skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is simple imho. Docker turned into an enterprise. Attracted a lot of users (hype) and is trying to bank on it
I think you're lacking imagination. You're thinking of a software developing ai as a simple compiler. You also seem to think there must be a 1 to 1 relationship between a user's specification and resulting program. But a software developing ai could work very quickly , taking a vague natural language specification and giving many programs to choose from. That set would be narrowed based on a learned correspondence between natural language and completed programs, and narrowed and refined further with more vague natural language specification from the user. If the ai is smart enough the system could be only a bit more complicated to use than a thumbs up/thumbs down on pandora.

or we just ditch humans and allow an ai to assess what software we need.
If there was, then that would have been the first SHA-1 collision, right? ;P
This quandary is a great argument for never becoming an academic researcher.

It would seem to me that science needs to eliminate "career bias" or "mortgage bias" or "ramen bias" from its results. Negative results need to be just as publishable as significant results.

If I were tyrant of the Ivory Tower, I would decree that results be blinded until after acceptance for publication. I would further decree that prestige be allocated such that the first and second replications have equal prestige to an original publication, and successive replications are worth less prestige, but are still worth attempting.

The only failed experiment is one that does not advance the body of human knowledge. Negative results still let us know that one thing was tried, and it didn't work--it crosses off one line in a process of elimination. And those that fudge data and methods to produce the appearance of a result, and those that are so flawed as to be non-reproducible, are failures in that sense, even if they still allow for the career advancement of a few people.
Please also read the Part 1 of her article about "bullshit diversity programs". Startup CEOs should read both, twice
For what purpose, exactly?
I don't have much to say, except that I've been using Ghost for a while and love it.
Woah, you also made Photo Find? Hell yeah
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Interesting. Now that I think about it, every single one of my networking and/or sysadmin friends have realized significant upward mobility in the past decade. any of my programming friends have either gone freelance or simply changed employers for pay increases.

Are there any public statistics on this?
People at Microsoft (Redmond) traditionally had offices but they're aggressively redoing buildings into open plan introvert hells. The Azure buildings are just about done but don't know who's scheduled next.
I'm not convinced that it needs to be explicitly computed in a feedforward sense. If you just let the price float, then price will naturally form an error signal that the energy storage market (and customer demand) can respond to.
I'm a bit late, but sure!

Think about MSP models for a moment. Consider how they morphed into SaaS models over time. That "morphing" involved moving the data from an on-prem location to the "cloud". If you look under the hood of infra while this was going on, you see lots of innovation occurring with networking, compute resource allocation, security, storage, etc.

Now think about SaaS moving on-prem. A company has a bunch of their own infrastructure spread across both public cloud and private cloud systems. They want some of that software to have the benefits of SaaS. They want some of that software to be as secure as running it on-prem.

If we can manage to create the right software to enable it, there will be a new business model based on running someone's SaaS software on your own machines. There needs to be a way to deploy this software, and do updates and maintenance of course, but there also needs to be a way to pay for use, updates and that maintenance.

Older models of using license keys isn't very secure and doesn't scale the way SaaS services do. So, you might end up seeing a model like Splunk's, where usage defines license costs. Trouble is, that licensing engine is a pain in the ass to maintain for companies and requires what most to be considered obfuscation to make it secure, guaranteeing payments for use.

If you add cryptocurrencies to the mix, then you have a way to implement a lightweight federation across all types of infrastructure and tie it to the deployment. I won't go too far into the details of that here, but that's what I'm working on currently, and have been working on for a while.
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If prescriptions were not necessary, drug advertising would be even more heavily targeted at average consumers, addiction problems would be more widespread, and anyone could operate a doctor's office without a license or proper education. You should have the right to put whatever you want into your body, but drug companies and pharmacies should not have the right to sell whatever they want to you.

Fundamentally, you have not "done the research and weighed the risks" unless you went to medical school.
I just heard of a new NGS file format that should fix this
Additionally, not everything appears on video. We have found major differences between identical studies run in rooms set at different temperatures. Also, many of the procedures I do would essentially require a camera operator to capture all of the movement. I take a cage out of a rack, take a mouse out of the cage, weigh it, dose it, etc.
Nah, just playing the long game :-)

"If we prioritise for intelligence then they'll eventually just write a bash script, none of this vague hormone and 'feeling' nonsense."
I'm no lawyer, but it looks like that language grants the DeviantArt corporation rights to use submissions, which they need in order to provide basic search as well as marketing.

It would be a different thing to grant Wix users the right to take someone's work over to their own sites, I speculate that would require an extension or transfer of copy rights in addition to the quoted policy.

