skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is excellent, especially seeing as how so often HR's duty is only to the company and not to the employee making the complaint.

Tangentially I wonder if a similar system could be used to report bullying in schools. Perhaps the anonymity only works at a certain scale.
Insulting your coworkers is not "cool".
The anxious interval
These are also handled by Borg [0], which supports compressed data as well. However, it does not have direct support for different cloud providers so the archive must be synced with different tools.

[0] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Evolutionary Computation in C#
What Core i5 model does your SP4 carry? Does anyone know where you can find the models they are using in the new SPP?

I'm sure the Core i7 are something like the 7500U (i.e. dual core, four threads) - is your Core i5 dual core, dual threads?
That seems to be a fairly common opinion, hardly unpopular.

Unpopular is preferring Dalton.
You can have both. Not everyone intelligent is neurotic, and personality traits like baseless anxiety may be things that can be adjusted to some extent as well.

>Not to mention, society already tried this with eugenics fairly recently. Its not "smart" to repeat the mistakes of history.

When did we "try this" with eugenics "fairly recently"?

I'm almost certain you're referring to Nazism. But was Hitler really killing all the Jews for some sort of eugenics experiment? No, I don't think so. Were his actions genuinely scientific at all? Nope. He believed that raw power conquered all and that anyone weak should be murdered. That's different than eugenics.

We need to get past this kneejerk reaction comparing doing anything beneficial within the human genome to Nazi eugenics. It's a completely absurd comparison, especially considering that the average intelligence of Jews is very high.

Hitler was evil because he was a mass murderer, it's as simple as that. I really shouldn't have to clarify this on YC of all places.
And the activity looks very similar to a neuron firing! This is, in a sense, THE BASIC LEARNING UNIT a.k.a. neuron. If you think about the way water flows through a river (the water KEEPS ERODING THE RIVER! How can this possibly work ?!?!!?) or the way a neuron counts the "votes" from other neurons like an automatic electronic computer, you can see similarities in scale!

If you have any questions, you can send a PR to https://github.com/anythingbot/anythingbot/ or create an issue or ask in a reply here. My email is

anythingbot@anythingbot.org

And there is a video feed.

BWAA TV: Bot Will Accept Anything TV

http://anythingbot.org/video/
I don't know that it's fair to say that Oracle has survived the test of time; their core business has been on a steady decline for years; now they are playing catch-up in cloud and are talking about second derivative growth like they were an undergrad startup.

The fact is that they have not grown their top line for five years(1), 70% of their business is in a dying sector and they have opted to cut R&D spending in favor of stock buybacks and dividend payouts for years(2).

I don't see how they can change course; their investors keep asking for dividends while the bulk of their competitors are either privately owned or public with strong founder/owners; point being Oracles competitors are controlled by investors that want R&D spending, Oracle is not, and Oracle sorely needs R&D to build a portfolio that'll keep them from being yet another leveraged buy-out..

(1) https://ycharts.com/companies/ORCL/revenues
(2) http://marketrealist.com/2016/12/oracles-share-buybacks-dividend-trend-will-run-2017/
Sure, but most of my USB-A stuff will still be fine in 2 years, and much of it in 5. I won't have acquired enough USB-C things in 2 years to care much about it.
I really like the way you write for some reason.
> I don't use Java much but out of the languages you named none of them are better at much and with the exception of C# all of them have far, far worse tooling

You're just wrong there. There are plenty of languages that do something better than Java, but none of them do everything better than Java.

> I don't use Java much but out of the languages you named none of them are better at much and with the exception of C# all of them have far, far worse tooling

Now we are traversing into "my opinion is fact here".

> Python is a very slow dynamically typed language with a horrible deployment and concurrency story.

Who the hell uses Python for concurrency? It has a global interpreter lock... if your use case obligates concurrency and you pick Python you just don't understand what you are doing.

> C# is a real competitor but for the most part it's still tied to Windows.

