skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean I should ask her why she's taking advanced stats classes in her male-dominated PhD program? Clearly she saw the opportunity and took it instead of complaining. I wouldn't be surprised if she ends up being very successful. She's doing more than most people (men or women).

Also, thanks for reminding me why I like her.
That's why during college you need to work on some external projects (internship, open source, it doesn't matter, as long as you build "free" experience).
99.999% of web servers.
Design is not a democracy
So interesting... flow (first NetFlow) has been around since the mid 90s but it's always been a volume problem relative to the (single) computers of the day.

The big issue we kept hearing from folks from the notes community is that the current 'cheat' is totake flow (now sFlow, IPFIX as well) and just instantly aggregate it to turn it into tsdb-like summaries.

The challenge is that you don't actually know in advance what you want to look at details for - whether you're investigating perf, availability, security, or just efficient ops.

So that's the current big problem - how to get and store and analyze thousands to tens of thousands to millions (for big networks) of flow records/second.

The 'old' problem from 1996 to 2006 of devices not being able to export has mostly gone away. There are bugs that happen every so often (like Juniper / sampled that ras called out and got resolved last year), but newer Juniper and Ciscos can do line-rate NetFlow/IPFIX to ~ 100-200k flows/sec per devices or sometimes per card. Which feeds back into point #1. Not that useful to have extra resolution if your systems are just doing top N on 10 fixed aggregation dimensions...

What I'd really like to see the silicon do is tcpstats, app decode and latency data. Both have applications for performance and security (even perf data can hint at botnets vs humans, for example, and of course URLs let you look for sql injection and app vs network problems).

The load balancer folks and some of the "Network Packet Brokers" have roadmap or the beginnings of this but it'd be better to have on Broadcom...

Or, an even more basic thing would be to have not per-packet sampling+sFlow like Broadcom and other chips do, but also a primitive for "flow sampling" to get all packets for 1/Nth of flows (say, 1/1000th) to get sampled such decodes up on a daemon running on say Cumulus or Arista.
Why does it matter? I'm tired of seeing people link other discussions. If it's a live active discussion, thats one thing, but a dead discussion from yesterday?....
Great analysis. A post I wrote recently[1], called "Use percentages" reinforces exactly why your post and Tim's comment are important. Absolute values, especially where some are growing more exponentially than others, will always mislead the human eye.

[1] http://veekaybee.github.io/use-percentages/
I was thinking of it more like a distributed supercomputer that can tackle large amounts of data without actually knowing what the data is, so it can be trusted with tasks that might otherwise have to be kept on local clusters. Crunching genome data for medical patients or something might be a good example of having to comb through lots of private data.
I don't like being negative, but this seems really patronising and unhelpful. Just because someone is a 'self-taught game/graphics programmer' doesn't mean that describing maths concepts to them as code is at all intuitive, especially for things relating to geometric concepts like vectors, for which a simple diagram would speak volumes.
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/US_Special_Forces_counterinsurgen...
Do we see reality as it is? [video]
>Because they're people? And they're accommodating you by smoking only where it's allowed? So maybe out of the kindness of your heart you could leave them a place to smoke?

Because banning all areas to smoke it a kinder attitude as it eliminates any appearance of acceptance of smoking.
And when you use it, they get to collect all of the data about your visitors.
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And how many stem cell treatments were available in 2005?

There are lots of innovations in tech happening outside of microprocessors.
Flog? Since when do we flog anyone? But classifying exposing children to second hand smoke as child abuse... I could get behind a measure like that.
Wow, this is really interesting. Googling "C16G2" brought up some newer info. There's not much mainstream coverage, mostly just press releases and studies. But the company that's running with this is apparently called C3 Jian.

http://www.c3-jian.com/

They raised a $60M Series D in March of last year.

http://www.fiercebiotech.com/press-releases/c3-jian-closes-6...

They completed a Phase II clinical trial last Fall where they tested it as a mouthwash and a gel with three methods of application (tray, electric toothbrush, and manual toothbrush). Apparently gel in a tray won: 90% reduction in S. mutans population that lasted seven days after treatment ended.

http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/09/09/664615/1009...

C16G2 is the peptide that targets S. mutans. I suppose the idea is to develop more peptides targeting other species and give you a gel cocktail treatment (or maybe suppressing S. mutans is enough).

Being able to selectively kill exact species of bacteria ... that seems like a big deal.
This will end up killing everyone. Its in the plan.
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Hi HN,

I built this flight search engine three months ago and showed the first functionality here, which was to search for savings. We've since iterated and added a new functionality that allows you to search for an extended layover to enjoy and wanted to get your feedback on this new feature.

