skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always lived far enough north that the difference in daylight between summer/winter is very significant. In June, the sun is up at 5:30 in the morning, and doesn't set until after 9. In the winter, it's sometimes not light by 9AM when I go to work, and it is pitch black again by 4:30. It doesn't help that it is cold as hell at the same time that it is dark all the time.

My sleep cycle tends to be very sunlight dependent, so I'm seriously dragging all winter, since my body wants to still be asleep when I have to get up, and by the end of the day, I'm already shutting down. Daylight savings time screws things up even more - turning the clocks back in the fall isn't terrible, but those first weeks in the spring are brutal.
Boston born, raised, now professional. Best city I've seen, although Amsterdam is a close second. If you like software and despise San Francisco (as I do), Boston has the 2nd most VC investment in the world, and is #2 globally for software development. And Boston focuses traditionally on B2B rather than vague B2C stuff which is rife in SF.

Go Boston!
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(P.S. I think its awesome, I love a person who explores the questions more deeply.)

I think you make an excellent point vis-a-vis homeless vs defenseless. My exposure to plague warnings has primarily been in the county and state parks around the Bay Area. The primary vector being fleas per https://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/vbds/Documents/PreventingVB...

We have also got a number of lion sightings/encounters although I could not find the 2014 or current data (http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/lion/trends.html)

And of course the linked article talking about Coywolves and relating to their lack of fear of humans.

My thesis is that human/wildlife encounters will increase as the populations of these various species increase in response to greater success in living in urban and suburban areas. And my conjecture is that as a result of increased encounters there will be more incidents where the defenseless are harmed. Have not yet thought of a good way to test that hypothesis yet.

And that has also lead to exposure to racoons and bears both of whom are willing to cross paths with humans in order to scavenge food or food scraps.
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Theranos Battled in Courtroom Over Name of Its Chief Product
As my brother the psychiatrist pointed out the conventional stimulants prescribed for ADHD treatment can have wicked side effects and aren't necessarily effective. In moderate cases some in the field are trying nootropics plus cognitive stimulation therapy (of course that only works if natively there is sufficient functional cognitive hardware to stimulate and the patient wants to focus). Interesting footnote: the brother pointed out that Stephen Hawking is taking some similar cognitive enhancement concoction which includes a synthetic capillary growth stimulating chemical which goes by the name of vinpocetine. If a moderate ADHD patient, the combination of a nootropic (+ choline) and vinpocetine may be something worth testing.

For reference, a quick google of oxigenation and nootropics scares up:

http://nootriment.com/piracetam/
Your willingness to ignore the crucial fact of how the CAFC and Eastern District of Texas rely on the judicially broadened concept of personal jurisdiction does not give you excuse to take that tone with your accusations.

The CAFC is decidedly not interpreting statute according to its plain wording when it interprets a clause intended to limit judicial powers as having no limiting effect. There's definitely room for reasonable disagreement with your position.
And you think that wasn't Facebook's intention?
What he pled guilty to was illegal, but that's irrelevant to indefensibility because he pled guilty.

Saying that he is utterly indefensible is saying that, because he is guilty of something illegal, instead of losing some freedoms, laws and rights no longer apply at all. Although we have no evidence of anything else to charge anyone with (which legally we need to conduct a search), we might find something if we can look. That's illegal and immoral, but we can and no one will stop it because they don't want to be seen supporting him. That seems to be the sense of indefensible meant.

The crime and it's result is one thing. Setting a precedent for free-range witch-hunts is another; those have a bad history.
I skimmed this, but it sounds interesting. Might I recommend a blog post shared as a link instead of a TLDR comment buried on someone else's story?
That is just how academic writing is.
Well, that leaves either intentionally being fraudulent, or Dunning-Kruger.
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The big clue was missing definite articles (a, the, etc.) and lack of plurals. There is some strange grammar as well. If I had to guess I'd say your first language is probably an Asian one, like Chinese or Japanese? These mistakes are common coming from Asian languages as they do not have these constructs.

I have rewritten a corrected version of your post -- I've tried to highlight the changes. Let me know if you have any questions!

I have nearly 10 years of experience. I have worked on ETL, Data migration, and CRUD applications. I am familiar with data warehousing and BI concepts, and have worked on many projects involving both. The last 3 years I have been working with Big Data applications on the Hadoop platform, mostly writing code in Java and using abstract languages/platforms such as Pig, Spark, RedShift, and Hive.
I am tired of ETL, data cleaning, and slicing and dicing projects now.

From a business standpoint I have experience with healthcare, insurance, advertising, and a little bit of finance.

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

What are the things I should learn to grow professionally?

