skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linus typically berates those he expects more from, but who have dropped the ball.
More like: don't believe the hype on this website that is stuck in a Silicon Valley and Venture Capitalist mindset.
I suspect yes. AWS seems to be pushing hard towards more managed application services (things like lambda) built on top of their core AWS services like EC2 and S3, and they can maintain their margin on those services even if competition drives down the prices on EC2.
The author wouldn't have been violating the law currently if they hadn't been made to violate it a when they were a child, and didn't have the capability to understand the consequences.

In your alternate universe, the author should have left their house, family, support structure, life, potential world-class education and moved to a place they have never known at 18 because goddamnit, they're an adult. In the US, we don't even trust 18 year olds to be responsible with liquor or rent cars.

Again with the lack of empathy here.
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Why use a PRNG at all, instead of just an incrementing counter? The PRNG is kind-of sequential anyways, since it works on its previous state, its pattern is just a little more obfuscated?

Even for the distributed case, how would a PRNG be better than an incrementing counter - perhaps where the high bits are locked down to an instance ID?
Just upload to Facebook - they don't check.
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If I'm a new hire, they are expected to set aside today the money I'll receive in 30 years.

I don't believe that's the case. From http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/650511.pdf :

The liability for current employees is a portion of the ultimate liability for their future retiree benefits; the liability accrues steadily over their working years, from zero at date of entry into FEHBP to the full liability at retirement. Contrary to some claims, there is no liability held, nor contributions made, for any future employees who have yet to be hired or yet to be born.

That is, their liability (and the amount they need to be prefunded for) starts at 0 when they're hired and gradually increases.
There is a billing API: https://cloud.google.com/billing/

There have been some recent introductions of account and key management that help too.
That's not what's happening, though. US companies are increasingly borrowing in order to execute buybacks, not using cash reserves to do it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/23/us-usa-fed-buyback...

Edit: downvotes? Perhaps another source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-bond-market-debt-investo...
Which, frankly, isn't even a paradigm shift. It just means the transition from trusted to untrusted is in your living room instead of on the street corner outside in the cable box.
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Seriously? You feel it is unfair that Google would talent acquire a company with a founder that revolutionized virtualization and dismiss this with an implication that she was acquired because she knew "the right people" (and you apparently don't) vs. being one of the most impressive people Google could hire to run their cloud business?
GoGo is the big ground-based provider. GoGo uses a network of cell towers that point up rather than down. An antenna under the plane connects to towers much like civilian cellphones. [1]

By contrast, Row 44 (used by Southwest and some international carriers) is a satellite-based system. An antenna on top of the plane connects to a geostationary satellite. [2]

Other services do one or both of the above. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogo_Inflight_Internet
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_44
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnAir_(telecommunications)
Having used goamz and one of the other forks off canonical's original SDK, I'll stick to the verbosity, consistency, and general reliability of the official one.
I've used goamz in the past. It's good code, but I always had problems with lack of connection reuse on S3. Apparently coaxing S3 into not closing KeepAlive connections is non-trivial, and with goamz they'd always get closed.

This is a huge problem when you're trying to upload several million tiny files as quickly as possible.

When I switched to Amazon's official S3 library, this problem went away.
Maybe I don't fully understand. Are they pulling a twitter with their api changes?
A web search shows that number posted all over the web... but never BY Facebook itself. Looks dodgy to me.
What if you allow basically the same ad but disallow mention of any brand names - only the generic name or condition to be treated?
Indeed, it is based on a well known psychological phenomenon:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
Why would you use YouTube if you care about these issues? The whole business is based on monetizing your effort without compensating you.

Sure, youtube has a big network effect, but that doesn't matter for the use case of using it as a host for videos shared on social networks or embedded in other sites.

You could try something like MediaGoblin instead. Taking these steps help ensure that we never have to worry about YouTube letting some random claimant knock our videos offline again, at least not without them filing a claim against a registrar, VPS host, etc.

From MediaGoblin.org:
"MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc."
Awk seems to have fallen out of favor, in my opinion, due to the rising popularity of easier to use general purpose programming/scripting languages. Awk is the bee's knees when it comes to processing text. You can do just about anything to some text with it. However, you can do much the same with Perl or Python, both of which can do more than just process text.

I still use awk for shell one-liners. It can do the work of grep, grep -v, cut, and substring operations in one command, which makes things a bit simpler (less processes, less pipes). Unfortunately, a grep piped to cut is almost always faster due to awk being a very robust interpreter.
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You could ask the same question of any student, immigrant or not.
:) I had a feeling someone on HN might come by and correct me, that's why I made sure my post included a disclaimer at the end of my post pro-drug and addition of theophylline.

