skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So is it just socialist publications, then? No publications of other ideological bents deserving of similar scrutiny? Fantastic.
AWS EC2 Spot best practices or how to save up to 90% of your AWS bill
Dear YC community,

I'd like to share a series of blog posts from AWS about best practices in using Spot and building cost effective applications.

We've worked hard to put all learned over last few years about Spot into concise and easy to digest best practices, and I hope that it would help build better applications and scale for less!

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/building-price-aware-applications-using-ec2-spot-instances/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/focusing-on-spot-instances-lets-talk-about-best-practices/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-spot-fleet-api-manage-thousands-of-instances-with-one-request/

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/bid-advisor/
not only that (incomplete coverage of languages) - words can also have phonetic similarities to vulgarities without the same spelling.
Here's a somehow readable version http://www.printfriendly.com/print/?source=homepage&url=http...
Staying off promiscuous mode is one thing, but all AT&T hotspots appear with the same SSID - if you rely on a single one you'll get all of them.

Weak Wifi signal is also a killer - you're using maps and driving near a Starbucks? Data crawls to a halt as your phone tries to connect to a wifi point 30+m away.

Eventually I just gave up on them.
This looks great! Anyone know if there is a more ebook-friendly version?
An exercise in acceptance.
I also looked at that testimony and it doesn't seem like the agreement proposes to prevent people from exiting.

The U.S. government seems to generally support UDHR article 13(2) ("Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country") and ICCPR article 12(2) ("Everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own"). The no-fly list definitely can be a serious problem for this, although people on it often can leave by boat or overland -- though they might have trouble getting the money or necessary visas to do so.
Ask HN: How to track performance issues with a test suite
I'm building robust, scalable software. Or at least I hope I am.

So I can write tests that demonstrate certain things complete in reasonable amounts of time.

But:
(A) If I write lots of these tests, my test suite is quickly going to grow to the point where I don't want to run all the tests on my own machine as I work
(B) A test might take 2x as long to run simply because the machine doing the testing is busy doing other things at the same time, rather than due to a performance regression in the code
(C) Maybe one day our cloud vendor will decide a 486dx2 is the machine our test server will live on, instead of the recent i7 we're used to.
(D) It would be nice to see how our code is improving or getting worse over time, rather than just knowing "pass/fail".

Is there tooling that takes care of some/all of these issues nicely?
Not sure I understand the problem. If each submission is interesting in and of themselves, does it matter if the source is the same?
What is the cost of MPLS?
The article is a filtered version of Hawking's words, which themselves were probably a filtered version of his research. The parent commenter was talking about the quality of the article.

There's no basis to attack Hawking or anyone else. Even the article's author should be relatively immune, because WaPo isn't in the business of writing scientific articles.

If you insist on attacking, then let's aim for the central argument. For example, a decent attack on Einstein in the 1940s would be to remark that if quantum electrodynamics agrees with experiment, then Einstein's goal -- to demonstrate that probability wasn't a fundamental component of the universe -- would be in trouble.

An excellent attack would be to cite the research, and to explain why if X is true then @physicist is wrong.

Are you sure that being mistaken is such a terrible thing? The mistakes are often more illuminating than the discoveries, as they provide a framework upon which to learn how to improve the process of discovery.
> Speculations and conspiracies don't get you anywhere.

True, but also read once, if you haven't, 1984, the book, per Wikipedia:

"Winston works at the Ministry of Truth, or "Minitrue", as an editor responsible for historical revisionism. He rewrites records and alters photographs to conform to the state's ever-changing version of the truth"

Then try to find how many people know what the countries did before, like:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Always do your own research, sometimes the things that the leaders like to be ignored as the "conspiracy theories" in the current political moment actually happened and give a very different view to the whole context.
Not if you seek objectivity. You have your own biases, which do not go away because you live/interact there.

