skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that "padding" is necessary. It is called estimation because there is some level of uncertainty. Part of your job as a consultant is ensuring that the client is aware of and comfortable with this level of risk. I bill by the hour, so my risk is mitigated, while my clients know from experience that I tend to deliver on time and rarely have them go over budget (that is where your estimation ability comes in). If you are doing project-based pricing (as others advocate), then I assume a more significant amount of "padding" is called for, to limit your risk.
Gotcha, I must have missed the context and taken your comment too literally.
Personally, I filter out one and five star reviews. To me, five stars means when you use the product, Jesus appears before you. One star means I ordered a cable and received a dead crab instead (pretty sure there's an XKCD that covers the last one).

But others don't agree with my rating system, so "ordered blue, but it was robin egg blue. Werst company evar!!!11" means one star. Five stars means "I work for the company that makes these, or I'm otherwise being paid to write this, or I simply didn't give a lot of thought to how rating systems work."

In this case, the cable fulfills most of the requirements, misses a some of them, but might work for your use case, so two stars.
Checking slashdot, they appear to have filters in their comments for things like 'insightful' and 'imformative'. Thinking more along the lines of being able to rate things like the veracity and tact of the response, with automatic filtering and prevalence based on a few metrics.
> dzdt says that this device does NOT probe the edges

A Cesium clock on board a 747 will slow down even though the 747 will not be flying at relativistic speeds. It's just that it's a clock good enough to show a very small difference.

They are measuring a very small, barely detectable, force.
This happens very often. It's not until you start noticing it that you start noticing it.
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What's worse in the cheap accessories market is it is highly likely that groups of companies are buying and repackaging the exact same cables from the same manufacturer and slapping their own names and part numbers on them. So even if two companies are legitimately different, the product may not be.
> Microsoft's new direction under their new CEO is one surprise after another.

I don't know about that, it all seems fairly logical. Don't forget that Microsoft is primarily a "business business" rather than a software business (ie. optimizing for business longevity above all else).

Microsoft appears to have practically perfected the game of "maintaining vendor lock-in in an otherwise open ecosystem". That game requires "giving in" at times, when it is no longer viable (in the long term) to compete with other options.

A good example of this is the open-sourcing of .NET. I don't believe for a second that this was a change of heart of a developer or even a team - it is far more likely that Microsoft is realizing the increasing shift away from Windows and .NET, and towards more 'open' platforms (whether Python, Node.js, Ruby, Golang, or whatever else).

It is in their best interest to make .NET open-source, as it allows them to maintain their foothold in the application development community - it still has direct integration with the rest of their products (and thus incentivizes picking MS as a vendor), but can now compete on openness.

You can see something similar for Windows 10, and it being given away for free. Both OS X and Linux are increasingly eating away at Windows' marketshare. By offering it for 'free' to existing Windows users (ie. nearly everybody), they can attempt to win users back, as it is now offered at the same price (in the eyes of the consumer).

Throughout the existence of Microsoft, they have consistently pushed the boundary of vendor lock-in and marketshare, trying to keep it as closed as possible but as open as necessary. The more recent decisions from Microsoft are not surprising to me at all - they are simply the result of a rapidly changing computing landscape. Microsoft hasn't changed, their environment has.
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that wasn't always the case. i remember times where pv could be faster on a lot of forks.
however you can't compare pv/hvm vs kvm vs hyperv since the difference between pv and hvm is caused by a totally other aspect than the comparsion between hvm, kvm and hyperv.
also note hyperv got way better in windows server 2012.

also note that fork() involvs "lots of" io computations which
could also be a driver problem and they evolved in newer kernels, too. and also fork() could syntactially be different on hosts with ballooning and hosts without. especially on kvm.

edit: as of today we switched to hvm instances (however we are on many many micros so that performance boost is likewise zero)
on our inhouse hardware we are varying between kvm and vmware. however I dislike vmware more and more. vcenter is just unusable (flash) and consumes a shitload of memory. so mostly we use vmware api calls which makes vmware unnecessary somewhat. also we sell our software as a appliance with a xenserver host and mostly we tested our software an all ends and we are mostly disk io driven and that barely changes between them. there are some aspects that could improve performance but that depends more on how you configured your virtual disk.
Software for medical devices. A lot of my clients are very early stage (e.g. prototype development) so the regulatory burden is not as high as during commercialization. That said, one of my current projects is writing an updated SAD (software arch. doc) for a decent size application.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted (perhaps for singling out China/HK?), I've had problems like this on Amazon as well when buying chargers/cables.
Unfortunately, it's very hard to identify the exact camera position, since alignment of foreground objects can be matched from different positions at the expense of matching the original perspective. Old cameras had huge imaging plates, with low crop factors, I suspect what happens with a lot of these old/new match-ups is that the photographer is standing far from the original spot to achieve "best possible" alignment with the foreground crop - which of course screws up your perspective. You could align against the background, but then you'll have poor alignment on the foreground.

