skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High latencies might be a significant issue for medical supplies.

Edit - a good talk on some of the issues that might be faced with traditional delivery systems: https://www.ted.com/talks/andreas_raptopoulos_no_roads_there...
An earlier iteration of our storage was actually based on LevelDB (key-value store), with this kind of key->value layout:

[time series fingerprint : time range] -> [chunk of ts/value samples]]

At least this scheme performed way worse than what we currently have. You could say that file systems also come with pretty good memory buffering and can act as key-value stores (with the file name being the key and the contents the value), except that they also allow efficient appends to values.

> Issuing updates instead of deletes is possible because you know the storage duration and interval, and can thus easily identify an index at which to store the data.

Do you mean you would actually append/update an existing value in the KV-store (which most KV stores don't allow without reading/writing the whole key)?
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There's a difference between trying to explain your point of view and fulfilling godwin's law...
>What is to stop someone stealing drones? Or plain vandalism of them?

Cameras on drones and laws. Stealing a motorbike is relativelly simple, and it doesn't happen that often.

Eventually the cops will start using drones, and the rest has already been told by South Park.
There was no plea deal offered to Ulbricht, and he steadfastly refused to plead guilty. Honestly hearing stuff like that makes me pretty damn confident in the prosecution's case, Ulbricht really does seem like the kind of guy who thought he was infallible.
So did you have a thoughtful, reasoned argument against this proposal or what?
The point is not about content and NSA, but about surveillance. I.e. it's already here, and tools for it are here as well. I wouldn't see it as a far stretch if all the same tools would be used for all kind of unlawful content hunting. Why should they reinvent the wheel?
I know imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but Techlist's analytics capabilities have an uncanny resemblance to CB Insights.

In addition, 12 folks from their team have signed up for our free trial since September including the CEO, head of product, designer, product manager and a senior ruby developer.

Take a look at their heatmap. The color scheme to even the text underneath is exactly the same.

Here is our heatmap which we launched 2 years ago: http://cbi.vc/1AsvNy3

Their industry graphs are also the same. Here is ours: http://cbi.vc/1Asw0kR

On the bright side, this is a bit of an ego boost, and we're flattered that these guys liked CB Insights so much that they wanted one just like it for themselves.

Note: I'm the CEO of CB Insights.
That's not a decision the FCC gets to make. Congress and the courts ultimately decide what is considered lawful content. These rules need to withstand changes that Congress might enact in the future. If Congress decides to force ISPs to block a certain kind of traffic, the FCC cannot disallow ISPs from blocking it with their rules.

They basically just include the word 'lawful' to allow ISPs to block unlawful traffic. Think specifically of DDOS attacks, you wouldn't want to disallow an ISP from blackholing DDOS packets.
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Thanks for writing this. Over the last 4 years I switched from studying computer science with applications in mathematics, to studying math and symbolic logic with applications in computation. I did this alone, without interacting with anyone in the field. I thought I was going insane because of how many direct 'abstract' connections there are from computer science to mathematics and back again. I know these abstract connections exist as words in the world, but many times it feels like I have to go hunt for the word when I already have the idea.

I haven't really found any real world applications of the concepts I've learned, aside from having to hold a meticulously constructed symbolic reasoning world inside my head for a really long time without observational reality confirming it's correctness as a model to describe all things. This makes me pretty good at programming things that are incompletely described, I think, but also explains why Tarski said he was the only sane logician.

I never really hear about autodidacts talking about their experience. It can be really rough most of the time. I literally think it's just luck that I stumble across the right words. I also think it's luck when I manage to understand things and make a connection between them. I have managed to connect such disparate symbols together and maintain that connection strongly for long periods of time (with absolute conviction), that it all really seems like magic when it does work. But, giants, shoulders, yada yada.
No problem. However, I usually use z - https://github.com/rupa/z to jump around, but I like the shortcuts concept of goto.
The less ethical approach would be to insinuate to Mr. Wheeler that he'll be blackballed when he gets out of office.

The more ethical approach would be to lobby Congress to pass laws that override the FCC's decision. Republicans don't have a veto-proof majority, but that's never stopped anyone before - tricks with riders unrelated to the main bill can effectively neuter the veto power.
Agreed. Definitely worth paying for.
From the text and context, it sounds like in addition to the bright-line rules on things like throttling, paid prioritization, and blocking of lawful content and services, there is a more general rule prohibiting conduct by ISPs that discriminates against or impedes access to lawful content but doesn't fall into neat buckets of blocking, throttling, etc.