Yes, let's dismiss every other language because Python is bad at concurrency and you don't like Go's package manager... Give me a break.
This is Sparta, or is it?
Big Data with Golang Instead of MapReduce
It's a Bentham construction inside Big Brother, how quaint.
In my organization, forcing users to change passwords every x months. Everybody I know ends up picking simpler to remember passwords from a pool as a result.
> How many XML files have to be configured for this "easy to setup" backend?

None.
This reeks of privilege.

A lot of people leaves until they find a place where they can get a paycheck, do their job, and not be discriminated.

If you can choose jobs for their "coolness" factor, you don't seem to have this problem. So you should at least understand that inclusive and professional behavior, even though is "uncool" for you, it's vital for a lot of people.
Ask HN: Career in Analytics for a Dev
I am a web developer [.NET & SQL Server] with around 5 years of experience.I am currently exploring opportunities in the field of Business Analytics and find myself at a crossroad , trying to figure which direction to head to. Wondering whether I should remain a developer , gain new skills [JS-esque frameworks] , or pursue a career in Business Analytics. What further confuses me is the plethora of roles closing resembling one another in the Analytics domain i.e. data analytics,data science,business intelligence and analytics. Hoping those who might have found themselves at similar crossroads can advice on whether they chose one direction or the other , and on what basis , and if it was a good decision or not.
An internal Google email shows how the company cracks down on leaks
Testing news paywalls: Which are leaky, and which are airtight?
Rule of thumb: if the data fits on an ordinary PC, it's not Big Data. The right tool is probably an Ordinary Database.
infrastructure department says: "applications is responsible for security"
application department says: "infrastructure is responsible for security"
developer ask: "Can I help you?"
I forgot my BASIC too.
Every laptop in existence, up until quite recently, used a proprietary power connector. The fact that Surface also uses it as a dock connector doesn't erase this fact.

But it does point to the fact that many of us have such a dock, and are very happy to not have to buy a new one to use with our new Surface Pros. It also won't hurt that our old power adapters should still work.

One particular gamble of the Surface line was that it relies on accessories to really meet your needs. Microsoft has done a commendable job in this area, allowing me to "upgrade" my Surface Pro 3 with a new keyboard and pen, and now allowing me to continue using all my accessories with the latest device.

I agree they have to break compatibility at some point, but I don't think there's much value yet in doing so. Maybe in a year or so, USB-C will be standardized and reliable enough to really make it advantageous to use as a power supply for all my devices. But it's not there yet.
I'm curious, does "no fan" mean no vents? Cos it will overheat once dust accumulates.
Connery mostly had the role before Moore, with it going back and forth several times.

(Never Say Never Again and Octopussy were both released in 1983)
Default passwords.

Bad secret management (hardcoded in Git, shared secrets not changed after an employee left ...)

Dev and live not properly separated/dev not properly secured.

Services exposed to the internet that shouldn't be.

Old and forgotten software / appliances.

Don't forget about the dev/sysadmin workstations!
Counter-example: I worked in ML research at one of the largest companies in the field (in the billions of predictions per day) and 16GB was more than enough to do anything I would ever do on a laptop/tablet/etc..

Furthermore, I found that solutions which couldn't be successfully worked on with <16GB RAM were basically architecturally unsound. Not being able to scale the workload on demand or control peak demand. Extra RAM just hid poor developers from their non-scalable solutions - or just increased their downtime till they got an OUT OF MEM error. The issues were only exacerbated at scale - failing even with 128+ GB in RAM.

Basically, when the difference between a dev sample and a prod sample is 3+ orders of magnitude, your ability to scale the process up/down, fail gracefully, even battery life, etc. are far more important than having large swathes of memory to fail on. Especially on the go.

If you do deal with production (big) data, you're ssh'ed in to some always-on, process-maintained hardware if only for the sake of latency and interruptions. And you better have the toolset to do it. How much memory does a terminal take?

