skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish there was an API that allowed me to just get a list of all available regions including their descriptive names.

As it stands, when AWS adds a region I have to make manual updates to update my systems.

AWS has APIs for everything else, why not a comprehensive API for regions and their descriptive names?

EDIT: for the downvoters - please specify exactly the REST API call that I make to get regions and their abbreviated and descriptive names. I'd be happy even to see the API in the JavaScript SDK. It doesn't exist.
And because people complain about the candidates each election, but never do anything about the system.
NY Times got it wrong.

Chechnya was squirming with journalists through whole nineties.

Most likely killers were KGB remnants. KGB conceded the media battle over Chechnya in English speaking world very early. But what they didn't like was that these journalists were revealing Russians and Russian speakers what has really happened in Chechnya.

None of murdered journalists were critical of Chechens. Why would Chechens kill them?

Think.
I wonder if it's because of your username?
To review, the point of this sub-thread where I posted:

>> This level of premeditated collusion with the media is not even up for debate at this point.

>Ooh, me, me, I debate it. This is a dumb thing to say and you should feel dumb for saying it. It makes no sense and is not based on anything.

To which you respond with a bunch of Trump quotes. How did they address at all the point of media collusion with the Clinton campaign? How is this not just an attempt at ideological bickering used to redirect the conversation to something you presume I'm interested in arguing about rather than focus on something pretty damning?
> I want to learn every popular language's ins and outs. This includes, but is not limited to C, C++, Ada, Lisp, Java, C#, Python, x86/x64/arm/MIPS assembly. I'd like to be taught, not lectured to, I want to actually learn from my professors. I want to learn about software abstraction, organization, revision, and project management. I'd like to be able to learn about ever piece of software running on a system and be taught how to implement them. I'd like to learn how to use every single tool in my arsenal to solve any problem in development or in my problem domain.

And yet the CS curriculum is exactly what you need in terms of foundation so you can learn all of that.

What you are asking for is a (probably several) lifetime of information in 4 years. Wouldn't we all like this?

> I'd like to be able to learn about ever piece of software running on a system and be taught how to implement them.

Take the track that leads to your "Compilers" class. You will get most of the pieces you are asking for along the way.

> I want to actually build things with seasoned experts (my professors).

Sorry, but your seasoned experts are probably in industry, not academia.

> Sadly, we don't really get a say in this sort of thing. My beard isn't nearly gray enough and I don't have a white coat, so in the end my opinion is unimportant.

Sure you get a say, but those of us with experience also realize the sheer enormity of what you asked.

And we greybeards don't even know ALL of that.
Interesting tidbit in the announcement: Data between the US-East-1 and US-East-2 regions is priced at the lower inter-AZ rate ($0.01 per GB, or half price). That's pretty great if you're looking to add a layer of regional redundancy.
Google is not a corpus of text.

Usually you remove proper nouns when doing a word frequency analysis.

Pink, Maroon and Navy are all proper nouns -- Singer/songwriter, band (Maroon 5), and branch of the military.

Also, a Google search only gets you documents that have that word at least once, but removes duplicates. So maybe the page with red has it listed 7,000 times but you wouldn't know.

Trying using all the text in Project Gutenberg[0], removing the proper nouns, and then run the analysis again.

Linguists have done this for you already -- and the results were that your top list are in the top 300 and the bottom are not.

[0]https://www.gutenberg.org
Thanks, @schoen.

Good points and I agree all around - just wanted to keep it as lightweight as possible to start.

I did a bit of searching first and didn't find much. Something like chatroulette.com has similar features but doesn't quite hit the mark of a respectful, private-AMA. Let me know if you see anything else.
and yet, it's exactly this same person who will strengthen the NSA security apparatus that slurps up domestic communication wholesale, and saves it for all eternity. I hope you don't end up on the wrong end of a powerful person's anger, because you will go down the exact same way.
I got spam trying to sell me uber when I visit on my phone.

No thank you TechCrunch... shame on you
AT should really be pointing this out. Samsungs announcement by itself it not much more than marketing propaganda.
Attorney here. Citing federal criminal code, not irrelevant.
It doesn't have to be anticompetitive conspiracy, milking current technologies for all they've got make sense in a lot of ways. Making your previous generation profitable by delaying your next generation a little means your business can last in the long term. Releasing things ASAP in every instance means in many circumstances competing with yourself.

This is a cost of capitalism but it comes with the benefits of a self-sustaining system and more predictable futures. If politicians were funding processors, you'd bet they wouldn't want to spend the resources to double processor parameters every 18 months.
I'm not. It was not an exchange. He neither knew about the money, nor expected it at the start. I think it would be more precise to say:

"Bank exec blew a whistle his company and got 3 years in minimum security prison. By coincidence he also got a lot of money afterwards."

