skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also the only major Canadian city in the same time zone as Silicon Valley... And is three hours away from Seattle.

I suppose there's also Victoria, but there's no tech jobs there.
The thing I am attacking is an entire industry of con artists. Presuming medical advice is good because you heard it on tv is amazingly poorly thought out. Its as badly thought out for example as believing that the power of positive thinking provided by a fake cure is enough to balance out literally not knowing how to get good functional medial advice. In modern life where everyone who doesn't crash their car into a wall will need competent advice to reach their potential age this is a necessary survival skill long term.

Homeopathy is without exception useless nonsense. for example Oscillococcinum is duck offal diluted. The logic behind its operation doesn't even make sense in homeopathy land. Its the approximate equivalent of bad sci fi wherein having made up some imaginary laws of physics the author can't even stick to them properly.

I honestly don't know what algorithm you use to assess credibility. You suggest that you are put off by strong opinions but reassured by hearing about things on TV. You try to ascribe positive motives to modern day patent medicine scammers but distrust the motives of people angered such deceit.

Consider refining your judgment.

P.S. What did I say that you "know not to be true"?
> the Y2K problem never came to fruition because - arguably - of the immense effort put in behind the scenes by people who understood what might have happened if they hadn't.

Except many countries who spent no money on upgrading their system has very few problems too.
Hydro is great, so great that around 90% of dammable rivers are already used for power generation. Further hydro generation is not really possible so it will never fulfill more than a fraction of energy needs.

Wind is an excellent source for some countries. Much of the US is great for wind generation and unlike hydro the resource is largely untapped. Wind is unpredictable but averages out over large areas. It will never be a base source but has much potential remaining.

Solar is held back by cost alone. All predictions point to solar providing the majority of our electricity in the future.

Nuclear fuel is essentially unlimited. Uranium is in seawater and if prices rise high enough we can extract from that and basically never run out. On top of that thorium is also usable as fuel if we ever get around to building anything that uses it.

In some countries the best power source is nuclear. If you don't have a lot of wind, water, or sun, your options become limited to fossil fuel or nuclear.
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Losing weight is honestly just about developing good habits and being aware of what you eat. Over the past year I've lost 65 lbs calorie counting on an IIFYM-style diet, while lifting. Once the routine is established and you have a go-to set of foods you can hit, it becomes pretty easy.

The big thing for me was not having off-limits foods. If I want pizza, I'll have pizza, but I log it and adjust my intake for the rest of the day to get those macros balanced. This kills the "I want it because I can't have it" temptations and has the effect of pushing me towards more naturally-healthy foods, because I can have 2 gigantic chicken breast instead of a piece of pizza, and I know which one is going to satisfy me more.
Well technically they don't charge a different price if you have a public ip or only a private IP on an instance. However even if they factored in that some high % of all EC2 instances will have a public IP and that's "part of the cost" what I'm really asking here is if eventually that cost will be so significant that they actually need to raise instance prices solely because of the IP price.

If that's the case, then it may make sense to lock the instance price down, and start charging for in-use v4 IPs, not just unused allocated ones.

Let's say the next block of 1 Million IPs that AWS wants to buy from say, GE fails to go through, and AWS is looking at a pool of 500K IPs starting to shrink at the rate of 30k per day. The only way to ensure they don't run out would be to separate the price out and jack up the price considerably so they don't run out.

What I'm saying is that at some point, WHEN the number of IPs that people want outpaces the number AWS (or Google or other cloud provider) can obtain from other companies, they will be forced to change something.

What would be interesting would be to see AWS etc, to try to get their customers to migrate off IPv4 for administrative and back-office services since there really isn't a strong reason to have VPNs and SSH or RDP sessions backed by a v4 address.
I was five in Estonia when it happened. I remember:

- being told not to keep water in my cup anymore in kindergarten.

- dad going to grandparents farm for a few weeks (to hide from mobilisation into cleanup crew).

- a few frames of TV news about the helicopters flying over the reactor (tho this memory could be from years later).
The startup game is all about confidence. If you've lost confidence, it's time to move on. Get a good lawyer, ask for upfront bonus, two or more weeks break before starting (ask for it to be paid or allow you to start with a negative accrual), make sure health benefits are vested immediately so you can start your procedure. The intensive rehabilitation may get your blood flowing and your confidence back. Then you'll be able to make a clearer decision about staying or calling a recruiter.
I think it should be kept in mind that the design of Soviet reactors was incredibly unsafe compared to their western counterparts. Fukushima had four meltdowns with only a few casualties.
> Other than DNA sequences I can't think of a good person key.

