skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing to keep in mind is that Backblaze keeps 1.15 copies of your data, while Amazon S3 and the like keep multiple full geographically redundant copies of your data. For example Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage keeps 3 to 6 copies of your data, depending on the tier, [1] when you compare that to the 1.15 copies in Backblaze B2 you start to understand where the pricing difference comes from.

For most use cases this doesn't matter and the price saving are well worth the reduced redundancy, but Backblaze B2 isn't well suited for being the canonical store of your data.

[1] - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/
Well then, how will you finance the civilization, including the nessesary defensive force?

I'm not going to do it voluntarily.
Didn't this feature already exist and then disappear? I seem to remember being able to select a roughly 20 mile square area to download to my phone but the data and the feature disappeared after either an Android update or a Maps update.
Yes, if you could expose the parameters to MOE from within TensorFlow. We're going to work on an example of showing how this can be done with SigOpt, which has a similar interface.
As curiosity which os and file system are you running Gleb?
>> If you had a separate loosely coupled Stripe importer system you could process those Stripe event streams into the required aggregates via a queue.

Sorry, but it's not quite that easy. Stripe has rate-limiting and paginates response data. Providing metrics like "churn growth rate" between 2 dates requires you have all the data every day. You can somewhat rely on webhooks but not for historical data prior to a customer's sign-up date. Oh, and Baremetrics has plenty of queues.

(Source: former Baremetrics engineer)
Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview, an Experimental Android App
>It's funny that you mention Java because I have always avoided learning Java. Even from afar it grosses me out as a language.

May I guess you're either some old Lisp/Smalltalk etc veteran, or, much more probably, someone who entered IT after, say 2005?

Because back in the day very few thought of Java as "gross" -- it was greeted as a welcome change from the existing landscape which at its best was something like C++.
I was hoping that the headline meant you could order prints.
The problem is that favoriting has historically been associated with bookmarking. It is never really taken in the literal sense of the word online. Hearts/Likes does not work in so many situations. I won't heart something that is negative, but would have fav'd it as a bookmark. Heart/likes is only a marketing solution to go after new users. It's not the power users tool.
I think David Heinemeier Hansson and Basecamp would love this.
Clickable links:

Lupus to gut microbes

http://www.hcplive.com/conference-c...obiome-seems-to-have-r...

Asthma to gut microbes

http://www.health24.com/Diet-and-nu...een-gut-bacteria-asthm...

ubiome

http://ubiome.com/ .

American Gut Project

http://humanfoodproject.com/americangut/
6% increase compared how? Week-over-week? Daily average? Gross average? How much does it fluctuate each week? How likely is a 6% difference on any other week? Has this been adjusted for variance?

I see nothing in this article other than two overly-verbose paragraphs summarizing a couple of tweets.
Yeah, that's no problem unless you start looking into the <$200 or maybe <$300 range.
Is the offline functionality exposed in the Android Google Maps APIs yet, for 3rd party apps?
I've often wondered how much of the potential corruption in unions could be minimised through a membership app. Try to take some of the responsibilities away from people in organisational roles.
Oh, I hadn't thought of that interpretation of "pointless philosophical debate". You're right: considered as a purely philosophical debate, it's pointless. But considered as a debate over what practical measures to improve our contingent human reality in the face of non-ideal and poorly understood circumstances, it's far from pointless.
Yeah, there is something to be said about putting all the right people under one roof.
Great work Backblaze! I really appreciate the open, knowledge sharing nature of your hardware designs. This is one of the main reasons I am a Backblaze customer, I must say however that the lack of open source and headless Linux client software is seriously pushing me away, it's something I think many people have been waiting for years for, especially given the product licensing model is designed as such to backup a single machine only.
Odd article, would benefit from the word "American" at the beginning of the headline: It concerns buildings moved from Europe to the US in the 19thC and early 20thC by fantastically wealthy Americans.
I believe the UT people are also behind the US Navy's railgun project. They also developed a railgun howitzer in the 90's. Perhaps that qualifies them as "government".
I wanted to download all of the available recordings so I built a tool to do so:

