skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These conclusions don't seem very useful because either they are already well established or are not valid. Some examples:

Just because a relatively well-optimized PostgreSQL database on a regular workstation takes 5 minutes to run a query doesn't mean you can't get special hardware to run that query faster than you can type.

Already well established for years with systems like redis, and more recently with gpu databases, and other techniques posted on HN regularly.

Spark + S3 + Amazon Elastic Map Reduce...is pretty slow compared to better tools, and even compared to plain PostgreSQL.

Not valid because it doesn't generalize. It so much depends on type of work being done, system architecture, etc, that you can only say it may or may not be true.

HDFS really is a lot faster than S3.

This is already well established, Amazon states aa much right in the docs: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-pl...

Performance of an Xeon Phi 64-core CPU is within an order of magnitude to an NVidia Titan X.

Not precise enough to matter because getting within 10x difference is not close to being competitive.*

Loading 104 GB of compressed data into Q/kdb+ expands to 125 GB with and takes about 30 minutes, but on Redshift expands to 2 TB and takes many hours to upload on a normal connection, plus 4 hours to actually import!

I don't see how it's possible for 104GB of csv text data to decompress into only 125GB. For cvs to compress only ~20%...doesn't make sense.

It might cost $5000 to custom-build a GPU-based supercomputer that can do these queries in under a second

No, two problems here. The hardware in question could have used 1 cheap CPU instead of two expensive Xeons and been much less expensive. Bigger problem: The MapD software itself will be $50,000.
The goal post is not "good manager". It is just "better than non-technical managers"
or games that don't get chopped on 21:9 resolutions.
everything they have open sourced has been developer oriented, nothing really in the realm of users applications and gaming. So I am doubtful, to say the least, that they will help wine in any shape or form in the foreseeable future.
My question is, are you guaranteed a response? I viewed this on mobile and that wasn't immediately clear.
This can have some hilarious outcomes though.

Specifically, I'm thinking of how Call of Duty Black Ops III gives controllers a whole bunch of aim assist so they don't get dunked on by people using mouse+keyboard. Guess what used to happen if you plugged in a controller and played with the mouse?

In an ideal world, the fix would be to not give half your players an aimbot, but you just know the product manager wouldn't go for that. Looks like they ended up adding a patch that tries to figure out whether you're actually using the controller.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackops3/comments/44yfri/pc_aim_as...
I've been playing Elder Scrolls Online with my XBox 360 controller. I tried using my steam controller but it just felt a bit clunky.
Although I use it for my personal browser I was not successful in deploying it on the desktop networks I manage. Firefox ESR was way more cumbersome and complicated to deploy than Google's analog, Chrome for Work. So much so that despite repeated attempts to deploy it due to my loyalty to Mozilla I was essentially forced to give up and use Chrome.
I'm just starting out in my software career - hopefully I will be able to avoid these types of situations!
Say it with me: "Obfuscation on top of solid, security practices provably reduces risk against talented hackers." It's why the Skype attack took forever. They spent so long on reverse engineering where open software with obvious weaknesses would've cracked almost instantly. Now, put that concept in for runtime protections, NIDS, recovery mechanisms, etc. Hacker has much more work to do that increases odds of discovery during failures.

Obfuscation was also critical to spies helping their nations win many wars. There's so many ways for well-funded, smart attackers to beat you when they know your whole playbook. When they don't, you can last a while. If it changes a lot, you might last a lot longer. If not well-funded or maximizing ROI (most malware/hackers), they might move on to other targets that aren't as hard.
I have one, but it isn't valued much by employers over here. They'd rather hire an experienced manager or a straight MBA. It was a very good experience though and I hope it will serve in the future.

It's now being discontinued at the university I studied and prospective students are now directed to the MBA program (I actually can get the MBA with a few more hours and paying a lot more money since I already have 95% of the coursework).
Not familiar with Creator, but I'd be frustrated if I had to wait for a drag-n-drop gui editor to catch up before seeing a release in any core framework.
Whatever you do with the $20 I still find unreasonable to make you contactable via a paywall: moreover if you have no time, you have no time even if each communication will donate $20 for a good cause. For a person of the wealth of B.H. it's simpler to just give directly money and avoid to receive unwanted communications.
I keep trying to go back to Fx, and get held up on a few things (partly due to my own laziness):

