skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also this alternative http://oss.readytalk.com/avian/
Why didn't I read this earlier?! I was at an AWS hackathon all day and it was my first time ever using any of their offerings . This would have been super useful.
I understand where you are coming from.

I'm just 'starting out' with a lot of this, despite a few years building/hosting websites, and these sort of services are the things I'm starting to look at.

I'm completely disinterested in Amazon's offerings chiefly because they're so obtuse. Why should I expend so much cognitive load just figuring out what each service is and what it could do for me?

It's undoubtedly possible to do, AWS has a hell of a lot of users, but I simply am not going to perform the mental gymnastics to work out what they could do for me, let alone work out the price (which seems cleverly designed to keep the final figure a total mystery).

Maybe I'm too early in my progression to really need this stuff yet ( I probably am TBH) and so I'm not motivated enough to really dig into it, but the point stands - why should I need to be?
But in that case money changes hands. That's pretty different from open source.
Do you mean "salaried" ? It applies to all employees (i.e. not contractors / self-employed) required to work without a fixed starting point.

It will be interesting to see how this ruling will affect people who have to irregularly shift across different workplaces. If I'm hired to work at McDonald's in Town A, but then one day I'm told to show up at the one in Town B just for the day, I should technically start my work day at McD-A first, then travel to McD-B during work hours. That is a real scenario for a lot of low-wage franchise operators.
I can only recommened the opposite: if you are doing strength training by all means use mostly barbells and stick to the big 3 (some sort of press, a squat and a deadlift variations). I hurt my back, shoulder and knees doing various machines and dumbbell variations over the last 15 years, the fear in regards to lifting heavy with barbells usually stems from horrible technique, most people do not realize that lifting is a sport that needs to be learned, it's not enough to just "push the weight".
Thank you for this.

I can't wrap my head around why Amazon would make names for some very useful services so inscrutable.

It's like the developers were put in charge of naming everything.
>Even in Israel, I don't think ground fighting forces are composed of women.

Women have certainly served in combat roles, and been involved in action including lethal shooting, since 2000 (1). For example the Caracal combat batallion is 70% women(2), at least several of which are known to have been involved in firefights (clarification - killed people). There is also currently a sniper team lead by a woman officer and there is a female combat battalion commander.

Edit: The calculation for Israel is different. They are a small country and need conscription in order to maintain a viable combat force. They have a stark choice. Include women in combat roles, or increase the service term for men, or reduce the size of their combat force. But the fact is they have shown that women are perfectly capable of being operationally effective.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Israel_Defense_Fo...

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracal_Battalion
There's something like that in most of europe and it's a tax thing, the company pays less taxes on that kind of comp rather than straight money. That's why in some countries almost every company will provide a company car: leasing cars and using that as comp' costs the company less than giving their employees the same comp' in straight cash.
Yes, I learnt it for my basketball shoes and it spread to all my tying. Awesome
Is it really necessary to have another way to insult people on the internet?
Ever ran with a machine gun?

The fact the women seem to have done as well as men wrt hit probability using the M4 but not the heavier weapons, really point to physical limitations and not lack of skills.

The casualty evacuation issue is also a major issue, men can carry both sexes, women will have trouble with many men, and will be completely unable to move the bigger men...
That's an interesting project! I always liked the simplicity of `java -jar` command. Instead of that simplicity, many project choose to roll huge startup bash+bat scripts or even worse, native launchers.
I'm really trying to see this as a positive. Sorry, but I just can't do it.
From personal experience in target sports, strength and fitness plays a surprisingly big part in weapons use. Being able to handle a weapon with the least of effort while maintaining a low heart rate makes aiming a lot easier.
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http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-7.0/U70-1F300.pdf

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http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f595/index.htm
Fetching data from Solr using Solarium
Nothing stops you from integrating GraphQL with your graph database and I know that people are already working on it.

But it isn't a way to specify graph queries, e.g. you can't express concepts like "find the shortest path from vertex A to vertex B using edges with the given label". It's just not designed for that kind of thing.
Some of these names make you wonder if Amazon are more in love with their own cuteness than in actually getting people to use their stuff - "Elastic Beanstalk" FFS? Either way, Bezos should hire the author of this piece and make him product-naming czar.
The mobile apps are $9.99
A few great comments from /r/linguistics on Reddit really enlightened me on this topic.

Gender isn't senseless, it's a checksum strategy for information. It's not even about sex, lots of grammars have genders that have nothing to do with male/female. The point of gender is agreement: if you're talking about something female, all verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in the sentence have to agree, or the listener gets a syntax error. The syntax error helps the listener figure out that they missed something, or that the transmission was garbled.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/3i1695/eli5_wh...

