skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> one of the benefits of being in a relationship is to have somebody to whom you're at the top of the list for

Not true.

If this were true sexual attraction would not be the primary driver for relationships.

That's why you don't see heterosexual people marrying same sex people just because they are great friends and at "the top of the list".

Relationships (romantic) are primarily sexual affairs.

The whole "top of the list" thing is a recent western "invention".

Edit: I guess you can also say they are economic affairs, but there is always a sexual/reproductive element involved way before friendship
10.12 is probably coming eventually… Apple always takes forever to update that site. Of course, this delay is itself a sign of deep neglect.
Anytime you want to go toe to toe let me know. Being cheaper and more predictable is so different from actually having to make the best possible product.
I think Curtis' most underrated series is The Mayfair Set. It certainly planted a seed in me regarding interest in economic history. Not to mention, "We built this city on high yield bonds".
All the ideas I gave were things that happened (or at least, that I read on the internet from reliable sources.)

Chartering fast ships is from 1790, see e.g.: http://dewinforex.com/forex-basics/high-frequency-trading-fi...

Can't find the link for the donut investor, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in Matt Levine's (highly recommended) Money Stuff column.

Sat imagery of parking lots appears all the time in Matt Levine's column, there is a company selling this data to hedge funds today.

Selling pounds is of course George Soros, probably the most famous story in Finance.

Wikipedia claims the Rotschild story about the Napoleonic wars is fake. I read it on Quora here: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-shrewdest-smartest-maneuver-...
"If you do not agree with this statement then please reply to this email with your resignation because you have no place here."

So, if you don't agree with what he said about Trump was true, you should leave.

And, yes, that is only one possible interpretation of that sentence. It was not specific enough.

If he's talking about whether people agree that the workplace should not be hostile, that's another thing.

It's too bad he felt the need to inject politics and the threat into this statement. He could have just stated the company policy and ask workers to see HR if they had a problem with it.
You are conflating "not much support for learning to code" and "not much support for bootcamps". I'm sure everyone here would support you learning to code!

Look, teaching yourself programming is not only possible, it's required -- forever. You will never have a job as a programmer where you're not required to learn new things, without anyone else's help, sometimes without even any documentation, and often on tight deadlines.

If you refuse to even try to learn extremely well-documented technologies like HTML, JS, and Ruby on your own without paying someone to spoonfeed it to you, what are the odds you'll survive when your boss tells you you need to figure out how to integrate with some obscure closed-source third-party library by Friday? Or even when working on mainstream technologies, will you do to get unblocked in the (very common) situation where you're the first person in the world to encounter a particular bug, and you can't ask your team about it because they don't know?

It's not that I'm opposed to people learning to code. It's that I think many of those who need a bootcamp wouldn't have the personality to be successful.

Of course there are some successful bootcamp graduates; this isn't an absolute thing. But why not at least try first to learn the way the rest of us did, by tinkering with stuff because you enjoy it?
Virtualization? Don't care, in fact, virtualization is what disabled P2P copies and created craptastic upload/download perf on AWS until the P2 instance.

DMA/CUDA Direct? Say Hello to P2P and staged MPI transfers, faster, cheaper (and usually better). Know your PCIE tree FTW.

Support? As someone who has been playing with GPUs for over a decade, bugs get fixed in the next CUDA release no matter Tesla or GeForce, if ever.

$100M service? Yep I'm with you. But I prefer a world without a huge barrier to entry to building that service, especially a barrier built 99% on marketecture. I want to build on commodity hardware and deploy in the datacenter.

Unfortunately, sales types seem to hate that outlook.
If you feel that way, use your business skills to build a business. I am an eng, a good one perhaps, and I lack the skills of a competent PM.

Find someone to complement you, then try changing the world. one small project at a time.
Regardless of how he knows, you can also google "sneaker bot" and you'll find a vast underground that deals in this trade of scalping limited edition sneakers.
The current state of machine intelligence 3.0  – With great infographics
I've done the same thing. An issue I run into is it's easy to end up with lots of the same media query littered over the place, which can harm performance and feels quite messy.
I tend to doubt that truckers will turn into programmers. If anything programming is going to continue to be more about burning out college grads, and it'll be difficult for 40 year old established programmers to find work, much less 40 year old retrained truckers--even at half the cost.

At any rate, that would be the optimistic viewpoint, that they could actually get retrained and get jobs and compete for wages. What is likely to happen is that they'll have extreme difficulty finding any work, the income gaps will widen and there'll be even more disaffected workers.
Hey there, my email is on my HN user profile page.
It's possible that glowsticks are a better solution to the problem and that the laws should change. After all, glowsticks weren't a technological possibility when it was written.

