skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disingenuous of them to not compare their pricing to Google Nearline[1] or AWS S3 Infrequent Access[2] or AWS Glacier[3] given their price points ($0.01/GB/mo, $0.0125/GB/mo, $0.007/GB/mo) are much more competitive with B2 price-wise. Talk about stacking the deck in your favor.

Makes me leery of even trying it (what other things are they covering up?) or moving my tens of petabytes over there, despite my intense interest.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/nearline

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/

[3] https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
I'm not sure if the Fed pulled back the trillions it pumped into the banks during the crisis, but until that happens, banks don't have a real incentive to compete for deposits.
What's the difference between their products and the oxygen cylinders used in hospitals?
There's Reiter's in DC but I haven't been there in a decade, so I don't know how much technical stuff they have anymore: http://www.reiters.com

as well as Digital Guru in Sunnyvale: https://www.digitalguru.com
It is a rather wry sense of humor being displayed here.
walk into any Reddit discussion and tell everyone you're a devout Christian and watch the pseudo intellectuals exercise their "openness."

I think that's your problem. Walking into a discussing and announcing that is a fairly odd thing to do. I've never entered a discussion on reddit and announced I'm an devout atheist. I think people generally bristle at people staking out positions via broad categories.
M4BASIC – A BASIC to C converter written in M4
Huh, you just brought up an interesting point that I hadn't considered: if you invest in a company and it turns out to be a scam, you're more likely to have the resources to pursue legal action if you meet the currently defined threshold of an "accredited investor".

I too have always been a bit miffed about the whole accredited investor thing, but that angle had never crossed my mind.
As a counter-example, I grew up in Miami. We had neither A/C nor a furnace, only electric space heaters for when it got to the 40s and upper 30s. (Our house was built in the 1950s, before A/C, so built in the older style with high ceilings, many windows, a crawl space for even more cooling, and no insulation. When it was 40 outside, it was 40 inside.)

We did have a neighbor who contracted with a propane company to fill a residential tank, which was used for heat and cooking. But that wasn't common in the neighborhood.

In Tallahassee, the places I rented didn't have gas, only electricity. Eg, pulling up rental housing in Tallahassee, https://www.rentrange.com/tallahassee-fl/o-3316-calumet-nice... says it has "Electric heating". Searching for Atlanta, I found http://www.cbs46.com/story/21444870/atlanta-fallen-tree-leav... which says "'Fallen tree leaves Atlanta residents without lights and heat' ... "My house used electric heat so it's cold".

Rather than be anecdotal about it, I found "Space Heating in U.S. Homes, by Climate Region, 2009" from http://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2009/#sh . Of the 19.1 million homes in the "Hot-Humid climate region", 12.4M use electricity, 4.6M use natural gas, 1.4M have no heat, 0.5M use propane, and the others (fuel oil, wood, etc.) are too small to be meaningfully reported.

There is an apparent conflict between your observations and this survey (and with my own observations from living in Florida).
Nobody disputes that Tesla currently operates at a net loss. They sell only one product at the moment but incur R&D expenses on several products that are not yet shipping in significant volume (Model X, Model 3, PowerPack/PowerWall). They're ramping SG&A in anticipation of those offerings as well.

That is a separate issue than the deliberately misleading meme that the company "loses ~$4K on every Model S they sell"

It's just wrong and completely disingenuous. If Tesla sells an incremental Model S this quarter, the impact on their cash flow is +28K not -4K.
In the UK, malls are one of the places that Waterstones has done so well in. They're also the type of place that WH Smith seems to be (somewhat) surviving in, despite an incredibly poor reputation.

Maybe Barnes and Noble could do well over here. I mean, they can't really be any worse than Smith's in terms of quality, can they? I think they could do decently well in say, Lakeside or Bluewater.
You're probably right (since pessimism and cynicism are pretty successful predictors whenever anyone is trying something bold), but we have nothing like enough information to know if he's done something revolutionary or not. As the article makes clear, he doesn't want to give too much away, so of course you're stuck with a vague summary which sounds like he's just done what any smart person skilled in the art would do.