If you get rid of gender, as English mostly has, you end up forced to adopt different constraints that seem equally arbitrary and wasteful, like strict word order and lots of prepositions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/3i1695/eli5_wh...

Very excellent comment demonstrating the point about English and word order - in Russian, you can say three words that mean "the dog saw the rabbit" in every possible order, and it's still a valid sentence that means the same thing, because Russian doesn't depend on word order. If it was English, "the dog saw the rabbit", "saw the rabbit the dog", "saw the dog the rabbit", "the rabbit the dog saw", and "the dog the rabbit saw" would all mean exactly the same thing, unambiguously, because the gender of "dog" would have to match the gender of "saw".
https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/1kdxsc/are_the...
Pascal was off time. A lot of these traits are really worthy, but it wasn't attractive at the time .. was it as 'performant' as C too or was it a very nice environment to craft sound code productively whereas C code could allow you to tap into hardware more aggressively no matter how much headaches that would give you ?
I used Borland C++ Builder and their version of it in the XP - Windows 7 days, when they released Codegear 7. As far as I knew many of the developers left after they renamed themselves Inprise ("integrating the enterprise" whatever that means), decided to produce odd products that targeted an entirely different audience and after they ditched all the development work on C++ Studio (I think that was what it was called).

I remember them introducing Kylix and the disappointment of it being based on Qt and Wine so slow on my old Linux box. The VCL stagnated too (horrible flicker on XP as I recall, to begin with so hacks to disable theming via the application manifest were needed) and the compiler let you do illegal things in C++ in Codegear's C++ Builder 7 (must dig out an example). The installer for C++ Builder 7 took FOREVER to run and also required you keep all of your setup files in your temp directory for later updates to work (???? insane eh!)

I remember them releasing a paid PHP editor etc. at the time when you could just grab Netbeans and use that for £0.00 - difficult to compete with that!
I just saw twiddla for the first time the other day when discussing remove tutoring as a market. Always good to hear a bit about the people behind such projects. Nice work.
Netflix had to go through a massive engineering effort to make their system reliable enough to work on AWS. If they knew what it would take in human and capital investment, they may have chosen to build their own datacenter.
This was orders of magnitude more helpful than the thousands of words that describe AWS on the AWS website. Thank you.
Except that lighting cash on fire would be more fun and take less time ;)
Did someone try to compile Zebra Crossing (ZXing) to JavaScript using Emscripten? I searched a lot, but sadly didn't find anyone who succeeded. And I don't have enough knowledge about C++ to try it myself.
Titan: Distributed Graph Database
Note that at least in some countries just scanning may be considered enough work that the scanned version is again under copyright.

See the questionable German Projekt Gutenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projekt_Gutenberg-DE
No need. The Unicode Consortium is not a therapeutic institution. It's about humans and their language, not about happiness.

The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit corporation devoted to developing, maintaining, and promoting software internationalization standards and data, particularly the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in all modern software products and standards. The Unicode Consortium actively develops standards in the area of internationalization including defining the behavior and relationships between Unicode characters.

- http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html
You might find this interesting http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_te...
Epic Games gives away $3M of assets, for free
I think "smaller" is not what we should be chasing. Given drive sizes and network speeds, I'd much rather have "simple and reliable" than "small". In other words, I prefer to save my time rather than my computer's time.

As for the project, I'm trying to understand what it provides over "lein uberjar" that I'm already using (and happy with it)?
I have to say that I think "glacier" is an inspired name. It takes a negative -- slow data retrieval -- and turns it into a positive -- indestructible, huge, unstoppable.
Whats next after 25 years of wifi
Awesome. I wish there was a column to tell you Google's version of the same service, where applicable.
http://cramer.io/2010/05/30/scaling-threaded-comments-on-dja...
This is where recursions is useful. For many scenarios adjacency list + recursive CTE scales better than any other hierarchy model.
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should have been called: Amazon GitScanner

Use this to: search your online source code repos for injudiciously committed access keys

It's like: Slamming the door in bitcoin miners' faces

I'm surprised they don't offer this actually
What should Lambda be called?
Everyone wants everything pre-chewed for them. This is SO basic it's Sophomore CS. This guy is doing "machine learning" but WOW A TABLE LOOKUP IS FAST?!

This sounds like "code bootcamp" level trash.

Nevermind that optimizations as a whole have a rich history and there are fascinating examples aplenty that can actually teach you something.

Like, for example, this:
http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simul...

