skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am using "reliability" in the sense of RAS[0]. An HA datastore which erroneously ACK's writes has lowered reliability, as there are known cases where it gives incorrect outputs.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability,_availability_and_...
The purpose of articles like that isn't to fluff their subjects. It's to the fluff you, the reader. To make you feel like you know these important, interesting people.
I agree with the risk of overload. Sanity needs to prevail.

But by similar attitude, I was mostly thinking about the rigorous and systematic efforts to find root causes of accidents, rather than the toxic attitude of attempting to deflect blame (and liability) that is so pervasive in other industries.

Safety starts with the culture: it's not an add-on or an afterthought. If Google starts to not fixing problems with its cars to avoid acknowledging a problem (and the liabilities that go with it), then we have a problem...
Perfect information isn't true, you don't exactly know the opponents next move. This broadens the search tree exponentially. Generally, with many hard problems, the size of the problem is a problem, when memory is limited.
My HS CS class included learning about coaxial Ethernet cabling and dumb terminals (yes, actual amber screen Wyse terminals). I graduated high school in 2002.
If you have a support agreement with them then file a ticket requesting better customer communication and link back here as an example of how to do it right.

I think everyone complains in forums and online but doesn't actually file tickets about it. These things are worth tickets too.
My last CEO thought I was insane because I took a pay cut to swap a 90 minute each way commute for a 15 minute commute, but that's about 600 hours of extra time per year I get to spend with my wife and kids. 25 whole days.
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Your bus options must be a hell of a lot nicer than mine. (I haven't had the option of commuting by train since college, alas.)
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Chris, completely fine to ask here, What are you Python skills like? If Python isn't your main skillset is there another language you're proficient at?

Check out one of jobs we're hiring for here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/112633872?trk=jobs_home_...

Even if you don't quite fit into that description certainly email recruitment@infoxchange.org , say that your saw the post here and give some information about yourself!
Everything in Sydney is now illegal- including fun
That stadium is a heated dome.
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I live in Oakland and both the Oakland A's and the Oakland Raiders share a stadium, which is considered the worst stadium in both sports. They do have some monster truck events as well and used to host the San Jose Earthquakes on occasion before they got their own stadium.
Is it really "shameful"? Running systems like this at scale is hard. We're not talking about redundant power systems for an ICU Ward in a hospital. We're talking about a website which powers a sliver of the first world.

You bet they busted their ass to get this fixed and shared their learnings with us. I'm extremely grateful for this and yeah it inconvenienced my morning but nothing more.

You make it sound so easy. If it takes the Github folks 2 hours, I can bet it would've taken us much longer.
Alsop is an asshat. But Musk decided to stoop to his level and prove him right. This doesn't really bode well for his reputation, and might call into question his bold assertions (especially for SpaceX) and how much water they might hold if he can't even handle someone being petty towards his launch event.

The man's obviously brilliant. But there are a lot of other brilliant men and women who don't get the credo and also don't get their flaws overlooked because of celebrity. Hopefully this is a sobering reminder that it's good not to take anyone's personality at face value until you get to know them well.
I can't blame Dropbox for the Microsoft thing -- Microsoft hasn't figured that out in a decade in SharePoint.

Mostly DBX makes me sad, as there is so much potential there. I also find it frustrating that they cannot come up with a pricing model that allows me to actually give them money.
https://github.com/ask-izzy/ask-izzy/
I honestly have to say that some of the stuff coming out of realestate.com.au is pretty amazing. I mean, I was frankly amazed at the quality of your tech blog... I mean, a blog about category theory? I was definitely not expecting that, but it explains why I was actually able to find a house I wanted to buy from the website.

Keep up the good work. Turnbull talks about innovation, but it looks like you guys are actually doing it. I tip my hat to you, and I honestly don't do that lightly!
> You can issue various content complaints to YouTube not all of them are DMCA related, however if you do claim a violation of copyright it is handled through the DMCA path

Interesting reading. It seems like one can send 'free-form' notifications (proper DMCA notices?) independently. Their form is certainly modeled after the DMCA, and I could reasonably believe that a judge would consider it a DMCA process for some purpose, I'm just not 100% sure of that due to YouTube's on process not having a proper put-back (the part cited above where they 'affirm' that it's really infringing and YT cuts you off).

> If I understand this correctly you are suggesting that a party A can file a claim against party B for content that is potentially owned by party C without being a custodian of said content or being an agent of party C.

Just to clarify, I was trying to give an example of something which triggers the 'perjury' clause of the DMCA, so I'm somewhat heartened to hear that YouTube explicitly tells people not to do that.
I love Kaggle, it really is a fun way to apply your skills and to learn. Any junior positions?
What? They could have done any number of things. They could have added a parameter "-trim" that's more clear than the "-" alone. They could have made it "8<" that looks like a little pair of scissors. Or they could have actually spent some time thinking of a good idea instead of those ones that are about as a bad as the one they went with.
Destroying Worn-Out Cells Makes Mice Live Longer
> I think it's pretty clear that the bar for safety must be much higher (10x) than human-level for these to be accepted by consumers.

