skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting in a voyeuristic way. Wouldn't it be cool to be able to "tap in" to someone else's photos across the world, in exchange for making your own photos available for one and only one other person to tap into? Like a one-way chatroulette for photos.
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Lex + Grammar = Syntax ? Lex about worlds, grammar about rules.That's so hard for me. :P
I was just going to post this! http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QCW5ehtSL._SS500_.jp...
The PR is still awkward: "come use Google Cloud Services!" while it's not good/easy enough for your acquisitions to migrate to it from AWS.
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Wait, why are motorcycles important? They're inherently less efficient, netting out roughly the same environmental impact --- assuming modern motorcycles! --- but without the ability to carry passengers or significant amounts of cargo.
There are supposed to be (public defenders), but they tend to be wildly underfunded and overworked.
Comparing to which type of AI? I think a well made AI will be infinitely smarter than any form of human intelligence.
There are. It's called public defender, but they are often overworked because they don't have sufficient budget. This means they will suggest most of their defendants to take a plea bargin and not take the risk of going to trail.
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Except this happens a lot more, independent of race.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/police-drop-plans...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/bizarre-sexting-cas...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/underage-sexting-isnt-ru...

https://aclu-wa.org/blog/sexting-and-law-press-send-turn-tee...
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There is no basis for respecting a decision stemming from a "no compromise" policy. Such a policy is designed to substitute mechanical action for judgment and discretion.

Cf. the child-porn case also on the front page now (kid has picture of self on phone; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10247764). It's probably also based on some kind of zero-tolerance policy or campaign promise.

Had the announcement merely referred to the "thoughtful review process" (which is good) but not then nullified the meaning of that process with a thoughtless "no compromise" standard (which is silly), then it'd be at least eligible for respect.
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> I wonder why they don't tell that AWS is their service provider.

It's because Heroku's choice of vendors shouldn't matter to their customers. They see it as an implementation detail, and their responsibility to manage.

So I don't think that's an obfuscation. The people I know at Heroku all have an attitude of, "The buck stops here."
I consider Jersey to be a good example of what is wrong with Java. Annotation driven APIs don't really lend themselves to composability - sparkframework, vertx or ratpack are much better ways of building REST apis with Java 8.
Girl was also charged but took a plea deal.

Also these people could legally have sex with each other, but apparently aren't allowed to have nude pictures of each other or themselves.
1. You cannot be smarter than your superiors.

At one company I worked for, you couldn't be taller than your superiors either.
I use getpocket.com for that. Doubles as offline reading app for long plane rides :)

I also just installed "Hacker News Discussion" Chrome extension which shows whether there are HN comments for any webpage I visit. This should be a very handy way to go back to comments for an article I am reading much later.
> you have all-hands of one of the biggest tech companies in the world working to fix your infrastructure

No, they are fixing their infrastructure. The point here is that all single provider systems are destined for periodic failure. Not relying on one single provider is, in theory, a service's means of providing higher reliability. This is the general argument for regions and availability zones on Amazon, but that relies on trusting there is no single point of failure with the system (i.e. inside Amazon).

I've worked for several companies who run the majority of their services on AWS, yet maintain functional systems on other providers in the case of an AWS outage.
Unfortunately, most people don't have minimalist lives.

With a 'humble' example:

$3000/month SF/NYC apartment,$1000/month on clothing(specially bankers), $1500/month on food(no time to cook, so $50/day), $2000/month on entertainment($500/week), $1500/ month on a decent car +gas. That's already ~110k a year. It's really easy to go beyond that.
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This exists, it's called Rando.

EDIT: was, apparently it was killed after some guy wrote a script to spam the same image.
(MLDB product lead here)

I hadn't seen RecDB, thanks for the link! At a glance, other than the licensing, the main point of comparison is that MLDB is more powerful/general-purpose than RecDB, as it provides primitives for not only for creating recommenders but to do other machine-learning tasks like classification, clustering, dimensionality reduction, visualization etc. MLDB also seems to have a bit more documentation :)
I don't recall any outages having a material effect on Amazon's stock price.
Ah I see. Well, remember, with analog circuits, we are talking about subthreshold currents. This current is orders of magnitude less than the current in a digital circuit (nA vs uA). Correspondingly, the power consumption will be negligible in comparison, even if you expand the current range. And that is only a fraction of the total power consumption. Adding more bits in a digital circuit linearly increases total power, dominated by interconnect capacitance.
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I'd rather see a wifi enabled calculator that can interact with various software packages (either acting as a mobile interface, or using a desktop/server to offload heavy calculations).
It's also incredibly short-sighted. Norway treats their prisoners with respect and invests in rehabilitating rather than punishing them, and guess what? Their recidivism rate is 20%, compared to 67% in the US.
1.2 billion on a payroll systems WTF!

