skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The resources you can have are so limited in comparison what you can do if you are on the right project with the right people at for example Google. You will not find a free or open project that will be able to compete with the data, resources, and knowledge you will find there. Besides that it's much faster to learn from someone who knows than finding the right material online. And in the end most world-class projects will have someone that works or worked in SV in them because that's where they got a lot of their experience.
EU General Data Protection Regulation
Didi/Mobike/Meituan/Xiaomi...the list could get really long
As peterwwillis points out below, a part of it is due to a direct Trump order to not hire any staff earlier this year.
I meant case INSENSITIVE.

Apparently everyone thinks I'm a fuckin' retard over that of a typo.

Great audience. 10/10, would post again.
We still need humans for weather forecast?
Why did your quote ignore the context of that quote?

> Whether the cutbacks will affect the quality of forecasts and warnings, “I can’t say for certain,” Martin said. “You’re working people double shifts, some people aren’t getting days off, and you’re grinding people down. There is that potential [to affect the forecast quality]. The longer this goes on, the more the potential rises. It’s a long winter ahead.”

> The Burlington Free-Press reported similar circumstances at the forecast office serving its region. “Given our staffing, our ability to fill our mission of protecting life and property would be nearly impossible if we had a big storm,” Brooke Taber, a Weather Service forecaster and union steward, told the paper.

> Susan Buchanan, a spokeswoman for the National Weather Service, pushed back on any notion the organization is neglecting obligations to constituents and the health of its staff. “Let me state emphatically that we would never take an action that would jeopardize the services we provide to emergency managers and the public,” she said. “NWS is taking definitive steps to ensure the health and well-being of our employees through guidance to local managers on scheduling and flexibility.”

Seems far from "just fine".
Post your experience here afterwards.
That's not how I read this at all:

>National Weather Service Employees Organization

>“The NWS leadership has been incapable of placing their budget priorities correctly,”

> “understaffing is not due to underfunding,”

> “unspent carry-over funds” in the tens of millions of dollars
> from every comparison I've seen was similar to other religions groups, schools, and youth organizations like scouting.

I have just spent a while looking at the statistics. I have found a huge number of incomparable, incomplete, and incorrectly analyzed statistics, and many strong claims that catholic priests are no more likely to abuse. However, I have found nothing remotely objective pointing in either direction. Have you found any actually objective studies which show anything meaningful as to the question of whether priests are more, less, or equally likely to abuse?
I guess we should also consider what happens when the economy collapses and the value but not the cost of your rented living space is worth half what the landlord paid for it and you lose your job.
If I came onto your project I'd be trying to fix that SQL injection too. Why don't you add a comment explaining why you know it's safe and why you aren't using the standard way of escaping variables in SQL?
Thanks. My profession is scientist - I study protein folding, a lifelong passion of mine! Programming became a hobby about four years ago.
That is already the case in NH.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_use
> And the Russian tanks absolutely did matter.

Exactly, the entire German gamble of invading Russia was a repeat of their (genius) invasion of France: highly mobile overrunning of tanks combined with lethal Luftwaffe air support.

The problem was entirely the fact the Germans were completely caught off guard by the quality of Russian tanks and anti-tank guns.

The Nazi's should never have invaded Russia, but their baises against the slavs made them feel superior. Likewise in these biases still exist in North American / European accounts of WW2, where Russia's technological and industrial dominance is downplayed.

It makes sense in the context of the Cold War but in 2017 it saddens me this is still up for debate. Although the fact anti-Russian sentiment is still highly politicized in mass media this might be expecting too much from popular culture on my part...
"This eliminates time-consuming and difficult do-it-yourself software integration..."

writing easy to integrate, open source, software would also eliminate that
Not saying it isn’t good marketing. I can see a visible difference between Copper River salmon and salmon of the same species from somewhere else.
Also, from the article:

> The vacancy situation has not gone unnoticed by Congress. In its 2018 fiscal year budget markup for the Weather Service, the Senate Appropriations Committee wrote that the “extended vacancies are unacceptable — particularly when the Committee has provided more than adequate resources and direction to fill vacancies expeditiously for the past several years.”

It looks like Congress agrees that the Weather Service is understaffed.

> Martin said staff morale is in the tank. “Some people have been denied vacations, because there are not enough bodies to fill shifts,” he said. “I, myself, worked a 15-hour day about a week ago. You get a lot less sleep. You start to wonder if you’re safe on the road. You don’t see your loved ones, which eats into family life.”

