skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see where the writer of that article is coming from, having been born in 1950, Canada would've started its "metrification" in his/her 20s. Arguably a very late time to switch your mode of thought from imperial to metric.

However, the key point Orwell makes: "But I have never heard a Frenchman say, ‘He is a hundred and forty-two centimetres high’" is, quite simply, false. To my Dutch ears, hearing about a 1.42m high man does bring up a vivid image of a very short person who'd have problems grabbing anything from a kitchen counter. Thus, it seems more like a legacy problem, rather than the imperial system being intrinsically more relatable than the metric system.

A better test would be to see how long it would take someone who is unfamiliar with either systems, to pick up either. Does it take kids longer to learn metric than imperial? I doubt that..
TL;DR; The insurance company is basically pointing out that the sickest people are costing them the most money.
Not sure. VNC is a program that runs on a computer. But we don't need a computer to simply relay input/output to a desktop. What I am suggesting is such a setup. We already have cheap wireless keyboards and mouse. We just need a lcd with a reciever/transmitter with sufficient bandwidth and bundle them together in a compact package, that act as a dumb terminal of sorts.
Those weren't a "me-too". By all accounts, google search was insanely better than its alternatives (Lycos/AltaVista/Yahoo). Nobody paralled the speed and storage of email in the browser that Gmail did at the time of its launch. Is that "me too"?
But you're right, the key here isn't me-too. Android was arguably a me-too iOS. Chrome was arguably me-too Firefox/Safari. So why /did/ the me-too Google+ flop so impressively against Facebook? What did they learn from that failure and the Android/Chrome successes to be able to successfully outperform Amazon in (arguably) it's most important service with a me-too product?
This is a good point -- I'd forgotten that wikipedia articles aren't translated into every language.
Especially if employees know their manager/org does stuff like this, employees will almost like bidders in a game theoretic auction; trying to keep flexible schedules, predicting the likelihood/quality of other vacuums coming up, evaluating how they stack up against their colleagues, etc..

I can imagine unhealthy situations where employees feel obliged to take on a vacuum, or have to compete for a vacuum they don't actually want.
Here is an overview of what is involved in condo fees:
https://thebaverstockteam.wordpress.com/yesterdays-news/ever...

Here is a reddit discussion from 2 years ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/1ektio/my_hoa_dues_...
I think that's a very important point that the article misses - some people will use spare work time to improve things they see could be done better rather than volunteering to do what their manager thinks needs to be done.

If you're a creative developer, or you have a passion for a specific area, then it's easy to ignore "unassigned work" in favour of doing things that you want to do instead. There can be a great deal of value in that that any manager needs to recognise. Someone who isn't voluntarily picking up unassigned work isn't (necessarily) failing to show leadership - they might be leading in an area where work isn't being created, whether it's assigned or not.
"Bundled with transmitter/receiver" is the tricky part. How would you configure such device? How it would know where and how to convert/send/receive signal? To solve those basic problems you'll need some computational power.
There we arrive at thin clients (for example like those: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/cloud-client-computing?stp...). Some of them do have wireless connectivity...
> 1. If a manager leaves work unassigned and you pick it up, prepare to have a LOT more work dumped on you in the future for no reward.

Why do you assume "no reward"? What kind of company/manager wouldn't reward an employee who goes that extra mile?
They have a makefile target called generate

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/blob/v1.0.0/Makefile#L31

Reading the code, it looks like the most important lines are around here: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/blob/v1.0.0/private/model/...
Yep. Cis is the opposite of trans. (From the Latin, and used that way in chemistry.)
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This practice can easily be abused or/and cause unintented consequences. For example, once employees know this is a short cut for promotion, they will focus a lot of their energy and attention to find 'the void' and try to fill it, or act like they can fill it, thus neglecting the real work that need to be done.

In fact, this could be a cultural issue where everybody tries to act like taking a lead (usually by blanket emails including the management team that say "XXX has been launched!! Contrats Y!!"), however you will find behind the backdrop, things are just half-baked or down right totally fake, because real execution is boring and not getting attention. So once an excitement dies down, people will scramble to find another 'void' to fill. You may argue the manager can check the work, but in a big cooperation, the middle managers are most vulnerable, and thus they care much more about their own asses than to ensure their staff get real work done.

In other words, this tactic is only applicable when the company is small, say, less than 20 people, and the boss knows everybody and the projects well.
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DO is not even close to be compared with AWS/GCE, the latter league, especially AWS, provides more sophisticated services that try to wrap some common design patterns behind, and present user an API for developer/programmer to interact with based their usage case.

