacking. I've decided the only information that is truly private are the thoughts in my head, but it seems that even that is subject to debate (look up memory transplants).

It's alright though, because as we head towards the singularity, my consciousness will be assimilated somehow into some Borg-like meta-consciousness anyway. I just hope they have micro-brews available.
Take-home interviews
^ And that did?
Which, from an interoperability perspective, is an improvement, no?

I feel like this is one of those things we as geeks tend to miss. We look at that document and say "Ew! Look at that crappy HTML." But we miss the point that, no matter how crappy the HTML is, the fact that it's HTML at all makes it better in many ways than the same doc was when it was locked in .DOC or .DOCX.
Cool, but I'm curious how this will scale and avoid becoming another Sodexho or the likes. Quality food for hundreds of thousands of people is hard.
It's a very simple yet useful idea. It might be cool if you could specify your own link. That way you could tell someone in advance to check file.io/someLongRandomString in the future .
I have observed the same issue over the past few months. It's a dealbreaker of a problem: instead of running the application you asked for, more often than not you are directed to the application's website.

I've been able to avoid this problem by replacing the start menu with Classic Start Menu, but that comes with its own set of issues (lag, funky focus interactions, and inability to launch some metro apps). So far, this is the only issue that has me thinking about downgrading.
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You misspelled the word "refrigerate" towards the top of your home page. Misspelled words always make me disinclined to order from a new merchant.
Yes this is the pattern of obsf4 usage.

It makes tor traffic look like https traffic to a bridge node.
Well that depends, if you somehow manage to link well across different domains it can be done. Take a look at the Lowlands project from Copenhagen University (http://lowlands.ku.dk), which deals specifically with cross domain adaptation.

You are right that reasonable domains are required though.
I had some Brazilian roomates who didn't speak english (and I don't speak portugues). We used a combination of my poor spanish and google translate off my phone to comunicate.

It worked ok (much better than nothing.) However there were a number of times when there were very large issues in the translations that created some pretty big misunderstandings. Luckily we had a friend who had fluent English and Portuguese who would translate when things got to confused.

To reduce errors, you do need to be really careful to use short, complete sentences with simple and correct grammar. It's also better to use and that contain words that aren't ambiguous. (Those two sentences would probably not translate well.)

e.g. Please write simple words, short phrases and simple phrases. Please write words with just one meaning. Those phrases and words are easier to translate.
I'm pretty sure Eraser (1996), staring Schwarzenegger, had a smart rail gun that auto-targeted hearts.

It might have even been hacked or jammed in the climax, my memory of the movie is a bit fuzzy.
Great company doing awesome things.
I was a much later generation (late 90s), but the end of the video has kind of a funny discussion on motivation: When you arrive at Bell and have access to a collection of amazing resources and amazing people and very few constraints, it's fairly unimaginable that you would piss that opportunity away.
Keep pumping.. all the way until series Z and then pop the balloon.
Artificial Intelligence is a total misnomer
Interesting

It seems it can't really handle context, so 'cockroaches' may have been a mistranslation of 'cheap' in some contexts, as the 'it had stopped chestnut' may have simply been 'brazil nuts'
Since I never used the social aspects of Google Reader, Feedly wasn't my cup of tea; I have turned to Inoreader.
Actually, no. That article was dated Mar 31, 2014, so I assumed that they switched the configuration option by 14.10.

.... but some searching indicates that they won't get around to disabling online searches by default until Unity 8 is default in Ubuntu. It seems that Unity 8 won't be default until 16.04 [1] or later [2]. So I rescind my previous statement. Canonical deserves as much scorn as you can dish out for disregarding their users' privacy for 3 years and counting.

[1] http://mhall119.com/2014/10/unity-8-desktop/
[2] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-16-04-LTS-Won-t-Have-U...
Where did you see this was for a masters programme?

Also, it depends. When I was working on my masters (which I didn't finish :) ), there were three options:

* Thesis
* Project
* Extra Courses
Linux with support from Redhat costs money, too. On the other hand, I've got four Windows licenses at the house that I can upgrade for the price of Ubuntu...which I will do, even though only one machine doesn't primarily run Ubuntu.
This is a cool concept especially for anyone that enjoys music videos.

