skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the government is responsible for most crime, because roads are used to transport stolen goods an facilitate a huge number of crimes... we need to stop the roads.
The Untouchables – Why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations
Happy to say I didn't notice; I am using a 517 song offlined playlist ("EVE Online" by Michael Andrew) for my programming work.
US Postal Service Promotes Kristin Seaver to CIO
Thanks so much for your question.

The product helps to "democratize" the process improvement activity so that any stakeholder can work on improving process efficiency even if he/she has no knowledge of process frameworks or methodologies or notations. It is storytelling supported by technology to help improve process and workflow. If a person can tell the story of how the process currently works, the product can model that process and give tips on how to improve it.

I've worked for about 18 years as an enterprise architect and process improvement professional and have found that the traditional approach to modeling and improving process is tedious, prolonged and not as flexible and meaningful for most people. I have a PhD in Business with a focus in information systems innovation. I have a wealth of case studies for firms operating below efficiency due to poorly architected processes and have done extensive market research to validate the need for low-cost, no-code, high-ROI solutions in process flow improvements.

The idea involves some natural language processing and artificial intelligence components and I've been working on traditional consulting projects to help gather business rules that can inform the code development.
Lev, our main community liaison, lives in London.

We've had students from all over the world though: from Brazil to Europe to India to Japan. So I wouldn't worry about this too much. If the will and the motivation is there, we'll find a time that makes everyone happy.
I can go to meetups and get a university experience for an evening in terms of the quality of talks, the people I can meet, the help I can get. IRC has loads of great channels to share information. Even Reddit.

Flipside is at uni, I found most students more interested in beer and parties and not much support outside of tutor groups. I.e. not much different from watching a bunch of videos and reading books, with a bit of a meetup now and then.

I am learning CS stuff online for free and because I can focus on the areas I am interested in, pace myself and not study for an exam it is much more fun.

Funny enough it would seem weird to people to take 2 years off work to watch youtube videos about CS but OK to do a masters degree. I guess the piece of paper is defintiely worth something.
16-17 minutes of down time isn't all that bad if you consider the SLA for GCE is 99.95%: https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla

So they can have 262 minutes of down time a year and still be within their SLA.
This is not generally true for at least the big SRE-supported services at Google. I don't know what every team does, but my team's oncall shift (for example) is 10am-10pm, Mon-Thu or Fri-Sun. Another office covers the 10pm-10am part of the US day.
> Modern science hasn't even started to appreciate the existence of consciousness let alone validating which is the better method.

Wow, you sure don't know what you're talking about.

David Nutt, Albert Hoffman, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Charles Darwin... every single one of these scientists has both made statements about the nature of consciousness and done research which has significantly furthered our understanding of consciousness. And I'm not even bringing up the field of psychology in that list because arguably the entire field of psychology is about consciousness, so I wouldn't know what scientists to pick from that field.

What you said was both ignorant and insulting to a lot of people's hard work.
Chinese scientists are changing what it means to be human
Is anyone able to add perspective as to how this compares to OS X?
New Evidence on When Bible Was Written: Ancient Shopping Lists
It's more elegant and technically sound than Javascript.

But I don't think it'll ever happen. There's just too much behind Javascript and it's slowly catching up anyways.
Actually, I was quite interested to notice recently that I don't seem to get that much spam any more. There are apparently only 16 emails in my spam folder from the last 30 days. I'm not particularly careful with my email address either.
Yes, it's OK for Germans to laugh about Hitler. Here's why
I experienced a similar (but non-drug related) shock to you several years ago and it changed how I think. I came to the conclusion that religion is just an old fashioned, and highly specialised, way of treating mental health. Without going into details, it gives people an ultimate dose of peace of mind.
Discovery of genetic “unicorns” who have mutation for disease, but no sicknesss
I had a similar experience with dmt, but it was horrible at the time of the trip also. But I do look back on the new perspective I got from it, though difficult to adjust to at the time, as ultimately positive.

I also attribute some of that difficulty to the stage I was in I'm my life, young adult.
Some possible context: the maintainer works for Oracle's Ksplice team, and the stated purpose of the tree fits perfectly with the set of patches you'd expect Ksplice to apply to a stable kernel, but not the ones you wouldn't.
> 31 thousand

They would start planting themselves after a few decades.
>It so happens that the Windows API gets this right,

This is my general impression on Win vs Linux: Windows offers more fundamental services as a core OS component, whereas Linux delegates this to a hodge-podge of competing and mutually incompatible user-space components. (Examples: tracing (ETW), transactional database (BlueJet/ESE), etc).
different hardware isn't really part of the equation - it's more that most of google's internal systems aren't _on_ gce, but _adjacent to_ gce. There's a cloud beneath that cloud, so to speak.
If the profile isn't blank, it's probably still equivalent to going to a particular kind of bar on a particular themed night and walking up to someone who looks like they share interests with you. It's just as banal to talk about someone's hair or tattoos as it is to talk about their cat or religion. But as a ton of Tinder profiles actually comment on, many people ignore the profiles anyway.

