skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My company has been migrating to spanner, and we are starting to get pretty familiar with it. We started building a golang sql driver for spanner, and protoc plugin for generating a persistence layer for spanner.

https://github.com/tcncloud/protoc-gen-persist
https://github.com/tcncloud/sqlspanner

Both are pretty new projects, and we ran into a snag with the sql driver when it came time to implement delete statements, but both are pretty cool, and we would love contributors!
so, the next iteration of coke light is without sugar/corn-syrup/gas? Interesting.
The vision network is trained before-hand on lots of different configurations in simulation and then used to infer the block locations in the image from the camera. So it’s not learning continously. The imitation network takes the block locations predicted by the vision network, together with the demonstration trajectory in VR, and imitates the task shown in the demonstration. So, it learns to look through the demonstration to decide what action to take next given the current state (i.e. location of blocks and gripper). To keep the setup simple, we only trained the imitation network on stacking tasks (so no unstacking, throwing, etc). In future work, we want to make the setup and tasks much more general.
At $5B for 12,000 employees, that works out to about $400,000 a pop. Each employee could have been given an apartment in many parts of the country... :-)

I'm not criticizing, just admiring the cost.
Question to OP: How many people were fired or let go during your 3 years? And did they let go of people that you felt was a mistake?
The interface is the result of tens of thousands of A/B tests. Every change is tested and produces greater general happiness.

There is a probably a bimodal distribution on happiness, but they only optimize for the bigger curve instead of both, to reduce complexity. So while you, and an advanced user, might want a lot of advanced features, those same features scare away the majority of casual users. So it's a business decision to cater to the majority at the expense of the minority to reduce overall development cost.
You know that. I know that. Netflix engineering knows that. Hollywood content czars deep in their conservative DRM orthodoxy are having nightmares about it.

According to Wikipedia, Netflix had about 3500 employees in 2015. That's a pretty large company, and I assure you, the content producers pushing Netflix originals are going to a) have been hired out of that conservative Hollywood culture, b) be laterally very far away from the enlightened engineers in the Netflix corporate structure. Also c), the upper management above the engineers and the content producers who could resolve this kind of dispute, probably don't have enough exposure to an issue (1080p and 4k streams of Netflix Originals content to Linux-only customers) which affects a small minority of their customers.
Yes! When it comes to screen share and video on Linux, we've had the best luck with hangouts. We are paying Slack customers, but no still no video? Slackers.
Still down. Probably zapped his monthly bandwidth in an hour.
The subject's mother, as I recall.
It's starting to get that way with the populated parts.

Dallas used to be dirt cheap not even ten years ago, but it's rapidly changing.

Personal anecdote: I remember signing my first lease on my townhouse in 2007, and I was paying $1050/month for a ~1500 sq. ft. place in a decent neighborhood in Far North Dallas. It steadily goes up every year, but this year was the biggest leap ever: my lease went up to $1334/month from $1270/month last year.

Why is everything going up? Because as our economy grows and large companies from out of state relocate their offices to Dallas, people are moving here in droves, putting a strain on available housing. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington is now the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the US. What's more is that when the housing bubble burst in 2008, housing prices in Dallas didn't go down but construction ground to a halt. During the Great Recession, housing prices stagnated instead of going down, and now that the recession's over and jobs are up, housing prices are going way up, and construction is still slow.

And it's not just Dallas; Austin has recently become very expensive, and it's probably worse there than it is here. Not sure about Houston or San Antonio, but I wouldn't be surprised if they start getting expensive soon if they aren't already. Are there other parts of Texas you can move to? Sure, if you want to be in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing to do, especially if you're used to a major metropolitan area, and very little likelihood of meeting people who share your interests. The cities in Texas are also blue islands in a sea of red, so if you're LGBT you may find yourself unwelcome in small towns, and unless you're extremely conservative you are unlikely to find people you have anything in common with. And of course you're not likely to find a job in the tech industry; I guess you'd be OK if you work remotely, but you better hope you don't ever lose your job.

If you're curious, here are some news articles on the rising housing prices in Dallas caused by the population explosion. Be warned that dallasnews.com has an easily-bypassed paywall, so you'll want to open an incognito tab for it.

http://www.dentonrc.com/news/state/2017/05/15/housing-market...

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/05/12/n...

https://qz.com/978602/the-main-reason-americans-are-ditching...

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/toyota/2017/05/09/plano-... (this is more about the impending traffic apocalypse than rising housing prices, but it's still worth a read)

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2017/05/the-whole-city...