Will it? Think about the recent Toyota brake pedals that didn't work or the GM faulty ignitions. Both of these caused a number of deaths, and the Toyota one was especially scary because it didn't even need accident-like events to cause a problem, your brakes would just stop working.

It'll hit the news (like Tesla battery fires vastly disproportionately reported on over other, much more common auto fires), but it's not clear at all that it will cause some massive panic or backlash.
Cities shouldn't go into debt for stadiums.

But...I can see spending some public money towards sports venues.

I mean not everyone takes a stroll in city parks, or uses the library or visits the aquarium, but it would be peevish to insist that people only pay for what they themselves use.
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What does that have to do with what I said? Why do you think I mentioned life insurance?
Elon Musk is number one reason why I have never purchase Tesla shares. I think he is too childish and tries to sell snake oils to other people. This sort of incident confirms it.

He probably spends millions of dollars to keep himself in news with "Musk does this cool thing" type stories where in reality his Tesla or Space-X hasn't made any serious progress disproportionate to the money people have put into it.

This move is petty, brings bad PR to Musk and his company and gives more exposure to this one customer who did not like the company. This shows that Musk's PR team (and he) is incompetent to the extent that they have let emotions and ego take precedence over smart business decision.
This is the dawn of the age of rejuvenation biotechnology, with a near future of widespread support for that goal.

Seems to me like we're not that close to having "widespread support" in the general public for tackling aging, so I'm curious to know why you think this will change in the near future. Is it just that attitudes will change once everyone realizes how close to reality it is, rather than crazy sci-fi?

Isn't regulation also a problem here? That is, aging is not considered a disease in and of itself, making it difficult to authorize any human clinical trials? I thought it was necessary for SENS to piggy-back off of treatments for officially recognized diseases caused by aging. But I've been reading a book from 2007 about this stuff, so it's possible all that is completely out of date now.

Edit: sorry missed your last bit about regulation. I suppose with big-pharma lobbying, that could be cleared up easily enough, given the profit potential you mention.
You can get your free account up to 22gb using ehem methods, that's enough for quite a few use cases.
Vorpal, a framework for building CLIs
Python doesn't have a JIT by default (CPython, the reference implementation). Does the same apply to .NET?
Wanna know why? Because of the good developers don't actually work for the military.
Certainly impressive, on a technical level. But without the chimes and gongs, Tyrolean lullabies, and all those charming male and female voices reading the numbers... it just doesn't seem to pack that je ne sais quoi.
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Is this a warning to other honest reviewers and media houses that Elon Musk will go after their throat and hurt them in all possible ways if they don't strip and do a cheerleader dance for him?
Fasting destroys worn-out cells and replaces them with stem cells:

https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regene...

https://news.usc.edu/82959/diet-that-mimics-fasting-appears-...
.NET is JIT'd in its most popular form, the .NET Framework.

Python is interpreted in what was its most popular form, but may not be now, CPython.

This is using the definition of a JIT as an execution engine which takes in some form of bytecode and, at runtime, emits architecture-specific assembly code to a page, marks that page executable, and changes the IP to that page.

If CPython executes in that manner then I'm mistaken about CPython's execution engine and would also consider CPython to be a JIT.
OP Here. I'm a programmer by trade and standing or even sitting all day usually hurts my back. My legs are always tired.

I rarely run or exercise consistently just because it's SO hard to build up the necessary strength and motivation to exercise regularly. You know you need something to push you over, but it's so hard to find that little push.

Then came along Gripbell. It's a free-weight fitness equipment designed FROM scratch.

After testing it out daily for two weeks without any videos or instructions, I was able to develop a huge library of my own movements. It's like dancing to my own body's physical music. It's really different.

Along with this personal library of workouts, I've noticed an very sizable increase in my inner strength. I just feel stronger in general. My back pain has gone down 50-75%.

Just after two weeks with Gripbell I was able to run two miles continuously. No stopping at all. Before that, I could only run a few blocks at a time.

I'm not really sure why Gripbell works so well compared to other free-weights out there, but it just does. It feels like I'm battling with my own gravity more than anything.

If we had more products out there were as well designed, thoroughly tested, and goes as far as you can out of the box to solve a problem properly as Gripbell is, we honestly would be in a better world.

DISCLAIMER, I own a small share in Gripbell, but what does that count anyway. This post is all love and truth.
I think using Java as a comparison is fine. It's an officially supported platform, and while Scala is better we do a lot of work using Java without problems.

