skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used node-lamba to help with this:

https://github.com/motdotla/node-lambda

I write/test locally and then deploy to AWS with a single command. The lock-in is helped by the fact that (a) the touchpoints and interface/interaction of AWS Lambda are pretty simple and (b) I could spin up a production version of node-lambda too.

The code deployment side is helped by using S3 as an interim place to upload and deploy packages from. The CLI makes that nice and easy once set-up.
"You can install a Zulip server on a system with 2G of RAM, but for production use we recommend a system with 4GB of RAM or more."

Something has gone horribly wrong when a chat server can barely run on 2G.

edit: As a frame of reference, here's what Inspire IRCd needs:

> A network with 3000-4000 locally connected clients and 10000 open channels experiences a constant 1-4% CPU use with 70MB of RAM use. This won't go up drastically, but it will go up. Around 40000 local clients means you'll be expecting some 500MB of RAM. [1]

[1]: http://www.inspircd.org/wiki/FAQ.html
"Well, of course, that wasn't us. That was non-state actors, who happen to be in our country. Hackers, right? We'd like to catch them, but we've got other investigative priorities, so..."

I leave you to guess which side says this first. I bet both sides say it before it's all over, though.
Doh! That serves me right for tweaking these right before shipping the whitepaper. Yes, "pel" is ).
I like having the mass attached to my body, as opposed to having an awkwardly-weighted bike. Reduced unsprung weight for more maneuverability :) Much easier to hop speedbumps and the like, which is pretty useful for urban cycling.
I have a light 20L pack with an internal frame and mesh for my back so I still get decent ventilation.
In economic terms, might we think about this as someone who is maximizing a utility function for social welfare rather than individual welfare?

I always thought some of my reasoning about the world was rather strange and hard to comprehend. Now I see that there are people who are even more extreme than me.

It's also particularly interesting that someone can be this way in the absence of religion, since atheism probably begets nihilism more so than other religions.
Where Indians “fly” for less than a dollar [video]
+300.
Maybe it's time to try chrome again, it felt heavy and memory-hungry for me and I always ended up with using FF solely.
Massive patent troll suit seeks to tax USB hubs at Wal-Mart, Amazon, Best Buy
Of sure. And small businesses keep chugging away and can make their millions.

But I think the implicit goal was to have a certain mobility in the market where new more nimble player can float to the top and crusty old companies can sink. And the system doesn't accomplish that. If it did, maybe it would justify all the incredible waste involved
Idea: motorize a weeping angel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeping_Angel), use this mechanism to have it drive towards someone when their eyes shut
Difference lenses have very different MTF (resolution vs how far away to the center of the lens) in theory and because of the different lens internal structure, they also have different fringing, distortion performances as well. The bokeh look different depending on the shape and the number of aperture blades. Sometimes it is not clear whether spending 2x or more is worth it so this is I believe very helpful to help buyers to see what's the actual differences of lenses are without all those fancy ads.
Yes, I've used it to call out to phantomjs, imagemagick, basically anything that will run on the AWS-EC2-Linux environment. Node or Java can be simple wrappers.

Here's a template if it helps anyone:

https://github.com/justengland/phantom-lambda-template
It sounds like you personally prefer not to stay in an AirBnB. That's fine. I likewise prefer hotels to AirBnBs.

But why are you anti-airbnb?
"Burned my fingers on freelancing for Bitcoin" - can you please elaborate? was the problem with bitcoin or with the counteragent?
that would be great. what would be greater though is ensuring that actor.im cannot read the data as it transits (or easy to setup on our own local machines)

I'd pay a good bit for that!
This can't be a Show HN unless there's something for people to try for themselves. Blog posts are specifically excluded. Not that this isn't a good post!

The Show HN rules are at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
Either they are doing well but not publicizing, or that the threat is highly exaggerated and that they are really doing nothing.
"a string can be slack in many ways, but taut in only one"

0 is true, everything else is false. At least that's my intuition.
i personally don't care too much about how python 2 is still more popular than python 3. it's like saying java 1.5 is more popular than java 8. it just doesn't matter to people who use python 3. after working on a python 3 code base for almost 2 years now i wouldn't go back to python 2 if they paid me for it and there's one reason for that: exception handling. it's something that's just broken in python 2. it's a huge change and your 3) is invalid because of that (and unicode, but you probably don't care if you don't consider this a worthwile change.) your 4) thus doesn't follow. re your point 5), python's current leadership should be commended for creating a language so good that people have no reason to switch from. python 3 is even better, so just start using it for new projects.
The old party line of the Communist Party USA was to not only not support charity, but on some level to work against charity. As Europe and North America shifted from farming and feudalism, a new group came into existence, the "reserve army of labor" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour ), also known as the unemployed. As the people who control production want this, trying to fight this charity and whatnot is considered a waste of time - the people who control production want unemployment and poverty to be at a certain level, and if the working class makes a massive effort to relieve it one place, the controllers of production will just increase it elsewhere.

