skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: AWS or bust? Support the AWS services or compete with them?
We are a small shop which provides a fairly niche product which does well in its category.
Amazon doesn't offer anything equivalent and probably never will as the total market is too small.
However many of our customers increasingly decide to use AWS for hosting.
The end result is:
a)we need to support a lot of things that are really AWS issues, DNS in AWS VPC etc.)
b)customers often end up spending more on AWS than us
c)customers expectations are that we integrate well with AWS - they find a feature of AWS and they expect the same from us

Which leads me to think in the following directions:
a) deny all this, offer our product as rpm until existing contracts run dry, buy a boat and retire (or work at dark Amazon warehouse)
b) actively support and grow our AWS integrations - the outcome will be more customers but paying mostly to Amazon and our resources will be spent on integration work rather than developing the core product, but it might be a way to survive and 'scrape by'
c) compete with Amazon, by offering similar managed services, hosting etc I don't think we have the resources to do it and even if we did I don't think many customers would go for it as they prefer to 'standardise' on AWS. Even if they did and we wanted to offer similar pricing, we'd be taking a hit as we don't have the economies of scale, but it could be profitable if could keep up.

What do you think the best strategy is? Until recently I had though it is to do one thing well, but it doesn't seem to be working too well for us anymore.
O government, tell us again how you keep all of the dragnet data collected on Americans safe from hackers.
Again we're running into the different perceptions different people have of "just work".

As for my opinion on this: I've never used a distro I didn't need at least between 2 or 14 days before I could say "it just works the way I want it to work".
Won't things like AdBlock still work on AMP pages? Do people outside the HN bubble turn off javascript to block ads (or for any other reason)?
except pivot into a higher-privileged management network full of juicy--and typically totally unpatched--Out-of-Band management equipment (consoles, IPMI, industrial gear)
how about an exo skeleton which as a bonus can provide force feedback.
Because it is a democracy. When you democratically elect representatives, it's a democracy.

If you elect incompetent, or corrupt, or evil representatives, it's still a democracy.
As mentioned in debian-devel lists, add this to your ~/.gpg.conf:

keyid-format long

as a stop gap measure, it will show long IDs (64-bit). Obviously comparing full key (`--with-fingerprint`) is the best.
Any college or NFL football fans here? Would love some feedback on our new pick'em app.
If you're using software to display both key ids, why not just use software to compare them?
> Have a 6 month out-clause in case the technical co-founder does not perform.

AND have a 6 month out-clause in case the non-technical co-founder does not perform.

I'm a technical founder, and I was sick of building software that went nowhere ... I was capable of building distributed, complex, bugfree software quickly, but I have no idea how to sell it.

So I searched for a non-technical co-founder, and I was getting sick of people who ended up being all talk and no action.

So I did this : I built 3 smaller products, with markets I knew fit, then I told the non-technical co-founders their job was to sell. Their job was to get relationships going, to get signatures on paper, and to get revenue flowing. No crap, no excuses, no endless feature requests, revenue.

I found a good co-founder this way, this guy is a lot older than me, but could sell ice to Eskimos.
Yeah, as someone who has had an Apps account for a long time, it sucks that we are constantly and consistently the last ones to get access to new products. We're PAYING them, damnit.
Key bindings can be configured in ~/.mostrc, read most(1).
I wish you didn't use throwaways so I could follow your posts. I assume you're the blink person from the other post.

It sounds like you're someone who knows a little more than average about what's happening.
Digital transformation means putting people first
Correct, but the OP was about middle class people where both parents work. That's new.
I Tracked and Tried to Outsmart ‘Hamilton’ Scalpers – With 341 Lines of Code
Slightly off-topic because it's a mission statement, and an old one at that, but NASA's always gave me chills:

To understand and protect our home planet,
To explore the universe and search for life,
To inspire the next generation of explorers
... as only NASA can.
How Does Fat Affect Insulin Resistance and Diabetes?
I went to school in NYC and I always thought it takes a special kind of person to do finance. My friend's brother works from 9am until 7-8pm, sometimes more, everyday. Yet my friend is determined to follow in his footsteps. I can't imagine doing that.
Can you elaborate on the Christmas thing? I have a very different view than you on Christmas "magic" than you, I believe.
For a self-identified "late adopter", you sure comment early on.
Something I hadn't realised before now is that a PGP fingerprint has the same format as an IPv6 address, so if you just substitute colons for spaces you can display it as a hipku

http://hipku.gabrielmartin.net/#0F6A:1465:32D8:69AE:E438:F74...

