skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New pharma company using tech to fight cancer and neuropathy
More of a general inquiry, but that's a fair question. I've worked at a few companies using an offshore team, and I never asked how that relationship was established. Most of those teams were building some sort of web or mobile app.
Google Analogy Task results ( detailed results at http://pastebin.com/PF96nMfX ):

Semantic accuracy: 63.84 % Syntactic accuracy: 67.00 %

Here performance is not great (great would be >80% on semantic and >70% on syntactic).

As this task requires nearest neighbor lookups, performance is impacted by vocabulary size. Since models trained using Wikipedia alone usually limit vocabulary to something ~300k words, we can try that to get scores which are comparable to those posted by the GloVe [1] and LexVec [2] papers by only using the first 300k words in the pre-trained vectors, giving the following results:

Semantic accuracy: 77.75 % Syntactic accuracy: 72.55 %

Impressive stuff!

[1] http://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/glove.pdf - https://github.com/stanfordnlp/GloVe

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.01283v1 - https://github.com/alexandres/lexvec
I believe the truth is somewhere in the middle. The hype will eventually die down and we'll see some kind of equilibrium.

I've been experimenting with "cloud over" where I only use cloud servers for spare capacity. With docker it's getting easier. My baseline CoLo has the same performance as a super high end AWS instance and costs a third as much after my fixed investment.

I still have the cloud if my box goes down or takes a big traffic hit, but I'm not paying for a bunch of cloud servers all the time either.
For reference:

- Snapchat is now worth nearly 10x Facebook's acquisition offer from 2013

- Snapchat is also worth ~1/14th of Facebook's worth

- Snapchat is also worth somewhere in the range of 2-3x Twitter
My last day and my first day
That seems to be a very theoretical position with no evidence that it happens in the real world.
Uber Has Hired a Law Firm to Investigate Susan Fowler Rigetti
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>Like seriously how does using a particular language make you want/enjoy making things more complex?

It's not the language, it's the community that uses the language. It's working with people who tolerate working in that language and with that sort of people. The Java community drives out developers with an aesthetic revulsion for things like a ShoelaceTyingStrategyFactory, and you're left with the dregs.

In short, the causation is backwards - folks who want to or enjoy making things more complex end up using Java more often.
Aren't e10s and Electrolysis two different names for the same thing?

In any case, if you wanted to add a third item to your list, I'd recommend Quantum:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum
How much more would you pay a month for this though? Newspapers don't have enough subscribers to be profitable as it is.
>If _everyone_ used lyft line/uber pool, the vehicles could be larger and more efficient.

That's called a bus. If I have to ride in an efficiently routed, high capacity vehicle I'm essentially just riding a bus service with an app that tells me when the next bus is coming. What you're describing is just an upgrade to a public transportation system. There is no reason a well administered city government couldn't do all of this.

Hell, a city could develop an app for getting around in it that serves multi-modal transit. You could have an app or a card that works as a single interface for riding buses and trains, renting out a car-share or bike-share, and hailing cabs. There is no concrete benefit to tying their city transit to the whims of a private corporation when they don’t have to.

>Uber/Lyft know where people are going; at scale ("everyone") they can aggregate rides more extensively.

Not "everyone." Just people with smartphones at the moments when they happen to have smartphones with them. It’s also dubious to claim we would realize that many benefits from eking out microefficiencies in aggregating rides. What's the real upside there? Well maintained bus lines in walkable city plans do just fine enough on their own.
So does the FB Messenger app (Android at least) as of a few months ago.
You mean why the current license sale is limited in amount and time - I answered this in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13777696
I see, and you're right I can't think of any other options in the area. MA is great for a lot of things, but the lower population definitely means it takes a hit for services you'd see in NYC, Chicago or SF.
Well, in WW2 US had a draft too...
Ops and Engineering here.

My guts hurt just reading this.

With big failures is never just one thing. There are a series of mistakes, bad choices, and ignorance that lead to a big system wide failures.
Hey, maybe the camera was tracking his eyes and started playing the appropriate sounds when his eyes focused on the right words. I'm only joking but I think that it is possible to do this.
Well, that's just not true. Though certainly not the norm, some of these communities have done really well:

- Yogi Tea was started by 3HO which was a network of Ashrams in the 70s, today they do tens of millions of dollars in sales.

- Oneida Flatware has its origin in the Oneida Community, a 19th century free-love sect in New York State, and they're still one of the largest silverware brands.

- The Bruderhof Communities run the Community Playthings company, a multi-million dollar furniture operation.

