skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice post.

Can you clarify your last sentence? What do you mean by "preference for operational reasoning"? What's an example of the more effective methods for reasoning about programs at scale that you're contrasting this to?
Smartphone-based system does job of pancreas, treats type 1 diabetes
This is surprisingly easy to pull off, especially if you have good senses of absurdity and perspective.

As noir_lord mentions, just don't take it personally.
The first thing that I tried was a full VACUUM ANALYZE and then re-ran the same query. It didn't help. Therefore modifying autovacuum won't help.

Adjusting internal costs is promising, but I'd like to avoid going there exactly because of the possible negative side effects that you mention.
10-ish years are the kind of payback I saw when I looked into it. My electricity bill is about $100/month--so ~$1K/year is about the most I could save if I bought solar panels.

Companies like SolarCity can make the math more complicated. And in all fairness they can probably take advantage of various breaks and subsidies I may not have access to as a consumer. However, it's like a car purchase. I'm skeptical that some lease agreement suddenly makes a purchase sensible that wouldn't be with a straightforward cash on the barrel buy.
Here is something else: provably correct code can demonstrate unacceptable complexity for some input cases. We know from the proof that it will halt and the result will be correct: in 200 years on the given hardware. You have to add a time bound as a requirement specification to avoid this, or a constraint on the complexity (e.g. "the implementation must use no algorithm slower than quadratic time in such and such inputs").
How many times has the federal government tried something that didn't work and frankly admitted the failure?
Very interesting! My question is, does it work in email? At least, it might be worth trying.
NASA's achievements have been impressive, to be sure. I don't want to discount that. However, it has accumulated some inefficiencies and some stagnation over the decades.

What NASA has achieved, they've done so with over $1 trillion in inflation-adjusted capital funds over the decades, that have been allocated to them.

What is debatable is whether or not they've made or always made efficient use of the capital they've been allocated.

Space X has innovated on a number of fronts with less than 1500 employees and only a fraction of the capital that NASA has been allocated. For one, the Space Shuttle program was costing the U.S. $450 million+ per launch. A Falcon 9 launch costs an average of $57 million. There is proof that he can allocate capital better than the government.
> once you get past fighting the compiler

Actually, it's the very process of “fighting the compiler” (as you call it, though I prefer to view it as collaboration between a human who knows what he wants and a program whose logic codifies what is possible) that makes it easier to write correct programs in Rust/Haskell/ML/$FAVORITE_TYPEFUL_LANGUAGE.
> Back before 2008, I used to teach my students that during a disturbance in the business cycle, we'd be 40 percent of the way back to normal in a year. The long-run trend of economic growth, I would say, was barely affected by short-run business cycle disturbances. There would always be short-run bubbles and panics and inflations and recessions. They would press production and employment away from its long-run trend -- perhaps by as much as 5 percent. But they would be transitory.

Wait, how do you know this isn't the long-term trend now?
> I'd have expected Rust proponents to have a link on-hand for this to
> a guide that teaches this stuff in a way to reduce the effect.

I mean, yeah, I can link you to several. But reading a bunch of rules isn't the same as programming with them for a long time. Even once you understand the rules, the compiler will still catch you. If humans could reliably program safely without the compiler being involved, well, Rust wouldn't need to exist; C and C++ code would be written in a safe way.

Anyway, like I said, I'm doing my best. More experience reports is the only way that I can do that, basically :)
There isn't much confusion at all if you don't have any filters then it's clearly marked on the thumbnail of the video.
When you search you can select filters.
Depending on the app you use (browser, amazon firetv, mobile, smart tv etc.) you also (at least on my browser, phone and tv) select in the settings to filter out paid content.

