skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
saw those built in places like ancient city center of Yazd, they sure had the heating/cooling figured out. even saw a photo of ice storage building (looked a bit older). I mean, storing ice in the middle of the desert.

no wonder persians were called 'educated arabs' in the past.
In secret WW2 project, Navy scientists attempted to turn sharks into missiles
> There seems to be no canonical specification of IRC itself.

Is this a joke? Did you think all this stuff just accidentally worked? I'm not sure how seriously to take your entire message because of this bizarre idea.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1459

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2810

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2811

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2813
> those entering old age between now and 2030 are universally poor, underemployed, and in poor health, and there is no sign of it slowing down or getting better. They will rely on the young more than ever.

Could you elaborate on this? My impression is the exact opposite - that people are generally healthier and/or living longer than they have previously. Obviously things vary tremendously from country to country - and obesity in the US complicates the picture - but is general health and life expectancy around the world going down?
This happens quite often with internet companies, passionate users reaching out and becoming support reps. There's something about really good products or brands that simply make people want to get involved.
Ask HN: Which companies hire remote only or remote first?
I'm looking to move to a remote working situation, I have read about a couple small companies that are remote only or remote first, are there any lists of companies that are by default open to remote working? Particularly for software engineer positions.
For what its worth, You may disagree with Milo's style but the substance of his comments on the ghost busters is real and its proven the way at the box office, where Sony will not make its money back and they have canceled a planned sequel and animation movies.
I have an X-100s. I really like the physical design of the camera. The fact that they did firmware updates that gave new features was also great.

However, I shoot RAW and x-trans seems to be an issue. I noticed quite a few of my photos have weird color issues. Objectively my old, cheap Nikon DLSR was producing better photos.
Data from https://mapzen.com/data/metro-extracts/metro/brooklyn_new-yo...

I followed my instructions in the post (except I had to use encoding='iso-8859-1' instead of utf-8)

I cropped the map a little.

Generated file
https://gist.github.com/pdonald/223e42b491eb42ba99b8e10ef1ae...

Interactive and clickable
http://bl.ocks.org/anonymous/raw/d62bfd592234ed71d24bfd6f264...

You can also go to http://geojson.io and load the generated file for more interactivity (select, delete, add your own polygons, etc.) or open it in QGIS.

In the Results section I had a screenshot of the generated polygons in both QGIS and geojson.io (polygons are separated by thick black lines and their area is colored gray).
AWS: 4 year-old GPUs

Azure: 2 year-old GPUs

Wouldn't it be awesome if a cloud provider could keep up with the GPU roadmap and ship something within a year or so of its release?
I always mean to write up my projects but never do. The gist is really, through trial and error I was able to map developer's desks to coordinates and elevation angles to get to their seat and just made a flat file that had their username, X, Y, and Z values in it.

The main loop was just the standard socket server you'd find in a Ethernet module example and I wrote a Jenkins plugin that would connect on break and send the offending username over the socket.

There were at the time a number of examples showing how to control the USB launcher from Geekwire w/ an Arduino that I pretty much just copied.
Another indicator of the article's quality: The company is called Metamako[0], not Metamoko.

[0] https://www.metamako.com/
Here's one reason why Google is safe. Explained in one graphic:

"In Pursuit of Simplicity"
https://blog.codinghorror.com/in-pursuit-of-simplicity/

Another reason they are safe is because they are not a social network.
I agree that the article is stupid. No company is safe from Yahoo's fate. Given enough time, there is 100% certainty that all companies will suffer Yahoo's fate.

That said, if they haven't diversified by the time the need for Google's search engine disappears, or if most people start to use the service without clicking on paid ads (e.g. because of adblockers), they will clearly have problems. "They're working on it" isn't the same as "they have it" when it comes to sources of revenue.
Have they historically done so though? AWS's market leader position seems to persist even though they're actually quite a bit more expensive than Google Cloud and Azure (in particular due to the billing practices).
It's interesting to see how the essay has evolved since the from an earlier version in 2011. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/10/22/lead-follow-or...
My recommendation is a bit different, instead of that, try looking for a local manufacturer and support them.

