skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a hard time imagining how supporting multiple providers would cost millions of dollars per year. I think it's a worthwhile way to make your software and infrastructure more resilient. And it protects you from vendor lock-in. As long as you keep things simple and don't use features that are only implemented by one provider, VMs are basically interchangeable.
In most of those cases, the performance-sensitive game engine itself does not use GC; GC is used in the scripting language that implements the high-level game logic.
There's no point in having laws you don't enforce.
I think you are looking for something like Vega (http://vega.github.io/) which is more a declarative grammar for visualization (and also includes interaction and the ability to stream data). As far as I can see there is only one implementation of the grammar (in javascript) but there's no reason it couldn't be implemented on top of opengl, for example.
I have a similar task, but I was able to automate it with a perl script. I use Web::Scraper module along with ORLite. I check the site on a frequency for a file or change to text on the page using a simple MD5 hash of the content, or the name of the file in a link. I keep track of it in a simple sqlite database. When there is a change in some SEC spec or a new file on Edgar, I grab it, mark it as processed in sqlite and then mail it to the people that need it.
From 2001.
> Say 1 in 500 police interaction is bad (terrorizing innocents at gunpoint) and 1 in 10 000 is, well, criminal (police maiming or killing someone innocent).

I'm pretty sure that terrorizing innocents at gunpoint is, in fact, a crime in the US. It's not a thing you get for free with your carry license.
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Oh no, I don't think there's ever a single reason for anything. People don't buy insurance to reduce variability, since people don't care about positive variability, only negative (as in the lottery example).

Some people buy just because other people tell them to, some because they are afraid of losing something, and so on, there are a thousand reasons why individuals do it. But the general trigger of insurance for people is the non-linear utility function.
She also mentions that the experiment was compromised. They weren't strangers (as in the original experiment). They chose one another to try the experiment with. So she was correct in that way.
Makes sense once they are able to setup kiosks in villages and have employees there to order on behalf of customer with COD, you have largest profit making reailer in the world. If they can work ith few FMCG like Godreg,Uniliver, P & G and Nestle etc.. along with Indian Postal and local couriers.. you have great monster. Indians does not care about anything other than price (durability/quality) so 1 rupee less than local guy on kiosk then people will buy from kiosk guy. I wish i had some capital to try this out..

EDIT: Also Indians still share in village so even if amazon says they will give only 10 Hamam soaps but at 10% less or 10 Horlicks with 15% less, people will pool and buy.
I've been with Linode for years and they've fought off more than a few DDOS attacks in the past, so they certainly are competent in that regard. I think this one must be a higher level of severity than previous ones. Generally, they seem ok with this stuff. I don't think there are any DDOS-proof VPS's out there.
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Two different kinds of outrage – the warehouse employees being worked to the bone predated the white-collar outrage.

Examples:

* "I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave": http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...

* "Brutal Conditions In Amazon's Warehouses Threaten To Ruin The Company's Image": http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-...

* "True Stories of Life as an Amazon Worker": http://gawker.com/true-stories-of-life-as-an-amazon-worker-1...

* "Inside Amazon's Warehouse": http://www.mcall.com/news/local/amazon/
Anyone can do that. I was actually wondering if there are software to automate this.
Paypal remains the only online service I've used for real world stuff (as opposed to throw away e-mail accounts on spam forums) that has been compromised (to my knowledge).

In 2007 or so $50 was taken from my account and sent to SecondLife (remember them?), despite me never having played that game. I think even back then the only way I could prove I was the rightful owner of the account and get my money back was to send a photo of my drivers license.

I'm glad they've stepped up their security game in the past 8 years.
Why do you put cloud sync and error reporting features into scare quotes? For a developer, the error reporting features are awesome and users get direct benefit from them (bugs squashed faster).

I would take a crash dump over a poorly written (or nonexistent) bug report e-mail any time.
I think we need to wait for some form of microbe of nanobot to handle this task. I remember Japan was testing some solution that you simply flush in your mouth and it is supposed to stop cavities. No need to brush in this case.
User-supplied links means you're getting information from the sources users actually read. If you want the original source, feel free to find it and add it in the comments here.
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Not enforcing a law is much easier than repealing a law.

I'm not sure about the US, but in UK plenty of law is enforced less rigorously before it's scrapped.
I built a JSON templating system[0] (based on Handlebars) that is project based. Basically, you create new JSON files for each project and the system generates a CFN template that contains everything that project needs (EC2 instances, RDS instances, security groups, etc.) It's still a work in progress but I'm using it in production in my day job and I'm pretty happy with how it works. More help is always accepted. :)

[0] https://github.com/rnhurt/CFNBuilder
If I can get some clarity on who did this, why and how it got fixed and why it won't happen in future I'm sure me and a bunch of other frustrated ops folks will consider sticking with them or moving back.

