skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re looking into time-series based monitoring/alerting, I’ve been delighted with http://prometheus.io/.

I’m mentioning this because I previously tried to use OpenTSDB for monitoring (back when prometheus and others didn’t exist), and found it too cumbersome to run (not packaged in Debian, requires an underlying HBase instance, etc.) for my taste. Many more recently created projects, such as Prometheus, come pre-packaged in a Docker container and can run on a single host — often they’re even a single binary.
I read stories like this, and I wonder: does washing rice for 3 years really make your sushi that much better? The way sushi chefs talk about sushi makes it sound like there's some sort of massive, order-of-magnitude difference between them and the "sushi men". But at the end of the day, it's still fundamentally fish over rice.

I can't help but wonder: if you look at the high-end sushi biz with perfect objectivity, is it one of those "Joe Biden eating a sandwich" things? And if not, why aren't most other "quick" foods susceptible to this level of rigor and scrutiny?

Guess I'll have to visit Japan to find out.
Leonardo's rule, self-similarity and wind-induced stresses in trees (2011)
Yeah, 10 people start using this thing and it become really slow unfortunately due to the way I have to get the data. I have a feeling that there is a smarter way to actually get the data though instead of doing it at every page load.... hmm.

Thanks for the comment.
Its a magnet now, but there's still a mustache on the car and it still looks stupid as hell.
I did Ignite 4 years ago (when it was called Ignite 100). It was a brilliant experience, I learned a huge amount about both running a startup and myself, and we raised at the end. We subsequently failed but I don't regret anything about doing it. Ignite now runs in Newcastle, Manchester and London, and has a raft of successful startups in its network. No big exits yet as far as I know, but it's too early for that.

They're doing some innovative things too - Ignite is angel-backed now and they've just run a successful campaign on Seedrs.

Moltin did Ignite before going on to do YCombinator.

Reach out to Paul Smith who runs Ignite (@paul_a_smith on Twitter). He's a really nice chap.
The price performance curve is bad at low traffic, but pretty good compared to most other things out there at the higher end of things.
why would you browse to their homepage for that? its exactly why custom search engines exist, and its sure as hell is faster to write "ia ctrl-v" into your address bar than navigating there...
lol, but isn't your own enthusiasm at least somewhat affected by other peoples' enthusiasm or lack there of?
3 Step Approach to Identify Licensing Opportunities in Circuit Based Patents
I can get the news from other places, I like that the live feed is just the live feed. Once it's done, it's done. Let's not fill it with shit shall we?
Instructions for reproduction are mandatory already. That said, you probably can't pick up any paper and reproduce the experiments exactly without asking the authors a question or two, at least in biology.

Systems are getting increasingly complex as well. In my lab, it literally takes several weeks for people to learn how to do our assay, and that's with constant feedback from an experienced user. Every step is published but that still doesn't help when things don't go according to plan. Also, not every lab has the same equipment. Even if we provided free training, a lab would still need to drop $300k to get all the machines required, which are not common.

Not every result is worth reproducing either. If someone publishes a paper that shows several lines of evidence for the same thing and they've done all reasonable controls, and it doesn't disagree with any existing models, why would you reproduce that? Outside of deliberate fraud, it's a pretty solid bet that it's true, and you can save enormous amounts of time and money by proceeding to build off of it instead of reproducing it first. And that's really what it comes down to: no one's paying you to do this kind of work. Governments would have to fund it, because you're fundamentally asking for twice as much work to be done, which will cost twice as much money (and time).

But take heart: when someone DOES make an outrageous claim, it's very common for labs to try to reproduce it (or really, disprove it). See [1] and [2] for recent examples.

[1] "STAP stem cell controversy ends in suicide for Japanese scientist" http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-stap-ste...
[2] "Water bears’ genetic borrowing questioned" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/water-bears%E2%80%99-gen...
"The Hawthorne effect (also referred to as the observer effect) is a type of reactivity in which individuals modify or improve an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed."
A white female friend of mine has worked as a sushi chef. She'd already been through a culinary academy and worked as a line chef at a high end restaurant. She just saw sushi as an additional skill.
I've used at times it to crash the program (core dump), producing a cleaner stack than abort().
Building the Minimum Badass User (2013)
Adding a TLDR since this post seems very interesting but is already below halfway to the bottom:

"This article introduces Hydra, the open source micro service alternative to proprietary authorization solutions. It will take you less than five minutes to start up a OAuth2 provider and gain access to a rich features set, including access control and identity management."
>If the cars aren't parked, they are contributing to congestion. And since commutes aren't generally balanced[...] that car is going to be loitering around SF somewhere

You're right, traffic patterns are not balanced, so the cars returning to the hot areas for pickups will not be contributing to the traffic in the most-congested direction.

