skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is really bad news for Python that Dropbox is mostly done with them. (Announcement says most new code is in Go, so further Pyston development couldn't be justified).

PyPy is not feasible for most workloads. Pyston was making incremental improvements and their developers demonstrated deep knowledge about both Python and JITs (see their blog, "Why is Python slow"). Accelerating numpy is not important, and rewriting it in Python is not useful because the key numerics will never be as fast as Atlas. Only the Pyston approach of JITting the C runtime is likely to work in the wild. And Dropbox just gave up on it.

Unless another company like Facebook funds these two guys or another JIT/VM expert to do full-time work on Pyston, I believe Python's future as a competitor to Go and JS is dead.
I'm not getting caught up in semantics. If you have a "deeply held belief that homosexuality is wrong", then you probably shouldn't be surprised if a group of people that includes homosexuals doesn't want to include you if you express that view, and/or act on your belief.

But sure, obviously, anything you want to think in your own head and not express publicly is fairly immune to labels. I'm thinking things right now, for example.
The problem with banning ecigs are that there are people who are currently smoking, who now can't go to ecigs because you banned them and so they continue to smoke normal cigs. They typically don't quit.
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On the contrary, it comes off as very professional. All other companies would hide this, they would show off a very cleaned up post-mortem and say "problem solved" and that's it. Ok so what does that mean, does it mean the process will change for the future or that they just fixed it for today?

This is also an awesome advert to see how they work remotely all together and I'm sure they're hiring for DevOps people now ;)
So, the minimal interest rate is 2.79% (it looks like it's 3 times some kind of legal stuff). Interestingly enough, there is no VAT on it, but it's computed on the VAT price.

The debt collection fee is 40€, It seems to be fixed in law, and not a minimum.
I think that would be very interesting - I hope you do sort it and share!
I just got 3 calls in 4 hours from the same CASH NOW number. I wish there was a way to drag these asshats into small claims once a week like you can with some (email) spam.
Thank you for your suggestion. I'm usually on my laptop so getting TypeMatrix (cool keyboard!) is currently not an option. Using 2 different layouts everyday is an interesting concept, I think it might ease my transition into dvorak.
Except that I'm pretty sure that's one of the top use cases for Magsafe. Imagine if you didn't have a Magsafe connector and your leg bumped it, pushing it straight up. You'd have a ruined power connector... My Dell and Sony laptops both had that happen and stopped getting a consistent connection. With the Dell, the power connector was internally soldered on to the mobo too, so the repair was not cheap at all. :(
That's probably because in 2006 he was busy creating the iPhone.
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I've worked with a lot of tools. I've decided that I like things that are simple and don't cost much money to get started. For new projects I always start with Heroku, or Parse (on a free back4app plan now).

I love Ansible. Chef is alright. I've been using AWS OpsWorks recently, and it's not bad. Elastic beanstalk is ok, too.

I've spun up some Kubernetes clusters, and it's nice, although I have no need for it yet. I remember the database situation was difficult when I was trying it last year. Something about persistent storage being difficult, so you had to run Postgres on a separate server.

I still like Capistrano. You can automate it with any CI pipeline. For one client, I used the "elbas" [1] gem for autoscaling on AWS. It automatically created new AMIs after deployment. Not super elegant, but it worked fine.

I don't see much of a middle ground between Heroku and Kubernetes. Just start with the one free dyno. Maybe ramp it up to 3 or 4 with hirefire.io. Once you're spending a few hundred per month on Heroku, that's probably the time to spin up a small kubernetes cluster and deploy stuff in containers.

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I would love to be hired by Sony (even on commission) to figure out something valuable for those forty holdouts in the story to do. There is probably something you can do with that talent that is better than having them sit around.
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Reicons is a simple CLI tool that helps you to manage and use your icons quickly and easily.

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It's nice to see that people still use Microsoft Word for web design.
For anyone who is interesting in correlation measures, have a look at distance correlation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_correlation
http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1267453933

It's implemented in the R package "energy", and provides a more comprehensive measure of variable dependence than Spearman's rank correlation. Distance correlation is able to detect any kind of dependence, not just monotonic relationships.
"And for that, I'm thankful to have this clown in office."

I wonder if anyone said the same thing about emperor Nero's role in raising the profile of fire safety.
Surely there has to be an analysis somewhere that someone has done which links Kolmogorov complexity and one-statistic-describes-all approaches of interpreting numbers?
Ask HN: Why dosen't HN have a search functionality?
Although it's very handy, I know a simple google search can get me what I want on HN. But I would like to search for content inside HN. Which I think would be a nice thing to have. I understand that they want to keep it as minimal as possible but isn't it an important functionality ?
I agree. I'm talking to HN people, they are in loop as well here. There is a chance that they will suggest something or we will adopt the format that I'm posting. Always would be good to have some feedback before too not miss to many things later.

As for the NLP, I'm doing it (kind of and I've tested many things including Stanford NER lib and external APIs) Having said that, If your format wont comply, no worries. I will do my best to find the location, tag the job if it's remote or intern. Although to get the rest like company name, positions names the mission is hard here.
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I love Python and use it as the main tool at my day job but I have to call it out.

> It lets you do synchronous and asynchronous programming with asyncio and it’s shamelessly fast. Even faster than NodeJS and Go.

and then,

> To be fair all the contestants (including Go) were running single worker process.

What is the point of such a benchmark? It is completely useless. You are deliberately crippling other tech before comparing your tech with them.

What am I missing here HN?
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I assume this is using some form of Secure Multi-party Computation. Where is the source-code?
Labor protection is much more than protection against firing.

A society needs a sane amount of labor protection. Too much and there won't be jobs (and the economy will suffer), too little and the people will have no power over their lives (and the economy will suffer).

