skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. I think most often then not, you need to withhold the inferior alternative, or be very careful in how you presented it. If you downplay the risks, or you don't emphasize them enough one way or another, it will still end up being your fault, even in writing.

Trade offs that are business related can be delegated and should be delegated to the business to make. But saying something like: "if we do A, it could make us vulnerable to X,Y,Z technical problems, but would allow you to have what your business needs 7 days early" can be dangerous, because it assumes the business stakeholders truly understands the dangers of technical issues X,Y and Z, which they almost always do not.

As an engineer, you should advise the business towards the proper way to do things, and you are responsible to make sure your advice is clear and loud. It is sometimes appropriate to suggest the less ideal scenario, but if you do, be ready to assume full responsibility and ownership on it.

You should never have an advice that goes like: "Yes we can do it, but it'll cause other problems." and expect for these other problems to not be your responsibility to fix and mitigate as they appear. The implicit of all your suggestions is always: "I can make this work." So better be sure whatever you suggest you can actually have it work.
> No one says Belarus is the only place to run experiments on

So you're now saying China's firewall is also a Russian experiment?
Report: US Galaxy Note 7s will finally be disabled via OTA update
I feel like the title lacks the "[video]" tag. Unless I've missed the text version somewhere on that page.
A random idea: that mechanism reminds me of phantom limb pain. I wonder if there could be a treatment analogous to mirror therapy, at least for monaural tinnitus.

Searching just now turns up http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2010/01/11/tinnitus_the_ea/ and http://www.therasmusforum.com/tinnitus-type-is-similar-to-ph...
My biggest issue with DuckDuck go is that it has very limited time search.

When programming I restrict most of my searches to 1 year since in most cases it makes sense. DuckDuck go doesn't allow this.
I don't go to concerts often but when I do, I tend to bring foam earplugs: partly to protect my hearing, partly because otherwise the music is usually subjectively painfully loud. Sometimes when I haven't brought them I make do with tissue.

Problem is, even without earplugs I always find it pretty hard to actually experience the music, comprehend the lyrics, etc. at concerts because it's so loud and distorted. Earplugs reduce the loudness (not as much as I'd like), but they also muffle high frequencies, making it even harder. I've sometimes resorted to the somewhat silly approach of having one ear plugged and one unplugged, alternating every few minutes, so I can hear the music better, while still somewhat reducing the volume accumulating over time. Probably not the best idea.

I haven't tried fancy musician's earplugs yet. I know they're supposed to provide a more even attenuation curve, but they also have less noise reduction overall, which isn't great. I suppose I should buy a pair and see what they feel like at a concert…

But do you have any advice? What's your impression of sound quality at concerts when you wear plugs?
Immigration.

Every time I change jobs as an H1-B employee, I've to fill in the same ridiculous data with every law firms weird interface. I wish the US Digital Services would focus on streamlining forms and having auto-import from all the data they already have about me (e.g. automatically translate I-94 records to how much time I actually spent in the US, infer my past I-797 records automatically, have a one time education related upload since that obviously never changes). I realize there are certain valid reasons the agencies don't share data, but I find that hard to believe in an era of infinite surveillance, they can't use the surveilled data to at least make my life easier. I can see how the immigration law industry would never allow this, but I can hope.

The green card process is another minefield.