I'd wait and see, I'd expect that Wix won't just lay claim to all submissions without asking for permission or remunerating artists who's works are sold.
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> appropriate investments in infrastructure to support their variability

Erm, why didn't you make appropriate investments in infrastructure?

Because it cost money. Why should you expect someone else to make an unprofitable venture if you yourself were unwilling to do so?

In any case, the variability in solar and wind is known. To keep the same level of electrical service will require a HUGE increase in energy storage.

The thing about coal / gas / even nuclear to some degree... you can "turn it off" if there's too much power being pumped into the grid... and you can "turn it back on" if there isn't enough power. That's why natural gas "Peaker Plants" continue to be built, despite the fact that they're much more expensive than Solar or Wind.

The enemy of "Peaker Plants" is cheap energy storage. Coal and Nuclear power is more efficient if you just keep it on 100% of the time and then store the energy anyway.

And believe me, utility companies HAVE been building cheap energy storage. They're called Pumped Hydro for the most part. Other solutions for cheap energy storage simply didn't exist until recently. Lithium Batteries are expensive and don't provide much storage believe it or not... not on the Gigawatt scale needed to last more than a few minutes.

We will likely continue to use "Peaker plants" for the near term, at least until the energy storage issue is solved with something much much cheaper.
Is this the study you are referring to?

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X16...

I believe he's pretty honest about the limits of the estimations and the difficulties defining "subsidy".

> While there are many caveats (discussed below) to the estimation procedures and findings, the policy implications of the paper are clear: energy subsidies are very large and their removal (which entails levying Pigouvian taxes) would generate substantial environmental, fiscal, and economic welfare gains.

All of those subsidies still have an overall effect on the market prices. The external costs (accidents, gas prices) are factored in as people decide to buy cars and company financial officers always consider tax deductions or other benefits.

You don't have to hand cash to a firm to significantly reduce their operating expenses.

Although I do agree that the decision by the study author to include things like congestion and road accidents is questionable...

> Broader externalities associated with the use of road fuels in vehicles, such as traffic congestion, accidents, and (less importantly) road damage. Although motorists may internalize some of these costs (e.g., the average costs of road congestion, the risk of injuring themselves in single-vehicle collisions), they do not take into account other costs (e.g., their own contribution to slowing travel speeds for other road users, injury risks their driving imposes on pedestrians and other vehicle occupants).

Even if you add say a carbon tax, what are the alternatives? Some people can't bike to work. Or taking public transit is not an option (especially in the US and Canada). And if you drive an electric car then you have the same problems of accidents and congestion.
That doesn't sound right. dA is the original source for a lot of the work being sold. I'm not familiar enough with the community to know if they're being used as a black market but I know for certain that lots of artists use it as a sales gallery.
I really like ghost. It's very simple, and straight forward. I've built a couple of websites based on it now, and wrote my own themes. I'm not sure I'd pay for it, but as an open source self-host project, it's pretty great.
It's almost certain that intelligence agencies could invest this effort to say, break SHA1 SSL certs.

To the contrary, it is unlikely that they can do so.

There is a world of difference between "come up with two things that hash to the same value" and "come up with something that hashes to a particular known value". It gets harder still if you're trying to add constraints about the format of your text (such as making them look like a potentially valid SSL cert).

To illustrate the difference, suppose that you can constrain the algorithm to produce one of a trillion values. If you generate a million possibilities, odds are good that 2 of them will have the same hash value. You've generated a collision! But you need to do a million times as much work to have good odds of generating any particular value.

That said, attacks only improve over time. While it is highly unlikely that intelligence agencies can break SHA1 certs today, it is extremely likely that they will eventually. Where eventually is 5-20 years.
Another one that this reminded me of is "The Backstory" (http://talk.andrewchen.co/) by Andrew Chen (from Uber). It deals a lot more with marketing and growth but is still a great resource for entrepreneurs.
I've never understood the pricing of ghost. I started a personal blog and my first post got almost 50k uniques when it got to the top of /r/programming and the front page of hacker news.

So the pricing model of ghost is problematic because:

1) I don't know what level of plan to buy to support this kind of traffic.

2) $19/mo seems really expensive for a personal blog. (and wouldn't support my traffic load)

3) A $5 instance at DO handled the load really well with room to spare and conservatively took about an hour to setup.