It is common for people closest to a subject to have the biggest blind spots.

the wonderful nature of our own biases, perceptive and cognitive, is that it very difficult for us to see them.
Yes, exactly, I have 3 acres, 8 goats, 30 chickens, bees, 14 fruit trees, and lots of gardens boxes. I would love it if my investments grow, but I'm covered in extreme cases either way.

(And I have my own well and produce my own solar power to boot.)
Grabagarb, Sustainable Fashion
Ask HN: Why'd I lose the ability to comment?
Yeah, I tried a spammy post- I'm desperate to sell stuff thats more fit for ebay here. My apologies.

So now in the name of progress, how can I get my commenting privileges restored?

Thanks,

-c
This reminds me of the Pirate Bay movie where one of the defendants quarrelled with the term "in real life" (suggesting that Internet interactions are as "real" as face-to-face ones).

I think it's interesting that people are coming to such different views of the value and genuineness of electronically mediated interactions and relationships.
> I've never understood the difference

You are not interested in understanding, you only seek emotional comfort from fear of "mob rule", which is actually a straw man. If you truly were interested, the answer is obvious.

Switzerland, United States (some states) and Iceland sure don't sound like hell on Earth. These are some of the most democratic countries on Earth.
If the only way to complete a contract is to perform an illegal act, you will be excused from performance.

But if you have an alternative, it's a valid contract for the legal alternative.

IE if i say "i'll pay you $1000, and you will deliver to me rice or smuggled opium", this is a valid contract to pay $1000 for rice.
Also as i mentioned, you will generally be required to pay restitution. That is, pay back any benefit and least stop using/doing whatever benefit you are accruing(in this case, i presume using the service).

So you can't use it to your advantage.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html :

> The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they've been fixed. There's nothing wrong with it. It doesn't acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive. Au contraire, baby! Is software supposed to be like an old Dodge Dart, that rusts just sitting in the garage?

> Back to that two page function. Yes, I know, it's just a simple function to display a window, but it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I'll tell you why: those are bug fixes. One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn't have Internet Explorer. Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory conditions. Another one fixes that bug that occurred when the file is on a floppy disk and the user yanks out the disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95.
Dan Boney is awesome. I really like that he is sharing his classes and materials online (I would highly recommend his classes in Stanford[0] and his coursera class[2] as well).
I think this is still a work in progress / draft so don't expect to have an ebook available yet.

[1] CS*55 series
[2] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2
Grabagarb, Sustainable Fashion is it a right name?
I was hoping they will mention something about crosshurd, but there was nothing, and crosshurd doesn't work on recent debian anymore. I'd love to see some way to install from an existing system.
It's interesting to see AM say nothing and I wonder if this is a well thought out plan. By not confirming the leak (and by practically ignoring it) it leaves their ashamed "users" plausible deniability. So, if your email address showed up on the list, you _could_ deny it as AM never confirmed that it was a real leak.

Just a thought...
Hey this is serious stuff, the government is manipulating your brain without your consent, don't reduce it to crass commercialism.
Damn it, cover blown! When startup enthusiasts start joining ISIS in droves it'll be all your fault :-)
Add this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10119055
Totally agree that it's very controlling and somewhat selfish to expect quick replies. 30 minutes is just an arbitrary line waiting for a misunderstanding or argument. Face-to-face and phone calls are different. If it's important, call. If it's not, I'll get to a reply when I'm free or not interrupting someone else I'm actually communicating with IRL.
Unless you phone emulates an Ethernet connection it will detect it as mobile broadband and set it up as metered automatically, i never had issues with that...
>That's not a good analogy. one could make an phone that has the exact same specs as the iphone or jeans that is the exact replica of a Levi's ,without the brand and the logo on it and it would not be an iPHone or a Levi's Jean.