What are the things I should keep tabs on beyond technical knowledge for getting Director or VP roles? How do I cultivate this change?
> You don't even need nuclear power, we could get all the energy we currently need from geothermal sources. It's not exactly renewable but it's non-polluting and there's enough energy to last us for a long long time to come (I can't remember the exact figures, I'll look it up).

Nuclear is non-polluting too. It's probably the greenest form of energy available to us per kWh if you count everything up. Diversification is a good idea though.

> The main reason we haven't moved away from fossil fuels more quickly isn't due to blocking nuclear, it's due to short-term profit-led thinking.

There are two aspects here - one is that we haven't moved away from fossil fuels due to "short-term profit-led thinking", or as it is formally known (if you count profits in dollars), the market economy. But the second aspect is that as we slowly move towards other sources, we're moving away from nuclear - and that happens because of FUD and politics (which is also "short-term profit-led thinking").
We think so, too. Here's an example of a blab gallery based on modules from the popular Space Math @ NASA educational website: http://spacemath.github.io

We would love to work with educators to create interactive blab galleries for math and science.
Good that she's getting word out. Can't understate enough how a committee focused on intelligence-gathering is pushing a bill without security benefits for computer security.

Unfortunately, it won't get anywhere because Americans only care about how things affect them. That hasn't been communicated enough. The only thing close was John Oliver's Surveillance video where he mentioned the "dick pic program" and other real-world risks lay people get. Another was about how metadata let people guess your key political believes. INFOSEC community needs to stop talking about issues people don't care about and focus almost exclusively on presenting risk government surveillance poses to masses.
No, they count retweets and shit.
Is there any way I could increase the font-size? It is difficult to read on big screens.
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I think you are missing the key ingredient in the analysis.

The Economist is attempting to build such an oracle via statistical regression. HOWEVER, the Oracle is intentionally limited in input to a specific list of things: SAT scores, sex ratio, race breakdown, size, public or private, earning power in the city where it is located, etc.

The things that are omitted constitute the actual value the University brings to the table: quality of teachers, instruction, organizations on campus, etc. (1)

So however far off the model is for two given Universities must be explained by all the missing inputs, i.e. largely how "good" the University is.

If the Oracle was able to perfectly predict your earning power given that limited set of inputs, then it would basically mean that a University is completely defined by SAT scores of students, sex ratio, race, etc. and there's absolutely no value they add or subtract beyond that. That was be a very, very interesting result. But you can see why it's unlikely.

Hopefully this makes sense?

(1) Of course it's possible that there are factors like "how many trees on campus" or "how many vowels are in the name" which might also affect earnings. But we can probably agree that it's less likely to be important than the aforementioned ones ("quality of instruction", etc.).
Model S owners are already reporting that Tesla’s Autopilot is self-improving
I'm not clear how any of this benefits you directly.
It should be a jury one's peers, but for some reason we've decided that the average uninformed person is a peer to everyone.
I'm not sure if we're arguing the same point and if we agree or not, but e.g. http://piers.org/piersonline/download.php?file=MDkwMjIwMTQ0N... ('Ventilation Efficiency and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Concentration', Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium vol 5 no 7, 2009) seems to suggest that even in workplaces with air conditioning (albeit old airco and densely populated rooms), CO2 concentrations can reach higher-than-recommended levels in everyday usage. Any modern residential building requires mechanical ventilation to keep CO2 levels in check. CO2 levels, in real-world usage, also don't rise linearly - opening the windows for 30 minutes in the morning is not ventilation. IIRC (although I don't have a reference at hand) rooms reach 70% of their pre-window-opening levels within less than an hour of closing them. (maybe, although again I don't recall details, because of CO2 in other rooms, or maybe it gets 'cached' in materials (sound unlikely though... guess I'm giving away my lack of chemistry knowledge here), or other reasons?)

Point being - in building design/architecture it's assumed knowledge that CO2 does rise to higher-than-recommended levels in modern (i.e., low air leakage) buildings without mechanical ventilation.
"Monkey" and "indian" indicate a poisonous attitude, even at 50 years experience. I've dealt with people from India and Brazil, and they are not monkeys. Health and happiness to you anyway.
Probably most nowadays, because IT is no longer primarily made of geeks, but out of sales and marketing people who think their next ad-exchange SaaS platform for 3D-printed kitten cloud computing solutions is The Best Thing, and space probes? "Space? Yeah, there's something like that, they put it in movies sometimes, but who really cares about it?"
> but really, how often do you hear people complain about it being dark in late morning, as opposed to early afternoon?