Also, SF already has BART, Caltrain, and SF Muni. I'm not familiar with the specific history here, but transit and housing are the limiting factors for where people live in the first place, so the number of commuters will expand when capacity increases. The better question is, what if SF didn't build those systems? It wouldn't be San Francisco today minus the trains, it'd be a totally different San Francisco. So you can't really take the ridership numbers from today as evidence that city couldn't cope without trains.

Also, this was all happening when self-driving cars were not around the corner. It's a different story today.
Simplification is the Technology Trend for 2016
That's true, even with less pressure it would have been in their reach to work on those projects. Seems strange to be just happening now.
I think it's great how Elon uses Twitter. It's better than him being a shadowy figure shrouded in mystery. Remember, he's doing this primarily for the passion, not money, and he wants to inspire others to join him. You don't do that by being a Mr ??? sat in the background.
Researchers Solve Juniper Backdoor Mystery; Signs Point to NSA
Techie mom develops watch to keep close tabs on children
I'm really surprised that we haven't seen more phone + car integrations. I realize CarPlay is on a few models, but you'd think it would be all over the place by now.
Prometheus is for smaller problems. You have to manage your own sharding with prometheus, so it doesn't work for handling large volumes of data unless you are willing to do complex automation for a large number of disparate replication topologies. This works fine at Soundcloud, where it came from, because the teams there like keeping their monitoring systems isolated from each other because they don't trust each other.

For problems where you require a single source of truth for high volumes of data, you can't really justify that kind of effort for the data management when distributed databases have been created to solve this problem.

Prometheus is nice and featureful, but it makes me laugh when the proponents (usually [ex-]soundcloud folks) brag about how scalable it is.

Side note: they love to say that because it's pull based, that magically makes it more scalable. This is a crock of shit. Push vs Pull doesn't get you out of capacity planning, and from this perspective they are identical in terms of throughput requirements. Pull means you need a single source to know about a ton of endpoints. Push means you need a ton of sources to know about a single endpoint. Which one is simpler to operate? They say it's more scalable because when they failed to properly do capacity planning, it hid their dropped data more effectively and their dashboards kept running, oblivious to the degredation.
Yeah, I still have a newspaper clipping on my wall from Aug 21st, 1993 (San Jose Mercury News) showing it in the take off, hover, and landing stages. I really wanted to work on it then too!
This is why the world thinks we need designers... In this case I think a designer is needed, the layout falls short in conventional layout terms - grids, use of white space, things just lining up properly.

Give it another go, take on board what people have said here about it looking to busy and get the form to have function and look good!

You can do the bit that some manager would hand over to a designer, that designer not necessarily as good as you at understanding the task, or the 'how it works' bit of design.
Seems nice. Apparently Apache Licensed as well.
I love this type of thing - it shows those of us who spend their lives pontificating that Britain should be more British by halting immigration are arguing such a deeply contradictory argument (as if it wasn't obvious enough already)

Really, the best thing is to remember we're all just human beings, and should try our best to try and look after one another as best as possible.
Please, please stop making Login-with-Facebook-only apps.
This new application development model could have a profound impact on infrastructure and operations professionals. It could basically remove the need for ops workers to provision infrastructure, or even manage virtual machines and the operating systems that run on top of them. It enables a devops model that gives coders almost complete control over building and managing the life cycle of an application – from development through to managing it in production. I'm curious if this will be adopted on more projects in the next couple of years.
I learned to read very early through nothing more than being read to. No flashcards, no phonics, no refrigerator magnets. Of course the books my parents started with had small words and lots of pictures, as appropriate for a beginning reader, but they were not even explicitly trying to get me to read -- they were just trying to stimulate my mind generally.

This is just one more anecdote, of course, but I think it's an interesting contrast to Sanger's story. Because of my experience I am a little skeptical of the whole phonics and sounding-out-words thing. While the connection between sound and spelling is certainly not arbitrary, English is not exactly phonetically spelled either. I suspect an excessive emphasis on phonics makes it harder for kids to learn to spell.

But that's a quibble. I think it's great that Sanger has done this and would encourage any parents so inclined to do similarly.

Edited to add: reading on, I come to this line:

Some critics say that, even if very small children of average or low intelligence can memorize words, they’re just memorizing the overall shape of the word—they aren’t sounding out the words or learning phonics, and so they aren’t really reading.

By the logic of these critics, Chinese speakers never "really" learn to read! Obviously, I quite disagree. I think recognition of the shape of the word is very much reading, and makes one a better speller too.
But here’s the thing: In many respects, I also recommend eating with a white sushi chef. He’s probably had to train a lot harder and knows a little bit more about what is actually going on then, let’s say, someone who can just land a sushi job just because he is Asian; in that sense, they literally bring nothing to the table besides being Asian.

yeah, after your story of how common it is to be beaten or forced to wash rice and fish for years among sushi apprentices, it makes sense that asian sushi chefs got their jobs 'literally' for being asian. oh also they're dumb

(additionally, it's ludicrous to use 'asian' as a stand-in here: any non-japanese prospective apprentice would likely be treated with disdain)
I think Google's speech recognition has vastly evolved in the recent two years, in terms of both speed and accuracy.

