skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an anycasted IP. We use one pool of IPs globally and let BGP select the shortest route. If you run a traceroute you'll probably find that you hit a server in Amsterdam.
You should block GMX too, it lets you create/delete multiple addresses per account

https://support.gmx.com/email/settings/aliasaddresses.html
>I make a point and people have to attack that that the language is pointless when it is the number one language in that domain, which just happened the last two years.

That's not true though, R doesn't have anywhere near the ecosystem that Python does for Natural Language Processing, Web Frameworks, Machine Learning, Computer Algebra and Symbolic Reasoning, Systems Programming, Image Processing, Document Processing, and other things I don't know about but if I needed something else then I can use Python confidently that there will be good packages for them with a community around it.

The entirety of R's unique mindshare is that it has a million variations on linear regression and contingency table tests. And frankly they're all so simple to implement that if you can't be bothered to learn how to implement it in 2 lines of Python then you probably don't know what your program is actually doing.

R is something that caught on because it made its statistics package top-level, saving keystrokes for statistics and bio-statistics professors who never needed anything else and didn't know how to otherwise program. It's unique syntax has lead their poor students to have to learn C-family syntax many years after they could have been working and being productive with it.

Now some companies are accommodating R for their entry-level data scientist positions in order to hire cheaper help that can't find better options, but their skills are limited by being disconnected from the rest of the programming world in both packages and syntax.
North Korean Defectors Struggle to Master Money
I think you're both a bit off here to be honest.

Sex, just like fast food, television, any other diversion, is objectively a waste of time; or at very least an unproductive use of it when not intended for procreation. (I'm not preaching austerity here, not saying it's shameful or bad)

Additionally, the traditional family unit is on the decline of course and while I disagree with the anti-lgbt sentiment(among others) below this is a conversation that we need to be able to have as a society.

Demonstrably children in a single parent household have lower success rates academically and are at much higher risk for a variety of mental disorders.

Also demonstrably men and women who have had more sexual partners have higher rates of divorce and(of course) also lower marriage rates.

Historically we've evolved under the constraints of long-term single partner relationships in a stable home as the foundation for raising a child. We're changing that a lot, very fast on an evolutionary scale, I do think there are productivity and general well-being concerns about raising the next and current generation that should be talked about.

Anyway, this is all largely an aside; I think male contraceptives are a good thing, but I likely won't partake myself nor would I have my child do so unless he wanted to of his own volition.

Edit: By the way, I think you're a bit off because you've completely brushed his statement aside as esoteric and irrational, many people really do feel that way about sex/relationships and their opinion is just as valid as yours. I think he's a bit off for a few probably obvious things from his follow up.
This math _is_ right. 1000 requests/s is 86.4M requests per day. So for 1000 requests in a given second, that's $0.05 per second if you substitute the term. But to show you otherwise:

1000 req/s * 86400s * 30d / 1000 * 0.05 = 129600

It's only $129/mo if it's 0.05c and not $0.05, which is not what the website says.
Some kind of work that requires human intelligence that machines are not so great at. No need to say anything more specific yet.
I think it's a joke that the analysis provided here by an incredibly complex cloud machine learning service doesn't seem very different from applying an incredibly naive bag of words.
I'm telling you the reason that I went vegan at 16. And those were the main reasons. Though at the time, I called it grody, but I'm not sure of the correct spelling.

Animals start to decompose at the moment of death. The meat at the supermarket has been dead for how long? Days, weeks? It is in the process of rotting, just not visibly so. Much of it is actually spoiled, but I've read 70% of meat in supermarkets is treated with carbon monoxide to keep it from going brown or grey. You might not like it, but it's a very valid and important argument.

And as for feeling that it's unethical. We (people) enslave entire species, remove their body parts without anaesthesia, cage them in cells so small they can't move, force them to have babies over and over and then kidnap their children and eat them, grind them up, or enslave them as well. It's horrible. I think that anyone who knows what is done and argues, but meat is yummy or delicious as someone else did in here, is a sociopath. Can anyone who is connected to their sense of empathy be okay causing that much pain to other feeling beings?
App Annie: Android to top iOS in app store revenue this year
If you are containerizing your stateless app, where do you store the connection pool? I suppose you could setup another container as a TCP proxy that can maintain persistent connections and then connect to redis through the proxy?
I have a 2017 Audi Etron PHEV. For our single car household it's nearly the perfect car. Given how refined it seems I'm surprised that Audi/VW took so long to bring a PHEV to market.

The dealer told me that they are pushing EVs now to help remake the company's image after the diesel cheating debacle.