I think the exasperation I (and others) seem to have with AirBnB/Uber/their supporters' sometimes-arguments are that they skip right over the "changing the law" piece. That's a pain in the ass and a lot of drudgery to be sure. But personally, I prefer to live in a society with a moderate amount of respect for the rule of all laws. Because the alternative of getting into a front-on collision at night with an unlit car sucks.
This looks like a piece of submarine advertising for Sideline. A seemingly interesting service, but pretty blatant sales pitch.
Thirty years from now: Same headline without quotes.
Ask HN: Counting # of protestors?
I was at the anti-trump rally in Los Angeles today. The LAPD estimated the crowd size to be 8,000 however that number seemed very low to me. I'm wondering if anyone has some software than can look at footage to estimate crowd size. There are a few shots that capture the majority of the protest today like this: https://instagram.com/p/BMuxQDcjdI4/

Would love to have a hard count of how many ppl were there - not an estimation!
We had such a contract with Dell when I worked in HPC (at a large university). Since our churn was so high (top 500 cluster) we had common spare parts on site (RAM, drives) but when we needed a new motherboard it was there within 4 hours.

Now, these contracts aren't like your average SaaS offering. We had a sales rep and the terms of the support contract were personalized to our needs. I imagine some locations were offered better terms for 4 hour service than others.

As I learned long ago, never say no to a customer request. Just provide a quote high enough to make it worthwhile.
This was the dry run.

P.S. I took a screenshot of my profile while I was dead, and just set a reminder to post the 'memory' next year.
Hi, I got together a few friends to build a language learning site. There are 5 of us: 2 of us have 5+ years industry experience, 3 of them just started college and are hungry to learn. The experienced devs will spend most of their time code reviewing and making sure everybody checks in good code.

We built our product (not launched yet) in React and its primary purpose is to help us learn redux (which explains why we haven't launched it). So far we've had about 3 code rewrites, the most recent being refactoring codebase to use Redux (all of us love it).

We have weekly sprint meetings every Thursday to talk about the project assign tasks and review the team's progress. We have had about 15 sprint meetings.

If anybody wants to join us, we would love to teach you what we learned and assign you a few tasks. My email is song at zheng.club
> I feel lost and dumb a lot of the times. I realize now this feeling will never go away as an engineer - it's a part of the job.

No it's not. As you gain experience your feeling should be, "since I'm the expert in this company/industry on this, we'll do it this way ..."
Now 34. For me, realization that group interactions were not what i like.

I used to have e.g. 64 friends, i would hang out with 8 at a time.

Now, I maybe have 8 friends, hang out 1-1. Can't have more and actually know them.

Depth, not breadth. That is my 30s.
This is exactly what I am looking for! If there's still room on the team, I'd love to join!
I'd think the complete opposite of you. We'll need a few PMs around to manage the army of AI programming bots.
> I'm more afraid of a bad partner and financial ruin than taking a chance at a happier life.

Just curious, what would cause financial ruin?

Dating being expensive, etc? Or divorce?
I mean, it's obviously satire, and it's taking a shot at something you've previously said is damaging to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739

I'd agree that pokebowl's comment is a suboptimal way of getting that point across.
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Step #1 for making new friends: both people silent their phones and drop them on the table, face down
yes. there is a mental cost of doing management on development, and if you try to keep both, you'll consume yourself. and managers do get more respect, it's probably universal.
If you don't grok matrix manipulations (which are a very simple thing to understand: matrices are linear transformations and matrix multiplication is composition of linear transformations; for some reason this is only taught as a theorem, not as the first lesson in Linear Algebra), you're missing on a really great tool that helps us a lot in understanding almost every kind of large scale process precisely. Without this tool, we'd be back to the 18th century in math, physics, engineering, computer science...

It's pretty high up there in "list of things to learn if you're curious about the world". Of course, so are history, economics, etc'
For little things, it doesn't matter much what you do, and for bigger things I've moved to Luigi for background tasks.
> the best way to ensure you're working with cool technologies is to start your own company.

And, I would add, experience as a PM is very valuable when starting your own company. Project management and coordination are the sorts of skills that many people starting companies do not have and do not realize they need.
We'll find new works. In the 1800s ~70% of the workers were employed in agriculture. Someone noticing the progress of technology would have predicted just like you. (In fact Keynes did make a similar prediction.) It didn't come true because they failed to see the evolution of new jobs like programmer, animation designer, cinematographer etc. Why this time is different?
You're right. The idea that Berkeley, Stanford or Google's decision would be based on Trump's election is so plausible that I misread the question entirely.
Small correction: Trump is now keeping the most popular provisions of the ACA, such as no exclusions on pre existing conditions, after his discussion with Obama at the White House.