But, yeah, this is one thing (of many) that its going to be worth reading the actual text, when it is made public, to understand.
Angular is a JS framework, React is more of a UI tool. Why not use both?
> ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services.

Too bad the regulation isnt simply this one line of text without the "lawful" caveat
Not really. See Launch Images in iOS: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...
Is Microsoft actually putting resources on a Mono replacement for Linux and Mac? My understanding is it's still Mono for non-Windows which has had very limited success. Xamarin is mostly concerned with mobile.
Why not?

"Just regulating (Cable and Fiber) under Title II" would have been a far better outcome, as far as I can tell.

Rate regulation and last-mile unbundling are the keys to useful internet access. Without those, 95+% of Americans are still forced to buy internet from Comcast and Verizon, with whatever prices, stipulations, and conditions they decide to enforce.

Certainly, this situation could have turned out far worse. But I don't see it as a win in any significant way. It simply reinforces internet service as a monopoly land-grab business.
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Yeah, I was shocked at comments, people completely missing the point.
That would actually cause a net increase of fuel consumption. The drag on the truck would offset the drone's saving. Overpass clearance could also be problematic.

The net result would be lawsuits and damaged drones I'm afraid. At least until a drone operator enters into an agreement with a hauling company.
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Or imagine delivery of low-value goods to close locations.
At the moment it takes 30-60 minutes for a restaurant from 3 block away to deliver my lunch and it includes a bicycle, a delivery guy, an elevator guy and a couple of doors and/or doorbells. It costs a few dollars in tip.

A drone can bypass all of that inefficiency and show up in my window 60 seconds after the meal is cooked. In New York it could deliver to the fire escape or to a special landing pads, or just hover in front of the 3rd window on the left on the 5th floor for 30 seconds.

What happens to the illegal delivery guy living on the tip is an entirely different question.
Do you think they just copied you to launch rapidly/MVP and if successful/raise then they would have resources to go in their own design direction?
A person who plays the lottery weekly is an idiot, poor or rich.
Explain what you mean. Where did their funding come from?

There is no US government law or rule to enforce real names (see Twitter, etc).
We updated the URL from http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5115, which points to this.
SWSW is a bacchanal masquerading as a conference - 95% of the people there are there to get sloppy. That's not to say it's useless - fast friends are made through the social lubricant of alcohol, and these friends can then be leveraged later, when they've returned to both home and sobriety.

A recruiter doing traditional recruiting, in my opinion, would have little success. People don't want to be recruited, they want to have fun and enjoy Texas. If you're targeting specific individuals, on the other hand, you could send a couple of developers and telling them 'hey, there's no need for the hard sell, but if you can, go have some drinks with recruiting targets X, Y, and Z.' That could end up working well.
I don't think so. SXSW is more for launching and networking with VCs, marketing folks, and doing business development.

Developers largely avoid it. I would stick to security and privacy focused conferences that cater to developers.
Last I checked, MS wasn't having problems persuading people to make games for the XBox.

In fact, if Windows Phone ever got decent market share they'd be in a great place for gaming, if they made Xbox -> WP ports easy.
You are right, Alibaba doesn't even sell anything, they are like e-bay, just connect the buyer to the seller. As far as I know Alibaba also doesn't have a delivery service, ShungFeng Express is the most used delivery company. The chinese Amazon is YiHaoDian(360buy), they sell their own things and they have their own delivery operation.
Well that's the first time I've been called a communist!
Very interesting, thanks. I'm curious though, did your doc bring your levels up to normal range or lower, and did you ever discuss this (keeping the levels lower than normal)?
It's less verbose than Symfony2 and, being pretty opinionated, requires much less configuration for new applications.

Facades, macros and route closures supports rapid prototyping and are pretty easy to replace as needed. Included libraries like Flysystem, Cashier, Elixir and the new cron wrapper also eases rapid development.

There are also a few tools around it, like Homestead and Forge, that makes it easy to set something up quickly.

It's not like you can't do rapid prototyping with other frameworks, but Laravel, to me, is the first PHP framework that actively supports it while providing a flexible enough structure to grow in.
The best example right now was special forces in Afghanistan being resupplied by drones.

http://defensetech.org/2011/12/21/marines-get-first-ever-res...
There may be corruption involved, but the infrastructure costs are not imaginary.

Modern cable infrastructure is not a big coaxial cable strung along telephone poles. It's often buried fiber with media conversion for a local loop. Either way it costs money to roll out, and where poles are involved there are ongoing leasing fees for those.