Cleaning up the crop/zoom in photoshop does not help you unless you are shooting from the exact same spot to get the same perspective.

http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2014/08/15/debunking-the-m...
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If you're comfortable deploying to AWS, I'm building an open source and free platform, Convox, that addresses your setup and deployment questions.

Here are a couple guides that walk you through your first Docker cloud deployment:

http://convox.github.io/docs/getting-started/
http://convox.github.io/docs/getting-started-with-docker/

This gives you a private build and registry service that are secured in your own VPC and accessable only through authenticated API calls.

The software that sets this all up is open source and free, but you do pay for your AWS usage (EC2, ELB and S3).

Servers know how to fetch the new version by issuing one `release` command that triggers zero-downtown rollout on the EC2 Container Service (ECS).
To be fair to Opal, although some maintainers were extremely dismissive and one is personally transphobic, they did agree to institute a Code of Conduct for the project, which is a great step.
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companies doding bad reviews means that companies with good reviews will stand out, making selection easier.

as a consumer, i don't care about crappy products unless i end up purchasing them. i can avoid crappy products by only going for products with explicit positive reviews that i can trust. sure a grey area will continue to exist, but whitelisting is still effective for reviews, even if we can't blacklist.
Go Forth Where?
Can't speak for this particular application but just off the top of my head you could use NLP to aggregate news based on more complex queries. Instead of saying "grab the most popular article" you could say something like "grab the most popular articles that talk about both Hillary Clinton in a positive tone and Bernie Sanders in a negative tone and is about the economy."
Snappy packages are definitely containers in the sense that they 'contain' an application along with all its (runtime library) dependencies. Think of containers in order of size/scope like this:

1. Physical appliances.

2. Virtual machine images.

3. Docker images.

4. Snappy packages (and similar)

At the top we have an actual physical piece of vendor-chosen hardware that "contains" a vendor-controlled application and execution environment. The end user has almost no control.

Then comes virtual machine images which "contain" a vendor-controlled application inside a vendor-chosen operating system.

Up next we have Docker images which "contain" a vendor-chosen execution environment and application but run inside the end user's chosen operating system (in a special sandbox).

Lastly we have Snappy packages which "contain" an application and it's build/run time dependencies but run just like a regular application with user-controlled restrictions (via AppArmor).
I see no reason why to buy anything but Anker.

I once tried to purposely destroy an Anker MicroUSB cable (bought a 5 pack that had three 3ft, one 6ft, one 1ft, didn't need the 1ft), by grabbing the head of it with clamping pliers and yanking the fuck out of it with the cable wrapped around my hand, and bending it to near 180 degrees repeatedly for about 5 minutes.

I could not kill it without straight up taking wire cutters to it, which I decided not to do.

The cable still works perfectly, and sits in my junk drawer for when I need to plug something into the front of my case and leave the thing sitting on top of the computer.

Literally any other brand? Most I would have been able to rip the head off the cable after the first few yanks, the few that survived that would have broken the wire pairs inside either from that or from the repeated 180 degree bend.

Remember those original Monoprice USB cables we all bought and loved back in the day? Those didn't survive that abuse, and Monoprice cables have only gotten worse then. And the AmazonBasics USB cables (that I recommend for non-MicroUSB cables (only because Anker doesn't make them, only MicroUSB, Type C, and Lightning))? Don't survive that level of abuse either.

Anker also has the best damned USB chargers for walls and cars I've ever seen (heaviest USB chargers I've ever had, no coil whine, doesn't EZ-Bake itself, shuts off completely when nothing is plugged in), they're just perfectly glorious.
We started our company because I could fund it out of pocket for less than the cost of coffee or lunch for a week, and grow at whatever pace made sense. Even if we only occupy 0.1% of the market ever, we'll be able to pay the salaries of ourselves and our friends and have a lot of room to spare into other projects that we think should be made but probably need more development up front.

