skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm starting to think that any head line starting with question words fall under the law that I forgot the name of. Even without a question mark it suggest that the author is still looking for an answer, except for idioms like how to.
I'm happy with cheap earbuds, too, and don't have to worry about bad codecs.

I'm sure the best experience would be Bluetooth with a $300 pair of headphones, but inexpensive/disposable is a feature people care about sometimes.
The state of the Octoverse 2016
agreed, most of the points this article makes are invalid as well. google has been running the microservices pattern forever and seems to scale fine. for example he mentions that costs are ndoe based but no where in a microservice pattern does it say each service has to run on its on vm
PHK explained the cause of this is that the Linux kernel VM system performs poorly when overcomitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10752209

So the conclusion is, as long your malloc fits in your system memory, Varnish should be blazing fast on Linux. If you need a gigantic cache, please try FreeBSD.
I'm transgender, and they've promised to pass bills to make it illegal for trans people to use the bathrooms according to our actual gender. If any of those pass, I won't be able to stay here without becoming a criminal. So I intend to move to a blue state if this happens. My short list is SoCal, Chicagoland, and the Twin Cities.

Here are a number of sources:

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/04/27/bathroom-law-battle-...

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/columnists/mitchell-schnu... (this one might have a paywall)

http://kxan.com/2016/04/28/controversial-bathroom-bill-could...

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Plano-lawmaker-drafts-bi...

https://thinkprogress.org/texas-republicans-we-really-want-t...
That's pretty slick. Thanks for sharing.
This could be titled "If you do things wrong it won't be good".

A lot of his examples are of people doing things poorly or incorrectly. I could make the same arguments about object oriented programming my saying it's bad because someone makes every function a public function.

For example, microservices are absolutely more scalable if done correctly with bulkheading and proper fallbacks and backoffs, and proper monitoring, altering, and scaling.

But those things are hard to do and hard to get right.
Thanks. I am doing that, a bit at a time. I'm not actually bitter, though I think I seem bitter. I am maybe cynical. (maybe they mean the same thing in practice.) But I'm doing well, and I'm not slowing down, I've just seen startup employees get a raw deal way too many times and think the entire "startup culture" is oriented in a way that screws over employees, particularly engineers (without whom software cannot be made. While other functions are absolutely critical too, that doesn't mean the people in those other functions should work 30 hour weeks, and take home most of the payday.)

One of the reasons I'm not bitter is that the VC industry is dying. IT's not obvious yet, but like the headphone jack, its days are numbered.
Agree 100% with both of these statements. A general rule seems is to divide them on transactional boundaries and business concerns.
Right, exactly.
You can run Fabio alongside the Consul agent on each node in your cluster and point all your apps to localhost:9999. That way you don't have to manage a central cluster of Fabio instances and if a node dies you just lose the Fabio instance on that host, which was only being used by that host.
The WiFi cuts drop the RDP sessions I have and I cannot reconnect until I toggle the WiFi off and on.

Using the thunderbolt Ethernet helps.
How do you get transcripts done? In house,outsourced to a transcription service,voice recognition software?
If I were interested in litigation funding, I wouldn't evaluate the ability of law firms to litigate but rather the ability of lawyers to accurate predict the outcome of cases (regardless of whether they're actually representing the client) -- e.g. associates at law firms frequently write memos to assess the probability of success before a case makes it way to trial. Seems like there's value in actually correlating memos with actual outcomes.
I guess Kurzweil and Elon spend some time on WhatsApp. But since Elon thinks in terms of first principles. He probably has this reasoning:

1. Are the any laws of physics that stop us from creating AI ? Answer is No. Nature already built it so its possible.

2. Is it possible to improve AI significantly ? Yes, because if we can build AI, AI can build better AI.

3. How soon can it happen? Since the trend is exponential. It can happen within 100 years.

4. Is it good idea to start worrying about it now? Sure why not.
I wonder if it would be possible to have private, certified identity providers for people.
When i stumble upon it from time to time, scribd is the strange thing that wants to stand between me and information. This is very annoying.
Musk isn't the most reliable source of information about himself: ' Musk sells himself as a singular mover of mountains and does not like to share credit for his success. At SpaceX, in particular, the engineers “flew into a collective rage every time they caught Musk in the press claiming to have designed the Falcon rocket more or less by himself,” '

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/539861/techs-enduring-gre...
fun fact - on many machines (including mobile) CSS only solutions will be a lot more performant than a JS solution.

It's just down to how CSS and JS work.

Not always, but it's mostly true.
It always saddens me when I see a slew of Debbie Downer comments from the HN crowd.

"Yes, he ushered in the electric car revolution, but the production carbon footprint is still huge!"

"Yes, he's building rockets, but he took a bunch of government money!"

"Yes, he's paving the way to Mars, but what has he done for world hunger?"