The unions probably see this repositioning and reasonably want to secure their members foothold in it.
We indeed have a UI overhaul coming this year. We realize that the current UI isn't straight forward and hard to learn.
Britain didn't take advantage of the tools it had available. Britain could have kicked out people who stayed more than 6 months without a job, for example. But they didn't.
Don't post paywalled articles
Maybe the problem is not them. It's the round holes we're trying to fit them into. Maybe if we expand the places they can fit...there can be something they can do.
Are we sure this is the case? I imagine that automation can allow humans to increase the breadth of "problems" they address in everyday life. It will certainly change the employment landscape, but we can now address new issues that are nice to have and not necessity items.
"Matlab ©"

Hehe, if you're going to be defending the Mathworks' trademarks, the proper symbol to use is ®, not ©. But who can keep copyright and trademark laws apart, right? It's all the same as long as it's someone else telling you that some intangible thing isn't yours. /s

https://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/policies_statement...

But seriously, folks it's not your job to defend the Mathworks' trademarks. It's their job. You can be deferential and do their job for them, but it's not legally required. It seems like kow-towing to me, giving Matlab more respect than it deserves.

This actually is a pet peeve of mine, because I see so many non-Mathworks employees cargo-culting those ® and ™ symbols around without knowing why, because they see the Mathworks themselves using them so much. As a GNU Octave developer, it feels a bit odd to see how effective the Mathworks is at convincing their followers to display the proper respect and protocol towards their products.
Yes, I'd say having more social workers on the streets and shelters following up and offering care options for those who are mentally ill and dysfunctional would help the problem. But there's not really funding for that.
Yikes, well I hope that my never having encountered that misinformation means that the viral gif did not spread too far.
The new algorithms enabling Facebook’s data fixation
The EU is well short of breaking up; that's "fog in channel, continent cut off" territory. It's the UK that's breaking up, and I think you know it.

The north of my island, Ireland, is a particularly interesting question, independent of Scotland, pardon the pun. Certain breeds of criminals get very fat on smuggling.
How do you figure? If they can produce anything with automation what do they care if there's no one to purchase it? Value will be expressed in other ways. I could easily imagine the 1% or whoever completely controlling production and allowing everyone else to die.
Google's business model is advertising. Replace all your instances of "search" with "ads" and it reads more accurately.
I'd much rather deal with fossil fuels than the catastrophic risks uniquely posed by nuclear power generation.

The excuse for incidents like Fukushima are "Well, they made these mistakes...". Personally, I'd rather not risk zero-notice forced evacuations, permanent quarantine zones, and making significant portions of populated land uninhabitable for centuries on some people not making mistakes.

For those who write this off, there are some very tragic photo essays from Pripyat and Fukushima that can make this impact feel very real. Do you want to risk that happening to your area?
> For me though, number of meetings you get pulled into without Agenda or need is the number one time killer!

I solved that by just not going to those.

If someone invites me and has no agenda, I reply and ask "What is this about? What are we deciding?". That generally prompts an agenda, but in the rare cases where it doesn't, I will just reject the request and literally not show up. After I've done this once with someone, I generally don't get another invite from them without an agenda and clear purpose. (Maybe they just stopped inviting me, but that's fine with me too).

If the person sending the request is your superior, you have to be a bit more tactful, but it can still be done -- you may have to show up anyway, but really drive hard to get to decisions and/or action items (and get them written down and shared with attendees). If the meeting really does turn out to be useless (no decision, no action items) you can privately meet with your superior to discuss that later, and hopefully convince them it wasn't worth spending hundreds of dollars to do literally nothing.
it's not the same as censoring. its ranking. a downvote is an intent to rank some content lower than other competing content.
While FFT is pretty powerful and heavily used, I doubt you can't have Internet without it.
HTC Will Be VR Partner for Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’ Film
That looks absolutely great. Radare2 is amazing software, and this seems like a good GUI for a first release and a massive improvement to current reverse engineering and open source solutions.

If the author is lurking around, is it possible to rename the functions listed on the side? I am not at home and cannot test it out.
It's not THAT R-like. Looking at the front page, their bar chart of performance of their machine learning algorithms is done in Excel. I like to think that no R user would post R benchmarks using an Excel bar chart.
Samsung unveils new S8 and S8+
European Commission Considering Open-Access Publishing
That's the idea. Not just pen them in and let them run amok. But create a controlled community that works to bring out the best in them. I don't really believe anything cannot be overcome.
> There are companies doing multi-tenant Container setups, with untrusted customers, so it's not an unknown concept for sure.

I'm a little shocked to hear this (given everything everybody else has said about container security), but I guess it means the security of containers can be tweaked to be good enough in this environment.