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyIsPayrollHard
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You can watch a very entertaining talk from one of the Google engineers who went to fix the website at the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQyj-kBRdo
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I've seen that too ... and it probably cost many millions of dollars to come up with the ambiguous and likely contradictory specification. People always want to blame the waterfall method for this, but there are a couple aspects to BDUF that I think can help even the most agile project. From the DOD world, Interface Control Documents (ICDs) are a great way to make sure components (especially those developed by different teams) inter-operate. There should also be a reasonably cohesive architectural vision. From that starting point, write some user stories and adapt as needed for each sprint.

You need to know approximately where you're headed, but you almost certainly CAN'T know everything you'll learn ahead of time (as this sort of specification implies.

As an aside, contractors love ambiguities in specifications and it's actually in their best interest (unless operating on a fixed-price contract) to purposely produce something that meets the specification but is obviously not what the customer needs. There's good money in ECRs.
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Nothing on findbugs, checkstyle, EOL and CVEs?

log4j: now log4j2

jOOQ => $, JPA, MyBatis
It is true. Amazon offloads a decent amount of fault tolerance to the application provider, as you point out here. I will also mention that Netflix does not solely rely on Amazon for running their services. They run their own decentralized caching layer: https://openconnect.netflix.com/deliveryOptions/
Completely inaccurate headline, and they buried the lede. The real reason power producers were willing to 'sell' electricity for negative $8 per MWh, is because of a $23 federal tax credit they received per MWh. So the negative sale wasn't negative at all.
As a possible note of interest, I had to disable AVG in order to read this article.
I think this story imagines a future much like the past, where a mix of market and state solutions have been used over time to respond to acute and chronic crises. Imagining such a future doesn't seem like a 'failing' - it seems somewhat realistic. You might want to imagine a future where the state leaves agricultural regulation up to the markets, but this isn't a portrayal of anybody's utopia - either a left wing one or a right wing one.
> With that said, as a user of a tool/library/service, why should I care what language it's written in?

It makes sense to mention it for people who for example for learning purposes want to read code written in Go.
'ideal' FET has zero gate capacitance, despite that being the way they work.

I don't understand this statement. What do you mean? A FET is a capacitor (gate to channel). If a gate has no capacitance, you have no transistor.

Interconnect means wire. This has nothing to do with von Neumann architecture. If you have wires in your circuit, then you have wire capacitance. As transistors get smaller, that capacitance starts to dominate internal transistor capacitances.
Disclaimer: Highly political rant.

You mean to tell me a company that got selected a no bid contract from their connections in the Obama administration couldn't do an adequate job?

Crony politics at its best.
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My ethical view on this is that in general (but not always) you need explicit consent before you publish the photograph of someone. Just having access to the photos (in this case it’s probably still the monk who has the copyright to those photos, but that’s a trickier question, but certainly also another potential angle to look at this) or even having copyright to the photos is not enough.

That’s also not an altogether uncommon view. In Germany it’s codified into law, for example.

There should obviously be exceptions to this and some are really easy to come up with (political events or demonstrations or all kinds of public events in general), with others it gets trickier, but most if not all of the monk’s photos shouldn’t be exceptions.

Also, many of those photos have more people than the monk in them, so it’s not like you could frame this as some sort of punishment of a thief. The other people are just as affected!
We're talking about parties. In those cramped urban areas, it's way easier to get people together on a Wednesday night when they live in the same building.

Also, mortgages in most places are cheaper than rents. We could get a 4 BR townhouse in the middle of Baltimore for $1800.
I did't downvote, but I guess it's for implying (without any other data or statistics) that if something bad happens to a member of a group X, then it is an act of prejudice against this group.
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I'm sure everyone likes to consume rather than save. The fact is that Indians and Chinese consume an order of magnitude less than Americans, and still manage to save. Americans could do the same if they were willing.

Can you state clearly what your point actually is?
>> A C based rtos inherits all the difficulties present in C.

Can you please expand on that, especially assuming(a big assumption) that the c code you're interfacing is high quality , with rare bugs ?
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This is why I laugh when people complain about the cost of a Trident replacement... You could pay for it out of the NHS IT budget and neither patients nor medical staff would even notice.
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"Community" ? You mean a horde of tech speculators who would gladly get an opportunity benefit from having some insight about bitcoin just to benefit from it.

