skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before I sleep, I download a set of podcasts for the commute the following day on Pocketcasts. Mine are usually about ML, Freakonomics, Startup School, and AI. But you go try whatever you want. I find that it's best to spend idle time listening to intellectual background sounds (if you're at least not listening to them).

I try to avoid any social media at this point. Anytime I find myself on Facebook or Twitter for more than 3 minutes, I kill the tab and get back to focus on work.
Hover Hacked?
> I actually had to tell them not to copy everything off my 15 minute presentations because they could just print it later or view it on their phones, and I'd rather they actively engage with the material.

I don't know about your students but when I was in school copying things down was exactly how I engaged with the material. The act of transcription was how I remembered it -- I wouldn't even review the notes again later.
if we rewrote mercurial in clojurescript and renamed it to ninja-control everyone would be blown away by the feature list
They could offer a year's unpaid sabbatical to their employees, parents or not.
Plural of anecdote is not data unless you have data :)

Any Netflix-level stats?
YouTube-dl and livestreamer are probably my personal favourite examples of open source code. Almost invaluable in getting around the flash-based monopoly of online video, they are both still highly useful in simply watching video in a preferred/favourite media player rather than some browser player UI.
Woohoo! It's the second coming of stored procedures and PL/SQL! Party like it's 1988!

Seriously though, these kinds of architectures come at a cost. The website's claims are either misleading, or the authors haven't understood the problem domain. E.g.:

Each of your API URLs points to one of these Lambda functions. This way, the code for each API Route is completely isolated, enabling you to develop/update/configure/deploy/maintain code for specific API urls at any time without affecting any other part of your application(!!!).

Even if you add more exclamation marks, you'll still end up with front end code depending on the interface exposed by your backend code, meaning you'll have to do versioned rollouts, except you no longer have a single deployable but a zoo of store proce^W^Wlambda functions, with unclear interdependencies and (usually) no proper versioning or tracking.

This might be the right architecture for certain apps, but it's not the easy win/win that's presented here.
Agreed on the longevity point. I don't agree this data says the tablet market is in decline, just that it's maturing. I'm still plugging away on my ipad 2 from 2011 with no intention of replacing it. In that time I've had 2 laptops and 3 phones. Maybe tablets just last longer. People aren't buying fewer tablets because they are in decline, people are buying fewer tablets because there are fewer people left who need to buy a tablet.
Woohoo! It's the second coming of stored procedures and PL/SQL! Party like it's 1988!

Seriously though, these kinds of architectures come at a cost. The website's claims are either misleading, or the authors haven't understood the problem domain. E.g.:

Each of your API URLs points to one of these Lambda functions. This way, the code for each API Route is completely isolated, enabling you to develop/update/configure/deploy/maintain code for specific API urls at any time without affecting any other part of your application(!!!).

Even if you add more exclamation marks, you'll still end up with front end code depending on the interface exposed by your backend code, meaning you'll have to do versioned rollouts, except you no longer have a single deployable but a zoo of store proce^W^Wlambda functions.

This might be the right architecture for certain apps, but it's not the easy win/win that's presented here.
Why doesn't the government pay for the maternity/paternity leave? It doesn't make any sense that it's Netflix's responsibility.
In contrast, I hear Amazon has no paternity leave (or maybe its like 2 days or something?)
I would view your approach as a complimentary architecture. At some point, I'll want to provide developer APIs that can be throttled, measured, etc, and the API Gateway is a perfect interface for that. But sometimes you'd want client code that directly uses AWS services without the intermediary, particularly since the surface area of all AWS services is massive and generated JAWS REST APIs would likely be smaller, domain-specific interfaces.
I was thinking more about social experiments than medical ones. A lot of problems with current social science research comes from telling people they're part of a study. Humans change their behavior when they know they're being watched (not to mention selection bias; people who agree to be a part of the study are often a very specific population subset, on the intersection of people with too much free time and the kind of people who like taking part in experiments). I think we need more studies like that infamous Facebook one (the one which media took and turned into an overblown ethical issue) - tweaking something and observing the dynamic response of the system, without the system being aware that it's being explicitly influenced.
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryWebBrowser
Publicity stunt?

