skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developing oral skills in language learning out of context (i.e. some place where it is spoken) is a schizophrenic thing. I have somehow put on a british accent two years ago (mother tongue turkish), and the process was like this: watch lots of programmers' talks, and read out loud, being conscious as to my articulation, all the blog posts that I happen to read, and sometimes make monologues alone in my room. And my daily input was vast, as I was having a short two-year break from the uni. Now I'm studying Italian language and literature at the university, and am proving to myself that the way I learned english was spot on, self immersion is incredibly fruitful. One should merely be able to tolerate not understanding everything, written or spoken. And while you definitely have the italian accent, you are speaking is excellent, congratulations.
Yep, the good/bad pattern-matching is the important and hard (impossible?) to teach part.
More than almost anywhere you apply, strongly recommend you speak to current (or, ideally, former) Amazon employees before you apply.
Yes, if you know that the process is going to exit. In this case, the missing free is in a function which is about a dozen calls down in the stack, and I know that it's harmless right now because I've looked at the code and verified that an error there will always result in tarsnap exiting; but if I don't fix this now it's quite possible that in the future I'll have code which uses that function but can tolerate it failing.
Hell, CentOS 5 is still pretty widely deployed (and supported by RH until 2017).
But it is very old, and does not support a lot of features that new software like docker needs. The enterprise release cycle is just too slow for software that is dependent on kernel features.
In reputable open-access journals, you can have the fees waived if you don't have grant or institutional funding that's earmarked to pay for publication/dissemination of research. What usually happens is that universities take at least some of the budgets they previously used to buy journal subscriptions, and put them towards publication fees instead. NIH and NSF and those kinds of grants will also pay publication fees (along perhaps with other ways of disseminating research). If you have access to neither, then you don't pay. Here's is the policy from PLoS, for example: https://www.plos.org/publications/publication-fees/plos-publ...

In CS there are typically no fees to begin with, at least in the areas I work in (JMLR and JAIR are no-fee open-access journals). Instead journals are run basically without staff, authors format their own documents in LaTeX, and an institution (in the case of JMLR, MIT) donates some server space and maybe the time of a student assistant. The main downside to this is that publication quality control tends to be a bit worse, as there's no copyediting or layout type of service (JMLR has quite a few surprisingly badly edited papers, despite being a generally good journal). But it is usually "good enough".
On any given day I use any combination of the following languages: Ruby, Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Haskell, Bash.

If I could remember how each language handled list operations and JSON/Base64 encoding I could probably code much faster, but the real efficiency gain wouldn't come until I stop reading HN :P
Science subreddit have gone private, Reddit fired the admin who handled AMA
Compatibility with CentOS was a big driver to adopting Docker at my prior employer. It's benefits were made even more pronounced on semi-legacy systems like that.
PLoS, the open-access science publication, was putting on an excellent series [1]. Given Victoria's role in that, her loss puts that significant scientific outreach in jeopardy. A sad casualty. It was fantastic to see the front-lines of cutting edge research getting asked, answering, and otherwise motivating a lot of really interesting public discussion. Even if they repost all that old discussion (all those links on the blog currently don't work), it won't be trivial to fill Victoria's role in the upcoming AMAs, if they hold them at all.

[1] http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2015/06/update-on-plos-science-we...
I agree with just about everything you said except for Reddit being an SJW paradise. There's definitely a loud contingent of them but most of the main board threads on controversial topics slant pretty far in the opposite direction. Your milage will vary by which subreddits you hang out in, though.
It doesn't mean much. NK has been a brutal dictatorship for over 60 years; undoubtedly, like with anything else, there has been some misinformation about the issue. It doesn't make NK defectors particularly hard to believe, and especially doesn't cast doubt on the overall picture of oppression.
You'll probably contact the dean of that school or something. I don't actually know either, but I would start by asking the lab's director if he knows. If he doesn't, have him ask his boss. And also get the school's publicly published phone number and give them a call.

Are you looking to pay them to do research?
Notice that arXiv does not need any money from its users; it is fully funded from academic/private donations and it does not seek to maximize revenue.

Authorea is very different; it has a very tough pricing model where you have to either choose to publish even partial work while you are writing (unacceptable to most scientists I know) or pay per article AND per month.

Basically, my issue with it is the same as with the current open-access model: I am trying my hardest to produce good science and release it for free; yet somebody tries to profit not from my own results, but from my desire to have those results published for free. ArXiv helps me while refusing to profit from this desire, and thus I love it.

