skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Admittedly the risk is ultra low

Exactly this. The size of your code is positively infinitesimal compared to your data. And unless you're writing your code and then running it exactly once, which is a) even more unlikely and b) bad practice, you'll catch any of those bit-flip errors in your code or data structures.

This has been discussed a lot in the literature, especially for GPUs where ECC carries a performance penalty both on speed and available memory, e.g. in this paper where they've tested it on a GPU cluster:

http://www.rosswalker.co.uk/papers/2014_03_ECC_AMBER_Paper_1...
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Exact. This is the right question here.

Maybe we do not have sensors in the right places that could detect them.

I'll suggest to place some sensors in regular airlines and see what happens for example.
Not if you use multiple mirrors
I guess for the same reason home owners associations exist. Personal choices that are visible in the communal space can affect property values and people's enjoyment of the area.

For many living next to a constant stream of strangers is undesirable.
6 core 140W 6800K I have under my desk is cooled with a Noctua NH-U14 - very quiet and max core temp I've seen under load (mostly video transcoding) is 54 degrees - that's about 30 degrees above my office room temperature.
> quality of life of citizens

While I can agree to some extent to this being the metric optimized, this metric depends on who gets to be a citizen. For example, the situation when the city becomes too expensive for particular class of people and they move out leads to increased in quality of life of remaining citizen, but people (not me) usually express negative views on this.
Thanks your suggestion. That's pretty much what the library is doing. One thing the library does is if on their first visit a user has utm codes in their URL (e.g. utm_medium) it'll store this and make it available via pursor.convert() & pursor.fetch().

Currently the library looks for 'utm_source', 'utm_medium', 'utm_name', 'utm_term', 'utm_campaign', and 'utm_content' in URL.

If I understand correctly you would like additional data collected by analytics.js made accessible via the library? I created an issue for your idea here (https://github.com/bilbof/purser/issues/1).
Have you seen Strap?

Strap is a script to bootstrap a minimal OS X development system. This does not assume you're doing Ruby/Rails/web development but installs the minimal set of software every OS X developer will want.

http://mikemcquaid.com/2016/06/15/replacing-boxen/

https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/strap
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>If the highest value use of apartments is short term rentals, why is it "sensible" to limit that use?

As long as you're paying for the externalities (which in most cases of AirBnb rentals, you aren't) then sure.
If that's what you think the problem is, then I've got bad news for you: this system applies to a whole lot more than just housing. This is how all scarce resources are allocated, and it's the most fair and efficient system that has been invented so far.
I hate it when a service doesn't have a way to use a password but instead forces me to use a 3rd party. Using a 3rd party like google for the password is a breach of my privacy. I do not want to give too much data to facebook or google.
The fact that there seem to be no major AirBnB disasters suggests that hotels are probably overdesigned, and this is all unnecessary.

Another is that usually short term rentals are already against rules or regulations so the people who bought assuming they weren't going to live next to a hotel have a reasonable expectation to have a say on if that's going to change.

At one time people purchased homes assuming they weren't going to live next to negroes. Did they also have a reasonable expectation to have a say on if that's going to change? If not, why not?
In addition to Rook https://rook.io/ , which CoreOS mentions and we need to add, please take a look at the other cloud-native storage options listed on the CNCF cloud native landscape: https://github.com/cncf/landscape

Disclosure: I'm executive director of CNCF, and co-author of the landscape.
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Yet another reason to add to the pile of aguments against electronic voting.
And what a stupid bit of deceit at that! Publishing others' content for your own benefit, especially when they do so themselves, is reprehensible. Aiming for a highly technical niche of natural skeptics seems like a poor strategy. That said; if the CCC were officially disallowed to publish, or quietly advised that they would face sanction for publishing a talk, I might feel differently -- that would be acting in the spirit of the event, and protecting the organizers from reprisal.
It's not your neighbor that engages in activities. It are random strangers with minimal vetting that will be gone the next day.

Are you unable to see the difference and how that might affect you?
They marketed 5x86 and 6x86. Faster integer performance than Intel; the FPU was the weak spot.
>When did this become a valid reason to regulate an activity?

When you operate on the assumption that people aren't affected by AirBnB rentals in their buildings this is an easy argument. But sometimes people are affected.
He was already eating more calories than he needed. The difference is that after changing his diet he was excreting less calories, since sugar (specifically fructose in the absence of fiber) is absorbed quickly and almost entirely.
>I often wake up in the middle of the night

That might not be that unnatural as sleeping for 8 hours straight:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783
If I were Apple, I'd jump on this. Maybe then battery life will be better. And hopefully that famed form fitted battery comes out of the woods.
It sounds like the process you are describing will result in the creation of lots of awesome areas that are worthwhile to visit, together with an increasing supply of housing in these areas. Why is this a bad thing?