Also for Schengen countries, I've to apply for a visa every time I travel, and they make me list every time I visited the Schengen zone in the past 5 years, fill out the same application form across different countries, and get the same paystubs and letters from employers. Even a tool that could just machine read all the documentation a particular country requires for a specific visa, and just goes and pulls everything that can be pulled (bank statements, pay stubs, fill in travel dates based on the flight ticket emails in my inbox, hotel reservations and so on.) Just make it convenient for me to travel :)
John Barnes: I Hate Snark (2011)
And indeed she reached a settlement with the company which presumably means they were worried about losing a lawsuit or worse.
What did they replace it with?
REPLACE any Craftsman that shows wear. I had some sockets from 20+ years ago, some were rusted (yeah, it happens, sometimes my fault sometimes not). So, I packed em up, walked into the Sears tools dept., and exchanged them, like 20+ of them, one-for-one with new sockets. BEAUTIFUL, now I have new sockets, labeled more clearly, for free. And, if they ever rust again, I'll repeat the process.
the jsfuck.js parses the obfuscated string to generate valid javascript code.
One one the patterns that jsfuck.js supports is "run the followin as eval()"
https://github.com/aemkei/jsfuck/blob/master/jsfuck.js
line 282
Work in software, key problem in my industry is a lack of leadership.
Developing theories: pen & paper
Testing theories: anything from Mathematica, Python and if things get serious: Fortan
I can hear when most TVs are on - actually as I type this I can hear the monitor. It's just a high pitched constant sound like a dog whistle.

Yet when I am in noisy environments I often am much less adept at figuring out what people are saying than others.

Are these two things related?
This paper largely focuses on percent load and mean service latency as metrics to optimize. But in web services you often care more about the tail-end latency, the p90, p99 etc. The math for this paper is a lot simpler because for mean service latency they only need to concern themselves with the mean service time for jobs, not the whole distribution. That seems like it would make some interesting follow up work to this paper.

Another thing is I think this paper is assuming the latency for joining idle queues is zero. This is another simplification that makes the math easier, because otherwise you have to worry about a processor sending a message to join an idle queue, but before that message gets sent the processor gets more work and is no longer idle. It would be interesting to see what impact that might have on performance.

I'm not too familiar with queuing theory, can anyone point me to work has been done on long tail distribution for this or other load balancing strategies?
I think generative models could work but both 2d GAN and 3D voxel GAN are very low res
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Unfortunately any assumptions built into an immigration business are likely to be upended soon. I'd wait at least a year before trying to solve this problem because the regulatory environment could break your resulting startup.
Not really. I know some folks on the RS team and they don't really develop around applications, they are more focused on miniaturizing and making RS more available and lower power.

That said, some people have tried to use RS for this problem, but from what I've seen end up just using Kinects.
I don't disagree with any of that.

Clinical mental health generally follows the medical model of symptoms as observable fact, syndromes as clusters of observable facts, and disorders in the realm of mental health and disease in the realm of medicine being the set of conclusive diganoses.

The distinctive symptom of impostor syndrome is success. It is hard to see how it reconciles with the medical model while avoiding Occam's razor.

None of which is to suggest that anyone's experiences are illegitimate or their concerns are any less real. My concern is that pop-psychology self-diagnosis may increase the odds that a more serious issue goes without clinical treatment. The acceptability of having impostor syndrome is the flip side to the stigma attached to receiving treatment from a mental health professional.
Have you looked at GoG Galaxy?

https://www.gog.com/galaxy

It's exactly what you want, but this service isn't poplar. It doesn't work because everyone is on Steam. Network effects. It's like when app.net tried to replace twitter. You can get mad at users, but users are using Steam & Origin and Battle.net and they don't care.
void *calloc(size_t count, size_t size) {
assert(!multiplication_would_overflow(count, size));

size_t allocation_size = count * size;
void *allocation = malloc(allocation_size);
memset(allocation, 0, allocation_size);
return allocation;
}

Should really return (void *)0 on overflow, instead of asserting.
I guess that can be true, depending on which conflict you're talking about. For instance, we sell Israel weapons all of the time, and one can argue that their entry into Palestine was an "atrocity", however, I'm sure if we were bombarded by missiles as they were that we wouldn't hesitate to enter and clear out a small nation of terrorists either. Obviously their execution could use some work. We're not exactly experts at it ourselves, but war is far more complicated than what you see on TV.
Eve is a great Company, really paying attention to what the crowd wants!!! Cant wait to try the new Eve V!
He defines Snark:

> Snark is a dishonest reduction expressed with knowningness.