OkC sucks because of many reasons, but the unwanted messages still happens on Tinder, as both women and men are encouraged by Tinder to 'just swipe right' and figure out if you're compatible once you match on physical attraction. OkC provides filters to cut down on unwanted messages, but yes, it is problematic. There are several things they could do to fix this, but they aren't interested, as increased engagement or investment in "Plus" service = more $$$.

I get that, as a human, you do tend to see the world as more similar to yourself, but Tinder's user base is 16-34 year olds. I don't know what other people do, but i'm pretty sure that in order to meet new people it helps to go outside your social circle, so that's what I do. If you think you're too old to meet new people, I have some 54 year old friends I can hook you up with?
About the chart on "moral reasoning", consequentialism, the idea that only the outcome is what matters, is an ethical system that one can base their morals off of. I'm not sure where they got the idea that they're two separate things.

Also the whole "xyism" thing seems to be their own made-up terminology for the idea of an illusory correlation in social psychology. Why not just say stereotyping groups is a bad idea instead of the weird references to logic and set theory?
We just need to start turning all of our oil exploration apparatus to the moon. Then we can ride the fuel provided by fossilized space dinosaurs to the stars... And beyond!
> Saying you can endogenously experience psychedelic states by meditation or Kundalini yoga sounds nice and ideal, but it is only partially true.

Even if some people can experience psychedelic states through extensive meditation, that doesn't make their experience intrinsically better. They're chasing the same experience as someone who experiments with psychedelic drugs, but there always seems to be an irritating sense of smug superiority from people who do meditate.
i migrated from aws to google yesterday. fml
Taipei: CloudFlare’s 77th Data Center Is Now Live
Seems like a weird thing to get annoyed about, I agree its it 100% accurate but why is it so important?
Prevention is a big part of SRE, but an equally big part is formalizing a process to learn from the inevitable outages that come with running a large, complex, distributed system built by fallible humans.

You figure out what went wrong and fix it, of course, but more importantly, you figure out where your existing systems and processes (failover, monitoring, incident response, etc.) did and didn't work, and you improve them for the next time.
Yep. OpenBSD practically invented the concept of a hackathon as a way of bringing together their distributed developer base to work together on OpenBSD in a convivial atmosphere.

Then entryist tech companies co-opted the concept to get programmers to work for free on their platforms, and in some cases to even pay money (in the form of an entry or registration fee) for the privilege of doing so.

Sure, they provide pizza and dangle some prizes in front of the participants, but the judging is seldom objective, and the winners are all too often connected in some way to the event sponsor.
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Let me firmly disagree.

LSD is exciting, fascinating, marvellous, yes indeed! It makes that whole armor of everyday consciousness drop away. Maybe it's like becoming a child, a very aware and sensitive child, in an adult's mind? Everything is fresh like it's the first day of the world, yet everything around you is ancient and significant, too...

It's also unsettling. The LSD mindset for me is like being an alien visiting Earth. And in a way I think we all are like aliens (hey, Heidegger was all about this idea, and many religions too). These experiences cast a strange and eerie light over my life. I'm grateful!

But I disagree that ecstasy—let's say MDMA—is stupid! For me, and several people I know, it's very much an eye-opener, too. I think we, especially some of us, live in a time of much anxiety, loneliness, remoteness, some kind of rigidity, emotional distance. And MDMA makes all of that drop away for an evening at least.

So LSD brings out this kaleidoscopic perspective of cosmic and microcosmic beauty. MDMA makes it possible, for someone who has difficulty, to sit up with someone for eight hours talking about everything, life, family, desires, interests, fears, anxieties, appreciation... These conversations have been enormously beneficial for me.

I think it would be wonderful if both drugs were made available for adults.
> Not enough isolation between the line side and the
> output side. Classic cause of electrocution and fires.

I'd doubt that any significant amount of fires are caused by loss of isolation between line and output side. While it might be very unpleasant to touch any device that came into contact with the live wires, there's not really much current you can have flowing. And if any significant current flows, a GFI should catch this, and shut down the power.

Regarding the amont of deaths by electrocution: How much people are actually electrocuted by badly designed house appliances? As far as I see there's only very little injury related to electrical shock outside of actual electrical or construction work, where people might naturally be more easily exposed to live wiring carrying higher currents, possibly higher voltages and, most importantly much lighter standards in terms of circuit breakers.
No they don't use gcloud to host their own apps. Yes that's ridiculous.
This video certainly helps to explain why Land was a hero and influence to Steve Jobs. Talk about "magical and revolutionary" showmanship.
You sir, at least have an inquiring mind. That's a lot more I can say for many people who I've known years and years.
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I did not choose because GCE does not have server at Asia Pacific, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean and AWS has one. Sorry, correction, What I mean is South East Asia.
I love this guy. His skids are like slap stick for the makers.

