skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes [1].

This means, for a variety of reasons, messages can be delivered multiple times (client timeouts, disconnections, requeues, etc.). It is the client’s responsibility to perform idempotent operations or de-dupe.

http://nsq.io/overview/features_and_guarantees.html
It'll do more than 50 - http://i.imgur.com/14v10xr.png
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Anecdotal, but I've worn my LG Urbane every day since I got it last September. Very happy with it.
Provide a self hosting option or GTFO.
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San Francisco itself is a counterpoint. It's still the densest area of the US outside of Manhattan, despite decades of anti-development NIMBY housing policy. Both the population and the average rent are rising every year.

The old Victorians you see on postcards were built as single-family houses. Most of them are now subdivided into multiple apartments. Many houses in the city have illegally built inlaw apartments in the basement. People live with multiple roommates into their 40s and 50s.

It is true that eventually housing prices become so high they outstrip the ability of the local economy to provide salaries. In the meantime, it massively increases the costs of doing business, the capital requirements necessary to operate any business in the city. So far, venture capitalists have been willing to provide that capital, but that can't last forever. Last time (1999), it ended in a big economic crash.

Further complicating the analysis is rent control: most existing residents aren't forced to leave, because they are legally shielded from rising property values and rents. They are given the reverse, an incentive to stay in place no matter what, because they enjoy an artificially low rent that they cannot possibly replicate in any comparable dwelling. This causes market rents to skyrocket as maintenance costs and profit are shifted by landlords to the few open units they have, subsidizing the long term residents. It's a wealth transfer from "people who have moved recently" to "people who have not moved recently."

Finally, there are tons of people living in tents in San Francisco, which has become a major political issue lately. This is arguably partly due to homeless people from outside the city moving in to take advantage of its extremely generous social welfare programs for the homeless, but it is at least in part due to high housing costs.
The Free Software Foundation, in its texts, often uses the phrase "the free world" to mean the realm of computing without proprietary restrictions, surveillance, etc.

Approximately since Snowden, I've become more and more convinced about both the fragility and the value of this free world.

And today, I basically see the tech giants as colossal enemies.

Career-wise, henceforth I will avoid proprietary systems and dedicate myself to working on privacy-enabling free software, even if I make less money.

Many people in the free software movement have had more foresight and ethical intelligence than me, and I salute them! It's only recently that I'm able to start formulating my techno-political views in a coherent and strong way.

Now, looking at a device like this, I automatically compare it to something like a tractor or plow. It demands constant connectivity to Google HQ... it's full of secret code... it requires, for its basic paradigm, a private company's acquisition of staggering amounts of surveillance... and so on.

When I think about what to work on, a guiding question for me now is "What would Google not do?"

I look forward to contributing to the free world!

(Sorry for this quasi-manifestoish tone...)
This story is from real life, not Hollywood. Unsatisfying, frustrating, and horrifically unjust outcomes are common in real life.
Good advice. Even with G1GC it's hard to run heaps that large. However, not to be overly pedantic, Java GC has many different algorithms and many avoid STW collection for as long as possible and do concurrent collection until it's no longer possible. I don't think it's fair to just call it stop the world.
Why Windows 10 Upgrades Go Wrong, and How to Avoid It
shrug YMMV. Luckily, mine just opine loudly then on voting day say something like "My vote wouldn't matter anyway, so why take the time off from work?"
The large number of false positives is not due to a prior probability, but due to the number of people tested and the inaccuracy of the test.
Who are these people who have good enough internet connections for one reasonable Remote Desktop session, let alone dozens?

Outside of college I've never been in a building with that kind of bandwidth. At a tech company office, sure, but they don't need to outsource this kind of thing. Your average small to medium business in my hometown has 3Mbps at best.
yeah, sure, you can get a quad xeon 2U server with 2TB of RAM for around $40K. Here's a sample configurator:
https://www.swt.com/rq2u.php
change the RAM and CPUs to your preference and add some flash.
> All complex life on earth shares a common ancestor, a cell that arose from simple bacterial progenitors on just one occasion in 4 billion years.

This strikes me as a commonly held but deeply flawed origin story, and a close read suggests Gates doesn't buy it either, but fell into the literary trap of writing it anyway.

If we believe the first form of life occurred on the sea floor, why shouldn't we believe that new forms of life are spontaneously occurring on the sea floor all the time? By now the overwhelming majority of those new forms are probably eaten by an existing critter, but in the early days, there were many, many, many events. And, like he says, there were many, many times when one cell ate another cell. I rather doubt it only succeeded to result in eukaryotes once.
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Hackers are the biggest threat to financial system, SEC
One key difference is power consumption, and to a lesser extent, data consumption. It is not practical for your mobile phone to continually spy on everything you say, due to battery issues; however, it can listen for a keyword to wake up to, and then do the more high-powered voice recognition. So the scope is limited, or you will just have a dead phone in your pocket (which, of course, will also not be listening to you).