But I do notice some glitches in search from time to time. Hard to say it is a trend, but sometimes I do feel such mistake should be avoided if it is Google.
The other important factor is how many times you get to re-use the stage, because that tells you the saving per launch. If you get to re-use it once, then on each flight you save 37.5% of the launch cost. If you re-use it again twice (3 launches of the first stage) you save 50% of the launch cost per flight (each flight costs you 1/3 of the first stage cost). And so on. That's not factoring in refurb and re-fueling costs, of course.
Tell toddler to teach you;
That's the correct choice, although it would have been nicer to review it (if possible).

That said, huge commits can be ok if they can (a) be reviewed very quickly, (b) be entirely generated by a script (review the script, and ensure that running it generates the proposed change), or (c) are small under e.g. git diff -w.

Incidentally, removing $SubversionThingy$ from the header of each file in a moderately-sized repository is enough to break the FishEye code reviewing tool...
There's a lot of value to just jumping into things. Especially learning new things where there's no risk other than learning something that you might not end up using- but will certainly help you down the road regardless of its actual utility.
There has to be a peak for those who may be naturally higher intelligence, and being surpassed by those with lower natural intelligence who have a broad basis to draw on down the road from all the learning experiences they jumped on.

As for the physical stuff, I can't say you're wrong to think this way but reading that gave me a mental image of a boy in a bubble, wearing a body condom.
This is going very quickly from

> Nothing to worry about, I trust the people in charge
> to do the right thing, after all they did show better
> judgement in the past

to

> We hope the people in charge know what they are doing

The worst part is this (Narendra Modi/BJP led) government is enjoying popular support these days due to the progressive steps that they have taken as far as public spending on development and infrastructure are concerned. These appear to be well thought out and are pro-development (albeit might also be involved in cronyism)

However, in this one instance the government seems to think that Facebook's Free Basics thing is a 'Good Thing'. I hope better sense prevails !
Nice site. The only problem is that it never mentions free software or GNU/Linux. "Open source" has never been about the user. https://prism-break.org may be better.
I knew Ryan pretty well when we worked together several years ago and I can honestly say he is a really nice guy that is passionate about technology. I am not totally conversant about the issues happening here but I'm sure about that.
The Importance of Backlinks
Sushi by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijin ?
SpaceX Lands Falcon 9 First Stage on Earth
So the way to get things fixed is to get it on the front page of HN? How predictable :(
> not sure, but the internals were supposed to be MUCH cleaner and easier to work with.

I've bookmarked this bit of GCC code for my own amusement - an anecdote about the quality of GCC's codebase:

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/7057506456ba18f080679...
One use case for Usenet searches is to see early examples of langues use on the Internet. Without any ability to modify the date this search is impossible.

And really for many searches not being able to likit the date means searching Google's usenet archive is hopeless.
This accurate:
https://vine.co/v/iKPTghqF0LA
If one is drunk, driving a car increases your chances of dying. Having a fast car will increase those chances too. :)
Well, things work much better in crypto (not proof-of-work, but the "real" one).
Will probably get some downvotes for the raw criticism, but your redesign is a regression in usability for both the carrier and the recipient:

In the actual, the fields where the poor guy/girl actually has to write are large spacious to allow the delivery person to write quickly (and sloppily).

Also, notice how Final Notice is bigger than the rest of the text? That's because it's important. This is one example of confusing typographical priority.

I'll just stop there.
That I can remember right now, I've taken the subway/train in New York, Boston, Chicago, London, San Francisco, and DC. Some of them are really great, others are not (looking at you, Green Line on the Boston T). Building these systems was almost certainly a great idea at the time.

My main point is that technology is now changing and I think that de-centralized mass-transit through fleets of automated cars is close at hand. And it can use the infrastructure that we already have. So building super-expensive fixed-line transit infrastructure within cities is not a good investment anymore. Even more so when you consider the turnaround time from initial planning to opening to the public is probably a decade.
Somewhere I read that EV certs (green bar) are slower because of an additional round trip or so. If it is the case, can someone point me to an article that explains this?
> And don't even get me started on the worst usability disaster of the last 5 years: Material design.

