skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are a few things I would try:

a) Gain enough knowledge to make a more informed hiring decision. You don't typically need as much knowledge as you think.

b) Find someone who is knowledgable about the role and ask for help. If you know a company with a great infrastructure person, it is very likely that he would be willing to help filter out a few candidates for your company. At the very least he could explain what he does on an average day and what he looks for in a candidate.
i've tried maybe 30 images now. All of them it nailed.
i did find one that made me laugh. it doesnt know what a goat is.

http://picjumbo.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_9454-1300x866.jpg

["dog", "australia", "deer", "bear", "cow", "mouflon", "lemur", "wild", "safari", "zoo"]
Thanks for the feedback. Please keep it coming if you think of anything else. We will be prioritizing what to work on.
I'm a systems engineer. I have a pretty broad skillset but it's mostly centered around automation and orchestration of large server environments.

I have been doing the same sort of thing for about 6-7 years now.

I found this job after choosing to move on from a startup in the same space. Proving my worth is a harder question. I just did what I do best, which is working hard and thinking deeply about what to do and when. People value me for my judgement over most other things so I have focussed a lot on how I can hone that.
I've just updated with reproduction steps[1]. The problem appears to be with disabling third party cookies (even though the session cookie is first party). Can you please verify?

[1] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156435#c52
"Do you think we get a worst deal than somebody like Comcast?" "Now, one might very well think that... but I couldn't possibly comment" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8RjPAD2Jk
It sounds like the FCC is not able to force companies to hand over this information, and in light of that it makes sense for them not to turn around and publish it though I still wish they would.

IMO the FCC should have the teeth to force companies to hand over this data, and should then publish it in the interest of transparency and providing answers to the public.
Is lifelens active anymore? Their blog looks like it's been hacked and hasn't been updated in a while. More info on LifeLens here (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2014/07/30/biomimi...)
This post really resonated with me. As someone born in the 70's, all of the photos taken of my childhood were shot on film and displayed and preserved as prints. Over the years, my parents selected ("curated") the best of those prints and put them into a photo album that is a physical record of my childhood. Sure some of the older photos are somewhat faded and discoloured, but they're still a good record of the occasion, and, more importantly, as a physical vs. a digital artifact, my album needs no technical expertise to store or view.

By contrast my eldest son was born in 2008 so all of the photos I've taken of him, and his brothers born since, have been digital. Every week my wife and I go through the photos we've taken (on our increasingly cumbersome DSLR and two smartphones) and post the best, with brief comments, to a private family blog. In many ways the blog is superior to my childhood photo album, but I'm also thinking about how to best preserve it in physical form for my own sons so that when they are my age they will have a tangible record of their childhoods even if blogspot.com is dead and gone.
Also: information sharing. If private companies are competing for a hepatitis cure they're not sharing their advancements, which could inhibit the speed of discovery. That sounds like a public health issue to me.
They'd also lose compatibility with any 3rd party hardware (think ThunderBolt), any video editing device drivers which were made for the x86 platform will need to be recompiled for the ARM platform.

A switch like this would kill Thunderbolt and many USB drivers.

Besides, we already saw what happens when Microsoft tried to switch to ARM through WinRT. That was an absolute disaster. Why would Apple try to do the same?
Have you considered @replying to those who have posted their house keys on Twitter?
Precisely.

I could make more/hr but my current arrangement affords me more job security.
People often forget how their ancestors lived. They forget when Europe was such a feces ridden hell hole that it incubated the Black Plague. Of course, now it's a first world continent. Through hard work, introspect, and sacrifice "western culture & people" have become the greatest rags to riches story in history (so far). China, India, & Africa will one day have their own.
yeah, it's pretty funny when the girl was quoted pointing at the forest "It's only natural to go there". She does have a point though. Problem is, it's not really "natural" to have 7 billion people roaming the earth, thus you can't just use your natural instincts about everything.
Error establishing a database connection.

This was always an idea in the back of mind to do. I'm glad someone else did it for me :)

Best of luck.
Was the lens ready prior to YC Hacks?

I am not trying to take away from what they built, but I am genuinely curious what all was done prior to YC Hacks, since building the lens there seems like a challenge in itself.
Mm. An optimist.

My sense is that the HN threads are, unfortunately, far more sensitive to initial conditions than that. Also, we're reluctant to turn off user flags when they were strong enough to kill a post. That signal has proven pretty reliable. We do, however, often unkill it (without cancelling the rank penalty) so discussion can continue. We did that earlier today with this one.
Glad you like the social collaboration part!

