skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm spending a million dollars a year and GCE can cut my costs by 30%, I'd consider switching because the cost savings of dedicating a could FTE's for a few months can pay for itself in under a year.

I'm a big fan of AWS, but I purposely avoid using too many AWS services that would lead to me being locked in and able to move if I wanted to. Porting deployment scripts to another API isn't too hard, but having to build and support my own replacement to SQS or DynamoDB (and then port my services to the replacement system) adds a lot more to my costs
And when the oil runs out, just another ISIS.
CloudRail is community driven. Everybody is able to add services so we don't have much influence on it. Any suggestions what is missing?
But....did you use your Coinbase account to conduct any illegal transactions? You didn't answer a very straight forward question.
Hello World Example with Spring Integration
Yes you do have a point about how the older languages were already established while emoji is just currently growing at a whim. The utility of the newer characters can certainly be argued, but reading the link certain selection factors must be met, so at least its not a free-for-all. As for your explanation of creativity thats certainly a longer discussion that deserves to be had.

The problems with a specific font for extra characters are: who would standardize it? And (assuming Unicode) how would they be represented in code points? You could use Unicode's Private Use Areas,[0] but from my understanding that might result in different characters viewed for the recipient if their implementation overlaps yours.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas
Anywhere visa is excepted, by which we mean ~half the U.S. because Americans have that much awareness of the rest of the world.
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I'd like some day to get into nmap's source code so as to learn more about networking and programming, but I haven't started since it is quite extensive. Any ideas to begin?
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Awkardly written, either by Kamel Daoud, or the translation by John Cullen from the French. I don't know which parts were literal and which were metaphor.
I think the OP was insinuating that the writer is not technically competent enough to be authoritatively evaluating technology to such a degree.
> I have provided them with more than enough information to prove all of my income is legitimate

That seems like a roundabout way of saying, "No, I did not conduct any illegal transactions".
There's a lot of hours in the day and a lot of years to life. Steve does seem very accomplished, that's quite a blog and set of projects he's got going on there.

If you just set out to accomplish things though, you'll be surprised at how much you can complete,

Also exercise (he does it through dancing it seems), you get a lot of energy from that.

He's likely bilingual (or tri, or quad, or more) since he's from Iceland. That's super healthy. And he's clearly exercising all the areas of his brain by playing music, writing, engineering, and dancing.

Probably doesn't spend too much time reading the news (it's easy to get lost in the rabbit hole that is reddit or hackernews sometimes), probably doesn't spend too much time binge watching things, probably doesn't party too hard too often. That's very different from assuming he never does any of those activities, it's probably just not his de facto constant.

So I guess, and this is just an educated guess based on what I can see from him and my own personal experiences, my recommendation to you (and you didn't ask for my advice I know!) would be to limit the amount of time you spend doing things which are easy (reddit, hackernews, reading the news, watching TV), make sure to exercise, make sure to do something creative, and set singular goals for yourself (This week I want to write a blog post, my next goal is to develop a small program to do X). Finally, as you grow and continue to develop healthier habits it gets easier and easier to continue.

So if you spend one week making sure to work towards your current singular goal, you're more likely to do so the next week.

Also, starting is always the hardest part. Sometimes it's as simple as just opening the computer, closing the browser, and starting to futz around with some code. It takes about ten or fifteen minutes for me and then I'm in there like swim wear! And I can keep going for quite some time. But starting is always a bit arduous.

Anyways, this is a bit winding but that's my opinion on your question.
When do we hesitate to bet with 50/50 probability of winning or losing?
Fascinating to see how much information you can extract from text files and terminal commands (+ lots of piping). Makes you wonder how efficient GUIs really are for data analysis.
I was under the impression that the House of Saud supports fundamentalism just so they can stay in power.
like what?
The unicode standard doesn't include the artwork, only a description of how the symbol should be represented. It's up to individual platforms to provide the art.
Enjoy reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558288 .
This is the French way of writing. See "Simulacra and Simulation" by Baudrillard for more examples of this writing style.
> It might seem like a new fad to you, but emoji were long in use in Japan

And what are dingbat typefaces if not emoji under an other name? Nobody cared when unicode added U+2701 UPPER BLADE SCISSORS and U+273B TEARDROP SPOKED ASTERISK.
Leap-second decision delayed by eight years
This is very nice! What stack are you guys using?
Intro to Blockstore and Blockchain ID Talk
Yes. See the Takata airbag recall (ongoing).
I think I've heard people mention the fires once or twice, but they also seem to be aware that it involved exceptional circumstances and that no lives were at risk. And yes, I've talked about the car with a lot of people outside the tech community too.

