skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should read about the amount of slave labour and deaths by purges that was required for these "astonishing" results.

Also "space travelling" means nothing when more than half of your citizens don't have access to toilet paper and use newspapers for wiping until 90s. (Sorry, no sources on this but I'm Russian born in 80s.)
HN's mods need to be able to merge the comment sections of dupe articles.
How the Tough Got Going in Kentucky
Network was VPC. The EC2 instance had an IG attached, yes, but I'm not sure if you're asking if an internal vs. external URL for S3 was used? Are you saying there's a better endpoint than s3-<region>.amazonaws.com for S3 requests from EC2?
Yeah, that paragraph was where she completely lost me. The desire to ensure the poor are taken care of and given opportunities for advancement is not mutually incompatible with the automation of rote tasks. It is not incumbent on society to stop technological advancement in certain areas to ensure that no additional humans lose their jobs to automated processes.

Getting upset at the loss of jobs is the luddite position. The more socially liberal position is getting upset that the savings from the loss of said jobs are rolled up into the pockets of corporate executives and working to ensure that wealth is equitably distributed. The socially conservative position is that the additional wealth freed up by the automation will create new job opportunities elsewhere that the recently unemployed individual can seek out and pursue. I lean more to the socially liberal side (and hopefully this bias did not creep out in my description of the conservative point of view), but either one is preferable to putting the kibosh on progress because it might step on someone's toes.
FUCK CAPITALISM GODDAMN
> The grandparent point is the mis spelling of [Francisco as] Fran-s-isco I believe...

Yes, exactly.
You'd think after years I would remember that it doesn't automatically link, the way I did it. Thanks.
Out of curiosity, what are you using WebSockets for?
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I always wondered how the "brain improvements" from this thing compared to just playing a video game
Hadn't heard of it, looks cool. Thanks for the tip :)
I wish someone would write a web frontend to the protocol, so we could use that instead of websites like etherpad.org/titanpad.org.
Sounds like my kind of company :)
Maybe you could use Magic+ to audit the legal practices of Magic.
crazy. my family also lived in lebanon(zahle), and they had two maids, a driver, and a lady to come to the house and roll grape leaves for them but they still had to get their water delivered, which did cost a lot. they were not rich by american standards at all.

good thoughts..would be great to get these services on the cheap out here. Lyft of grape leaves rolling? ha.
I'd love to try this, as there is an out-of-production bag that is probably out there but I could not find this holiday season.

People aren't mentioning this here, but the real sticker shock is not $100 / hour but rather that to get that price you have to be ready to pay $1000 now or sign up for a $3000 a month subscription (that also begins now)

The low-key information page doesn't really set you up for that level of commitment to check things out.
Automated S-expression conversion in OCaml
> such as having food from a restaurant across the country sent to me via chilled overnight air mail for a friend's birthday as a big flashy surprise

Maybe I'm missing something here, but this is making me seriously think about what Magic's target market is. What kind of income would a person need to fathom affording something like that? I know people who I would consider "wealthy" on a first-world scale but this seems like a service suited for millionaires only (not that there is anything wrong with that, of course).
Indeed!

Also, I believe I've been ousted as a Canadian.

... Fixed this... :)
This is Yet Another Reminder to use unique, unguessable, unmemorable passwords for all online services. It's a question of when, not if, any particular password database will be compromised. While 'password1' and 'this is my long unguessable password' and 'm4r1g0ld' and 'false lemur capacitor paperclip' will all eventually be guessed, 'sF0PSQMwK85fe9xanqJRm9nty9cJGHJsVmti' will never, ever be.
I'm always torn between appreciating guys like this for their good advice, and wanting to scream because the entire rest of the industry still hasn't twigged to this gobsmackingly "water-is-wet" obvious fact. How can so many smart people be so deeply, enduringly stupid?
Any chance of seeing a photo of you in guymode that it recognises as being in guymode?

In its defence, you do look very different in those photos. I wouldn't recognise you as the same person. That said, I'm surprised that it ranked you so poorly in the first photo.
> Personally I think PG would have been better off to just keep his mouth shut

The intensity of the response to PG's articles stems precisely from the rarity of someone in his position speaking up to defend the capitalists' monopoly. It's rare because it almost always puts an obvious target on that person. He might have well have said, "Let them eat cake."

Regardless of the relative merit of his essays, they've started a wider conversation that's raising the consciousness about the single-most important issue of our society. An issue that only 1 of a half-dozen presidential candidates is willing to talk about...
> For the record, you can simultaneously be laissez-faire and an environmentalist. See the Property and Environment Research Center: http://www.perc.org/

This outfit is the environmental equivalent of those people who think they efficiently can haul freight in airships. It's quaint, and nobody is paying attention, for good reason.

