jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>I've generally found that hardware has about a 10-month payback aginst AWS

no wonder here. The AWS has their own business people who calculated how much they would need to charge to get profit from the hardware investment loosing its value right down to the neighborhood of $0 in 2-3years.
Nice UI. But I don't get what is the use of the .gz files. So my javascript files can be compressed -- but what are compressed .js.gz useful for? can I use them in place of the .js files or something?
I thought you had to actually violate the TOS first.
Keep in mind that Compete is almost always laughably wrong.
Hehe, thanks guys. I must admit I'm kind of liking my irreverent style of writing back in those days. I think I should bring it back.

By the way, I never actually tackled girls on steroids:
http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Theory_Practice-Issue_06_Ev...
Thanks man. These days I am working more on http://myownstream.com/
Tip: If something is on the web and has been linked to via a site like HN, don't ask them to remove it no matter how bad it hurts you. It will never result in a good thing for you and will definitely hurt more afterwards.
Of course you're well within your rights to remove the content from Dropbox itself as it violates your TOS - I think most people are objecting not to that, but to you requesting that copies of the source be removed from third party sites like github.

The attempt to quash knowledge is the offensive part - not the enforcing of your TOS. At least that's my 2 cents.
An enjoyable post. I would add a couple of data points to the mix.

Getting a gigabit link with a competent IP-transit provider will be on the order of 3 - 5K$/month. Thats 1000mbits 24/7 not limited by how many bytes you push through it.

A switch and router for your rack stacks will be on the order of $15K (that's a couple of 48 port GbE switches and a Cisco router (or equivalent))

You really need to understand the depreciation costs. As your equipment ages you will need to replace it (if only to keep on supported platforms). $100K + $30K for servers + $15K for networking gear is $145K of gear. If you squeeze all you can out of it and only replace it in 5 years then you can do a 5 year straight line depreciation so add about $30K/year to your costs for depreciating the old gear.

On the storage array, if you want 10TB of raid protected storage with the MD1220 you need 24 600GB SAS drives [1] which comes in at $23K each (not $12K)(oh an you have two of those and you again have $10K/yr depreciation).

Oh and you probably want a service contract, something like onsite in 4 hrs or if you're a bit more laid back in 24hrs. That will add another $150K/year ( but I'm sure that you can get the sales guy to knock off a bunch as its probably a list price vs 'what i can get it for' kind of deal)

Another real world bit that will bite you is that while you can "fit" all this gear in a 40U rack you can't put enough power into that rack at a Colo facility to run it. The servers are 750W machines, so lets say you put a 120V/30A circuits into your rack, you can really only draw about 25A before people complain so you have about 3KW/circuit available. A 'normal' colo facility will offer you 2 per rack. So with 750W servers you can run 8 machines per rack. You'll probably not run them that hard and can get away with maybe 12 per rack. But with 54 totals servers that is going to be 5 racks minimum and maybe 6. (remember your switch and router will take power too). Either way you're looking at 24 - 30 'circuits' for this space and those are probably about $500/month each so another $12-15K/month in 'power+cooling' charge.

You pretty much have to add in either the cost of a tech or half the cost of one of your operations employees to run this setup. Ideally you have two people at half time so that you can structure vacations for them. So put it down as one full time sysadmin and one full time tech, implemented as anywhere between 2 and 4 people. Don't forget to include the cost of their office space, their health plans, and their laptops :-).

Did you include travel time and travel expense? So most things can be 'lights out' but many exceptions to that rule exist. If you can drive to the data center from home then you're better off than if you have to fly there and check into a motel.

All that being said, its an important exercise to run through and figure out the costs since it is your own money that you are spending. And AWS does get some economies from being able to fractionalize things like sysadmin resources.

[1] http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=bvcwmk...
Better handling of sensitive payment card information.
Is there a way to explain the aging process using the selfish gene theory? I suppose that's what you're hinting at.
I did, and I agree with the criticism. The fact that you're offering factual information doesn't change the fact that you're:

1. Deliberately manipulating buying decisions for profit.

2. Concealing the fact that the information you present is intended to manipulate, not to inform.

3. Ignoring whether or not a buying decision will genuinely benefit the customer and not just the seller.

Put simply, you seem to have zero interest in the customer except as financial prey.

Do you really not understand how shady this is?

It's true that persuasion is everywhere - but so what? Germs, pollution, poisons, politicians, and other bad things are everywhere too. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to mitigate their damaging effects.

If you don't understand why this is a problem, consider how customers would feel if you explained your manipulation up front.

How much damage would the brand suffer?

Now, if you had customers who were happy with your presentation after an open explanation ("Yes - tell me when you're about to run out of stock so I don't have to wait until you restock") that would be different.