Would be interested to hear it. To me it seems to work pretty well in the Google Maps app on mobile - mostly intuitive. What problems do you see?
I updated the styling. Should be better :).
OpenTSDB itself is pretty easy to configure, the tsds are stateless and you can spin up some for ingest, some for frontend/grafana etc by blanket applying a small config file. You can use any of TCP, HTTP, or DNS load balancing to handle failure depending on how you ingest. It's easy enough to build packages for, and we recently committed it to FreeBSD ports where you can get a whole up to date HDFS/HBase stack without 3rd party garbage.

The hard part is HBase and to a lesser degree HDFS.. there are just a lot of things to read and learn about, and failure to address one of them will eventually cause interesting struggles. That said, my company looked at the field in 2012 and chose OpenTSDB, and it's handled things well enough considering fairly poor configuration of HBase. We recently reevaluate the space and tried Influx and Karios. Influx fell on its face in several ways that will take years to fully iron out, Kairos trades one set of evil for another, so we decided to do some learning and redeploy OpenTSDB correctly. As far as open source options, it's far ahead in the battle hardened department.

If you want to consider it, I would advise checking out some of the slides/videos on http://www.hbasecon.com/ - these two being the most critical:

* OpenTSDB and AsyncHBase Update

* HBase Performance Tuning @ Salesforce

HBase seems pretty vibrant. There's been a lot of progress with things like WAL shipping and performance tweaks like SSD block caching, off GC heap support, read access from multiple regionservers. OpenTSDB plugs along at a slower pace, but it's much more professional than i.e. Influx changing storage engines 5 time and getting worse with each. The OpenTSDB 2.2 release looks really exciting and fixes some hard high rate problems for both reads and writes: http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/new.html#id1

In the commercial space, Circonus looks pretty interesting and comes built and recommended by people I trust. It goes a lot farther than metrics storage. I wasn't able to get my management to do more than a video call to really dig in and evaluate it myself.
Reddit is a much worse form of Usenet.

You're limited to the reddit clients; you're limited to what admins allow; and you're limited to what mods allow.
I personally don't think that years spent washing rice will improve the taste of the food, but it may give the chef an appreciation for what he's doing.

The biggest difference between sushi joints is quality of fish. Everywhere in Japan can get fresh fish daily. The best I've had outside Japan was in Tenerife at the fish market in Santa Cruz. A lot of foreign places skimp because they don't care and neither do their customers. In Japan you wouldn't want to be known as "the guy who makes crappy sushi".

In the same vein, does the Japanese tea ceremony produce objectively better tea? Probably not, but it's a ritual.
I believe using the squash command while interactively rebasing to turn your legion of small commits into a single one will automatically append all of the small commit messages into the final commit message.
FYI: Posted Thursday 19 March 2015, so not a "new genetic map" anymore

Here's a similar map for all of Europe that isn't as fine-grained as OP's: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2735096/figure/F...
If you want to make your kids smarter, read books/stories with them! It will make them better at understanding the context, making them better readers when they get older.
That's how the Furby Boom is able to interact with the iPad app ... only problem is, I can still hear the damn noises despite being 35!
What happens to 2nd stage after payload separation? Does it become space junk?
They did at one point, or else they wouldn't have anointed the ECGS fork of GCC as the official version back in the day.
I guess this would be a good place to point out that we are hiring! :-)

http://www.spacex.com/careers
You obviously didn't read the thing.
This sounds like people saying that all academic research should be product-oriented. If you had a project with defined goals and clear benefit to the company you'd get it on the schedule and call it work. 20% time is for the other stuff, where you don't know where its going or if it'll be worth it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCBE8ocOkAQ

Looks pretty close.
What do you mean “its posts were not immediately displayed”? You were always able to see you own posts immediately, and it would take just a few seconds for a post to propagate globally.
How many people are there in space right now?
One of the less nice aspects of East Asian cultures. It's quite interesting how it seems to bypass many otherwise intelligent people's woo detectors.

When I was 14 I had a smart European teacher, who was into zen buddhism. He told of how people were beaten with sticks when they meditated to improve focus or posture or whatever.
Radiate – a development devops task runner
Of all the non technical people I know, exactly zero know that hibernate even exists as an option. Everyone just switches off the pc when done.
I can't answer your question but I don't think sushi is just fish over rice.

I just came back from Tokyo where I visited several highly regarded sushi restaurants. Rice and especially the temperature for which it's served is highly important. I ate a chirashi bowl and while the fish on top was excellent, I was actually more impressed with the rice. I also like how there's that perfect balance. The chef makes a piece of nigiri and you put it in your mouth. No need for extra soy sauce or wasabi. The fish melts in your mouth. On one day, I went to an excellent restaurant for sushi at lunch and didn't have plans for dinner so I stopped into a kaiten (conveyer belt) sushi place. I left after eating 2 plates (4 pieces). I had eaten at this kaizen place before and enjoyed it but after having a great experience for lunch, I just couldn't do it.