skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much of this is driven by the the stories of dystopian futures mostly coming out of the West during the Cold War? The Soviet architecture for the most part had been portrayed as brutal and without feeling, similar to the huge Nazi works of WW2. Yet there is a lot of beautiful construction in these areas, we just couldn't relate to the lifestyles portrayed of those who lived there.
Sputnik and RT are the same animal, Kremlin propaganda pushers of the 21st century.
For a while, Seattle has been a second tier tech city. Some of us wish it would stay that way (affordable). While rents are on the rise, it's still a far cry from being as ridiculously expensive as SF.
Seems to have a reasonably prolific history of academic publications, but suddenly ceased in 1995: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Mercer:Robert_L=
https://thehackerblog.com/awsfishing/
ECB Chief Economist: Ok, Euro Does Not Work
I'd suggest to do this year +10 and set the input to the current year. That should cover pretty much anyone.
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Ya, some of us even grew up poor! I know I don't speak for all engineers (and we still could do better about this) but when I was in high school the easiest route to money for college was STEM scholarships and gov't funding for STEM degrees. That's what got me a CS degree.
Mechanical Turk?
Kinesis time series analytics coming next year.
Proposed Principles for Content Blocking
As a point of comparison, the Dedibox Extreme SP launched in 2013 and has 1TB of RAM and costs €1899.99/month.

http://documentation.online.net/en/serveur-dedie/offres/serv...
Warning, this story is a tad graphic.

I had a friend, a very big guy, who kept a few hundred AOL CDs in the trunk of his car. He would put one in his pocket when he went to friend's houses. When he used the bathroom, his poop was often too big to go down the toilet so he would use the CDs to cut up the poop first.

True story.
Plenty of research has found a strong correlation between the amount of guns in an area and its gun homicide rate

This is of course a tautology. If you were to magically remove that tool, do you really think Americans would become more peaceful???

As for your other numbers, no one denies we're the top in per-capita civilian gun ownership. Good laws + wealth lets us swamp Serbia and Yemen, after which comes ... Switzerland. Known extremely violent country (well, they were notorious so back in the days of pike bearing infantry).

Not sure the U.K. is that useful, they've been suppressing civilian gun ownership for a century, and they're on a small island.

"Perhaps the single most supported contention in all of gun research is that more guns mean more gun deaths."

I'm sure there's a Clint Eastwood quote about it mattering who gets shot. More to the point, to the extent criminals are killed by civilians, what's the general problem?
Cool for AWS. I still like Digital Ocean better.
What, so like, "as an early thirty-something who just found out you're about to become a father, you may enjoy films X, Y, Z"? To really get people's life chapters and such you'd have to have massive metadata about them beyond the scope of a video service. Google/FB could do it, though.
New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto
AWS re:Invent[0] is taking place this week, so there are a lot of news and announcements.

[0] https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
My take on the East Side (coming from a Seattle POV) is the perception is that it's full of well off NIMBYs who work for Microsoft and that the area never had any culture to lose. Amazon's move into the city has changed things that were there for decades. I'm new to Seattle though so technically part of the "problem".
Currently on a Lenovo Yoga, being the cheapest range with a decent keyboard. However, it's a holdover machine. The longer term plan is to buy something designed for Windows 10, probably next year. (Windows 10 isn't finished and the hardware isn't here yet.) So, at this stage, I don't know.

