skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment makes a lot of sense and yes, the visa hassles are obviously the most logical reasons why any "foreigner technology worker" should try working elsewhere than in the US. But you know what? I don't think they can "hear" you.

Let's face it, for many countries, the US is still seen as dreamland, in particular to those many who don't connect the dots between the root cause of the problems in their homeland and the 30% tax that will be taken away from their income once they start working in the US.

This dreamland illusion is so strong that even the locals believe it. I have to deal with this on a monthly basis at the border custom patrol: the officers constantly stop me at the border and investigate me with tons of questions aiming at evaluating whether or not I am trying to "sneak into the country to steal work from honest US citizens" (sic). Every time, I am treated like a lost soul who's dreaming of working in the US (and who's very probably a criminal considering my skin color). Last time I crossed the border I was even warned that my passport doesn't show proof that I left the US, it only shows every time I entered it so technically, they don't know if I am staying there more than 90 days. How do you respond to this without being insulting? The thing is: I hate the idea of working in the US so much that I can't even talk honestly about what I feel fearing I would be arrested.

So, yes, "why US?", you asked the right question. But these guys are living in the exact same illusion than the US citizens are: "Our country is the best place in the world, the only place you're free of your opinions and where you can become a billionaire." The illusion is so strong they would even work for free...for free...for free...for free...

You can't do much against this.
http://dantawfik.com/why-i-created-a-blog-about-doing-hard-t...
So I downvoted the comment mostly because it was dismissive of the entire article seemingly for the terrible crime of ... not going out of it's way to mythbust the 'Katanas Are Just Better' trope? I think the article as a whole was interesting and even if you concede parent's point on forging (see below), the rest of the article had a lot of information.

Also is the article even wrong? The forging does create a very sharp edge (your own citation and other ARMA articles like Katana vs Longsword [1] go into this) and yes a very hard core. Yes the primary point is to remove impurities but why does the article become worthless for glossing over this, a point which is likely not interesting to casual reader looking for basic info and pictures of new weapons?

[1] http://www.thearma.org/essays/longsword-and-katana.html
Because you basically need a college degree to have a decent chance of getting a job at above the minimum wage. Semi-skilled labour in places like factories has gone and isn't coming back and jobs that didn't used to require a degree are demanding them because why the hell not?
wtf, aws again
I wondered what type is your visa to stay in the Netherlands, and could you explain how did you get it?
If you imagine a properly, holistically-designed product, which wasn't full of chips from different warring companies, the high power GPU could be used to augment the power of the on-die GPU, instead of having to turn it off and deal with a whole bunch of mad signal-switching issues. AMD products can do this to an extent with crossfire, but generally, this is a world that we don't live in.
+1 for the story :)
The cynical part of me says that it's pure marketing fluff - like labelling a Turkey as "gluten free" or a bottle of fruit juice as "fat free".
I see this thread as a list of services depending on S3 being healthy.
The US is still one of the very few countries where a lower-class person can become a billionaire.

I can name about three to four dozen recently listed (Forbes 400) US billionaires that came from poverty. You can look them up, the lists are easy to Google. Further, according to Forbes about half of their real estate billionaires come from at or below middle class, and about 40% of tech billionaires do.
This reminds me of working at Lycos as a PM a long time back, soon after they collapsed. I distinctly remember it taking 3 weeks to approve a community update email, and a 50k budget to outsource for a simple nav bar with categories...
I'm not entirely sure who the market for this product is. People who are desperate to have sex but aren't desperate enough to either walk to a convenience store or forgo protection?

I'm willing to bet that they diversify into other stuff pretty swiftly when their core product fails to get market... penetration.
Also a good list of developers and devops people not getting any sleep tonight :-/
Seems that "S3 offline" is the AWS equivalent of a datacenter falling into the ocean. Gotta wonder how many services are using S3 as a faux message queue?
The techniques in the making are not unique, the performance too. There were a lot of fine swords made everywhere in the world using similar methods. Europe used them IIRC. And we have wootz (which is entirely different beast, but also very high performing steel).
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Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/641/. I wonder if someone literally did that.
Thank you! Last two years, me and my friends (who are software engineers) left Russia. I have Russian friends in Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, UK, US.