Re UI, each cell supports basic WikiText, and clicking the "Format" tab next to the default "Edit" shows the Format:Text dropdown that one can change to "HTML" and then click the top-left "Save to: CellCoordinate". That allows arbitrary HTML in cell presentations.

Alignment, font, etc can also be adjusted in the same tab.

If you'd like to use HTML formatting for all cells by default, the third button on that tab "Show sheet settings" allows sheet-wide formatting customizations. Hope this helps!
that is the amazing thing about Japan. They have the largest discrepancy (by far), of private/public bathrooms. I'd love to know why that is.
Creator here.

There is a sweet spot that I've found between icon-ifying everything and keeping written instructions in. The mobile versions have a "guiding hand" that also leads through the first level of what exactly to press, but later on, levels like procedures and loops really require a written, accompanying explanation which cannot come across with pictures alone. So, you will see an image that explains the concept as well, but the two together are what works best.

A voiceover/actor would be ideal, but I have yet to search too far in that direction, and would then need those voiceovers translated to the other languages, etc etc.
>Unfortunately, most of the drug development efforts by public entities have had a really poor track record.

Could you quantify this? Is it because they're tackling the very difficult diseases and not the low-hanging (profitable) fruit?

The polio vaccine was developed with federal money and was provided for free as a result. There is no way the polio vaccine could have been done more efficiently if the private sector did it.
Two states in particular of India, Uttar Pradesh (U.P) & Bihar are the worst affected by this phenomenon. Both have very large populations and deeply entrenched caste systems that are at the root of a lot of this non-sense.

The long term solution unfortunately is only time - as the older, slower to change people die off, the newer kids start to assert them selves. Now the society needs to pour in resources for two things and two things mainly -

Education - Teach people about Germ theory, Viruses, etc (among other things) every five year old should be screaming about this stuff.

Women's empowerment - Get more women to participate in decision making (via tax incentives etc) and get them to drive the sanitation effort.
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Tried a Pokémon card and got "semi relevant" results

http://sixprizes.com/wp-content/uploads/pikachu-next-destini...

["background", "card", "kid", "vector", "design", "school", "book", "frame", "cartoon", "dog"]
It was described as a "cheap lens" and was very much electrically taped on. I assume it was tested prior to the hackathon though. The biggest accomplishment was this was a solo hacker. It was very well done for the time allotted.
When I talk on my phone, I usually step outside and leave my laptop where it is. As an additional note, public wi-fi spots sometimes require going through a proxy. I use ssh a lot, and even using software like corkscrew doesn't always get me through the proxy. Having my personal router lets me forgo that obstacle.
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Great read. I would like to see a breakdown of earnings by some of the top Kagglers. Is anyone doing this as a full time job or is it almost entirely supplemental?
I tried a few images, for all of them "woman" was the first result (only one image had a woman in it).
"deeply entrenched caste systems that are at the root of a lot of this non-sense"

Could you explain?
Actually India is credited with developing some of the first sewer systems and first flush toilets. Unfortunately, many things between then and now have fundamentally changed.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_of_the_Indus_Valley_...)
It's very interesting because I was struck that the western world has its own from of a public health epidemic caused by cultural standards: sedentary working and obesity.
I kickstarted the (apparently unintentionally) similar http://www.robotturtles.com/ boardgame. My 3.5 year old loved it and picked it up right away.

From my few minutes with it, Lightbot seems like a great follow-up game for older kids.
>'I think Flowers' view is that MITx had the funding and talent to completely re-think digital education, develop new tools, and raise the bar. They did not do that. What they did wasn't bad, but it wasn't transformative either.'

I don't disagree with that.

I don't know if making that sort of criticism with the benefit of hindsight is entirely fair though?

I'm thinking that to 'completely re-think' anything is always going to be something of a gamble - with success depending not only on the merits of the solution but specific timing as well.

It's easy to imagine the people behind OCW and later MITx opting for a 'safe' approach as opposed to an all or nothing moonshot. Create measurable results in terms of courses online, visitors and students and iterate from there.

Also, holding up Khan Academy (2006) as what OCW could have or should have been is questionable considering what most of the web looked like 2001/02 when OCW launched. Those intervening years were a pretty big deal in web time.
I don't know much about the actual conditions in North India. But this article contains some markers that are at best suggestive of exaggeration, at worst maybe falsification. Eg, high levels of descriptive details that don't seem to be relevant and also don't mesh together:
1. Sunita’s family in the north Indian village of Mukimpur

2. When nature calls, the 26-year-old single mother and her four children head toward the jungle next to their farm of red and pink roses, to a field of tall grass, flecked with petals, where the 7,000 people of her village go to defecate and exchange gossip.