General cynicism isn't really adding much to the conversation in my opinion, since almost everyone here probably knows this already, and too much cynicism can put people off starting projects and people starting projects is something we should cherish.

I do think your point about emergency situations is substantive though. Perhaps he is only planning for self-driving while supervised by humans, but his idea for training as described (become an uber driver) would not at all produce the kind of dataset that would assure me that I would be safe. I think a lot of training with advanced drivers in simulators where you can have crazy life threatening situations would be the absolute minimum. I'd be worried that bad habits picked up on the thousands of uber rides would kick in during an emergency rather than the couple of situations that would be feasible to train on in real life.
I guess English is not your first language? I can't understand anything past "been", which is surprising given how easily I understood your last question.
as a life long contrarian, reading this article gives me relief. 1/3 is definitely crazy, such as dedicating 4 years of my life to a software developed in complete social isolation full time with about 9 customers, mostly mom and pops small businesses paying $19.99/month
What was this app?
It's something I've been planning to add for ages, unfortunately I have a number of other priorities at the moment which mean that work on HG tends to get put on the back burner.
That is not a sound logic. If Apple invests X in R&D where X is greater than revenue, it does not mean every Iphone/Ipad/Mac was sold on a loss. It just means they spend more than they made.
Heh, a friend just pointed out that their math is wrong on their pricing comparison page, too. S3 isn't +440%, it's +340%.
So the mechanics are somewhat supported directly by bitcoin, but, how does the bitcoin customer get their money back even if the escrow company agrees that the terms of the sale weren't met? (added [1])

And then you still have a question of whether the parties agree to a mutually trusted escrow service to actually administer the signoff. I imagine that credit cards are somewhat partnered closer to the customer/card holder, but with bitcoin escrow it could be either the vendor or the customer?

Not meaning to criticise here, just a walking through unfamiliar territory.

Edit: Partially answered my own question (example 2 at link [1])

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contract#Theory
Love that. Thanks.
Considering how bad GameWorks features perform in many PC games (e.g in some Ubisoft titles Nvidia-only features was dropped after release within first patches) this strategy doesn't work.

Though I only heard good things about Nvidia OpenGL developers support and as far as I know they do support even devs who isn't part of "Meant to be Played" thingy. So I suppose many studios that don't even use Nvidia-only features prefer their middleware because of support.

Sadly AMD is opposite and developers support for OpenGL just not exist. E.g you can send them emails, tickets and there won't be answer for months.
Cooking. You can cook for yourself or others. You can make simple or complex things. You can change recipes to fit your liking and get creative and come up with new things. And at the end, you get to eat it.
See also Rolling Stone's "Goodbye, Miami" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-mi...
California's Proposed New Rules Could Slam the Brakes on Driverless Cars
Your search - site:smart-monitor.com pebble - did not match any documents

Pricks.
being forced to pray at school events is pretty simple, the teacher asks "why aren't you praying?" and sends you to the principals office. nobody within a 200mi radius of you thinks that there is anything wrong with this because "it's the way it's always been" and there's no higher power to appeal to, so...

how can you "have an honest dialogue" with someone that thinks that you are going to burn in Hell and tells you that your ideas about women, voting, and abortion are "the Devils"?
Taken as whole, this explanation doesn't make complete sense.

States routinely run opportunities/scams that target the "lay population". Why don't these regulations address actual harm, rather than hypothetical harm?
> or you're just a light sleeper, but generally waking up several times a night is not common.

Especially if the TV is on
Texas Moron Shuts Down Busy Houston Freeway to Propose, Faces Misdemeanor Charge
Who rejected anything? This is more hyperbole. I stress, that does not strengthen an argument. It is an extra-factual means of convincing people via emotional channels that an argument is stronger than it is.
My friends and I play a lot of boardgames/role playing games. I know it's playing to a stereotype but it's a fun way to get together.