But I am curious what you think prodrug-vs-drug, addition of theophylline, and scheduling adds to the context of the story? To me it didn't seem especially important, but I only read up on Captagon because of the story.
You could look at this as a very high-end acquihire.
Judging from their comments; that doctor lives in Germany, which seems to have a national health care system (in addition to private insurance).

(In the US, a 15-minute doctor's visit could easily cost an end-patient $150-$200 out of pocket if their insurance doesn't cover it or has a high deductible; doing a blood draw every two weeks can get very expensive at that rate.)
Oh god, this again. I don't actually have to post a rebuttal to the WaitButWhy post because the comments on the post do such a good job of it. Go read them. That post is off base and incredibly condescending.

Your quote of Ready Player One is ironic considering the protagonist, in the end, gets everything he wants.

Why are people flipping their shit over this new feature? In the old days of 2004, when you broke up with somebody you got to avoid them for a while without having to delete them from your phone. What's wrong with wanting to stop seeing pictures of them getting drunk with their new friends and traveling to Europe without you, just for a little bit, while the wounds heal? For goodness sake this is not some sign of generational decline.
Calling a PRNG is way easier than any of the alternatives. Coordinating sequences on a bunch of nodes so that nobody overlaps is a pain in the ass, and a point of failure. Incorporating some notion of "machine ID" in the identifier makes it easier, but you still have to worry about multiple pieces of software on the same machine, for example. UUIDs are the a good solution, but you need a UUID library you trust, and they waste a lot of space / are overkill for many use cases.

All of that is sort of beside the point though. Pseudo-random sequences are useful for lots of things and the PRNG algorithm behind Math.random() is pretty crappy.
For all practical purposes, the author had become an American (indeed, it is all he knew) in all but formal documentation. There's really no danger of cultural incompatibility here.

Your first sentence implies that minors are somehow allowed to make legal decisions.
I live in the UK, and I love that there are no Rx TV commercials here. Then again, I live in Scotland, and I get my prescriptions for free. The NHS is an incredible service, and it surprises me that most Americans don't want publicly funded healthcare. Even those darn Canadian guys north of your boarder have a good public healthcare system.

BTW, the UK economy spends almost half in, relative terms, at 9.6% of the UK GDP vs the Americans spend of 17.9% of GDP, on healthcare. In real terms (2012 dollars), the UK spends $3480 per person vs the US spending $8362 per person. And we have a health care system free at the point of delivery.
The original code was autogenerated, which is why the style was very terse and verbose. It's still like that:

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/tree/master/models/apis

The fact that it feels very Java-esque comes from two things, in my mind:

- the AWS API has Java-esque RPC calls
- the request/response paradigm is easier for
code generation

Personally, I don't like the style of the SDK, but at least it's maintained by AWS; you can always wrap the parts you use to get a nicer interface.
It's not even a prophylactic. Livestock grow larger, quicker on antibiotics. We're not entirely sure why, but it means more money, so it has to be good, right?
I think your point is valid (and I agree).

However, your argument is not what Linus himself has emphasized. He emphasizes that his abrasiveness comes from the idea that people must earn respect. Which is more than just wrong, it's completely idiotic. If life were about earning respect, what are you supposed to do if people disrespect you? Aren't we right back to marching from Selma to Montgomery?
Your comment, in context, seemed to imply that customers making bad decisions due to imperfect (mis)information could be corrected by censorship.
I understand how you feel but you should realize that this point of view is wrong-headed. Her, or anyone else's, success has zero impact on you so there is no justification to feel bad about their achievements being "undeserved".

By the way, it is often really hard to see just how much other people put into their projects and so from the outside their success does not seem very justified (hence the phenomena of ten year overnight success). I find myself making this mistake as well, but it is useful to remind yourself that it is the wrong way to think.
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In the northern US states there is basically no reasonable behavior pattern that results in enough sun through the winter. By 4:30pm it's indistinguishable from 10:30pm. Most people's work and school schedules put the bulk of their free time in the afternoon and evening.
What's meh about it versus Kinesis?
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Did I misread the article or did they actual prove that the tcp_collapse was the root cause of their 1000ms spike?
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Is it necessarily to the detriment of social skills, though, or is it just a reflection of the evolution of what social skills are relevant to modern life?

People have made similar arguments against the use of internet social communications because of its negative impact of its negative impact on language, but such fears are unfounded and prescriptivist. [1]

Social norms evolve all the time. Just because new norms are unfamiliar doesn't mean that they're inherently "wrong."