Amazon has damn good originals: Alpha House(please make season 3!!!), Hand of God, Bosch, Mozart in the Jungle and TMITHC as well as some of it's new pickups like Sneaky Pete and Patriot (the Patriot pilot and premise was amazing) are much better than most Netflix offers(which for the most part offers allot of esoteric comedy / stand up shows and well orange is the new black which I've never bothered to watch).
At least to my subjective tastes before the Marvel ("webinatic universe?!") shows came about Netflix only had The House of Cards (and well Marco Polo) as far as originals go.
A Crisis Is Bad for Morale, but Good for Toilet Paper Sales
I agree QoS is essential to manage a packet network, you need to be able to buffer less time critical packets such as web / data traffic for more time critical such as voice traffic and so on. I think where that runs into a problem with NN is when you charge a different rate for different levels of service to customers rather than using it to manage your network. The problem with that is that it can potentially lock out innovation. For example, what if a new start up came along to challenge YouTube, if the cost to entry for that startup is prohibitively high, then the incumbent becomes a defacto monopoly.
Sonic boom: why clubs are cranking up the quality instead of the volume
That is some really good perspective. The incorrect C program is a bit of an externality that's felt by QA/testing/customers/etc.

I liken programming w/Rust to programming with C or C++ with warnings and a static analyzer barring object files from being created. If I were new to C/C++, I would probably find it baffling how anyone ever gets it to work.
He's not being rewarded for punching a person, he is being rewarded for being highly entertaining.

He got punished for punching a person (he was fired). Perhaps you think he should have received more punishment and that is valid, but he received no reward for attacking a person. He could have made the same move without getting fired first, and it would have probably been much easier.
Oh, I agree. A basic google-search should have been enough to tip them off. And it seems they didn't even do that, so shame on them. I'm just saying their pre-search reaction is probably justified.
Does anyone know whether Netflix should be concerned with the data Amazon acquires from streaming Netflix videos on its machines, potentially allowing Amazon to use this information for competitive business intelligence? Or are there safeguards in place to prevent this from happening?
Unless you have access to your own data. Perhaps the insurance companies could be forced to share it upon user request, for example. Then the new company knows everything the old one did.
And Rust has other features that no shipping version of C++ has, like full-featured pattern matching, lifetimes, and concepts. These are features you will use hugely more often than template templates and variadic generics.

But really, what's the point? The reasons you'd learn a low-level systems language are to learn how to manage memory and resources, to learn how to explicitly lay out data and to understand how to program without a runtime. Both Rust and C++ will teach you these.
I find trying to be "overly nice" in email can often come off as a little condescending.
>>It is impossible for one person to make a billion dollar 747. One man simply doesn't have enough intelligence or strength to do construct such a sophisticated device.

Yet its easily possibly possibly to start working towards and move in that direction. That's how anything big ever built, was built.

>>Thus why is it possible for one man to make a billion dollars in paper money but it is not possible for one man to make a billion dollar 747?

Because any big thing company, individual wealth or 747 is built on a concept that works similar to stamina. You don't run a marathon on day 1. It takes a good deal of work over years to make a billion dollars.

Ever wondered why some people are so good at saving money even in stifling financial conditions and then make smart investment decisions? Such people have already tried a lot, failed a lot and have a lot of mental stamina and cache of knowledge in their brains which helps them succeed above people who have far better sources of money but have a equally bad spending habits.

>>Billionaires exist only because the paper money was taken from the wealth produced by other people.

Its a symbiosis. But where you want to belong is really upto you. You now have two options a) to work 20 hours a day, be a god programmer, get a job at wall street, make a few millions and retire. b) take life as usual, work 9-5 and be a commoner.

People who take the option a) are not evil. They only have better priorities than you.

>>wealth inequality is a feature of capitalism

Capitalism offers freedom to chose priorities. And that independence is hard to handle for a lot of people.

>>it is fundamentally unfair because it is taken from others.

Nothing is taken from others. If you think about it very carefully, capitalism gives you what you want. Based on how you look at it and what kind of a person you are, it can be very good or terribly bad news.
The answer to your question is - because speed is not the only thing you can judge "safeness" of driving by.

