skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only have humans had alcohol on a timescale long enough to induce evolutionary pressure (eliminating the "unnatural product" argument, which as evidenced by modern pharmacology is ridiculous regardless), but higher-alcohol products are a recent invention and, like everything else including water, consumption to excess is excluded.

It's entirely possible that reasonable quantities of alcohol are beneficial to a majority of people. Eventually, science will tell us if this is so. Your absolutism is ridiculous posturing.
Give me postgres support and I'll definitely consider switching what I have in the short term.

I'm happy to wait until then!
If you only focus on return, you will draw erroneous conclusions. The upper limit to return is restricted by the interest rate. An A grade loan that carries interest rate of 5% will never give you return of 10% while a D grade loan carrying 18% interest rate has some chance of giving you 10% return, assuming you hold loans to maturity. If you only consider returns, your findings will always be biased toward high interest (supposedly high risk) loans. Similarly, the return comparison across vintage will generate erroneous conclusions.

You need to take into consideration Interest Rate and Default/Loss Rate while considering the validity of the relationship.

The Employment Length on its own is a poor indicator (statistically insignificant). You need to at least combine employment length with credit age (when the first credit line was opened) and Income to improve predictability.

There is no vintage of Lending Club 5-year term loans that have fully matured. The first 5-year term loan was issued in early 2010 (IIRC, May) so the first vintage is just coming up to full maturity.

Interest Rate (Rate of Return)
= Real risk-free interest rate
+ Inflation premium
+ Default risk premium
+ Liquidity premium
+ Maturity premium

You need to determine whether you are being compensated on 5-year term loan for potential change in inflation, higher default risk, and longer maturity over 3-year term loan.
A guy just beat cancer with a freaking 3D-printed titanium chest implant
OCaml love – Edgar Aroutiounian
>I doubt that figure of 150 deaths will hold then.

Why?
I am kinda both? I don’t publish extensions, but I like to write some for myself.

One case is that I can turn on/off aero glass, or add it for everything, or I can add modify the way the toolbar is unified, or I can create multiple rows of tabs, or colored tab groups.

At every moment in the past years, I used at least one of them, usually multiple such changes.

Effectively, what I want, is to be able to modify the browser UI the same way as normal XML documents. If mozilla now uses XUL, or if they use HTML, I don’t really care. What I care about is full customizability without having to recompile.

browser.html is one step in the right direction.
Microservices to the rescue?
Perhaps but that does not invalidate what he said.
Alcohol is the Angriest of Gods*

*and also the greediest
Another Linux user here who would love to use a command line Python tool to backup my data to Backblaze: with Python I can see how my stuff is encrypted. That's the only reason I'm not using Backblaze right now: closed source client.

My only interest in B2 is backing up for a lower cost than the ridiculousness of S3: at $0.022/GB, I might as well buy a 3TB hard drive myself, put it at a friend's and push my data there. Every month. At the end of the year, I'd have 36TB in hard drive capacity if I bought drives instead of paying for 3TB of S3 storage.

(All numbers are estimates and "roughly"s. Also I don't have external backups now because I'm too lazy to write the software myself, so there is something to say for paying instead of not having it.)
what are the use cases of this? Looks interesting though!
Given that they created the account to comment in the DynamoDB thread, I'd guess they're a DynamoDB developer, but that doesn't invalidate anything they've said in this thread -- they even provided a 3rd party source.
I would see a core like this being used for things like network protocol checksum and segmentation offload or providing a slightly smarter interface to flash chips for a bigger RISC-V core, the instruction set limitations seem fine to me.
As a mere 30-something, it's always amazing to me to read about these things that seemed ubiquitous when I was a child (store-bought bagels, folding ping-pong tables, even things like vacuums, electric stoves, and color TV) really are recent inventions. I had no idea that the Bagel didn't become what I think of the Bagel until this article. I regularly talk to my nearly nineties grandparents, and they regularly mention something that they are amazed by that I just take for granted (air conditioning, power steering, batteries, frozen meals, and more).

