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Latency does improve if you download your data in parallel across a cluster. Or if you're running many iterations of an algorithm over GBs of data thousands of times, and each iteration is independent--you can save hours or days by performing them in parallel on a cluster.

If your scheduling involves running jobs that must wait on dependencies or events for a long time (hours, days), a hardware failure or some other anomaly can be catastrophic, whereas a "big data" framework can recover without your even knowing about it.

At the end of the day it just comes down to use cases. There are a LOT of other use cases that "big data" platforms address other than being able to fit data in RAM. Sometimes flying by the seat of your pants on one host doesn't cut it for business-critical processing.

> how is resilience helped with a big data solution?

The "R" in Spark's RDD abstraction is for "Resilient". Node failures and replication failures can be recovered without you even knowing it.

Sure, you can write all this stuff from scratch every time you encounter them (mirror data on hosts, run embarrassingly-parallel algorithms across a fleet of hosts, write your own DB-backed scheduling system, etc.), but all these are solved problems in these big data frameworks. You'll be wasting tons of time reinventing the wheel. I've been there.
I usually keep it at 3-4 cups. Any more and I get a little jittery and it becomes hard to focus, any less and I'm a monster. (Yes, I have a problem. My wife agrees.)
What are ways companies skirt L1 laws? I always assumed offshoring was done through a country with the laxest visa laws possible.
I can do this -

PS C:\foo> dotnet --version

1.0.0-rc4-004771 <- vs 2017 RC4

PS C:\foo> dotnet new mvc -lang F#

Pretty certain this is 4.1 and already out.

Articles have been around for a while
https://medium.com/real-world-fsharp/using-f-with-net-core-a...
Ideally BI doesn't come from an inflated money supply, but if the money-holders refuse to pay taxes, where's it gonna come from? I have a feeling that unless the architects of BI can tack that point to the legislation, it's gonna be a glossed over in the dysfunctional halls of government. "The left" will take on more government debt out of necessity to keep society functioning, while dysfunctional elements of "the right" take on government debt seemingly out of contempt for big government...
same here firefox
I think it depends on the workload. PostgreSQL does not not support updating documents in place but is really fast at writing and reading. Never done any benchmarking myself, this is just based on my general knowledge of what data structures and algorithms both databases implement.
"It's the fuzzy dividing line where we start considering programming techniques to be AI instead of conventional. This line is somewhat arbitrary based on history."

thank you, that seems to characterize it nicely.
I fell in love with this idea when it first came out! Here is the first demonstration of it a couple of years ago: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v515/n7528/abs/nature13...
I went to Mexico city with my family about 10 years ago and it didn't seem as you describe. I remember looking out our car window and seeing huge expanses of what seemed like shacks. Many of the road were wide with seemingly no lane markings, and people making their own lanes. We were at one such intersection, and got pulled over by a corrupt cop who was on foot. Supposedly we came too close to one the of people who constantly surround our car whever we stop, trying to sell us stuff. The cop took my dad's driver's license and demanded 1000 pesos to give it back. My dad negotiated it down to 200 pesos. We went to a hotel specifically chosen because it looked modern and had wifi. The pool was normal sized, but only had 1 foot of water, and it was green.
I'm wondering how many folks are using g& command ;)

It works great considering that

:s//new_pattern/g

will search for last

/old_pattern
> but other than the cost

Why do you think people are moving to Hadoop ?

That cost that you glossed over is massive. Teradata is very, very expensive. It's great. It works. But it's expensive. Especially if you want to store large amounts of data e.g. networks or web traffic.
A standard doesn't `prevent` you from doing anything, it just says this is the accepted criterion, gauge or yardstick of implementing something and by which that implementation will be judged. It can be established by an authority or custom.

You can run off and disobey it if you want, your implementation will just be non-standard.
So that's definitely a limitation, but I wouldn't call it an issue --- this would have plenty of application!
It's like a game of Monopoly where everyone gets more money, including the people who already have Board Walk and Park Place, etc. #WWJD? Flip the board over. Jubilee.
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I was a cashier for 5 years, and always loathed counting and balancing a till, which was extremely error-prone. I originally wrote a small spreadsheet that made counting out easier, but wanted something that was easier and (potentially) in my pocket.

Fast forward many years later, and CashCloser 2.0 is out, with all the fancy stuff an app can have (in-app purchase, some backup features, and more). It's written in react-native, and uses a pretty "modern" front-end stack.

http://joelgriffith.net/cash-closer/

I'd love to answer any questions or talk about the project/motivation in general!
Just a couple days ago I gained a whole new appreciation for stamps after listening to this 99pi podcast about US stamps:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-47-us-postal-s...

