skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. OpenStack is a nightmare for small shops without resources to have full-time OpenStack admins. The configuration and deployment is complex, and keeping it running demands a lot of attention. Plus the new releases every six months, and desupport of anything more than two releases old, make you feel like you're on a 100mph treadmill.
The $10/tx number is very misleading, because you present it as an inherent cost ("Bitcoin is by its very nature an expensive"). But you are dividing the global mining operational cost with the network capacity utilization rate.

Consider this: by your logic if there was only 1 transaction/day you would claim a cost 100 000 times higher, or $1 million per transaction. But the fact is not only the block chain is underutilized (average block size is 0.35 MB so the network could sustain 2.8 times more tx, or 300k/day), but also the block size limit can and will be increased at least 10x without the miners needing to increase their operational cost.

Taken together, this means the network will be able to handle 3 million tx/day (30 times more than today). This a number closer to what you should base your math on if you are trying to calculate the minimum cost of a Bitcoin tx, which would be approximately $0.30/tx.

PS: in 2011 I had less than 20 kW of GPUs and I bothered moving half my farm to a location where I was paying $20/MWh. So you can be sure the commercial miners (who are doing the bulk of the mining these days) are paying less than $100/MWh.
FISMA report states two-factor auth could have stopped 52% of incidents
Yes, I have to do this maybe a couple times a year (tracking down weird KVM bugs, or figuring out poorly documented features)
it’s there, midway down — “It takes 106 gallons of water to produce an ounce of beef — which is more than the average San Francisco Bay Area resident uses in a day.”

I did a double take at that line you quoted, though.
> Monthly cost for a petrol car can -just for the gasoline alone- easily exceed one hundred Euros

Although I appreciate comparisons from inverse perspectives, a few specific points fell flat. Assuming a rough 10 year lifespan, depreciation on a $20k Civic is $166/mo, while depreciation on a $70k Tesla is $583/mo. Also, if you're worried about carcinogenic effects from a few whiffs of gasoline, then you most likely don't need a car since you've already confined yourself to a hermetic bubble.
> I don't have the mental energy to give everyone I come across the benefit of the doubt... people who don't take the time to try and understand me get dismissed pretty quickly.

So you basically demand others spend mental energy on you, but you refuse to return the favor?
You over provision to avoid 100% discharge (which would destroy a LiOn battery anyways)
So if the article is true . Does it make sense or is it dumb to think that Docker would not be acquired by Google ? Since it is not backing up
Important to me:

- Full Remote or at least 3 days per week remote (my commute sucks)

- Flexibility (Basically, I just want to be able to make it to doctor appointments without having to waste vacation days. I also like flexible start times so I can workout in the AM.)

- Paid vacation days set in policy (I will assume "unlimited" means none.)

- Ability to learn marketable job skills (I've been trapped in a position for the last 5 years that has me basically only know our proprietary software. That's probably partly my fault for not doing enough side work. Either way I've been applying for positions for probably 3 years now and only got one reasonable offer in which I declined after talking to some employees about the company culture.)

- Sane working hours (Every week can't be "crunch time". If you expect 60+ hours each week from your exempt employees something is wrong.)

- Salary (but free time is much more important to me at this point)

- Paid overtime (one could wish)

- Ability to choose my hardware and an upgrade cycle that allows me to get a new machine before 5 years.
No public holiday today over the pond? No wonder this place felt more negative than it should!
I think in small organization you might need a lot of talent, but once organizations (or projects) get bigger, you need process over talent and that, well, also means good management. There are things you can do with a small group and things you can only do with a bigger group. I guess Django is at a point where it's big enough that it can take advantage also from the less talented coders. Maybe, and I am wild guessing here, part of the issue comes when startups grow and still look for the 0.1% talents, when at that size that can easily live with the 40-50%.
Though there is no standard definition of CSV, de facto processing it properly requires recognizing quotes, and also escapes of literal quotes using double quoting:

this, "is, like, CSV", "with three so-called ""fields"""

Note that unquoted leading and trailing whitespace, and whitespace around the commas, is deleted, too.

(See CSV page in the Wikipedia)

A GPU-accelerated string split could be useful but it's not quite "parsing CSV".
Next Century Corporation – www.nextcentury.com - Columbia, MD
Next Century Corporation was recently featured on “60 Minutes” and Forbes Magazine for its work on a team that created a search engineer used to combat the world-wide scourge of human trafficking: http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/04/17/darpa-...

Reputed to be a “Google killer,” by Forbes, the tool “Memex” is already being used by law enforcement to arrest those carrying on the trafficking of human beings; and letting the oppressed go free.

