skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Athletics is a zero sum game - the athletes are harmed and the rest of the world is not helped. If we ban PEDs, the football will still reach the endzone.

Tech is a positive sum game. If PEDs help get us the next Uber, AirBnB or OkCupid, it's well worth the price of some less dedicated people being outcompeted. It's insane to hold the world back simply so certain less dedicated developers can maintain their current high status.
In my last role we would often need to upload large amounts of data for our clients to AWS. When this data got into the terabytes we would ship a NAS box to our customer and then send that to Amazon. On more than one occasion Amazon fubar'ed the upload on their end (why would you move drives around in a RAID 5/6 array?). Maybe since this is AWS branded solution it will be more reliable.
I'm curious about how they're going to approach this from the fraud perspective. This is a $200 charge for a device that has 50TB storage, which would probably cost you around $2000 to buy.

There's people out there that will sign a contract under a fake name / address with a phone provider and sell the phones, and the way the providers fight against it usually by running credit checks and verifying address against them. Ultimately, this is very hard to detect when it involves identity theft.
Also posted under: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10339584

Actual publication: http://www.disneyresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/Live-Textur...

The interesting part of the research (and what the paper focuses on) is how to take a generally front facing view as seen in a coloring book and apply the coloring scheme for that view to a 3d model. The examples in the paper really point out the difference between how a human would extend the scheme to the back of the model with how various algorithms will. The presented research does a good job extending the texture to the back of a humanoid model.
THE CANDIDATE – Liberation from the Prison
Another small advice, but less generic, could be to not include all css and js libs of bootstrap, that is modular.
I'm mentioning bootstrap because it is the standard de-facto of many web apps.

Just spend 5 minutes selecting only the packages that you really use inside your webpage, you can drastically reduce css and js file size
In the physical world, this type of "helpfulness" would get you shot dead, as you broke into someone's house for what you considered to be "helpful" reasons.

The medical quarantine example is interesting, but there is a critical difference: There are officially recognized medical authorities with the legal power to require you to be quarantined. Currently, no such authorities exist on the network.

So the example is more like: some people with medical knowledge but no actual standing try to quarantine you. But it's not quite as bad as it sounds, because there exists no Health Department to do so officially. (For that matter, there doesn't exist much government at all, in any form.) What's more, since there is no government to enforce this, the self-appointed expert quarantines you without your permission.

I can see the reasoning behind it, but I'm not willing to go so far as to call it moral/ethical behavior.
Bitly's realtime distributed message queue: processing at scale
It might not be the best idea to steal from someone who has your full name and credit card, which Amazon does for AWS customers as far as I know.
If we're using the word "boring" as a euphemism for "well engineered, less likely to cause a fire", Salsa20 is slightly less boring than ChaCha20, but far more boring than RC4. https://github.com/CodesInChaos/SalsaBias :)

I hope we see TLS 1.3 some time soon.

> Virtually all of Bernstein's problems, going all the way back through his career, stem from the way standards bodies mangle cryptography.

The more I read about his career, the clearer this becomes. It almost makes me wish we could abolish standards committees.
I always assumed the police knows about the dealing and allows it. You pretty much can't walk by certain streets without being offered drugs.
Very true. Even with smaller companies, data sets like events inside an app are too much for Excel. Ever since I picked up R, I haven't touched Excel.
Sure, megamorphic code requires a JIT. But it's a trivial one so I don't count it. :) Essentially, if you have the expression:

z = x + y

If you statically can't know the types of x and y, you must do an expensive method lookup. You call some variant of the plus function if x and y are floats, another if they are strings or lists and so on. So a good runtime notes the types of x and y the first time the expression is evaluated and recompiles the expensive call to the general_add() function with, say if x and y are 32 bit ints, a quick add_32bit_ints() call.

See here for a description of the V8 JIT: http://jayconrod.com/posts/54/a-tour-of-v8-crankshaft-the-op... It appears to be just "a plain old compiler" with inlining of method lookups.
I just tried it and it worked as intended. Which means there's either a UX issue (very likely), or a bug specific to your browser (a bit less likely).

What did you try to do and what happened?
Sure, check out the Navigation Timing API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigation_...
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10346928.
You pretty clearly have an emotional attachment to Perl, which is sort of lovely to see, but it's causing you to be undeservedly condescending to people who don't have that attachment, which is not lovely.
While there are possibilities for more humane warfare using drone armies, the downsides are way, way worse.

By example, there is a long and well documented history of human rights violations against civilian population from human armies, and those violations come as often as not from the high command's orders as for the volition of individual units.