This isn't exactly an HN love story, but it's working out well for us so far, and we're learning a lot. I can't say I regret it, and at the moment I know that I would regret if I had gone after funding of some sort. Right now it's just me and the customer, working out who needs what. Third legs need not apply.
"...never storing plaintext master keys on disk, not persisting them in memory, and limiting which systems can connect to the device..."

Translation: We promise to not look at your keys.

Granted, this is most likely better than nothing, especially if you trust AWS, but ideally, you want only the client to have the key material.
Isn't there some kind of SKU/ISBN-like identifier that you could use to prevent that? Enforcing consistency would be tricky, but there should be certain quantifiable properties, especially when proper specifications are involved, to rate against.
IMO, there is a usage problem.

If you define an arbitrary worker type 1 as X, and then graph the % of the workforce, average hours, or change in pay you can see meaningful trends.

However, if you create arbitrary category's and then just look for the largest group or average salary etc. then how you define each group becomes extremely important.

IE: Heart Surgeon with GP ends up an average that nobody really fits.
Yeah, you'd need to cooperate with the manufacturer to "certify" only one exact product, and make sure that the certification is revoked when anything is changed.

The mattress issue actually sounds like a solvable problem, if you're willing to put in the effort. It's just not really worth it when you can also buy mattresses from IKEA or various online retailers which don't engage in those tactics.
I don't want more money; I want more democracy.

Treating our highly skewed wealth distribution strictly as a matter of material welfare is a diversion from the fact that extreme income inequality is evidence of regulatory capture and rent seeking. When war contractors and bankers whisper in the ear of the executive branch to lobby for legislation by executive order and extra judicial legal clarifications (as in the Bush-Ashcroft-Gonzales fiasco), massive anonymous campaign donations are upheld by the supreme court as "free speech", and so on, the wealthy have many times more political influence than you do.

Recall the scandals surrounding massive, secret, quid pro quo political donations by the tycoons of the first Gilded Age; now the supreme court has found that when the rich buy an election they have a legal right to do it in secret. The problem is not that I want more money; it's that our votes are counted in dollars.

This is how we ended up with a regressive tax system (20-30 percent for earned income, %15 for capital gains, %0 percent for offshore “wealth managed” assets), “Torte Reform”, “Bankruptcy Reform”, and plea bargaining, to keep you from having your day in court, privatized prisons, repeal of Glass-Steagall, and all sorts of other rules that structurally advantage people who control capital.

The state arguably sponsors consumer indebtedness: the education, health care, and housing markets are all inflated by government money, and medical and student debts are exempt from bankruptcy. Low interest rates seem to create asset bubbles, and we socialize the losses by bailing out banks but not individuals. A good life means more than just “three meals a day” eaten in prison, on parole, or as an indentured servant.

“In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.” Anatole France
You know, if you're doing work, or going into enclosed spaces, you really should just get the best gas detector you can get your hands on. It's a lot better than dying.

I worked for a short time at an installation that refurbished small oil rigs. It's about the worst kind of modern work environment: lots of poisonous substances (eg. heavy oil/crude leftovers), welding in closed spaces, tight crawlspaces and the whole thing is a basically a set of Faraday cages, so both VHF and cell reception is pretty bad.

Basically when you opened up a tank, you'd first have someone lower down a high precession meter to sample it over 12 hours. If that looked good, you have at least two gas meters per team, and the team is in constant contact with someone outside (either by said crappy VHF, and/or supplemented with a rope - pull the rope every minute - sound the alarm if the signalling stops, and send in a rescue team. If you figure an excellent 5 minutes from alarm to the team is inside, that's 6 minutes without air).

Worst accident we had was due to faulty documentation: a rig had stopped over and done an undocumented paint job. A team was repainting that section, on the inside of an enclosed space (a shaft) while another team was doing hot work (welding and/or cutting) on the outside. The old paint on the inside had cadmium in it - the result was 5-7 people airlifted to the hospital with cyanide poisoning.
Ask HN: How did you build your portfolio (online and off)?
At some point in the next 1-2 years, I'd like to start doing more consulting work and work from home.

I applied for a few remote jobs and almost all of them asked for a portfolio. So my question is:

1. How do I build a portfolio? I've only worked for big companies, most of the projects are in-house, so I can't show them to anyone. Are personal projects good for portfolios (assuming they are done well)?

