skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar experience once in high school. After a first round where the top four students were assigned to a group of the lower end ("You'll be a good role model", he said, which failed miserably) we then picked our own groups for the next project. He went down the class, in order of grades, and had us sit at a group table. So the student with the highest grade in the class sat as a table of their choosing, followed by the second, then third, etc.

My group had 3 of the top 5, and one who was somewhere just above the middle. The three of us had flagged her over to be the fourth member.

The reason for this? She didn't have the highest grade, but we knew she worked hard (it was a somewhat unfair consequence that we learned everyone's standing in this way; we assumed she'd have been higher)

It didn't matter. We divided tasks, made sure everything was covered, and all got As.

The lesson out of all of this was, in group work, having the smartest or best test scores didn't matter as between four of us, we could work it out together. But having people who could do the work did. And that is more valuable in a team.

These days, I work in a group of eight managing engineering and operations for a specific technology. We have some who are crazy smart but don't do much, and a few others who are pretty new to the tech but work pretty diligently. The former talks alot but has few deliverables, but the latter, while asking us a lot about the higher end stuff, has taken it upon himself to clean up little inconsistencies and chasing down the non-serious, but obscure errors in our system.

You have to be careful not to play favorites, but we try hard to make sure the latter guy knows his work is valuable and that he's appreciated.

Go team.
The village is called "The Institute for Higher Yearning".

Also worth checking out BattleBlimps, which was developed by False Profit Labs: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/battle-blimps. Hydrogen filled blimps, controlled by an xbox controller talking to an Arduino over a custom bluetooth protocol. When you collide two blimps together, one of them blows up, Hindenburg style.

Also, also, Horse Tornado, which was a persistence of vision art piece: https://www.tilt.com/tilts/horse-tornado-interactive-phantom....

Lastly, we had a revised art car this year too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0JzPgd9f9g. It was fun watching the muse dry-eeg light up the brain during the Thursday night party we attended.

Twas a good year.
So I feel like the reason I like Vagrant is because it does it's one job well, then gets out of my way. Doesn't sound like this shares that philosophy.
They're building a nice little ecosystem...
This reminds me of the freakanomics episode: Parent's don't matter (http://freakonomics.com/2011/06/15/how-much-do-parents-reall...)
Intercepting a Method in .NET in less than 3 minutes with JSON
I wonder why this is... My first guess is that hardly anyone that works in SF can afford to own housing, my second is that real estate speculators are buying up and renting a lot of San Francisco property.
The key word there is "inadvertently".
That would be normal in any big city. For over a century the general rule was "Move to the suburbs if you want to buy a house. If you stay in a city then you rent." Things have only changed slowly, since the 60s, with the rise of condos, that has made ownership slightly more common in the cities.
Try Google.

This is pretty widely known phenomena, as in anyone who has read anything about cold war espionage is aware of it. This article confirms it through a source from the former KGB.

Here's a 1985 NY Times article detailing Soviet use of this ruse in Mexico: http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/23/world/mexico-city-depicted...

Here's a 1983 NY Times article "Soviet Orders US Vice Consul Expelled as Spy": http://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/13/world/soviet-orders-us-vic...

Key quotes from the 1983 article:

>"The Soviet action against Mr. Augustenborg followed a pattern set twice earlier this year. In March, when Richard Osborne, a first secretary in the embassy's economic section, was expelled, and again in June, when Louis Thomas, an embassy attache, was ousted on spying charges, the Soviet announcements were issued promptly and said the men had been caught in the act on Moscow streets. Previously, such announcements had often been delayed or not made public at all."

>"...no American diplomat had been publicly expelled since 1977, and in that case, involving Martha Peterson, a vice consul at the embassy, there was no Soviet statement until 11 months later, after the United States had announced the arrest of two Soviet employees of the United Nations caught picking up documents on antisubmarine warfare."

>"The recent Soviet actions against Americans come at a time when Western counterintelligence services have stepped up their actions against Soviet agents. Nearly 100 Russians have been expelled for intelligence activities around the world ... Also in April, the United States expelled three members of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, including a military attache, Lieut. Col. Yevgeny N. Barmyantsev, who was reportedly caught retrieving what he thought were stolen American military secrets from beneath a tree in rural Maryland."
I've done this for Cassandra. While there are tons of jmx metrics exposed for Cassandra, last I checked the recommended way of logging compaction times was to tail the log. I even have a little project that tails logs and sends timestamps and values to graphite based on regexp:

https://github.com/shanemhansen/graphitetailer
Avoiding the Adjective Fallacy
> and other alternative schools

Yeah, give anti vaxxers, religious fanatics and other retarded fools the right to fuck up their children's life forever.

