skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are people that work "often literally (sic) in the field", presumably without stable internet access, be best served with a web app running ElasticSearch?

This is the kind of solution you get when you go into a problem planning to do some web app thing. It leads to an implementation that includes people slapping on a "Word -> HTML" conversion with not a thought given to the massive technical debt and complexity you are incurring there.

(Presumably, these PDFs come from somewhere?)
Acquia Raises $55M for Online Customer Relationships
The adtech term for this is call "CRM onboarding". This technique was actually around for a while and popularize by 2 independent companies, Datalogix and Liveramp (founded by Auren Hoffman). Both of these companies exited with Datalogix (sold to Oracle) at around $1.2b and Liveramp (sold to Acxiom) at $310m.
Right, but by comparison Scala goes further than Kotlin on this. Consider the case of operators, for instance: Kotlin, like many languages, lets you redefined a predefined set of operators for new types with predefined precedence, Scala lets you create entirely new operators.

To some, this is a strength for Scala -- to others, it is a weakness.
I'm not sure how much detail I can get into, but yes, there is a large Elasticsearch cluster with a lot of application data as well as web application firewalls and IDS data.
Minority Report comes true:Hitachi just developed real-life crimepredicting tech
Was It for Walrus? Viking Age Settlement in Iceland and Greenland
Not if the purpose is to communicate more effectively and be more usable to more people.
I submitted this because I'm very curious what HN thinks. Clearly USGS thinks there's a heck of a lot of oil in the Arctic. I'm personally glad we're not drilling for oil because that's not an environment we can screw up and fix and there's no need to do so except for profit - but why would Shell's tests come back "disappointing" or is that really then owning up to not being able to drill without mishaps (and damage to their PR) in the region?
Indeed, developing new notation should be not only allowed, not only encouraged, but even required as an assignment at various points during mathematical training, at every age level. Also to be encouraged is conscientious analysis and critique of existing notations, algorithms, and explanations.

Society advances in two ways: in small incremental steps, and in large leaps. When we stick to existing notations and concepts we can make incremental improvements. But the large leaps often come from creating better notations and better conceptual understandings, which can turn substantial amounts of knowledge and logical thinking into obvious consequences of an organized and intuitive system.
I think they might've made a mistake trying to tie Medium to Twitter then. They should've tried to tie it to Facebook first and foremost, as people who want 140 characters are not gonna spend 10min on a piece of writing, while people on Facebook are always looking for something more interesting than 2nd cousin's baby pictures.
MathBox 2: PowerPoint Must Die
I once had a terrible experience with their kindles. They shipped me one that was a dud, and when the screen went haywire in the first few days I called and they admitted that this batch had issues. Unfortunately, they told me, I would have to shell out 100$ for a new one, even though it was their fault.

Even Amazon screws up royally, too. I bought a Nook and never looked back, and haven't bought a book from Amazon since.
Hanssen was posting stories to Usenet's alt.sex.stories in the late 1990s, stories of voyeurism about his wife ( https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.sex.stories/3e1fHGTW_Pc/... ). He can't be said to have been keeping the lowest of profiles.
"It should be something that any clerk can handle and that doesn't become obsolete."

This is an important statement. in that it is a reasonable goal, but nearly impossible.

Even using word, once one gets past a simple document, and starts having TOC, index, etc. and is "four five-inch binders" full of pages, then not just ANY CLERK will be able to maintain the document.
Those are application data logs, which if you have a compliance requirement will be stored directly in a database as the actions happen, by the application itself.

That's not the kind of data you would get with stuff being spit out to syslog.
Netflix has massive talent density, no doubt it. The only downside is that they grind through people like crazy.
I don't know, Harbor East/Harbor Point might not be to the same scale as some of downtown Detroit, but they have the same feel to me. I bet that whole area east of the aquarium to Canton will look a lot like downtown Detroit within the next decade.
Without getting too specific it helped me do a few things (I know your question is about learning) however. First, it let me mend fences with people who I hadn't talked to in a while and I learned that it was easy to reconnect by doing something like this because it makes it very easy and lowers the social friction.

I also saw a few broad themes like being disorganized, thinking big but failing to execute, lack of ambition, etc. Some overlap, and some were smaller issues. I reckon I will actually write it up, depending how significant the other half of the results are.

