skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be challenging for sure.

I will say, having struggled to use R and finally prevailing, that I will NEVER use anything else for generating figures for academic publications or internal reports (ggplot2 - same as the author of course).

Nothing comes close to the composable, functional way that it "just works" -- I don't use it every day - but it is my "go to" for data exploration etc. -- more than pandas / ipython.
There are also a few providers that will let you do in-service rollovers to either traditional IRAs or Roth IRAs. Many also don't advertise this, but will do it if you ask(mine is one of these). It is definitely worth asking about if you have crappy funds in your 401k, as is talking to your management about getting a better 401k provider.
The problem that England has with Scotland is all the land that the English aristocracy 'owns' in Scotland.
The public library doesn't seem to care about your theories.

They've been lending books, mags, cds, movies, etc. for longer than I've been alive
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Yes that's what I did, see my other comment where I link to one of my old blogpost detailing it. My point is that PS0 will make that cleaner :).
That's a terrible point and could be used to justify $10,000/dose EpiPens.
As others have mentioned, if your workload is mostly appends and the data is appended in the correct order, you don't need to redo the clustering. In our case, the clustering was a one-off to get the data in the right shape.

(Although if you do need to redo clustering, look into pg_repack.)
And it's not surprising you'd never see anyone come or go. These offices typically don't have permanent staff; technicians stop by for maintenance as needed.
I was in a strikingly similar position as you at the beginning of this year. In December 2015, I setup a plan to quit my job and take some time to self-learn Artificial Intelligence, when I was accepted into a master's program in Barcelona (UPC's* - assuming it's the same as the one you're considering).

This blogpost outlines what my plan and concerns were about the self-taught route:

http://cole-maclean.github.io/blog/Self%20Taught%20AI/

Since then, I've been asked why I ultimately pursued the formal degree route, and this was my response:

"Without a formal CS background, I was pretty skeptical about my chances of getting accepted, but I applied anyways. I was so skeptical, that I convinced myself it wouldn't happen and set off to teach myself. But I ended up getting accepted into a Masters program in Barcelona, and I couldn't turn down the opportunity. I love Barcelona as a city, the tuition is reasonable and the program was inline with what I was looking for - a larger focus on application with foundation in theory as opposed to full on theoretical research.

I chose to do the conventional degree because of the above, plus the allure of receiving a piece of paper that people respect. Regardless of my thoughts on the real value of conventional degrees, it's hard to argue against their societal credit.

I'm new to this industry and pretty young, so take everything I say with salt, but my main advice would be to just build cool stuff. Whether you do it at a university or through autodidactism (learned that one from the HN thread), just work on cool projects. My naive hope is that people will care more about stuff you can actually build over a piece of paper with your name on it - but it doesn't hurt to have both."

That was in response to a thread about this guys blog, which gives some further perspective on the self-learning route:

http://karlrosaen.com/learning-sabbatical/

I'd like to add, that I've since decided to do both. I'm using the curriculum I developed for myself with online courses to compliment my formal education from the master's program, which has been working well so far.

ps. If UPC is the program you're looking into, it can be completed in 1.5 years (3 semesters) instead of the full 2. The last semester is dependent on how long it takes to finalize your thesis. Also, if you have questions about the program (again, assuming it's UPC's), my email is available from the site in the first link.

*http://masters.fib.upc.edu/masters/master-artificial-intelli...
That's a very good point - I wanted to point out that the issue is clear from a binary legal perspective, and my personal stance from an ethical perspective is that reproduction and distribution _should_ be the sole right of the original creator (unless otherwise assigned). I don't think I communicated that effectively though.

I can definitely see that it's not a simple issue, and I think you're right to point out the nuance that I didn't acknowledge.

Compulsory mechanical licenses are an interesting beast for sure. I'm not really sure what to make of them from an ethical standpoint.
My first reaction was to beg for the evidence
Not difficult to relate this article to how we use Hacker News..
Ah - yes. My mistake - I misunderstood you.
Yes, I think it should be fine considering you have some work experience.

Once you're accepted though, you'll have to complete two foundational courses within a year (with a grade of at least B) in order to continue to be eligible. This applies to all new students.

From my own experience, some of the courses are pretty easy, so getting a B or higher isn't difficult.
Yeah, that's what we did in the part we said "Pretend this is where we stopped" :) We pre-computed a few major dimensions and choose which table to query based on which columns are being requested. BRIN indexes were still a win vs B-tree, though.

We keep being impressed by Postgres--we keep being able to flog it harder and harder instead of moving to something heavier duty.
The same company that currently makes them? Single-payer doesn't mean the government is going to try and run pharma manufacturing.
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How about: don't? Your time to report on it was when it was online. If someone has something removed under a right to be forgotten, reporting on that pretty much violates that right, no?
Awesome advice!

