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that example you give does not follow a similar model. it defines the columns once (not repeated w/ every observation):

"columns": [
"time",
"value"
],

and then the observations as a list of lists:

"values": [
[
"2015-01-29T21:55:43.702900257Z",
2
],
[
"2015-01-29T21:55:43.702900257Z",
0.55
],

exactly as i suggested in the "even if they were wedded to JSON for some reason" section of my original explanation.
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Two hours isn't really enough time to go from zero knowledge to programming. The first two hours or so are, almost inevitably, going to be spent learning the syntax and the interface; real programming begins when you start using that knowledge to solve problems.
Needs "The Conversation". A near perfect movie about surveillance, that doesn't feature a single computer.
Not for the hacker or cyberpunk genre but I do think that 'Primer' needs to be in this list. Haven't seen more realistic time travel movie than this yet.
I talked to someone at the archive. He said a few people are aware of this, including people involved with the way back machine. It might be hard for them because video content in general doesn't save well, especially if it's hosted on YouTube. I tried out some video streaming, audio streaming, and download links on previous snapshots of the site, and they all lead to error pages.
> Lenses are generated on the device. They're not uploaded to Snapchat servers.

Context is very important when you're quoting people: "... and if they've been "good" data miners..."

And regardless of whether or not a filter is generated on device, facial data is being used, and so I'm weary that it could be sent to a server. If it's not, fine, but that's subject to change.

> From the support site: "Snapchat servers are designed to automatically delete Snaps after they've been viewed by all recipients."

So when authorities get involved, I'm sure Snap says "sorry, can't do anything for you"?
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And I'll note that Nintendo definitely has the money to spend.
What is your response to that argument?
My personal favorite:

"Hackers - Wizards of the Electronics Age"
Starring a bunch of old school programmers/hackers!

Magnificently produced by Fabrice Florin -http://fabriceflorin.com/

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOP1LNr70aU
When you say for clientside you would want to stick to the full Visual Studio IDE, do you mean web clientside or clientside as in traditional desktop apps?

If you did mean web clientside could you expand on that?
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Are you realizing that risk spread out over time is what creates your downtime average? So what you are saying is that your uptime is so important that it is worth additional downtime. It's an illogical statement.
If they're highly motivated, perhaps they might be willing to spend some time learning the boring stuff (syntax, etc...) via Codeacademy or something similar. Then you could use your in-person session to build some actual neat program from scratch.
even the most inhospitable places on earth (even post global warming) are far far more hospitable than the best places on mars.
For reference:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531381/bio
The idea that the Federal government may crack down is certainly unsettling. Even without the detailed traceability public records data being available, the cat is already out of the bag.

For instance, by entering a highly regulated industry, these businesses have to submit a ton of paperwork - including federal income taxes, company formation documents, employment information, etc.. Furthermore, to operate successful, they have to advertise, and are already visible in print papers, billboards, trade shows, magazines, etc.

If anything, we hope that this data demonstrates that legal cannabis is an industry just like any other: prices go down as competition increases, variety and quality increase over time, jobs are created, there is significant tax revenue, etc.

One last thing: there is nothing identifying about the customers that is in this data, since everyone pays in cash.

(Apologies for my slow response, comments are throttled, and HN is asking me to wait before submitting new answers.)
Sorry, didn't mean to trivialize the process.

More literally, for the all VC conversations that got past due diligence, the negotiations simply fizzled out.

Dilution was only one of many factors. It is a very hard and grueling process.
Historically, when this has happened, it's because the founders have managed to build the product & get on the growth trajectory before taking investment. Bill Gates built Altair Basic, sold it to hobbyists, and reinvested the profits to buy MS-DOS and sell it to IBM. Larry & Sergey had a working search engine that was using up half of Stanford's bandwidth before they took their first angel investment. Facebook was a dorm-room project. SnapChat was a final project for a Stanford product-design course and had 100k users before it took investment. The Apple 1 was done in Steve Wozniak's nights & weekends, and had sold out before they took investment for the Apple 2.

If you have a working product and ideally money coming in, the early negotiation leverage changes dramatically. You can skip the seed round entirely, because you've already seeded the project. You can usually get a very good valuation on Series A, since your metrics look great and every VC wants a piece of you. You can negotiate to give away very low equity stakes in later rounds, since at that point you seem like a sure thing.

The flip side is that most side projects don't go anywhere. You need to be both very dedicated and very lucky to strike it big without investment.
I'd love to see earlier movies on this list, ie The Conversation (1974) [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation
Some of these films are extremely bad, and that's not limited to the ones with low imdb scores. This list is in serious need of pruning.
> You can't add a new thing without adding a new point of failure. Every point is a point of failure.

Correct, but it's an existing process. So you're right, we could ship a blatantly bad config.

> Who deploys the thing?

We do, humans, yes. We can definitely screw up a config.

> Automated deployment?

We tend to do blue/green deploys on critical pieces of infrastructure just to sanity check it. We might even pull a node out of production, test on a staging server, etc.

> Wait, was the local proxy load tested?

Yes. The load we need for this case is not even close to significant.

