skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say I'm still figuring it out. I think you can't really market yourself too broadly, otherwise people assume you're just padding your resume with buzzwords. You need to focus on a few areas, with maybe just a couple popular flavor of the month frameworks.

Know your customer, and market the portion of your skills that's most relevant to them.

I would go so far as to have two separate blogs/websites if you're going to market skills as disparate as mine.
I owned an Roomba and it works fine until recently its battery is going down quickly. I'm watching Neato recently and yes it sure has an upperhand with its patent, but the marketing is way behind iRobot.
I've been looking at websockets vs short polling for an app we are building.

Most of our service is being run through aws lambda, so websockets is not an option without running a separate service. I suspect this is a problem for many. Is it worth running an extra service to use websockets on a component of your app vs using polling.

I've decided to implement polling for the first iteration, and we can always try websockets later.

So, I wouldn't say "don't use polling", but websockets are a good solution I've used in the past, depends on the app and architecture.
Oh wow... I didn't even know these limitations (and in fact ,they are not very Google-able).

Can you talk about these limitations and your experience?
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Publicly available documentation in any language is infinitely better than NDA-only documentation.
3D printed satellite launcher wins ISS space station contest
When considering this tactic, ask yourself one question: "Do I work for psycopaths, or for (relatively) rational human beings?" If rational, go ahead and let them know the market rate of your labor by showing a competing offer, knowing full well that you're ready to take it and move on. It's only business. If you work for psychopaths, just take the offer and leave because fuck that shit.
This isn't the case, we use and release plenty of gplv2/3 code and LK was permissively licensed before it was adopted by the Fuschia people.

GCC wasn't given a death sentence, we are just moving on to llvm. GCC devs have been moving to llvm for years and not because of the license. I'm sure DannyBee will say something about this down thread..
Is being afraid of the potential consequences a good enough reason to become a hermit? Because that's what many shy people do, while desperately wishing there were some other way.

It takes repeated reminders, constant effort and, above all, an unaccustomed determination to take social risks, for shy people to push past the idea that embarrassment, or other people's anger, or some other negative consequence, is reason enough to avoid engaging. More often than not (in my experience, anyway) these fears are completely overblown. And even knowing that, and seeing the imagined disaster not coming to pass, it's still an uphill battle to take the next risk.

But even in the rare cases where some fear turns out to be justified, having someone get upset with you, or laugh at you, is not the end of the world that anxiety will try to tell you it is. It's certainly not a good enough reason to doom yourself to unwilling solitude.
Ralph J. Cicerone, scientist who worked to protect the ozone layer, has died
Curious - how did you get things started?
How is it possible then that core.async works on javascript platform, a platform that has no mutexes?

Maybe there is a lock to implement the thread macro (clojure only), but then that uses native threads. How would you propose to handle access to channels between native threads without locks?

As far as I know there is no locking performed in asynchronous code implemented using the go macro. The go macro is a macro that turns your code inside out into a state machine, is it not? Each <! and >! point becomes and entry/exit into that state machine. There are no locks here because the go macro can essentially "rewrite" your source code for you and there is only a single thread of execution through the interconnected state machines.
I've tried to explain in another thread why I think Soylent should be regulated differently from other food products.
Letting PC vendors do as they will sounds like a bad idea. Superfish will look like Little Nemo compared to the Candiru/Piranha hybrids that would follow.
If you could sue over security this wouldn't be an issue: we'd actually have a bug program that worked.

Also, the market would be harder to enter. I don't see a problem with this.
Have you tried ensure?

It's intolerably sweet (comes in chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and butter pecan). There's no option for people who want a meal replacement, not dessert.

It gives me indigestion every time I drink it.

I switched to Soylent because it's a better product than Ensure.
The price likely includes R&D costs - the contractor needs to recoup those, and they are fixed, so the fewer rounds you buy, the more expensive each one is.
We don't do a lot of ML processing..so my experience is very limited.