Sometimes I've done homebrewing. It's something that is reasonable affordable to do at home. There is a strong community aspect to it and at the end you get beer! Plus you can fiddle a lot with different variables.
I installed hardwood floors at my place. It was easier than I thought.
Most European countries -- and most democracies in general, though there are some exceptions -- have, largely due to differences in electoral systems, more real axis of variations among visible electoral parties and farther extremes on the axes that roughly align with those in the US which are represented.

On top of that, the center in the US is pretty far to the right in European terms; the mainstream of the Republican and Democratic parties (in government, if not in the electorate) have been, I think fairly, described as, respectively, right-wing and center-right in European terms.
Huh, how about setting up a local shop filling bottles with air from a purifier? /s
Actually no. Naive Julia is often slower than python. Vectorized Array expressions are on par with numpy and slower than numba.

"type unstable", IO and text processing code is also slower.
I came here looking for this exact comment... truly, life is imitating art.
This Exercise Bike Turns Cycling into a VR Racing Game
Much longer article about same subject http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-death-and-l...
I +1 you because it was educational to me, but I'm seriously asking: why you said "nasty" bills like de-funding PP ?

edit: tpacek, Im not asking him in terms of his own opinion, but rather what "nasty" he found in those bills.

His post was very informative that's why I asked. I couldn't care less what he thinks about the subject of PP.
The article says "The bill would make it easier for private sector companies to share user information with ... other companies". Taking this at face value, any potential employer could conceivably access everything I've ever said on YikYak, just, to you know, compare with their own notes and make sure I'm not a criminal. This wasn't really supposed to be that serious of a comment, as haven't said anything too horrible.
Surely you have an off-cloud backup of all this though. Just copy that onto 10 10TB disks and post those off to Backblaze for upload (not sure if they actually do this yet).

Most companies charge a small handling fee but it's fast.
> As such, I have a lot of Christian friends but, it is understandable that some "intellectuals" are hostile to those with strong religious beliefs given that many with similar beliefs deny scientific concepts like evolution, advocate teaching creationism in schools, and deny the existence of global warming.

I think the usual word with hostility toward people not because of things they do, but because of things other people that share a characteristic with them do, is "bigotry".
I mostly miss a MoveObject operation to rename files myself, but I guess they are keeping things simple and scalable etc. on their end and requiring us to work around it with the existing lower level operations.
I was brought up amongst and by religious people too, so I don't automatically assume people are stupid for having beliefs. But I'm aware that is really just a rhetorical position on my part, and when faced with someone who claims to be a scientist, living in the west in the 21st century, and who actually believes this stuff (e.g. the afterlife) then it is just difficult to take them seriously. That makes me vulnerable to accusations of having a closed mind, etc, I know...but I stopped believing in those things (if I ever did) around the same time I stopped believing in Father Christmas, so you'll have to cut me some slack :) And you actually make it worse when you justify your beliefs by saying that they make the Universe a "nicer" place to live in, which is just juvenile (I can imagine even nicer universes, would you like to believe in them instead?). I would stop at your previous statement about not needing to rationalise belief (in fact it's a category error to do so).
Nature is adopting an open review model
"A long experiment with legalized gambling, launched in 1976, has failed to reenergize this once-iconic locale"

It didn't fail exactly in the way this sentence seems to want to imply. It did work (and it significantly built up the surrounding areas). What killed Atlantic City post gambling 1976, was other states legalizing gambling and cannibalizing the market that they had to themselves and Las Vegas. Also gaming on Indian reservations. And a decision early on not to move poor people out of Atlantic City [1] (similar to what Las Vegas did) making it less attractive as a vacation spot. There is blight all over and close to the equivalent of "the strip" for lack of a better way to put it.

