skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though it is certainly possible, it is better to take a PIP to mean "Start looking for a new job NOW."
It's a good thing America has very few pesky Unions.At least in in IT jobs.
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As nemothekid says, it does say a lot about white privilege in that white privilege is a social institution that can be expanded or retracted. For instance, it was expanded to include the Irish, who were once viewed as degenerates. There is still a legacy of anti-Irish sentiment, but they've largely been accepted into the fold.
That just slows down the connection. The point of Clumsy is to allow you to add lag, have packets arrive out of order, etc.
Occam's razor. People wanted to make it legal and voted that way. The mental contortions needed to support your theories are too great.
This is awesome, and the cost is pretty affordable. I don't know if the lambada feature was there before, but it's pretty cool!
Not exactly revolutionary per se, it's an idea that's been around at least as long as shells, and as mentioned in the keynote it's a natural level of abstraction above AWS APIs. The neat part is how this simple idea has been translated to applications at scale.

IMO what's really going to be revolutionary is what we end up doing with it, but we're going to have to wait a bit to find that out :)
It's a google search. Warning people that searching for 'fecal' on google might return discussions of feces is unnecessary in my opinion.
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Claiming that your code is a 'lambda function' makes it sound sexy, but.. isn't it really just a procedure? Unless I'm missing something and there is some higher-ordered capability for composing AWS lambda functions together in a way that permits the platform to perform lambda reductions or optimize resource allocation...
Pretty much. They're both trying to create a legacy, just in their own respective ways.

It should be noted that Ballmer did attend Harvard so it isn't just some random donation out of the blue.
Perfmon? Performance Counters? Tons of instrumentation for .net
@AznHisoka: I'm interested in knowing what term the type of services the parent's company offers generally go by. Something like "outsourced technical due diligence" perhaps?
Looks pretty cool man, congrats on the launch!
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I've found a domain name I like that somebody else owns. There is no website (just a completely blank page), and the WHOIS contact information is protected by a proxy company.

Domain registars (GoDaddy, NameCheap, etc.) offer domain agency services where, for a price between $20-$60, they'll attempt to contact the domain owner and present a bid for the domain.

What's the best way to bid on the domain? Contact the proxy company and try to go through them? Or are the registrar affiliated domain agents worth the money?
> On the other hand, in no other market is there effectively only one retailer for a wholesaler's product.

Steam for digital games is in the same position. And they're no better than amazon (forcing things on the sellers, usually about sales, and having terrible terms for buyers).
Ok sorry. There is no true representation of infinity.
Truth bothers everyone, huh ?

Seriously shills can go fuck themselves.
Great write-up, and as always, really impressive. Handling GPU-intensive
visualizations remotely can be really tough. I've dealt with similar in
the EDA space. I realize this is new and in still in beta, but do
currently have any performance characteristics? Is the application
latency/responsiveness tolerable?
you should never have an import order dependency, since initialization order is unspecified.
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The air was either way too thin to breathe, or quite hot (or both). Pretty uncomfortable no matter what.
Perhaps you can overcome your procrastination by breaking down problems into easy-to-accomplish tasks or tasks that you can concentrate your focus on. Or get someone to do them for you and that someone prods you into getting things done. I've faced this problem and the productivity experts say focus on habits/processes and not on end-goals. Do some google searching on that. Good luck!

Edit: There's also no shame in learning a trade and doing a 9-5 job for income and indulging in your passion away from work.
They already are, across the river in Allston - much to the dismay of some the faculty, as the CS department is currently based just north of Harvard Yard. The entire school of engineering will be moving in the next few years.

Oddly enough, the current building the Harvard CS department is based in (Maxwell Dworkin) was itself funded by Ballmer as part of a previous gift with Bill Gates (Maxwell and Dworkin being their mothers' maiden names).
We're not talking about a relational database, we're talking about a mysql-wire-compatible database. Google BigQuery has been around for a while too.

Adding "disclaimer: googler" to every post I make on HN seems pretty obnoxious to both me and anyone reading. I just didn't feel that "neat" + a fact qualified. Clearly opinions on that differ, and I'll probably just post less in the future.
Well it's not only solely based upon his letter, it's solely based upon his editorialization. The email evidence we have shows that Discover was aware of how the promotion was set up. Kivin is relying on an appeal to logic to support this notion that there's no purpose outside of 1-click conversions, but if you think about it, there are other benefits. Plenty of cards run promotions and rewards that apply to current customers, even though the aim is ultimately to bring more people over. And that's exactly how it looks this one was set up.
It would make it hard for touch devices
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You can also do sharding on mysql, or use foundation, or any number of other platforms that are mysql compatible as I said... lock-in means that you don't have the ability to migrate relatively easily. In this case, your application layer likely wouldn't need to change at all.