I've been a generally happy Linode customer for a long time, but this is my biggest gripe with them. I can almost guarantee you'll never get this. Linode just doesn't do it. Their postmortems on issues (if they ever come) are light on details of the problem, and even lighter on details about their solutions. They seem to do a decent job of addressing most issues, because they rarely have recurring problems, but they never really talk about what they're doing.
The problem with this line of thinking is if someone subsidizes mining by a small fraction of fees paid they can become the largest miner. (A classic monopolistic tactic.)

So, really in the long term the network is protected by ~5% of fees paid over an extended period.

Worse, miners must be on the internet, so infecting a few machines could let you control the network with minimal investment. At which point double spending is probably more profitable than the minimal coins mined before the infection is detected.
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My goal was to illustrate the point with an anecdote. A longer article would have arrived at the same conclusion: Having a marketer who can code saves the company money. As you pointed out, this can be extrapolated further: It pays to have good problem-solvers.
> We can try to minimize it, but one has to accept that it'll hit diminishing returns after some time.

That's true for everything, but let's not assume that we're at the point of diminished returns already.
You might have missed it, but there was a previous burst of outrage when Amazon's warehouse practices came to light.
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prohibited, as shall the purchase directly from them by the ECB or national central banks of debt instruments.»
While I think you can fall in love with anyone, to actually stay in love you'll need to follow the concepts found in books like "The Five Love Languages" and "His Needs, Her Needs".
So I posted this question because I saw this comic on xkcd that is a chart showing how long you should work on making a task more efficient before your spending more time than you save. I always see these ask hn questions about coming up with ideas for a startup. I thought if you phrase it a little different, you might get a better set of ideas by looking at manual tasks that take at least 5 minutes.
The person who worked for Sun/Oracle, the one who first mentioned this technique earlier in this thread, was quite clear that the technique involves loading a single VM and then "fork[ing] with a lot of the JITted code already in place and reasonable process isolation". You are, of course, correct that this is not the same as "running different applications in the same process", but that is not the technique that was described.

> The trick is to share one VM instance between multiple apps. So when the OS starts you start the VM process and then fork with a lot of the JITted code already in place so you get almost instant startup and reasonable process isolation.
The RISC OS people have produced a custom ROM that runs only BBC Basic at boot: https://www.riscosopen.org/content/sales/risc-os-pico

There's also some stuff here on the RPi site on other BASIC options: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/celebrating-50-years-of-bas...

I would actually love to re-case an RPi in it's own retro keyboard unit and turn it into a proper TV-computer of old. Alas I don't really have anything in the way of that kind of solder/hardware skills.

EDIT: Actually, following some of my own links, it looks like someone's beat me to it: http://www.fuze.co.uk/
No, if they're both selling their labor, they are both working class, not middle class.

Though heart surgeons often own practices and contract with facilities rather than being employees, so they are often middle class.

And, yes, real economic relations are complex and don't fall neatly into the categorization, are not of a continuum (e.g., lots of higher income workers that are don't actually love by applying labor to their own capital nevertheless have some some, potentially substantial, capital from which they derive some income (in many cases, not used for current needs but reinvested), and therefore don't face the same insecurity as most of the working class, while still having to deal with employer/employee relations the same way as the rest of the working class. This group shares some features of the working class (because of their primary source of support), the middle class (because the both rely on their labor and have non-trivial capital holdings that are important), and the capitalist class (because generally , to the extent they derive income from capital, it is not through application of their own labor.) Nevertheless, their primary engagement with the economy is as hired laborers, so dominantly, from an economic class perspective, they are working class.

(This is distinct from lifestyle, and from group identity -- indeed, the political manifestation of the divergence between identity and economic class explains a lot of apparent political irrationality jn which people expend considerable effort working against their own economic interests in the political realm because of an identity with an economic class that is not their own.)
You mean the odd/even bus access solution?

It's far older than the Amiga, the C64 used it, and I suppose Atari 8-bit and Apple I/II did too.
A webpack plugin that generates HTML file for your SPA.
Dallas is their oldest DC, so they have the most customers there and therefore the most attack surface area at that location. It could just as easily be one of their customers.
> It's a republic not a democracy.

That's like saying that it's an animated film, not a comedy. The republic is a form of government and democracy is a way to involve the people in deciding who governs them. Some republics are democracies, some democracies are republics.

> The problem with a democracy is the majority rules.