But instead of giving them that choice you're using textbook psychological exploits to push their behaviour around in ways that benefit you, potentially at their expense - and IMO that's certainly not a cool thing to be doing.
what else do you need to be thankful for than health and family?
To me, computer generated art always feels less remarkable than traditional art. If you present me with two paintings that are identical, pixel for pixel, and tell me that one is human authored and the other computer authored, I'd be less interested in the computer authored one. I'd spend less time thinking about it.

I always found this fact fascinating. Why would I attribute different levels of worth to two artifacts that were totally identical, save for their method of construction?

I didn't have a good answer to this until I read a book by aesthetician Dennis Dutton (The Art Instinct). Dutton presents a 12 factor model of art, and claims that artifacts exhibiting all 12 criteria tend to be unambiguously judged as "valid art", while artifacts that miss some but exhibit most are considered "edge cases", things that reasonable people can dispute the artistic validity of.

One of Dutton's 12 criteria is "expressive individuality". Most art objects are the products of a single person's imagination. Computer generated art tends to lack this trait, and this, I think, is why it feels less valid than human-made art.

Here's an outline of the 12-factor model: http://www.aristos.org/aris-10/dutton.htm
Hi, author here.

As I recall, the memory hierarchy was actually simple--the issue was that it called some structure_free(parent) in C++, which freed the entirety of that part of the hierarchy--the parent and the children; which would obviously cause problems if the children weren't done working.

That said, I'm looking over my backups from that era; I can't quite figure out what real code corresponds to the pseudo-code in the post (I didn't have the real code when I wrote the post).
Someone please be kind and explain to me how this works? Don't different executable formats need different headers?

Don't ELF need "0x7F ELF" header? Don't Windows executable need "MZ" header? How is it fulfilling both requirements simultaneously?
I'd go further than this. I know plenty of musicians who have far in excess of a few tens of thousands of fans worldwide, but couldn't possibly survive on the income from their music. Similarly I know some writers who's books sell in the low tens of thousands who could never dream of leaving their day job.

So it's about more than the number of fans, it's related to the perceived value of individual copies of the work (and how monitizable, sorry horrible word) it is.

So a fine artist working in the digital space with a couple of thousand fans, may well be able to make decent money selling prints and NFTs. But a musician, writer or filmmaker will likely need several hundred thousand fans to build a useful number of 'true fans'. A youtuber may need millions of 'fans' to garner the same number of regularly cash supportive fans.
This is a good example of why I didn't want to join the army. I understand the importance of instilling order and readiness,but it can be done in many ways, not necessarily with 'just because I can'. I've heard countless examples like this, the worst being where some poor guys had to carry a cigarette butt on stretches for a few miles, then dig a massive pit and bury it.
> That's a great feat from Twitter that they implemented it so fast

Thanks to the periscope engineers I guess. I won't be surprised to see Android support sooner than Clubhouse. Happy and don't mind to be proven wrong.
I'm working for a small(er) (30ish people) software company and 9am is the general start of the work day, but it's not regulated or enforced. Some people start at 8am, but I for myself start mostly around 10am, except there are some meetings before.

There are only two rules:

- get the job done

- be in the important meetings/calls
I completely disagree. Entering short positions is an important market mechanism that allows managing risk and mitigates speculative frenzy. For this to work, there needs to be a system to borrow shares. If you think the market is volatile now, you just haven't seen it when only long positions are possible.
I keep seeing this AI girfriend thing cropping up more and more often.
RSS is dead?

* check own RSS feeds *

Nope, still alive
Have to say though, using zip so you can reuse the compression is quite a masterstroke.
This wouldn't be the first time China has hacked US-based organizations.
I'm building a search engine for this exact issue - there's 10000 recipes for every dish but they have to be contextualized: Do I want mac and cheese in the next 30 minutes or am I serving this for Thanksgiving? Those are 2 different experiences and recipes.

Even the base issue of at least ranking recipe blogs by quality isn't solved by other aggregators such as Google / Yummly which are more of a recipe dump.

If you or anyone else is interested I'm planning to release a version in the coming weeks - email is in profile.
Yes. Thanks for asking. There's plenty of evidence - CSOs/NGOs/USAID/UNITER aside - let's start with CANVAS.

Here's wikileaks documents: https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releasedate/2012-06-18-08-canv...

These are conversations at Stratfor with and about an 'export-a-revolution' group for hire. If you look through the (ppt) slides in the Introduction to CANVAS you will see them boasting about their role in the colored revolutions. Get back to me on that and if you want more there's more.
Bingo!! The 12 million invest is what sets them apart :)

Too late, yeah you can build it --- but would you get funded for something so simple when someone else is already ahead?