You can see this in its modern form by reading the Wall Street Journal, Businessweek etc. in the year 2000. There were worries the unemployment rate had gotten "too low" (<4%), i.e. it was a problem too many people looking for a job could find one. Talks of inflation and so forth, basically the WSJ-speak way which can easily be translated into Marxist terminology.

If the powers that be were openly seeking to increase unemployment in 2000, what is the point of devoting a lot of effort to charity? The communists thought charities contributed to this problem, by prolonging the agony. It seems the problem is more structural.
The EPA shot itself in the foot by opposing rules that could've exposed VW
The Digital Picture does a fantastic job with center, corner and mid-frame crops:
http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-...

Highly recommended, their reviews are also fantastic.
It looks cool that said as usual its "hey I dont like <insert some chat program> so im just going to code my own incompatible one".

In the end im happy with IRC. Its not the greatest but its the one that just works:
Its the one everyone who's an engineer in the business knows how to use, bots work, automation work, and irccloud works if you like webuis.
Just don't make the mistake I did of running with less than 4 GB and then having a flash crowd show up. You really want the RAM for acceptable performance with a reasonable number of concurrent users.
I think there are two approaches one could take for doing this:

* It seems like one way you could make that possible would be to make it really easy to do white-label builds of the Zulip mobile apps. E.g. the "Zulip for example.com" app. Would be more overhead than is ideal for smaller deployments.

* It should be possible to have APNS/GCM traffic go through a central community-hosted service that dispatches the messages on to a set of configured Zulip servers.

We actually had functionality based on a similar concept for the Zulip desktop app login process, where it would query a service on zulip.com with e.g. "example.com" and that would return the URL of what zulip server hosts example.com, so that users don't need to fill that out in the login process.

For the open source release, we replaced this with in an explicit "what server are you doing prompt" but it would certainly be technically possible to go this route.
It's more like being pro or con U2 or bee stings. How could you not have an opinion?

Personally, I think AirBnB has not done a very good job helping communities figure out what the best situation should be. Many/most leases and HOAs forbid short-term leases for very good reason and yet AirBnB turns an eye. And for people who own their residences, many areas are zoned non-commercial, again for very good reasons, and AirBnB turns an eye. Prop F looks terrible but if it somehow manages to pass, AirBnB has no one to blame but itself for not participating constructively in a reasonable solution.
You can do this in other languages just the same with maybe some different syntax, for example C#

"moo".Replace('m', 'z').ToUpper();

Or, fully qualified with "every method in its own namespaced module";

"moo".(string.Replace('m', 'z')).(string.ToUpper());

I'm not sure if elixir is doing anything fancy here that I'm not seeing, though. I still haven't had a chance to try it out.
Designing GPS tracks is so easy you can put it in a GIF
that's a fair statement, i just felt the subjects could be improved. Seriously, no one uses these lenses for shooting baby dolls. Something that's a bit more relevant, or pleasing to the eyes would be much better subjects. I'm sure these guys can spare a couple hundred bucks and hire a professional model to do some shooting ;)
It wouldnt for many sites but it just wasn't a problem before because the value exchange held. Privacy laws and adblocking are causing these to become more visible with explicit Accept buttons however there's still the obstacle of proving identity online.

Anyways, this is something that paywalls solve entirely so it's a great model, but nobody wants to pay.
I've given up and just gotten used to it. I loathe Apple's desktop management system, but here we are :(

I stopped using TotalSpaces a while back to some bugs (cannot remember which, but did contact them).
Pretty Google taps into its gigantic web index to find senseful terms. I played with google translate by typing DragonBall Z names phonetically, Google suggested actual names at the top of the list. I can't help but thinking it cross reference queries, trends and such.
True, but in some cases the barriers that governments erect to enter the marketplace are barriers that I very much want. I want agribusiness to get their food to me in a clean state. I want car companies to demonstrate that they can produce a car that meets safety requirements before they can sell road-worthy cars. I want pharmaceutical companies to meet the basic requirement that their drugs do what they claim that they do. So not all barriers increasing are due to bad actors, but sometimes due to demands of society to have clean food, safe cars, and lead-free drugs.
OP here, we sort of screw up on that one.

Should have done at least two groups of auto focusing and manual focusing.

The car scene was done in a a little rush because the sun is moving. Not sure what's going on with the sigma but we made sure the camera beeps when it reports in focus at the medal Jaguar logo.

