skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of when I first heard about bitcoin 2009 ish. I thought it was a super cool idea but ... hey other people ain't into it so it can't be that hot. Had I turned off that sheep filter I would have probably got more into it more.
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> They have the ability to sell through dealers, just like the established automakers. And it would cost them a lot less money and hassle to do so.

Not in a world dominated by fossil fuels. This is worth a read: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-approach-distributing-....
I know plenty of people (event into their 50s) still making payments CSN (Student loan authority-thingy).

Sure, but are those people struggling with student debt? I took on just about as much student debt as it's possible to take on in Sweden, and while I'll be making payments well into my 50s the terms are rather reasonable and the monthly amounts are really quite small.
We had a cluster last week spend 7 hours in a DB health 'unknown' state. Response from AWS? Spin up a new cluster from snapshot.
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PARC/Cedar looks real, real cool. I've heard them in passing but the earliest machines I got to use were the mid 90s Sun/SGI era and AS/400s.

Local GC as in, as soon as you go out of scope you free? Or is it doing something more complicated than that. I love all these old/research languages/environments, so many cool ideas. Thanks for the archive.org PDF.

PS: If you're interested in PARC, you might be interested in Brian Beckman, et al's (of MSR) "TimeWarp" http://www.cs.nyu.edu/srg/talks/timewarp.pdf. It ran into resource scarcity issues at the time but that's no longer an issue. Old PoC's are really interesting to revisit now that our main issue isn't space but latency.

(Fun fact: A CPU -> Northbridge RAM fetch is only ~5x (~60 ms[1]) as fast as a prosumer eMLC SATA3 fetch (~200ns) . Data segmentation matters guys, if you are going to have a cache miss. Sequential data matters and predictable prefetching matters, and isn't "pre-optimization" if you're dealing with low-latency stuff!")

(1): https://software.intel.com/sites/products/collateral/hpc/vtu...
Debunking the theory of the firm: http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue53/KeenStandish53.pdf
From TFA:

> OK, what's the solution, then? Just pay more? I don't think that's going to solve the problem; I'll just burn more money.

Sounds like the author hasn't actually tried to solicit a company with higher rates and therefore assumes way too much here.

I think a lot of devs/shops who are more expensive are so because they're demonstrably better. According to free-market logic, they can charge more because the market is willing to pay them more. Why would the market be willing to pay them more? Because their services are worth paying more for, due to them being better.
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I'm curious, what protects a customer from the author's personal outsourcing company against the author's criticisms of outsourcing?

Their company home page talks about constant value and quality approval / adherence, but it sounds like the same sort of marketing schtick that ever outsourcing company promises.
Ask HN: What interesting hardware startups are based in London?
I'm looking for a graduate job at a hardware startup in London. It seems most lists I find only cover design agencies etc.

Upverter supposedly has a map, but unfortunately it's down. There's also a Wired article with a map, but that too is down for me.
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"Korean eunuchs may have the answer"

yes, the key word in this sentence is "may". So the author discloses himself as a best guesser.
The same wording is used in the articles about longevity and beer vs. wine. "If drank in moderation, a glass a day really may keep the doctor away".

About alcohol we could read recently that the control groups in most studies had been assembled badly: parts of the never-drinkers were former alcoholics or otherwise seriously ill people. So the non-drinkers statistically died earlier. If those were removed from the not drinking control group, alcohol doesn't give an advantage. Instead, it has known bad effects (cancer risk, die of accident while drunk, etc.).

Still, the bbc article ignores this and refreshes old myths.

Pure entertainment, IMHO.
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I've done a lot of data work for several other brands in a few markets and can confirm the used car part of this is true.

A properly run organisation can sell and re-sell the same car several times, also selling parts and services to each owner in between sales.

Rental and other fleets are particularly battled after for this reason as they can "inject" far more life time value in the the network than just the initial sale.
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Australian accent caused by 'alcoholic slur' of heavy-drinking early settlers'
I own a copy, it's a fascinating read. The British author Ian McEwan mentions that Saunders' book influenced his novel "Sweet Tooth" [0], which itself is a fine read.

[0]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0099578786
And benchmarks?
> This seems like an opportunity for an Uber/AirBnB move (...) Find a jurisdiction anywhere in the USA where direct manufacturer sales are legal.

Like Uber/AirBnB care for what is legal or not... In fact, I would say that the prototypical "Uber/AirBnB move" is characterized by a businessmodel that is just over the edge of what is legal.
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Pivoting doesn't make a lot of sense in this space.

