skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've tried to think of a good argument against this, but I haven't been able to come up with one.

Why are you spending so much time trying to think of an argument against it? Is it really so hard to consider that women are now leaving programming in droves (particularly in the few years after college), in no small part due to the overwhelming number of men who tell them, day in and day out, that they need to accept the fact that they're "psychologically different" and that's "just reality"?

We encourage women to go into STEM fields and then make them feel like freaks a few years later when they actually try to make a career of it. Especially as they start doing more advanced work in the company, being promoted (and especially in specific IT fields), it becomes much easier to just throw their hands up and say "I'm so done with this shit. Peace." than to be BOTH a great programmer and a constant target/poster child of gender politics (both well-intentioned and otherwise). It's a positive feedback loop.
That is a very interesting development. I know it's not getting anywhere close to x86 (_64) open specs or some other ARM-powered SoCs, but QualComm constantly shooting themselves in the foot by closing it off and not even selling the SoCs hasn't been very productive in the low-power computing community (and industry). I get that the first instinct of NDA-driven businesses is to ignore makers or community-based hardware designs (and sales), but with the Pi selling about 10 million, it should be getting harder to ignore what used to be 'the little guys'. With innovations basically taking place at hacker's homes, not being available basically makes you useless in the sector where your chips could be great.

For Broadcom, the Pi might not have been such a big deal, a single home use router with a Broadcom SoC might easily sell 50 million units, and there are plenty of home use routers for sale with Broadcom SoCs in them (let's say, we have 100 brands/versions, that's at least 5000 million chips sold over ~10 years), but the brand name and support from the community (which is bigger in numbers as well as diversity than any of the big tech companies) is pretty much priceless when you hit that millions number and up.

I hope QualComm and their Snapdragon isn't the last one to nudge closer to availability, there are plenty of others that would be welcome to join. While being able to buy the chips themselves isn't the biggest improvement, the fact that they are actually interested in helping with some open drivers is a major improvement!
I tested parallel queries on PostgreSQL 9.6 on a few TBs of data, 5 billion rows on an older dual Xeon E5620 server. I also striped 4 Intel S3500 800GB drivers with ZFS and enabled LZ4 compression which has a compressratio of 4x.

For a sequential full table scan I could process about 2000MB/s of data(only 125MB/s was read from each SSD), I was limited by CPU power.

Anyway, same query took about 25 minutes on PostgreSQL 9.5 and now it was down to 2minutes and 30 seconds. For comparison, SQL Server 2012 spent 7 minutes on the same dataset on the same hardware.
Somehow I don't see it to insightful...

It seems she gives examples of AI-powered voice chat-bots instead of call center workers, the robotic burger flippers instead of humans. The cause: because "minimal wages will raise."

Have I missed something?
A consequence of roboticisation is the decreasing military value of large populations. If robots can build tanks and fly planes and shoot soldiers, having more people isn't an advantage. Having more robots is.

Given how our civilisations ultimately compete through force, this raises interesting questions around optimal design. Namely, every civilisation will have to choose between subsidising their poor or quarantining them. (If we are honest, we already do this to some extent with borders and welfare and immigration controls.)
Obligatory link to https://github.com/p8952/bocker/blob/master/bocker, a "clone" of Docker implemented as a ~100-line shell script.
Conceptually, everything is a Schema and then you generate Changesets for DB operations like insert, update, etc. and apply various validations and transformations as a chain of function calls on the input map. No such thing as a model anymore. It fits really nicely with a data > functions mindset.
You make it sound as though passing a law against has huge resources involved. Since we all agree murder is bad, there isn't any argument or lobbying and a ban on murder and the law is simply passed. Even the investigation techniques can largely come from other similar crimes, fingerprints, DNA, asking questions are all reusable from other crimes. Some are unique, but not a huge cost compared to drugs.

Then there is the huge investment in thing that only catch people with drugs. Drug sniffing dogs, housing for literally millions of non-violent offenders, training on finding drugs.

In addition to the victim which others have commented on this is an extremely poor analogy.
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>I don't really get it because I've lived here my whole life and you can pretty much 100% guarantee the more a locality taxes their populace the better the quality of life is, at least in the states.

..what? This makes no sense. My quality of life was significantly better when I lived in TX than when I lived in SF, and you already know which one taxed me more. Even a lot of public infrastructure, like roads and highways especially, was just so much better. Plus, even though TX doesn't do much to help the homeless, the likelihood that the author would have ended up homeless in the first place is lower because home ownership is feasible. And the programs the OP is referring to, social safety net type things, aren't local but national in scale.