You have to keep in mind that a lot of scientists (I think this is true for compsci/math/physics) choose a 50% pay cut so that they can do science, and not go into the (programming) industry. Speaking as a PhD student, we have modest means and do not like to be gouged.
Yeah, I started trying to research how this could be done and realized this :(

Still feels like there is something there. I mean, can't we consider a photo a type of spectrograph, just for only a few, very broad bandgaps of light? Perhaps we can spend some of a modern, high-resolution CCD's spatial resolution on wavelength resolution. With high-magnification lenses, you'd then be able to spot-check an area of a certain material from across a room. You'd not be able to do the entire room in one shot, but you'd be able to scan a room. Combine it with photogrammetry methods to process a roving needle as a user walks into a room, looks around, etc.
If you mainly look up documentation, DevDocs[0] is a great app to use. It's browser based, but you can make it offline.

[0]: http://devdocs.io/
The Internet is taking things that were traditionally taxed (cable TV) and moving that activity to things that aren't taxed (content delivered over the Internet). Television is just the tip of that iceberg. What's the general solution to that problem?

And while I'm probably on the same page as you re: Chicago's profligacy, let's face it: Chicago needs to raise money. Economically, aren't consumption taxes better than raising the same money from income or property taxes (or head taxes or corporate taxes)? I'd argue that instituting a city income tax or raising property taxes will move more people out of Chicago than taxing Chicago consumers[1] for internet services.

[1] The effective incidence of sales taxes is complex. But I imagine most Internet services will be able to pass most of the cost onto consumers.
How do you propose we do that? I am legitimately asking.

Right now NK has nuclear weapons with warheads capable of reaching at least Japan and a Chinese ally which is meant to come to NK's aid if they get attacked.

It could literally start world war 3 if we just attacked NK tomorrow without getting the Chinese and Russians aboard.

I think a lot of Western countries would love to liberate NK, oil or not. But the politics of the situation make that tricky to say the least.
According to the way the vast majority of companies conduct job interviews it's easy: memorize every data structure and every algorithm and practice them every day. Don't be creative, be a drone that loves rote-rehearsal and memorizes textbooks.
I develop android apps and use Google to catch device specific bugs ie the mention of bugs and workarounds that way I only have to pay for one android device rather than have about 25 devices
> Google usually finds StackOverflow answers which is great.

Depends - I've seen stackexchange questions that are exactly what I'm looking for and I would argue are on topic - only to see that it has over N thousand views with a note saying "closed due to offtopic" by a moderator.

Don't even get me started with those people who go through the site editing posts to change the link that someone posted because they don't agree with that site.

Don't get me wrong - there are some great answers on stackexchange sites. But too many times I've seen someone ask a question, a response with "no that's not possible" then another with "actually that is possible".
Definitely agree re bulk inserting, say every 1 minute or 1 hour or whatever.

I was paying around recently with Amazon's Kinesis for this, but if you don't want the vendor lock-in you could easily roll your own system that bundles up events and stores a bunch at once.
I didn't have internet access when I was a kid so I used the included qbasic documentation and books from the library that had example code (in the form of atari-style video games) when i taught myself to program.
And I think it's all done by computers.
"America will be about the last place to attempt this"

In a small sense, the US is already doing it. 60 minutes did a story on an area in Kentucky and West Virginia where they estimated 10-15% of the population, 250 thousand people, are on social security disability. Local lawyers guaranteed, and the Social Security Administration agreed, that they could get anybody classified as "disabled" to get benefits.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/disability-usa/
There's a similar story in "You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman". Feynman looked up something on an anatomy chart of a cat. A biologist was ribbing him that he had to look it up. Feynman said, "You mean you spent four years memorizing something I could look up in 15 minutes?"
Spend less, and then you need less taxes to cover those expenses. Create an environment where businesses will want to start and to grow, rather than creating taxes that will specifically make new businesses go out of their way to avoid the the area. This kind of tax makes Chicago drastically less appealing to start a business in, and it's sufficiently bad to make it worth considering a move for any company that isn't inherently local. And "companies that aren't inherently local" are exactly what this tax targets.

(Note in particular that for any business without a local nexus in the state, this exceeds the taxing authority of a city or state, as it would be regulating inter-state commerce.)
Put more favourably, the purpose of an open access journal is to arrange a critical evaluation of my stuff and to point other researchers to it (curation). To justify paying for this, I think of it like hiring a consultancy and, later, a marketing firm for my research.

