skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you should do it. No one's an expert in these technologies yet, really, since they are moving so fast. There's a lot of room left. Excitement and meaning are much more important to long term happiness.
If I even remotely sneeze near a piece of GPLv3 code at work a team of lawyers gets restless.
Nvidia mentioned identifying humans, dogs, parked cars, trucks, street signs, street lights, etc better than a human.

On their todo list was identifying kinda of cars (like a police car), kinds of trucks (school bus and ambulance), and acting appropriately.

I've seen google mention responding to hand gestures from bicyclist. But also being exceedingly polite and repeatedly stopping as a track standing bicyclist rides slightly backwards and forwards.
By "contributor" you mean you are the main author, right? XD

Joking aside, we use Celery in production for asynchronous number crunching. We build a web UI in Django that raises Celery tasks that run long number crunching jobs. When the number crunching is done we look at the report through our Django web UI.

It works well enough, though we wish there were better built-in task management. E.g. A built-in API to reshuffle tasks (e.g. for I/O resource balancing) would be nice. celery purge also seems too drastic in purging every task in every queue. Or maybe we're just doing it wrong.
Any timeline? Also, what exactly are you doing? Seems like you have the money to go out and fly places, so why do you need a place to stay? Just asking.
It does suggest that perhaps the folks who were waving off the firefighters earlier don't make the best decisions.
Likely yet another "tearing" complaint, that i am starting to suspect has more to do with nvidia proprietary drivers than anything else...
Your math is off by 60x for AWS and 100x for GCE.

An m3.2xlarge is $.532/hr or $388/month, not $23k/month [1]. A similar instance on GCE (n1-standard-8) is $204/month with our sustained use discount, and then you need to add 160 GB of PD-SSD at another $27/month (so $231 total) [2].

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud, but this is just a factual response.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
[2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing
No. You only have one life.

Instead of something like a coding bootcamp, I've taken courses at the local university. Almost all universities (including Berkeley) allow non-enrolled students to enroll in 1 or 2 courses.
Absolutely. I was inspired by non transitive dice to create the problem.
If you're actually asking and interested in an opinion - I support Uber because it has absolutely been a net positive to my daily life. As a freelancer who has to hop around a bit during the week to meet with different clients, occasionally on short notice, being able to consistently get a ride from wherever I am to wherever I'm going is a very big deal.

More so, and this is potentially even more impactful, this experience doesn't change if I'm in Boston, or Melbourne ,or Shanghai. I don't need to research what the most reliable local cab company is, I don't need to worry if they're going to refuse me service because I only have a US mobile number, I don't even need to try and find a phone number - I just open the app and typically have a car in less than 10 minutes.

This is one thing that I feel often gets lost in discussions around Uber, is that it flattens the experience globally. I love this.
Yup, that's the gist people should be taking from it.

And it's pretty darn stomach-turning and creepy, any way you slice it.
Hmm, this reminded me of an empirical discovery I made: When walking with an open coffee cup at hand oscillating your hand vertically in random fashion greatly reduces the coffee resonance and the sloshing effect.

This problem has been investigated before (http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/05/physics-spilled-coffe...) but AFAIK the above solution has not been proposed. I wonder if the theorem given can help motivate this finding?
Red Pitaya: Open Source Multi-Measurement Solution
Have you thought about picking up any hobbies? Six months would give you plenty of time to learn a hobby and really get into it; you have enough time to try a few. It might be nice to think back on your sabbatical while doing your new hobby in the future.
I think the advantage with tools like celery is that it deals with the many different failure scenarios pretty well.

It's kind of like jQuery's ajax. Of course you can figure out how to make a simple replacement. But then you have to manage the 100 different edge cases for when your code doesn't go down the happy path.

Much easier to write a simple task queue that's good enough than a replacement for $.ajax, though...
And various people with a strong voice within Gnome development would love to extensions dead and buried, as they mess up the UX and brand of Gnome...
Does your runtime still barf JVM stack traces?
(attr.: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42&cpage=2#comment-16767)

Leaving this aside (after all, it might or might not be a matter of taste), it totally is. The Common Lisp ecosystem is pretty well alive, despite of the rise of Racket and Clojure. You should really give it a try one day. :-)
Yea - Prolog is super neat and gets you thinking a very different way. It was my first real introduction so took a bit of time getting used to thinking the "Prolog" way.
For the saas business I run, Cronitor, aws costs have consistently stayed around 10% total MRR. I think there are a lot of small and medium sized businesses who realize a similar level of economic utility.