And it not just with Musk, but really with anyone who has been successful. I would have thought that the technologists were above such petty envy. We're here to improve humanity's lot, aren't we?
There's lots of software you might operate that requires zookeeper: kafka, solrcloud, the hadoop ecosystem, etc.

Meanwhile, consul has lots of functionality built in that makes it a snap to use for service discovery within your existing infrastructure. You would have to build all this yourself on top of zookeeper, which just provides a distributed, consistent key-value store.

So it's easy to see why you could end up with both.

https://www.consul.io/intro/vs/zookeeper.html
Ideally I'd think the private (key) version wouldn't be human-readable at all, you'd need to physically possess the card to use it, while the public number could be carelessly used like we do SSNs now...
Why do they discuss the speed of the line? Isn't the finalized output a much more useful metric? (e.g. one car per hour)?

If there's a ton of work done at the various checkpoints, the pace is slow but maybe the length of the line isn't very far?
This is the part I somewhat disagree. I've seen lots of strong computational biologists make the leap into generic data science, but I've seen way too many CS/data science types struggle. They take the data at face value, not recognizing the fact that biological data has flaws. A sound understanding of biology/chemistry helps a lot with identifying those flaws and generally with designing experiments/research.

Admittedly that's a bit of a generalization and I am sure there are a decent number of exceptions but consistent with my experience.
The revised script enabled many more resonances with social theory. A class relationship in which power is siphoned away from the masses...
If feasible development wise, you could also try 'outsourcing' your storage to S3 or something similar.
This was a bunch of fun.

Notes:

Be useful, that's fine, no need to alter the world drastically.

Big Next shifts: AI & Genetic Modification (oh and a faster connection to our minds)

High probability of failure, not a problem. Tesla, Space X. Push the ball forward.

Democratization of AI is a best possible outcome (direct connection, we are the AI)
At work I built and maintain a large codebase that deploys to multiple servers to perform multiple tasks. We also license software.

The answer to your question is simply libraries and build targets. My monolith is mostly shared code, with unique functionality at the fringes, but it all builds into a single deployable jar, minus the licensed libraries which are special cased.

I'm a huge fan of SBT, despite its dwarf fortress like learning curve.
FWIW, the Android speech recognition (the default you get when clicking the microphone on home screen) has improved by leaps and bounds in the past 2-3 years. I have a very unusual mixed accent in English and it understands perfectly almost anything I throw at it
They did not see that coming:

http://blog.memze.ro/?p=39

>Why the name “NAXSI” ?

>The name stands simply for NGINX ANTI XSS & SQL INJECTION

>Some reported us that the pronounciation is complicated and can lead to a misleading sound of “Nazi”. Of course, it’s definitely not our intent.

>Our company is based in France and pronouncing “XS” is easy for us since we have some words like this. Russians as well doesn’t have any issue with this since they have complicated sounds.

>But English & American people doesn’t have any sound like this and are hesitant in the way to pronounce it. Is it a X, is it a S and if they pronounce only the S, it then sound like nasi, not good… We didn’t saw this forcoming and are a bit sorry about that. We may change the name to NAXI to make more clear, and, of course, remove the SQL injection protections. (kidding)
How to build the future: Take $5B in public subsidy for boondoggle technologies, and then tell everyone you're fiscally conservative.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-2015...
The transit is terrible in the parts of the DC area that have most of the tech jobs. The metro adjacent parts of Tysons have passable transit since the new metro line opened a couple of years ago, but all of the other parts like Reston, Herndon, Sterling, Ashburn have practically non-existent transit.
Could smarter voting methods have changed this election?
Do you have sources on this? I remember doing research on this and concluding that most states phased out basing driver's license numbers on SSNs
If I have to move, my first step will be to find remote work (and I'll try to become a remote employee of my current company before I look elsewhere). Once I've secured a job that lets me work anywhere, I can then proceed to look anywhere to live without having to worry about getting a job specifically in the area. I've never lived outside of my hometown before, and I'm not looking forward to having to travel to interview.

Actually, the part of SoCal that interests me the most is the San Gabriel Valley just east of LA, for food-related reasons. Just thinking about the kind of food I'd have access to in Monterey Park or Alhambra makes me salivate.
Its largely an example of a solution very narrowly crafted to the way a problem seemed to be manifesting at the time it was created, rather than generalizing to the ways it could manifest in the future.
It seems reasonable to me that a firm with a great track record of judgments is more likely to succeed in other significant areas than a firm without a similarly great track record of judgments.

