skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It looks like it's 11.99/year for non-prime members. Free for prime members.

Getting this from, go into your Amazon Cloud Drive, then click Manage Storage on the right side.

Two plans listed, Unlimited Photos and Unlimited Everything.
I don't know if there is any reading material. I heard the story from someone who was on the front lines in the outage, directly dealing with the situation.

Vendor diversification is a bad thing for critical infrastructure when interoperation is required. "It's a Cisco problem!" says the Juniper rep. "It's a Juniper problem!" says the Cisco rep. You're stuck in the middle. It's terrible. You can only hold one vendor's feet to the fire and they won't care at all if you're in a heterogeneous environment.

Remember all the middleware products and companies from the late 90's? Neither do I.
They did this with optimizations off:

The above mentioned executable binaries are compiled
without any compiler optimizations, which are options to
make binaries smaller and faster while transforming the
source code more than plain compilation. As a result,
compiler optimizations further normalize authorial style.

Everyone's still safe with some -O* code massage.
It's an add-on service for prime members not a trial. I'm not sure if there is an option for non-prime members.

Edit: looks like it is 11.99 for non-prime members. Also the unlimited everything option looks pretty cool. Really trumps dropbox and google drive.
Takes me to a page under construction then redirects me to a blank page.

Edit: I think you meant ractivejs.org
> > Two decades ago, when Bill Clinton was elected president, the 400 highest-earning taxpayers in America paid nearly 27 percent of their income in federal taxes, according to I.R.S. data. By 2012, when President Obama was re-elected, that figure had fallen to less than 17 percent

The article talks a lot about "loopholes" and a "private tax system" but fails to mention the fact that in 1992, the long term capital gains tax rate was 28%, and in 2012 the highest rate was 15% (enacted 2003). That's not a "loophole" or a policy enacted in private. It's a conscious policy decision, one which was a part of Bush II's economic platform, and one which was publicly debated at length both when it was enacted and when Obama effectively made it permanent in 2013, except for raising the top bracket to 20%.
> Mainly because police departments do not keep these kinds of statistics, so the data is horribly incomplete. And as anybody knows, you can massage the data to show anything you want when you don't have the complete picture:

That is true, but not to the US' credit. In the UK, the records are compiled nationally and are beyond question. There have been three fatal police shootings here in 2015; all of them were front-page national news.

The US keeps no such records, and until http://killedbypolice.net/ began compiling credible news reports, nobody was keeping national records. The numbers on killedbypolice.net are therefore an absolute minimum for how many people are killed by police in America. Killings which are not well-documented in the news aren't included. If the number is inaccurate, then the picture in America is even worse.

Undoubtedly many of them are justified. America is awash in guns, and if somebody is shooting at you, then undoubtedly you have the right to shoot back. However only 48% of those who were killed had a firearm on or near them (it doesn't necessarily mean they were using it).[1] Many of the remainder are classified as being "armed", but that includes cases like this mentally ill man who was killed for holding a screwdriver in an unthreatening manner[2], so those numbers should be considered suspect. Finally, there are hundreds of killings every year of people who cannot be considered "armed" by any definition. Many of these are well-documented on video; if you want to spend the next few hours watching snuff films, they're easy enough to find.

The punishment for the overwhelming majority of these killings is a paid vacation for the murderer.

Something is desperately wrong with America.

1: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/0...

2: https://www.rt.com/usa/252533-dallas-screwdriver-shooting-ju...
Is this true, though? Does a judge's salary depend on him not understanding the fourth amendment? Does a policeman's salary depend on him not understanding appropriate search warrant tactics? I understand most people disagree with law enforcement's decisions in this case (I do too).