I hope I don't lose my sense of wonder for the world.

Here's to you, Mr. Thompson, a tinkerer from the age when one could revolutionize the world twice from one's garage.
I like this pattern of using a distributed configuration store like etcd for load balancers so you can have a single configuration for a set of frontends. It is also great to have HTTP servers focused on runtime reconfiguration via APIs. A similar project that I have found useful is called Vulcan: http://vulcand.io/
It's not clear that Groupon succeeded.
That's not data management. That's schema management (migration).

And yes, you have to script a change to every document.
We hugged it down. Mirror cache backup: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
Well install a different front end, isn't that what the spirit of Linux, Freedom, etc is all about. They even make it easy for you:

https://spins.fedoraproject.org/
Find a lawyer.
My go to stack for personal projects is React Node Postgres, while Meteor looks great I just can't live without the sweet built in postgres features like trigger functions. I'm on the lookout for a rails like framework because right now I tend to code everything by hand. Will give it an honest try once they support MySQL or pgSQL.
Wouldn't any large enterprise client like this already have a CDN or DDOS-proof hosting provider?
>But here is the best part (if you want OUTBOUND capacity) - our current product fills the INBOUND internet connection, but currently we only use a tiny, tiny fraction of the OUTBOUND connection. So if you want to serve files out of our datacenter we have a metric ton of unused bandwidth we would LOVE you to use. And if you fill it up, we promise to purchase more.

:) well, yeah -- but thats also what B2 charges for.... so The business model requires that BW to start getting consumed :-)
We have a mature JSON database with p2p sync capability, that is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile

We have native implementations for iOS, Android (Java), Windows (C#), and play well with the Apache CouchDB ecosystem, so you can also use projects like PouchDB.

I wish I had time to write the code it would take to add p2p sync to this project. It might not be hard considering the PouchDB source already has implementations of most of the algorithms in JavaScript.
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> CloudFlare can do what Akamai does at a much more reasonable price.

Not really. Akamai has presence inside many "too big to peer" networks, while CloudFlare doesn't (for now).

You can't just compare CloudFlare to Akamai at the moment, they are following very different strategies.
You know, there've been a few months since the last article about bullshit jobs here. But it is still funny how people can now discuss the productivity paradox and nobody mentions it.
Despite what I would like to be true, I know from experience that alcohol cannot possibly be healthy for me. Even with only 3 drinks, I feel slightly off the next day, and if I binge and drink 6 to 10, I feel awful. Plus, my memory feels a little fuzzier for a bit too.

I love alcohol and I don't plan on abstaining. But I don't fool myself that it might be healthy for me. Drinking is a calculated decision, that I enjoy it more than the risks to my health.
What provider does Backblaze use for SMS verification? I'm using a Twilio number and it seems that the two disagree with each other. (It might be due to short-code use, but I'm not sure what their outbound number is.)
Get me access to the private beta and you'll have a ruby gem very quickly. kyle@kyledrake.net
Best teaser video for a product I've ever seen
This is going to be interesting. Rust on top of rumprun bare-metal unikernel
https://twitter.com/gandro23/status/645734117699624960
New Flight Deck Apps Help Pilots Avoid Turbulence
The US already has many-decades-old well-understood, field-tested fission reactor designs. The construction of those is a solved problem. As I understand it, France and several other countries have substantially newer, field-tested fission reactor designs. I've heard that there exist still-newer fission reactor designs that have not been constructed at large power-plant scale.

So, the engineering and construction of the power plant is a solved problem. The political problem of what to do with the fission products is -sadly- not a solved problem in the US.

> All new plants have construction delays and cost overruns.