With something like Echo / Home, the always-on power source makes it technologically feasible for it to always be listening to you as well, without needing to wake up to a keyword. Now, they may as a feature only start processing based on a keyword, but you don't have the "comfort" of knowing that it is technological limitation rather than a software decision that may or may not be in your control.
It's worse than at-cost: it's covering fixed costs only. If you push any bytes (a metered cost) through that ELB, Heroku finances that entirely.
> Fund a decent central, unbiased curriculum with open source text books.

The key with this would be to fund the effort but not mandate it. The carrot for using the federal standard books is that they would be without license fees, which means localities would have to justify spending their own money to use something else. But if the feds do such a crap job that localities find it worth it to do that, they should still be able to. Or do that with some books but not all of them etc.

The free software model (something like the GPL) would be very interesting here, because you could have local schools making contributions to the national curriculum that other schools could adopt or not based on merit rather than local budgets. But not have some textbook publisher doing what Apple does to BSD, i.e. making sufficient improvements that theirs is the dominant version and then prohibiting further improvements by anyone else.
"Nick reminds me of writers like Jared Diamond, people who develop a grand theory that explains a lot about the world. He is one of those original thinkers who makes you say: More people should know about this guy’s work."

I have original ideas that explain a lot about the world but no one cares because Bill Gates didn't tell everyone to listen to me.

* Can anyone remind me why we care what Bill Gates thinks about biology? If this was a post about the software business that would be one thing. It's so ubiquitous I don't necessarily expect anyone to understand my point, but this strikes me as a form of worshiping money. Because he has money we care what he thinks about anything and everything. It's a more covert form of the absurdity in reading and caring about what some celebrity likes to eat for breakfast.
Yes, what I'm saying is that the incentive disadvantage is much bigger than the data disadvantage. Apple Maps is worse than Google Maps because Apple cannot justify the kinds of investments in product that Google can.
What a RIP off on amazon echo
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You're right about auto-formatting being possible with significant whitespaces... but:

When you copy-paste a block of code in another block of code, with significant whitespace you have to correctly reindenting everything very carefully, while with explicit blocks you can let an automatic formatter do the work.

When you copy-paste a block of code in chat/email/comment, it is sometimes difficult to preserve significant whitespaces. For example, I've seen a lot of blog comments "eat" the white spaces at the beginning of each line (example: https://unspecified.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/why-pythons-whi...)

It can be difficult to fix code incorrectly mixing spaces and tabs (especially for beginners).

Rob Pike wrote on this topic:

> Some observers objected to Go's C-like block structure with braces, preferring the use of spaces for indentation, in the style of Python or Haskell. However, we have had extensive experience tracking down build and test failures caused by cross-language builds where a Python snippet embedded in another language, for instance through a SWIG invocation, is subtly and invisibly broken by a change in the indentation of the surrounding code. Our position is therefore that, although spaces for indentation is nice for small programs, it doesn't scale well, and the bigger and more heterogeneous the code base, the more trouble it can cause. It is better to forgo convenience for safety and dependability, so Go has brace-bounded blocks.

Source: https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article
This seems quite interesting. Hope they chose MIT or Apache for license as said in the ReadMe.
My Git log
The baby's heart rate dropped during contractions, as monitored by the hospital equipment. The mother was put on oxygen to help. Later, they chose to do an emergency C-section because the heart rate dropped too low.

In a hospital, all that was easy to access. If this had been a home birth, it may have been catastrophic.

Driving to the hospital and not being in your own home is an unfortunate reality. We do not live in hospitals.

Disrespect, misalignment of insurance incentives, and inflexible criminal treatment are all bad things. But their damage is amplified because the alternative - homebirth - lacks the medical advantages of being in a hospital. Draconian policies like this literally kill children at the margins.
Look at the timeline of the 9/11 attacks:<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_for_the_day_of_the_Se....

Flight 11 was crashed 30 minutes after hijacking, 175 20 minutes, 77 about 45 minutes, and 93 about 35 minutes later. Even if you tighten the loop between a hijacking and getting a fighter jet in the air to counter it, it will still take you about 15 minutes at best to do it.

Then you're left with the problem of figuring out which one of the contacts on your military radar doesn't have a transponder. Go to a map like <https://flightaware.com/live/> and observe the Ohio/Pennsylvania airspace in the middle of the day. You have 15 minutes to figure out the hijacked flight, guess its flight path, and then order fighters to intercept it and shoot it down.

