skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And for the record, Boosted was one of my "that makes sense" products.
It takes more effort, but I look for local events that aren't far off and buy tickets to those.
Your interpretation is more charitable than mine. Well done!
While acadmeics would get fired for not teaching at all, they wouldn't get fired for very bad, poorly prepared teaching. And that leaves more time for research and grants, which is how you get promoted.
Went to check them out. Their houses are beautiful, but they truly are targeting the high end—double the price of a mid-tier-fixtures McMansion-build-quality house of similar size, at least around here. I'm also not sure how I'd get one of them built anywhere near the city here without buying a house in a no-HOA, low-home-value neighborhood and demolishing the house already on it, which'd be throwing away a ton of money on both the demo and putting such an expensive house in such a crap neighborhood. You could build one out in the country, but so much for being green (assuming you have a commute to the city).

Be nice if they could mainstream this style, but looks like they've got a ways to go.
On 2.

Yeah, 4 rejections is nothing really. Remember, even in Germany, companies are run mostly by very busy people that have bad moods and not enough sugar in their coffee when they review your application. They may have lost a contract and no longer have money for the job, they may be racist asshats or smug know-nothings, there are a billion legit reasons, and a trillion stupid ones. I know it seems so very personal to you to get rejected, but there are millions of jobs in Germany that you can do still and need someone to do them. You WILL find a job, and it may take a LONG time, but you'll be a lot happier and better off when you find the RIGHT job for you. A lot of it is luck, but if you keep applying, eventually you'll hit the jackpot. If it helps, I applied for 2000+ jobs in ~2009 before getting a single email back, and I found a job that I loved and was a good fit for. So, it does happen, even if it sucks right now.
The European Ruby Revolution
And American regulators tried to ban importation altogether. That's what this story is about.

Regulators & regulations aren't an unmitigated good. They can be better than their lack, or they can be worse.
http://nytimes.com/2007/01/07/magazine/07wwln_freak.t.html

>As for gift cards — well, let’s just say there is good reason that they are known within the retail industry as a stored-value product: they store their value very well, and often permanently. The financial-services research firm TowerGroup estimates that of the $80 billion spent on gift cards in 2006, roughly $8 billion will never be redeemed — “a bigger impact on consumers,” Tower notes, “than the combined total of both debit- and credit-card fraud.” A survey by Marketing Workshop Inc. found that only 30 percent of recipients use a gift card within a month of receiving it, while Consumer Reports estimates that 19 percent of the people who received a gift card in 2005 never used it.
I'm not buying it.

The house is already on fire, and people are wringing their hands because the new owner might have a can of lighter fluid in his pocket.
This is modern technology -- the most modern, since it was invented for this game. Global illumination this good is not something you can get off the shelf, to my knowledge.
World class - maybe, but they have certainly cut corners on their high speed regional network that has resulted in some horrific accidents (that go unreported in the rest of the world). Also, something of like this in the US would be an order of magnitude most expensive to build. The current NEC 'high-speed' plan is around $151 Billion (in 2012 dollars) which is only about a 450 mile run between Boston and DC. Planned to be completed by 2040 (if ever funded), the travel time would still be just over 3 hours to go the ~450 miles.
I think the only thing that most HPC sites use which wouldn't be found in cloud infrastructure is the interconnects and a parallel file system. Back in 2004 I guess HPC sites were often using PPC on AIX. That's just gone. It's almost all Linux on x86_64 now aside from some interesting machines in Japan and China.

So the distinction of "commodity" that Google made in the original map reduce paper in 2004 is gone. And the benefits of data locality are all but gone. The paper was great when it came out but it's long in the tooth since the hardware of today is different.

To answer your actual question, I've never heard of anyone running WRF on cloud infrastructure. It doesn't have to be a terrible idea. If you're trying to come up with a competing model then the agility you get might be needed. i.e. being able to roll onto new hardware as it becomes available instead of having to work with budget cycles for a hardware refresh lets you move from tesla k80 to titans whenever AWS decided to make them available.

Searching around, I see Glenn Lockwood did some benchmarks in 2013 with AWS:

https://glennklockwood.blogspot.be/2013/12/high-performance-...

This lot seem to have done some more benchmarking in 2014 (tldr 44% overhead on VMs - but take the time to read it since glockwood is always a good read):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301407792_Performan...

I think the prevailing issue is that latency on virtualized nodes is poor so you have to work around it. Maybe fat nodes with gpgpu can overcome the issues.

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"I used to be a lot better at clever algorithmic stuff. Now my focus is on clean maintainable code and getting the higher level architecture right, so that I don't need clever algorithmic stuff."

This.

'Clever' is BS.

There's way too much 'clever' going on in high tech, and way too many people interviewing for the wrong skills.

