skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you and the parent are agreeing. :) They didn't know what to make of Feynman's analysis, because it used techniques they weren't familiar with. It was clearly an approximation; were the error terms really ignorable?

They only used 5 when it turned out they couldn't manufacture 7 and had no other choice. So they only trusted his analysis out of desperation / wishful thinking, not out of objective reasoning.
Whoever submitted the values, if by mistake (not a plant), is definitely running neither final production clocks nor drivers.

It might have some credibility if it was 2 weeks away from release, which is definitely not the case here.
You're changing the subject. You imply Travis isn't a good CEO because his company is losing money, whereas Steve Jobs was "was a phenomenally effective CEO." At the age of 40, he most certainly was not.
The same reason we prefer to read our texts over having Siri read them outloud in public.
> LSD cannot be patented, so Big Pharma cannot make money on it

This doesn't entirely track. Certainly brand-name pharma that do drug research might not be interested, but generic pharma that simply copy drugs from the brands and sell them at steep discounts certainly would.
Was interesting to read, tnx. When I was choosing air conditioner for my house I found denver heating and air conditioning system http://www.summitheatingco.com/ from a well known company in CO. Guys from Summit Heating &a/c helped me with installation. And I don't have any regrets, everything still works great
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> Your browser doesn't support Hangouts Meet

No, Google, it's the other way round. Hangouts Meet doesn't support my browser. Quit trying to blame your lazy coding on others.
chmod supports names for permissions. Wouldn't it be easier to just learn octal? Takes about 10 minutes.
You're making a pretty silly claim. We could just as easily claim that the British empire grew to what it was because British schools had uniforms or it happened because the British eat more biscuits or Marmite.

Rote memorization of Greek and Latin texts probably had very little to do with the expansion and maintenance of the British empire.

TL;DR: Seriously?
It’s too bad that the conversion from LaTeX markup to HTML was… nonexistent, leaving us with such things as “100\%” and math formulas in raw LaTeX forms.
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UCSF just finished migrating all of their business systems to a remote datacenter (Washington state). These two events are probably linked. Running a data center in the heart of SF isn't a good plan for a variety of reasons, so my guess is the logic was "if the hardware isn't here, do the people need to be?"

(Not saying that's a good plan)
Yesterday when it came to outsourcing of jobs, Trump only said 'China', 'China', 'China'.

I don't know what magical spell has India cast over Americans that all American politicians have become totally stone blind to the fact that how damaging India has been to outsourcing of jobs from America to India and how many highly skilled/educated Americans have been left without jobs due to India's usurping of jobs.

And to those bleeding hearts who highlight scarce attempts of Indian companies hiring in US - don't forget the fact that such job numbers dwarf the amount of jobs that have been outsourced to India. And for those karma-believers who think that one day India will taste its own medicine when they outsource to poorer nations than India - let me tell you something: India is one nation that will never,ever outsource its own jobs to other nations (mickey mouse examples won't count).

How the heck can IT folks from US/Canada/UK and other such nations compete with India (and in some cases with Philippines) where wages are so low that if we here in the Western World were to work with such wages, we would need to have 3 jobs to make our ends meet.
That's not the definition of network effect, end of story. Look it up.

You can't use precisely defined economic concepts willy-nilly. By that standard Amazon has network effects because the more products I can buy there the happier I am to shop there (Amazon side) and also the same goes for the other side, because the more customers it has the happier it is.

Only problem is that's not the definition of the word we're arguing about.
>Imagine if we had to write a new browser plugin for each new site we published

You mean like Electron applications? :P

But seriously, I don't know what kind of clients you want to use, but if I want to store data on an object store, for example, I know what the verbs are. And if a new one is added, then at some point I need to change something on the client side to factor that in. Unless the server is also serving the UI as they do with web pages.

<semi-rhetorical-strawman>If I'm using something like $AccountingProgram and my bank puts in a new possible action like "donate" to let me easily donate to charities which will return important information like deductions and the relevant fields, etc., then how might my accounting become aware of this new concept? </semi-rhetorical-strawman>.

Maybe I'm too troglodyte to see it. My engineering senses are tingling with excitement that it would be cool that it automatically gets through to the client (without also being open to click/UI hijacking from shitheads) but I just don't see how it can happen.
I have been working for the past 7 years with a blind programmer. With a "tactile" watch, he can quickly know what time is it without minimal interaction with the hardware (open the lid, touch the watch, close the lid) and without disturbing the current course of action with other people. The same way you quickly check your watch.