No thanks.
Certainly above average parents are likely to produce above average children. But most the top performing parents' children are likely to regress back towards the mean. Getting the highest umpteenth percentile in anything is going to be crapshoot if you only consider one factor.
Ask if you belong
Even if we can, playing around with http://www.outerra.com/ makes me question if we should.
... so how do you know, and why should I believe you?
The thing that troubles me the most about AirBNB is the general feeling I get from them that they feel concerns about their social impact are simply not worth addressing. Not just disagreeing about the degree to which the things you cited might be problems but being dismissive about the whole idea that there may be any problems at all.
>Nomad is designed to be a global state, optimistically concurrent scheduler. Global state means schedulers get access to the entire state of the cluster when making decisions enabling richer constraints, job priorities, resource preemption, and faster placements.

Can anyone shed light on how that's possible? I was under the impression that global state in distributed systems was not possible?
Free market, it's great! Anyone can become a developer and come out with bugs, there will certainly come up more jobs in IT with that. Because the product will grow and they'll need better technology to handle all those requests, address security issues, etc.
I think it's a dumb bill. And you're not entirely wrong but I think some of your self-righteousness is misplaced. Politics doesn't happen in a vacuum. They're a manifestation of the interactions between different stakeholders in society.

If you run a $10 billion company that's in the business of housing, one of the most sensitive subjects not just politically but socially, and you don't anticipate pushback, then the problem isn't politics, it's a lack of social awareness. There's nothing murky or unknowable about it: people care deeply about the character of their communities and if that's your business then you've got to get ahead of their concerns before they blame you when changes happen that they don't like.

To ordinary people, disruption is a bad thing. The onus is on the people hoping to profit from disruption to explain to people why change will be for the better. You can't do that if you cultivate a disgust for the political process.
Strange. What issues were you having?

We've been using Packer and Vagrant with Windows builds for the better part of a year now and it's been rock solid.

We actually leverage it into our Windows Deployment Server to create automatically updated OS Images to be deployed to production machines.
Today's press release[1] announced Oct 9 as launch date for 40 more countries. Expected to hit 130 countries by end of the year.

[1] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/09/28Apple-Announces-Re...
Am I the only one who is furious about the cost of housing in SF, and the apparent lack of action by city government? It was my dream to live in SF since I was a young kid. Unfortunately, the average working professional cannot possibly afford to buy a home. Finding affordable rentals, is not an option either.

How much longer will the professional, middle class populous, put up with their savings being drained by over inflated housing costs? Sadly, it seems far too many people see SF as a professional vacation place, and not a home. When I moved there for work, I also moved there to live. I wanted to do so in a sustainable way, which means saving money every month for retirement, and possibly buying a home. That's a pipe dream in SF, even with a nationally competitive salary.

I cannot figure out whether there is blatant city corruption, or a complete lack-of-caring about the middle class. Or is it that there aren't enough developers trying to develop?
> I can't help feeling that art language is deliberately obscure and elitist and its purpose is not designed to communicate objective truth because there is no objective truth to communicate. Perhaps the emperor does have clothes and I'm just too ignorant to see them.

Do you spend much time studying art, or reading art criticism? If not: well then, there's your answer.
The slackers need a wake-up call. Most of the slackers slack precisely because they can get away with it.

You don't learn to stop slacking by always being able to get away with it, still getting good marks even though you didn't do any work.

I was a slacker in one subject in high school, didn't do homework at all. The first mark I got was an F-. It was the kick in the butt I needed for pulling myself together and do the work needed to raise the grade step by step to a B+.
Triplebyte (YC S15) raises $3M
Ruby is pretty standard and I assume PHP is as well being VERY mature. However, outside of the core things vary wildly. People using noSQL or simply using rails-api for some examples. Maybe they can manage this well and allow for variance, but Even somewhat granularly no environment is the same. I have never used Docket or containers, but this seems to be the selling point. You don't use a service to help you configure your environment, but you configure it for docker and you can run docker anywhere a bit can go.
> Would a matrix expression in breeze be matched by one of the fused functions of LAPACK (performing AB+C in one pass)?

The function's certainly there. I don't think it will automatically collapse an AB+C operation (though there's no reason that can't be implemented), but you wouldn't get that in C++ either (or rather, the template-fu needed to achieve it there would be harder than doing it in Scala).

> All of the languages are nice to work with but for some reason the more you distance yourself from the data representation in your memory (with references, boxes etc.) larger the time you have to spend to makes things fast, and all of those abstractions that saved you time, now turn out to be the overhead you don't want, and all of those abstractions now need to go away.