1) tab-to-search (you mention already)
2) Chrome is "cleaner" out of the box (I'm sure I can have an omnibox in Fx I just haven't tried very hard)
3) I prefer Chrome's developer tools by a huge margin (especially the react/redux ones)
4) easy profile switching in Chrome (I have a dev profile that I use a lot)
5) Chrome better history plugin
Was just planning on picking up the book. Didn't even know about this album.. listening now! Thanks for sharing.
this is hilarious... Ben's going to get spammed with emails
Target plans to introduce own smartphone payment service in stores this year
Hive Mind Comedy Notes – January 2017
Paracetamol, aspirine and caffeine are definitely available over the counter in Europe!
The problem with deep learning right now is that there's not a great deal of methods outputting a nice estimation of uncertainty in predictions. But this will become less of an issue as they eventually converge with Bayesian methods, or at least if probability is introduced in a more principled way.
I quote the mJS readme from the repo:

> In order to make FFI work, mJS must be able to get the address of a C function by its name. On POSIX systems, dlsym() API can do that. On Windows, GetProcAddress(). On embedded systems, a system resolver should be either manually written, or be implemented with some aid from a firmware linker script.

So I guess they don't provide any implementation for their FFI linking on embedded platforms? It's not clear if the 25k size figure includes any dlsym support, but if it requires instrumenting your firmware image on-disk then the size costs could balloon significantly.
Perhaps because black girls are underrepresented among the population of kids learning to code?
I use browser sync in a project. The site reloads in a few seconds in multi-process browsers, but takes about 40 seconds in Firefox (and shuts down the browser in the process). E10s hasn't helped much yet, so I don't think I can go back until perf improves. I did love everything else about it, and I still check it out every now and then.
Why some silicon valley tech executives are bunkering down for doomsday
I disagree with the article's very title: the employers cited and quoted are just whining. First, said employers aren't really saying what they're paying - perhaps they want highly skilled employees on an unskilled employee wage. Second,they're not specifying which skills, just "technical skills" or some such persiflage.
Given that it took 4 years of continuous customer requests just to get support for booting a custom kernel on Digital Ocean, I'd be surprised if they're doing anything this elaborate.
I think you're either misinformed or ignoring things if you don't think it's treated as much more trivial than driving drunk and very common, especially among young users.
Another fun fact: you can set pretty much anything up as a non-steam game if you want, which is good for doing things that the Steam Link doesn't normally support. For example, you can set up VLC and use it to stream movies over to your TV. Or a web browser would probably work too.

I would think the only exception would be things that use HDCP protection, like maybe Netflix.
Data Science Platforms Seen as Difference Makers
It also made the behavior socially acceptable. "So many people are late that we introduced a fine"

"Oh phew, it's not just me. Everyone's doing it"
I would've gladly sent you $1.50 and asked you to think about growing it via Zidisha if I could find an email address anywhere
Well, American chestnut grew on upland sites with thin soil in oak-hickory forest. Many of the surviving trees are on inaccessible mountain slopes and other places unsuitable for agriculture. After they died, the canopy space was overtaken by oak, hickory, tuliptree, and other native trees. The chestnut was so populous because it simply overwhelmed the other trees with seed production.

In terms of wildlife, there is no downside: the chestnut produces a larger mast than oak/hickory, and it produces every year instead of biennially. Its nut is starchy rather than oily. Chestnuts simply produce more food for humans and wildlife than the forest can otherwise. Its loss was simply a huge loss for the ecosystem.
What libertine thing are you referring to? Equal rights for gay people, women making the same wages as men for equivalent work? I'm from a southern state, and I hear a lot of grousing about uppity women and black folks (and people don't use words as nice as that). They want revenge. That's the kind of thing that I see people complaining about liberals. And that kind of behavior is ugly and unneeded. I can think of things that appear as silly to me, like safe spaces, trigger warnings, but I've never encountered such things in real life.
We've seen this come up a lot recently with Tesla's move to fine drivers who "park" at charging stations. Many see this as actually worsening the problem as people are happier to pay the (relatively small) fine.
Anyone able to use TurboTax successfully on Wine?
I come from the state of NSW (in Australia), the state with this program, and was also one of the students from selective schools. It is important to note that in Sydney, Australia: it isn't only the public school system which have selective schools, but there exists private schools where academic exams are required to gain entrance (see Sydney Grammar School).

There are a lot of [selective schools; not just one or two, but 46](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selective_high_schools...)!

You can see in the implementation that some are full selective, and others are partially selective.

Furthermore in primary school there are also [opportunity class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_class) which is also for gifted students. All of these schools are partially selective with around half the spots of high school.

My observation from these schools are that the _location_ of these schools don't matter much. Students will travel from the other side of Sydney to attend any of these schools! For example, there would be a lot of students from the south-west Sydney attending school in North Sydney.

However, segregation based on academic abilities do yield some...results which I have also read about in the US:

* Areas of top selective schools and top OC schools will generally yield higher asian population.
* Schools will tend to have a higher asian population

Also (unsurprisingly) these schools have dominated university entrance exams, with the median mark of the top school (James Ruse Agricultural School) typically well within the top 1% of all exam-takers within the state.
That was definitely one of those cases of where that family shouldn't have used the CTA. They should have used a taxi. It was a family of 5.

