skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, that shouldn't be too hard if you're really in a emergency and can't wait. What I see though is some deep integration with their API with automatic tagging, releases, etc... That's hard to work around but still not impossible if you're willing to live with some chaos in your process until things are back.
If not on Pinterest it's very annoying searching for things like you describe. A vast portion of the images you find can't be viewed in decent resolution without signing up to Pinterest.
To be clear then, reddit has no apparent copyright (on individual comments anyway). They have a license to the copyrighted work, which they're allowed to re-license.

I view this as significant mainly because it changes what they could sue you for, and any fair use evaluation if copyright does enter into it at some point.
NFC is used to transmit the login credentials, which is fairly nifty actually.
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>Maybe a business needs a website offer to build them a basic website, maintenance, hosting, backups and updates for $99/mo set it up with Stripe or Paypal recurring payments.

I did this as a teenager and it ended up being a nightmare because you become a magnet for people who want thousands upon thousands of work done for no upfront cost and a low monthly fee. And it puts you in a terrible spot as you are strongly incentivized to say "Yes" to those people because you are desperate for the money and experience.

My recommendation would be to estimate and bill for the actual time put into those projects and have a fair hourly rate that reflects your knowledge and experience.
Do you just tap, or do you have to launch an app first? I only ask because the bluetooth pairing process is already pretty painless (I have QC35 and an iPhone).
Location: Near DC (relocating back out west)

Remote: Yes

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Yup - looking through the brochure website just made me think "Private-instance of Facebook" - and the reminders and notifications seem like something Apple's Siri will eventually do when they progress further on their "Proactive" functionality.

What's frustrating is that Outlook (you know... the big, old Enterprise-y PIM system) already supports a lot of the functionality present in Monica, such as keeping track of birthdays, anniversaries, personal notes, related calendar events, and so on - you can also arbitrary link different contacts together to define relationships (not the same thing as "linking contact cards" to aggregate a single contact's data).

Many things about Outlook frustrate me - in this case it's how Contacts management is now frozen in time - but it's also heartbreaking that Outlook was a genuinely innovative (and performant!) PIM system in its early days, but there hasn't been any innovation in Outlook's PIM functionality in the past 10 years (seriously - the feature-set for Contacts, Tasks and Notes is literally unchanged since Outlook 2007 - and even then the only significant change was adding contact photos). It wouldn't take much, besides some courage, to update Outlook's Contacts experience to be more up-to-date with the functionality provided by modern social-media platforms - it's just so close. But because it's now so entrenched it's very unlikely we'll see any significant change until someone pulls a Slack on Outlook (a-la Slack vs Lync) to prompt Microsoft into trying to compete - assuming we're not doomed to yet another Electron app. shudder

If anyone in the Desktop Outlook team is reading this - especially if you work on Contacts, please fix my biggest gripes with Contacts:

1. Make Outlook fast again. It shouldn't take 2-4 seconds to switch between Mail, Contacts and Calendars.

2. Don't make new recurring Calendar Events for Contact Birthdays and Anniversarys - why can't you have 'virtual' events in their own special calendar layer like all other systems do (even Windows 10 Calendar does) - so I don't get multiple event reminders for someone's birthday (from the 'real' calendar events that Desktop Outlook creates combined with the 'virtual' events from Windows 10 Calendar).

3. Give me more control over Contact Photos - show me the file-size, let me crop them. I don't like having to switch to my phone to edit contact photos.

4. I have contacts with more than 3 email addresses, more than 2 mailing addresses, and more than 1 mobile phone number - why is this limitation still a thing?

5. Retain a history of all Contact fields over time instead of requiring me to maintain "backup" contacts that contain older details.
85 percent of the top science jobs in Trump’s government don’t have a nominee
If your problem is speed, Ruby & Python probably aren't going to help. Query optimizations typically yield a lot of bang for the buck. Once you've harvested all of the low-hanging fruit there, in-memory caching (memcached, redis) can also bring a lot to the table.
Interesting to note that a scheduling assistant I've been testing (X.ai) offers both an Amy and an Andrew assistant. I've definitely made a conscious decision to use Andrew because of potential negative reactions to using Amy.

It does make me wonder about the choice of Apple and Amazon to use female names.
> github is down rarely enough

Our stats show a 1:239K request error rate for S3, and a near 100% availability. There has only been one outage of note in years. GH on the other hand is down with shocking frequency like today and yesterday, though not as much as BitBucket.

Some companies I know write to GCS and S3 in parallel, which is easy given many tools and API's work directly with both (e.g. AWSCLI/gsutil).
Beacons a) aren't Apple exclusive b) are really cool.

The trouble is that the category of features they solve can often also be solved by GPS, Network, or other similar technologies.