What was the toughest design/implementation issue you had to overcome for this project?

Nice Job!
I don't closely follow which articles are flagged, but I think that articles with a tech angle or some novel statistical or scientific analysis are favored over general politics. The reason I flag general political articles (eg articles about race or gender issues without any of the above) is that I don't find the discussions interesting, and I think that the posters are coming from a viewpoint of "this stuff is important so it should be discussed everywhere, whether people want to or not"
It helps that strawberries are octoploid, they have 8 copies of each chromosome. I remember doing this in a high school biology lab. (Much more fun than enzyme extraction from livers...)
Mobile drone hubs seems like a very interesting solution, which could even be more energy-efficient than just trucks or just drones. Somehow I never thought of that, thanks!
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the best part. finally generics in Go https://github.com/facebookgo/generics

:P
RIP Nóirín
> He said that there was much discussion over a code part of the wreckage: BB670. "The code is not that of a plane number plate, nor that or a serial number on machinery," he wrote.

Interesting. You'd think a code like that on a plane part would be immediately identified.
Well. You see, this one might be something from a real religion that white people believe in as opposed to one of those charming little pagan beliefs.
As someone who is trying out Ghost, thanks for the heads up ;)
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It's not clear how this is more than FUD based blogspam.
The headline of the article is exactly what the HN title says. But the sub-headline says "Fragments of a wing washed up in the French island of Reunion could be wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, says aviation expert" (emphasis added).

The "matches" in the headline is only that it came from the same model (Boeing 777) as MH370 - not from the actual plane.
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Actually, I have to correct myself - it looks like most estimates give PV panels EROEI somewhere above 6, which would mean about 15% of produced energy is needed for the production and maintenance of the panel itself. But even then it would probably be net gain.

Subsidies etc. are a different matter, because then you're talking about competing with other sources and the strawman argument "it costs more energy to produce than it saves" doesn't work.
Given the reliability of closed captions on YouTube and the frequency of errors in plaintext Google translate, I wouldn't be surprised if this service fails often, and often when you need it most.
We don't want to be a trendsetter in allowing grey content. I would like to be leading in making a clear policy supported by the GitLab community, but I think that will be difficult.
As a virt developer I spend a lot of time installing Windows and various Linux distros, and Windows (all versions) has terrible installers. However I'm also not surprised by this: almost no end user needs to run the Windows installer since the main way they get Windows is preinstalled on their PC.
terrible :(
they are awesome, but not that difficult to implement
I have updated several machines and had no problem at all.
Yes. You're right about the fish analogy, but wrong about learning to manage one's own finances. I recognize that I shot myself in the foot by using such an imperfect analogy :)
Nice topic.

There's a lot towards treating people as human and Most of my distaste from scrum in many implementations was because of shops implemented in such a way that I felt like I was in kindergarten. The process wasn't always to blame, but a process can make things inhuman - often done in a way to discourage design, table neccessary discussion, de-prioritize architecture, or assign tasks arbitrarily.

The empathy and trust part is key, and they lose meaning the second they are framed on the wall. I wrote a bit (http://michaeldehaan.net/post/115291819627/the-management-le...) about how I think most conflicts (i.e. politics) are from mutually conflicting priorities and things might get easier if people tell everyone what their mutual conflicts are and what constraints they are operating under and remember they are all in it together.

Once people don't talk about these things, they build up walls (and false assumptions about the other person) and it's often too late to repair.
Glad there's prior art on that. I had a small project where I iterated all the fonts on the system and used them to generate glyph training images. The next step was to dirty them up, but I never continued the project.

More generally, I really like the idea of generating controlled synthetic images and then messing them up for regularization.
oh shoot thanks so much for the catch!
> The "matches" in the headline is only that it came from the same model (Boeing 777) as MH370 - not from the actual plane.

There have only been three 777 crashes [0], and the other two were firmly on land.

Well, the Asiana one at San Francisco clipped a sea wall but the flaps arrived on land. So unless someone has been throwing major 777 wing components into the sea, this is a pretty compelling match.