However it is entirely possible to be agile and (relatively) fast in this space - not by breaking rules but by designing the process to be light where it can, detailed where it must. And then paying attention to how it is working and improving it constantly. You can probably cut time to market in half relative to industry averages this way, which is nothing to sneeze at.
I had a phone interview last week - a pre-screening as i've come to call them - first time i've ever been asked if I have a Git account and what is it.

The recruiter sounded like he was reading off of a script - threw out a bunch of buzz words - scrum, agile, etc... sounded really nervous on the phone. Never have an HR person call a confident programmer haha.

When asked about experience - i rattle off a few small projects then a few big projects - what i did, if it saved company x any money (people love to hear you saved someone money or made them money)

Some recruiters look at past work - or at least will look at it when you go in for a face to face interview - those are the jobs i expect some kind of result from - either yes, your hired or at least they tell you they hired someone else.

Some recruiters - and this seems to get worse and worse as everyone tries to cash in on being a recruiter - know nothing about front end development, back end development, sys admin, etc... they know a few buzz words; they know to listen for specific languages, but thats all. These are the ones I rush to get off of the phone with quickly and remove them from my linkedin connections.

If you find me on LinkedIn and are not at least competent enough to look at the work i've listed there, then your not serious about your job and i'm not serious about working for your employer.

Anyways </rant> my point is not all employers are created equal; not all recruiters are created equal - keep plugging away and eventually, you'll find someone that cares about code quality / skill and not just keywords / numbers.
For the context, the wine article mentioned was also submitted by the same "d_a_robson" and written by "David Robson" who just posts the articles here, never commenting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10457294

Is BBC really so hungry for clicks? Is the author paid per click? Somebody may know the answer.

Edit: and now the post is deleted, and we may never find it.
Different gene expression in male and female brains
tl;dr: a middleman bitching about cheap labor from the third world not being cheap anymore.
And by the same token programming languages that prove correctness and 'make illegal state un-representable' will be a growing trend in the future.

The shear number of programming languages will reach a pinnacle to where we give up on Haskell vs. Java and just say: here are some levers - you set them up and we'll spit you out a programming language and platform that meets your needs.
I think developers of large apps such as Whatsapp will be aware of this and will be aware of Google Cloud Messaging: https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/

This handles all aspects of regular polling so that adding more messaging applications shouldn't negatively affect the battery performance. Instead the application should be alerted and awoken if a relevant message is pushed to the device.
I was interested in this standard until I read the following:

> These ads will still track users across the web, though. Cunningham notes that the IAB will alter its general industry standards so that ads appear “before, but never AFTER” someone makes a purchase (emphasis his).

Just don't track users. Don't mine data about your readers. It's impersonal, it's ugly, and it's wrong. What I want on the web is for you to create the content you want to share, and I want you to pick the advertisements you think I'll like. I don't want you to delegate that responsibility to a tracking third-party.

A few years ago I pulled all the analytics services out of my apps. All unnecessary server contact was removed (i.e., anything not initiated by the user). I was just emailed by a group wanting the "backend usage data" from one of my apps which has been very popular with kids; the group specifically wanted it for that reason. I was very proud to be able to tell them that the app makes no contact with any servers whatsoever.
The cost savings will get passed on to the consumer; retail is a very competitive low-margin industry.

We get our gadgets for less cost and the people that used to deliver them get paid by the government to retrain to do something else that's actually fulfilling and productive.

Win-win.
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The basic of all plots is the story.

A story is a series of events centred on the actions of one character.

A story is about the character facing a difficulty, and demonstrating which action the character took to overcome that difficulty.

Sometimes some of the first attempts at action fail, causing further difficulties.

Stories are an innate part of how humans think. There is a lot of solid research suggesting that there is a part of our brain that automatically transforms times series of events into stories, automatically, and without our knowing it.

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

The story is the basic organizing principle of our memory, our justice system, pretty much all of society.

See also: http://bigthink.com/overthinking-everything-with-jason-gots/...

If I had to describe humans to aliens I'd say: "Creatures with a loss aversion that create stories."
Never rely only on benchmark data. The case study with Absolute is interesting, though I am not sure it applies to many.
So, really this just comes back to that Benjamin. It can be summarized in one sentence - the lucrative nature of doing outsourcing before is no longer true today.
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This has nothing to do with the colour and seats though. When "your" car finally rolls of the line to should take ... what? 1 working day to spray it the colour that you want and let the paint dry, an hour to bolt in your choice of seats and Cd/Mp3 player.
Why would spam detections techniques that we use for email not work for content?
I'm not the developer of either product, but it seems like Alive has Roslyn based which offers direct access to every step of the compiler. Right now it doesn't look like much difference (in fact I bet NCrunch is more stable and has better integration with NUnit and the rest of the ecosystem), but I bet (purely speculating) that Alive intends on expanding their feature set into something more extensive.