Quick question... what's that series of dots in [3]... just above and to the left of the tree?
Vice is arguably the most ambitious and credible investigatory broadcast news organization on the planet these days, save perhaps the BBC.
Somebody should learn how to write more concisely.
How do I avoid Tor exit nodes that block "abuse" as defined by copyright barons?
wealthfront is a bad idea.
Freedom of speech is for humans, not for corporations. Otherwise you also have to accept the bizarre citizens united decision that permits companies to spend an unlimited amount of money to campaign on behalf of political candidates.

Extending personhood rights to corporations is a really bad idea.
I'm sorry, I think I have fixed it now. :)
It is buying growth for the rideshare business model. Google, Tesla or anyone can piggyback on their work once the model matures and kinks get sorted out- at least until Uber builds a moat from driverless cars.
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> I take it nobody in your family was affected by the price of a Daraprim tablet going from around $10 to $700 per pill?

No, but I buy Epipens for my daughter. That fact is, of course, irrelevant. Systems shouldn't be designed by hyper-focusing on corner cases.
Maybe don't be such a slimy shithead?
Note that we only need to worry about the south pole and Greenland. Floating ice, like all floating objects, already displaces water equal to its mass, so if it melts it will not affect sea levels.
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"Mysteriously".

My first thought (and indeed the end half of the article) points potential blame at the 'harvesting' of blood. Horseshoe crabs are captured, have some blood drained, and then are released. Maybe some group is getting a little to zealous with the harvest.
> The extradition to the US seems to be Assange's own narrative

This is the real issue. Whether or not he would likely be extradited if he were to return to Sweden.

Obviously Assange thinks he will otherwise he would have returned long ago.

If you think he would not be, then that should be the focus of your debate.
you're lucky. My year didn't have nearly as entertaining a speech.

I still think his points hold (as do many of the speeches points, most of which in some ways are similar).

However, attaching liberal education to everything may or may not be a good idea - and with the trade-ism of college, liberal education is sort of conceptually odd
The appliances won't talk to the power company, they'll talk to the appliance hub. The appliance hub will be the one with the logic to handle temporarily raising the thermostat or whatever, and will handle the internet connection.

Also, using a website or other resource run by the power company is still talking to the power company. Not sure ho else you could have parsed that, but you clearly had some crossed wires there.
> Modern computers have made it incredibly easy to make a copy of a work, to the point that it doesn't even feel like we're copying something.

Which is why copyright should simply die. It's need has been replaced. The car has been invented and we're in court defending the horse. It's silly and backwards.
Wouldn't that be in opposition to the spirit of the law, if they just moved the removed results to a second search engine?
>But now after surviving the last five mass extinctions on Earth, their numbers are suddenly starting to dwindle.

We are fucking things up so badly. Are we actually on track to fix the damage from climate change? Are we doing enough? Are people willing to live with what is really needed to stop climate change? This thing survived 5 mass extinctions, are humans what was really needed to kill it off?
>At least in Portland, I've never taken a taxi in my life, but have taken probably a dozen Ubers.

Which is one reason why Uber is winning. You do not even bother to check taxi fares.

I checked Uber rates to get to the airport. Not cheaper than taxi - about the same.
I live in Broomfield. It's 100% affordable, and its pleasant. My son likes his schools, and Boulder is a short drive away anytime we want to visit. I see no reason to blow extreme amounts of money on a townhouse so I can have the luxury of having to be stuck in a rich town that excludes poor people for the sake of "open space". Housing policies like Boulder's aren't liberal, they're greedy. But hey, when I take my son hiking in Chattaqua, we get to count how many Tesla Model S and X's we see as a game.
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No ethnic joke, except perhaps pointed at the British who seem to like to colonise the warmer climes of Spain.

But basically, the joke is that Mañana never comes. Anyone familiar with (remote) Island life, from Islay on the west coast of Scotland to Saltspring Island on the west coast of BC will surely identify.
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I truly have no clue. My direct experience is in network operations in the satellite communications industry, which tangentially exposed me to more traditional telcos. I couldn't speak with authority on what those buildings do nowadays.
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>Those harvesting this 'blue blood' say they're not killing the crabs to obtain it, but reports have shown that even if crabs that are returned to the ocean afterwards, they tend to die earlier than those that had been left alone.

Looks like it might not be as harmless as they thought.
You can't sue the US government for this without its permission.
Tomorrow never comes ....
Only up to $10k. I can withdraw $10k from my traditional IRA using that loophole, then a lot more from my roth.
I think you're missing a huge point there in terms of time to market and stuff an organisation wants to deal with. No matter how good I get at server ops, Amazon will always be way better than me. They probably have patents on how to cool data centres. A small company, like mine, has to choose its battles if it's to launch products quickly, and competing in server maintenance isn't what will make those products better.

