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Re:The Day They Came for the Governor on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:16PM (#18730132)
This is an interesting glimpse into the mindset of feds.

Underscored the old saying that the police are never there to help you.

Re:IBM acquires Red Hat on Sunday October 28, 2018 @03:56PM (#18322754)
zOS reboot, duh!

Kidding aside, nothing about this is good for the open source movement.

Gotta have my /sipps/ tho.

I'm actually curious now if the 30 year old boomer meme is in any way an outgrowth of the Iraq war. The aesthetic the meme embraces reminds me a lot of the guys I knew my age and older who served. Gonna have to reflect on this a bit.

Re:The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @07:58AM (#18175153)
>countersignal here that dang warns me about
Several years ago I remember reading on stack overflow about how someone had managed to rm the ls program on a Linux system. Your anecdote reminded me of the fix. I’ll do some googling and see if I can find it. If I can, I’ll post it here.

Hats off to people like you. You’re what we mere mortals aspire to, and it’s always encouraging to hear that someone else has attained a level of mastery. Makes it seem more achievable!

The more interesting question is what are you going to do about it?
Re:PayPal ends business dealings with Alex Jones's Infowars on Friday September 21, 2018 @07:59PM (#18043595)
*tort
Re:PayPal ends business dealings with Alex Jones's Infowars on Friday September 21, 2018 @07:48PM (#18043514)
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
No, terry, the CIA didn’t exist yet.
Re:Lead: America's Real Criminal Element (2013) on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:04PM (#17352238)
Good times create weak men etc. etc.
Re:Lead: America's Real Criminal Element (2013) on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:01PM (#17352226)
One of the things that makes lead (and all heavy metals) so dangerous is the body lacks a mechanism to effectively clear it.

So if the only factor in aggression is the amount of lead in the body, then we would have to assume it takes time for the symptoms to subside as well.

Re:Border agent mocks migrant children crying [Audio] on Monday June 18, 2018 @07:47PM (#17342589)
How much is David Brock paying you to post this? Can you tell him I'll post things here for money too?
You obviously live in inflated-margin land. I'm going to guess NY, SF, CS, or greater Denver (maybe austin) or worse, Academia.

Startups don't work this way in heavy industry, especially when jobs are on the line.

I envy you, actually.

Surprisingly, I'm okay with this.
Labster, what's going on, big guy?
Your outlook on the human prerogative for mastery of his environment is absolutely fascinating to me.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018) on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:11PM (#16285936)
I TA'd for a course in grad school that used your product.

I was very impressed with the quality!

It's been implemented to some degree by Cliff Stoll for his klein bottle business. Or rather, he started a warehouse in his crawlspace. Same difference...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU

Re:'Alien Alloys' in The New York Times' UFO Story on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:51PM (#15991573)
Careful or you'll have everyone in this thread screaming about blue beams.
I'll second the other child comment and wish you good luck.

I'll also tell you to check out overleaf--it does most of this in a browser, so you have the collaborative aspect if you need it.

Re:Facebook wants your children's mind on Sunday December 10, 2017 @06:14PM (#15894019)
Maybe in clownworld.
Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs on Thursday November 23, 2017 @12:06AM (#15762913)
We usually just send .ipynb files around because of the stuff we do, we all usually have the same libraries.

Installing a notebook server is an option though. IBM will be happy to let you pay to have them help, or you can do it the sane way with continuum analytics.

Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @11:49PM (#15762833)
>In practice what I've seen is that IT and finance departments don't even let business analysts write their own SQL queries for fear that they'll write bad ones that bring the database server to its knees

I'll take data warehouses for 600, Alex.

Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:21AM (#15757393)
>its simply not as useful for adhoc data analysis and reporting.

<rant>

You wanna know what's even more useful? Code notebooks.

I store everything from my sql queries to my processing pipeline to my models, and my vizualizations. Most notebooks have slide-show modes now so your presentation to business stakeholders is simple to prepare as well, and with the right plotting packages you can draw interactive charts that do all the fancy stuff. And when it's time to update the analysis, you just re-run the notebook.

But business analysts are too freaking lazy to just learn to write some python or R, and they're perfectly happy to get paid to do the same task over and over again when it comes time to making updates.

And don't get me started on source control.

</rant>

What if you trained it on footage from the real world? I didn't see anything in the article that stated the AI needed any sort of feedback from interactive controls...
Re:Saudi Money Fuels the Tech Industry. It’s Time to Ask Why on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @12:12AM (#15641212)
Why this story, and why right now?

Think!

Re:The war to sell you a mattress on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @08:21AM (#15490303)
No, they can do it with inner springs now too.

That tech is relatively new.

Re:Just three percent of adults own half of America’s guns on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @09:02PM (#15406092)
Never underestimate a good prior! :-)
Re:Science saved me from pretending to love wine on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @09:06PM (#15397568)
Watermelon makes my teeth itch. I don't know how else to describe it.

I think strawberries are the closest I have to your watermelon.

Re:Science saved me from pretending to love wine on Sunday October 01, 2017 @04:02PM (#15379503)
It's interesting to me that you find celery tasteless. I can't stand the flavor myself but I'll eat Brussels sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower all day long.

Not to mention wasabi, horseradish and other pungent foods.

Can I ask how you feel about garlic?

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