skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also csvkit.

in2csv data.xls > data.csv
in2csv data.json > data.csv
csvcut -c column_a,column_c data.csv > new.csv
csvcut -c column_c,column_a data.csv > new.csv
csvgrep -c phone_number -r 555-555-\d{4}" data.csv > matching.csv
csvjson data.csv > data.json
csvsql --query "select name from data where age > 30" data.csv > old_folks.csv
csvsql --db postgresql:///database --insert data.csv
sql2csv --db postgresql:///database --query "select * from data" > extract.csv

https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit

(Submitted a pull request.)
Can you explain more how competition, availability, and legality will stop the more addiction-prone (low-income, chronic pain among other health problem) parts of society in America from doing drugs and becoming addicted? If I read your argument correctly, it's that the pharma firms will not market it as much and not profit as much. In my mind that's not enough reasoning that people who simply have a bad situation won't reach out (to their doctor, guy next door with a prescription) and find the drug

I see the experimental results in other countries that have taken steps forward on legalizing various drugs, but they also have a much better social welfare, schooling, and support system.

I just don't see the connection between making a drug more available, making more versions of it, deregulating it and having less people taking it. Without your further explanation, that is.
If you want to get a job based on what you learn at college, you can do that at a lot of places.

If you want to get a job because your roommate started a billion-dollar tech company, or inherited a billion-dollar company, or has a parent who is the President of a foreign country, you had best go to Harvard (or maybe a Princeton/Stanford type).
Time Lord – Craig Callender Interviewed by Richard Marshall (2012)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11631329

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11643246
For those curious, they're using a Dymaxion map, also known as the Fuller projection[1]. It's named for Buckminster Fuller, and the goal is to reduce skew of shape and size. Notice, for example, the sizes of Greenland and Africa as compared to their heavily-skewed sizes on the Mercator projection.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
But when Windows is chosen because it is easier to find coders who will 'remain within the budget' (cheapcheap) and cannot even make sure the virus scanner doesn't run during procedures or at all it goes a bit too far.
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That was my first thought too. And why there is an anti-virus running? This equipment should not be connected to the internet nor some staff should plug-in a flash drive on the first place.
Because there is a big selection bias in university education, it's hard to say that Harvard caused someones income to go up using your math. I prefer this post from last year which tries to calculate value-added.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/10/value-u...
Yes, but it's still true. Even from Trump supporters I've yet to hear a good reason to support him. The standard reasons are that he can't be bought (because he is one of those rich people you're talking about having too much influence), that he speaks his mind (is that why his positions are wildly inconsistent?) or that he represents a break from the status quo (true, but by being far worse!).

I'm not saying Trump supporters are idiots, but I have yet took figure out how one would support him otherwise.
Data wrangling -- Trifacta, Tamr, etc. productized this so you don't need a consulting army.
I kind of assume they have that already. Or have tried to build it and failed due to the usual IT project management issues.
In light of the rise of political christianity, the rise of militant atheism is both expected and culturally justified.
True or not, that's a decent mnemonic.
Why do you think European data protection directive rules won't work here?
> When investigating the intersection of unconscious attitudes (often shaped by culture) and performance, gender is more relevant than sex.

This is a very broad statement which is trivial to prove false. Look at powerlifting: men perform better than women, and testosterone plays a well-understood role in this performance. This is a function of sex, not gender. And while it's most numerically provable and obvious in powerlifting, this is true for a lot of sports.

At a more fundamental level, I question whether the gender/sex divide is scientifically valid. One can point to the example of a transman and say, "Their female sex didn't align with their male gender at birth" but that seems like a very surface assessment; it's also possible that chemicals released by (for example) their brain or pituitary, are causing the dysphoria they experienced. Are we to claim that ovaries and testicles are sex, and the brain and pituitary is gender? Or might it make more sense to broaden our understanding of sex to realize that genitalia aren't the only organs regulating sex, and instead say that the transperson wasn't born female, but was instead born with a mixture of sex characteristics, and only the most obvious sex characteristics were female, while the characteristics which more fundamentally defined their identity were male.

In a larger sense, this seems related to the categorization error of separating mind and body as if they are two different things, a separation which seems more clearly false.

NOTE: Please don't construe anything I say as negative toward transpeople. I think humans have an inherent, fundamental right to define their identities and modify their bodies in any way they choose. People don't need excuses or justification to exercise that right. Certainly we don't need an abstract distinction between sex and gender to let people dress and socialize with people the way they want or change their bodies.
As mentioned elsewhere it was just parts. Installation of grid tie systems isn't hard but does have a number of building code things you have to follow (at least in California). At the time we did the install my wife took a solar installer's course which went over the current code.

