skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python3 is going to be the default Python in Ubuntu next month. Do you anticipate that having any effect on your perceived user base?

FWIW, almost all of the applications I've written in Python over the past 4 years have been Py3. I'd like to use PyPy on them.
Millions of dollars per minute!
Amazon down in the continental US
International versions (tried .de and .es) seem to be up, interestingly enough.
Sophisticated Android Malware Targeting Australian Banking Apps
Tons of little libraries that all work slightly differently where everything uses slightly different terms and interpretations of concepts. Great for productivity...
The initial cost of 25K gliders would be 7.5 Billion dollars, and unfortunately, most of the plastic in the gyre isn't of a size you could pick up with anything more porous than a coffee filter. 25K gliders pulling nets would be amusing, but that's a lot of money for a partial solution!
I hope this gets rejected. The given examples are too ideal as they are all using familiar Java standard APIs. I doubt if it's a good idea in practice since you can end up with unreadable code when integrating with third party APIs.
>It's LaTeX, not Latex.

Who cares, really?
but the gates is up
I look forward to learning more about Amazon as a company by reading later about how they handle this situation.
Other services like seller central and amazon canada is working normally.
> Regarding val vs let

I like the approach mentioned of just reusing final for immutability.
Security conscious users would be best served by staying with AWS EC2 right now. GCP lacks all of the IAM functionality in AWS.
Looks nice and confirmed working correctly on my Ubuntu 15.10 box.
That's like when my power goes out in my house ... I have to reboot my light switches ...
http://www.linuxonaposter.com/

A wall poster featuring Tux and Linux kernel code.

I haven't sold any yet. I'm not sure whether I'm advertising it wrong, or if it's just not something people are interested in.
Just when I need to print up receipts
https://treycent.com

I created a smartphone, smartwatch, web app that let's you tag photos with a voice command for easy retrieval later. I just published the iPhone / Apple Watch app and am looking for some early adopters.
amazon.com is mia, but .fr, .de and .co.uk are up.
Up for me right now
this happened a couple of minutes before as well
It is relatively uncommon for a single-seat (& single-pilot) fighter jet to fly more than 8-9 hours. If they do, then AFI & OPNAV duty rules restrict how these flights are conducted (including combat ops) and how soon the crew can fly their next mission. Aircraft like the B-2 have two pilots and planned sleep periods.

According to references, 13.5 hours [0] is the record for the F-16 combat mission, and this was actually a SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) mission in a single-seat F-16CJ. Similar missions in the EA-18G extended to 13+ hours with a single pilot, along with a WSO/EWO in the back seat.

Various unofficial reports indicate F-16s do fly 14 hour ferry flights, but that is highly unusual.

[0] http://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article4413.html
We don't use GUI to manage our resources. We use CloudFormation for AWS and Deployment Manager for Google. Let me tell you a couple of things about those services. In AWS some resources are zonal, some regional and some are global. It's a mess to work with. For example, same AMI image has different ids in different regions. You need to create maps and stuff to make your code work across regions. Come to Google Cloud, no more zonal/regional/global fuss. An image is a global resource. It's available by the same id in all regions. Your infrastructure template looks much cleaner. Combine the power of Jinja, you can create far powerful templates and evaluate them on the fly. AWS has "three" queuing systems, "two" storage solutions with different API's and different quirks. Google just has one and its nails the use cases for queuing and storage. AWS micro-instance go poof, without any notice. Their NATS are known for being unreliable. Load balancers can't scale. Every service that I looked into, Google is way better than AWS.
Thats why they're fed a cocktail of amphetamines pre-flight for longer sorties.
Myplaceonline, an open source virtual life assistant: https://myplaceonline.com/

It's amorphous; just anything my roommate and I find useful for computers to automate. Latest feature is a way to share pictures and stories by email (with a way to unsubscribe).
That's not even the cloud. It's a website. Amazon is more than just AWS, this is impacting Amazon.com.
Lee isn't even the best human player at the moment, he has a 2-8 loss record against Ke Jie, who's actually ranked number 1 at the moment.