Perhaps in a better world, we would disentangle the review and the curation aspects -- I'd pay for the arrangement of peer review of my article, upload it freely to the arxive, and pay separately for unbiased, curated lists of noteworthy articles in my field.
Completely agreed. It has been a huge help in the migration of legacy systems to containers while underlying monitoring and config infrastructure is being updated to support systemd.
I would hope not. The single biggest research foundation in Switzerland is SNF (http://www.snf.ch/), especially since the swiss participation in Horizon 2020 is unresolved due to political reasons.
I 100% agree - I'm only a college sophomore though, so I at least have time, but the pedigree difference between me and the average HN reader is astounding.
> outsourced the domain knowledge to the journal reviewers

Except that, by and large, those reviewers aren't being paid. So the 'outsourcing' argument isn't quite it. If it were there would be no problem with open access.

It is more about brand. They're outsourcing the need to determine quality by buying into a brand. That brand is kept afloat by unpaid labour on all sides, yet charges heftily for its brand. It is an understandable model, but not a very pleasant one. Unless you're an Elsevier shareholder, getting paid for your brand IP.
Words are politics, particularly for people who are traditionally disenfranchised. In a sense, the constant fine-tuning of speech for desired connotations is a way to get the feeling of control over an uncontrollable situation.

I guess what I'm saying is some things just don't have a logical explanation, but that's what happens when you have all these billions of people in the world.
It never ceases to impress me who I find here on HN. Very cool!
For anyone else curious, Docker 1.8's target release date is August 4th, so basically in a month all support will be dropped for RHEL/Centos 6.x. Definitely a bit concerning to me.

I'm quite interested to see how the whole Open Container Project pans out, and I'm pleased by the prospect of it, just hoping they successfully iron out some of the "Docker wrinkles" that have shown over the course of it's lifecycle in the last few years. No 6.x support from the get go doesn't necessarily put a great taste in my mouth, so far.
Unfortunately, at large companies (and government and monopolies or oligopolies) it's easier for arrogant people to excel.

I want to find some posts I've seen here on HN that show this attitude.

edit: arrogance is less prevalent amongst technical people, but you can see examples amongst management, traders (read Michael Lewis's books, especially Liar's Poker), salesmen, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar's_Poker
And if you recall, RedHat touted Docker support in 6.5: http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-launch...
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For the sake of other programmers, I really hope you comment these answers and provide tips ;)
I would like to see this with es6 components
I've love to know a scenario where OLE is actually used today. It might have made sense in the early 90's pre-Internet & HTML computer world but really has no use today and is just a massive security hole. Seems like it should have just been completely removed (see also Vista's desktop gadgets, which were actually removed and disabled after realizing they were a huge security issue too).
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My explanation to the scarcity of "No"s: people are used to seeing in these puzzles mostly sub-types of increasing series: exponential, linear, etc. By the time they had ruled out these sub-types, and had resorted to guessing "ascending", they wouldn't have encountered even a single No.

I predict that if the rule was narrower, like "exponential", much more guesses would have yielded No's.
To play devil's advocate:

> This tax is an job-killing...
> ... several hundred companies that are all going to have
> to implement this tax in their software...

Implementing the tax sounds like it's going to take a fair bit of effort. These several hundred companies may need to hire a bunch of engineers and accountants to implement the tax code. What jobs are being killed? Given that any change to the tax code involves many businesses having to implement support for the changes, can you detail exactly how you determine whether to support or oppose a specific tax change?
Super worrying to me too. 1.8 marked the move to Open Container Project. I guess this means Open Container Project won't be supporting 6.x.

It would have been nice to get more than 1 month of notice.
But pride in being who you are? I mean....okay I guess and I get the point you are trying to make and the tough experiences people have. But....

I say we change the name to "self pride" days/parades and everyone can be happy about themselves and it can be inclusive to every group then.
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No, but I can.

I say this as an unapologetic user of all software closed source, Windows, Office, et al. I send files in .docx without asking if my peers even have Windows. I use Google Maps and closed source everything everywhere always.

But, even I cannot deny: if this were open source, many of the points leading up to this bug could be addressed without any help from the vendor.
>Their computer systems are universally terrible, they have no clue how to build something like a UI for a car.

Like a lot of legacy systems, right? Tesla has an advantage of starting from scratch, sure.

"This is not something that MBA-type management can buy their way out of, because they have no competence,"

No competence? These are century old companies that have created vast amounts of global wealth and emply hundreds of thousnads of people in what are still well-paying jobs. Yeah, no competence whatsoever.

Of course, I suppose if you knew that Tesla has hired engineers and managers from some of these companies that have "no competence"...
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I wonder how many of these companies are going to release a free update with the new tax data and formulae, and how many are going to charge for that update.
> for any business without a local nexus in the state, this exceeds the taxing authority of a city or state, as it would be regulating inter-state commerce.

