skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If beating AWS on price is trivial, why is nobody doing that to beat them? The only place I have a gripe on AWS pricing is bandwidth. I keep waiting for the announcement that bandwidth is being cut in half next month and it hasn't happened.

I've done the datacenter thing many times and there are so many pieces to the costs of running your own that most people don't include. The biggest one is just plain agility. Predictable workloads can benefit from self-hosted, but then again you can get much better prices at AWS when your loads are predictable as well if you're willing to commit.
Wow, way to miss the point. It was a rhetorical question. Sheesh....
Analyzing Stack Overflow questions and tags with the StackLite dataset
I have a hunch the recommendations are influenced by the Zagat acquisition a few years ago.
LoRaWAN requires AES128: https://www.lora-alliance.org/portals/0/documents/whitepaper...

The radio chip itself doesn't perform the encryption though, it's done on the host microcontroller.

What kind of things are you monitoring?
Regarding char, remember it's best to always specify because "usually" is still not "always".
I love your video and your comment:

> https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2132

> Make money, make money!

:D
I vote for calling it "toddler has the wheel!" (Tm)

Because that's exactly how you should treat it.
Did you know there's a "Trips" section in the navigation drawer?

https://support.google.com/inbox/answer/6228360?hl=en
under the "Find your Trip in Inbox" header
We've removed the (2015) label now that there's an update at the top of the post.
I would guess:

1. Because the mindset of work > leisure is rewarded in the U.S., so wealthier people aren't choosing work because they're wealthier, they're wealthier because they choose work.

2. Because they have more leverage not only in how much they work, but in what work they do. If you draw a stark line between your job and what you enjoy, naturally you'll want to minimize that work and maximize your leisure. But if you actually enjoy your job...
After standoff, LA cops’ bomb disposal robot snatches man’s shotgun
You can't have a travel guide without an editorial voice. There's a huge gap in travel for tooling, and this is a really good addition, but that's not enough by itself. Lonely Planet et al haven't changed meaningfully since the internet was invented, but compare the amount of time people spend looking at a travel guide vs anything with advertising on it. The Priceline Group spent over 5B in 2015 marketing while all of Lonely Planet is worth maybe 250M. Build the next generation guide and you'll capture the booking market with it. And Google will never compete with you for the same reason Facebook got smacked around when they used human news editors.

It's crazy winner takes all. That's why it's a battle Google wants to fight:

72B: Priceline Group

15B: Expedia

7B: Trip Advisor

1B Orbitz

176M Travel Zoo
Once you actually practice a physical instrument for a reasonable amount of time things like the concept of "memorizing where the minor 7th is" quickly become non issues - the only memorization involved is that of your muscles i.e. the cognitive load is essentially nonexistent. Involving more parts of your body than your cognition is one of the joys of playing a physical instrument, versus pressing a button and thinking a lot.
Half the article talks about how one theory is that they work because they take pleasure in their work, that they are no longer driven my money but by the creative process or working.

While this might have only been true of a few people, a more mobile job market, more opportunity, more choice of field, more education, and other factors all allow more people to find jobs that they simultaneously love to do and get paid well to do. I'm one of those lucky people I guess. I absolutely love what I do and the more successful I become, the more I want to do it. Work has become almost game-like to me.

I'll see your out of context quote and raise you The Parable of the Talents. If you have a gift for creation or investment, don't be ashamed of it, but nurture it and use it.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A14...
This seems pretty cool, but I'd really like something like this for my own city. It would be nice to be able to put chores on a list and have Google let you know the most efficient way to get them done would be.

For instance, if I am going to need groceries in the next 3 days, and I need to visit a laundromat within the next week, what is the best way to do that? When is the laundromat the least busy, and when is the grocery store the least busy? Does it make sense to do both in one trip? Should I bring my laundry with me to work, and then stop on the way home, or should I go to the laundromat on the weekend?

Maybe there is a Laundromat near that record store I want to check out, so I could do that while my clothes are in the dryer. Or maybe Google knows my car registration is about to expire, and can suggest I go to the DMV at the same time.

Basically I want an app that is a combination of a secretary and a best friend. I want something to track of all the stuff that I spend too much brainpower trying to optimize, and I want it to make helpful suggestions that are somewhat novel. I find it really annoying when apps suggest something that is already a matter of habit -- I really don't need a reminder to grab my morning coffee, it's something I do every morning. Similarly, I'm not impressed when an app tells me to visit a place that even my most culturally-oblivious friends know about.

