skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, unless you need to be in a tunnel system, or survive on a small island with minimal resources. It doesn't help to be a giant viking if you can't eat like one.
The operative word that I'm questioning is "contract". I assumed they meant something about a contract specifying minimum employment times, or something. If you aren't bound by a signed contract, of course it makes sense that you could quit.
Exactly what I'm trying to establish myself: what are the implications of starting a project that is "free and open source?" Community involvement, participation... What did projects have in mind when they went that route, and what was the reality of it? For what projects is open source beneficial, and which projects should be kept proprietary: I don't think it's just a questions of monetization and profit, but I'm not sure. Are there some industries for which the accompanying software should be open source? Thanks for starting the parlez.
Honestly, not a lot in Japan is ideal for tall people, including the reactions of the average person when you're walking around...
They probably mean the peak furthest from the center of the earth rather than "closest to the moon" (which would be a rapidly moving point on earth and a silly measure). Also, wouldn't "closest to space" be measured as height of the atmosphere, which is roughly a height above sea level?
The number of people even on HN that don't seem to grasp supply and demand is shocking. If HN is a relatively intelligent group, imagine how much of the general population will think just price limiting housing will work?
Have you found any good TensorFlow examples which handle financial or time series data like this? Please do share! Most of the examples I find are either image processing or text processing. Rarely time series or traditional DB type data.
Great recent story following this plot line: http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/crinkles.html
Agreed; whilst there are some subcommunities that appear unscathed, YouTube comments are typically a cesspool of hurtful spew from the bottom feeders of human society.
People aren't worried about the bank records, they are worried about the biometrics. Never mind the first security breach and leaked data.
You must have very boring customers.
You say that like housing is fungible. It is not, neither for low-income residents who have formed a community around a location, nor for wealthy people looking to move into a trending neighborhood.
Most native New Yorkers will disagree with you there.
"Ah shit, which curly mustache did I use for the Amex..."

- Me in the future
You know how far gone social justice is as an ideology when "gentrification" has become a bad word.

Gentrification means more safe high quality neighbourhoods for people to live in. The local effect might be to price some low income people out of their community but the systemic effect is to increase the supply and therefore reduce the cost of better quality housing.
Well, it does fit with their mission statement "Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy."
> I've read neither, I do have a degree in economics though... does that count?

Nope. Economics != Finance, sorry. And it shows from your misunderstanding of "running" a business. A profitable business only happens when you have market saturation? LOL that's some economics education...

> Do you have a short position on SCTY? If so, then I understand your "comments" and why you're pissed. Sorry? LOL

Nope.

> Last time I checked, he recused himself and the shareholders have to approve the deal ... what are you going on about?

He's the one that came up with the deal, and bid on SCTY with a 30% premium. Given the dire situation the company is in, and given how it's the worst performing solar company, they will have no choice but to accept.
That's the Roadster from 2011. The Model S is more than 90% efficient (https://www.teslamotors.com/support/model-s-specifications).
What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths?
HaaS: Humanity as a Service

PaaS: Panspermia as a Service

"Like Dropbox, but with DNA"
My statement was a bit hyperbolous, and I've no idea how much of that labor is actually under the table versus not. But coming from northeast values of basic self-reliance, you'd be amazed at the level of outsourcing relied upon by the middle class.
The author, Connor Patrick's personal site has a "looking for work" page[1]. It reads:

I want to work on projects that do good.
I don’t want to work on projects regarding surveilance
or the weaking of existing cryptosystems.

Way to go Connor!

[1]: https://conorpp.com/work/
Why constant learners embrace the 5 Hr rule
yet you still take the time to browse and comment...
A 3-generation bug
"Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs" redux
Sure, but the world is bigger than CRUD apps, and even in CRUD apps, object mapping is more productive than hand written SQL slinging result sets around in procedural code. In particular the ease at which OO enabled pluggable programs is invaluable in customizing in different ways for different clients or aggregating data from multiple sources. OO isn't about modeling facts about the world, it's about modelling behavior; objects aren't just structs with some data.

> But even raw SQL is superior to effectively performing complex queries in a non-relational language, where the indexes are built by hand and passed around.

I think that's a bit of a strawman, that's not what OO is.

> In a heterogeneous world, the idea that you have an authoritative model defined in any one language, that merely uses the database for persistence, is untenable.

That's not what OO is either.
grep <user> filename

I think the FBI could work out how to do it.
> As an extremely "average" height guy,

Out of curiosity, what do you consider an extremely
"average" height?
Re. consider "send processes rather than messages"

Interesting thought to ponder!... What came to mind is Smalltalk-80 kind of did that, though the processes (blocks) were not in the "driver's seat" of the interaction. They came as "payload."
Photo of Mark Zuckerberg-Camera and Mic Covered with Tape
I'm in the USA, with a family of twelve. My wife is very Catholic, which used to be the norm for France.