So back around to social utility: You better figure it out, quantifiable or not, before you end up in an artisanal hand-sharpened guillotine. Disemployment is an externality as serious as dumping mercury in the lake.
What does "goofy message passing architecture to get polymorphism and inheritance" mean?
Not really... I don't see how that would be anything more than adding one more task to a million other tasks. It doesn't change incentives.
The HN text box defeats at least Firefox's spell checking.

Saf Farsisco. Falaffel. Hemmoridge. Antidisistablishmintirinismisms. Firifofxofox doesn't appear to caer! This whole comment passes with flying colours.
The tricky part is getting the runes keyboard repaired.
I don't think it's become just the Social Activist Platform™. There are just alot of people who are very interested in politics that post on it. The same goes for gaming and music. Not so much books or tech.

The other thing it has going for it is it encourages immediacy, which makes it fun for sports fans and journalists love it for that as well. Which then leads to the modern "immediacy vs. accuracy" problem that broadcasting faces as well. The main reason politicians like it is because that's where the journalists are at.

I think you're putting too much on Twitter if you're trying to blame it for lowering the level of discourse, or for political mobbing of people online. So much of this is a broader symptom of the Internet being accessible to so many people who are enthused but not very informed. And it happens across platforms. Facebook is worse IMO as it really leads to the lowest common denominator of political nonsense being shared out.

TL;DR: Twitter is good if you want to find people who have common interests. Or want to find out more from celebs and/or creatives. Or just from more normal people who have a cool job. It's bad if you want to talk politics, but so is 90% of the Internet.
I'm still waiting for mine (6 hours since this was posted to HN).
Fixed-wing hand launchable Parrot Disco drone stays aloft for 45 minutes
The first thing I thought of while reading the title was: is it April 1 already?
I don't feel sorry for them. Twitter is a great idea and valuable platform. It would be better implemented in a decentralized way - perhaps with it's own protocol.

By running it as a business and they're trying to force a square peg into a round hole and slowly undermining its value.
Seeing this makes me feel ashamed to be a part of the tech industry. This is why people despise the 1%. Show some taste/humility/discretion. A "service" like this is so narrowly focused on the ultra rich, that it should be marketing in high end magazines/direct outreach.. not on hacker news.
There are plenty of architectures that do exactly this. EMR-on-S3, Google Dataproc on GCS, Snowflake-on-S3, BigQuery-on-GCS, etc etc.

The bigger point in the article is that these exact "take processing to the data" architectures operate exceedingly well on S3, GCS, Azure.

And, as a biased observer, these architectures operate on GCS the best due to great performance measured in the article, quick VM standup times, low VM prices, and per-minute billing.
This bookshelf is located at CDG.
Maybe Japan's population is reaching an equilibrium with its ecosystem. How many people do you reckon should live in a country? Infinity+?

If the economy shrinks because of less people, then how is that going to doom them? The economy goes up and down all the time.
I believe this is called "Programming" in certain enterprise circles.
Or: http://www.jeremytunnell.com/posts/a-guide-to-section-1202-t...
Probably COM or its precursor. [0]

Coding for Windows was fun back in the day ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model
It's another "theory about Japanese" (日本人論), people making stuff up that makes the Japanese sound unique, like that Japanese are descended from different apes than other races, or that Japan is the only country with four seasons.

Every country or people have their own ideas about how they are awesome, but I think I noticed it here because I'm an outsider.
I think I'm very late at the party, but anyway I'm hoping that someone educate me.

I still can't agree with PG in that wealth is something that can be created. When a woodworker makes a chair to get money, he's merely trading his skill and time with money. The net wealth of the world hasn't increased. The perceived "win-win" situation only exists because there's a partiality in different types of resources: some people only have time, some people only have food, and some others only have iron, etc. If the world gets truly homogeneous, there's no way to create value. In reality, people are not homogeneous, so they keep trading, but still the total wealth isn't increasing. i.e. the economy is almost always a zero-sum game.

It's not a zero-sum game only in two cases: 1. When we take resources from the outside world. This typically happens when we mine a natural resource. Or 2. When we do unfair trading with people who somehow we don't deem as proper "human". This is pretty much a form of slavery or extortion.
i.e. the economy is not a zero-sum game when exploitation happens.

I don't think PG is advocating the second type of the economy, so I don't understand how he can think we're still creating wealth.
Politics for Technology (fixing Economic Inequality)
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Windows_Programming/Message_Lo...
Haha, Wara2 3in-App.
"Considering the standard deviation for IQ is 15 points"

The standard deviation for the distribution of IQ is 15 points.

The standard deviation of the errors of measurement associated with measuring IQ is 3 points.( ie: the standard error of measurement aka SEM)

I would be willing to have 3 fingers of my left hand ( not including my thumb ) amputated to improve my IQ by 1 standard deviation.