http://www.barstoolsports.com/philadelphia/turns-out-the-dea...
Can you elaborate on the kinds of work they do? I can't see a senior engineer doing iOS/Android development making that kind of coin, but I can see it for someone who has been working in-depth building out datacenter technology or low-level mobile technology stacks, for example.
Has anyone here had experience going the other way: management to technical?
Ask HN: How many Canadians live in the SFBay area?
I'm from Toronto and at least once per day I seem to meet a Canadian.

I've heard a rumor that there's something over 400,000 Canadians which would make it the 13th largest metro area by Canadian population.
Interesting, I thought that was a PNW (OR/WA/BC) thing (I've heard it described as the "Northwest vowel shift")? I say "bag" and "lag" rhyming with "vague" or "bagel" too, and I grew up in Oregon.
At least with things like internet use, I can mostly just pretend it's truly unlimited. What I want to use when it's truly unlimited is typically within the actual limit.

But in this case, it clearly does not actually mean it. Oh, I have actually unlimited vacation at my Big Corporation job? I guess I'm never going in to work again! Except we can be pretty sure that 12 months of vacation each year is way beyond the secret limit.
It's a good video, but please don't do promotional voting or astroturfing on HN.
Thanks a bunch! I hope we find someone too, theres so much cool stuff we're going to build
I don't believe the tablet market is declining at all, they've simply shrunk them a bit and added phone functionality so that they're categorized as phones. If you have an iPhone 6 Plus or a Samsung Galaxy Note, you don't need another tablet.
Yes, nonverbal consent is definitely possible, although it is considered a weaker standard than verbal consent, which is why humans often advocate for that.

There is a difference between leaving a creature in open space with a herd around them, teeth and hooves available for "speech", and locking a creature to a rack where they are alone and powerless to dissuade penetration.
Is it really true that Lambdas can take 5 minutes to start up? Doesn't that rule them out as useful for things like running a website (instead of just background jobs)? Or does the article mean 5 minutes from the first time you deploy a new one to the time it's available, but after that new lambdas can be spun up in milliseconds to server each request?
There are screenshots on the wiki: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki
Will it be for mobile too?
I wonder what would happen if I push some electromagnetic calculations to Github (I'm a physicist): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retarded_potential
The economy in Arkham Knight is interesting in comparison. Bruce Wayne rewards himself with waynepoints for beating people effectively, then spends these points on things he already owns but decided not to bring out with him, so that he can get even more points for laying out even more effective beatings.

I think it's a psychopath simulator.
How about if it was, "I just had a kid, so I'm going to stay home to raise them, and I'll be back in 18 years, assuming they get into college"?
I met one just the other day -- he said "a-booot" a lot.
>2013 Nexus 7 that still runs great.

The eMMC on mine is toast, I shopped around and couldn't find anything that I liked better and so ordered a new motherboard. Are there any other options around that size that make sense as the Nexus 7 is discontinued?
Tried your public demo's, they don't seem to work.
The amount of time it took to get a letter across the country/world also made a difference to their signal to noise ratio. It especially comes across in the letters written by thoughtful people.

You could compare it to speech making or say a TED talk. The speaker knows she has one shot to make a mark, so a lot more effort goes into it. And it ends up leaving a mark.
Honest question: why don't people just leave for months at a time? Is it because everyone understands that "unlimited" is actually "one month a year, more or less" or whatever the actual amount is?
NASA Commissions Ultra High Temp Chips for Venus Landsailing Rover
Yes! Yes! Yes! Now I just wish there was Python support.
Lexus Hoverboard: It's here
> If there is a 2x difference .. I only have to run half the machines

No, it doesn't work that way. CPU is almost never an issue, it's all about startup time, network latency -- that kind of stuff. So, unless you're mining bitcoins, 2x difference is negligible.
I don't know why you were downvoted. This is a nice summary.
The video surveillance is fake and is supposed to be a "prank". And it was recorded by the people who saw the bot last.
I mean to say, I haven't seen a better Android tablet since the Nexus 7 (2013). I've seen them _cheaper_ but I haven't seen them better.