This is only part of the infrastructure anyway. You've still got all the routing, switching, media conversion, etc. to make that cable do something useful.
Are you suggesting that excuses the copying?
They both look like Bootstrap sites to me.
Looks really promising for smaller clusters. However, the pull/scraping model for stats could be problematic for larger scale.

I've been experimenting with metrics collection using heka (node) -> amqp -> heka (aggregator) -> influxdb -> grafana. It works extremely well and scales nicely but requires writing lua code for anomaly detection and alerts – good or bad depending on your preference.

I highly recommend considering Heka[1] for shipping logs to both ElasticSearch and InfluxDB if you need more scale and flexibility than Prometheus currently provides.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka
I'm currently in the process of redesigning the whole server architecture of our SaaS application to embrace event sourcing - we were using a classic relational database until now. I'm excited by all the new possibilities this will give us, but it's a lot of work to rewrite just about everything and to migrate old data into event streams. My advice to anyone who considers event sourcing for future projects: use it from the beginning. Transitioning from a more traditional model is hard.

Btw, the author seems to make a confusion between events and commands. These are not the same thing: a command represents an action (by the user, an other system or an internal process), while an event represents a change in the data. A command may generate 1 or several events during its processing. It is not saved in a data store, but it can be replayed in case of failure if retry policies are in place.
This. Pro bodybuilders take a bunch of other stuff to regulate what their bodies regulated naturally, before they jacked up their levels with external stuff.
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It feels like Alibaba fell for Amazon's joke.

I wonder how often this happens for companies, where a PR stunt or vaporware press release from company A convinces company B to expend resources to "beat them to market".
This is very nice but I hope that it will be able to withstand the impending lawsuits by the ISPs. One can only hope.
Many areas don't have telephone poles. Digging trenches and ripping up roads to lay cable is where that gets more expensive.
I find it funny that the problem was they didn't think enough people know about the `--depth 1` flag to git clone, so the solution is to use submodules (which far fewer people know how to use properly).
No, it meant capping retail prices and letting wholesale ones float. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis#G...
Not at all! Just trying to grapple with how they think they could get away with it over time. Perhaps they didn't plan to.
> Congress only needs a simple majority to prevent a bill from being passed in the first place.

Yes, but the bills that needs to be passed were already passed (most significantly in 1934 and 1996.)

In order to stop the FCC taking this action under existing law, Congress would have to pass a new bill, which mean that the filibuster in the Senate and veto by the President are real issues.

Wheeler isn't proposing a new law, he is proposing an exercise of the FCC's regulatory authority under existing law.
As things are going, I'm really pleased. This is the first time I've been excited about Microsoft since the middle 1990s.
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Whenever I see drone delivery, I always see quadrocopters. Aren't octocopters more safe (they can still fly with 7 rotors)? Intuitively they can also carry more load. It should be a very simple decision considering that the main objection against drones is safety.
After working at a job that had a horrible patchwork of monitoring techniques (including at least two in-house systems), I was desperately pining for borgmon, actually. Never thought those words would come out of my mouth.

This does seem to have addressed at least a couple of the issues with that system, in that its config language is sane, and its scrape format is well-defined and typed.
My levels are still a little lower than normal but from a health and lifestyle perspective, I'm otherwise normal to the point I was before my operation.

Because of this, my doctor and I both agreed not have my dosage increased. From my perspective, I just didn't want to use more meds than I need to.
Oh, those crazy Americans...

You made it sound as if we shouldn't call the Chinese crazy over this. When in fact we should call both crazy.
I tried jekyll and it is an excellent compromise, providing all the goodness of a flexible templating and layout system with the ease and server-lessness of static pages. Combined with s3-website, it took me about 3 hours to rebuild my blog (mostly time spent editing old posts into markdown).

Thanks for all these recommendations!
Holy cow, this was seriously comprehensive. Great job OP
>So, even if sometimes I may disagree with aspects of policy, the reality is there is going to be a digital service based on it. And I can help a lot of people by being part of making it as simple as possible.

healthcare.gov wouldn't have worked if the geeks hadn't fixed it and without that ObamaCare would look different. I doubt anyone would disagree with me saying that ObamaCare was the most politically divided program in years which means that ultimatively the geeks made policy on a very controversial issue. I think you are underestimating the kind of influence your work will have.