* [0] Plus two other hull losses whilst static at airports
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This is similar to https://www.meldium.com/, a team password manager that helps with user permission management. It's a problem I've been waiting for someone to successfully solve. Good luck!

P.S. Showed this to another YC startup and they want to try it.
Agree, but I think now is the time when many small companies have dreams of figuring that out! We'll write about it if we do =)
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Nicely done guys for spotting the schelp blindness. I have been at many large enterprises where due to the pain of manging passwords everyone uses the exact same pass.
What kind is that, exactly? Since, you know, humans have been selecting and cultivating plants for specific characteristics since the beginning of agriculture. And that's all that this article is describing, saying "I like this characteristic, lets try breeding it with this other strain and see what comes about". I would be interested in these primitive, untouched by man strains you seem to be referencing, as such, and where you found them.
This is great. I especially love that candidates are given a choice, so if they prefer the traditional technical interview they can choose that.

Normalizing performance between the two interview types will be challenging, but I think the benefits to be reaped far outweigh the difficulty of the challenges.
Getting that dreaded "Something happened" error on my machine... very annoying.
I was surprised there wasn't a map! I'm not familiar with the current patterns of the Indian ocean, but Reunion seems like a strange place for MH370 wreckage to end up given the projected paths from the pings. In this map, Reunion is just barely visible as the leftmost tiny white dot between the words "Indian Ocean" and Madagascar.

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/532abdcaeab8ea0464d...
Barely three paragraphs of text, not much background, and a bordering hyperbolic headline. Not the sort of "article" I would hope to see.
Reiter/Driscoll's is incredibly progressive and tech savvy as a grower. Their research operation is truly first class. They are the only grower we've worked with that has writen their own API client without any assistance--pretty slick for a decades old company whose main expertise is in trucking, labor, land, and plants.
You're right! You know every time someone tells me this is a tech startup, I fire back that it's actually a logistics startup. Delivery is one of the hardest things for the new wave of "deliver everything" startups. We'll see as time goes on if it proves killer or not.
Yes. I include a reasonable amount of context switching time. Also, say I am trying to sleep and I am thinking about a client's problem; I will include that time too, but only if significant. I prorate the time if it is only partially productive.

As for having two clients at once, if the time spent on both clients and their emails is about the same, then there is no need to stop the timer for small emails. It all sort of blends together. Overmanagement of time is a waste of time.

Overall, the way I see it is that time working for a client needs to be counted, but it is not that important to distinguish how much time is spent on each specific task. The bottom line is what matters.
Godspeed, Nóirín! :(
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I just did a factory restore of my Windows 7 PC last night in preparation of the Windows 10 update. After finishing 4 years of Windows Updates (eventually), I wasn't offered an opportunity to upgrade to Windows 10 via Windows Update. Apparently, it's given out at random and you can't manually request it.

In order to manually update, you apparently have to download the Windows 10 ISO (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I... ) and create a boot media? And some are saying that this doesn't count as an "upgrade" for the Win7/Win8.1 Product Key. Maybe.

The Windows 10 upgrade path is more confusing than it needs to be.
A very fair point!
Well, the ocean currents in the Indian Ocean seem broadly consistent with the idea that wreckage could have drifted from the presumed crash site to Reunion:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Indian_O...
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$7/user/month for team of $50/user/month for enterprise (extra admin support and training). https://open.blockspring.com/organization/setup
According to the only comment (currently) on the original blog post, the code part is not that of a boeing 777:
http://blog-peuravion.fr/2015/07/a-t-on-retrouve-les-premier...
Looks like the domain name is misspelled; the URL should be:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xca/
That's strange.

We have a pile of the new Intel Compute Sticks, HDMI windows 8.1 x86 devices. They're pretty slick. So, I threw Win10 on them.

My big complaint is that the install took 2.5 hours. That sucked. And then it came up.

Like a charm. Super smooth, responsive and it just worked. Admittedly, I didnt have a firefox window to surf the web whilst being installed, but this was a 1 time affair.

I'm rather impressed with Win10 so far.