skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When GAE launched I found it to be a cool toy, played with it a little and dismissed it - way too much lock-in.

After revisiting it the past year.. I don't really understand why the in comparison pathetic AWS Lambda gets so much more attention, for instance.
Actually maybe they do - they just brought back Cherry and Vanilla coke in Canada. I for one will be contributing to an increase in sales.
GM, Lyft may introduce self-driving taxi service within a year
No one would have thought.

That's why these comment threads are always the same. People remarking how surprised they are that something of this quality came from buzzfeed. I see this as a desperate need to separate their investigative brand from their click bait one.
Note that this varies from state to state considerably. So, in some states, the experience may be very different. (Especially as to the monthly out of pocket once you qualify.)
People don't die over a low grade. Also, the talk is about reducing income inequality, not eliminating it.

I take it you want meritocracy to prevail, but are you against moderate redistribution in order to establish a "minimum threshold"?
You've been working with .NET core for a couple of years? And found it solid? It was announced 17 months ago and it's been a frustrating clusterfuck to follow, with the product and the core tools themselves renamed at least twice.

C# guy here! Love .NET! And found the open development wankery around .NET core (or whatever they finally call it) incredibly frustrating.

EDIT: Putting strategy documents online, documentation online, and then throwing it away isn't helpful. Maybe you dig the churn. Maybe that's why you're sticking with .NET 4.6. If you're in the trenches trying to build stuff against these bits (especially after they were called RC), you may have a different opinion on the impact of the way this was handled.
>And if an attack was stopped they wouldn't necessarily want to publish how they stopped it. So it is impossible to really know if the surveillance does anything.

A trial, send a group to gitmo, a drone strike? If they could provide an example it would be plastered all over the place. Hell they even post youtube videos of their drone work - https://www.youtube.com/user/centcom/videos.
Yes, true. I removed the claim re: the quality of the team, hopefully it's a bit less misleading.
It would be nice to include some Lisp implementations, like Picolisp and Newlisp.
I followed the `Silent` column and found its only member is the Ghost of Nancy Reagen.
Maybe we'll have to agree to disagree. The public asked for open and we gave them Open with a pretty capital O. When this project started we didn't know we were buying Xamarin, so that required a pivot. Yes it looked messy because it was messy. It's hard to be Open AND Organized. Node is a mess, remember io.js? Software Development is messy and this was a peek into the kitchen.

I can't speak to OneDrive, but it's clearly a problem. Unfortunately, I work in DevDiv, not Windows.

As far as Bash is concerned, I think "literally nothing works" is not fair. I helped with this release. I presented on it for 90 minutes this morning and installed and brought in build-essentials, worked on redis-server, g++, ruby, and it worked fine. Yes there's rough areas, but we can update it often with WU. Also, you're complaining about Trusty in the same breath as Bash on Windows. You'll be able to update to 16.04 later so that might help. And, you're certainly able to Hyper-V any Linux and SSH in as well.
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> You thought you could rely on their cloud offering to backup your data? well, you'll have 90 days to clear that space.

Your wording suggested the data backup was at risk. You can still rely on the safety of the data backup, they're doing fine there, even after 90 days. Just don't expect to be able to add additional data, which will of course break workflows trying to do that. The data is safe though.
i recently tried to implement a monte carlo ai for four in a row, so i thought i'll give this a try.

downloaded the java starter bot and reuploaded it again without much modification. failed.

first, there's a null pointer exception as soon as you try to use the "field" object in the unmodified starter bot. if fixed this.

but now i get:

Error dump
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: No monotonic clock was available - timed services may be adversely affected if the time-of-day clock changes
Error: Could not find or load main class BotStarter

Input dump
Output dump
Running testcase /opt/aigames/etc/tests_fourinarow/test_fourinarow.txt...
Testing Bot with setup input...
... finished testcase in 0.170000001788 seconds
Test failed: no output

that's it. nothing else.

so a) without having a method of painless local testing before uploading, it gets very tedious and b) the error message "Error: Could not find or load main class BotStarter" doesn't help me much in this case because i do have a class BotStarter with the method main - it's pretty much the starter bot right now.

edit: looks like for local testing i can download the engine source and run it locally.

edit 2:

javac -d classes @sources.txt
...
java -cp bin com.theaigames.fourinarow.FourInARow ...

looks like this wasn't tested on windows.

edit 3:

got it to run locally. output is:

stopping...

Done.

even in dev mode. i have no idea if it worked, what i did, which bot won, etc.

i'm giving up.
That's really a question of the APIs you're using rather than the language. If you're using a browser, you don't even need JS to draw the line; you can just go to this URL:

data:text/html,<svg><line x1=0 y1=30 x2=40 y2=50 stroke=black>

If you're using an API other than the browser, it can be super simple. Like, with processing.js, http://sketchpad.cc/sp/pad/view/zdsBK2b9xo/latest consists of:

line(0, 30, 40, 50);

and that works. (Although you could surely argue that the language of processing.js isn't itself JS, but you can invoke its facilities from JS.)