That said, I do like the idea but the quoted statement just makes no sense to me.
Good question. Going to take a couple guesses: Probably lock Soundcloud tracks into the Spotify platform? Or have a larger pool for advertising clout?
Since cloudflare staff is always in this forum:

This means like you can add several server ips and you get a load balancer? And how many servers? And round-robin or something more smart?
In what plans will this be available and if at extra cost ?

Is there any alternative to this ?
This may be the perfect thing for dedicated providers that don't offer a loadbalancer.
Since this has turn into a generic "What's up with containers" post:

What is wrong with LXC/LXD/Juju by Ubuntu?

I haven't used that latter two (I haven't taken the time to learn them) but LXC is a breeze. Set up a bridge on a host, and start creating containers! Isolated, with resource management capabilities available. LXD is the orchestration at scale component.

It's Linux specific, and it's more of a lightweight VM than a one-click-app like Docker images seem to be. Maybe that's the difference.
I'm in the same situation than you (used to ruby, never used python).

Using tensorflow through its high level API, tf.contrib.learn [1] has been easy enough. Most of the actual work is about shaping data and tweaking hyper parameters (how many layers, how many neurons per layer, how many iterations, etc) which is just changing the value of variables, really.

In order to build my dataset, I use ruby or golang and dump csv files. Tutorial code already shows how to load them in python. The most python I wrote was to figure out how to take a json string from command line argument and decode it, in order to make prediction after the training. This took me like fifteen minutes googling and trying, python is really accessible, especially if you're already used to ruby.

Clearly, I do not recommend to do that for production code, but if you want to play with tensorflow and try to get skilled at vectorizing data and curating dataset (the most important tasks in all of this), you don't need to learn much about python.

I do recommend though to take time and read lessons about neural networks, because you'll need proper knowledge about it to use tensorflow.

[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.9/tutorials/tflearn/i...
They (UPS) forgot the AC on the dock

In this case does AC stand for air conditioner?

In my experience, usually on big shipments like air conditioners, FedEx and UPS prefer for you to pick it up at their warehouse. So if they made a mistake there, my guess is its a relatively recent policy change.

I spoke to my mailwoman the other day, and she told me USPS will be delivering the majority of the amazon prime packages. And what that told me is that the other companies are trying whatever they can to get that amazon order, even potentially guaranteeing delivery of 'AC's, when thats not something they would normally do.
What's especially sad is that it would probably save us money to get homeless people off the street and we still don't do it. If getting her a place to live would have prevent even one of her thirteen hospitalizations in the past year, that would almost certainly have a positive ROI.
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We run only application logic, proxies or cache servers (Redis/Memcached) in containers. Nothing with storage requirements.
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Send them to Mars!
Balancing driveshafts is a very current procedure. The vast majority of cars still use driveshafts today. And it's difficult not to use a computer to balance them.

In this case, they just use a C64. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?

When it does eventually stop working (give it another decade or so), they can probably just buy another C64.

And then after that one dies, probably, cars will no longer require driveshafts. But who's to say; the prevalence of oil has survived much longer than many expected.
This is by far the best article I've ever read on the subject. http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engi...
Yeah in France separation is less clear. That's why warrant is not the problem if they want it they will get it anyway.
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Is encouraging people who wouldn't otherwise get married to get married going to produce stable marriages? I would imagine that it would produce more of the other kind.
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So true! i also have this saved up. I read it time and time again, during rough and smooth times.

You gotta do you fucking time. Best Advice Ever!
Gartner's Hype Cycle also applies to senior engineers. After 2 years of experience, you feel so much smarter than when you just started. You feel you've made it to senior.

But another 5 years later, you notice how little you really knew. You become really senior at 10+ years. Just like the hype cycle.
Don't forget about decoupling it into microservices.
An outcome will probably emerge not with the existing nations warring, but new ones with advantages at birth getting more influential, namely (for profit) city-States.
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This allows you to create groups of servers (multiple servers per group) and do load balancing across servers inside a group, failover between servers, failover between groups (based on some threshold number of servers inside a group having failed), geo-steering so that visitors from different parts of the world hit different groups.