So western countries get more high qualified people like me and my friends.

Putin motivate high qualified people to find a job in Europe :)

And as everybody agree in 21 century, high qualified people is everything for growing economy.
You can make way more than $1/user if the users are in good geos and each user can install lots of apps.

In general, it's best to assume the market knows something you don't, rather than the other way around.
There used to be this https://deltacloud.apache.org/ (not exactly what you want + it seems to be dead).
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I'd really love to see reforms that limit corporatist protections, subsidies, and un/under utilized assets owned by companies. Companies are emphatically not people, and should not be treated as such legally.. they are constructs to allow group ownership, and reduce liability as such. We've lost sight of this, and extended it to such a point that corporations literally have more rights than people, while we (as a society/government) work to prevent natural deaths of large companies and protect them at too many turns.

I think that if we started by backtracking on a lot of IP based protections, and changed the tax structure so that B2B transactions are taxed, actual investment over gambling could be a lot better. That's just me. We, as a nation and our government no longer legislate to ensure proper competition is allowed to happen and subsidize too much, and too often.

Poverty isn't a problem we can spend/indebt our way out of, we can only reduce some of the ways that the income gap has expanded out of control... Raising taxes isn't the solution, reducing loopholes, subsidies and deductions is. As would be making capital gains taxes line up closer to income taxes, with exemptions for directly inherited physical assets.

But, that's just my take on it... instead of spend at the bottom, cut from the top.
Current list of additional services affected:
CloudSearch

Elastic Compute Cloud

Elastic Load Balancing

Elastic MapReduce

Relational Database Service

CloudTrail

Config

Lambda

OpsWorks
It was perpetuating the trope actually. Not not mythbusting it.

Forging does not create a sharp edge. The micro structure that gives sharp edge is created during the heat treatment.
Swords and bows are unique? Edo period is ancient?
Last one was 10 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9980222
I don't use Facebook at all, but I've heard good things about their new Lite app. It still asks for permission to spy on your whole device, though.
The same way PU (imitation) leather is now marketed as "vegan leather" [1].

[1] http://inhabitat.com/natalie-portman-vegan-shoes/
How common are roof-top solar panels over there? Seems to me like you'd have the optimal climate for solar (in germany you see solar panels on the roofs of detached houses all the time).
Pretty sure education was much much cheaper a few decades ago.

http://www.thesimpledollar.com/a-dose-of-financial-reality/
According to the FAQ:

>Is demonsaw going to be Open Source?

>This was the question that I was most asked at Defcon. Demonsaw's foundation is built off of DemonCrypt, which is open-source and available for free on GitHub (MIT License, also developed by me). Demonsaw itself builds upon DemonCrypt's functionality and creates a graphical interface for users.

I can't find that repository though (this is the closest thing I could find: https://github.com/eijah/demonsaw).
Trends in economic mobility are difficult to prove because mobility itself is a long-term phenomenon. But for example, college tuition has increased dramatically, and a college education is one of the main ways to attain upward mobility.[1] Poor people are not able to enter profitable jobs (e.g. medicine, management, programming) because it requires training they cannot obtain, so they are instead stuck in e.g. minimum-wage retail work.

Economic inequality is easier to measure, and definitely correlates with (lack of) mobility.[2] Higher inequality means that there is a greater divide between the poor and the rich, so that it is more difficult to become rich if you are poor. Here, the statistics are clear: essentially all measures of inequality are increasing in the United States.[3]

America in the 1940s was mostly middle class: blue-collar jobs provided a livable wage, and income inequality was much lower.[4] In the past 50 years, middle-class wages have barely increased,[5] while college graduates[6] and CEOs earn much more.

[1] http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/06/13-facts-h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the...

[3] http://www.newyorker.com/rational-irrationality/american-ine...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...

[5] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor...

[6] http://www.census.gov/library/infographics/sci_eng_majors.ht...
The other distracting part of "non-toxic [...] natural latex" is that it ignores the people who are allergic to latex.
By default, condoms are vegan-friendly, being made from trees. Non-vegan condoms are the special-needs version (i.e. for latex allergy sufferers), that are not as good.
What were you doing Tex?

