skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would probably start by looking into hashing and sharding algorithms.... with memcached, this is done in the client, but you could just as well enable a gossip-like protocol where the servers act as a relay client to other servers... or do it at the client. In any case, if you look at some of the JS clients for memcached, you can see how they are doing distribution...

Beyond that, for non-disk persistent keys, you can simple use an object in memory, and have the keys be a property on that object. Avoid delete, set a key to `undefined` on a delete command, you should probably expose the garbage collector and force a collect on each delete operation, to keep GC cycles small, and try to reduce memory (more on that below). you can do simple disk persistence every N seconds via JSON.stringify (note, you may want to partition objects in memory so that the persistence goes faster).

You may also want to look at some of the ZeroMQ bindings, as that could work for your communication layering. Beyond that you may want to have a separate shard key from your record key... this can keep multiple keys on the same server, and reduce lookup times for related data, if you implement such a thing.

It's worth noting that your whole process with die a fiery death if you hit more than a couple GB of memory usage... node is a really bad environment for this type of work under any significant load. Array searching, btrees, and the like won't actually do any better in practice, it seems to be related to some kind of reference handle allocation.

You can also use fork/cluster to run a localized cluster to minimize the per-instance memory footprint.

Good luck, sounds like a fun project.
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A Sea of Robots
There's little risk of depending on external services if you use multiple that provide the same type of service hidden behind an abstraction layer and can remove one of the vendors from the mix with the press of a key.
> The team (and city by association) has a very hard-nosed, blue collar kind of vibe

True. Where else could a player like Heath Miller become the fan favorite?

> It's naive that my perception of the city was/is based mainly on sports

Well then, the Steelers' now high-flying offense and the Bucs snapping their 20 season losing streak could be a sign of things to come for the city.
Didn't realise that... In any case, I was only quoting it gor the statistics presented in the table, which seems to have been copied from a DOJ report, and hopefully not tampered with (although now I'm not so sure any more...).
It's the exact same regulatory information that lyft and taxicab companies hand over to regulators.
Hashicorp has created HCL https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl
Do you have examples of running it on premises without external internet access?
Sean Parker’s $250M Bet on Hacking the Immune System to Beat Cancer
Isn't microsoft's luis.ai providing a very similar kind of service?
Ask HN: Would you hire a programmer without a degree?
Hello there,

I'm a 22-yo male. Long time I was a freelance Python programmer. Also I have some projects on GitHub.

Currently I work at a Russian company as a Java EE developer.

The problem is, I have no university degree. Of course, I went through the school and college and got secondary special education (guess it's correct). I got a profession which is more into system administration than programming. But I decided to be a programmer.

In the future I plan to move out of here to somewhere in the US and work there.

So here I am, thinking if I need to go to university, since I'm absolutely disappointed in Russian education system.

The question is, Would you hire a programmer without a degree? What if I study remotely, does it make sense? Is there any chance to get hired for skills, not for education? Is there any advice you can give?

Thanks.
as soon as you leave the city, it's evident. it's hilly and the coal industry is everywhere (but shrinking...)

probably why steel found its way there too. plenty of fuel to make steel.

the people are friendly too. i had no idea what to expect but everyone was really friendly and open minded.
>It's easy to imagine a large proportion of the population wanting to use natural language to achieve complex technical tasks. It is, after all, the same API that people use with each other.

True, and this api will be deprecated for those who want more efficient means of communication in the future and willing to work towards it.

>What interface would you prefer?

EM fluctuations in real time of the neurons in my body to machine code via trillions of nano sensors/transmitters/stimulators. Vocal cords and limbs need not apply… will be way more intuitive than "natural language".
For a "what not to do", have a look how (the CEO of?) FTDI responded after they were caught intentionally "bricking" chips that were detected as counterfeit by the Windows drivers.
That data is easily available via tower pings without needing to unlock the phone. Who sets up their phone to record constant GPS coordinates?
Pittsburgh is unfortunately kind of isolated transportation-wise, which I think is a bigger disadvantage than it looks on the surface.

It was founded when waterways were the main transportation access point, and boomed as it was the intersection of 3 rivers. But today Pittsburgh has an airport that isn't a major airline hub, with limited flights that need a connection from most cities. Rail by Amtrak is infrequent and impractically slow. The drive from NYC is 6 hours, 5 even just from Philly. And extremely treacherous in winter, too - winding Appalachian mountain passes with icy roads, blizzards, fog, narrow lanes. The nearest neighboring city is Cleveland, which isn't exactly a big boost economically.