What I see as really good if it can hit the market at that price is that it will help push down the price of braille strips. At the moment a strip costs about 100€ per cell. If you want a 80 cell strip to do some programming, it costs new about 8000€...
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Lawsuits for criminal negligence against the CEOs of the companies themselves would be a damn good start. Their business practices are why these problems happen. They cut every corner they can find, put business school grads in charge of deciding schedules and resource allocation to engineering, and make sure that if an engineer says 'we need more time and testing' that any low-level manager can tell them business goals come first.
Two remarks:

- sadly, nobody mentions BET MetaOCaml http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/MetaOCaml.html which is probably first place you want to look before you try to build this yourself.

- in Lisp, this is trivial (as explained here : http://www.ymeme.com/hackers-introduction-partial-evaluation...
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That's.... fantastic. Coming from a PhD who understands how hard it is to organize and evaluate research, I appreciate that you organized and evaluated the research.
This is an application of mean field approximation. See the O'Reilly book Data Analysis with Open Source Tools by Philipp Janert, page 175-178.
If DeleteUber succeeds, that's then end of the American dream as we know it.

Starting a tech business with better ideas, and working harder and smarter than the Old Boys with Money (and taxi medallions) is the one of the last ways anyone, like a Zuckerberg, can climb the ladder, without selling out their own hacker spirit as we call it. The fact that the CEO would sit and dish strategy in a frank manner is something I find commendable, and seems to part of this guy's nature.

But if Uber goes down in flames for this petty PR play after burning through billions in VC money to acquire the market share they are rapidly losing, no young founder, heck no man or woman who hasn't trained in corporate lawyer dark arts is going to be allowed to run these innovative startups who need huge amounts of capital to be sunk initially for a long term payout.

Welcome to the world of "cool program! the grownups will take it from here kiddo."
Explicit `inline if` could give a compile-time error if the condition was not comptime.
Ffs why use code formatting? This is unreadable on mobile.
Ideally, you want to have the filler on the side opposed to the majority of cars in your area. This way you're less likely to wait in line to refill.
> I've seen people create variants of MOND that try to address the Bullet Cluster problem, but you start having to have some sort of really weird gravity memory effect in space or something, where space itself "remembers" that it used to have a lot of matter in it and still has a small amount of gravitation in it despite no longer containing the corresponding mass

Which variants are these?

cf. section 8.3, https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3960

Several of the relativstic MOND theories (see chapter 7 of the same review) are detailed, and I don't see how any of the 8.3 set matches the quote above.

It's already a few years old, though, so maybe you've seen something newer.

> We also have a Standard Model of particle physics that, whatever its known flaws may be, doesn't immediately obviously have a hole for dark matter in it

There's a hole in chirality, which was part of the motivation for WIMPs as CDM.

There's a hole in the Strong-CP problem, which was part of the motivation for axions as CDM.

There's a hole in the hierarchy problem, also part of the motivation for WIMPs but also the motivation for Little-Higgs-like CDM.

Those particle dark matter candidates came from BTSM gauge theorists, not relativists.

> I also am sympathetic to MOND solutions as well.

If you make MOND relativistic you wind up adding a field to G = T; which side it's on doesn't really matter - it'd mostly be either down to an aesthetic choice based on coupling strength, or social considerations (this goes back to at least 1918! [1]).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6338 (and sure enough even in 2017 you will not be arrested by the EFE police if you put the cosmological constant onto the T side as a source, and you might even want to, e.g. in quintessence modelling, or in the cosmological frame; also cf. the choice between the Einstein frame and the Jordan frame for scalar-tensor gravity)
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This is balanced, to some degree, by locality and focus. I leave open the question of how it all nets out.
We are a Google Apps user, and since we went to a remote work system last year, we heavily depend on Google Hangouts. I've found it to be pretty terrible on a reliability, functional, and performance basis.

On the other hand, we also use Slack heavily and its video product has been getting better and better. It won't be long until we can use slack for all our video conferences and discard hangouts fully.
um, sorry youtube, that already exists and cheaper:
https://www.playon.tv/cloud

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Oh, okay. I tend to expect textual information for a title like that; I never listen to podcasts. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Start with Math. He attended university and was working on a Bachelors so I assume he has a base of some math knowledge. Computers are really just calculators and computing engines. Have him start doing basic programs to do basic math. No fancy libraries, GUI, IDE's, build tools, etc. needed. Either pick a language you know a lot about or pick one you also want to learn and learn together.

Once he can get basic math working (e.g. calculator via command line), build a UI for a calculator. Probably a good bet to go with some web front-end since those jobs are more common. Again no libraries or Javascript framework-of-the-month stuff, just basics.