I'm not sure this is true. You'd likely fall afoul of one of Apple's design patents (like the famous "rounded corners" patent).
Perhaps... but they did stuff that the tools of the "open web" could not... those technologies "got stuff done". And if they stole 10 years, then the competition (open web) was not yet up to par for about 7-8 years.
I feel like when I get time I should learn deep learning and agent-embodied AGI stuff, business and management stuff.

I just can't see how taking online courses, especially for money, is a cost- and time- effective way to do that.

I think I need to actually build an agent-based deep learning system and run multiple businesses to actually learn those skills. How-tos and background, reading, exercises etc. for all of those things is available online for free for filling in gaps between trying things out.
I also think this could affect the image or experience of a company or entity, since people might not know this is ATT's doing. In the examples provided, one might think this was an action of Stanford.
It doesn't list the word "Belgium". Even though according to Douglas Adams that's the most offensive word in the galaxy. :)
I'm a bit confused as to exactly what your argument is with. You seem to have two issues - one with a WHOIS privacy guard, and the other is someone owning a domain.

1) Why did you have to pay GoDaddy, and couldn't you just email DOMAIN@domainsbyproxy.com to ask if they wanted to sell - it probably get's forwarded to their actual registered email. I for one like WHOIS privacy guards - I don't want my name, address, and mobile phone number freely available on the internet just because I have a domain registered for personal use.

2) Your analogy to public property doesn't hold up. I can buy property, and even if you know who I am, you can't force me to sell. Maybe I do own the domain, but I'm just not using it for a website - how do you know?

now defunct Public Relations company in Canada (probably holding onto it for namesake)

It might be owned by creditors now, who plan to use it later. Or plan to resell it. They're well within their rights to do that.
DeMarco looks back on “You can’t control what you can’t measure.” (2009) [pdf]
For an initial production run there are a lot of fixed setup costs. Just from my gut feel 5000 units is just barely off the NRE (non recurring engineering cost) 'knee'. (And the manufacturing learning cost knee) Less than 5000 units the NRE costs start to dominate your out the door manufacturing price. So at 2000 units that might be 50% to 80% higher per unit than at 5000 units.

Also people often forget about your suppliers management, accounting, and sales overhead. That means that they will have minimum orders below which they don't make enough money justify the overhead of shepherding your product through their shop. For Chinese suppliers 5000 units appears to be typical because lower volumes are typically on-shored. On shoring is going to increase your costs by probably 30%.

You might ask the other question, why not 10,000 or 20,000 units? Answer is that starts to be a huge chunk of money for something that isn't proven.

So ans: 5000 because less the NRE kills you. And you'll have to on shore production. And no more than that because otherwise your initial production costs becomes the dominant part of the investment risk.
Channel 37
>I hadn't even heard of the last 4 messenger programs you mentioned.

(USA resident here). I'd say Kik is huge amongst young people. A lot of people also use it to message casual sex/booty calls on the side if they don't want to use their main texting app.
We build visualizations for our customers. These are the popular viz.
There are connections between all the cortical layers. See the description of cortical columns: http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/brain/120/4/701.full...
"With a million cores we only get to about 1% of the scale of the human brain" (or ten mouse brains), he says.

This, he says, requires about 10 racks. So a human brain would require 1000 racks, or about half a typical Amazon data center, of which Amazon has more than a hundred.

We'll have to see if he can do anything useful with all those CPUs.
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Drug companies do spend a lot of money on marketing, but not every drug is the same. The ones you see on Superbowl commercials are usually drugs you don't need, like mild pain killers and allergy medications. My suspicion is the only reason these kinds of drugs aren't OTC is this way the drug company can get your insurance to pay.

I doubt they spend much marketing drugs to treat cancer or AIDS.
That's not really "logging", but analytics based on the ads. Any ad software/network worth using is going to do at least the items listed here.
مشاهدة+فيلم+southpaw+2015+|+سينما+فور+اب
And that's okay. I'll take millions of Indian lives now than thousands of American's and hundreds of Indians in ten years - when a new drug that can save some lives potentially comes onto the market, a new drug not many people can afford.
A Millennial’s Guide to Kissing
You can either follow my guide [1] based on updated cross-gnu scripts, or try out gnuxc [2] for bootstrapping a full Hurd distribution, with the caveat that it requires your host to be Fedora.