I don't understand how there could really be a community that revolves around a crypto currency. It's just some people with a libertarian agenda, who don't like banks or government, and want to make money.

I would gladly hear about the community of programmers who actually write code and try to design new decentralized technology. The "bitcoin community" is not that. I don't think you can find many expert on how bitcoin works.

I would rather call those people finance tech entrepreneurs.
Wow, very interesting to see how much of the infrastructure directly or indirectly depends on AWS.
Agreed, may I edit or delete this response?
Not much to do with robotics maybe, but I would guess we might be able to grow beef or poultry meat tissue synthetically, rather than having to actually raise and then slaughter animals.
Yes I was also impressed. But in making the point, the poster surely went overboard - Mahabarata (I just read about it on Wikipedia) is the "longest poem ever written", ten times as long as the combined Iliad and Odyssey, and at 1.8 million words that is going to be hard to fit into 1.5 megabytes even by itself - unless it is massively redundant I don't see how you can do it. The entropy per word has to be about ~1 byte which is cutting it very, very close. Add in all of the other mentioned texts and commentary and I don't buy it.

The mentioned compression (cmix v7) surely won't fit it all http://www.byronknoll.com/cmix.html
Please forgive the directness, but I need to ask you this because I have noticed a pattern. Whenever HealthCare.gov gets mentioned, there's always the most over-the-top enthusiasm for how it was such a great turnaround.

I've worked with dozens of large projects -- including ones that were turned around -- and this is new to me.

The only thing new I can see here is the political environment around the healthcare law. Hopefully I am wrong.

So when the Republicans take control over the executive branch, this time or whenever in the future, are we going to keep hearing such great boosterism? The Republicans decide to automate voter identification and the project goes south, will we see such great turnaround stories? It would be very comforting to know that the new Digital Service and the influx of enthusiasm is not limited to one party or large government project. Some assurance would be most appreciated.
Ask HN: Any good Angular open source projects for looking at their code?
I'm looking for projects that are based on Angular and have good practices, follow guidelines, etc. A project where it can be educational to look at their Angular code.
That's just stupid. Heroku rarely gives a proper technical explanation of their outages and under reports the length and severity of them drastically.

I assume this is to maintain their SLA. We really need independent third parties to record uptime for SLAs instead of trusting hosts to do it themselves.

This outage may be the last straw with Heroku for me. They've also previously stated years ago that they would end their dependance on AWS East and yet today shows that obviously hasn't happened.
Suggestion: Don't set a default for dst. That looks really dangerous.
Ask HN: Non job focussed code boot camps?
I am interested In the idea of a three to 6 month boot camp to learn the basics of coding and development. I don't like the tone of "100k +" in just 3 months that you get from places like app academy. Does anyone recommend any programs perhaps run through a university that are more of a tuition in exchange for teaching deal instead of looking to place kids in web dev jobs ?
Perhaps there could be a "expert panel" of external people who can be called up to at least give input into hiring gov employees. Perhaps you can have two hiring panels - internal and external. When they agree, hire the person.

Of course this raises the question of who hires the "expert panel".
I've seen that effect, but I don't think I've ever seen it as rigidly enforced as this. It does illustrate how most hierarchical organizations are nothing more than adult versions of king-of-the-sandbox.
It's just practice. Same way you "remember" music.
It was never a formal policy - but it was common knowledge that you shouldn't even hire someone taller than yourself because they'd surely leapfrog you for promotion.
A lot of people(including me) who tried to learn speed reading spend much effort on trying to eliminate "reading out loud" in their head, instead of actually spend the time to read some book.

It's great to hear the experience from someone who actually knows speed reading techniques. I guess "reading out loud" isn't so bad after all. thanks for you input :)
You are missing my point - with dropout, you don't have any noise during the operation of the net. The noise we are talking about (circuit noise) is always present.
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"Impossible, most economists would say. In any market—and especially in a state devoted to the free market, like Texas—makers won’t provide a product or service at a negative cost. Yet this could only have happened in Texas, which (not surprisingly) has carved out its own unique approach to electricity."

Solar revolution drives negative electricity prices in Australia - http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2353894/solar-revolutio...

German power prices negative over weekend - http://energytransition.de/2014/05/german-power-prices-negat...

Negative pricing in the GB electricity market: is the outlook positive? - http://www.baringa.com/our-thinking/baringa-blog/july-2015/n...

Why windy days lead to negative electricity prices - http://gelookahead.economist.com/why-windy-days-lead-to-nega...

