skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell a simple freemium model would have worked. You charge for the firehose and anything high volume, but you give a generous free allowance to keep the grassroots ecosystem healthy. They could have played all the same pricing games that Facebook is now playing, except across a much wider range of channels.

I'm not saying it was a slam dunk, but a lot of talk about this back in 2007/2008 and there was a palpable excitement about Twitter apps. Within a few years the media-company mindset had taken grasp, the valuations and expectations exploded, and now we have boring old Twitter which is still a damn cool thing in its own right, but which is seen as a failure because of a combination of pedestrian vision and mismanaged expectations.
> Overall, is there really an efficiency gain to be had here?

Formally adopting the metric system would probably be a better use of the capital that it would take to convince the average person to adjust a point of reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system#/media/File:Metr...

I look forward to the inevitable responses about how base 12 is better than base 10...
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I like Scott Aaronsons approach: Using NP hardness asumption as a physical constraint and seeing what follows.

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0502072
How many times will something like this be attempted? It ends up being awful for debugging. Works great when there are no bugs of course.
This is the bad place to try to bludgeon people with your degrees. It kind of reminds me of two funny moments:

1. A group of British construction workers in a Discovery Channel documentary loved to start fights in random bars until one day they accidentally started a fight in a bar frequented by members of a local boxing club.

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
> you personally (mcherm) get to define it

Oh, if I get to be absolute dictator (and yes, getting to define the value function IS equivalent to being an absolute dictator) and all voting is merely advisory, then I'm perfectly happy with epistocracy or whatever else you want that puts that in place.

> Suppose further that democracy produces segregation, but epistocracy or dictatorship does not. (On all other policies suppose they produce the same result.)

I do agree to assess electoral policies based on their outcomes, not some other approach (like a fundamental "principle" about how elections should be conducted). So if I assume that method "A" produces an outcome that I like better than that produced by method "B" then under that assumption I do prefer method "A", regardless of what "A" and "B" are. But this does not persuade me in favor of epistocracy.

There are lots of theoretical arguments why having only knowledgeable people make decisions would result in better outcomes. But it would be foolish to evaluate a policy only on the basis of theoretical arguments without considering the outcomes measured through practical experience. And practical experience has shown that attempts to introduce a filter to allow only "properly educated" people to participate frequently seem to devolve into a mechanism for excluding certain groups from participating. If epistocracy is marginally better than universal suffrage, BUT is fragile, in that it comes with a much greater chance of devolving into excluding of certain outgroups (like racial minorities), then on the whole, universal suffrage would be superior. And my view of history suggests that this is the case.
I still find it odd that people bring up Thinkpads in comparison with MacBook Pros. I have used Thinkpads for a while. Both my personal and business laptop are Thinkpads, and I'm unimpressed. The screens are low quality. The one on my personal device is utter trash. The trackpads are low quality mostly due to drivers. I won't buy another. They are better than some alternatives but I don't think they compare to MacBooks for finish or feel, and they cost about the same for similar specs.
Depending on the length of the password, it's possible to encode/hash (+salt) all possible outputs of challenge combinations at the point of storing your password.

It's a bit like having a number of related passwords, which the bank can ask you for any of them, and then verify is correct.
I upvoted this story because it helpfully made me understand a lot more about TechCrunch than I have in the past. This read like a PR statement from an ISP, not like an article from any type of news source.
No. You don't want to use an unnecessarily slow PB-KDF in your daily operations, because that means that the ratio your_speed / attackers_speed is worse.

In other words, you want the KDF that is slowest for an attacker that still completes a KD in, say, 0.5 seconds on your devices.
Why "low traffic sites"?
No, but quite a lot.

"Overseas Trade Statistics. In July 2016 the value of exports (EU and Non-EU) decreased to £23.9 billion, and imports (EU and Non-EU) decreased to £39.7 billion, compared with last month. Consequently the UK is a net importer this month, with imports exceeding exports by £15.9 billion."

https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/OverseasTradeStatisti...
A few questions...

1. If I wanted to launch my own docker service on top of this, would that be ok?

2. Any timeline on the Franfurk/Amsterdam data centers?

3. Policy on DMCA for European data centers?

4. Thoughts on more storage? (pricing on volume storage - ~100 TB+ or so)
Well, if the server understands the payload, it can return it in a different representation. There is nothing wrong with that. But a GET should always return the original payload when requested with the Accept header that matches the original Content-Type of the PUT request.

edit:

Better is to use a PUT for different representations:

PUT /foo
Content-Type: application/json

{"foo":""}

PUT /foo
Content-Type: text/xml

<foo></foo>
Yes, I totally agree with this. We need to improve the tech, to the point of it being accessible and as good as the mainstream offerings.