Even worse than that, there is also the well documented history of the Cold War, where nuclear war and MAD was only spared because there were individual low level officers that exercised a humane criteria and knowingly disobeyed protocol. If robots would have been in charge of nuclear defense systems during those years, we probably would not been here discussing this.
SPICE is definitely the most interesting part of this announcement but there isn't enough information about it.
Moon is a small Lisp-dialect written purely in Rust
Wonder if it's possible to use this to upgrade Amazon RDS instances?

At the moment you can't upgrade an existing postgres 9.3 RDS instance to 9.4 without dumping all the data and importing it into a new 9.4 RDS instance.
France Moves to End Diesel's Tax Break Over Pollution Concern
It gets worse. "Hey, let's double down on weak typing!": http://examples.perl6.org/categories/cookbook/01strings/01-0...

print +"" ; # a num-ified empty string evaluates as 0
print "1" + 1 ; # 2

The opportunity for insidious bugs (for the benefit of not having to type 'int("1") + 1' those times when you really need to do that) is a terrible tradeoff, in my opinion.

In before "but Python...!". Python is strongly typed.

>>> "1" + 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects
>>> 1 + "1"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'
Cool stuff.

Link the to github project: https://github.com/IFTTT/dash
I believe the encryption requirement was dropped at the last minute. HTTP2 will serve unencrypted connections.
"Optimal" means "looks right (or at least not-wrong) to the most people". For that, there's heuristics at best.
Just to provide some feedback that I should have written on the sibling comment.

I use both Java and .NET since they got out, there is the occasional C++ library, but they are the core of my work. So I know quite well their eco-systems.

Some of the mentioned scars were related with replacing "legacy" C++ systems, while keeping a comparable performance.
I assume they have your credit card and will charge you a larger amount if they don't get it back.
And (at least in my opinion) surprising expensive!
The customer won't keep it because the Snowball contract will put them on the hook for it.

Whether the shippers do or don't keep it, there are much more valuable things shipped every day. Where do you think the gargantuan Catalyst and Nexus switches come from? The line cards in those things probably cost more than a Snowball device.
Couldn't you just put a hold for $2k and release it when the device is returned?
What happens if a server get partitioned for an extended period of time? In their example, it sounds like Alice and Bob would be isolated from everyone else until connectivity to the cluster is re-established. Is there a mechanism that makes clients connected to an isolated server reconnect to the load balancer?
Slippery slope is not automatically a fallacy. In fact, since this is a political (and more importantly, rhetorical) debate, slippery slope isn't a fallacy at all. It is an argument, carrying some weight or none at all, depending on how it is presented. In light of an article that is precisely about how "Big Pharma" overprescribed drugs to people who didn't need them, suggesting that allowing the government to enforce prescriptions will lead to more corruption and overprescription, this argument should hold a lot of weight.

More generally: Slippery Slope is a logical fallacy. It, along with many of it's brothers [1], do nothing to prove a point in a logical debate. They do no represent MUSTs, they represent SHOULD, MAY, and OPTIONAL [2]. These are rhetorical devices that you should use when you are feeling out the scope of the problem and advocating for policy in a political debate. And it can be relevant to call them by name, but dismissing an argument because you can name it is actually illogical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Informal_fal...
[2] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
My IDE's are always on the left and my other materials on the right. But I haven't felt very productive since I got my new 24" dual monitor setup. Perhaps I should move my IDE to the right and see what happens.
> AWS Import/Export Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS.
I was like this. I managed to reconnect. Listen first to your body, feel the tingle from orgasm. Listen to it, experience it. Listen for the sensations around it. Listen for similar feelings in everyday life. They are there but softer, more subtle. Now shift your focus from your body and try to experience the color within your thoughts themselves. It takes time, its like learning to see. Do you feel hungry? That is an emotion. Ever been scared, that is an emotion. For me I had childhood trauma, it caused me to look away from my emotions, to deny them. To push them from thought. For people like us who find themselves having gone through much of life without weaving emotion into our thoughts there is a great opportunity to weave the emotional state into our personality in a manner of our choosing. One piece of advice is: listen to yourself and keep listening. Also I found mdma helped me prove to myself that emotion is real.
As usual, the pricing is not very friendly, and apparently designed to lock your data into AWS or exploit your weak negotiating position once you buy in.

While you can send in 50TB for $200, taking the same 50TB out costs an additional $1500 charge (50000 * 0.03).

[assuming they are not transferring the data over the Internet, the cost to AWS should be the same or cheaper for reading]
Artificial intelligence program ConceptNet matches 4-year-old child in IQ test
Does this not make anyone else queasy? This is such a rabbit hole. Not to mention they list all these major companies on their homepage implying they're using AMP when it looks like the project only started early-mid summer. Seems a bit deceptive trying to oversell people into adopting it when they barely know if it works or wont be superseded shortly. Frustrating when big companies do this in open source.
Maybe it'll be a 10GbE interface?
I have to admit, while it makes for good storage lock-in, I was impressed that they only charge 3 cents/GB to get the data back out.