Do you see yourself getting better performance with the Dataframes+ Pipelines infra...or is it simply a better mental model.
You didn't mention my main objection to GMO products. I'd add:

3: Many of the companies behind GMO products are what I'd call bad actors. Monsanto rightly gets a lot of the focus for the unconscionable stuff they do, but there are others as well. These companies, to my mind, make the world a worse place to live and I don't want to support them. And since there's no way to trace the provenance of the resulting food to determine who is supported by purchasing it, I have to avoid all GMO food.
You need to briefly introduce your product first before asking for opinion. Others might misunderstand what you wish to achieve if you never claim about your mission.
> I've probably spent more hours riding cars and bikes in GTA5's beautiful countryside and outback than playing actual missions.

Sounds like you would enjoy Euro Truck Simulator 2 or American Truck Simulator. Yes you still have a mission (taking a trailer from point A to point B) but you can choose from a long list of "jobs" that will take you to many different cities, and you even have the option to free roam.
To be clear: it's not at all obvious to me why, in the internet age, we need any sort of violence in order to regulate food. I am happy to let the government be completely relieved from this obligation.

And regardless, whatever the law is, I'm happy to see it enforced, vigorously and to-the-letter. Hoping against the odds for executive "discretion" to result in anything but fomenting of privilege is simply contrary to the evidence of its conduct thus far.

TL;DR: Few laws; vigorous, robotic enforcement.
The US military leadership presumably intends to use them to re-fight the Pacific island-hopping campaign of WWII, except this time against China instead of Japan. The "Pivot to East Asia" starting in 2012 was the first step. They see the current Middle East conflicts as a minor distraction and are preparing for a major war in a couple decades. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail.
It is possible for both survivorship bias to exist and also for products to deteriorate in quality. The author is able to point to the reasons for failures rates being higher.

Some goods are better and cheaper such as electric hand tools. With white goods it is hard to get something that will last > 15 years. I'd be willing to pay twice or thrice the average price, but I don't see anything available^. I'm just hoping those new fridge linear compressors are going to do the job.

^ If wrong, do tell!
IPv6?
Obviously, the comparison is not perfect. For starters, Have Blue was done by Kelly Johnson's Lockheed (although technically under Ben Rich, himself no slouch); Rickover's nuclear navy was similarly led and with similar low budgets, met deadlines and exceeded expectations. So ROI for projects from that era will be much higher (and let's not mention the actual Kelly Johnson projects like the A-12...).

That being said I'm not sure the F-117 was that useful in actual combat, certainly it was used because it was there but did it change anything? It flew a large number of sorties in the first Gulf War but some say these could have been flown cheaper and just as well with conventional aircraft [1], and bombed a few targets in Yugoslavia (so far away from the kind of conflict it was designed for that TV crews were filming it taking off, live) until Zoltan Dani worked out how to shoot one down using equipment worth a fraction as much thus pointing out its edge was gone in less than two decades after launch.

As far as I understand it, Have Blue's main value was to pave the way for stealth research, its operational value being what happened to it in combat rather than the targets it took out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk#Opera...
"On the first night they failed to hit 40% of the air-defense targets they were assigned, including the Air Defense Operations Center in Baghdad, and 8 such targets remained functional out of 10 that could be assessed. [...] many other aircraft hit targets in the downtown area, with minimal casualties when they attacked at night like the F-117"
I am a super happy Firebase user from day zero. I've built many production-ready apps with it and will continue to do so. So far the only features missing that will make it perfect and a complete back-end solution are:

1. Server code (something like parse server code or AWS lambda) to run event triggers (eg: run more complex data validation or trigger a mail/sms after a ref is created/updated)

2. Full text search. When I need full text search on my apps I have to spin-up a server (normally nodejs) and build/keep a searchable index. Then I think: if I have to run/maintain this back-end piece I might as well build an API for my app and solve the lack of back-end code as well.