I sometimes wonder if it is a point of pride for journalists to be ignorant of the subject of their articles.

edit - also, in a regulated market, one of the things that is very commonly regulated is companies offering goods or services below cost, as it is a very common tactic for manipulating markets or driving your competitors out of business.
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Because you haven't cited enough evidence to support the charge of racism.
The Air Force will have combat lasers on its war planes by 2020
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The way I read it, it doesn't have to involve government subsidy. But maybe I am missing something?

"In economics, "dumping" is a kind of predatory pricing, especially in the context of international trade. It occurs when manufacturers export a product to another country at a price either below the price charged in its home market or below its cost of production."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
At 10¢/bp, that's <$100/gene for most averaged-sized proteins. That price range makes producing novel proteins competitively priced over the tedious effort of stitching up chimeras from preexisting templates. Scientifically there's a lot that can be done if you can order proteins from scratch rather than having to scrounge around and copy/paste from what you already have access to. However, that de novo synthesis is currently only economically accessible to very few scientists/companies.

This new cheap synthesis will effectively make economical the 'writing of new code' rather than the current state of 'copy and paste from github, with a couple of minor modifications', and will bring commensurate advances to the industry. This will drop a significant barrier to the progress of synthetic biology and its downstream uses.
This ignores the effect of buying bonds earlier in life.

While people are working, they are reducing consumption and directing some of their productive capacity into investment. This raises future production, resulting in more future surplus to go around.
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This is one of many audits conducted as part of the IG's review of the healthcare.gov rollout. The purpose of this audit was to determine if existing rules regarding contract management were followed.

It in no way claims that taking a 96 hour training course would have fixed the rollout of healthcare.gov or even that the contract management failings were the primary reason for the failure of the rollout.
I would suggest that the real factor preventing more-widespread application of this idea is a lack of developable land near frequent rail service. The houses do appear to make extremely efficient use of land in the Japanese fashion, however, with modest building lots on a very narrow street.

The aesthetic is very 1980s US west-coast suburbia.
Human trial and error is more like a hill-climbing algorithm or a localized graph search algorithm, things which computers can do quite well.
Ask HN: Who are using “message enhancement” for microservices communication?
And what kind of problems you have faced in the past/face now related to 'message enhancement'?
Universally held or not, it's a fact, not a matter of belief; laws are passed by popular consent, not by adherence to reason.
This is why I wonder how much we need more and better coders versus better managers?
Damn, now I have to read "Chew" again. Stupid Chikin. https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/chew
The existence of "finance tech entrepreneurs", as you politely call them, and the fact that they are indeed very noisy, does not mean there isn't a community of programmers who actually write code and try to design new decentralized technology.
'Files' is a much better name than 'Nautilus', IMO.

If you've ever spent some time teaching Linux to a non computer literate person, you come to appreciate sensible does-what-it-says GUI program names and the non-obvious names start to stick out.

And a special curse for all those people who decide to name their programs in part by the language or toolkit that it uses. What on earth are you thinking? Users don't care about your little details, you are just making things awkward for them.
To the states or to the people, and the states have chosen to not make those things legal by default.
It's reasonable to state that also as a tax that the employee pays.

No it isn't. If your employer can spend less to employ you then they will keep the profit for themselves, not share it with you.
I hate to say that the (lousy) article claims exactly what you say the audit doesn't claim. It specifically describes "how shoddy oversight by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which manages federal health programs including Obamacare, contributed to the website’s early struggles."
> To enable novice programmers
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AWS is up now. Why are they still down? My production DYNO's are completely down still and the dashboard fails to load (this makes sense because it says the API's are down, but the API's are NOT the only thing down. The DYNO's are in fact down as well)
Those things are all still quite barely used by the masses, government control is still firmly in place of the majority of people who abide by the law. Pointing out exceptions to the rule doesn't invalidate the rule.
Even assuming the existing code is high quality, there is still a lot of problems with pointer ownership and type checking which Rust removes.

Personally I think the best way is to wrap existing C code into higher level, safer Rust APIs.
Said chargers simply wait until midnight to begin charging, when power is at its cheapest.

My power in Northern Illinois from nuclear plants run by Exelon is 1 cent per kwh between midnight and 5am due to such low demand. That's pretty close to free.
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Current depends on threshold voltage and carrier mobility, which are temperature dependent.
Oh man, this is so bad - I admit that I read the headline the same way, and then started thinking "Hmm, maybe there's an argument there." Both communities really help you develop important life skills, and you get the opportunity to network with people who are better than you at certain things, or have great "business" contacts, and may be able to help you find a job later when you get out.
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