skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What should be used for I/O throughput tests instead?
Again, it's sort of like COBOL: it's dying, but until it's dead, there's a lot of money to be made maintaining old macro libraries etc for dinosaur companies.

If anyone brings up the FDA... Just don't do that ok?
Yes. And it's even worse than that: prosecutorial misconduct leads to a lot of innocent people pleading guilty to crimes they did not actually commit in order to avoid the risk of being unjustly convicted of a more serious crime that they also did not commit. But in the eyes of the system, again, justice has been done because the person is, by their own (coerced) admission, guilty.
Would be nice to know who was actually responsible for season 1 - seems like that person/those people deserve the credit.
Sorry to ruin that ... but Police do NOT have to "serve and protect" that's a marketing line.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-pol...
>But NASA likes pretty pictures too, so they included one.

Well, everyone does. If it wasn't for this photo we wouldn't be discussing Juno here on HN nor would this mission be in the press right now.

It seems crazy to me not to put a camera on deep space missions. The cost is trivial in the grand scheme of things.
Exactly! "overstressed" seems to me like a much more frequent reason of a misbehaviour at workplace than "a jerk".

And, as you say, one needs an suitable inclination to work with people too.

Edit: some companies have rotating days of desk-support for such personnel, but for that, one needs to have at least 2 of them.
There will be a new 409a value following the round. The 409a value is the price of common shares that an independent valuation firm determines. An increasing 409a means that future stock options will have a higher strike price. For existing option holders who have options but haven't exercised, a rising 409a means a larger tax bill.

If the option holder decides to exercise, they will have to pay tax on the spread between the strike price and the 409a value at the time of exercise. This can be painful if the 409a value jumps significantly. There are a few companies like Uber, Airbnb, etc where the price jumped so much that many employees were stuck with massive tax bills.

If you find yourself in a similar situation, some funds like the ESOFund can help cover the up front cost and allow you to keep future upside.
Kind of an elitist remark isn't that?
Author calls it "Model-Based" in place for Bayesian.

I transitioned from using Bayesian models in academia to using machine learning models in industry. One of the core differences in the two paradigms is the "feel" when constructing models. For a Bayesian model, you feel like you're constructing the model from first principles. You set your conditional probabilities and priors and see if it fits the data. I'm sure probabilistic programming languages facilitated that feeling. For machine learning models, it feels like you're starting from the loss function and working back to get the best configuration.

Much of the underlying machinery behind Bayesian vs. machine learning models is the same. Hidden Markov Models are Hidden Markov Models whether they have a prior or not. But this difference in feel influences how you build models and hence, the results.

Now that optimization algos for Bayesian models are catching up, Bayesian ML might become a thing.

Cool stuff.
Agreed. This king/serf analogy works for any supplier/buyer relationship.

King: here's some steel for you to use.
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Actually cheaper bandwidth and storage only make these type of systems more accessible and the micro transactions cost even more negligible. It is migrating from an illusory free web to a truly free one in both senses of the word.

Not all applications running in these sort of platforms need to be about money either, and "mistakes" like the one in the dao happen can happen in all software, it can be coded as centralized or as decentralized in terms of management as you wish, the key difference though is that the platform itself is decentralized.

Additionally, in the Serenity phase of Ethereum contracts will be able to pay for transactions, which effectively makes transactions free if you like that sort of model, is that something that would make you happier torwards Ethereum and other decentralized systems?
Not to mention, those 100 million miles include non-divided roads, motorcycle deaths, adverse weather conditions, and cheaper, older cars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12087603
What does being a DBA, Databases and SQL have to do with this Platform as a Service?
Intrigued by the whois information :)

Creation Date: 20-dec-1999

Expiration Date: 20-dec-2025
I had the opposite reaction — I found previous entries in this series pretty lackluster, but enjoyed this one. Maybe that's because I was previously biased to like Levie due to his entertaining Twitter presence...
I am so glad I quit using Drupal years ago (due to its recurring security issues, coincidentally) and "banned" it in our organization.