https://github.com/CraigAlbright/hotwaxresidue
That has existed for a while and never went away (you can access it by clicking on the search bar and scrolling down). What is being announced now is that offline maps can be used for routing/navigation and business info.
I stand corrected, my information was wrong. Thanks for the sources.
I think the point was so that the banks couldn't block access via ip address. Each person would be able to aggregate their bank info on their home computer or they could secure their own server to do it for them constantly.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away – Right There on the Ceiling
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edit: 'Simply jumbling the inner characters thusly renders this "observation" questionable, imo'
There are solutions out there that the banks could use to allow their customers to have programatic access to their transactions (i.e. an API). OAuth 1.x and 2.0 both have ways to provide access to your data without you having to turn your password over to an aggregator (i.e. Mint). Banks have no incentive to evolve, the barrier to entry is so large (regulatory barriers) that there are not startup banks who could truly show the world what is possible.
> Banks said they are within their rights to block or slow customers' access to their own financial data.

I find this mindset incredibly disturbing
Nihilistic password security questions
The problem here, as in most large government contracts (aerospace is a prime example) is that all the bidders know that an honest bid will never win. So, to win, all the bidders knowingly underbid, and hope that they can get adequate funds as an add-on, when the project as bid begins to obviously fail.

The only way to stop this would be to punish the contractors of the failing projects in some extreme way.But that, of course, will never happen.

Anybody want an F-35?
"It’s not light, especially if you consider 3.34-3.48 lbs (1.51-1.58kg) heavy." Interesting tautology.
The simple way to fix this is to remove the indentured servitude. In a fair market, labor is free to move around. Overnight, the incentive for companies to hire H1Bs go out the door, because all the advantages of doing so (below market servitude for years) disappears.
I haven't noticed a difference, but I think it was a change they needed to make. Most tweets feel like they go nowhere and get nothing. For the average user, that can really impact the experience compared to an app like Instagram where they're bound to get a handful of encouraging responses.

But if Twitter have any sense, they'll do a lot more to encourage the feeling that a tweet has accomplished something, been seen by people, achieved something in the world.
Reminiscent of taxi companies vs ridesharing companies. Trying to fight/shut down these services vs working with them (or even developing your own competing solutions) didn't end well for taxis.
I've had it for the past couple of years on my Republic Wireless phone (which has wifi but no data plan) and it does work for navigation as long as you download the map and start the navigition while on wifi, which is a little cumbersome.

My other complaint was that the area it allowed you to save offline was too small to cover a trip to another city. So you'd have to save separate areas all along the route, and try to make sure they all overlapped a bit.

Hoping that this allows larger saved areas and starting or changing navigation destinations while offline.
IMO, slight accents are not a problem. Very thick ones are (such as not being able to understand individual words because the vowels and consonants are so badly mispronounced).

I am a native speaker, but I have a regional accent. When I teach classes, I consciously minimize my home accent because it is difficult for non-native speakers to understand my English if they are not familiar with its sounds. Why shouldn't an ESL speaker do the same?

When I go to other countries whose language I have studied, I try very hard to mimic the national accent, and people appreciate the effort. I think of it as a way of showing respect to them, their heritage, and their culture. If I disregard it simply because I don't have time or can't be bothered, then I am being extremely rude. And so, yes, when I have gone to Mexico, Brazil, France, and Germany, I have tried to speak those languages as authentically as possible.
It's great to be able to work on stuff that I want to work on. But the problem is, I also like to eat...

How long is your runway? If you quit today, and didn't make any money as a contractor, when do you run out of money?

If the answer is a year, say, I could see taking a 6-month sabbatical to work on what you want. If the answer is a month, then no, don't quit. You can't afford to.
>We no longer need to 'learn' about eugenics since it's been shown to never fit with the scientific evidence.