7000 people is a lot of people. Especially for a village. A quick check shows Mukimpur in the 2011 census only has a population of either 42 or 151.
http://ourhero.in/population/villages/mukimpur-111460
http://www.populationofindia.co.in/uttar-pradesh/muzaffarnag...

Taking a look in Maps:
https://maps.google.com.my/maps?q=Mukimpur,+Uttar+Pradesh,+I...

Seems like there's maybe 100 structures there max, even if all were houses, how do you get 7000 people?

There definitely maybe a toilet problem, but I doubt this article is shedding light on the cause.
Yup, making the "drop" a click-to-upload FileReader handler on line 214 would be great. The place to patch is here: https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc/blob/master/start.html#... — Looking forward to pull requests!
I don't know why this link doesn't go directly to the source: http://www.clarifai.com/index.html
My problem with the new paper is that it computes for a baseline rtt of 100 or 150ms. Real world average rtts are in the range of 4 ms for Google fiber 18 ms for fios and 38 ms for cable, with the ethernet rtt in a Datacenter far lower than that. I would be very happy to see Remy produce a CC for these rtts one day also.
sorry about the database connection. looks like the traffic is hitting us pretty hard. we'll work out those kinks. thanks!
Video editing device drivers might be a problem but I'm pretty sure Apple provides the Thunderbolt drivers so a recompile won't be a problem for that if they make the (very unlikely imo) move to ARM. Correct me if I'm wrong on the Thunderbolt drivers point.
Might just be the photos, but along the back, where it meets your hip and the straps attach, all I see is a single thin thread holding it all together, no reinforcement of any kind...
> Problem here is that you are mixing memory latency and memory bandwidth together.

Yes, I intentionally did. You are of course correct that latency and bandwidth are two different things. I stopped one level of abstraction above that, so to speak. The concept I was trying to get across was the reality that most of the transistors on a x86/64 die are spent compensating for memory performance either directly or indirectly and the price we pay for the x86 "cruft" these days is still there but is pretty small.

> If software architects started writing their programs to be core-variable as possible,

And cars will be a lot more reliable when car designers simply design them to be engine-variable! When you invent a convenient way for software to use all those cores, be sure to remember us when you collect your Nobel Prize. Seriously though, writing code to take advantage of multiple cores has been one of the hardest things in computer science since forever.

The reality is that a great many computing problems simply don't lend themselves to parallelization. Some things are embarrassingly parallel (like a lot of graphics work) but a lot of algorithms simply aren't able to be implemented in a very parallel way since each "step" depends heavily on things you need to calculate in the previous "step." (Example: simulations, games, etc)

Things will improve a little bit, as our languages support easier parallel/concurrent code and our compilers get better at things like auto-parallelization, but this won't magically make stubbornly sequential algorithms into things that scale to two cores, much less "a lot more dumb cores."

> just putting a lot more dumb cores on the die

I wish it was as simple as putting a bunch of dumb cores on the die. Thing is, they can't be "dumb." You still have to spend serious transistors on things like cache coherency and so forth.

The "lots of dumb cores" thing has been tried before. Like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine and Intel's Larrabee and things like that. Seriously, don't you think that hardware designers have thought of this before? They have. There's a reason why Intel doesn't just throw 100 Pentium cores onto a single i7-sized die and dominate the entire world.
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The other day I was working on a serial command interpreter for the Teensy 3 that will eventually have some Bus Pirate type features. It's just a hobby project, I'm usually writing ObjC or Python for work in Xcode or something else, but I enjoy working with these little boards and writing low level code. The Teensy support software is an add-on for the official build of the Arduino IDE, so I was using it.

After about 5 hours of work and making a lot of progress I was happy with, my Mac crashed and rebooted, which is extremely rare (except when working with something connected via the USB CDCACM driver... sigh).

I then discovered that all the changes from the past 5 hours were gone, the project files were in the exact state they had been when I woke up that day.

Despite compiling and uploading new code to the Teensy 100+ times, the IDE saved nothing new to disk in the process (which on a side note, is weird. Where is the external toolchain getting the changed files from?). I never explicitly hit the save button, so it all disappeared. I spend a good percentage of my life in Xcode, I know it doesn't behave that way. I can't say I remember Netbeans, or Eclipse, or any other IDE that I've used, ever losing work because I only clicked build rather than a separate step for saving to disk.

Apparently that behavior has caused a lot of people to lose a lot of work over the last few years judging from a quick google search.
How do you handle contacts? I'd like to have a gmail-like setup i.e., autocomplete based on the people that I've written to or have written to me in the past.