> Hipku.encode('0F6A:1465:32D8:69AE:E438:F74B:6211:AA3B');

> Bold grouse and brass ghosts
> clamp strict lean sane tart dry whales.
> Fresh geese blur rust dice.
Thanks to that extra fat, thighs have the added benefit of not drying out if you dare cook them past 165. A lot of breasts these days are also enormous and require extra prep work to make them reasonable to cook.
To be pedantic, the font you're seeing isn't Times New Roman, but rather Times. They're similar, but there are subtle differences.

Yes, you can choose a default font. You need to change your /etc/man.conf, find the line that starts with TROFF, and add new options. For example, to use Palatino as the default font, you should additionally provide the option `-f P`. Then you'll get this output: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/845567/bash%281%29%20Pal...
Except usually when you build a bigger canon you point it at people outside your castle.
I'm old enough to remember all the "Debian is dying" posts on Slashdot back in the day. As a very happy convert since the potato days, it's amazing how far Debian has come and a testament to the power of free software. Go Debian!
Has anyone else noticed how Google is using AMP to provide content for searches without you ever leaving google.com? Here's an example of a quick search I did for "Sausage Party review" [0]. You can quickly flip through AMP articles by comicbook.com, USAToday, and others while clearly staying within Google.

It seems to me like they're trying this a lot lately, Structured Data is the other example that comes to mind. Creating "web standards", that are supposed to help a website, but are really most helpful to Google and their crawler. Then giving an SEO boost to anyone who uses those standards. And then once enough people are using those standards, just display the relevant parts of the results directly on google.com

I get that it being hosted on Google allows the servers to respond more quickly, but do you think news websites that added these features with the promise of better performance and an SEO boost were aware their articles would be one thumb-swipe away from a competitor's articles?

[0] http://imgur.com/a/ZDXbQ
You are wrong. You are probably socially inept and assuming everyone else is, no offense. My family video calls all the time. Two year olds need the visual and family wants to see the kid.

Nobody gives a crap if you decline a call, video or not.
Maybe they bought it 20 years ago - in CA that would be lower price and lower property tax.

Rents are set by the market not the interest rate.
I think they're saying the state-funded violence and whatnot often leads to advancements that spill out into the broader scientific world, e.g., many DARPA projects.
Forgive my heresy, but this book sounds like Yet Another Stoicism Book. Oh, you can be satisfied with life by never wanting anything! What an insight? For once I'd like someone to quote a famous philosopher like, since he was mentioned, Marx, not to say we should want nothing, but instead to point out that we have very real needs which must be met before we can want nothing.

Preach to me of Stoicism when you've housed all the homeless and fed all the hungry!
C'mon, it's Twitter, where you only have 140 characters. He's not going to type out "NSA's hackers (generally part of the group known as Tailored Access Operations, but there are some in other groups)" just so you can't be pedantic.
[Case Study] 100+ closed beta subscribers in 6 hours with niche marketing
If they do indeed use end-to-end encryption, there should be nothing to store/learn for Google. Though without it being open source, there's no way to be sure. Unless maybe they start collaborating with Moxie, as Whatsapp did.
Ha! Someone sent 1.5 BTC (~800 USD) to the hacker's address 19BY2XCgbDe6WtTVbTyzM9eR3LYr6VitWK to bid on eqgrp_auction_file.tar.xz.asc. He sent it from a vanity bitcoin address starting with "1nice" ;-) https://blockchain.info/tx/c44b40b6d845d9cc256e21606821569db...
Thanks for this. I was confused at the end of the essay as to what the Bell test was actually looking at. To wit, what's the 'rule' used to turn the rotating crystal photon result into a statement?

