skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traynor was quoted in a networkworld article last year saying they aim for three and a half nines (99.95%). But you need to read into the incidents more carefully -- figuring out actual "uptime" is quite hard. Consider the longest-lasting incident:

"On Tuesday 23 February 2016, for a duration of
10 hours and 6 minutes, 7.8% of Google Compute Engine
projects had reduced quotas. ... Any resources that
were already created were unaffected by this issue."

I'm not sure off the top of my head how I'd try to compute the overall availability #s from that one. One can possibly try to determine and sum the effects on the individual customers, but we can't from the information provided. But it's certainly less overall downtime than just counting it as a 7 hour failure.
> Physical stores have to meet quality and legal requirements on sale of goods and what have you.

Yes, but that's probably the wrong physical analogy. Has a mall ever been sued because one of its stores sold illegal and/or deceptively advertised goods? I seriously doubt it. Now a mall (or Amazon) might kick a seller out if there are problems. This absolutely happens, but it's not very visible, and only occurs after the fact.
This is an interesting question, and seems to get to the core of Nassim Taleb's ideas [1] about fragility and the limits of what we can understand, and how many of our attempts to create artificial stability ultimately bring about the opposite.

That said, based on this post-mortem, I think Google, and our industry as a whole, is doing a pretty good job. Periodic failures like this are inevitable, and if they serve to make it less likely that a similar failure occurs in the future, then that is a system as a whole that could be described as "anti-fragile".

[1] At least my interpretation of them
Being able to integrate with C efficiently is one of the goals of the language.
The unseen factor in companies is how risk is priced. Our perceptions of capital have gotten extremely self-referential - cash is its own good thing for lottery winners.

If you're Apple, the probability of another iPhone is low. For MS, it's Windows. Dunno what really qualifies for Google, but Yahoo seems to be struggling.

I strongly recommend empathy with the positions of those you oppose. It is, IMO, the only path to understanding. Chances are they're not psychotic.

The scary part is - we seem out of ideas.
Housing that is artificially controlled by government loan interest rates, or by local government ensuring new housing doesn't get built?
> So, has anyone managed to make progress toward a "systematic solution" in the last 9 years?

That depends on how you define "solution". If development time isn't a concern, then formal verification is a pretty solid solution. AWS has used TLA+ on a subset of its systems. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B
There's a point to be made that if vim and emacs can't do soft line wrapping, perhaps people should be using tools that can provide basic modern conveniences like that instead of affecting the rest of us.
This sounds crazy but we are actually in a situation where it is preferable to deploy python libraries via APT
I stand corrected, it is a talmudic argument. http://ohr.edu/3201
We were a media company so our CMS was our core technology. We wanted to do some interesting things with built-in analytics and automatic a/b testing which would have required extensive plugins and modifications to WordPress (our primary alternative). It also seemed unlikely that we would be able to find very many good developers (the kind we'd need to build some of the analytics technologies we were considering) who were enthusiastic about developing on WordPress.

In retrospect, it was probably the wrong call. While we made created some unique products and technology that I'm still proud of, it was challenging to get writers on board with some of the newer things (like automatic A/B testing of headlines). It was very expensive to build and maintain a technology team and ultimately without editorial buy-in the returns just weren't there (though our marketer loved it).

My last move before leaving the startup was to transition everything to WordPress.
So are you saying each lifeform should only eat what is dumber than it?
I use these editors for so much more than programming. I'll often have a buffer open just for scratch notes and org-mode for my todo lists. I've written papers for school using LaTeX in emacs too.

If you're editing a lisp in emacs, you can already get halfway there with plugins like paredit or smartparens. You are pretty much editing the AST at that point.
I would get one if I was sure that Amazon would keep supporting it. I would be nervous about it being locked out from the Kindle store soon.
Wow! I gave it a photo of a kitesurfer and it got it (man flying a kite in a body of water). Amazing!!
What would be an example of that?
We are indeed talking about the burgeoning sector that is often referred to as NewSpace, which is made up of universities, research institutes, agencies and commercial companies. The idea is to use our network in the Cubesat/PocketQube community to prove the benefits of integrating the spacecraft design phases, ultimately leading to more robust designs and cost savings. It's also a sector that is highly fragmented at the moment, with parts suppliers popping up all over the world.

If we reach the target of proving the benefits of our open stack, I think large industry players will have to take note. We've had some discussions with the likes of Airbus DS in Europe and the sales cycle is very long, but not impossible.

The mission that we're on is really to open up the sector to completely new applications and teams. We want to expose the tools and technologies that are needed, so that it's not just a select few that can reap the benefits of space technology and infrastructure.
Ten minutes of animal cruelty involved in eating a live octopus doesn't phase me compared to the life-long animal cruelty most farm animals suffer.