There are some ugly hacks in notmuch to accomplish this, which I don't understand, since it should be quite easy to achieve. In fact mu provides it, and they both use xapian as a backend.
From what I remember it was an iPhone with the flash light turned on face down on the table and then a toilet paper roll on top of it with a blood sample in one of those rectangular glass things on top of the toilet paper roll with another iPhone examining it. Please correct me if I'm wrong
Not only is this an impressive application of data science in solving a real problem, I'm even more impressed that Tanay is still in high school and already building great hacks leveraging computer vision and machine learning. Truly awesome work that deserves the recognition.
I did not use this before, but how Git would treat if people commit in the same files(PBXFileReference) but with different UUIDs?

xUnique makes these UUIDS unique for everyone in the project. So there should be no conflicts theoretically.
TLDR: Headline (and indeed bulk of article) is phantom symptom. True cause is register allocator behavior.

Specifically, allocator's handling of an instruction with a false dependency on register that's written to, coupled with multiple compilers being unaware of the false dependency.
This isn't an issue of using clean toilets with plumbing vs. open fields. This is using a porcelain port-a-potty with no plumbing vs. open fields. Plumbing is the real issue, not the actual toilets.
> "I feel like I can't raise my rates"

Why not? Almost by definition, if you have a fully booked schedule at your current rate, you can charge more. That's simple supply/demand labor economics.

Keep charging your current clients your current rate. But for all new clients, double your rate. As new clients start to pay you this premium, fire your worst clients and replace them with the new ones. Rinse and repeat for each new client, until you're about to drop your most loyal ones. Then you can kindly inform them that they either need to pay you more, or find another contractor, because you have clients paying 2x their rate.

If you've got a full schedule and client base already, I don't see why you wouldn't advertise a 2x rate to new clients. It's a no-loss scenario.
...never considered not using a toilet...

I grew up in and have lived for long stretches in rural areas, so this seems very strange to admit. Have you never spent time in the wilderness? As for your questions, I'd say that a field where food is grown is among the worst places in which to defecate.
Good luck with it. I hope you open source it.

Would you be able to give a rationale on why you chose against xmpp?
[Indian here, who has some experience using these toilets.]

I am not surprised by this, and could have seen it coming a mile away. This is primarily a user experience problem. Warning: graphic discussions of poop-related engineering problems ahead.

"With little access to running water, government latrines typically consist of a large, concrete septic tank with a ceramic squat-toilet on top, enclosed by a cement or brick cubicle with a narrow door."

This is essentially the same as the vault toilets that you find at campsites in the US. I have used them when in a village, and the smell inside is horrible. It's worse in India than US campsites, because the toilets are squatting ones, and your nose is closer to the septic tank. There are a ton of flies buzzing around all the time. Also, the warm weather makes the stuff in the septic tank decompose faster. Compared to this, I would prefer "going" in the open field any day, which is exactly what the woman they quoted says.

Some solutions to this are:

1) Get more ventilation in the toilets. Possibly a solar-powered exhaust fan. This will reduce the smell.

2) Have some sort of smell-blocking chemical barrier between the septic tank and the toilet hole, like they have in airline toilets. This will reduce the smell even further.

3) As they mentioned, most toilets don't have running water. Most people bring a little bucket of water with them to wash up after the act. Have some sort of spraying system that you can load that water into, and wash up. Or try your best to get running water or a rainwater catchment tank providing water to such a system.

If I had any leverage at all with the officials building these, I would strongly recommend the solutions above. Just building a toilet is not a panacea, you also have to make them so that people strongly prefer them to existing practices.
You do have a point. As long as they bury it a foot or so underground it's actually quite natural. Otherwise: 1) It builds up over time. Is easy to step on and cultivates bacteria and disease. 2) It runs off into streams, lakes, crop fields, water supplies. (normally, all animal feces does this. It increases the bacteria rate in lakes and streams by tiny amounts. But when humans do it en mass it creates problems.)
I use BBDB, the standard contact manager package. Version 3 is much better! It does all the autocompletion stuff you could want.

As far as I know there's no integration with notmuch, though. That's not too much of a problem, however, since the only thing you're missing there is the ability to create new contacts automatically from received messages. But you're almost certainly reading new messages in Gnus (where BBDB contact creation works), not in Notmuch.
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> They forget when Europe was such a feces ridden hell hole that it incubated the Black Plague.

For Yersinia pestis (the black death) public sanitation is not a factor... Waste management also often wasn't as bad as people imagine today, the stories of the worst, not average sanitations are what are most commonly related about the past (why, shock value of course).
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Just came across http://www.clerky.com which seems to be a preferred method but lots of startups. Anyone used them?
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"The retail price for a high-end chip is like $30, max."

Citation?