skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's a difference. Whether it is your goal or not, the outcome is the same. "Reducing overhead", "improving processes", "automated-anything" are just other ways to saying redundancy (or ideally, retrenchment).

Despite all that, if social media is a big part of your business, no amount of software is going to replace the expert who knows how to maintain a brand-voice, can do content-writing, customer correspondence, document and track trends, etc.

Saying "fire your social media manager" is probably just bad advice if anything.
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>At least I'll get to sleep in for 3.5 more minutes.

Come on, that's not a fair argument. The effects are obviously much bigger than one guy saving 3.5 minutes.

To get closer to the meat: If your calculation always outputs numbers that make slower traffic look better, no matter what the starting speed is, then your methodology is wrong. Your method here would make 15mph look better than speeds 20mph or faster, despite a 15mph speed limit being a blatantly terrible idea.

(Also doesn't your assumption of an average speed of 60 bias your argument heavily against high speed limits? I would expect saving 4 minutes on a 30mph route to be much safer than saving 4 minutes off a 60mph route. Is my expectation wrong here?)
Really nice. I was just going to comment on how similar this was to scraping I did during my days working in SEO, and then I saw your username! Long time no talk. What's up man? Sounds like we should get in touch.
I turned off after they spent five minutes talking about driving to DEFCON. Eh.
This game made my day :D
I just played this game (Tap the flappy pig or something): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sas.piglet

it has alien mexican pigs invaders lmao xD
Sounds like a self fulfilling prophecy.
Kids have killed themselves with literally all of those. At a significantly higher rate than with buckyballs for most, if not all, of them.
I'd be very curious to know who actually is the end-user of patio11's software. Is it really the business owner? Or is it the salon/dentist receptionist.

Because if it's the latter, then nobody lost their job - he just enabled that person to do their job better.

The reason I ask is because I started my startup http://beatrixapp.com thinking the same thing - that the end-user would be the business owner.

It turns out that only in a small number of cases is that actually true.

The main segment is still social media managers, my software makes their life easier, it doesn't replace their entire job spec and I don't think it ever will.
I've only ever owned Buckyballs (4 sets at that, not including sets I bought for friends and family years ago). Had never stumbled across Zen Magnets until tonight.

Having read this, despite any apparent redundancies with the 864 balls I already own, I ordered a set from Zen. Happy to support them.
The problem with "trial until release" is it would leave the door open to all kinds of jailbreaking/sideloading shenanigans. Sounds like more trouble than it's worth.

I heard on a podcast one of the Xamarin evangelists (don't quote me on this but I think it was James Montemango) state that if you request an extension you can get a 90 day eval. But that was before the subscription pricing plan was available so that may have changed.
I actually worked on this exact problem as an intern job at our university. We used a huge corpus of communication (for example, we had access to all the emails every sent internally at Enron).

We used this as the basis to train a speech-to-text engine by automatically correcting likely-wrong interpretations. "I go loo school" would be corrected to "I go to school", for example. It worked remarkably well.

The basis of all these subtitles can be used, but there are far bigger (and better?) collections of data to be used to train these machine learning engines.
Anyone using Cassandra as a primary store, as opposed to something for optimized lookup or similar?
In larger tech companies there's plenty of red tape, and some of the best software developers I've seen don't care a lot about ego. People I've heard talk about public sector work (never heard any talk about military software security work) complain more about cultures where there are too many incentives to focus on the narrow mission of your own organizational subunit, and little feeling of (or decision-making with a view towards) the overall goals of the broader organization.
I am saying, if you need round magnets for some technical use, you can always buy direct from China.

http://www.dx.com/s/magnet+spheres

It is better if it is more difficult to buy them. Kinda like hi-powered lasers. Would you want 500mW lasers being sold at the corner store?
Wait in the country where they have a right to own a fire arm, they are not allowed magnets. :|
You missed out, it's a good doc.
Why not coat them in an emetic?
And yet, as someone who travels almost exclusively by motorcycle, there is a limit to how fast I am willing to go which varies depending on the road I am on. My bike will easily go much faster, and I feel like I could safely command the bike even going fair bit faster, but I am not comfortable going faster on a regular basis.
Oh I'm absolutely sure it attracted attention, that was never under dispute.

