skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One cool use that we are using Lambda for is to destroy EBS snapshots past a certain date. We tag snapshots with a 'retention_days' tag and then a Lambda process kicks off daily and deletes the old snapshots. The great thing about this is we can lock down the DeleteSnapshot api call so that none of our instances have access to that call anymore.
Ask HN: Beyond CRUD and ETL – How to Grow Professionally?
I have near 10 years of experience by now. I have worked on ETL , Data migration , CRUD applications. I am well familiar with data warehousing and BI concepts and have worked on many projects involving both. Since last 3 years I have been working with Big Data applications on Hadoop platform mostly writing code in Java and using abstract language/platform such as Pig, Spark , RedShift , Hive.

I am tired of ETL , data cleaning , slicing and dicing projects now.

From business standpoint I have good knowledge of healthcare , insurance, advertising and little bit of finance.

I want to contribute to something big and grow professionally. I work as manager for a mid size company in bay area. I want to join next company as Director or higher level.

What are things I should learn to grow professionally ?

What are things I should keep tab on beyond technical knowledge for getting higher roles as Director or VP ? How do I cultivate the change ?
> Compare this to snowboarding. your first time on a mountain, you will absolutely "snowboard". there's a lift that carries you directly to the top of the mountain. Surfing is like going skiing or snowboarding without a lift. you'd have to hike up a mountain every time you wanted to ski.

I'm a snowboard instructor, and I surf.

To expand on your explanation, the other main difference is that when you fall over skiiing or snowbarding, you can settle yourself for 10 seconds, then stand right back up again and get more quality practice time. "Falling" down the mountain for your first time might take 30 minutes, of which 25 minutes is good practice time standing up.

So you get a high ratio of "stand up practice time" to "time invested learning", which means you can pick it up in a short about of elapsed time.

In contrast, when you fall over surfing, you're at square one again and have to spend all the time and energy getting back out to the waves. In your first 30 minute session, it's likely you'll only spend a maximum of a minute or two on your feet practicing.

This makes the ratio very low, so you have to spend tons of elapsed time to learn.

The same applies to wake boarding (wait for the boat to come get you), kite surfing (untangle the kite) and a few others.
$25,000 in a Robinhood account allows you to trade on margin and commission free.
Timing of the left command would depend on robot mechanics, not the processor clock.
Great response. Panic over overpopulation is a tired canard that has become particularly dangerous in recent years as declining rich-world birth rates wreak havoc on societies that lack young workers to support aging populations. Japan's thirty year economic stagnation should serve as a warning to any society that seeks to actively discourage fertility.
Pretty much. It's not like we're stuck for options.
What's the objective of 'rewilding'? Biodiversity?

Why not emphasize ecological robustness in farming practices? Using ecology as the basis for designing food production systems promote biological diversity and resilience with the added benefit of healthy, clean food that doesn't harm the climate.
I think he's being sarcastic or trolling.
Ah, if only Szukalski were alive to enjoy this.
I'm confused--are you just looking for a summary of syntax similar to this?[1]

[1] http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/rust/
"Spotted on Google Earth in 2007 by a Kazakh economist and archaeology enthusiast, Dmitriy Dey, the so-called Steppe Geoglyphs remain deeply puzzling and largely unknown to the outside world."

Makes me wonder what else exists that we know nothing of. Specifically I wonder what can be found in the Amazone region, the Sahara (well all of Africa really), and now uninhabited parts of Russia.

