skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in a similar position myself. 5+ years in Data Science roles, and I've realized I'm less interested in the "generating insights" part of data science and more in building systems and architecture that support this type analytical work. This is what I've found in thinking about moving into a different type of role. Some of the following is based on what I've seen colleagues do.

If you're interested in staying technical: Machine Learning Engineer, Software Engineer, consulting, and certain types of Pre and PostSales. A lot of people who work in "Data Science Engineering" aren't coding ML algorithms or doing linear algebra. What they are doing is building the systems that support data science processes and workflows. These are the systems that help to create repeatable insights for broader use, and not just one off scripts. Having a data science background + development skills goes well together for this.

If you're interested in staying in Data Science and/or Engineering, but not having your technical work as a deliverable: Product Manager, Data Science Manager, Engineering Manager

If you're interested in getting deep into modeling: Statistician, Operations Research, and some AI roles.

If you're interested mostly in talking about Data Science and being focused on the business side of things: Sales, Sales oriented Chief Data Scientist, Business Development

If you're interested in talking about data science and doing some technical work: Data Science Instructor, Data Science Product Evangelist, PreSales (depends on role).

High Level Technical Support is an option as well. Not many people can diagnose a bug where some error in a algorithm is resulting in a faulty design matrix, or find a condition that results in a divide by zero error in a complex mathematical function, etc. You have to understand the theory behind a lot of the algorithms for this.

Also, something I've learned. When I interview for roles now I'm VERY honest that I want a significant portion of my job to be coding and serious technical work (I enjoy building a nice Tableau/Spotfire Dashboard, but I don't consider that to be very technical). I don't have a software engineering background so it makes it harder for me to find a job, but I'm also more likely to end up in a job where I'm a fit. I've found these types of blended jobs are out there, but you have to hunt for them and be patient.
Hi there! Sean from webpack (@TheLarkInn).

I know that many of the packages you have listed are not immediate but transient dependencies.

That being said, we still would welcome at any time improvements to transient or dependent packages that we use in webpack, and consider this a really really valuable contributions up stream to many projects!
I wish there was more widespread outrage over ME and PSP and "trusted computing" so we could collectively tell them to stop selling this garbage.

It's almost 20 years ago since the public convinced Intel to remove a feature from their processors which would seem almost harmless today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10106870

However, the serial number was not heavily marketed as a security feature, unlike ME and all the other new and oppressive functionality today. The security argument is impressively powerful --- and more scarily, it seems the companies and government have almost perfected how to harness it.
I don’t see how that math works out. A base model 911 C4S has estimated lease payments well over $1500/mo, not including insurance.

Perhaps in a state with no sales tax?
Wal-Mart shortened the length of its store receipts saving more than $7M
Not just the pressure requirements, but the blade stiffness too. While I was fencing it became almost overnight MUCH harder to flick. You needed a pre-stressed (near breaking) weapon or just huge amounts of force (prep).

I was a sabreist but my friends did foil and spent a lot of time bitching about the change. (Some people looooove their flicks)
No it doesn't help with anything. Now Youtube is free to remove whatever content it deems unfit for its platform of course. I was curious about what bump stocks were so I looked a few of these videos for education purposes, some were actually interesting.

The next few years, specifically the next general elections/presidential elections in US will be very interesting from a web stand point.

I'm ready to witness Facebook,Twitter and Youtube being extremely heavy handed when it comes to removing content that doesn't fit their political agenda, whatever it is. Some will cry "censorship", but we are in that situation specifically because users let these monopolies grow so big there is no competition whatsoever.

The web was meant to be decentralized, and it still is, it requires effort, it requires people going back to sharing links on their websites instead of eyeing for SEO, using RSS to aggregate news instead of relying on Facebook or Google,Email protocols, XMPP,P2P ... there are solutions, simple ones.

Google,Facebook and co are not mandatory when it comes to the dissemination of information, we just rely on them...
I'd hate to disagree, and I hope you're not wasting too much time, if it's a big fire, fuck the house, you should be concentrating on your family. Family first, then necessities(water/food/clothing). Everything else is bullshit.
There are people in this world who do things like use cursors in place of joins, for example.
> your comment only makes sense if you assume that everyone else is as pathetically and irrationally emotionally invested in their consumer choices as you clearly are...this part is just embarrassing

Your comment is stronger without this.
Interesting paper. You could almost rename SPECTRE as “GitCoin” (trademark me) as the various tips of the branches are effectively merged.
Tim Cook on iPhones, augmented reality, and how he plans to change your world
usually blockers like ghostly and ublock/adblock are doing that, but modifying xhr in runtime is interesting idea!
Have you priced out a Porsche? Not the "stock" model, the one you would really buy/lease. For every starting pricing on a Porsche in the configurator add 30K-50K by the time you are done. I own 2. Love them. Best cars every. Fun to drive and they do not try to kill you (well most of them). I cannot wait for the Mission-E to hit. Its my next car.
It's rarely about the company and much more about those affected by a potential issue. This issue's a little different as it's the potential for a vulnerability more than an actual vulnerability.