For the people not in the know:
I was sitting on the far top right single seat. They were sitting in the first 2 vertical oriented row seats nearest to the door there.

https://assets.dnainfo.com/chicago_photo/2015/12/primary-tra...
are you serious? if Horowitz was really committed to the cause he would just personally donate a large amount of money (he has plenty) and not bother engaging in any of the public virtue signaling behaviors.

it seems pretty obvious that he put the "donated to charity" sticker on the form to deflect accusations that he was profiteering from his fame. seems to me more like he was getting too much shit mail and wanted to try an experiment with gating it behind cash so people would put up or shut up.
Reminds me of tmate
I don't see how it is not better. Credit Cards require use of credit providers and all the overhead that entails; minimum payments included. Most of the time this does not bite us and it Just Works except for when we try to step outside of the expected transaction model as we do with say Paypal which has known and necessary pros and cons. A proper bitcoin API has the potential to allow for the transactional web everyone was hoping would come to pass back in the day and since it is NOT owned by a single company, the way companies were clamoring to be the mico-payment provider of the web, it just might happen. If we are going to make an HTTP level API it really needs to be based on a technology any new company can start up a service for rather than centralizing it. Not to mention CC somewhat imply a lower bound of $0.01 which is too costly for some transactions.

It would be amazing if I could pay for access to the Wall Street Journal or New Yorker articles without locking in a full sub. There must be thousands of people who would pay a premium price or $0.15 for individual articles but would not go for a full membership. Then journalists could actually charge for content. We HNers would likely pay for longform but not the dreck we collectively complain about. Weakening the cultural pull of clickbait news.
BTW, might want to get your dad that book the interview was about (Robert Frank: "Success and Luck"). It's a good read, and you'll have something more to discuss :-)
Don't know much about the extracts, but I know in legal states concentrates of various types have been developed and people are getting progressively better at concentrating them further.

Is it possible we could see an overdose at some point once physical volume becomes much less of a factor?
> Very slick onboarding experience, especially compared to other calorie counters. Big plus here.

Glad to hear that you liked it

> There doesn't appear to be a way to add food outside of the current "meal." I'm sitting here at lunch time, but wanted to add what I had for breakfast --- instead I've just eaten a very large lunch.

Yeah we had a bunch of people asking for that the past few days. We should have that fixed in the next release.

> The current database of foods seems pretty slim. No entry for my African Peanut Soup, for example, which is available in both LoseIt and MyFitnessPal.

All of our data comes from the USDA right now. We’re going to add barcode scanning soon and that will include another 70K items. After that we plan on making it easier for users to add new things by OCRing the nutrition labels and computing the nutrition values from ingredients/recipes.

> How will you deal with things like sandwiches, where many of the ingredients may be totally hidden from view? Guess "sandwich" and let me pick what's on it from a sensible list of sandwich ingredients? Same goes for soups, or stews, or anything that can be visually similar with a wide range of possible ingredients.

For more complex items we have these “builders” that let you quickly adjust and add common ingredients to things like sandwiches, salads and soups. As we get more data we’ll use ingredient correlations and predictions to make the suggested additions more accurate.

The app also learns to recognize your past meals so you quickly copy the information for meals that you eat often.
Wow, what a great article! I work in the doggy daycare space.

I had assumed this to be true for a long time but never had any evidence showing it to be true.

This is why I love HN!
Are there any advantages to using this instead of exposing port 22 temporarily via ngrok advantages adding your friend public key to authorized_keys? (Which has the added advantage of being pure, unmodified SSH)

https://ngrok.com
Anecdotally: I hear people complaining that legalizing it "takes the fun out of it".

I personally don't understand that, but I guess it's fun to do something rebellious if it's arguably harmless*

*(I realize that I'm using the word "harmless" quite loosely here)
> it reminded me of something I heard about car platforms, years ago. Back in 2002, GM introduced a pair of cars in the European market both based on the same platform: the Vauxhall Vectra and the Saab 9-3.

Your comment actually reminded me of an old Top Gear episode [1][2] where they described how Saab were instructed by GM to change only the body and the badges of a Vauxhall Cavalier when producing the Saab 900, but they ignored them and modified so much that the two cars only shared 1/3rd of the parts [2, 03:59]. The same thing happened again with the Vauxhall Vectra and the Saab 9-3, but to an even greater extent.

It certainly sounds like Saab didn't want to be associated with GM or Vauxhall or use any of their inferior technology or parts.

[1] http://www.topgear.com/videos/jeremy-clarkson/tribute-saab-p...

