skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really enjoy my 99 dollar Echo. I am also not sure I would have bought it at the higher price. I have had it since last November and still use it daily. I love that they keep slowly adding functionality to expand its uses without overwhelming me. After using it so much at home I often miss it at work. I may have to get one for work at my next Prime renewal date.
I'm not sure if this is still the case but they used to delete images that did not gain any views in 6 months. Something to be aware of.
"hostile conditions ... for delicate mammals ... outside of earth"

Lets try a test of the general principle. Cross off the last three words and see if Canada, Australia, the western half of the USA, are all uninhabited. If they are, then no one will live in space. If people live in the desert in Nevada, then its highly likely people will (eventually) live in space.
The simplest solution is to shorten the H1-B time to a year and auto-convert to green card.

More tech immigrants. No indentured servitude.

Everybody wins. Except for the tech corporations who are suppressing wages--which is all of them--which is why it never happens.
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Moderate, specific levels of immigration, legal only.
Weighted point system; random draw.

Capital can move to where labor is cheaper.
No need for USA to have population density of Japan, China or India.

I can't blame people for wanting to flee corruption, but some people staying and fighting is a better way to make the world better.
I would love to see a return to investing in and updating some of the physical infrastructure that has degraded over time.

In the USA there are a huge amounts of bridges that need updating/repairing, dams needing repair (or removal), roads needing repair, dilapidated school buildings needing updating (as well as energy efficiency updates), etc. There seems like TONS of work to be done to refresh our aging physical infrastructure.
The examples don't sound like such contradictions. Foir exasmplke you can be for social programs even if you think they are somewhat inefficient. You can for cutting spending (eg military) while supporting infrastructure programs too.
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Love that. If they burn too many people, they have to create new questions.
They don't pay you for the interview, but that usually costs the company several man-hours worth of work just for the time an applicant is on-site. Should applicants be reimbursing companies for failed interviews?
Obviously, you can overcome any legal hurdle with "tenacity".

Lottery is out if he intended to stay. I am wondering if you are a troll for even having suggested it. It is meant for people outside the US - with no intent of ever visiting. It signals immigration intent, so even tourist visas can be denied on that alone. It is a lottery, not an application. Very low odds that would actually make it harder for him to stay in the country. He seems to have a couple of brain cells, so he didn't go for that.

Marrying may not be an option, or maybe not yet. He may not want to, he may not have found someone he truly wants to marry (and doing it for the sole purpose of getting a visa is fraud), he may not even like women. I don't know why he didn't, and you don't either.

Getting a job that will want to sponsor a visa only really works if the demand is truly ridiculous to justify it - such as computer science or engineering. Changing what appears to be a successful law carreer for another in, say, computer science is not really an option without leaving the US, which the author did not want to do in the first place.

So, once he's back in New Zealand, what are his options? Other than the lottery, which is a lottery, not a guarantee. There are a few avenues he could try, but I can think of none that don't have the risk of rebuilding his whole life and getting deported a few years later, once again.

No matter how tenacious he is.
>The reason I focus on the other effects is that, in deciding how government/culture might rearrange itself to replace work, I think it's critical to see that work is about more than money--and the benefit of work is about more than a paycheck. It is about esteem, purpose, community, a sense of meaningfulness in life, and it's not clear to me that all of those things comes with a monthly government check; so it's useful to think of ways we could replace these values in the future.

It is also about actually accomplishing something that needed doing. This is precisely why we want it to disappear: unfilled needs are bad.
Thanks! Why would someone think I want to read a novel-length article about this?
You aren't asking them to invest $100k/yr. You're asking them to bring you in to an on-site interview. A few hours of their time for a few hours of your own is much more equitable.
Do any of the books go into detail explaining how and why successful strategies worked? Historically that is. I wouldn't expect any strategies outlined in a book to be profitable today, but I would be interested in how a strategy was formalised.
The bottom line, TPP can change it in US, it can change it in other participating countries. And undemocratically with that.
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> How did you get that early traffic?

Mostly word of mouth.

> Was it just google traffic?

Google was a good source of traffic, but I seem to recall it being only 10-20% of new users.

> What do you think made people stick in those early days without much happening on the site?

The community and content. Which is hopefully what gets them to stay now. :)
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Ok, url changed from http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/23/reddit-turns-ten-years-old-....
As another example, in people of East Asian descent, people who follow East Asian customs get a different type of esophageal cancer from those who follow an American custom. These cancer patterns are behaviorally driven, and in this case a clear change can be seen from East Asian immigrants to the US who are generation 0 to those who are generation 1 and beyond.