On balance, it is a good way to reconnect with people and also see if there are broad negative attributes you were missing. I also wrote a few responses to people who asked for me to do it in return, so it gives you a chance to help others and yourself if your close friend has a really annoying quality you wish he would work through.
Somewhere a programmer is nodding.
There was a thread posted 2 hours before you posted this :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10291148
I don't think they came back 'disappointing' and I don't think they are worried about PR. I think the cost of extracting is not worth it with the current price and current political risk (a moratorium? higher fees? etc)
Oh goodie, now there's a canonical description of how to make a US gov't website for all the phishers out there...
Don't build an in house Analytics Team
Matthew from Strone here - I run Product.
Feel free to ask questions, I'll check in regularly!
I don't see how code obfuscation would help you defeat sand-boxing.
I have followed Terry's endeavors throughout the years.

1. Why do all the source and headers have a .Z at the end?

2. I truly wish there was a way to help Terry share his gift. What he is capable of is truly a huge, huge accomplishment, especially for a single person.

Terry, if you read this. Thank you. Watching your videos makes me get in gear and read more..
> I believe computing has 1 concept needed to be understood by programmers: Input & Ouput.

That's two concepts. So, the two concepts that need to be understood by programmers are Input and Output. And State.
Remembering Alex King
It gives context to the improvement. Just think of those misleading graphs that have a Y scale of 700-720, focusing on the local delta and hiding the greater context to exaggerate the data
Jonathan Blow: How Mainstream Devs Are Getting It Wrong [video]
Google Will Target Ads Using Email Addresses
Airbnb could very well drive up "spare room" prices. For instance, think about a room in a house, or may be a small in-law, that used to be rented out to a student or other longer term tenant. With airbnb, it may be possible to make up that income on fewer days, or to greatly exceed it as a full time rental. That would result in a unit being taken off the market as a permanent rental, which could certainly reduce supply and drive up prices.
'People are screaming out today that "devops is a big waste of time" and I think 80% of that is that Packer and Vagrant are so awful and putting another layer is going to make it 95% awfulness from Hashicorp.'

Awful compared to what?

'And then there is the issue that when Vagrant can't talk to the mothership, it doesn't work right. It goes on and on.'

I'm curious, which package management tool have you seen that works when it can't talk to the mothership?

Hashicorp has a particular philosophy of how it builds and ships its ecosystem: small, standalone, composed tools. That leads to some overlap and inconsistent quality, as they evolve independently. Atlas is supposed to smooth over the overall experience, but, software is hard.

Alternative ecosystems tend to be large pills to swallow (i.e. PaaS), though they might have a better overall experience.
> One does not need data to support it.

I'm an engineer; one always needs data to support something.

> Attention is your scarcest resource at any company. You hire people to add to this resource.

Not sure what you mean by "attention", but I think it is the same thing I would call "throughput": the rate at which the company can turn customer requirements into engineering products (and thus money). If so, I would agree, as pretty much all resources of the company combine to affect this.

> Bad hires do not add, but subtract from this pool, by forcing you to pay attention to them rather than on running your business.

Still on board with you. I would agree that someone whose net throughput contribution is negative is a bad hire.

The problem is, this has nothing to do with the statement I was originally reacting to: "Avoiding false positives is much more important than eliminating all the false negatives." That statement needs hard data about:

- The expected number of false positives

- The expected magnitude of the throughput loss from each false positive

- The expected number of false negatives

- The expected magnitude of the lost potential throughput due to the false negatives
Works great, I can start and use WebStorm faster on the server than locally on my old Core 2 Duo laptop (with SSD).
Note that some PDFs contain actual text and markup, and can be imported natively. But others (eg. ones that came from a scanner) are nothing but an image of each page. Such images require some kind of OCR to turn into text, which I doubt Word's built in import will do.
I recently bought a new 3.5" usb floppy drive because a few friends wanted some stuff off their old disks, no telling how much will be recoverable, but willing to try.

It's interesting how little I've thought about the old formats for years. How many floppy/zip/jazz etc disks have useful data on them to this day. I worked doing support for iomega back in the day and the only thing it made me was slightly paranoid about multiple copies in multiple locations for anything really important.
Thank you for the explanation! The second version is really cool!

I've never used an MSX or C64 before, but since I'm interested in generative art, I've became curious about these program when a book with the same title was released:

http://www.amazon.com/10-PRINT-CHR-205-5-RND/dp/0262526743/
That's an excellent point: optional bits come last.
The military sometimes works as the social program of last resort.

We have a not-too-bad program for housing subsidy in place today - Section 8. The government that operates Section 8 is not the same one that operates zoning commissions. And at some point , we do need to talk about land rents and taxation.

If lotteries could quietly be subsidized, the effect on monetary velocity would doubtless be significant. I am nearly certain that this cannot be quietly done, and it may have adverse effects that aren't clear at first blush. It also smacks of 1984.
Probably downvote bait, but all I can think of here is the age old saying, the best camera you have, is the camera you have with you.
The Case of Richard Glossip
>It's not a choice between pockets of growth and broad-based resurgence. It's a choice between a few gentrifying neighborhoods and not even that.