[2] http://www.topgear.com/videos/jeremy-clarkson/tribute-saab-p...
An important difference is that you have a choice between iPhone and Android, where you had no choice but Windows.
wrt to programming languages, going from scala to go is like going from english professor to honey boo boo. go is basically new php with lots of ftm features baked in. scala, for all it's flows stays true to it's goal - it is a scalable language. use as mush of it as you are comfortable with and keep growing. here is btw one of the "coolest" features of go in scala http://storm-enroute.com/coroutines/docs/0.6/101/
Most presidents do that if a network is attacking him. Obama shunned Fox News a bit as well. It is all 'politics' to be fair.

True at saying the people fear he will, but the fear is really bases on nothing and out-of-context quotes.
Very nice!

About 10 years ago I created a cooking web site that also uses the USDA nutrition database (cookingspace.com) and I just recently started working on free iOS and Android apps that will use the improved analytics code that was originally used on my site.

I am playing with the Android version of your app right now - it so far has done a good job recognizing food items pulled out of our refrigerator. I also like that as I take a picture that it does not add the image to my local pictures (since these are automatically instantly backed up to OneDrive and GDrive).
And it's running Java. Not the JVM, mind you.

Though I think JVM-as-a-spec is still incredibly powerful, even on Android. I can write Kotlin apps, Groovy apps, Scala apps…
> In particular, the freaking author of git is an 80's C programmer and SVN expert...

Uh, and you know, just the creator of the Linux kernel...
I wrote a lengthy question and signed up but at the payment screen it required a credit card. I would have preferred a third party service like PayPal. I am not inclined to enter my credit card information into random websites. I would have been happy to donate the $20 otherwise.
> DDG isn't very good at searching

You can use the !g bang to search on google.

> with no visible benefit to my life.

The main advantage I personally see in using DDG is to be able to directly search on sites. For instance:

* I need to lookup foo on wikipedia: !w foo
* I need to search for foo on amazon: !a foo
* I need to lookup a video on foo: !yt foo
If you have any accrued benefits you can lose them this way, they may not need to take any action.

For example, in New Zealand many employment contracts have an abandonment clause that basically says if you don't show up for 3 days, the contract is terminated and you've forfeited any accrued leave or other benefits they might have owed you otherwise.
I've been saying this for a while, and I get downvoted for it (I don't care). Firefox has not been able to keep up with the speed of Chrome. As that joke goes, '6 minutes Abs' business is better than '7 minutes Abs'. I use a relatively old machine and I have specific needs to run multiple profiles. I don't run a whole lot of tabs on any given time, but I have consistently noticed a difference in the speed between Firefox and Chrome. Chrome just runs better and faster than Firefox. There's also a wide spread issue of fonts, look and feel of Firefox. Things just look better on Chrome.
Maybe the wall can extend underground.
I agree with @akhilcacharya and had the same reasoning (ended up not doing the AA in high school for the same reason).

More restrictive set of courses for the AA means you're taking classes you don't enjoy for a requirement you don't need. The "name value" of a community college AA also isn't as great, particularly for kids who want to go to a higher-ranked public or top private university for undergrad.

That being said, if you know you want to go to a local/state school where the credits will transfer easily, getting the AA early can be great. I know people who graduated early but still received all 4 years of scholarship money (direct deposited in their bank).
Anyone able to use TurboTax successfully in Wine?
Sounds like you're using jira wrong.

I suppose you can encode anything onto index cards. This doesn't mean it's usable.
That's the thing: you're letting your new team down now and prioritizing the old team over us.

I wouldn't want them to bail but I would understand.

[edit] Also the OP is asking about the situation of going back for another extension so that is the context of my answer.
Are you sure about that? I think it's significantly lower than 200k
> I wouldn't look at this as a recipe for success

I think it is a recipe for success, but that doesn't mean it's easy. You can't just find a successful product that's overly complex and remove a bunch of features and succeed. You need to spend time understanding the market and the customers, figure out the sweet spot to aim for and then what features are actually necessary for that sweet spot and then ruthlessly say no to everything else. Many products have multiple sweet spots in the market and an up-market product can obscure the fact that there's another, more down-market product opportunity. Identifying that opportunity and then executing well is a pretty sure recipe for success, but it's really hard to do.

The people who should take heed of this advice are those who are less creative and visionary but are disciplined and skilled enough to build a quality product. There will always be product opportunities for people who can see 5-10 years out and either predict the future or lead people to their vision of the future. But that's not most people and there's no shame in admitting that. For those of us not in that visionary group, the strategy presented here is a pretty good alternative.
a nice graphic on the layers of an embedded software is this: http://www.limifrog.io/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/... - getting the toolchain running to blink a LED takes some efforts. With scripting, you could save time in the context of prototyping a connected experience (networking, hardware, network protocols)
Correct, I suppose that an active enforcement of free speech could be defined as a new right, maybe that wasn't clear.