skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AWS patent risk for startups?
I'm still trying to figure out why they feel the need to point out that a bike sharing service was involved at all.
Preventing culture fit is actually a feature, not a bug. Culture fit is a synonym for unconscious bias, and most people don't realize it.
I'm always, always, amazed at how much of Amazon is below the surface of the general public's awareness. They're an iceberg. Sure, the top is huge; Amazon is, I guess, the world's biggest retailer. But, damn, what's under the water that few people see is just incredible. AWS is, by far, the most popular cloud service; it's the default, and hosts several other billion dollar businesses. Bezos has made good on his promise of making computing like the power company: You just plug in your stuff, and pay based on what you use.

I don't love any of the AWS APIs, but they got them out the door faster than anyone else (often by several years)...and they work. They can be clunky, but if you make the right incantations, you get the results you need and a limitless pool of resources, if you have the money.

But, more importantly, they've led rather than followed...because they knew what a service-based architecture needed to work, because they'd built one of the largest ones in the world before anybody else. So, as companies have grown on AWS, they've always found that Amazon had already thought of the growing pains they were going to run into and had already engineered solutions. So, Amazon is reading your mind, because they've been there and shared that particular pain. So, when you get to that crossroads, there's already an outpost with a note saying, "We went this way, here's a map and some supplies."

Yegge's rant on the subject is enlightening, but probably could have mostly been deduced from the outside without prior knowledge. Someone high up had to make the proclamation that Amazon would become SOA, at all costs, and someone had to make the call that it would be built to share, from the beginning. And, it's why so few companies have been able to catch up; only Google and Microsoft have come close, I think, and it's because they have tremendous resources, and some of the same internal forces at work.
zzz is our BDFL. If you really would like to know, come meet the I2P folks at 33C3 or potentially HOPE if you live in NA. CCC is better since I2P typically has a table there.
Ok, well

A.) It was clearly a joke.
B.) That number was based off the Wikipedia heat death of the universe page reference for this: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410270
C.) Regardless of the correct amount of time, no one will be there to verify it. We don't even understand enough yet to say with absolute confidence that heat death is the definitive final outcome of the universe.

But thanks for the reply :)
I took that statement as being firmly tongue in cheek. It seems to feel that way with the flow of the rest of his writing at least.
I don't know if I'm too old, my eyes are too bad or hands to clumsy, but it boggles my mind that people would even try to enter SQL queries on their phone.
Does Amazon hire interns in fall?
Just a thought, could autonomous cars be programmed to eliminate the need for road salt?
Philip is not unique, FB engineering managers of all levels and tenure move into development roles. It's a relatively common occurrence; I'd guess around 5% of managers switch back to coding each year.
I am not sure if this would really be much of a shock to researchers who have spent time working with fMRI data.

I'm a computer science grad student, but spend at least half of my time taking courses and reading literature from the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Brain imaging studies have become very popular within many subfields of psychology, yet often the published analyses I encounter make inferences which are not necessarily well supported by the data.

It is encouraging that more researchers are making their raw data available. Currently many academics treat fMRI studies as some kind of infallible truth, when in reality it would be wise to give more consideration to the many sources of error that contribute to conclusions reached from imaging data. Hopefully the availability of raw data as a supplement to publications will help us gain more complete understandings.
Deep-learning vision system anticipates human interactions using TV shows
KPCC (Southern California Public Radio) is looking to hire:

Applications Developer (Audio) | Los Angeles | Full-Time

Some of the biggest names in public radio - NPR, KPCC, WNYC, and WHYY - are partnering to build a system that simplifies the workflow and delivery of on-demand and podcast audio. Our goal is to create the platform that many public radio stations use to power their digital audio future.

We’re looking for a passionate developer to build the core systems and services around audio upload, management and delivery. If you're a dev who loves podcasts and public radio, this is a unique opportunity to have an impact on the future of the industry. Developers on our team work across the stack to build web applications, and get excited about learning new things. Most of our apps are written using Rails and Node.js, but we aren't prescriptive and try to use the best tool for the job.

The development of this project will be led by the product team at KPCC, which is based in Pasadena. If you're interested, check out our full posting here: http://bit.ly/1m8yQps.
I prefer using Spotlight from the command line: https://gist.github.com/senderista/1246300
It took you NINE DAYS to review something that takes a minute to review. Do you not see how that may be an issue?

It took you TWENTY ONE DAYS to review my challenge. Granted, it wasn't 5 weeks, but that's immaterial. A decent response would be. "Hey we got your challenge" - on the next business day. If it takes you more than another 2 days to review it, say "Hey, we are having some trouble reviewing your application for reason X".