Here in Brazil, people go for the cheap aliexpress clones to the point where some of our own manufacturers are closing shop. In these cases, strengthening the local ecosystem might be interesting and wiser in the long run.
Zero-cost futures in Rust
That's pretty much what mine was, but isn't mine (and probably better?)
If your security requirements are such that AWS can't terminate TLS would be one reason.
What point are you trying to make? Are you implying that the tweets Breitbart links to don't exist, by virtue of existing on Breitbart?

If there is true information that is being reported only by certain sources, it is perhaps worth thinking about why. See this article by Freddy Deboer on that topic:

http://fredrikdeboer.com/2016/07/20/whos-in-and-whos-out-tha...

"People who gleefully trashed Justine Sacco complain about pile-ons; people who say doxing is wrong get others fired from their real-life jobs. There are no principles; there’s only who you’re cool with and who you aren’t."
77% of Google ad revenue comes from their own sites.

Only 10% of google revenue and almost none of the profits come from other business than ads. Google has tried but has not been successful in creating profits from elsewhere. Motorola Mobility was huge blunder.

Google is successful there is no moat that keeps it safe. It hast to keep running to to stay ahead.
> 25 connections/second with a 2 KB certificate, 3,000 active connections, and 2.22 Mbps of data transfer or

>5 connections/second with a 4 KB certificate, 3,000 active connective, and 2.22 Mbps of data transfer.

"2KB certificate" and "4KB certificate"? Is this supposed to read "2048 bit RSA" and "4096 bit RSA"?
You're strawmanning. But here's the sad part: that you have to go to Breitbart of all places to get something resembling an impartial take on internet culture these days.

Take the Guardian for example. They publish a bunch of outrage bait by feminist wunderchilds like Jessica Valenti or Laurie Penny, delete any comments that show how ill-informed their writings are, and then do an honest to god "study" where they prove how bad harassment is by considering any deleted comment to be harassing and abusive. The Guardian has investigated The Guardian and concluded they are impartial in the matter.

Or maybe we should consult the New York Times on what happened at Reddit with Ellen Pao, to discover how she's a hero for womankind and not at all a fraud married to a fraud with a trail of clearcut evidence dangling from their bumper like noisy cans, who didn't understand the community she was trying to steer.

Then of course there's all the people who share this stuff on Twitter, in between fav'ing Neil DeGrasse Tyson for his "I fucking love science" routine, on how the right-wing is irrational and not facts-based.

If you know of any honest, independent, impartial and non-sellout left-leaning media that covers these topics well, I'd love to hear it. I used to call myself progressive, but now I just consider myself left libertarian, because I don't want to be confused with _those_ people.
Instantlancer
I'm not saying "hey, it's totally OK that they're doing this" or that it's not self-serving. What I'm saying is that these people are not exactly as sympathetic/blameless as some of the other asset forfeiture articles I've read.
This is very good.
Recently my workflow has been ELB -> NGINX -> Cluster.

Nginx was a cluster of machines that did routing based on rules into the ec2 machines. Now that the AELB has some of those capabilities it's time to evaluate it.
I feel that the article is not complete. Google is way more diversified (Google Apps, Cloud and so on).
Furthermore, it also takes risks (with Google X).

While Google does make a lot of it's earnings from Ads, Google Cloud is supposed to surpass it's Ads business in the next 4 years.
That to me is a lack of self awareness and integrity. Not everyone is fully conscious of the things that drive them. That you feel hatred for such behavior suggests that you too have things about yourself that you are not aware of.

Being nice is not the same as compassion. I'm glad you found a book that helped you understand it.