I can recommend that as a plan of action, find a local group offering job training as a solar installer and take it. Then using that knowledge you can design an installation that meets your local code.
Neither majors nor schools are randomly assigned to students, so I don't think that there's actually much to take away from this.
2: https://xkcd.com/977/
Interesting. I generally choose x++ for the majority of array-striding code I write, and usually as a shortcut to avoid having a bunch of x++ lines scattered around. I've found that you can structure your code either way and postfix seems to be easier to reason over for me.

I use ++x very infrequently, and mainly in hand-written text parsers.
Praise from teachers. Other visible signals, like reading voluntarily, showing interest in challenging work, etc. I agree that bragging isn't really part of being a nerd.
Magic as a Branch of Psychology?
intersex is considered a very normal

To a quantitative biologist, maybe. But that's the wrong point of reference, as they don't make mainstream culture.

Sexual reproduction so as to perpetuate
humanity is the single most important function a society
executes. All human culture directly or indirectly relates to
this task.
One of the key tasks in this context is	the choice of partner(s)
whom to reproduce with.
Alas, not any two humans can reproduce
together. Indeed, an exact determination who can successfully
reproduce with whom is still not possible in 2016, although we are much better at this task than say 1000 years ago.

Given that we can't predict mate compatibility perfectly,
humanity needs heuristics to make	this decision efficiently. The
following heuristics are being used in practise:

- Divide humans into two, male and female, based on the shape of
their genitalia.

- Have sex with members of the opposite group.

Humans use additional heuristics for deciding with whom to mate,
e.g. social status, age, but the male/female binary is by a large
margin the most important.

As you correctly point out, not all humans neatly fall
into the genital-shape based classification between. But it doesn't matter, because the heuristic works so well that humans can reproduce successfully by ignoring those outliers. That means outliers must be
infrequent enough (say > 99% fit the binary).

I can't overemphasise this: the heuristic has been extremely successful.

The very concept intersex makes sense only in contradistinction from binary normalcy. To see this, consider the fact that most humans have 10 fingers, but not all. Yet, there is no socially relevant concept of 'interhanded' people, no pressure groups, nobody claims to have been born with the wrong number of fingers, no finger reassignment surgery etc. That's because the number of fingers is not all that important.

In the future we might have a refined classification, as
our understanding of human reproduction has
improved immeasurably in the last century. But note that a finer classification
still relates to biological facts about	human bodies. It would probably be something along the lines of

- Can give birth to children, i.e. falls in the category woman, despite non-standard genitalia.

- Can father children, i.e. falls in the category man, despite non-standard genitalia.

- Can neither father children, nor give birth to children.

In other words, it would be a refinement of the male/female binary.
What surprised me with Lambda is that it 'freezes' the VM your code is running in, and 'unfreezes' it when more requests come in. Very clever - they can store a lot of frozen VMs on an SSD. It surprised me when I discovered that a cache I had written in my code was already populated!

I think most code running on lambda is not going to be CPU bound. In lambda-comments case it's mostly going to be idling as it waits for TCP/IP traffic to/from Akismet, S3, DynamoDB, Slack notification webhooks, etc.
This article is wrong headed in one very important way. Electric cars are fundamentally a much BETTER way to make cars. And that's why Musk (and other electrics with decent engineering) can count on selling all of his production.
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It's extremely toxic - opioids are a much safer option.
It's cheap to find Windows programmers and even cheaper to find ones that are not hindered by knowledge about software quality and safety. That's not their fault; no-one ever told them something like that exists.
Of course is a mistake.
Interesting article. It was initially confusing to me because I wasn't able to find what's unique about this approach, and how it's different from the typical Ambassador pattern that I'm more familiar with. That is, what does the word "Routing" even mean in this context?

I think the answer is that he's doing essentially layer-7 routing, using the HTTP path (and verb?) to decide what backends to route to, rather than doing it on a per-port basis (which is necessary to support non-HTTP services.)

Implementations I've run into before seem to fall into a few categories:

- A service declares that it needs to talk to, say, 3 other services. Each of these upstream services is assigned a unique client-side port, and an ambassador proxy is launched alongside each instance, which exposes those 3 ports, routing each to the corresponding 3 backend services. To keep the ports out of the source code, typically environment variables are automatically assigned, so you just talk to ie. "my-ambassador:${UPSTREAM_PORT_NAME}"

- A service is responsible for using a service discovery layer like zookeeper or etcd to find backends on its own. This is important for things that use raft/paxos/gossip, where blind routing isn't enough, you actually need to keep track of peer instances (although in that case, the service discovery layer is only used for initial discovery).

