skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Kel helps DevOps professionals manage their application infrastructure through a layer of tools and components that make Kubernetes accessible and easier to use."

I'm not sure if the OP is a project member but it would be helpful to see more details in the docs covering how exactly the project aims to or already makes Kuberenetes easier to use.
It's open source.
Granted, "just use a curve fit" hits a different statistical problem. (overfitting)
Most of my friends who purchased in SF or NYC used family money. There are a ton of wealthy families out there. Tech stock options follow close behind, but seem much more cyclical.
See also: construal level theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construal_level_theory
Latency and cost, probably.
I've seen ++i vs i++ cause so many bugs that whenever I see it, I stop to ponder if the author got it right. It's like in Javascript where I stop to check if the author intended for `if (x)` to take the false path if x is "" and 0.

It's death by a thousand papercuts for my mental load.
Ask HN: Developers in Berlin, equity options work when join a startup?
I'm working with a company that will probably get some funding these days. They offered me "equity pool" option and bonus if that happen and if I want to stay ( right now I'm not an employee yet ).

I have some questions :

Have you ever worked like that? Is it worth it?

How does bonus system for developers work?

When can I benefit from my employee options ( transforming them to money )?

What is the normal percentage of option pool in Berlin / Germany / EU ?
If you look at the corners of the plot, you can see the short sides of the octagon that the completed building will eventually become.

Overlaid on the financial district of New York, for comparison: http://mapfrappe.com/?show=39101
> It's unclear what the effects of a basic income would be in an undeveloped country.

This is true, but given the evidence we do have (GiveDirectly's previous programs and previous basic income programs in developed countries) I see no reason to believe the effects will be anything but positive.
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Isn't caitlin Jenner straight?
A perfect storm:

- Corporate misinformation pushing a significant set of users on a repeated and addiction forming schedule.

- Morphine (one of the proven and cheaper alternatives) perceived as problematic / cancer drug

- Doctors having less hassle and financial incentive to prescribe OC on q12 schedule than alternatives

- shame on user side and war on drugs policies that make it hard to reach out for help

The good news is that the internet makes it harder to spin misinformation over the long run.
This is just crazy wrong. The Tesla S is insanely more safe, energy efficient, gets about the same amount of range, and will absolutely smoke an accord in a 0-60 and 1/4 mile race. Are you saying its a better value because it would be less expensive? You could say a $20 POS android phone is a better value than a galaxy s7 because it costs less and does mostly the same stuff, but it doesn't make that true.
> Yeah ammo and guns is just scary.

Until you realize that one deer can help feed your whole family.
I think you should consider your own response.
Sure; I was only explaining the difference to OP who seems to think gender and sex are two words for the same thing.
On a more reflective / somber note. I am a huge fan of the idea of empowering all classes of people. So the fact that this lady was able to disrupt the flight is I think (big picture) a good thing.

Instead of simply dismissing this person as ignorant, I hope folks on this forum will take a moment to reflect on the tragic state of the entire system. If we're going to enable / empower all classes of people we (those in a position to make a difference) need to do a better job of raising the bar, and helping all those in need to raise their own bar too.
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It's quite a plume. The synthetic image on the top left is showing where the smoke is affecting air quality:

http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/

It's interesting to compare with the earlier reports. It was barely visible 5 days ago.
I think you're right. But if you draw a straight line from Fort McMurray to Montana, it passes very close to Edmonton, so I doubt they'd see smoke in Montana from Fort McMurray while Edmonton has no smoke.
I have generally found that the internet is a double-edged sword. The information available makes it much easier to find information supporting ones cause and thus reinforcing it, even if that cause is ludicrous.
Your PhD program doesn't define you. Sometimes being around the same kind of people all the time makes you forget there is a lot more to life than computer science.
OxyContin is oxycodone, which is actually a good deal stronger than hydrocodone.
All of those countries enacted protectionist trade policies. Singapore/HK tended not to target specific industries but they suppressed the value of their currencies by loading up on US treasuries (their small size made this easy).

In all of those cases those countries were given tacit approval by the US to enact protectionist trading policies and yet maintain their access to US markets.
Wells Fargo list today's 30-Year Fixed-Rate Jumbo rate at 3.5%: https://www.wellsfargo.com/mortgage/rates/

For simplicity, let's say you put 200k down on this 1.2 mil home. Your mortgage payment on a $1 million loan would be a $4,490/month, or around $50,000 per year. $30,000 of that is tax deductible.

A general rule of thumb is that you shouldn't spend more than roughly thirty percent of your income on rent, so I think any person or family making over 150k/year could feasibly think about a purchase like this.

The major caveat is that $200k in savings is hard to come by.
I went to University of Illinois for math (grad school), and I haven't really seen that effect, although it probably didn't hurt. I've mostly gotten interviews because of my open source credentials & impressive accomplishments for early in my career.