That seems like as strong enough assumption to require quite careful analysis and support. I know very little about the practice of law, but I am certain many other fields of endeavor just don't work like this.
This looks pretty cool and very slick, though it seems very similar to what Graylog[1] offers out of the box, which we've been using in production for some time now.

http://docs.graylog.org/en/2.1/pages/getting_started/stream_...
And yet there are companies that think nothing of hiring offshore workers to replace local jobs. Sometimes within the same organization. Why is it that a company will require you to either be on-site, or in India, but nowhere else?
Doesn't your whole post rely on the assumption that outcomes in the cases they measured don't correlate closely with outcomes in the (far bigger array of) cases they didn't measure? Don't you have to show that before you can definitely say their analysis is completely invalid?
Focus. Some people want to focus on the tech side. If you want to focus on politics side, go ahead and do it.

I understand the technology focus though, policy is probably the worst possible use of your time if you want to help, and it carries a great risk of turning you into an evil person.
"But we're extremely bandwidth-constrained in that interface between the cortex and that tertiary digital form of yourself. And helping solve that bandwidth constraint would be, I think, very important in the future as well. Yeah."

After working and consulting with labs while building/hacking software/hardware for neural interfaces and seeing where the field is now, I have very little hope. Too much bureaucracy, and too much (darpa) money going after red queens races (lets not even get started at all the private/nih money flowing into some labs funding even more technologically incompetent PI's) at least in neuroimaging, and companies lining up to get MIT postdocs to peddle their latest and greatest toys.

I even had to find someone willing to write my grant and go through the submission process for an abstract (not even the full proposal) for DARPA-BAA-16-33, because despite calling for "BTO seeks unconventional approaches that are outside the mainstream, challenge assumptions, and have the potential to radically change established practice, lead to extraordinary outcomes, and create entirely new fields.", apparently an email submission is just not ok despite having co authored in this area and currently designing BCI related hardware and software in the open in my free time compared to a lot of newly minted assoc. profs struggling to get their matlab scripts (that someone else probably wrote years ago) to run on cluster their uni just spend 10's of millions on again this year expanding, forget understanding how any of the machines from which data is collected (and can barely analyze themselves) actually work…

Yeah… semonga berhasil ;)
Amazon appears to be able to ramp of profit at will via controlling expenditures and promotions. Review this years numbers vs the prior years. I think they wanted to show a investor what it looks like when they 'wanted' to turn a profit instead of plowing money back into everything imaginable.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN&fstype=ii&ei=...

If I'm wrong and they are still plowing money back into everything and are still throwing off numbers like this (compared to the past) ~ that's simply amazing.

even after thinking through that defense - a 191 P/E is above my understanding. I think their technology and software revenues are seen a hyper growth
Interesting but I don't like the fact that you pocket it, and charity would be somewhat of a disincentive to commit.

Burning Bitcoin or Ether by sending to unspendable addresses would be pretty cool.
Does algorithmic trading work?
Reminds me of Dark Enlightenment. Unfortunately, in both cases, the promoters seem to need to antagonize rather large swaths of people, making it hard to sympathize with them in general, even if some of the arguments are interesting or reasonable.
Show HN: Text Summarizer available as API, online and desktop application
Some people extoll the virtues of long-form writing. But even a site like HN is far too information dense to spend so much time reading one article. It's a different matter when we're learning something of an academic nature, of course. That's why I love summaries such as yours.
So you have a massive switch/case like:

switch(JSON.someparam) {
case A: //code to translate A_server -> A_client
case B: //code to translate B_server -> B_client
...
}

Check all your cases have breaks? That you didn't accidentally introduce a new variable into your scope or clobber a variable already in scope?
A CEO's job is to delegate responsibilities, and an essential part of delegation is deciding what to delegate, and what to handle yourself. The latter depends on the CEO's passion and skillset, and since engineering and design is where Musk's lies, that is what he focuses on. Most CEOs have humanities or social sciences backgrounds, so they focus on the non-engineering aspects of the business.
> My spouse is a dancer. They generally retire at around 30 yrs. old.

The varies a bit depending on the kind of dance, but, yeah, people who can stay in dance much longer than that (and, really, people who can make a decent living in it at all, even below that age), mostly do so as dance instructors, choreographers, etc., with their own dancing (if its even something they directly get paid for at all) sort of an adjunct and means of advertising the other parts of what they do.

There's something much weaker in technology (not just in computing) in the worker -> manager push, where people who don't jump that divide by a particular time start being seen as less desirable as workers. But its brutal in dance (and only partly due to the actual physical requirements of performing the movements.)
Tesla's energy storage enables people to use solar energy at night, without the process being a big hassle. If it gets cheap enough, it will make solar power competitive with fossil power in most scenarios. Currently, the battery installations are a cost-competitive alternative to fossil ways of covering peak load. Calling it useless is probably a stretch.

Ditto with Tesla's cars; they aren't a drop-in replacement for gasoline cars in all scenarios but I've heard more than one Tesla owner say that they will never buy a gas-powered car again. So obviously that implies greater utility for the person in question than any current gas-powered car.
My home bought in ~2004 was recently appraised at half what I purchased it for in real dollars (in Chicago)...