I would expect a similar model to hold here.
Are you a eugenicist and human depopulation advocate?
It was Digg v2 for me. I'm a redditor for over nine years.
I couldn't put that book down. It was probably one of the best bits of hard science fiction I've read recently.
Yes there was a definite uptick in commenting and submissions, but the overall traffic change (uniques and page views) wasn't huge.
No, they are not using the Big-3 players.

ISPs are using Alcatel and Juniper still sure, big enterprise shops are still swearing by Cisco.

Big cloud infrastructure has all moved to Linux on merchant silicon, either stuff like Quanta, Pico8 or even more DIY like OCP.

As for terminating VxLAN on legacy gear, yeah that is probably a bad idea and someone probably made a bad decision to end up with an architecture that requires that.

As for control plane. Most people using VxLAN at scale have their own control planes. They are actually stupidly easy to build because the edge is so easy to work with.
I built my own that integrates with the Linux native VxLAN implementation using netlink to program the forwarding table.

At the end of the day VxLAN isn't a great replacement for MPLS but it's a great encapsulation system for fully software defined datacenters that have already invested into a full control plane for all compute and networking (think Mesos, Kubernetes).

It's also a good choice for smaller scale stuff because it scales down nicely. Multicast forwarding might suck in a real DC situation but for a lot of newbies playing around it's a good way to get into doing L2oL3.

I don't think the WAN cases matter that much. At the point where it's a problem you have the people around to make said problem go away. Specifically trying to do cross DC IP address mobility is dumb in the first place. Most models that actually work well cross datacenter simply terminate it in one place and bring it up the workload on an entirely new set of resources in the new DC. This is much easier and is shared nothing usually (except maybe the dataset, but that is usually stored in S3/HDFS/Ceph/other distributed store here).

Long story short, it does it's job fine. Use it for something it wasn't built for and yes it will hurt you.
Having control of your internal network does not fix missing service discovery support in all the applications you're running that likes to assume that port numbers are static and unchanging.
New ultralow-power circuit improves efficiency of energy harvesting
geuis's comment pulled from reddit sounds right.

I used to work with satellite data that looked at visible light, but my dataset was close to Earth. I can imagine that the relative brightness of the surface of Ceres is very very low compared to what I've worked with, so keeping that in mind, any spot that spikes above some threshold is going to saturate your image.

My data set was in black and white and had an integer brightness range of 32767.

The raw data hovered between 20000 and 32767 (unitless intensity) because the instrument I worked on was old, and had suffered degradation, leaving a stronger "dark current" that needed to be removed.

General steps for processing involved:

1) subtracting noise from the raw data, which came via a number of different paths
2) median filtering raw image frames into a single composite image, this may involve some masking
3) removing large scale noise (in our case, stars, planets and the moon)
4) adjusting the data range for presentation (this is only done for looking at the images, not for actual processing)

The last step is probably what's causing this bright spot to seem so bright. With a different range of values, Ceres would look like a dark dark grey disc, with a lighter grey spot where the very bright spot is visible.

I'd like to know the actual surface brightness of that spot, if it looks to be the same brightness as the Sun's reflection off of ice at that distance, it would clear things up pretty fast.

Ice could be subsurface ice, or it could be remnant from the actual impacting object, if it were a comet.
But there is also an increase in demand, those new works have money and want to spend it.

It balances out usually in the positive.
It depends where you are from. But it's not that hard for US and Canadian citizens if you have a job or want to study. You won't be thrown out as quickly as in the US.
Thanks. That seems covered by the original source rule, so we changed to this from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjVDqfUhXOY.
If someone solved a significant problem at your request, but despite this you did not hire them or otherwise compensate them for that work, I don't see how you have any right either legally or ethically to expect them not to then use the work to advertise what they can do to anyone else. The premise is one-sided enough already (though the argument elsewhere in this HN discussion that it might be preferred by nervous interviewees is an interesting one I haven't noticed before) and I think expecting any sort of loyalty or confidentiality after the process has ended is rather optimistic.
Congratulations and fantastic news for the future
Actually building and attaining good credit is a valuable asset in its own right. Building wealth is more than refusing to play the game and putting money in a shoebox.

Be disciplined and use various financial vehicles for your advantage.

No credit == Bad credit.

This equates to you being seen as more risky which equals you paying more interest for any loan in the future. Having good credit also afford you more opportunities.

I only know b/c I avoided holding a CC and loans for years until it started to hurt. Now I use them with discipline and for my advantage and am 810+
I'm sure it's true that a non-trivial number of good candidates will reject a job opportunity when asked to do a work sample. These, however, will generally be those with plenty of attractive alternative offers - the ones well known in the community, with a good network etc.

