skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to hear about the errors you're experiencing; if there's any bumps in the road we want to smooth them out ASAP.

Please email cloud-sql@google.com with your instance names and the error message, and I'll get someone to look into it for you.

Second Gen is indeed always on. Crunch the numbers for your use case, I've been told by the pricing mavens that for many use cases Second Gen ends up cheaper. And yeah, Second Gen doesn't follow your AppEngine app the way it used to. This will be a call you need to make based on your use case. If you are low-traffic and highly latency-bound and your app runs on App Engine, first gen may (may) be quicker. For other bounds (I/O, RAM, CPU) you should expect better performance from Second Gen.
In contrast to other Michael Lewis fare, Flash Boys sounds poorly researched and based of the anecdotal experience of about 3 people.

You'd have to do a _lot_ of buying on other other exchanges to move exhaust the order book to the point that you can make a profit, and there is no way of knowing that the "buy activity" that your "tripwire" detects is, in fact, a harbinger of larger orders on the way to other exchanges. It could just be a single buy order at your tripwire exchange. You have no way of knowing.

Read "Flash Boys: Not so Fast" for a highy detailed rebuttal of Flash Boys. It's written by an HFT trader, so it's not intending to be unbiased, but from a logical perspective it does seem to demolish Lewis's points.

http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F...
I hope they choose the technology that will lift millions of people out of crushing poverty by providing cheap, reliable energy for everyone.
If you've got the geography for it, it's cheaper and has a long history of deployment which makes it a relatively safe bet.
> * I've been giving intermittent fasting a try and it's been quite amazing to me to realize how I've always equated the slightest feeling of hunger with the idea that "I must eat, I'm starving!". I think this is pretty common.*

Not as extreme, but recently started to eat less for lunch(before: eating out, burger/sandwich + fries + drink, etc, now: homemade food, fruits) and already I don't get the afternoon snooze, and haven't needed coffee in a long time!

also haven't been to any fast food restaurants or had soda in a few months, hopefully I can break the one-year mark!
> TLS's Mac-then-encrypt CBC was known not to be IND-CCA secure, and a few years later Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo turned that property into BEAST. Then there was CRIME, then Lucky13, and finally TLS MtE CBC had to be put to sleep.

One important thing to note however is that most (all?) of the TLS attacks rely on opening many thousands or millions of connections via scripting. Without this, these attacks would not be possible. A messaging system like telegram is not scriptable and hence, should not be exploitable in the same sorts of ways.

Of course, as you say, better solutions like Signal and OTR exist.

I'm really disappointed with the project management of Signal though, the shitstorm with F-Droid and Moxie's strange obsession with using 3rd party analytics software in privacy software, the fact they pulled socialist millionaires (zero knowlege proof based verifications) and left only automatic "let's trust the server" and QR code verification, the strong reliance upon phone numbers which still hasn't been broken even with the desktop release, etc... ChatSecure and similar might be a better option.
Sketch2UI: Wireframe to UI Design
Because they might be liable for fines if the IRS determines that is a misclassification. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misclassification_of_employees... with the misclassification at Microsoft ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp#IRS_tax_rulings ) as a well-known example.
Mainstream climate science isn't about a total wiping out of humanity but a few degrees of change in temperature, extreme weather, more deserts, floods etc.,...

You are sounding like a climate skeptic.

What does Yudkowsky ask you to "obviously dismiss"?

Near as I can tell, your only critique of Yudkowsky is that he asks you to consider various philosophical and scientific edge cases that are outside of the social mainstream, and are therefore somehow wrong in a way you refuse to discuss.
White Flight is not a recent change. It's primarily associated with the post WWII movemnt of white people from cities to the suburbs. If anything its inverse white flight that is driving gentrification now.
> if there is already a drug that cures 75% of cancers and a new drug cures 85%, a clinical trial to detect that 10% difference will require a lot more people (and cost a lot more money).

That makes sense. Thank you.

> Additionally cost-efficiency is not a valid reason to allow a new drug (according to the FDA), you've got to be better than the last one.

Really? I did not know that. On the face of it, that seems absurd. If Treatment A cures at a 75% rate and costs $1M and Treatment B cures at a 72% rate (worse) and costs $10, it seems as if it would still be valuable to the market, no? Or am I mis-reading you?
> My problem with Netflix is that I rarely find streaming films I would be interested in watching

The Netflix TV catalog is very deep. What my wife does is pick a show that has 7+ seasons, and then starts watching it. If she likes it after the first few episodes, then generally it will occupy her for a few months.
Despite being almost 20 years old, the only thing about this that sounds anachronistic is extolling the virtues of exceptions failing at runtime.
> iOS devices, for some reason, monetize way lower than Android

I imagine since iOS third party cookies are transient, you're going to have much lower CPMs on ads since they can't do much intelligent targeting on history or external data.
Yep, it's a fantastic resource. It seems that he recently started improving the resolutions of the images in his alchemical emblem collection too, which was my biggest problem with the site in the past.
Best iOS Email Apps for Privacy
Some people in this thread rightfully raising a valid question that this cheating would be present in models of other manufacturers so why VW was only targeted and that with such a big fine announced in media which toppled VW's stocks by 20% (effectively losing $100B of market value) and also causing irreparable harm to German auto industry.

