skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I envy you. Out of interest, what do you do (if not a tourist)?
That link is a PDF.
Sure, it does. If you're talking casually with friends, it's pretty common to drop the initial pronoun, especially when it's implied from context... which is exactly what happens in Japanese, except the context is larger.

"[You] Gonna eat that pizza?"

"[I'm] Gonna go to the store."

"Where's John?" / "[He's] Eating."
I would be surprised if there were as many kids buying parts today as there were prior to 1990 or so. It used to be pretty normal for schools to have electronics or ham radio clubs.
Smith and Wesson Gun Sales Soar as Obama Announces Gun Rules
I tweeted about this last week and was surprised no one else noticed sooner: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F_...

their roll out of this pivot has been a disaster:

1) Last week the homepage was saying it was free: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6v7ctgeakcya1wi/1.png?dl=0
but when you signed up it asked you to pay $100/hr or $3000 a month

2) Then yesterday they updated the homepage to say it was a paid ONLY service:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t01zei3j9k6e99f/2.png?dl=0

3) Now today they've updated the homepage wording to say it's free OR paid:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5qlrt6vfzsigda0/3.png?dl=0

Venturebeat did a post on the pivot: http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/04/magic-to-start-charging-10...
Couple of other points:

1. Enhanced Networking (SRIOV) only works in a VPC and not in EC2-Classic.

2. I think the 4x instances don't support 10Gb ethernet. If that is the case, it would also be instructive to test the 8x instances on S3.

For some very application (Hadoop) specific tests of Enhanced Networking, please take a look at https://www.qubole.com/blog/product/hadoop-enhanced-networki...
CPU cost is only part of the total cost of an EC2 instance.

According to James Hamilton who speaks on behalf of Amazon, Servers make up ~57% of the cost of running a DC. CPUs are only a fraction of the cost of a server, maybe 25%.

So moores law only really applies to ~15% of the total cost of EC2. That's before factoring in all of Amazons capex to build the software that is EC2.

Edit: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/09/overall-data-center...
That is getting closer to my price range. I saw something called the SDRX01B and was wondering if anyone heard of it or was able to comment on its performance.
That's a bit naive, as with Facebook M this is tapping into the huge market of AI-like personal assistants.

We may not yet have the technology to create a Jarvis, but we can make a person a lot more efficient at their job with some clever tools.

For example, in the website there's a request that mentions getting a private helicopter booked to LAX in 3 hours. A personal assistant would have to look up private aviation companies that fly out of a base nearby the GPS location of the user, guesstimate the closest one and most likely call to book as the online bookings might not be automatically processed and it's a short notice.

With today's technology, you can parse that request so that the software automatically picks up "Helicopter booking", from: GPS to: LAX. If it's right, the operator accepts it and it creates a checklist: 1) Call "Bob's helicopter co." 2) Enter exact time of booking: [ ] 3) Click to book car for booking_time - travel_time at [current_location|office|home] 4) send nice reply to customer.

Once you've done this a couple times, you write new software that automates the call step by filling in a form online, or sending an email to the receptionist, or both.

More importantly, since you log every action the operators take, you take decisions on what to automate based on data. Are our employees spending 24% of their time on google maps? let's add a database of businesses so they can simply choose from a list.
There may be some certification process you can go through to get a test approved, but mere job applicability isn't enough. For example, this firefighting test was found to violate the 4/5ths rule.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/213380090/1999-NYC-Firefighter-Wri...

You'd have a hard time convincing me that doing well on it didn't correlate with being a better firefighter.
$200,000 isn't even 5% in SF. The fact is that there are a lot of rich people and I am sure this service provides an amazing utility for them. No need to be jealous. I am sure they don't need to advertise on HN, it's more of a look this too exists.
It doesn't matter what the trend is, it just matters that Moores law only applies to a fraction of the cost of a server, which is only a fraction of the cost of running DCs.

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/09/overall-data-center...
Come build the future of community software at GroupAhead (YC W15)
I keep an updated resume on LinkedIn and try to participate in a few groups. I've also published a grand total of one post on their blogging platform.

I think there's some value in the tool, especially if you have listed skills in a buzz-wordy section of the industry. The last time I did an in-person job interview, everybody had printed copies of my LinkedIn resume beforehand, which nicely sped things up. That said, as others have pointed out, there is a very high noise-to-signal ratio in the network. Scrolling through a LinkedIn feed is nobody's idea of a good time, unless you're a recruiter.
A big problem with Amazon is that for many listings you have no idea what you're actually getting. One example I recently saw was a listing for a name brand phone case half the sellers were actually sending fakes. The review section was a confusing mess of 5 star reviews from people who got the real one and 1 stars from recipients of the fakes.