In theory, one could use 3D geoposition at time of birth, time of birth, and sibling order (for twins / triplets / etc delivered surgically), where said order is dictated by the parent(s) or ob/gyn present. Of course, the main problem with this in practice is that not everybody has this information.

I would have said you could do something via retinal imagery, but not everybody has eyes. If we had non-invasive neural imagery, would it maybe be possible to derive a key from a simplification of a person's physical brain topology?
You can still download older versions of apps, it's a workaround but it can be done.
I worked 80 hours per week for 7 years straight.

At one point I was juggling full time university with a full time job and an open source project on the side. My grades suffered, the startup I worked for failed, my open source project failed. I did manage to graduate though.

Then I started another open source project, worked on it for 2 years, it also failed because of tough competition.

So then I started yet another open source project and finally it did well and people seem to like it (almost 4k stars on Github) - It's been 3 years.

I was working full time the entire time and I was exhausted all the time.

There is no point complaining about your situation because there is always someone who has it worse than you.

You have to learn that nobody cares and nobody will try to help you - I think this is the right way. I personally don't mind the struggle but I hate to see people getting easy exits because someone wants to protect someone else's feelings. Nobody deserves anything.

I wish more people would understand how it really works and you can only get that from continuous failure over many years. It gives you a more accurate feeling for what the odds really are.
Right, the root issue here is trust. With a crowdfunding website, many people can give to one person, and one person can give to many people, and everyone can be sure that the person receives it, because everyone trusts the central authority -- the crowdfunding site.

But if you live under a dictatorship where your financial transactions are transparent to the state, then the state can step in and block any transaction. You need a way around that.

So I guess what you really want is to to set yourself up as an "offline crowdfunding site". So, maybe instead of building a network of people that you trust, you could build up a network of people who trust you to deliver the money to those in need.

There are numerous problems to overcome here, but I don't think that they are insurmountable.

One problem is just having the cash on hand, and thereby making yourself a target for attack.

Why not do a test-run with simple scraps of paper? Spread your idea around to your trusted network, let them know your idea, and ask them to ask their most trusted friends and family to get you as many scraps of paper as they would feel comfortable giving you if it were actual money?

Then count up your scraps of paper at the end, and then you'll be able to see if the idea will work.

Best of Luck.
An acquihire can be a great way to build marketable skills outside of actually writing the code. I'd try negotiating a mutually agreeable path that allows you to move into management after some period of time.

From what I understand (no disrespect meant, just anecdotal accounts), it's more difficult to remain hired as a coder after 40 (especially with kids). Getting some management experience on your resume will help later in life.
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Back when I worked at the Genius Bar at Apple Stores I saw a customer come in and talk to a 'Genius' about their MacBook being "slow". After a quick bit of troubleshooting, he just opened up 4 terminal windows an ran yes in all of them, and did some hand wavy explanation about diagnostics.
FlexLM is horrific and does terrible things like stashing data in unused/unformatted areas of your disk as well as dropping litter all over the registry and filesystem. I have to use Tableau which I actually really like but because it uses FlexLM that shit will never touch my bare metal.. VM only.
Body language and eye contact protocols differ between cultures. A lot.

Have you considered the possibility that you are presenting yourself as what they see as rude and unfriendly, thus leading them to be uncomfortable while serving you?
16 years! And MS Azure is not there yet... ntz ntz ntz
First, define "huge amount of money" because obviously Nordic countries have some alternative definition of it :) How many self made billionaires are in Sweden?

Second, the way of becoming rich country haven't changed for the last few millenniums: you have to exploit cheap labor from a large number of slaves (sorry, now we call them immigrants) Therefore becoming rich strongly depends on being born in right race and social class.

Lastly, it's amusing how so many social issues get blamed on capitalism and free markets when both of those things are pretty much nonexistent in most countries - even US have some heavy regulation in place.
It's in the company's interest that you're motivated, happy and well. I don't think you can realistically continue without the above. If they didn't want you on board, it'd just be an acquisition and not an acqui-hire. The 2-4 weeks vacation is not a big ask at all.

If you go in with those facts at your fingertips, you'll be in a pretty good starting point.
> an unforeseen bug that was nearly impossible to anticipate

Hmmm... :)
I was there except the big followup investment and acquihire part. So if you don't see a viable option to turn the company around and make it rock on the short run, take the deal and enjoy the money. And get some rest.
Disney stores are...ummm... not a representative sample. :-)
Have a few pre-written arrays for the common cases: "y", "Y", "n", "N", etc. Those are the fast cases (or the benchmark optimized cases, like, what Volkswagen did). Have another pre-allocated static array to fill in with other input.
Mainly because everyone treats it as a different language from python 2.
[Another non-expert commenting]

Your comment didn't make sense to me at first, but I think I get it now. Even if you were able to fit the entire dataset into memory, batches are still a good idea, because optimizing on the entire dataset is non-convex and will likely lead you into a local minimum. However, what is a local minimum for one batch may not be a local minimum for the next batch, which helps you escape.