The information required to generate tourist suggestions is much more general, and probably works better on a statistical/machine learning level. If you were planning on developing an executive assistant app, developing the app I described seems like a pretty good first step though.
I mean the individual game isn't that taxing. Compare to the length of any other team sport - only basketball comes vaguely close at 80ish games. Anything physical is taxing if you do it a ridiculous number of times.
On second thought maybe "2nd grader has the wheel" but that's not as catchy.
Sure, here's a really simple one:
https://www.metabunk.org/sk/Volcanic-activity-1945-2015.png

Interestingly, this graph shows volcanic activity declining after the passage of the clean air act - perhaps the gods of volcanism heard our pleas.

In all likelihood, yeah, it was a combination of the two factors, but it did bug me that they ignored below-average global volcanism post 1970.
sup pensive
Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1235/
I think we were just talking past each other. I took your statement to mean convincing others to stop sending HTML emails. You meant it more to just focus on the text. (If I am reading correctly.)

In that, yes, I agree. Bonus points for being able to inline respond to messages again. (I hate Outlook's forcing top posting.)
The updated title is incorrect. Those features have been part of twitter before this, they just don't count towards the character limit anymore.
We haven't broken with ZK, it just isn't part of the protocol clients use anymore.

This is important for three reasons:
1. To make clients easy to build
2. To have a single security layer for everything (so you don't have to authenticate yourself with two things)
3. To be able to enforce things like throttling and protect the system in an environment with lots of clients.
I prefer this over that
Very simple script, and only confirms what has been posted several times here.

However interesting scenario when the game master reveals a door with a goat, and the player does not know if the game master consciously decided to remove that particular door. In this scenario, probability of winning swings from 0.33 to 0.67.
Looks cool. Playfair didn't load for me so the headings looked a bit plain, and the +2px spacing on Rubik looked weird to me. There was also a full-screen yellow pause while something loaded the first time. I like it.
Next we'll have robots snatching wallets, you just wait.
I can't tell if "men" is used as a neutral pronoun in this story.

> young men
> lower-skilled men
> non-working men
> rudderless middle-aged men
> elite men
> poorer men
> rich men
> young non-college men
It's a great point. A smart network needs to scale down the transmit power of its nodes and gateways as the network density increases.
I'm really glad to see that law enforcement was able to use technology to non-lethally take down a violent criminal so that he can stand charge. (Unlike in that other situation... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/is-it-ok-to-send-...)
How about "auto 1st day with learners permit".
I have this theory that blockchain is a great fit for distributed consensus and that it should be able to replace zookeeper as a much more robust tool. What do you think?
Facebook Algorithmic Factory: Immaterial Labour and Data Harvesting
Thanks!

You mean in 9 months? We're hoping to do one earlier than that :). Hit me up: shawn at beepnetworks dot com
You are successfully making the point I was trying to.

We are willing to concede that usage patters from 100 years ago are unrealistic current realities.

However we would simultaneously like to use the current reality to project future realities that are much farther away (in some cases 19 million years away).
The world's working poor plainly contradict your assertion.
> Everyone American I know is very grateful for what he did. And I know quite a few.

This is an enormously basic fallacy. I was born and raised in the US and have spent a quarter century of life here, so I think it's fair to say "I know quite a few" Americans. But I would think it beyond insane to claim that my sample is useful for statements like "I know a lot of Americans and none feel this way. Who are they?". I also don't know any Trump supporters, any single parents, any heroin addicts, any cardiosurgeons, any farmers...is it really that difficult to believe that your sample of Americans isn't typical (despite its impressive size of "quite a few")?
How about adults then? My buddy can't abide lots of drawings and diagrams - his eyes glaze over. He wants to read it in prose. Never mind how dense; he learns (prefers) only from written descriptions.

My wife had a classmate that paid someone to read his textbooks to him. Couldn't process it visually.

I know its anecdotes; but these folks have at least a very strong preference for different modes of learning.
And running down children! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/security-robot-toddler_u...
Wouldn't NASA be the natural choice for this, especially given their history of working with the military?
> The argument is that it's still close enough that the argument of irreversibility should apply (IMHO) to life sentences.

That doesn't make sense. While irreversibility is, in fact, an absolute trait of a death sentence, the irreversibility argument is an argument about the relative features of death sentences vs. life imprisonment.

Its true that any imprisonment includes some harms that are (or some probability of harm that is) irreversible, those harms can stop being compounded at any time during the imprisonment by terminating the imprisonment -- as has been done, in fact, not only for innocence but for other causes -- and, even while irreversible, can in some cases be compensated for in some extent, which also (though more rarely) occurs.

To the extent either of those can happen in the case of death sentences, it is only because death sentences are, in practice, sentences to long-but-indefinite terms of imprisonment followed by death, and the imprisonment portion of that sentence behaves exactly like any other sentence of imprisonment. (And note that death sentence proponents often argue that this feature of the death sentence is, itself, a misfeature imposed by resistance to the death penalty which should ideally be eliminated.)
Agreed. I'm not even sure if it's all that interesting that encryption plays a role: I think privacy, and by extension secrecy plays a role. And in our world, cryptography is increasingly a precursor to both privacy and secrecy.

