skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hope you enjoy this one as well.

We weren't active in the Pony community until we decided to use it for Wallaroo. We felt it was very important to invest in the improvement of Pony. And to do that, we needed to be part of the community.

Pony became our runtime instead of writing one ourself. That doesn't mean we don't have to work on our runtime. It means we are sharing the burden with others.
Also make sure you look at the affect of monsanto GMOs on the indian farmer's suicide rate:

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/07/seeds_of_sui...
> The standard JVM garbage collection strategy is “stop the world.”

This is quite an over-simplification for what is a fundamental property to think about when designing a performance-oriented system.

The default collector in HotSpot does, I think, stop the world when collecting. But it also does multiple small collections between larger major collections. It, by default, optimizes for throughput over latency since most applications care more about overall throughput than low latency.

Even with the default, you can tune the maximum latency if you want to sacrifice throughput:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/gc...

Not only that, but HotSpot also features a true concurrent collector, which is a command-line flag away.
First of its kind smart home water system
Southern California stews in the most extreme heat ever seen so late in year
I'm not sure why it would be surprising that any supplement can have a bad impact on your body. If you're taking a supplement because you believe it has a potential benefit, it must have some impact on your body so therefore too little or too much must surely be bad as well?
Ask HN: Is there a service to get your engineering resume reviewed?
Greetings,

Trying to find work as an Engineering Manager recently. I've two questions: do you know of a service where I can send my resume and get comments/suggestions for a fee? b)- are there any Engineering Managers/CTOs here who would be willing to look at my resume and offer suggestions (my email in profile)?

Thanks in advance.
P.S: Edited to correct spellings etc (sorry not a native speaker).
We've literally just come off 8 years of Fox challenging the U.S. administration at every turn.

The Pentagon Papers is a rather historical example, but stands. I'd be interested in what you'd consider a refutation of your claim.

The issue with RT isn't that it challenges American Exceptionalism. You can find that natively, largely in the left and alterative press, or critics such as Chomsky or Hedges or Naomi Klein, among many others. (They also, typically, do argue that the NYT and Post are establishment organs. It's possible to make that claim without descending to RT's depths. Quite easily.)

It's that it has no interest in either the truth or advancing a positive alternative in doing so. Your litmus test is bogus.
Here's NZ's proposed (extreme) response to the foreign buyer problem: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41745129
This is awesome. I had read that someone was scanning old LPs with a flatbed scanner but I couldn't find any package to do it. Anyone on HN know about this?

My mother has a bunch of her father's old 78 records with a lot of Marathi songs and spoken word which we'd like to digitize without destroying.

(amusing aside: I accidentally casually typed "78 LPs" before catching it in re-reading. Of course 78s by definition can not be LPs!)
Probably just anecdotal numbers from experience. I've seen similar things as well. The division of prospects/accounts is kind of a big deal, and usually defaults to geographical area or industry as the primary dimension, with size/revenue of prospect as the secondary.

Given that, if you're selling something like Github or container management services, you can imagine that the person who's selling in the Pacific West Coast region might be having an easier time of things than the guy who has the mid-west. This isn't universally true for all products, but sales people will complain about leads being bad in any industry (see: Glengarry Glen Ross).

All of that is to say is that empirically, usually there are a few outperformers on any sales team that are crushing quota, and a bunch of others who are skating by at fractions of quota until they get canned. As some evidence, there's a lot of churn in sales teams and for the average sales person, which is partially because of the above, and also because good sales people will kill it as a company is getting a lot of adoption, and then jump ship when a better opportunity arises.

So maybe there's been a study on this stuff, but you could talk to any number of people who work in sales orgs and hear similar stories without the study.

Oh, and yes, when companies get 'serious' about sales, you'll see sales quickly expand to encompass a third or half the total company size. I won't make any guesses as to whether that actually makes sense and how many people are being productive, but large sales orgs are common in my understanding.
I've seen a big uptick on this today, including on major sites like Snopes and NBCNews. It's almost certainly coming from bad ads slipping through into an ad network.
In the US, pornography websites are required to maintain documentation of age and consent [1]. I'm delegating that trust to the FBI. If the FBI isn't doing it's job, well that's a different problem.

I will, however, grant that there are tremendous problems with the porn industry. That is absolutely besides the point. These problems are:

A) not unique in any way to porn. Large quantities of clothing and tennis shoes are made by indentured child laborers.

B) only go to further cement my opinion that the actual actresses should be paid for their work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_film_industry_regulation...
Monthly actives is generally the primary metric and it's not so easy to calculate.
I also agree that it's hard to see the benefit of using deep learning (which
implies gigantic amounts of data and processing power, therefore costs) over
traditional models like n- or skip-grams and markov chains. At best, you'll be
paying a big overhead, in working hours and expertise no less, for just a modest
improvement in, say, perplexity.

