skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disable QUIC in my network because I'm doing QoS at my router and utilize TCP flow control to slow things do to where I want them to be. QUIC makes the incorrect assumption that the network never wants to slowdown or to even allow for a configurable speed. Don't be too clever.
Been a long time coming. Hoping to see some benchmarks and reviews soon.
BlazingDB 2.0 – GPU Fast SQL on Apache Parquet
70,000 years ago, a nomadic star shook up the prehistoric solar system
This would work for some people. How many stock market crashes have you lived through? I vaguely remember 1987, but did not have skin in the game at that point, so no lessons learned (but no wrong lessons learned?). I had money in the market during the dotcom crash where the Nasdaq dropped 78%. My dotcom holdings were mostly eBay at the time, so I was not as impacted as many. Then the 2008-09 madness. At some point I split investments between my long holdings and a double short SP500 fund for around a year to save my sanity. Since then a bull market and I bought a chunk of Tesla at $21. Good times. I have made out alright, but really like thinking about financial matters.

I know many people in their 50's that during the dotcom and real estate crashes could not stand the losses and sold near the bottom and are still in all cash. Seems like controlling your own retirement assets is a good system to transfer money from regular people to the market makers/full time stock investors. I think some kind of annuity that you buy every year that kicks in at age 65 or 70 is what most people want. Too bad those have really high commissions and horrible returns.
> It's hard to believe since MPEG-4 and HEVC are already everywhere.

HEVC is far from being everywhere. Huge services like Youtube, Amazon Video, Netflix and others are going to use AV1, not H.265. H.265 is already dead, it just didn't admit defeat yet.
On the flip side, employees can use this to their benefit also. I almost joined a company where my boss was a wildly right-wing put-up-the-wall type. Perhaps he'd be a good boss. But i'm brown. Do I want to take that chance? If he supports someone who think me and my family are all rapists, i'd like to know that.
Here's The Guardian stating it at the bottom of this article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/13/google-vo...

USA Today takes it a step further, and claims that "deleting" your voice activity merely converts it to the anonymous identifier, that Google keeps it either way: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/03/02/how-voic...

The better Google help article is this one, but it merely states changing the setting determines whether or not the audio activity is "saved to your account": https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6030020

I recall Google's articles being clearer on this point before, either I'm not looking in the right place or they may have obfuscated it.
"Otherwise, you may be crushing potentially great ideas unknowingly."

Along with crushing some human bodies along the way.
Starting Stopping Working
Amazon's stock tumbles into correction territory
I do expect Uber (or Lyft, or...) will turn a profit eventually. There's a substantial gap between Uber prices and cab prices at the moment, and while prices probably have to rise I expect demand will be inelastic enough to keep some ride service alive.

The unique mechanics of ride-hailing apps, like having a demand-responsive workforce and not relying on dedicated vehicles, seem like basically sustainable cost reductions.

The non-unique mechanics like having a good app are also sustainable, but Uber has already provoked most taxi companies to catch up on that. And we'll see how the regulatory bit shakes out - either crackdowns on ride hailing drive prices back up, or cabs lose out because they've got much higher government-imposed costs.
Welcome to journalism, by definition journalists aren't experts in what they report. So, sometimes they'll just say stuff that's obviously wrong to anyone with any knowledge of the field they're reporting on. This isn't helped at all by the fact that even the best journalists are forced to put together stories in hours.

Even if they research a given topic, they're extremely susceptible to being swayed by biased sources. At best, they won't have time to truly understand what they're reading.

Try reading an article in any general-topic news outlet on any topic you are familiar with, or a narrow-topic news outlet for a topic you're an expert on. It will be bad 99% of the time.
And even today we continue to overspend with reduced tax rates.

Somebody has to take the punch bowl away and make us pay what’s come due.
In Kentucky, the governor is essentially committing political suicide by deciding to tackle the issue. Kentucky's pension is rated as the worst state in the union by S&P.