They've even mentioned it's pretty much a click-through to migrate from mysql... to me that seems like the opposite of lock-in.

As to only being able to use their infrastructure to scale this way, that's a value-add.. that's part of why you pay for SaaS instead of developing your own infrastructure. This is why you're renting instead of buying.
I saw that he had an exit, but he also said his $6 million payout if he had sold Groove would have been "life-changing". That suggests his other exit netted him a bit less.

As far as making a difference, I think calculating that is pretty complicated. Elon Musk had two big exits before he did more fulfilling work with SpaceX and Tesla. Some people want to make that level of massive impact. If that's the case, it probably makes sense to sell, take the money and tick off another exit on your resume, and start your next journey. But if someone is happy with making a smaller difference (I know I certainly would be!), then this might be your big chance to, so selling would not be personally fulfilling at all, even if it is financially fulfilling. There's no guarantee you're ever going to make $6 million from your company, but there is also no guarantee you're ever going to start a company that allows you to have the kind of impact you're having.
If only that... http://hg-git.github.io/ ?
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With every new team and new layer of management, the agents' incentives drifted farther away from the organization's leading into a gray zone entirely focused on self-promotion and detached from fundamental business ethics.
Perhaps you're not aware that the CS faculty at Harvard is currently housed in a building funded by Bill Gates as part of a previous donation (with Ballmer).

I think it's possible to donate to a wide variety of causes - a similar argument cropped up on some of the ESA discussions here yesterday, with some people asking why we should bother spending money in space when there's a lot of pressing problems on earth. Investing in education could result in discoveries being made that could benefit millions of people. We are probably in agreement about buying a basketball team being a waste of money though!
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It would be excellent to have some better verbage for what the authors are trying to express. There are some components of white privilege that apply in this case, and some that don't. Obviously, Asian and Indian Americans don't get the benefit of "you're white and I'm white, so I like you," but they do get the benefit of some kind of "expectation of quality." And there's probably a third component, which may be closer to the authors' original intent: "you have similar cultural values to me, so I like you."

I think it's useful to consider those components separately. They suggest different vectors of attack against these endemic problems.

My thinking here is framed by John Ogbu's concept of the involuntary minority: all the minorities that became minorities in America by choice are doing pretty well; all of the minorities that were made minorities in America by force (either conquered in situ or brought by force) are doing pretty poorly. It takes a shoe-horn to fit native-blooded Hispanics into that dichotomy, but it helps there too.
Doubt they would prosecute if they are making more money through the scrapping.
Would this be useful for build services like setting up a jenkins instance using lambda compute resources as slaves?
This is not a lot of Go - it's mostly small contained packages for doing useful things. It was also written by the Parse team, who are the only people using Go at FB in production[0].

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8601850
However, bear in mind that as time goes on, and there's more data about monthly run rate, that multiple will likely go down.

Are there any astrophysicists around? This reminds me of the bit about how an asteroid might be at 5% chance of hitting Earth, then tomorrow as it gets closer it's now at 4% chance, then a week from now it's only 1% chance... It's not what you expect, but it makes sense when you understand that the uncertainty of the asteroid's trajectory shrinks with time, dramatically changing the prediction.

(Similarly, it could be 5% today, 20% tomorrow, and 99% a week from now)
no, the order is unspecified, so it shouldn't be relied upon. The only order enforced is that imported packages are initialized before the package itself.
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I use it all the time, but there are situations and environments where it's overkill. Same with Mercurial. For starters it requires installation and that they is effectively a deterrent for many people especially non-devs.
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I guess the term 'Lambda' here is taken to mean 'a function without side effects'. So no higher-order chainability, etc. afaik.
It's not the new hotness, and not really sexy, but if you care about employability, it's hard not to recommend Java. Between enterprise backend web services, Android, and to a lesser extent desktop apps, there will be plenty of Java jobs over the next decade.

The nice thing about 'enterprise' companies is they tend to have a lot of money, and will be around for awhile, needing their code built/maintained. Same can't be said for most startups.