Our mission is to create software that saves lives and protects our country. While our chief customer is the intelligence community, but we also work on some un-classified work like Memex and products like WISER: http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov/

Also Ozone Widget Framework: https://www.nextcentury.com/our-technology-solutions/data-pr...

o	Neon Framework: (http://neonframework.org)
o	SIGHTT: (http://www.sightt.com)

The company was founded as a direct result of the terrorists attack on 9/11. We’re passionate about our mission to save lives.

By hiring very selectively, we have had a direct impact on the world totally out of proportion to our small size of 120 software engineers.
Most of our positions require the TS/SCI and polygraph clearance. If you don't have, we can get.
If you’re a US citizen and wished you had the feeling the work you’re doing is really important, you should write the recruiting team at Next Century:
Katie.casey@nextcentury.com
Joe.poplawski@nextcentury.com
Romina.nally@nextcentury.com
There's a level of understanding and debugging possible from reading the source without compiling/debugging that's not possible with access only to binaries. I'm a .NET/Windows developer mostly, and I've found myself consulting the .NET library reference source dozens of times over the past year. This has been useful, despite the fact I've never compiled it. Five years ago I would never have thought my work would require that level of understanding. You may be surprised how fast you can find yourself in areas where the internet doesn't provide ready answers when you start working on unusual stuff. You may also be surprised how fast you can figure out code that once seemed impenetrable when it's the next logical step in fixing an issue you desperately want solved.
I find that it's commonly best to learn from someone not too far past your own ability.

My father is a very talented pool player, but he was not the best teacher until my own skill became pretty considerable.

He's so far removed from the things that are important to beginners. He says "you have to hit that shot with a medium-power, really good draw stroke." They have no real idea what medium power is, and no idea what a stroke really is, and possibly can't draw the ball.

It's possible he's just a poor instructor--that's probably not very related to his own playing ability. Some people can convey complex ideas in a very simple manner, and I think they make the best teachers.
You don't think there will be consequences to massive desalination?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-impacts-of-rel...
Would be hard, as the old zapper was designed around how CRT was updated/refreshed. As such they basically don't work on a flat panel.
Tesla Battery Economics: On the Path to Disruption
It is clearly satire.
As if that weren't bad enough, the entire tool runs server-side, requiring you to upload your data, for precisely what reason? It's not like these aren't rather boring, bog-standard visualizations.

It would be rather more interesting to have a tool that processed and dumped git history data, locally, into Postgres, sqlite or whatever with a standard DB schema. Nicely structured, that data would then be readily available for investigation with whatever viz tools you had to hand (d3 and other charting libs, R, Tableau, etc.)
Especially if one don't even define what is the exact quantity measured. IQ is a normal distribution by definition, (IQ-100)^(1/3) is "bi-modal", it's just a simple transformation and both quantity correlates (supposedly) with the vague term "intelligence".

The question is not in bi-modality though, it's whether you can go from the left side to the right or the middle over time or you should have been born as a rock star.
But what, exactly, are they enabling? What couldn't the people doing the actual work do without them?
Holistic handbook?
I don't recall, either, and even Wikipedia doesn't have much, but apparently, there was http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Military_Mission_to_P.... There also is operation Freston, an SOE operation into Poland in 1944. In neither case, I don't think the Brits fought against Poles, but certainly in the second case (at least, that's what the many links with limited information point at), they invaded Poland. Operation Freston even has a book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Operation-Freston-British-Military-M...

(Given the scarce information, this could still be a hoax, but if so, I fell for it)
Why clone the entire npm registry as opposed to a small relevant subset?
UK Elections Get a Partisan Spin from the Startup World
I recall that after two weeks of "work experience" on a print-shop production line as a teenager I couldn't wait to get back to the relative blissful liberation of an organised lesson programme and essay tasks based on the exam curriculum...
Yeah but they get taxed so much. I think I'd rather have it in my base salary. I'm might be kind of jaded too. In my past jobs were sold to me as if the bonus was a guaranteed part of the salary. Then you would rarely get anything or if they did pay out a bonus it would be much less than 100%.
> 99% of people can learn to program

A good sixth of people are nearly functionally illiterate. I'd say well less than a third of people could ever write a real program.
This is a great idea. I wish I had known about it years ago!
Why do crops need to be grown in California or 'shipped' to China? Can't these crops be provided by other states in the U.S. that are more conducive to farming? It seems California is not a great state for farming, and was engineered to be suitable. I understand the economic value to the state, but using 80% of the water during a drought? It seems like an incredible waste of resources for the financial gain of a single state.
Programming talent isn't bimodal, in fact it isn't a question of traditional talent at all.

There are only two levels of programming ability: "Bad" and "Good Enough". In all but the rarest of edge cases, everything else is a matter of preference. You think that someone's code is elegant, simple, clean, optimized, etc? That's great, but only other programmers might care about those things. The only question that the majority of people care about is, "Does it work?"

