skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just restructured a job to be parallel and run on Lambda and I couldn't be happier. Glad to see this idea is gaining mindshare. I found that it was easy to test, easy to debug, easy to maintain, not very expensive, and just kinda worked.

The only caveat for those considering taking this path - AWS has an account-wide limit of 100 concurrent lambdas running at once. There's no way to know how many are currently running unless you keep track of it yourself. You'll only find out when you try to kick off a job and it get's throttled. I haven't contacted support yet to find out how hard it is for the limit to get raised or what they'll raise it to.
The modern world has such a ridiculous disconnect. The people fleeing to remote places because of instability are the very same people causing these issues in the first place. Hedge fund managers selling toxic assets bemoaning the uncertainty of the financial world? And what will your island paradise look like with no one to trade with or if the world economy collapses? NZ doesn't have much of an economy in itself, what are you going to do, go back to farming?

It's even more hilarious because the reason NZ is a desirable place to live is because there is little money in politics and there are few class distinctions. How will that change when all the billionaires move there and want to get their way (and are used to the world conforming to the bank account)? Just another place for the wealthy elite of the world to slowly ruin, maybe the next step is the moon?

The system is rapidly growing out of control and no one seems to be able to stop or halt the insanity. It's like we're all marching towards oblivion and everyone knows it but no one has the will to turn the ship around because the system incentivizes short term greed.
> If anything, I'd like to see more standards that first require a concrete implementation.

This is how the standards process has always worked! Per RFC6410, a proposed standard can't advance to an "Internet Standard" until there are at least two independent working implementations.

The W3C has a bad habit of writing "standards" before any code has been written; sometimes even before it's clear that any code should be written. (EmotionML, for example.)
Russia is always disproportionately blamed for being a cultural oppressor,

Might have something to do with the early 20th-century body count (whereas most of the other empires managed to get their megakilling sprees wrapped up by 1900 or so). Along with all those sinister Russian accents in Hollywood movies. But yeah, friends of mine have confessed this feeling to me, also (that, as Russians, they feel unduly blamed / hated by the world).

...however as an Empire, USSR needed a single unifying culture and language

Same justification used by... basically every other major empire on the planet, you know.

Either way, this is all getting very far afield from the topic of the original article.
Most codecs split the image into prediction blocks (for example, 16x16 for MPEG-2, or from 4x4 to 64x64 for VP9). Each of these blocks has its own motion vector. All of the transformations you mentioned look like a translation if you look at them locally, so they can all be fairly well represented by this. Codecs have, in the past, attempted global motion compensation, which tries to fully model a camera (rotating, translating, lens distortion, zooming) but all of those extra parameters are very difficult to search for.

Daala and AV1's PVQ is an example of a predictor for contrast and brightness (in a very broad sense).
stan and edward dev here. happy to answer any questions.

(shakir's blog posts are amazing; i recommend them all.)
As a smoker I have special interest. There is no archaeological evidence of cancer among aboriginal nations of Americas which cultures had a lasting tradition of smoking tobacco. Cancer became plague with development of industry, and proliferation of lazy lifestyle.
Simply because you have a CS degree doesn't mean you're qualified enough to be hired. Companies don't just hire based on a degree, they want demonstrable skills.

I've seen 3rd year students unable to fix a basic java compilation error in their own program. No reasonable CS graduate I know is unemployed.
90 days is 720 work hours.

Your goal is to make (1000-20)/720 = $1.36 per hour.

You can literally do any job and you will make much more.
OP's comment misinterprets a quote; it's great to bring up that model, but it's ludicrous to think that Mike Stratton does not know it in far greater detail than nonbel, as I would place Stratton as the world's authority on cancer mutations. He was the senior author on the authoritative survey of cancer mutational processes:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7463/full/nature1...

In addition, nonbel's snarkiness and assumptions of ignorance end up misinforming HN readers more.

Scientists do not write these articles for the BBC. The reporters pick and choose what to take from the scientist, and report that. Most of the times they probably get most of the quote correct, or the scientist said something that had many of the words in the quote. But generally these types of articles are barely intelligible to the scientists that were interviewed for them.
Windows was (and is) effectively free, in that the vast majority of users got it with their purchase of a PC.

Furthermore, "they can't keep other search engines off the internet; they're just what people use" could equally well be said about browsers in 1998. Microsoft never prevented anyone from downloading and installing Netscape.
Wanting a middle class income in your own country is not capturing rents.
>Theoretically, you've taken something that would take 70 hours and had it run in 250ms without having to set up any additional infrastructure.

And you've spent the cost of building out that 8 server infrastructure in one batch.
Paywalled hard. Direct link, web>google, etc.