The thing is also that we don't have any clear incentives to use P2P-services right now, because the silos aren't posing any clear threats to us as individuals. If we see something like a major data breach, or something like a "Snowden for social networks" that change the way we relate to these behemoths, we might just see users getting ready to give them up.
For whatever reason, a number of Japanese companies were really driving the state-of-the-art for small laptops at on point. I also had one of the small Fujitsus and it was really nice for traveling at a time when even the more portable Thinkpads were fairly heavy and bulky in comparison.

In a way, they were pre-Netbook Netbooks--although their processors and memory configurations were often closer to "regular" laptops than netbooks were.
Ask HN: Why did the “Twitter is down” post last night get flagged and killed?
I understand the services affected (Twitter, WikiLeaks) all managed to bring themselves back up from the DDOS ether, but the discussion in the comments was worthwhile in my opinion and no explanation was given as to why the thread was killed. I mean, two politically-relevant websites were simultaneously taken down (heard rumors of 4chan too) within hours of the new DNC email leak - seems a techno-relevant topic as any to me.

Thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12889104
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But what if I want the response to populate the content of another HTML element? E.g. if I wanted an accordion-style FAQ where when you click on the question (or on a plus-sign before the question), the div below the question is loaded with the answer from the server via AJAX.
To add: I'm not remotely making a political point, I'm not necessarily supporting the thesis of article, and I'm saying nothing about 'women in gaming' yada yada.

I'm just saying: I think that especially console game themes are generally a little gender-skewed.
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I can see differences, but when you sneered at the Kardashian game, the reasons you gave applied just as much to a Telltale Walking Dead game, or a Lego Batman game.

So now you're clarifying that you're sneering at the Kardashian game because it's boring, and it made too much money from all the people who play it all the time.
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How will we know the AI versions ?
It's worth noting that if P=NP, then there's already a known (though highly impractical) algorithm which can solve any given NP problem in polynomial time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem#Polynomial...
That assumes that it's down to human nature, which is a dangerous assumption to make given we have no conclusive definition of what "human nature" consists of.

Having traveled over the world , I tend to chalk most human behavior up to cultural or personal quirks these days. If an issue is cultural in nature, the culture can be changed.
What makes you think that blockchain, a.k.a. distributed timestamping, is
a solution for problems that voting faces?
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Sure, in some cases (the easy ones) we can solve NP-complete problems. However, tons of useful instances of NP-complete problems are not particularly close to being solved. We can even characterize fairly well when the instances become hard (for instance, for graph problems the treewidth seems relevant). I see absolutely no evidence that we're anywhere close to constructing a polynomial-time algorithm for any NP-complete problem. If anything, we are slowly finally making some progress on proving P != NP because we are finally getting some nontrivial superlinear bounds on these problems (thus far, the biggest obstacle to proving P != NP has been the difficulty of proving anything about lower bounds on runtime that isn't directly tied to space consumption).

Seriously, if you're interested in this approach ("well, in practice we can solve the problem if [insert thing here] is bounded"), check out the field of parameterized complexity. It's very popular in the database area. It also reveals some very sharp limits to tractability for these problems in practice, not just in theory.
> At some point, the prices become unjustifiable.

In what sense though? Because the premium they're charging doesn't feel fair? That sounds odd to me. Pros have a history of paying ridiculous sums to work on exotic hardware like SGI's because it was the best tool for the job. A few hundred doesn't seem like that big a deal.
It is amazing to see that almost everything that the regular runner does wrong in the stride going forward, is solved by just going backwards. No more knee hurting or heel landing.
That is not the password though. They call that the 'Security Number'.

After entering the two digits of the 'Security Number' you then receive a 'One Time Access Code' through a text or phone call, although I have never logged in to my account before, and seem to be unable to get past this step now.

I think you then enter your proper password in, which I would hope is not stored in plain text, although the article I linked seemed to imply this was the case back in 2012.
Perhaps the suggestion was made from an European standpoint? Two accounts in Euros within the SEPA area [1] means no costs for currency conversions or bank transfers between your accounts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
24 hour time isn't unheard of in New Zealand but most people would use 12 hour time.
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I'm one of those people. Thankfully I can still do my work on my MacBook Air for a while yet, but my original plan was to buy a MacBook Pro last year. Now I'm just hoping I can comfortably continue using my MBA and pray that next year they either lower the prices, do something fancy to the specs, or, ideally, release a proper MacBook Pro (fat chance...).

Worst case scenario I'll just buy the Pro they release next year, though. They probably know that there are many like me who would still go for the Pro even in its current incarnation, so I'm not keeping my hopes up that next year will be anything but an incremental update to the current, shitty Pros.
With DO you need to manage the host system, actually installing Docker. Patch Docker, patch the host.