I found myself genuinely considering starting to collect them.
Web assembly will be the fourth.
<refills popcorn> This'll be interesting.

Tech workers hate Trump, and have been forcing SV bosses to say bad things about him.

But this move is clearly going to benefit us (well, I'm in Australia so not affected directly, but "us" as tech workers). Raising tech salaries and reducing the ridiculous exploitation of immigrant tech workers is good.

SV bosses would clearly like to continue paying less for tech workers, and the visa program was a tool to do that. They now have a proper reason to say bad things about Trump.

But Trump would also like to have SV on his side. Where does he think the power lies there? With the bosses or the workers?

I look forward to next week's episode of "What Trump did to the USA"
I like the AGPL for this. While it technically allows commercial endeavors, it forces the consuming software to also be licensed under AGPL if the software is considered "linked". Since businesses don't want to open source their core products, this encourages purchasing alternate licenses.

Unfortunately the AGPL has a chilling effect on using the software at all (see RethinkDB). I suspect the same would be true of any almost-but-not-quite-OSS license.
The free market is a tool, a really good one, but just a tool. If it stops producing desirable outcomes then we can use other tools.

Most nations have government housing which serves not just to house the poorest but to put a cap on how much people in the next rung up of society are willing to pay for housing.
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Two very different evolutionary interpretations of dwindling human grip strength
I am finding the occasional reference to immigrant tech workers going back to their home countries and launching good teach business at home to be a positive thing. Seeing developing country with new tech scenes come around to solve their own local problems is inspiring to me. It gives me hope that tech really can change the world...
To be clear, this is actually a very small amount of plastic. Let's say a roof is 300 square meters; that amounts to < 2 cubic centimeters of plastic.

I would guess that there are examples of much larger consumers of plastic.
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If it's a lot smaller and serves their purpose, it's not implemented poorly. And if it compiles 10x as fast, which it probably does (I'm not a heavy Go user.)

Also I think this representation is different architecturally. Go now uses an SSA representation apparently, which would be the equivalent of LLVM IR AFAIK. This assembly language is more toward the backend where as the IR is more like the "middle end".
What about non-tech workers that come to the US through an H1-B? Scientists come to mind. If you don't have a PhD, your starting salary isn't going to exceed $100K. Are they just out of luck?
building a compiler can be as easy as building an interpreter

I prefer this demonstration to the one in that paper:

Interpreter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822

JIT compiler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746054

To make things more interesting, it's "real syntax", i.e. C-like, rather than the "almost no parsing required" syntax of a Lisp, even smaller than TCC, and yet it can still compile itself.

C4 and the few variants it's spawned have probably become my favourite family of tiny, understandable, but complete compilers. The sheer elegance and simplicity --- one file of less than 1K lines --- makes studying them highly recommended. Almost all the other tiny/teaching/toy compilers I've seen are larger, less capable, or both. I don't know if anyone has made a variant of C4 that generates an AST, but doing that would probably not be too difficult either, and then you'd have a tiny compiler you could experiment on with optimisation and such.
What is your comment but low-effort and non-substantiative? At least the parent is amusing.
(OP here.)

I'm a computer professor in the business school of a university in the Rocky Mountain area.

I get summers off. I want to visit FL or CA for 3 months during summer 2017 to learn surfing.

During that stay, I'd like to work for a start-up or some such. Don't need pay, but sweat equity and a place to crash would be yuuuuuge.

My ideal schedule will be to surf 4 hours a day, and spend 8 hours a day working at the start-up.

I consider myself well-versed in human communication, cognitive biases, UI/UX design, pricing, coaching.

Programming languages I dabble in: javascript, php, python.

I'm an expert at SPSS and can work with R. Have knowledge of machine learning, bitcoin (I did the Stanford MOOC for both).

I'm well read. My regular reads (and YouTube and Twitter addictions) include:
Hacker News
Nassim Taleb
Daniel Kahneman
Marc Andreessen
Paul Graham (Y Combinator)
Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert)
Derek Sivers

I'm huge into hacking "learning." I have a PhD, and hope to do a J.D. one day. Good cook, regular meditator. Originally from India, I have my green card, and expect to have citizenship by summer.
You can live in a similar house with great schools in the east bay for 800k so that's about $4000 payment, very doable to live comfortably and even save up a bit making $160k/year.
I think SLC salaries vary a lot by technology too. There's a lot of developers I know in that range here that would be around 135 in SF. Completely agreed on how much better of a value it is here though.
I usually buy a HTML theme from ThemeForest. It won't match what you're doing exactly, but I find it pretty easy to manipulate the elements a good theme provides to create something that both doesn't look generic like Bootstrap and also looks 1000% better than if I did it myself.
Cringley discussed the L-1B issue on Feb 6:

http://www.cringely.com/2017/02/06/trumps-upcoming-move-h-1b...
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You are actually totally correct, clouds would worsen cooling power.
> Raising tech salaries and reducing the ridiculous exploitation of immigrant tech workers is good.