A typical case for responsible disclosure is something like a bug in Apache or Nginx that's serious and if a security issue is found that they're given time to address it. So when they make an announcement its:

1. Here is the issue

and

2. Here is the fix

Instead of just spreading and publicizing a vulnerability.
Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history
The comments in the reddit post from professionals stated that the sprinklers were not very useful for that purpose and advise against it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5ymk35/homeowner_turn...
It's quite convenient for those of us who already have the relevant data inside Google Cloud Platform (specifically BigQuery for me). I've made a few dashboard/graph-type things in Google Data Studio and they were super simple to set up and powerful enough for my use case.

Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on Cloud.
As others have said, I would walk through the house with a video camera and get every inch of it on tape. Both as evidence as well as a reminder to yourself of everything you owned.

I would also take a look at your policy and look for things that are not covered under traditional home owners. Things that come to mind are jewelry, art, and sometimes computers. Jewelry especially being high value and easy to evacuate with you.

Best of luck. Will be thinking of you all.
Build cache for Visual Studio C/C++
Parallels also to the rise in the demand for horses after the introduction of the railroad.

The availability of long-haul transport increased transportation volume, but the "last mile" connection from origin/destination to the railroad depot couldn't be accomodated as readily. So: horses and carts.

Variously: Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Vaclav Smil, Energy and World History -- of which there's a heavily revised edition out this year, Energy and Civilization.
What kind of finance? If personal finance, I recommend Dave Ramsey, the Get Rich Slowly blog, and anything that says to stay away from credit, go slowly, don't get anxious, reason as if it's 100 years ago.
> So it would be cheaper to lease a boxster as the primary vehicle, and, when you need one, just rent a truck over a weekend or whatever.

How is $48000 (2000*24) cheaper again?
As a US citizen, Dreamhost customer, and visitor to the disruptj20.org site, I'm triply thankful that DH resisted the digital dragnet and established a some case law in the process!
Set up live streaming GoPro.
Gather all of your legal documents (deed to house, loan paperwork, birth certificates, pictures, social security cards, insurance docs, car titles, and any other documents and valuables), blankets, computers, 5 to 7 days worth of clothes, some food, water, drinks, snacks and other digital devices. Insure they are all secured in the vehicle you are going to use to vacate the area.

Also insure you have video and pictures of the now to include the inside and outside of your home, vehicles and land along with what the neighbors homes looked before you vacate the area.

Once you are sure you have everything, fill up on gas if possible and vacate the area and check the safety status of the area many miles away from the fire. To be safe go to a different county or city far away from the flames.
I don't know, I'm assuming users just care that the product or service continues to exist and get better. If an acquisition helps then great, otherwise... sure, we can blame whatever decisions led to the demise, although it's rarely as simple as "stupid big company wasted a bunch of money and made people sad".
You might want to check out https://anvil.works

Its a VB/Delphi style app builder for the web. It's got a visual UI builder, with Python code behind it (client and server, with RPC between them).
I actually am saying customers are not driving ME security.
They are buying anyway and the basic issue is a desire for remote management.
USPS will automatically put a 'hold' on your mail when the home is unsafe for delivery and you'll have to pick it up from the local PO. It may be best to forward it to another residence.

https://www.usps.com/manage/forward.htm
Augustine has always been the big guy for me when it comes to classical philosophy. I even used to have the first words of the Confessions engraved on my skis. ("Thou art great, O Lord", good words when admiring the majesty of creation shortly before heading downhill at speed.)

The review does full justice to his subtlety. The Confessions are a really hard read, as you say, but worth the effort. I find it interesting that he flourished in a time that many consider the decline of classical civilization. His treatment of time for instance is the equal of anything I have read in Plato.
An update on GnuPG
Make sure to take ID, debit card, cash, credit cards, smart phone, tablet, laptop, etc. Wear comfortable clothes, like sweats. Try to have a change of clothes. View this as stuff you may live in for a while.

Grab your homeowner's policy and any small personal items, like wedding rings.

It is cool if you can grab personal hygiene items, but those are relatively easily replaced. Try to take prescription medications. People sometimes wind up seriously ill a week or more after an evacuation event because they don't have their usual drugs and can't readily get more. In some cases, people die a few months later and relatives speculate that it is partly because they couldn't get a steady supply of their usual meds in the weeks afterwards.