Worse still, that optimum point will change all the time as an economy matures. And I don't think anybody has any good procedure for measuring it.
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You should read some of Buffett's voluminous writings. There is nothing like a lottery going on, he's the most skilled investor the world has ever created.

In his twenties and thirties he ran the Buffett Partnerships and averaged around 35% a year returns, over 13 or 14 years, beating the market by a massive amount.

He retired around age 40, then bored went back to full time work running a company he controlled, Berkshire Hathaway. At one point he had beaten the market all but a couple of 50 years.

In his shareholder letters he describes very clearly how he does it. Its a combination of being an excellent value investor, understanding which companies have competitive moats, and working very hard at reducing negative psychological biases.

We can't be as good as investor as WEB, but reading and understanding his shareholder letters will make you a much better one in anything you do (buying a house, car, etc), and understanding the psychological biases that drive you to bad investing decisions can be applied in many areas.
Seconding Convox. It's also worth noting that the tooling is open-source, and they profit off an optional-to-use closed-source web interface which has free and paid tiers.

I'm one of two developers at a very young startup, and the one responsible for backend + devops stuff. I simply don't have the time to learn a more complex tool like Kubernetes (not that I didn't consider it) while also working on the actual product. Its simplicity has been a bit limiting on occasion, but they're happy to accept PRs for well thought out changes. I recently had a PR merged regarding UDP ports and ELBs that should make microservice architectures much easier and cheaper to implement.
In a similar vein, here's an XPK filesystem handler [1]. XPK provides a system for anyone to write their own compression/decompression libraries. Anything that uses XPK will handle whichever compression format you have an XPK library for, entirely transparently (many applications have application level support for XPK too, but the filesystem handler is much more generic)

[1] PPC: http://www.a500.org/downloads/filesystems/xfh-handler_lha.re... M68k: http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/XFH
For readers who are OK with some math, I recommend John Myles White's eye-opening post about means, medians, and modes: http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/03/22/modes-medi... He describes these summary descriptive stats in terms of what penalty function they minimize: mean minimizes L2, median minimizes L1, mode minimizes L0.

A single-number statistic is _going_ to leave things out, so if you must boil things down into one number, or even a few numbers, you're going to lose something that you had in the raw data. This is why I find claims along the lines of "statistics don't tell the whole story" a little bemusing - of course they don't, the very definition of a statistic is a summarization of data that is easier to work with. The question is what data is kept or lost, or more generally what importance we place on different aspects of the raw data such that it's reflected in our descriptive statistics.

The lessons for non-technical people who want to communicate with descriptive statistics are to recognize that summarization is inherent in the nature of any descriptive statistic, that they are thereby opinionated in some way in terms of what they've preserved and what they've left out, and to recognize whether those opinions are appropriate for your purpose.
> "work not related to company's business and not done on company time/equipment doesn't count"

We would have similar terms but sometimes people work at home not on company equipment or within normal working hours, so it's normal for this term to be a bit broader, but in general most companies would agree that you can keep the rights to work not related to company business (if you ask and they are reasonable).
IBM and all of their massive "redundancy" layoffs are a clear indication of how easy it is to get rid of people in the UK.
Generals.io Bot API
"old, rancid oil molecules"

the seasoning process polymerizes those double bonded molecules into a plastic polymer. Some people cook on a painted film of semi-toxic teflon polymer plastic, you're cooking on a film of olive oil polymer plastic. I wonder if anyone's ever cooked on a sheet of kapton plastic? It should take the heat... Then again given how well hot PLA and ABS stick to hot kapton maybe its not so much fun.
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Spend time with people you love and care about.

Work on something that matters to you. But not too much. No one lays on their death bed wishing they had committed another line of code.

Maximize for happiness while causing the least amount of harm.
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> But why do you want a number at all?

Because lots of data analysis questions hinge upon the association between two data sets, and it's nice (crucial) to be able to quantify this value. Especially because

> While statisticians are generally quite good at estimating a correlation from a picture and vice versa, most people are not.

The author says

> Still not happy and absolutely want a number? You would do well to shun correlations even so.

OK, so what else do you suggest?
By the same logic, medical schools are counterproductive because by making getting a degree harder make giving healthcare advice harder. Ditto for law schools.

If you are going to throw your lot with an employer, you want to be very sure that said employer is willing to go the extra mile to bring you up and see you succeed; and yes, that will be harder that going to work for the first john that waves a $20USD bill in front of your nose.

Employment does not make sense otherwise. No regulation, or much relaxed regulation, would be the equivalent of owning a capital intensive company that signs a deal to work exclusively for one customer. No sane investor would want to put more than 5% of their networth there, and only in the case that said investment paid heads and shoulders above the next best option in the market. So why do you expect employees to invest 100% of their time and effort in such a Devil's deal?
> Debugging directly on the production system? Yeah, nobody does that.

Uh, what bubble are you living in? Almost everyone does that to some extent. We can all pretend we're code ninjas with super clean deployment pipelines and strict policies, but all of us get lazy occasionally.
If the US job market is so "agile" then why are companies so conservative in hiring and obsessed with not making the wrong decision? I've heard it on the hiring side at multiple companies in the past: "He's a good candidate but I have this small concern. Let's play it safe and talk to the next guy!" WHY? If it's so easy to fire someone if they ended up a lemon?
> . I have deployed with AWS ECS service (not doing that again; it does not have the concept of pods which severely constrains how you deploy)

What have you found are the biggest advantages of pods over containers? How does ECS constrain how you deploy? Are you simply referring to rollout/rollback, scale up/down?
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> I've never heard of anyone successfully suing AWS/Google/Azure over lost data or downtime.

Doesn't mean it never happens.