(Yes, I realize these issues are in third-party/contributed modules.)
Another excellent point. R, like UNIX, is user friendly. It's just very demanding towards its friends.
Well, yeah, nobody thinks they built it all in a single year. The SDK largely just publicized a subset of Apple's existing private APIs that they used to make their own apps. Foundation, UIKit, etc. — that stuff was already there, but you couldn't use it without jailbreaking your phone. Here's an article running down all the stuff that was included with the original iPhone, from almost a year before the SDK was announced: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/07/16/iphone-os-x-archite...
I wasn't making any kind of strong claim. I said "doesn't seem" and "may". My point is, whatever evidence we've got so far, it doesn't seem to indicate a decrease in safety. If anything, it seems to point (however feebly) towards a safety increase. IOW, the data so far doesn't support, in my view, the stance that Autopilot in its current form is unsafe, as long as it's used in accordance to the instructions.
Wonderful paper. And wow, the author has really managed to piss a lot of people off!

People get really upset when you present work that points out flaws in their own thinking, using a different style than they've come to accept. It comes across as an attack from a different tribe, and they get all tribal at you. You can tell because they attack the style as much as (or more than) the content.

This paper provides one of the first theories at the foundations of music! How exciting is this!
I've noticed both sides of this repricing - it works both ways.

Good, experienced American developers are realizing that $90K + 0.1% equity is a really shitty deal relative to what the rest of the tech industry pays, and they're giving up startup work for AmaGooAppBook.

At the same time, entrepreneurs are realizing that they don't actually need a good engineer to build v1 of their product, and so they're relying more on international contractors sourced through UpWork, Alibaba, etc. Most startups I know actually have entirely-international dev teams now, and hiring your first local engineer is considered a milestone like getting funded (and often comes after getting funded).

I suspect that the real losers in this are entrepreneurs - the startup field has become so competitive lately that there's likely to be a shake-out where the vast majority of startups fail, and many founders are paying for these outsourced dev teams out-of-pocket.
My guess is that they live migrate VMs only before a planned maintenance. Let's say they use a 10 Gbps network, and they use only 1 Gbps of bandwidth for migrating data, then migrating a 200 GB disk would take something like 1 hour, which sounds OK. Can you share some details about your experience?
Benchmark the performance of block storage using the commands here: https://haydenjames.io/web-host-doesnt-want-read-benchmark-v...

... just cd to the disk path first or include it in commands.
What surprised me:

* Spark-SDK – This is for controlling IoT devices, why does Snapchat, Netflix and Spotify ship this?

* Squareup – Do people use this over Stripe? Or what is the use case?
> In the past journalists either would not have accepted that kind of treatment from the companies they were reviewing or they would not let it sway their opinion.

Certainly, in the past, doing this for reviewers of other commercial products (as well as outright tying of ad purchases to favorable reviews) has been distressingly common; the general corruption of the entire system of commercially-published reviews of commercially-significant products is the reason things like Consumer Reports exist as an alternative to traditional commercially-published reviews.
Backblaze Reed Solomon ported to JavaScript
groupthink platitudes are red flags - the beginning to the end of innovation.
I don't know that the cost is trivial. The camera is cheap, sure, but that's weight and power and bandwidth that could be spent on something else.

However, I totally agree that it would be crazy not to include one, and whatever it costs, it's well worth it.
My new startup is building a system like this out for retailers. It has the added benefit of helping customer service personalize a shoppers experience as well as connecting digital ad spend (ads and landing page vidits) with foot traffic in both real-time and aggreated. Prototype is built and we are currently seeking investors and developers that would like to help us flesh this out. Pm me for details or questions.
So you are telling everyone here that you could go to work, loudly exclaim that you hate niggers and they should die (analogous to police situation in article) and you wouldn't face any legal actions?
I don't think it's all derogatory – it just highlights the fact that there's exactly one person for that job in the organization. I could, for example, imagine a cook being called 'our Creme Brulee Guy' if it's his speciality.