There are also clumsier ways to draw lines, like with DOM manipulation in SVG or drawing stuff on a <canvas>, and those might be desirable for the extra flexibility they give you. But you don't have to start with them.
YAGNI does not apply to risk mitigation.
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Totally agree on F#. I'm 100% paying attention to C#, VB, and F# and making sure everyone kicks butt.
I believe many see AWS offer as "we have the same *nix boxes you already have but cheaper/on-demand/easily scalable". Plus nice feature as local storage of your data (can be a legal requirement for some industries). Create an account and start deploying now with the smallest investment and commitment.

GAE on the other hand is "we can solve your scalability problems" that many simply don't have and "you should write/re-write your apps to use our framework" which is a red flag to many as well.
His point is that using App Engine cut down maintenance time. I find that noncontroversial.
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Thanks for the kind words Ian!
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My understanding is that Palantir is running an engineering mill/sweatshop using fresh out of school CS grads (particularly from Stanford). That much of their time is spent simply writing client-specific code that imports and cleans up data from disparate enterprise systems. That its not challenging, innovating, or exciting.

Of course this is all anecdotal based on what I've heard from friends and a Palantir engineer I met at bar.

Anyone with more insight know if this is accurate?
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InvestBank UAE hack: DB containing credit card details and passport scans leaks
UK sounds just fine I think. It's a 1-2 instead of a 1-2-3, but I think it works fine, even better: Uuuuu-Kay, Uuuuu-Kay, Uuuuu-Kay.
I'm a Kenyan and I can tell you that this will do more harm than good. NGO money has been distorting our economy for years now... giving people livelihoods they can't sustain, making job opportunities that create no value and making our government vestigial. The poor people that you're supporting elect the same corrupt politicians every year because they have no idea that the government is supposed to be supporting them.

I pay 30% tax as a lower-middle income worker but I see very little of this used productively. The majority of voters don't pay taxes and rely on aid for everything from farm inputs to school fees. As a tax-payer who understands what taxes should do for me... I live with very poor infrastructure and amenities while the government squanders away money. If developed countries keep propping up our poor majority, they'll never learn to find innovative solutions to their problems and elect governments that will create sustainable wealth.

- Frustated Kenyan
But did we have this information during any war? Ie that seems to be the standard MO for any theater of war.

We as a society just write a massive benefit of the doubt check to the military and hope for the best.
The problem with Palantir is the following:

Three letter agencies are paying and will continue to pay for Palantir consulting and products.

However Palantir has been unable to fully productize their solution (it is still pretty much consulting). Thus they have hard time convincing Fortune 500 companies to pay due to the costs and depending too much on human interaction.
Three Trends for the Next 50 Years
Kind of amazing when you consider their first 5-6 years, actually.

Maybe there's hope for us all, is the way I look at it.
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Thanks for suggestion. I've tried that few times (configured staging hosts in minutes using Ansible which saved time for me at least), but other folks were not interested. Hopefully I can find things that other people do frequently by hand.
It's also not just a tech thing, in consulting you have your McKinseyites, BCGers and Bainies
It's a bit stunning to some of the philosophical waxing in here, ruminations and curiosity about what bad choices were made. The guy had a stroke, which he states. It's so stunning that this isn't enough explanation for some, who wonder if he didn't save enough. Our culture is so far gone that a stroke isn't enough explanation for homelessness. To hell with needing reasons... he shouldn't have to provide them. I think the urge for reasons are just ways to determine in our minds we couldn't one day be in his shoes and/or remove the idea that perhaps we should help.
This was a design error introduced by, apparently, Dennis Ritchie (RIP) in the early 1970s, when ctime() was split into asctime() and localtime(), around the time UNIX was rewritten in C. It kind of makes sense in the context of implementing ctime(). But it was still a design error.
People actually fall for this? He made a long, sob-story blog post about how miserable he was being homeless and how he wishes he had more money so he could afford more nutritious food.

And then people sent this guy over $40k? For no reason?

I need to get into the sob-story business.
> It helps a lot if the forces are differentiable against object movement. If there are infinitesimal movements which result in discontinuous changes in forces, physics models won't work right.

There are models of non-smooth interactions that get used in mechanics, graphics, and robotics - I'm thinking Baraff and Moreau and Stewart and Trinkle type stuff. You end up with dynamics formulated as differential inclusions, but it all still works out.
> Horrible proprietary NoSQL DB

First, why do you think Google Datastore is any more or less proprietary than AWS Dynamo? (Which has its own eccentricities- like having to forecast and/or overallocate capacity in advance; while with Datastore you only pay for actual usage?)