And since the use is in generating natural language, the really important
evaluation is extrinsic (how well received your prodcut is by your user base,
how well it integrates with what you have already etc). In that sense, it's even
harder to see the benefit of deep learning over simpler, faster, cheaper models.
Is your user base really going to notice an improvement of 10% over whatever
intrinsic score you get from deep learning?

Anycase, I made a couple of short experiments with the application. Here's the
results:

Science fiction (random phrases):

I was flattered and free, my bracket series of precaution beyond the sound of the constant chart
I haven't had some resport to see the environment as well as the best of the importance.
I don't want to watch up the Godders of the Barbara, what he had anything like that, or the
I was still resting her forehead beside the first time.
I don't understand, but I don't get the oldest reason when I was sure that I could see how to make
What would he know.
I had been deported for the blots.
"What's my own?" "Not being a scene.
I was all right, of course.
I was a drift of human transportation.

Medical text (one big sentence):

For patients with severe and family history of blood transfusion alone that can
be classified as many identifiable and atrial fibrillation in the clinical
significance of a still compared to pregnancy and most often become an increased
risk of diabetes mellitus asymptomatic (AR) and IgG4 in 2008 observational
studies of cardiovascular resistance that is not associated with an option for
the regimen to lower that make in the number of decisions to experience the
receptor which prevention for all doses of circumcision in the following:
Alternative dietary control and gait and severe health care of pain associated
with a number of infections in which there is an adverse event of the patient
and recovery and limited decision to worrien the rate of diabetes mellitus and
care for the arm is discussed in detail elsewhere.

More science fiction (interactive, with my own input in brackets):

[The adarf moved with grace through the] flush of the north and all the captain
who said, "I'll stay something functional more than [any gosh-darned Wilick
miner! I mean, F-those people! What do you think,] I do not think why you can see
that temporarily doesn't matter this morning?" "I know about [your affair with
Mina, btw. Did you think I wouldn't notice? Pass the] old part of them that and
they may see but there are the feelings of the speed of your [anger and the
shortness of your fuse], receiver in the door.

Again, I don't see the great difference with traditional models- in terms of coherence and grammaticality, it's hard to see the benefits of more expensive techniques. Sorry guys.
> Some of the hardest working people I know are tenured professors.

Some of the harder working people I know are post docs...
Interestingly enough, none of us had even written anything significant in Pony when we made the initial tentative decision. After we came to the conclusion that it might be a good fit, we started a test project and a couple of us tried ramping up as fast as we could. It was actually only after we decided it was the right choice that we started to get actively involved in the community.
I'm curious about the comment on API versioning. If it instead had the string "/v1/" embedded in the URL, would this be preferable to you? Which APIs do you feel are in need of updating?

Disclaimer: former Twilio PM.
I can just imagine the outrage. "We have freedom of speech! We are protected!"

That doesn't mean people have to host you.
They used to sell the “firehose,” which I believe was a real-time feed of every single tweet (something not available from the normal API). I don’t know if that still exists.
I took that as silly humor. Buckingham is a funny word.
Try it with something non-trivial. SSD here as well, the difference between Android Studio and VSCode is night and day.
Personally I'd love to see an improvement to the backend UI. I spent a good 5 minutes searching around for "twiml apps" yesterday, finally resorting to just googling it.

This seems like core functionality of the backend. Why is it not placed somewhere more obvious?
> If you're an average citizen in the US, Europe, Australia etc, then why wouldn't you care more about attacks in other western countries than you would about attacks in Africa?

Aside from moral reasons tied to the combination of equal moral worth of persons and the actual numbers, from a practical perspective the short-term danger from terrorism in the West is minimal, but the place terrorism (both the practices and the ideologies which support it) is sustained, evolving, and metastasizing—and where therefore the longer-term threat of escalating violence in the West is centered—is mostly in places like Africa and the Middle East.

Public lack of concern with terrorism as long as it isn't local is how we get blindsided by things like 9/11.

If we cared a little bit more about terrorism in places like Africa and the Middle East, we wouldn't has as much of it to care about in the West as we do, and we'd have much less reason to worry about even more here in the future.
Since it wasn't clear, my comment was to point out that anthropologists are likely to have a better idea of what it means to "treat people as people" than you do.
> As for the previous (and ongoing!) mistreatment of indigenous people and their artifacts; I don't think that has anything at all to do with the ethics or rights regarding the publication of these recordings.

Congratulations on having an opinion.
> And it's an industry where it seems like no one really has their acts together when it comes to properly managing their data or communicating their requirements in a consistent or timely fashion to the people they need to build their software, while pretending otherwise and thinking forcing everyone to take the same online HIPPA class every year is all they need.