My post is simply saying that I find it distasteful. Its efficacy as a means to get clicks is quite obvious.

There is an ethical line however, otherwise we'd all be advertising our startups with naked Abercrombie & Fitch models. And that line (call it comfort level) is going to sit differently with different people.

Perhaps it's my relatively conservative British upbringing, but this type of stuff just doesn't sit well with me!
SD cards are the lowest bin tier as well, given their low performance requirements and low margins relative to SSDs, embedded designs, etc. The leftovers and rejects tend to end up in that channel.

In that vein, the 64Gbit micron devices may in fact be 128Gbit die with half dead arrays -- so they may have a similar process node and reliability to the samsung device.

The MLC is undoubtedly superior to TLC however.
Google Translate sez... Pharaoh praises puff. Thanks, I guess!
I've got 3 little ones, youngest is a toddler. Initial thought was, "doesn't matter, could hurt a kid, ban it." The article is well-written and strong without being shrill. Changed my mind. Hope this goes well for Zen Magnets.
I used Caviar the other night (just moved to SF - no idea where to eat) and it was fantastic. I left a good review and someone from the company wrote me a very personalized email thanking me.

Pretty neat stuff - but that delivery fee is mighty expensive compared to something like Postmates. Excited to see what Square does with it.
Upvoted even though I disagree because I think you make the best argument for regulation.

The problem is, it isn't safe to have non-elected bureaucrats making law, either. But that is not something I can get around by being cautions or well-informed.

Of course, it also isn't safe to have elected representatives pass massive bills that they haven't read. So I'm not saying that being elected magically makes everything OK.
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A kid can take a knife and stick it into his eye. Or bite into an electric cord. Or drink a bottle of bleach. Or fall into a pool and drown. Or set themselves on fire. All this is readily available and can be done by kids, and unfortunately sometimes is. But nobody bans knives, electricity or bleach or pools or fire. All it took to ban this nice and harmless toy however is one junior senator (Kirsten Gillibrand) looking for a little moral panic. BTW, if somebody is interested, Wikipedia says before going into politics Gillibrand worked as defense attorney for Philip Morris. I guess no problem with harmful substances there.
Wow - thanks person, just about missed it.
I definitely agree with the crux of the article (that it's important to know SQL if you want to program with an ORM), but not for the same reasons as the author. The reason I agree that it's important to know SQL is that not knowing SQL will in some ways limit what you can do with your applications. This may never affect you based on your use cases, but there may be times when it does, and not knowing how to write queries will lead you to believe that things can't be done with your application that could be.

In the article, it sounds like he's building some reports from a database with a framework, and is challenged because there are massive amounts of data that work best for these specific reports in an unnormalized layout (this is where the attribute creep comes into play). If you use an ORM to try and build these reports on the app side as opposed to the database side, then you will struggle.

However, my take on this is pretty simple. Don't build the complex logic in aggregating the report data on the app side. Use materialized views on the database side, and use your app to do a dumb retrieval of the data from the view with the ORM. The complexity will lie in the materialized views, so your ORM queries can actually still be quite simple and your performance won't suffer.

Obviously, this route would require knowledge of SQL to implement, which brings me back to my original point. ORM developers should have an understanding of SQL.

Long story short, for specific use-cases, it's good to know SQL. For most it doesn't really matter.
> Restaurants can hire minimum wage or below family members or illegals to deliver as an essentially free service. They live off of tips.

Do you live in New York? The "free" delivery with tips model is how things work in New York, but i've never seen it elsewhere.