But the only people who seem to refuse to understand the circumstances are those whose righteousness depends on portraying the police as cartoon villains.
To clear up the pricing confusion:

- It's FREE for Prime Members

- It's $11.99 a year for non-prime members

The other caveat is that it's unlimited for photos, but only 5gig of video.
A Monkeypatching Decorator for Python (2012)
> most of Europe is more corrupt than the US

That's not my impression, but do you have some data? Perhaps if you include the former Soviet client states?
AMZN return policy is the best
One might argue that the things that could be taught as part of such a standardized methodology would either be extremely generic, or can and should be automated. "Design patterns" and "idioms" are definitely helpful and necessary for practical reasons, but to me they frequently seem like good candidates for automatization. Maybe in an ideal world, the parts of a solution that are "unique", i.e., not well-known and established, are even the only ones that should be required to be specified by a human.
It's clear that the cost of storage is approaching $0, but it's surprising to me that the price of these company's services vary so much:

- Box: $180/year for unlimited (https://www.box.com/pricing/)

- Google: $120/year for 1TB (https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?hl=en)

- Dropbox: $100/year for 1TB (https://www.dropbox.com/pro)

- Amazon: $60/year for unlimited (https://www.amazon.com/gp/drive/landing/everything/)

- Microsoft: $60/year for 1TB (https://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-office-36...)

They all offer approximately the same service, but from cheapest to priciest is almost 3x. I wonder how much sand is left in the hourglass for companies like Box & Dropbox? Also, how much longer will Google keep their price at $120/year for 1TB when Amazon is half that for unlimited storage? Also, does your average Joe even care when you get 15GB for free from Google?
‘[…] You once lived on Earth. You remember what it was like.’

‘I sort of remember. Still, it doesn’t seem to be easy to explain. Earth is just there. It fits people and people fit it. People take Earth the way they find it. Mars is different. It’s sort of raw and doesn’t fit people. People got to make something out of it. They got to build a world, and not take what they find. Mars isn’t much yet, but we’re building, and when we’re finished, we’re going to have just what we like. It’s sort of a great feeling to know you’re building a world. Earth would be kind of unexciting after that.’

[…]

[Two humans who live on Mars, Rioz and Long, are out on a mission close to Saturn and are at the moment relaxing by floating free in spacesuits outside the ship.]

‘You know, I’ve read Earth books—’

‘Grounder books, you mean.’ Rioz yawned and found it difficult under the circumstances to use the expression with the proper amount of resentment.

‘—and sometimes I read descriptions of people lying on grass,’ continued Long. ‘You know that green stuff like thin, long pieces of paper they have all over the ground down there, and they look up at the blue sky with clouds in it. Did you ever see any films of that?’

‘Sure. It didn’t attract me. It looked cold.’

‘I suppose it isn’t, though. After all, Earth is quite close to the Sun, and they say their atmosphere is thick enough to hold the heat. I must admit that personally I would hate to be caught under open sky with nothing on but clothes. Still, I imagine they like it.’

‘Grounders are nuts!’

‘They talk about the trees, big brown stalks, and the winds, air movements, you know.’

‘You mean drafts. They can keep that, too.’

‘It doesn’t matter. The point is they describe it beatutifully, almost passionately. Many times I’ve wondered. “What’s it really like? Will I ever feel it or is this something only Earth-men can possibly feel?” I’ve felt so often that I was missing something vital. Now I know what it must be like. It’s this. Complete peace in the middle of a beauty-drenched universe.’

Rioz said, ‘They wouldn’t like it. The Grounders, I mean. They’re so used to their own lousy little world they wouldn’t appreciate what it’s like to float and look down on Saturn.’ He flipped his body mass slightly and began swaying back and forth about his centre of mass, slowly, soothingly.

Long said, ‘Yes, I think so too. They’re slaves to their planet. Even if they come to Mars, it will only be their children that are free. There’ll be starships someday; great, huge things that can carry thousands of people and maintain their self-contained equilibrium for decades, maybe centuries. Mankind will spread through the whole Galaxy. But people will have to live their lives out on shipboard until the new methods of inter-stellar travel are developed, so it will be Martians, not planet-bound Earthmen, who will colonize the Universe. That’s inevitable. It’s got to be. It’s the Martian way.’