Another example is "The Game of Life" board game. A new version was recently released that is completely different than the old one, yet the listing and all the reviews for the old version are kept. So you are reading reviews for a completely different game than you can actually buy.
Softlayer is the product of multiple provider rollups and it shows. Some of their techs are solid, but others not so much. Their processes can be pretty whacked too.

One rollup just prior to Softlayer was ThePlanet and their efforts to onramp us from their vanilla dedicated to their new managed service several years ago was a complete debacle. And our environment was super simple--only 5 boxes on a rack and a couple network devices.

But, the guy who was "leading" the effort was completely inexperienced. When we finally announced that we'd had enough, they brought in more management and senior tech guys to advise and save the deal (they were angling for an investment so wanted to book more customers before quarter's end; thus our little business mattered).

They talked us into staying and one of our conditions was that they replace the "lead". Oddly, they asked if they could leave him in place because he was "a young guy, just getting started, and the blow would set him back". Of course, I felt for the guy, but that struck me as a horrible thing to ask of a customer. Didn't want to hurt him but had to insist nonetheless.

In any case, we stayed with them for some time at close to legacy prices on fairly dated metal, primarily because we didn't have time to switch. Over that time, services became decidedly "less managed", especially after the rollup to Softlayer. Of course, by then they were also pushing their cloud. When we finally found time to switch, we moved to AWS and never looked back (except in relief).

We cut our costs by two-thirds. Better, it struck me that AWS's automated processes are an order of magnitude better than the "managed" services we were by then receiving from Softlayer.
A cool project that I never released from 10 years ago
Here are a few ways you might be interested in measuring effect size:

- if the environment changes such that this effect becomes operative, what sort of change should I expect in terms of z-scores? ("how does the effectiveness of damping sound with crumpled paper compare to the effectiveness of mining with dynamite?")

- if I aim to change a quantity using this effect, what sort of change can I expect relative to the existing known ways of changing the quantity in question? ("How many laborers could I replace with one bundle of dynamite while ending up with the same size of hole?")

- if I see a change of so many standard deviations in some intangible variable, (a) what sort of effect will I see further down the pipeline in the variables that I really care about, or (b) is that amount subjectively worth the effort? ("If I have $600,000, can I make a bigger hole by hiring and outfitting diggers, or by buying and detonating dynamite?")

You're insisting on the first of those questions and only the first. The comment I responded to is explicitly phrased in terms of the third question, and 3-4 IQ points is quite significant in terms of tangible knock-on effects. It's also worth noting that an intervention yielding 3-4 IQ points is staggeringly large in terms of question #2, losing out to curing malnutrition but beating basically everything else. It is so large as to seriously damage the credibility of the result, given what we already know about efforts to raise IQ.
Yeah, we solved this problem already. YouTube is FILLED with garbage. But you only find the garbage you like, mostly. Steam is a problem because they don't have a recommendation engine that learns from a users preferences. And really, that should be inexcusable today.

Steam would be fairly easy to compete with, I expect, since they don't do anything other than let big publishers do whatever they want and provide a dumping ground for everyone else. If they restricted the big publishers, then it would be tough because you'd have to get them on board, but Valve even paid to implement their "preloading" system so big publishers didn't have to run the risk of actually taking advantage of digital distro and endangering their retail distro agreements by having stuff available 2 weeks before the boxes could make it onto the shelves.
> I've tried finding a Windows laptop that comes close for personal use. I ended up getting a MBP and putting Windows on it like a lot of developers.

Well a lot of developers actually use Linux, and Lenovo hardware support for Linux is much better than the non-official Linux support for Macs, for one.

Plus, Thinkpads are way more robust than Apple's products. They can drop, be trampled over, and still work just fine. They are made for the road, not just to shine in Starbucks.

Thinkpads are highly replaceable as well. You can open them up and change about every part inside, because they are made to be modular and easy to service. No need to go to your Apple Store to have your battery replaced.

On top of that, used Thinkpads can be extremely cheap and still work fine for YEARS after that. You probably will replace them before the hardware actually fails.
It seems much more likely that it was simply a poorly conceived and poorly marketed product.
"globe-shaking" "currency tumbled" "wild price swings" These terms are relative to whatever stability what there in the recent past. No matter how stable a market is, when it starts to change, reporters are going to label it like that. The reality is everything's just fine. Look at the price of CNY in USD for the last 5 years. Before 2011 it was even lower, and nobody cared then.