Those are just the ones that come to mind. Interestingly they are all examples of religious groups. I'd love to know of examples that are not.
Radio is dead, grampa.

Seriously, outside of top 40 and hip-hop stations, I think nearly everything is geared towards older people.
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Potential U.S. earthquake zones in 2017
Yeah, but I'm just trying to ballpark it. I figured the larger server would be a costsavings over many smaller ones.

Most of it does need to remain online at all times including several large databases. Just running my logstash server alone eats 8 GB of RAM and 200+ GB of disk.

In bandwidth and storage alone I'm past the cost of the server - so even if I could split this up and keep it mostly offline it still wouldn't be close to worth it unless I'm missing something more significant?

> You're not including the time costs of operating that server.

Do you mean swapping the drives about once every 3 years with free DC remote hands? Operational costs there are almost nothing - maybe 10 hours a year of my time. Surely much less than it would take to get everything running on a cloud architecture. And that cloud architecture would still require some level of maintenance and monitoring I'm sure.
Got a 2014 Honda and had the same experience, hate to hear they have not improved. It had the same Pandora and aHa radio "features" and the in-car system was terrible in general. It interrupted the music with voice prompts, and randomly wouldn't let you do certain things while the car was in motion. It's like a UX designer threw up... and then that throw up designed a car stereo.
> You're welcome to go into the forest and do that (well, you'd be arrested!).

Should this be the case? Should we permit society to expand to a point in which it's impossible for people to opt-out?

I'm not comfortable with requiring all humans to be a part of society, but at the same time I'm not sure if there's a solution given the fact that resources are finite.
Ask HN: How did you switch technologies?
I'm primarily a PHP/Node.js dev, but contracting with those skills (at least where I live) is a lot less easy than .NET/C#.

I know a bit of C#, but I haven't had any real industry experience. I'm also reluctant to take an entry level job for a year or two just to get those skills. I have bills to pay, etc.

Has anyone else been in this situation before and managed to successfully switch technologies without taking a cut in earnings?
I agree with that in general but having your monitoring system be dependent on the thing it monitors is a pretty big goof. It possible that the dependency was very non-obvious and many layers deep, which is more understandable, but still...its pretty fundamental.
Right now, the EU/NATO are wondering if they're on their own or not. They might have 8 years of a US President who just doesn't care or will blame them.

Putin would be crazy not to take advantage of an opportunity to chip away at NATO and destabilize the EU edges. What else is he going to do, be a good boy and wait for them to drop sanctions?
I didn't get the same result. I used the relativistic rocket equation [1], and the change in rapidity from 0 to 0.998c is about 3.5, which means a total change of rapidity of about 7 (static to full speed and then back to static). Assuming perfect hydrogen->helium fusion engine (specific impulse=0.12c) the ratio between initial mass and final mass is 10^25. For comparison the mass of the earth is about 0.6*10^25, or in other words, if you want to send only 2kg of load to this star, you need fuel as much as the mass of the earth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_rocket
This guy may actually need therapy to not suffer from some light degree of trauma.
The "economy" is much, much larger than a few social networking apps.
That may be so. What does happen on the other hand is that many countries throw people in prison for refusing to serve. This is the case in Norway, for example. And if you do show up and get processed, once you are part of the military you risk being put in military prison if you the subsequently refuse to serve. This is what happens during peace time.
That's nice. I find that printing and reviewing my own blog articles helps a lot in catching mistakes etc. I will see if I can integrate that into my website.
I have made a decent living for a couple years cleaning up offshored projects. I do not have any suggestions but carefully screen them for communication skills, responsiveness to emails/calls, ability to track completed work, and overall skill. Too many people put blind faith that everyone can develop software equally and it just is not true.
/r/gamedev – crytek employee hasn't been paid in 2017
While I think anti-capitalist communes are as hopeless as the author portrays, communes of likeminded individuals have been successful. Consider the Chelsea Hotel in NYC. In addition to being the cornerstone of NYC's art scene for 100+ years, it also contributed to billions of dollars in value creation. [0] The hotel was intended to be a community for artists from the start, and by every measure it was successful.

A few factors that made the community successful:

— Residents still had jobs

— Residents were expected to pay (very low) rent

— Residents had a lot of leeway if they missed their rent

— Residents were generally selected for their likemindedness/talent

— Residents stayed at the hotel for a good stretch of time, fostering a sense of community

— Short-term tourists and wealthy patrons helped keep the rest of the community afloat (like many of these communes)

— It was in Manhattan, not the middle of nowhere

I think it's still remarkably possible to create successful intentional communities. However, I think that being isolated with 100 people in the middle of Indiana is probably less tolerable (in the long term) than living in a communal hotel with 100 people while still living in an exciting city. It's less incestuous that way, and you're constantly being invigorated by new ideas from your next-door neighbours.

