skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IMHO any wine that needs to "open up" is not as good as one that doesn't.

Yikes. Gonna have to disagree with you on that. The effect of a wine being aerated/oxidized after being opened and/or decanted is obvious even to a casual wine drinker.

> I now know plenty of wines that reliably taste great (to me) straight out of the gate and keep tasting great through the whole bottle even if I keep it for a couple of days

And, by the same token, the taste of red wine degrades fast and is generally completely unrecognizable within 24-48 hours of opening, even if it's well kept with a fancy stopper.

Reading those two comments of yours makes me seriously doubt your ability to make observations that generalize to other people.
While it may be true that the OP is "doing well" salary wise, your comment detracts from the point he is making. just because someone makes a lot of money doesn't mean that their problems are any less valid.
Saw the presentation last week at ServerlessConf in London and it really looks very promising. The cost behind this solution is what will really make me check this out :)

P.S. Quoting the author: "As you can see for these queries, the reference implementation performs reasonably well; it's nowhere near Redshift performance for the same queries, but for the price it really can't be beat today"
The term "Serverless" means that you don't manage the servers, neither hardware nor virtual machines. Instead, you use exclusively AWS lambda and/or similar services.

I find that term confusing, too, but it seems to be well-established by now, so we have to live with that.

See also: http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html
> Either tobacco becomes a controlled substance

What on earth are you talking about? Tobacco is already a controlled substance in more ways than nearly anything that you can buy at a store (including guns).
> Your [sic] frustrated response at someone who would have the audacity to challenge your view reinforce the claim that it doesn't happen enough.

The problem here is that you're not challenging my views. You're just repeating a generic pro status quo argument, which comes up every time anybody suggests that there might be some better approach than the (historically racist, sexist) status quo. I have seen it a million times.

I'm not frustrated by the argument. I'm frustrated by the zillion buttinskis who aren't willing to take an actual stand, who try to claim they are being apolitical, but somehow only choose to be "apolitical" when jumping in to object to antiracist or antisexist changes to the status quo.

I'm frustrated by the cowardice. It's not clear that you believe in anything but yourself. You'll argue to protect a status quo that benefits you. But you won't dare do it under your own name, because that might not benefit you. You don't want to limit your "hiring options", while you work to retain the limit on hiring options for women and black people.

> the people like you have been successful in demonizing anyone who disagrees with you

I am not interested in demonizing people. But I will happily repudiate the notion that those who aren't white dudes aren't really people, aren't deserving of the same respect, consideration, and privileges that accrue to white men.
I think yes, but then I have not read TAOCP beyond the first chapter.

What I can say is that "Concrete Mathematics" is a terrific book. It is the best general "math for algorithms" book I have seen. Its exercises are wonderfully picked, with problems at all levels of difficulty and classified neatly into categories. It also discusses topics that for strange reasons are not as widely known as one would expect, even though they are extremely elegant and quite useful.
A concrete example of this is the Euler-Maclaurin formula relating sums and integrals.
Meanwhile BSD jails & Illumos zones are humming along nicely on ZFS.
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If these folks were really worried about high salaries and interested in reversing it, maybe they should be talking about education policy and high cost of living in the US tech hubs.

Additionally if they were on the evil side, they could also advocate for open borders and removing visa restrictions for high tech workers.

But no, instead it's just whining. It's particularly hypocritical since it's coming from a bunch of rich folks, who typically became rich by owning a successful tech company.
i wonder if it's the same for whiskeys or really any alchohol.
ArangoDB ships with several example graphs so you don't have to come up with your own test data if you just want to explore the graph features.
If the battery lasted a week I'd agree with you, but right now my phone happily risks leaving me unable to hail a ride home after happy hour.
One can get very similar experience with Docker. The idea is to make single Docker image with all the software one needs on the server and start all containers using it with read-only flag. Then one use volumes for persistent data.
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Define subsidized. You had to get a two year contract. You couldn't walk into the Apple Store and buy an unlocked iPhone.

AT&T may not have been handing Apple cash as part of the deal, but the contract made it more expensive than the price of the phone.
At least here in the EU and especially this year for some reason, a lot of news has been doing the rounds that push research like [0] to the public. My parents doctor, since only a few months, now calls alcohol dangerous poison and something you should never use, like smoking. Although it's not new research, it seems more people are listening recently.

[0] http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cance...
Those are some nice guides.

The Model S one also shows you how to completely disable someone else's car while it's locked. Interesting.
The public key infrastructure in modern browsers allows you to use HPKP, which gives you all you need in order to fully control that a message can only be read by its intended recipient, if you need that level of assurance. (Yes, it's TOFU, but is there any large-scale protocol that isn't either TOFU or requires out-of-band verification?)

