skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've talked to a lot of bloggers in two specific niches and they almost all say the same thing. They started their site for fun / something to do / be helpful and soon enough started getting traffic and started making money. None have a tech background or anything like they - they just got a Wordpress site and theme and started writing.
Structure to economic systems — segment basic needs (food, housing, education, transportation) as provided with "basic income credit", separate from the normal cash economy of WANTs and luxuries.
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UPDATE: They just announced a nice fix for easily getting the request JSON Body into your Lambda functions and some documentation improvements. See jeffbar's post in this thread.
I would seriously talk with a lawyer and make sure you know your legal exposure completely. I know friends who really regretted consulting part time while working full time.

I'm sure there are many who have done it with no problems, but be assured that the legal complications COULD BE real.
Dennis Woodside, Motorola CEO during the Googlerola era, had been at Google since 2003. I can't imagine that Google had nothing to do with Motorola going (near-)Vanilla Android. Also, the "soft" (Googlish?) industrial design of the Moto line marks a rather distinct break from the very angular design of, say, the Droid.
All algorithms are interesting depending on the problem you are trying to solve.

I'd really love to have a C implementation of distributed SVD computation for large matrices.
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I don't think apology is warranted. You apologize for atrocities and war-crimes, not for "trying to win".
Actually, I don't want having to use Facebook for anything. Or any other big site or company. From all the companies, the internet provider can "know" the most about me, but I wouldn't even like them doing more than they are already doing.

Google is certainly the second "omniknowing," and I'm not happy with that too. And I don't use Facebook.
I actually think Pluto's classification as a dwarf planet actually gives New Horizons more significance, not less. Pluto the planet was just a tiny very far away example of an object which we have already studied a great deal of. Pluto the dwarf planet instead is one of the largest and nearest example of an object we know very little and have never studied before (I.e. the kupier belt objects) and which can give us hopefully a lot more insight into how the solar system formed.
> You might want to repeat the exercise in one of the black quarters of New York, with a white guy walking alone through them for 10 hours

Been there, done that. Nobody yelled anything at me or spat at me.

> That's really a Kristallnacht situation here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_%C3%8Ele-de-France_attack...

It must all be my imagination.
Burying a lithium battery in your yard seems like a pretty terrible way to dispose of it. Could you not take it somewhere for recycling, especially since you discharged it? Doesn't the typical AT&T/T-Mobile/Target/Best Buy/Etc store have a recycling drop-off for old cell phones and batteries?
Circumstances are mentioned as "dubious" because...

1. Hyderabad (Osmania) wanted to remain an independent state-- India used force to get them to join the Indian Union, because, in part that it was a Hindu-majority region ruled by a Muslim King.

2. Junagadh (Gujarat) wanted to accede to Pakistan, but India interevened again citing it was a Hindu-majority region ruled by a Muslim King.

3. India annexed the Laccadive Islands even though it was a Muslim-majority region.

4. India, inexplicably, chose not to annex the Chittagong Hill Tracts (East Bengal), which were majority Hindu but awarded to East Pakistan.

5. India, pragmatically, refused to accept Kalat's (Balochistan) accession to the Indian Union.

6. India annexed a countless other land-locked princely states too weak to fend off the Indian Army.

See: https://www.quora.com/India-Pakistan-Relations/What-is-the-K...
9 years and 3+ billion miles later
Is this one of the reasons MIPS is still getting design wins? How many years does it take to negotiate with ARM???
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Have you been paid for a development/CS position longer than 4 weeks/free lance?
>I work on AOSP, and I think it is ridiculous that Google owns so much of the eco-system [1] and continues to get praised for being "open" as well; very much like how this article seems to be praising them now.

They own so much of the ecosystem because they produce 99% of the code. It continues to amaze me how ungrateful people are to Google and their AOSP project considering they're the ones spending millions on R&D each year, yet that still isn't enough for the vocal pro RMS minority.
>If you ask anyone from outside America whether its citizens exist in a media bubble they will tell you that it's true. It's like talking to a Russian and telling them that they have state sponsored propaganda. They are going to be skeptical - and it will seem like for good reasons.