Which builds on a definition of knowingness he gives a bit earlier:

> Knowingness, of course, is not knowledge—indeed, is the rebuttal of knowledge. Knowledge was what squares had, or thought they had, and they thought that it was the secret of life. Knowingness is a celebration of the conceit that what the squares knew, or thought they knew, was worthless.
Hi kumaranvpl, thanks for posting my project here! If you or anyone else have any questions, critiques, or suggestions I'd love to hear them!

I'll try to keep an eye on this space, but you can also reach me via twitter @zbeekman or post an issue to the project on github: https://github.com/zbeekman/nightly-docker-rebuild/issues
Good. I still read online comments from people who claim to be still using their Note 7. People are nuts but if it only affected them, then I wouldn't care. Innocent bystanders can easily be injured or killed by an exploding phone.
An audiologist once told me that hearing is sort of mechanical; does the vibration in the air stimulate the nerves that send a signal to the brain? Processing is where we make meaning of the signal. They are distinct functions.

I hear just fine (slightly above average 'signal' for my age), but in a noisy environment I struggle to focus on the voice of the person in front of me and exclude the 'noise'. That's processing.
The real estate industry is very heavily regulated and, worse, these regulations are extremely fragmented. Any disruption is going to have to deal with that.

Also, agents for basic residential purchases where the property is about as mundane as it gets provide very little value. However good agents will do proper diligence by inspecting the public records for the property. That part may be disruptable with software and an ambitious enough records maintenance effort. But good agents who do their jobs properly are well worth 6% (and, by the way, that 6% is frequently split two ways, so each agent gets 3%). Of course my bar for "good agent" is much higher than Joe Coldwell or Jane Keller-Williams. "Good" agents know local and state regulations very well and do diligence to inspect the public record and work closely with well qualified inspectors to get the best (lowest for buyer, highest for seller) price they can. Most agents, especially for "big box" brokers do basic humdrum contract paperwork and have a very basic approach to disclosure and negotiation and don't add much value. They're ripe for disruption.
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Sort of. If you feel there's a greater power out there that's building up to invade you and your neighbours, forced unity can seem like the lesser of two evils. The US was not super friendly in the first half of the century, Hawaii and the Philippines were both recent military conquest dangerously close to Japan.
By the way let's not forget this is excellent investigative reportage by Buzzfeed who is using their clickbait revenues to do real journalism.
3Blue1Brown: Visualizing the Riemann zeta function and analytic continuation
Re-reading this post, I'm not sure why I typed IDA -- I meant baksmali. IDA is still useful for bundled ELF dependencies.
You wouldn't need to monitor individual threads and processes. Only average response time for each server or total CPU load.
IIRC +x keeps google from returning results that exclude the x term.

e.g. "x y z" ~ "x y z" + "x y" + "y z" + "x z" + "x" + "y" + "z"

where "+x y +z" ~ "x y z" + "x z"

Still, I would imagine this isn't exactly the behavior your friend would have expected.
> 1. It's not in HAProxy or nginx, at least

Yep. I found this from a recent talk about Load Balancing algorithms[1] and according to Tyler, the speaker and CTO of Fast.ly, JIQ has not been implemented in HAProxy or Nginx.[2][3]

> 2. Random / round-robin are "good enough" in a lot of cases - most people aren't running at 70%+ utilization

It depends how you define what "good enough" is and the size of system. In the aforementioned talk, Tyler had exemplified that 1% traffic with extreme latency will be exacerbated by the real world experience while a page load with hundreds of requests.[4]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13136536

[2]: https://youtu.be/gas2v1emubU?t=1845

[3]: https://youtu.be/gas2v1emubU?t=1895

[4]: https://youtu.be/gas2v1emubU?t=1070
You mean like this? (8" Windows Tablet, $60.00)

https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/NuVisio...

Which has Bluetooth 4.0, and will natively pair with Microsoft's Xbox One Bluetooth Gamepad. It also supports Miracast, so you can send Netflix / Hulu to your TV using Microsoft's Miracast Adapter ($50)

https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Microso...
Maybe it wasn't phrased as intended, but my point is few companies are willing to take someone on just because they haven't done tech X even if they are seasoned in tech Y which is broadly similar and have all of the communication, team working, leadership, problem solving and domain skills. Because they need to "hit the ground running".