From the background you said he was studying Physical Education... find some dataset that interests him in that area. Build a web app with that data that does something related, shows it, has simple forms to capture data, etc.

Once he's done that, he should have a good understanding of what programming is like and if he wants to continue and spend money on a degree.

The key is probably linking his interests with programming, which could naturally lead to some niche jobs in sports science using programming.
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That would only be rational (profit maximising) behaviour on the company's part if they had an expectation that the negative externalities associated with climate change would eventually be priced in. The speed they decide to transition would then be in line with that expectation.

Funnily enough those externalities have generally still not been priced in, and it looks like these companies correctly believed that would be the case.
JavaScript hasn't always worked that way. My guess is that if Java had become the tool for this, then it's startup times would have been fixed. Pure speculation of course.
Probably that services aren't required to use JSON (since they use many different service languages, it's not unlikely that they use many different serialisation methods - JSON, protobuf, etc.)
The wages in india IT are growing at a pretty high rate.
Does it work? You know, without subsidies and with competition?
>Well he had a Nobel prize in physics on his hands for starters, that's one way to tell the difference.

With the preface that I know that a higher calibre of comment is expected from me in this community, it's still the truth:
I lol'd.
The negative health effects of smoking cannabis are relatively low. See the recent NSF report; there is definitely a problem with chronic respiratory issues for extremely heavy smokers, but no risk for cancer except for a type of prostate cancer which is easily treated.
Visual Studio in growth?

Atom/Vim/Sublime in maturity?

Eclipse/Xcode/Emacs challenged?

Emacs almost superseded? Superseded by what exactly?

At least the text editor section doesn't make any sense to me. Atom more mature than Emacs/Eclipse/Visual Studio? Visual Studio Code is in growth, Visual Studio is a very mature product.
What I like about Kotlin is it's what you might call a "pragmatic Scala", and could find a sweet spot between Java and Scala where its added expressiveness allows it to shine, but Scala's complexity and performance issues aren't in evidence to scare the development managers into staying with Java.
On the interstate, an accident in the east bound lanes may cause slow downs in the west bound lanes. Traffic rerouting, rubber necking, emergency services access, etc.

When S3 goes down, sites may have their traffic fall over to sites with higher latency or lower band width or both or just another cloud. That will create congestion and congestion may cause an activity such as transferring a large file time out. And it may happen at any level, for example a service using your ISP has a fall over plan from S3 to their local servers and this spikes your ISP's traffic and your Linkedin session has a lower service level agreement. That same situation can occur at every point in the network and has nothing to do with Linkedin.
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Oh dear deity i had forgotten about that one.

I seem to recall now that one of the ways you could torture a captured agent was by having him being squeezed by moving bookshelves or something...
bacteria is plural

should be "a bacterium"

or "bacteria that can live for decades ..."

not "a bacteria"
Cannabis doesn't actually kill pain. It detaches us from our emotional response to pain. Which in my opinion is a much more effective tool for healing than removing the pain entirely.
I'm not sure that would make any difference. At most gas stations I go to, people jam themselves in whichever way they fit. And at Costco, where queuing is enforced, people just ignore the filling side and take the shortest queue, and let the attendant drag the hose over/behind their car as necessary.
Seems like you may have missed the whole, "Give a man a fish..." thing growing up.
This is extra lazy on their part if this is legitimately an effort to hit the enterprise market, where users might not necessarily have the freedom to install Chrome on their company machines. Or it's an attempt to force corporate IT into approving chrome.
There's a lot of nuance with these decisions. There's a few factors at play.

- It's attractive to management to displace accountability. As a CIO, you pay a vendor for an SLA, and have an entity to blame when you have a problem who isn't in your scope of responsibility, whom you can fire or otherwise penalize.

- You get to put the budget for maintaining the existing services in a box. Instead of keeping stuff running, you invest your time, energy and money on project work that is perceived to deliver new value.

- There may be undisclosed labor issues that you can't fix without firing everyone.

- "Cheaper" doesn't necessarily mean lowest cost. No C level type wants a smaller budget.

Think about why you pay Amazon for S3 vs. going out and renting a cage and buying a SAN. It's a similar thought process, with a similar affect on employment.
I was excited when I first came across a RESTful solution I could use because I was living in a world where WCF was still considered groundbreakingly simple, and there was still asmx hanging around that I was avoiding like the plague. If there's a better model out there, and an implementation I can do hands-on research with, I'm always open to new ideas. But I am usually turned off by developers who feel the need to dump on what everyone else is doing instead of just proposing their new solution enthusiastically. Just like how I enjoy hearing how other people propose to use RESTful API's semantically, but not if they're going to spend half the time just ripping on how I've been doing it successfully for years.
That's when using a custom allocator though, browsing through the other examples it doesn't look like there's any manual memory management going on but that could just be the examples chosen.
"Shills will downvote this to death" is pretty obviously directed at other people on the site. Does it really need to be directed at a specific person to count?
>How much profit does it cut to not to put your mongoDB instance internet facing?