I used to be very clever as well, today, I don't think I could get a job at Google (not that I care) - but I think those interview styles are upside down.

These days I look at Eng. more like construction or plumbing: most of it is not rocket science, really. You don't want new or fancy anything unless you have to.

Good code should be boring and read like English. There should be nothing special about it, unless the problem space really calls for it.

The paradox is - simple code is not psychologically impressive, at least to some people.

I'm actually trying to develop an interview method that will allow me to measure this.

Clever is expensive, dangerous, and usually not worth it.

In fact - if you're trying to do something clever, it might be a sign that something is wrong. There is probably a library for that.

One caveat: it's good to have done a bunch of clever but not-so-useful things in the past, because when I use a library for something, I know what's going on - that's worth something.

Sometimes I feel that first 2 years in dev is basically 'training' - and I wonder if someone with < 2 years experience should even be writing production code.
Portland's paperless permitting software costs $8M, nothing to show
Malleability
Having a cost and having a "large, economy-wide negative impact" are very different things.
A moderately interesting startup idea.

If you like the outdoors you can get county / state / national parks annual passes. I enjoy and use the heck out of my park passes. They're fairly cheap (well, not the national). Of course people who hate the outdoors, well...

There are several food delivery services I've used with mixed results. "highly processed meat and cheeze like product in a box" are kinda weird. Fruit delivery is absurdly expensive but everyone loves it. Right out of a 00s sitcom I ordered my MiL the "fruit of the month club" and she enjoyed it. Food delivery is not cheap. I'll send my mom a crate of peaches every Christmas and its like $5 per peach. But they certainly are delicious. Junk food / candy delivery is cheap. Booze delivery impacts about a zillion weird state laws and the recipient sometimes has to sign and show ID and its a circus, also relatively few people seriously drink. If you can deliver it in person or illegally ship it yourself, a hundred dollar bottle of scotch lasts me about a year at my usual consumption rate, and at the usual markup a service would probably charge $500.

With the decline in public parks and public play there is a growth in private parks and private play and there's a local water park complete with water slides and all that, my kids love that especially nice and warm in the winter and usually doesn't cost that much. Grandma used to buy her grandkids an afternoon pass to the waterpark and it was always fun. Go directly to the park to buy a certificate there's no need for the middlemen. Likewise the local suburban mall hasn't had a video game arcade in maybe 30 years now but there's chuck e cheeze and D+B and stone fire pizza company and places like that.
A) I got my first full time paid job at age 41. Let me recommend the book "What color is your parachute?"

B) It sounds like you are having an identity crisis because you are nearly done with school. You know how to be a student. You don't know how to be an employee.

I went to college basically for that reason. I did the employee thing for over five years. I now do freelance work. I like it better.

Point being: you need money. That doesn't necessarily mean you need a job.

Best.
I'm not the author, but I assume they are referring to the amount of conditional branching needed to descend a standard octree. However I bet there is lots of active research into GPU-optimized spatial partition data structures.

The data structure in the article is different because it only stores high resolution data for the area near the player. An Octree handles arbitrary distributions of high resolution data, so it is more powerful than needed for this application. I like it when insights into the problem lead to simpler algorithms.
Bummer that your apology got downvoted, since this is a gracious response to being called out. Kudos. We've all been jerks on the internet — the key is learning how to curb that behavior, which it seems like you're doing pretty well.
Not really.

The code in question:

(apply + (range 1e7))

is just summing a bunch of numbers. That's it. It's very easy to optimize for the sake of benchmarks.

It's way too trivial to use for any kind of meaningful real-world comparison.
Apparently the math is complex (and proprietary). They claim they saturate a single core of an i5 processor with all of the math converting the timing signals for all of the devices to position. With the official kit, you don't do anything on the hardware side on your own with regards to figuring out position.
True for web software - but that's never been true for hardware. Hardware always starts expensive for early adopters and gets radically cheaper as adoption scales up. The cheapest Apple 2 was over $5,000 (in inflation-adjusted dollars) at its release, the IBM 5150 debuted four years later at a more competitive $4,000, and the monitor was separate in both releases.

Besides hardware, lots of the other current startups are offline services, that are taking something formerly for the super-rich and making it accessible to the upper-middle class (eg: a private driver, a personal chef, custom-tailored clothing, custom paintings). They may not be within budget for everyone but they are still following the trend of doing more with less.
Yes, it allows re-use.

Access-Control-Allow-Origin is in the static table, and so is Strict-Transport-Security. The rest go into the dynamic table [1], which would be beneficial if they don't change.

Most security headers are hardcodeable, while C-S-P is designed to be a function of the selected resource representation, not some site-wide global. But it's often used in such a way.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7541#section-2.4
This seems like a really significant issue. First, because "5 as median" isn't a universal grading scheme, and 50% is often failing. Second, because this poll didn't specify what the numbers mean.

