skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar situation near Atlanta, Georgia (not the center of the US) was discussed earlier this year [1]. Reply All had a good podcast about figuring out the real issue [2] in this case.

[1] http://fusion.net/story/214995/find-my-phone-apps-lead-to-wr...

[2] https://gimletmedia.com/episode/53-in-the-desert/
Anybody in the HN crowd have experience using this? How does it perform on a WAN?
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> I read Orwell here as saying that the passive is often used to conceal agency when the active would be both more honest and more natural, not that we should never use the passive.

Mistakes were made.
better (10 years) late than never, right? :D
I feel that. We have the same deployment model and customers pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to have our systems installed. When our systems go down individual companies can lose tens of thousands of dollars in an hour. More than that under some circumstances. We always test migrations thoroughly on those systems. Even simple ones.

On our less important software that'd just be a direct push to production though.
> Why would you write networking code in C in 2016, when there are better alternatives available (like this one)?

As someone who's done a bit of game development in the past I can easily say that you'll fall flat on your face in some fields if you don't write your own protocols. There are simply no protocols that operate well in every use case and there are also use-cases without standardized protocols.

For extremely high performance operations you NEED to use a custom protocol in some case to squeeze every bit of power out of your applications.

From a game development perspective you need to handle two types of content: content that isn't really ordered by time occurrence and content that needs to happen sequentially.

Because of this you can correctly optimize your networking stack for those needs and get your networking system really fast.

Some people have taken to using TCP with a JSON message passing system and that just doesn't work large scale. You'll have huge latency issues and with a big enough game you have to do some serious bit-packing to make it cost effective to host servers for.

Now I'm speaking generally and this is just from my experience but there is definitely still a reason to write your own network code.
There are a lot of comments saying that given a fixed area (e.g. "Somewhere in the USA), that it's common to return the centroid of a polygon.

There's an interesting note in the Fusion article[1], where it mentions "[the farm] is a two-hour drive from the exact geographical center of the United States".

> As any geography nerd knows, the precise center of the United States is in northern Kansas, near the Nebraska border. Technically, the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates of the center spot are 39°50′N 98°35′W.

> In digital maps, that number is an ugly one: 39.8333333,-98.585522

> So MaxMind decided to clean up the measurements and go with a simpler, nearby latitude and longitude: 38.0000,-97.0000.

I wonder whether that decision - to choose a location, rather than use the precise centroid of the area - will cost MaxMind the case.

[1] http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansa...
Thanks for caring. I have a close family, wife, and a 5 month old. I went to a therapist for about 1.5 years but it didn't seem to help much. I go to a psych now. I've been seriously trying to figure it out for about 8 years now but not really having a ton of luck. Believe it or now this is the best I have felt in a long time. Having a son is a good reason to stay around though.

I honestly think I may have chronic traumatic encephalopathy but they can't really diagnose you without a brain biopsy. I got hit by a car and suffered several concussions in hockey and football where everything was just spinning. Sometimes I randomly blackout while working out.
This is my favorite part of the #HowWork section:

What about software updates? What distribution du you use?
You can't change your keyboard at work? That's odd... Where do you work?
Using it all the time and love it.

The only issue I had though is that it does not convert certain charset sometimes due to some latex related issues.
It's the first question that popped to my mind, LOL.
That has more to do with the libraries than the runtime. The JVM is very fast, but the classlib is very big and inefficient to load.

Dalvik's major advancement was faster class loading.
But extrapolating 1850s trends onto 2020 makes perfect sense, gotcha.
This is definitely a common use case and very valid for smaller applications. If I were you though I would avoid applying your experience on smaller scale applications as a way to say that everyone who can't do that are using bad frameworks.

Once your application reaches a certain scale there is a huge chance that generated migration could lock a table for minutes to hours which isn't acceptable.

We allow developers to run generated migrations in dev/testing environments but when its time to go to staging we evaluate the changes made and check query plans and figure out what type of locking is going to happen and how long it would take it prod. There is very few times the migrations Django or Rails generate are acceptable at our scale in production.
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Ethanol is normal drinking alcohol. You are thinking of methyl alcohol, methanol.