2. I can make websites, create content, help with content strategy etc. I'm decently good in these, but not the best in any. How do I narrow down? Or do I just stay as a jack of all trades?
I don't think we know if Google "let" him yet. Most companies have very strong policies against things like this...
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Companies used to have a single secretary for each executive, manager, and other mid level worker. Mad Men isn't exaggerating.

For the very high end employees, sectaries morphed into admin assistants. Executives and other other very high level people still get a single assistant.

But the junior executives and middle management don't have a designated assistants. They may share one with many other employees. But most of them just do a lot of the work themselves or have underlings do it in addition to their other work.

I work in the legal field, one of the few that still has secretaries. Our office space is set up with a secretary desk right outside each attorney office. But now I share my secretary with NINE other attorneys.

My mom is a secretary. She's gone from working for one executive to essentially being the secretary for the entire staff.

So yes, the title and role changed. But there still has been a massive reduction.
Why is weird? you do spect that Spring MVC gives you a full Restful experience?, it can give you a good REST experience, but is not for that, the same case with ASP.NET MVC is not spected to give a premier example is RESTFul services that is why Web API exists, and as someone who has used both, Java and .NET, I can tell you that Web API is simpler and as powerfull.
I have been doing this since 1998 with perl and cron for my own systems and I can say it works great. Combine that with a ram disk and I can handle the load with a couple small machines that would typically require a big farm using dynamic content for everything.
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Looks like Google is doing an amazing service for customers in this area.

Not only they are using a standard plug and thus not locking you into buying accessories from them, which seem reasonably priced anyway, but they even test a lot of other cables in the market and tell you how compatible they are both with their own products and even with the products of competitors with quite different practices.
Unfortunately, there is not. Amazon will often group similar unbranded products together under the same ASIN.

(This was a particularly serious issue for Arduino a few years ago, when Amazon started listing genuine Arduino products under the same ASIN as third-party clones: https://blog.arduino.cc/2013/07/10/send-in-the-clones/)
That story has been repeated many times with Linux/BSD device drivers; expert kernel developers are much better at writing drivers than anyone working for hardware companies.
> The relentless decline in the proportion of prime-aged US adults in the labour market indicates a significant dysfunction. It deserves attention and analysis. But it also merits action.

It prompts the question-- if you're not employed or underemployed, what are you doing? How do you spend your days?
This is very common among Googlers, and it bugs me because so many buy into it without further question, but in every case here, the reviewer also includes a detailed analysis describing how he came to his conclusion, rather than merely implying authority, and his reference to Google seems only to be in his capacity as working on a product team that might explicitly care about quality of accessories in a first generation technology (if USB PD can still be considered in its first-gen phase).

Would not be surprised at all if he expensed every single one of these purchases. He's doing God's work, we shouldn't be complaining here. :)
I'm tired of repeating myself, so I'll just say it one more time. Evolution is gradual. There is no turning point in time before which the English had rule of law and after which they did. It doesn't work like that. Nothing works like that. The binary sense you're looking for doesn't exist.

The continuous sense does exist, but you have to deeply analyze historical events to ascertain distinguishing factors. You have to have analyzed numerous other countries to see how they play out with different polities, different cultures, different geopolitical imperatives. How the Soviets used law, how the Chinese use it. People find all kinds of ways to collect power. Other people oppose them.

Things are cultural and not just codified. You can't just look at a collection of facts and make the determination. Politics is messy. The concrete sense you're looking for doesn't exist. I've laid out a lot of rationale and historical context to lay out what the terrain of rule of law looks like, how it's threatened, protected, and codified; and analyzed four different countries in four different time periods.

This is a lay hobby of mine so I can't claim any kind of authority here. I could understand if you disagree with my findings. But neither of you have offered up any substantive analysis of your own or your own definition. Just isolated incidents in history with no surrounding context. I try to provide that context and it seems like I'm talking to a brick wall. You can't just cherry-pick events and expect that to be very insightful, all people do when they do that is reinforce their existing beliefs.
The National Geographic Channel has been with FOX for much longer than a few months. I can't seem to find the date when FOX became involved, but it predates this acquisition by many years. This latest acquisition is just a furthering of the takeover of National Geographic by FOX.
Can you do this sort of thing in Coinbase?