skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They forgot to mention another nice feature of GCE - custom machine types. You can choose number of vCPUs and amount of memory and also the amount of local (ephemeral in AWS speak) storage in 375GB increments.

This is a huge advantage. For instance, some of our jobs are computationally-intensive but relatively light on memory. In GCE I can run 32 core machine with 28GB RAM and it will cost me $887.68/month (without any sustained use discounts).

In AWS, the closest option I have is c4.8xlarge (36 cores / 60 GB RAM) which will cost $1,226.10/mo.

And if I need local (ephemeral) storage in AWS, I'm severely limited in instance types I can choose from, while in GCE you can attach local SSD to any instance type, including custom.

If you factor in per-minute billing in GCE and automatic sustained use discounts, we are talking about serious savings without any advance planning (required for using reserved instances).

EC2 still has some advantages - it supports GPU-equipped instances, for example, but for our computational pipelines GCE is a clear winner for now (and Cloud Dataproc is so much nicer than EMR!).
I treat most highways in America like the highways described in Farenheit 451.

Thankfully, I live in a rural area which means there are tons of standard roads that are very unpopulated, but even then... "sharing" a road between a 2-ton metal cage and anything else is terrifying for anything but the automobile (2-ton metal cage).

The common criticism though, is that biking in the US is much harder logistically. Many people commute for over an hour at 60mph+ to get to work. This would be implausible on a bike.
He doesn't care because that isn't where the money is coming from
Thanks for the link! Super interesting, will have to keep track of their work.
I dislocated my elbow and it was essentially held at a fixed 90 degree angle.
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>"the nominal return cannot exceed inflation in the long run"

Shouldn't that read "inflation + GDP growth rate" ? That's how long term investments in stocks are estimated.
"Thats not the case most parts of the world. Summers get really hot even in cold parts of the country here in the US."

And yet places with boiling hot summers can have a high bike mode share. Davis is not exactly pleasant in August.

It's not ALL auto industry propaganda, but a lot of it is. Much of what started out as auto industry propaganda is now deeply engrained cultural bias. People talk about jaywalking, but how many people talk about jaydriving???

For all of human civilization streets were for people, horses, carts, etc. They were used for recreation by children and this was accepted as a normal use. They were gathering places. But the car showed up, started killing everyone in its way, and we decided "well that's that, it's a cars-only zone now and anyone else who wants to use the street is a special case!"
You can't blame someone you aren't paying for not implementing a feature you want.
Check out PTP, and then the WhiteRabbit research project. It's not exactly easy to implement, but you can get down to ~10ns sync on an ethernet network using it.
That's hyperbole on both sides, both the "terrified" part (implying an employee shaking in fear before their 1-1) and "disastrously wrong" (a sweeping write-off of this multidimensional thing called "culture").

Simple truth is a lot of people don't like them, they induce stress for a number of reasons (such as employees' natural instinct to want to "look good" in front of their bosses), and bad 1-1s are often just another annoyance at work -- not a disaster, just not too useful.
I wonder how something like that stands up to a gunfire vibration test.
Why People Check Their Tech at the Wrong Times (and How to Stop It) – Observer
http://semver.org/

Summary

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.
Nice work - I enjoyed reading the front page posts!
The Illinois Report Card is a great resource. If every state had such a tool, I agree you probably wouldn't need EdScore, GreatSchools, SchoolDigger, etc.

I built EdScore out of frustration that this data is all public but buried in disparate state/federal databases and not accessible to parents, even though we're paying for it to be compiled/collected.

I think ratings (controversial as they are no matter what methodology you use) help parents do a quick sort of local options. And our goal with EdScore is to add search filters like commute distance, home price, school size, special ed offerings etc so that parents can search for the "right" school for their individual child based on various inputs, not a simple "best" rating or 1-10 scale that, absent other factors, is not very informative.
My Conference Is On Fire - Frontend for Twilio conferencing system

https://github.com/ashleyhindle/myconferenceisonfire

https://conference.ashleyhindle.com
Did you miss the first sentence, the part about paying taxes?
They aren't nearly as effective as the countless other types of autonomous munitions that the US has deployed over the years they aren't going to be used as "weapons" the US has suicide drones which are much better suited for that task.
Not all drones 'hover', or are quad-copters. Most drone-swarms have been demonstrated using drones that fly like airplanes. 20 years ago when I started building RC planes, the smallest RC planes were about 6 inches wide. Many people are working on drones today that are insect-sized.