Re Bing apps, they were created to get some stylish-looking apps into the Windows Store, to get Windows 8 users used to apps, and to provide examples to third-party developers. I expect them to be installed on demand, and a couple of them are already scheduled to be discontinued. They're really not worth obsessing over.
When chroot() started to confine processes inside the new root
choco install gow
AWS re:Invent is happening right now which is their big announcement of all sorts of goodies.
It'll be nice, I'm in the middle of building a 14 node HANA cluster, and it would be much easier to just have it all on AWS provided I get the same performance.

edit: let alone the fact I could take it down when not in use. That's a ridiculously cool thought. the price of this thing all together is insane.
I just wish there was a good competitor that bundled the other services like they do.
I wasn't hitchhiking. I did look into getting a bike and, in fact, bought a skate board at some point. It didn't pan out that way. Those details are not at all relevant to my point. The point is that even if you choose to live without a car and are willing to use public transit, the system can be so broken as to be functionally useless to you. Even saying "Well, you should have gotten a bike." as some kind of completely unnecessary personal criticism of me lefthandedly acknowledges that the bus system was functionally useless to me. So, build a better system and you may see ridership go up.
While its not official, its really their only option. They'll be unable to meet diesel emissions standards, and gasoline engines have their own shortcomings. Looks like Tesla has another battery customer.
This guy is living (and writing) in an academic fantasy land.

If a person has enough resources to provide for the satisfaction of his needs and his interests, his resources are then entirely adequate; their adequacy does not depend in addition on the magnitude of the resources other people possess.

The same goes for rights, for respect, for consideration, and for concern. Every person is entitled to these things by virtue of what he is and what he has done. The extent of his entitlement to them does not depend on whether or not other people are entitled to them as well.

Wrong. Unless you live in complete isolation and make your living as a subsistence farmer, you must take into account your relationship with and relative standing within society when calculating overall happiness and utility.
midipix is making steady progress and will provide a true Unix experience for Windows http://midipix.org/#sec-roadmap
Yes, however the numbers are still amazing.
Ha ha ha talk about trying too hard for a story.

I love the beauty in the ruins in Detroit and the USSR and the Urban Exploration photos from all over.

Russia or rather the USSR made lots of fantastic BIG buildings and because they were part of the planned economy they weren't actually required. So you have big buildings turning into ruins like nowhere else on earth. You might as well talk about the exploitation of pictures of penguins. They are unique and fantastic (the Soviet buildints not the penguins) and so worthy of photography .
Which unix features/commands/tools do you think you need/essential for you development that you do not think are available on windows?
Not "his hack." His alleged hack.

From the fine article: "Let’s be clear: I never passed a username or password to Anonymous," he said.
Microsoft Developer Division Chief Somasegar to leave after 27 years
Reactive Programming with OrientDB
I've tried and failed to get my house excluded from their distribution. They hire a bunch of low wage people to just toss one on the lawn/porch of every house, and don't seem to pay any attention to the houses that have asked to not get one.

This irks me because, when I travel on business, having one of these sitting on my porch is a nice indication that I haven't been home all week, so please rob me. You can stop your mail, set up light timers, etc, but just try keeping the yellow pages away.

Sigh,
That's actually the opposite direction of where they're moving. yp.com has little, if any, relation to the print business.
It's certainly easier to launch a droplet on Digital Ocean but Security Groups and VPCs save so much time for just about any application I've ever put in production. I badly want Digital Ocean to have a service similar to Security Groups and VPCs so I don't have to munge my Ansible scripts to setup iptables rules and PKI for encryption between droplets.
Patron-style donations have a very interesting history in American politics and its a true shame that a journalist didn't take the time to recount some of that history instead of going for clickbait. I guess I can understand some of it, since patron-style donations are often done as a counter to the power and money of newspapers and later TV.
I know python and Django very well which should be similar enough.
He's been convicted. And the evidence was not "he-said she-said". They've got his home IP address on some of the IRC chats, among other things.

I think we're past genuflecting "allegedlies".
Because you can get a nice house with almost 2000 sq. ft. in Texas for under $300k [0]. We're not talking about somewhere out in the country or in some distant exurb, either: I'm talking about housing prices I just looked up in a nice neighborhood within the City of Dallas. It's a safe neighborhood with good schools (speaking from personal experience: I grew up in that exact neighborhood).

Also, I currently rent a 1500 sq. ft. townhouse in Dallas for $1220/month. There's no way I'd be able to get anything nearly that nice in the Bay Area.