The public key infrastructure in modern browsers is also about to require that CAs use Certificate Transparency (a year from now), which is definitely an obstacle even for nation-state adversaries if they want to stay under the radar (once it's fully rolled out and backdating in order to bypass the requirement isn't possible anymore).

Finally, if you're the target of a nation-state adversary, there are probably things you'd have to worry about other than the Web PKI. It's unlikely to be the most effective way to own you. The Web PKI isn't the weakest link by far.
There's also a .study TLD. And algorithms.study is available!
> This would mean that if I empty the thrash bin on my desktop, it's lossy compression.

It is.
Doesn't necessarily have to be through AWS. In fact, the Serverless Framework folks are working hard to make their framework suitable for other serverless service providers.
Oh come on. Is it still not accepted that "serverless" is the colloquial name for AWS Lambda and comparable services? Stop trying to make "FaaS" happen. It's not going to happen.
well, checkout hypercontainer (https://hypercontainer.io/) that runs on Linux, uses VMs and performs like containers.

No killing yourself necessary, really ;)
seL4 is really sexy, but I don't think it's anywhere near the most-used one?
> I will never take a job in Santa Monica. Unless you live in SM, it's not worth it.

Precisely. This is a lifestyle choice you choose not to make. But others do.
Those are median prices in the area.
You might like (or already be aware of) this blog: http://www.mcmansionhell.com/
It seems explicit that $650k is not in the poster's price range, but they offer those valuations as examples of the lower end or nicer housing options available.
I understand the confusion, but the term "serverless" refers to the developer not having to provision and maintain a server like an EC2 instance themselves.

On AWS' side yes there are servers powering Lambda, but developers do not have worry about them at all. The code just runs.
You're correct in looking at the thickness of the book and being wary of what's coming out in the media. In the book, the trends and statistics were just a section (albeit a big one) but the rest of the book discusses a lot of theory as to what is driving the downward trend.

Ed Herman wrote a critique of the book, which I think is fair. For instance, Pinker chose to use Vietnam casualty stats from a source that a lot of intellectuals dismiss as painting a forgiving picture of the situation.

Regardless, I think the book gives a lot of great history lessons, statistical explanations, game theory discussion, talk on Hobbes and the Leviathan, political correctness as a social driver, the effects that education, technology, communication have, and so on.

Unfortunately, when it comes to current event interpretations, I think overall Pinker is out of his wheel house (compared to, say, Chomsky or Ed Herman), and he should be concerned that the media, which is sympathetic to corpoarte and State interests, are eager to solicit his opinions on the present day geo-politic picture
> Doesn't necessarily have to be through AWS

Please refrain from strawman arguments. I wrote "AWS lambda and/or similar services".

In the Fowler article, you find a nice classification of these services:

- BaaS (Backend as a Service)

- FaaS (Funciton as a Service)
To give more context for non-Kiwi's: New Zealanders have traditionally valued houses above all else, treating them as their retirement plans.
We don't have capital gains tax or stamp duty, so house flipping has been a valuable side-business for many.
no one(maybe some) likes alcohol the first time. one must acquire a taste for it. that doesn't mean it's not worth it. scotch was so disgusting to me the first time i had it and now it's one of the great pleasures in my life.
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I also work in HFT, and I also attempted to use Docker in production and encountered all sorts of problems (different from what are described in this article, though).

However, as it turned out, these problems had nothing to do with Docker. Containerization is a great idea, and Docker's approach is sane (one container per service — fine).

The offender was docker-swarm. Like many others, I chose it as the default container management approach (it is written by the same team, so it should work the best, right? Wrong.) Docker-swarm is indeed buggy and not ready for production, or at least it wasn't 10 months ago. And if you use "one container per service" approach, orchestrating large groups of containers is a necessity.

Then I discovered Kubernetes, and became significantly happier. It's not without its own set of quirks, but it orders of magnitude smoother experience compared to docker-swarm. And it works with AWS just fine. (I didn't get to use DCOS, but I heard some nice things about it, too).

Tl;dr the source of all "Docker is not ready for production" rants seems to be docker-swarm, at least from my experience. Use Kubernetes or DCOS and everything will be so much better.
Religion doesn't work that way. You don't go "Well, I have this set of values, so I think XYZ is the right religion for me". There are exceptions, but most of the time it's actually exactly the opposite.
Actually one of the nice things about the mass-produced "plonk" is that it is very consistent. One bottle of Barefoot cab will taste pretty much the same as another, whereas with more expensive wines you get a lot more variation, particularly from year to year. (Wine snobs consider this a feature!)