The bounds of "programming ability" are basically undefined. Does 1, being the lowest, mean "cannot program"? Does 10, pain-scale style, mean "best programmer imaginable"?

Or do the numbers represent deciles of skill? If so, do they include everyone who has written code? Only people who have completed a substantive project? Only people who have been "programmers" in a non-hobby setting? Only in a non-hobby, non-academic setting? Only people taking this quiz?

And worse, it's a meta question. We aren't guessing what the survey meant here, we're guessing what the respondents thought it meant - which means that the skew may be totally accurate under their chosen boundaries! Keynesian beauty contest and all that.

So this is an interesting result, but I can't really use it as data about self-reported skill, only about interpretation of surveys.
>Not having credit cards? It's fairly common. Even Debit cards are not the sort of things you give to kids.

Must be a huge pain in the ass. With modern electronic only debit cards it's really easy to give your kids cards and makes managing money within the family so much easier.

Kid texts you after school and says they need $5 to go out with friends? Sure, pull up your phone app and instantly put $5 to their card. It's almost impossible to cleanly replicate this with cash.

>As for prepaid Visas, they're a relatively recent thing, and generally less known.

Sure, but at this point they're just as available as "normal" gift cards.
Also - some people are really, really strong in a specific paradigm - say Java + back-end, but have no other skills really.

But then - in their context, they wouldn't see knowing other languages as meaningful.

So it really depends on a whole lot of context.
Agreed. This strikes me as the kind of thing that requires a government solution. Perhaps it means we should get our hands dirty (but not in that way!) and enter politics. As nice as it would be to solve problems doing what I am already good at and what I already like to do, sometimes a hammer isn't enough...
I think the crux of the problem is: brilliant developers exist (and we tend to follow + see their work more often), but sub-mediocre developers also exist and are way more abundant. If you're looking at a pre-existing code base at work, it's more likely it was created and maintained by the latter rather than the former.

I follow great developers via social media/news and always tend to compare myself to them too much. That leaves me with the impression I'm a failure. But then I just have to go to a local tech meetup (in one of the biggest cities in the US no less) to be facing people with an appalling lack of knowledge, who like to discuss platitudes as if it's the second coming, and who really barely know what the hell they're doing and yet think they're the most clever people on earth. The feeling of wasted time is often an infuriating experience. Many times I've had to excuse myself during Q&A rounds after a presentation, given the outright ignorance displayed by people asking questions. Still, that's one experienced that serves to show me I'm probably doing something right.

I know I sound very negative and judgmental, so apologies. My point is, that's one thing I always recommend to people: go to local tech meetups. You can see how you "compare" there.
regulations are obviously costly, benefits are obviously great. the important hard question is the net.
> Human drivers can feel safe around other cars because of mutually assured destruction.

That's patently false. If that is true, nobody will walk around in Manhattan (several feet from speeding taxis), nobody will ride a motorcycle in highway, and the sight of an oncoming 18-wheeler in a rural two-lane road will send every sedan driver to the gutter.

Human drivers feel safe around other cars, even though driving is one of the most dangerous activity practiced by most people, because they've been doing it so long that they're desensitized to the danger.
Also, typically the tiny version of vim is installed by default.
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Engineering a safer snow jump
now do the second example with an unsigned type.
You also have the reverse problem which is alluded to in the article, that a Phone number for a non-traveller, is pretty static and unlikely to be changed by the user often. However Email is more disposable and I can spin up and shut down email accounts that I could register with Signal et., al. for what I believe to be sensitive communications.

I feel that providers that use number-as-identity know this and use it as a way of assuring they have greater confidence of knowing their user, especially after everyone failed so spectacularly at real names policies.
Yup. And that is a problem, isn't it? Because it shouldn't be that way. We should work to limit such influence, not just throw up our hands and say they're the same.
"What you fail to comprehend is that your contemptuous attitude is the very thing that isn't working anymore."

You must be kidding me. What do you think Trump himself was doing? He is the epitome of an obnoxious screaming asshole, and he won! His approach clearly works.

It's a pity that the Democrats didn't have an anti-Trump on their side. Maybe he could have been the kryptonite that cost Trump the election. As it was, the old polite, wet rag politics that Clinton represented was defeated. (That's not to say that I'd want an anti-Trump as President either, or that I like screaming assholess, as long as they're on the left, but a more confrontational, "tell it like it is" style is clearly what gets media attention and is attractive to a lot of voters.)

In the future, the left needs to be more outspoken and confrontational towards the right, not more compromising and conciliatory as Obama has been, because the latter only leads towards moving the party further to the right.