And that's just what I've seen posted to /r/Dallas in the last week. I remember finding a graph of housing prices in the last 20 years or so comparing Dallas to other major cities, showing that Dallas was the only one that didn't take a huge hit in 2008, and I wish I could find it again.
I used to drink sparkling water exclusively. When I stopped buying bottled water (to reduce unnecessary expenses), I do seem to recall a slightly easier time of avoiding weight gain. But this really means little, objectively speaking; it's just anecdata.
It seems that google translate doesn't work good enough for Chinese, I'll take some time to translate my blog into English and post it to medium.
Our TPM worked at Netflix for 2 years and she said that she personally saw about 20 people let go during her time.
It's totally in Netflix's interest to keep DRM and make it harder and more complicated to implement. It creates a huge barrier to entry and keeps the labels and people thinking this is "ok" or even "needed".

What could they do? They could not laud DRM on their blog. They could say they are reluctantly adding it. They could probably have pushed for 1080p in Chrome, etc. They could make their own stuff DRM free and publish piracy/subscription stats to show how much DRM helps.

Their choices aren't just "fully embrace it" or "go out of business".
I'm pretty sure I've had few recruiters tell me, poaching from Netflix is almost impossible because of their ridiculously high salaries.
A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab
Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for a High Throughput Cloud-Native RDBMS
it's just boring massive circle without zero innovation, i recommend you to look up in Google keywords Zaha Hadid or organic architecture to see some actual cool and beautiful buildings instead of this... circle

people would be probably praising it even if it would be just another boring skyscraper just because it's Apple

well i have news for you, just because it's Apple HQ it doesn't make it really interesting or nice building from architectural standpoint
You can't lift and shift your MySQL

I'm surprised no one has challenged this yet

Are you saying that a company could lift and shift MySQL then?
730,000 people die in the US every year. Only 35,000 are killed in car accidents. Individually it wouldn't rank in the top ten causes of death.

Auto fatalities per million miles driven have dropped by 95% since the 1920s, 86% since 1950, and over 50% since the 1980s.

If people don't drive, all those million miles of transport will be taken up by Buses, Trains, Bikes, Walking, etc, all of which have their own death rates per million miles. It's unlikely the death rate will decline in any noticeable way even if we banned cars.

And we are on the verge of eliminating the vast majority of accidents, not just self driving cars, but even simpler existing mechanisms such as automatic brakes and lane change monitors will make massive reductions in accident rates as they continue to become more common.
Based on the information in the link: "This is due to elevated levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin and thus greater food intake in rats drinking carbonated drinks compared to control rats." It looks like it's the increase in desire to consume as a result of ingesting carbonated beverages that increases the rate of weight gain.
Realtime P2P Graph JSON DB with GraphQL Interface
They're not always available, but I've found that I like Envy apples almost as much as Honey Crisp. And when they show up in stores, Envy tends to be quire a bit cheaper.

Their availability might depend on location, though. I only see them in Toronto for 2-3 months every year.
ditto. I live off of it.
it could be pretty decent aquarium, just fill the hole with water and seal the walls
Its not a great abstract because it doesn't quote increase percentages. Ghrelin is the hormone that make you hungry.
Hrm, no carbonated water in the study [1]?

> The study involved groups of male rats who were all fed a standard diet, but given one of four different drinks:

> tap water

> regular degassed (flat) soda

> regular carbonated soda

> diet carbonated soda

EDIT: I found an offhand lower-quality reference [2] that suggests they did test carbonated water:

> Subsequent tests on human volunteers found that those who drank sparkling water at breakfast had ghrelin levels six times higher than those who had still water.

[1] The only details I could find were at http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/families/print/Can_fizzy_w...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/15/fizzy-water-could...
What's wrong with Google Hangouts? (I don't have any perspective, just asking)
And why is that? o-O
You think you can rename some class method Add from some project to Enqueue faster in vim?
Ridecell is hiring a Producer for our Design team
Interesting...

One robotics simulator that never seems to get any love is this one:

https://assemblino.com/

Open source, browser-based, javascript, webgl, and can even control an Arduino version of your robot (via node); I'm not sure why it's such an underdog, but I suspect it's partially the name.

Note - a working github path is:

https://github.com/omni360/assemblino.js

Not sure why the links are broken on the page - maybe this project is "dead" - but the source lives on I guess...
I don't really get the love for Honeycrisps. I mean, they're better than Red Deliciouses, sure. But they're still too... blandly sweet, I guess, for my tastes. I like Pink Ladies, and I like Granny Smiths. That sharper, more acidic taste, I suppose.
I tried it, because I'm trying to convince a colleague to use markdown and git for a collaborative project. This person lives mainly in the MSword world, so I thought atom might be a good choice. In testing it, I found the git interface was simple for me, having used git for years and therefore knowing what "staged" means. However, the interface will be confusing for my colleague. It would be great if the atom folks could make a 30-second video of the workflow, a bit like Apple has done for taking photos of different types. Failing that, it will be me on the phone with my colleague, telling them what to click and when. I think the atom folks could have done this better. Maybe they should highlight the "next most likely" action at any time.
Those stories get clicks and sell ads, but they aren't really true.