Edit: I do see in another comment you concede the value of the cloud for ppl spending under $10k a month.
10 of the Most Widely Believed Myths in Psychology
Spoiled Americans now want to flee what they created
I am aware of that. I often use the trick to register multiple times on the same website. Also, you can use (+) to create unlimited siblings of your gmail address. Helpful to keep track of spams.
I would not rely on extensions for fixing the mistakes of the Gnome UX wankers, as given half a chance they would scuttle the whole extension system once and for all.
Saying "It's intuitive to me that this answer someone worked out and told me is correct" is cheating.

But generally...

The process is something like:

If you choose 0.5, then 0.625 beats you because that is the expected average of someone redrawing below 0.5.
If you choose 0.625, then 0.617[2] beats you because that is the expected average of someone redrawing below 0.625.
If you choose 0.618, then 0.6182 beats you...

Lets ignore those numbers for a moment and focus on the process: "Given a number to redraw below, redraw below the expected value of redrawing below that number".

Trying to find a fixed point for this kind of process, the golden ratio has some kind of... mythological fit? Like, I've heard so many stories like this that ended up with a formula involving the golden ratio...

I wouldn't necessarily expect the answer to be phi, but I would so not be surprised to find it to be some formula involving phi, a rational factor, and maybe pi (just because I have absolutely no intuition for which series happen to sum to rational factors of pi).

[2] I'm getting these numbers by simulation, it's too late for me here in Israel to do math
Fellow HBSer, thanks for your input super helpful!
or don't, because .pl is _also_ prolog and if you use something SWI Prolog, which is a windows executable, chances that you're still also using perl are preeeetty small.
The whole point is about visiting places I never been to before (or some that I loved and want to go back like DC, Miami, etc) and getting to know local entrepreneurs there.

This would be sometime next month. I'm scheduling my trip now because the amount of offers I've received it's pretty great. Drop me a line and let's chat.
He is not planning to help "for free", he is planning to help in return for compensation which in this case will be "room and board". And I was asking the original question because not everyone who comes to the US on a tourist visa understands that this is not allowed and if something goes wrong this situation might turn ugly for him. If your suggestion is "break the law just be quiet about it" then I will just say that I don't recommend doing that.
Are there any projects you've always wanted to accomplish but thought you'd never have the time?
Yes, it does. But you might see that this does not just list new KiTTY updates but anything that happens on that website; which is not exactly handy, is it?
It was never enabled in any of the Apple-owned ports of WebKit, IIRC it was enabled in the GTK and Qt ports, but I could be wrong there. So Apple killing it isn't really true—they're just deleting code that was already gone at compile-time for them.
>If you need an answer urgently ("urgent" defined as one of two things: it's an emergency, or the information you are lacking is a blocker for what you are currently working on), either pick up the phone and call the other party or send them an IM, instead of emailing them.

I have a rule for my coworkers: I'm not available on IM. Either email me (if not urgent) or call (if urgent). IM is the worst of both worlds, where people can contact you instantly, expect instant responses, and not feel bad about not responding to your response.

With a phone call, they cannot call me, and then stop talking in the middle of a conversation. With IM, they can.

(Of course, I still use IM to communicate stuff like URLs, etc when on the phone).

> We treat all emails as high importance, and you can feel assured that your email will be read within 4 hours max (see below).

If they need me to respond within 4 hours, they should call me.
But charging tax on 20% is trickle, and letting 80% go off is like penny wise, pound foolish. :-)
That isn't true; a git repository isn't just a single file. It is one (or many) pack and object files, and it's possible to have a repository by using each push (which may be multiple commits) to store a new pack file rather than deleting the old one.

The only time you would need to delete/replace is during a GC operation which can be scheduled periodically to compact the representation.

The JGit driver supports pushing to S3 in this way, and I have implemented a custom backend to hosting git repositories in an S3 like service (which in turn is based on how Google hosts git repositories at scale)
Trying to be careful with "political opinion" is almost antithetical to the point of the video. Let the medium speak for itself.
It can't log in for you, sorry. :-) But it should be able to process publicly visible contents.
I am about to embark on a 1.5 month sabbatical - not quite as long as you (I'm jealous!), but here's how I prepared it - perhaps it'll give you ideas.

Over the past few months, I've been keeping a list of things I'd want to focus on. Ultimately, I decided to trim this list to 5 things, because I don't think one can focus on more than 5 things at once. Here they are for me (unranked, equal importance to all):

- Working on my Japanese (I'll be in Japan)

- film photography

- sketching/drawing/painting

- reading

- programming

For the last two items, I've been keeping a list of books to read, and topics to investigate/projects to work on over the past few months as well. Then I trimmed theses lists to end with 1 book per week to read and 1 programming project per week to work on.

Of course, I'm likely to deviate from it, but having these lists and priorities as my guiding star will be helpful.

If I were to do this for 6 months, instead of 1.5 months, I'd probably break it down in 1 month chunks, with varying priorities per month, and a bit of loose time in between said chunks to account for unexpected things/rabbitholes to go down.