Or that character in 'How I met your mother' who had a suit guy, a Yankees ticket guy, a flower guy and – if new needs arise – a guy guy.
Pokemon GO Trainer's Companion App – My Convoy
There are multiple methods of activating their autopark feature. At the time of the crash, the setting that allowed you to activate it using the keyfob as you describe also meant that merely double-tapping the P button in the car would activate autopark and cause the car to start moving forward a few seconds after getting out. This was added in a patch, so unless you paid attention to their release notes you may have missed it.
Can someone enlighten me as to how the tweeter equates not having many pokestops in their town to being racist?
What I should have said is "minimize tools when it makes sense" rather than "when possible." There are some tools that are more trouble than they're worth (for example, I feel this strongly about Jest).

Enzyme isn't necessarily one of those, like I said I haven't used it, but I also haven't found a need to. Some abstractions over TestUtils' event simulation would certainly be valuable.

What I am trying to present here are patterns of different testing scenarios in a format that should be useful regardless of the testing tools you may be using.
Anyone else thought this post was about Ubuntu's Unity and thus relieved?
It's a waste if that is not an efficient way to feed cattle. There's a reason we don't grow watermelons intentionally as cattle feed.
What's the typical cost of bringing in someone to investigate and write up a technical due diligence report?
Japan's Emperor Akihito 'planning to abdicate'
I can't think of too many recent ML breakthroughs that haven't largely come on the back of access to enormous data sets.

Interestingly, curious if that's why Tesla equipped cars with sensors before enabling autopilot as a user option. Hypothetically, can't see why they couldn't have downloaded the autopilot code to cars and been running it in ghost mode while users drove, generating faults whenever errors were encountered and sending the relevant sensor data back home.
Wow. I thought this was one of those "just because you can," projects, but it looks like there are some real practical uses for firmware developers/testers.
No more telling than it being expected that our primary mode of transportation kills dozens of people every day.
Autonomous Security Robot Runs into Child
150 million.
Well, same can be said about human driver too. Main point is that it isn't supposed to be 100% reliable yet.
Yes. And the "superstition" and archaic language he is complaining about in his abstract are actually thousands of years of collective wisdom which has helped many musicians to create many widely acclaimed pieces of music in every genre. Any study of music that begins by discarding all of that is pretty silly IMO.

> We show to be incomplete the theory of the heretofore agreed-upon authority on this subject, 19th-century Physicist Hermann Helmholtz [Helmholtz1863]: he says notes are in "concord" because the sound playing them together is "less worse" than that of some other notes. But note that, in this theory, more notes can only penalize, some merely less than others, and so the most harmonious sound should be a single note by itself(!) and harmony would not exist as a phenomenon of music at all.

Hokay, buddy.
I see /pol/ has invaded HackerNews.
The big confusion is that nothing even says what this is truly about before you say "here, try it out". I can understand that having to spin up a linux container per user means there are large resource costs, but I don't understand why you need a linux container to make an interactive tutorial. Further reading on the page clarifies that you are giving terminal access to the linux container and such, but the initial "above the fold" content makes no mention of that, and nor does the "We can't right now, give me your email and I'll tell you when page". Knowing what's involved, I can now understand it, but from a fresh slate, it (to be blunt) looks like you either don't know what caching is, or your system is shit. You might consider an explanation of all that stacktile does on that signup page, so people can see "oh, it's giving me shell on a fresh container, of course that needs lots of resources and such".
Anecdotally... I live in a city of just under 100k people and the downtown normally has maybe a few dozen people walking around at night and a few hundred more inside the restaurants.

