skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that if you care about your personal chance of divorce, there's way better ways to gauge it, including talking with a marriage counsellor and/or psychologist before marrying (which could bring it very close to 0, especially if you choose to not marry).

If, on the other hand, you want to know what percentage of marriages result in divorces, then you probably want to implement some very suspect social policies and probably should be stopped. Not certainly, but probably.
See, now I think you're using the term in a subtly different way than Brennan is. Brennan couldn't have sold that Access to Web conversion deal as a pure consulting project, in the Arthur Anderson "split up implementation and consulting" sense of the term.

Everyone working independent needs to think of the business value they're creating; they need to think about their services the way product managers think about Feature/Function/Benefit charts. We call the people who are good at this "consultants", even when most of what they actually do is (say) Rails apps.
That's fair. By "do-gooders" I was referring to rude people that make it their business to point out all of your problems. Their motivation is not to "do good," it's to be right, and I totally understand not wanting to accept unsolicited input from them because, well, they're rude. :)

So basically I was trying to sidestep the strawman argument.
I bill by the week. At the time, my agency rate on this project was $10k a week, which included the full time attention of a senior developer (~4 full days), plus part time Q&A and PM oversight.
I bill by the week

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Agreed. Watching the descent and the parachutes opening was mesmerizing.
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Sounds like NFL footballs are still leather, although it's a steer hide and not pigskin:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/361972-what-is-the-officia...
http://www.wilson.com/en-us/football/nfl/wilson-and-the-nfl/...
A small number of reposts is OK if the story hasn't received significant attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
John, you really don't know what you're talking about. Give it a rest.

Chrome on iOS does way more than you think it does -- e.g., it uses its own network stack.
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I actually agree with you completely. I bill daily, but this was the first step for me to get there.

By the way, thank you for your contributions. Reading your HN profile was a big motivation to move to daily rates - the little bullet point was all it took!
This was addressed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704874
Since the obvious solution is politically intractable and would require fundamentally altering the way all resources are allocated and collected by the government, you can see why a program to extend that benefit only to prisoners (which, but for the optics, might have been tractable) would cause an uproar.
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Tough Luck

You can always find someone provided you are willing to pay for it.

You simply are NOT entitled to hire anyone you want.

Here is a solution.

Charge an annual employee licensing fee of $25K a year to employ that special individual you can't find anywhere else.

Not willing to pay an annual licensing fee then the job simply doesn't get done.

Problem solved.
How much would you like it to cost?
I'm not worried, but the term "deep learning" is indeed lame. What does it even mean?
Clang's error messages are much better than GCC - it will even spell-correct your typos and suggest which symbol you actually wanted to type. Around 2010 Google switched to a hybrid Clang + GCC environment (the same source code would be piped to both compilers, the error messages from Clang would be piped back to the user while the object files from GCC were linked to form the final binary), and C++ developer happiness skyrocketed.
That's not true.

We're using GitHub for ease of integration with CI systems, convenience, and the ability to move more rapidly. We'll move into m-c if and when it suits the needs of the project.
is this the sexy re-brand that Machine Learning has been waiting for?

(honest question.. are they the same thing?)
I grew up in Sacramento and that's completely absurd. Our electric bills topped out at around 200, with 7 people, living in a ~3,000 ft^2 house, and someone was always home running the A/C. $400/month is insane.
Another issue is sunlight. Most folks own land but not the right for sunlight to fall on it. Someone next door can shade your roof with their large solar collector; now you HAVE to connect to the grid. Such disputes will interfere with the smooth deployment of roof-mounted solar energy panels.
That's why reusability is so important.
> (waits for somebody to claim that each request came from a different proxy)

Seems they were using proxies but you don't want to go blocking IPs making a number of requests, right? they could be legitmate shoppers opening lots of tabs, refreshing, hitting image/resource heavy pages, analytics etc. I'm not a network or server admin though so maybe there are some tools or methods that help identify the bad traffic.
The author of this piece didn't ignore this point, though. He commented on how even if you're in it for the intellectual gratification you're still very limited:

> If I'm not going to grad school because of job opportunities, what other reasons are there? Pursuing my interests? As a PhD student you get to choose some interesting problem and work on that, right? That's what I naively imagined before I started at the institute. Some day at lunch I told my supervisor about this idea I had. We could take his fluid simulation method from computer graphics and apply it to a problem related to molten polymers. There was this experiment by a group of applied physicists that would fit nicely. He asked me how many people would be interested in the problem. Maybe a handful, I said. And then I realized that there was no way I could work on that problem. Success in academia is measured in the number of citations your paper receives. What point is there in writing a paper that is only interesting to such a small audience? To be successful you need to target a large audience, and not just pursue whatever obscure problem takes your fancy.