I also have a 5 day mountain hiking trip in the middle of it all, because in my experience there's nothing better for your brain than disconnecting absolutely from reality, and centering your days only around walking/eating/sleeping/looking at beautiful landscapes.
If this is B1 visa you are talking about, then it does not allow you to exchange your services for compensation.
The only B1 traveling purpose that might fit you, in theory, is "training" where you are reimbursed for your living expenses, so you might look into that.

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/BusinessVisa%20Pu...
I think that was the point of the video and was my perspective all along, it's just you learn how little parts are connected...not by intention but by coincidence.
Physically delivered, no matter customer location? Sign me up ;).
So some people have to play the game on hard-mode. No reason to just give up. Find a way to make it happen and try to have some fun in the process.
I don't believe anyone who says management is becoming less important. If anything it's good management that is becoming vastly more important. Like software engineering, software engineering management is evolving.
The linked article contains exactly this information, though. Figure 1 showed the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve, which they called something else, but it's the standard way of discussing this. It plots the classifier's true positive rate versus the false positive rate at various settings thusly: the y-axis plots the "sensitivity", which is the true positive rate. The x-axis plots the "specificity", which is equal to (1 - false positive rate)... but because everyone is thinking of the false positive rate anyway, you'll notice that the specificity goes from 1 to 0.

Incidentally, these are plotted as a curve because it's trivial to build a classifier with a 100% true positive rate (call them all suicidal) or a 0% false positive rate (call none of them suicidal), but just how "good" your model / algorithm is is a function of how it performs with both.
Google:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
could you add me as well? mattjohnsen@protonmail.com
Ask HN: What does Trump mean to a prospective foreign masters student?
Hi, I'm currently in my junior year and I'm planning on joining a masters program in the US (at a reputed university like Stanford, Berkeley, ...) after my undergraduate.

With Trump being elected, I'm confused as to how this affects my chance of getting a selected and then eventually getting a job at a big company like Google.

From what I've seen, the supposed crackdown on H1B visas does not only apply to highly-skilled workers (like the IT industry). Would I qualify as a highly skilled worker if I graduate with a masters at a top school and work as a software engineer? (not IT)
In the military I was in a variety of life threatening situations (both forward deployed and in garrison), and I was quite happy. The most interesting realization came when in water training, where there were times I honestly felt like I was in mortal danger. I was ok with it and still enjoyed life. Eh, maybe I'm a weird one though, I always found humor in it.
A huge number of traffic deaths are due to alcohol. An autonomous system that's as safe as a sober human would improve safety by a factor of 2 or 3. Many of the other deaths are due to distraction, inattention, or slow reaction times. Get rid of those and you can probably see an order of magnitude improvement with something that is nominally "no better than a human driver."
Hobbies and skill building are the way to go. I just finished a 12-month sabbatical during which I learned scuba, sailing, skiing, surfing, and the R programming language. I also read 40 non-fiction books.

Just lying on the beach gets boring.
Quite a few choices in that table there. Can anybody more familiar with this space comment on which are the front-runners?
>If they are "doubling down on open source", maybe they could get open source Darwin working again?

Why? Without the UI and OS X GUI programs it's not something many would care to run as opposed to Linux or FreeBSD, and most haven't.
This is a different control mechanism but it's still a cool video :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyN-CRNrb3E
- Learn a new skill/craft. If you are in tech, maybe something more physical, cooking, woodworking,etc. Six months is a good amount of time to build a base.

- Learn a foreign language, again 6 months is a perfect amount of time. Highly rewarding.

- Work on holes in knowledge, build a self-course around it. Algorithms, dbs, whatever.

- Pickup an new programming language.

- Build a side project, doesn't have to be commercially viable, could be open source or not. Build a redis replacement for no other reason than to understand it.

- Travel. I understand the constraint of wife/kids, but there are ways to fit it in. Don't have to live in Southeast Asia, but travel, I feel is a great brain boost. Awesome rush of new.
>I feel like instant messaging bridges a lot of the chasm between an email and a phone call. It is immediate, but it does not interrupt as badly as a phonecall.

I wrote a comment elsewhere, but for me, IM is worse than both. It grabs your attention as immediately as a phone call, but the one who initiates it can leave you hanging wasting more time than a phone call would.

If someone called me and started talking to me and then just stopped (without hanging up), that would be a no-no in most places. Yet this is acceptable behavior in IM.

If you are using IM and working on something while busily responding to IM's, you are multitasking, which is what I want to avoid. If you need it within a few hours, call me and let me know. Otherwise email me and I'll get to it at some point (usually the same day).
Tesla's future in Trump's world
If you like open processes like that then you might like following the work of Wikimedia's Technical Operations team. [1]

You won't find any organization that's much more open than Wikimedia.