However, based on this and your other comments on this thread, I think there is more to discover about this. There is a whole range of things related to love (and I don't mean romance) I think is missing from your discourse.
it still amazes me that people argue that there is even such a thing as "legal" war. war is the breakdown of social order. law is only relevant in the presence of existing social order.

when a country like the U.S. chooses to initiate a war of aggression against a foreign population it is effectively just an assertion that there is no such thing as law when it comes to wielding geo-political power. in the case of the congressional vote to authorize force, that wasn't really an exercise of law. that was a public performance of assent to break the law. it was congress saying "we capitulate to your plans and will not attempt to interfere with the war".
It is a good form of communicating sciences. Seriously, more professors should do it as their contributions to community. Perhaps starting from more reddit AMA?
It's just one case but HHMI controls a endowment on par with NIH, $30B, and is about as influential an organization in the biomedical sciences as such exists in the world, so noting its success will be highly informative for other future attempts.

I'm also not saying existing journals should go away or that this prevents any other initiatives. I'm merely saying the funding agencies should create their own journals.
Automattic Inc. (WordPress), Buffer, and many more... http://blog.cloudpeeps.com/top-10-companies-winning-at-remot...
But, like those questions, this one also has important implications in practice.
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Higher source/sink current with GPIOs is also a selling point of the Arduino.
There are, of course, other languages that came from English. One that comes to mind is Bislama, a dominant language spoken in Vanuatu.
Good response, and indeed the "maker vibe" seems to have been poisoned by commercial concerns...

Real makers tend to buy unbranded stuff from Chinese free-shipping places anyway. Branded Arduino is mostly a historic artifact...
No, but it doesn't do hourly billing so it can still be cheaper depending on your workload.

Also, you tend to be getting more per instance hour on both Azure and GCE, assuming you do things those environments are good at. In Azure's case if you can get your software running on windows then it's actually quite good performance for I/O intensive things.
A few I've used:

- Pushing conversions on a website to a Slack channel

- Pushing conversions from a website into a CRM (like Salesforce IQ)

- Pushing conversions on a website to gsheets

- Get an update in Slack, email, etc. when something happens on a Github repo (new issue, PR, comment, etc.)
Thanks for clarifying
IRC is a community. The application layer has its own grammar, the way the web does. The IRC community is simply made up of different kinds of users of this community application, separated by servers and channels. The way the web is.

I don't think it lacks modernism, I think it's simply a different dynamic than 'modern' alternatives. (What is "modern", btw? What "new" protocol alternatives are there? XMPP?)

It could be argued the web is a far more archaic, featureless, non-modern protocol... it just has fatter clients and dynamic server-side and client-side applications.
Reviewing bug bounties – a hacker's perspective
> Asset forfeiture is more of a travesty than money "laundering" being a crime is.

I'm not sure why it's a travesty that it's illegal to conceal the source of illegally-earned money.
This is definitely nicer than having to create subdomains for microservices and mapping each subdomain url to its own Elastic Loaad Balancer + Elastic Beanstalk instance. But I have already gone down this path so I am unlikely to use AWS Application Load balancer. I wish I had this option a year ago.
Perhaps I came across wrong...I meant post-boom but not necessarily "bust". Bay Area is a beautiful and pleasant place to live in my opinion. Without the massive tech influence I think it will still be very attractive to people.
> The internet will always have trolls and always had trolls.

Humanity has always lived on subsistence and never flown, until it fixed those things.

> Twitter as a platform doesn't do anything differently than the old IIRCs or forums when it comes to this.

The vast majority of forums I've used had responsive moderators and the ability to remove trolls (including correlating concurrent or sequential sockpuppets and reapplying sanctions on new accounts). IRC tends to be more spartan, but even there you could require authentication, autokick abusers and ban IPs.

Of course both were intended as communities (of sorts) not trying to sell their growth, so removing a bunch of assholes wasn't considered an issue by anyone.
I was primarily referring to EC2.
Do ALBs support more than a single SSL certificate?
Nokia had 75 billion dollars in revenue 10 years ago. The cell phone part of the company is gone today. Basically all of googles revenue comes from ads.