Jesus Christ, having to crawl out of bed and go to work in the cold dark is the most wretched feeling.
Boston is also a huge science hub. While you might not make a ton of money, you can do exceedingly cool and impactful things here.
Really? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RF9wV-57dE

Doesn't look like Market Street in SF did (admittedly, 1906, not before 1900. But pretty close).
Ha... I'm sighing so hard reading about Juice. Never even heard about it and I'm into 'esoteric'. Mainstream is as boring as inevitable.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000831045133/http://caesar.ics....

http://web.archive.org/web/20000610021840/http://caesar.ics....
In my opinion, it's fair to consider API-connected services — and maybe even the Web itself (which did not exist when Perlis first said this) — as "computer programs." In that sense, we're all building this cathedral together.
I've done a lot of work with cheap shared hosting and... I doubt it. Closing a compromised account until it's repaired is something I've done five times in a day, and I stopped investigating after a while because it was absolutely always a Wordpress or Joomla installation that hadn't been updated in five+ years.

I played for a while with sending people warning letters asking them to upgrade known vulnerable versions, and more often than not they would just close their account and move it somewhere they "don't have those issues".

It's easy to be amongst larger application developers and lose track of just how low the bar in the market they are playing in.
Currently no, but that is certainly something I could add as options to customize. Thanks for the suggestion!
Your math is unrealistic. You are tossing around theoretical numbers, which are meaningless for an actual implementation.

Assume you have actually implemented this very simple LSM. Is it reliable? i.e., are you using ARIES WAL? If so, then every insert has an additional cost of at least k for the log record.

Are you using a raw block device, or are you using a filesystem? If a filesystem, then every insert has additional costs for metadata updates, and these costs are some multiple of the block size, not the key size.

If using a filesystem, every "rewrite" of a level includes multiple metadata updates to empty/delete existing files and create/allocate new files.

If not using a filesystem, then you must somehow manage metadata about the existence and size of your multiple levels yourself, as well as a space mapping of the raw block device.

A B+tree gets most of that for free because it uses a single file, so the amount of filesystem-level metadata updating is minimal.
Retail investors aren't, even traditionally, excluded from investing in startups. It's just that startups are required to make certain SEC disclosures prior to taking investment from the general public, so that the public can have information about what it's actually investing in. There are exemptions for startups that only seek money from institutional and wealthy investors, on the theory that such investors can hire their own attorneys and accountants to do an SEC-like job. So, the theory goes, they don't need the SEC vetting the transparency of the offering, because they will pay for a similar vetting process themselves.

This changes the rules so retail investors can invest blindly in stocks, i.e. without being first informed about the nature of the investment opportunity through the SEC disclosures. It seems pretty reasonable to me that if someone wants to raise money, they should be required to disclose, to the potential investor, enough information about the financial position of the company and the nature of the investment for the investor to make an informed decision. If you want it leveled between institutional and retail investors, I'd prefer leveling in the direction of more transparency for both classes of investors, rather than less. If the issue is just that the SEC process is too bureaucratic, then propose a reform to streamline it, rather than bypassing disclosures entirely.

One thing that makes it particularly needed is that a possible alternative, dealing with misleading fundraising through after-the-fact lawsuits, is mostly ineffective, since successful suits end up as judgments against bankrupt companies, who won't pay them. If a company gets a bunch of investors while not being entirely truthful with them about its financial position/revenues/etc., suing them after it collapses doesn't help you at that point. That's the situation we had before the SEC was created, and was the motivation for the 1933 Securities Act requiring companies to register an offering and make certain disclosures, prior to selling securities to the public.
My husband and I's rates have skyrocketed as well - and they were already close to $300/month per person.
I think there is an important aspect of this that is being overlooked in this discussion. Every seems to assume that it will always be a single investor investing in a single company. What I think will quickly evolve is syndicates of small investors that pool their money and their intelligence, and will invest in multiple companies. Basically they will do what wealthy investors do to manage their risk.
We in the tech industry who also have an interest in finance and investing will play a constructive role by sharing our insights about the viability of these companies. The control of information is going to change dramatically - and for the better I hope.
What's the Internet you envision sans profit motive?
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This is a GREAT post. It is a giant puzzle, not for the faint of heart but very fun. Provider motivations vary widely based broadly on their economics and interests. There's 316 distinct U.S. markets alone! Cheers, Sherri (CEO@Medigram)
>telling themselves that it's okay for it to take 5 minutes to sum a million records because it's Big Data

If it's the kind of query you run every week, it probably is okay.

I've not optimized tons of queries like that before - and prevented other developers from doing so - not because it's "big data", but simply because the risk introduced by changing the code and the effort involved in mitigating that risk simply didn't make the optimization worthwhile.

