skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? Networked I/O at 1M random iops for $500/month? I feel like at least one of these numbers is off. Can you detail your setup a bit more? How many machines or drives are you striped across and how much of your 10gige link are you assuming you can dedicate to this?

(I'm genuinely curious but I feel like there's a missing upfront cost that's not being included here)
> So, if I may, get off your fucking high horse.

You asked why the down-votes, but clearly didn't parse what I wrote.

I made no statements as to the efficacy of your proposed remedy, just that the problem is giving medical advice is dangerous, even if the substance is ultimately harmless (or even beneficial!).

There's nothing wrong with pursuing your own treatments, and I'm glad you've found things that work for you. I don't wish RSI on anyone.

It is, however, extremely wrong to give medical advice to strangers based on a single comment on an internet forum. You know virtually nothing about the individual, their symptoms or really anything at all about the specifics of the situation at hand.

Experts will want to know more about the specifics before providing advice. Fools tread where angels fear to go.

I'm sure you're in an expert in something. Whatever it is, think about the people who think they're experts in that from reading a wikipedia or newspaper article. Or heck, the newbies just starting out learning about that something. They are almost always so confident that they know the answer and share it with everyone around them. That confidence can be endearing and usually nothing horrible in consequences.

Not in the case of people's health. Consequences are too severe.
You seem to be assuming that derivative work doesn't require hard work of its own. I tried to make the point that this game is itself a derivative of other things, without which it couldn't exist.

Even if you did do that: why would anyone buy it in lieu of the original?
Automation does not create profit, it reduces prices!!!!*

*In markets ones with at least some competition

Also, its important to note that even the machine owners wont make profits in a competitive market.
Can you let powers be know that Google Cloud Storage is expensive compared to Cloudfront & S3 :)

Cloud Storage considers retrieving an object through its HTTP url is considered a class B XML request type which is priced at $0.01/10,000 ops. This is 1.3x-2.5x more expensive than cloudfront and s3 respectively. I think this is the only google cloud service which is more expensive than the AWS equivalent
The board of directors are usually all highly paid execs. Like votes like. Also to get a CEO to change jobs or even promote (from another company), they have to offer an attractive package. Then stocks are a force multiplier.
pg has said on several occasions that downvoting for disagreement is OK.

Personally, I use it not for mere disagreement, but for "I want HN to have less comments like this" -- things like gratuitous errors, gratuitous negativity, unneeded incivility, empty comments like "I agree", and especially comments that just repeat talking points without adding any original thought or substance.
Well, it's testimony to a lawmaking body. Congress drafts laws, not technical standards; the FBI is there to talk about laws. :)

If you keep reading, you'll see the FBI is not demanding new encryption-related laws "at this time."
This is an important point. If you have a system that processes billions of inputs a day along a fairly complex pipeline, you're constantly scaling up and down. It would suck pretty bad if you had to scale mostly vertically.
Why not? It's your work. You can't really be competing with Nintendo, because they can't create that same picture, because they don't employ you. Also you are extremely unlikely to be making a material impact on the bottom line of a multi-billion-dollar international media company.

Also, this is a thing many people already do, so I'm really advocating that it's fine for them to continue doing it.
More context: PHP 5.2 is an old and slow baseline - improvements of roughly the same magnitude have happened with PHP.net's PHP over the same time frame.
>UBI is far from libertarianism

Many libertarians are in favor of UBI. Including this poster.
Sorry, didn't see this earlier. We've changed the title from "Help Kairos to trend :)".

Rodrigos, if you want to repost your submission with the same title, that'd be ok. Please don't use baity titles on HN.
I found it disturbing for another reason too: the outright attack on the uniqueness and value of individual thought.

Yes, several people invented light bulbs. When something is a good idea many people will see that and produce variations on it. But that doesn't mean you can factor out initiative and individual genius. It just means that lots of people possess those virtues and that sometimes great minds do think alike.

The author of this piece seems to want to abstract us all into a giant seething heap of flesh whose writhing produces some kind of inexorable motion like the way molecules banging around produce pressure from a confined gas. I don't think it follows.

Elsewhere someone wrote that this seems to be a British political hit piece on science funding. Figures.
Hm,I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand it is nice of them to give some of the money back to the projects they are building on, but on the other hand this can wreak havoc on them. People there didn't do it for money... Wut mobey in the mix, some might get greedy, some might feel left out, and some might just lose interest because now it's just another job and that's bot what they were looking for. So, careful here, Mozilla.
> They've shown a propensity for terminating projects when they no longer feel like supporting them.

The only companies that don't terminate projects when it it no longer serves a strategic business purpose to support them are companies that instead terminate the projects because they go out of business.