When the minority rules, like in a plutocracy, you've got a bigger problem.
Look someone in the eyes, get them to talk about themselves, and they will most of the time like you. Not really a secret, but also not always easy to do. And, for many people it takes real effort.
Your own physical siri
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True, but notice that one of the most important rule in all UX design everywhere is consistency. This rule by itself is a strong attractor, dragging UI designs together. And while not directly constrained by explicit physical laws, UI space is constrained by mathematical rules of information theory, by our biology (in particular the limbs we have and the brain architecture we all have in common), by interaction media, by our culture, etc. The space of useful designs (as opposed to just pretty) is quite small. There is room for creativity, yes, but changing the shape of a scrollbar arrow button to avoid a lawsuit is not creativity, it's making things different for the sake of them being different. At best it doesn't make usability worse.
Agree. It's a typical low paid, manual labor job in UK (and I guess elsewhere in western part of the world). The name "Amazon" is just to attract an attention, situation is pretty similar everywhere in this type of jobs. I'm from Eastern Europe (where the most immigrants and low level workers are from in UK) and have a lot of relatives/friends doing such jobs, and same or even much worse stories are not uncommon. The bright side of the story is, that for many, such jobs are temporary while achieving greater goals (i.e. studying or saving money to start their own business).
Could MiFID II Spell the End for Email Distribution of Financial Research?
What is interesting to me is that industry has conditioned us to view copying as a bad thing.

Is there any invention that did not benefit from copying ideas that came before it? We all stand on the shoulders of giants.

We need more copying, not less.
Not staying focused on one idea. If you try to work on more than one idea, you spread yourself too thin, and all the ideas suffer in quality and execution. Also, feature creep, focus only on the minimal features needed to launch. Decide on additional features after you have users and they start to ask for things and patterns start to form.
Reminds me I should try the password reset flow for each service before trusting it.

Would be awesome if there was a site that documented these, even if it was as simple as plaintextoffenders.com.
The link posted by ada1981 in that thread leads to an advertising page.
creepy to the max.
You might consider taking a look at http://www.cloud66.com/
That has not been my experience. I think snapdeal rules and yes amazon is better than flipkart (in deliveries).
I love "The Five Love Languages". It helped me understand why my past relationships had failed, that neither them nor me were at fault. We just didn't speak the other's language.
Maybe we can use this method to find Satoshi, if he uses github.
Don't miss the talk by Aylin starting in 50 minutes here:

http://streaming.media.ccc.de/32c3/hallg/

(Recording available later ...)
Human capital cost. Also, infrastructure is expensive by nature. We managed to run four at once with a team of 12 people. As I said before, vendor X ~= vendor Y in some way, so your deal and the service you get are not the same, so there is cost associated with that also.

There is a reason to pick a good strong vendor and stick with it. Big names end up building their own data center (they can probably capx it for tax purpose). Small to medium usually don't have time to deal with multiple vendors. Try to be vendor agnostic is really great but again, even in the world of open stack, you either manage all of your open stack installation yourself (which is expensive), or you end up one vendor running one version behind, or not offering 100% feature.

I think it is more worthwhile to first complete automation and self-healing in one vendor, before thinking leaping to another one. It took so many engineers at Netflix to build a resilient AWS environments. VMs go down all the time, more often than AWS pushing some bad commits and cause half of their native services go down. There is so much more to engineer in other areas and those are more likely to put you out of service first, so unless you want to all your team dealing with fires every day.... we were putting band-aids together most of the time.
Cool! does it work on torrent files that are still downloading?
Will try this out.
Zip code stuff has been around for years... I'm talking about optimizing the packing to ensure that the trucks are packed optimally. I've seen some references in articles that either said or implied that the level of optimization available is linked to how much data UPS is willing to share with Amazon about it's operations.

Given that Amazon uses pretty brutal public critique of UPS as a contract negotiation / customer sat tactic, and is obviously working on ways around them, I think the UPS/Amazon relationship has leaned more towards "frenemy" (vs trusted partner) for a few years now.
Taking that point further, this is exactly what you would expect an efficient firm to do. They are maximizing productivity and minimizing costs within a regulatory framework. Its the regulatory framework that needs changing if we want to see broad improvements in the blue collar worker's plight.