Ke Jie is an arrogant 18 year old and he's been saying on social network in the past couple days how he will defeat AlphaGo.
As per hackuser's comment above, the mean time between reboots on most mature fighters is 8 hours, while the F-35 is 4 hours, so the standard is clearly not 0 hard reboots.
Seller Central was down for a few minutes - looks like it is back up now...
A database of thoroughbred bloodstock sale results:

https://github.com/phillc73/pinhooker

The data is collected from currently six different bloodstock auctioneers in Europe and covers the years 2009 - 2015. Future plans include additional auctioneers around the globe.

The goal is to provide improved data analysis to the bloodstock industry. Starting with a simple Jekyll based website (barebones found under the gh-pages branch at the moment), reports will be written in RMarkdown, so R code can be included directly, then "knitted" with the knitr package to vanilla markdown.

It's awesome because I love horse racing and bloodstock. Combining a personal passion with my data analysis skills should hopefully mean a stellar service.
Dev Hipsters hate banks.. so their solution is be even worse than the people they hate lol.

I'll keep my money with the bros who know how to handle it, instead of some yuppie.
Removing the ability/encouragement to hand fly the airplane in real life - as some Asian/ME carriers have done either through punitive QAR (Quick Access Recorder, like the Flight Data Recorder) and FOQA (Flight Operations Quality Assurance aka spy on the pilot) regimes that track when a pilot blows an approach or other parameter - will only make pilots MORE dependent on automation and unable to cope when automation fails, ala Air France 447. [1]

That's also partially why we had Asiana 214 - if the pilot at the controls was more skilled at hand flying the aircraft he would not have been so dependent on the autothrottle functionality to manage the speed of the airplane.

I worry deeply about creeping automation not only on the flight deck but in our cars. Although automation is far more responsive and adds greatly to safety in both cases, dependence on automation will breed a new generation of the "Children of the Magenta" [2] who blindly allow the computer to follow the magenta line on the display, either into the ground in an airplane, or into oncoming traffic in a car as they ask themselves "what's it doing now??!"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10
The homepage loads, but I can't get any search results on amazon canada.
Huh, looks like capitalizing the DOWN made this get 4 times as many votes than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11261484 as of now

Edit: and now title has been edited to down. Was capital when I posted.
https://protoship.io/#products

Protoship converts designs into code and generates full-blown web application front-ends. HTML, CSS, SASS, React, the works. And not the typical auto-generated crap, but real clean code as good as what we'd painstakingly write ourselves. No absolute positioning; no mindless repetition of CSS; no slicing and dicing.

I used to write business software in old-school tech like Visual Basic, Clipper, and dBase, but have been building for the web for the past several years. If you have ever worked on one of these technologies, you'll remember how fast we could bang out database software and user-interfaces that gets stuff done, compared to the boilerplate of modern front-end development. The ever-shifting landscape, writing reams of HTML, CSS, DRY-ing up stuff with SASS mixins, wiring up React components and props and `import`s... The sheer tedium is mind-numbing to build even the simplest of applications.

We're excited because we think it can be fixed - https://protoship.io/story
>The loudmouth knee-jerk anti-US types have long been discredited.

If only.
helpful read https://jethead.wordpress.com/category/fear-of-flying/
Show HN: Connectomo – Smarter marketing automation for startups/small businesses
Looks like they are back up now...
Yes. 100g of additional weight really doesn't impact my multi-rotor in a significant way that would make it less effective as a weapon. 100g of Semtex is far more dramatic than a firework.
Query language isn't a requirement but exposing the capability to do those kinds of selects / filtering operations is. It doesn't have to support Dijkstra's algorithm but it should be possible to implement it (efficiently).
Just rebuilt one of my projects: an automated website revenue strategy consultant.

http://www.marginhound.com/calculators/website-revenue-calcu...