We've replaced "eugenics" with "editing the human genome". No need to selectively breed and we can still get similar benefits of reducing terminal illnesses and increasing quality of life. It's only a question whether these changes are ethical and many groups oppose these benefits for reasons of "playing god" and secondary effects we may not be aware of.

>they lost out to the evidence to the contrary on numerous points (ex. claims that transgender individuals commit more suicide post-GRS has been proven false by numerous studies)

Going to need to see those studies. As a trans I opted to not undergo GRS because every single study I've read has shown that increased satisfaction and happiness post-surgery is uncommon and that increased depression, suicidal behavior, unhappiness, and regret are fairly common. Furthermore, I agree with Dr. Paul R. McHugh. Which makes be extremely unpopular among portions of the LGBT crowd.

Few doctors would ever agree with Dr. McHugh. I wonder how much of that is out of fear of losing their jobs to a social justice mob if they dared to agree with what he said? This issue is the catalyst for why I'm so vehemently against the PC/SJW crowds. Their bullying tactics and censorship of any information that disagrees with their feelings actively harms people who live in the real world.

I can't trust what doctors say when they would be risking their livelihood to make any claims contrary.
What order of magnitude?

Well, this article describes storage pods with 180TB of storage.

HGST have a 10TB hard drive measuring 26.1mm * 101.6mm * 147mm [1] and a 4U chassis measures 178mm * 437mm * 521mm [2]

If you had 4U of hard drives with no space for power, cooling, interconnect etc you cold fit 10 terabytes / (26.1mm * 101.6mm * 147mm) * (178mm * 437mm * 521mm) = 1.04 petabytes into 4U

I don't know whether six times counts a a single order of magnitude, let alone multiple orders of magnitude, and the 10TB hard drives I linked are "enterprise" so there might be a substantial price premium.

Samsung claim to have a 16TB 2.5" SSD in the works [2] - although details are pretty scarce at the moment. If its dimensions match normal 2.5" SSDs at around 100mm * 70mm * 6.9mm that would give 16 terabytes / (100mm * 70mm * 7mm) * (178mm * 437mm * 521mm) = 13.2 petabytes in 4U.

Of course, the assumption you could use 100% of the space in a chassis for drives is pretty unrealistic. And nobody's seen the Samsung SSD working - could be a 16tb sticker on a 1tb ssd for all I know :) Filling it with 4TB SSDs would give you 3.35 PB and it actually seems possible to get those [4].

If you don't care about $/TB, it's probably possible to get density a single order of magnitude higher.

[1] http://www.hgst.com/products/hard-drives/ultrastar-archive-h...
[2] http://www.supermicro.co.uk/products/chassis/4U/842/SC842TQ-...
[3] http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/08/samsung-unveils-2-5...
[4] https://www.sandisk.com/business/datacenter/products/flash-d...
> There is, however, a scenario where leaving a side project to die is not okay: when you make money from it.

I disagree. The key factor is not the money, but the promise (whether expressly stated or obviously implied). I'm 1000x more upset about a "free forever" service balking than an app politely going dark or charging for a major version upgrade.

There's an obligation to honor guarantees and remaining time on billed subscriptions, to be clear about supported OS versions (e.g. unfair to break on 10.11 if you list 10.7+), to assist customers with exporting their data when you retire, etc.

Do not make yourself a slave. If the project is a money-sink, be honest about raising rates, cutting features, or shutting down. If the passion is gone, be honest about passing the torch or going dark. There will always be haters, but trust that most people will understand (though silently), and that you also have a very important obligation to support and maintain yourself.
Thanks! It took years. Revenue generating, fortunately. Otherwise there's no way I would have built it. But I like that I'm able to keep it free.
The world's fastest isomorphism testing program (1993)
Cyborg Marines
Video Role Play – How to approach a coworker that's not doing their job
That's exactly what we do. In this case it will start showing up in Chrome 48 with a link to the support page.
Sony discontinues Betamax after 40 years
So... Nibbles?
http://www.jacdec.de/airline-safety-ranking-2015/
> The reason? According to Weil, “It’s easier to understand.”