For more on Standard Error of Measurement, see http://www.csus.edu/indiv/b/brocks/Courses/EDS%20245/Handout...
Multi-threaded WebGL on Mac
That's totally different. Terminating due to an uncaught exception is reasonable, while proceeding afterwards is madness.
What do you consider significant? If you are doing over 10TB then you'll be paying lower and even lower the higher you go. This doesn't help the smaller players doing under 10TB. Do you know of people under 10TB that have negotiated better rates?
I can't speak for the other folks that were compromised this way, but we decided to just cut our losses and move on at PagerDuty and spent the 30 days after the compromise migrating everything that was running there over to Azure. No point in putting pressure on a company that stonewalls you.
You don't necessarily have to write them yourself. You can just copy and paste from different sources multiple times a day.

(Sorry. I'll take your downboats and be on my way. I could not resist.)
Guide to choosing a Ruby version manager (2014)
>but my expectation (as an investor) is that as the tech improves they will be able to bring down the price while maintaining or even improving the quality of the service

Call me skeptical, but where exactly is the tech involved? Currently this is just text messages going to people + people doing the things.

One possibility would be through AI (a bit of a weasel word most of the time, honestly), but Google and Apple are both miles ahead on NLP, so by the time you can parse "get me a peperonni pizza", Google will have been doing it for free for the past year , and include a 10% off coupon for the pizza!

Considering your value is based almost entirely on getting things done through an assistant that understands English, it looks like costs are basically how much you pay the assistant themselves... Maybe you can get away with paying them $20/hour (and equipping them with good tools to do the common stuff fast).

The Tesla strategy works (well, in theory) because so much of the cost of the good is based in things that are continuously getting cheaper (batteries).

But here... What's driving down the cost of the assistants? Seems like the solutions are much more about HR-style "innovations" , business partnerships, and the like than anything coming out of MIT.

I sincerely hope the strategy isn't "find the cheapest human labor possible"
How are you in a position where looking for a job in the future is not really necessary?
Oh please, give me a break.
What gives those things value IS the nostalgia though. A computer printed page has clear crisp letters with advanced fonts and typography compared to a typewriter with smudged, fixed-width fonts. E-ink books allow for notes, search, bookmarks and much more. The new is with few exceptions objectively better.
Oh god, why would anyone code with a white background? The contrast hurts my eyes.
The decentralized twitter idea is great! Better privacy and interconnectivity is even better!
Network egress costs on AWS appear to be a factor of 10x more than dedicated servers. Google GCE is pretty much the same.

That is a lot of negotiation that needs to be done. Will they get anywhere close to that kind of discount?

How big a customer do you need to be?
How is this distasteful? First off, $100 for a "we'll do whatever you want service" is not restricted to the ultra rich. But they also say they charge by the minute, not by the hour. If something only takes a few minutes, you pay ~$8.
It's an interesting idea, but I agree, I don't see how it's a tech company in any way.
On a long enough timeline, technology will absolutely kill all jobs. That's ideal. Once we have fusion and replicators, why would anyone want a job?

The question is, can our society survive the awkward transition period to post-scarcity, or will we crumble in civil wars and uprisings before we reach the goal of 100% unemployment?
I'm not sure what the recommended alternative to this scenario would be based upon your comment:

I like to check invariants at certain points in my code. Them not being correct is an obvious bug. I would prefer to fail in the most obvious fashion if they aren't correct, which for our production environment is an exception.
Once upon a time when the world was fresh and new
Those tweets by PG are pretty embarrassing, if I was told they were a parody of SV culture, I'd think it was going too far.
The big dig made a dramatic and historic transformation of a major city. In terms of a public works project, it was enormously successful.

It was expensive, but so are lots of other projects and practices. How many unnecessary & duplicative military bases do we operate in the South?
Bernie Sanders Attacks Hillary Clinton Over Regulating Wall Street
Is this really just books he read in 2015? I know some people read exceptionally fast, but 600 books (> 2 a day) strikes me as too many.
Some people think Apple is undervalued. Others think the value is about right because of Apple's cash mountain.
Thanks for this link. Although it talks about:

database accessed using old forum credentials

So I'm not sure "anonymous login" would be an entirely accurate description.
That's just another emergency amendment that expires in less than 3 weeks. Scroll to the bottom of your link.
Analyze social media data in real time
Sounds about right. Had an 8 hour interview with a fruit company and some of the questions got pretty ridiculous.

Them: pull out a product they make, "Can you explain in detail how this product works"

Me: in my head "If I new in detail I wouldn't be applying for this position", but actually to them "sure but can I have some requirements and limitations on the design first, and from there began a excruciating interview process.
And the proposition makes way way way more sense than the vanilla Magic.
So isn't that just really a form of exploitation of someone's low self esteem, background, or career ignorance?
Debito had some relevance in the 90s in raising awareness of issues regarding foreigners in Japan, but he is definitely not an authority on Japan, regardless of how many years he has been here.

