skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first thought, upon watching the video, was that this was a nice alternative to Salesforce, without a lot of the bloat that scares away non-technical sales people (like those at the company I work for). I think that if you narrowed your target market, people might more readily understand how they can use what you are selling. In any event, it's cool. If you would like to talk further, my email address is in my profile.
Stay humble and remain positive hoodie
No SICP?
No PIHKAL?
What is a GA?
On my list of things to do is to write an article titled "VDSO and why you should care." Interestingly, syscall indirection isn't among my reasons (maybe I am too comfortable in my SSE2+ x86_64 environment). If anyone is interested, the magic all lives in /proc/self/auxv, and my own library implementation to hook gettimeofday can be perused at:

https://2ton.com.au/library_as_html/vdso.inc.html
Nice code !
GNOC (Global network operations center) – the future of network operations
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Looks good, thanks. I'm on Windows but it should be pretty easy to port to batch or PowerShell. I've used 7z command line before for automation.

The script makes an 8GB file by default but it should be possible to change that. Add a parameter for the size of the card or even auto-detect it.

I've documented the process and written up my thoughts on IoT core here: https://unop.uk/dev/windows-10-iot-core-public-release-for-r...
Congrats on the public announce of your 'secret' project! When do you release the code publicly? It would be great to be able to hack on it again.
Linux has been my primary desktop OS for almost twenty years, and no, I have no problems using good GUI tools when they're available. I'm happy to use a Git GUI to review changed files and selectively choose text hunks from them for a specific changeset, for example. Often I'll just do it from with Vim with Fugitive, but that's a GUI too, by any definition.
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Niantic has been notoriously slow at infrastructure upgrades, shutting down huge parts of the game (like the Intel Map[0] practically required for large-scale operations) during peak hours, which are always of course during events. Could it be that they needed to spin off from Google in order to get access to AWS, among other things?

[0] https://www.ingress.com/intel
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Zalando grows H1 2015 sales by 31.5% to €1.38B
Reporting, getting into an argument with someone who has your safety in their hands, getting authorities to confirm… That takes a lot of time when you are late for diner.

And after that, you forgot the cab plate number, or even the driver's face.

Behavioral details like that matter a lot for web or mobile-based services.
Kodak could have owned this market

People keep saying that, but it doesn't check out. Look at who owns the camera market: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus and Apple.

None of these companies are new, two thirds of them had huge analog camera businesses 30 years ago. The major shift in digital photography was people going from spending $500 on a camera and $1000 on film and $1000 on processing, to spending $1000 on a camera and $500 on a computer.

Now, I bet Kodak could have done very well as a sensor supplier (like Sony or Samsung), but thinking that they could've somehow "owned this market"... It's been 15 years since Nikon released the first pro DSLR (D1) and Canon released the first affordable DSLR (the Canon D30), and look how many competitors are chomping at their heels. That's because Nikon and Canon both have lens systems with a huge range of glass, much of it designed before 1999. If you bought a D1 or D30, you could go to your local camera store and pick up everything from a super-wide to a long telephoto. Kodak had none of that.
Not really, BMWs have a battery management system that needs to be cleared of the learned calibration when the battery is replaced. If it's just disconnected and not replaced then you don't want to clear it. Also, if that were true it would make doing any work a terrible experience even for the dealerships. Heck the service manual probably says to disconnect the negative battery cable before changing windshield wipers.
Yea, HSMs are not that expensive I think.
big companies have an extremely hard time adapting to new paradigms

And yet all the big players in digital photography - Nikon, Canon, Sony, Apple - are massive companies who've made the transition. Even Fuji is a lot healthier than Kodak, although their bet on SuperCCD sensors is just not paying off.
And also about a magnitude more expensive
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Until I clicked the link and saw "StandupTime Blog" I thought the domain was trying to say "standup to me" in a colloquial manner.
Only if you want to lose leverage when negotiating your new salary after finishing your studies.
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There's another solution to this problem: remote work.
It's 2015, and with the plethora of Internet technologies that facilitate online collaboration I'm still dismayed to see so many tech companies behaving like it's 1985. The insistence and focus on physical location baffles me. Some companies seem to get it and have embraced an online/distributed workforce but many seem opposed to that model. I'd really like to hear others thoughts on why geography is still such a huge factor in knowledge-based industries.
For a split second I thought about CERN´s Grid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_LHC_Computing_Grid