If the driver A drives at a speed limit, but is drunk, or 90 years old, or playing with their phone all the time, or just got their licence two days earlier, they might be actually much more likely to get into an accident than someone who is going faster than the speed limit but is in perfect mental and physical condition.

I'm not trying to excuse speeding, I'm just saying there's a hundred other factors that are just as important when judging how good a driver someone is. And I feel like insurance companies won't care - they will use the sensor data to say "hey, you accelerate really fast from the traffic lights, that must mean you are a really shitty driver and you have to pay more than other drivers!"
This was written in 2012, Its even easier these days by using SQS and Cloud Formation. 250 Million is a small number you are better of first going through Common Crawl and then use data from crawls to build a better seed list.

Common Crawl now contains repeated crawls conducted every few months and also urls donated by blekko.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/common-crawl/zexccXg...
I still don't see how it's a net neutrality problem. Promising "unlimited" and then not providing it is a bad thing, certainly, but it's either false advertising or a failure to abide by the service contract, not a net neutrality violation.
"Purified Beer"
Ironically, FDR's economic policy amounted to "we'll try every kind of beating until morale improves". Completely incoherent market interventions aren't good for markets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession_of_1937–38
Google Fi user here.

I don't think there is any "partnership", the "Wifi Assistant" feature just joins open wifi networks. It does do two neat things: first, it establishes a VPN tunnel through a Google controlled endpoint. Second, they seem to have a database tracking the quality of wifi networks. It won't join networks that are known to be slow, and if a network gets too slow it will automatically disconnect.

In practice though, almost every open wifi network is slow. Much slower than LTE, and certainly not something you could reasonably make a voice call over.

Overall I'm relatively happy with Fi. The service is a little better than T-Mobile (still not as good as AT&T) and the management interface is dead simple. Its what a software startup would build if they went into the cellular carrier business. And for my level of usage (3-4GB/month) the price is similar to T-Mobile.

But don't expect it to save you bandwidth.
Introducing LastPass 4.0
A self-driving flying car? Now I've seen everything.
Yes but so has congress and a good number of its members are fronts various industries' special-interests.
A Solow-humper sees the error of his ways. It's the feel good hit of the new year.
These excerpts are lifted from here:

http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/files/original/5aa48...

But I thought that the NS article did a reasonable job of cherry picking Clinton's humorous exchanges with Blair.
"Kill 'em with kindness!" is what we called it when I was growing up.
Example: Actionhero.js and Bootstrap and Angular (2) and CORS and WS
Yes but so has congress and a good number of its members are fronts various industries' special-interests.

(to be clear, I don't think the EFF catering to T-Mobile's competitors, just that it's a healthy skepticism to have of organizations like it)
PAAS ENABLED EXPRESSION ENGINE  is it a hack?
Just so you know, ' is pretty much always used to designate feet, " is inches. Source: I'm a mechanical engineer in the US.
People just ignore me and I'll eventually just wander off.
Has this guy ever looked at what is actually available for Download on Amazon Video? Everything that is available on Amazon Video is NOT available for download.

During our Holiday road trip, I was excited to use this feature but all that was available was utter trash.

It may be a nice "feature" but if all that is available is outdated 80's movies, its not going to do a lick of good.
State and local levels are the only places where there can be any real experimental reform. Just look at Colorado and the other states that have legalized marijuana by referendum. Direct democracy isn't necessarily better than elected representation, but politicians are motivated by the necessity of power, and so whoever controls the politicians controls the political process. People shouldn't be left up to decide everything, but they should have the power to question the decisions of their representatives and put an issue which garners enough support to a popular vote.
String operations are intrinsically complex by nature. At least they are now in this age that you cannot assume the encoding is always ASCII.

