skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The abstract from the paper about it HiFrames: High Performance Data Frames in a Scripting Language [1] describes HPAT better than the description in the repo:

> Data frames in scripting languages are essential abstractions for processing structured data. However, existing data frame solutions are either not distributed (e.g., Pandas in Python) and therefore have limited scalability, or they are not tightly integrated with array computations (e.g., Spark SQL). This paper proposes a novel compiler-based approach where we integrate data frames into the High Performance Analytics Toolkit (HPAT) to build HiFrames. It provides expressive and flexible data frame APIs which are tightly integrated with array operations. HiFrames then automatically parallelizes and compiles relational operations along with other array computations in end-to-end data analytics programs, and generates efficient MPI/C++ code. We demonstrate that HiFrames is significantly faster than alternatives such as Spark SQL on clusters, without forcing the programmer to switch to embedded SQL for part of the program. HiFrames is 3.6x to 70x faster than Spark SQL for basic relational operations, and can be up to 20,000x faster for advanced analytics operations, such as weighted moving averages (WMA), that the map-reduce paradigm cannot handle effectively. HiFrames is also 5x faster than Spark SQL for TPCx-BB Q26 on 64 nodes of Cori supercomputer.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02341
DIY pharmaceuticals is ....well it sounds immensely dangerous. Not only is the chemistry frightening but quality and chemical availability. It reminds me of Naturopaths and herboligists claiming to cure and treat ailments with supplements. As much as I hate the pharmaceutical industry, I think it's best for now to leave the drug making to them.
I understand what you are saying: You hired psychopaths on accident -- but your office is still a great place to work!
yay! the many nascent and forthcoming deX networks and protocols are gonna make the internet fun again
Clearly I've drunk too much functional cool aid, all these patterns that I used to like look like terrible terrible ideas now.
My employer is consistently ranked as one of Glassdoor's 'Best Places to Work', and also regularly encourages staff to write reviews on the site (though without any actual or implicit incentivizing, as far as I know). Make of that what you will.

In my view, encouraging staff to speak honestly of their positive experiences with the company is a reasonable objective from a PR perspective (this is really a PR issue, not HR). Coercing such feedback of course would be unethical, but I think it's awfully presumptuous to assume any company was doing such just because some good reviews showed up with auspicious timing.
Wow, that's a tough one. I'm in Vancouver myself and I don't think you can get a PM job here without strong personal connections. The job is much more about trust, confidence and network, than any specific skills, and that's not transferable between locations.

That said, if she held similar positions in Fortune 500 companies, maybe she should try using her network from previous places to get her foot in the door.
As a professional photo editor and historian, colorized photos really agitate me. I'm all for the creation of new ways to get people to engage with historical primary documentation, but the nuance that these colorizations are interpretations gets lost immediately.

Do an image search for "D-Day in color" and try to tell me which results are original color negatives and which are colorizations made by teenagers.

I'm also a little confused as to why colorizations always aim to restore color to the equivalent of a faded color negative, with muted tonality and grain. Human logic is funny.
Next up - DIY Lasik surgery.
You hit the nail on the head. At ClearVoice we are building a content marketing platform and marketplace. We've mostly been focusing on non-technical content, but I am keenly interested in producing high quality articles with well thought out technical solutions. Not all companies have engineering talent that are also interested in writing, so something like ClearVoice could be used to have 3rd party technical writers provide the content around each company's tools.
The %1 has preferential, essentially exclusive access to high risk, high reward investments, namely startups and hedge funds... but bitcoin and ethereum etc give regular people access to such invesmtents that accredited investors would previously had exclusive access to. This enables the %99 to invest in a way they couldn't before.

There are a lot of people who got rich because they got into bitcoin early... well, here's the secret-- it's still early. Very early.

Bitcoin solves the censorship issue-- nobody can stop you from transacting your bitcoin. It's not perfectly private, but things like z.cash and other technologies are enabling the anonymous own and control of bitcoin.

Printing money is a form of theft. People will pay for services they want. There's no problem for Amazon or Walmart or any of hundreds of service providers getting people to pay for their services. They don't have the ability to just print money to pay themselves (and give to the well connected-- it's ironic you call this a tool when we have seen $10T in new money issuance since 2008 that has mostly gone to politically connected %1 to enrich themselves at our expense.)

Censorship happens all the time-- government prevents you from buying insurance under Obamacare, for example. (literally, obamacare plans have no underwriting and thus are not insurance) that's a whole category of goods that are moral yet illegal to sell, and you are forced to buy an inferior product to replace it that doesn't deliver on the same promise.