I'm of the opinion that while school calibur might be able to get you interviews and jobs a lot of times, it's selecting for mediocrity since it doesn't go for professional accomplishments...and thus avoids hiring high performers, who generally want to work with other high performers.
> protection money

That's not the issue. The issue is power. The above do not threaten anyone's foundational power base.

BC also doesn't challenge the establishment in a foundational sense (in that it is designed to leave an undeniable digital trail).

These guys were completely off the global plantation. They will be made an example for others.
You would be banned if you said that about any other country.
There's no reason to pull out the True Believer ad hominem. You have valid points, but it also wouldn't be the first time that a long list of drawbacks with new technology are resolved one by one until it becomes obvious to everyone that the new way of doing things is better. I think that battery-electric vehicles are in this category, and that it will be tough for competitors to catch up once the "this is obviously the better way" point is reached. This is obviously a matter of opinion, but it certainly isn't clear-cut.

I'd also claim that the drawbacks you mention don't merit the word severe, given that Tesla is able to sell ~100,000 vehicles per year with these drawbacks. They are certainly disadvantageous, but not to such a degree that they are a limitation to more than a few precent of the use cases. Also, there are advantages to electric vehicles - e.g. less routine maintenance, fewer moving parts to service, lower operating costs, less noise and emissions. So to a degree it evens out even with the present limitations.
>Stanford emails out a jobs summary for each graduating class. For 2013 graduates the #1 most common job title was Forward Deployed Engineer lol

This actually gives some credence to the sweatshop narrative. A Stanford education is so much about getting placed in a titled job that a manifest goes out every year about where graduates were allocated?

100k/yr as a rented contractor to a multi-billion dollar hedge fund does have a sweatshop feel. In-house programmers or independent contractors would be making much, much more.
The big thing for me with top schools is the "baseline quality of the degree". I didn't go to a top school, but spent my time studying everything math and CS related I could, and managed to get an awesome education. At the same time, I am fully cognizant of the fact that peers who were less driven likely were more easily able to skate by, for the most part. So when a resume comes across my desk from a guy from my alma mater, I don't exactly know how to evaluate it -- there's no "well this guy went to CMU or MIT, so I can assume a modicum of strengths". I wouldn't turn down a candidate for an interview because of their school (or lack thereof), but coming from top schools generally frames you in a different way, in my book. If anything, I tend to gauge the difficulty up slightly more quickly in my questions.
Yes, it would be circular had I concluded that median is best.
i thought this link in the Ars comment was interesting. not sure why it was so buried, though. Maybe that's a reflection of Ars more than anything.

http://andrewgelman.com/2016/05/03/im-all-out-of-clever/
Agreed. I've been using spring for about 1.5 years now and it has saved me huge amounts of time. The only time it hasn't picked up changes was on initializers and the router, which is understandable. I can't imagine developing without spring. I would be restarting rails hundreds of times per day.
Your theory falls apart to the evidence of health systems in basically every other OECD country.

A theory that fails to match the data in any case doesn't seem to be much of a theory, is there something I don't know about that's happening in other counties?
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I guess you think science would be better off just memory-holing results that you don't want to know about, is that right?
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battery Li content = 80g / (kW hour) [1]

Gigafactory total projected capacity 2020 = 85 GW hr/year [2]
Gigafactory lithium metal demand = (80 g / (kW hour)) (85 GW hr/year) = 6800 t/year
Gigafactory lithium hydroxide demand (anhydrous) = (6800 t/year) (23.95 g/mol / (6.941 g/mol)) = 23500 t/year
Gigafactory lithium hydroxide demand (monohydrate) = (6800 t/year) (41.96 g/mol / (6.941 g/mol)) = 41000 t/year
(FT article was evidently talking about anhydrous lithium hydroxide)

price lithium hydroxide = USD 14000/t [3]
price lithium carbonate = USD 10000/t [3]

price lithium (from hydroxide) = USD 14000/t (6.941 g/mol / (23.95 g/mol)) = USD 4060/t
price lithium (from carbonate) = USD 10000/t (2 6.941 g/mol / (73.89 g/mol)) = USD 1880/t
(N.B. just cost of raw materials, not including cost of lithium extraction from salt by electrolysis)

Gigafactory demanded lithium cost (from hydroxide) = (USD 4060/t) (6800 t/year) = USD 27 million/year
Gigafactory demanded lithium cost (from carbonate) = (USD 1880/t) (6800 t/year) = USD 13 million/year

Estimated world lithium reserves = 14 million t [4]
Gigafactory proportional use of lithium reserves = (6800 t/year) / (14 million t) = 0.05%/year

World production of lithium (2015) = 32500 t/year [4]
Gigafactory proportional use of lithium production = (6800 t/year) / (32500 t/year) = 21%

The FT article's estimate of 24000 t/year checks out for anhydrous lithium hydroxide. I do not know if 50000 t/year is an accurate number for worldwide lithium hydroxide production in 2015, but lithium hydroxide is not the only source for lithium and this would imply a worldwide supply of lithium of just 14500 t/year, which is contradicted by the figure of 32500 t/year from the USGS [4].