The wikipedia page here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments has a coherent explanation of the Bell test, and a bunch of history on how scientists have tried to rule out the question of 'locality' confounding these tests.

I seem to recall another related quantum explanation recently with graphs showing photons 'choosing' an open path, even when the 'closed' paths are down very long fiber optic cables, but I can't find the link right now.
I like quick video calls with friends/family than long voice calls. It's intimate and always a better way of talking to someone closer.
One of Lewis' best works.

"Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him."
From evil32.com:

> I saw that your clone of the strong set is revoked?

> Someone downloaded our copy of the strong set and uploaded all of the keys to the SKS keyserver network. :( While we took on this project to help prompt GPG to build a more secure ecosystem, this mass clone made the keyservers harder for everyone to use. Of course anyone could use our tools to regenerate their own strong set clone and do this again, but we'd rather our keys not be used that way.

I take that to mean that yes, they continued to be in possession of the private keys.
It's hard to suggest improvements without knowing the goal of the changes. I mean as a resume, it duplicates much of the Linkedin profile. On the other hand, it does not really reflect the impression created by the Github profile which is dominated by reasonably successful open source projects...and depending on the significance of contributions to those projects may or may not be appropriate.

Anyway, it would be helpful to have a bit more depth to what 'improve' means.

Good luck.
About $90k CAD when starting I think (KW).
Augmented Reality Apps Are the Future of the iPhone
The Terrifying JFK Airport Shooting That Wasn’t
Category Theory, the essence of interface-based design – Erik Meijer (2015)
I didn't know this is such a prevalent thing. Good to know. Good post.
All I want is to invert colors on my Paperwhite for easier reading with the lights off. Why is that so hard?
NoSQL is driven more by scaling issues than anything else. Joins and strong consistency are awesome but run head first into the CAP theorem and other concerns like single node performance on a sharded cluster.

There is also the fact that no programming language lets you deal with relational data sanely in code, so you have the well known impedance mismatch heaeache. All popular languages I've seen offer hierarchical (maps of maps etc.) and more primitive structures only.
OnePlus 3 Support Nightmare (on-going) Part II
Next interview question should be:

Write a simple calculator that uses Roman numerals as its only internal representation of a number
Well, satire like Kafka is satire.
> If it's a question of a lesser of two evils - tweetstorms or one screenshot - which do you prefer?

How about a screenshot with a link to the text version for those sufficiently motivated? I know most people don't care for accessibility, but sheesh, that simple courtesy would mean the world to those who use screenreaders.
If we treat schemaless is to Mongo then we are sure to abuse it after sometime. There are several other factors to consider. Mongo is NoSQL db and not a greek god of data storage. So, do not curse it for your sins.
Fast Document Rectification and Enhancement
The network effect is portable when the identities are preserved across products. For example, Facebook's separating out of FB Messenger was done while preserving the already built-up network effect.
Besides gaming, anyone has used this beefy laptops to run GPU intensive machine learning algorithms? I am curious to see if it's practical to use a gaming laptop vs. a desktop to run tensorflow calculations.
"NoSQL is simply the result of not wanting to think about the logical structure of data."

NoSQL was an attempt to scale by sacrificing some of the capabilities of the relational model. Key value stores scale great, at the cost of having almost no query capabilities to speak of.

Now, some developers may adopt NoSQL due to the ease of getting a new project started. But I don't think that was the main motivation of the developers of the major NoSQL databases.

(Although, NoSQL is so broad I'm sure there are counter examples.)
I think the Russians are heavy Viber users.
> the entire AMP version is supposed to be cached by Google

Does this means there is no way to opt out of connecting to a Google-controlled server in order for any AMP-based page to display properly?
There was a study posted here recently on this very topic:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12272425

From the abstract:

"The highest attack detection rate and best usability perception is achieved with a sentence-based encoding. If language-based representations are not acceptable, a simple numeric approach still outperforms the hexadecimal representation."
You'l have to show the sarcasm tag, I almost fell for it...
I wish it was considered acceptable to provide bar charts of relative self assessed competency with a set of tools.