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=CNY&to=USD&view=5Y

It's swung over a 10% range during that entire period. Who cares about 10% change in 5 years? This might be a small surprise for traders who expect it to change by less than a fraction of a percent each day, but for normal people it's not relevant. If the economy is collapsing, this exchange rate certainly isn't a sign of it.
Transparent pricing is one of the greatest selling points of the "cloud". Nobody in the startup scene wants to deal with traditional enterprisey "call us for a quote" pricing unless they really have no other choice.

So if what you're saying is right, that would be just another reason for most small companies to avoid Amazon. If you're wrong, other comments in this thread have also given a good reason for small companies to avoid Amazon.
Yes, but if you install tlp the situation is somewhat better.
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We are looking for mobile developers who are good at Android development and also knowledgable with iOS development. We use Java for the Android and Swift for the iOS. Good sense of design is bonus.

We also want you to be an endurance runner, or a triathlete, or at least to have the passion about running. This is very important.

You will be leading the Android development for Stryd first, and possibly share the development for iOS in the future.

Relocating to Boulder is required. But you know what? If you like running, this is pretty much your dream place. You get tons of opportunities to run and train with LOTS of elite athletes who are Stryd ambassadors here.

If interested, please send an email to kun@stryd.com
> It's a an experiment, and like all experiments we're still waiting for the data to come back.

That, my friend, is the long and short of it.

Lookin' for a job? Got a work-sample you could try out... :)
I worked at Kodak as a summer intern in '85. Was the era of the disk camera. Was also my first programming job. Lotus 1-2-3.

Most people today can't comprehend the scale of American manufacturing as it still was at that time. The Elmgrove plant where I worked (one of a dozen facilities in the Rochester area) has over 14 thousand employees. Our start and end times were staggered in 7 minute increments to manage traffic flow.

That none of that would exist 20 years later was inconceivable at the time. The word "disruption" wasn't in business vocabulary. Nor was the phrase "made in China". Some senior technical managers saw the "digital" writing on the wall. But what could they do? What could anyone do? There was no way to turn that aircraft carrier on a dime.

There was no business model in digital cameras that would employ 100 thousand engineers, managers, factory workers, technicians, and staff.
I can absolutely understand your concern. I originally had it in my post, but removed it because I was worried it would detract from the details of our compromise at PagerDuty.

I worked at Linode for just under three years, and worked on quite a few different things there. I started on support and moved on to a development role (including writing ColdFusion). I left Linode on good terms. California is much more enticing than NJ, so I wanted to relocate. Plus I was interested in doing more of an Ops role, instead of working including customer-facing web applications. I'm still enjoying it. :)

I think there are lessons that can be learned whenever a company has some sort of security incident. This is especially true if they are willing to publicly disclose details of the incident. We've wanted to provide what limited information we had, but wanted to wait until we had confirmation that Linode was the vector.

While there is some relief in finally determining what we believe to be the vector of our attack, it's very unfortunate that Linode engineers are dealing with the fallout right now.
Thanks for bringing this up. I've addressed similar comments elsewhere in this thread so I'll try not to repeat myself much.

- We really feel terrible that some early Magic users had a less-than-magical experience after our initial, spontaneous launch. I'm really sorry about that. I'm glad that you got your refund. If you're interested, reach out to us and we can probably track down exactly what happened and what broke down in the chain of operations.

- This is part of the reason that we created Magic+. We wanted to be able to hold a very high bar for top-tier service and guarantee that you would have it at all times, no matter what.

- We'd love for you to give Magic+ a try and compare it to your experiences with Magic. I'm highly confident that you will feel a major difference, however I understand if you don't feel inclined to do so after your past experience.
The sub-licenseable, and transferable parts.

That's pretty much "Screw you we can do what we want now".
Ahh, the people who can't read. It says magic+ is paid, magic is free.

Also, pretty sure a service like this doesn't give a shit what the website says. If you are reading the website, it's either not for you or you have an interest in tech news and the exact pricing structure doesn't matter to you anyway.

Pretty sure this service doesn't need to advertise.
> Additionally, in the case of Chicago, the pensioners don't really care either. The government has guaranteed they'd honor pension liabilities whether they're currently funded or not.

As a former Illinois resident, I'm super excited to see what happens when the government attempts to honor pension obligations with bank accounts at 0, and property owners flee the state as their property taxes skyrocket to foot the bill.
This is a great suggestion - perhaps the guys from Compose can come back in 2 years and tell us how it went?
Or it may be an indicator of the attitude/shortsightedness of the hiring company.

From the candidate perspective, one way to assess the viability of the hiring strategy is imagine if most, or a significant number, of companies doing this. This eats significantly into each candidate's time, and edges the job seeking dynamic in favor of the companies, and against the candidate since the candidate is forced to value the cost of opportunity searching versus doing something else. This also dramatically would increase the stress of a job search - I experienced it first hand over the course of last year when a good portion of companies wanted projects done, all which would have totalled maybe 100 hours of extra work on top of everything else normally associated with interviewing.