[1] http://articles.philly.com/2010-07-29/news/24970511_1_casino...
Had to look it up, she was trolling the VC community
http://allthingsd.com/20110401/rachel-sequoia-comes-clean-hi...
All excellent points, especially about cost.

I've considered "faking" the append functionality by making a new file per append action, then performing a periodic compaction.

Even compaction-via-combine-and-delete-old is clunky.

aws s3 combine --target s3://bucket-name/output-file.txt \
s3://bucket-name/input-file-1.txt \
... \
s3://bucket-name/input-file-n.txt

I, for one, would pay extra for that.
Welcome to life. The only thing that matters is what is perceived.
The article says that they're going to start running a car service, presumably with their own cars, within a year. What is dying here?
You had someone be rude to you because you know how to fix a car?

As you said, that's a far easier skill to learn than say programming. However, I have never encountered such an attitude and have lived on both coasts. I think people greatly appreciate skilled mechanics, tradesmen, etc. all over the country. The best can usually charge a premium. That's no different on the coasts.

I doubt this will be a popular opinion: Frankly, I think belief in the supernatural should be screenable in an employment application. Maybe it doesn't affect how you think about the world and how you think about solutions to problems but it could. Maybe you're prone to believing in unsupported theories because you've trained your brain to do so in your private life? Maybe you press on with an idea when you shouldn't. Maybe that will effect your business decisions?

I'm not an atheist. I just think it's an interesting question. I grew up with a lot of Mormons who metaphorically drowned the parts of their brain that were curious about the world. The sad part was that they were required to in order to fit into their community and maintain good familial relations. A lot of them struggled with it and still do. I say it's sad because they could have achieved and contributed a lot more to the world. Now most of them are salesmen, which is a skill they learned on their missions.

I think about this often. As humans, our brains look for social signals for shortcuts (read Robert Cialdini). Do people use religious belief as a shortcut? Do they do so subconsciously? I've never asked someone about their religious beliefs in an interview but if they mentioned it, would I subconsciously reach a different conclusion? Would I be less willing to trust that they have good, objective business sense? Would I want someone who believes in the bible literally as an engineer? What about as a salesman? Maybe for marketing? Does it aid creative thinking or impair it?

Why would you bring up religion in an interview?
> I won't get into a long rant, but aside from on OSX

Ah, so they're better on OSX? On Windows 7 all the slack.exe processes are currently using 780MB RAM in total, and I'm only signed into 3 Slack communities.

Shocking!
Making it difficult to determine who owns huge assets is newest craze. Referenced in a recent HN link http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/us/shell-company-bel-air-m...
#1 reason I never bought a Kinect / Xbox One.
>and we might use our fancy coastal intelligences to reason that the point is probably weak.

You have rejected his argument right there.
Who's at fault, the druggie or drug dealer? The fed is the enabler
Please not here.
Per the parent though, (at least for NHL) if the game is on national TV, it's blacked out on NHL Gamecenter. Fortunately, NHL isn't all that popular, so there's only a few games on national networks each week (of the dozens of games that are broadcast locally). No idea if it's the same with other leagues.
I would have loved to see that chart for the Red Wedding.
Yea, it's more important because there are more (or should be more in this era) people in that range as a percentage of population than strikingly wealthy people.
Correct, that's the real issue .
You should not throw stones as you don't seem to grasp the deference between things the public is interested in and things in the public interest.

Some of the public are interested in up skirt shots of pop starlets you see the difference here?
The effects of climate change no one is talking about
I still think Whisper has the biggest Phoenix deployment in terms of traffic. It's a huge part of what makes our web development easy because our backend is all Erlang. Thanks Chris and José (and everyone else) for such a great set of tools.
I really could care less if Netflix finds out when I fall asleep during shows. Sounds like it would result in fewer shows that put me to sleep.
You have a choice of only two parties to represent a population of 310M people of diverse backgrounds. How can that possibly be anything but unsatisfactory, regardless of your origin?
Digital Guru looks like the kind of thing I was looking for. It's kind of funny how old school their site looks given their location and target audience but I might give them a call and just ask them "how's business"...
That absolutely happens all the time. In a less scum-baggy case, the Republicans recently denied a healthcare bill for 9/11 first-responders citing high cost, and the Democrats' rather non-chalant response was to the effect of, "nah it's okay - we'll just throw it in the budget bill". It's the norm.
There's a difference between normal `owning' of property and sovereignty.