The Datasets thing is more interesting. There is no doubt that the way they unify the Dataframe/RDD programming model is better, but it is so new (1.6 only) we certainly haven't migrated to it yet. The documentation isn't huge, either: http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.ht...
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The Baltimore Browns probably also didn't play very well from a PR perspective.
I was mocking it not endorsing it.
Yes, stack ranking is poison to a company's morale, but the author makes a mistake be leading with the lawsuit. There's nothing in Anderson's lawsuit that attacks stack ranking directly - what he's alleging is managers aren't following the written policy and that giving preferential treatment to women is illegal.
My Python skills are limited, but that's never stopped me before :-) I've got decent skills in Perl (yeah, ancient but Perl is under appreciated!), Ruby has always been an interest of mine... I guess my main skill is I'm a rapid learner.

I'll have a look at the link - thanks! Will shoot over an email once I'm home.

Regardless of the outcome though, it's impressive what you guys are doing. I love that you are doing something to help the homeless :-)
I'm doing much the same as you. command line tools for linux, windows and os x and really like go for that use case. the incredibly easy distribution of the final tools make life awesomely easy.
On the one hand, I'm sorry to hear that the service isn't available outside AU—but also very relieved because I entered very broad parameters and got no locations in New York, New York. I was worried that there were really no resources.
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” - Orson Welles

The benefits of limitation is an old theme in discussion of creativity. But in this case, the arbitrary constraint also provides the inspiration. I mean, 140 characters is an enticing challenge, an excuse to shield yourself from self-criticism, and a less intimidating scope when you're deciding to start a project.
The U.S. adopted all kinds of laws in the Great Depression, including laws against overtime work and pay. Most of these laws were targeted at Keynesian stimulus and creating jobs, and few had anything to do with ethics or morality (though these latter concerns may have played supporting roles).

I am not a Randian, but there is nothing wrong with taking benefits from a system which had (in her view) wronged her. If I steal some things you need, then offer you some of them back, acceptance of my offer is not tantamount to forgiveness, and does not condone or justify my behaviour.

I am no Rawlsian, and the 'veil of ignorance' assumes that everyone would agree if only they were not self-interested; the only problem with this is that it's not true. There is much more variance of moral belief within each class/gender/nationality/race than across them.
Does go even have any good command-line debuggers? All of the things I've seen either involve insanity like preprocessing your source to inject hooks in between each line of code, or don't actually work.
End-to-end encryption is useless?
This might be related to Cunningham's Law?
looks good for noobs like me
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Musk is no Henry Ford. Henry ford success is that he built an extremely profitable company that changed the way people travel. I am sure PR investments had less to do with it.

Musk is a guy who spends money to promote himself everywhere. Tesla is a rich people's car subsidized by poor people's tax money and the company is not making a profit and is unlikely to make a profit in future either. Even if it does there is nothing groundbreaking about it that Toyota or Ford can not replicate without much efforts.

SpaceX is good company but hey it isn't profitable and has not achieved anything major that NASA or Blue Origin could not have given the investments.

An hyperloop is going to be a regrettable experience for everyone involved.

All three of his companies are piggybacking on government money and have not made our lives better than the alternative.
How can they claim the F35 "shares many—if not necessarily all—of the same close air support capabilities as the $18.8 million A-10" if it doesn't have a functioning cannon yet [1]. I thought the A-10 is basically a airframe built around a cannon.

[1] http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/strike/20...
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I consider that "basically no" compared to Java's daunting array of options.
During the outage I was not able to push and that's all. I can build everything locally and push to Heroku from my machine. You can always add an upstream repository to Bitbucket or something like that.
Aren't there a bunch of offers of free cloud hosting for Startups? We should list them here.

And you don't need to be a YC company......

Microsoft Azure gives hosting to startups under their Bizspark program - get over your prejudice - it's a great way to run Linux machines.

Softlayer and Rackspace I think also have programs for startups.

Any other companies offer free hosting to startups?
There were car companies which didn't have show rooms and test drives. You would simply be contacted by a concierge and offered the opportunity to buy one.

People selling things can be as exclusive as they want, and sometimes exclusivity means excluding people.
day to day i mostly write software, but I also help manage our infrastructure (we're a small company - 9 people total, 4 engineers, I'm one of the 2 that understands managing servers well enough to support it). We were on linode up until about a year and change ago and switched to AWS/Opsworks to both decrease our infrastructure bill and increase our ability to scale horizontally quickly (for unfortunately long definitions of quickly - "running setup...")

Both Linode and Amazon suck at their status pages (though linode was quite informative about their DDoS outages that started on Christmas). Every amazon issue we've had, the status page only changed once they'd more or less fixed it. As far as I'm concerned their status page is basically useless unless it's an extended outage, at which point it's still basically useless...
No effect size?

