skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that for almost any companies except for the big 10 or so, that's the correct approach. Especially for enterprise software. And even in those big 10, for projects which are not directly tied to the things they do at scale (I doubt the Hangouts Android client needs to reinvent the wheel...), it's still the right approach.

I'm kind of sick and tired of companies writing their own frameworks and languages when they can't really maintain them, long term. Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft can, because they have a different culture and primarily because they have a different focus as well as enough profits to support it. Random Java big-shop can't. Their framework will be nice and shiny the first year and 15 years later you'll be wondering why you're working with the atrocious Struts-1 inspired undocumented internal framework.
Ask HN: What do you expect from a bioinformatics contractor/consultant?
What are the essential skills you would expect a bioinformatics contractor/consultant to have?

I have a strong background in math and software, and I have done a bunch of work in biology over the years. Currently I work as a contractor on software and algorithms.

I have a friend who has offered to make an introduction to a group who need bioinformatics support.

I know that I have a lot of the skills required for bioinformatics, but probably not all. So I am hoping to figure out whether I have enough skills to make it worthwhile to talk with this group.
I upvoted you because it's a good point, but consider it was the first launch ever of this rocket so presumably people were reluctant to put important and expensive payloads on it.
HN of all places really surprised me with this reaction. Publishers _desperately_ need an alternative payment system with the convenience of an ad-supported model, microtransactions, and a direct payer-payee relationship. Browser-based mining has a potential to provide that, but it is still very early and evolving.

Also why is everyone talking about Bitcoin in this thread? No one is trying to mine Bitcoin in the browser. There are other cryptocurrencies than Bitcoin. Some of those are designed to run in the browser specifically to address the concern with using a POW system in an intentionally resource-constrained environment.
This is a real thing. For game consoles, which run their chips pretty "hot" in order to meet the performance requirements for high-end gaming, the main SOCs have a design lifetime. There are deliberate trade-offs between performance and the expected lifetime of the part. This lifetime is difficult to estimate prior to ship.

One console made a firmware update about a year after its release that increased its clocks by about ten percent. I'm guessing they did this after seeing telemetry numbers indicating that the box's cooling system was doing a better job than expected, and that there was lifetime headroom available (probably other factors were involved, too, but heat is a major one).
Does this mean that Electron issues with MPEG codecs are non-issues now? I mean the discussion here https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/633 and https://github.com/electron/libchromiumcontent/issues/174
Two-phase 90 degrees apart has zero-rpm torque, like a steam locomotive, the problem is that torque is variable. Three phase torque is constant.
> most of it is just wiring form fields to databases in new and exciting ways.

I'm so sorry to hear you've had an underwhelming career working on boring projects. There's so much more that's passed you by.
Stop calling it Democracy— it isn’t after all— and the question stops being so compelling. What we call democracy has little bearing on the real thing.
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That's why you need a solid solution for DNS, though from my experience, mDNS does a decent enough job to solve it.

Instead of the numbers you type in the hostname of a device. IPv6 encourages to improve on the current lackluster DNS solutions some routers have.
I agree with tptacek here. Based on just my experience (contractor then corporate programmer for the last decade), probably 99% of programming work out there in the world is mechanical rote that just involves reading comprehension and the ability to mechanically execute steps in some order. Calling this type of work complex only means someone fucked up somewhere.

Certainly there are specializations that are pushing the edge of research, but we are talking about an industry here, not the few research-y jobs that still exist.
> He was intolerant of Gawker.

Given what Gawker did to him, I can hardly shed a tear.

There are plenty of reasons to dislike the man, but that ain't one.
Amnesiac accidentally casts Sending to herself
Even if it loses 60% of its speed due to congestion, if the price and monthly quotas are comparable to my home cable connection, I'll be saying good-bye to Comcast.. (especially if they have any decent upload speed, I push a lot of docker/vagrant images)

I actually think the home market would be an ideal place for them to start, as its much less 'mobile' so if you get coverage, your not going to have spotty coverage while they fill in the gaps.
I've been dreaming of a small-scale "cloud" hosting startup, and one of the biggest concerns is actually IPv4 availability.

I was hoping that this article would shed some light on the feasibility for a new company to grab a /20 or so. Does anyone around here have some insight?
I feel like we're living in different universes.

-You seem to say diversity is good, but not diversity of political thought?

-What are Thiels stances on equality that you see as so abhorrent?

-He was involved (as a financier) of a lawsuit... I struggle to see the huge moral deal here. He didn't decide the outcome - six jurors did, abiding by the laws, in a court![1]

-Is being a strong supporter of Ayn Rand a good reason that someone shouldn't be involved in Silicon Valley?