[0] https://medium.com/@bagelboy/make-america-bohemian-again-de8...
As a citizen of a country with a conscription-based military, and having served myself, that "what if" question is better aimed at https://what-if.xkcd.com/.
I think you meant the industries' prices instead of costs.

Take the hypothetical of costs declining massively on everything:

Instead of donating tons of clothing, we donate tons of food, building materials, cars, etc, since they are dirt cheap.

Eventually this leads toward the techno-utopia of having all earthly needs provided for by technology for free. So the jobs in Uganda are no longer priceless, they're unnecessary.

I don't believe in Utopias, but you get the point.
>Conscription is slavery, and many conscripts will consider themselves to have a moral obligation to resist slavery.

On the contrary, conscription, and armies consisting of the population of a country in general (as opposed to mercenary armies) are a democratic achievement of (among a few other factors) the French Revolution.

In the actual times of slavery, e.g. in Ancient Greece and Rome it was free men that first and foremost did the fighting (and who considered it their honor and what made them and kept them free), and in the dark medieval times of peasants, feudal lords used mercenary armies (including against their subjects).

Conscription appeared on the scene as a way to have the army be controlled more by the population -- as opposed to it being professional soldiers ready to be used against the people.
"Have you ever kissed a girl?"
>If your assertion was true, then I'd expect those areas to be so full of crime, misery and drug abuse, that it would make international news.

I invite you to walk the streets of downtown Detroit or, as thehardsphere points out, parts of Appalachia if you still have doubts.

The only reason such areas in the US don't make international news is that third-world countries still have it relatively worse and, even then, governments of other nations issue formal cautions to their citizens against travelling to these areas.
For those of you who might be fooled into thinking this is about things like SystemD and Docker—it's not!
They're pretty big repos (461MB and 785MB compressed) but I'll try to get them uploaded ASAP.
i think that's a flawed assumption. many don't have close to an unlimited data plan. it would be great to drive while one's kids can play on their ipad in the back. (with the wifi)
Any details? Need some help?
I used to fear the same. However better technology/protocol is not enough to replace bitcoin. There are way better Protocols for messaging than SMTP, so why haven't we moved from e-mail?

Also, with services like https://shapeshift.io/ I can forever hold only bitcoin, and can pretty much instantly convert it to whatever other alt-coin I want. Lets say there is indeed a future encrypted-coin which provides perfect anonymity and perfect security and blah blah blah.
Cool, I want to use $1,000 worth of encrypted-coin to buy some stuff, so I'll just convert my 0.01 BTC (or whatever equivalent) and do that.

I believe shapeshift has an API too, so it will eventually be even more seamless to "convert" among alt-coins. Might even be transparent (send XX bitcoin and it'll automatically be received as whatever coin).

So, When everyone knows bitcoin, and bitcoin has the largest market, and is the original cryptocurrency, and has the most infrastructure, and the most developers, and can already easily be converted into any alt-coin; Tell me, what is your best argument for how something like Monero will surpass bitcoin?
Sounds like the author needs to read Worse Is Better (https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html).
Broadband lobbyists celebrate as FCC halts data security requirements
Yeh, makes sense to make changes to the system rather than do nothing and just blame someone. Errors happen, it's something you can't avoid.
> [Netflix's] edge is in software alone, nothing that causes a huge barrier to entry like custom hardware.

Actually, they are a media company. Their "edge" is in content creation and licencing deals. They might have been first-to-market for mass-scale streaming, but streaming video technology is a commodity, and they know that they will live or die by the desirability of their media catalog.

> Netflix for example, is completely at the mercy of Amazon.

Amazon and Netflix were symbiotic for years, as Netflix was a headline corporate customer, and I'm sure they received preferential pricing. And given the quality of Netflix's engineering team, I would be very surprised if they don't have a plan to migrate by the expiration of their contract if necessary.
Ahh, yes! I whole heartedly agree with you that Uber is(are?) an asshole for luring drivers utilizing disingenuous information.

I'm glad they lost this case: http://www.moneylife.in/article/uber-to-pay-20-million-for-a...
When indexing documents (and querying for them), there is a process the terms go through, to split them up and then normalize them so they can be found easier. A trivial example is you want to find "can't" when someone searches for "cant". Typically special characters are removed for several reasons: the vocabulary of terms becomes smaller and saves space and time, you can ignore punctuation (like searching things that jut against parenthesis), you can remove accent marks and diacritics, and a host of other things.