The tool is built off a set of revenue benchmarks I built up over the past couple of years; this version looks at the expected performance for different market niches and revenue strategies (for ad-supported sites). It guides the audience towards the best options to improve their current results.

Future version of the tool will have additional features to help dial in targets for SAAS and E-commerce businesses.
Judging by reddit comments this type of thing is pretty common with fighter jets which is kinda surprising to me. I would have thought that this is one area where reliability is highly prized. Along with space shuttle software & other life/death stuff etc.

Instead "bash it with a hammer and maybe reset it" seems widely accepted. Weird.
Would this work over a compressed (such as VoIP) connection, or even RF radio? Imagine sending a picture over an existing public safety radio network if Internet is disrupted.
Great question.

If you're willing to do a little work on your side, you can craft a URL that will guarantee that the user ends up in a particular bucket.

One of the features that we're thinking about is doing visual diffing on A/B test variations. Then you can page through your variations and quickly see how they're different from the control, or if they're broken on any browsers.

To do that we would need a deeper integration, either with the user or with the A/B service. I think it'd be pretty cool though!
Pointing out that automatic discounts are strictly better than reserved instances sounds like actionable information, not drama IMO.
When they figure out how to mark it up 20,000%.
I think AMZ had a Bad Push. They seem to have a new homepage design loading. Yikes
I would love an invitation too ! I just requested one through the website as well.
I see now that I didn't make this clear in my comment, but I'll reproduce part of my reply to the sibling:

> I don't mean to imply that choice of data layout/representation doesn't matter at all, but that it doesn't matter for the purpose of deciding what constitutes a graph and distinguishing graphs from non-graph objects. Of course, as with any ADT, there are various trade-offs that need to be considered before deciding on a particular memory layout.

The beauty of ADTs is that once you've exposed your operations, you are free to change the memory layout without breaking clients -- or even to supply multiple structures with different layouts at the same time, each optimized for a different use case -- and in doing so, you never change the notion of what constitutes a graph.
Thats a funny point.
Machine learning doesn't "need to be told what to do all the time". No one told alphaGo what strategies were the best. It figured that out on it's own, by playing against itself.

There is also unsupervised and semi-supervised learning, which can take advantage of unlabelled data. Even supervised learning can work really well on weakly labelled data. E.g. taking pictures from the internet and using the words that occur next to them as labels. As opposed to hiring a person to manually label all of them.

I don't know what situation you are imagining that would make the AI "come back and cry". You will need to give an example.
Toronto Stock Exchange Moves Toward Blockchain with Ethereum Founder Hire
Unfortunately no, we have a sample at the moment. The majority of the time, if we're slow to pick something up, it's because the first tweets weren't in our sample.

There's a bunch of clever tricks going on, so even if we miss something we can still get the majority of content once we've picked up that something is happening, and of course, we'll use the search API to go back and get any content we missed.
the other one did not appear when I sorted by new , only this one
http://www.caption.me/ - an ongoing caption competition that pulls three photos from Flickr per day and ranks amusing captions. Featuring real-time collaborative mind-mapping of caption ideas (D3/Faye) and an occasional cash prize funded from advertising revenue originating from the SeedingUp marketplace
Run with Postman: Test public APIs in 1-click right from the documentation page
Yes they just went back up...
Everything... valgrind can not and does not fix GIGO.
Not to derail, but as a bassoon player, I'm curious how you landed on the name.
Get Started with User Testing
You'd be surprised how broken/misallocated the consumer deposit market is.

Because of current market conditions, it is costing the large banks money to hold your money. There is excess deposits beyond what they are able/want to lend out. Some banks are actively trying to shed deposits by charging fees and other methods [1].

For large depositors, some of these banks are actually charging the customers to hold their money [2]

On the other hand, smaller commercial lending banks are having a hard time attracting deposits.