Yes and no. I'll grant that it's very rare to find a language that's better than another in every conceivable circumstance. But there's no law that abstractions have to be expensive (I guess that's part of the point of Rust). And even when they do come with a cost, computers get cheaper and programmers get more expensive.
Absolutely, but in any office bigger than 4 or 5 people, there's also a lot of back-channel talk that goes on as well.

People in physical social groups operate in a much more nuanced way than people online.
You know that science fiction trope of the deadly planet full of life where every last life form is trying to kill every other life form, and they've evolved a frightful array of offenses and defenses to do it?

That planet is Earth. The real Earth. We perceive our ecosystem as friendly only because we've co-evolved with it. It is in objective terms a vicious, vicious place, with every cubic centimeter of any useful resource contended for by thousands or millions of organisms, fighting each other in every conceivable chemical, biological, and physical manner, and in particularly sophisticated corners of the Earth ecosystem, even social manners. It may look peaceful from the apex, but it's not when you get close.

The likelihood of some sort of Martian bacteria getting here and causing amazing problems can never quite be eliminated, but it's very, very low. Plus, if Martian life ever existed, it actually won't be entirely disconnected from Earth life due to what you could call "transpermia": http://users.tpg.com.au/users/horsts/swaprock.html

In fact if life is discovered on Mars, the next question is whether it is just Earth life that hitched a ride and managed to adapt to conditions that aren't necessarily all that much harsher than conditions we've found life on here on Earth. It's interesting either way, but the implications are hugely different between some hitchhiking Earth life vs. life that clearly came from a different abiogenesis event.
Making the invisible visible by mapping air quality
Finding fossilized eukaryote cells on Mars wouldn't be the most glaring clue, that we're definitely going to destroy ourselves once technology is sufficiently advanced.
Work on improving the interface, and drawing people in, then the size will take care of itself.
In extremely illiquid markets, you'll see failures of the ability of the markets to converge on clearing prices. Doesn't mean anything in particular.
^^^ Winner. The reports of Java's death have been greatly exaggerated
"Ultimately I ended up emailing the CEO after I found some blog post where he said he wanted to personally hear from everyone and anyone. He never replied but the problem magically got fixed soon thereafter."

This is more damning than the parent article.
As a self-professed introvert this true. Introvert is not the same as shy. Being in social situations (or even high sensory stimulating environments) consumes my energy. I really enjoy hanging out and going out with people but I need a break and some me/quiet time to recharge my energy levels. Also, if I want to be the "life of the party" I have no problem(s) being the center of attention.

An excellent book on Introverts is Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

http://amzn.to/1Fxitw2 (affiliate link)
Wouldn't that require you to actively watch the logs going by?

lol, in that case, yes. we had 500 servers reporting centralized syslog and many people would just tail -f the central log to make sure not too much crazy shit was happening.

(in a perfect software system (spherical cow) obviously all errors would be tagged and categorized with proper monitoring and alerting thresholds. but, in the real world you have a 800,000 lines of php spread across 1,000 files written by 300 mostly junior people (who only stay for 6 to 14 months at a time) over the past 10 years. you make the best of what you've got.)
Show HN: Photoreal 3D Models in Photoshop
We released PixelSquid, a site for photoreal 3D assets in Adobe Photoshop, a while ago. Over the past few months, we've been working towards making it an easier workflow for Photoshop users. We have now released the PixelSquid Photoshop Plugin, that allows for rotation of PixelSquid content within Photoshop. Take a look and let us know your thoughts.

We've also made the content free for a limited time so everyone can try it out.

Here's a video showing the plugin in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i610ezFbUjA&feature=youtu.be

And a link to all the content available:
https://www.pixelsquid.com/stock-images
We had good luck with Airbnb in the past, but only because of good (great) hosts. I have a feeling therein lies the rub - Airbnb's business model assumes a good host and a good guest, and when that falls short everything falls apart.
Regarding the comments below the blog post, what is the point of countering him with anecdotes of good Airbnb experiences? Good experiences don't reveal anything about Airbnb itself, because the dispute mechanism isn't invoked; they are simply the result of a good host transacting with good guests (incidentally, by way of Airbnb).

That's like saying, "I've had only good experiences with ABC Insurance; their premiums are low, the coverage is great and their friendly staff answered all my questions." (Wonderful; but did you ever try to collect on a claim?)

Only reports of experiences of invoking the critical use-case are meaningful and relevant. A black spot in that area obliterates a thousand glowing reports about anything else.
Out of curiosity, why would the Android ART VM care about what language version, or language for that matter, was used to create the DEX byte code? As long as the DEX byte code generator is able to convert the original byte code to DEX byte code isn't that all that really matters?
This works fine if you live in north america. If you have a card in other countries, you won't be refunded until your dispute is settled. I my country it can take 1-6months for a very opaque investigation about which you usually can't know much about. And this is from fairly decent bank - top 3.