DO is nice, and I use it for lightweight stuff like building a website, but only for that.
> That means that Google can offer ever-increasing lowered prices to customers

Hmm, maybe things have changed since, but last I checked their offerings were more expensive than any of the main competitors by a nontrivial margin.
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Poetic justice for YouTube, who grew off the back of willful ignorance of music copyright for the first few years before cracking down.
Ugh. Hate missing those. Thanks.
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I don't like the word. It's no less legitimising than 'ISIS', because it literally just means Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, but in Arabic. Yes, it obscures the meaning slightly to English speakers, but if they know what it means they will know they are also called the Islamic State. And choosing to call them 'Daesh' because they don't like it seems rather childish.
Imperialist wars. Who in the West is going to attack another Western state?
Thanks.

Don't you think it's time to automate the URL changing functionality?
You mean, like an X terminal?

Actually, a Chromebook is kind of like that - a browser only.
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In the same way wireless keyboards and mouses work. You use a receiver/transmitter pair. It does not require any computational power. A receiver can be tuned to a particular transmitter. We might have to encrypt the display transmission. But it am sure it can be done using dedicated hardware.
This crosses into personal attack, which is not allowed on HN. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
Oddly enough, these aren't things that we've historically gone to war over.
Most. For most employers, an employee is a cost / benefit thing (see also: capitalism). The more work an employee does for the least amount of money, the better value that employee is to the employer.

Relevant to HN, this is common in SV; fixed working hours / contracts (i.e. 40 hr workweeks) - which unions have fought hard for to achieve - are frowned upon, working overtime, evenings, weekends, and odd hours are encouraged, and people are expected to be available for work pretty much 24/7, and to be doing something work / profession-related outside of work too (think hackathons, meetups, hobby / OS projects, etc).

Mind you my sweeping generalisation may not be accurate, I don't live / work there.
Anyone tried ICMP tunnelling? :)
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This is really great. A couple of my favourite quotes so far:

"Most of the structural elements have no purpose, and bridges are instead supported by a mix of perplexing whimsy, directorial ignorance, and nothing."

"(Not that it really matters because apparently nothing matters, but the Golden Gate Bridge isn’t long enough to span the distance depicted even if the structural forces could be resolved.)"
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The biggest thief of land in that region (and in most of the rest of Romania) is the Romanian state itself. Land that was confiscated under communist rule is only given back or compensated for after many years of lawsuits against the state (in some cases decades), which drags her heels in an attempt to outlive the bringers of these suits.

The state has enormous resources compared to the people involved and so they tend to either lose or fail to collect if and when there finally is a judgment. During my time there I learned of two families in this situation and it is not as if I know a whole lot of Romanians.

Quite possibly the land-grab under the communists is yet another (direct or indirect) factor in driving land-scarcity for extremely poor, small-time farmers like this. Unfortunately they are so poor that if that's the case they are not going to be able to get the state to give back any land. That's mostly reserved to those that are wealthy enough to see that whole process through and then wealthy enough to force the state to pay up or give back their possession.

Quite a few people simply die waiting for a resolution of these cases.
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Did humans approach Patagonia more than 18,000 years ago?
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I never heard about such a device but I have a Motorola LAPDOCK to control my raspberry. I guess the raspberry could be adapted to control a distant desktop (adding a wifi or bluetooth card, a battery of some sort and a VNC-like software)

Or even using a Motorola LAPDOCK + Smartphone with remote-control app

See Motorola Lapdock: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004M17D62/
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I'm holding out for the pre-pre accelerator program.
This idea is based on a premise I don't think is at all obvious: that the person who volunteers for a job is necessarily the best person for a job.
When I read something like this I always think: "The future is fun"
> However ... when I was unemployed, I was very happy that my doctor had free samples from her rep of $DRUG_THAT_KEEPS_ME_ALIVE. Our pediatrician also had free samples for some of the things our kid needed.

Just remember, public health care is communist! Better dead than red.
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The first large city.
> MAX_PATH in xnu (the OS X kernel) is 1024 so it's not unsurprising that things get weird when you have paths at least 1025 characters long as in his example.

What is surprising is the asymmetry: you can create the symlink, but cannot remove it.
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On the flipside, the kind of company that considers your HN username a compelling data point on your resume is probably a fun company to work for.

This is exactly why it doesn't hurt to include it. I live and work in London and if someone applied for one of my jobs and had their HN username on their CV, I would check it out immediately. The fact is, it shows an active interest in the field outside of your day-to-day work. I can't think of any circumstance where it would have a negative impact.
> That sounds like something out of Borat.

It is.

My uncle in Eastern Europe used to do it. He was saying he's going "fishing". Wondering why he needed the extra car battery... Came back in the morning with a mountain of fish. Dumped it in the middle of his yard, then called his whole neighbourhood to get free fish.

