skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the Message Structure doc http://tutorials.jenkov.com/iap/iap-message-structure.html . We are not as far with the core IAP protocol as we are with ION, but we will get there.

Designed-by-committee - really? You pull that?
I can speak a bit for the "no" camp. I work in medical imaging, so not neuroscience per se, but I know quite a few neuroscientists. Most of them are now working in Python, MATLAB and/or C++. IMO the (impassable?) barrier to using Go will be the existing infrastructure/libraries for those three languages. Even though you could use cgo... in my experience, most neuroscientists aren't that into fixing their tools. They'd rather be working on their models.

(I could easily stand to be corrected. On a similar note, I hope Julia replaces MATLAB for a lot of science/engineering.)
20K? Would love to see the itemised material costs, labour cost, adminstration fees for building this. Also have a projected on-going maintenance costs as well.

At the end of the day, the aim of this house is "a home that someone living below the poverty line can afford."
It's kind of hard for me to tell whether the house is nicer than mine when there's so little detail in the article on the actual house.

Look, i'm more than supportive of innovative design and doing things cheaply, but for an article that was heavy on "the house is so cheap", and "its built kinda more like a airplane", and "it uses all this innovative stuff", there's a startling dearth of information.

Sqm, plans, insulation, facilities, utilities, safety? Is it a house I'd want to live in or build, or is it a $20,000 shed with furniture? I'm not being snarky, I really want to know!
That happened a few weeks ago with Helium, not they did it with Hydrogen
Yes, a guy told us that Amazon has an internal data format called ION. We googled for it, but didn't find it, so we assumed Amazon wants to keep it internal.
Probably nice for the US, but in much of the rest of the world, it is the price of land which dominate the price. Any system that aims to reduce house prices really need to deal with limited supply of land to build on.

Even on Iceland which has vast amounts of space and tiny population, house prices are high because the areas where people want to live is in high demand.

Now if you could just build your house at any arbitrary location on Iceland then that would not be a problem. But people needs schools for children, hospitals, jobs etc. That limits the options.

The US has fairly cheap land because it is flat, it is easy to build infrastructure and there are a lot of roads everywhere which you can connect to. The city planning also space out things a lot leaving a lot of land for building.
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This is why I moved a huge portion of my TODO list into an IDEAS list. This is an outliner document (Org-mode) that contains notes on lots of different ideas.

So why didn't I just delete those items? Because writing down that stuff helps me not to think about it the whole day if I don't want to.

The IDEAS list grows and grows, but that's okay. I don't feel obliged to implement any of these ideas. Whenever I recall an idea, I go to that document, add some notes, and that's it. No deep research, no domain buying, no name searching. Just writing or extending on what comes to my mind, and roughly structuring it.

From time to time it happens that I do want to implement one of these ideas. And in that case I have some nice, simple spec to start from.

As a side note, I started to do that after I read "Writing, Briefly" from Paul Graham (http://paulgraham.com/writing44.html), which contains the following great advice:

...
when you finish, leave yourself something easy to start with;
accumulate notes for topics you plan to cover at the bottom of the file;
don't feel obliged to cover any of them;
...

These points are applicable far outside the scope of writing. In that sense, my IDEAS list is the clearly separated "bottom" of my TODO list that contains the "accumulated notes".

As a final note, this concept seems to be somehow related to the Not-To-Do list that some people advocate.
Same here - annoying to see the same 'corner angle' photography tricks that real estate agents use to hide shortcomings.
previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10996765
I want to know too; having somewhat recently bought a house, and I've started to upgrade it. I can see $20,000 going really fast for simple things.
IIRC the Intel Classmate was announced after the first Asus Eee PC, so I wouldn't say they were originally intended for schools.
The Very Rich Indie Writer (2011)
I’ve had a pretty poor experience with VLC on the Windows Store.

I tried it on my tablet (an HP Stream 7) running Windows 8.1, hoping to use it to play the music from my iTunes library (by copying the Music folder in iTunes’ iTunes Media folder from the computer that I use iTunes on to a microSD card inserted in the tablet’s microSD card slot).

Unfortunately, it had a number of issues:

Issue #1:

It seems that VLC doesn’t like the directory structure iTunes uses to store your music (when you’ve checkmarked the option in iTunes to 'Keep iTunes Media folder organized'), which consists of the top level (the 'Music' folder) containing folders named after each artist, which in turn contain folders named after the albums of each respective artist, which in turn contain the actual music files for those albums.

