skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree that there are other criteria besides performance, only that Go services will likely cost an order of magnitude less than Python services, and the development velocity is pretty much on par (and much better for concurrent tasks, since Go is much more expressive here).

Go is heavily optimized toward performance and rapid development. Go also takes a hard philosophical bent against redundant features, like exceptions, under the "less is more" and "simple is better than complex" axioms; it's actually the same philosophy that Python's zen espouses, except Go actually adheres to it.

Regarding libraries, there are numerous web frameworks and several ORMs. I'm unfamiliar with Django, but I will say that Go's standard HTTP library is a tremendous improvement over Flask. Also, I've not yet found an ORM that saves time or trouble over hand-coding SQL (in particular, SQLAlchemy is a real bear).
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Lots of people use Plex etc for movie playback. Kids love to rewatch movies, as do some movie lovers. I have a copy of many movies in a disk array so that I can watch them anywhere in the house without digging out a disk.
As of today, GKE uses the Debian-based ContainerVM: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/container_v...
Dying as soon as possible is more effective at avoiding cancer, but not as effective at reproducing as much as possible (before getting cancer).
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Yes, the press release is (actually) pretty difficult to parse and really opaque in how the comparison is measured, which is why I wanted to throw into question the blog's headline, "The World's Most Accurate Parser." It seems more clear now but obviously Google doesn't feel the need to overtly prove that they are the best in the world at tasks, which is a bit questionable considering their number of followers. In all, it seems they have tested against several other dependency parsers, but clearly not all of them, and it's fair to say that it is "highly accurate," but this parser still falls victim to some of the same issues that most statistical parsers do, and while faster than some dependency parsers, it is not faster than all of them.

The point about overfitting is valid, too, which is another reason why this "most accurate such model in the world" claim is obnoxious.

It's also fair to note that their advance is in fractions of percentage points on this specific dataset over models that are 5-10 years older.
I went through a personal anti six-sigma period in the early 90s. And adopted a slimmed down version of this for myself. Rather: it had the same name and came from CMU, but I don't recall it being quite so cumbersome looking, and I adopted a slimmed down "personal-only" version of it for myself. I didn't work that hard at it, and I was able to bring alternative data to a larger meta-drama I was somehow participating in.

Later - I spun out of there and started a company and we did that slimmed down version, based on the this Y2K document's predecessor. It didn't seem to cumbersome because it was inline with a lot of things we were already doing. And we had were using this light-weight measurement practice embedded in a modified dev-team wide process based on the spiral (we were all from waterfall-world, and this fit us well).

I've gotta say: it worked very very well. Especially after a few iterations through a few spirals. Skeptics came around pretty quickly. (Well, except one guy - but he hated everything)

I can't imagine doing 100% of what's written in this document, as a dedicated, in parallel, side-car type activity - but it might still be well worth it.
They also could secure their downloads with TLS and signing.
I'm especially wary of claims that AI will be the next big thing. This would be, what, the fifth time? The sixth? I think we're due for another AI winter, given all the ill-informed hype around artificial neural networks.
Doesn't Google still but a lot of weight on your degree? Sounds like a waste of time to me.
What do women do (and companies allow) if they have a disability or are elderly? I imagine if you are blind, old, on crutches etc... heals of any height would be challenging if not impossible.
Ah thanks. Now I'm more curious.
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Re: 2;

Perhaps Apple is thinking that this is the hard part. Nailing down the most difficult areas of self driving cars will both give them the market in China/India or other areas with similar traffic, and also leaving the "easy stuff" for last, which will only need to be supplemental.
You're right, of course. However, I am extremely selfish, and while I agree with you, I can't help but think "yes, but not me."

Society might need death, but I still want to live forever.
Interesting.

"bully RB advmod"

I assume this is wrong, and probably triggered by the "ly" ending? Also, odd that it dropped the second clause and didn't see any trouble with the parsed results lacking a single verb. I guess it has to be able to handle fragments, etc.
Is there a reason for that app other than to speed and be stupid?
Going to try to summarize a bit.

The article explains that different organisms exhibit different patterns of aging, when we consider aging as either defined by increases in the probability of death, or decreases in the probability of reproduction.

Taken together with the evolution of species, this implies a plasticity in both the mechanisms and utility of aging - something which is otherwise considered to be a rather solid constant of life.