> vodka in espresso

Whatever works! My wife likes vanilla vodka with olives, and raspberry martinis with a dash of tabasco. But I love her anyway :-)
I want a WINE that runs all the Windows programs in Windows without a hiccup (Adobe Suite included) but then again as a HACKER WINE means Wine Is Not an Emulator.

https://www.winehq.org
>"The original implementation of the Armitage-Doll model contains simplifications made for computational reasons"

Quoting myself rather than editing...Actually, I forgot they come right out and say it:

"This result will be valid for large values of t (of the order of
a human lifetime) provided that p1t, p2t, y, prt are all sufficiently
small (as could be assumed in an application of this theory to
human cancer)."
http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v91/n12/pdf/6602297a.pdf

But with low probability of mutation at a given site p, how can you get their model to turnover (as is seen in the age specific incidence data)? I don't think you can, however the turnovers easily appear if you allow high mutation rates along with high clearance rates. But those high mutation rates are inconsistent with the estimated mutation rates in human cells.

Anyway, I hope someone checks into it because something is wrong with the mainstream model of carcinogenesis.

Edit:

It is also possible the data used to give the age-specific incidence (ie SEER) is fatally flawed and those turnovers are artefacts.
You can try selling hot-dog?
As a NZ university student, I see this all around me. As the youngest in an old family, we got what would now be considered a middle-class home on a working-class budget in the early 90s. All the other students I know with working-class backgrounds have family homes well beyond the city, forcing them to live like broke arts students in broken-down shoebox apartments.

Even middle-class students tend to have "compromise" family homes, either big homes at the city outskirts or tiny homes in the city centre.

As you may have noticed, families who have owned homes since the 90s are doing pretty well for themselves. They also happen to be the majority voting bloc. The opposition parties are going to have to do some serious politicking to break through this firewall.
>so IMHO any wine that needs to "open up" is not as good as one that doesn't.

I respectfully disagree. Basically I stick to cheap wines (for budget reasons), and my decanter will turn almost any unbearable red into acceptable. A newly opened red sometimes just needs to be smoothed out via air a bit -- at the extreme of things, if you leave a glass out overnight it will be flat (not to mention, the alcohol will have evaporated of course).

edit: not sure if "evaporate" is the right scientific term
Stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm or worse - e.g. EM waves knocking out satellites - having the GPS system vanish would have quite severe impact.
> It's almost like CiPHPerCoder is personally offended that some joe random developer hasn't heard about some obscure CVE CiPHPerCoder was involved with, or that they didn't handle it like he would like. "Do you know who I am!?"

Except this isn't "some joe random developer", this is software created by and for the US government, which is featured on code.gov.

I'd expect them to take security seriously and apply all upstream security patches immediately, not sit on them for years after they've been resolved.

Anything but that is sheer negligence. What else hasn't been updated which contains vulnerabilities that do affect them?

> The initial issue was he came here and ranted about it, instead of pointing it out to the projects.

That's what joepie91 was trying to explain to you.

> Eventually he "gave in" and reported it to a single project, but took this holier-than-thou tone and was aggressive the entire time. That's ridiculous.

Would you rather I do that or not report it to them at all? Choose only one. If I'm going to do it, I'm not going to do it your way. You can if you want.

Personally, I'd rather not report bugs at all. Until you've reported vulnerabilities to two or three dozen different projects, this might not mean much, but: It burns you out to keep reporting the same flaws to different projects.

Having developers respond to security risks with an air of entitlement just turns up the heat on the burn-out engine.

The first response to my comment here was

You should send in a pull request, or file a bug report in the repo.

Pay attention to the order of operations here. The "should" is immediately associated with a large amount of unpaid work, with an alternative that would also be a large amount of unpaid work disguised as a hypothetically smaller amount of effort. But as others have stated: It's not.

> It's not surprising CiPHPerCoder got the reaction he did - it is, however, surprising he decided to do all this under his company's name.

Even if I had remembered to switch Github accounts, people would still associate it with my employer anyway. Kind of a moot point, really.

I gave you what you asked for. Next time, maybe don't tell people what they should do? It's rude to bark orders like that, and it won't get the result you want.
Builders love the style because big is cheaper than good. I suppose that the really rich may like big over good style because it makes its point so obviously.
HR professional weighing in here :)

You are correct. It's not just "if they're smart" it's "if they're complying with the law."
Former employers are only legally allowed to confirm employment, salary (yes, really), and whether or not you're eligible for rehire.
I am aware of the Nyquist rate. You're talking about very rare edge cases though. I believe the cut-off for an average young human is 20 kHz.
Yes, binary compatibility is maintained in this case.
I'm often amazed at how far a key/value store and an array type can get you.

But when you need more, it's good to know your options.