This is hard because (a) you have to have contextual awareness of punctuation in certain places, like the '&' character in john&jane vs the logical &&. (b) your vocabulary of terms becomes larger - which is probably not a big deal for most folks but if you are Google then a 0.0001% increase in the vocab is a killer in space.

--EDIT-- The vocab increase is probably not as much as I noted above - but even adding a dozen terms can have an impact at Google's scale.
Using local MQTT broker for cloud and interprocess communication
Let me clarify - it isn't equivocal that every situation is money savings by moving from data centers to the cloud. I wouldn't have to provide an assessment if it _always_ saved money.
There are multiple degrees of slavery. Eg. The Roman emperor Antoninus Pius forbade the killing of slaves without good reason, but they were still slaves. Slave does not have to mean literally zero rights.
> Which planes are these? I've never seen an autopilot that could take off or land.

Have you seen many autopilots, to be that certain?

Civil planes equipped with autoland are commonplace.

Some fighter jets take off from carriers in autopilot. The pilots are actually required to grab a couple of handlebars in the cabin during take off, to make sure their instinct doesn't overcome them.

> In the exceedingly unlikely event that corrections need to be made

The set of bad things that can happen in a complex spacecraft isn't limited to needing a route correction. That is obvious, but even if it wasn't obvious to someone, history tells us.

> where would she practice twiddling the knobs?

Do you honestly think astronauts go to space untrained, because "where would they practice"?

They practice in simulators. Even the two tourists will have to be trained, for obvious reasons.
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> While I hope that AWS would be as understanding as Gitlab, I doubt the outcome is the same.

I hadn't thought about how 'prone to forgive' an organization is.

Should there be policies in place as to how big a mistake you are allowed to commit? Something akin to:

```if(log10(cost_of_mistake) >= 5):
worker.fire()
```
>That may be so. What does happen on the other hand is that many countries throw people in prison for refusing to serve.

And rightly so.

The only reason the country exists in the first place, is that people were willing to fight to establish it, and to serve and fight to defend it.

Else it would be not some magical global brothership of unicorns and love, but what was there before modern countries: empires and feudal overlords.
L.A. keeps building near freeways, even though living there makes people sick
Definitely feels like you're getting locked in. Sort of like buying a combo stereo unit with radio/phono/8 track in to one box instead of buying separate components that could be swapped out.
This reminds me very much of the desacralization of meditation, yoga, and even Buddhism as they are often taught in the West.

The former two in particular are often thought of as nothing more than means for improving one's health or destressing, with little if any appreciation of their religious roots.
Economics novice here. How did we get such a huge difference (40%!) between the IPO price and the current price, when both sides had $3.4 billion at stake on getting that price "right"? Is there some huge information disparity here?

Moreover, if investors feel that $24 a share is a fair price, why weren't they swooping in before the IPO and, say, offering $20 a share for the whole chunk?

Sorry if this seems like a ridiculous question, but it seems to me like there should be some extremely large free market force (on the order of $1.4 billion) preventing the founders and employees from missing out on all that money. Am I wrong?
There are quite a few comments here ignoring the clarity that hindsight is giving them. Apparently the devops engineers commenting here have never fucked up.
The monitoring system was not dependent on the thing it was monitoring.

The website that shows the public results of the monitoring, which is updates only by humans, depended on it.
Skype finally turned off a bunch of old versions of Skype just now. download.skype.com is refusing connections as a few million people try to upgrade. I suspect it is all knock on effects from that.
Definitely, but I'm just wondering what the circumstances were where it was actually worth it - I thought my deployment was quite small, but it still didn't seem worth it. I guess due to high bandwidth and storage usage, maybe without those I could get away with it.
I don't buy the "If we just plan ENOUGH, disasters will never occur" argument. It's the universe is just too darn interesting for us to be able to plan enough to prevent it from being interesting.
I would pay actual money to help get a feature like that into Chromium or Firefox. Hell, if Firefox added that exact feature I might actually rethink my decision to switch to Chrome once they drop support for all the addons I use.
Exactly. What they should do is have the status system be independent of AWS so it can report issues regardless of AWS service status.
> Pokemon Go showed us the bleeding of digital to physical

Niantic had another game (Ingress) that Pokemon Go is pretty much a copy-paste of. Compared to P:GO, Ingress was/is not very successful.

I think this only shows us how desperate people still were for a real-life Pokemon game (and also one that didn't require buying gaming specific hardware). They put up with a terribly unstable app with few features that got less stable and removed more and more features over time.