Contrast to Philly on the other end of the state and you're 2 hours from NYC, Jersey, DC with high speed rail, a major intl airport etc. Sure there are west coast cities with worse problems, but they still have the optimism of manifest destiny working in their favor. Getting caught in a blizzard driving to Denver just feels more exciting than a blizzard driving to Pittsburgh..

If Pittsburgh doubled down on the airport or got cash from harrisburg to improve rail links to NYC (we can dream), maybe build up as a tourist destination even, it could be competitive. Till then, yinzers are going to have to enjoy the secrets of their charming city on their own.
Did someone delete the video or is it not reachable from Sweden?
“I also explore the social and cultural forces that provide the atmosphere for innovation. For the birth of the digital age, this included a research ecosystem that was nurtured by government spending and managed by a military-industrial-academic collaboration. Intersecting with that was a loose alliance of community organizers, communal-minded hippies, do-it-yourself hobbyists, and homebrew hackers, most of whom were suspicious of centralized authority.”
Excerpt From: Walter Isaacson. “The Innovators.”

It's harder to see these roots now, but for a long time military-industrial competitiveness was a huge driver of advancement in the field
I've actually got to sit down and debug my Nexus 5. I don't run the FB app but it's degrading in the same kind of way. No real easy cause that I can see. I'm hoping adb can shed some light for me.
Will FB open source Bot Engine too for the betterment of NLP and communities working around it?
I think it is absolutely ridiculous that a 25-year-old with no experience in the pencil industry thinks she can disrupt the space with her dumb millennial Instagram project.
Your stock symbol was the first company I bought options for, and lost thousands of dollars. The good ol'days
Lyft produces the same data to the same regulators.
People that use Google Latitude. Read: not terrorists.
Except that many states have now made laws making unionization very difficult. Also, I'm not sure if you intended, but everything you said describes the early 1900s. The Pinkertons were deployed on many occasions to break up unions, and they acted as a mercenary force against the working class. In the end rights were won, and then the 1980s came and Reaganism heralded the destruction of everything that had been fought for under the guise of being 'business friendly'.
From Wikipedia [0]:

In a 2013 ranking of 277 metropolitan areas in the United States, the American Lung Association (ALA) ranked only six U.S. metro areas as having higher amounts of short-term particle pollution, and only seven U.S. metro areas having higher amounts of year-round particle pollution than Pittsburgh. For ozone (smog) pollution, Pittsburgh was ranked 24th amongst other U.S. metro areas.

Pittsburgh can be cool, but I wouldn't consider moving to a city where my health is in serious danger.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh
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What should be suspect now, and something worth reflecting on, is the narrative being pushed by them since that's usually how "lying with statistics" works.
You forgot to mention the option of half flush or full flush.
The final quote has a lot of relevance for any person building a product or service: "I didn’t start this because I want to be a business lady. I started it because I really wanted to sell people pencils.”
Some huge companies are working on this issue. How would you deal with a country like Canada that socialized medical and the systems are more government run.
"First Official Climate Change Refugees Evacuate Their Island Homes for Good":

http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2014/04/06/first-offic...

"Though some would blame the islands’ sinking on shifting tectonic plates, Australia’s National Tide Facility has measured an annual rise of 8.2 mm in sea level on the islands in every year they’ve monitored—which, coupled with climate change’s propensity towards making weather patterns more sever, places climate change as at least a major contributor to the island’s submersion. "
Wow! Wonder how much trouble null had to face because of null. Can't blame null for null though.
Apple used the FBI hearings as a public relations project. They lost all sympathy from the Feds after that. They really should have played their card differently but instead wanted to rally the public against a federal law enforcement agency so they can prove to customers that they take privacy seriously.

I'm not sure if Apple intended to rile up the Snowden/tin-hat wearing crowd who thinks the government is out to get everyone, but that sure didn't leave a nice aftertaste in the FBI's mouth.

Looking at this objectively, Apple shouldn't expect the curtesy of responsible disclosure. If this makes the public wary of Apple ability to protect their privacy, well, so be it. The FBI's duty is to actually protect the public, not to protect the customers of a single corporation.

I think this is brilliant counter-marketing on the part of the FBI and a real "fuck you" to Apple for turning a criminal investigation of a mass murder in to some fucking sideshow circus where they could show the public just how much more they care about privacy than the government.

EDIT: I'm sorry, but I have a rate limited account because my conservative opinions are not valued by the HackerNews community. I have some follow ups to your comments:

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> That includes protecting the public's communication from criminal eavesdropping, which they are undermining when they keep an exploit secret instead of responsibly disclosing it.