I was selling airplanes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_khhzuFlE

Here's Boeing, doing a 'near vertical' takeoff in the Dreamliner (spoilers: not really but still impressive), also presumably selling airplanes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYbM-3E11Qo
I wonder if indirect calls have also improved in latest generations? Anything vtable based would benefit.
That would actually turn it green again, I think.
Seems Hasicorp is maybe affected by this as well.

$ vagrant up
Bringing machine '...' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> ...: Box 'debian/jessie64' could not be found.
...
...: Downloading: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/debian/boxes/jessie64/versions/8.1.0/providers/virtualbox.box
An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try again.
The requested URL returned error: 500 Internal Server Error

EDIT: not Markdown.
Hiring this guy is a huge security risk, there's literally a community of hackers out to get him or anyone who associates with him, and it's been proven that often security companies simply aren't strong enough to deal with that.

Tptacek, would you hire him? In a hypothetical situation where you had no personal qualms with him (don't know if you do) and his skillset matched your requirements? I know I'd be hesitant even if I headed a security firm, even if it could be done in a remote/anonymous fashion.
Are you including the lubricants?
Yes you can. That's called democracy. A journalist calling out a politician is at best speaking truth to power and at worst a noisy distraction. A politician calling out a journalist is at best intimidation and at worst a death sentence.
I said that purely because a weight rule should not affect a perfectly healthy person.
From a security point of view, "partially open source" is no better than "closed source".
"Elevated Error rates" probably does not qualify as breach of their SLA
Also Germany has pretty much free universities if you can qualify as a resident which I guess you would if you work a few years.
Ditto. API does not answer at all, latency is high and customers are not amused. Outage has lasted for hours already.

edit; does not seem to affect all the buckets though. Only one of ours is experiencing this, others are fine.
Tell HN: Zirtual just announced it is ceasing all operations
Just received this email:

Dear Zirtual Clients,

It is with an incredibly heavy heart that I have to send this message. As of today, August 10th 2015, Zirtual is pausing all operations.

Due to a combination of market circumstances and financial constraints we must re-organize our current structure if we are to successfully serve you in the future.

I realize this news comes incredibly fast and I am truly sorry for the Z-shaped hole this will leave in your lives and business.

We know that many of you care deeply about your Zirtual Assistants. If you would like to connect with your assistant independently, please reach out to: questions@zirtual.com.

Thank you from the very bottom of my heart for the support you’ve shown Zirtual and my deepest apologies for the speed and inconvenience of this announcement. We will communicate further updates as soon as we have them.

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AWS US east latency and failure since morning, Are you affected?
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>4. You can start an investment program with an online brokerage account with as little as $100. Online trades are $10.00.

Are you honestly suggesting that a viable way for people to get out of poverty is to start trading stocks with a starting capital of $100?

That's the dumbest thing I've read on HN by far and no that's not a compliment if case you were wondering.
But don't all essential components of nature seem random/unexplainable from our point of view?

While we can codify their behavior and interrelations via some theory, it never actually explains why they are so and there in the first place.
http://status.docker.com/ - they are "Investigating issue with high load", now yellow, but was red before.

Can't pull any images either.
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Any airplane should have no problem--but legally, not allowed unless it is certified for it.
What else would you expect?
As someone who was at the pycon au sprints watching this come together and hearing Russell talk about the potential uses that motivated him, I'm excited to see this continue. I'm hoping to find a little time to try and work on it in the coming week.

Pypy.js has demonstrated Python JavaScrip interoperability and DOM integration, so there's no reason this project can't have similar features. We can ship useful chunks of server side Python to the browser and stop duplicating our efforts.
Not poems. That's a list of the authors.
I think the 1-for-1 charitable side to this covers for the business equation because, I agree, it seems like a small market when you look only at the delivery aspect.

"It feels like you're stalling for time. Who's that at the door?"
"Oh, err, someone looking for a different address, don't worry about it."