There are a myriad of cool things that Bluetooth Beacons can do but none of them are particularly consumer must-haves.
No, a contractor like Pluribus wouldn't issue the clearance, but they'd surely verify that the clearance exists and is valid. That seems like a good time to generate a cursory once over of the applicant's clearance. OTOH, since the IC is in the growth hacking phase these days maybe they don't want to do anything to slow down the money train.
They let some obvious bots through if you go slow enough. A lot of SEO and AdWords tracking companies still do unofficially tolerated automated google search.

I assume allowing some low amount of obvious botting prevents people from developing really sneaky bots that are much harder to block. It's probably to prevent an arms race that google may not be able to win.
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It could also be some kind of security thing where the 7 was designed to be able to have 3rd party access where the 6/6s would have required the secure enclave to do something risky.

Pure guess.
Syncthing is great for file sync.

If you have a 2TB RAID box somewhere, preferably offsite, preferably backed up to Crashplan, things start to look similar to cloud storage.

BTW running ZeroTier on your machines and on a small cloud box with cheap traffic makes for a great LAN-like setup, when you e.g. have easy time syncing with your home machine behind NAT from anywhere.
Honnold's free solo is amazing because he did not make a mistake and have to use the rope. Every move was executed perfectly.

It was amazing because there was no rope.

Also the fastest ascent of Freerider, for the same reason.
Good question! You probably are familiar with the bandwidth and throughput power of the underlying storage system of GCS, Colossus, through use of BigQuery. BigQuery Storage and GCS storage both leverage Colossus. It's silly fast :)

Others can chime in more intelligently wrt Spark/Hadoop specifically, but I'll point out that read latency from GCS would definitely be higher than local-disk HDFS (esp Local SSD). Throughput, depending on your configuration, could be much better with GCS. Spark/Hadoop don't take the same care to optimize the storage-to-compute route as BigQuery, as evident by some bits of Hive performing serial FS operations.

So my answer is, it depends on the configuration of the job, the cluster, how data is written, choice of disk, and et cetera.

That said, when talking about price-performance, flexibility, scalability, and ease of operations, I suspect the "job-scoped clusters" setup would have a far superior TCO. We should try and do the math one day :)

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Never forget you're not alone in this. This is one of the things many people want to suppress in the experts because there's a big economical interest in those people keeping quiet about these things because that means you can pressure the experts by guilt-tripping them.

Never works on me for years now.

Keep fighting the good fight. I do as well.
I mean let them do some R&D, then get public support and eventually maybe make a business out of it, not the other way around.

This is the opposite of corporate social responsibility, yall. Do your freakin job, Benioff!
Maybe for like 0.5% of the climb they could do that, if Alex was close and he could somehow get a harness on, they could help him.

If he got injured it's not like he could step left and there is a magical video game ledge that appears, It's all or nothing.
Thanks, but while ASICs may not be a threat, in general finely tuned beefy machines might be? So that running this in a browser would be as efficient as mining litecoin in a browser?
> ... he wouldn't make the same mistake and could therefore rationalize his continued participation in the sport.

In the early chapters of the book The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe says that this was the normal attitude among test pilots about their brethren who crashed and died. "How could anybody fail to check his hose connections? And how could anybody be in such poor condition as to pass out that quickly from hypoxia? ... One theorem was: There are no accidents and no fatal flaws in the machines; there are only pilots with the Wrong Stuff. (I.e., blind Fate can't kill me.)"
agreed, but now it's going to happen at scale.

eg. in australia, they launched the derided 'robo-debt' system that sent people notices about potential benefit fraud charges, and the harassment of people caused senate investigations in several states. turns out the new system is as correct/wrong as the manual process (20% error rate), but it's now able to process several order magnitude more cases, so effectively floods downstream workflows (claims, complaints, courts) that were not ready for such an increase in demand.
Could you elaborate on how Kubernetes makes it easier to deploy code changes directly to the cluster? Are you talking about the Docker/container image build?
libpcre1 is a C library that implements parsing and execution of regular expressions. A lot of packages need some kind of regular expressions, so rather than implement that themselves they use libpcre. Without libpcre they can't function, so when you uninstall it you must also uninstall everything that requires it.

If you were downgrading in order to install some application which isn't compatible with the current versoin of libpcre, then you should be aware that most of the rest of the system may not function with that older version. You should fix your application instead so that it can use the version that comes with SLES12. If you can't you might be able to manually install a second copy of the libpcre1 package, but arrange for it to be in a different location than the normal version.

Have fun!
technically communication can be one way.
An app might be asking a lot, but a responsive design to allow mobile usage would be a big help. Or at least something that could hook into IFTTT or something so I can easily add info on the go via email, twitter, or something.