The weekend of Pokemon go there were 300 Pokemon players hanging out downtown. It helps that literally every storefront is a pokestop. I don't know how much business they generated, though.
If there are more Teslas than worst human drivers, that would be a net negative. The threshold should be that a Tesla must be at least as good as the Xth percentile, based on the number of drivers replaced. Or higher. If autopilot is instead replacing the best drivers, that's also a net negative.
confused about what x2 means?
Check to see if Pokemon Go is down or not, without the hassle
>"Perhaps the confusion is coming from the fact that a stacktile workflow is more than "pre-known" static content"

We know this. People are saying that you need to have some sort of "pitch" that can't be overloaded by too-many users.

So, either you provision a lot more containers to handle spikes like the ones HN gives.

Or, you scale automatically to handle traffic-spikes. Or, you do some sort of caching. Or, you have an explainer video/tutorial, something.

Just because your product is "interactive", does not mean you have to have an interactive sales-pitch. Because right now, you're losing the valuable attention of HN-eyeballs.
I think it's fair to say that we don't have systems anymore that could be 100% understood by a single person. Your smartphone for example, I think it could be 100% understood by a crowd of engineers just big enough to fill a modest concert hall.

Way, way back, I had an 8 bit computer that I built myself from chips and solder. The "permanent" memory was 16kB; I knew most of that code pretty well. Even then the CPU itself required quite a bit of study to comprehend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalit...

From the ruling, copied from https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-795.ZS.html:

>Held: The prohibitions of §§2256(8)(B) and 2256(8)(D) are overbroad and unconstitutional. Pp. 6—21.

> In contrast to the speech in Ferber, speech that is itself the record of sexual abuse, the CPPA prohibits speech that records no crime and creates no victims by its production. Virtual child pornography is not “intrinsically related” to the sexual abuse of children. While the Government asserts that the images can lead to actual instances of child abuse, the causal link is contingent and indirect. The harm does not necessarily follow from the speech, but depends upon some unquantified potential for subsequent criminal acts. The Government’s argument that these indirect harms are sufficient because, as Ferber acknowledged, child pornography rarely can be valuable speech, see id., at 762, suffers from two flaws. First, Ferber’s judgment about child pornography was based upon how it was made, not on what it communicated. The case reaffirmed that where the speech is neither obscene nor the product of sexual abuse, it does not fall outside the First Amendment’s protection.

Emphasis on the last sentence, with the triple negative.
From what Dan Abramov has been posting on Twitter recently, findDOMNode() is in the process of being deprecated, so rather than writing

const component = ReactDOM.findDOMNode(TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(
<MyComponent {...props} />
));

we should be writing

let node;
const component = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(
<MyComponent {...props} ref={n => node = n}/>
);

https://gist.github.com/gaearon/7f0e03d3028016bfabfad641720d...
English wikipedia seems to have ok coverage of the relevant laws:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a

Specifics are hard to judge without the actual content and context of the posts, this stuff keeps courts busy.
> you are right to think your system is better while I am right to think ours is. And exactly that tolerance is what I would like to not only see but DEMAND from other people.

I am not interested in the personalization of the argument or grounding it in lived experience of any sort.

Objectively the system which you extoll results in censorship, in this case of criticism of a near-dictator involved in genocide against the Kurdish people.

I believe that enabling a state to censor what people can say is dangerous to democracy. I think this is adequately demonstrated through numerous historical and current examples.

Your statement of "tolerance" is meaningless because you will be unaware of other viewpoints of which you must be tolerant when they are censored.