3. I am still not sold on React/Vue/Angular2 so the tried and tested Backbone framework is my weapon of choice. Sadly enough, there is no official library to implement Backbone-Firebase bindings so I find myself hacking patches.
> Israel is the last example I would use for successful cease fires

Because some of Israel's ceasefires have not been successful the successful ones shouldn't be used as examples of successful ceasefires? I'm not sure I follow the logic there....
South Korea prosecutors raid Samsung Electronics over political scandal
The 10 Principles of Rapid Skill Acquisition
Wish you well, but I would love it to be a Mac mail agent instead of a web base client.
There is no additional charge aver and above the normal Azure compute charges (I'm the PM for this work in Azure)
Wow. I mean no offense to you when I say this, but I really thought that you had to be taking that out of context in some way.

What on earth was the author of this article thinking?
I think there's a bit of a problem on both sides of this discussion in a way that is missing the forest for the trees. Then again, I'm only talking about the "finding happiness" angle of the discussion and not so much the question of aesthetics or design.

If your goal is to improve your quality of life, then there are two guidelines that I think are generally applicable. There are other ideas like "earn more money," but that's an external process and I wanted to focus on the internal processes:

1. Practice mindfulness, especially appreciation for both the big things and small things.

2. Learn not to depend on unimportant things for happiness (aka fear of missing out). These things are often possessions, activities, or even relationships.

Generally as you do both of those things more, you feel less of a desire for non-essential physical possessions. It shouldn't be about trying to see how minimal you can go. It should be about finding happiness internally, and as a consequence not depending on a cultural performance (gadgets and fashion are common examples) for validation or identity.

In that sense I think the decluttering movement (I'm aware the article isn't just about decluttering) has things kind of backwards. Removing distractions is good, but if you don't learn the underlying lesson about mindfulness, then you'll just end up emotionally dependent on something else, like seeing just how much you can throw away.

The broader point is that minimalism (in the lifestyle sense, not the product design sense) isn't an end. It should be a result of learning to appreciate what is essential, not a result of removing everything until you think you've found what is essential. Some people might learn the first from doing the second, but not everyone does. I've seen friends get lost in the act of trying to simplify their lives, only to not end up any happier because they forgot to learn to appreciate what was left.
If Snowden walked out of the NSA with a USB full of national security documents I doubt I would trust anyone that says they can promise anything 100%.
Fencing in the Mirror: Startup Narcissism
Did anybody else find the font distracting? The little connecting thing between "st" is too ostentatious, particularly when the site does not respect other typographical conventions, like the difference between n- and m- dashes. (See, for example, the parenthetical statement in the second sentence. It should use the m- rather than the n- dash usually reserved for hyphenated words.)

Edit: On second viewing, the issue with strange "st" font artifacts was fixed when I enabled java-script.
ML algorithm quantifies gender bias in astronomy
There are people who believe that market forces are the only product safety regulation we need. If that's your philosophy, we're clearly never going to agree.

But if you DO believe that some level of consumer protection beyond honest labelling is appropriate, then I think I can make a case that a product like Soylent should be regulated a little more than other foodstuffs. Please see the other threads of this discussion if you'd like to pursue that idea further.
Are there any plans for autoscaling groups like in K8S?
classic HN, someone posts a reply link better than OP link
It's currently integrating higher-order logic (HOL) with a reimplementation of HOL Light.
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Was? GNU Social is a viable and actively developed and maintained OStatus implementation:

https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/commits/nightly
Thanks for this. I've failed C courses in university and in MOOCs when things get to pointers.
For java:
BigDecimal b1 = new BigDecimal("9999999999999999.0");

BigDecimal b2 = new BigDecimal("9999999999999998.0");

System.out.println(b1.subtract(b2));

prints 1.0
Neat! I look forward to seeing what they come up with :) For similar sorts of things, check out NeSy: http://daselab.cs.wright.edu/nesy/NeSy16/
I understand pointers pretty well, having programmed them in TTL logic, assembly language, Pascal, and BASIC (via PEEK and POKE). Python is a relative newcomer to my tool chain.