Further, censorship is present in the form of border controls-- there were reports of agents stopping people on jetways as they were boarding jets to search to see if they were taking gold out of the country. From 1915-1975 approximately it was illegal to own gold in the USA and smuggling was occurring.... that's literal financial censorship and it ended not that long ago. There are a great deal of controls on USD movement, FINCEN wants to track your assets internationally, and ultimately restrict what you can move and when... that's censorship.
It should be called "Woz up?"
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Why not? How is teaching kids math different from teaching older kids CS and data science? I am curious, not trolling.
If by "see" you mean screenshots, there are some on this article from when we opened up to CloudWatch users: https://engr.overseerlabs.io/free-public-beta-machine-learni...
Consider this story that mades the rounds recently as well: people using antibiotics marketed for fish because they can't afford or get access to anything else.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjxwma/people-are...
You mean to say all those anti Trump bots replying to his tweets are doing him a favour?
Traefik, Enovy and Linkerd integrations would be awesome in addition to nginx/haproxy/apache
Medical advertising startup Outcome Health reportedly misled advertisers
I haven't, but now I want to
> ...you can't accidentally rape someone...

"I slipped" has been used as a defense multiple times.

> You have to recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally rape someone for it to be a crime.

In America? Not in other places like Sweden.

They're car collisions, not accidents.
It's especially interesting because of all of the other implications of moving to Spark — like trying to debug your app code that runs PySpark that runs Scala Spark on the JVM. It's very difficult to trace errors all the way through, no way to use tools like pdb. It takes me so much longer to debug errors in Spark code.
Both parties benefit from divisive speech. It allows them to argue about purity of ideas instead of the ideas themselves which is _fantastic_ for party loyalty.

It's not a GOP- or Democrat-specific problem.

Plus, it's not like there's only "right-leaning" bots on Twitter. Back during the election there were a couple times I tweeted something negative about DJT and my tweet was instantly retweeted and liked thousands of times by blatantly "left-leaning" bots. They hit up both sides of the aisle to stir up drama. It's practically their stated goal.
Honest question: What does it even mean to be an anarchist these days? What is the default "anarchist"? Because Wikipedia isn't really helping.
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> But cool is not enough to win in the real world

But is winning in the real world really important? OPs question was after all "Does this roughly offer the same benefits that the old lisp machines provided", and as LISP machines did not really win in the real world the first time around, I don't think that is really prerequisite for bringing the benefits of a LISP machine.
Probably easiest to read that as "the stock market" but I mean stocks, bonds, treasuries and other assets. We had market crashes in 2001 and 2008, and there is another one likely in the next couple of years, I expect. Quantitative Easing has given us a fiat bubble across many asset classes, and I expect it will crash, and Bitcoin will be hurt in the short term and then rally in the medium term as the crash continues...

Hope that makes it clearer.
The pictures in this article and details of power consumption make the inherent proof-of-work approach very hard to defend.

The counter argument is that the resources required to secure, print and transport traditional currencies is probably still orders of magnitude greater. But on a MWh per $-equivalent flow, Bitcoin is probably orders of magnitude less efficient.

Would be great to see someone with actual numbers do calculations of that sort to watch trends over time. I wonder if the W / $-value-transaction is going down or up over time? That is, the energy spent vs. rate of flow of currency (as a rough measure of its utility), denominated in dollars.
Google doesn't support MPTCP.

They think QUIC streams (supported by Chrome and google services) serve the same purpose better.
>Just last night I was talking with a friend about how good Amazon is compared to any other of the tech companies.

It would seem you missed the part about their studio chief being suspended for sexual harassment.
Read lots and lots and lots of reviews.

Eliminate really bad ones. E.g. discovered one of Consumer Reports' recommended gas ovens had problem with handles breaking off, causing potential fire hazard.

Then, hope for the best.
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Open the Git Repository.
Eyes glaze over.
Just like the Robotsourcecode, you get to see every day, if you work in automation.
Close the Git Repository.

Dear Author, at least you know while and for.. it can be worser.
> Unfortunately, bots don't just inflate user numbers for them, they create ad revenue.

How? At the end of the day, a human sees the ad and so generates ad revenue for Twitter. A bot a) does not see the ad tweets in his normal timeline feed and b) does not feed back impression tracking to Twitter.
Taken to the extreme: If you do good to feel good, you are selfish. But I don't think it matters to the outside. Let's judge the whole person and not some Freudian ego of him.
But maybe the effect actually works in a local context. People probably measure wealth relatively to their peers, not on a global scale.
See, the problem is in trying to understand it all, with the thinking mind: the mechanisms, the effects. This is what Zen masters have been trying to teach us all the time: That we are not our thinking minds, neither are we are thoughts. There is a level beyond that. Meta. Holistic. Where you grasp intuitively.

