skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both Cray and IBM were in the competition for the next supercomputers for:

- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

- Argonne National Naboratory (ANL)

IBM won LLNL and ORNL to create the upcoming Sierra and Summit Supercomputers. We heard down the grapevine that ANL wanted an IBM based system as well, but due to the rules of the competition they were given the Cray system.

So the rumour goes anyways, I'm not in the inner circle.
I've done that, and you're right, it's loads of fun. A few hours of instruction, however, will not make you competent at handling a car at its limits. One thing I did learn from those classes is how poor a driver I (and nearly everyone else) am.
I’m Leaving Yahoo
About a decade ago in Australia, at-call online savings accounts in Australia were getting a 6% interest rate. Nowadays that's down to 3.75% with an extra requirement to deposit $1000 every month (but still at call).
Near-Death Experiences: The Brain Is the Key
"GitHub plays programmer" This is going to be great!
Yea and when is that? If a product is announced, even if its a preview version, shouldn't the details be sorted out by then? This is like a 10000ft view of a product, a great product at that. But numbers to back your claims of scalability and performance would have been best.
That probably doesn't even work on other people's computers.
Ask HN: Do I have to have a CS degree to be a software developer?
Hi.
I want to be a software developer, I'm currently a college student (I'm from the UK, so I'm technically a senior in highschool I think?), I'm 17 if that makes it easier. Anyway, I got a C in Maths, I wanted to go to Sussex University to study Computer Science but they need a B in maths. I can apply to Brighton University, but the modules at Sussex University look a lot better.

I'm really interested in compiler development, and I wanted to take compilers at university but I don't think they do it at Brighton. Anyway, a few questions... is there are a chance I can still get into Sussex University if I show them my portfolio or something? I'd say I'm a somewhat competent programmer, and I contribute to a lot of open source projects.

My next question is that, do I even have to go to university to get a job in the field of software development? Or should I just apply for Brighton University? I kind of feel that school is boring, and I usually spend my time playing games or programming. Mostly the latter, is it weird that I find not programming an unproductive use of my time?
Become the first Product Manager at FarmLogs (YC W12)
But the structures necessary to participate: someone's compelled to do something!

Start from nothing, and try to build up a system that at all resembles a democracy, and you're compelling people left and right. Throw in property rights, such as land ownership, and you're compelling people just about 24/7.

Just because you like being able to use the violence of the state to throw people off your lawn doesn't mean that it isn't compelling people to be in a certain place.
Just finished "Who Shot The Water Buffalo?" by Ken Babbs. http://www.skypilotclub.com
That would be awesome. A huge engineering effort - I imagine that would require building a radically different filesystem more or less from scratch - but AWS has the resources to do that sort of thing.
The way I see it is traditional artists can make physical pieces and sell each for $1-5K only because it's an original. A digital artist making still image/3D printed pieces would have to sell many printed copies to make the same profit. At $40 profit per copy will take 20 sales to make $800. But there are only so many walls in the world, they change only so often.

https://www.electricobjects.com is a screen you hang on the wall. Could set up various payment schemes but I have a feeling it will only profit each artist as much as prints. The advantage goes to the consumer who can switch between artists at the expense of having another glowing screen.

And then https://www.patreon.com like kickstarter for being a patron.
...with a history of awful/non-existent documentation.
>Incredibly long passwords could DOS your site

They don't need to permit arbitrarily long passwords, just ones that are long enough.
Is the bot running on a machine that can accept incoming HTTP connections? It would be cool if it could serve a status page showing the currently running revision, the status of pending votes, that sort of thing.
Aren't dividends figured in to the historical prices anyway, though? Via adjusted closing prices?
GNU make isn't part of the base system for the BSDs, but I've found that it is often installed on BSD systems anyways (as gmake), due to much software having a build dependency by using Makefiles with GNUisms.

If your project is targeting a generic POSIX environment with build tools available and you want the portability, I can see why you might go with the lowest common denominator. For a lot of projects though, there are additional non-base dependencies (e.g. a python interpreter), and having a build dependency on GNU make is usually acceptable if you're using the extra features (e.g. % matching is a big convenience).
I'm aware of the story. Just because Chiang Mai has chosen not to enforce the law, doesn't change the law itself.

As with all things in Thailand, what is ok today could be prohibited tomorrow.
Show HN: Tweelerts- Location based tweets search and notifications 
I have developed an android app in my free time.
Tweelerts( it let you search tweets on google map and subscribe for live tweets at any particular location.)

Currently i am in Alpha/Beta testing,

Need volunteer for suggestions and critics

Please join my Google plus community https://plus.google.com/communities/114497124577685663128

I will be grateful for this
Thanks
How do you govern a (hidden, fluid and amoral) algorithm?
http://www.foxcubgames.com/
The end result of college is to get a job.
Software development, if you develop software that people are willing to pay and use for, is a job.