And until they're better, I'm not buying a new one until this one breaks.
This is a fascinating example of the academic status quo being incentivized into creating valuable freely accessible knowledge.

I'm curious how being invited or accepted to write an article on topic affects academic prestige and tenure decisions. Is Brian Orend who wrote http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/war/ considered the canonical living expert on the philosophy of war?

I'd love to know more about the incentives and culture around this. I'm sure there are many insights one can draw about building valuable evolving repositories of knowledge from recognized exports.
The vtable is a flat structure with known layout in C++. In Objective-C, it's a hash table (with precomputed hashes and lots of other tricks—but it's still fundamentally a hash table). There's a big difference between the two.
Suggestion: find a business valuation professional, ideally one with demonstrable experience valuing businesses in your market, and ask the founder to agree to reimburse you for the cost of a valuation.

The cost of the valuation might exceed the amount the founder has offered you, but if he is sufficiently motivated to acquire your shares and believes he is not significantly underestimating his company's value, he should be comfortable agreeing to such an arrangement.

If he does not agree, it doesn't mean that your shares are worth significantly more than offered, but unless you need a couple grand, it's hard to see why you'd be motivated to sell.
This is part of our secret sauce :)
The [ɔ] is more o-ish (rounder) than [a], certainly, but it's nowhere close enough to render as "a boat" - the initial vowel is too low and the [ʊ] portion of the diphthong is too high for that approximation to work.

The "aboot" thing did exist at one time in Southern Ontario when, as Stephen Leacock (our Mark Twain) put it: "In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages without trying to invent slang, so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversations." The Scots influence was huge in Upper Canada until about the middle of the 20th (and was refreshed by an influx of authentic accents after WW II), and "aboot" wouldn't have been a gross mischaracterisation south of Parry Sound, with Toronto and Windsor excepted.

(Down east, the Scottish influence was more Gaelic then Scots. 25 years ago, it wasn't hard to find Gaelic speakers on Cape Breton whose English was clearly a second language; the kids were mostly English-first by then, though, and Gaelic's little more than a heritage language now. If anything, the Gaelic-influenced pronunciation of "about" and "house" is flatter than the American version.)
With poorly chosen email subject and sign-in links going through list-manage.com. When are these companies going to learn that they are actually sending out emails that are just like phishing emails?
If you find one, let me know. The Nexus 7 was the best Android tablet I've seen.

I've used the iPad mini and it's very very good. It's also twice the price of what I bought my Nexus 7 for.
This is kind of misleading, the survey was about banning books in school libraries, where minor are going to be the group accessing the books. Given this it's pretty remarkable that 72% of people think that children and young adults should have access to any book they want.

Edit - from the article:

> Caldwell-Stone pointed out that the survey’s questions about school libraries reflect a different set of attitudes from those surrounding public or academic libraries. Coupled with the broad nature of the questions, this could encourage a less nuanced range of answers.
You're basically people-pleasing.

This is because you don't have the ability to replace the people you feel the need to please at your expense, with people you can have a reciprocal relationship with.

I'd say people are in this situation to some extent (and most people their whole lives, let's be honest :)) until they get high enough in their career and maturity to have enough power to have others cater to them and not vice versa.

Not cater in the sense that you abuse them and they can't abuse you but in terms of you having the wisdom to establish largely mutually-beneficial relationships and cut out the ones that aren't - win-win.