I see Trump as a necessary evil to shake up the establishment, and I believe he will be tempered as he adjusts to the gravity of the office (as he has already started to do).

What gets you into office is it what you say once in office.
I got more from his comment than yours, even with a steep "spam" penalty. Sometimes the sheriff is worse than the criminal.

Because my comment otherwise adds nothing, here is a random fact: the French courts of 17/18th century had to invent the first "a/c" because of their clothing. Air was wafted over blocks of ice to cool it down, then continued fanning to the court.

Fashion brought us A/C.
Who uses Facebook?
I worked at a hedge fund for 4 years, and these math questions are irrelevant to market structure.

Based on the challenge of most of these questions, I would hazard a guess and say only very recent grads would be able complete these. I'm 6 years out of Princeton, but I've forgotten how to do probably 90% of these questions.

Parts 3/4/5 require some pretty specific rules that are more rote memory than anything else.
that's a tiny subset of what Prolog can do
Without knowing more on the specific needs (I followed some of the threads to try to grok it), it would be hard to guess what they really need.

[commercial alert]

My company (Scalable Informatics) literally builds very high performance Ceph (and other) appliances, specifically for people with huge data flow/load/performance needs.

Relevant links via shortener:

Main site: http://scalableinformatics.com
(everything below is at that site under the FastPath->Unison tab)
http://bit.ly/1vp3hGd

Ceph appliance: http://bit.ly/1qiOYpy

Especially relevant given the numbers I saw on the benchmarking ...

Ceph appliance benchmark whitepaper: http://bit.ly/2fMahfJ

Our EC test was about 2x better than the Dell unit (and the Supermicro unit), and our Librados tests were even more significantly ahead.

Petabyte scale appliances: http://bit.ly/2fuTTAH

We've even got some very nice SSD and NVM units, the latter starting around $1USD/GB.

[end commercial alert]

I noticed the 10k RPM drives ... really, drop them and go with SSDs if possible. You won't regret it.

Someone suggested underprovisioned 850 EVO. Our strong recommendation is against this, based upon our experience with Ceph, distributed storage, and consumer SSDs. You will be sorry if you go that route, as you will lose journals/MDS or whatever you put on there.

Additionally, I saw a thread about using RAIDs underneath. Just ... don't. Ceph doesn't like this ... or better, won't be able to make as effective use of it. Use the raw devices.

Depending upon the IOP needs (multi-tenant/massive client systems usually devolve into a DDoS against your storage platforms anyway), we'd probably recommend a number of specific SSD variations at various levels.

The systems we build are generally for people doing large scale genomics and financial processing (think thousands of cores hitting storage over 40-100Gb networks, where latency matters, and sustained performance needs to always be high). We do this with disk, flash, and NVMe.

I am at landman _at_ the company name above with no spaces, and a dot com at that end .
> FastText(.zip) continues to be a weird project.

What is weird to you about the project? I haven't looked at the details, but the motivation seems pretty obviously to be able to run deep learning models on people's phones without seriously impacting UX.

Hell, even running a large vocabulary model on a server can be annoying when these models take ~10GB to just store the word vectors.
10 years (Trumps projected duration) should be sufficient runway to match infrastructure work required with labor. Remember, millions of Boomers, especially in the trades, are headed to retirement over the next decade.
I'm also in Denver and happy to meet up. My email is in my profile. (Anyone reading this is welcome to email me too.)
Brew beer. It is rewarding, (mostly) fun, non-trivial, and the result is surprisingly good.
If that solved the ethical dilemma, they'd make humans for that purpose.
James, check out Mercury next as it's a faster, better Prolog with some industrial use.

https://mercurylang.org
"We hope people who love %s will find comfort in the things others share to remember and celebrate %s life." is one of the most insincere code commits of that day. Let others write about a lost loved one, not robots.
Depends on age & a bunch of other specifics, which is why I added the qualification. There are myriad ways to organize families and, while I don't have kids (yet), I have good friends who agreed that they would always want to retain can identity as an individual, as a couple, and as a family. They bought a rather large house with two similar-minded couples and share such burden amongst six instead of two. It seems to be going quite well, with the children having input from a diverse set of adults (woodworking with x / literature with y...) while actually reducing the workload (cooking for 11 is less than 3 x cooking for 3).