Ironically as this discussion is deemed offensive to the moderators of HN this entire discussion has been effaced.
Right, and in fact this is known to be the case: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/04/16/048991

My summary: https://brainslab.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/shared-genetic-co...
agreed that pricing should be easily accessible.
Not that exciting after running this for over a year:

chromium --app=http://web.skype.com
So now it's the lens that you don't like, not the sensor? The imaging camera has a wide angle (11.7mm) because it's going to be so close to the surface that a wide angle is optimal. That's actually a lot wider than cell phones (iPhone 6s is 31mm equivalent). There are also other instruments on board that look through the gas with telescopic reach.

td;dr Juno has a fine sensor and lens
I think it's British rather than US English, but I'm not sure.
the point being, he has no right to prohibit anything, he took power by force and by populism
It means you get 2x the credits because they're in beta. So presumably 10,000 (x2) means for the price on the right column, you'd get 20,000 credits. Just a guess.
Just want to point out that in many industries a revenue multiple of less than 1.0 is expected [1], such that generating greater than $15 billion in revenue does not automatically result in a company worth $15 billion. That being said, FB's net assets are $50 billion (and it's market cap is much, much (holy cow it's alot) higher), so clearly those that got in at a $15 billion valuation are very happy right now.

[1] http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...
I don't know about that. Sex is pretty simple. Certainly simpler than making an engine :)
On the flip side, it may well turn out that systems complex enough to be 100% understood by a single person would be dumb and limited.

There are pretty significant limits to our conscious, logical understanding of the world.
I don't know anything about the details of this situation. But maybe someone else here does.

How is the US so inefficient at healthcare? We spend more per person (or per GDP?) than many (most?) other countries and we get less in return.

Where is this money going?
Let's maybe not throw around terms like 'terrible situation' for someone being ask to fix a printer here or there. Even amongst the #firstwordproblems it just seems to lack the je-ne-sais-quoi of real tragedies.
Or, overfitting strikes again. Except that here the overfit is buried in a bunch of layers. Still -- eventually, especially by reversing the models to generate instead of discriminate, it is possible to be more transparent about what's going on.

I have to agree that the EU, despite normally being a bunch of martinets, is likely getting it right here. It's too easy to construct and overfitted DNN and have it produce bizarre biases that affect patients, payrolls, or patents. There needs to be an appropriate level of transparency baked in as a precondition for licensable IP, IMHO.
409A is lower because preferred shares have more rights over common shares. Employees want that number to be lower, to enjoy greater gains and lower exercise costs. In any case, as a company approaches an IPO event, the spread between common and preferred disappears. None of this is particularly controversial.

Here's actual data for those curious: https://www.theinformation.com/comparing-common-stock-valuat...
In general people in Denmark don't have a ton of money to invest after paying taxes. If they do invest in Danish companies, those companies are held back somewhat by rules and further taxes. Some years ago there was a "entrepreneur tax" in Denmark which was an extra tax that affected business angels.

Employees could also be required to pay taxes on employee stocks - money that they had not earned yet because they had not sold them.

http://www.business.dk/navne/ivaerksaetterskat-skal-ses-efte...
http://penge.dk/pension-skat/ejere-af-medarbejderaktier-risi...
Definitely genuinely viral (although of course that does not preclude the pokemon PR people from pushing articles!)

I'm not surprised. I have multiple friends who bought Nintendo 3DS's to play Pokemon over the past couple years... mind you, these are not nerdy kids. They are mainstream friends who are not gamers. They've been openly playing pokemon and there has been zero stigma attached to it.

I think what's most amazing about this latest craze is that it managed to attract these mainstream, non-gamers. My Facebook feed (early 20s college educated) is seriously 20-30% Pokemon posts. And it's not the nerdy kids posting screenshots, it's people you would never expect, evenly distributed across genders.

Can you imagine people sharing screenshots of their world of warcraft quests on facebook?!
That's called semantic debt
"LIKE GOOD STUDENTS, COMPUTERS NEED TO BE ABLE TO SHOW THEIR WORK."

FTFY
DC Cybersecurity Bootcamp
I've been there too, I get it. I'm trying to roll out a new company-wide backup platform and people come by my desk because Candy Crush isn't working on their personal iPad.

Non-technical people have a very strong tendency to treat their co-workers in I.T. as their personal tech support, and managers outside of I.T. don't understand why you can't just make the developer/sysadmin/network engineer/dba/whatever do all the BS helpdesk work at the same time.