or people just a new icon and wanted to see what it did.
"Whereas before you could simply view an area of the map offline, now you can get turn-by-turn driving directions, search for specific destinations, and find useful information about places, like hours of operation, contact information or ratings."
Higher salary's and higher status for engineers would be the main two.
Interesting to watch tech innovation be stifled by telecom inefficiencies. Great move by Google to adapt to that reality.
Most likely it's mostly AI, that redirects to a human when it's confused. Most of those responses look pre-programmed.
In your case, if confronted with a cc form to start a trial, what do you do? Do you need near 100% probability to continue?

It's a timely subject for me. We're preparing to test this at Cronitor and we'll write a blog post with our findings.
Yeah big news there, I've been calling my pet capybara "swegsweg" for like 3 years now and he's started to say "swegsweg" like he's a pokemon or some shit
Makes me wonder if ScreamTracker3 is doable too.
What would you think about hooking up a Beatjazz or Eolium to a little box with a Cortex-M4 and some knobs on it? The great thing about software is that it can feel like anything you want it to feel like, as soon as you have the right peripherals.
That company really should have been given the death penalty. Immediate suspension of trading and cancellation of all it's stock value and confiscation of all assets to be sold off for damages and repairs. It is really the only way that corporations and their executives will learn. Executives hiding under the corporate rock may not be able to be prosecuted directly, but there is no reason that corporations themselves shouldn't be able to be held to the same consequences as other people. They are, after all, "people, my friend", right?
1. Some do.

2. Some are trying to provide their own convenience systems as a competitive advantage over other banks, and to create costs for people switching out from them to a different bank. Supporting any method of aggregation where the bank becomes a dumb store of a money is disadvantageous to that strategy.
BoA used to have its own aggregator, have they removed it?
Why journalists have the right to cover the University of Missouri protests
More people knowing a password is never going to be better security though is it? That said, if you're trying to beat a competitor and you are doing it like this, you're not doing well.
I agree, but i create Fatal and not fatal functions.

func checkErrPanic(err error) {
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
}

func checkErrNonFatal(err error) {
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
}
I understood the difference to be a startup implies 60 hour weeks, a lifestyle business implies 40 or less.
‘Steve Jobs’ Bombs: What Went Wrong with the Apple Drama
Oh no problem, I actually tried to get that card a month ago, which is when I found out it wasn't available anymore. It's definitely the best general-usage cashback card out there, I think.

I don't like the idea of rotating rewards because it seems like I'll be driven to spend more than I usually would on each category while it's in-season.

Didn't know about the Amex Blue Cash, 6% grocery discount is pretty big. I might pick one up, although I need to look at how my credit could be affected, since I JUST got the Citi Double Cash last month.
What's their end game here? It seems like they now offer a quota waiver for all of the top bandwidth hogging services. Why not just make everything unlimited at this point?
I can't go with "never". I can't even go with "usually", unless you've got a study that lists promises of US withdrawl and which promises were kept.

But I can agree that there was, quite recently, a promise of withdrawl from Afghanistan, and even more recently, a "no we won't".
Slush Smackdown: Knockout other players in kids' AI coding game
I was thinking it's probably an effect along similar-but-not-quite-Hawthorne lines where it's "ooh -- I can like things on Twitter now! New! Cool!"
Whoops. In my head that while Tesla rant was an XKCD thing.
I see it as similar to Uber building a system for scheduling self-driving cars before they have the self-driving cars.
I think there's a large space where the two are indeed the same.
USAA does, but it's not implemented as simply as app passwords. There are two major issues with aggregators: 1) authentication and 2) data access mechanism. A read-only app password would solve #1, but aggregators commonly implement #2 by screen-scraping, which is the bane of everyone's existence. I wouldn't be surprised if half of the reason BoA cut off aggregator access was because most of the aggregators were screen-scraping, and BoA got tired of the support calls whenever they made a site change and people's accounts stopped syncing.