Edit: After the fire, when you go back, take photos and call an insurance adjuster immediately. Do this before you try to fix anything or do any clean up. Cleaning up amounts to destroying evidence.

You can hire a public adjuster to file for you. Your broker, lawyer or a public adjuster are essentially the only people that can talk to the insurance company on your behalf.

(Edit: changed private adjuster to the correct term public adjuster)
If you don't mind reading on kindle...
The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection: 3 Series, 37 Volumes, 65 Authors, 1,000 Books, 18,000 Chapters, 16 Million Words

for $3

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Ante-Nicene-Post-Nicene-Fath...
We've been packed since 7am Monday when the initial scare hit, but stuff looks to be taking a turn for the worse tonight. Theres a lot of variables in play, but my wild guess would be maybe a 20% chance of it reaching my neighborhood, but not for many hours. This puts me in the situation of being able to be a bit more methodical than I have been so far.
Europe generally prioritises passenger transport over freight transport, but there are rail freight terminals -- probably not anywhere you're likely to visit (example [1])

Rail traffic is allocated on a timetable, for both passenger and goods trains. The time and route is called a "path" in British English, and reserving one costs money.

A power station might have a daily path from a port to their power plant, as they can reliably use all the coal.

Rail freight companies book many paths between freight terminals, container ports and so on and mix together goods from many customers to run on trains on these paths. Therefore, the timings are reliable, potentially more reliable than by road, but the flexibility is less.

If there aren't any goods to move, the company doesn't need to use the path. (I used to live close to a railway line used to transfer trains containing nuclear waste. The reprocessing plant had a path to run a train every day, but only used it every couple of weeks -- presumably, they don't like leaving the waste at the power station any longer than necessary.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_freight_in_Great_Britain#...
Authored by Zvi Mowshowitz, Magic PT Hall of famer. I was surprised to see intersection here of two of my interests.
Sony Might Be Bringing Back Aibo Team to Develop New Robot Dog
This counter point really didn't address the article; that we risk creating tyrannies when we use the government to support everyone. That is so much money and power it will corrupt any person or organization who wields it.

For example, it's a 'universal' income right? Do people still get it when they're in prison for rape/murder? How about in jail for a few weeks on shoplifting? What if a citizen is living in another country? What if they're here illegally? Do you get one for each kid the moment they're born? What if the kid is born in the US and parents are illegal immigrants? And just how much UBI should everyone get? Your answers to these questions will not agree with your neighbor's answers.

A UBI would become more corrupt than anything else we've seen because there will be even more power in it. The power hungry will seek it and corrupt it because we will never agree on who has a right to that giant pile of money.
> if the box had been blue or green, it would not have been as worrying

Did you read the article? The “black box” isn’t a physical object. It’s figurative [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box_(disambiguation)
It was never owned by Microsoft.
Let us know what happened when you can. I'll be thinking good thoughts, fellow hacker.
How I built an online community
Like Tableau and Shiny it looks great for reports and presentations, but what would you know to get the hang of a new dataset? To visualize some descritive statistics, spot outliers, see missing data?

Maybe it is better to use Python Pandas or R interactively to know more about your data.
I've worked with a lot of Business Analysts and they usually end up fighting over p-values and R-squares, even when the linear models they are creating are total garbage due to overfitting and multicollinearity.

I agree with you that easier to use and ubiquitous data prep+ML will eliminate a certain type of data science role. However, most good data scientists I know work on taking a business problem from no/bad/inappropriate data to the right data to address the use case. It's not just about data manipulation and ML.
I have WebRender working on Linux with Intel 5500 integrated graphics. Hardware acceleration is still a bit glitchy though I'm afraid (with or without WebRender).

To enable, toggle 'layers.acceleration.force-enabled' as well as 'gfx.webrender.enabled'

edit: It's also working through my Nvidia 950m (through bumblebee), although subjectively it seems to have a little more lag this way.
When someone asks me in a job conversation if I have some arcane bit of knowledge, I'm going to say yes if I know it, but I'm going to start worrying that they will expect me to use this sort of arcane knowledge on a regular basis.

And then I start wondering what else is wrong with them...
What is disruptj20.org? I'm afraid to visit it.
Is this hypothetical or do you think it’s unsafe for some reason?
24 hrs is too late to cut down trees. The amount of flammable branches left around is too high of a risk. That's a week or so beforehand type job.
Thanks for writing Ack petdance! Nowadays I typically use 'git grep' but I still use ack a good amount.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_combination_vehicle
Router advertisements!

You may consider using RFC4193 addresses inside your network.

There's also NPT but that's basically NAT which I, personally, recommend avoiding if at all possible.
Tableau is great but is also pricey. I like that it can be on-prem which is a nice feature most saas players can't match. They have drivers for tons of sources.