Its very unlikely, but if 10 years ago if someone said Nokia wouldn't be making cell phones in 10 years ago who would have believed you.

Everyone was on AOL in the late 90s and now its mostly gone. Tech is just so fast moving I could see it happen. It just isn't likely.
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In terms of traffic control it's probably going to be mostly beneficial for people. Bad drivers will surely be annoyed, just as they were when running red lights and speeding became things that could be enforced 24/7.

If it spread to security cameras ... consequences could be a grave new world where a young Dennis Leary is caught in his very first act of subversion.
What would be so bad if they did go through a bad patch? I can't see it being like Yahoo's though.
As a heavy ECS user, all I can say is thank you, finally!
Yes, I phrased that badly and edited to clarify what I meant.
Yes, the point is that if nobody is watching you, it's up to you to set your own limits on work hours. You can't expect someone else to do it.
I ran into this last year: the feds set up their own "Bootstrap" type project:

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/09/28/web-design-standards/

https://github.com/18F/web-design-standards
How have you implemented multi-factor? Near as I can tell there's no good open-source ways of managing it (i.e. something where I get Google-style app-passwords available via LDAP to connected applications + a UI for managing them).
Please add Sydney Australia
> and the revenue total barely is worth mention in Google's earnings calls.

"Barely worth mentioning" because they don't even break out the $2 billion in quarterly revenue from non-advertising sources beyond "non-advertising sources" in financial reports, but in the most recent, the $400+ million increase in quarterly revenue in that category was primarily attributed to two sources -- increases in Play store revenue, and increases in "revenues from cloud and apps offerings for enterprise".

Its just hard for anything else to seem significant against the background of $18 billion in quarterly advertising revenue.
> While Google does make a lot of it's earnings from Ads, Google Cloud is supposed to surpass it's Ads business in the next 4 years.

Where do you hear this goal? Google Q2 Ads revenue was $21.5B. AWS Q2 revenue was $2.6B. Google is currently small compared to AWS.
For solid spherical objects like baseballs and cylinders like hockey pucks I think that makes a lot of sense (pun intended) but for air-filled hollow spheres like basketballs maybe not so much as people might think it would upset the balance of the balls.

If IIRC, hockey tried garish bright puck colors --maybe a special coat could help track the balls as well rather than an active sensor.
Unfortunately, I don't work for Google. But if you're offering... :)
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Most of the interesting projects will never be posted online. You are seeing mostly beginners excited to get into hardware and posting what they do.

Arduino is "the next big thing" mainly because of the community that's sprung up around it: tons of libraries (of varying quality...), lots of cheap hardware and online resources make it easy to get started and continue past the beginner stage. Previous attempts (BASIC Stamp, etc) never made it to remotely this level of popularity.

e.g., I'm an experienced electrical/firmware engineer and I do Arduino prototype consulting on the side.

One of my recent projects was a downhole scanner for measuring well diameter. I also have a set of ongoing automation projects that are specific to a particular customer in the entertainment industry. Arduino turns out to be perfect for this kind of work.

This is the CRUD work of the Arduino world: basic automation that's not exciting or even difficult, but fills a real need.
I'm a big fan of the MSP430, which is the only ultra-low-end microcontroller that's not Harvard architecture. That is, code and RAM live in the same address space, which lets you load code at runtime without needing to fiddle about with reflashing.

This allows you to port real operating systems to it:

http://cowlark.com/2015-10-27-fuzix

It's also a really elegant architecture which is a pleasure to write assembly for, and it consumes absurdly small amounts of power.
This is a very disingenuous comment. You know well why the article left out Milo Yiannopoulos and Pax Dicksonson: they're both prominent racist trolls. You included Justine Sacco and Brandon Eich deliberately in order to draw an equivalence between them and Yionnopoulous. Obviously, that equivalence is false. And you conned people, me included, into reading the dumbest Breitbart article ever created. Mercy, mercy, Leslie Jones used the words "white people"! How-ever does Twitter allow her to keep posting?