If people like this idea, we will get more lenses in the next series and add Canon and other brands if possible.

Right now the original JPEG is around 14MP and very slow to load, so we had to slide them into tiles thus using leaflet.js.
Is it possible to get what Slack provides using IRC? I mean the whole package, not just the text chat. Consider enterprise-friendliness, excellent mobile clients, zero-setup required (no separate keep-you-online relays), really easy integrations, etc.? We are adopting Slack because it's great and I'd have loved to make a case for IRC but I wouldn't know what server to recommend (we don't really want to install it, but we don't want to use a public server), where I can get commercial support, if there's a nice client (like irccloud is) for mobiles - there's a long list, unfortunately.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10280246.

Historically most users were using the single cloud installation at zulip.com, and so having this significant fixed memory overhead wasn't a problem.

I expect someone will do the work the fix this before long; it shouldn't be hard.
It looks like it only outlaws paid rentals. I don't see anything saying otherwise, the aunt line is supposed to be something that is legal, but can be misinterpreted.
Pretty cool for the 60s. Even more impressive if they released RCS numbers to compare to the SR-71 and F-117

My first thought is it looks like a cross between the X-47B [0] and the RQ-4 Global Hawk [1]. Interestingly, both of those came out of Northrop Grumman years later.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_RQ-4_Global_H...
I used to use the homerows keys, eventually sort of forgot, and haven't bothered learning them well again. It probably is a little faster if you get used to it, but that isn't some master superior design choice -- its just that the vim creator's keyboard didn't have arrow keys.
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The Volkswagen Scandal Is Just the Beginning
one would wish it. Unfortunately, this contraption was Boeing's F-35 competition entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-32
GCHQ and MI5 have been up to this sort of thing for decades.

I don't expect it'll ever change, as by the time someone's made it to high office, then the agencies will have collected enough material to keep them quiet and on side.
AirBnB needs to step up and suggest what it thinks are some of the right ways to handle this. The fact is, many/most leases and HOAs forbid short term rentals, and for good reasons. As well, many areas are zoned non-commercial, again for good reasons.

But people certainly should have some degree of autonomy when it comes to their personal property. The question is, what is it?

What I never understood is why short term rental regulations aren't modeled more closely off BnB laws than hotel laws. Many jurisdictions have BnB laws and AirBnBs obviously compare much more closely to BnBs. BnBs typically have lighter regulation, different taxes, are frequently in residential areas, etc.
As long as you mean "write protect" in quotes, because the write protection is handled by circuitry outside the flash chip itself which then means that to be sure your flash is _actually_ protected you have to verify that additional stuff.
I actually know a few people who work there. All well educated (ex-Cambridge), but the one thing they have in common is that they are very religious. I'd be interested to know about the prevalence of strong religious beliefs in their staff in comparison to people with similar levels of education in the general population.
Then why don't they focus on that alone? If you worked for an organization that saved 10 babies a month, but used 90 women for sex trade, would you continue to work there because "you're helping save babies", or would you be disgusted with that organization?

I know my example is a little extreme, but it's kind of what GCHQ and NSA do, too. They use their powers maybe 10% of the time to look for terrorists and whatnot, and then the other 90% to get data on everyone, including people in power that they can blackmail and influence. Don't think this is just a theory. There have been articles in the UK press about MI5 for instance covering up child abuse by politicians because they wanted to blackmail them with that. Enough said?
The question stands. How do you quickly yank a battery from an iPhone?
private IRC. Hence global interoperability and federation is not what this and Slack are aiming to do.
It's worse than that. The California government is in a long-term constitutional crisis precisely because of the proposition system. The legislative burden from politicized, poorly written, un-repealable propositions paralyzes the state and local governments and budgets, and is the tyranny of the majority embodied. It starts with prop 13 and goes downhill from there. The only thing that will fix it is a constitutional convention and removal of the proposition process.
Side note: Please STOP using tiny font weights. Text becomes ridiculously hard/painful to read.

There's no reason to use a font-weight of 200 (or anything less than 500) on body text, save that for the headlines.

http://i.imgur.com/r7a794n.png
Great resources. These are almost always qualitatively correct but it's hard to see the lens performances in real settings (out of paper) and to get an overall holistic view of the differences in "looks" . Both approaches have their merits.
This is also how you decloak users from VPN, first you profile their online behaviour without vpn, track cookies and graph site visits. Then when people use vpn you still see and track their identity.
"but that does not mean every single person working for them is an evil person out to get you."

I agree. Those engineers are just following orders. They bear no personal responsibility at all...
If you share the information-destroying code, then you're the one who caused the destruction of evidence after an investigation is underway. Which you don't want.

