jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's an interesting detail in the final paragraph: “We pay about 1000x more for EC2 than we did for App Engine”.

One of the rarely-mentioned virtues of App Engine is that it's really, astonishingly, cheap — as well as removing the system administration burden, which is also a cost in either time or money.

For a large company, web application hosting is an insignificant cost, but for an unfunded startup it can be pivotal.

(I first used App Engine in 2009, in answer to a requirement for a simple application that had to be both massively-scalable and run on a close-to-nonexistent budget. It was a perfect fit for that scenario.)
I'm very sleepy today, so I'm going to try not to say anything stupid. If I do, I hope someone will correct me ;-)

The basic overview of how OpenID works is here: http://openid.net/pres/protocolflow-1.1.png

So if I understand this diagram correctly, you connect to the server that you want to log into. It determines whether or not you are authenticated (probably through cookies). If so, it redirects you to the OpenID server. The OpenID server checks your credentials and returns back to the original server. The diagram does not specify, but I'm guessing the OpenID server has a session cookie for your credentials so that you don't have to log in over and over again.

So what are the downsides?

1) The server you want to log in to knows about your OpenID. In other words they can potentially identify you and track you (possibly with the help of Google).
2) The OpenID server knows which sites you are going to and when you are logging into them. It can track all of your movements. I think it would be naive in the extreme to assume that Google does not do this ;-)
3) Without knowing more details I couldn't say, but I suppose it might open you up to Cross Site Request Forgery style attacks. My experience with Google code in this respect is that they are usually extremely thorough about this sort of thing, so I think this is unlikely on the OpenID side. In my sleepy state, I can't really think clearly enough to imagine whether or not there are ways to screw up the code in the server that uses OpenID, though.

My employer loves Google and we use a ton of Google services. I am lucky enough to have incredibly technically competent management and they understand the tradeoffs of having Google track everything we do. Because of that, I use OpenID for any other external service that my employer mandates/approves of. I'm pretty careful not to go to OpenID authenticated sites by clicking on links and open them directly, so I feel confident that I can avoid CSRF attacks even if they could be done.

I do not use OpenID for personal use. My employer may be happy to have me daily work activities tracked by Google, but as a private individual, I don't really want that. I use an offline password manager: http://www.passwordstore.org/
I can't reply to your comment below:

> You clearly didn't get my point. For one, I'm not the one that brought up the 80 cents figure. But is it 80 cents? 70? 90? That's not the actual issue. Does sexism exist in tech? If yes, how about talking about that?

> It's like entering into a conversation about how to fix the problem of racism within the police by asking "ah yes, but how racist are they?".

I don't understand how you can speak critically of people asking the most mature, rational and productive question in the situation. You can't make a plan to deal with a problem if you don't have at least some idea of how big it is.

Person A: "The dam is overfilled, we need to drain some of the water."
Person B: "Oh, really? How do you know it's overfilled and how much water do you think we should drain?"
Person A: "OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO ASK ME THAT! CLEARLY YOU *WANT* THE DAM TO BE OVERFILLED, DON'T YOU?!?"
Person B: "..."
> I found this platform very difficult to use

Indeed. When you read IF coded in Inform it all seems to make sense, but when you have to program it you realize you're just learning a very difficult and idiosyncratic syntax.
Don't forget about advertising which on it's own often adds 20% to niche items costs.

Also, CC processing might be ~3% but it's added on at the end. aka 3% of manufacturing, 3% sales etc. Which can add up to 10% of the initial manufacturing cost.
In the case of NETVC, all contributors are required to submit IPR declarations. This doesn't prevent other uninvolved parties from popping up with patents later, but is still far better than the "patent-blind" approach that MPEG takes.
I was just thinking about this today because of the Germanwings crash. What if instead of a news article you were presented with a page which somehow led you through a knowledge graph of the topic based on questions or actions by the reader?

When news is just breaking there would obviously be lots of dead ends, but perhaps if people kept inputting the same sort of question it would get flagged and become more important as the story develops. For example in the case of the plane crash, after hearing the initial reports of the pilot being locked out my immediate thoughts were:

- What is the lock mechanism like? Can the door be opened with force?
- How is the lock controlled?
- How is the altitude for autopilot set? Is it easy to set 96 feet instead of 9600 feet?
- Is there any record of the copilot's vitals before the crash?
- Why wasn't there another person in the cabin while the pilot stepped out?

...and so on. Some of these were answered, but the only way to really get the information is to read (or listen to) the same kind of reports over and over, hoping for new information and trying not to mistake an over-eager rephrasing as new facts.