— The Martian Way, Isaac Asimov, 1952
I guess you're right.

Then, it's just a question of how much. And I suspect that question will be hard to answer.

They'll probably bury the actual number with some accounting slight of hand in customer bills.
Capital moves more easily than labor.
Not only are there loopholes to not pay taxes, they can also shift operations so that profits are realized in a different jurisdiction and the money goes there instead.

Despite large cuts in corporate income tax and a reduction in consumption tax coupled with temporary increased spending, Canada's debt to GDP ratio is where it was before the '08 crash. The debt increased about 50% during this time, but so did the GDP. Companies stayed in Canada/came to Canada and with growth came more tax revenue. The fear was that the books would never get near balanced again with drastically reduced tax rates, but 2014/2015 was roughly balanced. (Arguably about -$3 billion for the whole year)
On a tangential note, I guess this means Android is finally getting Java 8 support as well as Java 9, 10, 11, etc
Surely, the technique could be tested more rigorously....

Select a pair randomly. Put the pair into a room with one two-seat bench and one stool, with one table accessible from both, and at least one obvious video camera. Ask the participants to complete a survey, captioning 20 photographs with multiple-choice descriptions of smells. The subjects are asked to place "all metal objects" into lockers.

Escort the pair to the "treatment room", immobilize their heads in a plastic frame, such that their faces are 5 cm apart, and stick a device up their noses that sprays a thin vaporizer mist. Hands and feet would be restrained, such that each person would be unable to touch the misting device. The experiment assistant leaves the room and causes a "room is being locked" sound to be heard inside. The lighting in the room would be set to 555nm green, the audio would play a quiet "electrical equipment" hum, and the pair would be left alone with a visible countdown clock for exactly 30 minutes, with beep tones sounding at 0:20:00, 0:25:00, 0:29:00, 0:29:15, 0:29:30, 0:29:45, 0:30:00. At 0:30:00, the lighting returns to normal, and a "room is being unlocked" sound is heard before the door opens.

The control group gets a misting of water droplets. The experimental group gets oxytocin and vasopressin.

Then the experiment assistant takes them out of the apparatus and returns them to the other room, where they are asked to repeat the image captioning task. The objective experimental data will examine whether a pair that elects to use the stool before the treatment will share the bench afterward, and whether the participants exchange any contact information during the debriefing period.

I think it's important to not inform the subjects that the experimenter is trying to make them fall in love, because expectations do crazy things to psych experiment results.
Yes! I often find that I am much worse at holding tons of information in my brain than my peers. I seem to be better at finding abstractions, and I think that's in large part due to necessity imposed by that comparative limitation.
I feel like their original quote doesn't support the rest of the article:

> it’s time to turn back to old documents to figure out the logic behind some of the engineering decisions. Dodd says it’s easy to find the engineering decisions, but harder to find the reasoning.

It's not that they don't understand what the code is doing. It's that they don't understand why the code is doing what it's doing. Abstractions do not help with why. Documentation does. This is why I try to include as much of the why in the form of comments and long commit messages. Including alternatives considered and why I chose not to use them.
One of my points is that adoption is going to precede the current consensus definition of "successful therapy" by a decade, in much the same way as happened for stem cell therapies following the turn of the century.
So patents. That was going to be my guess.

So in 20 years it'll be pretty cheap. Meanwhile, China and other parts of the world that happily ignore patents will use the technology without restriction.
> The other way to look at it is that people want to copy an API to extract value from a market or ecosystem someone else did the hard work of creating, without investing the resources into creating their own.

And why is that supposed to be a problem? You would prefer the world where Apple needs GE's permission to sell an iPhone that can charge from a GE power outlet?

Ecosystems don't need owners.
Tax Corporate Revenues, Not Profits; http://news.yahoo.com/warren-buffett-secretary-talk-taxes-22...
Hey @mercer

Thanks for the reply. I just now saw this (haven't been nearly as active on here for the past week).