I'd say almost nobody younger than 30 has the ability or the wisdom to do this. As long as you are learning and becoming more and more independent, both financially and 'spiritually', then it'll be fine in due time.

If you're not doing that, you most likely bitch and moan to others as means of therapy and guess what, they don't wanna hear it either, they're thinking 'yes I got the message, move on', except you can't move on because you're not moving anywhere really :)

ps. What most people do is limit the amount of interaction they have with one another - you bitch to me for an hour a week and I bitch to you a similar amount. That way we both get to de-stress while not overwhelming one another. :P
In California there's no such thing; Vacation and PTO is earned as it is accrued and must be paid upon separation. Sick leave specifically does not fall into that bucket, but lots of places use a single PTO bank as the combo sick/vaca bucket which makes it all payable.

(I mention CA because that's where Netflix is HQ'd)
It's not clear from the sketchy evidence provided that they're specifically scraping GMail for your Amazon purchases. It might be that they're looking into your GMail for search results in general. It would be interesting if that user sent himself a message with the same search terms in it to see whether the results are specific to emails from Amazon.
I've also needed to have Lambda functions access databases on an RDS instance within a VPC and haven't been able to do so without opening the database up to everyone. Seems like a feature they should think of adding soon.
How to kill your DevOps initiative
The Lexus Hoverboard
Blogging as individuals writing = not dead
Individuals with their own branded/hosted sites = on the deathbed

Your using medium as the platform seems to prove your point!
> I would not say that anything that has a <1% frequency is a "very legitimate" fear.

That's an awfully broad statement. You might want to rethink it. I don't think you'd do air travel if there was merely a <1% chance the plane would crash.
~ oh you Sweet summer child.
Actually yes. I'm one of the original authors.
But it has only been an open source side project since 2000.
Bright (YC W15) raises $4M to bring solar to the developing world
I interned at Daimler-Benz in Germany. We had a 37.5 hour work week and "flex time" with core hours of 9:30-4:30. My boss made a big deal of explaining that, unless we were at a test track, that we were expected to abide both the core hours and 37.5/week. Core hours were 7hrs/day.

That meant we could work our 30 minutes flex per day in a totally flexible fashion...
Wouldn't surprise me if someone making videos and submitting to YouTube slipped up and identifying info was available. Did the dairy in question pursue this case or assume it was too hard to identify someone?
Up next, I will add the ability to define your entire JAWS API in JSON via Swagger.

Swagger JSON can be imported to create/update your REST API instantly via AWS API Gateway.

Meaning, you can still do larger, versioned roll-outs by simply updating the JSON in your Swagger file.

This will give beautiful structure and simplicity to the JAWS workflow.

The single deployable server you advocate is a single point of failure.
Always lovely seeing Mercurial work. It really is the elegant tool for source control.
1) That's a good reason to not have shopkeepers buy and sell equipment at all. But even if they do, I've seen classic games where the "selling price" of anything you can't buy in a shop is 1 gold (less than the cheapest consumable). I've also seen games where you can't sell to shops, period, which is even more justifiable.

2) It's only a story/mechanics disconnect if you expect continuity between multiple playthroughs, and "story" doesn't typically have any explanation for that to begin with. Otherwise, it's not hard to suspend disbelief and just say "OK, the sword handed down through this family is a bit more powerful than the previous sword I found in a volcano".
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006542
Was it killed due to flagging, or did mods bury it initially? If the latter, I apologize -- could you tell me a little more about why?
I think that the primary effect of eConversations is that you get closer to the brain's raw consciousness. You skip past the social lessons you learnt as a child and go straight to a stream from the brain. It's far more volatile.