Yes, it is easier to fire someone at Netflix than elsewhere, but it doesn't happen all that more often than anywhere else, and it's also easier to hire, promote and give raises to them. So it all balances out.
Studies show that sugar and salt increase consumption. So they add these things to increase sales. People aren't making a decision that's in their best interest, this is a biological hack that favors one party disproportionately compared to the other.
I could understand this if interviews were broken (in a different way) at Netflix - is this the case? i.e. is it ridiculously easy to get a job there?
Too many graphics. Too much wasted real estate. Sorry Voten.co, no thanks.
+1 that the meta-learning spin on this approach is the really interesting part. The normal approach would be as follows:

"you want to stack 6 blocks on one another? great, let me collect 1,000 examples of doing that in VR, and I'll train my policy on this and see how that works"

instead, we change the question:

"you want to stack 6 blocks on one another? great, that's one possible thing out of thousands you might want to do. so lets create a dataset of 1,000 examples of tuples: one 'query' demonstration, and a second demonstration as the target behavior to train the network on, when it sees the query. The training data is now 1,000 tuples of (query_demo, target_demo)), trained again with supervised learning."

Once this is trained, we can sub in (in theory) any arbitrary desired demonstration, and the network will learn how to "extract" what is intended, and uses the demonstration as a crutch that is being imitated. It's a bit of a change of mindset, but a very powerful one, much more general one, and much more exciting one.
>I don't care what other people are doing and you shouldn't either.

Until their decisions affect your work, and you don't get to say anything about it. Because the people pushing around responsibilities are usually your bosses or equals, so you can't really do anything about that. If you get to work in a silo where you're responsible for everything and you understand everyone and do it well, great, you're a master of the universe. You should be a multi-millionaire by retirement at 45.

But most developers won't ever approach that level. Putting your best people in the best slots is a practical approach for teams > 1. And there's no reason you should be mixing responsibilities and watering down everyone's chance at becoming good at ~literally everything in development~
> Then the cost is the same as keeping the lawns of today

By far, the biggest cost of my lawn is the 5 minutes per week I have to spend cutting it. How does an edible lawn compete with that?
One of us
Oh! Now I see. I haven't used RDS for anything critical yet but thought it'd be a no-brainer.

insert mind expanding gif
In my experience multi-person chat is awkward.
memristors are unfortunately still vaporware
Thanks! The issue with metal working bits is # of flutes/flute geometry - the chips need to be too small to get a good finish, or the feed rate needs to be too high.

The "woodworking" bits I use are already pure carbide, high quality bits. my method these days has been to bore a small test hole into a piece of delrin with each new bit, and test that hole with a set of .001" increment pin gauges. Using that number has proven to be good enough for my purposes. Note that this problem is only present where the cutting diameter is nominally the same as the shank diameter. If I buy .5" shank bits with a .25" cutting diameter, they are perfect, but 2x the cost.
Automation. I'm building a dev environment that does various bits and pieces transparently - DNS, databases, reverse proxying, backups/restores, secrets, stacking/merging/relating containers etc.

I kinda just stumbled into it as the logical way to move forward once the shell scripts I started out with became too complex, but I've fallen in love with it. I'm sure it will be my go-to language for a lot of coding tasks in the future.
>It is the cost of labor to do this

Robots? Anyone know the state of automation when it comes to small scale gardening? Picking or zapping weeds and pests with a laser or whatever.
no, there are hardly any pictures of interior, just bunch of heads who are i guess important to Apple fanboys, you can open it through Google cache, i shared link here
I found this comment unfortunate, I'd prefer not to debate like this. I wish you a lot of success with your business, I'm rooting for you, and us, and all small businesses.

Some websites I use to check facts and numbers:

https://www.census.gov/en.html

https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtm...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/

https://www.bls.gov/
Sprawl is allowing another person the freedom to have a yard. But sure, we can shave a few seconds off your commute by forcing everyone into tiny apartments in this massive country with massive amounts of open space.

I live in a state that appropriately funds it's freeways, so we don't have a cluster fuck. I seldom ever have to drive below 75 on the freeway.
Why use one of those half baked solutions when vim already exists?
Automotive Security Startup Karamba Snags $12M for Hack-Blocking Tech
In addition to testing rats, the study[1] compared five categories of drinks in humans: water, regular carbonated beverage (think soda), diet carbonated beverage (think diet soda), carbonated water and degassed regular carbonated beverage. They measured the release of ghrelin[2], the hormone which essentially tells your body you're hungry.

According to their results, both regular carbonated beverages, diet carbonated beverages and carbonated water resulted in noticeably increased amount of gherlin released (see [1] for the specifics).

So shortly put, it seems sparkling water makes you hungrier. That doesn't necessarily mean it will make you fat, giving in to the feeling of hunger is always up to you, but feeling more hungry sure as hell will make it likely that you will put on more weight.