Python/Django or Ruby/Rails is another solid choice, but people don't realize how rare these tech stacks are outside of the SF Bay Area and NY. They got nothing on Java. I would say it's even easier to find .NET employment relative to the tech stacks commonly talked about on HN. For instance, in the midwest, companies will throw fistfuls of money at .NET devs as they are in high demand and low supply at the moment.

You are asking about an 'interesting job' though... at the end of the day only you can decide what you find interesting.
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How is this different from CGI?
I mean communication between two organisms capable of cognition, i.e. language, mating displays, or other forms of communication that require a brain capable of interpretation.
Do you know if you can respond to events from SWS or SQS?
> They screwed up the promotion, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars

It's really hard to say from the given context that this was definitely engineering's fault.

You'll note that the various plans for resolving the issue involve updating the Terms & Conditions of the offer. That makes me think that accurate code was implemented against incorrect Terms and Conditions, rather than incorrect code was implemented against accurate Terms and Conditions.
Lambda function, not lambda function. Capitalization is key (the former is just a brand name).

Having reductions and composition would be really cool, but from what I could glean from the demos each function is containerized. Stateless and idempotent like lambda functions, but right now chaining more than one together requires an intermediary event.
No problem. You should also check out Chrome Developer Tools. They're an essential part of the front-end web development workflow.
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True, it could be something other than the gluten, however it must be closely related because she does not have problems with gluten-free products. Unlike the participants of the study, I don't believe that her problem is mental. It happens at least once a month that she feels terrible, as if she has eaten gluten, but claims that she hasn't. It's only after careful consideration of what she has eaten that she realizes there actually was gluten in some ingredient like a sauce that probably had flour added to it to thicken it.

In regard to the study, I didn't read all the info, but I'm not sure that 37 people is a convincing sample size. I've also heard other Europeans complain about exactly the same thing.
Very cool!

Are there any ordering guarantees for these notifications? Specifically the order in which objects were created? It would be nice to be able to generate a meaningful event log.
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It may be a cultural difference of system programmers (including Go designers and developers) and (consumer) application programmers (e.g., as in the Apple camp). System programmers regard themselves higher, prefer terse symbol names, specs, docs, mathematical expressions, and formal methods, don't seem fans of Objective C or Java style readability and verbosity. But then again, it's open source software -- No one owes anyone anything.
That's only if the developers use go fmt though. The only place I've worked at that used Go didn't use go fmt.
Ok, we changed to that from http://www.catb.org/~esr/src/README.
Reminds me of a story I heard about Photobucket. The founder there apparently had a $1M cash offer early on to sell out. At that point his credit cards were maxed and was really struggling to keep the thing afloat.

He chose to pass and went on to sell the company for $300M to Newscorp. Of which he owned a significant portion.
You're describing me until about age 30.

1. You need to realize that if something was easy or obvious, it would already exist. The only things worth doing are things that appear impossible.

2. Don't try to keep it all in your head at once. Get good at making a plan or a list of steps, following them (almost blindly), and correcting course every few steps. Taking a big problem apart and bringing small steps to completion keeps things interesting.

3. Make sure you're doing something you're personally interested in. Not everyone is cut out to dig ditches for the man.
It's kind of funny; it's not like the price of the actual license is a big obstacle for anyone making money with the tool -- but managing the licenses and staying compliant -- now that's a cost I don't want. Just like windows licenses. Is it per user? Per core? Per CPU? Can I have any number of (vm) instances per cpu? Per server, or was it per cpu socket? Can I upgrade? Can I upgrade the hardware and keep the license? It's madness - I don't have time to waste on crap like that.
Fun, its a lot like binairo
This reminds me of Blockspring except they do a bunch of languages.
Maybe we respond more to the milieu of a comment more than its actual content. Personally I like conspiracy theories about topical things. I never believe them but they make me chuckle to see the world from a weird point of view. But some people are going to find such theories to be horribly offensive (like Buzz Aldrin about moon fakery). We all have the capacity to wrongly analyse something we don't understand and have no stake in. A lot of people don't know what it is like to be attracted to their own gender and come out with things that are not just offensive but blatantly silly. The rest of us no better.
I'm assuming you're talking about Xamarin? If so, $1000/yr is pretty expensive for small teams.
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>They make their returns only on big exits.

Don't they make returns anytime their money invested is less than the money gained from the sale?
All I ever used at university was Java and Python, it was extremely intimidating for me to have to learn 3 languages to start doing web programming. After a few months of daily front end work they start to blur together and become one in the same.