I think in terms of safety, Tesla is more associated with things like blowing out the NHTSA rating system.
Since emigrating this summer, I've transferred about £25k ($40k) using TransferWise and been very pleased with the way the service works. I paid far less in fees than any other service I could find a quote for. I was concerned that being in a small European country with its own currency would mean payments took longer, but this wasn't the case.

They're based in the UK, and properly regulated by both the UK and US.

You get a free transfer using a referral link: https://transferwise.com/u/61f8ad

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NPM has decided to risk the life of the entire Node ecosystem by taking on funding. Additionally, they aren't particularly good at npm--only after the much-awaited v3 has it approached a decent piece of software.
Finnish PhD of the year doubles capacity of radio transmitters
The dark side of Toy Story
Airbnb Raises Over $100M as It Touts Strong Growth
Oops, they deleted it. It was a post from Namecheap answering somebody asking if they were going to support Let's Encrypt.

Original question: https://twitter.com/matbacon89/status/667348413470650370

Person's response: https://twitter.com/matbacon89/status/667348648741744640

In between, they _did_ say something like "You'll have to wait and see! :)"

I wonder if they deleted it in light of this blog post, which I find disingenuous: https://blog.namecheap.com/ssl-from-namecheap-whats-the-diff...
I don't completely disagree but it also seems as if we've also seen an increase in people who feel that their life isn't complete unless they live in one of a handful of urban cores. Recent graduates living in really crappy conditions in Manhattan because they couldn't imagine living in Queens was a thing decades ago. Now we're seeing it in places like San Francisco and Seattle.
I'm sorry but i find that article rather myopic. Most of the claims in that article seem more opinion than good research. For those that are interested in getting a balanced view can get their own research on what life is actually like in Saudi Arabia by talking to a large community of expats there that would rather not return to home soil.

That said, Saudi arabia enjoys healthy support from the west and has done so right from its inception. The country is barely 100yrs old and Britain played an instrumental role in creating the country as well as shaping most of the middle east. That has striking parallels to what is going on with ISIS right now.

Here is a well researched lecture on the subject by Dr Yasir Qadhi:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=659f5wuTgzY

You'll need to watch part 2 as well to get the full picture and if you have time might also want to watch the video on the creation of Israel which is equally damning.

And regards ISIS here's Putin's statement -- that interestingly was not covered by western media -- but is congruent with the lecture and my point above.

http://youtu.be/t1qHORKKLls

Please feel free to do your own independent, balanced research.
I think I probably agree with your general point that the mandated KYC practices are not enough to protect you and your stakeholders in and of themselves. That being said, I think you'd be surprised how much fraud fails to get through basic KYC checks. (I did not downvote you fwiw).
Philosophy saved me from poverty and drugs: that’s why I teach it to kids
Academic rigor applied to industry would be a type of overfitting. Just as one example, customers don't care how accurate a fitness monitor is, as long as it is vaguely effective. Yet, few journals or funding agencies would buy your claim of building a fitness monitor unless you can rigorously demonstrate its performance and novelty.

Of course, the story is different in pharma and a few such fields. Theranos is an example of how lack of rigor and openness can damage healthcare startups.
That might be the case. But it's also more suspect when your username was created a mere 2 minutes before you posted this. You should be using the same, preferably established, HN username.
The article's tone isn't alarming, but I'd guess the OP meant alarmist, which kind of fits.

The author's argument certainly doesn't present a clear path from the inciting incident to any of the conclusions, so I also feel comfortable dismissing it. There isn't much use for emotional persuasive writing about technological issues outside of handwringing, and handwringing is boring to many of us.
I admire your optimism but most people are far too cheap to pay money for anything. Hence ads everywhere on every surface is always a winning strategy...
Would be an intetesting article if network traffic would`ve been tracked. The difference between accessing the contact list in a 30sec intervall vs additonally sending the gathered information to their servers is a huge difference. Be it power consumption or traffic wise. Maybe its a mechanism to prevent stand by mode? I made the experience that, if i turn on power save mode i only recieve messages if i actively open whatsapp.
I won't miss them.

I just spent a few days in Seattle's downtown, pieces of which have a very outdoor mall feeling to it. Ridiculous amounts of shopping clustered very close together. Felt like way more fun than any enclosed mall.

Maybe part of it is perceived efficiency on my part (the window shopper) - I felt like I can find more variety and competition in several square blocks than in a typical mall.
Yeah, but it's still fun to actually bolt the missile fins onto the car, even if it's being driven by an unstoppable maniac :)
Blitzscaling Playlist: The Art of Creating “Scale-Ups”
This sounds great, except some of us are wary about using an OS with a built-in keylogger and ambient sound recorder.
This. The oil that turns the crank of industry and provides the energy that produces so much of every comfort we hold dear in the west finances the very evil that seeks to destroy it. Until we end our reliance of oil, the middle east and Islam will continue to threaten the West's existence. It's a horrible irony.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303...
I think this should be a separate feature: highlighted historical comments.
Why would yahoo miss them?
People have been saying that for more than 50 years.
For example - any thread even tangentially related to the Paris attacks recently. There are probably still subthreads simmering over whether Islam is really a death cult or no more evil than Christianity or whether the West really had it coming, or whether maybe we should just nuke all of Asia and be done with it. Except really it was all a false flag operation by the New World Order because Snowden. For a while, the comments page was practically toxic - and every bit of it entirely predictable.