What would be great is if I could see a list of topics, select one, and then either highlight sections/tags to follow up on, submit a question, or follow a link to an existing question. The UX here would be a very interesting study I think.

Inform> Scream expletives at reporter
That's not a verb I recognize.

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The simplest way to do this would probably be to get a team of interns to trawl the net looking for what people are talking about after a story breaks (such as top voted Reddit comments), rephrasing them as necessary, and then turning them into tags which people reading the story can then subscribe to. Readers could select existing ones or see them fuzzy completed as they input their own questions. Hmmm.
We didn't move away (never were using GitHub), but we've done our CI hooks from inside arc (the command line client for phabricator) and it's worked pretty well (it means you need to be able to reach both phabricator and our CI server, but since phabricator is self-hosted that's not really a problem). A little manual, but pretty straightforward to get setup.

Overall, we greatly prefer phabricator's review tools (batch email notifications) + general git workflow (linear history on master) so haven't really looked into GitHub enterprise.
Indeed, in this case, the non-profit that holds IKEA is a private foundation and not at all a public charity.
It is certainly good enough to compete, prioritising Fab capacity to Server unit and lock in those important ( Swaying ) deals from clients. Sales and Marketing work their connection along with software tools that HPC markets needs and AFAIK is still far ahead of AMD.

And I can bet those prices have lots of room for special discount to clients. Since RAM and NAND Storage dominate the cost of server, the difference of Intel and AMD shrinks rapidly in the grand scheme of things, giving Intel a chance to fight. And there is something not mentioned enough, the importance of PCI-E 4.0 Support.

I wanted to rant about AMD, but I guess there is not much point. ARM is coming.
I would challenge if ACT/SAT is much about pure intellectual merit, considering how much one can boost their score with dedicated tutors and so on, but I digress. How to show intellectual merit other than standardized tests without relying on rich parents:

(a) Straight As

(b) (if applicable) Take all AP courses available at your high school

(c) (if applicable) Take additional college courses through community college dual enrollment or online school

(d) (if applicable) Join the math club, honors society, run for some kind of student council position, or other academics-oriented or leadership-oriented club role that doesn't require a hefty buy-in

b-d may or may not apply, depending on your school, school district, and state.
My brother passed 12th grade but didn’t have enough English credits to get his diploma. I always thought that was a weird situation to be in, congrats you’re done with school.
Wouldn’t that encourage future lawsuits from other patent trolls?
Heya, please could you unpack your reasoning a little bit more?

You said:

> WhatsApp is already wildly popular in most of the developing world for mostly this reason.

I can't speak for the majority of the developing world, but here in South Africa, WhatsApp is indeed the predominant communications app.

That being said, WhatsApp voice calls are also used here quite a bit.

So with that in mind, and reading from the article:

> Lyra compresses raw audio down to 3kbps for quality that compares favourably to other codecs

To me 3kbps sounds pretty great, and might actually work out cheaper / better than one might imagine.

So I'm just wondering, how does WhatsApp voice call data usage compare to Lyra?

Also whilst South Africa is indeed a developing country (where, among other things, the price of data is proportionately high relative to average household income), the cellular network infrastructure is excellent.

So I don't think the random bursts of connectivity you describe are as big of an issue here, whereas the price of data most certainly is.

In which case, I can definitely see a market for Lyra (assuming the 3kbps is indeed vastly superior to WhatsApp's data usage for a voice call).

Hope that makes sense but I'd be happy to extrapolate a little further :-)
The class grades are made up of some mix of:

* Graded homework

* Papers/Project/Labs

* Midterm/Final Exam

The teacher chooses the exact mix per class, so it's possible you fail even if you ace the exams, or pass even if you fail the exams.
This variability is why the standardized tests exist.
I spend ~5% of my time writing new code. The rest is spent doing other tasks.
This law is disgusting.

It won't just hit Google and Facebook, but anybody who runs a social platform. Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter even Mastodon are all in the firing line. The Australian government has unilateral control over which sites are required to funnel money Murdoch trash instead of real (maybe even independent) journalism.

My prediction is people will move to social platforms that do let you share these links, and one by one they'll find themselves regulated out of existence when they get large enough to catch the attention of the government. Even worse - think about the ways this could be abused e.g. to shut down small outlets who committed the crime of linking to mainstream sources.

I believe this is far more despicable than anything Big Tech is doing, and global adoption would be the end of a free and open web.

You thought software patents constricted the flow of information? This is 10x worse.