This is not a sustainable balance for job seekers - ultimately this acts against most job seekers' self-interest. I'm fine with doing project-based tests ability/attitude-wise but this reasoning is why I pass up on them.
To seek out the highest rate of gun violence, look no further than gun-free zones in America.
Bitcoin was nowhere near as popular of a payment option for Magic as some people expected it to be. For simplicity's sake, we did not include it right now in the Magic+ service. If you would like to use Magic+ via Bitcoin, please text in and mention that fact, and we will certainly accommodate.
http://shop.lego.com/en-US/MINDSTORMS-ByTheme

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Robotics-ByCategory
Reading between the lines, I think AWS has a huge upstream bandwidth bottleneck that it can't get around easily, while spread out small dedi providers have everything but this problem.

(Speculation based on how AWS prices things: Build big, charge for everything, charge what it actually costs with a small markup, and put every high-margin provider out of business)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10828493
Less taxes so more like $150/hr just to break even.
I'm wondering if this trend to pay for limited use, or "human micro-services" is good for society. Soon I'll have to bid for work as a developer and will have no idea if I'll be able to eat today or sleep under a roof. God help me if I'm sick.

Progress and efficiency is great, but I wonder if we (you and I, common devs) are digging our own graves.
How do they know you actually did the work on the sites/apps you present? Dead easy to take credit for someone else's work.

I'm saying a desirable trait is that you can learn new things to solve problems. You know approximately what the problems they will give you are, if you aren't willing or able to go out and learn the necessary skills then why should they hire you?
Memory growth is being removed from asm.js
Walmart is still a gigantic part of some games PC sales. It's the reason why Valve is careful not to ask anything of the big publishers that would endanger their agreements with Walmart. That's why even though the cost to get a game through Steam is 10% of what it is to get it at Walmart, you still pay full price and often more than what you pay at retail. The big Steam discounts are only possible after the game has been removed from retail, since the retail agreements require not offering the game anywhere else for a lower price (though retail outlets are able to offer discounts from the MSRP which is why you might find a game that is $60 on Steam for $55 at Walmart). It's also why the stupid "preloading" system exists where you download a game you paid for, but aren't allowed to run it until retailers have a chance to put it on their shelf.
Right, this is text-message-only Zirtual, at $100/hour. They also include the standard Magic physical services as well, but I don't see why you'd pay for physical at $100/hour plus the Magic surcharge, when you can use Magic alone or Zirtual alone.
What percentage of Lego revenue do those products account for? My guess is it's microscopic, but maybe I'm wrong.
User retention and product quality.

If we aren't efficient and cost-effective, we won't be able to retain users and our product experience will be severely harmed. Whether we are charging hourly or not, it must be the case that the value we offer the user is greater than or equal to the cost that the user is paying.

Needless to say, at Magic we hold ourselves to a very high standard when it comes to product quality and value. And, we use the product ourselves and we pay hourly.
They've been using a CF stack that is fundamentally broken from the foundation up for years and was aware of it.

Its part of why they hired someone in July to rebuild it in python.
I have a real assistant. I've known her for years and trust her. I don't know who you guys are hiring, who will see my info, whether your internal systems are secure, etc. I've used magic before and liked it but clearly there is a signicant loss of privacy cost that is paid in addition to the hourly rate.
And I don't think anyone is arguing that the poor should all go out and try to start businesses once they're automated out of their current job, that would be a very naive viewpoint. PGs essay is saying that society should be discussing how to solve poverty, rather than how to solve economic inequality.

I'm strongly in favor of things like basic income, extensive free retraining programs, and a lot of social support to make sure that every citizen can be free of the desperation of true poverty, and we can maintain social and economic mobility, but there are a lot of ways that attempting to stamp out economic inequality could go really horribly wrong.
Oh hey, I worked on something similar two years ago: http://www.FaceMyAge.com (note, the age estimator has been taken offline - because, 2 years ago).

A lot of the issues our estimator (just an age estimator) ran into were the standard face recognition problems: occlusion, lighting, and (the obvious) bogus images.

Anyone involved, what data set was the attractiveness scale built from(Labelled Faces in the Wild Dataset (http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/))?
Those gun-free zones would also be the highest populated. However, without a source, it's difficult to have an intelligent discussion.
You don't take anything hammered out by reason alone as sound information. You test reasonable-looking propositions against experience, and until they've stood up against that test by providing accurate predictions with substantial information-content, you take them as provisional.