The flipside is that of course employees don't hang around along in IT as they need to keep moving to gain the experiences they need to make their CV look reasonable. So I guess it is perpetuated on both sides.
Well yeah the human element is exactly what I'd want to eliminate as much as possible; I'm thinking of it more along the lines of what I've seen on How It's Made: Dream Cars in the sense that to get the various layers you're going to want - basic dimensions, surface features, coloration, reflective properties - aren't going to happen in one quick grab I don't think, and I get the feeling the process would work best in "absolute darkness" and isolated as much as possible for vibration.

Taking that 10k number - assuming disparate types of items that might be part of a series like "Bathroom" (toothbrush, hair brush, toilet brush, plunger) - in 24 hours that means cycling each item through in about 8 seconds. The only way I remotely see that possible is essentially having a robot hand pick up the item at the entry point, hold it for the capture sequence (perhaps have a custom-designed 'mount' that can allow for true 360 via a couple positions), and then drop it out the other side.

It's the scale part I'm wondering about, re: one size machine fits all doesn't seem to make sense. One machine for items under a certain dimension (e.g. "hand held") then another for items where the machine has to essentially have super-powers to pick up and rotate objects to complete the imaging process (e.g. a couch, a dresser, a motorcycle, etc). I think trying too hard to accommodate outliers ends up tainting the balance of operations a little? Just thinking out loud, really cool puzzle.
theres a method for generating 3d point clouds from images using SIFT already
I think you commit fallacy of relative privation when you compare mostly unrelated things.

Relative Privation:
Bob: My car got hit by a shopping cart!
John: Well that's not bad, it could have been hit by a bus.

Common since:
Bob: (Parked his car at a greyhound station and was hit by a bus)
John: (Parked his car at a greyhound station and it was hit by a bus)
Rick: (Parked his car at grocery store and it was hit by a shopping cart)
Sam: (decides to park his car at a grocery store sure it will be hit by a shopping cart but compared to being hit than by a bus its great)

Relative Privation:
The Japanese concentration camps were not bad because the Jewish ones had gas chambers:

Common since:
The Japanese destroyed China
The Japanese destroyed our Perl Harbor
The Japanese people may or may not launch a domestic attack
To minimzize this threat we will put Japanese in concentration camps sure it goes against our values somewhat but compared to what happened to China simply "not following our values" is fine.
Why 'should' you?
In math my impression from friends in the UK is that one is expected there to obtain an MS before entering a PhD program and that there are no teaching responsibilities. That definitely changes the numbers.
Samsung may permanently disable Galaxy Note 7s in the US as soon as next week
I'm not trying to minimize or say what the US did was less wrong but I'm arguing against people that use this as a crutch to support their what aboutism that attempts to paint the US in the same light as Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. Clearly is night and day difference.
Agreed. There are many potential advertising opportunities to boot.

When people buy a new home and move they typically need to get new utilities, health and car insurance, doctors, dentists, furniture, appliances, etc... They need to decide where they're going to shop for groceries, which restaurants they want to explore, what activities they're going to get into.
I'll definitely be using this as well, and I know a small group of people that might do the same. Nice of you to share it, thank you!
Hearphones page says: "Directional microphones help you focus on conversations in noisy places. Focus, amplify or reduce real-world sounds to the level you want." So the hearphones don't just do cancelation of repetitive-signal type noise, in addition they will amplify sound from the direction you're facing to help carry on a conversation.

The Bose QC series don't have that. Nor does the PocketTalker product mentioned in another comment here.
Cures Act Offers Tax-Favored Vehicle for Small Employers to Pay Premiums
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Joining interested others to ask for any links to your work. Thanks!
Get medical help to test yourself. This is not to scare you but there are large number of sometime even trivial health issues that might cause this. It will hurt your social professional life.