The people living in a country might be the collective sovereigns, and the laws they decide upon apply.

> And the situation in places like Thailand, where citizens share a common history and civilization that goes thousands of years in the past, is difficult to be understood by people from a "melting pot" place, which was established a mere 3-4 centuries ago, and which consists of all kinds of immigrants coming over and helping create a country.

You mean like Germany where I am from? Depending how you count, it's been around for longer or shorter. But the borders were never very stable, and neither were the different states. So nationality is a weird and muddled there.

Oh, just found this on Wikipedia:

> Thai people, who originally lived in southwestern China, migrated into mainland Southeast Asia over a period of many centuries. The oldest known mention of their existence in the region by the exonym Siamese is in a 12th-century inscription at the Khmer temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, [...]

There's your melting pot.
But I don't necessarily think that's a fair comparison. I look at it in terms of what politicians say they want to do and what they eventually do versus what the people say they want and what they accept. In the long run, the rhetoric from politicians and the effect of the resulting laws on the people seem really similar.

But as someone else pointed out elsewhere on the page, I guess it depends on how you define left and right in terms of politics.
How to host Hugo static website generator on AWS Lambda
My thoughts: Bandwidth.

For it to make sense, he'd have to do hosting too, and charge for it. (Otherwise it'd be inefficient and costly.)

I'd be ok with having a web-based frontend to this that I could run on my own server, though. That or make a better (and libre!) Google Photos.
Good article, and quoting the must-read book by Kahn.

But the connection between Yardley's actions and Snowden's actions seems a bit contrived.
> ...Isn't one of the tropes of the left that you can't just reject the experiences of others offhand in such a manner?

The first paragraph, which appeared to be what was rejected, was a generalization, not a recounting of personal experience.

And, nothing in the post you responded to was any kind of rejection that violates any precept that is particularly common, AFAICT, on the left (it might, I suppose, violate a right-wing stereotype of the left, but, then, that's more a problem of the alignment of the stereotype with reality.)
"Cunts"? Really? And you expect to be taken seriously by grownups?

I mean, I was going to ask you why it's not okay to invalidate the experiences of women talking about sexism in tech, but totally okay to invalidate the experiences of people with unpopular beliefs talking about how they've been mistreated on that basis. I don't think I'm going to bother, because I don't see that argument getting anywhere with you -- but, you know, that's really not because it's the argument that's flawed.
I'd argue that HN is practically the only place in the whole world one can just walk in to and get serious, current, and actionable information on real-world social ladder-climbing.

Nobody here believes you should "know your place", but the more you learn about the world and business, the more you see just how hard this shit really is.

The downvotes aren't out of classism, but because your posts are not constructive to the discussion. They articulate a philosophical viewpoint and offer no real information of the sort I described earlier.

HN is not your soapbox.
Portable Benefits for Independent Workers [video]
Ideological homogeneity isn't the starting condition it's the ending condition, the achieved goal. How could you see that homogeneity and then say "this could be an issue only in an incredibly tribal ideological environment" and not realize that's exactly what academia is and has been for a long time? Have you not read your Saul Alinsky? There's a reason his devotee is the top prez nominee (Clinton). Climate conferences, academia, these are pure political spheres; you CANNOT rock the boat before tenure. With the net now, nothing is under the radar, so you will have to resign yourself to a lower tier placement, but it might be a great spot for you since politics determines school ranking.
forgot to increase the deposit rate:

I don't think there was any forgetting involved.
In one word: liability.