Quite frankly, if a plane gets hijacked in the Northeast, there is no way you can get a military jet to shoot it down in time.
I guess this explains why Google Cloud Compute hasn't offered GPU instances.
I don't know about Android (though I assume it works the same way), but iPhone's "Hey Siri" is done entirely on-device, so until you activate Siri, nothing you say is sent to a server.
That link (https://www.dslreports.com/faq/15643) seems to be a list of Comcast's available bandwidth speeds, and doesn't mention Netflix or peering. Did you intend to post something that describes the interconnect agreement between the two companies?
Hey, I am the PM for this project. This is really great feedback, thank you for that. We still intend for customers to use Free dynos for their small personal projects, toys, experiments, weekend hacks, etc. If this feels too limiting, I'd love to hear your feedback. Please feel free to reach out at brett@heroku.com and I'll happy to help out.
You don't even need to bring Prop 13 into the discussion. Depending upon both existing demographics of a town and the expected demographics of a new project, the development can lead to tax increases. Because, in many cases (especially outside of cities) most property taxes go to the schools, a development catering to young families is going to put a lot of pressure on an existing tax base in a community tending toward singles and couples with their kids off to college and beyond.
As a mobile (web) developer. How well does it work with React Native, and compare with Realm JS and the new Horizon from RethinkDB?
I'm not quite sure I understand. The owner signed a deal giving the lender the power to place people in the company, and prevent any recourse.

> A bank can legally make you sign a release of any wrongdoing the bank may ever undertake in the future (!!) as a condition of their loan. Crazy?

Not to rub salt in, but I think the "make you" wording is telling here. No one made anyone take this loan. This is not crazy; it makes sense that one party might want to protect themselves from lawsuits. What's "crazy" is accepting such a deal, giving them access to the company.

In essence, the owner put himself at complete odds with the lender. Indeed, it sounds like the lender had a huge incentive: loan X, if default, gain 2X. No one should have accepted it, but that doesn't mean it should be illegal. I suppose it's assumed that as a business owner, you'll have a lawyer or be careful when signing things, unlike payday loans and such.

On a personal level though, it does suck and it is really terrible when you have to work with someone that's trying to undermine you. It's incredibly frustrating.
"Please keep confidential" - Internet is great :)

Everybody going into situation with possible drug test should carry a printed copy like just in glove compartment with car insurance to avoid (or at least to clearly understand where it stems from) such "false positive" experience.
This is fantastic news. The two largest messaging platforms on the Internet will both be using Signal protocol.

I could ask for more: E2E could be the default for Allo, and it isn't. That's not great. But the E2E you get when you ask for it will apparently be best-in-class.
Agreed! Even in the article, the woman needed an emergency c-section.
I wonder if they are going to hijack every URL? I hope they enable some sort of opt-out. I want URLs to keep sending people to the right place, the web.

There's already dozens of pages that detects you're on a phone and send you directly to the play store and that you need to bypass using the "request desktop page" just to get access. Or event worst, sites that say let's make the mobile version less accessible while telling people it's better to install the app (Linkedin I'm looking at you)

This seems like a new step to give more power to publishers than to empower users.

Even during the presentation they said "We want you [developers] to be in control of the experience"
Love that they're quoting bruce schneier in defense. I think he was just being fair-minded because he doesn't want to appear smug. This is a guy who walked through the screening with a 'beer belly' (beer smuggling device for stadiums) full of gasoline and then blogged about it.
Coin did not work for me at like 40-60% of stores I tried it at. When I tried to get a refund they claimed it was unreturnable and could only refund 50% of the money I paid for it.

I wouldn't exactly say they had a good product or stood by it, this seems like an acquihire to me. They did try hard to do something that many said would be impossible, which is HARD, I'll give them that!
TLDR;

Before you got 18 hours a day per app on the free tier (5 apps max)

Now you get 550 hours per month in total for all your free apps (so 18 hours a day for all your apps instead of per app).

It's clear they are trying to kill the free dynos but who can blame them?

Heroku is still good if you need simple scaling and load balancing for commercial projects. Heroku main selling point use to be easy deployment , but with Docker and solutions like that, it's not longer true.

I wonder if there is some room for an ultra cheap "micro" PAAS, like 2$/month per instance, with 250 Mb space and 128 Mb RAM or something like that. With the development of new, efficient languages such as Go or Crystal which can operate on tight configurations, I wonder if this model would be viable.
This is sarcasm, right? Here's some more equivalent sarcasm: Gmail and Google Search could discontinue easily.
I really miss IRC back channels at conferences.
I don't see any mention of offering these chips for sale. You can rent them it seems via cloud offerings & that's it.
I can stick 1.5 TB and two sockets in blades right now. Blades. Servers can carry a lot more, amd it's not even especially expensive.
Exe installers in general, and nullsoft and inno in particular create windows installers that are non standard. Please do not use them. Please only make .msi installers. I have to deploy 1000's of apps across our network, and .exe installers cause so much pain. If you are going to have have some sort of .exe installer, please ensure that you document how to run the installer in a quiet way, and how to customise the installation from the commandline.
No. I own a pretty beastly PC.
I remember reading another article on HN a few weeks ago (maybe, time flies) where she was planning to go to Berlin. Feels disingenuous for CNN to state she was dodging the FBI if she's been planning to go there.
Android Nutella :D
Still the closest I've come is Zimbra + zpush. Zimbra isn't fantastic, but it covers a lot. zpush is for the mobile part, and allows to you to connect to Zimbra as if it were an exchange server.
We are not missing the point. Some of us just happen to value other things more than convenience.