But I think the fight about making cryptography available, really is the fight for right to privacy, and even right to secrecy in certain areas of our society. The USA is fortunate in some ways because of the constitution, and its repercussions throughout modern history - even if law enforcement can build or buy a device to see through walls, that doesn't allow such tools to be used without regulation.

But now is the time to regulate large scale meta-data, traffic analysis, in addition to guaranteeing a right to technology that allows data to be kept secret.
Deep Image Analysis with Ruby and Google Cloud Vision
a medal, a metal how fast?
I think your point #2 is right on. This article is wondering why recent observations are not behaving the "backward bending supply curve of labour" [1]. But this curve assumes a constant return on hours worked (i.e. a constant wage). If it really behaves more like overtime -- where additional hours are worth more but only if you've already worked a certain amount -- then the marginal hourly wage can rise as the marginal leisure value rises, and the equilibrium is pushed further out. In other words, it changes that curve to strictly increasing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_bending_supply_curve_...
We under-occupied salary workers just play our video games at the office... /s
Overwatch is got to be the least rewarding fun game to play.
Why in the hell is that thing 300 pounds? What is it filled with, cans of lead paint?
The intervals in a 7-note scale inherently don’t add up like that, because they’re not based on even divisions. So regardless we need to have 12 different named intervals for various numbers of semitones:

For instance, “minor second”, “major second”, “minor third”, “major third”, “perfect fourth”, “augmented fourth”, “perfect fifth”, “minor sixth”, “major sixth”, “minor seventh”, “major seventh”, “octave”.

Reducing all those ordinal numbers by one really doesn’t help all that much. You still have to remember how the “minor” and “major” labels interact for every interval in the scale, and remember that sometimes the interval between the same two notes is given multiple names depending on the key, etc., which is all horribly confusing mess.
Hummm actually is more about the distance (in the radio topology) between the nodes and the gateway. Closer are the gateway to the nodes less power you need.
Perhaps most importantly the Staaker is much faster. I think the top speed is twice that of the Lily, which could never keep up with an above-novice person skiing/surfing/snowboarding/biking. Also the tracking is far beyond anything that's possible with machine vision, like I said it's based on a radio transmitter unit / controller that you keep in a pocket.

The Staaker guys have been field testing with some of the world's best extreme sports athletes over the past year. It's also more expensive than the Lily and the GoPro Karma, at MSRP $1700 ($1100 if you order one now, GoPro not included at either price) it's targeting the semi-pro market more than the competition is.
You're not making a coherent argument. It seems we agree?
The .py file has the Apache License, Version 2.0 embedded, and the project's license file is the BSD 2-clause License. Although most possibly compatible, this is a bit confusing.
Are Bots the Next Great Distribution Network?
I think there might also be a very strong correlation between being rich and doing what you love, especially has job opportunities and mobility have drastically increased in the last couple generations.

I don't know too many top 1 percenters that would say that would love what they do. Very few.

And I do know of many that would say they never really made it -- because independently wealthy -- until they found what they really loved to do: from going into a new field to opening up their own store that grew.

I think loving what you do has a lot to do with wanting to put in the effort to really getting paid back what you put in.
Ah you mean on the topo map, not the Google map at the top. Thanks.
The FAA is a well-established regulatory agency that already manages significant portions of spaceflight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Commercial_Space_Tra...) and also has a long history working with the military.

NASA should be in the exploration business, not the regulatory one.
Not only that, but a lot of employers apparently expect hourly workers to come in on short notice and cut hours from those that don't. Which leads to a different kind of job-enforced idleness that's unpaid and doesn't count as work, unlike yours.
A long article, but the real quote is "The truly remarkable thing is that the market for servers continues to be diverse. ". But then if you look at the table, which is ranked by revenue you see the ODM market is moving into 3rd place (its behind IBM by accelerating past them) with a 13% growth.

Which is just large sections of the market realizing that paying $800+ for BMC features from HP/Dell that everyone else gives away, or 5x the street price for storage/ram differing only in who's sticker is stuck on top of the micron/WD/etc hardware is dumb. So, the revenue numbers hide the volume difference which is strongly shifing away from the IBM's and to the smaller whitebox manufactures.