Zoomdata is a good alternative, but pricey and not mature enough I feel.

PowerBI is getting surprisingly good, and if you're a Microsoft or R shop it can be a really nice fit for the price. I've thrown a few 50GB+ CSVs at it. It's basically Excel on steroids. If you're dealing with some data stores (like mongo, elasticsearch) then PowerBI isn't viable natively.

Interesting to note that zoomdata and tableau use spark under the covers iirc.
12 year old me facepalms at not knowing that.
Take pictures of everything you can. Get passports, birth certs, if you have copies of bills grab those so you can cancel or suspend accounts as needed.
Because trucking is, or at least was, cheap.

Prior to the rise of the Interstate Highway system, most warehouses were on rail lines, or spurs. You'll still find the trackage, or at least the traces of them, in many urban areas throughout the U.S.

In San Francisco, the region near Potrero Hill by the old Fashion Design Centre. The odd street patterns and building perimeters show the former track rights of way.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/San+Francisco+Design+Cente...
I'm using an xposed mod to continually be online on WhatsApp, even when my phone's screen if off. Would this thwart such attacks? I mean it would be an anomaly, but other than that I don't know what other information you could get, except the last Online/Offline never changing.

It confuses my friends though, who write me more at night times than usually, luckily though I've a DnD mode that saves me from waking up. (confuses gf too)
Not really anything to add (never been in this kind of situation before), but I hope you and your family stay safe!
I think we disagree that focusing on costs is the main thing. Figuring out what to charge is something I find easy—it's largely a one-time exercise for items—but executing on product excellence and even better service is where I put much more of my time and energy. More specifically, I simplify my employees' work down to five categories:

Great products

Even better customer service

Safety

Sanitation

Organization

I've set our rates so that staff can focus on those listed areas instead of sweating every cent, a common industry behavior which I think inhibits the customer experience and leads to lower-quality products. Certainly, costs matter (to me and to employees), but I want their focus to be on what they make and servicing our customers, and I'll do the bulk of the the economics. So far, for my food business as a wholesaler, that's worked.
Take photos of everything and sync them with the cloud. Documents, hard copy photos, drivers licence, certificates. Everything.
It's great to see Dreamhost standing up for the right of their customer's website visitors. They don't have any financial incentive, but they still made it right. Makes me feel secure to know where they'd be ready to go for their own customers if you ever got targeted by an unlawful request.
I don't think it is hypothetical:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/10/apocalyptic-images-from-the-...
You might be right, mine's skewed too.

This is where I grew up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novosibirsk#Climate

Them deserts got nothing on Siberia.

I'm all too familiar with +30 Summer, -30 Winter swings, and those are far from pleasant.
Yep, we agree entirely! And I think most other technical debaters would, too.

I don't talk to my friends at high speeds, my favorite speakers speak slowly, and I certainly wouldn't talk like a debater when I'm trying to be my most persistent.

The kind of debate McCordick is criticizing is, in my experience, indeed fringe.

There are more mainstream offerings: less technical debate formats such as Public Forum, Parliamentary, and Congress; Mock Trial; Model United Nations; Junior State of America; the Center for Civic Education's We the People competition; popular organized political debates; other oratory activities outside of civics.

To be fair, I've had the good luck to be involved in High Schools with the resources to offer a selection of these programs, which isn't always the case. I wish speech––the kind of slow, articulate expository speech that wins over non-debaters––was a bigger part of core curricula (in civics, but also in sciences).
> The most important rule. IF YOU CAN SEE THE FIRE AT ALL, GO.

Actually, listen to local authorities, if you can see the fire then there's a good chance that it's too late. I'm sure you're aware of our newer "stay or go" procedures and that these decisions must often be taken 12-24 hours in advance. You don't want to be one of those tragic images of a burnt out car on the road while you were trying to evacuate.

If OP is asking on HN now then I think it's safe to say they don't have a well thought out evacuation plan and should leave ASAP if it's still safe to do so, just take the phone, wallet and a few clothes.
Needing a Mac is an extra expense in itself. I fail to see much difference.
Don't forget to take into account there's normally only one or two lanes of train traffic that runs right along side of an 8 lane high way.

Much more chance for congestion. I lived right next to a set of tracks once. Trains would regularly sit for over an hour without moving.
Have you done #vanlife as well as life on a bike? Wondering if you can compare the two?
The title sounds like they're shutting down. The article has a positive result though.
The point is that there are not topics you intend to be an expert in, so you can cover more topics. you can take a rigorous study for topics that you are passionate about, but there can only be so many of those. Otherwise, the alternative is simply to not know anything, even a little bit, about said topic. Now, if you know that you only have interest in topics you are very passionate about obviously you don't see this as a problem.