And sure, I can self-host something and it's going to be cheaper if you just measure the cost of hardware. but count in the cost of humans maintaining that, patching the OS, dealing with security, working the network etc. You might be particularly good at that (and if you're running all your stuff you probably are), but I'm not. And I don't want to be. I want to focus on building stuff that I care about. So paying a bit more for server hosting works out a lot cheaper than managing all that myself, as I can focus on other things.

On the whole serverless thing - yes, it's a buzzword, but people tend to look at it from a technical perspective which is all wrong. the financial side is what matters. the tech isn't really that exciting there -- sure, there's a lot of new tech like containers, but the major change is that I'm only paying for stuff when it does something useful, instead of paying for servers to sit idle. But that's a topic for a completely different discussion. I published some of my thoughts on it here: https://gojko.net/2016/08/27/serverless.html
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My understanding is that the effective_io_concurrency represents the number of data drives that partcipate in the i/o system excluding the parity drives.

From my experience, for each SSD drive you can set it between 5-8 (if there are in raid0).

BTW in 9.6 the effective_io_concurrency [0] can be different for each table space (especially useful if you have multiple drives of a varying quality [ssd, spinning] in one server).

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/runtime-config-re...
Define "novel" please?

Unless the code is i an unusual language, i can't quite think of anything that would fit the common definition of that word.
Odd. I work from home and have for 3 years now. I'm reachable in a second. Because I have my ass at my desk working except when I'm at lunch. 30 minutes is a deplorable standard, 10 minutes is simply unacceptable. No standard should be necessary. If I were managing those groups and I needed a standard: I'd find new employees.

While on one hand I am strongly against employee-abuse and working over an 8-hour day: I guarantee my employer that I'm available near-instantly for 8 hours straight (barring lunch) and I have my head down working during that time. Then I disconnect, and go love my family.

As such, my employer trusts me and if I ever did happen to disappear off on a bike into the forest they have no concerns I wouldn't handle my work. I call it an "honest 8", so they are guaranteed to get what they pay for with no concerns of me screwing off, and everyone is always on the same page.

All that said, I do not work well with mediocre people who don't try hard in everything they do, and put pride into their work. So I might be an oddball in the US, and fit in better with a less abusive, but more orderly, stringent society like Germany. Where coincidentally, most of my family came from to begin with so it may just be a difference in cultural norms passed down.
I agree with most of this, except for the stuff on robo-advisors. You should be very careful about those.

First of all their fees are too high. Wealthfront's 0.25% fee seems rather small and it is smaller than what a lot of human advisers charge, but if you compute it over a lifetime of savings with the negative compounding effect it will cost you a lot.

Imagine you receive some money when you are 20 from a rich uncle and invest it for 40 years using the wealthfront fee structure. After 40 years you will have paid about 10% of your savings in fees. Or, in other words, you will have about 10% more savings if you had taken a couple of hours to sit down and decide which funds to invest in. Keep in mind that the wealthfront fees are in addition of any etf or mutual fund fees you have to pay to get into investment vehicles.

So yeah, compounding interest is a dangerous thing.

There is another problem with roboadvisers -- people put too much trust in them. In our society there is this implicit trust of the computer, probably bred from multiple sci-fi shows with all-wise computers. Well it is a very dangerous thing when it comes to your savings.

You may not be the best investor, but you should take responsibility in your investment choices. You should know what you are investing in and why. Even if the thing you are investing in is a boring simple S&P 500 fund (as it should be for most of you) you should know what it is and why you are investing in it. You shouldn't just blindly follow some algorithm programmed by god-knows who.
I think he meant propulsion. He mentioned that (paraphrasing) "it gets difficult the farther away form the Sun you go", which wouldn't be an issue for power generation for internal closed systems.

Let's go Bezos. Ressurect Project Orion.
Slightly off-topic, but a massive US prison strike is currently taking place, to protest forced labor and inhumane conditions[0], and most of us probably haven't even heard about it.

This is very problematic, since many of us also know how unjust the US justice system is, especially with the drug war and all, and without public awareness the strikes will accomplish a lot less than they ought to.

So if it's not already in your news feeds, google "prison strike" or just start with the Intercept piece.

[0]https://theintercept.com/2016/09/16/the-largest-prison-strik...
What was your math background before beginning?
Ah, the way to Pol Pot.

Murderous 'enlightenment', wiping out the mind of a society and trying to make a 'tabula rasa' for delirious fantasies of paradise on Earth.

Always works out well.

(Soundtrack: Holiday in Cambodia by the Dead Kennedys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA )
Ask HN: Are resold barcodes a scam?
When you want to register your product on amazon ( Europe), products require a EAN 13 code.