Wow, that has been my experience exactly. I think the odds are pretty high that there will be an "Equifax moment" in healthcare IT in the not-so-distant future.
Kdlinks X1, 1920x1080, 165 degree field of view. Good to have the high-res and quality sensor, for a better chance at catching the license plates on hit-and-run offenders.

Came with a Windows-only app that's a bit rough, but video is written to a removable microSD, in files of a standard format readable by freeware tools on Ubuntu distro.

One unhappy surprise: The camera will not recognize a card that has been formatted by mkfs, whether as FAT or any of its variants.
Your comment does a good job of summarizing the unique aspects of the 2016 election.

But keep in mind that all of the projections based on data collection, historical trends, polling, etc., had Trump suffering a decisive loss up until several hours into election night.

In order for the description to give to be true, you have to believe that all of the pollsters, Nate Silver, etc., didn't know what they were doing. The thing is, they did actually know what they were doing.

Crediting Cambridge Analytica, RT, the Russian government, Donald Trump, or anyone else with some sort of strategic genius because Trump won is utterly ludicrous.

Trump's strategy was innovative in that it blended things that had traditionally been part of the Democrats' and Republicans' platforms, but at no point did anyone on Trump's side have any remote degree of certainty that it would succeed. Trump was outspent by 4:1 or even 5:1 by the Clinton campaign.

This is not because he had a far more efficient approach and enjoyed a comfy lead the whole time, but because he simply didn't have the support from donors needed to spend more than that (and wasn't willing or able to invest more of his own alleged wealth).

Trump's win was not really even a win in the sense that many of the voters in rust belt areas that he "won" from Hillary had voted for Obama previously. HRC's campaign felt that the rust belt was not an area where Hillary needed to do more campaigning, and it's not clear they were wrong in thinking that. Maybe Trump's gruff pro-American bluster was unbeatable there, and Hillary would have struggled to seem sympathetic to the economic struggles going on there.

But the point is that Trump simply chose a strategy of combining national defense "strong man" posturing with the typical rust belt "buy American" playbook that Democrats have been using for years. Yes it's a bit racist, but it was when Democrats used it too.

Trump's strategy almost didn't work, and everyone who expected it not to work was probabilistically right. It had very low chances of winning and came down to the moves made by both candidates in the final days before the election that drove turnout more than they influenced candidate choice.

Yes the leaked email stories hurt HRC, but I think that her refusal to address the issue head on when asked about it and to offer full transparency was a big mistake. It conveyed an elitism and arrogance that might very well have led a lot of former or lukewarm supporters to stay home.

My point is that it wasn't about the detailed analytics, it was about the big, slow trends of rust-belt economic hardship and the resulting resentments, and Trump managing to beat a very mediocre and uninspiring GOP field to win the primary with his populist message.

I'd actually been predicting the onset of an authoritarian, trade-protectionist trend for a while but I did not think Trump would beat such a strong and well-funded establishment candidate.

I say this because in all of the chaos about "Russian meddling" we are told to believe a story that involves too many evil geniuses and too little acknowledgement of big, slow trends.
SSL pinning in Swift
it's called the free market.
I would use a service like this. I am similar to your friend... When I find a product that I like I'm good with getting more of the exact same in future vs. bouncing around through other brands. I have another Bluetooth headset still in box for when this one dies for example. Usually when this happens it's eBay I turn to (or Google image search) and so I am hopeful for this new system.
Nvidia  GPU CLOUD
If you use my service you can make DNS changes live with nothing more than "git push", keep a compete history of records, and have TTLs of 60seconds with ease.

https://dns-api.com/
> enough to schedule naps anyway

This was honestly the biggest motivator for me. Back when we were still a few months out, I found this article[0] and graph[1]. I was amazed at how erratic the sleep times are and it seemed to me that having a graph like that in real time could be incredibly helpful. It absolutely has been - we are 1.5 months in and able to pretty decently determine when it is time for some sleep because we can see the progress and patterns beginning to develop so clearly.

[0] https://www.babysleepsite.com/baby-sleep-patterns/baby-sleep...

[1] https://www.babysleepsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Sle...
"Quit your job" > "maybe not" >"wait no quit your job" > "don't blame me for the consequences" > "maybe don't quit your job after all" > "nah go ahead and quit your job".
Bootstrapping a Tech Startup to $500 K and in Revenue– How We Built Datahut
Do you mean it’s not easy to define? It shouldn’t be difficult to calculate any particular metric going forward, but it’s inportant to define what it means to be “active.”
> whataboutism

Counter-factual scenarios that reveal your opinion to be illogical and cherry-picked for some emotional reason? OK I'm guilty.
Not always [1].

