skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems in direct response to the Microsoft Azure IOT stuff [1]. Not sure which is better as they both have the same pipelines at this point, although AWS has more data processing services available. Azure also seems more complicated to get setup or their website/documentation is a lot worse.

1. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/internet-of-thin...
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MQTT has a "last wish" or "testament". So you know that it went offline.
Welcome to the world of value creation. More or less.
Isn't Gemini their first step towards the ETF?

Also, FDIC insurance isn't for "if" your assets are lost, it's for "when". You can trust security and safety all you want, it's when things go wrong that you need insurance.

I really hope they get private insurance, because just like making sure there are enough lifeboats on the Titanic, hindsight is always 20/20.
One interesting tidbit: Last year, the US Department of Commerce tried to prevail upon industry representatives and privacy organizations to write a voluntary code of conduct for companies using facial recognition technologies. After 16 months of negotiations, all of the consumer-focused privacy organizations pulled out of the process because industry representatives were unable to agree on any limitations on something as basic as nonconsensual facial recognition.
Also if you have a 4th grader don't forget about https://www.everykidinapark.gov/
Checking accounts are also insured by the FDIC, and most people wouldn't include their checking balance when asked about a "savings account"
The www.netflixprize.com data from 2009 is quantitative evidence about whether the recommender works (it is much better than random). I'm open to the idea that a curated collection might delight more people, but in my experience and based on this data, I can't agree that Netflix's algorithm is useless. Personally I find it's the unavailability of streaming content that makes Netflix frustrating.
Bus routes can be fixed, that's a months-years problem. I'm sure the city will adjust at some point, probably before 2018, to give Capitol Hill really amazing service.

I was exaggerating a bit... but the highway basically runs right beside the length of the neighborhood. It's pretty convenient to get on, even if Denny is totally packed.
It looks like the examples are broken.

uint32_t fetch_multiply(std::atomic<uint32_t>& shared, uint32_t multiplier)
{
uint32_t oldValue = shared.load();
while (!shared.compare_exchange_weak(oldValue, oldValue * multiplier))
{
}
return oldValue;
}

If shared.compare_exchange_weak() fails because of a concurrent writer, then the while loop will never exit (unless another writer sets the value of shared to oldValue).

What the author wants is something like this:

uint32_t fetch_multiply(std::atomic<uint32_t>& shared, uint32_t multiplier)
{
while(1) {
uint32_t oldValue = shared.load();
if(shared.compare_exchange_weak(oldValue, oldValue * multiplier)) {
return oldValue;
}
}
}

The other examples have the same problem.
Even with 1 storyboard, as long as you don't commit completely unrelated changes, you can still have 9 people working on it just as easily as you can if you split it up into one storyboard per view controller. All this requires is that people actually look at the diff they're committing and omit changes to unrelated view controllers (most graphical commit tools will let you pick the lines to commit).
What if they hold you in a room for several hours under bright lights and without water?
The modern factory farms sound more barbaric, and people refuse to look at them. Many turn their heads away whenever you want to show them something about them - something very ignoble about people who don't want to know what is happening due to the choices they are making.
This is really great. I've been waiting for the right project to come along with which to experiment with PostgreSQL over MySQL/MariaDB, but haven't had that chance yet. These sorts of articles make me really excited about the possibilities, though.
A lot of people here think this is about you parse "savings". It's not:

47% of Americans say they lack the cash to pay a surprise $400 bill

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/jun/09/...
"Savings account"? I have $5 in my savings account to keep in good stead with the credit union. Despite that, one can rest assured that the total net worth of my wife and me is many orders of magnitude greater than what our savings account reflects.

Maybe I'm out of touch, but asking about savings accounts strike as being in the same vein as asking how much I feed my horse.
The 2nd amendment can be clarified, and its meaning reinterpreted, as it was in 2008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller).
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The XML spit out by interface builder these days is pretty readable too. Have you looked at it in the past few years?
Hawking answers questions on Reddit AMA
Hong Kong at least happened much because of Georgist taxation of land rents. When people can commute ten more miles and divide the cost of living there by a factor of ten, they will. So don't hold your breath on "getting rid of cars" any time soon without some incentive for capturing land rents. For now, we use cars for that.

And it's interesting that we still talk about "shops & restaurants". Other than craft/fine dining, those can eventually be highly virtualized in terms of logistics and depend much less on place.
Don't forget, our government also encourages spending. Indeed, consider the entire premise of Keynesian Economics where the answer is stimulate demand (spending/consumption) over capital accumulation. Both major political parties buy into this idea.

Cars for Clunkers was about new sales: taking a possibly working asset, albeit an older one, and trading it in (with cash) on newer cars.

Interest rates are part of this and there are even suggestions going around now for negative interest rates. Why? To make savings less attractive and spending moreso.