If you aren't paid well, and you're not well respected, and there is no great job waiting for you at the end of the tunnel, and you can't even work on what you're most interested in, I can't really blame anybody for leaving.
Shameful shit.
Welcome to a fully regulated rate structure, throw in the combined weight of years and years of "its for the environment" and the costs go to the people who have the least voice and for many the least ability to pay.

The have so regulated pricing and punitive structures into service there that they have to have assistance programs just to alleviate the burden on middle income and lower consumers.
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My reading of that is they were splitting their crawling amongst a large block of IPs they had. If they are using proxies, that is much easier because you can just block them all without any worry of accidentally blocking real consumers (in addition to the fact that you can also file abuse complaints). I think at Thumbtack we blocked all AWS IPs, a good deal of foreign IPs, in addition to the specific IPs of people who were abusively crawling.

At the same time, the onus shouldn't be on QVC to have to block this, result.ly should either be a good citizen or have to face a lawsuit. Granted, QVC's tech team should be able to deal with this because next time the person who is DOSing them might not be a US entity which can be sued, but that isn't entirely relevant in this situation.
Well, they are just trying to disrupt the big data space with enterprise level deep learning allowing better branding position and lessening inertia to allow quicker pivots. It makes sense to do this because we are at a inflection point where an autonomous thought leader can appropriate the mind share of the by market by leaning in to this space and bringing to bear value added innovation. Also, hacking.

(passes out due to buzzword-itis)
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A side point observed while reading this article:

> Google + Containers

> Not (google+) but rather google using linux containers.

This is the kind of confusion that results when you name a product with a dangling binary grammatical operator. Marketers really ought to stop doing that kind of thing.
Some of that drop can be beneficial to the power company. They are always on the edge of capacity, because building more capacity is very (billions) expensive, and at first you don't need all of it, so the marginal cost of expansion is huge. Deploying solar across the area could postpone the need for generator expansion, and save money for current customers.
Sadly, there are some circumstances where XAML is virtually inescapable (e.g. constructing templates; you can use the deprecated FrameworkElementFactory, but it's pretty ugly).
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You can kill yourself with a single 9 volts in theory
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html
And not true. The IAU (an international organization) reclassified Pluto when they settled on a common definition of planet.
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No. "Potential salary" is a number based on a salary. Salaries are discounted almost arbitrarily because they include a long-term commitment from the client (employer) to the vendor (employee). How big that discount is depends on a lot of different factors, but: a 2-year 40-hour-a-week commit from a client at my last company would have garnered you a pretty freaking enormous discount.

You have to see the whole picture. There is always more being transacted than simply dollars for lines of code. When you grok that, you see that "salary" does not make sense as the "free variable" in your valuation equation.
I would envision more of an adapter form factor, where the hardware encryption is done on an SD-card shaped device which has a removable MicroSD slot in it for the actual storage.
The most interesting thing from this, for us that know Julia, is that Juliabox is open again without invite.
So, like David Rees, then? http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/
Both of these points are dead on. The client that does ask you what you're doing with each of your hours better be paying a very steep rate indeed, because otherwise they're pathological and should be ejected from your pipeline.
I do wonder why Julia caught on where lush died. Any thoughts?
Since they also make stationary batteries I wonder what would it cost to manufacture small flywheel energy storage units for homes instead.

To an extent, those are used in bigger grids to balance out peak production and peak consumption: they rotate in a vacuum on magnetic bearings and require very little if any maintenance.

Those big boys probably cost a lot but a consumer-grade flywheel which could spin for, say, 24 hours and be slightly less efficient (wrt. input-to-output and friction losses) could still be a big deal to even out daily usage.
> the external thread will queue up a V8 event

> So you see, it's parallel but doesn't need any JS synchronizatioon.

I don't know much about V8/Node internals, but I think we can regard the queue as a synchronization primitive? Granted, from what you say it's not in JS, but it's there, so at least some JS implementations need synchronization.
I was thinking -fstack-shuffle and its related changes
I'd really like to hear more discussion around this "don't bill hourly" concept. I'm 4 years in to a successful, solo freelancing career and this advice still doesn't click for me. I've billed precise hours for every one of the 20+ projects I've taken on.

What am I missing?
AgentBase.org as a website allows the in-browser editing and sharing of ABMs. These ABMs make use of the AgentBase library. This library is quite similar to AgentScript.

The AgentBase library actually was a fork from the AgentScript library. See here for why I forked it (basically to keep it simple and to be able to apply basic minimum coding standards and add automated tests):
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/agentbase/4NicEY8B6W...