For example, let's say I'm at a party and meet some people I want to log. Mobile input is really key there because I may have been drinking and won't remember that info in the next 15 minutes.
Folks in this thread claimng to be using IPv6. Anyone using cjdns? Best use of IPv6 I have heard about so far.
I was about to say, Palantir's been done.
Thanks a lot.

1. This is not possible. Facebook does not give me those information through an importer. So it won't happen unless they change their mind.

2. Interesting. I had something similar in mind, I think you'll be pleased when it'll be out.
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How is it possible they have few direct flights? It's an international airport. Anyway, that's the sort of thing that would change if it became a tech hub. I imagine that's all supply/demand. The infrastructure is already there.
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This would be somewhere in the Vingean Scholastics portion of the Venn diagram I proposed a few years ago:

https://www.exratione.com/2012/01/the-future-of-the-venture-...

The future is wandering towards Fast Times at Fairmont High, it seems.
Sushi Zamai on Spruce St. in Boulder is also good (or it was 10 years ago). My understanding at that time was Sushi Den and Zamai shared the same cargo plane for their daily fish deliveries.
Pretty huge corporations and I'm willing to bet an organ they used very shady techniques to keep themselves on the top. So not really a good comparison.

Apple was small and on the brink of going out of business. There were smartphone-like devices on the market already. They improved on them. I belive that's what your parent commenter is saying.
Unfortunately it's a database that's gotten big, so I need low latency :/
You can set up another git server and webhook pull from the main one whenever someone pushes there, so you have a backup replica. Coders just need to setup two remotes for the repos and use the second one when main one is unavailable.
For what it's worth, I don't see what all the fuss is about the name. In fact, I like it. Do these same people complain about other software named after people, like Cassandra, Linux, MySQL, Haskell etc...
This seems like a pretty common response for a breaking incident for a scale app. Requests flow through to a failing system and trigger HTTP 500. Those requests may pachinko through the stack, making a variety of calls that can compound the degradation of a system weathering an unplanned failure state.

Engineers stop the bleeding by 503'ing requests at the perimeter or putting up a static maintenance page. This allows things like caches or DBs or app servers to cool off while a rollback or a revert goes out. Then, when the system is stable again, let requests flow through again (slowly, of course).
The rates are low for your first jobs, but if you're good at what you do you can still charge a lot more on those sites.

Yeah, they're obviously not as good as your own network. But, if you literally don't have anything else going on they're a start.
It’s all too easy for headlines about climbing to lean on clichés about the climbers themselves—that these people are daredevils, thrill seekers, adrenaline junkies. But to most climbers, nothing is quicker to trigger the gag reflex. Climbing is an intimate relationship with our world’s most dramatic landscapes, not a self-boasting fight against them. I don’t claim to understand the inner workings of Alex’s mind, but I know one thing for certain: Alex climbs to live, not to cheat death.

Can someone help me understand this? How is doing something without safety equipment that you can do with with safety equipment climbing to live, but not about cheating death? What is the point of foregoing safety if not to somehow eke something out of the increased danger, whether it be adrenaline, or a period of increased focus, or fame?

If it's not about someone being addicted to adrenaline or looking for fame, then I just don't understand it. At all. As in it's so foreign to me that I can't even begin to understand it.
That paragraph was when I closed the tab. Nothing to learn from them.
In the Outside article up thread, Tommy Caldwell who free climbed the route with Alex a couple weeks ago mentions loose rock as scaring him: "I went to Yosemite last week over the Memorial Day holiday and we did a practice lap on the Freerider with a rope. High on the wall, panting and sweating, feet smearing on crispy flakes that made crunching noises as I stepped on them."
You might as well just say the city's not large enough for startup funding.
I like the BBQ at KT's out on 75th (good while on a bike ride). There is also good BBQ in 'downtown' Louisville that is owned and operated by Texans.
>If Net Neutrality goes away wouldn't it actually strengthen the position of the current dominant players?

Would it? I'm under the impression, many of the companies big enough to muster some form of competition against the Big 5 are the ISPs who would be negatively impacted by Title 2 rules.

>They are the ones who can more easily afford to pay for preferred delivery no?

I suppose the ISP could cut them off and offer their own versions of the services. It wouldn't be very much different than how Apple dictates what you can and can't do on their mobile devices.
The best projects/rates are through your network if your network is in a rich country. For someone who is in an average country, and even more so for a teenager, upwork and similar places can be very useful. Definitely were for me when I was a teen.

Regarding the rates being low on sites like this. Sure there are low rate jobs, and a bunch of people who compete by lowering rates. That doesn't mean you have to do that. It's completely possible to ask for more money on upwork & friends. The classic patio11 advice of charging more works just as fine on upwork as it does elsewhere.
Love it. This seems to be the answer to a question that Facebook forgot completely. To help you improve your social life with the people you really care about. Not just distract you with irrelevant information. Keep it up!
Good ol' one 9 uptime.
> They chose inexperienced college students over startup veterans.