Officially, EAN13 is genereated by GS1 and registered there.

There are also many online companies active on "reselling" barcode. But this could just be autogenerated.

Any thoughts on how this barcode thing works? Are resellers a scam?

In theory: Resellers buy a huge ammount of barcodes and resell these.

In practise: Many sites offer barcodes. I think most of them are self generated.

How do you buy eg. Belgian barcodes ( starting with 54), that are registered offically without GS1 ( or cheaper than GS1).
Tomorrow never comes ... the British are too busy relaxing in Spain.
What's hilarious is that I make six figures, but because I have two kids and my wife is a stay-at-home mom, I'm "poor" enough to qualify.

However, like all programs like this that are a stupid fucking band-aid for NIMBY assholes interfering with the free market, they are neverr enough. It's an incredibly long line of people trying to get each home, and might as well be a lottery. These programs don't help the people they claim to. They are nothing more than ways for rich hippies to feel a little better after they vote for policies that set de-facto financial segregation firmly into place.
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I think getting the price down on better solutions takes some measure of innovation and thinking.

It may be test harnesses. It may be extensive prototyping.
It often involves investing in equipment.

From the coding perspective, it involves having structure be transparent to function. Everything is explicit; have requirements be represented such that they're almost derivable from the code base without testing. This doesn't mean you don't test; it means you do both.

The your concern is the consistency of the written requirements, the code base and the results of tests.

As an example, I worked on a thing that would cost tens of thousands for one field test. For about a half or a fourth of the cost of that, I was able to mock a field test in the engineer's desktop - not in a lab, but right there. This required a small amount of equipment, about two-four cubic feet worth. This was based on extensive sets of logged data, translated into models.

Of course it's by definition inadequate; there are lies, damn lies and simulations. But being able to anneal defects back through the models means you lose a lot less information.

I eventually put a thing together in a VM that mocked the entire system. I actually did feature-adds against that, that worked just fine.

I was (briefly) able to show about a factor of ten improvement in defect rate. But nobody on the team wanted to own this. the implicit message was "we do the thing; not that thing you just did."

It's now a failing organization, so I'm sure all that got dumpstered. That's fine; I lit a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
I would seriously cut the interview prep crap.

Yup. Governing principle being: if a hiring filter can be significantly "prepped" for -- then you have to ask whether it's really valid filter in the first place.
Airlines have had trouble with this for a long time. "The Sporty Game", by John Newhouse (1982) tells this story from the aircraft builder perspective. Over the history of airlines, the industry was a net financial lose. As of 1982, the only aircraft product lines to make money were the Boeing 727 (because so many were made) and the 747 (because it was so big).

The US used to have a highly regulated airline industry. The Civil Aeronautics Board decided who could fly where. Then came airline deregulation. Suddenly there were lots of new airlines, most of which went bust. Now we have fewer airlines than before deregulation, worse service, and constantly changing fares. On the aircraft side, airlines are buying new copies of the antiquated Boeing 737, because it's cheap. The B-757 and B-767 are being phased out in favor of the old, narrow 737.
This is the most concise summary I've seen, but you can find some more discussion googling around for "Roth Conversion Ladder" - http://retireby40.org/roth-ira-conversion-ladder-minimize-ta...
The literal only selling point for Go, from my perspective--as a software developer, platform engineer, and someone willing to put up with others' Go applications but under no circumstances could be paid enough to write it or fight with its ecosystem--is a statically linked binary deployable. It's not an unmitigated good, of course, for obvious and dependency-related reasons. But it's the only reason to consider a Go tool at all. Otherwise, I might as well be using a Python dependency. Or Ruby or Java.
Agreed, 1% withdrawal is (hopefully) worst case. But given the last decade, 4% strikes me as not particularly conservative.

Disclaimer: I'm looking primarily at Germany and HK, where growth and equity returns, respectively, have been lacklustre over the last decade. Though, even the S&P 500 has only made 2.5% p.a. since 2000.
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There's an easy way to find out - measure.

I'm curious as to what the performance looks like when it's properly tuned.
> Nobody cares much about efficiency above a certain level

This line of thinking is why web mobile experience is garbage.

> Maybe not plots with 10.000 points, but then again those are just badly designed, the screen doesn't have 10.000 pixels horizontally or vertically to show them all at once anyway.

300x300 scatterplot holds potentially 90K points. Even in the case of just 10K datapoints, sampling considerations may mean that it is simpler and more maintainable to just ship full-resolution data to the frontend to be drawn--an option that only exists if you can do so efficiently.

You're wrong on this mate.
No, you don't need low interest rates for stupid investments, but it makes them a lot cheaper.
That's a fair point, but it's not the method they used, and even if it were feasible to implement the secure enclave passcode attempt counter would still render it ineffective.