- Service discovery is done with just plain DNS on well-known ports (or even SRV records if you're lucky enough to have client software that can tolerate them), and you just hope the right thing happens. This can be accomplished with things like SkyDNS on top of etcd... a surprising amount of flexibility can be accomplished by putting logical things right in a hostname.

This approach seems to be like a more opinionated version of the first approach, but instead of ports, it uses HTTP routes, which is definitely more flexible, but only works with HTTP. The routes can contain enough information to route more intelligently than just enumerating your dependency services ahead of time and getting static port assignments.

It's almost like an API gateway distributed as an ambassador to each service. At least, it looks a lot like an API gateway, in that it presents the whole mesh of services underneath in a single URI namespace, using HTTP to route requests accordingly and handling things like TLS and potentially authentication. It's definitely an interesting approach, and something I'm curious to try.
Yeah. If you blog is getting so many comments that you need more than 1 request a second (the minimum), you've got other problems.
The timed release portion wasn't for anti-abuse, it was the whole point of the drug. It is supposed to meter out the opiate so you get an even dose, instead of peaks and valleys. If it worked, this would be great.

They don't go into the mechanism in the article, but my assumption is that some peoples bodies dissolve the costing more quickly than others, and those people get the dose in a shortened time period.
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I live and work in Switzerland. I have some of these reference letters. About twenty years ago there was a backlash against the codes, so I got some reference letters with a declaration that they weren't «coded».

I never worked for big corporations. Once one of the founders did the HR herself, but she was not a HR person and hated the codes herself. Another time I was asked to write my reference letter myself.

My opinion is that Germany has painted itself into a corner. The requirements are contradictory in itself. It's not possible to be truthful and generous at the same time. However the employers are obligated, and between a rock and a hard place. Either the employee sues them because the reference letter is not benevolent enough or another employer sues them because the reference letter was not truthful.

So HR invented the codes, but not all employees were easily duped. The saga goes on.
Point #3 has always been true. Tesla has been having difficulties scaling production or making ship dates for years, now.

I've yet to see anything that will convince me that they will ship 500,000 cars in 2018.
I don’t think legalization will reduce addiction (though would defer to empirical studies here). It would make the economic cost of addiction lower for the individual – one problem instead of two.

More importantly, it would make doctors (and regulators) more honest participants. If a doctor wants to recommend opiates, it would largely remove their economic incentives for doing so. We don’t think of doctors having much economic incentive for prescribing acetaminophen or ibuprofen, by comparison.
> Especially when the software is an open-source stack

Is there specific information about stack used by Palantir? I just saw a few videos presenting their products.
Not that the headline is only true for CS/Math. For humanities degrees, there is a clear trend correlated with where you study.

An interpretation is: for humanities, who you know matters more than what you know (ie, the connections you make).
Putting antivirus on equipment at all indicates a much bigger problem.

That the equipment is somehow configured to be susceptible to viruses.
I'm more alarmed by the incompetence of the doctors. If someone like Microsoft started heavy pressure marketing a developer tool that did not work as advertised programmers wouldn't need the help of the FDA to tell Microsoft to fuck off. But doctors don't seem to understand or care what they're doing and just follow whatever the latest expensive marketing campaign tells them to do. It's scary.
You'd also have ~ $13,200/year in property taxes (also deductible) and should budget another ~ $4,000/year for maintenance and upkeep. Not earth shattering but it does add up. There's some political risk that the Feds will eliminate or at least limit one or both of these deductions. Your basic premise is accurate which is that low rates have enabled people to stretch their incomes to meet high housing prices. Since rates have steadily fallen since the late 70s we've sort of seen this play out before, and we know how it ends: people get into trouble when they lose their jobs and can't sell their house in a down market. If you have 30 years of relatively steady employment, then you are fine.
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Having issues with, say, your gull-wing doors is not specific to electric cars. Same with the issues they're having with the Model 3 and suppliers not being able to meet the dates they want. (Drive units dying is specific to electric cars, but that's also likely to just be teething pains.) There's a lot more to a car these days than a power plant.

The engine is, comparatively speaking, the solved problem for car reliability these days, at least in the first 100k or 200k miles. One of the most common characteristics of unreliable or fancy traditional cars is flaky electronic systems, as Telsa is as complicated as anyone there.
It's not just making it more available. Legalization has to bring better treatment and a shift in public perception to it being perceived as what it really is- a mental and physical health problem. If nothing else, people would be far more likely to seek help if they weren't treated as criminals for doing so. Also, truth in education makes a big difference. See Portugal for a good example.
Codeplex still exists?
https://xkcd.com/463/

The whole structure is wrong. I used to work in medical equipment repair. Windows Embedded is running so many devices it's not funny. But it's not just Windows that's the problem.