I enjoyed reading your reply. I had just one comment back:

> Isn't 'truth' really just another abstraction, but one we cannot (yet) dive into to find the underlying 'truth'?

It's not, because 'truth' is a logical construct, an a priori kind of concept, so whatever that 'truth' is that we find underneath what was once thought to be truth would just be a more fundamental truth (e.g., we discover that photons are actually an imbalance in another dimension or something).
The question I would like to see investigated is the hypothesis that the best posts are those with a large value of (#points)/(1+#comments). I've used that for years as my measure of when an article that would otherwise have been missed should be read.
The list of presentations is looong. Any recommendations?
This is not a "Show HN" submission.
JPEG only? Or Raw/DNG too?
A lot of marketers now are turning to coding. I wouldn't necessarily say it's essential to marketing, especially if you work in a firm where you have a development team. Though, when it comes to aggregate reviews, schema, JSon, Structured data, etc. it definitely helps as a marketer if you know how to code those things yourself.

You may not have to have the ability to build your own website, but understanding the basic structure of code is very helpful.

Source: I've been doing SEO & Social Marketing for 10 years.
To be clear: having the networks that make up the internet agree to depeer networks that don't implement a protocol is roughly the same as "making it a requirement", and the petitioning you'd need to do is "convince all the networks to agree to do it".

Because the internet is "free", more or less, there isn't much in the way of enforcement of which RFCs and practices must be followed to be part of it, which is a big part of the reason that BCP38 is so underutilized today.
time to ditch flickr then? as I have the prime membership at amazon? wish I can import flickr into amazon somehow.

on the other hand I hope they support client-side encryption so someone can only view the pictures after they're decrypted
>if you have too many, it's very easy to reject

What do you mean by this? You can choose any significance level you like.
Thank you! I've been looking for this for a while. Saw this last year.
Absolutely none of these are "unlimited" storage. It's simply overselling.

Even the providers that are selling N terabytes for $Q are counting on a certain percentage of those users not utilizing that much. This is why the prices vary so wildly, because each provider is doing different math and hedging different bets.
I like the thesis about abstraction, but the example of the Voyager code base is a little bit contrived.

1) technological limitations, namely in processing and memory probably play a large role in some of the decisions made.

2) software engineering best practices such as DRY, KISS as they relate to abstraction have evolved considerably in the 30+ years (perhaps to some extent because the limitations of observation 1 have been lifted).

Obviously the Voyager code base still has the same technological constraints today since hardware can't be updated on a probe currently traveling on the fringes of our galaxy.

It would have been nice to have a more modern example to elucidate the point regarding empathy for peers.

In fact, the same could apply to the thought process in creating a new programming language. Take for example PHP, it was originally intended as a "Personal Home Page," taking PERL and CGI as its model. Method signatures are inconsistent, and not a lot of thought was made early on to certain points that might have been made, had the creator of this language not intended it for his own personal use. In my own experience, PHP offers less empathy for peers because many of the decisions made are from a single-minded use-case. Contrast that with other higher level programming languages where the introduction or removal of new operators is a subject that is heavily deliberated upon from the perspective of or empathy for peers.
The article does specifically mention that he has taken steps to protect himself from stuff like this (i.e. require in-person confirmation with his utility providers, etc.). 2FA is certainly a valid response here, and requiring this even for phone transactions when a customer is using it should become the norm. It's a bit weird to blame customers for broken security protocols, and they should be fixed nonetheless. Not every high-profile target is a security expert.
The bottom line is that the Laffer Curve as a concept should be dismissed as a rhetorical device and we should demand an elucidation of the likely consequences of tax cuts and tax increases given our current situation.

(The CBO spends a lot of their time doing exactly that, scoring bills and whatnot)
My parents grew up in soviet Russia they ran out in the late 80's if they would've waited and survived the turmoil they would most likely have become Oligarchs but it wasn't a good time to be a prominent Jew in Russia and they tell quite a different story.