[0] http://www.dallasrealestate-homes.com/Dallas%20Subdivisions/...
Deciphering DevOps
It's because the AWS re:Invent event is on at the moment so there's lots of announcements.
Makerbot fires 20% of their staff
I plan on adding it today and will send it to any users who signed up before it was posted. I know how important it is so it's my top priority to finish by end of day.
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Network evidence put together by who?
53 MP that barely makes ok pictures at 2 MP after all the computation
Most articles that mention climate change rarely discuss alternative hypotheses for what we observe.
"now that the third world has been ravaged so much" -- have you actually read the article?
The Antifragile PaaS
Absolutely - one business I work with is essentially paying YP $900 a month to run a $300 a month AdWords campaign. They throw in a bunch of other "premium YP listing" but analytics shows no more than 12 referrals from YellowPages.
It's best to go by sales price rather than asking price, since very low pricing to start bidding wars is a common real estate strategy in the bay area.

I went to zillow and looked up actual sales prices for condos/townhouses in mountain view for the last six months, with more than 1,250 square feet of living space.

From my search of actual sales prices rather than listing prices, the cost of a 1,250+ sq ft condo in Mountain View ranges from $910,000 to $1.08 million.
I've radically changed the title because the one supplied makes a different impression than a rational person would extract from the article. Feel free to change it to the original one ("MakerBot Reorganizes to Adapt to Market Dynamics and Prepare for the Future"), it is imo not covering the most important aspect of the article.
Yeah, I run HANA nodes on AWS, but they are all the small variety. This release will allow the real stuff to run on it, super excited.
62% of Americans Have Under $1,000 in Savings, Survey Finds
"When seconds count, the police are minutes away."

No thanks. Try to take my right of effective self-defense away (as the U.K. started doing in the '50s) and you won't like the consequences.
what's a "qualitative metric"?
Just a suggestion...

If you are going to have a big list of icons the first thing that comes to mind is "Click on one". Analysis of programming language(s) used isn't hard given its built into the GitHub api:

https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-languages

So if you allowed an "import Github Repo option" then linked those icons to the "examples/repositories/snippets" in those languages that would help.

You already seem to be able to designate icons-per-project/snippet so you shouldn't need to add much beyond a hyperlink on the icon that scrolls to the first appropriate projects and/or allows the user to designate the project to scroll to.

I'd say have a page listing the relevant projects as well by technology [e.g. A "Would you like to know more...?"] but I'm not sure that should be the default behavior.

Similarly, I'd encourage/enforce linking to test suite(s) and/or documentation as a requirement to list anything larger than a snippet. That might be a bit too opinionated but I think it encourages "new" developers to get into the right practice of having some sort of documentation [even if it is just a test suite].
In a just world that would be considering littering, but somehow they get away with it.
>The concept explains that intricate legal developments are used as a substitute to a military occupation...Critics have argued that such initiatives actively undermine the sovereignty of governments

The very idea of the UN and treaties by nature undermine the sovereignty of governments, and that is obviously not an inherently evil thing. Yes there will always be criticisms when balancing the creation of an international legal framework that supports a stable international community at the cost of relinquishing sovereignty. However, I assure anyone that as deplorable as one might find US "lawfare" (if you buy into this argument) against Snowden or Kim Dotcom, that the US political actions are far better than military operations such as Russia into Georgia, and I am left wondering why SputnikNews seems to be suggesting that use of armed force (military) is a more legitimate way of expanding international influence than through international organization and bi-lateral treaties...why advocate for military protection of territory over diplomatic means, are we that far removed from WW2 we simply forget the consequences of might is right?
That might be an apt description of 3rd tier clickbait 'yellowpages' sites. But the more prominent ones spend large sums of money buying and aggregating data feeds.
But we're certainly not in the same category as those who inherit wealth.