Don't you love everyone using the same names?
"Don't fucking care how much you love Emacs, I love Vim and that's all that matters."
I don't care if you are using vim or emacs, but you seemed to have the edge over others in notepad-based world.
Or maybe, just maybe, they are very aware of their user base and that's the reason there is no version for Linux?
Should I get upset that they don't have Lithuanian version of the app, and hence demonstrate a lack of concern/acknowledgement of the diversity of its user base?
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That's what Police Brutality looks like in Austria
There are ~ three employees (ok sometimes 1 or 2) managing complaints in every average size home appliance store throughout the world, so why not for a successful internet company?
Robert, do you plan to find those bottlenecks and then explain how to remove them by using Erlang/OTP best practices? (i.e. approaches used by Klarna, WhatsApp, etc.).
How about SmartGit? Back in the days when I was working on Windows and Linux I used SmartSVN, quite nice for a Java app.
I've never been to NY, but in other (European) cities that I've lived in, the main issue with congestion are parked cars: commuters have to leave them wherever they can, including at corners where they block traffic a lot more. About half to two thirds of Paris drivable area are taken with parked cars (most streets are one-way three lanes with cars on both sides).

If car commuters use Uber, you relax that source of problem. Not sure how much Uber substitutes for car commuters, though.
Hah, awesome. The sentiment he puts into portraying Oracle truely tells something about the company.
So instead of just saying "these books are stupid"...which of these books do you think has the least relevance to the contemporary mindset, and why?
Atlas Shrugged shaped America?
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Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene (2013)
Often cited as the second most influential book, after the Bible, by members of congress.
Author here, feedback welcome.
This feedback is a little harsh. OP's grammar is perfectly valid, it just isn't consistent with writing style we are used to seeing in a Resume.

OP -- I think this link will help you rework your resume so its more consistent with others from the US http://www.ceswoodstock.org/job_search/resumegram.shtml
As expected my favourite book Atlas Shrugged is in this list.

It sad that her ideas is quite unpopular among general public. And as a consequence Europe and even US go towards socialism these days.
And permanent fixed social media buttons that cover up the left side of the article on mobile devices.
Thanks for sharing. I funded Limit Theory and by now had brushed it off as a failure. Glad to see some light coming from there, the project is really cool.
So? This kind of service often sits on a different box anyway in production.
Saas provider cuts its testing time in half
What are the power requirements of WiFi gadgets compared to other wireless tech? I was under the impression that WiFi wasn't a good choice for embedded because it's so power hungry that it can't be powered for extended time on batteries? There aren't many places where I want tiny wireless things where I also have access to AC power. That's basically limited to sockets/switches.
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A great deal of their selection would be considered worthless trash by a great deal of their customers. Lots of direct-to-dvd stuff, sequels to sequels of childrens' movies, etc.

I suspect this is the reason they obscure the full contents of their library. They only want to show customers things that they think the customer will like, because that set is dwarfed by the set of junk.
That's a new phenomena, and wven so it can hardly be said to have "shaped America". If you disagree, in what ways has it done so?
Australia - I feel the same for no real reason. I wonder if the US press we see on the bad cops permeates local thinking. Here I've generally had fair experiences with cops in my handful of encounters though they tend to be on the arrogant side. Twice I've had bad experiences though this is fairly first world problems E.g. Once 2 young cops stopped me leaving a car park one night as I took my time driving out. They said I must have been drinking, which I hadn't. I suggested they breathalyze me to which they said they didn't have a machine. They then properly tailgated me for the drive from the station car park to my home.

Side point but I've noticed the fire brigade attend local fetes and periodically setting up outside shopping centers with their truck to let people look about the trucks/gear and chat (mainly parents/kids). You never see this with cops. Maybe just my area. I feel it would be valuable for cops to introduce themselves to the community like this on a regular basis. Both for citizens to say hi in non-negative situations. Also so the police engage more with 'good society' while on duty and perhaps lose some of that arrogance and expecting the worst behavior.

Ive also lived in London and Norway and felt relaxed around cops there. They typically dont carry guns on them which I liked. In Norway they have firearms but leave them in the trunk of the car. I feel this is a really good compromise.
That was the original reason, but they only hold onto it now because that's what makes it Twitter.
It also works with "cars" circa 1910, or even "books"...

See also this opinion of an actual commercial pilot about the risk of a drone hitting a passenger aircraft:

https://jethead.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/airliners-vs-drones...
Ah, yes, the masses are stupid parasites and the elite few (of whom of course the reader fantasizes he belongs to) are responsible for all that's good in the world. I wonder why people have a problem with it.
I am playing in Europe for about 12 months, and while the game is still going on, the number of players doesn't increase...some are joining, and about the equal amount leaves. So I wonder if the game had its peak already. After a few months it becomes kind of repetitive... but anyway, it's a good game, I enjoy playing it, especially if I come to some new city.
Genetic Algorithm [1]. The MANIC planner uses a GA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm
Not all Americans grew up in US; very useful info for the immigrants.
Bittorent County Library System.
What IT-related term is this?
Kicked off entirely new waves of greed and selfishness all over the country, but .. most especially of all .. on Wall Street. I'd say it had an impact, most definitely.
Oh, please do! Some of my cars will sit for a month and then the battery is dead due to parasitic drain. It's a pain to plan ahead and use tools to disconnect the posts.
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What he described in this article was not just fasting, but a sequence of fasting and non-fasting days. Of course, if you fast for a day, and the next day eat all the calories back and more, you will gain.
> resulting in unhealthy consequences when things don't go perfectly.