Tuition for the college I went to is around ~18% more expensive now than when I went in inflation adjusted terms, the loans you can get now to cover them are around half of what I paid between 1996-2000 (at a state school). I haven't done the math to see how that all breaks out for real cost differences, but I'll concede college is more expensive now.

Also if you've graduated in the last 6 years or less, you've come into a job situation that is phenomenally better than that of someone who graduated from 1990-94 or from 2002-2006, which has probably a bigger impact on your lifetime earnings than your generation (think how capricious that is).
In computer processing terms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

If you need to by X, Y, and Z and Z get's cheaper it can only save you so much money. Price increases on the other hand are unbound.
From looking at the culture on Tumblr, it feels like there was a large-scale migration from LiveJournal more than anything else.
The range of the human voice goes from 85hz to 255 Hz, and that means a webcam should record at about 500hz to be able to capture enough information to reconstruct voice with good quality.

Because webcams record at 60hz (max), they can only capture enough data to reconstruct sound at 30hz, way below the human voice range.
I'm sorry, but the Metro does not cover "most" of NoVA. It has a few lines that jut into it, to provide commuting into DC, and that's it.

It is absolutely useless if you are working someplace in NoVA, and also live in NoVA. It will not help you get around in NoVA at all.

Whether it's better than American cities is irrelevant. The original claim, in a discussion about tech workers and tech jobs, was that the DC area had a good public transit system unlike SD. That is objectively untrue, for tech workers, for the reasons I stated above. The DC metro area is no better for tech workers as far as public transit goes. If you get a tech job in NoVA (or MD), you will absolutely need a car.

If you want to ride the Metro to work, you need to go back to school and get a degree in law or international relations so you can get one of those downtown DC jobs.
New App let's You Talk to the neighborhood Around No matter where you are
> The person who said it to me most was my mother.

Wow. If you're curious as to why some view it as a condescending thing to say to a colleague you really could start there.

edit: I'm surprised by your reply... only because it seems incongruous with the statement I replied to. interesting.
IMHO it's just about trying to hold onto it being less generally useful, as was initially promised. The government pulled the same "limited scope" bullshit they did for all the recent "terrorism" "laws".

Enumerating and precisely identifying citizens is the basis of mass surveillance. For most every societal use, a name and a birthday is good enough identification. Individuals should not be perfectly legible to the government, because then the rulers are further tempted into demanding that reality conform to their whims.

Of course now that government-cum-computer has entrenched and precessed, there are many areas where precise identification will help preserve one's rights. If one shared a name and birthdate with a wanted criminal, they certainly would want to be distinguishable!

But such situations are really due to the system asserting that its abstractions are airtight. For example if someone applies for credit in my name, the crime that has occurred is fraud and I am not involved. But the system (within-abstraction) diagnoses the situation as me being a victim of "identity theft", transferring blame to the individuals affected by its own shortcomings! Further cementing the abstractions further strengthens belief in them, making these failure modes even harsher.

Another practical problem in the US is that the government fails to prohibit the use of such identifiers for private purposes, under a half-applied theory of private contract (or really just money talks). So we end up with the double-edged sword of the free market combined with a government mandate, which destroys individuals' sole power of exit versus otherwise unaccountable corporate entities.
Catching Strong Params Problems Early
frameworkFatigue++
actually I have the thunderbolt adapter as well. But I barly need it.
TIL that OpenAI was founded by Sam and Elon. Should get my resume polished :-)
Genetics startups still need engineers and product people.

ex. Counsyl (https://www.counsyl.com)
I suppose I should have wrote "will affect". If we end up colonizing Mars, or even getting one person to land on Mars, I think Space X will have been involved in creating competition in the aerospace industry at the least.

My point was that his ideas are ones that have potential for huge amounts of change. Whether or not we will see that change is another matter.
I'm just here for the free energy drinks and VMware backpacks.
Microservices, like nosql databases, and complex deployment systems (docker) are very important solutions to problems a very small percentage of the development community has.

It just so happens that the portion of the community is the one most looked up to by the rest of the community so a sort of cargo cult mentality forms around them.

A differentiator in your productivity as a non-huge-company could well be in not using these tools. There are exceptions, of course, where the problem does call for huge-company solutions, but they're rarer than most people expect.
> And the south isn't bigoted in the ways many people assume

Is it "assuming" when you base your opinion on things said by federal courts?
The future of government software: Free
Fair enough. So you're saying that the outrage is manufactured to focus people's attention on how our elections are bought (post Citizens United) instead of how our elections are bought (pre Citizens United)? Or is the actual issue not the fact that our elections are bought? Because to me that seems to have always been the issue and Citizens United just added a littler more money to the pot.
Thanks, I'll see what I can do to clarify that point.