Unless maybe you ordered discretely via app/text and it was delivered to your letterbox by the time you got home from a date or night out.
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There's a grey area. Making your own bed is ok. Renovating a series of houses to sell on isn't. It's not totally clear where the boundary is but I think the guards have some discretion.
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Right, I was wrong. I'm wondering what the use case is for that kind of silicon... interpreters?
Google will take another shot at low end android
I suppose its like using some inline assembler. Most of the time C/C++ can do it but sometimes you need a dash of asm.
I think Google trying this hard is interesting thing. If they can manage to deliver a decent $50 smartphone, it will put a dent in the Indian market for sure. I come from very rural part of India where I can see potential for it. People will be more willing to invest $50 in their first smartphone rather than $100 which is current price range for decent smartphones.
Your last comment may be the most telling. It's the same as climate change denial: as long as there's at least one narrative that fits your worldview, overwhelming evidence to the contrary is easy to suppress. Even if it were true and widely attainable, the implication harms the effort to reduce systemic poverty, because anyone who manages to break out of a high-crime, high-poverty area has all the incentive in the world to get the Hell outta there for the sake of their kids. The changes that are required to change communities come at the community level. Gentrification doesn't help - all it does is move the misery.
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Zirtual has shut down operations
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I started receiving lots of alerts from my side project https://StatusGator.io which monitors status pages. It's astonishing to me how many services depend on AWS directly or indirectly.
To my knowledge no airliner has ever been barrel-rolled, it is a high-stress manoeuvre.

Tex himself never claimed it was a barrel roll.

I think you've confused them; Tex says, quoted in the article, "The barrel roll is a one G maneuver and quite impressive, but the airplane never knows it’s inverted", while the aileron roll causes negative G at the "top" when the plane is inverted.
And quantum physics will stop being weird once we get its rule set (lightning and thunder had God status, once).
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My experience is similar. In certain circles, usually the technical realm, but also in my family when we discuss mostly social and religious issues, there is the ability to be blunt and to the point without hurting anyone's feelings. I often miss that freedom in many of my other interactions, where every discussion is bogged down by 'negotiation' and pleasantries, all to avoid direct disagreement based on concrete arguments.

That said, I also think technical types especially have a tendency to forget that in many conversations there is a personal aspect where feelings can get hurt, and that in those cases being blunt can and does hurt feelings, and detracts from the objective of the conversation.

Interestingly, this personal aspect can often be present in conversations where they don't appear to be at first, and even more interestingly I've found that 'we' technical types can be rather unaware of our own personal feelings in such conversations.

I've often only realized that I was much more emotionally invested in the topic after the conversation, and at least part of my behavior was just rationalizing feelings.

An example is the programming language, 'stack' or editor we use. I could swear that I can discuss this rationally, and yet I've had a number of discussions where, in hindsight, I was really just defending my personal preference, and I was really just annoyed that the other person could not 'see the light'.

EDIT: 'The light' being Vim, of course. Anyone who says otherwise is objectively wrong.
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There is no future in the US, just go to other country (like Canada or something in west Europe).
[3:25] AM PDT We are still working through our recovery plan.

Man, I'd love to see that plan.
Something like 28% of American adults have college degrees.

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

0.8% of Americans over 25 are earning minimum wage.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2014/01/30/almost...

That leaves 70% of American adults do not have college degrees and are earning above minimum wage. Of course, depending on how one defines things those numbers can go up and down, but it's not a stretch to say that most workers do not have college degrees and earn above minimum wage.

One last observation - starting your own business does not require a college degree. (Probably the most famous of those is Microsoft, and Microsoft has hired programmers without degrees.)
As it has happened before, Amazon AWS status page is lying to us.

S3 is in yellow, which means "performance issues". But not being able to download files from many buckets it's clearly a "service disruption" (red).
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The most ironic thing I've seen in a while: Their homepage features icons of services they monitor. Many of them 503-fail - they are hosted on cloudfront.
People are doing deep learning even on mobile GPUs. Even on VC4 on Raspberry Pi.
Exactly. It's not quantum physics that is weird, it's our intuitions that are wrong (since we never had to explicitly deal with nanoscale before XX century).
If you meant the poems in the manual, those would be pretty hard to translate...
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This guy already did that: https://github.com/chilicuil/tundle
It is actually possible if you keep trying.