Oh; and you can also use Cloud SQL or BigTable from within AppEngine.

> must perform http requests with custom SDK

What do you mean?
Do you have any recent pictures of the products?
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It's a metaphor, though it's not entirely clear to me what the author has in mind. It also depends on your political bent, there are a lot of people voting for Trump and they would view this differently.
I would put my money down on 3) Insularity as the biggest driver of polarization over the past 20 years.
Zappa is pretty cool, I haven't had a chance to use it myself but want to find a project to apply django-zappa ( https://github.com/Miserlou/django-zappa ) on django-cms or wagtail... not too sure how that'd work out though.
>You've been working on .NET core for years? And found it solid?

Please learn to read the text on your screen before commenting.
>> Debunking conspiracies is not science
>Why not?

In the general sense of the word, it does qualify. However, my personal definition of doing science requires devotion toward advancement in a specific scientific field. I don't think that definition is actually uncommon. Specifically, few scientists (physicists, chemists, astronomers, biologists, etc...) will ever reference the work of the Mythbusters in their studies or attempts at explaining the universe or aspects of it. Bill Nye would be more likely to be referenced (at least by an aeronautical engineer), in my opinion, but like I said I don't imagine that's either's main focus; that is education. Mythbusters is specifically devoted to applying the scientific method to debunking myths, and that's awesome, but since they're not devoted to advancing a scientific field, I don't see what they do as science. As a far fetched analogy: if I apply the scientific method to blogging, it doesn't mean I'm doing science.
Man, I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope it gets better.
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I guess if you want to pollute, you have to make the pollution invisible, like cars do.
While I'm sure plenty of people might disagree with my sentiment, I feel Gawker had a shot at this back in the day when they had Neetzan Zimmerman writing all the "viral" articles and bringing in some majority percentage of the daily PVs. This then gave room for others to do some great/interesting journalism.
The point of securing the cargo is to prevent it being lost to toppling, sliding off the side, or being catapulted off the side of a rolling deck.

And yes, it will be secured. The previous recovered rocket was secured, this one will be too.
After James Strachan was knifed 2 years after he created Apache Groovy, that ecosystem has been all about consulting and conferences. Software such as Grails and Gradle is shoved down people's throats with promises of managing complexity and giving users choices, but in reality these tools add complexity and the documentation obscures. Then the sales calls start touting conferences and paid services to manage it all.
It’s known that the editors working on the panama leaks are mostly Germans, and that Mossack Fonseca mostly targeted German customers, too, (and had mostly German employees).

So it might very well be a case of a German whistleblower, and a German editor.
> Sorry for pestering again

No worries! This thread is a bit old but I'll try to pay attention to it.

> From what I see in the cargo source the crates.io URL is hard coded.

It's not: http://doc.crates.io/config.html#configuration-keys

TL;DR:

[registry]
index = "URL_GOES_HERE"

and you're good.

> It's not about that either because the commercial repos contain very
> much the same OSS packages as the standard repo but don't present all
> of them to everyone all the time.

Ahh yeah. What I mean is, you'd have to set up the packages in that registry yourself. Which sounds like what they'd want to do, so seems fine.
Probably that could be done, but for each round you get X milliseconds. If you would run your bot on your pc via api, you could have an unfair advantage, because you could run it in a 64 core cpu (for example) and you have more "time" to do calculations. I really like their idea. It's easy and fair. Also, they do support a lot of programming languages
They also like to recruit from around Washington DC area schools (Univ. of Maryland for example). Saw them at career fairs while also recruiting there. They all wear cool hoodies and project this agile young startup image. It seems to work, there is a decent size line of young hopeful grads wanted to work there.
In case it's not clear (it wasn't to me), refreshing the splash screen and clicking the big `Enter` will show you a different generated page.
Linus is a force for marketing GNU tools
Unintended consequences for sure, makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo#Dead_Aid. I'm starting to give hearing to the common criticism I've heard Ramesh Ponnuru say a lot which is something along the lines of policies not "generating wealth"
A shortcut to avoid calling them "Palantir employees"?!
You can find some public stuff here: https://dribbble.com/palantir

I don't have anything else to point you to unfortunately.
for me, buzzfeed is like hyundai. Hyundai had the reputation prob anytime before 8ish years ago of being total unreliable shit. However, they made a massive set of enigineering improvements, created better styling and started standing behind their products with the best warranty in the industry, 100k miles. They even created a luxury line under the hyundai brand and started offering more expensive cars. During hte period, their stock started actually doing well[0].