Google is, if anything, unusually good at providing warning and a migration path off a product when they decide to terminate it.
There was a great discussion about users wanting a revival of Persona in another thread yesterday I believe (maybe that is why you brought it up?) so it seems you are not alone.

Maybe you should suggest it on the mailing list, as I don't think Mitchell reads HN.
I remember someones comment that the people under the CEO, vice presidents etc, matter a lot more than is assumed. Especially since often CEO's get fired or quit fairly often. So it's the upper tier of management that provides longer term stability. (And those guys have an interest in keeping the CEO from wrecking things)
For some reason I always thought that Bugzilla (maybe due to the name) was a product of Mozilla.

I also expected PDF.js to be a Mozilla product, I'm fairly sure it was developed by Mozilla employees to handle PDF's in Firefox, but I could be wrong.

So I was surprised to see them listed as potential receivers of this new grant.
I agree with you. I think that a wifi in the same room to test the apps could be better aproach.

The tower can not be accurate for this.
There are plenty of examples at this point. A few I can think of off the top of my head -

TwitPic relied on it and operated as basically a one or few person shop the entire time. At the peak, before Twitter came up with their own solution, it was a relatively large service.

Instagram, Imgur, and Reddit all had/have (Instagram of course moved to FB) small teams operating at vast scale with the help of AWS.

Slack has probably benefited a lot from leaning on AWS for scaling purposes, given their rapid growth. I'd place a bet that they have managed to achieve their scale with a relatively small team managing their infrastructure.
I'm not saying what you think I am saying. The thread was about how the cloud is immensely profitable, and I'm saying that a good chunk of that is built on waste and monetization of programmers' naive tendencies to overcomplicate problems.

I am not arguing that there are no great use cases for these systems. But I would be willing to bet that those are less than half the total load.

It's like big trucks. How many people who drive big trucks actually need big trucks? Personally I like my company's Prius of an infrastructure. :) And of course we've architected it so it can be a fleet or an armada of Priuses if need be, with maybe just a bit of work but if we get there I will be happy to have that problem.
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Does lightgrep return which one(s) of the millions of patterns has matched the input?
for context, look at the range of one of their food sources, the sardine: http://www.chefs-resources.com/files/Sardines-Sprat-Pilchard...

This greatly restricts their over-all range.

To contrast dolphins, there are huge swaths of the land mass of the world with almost no human population, and we seem to gather in certain spots for certain reasons, most life does this, so it's not just a matter of the total volume of the ocean vs the entire population of dolphins.
Many people wouldn't consider the UBI to be enough to sustain their lifestyles so they'd continue to work

No they wouldn't. They'd vote for an increase in UBI.
> You're not adding anything of your own, you're just profiting off of someone else's stuff.

> Putting someone else's pictures given meaning by a game they created onto a button and selling it is not a "new" work.

> you can't sell other people's art and taking all the money for yourself

I think you've missed something fundamental. He's not arguing for taking existing images and putting them on buttons etc. He's arguing for drawing new art featuring characters from another work and the same person selling that art on merchandise.
If you want to try out a new technique to train for habits, check out this site by BJ Fogg @ Stanford University:

http://tinyhabits.com/

The method trains you to add a new habit to your life by doing a tiny habit every day, anchored to an already existing habit. For example, "Before I visit Hacker News, I will drop down and do TWO pushups." Eventually, you can grow your new habit to make it a bigger part of your life.
The usual justification for this is that it's simpler, and reduces additional incentives to cheat the system and additional overhead. We currently have a means already in place to claim a portion of an individual's income, through taxes. More-traditional means-tested welfare systems have additional overhead of a second system trying to investigate your income to determine how the government chooses to interfere in your finances. The proposed intuition is that you get a simpler system with less overhead by just giving out a flat UBI payment, and also claiming some amount of that back via taxes that people already file, rather than employing an army of people to investigate your income every month before deciding how much to give out.

I'm not entirely certain that I've actually answered the question you intended to ask. If I'm way off the mark, could you try rephrasing a bit?
"Yes, hello, Nintendo? Let's talk business. I'm a starving artist and I want to sell some Pikachu buttons."
Technically we don't support running the Avian VM on Android, although it should work with minimal porting. However, we support using the VM with any of three class libraries: Android's, OpenJDK's, or Avian's. So, ironically, you can use Android's class library with Avian on every platform you listed except Android :)

If there's interest in porting Avian on Android, we could do it, but since it already has Dalvik/ART, I'm not sure there's much of a point.
I don't think the fact they are a multi-billion dollar company has any bearing. If it does - where do you draw the line? Is it always okay regardless of the income of the original creator?

It gets stickier when you dive into other types of derivative work. Let's say you write a book and I translate it to Spanish. It's my translation of your story. Based on your framework, is it okay to sell at conferences in paperback form? If not, how is it any different than drawing a character I created and selling it on buttons?
Number one, you need a growing market to have outstanding performance, either you are creating one out of another one or hitching a ride. Doesn't matter who is running it.