With error bars of courses.
Melpa.org seems to be down
This article makes me wanna go back to working in a bar or something and just never come in contact with computers or tech people ever again.
Yes, like linking to the original: https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/legions-nanorob...
I don't understand why they need to have different apps doing the same thing. I am on the same boat as you, using Hangouts for video calls quite frequently. Instead of releasing a new app like Duo, they should have first fixed performance issues with Hangouts and added this as an update. Then there is Allo. Google has weird thinking.
The correct way to compare hashes is to let the computer do it.

i.e.
Ctrl + C,
Ctrl + F,
Ctrl + V

"oh look it didn't find it ... they don't match",
versus,
"yup all 64/128/2048/n digits match, the hashes are the same".
> providing a more integrated experienced typically brings a better user experience

Has it really? One of the reasons I originally signed onto the google ecosystem, was that they had their services split. My youtube was separate from gchat, which was separate from gmail. Now I don't use almost any google products, because I don't want everything linked back to one account. Whenever they do this, google half-asses the integration, and things end up in a weird state
I think many people of vietnam, cambodia, laos, indonesia, angola, nicaragua, grenada, most of the middle east, afghanistan, pakistan [1] and so on would strongly disagree. Potentially lesser evil out of 2 evils ain't no good choice.

[1] http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html
One approach is to look for a market that you're bullish on or interested in, and find some blogs or conferences or meetups for that industry, or find some businesses competing in it, identify people involved who seem to have good ideas, and start networking with them.
I personally don't find roasting whole chickens to be all that much harder than cooking individual pieces. The entire process takes long because of the cook time, but it's passive time in the oven, not prep work or standing over a stove.

I also love roasting chicken over a bed of vegetables. It's a great winter time dish.

I'm with you on the kids, though. I do a lot of smoking in the summer and will usually bulk cook and freeze chicken, pork, and beef since smoking scales easily in cabinet style smokers!
Actually, here's a great and easy recipe to cook a whole chicken--Salt Roasted Chicken: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/salt-roasted-ch... There are many versions and this is just one. It's is very simple and very good. It helps to have a remote thermometer to makes sure you don't overcook the chicken.
I agree. Even though the axiom of choice is independent of ZF, I don't think it is self-evident axiom. It actually seems pretty counter-intuitive if you believe in infinite-precision real numbers that have an infinite amount of information and can't be compressed. I have more to say on this in "Digital Physics" (the movie). -Khatchig
For awhile I've been thinking the previous generation's American Psycho finance robot is this analagous to generation's startup/VC ecosystem. Everyone's delusional and eccentric, some more than others.
#1, Yes, I specifically called out his argument as being hollow, and supported only by an appeal to "everyone knows" - he's self selecting his audience.

Even within that audience which implicitly accepts the government is more directly engaged in protection of sovereignty via clandestine means against it's own citizens -- that audience should probably consider the goals of the sources.
Taxes aren't necessarily higher (at least compared to California) if you consider things like healthcare costs and university tuition over your whole lifetime. But yes, goods costs and taxes will be higher.
A friend of my wife's, a woman then about 50, applied for a job as business manager of a publishing company a few years ago. They asked her about her GREs, which she must have taken around thirty years before.

Anyway, you're right, that was weird. But you know, if the employees of a company got into the company largely because of their schools, and got into their schools largely because of their SATs, why wouldn't they ask. As far as they are concerned, SATs do an excellent job of predicting performance.
We send our daughter to daycare [1] and I spend every minute I can outside of work bonding with her. There is some truth to it, they only stay babies so long and parents should enjoy it. Spending time with them is one of the magical things that makes it worth it. Without that, what's the point?