Right now, you can use the dropdown menu at the center of the page right below the large double-round image to select how many days you can want to stay at the layover location. We think this user interface can be improved, but we also don't want it to be too prominent as to be confusing to first-time users. Do you guys have any thoughts?

Very much appreciated!

Thanks,
Phil
There's too much inertia in favor of fluoride being beneficial for any serious researcher to risk their credibility. Everyone "knows" fluoride makes teeth stronger, like lettuce being healthy to eat, or global warming is human-caused.

In fact, even discussing the possibility is too much for most people to entertain. They think you're wasting their time with fantasy and falsehood, like conspiracy theorists always do. Fluoride being bad for teeth is as believable as airliners dropping chemtrails everywhere, or jet fuel not "spheroiding" steel after hours of heating.
I think cperciva's opinion is a sufficiently valid source on this sort of issue, which is probably why you're being down voted.
Dig a bit deeper. That is only a Chrome shell around (a slightly crippled) safari.
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> Aggregation and expiry start to look a lot like dimensionality: they can be implemented asynchronously in a separate policy layer.It doesn't seem important that the actual storage engine is mindful of these; in fact, it's probably better ignored for efficiency's sake.

I wrote my own time series database and actually having well working expiry was harder than expected. I sharded each one of the files into 2GB or 24h (whatever came first) chunks. Then had to be careful how they got deleted. There were various rules there such as ("make sure to not fill partition more than 80%", "stop when partition is full" or "keep data no more than 90 days").

My number of different time series was actually pretty low but each value was a record with complex data inside it i.e. not just simple ints or floats. For example, one series was capturing network packets so it looked like [ (timestamp,packet), (timestamp, packet), ... ] . But then an indexing service was running separately in a separate OS process to generate additional complex indexing from the primary data.
You leave vaping out of this!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25739-ecig-users-are-y...
I don't think you have a good grammatical argument. There are uncountable organizations known as The American Association for XYZ or similar. The confusion really comes because "American" is less often associated with official government organizations than "US". That's not really a grammatical issue, and certainly is not arising from the use of the article "the".
I had a similar feeling when I first starting using Clojure, but I found it was more of a discomfort from discussing programming language with a direct and accurate vocabulary. After a while I've become much more comfortable reading about and watching videos on programming languages in this style and I really enjoy being able to discuss and think about design decisions in a straightforward way.
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This is probably intended to be a joke about how Javascript was originally developed over about 10 days, which has been the root of many of JS's problems.

http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2012/02/mco2012020007.p...
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It's a bizarre comment to be the top response.

"Yo sn2, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish but Ocaml had one of the best TLS stacks of all time ... one of the best TLS stacks of all time!"
I don't find this puzzling at all. I think Apple wants Safari to be a great browser for the limited role they think the web should play.

They are putting a lot of work into making the browsing experience better on Safari, very successfully I think, but adding tons of features that could expand the role of the web as an applications platform is just not in their interest.
An article about War World III and no mention of nuclear weapons.
Do you want to work at a company where it matters?
Looks quite similar to Phantom OS, though it seems frozen/dead since 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_OS

http://dz.ru/en/solutions/phantom
A GPU driver is a pretty grand abstraction.
Except a text editor can also generate the AST.
Here's an anchor link directly to the plan language summary.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010856...
With over half of people currently in the Portland metro area having been born elsewhere, it would be hard to sort out whether cavities were the result of fluoride deficiency or some sort of selection bias in who chooses to live there. I never noticed a lot of fillings when I lived in Portland, but then I wasn't looking inside people's mouths.
In a word: pornography.

Occasionally, even with Safe Search turned on, images that I don't want my children seeing will pop up under oddly innocuous searches. And it's easy to accidentally stumble upon it, especially to untrained searchers.

Now I know people will have varying opinions about the subject, but I for one (and I know I'm not alone) don't want to view pornography, and certainly don't want my children viewing it, so a filtering service like OpenDNS is awesome. Beyond pornography, there's a lot of other good stuff that you can restrict as well, like hate/discrimination sites, dating sites, etc.--stuff that I don't need and don't need my kids getting involved with an online dating site right now.
That applies to all dynamic languages with useful list operations, really. Have an example in Ruby's forebear language:

sub twitter_handles {
my ( $authors, $company ) = @_;
grep defined,
map $_->twitter_handle,
grep $_->company eq $company, @$authors;
}

This free book goes into the same kind of topic, only much more deep: http://hop.perl.plover.com/
I'm still waiting for a distributed program that stores its own private bitcoin wallet keys using homomorphic encryption to keep the keys secret. Can Enigma do that? Doesn't sound like it's quite there yet, but the direction is very interesting.
One screenshot showed Google's results, while another shows search results that were purportedly sorted purely by relevance.