I appreciate your effort, but you're not being transparent at all. Transparency goes further than "here is what we do, deal with it".

And as I already said, you're handing out challenges that appear to be silly skills tests, expecting people to write "good production code".

The only reason I ever did your challenge was because I somehow enjoy doing challenges for no reason other than being challenged.
Because they're wasting your time.
These sorts of things are common for malware reports :)
Quirky is a competitor I know, But were doing this in a different way
SQLAlchemy isn't an ORM, it has one. The docs you've linked only show how to use window functions using the Expression Language that allows you to construct SQL in Python. There is no indication at all on how to use that with the ORM.
This sounds like a tautology. What am I missing?
Indeed, you could even cite the source, and see if anybody bothers to look it up.
Author here: yeah, that seems to be a common theme. I will probably update the site at some point to fix this. Sadly I'm mid-emigration at the moment, so it probably won't be in the immediate future :-). I've raised https://github.com/AlisdairO/pgexercises/issues/19 to cover it so I don't forget.
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Just a note. For Junior devs, fresh out of school, we don't care what language you code in (even though we use Java here for the most part so at least you should be willing to learn it). For everyone else, we'd expect you to have a good working knowledge of at least one JVM language.

Get in touch at wmtech.reston@gmail.com
> AWS
> Support for ap-northeast-2 region (Seoul)

What does this mean? How can K8S be tied into something as specific as an AWS region?
I have an Lenovo Thinkpad x220 running Ubuntu that I needed to set the BIOS to Legacy.
Most of them usually show specifics, the keylog file is often less of a jumble and more of like:

{TAB}{TAB}{CURRENT WINDOW: Steam - Log in}{TAB}username{LEFTCLICK}password{LEFTCLICK}{CURRENT WINDOW CHANGED: Steam: Home}
Even in the Central Valley in California, it routinely gets into the high 100s for a few months in the summer. Having lived most of my life there, and knowing how debilitating that level of heat is, I can't imagine what drives people to think they can hike around in 20 degrees (F) warmer weather without carrying a gallon of water for the afternoon.

... Aside: I seem to remember seeing something about the Arabian Peninsula soon becoming so warm you cannot maintain core body temperature by evaporation of your sweat, at which point it will be uninhabitable outside of modern buildings with A/C ...

Then again, if you live in a coastal area where the temperature is usually between 50 to 80 F, an 8 mile hike in the hills sounds like a pleasant activity to take on after lunch :-)
I don't think criminals are stupid; they're simply lazy. They put the minimum amount of effort is into a scam like this in order to make it profitable.

An off the shelf key logger is used; a couple of stolen email accounts, and a spammer is used for delivery. There are automated tools that will pack the key logger executable in a word document also.

As for the part of the security researcher; reversing .net code isn't challenging. This is by design - the framework does not obfuscate or make it challenging to look at the code. The author of the key logger could have built in protections or obfuscated his executable but for one reason or another has not.

Most likely all of the reversing or analysis was also done with automated tools, and the analyst simply had to run them. OfficeMalScanner can be used to locate packed executables in MS documents and extract them, and then it is simply a matter of dumping the binary in the .NET decompiler of your choice (the author uses ILSpy, I personally prefer RedGate Reflector) and looking at the code.

IMO this is a marketing piece that happens to have an interesting story attached to it.
Am ... am I falling in love with Windows?

Well, time to see if I can get StumpWM running on it, for more hipster cred. (Partly joking, partly serious.)
Looking at the salaries mentioned in this discussion, I wouldn't expect any Czech or Slovak developers in Spain - I already make more in Prague than I the "maximum" in Spain is (and I'm not that well paid for a senior developer), and the cost of living is much lower here.

Most of our highly skilled emigrants moved to Germany or Ireland.
Still, don't use AWS for your new startup. Move to it once you outgrow the offers from Linode and DigitalOcean. You'll save a ton of money.
X was never designed to work like that. I personally run Visual Studio Code (with a patched X lib to allow Electron to start without graphics acceleration) with the "local window manager" (i.e., Windows itself). Works great.
jq would be a nice addition to that list.
Tell me about it. I think picture books for programming. Animated turtles all the way down!
Pretty much everyone is very bad at security
This whole situation is rather nasty. There was enough of consternation going from NTSC ("never-the-same-color") to digital, with the bifurcation/trifurcation of SMPTE 240M, BT.601 and BT.709, plus the bifucation of "legal" versus "PC" color ranges for all of the foregoing (thanks, Microsoft). I've seen VERY few pieces of software (and even broadcast hardware) that get even just THAT complication all sorted, and even less people who really know what they're doing operating the systems and software tools involved. Now, we're adding BT.2020, SMPTE 2084, Dolby Vision, and all sorts of proprietary stuff like Sony S-LAB. This is going to be a disaster -- nothing will properly talk to each other, e.g. cameras, encoders, video displays/monitors. Everyone can't even agree whether 10-bit is enough or whether we really need 12-bit for accurate reproduction. SMPTE and ISO just punted the question down the road by saying you can have any flavor of ice cream you want. I predict fun times ahead at next year's NAB...
Using Volafile to host the keylogger executable seems like a pretty bad choice considering that this website will delete your files after only 2 days. Or maybe this shouldn't surprise me so much considering the "skills" of the attacker.
A sad day. Although much of what he wrote was controversial, he remains my favorite author I was assigned to read in three separate occasions in high school.
It doesn't have to be the case that it actually paid off. All we know is the spammer thought it would.
Weird. T430s in UEFI mode (with Secure Boot) has no problem with Fedora.
God where won't this run and super fast?