PS. Can't we get some archeological Kickstarter (platform) going?
Hitchcocks The Birds was: http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/

Scary isn't what you see on screen, it's what you carry with you the rest of your life. I still stiffen up every time I area flock of birds gathering on telephone wire. If the birds turned on us, we'd be dead.
That works well enough until people are able to move or send communications faster than 30mph or so.
make law-breaking maneuvers auto-detected by cars (even on manual mode) and auto-detection systems mandatory on ALL cars and that's it..
They won't do it on their own because there's really no incentive to make this information easily accessible. Healthcare is like Microsoft and Oracle in the 90's. Everyone wants you locked in to their platforms and services. Add to that the fact that you're constantly dealing with incredibly sensitive information on the level of financial data (arguably even more sensitive) and it gets worse. In finance you have PCI compliance to deal with. It's tough but not as crazy as $50k fines for every instance of leaked data with HIPAA.
are you saying the next big thing in surfing will be a board with buildin electric motor? Im guessing my post will launch at least 3 hardware startups :)
> Did you bother to read the article?

Yes, I did. In suggesting that their methodology is "debatable", they are indeed hedging their bets. But they are still advancing the theory that, after looking at the data, one could plausibly accept their model.

My "anecdotes" consist of four years as an undergraduate at a university (Rice) rated in the bottom 0.5%. I know damn well that Rice prepared the vast majority of students to be extraordinarily successful in the career paths they chose. I also know that my education was tremendously valuable for its own sake, and that the same was true for my classmates.

And as an academic now teaching at the University of South Carolina, I can only wish that we offered our students what was offered at Rice.

It is true, as a Rice graduate I am biased. But nevertheless I do not believe that I am stretching when assert with confidence that, according to any metric which measures anything worth measuring, Rice lies somewhere in the top 99.5% of universities in the US.
ESPN has a history of making sure the talent don't get too big for their britches. Simmons, Keith Olbermann (twice), Dan Patrick, are three guys who had great personal brands and didn't hesitate to criticize The Worldwide Leader when they felt ESPN management acted without integrity.

BTW, I worked for ESPN.com for 2.5y.
The injected dll could presumably just uncheck the checkbox/modify the check logic since its running in the same process space anyway
See a piece like this:

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/silicon-valley-hal...

Not about sports, informative, and thoughtful.
Interesting. According to Brookings, Amarillo College (2 year), West Texas A&M, and UT Austin rank roughly the same (mid 70s).
> There seems to be a major issue with cost-of-living adjustments

Yep yep. Otis College of Art and Design "overperforming" for $42k salary is ridiculous. The title Junior Graphic Designer pays around $40k* in Los Angeles, where Otis is located. Therefore, the average for graduates is as-expected. *Source: Glassdoor.
I loved event horizon and it scared me to hell when I saw it in my teens.
I just watched it a few months back with a friend 10 years my Junior.
...and yes I also thought Blair Witch was silly but I credit it for its marketing
Show HN: Search and download fonts from GitHub
A big part of it is that Grantland was seldom accused of writing "clickbait" or churning out low-quality content. They had talented writers producing good longform material. If ESPN couldn't make that profitable, it's a blow to the argument (often seen on HN) that people are willing to pay for quality journalism.
Or watching Alive (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106246/) as a child on your first time ever on an airplane o_0
But Simmons has made a career of snobbery. He wouldn't be him without it.
What mechanism do you think will cause it not to last? Why would the same mechanism allow it to occur in the first place? The U.S. had a lot of large families generations ago. This behavior not been generally inherited. What makes you think the future will be different from what we've observed so far?
It took Google a long time to get there - I remember checking out AppEngine in 2007 and wondering why anyone would ever use it instead of EC2, and then checking it out in 2009 and wondering how the hell to put together a working app, and then checking it out in 2010 and giving up in frustration, and then finally checking it out in 2012 and finding it was actually pretty useful for prototypes.
Once upon a time, people shit in bowls and threw it out their windows.

Pedestrians taking roads from motor vehicles is a modern example of the tragedy of the commons.
A lot of the HL7 stuff could be made a lot simpler if the hospitals embraced a simpler subset--instead, everybody picks and chooses features and fields, as do vendors, and then punt it off to integration work. It's dumb.
Original quote:

>That is not a big deal, considering that Levels 1 and 2 of the FIPS140-2 certification are just a marketing gimmick for most electronic devices.