I put a linux-system on a PACS network to diagnose equipment. It was a headless, and we asked the IT group to block it off from the Internet.

Hospital IT: "Does it have antivirus?"

Me: "..."
And that, in turn, could eventually be countered by the technology that allows anyone to easily modify their appearance any way they want, however many times they want.

But then..of course, all such services will be required by governments to keep a complete record of a person's "appearance history." Enter the black market, a la Minority Report.
I don't know if it curves up so much as the bottom gets chopped off. In other words, there are fewer bad selective colleges than bad non-selective colleges, but with selective or non-selective the good colleges are equal.
As I recall, when I had my wisdom teeth out (around 1999-2000) the oral surgeon offered three options - local anesthetic only, local + some anesthetic gas (I remember he called it the "la-la land option"), or a full "you're totally out" anesthetic. I took the middle option, and I have some vague memories of people standing over me pulling on something in my mouth, but that's it. That would've been a pretty damn unpleasant experience if I was fully conscious, even if there was no pain.
This. How are these devices not running on some sort of hardened OS seen in airplanes and automotive? Medical applications are mission critical (or some variant) and should have same (or better!) certification procedures set up for correctness and security.
Amazon endordes EMR benchmark. Round two shows BigQuery 25x faster than EMR
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Niche is a game about population genetics
LOL you didn't see the talk by Jacob Applebaum did you? They do this en masse to everyone they possibly can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILAlhwUgIU
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I built and posted the ymmfire.ca site on Tuesday evening to help the first wave of evacuees driving down. The response of people opening their homes, recreational properties, and spaces has been incredibly overwhelming. We're still helping match people but I've changed things up so I'm not the bottle neck now.

We're expecting (and hoping) that the highway will stay clear enough for more convoys over the next few days. Please donate to the Red Cross to help the over 80,000 displaced: https://donate.redcross.ca/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=195...

And if you have a site, maybe consider adding a link to donate. I built some low tech copy and paste banners that you can find here: http://ymmfire.ca/redcross
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Knox
I assume they think this is a good choice, but I disagree. It's just confusing. Why add such friction to data display?
Tesla is probably pursuing a partnership with a company like Toyota that can already mass-produce autos. If GM can do it, why not Tesla? (The author didn't mention that possibility, which makes me suspicious that he has an axe to grind against Tesla.)
That's great. Now we need a UI framework :)
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I was not familiar with those, perhaps they will. Very fascinated reading about them now. I guess I don't follow the specifics, ... to give an example of my confusion, a journalist can't livestream a protest without blurring out the faces of the protestors?
> Your response seems unnecessarirly harsh. Please be more civil (HN strives for civility) and understand that HN has a global audience with differing laws (the parent could use this same perspective that HN is global).

If HN is American, the poster is American, and the subject of conversation is American, I'm not sure why we should give a damn that some other country has oppressive and censorious libel laws.

In Thailand, it's a crime to speak ill of the king. In Saudi Arabia, being gay is a capital offense. I hope you're not going to defend those just because they're laws that exist somewhere.
It seems to say that where you studied matters if it's not a STEM degree.

For me, the explanation is that it's relatively harder to determine whether someone has learned their stuff if it's Math or Science, but quite hard if it's creative writing or history. There's an xkcd about this.

That's why something like an online coding test might work: someone clueless will not be able to write that palindrome quiz. You can have a zero false positive rate at the expense of a false negative rate (competent people can freeze in exam situations). With essay subjects, it's pretty hard to separate the BSers from the real deal. You'll always have some false positives.
Palantir has allowed for current employees to cash out options during some rounds of funding in the past, if I remember correctly.
Uhm, that's not a 'Yasser Arafat scarf' in that picture, that's a knitted scarf ...
A Scanner Darkly is maybe relevant here too.
This

This machines costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There should be no excuse for using Windows. None.

I would not be surprised if the "antivirus" thing was some PHB requirement
You're using ironically wrong.
I think they are mainly found in areas where being atheist is still "edgy". With the decline of organised religion, those people will probably go away on their own.
Interesting idea -- seems there is something in the "ether," as a LinkedIn connection just started posted her new company here:

http://www.mystilla.com

They use BLE devices with motion sensors which attack the same use case.

I like your idea better because it uses the built-in hardware just for laptops.

Not sure about what @betafish posted tho.