Why not keep the H-1B floor at 60,000, but require employers to contribute another 60,000 to a fund to pay for Americans to be retrained as tech workers?
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> If average incomes went up,

Average after-tax income doesn't go up under any sane UBI scheme; it's redistributing income (ideally, primarily capital income—gains, rents, and otherwise).

> how long would it take for those with monopolies on basic needs to raise the prices?

Unregulated monopolies on basic needs are a problem that needs addressed either through regulating the monopolies or breaking then up, independent of UBI.

That said, redistribution will result in relative inflation of prices of goods disproportionately demanded by lower income segments, even in a competitive economy. The increase in nominal prices should usually be less than proportional to the increase in income, barring hard supply constraints that aren't addressed by the reduced demand for higher-end goods.
the chinese are not fools. they have a good control over the btc network hash why would they give up this power?
130k.. big raise.
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Self was developed at Sun as a prototypal alternative to Smalltalk, which involved a lot of work on the compiler to make it performant. I'm pretty sure that effort fed into the JVM.
There are WAY more than 100 companies that meet that requirement.
> to write a NIF that could somehow yield back and then be "continued" later would be a royal pain.

I know... nothing... about the NIF interface, but the way that I would want this to work wouldn't involve NIF resumption at all, but rather for NIFs to be able to put responses back on a channel.

Unfortunately neither quick internet searches nor searching the rustler docs revealed anything about a NIF/channel interface. I'm not sure how feasible it is to pass a channel into a nif and allow it to pass that into some thread and return, nor how good of an idea that would be.
Back then there was no mouse so both of your hands were on the keyboard full time. If you have two hands, it's a shame not to use them both.
This is what they taught at University in Australia 20 years ago.

Wikipedia's programming paradigms page has ummm, more than is worth easily counting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm

It also features Homoiconic programming paradigm that so many interviews ask questions about these days.
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Yep. I very much prefer to keep all the actual _logic_ outside the JSX structure, and storing all conditional stuff in temp variables. I have an example of my preferred approach at https://gist.github.com/markerikson/47fff93c92286db72b22bab5... .
Absolutely!

$200K down and $166K annual income and you can buy the whole $1MM property. $83K/pp income seems completely reasonable for two engineers (and crazy low for two SWEs!) in their 30s.

With a combined annual income of only $85K/yr and $100K down, you can buy a $500K property. No way are two engineers in 30s making less than that... (Two train engineers driving for Keolis make more than that.) Without a 20% down payment, you need a little more income, but it's still well within reach of normal professionals who decide they want to prioritize buying a property.
if this was true, why would we have so many sorting algorithms in the first place?

It's not enough to express the desired result. We would also need to express our preferences for all the other decisions and trade-offs that are made during software development. Do we need this sort to be fast or use as little memory as possible? Synchronous? Does it need an index? Are we optimising for writes or reads? Persistence? What language are we sorting by?

That's for a simple sort. By the time you get into actual problems then it all gets more complex and the trade-offs become something you need to understand before making a decision on. Having an expert to make those decisions is good.
They have considered it but Dish is about ~$50 a month if I recall from the last I talked to them and that's just too much for downloading and patching games.
Hm, food for thought. Thanks for the insights.
Does this mean that any applicant can set their salary requirements at $300,000 and nobody else can be hired until they are?
L-1B suppresses wages more than H-1B because it is not transferable. Not getting any raises? Only option is to go back home or accept it.
It has improved quite a bit since then (in 9.2 or 9.3 when you last used it), but it is still not all the way there. Especially rebuilding the cluster is much easier now.
Yep. I spend all day connected to machines that I have to access through a jump server because they have no direct internet access in or out themselves. No way is it worth it for me to customize anything there.

I realize that this is a pretty rare situation though.
> The only thing that can change the direction of motion of a particle is a force.

Quite false. You're overlooking the fact that photons are the carrier particle of the electromagnetic field, which takes the form of waves in space -- waves that change direction without the application of forces. An optical lens changes the direction of photons without exerting a force. So does curved spacetime. These are examples of hundreds of things about physics that contradict your outlook.

Also, masses respond to gravity by changing direction, and gravity is not a force: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/physics/140-physics/the-the...

Again, at 1.5 times the radius of a black hole, looking tangentially, you would see the back of your own head. So even in this local frame of reference, light has taken a curved path along with curved spacetime. In other frames of reference, light is obviously not traveling in straight lines. In fact, it can be argued that light never travels in straight lines -- that would be true only in a universe without any mass at all.