As little as 10 mL of pure methanol, ingested, is metabolized into formic acid, which can cause permanent blindness by destruction of the optic nerve. 30 mL is potentially fatal, although the median lethal dose is typically 100 mL (3.4 fl oz) (i.e. 1–2 mL/kg body weight of pure methanol)..
At least for towns that just have one zip code, I've sometimes seen the post office pinned as the town's location. (Although I'm not sure IP addresses will tend to correspond to towns as opposed to some other area.)
A day like any other with Javascript ;-)
Here in Australia we get a mix of US and British kids shows (on ABC Kids, have no idea what is shown on commercial channels), and its trivially easy to pick the US ones because they are dripping in morals, lessons, and such (and are also terrible).

I've started describing it to people as: British shows are designed to entertain first, and perhaps kids can learn something, whereas the US approach is THOU SHALT MAKE SURE CHILDREN UNDERSTAND RIGHT AND WRONG!.
I would not use the word "frugal" to describe myself, but I spend less than I make by quite a bit and I try to get the best deal on things you can negotiate (which is most things). That being said, my wife had a very different opinion when we started dating. We both had student and vehicle loans, she had CC debt and personal loans, etc.

The important part is to be very up front and honest with each other. The finances will work or they won't, and if they won't then the relationship will not work. Full stop. You can't live a life with someone who has fundamentally opposed financial opinions. If you want to save 80% of your income and she doesn't care if you have $50k in CC debt, there is no way to make that work. Even separate accounts won't work because once you're married new debt is joint debt (usually) and new assets are joint assets (usually).
>This is what's killing the French economy right now because their labour laws mean employers are biased against hiring new workers.

No, that's just what French employers like to whinge about the most in the business press.

French labour laws are unique to France. France isn't the only country in Europe suffering from economic malaise - most of them are. The unifying feature is EU budgetary rules - austerity - not the fact that French employers can't use the threat of firing as a terror tactic against their workers.
We used it for a few months now, it works. we have 3 datacenters with ~10ms of delay between them and no problems.

Over WAN will work, but not sure how reliable will be. Regards.
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I've been saying this since eBook readers came out. Sure the current kindle is convenient for travel, but for any serious reading, I want a larger one. It's why I still purchase larger hardcover books, and the kindle is only for convenience/travel.
And with the Civil War and the two World Wars, it greatly reduces the need for jobs.
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I guess I tend to think about living longer as having more of those later years. That seems kind of pointless. My life really peaked at 23 and has been downhill since. So if I could live the time from like 18-23 longer then that would be kind of cool. Some of that time was great because of less responsibility but the part I really miss is my body. At 30 I cannot physically do the things I did at 23.
>That, and also resources are here to be burned for our comfort.

what an incredible argument to make.
On OSX, in the accessibility settings you can make your display greyscale, change the contrast and invert colors.
My favourite one is that Mercury is a liquid at room temperature. It should be a solid, it doesn't form diatomic molecules in gas form, and it has far lower melting points and electrical conductivity; largely because it doesn't share it's valence electrons easily due to a mixture of relativity and quantum effects.
I mean, just to point out, if the way to avoid a doubled usage of resources is to kill a guy, you can always kill the employer and sack the management.

Or to be less flippant, this kind of reasoning only makes sense if you assume that the split of revenues between the state, the worker, and the employer overwhelmingly favors the worker and the state. That doesn't seem like a situation in which the employer chooses to hire someone at all, actually, so I'd consider it somewhat unlikely.
From the original Fusion article[1], it sounds like the local LE know exactly what's going on, but need to intervene with people who aren't local - FBI agents, federal marshals, IRS collectors, ambulances, police officers, etc:

> “That poor woman has been harassed for years,” Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet told me by phone. Herzet said that his department’s job has become to protect the Taylor house from other law enforcement agencies.

[1] http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansa...
Americans expect and demand a lifestyle most Indians only dream of.

For example, electric power consumption per capita is 765 kWh in India, 12,988 kWh in the USA. [1]

1: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC
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I'm glad you published your tutorial.

I'm curious about any resources that were particularly useful when developing the game. Particularly what helped in developing a better understanding of all the 'moving parts'.
Interesting, the last/only time I had to write code to determine delivery points was very early in my career (IBM mainframe COBOL) when postnet barcodes were a new thing and it was always just the last two digits of the street address. I see in the current CASS technical guide that a record type H may have multiple delivery point. Learn something new every day. Thanks.

Edit. As an aside, I think current Microsoft word still calculates it that way when you "bookmark" and address and insert a barcode field. At least it doesn't seem to be sending a query out to the USPS.
Things like react-native and electron aren't becoming popular because people think they are better than writing native, they are becoming popular because of the dream of "write once, run everywhere".