SO, you need to see the bigger picture here.
There's a geo-political angle to it.
On sept12 [0] reported:
>>>
Germany is surprisingly quitting the anti-Putin Alliance created by the United States: Germany now officially welcomes Moscow’s readiness to engage with Syria and launches an initiative to end the war with the Russians and the French. Thus, the stream of refugees is to be stopped. Germany put thousands of soldiers on standby.

Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen told der Spiegel, they Welcome Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s involvement in the fight against the extremist Islamic State. It is in the common interest, to combat the IS, she said.
A spokesman of the Foreign Ministry also said Germany would welcome a greater engagement of Russia in the fight against the IS. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier even announced, with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and the French colleague Laurent Fabius, a push to start to end the civil war in Syria. Lavrov and Fabius are expected in Berlin on Saturday.
<<<

Then within a week, this VW scandal suddenly comes into public thrashing Germany major auto industry. On 22Sept [1] reported:
>>> What you need to know about the Volkswagen scandal

Now you see the results: Germany France etc have now joined US coalition in the name of fighting ISIS. but there's more to it, which you can read in my comment [2].

0: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/09/12/syria-germany-breaks...
1L http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/22/what-you-need-to-know-about-t...
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10580490
No one hates you. You're not really doing anything worthy of hate.

Have you noticed that you keep generating falsehoods because you keep jumping to conclusions or making assumptions about me? (I keep having to point these things out. None of which you have bothered to acknowledge, by the way. That is not intellectually honest.) On the contrary, I have often encountered de-facto hate. To the point where police got involved, caught the perpetrators, then had to ask me not to press charges to keep the event of their records.

You're just making grandiose statements about your comprehension of other human beings

There is a wealth of historical and philosophical writing about how group psychology and hate works. You might recognize some of the names, like Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. There are a number of relevant psychological studies as well. If you study those writings then re-read what you have written here on HN and were honest with yourself, you might well become embarrassed.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_asymmetric_insight

It's amazing how people who have succumbed to ideologies of hate and who are self-justifying this manage to point fingers in a way that implicates themselves -- and how unaware they are of this.
Here's the thing. If there is a marketplace where you set your own rates, you can still be a contractor. That's one of the tests that marketplaces like Uber failed.
Ha, thanks for that nice explanation.
Indeed, and it's not for lack of interest. Trying to imitate European foodstuffs is a huge part of what our food industry does. But since it's produced by the same industrial machine as everything else, it mostly comes out the same. "Greek" yogurt, for instance. Or "Italian" bread. It's as if we understand that Europeans eat better food, but we can't seem to figure out what makes it that way.
I wear my hiking boots. I can stand in those things all day. (Vasque is the brand, but I can't seem to find the exact pair on REI). They are plane leather, and look decent in a pair of slacks (though I only wear slacks when my jeans are dirty). Plus they'll last longer than any other business casual shoe you will ever wear.
What's interesting is that of the vendors interviewed in the article, only The Deck seems to be taking the approach of "Maybe they'll stop blocking us if we make less intrusive ads." Everyone else has seemingly flocked to the "Harasss, circumvent, or stonewall the adblockers" strategy.
Those numbers include settlements.

> This quarter, some banks paid out so much in litigation fees — including billable hours, court costs, and settlement payouts
Women Like Being Valued for Sex, as Long as it is by a Committed Partner
Foundation for Emails 2: Making HTML emails suck less, again
Do soldiers remain so healthy-by-the-numbers in the field? I'm wondering if many data points would help to identify individuals on the edge of becoming unfit.
That's a good point, and it is likely that if they did not 'play ball' that they might have been thrown out. But in such a situation you could consider becoming a whistle blower. One thing is for sure, the moment you play along with a scheme like that when the chickens come home to roost you won't be able to deny you were involved and thus likely culpable. Some things are not worth any amount of compensation. Going to jail for some company or ending up holding the bag because everybody else pretends they have no idea why you did what you did would really suck.

Just imagine. Some German engineer was pressured into doing this. I guess it only counts when your decisions materially affect your own situation, in all other situations principles are free. Engineers should stick to their oath, and should use their fraternity to block stupid decisions such as these, even if that leads to individual hardship.