I'm starting to see now why some people say engineers can be prone to rigid and extremist political views. When your day job requires you to prove things to a certain degree of correctness, maybe it makes sense to believe the world and people should work the same way. There seems to be far too much cynicism, vitriol and condescension here around some subjects, and too many people who seem to think those are the qualities of a keen intellect. Maybe politics is one of those fields everyone just thinks they're an expert at.
I had a Mazda and a Toyota that had recalls for seat belts. 2 of the last 3 cars I owned. Pretty common.
> He's likely bilingual (or tri, or quad, or more) since he's from Iceland.

Not quite, unfortunately. I just moved here a couple of months ago (I'm from the US). I am taking Icelandic classes though, and I do speak a bit of American Sign Language from my undergrad time at RIT. So I'm working on it.

Also yeah, getting the hell off of reddit/facebook/hn is extremely important. Sometimes HN is good for finding interesting reading (I hit hckrnews.com once or twice a day to find good links) but always remember the golden rule of the internet: http://shouldireadthecomments.com
Mercedes recalls 2,600 S-Class models over seat belt
Are we are war or considering invading a country that practices fgm? As last time I looked we weren't heading to any African countries with our troops. And fgm is an African issue not a Muslim one... Ethiopia is one of the worst countries for it and is a Christian majority country http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23314088
Then you should be prefacing the title with "Show HN:"
Agreed. There was a crazy study that showed that 75% of American workers identify their boss as the worst and most stressful part of their job and that 60% of US workers would take a new boss over a pay raise.

But you're at such a disadvantage when interviewing -- how do you vet your potential manager? And when your financial welfare is on the line, would you really pass up an opportunity on this count alone?
Why TripAdvisor excels at product management
Making Midori completely asynchronous
Visual studio 2013 supports enough C99 that you can get by (VLAs are the main omission). Visual Studio 2015 is supposedly fully conforming.
I have a US chip card where I've set a PIN for transaction purposes, so it's not signature only, but it'll still accept both. That said, all of the chip card readers that I've used (few and far between still...) seem to have been configured for signature only, so I haven't been prompted for my PIN yet.
A dingbat typeface can't be easily used within regular text of another typeface, which is by and large how emoji are used.

The debate isn't about how to standardize the display of symbols on platforms, but how to allow the incorporation those symbols into everyday text.
If you don't have any specific knowledge of the details of the implementation, your opinion on the technical justification of a given feature isn't really all that compelling.

If you do, you should probably cite it in your comment.
Is this the shortest Todo MVC implementation at 84 lines?
It's a bot. It's called XanBot [0]

Twitch's chat protocol is compatible with IRC, but IRC doesn't support all new features, so things like replacing banned words with <Message Deleted> won't show up.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/2dkro7/a_detailed_g...
What is an A Player?
Convox (YC S15) launches Grid service to automate code deployment
I mostly use existing components, because they're there and (usually) of high quality and integrate well together. But on a project of any size you'll need custom development. If your project is so small you don't need any custom development, you might have been happier with a simpler CMS in the first place. I've always liked the description of Drupal as a content management framework.
I misread as "How we should talk to AIs."

Thought this was the AI (aka Stephan Wolfram) telling humans how it'd prefer we interact with it.
> I didn't know that they are now letting users root Nexus devices without having to use exploits and such...

If by "letting users root" you mean providing instructions on using ADB to unlock the bootloader, install a custom recovery, sideload SuperSU, and reboot into a fully rooted device, then no. Google doesn't provide these instructions, but they also don't lock the phone down to the point that you have to find an exploit and pray you don't brick the phone. No exploits necessary on a Nexus, just standard tools and instructions available on any reputable Android dev site.
I think that this is a good approach - even better would be to include the version specifiers in the code itself...

B = import("b", ">1.0")
C = import("c", ">1.1 && <2.0")

etc.
I don't really understand how the privacy implications of the 23,000th access are much different from the 1st except for grabbing the info of new contacts. If you gave them permission to grab it from time to time, any access rate above once a year is about the same.
> Increased risk of losing everything to the American legal system: non-zero

Nah. The worst that will happen is you'll get a letter from a lawyer demanding you take it down. It will be a completely fake letter, with zero basis in law, but if you are worried you can take it down at that point at no monetary cost to you.