A mosquito-sized drone carrying a neurotoxin certainly would be used to carry out assassinations, crowd control, etc... And certainly would be a scary prospect.
Read the post carefully. I am not looking. But every time I have a drink or lunch with a friend, they make me offers that are hard to resist, with specific amounts way above what I'm currently making. Again, I am not looking, but the market is telling me what my fair price should be. My loyalty to my employer is still 100%.
Agreeing with the premises, let's call this what it is - a recommendation/curation problem, which a kind of thing that a trusted third-party usually does. Seems like it would fit as a Community Explorer blog/engine, as a separate presence.

Except we already have powerful personalities in the development space who already share their opinions and value systems - this is a natural extension of that. After all, a lot of choice of what is the "right" fork or even the "right" tool to begin with gets back to subjective developer experience and intuitive tech preferences. And that's something that a platform like GitHub should stay neutral to.
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> Roads were not made for cars, the cars claimed the roads once they got on the scene.

Really depends on where you are. Freeways are emphatically not for anything but high-speed vehicles.
I will let you in on a secret. Brook's best work isn't the Mythical Man Month, its a 2010 book called The Design of Design.
thanks! any suggestions / ideas for improvement?
Hey look, it's something else that's been implemented in almost every other JVM language that hasn't made it into Java yet.
I might be mistaken, but I think this is also how YNAB encourages people to use their Savings accounts.
Dude, that is perfect timing! We need a logo for NeuralObjects (see my other thread here), so this is great for us.

I'd totally pay for this if you had your Stripe integration going. But since you don't, I can offer this: if you plan to use Machine Learning for anything, shoot me an email and I can offer up a discount or something once NeuralObjects is live, or maybe some free consulting or something.

Do you have a feel for how the pricing is going to work yet? Will you charge per logo, or will it be a monthly subscription, etc? FWIW, I'd definitely be willing to pay a monthly fee if it came with unlimited (or a large number) of downloadable logos. I say that not because I need zillions of logos, but because I think you'll always want to iterate and experiment with a lot of different permutations until you find the "Just right" fit.
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The SR-71 was a bit more exciting than just restarting the engine. The problem there was actually an inlet unstart. Those big spikes at the front of the engines could move, and had to be adjusted to just the right location to direct the shock waves properly so the engine proper got nice airflow.

Naturally, this was all done automatically, but the electronics weren't perfect. Sometimes they'd get too far out of adjustment, and the shock wave would blow out. This was apparently a pretty violent event, with a loud bang from the engine, often accompanied by another loud bang as the crew's helmets were slammed against the side of the cockpit.

I believe that the SR-71's control systems were eventually upgraded to where this didn't happen anymore, or was very rare, but it was apparently somewhat common for a while.

Some discussion here, along with bonus discussion of the F-35's inlet:

http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/how-things-work...

None of this affects your overall point, I just thought it was a fun thing to elaborate on a bit.

I think you're on to something with this. It sure seems like the F-35 is not a particularly good airplane, but that's mainly because of cost and capabilities. Stuff like this does sound like piling on, rather than any substantive criticism.
CPAP.com

Unlike 98% of the industry, we sell CPAP equipment for cash prices. This means that you, not the insurance company, are the respected and valued customer.

The "cash CPAP" space means:

1. A market incentive to build people first instead of billing code first products.

2. A market comfort items that would never be produced in a billing code world.

3. A system where it pays to pick up the phone and know all about the product you are selling, which is different from the model where I ship it, bill it and don't get paid to support it.

4. $189 CPAPs (way cheaper than your copay and deductible through insurance) and $1000 machines (way better than what an insurance provider could give you profitably). The best of both worlds, whatever you need it available.

Insurance is great for heart surgery and awful for OTC and sub $1000 medical products. We don't think that change is understood in our healthcare debate and we've built a sustainable market that is the change we want to see.

When we're done, people with Sleep Apnea will have access to buy CPAP stuff like they buy Amazon stuff and they won't think twice about it. It'll "just" work and be nothing special. That may not be as sexy as building a drone or going to Mars, but fixing a chunk of healthcare is difficult and worth it. If we can do it, and we will do it, we'll have a huge and lasting impact.
From what I've seen in Holland, it's simple etiquette there that an office commuter is expected to keep his speed low enough to avoid breaking a sweat. And since the prevailing speed in the bike lanes is set by middle aged office workers, everyone winds up adhering to the rule.

Even here in Boston, I'd expect the same norm to work, though right now the prevailing norm in the bike lanes is set by speed demons like myself.
You don't really need to toss an atomic clock on the plane. Just make the plane use GPS.