Instead, the Democrats need to further differentiate themselves from the Republicans, and move further to the left. Otherwise they're going to keep being seen as Republican-lite, and few are going to get excited enough to vote for them (rather merely than voting against an even worse Republican option).

Sadly, given how the Democrats have behaved in the past, it's more likely that as a response to losing to Trump, the Democrats are just going to move even further to the right, in an effort to capture the "independent" vote (who were right-wing enough to vote for Trump this time around) instead of trying to win over the many more people who didn't even bother to vote because they were disillusioned with both the Republicans and Democrats.
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> A parent is going to leave their 2 year old playing with a loaded gun

Perfect accidentally correct typo. You meant "NOT going to", but your intent was wrong:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/01/toddl...
Another example where gift cards may add to the experience is white elephant gift exchanges [1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant_gift_exchange
A large number of my sentences begin with "To be [adjective]" or "In all [noun]".

"To be fair" and "In all honesty" (and combinations thereof) come up quite a bit.
Designing and Testing a Constant Equivalent Fall Height Terrain Park Jump
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Techstack: Firebase+Ionic+Node+Elastic = Finestack
That's an idiotic conclusion.

How about teenagers who play with fireworks and die? Do we need to ban fireworks? Or do we just need parents to educate their children that fireworks are dangerous.
I wonder how an MRI would turn out in this scenario.
That doesn't work when it comes to states with even SYG laws.

Really??? Evidence, please, for I'm not aware of this being a serious problem, and this is one of my domains of semi-expertise. As in, nowadays with the changes in state laws I carry concealed almost every time I walk out the door, my state was not a SYG one, and wouldn't bother if that was futile. This of course includes when I go to public bathrooms.

As for "endangerment of the public", I've never heard of it being an issue when a gun was used responsibly and none but the perpetrators were seriously injured. But I have heard of the deaths of innocents being charged as felony murder, by the surviving perpetrators (it can, of course, go the other way, see that bit about responsibly).

Do you have any facts, any incidents to back these claims up, or do you have another reason to claim that effective self-defense is futile, even to the point where it's better to be carried by six instead of judged by twelve, to reverse the normal formulation of that saying?

And we're just going to have to agree to disagree on your last point, for I have been seriously studying war since the 1970s, and there are plenty of examples of ideological wars. Heck, on Hitler's part, WWII was not a war of necessity; yeah, he wanted more resources, but Germany was doing rather well as it was, and e.g. being cut off from British coal directly led to the invasion of the Soviet Union (let's invade Russia during the winter to take their food, what could possibly go wrong?; see The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy for the detail, if you can stomach them https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670038261/ Not finished, and not (yet) replaced after it was damaged by a tornado)). Nor, for that matter, was WWI primarily about that, although the resources of Alsace-Loraine were certainly an additional motivator. The French wanted revenge after they got skunked in the Franco-Prussian War, and they sure got their fill of it.

Heck, was Bush the son's 2nd Iraq War one of those? We didn't, you know, take their oil....
Stick to a TSeries and the touchpads/screens are pretty darn good nowadays, just feel nice. I haven't put linux on one since my T42 though (still probably my favorite ever..)
Awesome, thanks! I can sort of understand not wanting to maintain the SPDY code but I can see how that would be useful to CF to have. I'm a bit disappointed the chacha20 ones aren't making it in.

I'm curious about the Dynamic TLS records patch. Could you or someone else that understands what that's doing elaborate on what's going on?
I think this is a selection bias. In my experience most of the people attending meet ups are people trying to learn about the topic. They view it as a free class, way to network into a job using that technology, or something similar.
It bothers me how people don't understand (or don't believe in) the principles of law.

Law means that there are objective rules to behavior, which don't take into account positive intent, goal, or player.

That's why we have to put up with hate speech, so that not "politically correct" regular speech will be legal.

Same thing here.

If you don't want there to be a "truth committee" which clears all news before publication, you better hope that corporations have freedom of speech. If corporations don't have freedom of speech, then neither does the EFF, ACLU, or your posts on Facebook.
You see this usage commonly around parts of England, particularly among some of the northwestern dialects like Scouse.
>"hey, have some money...but you can only spend it at this one place of my choosing, not yours".

In some circumstances, that's actually an advantage, and works as a positive for the recipient.

When I was in college, money was tight. Had to be very careful with every dollar. When relatives would give me money for holidays, it would just go into the general fund and had to be treated with the same care as the rest of it. That money was certainly appreciated and made my life easier, but not a lot of fun was had with it.

But when I'd get gift cards to Amazon or Best Buy or Borders, suddenly it was a license to go crazy. To recklessly buy electronics, books, and luxuries I couldn't otherwise justify. It wasn't just a gift of money. It was a gift of money without worries attached.