At the other end of the stick, there are those still trying to break in to the field. They may have moved to a new city, they may have worked in a totally unknown firm, they may have taken an "alternative" path through the educational system (and just to be blatantly obvious, the above describes me, circa 5 years ago) - their CVs don't jump out at employers, and as even phone screens are fairly expensive in engineer time, they are not very likely to be given a chance.

Online coding challenges and take-home tests etc are a quick and cheap way to extend an opportunity to more "risky" candidates. I think that's an important element.

(FTR, the company I ended up with, I got through to primarily via a "Who's hiring" thread on HN, however they did operate a "take home" test that took one hour).
If you think we should provide support mechanisms like activity centers for the unemployed, I think you'll love the fifth section of the piece where I say we should provide support mechanisms like activity centers for the unemployed!

I'm okay with disagreeing over the centrality of work. Some very smart people think that maintaining structured busy-ness is very important psychologically. Some people disagree. But it seems to me that we agree on many of the solutions, including a basic income and activity centers.
Hi, one of the original authors here.

You're confusing rows per second with bytes per second. We're measuring here in rows per second, with random data that takes four bytes per record. So the group-by is showing around 24 GB/sec for CPU and roughly 1 TB/sec for the GPUs. Admittedly we are a small startup and there are some optimizations still to be made on CPU (we're working on being NUMA-aware, for example), but the CPU performance is not bad and still much higher for group by than you see in other databases.

You have to remember that we're building a full database and visualization system and not just optimizing for a single benchmark. In addition we're trying to make the point that you can hit this 1-2TB/sec (depending on the query) on a single server with GPUs, which means assuming the compressed data fits in 192GB of GPU RAM you can get much higher performance that you would see out of a whole rack of beefy CPU servers, particularly when you take into account the network overhead that distributed databases suffer. Furthermore, the bandwidth of Nvidia's Pascal architecture (to be released next year) should have at least 2X the bandwidth by using High Bandwidth Memory and likely significantly higher memory sizes, so our speedups will only increase.
but those who end up doing it still make good money

If they can land a good job or a partnership. Many struggle[0].

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/business/dealbook/burdened...
Yeah emacs is a very useful tool as part of your data science workflow.

So is IPython notebook.

So is vim along with tmux, a good tiling window manager, and shell-tools.

However none of them are without flaws. None of them are free from requiring you to peek under the hood, and start a path towards becoming a hacker of your own tools, be it vim-scripting using python, or emacs scripting using elisp or guile. And once you have a turing-complete language under your tools, everything a programming language can do your tool can. But if there's a missing feature set requiring non trivial amount of code and no one on the internet has developed that code, you have to either take a long detour from your main project to develop that feature, or keep working the hard way, without that feature.

And most importantly, none of them should get you under the impression that yours is the final tool you'll ever need and it'll solve all your problems!
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Schengen is for citizens only. If you are third-country national who is a permanent resident of a Schengen country, with an unlimited right to work, you have exactly ZERO right to live or work in any other Schengen country. Sure, you can travel by land without having your passport checked, but that's as far as it goes.

The European Union is a Union until you need it to behave like one, and then it isn't.
Just don't ask me how to get a literal asterisk in there.
Culture exports carry with them morals, ethics, and value systems. Different countries have different m/e/v, and they may not want America's. There's nothing to say America has the right set of m/e/v; hell, people bitch about America's puritanical nature on this very website all the time. In which case it's easy to see why a country might be concerned about importing America's culture, given the m/e/v that come with it.
...at least describe what the product is for the ones who have no idea instead of link-baiting people.
Also increase in comfort and development is correlated with smaller children number, so an hyper modern world may have smaller population "momentum". There's a statistician with a TED talk about that. Maybe that one http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y... I cant recall.
Does having a mincome stop you from stressing over the guy across the street who has a bigger one and a better looking wife? Maybe it does, but I don't think the mincome or quality of life is the biggest driver for that. The biggest driver is freedom (Do I truly believe I have every opportunity to become what/WHO I want to be?)

Can we really achieve that freedom for everyone in the real world? Is getting close good enough? Will virtual worlds and simulation provide us that freedom?
> That's been the promise for... how many years now? IIRC, it was before EC2 even existed, and we're obviously not there yet.

For some values of "we". If you're stuck on EC2, yeah, you've got a problem.
Thank you for the corrections, I was going on incorrect info from a family member and friend.
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A nation exists to serve the will of /its people/. With rampant illegal and legal immigration, a nation cannot know who /its people/ are. A nation serving no one people is a nation serving no one, it instead arbitrates in favor of whichever group screams the loudest. Diversity leads to division. Division leads to divestment. Divestment leads to dissolution and war.