So companies acting like this on global scale is not good. I would not book a place to stay for a large sum and bear a risk from possibly sketchy situation like this.
Well you are right that the information isn't succinctly stated in the Fedora RPM guide or Maximum RPM, though different parts of these manuals go over the different things needed to set up a local install.

However, these are the results on the first page for a google of "installing rpms in local home directory". Some explain the rpm database, some talk about relocatability, and some talk about unpacking with cpio. There is no 100% reproducible solution. But you are taking software which was built to be installed on the system level and installing it on the user level, which never maps 100% on any operating system (as most users don't/shouldn't have admin privileges).

Installing a package locally to a user - best practices? https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/73653/installing-a-...

Linux: Building RPMs without root access http://www.techonthenet.com/linux/build_rpm.php

yum install in user home for non-admins https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/61283/yum-install-i...

How can I install an RPM without being root? https://superuser.com/questions/209808/how-can-i-install-an-...

rpm without root https://serverfault.com/questions/100189/rpm-without-root
Even without the ethical crisis, there are simply going to be situations where the true facts are simply unknowable to a customer service rep. So, do you screw over the person providing the property (who may in fact be a lying scumbag)? Or do you screw over the other person renting the property (who may be the lying scumbag)? (Or may simply have utterly unreasonable expectations.)

And, yes, my understanding is that eBay evolved to simply default to the buyer being right.
No, I got the key word. How the heck is that decision made? And by whom? Elon Musk gets ready to put a lander on Mars and there's a NASA office now that must give permission?

Sorry, still not making sense.

"Office of planetary probe sterilization" would be much more descriptive. Otherwise we're taking on a helluva lot more authority and prerogative than we probably should.
Five years of LibreOffice
Here's a meta-analysis of the empirical literature: http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%....

TL/DR: Give the candidate an IQ test and a work-sample test. The next best is an "integrity test", which actually measures mostly conscientiousness. You can totally ignore years of experience and education.
Sounds like a horrific experience but unfortunately, it's hard to assign much credibility to the OP. Sounds very difficult to deal with. Like, no, a random photo from a balcony in no way proves that you weren't staying somewhere else.
Also don't log in to Chrome
Discusses intelligence and genetics - key point, intelligence is about 50% heritable.
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/intelligence-and-genetics-d...

Discusses the correlation between high intelligence and higher incomes - key point, the scatter diagram showing a clear correlation.
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/02/06/correlations...
> Customer contacts AirBnB and the issue is dealt with right then and there, and the host is sanctioned properly.

And customer has nowhere to sleep. During a big conference. In a foreign country.
One is not set in stone as being an introvert or extrovert. People can change and it really comes down to what doesn't drain/take energy to do... being around people and stimulated or being alone or in a quiet environment.
> eight text messages at a total cost of about $7 a student

lol dumb government wasting money!

> The text intervention was particularly cost effective: the messaging campaign cost $7 per student, inclusive of the expense of hiring school counselors to support students who needed additional assistance.

This is from the study[0] linked in the article, and makes it clear that labor is the expense, not sending text messages.

This isn't just an error or a bad story, it's the deliberate removal of defining information. Moreover, I'd argue that it's not only intentional but systemic at the New York Times, and has been for decades.

[0] http://curry.virginia.edu/uploads/resourceLibrary/9_Castlema...
How embedded are you thinking? C# has LINQ for example. Is that not embedded enough? What about in-memory SQL databases for JavaScript? I don't know anything about FoxPro, so I'm trying to understand what you mean by "embedded into the language" in this case. (You didn't mention what language, just the VS IDE.)
Are you sure it isn't because you claimed the article cherrypicked results by not including a phone that was, in fact, included in all but one graph, and then justified your misplaced criticism based on the omitted phone having faster storage -- even though the phone in question was specifically included in the storage benchmarks?
It's not fair to blame the HN hivemind when you make a pointed request in biased language, and aren't even correct in your request. Look inwards.
The comparisions in this article are really nicely done, but even better would be to have a shot from a decent DSLR next to it just to get an idea of how a phone image compares to that.
Yeah, saying airbnb is good for housing prices is like the people who think a universal income will help people live easier. hint: if you give everyone an extra $20k/year, housing will magically go up by $20k/year to match.

with airbnb, if you can't afford your $3,000/month rent so you take in a share tenant, maybe now you can afford $5,000 month in rent. now housing prices know everybody can make $5k/month appear through tenant-izing, so all prices go up. now nobody can afford a place unless they take in co-habitating renters or are DINKs.
Chinese Mobile Ads as DDoS Vectors
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