After all, what's next? Bridges that collapse? Buildings that you can't trust? Aicraft manufacturers? You have to draw the line somewhere and it is generally recognized that the engineering profession needs to be trusted by the rest of society if society is to continue to function. You can make mistakes as an engineer but you simply can not be caught even accessory to fraud, that's risking the reputation of the profession as a whole.
So much (great) emphasis on viewing experience, so little emphasis on browsing experience. I've been a customer for over a decade and am just perpetually frustrated; e.g. on the Netflix PS3 app titles automatically start playing when you view their info. So if you wanted to watch that title, it saves you the agony of clicking "Play." If you were just browsing, you now have this thing playing while you're trying to read the synopsis, director, actors, etc. Then, it'll show up in Account Activity as "started" and also affects recommendations ("Based on your interest in...").
Sounds reasonable. How to find small businesses who have problems?
Instead of research on reproducibility, just do reproducible research
Maybe not in the city, but there are towers going up all over the place in London.
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They also have the benefits of being a contractor. No worry about working for multiple companies at the same time. You own your creative work that you get paid to build unless you sign it away with a contract.
This monstrosity:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/12/apples-99-smart-batte...
Please read my other comments with facts supporting it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10718312

actions of this magnitude are generally guided by multiple and often hidden interests/agenda. Only if we able to perceive the bigger picture by analyzing from different angles.
*-Oriented Programming, with Graham Lee
EDIT: I recognize this is a second reply to the same comment, it focusses on a different and important aspect and isn't really related to my other reply.

> That being said, labor and capital should be taxed at the same rate, there being no reason to distinguish them for tax purposes.

At least in the US system, there are two main distinctions made (there are some others, too, but these are the biggies) between labor and capital income, and both have some logic though better options, I think, exist.

(1) Between labor income and all other income (including, but not limited to, capital) -- labor income alone is treated as qualifying for certain social safety net program eligibility and benefits calculations (Social Security and Medicare), and is therefore subject supplemental taxes to fund those benefits. Alternative: make all income qualifying for those programs, and tax all income to fund them.

(2) Between long-term capital gains and most other income (including both short-term capital gains, labor, and other taxable income sources). Because the former are earned over a period of greater than one year, in a system with progressive marginal taxation on annual income, taxing them the same as the latter with no mechanism for accounting for the period over which they were earned -- especially when they are returns earned by sale of holding that aren't regularly repeatable, rather than sales of small subsets of a large pool of assets structured so that long-term gains can be extracted every year -- results in overtaxation when compared to regularly repeatable income streams like labor income. Alternative: tax all income equally, but allow taxpayers unlimited freedom to recognize (and pay taxes on) income in advance of realization, and limited -- but some -- freedom to defer recognition and taxation of some portion of windfall income for a period of years after realization. (This stops long-term capital gains from being a dodge to get low taxes on repeatable income from large holdings, while not unfairly taxing non-repeatable long-term gains, and also more fairly treating irregular labor income.)
We need to create a sort of hybrid copyright and trademark that will solve the mickey mouse problem. So that a company can keep their actually used characters, but that unused stuff goes into the public domain after 25 years plus not being used in the past 5 years.

Why bother? Is there a good reason in the public interest to keep Mickey out of the public domain, or is this a workaround to do as much in the public interest while submitting to the fact Disney has enough money to block the otherwise status quo ending of copyright.

If the former, I'd suggest that you have a warped vision of how Disney's profitability is the public good, and secretly think you're lying. Or if it's the later, our democracy has some really fundamental problems and caving on this just makes them worse.
That was the plan, though I don't expect that to happen until they stop losing money on every high-end luxury car they sell [0].

[0] http://fortune.com/2015/08/10/tesla-money-lost-model-s/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Electric_Vehicles#Bankru...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZAP_Xebra

A few companies tried this in the 2000s, but went bankrupt or stopped selling in the US. Some of their models met safety standards but a few failed after the fact.
The Zap was interesting in that they tried to make it a motorcycle. The first generation had a carbon fiber body and met the braking requirements, but the subsequent steel bodied models failed the braking test by a few feet and forced a recall.
Every time I see ML on HN I hope it's about ML the language and I'm sad when it turns out to be Machine Learning instead, haha.

It's a shame ML-family of languages isn't very popular. 1ML for instance could be a fantastic modern language but I don't see that happening.
Calling it concern trolling is just another way to try to silence critics, and avoid considering the criticism when you have no response.

This discussion has gone on for a while, and included dozens of downvotes and a few rational distractions, but not one response to the original questions.
You make several good points, thank you. I don't mean my post above to be interpreted as "who cares about the poors," which it probably could be.