I do understand that every charlatan could argue like that. And the self help genre has turned into a huge industry in the US alone. With coaches, gurus, teachers who want us to buy yet another book or seminar to get rich, to find inner peace, etc

The essence of Mindfulness meditation - the way I see it - is pretty simple: Being mindful in many situations. Hitting the pause button regularly. Taking time. Being more aware.
When drug companies issue patents, do they not also publicise production methods?
Exactly. I know some people that are indistinguishable from bots even in a face to face conversation.
But the election wasn't just about Clinton and Trump; it was just as much about Merrick Garland and Neil Gorsuch. Even if you still don't see a difference between the former two, surely you would recognize a difference between the latter two.
> You never know X and Y and there's no known physical process which you can use to determine Y (and, often, X) before you start torture.

This isn't true for all cases. It can be pretty cut and dry if a single person knows the location of a bomb set to go off on a plane or something. X is 1 and Y is the number of passengers.
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So you’re saying that instead of trying to rescue their stock price, Twitter are looking to treat everyone fairly, cost no object?
I've been (idly) looking for something like this just in the past couple of weeks, though I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted it to look like. I really like the visualization of service connections, great job!

I was playing with d3js to build a Sankey diagram, but it wasn't quite right -- this is pretty much what I was going for but hadn't quite pictured yet.

Ultimately, I am actually trying to build a dashboard to put up on a monitor on the wall with this information, but also overlay status (instance health, versions, etc). I guess it could sort of be done using sever-side image generation, so long as ETag caching is working properly, and you only regenerate the image if anything has actually changed.

I may give this a shot at some point, but before I do, anyone have ideas on how to get this result using javascript running in browser?
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> survivorship bias

This term is a meme to you and you don't actually understand it. Tell me, what is the meaning of 'survivorship bias' when we're talking about things which have lasted for significant periods of time, over many cycles?

You keep arguing against a strawman. I never claimed that an idea is better just because it was held earlier.
>selfishness and self-interest leads to isolation where nobody will help you with anything worthwhile

Cultivating relationships to one's own benefit is a form of self-interest. This is about self-interest, not antisocial behavior. You can have one without the other.
.. the next day, my boss called- and he had the exact same problem, so i used the script, so its a tool at our company now, and several collagues added to it.
I was referring to a poll I read showing a notable portion of Trump voters either didn't vote last time or if they did vote it was for Obama in 2012 or 2008. That's all I meant by my comment... not that he had some new big number of voters?

It's been well covered in the press Trump got less votes than a number of presidents in the past, which only contributes to my general point.
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That's a really neat idea. I like the idea of potentially building something that could be plugged directly into Linux as a PAM module, etc. I've never written something like that, so it would be fun learning how to do it.

> it would be great to also have a better asynchronous interface so that you don't have to spawn thread or process pools for things like hostname resolution

The library is built atop of Tokio, so is already async capable.
US telcos are selling direct, non-anonymized access to phone data
Ha. But the bots aren't viewing advertisements, which is what matters to shareholders.
How will this not get pronounced "Wazoo"?

Though initial criticism of the name "iPad" died pretty quickly.
I'm going on what a mate said - she went out with a Swiss guy for years and said they weren't very accepting. Perhaps that's just the countryside though. Kind offer, trapped with a mortgage for the moment.
Software can be usable but 'incomplete', in the same way that stools and Aerons are both usable, but stools weren't an unfinished technology. If your bug count is low and your software has features, it's already done.
Email Jeff Bezos (jeff@amazon.com) and see if you get a real answer.

Various articles in the media state that he does read them, and typically forwards to the relevant executive in charge.
They are the Wright 1899 kite. We have yet to build a Boeing 787. Most of the development is happening in "altcoins" anyways.
>If I order toilet paper via my Google Home, where does it come from?

Well, you would specify where it came from by mentioning Walmart or Target.

>If they send me dog food instead, how do I get in touch with customer service? Is it Google's customer service or Target's?

The same customer service you ordered the product from and was clearly stated in the email confirmation you received from either Walmart or Target.
Not really. Don't forget that for the longest time home routers shipped broadcasting the default SSID with no password. Now they come preconfigured with a locked-down SSID and password (though the management interface is still usually behind admin/admin or an equivalent). Security isn't on most people's minds -- it has to be built into the product from the get-go to get the largest reach.
I got LASIK at 21. It was a miracle. It wore off at 31. I must've gotten it too soon. Back to glasses.
Answer: Litecoin, Segwit, Lightning Network, Atomic Swaps, etc
Well apparently so, as they are choosing not to do so. Or maybe it isn't costing them much money.
What do you mean by highly targeted? People who can't think for themselves.
Agreed. When you actively advocate for this, do you face moral responsibility when someone prepares it wrong and dies?