His experience (of apparently constantly experiencing outrageous racism) does not really align with many others' here, which suggests that part of it is over-reaction, intentionally or not.
I think the most interesting part is that he now makes hard cider full time. A reminder that there's a whole world outside of programming.
Thought Bitcoin Was Dead? 2016 Is the Year It Goes Big
"this is so narrowly focused on the ultra rich"

So was Tesla initially. That didn't make it unworthy of tech news coverage. As this sort of technology matures and become more accessible to the general public, it has a reasonable chance of being the "next big thing". That makes its launch newsworthy to the people in the industry.
But the woodworker literally created wealth. The world now has more chairs than it used to. The same is true for nonphysical goods, like writing software.

In addition to actually creating things, people can trade things. I have a thing you want, you have a thing I want. We trade and we are both better off, so the amount of utility - "wealth" - has been increased.
React prove of concept
"Magic+! I need the schematics of this building sent to my phone. And hack a satellite with infrared imaging so I can see where the terrorists are." - Jack Bauer
I don't know what kind of hardware Amazon uses, but it looks like 60TB worth of any kind of SSDs starts at $24K on Newegg. If they're provisioned 3X, that's 12 months to pay off the drives.
Isn't that effectively a problem for any hourly based service? What's the incentive for a lawyer, accountant, developer, anyone to be as cost effective as possible? Surely the answer to that (happy customers, repeat business, referrals) would apply here as well. Even if hypothetically it wasn't as efficient as possible yet they still managed to deliver quality results, whats the problem? You're paying for results not effort, no?
I'm sorry that this debacle has negatively impacted your opinion of the framework. Other open-source maintainers had warned me in the past that this kind of thing is par for the course as any project grows, but it doesn't make it any easier to deal with when it happens to you. In the mean time, it has certainly made my family's holidays unpleasant, and disrupted the lives of the rest of our team.

I posted a few important clarifications here in the original issue: https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/issues/3429#issuecommen...
People won't write long blog posts. Instead they will get drunk and write long LiveJournal posts.
Can magic+ have someone gild my butthole while I snort lines of crushed modafinil from the belly of a vietnamese teenage hooker? Preferably while I'm in my corner office at my SF crowd funded startup disrupting the sustainable grass fed cheese supply chain?
Your criticism is "out to kill" style while the fact is that article has many good points and many bad points. For example, her comment on avoiding automation is outright wrong and uninformed. However her comment on the actual value that startups create vs value conferred by priesthood of super-rich vs value generated by non-startup folks is right on target. Her assertion that startups are becoming tool to facilitate inflated artificial returns for super rich rent-seekers doesn't look way out there. Her comparisons for current valuations with entire continent worth of countries or thousands of human lives should provoke thoughts on how the system is getting rigged by super rich crowd in the name of "risk taking" but without actually having to deliver proportional value to society. Even with successful exists most startups eventually get killed anyway in their new corporate owners destroying pretty much all of the supposedly created massive valuations. The only net outcome of even successful startups is super rich getting more richer along with few dudes tagging along for the ride. However I think her attacks on pg is off mark, uncivilized and even completely wrong, again in "out to kill" style just like your critic as opposed to extracting and isolating food for thought. PG had lots of good points to make his case that startups do generate wealth as opposed to take away wealth from poor but he then went off road to assert that limitless inequality is generated solely because of wealth creation which runs counter to pretty much economic data points.
I'd say that depends what part of the US you're in.
It's evidently photoshopped, based on the message bubble padding. Definitely just an error.
VPS providers that are typically pitched as Linode Alternatives. Not 1:1 equivalents, but may work depending on your needs.

Vultr, Ramnode, Wable, iWStack

Or, depending on the number of VPS's you have, you might like:

- Aliyun, the cloud service from Alibaba

- A dedicated server from OVH, or their mid-tier brand, SoYouStart. This is my personal favorite. They have real DDOS protection, Data centers in North America and Europe, reasonable web interfaces, lots of available IPV4 space, and DIRT CHEAP prices. Run proxmox as the distro, and you get a decent interface to create and manage VPS instances.

The most important piece would be to try and split instances across at least two of these providers so that you have some fast recourse if something goes wrong. For the things I'm running, doing a nightly rsync of the data from one provider to another suffices as reasonable insurance.
You have to press "threads" in the top menu bar. It shows your comments and their replies.
The other option is it could (choose to)
not operate in that given region at all

This was the choice taken by UnitedHealth, Aetna, Cigna, ...
The regular version of their service still appears to be US-only[0] (last FAQ item). I suspect that Magic+ is also US-only and they've neglected to mention it specifically on this page.

[0] https://getmagicnow.com/