Where one of the tricky parts comes in, is in distributing this clock signal to all portions of the avionics system that need it. But that's beside the point.

It doesn't really sound like a timing skew problem (as in, a problem with making all systems recognize the same time simultaneously) but rather with making sure that all relevant information needed to construct a coherent 'picture' from all sensors reaches the core processors in a timely manner.

You can't provide a real time display if, say, your radar data is delayed for a significant period of time due to problems or instabilities with the radar's onboard processor.
If this kind of stuff moved the money into another account of mine, this would sound great but I'm just handing it to some random company that I've never heard of? Sounds safe...

I'll just continue to have a recurring transfer setup from my checking to my savings... Thanks.
I don't think he was arguing against bike popularity, just that there are obstacles in parts of the world the Netherlands clearly doesn't have. I personally would not bike to work if I could not shower; I show up with my t-shirt soaked when I do bike.
In places like Amsterdam it's 15% of all trips that are taken by bike. Copenhagen is around 30%. If they could remove even 6% of the traffic (which is the goal for 2020), that would be worth it in productivity increases alone no?
>There is some paint splashed onto the side of a street, and based on what I see, not much "maintenance" happens after that.

But that not acceptable( dangerous for both cars and bikers) like you suggested in you parent comment. Bike lanes need to be protected from main traffic which would mean more costs.

Protected bike lanes are paramount to safety. Which means regular maintenance equipment like snow plowers/slating won't work. Bike lanes here are totally useless here in winters because we don't the right equipment/training to clean/salt bike lanes.
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Fork discovery is a serious issue in cordova mobile plugins world. I think people go native at one point and abandon their repos :)

Ad article, another point is that someone might have a manually created fork, without the link on github, or they asked GH support to unlink the two repos (because they want to be perceived important, not just a fork etc). Not sure how to handle that case well and if GH will invest time in that.

For the discovery of forks: I think an interesting feature could be some heuristic like: IF no commits in N months && there is a fork with at least M stars and K commits forward THEN list top 3 forks on top of repo's readme, on a distinct background (say, yellow) with a message: Hey, you might be also interested in these forks: A, B, C.

Having said that, I think it's a very low prio for GH probably.
Thanks. That did the job.
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>>I hope we won't infer types this way for method parameters

No, it doesn't. From TFA: "This treatment would be restricted to local variables with initializers, indexes in the enhanced for-loop, and locals declared in a traditional for-loop; it would not be available for method formals, constructor formals, method return types, fields, catch formals, or any other kind of variable declaration."

Which is pretty much how C# does it.

I gather that it's common for functional languages to infer pretty much everything for you most of the time, which I think would actually be nice. But presumably that's either difficult or impossible in Java.
Ideas don't have to be original to succeed. Not at all. Having an original idea doesn't even give you a leg up. It's all about execution and having an idea that is at least desirable.

That's what Alex is trying to do. He's trying to find that mix.
If sites did server-side incorporation it would probably be nearly as fast as the site itself and therefore solve the problem Opera says they are trying to solve (web speed).
Interesting perspective. Driving through Cambridge, Mass. recently, I noticed some nice bike lanes[1] that seem pretty nicely separated from both cars and pedestrians.

I'm hoping that this approach will gain in popularity. What we lose in slightly narrower roads and more restrictive sidewalks, we gain in a safer separation of fast moving cyclers from both peds and cars.

This is the future of urban transportation -- mixed use thruways that eventually must accommodate Segue-type vehicles, as more people (especially 20-somethings) appear to be moving away from motor cars.

1. https://goo.gl/maps/CkaLVGpeCbk
THE NEXT SENTENCE:
"However, revenues from other taxes are also used in federal transportation programs."
This will be buried by now but:

What happens if the Go master tries to deceive the oponent? As in purposefully play a counter-intuitive position, or even "try to lose"? Will the AI's response be confused as it is expecting rational moves from its oponent?
I for one actually prefer to put a different type on the variable than the implementation. I.e. in the given case, I would actually use:

`List<String> a = new ArrayList<String>();`

I know that for some things it is convenient, but I appreciate the reminder to treat interface and implementation as distinct concepts.
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They are being paid. $63K, including by me. It's their most funded donation goal.

https://sr.ht/qXYC.png
That would be an interesting application. What could the range be?
that's actually brilliant - possible way to stay somewhere cheap, but be safe and protected from the weather! could also help with the homeless problem
I expect this breaking a few things in fields injection (a la Spring @Autowired[1]) if implemented.

