skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose of the block storage in this instance isn't about giving your vm/droplet more space. It's separation. That way any data that's on that device can be attached to another vm/droplet. It probably would be more cost effective just to upgrade the vm/droplet if space were a concern. It's at least how we've marketed the same feature for the past year or two via Codero's portal. Not to say I don't like how DO has entered the space: keeping it simple.
Didn't think I'd have to scroll this far to see some sense. Thanks
I used to work for a company that partnered with some of these law enforcement personnel and can confirm that they are amazing people doing a mostly thankless job. Absolute heroes
The DAC will be hard wired into the headphones, there won't be a jack between the headphones and the DAC that you can plug into.

At the start, you'd need to modify headphones to be able to record the signal, but I doubt this will work in the long term. At some point it's highly likely the DACs will come with DRM so that only approved headphones work with a device.
Yes. It is completely predictable some percentage of people ignore instructions of when production quality features. That's why the fail safe comes first, even in an experimental feature. If you can't provide fail safe, it's not ready for prime time, including testing by the public.
> Andrew Ng's machine learning class

Ah yes, the one I've heard about but still have to take. :) Well, I guess I should give Coursesa a chance. (Somehow I'm not fond of their "timelined" format, it seems redundant if you're communicating with a machine. I hope the future of online learning will avoid it like the plague.)
What's criminal is abuse of autopilot, not itself. Just like with alcohol, drink whatever you like, just don't get behind the wheel.
Scary stuff here. My second question was a fairly obvious bug in OpenSSL.
Growing up in the South it's fairly common to see that many people think that the fruit you won't eat from the hand, for whatever reason, are often better for certain recipes of desserts and preserves.
This would bother me more but Shadow of Mordor is a very good game. Now if the game in question was "The Division", then I would be pissed.
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I don't know about that. It might appear that way, if you only read news articles on ML since these usually are announcements of the state-of-the-art.

However, compare the topics covered in Duda and Hart's text (1st edition, 1973; 2nd edition 1995) to the more recent text by Hastie et al. (current edition ~2013). There isn't a huge difference in subject matter. The latter is slightly more advanced and has more of a statistics perspective, but the foundations are there: Bayes' decision theory, linear methods for classification / regression, naive bayes, neural networks, decision trees, ensembles, clustering, etc...

There is a range of topics that are foundational to ML, and thus, relatively stable. These topics are built upon the even more solid foundations of probability theory and statistics. The biggest advances in ML in the last decade (I would argue) were not due to advances in theory.
The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed. -- William Gibson.
> if testing the whole thing must take 10 years to be safe and a gazillion dollars, then so be it. If it's too much to shoulder, then they should not enter the business

That sounds like a succinct explanation for why we've been stuck in LEO since December 19, 1972.

We've got 7 billion+ humans on the surface of our planet. We lose about 1.8/s to various tragedies.

Most of which are of less import than helping automate something that's responsible for around 32,000 deaths in the US every year. Move fast, break people for a just cause, escape risk-averse sociotechnological local minima, and build a future where fewer people die.
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I think the problem is that when you're dealing with numbers like these the fines are always less than the gain from disobeying the regulations in questions.
The 3DS is a success, but I wouldn't say a huge success. The DS was a huge success, and has sold 100 million more units than the 3DS. The 3DS is a huge success compared to the Wii U though.
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@jordan-inc, nope it's not about Trump or Hilary. I think they've enough money :)
@herbst, i think that Starting first with the survey and next make the donation, can be a good idea. Currently i've this two proposals
- http://www.malariaconsortium.org
- https://www.treedom.net/

In each case with few money we can do something good.
If you've some good idea please advise. I really appreciate it.
"Baghdad Bob is not a good behavorial model for a CEO to follow."
Google doesn't charge for IOPS either, but they do explain how things are limited. For example, speed in MB/s is limited by the instance size so that you don't use the entire network link for your connection to the disk. IOPS are limited by the size of the disk. If you're sharing the disk with other people, you're going to be limited in your IOPS. For example, if you get 10GB of SSD storage, you'll get 300 random IOPS, but another user with 50GB of storage will get 1,500 IOPS because they're renting a larger portion of the disk.

If DigitalOcean isn't doing something limiting, they'll have to in order to prevent the situation that you're describing. You don't have to charge for it in order to prevent bad neighbors.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance
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The notion of removing the headphone jack from flagship phones is infuriating and ludicrous to me.. When I first read about it I couldn't help but think 'haha, nice joke!'

There are so many downsides to removing the jack, specifically around connections to other devices and systems - hifi systems, car audio, external microphones, and yes, even selfie sticks.