When discussing benchmarks, main dev Mike Pall is willing if people pay him to port to PPC for Xbox360 and PS3 and what not. Haha. Who knows what we can do with this guy's creative juices!

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-03/msg00305.html
What the parent described is not at all like the Ponzi scam (except leaving with the money).

Ponzi scam is akin to the "pyramid scam" -- paying early investors with the money from later generations of investors.

What the parent described is a "gather the money and go" operation.
Weird, I didn't have to do anything to get my X250 to play nice with Debian
You are right -- that's a count of feather curves (quills & barbs), not feathers. We do not model the barbules -- though there has been interesting work done in trying to calibrate a microfacet BRDF for feathers by tracing against barbule-level details.
Sure. A lot of "Agile" is actually cargo-cult agile, used as a vehicle for self-promotion: The daily scrum, the sticky-notes or the Jira.board, and all that other ceremony.

Typically retrofitted on top of a defunct process, with separate requirement analysts, "software architects" whatever that means, and a lot of control functions and processes inherited from the manufacturing industry.

What makes that work is probably the few people that actually understands software development - typically a low percentage of the massive overhead in a typical business software development center.

But you've got to start somewhere.

The Agile ceremonies are not bad, but relatively useless if there is no "real Agile" beneath. Unfortunately, they are easy to implement whereas "real" agile is not.

And what is "real" agile: The core agile ideas (the manifesto), the focus on flow-control, the incremental analysis-build-analysis cycle, continuous improvement, multi-disciplined teams, knowledge sharing, analysis methods that involves multiple people (like story mapping), empowerment (self governing teams, but also product owners).

Perhaps above all, the idea that software development processes should not be defined by business administrators, but instead by people that are actually qualified.

I guess it could be labeled as "common sense", but a few things are typically hard to reason about for a lot of people, for instance the flow-control part (such as kanban), as dynamic efficiency is harder to "see" than static efficiency.

But getting good at that is actually hard. Adding 1000 fields and workflows to Jira is easy.
I'm on OSX, deploying to AWS - currently manually, potentially with Kubernetes soon!
I Was Wrong About Speed Reading: Here Are the Facts
It means the `kube-up` scripts now work with ap-northeast-2 straight out of the box.

Just set

export KUBERNETES_PROVIDER=aws
export KUBE_AWS_ZONE=ap-northeast-2a
kube-up.sh

Here's the PR
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24464
Anyone knows when WSL is expected to arrive on non-insider versons?
Ideally, those should be in balance if the track are truly parallel.

Thus, if 1% of engineers are in the highest, distinguished level then 1% of managers should be in the highest managerial level. If those 500 VPs amount to 10% of all managerial positions then they should be comparable in impact and salary to all those engineers whose engineer contributor level amounts to 10% of all engineering positions.
Another thought: when people complain about the state of Linux email clients, what is so good about the Windows alternatives? Office productivity suites, I get it. But email clients all suck. Mutt's mantra is so true, at least they're honest about sucking less.

I believe Linux is a 100% of the time platform because the choice (again, user choice) to run minimal terminal apps means like less than average 50% memory utilization for Thunderbird, which I love, with a web browser GUI and background full text indexing all damn day.

Outlook is just as crappy.
> This "philosophy" is great, if you're the one with the goodies and services everybody wants. Most of the countries in the top of this chain are VERY protective of their own industries

And Brazil isn't? I have lived during the "reserva de mercado" times, where imports from "competitors" where not allowed at all. This has created a enormous technological deficit, which I think we haven't recovered from yet.

Protectionism is still going strong, with ~60% import tax on foreign products. And guess what, even with all the protection, the industry is still in shambles. Politicians are still trying to erect more walls, such as trying to require internet companies to have datacenters in Brazil in order to be able to operate. Do you think this is the right way to go?