> Was it load tested when one of your data centers is down and everything is doing 30% more work?

Yes, it's literally just a proxy to S3 doing no additional work. For our traffic, the load is not a concern. Especially since it's running on every machine, it's distributed pretty well. A single box cannot overload our haproxy process compared to the CPU needed to run the Python application itself.

> Can you tell I used to work in monitoring? Maybe I just have PTSD now. :P

DataDog, it's pretty dope. It gives us lots of super good insight into all of these things and is what alerted us because haproxy reported S3 down in the first place. It'd also tell is the moment a process like this crashes, etc.
They are extremely well funded, it's the personal pet project of Michael Bloomberg.
archive.org will have to be careful - they're going to be under the same obligation to provide captions as Cal.

edit: If Netflix can be sued and forced to provide captions, so can any other entity providing uncaptioned video.
It's been impossible in pretty much any electron app I've tried. It's not a vscode only issue.

At that point using find/replace or opening in sublime is a better option.
Better yet, crowdsource subtitles from hearing people who find the videos useful.
Not necessarily. I am guessing GovCloud doesn't require a security clearance. Just have to be a US Person. That means a citizen or have a green card. (At least for ITAR purposes that is good enough).

If they ask for a security clearance or are willing to sponsor it, it probably has to do with that $600M private AWS instance for the CIA.

But yes if you have a clearance here you can pretty much walk out of the building if you don't like your job and walk into the next one and they'll give you one. (That's the joke anyway).
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Yahoo execs didn't 'properly comprehend or investigate' massive hacks
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Yes, I understood what was meant, I was pointing out that the parent comment didn't clarify it any further for the person who did not understand.
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It's probably only used in military technology and government devices; the only advantage is the control of supply chain, security (less risk of backdoors with manufacturer cooperation) and thus suitability for local defense industry. For example, I recall seeing some announcement about a locally designed tablet computer with this or similar CPU, designed for military map/geolocation use.

Both for supercomputers and ordinary workstations they'd use the same hardware as everyone else, the price/performance is better that way due to economies of scale.
Some good career advice
Dot was a pretty good comedy that didn't get enough attention: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371647/

It's on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/8919323
The same guarantees also apply to OpenStack Swift, which is basically S3-on-your-own-cloud. Since more and more internal teams are now using the Swift clusters that I administer at $work, I can see a lot of people struggling with the concept of temporary inconsistency and the practical ramifications thereof.

Last year, I spent two full months hunting temporary inconsistency bugs in the Docker Registry's Swift driver. I added several heuristics that reduced the frequency of inconsistency-induced errors by about two orders of magnitude, but in the end, we still ended up switching to Quay, which has gotten the memo that you mentioned: "never overwrite anything, and never rely on object listing". They put metadata in an RDBMS instead, just like s3mper which was mentioned in the submission.
And the SR71 makes an appearance. This movie still inspires me. Reminds me, I should show it to my son... is 5 too young?
I disagree. In the last few years S3 has had multiple of these black swan events, while the reverse proxies I am talking about have pushed through hundreds of billions of responses and have had significantly fewer incidents. (In this case, none)

I think the fallacy here is that you're not comparing apples to apples: I would be the last to argue that I could run a globally distributed S3 competitor better than Amazon. But I can (and have) run a massively simpler service with better overall uptime because it increases our options during upstream black swan events.
Interesting, thanks. :)
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> I'd call that pretty gross

Just to be clear, if roles were reversed and the NRA advertised you would _not_ want Everytown to have ad placement as a rebuttal or do you just find it gross because you disagree at a political/personal level?
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And for newer stuff, Richard K Morgan's Altered Carbon (2003) and 2 sequels really hit the spot. It's hard to find good gritty cyberpunk these days.

And it's not that old works are bad, just that some of the tech misses distract and take you out of the atmosphere sometimes. Like on Star Trek, when they have to physically deliver email to people on holodiscs.

I'd also note that Asimov's Robot series are great if you like hardboiled type stuff - not cyberpunk, but has a slightly similar ambiance.
Welcome to the modern economy.
That Cool Robot May Be a Security Risk
The irony is that many of the videos people are most interested in are Deep Learning courses, the very technology that is making this moot by improving the accuracy of auto-generated captions. Presumably taking everything down now will delay the improvement in this technology.
I'm going to go against the grain and say: don't watch these.

Or rather, don't prioritize watching these. Try to balance out movies and books related to your profession or hobby with those outside of it.

The world already has enough stereotypical geeks loving Ghost in the Shell, Star Wars and Star Trek, it needs more geeks having an interest in what "regular people" do and like.
As an aside, I know this simply from experience with taking drugs recreationally. Chewed or otherwise ground up pills hit you faster, and I've found dissolving a ground up pill in hot water is the winner, as far as time to kick in.

Pharmaceutical pills have all sorts of additives intended to delay the release of the active chemical, recreational pills have an obviously less rigorously tested version of the same.

My mother, a (retired) cardiovascular pharmacologist, taught me that the quality/effectiveness of those additives is often what differentiates brand name drugs from generics (sometimes significantly, admittedly she's been retired for quite a while now, so that information might be out of date, but she actually did some professional research on the subject back in the day).