To take a current UK issue: without geeks there is no way the government will be able to implement snoopers charter. In this century the politicians can't do anything without some geek being involved - and we can't ignore that.
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As a math graduate student, I second the choice for Abbott's "Understanding Calculus". It's a wonderful beginning book for analysis. Walter Rudin's "Principle's of Mathematical Analysis" is an amazing book but it's difficult to start with.

For a quick intro to Lebesgue integration you can read the beginning of Rudin's "Real and Complex Analysis" or Halsey Royden's "Real Analysis".

I haven't read Axler's book. I liked Hoffman and Kunze's "Linear Algebra"
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Yep, yet another todo list web-app. Tailored to my needs, maybe someone else's too.
I made it so that it doesn't even require signing up to try to make it easier to understand whether you want it or not. Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Haha I remember that southpark episode. I think relying on cameras and law to stop vandalism and theft is a little naive though. Perhaps you've never owned a motorbike but being an owner of one I can tell you it happens much more often than you'd think. If there's money to be made or 'fun' to be had there's a low life doing or considering how to do it.
True, but you can apply the principles of this post for any type of virtual staff recruitment
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It's great to see the world finally rediscovering this stuff. CEP is a superb paradigm that makes reasoning about so many kinds of complex, asynchronous systems far easier. One just has to get over any aversion to storing a massive event store. The good news is that great datastores exist for this purpose and one can usually bootstrap by storing events in whatever relational DB you are already using until size/perf becomes an issue.

This is great article. I really like the work from Stanford on Rapide (a declarative, logic style language for event pattern rules).

http://complexevents.com/stanford/rapide/

The site is a bit outdated but the language is awesome.

Also check out these books on CEP:

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Events-Introduction-Processing-D...

and

http://www.amazon.com/Event-Processing-Action-Opher-Etzion/d...
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I highly recommend this Chrome extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shut-up/oklfoejikk...

Basically hides the comments on every site unless you enable them. It's a little aggressive and sometimes if you notice something weird on a site you just need to disable it for that site.

But it honestly improves the entire internet experience exponentially.
Shoulda been clearer - sorry.

The core process is how to hire on elance, with a live chat team as the example. It's applicable for any elance / odesk hire though.
johncp brought up Congress, not me. I'm just pointing out that vetos aren't relevant (although mikecb's clarification helped). So why am I getting downvoted instead?
Weird, I didn't know protecting free speech was considered communist now. It's almost like I need a personal "American Culture Consultant" to stay on top of all these shifting rules.
This was at the "developer zone" where you keep track of your API keys and other stuff to access Mastercard services as a developer.
You typed the same thing I was typing at the same time = )
> However, the pull/scraping model for stats could be problematic for larger scale.

From experience of similar systems at massive scale, I expect no scaling problems with pulling in and of itself. Indeed, there's some tactical operational options you get with pull that you don't have with push. See http://www.boxever.com/push-vs-pull-for-monitoring for my general thoughts on the issue.

> InfluxDB

InfluxDB seems best suited for event logging rather than systems monitoring. See also http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/#prometheu...
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I like traveling. I've been to some beautiful places. I've been miserable in some beautiful places, too.

Why was I miserable? The one that stands out was the time that I expected the place to make me happy. Real happiness isn't in a place. A place is not enough.

By the way, real happiness isn't in another person, either. People can't make other people happy for very long. So the problem isn't that you've got the wrong people with you.

(And if you're going to ask me where it is, my answer is that it's in knowing Jesus Christ, and nowhere else. That's my experience. )
Unless you're testing Zen meditation in which case the placebo group and the real group may not (should not?) be distinguishable from one another.

It's often taught as "just sitting" so by the time you get the control group to sit down, shut up and hold still for half an hour every day they're doing the practice. Heck, they may be doing it better than the Zen meditators because they won't have anything extra attached to it at all :)
Oooh, that's a nice site. Gotta add it to my daily reading!
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The architecture (shared business logic with platform-specific UI) sounds a lot like React Native. The difference is that in RN, your UI is primarily specified in JSX on all platforms. This means you can even reuse a lot of your non-platform-specific UI.

I expect that in a year or two, there will be a React Native UI library that implements Material Design on Android and the Web, perhaps even with iOS bindings for things that are similar across platforms. It will always be a best practice to adopt the conventions of the platform you're on, but it does nobody any good to implement the same UI three times. Reuse your <Text>, your <Image/>, your <ProductListing/>, etc. and save the platform-specific UI for things that change across platforms (like navigation paradigms).