Examples?
Anytime, keep in touch, see my profile. I would like to hear how things progress.
What do you mean by "containerizing"? Unless you restart app instances for every single request, I don't see how connection pooling is an issue. Just putting a worker in a container doesn't stop it from keeping a connection open.
"iPhone demand is greater than supply"

"Not sure how you can say that when this one guy sold his iPhone"

It sounds like a counter argument and fails to be one.
> Talking about stuff is pointless unless it leads to some action.

True, but why do people do it so much? I think it's because meetings are indulgent in several ways: usually you aren't working hard in a meeting, you interact with people you (usually) like, and the organizer gets to feel busy and command attention.

I used to work as an auditor (no idea why they let me) and I feel like we had way more meetings than necessary, and I sort of feel like it was because people were lonely. I could be totally wrong, but I remember concluding that after two years of frequent, pointless meetings.

That's why I like standing up during a meeting (when reasonable), because it mitigates forces that lead toward pointlessness.
Rule of 33% is huge to connect with important people
I am using MongoDB and it works like I want it but I am roasted all the time on HN because of it and told to be using Redis instead. Still considering the switch but I don't want to run into problems like this.
Really? I went to a clinic that specialized in it, and there was no problem at all. No patronizing, very comfortable, made sure I was aware of the difficulty of reversal, but made no effort to dissuade me. The operation itself was very professional and fast and other than a few days of soreness during recovery, there were no adverse effects after a week.

Though this was in a major urban area.
This would be true if the vote for this bill were not so close.
Furthermore, China is also investigating Thorium tech. This might be the bigger news long term.
That's really interesting. How did Toshiba manage to acquire them without uncovering the fraud first?
The Amazon salary for a senior software engineer (amazon L6) in London is 86K GBP cash plus stock that varies on when you joined. After L6 almost everyone goes into management or leaves.
Don't put words in my mouth.
Today? For the past 20 years I've been hearing how data collection will enable advertisers to precisely target ads and that ads would go from being a nuisance to being useful.

It's not working very well. How much more data do they need to collect before it starts working?
You may live in a country where the government subsidizes the laying of communications infrastructure. Laying fiber or even just coaxial cable is extremely expensive.
I started accepting 0-conf Bitcoin payments, and it was great
A non-mathematical explanation of one way functions
I mean your whole argument falls apart when you take into account the fact that cars cost money and the president or PM's car is going to cost a lot more than your average car.

Browsers are free.

Using Chrome would cost me a lot. Both because it is sub-par for my usage patterns and because it feels bad to support it.

Well look what's happening to Firefox's extensions soon.

Last I checked whey will still be miles ahead of every other browser.

"Firefox was back at this year’s Pwn2Own after missing last year, seemingly because the browser would’ve been too easy to hack" probably sums it up nicely.

Pwn2own is the equivalent of lining up cars and inviting people to bring their preferred weapon to test the armour.

As I have pointed out elsewhere either I am unusually lucky or drive-by exploits are way less common in the wild than people think. Or maybe it is just because I don't go hunting for Photoshop cracks and free movies with my work browser.

In any case: Yes, the safer the better, but we need to stop this "nothing but the most secure" mindset because in the end it only results in a Chrome monoculture which I think is worse in every way, even securitywise.
> it is certainly shifting away democratic power from a more regional democratic system to a centralised government.

The Treaty of Lisbon indicates otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lisbon

How is the EU centralising further?
The competition in EVs is heating up. In Norway, the share of Tesla in net new EV registrations has fallen to 11.5% in 2016 compared to 18.7% two years ago.

https://github.com/axibase/atsd-use-cases/blob/master/Norway...
Software costs money — great software makes your life easier and lets you do things by clicking checkboxes instead of spending half your week in server config. Half a week of an engineer (or founder) working on a thing is on the order of thousands of dollars.

So as with all software, yes, you can roll it yourself with other things, if you assume your time is worth zero. But we all know that is not true.
Also note that EU bureaucracy is utterly bewildering to anyone who does not spend their whole life following it.

The average British person has no idea how the EU works. They don't know what the different bodies are. They don't know who their representative(s) are. They don't know how to make their voices heard. Maybe a third of people vote in the elections, and they don't really know what they're voting for.

What kind of democracy is that?
Chapter 11 bankruptcy might be a the best thing for a critical company like Westinghouse. Unlike Chapter 7 the operations continue but the entity gets debt relief.

"In Chapter 11, in most instances the debtor remains in control of its business operations as a debtor in possession, and is subject to the oversight and jurisdiction of the court." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_11,_Title_11,_United_S...
Looks very nice.
Listened to the audiobook and loved it. I try to always keep this in mind, so helpful.
We do have a paid maternity and sick leave in the US (well, at least in the tech companies. In my current company (IBM), we even have paid paternity leave). How expensive is the National Insurance tax? I can't imagine it being much more expensive than what my company pays for health insurance for its employees (although perhaps I'm wrong here).