We easily finish two whole chickens in one meal. We can almost manage to finish a 10 kg turkey.

Even for a little family of five, shopping without a car seems like it would be terribly difficult.
Nice! I initially wanted to build a similar device using just an ATtiny85 that speaks USB using USBtiny [1] or V-USB [2]. It would be low-cost but also not secure. Using a crypto processor like the ATECC508A is obviously a saner choice.

[1] http://dicks.home.xs4all.nl/avr/usbtiny/
[2] https://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html
Can I replace your "studies" with [[citation needed]]
A person doing X is taxed, while robot doing X is not. That, of course, gives unfair advantage to robots and shrinks the amount of taxes collected. I get it. But wouldn't abandoning taxing of people and taxing the flow of goods and services instead be a better way to address that?
Check your coin toss math on 1000, 10000, 100000 predictions.
The two aren't exclusive. What's to stop the experts from doing this as a side project?
Another reason they aren't good usernames is that they are not unique. Almost unique isn't good enough for uniquely identifying a user.
Hmm, this headline is bought to you from the "too cool for school" crowd.

The citations in the article are a little flawed to support the argument. Torvalds "doesn't use a debugger", except the actual quote contains "I don't like debuggers. Never have, probably never will. I use gdb all the time"

Guido van Rossan "uses print statements for 90% of his debugging".

Sounds like people who /are/ using debuggers to me.

In fact, using one for the remaining 10% of the bugs sounds about right. I'd be highly sceptical of any programmer who has not picked up a debugger in the last year, and using it to step through some code is just one of it's many features.

But this article could easily be headlined "people don't use debuggers all of the time" and it wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
> There are so many ponzi schemes in Bitcoin many of them actually advertise that they are ponzi schemes.

I think you misinterpreted what I'm saying. Of course people run schemes using bitcoin just as they run schemes using USD; when I said "no fraud in bitcoin", I mean in bitcoin itself, the blockchain, the protocol, the currency. Bitcoin is a currency, and like any currency, fraudsters can and will use it, that doesn't make bitcoin fraudulent.
Google had a YouTube competitor at the time. It wasn't very successful.
To expand on this, it seems clear to me that Tesla should be in the business of selling home solar installations. The question is whether this the right way to get into the business. This was a cheap way to get 1/3 of the market.
There is a 3d-printable case included in the repo!

https://github.com/conorpp/u2f-zero/blob/master/hardware/cas...
We can indeed keep getting taller if the human height series converges
Elon is not an employee.
I'd say most vegetarian Indian food has the problem of excess starch and carbs. One potential reason for the wide prevalence of diabetes in India.
SpaceX spokesman John Taylor: "Currently, the highest anyone pays for incoming cargo is $35.30 per ton"

-http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/21/11988328/spacex-falcon-9-r...
Can't say this is "extremely paranoid" .Personally I care not much about someone snooping my conversation and I trust my webcam blinking light :) But I feel like someone at Mark's level should take every precaution possible
One thing I've found about the web, as it exists, is that the people who set up a system for the outside world to use change it over time. The URLs change. The CGI their service will accept changes. As things exist now, a program must use "sticky" names, and if a name changes, all of a sudden the connection is broken, even though the exact same functionality still exists. It would be good if a program could find the functionality it needs based on a functional description of what it needs, rather than a name. That gets more to what's really important. I once complained to Alan that Smalltalk had the same problem. If I change the name of a class, all of a sudden all the code in the system that needs that class could no longer find it, even though I had changed none of its functional code. This seemed like an extremely brittle scheme for finding resources. The name is not the important thing about what a program needs. It's just a reference point that does nothing. Names are still good, because they allow us to quickly identify resources, but they should mainly be for us, not the program, because when you really think about it, a program doesn't care what something is called.
Thanks for the feedback tedminston.
"You cannot price-limit, and regulate, and tax your way to an over-supply of housing."

Of course you can - you just tax tenants not landlords. If you apply a $10,000 per month tax on every rental property paid by the tenant there would be an oversupply of rental housing even in SF.

The real question is should LA be growing by 20,000 people per year.
Who uses such a model? Unless you write assembly language?
OSS helped because I could build it in my spare time with little investment or risk. I spent the first two years building Sidekiq and Sidekiq Pro and was able to build up an audience by blogging and tweeting.

I spent 15 years working at various startups and earned little more than a typical dev salary in the end. Today I'm making several times my previous salary so the business has been a big success for me.