Completely predictable and what our leaders want.
Why would NASA need patents?
I would venture to guess that if NASA doesn't apply for a patent for a new tech they might use. Soon after not patenting it a commercial enterprise would, and then NASA would be required to license the technology they developed.
The concept of non enforced or open source patents has only gained ground VERY recently, even though the idea has been around for a long time.
Alleged criminals.

We have a legal system that determines innocence or guilt. Before that systems assigns one or the other, they are alleged criminals.

We, a civilized people, do not punish alleged criminals, because they are, by definition, not guilty of a crime.
I believe Lambda runs on AWS linux distributions, and 2.7 is the default Python version for those [1].

1. https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2015.03-release-note...
Python 3.4? Really? Why not 3.5!
I guess it means that they are probably known, it is just not public knowledge.
Checking accounts and certain retirement accounts are also insured, and easily retrievable

The issue seems to be the relative lack of use from a separate savings account.
The trend isn't even restricted to the post communist block - one of Tarkovsky's most famous movies (Stalker) is based on this aesthetic.
What I find hilarious is that the most hostile people weren't even born in Seattle. John Criscitello has no right to speak on behalf of native Seattleites.
This is a silly article, who uses savings accounts anymore?
If you need liquid savings, cash is king.

I opened a savings account with my son a few weeks ago. In my day, those accounts paid 3-7%. There was a story of compounding interest to tell. Now, I feel like I'm teaching my kid to be a sucker.
"Choose whatever works for you. Interface Builder can save you so much time building some of the smaller aspects of your app (help/about screens) etc. that it's foolish in my opinion to just "do away" with IB on principle."

To be fair I never said that we were doing away with interface builder on principle. I also said that interface builder was great for smaller teams.

My main critique of interface builder is that it's not a great fit for larger cross functional teams because it makes code review difficult and it's hard to resolve merge conflicts.

These are not problems that the vast majority of app developers face. These are problems that happen on larger cross functional teams.

Their is a reason that neither Facebook, Airbnb, Pinterest nor uber use interface builder.
Instant answers are brilliant, and the community contributions really flesh it out. The text even changes color with the theme. I'm wondering if something like this could be ported to JavaScript and made available in NPM or Bower.
Docker Compose moved to Go a few months ago.
What I found the most useful for my use case are the git submodules documentation[1] and this blog post[2]. Read them and you'll have a basic setup in no time. Some people want to automate everything and have modular configurations depending on the environment. That's just a bit more involved, but not much, and there are plenty of tools to help you with that.

I have just pushed my dotvim folder to github if you want to take a look[3].

[1]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules
[2]: http://blog.smalleycreative.com/tutorials/using-git-and-gith...
[3]: https://github.com/belmarca/dotvim
My gut feeling is that the population of commenters here may exhibit some selection bias. As in, leveling criticism that the article doesn't include "investment vehicles" is a negative may be a valid point in some circles, but as a profile of the general population in the US, is a valid approach. With housing having gone through a giant bubble cycle and rents approaching all-time highs IIRC, there really isn't any extraneous income to invest (well, save) with a large portion of the population. I'll refer to the following chart as relevant to supporting my perspective:

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/im...
I'm curious about that - isn't it also culture-driven (spending habits) or maybe linked to education costs?

For instance in France, where "CD" equivalent (DAT) rates are fairly low as well currently, the saving rate (ratio between what is added to savings monthly, and monthly revenue) is 15.1% in 2014 (source: INSEE [1]).

Also, still in France, people will save /even/ if the interest rate is low.

[1] http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=na...
Actually your comment didn't state they were a net positive, but merely that their absence wouldn't translate to a decrease in crime rates.

It may well be that some paramilitaries are more efficient than others, but their incentives are by definition always stacked against community building, and in favor of adversarial enforcement.
This seems like a great way to hook up a home raspberry pi or other device to the cloud without poking any holes in the firewall. The free tier (250,000 msgs/month) seems like more than enough for a single 'smart home'.
Ithaca, where we don't have the luxury of flatness so everything's hemmed in by the lake and the hills, like a reverse geography San Francisco
The Neomonolith
TiVo Bolt
Hi everyone! I'm one of the members of the team, if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer here :)
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10348533

(But neither has discussion yet)
Think about it. If people who work for NASA wanted to make bank, why would they work for NASA in the first place ? is NASA known as the best place to make bank, if that's your objective in life ? Is it going to become that place, as a result of this ? I understand the concern, but I think it's misplaced
The flow chart makes it clear that there are quite a few different scenarios in which your silence can be used against you in court in the USA too.
So many people live paycheck to paycheck that saving is just this intangible concept that "wealthier" people do. No one they know saves, no one taught them to save growing up, and even if they tried, they probably couldn't. Cost of living has outmatched wage growth; it's a mess.