The only reason it's more outrageous is because it's 'obvious,' I imagine. In the West, we like our animal cruelty to be kept strictly behind closed doors.
The Secret Rules of the Internet
Have a read of this as a counterpoint to fukusho.a

http://thebulletin.org/onagawa-japanese-nuclear-power-plant-...
Does anyone have first hand information about this system? It looks too good to be true. Not even a problem with it.
I had a DX. I found the PDF support to be useful, but too slow. It was difficult to use it as a reference device, but it worked ok for linear reading.

I migrated to iPads once the iPad 2 came out and never really looked back.
In a Perpetual Present (2016)
> Doesn't that end up with artificially polarizing issues?

If you only get two sources of news, it probably seems like there are only two sides of the issue, if that's what you mean.

But it should be really obvious by the primary races in the U.S., if nothing else, that there's more going on than that. Ideally I would catch some perspectives from at least a news source sympathetic to each.

It's pretty apparent to me that there are giant shortfalls here given how surprising the Trump candidacy in particular has been. Lots of stories guessing what Trump voters actually do and think as if they're writing xenoantropology pieces or something. I say that as someone who doesn't really understand his appeal, to be clear.
There is basically a single supplier for eInk displays. If they thought they could do volume at a larger size, I bet they would do it. However the number of people who want large black & white e-readers is probably quite small.
Apple Designer Jumps to GoPro
>Then why is the CFAA still a law?

Plenty of things are illegal without directly causing physical harm to people. This is irrelevant.

I think I've made it clear what the relevant ethical difference between garage and exploit. If you think one still informs our ethics regarding the other, fine; I disagree.
Clisynth: a music programming language for nonmusicians
Deut 34:5 And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said.

http://ohr.edu/3201

It is a talmudic discussion about this question.

The talmud literally covers every question people have, yet they dismiss the opinions of those who spend their lives studying the Talmud... and instead rely on lack of evidence...without actually studying the discourse around these issues.
Then they should think about going private.
That 50-75% will come around when they stop getting job offers due mainly to a dearth of pileous vigor--also known as "poor cultural fit" or "hiring discrimination"--rather than insufficient experience with technology X.

Honestly, though, if the torches and pitchforks didn't come out after the news broke about the non-poaching agreement between the CEOs of the major tech companies, I doubt they ever will.

The need for a worker cartel is directly proportional to the relative power a typical employer has over a typical employee. If the only way you can improve your work situation is by changing jobs, you could benefit from a union.
In the US there are typically legal limits on how many people can be crammed into buildings and rooms. Those limits are based on experience in general and those of fire and rescue personnel in particular.

Unlike many laws and regulations, those governing buildings tend to be more data driven than is common. The trigger for technical and empirically driven building and land development regulations in the US was the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. Much of the data on human safety in buildings was drawn from the insurance industry's actuarial and claims data. Many of the improvements in life safety driven by that industry, e.g. UL is "underwriters laboratories" and the National Fire Protection Association [NFPA] is funded by the insurance industry but it's technical documents are based on consensus with professional fire fighters.
Based on the number of links she sends me,my wife isn't bored with it yet.
Idea that intellect should be a measure of if is okay to kill or other use a species is extremely flawed in my opinion.
Thanks for the critical feedback. We hadn't considered bad signaling with the leveling. It's fairly new and replaces senior designations that had their own problems.
The user manual is great, although admittedly not a very pleasant reading.

Practical Vim is a great book for intermediate/advanced users. I've been a Vim user for at least 15 years and I enjoyed it a lot.
This show the incredible value of YC in general. Two of my friends ended up in a similar situation when were selling their companies and their VCs essentially told them something like: "Don't you dare to fucked up this merger, give them the money they're asking for."

Having a VC that stands behind you during time like this has an incredible value and should be considered by any founder(s) when thinking about applying to YC.
My consolation in that fact is that weird edge cases happen with human driven cars as well. Someone has a seizure and crashes, or more commonly reaches for a cigarette, the radio, their phone. People hit ice or water and overcorrect their spin. People drive too fast. Etc etc etc. Not even all edge cases, many common modes of failure. I except self-driving cars that kill people will be a huge emotional issue for a lot of people in accepting them, but for me, i just want them to be safer than human drivers, which isn't THAT high of a bar to cross.
Yes a bit but stack operators have always an "ary". Lisp works on "n".
Facebook's new gigabit Wi-Fi system is coming to San Jose
According to seafood watch, market squid are at the very least sustainable [0]. Squid and octopus are different I believe, but calamari is squid if I'm not mistaken.

As for Octopus, it appears a bit more iffy [1].

As for intelligence, that's secondary to sustainability for my eating habits at this point.

[0] - http://www.neaq.org/conservation_and_research/projects/fishe...

[1] - http://seafood.edf.org/octopus#bmb=1
Yeah, I'm another big vote for Mr Number.