Make yourself easily contractible to encourage early contact.

You can also make a way for them to submit a rebuttal that you'll post, that works too.
The author has a point. Most of the 9/11 attackers were Saudis. Bin Laden was a Saudi. Saudi Arabia is a dysfunctional country propped up by oil money.

It's even more insular than it used to be. Saudis used to send their kids to the US to go to college, with Government funding. Now Saudi Arabia has enough educational institutions that they don't do that.

Years ago, I met a Saudi girl finishing Stanford who mentioned she was going to drive to New Orleans. That route meant a long drive through the boring part of the US. She said it was the only time in her life she'd be allowed to drive on a long car trip. That was decades ago, and Saudi Arabia still doesn't let women drive.

Here's a good set of articles by a Saudi expat in Britain: http://muttawa.blogspot.com/
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> sex slavery

Non Muslims have considerable involvement in sex slavery and other forms of modern slavery.
Hey - so I tweeted that...and to be very clear, nothing in that tweet should have been implied as a yes. But since it was potentially construed as a yes, it was deleted to avoid confusion.
It's more of an extension to the cache philosophy. Service Workers let you handle caches more directly and describe what your site looks like when you have no internet at all. In a lot of cases that doesn't really make sense, but if you have some critical content that all your users need, even offline, you can make sure it's always there. You could also do stuff like: prevent all images from loading unless the user requests them, show a handy offline page (instead of the dinosaur), and importantly if you're using the app shell model, users can seamlessly pin your site to their homescreen, providing a very app-like feel (splash screen, no browser url bar, first-class switcher status).

This is also a particularly big deal in countries where wifi and LTE are less prevalent, or where users regularly switch to airplane mode to conserve data. According to Tal Oppenheimer's talk [0] at the recent Chrome Dev Summit, an hour of minimum-wage work in India would pay for about fifteen web pages' worth of data cap. In that regard, being aggressive in how and what you cache makes a lot of sense.

0: https://developer.chrome.com/devsummit/sessions/emerging
> Emoji is a fad

Considering emoji are older than many of their users, that's one hell of an assertion.

> In 15 years, we'll be wondering why Unicode is clogged with so many stupid symbols.

Yes because U+1F32E TACO is so much stupider than U+27B0 CURLY LOOP, U+2554 BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE DOWN AND RIGHT, U+1031B OLD ITALIC LETTER ERS, U+3375 SQUARE OV or fucking U+10472 SHAVIAN LETTER ICE

> I don't hate Emoji or anything

Yes, yes you do.

> it just seems unnecessary as part of the Unicode standard

It's part of messages, being able to display both regular text and emoji mixed together without requiring incompatible custom image embedding extensions is useful and convenient.
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>And when the oil runs out, just another ISIS.

Or when the demand for oil diminishes (holding supply constant) as battery-electric transport becomes widespread.

Not only are batteries becoming less expensive every year, but the deployment of autonomous vehicle networks (self driving Ubers) will make battery-electric transport more cost competitive by distributing the high fixed cost of the battery between many users.
"more opinion than good research"?

The page says "The Opinion Pages"

MSM is full of opinion; I'm just happy when they label it opinion and not "news".
Just switched from Rdio to Apple Music. Love it so far. Nice clean UI, great recommendations, huge catalog, 3 month free trail, nice Android app, backed by a mega-corp with a war chest most countries would envy...it's a solid bet that it will only get better.
Islam is not threatening the West's existence.
Mmmm so fast. The most important feature of a good site, outside of good content, IMO. Nice work.
Ex-CIA director: Snowden should be 'hanged' for Paris
In all possible worlds, bitcoin has to begin with use as a currency-of-currency before it can operate stand alone. Which isn't something you necessarily disagree with, based on your comment. But I think it is interesting because it is a natural and necessary step before the "bitcoin and bitcoin only" applications start to really develop. Bitcoin needs legacy support first before a transition to those really lofty bitcoin ambitions.
Find a card using the MasterCard or VISA base rate, with no additional fee.

As an example, I was charged CHF20.00 on 5 October, which the card statement says was converted at a rate of 1.4728 to a £13.58 charge on my account¹. XE.com has that day's average rate as 1.4785.

There aren't going to be any other benefits to the card, but that's OK — I have another card for spending in pounds.

The alternative is a pre-paid credit card.

¹ Halifax Clarity.
On the phone I once said, "In my opinion he is dishonest". I was sued in US District court. In total it cost me $3,000 and I got off easy.

My attorney thought I might win the case but a single day of court would cost $6,000 at the time. I settled.
This is so on point. A prime example of the hypocrisy of western governments. Until we have leaders that truly do what they claim to believe, we deserve everything that comes upon us.