They have a point here: technically, the iPhone is FIPS140-1/2 compliant. By itself, that doesn't mean that the device is secure. It does show two important requirements for security.
It's because SQL has no performance model. You can't tell by looking at the code (the query) what the performance will be like. For example, you can speed up or slow down code by orders of magnitude by changing a line in a completely different part of the code base (i.e. adding a index). And it's also not an orthogonal change -- increasing your read speed decreases your write speed.

The common case for business apps is suboptimal schemas and missing indices.

Postgres is fast enough, but it's not trivial to use well. On the other hand, anyone who has programmed in Python or Ruby pretty much has an intuitive feel for how well Redis operations perform. With SQL you get these wild swings, depending on what the query optimizer does.

I'm not saying you should use Redis -- it's worth it to learn how to use Postgres. But there's just a lower barrier to entry for non-SQL solutions.
LOL, nice pun!
If you can't win with the carrot, switch to the stick.
We convert fuel into people. As the author states, "It’s so blindingly obvious that I am embarrassed to have belabored the point as long as I have."

To slow population growth anyway educate young women and provide them seed capital.

A new person in the U.S. uses far more resources than a new person born in China or India, so the U.S. population growth has a far greater effect than they do despite their greater growth rate. (A good reason not to have children if you live in the U.S., as the author has chosen not to do.)

In the final section titled "Oil-Clouded Crystal Ball" the author ignores fusion. The word "fusion" appears nowhere in the article.

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EDIT:

What's with the fusion hate y'all?

First: Dr. Bussard on fusion: $200M and done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6z1vP4Eo8

And THE SUN: A fusion reactor that will burn out your eyes from 150 Giga-meters away.

We're going to have plenty of ergs for the foreseeable future. Heat pollution will be an issue before the deuterium runs out.

I don't like to be vulgar in public but hating on fusion power is just stupid.
`sleep` sleeps for seconds.
Having used the VA's system as a physician a few years ago, I must say it's probably my favorite. Epic, Sorian, etc add a lot of worthless gloss with minimal increases in functionality, in my experience (probably doesn't have good billing modules but those could be added). I've always thought it was a shame that this wasn't govt mandated EMR ... Im usually for competition, but in this case, we've spent millions (billions?) to reinvent the wheel. It's not at all uncommon for me to print labs off of a screen, then fax them to a different facility, where the values are then input by hand back into a (different) EMR. Completely insane, like something out of Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

I also must say that I've seen hospitals make absolutely terrible decisions when it comes to EMRs. Choice of EMR should be treated as if the hospital is constructing a new building, as its costs and lasting impact can be that massive.
Oh, and it seems the story was completely fabricated by the WSJ. So we got one and a half paragraphs of lies, and a bunch of advice on how to read the rest of the lies in the article that may or may not work anymore...

thanks
Incredible coincidence, I used clang-format today for the first time and was looking for such a tool. The one I found had no preview so I just tried a few built-in styles and picked one that was close to my style.

I'm writing a lot of code recently and gently trying to get my colleagues (and myself) to do "best practices" like consistent code formatting, not too long lines, thinking about readability, but also using modern C++11/14 features for cleaner code. We're physicists and mostly not professional programmers so we're a bit behind in some things.

I recently installed YouCompleteMe with vim which really is a game changer - the code completion makes it more pleasant to write in C++(11) than in python (which are the two languages our framework supports), and the error/warning highlighting catches most bugs before compiling. Long story short, for YCM I installed clang, and it comes with a bunch of tools like clang-format. There seems to be a static analyzer which I want to check out, and a tool that finds opportunities to use clearer modern C++11 constructs, pretty nice.
I think you are still stretching. These systems available to most buyers. Considering that "Americans paid an average price of $33,560 for new cars and trucks in April 2015"[1], and that all manufacturers offer it. For instance, contrary to your statement above Accord has it available for all trims, including on LX at $25K.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/05/04/new-car-...
how about learning something related to DevOps?
That's exactly why I'd want to tie a nationwide EHR/EMR system to Medicare reimbursements. In this case, not only must you drag the horse to water, you must force it to drink.
If you want an easy to understand video on Installing Arch Linux in 15 minutes: https://youtu.be/_fBIeKQSiAc
"They weren't really doing anything particularly innovative"