Sometimes visiting him involves pulling out an illegal to own Soviet sniper rifle and shooting rounds in the air, in the middle of the village.

But nobody does anything. Why? Well, because he is friends with the head of local police...

That kind of describes how things are done there.
> Seriously, 5MB of RAM dedicated to each socket in the kernel?

Debian 8 seems to have a default of 6 MiB. So, the "absurdly high receive buffer" might not be cloudflare's fault.
Thanks. I wonder if this analysis will be reproducible though (they don't mention any parameters...):

>"Phylogenetic analysis
Phylogenetic relationships were estimated from comparisons of predicted protein sequences. Sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL (Higgins and Sharp, 1988, 1989). Evolutionary distances between all pairs of sequences were computed using Kimura's empirical method (Kimura, 1983; eqn. 4.8) to estimate the number of superimposed amino acid replacements; sites at which there was a gap in any sequence in the alignment were excluded from all comparisons. Phylogenetic relationships were estimated from these distances by the neighbor-joining method (Saitou and Nei, 1987). The reliability of branching orders was estimated by the bootstrap approach (Felsenstein, 1985). These methods were implemented using CLUSTAL V (Higgins et al., 1992).

Nucleotide accession numbers All sequences were submitted to GenBank and are available under accession numbers U03994-U04018."

It looks like those sequences are a mixture of the various proteins (env, pol, etc) so it would take some time to figure out which is which. I don't feel it like right now. It seems like getting the sequences from genbank and then aligning using default params with clustalw would be closest to their method. If someone wants to do it:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/
http://www.genome.jp/tools/clustalw/
How is it unique? It's the situation the DREAM act was supposed to address and plenty of screamers are about that.
Yeah, that paragraph was just an aside, but anyway.

> Those future market segments affects his current decision to spend (go into debt) $150k+ for his medical degree.

I think the problem here is that we let him make the decision which should be really responsibility of the whole society to make. If he didn't go to debt (and got a salary instead while is he studying), it would be IMHO perfectly OK for society to say "we changed our minds, now you have to work for minimum wage" (and he would have replied "F Y" and perhaps got a better arrangement). This is normal acceptable order of business (that things change). And in sane countries, degrees are for free (well obviously you have to work, and you can even get a stipend) for that very reason.

So in case of market segmentation, we are trading off some efficiency in the future for the fact that the whole society doesn't bear the risk of the investment. But is it really needed, to make this trade-off? What is wrong with society bearing that risk as a whole? That's what I was questioning in that paragraph.

I think the real problem though is that the whole idea of investment is not very compatible with the theoretical description of the free market (perfect competition). So to recoup investment, you need to introduce some inefficiency. And it can be abused - you can produce more inefficiency than is needed to recoup it.
Well but palinca that was mentioned in passing doesn't help either... with killing, anger and then regret later next day.
Would like to try.. any damage possible to eyes or skin?
All over the world, neighbours kill each other over strips of land
I think the AWS documentation is very good. It's not a simple platform though, there's a lot of complexity that comes with the flexibility and extent of their offerings.
I just arrived at work in Copenhagen by bicycle not far from Marmormolen. And they are right almost no one in a hurry is going to take that elevator with a bicycle. I still like that it's in the tender though.
How would you solve it?

PGP and submit key when you want to submit your screenplay?
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The bridge in Bilbao is a nice solution, more practical because it doesn't require to travel to the top of a building and down from the other one. Furthermore it looks prettier, but this is subjective. However you can't use it when boats are crossing so maybe this is the reason for the design they are using in Copenhagen: unrestricted access.
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Those don't as dupes because the story didn't get significant attention.

jacquesm is correct: the story was good and therefore should not have been flagged. It isn't fair to flag based on source site alone. Many crappy sites (including this one) produce the occasional good article, and that is what HN is interested in.

That said, it wasn't hard to find a less sensational article on the same topic, so we changed the url from
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3324173/The-l...
Marissa seems like someone who unlikable... Her facial expressions don't seem pleasant.
So did they follow up with the promise to relax the contest framework (as mentioned by Durov in the comments)?
The alternative bridge mentioned at the end is an example of a transporter bridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter_bridge
You might be interested in reading Red Plenty, which is an historical novel based on the people that tried to achieve this.

http://redplenty.com/Red_Plenty/Front_page.html
Backup/archive storage is a use case where storing your data far away from any processing power does not matter.

Far away in the sense of bandwidth, latency and transfer costs.

For (nearly) everything else, the opposite is true. Google Cloud stands out in the PaaS-world because of their excellent internal network.