The goodness of this approach is that if you just need to pass around the string, a shallow copy of the first 16 byte block is enough. It might or might not contain the whole of the array, but if you need to know, it means you need to go through all the corner cases, no strcat(small_buffer, unsanitized_user_input), thank you very much!
Twitter stock drops below $20 for first time ever
sure. how can I reach you ?
I remember seeing someone's C++ code at GDC and thinking to myself, "That looks like good Smalltalk!" Everything was intention revealing. Everything was about objects "sending messages" to each other. I've also seen production Smalltalk that might as well have been FORTRAN from the 70's. (Not one instance method or variable in the whole system. Everything was indexed loops.)

The people and the culture/organization of the shop counts for much more than your language. Language counts for something, but it's not where you get the most bang for your buck, and it shouldn't be your first priority!
Sure.

Their hypothesis is that as social animals, we are wired to respond neurologically to status Higher/lower status individuals experience dramatically different levels of certain neurotransmitters, which is something that they cite animal studies to support. Experimentally manipulating the social environment e.g. by placing a monkey in cage where it was surrounded by either smaller or larger peers caused observable changes in brain chemistry as the monkey moved from alpha male status to subordinate and back again.

There's a good argument for an evolutionary role here, as you can see that being on the bottom of a social hierarchy may be dangerous, so those who experienced it as stressful and were motivated to escape it somehow may have had higher chances of survival.

Being trapped in such a position appears to cause a deeply stressful state of mind, where people are literally unable to function normally. This doesn't happen when people are more equal as the perceived status differences are small, so the effect is lessened.
The on by default crap is my rub as well. I was wondering why my video streaming went to shit a month back. Now I know (and have turned it off).

T-Mobile's network is one of the weakest, if not the weakest, of the big 4 telcos. It's theirs or Sprint's. I went with them anyway because they appeared to be "less evil" than Verizon or ATT. But after all is said and done, if I'm a slave to a hostile corporate overload anyway, I may as well get good coverage.

After the last few weeks of T-Mobile and their CEO's shenanigans, I'll just go with Verizon from now on.
This is exactly the goal - these systems are used to ratchet up prices on bad drivers (read them as bad customers), pushing them to other companies.
If there is a competitor then there is no Monopoly. It's not just a semantic exercise.

Note that anti-trust actions, like what happened with MSFT, typically are executed long before a monopoly is established.
What if the democracy is roughly split 50/50 on the issues of what defines social good?
It seems to me that the NRA positions itself to the government as a representative of all gun owners. Around 31% of households in America claim to own guns [1] - so maybe this group shouldn't have so much political sway as it does? I recognize that groups with moderate views are few and far between but the collective "we" that the NRA stands for keeps pushing me further away from it.

[1]: http://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%20Reports/GSS_Trends%20in%20Gun...
FreeBSD seems to have the hurdle that linux had for so many years - hardware support.
> Space X has innovated on a number of fronts with less than 1500 employees and only a fraction of the capital that NASA has been allocated. For one, the Space Shuttle program was costing the U.S. $450 million+ per launch. A Falcon 9 launch costs an average of $57 million. There is proof that he can allocate capital better than the government.

No it's not. The requirements on the two systems were not remotely the same, and it's not surprising that a system built 30+ years later with the lessons of the previous system in mind would be more efficient.
In my opinion, the most frustrating part is that despite our hyperconnectedness, people still believe the propaganda that we're not in a depression or that our leaders got us out of the recession. Future economists will call the decade the "longest depression" not out of 20/20 hindsight, but simply because there will no longer be a need to make things seem rosy.
Moving to cloud-based systems with account monitoring would seem to stop piracy in it's tracks, no?
This approach only works if the other person realizes they're being rude/obnoxious. If they're not self-aware enough to know that, they're just going to interpret your friendliness as a sign that you enjoy being around them...
Do you want to join us? :)
I do not care about "the lack of evidence tying MSG to negative health effects", I am affected. It is not racism, stereotyping or "the nocebo effect", but something that is real.