Disclosure: I work for Wikimedia (on the release engineering team)

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/operations/
>Because only Apple knows best about their hardware and there's a market for that.

Apparently it's a market that has never heard of the notion "opportunity cost".
What a bizarre rant.

I'm not sure what I find more absurd about your comment: it's either the fact that you think of yourself as some sort of self-appointed immigrant savior, or the cognitive dissonance you display when it comes to your political beliefs.
Also recommended: Primer commentary track. Run it beside the movie, and it'll drop in to explain things as they happen.

https://qntm.org/commentary
Next week marks two months since Sierra's public release but there's been no commensurate release of any open source[1].

[1] https://opensource.apple.com/ 10.11.6 is latest macOS release at the time of writing.
The easiest way to do it is to create a .asd for your project and then symlink or copy your project into ~/quicklisp/local-projects (i.e. the folder "local-projects" in the same directory as setup.lisp). Then, either run (ql:register-local-projects) or restart lisp and then do (ql:quickload :my-project) to load it.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Hacker News allow comments on job postings?
Part of me understands them wanting to protect companies from the negativity. The other part of me feels like it is stifling transparency and conversation that can potentially be helpful to the startups posting these jobs.

Is there any job board or aggregator that allows comments on job postings?
I hesitate to call folks who do this "professional", but yes. I have also worked around people who blindly resolve all conflicts with their version and then comment out the failing tests.
I wouldn't say no distributed object storage system is particularly tuned for that. Facebook's haystack and systems patterned after it can work very well for tiny files.
Plenty of Xooglers want "just give me direct access to Colossus". But priority-wise, the market seems to want:

1. "Give me a block device I can boot off of, mount, and run anything I want to from a single VM" (PD, which is just built on Colossus)

2. "Give me NFS".

3. "Give me massive I/O" (GCS)

I think we're doing fine-ish in 1 and 3. The main competition is a dense pile of drives in a box for Hadoop, but we lean on GCS for that via our HDFS connector (https://cloud.google.com/hadoop/google-cloud-storage-connect...). It's our recommended setup, the default for Dataproc, and honestly better in many ways than running in a single Colossus cell (you get failover in case of a zonal outage, and by the same token you can have lots of users simultaneously running Hadoop or other processing jobs in different zones).

PS - I'm going to go searching for your whitepaper (I find in arguing with folks that network is the bottleneck for something like a NetApp box, not CPUs).

[Edit: Newlines between lists... always forgetting the newlines]
I think that's an overly narrow definition of the term antifragility and interpretation of the system in this case.

While I can imagine software that is in itself antifragile, I think it's entirely reasonable to include the totality of the people and process that make up an operational system, in which case even your narrow definition applies here.
Judgement is subtractive. We are only as wise as our weakest deductive link.
Impossible to say. It all depends what Trump does or doesn't do. There's a significant chance that nothing much will change.
Interesting, I am currently in the process of setting one up here in Singapore. Could you give me more information about staffing (FTE devs, PM's, Mentor's, etc). How long is the process from Ideation to Innovation Lab?
What a great person you are, liberator of the downtrodden immigrant! A divinely ordained role one must assume.
>I have an MBA from a top 3 school and have a high-paying job as a PM at a top 3 tech company. But I don't feel like I am building tangible skills as a PM, it is more about project management and coordinating.

And how are those not tangible?
Right, I understand. But what are his proposed policies? How would they affect me? Sorry, I haven't been able to follow the elections fully (I haven't been able to completely escape it either :D)
Consistent, frequent, long, unstructured thinking time. Enjoy listening to your thoughts.
I think it is the perfect choice to start as a beginner. I too second this.
May I note there is one drug that is relatively safe from addiction and unhealthy side-effects, and it is good that since last Tuesday, it is becoming legal in more places.
Reminds one a bit of those Facebook memes saying that messy handwriting is a sign of higher intelligence...
"people of all descriptions could enjoy a shift away from how hetero romances dominate mainstream storytelling"

I wouldn't ever expect this to happen. The super majority are heterosexual and gravitate to the relateable and familiar. Nothing short of everyone turning homosexual will change this fact.
That's exactly what I did and I appreciated it SO much. I think taking a break from everything is healthy.
Could use a 2014 in the title
Just curious, can you share your role/organization and the people you typically pass and the people you typically fail in your interviews?
Slavoj Žižek on Clinton, Trump, and the Left's Dilemma
Hmm, that makes "just clone the repository and you're done" rather hard. I'll reconsider...

I added the list of packages to the README and I'll think about a good way to use ASDF without QL and/or usability loss later. Thank you though!
How about consultancy work? That's what I did in US with B-1, and specificially I talked to border officer about this being legal.
>>If three months is enough time to train someone for a $110k job

Most fail the training, it's a necessary but not sufficient condition.
Agreed. But even a single purchase is likely to be below list price.