[1]http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/gawker-trial-jurors-made...
Fewer people are riding the London Underground
> I just don't have the stomach for it today.

Feeling a bit of shame, possibly?
Your comment says more about you than it does Spiegel
why? if the article is true then with 5G you will get 14 Mbps, which is significant improvement isn't it ?
No, seriously. I think I align with at least some of your ideals, but that connection doesn't make any sense.

There's nothing wrong with the article, either. I think reasonable discussion can be had about it.

If you're for free speech, you'll know you can simply not participate in discussions you "don't have the stomach for today" instead of asking moderators to close the post.
> intolerance, dominance, lack of accountability and an insistence on some Ayn Rand-ian gibberish philosophy of the World.

> Most of his political and economic philosophy seems to be the same gauche pastiche of SV's obsession with Rand. So, yeah, good riddance.

> TL;DR: Bye! Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out! Come back when you've got a little more mature and empathic towards others if you want!

LOL... I really don’t understand where he got the idea that there's an intolerance of conservatism in SV... /s
Tim Ferris on the same issue:

> Silicon Valley also has an insidious infection that is spreading -- a peculiar form of McCarthyism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism) masquerading as liberal open-mindedness. I'm as socially liberal as you get, and I find it nauseating how many topics or dissenting opinions are simply out-of-bounds in Silicon Valley. These days, people with real jobs (unlike me) are risking their careers to even challenge collective delusions in SF. Isn't this supposed to be where people change the world by challenging the consensus reality? By seeing the hidden realities behind the facades? That's the whole reason I traveled west and started over in the Bay Area. Now, more and more, I feel like it's a Russian nesting doll of facades -- Washington DC with fewer neck ties, where people openly lie to one another out of fear of losing their jobs or being publicly crucified. It's weird, unsettling, and, frankly, really dangerous. There's way too much power here for politeness to be sustainable. If no one feels they can say "Hey, I know it makes everyone uncomfortable, but I think there's a leak in the fuel rods in this nuclear submarine..." we're headed for big trouble.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7erct8/i_am_tim_ferri...

I've witnessed this first hand, and alongside the congestion and housing problems that no one wants to handle, it was a big reason I decided to leave the Bay Area for good.
How am I going to sleep ever again?
Regulation of Automated and Algorithmic Trading
I don't understand why companies would compare their offering to paypal but don't offer escrow. I suppose people use paypal for paying individuals but not as much as for goods/services, right?
They did this to me. I signed up for a fastmail.fm account around 2002-2003. They presented their services at the time as a 'one time' fee - something like 20$ if I remember correctly.

Anyway around 7-8 years later they announced that any customer that was using their services from the one time fee would be kicked off. They gave a warning of a few months but after that I lost all the email I had on that account as well as access to the email account.

I don't hold a grudge or anything and feel I got my money's worth, but I just thought I'd throw this out there as information.
Elon Musk’s “Innovations” Are Not the Future – They’re Delaying It
Way before Counter-Strike: Global Offensive people tried to port the classic CS 1.6 (or 1.5) behavior to more modern engines or CS versions. From what I know no project succeeded because even replicating the recoil behavior were extremely hard. Gameplay features that were actually bugs would have to be simulated. I imagine it would be ten times harder for a complex game like AoE.
Income reports almost always supply a median and a histogram though.
"4G vs. 5G"
What a marketing BS! Let's say it straight: we increased radio frequency by N multiplier to get larger badwidth with RF penetration capabilities tradeoff -- now we should put radio transmitting stations at a distance of 30 meters between each other and behind every corner, cause radiowaves at this frequency cannot pass through even a plywood sheet.
Has everyone settled on one 5G or will the 5G landscape in the US still be split between GSM 5G and CDMA 5G?
I think the biggest difference is going to be raising monthly download caps. 4gig to ~50 gig is huge, but T-mobil has 50 gig caps now. So, I could see most people getting by with 500 gig / month for home internet connections.

Which is going to put a lot of pressure on ISP's to improve.
I can justify your guilt. There are still many browsers and many users using them that do not support CSS Grid. It's a cutting edge feature. Please don't force us to mobile sites (I'm looking at you Mozilla/FF extension site) or just fail to have a fallback entirely.
You sound like an autist. Maybe you are, then who I am to judge you? Kudos for koping.

But if you aren't, you are showing a dangerous level of disregard for human wellbeing.