Obviously code can be written so poorly that it causes noticeable performance problems, or doesn't work at a scale past the initial requirements. But that falls under the "Does it work?" question. Basically if I'm using it and it isn't annoyingly slow, whoever wrote it was "Good Enough". I don't care if they were a l33t 10X rock star ninja or some guy who just finished a "$language For Dummies" book.

It is genuinely cool to see code that is well designed and well written. And doing that consistently does require the innate talent of a special mind. But let's not confuse elegance with doing the job. Doing the day in day out work of programming is like being a journalist: the most important thing is getting the facts straight, not writing something pretty. The truly talented can do it with the rhetorical flourish of a poet, which is awesome, but not required.

All that most people ask of code is that it's good enough to do whatever it's supposed to do. If we want to turn it into a poetry contest then it's definitely a bimodal distribution, and most of us will end up on the wrong end of the curve.
If you use crouton [1] to manage chroots, you can easily run Sublime and everything else in Linux land. You should be aware of what developer mode is on Chrome OS, though, and all of the negatives that comes with it. The xiwi crouton target allows you to connect to the chroot in a popup window. You can also now launch individual applications giving an integrated experience, including copy/paste.

I ordered the LS pixel, and it was by far the nicest computer I've ever used. I used IntelliJ IDEA in a popup window with zero lag for Java development. After enabling a kernel flag, VirtualBox worked too (with several networking caveats), and thereby Docker.

Ultimately I returned it and got the entry level MBP retina for the same price. Relying on crouton for functionality, meant small stuff would break here or there, much like running Arch Linux. For example, the home, end, page up/page down shortcuts broke in xiwi windows after an update. VirtualBox would cold cut the power to the machine if I enabled bridged networking. 64 GB is exactly half the minimum hd space I need. Developer mode is not a first class citizen within the OS, so I was constantly fighting the machine to get a stable work environment. Etc.

I really really miss it though. Especially the touch screen. It felt like using my future computer today. I needed a dev machine that I could rely on, and my current situation could not justify a $1300 toy. The ecosystem is rapidly evolving, and I am certain I will eventually be using something very much like the Pixel within a couple years. Hope that helps.

[1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
Good points (the unstated ones). This field is more like data junk yard wars.
WRT mythology, one important takeaway about the "1.5 million programmer job shortage" is the management declaring the shortage isn't looking for programmers, or white male programmers, or "rockstar ninja real programmers" but ivy league grads willing to sit thru 8 hour logic puzzle and coding interviews about linear algebra to work for $7.25/hr for minimum 80 hours per week in an open office packed in like sardines while people "work" by playing foozball for 60 hours per week next to you in one of the most expensive cities in the world for next to no stock options in a field rife with ageism where their career will be shorter than a typical NFL quarterback. But other than that, no problemo.

In reality there's no shortage, and isn't going to be one, outside a couple industries in NYC and SV.
No, but if even technically illiterate managers lose their hope in a product that says something.

Groovy devs have been unable to keep up with cleanups, improvements and requirements since years. There is just no point in using the language. Everything it could do is done better elsewhere.
The process from PHP4 to PHP5 was long but there were clear advantages to PHP5 that it made it logical choice for all new projects. I'm still working with brand new Python 2.7 code.
Nature paper here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7549/full/nature1...

Paper title uses "three-atom-thick" instead of "three atom-thick" (hyphen difference).
Bayesian Business Intelligence
Nor do I, but I allow for the possibility of the ends justifying the means still being a moral path in some circumstances. I also purposely tried to leave out "stable" as a goal adjective, as I agree that's an entirely too amorphous term.

I think Turkey is an interesting, if heavily cult-of-personality, example.

In essence, the US Supreme Court is a very real check on democracy and free speech. The former in that it can override democratic decisions, and the latter in that it has decided in several judgements that the right to free speech is not absolute (that it has not done so more frequently is kind of immaterial to the ideals of the state).

I would argue as a that historically people have show that they value personal gain more than either freedom or convenience, particularly in exactly the kind of government-today-gone-tomorrow states we're talking about.

As soon as you involve people with guns, then the person with the biggest gun starts having a better argument. Which is how you get central African transitions as opposed to South Africa.