One time that I had an MSG attack (racing heart) was when I cooked Zatarain's at home. Or perhaps, according the author, I want to secretly vilify the creole? Clickbait drivel.

"When it comes to MSG, the false connections are fairly innocuous for most people but may still cause unnecessary discomfort for some, either because they are experiencing the nocebo effect or depriving themselves of deliciousness."

I have been to 6 Asian countries for a time period of over 4 months total. I guess I must have been stereotyping them all along.
I never placed $10,000+ audiophile-grade sound systems in the context of a business before. Suddenly they make sense.
Before I quit using DigitalOcean, I enabled backups and found they were very spotty - occurring roughly weekly, but not on a predictable schedule (8 days, 6 days, 4 days, seemingly random). Not something to rely on in place of a real database backup policy (more like an emergency backup of last resort).

Plus, they recommend against[1] enabling backups for I/O heavy VMs (so, databases) because of the copy-on-write implementation and its effect on I/O performance.

I ended up going to AWS because I was tired of having to string together a web of iptables rules (e.g. when you provision a new webserver VM you have to iterate over your Postgres, Redis, HAProxy, Elasticsearch, etc. VMs to poke holes in their firewalls), setup WAL-E and monitoring it / testing backups, setup 3rd party monitoring VM resources for issues (CPU/memory/disk space), having to manage package updates and security fixes, aggregating logs to a 3rd party with rsyslog, all that stuff.

Unless your app is a complete throwaway that you don't care about getting hacked or losing all your data, you quickly have to start worrying about this stuff and it becomes a huge burden to roll it yourself on VPS providers.

[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understandi...
Ili – Wearable Translator
Funding a real estate project used to involved getting your rich buddies at the country club to invest. While it's still not available to the average joe, this technology is definitely making the industry more transparent and accessible.
That's why reform has to start at a local level. Solutions that work brilliantly in Massachusetts have no guarantee of succeeding in Mississippi. Whatever ends up working broadly should be adopted by the federal government. Perhaps they could provide a block grant to each of the states to experiment with reforms and study the effects.
MongoDB co-creator explains why ‘NoSQL’ came to be
More details: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3w8dgn/announc...
If you can't see the reasons for someone's bad day, it is very difficult to empathize with them.
What Will Replace Email?
The problem with acting happy in email is it adds more for the client to read. Most people don't enjoy reading longer emails.

Just change/add some little quirks to make it seem like you're happy. Example, instead of Regards, - Say Thanks!
I was in Virunga this summer and it was quite special and I would absolutely recommend it over Rwanda if you're willing to accept a bit of a more difficult process and journey.

I went on four gorilla treks and on average was with only one other tourist. In Rwanda, you'll usually be in a group of eight. This is significant as great viewing angles can be in short supply.

Other reasons to go:

-You get a behind the scenes view of the park - I got to see a demo of their ivory/poacher sniffing dogs, got to see the gorilla rehab center (and to meet Andre Baume, who was featured in the movie!), and lots of interaction with the rangers

-The gorilla permit fee is $400 instead of $750 in Rwanda ($600 in Uganda, admittedly this value is diminished if you stay in the expensive park lodging, whereas in Rwanda cheap places are possible)

-Trekking Mount Nyiragongo (active volcano) is really, really cool

-As soon as you cross the border, you are constantly in the hands of Virunga vehicles/lodging/guards (a Virunga car picks you up at the border post and an armed guard is inside)
The sophistication of these devices aren't that high - what constitutes an "unsafe driving habit"? Speed? How hard you turn? Most do some sort of banding around your speed and braking force, which is super crude and doesn't reflect actual driving habits.
It's because they're notorious for being Chinatown G's.
I feel the opposite. Aside from original content, it "feels" that amazon has everything netflix has (at least for what I care about) + the option to see newer movies for a fair price (though I hate the games they're playing with burying the prices in submenus). Netflix has become my 2nd goto place after Amazon when I'm browsing for something to watch.