What's amazing is that Americans can look at Russia and North Korea and "see how the people are being misled by propaganda" but refuse to believe that propaganda is used in the U.S.A
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Considering all the bad things Japan did during their wars, it seems strange that you would bring up Pearl Harbor as an equivalent of Hiroshima. Pearl Harbor was a major military target and almost all casualties there were military (only ~100 civilians). All in all, the attack seems like a legitimate military action in every other way, but for the fact there wasn't a formal declaration of war first (at least as far as I know; I haven't studied the pacific war that much).
But how many of those 50,000 were paid or "persuaded" to participate?
This question was submitted 7 hours ago and appears on the front page with 8 points. There must be a way to play with the ranking algorithm.
How did you pick the window size used in the analysis? Did you try different window sizes?

I have seen many time-series analyses posted here lately, and all seem to use arbitrary window sizes.

Edit: PS, thanks for posting this and being around for questions.
Why do you want a federal Europe?

I'm deeply opposed to the idea on many fronts but am genuinely interested in the opposite view.
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Yes, I remember that I was almost scared as I imagined how wrong it can go. I remember being on some MS organized conference then, even the attendees there, you know, at that time every new technology from MS was cheered by default, were highly skeptical. The guy on the stage wanted to "sell" it, he even did something like "who trusts MS" and raised the hand, an almost nobody followed him. Then he said "I trust them, because, why would they not be straight?" Really.
Thanks for this. It is really well explained. However, it did feel like it went downhill when you explained how the updating happens. At least it was less of a walkthrough than the previous sections.

Also, lines 22 and 23 in the three layer network are not intuitive for a beginner. Before, syn0 was (3,1) and now its (3,4), and the new syn1 is (4,1). Your previous explanation for this initialization was much better.

But again, awesome work, just being nitpicky. Really appreciate it!
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nothing boosts morale like the auditors with MBA background... snooping around ... timing your bathroom breaks... Sounds like Google has reached another stage in a lifecycle of a big company...
You're right. Israel has such a questionable human rights record that it has been condemned more by the UNHRC than all other countries combined[1]. That UNHRC currently contains such paragons as Saudi Arabia, China and Cuba.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Co...
This app does seem to have alot of baked in (arbitrary) limits. Why just 10 km? Why just burgers?
Crazy performance deviations after replacing 32-bit loop counter with 64-bit
I'm in the UK, which look like they're roughly £300 instead, and at that price I'd not be able to justify the cost to my boss if I wanted to use it at work.

Yes, I know, it's "only" a week of salary, but that's not how I've experienced office budgets to work. There isn't an "Oh ok it's cheap compared to you" argument you can make that means you get to spend £300 on a desk when others are still using single 17" monitors. I'm sure start-ups play by different rules, but at established SME businesses I've worked at it's difficult to get things which cost that much without a lot of long-term effort directed toward that goal, and there are higher priorities for that kind of effort (and higher priorities for the office supply budget).

That price range probably does mean that if I come to own my own study I can justify buying one myself, so thanks for the recommendation.
There already are shipping, commercial RISC-V cores. The end-products are things like cameras though, so they're not very likely to make the tech blog rounds.
That's awesome! I don't know how I've missed JanitorMonkey amongst their tools, but that looks great. Definitely giving it a whirl.
Service owners wanted the system to be able to identify these problems as quickly as possible so the initial goal was to go as small as possible, however the initial data source rolled data up into 1 minute windows so we figured 5 minutes was the shortest we could get away with. In practice this seems to work well for service owners as it avoids calling out small spikes as outliers.

We've got an experimental streaming version going that hasn't been set loose on any services yet, but it can get much higher granularity metrics ~ 10s (faster if we cared to).

edit: Forgot to add that we did try other window sizes, as long as 30 minutes but we found that longer windows allowed the past to influence the decision being made now too much. If it has spiked in the past we were aggressive about calling it an outlier with 30 minute windows, furthermore if it had been in lying and just become an outlier it killed our time to detect which is an important metric for us.
Because it was a British colony, not a Spanish or Portuguese one. That changes the whole culture.
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I interned at a digital subscription television receiver manufacturer eons ago. One day I was given several boxes full of random remotes, a microcontroller with an IR receiver, and an oscilloscope. I spent the next month deciphering coding schemes for dozen of remotes, which were usually undocumented or documentation-contradicting. The amazing part was how little standardization even individual vendors had, with few encodings having any real advantage over others.

The purpose of all of this was so the receiver could IR blast commands to the rest of the customers' devices. AFAIK the only place this was used was for triggering VCR recording, which was amusing given we were working on early DVRs.

