skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great response thank you! I won't lie: We definitely have similar issues (I think any infra company runs in to this)

Re: Kinetica. They are doing visualization as well as things like machine learning.

I like your guys' approach a lot better. I see a clear bridge from the mass market commodity storage to something useful actually leveraging GPUs. That's why I commented. Best of luck to you!
Uber didn't argue anything along those lines at all in court and attempted to justify the payments with something even less believable, potential court expenses and reputation risk. You may have missed it in the article, but they effectively admitted to paying the lawyer to keep his or her mouth shut.
Lofstrom Loop, maybe.

From what I've read, those can be built with existing materials (which is not to underestimate the engineering challenges, which would still be great), while we still don't have bulk materials suitable for a space elevator (graphene and carbon nanotubes are strong enough, but producing them in the length required would be very hard, maybe impossible).

Alternatively, a laser or microwave launch system that works by transferring energy from ground-based lasers or microwave arrays to the spacecraft (it could use air for reaction mass at lower altitudes, switching to on-board propellant as it get higher up). The advantage there is that you don't have to lift the power plant itself.

For non-human payloads that can handle extremely high accelerations, some kind of railgun might do the trick.
There also seems to be a contraction in digital publishing. I think the money well is starting to run dry and we might be seeing the beginnings of a flight to quality.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/theres-a-digital-media-c...
Goldman Ceo should be the last person to call something fraud
My ex girlfriend (it had been a few years!) set us up via email. I was in San Diego and she was in Austin.

I was an f/a-18 flight instructor at the time out of Miramar, and coincidentally, the scheduling officer. I found a student who needed a cross country training mission, and requisitioned a jet for the weekend to complete the students training...and also meet this girl.

Thing was, our jets were always broken, so they rarely let us take them more than one leg away from home base. Austin was two legs.

I went into my executive officer and told him my plan...then mentioned I’d be meeting a former Miss Texas. He instantly signed off.

So, in many ways, I have all of you fine tax paying citizens to thank for meeting my future wife.

When I arrived in Austin, we had a (normal) oil leak which got all over my flight suit, so I smelled terrible. Fortunately it didn’t phase my future wife as she met us on the tarmac.

We dated for 4 months, then we’re married 4 months after that. We’ve been together 5+ years and have 2 kids now.
I know he isn't exactly known for his board games but US game designer Steve Jackson has really stood the test of time and has continued to make interesting games for decades.
Quadcopters are in the lower tier of all drone types. Fixed-wing drones are more suited to military applications due to greater range and payload capacity, not to mention speed.
Maybe other support organizations are different or maybe I am busier than normal, but the concept of one thing at a time is foreign to me.

To outline today:
Left comments on ~15 net new cases to jump start the troubleshooting by the technicians assigned to them

Help led a morning meeting reviewing cases where people are stuck

Researched whether an old (7y) version of the software had a piece of functionality

Made comments helping ~5 different technicians globally on their cases

Helped a colleague craft a SQL query to help replicate an issue then talked over strategy

Logged into a colleagues VM where they had an install problem

Had a call with the pre-sales brass about trends in the support organization

2 walk ups:

- Intermittent reload issue when triggering things via API

- How to setup a reverse proxy with IIS

Assigned cases for initial responses to meet our contractual obligations

- Left 5-10 public facing comments to meet SLA to assist the team

Emailed some devs about whether a customer can run using the latest version of the database which underpins our software

Responded to 3-4 different issues in the Slack for our Consultants on-site with customers

Came up with a PowerShell script to work around a bug for another tech at the behest of our Escalations folks who walked up

Caught up on a case that I'll be covering for next week which has Executive VP visibility (ultimately making things right after the initial tech botched a system)

Personal cases:

- Install problem on a server with FIPS

-- Then get thrown under the bus on a customer facing email about the further issues

-- After bypassing that there was a user rights assignment problem; emailed some devs about why we require it / work-arounds for a locked down government server

- Reload of data problem due to the permissions for the service account

-- On the call discussed:

--- Architecting for high availability

--- Long-term maintenance activity to ensure stability

- Reviewed 2GB of logs for an intermittent issue

- Worked on reproducing a client side bug

- Called / left voicemails / sent emails for 3 customers trying to get a remote session scheduled

- Alleged security vulnerability. Called / emailed the customer asking for more clarity; stood up servers to reproduce and researched how to capture the data needed to confirm

All while constantly monitoring email / 3 slack instances / 1 Microsoft team instance / my queue for fires to put out

In some sense, that's a slew of single things, but it's uncommon for me not to be moving onto the next task as I am winding down the previous one. Nor is the work-flow all in the same vein.