For graphics, I understand - but then you're definitely not working on a surface pro or on the go at all really.
There are so many other/better ways to question someone's taste, even in jest.

This is also why I originally said it depends on the context. You can say it to a work buddy who you hang out with after hours. You can't say it to someone from another team who you don't know very well. Use your head.
How prototyping has helped launch networking mobile app, Deets
You'd be hard pressed to spend $600,000,000,000 per year, or $1,200,000,000,000,000 since WW2, and not come up with a few ideas in the process.
From what I understand from my sister who's a lawyer at a tech firm in LA, firing people in California is harder than firing people in the UK.
Note that Foreign Policy is a niche publication. If you would follow similar German sites you would have noticed.

Regular news hasn't reported much (it's a very slow moving process, not so ideal for a news website) but it's mentioned occasionally, e.g. the FAZ had a very similar article a few months ago. But you are right, a regular citizen with no particular interest in that field would almost surely never have heard about it.
Feynman at 125 on an IQ test is bullshit. You know this if you've ever taken a test and read his books.

Douglas Hofstadter describes Feynman as acting out a sort of deliberate "village idiot" in a lecture on intelligence and patterns, by giving deliberately simplistic answers. With no proof, I think this is what Feynman must have been doing on the IQ tests, being deliberately but defensibly pedantic. I know that scoring 125 on an IQ test requires no skill that Feynman wasn't near the limits of human capability at.

The passage I'm talking about, from Hofstadter's amazing "Metamagical Themas": https://books.google.ca/books?id=NSpMDQAAQBAJ&q=feynman+sat
Yeah, you don't want that. We cull the hens that start to eat eggs.
Windows users are not that fussy. Mac users are very loud so they require special treatment.
1. Secrets in source. This is by far the easiest one to "see".

2. In Ruby code, I see a surprising amount of `eval`; mostly `class_eval`
Long Strange Trip Captures the Splendor and Folly of the Grateful Dead
That's why the world needs monero xmr
> I would encourage those of you who have such a reaction to step back and consider why people might submit anonymously to such a list, and what benefits a company might get from having one.

While we're doing thought exercises, let's also step back and consider why someone would value things like evidence-based judgments and due process. Someone could just value justice and fairness, including channels for recourse when legitimate incidents of slander (or honest misunderstandings!) arise.

There's nothing wrong, ignorant, or shameful about that perspective. In fact, we should embrace these perspectives in a diverse work culture.
The conclusion of "old things must be preserved" leads to a sticky wicket as you call it. Maybe it is the wrong conclusion. What if we started instead with a question: "What is the best use for this land" and then work out from there.
> will they need to grow up and be managed like a real company by putting restrictions on pay and enforce management oversight.

I've been at a couple of larger than Oracle-sized organizations that paid quite well and didn't have a lot of 'management oversight'....which I am taking to mean, roughly, 'top-down, heavy-handed management'.
I love Python to death, and it's my favorite language, but packaging and deploying Python apps have always been the ecosystem's Achilles heel.

It's not hard to send a Java app to a Windows user and expect them to be able to run it, which is more than I can say for Python.

And Java also has Maven, which is by far the best dependency management system I've used. It's extensible too... aside from managing dependencies, you can also have Maven perform code generation (which is wonderful if you're working with Avro) and other things (such as handling OSGi bundle metadata).
> However, if the GCTA estimate was ~0%, then that would imply one of three things: a) there is no genetic contribution, b) the genetic contribution is entirely in the form of genetic variants not included, or c) the genetic contribution is entirely in the form of non-additive effects such as epistasis/dominance
They aren't "completely" valid, but we have all seen large cognitive differences between people we know. What is that phenomenon? How do we measure it?

IQ tests are (imperfectly) correlated to grades, and income, but these things are also correlated to, for example, how quickly you can tap your finger. You could probably use that as a measure as well.

There are some people who might have a joint problem, and they would do horribly on finger tapping.