The press has excoriated him (as have much of the public). The fact that he is actually addressing the crisis is commendable, though.
What's your team size now and when you first started using it?
> But is it less expensive than other methods of interviewing?

I'm going to assume you are including the costs of firing people as part of "interviewing" after they have been hired and found to be a bad fit.

I'll take a stab at this. 160k annualized per hour is about 77 dollars an hour, if we're assuming 260 work days a year and 8 hours of work a day.

$77 * 4 hours of a day = $308 additional cost per interview. I'm going to assume you're already doing some panel interviews with at least 2 people, so I won't include their cost in there. And there's potential savings if we only have 3 people interviewing for the 4 hours instead of 4 or more.

Let's say I am trying to hire for 20 positions, and I am willing to interview n=15 times per position.

20 hires * (15 interviews * $308 per interview) = $92400 additional cost, whether I get 0 or 16 successful hires out of this process.

If we think about the cost of onboarding someone with 3 other employees who are getting paid about the same over a period of 3 months:

308 * 3 employees helping with onboarding * 65 work days * 8 hours * 10% of time spent onboarding = $48048 cost of onboarding 1 employee

Let's define a bad hire as someone who contributed no value and we'll treat the salary we paid them up until the point we fired them as a sunk cost. It takes maybe 4 months (260 * 4/12 = ~87 work days) to figure out that someone should be fired if it's not super obvious?

Let's say we would have normally only hired half of our target candidates (10 out 20). I'll also be conservative and say the new process reduces the number of bad hires by 10%. So assuming 1/10 of our actual hires was bad:

~87 work days * $308 per day + $48048 cost of onboarding 1 employee + ~$5000 for health benefits = $79844 cost of firing 1 person, not including the cost of other employee benefits, the effect on morale, etc.

So here you're adding a cost of about $12556 dollars. I think the cost of firing someone is actually a lot higher than what I have calculated here, though I don't know what the actual figures are for that.

But I feel that if candidates at least enjoy the process more (which based on this thread, it seems like a lot of people here would), then isn't that a drop in the bucket in the company's bottom line for something pretty valuable?

There's obviously a lot of other intangibles at play here and we can model this all sorts of ways. Let me know if I've made some egregious error.
So the idea is that they are so confident in their human capital, clientele and business processes that even with all of the code no one could potentially compete with them? Or that they want to create more competitors?
You probably meant micro-SD.
And the amount of text content contained in Wikipedia is an atomically sized drop in the Internet's ocean.
IL is screwed. Thank god I got out 2 years ago.

Insider info, State Farm is next. Major cuts. Again IL is dead.

Thanks Chicago.
I like Cal Newport's Deep Work book. It gave me some extra confidence to blow off social media, email, and Slack, and focus on one thing, without feeling like I must be missing something important.
At GitLab, we did evaluate Mesosphere DC/OS. What turned our focus to Kubernetes as our primary cluster install target was the speed at which it was developing, and after watching the space and talking to partners/customers we formed the opinion that Kubernetes was going to lead the pack.

We've been looking at these technologies for two years now, with our focus being Kubernetes for the last one.
No. They don't all have added B12. Add to popcorn.
> I realise it's actually a lot closer to Smalltalk than to Lisp -- you have a built in editor, you build memory images that you constantly work with, all the code is decompilable so you can refactor easily, etc, etc

Lisps often provide built in editors; Common Lisp even has the standard function ED for invoking one[0], but like most of the "environment" functions its behaviour is left almost entirely unspecified. Lisp is also usually developed in an image-based fashion. Images are one of the features that separate Lisp and Smalltalk from almost everything else, not one that separates them from each other. Some Lisps provide access to source code from function objects, with varying degrees of integration, and again, Common Lisp provides the standard function FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION for this purpose[1]. They don't generally work via decompilation, but neither does Smalltalk.

0: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_ed.h...