Edit: Please, Aussies, call your MP and tell them your thoughts. Put aside any negative feelings about Big Tech for now, and think about the future of the web. This will eventually affect all of us who operate comment sections, blogs, forums and Mastodon instances.
I seem to recall having read a very recent (couple years?) interview with him, where he was asked if value still worked nowadays. He said that if he only had 1 million to invest, he could still do 50% a year.
There's some input data over at https://github.com/cesarvr/AOCRust/blob/master/day-5/rewrite... .
What I don't understand, is why the government is trying to push through a law and seem ok with a result of the complete removal of access to news from peoples two largest sources. During a pandemic, with continually occurring lockdowns.

It's baffling.
Beginning of article's first sentence: "Women are much more likely than men to suffer a serious injury when they are involved in a crash..."
Right, if you look at the early BSD sources [0] it's not a complete OS - there's no kernel. It's just a bunch of utilities that you were supposed to install on an already running AT&T system.

[0] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/tree/BSD-1-S...
> Vehicle choice, crash differences help explain greater injury risks for women

Actual title.
Quotas are evil
Please try and enjoy the Earth's treasures while you still can. She offers them with Her love.
Notable that they don't include horsemanship in western martial arts, given it was the deciding factor in military conflict for thousands of years. There is a significant gap in writing on it between Xenophon's horsemanship and cavalry general treatises, and the 14th C. king Dom Duarte's book on horsemanship, which includes a chapter on wrestling. I suspect early books on horsemanship are rare because it was a military secret on par with cryptography (which, oddly, I do both). From what I've been able to tell, the next major (public) work wasn't until the 15th C. with Antoine de Pluvinel's "education of the king." It may be useful for the people who maintain that library to include this facet of physical culture as well.

A couple years ago I discovered a great blog on this history which can be found at http://worksofchivalry.com/ Maybe they need to connect?
Judging from the age of the staff I see in bookstores, you are not from the last generation. (Unless you, like them, are under thirty.)
I did try to hack something simmilar to this by the way of Onyx Boox e-reader running Android and supporting my bluetooth keyboard and it was more of a novelty than anything else :D

But it was fun to write in direct sunlight, in just a slightly less of a hipster fashion than using i.e. https://getfreewrite.com/ :D
Not quite sure why you couldn't have just said, great news, Justice and SebastiAn have recent releases. I'm obviously a little behind :)
It's amazing how many completely different languages are called BASIC.

Personally, I've used:

* GW-BASIC / BASICA

* QBasic / QuickBasic

* Visual Basic 6

* Visual Basic.NET

* UniVerse BASIC / Unidata BASIC - these are quite similar and both descend from Pick BASIC

Each of these is a distinctly different language with very different capabilities, but they all share the BASIC name.
I read the preprint and the supplementary data and it is interesting, but what I can't find, and I don't know why they don't include it, is a breakdown of events in the primary outcomes.

In this study, primary outcome was a combination of: hospitalization, urgent care visit, or emergency room visit.
There were 10 in the placebo and 1 in the budesonide group. But I can't find whether those events, or what proportion, were hospitalizations vs ER vs urgent care visits. If I'm missing something someone please correct me.
To me it would not be a great therapeutic option if, for example and I'm making this up, the budesonide group had 1 hospitalization and the placebo had 10 urgent care visits.

Also the number of patients was ~146, would like to see much higher numbers to catch what's significant to me, which is percent hospitalization. If you read their methods they created the study under the assumption that "20% of COVID-19 patients would be severe", when it was designed back in March which is a bit high.
Relevant sections [1] [2] in the Nim Manual might be of interest. Nim has nice type classes and can constrain generics to only apply to one (or a sum type of them, etc.). It also has concepts [3] that are a sort of compile-time duck-typing construct (under active development).

[1] https://nim-lang.org/1.4.4/manual.html#types

[2] https://nim-lang.org/1.4.4/manual.html#generics

[3] https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/manual_experimental.html#conc...
> Then what? Where does he go?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362227/
I was under the impression that all of the "x-ray" scanners aren't x-rays. Instead they are high frequency (100GHz+) back scattering machines.

The ones in the MKE air port are L3 ProVisions which fit the description I was aware of (http://www.sds.l-3com.com/products/mmwave.htm). No ionizing radiation means no "x-rays" etc.

I haven't been subjected to them yet, but before I walked into the airport I made my decision if I was going to be scanned or not.
Yes. But if you look hard enough you can likely find a criticism for everything.
There's a big gap between "not all that hard" and "something you have time to create from scratch for every problem on every exam in all of your classes every term".