Performance wise, assuming the Alive developers use Roslyn efficiently (which admittedly is difficult), they could offer a lot more semantic/syntax analysis at a way faster rate (i.e., think about solutions with 10s of projects and hundreds/thousands of classes, while having a dynamic dependency graph available-- unit tests, invariants, and even property-based QuickCheck-esque testing could easily at type-time [as in after the keydown event] or a few hundred ms after).

These are all capabilities inherent of being Roslyn based though, nothing too special about Alive, just a benefit it has over NCrunch should they choose to go down that road.
Bandwidth is not the only reason to block ads. Removing distractions is more important for me.
I'm not sure it's BT or somebody else. Traceroute says there are 20 devices my connection is going through. Somebody working for ISPs or Bitbucket could confirm why some sites are fast, others are slower after a minute, I can only guess.
yes, people make assumptions before reading thing.
The simple solution for safety I think is to just include the software checksum/signature in the approval documents for a car model.

At an interval check, the inspector does the usual sampling tests (brake effect, emissions, looks for rusty brake lines etc), and then validates that all critical computers (ECU's and other systems such as computers related to brakes etc) run software that match the signature of the manufacturer, and that it is the latest version of the sowftare. After a recall such as the VW case, the inspector could fail cars that haven't upgraded to the latest version (which would be required since the original one is known to be cheating on emissions).

This is a bit harsh compared to other modifications: an owner can put on a set of extra lights or cool wheels without necessarily failing an inspection, whereas even changing a single bit of the software would immediately fail it in this case.

I can't see any way around this though, apart from separating programs into critical (brakes, ECU) /non-critical (Media, nav,...) software, where only the critical software would be checked.
Outsourcing doesn't have to be based on pure time&material model. Software houses have huge incentives to become more efficient - using scale to their advantage, becoming experts in technology, etc. - all that to compete with other software houses.
There's already plenty of legislation about this sort of thing, unfortunately. For example you can drive your car from one EU country in any other EU country and your insurer has to cover you bu law(yes yes I know UK insurers only cover you for 60 days or so, which is stupid, but I think that's the UK law letting them do that), but you can't legally buy a car in say France and buy insurance in Germany. Since car insurance can be a lot cheaper in some EU countries than in others, I guess a lot of people would do that(but then again, if a lot of people were in fact doing it, the insurance prices would probably equalize eventually).
What part of LOTR's ending wasn't happy? They get a king back, Gandalf and Galadriel bless everyone's crops, the hobbits get eternal life.

I actually remember the movie trying so hard to fit all the original endings in that it just faded to black at least four times, seemed like it was over, then started right back up again.

Of course, Pellenor Fields did get replaced with a spooky ghost army and the best part of the book (Scouring of the Shire) was left out entirely. Not that it could ever have fit in there.
Reminds me of this tweet:

https://twitter.com/capotej/status/647213485294616576
Is it actually feasible to 3d print a realistic rhino horn from synthesized keratin? Googling keratin 3d printing mostly turns up Pembient itself. One would suspect that keratin printing would have plenty of more humble applications (synthetic hair, nails, biomimetic prosthetics).
What blows my mind is exactly the opposite, that for no reason I can be fired without any kind of warning or time to search for a new job, in portugal the employer can fire or I can leave, there is a 1month/2month warning depending on the case how long you have been on the company (up to 2 years/2 years or more respectively)
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> I'd be very leery of lock-in given the owners.

The owner is now Pivotal (it used to belong to EMC). Almost all our product code is opensource. The culture comes from Pivotal Labs DNA, which is a resolutely opensource shop.

> I also suspect this is the result of a failed attempt to sell it and is an open-source hail mary.

It's not.
I usually use just the plain OSX Notes app. It has added more features that I care for and has some trouble _removing_ styles from stuff, but it works everywhere. If you paste in coloured code then it will keep the colours.

I'd love to use Vesper, but no Mac client makes it a no go.
Good to know. Thanks a lot.
Yeah, a PCR test can use a tiny sample, and and with a modicum of care it's not going to be subject to cross contamination in taking the sample (you do have to watch out for back-end contamination).

But I can see how things like lipid panels would have contamination problems with finger-stick draws, although they say they use a combination of those and "venous blood draws using smaller needles and smaller tubes", which doesn't strike me as a big selling point. In my experience, pain is associated with not hitting the vein right the first time, and once you hit the vein, you might as well draw more than enough for the planned tests and any followup tests ordered once the first results come in.
Have they tightened up the floating point semantics? Or do you still get different rounding behaviour on the JVM, dart and JS?