About getting a scientific calculator to run on a $100 chip, when the chip's creator (TI) said it was impossible.

Or how the genesis of some of our optimizations (and architectural improvements) date back to parallelizing work...with different colored punch cards at Los Alamos by Feynman:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive/2011/02/04/celebratin...

If you're a hacker, but everything has to be pre-chewed for you and this garbage rates as "interesting", what the fuck are you doing with your time? Buying "geeky" TShirts and playing ping pong? Jesus wept, what next, amazing Excel spreadsheet calculations? If this person is doing "machine learning", the machine doesn't stand a chance.

Sorry. I use HN as my 'smart things' filter - if I wanted 'for Dummies' I'd be on Reddit (and I have tons of stupid shit questions, and I ask them elsewhere). It makes me irrationally angry for some reason. Like, THIS is now the level of achievement that requires a blog post - and it gets to the front page!? The 'everybody gets a trophy!' level shit is here to stay. I have to do some serious thinking about why this pisses me off so much. Everybody is now a hacker, hackers are now at the level of blog posts over table lookups. I guess I'm angry over the dilution, commercialization and sanitation of the whole thing. Like the pool is now so shallow and full of piss, what the fuck happened? Everybody is a maker, a hacker, a tech-tropeneur, but subversive, active, hard-working, horizon seeking is largely gone. People want to reinvent the wheel in Javascript for the distributed machine learning {buzzword} cloud with great UI, blog about it, and cash out. It isn't about enlightenment anymore - personal or otherwise, unless it's dropping out to "find yourself" making artisinal bread and birdhouses.

How did we get so lost? Maybe it's an existential crisis. Sorry again. Table lookups are great. Go team.
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I see two separate ideas: one is "transformation", and the other is "immortality". The desire for "immortality" seems far stronger than "transformation". But we admit that we are going to die one day, so we imagine and wish to transform into another life form, and survive that indirect way.
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Thank you for including this. People are being very generous.
Turbo Pascal was my first contact with compiled languages in school, after starting off with Commodore Basic as a kid and graduating to Amos and some other Amiga stuff later. TP was my first contact with real PCs, too. After school I moved to Delphi, which was basically a thin wrapper around the Win32 API with Object Pascal syntax and the nicest IDE I had ever used (and probably will ever use).

Delphi really paid my bills as a newbie commercial programmer. That was around the time when the internet took off, and I wrote my first CGI servers in Pascal to make dynamic websites. The Pascal/Delphi language and environment were incredibly versatile and you could write some really fast code with it.

Fond memories. In many ways, TP leveled me up as a programmer.
Also related https://github.com/tallstreet/graphql a go-lang graphql implementation.
No you're right. Dexterous fingers beats eye tracking for text input, but my target audience can't use their hands so this is (hopefully) a good alternative.
What does it mean to "maintain control of your own fate", if a Mind can predict your future actions and therefore you lack free will?
Do you have documentation to use it?
If you make so much money that it really matters if your software depends on Amazon, that is a rather pleasant problem to have. Build it, and they will come.
the official documentation is at http://retweet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
OptiKey will listen to whatever it's told to! If you're using a Tobii tracker you should be able to change your configuration to track just one eye. OptiKey just cares about the coordinates that the Tobii engine spits out so it should be fine. Best of luck.
Yeah, at Berkeley the class's intended subject matter is exactly that kind of design and development process best practices, taught by running a semester-long project from design through completion. There's just not a separate degree for it.
With respect to your comment about the difference between data and information - I think of information as data that has meaning.
Yes ! I need Plain-English-As-A-Service or maybe just Amazon-As-A-Service
The primary use of this icon will most likely be friends joking with each other. I don't see why this is a bad thing.

Friend A: <Joke at Friend B's expense>

Friend B: <REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED>

As I write this, it reminds me a bit of http://bash.org/?23396
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Yes, at present, the query executor can't optimize across CTEs. Sometimes, that's even the behavior you want.
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Oh, so the trained soldiers who'd had loads of downtime to work out threw their packs to the top of the wall and the recently recruited green soldiers didn't?

What a surprise...

Seriously, why would they used inexperienced females mixed with experienced males if they didn't want to deliberately skew the result?

They obviously had access to raw recruits, but there's a deeply flawed methodology using experienced men with inexperienced women.
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Of course. What else would it mean?

And start over, not with another tumblr post, but with a legitimate career hunt.
So the caveat about 50% in is huge enough as to render the exercise almost entirely pointless, and they could have easily controlled against it had there been any will to.
Such an awesome list. Really helpful! Thanks a ton!!
> As a business owner, every additional regulation regarding employees is increasing my cost.