[1] http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/07/25/0/

[2] https://github.com/dm0-/gnuxc
Android linux kernel privilege escalation (CVE-2014-4323)
I don't mind the visual style, but the author seems to have forgotten that some people use actual mice instead of inertial-scrolling trackpads.... using a scroll wheel goes nowhere fast on this kind of page.
Oh, there is an article on HN saying how much shit of a company we are, should we address the problem, or do a puff piece? Let's do a puff piece, and pretend all is A-OK, those silly nerds won't notice!

The problem with this company is that their core proposition is putting lipstick on a pig. No matter how much PR they sling, the fact that they screw their hosts and guests is always gonna surface.
What's bikeshedding?
I have seen a fair number of public APs blocking VPN traffic, but my instinct is it's due to incompetence, not malice. It appears they are blocking everything but traffic to 80 and 443, likely due to some sort of turnkey wifi-in-a-box which makes bad assumptions. It is frustrating, as I won't use a public AP if I can't VPN (but I have unlimited data, so it's not a huge problem for me, at least).
Hawking offers new solution to black hole mystery
Book Airbnb for Your Next Exhibition
And in our defense, I think this is the only sane way to go about programming given that all the APIs and tools we use are just unfathomably deep layers of human constructs. There's no real point in remembering so much detritus. It naturally benefits from a completely different mindset to the problem of studying the deepest mysteries of the universe.
> It'd be nice if there were an OS-level service letting me mark certain SSIDs as not suitable for unnecessary data use, the way Android knows not to download app updates over the data connection.

Take a look at this for OS X: https://www.tripmode.ch/

> TripMode is turned ON automatically when your Mac is connected to a mobile hotspot.

> TripMode only allows Internet access to apps important to you. Allow more apps when you need to.
sorry, but it's impossible to read this site.
Great, I'm genuinely interested! Please point us to some data!
The best and worst of San Francisco’s rent control
I remember a long time ago regularly browsing a porn webmaster forum for ideas to use in regular sites. The porn sites were generally at the forefront of a lot of things, obviously not all questionable.
Both would be somehwat equally annoying in that they change the scope of the project.
It appears to be mostly a clarification of his previous argument that information is retained in the [incomprehensibly small fluctuations of the] geometry of the event horizon.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.5761.pdf

I'm guessing people are taking it seriously, but as it's not a complete theory of the dynamics it's hard to say "solved" in reference to this development.
Quantum information is actually different from classical information (classical entropy). Quantum information is (believed to be?) a conserved quantity; classical is not (it never decreases). A quantum random number generator is just emitting quantum bits: without having had those qubits in the first place, you can't have computed them ahead-of-time, so they're random.
> (only pixel snapping + vertical-align left)

If vertical-align is the last thing, rather than one of the first, that one resolves... then we are in for 7 more years of hell.
Cool; all the pranksters of West Virginia and New Mexico please take note.
I guess even if "espresso means not just ‘fast’ but ‘pressed out’", spelling it with an x still would be kind of natural in English. After all, "to express" (from Middle English expresse < Old French espresser, according to OED) can also mean "to press, squeeze, or wring out".
SKI Combinator Calculus on an FPGA (2012)
LMWTFY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_trivialit...
Anyone know of any more beginner friendly cryptography materials?
I downvoted this, but I'd like to explain why. It's not reasonable to expect people to go and get VPNs of their own unless we, as technologists, make it so completely trivial that it's the default. If you ask the average person whether they need a VPN for public wi-fi, they will give you a blank stare. If we believe that it is something that they need, it's our fault that they don't know about it. And, if we believe that they shouldn't need it, it's our fault for not building secure solutions to begin with.