The reason I believe VLC doesn’t like this way of having the music organized is because after letting VLC read this music folder, VLC showed the albums in a completely non-sensical way (it was showing duplicate entries for the same album, with tracks in those albums being split between the duplicates (despite the music files containing ID3 tags!)).

Issue #2:

There’s no way to tell VLC not to search for information on the tracks from the Internet. It shows some of my songs with erroneous album art, etc. My songs that come from actual albums already have the album art embedded, so I don’t need VLC applying completely irrelevant album art to songs that aren’t actually from an album!

Issue #3:

It’s extremely slow (on my HP Stream 7)!

――――――

I ended up switching over to MediaMonkey on the Windows Store, and while it has a host of issues of its own (it doesn’t show notifications for songs with album art, the UI gets glitchy after using it for a while (stuff like not showing text in the app anymore, so you can’t see your track names… which can only be rectified by closing and reopening it), etc.), at least it actually shows the contents on my Music folder perfectly organized (no duplicates or other such issues), it doesn’t try searching for metadata on the Internet, and it’s actually fast.
After watching the video, to me, it just looks like Amit is quick to be the first to react and speak up. Which makes him appear like a leader to others.
6k = 12 working days for a builder skilled enough to do everything from working an excavator to hooking up hvac. So they're claiming a house that can be build in 12 day, by a single person, ready to move in? Clickbait.
I consider myself a very productive person ...
But I just removed about 30 years of work from my todo-list, after reading this article.
You could write that API...
Homesteading on the indie web (2011)
A Simpler Page (2011)
As an Australian who has rented all his life, you live knowing that the rug can be pulled from under you at any point. I think in my state that the notification period to 'get out!' is 90 days, but it may be shorter. Owning your own home also means you can do what you like with it, have what pets you like, so on and so forth. The equation is more than comparing dollars out.
Took me rushing through all those years of insane coding in the last company I worked for. By the time I had quit, a fully functional game engine had undergone 3 rewrites with 2 more underway and with one of them not seeing the day of light. All for the same reasons you elucidated and some more.

While it was not 'idiots' that was the reason, the later developers always had just enough more data on the assumptions to be made for the current revision. But then again, not enough to foresee the need for a fresh rewrite when things changed again in the future. Sometimes, the rewrite was essential, sometimes it was just on a subjective whim to build a silver bullet once and for all!
Unless, perhaps, one of the advantages in these alternative construction techniques is that they're more construction-error-tolerant. That's, for example, one of the key advantages in suspension bridges: any individual support cable can be installed in a stupid out-of-tolerance way, because load is just redirected evenly to all the other cables. Usually, in fact, "cheaper to build" almost always means "because the materials and techniques used mean that even a sloppy construction process will still produce good results."
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Use the docker image instead - https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/0.6.0/get_started/os_set...
> if you have ever worked at Google...

As it happens, I have. You are correct that there are tons of smart people there (in my less modest moods, I'd take myself as one such datapoint). What of it? That does not contradict, and therefore did not disabuse me of, the observation I noted above.
WhatsApp is one example, and if you're trying to imagine your own path, you should be thinking in statistics and probabilities. Imagine if the idea doesn't work out and you need to pivot. I'm not familiar with Erlang at all, but judging by the fact that (1) it was developed by a big telecom company and (2) it's priorities are stability and performance, I don't feel that it drastically changing business logic of an Erlang application is an easy task.
Nodejs, nodejs-legacy, npm, gulp, bower and tsd. Not a big deal of course.
The article pretty clearly states it's just material costs.
Maybe to keep dust and dirt out of sensitive machinery.
The concept is probably related to something you could call 'recursive idea debt' or 'recursive learning debt' in tech - when you come up with an exciting idea, and because you have no constraints you start thinking about this great new technology you would learn for that project and use. And then you would find 3 other interesting technologies or concepts related to that which you would want to learn more about. And so on.
What's special about the Wendelstein 7-X?

The number of functional stellarators is rather limited, so getting it built is a success in itself. W7-X will be the largest of the bunch and is supposed to sustain plasma for up to 30min (for comparison, the record for tokamaks is 6.5min, and ITER will only add a minute or two to that).
"Half the tutorial is about how to set up virtualEnv and other config."

No, it's not. The README.md for the repo has a link to the tensorflow 'Download and Setup' instructions (in another repo).

The files in the tensorflow_tutorials repo are all code samples (and corresponding ipython notebooks) showing how to use Tensorflow.
I actually think you are right that the real challenge is spreading fiscal responsibility. However, it doesn't follow that everyone should own a home, or that rent is somehow evil.

