skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Summering/Wintering is more of an East Coast thing where there is crappy weather during those seasons. Northern California has never had to have that tradition for itself, where people are more likely to have a "cabin," or vacation house.
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Oh, all of AWS is terribly not-intuitive to use. Just creating an EC2 instance is amazingly complicated.
I think you're being rather uncharitable to the GP. Essentially no host, managed or unmanaged, has a 1 engineer:1 customer ratio.

Most of the big names in DDoS protection, looking only at enterprise tier support, have tens of clients per network support tech minimum.
It's like PageRank but for product reviews. Can I help you work on this?!
journalists tend to pride being "good at everything, great at nothing." unfortunately it's tough to scale expertise when the domains are so specialized. i'd speculate this is expemplified by all the "ai" we keep hearing about lately which is probably just vanilla machine learning algos at work
No communication networks -- people in underserved areas are crying out for fiber or anything better than DSL. It's not clear anybody really wants more electric lines or pipelines but very clear that people want better internet.
Hmm, I am might make that actually. That sounds like a fun project.
Yea when you are single you can do this type of things. Try getting a wife, kids, carseats, toys, groceries into public transport or some Uber.
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"Silently fail with no warnings" is like the angular motto... At least in Angular 1 if something failed usually angular would just show an empty string on the screen.

Debugging is just a cold dark hell where very very few resources can help you find what went wrong, you basically just need to litter everything with console logs (Except the template html syntax, which you can't just write JS log statements in since... it's not javascript, its it's own language.

I've become much more productive and comfortable in all the JS vdom frameworks which have no template language, just javascript.
That guy is very well known to people who frequent sites like http://marketurbanism.com/

He's very much in favor of sprawl, and anti-density, despite lots of good evidence that markets would provide plenty of density if left to themselves.
I think that the Model X is super ugly. The Model S is fine -- not a terribly attractive overall appearance, but nothing offensive, and the sleek details are nice. But the Model X looks like a Model S had a tumor. More traditional SUV styling would make it considerably more attractive (although I'm sure its drag profile would be considerably worse).
There's a lot of mystique and prestige around the idea of compilers. It doesn't help that parsing is a fairly untidy, complex process. You're definitely right in trying to present the overall functions in a much, much simpler way.

My personal recommendation in this field is nanopass compiler architecture. It's a more manageable approach to the task of implementing a compiler, through the use of lots of incremental passes rather than a few heroic ones.

http://andykeep.com/pubs/np-preprint.pdf

NB "When a paper on the first nanopass framework was accepted for ICFP 2004, however, the program committee required the authors to refocus the paper on education because they did not believe the nanopass methodology was suitable for commercial compilers. They were principally concerned with the compile-time overhead of repeated traversals. This concern was impossible to refute at the time because the prototype infrastructure and implementation were not mature enough to put to the test."
> Maybe once you retire you just stay the class you were before you retired?

That's how I've always heard it, for what it's worth. The middle class, including the upper middle class, earns salaries; the upper class pays them.
Surprisingly devoid of information.
ML Experiments at Sift Science, Part 1: Minimizing Bias
"Oracle says [claims of Solaris being canned] flat out wrong."

https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/804451784324366336
CloudForest

Ensembles of decision trees (boosted, bagged) in golang. It's a project I started as a research platform and it has some great features not found elsewhere and good computational performance. There are also a couple of companies using it in production and some researchers using it in computational genetics.

https://github.com/ryanbressler/CloudForest

BSD-3-clause

This month:

I'm just starting development again after a bit of a hyatus. This month my main goal is to do some basic maintenance and work with some people who've forked it to bring features and bug fixes back into main.

Then I want to duplicate some xgboost like features including parallelism that will work with boosting and 2nd order gradient boosting (using the hessian instead of just the gradient).

And i'd like to to utilize go's newish shared object support to make it callable from python and R.

Skills Needed: go programmers confident in writing low level machine learning style code or python/R/etc programmers interested in maintaining a wrapper. Data scientists interested in using it and providing feedback on performance.

Onboarding:
I just set up a google group where people can introduce themselves: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cloudforest-dev

I'll work on cleaning out the issue tracker and prioritizing things so people can pick them up if they want.
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The port of Pittsburg is teensy and the port of Stockton is specialized. Container traffic at Oakland is pretty heavy and many cars are offloaded at Vallejo. There are also the oil terminals at Richmond and elsewhere.
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This is a little funny, because I haven't spun up a new server in years with a password. They've all had my public keys from the get-go.
HTTP vs. HTTPS Speed Test – HTTPS Version Significantly Faster
Haha, I know...
Congrats Ted and team! On-boarding is an important part of building successful teams and I'm looking forward to seeing what y'all come up with.
What, clone aws and offer better support?

I feel like you're trying to mock him for being so self evidently wrong that it's (apparently) funny, but I don't see it. How does criticism of a support model lead to "then you do it"?

Or are you implying something else? That's what I hate about these coy between-the-lines replies in chat forums. It's not obvious and I don't know what to reply to! Just say what's on your mind, don't play games. Give the rest of us a chance to reply to something.

