skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course you the cloud vendor is doing fine, the question was when is it too expensive for your customer. And my thesis is that because storage is not a first class service you can't precisely optimize storage spend (or your storage offering) for you customer and that forces them out of cloud situation into their own managed infrastructure.

You could also improve your operational efficiency but that isn't a priority yet at the big G. I expect over time it will become one and you'll figure it out but in the meantime your customer has to over provision the crap out of their resources to meet their performance needs.

If Bart is still around it was shared with him and the rest of the 'cost of storage' team back in 2009.
Machine learning techniques are also being used to evaluate depth using parallax and other cues.

And humans aren't good at estimating distance. They're good at estimating relative distance which is different. Some people claim we need LIDAR because cameras can't give us accurate depth information but humans don't use accurate depth information.

Are you saying these systems need to have seen a specific model of car in the past before they can determine its distance? Certainly I've seen systems that do not require that information.
I recommend meditation in addition to your list. Developing a daily practice and perhaps an extended retreat.
Unified Theory of Evolution
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It is important to note that RIGHTS differ from POWER; I as an individual whom has a libertarian philosophy say "limit the federal government, not the people" and I know what that implies; A federal government of which its power is limited to adherence of the US Constitution, Article 1 Section 8; Dr. King fought for a uniformity of African-American Civil Rights through out the united states, so he is a perfect example of the power individuals have when it comes to RIGHTS: Now we get in more gray areas like abortion maybe it can become a right to abort through out the united states, or maybe not, but that is not to say that states cannot deal with the issue; it gets messy when government starts to PAY for such programs through the POWER it has from taxing people that it becomes messy; if that is the case states have the right to both make it a RIGHT and to use its POWER to pay for such programs; now for the federal government, whether it goes through the legislative branch, or not, it becomes UNCONSTITUTIONAL if and only when the POWER to TAX is used to pay for such programs (back to Article 1 Section 8), but if it simply becomes a RIGHT to abort without imposing state sponsored programs (which would be abuse at this point) then it is not unconstitutional.
Long live the constitution!
It makes sense that the highest expected value doesn't necessarily indicate the best strategy.

For example, suppose you're playing against someone who has taken the "reroll values greater than 0.5", giving them the expected value of 0.625.

If you roll the value 0.55, you expected to lose more than half the time, because their expected value is 0.625. So you should reroll anyway.
> Typical bluster from Trump.

The problem is, it won't be up to him. He's not going to nominate socially liberal justices. Especially not with Pence by his side and congress stacked with social conservatives.

Once he replaces Ginsberg, or Breyer, or Kennedy (it'll only take one), it's game over for social rights for the next 30-60 years. All of the replacements from both Bush and Obama have been much younger. Once those guys are out, it's going to be a generation before the court is refreshed again.

And once social issues are no longer rights, I guarantee the social conservatives will continue to use them as wedge issues to turn out the vote. And we'll see that every 8-16 years, rights keep getting restored and then taken away at the start of new (president+congress) or (super-majority congress) flip terms.

They've never given up on Roe v Wade. That one's gonna be gone for sure. We might have had a chance if we could uphold marriage equality for another 30 years. Just as there's no way they're overturning Loving v Virginia at this point. But it's too soon. Conservatives are still too riled up on this issue. If it gets overturned within the next 10 years, that'll doom us to a lifetime of fighting for marriage as a "privilege" instead of as a right.

> Trump's already walked back his promise on that.

It's not really going to be up to him, though. He says he wants to keep the pre-existing condition provision. But that only works if you keep the insurance mandate. It's like saying people should be able to get car insurance after a wreck.

Congress has tried, what, 170 times now to repeal the ACA? They're going to try it again, and what's Trump going to do? Veto his own party? What if they try and attach it to something important that he can't veto?

I'm not convinced they will repeal it, but I'm also not convinced they won't.

> The people within his base saw their health insurance premiums continue to go up under the ACA.

Oh yeah, the ACA is bad law. It's only very slightly better than what we had before. Rates are indeed sky rocketing still, since it's still a purely for-profit system; and the USSC helped undermine it by allowing states to opt-out of parts of it, leaving half of the people it was supposed to insure, well, uninsured. And the ones who aren't signing up now tend to be the ones we needed in the system to make it work. So now we have too many old people and people with pre-existing conditions, and not enough young and healthy people in the system to make it work.

But the alternative is that people with pre-existing conditions are told to just go die if they can't afford care. So, yeah.