So, I guess I'm not their target customer? I want to pay around $10/mo for a hosted blog and support like 500k uniques. There are some wordpress hosts that handle this level of traffic at this price point I think.
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I was experienceing really poor SEO results for my previous ghost site (self hosted on digital ocean). Never understood why...
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I think a service that buys something for you (from businesses that sell to the public) has a big safety advantage over one that ships custom packages - while I'm sure it would still be possible to smuggle drugs that way doing so becomes a lot more complex. Likewise one that holds it and lets you pick up in person (which usually require you to present ID) rather than shipping it on.

And while it's a fair example, I think Canada, where most of the population lives very close to the US border, probably doesn't generalise to the rest of the world.
"On the surface, mentorship seems like it could be a good way to help people advance their careers, but the data shows this is only true for men, because mentors provide different things for men than for women."

How dare you suggest men and women are different.
Every three months or so I tell myself "right,get your finger out, and do something production quality with containers" and come to the same conclusion this guy did.
Wow DeviantArt has been around since forever. I used it a lot when I was younger. After all these years, it's only worth $36M. That's pretty bad.
So you think it's an invalid argument because of where that person works? Seriously, who are you to judge how others spend their lives?

Do you go around telling construction workers that their life is meaningless and they should instead be building rockets to carry you to another planet?
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But in the wild, there aren't separate rooms for predators and prey, either. If laboratory rodent experiments are so reliant on such synthetic conditions, what's the point?
My desktop at work has 16G of RAM. I didn't bother setting up swap, and I find the old guidance (2x RAM) pretty absurd at this point. I've had the OOM-killer render the system unresponsive a couple of times, but only because I'd written a program that was leaking memory and I was pushing it to misbehave. If you really want virtual memory on purpose, you can still set up a memory-mapped file for your big data structure.
Note: Trouble Maker is a platform-agnostic tool that randomly takes down services to test stability. It also provides an ad hoc console to produce common troublesome issues in your platform so you can test durability on-demand.

Trouble Maker v2.0.0 introduces a new UI and specific performance improvements implemented with Spring Boot and Java Websockets. The new user interface was built from the ground up using Angular 2.
Yep :-D thanks! Makes me really happy that you know about Photo Find!
While sometimes this does get tricky with resources that are clearly owned or associated with multiple things, often times a resource only has one real owner and it is unambiguous. It does make moving things a bit weird though, as moving a book between two shelves makes it have a different fully qualified name.
It's also worth noting that you can die by drinking too much water in a short period of time [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
> got her salary adjusted to median position salary because she was a woman

>>Really?

Yes really. She said that there was a meeting where a manager actually made a comment about underpaying her because she was a women then they immediately freaked out.

>>anyone not a cis-male only gets there to meet the criteria of a diversity program.

As far as this goes there was a specific initiative that was in place to cater linux to women and we were told to interview and hire them. After hiring many of these candidates and having pretty bad results we had to stop giving that program preferential treatment.

Also for the record my friend who I referred to with the pay discrepancy was a fantastic engineer who was not hired through that program and she hated the program because it tried to make linux all girlie which she found offensive and demeaning.
Why is it that journals find it impossible to append the pdf supplement to the pdf of the paper?

I recall seeing only a couple of journals than manage to do this for errata.
> I've met a few 'ride share' drivers who only go out during the times they can expect to get a surge fare.

That sounds like it's working as intended, no? More people driving when there's more demand, less when there's less.
Everyone at Uber is hurting

Fowler is not at Uber. Nobody at Uber is taking responsibility.

No statement from Uber has been explicit that the behaviors are upsetting or that losing an engineer because of company culture as manifested in the workplace was upsetting. The statements have all been about how reading the post made people unhappy (perhaps because the behavior was made public). The loss of company value due to the fallout probably makes people unhappy too. Heck, any bad press will make people unhappy.

Uber's response narrative reminds me of a "What's really important here is how hitting you makes me feel bad about myself" bully.
The guide actually explicitly says it is focused on gRPC.
> Do your motivations matter if you do incorrect work?

YES! If I'm careless my results don't match the data and someone can catch my mistake. If I'm trying to defraud you I'll fix this problem by making the data fit, and it's much harder for people to find the mistake.

If I'm a careless accountant we can audit my spreadsheets and find the errors.

If I'm a crooked accountant I'll have deliberately hidden the "error" in shell companies or offshore accounts, and this will be resistant to lower levels of scrutiny.
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> That doesn't sound right. dA is the original source for a lot of the work being sold.

Right, but a lot of what's sold there is "fanart" that uses copyrighted characters etc.
The problem is mostly on the side of drug and medical device companies. They spend lots of money on research and development and they want an easier and faster return on their investment. There are also problems for patients, when someone hears about a promising new treatment for their serious condition, but it's going to take several years to get through FDA approval.