Almost any improvement will be at the expense of cheap goods, so get be prepared to pay for that improvement too. I believe this is the key reason we never see anything done about immigration in the US or pollution in China: at the end of the day, we care more about the cheap goods than the workers or pollution.
I'd strongly recommend the novel "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova. A very sad but accurate portrait of Alzheimer's:

http://www.amazon.com/Still-Alice-Lisa-Genova/dp/1501106422/...
Very nice! Is there a good solution like this for Spotify or other streaming music services? One that doesn't just rebroadcast a private audio stream?
The document you link to is not about Hotspot, it's about Oracle's Java ME VM, which is a different product from all I can tell. It doesn't mention the term "Hotspot" at all.
That's not the biggest concern. The biggest concern is SSN AND CREDIT CARD INFO being compromised. Priorities, folks. With someone having this info, an authorized two-step or two-factor authentication process is a joke in comparison.

What advanced type of stupid makes articles like this seem completely fine to individuals in the tech sector?
It would be nice if there was a good solution that companies could implement because this isn't just a fault of PayPal, this is most utilities, TV providers, etc. You can call up and pretend to be the account holder and as long as you have the address on file and account number you can gain access to a lot of things.
That is the most brain damaged idea I have seen from an e-commerce player yet.
> that still gives a steady stream of police brutality cases to run on nation-wide news, day after day.

US police brutality is so routine that it mostly goes un-reported, or gets minor attention on very local news media. That's changing now. Part of the problem is that US police don't even count how many people they shoot and kill.

I'd argue that the myth of "Vaccines causing autism" was not just manufactured by media, it was manufactured by a crook doctor who i) had developed his own single dose measles vaccine and needed people to stop using MMR and ii) was paid by lawyers to find a link to autism.
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Meet Wish, the $3B App That Could Be the Next Walmart
I have yet to find an author who adheres to actual science and writes a readable story. Some flexibility is required to transform a potential story into a page turner. I'd like to be proven wrong though.
I missed that last part. Thanks for the correction.
But one advantage of this findmoviesubtitle.com is for non-geeky users (unlike us :P), it's a much cleaner/simpler solution I believe.
A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine from Methamphetamine (2012) [pdf]
snorri sturlson claimed the norse gods were refugees from Troy. There must be something appealing about having exotic roots.
Strictly speaking, most Common Lisps can do this too out of the box. It's how "compiling" even works under most CL implementations.
The context in which it is mentioned is not about why the police should have done more vetting of the information, but of supposed advantages they have in legally fighting a poorly-justified police raid in the legal system that other targets of such raids would not have; material resources, being white, and a law-enforcement employment background are the three given examples -- the first is quite real advantage, the second is a real feature, though how much of an advantage it is in the contextay be debatable, and the last is simply false, based on the misidentification of the CIA as a law-enforcement agency.
Of course. We most likely aren't. But it's important to notice when you pass it (and expect a good solution to pass it at some point in the first place) - something society as a whole generally hasn't internalized yet.
The figure used for converting metric tons CH4 to metric tons CO2e seems quite low, and I'm not sure what exactly it means in the context of the chart you cite. Indeed, if you plug "110,000" into the calculator [1] references you get 1,247 metric tons CO2e as a result.

That calculator uses a figure of 22.7 for conversion from metric tons CH4 to metric tons CO2e. Many other sources use the number 25.
I didn't dip my toes into affiliate marketing as a side venture like I wanted to.
>total impact on human welfare from fractional reserves has been overwhelmingly positive.

Measured in what, GDP? A relentless race to extract more and more resources from the earth and lay waste to countries in the process? Easy money only emboldens a race to the bottom for extraction of resources, not a holistic life for the world's population. Such banking only empowers a few.
> "At the end of the day, nobody is forcing anyone to work here."
This erroneous logic justifies a lot of abuses. And it is used as much by employers as by employees. This statement eliminates the circumstances that make you work there, that can be out of your control. And it is easy to turn it around: "If you could choose any job, you will chose that one?". Probably not. So there goes all your choosing.

> "I can't quit now, because the cost of getting to the agency for the interview and drug test – and getting here today for just five hours' pay – means I'll have made a loss."
Talking about circumstances this is a bad one.
From https://github.com/capnmidnight/Primrose/ :

"Primrose is free, open source software and may be readily used with other FOSS. You may purchase a license for use in closed source projects"

"To simplify licensing issues, contributions to Primrose require a copyright assignment to me, Sean T. McBeth."

Is this standard practice? Because sounds weird.
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Also, at least part of the outrage needs to be directed at the hiring recruiting agency, not at Amazon itself.
if you want to stick with Python, try looking at the turtle library (https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/turtle.html). Right in the documentation is a 10 line program that creates a yellow and red starburst. It even supports entering the commands in the REPL so she can see the commands running as they are entered.
There is, auth your users through google/facebook/whatever. It's really quite simple.
And a bunch of the Nivens there have faster-than-light travel which should be an immediate disqualification.