Last I heard (um, a couple of years ago), USAA's solution was a proper API, but Mint was still screen-scraping. I have no idea if that's because Mint is lazy or USAA'S API is too limited for what they want, but my money would be on the former.
This is my friend's startup. He would appreciate any comments or feedback!
Can you share your experience on getting this feedback during a cancelation? We have mixed success getting users to share. It's about 50/50 for us. We have even lower response rates from users who have finished their trial without conversion.
It always downloaded and cached the area around your location and route. What new here is that you can control it and it also sounds to be persistent, it also will probably download POI and local businesses info as you've mentioned and allow you to use navigation while offline.

This is quite good for my android phone because it seems to try to connect to every metro wifi out there and doesn't fall back gracefully and quickly enough for it to be seamless.
The iPhone has a better UX when it comes to this but still would be quite good especially when I go to out of the city and get edge or poor 3G connection, it also will work great when roaming and I won't have to worry about closing the navigation app or pressing anything that will trigger a new search when I'm out of the hotel and don't have wifi.
Those numbers sound like personal belief instead of fact, millions this and that? There are over 300,000 million Americans who all believe different things just the same as any other country with millions of citizens. I live in corporate America and do not experience anything like what you've just said.
Coding bootcamps question the need for computer science degrees
I would use that in a heartbeat. Just wanted to point out that it the incumbents' approach as well, rather than some actual API which banks decided to discontinue.
It takes money to do things in robotics. It took $125 million in DARPA funding to get to Big Dog. It took entire CS departments at big name schools with tech support from auto companies (Stanford's VW was made computer-drivable for them by VW) to win the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005.

You can't do this on YCombinator-scale peanuts. That's what academic robotics looked like for decades, and progress was very, very slow.
I think the distinction is a philosophical question. Are they humans who run errands for the AI, or is the AI a tool the humans use?

Perhaps better to think of them as coworkers, each specializing in their strengths.

The question is, just how much of the workload is the machine capable of handling? Because I think that's the big indicator of scalability.
Ten years ago you could have bought a Nokia Internet Tablet, download maps to SD cards, and used Maemo Mapper for offline maps (not navigation nor points of interest, back then). But essentially nobody did that, because it was hard. Bringing applications to a wide audience is valuable, even if the exact same things have already been achieved for or by a narrower audience.
I read that Marc Andreessen used favorites the same way to let the people who tweeted to him know that he read their tweets or check their product page etc.

The side effect of this behavior was that it sent a signal to the community that "Marc Andreessen" "Favorited" this page/product/tweet which could have surprising effect. I was at a receiving end of this and it brought a hoard of viewership/followers/favorites.
Stephen Wolfram on Knowledge-Based Programming
Remember when Simple was going to offer an API and provide a path forward for this problem [1][2]? Never happened [3], speaks to challenges of financial data still I guess.

[1] http://www.programmableweb.com/news/banksimple-banking-servi...

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/simple-api

[3] https://www.simple.com/api
Um, no. A paintball weighs about 3 grams [1].

[1] http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a473706.pdf
America's culture is multiculturalism and it's arguably the most cultural of any nation. Look at Time Square, LA, South Beach, Dallas, Boston, DC etc... etc... our culture is insanely different everywhere you go, but as a whole American culture dominates.
Rams -> Hynix 8GB PC3-12800 DDR3-1600MHz ECC Registered CL11 240-Pin
Test friendly JavaScript modules – without Depencency Injection
> a language with multiple implementations,

Yeah, where the owner is suing one of those multiple implementations, and playing silly buggers with J2EE certification. That really lends a fuckton of conifidence.
I always wished I knew how to work ST3. I ended up instead mailing away for a copy of Modedit shortly before the really user-friendly FT2 was released.
Are you asking about him personally, or on the Pods?
I'd bet its easier to get press for this specific piece on his blog rather than on YC.
Not all banks support OFX