A dismal OS was shipped to around billion customers, which undid basic UI features that they were accustomized to.
And your defence is that this OS was made with perfectly fine parts.

No, that's not a good line here.
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We’re a company of 12, seed funded, growing fast, and distributed across the world - from London to rural Uttar Pradesh - so we’re keenly focussed clear communication.

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The redesign can still hurt snapchat even if no users leave. Personally, before the update, I would look at the snapchat discover stories every day. Now I find the page so appalling to scroll through I don't navigate to it anymore. I think this is a large part of their business model, otherwise other companies won't purchase slots in the discovery page. It just depends if my experience is a one-off or if it holds for a decent percentage of snapchat users.
Peter Thiel is one of the worst humans alive
True psychological warfare. Having to go to sleep knowing you will wake up with bites that came from insects crawling on you is very unsettling.
uMatrix and a random user agent spoofer should do it.
Maturity and Silicon Valley -- oh well.

The whole Silicon Valley political correctness thing is a farce designed to sell more ads to salon socialist kids from rich families.
I wonder what kind of technologies are behind 3G, 4G and 5G.

From a consumer perspective, upgrading the number means "the same, simply better and faster".
(just like an iphone :)

The truth is probably more complex than that.

From my experience, 4G was much more reliable that 3G has ever been. May be the service providers have improved.
But I have the feeling that 4G is a fundamentally different technology from 3G.
In that case, is 5G fundamentally different from 4G?
Personally, I can play a Windows game purchased on Steam on Linux/MacOS using Wine (This is how I currently play Age of Empires II). You can't say the same about a Windows Store game.
Yes! This! We need it to be diverse as possible. Thank you! Diversity in everything, EVERYTHING, except of course diversity of option.
http://www.stlplaces.com/night_vision_red_myth/

Isn’t the red light preserving night vision a myth?
Hopefully it improves over that technology... I regularly get dropped calls switching from wifi to LTE networks, especially if I spend any amount of time on the edge of my wifi network (like if I take the call inside the house and then walk to my garage).
Not that different but I’d say more tolerant. Just more diversity in people an opinions.
This is not okay here..
It’s funny the way that supporters of Ayn Rand always seem to be keen on using the courts to get their way on things unrelated to their business. Just like John Galt.

And diversity of thought is for new interesting ideas, not discredited old ones.
During my time as a low level writing bee at a so called journalistic site in Germany that was my whole job:

* Find something that could potentially get people to click.
* Write the whole piece with own words.
* Never link to the original.
* Shove as many ads into people's face.
* Make money.

You can probably understand why I changed the path of my "career".
Yep. They are doing fundamental research. Maybe it will have practical applications. Maybe not. Sometimes you should just give scientists a bag of money and let them do their thing.
Microsoft tests iOS authenticator app as password replacement in Windows 10 S
> As all the pieces fall in to place - hardware, ISP, OS, web/mail/services - it'll still be a gradual move, unless some major players announce IPv6 only service. If Office365 was "IPv6 only in 2020", that might motivate a lot of orgs to push their IT/ISP to upgrade and migrate.

It doesn't even need to be that drastic. Apple, Google, and Microsoft could just check for IPv6 when connecting to a network. If it's missing, display some kind of alert saying, "This internet connection is malfunctioning, please contact (lookup service number based on the IP address.)"

Constantly showing that nag will put a lot of pressure on major ISPs like Comcast.
> "But I don't think this large Silicon Valley company is going to take notice of a petition."

Except it’s based out of LA...
I've had this problem for many years, although it's not perfect that problem is largely solved and being able to shift focus so quickly has become a super power.

When your focus shifts so often you can't develop basic cognitive functions(especially executive function). The part of your brain that is suppose to regulate focus is really funky. But I bet when you find something your really interested in your brain won't stop focusing and it feels like you have blacked out and are doing everything in "automatic" mode. This is called hyperfocus and it can be incredibly useful if you can "control" it.

You might cycle through various medications over the years, some might even cause you anxiety and other horrible side effects. But it won't actually fix the underlying problem which are structures in your brain that aren't developed properly.

Luckily there are solutions; treatments to improve your mind ability focus like Neurofeedback. Once you can focus you need to find a physically/mentally stimulating task that requires serious cognitive functions like memory, task execution, focus switching and the many other functions. I like to dance and play music. I've done a lot of work reverse engineering the brain and made incredible progress improving its ability to operate.

Don't ever that listen to that pity party in your brain. Once you cross a certain point(after A LOT OF WORK) your ADHD becomes a gift and you will never want to give it up not matter how much failure and loss you have experienced. ALWAYS remember you are different, everything about you is different from the normal population and trying to conform to their systems, ways to of thinking and working will rarely work for you.