Ahhh... it's the old, I'm not rich! The rich are people that make more than me!

By that definition, almost nobody is rich.
Other societies that have banned most gun use do not have nearly as many guns around nor do they have as many gun deaths.

Drugs, not so much. Your analogy completely fails.
people always complain about change! especially old people!
Financial damages, have him actually pay for (possibly a set percentage of) them instead of spending money to keep someone away from work to inflict the same damage on him.
Yeah, he seemed to have stopped around the time he started working at the hedge fund and what little was published after 1993 might have been started before he worked there.
Both Azure and GCE are competitors, both have pretty feature rich clouds. They may not have feature parity but I'm guessing what they do have fits 70-80% of peoples needs (Compute, Database, Storage, DNS, Load Balancing).
Very excited for BRIN indexes!
> To me it is another example of something that may benefit a project that has 500 million daily users , that is useless for 99% of projects out there, yet is advertised as a silver bullet that will make a poorly optimized app magically scale.

Do you have some concrete examples where we've done that? We're trying hard in our communication to be honest about the trade-offs that are made.
At the moment, in the UK, they only sell 3 electric models.

e-Golf. A normal, boring Golf with an ~90 mile range.

e-Up. A small and cheap e-Car. Again an ~80 mile range.

GTI-e. A weird sort of hybrid. Sporty, but can only do 20 miles on electric - the rest is petrol

It's a good start, but they're behind Tesla, Nissan, Toyota, and BMW in terms of mind-share around electric vehicles. Their in-car technology was (from what I saw) fairly basic compared to the competition as well.

This scandal could be absolutely catastrophic for their ICE brand. Having a strong electric presence can't hurt.
Don’t Drink Another Drop of Water Until You See This
Sci-Fi UI Y86 CPU Simulator with JavaScript
AWS IoT Beta
Notably, assuming the linked PDF report of the survey is correct, when asking the question they appear to not have given any supplemental information such as a definition of extreme poverty. Which means the only thing the survey is good for is measuring peoples perception of what will likely be a very nebulous concept for most of them (e.g. I have no idea how much essentials you could get for $1.9 a day if you were actually forced to be cautious)
Good description but I would categorize it as "Seattle" vs "East Side", when people say "West Side" I tend to think of West Seattle down through Burien.
"...do you really think Americans would become more peaceful???"

No, but they would probably become less deadly.

(But, without a gun, people might not be so emboldened as to physically attack someone at close range. Violence might go down.)

Around the time of one of the mass shootings in the past 5 years, my conservative relatives were posting on facebook a story about a mass-stabbing. They asked rhetorically, "Why aren't we calling for a ban on knives?" Well, the question sort of answered itself-- no one had died from the attacks.
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I would say that depends largely on the project. Some projects are purposefully trying to appropriate ideas from the tech world (development lifecycle practices, etc.) but others are pretty firm in holding on to more traditional gov't ways of operating. Flight projects in particular have not changed very dramatically, and that is probably not a bad thing.

My least favorite part about the traditional ways are that they tend to be very poor at estimating FTE/WYE needs for a body of work, and will more often than not err towards over-estimation. This ends up necessitating the creating of busy-work to make use of all assigned personnel. Mostly by adding extra checks and documentation that many would agree are not very beneficial.

It's hard to be lean when you're given 15 more people than you actually need, basically.
Out of curiosity, where have you lived after you left Seattle, and how did you like those places? I've been to a few places and liked Seattle a lot :)
I'm not questioning their intelligence just their approach.

well-respected development organizations are made up of smart people
that know what they are doing

Well, that was the thought about the financial industry, FCC, S&P etc before 2007.
Whoa wait. The top 1% makes >$400K/yr. You're saying you can't afford a $700K condo on a $150K+/yr programmer salary?