Hyper handles that responsibility, allowing you to free up more time for app dev. "Our platform removes the need for you to manage a VM cluster or any container orchestration engine, so you can focus solely on your containers and get back to coding!"
> Lighter: Yes. This is a professional's priority number 2749 though.

I use my laptop in a professional capacity and weight is a huge factor for me. I carry my laptop everywhere.

Incremental yearly changes in weight have generally not been that impressive but in aggregate the difference is huge. Go pick up a 10-year-old laptop and you'll probably agree.

> Structural engineering: It's half as thin. If you know mechanics, you'd need a material double as tough in order to make up for the loss in structural stability.

I'm no mechanical engineer, but I don't believe that's correct. There are a number of factors that impact the structural stability of an item. The internal structure has a huge impact, which is why I-beams exist.

It's also not as if the space saved is the result of just milling out half of the original aluminum. The actual metal case is probably the same thickness or close.
One of go's defining features is the lack of these things. If you want them, use another language.
Aside: This is the reason I keep half-joking/half-serious mentioning we should take back the name "fax" and recycle it as a better, easier/more-fun to say, vocabulary for 3D Printers. They build 3D facsimiles, thus they are fax machines and a 3D printed object (for which no good terms exist) is a fax. There's enough context shift not to be confusing with old school 2D fax machines. (Allowing of course, for silliness like GL(tf) over modem creating new "fax numbers" and some intentional confusion for amusements sake.)
>> complete absence of progress in proving P != NP

We've ruled out a number of techniques and also have shown that any solution must fall into a category avoiding a number of conditions (natural proof, algebrization barrier). Note also Ryan Williams' result separating ACC0 and NEXP. All of that is progress as I see it.

It's simply that construction of practical approximation algorithms or heuristics that work on large instance is (in general) much easier than separating proofs for complexity classes.
Considering the current and former casts of the DHS Data Privacy & Integrity Advisory Panel[0], those who 'recommend' and write the laws, that will be a cold day in hell.

[0]

https://www.dhs.gov/privacy-advisory-committee
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system#/media/File:Metr...
Moat modern games are made to sell. If the buyers are looking for X then it makes sense that a business should provide them with X to turn the most profit.

If females, or anyone, wants separate gameplay mechanics then they need to reward that with cold cash to build an economy and incentivize creation. Else it's all just words and forcing a square block into a circle hole. Cash is the only way to lasting change (see the mobile space for example).
Confusingly, zeit also has a terminal named hyper[0], despite not having the .sh TLD.

https://hyper.is
Google Cloud is not far from this. Basically instead of "hyper" you are typing "gcloud".

Google Cloud is far more complicated but its tools so far are pretty good.

I couldn't find how you do custom networks with Hyper. Also as a Java + Postgres shop 16 Gigs memory (L3) is just not enough.

Per second also seems overkill. Google Cloud has per minute. It doesn't seem to make sense for "effortless". If you are that interested in saving money like that (ie margins) it seems you wouldn't be using a heroku like PaaS?

For me easy deployment is a small part of the story for a compelling PaaS. What I want is really easy metrics, monitoring, notification, aggregated log searching, load balancing, status pages, elastic stuff, etc. Many cloud providers provide this stuff but it is often disparate costly addons/partners/integrations that are still not terrible easy to work with.

IMO it is actually harder to get all the diagnostic cloud stuff vs the build + deployment pipeline.

EDIT:

As mentioned in another comment my company tried to use Docker but it would take to long to make Docker images so we just prefer VMs. That is it seems with something like Hyper you save on deployment times but your build times get worse (unless I'm missing some recent magic that you can do with docker now).

EDIT again:

We didn't have Docker cache (because of some issues) so please ignore my slow docker build time comments. Apologies.
So people who try new experiments should keep mum about it until they've proven complete and total success ? If we didn't combine our knowledge to improve on unsuccessful attempts we'd still be hunting and gathering.
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And yet nearly every other major developed country has managed to make the switch...

The issue of cost is not unique to America.
I would love for Dell/HP to seize this moment and announce a completely new line/brand of laptops segmented from current brands to just compete head-on with Macbook. Just 3-4 models <Dellbook> 13, 15 and <Dellbook> Pro 13, 15, match Apple build quality 1-1, make them high price/margin. Up the specs kabylake, 32 GB, support both Windows/Linux. Seems we have some pent up demand for this.
I wonder if this problem could be solved if governments participated by making roads friendlier to automated cars. Teaching a car to drive like a human seems to be something that will take centuries. But if governments installed transponders onto roads for self driving cars, it seems like the process would only take 20 or so years at the most.

