skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...Except it's dead.

InfiniBand was the way to go 5/10 years ago, when 10G Ethernet was not there.

Nowadays, most of companies that invested in IB years ago are stuck with a dead infrastructure. It costs a lot, there is very little knowledge about the techno, and most support for it is dropping (e.g. glusterfs).
Sad truth is most of these old IB infra are now used for IPoIB ...

Source: been working in HFT firms implementing IB RDMA, then GBEth RDMA, now proprietary NIC RDMA
Here is the type of technology I love;

Essentially, our KVM upgrade means you get a much faster server just by clicking a button..
UltraEdit http://www.ultraedit.com/support/tutorials_power_tips/ultrae...
Very nice, most cases really don't take into account the fact that you want the GPIO easily accessible while the Pi is in a case.

But I'm still very much waiting on this touchscreen: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/21/pi-pads/ It was announced for and of 2014. Does anybody have any news on this?
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We did exactly this (discuss among employees and collectively object to onerous non-compete terms) when being acquired by a much larger company. We were successful in having them change the terms of the new agreements to be much more reasonable.
They forget to mention entire buildings worth 10s of millions are now free of journals for other uses.

There's far less staff needed to curate the journals.

And the millions saved in time with researchers getting them on line.

Libraries are much better off. They just could be even more so.
Made+From+Black+Heavy+Duty+Drill+Fabric+Material+With+Two+Pockets
No. Every action on a network must be directly attributable to exactly one real person. Every person should have permissions to the data/systems they need under their own account. If that includes subordinates' email inboxes and home directories, so be it.

In some cases it may be necessary to see the application from another user's perspective. In this case you build a function analogous to "sudo -i -u user" which lets the privileged employee use his own account to get a session under another user's account, while generating an audit trail.

However this is usually not the right answer. Google Apps does not provide an "impersonate" function, but API endpoints which let you dump all mail to your own archiving system (where your company can search it for investigations, legal discovery, etc.) This is more efficient anyway, and doesn't require the disclosure of user passwords.

You can also do this crudely by resetting the password in the database, gathering whatever you need to, and then changing the password back by replacing the old hash directly in the database. Then at least the impersonation is evident in your MySQL logs.

If there is an Excel sheet of passwords shared among managers, and someone does something nasty from an account whose password is on that sheet, good luck figuring out whether the perpetrator is the account owner, one of the n managers with access to the passwords list, or someone else entirely.
I wish we would not need Shenzhen.
Hessian+Apron+With+Lined
I picked Python as its the language I think most easy to write and read. Concise enough without being write-only.
Hi, I am the author of this library. I am really glad you liked it and it helped you learn. I started this last year when I was working on a research project to remotely enable real-time image processing using cellular neural networks (CNN) on raspberry pi from Internet application. This was part of a demo at 14th Cellular Nanoscale Networks and Applications (CNNA) Conference 2014. I have also written a blog post, available at http://blog.ankitaggarwal.me/technology/image-processing-wit....

Any feedback is much appreciated. Thanks!
C# and Go are both good choices. Hopefully Microsoft will deliver a decent Linux dev experience via VS Code / Monaco to make C# more appealing though. In 2015 people really deserve a language with generics in it. But, yeah just stay away from dynamic languages beyond prototypes. At least don't pick something that is both dynamic AND weakly typed.
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Join the club. http://jacquesmattheij.com/Fifty

I wouldn't sweat it too much, just ignore the number and keep pushing.

Cutting all advertising out of your life is a suggestion I'd heartily recommend, I did that many years ago as much as I could (outdoors it's a bit harder).
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Are they considered independent contractors or do you pay them through a Chinese subsidiary? I'm looking into issue currently and all the bureaucracy (on both sides) is driving me mad.
"Framemaker: it's riddled with features!"
The World Still Needs Zerocash Even Though We Now Have Confidential Transactions
"Just a formality" = "it's meaningless"

I never said that. So your rephrasing my words into something I did not say and then wikipediaing me about 'weasel words' seems particularly ill-placed and insulting.
Very cool! Well done Nikolay. Cheers!
Georgian has a fun number system too - numbers between 20-90 are expressed as a multiple of 20 + a number between 1 and 19: http://blog.conjugate.cz/georgian-is-fun
The latest global temperature data are breaking records
There are many hybrids with detachable keyboards; they're not that far from what you seem to want.
I've seen it work when two-thirds of the company being acquired had largely the same objections.
There's an appreciable suboptimality in the path near Chicago.

It would be shorter to go from Pleasant Prarie to Highland Park and then Aurora and Markham, instead of the path shown.
I'm disagreeing mainly that any clause can be described as "standard" - if it is described as "standard", it usually means "unfairly in the company's interest". There is no standard employment contract, by any definition of the word standard that I understand.

I've signed employment contracts, not in the US.