Market validated ... but barely, and definitely not enough to fuel more ... and if they do ... ha.
The linked article proposes resolving the liar's paradox by forbidding self-reference in some circumstances, or questioning the meaningfulness of sentences that refer to "this sentence".

This is somewhat akin to what mathematicians tried to do in response to paradoxes like Russell's, but Gödel was still able to construct self-reference indirectly!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory#History

One concern with trying to do this is that it seems to rule out of bounds quite a lot of natural uses of language that talk about the use of language. The original liar paradox referred to a class of persons (those from Crete) as liars, rather than a statement as a falsehood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox#Origin_of_t...

We could also imagine cases like

"It is impossible to express truth in the English language."

or

"No sentence that contains eight words is true."

or

"No generalization about propositions is correct."

It seems increasingly difficult to maintain that all of these utterances are meaningless, at least on the specific grounds that the article gives.

Or, to borrow a favorite line from my friend Erik:

"Il ne faut pas croire que la parole serve jamais aux communications véritables entre les êtres." ("One should not believe that words suffice for true communication between beings.") -- Maurice Maeterlinck

... which also provides a pretty nice liar paradox if you believe that Maeterlinck was a being, or that I'm one. :-)
I don't disagree, but where do you see the moat? $12m could be spent on developing hard-to-copy technology eventually, but I don't know if that explains the current valuation. Also, I believe Amazon has strong economies of scale, but I'm not sure if Magic does or not.
Yes, that's true. But it's both naive, arrogant, and rude to require those "sales pitches" to be good. At the end of the day, it's up to you to decide what's better for you. If you try to outsource it, you'll discover that the best sales pitches around are for dead-end technologies.

At the other side of it, people giving you those recommendations really have no better way to explain it. PG has an well known essay about language power, but even that isn't very precise. Some kinds of knowledge you really have to know before you understand what they are good for.
Fossil supports incremental import and export to Git, so it should be possible to maintain a Git mirror of a Fossil repository or vise versa. This does not work for tickets and wiki, but the Fossil web server can also render markdown documentation located in the source tree.
Poor, poor Brightkite.
I agree he's not the only one to blame.

The FSO of the SCIF where he (presumably) worked should be investigated. His CO and the rest of his chain of command should be investigated as well. The (contract investigator, most likely) who was involved in granting him his clearance, too. I'm pretty sure that all happens automatically when something like this happens -- at the very least, they need to work on making sure this doesn't happen again, but it's hard to believe they were 100% blameless in this.

The actual IT systems used by the military for secret-or-higher classified data are kind of pathetic, actually. Certain things are done well (the "air gap" model for networks, and generally the military is decent at key management, and most members granted security clearance are good about changing passwords and reporting security probes, vs. commercial environments. However, the technology itself is often windows (2k, xp, vista), and isn't exactly the best managed network in the world. To some extent being "air gapped" causes them to be lazy about other forms of security. A lot of this has to do with the exceptionally slow procurement and integration cycle of the military, but at the core, windows is just not a great solution for building an office automation system with 100% accountability for every file.

(I'm actually working on a startup that will address this market; it's a good market, but I've also been someone at personal safety risk from security violations, so it is more compelling to me than writing another fb game or ipad app.)
You are actually right. Sorry! I shouldn't be trying to do N things at the same time - I somehow misread that as i <= LENGTH - 4.
The author doesn't seem particularly opposed to handouts:

If the government wants to help innovation in this country they should get busy with infrastructure. Lay fiber to every home and business in the U.S. Actually start building some of these high speed train networks to make travel easier. Get computers into the hands of every child in the country as soon as they are physically able to press buttons.

The article mainly seems to be asking for better regulation/handouts, not none. Except for the last paragraph.
This piece pulls long quotes the INC article with little added value.

If you want to get the whole story, support the original publisher and read what several commenters considered the best article they'd read all day...skip this and read the original:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1409858
In theory you are correct, in practice it is more complicated. There is no such thing as a good pseudo-random number (good meaning good for all use cases), only good enough. For random() to be useful it has to be generate "good" number for the average programming task, but must be fast enough that the average task can use it. Both properties are in conflict and so programming language implementors have to balance them out.
I think a charitable reading of what I wrote would imply "less education" to mean "less learning." If you don't agree that one is implied by the other, then just pretend I said "less learning".
I think it's more like this: The Web platform (HTML, JS, CSS, the DOM, and friends) has evolved most of capabilities that Mozilla pioneered with XUL so we can now attempt a "stock web technologies" approach to front end development.
This is why you must always always be at your kids beside and if you are in the hospital, always have a friend with you (if you are in the hospital and otherwise not capable), who can double check and ask questions on your behalf every time.
Very cool :) That SEAGel sounds like great stuff to make model aircraft from. Light enough to power with solar cell and tiny motor.
I get the impression crypto is very hard to implement right, which would mean it's very hard to evaluate.
It comes from the word Gypsy in case readers can't make the connection.
I don't know about these new accusations about a Google employee doing covert work for the State Dept., but as far as them getting reimbursed for compliance costs, I don't really see that as scandalous.