Are you postulating that there is an infinite demand for interesting areas to visit, and an infinite supply of tourists who will completely displace locals everywhere?
It's not just about whether the initial investment in time is worth it. It's also that your time-to-reinstall is predictable and short.

Once you've got a script, then it'll just be a minor annoyance if you have to reinstall at an inconvenient time. Personally, I've got a combination of a script, plus a set of notes. I haven't automated everything, just the easy parts.

But then again for a REAL quick installation, I've restored from Time Machine as well.
Maybe Calyos[0] technology might interest you. Fanless and totally silent technology, here is the other Linus[1] talking about it.

[0]: http://www.calyos-tm.com/calyos-fanless-pc-workstation/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PJOrfpiVwE
Doesn't work:

1. 6% house sales tax.

2. BAG registry contains all address registrations in incredible details. Public data. More available for a price.
Yes that was my point. If we agree on that you should also agree that "artificially influencing the market" does not mean anything.
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Housing is a service, and landlords, who provide this service, take principal risk as well as pay for maintenance, taxes, and other costs. Why should those who provide such a service, such as housing, not earn rent for their efforts and risk? Developers buy properties in bad neighborhoods in the hope of improving and renting them, but without profit, where is the incentive to invest? It's a two sided-equation: for services to exist, there must be an incentive for the other side to provide said service, and that incentive is profit.

Regular apartment rentals often lock renters for multi-month contracts (due to difficulty, length, and expense of the eviction process, in which landlords lose money during the lengthy eviction process, when a renter rents for a single month and does not leave after not paying); air BNB, although it's more expensive per night, doesn't have such long time commitments for renters.
Disposable spoons are the answer here.
The Clustering MultiThreading (CMT) part of AMD's recent Bulldozer generation seems to have worked very nicely by itself. But the cache heirarchy of the chip was quite poor and it's not clear whether using CMT led to the cache problems they were having or not. In the end Bulldozer used CMT and performed poorly. Now, AMD have abandoned CMT in favor of the Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) that Intel uses in Zen and this chip looks like it's going to be performing quite well. So without more details than we're ever going to be privy to it looks like CMT was a dead end.
> Not sure I agree. Most science datasets (both from simulations and experiments) are sufficiently noisy that if your scientific end results and conclusions change as a result of even thousands of bitflips in your 16 GB of data, you're Doing It Wrong and your article isn't worth the paper it's printed on. (There are probably exceptions, as always, but those working in those few specific subfields should be aware of it.)

There is way too much overreach in this statement. Imagine doing Finite Element or Computational Fluid Dynamics analyses; bitflips of the floating-point values in the field solutions, which could easily make those values completely unphysical, are not the kinds of errors the solvers are written to guard against. In order to do so, you'd need to sanity-check every value, and if you had to use a "guardrail" value, it could easily take a significant number of iterations to recover to the more correct value. Solvers can be easily crashed by corruption of numbers. Sure, if you're lucky enough to have bitflips in low-order mantissa bits, no real harm done. Just don't expect the bitflips to cooperate in this way.

Maybe the "big data" and machine learning crowd don't care about some corrupt values, but most numerical/scientific computing is not so sanguine about corruption.

It is a little frightening how we are moving into significantly larger computational solutions, but are simultaneously increasing our exposure to the fragility and lack of guarantees regarding enormous quantities of perfect bits at all times.
Original 'Show HN': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7772085
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Maybe because topological spaces are more familiar to many mathematicians than categories?
The term to google for is "Avogadro’s number"

A mole of some chemical is a cardinal number and its a gross simplification but a "handful of stuff" has about ten to the twenty forth molecules or atoms. All to less than one sig fig. The exact number doesn't matter because enough half lives to dilute that much stuff to being statistically unlikely to contain less than 1 molecule is very large indeed. So at some point, where the radioactive activity is lower than say, a banana, or the ore it was dug out of, or a granite countertop, you just dump it. It takes a lot of half lives to take a banana down to zero radioactivity...

Probably the accident is somebody dumped the wrong bucket. You're supposed to dump bucket #32525 which has been aging for 100 half lives but accidentally bucket #64256 got dumped which was fresh. Or they reused buckets and markings (whoops there's two buckets labeled #15415)
Yes. It varies (hugely) from on place to another, but typically there is a state income tax, and also sales taxes and property taxes that go variously to the city, county, or possibly state. It's quite possible that a person might pay, say, 1/3 of their taxes to these non-federal entities.
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There are lots of things people don't want to live next to. For example, lots of folks don't want to live near the wrong type of people.