Who are you trying to kid? More and more, your comments on HN are becoming a parody of themselves. You have real arguments to make. I don't like most of them, but at least I can respect them. This, though, is more horseshit.
I always thought Ashley Judd was the first big harassment story on Twitter. Here is her account of it. Though I remember it happening earlier than 2015. Maybe there are multiple incidents.

https://mic.com/articles/113226/forget-your-team-your-online...
Oh yeah, there's no doubt that you'd need something like this to get started. I figured I'd like to the Wikipedia article because there are so many things being built with this chip that it's hard to point to any one of them and say "this is it". It's really about the ESP8266 itself, what companies like SparkFun are building around it, and, finally, what hobbyists are building with those.
Most likely, yes.
For applications that need Wifi, the ESP8266 is indeed a good and very competitively priced product.

However, all the wifi magic on the chip is closed source, and the datasheets / documentation are much less complete than chips like the ATmega328 (which the Arduino Uno is based on). The ATmega328 has a 660-page datasheet, whereas the ESP8266 has a 30-page datasheet.
are you actually confused about which people are being referred to though? seems like you're just getting pedantic here.

Every single country profiled in the piece is majority Arab (ethnically), majority Arab (linguistically), and majority Muslim (religiously).

what more meaningful distinction would you make that clarifies things? "Middle Eastern countries currently on fire"? They are certainly all countries that can be fairly described as Arab.
The Salton Sea is fascinating. Its bed is as low as Badwater Basin in Death Valley, and were it not inundated, it might be the hottest place in the US. A little while ago I submitted a fellow's account of hiking its perimeter during summer: http://dineshdesai.info/saltonwalk/
How to build extremely efficient Clouds/IT infrastructure
In Firefox, I see a pig.

In Chromium, I receive a message "Unable to fetch location."
Tel Aviv is just 1 hour flight away. I can help make a visit here very interesting and productive for you :D

Hope to visit Egypt some day!
> I'd disagree and say that in overpopulated areas there is a higher rate of depression, obesity and psychological problems than in places with lower populations

What scope and scale are you looking at though? Because within first world countries such as the USA, psychological problems doesn't correlate much and obesity correlates negatively with population density. The problems you mention correlate much more with social and economic opportunities (or lack thereof) than population density itself.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481194/
I don't understand the comments that ESP8266's can replace Arduinos. Don't you still need to wire the ESP8266 to a microcontroller?

I'm a hardware novice, and I love Arduinos. I'd appreciate any info to help me learn, seems like I'm missing something. To me the ESP8266 is a superior alternative to Arduino wifi shields, not the Arduino itself.
Honest question from a foreigner with a slightly less federal form of government: Why is the autonomy of the States so worth protecting? It seems like every time I see a state government clash with the federal government, it's always the state trying to protect some backward law. What are the counterpoints...I know they must exist!
BTW, is there any place to log feature requests?
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Milo has a black boyfriend.
Wooot excited to have YC visit us at Wheelys Café in Sweden. If anyone’s travelling to Stockhholm for this feel free to email me (cenk@wheelyscafe.com) for burger recommendations, directions to our office or if you’d like to come by for a cup of coffee.
Might want to fix your DNS the link doesn't work. http://instantlancer.com does work however.
>Do you maintain that the user/developer distinction goes away? I don't think it does.

I would argue that wouldn't be sufficient to remove it in practice, since a good part of that distinction is cultural. People aren't taught to interact with their code because most computers are closed systems, making such interaction impossible, and most software is merely a product to be consumed.

Almost no one (understandably) wants to know how to use a c compiler to build the source code for their applications, much less take the time to review and modify it, no one wants to configure and maintain, even in the open source world it's unusual to actually contribute.

However, it would at least be a distinction without a legal difference.
The real issue with Yahoo! was that they focuses less on engineering and more on "we are a media company" thing. While in reality all FB, GOOG etc are media companies engineering culture is what is at the heart of their success.