I'm sorry, but this is not how the courts see things. Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

As far as I'm concerned and as far as the US government is concerned, as soon as you broadcast radio and electrical signals from your private person or property, it's been published. That's how it's been since the beginning of the country and that why Apple and Facebook are even allowed to sell your information to third-party marketers. Everything that leaves your devices legally has to be made public so our data can be legally sold.

This is also related to credit reports, doing-business-as, and many other kinds of public record keeping. You should not expect privacy when buying and selling goods in a public marketplace. How could you possible stop someone from monitoring what you're buying and selling? Consumer reporting, public record keeping, and public census data are incredibly important parts of our institutions.

We're going to need a newly defined set of laws and regulations to actual define what I've been calling "privished" works, that is, information that a third-party is liable to both the individual as well as the government, to make sure that the 4th amendment is still a two-way contract.

I suggest you brush up on some of your constitutional and common law interpretations of what privacy actually means with regards to mass communication. I think most of the HN threads are missing half of the social contract and fail to see the importance of granting the government the right to warranted search and seizure.
Unfortunately, every open-protocol chat implementation attempted thus far has failed due to commoditization and spam. Nobody has been able to figure out a way to make them still useful to the masses.
Warrant canaries are so vague that it may technically breach the gag but it doesn't give any information that the gag orders attached to/in NSLs mainly that the targets of NSLs can't find out that their information was requested. Once a year site/company wide canaries provide no actionable information and don't even threaten to expose abuses that would show up as an inordinate number of letters being sent to a particular company that I doubt the government really cares about them in the slightest.
I recently changed my phone support password at work to "aaah, f*, I'm not sure is it.." after listening to all my previous support calls and realising that was what I answered with 9/10 times. I suspect its only a matter of time before someone else accidentally guesses it. Its only for my regular user account, for my admin accounts I need to get another domain admin to reset the password, there is no process for anyone to exploit, just an audit every month.
Are you saying it would further the discussion on a thread about actual ancient artifacts if I came in and described how interesting it was that it correlated with some stories from, say, Battlestar Galactica?
It is of course a territorial pissing match. Apple, and most of Silicon Valley, thinks and acts like they are more important and powerful than the country that granted them a corporate charter and the public infrastructure with which to do business.
Wait - what it is using, then? I had assumed it was TF under Emscripten or similar.
There is an app called Appetite based in Montreal that is taking the same approach but using the students as the beta users.
I'm really glad quirky and specialized places like this exist, even though I would never spend $80 a year for one pencil a month.
This is a very cool toy. As someone with no experience in ML, this is an interesting visual approach to the absolute basics.

And great for challenging your friends in an epic battle of convergence!
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apple, iphone saves timestamped gps coordinates every time it discovers available wifi network
Exactly, I am not using Whatsapp, I used to use it one year back but then again not much important stuff happened on Whatsapp, it was the same story everywhere, people ignored me outright, only called me when they needed help and never otherwise.

That is why I left whatsapp, it has been a remarkable experience, https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/4336854
I read around 12books this year itself, https://medium.com/@surajp/i-crippled-my-phone-too-1300761aa...

It is a relief not looking at the phone every minute of the day despite the fact that nothing important is going to be communicated via whatsapp, or nothing of that significance to me, everything that I really really need to know comes to me via call
You should; it'll solve your problems.
geohot is busy doing car AI
Why not just make your own African short films YouTube channel and promote it?
It's a good suggestion. Besides things like Hyperloop and such, even with today's train technology, a fast train (TGV, Pendolino, etc) could connect Pittsburgh to NYC in 2.5 / 3 hours. Unfortunately it would take 20 years to build it.
Regardless of how Apple considers themselves, I would hope most companies would conduct themselves in a similar manner w/r/t this reaction to the FBI.

Of all the reasons to hate on Apple their defending their own devices' collective security should NOT be high on the list.
> the Book of Mormon, which originates ~600 BC in Jerusalem.

That's delusional bullshit.
Uber attempted to silence passenger in fatal accident
Tower pings aren't terribly accurate.
> Additionally, this area is fairly centrist politically.

I spent three months crossing the US in 2009 as a tourist. I had developed a light-hearted measure of the patriotism of an area by how many US flags were seen in suburban front yards. Before I visited Pittsburgh, I had rated '1 house in 4-5 with a flag' as a very patriotic area on this scale. Then I hit Pittsburgh, and the area where my hotel was had one house in 4-5 that didn't have a little US flag planted somewhere in the front yard. Even the local cemetery was bestrewn with Old Glory all over the place... :)
Curious: what was the company that you founded, and that was sold in 2012?
You could have a sequence of lasers each tuned to a slightly different color calculated to reverse the relativistic shift.