The whole time I was thinking how short-sighted this was given we'd certainly be using some standard protocol in a few years since the home media center was going digital. In the early 2000s all the incidental annoyances in digital electronics still seemed like temporary problems that would be swept away by constant disruption as they had been in the 90s, as opposed to the entrenched problems we were stuck with in other technologies.
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I noticed that this (density-based clustering) is conceptually very different from an earlier Netflix approach (RAD - http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/02/rad-outlier-detection-on...) which performs RPCA and estimates thresholds. Are both systems in place? In which cases would one system outperform another?
And let's not forget pride, and denial. I have had many lousy jobs in my life. When I get the second universal question, "Do you like your job?". I always respond, "It's o.k.--it's just temporary anyway!" (The first universal question I get is "What do you do?".)

I really don't like those questions. I know they are necessary questions in some settings, but overused questions by the "I define myself by what present occupation I currently have people."

As to this rating system; I'm sorry people, companies are overusing it. I'm kind of sick of it. I couldn't imagine buying a four door, 2008 or newer vehicle(until recently), Uber approved vechicle, and have to worry about customer ratings. These ratings should be private, and if the employee is a bad apple; fire him!
That's a fair point. I know Iranian citizens feel far more friendly to the West than many in the Middle East, but "Death to America", "Death to Israel" spoken in parliament is still very disconcerting.
I should note that the team responsible for this (Insight Engineering) is hiring a manager[0] and engineers[1]. If you're interested in solving this kind of problem come check out the job post as I'm really excited to be building out our team.

[0] https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/2406/apply

[1] https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/2259/apply
Curious what happened to make them regret it. I've been doing it for years.
For those of you on computers, here's the link with better formatting - http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/07/tracking-down-villains-o...
I belive database operations are considered a side-effect, so how would you propose I do away with those?
Windows and Office are separate ponies.
I don't want a central authority, but CC fraud is still $6 billion annually. Why not build a chip reader into devices?

http://www.statisticbrain.com/credit-card-fraud-statistics/
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I've found if you work from home getting a dog does wonders.

I no longer can sit for any major length of time since he wants to go out and play at least every hour during the day. It's amazing how much better things got all around both mentally and physically taking those 'dog breaks'.
In what space does the clustering occur? I wasn't able to tell from the post.
> Where can you buy a new n4 battery now? Nowhere.

I see a bunch listed on Amazon and eBay. Some of the ones on Amazon have reviews indicating that they are used, but not all of them. You can probably find a new one if you look for it.
I've also seen companies use a FAQ as a place to put "questions you won't like the answers to."
I'm surprised we didn't see any ads floating through space as we aimlessly scrolled down.
At the risk of sparking off-topic debates about Netflix's content selections...are the same event streaming/data processing frameworks also used to detect trends and make actions on the content/frontpage side? Such as, detecting an anomalous spike of users watching some obscure movie in the last 24 hours, and then updating the "Trending Now" queues for users systemwide? Or is that something that happens (relatively) slow enough not to require an elaborate real-time framework?
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Whoops, I posted the mobile link from a gas station (traveling at the moment!). I apologize. Any chance a mod could swap the link?

Thanks!
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I had an old HP inkjet printer that was flawless for many years, until the belt that moves the head wore out and shredded itself. I believe I got my money out of that one. But in the drive to make the printers ever cheaper, quality has gone out the window. Plus the price of ink cartridges vs. their capacity has become totally out of whack. When that printer died, I didn't even consider another inkjet.
Ok, but then Uber will have to bear the full purchase, financing, depreciation, maintenance, garaging, inventory, theft, and insurance cost for potentially millions of vehicles.
Construction costs are much higher. Maintenance costs can be minimised with conservative design. But if something goes wrong, but it always costs more to get a crane on a boat a few miles off the coast than it does to drive a crane to an onshore location.

The capacity factor for offshore is more likely to be in the 45-55% range than in the 25-40% range for onshore - partly because the turbines can be bigger, and partly because it's windier offshore.

To some extent capacity factor is a design decision that trades off maintenance and capital costs against output.

But funding models for wind are often quite conservative, so it's not so unusual for farms to overperform.
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> In Haskell or F#, you can write code that works with any monad

F# doesn't have higher kinded types, so I doubt this is true.
Are the results fed to automated remediation systems, or raised for operator interventions (or both)? If automatic, what restraints do you have against too many servers being called outliers?
I bet it's intended for failover. Otherwise there wouldn't be much point in something like Galera.
I don't work on the recommendations side of things, but this is actually the ONE technical topic at Netflix that I don't believe I am allowed to discuss. Sorry!
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It took almost five thousand years to stop openly owning other human beings (and people still do it with different names today, but at least we don't condone it anymore).