See I think Dalai Lama is wrong in this case; behind my current anxiety is mainly the fear that soon, all HN subs will be paywalled :)

On an unrelated subject: isn't this supposed to be penalized by Google? Different content for their bot vs human users?
I've long expected these kinds of stories. The same people who have benefited from climate change and bred a lot of the chaos we're now experiencing will be able to live quite comfortably while the rest of us are left to deal with the consequences. This is one of the most distressing things about climate change: so much wealth was created at the expense of the planet and so little of that will ever go into fixing it. We will pay for it in terms of higher energy prices a million other ways instead.

As the arctic continues to melt I expect there to be some nice openings in northern canada that are even more remote.
Don’t claw back employee options
A lot of Daala tools are now being copied into AV1, the largest being PVQ: https://aomedia-review.googlesource.com/#/c/3220/
Right at the beginning, he says uncompressed video is "RGB". This has never been true, even before computers. Uncompressed video is YUV or one of the variants.
Personally, I find that whiskey, beer, tequila and mescal are the only alcohol products where price really does line up with quality.
How about keeping them public for everybody?
ClusterHQ Deliver Git-Like App with FlockerHub and Fli for Docker Data Volumes
No, it's not normal. That's how we got things like the awful WebKit gradient syntax that everyone is now being forced to implement for legacy compatibility reasons.
It was the only movie with dumb inert object falling in a bedroom I could think of. Unless there is breathing human underneath - almost any place is OK to drop unarmed nuke on. Those things are built brutally.
Also known as First Past the Post.
Me too, thanks for mentioning that
Why Fitbit and GoPro Are Wallowing in Disappointment Together
A Proposal for Rich Interactive Content Hypertext (RICH)
True. But they can only afford to not charge because of the ads. I guess we will see how this plays out :)
Thank you! Right now during this phase we don't have any imposed sending limits, but we do have a soft cap of 200 emails per hour. This is simply to combat against spam. If someone is sending 200+ emails per hour they should probably find a different solution to be honest. That cap could change depending on behavior and usage as we monitor the service.

Future plans to monetize may include saved messages (which I'm not to keen on), multiple alias' or alias forwarding, the custom fields may or may not be monetized. I may go the Patreon route and if people like the service they can pay what they want.
Tibetan bigots need to accept Han Chinese refugees. Period.

To solve this issue, a response must be found and applied at an individual level so we can calm their fear of not being needed anymore. Of course, the cultural genocide thing is just a pretext they are using because they don't like Han Chinese.

"We need to build bridges. Not walls." - Isaac Newton
Image and video codecs don't actually use the fourier transform as presented in the article, they use the DCT. Check out the example section on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform

The JPEG article also has a very good, step by step example of the DCT, followed by quantization and entropy coding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG
> I would consider it cheaper than the US

The US is cheaper. I'm guessing like many people who don't live in the US you are thinking about the popular coastal areas and ignoring 80% of the land area.

I'm talking houses for $125k and a total cost of living around $20k outside of the mortgage.
Or just use lxc-attach
I'm trying to get my IFBB pro card. Natural drug-free bodybuilding as a hobby is healthy. What I'm doing is not. I have no delusions about this.
I'd prefer no one was able to buy the beaches.
Let's Learn Algorithms – A series teaching algorithms in Go
I'd like to read everyday articles like these. We are drowned in hateful speech. Would feel better reading something like it.
We've asked you already to stop, so we've banned this account.
I wonder if something like AWS Lambda could be applied to multiplayer games? It seems like game-loop based games would be a good domain for such a programming model. The entire game could be expressed as a function that turns tick N into tick N+1. Such a function would be composed of many other functions, of course. So for example, there would also be a function that took as an argument the player at time N and gave the player at time N+1.

Such a model would allow infrastructure developers to abstract away most of the concerns around networking, collisions, security, etc., and let game developers concentrate their efforts on simply making the game.

I currently have a game server cluster written in Golang, where the locations are instantiated with an idempotent request operation. It doesn't matter if a particular location-instance exists at a particular moment. It's sufficient for the "master control" server to only approximately know the loads of the different cluster server processes. My experience leads me to believe that something like AWS Lambda, but optimized for implementing game loops would work well, so long as game developers could get their heads around pure functional programming and implement with soft real-time requirements in mind. (John Carmack already advocates the use of pure functions, and game devs in general already do the latter.)

http://www.emergencevector.com
I couldn't find any reference to PCIe in the indiegogo campaign. Maybe it's a typo in the zdnet article?

Edit: nevermind, it's in the official site: http://vonger.cn/?p=2652
So they're quite clear that the terms are now separating 'customers' from 'users'. Has anyone read through the whole changes? Should a concerned employee stop using DMs and 'private' channels?
You don't drink wine for the alcohol, you drink it for the flavor. It's just like tea; no one drinks a nice cup of Earl Grey with Bourgamot for the caffeine. If you want to get liquored up, there's far cheaper and more efficient ways to do it than wine, and if you want caffeine, there's faster and more effective ways of getting that too that don't require carefully heating water and steeping a teabag.