As for visibility, I'm happy owning my own little niche of Ruby background jobs. I don't advertise or market much, just provide the best product I can, support it every day and developer word of mouth does the rest.
On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011)
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> Numerai was seed funded by Howard L. Morgan the co-founder of Renaissance Technologies.

Very interesting. This gives this idea some legitimacy in my opinion.
China’s New Supercomputer Puts the US Even Further Behind
Being SaaS doesn't dictate web delivery. Desktop apps can be rented and auto updated. Case in point: Office 365
For context - Whiskey Gulch was just a small piece of East Palo Alto. East Palo Alto's black population has been displaced, but more so by Latino immigrants than the Four Seasons.
Hey man, accidentally downvoted this comment but I agree heartily. In fact, if you're interested in the approach you describe at the end of your comments, you should read about "event sourcing", CQRS, Redux, Apache Samza, Elm, and re-frame.
I am worried about the community. But I consider abusers to be part of it, whether you like it or not. I believe that shunning them out completely is worse than trying to rehabilitate them (which means some punishment plus some forgiveness).

I see this as a variation of a NIMBY problem. If you consider community as a sort medieval thing, which needs to be protected from outsiders at all cost anyway, it's a perfectly valid strategy to deal with abusers by shunning them out.

But modern world is not like that. The abusers have to live somewhere in the society, and if they are not allowed to interact with others, you will get a bigger problem. And arguably, USA applies this strategy the most from all developed world, and it is a cause of considerable problems.

And I am saying again, what I specifically disagreed with was the call to other groups to shun him.
so being allergic to wheat, peas (beans) and parsley (celery, carrots, etc) all this stuff is pretty much poisonous. if they replace the wheat proteins perhaps...
Facebook Is Paying News Outlets and Celebrities $50M to Create Video
Chimborazo is not an 8K meter peak but it is the peak that's furthest from the center of the earth (because it's a fairly high 6K+ meter peak near the equator). Oxygen levels are, however, a function of height above sea level in a location--temperature is a function of many things--so Chimborazo in that respect is like other 6K meter peaks.

Proximity to outer space is an odd way to put it. I guess the atmosphere, to a first approximation, is also higher at the equatorial bulge.
Linux’s RPM/deb split could be replaced by Flatpak vs. snap
Or even APL, where everything is an array (with an arbitrary number of dimensions). For example, adding two arrays together will add the corresponding elements.
For starters, your company is not the largest video provider in the world, like Netflix. As someone else mentioned here, diversification can be for "political" reasons as well. Especially if you're as large as Netflix; diversifying could keep your billing in check. Let's say you split between AWS, Azure and GCS. That gives you the ability to scale based on what is cheapest. You could also do public and private clouds in tandum. You can scale your private cloud/on-premise to the public cloud if need be with most large cloud providers (though I never suggested they use on-premise.)

As far as this not being Amazon's primary business, well, they are a lot bigger and diverse. But let's use a Wal-Mart analogy. Wal-Mart is so powerful (maybe not anymore, because of Amazon) that if it doesn't like your wholesale pricing to them, they can move your shelf space and practically destroy your business. They have the leverage in those relationships. Now, with AWS being the #1 cloud provider you have a similar lock-in, at the very least your switching cost would be quite high.

So, let's just for example sake say Amazon make a decision to give their own video streaming priority on their own cloud. That's not breaking net neutrality laws, because...it's their servers, this has nothing to do with telecom. So now Amazon Prime Video, streams 4K at a much better rate than Netflix (and Netflix would likely never know.) Then, perhaps another assumption, AWS decides to increase their pricing tier for their media servers for streaming. So suddenly they have squeezed you in two ways. Quality of Service and pricing.

Amazon could easily do a calculation to compare themselves to Azure and GCS to tell what is the proper amount they could get away with and still make it more expensive just to migrate to a competitor. You're locked-in, and just to make up for your switching, it would cost, let's say 1 years worth of AWS service. Hard to explain your sudden blip in earnings to short minded investors.

Anyhow, all I am trying to say is...it would make more sense, to me, from a business stand point to diversify across multiple providers instead of being all in on AWS. I never said you had to have an on-premise set-up. It would be much different if they were a small start-up, but Netflix is not. It can at times take up more internet traffic than torrenting.

I will point out though that services like Docker are making cloud lock-ins harder to do, but they don't solve reliance on APIs or just proprietary offerings. There's a reason why Google, Microsoft and Amazon all underline, push and constantly improve those offerings as a form of lock-in.

It is possible Netflix has some sort of pricing agreement with Amazon that locks in a rate for x amount of years. But either way, when you're as large as Netflix, I think diversification is the better long term strategy.
Heh, seems like the site is doing some practicing of failures itself.