It has since, gone down a bit and I won't say it is 100% the point I will make next,but it factors in. Buzzfeed is a lot like Hyundai. While Hyundai killed in the low-cost market, no middle class consumer wanted a hyundai. Their brand had negative value.

Just as quality longform content is not read by the same people who read buzzfeed. So they(bf) will not adopt users, just as hyundai slipped a bit after the marketing relaxed and consumers remembered that the "image" conveyed by hyundai was low-income/cheap. While they had erased the real problem, shitty engineering, the image was just as important.

So buzzfeed should rebrand or meta-structure itself if, at least in my non-expert off the cuff opinion, it wants to ever sell content. Obviously, ancilliary advertisements are will be dead very soon, but buzzfeed is really good at writing advertising copy, they call it journalism i think.

However, as stated above and evidenced by this very article they are breaking some good stories, and are funded by a16z. They have quality journalists who have access and are equipped & talented to write great articles. I just think that most of the people who would value that article, would never read it from buzzfeed. buzzfeed should channel out services like vox and rebrand.

tl;dr know your customer

[0]http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=005380.KS+Interactive#sym...
>Maybe not bad per se, but from a British perspective, it's certainly quite strange.

The UK is still working out empire guilt, in the same way the Germans tend to tamp down nationalism because of WW II. I don't find it surprising, but I don't think it's healthy either. A little bit of nationalism is good for a country.
What are you talking about? I said it probably makes financial sense too. I know the HN community abhors things like budgets getting in the way of universal healthcare & longer unemployment benefits, but there's a limit to what can be spent.

Let me just say we should be spending a lot less money on war and a lot more money on welfare. Yet let me also say that the genesis of many ghettos was in a "war on poverty" that pushed for low-income housing. You're not being immoral by trying to evaluate each side and it certainly does not make me a rugged individualist.
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Agreed about wishing there were an explanation.

It's not clear to me that NN are the best way to get interesting Franken-pages. Maybe a Markov chain instead?
I for one have enjoyed the dnx/dotnet cli journey and have engaged in communities I never knew existed. Thanks.
Koolba, thanks for the kind comment! For supporting the costs: we ended up raising $ from some awesome individuals. We've built out a team (we're hiring! rory@gifs.com), and the team has done a lot of work to ensure that gifs/webms/mp4s are transcoded insanely fast. We've had over 4,5000,000 gifs made, and over billions of .gifs delivered, which has started to run up some cost...which leads us to sustainability: we look at the gifs player almost like the youtube embedded player, but for, well, short media. Maybe one day ever gif/webm will be in the gifs player. As we continue to build tools for empowering people to augment videos, we hope to see more people make cool short clips within our ecosystem.
I think Google would let us know in advance if they ever decided to retire AppEngine.
I would have been interested to learn the reason, but here is a case where an article really tells no more than its headline: there exists this paper, see, that explains why the universe has three dimensions.

It's a shame, because as I was reading the article, I was impressed by how well it was putting technical matters into plain English. It's just that I was also anticipating getting to the juicy details, which it never did. Oh, okay, I thought, I guess I'll go try to read the scientific paper itself.

When I clicked to the paper, though, all I got was an abstract, even shorter than the article that I came from. To read the full article, I must subscribe to the journal. I have nothing against that --- unless the research was publicly funded.

Anyway, I just thought it was funny that the article was nothing but an exquisitely written segue, with no real content beyond its headline. On the other hand, had I got to the real content, I likely would not have understood it, because the reason that the universe is three dimensions is probably: math.
I eliminated all spam and abuse from my blog by requiring comments to be PGP-signed :)

I did still get some comments too!
> I believe many see AWS offer as "we have the same *nix boxes you already have but cheaper/on-demand/easily scalable".

That's specifically EC2. To which Google's direct competitor is GCE, not GAE.

AWS's component most directly competing with GAE is Lambda.
This even force pushes! Your last hope is the reflog, which can also be pruned/deleted. Maybe that should be added?
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OSX was based on BSD, not open BSD to the best of my knowledge. They are siblings rather than parent child.
More or less. Alden will likely have a very juicy part 2 in another month.
we'll agree to disagree. But one last thing.

"Reward the good, punish the bad, and increase accountability where needed. Always my answer."

That hasn't occurred. All we've done is gone after one person who made us aware of what has been going on. Nobody from the NSA has gone to jail over what they were doing, nobody who told them to do it has suffered any real consequences. And increasing accountability? From whom? Congress? If anything, it's arguable that the NSA (and the entire US Intelligence system, down to the local police department) have gotten worse since Snowden's revelations, not better. But at least as a US citizen, I now know (with proof) what my government has been doing to me and "for me." I don't approve of those actions.

If Snowden is a traitor, we could do with a thousand more traitors like him in the US government.