> If you want to use an unapproved drug, you can do so

This is not true in general. Where do you get it? A doctor won't prescribe it, you can't get it from a pharmacy without a prescription, you certainly can't just order it directly from the drug company. Sometimes it might be more easily available in another country, but that won't always be the case.
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This is a perfect use for Lambda (i.e., low-traffic, once-off tasks that don't require a full server), or at least this would be a good fit if not for immaturity issues like missing WWW-Authenticate.

But Lambda at scale is very expensive. A 100 request/second would cost more than $1,500/month, when even a single nano server could easily service that kind of load all by itself.

Back of napkin analysis:
https://twitter.com/JamiesonBecker/status/802185522139582464

Lambda is great for tech demos, small or rare loads, triggered tasks, etc. Not so great as part of your core app pipeline.
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> There is a world of difference between "come up with two things that hash to the same value" and "come up with something that hashes to a particular known value".

Doesn't the PDF on their site pretty much prove they can do both of these - at least, in a way? They were able to change the color without impacting the contents of the PDF and get the same SHA1.

They probably have a fair bit of garbage data to work with in the PDF format, but it seems likely that you might be able to do similar in certificate formats.

Remember, you only need a very small modification to change a valid web cert into a CA cert or a global wildcard.
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Apparently you meant the government would reduce the UBI that someone receives. I interpreted it as everybody receives the same UBI, but obviously some punishments are accompanies by fines, and the fine for certain crimes may be equal to the amount of the UBI. Everyone would still receive the same amount, but for some, it would be "taxed" before it's actually received. That's still suboptimal but wouldn't turn the UBI into a political crisis.
A floating price means smarter grids. Smart grids that don't exist yet in large swaths of the country.

We gotta upgrade all of those electrical meters in everybody's homes to take into account time AND price changes. We've gotta build the algorithms to distribute those price changes.

A lot of cities have that kind of infrastructure already of course. But lets not deny the monumental task ahead of us. The idea of "smart meters" that communicate with a central server (ie: requires perpetual and reliable internet access) was unfathomable just 10 years ago.
Yeah that's really cool. Resonates with me. Analysis paralysis is a big problem for introverts.
> "Using the innate thirst mechanism to guide fluid consumption is a strategy that should limit drinking in excess and developing hyponatremia while providing sufficient fluid to prevent excessive dehydration," the authors state.

2015 Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/296081.php
I can't tell from the various sites that have covered this, but it seems this is faster brute force attack (much faster), but not a preimage attack. Am I reading this correctly?
Yeah, it's true. I guess it would be one part of a strategy. Mine also involves saying "pardon me?" a lot and telling them that I'm deaf. 98% of people in uniform don't have the patience to try to communicate with a deaf person, and just tell me to move along. Also, they probably won't believe that I don't have facebook or email, but I can avoid telling them about things like okcupid, instagram, and disqus logins at least long enough to delete those accounts if I do get searched. Like any security, it's more of a deterrence than an absolute block.
How does the process work for an investor?

I just specify my risk appetite and you choose the borrower for me? or do you give me a list of options and I can choose who to lend to? Ideally I would prefer the first option.

Can I also limit my investments to a particular kind of borrowers, say who wants it for Educational purposes, is that possible?
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How would this handle a distributed system, where a request might be routed to a different backend server? Do you try to guarantee that a request is statefully resent to the same target each time? Do you force your idempotency keys to be stored in some kind of distributed database, like a redis cluster?
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> True, but 95%+ of the issues you'd catch with unit testing in Python you catch during compilation in Scala, and that can be an incremental compile rather than a full compile. So once you have a properly set up dev environment the feedback loop takes less than 2 seconds in practice, though the one-off setup to reach that point is a lot fiddlier than for Python.

Not sure I agree with either of those. Compiler catches different types of error compared to Unit tests. Lots of ways especially when dealing with external libs or APIs where compile can't catch anything.

> Django wicket etc

To each their own. I despise SPAs, and neither code them nor use them if I can help it. DRF is really good for rest endpoints though.

> Meta programming

meh, different levels of it. Look at using Django ORM for some queries, vs say Slick. Slick is a bit gross.

> 1 liner vs 6 liner

Meh. In practice, Python is very terse also. Java vs Scala is a big line of code difference. I have not found Scala vs Python is that different.
The cis- prefix denotes that the person's gender identification aligns with their biological sex.
You can create one that you only use for work, but having an account (even if it's just a blank one) is kind of necessary. Edit: I don't know if you need one to apply, just to work