If this is even remotely true, it definitely seems they're understaffed despite the statement from the Weather Service. Of course the Weather Service would put out a statement they're doing fine. I see no reason as to why we should take their word for it over the word of Congressional committees and actual employees.
> Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure,’ labor union says
Yes, very much so. Computer models are not forecasts, and it would be a terrible state of affairs if we did not have human forecasters to make forecasts.
Hi both, this is exactly something that I’m looking at doing. We’ve got about 10TB of netcdf data coming in everyday and we’re looking for a cost efficient data store to provide fast access to individual grid points. S3 has proven to be too slow.

Any chance I could pick your brains about using either Postgres or TileDB?

Thanks!
CockroachDB Bulk Ingest from CSV
There's no such thing as an ecosystem that isn't always churning through stuff (other than a dead one). The premise you're floating doesn't exist.

Silicon Valley's 10% is better than the 10% anyone else produces. It also does it at a higher volume simultaneously. That's why it's Silicon Valley and nobody has managed to match it in the last 50 years.
Fixing Google's Software Testing
I interviewed at five top companies in Silicon Valley and got five job offers
Conflating volatility with "problem causing" is an error of logic.
Also all startups with (basically) unlimited aws credits
Anyone with the misfortune to work in enterprise software would probably disagree with describing Twilio as a "niche" project. Increasingly they _are_ inbound channels for a huge range of customer facing enterprise applications.
I would agree, but I think their sales is doing a terrible job if they have that many and are not bringing the appropriate amount of money.
Such a shockingly bizarre statement, however the cold hard truth!
Great overview, thanks! Also thanks for the heads up about the company's response.
That eliminates the main reason for the article to have been written, causes the reader to wonder if the NWS was just bombed with a nuke or something, and is absolutely clickbait. I stand by my headline change.
Ok, since you say so: charitable it is.

Once you get past all that sexual harassment stuff, there's some really exciting news in that article we're discussing, that I think most people have overlooked!

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> It is illegal if the work is in anyway valuable to the company.

Its also illegal if the unpaid training position is directly tied to employment, which the “this is unpaid for three months” listing seems to directly indicate.

I suspect, if someone were actually hired on these terms and subsequently filed a wage and hour complaint, they’d be due back pay governed by minimum wage laws, damages for any violation of mandatory break and other working hours regulations applicable to non-exempt employees (since, regardless of the kind of work, a $0 salary is below the minimum for exemption), plus penalties and interest for payment being after the time required in law. And, on top of all that, the employer would pay additional fines to the government for the violations.
Dicamba and the rushed-to-market GMO Dicamba-resistant crops were all certified by the USDA and FDA prior to use. The problem here is the scientific studies used by the FDA in certifying products are produced by the vendor, instead of an adversarial third party. Combine that with Monsanto’s formidable PR and Legal capabilities, and of course, the result is dangerous products that nobody can even talk about.

This whistleblower guy at the University of Missouri, his career is over. Monsanto will see to that through either withdrawing its funding to their research programs, or by funding them even more, with the quid-pro-quo that this guy is fired for some unrelated reason, like phony performance reviews, or perhaps allegations of him sleeping with a student.
Here's a reference (not sure how reliable) but it does point out the treasury's handling hardware which is credible (at that point census bureau was in the treasury department): http://whatis.techtarget.com/reference/History-of-the-punch-... :

> Prior to 1929, this was a standard size for many US banknotes, and Hollerith apparently chose it so that he could store cards in boxes made for the Treasury Department.

Funny side note: in 1983 I was in the PRC (just opening up -- the commune system was still in place for example). I visited a textile factory, where people were astonished at how excited I was about their ancient looms (old European machines packed up and shipped to China in the 60s). I didn't care about the output but took pictures of the huge Jacquard cards that drove the patterns. IIRC they were rectangular, about a meter across diagonally.
But also had this to say:

“The Weather Service has faced different obstacles in trying to fill positions, including the 2013 budget sequester, related hiring freezes, and changes in administrations. In 2012, challenged to find funding to compensate its workers, it was embroiled in a “reprogramming” scandal, in which it moved around funds to cover payroll, without congressional approval.”

That's the pattern you'll find in many government agencies — they might in aggregate have the money available but it's hard to spend on the right things or there are policy changes needed for quality of life improvements which cause people to leave. People outside might not have appreciated that the sequester lead to things like mandatory furloughs — i.e. your boss telling you to pick the day you're going to stay home and not get paid, even if you need the money and have work to get done — which were really bad for morale.