I've hired lawyers to review employment contracts on several occasions.

One reason that advice here on HN is insufficient is because we don't know how or whether any clause affects or will affect the OP. A lawyer will be able to discuss the full consequences of the contract with reference to the OP's personal situation.

In my personal case, lawyers have consistently advised me that an Intellectual Property transfer clause is strongly against my interest to sign.

When I have taken this back to employers, this has led to quick and easy resolution - in both directions. In one case, that clause was stricken happily and with no problem. In another case, it quickly became obvious that the employer was acting in bad faith and I was happy to leave.
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Wamda Capital announces the launch of its regional growth stage venture fund
A lot of those is "job openings" that translate seniority to years of experience

So the recruiter inputs "wants senior node.js dev" and the software outputs "10+ years Node.js"
What this does not touch on is be prepared to be a grease monkey, roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty and most importantly learn how to make recommendations but not take it personally if they’re ignored for seemingly irrational reasons. Organisational dysfunction is the norm, not the exception.

Broadly speaking I’ve seen most of my work fall into these categories:

a) Help we need someone competent to aid us in a murky project
b) We are a dysfunctional organisation, who require transient developers to put up with their modus operandi.
c) We need your experience and expertise for a gap in our project

I’ve found (c) is best but (b) pays best though it can be stressful if your passionate about quality, engineering practices or process and (a) is often relatively short term but can garner kudos and create better opportunities.

Most companies don’t hire contractors because they’re doing swimmingly. Often it’s because they have some degree of dysfunction. For example large institutions in the City regularly operate as a parody of the Mythical Man Month. Expect Waterfall, PMO, silos of BA, Dev, QA; UAT (manual), Cookie Cutter templates to everything. Expect most “business” interaction to be via a PM and scrums to be lengthy tortious ordeals. (This is why companies like Thought Works do so well and why I expect some serious disruption in the coming years from Startup targeting City companies).

Expect people to ask you your advice and for you to mentor less experienced developers. Do not expect your advice to be implemented, or rather expect it to be watered down with compromise by non-technical councils.

I really like contracting. I enjoy the flexibility, variety and the challenges. I enjoy the people and skills I learn and now my network has expanded and I have earned a reasonable reputation I enjoy the better projects.

I second the sentiment about going IPSE and of hiring a decent accountancy. Don't worry about their portals or how shabby a website may look, pick them based on their competency.

Bite the bullet. Go for it!
It's funny how the Germans and Dutch (rightfully) ridicule Americans for writing dates in middle-endian order like 9/11/2001, yet they say numbers with the decade flip "two and forty". That's just as ridiculous.
A bit OT, but this reminds me of an inspirational mathematics teacher I had, who loved to present the subject as a series of applied problem-solving exercises, rather than the usual learn-by-rote.

One of his problems was: if a 33 1/3 rpm record is 12 inches in diameter and plays for 25 minutes, how wide is the groove?

I had a clear visualisation in my head of the problem, including the groove cut into the vinyl. Watching this is like listening to my teacher speaking to me again.
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I just want a thick, 6 or 7 inch laptop with a foldable keyboard.

I don't know why nobody is doing such a pocket "laptop". It would be really great to type code. I can't really type properly with a touchscreen, it can be sluggish, maybe I need to get used to it, bu typing characters like []{}(); etc is not really practical.

Maybe because there's nothing else than android for something between a laptop and a smartphone. One might want a minimal OS, but that could do a little more than android.
Software apps have on average 24 vulnerabilities inherited from buggy components
Interesting article, but I get the impression it was downplaying environmental and social concerns quite a lot. A lot of "promising signs" but in the meantime you get heavy metals in your food, and workers' conditions are just bearable. It's probably better than most other parts of China but still, the situation seems to be quite bad.
> Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all right-parenthesis.
What about a thick, 7 or 6 inch laptop with a foldable keyboard ? No GSM, just wifi and USB ? Many programmers would like one.
"But they'd be wrong! Truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that [the marginal hosting costs between cloud service providers] mattered. But does it bollocks. Not compared to how [developer productivity and costs] matter."[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3tFZxhVaXo
DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillance news broke
The assembly thing is indeed annoying, they did it this way because it's a franchise model. Anyone can request to open an assembly in their area, providing they fit the criterias. You're in charge of contacting farmers and animating the assembly, and you split the profits with La Ruche Qui Dit Oui.

Since I'm living in Paris, I have one quite close to my place, with plenty of choice. Prices are expensive compared to normal groceries, but veggies are mostly organics and the price is on par or cheaper compared to normal organic seller. The taste is great, it's better than most farmer's market and much better than the usual groceries. Can't eat that everyday because of the price though!
“We would like to offer you 7 days to export data and cancel your Hiveage.” [pdf]
I require some context to fully understand what's going on here.