The point I am making is that all we have are imperfect measures. There is some underlying matter of fact. Maybe we need a better understanding of what intelligence is.
I really like the article and it agrees with what we've been accomplishing at my company. Datasets top out at 2 GB and clients ask for "big data" solutions that don't make sense. My only complaint is that I don't feel comfortable sharing it with my co-workers because of the vulgar image on there... :/
> privileged white men like myself

The former president of the US was a black man, he was arguably in one of the most privileged positions in the US / World.

The current Chancellor of Germany happens to be a women, which is the most privileged positions in Europe.

I'm also sure that you will find a lot of white men who lack anything that can be considered privilege.

> why people might submit anonymously to such a list
> This trope of jumping immediately to the problem of false accusations is sadly common in discussions e.g. of rape reporting. Yes, some reports of rape (and harassment) are untrue. The vast majority aren't.

Even if a rape accusation turns out to be false, the damage is done, and nobody will care about your "privileged white men" because they don't have enough victim creds.
First the "G" thing does not exist at the technical and organizational level in telecoms.
The "G" thing is a marketing invention.

You should look at the standard body 3GPP, a consortium of standard bodies, it has releases, not generations and releases come every year or so:

http://www.3gpp.org/specifications/releases

Releases are proposals that are realistic, not only technologically but also economically and that make sense in the telecom ecosystem.
For example as you say, one can dream of a 300GHz, 256 antennas phone transmitting data at 3,200 GBits/sec, but actually no phone CPU or hardware would be fast enough to keep up with such a wild beast (they already have difficulties to cope with the current gigabit/sec rates).

In addition the higher frequency you go to escape the spectrum regulation, the greater attenuation there is in the medium, so at 300GHz you can may expect a path of only a few meters.
They seem pretty keen in turning J9 into a multi-language VM and pushing Swift on GNU/Linux and their other OSes.
You can't own human beings, because it violates their fundamental rights. This was true back when slavery was "legal". The Nazis could pass a law saying that the Holocaust was legal, but the rest of the world felt free to disregard that law, and put the Nazis on trial. Some laws are not legal, that is the whole entire point of the West's 2,400 year old liberal tradition. Likewise, some claims of ownership are not legal, and not binding. You can pay good money for a slave, but you still don't own the slave, because no law can make it legal to own another human being. And this was true for all of the thousands of years that slavery was legal: none of those laws were ever legitimate, and none of those ownership claims were ever legitimate.
Have a look at Spark: http://sparkjava.com/

It's a Flask clone for Java. No XML configuration needed.
Lack of working backups. It's appalling how many people depend on systems with no backups.

Forget ransomware and other exotic attacks, what happens if after 7 years your hard drive decides to die on you?

I don't know. The backup is the first thing that needs to be setup and tested when you buy a computer. Windows and Mac have build-in systems for point-in-time backups and linux offers more than a few solutions.

Backup, backup and backup again :-)
Look, it's very sad that this man died, but this isn't reddit; why is this post here?
My favorite James Bond. RIP.

Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby, you're the best
Wise words!

This certainly applies to programming but I've felt it too in my Aerospace career. I used to feel like the smartest guy, I always knew how to do things or learnt them really fast, and I couldn't imagine where the horizon was. Now, the more I see, the further I feel the horizon is, and it's pretty frustrating as it makes me feel less intelligent.

Your comparison helped me to see things a bit clearer and to be a bit more motivated.
My dad took me to see most of the Bond movies in the late 70s/early 80s (The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only) and these were some of the fondest memories I have of growing up and spending time with him.

There was just something about Roger Moore as Bond. He managed to hit the perfect blend of suave and exciting, with just the right amount of irreverence and camp.
Dalton was an odd fit for Bond, though I've enjoyed his work elsewhere.
I loved Dalton. He was such a hard bastard.
>choosing local optima for cooperation might come back to bite us in the coming TransNeptunian War of 2217, e.g., when psychopathic, ruthless strategy is all that saves the human race from the conflict of first alien contact.

lol, that's a great line.
I like the concept. But the box is too large and the projector output doesn't seem to be enough. I have a 3M Streaming projector which is 60 lumens, this Sony product is 100. The 3m is not usable at all with any normal lamp on, daylight from a window renders it completely useless.