Basically unless the whole story the whistleblower reported was fabricated, I don't think there's any situation where I'd be ok with the whistleblower being the only one jailed. As part of a larger group - sure, maybe.

Otherwise what's the point of whistleblowing? It would only work if you hate the company more than you like your current life. Or if you knew how to do it anonymously.
> AFAICT, there seems to be strong correlation between wealth/prosperity of a nation and the openness of its economy.

Countertexamples: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Haiti, China vs India, China vs Brazil, Authoritarian South Korea vs Democratic South Korea.

Generally, it's not simple - there's a lot of factors at play that influence a country's economic prosperity.
Clickable

- https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.103706,%20-83.199873

- https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.061121,%20-83.134998

- https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.094640,%20-82.751469

All 3 points: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/40.103706,+-83.199873/40.061...
This is very close to the iteration loop I designed for the onboarding team I am currently running: I'm getting fresh CS grads and need to add the software engineering into their skillset.

I can't say I'd really change up the status quo, though: I wouldn't substitute any of the time they spent on CS to be reduced to include more 'real-world' items: you can focus on those afterwards and they tend to be organization-specific. Give me folks with a solid theoretical foundation and I can work on their client-interaction and big-codebase-team-programming skills.
How is someone supposed to respond to an abstract question without analogy to similar questions? The ADA only demands "reasonable accommodation," and frankly that's what we are arguing about: what is "reasonable?"

Our law provides many special cases when the entity is engaging in non-profit activities: taxes, labor requirements, among others.

So you ask why non-commercial should entities be excluded from accessibility requirements: because they already get excluded from other onerous requirements we place on businesses, and it seems like a "reasonable" line to draw.

Maybe you don't find it reasonable, but now it's up to a court decide.
Had the chance to try to demo a couple of months ago. It was pretty compelling although the "controllers" were pretty bulky.
I suspect it's actually more about pattern recognition and how humans compress data in our memories. People will recognized and remember the major components of objects, and see that they're being repeated. If you've were to spend a few minutes looking around each of the ships (for example), then shown a bunch of ships from a mixture of NMS's possible designs and all other ships designed or designable in other space videogames, you're nearly instantly recognize the style and get 90+% accuracy if asked to say if it came from within NMS or without. But here's the real kicker: I don't think you'd have any luck telling if there's one that you'd already seen before or not. The distinct features merge together, and you see one ship with a bunch of possible parts - much like how the article says it's stored! Humans are great at pattern recognition and those groupings are intuitive. If you take a dozen variations on one part, a dozen variations on another part, and show only a small smattering of the possible combinations to someone, they'll be able to deduce the existence of the rest of the square, pretty much as soon as they see three combos making an L on the two axis.
There's rumors it's related to a pending charge for grooming of a minor online, who knows though. I'm sure we will find out the real reason in the next few days so I'll wait for that rather than go into full tinfoil hat conspiracy theory territory.
None of the pictures in the gallery are at that scale, though. The smallest things there are the single cells - the cell dividing, the fibroblast (the "lining the walls of blood vessels" one), the single-celled algae, the Frontonia - and those pictures are all taken with light microscopes.

The pictures of the dividing cell and the fibroblast are done with a fluorescence microscope, so the colour is a reconstruction of what was there rather than a direct capture. In the case of the fibroblast, it's a rather Warhol-esque reconstruction with false colour; the actin in the picture is white, which it couldn't have been in the microscope. The algae look like natural colour under UV illumination. I'm not sure about the Frontonia; that looks like differential interference contrast, which would mean it has to be natural colour.

The dividing cell is probably on the order of 10 µm across. Light used in microscopy has a wavelength of 400 - 700 nm, and so gives a resolution of roughly 200 - 350 nm. That's enough to see structure in something 30 - 50 times bigger.

As an aside, the pictures dividing cell and the fibroblast both look like they were taken with a confocal microscope - there's not enough out-of-plane light for a widefield microscope. The dividing cell looks like a projection of a quite thick stack of confocal planes, whereas the fibroblast looks like a single plane. That means those images only ever existed in a computer; you couldn't have seen anything like that by looking down an eyepiece.
The echo was quickly co-opted. I.e by the time of the tweet most of Wikileaks critics were running the Spartacus defense on the bigots who started the echo.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/echoes-means-twitte...

The "horrible" idea is that maybe who ever made the Wikileaks tweet was running Coincidence Detector, IGNORING that for weeks the echo had been exposed and co-opted.
They say "my kid goes to college in Boston". :)
This is a showcase of larger open source projects used in the visual effects and animation industry. Several of them are contributed to by Disney engineers, but most people would not consider these Disney projects. Disney has open sourced and released some impressive open source projects over the years, and it's exciting to see their endorsement on these others.
thanks - yes I've heard of that one! Great example of the internet promoting human connection...