Therein lies the problem. They don't know how Google would order the results in the hypothetical scenario where results didn't include those that make Google money. This goes beyond not having clickthrough data; what they were showing to their test users was simply a not-very-good, human interpretation of what they presume the Google algorithm might return in a nonexistent situation. Unsurprisingly, these fictional search results had worse CTR's than were achieved by displaying presumably custom-crafted Yelp results.

The term relevance is unique to each search algorithm, and these researchers did not have the data to determine what the relevance would otherwise be for Google. This report essentially says "if we ran Google, we could get better CTR's by showing Yelp results". That does not prove consumer harm.
> Or something like patio (kalzumeus.com)... solopreneur. I think I read he works 10 hours a week but stills makes an impact?

Let's not give in to SV newspeak where running a business means "making an impact".
Many non-western countries have very, very different attitudes about smoking (India, Ukraine, Russia, etc), and we get a lot of H1-B's from those countries.
You are correct! Thank you!
OMG! How do I do that? Mind sharing your configuration?
I'm not sure why you think it is offensive or erases anyone's identity. I don't object to it and have never heard anyone with DID object. For the record: my alter personalities don't object to the word 'everyone' either. In fact, it's useful because if there is something important you can ask 'everyone' or 'everyone inside' to listen which is much easier than asking everyone by name. And not everyone has a name or is willing to tell you what their name is or anything else about themselves. We DO strongly object to having people without dissocative identity disorder tell others what our views are. We exist and can speak for ourselves. DanBC - You don't say where you 0.1% figure comes from but 1 in 1,000 is not considered 'rare'. In the US alone that comes to a rather large number. The actual rate is between 1% and 3% - and varies depending on location, with the US having around 1% of people with dissociative identity disorder - for example compared to 0.7% with schizophrenia (source: DSM-5, 2013). Dissociative identity disorder is very often hidden, does not present in a way that people would especially recognize, and is a hidden disorder (like all the dissociative disorders). Stranger in the Mirror: Dissociation - The Hidden Epidemic is one of the better known books about it. Also the name of a website for the book. Tumblr is not a great place to get information about dissociative identity disorder because many people there claim to be 'multiple' or a 'multiple system' but actually state they don't have dissociative identity disorder, and don't experience amnesia, dissociation, or the effects of trauma which is the cause of it.

This is a useful blog addressing myths and facts with dissociative identity disorder. You' ll find good information on webmd, the merckx manuals, NAMI and pretty much anywhere with professionally reviewed articles about mental health. Healthy Place has a useful blog on myths too.

http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/dissociativeliving/2010/12...
Hey there. I work for Tailor. We don't have currently have a portfolio, but we are working on something akin to this. For anyone interested, you can email me at nate@tailorbrands.com, and I'll send a coupon code your way so you can give it a try.
I don't know about CC processing, because... banks and regulations.

But what fully homomorphic encryption allows you to is to perform arbitrary computations on encrypted data.

So you send your encrypted data to a machine, it performs the computation, and sends it back to you still encrypted. Like the password list example you mentioned.

What is cool about this is that is solves the problem with privacy in cloud computing platforms. You don't expose your data.

NOTE: I'm not a cryptographer nor haven't read the article yet. Just writing what I can remember.
You do not give the nginx user sudo ability, and any user who has sudo is root, and should be treated as such.
Hypocrisy is only a heuristic (and a pretty bad one), it doesn't impact the rightness or the wrongness of the advice given.

Someone who smokes telling you that smoking sucks and you shouldn't do it is a great example; do you dismiss them out of hand because they're a hypocrite?

All claims should be evaluated on their own merits.

The author's selling a book has nil impact on whether their thoughts about consumerism or minimalism are correct.
One commenter on the page said: "In retrospect this post is obviously satire."