1: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_fn_l...
I'd prefer if drivers watched the road and not pop up ads on Waze.
When I was using an early Makerbot (wow, seven years ago now) the preferred materials for extruder-based 3D printers were ABS, which toys are made of, and PLA, which is used for food-safe cups and utensils. I'd imagine they're OK.
I switched to k8s about a year and a half ago before deploying a modest frontend/backend pair. although there is some friction, I generally like the approach (I used to use borg, so it's a pretty low barrier).

The biggest problem I have is debugging all the moving parts when there are ~10+ minute async responses to config changes.
This is great! Right now I use last.fm, bandsintown, and Spotify to search for live shows. However none of them actually generate a playlist. I will definitely be using this to discover new music. When will I be able to add my own city?
Haha, yeah, good point. In the event of contrary inputs, I guess one does have to supersede, e.g., one is the 'pilot' and one is the 'co-pilot.' Your proposal is much better thought out. But then I think we've described the collision avoidance systems that are in production today. Take it any further and you run into the disengaged driver situation.
Hopefully they're better than Google Maps at showing ads for things that are actually open.
Coinbase raises 150M Series E with Blockchain Capital
I am hearing that everybody is interested in Kubernetes, yet relatively few people are actually using Kubernetes in production.

Are you using Kubernetes? And if not, what is your reason not to?
Ok, but I, the tax payer, am not footing that bill (yes, I'm sure we can find instances of bailouts and whatnot, but that's not the norm.) Private companies can do whatever they like in this regard, I don't really care at a practical level. I care when I'm paying the bill.
>State employees in the past accepted lower salaries in exchange for this future benefit.

Well that was not the case with California's 1999 pension reform, where pensions were retroactively increased by 50% overnight.[0]

That kind of money doesn't just appear out of nowhere. Many of these cases were transparent scams and the people involved knew it.

[0] http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/sd-calpers-menda...
That is not smart. "Artist" or not does not preclude one from the enforcement of law.

Its like saying; "I'am just going to build a sculpture right here.... I don't really care about the codes or who owns the land, I am an artist so rules don't apply to me!"
“builting upon”?

Proofreading works, everyone!
Yes, in theory all that is correct.
It looks very much like there's just a vendetta against the teacher that forked it.
I would love to read a tutorial on that if you know of one.
Am I the only person that has a healthy relationship with social media?

I use Twitter to follow interesting celebrities and industry professionals. (Adam Savage Mythbusters fame, pro climber Alex Honnold, several notable iOS programmers). I rarely interact with any of them, but I find out about lots of interesting things.

I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends around the country. I can keep my dad updated to what I've been doing without having to call him. (I still call him, but we can talk about the pictures and things we've seen over the last week or so.) I plan vacations and events with friends. Next weekend I'm going to a bachelor party in the Adirondacks with people from around the country.

I've never been worried about my employer seeing my social media profiles. If I wouldn't do something in public, I wouldn't post it to social media. Maybe I'm unique in being able to restrain myself.

I always hear stories about how people are "so much happier" after they quit Facebook. What is happening on your Facebook that's making you unhappy?
IIRC, this was announced as part of a program that uses double-blinded crypto that allows google to perform matching against this data in aggregate (Set intersection knowledge), but not individually identity of what a given user purchased, at the same time preventing the merchants from learning the identities of individuals either.

According to what they presented at a crypto conference, they went to great pains to avoid capturing personally identifiable transactions. The overall strategy is that Google Knows = Set A = (all ads shown for user X at Merchant Y) Merchant/Credit Card Proccessor Knows = Set B =
(all $$$ paid by User X at Merchant Y), and that it is possible to cryptographically compute sum($$$ of A intersect B) without either side learning Set(User X).

Now whether you believe in the security of the algorithm and whether there are side channel leaks or attacks is another issue.

Edit: http://bristolcrypto.blogspot.com/2017/01/rwc-2017-secure-mp...