Today's announcement is currently only weighted round-robin within a group, but additional algorithms will be supported.
You can just do document.write('<script src="https://example.com/script.js"><\/script>'); and it works
I have migrated to Linux for app and DB servers, but I don't know of anything better than Active Directory for managing users or Exchange for email.

I'd have to imagine such things exist, (I mean, come on it's 2016 there has to be a reasonable alternative to Exchange at least by now, and something a little better than raw LDAP for user management, right?) I just cut my teeth on a MS environment and don't yet see anything comparable.
Sad read and hope to never see anyone close to me have to go through this, but; why stay in a city? It must be cheaper to live in some town far from cities? At least here you would not only be able to live of your the money she has in a village and no one would bother you if you sleep in your car outside a village. Not sure how that is in the US but i would imagine it makes a difference outside cities.

And then ofcourse; how many close friends do you have; i have many friends and family who would all just rent a house for me. Or let me stay at theirs. Not one but well i could think of at least 20 people who would not hesitate; am i lucky or did she just connect with very few people?
The astronomical cost of going to Mars – and staying there
Your childish insults have no effect on me.
If sending stuff around, even if it takes a long time, is cheap enough, they could say trade seeds and minerals between each planet and have a constant flow of small cheap cargos each way. Think about the old trading routes in Age of Empires.
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The government of apartheid South Africa "frowned upon" black people. Should we have been more tolerant of apartheid, or do you think persecution of gays is a lesser moral offense?
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Say What ? I don't understand this line of reasoning. For every job that is lost, a new one is potentially created due to these industrial revolutions. For example, when Cars were invented, I am sure a lot of buggy drivers lost their jobs. But they probably learned to drive and moved on. Yes when the transition happens, there may be a period of adjustment but why not. That is how we have been able to progress from the stone age till now.

If things like Robots take over blue collar jobs, I bet we will need the same humans to operate those Robots at some capacity. Computers, anyone ? And yes, may be AI will change things a bit more but I am sure we will come up with a way to manage that as well.
It depends on what things become cheaper. I don't see how poor would endup in wasteland/slum scenario, unless the revolution is so disparate that it only benefits some people and completely excludes other people. (Remember, even if say programmers benefit from automation, non-programmers also reap the benefits of automation).

Wasteland/slum scenario seems unlikely; if 40-50% of all people did not live in a proper house[0], there would be a lot of empty houses.

(0) as opposed to a hut/shed
None of those things sound like things I correlate with being a senior developer. Knowing any particular set of skills isn't what I look for anyway.

To me the things that make a senior developer are:
1) you give them a project, even an ambiguous or large ones, and expect it will work out fine.
2) they have been around enough different situations that they likely aren't going to be thrown for a loop by new challenges.
3) they mentor their fellow less senior developers.

To get there you need 2 things:
1) bare time, you just have to put in the time
2) variety of projects - if all you have is a bunch of time on the same problem you are unlikely to have developed the breadth of knowledge you need.
Most people installed Trumpet Winsock on Windows 3.1 to get a TCP/IP stack (written by Peter Tattam, who never got much money out of it since few people paid the shareware fees).

I'm thinking that one reason Microsoft won was because of superior developer tools. I admin'd a small Netware 4.x machine back then and I couldn't even tell you what was needed to write an NLM.
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Young healthy people can get away without cooling in the southwest, but can an elderly person who has been hospitalized thirteen times in the past year?
That's an interesting angle. The same is true of general workers. Before the establishment too a slice of labour but in a fully automated world this is not required.
I don't have any experience with wal-e, but based on what I learned during my research (went with barman), there is no need to to install barman on the primary or the standby server, just a separate instance with proper user/permissions.

This separate instance is then called from primary's "archive_command", which usually looks like: archive_command = 'rsync -a %p barman@10.0.0.1:/var/lib/barman/main-db-server/incoming/%f' and once rsync'd barman does it's own magic on it (thru cron). Based on my observations, wal-e is more powerful if you want to store archives remotely (and is primarily an archiving solution), and barman is kinda the official backup solution (2ndQuadrant is a big contributor in the community) plus it offers point-in-time recovery.

Barman + Repmgr (which can do an automatic failover or a manual switchover) is a powerful combo. If only there were reliable tools to determine the master and slave (like Redis Sentinels)
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I got a live demo of the intelligence additions to Office 365 yesterday at ignite from one of the Developers. The thing I found most impressive was a writing style helper in Word that, while it took into account General writing style,would also be able to learn your organizational writing style as well.