However, on the serious side, I wish that he would publish a complementary video showing the real story of what he is doing.

My kids would watch his videos, and then run off the find the bits to do exactly what he did. Hmm..Luckily I was there to let them know of the real consequences.
Interestingly, it seems like GPU acceleration will be available in postgresql in one of the next few releases [0].

From that page it seems once enabled, there aren't any special requirements to get a GPU accelerating a query. As a result, I'd be surprised as a result if "GPU optimized" databases overtake regular-db-with-gpu-acceleration-addins.

[0] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGStrom
I'm no networking expert but packet.net has a page on this: https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/network/anycast/
I started by dumping spreadsheets and forcing myself to use R. Also signed up to datacamp.com

I never liked spreadsheets or people that like spreadsheets.
New Project a portfolio company Junomedical launches its medical travel platform
Same, was considering GCP for the future, but this is bad. I'm not using them without some kind of redundancy with another provider. I hope they write a good post-mortem, these are always interesting at large scale.
Oh are you from Brazil? We are not from there but are very fond of the place. My cofounders Anton and Brystal used to stay there for a while. Anton did live there for years at one point.

And thank you for the suggestion. We'll do that.
Meditation is a virtue signal, like jogging or being vegetarian.

It also tends to go along with a sense of being on a cosmic path toward truth, beauty, and enlightenment...
Apply HN: Wikipedia for how, and how well, we know what we think we know
I want to combine Wikipedia, argument mapping, and prediction markets to make a collaborative website for productive large scale argumentation, that will collect and organize all the world's inferential knowledge into a single vast graph, visually show the logical relationships between ideas as connections between nodes on the graph, allow for concepts to be iteratively clarified and improved on, and quantify the degree of support (in both the rational and democratic senses) that every individual idea has.
The exponential curve of advancing understanding that we are on is driven by the increasing spread of more reliable knowledge to more participants working from a more complete database: the printing press + the scientific method + the university + the library has given us the modern world. Spreading and examining knowledge more reliably and widely will enable more minds to contribute more usefully, and will bend the curve even more sharply upward.
We can do this by creating a collaborative graph-building sandbox in which users can create and place nodes (each containing a single idea), and connect them to other nodes with virtual elastic threads to show the logical connections between them: a node upstream of node X is an idea that X depends on, and a downstream node is an idea that depends on X. Users can vote on the connections they think are appropriate for X by drawing threads of their own: connections that most users endorse will pull closer together. Nodes containing the same idea stack to occupy the same place in the graph, and user ratings of the strength and clarity of each version of the idea float the best and clearest statement to the top of the stack. Users can't edit other users' statements, but voting on which ones are best allows us to improve on weak versions of decent ideas without making us settle for Wikipedia's committee style production of a single article and the edit wars that go with it.
But the reputation is damage.
Just in case you think the article wasn't expansive enough in the possibilities for AR/VR business models, I'll just leave this here: http://www.varcrypt.com/info/

> VARcrypt is the world's first blockchain content distribution platform designed specifically for VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) content. VARcrypt derives its name from a combination of both VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) resulting in the combination of VAR which when mixed with a cryptographic blockchain content distribution and payment processing protocol combines to create VARcrypt. VARcrypt's blockchain will be powered by its own proprietary cryptocurrency, VARcoin. VARcoin will become its own medium of exchange for goods and services within the VARcrypt blockchain universe and beyond.

> The future of media will not be either VR or AR, it will be both, it will be VAR and that future will be brought to you by VARcrypt. VARcrypt is a place for artists, a place for content, a place for the future, because at VARcrypt we are breaking everything.

Sometimes I just love the startup world.
Chances are there's somebody who is #2 at one of those companies and wants to be #1 and call the shots. Give that person a call, promise a budget in the millions and a chance to his product in millions of cars within a few years, and see what happens.

Better for Ford, there will be a #2 who isn't #2 on purely technical grounds but just because (s)he didn't arrive at just the right time, like the current #1 luckily did.
Not across multiple regions though. It's not trivial to make an application cross region but at least there is a way to engineer around an outage, unlike this outage
Security firms announces more work by security firms needed.
Disclaimer: I'm not really eligible for a YC Fellowship at this point, as I'm not a hacker and don't have a technical co-founder, and therefore can't create the proposed site. This post is mostly for generating discussion, and for the outside chance of finding someone who sees the potential and wants to come on board with me to make it happen.
My hat, it is taken off to you.