> Mice whose senescent cells were killed off over six months were healthier, in several ways, than a control group of transgenic mice in which these cells were allowed to build up. Their kidneys worked better and their hearts were more resilient to stress, they tended to explore their cages more and they developed cancers at a later age. Eliminating senescent cells also extended the lifespans of the mice by 20–30%, Baker and van Deursen report in Nature on 3 February.
I'm also confused about how the racks would lose power. Surely they had UPSes.
I'm curious: how do the F-35's development troubles compare to other recent fighters, like the F-22 or Eurofighter? Are they objectively worse, or are the memories just fresher?
>>however there is reasonably only so many producers our society needs.

The bigger problem is in not wanting to be a producer. Producers aren't just Engineers/Surgeons. Plumber, Welders, Carpenters, Drivers etc these guys are producers too.

Producers are people who are exchanging real effort for money. Jobs created(which don't even have to exist), just to provide people a salary are what I would call consumers.
There are differences across states as to whether and when it's allowed. That might explain why it hasn't happened to you.
Does anyone know the community manager or equivalent person at DO?
Really now, training their classifier to distinguish between pages containing "420" and "bong" versus words like "dispensary" and "medical" couldn't have been very hard. That is, provided you stop and actually think first about what you're trying to classify for.

Which apparently no one did, in this case. "Mark says no more pro-drug pages out there, please -- advertisers don't like it." "Mmm OK! Done!"

It doesn't matter how many experts they hire, or how many vanity projects they publish -- or how many fancy graph algorithm questions they ask in their interview process -- if they don't examine the basic, common sense, wetware-level decision-making process that determine how these tools actually get used, they'll never stop making boneheaded mistakes like these.
What do you say about the "free hospitals" someone else mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11028310 ?
I'm all for destroying my many, many worn-out fat cells. Many.
That feeling is warranted. Relative to the US, Bolivia is impotent.
Alternative source: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/03/worlds-la...
Unfortunately traditionally rocket design and car design fields were not sexy enough. This is the first time a PR savvy guy has invested so much into either companies and he is spending good money to promote himself as some kind of demi God.

I am from India and I know how this works in India too. A lot of government officials who are in charge of our space programs, defense programs become "rocket scientists" or get a mention next to "Tesla and Newton" in school textbooks as great scientists while in reality their role was merely administrative.

This is not to say they are ordinary and deserve no credit but it depends on how they project themselves on people's mind.
That makes sense but there are so many transpacific routes that spend huge stretches of time over open water that I am not sure it is even feasible for all commercial flights. CIA SAD/SOG operations likely have a much broader risk envelope.
I'd also like to see a list. Is there something that gives a comprehensive list of resources?
Which makes Kim Jong-un not a dictator.
I've got this too.
The F-16 used to be called "lawn dart" for a reason.
It outputs an audio file with a chime, and a (soothing?) male voice reading the numbers, but granted, there's currently only one voice and chime.
> How can they claim the F35 "shares many—if not necessarily all—of the same close air support capabilities as the $18.8 million A-10"

Probably through a lot of box-ticking.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/box-ticking
From the article - wind power is projected to reach 30gw worldwide in 2019 - for comparison nuclear power worldwide reached 300gw in the 1980's.
My HS CS class was mainly Turbo Pascal & Borland C++ on token-ring networked DOS computers. Graduated in '02.
Google has an awesome plan too https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/
Note:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C07E5DF1F...

Journalistic reporting of 'miraculous' pre-clinical results hasn't changed much in 100 years it seems. Of course, we aren't using trypsin to treat cancer today.

Nevertheless, we should be optimistic, we live during a golden age for the life sciences.

What I find disappointing is that this work has been spirited away to a VC funded private company. At best they will fail, at worst they will stop others from making progress.
Nicely done! Some comments:

> all popular languages have context-free (or “nearly” context-free) grammars, while C++ has undecidable grammar

The article quotes the FQA as saying that. Notice how this neatly defines C++ as "not a popular language", against all evidence of real-world use.

> Yossi also echoes the claim that adding exception handling always adds a runtime cost even when no exception is thrown. This is no longer true.

Was it ever? I thought that the idea of exceptions in C++ was always "no cost if not thrown".

> Manual memory management should not be used.

Well, it shouldn't be used except to build abstractions that insulate you from manual memory management.
I'm curious how much they have contributed to the cleanup.
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IRS experiencing computer failure in tax system
And they get to keep all but the most egregious bribes...
How so? For a growing company, the lightweight set of tools and services. And Linode doesn't offer any startup plan discounts.
We would be happy to merge it upstream, but at this moment merging upstream requires much more work that we can dedicate to it.
Google search chief Singhal to quit, to be replaced by AI head