Wages are certainly going to be an issue. As a consumer who lives in a below-average COL area, I won't pay more for (to use a somewhat contrived example) a software product simply because its developers happen to live in SF or NYC, just the same as I'm not going to make the argument that someone in Belarus should be forced to charge me less for development services (though they usually will of their own accord). I think that plus the fact that real estate is very limited in NYC and especially SF means there is definitely an uneven pressure on rents v. wages, even for high skilled, in-demand professionals like software developers. Based on COL alone I'd need an 84.56% raise (according to BankRate) to maintain my standard of living in San Francisco, which isn't even taking into account the higher Federal tax bracket or the 4x higher state income taxes. The math just isn't there, and I imagine it's much the same if slightly less extreme for other metros like NYC, DC, and Chicago.

Isn't this just part of the fact that it's more expensive to live in a city? If you're a waiter or a bartender, you are better off living in a rural of small metro area than NYC or DC. How many people are waiters or bartenders in big cities that aren't doing it for a little extra money or while they're in school?

To your zoning point that's probably the only solution, but that's conceding the point that this is a problem which I'm not prepared to do. What happens to someone who has a $2500/mo mortgage on a property and is told they now cannot charge more than $1800/mo rent because they were rezoned? You're right, I don't think there is a regulatory framework in place to handle this fairly.
Poor design – doesn’t say “tea”
Technology rarely solves social problems. It often changes society but not only in the good way and how it does is mostly unforeseeable.
I'm not quite understanding this story on HackerNews. What platform does it run on? How do I hack it?
Just curious: what are you interested in that Netflix doesn't have? My queue always hovers around 350 unwatched titles, so this always baffles me a little bit.
Computer system passes “visual Turing test”
Sramana Mitra Named LinkedIn’s #10 Top Influencer
It was even in Google Photos until they removed it, to then re-add it now.

They are just removing features and readding them with a different name.

How very Google.
I am very happy for J. Carter, he is a class act.

But it is just one case.

My friend, a Ph.D. with 100+ publications in cancer research told me recently there has not been much progress in the last 30 years.
Well, in my family we always cooked everything ourselves. Everything. No tin can food, ever.

When my mum, due to medical condition, had to switch to low iodine diet, we could just switch our salt we used, and it was easy to adapt.

But I can say, you’re right – I hate corn. Literally, I can’t deal with the annoying sweetness of it. It’s horrible.

Carrots are the perfect level of sweetness, we used to grow them ourselves, but don’t do that anymore.

But, still, doing this myself without having any medical need myself, I obviously still add nutella to my pancakes, or so on.

To me it’s just surprising how many people in this thread don’t make their food on their own. Even if you just boil a pot of potatoes and put some onions in the frying pan in a bit of olive oil, you can quickly make some neat food. Or scrambled eggs with Bratkartoffeln and bacon, or noodles with your own sauce, and so on. Making your meals yourself is so easy, and quick.

I’m literally disgusted by the whole Soylent movement. NO! instead of spending less time for food, just spend less time for work! Unionize, damn.
You're right that people should not send coins in regular envelopes. But of course people mail coins, keys, and binder clips pretty frequently. Do you think USPS employees stand around an open sorting machine just waiting to get hit in the face with a paperclip?

I actually know someone who has worked on those machines for decades. He never told me anything other than that the machines might reject your letter, or your thumb drive might fall out and they'd not be able to find where to send it.
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more decentralized more democratic government

What decentralization are you talking about? None takes place. Party representation is increased in a central body. That's it.
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060026477

"Greenpeace installed a solar microgrid system in Dharnai, but villagers soon learned that it couldn’t handle the load for basic household chores like cooking and ironing."
The reason why is risk. When you sell your time(labour), collect rent or interest, risk is lower so the tax rate is higher. If you invest in financial assets, like equities, risk is higher so the tax rate is lower. If that were not to happen, not many people would invest. Markets and compagnies would be under capitalized. Jobs and the economy would echo that.
Thank you for doing the study (especially the self-tracking drudge work) and for publishing both the raw data and the analysis code.
And do you have the whole implementation on your mind all the time?

If not, does the time spent thinking and researching it before not count as implementation time?
286th Roundtable Recording Dec. 10, 2015: With StudyMode Co-Founder Blaine Vess
I'm not very familiar with blood lab tests, but I believe many of them are some form of chromatography, e.g. HPLC, which is "just" a high-tech version of pee-on-a-stick tests. For those, there is a "control" indicator that should always show positive, and failure is when it doesn't show positive.
Ugh, apples today taste disgustingly sweet to me. My teeth shouldn't feel like I drank a litre of coke from eating an apple.

It's sad... the saddest thing is the loss of variety. There is such an amazing variety of wild apples, berries, rice, potatoes out there, each with unique flavors and nutritional qualities, yet 99% of grocery stores carry the same bland, overly-sweet varieties that look like they came out of an assembly line.

And it's not even about the bottom line: farms throw away tons of "imperfect" produce every day. It's about re-educating people.
If you choose to sell your app in a particular App Store, you're submitting to the law of the jurisdiction it operates in.