[1] https://www.pwc.com/us/en/financial-services/publications/vi...
[2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/big-banks-to-americas-companies-...
They'll probably claim the researchers themselves are suffering from ADHD and should be medicated... ;-)
100 billion yearly turns into around 200K per minute.
Fitbit refusing to acknowledge firmware issues
The fitbit forums have been flooded with issues since the last firmware update, but fitbit will not acknowledge that they broke something. They sent me 2 device replacements that had the same issues reported in the forums. This has been going on for months. I'm curious if other HN readers are having issues. Someone from fitbit has to browse HN. Maybe we can get them to respond.

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Charge-HR/bd-p/chargeHR
I like pieces like this. City governments all over have a lot more visibility into the decision-making process than previous generations have had, and sometimes that means that good policy can get drowned in bad NIMBYism, but having a tough public administrative class means they're able to tough out criticism to let time judge them on their merits.
If one on ones aren't normally scheduled, then seeing one popup is definitely cause for anxiety. If the company or manager sets a regular schedule for them, then it shouldn't be cause for pants shitting- unless of course you royally screwed up at some point in recent history.

A long time ago I royally effed up on a project I was working on. It was a Sharepoint project, a deployment went sideways, and I frankly wasn't very good with Sharepoint yet. It lead to some temporary data loss and downtime but I was able to rollback and restore. Anyway, the problems were my fault but my good habits prevented it from being a complete disaster. It was a highly visible fuck up though.

I came in to my one on one, for the first time ever, scared that I was at least going to get an ass chewing. My boss took the time straight out of the gate to praise my good habits for saving the day, and trying to figure out how we could've avoided the issues I caused. The way he approached the meeting completely re-sold me on him as a manager and the company I was working for.
I think that Qubes OS is a very welcomed development in the OS landscape.

I have few usability related questions to see if such things would be possible in Qubes OS.

Would it be possible for Qubes OS to implement similar window maximization as one can see in Ubuntu?

That is, when a window is maximized then its title bar integrates with the toolbar.

Edit: Also would it be possible for applications to enter into full screen mode?
Yep, users don’t see the value in the product (as shown in the email from the user). “plug&play analytics” does nothing to explain what’s new and why it’s worth my time.

Based on the info from the post, there was no specific need and ideal customer profile in mind for creating this product.

It’s not like an unknown problem, but it’s crazy how often startups have fell in the “do stuff no one needs” and wasted months or years on it. It seems to be one of these things where you need to experience it yourself to understand it.
I've seen people using graph databases as a general-purpose backing store for webapps/microservices. What are people's opinions about this?

My feeling is that graph databases are not suitable/ready for — for lack of a better term — the kind of document-like entity relationship graphs we typically use in webapps. Typical data models don't represent data as vertices and edges, but as entities with relationships ("foreign keys" in RDBMS nomenclature) embedded in the entities themselves.

This coincidentally applies to the relational model, in its most pure, formal, normal form, but the web development community has long established conventions of ORMing their way around this. The thing is, you shouldn't need an ORM with a graph database.
I see it in incognito, and in https://archive.is/w3glR

Does HN hide some links selectively?
Well, we certainly have seen an F-14 go against a MiG-23.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e3Fu2zeido

Anything more modern would probably have led to WWIII.

I think the rest of your comment is confirmation bias: this ethnic group/nationality is good/bad depending on where you sit on the old racism spectrum.

Its also worth mentioning that a lot of the advances of the SU were due to subjugating 15 independent states, usually via military means, and suddenly having a lot of more talent on tap. Often, non-Russian slavs didn't get credit for Soviet innovations due to horrific politics of communism and the Soviets system in general. So crediting "Russians" for many of these innovations is ahistoric and propagandist.

The constant applause surrounding the SU is fairly amusing. If they were so great, why aren't they around today? If Russia is so chock full of greatness why is it running a falling apart economy and have degenerated into a kleptocratic petrostate that makes most middle east dictatorships look progressive and economically sound? I get it, you don't like the US and the EU, but you'd have to be crazy to appreciate the SU and Russia if your complaints are focused on the US not being "Bernie Sanders" enough for you.