/rant, sorry :)
> Poor and working class people have truly busy lives compared to professionals. We should all remember that.

Except it's not true. The poor and working class have a lot more financial stress and less power to change.

That doesn't make them busier or mean they work harder.
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German here and no offense taken, but: What are your grounds for assuming that it is a nation's work ethos that is keeping companies from innovating? How is a multinational's German work ethos keeping it's Indian or US-American employees from innovating? Why aren't German Ford-Workers failing in Germany because of their american work ethos?

It is a rather cajoling prejudice. But in my experience of working in big multinational companies (DAX or DJI enterprises) change isn't prohibited by management's guilt or a society's taboo of layoffs. Instead it's the sheer number of employees, responsibilities and added layers of business-structure.

What's adding to the complexity of business structure is that with every country it operates in, new regulations and country specifics are to be dealt with. No new merger or acquisition will result in equilibrium of efficiency. You may have to - out of the most ridiculous reasons - work with a team that's located in another company, city or time-zone - or complete different culture, which means more overhead.

I think this work ethos cliche stems from a misconception. Yes, in Japan as in Germany old employees are guarded like infants. But that's often due to the old contracts that they got [1]. Those were granted seldomly since. Instead most of these companies (or rather their work pipelines) are filled with temp staff, external contractors and suppliers. There is no "ethos" protecting those people from being fired immediately.

[1] Contracts of war-torn countries. Contracts of countries that just years before believed that they would rule the world and now had to beg for glimpses of sovereignty. Rebuilding the economy was more than about jobs. It was about the gaining back sovereignty. That's why firing those 50 year olds is more expensive than keeping them. And thats why the companies at the same time try to dodge the necessity of having to employ someone just because some external market demand.
Small hedge fund manager throws shade at Musk, says Tesla stock is going to zero
They charge a fee 2-4% higher than a real estate broker? I understand that is typically 6%, so do these guys charge 8-10%? What's the motivation to sell my home to these guys?
More likely road food places will simply add charging stations. Also possible someone will make a business washing peoples windows in the parking lot.
This, I think, is a common problem with library writing in general, and doubly so for Javascript. Ember tries, but it's still remarkably easy to get a cryptic error from it.

The ergonomics for using libraries needs to improve a great deal. I have my fingers crossed that this will be something most people have on their radar soon, but I'm not holding my breath.
> build a little hut around his cube using cardboard boxes that he'd glued together.

Like this => https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/bc/17/61/bc17615c9...
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A gentle introduction to programming networked services on linux
The health insurance industry is heavily regulated. Typically regulation begets more regulation, it's conceivable that they've limited insurance cos in such a way that the inducement restriction for brokers makes sense.

You definitely want insurance companies competing on price, but you may not want insurance brokers arbitrarily giving out rebates.

Imagine (and this is totally made up) that the insurance companies give brokers higher commissions at higher volumes; if that were the case, and brokers could give rebates, there are times a broker would push one insurance company's plan over another's simply to hit a sales incentive. That's probably not good for the people buying insurance. Part of the broker's job is to give good advice.
Eir’s D1000 Modem Is Wide Open to Being Hacked
I'm glad you clarified this, because I was confused by it. For anyone questioning AV, I'd recommend talking to someone who's worked in a service provider. That being, managing:

-Businesses that are not overly technical. Specifically, it's easy to work in a technical environment where users know better and provide an artificial shielding
-Inheriting AV solutions, and therefore working with 5-6 different vendors at any one time. It's not a matter of "get a better product"
-Businesses that consider themselves too small to implement good policies, or force users to tolerate lockdowns in any way

Anyone in that position will talk about seeing cryptolocker having walked right past well managed AV products, not just once or twice, but weekly, for the past few years.

They will also have horror stories about outages caused by AV themselves.

I have a hard time with anyone claiming to AV is an effective requirement beyond politics and insurance policies.
If he was using Amazon Prime cardboard boxes, then yes :)
PlentyOfFish is probably one of the biggest when it was run by its founder.
Another example:

> Essentially, a WMF file stores a list of function calls that have to be issued to the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) layer to display an image on screen. Since some GDI functions accept pointers to callback functions for error handling, a WMF file may erroneously include executable code.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile
I wasn't trying to say all factors apply equally to all people.

Some factors are completely negligible for some users. For example, individuals coming from a high income bracket rarely face significant legal costs due to their drug use. However, the story is much different for those from lower income brackets. None of the people I know that use drugs have faced any legal problems, but people are detained for carrying drugs. Just because I'm not witness to it, does not mean that cost does not exist for some non-negligible part of the population.

In another vein, for some people the legal repercussions are an issue due to their personalities or circumstances (drug testing at work).

I was merely saying that you could want the drugs, but there are still some strong forces (that pull on people differently) that make this decision far from frictionless.
> even in the UK averaging 110 mph is quite common

The UK provides open-data reports about traffic flow for different road types [1].