Who says? Why and how did this state of affairs happen?
"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975)

via "Objects have not failed" -- Guy Steele, http://www.dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html
"high quality articles" appears to be the challenge here....
"Why do we always have to keep expanding, cannot we not be happy with just really good tools for a really good specific purpose?"

Because that tool, along with the beer in their fridge, is for paid by VC money, who needs to recoup their investment. $99 Vagrant licenses for use with VMware isn't going to cut it.
Have you looked at Drupal 8?
The article doesn't mention it, but downtown Detroit is effectively privately policed : http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/2... , and Midtown Detroit is mostly covered by Wayne State University Police, who are infinitely quicker to respond than the actual city police.
The DPI may be high, yes, but the number of actual pixels is still quite low. Looking it up, I see that the smaller watch has a 272x340 display and the larger has a 312x390. That's either 92k or 122k pixels to work with -- about 1/3 VGA -- over the entire display. At those scales, hinting is absolutely relevant unless perhaps you're only displaying a few relatively large words.
If you're into firearms and close to a suitable location, seeing a cell phone fly apart from snake-shot (think shotgun-style ammo for a handgun) at close range is pretty gratifying, even if cleanup isn't the most fun... used to do that once a year with expired hardware, more so with the troublesome hardware.
Also sequence.
Land is dirt cheap in Detroit. If they could fix the crime and the schools, I'd move there just for the more central location. But no, I'll stick to the burbs for now.
Spearphishers can use this to "date" you.
Getting used to my new macbook and then starting my new news sharing project
What I hated about blogger was that for a "group" blog (say, the reddit blog, where different admins might post), any images added to the post get shown from the poster's google account (somehow). Which means if someone leaves the group, the images get hosed.
I should probably have been more descriptive and said "typical US Federal government IT worker". And I would describe a typical USFG IT worker as someone who's OK with lots of process (because otherwise they would likely have a different job). Certainly not all of them, but many (I would venture to say most).

And I speak with some experience here. In the early 90's I taught a class about Microsoft Solutions Framework to a group of government IT people, and they were less than thrilled to have to learn a new way of doing things. MSF is a slightly agile process, more so than many others at the time, nothing like XP or even Scrum though. They had been using a waterfall process for a long time and were just fine with it.

While one class doesn't automatically mean that everyone in government IT is that way, from my experience in consulting with several government agencies and other large companies, there are a lot of people who don't want to change. I think that many people who have never had to work in that environment don't realize how it is, certainly nothing like a startup - and I've also worked at a startup in the past as well.
Maybe Vagrant with Docker as backend will get some love now? That is native Docker (ie on a linux host) not just a separate vm to host Docker. The fact that one can't set static ip-address using the Vagrantfile is annoying.
Sounds just like a government medication R&D scheme plus a government medication purchase plan.
Similarly for pdftk:

pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf

It can perform lots of other functions on pdfs (hence the name!) during the process like setting printing permissions and quality, and performing encryptions.
> People are screaming out today that "devops is a big waste of time"

These people have obviously never managed fleets of servers pre-devops. Forgive me if the opinions of some devs who have never managed a server in their lives ranks lower than those who have been in the trenches for a while now.
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It's just that upper-middle class people tend not to have any street-smarts so they're afraid of any place that doesn't look shiny-and-glamorous..... and eventually, this conversation is going to take us to deeper uncomfortable social issues like this: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-to-do-when-y...

"“rating system based on the personal views of Americans, a people historically known to mask the occasional racist view behind words like ‘dangerous’ ”—or, for that matter, “sketchy.”
Want to get the US government to push for regulation of marketing? Create ad campaigns targeting legislators.

I fail to see how this will not eventually backfire eventually. This feature is ripe for abuse from spearphishers.
Cities can't overcome the forces created by state and federal policies. It's too easy for businesses and capital to simply move away from cities that don't engage in race to the bottom behavior. You can either make your city super attractive for development, or development will move to a city that is willing to do that.
Teaching kids to use keywords to help decode word problems has been a standard practice for at least a generation.
Maybe they thought the best path to a really outstanding, polished tool was to approach the problem slightly differently and Otto is their solution? If that's the case (I really have no idea), maybe rather than devoting too much time to fixing vagrant they decided to limit the time spent on that to further what they thought is a better overall solution?
Upvoted because I completely agree and iterated the same in the parent/grandparent. So many scenarios where I couldn't be bothered to drag my SLR and lenses and was more than happy with the results from my iPhone to the point I now only drag the SLR out for very specific circumstances. Even then I miss the connectivity/social/quick retouching aspect the phone gives me that I can only dream of having on the SLR. A lot of my SLR photos still never leave my memory card/hard drive and get to be seen by the people around me.
Wouldn't that be classed as defamation?
The key thing to remember is that if we burn all the oil we've already found, we'll exceed safe levels of atmospheric carbon. So there is no point exploring for more oil or opening new reserves.
How much of San Francisco's rental stock is on the market at any one time? 1% could represent a very high percentage of it. I'd also be interested in knowing what the conversion rate is - in other words, if a rental unit becomes vacant, how often does it become an airbnb rental unit?
Here's an more detailed overview of this problem:

"While there are many larger underlying contributors to the housing shortage in San Francisco, it is possible that Airbnb adds stress on the margins."