If you can skip a college step and go directly to Go and collect your $200...

Programming is a rare field where this can be a viable option.
A degree can offer a faster understanding (having a teacher is often faster than being an autodidact) as well as job security (a degree has weight on a job resume).

There is a lot that can be said for work merit alone. If you have a portfolio full of successful projects that many people use - you're going to look better on a resume than someone with a degree and the only projects in their portfolio are school projects with limited or no real world success.
And thus it became a reality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9351286
10 U.S. senators seek investigation into H-1B-driven layoffs
Well you asked about arbitrary restrictions... :)
I have seen a lot of these Github repositories that accept anything showing up on HN. My favourite one of late was the crowdsourced homepage for a guy named Rob Ashton: https://github.com/robashton/crowdsourcedhomepage - Definitely one of the weirder trends in development lately I have seen.
The hardware owes it all to Jay Miner and Ron Nicholson (rhn). Jay Miner passed a long time away from a long term kidney condition and is still out there doing lots of stuff:

http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/photo-cv.html

Notice how he was the guy behind the IWM (Integrated Woz Machine) for the Mac and the beautifully minimized Apple //c in addition to being one of the key persons in creating the essence of Amiga hardware magic: Denise, Copper and Blitter.

Carl Sassenrath and RJ Mical were super influential on the OS side, making a super lightweight preemptively multitasking OS with small components that messaged each other and the OS abstraction layers that the rest of the personal computing world will not see in the next 10+ years.
I think parent meant it in a positive way, as opposed to negative. "So good you don't want to leave" as opposed to proprietary tech results in vendor lock-in.
Why in god's name would anyone want an x86 license? Even AMD are moving away from it where they can.
I hope so!

That would be cool.
Here is what google gave me in 0.31 seconds for photoshop retouching: https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&es...

Smashing magazine 70 free resources? Sounds good.

Let's go down the list, HDR images in Photopshop:
google gave me https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&es...

The first link seems quite in depth and adequate.

Do I need to go on? I'm not trying to be a dick but the first two examples I gave you took less than a minute to find FREE answers for.

Even if you do find some edge case where Lynda happens to have a better solution than what I can gather online within 5 minutes, what does that prove?

Lynda can't match MIT or Stanford, or Apple's developer resources. Instead of pivoting, they're selling what's available freely, for money, to those who are incompetent at using the internet.

That's their business model. If you think that's ok and worth 1.5 billion, great, we simply have a different outlook on life.
The objective answer is no. I'm a software developer and didn't finish college.

The bigger question is what you think you'll get out of it. A bachelors in CS might give you an easier time applying with a large company. I've never had trouble finding work, but feel like I would have trouble if I wanted to work at Google/Amazon/Microsoft and many other household names.

I've spoken to many coworkers about what they got out of their education, and haven't spoken to anyone that found their education to be useless. Some say the interactions they had with others while learning were irreplaceable. Others seem indifferent about the need for it, but not regretful about their choice.

I'm leaning toward indifference. It took 15 years of self-education to get where I am today, and I feel like it might have been easier if I had sought more help. Can't really complain, though. The industry is treating me well.
The bot is in a state of emergency, it has reached Github's API rate limit and can't do anything.

Please send a message to Github support telling them why we need the rate limit lifted for the botwillacceptanything account!
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The Moon Was Formed in a Smashup Between Earth and a Near Twin
I want to know what null hypothesis was used to generate those significance results.
Zimbabweans turn to pirated films, forcing cinemas to shut down
I didn't have the goal to be swallowed by China the first time I went there, I just was.
Hahaha, true! Get good look, that'll be gone tonight.
Funny enough, I'm also working in this space at the moment.

Right now we are training models to identify cuisines and diets in multiple languages.

Also, anyone interested in this space might also check out Yummly (www.yummly.com).
where is the link to download ....?
You're absolutely correct. I read "yields" colloquially, not in terms of "yield." Written as designed. :)
Did those run on a stock Amiga 500?
The child_process module can be used to run shell commands.

https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html
Agree. Wish them the best of luck, but i'd rather go to BBB and buy 5 or 6 items from their travel bins. Don't see a huge value add here.
What does the data say about the Hamburger Menu?
In fact, it turns out the Pusher protocol is all JSON, so you can autogenerate the code.

Here's a Pusher message.

{
"event": "pusher:error",
"data": {
"message": String,
"code": Integer
}
}

Here's the corresponding Haskell.

{-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-}

import GHC.Generics

-- a generic wrapper type for all Pusher events
data Event a = Event {
eventType :: Text,
eventData :: a
} deriving (Generic)

instance ToJSON a => ToJSON (Event a)
instance FromJSON a => FromJSON (Event a)

data Error = Error {
message :: Text,
code :: Integer
} deriving (Generic)

instance ToJSON Error
instance FromJSON Error
Actually, the combination of your two comments was very enlightening.