I want to like Ceylon because it's the language Scala should be (assuming that higher-kinded types made it in - I could never work without them). It's Scala with all the ugly parts polished away, Scala with ten years' progress in language design.

But it does nothing that Scala can't. Scala might need a pile of bodges to offer these things - Shapeless implicit macros to use tuples generically, type-level libraries abusing the implicit resolution rules to implement unions, a retrofitted JavaScript backend. But that stuff has been written now, and as a developer it works - maybe with a couple of ugly extra lines here and there, but that's all.

I'm glad it exists, but I just can't see people choosing the more polished language over the one with ten years worth of library and tool support when there's no USP beyond that polish.
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> In order to sell a car, you have to have a car on your lot.

I don't understand the above: you mean people buy new (unused) cars from dealers, "off the shelf"? Aren't most new cars custom? Are US customers more impatient, so that in order to close a sale you need to have the various options pre-built, so that people don't have to wait four months for their new car to be built?

I have rarely seen a new car sitting at a dealer here (Europe), most dealers have one, maybe two, of the latest model, to be used by testing for potential customers.
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A supplementary article from WSJ "Why Companies have Stopped Outsourcing IT": http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2015/10/14/why-companies-have-s...
Except they are not losing. They are more ubiquitous than ever.
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Oh, here's the programmer who never makes mistakes.
Why+Your+Baggage+Gets+Less
It's in a courtyard inside the Langley headquarters.
If music is your thing then ROLI: https://www.roli.com/

Kano are always impressive: http://www.kano.me/

If children's toys are your thing, MakieLab have very smart people: https://mymakie.com/

Sugru have an awesome team: https://sugru.com/about

Kokoon are doing interesting wearables stuff: https://kokoon.io/

There's also a hardware startup meet-up on next week. Usually attended by a bunch of interesting hardware companies: http://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Pioneers-by-Hardware-Startup-...
> Are you guys opening Chorus and the Pivotal HD stuff too?

I'm not sure where Chorus and PHD fit into the picture -- the latter is I believe a distribution of Hadoop that we curate.

> Are you guys going to attempt to upstream this or is it forked to the point of no return?

Too early to say.

> How is EMC to work for as a parent company?

EMC is entirely hands off, in my experience. Pivotal runs itself. Best job I've ever had by a wide margin.
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Pivoting after losing your reputation for quality and playing straight with the FDA makes no sense whatsoever to me. In fact, the FDA is known for getting very vindictive after that sort of thing happens.

I count this as different than the 23AndMe situation where they're arguing with the FDA over how the results can interpreted and passed on to the consumer, that's a difference in opinion that doesn't rest on the quality of the testing science.
Right. But when the data you have is detailed logs of individual movements, second by second, meter by meter - stepping down to "number of unique IMEIs in a 100 square km area" is moving to "highly aggregated data". If that is what is seen as anonymization, the yeah. But then you've pretty much reduced a dataset to information that answers a specific question. Typically anonymization is (AFIK/IMNHO) taken to mean taka a dataset that can answer some questions, and transform it to a dataset that can still answer some questions we haven't come up with, but avoids answering questions that lead to identifying individuals. Eg: the problem with the NYC taxi driver data:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/poorly-anonymized...
Also, when you buy a game on the Humble Store you can select which charity gets 10% of the purchase price. It gets set to some default, and it took me a long time to realise that you can change it. I have mine set to the EFF, but there are hundreds of options. The Humble Store is incidentally a great place to buy games.
> They are in the EU also ;)

I thought they capped just the roaming charges, isn't calling to mobile numbers in other EU countries still (relatively) expensive? My german carrier currently charges 20 times more for those.
A lot of things people say they would pay for, when speaking to the press or market research etc, in practice they never do -- and obviously not in large numbers.

I've read several stories of founders for example hearing people say "I'd buy that" etc, but in practice they found out nobody would bother with their product/service, it solved a non-painful enough problem, etc.

Paying for checking out cars to buy seems like one of these things.
You should be able to build a pipeline with Spring XD, it has an HDFS source and gpfdist sink out of the box.

http://projects.spring.io/spring-xd/
Hmm; this might make it more attractive to investigate Chorus, the Rails-based analytics application that Pivotal also open-sourced (https://github.com/Chorus/chorus).

It was always awkward to figure out what components you needed to build a development environment for it. It depended on having a virtual machine with a specific version of Greenplum Database running in it, but that version of the database wasn't easy to find. An open source Greenplum Database might make it easier to get started.