The estimated lithium demand of the Gigafactory (which matches the FT article's figures) are for the Gigafactory's total demand (both Powerwalls and cars) with the factory at full operating capacity in 2020. There is a number of years yet for lithium production to scale up.

Even taking the Gigafactory's projected demands in 2020 against lithium production in 2015, it requires 'only' 21% of the market. Tesla would be a very large customer, perhaps the single largest in the wourld, but Tesla wouldn't exactly be required to corner the entire market.

Supply and demand dynamics dictate that with increased demand, price will increase. The cost of the raw lithium salts would be on the order of USD 20 million/year for Tesla. Even with a price vastly inflated from here, it would be a small cost against Tesla's operating income.

A single Gigafactory operating at full capacity would take over 2000 years to exhaust the USGS's estimate of world lithium reserves of 14 million t.

[1]: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/34504

[2]: http://www.zdnet.com/article/panasonic-to-pour-billions-of-y...

[3]: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-13/lithium-graphite-the-n...

[4]: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/lithium/mcs...
Because it's better to report someone because they look like they're from the Middle East?
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I know of at least one person (Lenny Flank [1]) who's living in a covertly converted cargo van possibly for some financial reasons but also to be able to travel cheaply and see the USA. He's writing mostly about places he stays, but there are also some articles about how he's doing it, the van and its conversions, etc.

Lenny's been crossposting to Daily Kos as well as on his site, and "What's it All Cost?" [2] has a list of links to all the relevant articles there. This is a better place to go if you're just wanting the meat of it.

I also know of at least one other person who's more legitimately "homeless" rather than "camping," she's been posting about her experiences with PADS (homeless assistance group, runs shelters particularly during the colder months) and some job search related items, also on Daily Kos [3].

TL;DR Lenny bought a used windowless extended cargo van with a security grid across the front of the back compartment (which can be covered to block light from inside at night). He mounted a decent-sized solar panel on the roof, has a battery setup inside that he can use for lighting, a fan, and recharging his laptop and other devices. He added a small sink, etc. and sleeps in the van overnight while taking public transit to various sights in each area he stops in. He works via laptop from various public libraries, coffee shops, and restaurant wifi.

[1] https://lennyflank.wordpress.com/
[2] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/09/1420740/-Living-in-...
[3] http://www.dailykos.com/user/sheddhead
Who downmods this? Seriously?
HAVE YOU ASKED YOUR DOCTOR?????

doctors are full of alternatives, but people loooooove opioids so that's what they prescribe. people also think doctors always make the best decisions, but that's horseshit, they commonly make terrible decisions because they're overworked and their patients are terrible at communicating.

the last time i went in for pain they immediately offered me opioids, i said nope and LO, AND BEHOLD, an alternative was immediately offered.

and GUESS WHAT, they were SUPER CHEAP. hmmmmmm....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketorolac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylprednisolone
Those battery swap stations were mixed (... For now?)

http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/news/a25...
Really the duration can vary quite a lot. I was put under on fentanyl for having my wisdom teeth taken out and woke up in the middle of the operation in extreme pain as someone was digging my teeth out with a metal instrument. I moaned at him, through a mouth stuffed with gauze pads, to get the fuck off me and let me out of there if he wasn't giving me more meds. He proceeded to angrily accuse me of taking dope, which I had, quite a few times, but never that much, in high school a few years before. I had already explained this before the procedure and assumed they had adjusted the dose. Explaining this again, with tears of pain rolling down my face, the nurse told me it's okay and, I assume out of some attempt to comfort me, that she'd taken dope too. They gave me the fentanyl and I passed out again. My opiate use in high school was infrequent and I'd never experienced withdrawals in the slightest, though I'd say I probably took a double or triple dose a few times, mostly because it never seemed to do that much for me. I was probably 16 when I started my experimentation and it ended by the time I was 17. Freshman year of college I was suffering stomach pain and headaches, so the doc at school prescribed Reglan and a small amount of Vicodin. Painkillers for a headache? By the end of the next day I had taken them all, in total 25mg Hydrocodone spread out over a day and a half. I take ibuprofen for headaches anyway. That was probably 8-12 months before my wisdom teeth procedure, but somehow either that one time recently or the times I took opiates in high school years before were enough for the fentanyl to wear off and for me to get yelled at by a doctor for it. I can't figure out if I always had a high tolerance or if opiate tolerance never goes away. I'm looking at this chart of equivalent potency https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equianalgesic and it seems like I probably took the equivalent of a 15 mg oxycontin at the highest dosage I ever took, 22.5mg Hydrocodone, so it's really a mystery to me why I would have an effect like that. In my opinion, the problem here is that a higher dose was recommended instead of a longer acting opioid. However, I think people should always research their medication and talk to their pharmacist. I never took the Reglan because there's a risk of Parkinsons. My friend was prescribed a huge dose of antidepressants and ended up in the hospital with serotonin syndrome. Doctor knows best is a lie when it comes to medication. Pharmacist knows best. Always ask the pharmacist.
"This is a proposal and not a plan of record."