After that though I think CEO has an incredible impact on the business. They set the vision and culture and hire the leaders. If CEOs were just chance, there wouldn't be so many companies with transition issues.
US GDP has risen by more than 5 trillion since the year 2000 driven mostly by productivity improvements from tech. So we could already be doing it if we wanted to.
The ProLiant micro servers are pretty good for a home / small office environment.

Also, we have three managed 24/48 port switches at work that have not given me any grief.

(We also have an EliteBook 17" notebook that for its price of ~ €1700 should totally kick ass but instead seems to be the slowest notebook in the entire company. All in all, HP notebooks seem to be more trouble than their counterparts from, say, Lenovo or Dell.)
One potential source of a mega-tsunami in the future is Cumbre Vieja, a volcano in the Canary Islands that has an unstable side. [0]

This "fact" is actually in dispute and is somewhat controversial.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja#Future_threats
Hurt So Good
You can always choose to decline.
Yes, inspired by yesterday's discussion. Is the mailing list for general chiming in, or proper proposals? The proposals need proper thought and a Mozilla champion (Dan, maybe?), so I wouldn't want to noise it up with pleas. :-)
The list is on the wiki and everyone was encouraged to add stuff without a whole lot of guidance as to what in particular qualifies, so take that list with a grain of salt.

For the record, Bugzilla and PDF.js are both Mozilla projects.
Having the project maintaining its own compiler infrastructure is a separate issue from having it the same package as the base system. The latter is just that, a packaging issue. At least to me, installing a system without the compiler makes sense in many cases. Not only reduced disk space, but also less binaries and thus a smaller attack surface for local privilege escalation and other nastiness.
Apple's EULA Gives It License to Invade Your Privacy, Government Claims
There was a much more recent, bigger one in Alaska:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10441002.
Don't want to generalize, but this could be a form of OCD (which is very misunderstood and comes in all shapes and sizes). Your brain is lying to you. Channeling Yoda here but you have to be mindful of your thoughts :) What's worked for me is to label thoughts like that "that's an OCD thought" takes a while but eventually the thought won't trigger the hamster wheel. http://hope4ocd.com/foursteps.php
thanks for posting - this is helpful to me
Inside secretive Seattle company’s bid to unseat Craigslist
How would segregated accounts help? Square's 0.1% loss rate would never be grounds for a shut down. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
I Want to Scale Stateful Containers Too
As dkharrat pointed out, you can use the Avian VM with the OpenJDK class library instead of the much more limited default library. However, there's no support for JVMTI, and not everything in the OpenJDK library will work with every combination of platforms and build options.
Can I import a US Topo map into my geographic information system (GIS)? http://www.usgs.gov/faq/categories/9797/3590
On the contrary: the issue is that we are being encouraged to see this case as a moral injustice not based on any principle or law, but because the protagonist is portrayed sympathetically. If this were reported in a neutral tone of voice the story would be simple: guy breaks law, fails to pay fine, goes to jail.

I wasn't trying to make any argument, but if you want one, I guess it's this: that in a nation ruled by law, adults who vote for laws and punishments in the abstract ought to be mature enough to face the fact that there are hard consequences.

The writer wants to denounce the lawful punishment, but imply that it's caused by racism or something, so that he doesn't have to stake his credibility on arguing for a change to the law. This kind of sob-story approach is used by those who do not respect the danger of law, are willing to vote for anything that sounds "nice", and want someone else to be blamed for the downsides.
The one (and only) thing you need to do to become a successful networker
> Federal courts should require Apple to unlock encrypted data because the operating system is “licensed, not sold,” to customers, the Justice Department argued in a reply brief in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

> “But that is only the beginning of Apple’s relationship to the phone and to this matter. Apple wrote and owns the software that runs the phone, and this software is thwarting the execution of the warrant.”

I kinda like that argument. Later it is somewhat admitting that who owns the DRM keys owns the device. The whole licence not sale scam could backfire in unexpected ways. I would love more clashes like that so we get real ownership of a copy of software or hardware that we bought in the end. Obviously the process of walling a garden could generate some troubles for the wallers.
How many more of the worlds greatest inventions (and works of art, and many other things) would we have if people were free to follow their passions, particularly the millions in poverty who have no means to support themselves while they pursue brilliant ideas?
What would happen if one province (like BC) just legalized it, similar to Washington and Colorado? Would Trudeau stop it?
Quite true regarding company (fully loaded) costs.

IMHO, a reasonable estimation for fully loaded cost per employee (excluding facilities expendetures) is approximately 1.4 * ES, where "ES" is the employee salary.