Every institution was corrupt to the bone, if you wanted to send a package somewhere and for it to actually arrive at it's destination you had to bring 2 loafs of bread and a jar of home made pickles with you to the post office.

Communism like most dictatorships was more or less clean and organized on it's surface. One of the scariest things about authoritarian regimes is just how normal and calm they seem to many people that live under them.
Heck martial law is quite commonly regarded by many to be quite "nice", all crime stops, the streets are clean, no one bothers anyone ofc if any trouble ensues all parties tend to be lined up against the wall and shot but other than that it's almost utopic.
pretty good, thanks. (small bug: your timer has a pause button, but there's no way to unpause it - after pausing, clicking "play" resets the timer to 4 minutes unexpectedly (since there's an actual reset button) before continuing, instead of continuing where paused as expected - clicking pause a second time doesn't unpause either. chrome.)
I'd imagine they use VRF's to quickly segment the traffic after ingress. Google.com might have DDoS protection, but I'm wary that it extends to GCE. I've read about Google Andromeda, but there's no real meat in any article about DDoS mitigation.
But what is the consequence of them looking the same, even identical? As a consumer, I would rather have the competition for MS. It's not like copying made the interface easier. If anything, having a pixel-perfect copy is MORE work.
I know this but BIDU is leaving first tier internet companies in China. This can be seen from its market cap which is almost a third of alibaba or tencent.

No matter what you bet -- you should always bet on something you can control not others.
You used business pricing for Box, Dropbox and Microsoft but consumer pricing for Google. Google gives unlimited storage for $120/user/year as part of Apps for Work Unlimited: https://support.google.com/a/answer/6034782?hl=en

Also "offer approximately the same service" is a bit off. Amazon doesn't have any kind of SLA for Cloud Drive and while Box, Microsoft and Google provide SLAs. In addition, while the older competitors provide essentially a full office suite and a bunch of features like OCR, Amazon provides nothing but a very basic web interface that allows you to see previews.
Ok, seems pretty cool! But here's some news for you: it's doing dependency injection also.
Big Data: New Tricks for Econometrics (Hal Varian) [pdf]
Your heart's in the right place, but the Internet is built on policies of individual networks because there is nobody to enforce. Your suggestion back to me is simply mine in different clothing, because you think someone can enforce such a global requirement. Enforcing policy like "filter or get depeered" is the only way to achieve a global requirement like you want with the way the Internet is structured. As akerl points out you need consensus, too, because such a policy could drive customers to other networks upon enforcement, which is a business disincentive to do it.

It's kind of a surprising moment when you realize what the Internet is and how little structure it has aside from the protocols themselves. We are one global Internet (semi) outage away from rethinking some of this structure, and I expect one in my lifetime.
http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results/
I'd love to know that too. His goodreads profile shows 107 books read this year, so about 2 per week. I think my personal best (since I started tracking) was 12 in a year.
Then you put low margin companies out of business while high margin ones still thrive.
Justice: fair distribution of the world's resources and an opportunity for a decent life, for everybody. Taking as much as possible is what the wealthy do.
We've got crumbling infrastructure, cash-strapped schools, students loaded with debt, and the fallout from a housing bubble, but Mark Zuckerberg really needs that new yacht.

Doubling or tripling tax revenue from the super wealthy would not provide the funds to solve any of these problems, if indeed they would be solvable with "more money". There just aren't that many super wealthy people.
If some entrepreneurs can raise money from the alumni and university to pay for their tuition in retrospect, more power to them!

Most importantly, the University should cater to all types and advance the mission of creating an educated civil society.
They support RAW files: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

This makes it superior to Google Photos for backup in my opinion. Amazon provides free (with Prime) backup with no limits, RAW support and no recompression. Google Photos provides it for free but with lossy compression and without the possibility of retaining the range of RAW.
Just because they purchase transit doesn't mean they don't have their own AS.

Everyone has to purchase transit at some point. Transit != AS.