Not only that, the git feature branch, if it ever existed, doesn't anymore.
Or houses should be dirt cheap? For douple my ok income i would not get a run down house near a population center in germany.
Emergency vehicles often need the other lane to go either direction. Maximizing capacity is a more nuanced thing than one use/direction.
> I have never chanted a country name in any setting, or been present while it's been going on other than people doing it to stereotype Americans.

I think this may be more of a personal quirk of yours and/or your immediate social circle. National chants pretty much abound throughout the world, especially in nations that perceive themselves in high competition with others.

Here's another post I made with some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11643852

and yes, many are from sporting events, but I've heard people shout their nation name or some national slogan outside of sports enough times to know it's pretty common (but not universal).

(I notice you live in/near London from your profile, don't you ever notice the conspicuous displays of "Britishness" all over the place? I certainly did the few times I was there. I wasn't bothered by it, and though it did take different forms from the way we do it in the U.S. felt it was okay as a demonstration of national pride.)
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Same thing with reusable rockets. First it won't work, now it won't be economical.

These are moribund industries where nothing has changed since the 60s. After a while they've come to believe that nothing can change.

Lithium is more common in Earth's crust than lead and many other materials that are mined in significantly greater quantities.
Why Naval Academy students learn to sail by stars for the first time in a decade
Too expensive.
Not really, the basic no frills model S starts at over $80k. Sure that's a lot cheaper than other cars in the same performance class, but that's a far cry from being affordable.
The identity of the passenger has been kept secret for privacy reasons. For that reason, she could not be contacted to confirm or deny Menzio's claim. All we have so far are Menzio's own words, possibly further distorted by the Washington Post, and his characterization of what others told him.

If she did come forward, I suspect that we would get a more nuanced and complete explanation for why she became suspicious of Menzio. There are already clues in Menzio's own account where he notes that he maintained a dismissive and non-committal attitude to her attempts at conversation, and remained locked with 'laser like' focus on his writing. In short, he was behaving in a strange and hostile manner.
It’s a bit funny :)
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not sure why all the downvotes. The stewardess asked her if she was too "sick" to continue the flight, so that might actually have been the cause: She noticed she is getting paranoid about the neighbour scribbling strange things, and leaves the flight. Now, the "officials" investigate the guy, just to be on the safe side.

I don't think this scenario is less likely than assuming that the woman was really that "stupid" to behave that way.
Palantir is probably worth less than the money invested. At $420 million in revenue, they would need to be worth more than 6x revenue to match the $2.5 billion invested. They certainly have "special sauce" over and above their value as a consulting firm (which are worth maybe 2x revenue).

But how big is the market for that "special sauce"?

The intelligence customers are low-capability, have massive datasets and really do need Palantir. But they've tapped out that market. So look at the consumer brands in their customer list: low capability, yes. But you could fit the data for any of them into the RAM on one server.

Yes Palantir has super smart guys who can find fascinating relationships in the data. But there are only so many relationhips to find. And once that's done, the IT staff of the customer can do the work easily themselves.

So I'm sorry but I think Palantir is a washout (worth less than the money invested). Nice offices though.
Use AWS Lambda to self-host your A/B tests
https://www.terminal49.com/ is running on Rails 5 (beta2) API on production. Using ActionCable + Ember + JsonAPI
No, really, you can't reply?
I heard this from my peers in undergrad all the time and it befuddled me. I thought "so ... you have no curiosity about the world? about how stuff works?."

I'm not claiming that I had hifalutin ideals; I knew that money was important, but I had this (perhaps naive) idea that if I became an excellent practitioner in whatever I did the money would follow.

I just wasn't prepared to hear "I'm just here to get a good job" from most of my peers. Some, I would expect, but not most.
http://www.amazon.com/Noahs-Flood-Scientific-Discoveries-Cha...
Absolutely. It depends on the topography and fuel loads, but all it takes is for the wind to carry a burning ember (which are generated in _huge_ quantities in such a fire).
I woke up when I was having my wisdom teeth extracted but promptly went back to sleep when they suggested it.

My recollection is that I was briefly aware of them working in my mouth but not in any pain.