In most cases I never would have built it myself from the ground up in such a way that it would take 5 minutes (e.g. without indexes), but somebody else's dumb system that's running in production and solving real human problems in an entirely acceptable time frame is still code that's solving people's problems. And, changes always come with a higher cost and risk than most developers imagine - especially in big systems.
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AROS already exists pretty much for this reason.
Thanks, the word hadn't reached my sector.
Capitalism ruins everything fun? Not sure I follow. There are so many amazing APIs available now, which aren't as frictionless as using Unix tools -- but why would they be? Unix tools are installed locally and don't fall under the same constraints as communicating with an external system. It's apples and oranges.

I was just using an API the other day to validate addresses. It's an amazing thing, being able to hit an endpoint and not worry about the myriad of complex processes that must happen for that validation. If that's capitalism, I'd say it's pretty good.
Eevblog is a pretty solid place.
I just changed jobs in Melbourne about a month and a half ago and had no trouble.

The only thing you need to be careful of is your starting salary, as the cost of living in Australia will probably be considerably higher than you're used to.
Is it possible to embed blab? Looks very clean and simple, would be nice to use it as a part of a blog post.
It makes me feel ill, and prevents the so far unlikely chance I'll contract the flu.

I don't feel like the risk-reward is there, because the few times I've had the vaccine I have felt terrible afterwards, and as far as I know I have never had the flu.
While I'm sure that's an opinion held by some, it seems unreasonable when you have both EXPORT_SYMBOL and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. If there is no distinction, then why does one exist? I think there's a good argument to be made regarding the intent of the application of the license across the API.
Genetic algorithms were hot in the '90s. Then it turned out they kinda sucked.
The 'lack of confidence' led me to mentally enjoy competitions because I then don't have to query people to know my place.
Because Drupal is a horrible, horrible system with a flawed architecture that promises a lot and never fails to under-deliver.

(Sorry, I worked at an agency that sold a lot of oversold drupal6 projects)
Does that mean it's a bad public policy? For comparison, lots of public transit development is pushed through by developers who have an interest in their property values going up, but that doesn't make the results a bad thing.

The separation of traffic of different speeds has popped up in different countries and for different modes of transportation repeatedly, because the logic of the situation makes it make sense. In this case, a fast car loses a lot if its utility if it's limited by slower traffic that it's sharing the road with. The existence of car-only roads added value, and from the perspective of a society just introducing the technology, if that reduced the space available to pedestrians then so be it.

I think there's a good argument to be made that too much land has been allocated exclusively to motor transport, especially in city centers, but the existence of such dedicated thoroughfares makes total sense.
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Does it support to import big datasets? If so, would the performance of browser hurts?
It's simpler than that, and doesn't rely on any far-fetched conspiracy theories.

Nobody's actually trying or colluding to stifle innovation, they're just trying to abuse patent law to make money, with gross disregard for the purposes of patent law or the broader consequences of their actions. Perverse incentives can produce much of the same harms as a broad conspiracy, without the impracticality and implausibility of collusion.

The Eastern District of Texas and the Federal Circuit have both undergone regulatory capture, which can be incredibly damaging to the public interest even when the regulators' intentions are quite innocent.
>The lack of educated citizens with critical thinking skills is overwhelming.

Very true, and very much a bummer. I really like that part of the state otherwise. I've spent some time out in Quitman and have considered moving out that way working remotely. I don't think I could ever get over that hump though.
This came out of a game design class on Thursday night (10/29). How many ideas can you folks generate by Halloween night? Feel free to re-post this elsewhere.
http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
It's missing the ability to build an automated process. Clipboard operations are designed to be manual.
The one with free knowledge and kittens and no ads and SaaS bullshit.
How polite, the British police ask for access, while the Americans just barge right in.

I mean, I don't have proof, beyond my experience when the police came a knocking.
It's got to be that part of the Big Dig where you go underground and all the GPS signals cut out, and you also have to make a poorly labeled exit, right? Or maybe circling round and round Logan, and winding back up downtown by the aquarium because you missed the turn?
Possibly stupid question: is metcalfe's law always n^2? Or in real life does n log n model the growth in value better?
As someone else who works in this space, this rings incredibly true.

I get the sense that the reality of any medical exchange format is 50% data structuring and 50% legal structuring.

Which is unfortunate... as lawyers aren't very good at commenting their code for non-legal professionals.
Looks really cool. I am doing a project that relies heavily on Google Street View photos, and having an open dataset would be amazing. Is there any guarantee that Mapillary will always offer the user-contributed photos to the public for free download? And if they disappear, that all the photos will still be available?