IANAL, but I don't think that's true. The locality can tax its citizens pretty much however it wants. Without a local nexus Chicago may have a hard time forcing Netflix to collect the tax on their behalf. But that's an implementation detail. Chicago citizens would still technically be on the hook.
I agree they are terrible, but it's also still true that defectors have admitted to lying, and not everything that's been said about them has been true. It's good that he has data because that can be verified, and I think we'd all agree verifying this, true or not, is what should be done.
I can't think of any previous historic moment in my life where a statement of solidarity was so important and yet so easy to make. Progress in the fight against prejudice is easily lost. I can't help but think about the Vienna museum exhibit I saw exploring the status of Jews over hundred of years and how many times periods of tolerance were followed by repression.

Having as many people as possible take this moment to say that we are not going back matters,and these photos do not just reach the 'quire' ie the friends of the supporters that are likely to be supporters themselves - Facebook profile pictures appear in miniature form in ads all over the web. Google profile pictures also appear in ads all over the web and are probably even better at reaching the eyeballs of the general public. I had hoped Google would also set up a similar sort of overlay mechanism, but I see no signs and this window of opportunity will be all too brief.
Saying you "don't like gay marriage" is a bit like someone in 1950s America saying they "don't like interracial marriage." I don't think that someone should get fired from their job for believing that (because I wouldn't wish that on many people), but it seems that it would be hard for someone to reconcile those beliefs with fair and positive treatment of all people in their work-world. How can you feel that someone shouldn't be entitled to get civilly married while still fully respecting them as a person?

Do you have any stories or links for things about people saying "horrible and bigoted shit" about Christians or some other majority religion and then not getting ridiculed/lambasted by some other portion of the population, or not being criminally charged? Wherever I see atheist billboard controversy, I see Christian backlash. Whenever I see Christian billboard controversy, I see agostic/atheist backlash. My general perception is that this is how free speech is supposed to work.

Free speech that infringes (or encourages infringement of) on the rights of others to peaceably live their lives with dignity(i.e., for a gay couple to get married) is where I imagine the line between harassment and free speech occurs. This is a critical difference: as demonstrated by recent events (Charleston, etc.), there are terrible people that will take the "bigoted shit" to an extreme and cause physical harm. However, I've never seen an instance of American on American crime where "bigoted shit" led to material harm against a Christian, without the wheels of justice being spun full blast in pursuit. The same cannot be said for historically discriminated populations, e.g. gay people until this generation, black people until maybe the generation before that, and Irish and Italians in the 19th century, for example.

Apologizing for a picture that has "gorilla" next to a black person's face isn't about persecution, or gay people, or about any other class of people (as you've somehow made this conversation about); it's about realizing that people in the past were shitty, and we can do better than that.
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I too tried to test if it was only one pair that was significant. However I grew impatient and didn't try to come up with more tests when I thought I had a sufficient answer to explain my most vexing observation (negative, positive, positive out of combinations involving negative numbers).

The observation to brainstorm for ways of proving that a statement is in fact wrong, and exhausting them, is such an eloquent way of wording the hunt for a negative.
OpenStack dropped support for CentOS 6 in its Kilo release, so this isn't too surprising.

CentOS 6 was released in 2011, which is 4 years old. A lot of features Docker uses have been highly improved since the 2.6 days, so it makes sense to drop support for operating systems which don't support some things.
Solution: Smaller government
Who's coming to Silicon Valley
And some interesting observations posted by M. Andreessen:

- One third of Silicon Valley startups are founded by Indian-Americans.

- As of 2010, Asian-Americans are the majority of Silicon Valley tech workforce: 50% vs 40% for Caucasians.

- Silicon Valley is a powerful successful example of the "melting pot" theory: ignore origin and ethnicity, come together to do big things.
Cable companies are very interesting local phenomena, since they're covered by a fascinating array of taxes and fees not applicable to the average business. Those taxes apply to both the business and the consumer.

A uniform sales tax seems more palatable (as an alternative to an income tax, not in addition to one); however, this is not a uniform tax, it's a targeted tax on streaming services and other Internet services.
>But this isn't true. The MWI is completely deterministic, because wave function collapse never occurs, and wave function collapse is the source of all the indeterminism in the Copenhagen interpretation.

For what useful definition of deterministic? If a measurement comes with decoherence into multiple non-inteferring branches, then certainly the state evolves in a predictable way from "god's eye", but not from the perspective of the experiment occupying any given branch.
What is peer review, but a formal system of review, comment, redrafting and endorsement? That could be moderated through the same system.

Drafting, extending and version control would be particularly important, I think. It's been a long problem with dead-tree journals, following adjustments in results is hard because they inherently rely on back-links, retractions (in extreme cases), letters, etc. Not a coherent way of centralising information.
Well, he also said that imagination is more important than knowledge...
I guess that Red Hat will have to keep supporting it with security updates then?