Just dive in and you'll get used to it soon enough. Html is really easy and JS is similar to other C-like languages, css is pretty hard if you're building complex applications IMO but things like LESS and SASS make it easier to deal with.
Through monads functional purity with I/O is achieved, ergo you can compose I/O and get other advantages of purity.
You can install as many java versions as you need (I have everything from 1.4 to 1.8 and multiple versions of each major version all on same machine). And they all live side by side. You use which ever one you need.
I don't think gofmt assumes any width for tabs. It, prints `\t` for indentation, and that's all.
As a fairly new "data scientist," one of the ways I've been constantly jealous of my Real Programer coworkers is that there's a ton of code out there, open sourced, on how to build websites or whatever. But comparatively little on doing analysis (and that mostly data viz). Here are steps towards fixing the lack!
The package in question is licensed under BSD 3-clause license. I'm guessing the patent file is included as well to cover their bases.
Actually BI cited other sources, namely Amazon's response and further email evidence from the lawsuit, which was somehow omitted from Kivin's document. In it the Amazon SVP statement notes that the campaign was set up to pay $10 as a reward to Discover card users, not tied to 1-click conversions. He also notes this was reviewed with Discover mid-promotion and they elected to continue within budget.

There is of course some promotional benefit to that, and it's not unusual in the card industry. While some card benefits are conditionally offered to new signups (e.g. promo APR), most are offered to the entire class (e.g. cashback rewards).
You know the government is supposed to be representatives of the people, right? Of the people for the people. I'm worrying for the US and the world, because Americans are so anti government. Peoples rights aren't being respected.
Being the head of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is a full time job. B&M has just as much need for organization and automation of bookkeeping as a medium sized company.
Amazon Echo (voice interface of IoT) + Amazon Lambda (the cloud services of (IoT) = Amazon disrupting home appliance IoT products.
I used to have a blog on Wordpress.com and then moved to a static blog site. But I'm actually thinking of moving back to Wordpress because it gives you built-in commenting, stats, rss feeds, email subscriptions, tagging and search. Yes, you can include these features in a static blog but you'll likely be pulling them in from different services. I hate having to do that for a simple blog site. For example: commenting system from disqus (which I really dislike); email subscriptions/notifications from another provider such as mailchimp. Then possibly another plugin for social sharing. Then consider all the tracking data each service collects.

This might be convenient for you as a website owner, but this is not a good experience for the user (or a fast one). So there is something to be said for the all-in-one package that Wordpress provides.
Why is it sad? If you're big enough to have lawyers on the payroll, it doesn't take that much effort to have them take a look.

If you're not big enough, then it probably doesn't affect you anyway.
Put your money in a savings account and earn about 1% per year, or give it to some forex website and earn 1% per day.

Hmm... I wonder which one smells fishy and is riskier?
It's like those movies/narratives with the well-off/talented protagonist who decides to dedicate their time to the local basketball team and helping kids from the 'hood get an education. Except the basketball team is in the NBA and the kids from the 'hood are Ivy League students.

But I can't judge him. He isn't trying to be like Bill Gates and that's fine.
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I agree with the sentiment, but I think that attempting to refute an argument and being personally disgusted by people who make a particular argument, not doing business with them, and advising others not to do business with them are not mutually exclusive choices.

You don't want to tip into the "people hating me because of something I said is an abridgement of my god-given right to free-speech" crowd. You have to be responsible for both what you say, and also for how people interpret what you say in order to be an effective communicator.
No, you can't. You can verify that you're communicating with an API that is consistent with a HSM -- but how are you going to verify that it's not a software HSM on a VM on x86 hardware?
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Sounds like part of my summary's issue was grammar/word choice. I definitely understand the problem now and will be more careful.

New summary: The governments (plural) hire these companies (as opposed to "guys") and may, but don't always, keep these software vulnerabilities secret in order to collect information on people/targets. This is sometimes done with a warrant and in other times is done without the need.

I don't see how the governments and these companies aren't keeping the vulnerabilities in the software we rely on secret, I need more convincing.

I really appreciate you taking the time to flesh it out with me, even though it's unlikely we'd end up agreeing (just from hints in the tone we're using), I'm glad it won't just be over poor writing on my part. Thanks!
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Apple only has a devices business. Every service it offers is tied to an Apple device and is priced to reinforce the value of the device.
They have each told me that they now think we absolutely did the right thing. Being the one that pushed the deal through, this makes me feel much better. I'm so glad I wasn't wrong!
So they can use dual tap? No reason to dumb more capable platforms down to the lowest common denominator.
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