I'll never forget the time when I, at about the age of 11, was sent in to the store to buy a big bottle of Aleve that my mom was going to "smuggle" across the border to Canada for her sister (Naproxen was prescription only at the time in Canada, but available OTC in the US - amusingly, Tylenol w/codeine was the inverse). I bought a generic naproxen sodium instead (thinking I was so clever for saving about half the money I'd been given), and I got chewed out and sent back into the store to replace it. That was what she got for teaching me to actually read the active ingredients of drugs on the label ;)
You should actually read the blog post. We are strictly increasing availability in addition to S3's already amazing availability. Not adding another point of failure and assuming we're better. In fact, I literally assume I'm shitty, so I build defenses so my fuck ups don't cause any issues.
I meant native desktop and mobile clients. And specifically, I meant client-side .NET programming.
Is it just for me, or did the 1.10 update killed other people's custom user settings too? (OS X)
Hi, I'm Jason Scott. I had a heart attack and I'm the one who wrote the essay this is linking to.

Since the entry was written last week, I went back to the Emergency Room twice. The first was because I was just feeling "a little weird", and they did a round of tests and verified that no, I'm healing fine, that's just how I feel now (I feel less weird every day). The second time was a few days later when I experienced a notable shortness of breath. This time, the cardiologist said it was likely a side effect of one of my drugs (it's known to do this) and we swapped the medication. Now I'm feeling pretty great.

I mention this because one of the themes of messages in here are "I don't want to be a bother/I don't know if this warrants a trip to the ER" and those two thoughts should NOT be calculated into your deciding to go. Believe me, they'd MUCH rather work on "guy feels funny" than "guy got shot by other guy in argument over the Playstation" or "Guy drank so much he crapped himself and fell onto a sprinkler and is bleeding profusely".

The doctors thought I should not fly for two weeks after the procedure, so we booked an AirBNB for the extra time. My hosts of the two events I spoke at (ACMI and MuseumNext) have essentially paid for this entire extra AirBNB time, which is generous and wonderful and I give a shout-out to them. Additionally, the hospital gave me a letter indicating I couldn't fly, and MuseumNext was able to move my international flight with no real added cost; that's also worth a shout-out. Melbourne is a very nice place to be resting.

The main annoying part is I was (mostly) doing the right things, health wise - I had dropped 30 pounds, and was walking like crazy - I'd upped my step goals on the fitbit after I kept smashing them. On a trip to Japan last year for three weeks, I'd walked over 160 miles. I'd done this because I'd seen so many contemporaries drop dead or get really sick in their 40s and 50s - computer life is not a healthy life. The silent and unaddressed problem, on my side, was cholesterol - it was choking my arteries. Drugs will help that, but I've now radically shifted my diet to approach it naturally as well. I'm raring to go on long walks again, so I will definitely continue that. But please bear in mind - I might still die! Nothing is guaranteed!

I also see a lot of differing opinions on "see doctors" versus "not see doctors". I can't imagine how having a regular doctor checkup is in any way bad. It might not affect what you DIE OF, but it can't hurt quality of life - when I had bad kidney stones for years, it was certainly my doctor who gave me the drug that fixed that. And other small notes have made my life better as well.

Money/cost issues are worth a whole other post.

Finally: I see that 25% of the thread is an argument over linking to the title versus describing the essay's contents. I see people are VERY INTENTLY CONCERNED over the two sides in this discussion. As always, HN knows where to aim the energy.
The two other books in the series (Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive) are both great as well, but I found that the first had the most magic.

In the same vein, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is great as well. Its essentially a parody of cyberpunk but hilariously well written.
>I'm a chip architect

Many people with an ECE/CS background have probably had a FPGA + VHDL/Verilog course.

What are some additional skills needed to enter the chip industry?
Well, Blade Runner or Inception are no different.
I appreciate this discussion because we need to realize the trade offs of strict fairness. In order to be fair, we have provided less good/utility for those that were benefiting unfairly from the service. We have not provided any additional good/utility for those that were not able to benefit from the service.
I'd love them to take moderation seriously, but it couldn't scale and there's no natural "partitions" between communities of interest with different norms, so you can't delegate it to users. They've only just managed to deal with the most high profile example of "brigading".
The GP is claiming that all possible floating point systems, taken together, would contain the same number of values as there are points on the real line.

Consider a floating point system based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio_base
Anecdote Time:

So, I am an American who lived in Sweden for roughly 4 years, long enough to consider myself mostly fluent (reading novels, talking about relatively high level political science questions in Swedish, etc.) and only agree partially with the comment above yours. Norwegians and Swedes would speak in their native tongues regularly but a lot of the time, especially if either person was from a region with a distinct accent (Skåne, i'm looking at you), they would transition to English.

As for Danes, that is a different boat. Their written language is extremely similar to Swedish but their pronunciation is far more guttural and hard to understand for many Swedes. I went to Copenhagen with a bunch of Swedes and they spoke almost exclusively English to the Danes.
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Did you not read the article, or even the thing you replied to? Languages can imply context, that's the point.