I would consider myself an audio enthusiast (Westone W60 headphones for daily use), and I don't relish the thought of needing to have either a) a bulky and inconvenient adaptor with an external DAC, b) new headphone cable with a DAC built in, at probably considerable expense, or c) switching to a new handset manufacturer that hasn't lost their mind.

The people who want external DACs can already make use of the USB or lightning connector while the rest of us quite happily make do with the convenience of the 3.5mm jack.

Apologies for the somewhat-ranty nature of this post, it just frustrates me to see functionality taken away for no good reason. Phones are already too thin, and I constantly have issues gripping my iPhone 6 - the thicker iPhone 5 felt much more comfortable in my hand, and was far easier to grip into with the square bevelled edges. We're heading in the wrong direction with thickness at the moment - I'd rather extra battery life via a larger battery than an extra 0.6mm thinner.
Not all cars are the same size.
I have no idea why I wrote that, bad wording.
Well, there's L1 norms, Lagrange point L1, an L1 visa, etc. In any of those contexts, it's an excellent variable name.

There's also the case of short little utilities. For something like strncmp (or at least my slightly naive version), I'd rather see code like

int strncmp(const char* s1, const char* s2, int n)
{
for(; n>0; s1++, s2++, n--) {
if (*s1 < *s2) {
return -1;
} else if (*s1 > *s2) {
return 1;
}
}
return 0;
}

than have code where someone attempted to come up with long "meaningful" names for each variable. There isn't really meaning here beyond "pointer_to_string1" and "pointer_to_string2", and longer names here do nothing but add visual clutter.
Being illegal makes production much riskier and makes sales more difficult.
> we can only know what the company ... [tells] us.

Tesla tells us "it's the driver's fault that he died while using our Autopilot".

Either Musk approved this message, or he didn't bother to read it before it went out, and didn't bother to apologize afterwards.

I think we can draw some conclusions from that.
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Sometimes it's impossible understand a podcast with only one ear. Though traffic signals like honking are important. So if it's not too loud otherwise I use only one ear.

Worse are the radio stations playing honking/emergency sounds or jerks screaming suddenly as they pass, just for 'fun'. Creates unnecessary anxiety.
I can't speak for the other companies, but Amazon is relatively easy to get into if you have experience regardless of where your degree is from.

But what is the desire for working for a "top tier" company? Looking at the average salaries for Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft, they aren't that much higher than startups and smaller companies in lower cost areas.
For an example of this, see "Pocket Mortys", which is an Adult Swim app based on Cartoon Network's "Rick and Morty" show.

It is easy to imagine that someone could just re-skin the game engine with the official Pokemon licensed IP and put in a Pokemon-world map to connect all the levels together.
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To be fair most of these cases are not due to unlawfully acquired evidence or evidence that was fabricated altogether, so it's not a direct comparison.
These days it's mostly an economic thing. Food's there but some people don't have money to buy it. http://www.worldhunger.org/2015-world-hunger-and-poverty-fac...
Just like some people propose retroactive withdrawal of consent (e.g. https://archive.is/jV3gs), I propose retroactive granting of consent.

If the so-called "victim" does not consider themself victimized, then it's a victimless crime and should not be prosecuted or made illegal.
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Skype for Linux Alpha and Calling on Chrome and Chromebooks
Heh! For some reason, that reminded me of this famous conversation:

"...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped."

"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes."
That would be cool.

Kyle Kingsbury started something like this (in Clojure) as part of this project (https://github.com/jepsen-io/voltdb/tree/master/replication-...), but it's a large task and would probably take more than a few days.

We have done some initial work on TLA+, but it may be a while to finish anything. If someone wants to help, there's probably a publishable paper in it.
What's the backend? Ceph?
Facebook is the last thing young people use.
However, it's currently being treated the same by some law enforcement entities.
I have so much in Evernote and depend on it for work and personal stuff, so the price is very reasonable for me. It is great software.

I wish the Work Chat feature was actually good. it only syncs chats when the app syncs every 5 minutes or whatever you have it set to... Instant sync for Work Chat is needed.
This article (probably intentionally) left out some detail from the official FTC source [1] stating:

Instead, according to the complaint, Warner Bros. instructed influencers to place the disclosures in the description box appearing below the video. Because Warner Bros. also required other information to be placed in that box, the vast majority of sponsorship disclosures appeared “below the fold,” visible only if consumers clicked on the “Show More” button in the description box. In addition, when influencers posted YouTube videos on Facebook or Twitter, the posting did not include the “Show More” button, making it even less likely that consumers would see the sponsorship disclosures.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/07/warne...
The irony: "This website (villagevoice.com) wants to know your location"...
> The immediate benefits are that the latency is much lower with the new block storage

I think you might have misread the units: locally attached 50105 us (50 ms) vs block 546 ms.