Is this still true of YC today?
Such incidents remind me of 2 things

1. No matter what 99.99999999% availability a service provides, its utterly useless if the time to get back up is unacceptable.

2. Do not have remote services, which you cannot fully control to be a part of your run time deployments.
Example ?
(And I didn't say one couldn't branch or stop the execution flow)
I've been there while I was still in the first year of college of a 5 year MSc in CS course and needed some extra cash.

I started on Upwork with a very low rate (~$20/h) and applied to as many jobs as the platform allowed me to, with a custom cover letter for every single one. It was time intensive, but without any reviews it's your only way to stand out.

After I got my first project, I made sure that my client was blown away by everything: communication, turnaround time, code quality, etc. When I was sure the client was happy with the result, I asked him if he could leave me a review describing the process of working with me. By asking, you're letting him know that his review matters, and he'll probably put some extra effort instead of just writing something for the sake of it.

I kept (slowly) increasing my rate and continued sending custom proposals for clients. This is your advantage over all the low bids you can be sure they're getting.

After a few projects under my belt, I've built my personal portfolio, making sure Upwork reviews were there, along with a small description of the projects I completed. I've published my portfolio around in a few relevant websites and this has brought me client work directly to me a bunch of times.

After a while, you'll notice you're getting more proposals than you can handle, mostly uninteresting and low pay. That's when I've set my Upwork rate to something high enough that clients that weren't serious just wouldn't contact me.

I was 20 when I started doing this. I'm 23 now, with my MSc almost complete (just delivered my thesis this week) and a remote job working full-time at a startup with a great salary.

This is not a fool-proof plan, I may have gotten lucky here and there, but it is absolutely viable to do this without a resume. I've never had a resume to this day.
I'm pretty much on this wavelength. If I can automate something that I'd otherwise do manually - or that a less technical person would happily do manually, I'm fine with having python or perl and a cron job do it. What I try to avoid is scope creep when my automation makes it easier to magnify the scale. My dad used to collect his local synoptic chart from the weather bureau website - and it frustrated him that they only archived 1 week's worth so when he was away he'd need to ask someone else to download them for him or end up with gaps in his collection - I happily scripted that up for him. What I wouldn't do for him though, was make it grab _every_ chart for every region available - if he wasn't doing that by hand, I wasn't going to break the terms of service that much further and automate it for him... I'm happy to admit when I do things like they they're without doubt technically infringing on someone's legal rights, but ethically I consider this to be in the "of course I'll walks across an intersection against a red light in the middle of the night with no cars around" class of wrongdoing.
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Could you elaborate/speculate on how dithering patterns would be used?
Average total pay and benefits for a full time teacher at LAUSD is $98k and it's still a disaster.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I agree that they are approaching this the right way. It's just not the "Finder for iOS" that many are calling it.

The president of my company is one such person as you describe. He has no idea. He puts everything on the desktop, because the only way he knows of opening a document is to launch the corresponding application, and then File, Open the file on his desktop. In other words, he treats his Mac like an iPad. We have tried to break him of this habit, to no avail.
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I agree and thanks a lot for your comment. I know I should be much better at marketing, it's nearly the most important criteria for a software to succeed.
I'd define it as delivering the same performance to all traffic regardless of the source or content of that traffic, except for the content of the Differentiated Services field of the IP header.

That lets QoS work, while preventing all the scummy behavior that NN is against.
99% of the time the problems I've had with business people stemmed from this simple lie:

"I understand you need to make it better and I understand we need to invest now in order to save expenses later. Fine! But let's make it quickly and ugly right now because we need to get to market."

You can predict what I'll say. "Later" never comes. They lie. They are businessmen and they know how to make you feel good about yourself so you can get to work on their interests.

"Why do you need to rework? The thing is working!"

...Of course.

Too cynical, I know -- just venting and that attitude I'm showing here is not representative of how I communicate. I manage to find a common language with most of them but I'd prefer never to have to deal with them in the first place.

That costs me a lot of income lately but I still don't budge.
I'm not sure how well this advice translates. I found my first job (as a teenager) by scouring craigslist. I sent my resume probably to 3 or 4 hundred companies over the course of a few weeks. Finally, I found one that didn't want a resume but wanted me to complete a project instead. I spent a few hours working on that, submitted it, and got called back -- they didn't care I was a teenager and paid me $23/hr on a contract. This was fantastic money, since the other places I was looking at were places like subway and best buy.

So again, not sure how well the advice translates to your area -- but try looking for places that ask for coding samples or projects instead of resumes.