> The starting salary for a new graduate in the UK is probably in the range of £25-£33k,

Are you talking about starting developer salary? That seems really really low! Why wouldn't UK devs simply relocate to the US where they could make a lot more right away?

Apologies, I don't mean to pontificate...it just befuddles me why a UK developer wouldn't want to move, if only for a little while.
I like that they say "Don’t use sites that force you to disable your ad blocker" and then link to a Wired article.
Good E-Ink Based E-Reader for Technical PDF Docs
With the discontinuation of the Kindle DX, Amazon's only E-Ink reader offerings are 6", which is too small for dual column technical documents like IEEE proceedings, text books and dissertations. I strongly prefer E-Ink as i do not want to worry about battery life ever, and more importantly I want to force myself to focus on reading and not be distracted by the internet.
As I understand it you're saying "the EU is undemocratic because we don't want to participate in its most direct democratic process".

Do I need to point out why that argument is flawed?
DeepCoder: Learning to write programs
I think it's fair to expect something in return. As long as the terms are such that suit the people, they'll be part of it. These people survive on their wits and customs of the street. They're not as hopeless as perhaps is made out. My idea is to redirect their energy and resourcefulness towards something useful, and add some socialization and boundaries that help them interface more fruitfully with normal civilization. But importantly, as a first step, doing useful work in exchange for things they need.
What are you going to do with your extra money, sleep, and free time? You don't have to worry about the dating pool when you are married, something you should couple with who you are having sex with. Also the dating pool shrinks with age regardless. On ability to travel: most people eat sleep go to work go to the bathroom and spend time with their families (another reason the dating pool shrinks so significantly). And I don't know what kind of peace of mind you get by living for your own pleasure. If you're not dedicated to raising others up, either your kids or in some kind of missionary work, then not really sure you can say you're living your life and are doing anything worthwhile.
In my experience it's very hard to prove to the standard required for the authorities to intervene. Basically you have to wait until they have already hurt someone before action can be taken. And it's even worse if they are only a danger to themselves. Worse still if they are simply incapable of sustaining themselves rather than actively suicidal.

Believe it or not many of these people have relatives and friends who do care about them, deeply, but are powerless to help them because in their delusions they have violently rejected their help. I've watched a friend of mine starve nearly to point of death on the street and be unable to do anything to help him other than take him to lunch whenever I could.
The rust belt are the places that lacked diversification. There are lots and lots of little rust belts that were overshadowed.

For example, New York City. NYC had 875k manufacturing jobs in the mid 60s, which plummeted 60% by 1993. The same thing happened for complimentary industries like wholesaling.

Info: https://www.bls.gov/mlr/1993/02/art4full.pdf

Those cool hipster spaces in Brooklyn, etc are there because hundreds of people were working there until the 80s.
I am a big fan of meeting notes in a wiki, (nearly) immediately published for everyone to see.

"That's not what I said/meant": okay great, go edit the page and clarify.
Would be nice if there was a simple way to use this from Clojure.
But with CPU cores, it's not a hard limit. At least in Marathon, you can ask for 0.5 CPUs and marathon will use that to decide where your container gets scheduled (so if it has 16 cores, all scheduled containers should add up to 16; which is why you should use fractions of a core to start and then monitor to see real CPU usage) , but the container gets all of the CPUs.

I don't know if that's specific to our Marathon/DCOS setup or if that's a limitation of the underlying Docker daemon. Not sure how K8s or Nomad handle CPU/memory limits either.
Bash $* and $@
The conventional wisdom is to move as much load as possible from DB to a cache. The reason is quite simple. Scaling a database is hard and expensive. Scaling a cache is very easy in comparison.
Not much difference in http://arewefastyet.com
Fossil fuels simply dump the pollutants into the atmosphere, killing people without a paper trail.
The idea that VC-funded startups should pay the same cash salaries as big companies is a sign of hot markets. It happened in 1999 as well. In reality, startups should pay less because they give equity, allow more freedom and creation, and have less stupid corporate rules. It's not for everyone, but that's the tradeoff.

Generally when you're borrowing from VCs who expect a 30-50% return on their equity, it's a bad idea to pay too much cash. (It's like paying salaries on a credit card - the lender may be willing, but they still want to get paid back) When it does become equal, it's a sign of froth. To get the benefits of a startup without any downside runs up against, "There's no such thing as a free lunch."
When more information reduces accuracy and increases confidence [pdf]
Chemical Machine: DSL for concurrency
A TL;DR service could maybe be made as a browser extension that pulls it from some external source instead. Not visible for those that don't want it, and also removes the problem from having to hunt for the TL;DR comment when there are many replies.
Because morals are a good thing. Isn't it funny how all the real religions came to the same conclusion on all the controversial issues of our day.