This explains why optimization gets harder with very large batch sizes - the gradients for different batches become more similar (as they resemble the "global" gradient more closely), so you become more susceptible to local minima. I think this also explains why the learning rate scaling helps - it increases the variance across gradients, and helps you escape local minima.
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Is there something that does the opposite? Feed vocals, get jaw movements? I've got a weird little project, think "talking skeleton".
I'll try to self-analyze and hopefully shed some light:

I moved from India (Mumbai) when I was 10, to grow up in Vancouver. I've previously worked in NY, and I now work in Seattle (you can guess where), but think about moving back to Vancouver all the time to live a life of "mediocrity" and "underachieving".

In both India and America, the mindset is "If you're not first you're last", but my mindset after growing up in Vancouver: "I don't need to be first, I just need to hold my own and stay with the pack". For some reason (unclear how/when/why I learned this) growing up in Canada: 1. I learned to feel guilty for my successes (lol make it go away!). 2. I learnt very quickly, that getting one rank higher at something competitive keeps getting exponentially harder (i.e. I'd be less happy). To sum it up: Its not just about victory, but the balance of effort to victory, and the happiness from being a part of a community that counts.

However, its hard to reconcile. The Indian/American mentalities in me, especially about career, are very much a part of me. I think I compromised on "I don't need to be first, but should be at least 1 or 2 std deviations above median". As a result, I don't work in NY or SF, I live in Seattle, for the money but have a great work life balance, thinking every now and then if its it the right time to move back to Vancouver.
> I don't want to inhale second hand raspberry flavoured steam.

Though quite happy inhaling diesel particles every day no doubt?
This mechanism is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7526.txt
This is not true in this form. There were unsafe soviet designs, but also there were unsafe western designs. Soviet designs were not all categorically unsafe. The design used at Chernobyl was a problematic design, but still many layers of human error had to be involved to create the accident.

Military reactor designs are generally less safe. Civilian designs were usually OK in the USSR.
> He can never depend on his paying customers to ever pay for an upgrade.

How is this any different? Even if there was a mechanism for paid upgrades (there is through IAP), you still can't depend on people paying for it.
the "problem" here is that the graviton "has to" exist. why?

Forces have to be conveyed by something. If you want to push someone, you have to physically touch them. you have to REACH them. you cant just push the air, across the room, and expect them to feel the push.

this is true on the microscopic level as well. when particles exert gravity on each other, they do so at a distance. but something has to cross this distance. it is not ordinarily obvious how the sun traps our planet in its gravitational field - at a distance. there has to be something that exchanges the gravitational force between sun and earth. we call this thing the graviton. it is important to notice that something that does the "job" of the graviton HAS TO exist. maybe its not a particle. but something causes the exchange of gravitation and thats what we're looking for.

you know that "in space, no one can hear you scream". thats because there is no air that could make the sound waves travel.

in a similar way, without the graviton, there would be no "medium" that conveys the gravitational force.

the problem with detecting the graviton is that it is very weak. we would have to build really expensive machines to "observe" it.

explaining this theoretically is not difficult. we have plenty of "theories". the problem is confirming them with experiments.
I would love to see this work better on mobile. I'm not sure if it's just not working due to the rate limiting but it's not really working for me (Safari, iPhone 6, iOS 10)
Given that they never released the open API or data access they promised on kickstarter, I wouldn't expect anything from them.
I use QuickCheck for all of my testing whenever I'm using Haskell (along with tasty-quickcheck). Note that property testing can also be used for unit testing; just don't use any variables in the properties :)

The rule seems to be that about 1/3 of the problems it finds are legitimate bugs in the codebase, 1/3 are problems with the property (e.g. stating something a bit too strong), and 1/3 are problems with the data generators (e.g. not satisfying some invariant).

The latter 2/3 can either be seen as overhead, or as fixing bugs in one's understanding of the codebase. Usually it's somewhere in between.
Yup, blast from the past. I got serious about programming when I wanted to hack games for extra lives on my Spectrum.

When I later moved to the PC +fravia's resources were very much a sight for sore eyes.

Though I admit it was only years later when it occurred to me that +orc was almost certainly +fravia in a weak disguise. I took it literally at the time..
Hey Michael, not directly related to your post, but I wanted to know how a noob(like myself) can be good at Postgres?

I am a frontend developer who wants to start making(and deploying) full stack apps. I have heard that Postgres is one of the most reliable relational databases out there and I would love to use it in my apps.