(I’m pretty sure the legal answer would be yes on so many fronts)
Agreed. I hope nobody learns this pattern and looks for a project to inject it into. Design patterns should generally be avoided unless there's an obvious need for them where they simplify your project. In my experience, it is incredibly rare. For the benefit of mankind, this is something that I think needs to be made clear with every discussion about design patterns.
This is so true, as it details the mentality "the end justify the means" that permeates and is normalized in silicon valley.
Yes. Being kind and sharing with other people typically leads to a positive outcome for ourselves. Even altruism feels good on the inside--otherwise nobody would do it. The Dalai Lama calls this "wise selfishness"
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Hack routers.
Generally, no. Even if they did, based on my experience with process-sensitive non-pharmaceutical products it takes a lot of experimentation and refinement to execute the process correctly.
what city is that?
>Then he took another sip from a flute of Taittinger Champagne.

What?

>Swaggering, charismatic, and complex,

Gag me.

>Michael Laufer has become a fixture in the growing biohacker movement ever since he published plans last year for a do-it-yourself EpiPencil — a $35 alternative to the pricey EpiPen.

That couldn't possibly go wrong, eh?

>It’s not clear whether anyone has actually ever used a homemade EpiPencil to prevent anaphylactic shock.

So nobody's quite crazy enough to try?

>But that seems almost an afterthought to Laufer’s bigger goal — trying to build a DIY movement to attack high pharma pricing and empower patients.

Or, judging by the tone of this article, his attempt to build his own ego.

This is ridiculous and crazy. It's incredibly dangerous to claim to have produced something life saving but not have any actual testing to back it up.

Even lesser drugs that are just designed to lessen symptoms or relieve pain could go horribly wrong if they aren't prepared properly. We have such strict medical requirements because of that.
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Noam Chomsky: Well, anarchism is, in my view, basically a kind of tendency in human thought which shows up in different forms in different circumstances, and has some leading characteristics. Primarily it is a tendency that is suspicious and skeptical of domination, authority, and hierarchy. It seeks structures of hierarchy and domination in human life over the whole range, extending from, say, patriarchal families to, say, imperial systems, and it asks whether those systems are justified. It assumes that the burden of proof for anyone in a position of power and authority lies on them. Their authority is not self-justifying. They have to give a reason for it, a justification. And if they can’t justify that authority and power and control, which is the usual case, then the authority ought to be dismantled and replaced by something more free and just. And, as I understand it, anarchy is just that tendency.
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http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-kind-an...
One of the worst thing Glassdoor did was to make it mandatory for people to give reviews before reading reviews. You can see the low quality reviews people leave as a result of this.
I don't understand the comment "especially with the high volatility we are seeing at the moment". Volatility doesn't change your ability to have coinbase buy $10 in bitcoin every week... in fact because of volatility you can dollar cost average that way. Even you could have them do $10 a day if you want to put in $300 a month. There are millions of people who can afford that... but they don't save, as you have pointed out.

The not saving part is a cultural and habitual issue. People were addicted to credit in the past 20 years and this is due to a lot of forces, mostly government driven that benefit a fiat currency system.

Bitcoin not being fiat is quite different and it will take decades for habits to change, this is true.

That said, my facebook is overrun with non-technical, random people who are buying Bitcoin and Ethereum.

I don't see how bitcoins very low inflation rate (which produces price appreciation as adoption increases) disincentives investment.... instead it's an incentive because you can see the change month to month.

Taxing bitcoin and making the rich spend their bitcoins makes no sense... there are bitcoin whales with 100 times as many bitcoin as I have... doesn't affect me. IT's not a disincentive in the least.
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Robert Axelrod's The Evolution of Cooperation is a good starting point.
I'm 100% in agreement. I disagree with those who say that negative reviews are more pure, and the 5-stars are HR / corporate drone-types. However, 'themes' and patterns are what I look for. Several times I've validated the experience of these negative themes, joining a place anyway or leaving a place and seeing confirmation. And just the same, if the positive ones say eye-rolling things like, "This place rewards the best, but they expect a lot from you. This is not for 9-5 whimps. Grrr." then I also see that as a pattern.

Before I was a contractor [ where reviews mean much less as you're not marrying your employer ], I'd take more of a Goldilocks approach to the reviews. The outliers (like a product review on Amazon) have to be smoothed out somewhat mentally.
This is absolutely, with no exaggeration or guesswork required, true. I had friends in HR at a former employer who were asked to do this. It was hardly a secret within the company.
Bitcoin faces serious barriers in scaling to high volumes. As you say, transactions are limited to ~10/s. A side effect of this is that transaction fees are now $2 per transaction (and rising). Furthermore, the blockchain has now exceeded 100 GB in size. At high volumes, this will approach the petabyte scale. Only data centers will be able to store the blockchain, and power will be concentrated in the few players able to build/rent blockchain data centers.

However, these barriers do not mean Bitcoin is doomed to fail. Logically, there are two paths to success: (1) Bitcoin is rearchitected to handle high volumes or (2) Bitcoin succeeds in low-volume applications.