The "three DevOps engineers and save $10k" estimation was based on working backward from the 92% of available jobs in Boston being less than half of the stated $20k per month cost. Assuming a Gaussian distribution where 0.5 * $20k per month represents the high end of two standard deviations (since Boston ranks quite highly in S/W salary nationally), most DevOps engineers will be paid roughly half of that as well.

This yielded an estimation of $6.5k per month per DevOps employee or $19.5k per month for three.

Since all of this was off-the-cuff, I figured it best to throw in a bit of "fudge factor" and present a $10k per month savings.

As always, YMMV and I could be completely wrong about all of this :-).
They can just use the Beer Store or LCBO model. Done.

There's an oversupply of Cannabis in the west coast. Done.

Next?
All right, I revise my statement to "government has only one means to enforce law: force"

I suppose there are some "policies" (not laws or taxes) which can be encouraged or enacted by spending money. Doesn't detract from my point though. This is still a humorous case of some over-credentialed nitwit at WaPo "discovering" what most educated children should be able to tell you about the rule of law.
I am confused by this image: I am 100% sure there are sardines and dolphins in the mediterranean sea.
> After figured out that intelligence barely means anything

I think that's probably an exaggeration. A better way to say it might be: intelligence only takes you so far, and true achievement requires something more.
On the other hand, some people can't do it for no money.
Yes, in a hypothetical alternate universe where Texas is not Texas, Texas would not have the requisite properties to do what Texas does. You're right, let's be fair.
If dolphins were land mammals, would we be as fascinated by this type of cross-species social behavior?

Dolphins are certainly interesting, but if I were to worry myself with the plight of a hyper-intelligent mammal species right now, I'd put that energy towards concern for elephants instead. They are an intelligent species that is actually smarter than humans in some aspects and being systematically slaughtered by poachers every day. Dolphin propeller strikes are sad, but potential elephant extinction is a crisis
I didn't see anything in the docs that touches on those subjects in detail (I did skim the docs looking for sections and pages that might contain answers to my questions before I posted), but please point me to the page that does if you know of one and I'd be interested to read it! I trust that your perceptions and information are accurate, but cite-able and reference-able information is also valuable.
The problem is that that is too much business for individual creators to be bothered with. It is not a matter of whether they can literally do it if they behaved as a rational, rent-seeking Homo Economicus, but whether it's actually on their minds to do business first and not just act on their emotions and run away from the problem altogether, leaving money on the table. For artists, the latter is far more likely to be the case. We should not blame human beings for being flawed and fitting into our arrangement of society poorly.
An update on our response to the refugee and migrants crisis
Sorry, not my best attempts at civility here. Thanks for the reminder.
This is a good thing. Perhaps you could get the Maraton folks to stop recommending such an awkward solution in preference to your work?
Url changed from http://hackingbits.github.io/blog/uzumakiel-simple-emacs-buf..., which points to this.
It's true. As an engineer working for a large company in Seattle, there's almost a disdain for the employees, which I admit is unfair.
People are using Australia as an example, we have very large taxes (most people pay at least 25%, some 35%+) we also have a 10% tax on all goods and high GDP per capita. You cant fund social welfare programs without huge taxes on everyone not just the rich.
Remember the guy who gave his employees a $70,000 minimum wage?
In what aspects elephants are smarter than people?
No, Secure Boot only comes into play at the point where the firmware starts executing external code (option ROMs or bootloaders). You need to start measurement way before that.
it would be a loss of confidence in Trudeau if he did not follow through.
So this thing just happened with RoboVM
Any citations or reading that supports this? I've always thought that cannabis lends itself to a freer thinking, it's often associated with more liberal attitudes.
" how the people paying felt about it"
Now I'm working for rich people. That gives them so much power that they corrupt politicians and all the system. I will prefer that that money went to people that needs it.
And the Basic Income money goes for EVERYONE. If I loss my job I also get a benefit from it.
The current system is broken and makes no sense at all. Who wants a system where a few have more than they will ever need and so much power that they are not accountable while most people has stress issues because doesn't knows from where the money is going to come next year.
The money/productivity is there, sharing it fairly is good for every one.
Richard Stallman is the hero the internet needs
Can I get a tl;dr?
Bravo on your homepage language. A couple years back I looked into creating 'open shift management' scheduling software for caterers. It appears that you've created something similar. Though most OSMs send out a notice of available shifts. It appears you have the employee enter their availability. Either way, your approach is fresh.
"Even if you did do that: why would anyone buy it in lieu of the original?"

Because of market confusion. I would generate sales from people who didn't realize they were not buying the original. This happens right now but it would be much worse if we removed all the controls.

"You seem to be assuming that derivative work doesn't require hard work of its own. I tried to make the point that this game is itself a derivative of other things, without which it couldn't exist."

I didn't say that at all. Honestly that seems irrelevant. It also requires hard work to plan and successfully rob a bank.