On the personal responsibility side of it though, I'm willing to bet that over recent decades, another thing that has also inflated is many peoples "minimum standard of living". I've seen people who, for probably very cathartic reasons, will make very poor spending choices on food, electronics, gas guzzling cars and other things instead of plan for items that move their lives forward.

And the sad part is that everyones minimum standard of living SHOULD be going up, we all SHOULD be living better then our previous generation. But the actions of many in the governance tier of our society have chosen otherwise for us.
I can see reasons behind doing this either way.

A good example is in medications. Lots of people go off medication because they feel better. But they feel better because of the medication. So they no longer feel better after they go off it.

Similarly, if all poverty reports in the US included benefits, many conservatives would say: see, we have no more poverty. We can get rid of these programs. But these programs were why we had no-one under the poverty line. We now have poverty again.
You can think of "grit" as meaning mixed wealth. It's desirable because people are more likely to use their wealth pro-socially, rather than buy a new BMW every other year, if they don't live in an enclave isolated from the economic struggles of the rest of society.
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Infrastructure as Code at Simple
Docker and Kubernetes turn cloud providers into a commodity - which is why Amazon is not keen on promoting them more than is required to satisfy market demand.

If you are the market leader, lock in is your strategy; Hence the launch of so many new AWS services.

Google's play with Kubernetes is to reduce the dependency on proprietary cloud features. They are betting they can deliver better/faster/cheaper cloud services when compared to AWS. It should be interesting to watch, and great for us consumers of cloud services.
Note that one of the photos presented is from West Berlin, Germany, and of the former NSA Echelon listening station:

"Teufelsberg Spy Station, Germany. ... in Soviet Ghosts" ?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teufelsberg

"The US National Security Agency (NSA) built one of its largest listening stations atop the hill, rumored to be part of the global ECHELON intelligence gathering network. "The Hill", as it was known colloquially by the many American soldiers who worked there around the clock and who commuted there from their quarters in the American Sector, was located in the British Sector. In July 1961, Mobile Allied listening units began operations on Teufelsberg,[4][7] having surveyed various other locales throughout West Berlin in a search for the best vantage point for listening to Soviet, East German, and other Warsaw Pact nations military traffic."

"In the 1990s, as Berlin experienced an economic boom after German reunification, a group of investors bought the former listening station area from the City of Berlin with the intention to build hotels and apartments." (for less than 3 million USD(!) - Ed.) "There was talk of preserving the listening station as a spy museum. Berlin's building boom produced a glut of buildings, however, and the Teufelsberg project became unprofitable. As of the early 2000s, there has been talk of the city buying back the hill. However, this is unlikely, as the area is encumbered with a mortgage of nearly 50 million dollars."
See Intel Programmer's manual (vol 3a iirc) about pause, monitor and mwait. Not sure about ARM, that architecture has different rules of cache coherence and no hyperthreading and you need to add explicit memory barriers.
also, MQTT has a "retain" flag that lets a publish linger on a topic to be read later, even when the publisher has gone offline. Seems like "shadows" is a fancy name for what MQTT already gives you.
I wonder if anyone has implemented a benchmarking library for at least the trivial/used operations between AWS/GCE/Azure ?
Does not make sense. As someone who grew up in poverty in India which is also home to 17% of world population the poverty has reduced substantially over last 20 years post economic reforms.

There is no possible way I could think of how poverty could have increased. If we just look at China an India which is home to 33% of world population extreme poverty is down by 50% in whatever way you measure it.
Previous discussions:

[differences page]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10345728 (170 points, 1 day ago, 120 comments)

[main page] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10331008 (114 points, 3 days ago, 100 comments)
Does Bing output good results for Greek queries? DDG had drawn from Bing in the past.
But if they're public domain, the are free as in speech. You can modify the images any way you like and then do whatever with the result.
Yep, it's still pretty unreadable in my opinion.
What you are asserting is that governments have 'political authority'; the only problem with that is that very few philosophers actually agree with that (despite a great deal of work attempting to justify political authority).[1][2][3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Political_Autho...

[2] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/authority/#ReaConConLegPol...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_anarchism
"This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason," Horn said

Except when obviously true, companies that make public statements like this will have difficulty recruiting the best engineers.
How does not including other vehicles help give an accurate picture of "savings"?
What will robocars actually be like?
What's your opinion of how Dallas turned out? There's a whacking great set of huge rings around the city center that are extremely suburban, but a lot of dense "file cabinets for hipsters" closer to downtown, and a fairly functional light rail system.
Funding Makerspaces Using FCC Spectrum Auction Revenues
Metacomment: Great example of how to turn a cheap Google Consumer Survey into a blog post that gets a bunch of traction.
P.S. : This sort of argument would not go well on HN.