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/11/airbnb-and-the-problem-of-d...
There is a huge amount of FUD going on here. I think this all comes down to the specific companies you apply for and work with. As an intern, you are probably going to end up moving and it matters a lot more what projects and problems you get to solve than whether it is a tech company or a bank. Now to answer your questions:

1) The salaries at both tech companies and banks will no doubt be about equivalent for interns. Salary has a lot more to do with your negotiating skills than anything.

2) Work-life balance has everything to do with the company. I have known engineers who have worked for big regional banks, small credit unions, and investment banks who have loved it. I have known engineers who have worked for the really big tech companies (Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, HP), and small startups who absolutely hate it. There is NO hard and fast rule. Interview the company just like they are interviewing you.

3) Overall enjoyment has to do with your motivations. What do you like to work on? What problems interest you? Is your potential employer going to allow you to work on those problems?

Also, please realize, there is nothing that says you need to stick with the first company you intern with.
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Personally, I'd love to know what communities those are. I've yet to find any one that would take that comment you just used as an example (or its converse) and allow anyone else to disagree with it freely. (And when I say freely, I mean without namecalling, without mass downvotes, without banning dissent, without any of the other community-forcing-its-will-on-the-minority-opinion garbage that follows those discussions 99% of the time in my experience)

"I don't like how this character was portrayed" is a fine criticism on its own, but behind that is the shadow of "..so what should be done about it?". Absolutely nothing of value lays down that path.

Put another way: Talk of frame rates leads to discussions about optimization. Talks of nonsensical writing leads to discussions of something else they could have done. Talks about portrayal of a "minority" character go straight into "the developers are *ist".

Why does "being part of the conversation" always seem to wind up in "I don't like this, the devs are assholes, it should be changed?"
If it were 606 comparisons of one image I would agree. As it is, it's (on average) just ~2 comparisons of each image
This is similar to how direct stream digital audio (SACD) encodes with a 1 bit dac at 2.8 MHz bitrate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Stream_Digital

Cool tidbit: you can do the digital to analog for this with a low-pass filter.
So we should build our most essential tools to suit the lowest common denominator? A proper programming language would allow the people that can only do basic scripting to do that, whilst allowing more advanced users to extend the system further and take full advantage of all the language's features and libraries. When those more basic users got more accustomed to the system, there would be room for them to move up that they wouldn't have if they were stuck with a nasty string-based templating language.
'dfgh' on the keyboard have really strange optics in San Francisco. It almost looks as if their baselines aren't aligned, but they are. But visually, the g looks low and the f looks high. It's just something about the crossbar on the f and the bowl of the g.
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The idea that simple descent (in this case a modified Newtons Method) works is very simple... the curvature of fitness the across at each point across dimensions are mostly uncorrelated; a local minimum occurs when the curvature across all dimensions are positive, which is exponentially unlikely in the dimension. I hadn't heard of such a simple and useful insight in a while... this is exactly what theory is for! Anyway, that talk is very interesting.
Not sure how that matters. Is there any legal requirement to keep your receipts? No, but if you suddenly throw them out because you think the police might find them useful, that's still obstruction of justice.
You have to question the motives of an agency which needs half a century of spaceflight and trillions of dollars to admit water on a nearby planet.
I guess they're both right - there's plenty of oil but turning a profit on extracting it will take too long to justify the investment. As you probably noticed the price of oil has fallen substantially in recent years as hydraulic fracturing has really taken off and (most of) the logistical and environmental difficulties have been managed away. I've seen more than one analyst suggest that it might be 25 years before we see $100/barrel oil prices again barring some calamity like a major war. I don't know what sort of time frame oil industry strategists use but I imagine they'd need a big new investment to become profitable within 5-7 years or it becomes very hard to justify to shareholders.
As an example, London has plenty of violent crime, car jackings, robberies, rapes, et al. I don't think very many people would categorize it as an unsafe city per se, there are just areas you blatantly want to avoid. That's true of nearly every major city - indeed, there are only a few major cities where that isn't the case.