In any case, my 2 cents.
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> The only one i do not recognize in some way is EPS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulated_PostScript
I wouldn't generalize too much. I once took a job where a $50 million in revenue a year business was running on a single AWS server that included everything (web, database, cache, etc.) with no backup of the data and the server was hand-maintained.

It was truly a disaster waiting to happen.
i figured the opposite might start happening with Softbank's gigantic fund coming online. But I guess if they're going to go after late-stage "winners" and that's how everyone else is going, then maybe tech startups will have to start thinking about starting business the traditional way.
I've worked in global banking environments (where one holding company contains a traditional banking arm and a securities firm) with a slight lean towards securities operations, although I've serviced both the banking and securities operations.

Your exact comment happens constantly in global banking firms. If the banking arm happens to be in a stronger management position, they push towards locked down system with tight development cycle controls. Typically the bankers have low risk tolerances and their systems (ex. savings and payment client account ledger systems, ATM ops, etc.) reflect it. That said, even in a true banking company, the closer the department is to the interest rating trading operations the more the banking environment looks like a securities operation. You will find critical on-the-fly modeling taking place, data integration, data reintegration all happening in Excel spreadsheets and these XLSX will be driving business decisions.

In securities operations the pace of change (demands originating from regulatory bodies, external clients, and internal trading operation, etc.) inevitably push the boundaries of what the bankers can support. If your securities side regulatory body says the firm must implement X in order to report Y, the firm is obligated to do it, regardless of what banking IT risk and change control framework the bank thinks should be followed. If the regulatory body says X should be in place by Z date, and banking assessment / change control procedures can not be finished by Z date, guess what X gets implemented by Z date. There is no choice. Same goes for client system demands. Woe be the IT staff who tries to tell a securities side broker their client demand can not be fulfilled by some change control / risk assessment procedure. Do such a thing enough and the desk's profitability will take a hit. Which means the trader's bonus will take a hit. Which means IT will take a hit.

If a proprietary / quant / interest rate trader can't respond quickly enough to market change X because it took 3 days for a revised real time report to be created and then vetted by a formal change management process, the IT staff pushing those processes will be replaced.

Looking at the situation another way, having these time sensitive demands in Excel instead of in trading systems is actually kind of smart. Try to integrate the rapid trading desk decision making that happens in Excel into the trading / transaction ledger / transaction settlement system will just endanger the smooth operation of the those systems. Fewer changes the better in these core systems.
I want to believe... But this feels like a paid shill. It's just... too positive.

No downvote for you. I'm just suspicious.
I'm also a long time Cloud9 user. I agree that with this AWS changeup, it will suck and be awful that to share a workspace with other users, it will [probably] require them to also be on a AWS account.
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No. The $8 that was 'used' to create the beer passes through the hands of the brewer's suppliers and their suppliers, back into the wider economy. It is a medium of exchange, not a consumable. It does not leave the system, short of someone literally destroying it. Economically, the only question is how fast it moves and how many productive assets it leaves behind as it travels its path through the economic network.
How does this relate to what NixOS is doing? I've been casually following it. I know they build everything from source and then build results get hashed. The hash is not just the output, but also contains all input of the build. The assumption is that once a package and its dependencies are built, it will end up producing the same output.

Is the difference then that reproducible Arch or say Debian would ensure that the source when compiled would produce the same binary output on _any_ the machine of the same type. As opposed to say maybe NixOS would just make the output different if it runs on a machine with a hard drive mounted on a different directory or the cpu has more cores?
I'm really surprised (bordering on shocked) that French and Spanish are rated the same. Not to dispute the experts, but me, Spanish seems much easier than French. German also seems easier than French.
From the NY Times link I provided, I see the following:
+1.6 trillion repealing personal exemption
-0.64 trillion adding child and family credits
-0.92 trillion increasing standard deduction

So it does not seem as though the new credits and standard deduction outweigh the personal exemption overall. The net for these things is a small tax increase. And then there are the other deductions that are going away, so it seems like a net increase for average people, to provide AMT cuts, corporate cuts, and estate tax cuts.
Is it just a coincidence that the farther out from the UK you go the more weeks it takes to learn the language?
I get the impression that the Chinese government constantly violets intellectual property of American companies. I'd have no problems if the US government copies DJI designs for military purposes. Return the favor.
I've been told that opportunities are easier to spot in areas where you don't spend a lot of time.