These companies can be quite unhealthy even when things do go well.
It sad that her ideas are too popular among general public. And as a consequence US and even Europe go towards something unpalatable these days.
What is the advantage to development being done on remote machines? Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious - it just seems quite different to the paradigms I've seen in 'the real world'.
"in which a total of 96 million balls have been poured"

"they're cheap (costing just 36 cents per unit)"

Is that really cheap, or is it just because it's in LA?
The most common time the 8 hours policy breaks down (insert rage face here) is when going bug hunting on non straight forward bugs. I just got out of a 5 day bug hunt where the fix was literally changing a 10 to 40 (so, 1 character change). The debugging process to realise this was painstaking elimination of possible causes. I eventually stumbled on the root cause by mistake when I out of frustration just switched an unrelated boolean flag to see if I could get a laugh out of what happened next. These tasks can really screw up an entire dead line. I have a policy on those which is two steps:

1) Daily report in the morning SCRUM style of what was tried, and what's going to be tried next.
2) After a full working week, reassess everything and try and understand where you are going with this.

Rinse and repeat. Basically the estimate is set at 5 full working days whenever you work on an obscure problem. But it's not a hard deadline. It's just a hope that it'll work out by then and a mild mental aid of giving something to work towards.
They're not dumping plastic balls in order to tackle the drought, they're being dumped because the EPA mandated that all reservoirs be covered. Direct sunlight will cause bromide and chlorine in the water to mix into bromate, a known carcinogen, and the EPA wants to prevent buildup of this compound in the drinking water supply. Covering the reservoir with a tarp is too expensive (costing over $300 million) and plastic balls are a much cheaper option. The evaporation reduction is a secondary benefit, not the primary one, and the article title should reflect this.

There's much better coverage of this story here [1] and here [2].

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/11/431670483/...

[2] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150812-shade-ball...
As is Nigeria.
Could you comment towards or provide insight about what deckar01 said above:

> Section 333 is from 2012, but the FAA failed to sue a commercial UAV operator in 2014.

If this is the case then you wouldn't need this FAA 333 exemption would you?
> Twitter has popularized spelling abortions (u, r, 4, etc),

Mobile phone SMS did that, twitter users merely adopted the convention they were already using on their mobile phones.
Back in X year, one of the most widely cited studies [...]

I tried to find the "X year", a placeholder that was probably forgotten by the OP, and the source of the survey page contains the following snippet

<meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2014-08-12T08:38:03+00:00"/>
<meta name="DC.date.created" content="2014-08-11T14:42:58+00:00"/>
Mercedes was back then most likely just interested in patents.

Nowadays not much happens at Mercedes in terms of a-mobility, mostly just PR and raking in on government subsidies for accelerating adoption of electric cars.
The second main reason why German automakers keep a minimum level of electric cars in their portfolio (although most of them can't even be purchased regularly) is to keep the overall average emission levels low enough to meet recent environmental standards.

Mercedes and the likes are huge and really really slow moving giants and their main interest is to keep the status quo.
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we are so fucked.
Depends on the ball ... you need to use food grade plastic. And certifications and on and on and on ...
Twitter has removed the 140-character limit on direct messages
The quote says "looked and felt AAA". The definition may preclude the game from 'being AAA' but not looking like and feeling like a AAA game, whatever that means in the first place.
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Pause for a minute and really think about what you said.

Then go and google the definition of "elitist".

You are creating a false equivalency between drones and PC's. You are screaming "elitist" --using some twisted definition of the term-- at someone advocating for operating drones within rules of conduct proven to protect life, limb and property. You make no sense whatsoever.
You must only be counting base? With bonuses and RSU grants (counting only what vests the first year) Google definitely pays better than 90k for new grad software engineers.
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More it is highlighting cultural nuances and differences?
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As sibling poster [1] mentioned, the balls are cheaper (and probably last longer) than the tarp alternative.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10052777
My discovery of `brew cask`[0] has meant that the App Store is avoided at nearly all cost. I'm a Linux user at heart, too -- one of the only reasons I use OS X is that it feels like "Unix, but with nice powerful GUI apps as well"!

[0] http://caskroom.io/
Definitely agree - would be nice to see why some things score highly.

http://beta.brandkoop.com/instantProfiler/result/2nawF7XDTLu...