Basic income is inevitable in any society that maintains a capitalist market economy post-scarcity. If the US wants to destroy itself by being backwards (cough, healthcare, measurement units, date format, DST, national holidays, PTO, regressive welfare, etc) it cannot hold the rest of the world back forever.
Edit: in the general case, I would replace on the job with 1 year job specific training. Companies may or may not offer this as on the job training depending on the demand, but 6mo-1yr retraining is not a major issue.

There is a huge realm of office jobs that take basic collage level skills. EX: Software tester, receptionist, Manager, etc. (Substitute) Teaching is another huge area that often takes collage education, but many states have a 3.0 GPA requirement.

Many companies will higher programmers without the background, granted you’re not going to make much but it's a start.

The US military for example will train you to be a welder or machinist in less than 1 year. Depending on demand the same thing can happen in private industry but you’re starting doing true grunt work.

Nursing is something of a grey area. You can quickly become an orderly without a related background and there are various levels of certifications necessary to do various types of nursing. EMT takes collage level general skills + 6 months training though again you don't need a degree just that level of basic skill.

The Police are another area that takes people without any background training and may require a degree.

PS: That's not to say some high school students could not succeed at these jobs with similar training. However the demonstrated skills associated with a collage degree are significantly higher.
I actually think his core argument - that a "planet" should be determined by its physical characteristics rather than where its orbit happens to lie - is pretty reasoned and grounded in logic. I'm on his side about the whole "clearing the neighborhood" criterion; it's totally arbitrary, and has less to do with the object itself than it does with where that object lives.
In that case, why would the fish care? A fish is helpless with regards to its knowledge of water, and that's the salient point. If you are not helpless (or don't think you are), you will know what your environment is, because it is that knowledge that makes you powerful.
"polite"?

I'd always supposed it was something more like "unprincipled".
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I thought I was on "Hacker News", why is this post on the front page?
Very cool work! You mentioned that in a lot of cases, basic thresholds didn't work very well. I understand that setting a direct cutoff would trigger many false positives or not enough true positives, but what about time-based thresholds?

I had always figured timed filters like "above X error rate for Y occurrences in Z time" may work. Threshold filters can be much more complex, I'm curious if you tried different types of threshold filters and if they worked or not.
Not OP, but I was wondering how they compare to ZeroCater, which is also YC-backed, feeds some big names like GitHub, Foursquare and Tumblr, and has all those billboards up and down 101.
I know it's risky to expand an existing disk online but isn't adding additional disks to the volume group pretty straightforward?
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> It is possible to put a lot of work into taking a MOOC and get nothing but false understandings and misconceptions out of it because the trust we put in the developers is misplaced.

Of course, bad classes taught by unqualified instructors are offered in the traditional format, too. They may be rare at elite U.S. universities (the author is at Georgia Tech), but certainly at lower level U.S. universities there are plenty of classes taught by people with shaky subject knowledge. I've been in some of them.
Seriously, if any of the current crop of gig companies becomes too evil (and Uber has definitely proven themselves in that camp on a frequent basis) you are always able to use a competitor, work for one, or found one. Until the regulations happen that will inevitably prevent you from competing (which is basically every established industry today which is why the sharing economy is necessary to survive for so many) there is a critical threshold airbnb / uber / etsy cannot cross where their workers will jump ship at the opportunity cost of losing these companies huge viewships / audiences because the alternative becomes better, period. Yes, it means that the more popular the platform is the more the company can screw over its employees and customers because of mindshare. That happens in every industry, though.
The answer is most certainly "both". The system can be used to identify problems you don't know you had (generally sending an email / page). Once you've identified a problem you may have it pull instances out of our discovery service but keep them alive so you can ssh in and triage. Once the problem has been identified you can have it mop up by terminating the services displaying the behavior while you work on a fix.

We throttle automatic terminations so that it doesn't drop an entire cluster at once. Yet to cause an outage, fingers crossed!

We generally run into two classes of errors: 1) Software bugs which follow the process outlined above. 2) Issues with AWS... an example being some virtual servers running on hardware experiencing a network issue. If they're terminated and replaced by the ASG generally the new ones spin up on good hardware and we've avoided the issue. Rare but it does happen at our scale.
It appears to cluster on a particular server metric (e.g. % CPU used), for readings of that metric across a group of servers. One of the example graphs had 'errors per servers,' and I'd presume each color on that graph represents a different server.