If you rent, you pay rent. If you own, you pay interest on a loan[1] and maintenance costs. There is also a forced savings component in the form of mortgage principle payments. There are also less tangible benefits to both renting and owning. Renting is entirely flexible and allows you to relocate with ease. Owning gives more flexibility in customizing your home. Different people will ascribe different values to these benefits. Especially for someone who does not yet know where they want to settle long term, renting might be very attractive.

Because of the forced savings aspect of owning, renting will almost always be cheaper on a cash-flow basis. Therefore, if a person earns a middle class income[2] and is fiscally responsible, it provides an opportunity to put money into a diversified, low-cost investment portfolio. Eventually, that portfolio should grow to the point where purchasing a modest home is possible. What's more, it will hopefully start a habit that will continue through life, and eventually provide for a comfortable retirement.

So again, I absolutely agree with you that finding a way to better teach smart personal finance is critical. I just don't see at all how it follows that everyone must own a home (immediately).

[1] Or if you own outright, you pay the opportunity cost on funds that could be invested elsewhere.

[2] Obviously at a certain level of poverty, there simply is no additional money to put away, even after any discretionary spending is cut. That isn't an issue of affordability of homes though; it's an issue of poverty, which needs to be tackled directly.
Should I do “automated testing” on my prototype?
That was a great video. Are there any more like these?
> Amazon could learn a thing or two from Github in terms of understanding customer expectations.

Do you mean that "the cloud provider that is bigger than the next 14 combined and whose jargon has spread through the community" doesn't understand what customers are interested in and delivering on that?
The government is not at all interested in fixing this, because it would probably crash the housing market. Which people (both politicians, many of the people who elect them, and perhaps most importantly all of the people who fund their campaigns) think would be a Very Bad Thing.

Seriously, it may be hard for young people to enter the housing market. But no-one wants to go for a solution that leaves the people who do own houses today with mortgages bigger than what their house is worth on the market. You don't help 10% of people by screwing over another 70%.
here is the blog entry of linux akesson, the winner about his entry.
https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=11032712
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Google's problem in search has never been a lack of good engineering, its been a lack of vision for search. The fact that someone from the search team isn't leading the company says everything.

I think the IBM's Watson, Wolfram Alpha, Freebase etc were more much visionary than what Google has done in search in the last 10 years. Even Bing's API's are much more useful. The WolframAlpha and Watson kind of NLP queries have been around for almost 6-7 years now. And Google still can't handle most of them. Whats the use of having all the AI experts on the planet?

Search should be its own company split apart from Chrome and Android. The empire defense game distracts from what Search can be,
You are right, the term "self describing" as used in our docs could be more clear. Being self describing means that you do not need a schema to make sense of a stream of data of that format.

However, there is also a degree to which a data format can be self describing. A CSV file is reasonably self describing because you can see where one field ends and the next begins (at the comma / separator), and where one record ends and the next begins (new line). With a header line of column names a CSV file becomes more self describing, as you now also have a name indicating the semantic meaning of fields in that column. If a CSV file could somehow contain a specification of the data type of each column, it would be even more self describing etc.

This is what we are trying to achieve with ION. If you need speed, you can omit most of the meta data like property names etc. If you need messages to be self describing, you can add a lot of meta data (like class / schema names + version, property names etc.).

I apologize for having written incorrect documentation. If you wrote those docs for Google Protocol Buffers, part of that is on you. They are not exactly crystal clear ;-) (our doc's aren't either - still working on them!)

Thank you for clearing up that Protobuf fields can be distinguished in a stream of Protobuf fields, even without schema. That was unclear to me before now. By the way, that is pretty clear in Cap'n Proto - your invention right? So - better docs already!

And - thank you for clearing up the difference in the encoding of Cap'n Proto. Any link to where I can read about that encoding style in more details?
This is true, but you can control this by controlling the dose or using locally.
That is coming... but browsers aren't supporting IAP (yet)!
I think the idea of approaching things like this from first principles is a great way to create change.

Everything we take for granted could potentially be made in a much better way for a lower price. It will be interesting to see applications of this thinking in other areas.
Most implementations of markdown allow inline La/Tex and HTML, this is the best of both world. You have plain text notes and the power to inline some math.

I would also suggest iPython notebook (if you can live with web apps, I don't) as it allow you to see what you write in real time and add some code too (and being able to use mathplotlib). That being said, I used computer to take note in high school (The KDE3 version of basket notepad, the evernote of 2006, now defunct), but switched back to pen and paper for college, formatting was much easier ;)
> quick Google finds lots of ambulance-chasers who talk about "defective airbags,"

That is the Takata airbag case - they manufactured defective airbag with malfunctioning ammonium nitrate inflators which exploded supersonically instead of inflating, killing 8 people. They were fined $200m just recently and have to recall and replace 400,000 airbags.