A lot of people do like the effect of the alcohol, but it's a side-effect, not the main purpose of drinking wine. Personally, it seems to have no effect on me, but I also don't drink very much at a time.

Forcing yourself to "acquire the taste" for wine is no different than forcing yourself to "acquire the taste" for expensive, fine cheeses, or doing the same for fine cuts of meat instead of eating a McDonald's burger.
Incognito worked for me
Or in other words free readers will be unneeded/unwanted by quality content...
There are lots of DNA repair mechanisms, as well as checkpoint mechanisms that prevent damaged cells from dividing further.

However, as with anything digital, there is some error rate still. The most common type of cancer mutation will deactivate, p53, a protein that is one of the checkpoint genes.

Having an error rate is essential for evolution and variety, so its not entirely a bad thing.

Wikipedia's entry is a pretty good entry point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_repair
How many people paid 1 dollar to see how many people paid 1 dollar?
Would you have similarly avoided or not been impressed by photography or film when they were invented? How about writing?
Incredible. Have any HN Apple insiders provided any info on internal opinion regarding the Macbook Pro furore? Apparently a popular nickname is Dockbook Pro
Oh, thanks.
What are the odds of one vote changing the US presidential election?
And although all the world’s major faiths teach love

That's not what I see when I look into the holy books. Let's be frank here, faith and religion are still the tools to turn ordinary people into genocidal maniacs.
Oh please, I am barely holding back my tears.

Is that unreasonable for people to improve their living conditions and be disappointed when those don't even match the ones of their parents? Or should they just accept the extreme poverty threshold as the sole upper bound required to be content about their lives.
Well... depends on the authentication scheme.

One authentication scheme which doesn't involve any encryption is HMAC with a shared secret key. Sure, you need the key to authenticate the message -- but that's perfectly fine in many situations.
Two additional, as Technicolor later dropped out of HEVC Advance and is now licensing theirs individually: http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Ar...
With only $20 it's more about what service skill you have to offer. And that's not enough to even advertise. So, you would need to go door-to-door offer your services. post of craigslist or facebook etc.
Tesla Motors' SolarCity deal gets a boost from shareholder advisory firm
What they should have told me before moving to the Bay Area
Drug price hikes may be hitting hospitals harder than consumers
So, seems like matrix exponentiation is faster than computing eigenvalues / eigenvectors in practice? Take a look: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/62904/complexity-of-eigenv...
Show HN: Command-line app for viewing BoltDB files in your terminal
"If you inserted a CD, iTunes instantly offered to rip it for you, fully automatically."

You're correct. I think my memory of product timelines in the early days is a bit hazy.

Even still, I'd love to see data that ripping from CD was a prevalent use case at all in the early days. I believe it was originally intended as an onboarding process / ecosystem-lock mechanism. The assumption: a lot of consumers (at the time) have CD libraries; by allowing them to easily port over to iTunes, we can port their libraries onto our ecosystem; from there, we have them. That was clearly the idea...but I'd love to learn more about how common a use case this ended up being.
Ok, I'm a bit lost too. So, your question is the memory consumed by the VM kernel? The tradeoff is the ops overhead to manage the VM instance.
If USA had the option for NOTA, would you use it in this Election?
Old thread, but another thing making the rounds today: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3138493/windows/here-we-go-ag...

I know you're going to tell me I should just close the advertisement and the problem here isn't really Windows 10, but the problem is that the ads exist in the first place after I paid $120 for it.
Honest question. Your example of the external conditions that enable the 34 year old wine to shine. How does that work with the wine? In other words, if I substitute the cheap modern wine that otherwise won in the blind taste test, what happens differently in the setting you describe?
Jeff is also a great professor. If you ever get the chance to take a course with him, do it. You won't regret it. I had him for both 173 and 373 back in the day, and credit his teaching style for the immense amount of material I picked up.

Also, this: http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/pikachu.html
This is clever, I wish I'd thought of it. But I didn't give the site a dollar.
Good idea. I'll create an issue for that to come back to in the future.
Here is a link: https://archive.fo/Ro6Vc
I know why they want analytics; I'm asking why they are giving out live tracking data to a single private company. This free data is effectively a subsidy.

> Good luck making a single page application without Javascript

The bad design decision was making it a single page application in the first place. This should be a static site, or very lightweight (and easily cached) framework.

> 25 requests and 668KB

That's an obscene amount of bloat. This should be 3-5 requests not counting images, and 668kB is an order of magnitude too big.

> less data than the homepage of Google is today

Comparing against another massively over-engineered, bloated web page isn't particularly useful.