I will be experimenting with this!
They have three zones in Asia Pacific[0].

[0] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/zones#available
I believe this is tutum that they bought some time ago. I tried tutum before with Azure. After deleting the Containers from tutum portal, it does not clean everything from Azure. Today the storage created by tutum is still in my Azure storage. LOL.
PepsiCo CEO, Indra Nooyi: 'I hate being called sweetie, honey, babe'
Distribute Deep Learning with Keras and Spark
Sadly, I think a global outage was more acceptable in 2008 than it is now...

Knowing Google though, they'll learn their lesson on how to improve their entire workflow right quick.
The problem with LaTeX is that you are given an already unstable jinga (ie., style file etc.,).

You can always go back to the basics and use simple TeX for your documents if you think groff/troff is simpler.

However, I'd encourage you to give ConteXt http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ a try because it is the spiritual successor to TeX (one tool for all the typesetting) instead of having to depend on "third party" stuff like LaTeX, most of which very few of us (outside the original sty author) understand.
Do you have dandruff? What shampoo do you use?
Not to bash, but the page you linked is classic Docker - it says literally nothing about what "Docker Cloud" is.

"BUILD SHIP & RUN, ANY APP, ANYWHERE" is the slogan they repeat everywhere, including here, and it means even less everytime they do it. What IS Docker Cloud? Is it like Swarm? Does it use Swarm? What kinds of customers is Docker Cloud especially good at helping? All these mysteries and more, resolved never.
Update: nah
Google Custom Search was down for a similar time period. (Outage lasted longer than GCE, but seems likely related.)
Generating PDF is not the same as typesetting.
Sorry, I mean South East Asia. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/
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It 'pads your resume' by showing a willingness to do unpaid work for for-profit corporations, which potential employers love.

Putnams don't count for much anyway; I guarantee you 99% of tech companies are still going to put you through the same demeaning interview process even if you have one, just because they can.
> Sounds good for upper middle class population. If your wages were $50,000/yr (aka US median wage) then you would think twice or may be thrice about anything that has word "subscription" in it.

Garbage content is not an improvement over no content, no matter what your demographic. I'm also skeptical that there's a very large demographic for whom even $10/mo in subscription fees would break the bank.

> If all internet websites enforced subscriptions then you won't be browsing around so often.

Sounds great to me. Most of the time I spend on the internet is spent looking for decent content, and most of that time is spent sifting through garbage.

> Finally, anyone who had been in media business for long enough knows that subscription is terrible business model.

Excellent. I really hope the Buzzfeeds of the world go out of business.

Advertisers and the garbage they fund make the world a worse place. They prop up businesses that provide negative value. They drain resources from businesses that provide value but have to advertise to the level of their competition's advertising. They introduce insecurity and complexity to our infrastructures. They waste the talents of thousands of brilliant minds who could be solving real problems. They sell people things they don't need or want, for prices they can't afford. Worst of all, they poison the collective consciousness with ignorance and outright lies. They deserve to go out of business.

People are willing to pay for what they actually want, and people want good content, so creators of good content will be okay. The creators of garbage who need ads to legitimate their sorry existence, on the other hand, can burn.
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"AR/VR is the fourth major platform shift (after PC, web and mobile)."

Or maybe VR is just the next 3D TV. Remember 3D TV? 3D TV viewership peaked in 2013. Samsung killed off their entire 3D line in 2016.[1] Some other manufacturers still make them, but they're not selling.

We've already had AR. It was called "Google Glass".

[1] http://www.whathifi.com/news/samsung-announces-15-new-tv-ran...
That's for first response ops though, what if a code change is needed to recover or something else that goes beyond the playbooks?

I guess today is a perfect example, I wonder how many out of hours engineers got paged.
How bad is it really? They started investigating at 18:51, confirmed a problem in asia-east1 at 19:00, the problem went global at 19:21, and was resolved at 19:26.

They posted that they will share results of their internal investigation.

That kind of rapid response and communication is admirable. There will be problems with cloud services - it's inevitable. It's how cloud providers respond to those problems that is important.

In this situation, I am thoroughly impressed with Google.
kahwooi possibly meant South East Asia? Latency to GCE (Taiwan) from Australia is a fair bit worse than to AWS (Sydney/Singapore) for example.
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ES2015 boilerplate for creating libraries with Rollup
Not all GPU databases are created equal. Notwithstanding the amazing functionality of Postgres and the impressive work of the PGStrom team, afaik they are still limited to a single GPU and do not cache data on board the GPU. It certainly makes Postgres much faster but is still likely one to two orders of magnitude slower than something like MapD that runs on up to 16 GPUs per server and caches hot data in GPU RAM.

Disclosure: I am the CEO of MapD.
It would be hilarious if they use to host their services on AWS or Azure.