Happy tinkering!
Amusing story: One time, I was chatting with someone I met on HN who was trying to learn three.js. He wanted to potentially hire me as a freelancer to help him with the graphics side of a little game he was working on. He explained what he wanted done, and at the end of it I was left feeling like "This is so easy it would be wrong of me to exploit this guy like this." I didn't phrase it quite like that, but I said something along the lines of "Okay, so at this point, most people would take your money and do the project. But I feel like I should do you a favor and not do that, because this is actually not a hard problem. Here's some tutorials that are pretty much exactly what you're asking: x, y, z"

Next thing I see, he's disconnected from chat and never said another word to me.

The lesson for me (besides that I'm an idiot for not taking the money) is that the amount of value you think you're providing is almost always wildly different from the actual value you're providing. Even if it's just "take money, follow tutorial."
That offers only marginal improvement. If you were arrested with your camera, the police would take possession of both the adapter and microSD card, rendering your encryption a mere annoyance (if they even noticed it!)
Ivan, on the other hand GitHub are not a bunch of freedom fighters, they are a company that have a responsibility to their customers and some of those customers live or traveling in Russia and are affected by this blockage.

If you're a Russian citizen, first of all you should be the one fighting against censorship by educating others, by going to protests and so on. Especially since this is now happening all over the place.

I know how it feels like. I'm a Romanian and I felt powerless countless of times, especially in recent years when the local lefties have been on a power grabbing race, with countless of abuses and bad decisions, also leaving a hole in our budget due to electoral alms, but lo and behold, they've lost the presidential race by a brutal margin, even though they were the winners of all polls and they also control the media. What happened is that a large percentage of people that never voted showed up this time. People called their families, people talked on Facebook, people took it to the streets. Just like the protests from a year and a half ago that stopped a corrupted and damaging gold mining project. I'm telling you, it works - and btw, mass-media is in general corrupted, which is why the Internet is such a disruptive force.
I'm an idiot! I blanked and decided he was CEO of Github, not Mozilla. Downvotes to my totally irrelevant comment richly deserved. Apologies. Thanks for calling me out.
Walter Isaacson, a biographer of Einstein (and of Steve Jobs and of Benjamin Franklin) has some interesting commentary[1] on posting archival materials online. "My initial joy about the project was tempered, however, by a pinch of sadness. I realized that most future Einstein researchers would no longer have to make the journey to the cozy house on the edge of the Caltech campus where the scholars of the Einstein Papers Project were eager to embrace their rare visitors and ply them with guidance, insights and tea. They wouldn’t likely spend delightful days there—as I did for my biography of Einstein—with the science historian Diana Kormos-Buchwald and her colleagues as they debated such issues as how to explain what Einstein meant when he referred to quanta as 'spatial' or his fellow Jews as Stammesgenossen (tribal comrades)." On the whole, Isaacson thinks it will be a benefit to scholarship to have Einstein's papers and other archives available online, but this will change the process of historical and biographical research.

[1] "What Could Be Lost As Einstein's Papers Go Online," Wall Street Journal 5 December 2014.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/what-could-be-lost-as-einstei...
A great comparison is the patio11 story about the expensive engagement ring vs extended honeymoon. If you can see what your clients care about, you can provide much greater value to those client (and have them write what seems like a ridiculously large cheque without even thinking about it) vs just delivering what they say they want without considering the larger picture.
For $50, I'd be happy to tell you what to improve on your site.

1) Not mobile-friendly (!!!!!!!)

2) Font too small.

3) Multiple walls of text.

4) Too much text in general (some of it repeats itself, some says nothing at all).

Seriously. Don't call yourself a UX-design expert and put out something that's lacking the absolute most basic aspects of good design.
it was never a handful of people, the US is a convenient bogey man regardless of its actions. Combined with the revulsion that Islam in that area has for Western culture and its not likely anything we do one or another has much effect.

Blaming the Iraq war for their dislike of us is about as silly as it gets, they didn't like us before. The key differences now is that technology allows such groups to better organize than ever before.
> All resources -- disk, memory, IP addresses, bandwidth, etc. -- should be able to be assigned to users and/or user groups and managed by the box's true super-user(s).

Can't you pretty much do that with Z/OS and maybe some other mainframe OSs?

Seems what people are shooting for with all this virtualization stuff is almost a redo of the mainframe ideas. Unix is for minicomputers.
Nothing as complicated as an OS capable of running modern software will ever be "well-engineered". Unix/Linux systems are the culmination of over 40 years of work by thousands of people across decades on tens or hundreds of millions of lines of code. You can't replace all of that no matter how much money you pour into it. Most of the lessons about what's good and bad in the history of engineering Unix are baked in to the existing code, and no humans actually know any of the reasons why it works as well as it does, if any ever did. A new platform may fix some issues, but it will encounter new ones, and it will inevitably encounter many of the old ones as well.