> expires headers

That's great, but it doesn't affect the initial download size or the memory/CPU usage in the user agent.

https://vimeo.com/147806338
> I think Ballmer is very smart and logical. It is completely crazy to spend so much money to buy a phone even if it doubles as a bad computer. I know many people do it, but IMHO it remains crazy and illogical.

It's illogical for your use case. But most people use their phone to read web pages, send messages, pay their bills, and FB/SC/etc. They don't need a non-"bad" computer. Plus they don't want to go to the computer; with this one they have it with them all the time.

So it's not illogical for them.

My use case is closer to yours (though I have a smart phone as well) but I recognize that other people have different motivations. Even when I don't quite understand them!
This is not a postmortem; this is a github comment copy-and-pasted to HN, saying "sorry" and talking about a future postmortem.
pretty cool. love the fast-levenshtein addition - can't tell you how many times user error has killed me (used the wrong extension or missed a letter)
Mobile browsers don't always keep things until the server says they expire. That being said a frequent user will probably end up saving data in the long run.
Finally a position where I can leverage my perfect command of Pascal, VHDL, and API to write content newsletters and maximize SEO visibility and acquisition.

And it's actually a paid role, too!
True, however if you mix in maturity I think you can come up with a reasonable formula for new tech adoption. I only just started using Docker this year because I was giving it time to mature. When the Docker for Mac Beta came out I started playing with it because it promises to solve real problems with using Vagrant. If it was more stable I might jump in and start replacing Vagrant boxes faster, but because of the memory leaks / freezes / CPU overhead, I'm not pushing forward aggressively. Meanwhile, let the cool kids bang their heads against the wall until it stabilizes a bit more and then I can reap the rewards with a lot less pain.
I am Antonio Garcia Martinez, a tech entrepreneur who lied to my investors. AMA
if not completely gone, then dramatically reduced.

source: have left a glass of wine on my nitestand before, and in the morning it was glass of sour grape juice.
Jury finds Rolling Stone responsible for defaming UVA dean with rape story
This article is complete hogwash.

"Ultrasonic" beacons are like any other beacon technology, whether audible, inaudible, bluetooth based or otherwise.

All a beacon does is transmit an identifier or URL. It isn't and CAN'T track you. It is just a simple one-way broadcast that is saying "X is here". You need an application that knows to listen for beacons an knows how to translate the identifier of the beacon.

For example, if Starbucks is using a beacon and you go near it with your phone, your phone will do nothing with that beacon unless you have the Starbucks app that is looking for Starbucks beacons so the app knows when you are near a Starbucks.

There is nothing nefarious about this....

Ultrasonic is just another method to achieve the same result, although it seems like a bad way of doing it since it is fairly obvious when your app is "listening" on iOS.
Want to make more money as a Software Developer? start a blog
In safety critical projects people often disable compiler optimizations. No tail call elimination.
I found this video really interesting. I knew that the current US system, first past the post, has a lot of problems from watching CPG Grey's [1] videos on it. I didn't know that the alternative systems, like ranked voting, had all these other weird problems.

It's depressing, really.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
Is this the kind of consumer recall that would normally fly under the radar, but is being coveted in press because of proximity to the Note problems?
Pointing out more instances of a problem doesn't make the problem "hardly inappropriate"; it indicates the problem is more widespread.
One of the nice things about lambda is the billing is super granular - you get billed at 100ms intervals.

Assuming 70 hours at $0.000000834/100ms [1]

The whole job costs $2.10.

[1] - https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/
The point is that you should stop thinking about VM cluster, but container (application) cluster, aka microservices.
It's odd, the world is the safest and most stable that it has ever been. There has never been a better time to be a human being, and yet, the media and certain politicians would have you believe that there is disaster after disaster, terrorist plots afoot around every corner, feeding your fear day after day.
If ever there was an example of the devil at work, then that's it(and I'm not even religious).

Uncertainty about the future has always been the same.

Don't listen to those devils.
Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning (Google Brain)
It was clever the first time. But this (or variations thereof) have been done to death now.
Mobile First Indexing
Nearly everyone benefitted from climate change. The only people who didn't are the ones living in remote villages that don't have electricity or any other modern technology.
Don't forget CSS, your VHDL would look ugly without that sweet CSS
Recurrent Neural Networks can now generate Recurrent Neural Network Architecture. A big step towards automated Machine Learning research.
How not to sort by average rating (2009)
Just because ultrasonics are inaudible doesn't necessarily mean they're harmless. Energy deposited into those little hairs in your cochlea is still energy. What does the research say about the impact of ultrasonics on hearing? I wouldn't be surprised if they're the same as any kind of sound, decibel per decibel. (They're easier to block out, being at a higher frequency.)
If enough people give, PayPal will freeze the account because of "suspicious" activity.
Werewrw
If you are rich and already in the top class, then maybe.

But it's not terribly good for the middle class.