What confuses me about pointers in C is simply the syntax, and I'm sure it's because I just don't write enough C to be able to read it with any kind of fluency. I find C programs to be harder to read than any other language that I'm regularly in contact with. Of course this could be because of what C is used for.
How long was the iphone in development?
Hi,
I'm interested. Can you let me know how much you are planning to sell it for. My email ken.tms@outlook.com.
Thanks.
Node/Socket.io|Sockjs/AngularJS Development from Italy - 2000$/week working 2/3 days per week. Made 5 figures with different clients on the last 2 years on Upwork and I'm really not a good English speaker. I think your 1. point is the key, especially if you are competing with bottom-barrel programmers. It is the thing that makes your proposal outstanding against the competition, even if you are not a good communicator, but you have to learn how to select your client or the projects.

I'm a seasoned node.js developer (since 0.1.30) and I'm specialized on the "realtime" web, (e.g. chat, push notifications, events synchronization ) and scalable architectures. For everyone interested, feel free to reach me out at pibi046(.at.)gmail(.dot.)com.
That would be great. It can deal a final blow to Apple's refusal to support free codecs in their browsers.

At last it will be possible to save space and encode only in high quality free codecs, using vlc.js as a fallback for crippled Apple systems.
MS admitted from the beginning that the None/Security level was for Win10 Enterprise only for example.
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Dutch: http://nl.perl6intro.com

French: http://fr.perl6intro.com

German: http://de.perl6intro.com

Japanese: http://ja.perl6intro.com

Portuguese: http://pt.perl6intro.com

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That's your prerogative and fair enough.

Thankfully, GMO will thrive without your support and produce better food to feed the world.
So I'm drunk and only have a B.S. in physics but whats the tl:dr for this versus Einstein-Bose condensates?
Native Apps are Doomed
"I'm a trained scientist, and I masturbate at least twice a day." is not a scientific argument for frequent masturbation. I don't care if you're a scientist, a mom, or a flat-earther. I care if you have a well-designed, properly documented and formally reviewed study. And the fact that you're a "mom" is only relevant if the topic of discussion is whether you possess a particular set of organs and glands and have successfully put them to use.
Have you taken a look at the AWS managed elasticsearch service for your search/indexing?
If we say that a 'cease fire' that later turned into a 'peace treaty' doesn't count as a successful peace treaty then of course it looks like 'cease fires' only result in failures.

If the resumption of hostilities qualifies as a failure, then I would have to say a permanent armistice and a peace treaty would have to be qualified as a success.
Shu,

The concurrency/memory model nerds out here would love to see an early draft if at all possible :)

If nothing else, is it going to be weaker than sequential consistency?
I wonder what the reason for the re-implementation is. Perhaps the existing kernel isn't fast enough at evaluation for training (wild guess)? I'll have to RTFM...

(update)
their doesn't appear to be any FM. Can anyone post any links to papers/lists/etc.?
It'd probably be more cost-effective to pay 80 enemy combatants a $10k signing bonus to switch sides!
It's not that interesting from a scientific perspective. They're not doing anything that any doctor or biology grad student couldn't do. It's the concept that's interesting.

Food is a pretty inefficient thing. In terms of the time we spend consuming it and the resources expended in its production. Soylent is a first step towards a solution to those problems. The theoretical efficiency gain is very high. Of course, Soylent won't achieve that, but the idea is alluring.

Personally, I don't want to drink Soylent for all or even most of my meals. I drink it 1-2x per week. I generally feel better after drinking it than after eating a meal, and i'd say say Soylent is healthier than the average meal i'd make for myself otherwise.