Typically we consider those desires morally invalid and not something to be supported. Why is "short term" a morally valid way to characterize the "wrong type of people"?
Having owned a Nissan LEAF for the last 2.5 years has been really great. Maintenance is almost nothing, the battery has held up fantastic and the car is a real pleasure to drive. Never having to stop for gas or get oil changes sounds like not a big deal but it is really nice. Every morning the LEAF has a full charge.

I think the Bolt and other 200+ mile range vehicles that are fairly affordable will help get more people into EVs. The other thing I think we need in the US is an affordable EV crossover. There's rumors of Nissan doing an EV Rogue. If they put a 60KWh battery in it, I think it would sell like gangbusters.

Obviously the last hurdle, and a serious one for many people, is that owning an EV without owning a house is really impractical in most places in the US. We need charging stations at apartment complexes, but that's one of those things that is unlikely to happen until EV ownership is widespread enough to make it a feature potential renters will care about.
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Fascinating stuff. I've now done maths for some years now and this is the first time I even hear about sheafs.

Makes one wonder what else you may have missed just because it's not something profs at your programme are interested in.

edit. Follow-up. I wonder if there's a list of curious and possibly useful math stuff you might easily miss because it's not as ubiquitous and 'canonical' as (e.g.) analysis, linear algebra or functional analysis?
That particular comment seems OK. In general, one should make the code readable to the point of not needing a comment. Comments can rot over time in legacy systems. Somethings really benefit from a comment, however I feel the following snippet is a better example of a comment that should not exist as it does not serve to clarify the code and is just a direct English translation of the simple code:

# Iterate through article's sections

for section in self.page.sections:
It covers a wide range of patterns summarized in easy-to-understand language, with code examples. I'm going to enjoy reading through it all.

I also liked the examples of each design pattern found in "everyday situations" - a tea stall making batches of tea for the "flyweight" pattern, etc.

There seems to be an effort to put it up as a website, and to include other languages. Please let us know when there's more progress on it!
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Exercise within 3-4 hours of bedtime is an antagonist to restful sleep, though!
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Agreed. The USPS also provides address verification / normalization services. [1]

Though I'm honestly not sure those are as comprehensive as certain other countries, as you mentioned. Germany has the Meldepflicht[2] for instance, which requires all residents to register their address with an Einwohnermeldeamt, and I'm pretty sure that's validated against a nationwide database. Granted, it's not granular enough pinpoint exact apartments (since apartments aren't generally numbered here), but still, I imagine that kind of thing would make it pretty difficult to bypass a law like Amsterdam's 60 day rule.

[1] https://www.usps.com/nationalpremieraccounts/manageprocessan...

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldepflicht
And, well, it looks like it was mostly just one guy working on it.
I took the OPs comments as referring to the fact that management either:

a) didn't know the company was hacked.

b) claimed they didn't know they were hacked,

c) didn't bother to do proper discovery to quantify the extent of the hack until years later.
My speculation is you're working for cognizant am I right?
Ask HN: The wrong kind of DevOps, Jump ship?
Throw away for obvious reason.
i am a seasoned developer working on industrial software, recently i made the jump to devops thinking it would be cool and by lordy am i shocked at some of the practices.
Please bear in mind while you read, this devops role is supposed to be 60% coding (scripts, custom software etc...)

since day one things began to stink, i started suspecting something was off when i noticed that none of them have actually released software into the wild before (you can tell by the questions they ask)

My supposedly senior colleagues don't have a development background and are glorified sys admins (and very bad ones at that - i could elaborate but then i will digress), the "code" written by these senior guys is the equivalent of a thirteen year old discovering Lego at a very late stage, mediocre to say the least but also embarrassing, no one who writes code that bad should be employed.

More importantly and (frustratingly) is that none of them accept the feedback being given (i have led teams so i know how to dispense them and always wary not to hurt someone's feeling ), partly because i joined after them but also because of sheer arrogance ( you know the kind of guys you show them something new and they 'oh i knew that' already) .

My manager doesn't really care.

i am constantly being offer the opportunity to apply for other jobs and have been ignoring them for a while, i am now thinking of jumping ship, which is sad because i love what i do but my manager is refusing to let me make changes.

Have you had a similar experience, as a developer who moved to devops, what were your observations about previous-sys-admin-now-devops guys trying to write code, were your feedback taken into consideration?

Any advice ?
A guest my neighbor met on Grindr is a random stranger with minimal vetting that will be gone the next day. Should we also regulate Grindr?