[1] https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/spring-...
Unfortunately I'm seeing this too late for the edit, but thanks for the suggestion. I didn't want to hack the title per policy but I think you're right.
The article you linked doesn't back up your comment's conclusions. It says that Adderall is more similar to Meth than previously believed, but that users of meth feel the effects more quickly through smoking. There is a similar relationship between pain killers and street drugs of similar chemical composition, but there no controversy about whether we should prescribe painkillers at all (That is, no one says, 'drug x is too similar to heroin, we should not prescribe it'). As such, using "the same as meth" is a scare tactic, not a scientific criticism of the substance itself.

You have a low opinion of people who take prescription stimulants. But that does not negate their theraputic abilities. This is the same discussion we're having around medical cannabis: legislatures think stoners are lazy so cancer patients shouldn't be able to use it. This is a poor basis for determining the usefulness of a drug.

I would be interested to read more evidence of this cabal of corrupt physicians with "20 supercars" making massive profits solely from stimulants. Mainly because I don't believe it's true. A vast majority of doctors use their experience and patient input to prescribe therapies that they believe will benefit the patient. Doctor shopping is a problem. Prescription drugs should not be able to advertise to people. But none of that is evidence to back up your claims.
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Because in the major cities in the US, we tax real estate to pay for the roads.

I pay my city $40 a year for the privilege of owning a car and living here. That's barely enough to cover salting in the winter.

The rest of my city's road expense comes entirely from property tax and sales tax. So why add a tax for bikers?
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It doesn't sound like just money. It sounded like he was saying that he doesn't care because there is comparatively little (historic and current) demand for PYPY3.
For local variables within the body of a method it doesn't really matter. As long as the method signature is expressed in interfaces, you should be able to use whatever implementations you want within the method body.
Here's the press release accompanying the release of the draft policy: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/03/09/leveraging-americ...
That quote is coming from Rob Ford, a Canadian.
>Summers get really hot even in cold parts of the country here in the US.

That's a really good point. Most Midwestern states can get down to -30F (-35C) in winter and above 90F (32C) in the summer. Whenever I hear people say "winter doesn't stop the Dutch from biking", I always think of the climate in Amsterdam. The record low for the city is still above 0F. The average low is still above freezing, even in the dead of winter. The average low for my Midwestern city is close to -10F in January. The average high in summer is 10F warmer.

We have some really extreme temperatures here, you can't discount the effect it has on modes of transportation without built-in climate control.
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Cool, this will help Java from looking so bad: https://gist.github.com/mythz/7e263820332a0fcea766

From Java LINQ Examples: https://github.com/mythz/java-linq-examples
I remember reading a discussion a couple of years back where somebody wondered why Microsoft did not go a similar route for Windows. The original context was backwards compatibility with applications written for older releases of Windows.

But given the general security situation on Windows, it would be really nice to have, for example, the browser strongly isolated from the rest of the system.

The idea of using virtualization to enforce stronger isolation between different parts of the system seem like a good one, and it does not appear to be that non-obvious (of course, in hindsight so many things do).
Existence risk here is HUGE. If GCP doesn't move the needle, Google will shut it down. AWS is a much more living organism and I can't see Amazon shutting it down before their drones take over ...
If you are talking about networking TS based on boost:asio, it is much more than just networking. It is a full fledged multi threading library.
Developer here, I subscribe to Github's official weekly newsletter and various other ones but always found that they did a poor job at highlighting what's trending. The "top trending" repos always seem to be most established projects like Bootstrap or ReactJs.

I'm using a peak detection algorithm to find which repos are spiking in traffic and rank the uptrend based on a normalized growth curve.
This filters out all the well established repos and actually uncovers new trends and launches. Hope you guys find it useful!

Some notable features, there's also a better interface to search topics on github as well as a curated topics section:
http://www.gitlogs.com/resource-guides
http://www.gitlogs.com/search

Appreciate any feedback,
In their list of risks there's one missing: it makes changing the return type of a method to a subclass a subtly breaking change. Say some api defines a method,

Collection<String> getNames() { ... }

and in your code you do

var names = getNames();
if (...)
names = Collections.emptySet();

Now, if the api later changes getNames() to be

List<String> getNames() { ... }

your code breaks. That's one of the advantages of only allowing this on final variables (besides reusing an existing keyword): it means this can't happen. Of course you already have a problem if the class has subclasses but I would argue that this is more subtle and problematic.