Most people are already developing a webstack and if they have the ability to re-use code on their mobile/desktop apps then that is a win for everyone. If you are writing 100% mobile app then you probably aren't reaching for react-native.
> encouraging critical thinking and considered reasoned observation

That's already called rationalism and/or empiricism. Why does it need a surname attached to it? It would only obscure the meaning. I think Orwell himself would not be pleased; he very much argued in favour of expressing yourself clearly. I think he has even wrote some kind of essay about it, but I can't recall the title.
Have you tried PostgresXL and if yes, can you make a high level comparison?
>That may happen one day, but at the moment we have a scarcity of labor rather than a surplus.

Then why have real wages dropped for much of the population, and why is the labor share of GDP at an all-time low?
I do believe it is a win all around. It isn't just that folks will stay home, but it makes it easier to have a better educated population, easier to work fewer hours if you decide to work, easier to exercise and eat well and be healthy. All around, I think society will improve.

Some of the pro-basic income folks (and myself) believe that a basic income helps with both of these points. There isn't much stigma to getting welfare that everyone gets, though possibly the extra that those that need it get.

And since it doesn't stop, there isn't that sort of disincentive towards going to work as work simply enhances it - folks might actually be more inclined to work, albeit fewer total hours.

Even with current welfare systems, there are ways to minimize these things. Creating a tapering system so that folks are Always better off working, more trust in the welfare system itself, and not treating recipients like criminals or second-class citizens.
> The set of 10 to 15 requirements every project has is basically there.

Even a lot of the really basic stuff like file uploading and image handling libraries aren't in a good state yet. For example, there's nothing that comes close to Carrierwave, Paperclip or Shrine and the Image Magick libraries are nowhere close to their equivalents in Ruby or Python.
That's what jsPDF is for.
If you run Cloud Foundry (CF), you can get the Heroku experience on your own setup. It works on vSphere, OpenStack, AWS, Azure and GCP is getting there. More platforms are coming.

I work at Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering to CF. We also dogfood it by running Pivotal Web Services (PWS)[0], which is a Heroku competitor.

One major difference: PWS (and CF) doesn't have fixed instance sizes. You can specify, to the megabyte, how much RAM you want your app to have. Other resources are dished out proportionally.

PWS has thousands of customers, thousands of VMs under management by BOSH, I'm not sure how many apps and services at this point. Last I checked, it's run by about 8-10 people in two shifts (SF and Beijing).

[0] http://run.pivotal.io/
I discuss in the article a bit. India is more capitalistic than the US, at least in this regard.

Their safety net is a job guarantee rather than the US's ragbag of free money programs (welfare, disability fraud [1], etc), so you don't get to enjoy a life of leisure under any circumstance. In the US, it's pretty easy to get free money and play video games all day.

Second, their regulatory structure doesn't destroy as many low skill jobs as ours does (e.g. in the US, a cigarette wala like Eric Garner gets executed, and the cops shut down many food trucks).

[1] NPR did an expose a while back on the massive levels of disability fraud in the US. Apparently it's now a shadow welfare system, significantly larger than actual welfare: http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
>Ok lets say I convert English words to smaller huffman codes. This should be even easier for a neural network to learn, because it can spend less effort trying to figure out spelling.

I'd need to see the math for this: how will the Huffman codes preserve a semantic bijection with the original English while throwing out the spellings as noise? It seems like if you're throwing out information, rather than moving it into prior knowledge (bias-variance tradeoff, remember?), you shouldn't be able to biject your learned representation to the original input.

Also, spelling isn't all noise. It's also morphology, verb conjugation, etc.

>Humans have produced more than enough language for a sufficiently smart algorithm to construct a world model from it.

Then why haven't you done it?

>Any fact you can imagine is contained somewhere in the vast corpus of all English text.

Well no. Almost any known fact I can imagine, plus vast reams of utter bullshit, can be reconstructed by coupling some body of text somewhere to some human brain in the world. When you start trying to take the human (especially the human's five exteroceptive senses and continuum of emotions and such) out of the picture, you're chucking out much of the available information.

There's damn well a reason children have to learn to speak, understand, read, and write, and then have to turn those abilities into useful compounded learning in school -- rather than just deducing the world from language.

>Even very crude models can learn these things. Even very crude models can produce nearly sensible dialogue from movie scripts.

Which doesn't do a damn thing to teach the models how to shave, how to tell kings from queens by sight, or how to avoid getting hit by a car when crossing the street.

>Models with millions of times fewer nodes than the human brain. It's amazing this is possible at all.