For some reason I would get multiple calls a week (sometimes multiple per day) from "Walgreens" telling me my prescription is ready - not sure if it's a scam for personal/medical/insurance info or if someone somewhere mistakenly entered my number. Leaning towards scam - called Walgreens and asked they delist me, they said they didn't know anything about it. And at first it was a listed number, then after I blocked that it started being unlisted, then I finally just blocked all unlisted callers. It only started after I opened a Bank of America card, and they're rather notorious for selling their customer info, so I have my suspicions there.

For some reason Android 4.4 doesn't have the capability to block unlisted numbers, so Mr Number is fantastic for adding this back in.
As long as you're functioning (which it seems you are to some sufficient degree), I wouldn't expect drastic measures.

To try another angle, do you have a mentor/supervisor?
If not, maybe look out for some experienced (potentially retired) manager that you trust. There are also professional services in that space.
They may not know your business, but they know the responsibility you feel for keeping things alive.

They might be able to help with the culture shift issue you mentioned elsewhere but also with management in general (including "how to make sure that the company doesn't have a bus factor of 1: me") and self-care - one low key strategy in that regard might be to hold you accountable to certain habits that you agreed on (eg. "eat twice a day").

Speaking of which: got something to eat yet?
You Fight Like a Designer
Do octopi have a sense of smell? Maybe it/he/she could sense it in some way, or just noticed that when water flowed in the room, it all went down that drain. "I'll go where the water goes!"

In that vein, how often do octopi get out of the water (except when being brought out by humans)? And, are they aware of "water" vs "not-water"?

I already lmgtfy.com'ed all of these... just adding to the discussion.
Distribution: No one actually visits our site to read it, we are reliant on third parties. At least 50% of our users come from Facebook, which helps mask if the other sources are even profitable by themselves.

Content: We publish content on other platforms which will slowly drain our visibility if they do too well.

Audience: We were in front of the curve and road it at its peak when Facebook opened up their newsfeed to content.

Technology: When one of our spam articles does really well with organic traffic, we spend a bunch of money to pay to promote it on the most visible channels.

As Facebook gave and took away Zynga's free traffic, so goes Buzzfeed's traffic.
Gimlet Media did a really fun story talking about Paul in the context of superpredictors. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/58-earth-pony/
If so, that's seriously fucked up subcultural brainwashing.
Brain implant helps quadriplegic move his hand – and play Guitar Hero
> Article seems somewhat biased, as if US and European agribusiness hasn't done similar in countless other countries with similar brutality!

Not promoting narratives of western/white guilt is not the same thing as being "biased".

The majority of the problems in the 3rd world are caused primarily by native interests and inside forces - that are corrupt, divisive, don't care, will brutalize their own people, etc.

Yet the majority of stories completely absolve those parties, and focus entirely on the west.

And because of this, for this reason, the problem never gets solved.
The article said nothing about Erik Prince being a crazy Christian zealot. But you're probably thinking of previous work by one of the authors of this article, Jeremy Scahill, who has written many other articles and a couple of books about Erik Prince and Blackwater.
We've made good progress on single-machine performance and memory usage in the latest release, especially for convolutional models (such as adding support for NCHW data layouts), and we'll continue to aim for best-in-class performance in that setting.

The cool thing about distributed TensorFlow is that it supports efficient synchronous optimizers, so you can scale up the effective batch size by using multiple GPUs, to get increased throughput without losing accuracy.
What else do you want to use?
People aren't bored, but the economics have changed in terms of ad revenue, and the notion of linkbait has been tragedy-of-the-commonsed since everyone is doing it.
> deleting word while curser is in the middle of that word

:help text-objects

Text Objects are really the best thing about vim after the command grammar itself.

> insert parantesis around the word im on

Install surround.vim and add the following to your .vimrc (I think s duplicates c too closely for the prime keyboard position. Therefore, s is for surround):

nmap s ysi
nmap S ysa
nmap s$ ys$
nmap sv gvs

You can then surround whatever text object you want. Surround the current word with `sw(`, surround the current braces with `s{(`, etc. The `sv` prefix lets you surround the thing you just surrounded: `sw"sv(` turns `wo|rd` -> `("wo|rd")`.
You are deeply ignorant about modern history and your posts are thinly veiled ideological statements. It would be better for everyone if you didn't post.
its better than basing it on how cute the animal is.
Fuck this PC bullshit.

I make 200K+ and Mark Zuckerberg makes 35 Billion. There is no sane reason for this kind of BS.

I don't see my generation of engineers tolerating clowns like Zuckerberg the way the previous generation tolerated Larry Ellison and Bill Gates. It's a different world. Expectations are different. The only thing he brings to the table is mindless ambition. It's highly overrated and damaging and the world does not need it at this point. He and his ilk will be taken down.