My point was that it doesn't matter if every other business in your industry bears the same burden, too. Your competitive position stays the same. No profit opportunities are lost.
I ended up doing the CCNA course just to figure out how networking works. I was designing a distributed trading system and I wanted to actually understand how things worked rather than just cargo culting a few commands and praying. There's just so many acronyms in the networking space it's hard to figure out without an overview.

Even with the CCNA course, you're still not going to know about stuff like security and firewalls on a deep level.

But get the textbooks and read through them.
I guess you could also say that CS is one of those "applied math" fields :)

Seriously though, this kind platform is a critical component in scientific reproducibility. The dream is that we can have code, data, and the results of the composition of the two in the same revision control system. A minimal layer to allow the execution of linux software would support the use of legacy code and binaries in this new platform. Javascript has its advantages, but it's a waste to build a data RCS and require all functions on the data to be written in it.

And to go a bit further, it's not just for science. For example, you could write a HN clone in dat. I could fork it and get both your code and all the posts.
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It's not just a flaw, it invalidates every conclusion.

Who knows what the results would have been if both the men and women had been inexperienced, instead of skewing it to the men. How much working out had the experienced men done? How many tricks and techniques had they picked up to add to their abilities?

Also, what happens when both are experienced. Does it turn out that after a year the women build more strength on average to make up for present childhood norms emphasising femininity?
They're not at all alike. Capsule is a deployment mechanism for any JVM app and a JVM container solution (a "Docker for Java"). Avaian is an alternative JVM that supports a subset of Java.
I'd agree, wholeheartedly.

However, it's Friday. Take a nice deep breath. Relax.

Be happy that at least they are investigating the code and trying to find solutions (no matter how 'obvious' they may be) instead of just replacing it with another open-source library from somewhere else that happens to be faster in this case.

Everyone has to learn through their own experience, and I'm always happy when people realise how things can be better - even if it doesn't happen nearly enough these days.

Time for coffee :D
Making security better: Passwords
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It is allready implemented in Windows 10, although it doesn't scale down well. I'd paste it here but HN doesn't seem to support Unicode emoji, which is odd
I cannot take that too serious. It purposely try to paint it as a very dangerous activity. Landing out of phase is not the same as landing on a hard surface, at worst you get propelled up way higher than you're comfortable with, and it's certainly possible for 4 children to launch one of them high enough to clear the safety net.

And you know what, that is okay. Because it's one of the less dangerous things children can do that improve their physical understanding and ability. Certainly beats them trying to get on the roof of the playground.

But I agree that safety nets, or trampolines dug into the ground is a very good idea. Actually, both would be the best.
What a bizarrely unfair tax. Why not just drop the cost of (public) transport 50% ?
Finally someone with credibility who states that regular password changes are pointless, and may even reduce security. It's even backed by scientific publications from Microsoft.
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I have very fond memories of just how blazingly fast Turbo Pascal was at compiling on my Mac. It stunned me every time. I remember spending most of one summer writing a text adventure game with it, based in the Australian Gold Rush. It even had NPCs which was quite advanced for text adventures of the day (I think the only NPCs in adventure games that I had encountered up to that point were those in the Hobbit, and of course the bloody thief in Zork (although he wasn't really an NPC, but was implemented as a bunch of semi-random encounters)...

Good times. In particular, I remember having to implement my own strings, because for a text adventure you often want to have access to strings longer than 255 characters...

Sadly, I never managed to make the jump from writing console applications with TP to writing proper Mac GUI apps. But "Inside Macintosh" cost an absolute fortune at the time (for a 10 year-old kid at any rate), so I ended up scraping enough money together to buy another text book whose name escapes me. I must have read the first few chapters about a million times - they talked about handles and graphics ports etc, but I could never get any code from them to run in TP (I think they were assuming that you would be using MPW?).

Which brings me to the point of this long rambling message - did TP really support graphics programming on the Mac? I know my version of TP was an official bought copy, so we had the manual, but I don't remember ever seeing anything that explained GUI programming in there.
Turbo Pascal was also available on CP/M (so 8080/Z80 8-bit). It was the most powerful language on Amstrad CPC 6128, the only 8-bit low cost computer to offer CP/M compatibility.
Looks like you have a monopoly that has locked the market. 30c per minute? That's crazy, I doubt they could pull this off with enough competition.
Ha, I also browsed through the list, curious to find the name for AWS Lambda. Perhaps it's omitted because it is tougher to find a good name? Amazon NoServer Computing? Amazon NoEC2?