Our roads and infrastructure evolved to accommodate cars, but that was at a time when governments were much better at encouraging and adapting to new technology. I wonder if governments will do anything to incorporate self driving technology into infrastructure.
1. Yes, though there is quite some engineering efforts needed (running a cloud is TOUGH)

2. In a few months

3. TBD

4. Yes, we are looking to expand the DC and add more options.

BTW, our public roadmap: https://trello.com/b/7fEwaPRd/roadmap
And another layer of simplification: the pilot controls small control tabs which fly the main control surface into the position the pilot wants it to be in, which then moves the wing.

Usually the connection between pilot intent and wing movement is:

Pilot moves the stick->Aileron moves, changing lift on the wing->wing moves

In the MD-80:

Pilot moves the stick->Tab moves, changing lift on the aileron->aileron moves, changing lift on the wing->wing moves
Agreed. Homebrew has saved countless hours for developers, I can't believe how many hours I used to spend installing/updating different versions for testing. Now we just run (>brew switch package version) done.
I like it. Especially if it's a more efficient layout. (I don't know if it actually is.)
Go scores infinity actually. Go generate is a part of the language, which means that you can bring your own Turing-complete language to the party.

Reflection especially with plugins, are essentially another language that is even more difficult to track down than macros (or templates). Though you can at least write Reflection using go.
Edit: I went ahead and signed up for an account and made a container. The floating IP for the container appears to be an LA IP address. Their host appears to be ZenLayer, a Chinese hosting company that can apparently do co-location in LA, so while the IPs geolocate to China, it's possible they are indeed hosting in LA. The CPU is a E5-2630 v4.

Original:
I'm pretty sure they're entirely hosted on AWS. Given that they say they're hosted in Los Angeles, I think they mean us-west-1.

Their API uses an AWS address as their endpoint, their authentication is just a veneer over AWS's authentication (including basically find and replacing header variables). They previously had docs that showed how to add floating IPs to the containers, and all the IPs were AWS Elastic IPs.

I'm pretty sure the docs specifically stated they were on AWS last time Hyper came up [1] (Hyper.sh had linked off the Hyper article), but now when I look it's not there. So either in a few days they've moved their infrastructure off AWS and just left their API up there (and are doing some crazy stuff to redirect elastic IPs), or they moved everything but their API off Amazon a while ago and hadn't updated their docs, or they've decided to make the fact they're on AWS less visible, while they're competing with Amazon's own container service. I have the feeling it's option #3.

To answer your question though, I think they're using M4 AWS instances [2], so Xeon E5-2686 Broadwell or Xeon E5-2676 Haswell. Probably the m4.10xlarge, since they talk about the 10 GB networking the containers use.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12873089
2. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/#m4
Probably stupid question but: how do you update your version?
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Tourists tend to overdress; they see that it'll be 45 in the morning, and dress for the arctic circle, whereas locals will typically just toss on a jacket, with maybe another layer underneath. Locals also tend to wear darker colors; we joke that New York's official color is black.

A tourist will typically not have a messenger bag or a briefcase with them, either - those are typically commuter items. Tourists are more likely to have a bag from a "big" brand-name store like Macy's, although not as much on a bike.

And obviously, an I<3NY t-shirt with a brand new Yankees hat is a pretty dead tourist giveaway.
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There is - it's called UTC+0000!
poorly edited, blindingly biased, puff piece. If nothing else this is a smear on techcruch.
Ok, so the first source is the one that says "buy" instead of "play".

The second and third are alright, and also the least outrageous ones. The 2nd says the male/female ratio is 56% to 44% and the 3rd says 58% to 42%, which are not that bad.

The fourth one is about "identifying as gamers".

I agree there is a marketing problem from our point of view, but from the point of view of the marketers it makes sense to market to boys because they buy more (per source 1) and they are more loyal customers (per source 4). Women (and for that matter, poor people) still play a lot of games, just not the profitable ones (from the publisher's point of view).
Hey all, founder is here. I'd like to thank you for your votes here. Really appreciate!

Also, I just want to share our public roadmap: https://trello.com/b/7fEwaPRd/roadmap. Feel free to comment. It actually helps a lot for us to prioritize. Thanks!
Exactly. I work at my college's library and we lend out the top line 15" MBP complete with GPU and 16GB RAM which are almost always checked out.

Most of the patrons only use Word and Safari on them anyway.
> Why not remote into big box?

Internet is not reliable. Pls, we are talking about PRO work.

> What do people need with 32 GB of RAM on a dev laptop?

Databases. I run Sql Server, PostgreSQL, MySql, Firebird. All at the same time? Yes.

Also, the thing about "Big Data" is need as much RAM as possible.

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I could live with a iMac (what I have) or a MacPro (that I can't buy because the dolar in my country double in price!) but the main issue here is the signaling. Apple is like telling "We don't care anymore about you".

How will be trust the (maybe next?) upgrades to the rest of the line will be almost good now? And what about the next after this ones?