Apparently I'm very sincere - but I was kind of hoping for a bit more competence.
Audited by who?
After reading the Mythical Man Month, I derived an estimation scheme that was something like this:

1. I know this, I have done it before in this codebase. Estimate is accurate, multiply by 2 to account for watercooler talk, documentation, and other non coding work.
2. I know this codebase, I have a pretty good idea of what to do, how, and where. I have walked trough the code and can't identify any major roadblocks. Multiply by 5
3. I don't have an honest idea. Multiply by 20, and make it clear that it's a guesstimate at best. Usually a better estimate can be given after working on it some time.

It's still off more than I like.
Update: What Ever Happened to the Machine That Turns Feces into Water?
I use Vagrant+Docker for development, no problems to install. First, I tried to use boot2docker but I didn't like it. Vagrant has a Docker provisioner or there's a plugin for Vagrant for Docker Compose.
I always assumed this was due to the language barrier. China has roughly 10 million English speakers while India has hundreds of millions. To me, language appears to be one of the largest causes of cultural divide.
I'm not sure what point you're making. Are you saying it's not important to run the same version of all your dependencies in development as in production?
My uncertainty is more around what Apple's going to do the first time someone publishes a free FlappyBird clone, then when it's got several million or tens of million downloads magically turns it into a spambot or a million-strong pocket DDoS zombie army.
What I don't understand is that they dumped black balls in the reservoir. If you want to keep the water cool to lessen evaporation wouldn't it make sense to use white or reflecting balls so the water stays slightly cooler?

I would be glad to know why black balls are chosen.
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If NIA isn't becoming a part of Alphabet, I'm quite sure soon I'll have more free time to pursue other hobbies. My reaction is quite ambivalent...
I guess, but in my experience optimization buys you maybe 2x if the code was written reasonably well. By using Erlang you leave 3x-30x on the table vs reasonably well written C, and it's often easier to write that C code than to optimize the heck out of code in a slower language which ends up being 3x-30x slower anyway. On the other hand Erlang is an excellent choice for distributed systems that are latency bound.
That pilot isn't thinking straight. There's a HUGE difference between hitting an organic object (a bird) and a metal and carbon fiber object with lithium polymer battery packs. One will disintegrate. The other can cause severe damage. And, BTW, airliners are not the only full scale ships in the air.

This is not a joke:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/us/california-freeway-fire/

Stop and think.
Except they do share those opinions and very suspiciously changed them in their final message. So what you believe is the simplest explanation doesn't work here.
I'm not talking about lame "1 dissenter out of a million style" fake controversy, I'm talking about when experts are split 50/50 on an issue.
Very true. The simple graphics also made it possible for many players to create their own content with less complicated tools like Photoshop + Transmogrifier instead of advanced tools like Maya, which also contributed to its success.

Minecraft was also a great achievement in terms of game design and gameplay, yet had simple graphics, and consequently was easily moddable, which greatly contributed to its popularity and success. But is was considered "AAA" when it was released, and is it considered "AAA" now that Microsoft bought it (even though it's essentially the same game)?

So how important do you think fancy graphics are to the definition of an "AAA" title, versus accessibility (in terms of how many people can play it because of its lower hardware requirements, and how many people can mod it because of its graphical simplicity)? And how important are game design, gameplay, popularity, making money and other issues like moddability to the definition of an "AAA" title?

Another way for a game to achieve easy (but more limited) moddability without limiting its graphical complexity is to support advanced built-in tools for user created content (like Spore for example, which has advanced built-in specialized tools as opposed to supporting simple generic third party tools).

Subsequent versions of The Sims had much fancier graphics, and much more advanced built-in content creation tools (like create-a-sim), but that made it harder to create content outside of the game (because objects were 3D meshes instead of 2.5D sprites, and texture maps for character meshes were not nearly as simple).

The original Sims 1 team (which I worked on) only had four core programmers, but it was developed over many years before the point that EA bought Maxis and put more people on shipping it. So The Sims 2, 3 and 4 were much more typically AAA-ish, and had vastly larger teams working on them. (The Sims Studio became one of four major sub-divisions of EA.)

I think small indie teams would be better off focusing on game design and gameplay instead of fancy graphics.
What kind of things/problems/domain would you like to work on ?
doesn't the plastic + sunlight + heat combination release dangerous chemicals in the water?

also, why are they black, doesn't that attract more heat?
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Inceidetally, given that I've done a lot of complaining about the Economist in this thread, one of the things I really like is that their world view is not the "Ra Ra Free Market Uber Alles" that they are so often parodied as. They often firmly advocate government spending and market regulation as the correct solution to problems. They have a flexible world view in general.