Someone else in this thread thought $1500 was expensive to get 50TB back out. If you use this for disaster recovery, you could get all of your data back onsite quickly for a very low (comparative) cost, versus trying to provision high speed connectivity.
All the more reason to get it! Unlike other tools requiring more intermediary technical details, this lets you get straight from note-on-staff (in the most natural way possible short of actual instruments) to proper notation to hearing it instantly.
The article presents some good information about how out of control "trigger warnings" have become. And it's interesting that there is discrimination in the things that people are supposed to give "trigger warnings" for. To make things equal here are some more "trigger warnings" that should be implemented in society:
-Before stepping into a cafeteria: Trigger warning to vegetarians: There is meat sold here and it might bother you.
-On bridges and high places: Trigger warning: Heights present, be careful if you have a fear of heights.
-Children's playground: Trigger warning: If you've had a miscarriage or have trouble conceiving this might make you sad.
> Perl6 is really a strict supserset of Perl5 in this way.

How? And can you cite any sources that I can read? Thanks.
touche my friend :)
You might run into copyright / trademark issues if you use the name 'Scrabble' anywhere though, FYI
We're currently using Marathon and Chronos, and it's going pretty well. What about y'all?
So excited for this! We use Webflow to power our web site over at http://www.payable.com. None of our devs have touched it. That's a huge time savings. Excited to now apply it to our blog and much more in the future!
The way this usually goes is that you pay with a prepaid debit card (that doesn't verify name or address).

Then you get it shipped to a name and address that are not yours, and you intercept the package before it gets there.

It becomes even harder to trace if the name / address / card all match, for instance if you've taken out a credit card on your elderly neighbor's name
Repeat from 10 days ago, but maybe important enough to rerun.
Kept scrolling and looking for a picture of said label, to no avail.
What you're describing is more or less how existing programs work. For example, here is a screenshot of Sibelius:

http://img.informer.com/screenshots/5045/5045272_3.jpg

Notice that "keypad" in the bottom right corner. That's the "on-screen custom keyboard" you're talking about.

But this isn't very convenient:

1. There are a lot of symbols. So many that the keyboard is divided up into six sub-keyboards. Unless you know the program well, it's a bit of a mystery where exactly to find the right symbol.

2. And it's actually more complicated than that because some of the symbols are actually modifiers of other symbols. For several of the symbols you see (sharp, natural, flat, dot, tie) you can't actually draw them independently, they only exist as attachments to another note. So the keypad works differently when you are dealing with those symbols.

3. Plenty of marks aren't even covered by the keypad and its six panels. For those you have to go searching in the numerous other menus in the app. You start getting a Microsoft Word-like problem: how do you design menu bars that show all the options without taking up the whole screen.

I really think it would be easier to draw what you mean -- if the app is actually good at recognizing what you mean.
Too many false positives. More like if re.search('\bcat\b')
Yes, you could, the pricing page doesn't mention anything about it though, hence why I wonder.
I think the poster was talking about someone simply gutting the appliance for the 50TB drives. With a bit of fraud here and there on top.
Let's say for the sake of argument that it costs about $100 per use to recover the machine from a labor/time perspective. That means they'll make back the initial investment on the machine in 20 uses. As long as the fraud rate is less than 5%, then this venture from a capital investment perspective still makes sense. Personally, if people intend on using fraud to get free hard drives it will probably be a minority of the population of people who order the services of this device. Plus, you need an AWS account for this.
It only really confuses me because there's not really a lot of value in writing your own "not quite IRC" type chat system. Just think about the development and administration time that went into setting something up that's probably not as good as something you can apt-get install.
But it's not NoSQL so it's garbage.
Same service needs to run the other way for the same price. $200 to get all your data shipped to you on an appliance/hard drive.
Odd, the second page loaded much faster for me...
CPU and bandwidth will always matter. Once those restraints aren't an issue for phones, people will want webpages to load on their watch.
Yes, this is the most interesting aspect of snowball.
That's exactly what I said 5 years ago.
Haha wow, taking the shirt off their back to its literal conclusion.
The Android-x86 project is glad to announce 5.1-rc1 release to public
It’s Okay to Work on Someone Else’s Idea
Karma's not exactly a reliable measure of anything you'll want to base policy on. It's easy enough to game, and a large portion of it is just a measure of how present and non-contrarian you are. It isn't generally allocated to anyone for saying what needs to be said, but the same trivialities we don't like in normal politics. This is especially true in bigger, more diverse communities.
i'll download that for sure -> if it's ever available.
> And Twitter, like Reddit, also has well-covered problems with virulent racism and sexism.