The takeaway then is that we must 1) widen our definition of aging to accommodate the variety of natural phenomena, and 2) reconsider the intuition that a specific pattern of aging, such as the one found in humans, is necessary for the survival of the organism and/or the species.
Cripes, people are such killjoys! The counter-claims pooh-poohing the lad's "discovery" smack of schadenfreudensuchen. So what if there's a bit of media hype? It's a nice feelgood story and the kid hasn't done anything wrong. In fact, that's the sort of curiosity and inquisitiveness we should be fostering in schoolkids.
More in the way that we assumed that "people like to communicate", so we built something that looked like the real world. But what people really want to do is share experiences and talk about that, which is why everything from sports to bars exist. People probably don't "communicate" as such in WoW (while I'm sure it happens), but they don't in the real world either.
I amuse myself with the thought of this contraption being fitted inside the Predators face mask. I'm easily amused.
The video of SILInspector (and background on SIL) is at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NH-qIKOoKgA
HN's very own https://www.browserling.com/ is also quite simple. Free to use for a few minutes.
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...And interesting times for ad blockers.
This is not a presumption I made. This is believed by many scientists. Telomeres are just part of the story. There are many other reasons[1,2,3]. The third link is not a paper so very readable.

The cell has many ways to combat oncogenesis and when these protections fail, it tries to go into senescence (SIGTERM) or die(SIGKILL).

Nanobots that would replace damaged cells with new non-cancerous ones are not yet here.

[1] http://www.impactaging.com/papers/v2/n7/full/100178.html
[2] http://www.nature.com/nrc/journal/v3/n1/full/nrc984.html
[3] http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2008/12/02/cellular-senescence/
I bought a couple as the main value for me is that it's tied directly to AWS Lambda. Yes, I could build an ESP8266, RaspberryPi, or Arduino-based solution, but then it's totally custom. Because my startup is involved in "serverless" computing, it's beneficial for me to say that this button directly calls an AWS Lambda function out of the box.

I'll replace the battery with a DC transformer and use one for demos.
I find it unlikely that there would be no memory leaks needing patching, no important compiler updates, and no API-compatible dependency updates that should've been applied to the stable release.

The Linux Kernel, Firefox, and lots of projects have some sort of Long Term Service branch where simple uncontroversial improvements are added.

Modern best practices for releasing open source software are important, and a project that doesn't seem aware of any of them makes me concerned about their attention to detail.
What?! Please don't call cell senescence "aging". Our cells do destroy themselves and replenish from stem cells but the accumulated damage called "aging" causes cancer.

If you age, you get cancer, eventually. Sometimes some other pathology gets you first but everyone is afflicted with every "aging disease" but we seem to only care about which one kills you first.
Damn, I feel like I see the curl-into-shell discussion every day online. Something has to give.
Do you have a mailing list where we can sign up to know when you open it up? I almost immediately bought this, but thought "I should read up on the API first..." Reading the FAQ [https://flair.co/pages/faq] I see: "Can I write apps for Puck? Not yet. But soon."

I'll buy it the moment it lets me program it to suit my needs. It looks incredibly awesome and off the bat I can think of 4 places I'd love to use it (but none of them, unfortunately, have anything to do with heating or cooling).
Thanks for linking that. I had missed it. It's hilarious!
Is there at least one button in addition to the knob? How do I get my hands on a dev kit? I have been casually looking for an internet-connected dial + button + display for a long time. I have lots of different productivity uses I want to try out. Badly.

Edit: I see now that it does indeed have "click" listed in the specs.
Or unless retirement is legally enforced, voids voting rights and lasts forever, so people past a certain age are prevented from having any influence (except to the extent that they can persuade other people using their wisdom and experience).

Quite how that'd work economically though, I have no idea.
Long the competitors?
Three years ago, Jon Skinner mentioned it was a "3 person company"
This paper would be much more entertaining with a complete example 3-SAT solver track, and a twitch stream of people trying to complete it.
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The evolution of aging is an arms race to the bottom. Very few species can succeed without aging once any competitors evolve aging, and this happened very early on. Here is thinking on "we age because the world changes." Of course what is great for evolutionary success has nothing to do with what is great for the individual, and the two should not be confused.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.4649

"Understanding why we age is a long-lived open problem in evolutionary biology. Aging is prejudicial to the individual and evolutionary forces should prevent it, but many species show signs of senescence as individuals age. Here, I will propose a model for aging based on assumptions that are compatible with evolutionary theory: i) competition is between individuals; ii) there is some degree of locality, so quite often competition will between parents and their progeny; iii) optimal conditions are not stationary, mutation helps each species to keep competitive. When conditions change, a senescent species can drive immortal competitors to extinction. This counter-intuitive result arises from the pruning caused by the death of elder individuals. When there is change and mutation, each generation is slightly better adapted to the new conditions, but some older individuals survive by random chance. Senescence can eliminate those from the genetic pool. Even though individual selection forces always win over group selection ones, it is not exactly the individual that is selected, but its lineage. While senescence damages the individuals and has an evolutionary cost, it has a benefit of its own. It allows each lineage to adapt faster to changing conditions. We age because the world changes."
I'm a little troubled by the argument that an increase in the probability of death signifies or is equivalent to an increase in the rate of aging. I feel like that conclusion doesn't follow and is misleading, but I'm not sure. Am I off base?