In fact I'd say nobody can afford to be intimately familiar with all the various advanced data structures. But most people will, at most, just need to know the things they might need, then go learn about them when they need it, and many won't even need that much.
Sorry :P read "exclusively AWS", and stopped reading!
Idea: Slack/GitHub activity monitoring
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Solaris is discontinued but Illumos and SmartOS have taken up the torch.
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Because we totally needed stored procedures to be re-implemented outside of the database in a templating language. /s
For Rolex, the idea is to be part of the small elite that can afford it. But how do you explain that so many people spend so much money for a recent iphone when a 10$ phone works better for phone calls (more autonomy, stronger, better fit in hand).
Definitely make sure you're giving references who are reliable.
But why would /anyone/ give a reference who would badmouth them?
https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/ is the best resource I've ever seen for learning about these networks and the rationale behind their construction.
This is just an idea. It being feasible depends if it goes viral. Use the $20 to run a VM for the 90 days. Host a minimal viable product with different micro services that people will want to use, and charge like 1-5 dollars depending on the microservice. One microservice could be: A person uploads a recording of someone talking, then it gets transcribed and emailed to them as a word document. All must be automated.

Hope this give you an idea. cheers.
And we only hear about partial combustion harmful byproducts..
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Really sad to read this in a "wish I could preserve it just as it is" protective kind of way. It's a beautiful place.

If any of you mega-rich are reading this. Please don't fuck it up.

Consider your impact - and I'm not just talking about the enviroment.
How does it compare to 3 years old Joyent's Manta ?
AFAIK it was especially designed for this kind of purposes. The processing is made directly on the servers storing the data..
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AlexCoventry is right, these are "the mathematics of Bayesian inference", to unpack a bit my recommendation is:

- Get a strong grip on linear algebra and euclidean spaces. You should be able to have an intuitive feel for the key theorems (e.g. Cayley-Hamilton, the Spectral theorem) and should be comfortable proving them (at least once). The point isn't that you need to check that they're correct (they are), but if you can prove them, it means you've learned a certain amount of prerequisite knowledge and gained enough familiarity with the topic. They aren't just theorems you apply, they make sense and you understand the intuition behind them.

- Get the same feel for multivariate calculus. The intuition there is generally easier to acquire than for linear algebra, but you need to be comfortable with the mechanics of it. Learn to prove your results rigorously, but also to quickly derive formulas by treating infinitesimals as variables, like a physicist.

- Study integration, measures, distributions and the fundamentals of probability. If the course talks about sigma-algebras, you're in the right place. Finally study Baseyian statistics, Monte-Carlo Integration, Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo, some information theory

You don't need that level of rigor and that level of fundamentals to do machine learning. Some linear algebra, some calculus and some probability theory that you pick along the way will generally do. However, I think if you're interested in ML it is worth the effort because it will make most of the math seamless. This is a lot of math to learn, but it's not particularly "advanced" math. The underlying intuitions are relatively concrete and a lot of the procedures are relatively mechanical.
Now I'm out of my depth, but I think motion compensation does okay at rotation and scaling. The motion vector varies throughout the frame, and I think codecs interpolate it, so all kinds of warping can be represented.
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The comparison doe not make any sense, and no h264 is not magic!!:
- The guy is comparing a lossless format PNG to H264 which is a lossy video format, that is not fair.
- he is generating a 5 frame video and compared to 1 frame image, only the I-frame at the begining of the video matter in that case al the others are derived from it, P-Frame.
- What is the point of having that comparaison we already have images format comparable to the size of a H264 I-frame and using the same science (entropy coding, frequency domain, intra frame MB derivation...)?
There's also "back channel" references. If there are some red flags but someone at the hiring company knows someone who worked with that person, they often reach out to get feedback from someone who worked with the candidate directly.
Many companies do this during early stage interviews to see if they should continue. They're not official references by any means but pretty common in a small community like the Bay Area tech industry.
Not mentioned, there is also a CSS.supports() method available in JS:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS/support...
It's getting to the point where i don't even bother clicking links from the times or the post anymore.
I'll bet that flight is less taxing in the company jet.
Can we please stop with the Silicon Beach nonsense? The only people who use it in earnest are the yuppies at networking events. It's like calling Seattle the Silicon Forest.
I really hope this doesn't mean lock-ins in the future.
Not sure if you read the book but it's far from a happy-go-lucky-optimism, if anything Pinker is as cynical about human nature as Thomas Hobbs. Heck, you can even call this book the Leviathan 2.

With that being said I think he does a good job providing a lot of nuance, data, and qualitative arguments. And tbqh, it's convincing.
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Known troll, please ignore.
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I think it is more OP calling the world mad when $6000,000NZ is the price range for a "decent" house. Heck, even the ability to move to another country is luxury enough. The 1% calling crazy what the 0.1% do is laughable to most I presume. I'm in the 1% so I'm not sure how the 80% really view such comments but I imagine it's farcical to them.