How comes it's always the "other guy" that's the problem?
You won't get both the front and the back of the table in focus, but given how far back you'd have to sit to get all three people in frame, you'd probably be able to get all three people in focus, especially if the guy in the back leans in a little. Also, I mentioned Canon because their high ISO modes are particularly low noise these days, even before noise reduction. And Nikon might have caught up as well, I haven't reviewed lately.

But that's actually not the most important part.

The most important part is that there are only two cameras in my life: my "good" camera and my smartphone, aka the camera I use when I know I'm going to be taking photos, and the camera I have on me all the time.

Since this image is probably boosted and noise reduced and photoshopped to make it the most presentable representation of the product, I really think the same amount of effort would get you better results, for less money, out of a DSLR. If you're into spending money, the right DSLR and lens combo would get you far, far better results.

On the other hand, yes, DSLRs are bulky and you don't want to carry them everywhere. But the Light is not a smartphone, so it's yet another device to have to remember and carry around, so while it's smaller, I'm still likely to leave it home because I just don't think to bring cameras with me everywhere. I've got an older smartphone (Galaxy Note 3) that can take photos pretty near this quality in its fakey HDR mode. I've seen some shots out of the newest iPhone that very much rival this sort of photo. And that iPhone is cheaper than the Light, plus it's not an extra device.
Wifi is not too slow for RAWs. I backed-up my entire library to the cloud over wifi. I would bet most people don't need to transfer their files on a fast enough timescale that wifi is too slow for them.
Good point made by a sketchy guy. :/
This is really much needed (if they did it right). The container registry @ docker is terribly broken and the user experience is frustrating. I ended up using Git repositories + building on server because it was "so unusable".

Hopefully, this changes things.
Hi. I just now learned about MUBI, through this HN post. First and foremost, it looks great, and I will almost definitely be signing up tonight when I get home.

Here's my gripe ... am I doing something wrong, or do I have to create an account just to find out the subscription prices? If it's not just my user-stupidity, don't make me register just to see the prices.
A two-qubit logic gate in silicon
Instead of arguing where something is posted, it's better to concentrate arguments at things that matter. PG has an excellent hierarchy on where to concentrate disagreements [0].

And don't forget, BBC is also funded by a government. So is Canadian CBC. CNN also gets a lot of gov contracts and gov crossover.

And just recently, it was revealed that even 60 Minutes is engaging in propaganda on behalf of State Department [1].

Propaganda is truly everywhere now.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

[1] https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/649628016268734464
http://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(15)01191-5.pdf
To which I'd add that the reason why Big-O notation is significant is that software is subject to physical constraints. There are physical limits on how fast you can write bits to memory or fetch data from a network. An exponential-time algorithm may look like a beautiful work of art on the screen, but you'll never scale it up. An artist, on the other hand, can paint anything on their canvas that they want, and it doesn't have to conform to physical reality - it's as easy to paint a flying purple unicorn as it is to paint a horse.

A software developer who doesn't understand the fundamental limitations of their hardware and software is like an engineer building a bridge who doesn't know the equations for computing the amount of steel needed to hold the bridge up. Sure, they can build a bridge that looks nice, but you wouldn't want to drive your car over it. This developer may be able to write beautiful code, but if their server takes five seconds to respond, nobody will use their creation (or they'll have to pay for ten times the server hardware to get the same job done), and the game is over.

Software development does have elements of art in it, but it's primarily engineering. The art in software is like the art in designing a nice-looking car, whose primary purpose is to safely get from one place to the other, and whose looks shouldn't get in the way of its handling or fuel efficiency.
Other societies that have banned most gun use do not have nearly as many guns around nor do they have as many gun deaths.

Well, that's in part because once you've disarmed the populace, you don't need guns to slaughter them wholesale. Well over a 100 million previously disarmed people in the 20th Century, a fate US civilians are quite determined to avoid.

I agree drugs are different, but if the will exists, guns and ammo are a lot more compact.
Hmmmm.... it looks like the rich are supporting Democrats more than Republicans....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/31/democrats-wealth_n_...