I don't see any difference that matters, nor do I see the underlying moral principle that allows me to distinguish between one and the other. The principle you've stated clearly isn't it, unless you also favor regulating Grindr.

(I'm deliberately choosing Grindr here in order to make my example conflict with left wing mood affiliation.)
I think you had to be pretty dialed-in to daily news to get the "fake news" origin story, and then how it turned to be something else.

In the beginning there were articles and there was fact-checking. Specific articles that failed checks (failed QA) were fake. A rush of those in 2016 were found to be for-clicks and for-profit.

One might have really hoped that more checking (better QA) would come out of that, but perversely the opposite happened. "Fake news" became a blanket condemnation not just for unchecked stories, but often unread ones. "The headline says that? Fake news!"

This is kind of a critical juncture, but I worry that it is becoming a wrong turn.
Everyone I know in Germany puts them in the fridge. Though I just realized, that the supermarkets/stores sell the eggs uncooled.
> That does not lead to the conclusion that other sources are right.

There are no other sources. Information you get isn't divided into "news" and "not-news", even if you divide it that way in your head. An article in a blog is just as much news as an article in the NYT. Or for that matter, one of the NYT blogs...
It is neither efficient nor fair. It is a system that is good at keeping power and a system that is destroying nature and the earth.
Validate demand. Look for local opportunities that you could reasonably have access to, first. Are the people, networks, or digital platforms that you want to use to gain employment at a rate you want offering work in one or the other? Game and mobile development have different funding cycles (eg: how much money someone "invests" before seeing a return). High rates for individuals are in the VR, AI, Data space - but they have dramatically different backgrounds. Reasonable rates for long term contracting are in the node.js, golang, ruby space (since many devs left ruby for node). Try to match your focus to the area you can land work. Me? I specialize in R&D for new products.
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Conan the Librarian and Ghandi 2 is what makes up 90% of my humour, I feel it's enough for a lifetime.
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Mike, this is super cool. Two requests:

1) Cantonese doesn't have a flag. Maybe just use the Hong Kong one, at the risk of upsetting the rest of Guangdong?

2) For hanzi-based languages, it would be super awesome if you could (optionally) display the romanizations as ruby annotations on top of the characters. I know romanizations are there, because they are displayed after getting an answer right, but it would be so helpful if they were available immediately.

Thank you again for an amazing tool.
Just be careful about what melatonin you take: http://www.consumerreports.org/melatonin/study-questions-ing...

Melatonin is also most effective at smaller doses, conterintuitively; try 300mcg instead of the more common 3-5mg doses. Sorry for no source on this, Googling around will help.
> The idea of "fake news" is propaganda

What do you call information that is produced to resemble reputable news sources but contains very little true information?

Is there any support for the claim that it was reported, and a term was coined for it, in order to limit competition?

Why should we think it's that vs genuine reporting on a trend where people profit from producing this material AND a complimentary trend for Americans (trending toward conservative views) to believe anything that fits their preferred narrative without question?

I think this is absolutely different from propaganda because it's done first and foremost from a profit motive. It did not generally (as far as we actually know) come from powerful groups who want to control a political narrative. [0] I'm sure that has already started to change- Russia and other countries will certainly use this attack vector. The material they produce would be fake news used as propaganda.

[0] http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503...
I'm trying to put this into perspective.

AMD having temporary edge over Intel has happened before. Remember when AMD had Athlon in 1999 and they made huge $1 billion in profits.

Intel's response has always been the same. They cut their profit margins and start selling chips cheaper. They undercut AMD with volume and price and suddenly AMD is in the doghouse again struggling. AMD's best efforts can cut into Intel's profits, but Intel's response is to remove all profits from AMD until it's left behind.

Just compare these two:

Revenue/gross profit/gross profit margin (Sebtember 2016)

AMD $1.1B/$930 mil/4.5%

INEL $60B/$16B /60+%

Even if you add $5.5B revenue from GLOBALFOUNDRIES (manufacturer of AMD chips) to make AMD camp comparison more relevant, there is large difference.
Slick. Heat pipes from CPU and GPU back to a large passive cooler embedded in the case. I'd be curious what the limits are - how much heat can it absorb before the lack of active cooling affects its performance.
> Well you know sometimes many little guys can join together and get the/some power cause they can be sufficiently damaging/deathly to the big guy.

Have no fear, citizen, that bug will be solved soon.
The first thing I'd like to be taught is where to use Kubernetes and where to avoid it (many people tend to think it's the best practice to force everything into containers, and ideally, Kubernetes).