In SF takeout places only rarely offer delivery.
I have some of those and they are definitely fun to play with.
T-2min now.
I see. So is there a reason why a company might not disclose its sale price per share? I ask because the fact that a lot of people say you must know the ownership % implies that you will not know the sales price - which to me seems impossible. Basically there is two positive outcomes for which the original question is relevant. 1) the company get bought out by another company and 2) the company goes for IPO

In case 1, the purchasing company will be buying all the shares outstanding which includes employee stock options. Since I have the option and will be the beneficiary of the event by virtue of getting the capital gains which in turn will tell me the sales price (albeit after the fact), whats the benefit to the company by not dislcosing the price?

In case 2. I will know the sale price because it market price of when I exercise my options.

So with the above logic...So is there a reason why a company might not disclose its sale price per share?
I wonder if one's stance on this issue moves in cycles as one gains experience. You start off with the ORM cause it's easy, then you make a mess and decide to be rigorous which includes coding all-SQL, then you realize how tedious that is and why ORMs came about in the first place.
A largely-randomized system where most participants aren't punished but some are singled out for large fines is pretty unfair.

Performing a bad action does not cause someone to forfeit all arguments as to fairness.
Artificial Wombs Are Coming, but the Controversy Is Already Here
Unbelievable timing. I saw this comment and loaded the video at T-0:36. Thanks.
Yeah, Myers-Briggs seems only worthwhile if you’re an outlier on a particular trait. It’s almost misleading to report which side of the mean you’re on if you’re only a few percent to one side.

For example, I’m near the average on thinking vs. feeling and judging vs. perceiving, so I don’t consider those traits terribly important or informative. However, I am moderately more introverted than extraverted and significantly more intuitive than sensory. Then again, I don’t need a personality quiz to know that!

Any time you try to reduce people to a few traits—Myers-Briggs, the Enneagram, whatever—you lose so much information that the exercise becomes nearly futile.
There are landscaping options that don't require a lot of maintenance, and an acre is just big enough to make a private micro-park that you can feel lost in if you have enough trees. There's also the option of growing a sizable vegetable garden for unbeatable quality fresh food.
Curious on the Docker usage in production, are they using host networking or another way of doing load balancer integrations?

(me, I'm a fan of vulcanproxy[1], even if it is a bit young)

[1] - http://vulcanproxy.com/
I lived in Cameron County 11 years ago. One of the poorest counties in the USA. The joke down there is, "I love living here because it is so close to the United States!"

Most people in the USA don't realize how far south texas goes. This place is 6 hours south of Houston and 4 hours south of San Antonio. Nice to see this investment made! Excited to go back and visit.
>It is better if it is more difficult to buy them. Kinda like hi-powered lasers. Would you want 500mW lasers being sold at the corner store?

I get you now. I'm still not sure where I stand on the idea of "protecting people from themselves" (but in the case of lasers it seems to be "protecting people from idiots").

I think it would be a shame to see magnets become more regulated. It's only a few small steps from "Zen Magnets shut down" to "Customs seizing all tiny magnets in the mail" (I think Australia may be doing that now, though someone should correct me if I'm wrong)

Edit: http://www.productsafety.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/9... (sigh)
NYC is an awesome city, but you have to admit that walking around certain streets of NYC is not really a fair comparison to touring a top-of-the-line factory!
The fun part of these things is building intricate shapes with them, mashing them in your fingers, etc. You couldn't do any of this with larger balls.
although the account is new I've been lurking for some time. [deleted tirade] in short, no I would not and am not surprised. this article was a nugget buried inside a mountain of irrelevant shit.
Aborted at T-0:12
Sounds like an easy way to crush your fingers. I'll take the small spheres.
Looks like the launch was aborted at T-0:12.
good question. I'll let them know about this thread. I don't know off hand. Vulcanproxy looks good. First time I've seen it.
Children don't read the instructions, is the problem. But they do run companies sometimes... also a problem.
Interesting, I've played with the SNAP datasets and did find very high eigenvalues, but I attributed it to the graphs bring a partial snapshot.