A new state is only one of the potential outcomes of revolution. Endemic violence is another (Somalia, Congo, Afghanistan, Iraq).
Where I live the management companies are watering the decoration plantation every day regardless if it was raining the previous day or not. The also have some leaks, but guess what, they don't care because they are not motivated financially to solve these problems. If you report them to the authorities they simply defer the cost to the renters. Now, the question is how long it takes it the local authorities to close these loopholes and put effective measure to stop wasting water. Wait, they are also not interested. Nevermind. :)
>Good programming is an art

Exactly this (though OP's article touches on this too). All the BS about category theory, lambdas calculus, and "logic" aside, DHH was absolutely right when he said building large software systems is much closer to writing a novel than anything science or math. Because of this inherent creative art nature, programming often depends on divine inspiration (for lack of a better term) - sometimes you sit down, and immediately see how all the workflows and data-structures, sometimes you can beat you head against a screen for months and wind up refactoring half of it.

In my opinion, the best way to tell if you are cut out to be a great programmer or not is whether you can finish and publish a project or not. Sorting algos, typing speed, functional programming, monads, es7-await, and all that jazz that interviewers like to look for can all be learned (and, comparatively, they are easy to learn), and even if you learn them, it won't make you a good programmer if you can't build extremely complex and yet detailed systems in your head.
Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification. I thought you meant that 5 hours a week was all it took to fulfill your job requirements.

Btw, Thank you for your candor. I can relate to your experience; knowing I could do so much better, but just not being able to focus on work adequately because at times my "brain just refuses to work correctly." So frustrating. Glad to see that someone has hacked a workaround to the problem.
The article could be one word long: "No!" But I guess that does not sell as many ads.
This recruiter idea is genius. I just added it to my standard reply to recruiters and I've already got a response.
You forgot with fields with line-breaks, with non printrable characters and so on.
Investments by Google Ventures are unconstrained by and untied from the rest of Google's corporate strategy.
> a set of interconnected computers

That just makes it a network.
I think it would be really cool to integrate a GPU into a database to speed up certain operations if an optimizer can decide that certain parts of a query will benefit from it. The thrust docs [0] indicate that the C++ gpu library can be used effectively for sorting, I wonder if sorts on non-indexed fields can be sped up by attaching a GPU to my database!

[0] http://thrust.github.io/
While there's clearly some skill that matters, there's a difference between someone that's going slow and being thoughtful (arguably too thoughtful in many cases, myself included especially here) and being just plain slow.

My idea of a slow and not particularly thoughtful programmers are the ones that really do look like someone's programming in slow motion - as well as everything else (this is something beyond the professional work I've seen). They're slow to ssh to a remote server, they're still typing in passwords again and again every day, they're slow to type out even a simple git commit message, they're slow to write out an e-mail that has very low interesting content in it. In their off-time, they're going fishing, maybe playing board games, or just constantly trying to relax and avoid thinking about anything at all because they seem to instinctively avoid anything that would be serious or present any sort of stress. To me, they're the complete opposite of the "type A" personality that's always trying to stay occupied and hyperactive. I have no problem with this life approach on a personal level, but it's a liability in a business setting wherever you are in the world and whatever industry you're in because there is just no urgency to anything and the person is pretty much incapable of handling modern professional life perhaps in general.
I think the context you've quoted only further proves my point. This sentence means absolutely nothing to me, it's trivial and devoid of any actionable information. But because the interviewee is a "famous data scientist" it is suddenly important info that needs to be shared with the world?
How ironic. Docker is one of the biggest and most successful Go deployments there is.
Standardized curricula (which is admittedly distinct from standardized testing) is useful as prior to statewide standards, it was not unusual for a move of just 10 miles to put your children in a school district with completely different curriculum for at least one subject.

The most positive thing I've heard about Common Core is that a federal standard will mean out-of-state transfer students will be more likely to be on the same page as current students.
> http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors/1

> http://www.economist.com/node/196071

Uh-huh. Vide:

http://dvorak.mwbrooks.com/dissent.html

To be honest, I don't get how anyone takes that series seriously. For God's sake, it was written by economists trying to justify their economic model - that should make it suspect INSTANTLY.
Sorry, I really want to understand your point but I am unable. You disagree with the thesis that more intensive screening and identification of these health issues (since the '90s) have increased the number of people diagnosed with the disease, but has not significantly impacted the mortality rates. This seems to be aligned to the stats you quoted. What am I missing?
> good programming is an art

If the approach to encouragement is to require artisinal comparisons for success, then you're alienating many right out of the gate.

Most kids loathe piano lessons. But they can still be 10-100X better at it than anyone here and not need to stroke their egos by calling themselves artists.
> Why do crops need to be grown in California or 'shipped' to China? Can't these crops be provided by other states in the U.S. that are more conducive to farming?

If they could, they would.

> It seems California is not a great state for farming, and was engineered to be suitable.

No place is a great place for modern farming, which requires considerable man-made infrastructure in any case. But in terms of things that you can't easily engineer around (except, recently, fresh water within a convenient collection area) California is a very good place for farming.