[1] https://sci-hub.cc/10.1016/j.orcp.2017.02.001

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin
Extremely high salaries. Lot better than amazon that pays people badly and is ruthlessly mercenary.
Developing Games with Ruby
Hulu did the same thing (with their Xbox app at least) recently and it really got me thinking.

After a while I started to think maybe they aren't optimizing for what we might expect.

By providing a UI that makes it slightly harder to find shows, displays as few shows at a time as possible and one that lures you into watching whatever is on the screen at the moment (even if just for a minute) they are effectively increasing the value of each piece of content and increasing the odds that you will watch whatever is on the screen while at the same time decreasing the odds that you will fall into choice paralysis.

This also might make it seem like they have more new/relevant content than they really do.

I'm not really well versed in this area, but I'd love to see an analysis of this hypothesis by someone who is more competent in this kind of design.
Cool, but of course the rank Chief Petty Officer has been around a lot longer.
WannaCry savior is rewarded with a year's free pizza and $10K for saving Internet
For anyone wondering, I assume the name is a reference to the frequency distribution of english characters - when sorted by average frequency, you get "ETAOINSHRDLU..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu
The game has changed over time. They originally intended to charge for Atom. Then it became arguably the best free option, until VS Code came along.
We make apple sauce using our pressure cooker from the tart apples that grow in our area and freeze it instead of canning it. The taste is phenomenal, rendering store-bought inedible.
I could very well be wrong, but it is not my impression that Vietnamese are very prevalent in tech.
At a different delivery robot company, some of their positioning hardware doesn't work all that well in practice, and each robot is followed (on foot) by a 'robot minder' that corrects its course using a videogame controller if necessary.

Regardless, it's probably cheaper to outsource driving via remote control than to employ domestic delivery drivers... or building robust self-driving vehicles
There are plenty of highly capable people who are quite unproductive once settled in to a job.
I've always thought that streaming services' main goal should be to be more convenient than digital piracy. That's when they win- when the service provides such a clear advantage over piracy that people are happy to pay money for it. At the moment, aside from ethical qualms, it is often more convenient for Linux, FF, and Chrome users to pirate Netflix's content.

DRM, ironically, promotes piracy.
Primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics? Can you elaborate more?

Page 61 says dishonesty and harassment are intolerable.
Who's Who: The 6 Top Thinkers in AI and Machine Learning
No. I am saying that the CTO is responsible for knowing what is going on in his/her departments, full stop. "Knew or should have known". If the CTO doesn't know, it's the CTO's fault for not knowing, because it's the CTO's job to know.

Now, if you have one employee go off the rails, it's not the CTO's fault for knowing in advance that the one employee had problems. But a department-wide issue? Yeah, it's the CTO's job.
I'd like to follow up with this, why can I tap scroll fast forward/backward on amazon prime but not netflix? Patent protection?

It's a pretty awesome feature.
so he will be remembered as guy who wanted boring massive circle like designed in 80s? i am not big fan, but even he doesn't deserve something like this
According to this article[0] (that someone referenced below):

A Cloud Spanner “node” isn't a physical machine, per se. It is an allocation of compute capacity and disk access throughput on a set of machines with access to the storage API.

(disclosure: I work at Google Cloud but not on Spanner)

[0] https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner
No, when I try I get

You do not have a Screenhero account for your Slack email <redacted>
Yeah, looks like most of the West is tied for #52.
The Harbin looks incredibly wasteful of space.
If anyone from screenhero is reading:

I love screenhero and use it all the time but the one feature I need the team to add is the ability to disable another people's control of my screen. I think this feature is useful, but sometimes I'm giving a demo and just dont need it (or want it). I have fucked up multiple demos because someone accidentally clicked off my browser tab while I was controlling the screen.
Just today the author of the "merge-conflicts" package for Atom emphasized that his plugin is depcrecated because Atom 1.8 will have that feature included by default.

https://github.com/smashwilson/merge-conflicts/commit/f61950...

https://github.com/smashwilson/merge-conflicts/blob/master/d...
WannaCry update: The worst ransomware outbreak in history
I'm surprised Apple allows this, I thought they hated this kind of thing.
Yeah, fair enough. I was thinking that BigDog was an example of this that works today, but the military passed on it because it was too noisy. But it didn't really do anything but move around.
Maybe, but isn't that more generally culture's fault and not Reddit's fault?
Widening Gap in U.S. Life Expectancy
Yeah, it's a complete mess, but it's an interesting mess at least. Resurrection is kinda the same level of mess I guess; a few amazing scenes, really interesting underlying ideas that seem to have been gimeped by rewrites/lost in the edit.
Magit for life
Since I'd have to pay $36 to access the article, I guess I'll just never know if the methods back up the headline. Oh well. A La Croix sounds good about now.