If we suppose humans live to around 85 years on average, and rarely if ever die before 65, then there's a big bell curve normal distribution on 85, and what looks like a non-linear exponentially increasing probability of death up to about 80. But that doesn't mean everyone started aging faster at 65, it just means people started dying around 65.

Imagine that you go bowling and throw 20 mph balls on average. The distribution would look similar. Bell curve on a pin dropping at around (say) 5 seconds, but the curve starts at around 4 seconds and ends at 6ish. Does this mean the ball suddenly accelerated at the end? No, in fact the opposite happened, it was slowing down. But the rate of probability that a pin goes down is exponentially increasing from 0-5 seconds.

Not a perfect analogy to aging by any stretch, but am I right that an increase in the probability of death is unrelated to aging - the speed at which we approach death?
It's useful in education, but it also was competitive in what became the Java market. Weirdly, the world bought into a relatively static language when it had the option to go for the extremely dynamic and flexible SmallTalk instead. I have always thought it an extreme shame that the man-centuries (man-millennia?) sunk into improving the JVM weren't instead spent improving an open-source SmallTalk instead.
Follow-up: This thread is getting a fair amount of heat, and let me foremost say that I love the button and think it'd work for the vast majority of people. Just as a child's nightlight, he pushes it probably 10 days a day (potty breaks, bad dreams, is it time to get up yet, etc). I'd also wager that my ARP-interception causes the board to consume more just the norm.
Even better, sometimes we get paid to remove tokens!
The brain's trash collector is highly optimised. I don't see that becoming a problem.

*There have been cases where a patient could not form new memories but could retain old ones but that does't mean that their brains were "full".
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In many cases, a good place to start would be various online community-oriented sites that accept contributions from outside writers and have editors. They won't typically pay, but they'll give you experience and help you build up a portfolio that will be useful if you want to start doing this sort of thing more systematically.
No - which I didn't proclaim it is. But it seems somehow a bit fairer thant prime-pricing.
piping to bash as an install method?

didn't we decide this was a really really bad idea?
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few things grind my gears like hipsters telling me how much THEY care about products being usable LIKE IT'S SOME SORT OF NEW IDEA, like they are the ONLY ONES WHO CARE.

beards and winter hats in summer seem, counter intuitively, to incubate a lot of unique little snowflakes.
Maybe to them it is. Smalltalk has been around forever. We've all heard about it, but very few of us have done anything with it so maybe to too many it has been relegated to the "that's cool, but I'll probably never use it" bin.
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Since when are cancer and heart disease relatively new? They've been around for as long as people have, just most people didn't live long enough to get them for other reasons.
You're not the only one Donald...WashPo ran 16 articles bashing Bernie in 16 hours: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/3/8/1498063/-In-16-hours-...
Not really. I haven't taken the time to do any analysis given that they are always details in the languages I'm building (which are written up). I gave a talk about this at Parsing SLE (2013?) but I guess it didn't need a PDF.

They are really simple ideas (really, pre match your braces, I'm sure I'm not the first one to do that!), I'm not sure they are publishable.
Daily defragmentation on a disk with "low-to-moderate" use? Maybe that's still a Windows thing, but on my Linux systems and OSX I haven't defrag'd in ages. (Actually just once on OSX when I was grasping at straws with a disk issue).
Man that kind of makes me sad that I've wasted so much of my life over the past decade learning one useless 'skill' after another.

Its a sad realization that someone who only started coding 3 months ago is kicking my ass finding jobs at startups meanwhile I am being rejected( when they respond) constantly .
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> Apple has already accumulated a dangerous amount of debt, given their business is declining and global smartphone sales growth is inching closer to zero.

Umm, what? That is nowhere close to a dangerous amount of debt. They're issuing debt because rates are so low that it is advantageous to do so. Free cash flow can easily take care of all their expenses (including dividend).
Not everything has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt before people provide anecdotes.
#2 sounds like San Francisco ...
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>> "On the time-honoured benchmark for this task"

Anyone know what exactly this benchmark was, it's relevance, and if it's been independently reproduced?
Actually, in that sense you are a psychopath, since you are in good relations with most of your ex-girlfriends.

Also, how is not keeping an ex in your life a sign that you're overly emotional and can't get over a breakup? Keeping an ex out of your life is you getting over the breakup. Also, you can't be envious of someone you keep out of your life. More could be said about the rest of your list, which is just bad to be honest.
Senescence (/sɪˈnɛsəns/) (from Latin: senescere, meaning "to grow old," from senex) or biological aging (also spelled biological ageing).