I imagine "blocked" means that the flights in question are not displayed? Despite a user presumably uploading the metadata for the flight in question as part of their feed?

And thus, can't someone still see these flights with their directly-connected SDR device?

And thus, can't someone just start a new FR24 service that doesn't censor these data?

> There is a discussion on FAA meetings about encrypting the ADS-B signal. By angering the authorities, we will only speed up this process.

Holy hell, for real? At this point, there are vanishingly few laws with which I agree even in principle, but "if you are going to fly a 375-ton hunk of metal through the air, you need to clearly broadcast flight details in plain text" is a pretty damn reasonable one.

What possible justification can there be for targeting services like FR24?
Remember the Tie Fighter -vs- Death Star poster swag from Usenix?

4.x > V ∀ x from 0..∞
Exactly! How dare people try and improve Linux when they could use something else instead!
I've signed employment contracts, not in the US.

You'll forgive me, but surely, in this case at least, this makes further conversation pointless. It's a question about a US employment contract and whether its clauses are onerous, unusual and how to handle them. A topic in which, as far as I can tell, by your own admission, you have neither experience nor expertise. Correct me if I've misrepresented your position in some way.
Funny. I've had lots of problems with Hays. Cancelling cheques, unenforceable and ridiculous clauses in contracts for example.

The best agencies? None. Don't use them if you can help it. If you have to the smaller the boutique ones tend to be better, if nothing else because they'll have the better clients and more interesting projects.
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MM/DD/YYYY is simply a direct transliteration of spoken English, which makes it easy to read and write dates. In other languages, the spoken version is little endian or big endian, and the written version aligns accordingly. (At least for the languages I know.)
I use La Ruche in Lyon, France. They have several assembly locations across the city. I think it is more expensive that usual market but I suppose it is worth it. For example, a 1.4kg chicken is about 14€. In the market I would buy it for 9 or 10€, so it is not that overpriced, considering that the La Rouche chicken, supposedly, saw some sun's light in its lifetime.

I may seem not very convinced, but I do like it. Each Thursday I go and get my stuff, taste some local brewery beer and chit-chat with the producers. Oh and the bread from the bread lady is awesome. Full disclosure: My girlfriend started all the let's buy La Ruche and Marechal-Fraicheur stuff... I don't think I would have done it by myself.
> In all seriousness though, what are your options:

An obvious one, getting an explanation from the vendor / upstream before we proceed to any decision.

Vendors do tend to care about us.

> 1. fork Chromium and remove the closed components

It's normal to have a collection of patches in the package file / port.

> 2. use another browser
> 3. moan on the internet

Issue trackers (such as one in the aforementioned posts) allow attachments / patches. They tend to be constructive.
Lol. Take a step back and remember that some planes are privately owned.

And now imagine a website called numberplateradar24.com that aggregates the feeds from 1000s of number plates scanners around the country. Which means you can track an individuals car.... does this sound like an invasion of privacy. Where's the dividing line? I think it's totally reasonable that private planes are allowed to encrypt their identities. As long as their position is still trackable it doesn't matter if the general public don't know everything.
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I hope there's a laugh out there for some of you ... =|
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> Reddit is proof that lisp is really powerful. Paul Graham originally wrote reddit, in lisp, on the back of a napkin while he was waiting for a coffee. it was so powerful that it had to be rewritten in python just so that ordinary computers could understand it. Because it was written in lisp it was almost no effort to rewrite the entire thing, and the rewrite was completed in-between two processor cycles. Paul Graham himself was completely written in lisp, by an earlier version of himself, also written in lisp, by an earlier version of lisp. It's lisp, paul graham, lisp, paul graham, all the way down.

(from http://www.secretgeek.net/lisp_truth)
Won't companies just fire the H1-Bs before the year is up and keep the treadmill rolling?
Hmmm... So the article seems to suggest that for every insertion of a character, a log time lookup is made. Is that really the case? If so, why is the leaf node that the cursor is in not saved? If you were to use a B+-tree implementation then you would already have access to neighbour pointers for rebalancing purposes, making the majority of incremental changes very cheap (constant time). This is just a thought, there may be good reasons why it's not possible.
Apple's new system fonts – design, features and implementation
The largest source of contracts is the federal government domestic and foreign. In the United States there is fbo.gov that lists many contracts available and if you want to know what to charge starting out you can look at https://www.usaspending.gov/ and compare company size, time in business and the services offered.

You will need to make sure your business is registered - https://www.sba.gov/content/register-government-contracting and meets the requirements for the type of contract your biding on. There are some requirements depending on the type of contract you are trying to get setup - http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/101791 but many businesses doing government contracting are doing very well now (Northrop Grumman, Lockeed Martin, Boeing, etc.) since their early days as a small business.