These systems appeared hacked together because that's the only way real-world systems work. The only way to build a complex working system of any kind is to start with a simpler system and add to it. But systems have minds of their own that are beyond the control of any engineer contributing to the project, and anything big and effective enough to compete with Unix/Linux will have just as many problems, if not more.
They get the "same bang for their buck" while you "simply raised the number of hours"? That sounds a lot like intentional misrepresentation of hours worked. Or more bluntly, this seems like fraud.
I was totally wrong. See above.
This is a very good read - being a startup CEO who's raised a seed round after a number of delays, a lot of the points raised ring very true.

It is amazing the difference a term sheet / money in the bank makes - obvious with hindsight, but difficult to see when you're wrapped up in pitches and negotiations.

Edit: And just to reiterate a point from the article - traction makes you seem formidable like nothing else (until you have a term sheet / money)
They've got 20yr warranties, and require zero maintenance where I live. If you have more rain/snow than I get, or perhaps salt spray etc, you may need to do some cleaning.

Once every few months the monitoring doohickey needs a reboot, but the panels work with or without that.

For my personal situation, unless PG&E reduces their power rates over the next 5 years, I'll absolutely hit that break-even point.

Panel production will degrade over time - the warranty covers something like 3% the first year, and 1% every year after that. So at 5 years I will have less than an 8% reduction in output from the panels. That 8% will be made up by that time with LED bulbs, a variable speed pool pump, etc. Heck, right now out of the ~30 ceiling cans in my house, only my office (4) and front porch (3) are LED. The rest are full 60W sucking incandescent bulbs. The chandeliers are also 60W bulbs too, accounting for another dozen or so lights that are on quite frequently.

What can I say - my wife hates CFLs and barely tolerates LEDs.
FWIW, every time I've seen what looked like a major search engine ignoring rate-limits (either Crawl-Delay or webmaster tools settings) a check of the actual IPs being used showed that it was someone spoofing a well-known User-Agent, which left you needing some other form of rate-limiting either way.
Yeah I tried to couch it in terms of being my opinion / experience as much as possible. It is a very subjective thing.
How do you block a proxy network where each IP makes only 1 request? I've seen a lot of that at blekko, we're a big target for scrapers. I have no idea if that's what was happening to QVC, given the non-technical nature of the article.
Just the Delta IV Heavy cost $375 million. Rockets are expensive.
I experienced the exact opposite with PSE&G in NJ. I had both a residence and an office in the same municipality. I was paying a higher rate per kWh at the office. Almost twice as much. When I asked them about it, they said it was because I was at an address marked as a business.

I think this depends heavily on state-level regulation of the utility and market conditions for your segment.
>If something is not restricted by international treaties, it does not mean it's ethically ok to do so

This is where I think we get into problems. You seem to be suggesting that people should be allowed to reveal classified national secrets that are legal both nationally and internationally if they find them unethical. I think this is a dangerous precedent to set. Different people will have wildly different views on what is ethical when it comes to war and espionage. That is why it is important to codify these things into laws and international treaties.
While you are correct that 48V is definitely sufficient to cause injury/death in certain circumstances, it's not the current that matters here (e.g. a 1V/5000A supply would have a lower risk of shock).

What will hurt/kill you is the amount of current passing through your body (in particular your heart) and that is determined by the resistance of your body and the potential difference of where it's flowing from/to (I = V/R).

Interestingly, the current required for ill effects is significantly higher for DC vs AC (at lowish frequency) [1]:

BODILY EFFECT DIRECT CURRENT (DC) 60 Hz AC 10 kHz AC
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Slight sensation Men = 1.0 mA 0.4 mA 7 mA
felt at hand(s) Women = 0.6 mA 0.3 mA 5 mA
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Threshold of Men = 5.2 mA 1.1 mA 12 mA
perception Women = 3.5 mA 0.7 mA 8 mA
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Painful, but Men = 62 mA 9 mA 55 mA
voluntary muscle Women = 41 mA 6 mA 37 mA
control maintained
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Painful, unable Men = 76 mA 16 mA 75 mA
to let go of wires Women = 51 mA 10.5 mA 50 mA
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Severe pain, Men = 90 mA 23 mA 94 mA
difficulty Women = 60 mA 15 mA 63 mA
breathing
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Possible heart Men = 500 mA 100 mA
fibrillation Women = 500 mA 100 mA
after 3 seconds
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The linked article suggests an across the chest current of at little as 17 mA could potentially induce fibrillation. At 48V, this is equivalent to a hand to hand (assuming the second hand is the exit point) resistance of ~2,823 Ohms.

While is this a very low resistance for the body, it's possible with wet hands and a large surface area in contact with the voltage source.

[1] http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/chpt_3/4.html