The number of nodes isn't the important thing in the first place! It's what they do that's actually important, and by that standard, today's neural nets are primitive as hell:

* Still utterly reliant on supervised learning and gradient descent.

* Still subject to vanishing gradient problems when we try to make them larger without imposing very tight regularizations/very informed priors (ie: convolutional layers instead of fully-connected ones).

* Still can't reason about compositional, productive representations.

* Still can't represent causality or counterfactual reasoning well or at all.

>Trying to model video data first is wasted processing power. It's setting the field back. Really smart researchers spend so much time eeking out 0.01% better benchmark on MNIST/imagenet/whatever, with entirely domain specific, non general methods. So much effort is put into machine vision, when Language is so much more interesting and useful, and closer to general intelligence. Convnets, et al., are a dead end, at least for AGI.

Well, what do you expect to happen when people believe in "full AGI" far more than they believe in basic statistics or neuroscience?
I'm pretty sure I'd never had a discussion with him about whether god exists or not. I'm certainly not evangelical about my atheism.
The problem is the early years are when it's most important to save as much as possible for retirement. You probably make enough now to correct for it, but running the numbers on retirement savings started at 22 v. 25 v. 30 is terrifying, especially if you have nothing saved in your late 20's.
There are cities where the main differences in housing price (the three main factors usually being location, location and location) is not as "expensive districts" vs "cheap districts" but according to "minutes to subway" metric, with a 10-minute-walk home in an otherwise more expensive district is cheaper than a 3-minute-walk home somewhere else.
Some JVM implementations convert objects into value types if they are final POJOs e.g. Point with X/Y accessors, Azul does this I think, but most likely it won't work for list like structures.
And here I've been completely oblivious that SGI was still a company all these years. (I guess it's not the same SGI, but still)
That video is only there to keep your eyeballs a little bit longer on the site in order to generate eventually more ad revenue.

I hated it too and I hated it even more because I fell for it and played it.
> This one is 160,000 times fainter than Neptune, which means the icy world could be less than 200 kilometres in diameter. It’s currently above the plane of the solar system and with every passing day, it’s moving upwards – a fact that makes it an oddity.

We know of much bigger objects out that far, and highly inclined orbits ("moving upward") in that region are expected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trans-Neptunian_object...
Can you provide some example names? I'm seeing returns of only 1.65% on the Barclays Muni Index[0]

[0]: https://index.barcap.com/Benchmark_Indices/Aggregate/Bond_In...
I felt exactly the same. WTF was this bullshit video?
>My findings are very much based on my own experience

In my experience, people think they're far better at stock-picking and investing than they really are. Have you calculated your actual, after-all-expense returns? Because if you are consistently beating the market, risk-adjusted, start a hedge fund. I'm only half joking.

It's important to interpret EMH "realistically", in that prices, on average, will reflect all relevant information. But it obviously doesn't occur instantaneously or perfectly. Everyone who has traded stocks has a few wins. The question is whether you can garner an advantage consistently.
Admittedly, the vast majority of India is nowhere near as cold as the vast majority of America. Americans have to spend energy avoiding death by frost much of the year.
Ask HN: What keeps you from exercising?
We all know that exercise is good for us, yet many of us fail to either start or continue. Why?

Like many of you, I sit in front of a computer far too much during my days. I blame my inactivity on everything: not enough time, family obligations, an I'll do it tomorrow attitude, it won't work for me because of my genetics, I don't know what I should do so better not do anything and get injured etc.

Do you do the same? What keeps you from exercising or what made you start exercising in the first place? How do you keep it up?
But you'd think that if their job was law enforcement of internet crimes, they would have to have at least a very basic understand of this sort of thing. It couldn't be more than a 2 or 3 hour training course to teach people a bit about IP and how to use subpoenas or other law enforcement requests to ISPs to get what they need.
I think the people sitting around the house will probably notice that they're not happy, and seek out other things to do. I think the main reason people on welfare don't currently do much is that they can't afford the alternatives. There are also class cultural differences that can make it difficult for them, but I think there are ways to address this.

More generally, I think in the absence of material problems, we will have many more resources freed up to address the problem of purposelessness. I do think it's easy to succumb to depression-inducing laziness in the absence of necessity to work (I have experienced this myself), but I think this is a psychological problem that should be addressed directly.

>while their children entertain themselves by hacking robot-driven trucks to make them crash into each other.

And then those children age in a world where they never have to stop being children.