The UK speed limit for motorways is 70mph. 46% of traffic exceed that (in free-flow traffic conditions), but only 11% exceed 80mph, and just 1% exceed 90mph, so I wouldn't describe 110mph as "quite common".

1. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/spe01-ve...
Seems pretty nice. A few things I'd like to see:

1. We should be able to configure this for a few/all branches (including PRs) and have conditional build tasks based on branch.

2. We need be able to access resources inside a VPC.

3. Turnkey chat integrations would be nice, but it's not a big deal to just curl.

4. We need a way to execute actions on failure.
kind of already exists: https://www.buycott.com/
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Nah! These rankings are very very deceptive.

These rankings are based on political borders of the cities and not the commonly perceived notions of what is a city. Honestly for me entire SF to San Jose belt must be considered as one single city to compare it with something like L.A.
That is just me saying though. I might be compeltely off on this because I have never been to NY, Chi, Phili, etc.
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/TR069+NewNTPServer+Exploit...

https://securelist.com/blog/incidents/76791/new-wave-of-mira...

https://badcyber.com/new-mirai-attack-vector-bot-exploits-a-...

https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/new-mirai-variant-involved-...

http://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2016-ALE-009/index.h...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/01/hull_router_attack/
I used this job search process to land a 6-figure job as a Newbie Dev
Wait, are you talking about browsers or AV now :D
Depends on the teacher. For sure, I had no access or control of his memory functions :)
First real evidence of a strange quantum distortion in empty space
Yasha Levine also wrote an interesting article on this: https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/on-russia-hacking-americ...
I am not sure why we need anything but the last one. You should be able to do that with k8s
That's the part where its a misapplication. These are fundamentally websites we're talking about, not steel mills. The barriers to entry, especially for competitors operating in other states, are incredibly low.

No new roads, no new ports, no mineral leases, etc.
I don't know what the situation is now but a few years ago I couldn't get DSL (too many feet) while I watched them bury fiber about 2.5 miles away (the fiber was adding capacity to the nearby town). So at such a grand scale, a fiber map probably wouldn't really show many of the under-served areas.

I was using 3g, I bet 4g is currently the best option.
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Well technically it could take a second or a decade to make. It's up to chance.

We should be greateful the research team didn't decide to stop at the 3 month, 29 day mark.
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Absolutely. In fact I've developed some Python programs for my own firm that have really sped up our productivity. It's actually led my to leaving civil engineering and going for my masters in CS soon! I hope one day I can make some wide changes in the industry but the market for it is quite small.

The issue with technology in municipal governments is with budgeting and the "It works, why do we need to change it?" mentality. Governments will still insist on things sent in formats that were modern 20 years ago, why should I have to send 5 paper copies by mail to the DEP or mail a CD?

The civil engineering industry as a whole is still very paper based as well. Paper copies are signed and sealed by hand and sent in copies out to clients/bidders. Having to spend time printing everything gets extremely time and resource consuming. The argument for this style though is that some projects have a big public liability and records must be kept.

There are pushes in the right direction, but change is slow and many don't see the incentive of upending entire systems even though they can provide a real benefit.
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QGIS is amazing to be frank. I'm glad it's working out for you guys!
No, Clifford is cliffordvienna on HN. He wrote Yosys (and amazing piece of software) and did the iCE40 reverse engineering (amazing work). I wrote the place and router, arachne-pnr.
The wikpedia list of Primary Statistical Areas is pretty useful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_primary_statistical_ar...
People.ai (YC16) is hiring engineers to make management decisions based on data
The solution is to penalize the offenders, in a nice way.

I interned at Goldman Sachs on an FX trading floor (very open plan). We had an Interrupter Jar. Everytime someone interupted another person, the interrupter was required to put 20$ (yes 20$, it's chump change for FX Traders) into it. When it filled up, we'd go out and buy beers for the entire team.

It worked quite well until we had a fratboy from Boston College. He would interrupt me just so he can fill up the jar and we go drinking.
Moving Toward SSL
Lots of acquisition announcements today. 'Tis the season.
I certainly don't believe you are trolling at all (I wasn't the one to say that upstream, and if I came across as insinuating that I apologize).

And yes, you are certainly open to your opinions - I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree : )
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What do they actually do/make?
Neural Network-Based Automatic Image Colorization
24/7 Business support starts at $100/month and includes phone support.

We have Enterprise level support which starts at $15,000/month and is very comprehensive. Then again we also have 90k employees.

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There is a link to a bad URL in this comment thread: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
http://hn.premii.com/#/comments/12957371

I'm still getting clicks on it and I think people then give up on my site. I actually don't allow people to get weird URLs anymore.

Can I get this removed?
Why not simply implement the policy: Only say a word while in the open office if it is an emergency that is a matter of life and death (say fire).
Whoever violates this policy must put a significant amount of money into the kitty for each violation (say, 50 €/$ per violation - it really should not be cheap). This should reduce the noise problem by a lot.
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Some of this seems to be designed for US style graft which is not handing people bags of money, but exchanges of favors.