The throughput numbers are on par with AWS and GCP block storage. This seems reasonable aside from the high latency.
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Show HN: Send messages and files over Telegram from the command-line
> It's a wide-field of view and only a few megapixels, so basically a cell-phone camera.

It's not similar to a cell phone camera at all. Cell phone cameras are usually much higher resolution (current iPhone is 8 megapixels vs the 2 for Juno), but with a much smaller sensor (iPhone cam has a 1.5µm pixel size vs 7.4µm for Juno).
How about at least making legal only drawn depictions? Their creation doesn't involve hurting anybody per se, so I don't see why those should be illegal.
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Windows is fast at some things and slow at some things.

For instance, metadata reads on the filesystem are much slower on Windows than Linux, so it takes much longer to do the moral equivalent of "find /"

Circa 2003 I would say the Apache Web Server ran about 10x faster on Linux than Solaris, but that a Solaris mail server was 10x faster than the Linux server.

Turns out that Linux and Apache grew up together to optimize performance for the forked process model, but that fsync()-and-friends performance was much worse than Solaris at that time, if you want to meet specifications for reliable delivery.
Completely agree, I got three wrong, but because I clicked the wrong spot, I only got 3 right, it's pretty frustrating.

The test is also pretty easy. I only know C and some Java and I figured most of the problems. The standout important questions to me were the memset and free ones.
>The first-generation models will weigh 5 grams but the team wants to get them down to just one, which would allow them to track even the lightest fliers like swifts. Each tag comes equipped with a solar panel, GPS, and a huge memory, and can measure acceleration, temperature, bearing, pressure, light intensity, and more. Unlike the smallest current data-loggers, they can transmit information, too. They can even be reprogrammed from space.

I thought this was a pretty decent amount of info for a non-tech news source.
They do at least claim to be profitable in the US[0]. So if that is to be believed, a good portion of customers are willing to pay a sustainable rate. Whether the same applies in the other markets where they are heavily subsidizing drivers remains to be seen.

[0] http://fortune.com/2016/02/18/uber-profitable-us/
Note that the post currently links to version 1, which was uploaded in 2012 (https://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v1). There is an updated version from 2014 (https://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v2).

For arXiv posts, unless a specific version is under discussion, it's probably best to link to the abstract page without the version tag:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4212

This lets folks see if there are multiple versions of the preprints and multiple formats to view those preprints.
I owned a Land Rover Discovery 3 for several years. It was the most unreliable and expensive vehicle I've ever had. The thought of semi-autonomous JLR vehicles on public roads horrifies me.
I'm not sure why it is, but a lot of 100 year old houses have garages that are just big enough to fit a car in and not be able to open the doors. Car dimensions really haven't grown all that much, the Ford model T was 66 inches wide and most modern sedans are ~70-75 inches.

Maybe they were never intended for cars?

Maybe it was a cost savings thing? Homes that are only 50-75 years old seem to have larger carports instead of garages.

* I answered my own questions. A model T was 66 inches wide but had 8 inch running boards on either side so the crew cabin is closer to 50 inches. The doors, if it had them, would be shorter as well. A model S is 77 inches wide so that's probably 24 inches difference in clearance.
I'm not sure discarding in the field damages the climate much either. It's what plants normally do - grow and then decay where they are.
You are still the one who elected to hurl 1500 kilograms of metal down the road.
How do we know Duterte isn't working with the Cartels like so many others in his position? If true, this would be a great plan to consolidate the supply chain by efficiently/extrajudicially killing off the competition while increasing profits.

Economics 101: increased risk = increased reward

Reminiscent of the 1986 drug laws[1] in the US increasing punishments by 100 fold while at the same time US officials were helping import billions of dollars of cocaine[2] to help fund Nicaraguan death squads[3].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Drug_Abuse_Act_of_1986

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/"Freeway"_Rick_Ross

[3]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North
Not on your radar, but I've been getting a solid answer for the same question. Cape Town
> The people who want external DACs can already make use of the USB or lightning connector while the rest of us quite happily make do with the convenience of the 3.5mm jack.

That's what gets me the most. Removing the jack simply takes away a choice and doesn't introduce anything new in its place. So frustrating.
There are limits - they are marketing their simplicity by avoiding complicated pricing schemes. This is typical DO, and I see that as a good thing especially if you're just dipping your feet into the concept. The past year or two that we've had block storage at Codero we've been marketing the ability to set your own IOPS with even our smallest blocks (1000/2000/3000 iops). That said I'd be interested to know exactly what performance they offer because they are definitely cheaper.
Dupe. Discussion started here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12083829
How to Configure AWS Elastic Beanstalk to Scale
This is a good step forward, but until we (the citizens) are able to say that LEOs are no longer using parallel construction[0], this is a lot less helpful than it could be. This just means LEOs have to work a bit harder to mask their illegal activities.