EDIT: I will add I understand that medication works for some people and that's great. But it was largely a waste of time for me and seriously affected my liver.
If you aren't specifying the cost per KW/h and the financial benefit per KW/h, then you are just making assumptions about how the finances work within the context of the current market structure and participants.

None of these things leads to the conclusion that there isn't an arrangement whereby a website visitor can dedicated x seconds to mining and end up paying a reasonable amount in incremental electricity costs for doing so while providing a third-party with a sufficient financial benefit to compensate for the cost of the content consumed/service provided.
> idea of equality of outcome for its own sake

It's not for its one sake. It's for peace in the society.

> Should nursing training and culture be manipulated to be more appealing to people like me? I would only want that if it were beneficial for the nursing profession itself.

Have you tried it? I think it's not really reasonable to assume that humans are made to do exactly one thing. It's more of a necessary convention to have a functioning society.

> Where there are systemic problems that hinder women / minorities who want to excel in tech, focus on those, instead of an artificial number.

The number is not artificial its reality. One systemic problem is nudging which is tried to be fixed implementing quotas. The quotas are not meant to fix the number but the nudging effect.
That just seems odd to me to have a wire for earth... carried above the earth. I can understand having earth wires in houses made of concrete and wood since they have to get to the earth through those materials, but what makes a common earth ground better than just lots of many grounding points? All that wire has got to get expensive.
Good news. I may now be available for relocation to SF.
How can you advocate for someone leaving Silicon Valley based on his "philosophical jibberish", and at the same time promote diversity? "Diversity" increasingly means nothing. SV is one hell of a political echo chamber.

Diversity of thought, REGARDLESS of age,sex, skin color etc should be the goal, not ideological purity.
Artificial? I would say cultural. I would surely like there to be more women in CS. There are literally no women at my office, and the only women I met for the last six months are from HR. I am single, and so is about 50% of my coworkers - this is not a particularly good position to be in on the 'relationship market'.

On the other hand, I can't blame women for not wanting my job. IT has a reputation for attracting white, male, introvert nerds - and like many prejudices, there is some truth in this even if this is only because of the self-fulfilling aspect of it (I certainly do conform to this stereotype to some extent). It has been shown that females are generally more attracted to fields evolving around social interaction - and IT has quite a bit of the opposite reputation.

If we compare the situation in CS with the situation in sports the situation does stop appearing to be problematic. We never get worked up about the lack of male cheerleaders, ballerino's (have you even heard that word before?), or that few women play football. I fail to see the point of getting worked up about this specific example of inequality of participation.
It's commonly called "inheritance anomaly".
>-What are Thiels stances on equality that you see as so abhorrent?

He's a white supremacist.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart...

>In an email exchange shortly after the election, Yarvin told Yiannopoulos that he had been “coaching Thiel.”

>“Peter needs guidance on politics for sure,” Yiannopoulos responded.

>“Less than you might think!” Yarvin wrote back. “I watched the election at his house, I think my hangover lasted into Tuesday. He’s fully enlightened, just plays it very carefully.”
As far as I know it heavily depends on where you are. Obviously country by country, but also within the US it can be different per state or per city.

Then there's the difference between a live camera and a recorded camera.
What happens to animals in the vacuum of space?
Thiel is intolerant of Gawker, true!

I'm intolerant of Nazis.

The commentor is intolerant of Peter Thiel.

It's better to discuss the actual merits of a position, rather than just saying "They're intolerant".
:D

These diversity preachers are just a bunch pathetic weasels who haven't learned to work with/accept people with differing opinions
Jerry Brown appoints 15 to new K-12 CS Panel
While we tend to think of them as unchanging, perfect slabs, integrated circuits change over their lifetimes and eventually fail. Unsurprisingly, these effects are greater when feature sizes are smaller. Here are some links I dug up on the subject: https://semiengineering.com/transistor-aging-intensifies-10n... http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7796117/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative-bias_temperature_inst...

A vivid real world example of this was the 2011 Cougar Point chipset problem which would cause the SATA ports to essentially burn out well short of the expected lifetime of the system. https://semiengineering.com/transistor-aging-intensifies-10n...
as far as oddities are concerned, what about java.lang.NullPointerException for a language that is free of pointers ?
TCP BBR: Magic dust for network performance
Bitcoin Blockchain in Ada: Lady Ada Meets Satoshi Nakamoto
Extreme ownership and taking responsibility in software engineering