Any suggestions on how to get started with Postgres? Or relational dbs in general? Books/courses/making projects/anything else?

Thanks in advance!
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Great, soon we'll have robots demanding gender fluidity rights
Rather, software that provides value is more important than technical implementation. Design is just a way to get that value across.
This really strikes chord with how Fukushima was treated - nothing to be concerned about, citizen, move along and enjoy swimming on a Fukushima beach a year later... One would think this would happen only in communist societies but seeing it happening in Japan and everybody being fine with that was shocking. And then there were people pointing out xkcd and bananas, downplaying the effects and conflating radiation dust effects you can wash away with inhaled/ingested particles that get incorporated to bones and tissues with grim long-term effects.

Comparing to Japan, even USSR behaved in some way more responsibly as they threw a couple of million people at the problem at the cost of waging a war just to clean up what they could. All we got from Japan was there is no issue, TEPCO saying all is fine and then suddenly a big hole in the reactor where all robots stop functioning and who knows how much water continuously being contaminated for a few years already. All because panic is the bigger evil (is it? or just the "fat cats" decided it is?)
There was already a programming language called "Go" before Go, so I'd say this is actually the customary way.
Chernobyl is the earliest memory I recall. I was less than 1y old, but I can remember staring through the window into the garden not comprehending why I was not allowed to be outside like usual and everyone being in a strange mood.
As many have said here, finding books is easy, finding good books in a particular niche is hard. For me using this tool gave few new books to my reading list.

As a side note, I an quite social reader and like to read books that I can have conversations about. Amazon ratings etc. are quite good in that already, but the visualization helps big time.
Still gets piped and hits same performance.
I honestly don't think it's terrible as such. I'm sure that there are people in the company who enjoy the environment and the acceptable attitudes, I just realized I'm not one of them. My feelings are that I learned a lot there, but not quite what I thought I'd learn, and I did make a pretty penny in stock price. I make much more money in Oracle, but I wouldn't go back to AWS for a 50% more than what I make now.
Hydro is not an option at many places. Also dams also have negative environmental impact, which is often simply ignored.

Fusion will work eventually, but currently it is in the constant "we'll be there in 30 years" since the 1970s. Yet we are not getting further, but closer to it. Just thnik about it: now you have technology in your pocket that was used in putting humans on the Moon. More and more durable and special materials becoming cheaper and affordable. We are getting close to handle the heat, EM and possibly the neutron flux. It is doable in the near future (<100 years), thus worth pursuing. What we must avoid (this also applies to the energy storage tech for renewables) is the wishful thinking: "we can shut down nuclear powerplants, as fusion/battery tech will be solved in ten years: extrapolation from 2 conviniently chosen datapoints..."

Breeder reactors and Thorium based fuel cycle will mitigate the problem of running out of U235.
Radioactive residual reprocessing will eventually be solved. Maybe peak-uranium will make it economically desireable. Btw there is current work on reprocessing spent radioactive fuel in reactors, at least in Russia and China.

I firmly beleive that while solar and wind will stay with us, they cannot be the fundamentals of our energy mix, and nuclear is here to stay. Simply many politicians are not ready to admit it yet.
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Another interesting anecdote: Those who recover memories of alien abduction will have positive or negative experiences depending heavily on which 'therapist' they visit: The memories probably get created (or fleshed out based on unrelated vague impressions) during the sessions.
The CPU and RAM are slower and there is much more kernel overhead.
Not to mention pipe buffer size is small on OS X.
Something similar to Infiniband
And Verizon still doesn't support it...
Does not do that on modern Linux or especially -ck patch.
IPv6 is not a requirement in all situations. At most enterprises need IPv6 at their edge to avoid traffic flowing through carrier grade nats. Internally private IPv4, plus nats for egress are generally fine for most use cases.
gravity and inertia are 2 different properties of mass.

inertia is conveyed by the higgs field.

gravity is conveyed by the gravitational field.

we know that those fields exist, because we can observe them.

if the fields exist, the exchange particles (higgs boson and graviton) have to exist, too - or our theory is wrong.

thats kind of circular reasoning, but we cant derive physics from first principles anyway.
Like "expert systems". (Anyone remember those?)

I went through Stanford CS in the mid-1980s, just as it was becoming clear that expert systems didn't do very much. But there were many faculty heavily invested in the technology. Feigenbaum was running around telling Congress that the US would "become an agrarian nation" unless they funded a big national knowledge system lab headed by him. Strong AI was supposed to work Real Soon Now. What actually happened was the "AI Winter" - for about two decades, not much happened. The AI startups from the 1980s went bust.
It's 2x times faster for a quick test here. Only copying on the read side?
Yes, splice can bypass the pipe buffer in some cases.
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