Hope I can find you an interesting conversation :)
Super cool! I'd be curious to see what bits of software here are from WDAS vs ILM vs Pixar.
One difference between the two stories is that the Time article says he went to the Feds because of the problem with his bonus.
That doesn't make sense because he had already spirited out the UBS documents which he wouldn't have had access to after resigning. He also didn't know at the time that he would eventually get a whistblower bonus. So the separation bonus was real money.
Yup https://www.wired.com/2014/06/siri_ai/
London might be RSN, the EC2 API endpoint for what I'm guessing is London (eu-west-2) is resolvable, reachable and happily 401'ing requests as of a few days ago.

Obligatory jest: they'll have to rename it post-Brexit.
I don't think that crucifying someone because of their political beliefs is a very American thing to do. Thiel probably just wants lower taxes / better laws for business / more defense contracts for Palantir. It's a legitimate difference of opinion and it doesn't matter because it's not up to Thiel to decide. He can try and convince people but ultimately the voters will decide who the next president should be. At this point, it looks like it will mostly likely be Clinton.
I didn't say it was irrelevant, I used the word "ignorant".

We can substitute the word with "maliciously manipulative" or "intellectually dishonest" if you'd prefer.
The IRS sometimes does that. They'll decide in 2008 that some accounting rule is invalid, and oh by the way, that means you owe taxes back to 2002 when you started using it. They can't reverse a rule, but apparently rules can be clarified at any time, so if your loophole hasn't been affirmatively decided, it may retroactively disappear.
Microsoft LightSwitch being discontinued
Thanks for the example. We agree that this is a tricky part in the collections. For Scala 2.13, our headline feature will be simplifying/refining the collections API. One of the areas we'd like to improve is to make the transitions from eager to lazy more clear. Also, we'd like to keep immutable (more) separate from mutable collections. Once we switch gears from 2.12.0 to 2.13 milestones, we'll be sure to provide a convenient way to share gotchas like this, so we can see how to prevent them.
This article might help give you some ideas or pathways to discover other ideas on cultivating intrinsic motivation: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/intrinsic-motivation-growth-min...
This is in stark contrast with Dwarf Fortress which has literally no graphics but indefinitely more rich in content. My favorite statement about No Man's Sky is: "One feet deep ocean".
Ask HN: How to promote side project being a developer with no marketing skills?
I've made a few side projects during the last years. Most of them are not longer online. I built this one during the last Xmas: https://www.coderlevel.com/ and I'm currently making this one: http://www.transparentstartups.com/

Unfortunately I'm terrible at promoting those projects or websites, so after a few months of work I usually end up giving up about them.

I find Software Development reasonably easy in general. I can convert my ideas into MVPs in a few weeks. However I struggle a lot with the Marketing side of it.

Have you been in the same situation in the past? How did you overcome it?
Sure thing, but you can't lie to FBI if you are not formally interrogated by them.

Remember Clinton was only invited (at the best time that suits her) for a loose interview that wasn't recorded, and only brief notes done by an FBI agent. As far as we know, they even lack asking her important questions.

Truly amazing to see this set of double standards on what's so many call the most free and law-abiding soil in the history of this planet.
Buzzfeed's sop to actual journalism neither excuses their deliberate damage to the profession nor demonstrates they are less of a competitor to the New York Times.
People do take stands but my reply was to:

> This in turn chills applications from startups working on problems not relating to white western males.

With the crush of applicants now I doubt more than a very few applicants are not going to apply because Thiel is on the board.
What does it mean for a criminal sentencing algorithm to be biased?
That sounds nice. Now try getting into a PhD program with Bs.
43% of voting age women aren't supporting Trump, as you imply. His support is around 43% overall, but it's much lower with women, and higher with men.
>Words you would associate with perfectionism (detail-oriented, accurate, etc.) are usually used with lower-paid and lower-status jobs.

It may surprise you to hear this, but I have encountered a lot of perfectionism (the negative kind) in software development.

I have struggled with perfectionism for essentially all of my life, and I find that the uncertainties of this particular trade (the lack of well established standards and the constant barrage of tool choices, to name two) make this a fertile ground for perfectionism hell.
It is so much weirder than that. Vanguard's signature benefit is the way its organized: rather that a company that owns and manages funds, it's a collection of funds that own and share the management company. All of the expenses and overhead involved in managing the funds come directly out of the returns of the fund, so the company and its investors have aligned incentives.

The problem is that the funds have a client/vendor relationship with the management company. Since the vendor is captive to the funds, it has no incentive to charge its clients market rates for its services. But since it's a separate taxable entity, it theoretically cannot gift (or discount) its services to its clients without the clients recognizing those benefits as taxable income.