About 10 minutes in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee7oRsDnNNc
The answer requires context, at least for FLOSS projects.

If unlucky dev #13 broke something because humans can no longer reason about the relevant part of the system, then it doesn't matter that #13 was the one who broke something. What really matters is that people get busy removing the sandtraps from their software.

However, many FLOSS projects run on the sheer joy and freedom that comes with maintaining a particular subsystem or area of the code. Most devs have a quick understanding of the responsibilities associated with that. But in cases where that responsibility doesn't come naturally, who broke becomes the focus. Addressing that issue will determine whether or not future breakages occur.
https://www.gov.uk/

I found these talkson the process of building and maintaining it very useful

https://vimeo.com/121348831
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/gov-uk-devops
Facebook is 1 entity, and even though mass media has consolidated quite a bit, it's still not all controlled by just 1 entity.

Also, advertisers in mass media can't algorithmically target consumers with specific ideological messages. Mass media is still largely run by advertisers targeting relatively vague customer profiles with product branding messages.

You're right that there's a similarity, but I think the magnitude of Facebook's power is vastly different.
> People just have different opinions.

Most of these people don't even know how the technology works. Enabling firewall makes them feel secure because it shows them a Green tick mark in a green circle. A file shred application is good to them (if they even care) because it shows an animation that feeds a file to a shredder and breaks them into pieces.

They are never going to agree that they can be manipulated this way. Oh, and some people feel website x is secure because there is a green lock symbol in the URL bar. Some are more secure, because the green bar is a bit longer.
> Otherwise, (for example,) why is the careless, checked out teenager at a fast food joint not promoted to manager?

Because managers are increasingly hired from the outside, increasingly with college degrees, and a diligent, hard-working teenager wouldn't have been promoted either?

I'm with you on the broader point, things like credit checks and social media lookups are mostly disqualifiers for hiring, while performance is still a big part of career growth after being hired. But it seems a bit odd to use entry-level service work as the example, since performance often is meaningless there once you're not getting fired.
> There is a very simple solution to this problem of politicians and unions leaving future taxpayers on the hook. The state simply pays an insurance company for an equivalent annuity. Or the state pays the union the normal cost (the cost of whatever defined benefit pension is earned in a year of work), and then it's the union's problem to fix its deficits.

I'm not sure why you think that what would be (pragmatically in Illinois) giving over state pensions to some state official's cousin to manage at their overextended insurance company that will fail at the first sign of stock weakness would fix anything, or is significantly different from what actually happened.
Take a look at rancher too.
https://rancher.com/

Rancher 2.0 promises nice UI for K8s
RARE VIDEO Mike Garson, Pianist for David Bowie, with Violin, Inspirational
But is really common user reading these warnings?

I know that without it we wouldn't have amazing apps like https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adblock/id691121579 , but i'm really not sure if its worth that risk for a common user that apple mostly targets with iOS.
The food safety concern about porosity and bacteria growth would probably apply for stuff like this.

Should be easy to solve by reprinting the prosthesis every few months or something like that.
Well, isn't it individual for every person? Firstly, someone who weighs 141 lbs does not lose weight with the same intensity as someone with 220 lbs. Secondly, if one wants to lose weight by doing sports, he should be reasonable about this and not eat a bar of a chocolate after a 50 min run.

As I already said, I'm not a professional and I do speak from my personal experience. I don't have exact statistics either, I'd like to try and search for it though and post it here. I've found an interesting series of articles which I read just now, if you have interest or time you might want to skim through it, too:

http://sportsscientists.com/2010/01/exercise-and-weight-loss...

http://sportsscientists.com/2010/01/exercise-and-weight-loss...
Facebook users are still the product, and information about them is still what brings Facebook revenue.