While an excellent offer in their own domain, Backblaze B2 is not comparable at all.
IEC 61508 documents an estimate of 700 to 1200 fit/MBit (fit = "failure in time"; per 10e-9 hours of operation) and gives the following sources:

a) Altitude SEE Test European Platform (ASTEP) and First Results in CMOS 130 nm SRAM. J-L. Autran,
P. Roche, C. Sudre et al. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on Volume 54, Issue 4, Aug. 2007
Page(s):1002 - 1009

b) Radiation-Induced Soft Errors in Advanced Semiconductor Technologies, Robert C. Baumann, Fellow,
IEEE, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEVICE AND MATERIALS RELIABILITY, VOL. 5, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER
2005

c) Soft errors' impact on system reliability, Ritesh Mastipuram and Edwin C Wee, Cypress Semiconductor,
2004

d) Trends And Challenges In VLSI Circuit Reliability, C. Costantinescu, Intel, 2003, IEEE Computer Society

e) Basic mechanisms and modeling of single-event upset in digital microelectronics, P. E. Dodd and L. W.
Massengill, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 583–602, Jun. 2003.

f) Destructive single-event effects in semiconductor devices and ICs, F. W. Sexton, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.,
vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 603–621, Jun. 2003.

g) Coming Challenges in Microarchitecture and Architecture, Ronen, Mendelson, Proceedings of the IEEE,
Volume 89, Issue 3, Mar 2001 Page(s):325 – 340

h) Scaling and Technology Issues for Soft Error Rates, A Johnston, 4th Annual Research Conference on
Reliability Stanford University, October 2000

i) International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), several papers.

If that's correct, the math is simple: you have bit flips in your PC about once a day.

It's just that (a) you often won't notice those transient errors (one pixel in your multi-megapixel photo is one bit off) and (b) a lot of your RAM is probably unused.
If you're just looking for a single server to let you run a website, AWS isn't really a good fit for you -- and they probably don't want your business. They (as you found out), aren't really setup to provide you the kind of support you need.

When you outgrow Digital Ocean and want to set up larger distributed infrastructure that spans datacenter and regions for high availability (and you hire the people that can run it), then AWS (or Google Compute Engine, Azure, etc) will be a better fit for you.
They get that date by assuming humans didn't bring it to the island though, they don't do anything to rule that out:

>"Barring the possibility that humans introduced multiple species-specific SIV lineages to the wild monkey populations of Bioko, the mainland and island SIVdrl variants must have been evolving independently since Bioko became isolated ~10,000 yr B.P., and perhaps longer given the high levels of genetic diversity seen within local SIV populations."

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/329/5998/1487

Interesting stuff. I hadn't thought of this until now, but from these few papers I don't think anyone has tried very hard to rule out the human to simian transmission idea.
We found out in the 1970's that flying home from Viet Nam was still too fast and still too much of an abrupt culture shock for many returning soldiers.

Long slow boat rides and a quiet, personal welcome home seem to have the most success in easing people back to normal.

That is, of course, as long as the theater/front wasn't actually IN the country you also happened to live in and call home. Small detail easily forgotten.
I've found, in my temperate industrialized urban area, an astonishing amount of 'wild' food, all free for the taking: apple, pear, cherry, plum, berries, rose hips, hazelnut, walnut...

One fall I picked so many kilograms of apples that I still had a few wrinkled (but edible) left-overs by the following spring - all stored carefully, unrefrigerated, in a cellar. Other fruits are preserved as jellies, or in jars, or simply frozen.

It angered me last year to see a fully laden plum tree in a parking lot, with plums squished on the ground, and a row of terraced houses nearby, with kids playing outside... Their stupid parents had ignored the bounty literally on their doorstep.
In Danish architecture sometimes it seems that aesthetics comes before convenience.
Note that these buffers are not only relevant for unread data of the user space application, they also reflect the TCP window size - this means the sending side knows how much room the receiver has at all times , and can throw that much data at it without receiving a ACK - so there's a fine dance between network speed , latency, and this buffer size.
he meant DO beats them in design, documentation, UX. of course, AWS/GCE are more powerful.
Wouldn't that be terribly inefficient? I'm hazarding a guess here, but I think that no matter what kind of networking technology you use, it's going to be dreadfully slow as compared to doing it locally.

Plus, the laptop would lose 90% of its mobility advantage, as it would always have to be in the (network-) vicinity of a desktop.
Isn't it simple enough calculation:

Will someone die if the data gets corrupted? No - then no ECC should be enough. And you should have checksums everywhere anyway.
This code by Cognitect is a fairly literal port of Clojure transducers to Python. If you'd like to see a more Pythonic interpretation of transducers, take a look at Sixty-North's alternative https://github.com/sixty-north/python-transducers