Aside from that, it's fast, cheap, stays good for a long time and requires no cleanup. All that doesn't mean it's going to change the world, but it is a nice addition to my palette of available foodstuffs.
Errr, what newspapers do you read? Using this Google search https://www.google.com/search?q=us+appologizes+for+bombing+s... I find this errant bombing and often Obama's apology reported by the NYT, The Guardian and the Daily Mail (really, a lot better than the other tabloids) as just the most prominent papers on the first page, along with FoxNews (well, Murdoch does have papers as well), going to the 2nd page, The Telegraph and the BBC (non-newspaper) ... it's a pretty thorough cross section of the Left through the Right (most of the latter not mentioned in this posting)....

Our intervention in that mess has been so maladroit, especially as of late, that pretty much everyone in the US is unfavorably reporting on it.
Do you think GMO foods should be labeled so gp can be allowed to make their choice?
i thought the website was called 'ive-eloped' and had a hefty chuckle.
The landing part was cool, but considering the extra fuel/weight required to do it then it seems to be more hype than practicalness too.

I'm not saying he doesn't do some cool stuff, but everything he does gets talked up like it's the second coming.
> There is no legal form of performance art that destroys/takes other people's property without their consent.

There are most certainly legal forms of performance art that steal people's time without their consent [1]. How is stealing an hour of someone's time (e.g. by worsening traffic during their commute for a week) qualitatively different from stealing $2 from the same person? I mean in a moral/ethical sense; legally these are different because the law generally doesn't do a good job of treating time as a limited commodity people have and that can be taken away from them, as far as I can tell. That's a problem with our laws, I will grant that.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/us/californias-1970s-conce... cites an example. If it's _too_ egregious as in http://hyperallergic.com/332844/why-did-the-tree-cross-the-r... it can in fact lead to legal charges, but note that if the tree had just stopped the performance at the first police request it would still have stolen time from people and gotten away with no consequences. Even as it was, I doubt the punishment will be what it would have been if the same person had stolen a few dollars each from dozens of people.
I occasionally load up Black Flag to sail a 16th century ship and listen to pirate songs. It makes it fascinating to think about what the Caribbean were like back then...
That wasn't it, though that looks relevant for anyone thinking of working on this problem. Thanks for the pointer.
Hiring itself and losses from going without are very expensive, I find it weird that any company wouldn't rather retain. I wouldn't ever be surprised that hiring cost $10k all up.
So did the book I was thinking of, but it tried more fancier stuff too and iirc reported on some experiments in code reading.
I think I understand your argument. You're saying that random development is just as dangerous as directed development. I gave you an example of the opposite (nature's "random" development (e.g. evolution, geological forces, formation of planets, ...) hasn't given us anything as small & deadly as a nuclear bomb).
The tech stack really, really doesn't matter when doing the kind of work he's talking about. The customer just wants to pay you money for something that works.
Anyone here used port? What made you choose brew over port? I'm on the fence here.
The GPL has literally nothing to do with money.
> Senior Engineer going from $150K to $175K is going to be rarer. Super-Senior Engineer going from $190K to $225K seems unlikely (but probably does happen from time to time).

I don't think either of those are particularly rare. If you're learning and negotiating aggressively, the salary ramp is very steep.

There is absolutely a ceiling, but it's probably closer to $300k than $150k.
99.9% of consumers would have no idea what to do with that information and most products would contain several strains of each ingredient anyway.
Not only that, but Cython really takes away a huge amount of performance bottleneck encountered in Python code by generating pure C from a Python language superset.

More details here:
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/developers/performance.html
A default OSX install these days will only allow sandboxed installs from AppStore, or unsandboxed from developers registered with Apple. The jump from that to "only Appstore" is not that big and sooner or later will happen, it's mostly a commercial issue. Some time after that, the various options to change these policies will go away, and you will be left with something very similar to iOS in terms of lockdown.

Seriously, mobile dragged us back to the bad old days of the '80s and basically made sure IBM clones and DOS couldn't exist. We're all screwed.