Let's say a user makes these settings as strict as feasible, but only some or none of their contacts do the same; in that, the default and common case, the information about the concerned user may still exist in some form.
You can search by city in both the mobile app and desktop app to take a look at concerts outside of your area. Really handy. They mostly show only artists who you listen to frequently/genres you like
The real problem is data collected about you from other people. For example all of my lesser friends install the android facebook app which gives them tons of information about me from my interactions with them. I need a way to tell facebook to delete and not collect data about me from other people's devices.
My parents pay 15k taxes on a 280k home.

Get out while you can even still sell your home.
>Is it really the responsibility of a journalist to hold the hand of people not well versed in the topic at the expense of technical correctness

I think they don't have a choice but to do it this way. A typical news outlet will report on hundreds of topics a day and probably covering the entire spectrum of topics out there.

How likely it is that all of the readers will be well versed in all the areas of expertise that human race was able to achieve in the last few thousands of years of recorded history?

Also, these journalists[not necessarily this one but in general] are usually not experts on the topic that they write on and the better ones usually would consult with someone who is well versed on that topic. There's no way that the expert that the journalist is consulting with, will be able to educate the journalist, so he/she will dumb it down and then the reporter will dumb it down further and re-shape it in a form that the news outlet can sell it to its audience(right wing, left wing, alt-right, communist, highly educated ... whatever, they too are making a product for their customers).
Yeah - pardon the crappy javascript and UX. Notice the colors on the cuckoo filter when you insert this sequence. When you try to insert `3g46stb6vy6vsyosyvosfsdfsdsah`, the fingerprint entries in the cuckoo turn red indicating an unsuccessful entry. All possible fingerprint slots in the cuckoo for that entry were already occupied, and the recursive rearranging of entries was unable to free up a slot.

This is a down-side to cuckoos (and counting blooms) - even when the filter has reasonable capacity remaining, an entry can be denied due to collision with previous entries and saturation of their slots.

The UX on this demo could be better - e.g. not insert into the bloom unless the cuckoo insert is successful (to keep them from diverging). Also, a message indicating an unsuccessful insertion would be nice.
It certainly was possible https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/bewar...

Not sure about the current state though.
I'm pretty much retired but I was an engineer and then a manager and then a CEO/VP engineering for ~20 years. If you think I'm not going to google you before I offered you a job you are mistaken. Of course I'm going to do that.

Think of it this way. One of the questions we asked ourselves about every hire is "would they pass the grocery store test?" Which is: if we saw that person in the store would we go chat with them, because we thought that would be fun, or would we cringe and try and hide from them. It's a good test, work is not just cut and dried, there is a social aspect of work even if it is just you'd say hi outside of work.

Your social media gives me a glimpse into the rest of your life and you'd better believe that is interesting info to a prospective employer.
There's a pretty large community online 3D printing prosthetics, mainly the loosely affiliated community called enabling the future[0] and a nonprofit which sprung from them called Limbforge[1].

The printed prostheses are almost all body powered, which means they use some sort of harness to pull a cable with the closest extant joint on the arm, and those cables close the grip.

As body powered prostheses go, they're pretty good nowadays. They're still nowhere near the usefulness of say a BeBionic, but they cost tens of dollars instead of tens of thousands, so it's a reasonable trade-off.

Kids are the best use case by far though, because they grow out of their hands every year or two. When you can amortize the cost over years I think the high end devices are a much better choice, but if someone can't afford them or just doesn't want a prosthesis that badly the printed options are still a nice alternative.

[0]: http://enablingthefuture.org/
[1]: https://www.limbforge.org/
I think the reality is that data will no longer "look" like it's in the data download, I'm sure FB will keep it to continue performing ML algorithms to pursue more and more ad revenue. Hopefully they will at least remove the code that is collecting it so that it stops in the future. No tin foil hat needed to believe this route.
I'm extremely grateful for having quality advisors and mentors as an undergrad. I went to SLAC I feel like the lack of grad programs meant that professors could be more honest with me, without any pressure to get master's enrollment numbers up, for example.