You're right, 6 degrees of separation is a statement about diameter, but a small diameter and mixing speed are related.
Well, first I am creating a little game, and MonoGame (awesomely cross-platform opensource port of XNA) is awesome, and I would love to work in officialy supported Xamarin on linux and not fiddle around with old builds of MonoDevelop.

And second, for doing any serious CI/QA-Automation, Linux sucks the least IMHO :) But that might be just the years at RedHat speaking :P
Laughter can heal
I had a ZX-81 and it was not poorly documented. Also, the Z80 assembly language was quite advanced compared to others from the same era (fe 6502). It had 16 some bit registers and 2 register sets (with at that time plenty of registers) that could be swapped.

The machine had a Basic interpreter that used bytecodes (to save memory), so programmers regularly mixed adopted a mixed style : basic + asm .

Anyway, to write a chess program for that machine is however rather impressive.
thank you, I did a bit of research on this but didn't find anything as good as this.
AFAIK this is still hypothetical: there is no confirmed case of this ever happening. Not to say that there's no risk, just that it's evidently a small one.
Violent abdominal heaving + swallowed magnets = greater chance of injury
Why our Twitter promotion will surprise you?
Well, right now I have just built two "in-house corporate line of business apps" and so far, the pay was reasonable and time-savings due to underlying framework huge :)
Depends on what you mean by 'hottest' really. Newest? Fastest growing? Most novel? Most cutting-edge? Most recently funded? Other?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium_magnet_toys

>The Centers for Disease Control reported 33 cases requiring surgery and one death.
Waterboy: "this is some high quality h2o" yields nothing.
Oklahoma is one of the reddest states in the nation. Oklahoma has voted for the Republican candidate in every election since 1952, with the exception of 1964 (Goldwater/LBJ). It's an important data point, and you will see it reflected in many peoples' attitudes. (I have family there and visit every couple of years.)
I like taking virtual tours of remote locales using Google Street View. Here is a lovely neighborhood in Edinburg, TX, at the southern tip of the state: http://bit.ly/1y09dGC
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IDK what world you live in, but in my world I'm not getting actively MITMd by "amateur bad guys". If that was the case, my NAS would be the last thing I'd be worrying about.

Also, what security do you expect SSL to provide on a device with copious remote code execution vulns?
How much time would we all lose because of the small increased risk of increased traffic accidents and the road closures to clear them? It almost feels like an area of knowledge that I'm clueless about, but someone has spent a lot of time and effort studying.
As well as this being a hypothetical...err, what do you mean they look perfectly innocent? I'm not even sure what this phrase means.

You don't just randomly put s*it in your mouth because it "looks innocent".

If I saw a colourless liquid on a table, and I didn't know where it was from, I wouldn't just randomly drink it.

Likewise with just randomly picking up plastic bits and eating them.

However, if you're talking about young kids who are liable to put anything in their mouth, then "looking innocent" doesn't even enter into the equation.

As a parent, you should be looking after your kids, and childproofing your house - you wouldn't put scissors on a table, or a kitchen knife within reach, or bleach or other household cleaning liquids, or a hammer, or nails.

And you wouldn't let them unattended near a swimming pool, or let them near the stove in the kitchen, or let them walk in a park without supervision.

All of these are basic parental responsibilities - I don't see how these magnets are any better or worse than letting your kid eat a staple, or a nail etc.

I mean, as a kid, I shoved a lego up my nose (yeah, I was a smart cookie), and had to be rushed to the doctors.

Another time, I nearly ate dog poo.

Did both of those things (lego and go poo) look "innocent"?
It's not random, usually, but dependent on the context (mostly so strokes don't overlap).
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Yeah. That's two of their launches I've almost caught live.
I was pretty introverted until I figured it was just another form of selfishness. People stress me out, but generally it's just another "mirroring" effect. I'm stressing them out just as badly. Of course things go sideways in that situation.
It wasn't editorialized. The NYT changed their title. You can still see the original in the URL.