Cost overruns are -sadly- a symptom of our not-infrequently-nuts-as-shit federal bidding process. Construction delays are a symptom of our failure to enact a system similar to some other countries where -after a lengthy plan-scrutinization and public comment period- approved public works projects become law and are immune to construction delays due to public outrage, outcry, legal challenge, or general meddling.

None of that is unique to fission power plan construction. :)
From their previous blog posts they built their own storage stack
>we're in a commercial datacenter with a bunch of network providers already serving us, it's pretty easy to dial up our capacity as we need it.

Whats the lead time in your case?

In my historic experience doing this regardless of if I was even in MAE-West... cross connects and provisioning were eons in internet time...
> Would love to hear ... what you might do with B2.

Back stuff up, but properly encrypted instead of your Windows client's closed source stuff. Without B2 I would use S3 but at their rate I might as well rent a datacenter myself, so I'm going to do the math again with B2 soon.
U.S. Air Force Requires Airmen to Praise Troubled F-35 Stealth Fighter
AOL/Verizon Completes Spinout of CrunchBase Funded by Emergence Capital
Personally I dislike CloudFlare for the simple reason that they encourage site owners to use their lossless image optimisation service, which isn't lossless. Thus many images appear different than intended when hosted behind CloudFlare. I wrote about this earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192587

Quote from their website.

The Lossless mode removes all the unnecessary bloat from an image file, such as the image header and meta data, without removing any image data. This means images will appear exactly the same as they would have before.

The last sentence is false, at least for images with color profiles on all non-mobile browsers. There are other possible minor cases.
That's a very useful question for deciding who not to work for.
That is an awfully weak argument: "Yes, it's bad. Ignore the facts."

The reality is that moderate drinkers flat out live longer than alcoholics and teetotalers. Fairly hard to come to the conclusion that it's "bad for you" unless your definition of bad doesn't consider... you know... not dying.
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THREE KINDS OF CREDIT CARD CHARGES NEEDING DEBT RELIEF
Backblaze uses Plivo (and we have a short code if that makes sense to you).
Yeah, this was one of my increasing issues. As soon as word got around that lots of businesses were taking a bath because they weren't getting repeat customers, or the expected alcohol sales to make up the difference, etc. because hey, shocker, Groupon purchasers were looking for low-cost deals, they started with this approach.

Groupon then became a way to drum up business when things were slow while still hopefully making some margin on them by using the cheapest ingredients, smaller portions, offering a less costly (ie. higher margin) experience, etc.

Ended up leaving a bad taste in the customers' mouth almost guaranteeing they wouldn't return.
It wouldn't be applesauce if you replaced apples with oranges, either.
Has anyone built an Ecommerce platform in Meteor? Meteor is just this months hotness for building a specific type of web product, namely web apps. It's not going to become the defacto standard of anything else.
Yeah, getting your logo used in unexpected places is one of the major downsides of having your logo included in icon packs.

Before I changed it, one codebase I had inherited used the Pagelines (had never heard of this product before seeing it in the FontAwesome logos section) logo [1] as an icon on a webpage.

[1] http://fontawesome.io/icon/pagelines/
Yep, looks like you are correct: http://news.fiftythree.com/post/118777260503/introducing-thi...
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It's a Chrome Extension, not reddit.com. I don't think the title could be any more clickbait-y.
Brotli has a static dictionary, an appendix of the draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-alakuijala-brotli-01. It comes up a few times in the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7894299 . It has words and phrases in various languages, bits of HTML and JavaScript, and miscellaneous wacky stuff--looks like the kind of thing you could generate from a Web crawl, say.
And the bandwidth is $.01/GB and you don't pay for transactions.
I'll see if I can make a contribution :)

Do you have a technique your using to match domains to organisations sometimes it can be hard to discover.
As someone currently dealing with two completely seperate but overlapping medical conditions that have somewhat similar symptoms I'm in a four way battle between what I think, what my GP thinks and what specialist #1 and specialist #2 think.