Traditionally job security was one thing which lead people to endure some of those problems but that's been under attack for awhile and you had recent things like congress considering cutting retirement, all of which aren't going to be great for getting people to take jobs:

https://federalnewsradio.com/retirement/2017/10/house-set-to...
Consider something like the Cartesian product of countably infinitely many copies of the naturals: this is nothing more than the set of all countably-infinitary tuples (n1,n2,...). It's obviously nonempty, e.g. because it contains (0,0,...). It seems intuitively obvious that similar reasoning should make any arbitrary Cartesian product of nonempty sets be empty.
I was just stating the NWS side of it since the headline on HN is biased to labor point of view.

(I'd probably side with labor on this issue as well, but the headline is clearly biased)
I don't understand why this needed to be on a throwaway account?
thrashing, english is not my first language ^^

No, no, your English is fine, it's AS that's the problem. :-) I assumed that it was probably a typo of some sort, but I would truly have believed either usage. Though AS has gotten better about not trashing memory.

That said, I agree that with a properly provisioned machine, AS does well. And it's a vast improvement over its predecessor.
It depends on where you are renting. Some jurisdictions have extremely tenant friendly laws [ which is how you end up with people paying $400/mo rents for 3 bedroom apartments in West Village or in Upper East Side ], while others don't.
Anybody know if the Scala integration is useful in this release? Apparently the last version wasn't that far off[1]. Has it gotten better or worse?

[1] http://scala-on-android.taig.io/editor/android-studio/
You're confusing milligrams (mg) and micrograms (mcg or µg). The recommended daily intake is a few micrograms; those tablets contain 1000 times that amount.
It's not a great societal practice that we demand everyone be smart enough to defy medical decree in order to remain safe. I know you 140 IQ antisocial introverts always want to structure society as a kleptocracy for the intelligent, but that would be a shit place to live.
I'm amazed at how big Twilio has become. I just thought of them as operating a useful gateway between the Internet and the SS7 network. I've used it for inbound SMS, for which it works fine. The API is simple enough. I used to do SMS via Google Voice and a Python program, which was awful. (It did take three years of nagging to get inbound multipart SMS support on Twilio, but they finally implemented that.)

Now they're moving into customer relationship management. They may end up competing with Salesforce.
For a moment I thought this was about the Pony ORM (Python) - looks like there are quite a few popular projects named Pony, perhaps we should use "Pony Language" instead of just "Pony" for the sake of disambiguation.
Bill Clinton also used the same phrase in his 1992 campaign.

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2016...
"Its only violence if its against me, not if its against those I disagree with" - most of the replies to this
This is awesome.

I can't wait for UK/EU, thanks for this.
You should have a look into serverless:

https://serverless.com/

I use the nano instances on AWS as well as they are very cheap to keep running. If you are new to AWS you can also run a micro for free for a year.
It is not. Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx are littered two story houses.
> So if more people in Chicago found tech companies you'll get more tech companies

Wait, really?
Because Marxist Communism is about everyone being equal.
Android: Shazam, SoundHound, Google track your physical behavior
But as with many engineering challenges, throwing more people at the problem doesn't solve it faster and often makes things worse. A harder problem to solve might just need and other person or two or more time but thousands of people? It does seem excessive, right?
Stavros form TileDB, Inc. here: Another area of great interest to us is point cloud data, which are essentially 3D points in a super sparse space. In fact, any application dealing with spatio-temporal data (which are 2D/3D/4D data that tend to be sparse and skewed) can take advantage of TileDB.
Wonder where The Weather Company fits in here- after all, they seem to have no trouble hiring at a rapid clip- I assume most people get their weather from the Weather Company but I live in Atlanta where it's located so it's a given here.

I'm guessing the private sector pay is better, wouldn't be surprised if they were poaching NWS employees.
Pintrest should've hit this first.
One can replicate this in all but one respect already; I've a big box by the door to put parcels in. It doesn't lock; you just open it and put the parcel inside.

I expect it wouldn't work for everyone, but I'm yet to have anything stolen from it in a decade or so or using this system.
I've only worked on a farm with a college roommate for a very brief period of time, but I would assume Monsanto does the exact same thing big pharma does with Doctors and Nurses -

Hire extremely attractive men and women to go to farms and sell some 'Santo Seed.
Again, I feel I am asking a very simple and reasonable question. You suggested that Wikileaks 'might' (and your phrasing is more akin to are) be witholding valuable and condemning information on Trump.

I'm just asking why you think this and in particular why our hypothetical leaker would not simply contact another organization for publication if Wikileaks failed to do so? Many of the biggest leaks in recent times have not come from Wikileaks. The Panama Papers were published by Süddeutsche Zeitung. Snowden's NSA and global surveillance leaks were brought to the public attention through contact with Glenn Greenwald.