In general, creating good, well-balanced problems isn't easy! And many of the "classic" examples are classic precisely because they incorporate just the right blend of concepts in an unusually simple package. That's not easy to duplicate, if it's possible at all. (I do my best to write exam problems that way, but it can be a tortuous process.)
In my opinion (which is not shared widely ;-))

Share. Hofstadter always struck me as the ultimate dilettante.
That's not what standards are for - standards define what students should be learning and at what age, and teachers are responsible for making lesson plans to implement those standards. Every teacher has his/her own teaching style, imposing one method of teaching the standards would just piss everyone off.

And yes, teachers do share lesson plans, both online and within their schools.
This page refers to April 9th (2013?) in the future tense, so it's probably pretty old news.
A bit pompous and egotistical. Just give the person your contact info and stop trying to be cutesy.
I took out asking for publish_stream permission so instead all sharing is done through Facebook Dialogs. I think now the app is at minimum friction and maximum sharing. What do ya say?
Dropbox did not send a takedown request. They (erroneously) claimed they had received one from a third party which is not perjury.
Thanks, fixed. My acquaintance with Latin is mostly by way of Spanish, where it is utilisador (well, in normal speech, usuario.)
10 employees. 3 full time support people, but everyone actually does support.
Sure, they have legal rights to do so. However, just because it is legal it does not make it fair (Ref - Sony vs. Geohotz).

Punishing for the suspicion of crime, rather than actual crime, just because you are can get away with it, is evilish and not nice. I expect better from Dropbox, we all know and love.
Also relevant: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4179027/99-99-durability-...
EBS is terrible, EC2 is dog slow and the relational MySQL thingie probably is unreliable.

Those sound like the main pillars... what's left?
More or less covered a similar statistic - that the wealthiest 1% own more than the rest put together (totally not true) or that the wealthiest 1% own more than the bottom 50% combined (true but not in a useful or interesting way).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xf1d5

To be in the top 1% you need net assets of over about £500,000 - and this includes your house if you' e paid off the mortgage.
> Soon Model S owners will be able to change lanes by only tapping on the turn signal stalks

Not sure exactly how this will work: will the car change lane immediately (or just a few seconds after you turn on the signal) or will it first make sure that the driver behind you won't close the gap? Because if it doesn't do the second thing (i.e. making sure that the driver behind you will let you change the lane) then I'm not sure how it will work in cities with crazy traffic.
Like referring to morbid obesity which is getting too prevalent in societies across the world. Far too many of the morbid obese do not see themselves as such or refuse too. It should be treated the same as smoking and dogs crapping on planes; that morbidly obese person is more of a risk for your plane than a crapping dog.

Being a dog owner, having been raised with dogs and other animals, I really don't want to see them in restaurants, grocery stores, or my doctors office. Pet stores, fine. On a plane in a carry on under the seat fine, roaming the isles no. The airplane problem is far too many people lie and declare them service dogs, something that to a point is lawful and airlines are loathe to challenge passengers over fear of suits. There should definitely not be service animals other than dogs. Emotional support animals should not be accorded the same treatment as those serving the blind.
Van Laarhoven lenses were also introduced in a blog post :):

http://www.twanvl.nl/blog/haskell/cps-functional-references
Kish's methods of dealing with blind kids seemed unnecessarily cold and disrespectful. Like making that kid climb to the top of high tree on the first try, when the kid refused for hours. It's like teaching to swim by throwing the kid in the swimming pool. It's possible to encourage exploration and risk at the child's own pace.
You are mixing two concepts. One is the "outside" value of the currency, that is, for how much foreign currency you can exchange it for. The other is the value inside the country. For example, the Swiss frank may appear 20% stronger but croissants in Switzerland still cost exactly the same. If you just print money you will get an inflation inside the country and the prices will go up.
>> The value in conferences is only mildly related to the actual talks.

Agreed.
Google owns a fighter jet.

The jet you're talking about is owned by a private company, H211 LLC, that's owned by Page, Brin, Schmidt et al. It's not a subsidiary of Google, nor does it have any relationship with Google[0].

[0] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/a-new-fighter-jet-f...
It's possible, I suppose. I captured terabytes of SIP on a production VoIP network with around a hundred thousand endpoints from all over. Over 1% of packets had IP fragmentation (~576 byte MTU) and none of them had problems. I did not see any noticeable amount of failed-to-reassemble packets.

And as you point out, the limit is quite low in such cases. So it'd be better to just drop UDP (for many reasons), versus adding protocol hopping and whatnot.
I guess I'm confused. Aren't Google and Apple under the government's power? Couldn't congress make a law mandating big technology companies give the government access to user data?