It's always appropriate to try and understand the world, and then discuss what doesn't make sense to you. This is a great example.
I also wonder about rogue planets near the galactic center. They wouldn't need to have their own star to get bathed in plenty of light from other nearby stars.

There would be no such thing as night and day either.
Yes. You don't need a degree to get a development job, experience and skillset is what counts for most. I am self-taught without a degree and I feel like it has not been a disadvantage for me. I might lack some of the theory learnings, but for the most part I pick most things up on the job.
More children going to school in African countries, but 30M still are not
Teens aren’t fleeing Facebook as quickly as we thought
I don't think those sorts of things are quite as objectionable, though. AFAIK, most of the things only Apple apps are allowed to do are more "system level" things that 3rd-party apps in general don't need to do. Sure, there are exceptions, but I think "Apple can bundle a wifi scanner app with the OS and I can't build a 3rd-party scanner" is a lot different from "Microsoft can sell an office suite that does things I can't do in my office suite because of private APIs".

... the key difference being that MS was using their private APIs to crush competition.

Also one could argue that Apple is more of a hardware company, to a certain extent. They give away most of their software for free. Microsoft was using their OS monopoly to beat competitor's apps that run on top of Windows.
That's related to my problem, but not the same; what I needed was control over when an fd/goroutine would be destroyed. Explicit timeouts (at least in 1.0, but I think still) couldn't give me that. I needed an obscene number of fds, though.
Sentiment analysis probably isn't the right option here, though it may work.

I think a combination of dependency parsing[1] and regex is the way to go.

regex examples: "Remote: No", "No remote please"

Dependency parsing examples: ""Remote work isn’t an option", "Remote work will not be considered"

[1] look for negation in the parse tree using something like http://demo.ark.cs.cmu.edu/parse?sentence=Remote%20work%20is...
What Your Open Source Culture Really Says
This is really interesting to me as I've just been solving the same ingredient parsing problem in my iOS app (Zest Recipe Manager) to implement smart shopping lists. Although I was tempted to use a statistical approach I opted to start with a more direct heuristic approach to see how far I could get (and to make sure I really understood the issues before trying a more generic solution).

The heuristic approach actually works pretty well, though with a significant amount of effort! A lot of ambiguities can be resolved with a custom algorithm of this kind. For shopping list support (where really the common cases matter most) the results are excellent. But there are ambiguities I have had to hack solutions to that would probably be better resolved via a probabilistic method. And there are cases where some actual NLP is required to properly detect extraneous descriptive phrases etc. I'm considering adding a statistical helper to my custom parser to take it to the next level.
LightQ: 1M+ messages/sec at micro-seconds latency
Notifications, as an active research area, just hasn't developed yet. It's mostly because the concept is very new. But expect much more research and much smarter commercial systems in the next few years. I won't be surprised if notifications become our primary mode of interaction with the digital world.

Also, the training data easily goes into thousands or even millions of samples for even modestly used applications. Unless you mean train a different model per user, in which case, yeah, it won't work.
Does this mean that when/if we create an AI it wouldn't be able to own its creations. But its creator would own everything that the AI produces?
>but decentralization is not free, it's extremely expensive, and once miner subsidies disappear and the true price of securing the network becomes an upfront cost to general users, nobody will even consider using bitcoin except in situations where decentralization provides tangible benefits (i.e. for incognito transactions).

The cost of securing the network fluctuates to match mining revenue, which in turn is determined by the market price of bitcoin and the number of bitcoins being rewarded to miners for each block they generate.

In other words, when the block subsidy decreases, the security of the network will decrease, the average transaction fee will not increase. Now, increases in total transaction fees could potentially compensate the loss of mining revenues from the subsidy declining, if transaction volumes increase, but the average fee per transaction will always trend toward the very minimal cost for a miner to process it.
Cool :-)

I'm an on-again, off-again contributor to GnuCash but I really like ledger too, and especially hledger because just knowing it's Haskell puts my mind at ease about several things.

What you described about source control is really interesting because there are a lot of parallels between Git's commits and double-entry accounting's journal entries. There are some really close correspondences--like Git's revert and a reverting journal entry (i.e. the opposite movements of money to the transaction being reverted). Of course in accounting the master branch really is the one 'true' view of the world but it's interesting to think in terms of the Git analogy and imagine divergent branches which could be e.g. explorations of different scenarios for your business.

Afaik no one has ever implemented such a system....
> And yes, racial segregation of classes is something that enriches the upper class in general, and the prof is advocating this

What in the world are you talking about? This?

"...there are substantial differences in the way that various segments of the population learn ... maybe we need to use pedagogies that work better for each group."