There's no shortage of discontinued products that were cancelled even though a lot of effort and money was poured into them. Amount previously invested is a sunk cost and shouldn't even matter when deciding if continue a service/product or not. Just because you have already dig a hole doesn't mean you should keep digging even though you can't profit from it.
Agreed. I had a brief (~10m) online chat and then received a new Charge HR a couple days later for one with a broken power connector.
My understanding is Android already used Java when Google acquired it.
They should have had the social worker come and explain things to her (false positives happen, the send away test is far more accurate, we aren't going to come and take your baby)
> because the two lane roads can't be expanded fast enough

You can't build your way out of congestion.

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/10/18/dealing-with-c...

The structure of cities in the US needs to change some so that you can be close to more things: food, cafes, bars, barber/hairdresser... all that kind of stuff that's common on a regular basis. That way you don't have to clog up the roads for even the most minor of needs.
MIT: https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon/commit/79304a56fbcd57a6...
> According to Healthcare Triage, home births have an overall lower risk of complications.

I'd be very surprised if that was a controlled study accounting for people who are at risk of complications making sure to deliver in a hospital.

> It's only in the cases of things going spectacularly wrong that being in the hospital helps.

Which you wouldn't really know in advance as it comes up during the delivery itself.
Hey, people with experience in speech recognition, please chime in!

Just the other day I was looking at CMU's Sphinx project for speech recognition. It seems quite capable, even of building something like this Google thing, but I haven't tried to actually use it.

Large-vocabulary recognition probably needs something better than a Raspberry Pi... so, just use a more powerful CPU.

Yes, Google has an incomprehensibly enormous database of proprietary knowledge and information. Good for them! If we want to build a home assistant that doesn't depend on Google, we'll have to make tradeoffs. That doesn't mean it has to suck.
My point is that you still want a workstation daemon for a networked printer, because the printer can't hold three documents in its queue, yet the other users don't want to have to manually retry printing until they get a spot in the queue.
I recommend these biology books:

Molecular Cell Biology - Lodish

http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Cell-Biology-Harvey-Lodish/d...

Molecular Biology of the Cell - Alberts

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0815344325/
Ditto.

Until I can set the endpoint this thing talks to[1], It ain't living on my LAN.[2]

[1] This, of course, implies an open source server I can host as well.

[2] Maybe it is just me, but I choose to leave my phone at home fairly often. It is a bit of a luxury for me, and I find I enjoy the feeling when I'm not contactable. Things like this are closer to furniture, and don't take an affirmative "opt-in" (like taking your phone with you) to be functional in their role. So when my brother's kids come over, I'm opting them in. When a visitor is wondering around half-awake looking for the coffee, I'm opting them in.

I realize some others seem to feel that this is identical to cell phone surveillance (but if so, and if you always have your phone, why bother with this?). I don't, and I'm not alone. The law recognizes major distinctions between 'home' and 'not-home'; I mention this only as a demonstration that the distinction is a clearly rooted one for a lot of people.
I guess, they didn't go with Hangouts because it was basically built as extension of the web. May be they wanted to build a mobile focused messaging app from ground up which can compete with apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. It would have been if they integrated Allo and Duo into a single app though.
How does this affect legacy dynos?
How is this different from - say - synthetic neurons that IBM is working on, or what nvidia is building?
With Allo and Duo, Google Finally Encrypts Conversations End-To-End
Screen wise maybe, but I would value positional tracking at more than 20%. Not being able to lean in for a closer look (much less move around) is a big immersion breaker on the GearVR
Does Coin have a future business model given the introduction of EMV? Did Fitbit just waste money buying them?
Is Allo one of the largest messaging platforms yet? Will take a bit of times for users to adopt to it I'd imagine. And while WhatsApp has E2E, no mention of it for FB's Messenger. Agreed big shame they will not enable it by default given how those default settings are usually untouched.
Well, but also... if the site isn't in use, it goes to sleep. Next load takes awhile (dyno startup), but if you've got a bunch of infrequently used apps... I don't expect this to effect you.

Now, if you're abusing the service, that's a different story...
"Work with" how? You mean you want to learn from that professor in a non-classroom setting? Or you want to just get to know the professor before you start classes there? Or...?

Kind of hard to say unless you're more specific with what you want to be doing.

Generally, try to find someone to make an introduction on your behalf. That will go over a lot better, IMO.