America is more than a place to make money, it is more than a marketplace, it is a /home/ built by North-Western European ancestors for the benefit of their progeny. The rest of the world is not entitled to live in the United States, hence the inconvenience of the law which the parent article so illogically decries.

There's no need for America and the West to bankrupt themselves raising the children of others; other's haven't, don't, and won't do the same for dispossessed European peoples.
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I've seen several companies giving out such homework to me or my friends back in college. And to be honest, none of the are among the "great culture company list" people are talking about. Beside all the issues you mentioned above, those tests don't have a clear PASS line. You spent hours on that and can be rejected for no reason. Back in college I've done a code challenge from Box and my solution ranked No.1 in their leaderboard (although nearly 100 people are No.1 with the same highest score) and I was rejected without an interview. Another company I don't remember rejected me because I used (x * 8) not (x << 3). (But I'm interviewing a web company and I was writing python, not C in some embedded system) Most of the time I just don't know what the hell they're looking for. So now I reject all those HW or code challenge unless they agree to pay me for the time I spend. (Obviously no one has ever agreed my term so far.)
Can these needs be fulfilled in say, an MMO?
The comments here are interesting.

They're from a bunch of people complaining about this or that issue/concern/worry/gripe from Play and a few of its competitors... but it seems like it never occurs to anyone that it's not 1958 anymore. You don't have to be a passive consumer that has to put up with this shit.

I run a Plex server at home, I can stream my music anywhere. I've even had a little luck streaming actual FM radio stations the same way (I haven't found one yet that doesn't do http streaming on their website, and if you extract those links and add them to Plex...).
I honestly don't think this will be much of a problem because frankly most of the work we do today is not essential for living. We busy ourselves with busy work. Ideas have become the product. And since we are so unhappy when we're not working towards something, we'll simply invent something new.
Sometimes these businesses work because of people like the OP, who shoulders the burden of a bad decision maker for years. We're celebrating one of our big company milestones and we're no different. The decision makers think we're here but by the grace of God sometimes. I say we're here but by the grace of Todd and his addiction to energy drinks.
For years we've claimed that we're on the brink of a world without work. However I believe that this claim is fundamentally flawed because it goes against Parkinson's law, which we've seen to be consistently true.

We naturally try to gather more material wealth, and this involves having a system where we give bigger rewards to those who work harder and smarter. No matter how much we eliminate menial tasks, we will always find more ways to spend our energy to reward those willing to do so.
> In fact, EU citizens generally need a residency and work permit if they wish to live and work there.

No, they generally don't.

https://www.ch.ch/en/working-switzerland-eu-efta/
>The job will just remain unfilled when the author leaves the US...

If they pay H1B-esque wages and conditions, yes. Pay competitive salaries and benefits and you'll have qualified people. The idea that we can't fill that position with US talent is completely asinine.
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If you don't have enough info in your credit report to ask enough questions of course they have to supplement it. you would presumably still know the answers since you'd know if you have a loan or not.
I think your blog post was bad. First of all, they have really unobtrusive advertising so it's a non-issue to start with. Second of all, it's their money paying for the traffic so how they choose to respond to HTTP requests is up to them. If people don't like it, they stop using imgur. If people don't mind, all is ok, imgur get their revenue and users get their cat pics.
What is this multiplatform container application they talk about? Is it a Hyper-V container with small Linux runtime? Or a docker-compose file with some containers running on Windows and some on Linux (e.g. ASP.NET on Windows and Redis on Linux)?
One or other should be thrown out. Or both thrown out. Or neither thrown out.

Maybe only the small percentage who do well on both will go on to do well on the job. Or maybe large percentage will do well on the job. Or maybe a percentage who do bad on both will do well on the job.

In short: there is no data at all about doing well on the job, so we don't know what to throw out and whom to chose.
> you might be willing to give up access to ... Halliburton (34.0.0.0/8)

As someone who used to manage systems in 34.0.0.0/8 and 134.132.0.0/16, oh god I hope nobody does this...
Isn't Schengen only about passportless travel? I thought it didn't have anything to do with right to work?
Unfortunately, work esp in these current adverse conditions prepares people and teaches them invaluable survival skills that a vision of world without work could produce as an unintended consequence good-for-nothing slobs like in "Idiocracy" where they can't find their butt with both hands.

We need to teach people survival skills without working them to death.
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This is exactly what happens when one buys software system without its source code.