For example, say you're talking to your friend who sells weed and drive over to pick it up. The cops know you're buying drugs, so they pull you over for rolling through a stop sign, search your car, and "stumble" upon the weed. There is no way to prove they used a Stringray to get this information in the first place. Extrapolate this to other activities.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
I wasn't aware of this. Are those natural or GMO?

Actually tried to look up the average 'expiry' date for an apple and could only find industrial storage dates with what 'experts' call MAP storage [1].

[1] http://shelflifeadvice.com/content/how-long-will-apples-last...
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YNAB is good if it's just you or you're the sole manager of your account, but multi-user is hard to maintain, spent more time fixing syncing issues etc. I also don't like things that claim to solve money problems by asking you for money
The paper itself is a mess. It's very interesting but they aren't doing themselves any favors. They need to clean up the presentation and get rid of the distracting phrases like "fail epically".
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The context is that Lua has "several other impedance mismatches" beyond Python, not that Python-the-language is like C.

Note that Lua also does not have a switch statement: http://lua-users.org/wiki/SwitchStatement .
Well, then. I'm sorry for reading that implication in, and glad that we could come to understand each other better.

HN is a lot like Youtube comments: There's a lot of arguing, but sometimes, people treat each other decently. It's honestly kinda surreal, coming from 4chan, reddit, or tumblr.
As much as we want to blame individual consumers, a lot of this problem goes back to Big Box Retailers. In many, many places there simply isn't a choice - you go to one of either Walmart or Kroger or Safeway to get food, because that's the only market in 20 miles from your home.

Because these places put such a high demand on perfect produce, they can charge more for that produce, and Americans find it harder and harder to afford eating their fruits and veg because it's too expensive to have food that rots when you're working 10 hour days vs. something in a can that is immortal. It can be quite difficult justifying the price tag on that bag of apples when you're not sure you can get through the whole bag, and two individual apples will end up costing you just as much as the bag because they carry the bullshit "organic" label. (And those are usually the two options you get - no non-organic freestanding take-as-many-as-you-think-you-can-eat apples by the pound for you; same goes for potatoes, carrots, onions, etc.) Lose-lose for the consumer.

I've been told again and again that there's some evidence us consumers have to be looked out for and have perfect, pristine produce, and yet I happily buy from a farmer's market the most knobbly carrots and potatoes and see many of my neighbors doing the same out here in Mountain View. They're often even more flavorful than the supermarket alternative, and since they're from nearer by (and didn't go through the industrial food transportation and refrigeration system where they're battered and shocked), they often don't spoil as quickly either.

Maybe the real problem is that Big Box Retailers have overconsolidated markets so much that there's no venue to sell this "less-than-perfect" produce to people.
This very much depends on the design of the headphones. Look at bluetooth headphones: there are models with a transciever built into the headphones, and separate transcievers where you can plug whatever headphones you want.

The same can be the case with type-C.
That link (at least, the section you linked because I didn't read the entire page) doesn't say anything about it being economic, it just gives the numbers and even goes to show that we've apparently been making progress in reducing world hunger.

Also, it's kind of a good thing for economic causes to be producing excess. The other option is to be under-producing (because 100% efficiency is a pretty hard target to hit, you're either going to be over or under). If this was the case, it would drive food prices up. So even though there would be no waste, there would be even more want.
I actually preferred the 2k football games so EA getting exclusivity there was annoying.
You can try using the basic HTML version..
Stay single, save money, die and leave your paper trinkets for someone who will actually spend it to raise another human being
When you're drinking tea you're allowing the hot water to distract you from the ingredients of the tea, you should really just chew the herbs. All experience is blended, it's good to enjoy what you're doing fully but that doesn't preclude adding additional things to the experience. Sometimes the addition of those things allow you to have a fresh look at the situation you're in. Just sit on the grass, sit on the grass and read a book, sit on the grass and listen to music. You could mark two of those situations as distracts or redefine them as unique blended experiences to enjoy. I prefer the latter. Mindfulness practice is valuable though, I just think blended experiences like blended foods are equally valuable. I'd rather have a sandwich then separately eat bread, lettuce, cheese, tomato and mustard.
I love how DO focuses on what matters the most: Inexpensive VMs and scalable block storage.

If I had to pick two, those would be them!
It's funny how a real actual problem faced by minorities is minimized as far as to be called 'non-existent' only to be followed up by a problem no white person has actually encountered. Unless you count feeling frightened by watching videos on Youtube as racism against whites.
Ceph is not block storage -- ceph is object storage
That's high praise, thank you.

It was an interesting hobby project, it reminded me just how much knowledge and work is required for the simplest of projects.
To be honest, kinda strange this news only broke recently. TotalBiscuit/CynicalBrit mentioned this months ago.