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We're sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /2016/05/16/zfs-practicing-failures/ on this server.

An invalid request was received from your browser. This may be caused by a malfunctioning proxy server or browser privacy software.

Your technical support key is: 6bb2-c38c-1756-6707
I'm surprised how little attention this got on HN today (or maybe I missed it?).
The sheer scale of industrialisation of livestock is an American thing, especially with beef.

Most Beef in the world is grass fed, and not pumped full of antibiotics. Generally animals are more or less left in a field until they're old enough, then taken in a slaughtered.
Well, there's also massive scaling, which the average web developer isn't experienced with. Then there's creating a consistent experience across various devices and browsers.

So, sure, anyway halfway competent developer could bang out a YouTube (or Facebook, etc) prototype in a few weeks, but going from there to a reliable, usable service at scale is something else altogether.

You're going to need some project managers, SREs, sysadmins, front and back end web developers, programmers who know about video encoding, content experts, lawyers, etc...
"If someone I work with quits day-of, and there's no obvious signs that it was over an ethical no-go, I'm going to conclude that it's someone I don't want to collaborate with in the future."

Here's the problem, you really don't know the whole situation and making such a determination without data will be problematic. You could be punishing the innocent party. Worse, your former fellow employee might use the same lack of information to conclude that you agreed with the company over perhaps their very valid reasons.

As an example, your fellow employee's health is declining (not obviously to you but that is quite common too), work is keeping them awake (devops is so fun), and then maybe their mother got cancer. A quick meeting and no hope of relief is given, and they quit. Farfetched? No, sadly. They know they can go somewhere that will understand, and where you are isn't it. They're hundreds of these things, and not one will be told to you honestly by an employer.

Years later they get back to a happy place, and you do your "don't want to collaborate". We're in an industry with a lot of introverted people so don't expect them to give some explanation for your approval.

Disrespect should be truly earned and not inferred, or as my Dad taught me: come by your hatreds honestly and with full knowledge of the why.
memtest86 can be configured to display address bit patterns that can then be consumed by the Linux kernel as a command line argument: https://lwn.net/Articles/440319/

But in other cases, this can be managed entirely by the BIOS. I know (or rather, think -- didn't boot Linux on a machine with memory problems recently) that some Dell machines will mark bad locations/ranges as reserved in the ACPI memory map if you run the built-in diagnostic tool from the boot menu.
NIH grants $2.3M to development of FeverPhone, a portable disease diagnosis kit
Making and Knowing (Fake) Coral
So in exchange for giving a hedge fund a stock tip that earns 20% in a month, the guy gets $10k? That sounds like a ripoff to me! If you have the skills to do that repeatedly you can make a whole lot more than $10k doing the trades yourself.
You ignore that it's entirely possible to have an infinite, monotonically increasing sequence with a fixed upper bound. Yes, people could keep getting taller without ever exceeding some defined limit.

However we would begin to encounter problems as the sequence of heights approached said limit. The deltas would become smaller than the precision of our equipment, and later would become smaller than physically meaningful scales (i.e. length scale of an atom). In this limit, I think it would be reasonable to generalise "keep getting taller" to "probabilistically grow by the smallest physically meaningful amount on an arbitrarily long timescale", in which case this continues to be well defined as t→∞ even if it would be difficult to physically observe.
And what happens to the people in the meantime? How long does this take before we have a satisfactory outcome, which would be people not being priced out of housing?
I'm with you on this one. I don't like abusers and assholes, but I like the title, and intend to continue to use it in a positive light, sparingly, and with good purpose. In my interpretation of the title, some rock stars are jerks, others are actually pretty good people.

When I used to work in politics, after he did a great speech at the DNC convention, I called Obama a "rock star" that was going to go on to big things. That was long before he announced his run for presidency. Mind you, I didn't even vote for him and I said that (I proudly throw my presidential vote away for the Libertarian candidate every year).

That title works best, naturally, when it isn't diluted down in crappy job postings.

I'm all for tossing out abusers here, don't get me wrong. But honestly, as perhaps the only person here that has ever actually contracted a form of Cholera (long story), I still wouldn't want to live in a world that's only plumbers, and I don't think you would either.
Distance from the center of the Earth may have worked better than proximity to outer space.
Aphex Twin’s First Music Video in 17 Years Directed by a 12-year-old
It's a bug heirloom.

Oh lord.
It's a culinary difference in how meals are laid out in western cuisine.

In the west, we tend to have a protein of some sort, which is the centerpiece of the dish, with supporting elements of carbs and veges.

With Eastern food, they tend to have a carb, and then a curry or other mix of meat and veges to go with it.
Typography and Design in Blade Runner