The only question is will Dell/HP wake up before supermicro/levnovo finish off what amazon/microsoft have started.
I read (and purchased) the HIG as a graphic design student in university. It inspired me to jump into the UI design w/ 2 feet.
This is ridiculous. Read The Human Factor by Ishmael Jones and see if you still think there's even the remotest of possibilities this is true.
I think they keep working because they achieve a lot of success with it so it's very rewarding. I am sure I would enjoy work much more if I felt that my work really makes a difference.
Which part of the app are you referring to, or were you in the Local Guides early access by chance?
Complicated question. It certainly would've been better financially, though honestly, the difference is "set for life" vs. "set for a long time", so I'm not certain it would make a material difference in my life now. Besides, I think it's fairly likely that even if I were set for life, I'd be doing something fairly similar to what I'm doing now. I think that in terms of lifestyle & personal goals during the 4-5 years I would've been at DropBox, I actually did better (I ended up folding up the startup I was working on and working for Google, and I had a relatively stress-free, enjoyable, lucrative, and personally fulfilling time at Google where I grew a lot as a person).

I do think that my reasons for not taking the job have been invalidated by future experience. My top reason was "I'm not going to leave my cofounder", and then he ended up leaving me 2 months later. My second reason was "Well, you've got a startup, I've got a startup, it is unclear which of us is actually going to succeed," and of course my startup was dead in 6 months while DropBox is now a $10B company. (Interestingly, I had a gut feeling at the time that I was turning down something important - I could tell Drew/Arash/Aston were crazy smart, and I really liked their product concept video.) But Drew actually told me "Honestly, if I were in your position - and I have been in your position - I wouldn't take the job" and he was right. The bargain we make as entrepreneurs is getting to call the shots, and the consequence of this is that sometimes we make the wrong call, and in a way it's not wrong after all because the whole point was making the call in the first place.

There's also the issue of whether DropBox would be a billion-dollar company at all if they'd hired me. I think my skillset actually duplicated Aston's to a fairly large extent, and we would've argued over technology choices (I would've pushed for Django, JQuery, and git over Pylons, Prototype.js, and Hg - the fact that these won in the wider webdev world is immaterial, just arguing over them would've cost precious time that a startup can't afford). Instead they hired some very talented MIT grads instead, and my understanding is that these engineers were responsible for things like reverse-engineering the Finder and writing the syncing algorithm that were what really contributed to DropBox's success.
Jefferson Park isn't a National Park...
This article (in the tradition of Keynes) makes the implicit assumption that more leisure is good/brings happiness. (Hence the seeming paradox that rich people - those who should be able to afford more leisure - appear to work more.) I don't think that's true. There's a reason that retiring early is literally bad for your brain [0] - healthy adults are supposed to be engaged in productive activity. Whether productive activity means punching a clock, volunteering at a $nonprofit or striking out on your own, the point is that our minds and bodies need to be actively living, not just passively consuming.

If you view underemployed young people with lots of "free time" as trapped by leisure and cheap entertainment, the paradox goes away - they're not in an enviable position at all.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/this-is-y...
Federal Enterprise Architecture
Seems a little funny that the FCC isn't being discussed more seriously. Although it's not a totally intuitive fit on the surface, it makes a little more sense once you consider that U.S. satellite launches already require FCC licenses, and one of the things you have to include in the application is your plan to mitigate the threat of orbital debris.
I wouldn't hold my breath with google. Lets see:

- Google Wave (dead)

- Google talk (dead)

- Google Voice (dead)

- Google trips (...._

If anything, google may offer to buy you out if they like your product good enough. So if that counts as being killed, then yea may be.
Introduce something only you and your friends know. Zipping with 0 compression and a password or a random file will make the swarm completely independent from any other one.
Improperly marking a similar post this morning as a "dupe" didn't work -- https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=threepipeproblm -- so people who don't want to hear this seem to have "flagged" it as off topic?

Meanwhile, some recent HN topics that were not flagged as off topic include:

* The '80s Public Access Films Produced by a California UFO Cult

* Affliction and Salvation: Love Was a Learned Art for Iris Murdoch

* My Motherland: Finding–and writing–the worlds where only I had been

* Plaster Perspectives on “Magical Gems”: Rethinking the Meaning of “Magic” in Cornell’s Dactyliotheca

* I quit my job, bought an army truck, and spent 19 months circumnavigating Africa

* The Real Lolita

So two points --

(a) I am not a Republican; and

(b) This seems deeply broken at best.

Can anyone convince me it isn't a form of censorship? I'm not too familiar with HN's moderation setup.
Some people really like working. If I was independently wealthy, I would work like a dog on the things I'm interested in, and I'd enjoy the hell out of it.

It's not so much doing the work, it's having to do the work, and not having control over my time, that gets under my collar.
And if the mere fact of the program's existence is classified? There's no way to respond without violating one of the oaths.
Another point is that people have their sense of self-worth tied up in their occupation.

I get paid a lot => I'm an important part of the world => if I stop then the world will fail (in some [tiny] way).

You see a corollary of this in retirees, their occupation defined them. Pre-retirement they say "hi, I'm Joe, I'm a professor" - a professor isn't a professor when they're relaxing and enjoying themselves (the thought process goes) so in order to be a professor I must work long hours at teaching students.