[1]: http://www.vnews.com/news/nation/world/18662871-95/internet-...
For the lowest support plan (Silver), high priority issues were addressed pretty quickly. Low priority ones are a bit slow, but hey, they're low priority. Plus the Silver support plan is very cheap.
It's not a caricature if it's his own words. His culture? What a lame excuse. Daesh has a much more abrasive culture than the US. Does that make Daesh culture OK? Where do we draw the line?
Depending on the sort of logging you're looking for, there's a logging API (https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/api/) and you can also stream to BigQuery.

(Disclaimer: I work on GCP)
She did indeed, I was there and she was not only intelligent and knowledgeable but probably the most endearing speaker on the day.
Two Videos:

1. "Open Sourced GemFire In-Memory Distributed Database and Apache Contributors" (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL62pIycqXx-TTMXsq09BE...)

2. "Creating a Highly Scalable Stock Prediction System with R, Geode & Spring XD" (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL62pIycqXx-Rzd_HcjU7Y...)
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>There is no definition of public sector that makes bankruptcy impossible.

The US treasury can't and won't ever run out of dollars. Whenever there is a bank that needs bailing out or a war suddenly the government remembers this. It's only when funding pension obligations or healthcare it suddenly 'forgets' and assumes that taxes pay for things.

There is still an inflation risk but bankruptcy does indeed become impossible.

>Pre-funding is about honesty of the obligations. If you say you're going to pay the workers $X at time t, apportion the money now. Put your full faith and credit behind it now. Make it so you can only renege by reneging on bonds in general.

There has to be wiggle room somewhere if it's a private sector obligation. Pension are invested and future payouts are based upon certain assumptions about those investments holding. A lot of perfectly reasonable assumptions pre-2008 suddenly went out of the window afterwards.

So it is not entirely about honesty of the obligations.

>It's mind-boggling how ostensibly pro-worker advocates are okay with the mentality of, "don't worry, we'll find your pension money later, if Congress appropriates enough down the road".

I've never heard any ostensibly pro worker advocate say this.
Call me cynically suspicious, but reading the related articles makes me think this is intended to indirectly support the supplement industry.

"[To provide remedies for the appalling state of our health,] Look, instead, to the food and beverage industries, and to a lesser extent the supplement companies, who may well step up to the plate with better designed foods and nutritional programmes once the currently profoundly counter-productive regulatory system has been re-drafted."[1]

Key parts of the argument seem to be that the Victorian diet was better, not necessarily because of the types of foods, but because of the large amounts of micro- and phytonutritional elements ingested. It's not possible to make use of the massive caloric intake today, so...pills.

[1] How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died. Paul Clayton and Judith Rowbotham. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672390/].
I'm glad to hear that "the cloud" is becoming less likely to mean "the Amazon cloud". Monocultures are dangerous, and I doubt that any monoculture is quite as dangerous -- or at least as unexpected -- as a monoculture for providing distribution and resilience.
So, like, just how much is Facebook manipulating and tailoring what I see already? I'm already fairly certain it's not simply showing me everything all of my friends post in the strict time order they post them (like it used to in the old days?).

I was starting to wonder the other day if it was like Pandora radio. If I click "like" on something do they show me more posts similar to the one I liked? If so, can I please have a thumbs down button so I can explicitly tell them, "don't show me stuff like this." It sounds like this is a start to exposing that functionality. Are they very slowly and gently admitting that they do manipulate our feeds?
Good ideas, but why "require" any books at all?
Trucks? Last I researched this the Ford F150 and Dodge Ram -- popular, mainstream pickup trucks -- were by a large margin statistically among the least safe vehicles allowed on roads in America, compared across everything, not just in-class.
I'm late to this thread, but an easier solution is to take a full-featured PaaS and install that instead.

I work on Cloud Foundry. Some people use OpenShift. Both are featuresome and don't require much more than to install them and start pushing apps.
What images does a well-trained DeepDream return?
I understand that DeepDream outputs images full of 'puppyslugs' because it's been primarily trained on images of dogs.

My question is, what should a 'well-trained' DeepDream output? If it's an image recognition program, and it were trained on 'everything', should it return an image that's basically the same as the input image?
I don't think it's about the surface politeness factor, but about what kind of discussion is conducted.

The ideal for an intellectual discourse is to have questions be responded to with more questions. If question is met with answer, then old ground was covered, there was nothing new to see. If answer is met with answer, you're just ramming into each other. (And yes, there are disingenuous questions, but those tend to be "Jeopardy answers".)