The "whistleblower" here is a former tax lawyer for Vanguard. Since Vanguard is basically one of the largest money managers in the world, that guy stands to make almost ten billion dollars in bounty fees if the IRS recovers based on his theory.

As always, start with Matt Levine:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-11-25/calpers-f...
> What's interesting about our education system is we focus a lot on precision and accuracy and not that much on strategy and planning. It seems like a system built to produce accountants and actuaries more than a new generation of entrepreneurs.

You're spot on (nearly). Seth Godin will tell you[1] that it's a system quite literally built to produce compliant workers for factories during the industrial revolution: https://youtu.be/sXpbONjV1Jc

[1]: as will many others. But I like how he puts it in this video.
You are quite correct, I just looked at one of the domains I registered for that and the date was 2005.

As for actors, I was definitely using alpha level stuff. So, your dates jibe with that.

Apparently I'm getting old enough that my memory is getting faulty. :)

Now, if I could only figure out how to do strikethrough for edits...
> "being a fulfilled and productive citizen"

Sounds like a quote from a dystopian movie. You gave me the creeps.
>...Hyperbole and conspiracy aside...

good luck with that.
It's not a defense, but it's not a distinction without a difference. If the problem is collusion on behalf of a particular ideology then the solution is different than if it's a problem caused by current models for monetization of news media being driven by short term consumption habits and an attendant compulsion on the part of journalists to get something, anything, new before their peers do even if it's grade F horse shit and they had to sell out to get it.

The rhetoric I was replying to implied that the politicians and the journalists are on the same team because they have the same goals. That's not the case. I think keeping that in mind is plenty useful.
Can you provide examples? There's a lot to criticize in Scala, but I can't find many examples of symbol soup, especially in user-written code. There is some, sure (most languages suffer from this to a degree), but so many you consider the language write-only? I just don't see it.

Keep in mind Scalaz is not Scala.
Here's some facts for you: http://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/where-does-clinton-foundati.... Here's the last few paragraphs for your benefit:

Considering all of the organizations affiliated with the Clinton Foundation, he said, CharityWatch concluded about 89 percent of its budget is spent on programs. That’s the amount it spent on charity in 2013, he said.

We looked at the consolidated financial statements (see page 4) and calculated that in 2013, 88.3 percent of spending was designated as going toward program services — $196.6 million out of $222.6 million in reported expenses.

We can’t vouch for the effectiveness of the programming expenses listed in the report, but it is clear that the claim that the Clinton Foundation only steers 6 percent of its donations to charity is wrong, and amounts to a misunderstanding of how public charities work.

> Would a charity request for money be considered access, at the same level as PAC influence?

Is it pay of play in the same way if a donation was made to a completely unaffiliated charity, such as the American Red Cross? What if the donation is made first, and the politician notices and it happens to make them look favorably on a meeting because it bodes well for the character of the person in question?

> At what point is a $1 million birthday gift seen as a gift from a friend? Or a "charitable donation" ?

It's a gift to you when it's actually to you, and not to a separate organization that spends it on things that aren't for your own benefit.

> At some point, the foundation should be considered a profitable business rather than a charity, given the immense staffing and expenditures of operation in a billion dollar+ charity organization.

I'm not sure you understand how charities work. They are generally rated by how much money donated goes back out in programs, services or donations to other organizations to achieve the same.

> It's not trivial to ignore the oddities that abound when it does not operate like any other charity organization. Plane tickets for Hillary and Chelsea, car expenses, six figure living expenses, etc.

You should substantiate statements like that with references. Preferably to trusted sources.

> The democratic process is acutely broken by any standard if you believe that PACs and now, "charity organizations" is a net benefit.

I don't believe charity organizations working as a PAC is beneficial, but I haven't seen any evidence of that either.
All this despite a few decades of suppression of computing science as an un-Marxist "bourgeois pseudoscience".

There were plenty of passionate and talented Soviet researchers - although it also helped to work in a discipline that was promoted, as opposed to repressed by the state.
What about Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Hebrew?

Can definitely be handled /somehow/ with native code - but I'd bet it gets even more interesting then... you would need to decouple the map from assumptions about modifiers I think...
> These parents were able to send their kid to NYU, an extremely expensive private college with almost no financial aid.

What a ridiculously tangential thing to say without a shred of evidence.

Do you have any insight into their financial circumstances? While NYU does indeed have relatively stingy financial aid, there are plenty of students who receive lots of financial aid. (Heck, I got a full ride. If you assumed that my family was rich because I went to NYU you would be dead wrong.)

You have literally no insight into their financial circumstances and should not be lobbing such insinuations around.

20% of NYU students receive Pell grants. Assuming all NYU students are wealthy is like assuming all Americans are white.