'Pure', in this context, takes a slightly different form.
I know how to override it, but I prefer all the other behavior of gnome-keyring's agent. -c is literally the only feature I want that it doesn't have.
You could look into one of Asus' newer MeMo Pads:
https://www.asus.com/Tablets/MeMO-Pad-Products/

I forget which model it was exactly (you might need to do some research), but with at least one of them, it appears that Asus basically took the specs/design of the Nexus 7, debranded it, and then tweaked them to be a little more current. So it's almost a Nexus 7 successor, just without Google's branding.[0]

0: http://tabtec.com/tablet-reviews/asus-memo-pad-7-me572-revie...
Very impressive and very useful for certain Emacs workflows.

Also, something tells me the creator of this project and its users won't feel the need to spam HN and r/programming with regular updates on the progress of the project in an attempt to raise the profile of the language it was written in--unlike what we saw with a certain other tiling window manager a few years back.
No, that is not true. While AWS Lambda has cold-start issues, they can be mitigated.

While AWS continues to improve Lambda performance (it's still early tech), I've started an "Optimization" section in the wiki, detailing how everyone can get better performance out of JAWS.

Further, JAWS is optimized for AWS Lambda performance.
Idle speculation, not news.
True, the resolution is relatively small. If you can live with that it is great hardware for the price and everything in at least 14.04 worked perfectly.
This is a laudable policy and I truly respect Netflix for doing it. But the sad truth is that the people who need this most are those on minimum wage or less, or those treated as "contract workers" so their employer can keep an even bigger cut of profits (e.g. Uber).

In other words the Mathew Effect in our economy and society is further reinforced. The Mathew Effect is "the other invisible hand", except that it is insidious rather than virtuous. And unlike Adam Smith's invisible hand, it is most often ignored or trivialized, if not outright denied, by pure free-market adherents.
I'm from eastern WA myself and I know what you mean, but seriously:

> The dairymen in the state aren't worried about filming, they are worried about lies coming from it.

Libel laws already exist. We don't ban people from speaking because they might say something they could be held civilly liable for. I know suing people for libel is a pain in the ass (and apparently in Idaho it's much easier to just have your state legislature pass a law), but that's the price you pay to live in a free society.
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Astonishingly so. I don't understand how anyone could not think certain books are inappropriate for school libraries.
Everything is content! The JCR (Java Content Repository) will eventually be the standard -- and sort of already is. Apache Jackrabbit Oak will take off as the open source technology of choice eventually. It's able to leverage both MongoDB and Lucene search, and has a standard for naming. I have an open source app located here (meta64.com), that's a full-stack modern standards implementation of a portal built on it. Any node is addressible on the url using the JCR standard.
OP here. Some of the tools are related to clients / hackathon sponsors - but most aren't. And s3 is an excellent tool for static site hosting. You can add cloudfront in a snap, it's stupid cheap, and you can deploy from the command line ( https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website is awesome for this.)

Also, I've actually used _all_ of these tools before, both for personal & hackathon projects. I know they work.
Based on the kinds of multi-state outages they suffer from, I'd say they often are all having all modems hitting the same auth/DHCP/DNS servers. Back when I was on BellSouth DSL, every time they had a DNS outage everybody would reboot their modem and that would bring down the DHCP server, but if you used third-party DNS you could remain online while the entire SE US lost DSL for an hour or two.
Despite big efforts, the US is still a major consumer of illegal elephant ivory
I haven't used JAWS, and I don't see where they speak to this question, but I do work on AWS lambda "applications", and typically they're versioned using versioned S3 buckets. It's very easy to continuously "deploy" code artifacts to S3, but only update the revision working on production traffic when you're good and ready. You can also optionally spin up complete duplicates of your infrastructure using the new revision, for exceedingly realistic integration or performance tests.

I'm not really sure what you mean by "tracking," but you can log anything you like from a Lambda function, and include version information in those logs.

I do agree with your analogy and caution, though.
I wonder if those 72% of no-banners really want pirated photocopies of copyright books in their school library, along with color picture books of violent child pornography. Surely the questions were misleading or open to different interpretations by different respondents.
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Oh, okay, I must have misread the article then. Sounds good :-)