Politeness/rudeness does factor into that in that it "bulks up" the rhetoric. You can be a polite bullshitter or an insulting truth-seeker. You can use rhetoric tactically to goad the other person into the questioning mode, or you can use it to shut down the discussion.
Smells fishy.
Should improve over the next few years. There are several large new Ka-band systems either currently coming online (e.g. Inmarsat GX) or under development, and market pressure to build smaller, cheaper satellite terminals.
I don't understand why the reporters hold Google in such high regard, particularly in the cloud business. Here is a statement from the article:

> "At the same time, analysts say, the company’s offerings in cloud development services — computing, storage, data analytics and others — are already comparable to Amazon’s."

AWS is far far ahead of GC and it is in no way comparable. Plus the ecosystem around AWS has evolved and is much more stable. There are a lot of articles explaining "how to fix X or how to do Y" with AWS than with GC.

I also don't think Google will ever have the level of customer obsession that Amazon has. Your account got hacked? No worries, AWS will waive the fee, but I honestly don't think Google will ever do that.

Google is a technology company and might outrun Amazon in terms of technical superiority, but I don't think they can simply outrun Amazon in cloud business.
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I chose to ignore it, but having read it now, I still think the same way. Just because some thinks differently than you, makes different trade-offs and has an unfamiliar way of behaving, doesn't mean they're childish.
Yeah, AWS docs are really not very good in my limited experience. Google's docs have some pretty good parts, but they can be hard to find. Authentication is still kind of confusing on GCP.
Not a bad chiptune either: http://www.a1k0n.net/code/jsxm/#Ghidorah_-_Toilet_story_5.xm
The working theory is that "tcp_collapse" causes spikes of ~20 ms, which in turn make Linux not receive packets in time, which makes the network buffers to fill, which means new packets will be lost, which may be visible as 1s... latency spike end-to-end.

This is for the TCP case. For the ICMP, indeed, the 1.8s times are not explained, but it's totally possible that 100 of 18ms events accumulated. Remember that the ping was running for 32 hours, while the system tap scripts for 30 seconds.
There are (IMO) serious issues with the devtools (Chrome inspector doesn't work at all), with both navigator implementations (the iOS one is unmaintained and buggy, the cross-platform one has bad animation performance and non-native look & feel), and with the list view (bug causing frequest erroneous clicks when just scrolling).
I wish I could upvote this! :)
I used to live on Channing and loved going to Berkley bowl.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert

Within cities, there are more than three times as many supermarkets in wealthier neighborhoods compared with poorer areas.
I could be wrong and IANAL, but I doubt you'll be able to get lawyers for Facebook to spend time on request to figure out which patents might cover a particular piece of code - especially since I think telling you there aren't any might let you claim estoppel in the (extremely unlikely) case they actually wanted to sue you.

But you can get a list of Facebook's patents here:

http://stks.freshpatents.com/Facebook-Inc-nm1.php

edit: Of course, just because they're including patent boilerplate doesn't mean anyone actually did this research in the first place or believes that a particular patent covers it; I would be surprised if someone had, as opposed it just being standard boilerplate (although it doesn't seem to be on all their projects). There's little reason to worry more about patents on this project than on any other open source project distributed under a BSD license, without an "additional" grant of patent rights. Not none, but little.
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This is the result of auto generated code. Pretty much every auto-generated code library is going to be fairly verbose, and behave this way.

Despite this, I think it's perfectly fine to use. I wouldn't even consider this verbose by most standards. The fact that it uses structs for it's only parameter instead of a lot of arguments is a huge win for API backwards compatibility. It's also significantly more flexible when you want to omit values.
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In the ones they mentioned, GCE vs EC2, GCS vs S3, and BigQuery vs Redshift, they seem pretty comparable to me.
>" a working class family with an income of $20,000-$40,000/year"

A "working class" family doesn't have an income of $20,000. That would put a family in the bottom 12% by income. Median family income was $67,000/year in 2014.
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No, because you absolutely want that pop, so you get positive press. The last thing you want is an IPO where the price goes down
I see how that came across differently than I meant. And I actually don't really care what the other country does. If they don't care to know when people are coming and going that is between them and their people. One time (maybe 20 years ago) I was driving around the German countryside and accidentally drove into Austria. There was no indication that I had done so (at least none that I had seen). I was surprised how easy it was to do it by accident.
Well tbh we got answers but they usually were; nope not offered, cannot be fixed. 3 weeks later I met a Google engineer working with GCE at a party who fixed it for us the day after hearing about our issue, which means it probably was able to be fixed from the first time.
Formally used for military communications

Probably should be formerly.
> For goodness sake this is not some sign of generational decline.

I'd love to spend money on research to see if this is true or not. I wouldn't call it a decline. I'd call it "The Appification Of Societal Relationships".

What you want, when you want it, and nothing else. (or attempting to obtain that ideal)
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