Tap seems pretty cool. Although that was more basic than the other day I features. Tap seem to be simply a personal index here, not unlike the indexing that already happens on SharePoint libraries Etc.

The other cool thing I saw was the intelligent table analysis in Powerpoint. Basically it was able to look at the data in a table and fit the best graph to it automatically.
> The main reason is machine intelligence, a general-purpose technology that can be used anywhere, from driving cars to customer service, and it’s getting better very, very quickly

Oh, that's why we are still dealing with the crappy automated support from Google or Steam that does not seem to be working much if at all ?
I hope it does. I don't want to have to work. I'd be much happier if I could take next summer off and go tour Scotland and Ireland or spend this winter skiing in Vermont.
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The stat is not for 'impaired' drivers. Due to the testing procedure used, which lacks accuracy in the time domain, the stat is: 'has used cannabis this month.'

More people are able to use cannabis when it is legal, so this number would be expected to increase.
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As the x86_64 world continues to get more locked down, it's going to be interesting to see whether a market niche opens up for a less-constrained platform.
re: removing document.write completely is a hard balance, soooo much of the web still uses it especially for 1st party script loading that it would be a more impactful issue.

I do believe the consensus across all browser vendors is that we should remove it, it's just incredibly hard to do and smaller incremental steps is a better solution that keeps users happy.

Personally I worry about complete document.write removal that it would ideally need to be done by all browsers at the same time because for the first browser to do it will get the majority of the user and developer pain :\
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"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
No but it would be cool if critics would adjust the language based on their realistic understanding of their level of expertise in the subject matter. Posting very arrogant and dismissive comments just because one had read a semi scientific book on the subject or watched a documentary is not very helpful.
AFAIK Hummingbird is/was an Windows implementation for the X11 display protocol (called 'server'). The TCP/IP protocol was added in Win98 by default IIRC, until then you had to use Trumpet Winsock (Win3.x) or something like that.
I think, given modern progressive ideals. We will see shorter work weeks and multiple people with the same job. Instead of 2nd and 3rd shift, maybe we Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday shifts.

At least, I hope.
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Great! We can finally get that quality of life increase we were promised way back in the day when we bought into this "go to work more" stuff.

We can average it all out, and everyone can work 3-4 days a week and have way more time to explore our passions and side projects. Imagine how much better the world will be when people have time to spend with their kids, to learn other languages, to write that book they dreamed of, etc.

Bring it on, I say!
What about the cost ? Your competitor on another comment has a "contact us" price.
??? Nearly every Linux distro has this.
First up: 10 million truckers in the US; cabbies and bus drivers to a lesser extent. Where will those people go?
> If things like Robots take over blue collar jobs, I bet we will need the same humans to operate those Robots at some capacity. Computers, anyone ? And yes, may be AI will change things a bit more but I am sure we will come up with a way to manage that as well.

Exactly. It seems like most people on HN reason with the "work revolutions" being zero-sum games or something. It's been proven over and over again it never ends up being like that, despite the numerous revolutions the Human Race has seen. It's getting a little old.
And AWS Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/
Or Microsoft Traffic Manager: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/traffic-manager/

And possibly many, many other providers.

It would be interesting to know if there's some innovation here.
You can install Windows Server in a GUI-less configuration, so the OS becomes much lighter. Administration would be done via Powershell command-line (and SSH, etc. Not sure if RDP/VNC would work)
>I bet we will need the same humans to operate those Robots at some capacity.

Not sure how you can explain this. You're saying that we would need 1 person per robot?

That's not even true currently, let alone in 10 years.
who was going to say people gets shot by popularity in the social media. this is, literally, the impact of the killer apps.
Maybe it's Berlin, but it's pretty common to wait for 2 months for many basics things, if they take on new patients at all.
This is irresponsible. That machine has been out of support for decades. I bet it's hacked and contributing every bit of its 1 MHz to a massive DDoS.
Back to University or go and do other jobs ? Create their own companies and new services ? Why would they necessarily end up as homeless on the streets?
"AI will replace all jobs" is the new "safe nuclear energy is only 10 years away"
I think it's the other way around. There was a big rush to implement machine intelligence before it was ready, which has resulted in increased focus on its development and improvement.
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Internet access is now a basic human right
Relatively dumb human nodes in an AI mesh. We're already seeing this with captcha-crunching porn surfers. So not exactly batteries for the matrix but rather the soft organic bits that come factory equipped with some excellent bio-hardware [& -software].