I'll try to ignore your ad-hominen. I have lived through a bunch of the history you are claiming I don't know anything about.
Where can I watch the flag feed?
They don't. We just haven't seen many larger bound states yet.

Note that a tetraquark is different from two mesons, and a pentaquark is different from a baryon+meson.

As you increase the number of fundamental particles in a particle, modelling the exact mechanism of the bound state becomes harder. So for larger particles, we aren't even sure they should exist.

IIRC pentaquarks were something that theoretically were expected to exist, but were overall experimentally elusive.
If anyone reading this is attending SIGGRAPH, several of us will be presenting a production talk for Piper on Sunday 2PM.

http://s2016.siggraph.org/talks/sessions/life-shorts
Forestry.io
Modern cat hoarding can be really, really bad, but even at its worst, I think the smell must still be better than that in the same situation in the Victorian era. We have better construction now and many more options for keeping things clean, like enzyme sprays, carpet shampooers, vacuums, and odor-busting cat litter. Back then, the scent of unaltered cat pee would have quickly overtaken the house. With the cabbage and the fish offal, I can see why nuisance officer broke out in a feverish sweat (and I'm not even 100% sure what fish offal is!).
These days I'd be worried about CFAA or otherwise getting V& for this. In the "good old days", it was possible to get away with and laugh about this type of vigilante justice. These days though, you're more likely to wind up in prison. No longer worth it for lulz. Sad times now, but good memories.
I didn't say you maligned me. You implied others were morons (or, at least that I would think that).

You should be directing your disbelief at Feynman's remains. He is the one that made the claim. I just explained the joke.

Anyway, it is still true that the physical model of P != NP is definitionally trivial.
I get that, but there is a gap between all salaries and promotions are based on seniority and firing a lousy employee is impossible vs. an organization of professionals who will fight for lousy employment laws.

You also have wage fixing/anti-poaching agreements that could potentially be more effectively fought. Overly broad non-compete agreements are another obvious target.
Are there any tools in moreutils that aren't written in portable C? i agree. Jq is a must.
I'm a fan of the unix tools philosophy, but I sometimes wonder if there's much room for new tools to be added to that toolbox. I've always wanted to come up with my own general-purpose new unix tool.

This was something of the inspiration for wf as well. https://github.com/jarcane/wf
There aren't a lot of females in waste management either (i.e., garbage men). I've heard it can be a pretty well-paying job too. No one says that we need more women waste management workers, truck drivers, or coal miners.
2nd august with windows 10 anniversary update
> silos, clicks, and favoritism

In case this wasn't a phonetic typo and you're really not aware, the word you are looking for is "cliques". Cheers!
Why? DDOSers are mostly dumb skids who rent botnets.
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Slightly OT: At the current stock price and AWS growing 40% YOY, do you think Amazon stock is a good buy and hold investment?
The biggest myth about amazon (that they love to push) is that AWS is just the retail stuff externalized/we run on aws.
i been remote for the last 6 years working on 2 different bay area companies.

on both occasions i commanded a Bay Area salary. still do. remote from Spain.
Now, it ain't tiling, but I once worked (not as the first guy, but took it over as a major project and the hell out of it) was one of the ports of Opebox-ish Windows managers (to be more accurate, really an Explorer replacement shell, not a Windows manager traditionally) to Windows XP to build very stripped down Windows kiosk machines with minimal UI and a lot of control, custom UI, and cool fun features.

http://www.lsdev.org/doku.php

God I miss this. It was way ahead of the time and I guess Microsoft got their UI act together, then lost it, and are trying to find it again.

As for tiling, the best you can do are these:

https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n

https://github.com/ZaneA/HackWM

The latter is by a budding Chicken Lisp; I found him and love a lot of what he does; not sure he is ready for prime-time.
what about the normal ppl who use linux and dont know all these i3 shit
Back in the 90s when Flatron TVs appeared, there was a joke around here - first the TVs were convex, now the are flat, at this rate tomorrow they'd make them concave.

It was a joke, kinda like infinite blades on a shaving razor.

Decades later, here i am in a store staring at a concave TV. A joke in the flesh. It's kinda peculiar.

Never tried one, however, so that's all i can think about them for now.
This is fairly old and I believe it was already posted by Quincy himself.
I haven't had any problems with macOS stability lately.
Has anyone else experienced what the author describes?

Around me Windows 10 has crashed more than macOS.
but Windows 10 is really stable too.
> Yes, there are shitty managers but there are also a lot of them doing stuff an engineer doesn't have the skills to do

and the engineers have skills most managers don't. One set just happens to lead to easier power and money, for some reason.
You're still talking about different events. The event that there is 42 in [n] is different from the even that x = 42.