You'd probably want to do that anyway to avoid burning up your laser. Also it's easier to make a pulse at that power level vs continuous.
This is fantastic, I wish I'd known about this earlier. Now I just need a way of testing Debian preseed faster than spinning up VMs, and I'll be set.
It's the classical exploration vs exploitation tradeoff. What do you do, try a radical new variation or fine tune this one?
You can tell that buy the whole "we're not bringing that money in, just to pay tax on it, are you crazy ! We're going to spend millions lobbying for us to be able to not pay that tax instead". And people support them !
Here's her website, for anyone that's curious.
http://cwpencils.com/
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I think you mean /dev/random. On unixes, /dev/urandom produces a stream of random bytes that may not have high entropy, while /dev/random will block on reads until there's enough entropy in the pool.
Which iOS? Link available?
About the stress of academia...

I did some work with a cognitive science / computer science researcher while in undergrad and know plenty of PhDs in various fields. Academia is seeping with stress. Grad students have a very high rate of mental illness. I greatly admire the people who do that work, especially if they are working towards tenure. The work is incredibly fun, but you have to be a certain kind of person to handle the tenure route.
Agreed, and in the days of simpler apps, and 800x600/1024x768 displays being more usual, not as bad. I really do miss a lot of this.

I mean, the web is great for a lot of stuff (as I said)... but I feel it is a shame that we don't have a modern alternative for client/server applications... and every time I see one that has a lot of potential, it usually has some strings that will prevent adoption.
So you are thinking of a number of sellers competing for the buyer?
How are you handling the Gradle experimental plugin and Jack/Jill (no problems because you operate at dex level?)? I heard Proguard and other class/dex transformations were having trouble adopting the new model. Supposedly Google is working on adding extension points to the API.
towards the end of the article you get an interesting question. If you have the State of California mandating that the energy is 50% renewable but share energy with other states how do you account for the grey area especially if the other states are burning a huge amount of coal.

Secondly slipped in there is that we're rejecting free renewable energy because of the way the natural gas contracts are setup. That's a travesty right there, shouldn't let business in the way of free energy imo. Of course most likely when those contracts were signed there was no huge solar buildouts imagined.
>I'm not sure if Apple intended to rile up the Snowden/tin-hat wearing crowd who thinks the government is out to get everyone, but that sure didn't leave a nice aftertaste in the FBI's mouth.

I prefer the theory that they wanted to improve their reputation in the international market with a show of defiance demonstrating that they weren't going to act as a front for US intelligence.

Although I have no idea whether Apple's reputation has actually been damaged overseas by increased awareness of American spying, it seems likely that American technology companies in the post-Snowden age will face a PR problem in the international market that Apple and other US tech companies should have a strategy for.
Do towers record past telemetry data? Assuming they do, the granularity of knowing that a particular tower handled a phone ping is comparatively useless. A guessed location (stored on the iPhone) based off of cell tower triangulation and the occasional GPS calculation is far more valuable.

I do agree that we should consider the FBI's statement with skepticism.
> wanted to rally the public

Source? Preferably the press release in question.

It's FBI who was pushing the polemic, and that's the same polemic you are now pushing.

Also, this isn't a show. These are legitimate privacy concerns that require active protection. The FBI is hardly in the business of protecting information from hackers. If they were, they probably wouldn't need Apple's help in the first place to penetrate their security. They simply don't have the expertise.

Again, I'd like to point out that it was the FBI who took to the PR stand to address the public directly in a political manner.
Let's Encrypt certificates quality is better: Grade A [1] versus Grade A- for StartSSL [2].

I personally like who's behind it. AFAIK, Let's Encrypt started with EFF sponsorship, later came Google, Mozilla, Facebook, now Cisco, Akamai, HP.

Probably there are other differences, would be glad to know.

[1] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=helloworld.le...

[2] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.startssl....
Hell, I'm a "tech" person and I barely even know what blockchains are. Many other engineers are in the same boat as me.
This is unrelated. Apple is a dickwad when it comes to paying taxes. I still trust their hardware more than I trust the FBI.
As a yinzer, this is really fun to read.
Answers to your questions are mostly in the article. Did you read it?

Fly by.

Laser.

Nuclear.
Yes, but that is not the official client.
Reminds me of one of my favorite commit logs from the LibreSSL project:

"Do not feed RSA private key information to the random subsystem as entropy. It might be fed to a pluggable random subsystem…. What were they thinking?!"

http://opensslrampage.org/post/83007010531/well-even-if-time...
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