[1] No nanny for us... I'm a CTO in a duel-income house and I can't afford that no idea how this character would.
I guess they mean those that already pay for google apps.
How Wikipedia deals w mental illness and suicide threats among its volunteers
موقع فوتو فونيا PhotoFunia لتعديل وتركيب الصور اون لاين  بسهولة
Well, the classic logic programming language is Prolog, so learning it would be a good start. Here is something fairly lightweight on the subject:

http://www.amzi.com/AdventureInProlog/advtop.php

There was a great PDF that explained how unification and substitution of symbols worked in a concise and readable fashion, but I can't find it right now. Hm, maybe this one:

http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~gabis/plf/Doc/SWI-Prolog/AnIntrodu...
The chart shows you can save $1-$2 per chicken that feeds about 3 people? I think it'd be difficult to find 3 people unwilling to chip in 50 cents to turn a raw chicken into a cooked one. And pricing seasoning ingredients by just the percentage they used is disengenious. I've never gotten to the bottom of any of herb bottle before it went stale.

The rotisserie industry is a bargain for consumer and seller. It's easy and automated for stores to produce at scale and a real time saver for the customer. Not to mention I can take it prepackaged to a picnic.
Guess i'm in the minority of users here who loves this app and really wanted a facetime like thing on Android.

Hangouts work, but it's heavy and not a good experience overall. And facetime is ios only, so Duo will definitely bridge this gap.

I read on a Verge's article that Google wants to make Hangouts enterprise focussed by integrating more into the Google apps and keep Allo/Duo as the consumer focused communication apps which i think is a great strategy.

Once all of android users get this pre installed, i think its not difficult to get rest of the users use this.
> It's already bad enough that I have a row of chat apps

And this is why we need to be using open protocols, instead of walled-off systems. If I had one client that could integrate all of these, I'd use them. But since I need one install per chat-system, I end up just using none of them.
Cognitive Insights uses machine learning to cut time developers need to fix bugs
I've recently taken an interest in NixOS after switching to Debian from Ubuntu about 2 years ago.

Could someone kindly enlighten me as to point [3]? Is the term "reproducible builds" used in the same context as NixOS? Otherwise stated, does this reflect the same goals? On the surface this seems to be the case, but I'm struggling to understand how Debian's approach compares/contrasts.

I quite like Debian, but the transactional approach to package management in NixOS is ... titillating...
Google Scraps Fiber Project in Portland and San Jose
Yes, this is also usually true. But if you don't know tools that are particularly well suited for the job, or you just don't like them and are looking for something else to try, I would put Rails at the top of the list for productivity. (For most use cases)
rotisserie chickens are pumped full of sodium.
It may be due to the fact that most people have a ritual for masturbation. So it is not masturbation, but the way they masturbate that's causing the erectile dysfunction. They might not think about it but they follow a pattern to which erection and orgasm are anchored and following the pattern becomes a necessary condition.

The erectile dysfunction is not physiological because they can have an erection right away when watching porn but, in my opinion, because their real life sexual encounters don't fit the pattern. They're used to assume a certain position, masturbate to a certain type of performers, etc.

So it's not masturbation, but the pattern followed during masturbation.

However, I'd argue that this is still limiting and it has nothing to do with the pattern followed during masturbation, but the pattern used for "sex" in any forms, not just masturbation.

An example would be people who are used to pay for sex not having a problem performing with sex workers. Many of them are already erect when they go in. On the other hand, people who are not accustomed to that have trouble performing. It violates the pattern they are accustomed to (the ability to fully enjoy a partner's body isn't a big deal for people who pay for sex workers, but it can seem unnatural to people who have sex with "non sex-workers" because the dynamic is so very different).

I've done some empirical research on a non statistically representative sample and, so far, the results confirm my hypothesis:

Breaking the pattern for masturbation improves performance. People who perform poorly with sex-workers perform well when sex-workers behave differently that the typical sex-worker (i.e: the dynamic is close to the "regular sex" the patron is used to have).