But you are right. Poverty is an accounting trick for everyone depending on how it suites those who are calculating it. In reality it is a hard thing to measure. But even the back of the envelope calculations would show that Poverty is substantially lower in India, China and many other countries which are known to be very poor.
this is both a long term and short term solution. The issue is that far too many of the poor are in countries with little or no respect of private property rights. These people stay poor because they and their property is not protected.

nothing you give them will mean anything when someone else can simply take it because of their position of power. we see this everyday, aid goes to the powerful except for a few select media staged events.

all comes back to the rule of law, not the rule of man.
They don't pretty much everywhere else in the developed world.
Isn't one of the drivers of this something to do with it being a path to work in the US after they (non-resident) get a degree?

I could be wrong, but I don't think a PhD is as attractive to people who are already residents. (Generally poor ROI, lack of job prospects, etc.)
And then there's vagrant. I switched back to MS because C# and profit, all other dev is on vagrant boxes which actually made things easier as I tend to be more comfortable with that what I push will work as I have the same *nix setup on my 127.0.01 as on remote.
Ah that surprises me!

I had very similar experiences to this reviewer as did my gf.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3VDcUP60sE

I took her to the store to try some laptops before buying one as she'd been asking me to help with the buying decision. First stop, the UX305, had been reading great things, looked awesome and great specs for money (256gb SSD, 8gb RAM at $700 in a laptop that's thinner, lighter and smaller than a MBA yet has a 13' screen and a full HD (higher resolution than the MBA) screen while looking beautiful with a CPU that can handle most things a typical MBA user does? Talk about MBA killer! I mean hell right now this thing's on Newegg for $680, minus another $100 rebate, that's just ridiculous) so I'd been recommending it to her for days.

But the trackpad and to a lesser extent the keyboard immediately turned her off. I didn't mind the keyboard much but coming from the MBP I really wasn't feeling the trackpad, perhaps it's as you say 'what you get used to', but I'd used Windows laptops for 5-6 years, never really liked the experience and was very much a desktop guy, but the MBP really changed that. I still keep it docked most of the time but I don't dislike this specific trackpad anymore (although I do still prefer a mouse). So the Windows trackpad I was used to I really didn't like, and was fine using the MBP's trackpad once I got it. Anyway despite me urging her to reconsider the UX305 and Dell XPS 13 she eventually chose the MBA in large part over that, which is still a really solid machine if you can look past the ridiculous resolution which to my complete surprise she was unable to notice after I pointed it out to her in the store a couple times.

I've seen several 'fixes' to the UX305's trackpad by the way, like on Windows 10 there's a driver issue you can resolve and you can find how-tos on youtube to do this yourself. Perhaps in the store when we tried out the UX305 they hadn't implemented all the right drivers because I faintly recall thinking of the trackpad issues at the time 'this stuff must be fixable with some drivers'.
http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/size_of_the_git_sha1_collision_... has some discussion of colliding tree objects.
Great points honestly. The early stages of writing any sort of article/book are very frustrating and filled with "do overs". I have written a few dozen articles on various technical topics for publications and my rough drafts always look this way.

I hope those who read this won't be discouraged though. Recently, a co-worker of mine who is quite shy and not one to speak up, decided he was going to write an article and submit a proposal to a local conference to speak. He went through this same frustrating stage, like most writers do, but he pushed through and succeeded, receiving rave reviews on the final output of both the article and the conference talk. I think the time and effort made him better as well as bettered the community. I wish more people would do that in this industry!
They will blame some small man to avoid prosecution of higher staff. I bet this was done off the records - so the Software Engineer manager have no proof this was ordered or suggested by upper management. At worst they will get 1-2 engineers arrested while they will move quietly to other companies that will be willing to use their experience and connections.
That article is highlighting deeply misleading facts. For example: "between 1990 and 2010 there was an increase of 371 million people living on less than $5 a day". But during the same time period, the world added 1.6 billion people, and even using your source's own data, that implies that the fraction of people living on less than $5 a day dropped from 75% to 60%.

In short, the claim that poverty is getting worse is utter bullshit. It requires either climate-change-denialist levels of willful ignorance, or a xenophobic definition of "poverty" that only counts people living in your own much-richer-than-global-average country.
Does not matter. The people at top are responsible.
Why not move your savings account to a different bank? If you are in the US, Discover or Ally banks offer nearly 1% APY. $100K would yield $1K per year.
Agreed, if it is less than 9 in the "real world" I'll be pretty disappointed. The thing that makes iPads work for me is that they save a lot of power when they are asleep, and they come back instantly when they are woken up (very phone like in that regard). If Microsoft has given W10 that ability on their Surface hardware it could do the trick for me. (the only time I go 8 - 9 hours straight on battery is when I'm travelling)