Perhaps some software that clears the phone when someone tries to break into the phone / copy data? A prudent security precaution for all sorts of reasons.
The commit queue can only be bypassed by people who are 'committers' and therefore have direct push access to the repo. Becoming a committer requires landing multiple changes, demonstrating competence and desire to continue to contribute, and being nominated and seconded by your peers. This is true for all contributors, even Google employees.

Even committers are heavily encouraged to use the commit queue, and everyone does. Something like 96% of commits land via the CQ. It's simply a bad idea not to. The main use-case for bypassing the queue is quickly reverting a change which somehow slipped through, and even those usually go through the queue anyway with a special flag that bypasses all of the tests.
>Unicode is completely irrelevant for everybody else and is most definitely not a core reason to move to Python 3. You're living in cloud cuckoo land on your 3.x magic mushroom trip.

you're from the US, right? there's about 6 billion people for whom ascii isn't enough. some of them program in python.
This. This was how I learned that the whole "don't be evil" thing was a load of bovine manure.

Google Wave, as an XMPP-based protocol, held enormous promise as a federated rich discussion standard. Sadly their first implementation was clunky and had a confused approach to standards and integration; it was effectively stillborn.

Then Google killed Google Talk by strongly favouring their closed "Hangouts" product which is practically inaccessible from chat clients. They went further, making it impossible to federate Google Talk to other XMPP services. Facebook and Microsoft followed suit, either ending XMPP support or closing their federation capability.

All three are therefore complicit in the worst abrogation of Internet interoperability since the early days of MSIE. And Google, in a land grab for consumer eyeballs, was the cheerleader.
Think of it as an early warning system.

You immediately know who the idiots are, so you don't need
to waste any time finding that out for yourself.

I put Clojure in the same category, if we examine it outside the Java ecosystem, a language that is the definition of "premature optimization" (all the concurrency and immutable datastructure features are available as libraries in CL) and has no business existing in a universe where CL exists.

But of course people want to work with Java and so on and so forth. Tight Java interop is what makes Clojure worthy of existence and of course, why would any sane Lisper want to work in the Java ecosystem?
I don't know why this guy is being downvoted. I've heard the exact same thing from many friends of mine who have or still do live in SF: just vote no on all of them, and force the city to do it's job by legislating the usual way.
>build all major roads in tunnels, and bring the recovered surface area back to it's original state for all to enjoy.

How deeply have you thought this idea through? What happens in places like Florida where the water table is so high you can't dig deeper than a few feet? How do you manage entrances and exits, how do you make sure there's breathable air down there in case people have to get out of their cars? How do you vent poisonous gases? How do you keep the precious animals you're trying to save from getting in there and getting trapped or run over? What about emergency access? You can't open a gate on a service road and suddenly be underground.

Those are just a couple of simple practical considerations that don't even factor in cost, which would be prohibitive.
The mafia also does lots of good and helpful things in the community.

Does that means mobsters also shouldn't be reviled?
Yeah, this is important.

As much as I'd like to be upset about the lack of binary verifiability throughout the chain, as the article even points out, without jailbreaking it is already impossible. We have no idea what code Apple is telling our devices to run, regardless of the form in which it is submitted to the App Store.

It's a bummer, but rms was right all along.
You're missing the point. Just because it's not what they're aiming to do doesn't mean the tech isn't appropriate for it.

You're commenting on their business model rather than the tech. For all you know, Slack could be planning to expand their business to hosting public chat rooms, then your comment wouldn't make any sense anymore.
Sorry, it looks like I read your comment uncharitably.
Same thing happened to psd.js. But then twitpic died, so psd.js was reborn.
At least we are talking, visiting, and respecting each other in public. An article posted here a day or two a go titled: "The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War? — The Atlantic" pretty much summed up that alienation between a super power and an emerging super power is not such grand an idea.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/uni...
I realize that.

There is a famous story of the old west. Unfortunately, I can't remember names at the moment to even google it, but supposedly some saddles were stolen and someone was hired to get them back. He ran around shooting people on the brand of saddles that had been stolen. More saddles were returned to the seller than had been stolen. Even people who had actually purchased one no longer wanted to be seen sitting on one.

So I realize the law does not technically make it illegal to have your aunt visit. But if the effect is that you might get sued, the de facto outcome might be that you stop letting relatives come visit if you live in SF because the risk involved in doing something completely legal is nonetheless too high.
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I'm not specifically anti-Airbnb, but I'm anti "disruption is euphemism for just ignoring the law". It is common with companies like Uber, Airbnb, and the most recent uproar is over DraftKings and FanDuel. These companies have a disregard for the law as part of their business model and that rubs me the wrong way.