I'm guessing that this is because you haven't already accepted the status quo in those areas, and because people with your skillset who would beat you to it may not have spent a lot of time there yet.
Not achieve anything? How do you know this?
Interesting map but the color choices are strange to me. I typically associate Red with difficult and Green with easy but it seems that this reverses that. I wonder if there is a reason.
I don't know if caffeine is more effective or not but tell you what ... Sprint does nothing for me.
Very few of these points have anything to do with ICE vs EV. Most of them are automated vs not. (1) and (3) are maybe valid, though if you don't think large fleet operators aren't hedging their fuel purchases... Even my local school district buys desiel for buses via wholesale and futures.

And regarding (8), many taxis are rented by drivers for their shift, with multiple shifts per car per day. Uber could be doing the same right now, but they'd rather rely on drivers not realizing the full value of their car and giving the difference to Uber.
> I (and probably everyone else) would really like to see if this at all correlates with future performance metrics.

I don't see how it's not possible. If your manager likes you, s/he will give you good reviews.
I spent a considerable amount of time trying to read this, get some vague idea of what actually happened, why she had to quit Google, flee to Germany, and leave her family behind while in “hiding.” I clicked through to several of her other linked posts, hoping that they would clarify the situation. I consider reading and reading comprehension one of my strengths, but this is the most meaning I’ve been able to extract:

She worked at Google, and she had a different vision of what she wanted Google to be. She wrote lengthy write ups of her vision for Google. She tried to talk to her manager about it and he didn’t agree with some of it and felt that other aspects of it were already being done to the fullest extent possible at the moment. The manner in which he rejected her ideas was offensive to her. She wanted to make up a new C level position at Google so she could make her ideas a reality.

Once her ideas were rejected she started to feel unwelcome and was paranoid that people were watching her. She quit Google, sold her stock, and “fled” to Germany without her family.

Is this anywhere near the mark? Can anyone understand this better and write an accurate summary? For someone who seems to be very focused on communication, trying to read her writing and comprehend anything about the who, what, where, when, why, and how made my brain hurt.

If the author of these posts reads this, I don’t mean to offend you. I honestly spent a pretty significant amount of time trying to understand what on earth is going on here because it seemed like a significant story. But I kept getting lost and questioning my own ability to read and think clearly.

Any help greatly appreciated.
There are too many different "military applications" to say that. For sending a drone into a building with possible enemy soldiers, a rotary-wing is definitely better than a fixed-wing.
They don't like competition.
I meant no offense

Thank you.

Money can be spent in a manner that is harmful, that actually reduces value in the world. It can also be genuinely lost or destroyed.

But I don't imagine you and I will ever bridge whatever communication gap is happening here. So, I don't plan to "throw more good money after bad" in terms of investing more of my time in what feels like an inane discussion.
Dear z3t4,

I write this letter from the distant past, late in the month of November in the distant pass of 2017. From your lofty throne upon a future so bright, I urge you to remember the sad lives we lead as a return code type mismatch caused every Mac OS X machine running modern software to be accessible by anyone with physical access by typing "root" into the login field then hammering on the Enter key like a 9 year old.

Morale is high, because we know we cannot be sued for this act of gross incompetence. We have decided to solve this problem by shaking our heads at people who code in C and ignoring any similarities to our own toolkits.

Please remember us and our backwards ways.

Sincerely,

A time traveler from about 3 days ago.
> If the USA had a missile which can intercept the ICBM, it would have to launch it very early and towards Russia if it stands a chance of hitting it while it is at it's most predictable trajectory and slowest speed

The article discusses a midcourse interceptor, which is the longest phase of the ballistic missile. It is not "very early" as you said, which implies the boost phase.

https://mda.mil/system/elements.html
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I've written simple Linux Security Modules, as learning experiences, but also to help tighten up a bunch of virtual machines.

The one that I'm most proud of delegates decisions on whether executables can be run to .. userspace. Which is simultaneously evil and brilliant.

i.e. User "foo" tries to run "/tmp/exploit" and the kernel executes "/sbin/can-exec foo /tmp/exploit". If the return code of that is zero then the execution is permitted otherwise it is denied.