Well, better get back to posting about the next "unicorn" with no business plan.
No, it's the right way to do it. This way you don't pollute your benchmark with random things like connection speed, connection pool performance, networking issues, etc.
That's not greater honesty, but simply a natural inference from the available information[1], and one that everyone makes in any supply/demand pricing system. Although it's always a crap shoot whether you'll be able to get new supply to market before others like you bid the price down.

If you consider the price changes "dishonest", how do you feel about every other price change in the market? The problem with arguments against surge pricing is that they almost always become fully-general counterarguments against the very concept of a pricing system.

[1] If I said "not-A OR B", would you say, "It would be more honest to say 'A implies B'"?
Yeah, that doesn't make sense. I dont know how Grantland was doing financially, but its unrelated to cable. In fact, things like Grantland could be viewed as diversifying away from reliance on cable viewers.
Thanks for the synopsis. Lots of plans for IronWorker including fully custom Docker image support (soon) and millisecond response times (soon'ish). We also support custom configurations of CPU/RAM for dedicated customers which is what most of our customers with stricter SLA's utilize.

That said, a big differentiator is IronWorker's ability to be deployed to any cloud provider as well as private clouds / on-premises. Many of our enterprise customers need hybrid deployments.

We're always listening so please feel free to shoot us feedback at support[at]iron.io or find us at @getiron.

Chad @ Iron.io
What makes you think Rust would have helped in this specific case?
Sounds fun
> But he'd be unable to have anything on his resume and would likely be unqualified for any work outside the organization if he wanted to leave

That is an exceptional talent retention mechanism that I don't think enough people consider when they talk about how the three-letter-agencies maintain their large talent pools. Once you are in in is very difficult to get out.
FHIR is gross and overdesigned, like everything else in this moribund industry.
An error message if nothing was found would be helpful. I tried a non-free font first, got no results (as expected/hoped), but didn't know if it actually meant no results or some error.
> In 2007, Congress increased the period of daylight saving time (DST henceforth) by four weeks, adding three weeks in the spring and one in the fall. "This produced a useful natural experiment for our paper,"

My knee-jerk reaction to reading this is that their paper's conclusions must be based on a single observation.
The biggest problem with this benchmark is it being single threaded.

Redo it with 32 or 256 concurrent (local) requests and see what happens. I bet Redis will end up being quite a bit quicker.
There's a list of common medications I can't take because of a fairly benign condition I have, which is and has been in my medical records for years. 90% of the time doctors prescribe me things I can't take, even though the information is simple and at their fingertips. I can't imagine the number of mistakes that must get made in more complex cases.
The city of Washington, D.C. actually fired someone for using the word "niggardly" in a speech regarding budgets a few years ago.
Living Hawaii: Henk Rogers and His Quest for Energy Independence
A great openssh for windows for the time being. Being using this and it is great, only thing is not able to do powershell from it once connected to host.

http://www.mls-software.com/opensshd.html#botpage
How can one possibly be eventually consistent for reads and ACID for updates? Unless you are saying the datasets available for fast queries cannot be updated consistently...Or are you just saying, you can read from replicas but maintain a single master...
not that I want to be the guy defending ancient aliens(just kidding i kindof do), but lots of accepted history and archaeology is based on just as many assumptions and leaps of faith as you'd find on that show, they just aren't as patently absurd at face value.
Ask HN: Decentralizing Uber?
Seems to me Uber is ripe for a decentralized solution. Why? Unlike Google or a SaaS provider, there is no data-bank or centralized algorithm that requires a lot of compute resources.