I would agree - didn't realize it at first, but it does sound a bit too OTT on second thoughts...
Ah! I'm following now. I'm not sure about CA disclosures. I know the Delaware company I'm at now, asked for one.
Ok, so what if I told you that "people in your office aren't astronauts because they aren't interested in being astronauts"? You'd say that was wrong, but could you prove it? That's what this article is trying to do - refute people who say "women aren't engineers because they aren't interested in being engineers". I don't understand why you are leaping straight over this point.
I don't think any reputable company does recruitment based on names. In fact, most of the big name companies are trying to get more woman into workforce to balance any bias there might be.
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I guess you should also find a way to change your look to trick the manager during the in person interview.
I'd like to see that open sourced. A lot of the projects I'm involved in could use it.
Context: Streptococcus mutans is one of the primary bacteria responsible for tooth decay / cavities. This company developed a peptide that kills S. mutans and nothing else. It's basically a cavity drug.

Edit: On closer reading, I should say, it kills S. mutans much faster than anything else, fast enough that you can call it targeted.

They're also developing treatments for Clostridium difficile, which lives in your gut and kills like 30,000 people a year in the US, and MRSA.

http://www.c3-jian.com/pipeline/
Unfortunately, it's not accurate to say there is no evidence. There is evidence, it's just old evidence. For some reason, Newsweek decided to focus on the fact that there is no evidence that fluoridation is helpful for adults, and that the evidence for children is almost all from before 1975. That is important since behaviors may have changed post-1975.

The "Plain language summary" from the authors - their words, so this is the authors of the study synthesizing their conclusions for a lay audience - is clear:

Data suggest that the introduction of water fluoridation resulted in a 35% reduction in decayed, missing or filled baby teeth and a 26% reduction in decayed, missing or filled permanent teeth. It also increased the percentage of children with no decay by 15%. Although these results indicate that water fluoridation is effective at reducing levels of tooth decay in children's baby and permanent teeth, the applicability of the results to current lifestyles is unclear because the majority of the studies were conducted before fluoride toothpastes and the other preventative meaures were widely used in many communities around the world.

There was insufficient information available to find out whether the introduction of a water fluoridation programme changed existing differences in tooth decay across socioeconomic groups.

There was insufficient information available to understand the effect of stopping water fluoridation programmes on tooth decay.

No studies met the review’s inclusion criteria that investigated the effectiveness of water fluoridation for preventing tooth decay in adults, rather than children.

This is from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010856.... Thanks to HN user giarc (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9807427) for pointing it out.
They even mark the difference to the degree that foo[1] is stored in a special "array part" of the table, while foo["1"] ends up in the hash part. Predictably, the array part uses less memory.
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D'oh! I searched "Yelp":last-24-hours before posting and your submission was right outside the threshold. My bad!
How so? Yes it provides complex abstractions, but these are not inventions of the software, it is just exporting the abstractions supported by the hardware.
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You gonna cite Newtown and / or Leibniz when you differentiate a function? Use a zero? Don't forget to credit Brahmagupta!
Since a lot of startups use AWS, boto ranks up there.

https://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Safari in 10.11 has added a feature which tells you which browser tab is making noise so you can close it. Just now I was so wishing for it (in Chrome -- which is my primary browser, since I'm a web developer).

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/01/everyone-can-now-track-do...

Good grief.

The smiley b^) means it's a joke. At this point I have to wonder who is trolling whom...
Can you apply this sort of thinking to taxi rates in the New Orleans metropolitan area?
I'd be concerned. If you're lucky, an androgynous name like Robin or Jo can help you. Otherwise, maybe use an initial?

Once you get an interview, it becomes harder to avoid the discrimination. But at least you can get through the resume filter.

Its probably too much, to ask you to change your name.
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No you don't. You only need a Bachelor's degree, state certification, and certification that you are qualified to teach the subject area at the level you want. The Education degree exists for people who want to teach but do not want to delve into the depths of a particular subject that a degree in it would require.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/531726/technol...

"According to Chris Benner, a regional economist at the University of California, Davis, there has been no net increase in jobs in Silicon Valley since 1998; digital technologies inevitably mean you can generate billions of dollars from a low employment base."
It really depends how litigious the scrapees are feeling..

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/3taps-to-pay-crai...
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So if I am understanding correctly, this could compete with services like s3 and ec2.

People can earn money by attaching their machines to the network (but they have to include a security deposit). Then they will collect fees from users for each request processed as well as a set fee for storage.

The application developer will then use a provided scripting language (I am not sure if they actually write the application using this language or if it is just for ensuring a contract). They will need to continually pay storage fees or their data will be disabled and eventually deleted.

I would like to see examples of the scripting language they reference.
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This compiler is what drives our platform's automated grading. We've decided to create a public API which extends some of its functionality to see what others might use it for.
Chicago in 1880 was starting with a pretty small base, though...
If you can get this to display right, you have a better browser than I