Also in many time-series applications involving sensors whose readings don't fluctuate that much, process historians often apply deadband compression (i.e. store only one value if it is within a certain band). The type of compression is lossy and sometimes a bit controversial for high-fidelity uses, but often results in efficient storage.

[1] zfp, fpzip: https://computation.llnl.gov/projects/floating-point-compres...
>We have selectively bred cattle for hundreds of years to build the modern dairy cow with specific genetics.

I don't think it is a good idea to conflate selective breeding programs with gene splicing as they are very different.
Twitter just posted that it has inflated its user values for the past 3 years and lied to constituents, and now there stock price has risen. Why aren't more investors fleeing from these companies? It seems endemic that social media platforms are not just lacking in transparency, but completely trying to obfuscate it for profit.
Some information is on this page:

https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data

"Interests from partners

Twitter's partners build audiences around shopping decisions, lifestyle, and other online and offline behaviors.

Tailored audiences

Tailored audiences are often built from email lists or browsing behaviors. They help advertisers reach prospective customers or people who have already expressed interest in their business."
Nope, not possible on any content site (eg youtube) and it also needs the site to add it.

Neither would it give us enough data to create what we have done. The algorithm in the extension is smarter about what it flattrs than a cookie could ever be. And more privacy friendly too.
They going to ban Shareblue as well?
I'm veering off topic now but I find the English StackExchange an absolute timesink of interesting triviality for this stuff: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/29351.

(Since I can't reply to the inner comment: - the phrase itself seems to have no solid canonical first reference but a few sources online say it's to do with ships and the navy, eg http://jimcofer.com/personal/2011/04/13/what-the-navy-gave-e..., I guess pick your favourite and run with it! :)
I think for an interview, it's a reasonable alternative instead of doing an 1-2h long coding interview. You have to interview people in some way, and a small coding project that you can discuss and talk about has been a nice experience for me. How do you want an interview to be conducted?
Yes, now it's a subscription service.
If you haven't read it, Paolo Bacigalupi's SF novel The Windup Girl is a very good take on the future of companies like this run amok.
Not an expert, but the version of it that I've heard is your main game loop handles all interaction with the game state to avoid issues. You can offload rendering into another thread pretty safely, and anything that alters game state would queue up its state changes for batch processing.

That way if you're running a multithreaded physics simulation you can get two separate bullet collision detections on one object, and instead of trying to delete the object twice you put both "kill this thing" actions on a to-do list. When it comes time to handle that in the main loop, you sweep through it for conflicts before executing any of the changes.

UE4 in particular I know handles all game logic in a single thread, and you can't touch UObjects from outside of that. But here's an example (without much technical detail) of someone implementing multithreaded pathfinding for UE4: https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/work-in-progress/1...
Airbnb built an AI that turns design sketches into product source code
Thanks.

At my previous job, we used the G1 collector and still had issues with "stop the world" type pauses. G1 does a best effort, but I've had applications that still experience rather long pauses (sometimes measured in seconds, usually hundreds of microseconds).

I haven't used either CMS or G1 heavily since I joined Wallaroo Labs a couple years back so, I don't have first hand experience with either recently.

Azul's Zing JVM does a really nice job of concurrent collection and if you can afford it, is a great way to improve the performance of clustered JVM applications.
There is nothing like that in our extension, feel free to check the code =)
I bet an engineer noticed and told a manager that the numbers were technically lower, the upper management finds out and decides to release that info when they already have massive mindshare and it won't hurt them as much.
Yep, your career really does take you where it takes you. I'm in the same boat.

I've lived here for 5 years and have been saving, was getting pretty close to being able to afford a house, and the last year or so has seen such a huge increase in home prices and a decrease in availability that I've given up hope.
And how do the bacteria get there? Do they get there if they're fed sterilized food or other cows? And are the bacteria killed off by the antibiotics they're given?
there is a difference between keeping men hooked on porn and allowing them to watch it. It's like the whole thing with Catholic priests being pedophiles. Non-Catholic priests aren't forced to marry, and yet they are far less likely to become pedophiles.
AFAIK, That's not accurate. You will fall into insider trading irrespective of your share allocation. SEC may not come after you, but that doesn't make it legal.
>Money can make facts go unheard and/or unheeded.

For a time. But people get bored, tired, and distracted. Facts are permanent.

>What definition says that? Astroturfing can be and is often automated

Servers cost money. Bandwidth costs money. Admins cost money. Businesses aren't going to fund astroturfing indefinitely. Even in the most extreme circumstances, like the climate change debate, the truth still dominates.

>Many religions and mythologies seem to indicate otherwise

You're right. Thats why modern science believes in creation, and the geocentric model. Clearly religion and mythology won out.
> I don't think it is a good idea to conflate selective breeding programs with gene splicing as they are very different.

Yeah, we have a lot more specific control and selectivity with gene splicing than selective breeding.