You could argue that water always travels along straight lines inside a pipe and never changes direction, and in the case of the pipe itself changing direction, you could argue that the water is always traveling in a straight line from its own perspective inside the curved pipe, but having said that, people would see your ideas for what they are.

> Any physics professor will understand precisely what i'm saying, and all agree.

You appear to have forgotten I have already disproven this with my John Wheeler quote: "Mass tells space-time how to curve, and space-time tells mass how to move." As with masses, so with photons. If masses could travel at c, they would take the exact path photons do -- curved ones.
There's are official "Who wants to be hired?" and "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" postings that appear at the same time as the "Who is hiring?" posting (first business day of the month). HN Guidelines forbid job ads outside these official postings. (See the "FAQ" link at the bottom of the page.)

February's postings:

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One nice thing about Hadoop is you get free distributed apps. On my current project, we only read about 50 TB of data per run across 70ish fraud models. Some read 1.5 TB, others only 20 GB. On a single system, that kind of data reading would require some smart I\O partitioning across the various models (multiples read the 1.5 TB data, all read the same 20 GB [after 20 GB you're looking at history that expands to the 1.5 TB]). With Hadoop, even just Map Reduce and Cascading, you can spin all of that work out to multiple computers. Since they have the data copied over multiple drives on those multiple computers, the I\O and general scheduling are handled for us. In the end, it makes everything simpler. If something fails due to network hiccups or disk failures, Hadoop moves the job and starts it again.
I don't think that's particularly fair on immigrants. It sets a double standard as to what people are worth.

PS. Also Australian... yeah, we're awake at this time.

EDIT:

To clarify, I'm not at all suggesting screw over Americans either. I'd not be thrilled working in any industry where I'd spent years getting qualifications, just to be constantly undercut by any group of people.

However, I don't think encouraging companies to underpay a certain segment of humans is an ethical way to resolve the problem.
But there is still a database? (I realize this wasn't mentioned in the thread title). yeah "serverless" seems kind of mis-leading. I'm wondering though what "script/language" you'd write this. How to store... should probably learn how to read first.

Thanks for the clarification.
For me the main issue is that reading READMEs or any other markdown files is tiring and annoying because of the ~1200px width.
>I know of no better way to objectively measure "in high demand" than "well-paid."

Sure, if the entire US had uniform costs of living. However, it's only the Bay Area that has costs (and local competition and investors) that keep those salaries at their current heights.

Every other company not based in Southern California who can't find workers will suffer, whereas before they'd at least have a chance, albeit a slim one.

So with this requirement in place, sure, it'll be hard for Disney to sell out American jobs... but it'll also make sure that only Bay Area companies will be able to justify importing workers.
True, but people do it anyway and a large number of applications are preconfigured to use them. But to the point, the same tool that hides the secret and encrypts the variable in 'docker inspect' will also show it as encrypted in /proc/[pid]/environ as well.
These days? I think it would be AWS ELBs, surely?
Yeah, the Rt 9 corridor doesn't have much cheap inside of 30 minutes of Boston downtown (esp since 30 mins isn't that far with rush hour traffic)
When I see these allegations, I often wonder if we are looking at it from the wrong side.

Yes, someone black might be getting paid $10K/less on average. The question is, do they have the same amount of education and experience as their non-black counterpart?

If not, then we need to figure out why there aren't as many qualified black candidates.

Instead, the answer seems to just have a quota of black applications, which really doesn't help anyone.
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I can see how arithmetic and bitshifting is the same among all architectures. But I would think that even loads and stores have differences, at least if you want to use the processor efficiently. But he says everything kinda looks the same.

The basics are the same (and indeed that is why many RISCs resemble MIPS), but you're correct that more advanced (or perhaps I could say, Intel-ligent ;-) architectures have many more interesting instructions that are beyond the subset, and can definitely save on code speed, size, or both when used effectively but are not easy to match nor describe the semantics of. It's easy to match X+Y to an ADD, or even X = 4 * Y + C to an LEA, but at the other extreme, how would you match a whole AES encryption round and replace it with a single AESENC instruction? Currently, no compiler I know of can do that, so you must use intrinsics or pure Asm.
No it's not. That is completely against the idea of ux. What someone says is not what they do. Measure. Analyze. Experiment. Tweak. Results. It's all objective data.
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I was wondering about this same thing. Highest paid doesn't equate to highest skilled at all.

The scheme seems more designed to punish companies from hiring immigrants than actually ensuring only high quality employees make their way to Silicon Valley.

Admittedly, I think increasing the $60,000 figure seems reasonable. It should be set at a figure (and updated regularly enough) such that it's slightly above the average wage in the industry. That way it's really targeting skilled workers, as opposed to cheap workers.
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