We need more Linus Torvalds, Jimmy Wales and Sal Khan's who are capable of thinking that their creations are more than just about world domination at any expense.
Your words not mine. I said nothing about learning and only about making comparisons.
cool thanks for the reply man....
Facebook Says It Has Keys to Improving Urban and Rural Wireless Internet
True. I think VS is also based on Microsoft's earlier language specific IDEs, making it probably at least 25 years old as well.
You can buy the upgrade afterwards like the other Kindles.
FBI paid professional hackers to gain access to San Bernardino iPhone
Finding a cofounder is often like dating. You sometimes need to "date" a few people before you find a "girl/boyfriend" (aka cofounder). It's too early for contracts or equity splits at this point, which results in enough ambiguity later on that these issue can arise.

I hate the formality of contracts, but is there any good procedure early on for avoiding this in the future? It seems every billion dollar company has a "secret" cofounder that shows up when the money does. I know I've definitely shared ideas and even code with friends, long before my startup became an incorporated startup.

I'd feel silly and presumptuous if I started handing out contracts, of course. Maybe something more along the lines of the YC handshake protocol, as opposed to a formal contract? Does it legally matter if you say "Hey, just wanted to acknowledge we talked a lot about this, and wanted to make sure you were okay with [terms]" and record the response?
React Native: Year in Review
I'm notoriously bad at gauging age by looks. I believe some of the interviewers are younger than me but most seem roughly my age. The teams themselves do tend to be younger.
Looks like that Jeremy guy is gonna have some splainin' to do in his next job interview. Pretty sure other startups won't want to touch him with a 10' pole, regardless of the veracity of the allegations made.
Or simply strong typing.
Children should learn Calculus instead of Algebra 1 & 2.

The BIG Problem is the difference between a Good Calculus teacher and a BAD Calculus teacher is so HUGE and changes the outcomes of their students.
Of course things such as mismatched account balances (i.e. the account balance does not equal all credits - debits) or erroneous postings due to bugs happen in the banking IT world. It's just that they are not that visible because only the people affected and that are quick enough in checking their balances will learn about it and after a few hours or days, when they notice the mistake, they will just fix the entries. (And if you thought you were clever and transferred all the funny money away, they are going to sue you to get it back; see e.g. this Quora thread for bank errors and legality: https://www.quora.com/If-my-bank-mistakenly-deposits-1-000-0...)

EDIT: Also, to answer the question: I think distributed computing is hard. The bank will usually have all their account balances on one huge central mainframe in one location, so you do not need to rely on computers talking to each other. And also, a bank does not really need to publish credits and debits at the same time - they just have to make sure your account is debited at or before the other account is credited (in fact, with most money transfers between banks there will be days between these two). So they can just debit your account, check whether this has worked and then send the money on its journey afterwards and be done with it. If a bug happens and the money does not show up at the recipient, they will complain, the bank can look into it and fix it - no (or not much to the bank, anyways) harm done.
I believe in the West most people don't even want to think about it.
Nice to see something like this - reminds me of my initial love of programming in QBasic. My oh my the noise that was going on in the classroom that day. Quite an impressive looking way to simplify and open up two worlds. Hope to give it a try eventually.
In Buzzfeeds case it's more like "fuck a thousand goats, but do they remember the one bridge?"
Also see: https://ericroz.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/f8-app-on-windows-1...

> Excluding all the work on core and third party module parity, and store preparation, there was certainly less than 1 week of 1 developers time dedicated to platform customization and style tweaks in JavaScript.

This is huge! Fantastic work everyone.
That study's way out of date - it benchmarked the CuDNNv2 version. Soumith's convnet-benchmarks is much more up-to-date: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks

but it hasn't yet been updated to reflect the latest performance improvements in 0.8. We've continued to push on both single-machine and distributed performance, and the next update to soumith's benchmarks should continue to show that improvement.
This one is really Funny https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cf8LJk6WcAAqZ0X.jpg (image can be found on windows default install!)
So when this guy is asking to reform "All Things Considered" and "Fresh Air" to attract a more younger audience all alarm bells have to ring. The goal is to attract an intelligent audience, not the young audience everyone else is tracking.

His next idea will be to move "This American Life" to a bad slot.
Don't listen to him.
And don't forget $20 for a power adapter :)
> Yeah, remember, auto-pilot in a plane needs to be 100% reliable, or everyone dies.

First, they're not anywhere near 100% reliable. They can fail on their own, and they'll also intentionally shut themselves off if the instruments they rely on fail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

Second, an autopilot failure shouldn't lead to death if the pilots are competent and paying attention.
I agree. The best use case is novels. Even non-fiction books that you want to go forward and backward are weaker in the kindle. I love my paperwhite, but I must confess that physical books beats them for non-fiction. There's a caveat: if your are not in USA, you don't have to pay shipping for american books.