This is either a failure on our part to educate, or a failure to build secure systems, or a failure to regulate the people who would do these things. But either way, it's our failure -- not a failure of the users.
I think it's a neat idea. This thread has got me thinking too. Email me at p2peducationideahn@gmail.com if you want to brainstorm.
> The convenience store can't correlate its data with the university's camera data, decide you're a person of interest and ramp up surveillance of your phone and internet use.

I think I just described how tracking advertising works today, except for the cameras.

How soon before businesses' cameras are money makers in advertising networks? Maybe we'll all have them in our cars. Maybe Google glass or whatever fills in that void.

Glance at a Slim Jim and see ads for bulk purchases from Amazon for the next few days. "Get the Variety Pak! Beef. Pork. Llama. A surprise Mystery Meat in every Pak!"
How many times in 100 years was this true, besides the 2 times you mentioned? There is risk everywhere. We can only hope to take on risk for a goal after doing our due diligence to understand and mitigate the risk.

Also, the DJIA is a pretty terrible index.
Ok maybe a robot trader did it (with the help of the pump and dump strategists that follow such bubbles), but it certainly wasn't anything to do with the real economy, which supports my original point.

If I remember correctly, the price went over $1k on Btc-e and you could get your money out, but it was always certainly trading lower than a Goxcoin.
How to drive a Web browser with R and RSelenium
I really like this thought, but it doesn't seem negative enough so it doesn't ring true.
Mostly python, their code is at https://github.com/SpiNNakerManchester
Pretty sure once you abolish time limits, build a dynasty and squash all opposition you are a dictator.

You can be Stalin, you can be more pleasant like Hugo, or you can be "Benevolent" like Lee Kuan Yew. A dictatorship is still a dictatorship benevolent or otherwise.
"Kekette" as well
>The science that these drugs are based on was given to the public domain for free by scientists all around the world throughout history. Lets see if these greedy companies are willing to pay those scientists whose results they freely use.

The scientists are normally working for hire, which means everything they discover belongs to the company or university that employs them, and universities do maintain and aggressively defend large patent portfolios. Very little of this is "given to the public domain for free".

Also, drug targets are a dime a dozen. That's the easy part. What's difficult and expensive is getting a drug through the regulatory process. If drug companies aren't going to see a profit that will all have to be publicly funded.
Thanks for the link to Trefethen's myths paper. Very good read.

I have this learned fear of a lot of operations on polynomials, like root-finding, that are based on using the wrong set of basis functions (i.e., the monomial powers x^n), and the linked paper helped me to put this superstition in context.
There's this general sentiment that it should be between 1-3%. But it's just a sentiment mostly based on historical experience. But the global economy is constantly evolving; China wasn't really even a blip on the radar 15-20 years ago. So whose to say what the right level is except the one that is attempting to balance inflation and employment goals.
States and Nomads: Handling Software Complexity
It's a mecca for programmers. I can go to talks on various technical topics every day of the week if I wanted to. I have spoken to the creator of Scala, the Symfony PHP framework and Optimizely. It's just really exciting (to me) to have that level of access.

Whereas my friends in Houston get to go to one conference a year (if that). But I totally agree if you want a house with land to raise kids personally I think it sucks to live here.
Harvard, MIT researchers find cheating in online courses
Before this page, I've never seen anything defeat the Print Edit add-on for Firefox --- the last resort for reading something. Wow!

Can we have this in a nice, less ironic format, like, say:

((:domain "Web Development"
(:subdomain "Back End"
(:entry "Clack" ...)
...)
(:subdomain "Front End"
...)
...)
(:domain ...))
> there's a smaller group of women who sleep with a greater number of men

That's a falacy. If a small number of women raise the number of their sexual partners, the rest of the women must lower their number of sexual partners, to keep the average the same. That's not the way to explain the deficit.
E-CAT Patent Granted by USPTO