The Guardian strongly implies that this contradicts their earlier denials about knowing anything about PRISM. But PRISM could just be the NSA's internal name for the program that collects data obtained from companies via court order. From the companies' perspective, they're just complying with court orders. Theres nothing in the Guardian's reporting that contradicts that, at least as far as I can see.

Assange's implication that getting reimbursed for court costs is some sort of business model for Google ("taking NSA money in exchange for handing over people's data") is absurd. They take advertisers' money for handing over people's data, not the government's.

Guardian's report: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs...
Reading this article, one could be pardoned for wondering if Cohen is a NOC agent for some intelligence agency....
But they only became a 501(c)(3) in 2012. Before that 2005-2012 they were an LLC, and so thus most definitely weren't exempt.
Use it instead of punctuation :-) Then start the new sentence like this with a capitalized letter.

I still haven't figured out how to use it inside of parenthesis, so I try to avoid doing so.
>if the owner is the sole authority in determining who gets into their property, they can refuse anybody for any reason whatsoever, and no regulation or policy can stand in the way

Err... this didn't work out too well in the past, which is why now I can't put up a sign in my store that says "No Mexicans." Or as a landlord I cant say "I only rent to whites." These regulations didn't arise out of nowhere...

I'm not sure what the rest of your post is about. Other than food establishments it is generally the owner's choice to allow animals ot not. Most people just don't allow animals. You can bring your dog to PetsMart.
This mindset just seems impossible to implement in general. If someone came to me and said "you should denounce suchandsuch Estonian law because it's terribly unfair to burglary victims", I would have to decline - not because I think burglary victims don't matter, and not because I support the Estonian justice system, but simply because I have no idea what they're talking about and there's no easy way for me to find out.
If the CCP have nothing to hide then why do they do everything they possibly can to hide things from the rest of the world?
Are you really disagreeing with me? I simply read an article, and noted that the real issue was the government intervention, not private businesses inability to make good judgments, or individuals lack of restraint in assholish behavior. I didn't list this as "Exhibit A" I just noted that if we're talking about this article, this is the main issue.
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Bit of an absurd question, but is anyone in here spending 6-7 figures a month at GCP? Does it get better?
I've been working for startups for 20 years and I was never able to get an AWS Account Manager, much less a "Startup Rep". They must only care about spending, your email domain, the fact that you're an ex employee or likely to write about the experience. Cause it's always been "you're on your own" for me.
> it's super unprofessional

I don't think anyone is getting paid though.
Not really, it's just the simple advice not to let go of them or leave them is correct, common sense and important in that case.
Well, anything’s better than multiplying the float by ten to the power of the number of decimals.
That's what it says, but in practice I've asked some really general and technical questions of AWS support and always received a helpful reply without a paid support plan as well. With a paid plan the response time is better.

In general the AWS support has been great. In many cases, they've forwarded our requests to product teams who have even fixed bugs we've run into and contacted us directly.

Our other experience is with paid Azure support, which did little else than direct us to the (not related to the question) docs. They also had a really hard time understanding our technical questions about specific APIs. To their credit, they did eventually escalate to the PM of the service in question.

In general, the team responsible for the service really must be able to help out with support requests. In AWS this is definitely the case, in Azure as well but there's a bit of gatekeeping. Does developers and PMs in GCP participate in support?
Thanks, this thread just made “number of party balloons” my new favorite unit of measure
This is great. Non-programming text editors (along with task management, notes, email, and others) belong to the broad class of software for which the options available on Linux are typically extremely unappealing. Especially in contrast to what's available on other platforms (notably: MacOS).

Generally, your options on Linux consist of:

- A couple apps that have been around and remain essentially unchanged since the '90s,

- Some recent, well-meaning but poorly executed programs, and

- A nice-looking but infuriatingly clunky and out-of-place Electron app which I'm loathe to use on principle.

I'm very glad to see a first-class Linux app in this category.
> why I honestly think she should see

Speaking of being condescending, on what ground do you base your assumption that you know more than she does on the topic? Seems to me someone here needs to question their assumptions, and it isn't the person you're responding to.