I use to avoid drive-through, phone conversations etc. because there was always a 10% chance that everything I heard seemed like other person mumbling something. Medical help helped me correct the problem.
The savings are actually greater, because by modifying the filename, 660GB would be saved in both, the request and the response!
You bring up prototype of all things as an argument for having less design flaws than jquery...sorry, I really don't want to sound snarky, but that made me chuckle.

Their moronic choice of directly extending the DOM was a more fundamental and far-reaching flaw than any of the - definitly numerous - problems and bad choices jquery has and had in the past, and it's one of the reasons it's has all but vanished for years now.
We started StartupCTO.io as a way to address this. We saw the same lack of support for CS grads thrust into leadership, so we're doing something about it.
A Balanced View of FPGAs in Genomics Workflows
good point! sorry for not adding it right away
I've heard good things about Synology NASes.
Question: When you wear these, do you get the same sensation you get when you put your fingers/expanding foam earplugs in your ears? It is hard to describe but almost like a humming/pressure sound? Depending on how I put them in I can get that sound or not. When I don't get it, I'm not sure if they are working. When I do, the quality of the audio suffers.
Wow, never thought the synapses could be damaged. Very interesting to know, will tell the audiologist about these new tests.

Also, the link from Twitter worked, but the direct link hit a paywall.
I put in a vote for Malbolge
Industrial Transformation Coming from Deep Learning, Says Japanese Startup
This same topic is taught in flight training.

Pilots are repeatedly taught to never "silence" the annoying warning horns that come on for different reasons (slow speed, wrong landing gear configuration). The idea being that mindlessly dismissing alarms will build a bad habit pattern. Especially when you're actually in trouble.
Honestly it rarely comes up as anything but a historical footnote in modern times. But back then... it was a huge deal.
LTO-7 is 6TB/tape, at ~$115/tape (on sale[0]). The cheapest 6TB HDD on newegg is a refurbished WD Red for $198[1].

[0]https://www.tapeandmedia.com/hp-lto-7-tape-ultrium-tapes-c79...

[1]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAY949U33...
> 10K+ concurrent requests to a single server sounds like a server that is mostly shuffling bits around.

Isn't that all a load balancer is supposed to do? I certainly don't want my load balancers performing computations or logic. I want it to pass that work off to another server.
> Someone should really fix toasters.

They have. They're called dualit.

https://www.amazon.com/Dualit-20293-2-Slice-Toaster-Chrome/d...
Sure. To be clear the gripe is less about the potential for a shock (real or otherwise) and more about the clearly nontrivial frequency and irritation of the issue.
Tutorials on MXNET and TensorFlow
I wouldn't trust it at all in the market I'm in (Cleveland, Ohio), just too small of a world here

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12650865
I much preferred the thin coax and BNC compared to thick. Maybe its because it was easier to educate helpers. The funny part was having a network of thin coax connected to 10baseT.

Now I have fibre and gigabit, so I never really got to that one solution again.
Unless there is something personal in them I ignore them after the first line or two.
Thanks wes! You're a great course creator & fun to follow!
Comparing what the Gernams did to what the Russians did sure relative privation:

Comparing what the Japanese did to China to what the Japanese could to the U.S. I do not think is relative privation but I could be wrong
I'd give the edge to Wodehouse on prose quality but in terms of humour Clemens would win.

Mostly because Clemens had more bite.
Because it isn't a fact? There's definitely an age bias outside of Silicon Valley as well.
Also for those that rather read the blog post, check this out, A Peek into F# 4.1: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/07/25/a-peek-in...
Rumored Labor Sec. Nominee, CEO of Carl's Jr.: Preference for Immigrant Workers
One of the best places to look is where an emerging platform overlaps with existing specialty fields. For example, VR is currently an emerging platform, here's a few things that maybe someone is pursuing but there's no established solution for:

- 3D Storyboarding for VR cinematic storytelling (mixed desktop/VR)

- VR home tours for real estate

- VR sports training for golf/tennis/baseball

- Rehearsal/Staging VR for event planning.

- VR Training for DIY/Construction.

etc.. In particular if there is a field that you personally work in or know someone that's a great place to start.