Racism and sexism is all over FB too. It just doesn't go viral because it's all within private bubbles instead of out in the open, which is arguably more dangerous.
As you suggest, one can be strongly pro-vaccination and just as strongly against the ability of the government to send a SWAT team to the door to vaccinate you forcibly.

Personally, the law California passed seems a reasonable compromise to me. Once it's phased in, it makes it possible for parents to still opt-out their children but it 1.) makes it very much a non-casual decision, given that they'll probably have to home-school as a result, and 2.) keeps the children away from at least one of the locations (school) where they would interact with the largest population of other children.
I get them, trying to sell me a similar domain to the one I have (my surname . net). The domains are (my surname+IES . net) and are not registered, these guys are trying to sell me a domain they don't own. All sent to the tagged address used to register my existing domain with 123-reg

29 June

Hello,

Would you you be interested in XXXXXies dot net since you do own a
similar domain name?

Thank you for your time.

Giroux

9th April

Hi

My name is Becky. I understand that you hold a domain name analogous to XXXXXies(net)
and was wondering if you would consider getting the XXXXXies(net)?

Please accept my apologies if you are not interested.
Becky.
That's possible according to the page:

> AWS Database Migration Service can migrate on-premises databases to Amazon RDS or Amazon EC2, databases running on EC2 to RDS, or vice versa, as well as migrate an RDS database to another RDS database.
Or Shogi.
Who says you're putting it above the company's mission? Paying down the technical debt makes it easier to roll out changes in the future, which would make the company more competitive.
Which page did you click first?
What the Success of Top Games Can Teach All App Developers
Having worked in some form BI for almost the entirety of my career now, there is not a single, consistent form of BI dashboard that is prevalent across any company. Every solution ends up being unique, because every company has a unique data set-up, stakeholders, definition of metrics, and access needs.

I've worked with Tableau, Domo, Oracle products, you name it. What's the solution that is passed around the most? Excel sheets, because they travel easily and have all-around permissions.

I've been waiting for an out-of-the-box solution that's at least relatively easy to leverage across different organizations, but I haven't seen a painless one yet.

I'm hopeful that Quicksight, while not the be-all end-all solution, provides an example for others to follow, if it does end up being easy to set up and use.
Pandora to Acquire Ticketfly
Sorry, but I have trouble feeling sorry for these people. I know a person who has more than $100K in student loan debt, for degrees she has decided she doesn't want to use, who just quit her job to follow a dream of being an artist. I have other friends with student loan debt who have much nicer things than me (probably from credit card debt too).

I paid off $10K in student loans. It didn't take too long and i was making well under $50K a year. Lived in a cheap, not-very-nice apartment, drove an old car, didn't spend much on entertainment, etc. It's very possible to pay off even the average of $20K in debt and not have it be a chain on your life forever.

People also need to make sure they actually want to use the degree, that it's in a field where there are jobs, work while they are in school, and during their school time forgo the extras in life.
You would be shocked and amazed by the kinds of things that Excel is routinely (mis)-used for in business.
Surely if you're that large then you could invest in some in-house domain-specific solution. There are whole programming languages dedicated to doing statistics on datasets.
As a non-professional route setter I disagree - it's actually a very interesting activity that is part science and part art. It involves a lot of contemplation in the area of physics, body mechanics, and psychology. Additionally it's a lot like game design in that the problem you create will be interacted with extensive, obsessively and can result in significant challenge, reward and frustration by the user.

But I'll admit I didn't read the article, because big media almost always does a terrible job at covering climbing... let alone a niche of climbing that has taken years of practice to understand and appreciate.
I've used MariaDB in production a few years back and didn't notice any differences in operation except for an esoteric bug with some version of Ubuntu that required making a minor change to the config file...otherwise, it worked as a drop-in replacement as advertised, though this app didn't do anything particularly exotic outside of the standard Rails/ActiveRecord conventions...

Has much changed? Is MariaDB still pretty much a drop-in replacement? And has anyone moved a non-trivial app from MySQL to MariaDB...or would be confident in making that move on RDS, on the heels of this announcement? I mean, if there aren't any production problems, the change in licensing [1] alone seems like it could be enough of a reason (although I may be misunderstanding MySQL's licensing, it's always been a little confusing to me).

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/227242
I maintain (curate, really) a list of resources on Github. Most of the content on the list was suggested by other folks in the community: https://github.com/paragonie/awesome-appsec
It would not surprise me that parts of Perl made Matz happy.
In multiple organizations I have primarily seen Perl applied to very large, complex and established code bases that also make significant use of things like reading/writing Perl data structures.

Simply put, there will not be any grand push to re-sigil every stored data structure and make massive, sweeping changes to nearly every line to end up with the same program that looks, if anything, arguably less intuitive.

This shows a profound unawareness of how Perl 5 was actually used in practice.