Specialist #1 sent me to Specialist #2 who pretty much dismissed out of hand that the problems where related to his specialism but said he'd do the tests anyway, turns out I do have something that is under his specialism.

It's a bit frustrating tbh, the only doctor who's been awesome was the A&E consultant who basically said "this is not normal, march into your GP's and demand the following tests" had he not done that and I not followed his advice I'd still not know what was causing a significant part of the problems I was having nor that certain daily routine tasks could make things horrifically worse.
Indian Government withdraws draft of 'encryption policy'
Amazon might not be open to it, but I would bet Digital Ocean would be.
You're literally describing drunkenness and a hangover, both reasonably well-known effects of heavy alcohol consumption.
As far as I know, this is an issue for every database, no? What are you currently using?
This needs some videos to show what it can do. Not many teachers know what GitHub is and if I wanted to suggest this as a possible option I could not explain it to them.

Maybe a video showing the creation of an assignment and sending it out (url via email, is it?), students completing the assignment, and teachers looking over a completed assignment.

If that is a poor example of what this does then I missed the point entirely.
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"The follow up questions are going to kill you though,"

I don't buy that. If I was applying for a job as a social worker, is about the last thing I want to do, I could pretty easily say the kinds of things that a social worker needs to do. And that is far from my current career. I could trivially answer the follow up questions for any position in a tech company.

If you disagree - I'm a developer, have done light team management. Specify the questions you think I, or anyone on here would fail for whatever position you want.
I don't think overfitting will be an issue (at all!) on a 65TB dataset. A bigger CNN model should be more effective at this task than a DBN, (almost) regardless of the features added. If we can use convolutional generative models (from raw noise -> images) to make this kind of stuff [1][2] I see no reason why it shouldn't be super effective to classify with a CNN.

The equivalent DBN-type generative model for CIFAR10 is pretty far behind [3], but not terrible. It is believable that a DBN could do well on this task, but it would be very, very surprising if a DBN beats a well trained CNN of the appropriate capacity in anything related to classification.

All that said, some of the other comments have highlighted larger potential issues than model choice here - achieving up to 98% accuracy using single pixels, random forest, etc seems to point to potential issues in the dataset that will block any kind of model evaluation or further research.

I would look for data leakage, and reconsider CNNs in your future work - especially something using larger patches and VGG style features. With respect to your comment on scalability - if the model converges and can't really learn more (small/limited capacity network) processing more training data is just a waste of time. Convergence is not really epoch based, but update based, especially in big datasets like this.

A small network will be very fast to apply but if that is the goal there are lots of papers on model approximation - a big ensemble of networks that are engineered and model approximated to fit your compute budget might work better than limiting the network capacity initially.

All said - does it really matter much if you get 95% vs. 97% vs. 98% vs. 99.99%? Aren't there meta techniques like CRF to resolve occasional blips in model prediction for neighboring patches anyways? Maybe a linear model with decent features or random forest + follow-on cleanup will work better with the constraints necessary.

I am all about neural networks for most things, but if you have a serious computational constraint linear models (or random forests) are stupid fast [4], and pretty good on many tasks. Adding on a "meta model" to resolve anomalous errors with this could be good enough for your task. Just something to consider.

[1] https://twitter.com/AlecRad/status/645830923150299136

[2] http://soumith.ch/eyescream/

[3] http://www.icml-2011.org/papers/591_icmlpaper.pdf

[4] https://github.com/ajtulloch/sklearn-compiledtrees/
New Technique Can Cheaply Detect All Known Human Viruses in a Blood Sample
What I never got is the studies are about alcohol consumption but the people in the studies never drink pure alcohol but instead wine/beer/whiskey/you name it. Isn't there a chance that it isn't the alcohol which provides some of the effects but rather something else in the beverage of choice? Take wine for instance, what would be the effects of drinking 2 glasses of some kind of grape/fruit-derived drink every day vs not drinking it?
Even in the very safe world of commercial aviation, aircraft crash much more frequently than nuclear reactors melt down. That slows down the rate of institutional learning.