This case might actually be analogous to self-driving car issues - it was a case of a defect potentially caused through negligence in engineering, rather than airbags working as intended.
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Being an Erlang developer myself: if you don't actually need the stability of a telecom (e.g. restartless upgrades that hold open circuit-based connections), pivoting around the logic of an Erlang app is about as easy as doing so in Ruby/Python/etc.

Though, that being said, I'd actually recommend Elixir, which gives you the same Erlang-ecosystem benefits, but with the key advantage of being 5x easier to convince the average Ruby/Python developer to use.
I don't believe anyone has it working yet. I've been watching this issue for progress: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/254
I'm also in Australia and have nothing but good things to say about AWS support, and are usually solved by the first responder (not necessarily on the first response). The technical skill has generally been pretty good.

But it's not specific to us down under - the support contacts come from all over the globe. We dropped from Business to Developer support when the $A tanked in order to save a buck, and it just takes a little longer is all - no real drop in quality. I wish other large companies had their level of support quality.
Renting gives people who already have a home incentive to build new housing.

It also allows you to live somewhere without (a) tying up all my capital + credit in some super-undiversified equity[1] and (b) buying a massive amount of downside risk on the local property market.

The comparison with serfs is, I think, an example of the worst argument in the world[2], paying someone for use of their property seems fine to me on the face of it, and yes it's something serfs used to do, but the things we don't like about serfdom were the violent coercion and the idea that the nobility got their property illegitimately, on the other hand if I built an apartment building and then I rent the apartments to people neither of the elements that cause me to hate serfdom exist here.

>Instead of making everyone homeowners, make everyone fiscally responsible so that getting a mortgage wouldn't be hard for them in the first place.

>I don't entirely blame them though: building Freddy and Fannie was magnitudes easier than fixing the broken parts of American society and (lack of) education.

Well, at least you don't blame them...

Saying something like "make everyone fiscally responsible" is not actionable, but offering people better terms on mortgages is actionable.

People also have risk preferences that just don't line up owning their own home, like wanting to live in property markets where they can't afford a home (like NY or SF), and no amount of fiscal responsibility will change that for most of these people, you either need to change their preferences (by making these place less attractive) or dramatically increase the supply of housing.

[1] Even worse, for a lot of people the value of their home is somewhat correlated with their income, like if the local property market tanks it's more likely that the local job market suffered a downturn also, so that it's more likely that they've also lost their jobs, so now you might have to default on a mortgage, and also you have no income.

[2] http://squid314.livejournal.com/323694.html
his personal transgressions and his attempts to leverage Wikileaks to protect himself from criminal prosecution

That depends entirely on who you trust more, international politics or a whistleblower on a mission for free information and accountability.

I can't say much about Assange, but I have learned that the primary concern of nation states is to protect their interests, by basically maximizing the outcome of a game theory model. Secondary factors like integrity, that citizens might care about, can later be faked by covering things up.
Cool, could you maybe add an rss feed?
Some great shots!
Agreed. I don't see anything particularly innovative or unique about this house. Manufactured homes cost roughly the same, and are roughly the same size and quality. There's not a whole lot of info really detailing what is so different or great about this home.
Yes this is what I thought too. I have no idea why it never was developed for humans - the original idea was to use it to make lean meat. Done with monoclonals and careful dose escalation it would be a huge hit.
The context was that government is better than private companies in not murdering, that article is a bad example because government was killing too. I think the chance that some entity is ethically better, than moral of its time, is the same for public and private persons.

I wasn't downvoting in this thread.
And that's exactly not what was happening here. It was not a random person, it was not about off-time, and it was not a generalization of specific behaviour, but targeted critic of a specific occurrence happening to the author (or in your example, the caller).

But by the way: If someone tells you you are lazy on the weekends and you actually know you are lazy on the weekends, that is also not an insult. It is just a true observation. If you feel ashamed then it is because you don't want to be lazy on the weekend, for whatever reason.

It is possible you mean that as feeling insulted by being judged. But that is another story and not the definition of insult. Insult would be if the caller would call you a lazy piece of shit for being incredibly lazy on the weekend – the explicit defamatory judgment. This honor insulting part is missing from the original scenario.
You're probably referring to the Magic Bullet Coffee. I've heard of it and it makes sense to me. If I've learned anything all this years is that fat is not that bad after all but sugar is though.
I remember in 2013 a full-day outage of Google.