We've followed suit.
Any idea what is the actual harm of seeing a human body part? Especially in non-sexual context? How does it wreck a child if they see that "this man has a penis like my father does". At least in Finland we go to sauna and naked swimming in lake with grandparents and friends of parents starting from age around 1 year old. There would be at least a few million pedophiles, alcoholics and mental cases due to that in our population, if nakedness would be such a scary thing. As a child I probably saw more breasts in women's saunas than in my adult life :-)

Just asking this in a curious manner. If people find exposed body parts, the ones they also have, somehow disgusting, then it is quite understandable to me.
Australia gets it right!

There are plenty of uses for small high-powered magnets. So you can legally buy them. You just can't sell them as playthings.

Australia only bans them if they:

"are marketed by the supplier as, or supplied for use as any of the following:
a toy, game or puzzle (including but not limited to an adult desk toy, an educational toy or game, a toy, game or puzzle for mental stimulation or stress relief)"
Maybe not so ironic given that the first website in the United States was a DOE project- a DBMS for papers (SPIRES) at SLAC and arXiv.org was born about the same time out of LANL. You used to actually get your papers faxed to you from arXiv.org.
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Most if the world knows a special "Chocolate egg with toy inside" product and kids tend to love it. But there is a country that thinks kids are going to swallow them wholesale...
They had an abort at less than 1 minute to launch. They have recycled back to T-13m and holding.

The abort appears to have been right after they started to fully pressurize the tanks.
Texas actually had the ban on direct sales for quite a while now. It had nothing to do with Tesla. As a matter of fact, Perry has said that he would like to have it repealed.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/03/26/Gov-Perr...
Writing sql by hand doesn't have to mean you abandon things like autocomplete and automatic highlighting of typo's. SQL can be inspected by a proper ide just like any other language.
Ask HN: Cheap AirLine tickets?
Where is the best place to buy cheap Airline tickets? Is it me or does it seem like 45 day in advance is a lot cheaper than booking same day.

How do you guys find cheap tickets for same day?
"Located in areas with the highest average temperature"?
That's why we need laws to establish strict liability.
Just wondering if replacing Redis with AerospikeDB would help them reduce the cost even more. Now that Aerospike is opensource.
Galaxy S3 ARMv7 benchmark: Rust, Ocaml, Haskell, Go, Racket, Lua, C# and Java
If you use MS SQL Server, Red Gate has a solution for that [0]. I don't know if there is something similar for other RDBMSs.

[0]: http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-source-...
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We had tcpdump and Wireshark, but we weren't allowed to capture anything with it.

So how does anybody know there isn't data exfiltration going on?
Ever since we learned about Relational Algebra, I have felt, that as an approach it is superior to both SQL and ORM.
You just realized you're being manipulated by marketing. It happens all the time.

Read "The Tipping Point" by Gladwell. Among other very insightful things, it describes how these kind of techniques are used in marketing.
After the transaction you will definitely know - for the reasons you mention and b/c uncle sam wants some of your recent gains.

The issue that people are generally raising is that sometimes unscrupulous characters try to impress naive candidates with job offers that only have the number of shares -- "You should sign today b/c you get XX MM shares.." which sounds great but could mean that you just accepted a worthless offer depending on shares outstanding.
My major pain point was the complexity of Chef Cookbooks in comparison to Ansible Playbooks. I could hardly wrap my mind around how to write my own Cookbooks after exploring some of the ones I used (Ruby, rbenv, Git, Nginx.) Another major thing for me at least was the documentation, it seemed like Ansible had better documentation to me vs Chef. Finally another thing was the product offerings of Chef vs Ansible. Chef has some paid versions that offer more features, whereas Ansible is feature complete for free and they offer a GUI and Support instead which I preferred.
I think the bigger market is hotels. Most major hotels already have a line of taxis outside.
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