Of course commercial aviation has killed far more people than the nuclear power industry, anyway.

Addendum: I should say that I actually agree with you, I just wanted to point out that the dynamics of the two industries are quite different.
Node.js utility belt for PostgreSQL
A bit more courtesy would have been welcome. You sound very condescending. And I hope you talk to your clients in a different way!

Let me address your methodology comments nonetheless, which are for the most part unfounded.

* I don't have any finding about annual income. I don't think it is mentionned anywhere in my conclusions.

* "delinquencies and public records has a big impact on returns as newer loans are not aged enough": because I average across vintage, and because I don't average based on volume on the platform, I account for the aging biais.

* "Time is not risk [..] kurtosis etc.": I don't say that time is risk. I suggest the reader to look at the return series through time. Essentially to look at the volatility of the returns ( without pronouncing the word volatility to keep the content accessible to a novice reader). I essentially encourage the reader to visually assess his Sharpe ratio. Which is a good universal risk measure.

* "reconsider average across vintage": averaging across vintage is a first approximation. I acknowledge the fact that a better methodology would be to take a weighted average that matches the amortization profile of a loan.

* I maintain that any statistics you compute in 2006, 2007 or 2008 is less reliable (statistically). Yes it is an important period to have because of the crisis. And this is why I put on the chart. However, you can't compute very reliable returns when you have a dozen of loans to average across.

Anyway, I happy to exchange with you in PM on methodology if you would like to continue the discussion
"A well-ordered society advances the good of each and all of its members, so that there is no one from whose gaze or plight we have to avert our eyes, no one whose complaints can be met only with lies or pious nonsense about following one’s dream."

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n14/jeremy-waldron/the-plight-of-th...
Thanks! Twilio isn't able to handle incoming SMS from short codes at this point so that would explain the issue. I'll use another method to verify for now until they do
Pretty neat that a Peer-2-Peer Photo Sharing app can be built using Couchbase Technologies -

http://blog.couchbase.com/photodrop
Ask HN: How do front-end Web developers showcase their work?
When I first built my portfolio site I did work that was more graphic design-heavy, and that's pretty easy to document: Take good screenshots or photos.

When it comes to web dev, though, I've struggled to display my work. Linking to the live site is problematic when the site is temporary or behind a login. Static screenshots are a bit cumbersome and don't always capture some of the details that make a site good: transitions, rollovers, animations.

That leaves GIFs, which are limited in color and tend to be pretty big, and video, which is also pretty heavy.

Anyone have any ideas here?
I believe they are using their mining power, plus what is added from this pool of devices to include the fee-less microtransactions created from these devices in their blocks.

In other words, this is intended to be a solution to the microtransaction problem.
I'm very interested in dynamically configured reverse proxies, and this one seems to have a few positive aspects.
A few doubts:

* How is the API authenticated?

* Does the API backend persist the configuration?

* Are there any plans for content-modification?
There was some thinking that Resveratrol in wine had positive effects but the studies are inconclusive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resveratrol
What you said does not match up with the article. What facts are you talking about? The article is clear that when you control for former drinkers, the benefits go away.

I am a moderate drinker; usually a drink or two a week. So I would like it to be true that this is somehow beneficial to me, but I am very skeptical of that idea, and the evidence I have seen supports my skepticism.
If you know ahead of time that a topic is going to cause you to be discourteous, that's a pretty good signal that you should avoid the topic on HN.
More apt would be Fetch body + Fetch content + Evaluate + Layout + Render vs. Fetch body + Layout + Render
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Do they just strip the color profiles? Or do they apply them and convert to sRGB?
what about Ireland? Amazon have 7 active Datacenters, 1 being build and 1 in planning...
So? Once you open an app once (right click and open) it's white listed by gatekeeper.
This is awesome, nice work!