(note I don't disapprove of the more common modes, just saying that I can indeed imagine such things).
Docker user? Haven't patched Dirty COW yet? Got bad news for you
To me, the intent in the movie was pretty obvious: specific polygonal clusters attached to the circle act something like radicals in kanji, but with even more components that can be built into a single 'word'.

Your complaint strikes me like complaining that kanji calligraphy (for example: https://i.imgur.com/wHdqJIF.jpg) obviously can't mean anything because it's just splashy ink marks.
While we can ask these interesting theoretical questions, we don't want to read all news from all sources. A little of it is real, serious, quality journalism; a bunch is middling; another large bunch is lies and propaganda; another bunch is bad for many other reasons.

There's no way to prove objectively which sources are better but we still have to make judgments. The judgment about Breitbart is not a difficult one.
Haha! A person who believes in free speech I am. An otherwise legal immigrant who wants to help his girlfriend paint a house for free, being discriminated against, exiled from a country for life and having his love with his lady being shattered because of unreasonable governments (such as my friend)? No way. Never happens. I'm kidding. I will always stick up for what I believe in, even when it makes my karma on HN go from 10 to -1. By the way, I'm going to strongly suggest that this person not "work" for free (there's no money involved, room and board are NOT money) in a foreign country like the United States, the freest country in the world and also the most incarcerated population in the world. I'm also saying that if he does, he should shut his mouth and not tell people on HN.
Why is that? I think I'm ready for a new language.
We never had issues and I never noticed a quality issue over Supermicro vs Dell's and HP's at Rackspace. There were firmware niggles and updates with both; we were always upgrading server, storage card, and storage controller firmware at the Rack. I'm not privy to studies at scales large enough to tell which is higher quality.

I'm not beholden to either though haha. If you can get Dell to come close to Supermicro prices then that might make sense. When I was last in the infrastructure game a few years ago we also ran into configuration limitations with Dell. At the time we could get more storage and RAM in the form factors we needed from Supermicro.
This! But for slightly different reasons.

Yes, you would probably find value in picking up coding skills. Foundational rather that practical as you're unlikely to deliver more value than someone who has dedicated 100% of their training and work experience to practical coding.

The new coding knowledge isn't going to be where you deliver value though. Most of the new value you create in yourself will be as "an experienced PM who also knows how to code", so start thinking about what kinds of opportunities might be a good fit for that future you. There will always be fewer people with your synergy of skills than there will be with experience in each individual skill domain you posses.
My favorites were Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb and Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
Drugs. Mostly illicit ones.
I'm the opposite. I have too many people in my life. I've been trying to go full hermit but somehow I always get pulled into stuff by friends/family. And I'm an introvert.
Yep, that's by far most recyclable item in the house. The usage balloons with various (mostly unpleasant) cases such as diapered baby, sick cat or just plain love for French cheeses. I guess it's far more enviromentally friendly to use an entire 13 gallon trash bag per each of those incidents.
Their Git hosting was also running on that same backend (I was on the team managing those products). But to a previous posters point That is a lot of work both to implement as well as to maintain. If you can just use a distributed filesystem you might save yourself some trouble.
I agree. I wrote a large comment about this over on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5cffew/wind_wa...
I know what you mean. Fond memories of days long gone, but only rare contact with old friends. I consume myself with work because I literally have nothing better to do. Both my parents died recently, this year and last. I miss them both immensely. And I've never been close with the rest of my family. Lonely times in these 30s. Lonely times indeed. I'm sorry for your lonely troubles too.
I don't think startups will come out and openly admit that they are finding it hard to hire. Thats really bad for their reputation and can sometimes be the difference between life and death for many startups.

Also, your question doesn't tell what your motive is other than just curiosity? Maybe adding that to the question might be helpful.
One of my best friends lives across the world in the southern hemisphere. Another lives across the Atlantic in Europe.

Some weeks we chat online almost every day. But sometimes we'll go 2-3 months without communicating at all. When we touch base again, the friendship seems as great as ever.

To me those are the best kind of friends :)
When someone on Facebook dies, you can memoralize their account. The check the determined whether or not an account is memoralized failed.
The Melbourne site is fantastic. Lot of useful data presented in the a very digestible manner. Haven't seen such info on any US ones so far. I have reached out to them to see if there is room for knowledge sharing.
Worked for 10 years. Long distance girlfriend and I wanted to close the gap but didn't want stay in NYC or PHL. So we came up with Option C: sell everything and travel the world for a year. 1.5 years later it's worked out pretty well.