I'd actually even take this a step further. Wikileaks is under an implicit, but mandatory, obligation to publish such materials if they were given them. Imagine our leaker did simply take the materials to e.g. Glenn Greenwald and published our hypothetical groundbreaking leaks. A condition of said leaks could also be publication of the fact that they were provided to Wikileaks who chose to not publish them. That would, overnight, destroy Wikileaks as an organization.
I really like the "module: thing that changed" format for the title. We've been using that where I work. It helps keep commits focused and makes it much easier to read the log.
Mpemba Effect
Indeed, many of us can get paid more in industry. (Computational applied mathematician here.) But (i) professor pay isn't terrible in the grand scheme of things, and (ii) I view my salary as paying for the things I wouldn't want to do for free, e.g., grading exams, serving on committees, etc., and I'm reasonably well-compensated in having my own time to do the things I love enough to do for free: my own research, work with grad students, learning about things I find interesting and teaching a course on it, etc.

But getting here wasn't easy, took equal measures of hard work and luck.
My favorite application of the Axiom of Choice, which Computer Scientists will appreciate:

Theorem ("Konig's Lemma"): If a tree has infinitely many nodes, and every node has only finitely many children, then the tree must have an infinite branch.

Proof: The tree's root, X1, has infinitely many descendants. Since the root has only finitely many children, some child, X2, of the root, must have infinitely many descendants. Since X2 has only finitely many children, some child, X3, of X2, must have infinitely many descendants. This process repeats forever, producing a sequence X1, X2, X3, ... which is an infinite branch through the tree.
There are still some wild Atlantic salmon, if you don't mind a bit of a drive and hike.
They called Bush a racist, dumb guy, etc. I’m sure next Republican around they’ll cherish how much they missed Trump for his humor and spirit.
Review of the AI/ML Marketplace
> Money can make facts go unheard and/or unheeded.

This is why it's important to respond with a factual debate only. You're actually helping them if you make more noise about other matters instead of sticking with facts.
Show HN: AWS Terminator
> apartment rent is around 600 - 1000 a month

You can't really use this as an "advantage" since it disappears rapidly once it starts become a tech hub.
The KV-1 was still critically at the frontlines of the German invasion in eastern europe at many critical junctures. Not to mention the Soviet Army had large reserves deep into Russian territory, what matters was what was deployed in Ukraine and elsewhere on the eastern front in 1942.

Remember the Nazi's invasion depended on their multiple tank groups making a very fast progress through this country, until they reached Moscow. It was not total war combat until much later.

Many of them were halted or destroyed when they faced a single inantry group backed by a KV-1. That was enough to cripple their invasion (among the other equivalent Russian tanks).

If you don't believe my account I highly recommend this book which is the best coverage of the eastern front, and questions much of the popular accounts of WW2 with some great research and plenty of citation:

https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Barbarossa-Germanys-Cambrid...
> The health of Twitter's balance sheet is a counterindication of the health of the world.

So just like every other news outlet out there? If it bleeds it leads and all that.
But some of that ecosystem is just dead slack. It exists because it exists, because part of how SV works is VCs have to find new winners and people want to change jobs and have more options. If that is not your main goal, you don't need the ecosystem.

SV is good at what it does, it's the best at what it does, but that's orthogonal to building a great company. We believe it's necessary because that's how it has been done.
Attention spans are different now.
Structures that can query and adapt their own structure. Reminds me of reflection in a managed language.
> The metre is traditionally defined as one ten-millionth part of the distance between the geographic north pole and the equator along the Paris meridian.

Not anymore:
"The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre
I've actually thought about that idea and even did some initial prototyping for a mobile app. But the idea I had was a more usable/less scammy version of craigslist specifically for local commerce. Initially, I was thinking of limiting the goods to electronics and then expanding slowly to other items.
Automotive cooling systems have been designed to operate in excess of 100C for decades now. The system is designed to pressurize the coolant to raise the boiling point by as much as 25C/45F. The radiator cap acts as a pressure release valve and most are typically designed to blow at 15psi above atmospheric pressure.

You also have the intended working temperature of ICE and eletric powerplants inverted. While an ICE's cooling system is designed to keep maximum coolant temperature around 110-115F, the internal components are designed to operate far in excess of that temperature. Exhaust valves, for example, are designed to operate indefinitely at temperatures exceeding 700C with the valves of high performance engines nudging 900C. Electric motors on the other hand, rapidly lose efficiency as operating temperature increases.