If you want to build up your customer base you can go with agencies or look for businesses that want to Business 2 Business which will typically pay the highest rates.
"if you are going to fly a 375-ton hunk of metal through the air, you need to clearly broadcast flight details in plain text"

Why? I obviously get why you have to tell all the relevant authorities and so on and so forth, but why do you have to tell your nosy neighbor where you went on holiday last weekend.

Or did you mean that the rule should only apply to "hunks of metal" 375 tonnes and over (which is pretty damn huge, given that an A330 has a maximum takeoff weight of around 230 tonnes)?
Meta: It's obviously a puff piece. It is also true that there are folks that enjoy the city.

I was going to flag it and file it under "why the heck did that appear on HN?", but if it generates some useful conversation about hiring and startups, it's worth it. A lot of puff pieces on HN (and elsewhere)

It makes for an interesting exercise to take all of the criticism that you see elsewhere and note how it is handled in the article. "...Labor practices are still a concern, but..." and "...environmental issues are still a major concern, there are hopeful signs..."

Note the use of the passive voice and the elimination of the subject of the sentence. It's never "I made a mistake" or "China's labor practices concern others", it's "mistakes were made" and "labor practices are a concern" (I also love the word "concern". What does that mean? If you're driving in your car and the radio doesn't work, is that concerning? If the car catches fire, is that concerning? "It's a concern" simply says that you thought about it. Brownies are a concern)

We could use a lot more China articles -- huge market, lots of really cool stuff going on there. But we would be remiss if we read any article on HN without a critical eye to context, style, and agenda.
I think I misunderstood - so it's just the identity that is being blocked (and, pursuant to this discussion, may be encrypted)? Not the actual flight data?

...and no, I don't recognize a right to "privacy" that is so tentacular as to prohibit people from walking around with a camera, running some computer vision on it, and sharing the result with like-minded hobbyists doing the same thing.
Hacking powerful EV drivetrains
That's an easy one. List it in your AoI exemptions exhibit. 'Invention' is a term of art, rather than a term of English, in this case.
At least NTP works on windows I have been trying to migrate a small 15 mac office to use networked users - because of the changes apple made to NTP all the networked macs lose sync after a couple of hours and crash quite often screwing up the outlook database.

It's certainly soured me on apple period I am recommending getting some nice dell i7 hexcore work stations.
> there need to be ways to [...]

You may want ways the way people want a second coming, or the universe to be flat instead of open, but those are wishes.

Every properly implemented HTTPS site is a TOR gateway, every ethereum (or other CC2.0+) script a HTTPS-TOR gatway, and so forth. To the degree you stop it, you also crush also general purpose computing.

Curse gravity and take 1d6 damage per meter fallen, or grab the rope and suffer modest friction-burns.

Ultimately you combat violence with prosperity, and ignorance with education. There aren't a lot of short-cuts.
Playing around with Python in PostgreSQL
>As someone who has contributed to both projects, I wouldn't say Chromium is any less welcoming to contributors than Firefox.

You're far more likely to have hidden discussions about features or get patches obsolete due to code drops out of the blue when trying to upstream to Chromium.

>Firefox even has similar automated downloaded of binary blobs like the EME plugin.

Mozilla's EME stuff was widely discussed, announced in advance, and coordinated with distros.

Not quite in the same league as this.
They are probably liking off recommendations on the side or otherwise that show avatar at best

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Do you ever comment more than a sentence or two? You are recognisable as the archetypical "low-effort" contributor.
Psion 5 2015 remix, yes please :)
I find this post interesting because working with Cassandra requires truly
different patterns compared to standard RDBMSs and even other NoSql systems.

I worked recently on a project where we used Cassandra with so many surprises,
often learned the hard way with bugs in production,
that the team felt discouraged more than once
before we succeed to setup a reliable, efficient and scalable system.

Much more than said in the post,
this is really tricky in practice to get eventual consistency and data modeling right.
Not only because the concepts are new or hard to grasp.
But rather because Cassandra fails on the principle of least surprise.
Two features, which are working fine in isolation,
may behave in unexpected way once combined.

- Getting consistency right is complex, because the actual consistency you get
is the result of consistency levels scattered along all the queries.

- Denormalization works fine at first,
but quickly reaches a point where the right combination of columns is missing.

- Having a large count of columns is fine, till you try to delete some and get tombstones.

- Tombstones are automatically removed during compactions,
unless there are too many tombstones leading to memory exhaustion.

- The joining of a node may be aborted in case of a long GC pause,
due to a greedy data model or too many tombstones.

- We even experienced a Cassandra bug - counters were corrupted by a new node joining the cluster
(this has been fixed with version 2.0)

In other words, many aspects are deeply tied together
- data modeling, query coding and system tuning.
This makes things really complex to grasp.

What worked for us, was to design in team.
This gave us maximum opportunities to share experience,
to explore the solution space,
to discuss pros and cons
and to design right.