>Every time Russian technology, in the hands of competent people, is put on display, it does very well

Well, when your targets are Ukranian women and children, yes, the casualty rate is impressive, but that's far from a real military engagement against another nation state. We have yet to see these arms tested against a proper western foe, and for good reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Ukrainian_cr...
> "Since the LD50 is 10 mg, "legally" _any_ country could stockpile 100g of VX (the amount they can produce annually without reporting to the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) and maintain a swarm of death-drones 10,000-strong."

What are you going to do, fly the drone down the guy's throat?
What's the bitrate and range one can achieve with this? What could be the advantage beyond those of bluetooth (low power) or wifi (range)? What could be applications of this?
The rate of host failure on AWS versus the rate of our live migrations isn't apples-to-apples. There are a lot of reasons we perform live migration, and host failure is just one of them (see https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/03/Google-Compute-...).

While I'm surprised by your "almost once a day" (seems high), we have also made a lot of improvements in the last year to make them even less impactful.

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine.
I've been doing List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();

Isn't that good enough?
The scenario I'm imagining is that I just want to click on the image to view a larger version, but when I click on it, instead of getting a larger version, I'm redirected through an affiliate link to buy a product. Not my desired outcome and seems like a frustrating scenario.

How does your platform account for this?

EDIT: When watching the video, I see that specific items are highlighted and not the whole image, but I still envision a lot of visitors who have no interest in determining where they should click on image in order to avoid affiliate links.

Still looks like a very neat product, however.
screenshot: http://imgur.com/yDtWSkU
Well, if we're going to be patronizing, do you know that languages other than C/C++ can be used with embedded systems?
BTW, I'd like to thank my lazy clients for the inspiration.

One of them decided that product managers shouldn't have to study performance reports and draft an analysis of what was happening in their P&L. So.... here's an automated analyst.

<not that I endorse PM's that can't explain their own P&L>
This is a great product.

It solves an actual issue (that I had never thought about since I'm very far from that field :-) ) in a simple and clever way.

You deserve the award of the most original and useful use of drone tech I've seen.
Shameless plug: http://shoov.io/
The second link you posted '/20160127052944/' is bad. It links to an old
version, 1.681, and the current version is 1.711 as of an hour or two
ago. The version number matters.

The url I posted and removed still works fine, so long as
it's not originating from HN (i.e. 'referer' checking). If you do a
quick web search on 'youtubedown' you'll find it.
This has been said a lot, but:

- Reader wasn't a product that was explicitly bringing in lots of revenue, Cloud is (and we just hired Diane to run the business).

- Lots of us regret that Reader was shut down ;).

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine.
Open source sms software for your church https://github.com/monty5811/apostello

Been in production for over a year now.
There's some interesting academic research going on about the interactions between humans and computer decision making. One place I know of is the Humans and Autonomy lab at Duke http://hal.pratt.duke.edu/

I saw an interesting panel last year at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium where Missy Cummings from this lab (who used to by a navy fighter pilot) talked about a number of these issues.
Hey, thanks! I appreciate your feedback. That's a good suggestion.
>No, not if you have a strong prior belief

Why would you have a strong prior belief about the invention of AGI? Now you are claiming to have far more certainty than I am.

>By your logic, you can predict the failure of AGI predictions by past failures of (every) AGI prediction.

This logic is extremely flawed. First not every prediction was wrong. Many people predicted it would happen in 2045, a few in 2030.

Second there's no reason past predictions represent the accuracy of future predictions about the same thing. Predictions should get more accurate over time, and early predictions are expected to be wildly wrong.

And third there's anthropic bias. If they were right, then we wouldn't be here to speculate about it. We can only ever observe negative outcomes, therefore observing a negative outcome shouldn't update your priors at all.