This gives you ample opportunity to log all executables, perform SHA1-hash checks of contents, or deny executables to staff-members outside business hours. There's a lot of scope for site-specific things, creativity is the limit!
Games that lack meaningful player interaction generally struggle to create interesting rubber-banding. It's a very tricky thing to get right (king-making in 3+ player games is a huge problem that tends to tug against allowing strong player interactions - consider 2-player chess vs. 4-player chess)
More yellow bricks would leave rather a lot of choice, you're going to have to be a lot more specific than that. And your sphere will be a lot larger than 5 foot wide if you want to accommodate all possible parts and color variations.
Same here. I still have no idea why she left Google. I thought this was an Uber like departure maybe. And maybe it is. But I can’t tell by reading.
So I'm guessing that Goldman is all in on Bitcoin then?
The response to this issue, which was mostly news from August but is coming up again today due to the new probe, was that DJI decided to add an "offline" mode.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/14/dji-adds-an-offline-mode-t...
This week’s failed Russian rocket had a pretty bad programming error
Ask HN: What's your point of view on code review services such as Codacy?
The reasons for the contraction are well explained by the author in that article, though, including why venture capital investing has slowed in the sector - the business model for most of these companies doesn't seem to have the same explosive potential previous investors predicted and it's clear the expected returns won't happen either. Not an attractive market at the present moment.
Aren't power lines aluminium?
How to Pick a Random Element from an Infinite Stream
"Take my breath away" on many levels
This is one popular clustering algorithm. I think "clustering algorithms in general" would be a more accurate answer.
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With scan card access system, the security guards need to scan their passes when doing the rounds.

Pretty easy to look at their scan logs and infer what they were doing.

Using bar codes seems relatively easy to fake, but if you have the infrastructure in place then the access scanner seems to address that concern. Main issue is having the access control in the first place - won't help you if the guards are 'inside' the scanner and would never need to swipe while doing their rounds.

At my work you have to scan to use the lifts, so you can see how long the guards take to do each floor in the logs.
The best problems to solve are the ones you experience on a day to day basis, that you are personally invested in. That's what Vincent did here. It's much harder to build for other people because it requires a lot of user research & constant feedback & it's often difficult to even get honest feedback. The trick is recognizing a problem as worthwhile to solve.

Here are a couple of ideas from my day-to-day as a programmer:

- Code review reminder tool. Code reviews are great but there can be social friction to getting them done. I think the typical way this works is to @ mention someone which sends them an email & then ping them on slack if they don't review it w/in a certain amount of time, but I always feel at least a little bad about pinging someone on slack.

- Better software to sync local files to servers for development. A lot of devs run linux machines on aws, develop code locally, and then somehow sync their code from local to the dev server. I feel like people often just write their own scripts that amount to using rsync and some kind of system event watcher for file changes.

- More complex reminders. I want task and date specific reminders. So, for example, remembering to buy someone a gift for their birthday. I want the first reminder 3 weeks before and then a reminder everyday until I resolve.

I dunno if any of these ideas are worth solving though. I don't know if I'd pay for them..but they are things I want.
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read pseudocode definition of the algorithm and implement in your language of choice, alternatively you could port from one language to another language
N/A. All of my code handles private data (don't most revenue-generating programs?) and I can't/won't send my code to a third-party server.
It would be interesting to see what is defined as "VC Funding" - specifically, I suspect it may exclude accelerator programs (or measure the whole accelerator program as a single funding activity for a VC fund).

The drop in VC fundings seems to align reasonably well with the increase in accelerator programs[1]. That makes sense - as tech companies are getting cheaper and cheaper to start.

[1] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/271000
Former Microsoft CEO on Linux: "Linux is cancer"

Microsoft CEO on Linux: "Microsoft loves Linux"

Just give him time.

Then, Goldman Sachs should not be pontificating about fraud. Remember 2008?
Try to find a creative hobby to fill the time instead of a consumptive hobby you may find it more rewarding
I thought the Talos is out now?

EDIT: Crap, pre-order.

https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL2WK2/intro.html

I have been skimming too light on the market details for that bad boy. Only proves the point that the high-cost might be the price of helping proprietary hardware feel the sting of changing cultural tides.
https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/medium_dickbars
For awhile I’ve wanted to build a hat that automatically takes a picture of every dog that I see. This looks like it could be a great start for that project.
Doesn't make it true either, and you're the one making the claim.
It'll stop being fraud once they figure out how to make a shitload of money off it.
Goldman is probably secretly buying bitcoin while trying to keep the price down so they don't have to pay too much for it.
You might be interested in this.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keyboard-mod-a-physical-k...
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> infinite stream

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
The sweet spot for drives is the 4Tb at about $100[1].

Seven of those will give you 28 raw Tb with $300 left over for case and power supply.

So not impossible.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/
Wow Finish harder than Russian. I believe it.
Perhaps the ~10yr life-cycle of many funds started in 2007 have ended in disappointment for many LPs. I wish there were comprehensive statistics on GP performance.
Well given that it's CNNs, you're leaving out weight sharing.

So by structure you should also include the demand that the prediction of any NxN patch of the image should be roughly equal to the prediction of any other NxN patch of the image.