One of the reasons cells age is to not get cancer. The cells that age can still get cancer! And probably more likely to get cancer than young cells. But less likely than if they didn't go into senescence at all.
So basically a reasonably priced electric replacement for the 50 cc "moped" class scooter. So interesting...

How bad are the laws still? A lot of places specifically define a moped in terms of internal combustion engine displacement. Is there a generally accepted electric motor equivalent for the purposes of the exception?

What is really needed is a reasonably priced scooter that can go 50 MPH. It is hard to commute in most cities with something that can only go 30 MPH. You are better off going in the other direction and getting an e-bike, which in a lot of places gets you access to the bikeways. ... or heck, since you are willing to be rained on, just get a stinking bike and be much more likely to survive the experience...
Author of TFA here -- it was less about getting noticed than my not wanting to let the technology and possibilities languish in our back pocket. It was less relevant a couple years ago because the 3D market kind of crashed, but more relevant today because of VR.
"Hands Off!" is also worth a look too. Fairly comparable to to Little Snitch but can also does file access.
And 2003-2004.
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Arrrg autoplay video with sound and narrator taking loud.

What could go wrong? I had the volume at max.
Do you have a source on "In an age where nation states are fighting for control and MITM attacks are more prevalent than one would think" ?

I am curious what those numbers actually look like. I've always wondered about what kind of scale they operate on.
You might be interested in some of their success stories:

http://pharo.org/success
that's pretty crazy. There's hardly a post you couldn't write in a day of hard work (because then it's too long! spend one day writing it, so someone can spend 20 minutes reading it, don't make readers take hours to read through months of your writing.)

So you want a monthly salary of 5k (your low end per day) * 24 days = 120k per month?
Sadly, there's no affordable simple button that exists that matches what you're looking for. I've been hunting for it for 6+ months.

Competitors that I've been considering:

* https://bt.tn/

* https://www.particle.io/button

* https://flic.io/ (would have to be paired with a nearby Pi)

* http://www.dropletlife.com/ (not yet available)

My best recommendation would be build http://makeit.netflix.com/the-switch or go with the Particle option.
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From https://pub.scotch.io/ideas:

> "Sometimes we just feel an article isn't a good fit for our readers."

Is there a way to submit a topic for an article for review without going through the trouble to submit the entire article? I'd hate to write an article that seems interesting to me but doesn't match Scotch's intended audience.
near figure 5, shouldn't the clause X1 ∧ ¬X3 ∧ X4 be X1 ∨ ¬X3 ∨ X4?
Generally speaking, unless the writer/organization (e.g. analyst firm) is a "name," companies are mostly looking for relatively vanilla straightforward content to educate users, keep eyeballs coming back to the company's site, etc. And because this is relatively commodity stuff, companies don't pay a lot for it.
I believe those images are used to run a 1-node kubernetes cluster, but are not the same as those used by GKE.
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Trevor used pneumatics at Anybots ~10 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gJA230jprc
That just sounds like a copout. No disease manifests exactly the same way in every person, and there are plenty enough commonalities amongst cancers to justify calling it a single disease.
Any possible news on how to isolate glucosepane so we could even get started? Last time I checked, there were no solution that wouldn't also dissolve the surrounding cells.
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Why is "I got there first" (not to mention "I got there first and grabbed a bunch of good names") more egalitarian than selling things that are obviously more valuable for more money?
Not following why exactly you've decided that being "serverless" or using Lambda makes this worth it. What exactly is IO Pipe (your startup) and what would a demo using Amazon's button do?
Is that because Java is more a traditional "source code in files, run a compiler" culture, where you can scale teams just by getting better at source control?

For a long time, Smalltalk and its brethren were terrible at sharing code; you had a bunch of stuff in an environment, and importing and exporting stuff was a nightmare. Has this changed?

Also, it's probably a lot harder to scale a Smalltalk app out to a server farm than it is to just rsync a bunch of java packages and hit "run".

I'd be happy to be wrong about any of this. Smalltalk is my favorite language (that I'll never ship a product in) . . . but when you look at a couple of my recent projects, which are PHP + JavaScript + WebGL that interpret and let you look at a bunch of back-end statistics, I'd sure like to be using something better.
Negligible senescence does not mean immortality. You still get eaten or die in other accidents. There are a number species that show this trait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence

So I don't really buy that argument.
> SSL is a Myth

Haha okay

The tiers are also interesting. For enterprise customers they're offering 1024kb encryption. Interesting. So not BIT but KILOBIT. I wasn't aware of such encryption algorithms but surely nothing could ever break such a long key...