Bump it up to the ~300 lumen range then it might become useful.
As has been mentioned elsewhere - names aren't mentioned in the list.

Also even with anonymity although such a system maybe open for abuse, so that people can implicate innocent people, the potential to allow actual victims to speak up who wouldn't otherwise seems worth the risk
Organizational firewalled "internal networks" that everyone connects to.

People opening untrusted web content and email attachments in Acrobat Reader and Office.

Reliance on antivirus products.
Lenovo fits that bill.

I would guess the reason is that a Chinese company has plenty of market in China already and if they expand they would expand to other Asian countries first for language and cultural similarity reasons. Same reason US companies expand into Canada and Europe first.
Hackers can use subtitles to take over millions of devices
Your question would make more sense if you reversed it: why should Poland lose a priceless treasure just so some greedy capitalists can rape it?
Thank you! We fix it soon, I see this error...
Most common mistake I see: sharing your passwords with multiple people. Even when the product lets you have more than one account.

Mistake websites make: only letting you have one user account.
Not a big deal, but I'm not sure HN is the best place for this stuff. None of us were at risk not hearing about this from other sources (unless you only read HN, in which case maybe that's what you're going for). I tentatively suggest HN should only cover deaths of famous people when they have a direct connection to the tech community (e.g., Steve Jobs) or when the person had important intellectual contributions that can be discussed. This isn't a good place for pure nostalgia or entertainment news.
Unpopular, but defend-able. Preferring Pierce Brosnan on the other hand...
Hokusai: the Great Wave that swept the world
> ... but it's also pretty fun to pick up a cheeping box at the post office!

One of the highlights of the years we lived in an extremely rural county in the midwest was the yearly call from our rural post office. This is exactly what was said when we picked up the phone:

"Diederich? Postmaster here. Your birds are at the post office. Thanks, bye."
The biggest security mistake I see is the History.

Talking about history of :

1. Slack channels ( lot's of private stuff / links go to #general )

2. VCS ( lot's of passwords / tokens are in the commit history )

3. JIRA ( lot's of private information / company secrets are there )

Usually only one of those three can cost the company a big lawsuit if some employee/freelancer is deliberately being hired to make damage.
Isn't this effectively the same as the Dunning Kruger effect (as it applies to this situation)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I don't understand why you were being downvoted but please write a report somewhere and post it here next year, and good luck with the chicks! Just remember to take good care of them, and provide a decent, clean, natural environment for the animals while they live.
Not realizing that the mind is supreme and the mind is fallible.
It doesn't matter that the complaints are anonymous. The ultimate end result of this produces anxiety, even if action is taken. It is passive violence on a mass scale instead of healing occurring in one place. People should not want every fracture or trespass humming in the background to remind us. We should be moving on, dedicating our focus on being better people, achieving new heights, real things that progress us forward, that deserves recognition, not pain, not being known as a victim of something. I feel that is the way of our society now, a mad obsession with pain and offense. Violence shifted into an abstract form...
The Hydra Bug: Part I
"There is no computation you can write in Hadoop which you cannot write more easily in either SQL, or with a simple Python script that scans your files."

How about base64decode? it is possible in SQL but not pretty. There are other examples as well. I do agree that Hadoop is probably an overkill for 90%+ of uses but there are certain set of problems which are helped by having a
general execution environment.
For a long time. Note that there is a difference between the manufacturer's warranty (voluntary) and the seller's warranty (two years mandatory, "Gewährleistung" in German). When Apple talks about their warranty they mean the former.

They even have a page outlining the difference: https://www.apple.com/de/legal/statutory-warranty/