Why decentralize Uber?
- Contractors get 20% increase
- No single point of failure
- Consumers could pay less
- Automatic global scale
- Airports or any can not deny access
- Who drove who can be publicly accessible
- Technical feasibility is there via a block-chain solution

Is anyone working on a decentralized Uber solution out there?
Usually for most languages there are more advanced texts that skip the basics. I know I've seen them, though I don't have concrete examples at the moment.
As most of the other comments here, I do believe these are footprints from villages and structures that have worn away with time. The ones with circles were probably areas where huts and other dwelling units were placed.
iPads can use external keyboards, though.
You clearly misread or didn't read my comment because I didn't say anything about not taking your Yubikeys with you while traveling.

>The whole point is to use them as part of your authentication chain.

I know and that's exactly why I said you might want to be careful with them while traveling. If your keys are taken away from you and you don't have any backup solution (such as recovery keys), you will get locked out of your important accounts.
> when they try stupid maneuvers like this one.

It's called natural selection. Eventually they will meet each other.
Heh, parsing perl is non-decidable!
Because it's a valid and appropriate term? Here's Oxford Dictionary:

space-age, adj. very modern; technologically advanced: a space-age control room.
There is a distinction we can make between the standard of living and the means that are employed to achieve it.

One example: building a modern communication grid is much less expensive today than it was when e.g. America first built out telegraphs and then telephones etc. Much less copper, etc.
In Philadelphia everyone maintains eye contact with the driver. Less bassy, but also less passive aggressive I think.
This is disappointing news, as I felt like Grantland was a good one stop shop for things to read during lunch, but it was clear that it was already on its way out. Some of my favorite contributors had already left. Wesley Morris, Chris Ryan, and Juliet Litman to name a few. Ill be waiting to see where they end up (yes I know Morris is going to the New York Times).
A psychologist says there’s one key sign you’ve transitioned to adulthood
"Big enough to see from space" is pretty meaningless when we have cameras up there that can zoom in and pick out an ant on a sidewalk.
I can't remember the limit, but it's a legal one not technological. The military has a legal monopoly on precise GPS.
That video is maybe unavailable?
>> chop off the beginning and end (so you can't identify the addresses), and upload those using a unique anonymous identifier (i.e. UUID) and no device-specific info,

Actually since they know your IP address ,it's not anonymous - it's easy to connect to your identity.

Also , in general the way they gather location(from another post) [1] , is they gather list of cellular and wifi hotspots around you(and i wonder about whether they gather signal strength).And since for example , wifi signals are heavily blocked by walls, they are very space limited in many situations.

So maybe(IDK, the field of anonymization is tricky) combining this data with the data sent when asking for a route is enough get pretty close location ? altough sure, some data is definetly is lost in this process and that's a good thing.

[1]http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/04/27/finally-apple-speaks-...
Design a second order PLL loop filter
Virtual Reality Hackathon
Can Providers and Insurers Team Up to Fix Health Insurance?
> but it doesn't mean facebook can just do whatever.

It all comes down to this; Facebook can do whatever the fuck they want.
Discussion on the front page right now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10477721
You understand this is the sort of ignorant rhetoric that leads to the OP's post, right?

InnoDB has been available for years and has been the default storage engine for nearly 6 years. Maria and Percona both default to XtraDB. The vast majority of MySQL criticisms haven't been valid for nearly a decade.
I think in the context of all of the media available to us, it's an acceptable style. I appreciate the human touch sometimes. If every news organization adopts that style then it's a problem.
The argument being that non functional programming has fundamental limits to its scalability, seems like a very important question as the complexity of code begins to grow exponentially.

Large imperative codebases are inherently fragile, hence the need for test driven development - good batteries of tests offer demonstrable reliability.

Functional programming offers provable reliability.

Provability is not just for scaling complexity but also for much simpler software that absolutely must not fail.

Imperative code becomes hard to reason about before 200K LOC is reached.