Wrong question. How much profit does it cut to hire an engineer who knows not to make your mongoDB instance Internet-facing and to empower that engineer enough that they can tell the CEO that the product is not ready to launch and they can't just open public access to the develop/test environment is the question. And it's not even a matter of profit. It's a matter of pride. Engineers are seen as typists and nerds, low level functionaries. They're the ones who don't understand the divine wisdom of "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good enough."

You wonder why companies are so stupendously desperate for H1B visas and why so many job listings are looking for 2 years experience and no more? It's because they don't WANT knowledgeable staff. Those tend to be expensive, and problematic.
Not all University IT is horrible, especially in areas with less tech overall. I've been at a few places on the West coast and in the Midwest. While it can be pretty hit or miss, overall, I'd say the Midwest schools have better IT. And it's pretty much why you'd expect - academia can't pay market level salaries in Silicon Valley. If you're good at running a data center, you're not going to do it for a university in California. If you're in the middle of Indiana though and want to play with high performance computing, there are only a few places to go. For example, Indiana University has always had top notch IT. They value that as a core strength of the University and it shows... their president is even an old head of IT.
In case anyone is having trouble keeping track of the state of Google's communication apps, I made a handy visual guide:

http://imgur.com/a/BgAuc
I'm one of the original Luigi authors, and used to maintain it for a while, merging PR's daily etc. I left Spotify a couple of years ago. Since then it's been maintained mostly by Arash Rouhani, who is increasingly getting busy with other things.

But it's very much in active development and there are multiple pull requests merged every day.

I haven't had a lot of time to check out Airflow, but it seems great. Data engineering and thinking of data processing as functional pipelines is a great paradigm, think we're going to see a lot of future development in this area. Luigi will probably evolve a lot over the next few years. Eventually I think there will be better frameworks. No idea if Airflow is a step change, I think there are still projects yet to be built that unifies everything beautifully
I'm far more concerned about Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Salinity in Soil + influenza pandemics than I am about a soil bacteria....

I'm not worried about this and neither is my father, an agricultural soil chemist of 30 years. This article is old.

There's a vaccine under development at Exeter too.....
QoS depends on tagging (DSCP), and if one of the routers along the way doesn't support it or isn't configured for it, those tags are often dropped - or at least that's what I've seen in our company's network.
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I don't get that last sentence. How do my expectations influence what they do?
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People are much more forgiving of mistakes than they are of deception.
Gartner/Forrester approach is great but I think a little more useful for the business planning side (the time dimension is more about market value). Similar vein but more on the 'tech worth checking out/playing with/deploying in-prod' side (panel opinion): https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
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I think the vast amount of seeing marine creatures is a massive counterexample. Evolutionary biologists think that the ability to detect any photons grants an advantage: in environments where there is light, eyes evolve, even when the light is dim. It's only in completely lightless environments that eyes no longer provide an advantage (i.e. abyssal plain or caves).
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If that's the case, then why not hash the entire token and store hash(token) in the database. Then you can just query for:

SELECT tokenid, userid FROM password_reset_tokens WHERE hashed_token = :hashed_token AND NOW() < expire_time

If you are worried that two tokens may collide to have the same hash, well that problem is there with your split-token solution too where token1 and token2 may collide such that token1 and token2 have the same selector and the same hash(verifier).
Does DevOps engineer in India make US $120,000? Does Java programmer in India command US $100,000? Does a system admin. in India command US $90,000?
As well you shouldn't. Name any employer nowadays that would allow that.
True, but boards/laptops very rarely have the required Displayport or HDMI 2.0 outputs to drive such resolutions at native refresh rates.
UK petrol stations usually have a marked entrance and exit giving an implicit one-way system. Along with the quite tight dimensions, it's quite tricky to approach the pump from the other direction.
This is so very true based on my experiences with pharma. The only addition I'd make in year 1 is that most of the company is told that everything will be business as usual. It's not "BAU" because the Offshore IT team brings new processes and there is often a cultural mismatch. The business teams then decide to be uncooperative and work as much as possible outside the bounds of IT for the next 4 years. This makes the environment even more poisonous for all involved.
Scala's complexity and performance issues

Is Kotlin really faster than Scala?
Someday in a glorious future doctors will prescribe rollercoaster rides.