Do you really view this as a proposal to segregate classes by race or along any other lines? The obvious intent is to change how the material is taught to accommodate these differences, not to establish separate CS courses for each group.
New Descent Game by Former Star Citizen Devs
QIRA – A timeless debugger, competitor to strace and gdb
I have tried Hyperion a few times but I find it a little too slow and I give up. One of these days I will get to it. Thanks for the input!
It would be neat if it had its own Bitcoin account and could pay developers to work on itself. Maybe it could eventually start earning bitcoins too.
The problem with CS education is that many students have had experience programming (and with computers generally) during their teen years, so professors can get away with not properly teaching CS fundamentals as many students already know them, or at least enough to easily grasp the rest.

But there are plenty of students who don't, and they're the ones left out. They have no idea how to program, and the useless programming course won't help them, because for the past 30 years most of the students taking it have already known how to program, so the people designing the course have no idea as to its actual quality. The professors see them struggling and assume they just "don't get it".

It's this which also causes the massive gender bias in CS students: male students, to whom early (and current) computers were marketed, had learned to program at home. Female students, to whom home computers were never marketed, mostly didn't learn to program at home. So they take the course, are considered by the professors to "not get it" unlike most of their male peers, and drop out: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-wom...
Those are my three favorite Vonnegut novels. Nice choices :-)

I'd second my sibling poster's recommendation of Galapagos, if you haven't read that one.

Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle are probably his two most widely-read and widely-referenced books, so if you haven't read those yet and you're still on a Vonnegut kick after those three, maybe read them. They're all quick cotton-candy reads anyway, so it's a small cost to read another. I do consider Cat's Cradle overrated, though. I think all the cute and memorable made-up words have boosted it to higher prominence than it deserves.
Currently Reading

- "Venture Deals" by Brad Feld

- "Capital In The 21st Century" It's okay, it's really long. There are some great nuggets but it is hard to consume and I end up having to do a lot of rereading to understand it. It will take me a few months to finish.
That doesn't surprise me at all. The DOE keeps more options open by selecting different vendors for the same generation installs. In the last generation, LLNL and ANL were IBM and ORNL was the Cray.

That said, I'm long since out of whatever circle it was that I was in (certainly not the inner one!) as well so I speak with no authority whatsoever.
Yes, should say Facebook makes RocksDB. So Facebook engineer points out how shit InnoDB has become and how RocksDB is gonna eat its lunch. Facebook/Parse engineer is called in to hoot about space utilisation, which is suspect as no info given as to how much data was duplicated on the Mongo replica set, but safe to assume it was at least 3 times. Which means RocksDB was 2.6x more space-efficient. Okay, but if the Mongo replica set had 5 members RocksDB is only 1.5x more space-efficient. Mongo doesn't really optimize for space efficiency, because updates are ideally done in place and documents are normally padded to make that easier. On the other hand RocksDB is aggressively optimizing for space usage, as well as this particular case being a fresh import (no fragmentation). So it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense to crow about it, especially since it comes with a loss of redundancy.

I'd say some shit has been cast.
Extracting the Private Key from a TREZOR Bitcoin Wallet with a 70 $ Oscilloscope
Yeah, but it's based on an old version of Make; we're on to 4.1 now, it's still based on 3.82.
Puerto Rico is not a foreign country so these rules you cited don't apply. If you are a bone-fide PR resident, you don't owe federal tax (FICA still applies). However Act 20 (and Act 22) are recent changes to try to bring more job creator-types to the island.
Is this a systemd thread? This looks like a systemd thread!
It's not inevitable. It took 800 years for human civilization to produce a fundamental innovation in how money is stored and transferred, with the invention of Bitcoin, which upends the bill of credit. It could be another 800 for the next "paradigm shift".
For C++, I'm a long-held adherent of SCons.

You can make some horrendous messes but it's nice to have Python around instead of having to learn another intermediate language as in CMake's case.
Creator of Raft is speaking at our meetup. What questions do you want answered?
In theory, but look at the dataset (https://github.com/AgoraOpus/Sell-in-May/blob/master/resourc...) and the adjusted close is the same.
As a developer (but not a sysadmin) I feel the opposite. Not saying your criticism is wrong, just giving another view from a AWS newbie perspective.

When I read most AWS product descriptions, I cannot understand what real world situations they are for. I either could not say, or could only vaguely say, what the product is in my own words. There seems to be a great scaffolding of assumed knowledge about the AWS system and distributed computing. Maybe that's intended, but it's intimidating and keeps me in simpler places like Heroku land.
Requirements for CNNIC re-application
Just to offer a little bit of information, we're currently running a 2 node RAC cluster. I'm not entirely sure about the storage mechanism though.
Read the first three in publication order. Not sure how to reas after that as I stopped reading on the forth book as I found it dull, although I may pick it back up one day.
Charlie Victor Romeo, an off off broadway play that has since been turned into a film, also re-enacts United 232.