Health Savings Accounts are going to be much less effective than the ACA.
No. The current Tesla Autopilot v2 system has 8 cameras and must be able to react in milliseconds. They do the computation onboard with an Nvidia Drive PX2 computer.

https://www.tesla.com/presskit/autopilot#autopilot
Wow... that takes some courage I would think. Nicely done.
All the ones I listed are the ones where they are significant contributors.

The much larger set of where they are mostly users, like the BSD userland tools, curl, Python, Perl, Tcl, Ruby, and so forth, I omitted. There are just too many.
Could you give a few names? I would love to check them out.
> What I stated is such a basic reality that the fact that it is routinely dismissed is borderline delusional.

In that case, 15 years into my relationship we're still blissfully delusional ;)
Aran Blocks: What you would get if Lego and IKEA had a baby
Food, clothing, housing is 10x cheaper in india at non luxury quality. Internet, electricity, gasoline is more expensive than the west. A few things like corruption free living are just not available though. Hopefully this will change after changes like this. I am very optimistic.
AT&T will lower the quality of most video on its network by default next year
> I guess it's far more environmentally friendly to use an entire 13 gallon trash bag per each of those incidents.

That's an absurd assumption. You can purchase a small amount of ziploc style bags for such cases, which are right-sized and thus less wasteful and also are better suited for the task as they have a proper seal.
Right? I could not relate to the author's need for friends at all. I am mid-thirties, married with a young kid. The best thing about meeting my wife and moving in together is no longer having to go hang out with friends to get my social fix. We are both introverts, and don't need lots of 'hanging out' time with friends. We work, we come home and hang out with the kid, and spend some time together talking and planning our life. Then we spend whatever extra free time we have enjoying our alone time. It is wonderful.

I mean, I have friends. I play online games with some friends from highschool, I play basketball once a week with some friends from college, and we occasionally get together for dinner with coworkers and their families. We visit with family 8 to 10 times a year. I have no time and no need for the sort of 'hanging out' the author talks about.

I think a key tidbit the author mentions but doesn't focus on is that she is a military wife with a husband on deployment and no kids, and it doesn't sound like she has an office job (sounds like she writes from home for work) Of course she would get lonely then! Between work, wife and kid, and other family, I feel like I get plenty of socialization without needing more friends.
Are you an heterosexual in a relationship with someone of the same sex?

Are you an homosexual in a relationship with someone of the opposite sex?

If no then it's irrelevant to this thread.

It's not about you nor me!
The embedded Prolog was ProLog by BIM, from BIM Systems, which was the Belgian-based competitor to a US-based company called Quintus, in Mountain View; both offered high-end Prolog systems for Unix.

One of the things that ProLog by BIM had was the ability to have Prolog use Oracle or Sybase databases as if they were Prolog's own native database (Spooky23, if you see this, I was wondering if that helped you use DB2 in this fashion when doing your Tivoli work or did you roll your own from scratch?)

Anyway, Tivoli apparently created a macro language, TEC, that was then compiled down to Prolog to run.

Here's an opinionated look at TEC and the decision to use Prolog:

http://www.softpanorama.org/Admin/Tivoli/TEC/tec_rules_progr...

Some more info/perspectives from back-when about Tivoli's use of Prolog:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.prolog/LgM...
We are social animals. Close social ties are one of the biggest predictors of happiness.

I'll just leave this here[1]:

> The upshot of 50 years of happiness research is that the quantity and quality of a person's social connections—friendships, relationships with family members, closeness to neighbors, etc.—is so closely related to well-being and personal happiness the two can practically be equated.

1 - http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/raising_happiness/post/happi...
An idea I've had kicking around for a few years now is an app that presents famous artworks in the context of time and place.

For people like myself who like great art but have very little knowledge about the relationships or even chronology of the various movements, it would be great to have a broad range of artworks representative of the various movements placed on a map. Together with a slider type interface to choose time periods I think you could get a really good idea of how and when the different movements evolved and how they relate to each other. You could easily see for instance that there wasn't much happening in city x in a particular decade but a lot going on in city y. Move forward a decade and while y might be in decline, you can easily see that city z is becoming active - and that the newer works have clearly been influenced by what was happening in city y a decade earlier.

I have a fairly clear idea of how something like this could be monetised, together with how to get the necessary content. Haven't given much thought to how it might be marketed though. You could call it 'Art in Space and Time' (artisat).

I like that it presents a great challenge from a UI perspective - it could be done really well or really badly.

Anyhow, work keeps getting in the way...

If anyone likes the idea, go for it. Get in touch if you'd like to hear a little more - I might even be willing to get involved.
> It's because your cities are bad.

If by "bad" you mean "big," sure. The problem you're describing is almost entirely driven by the scale of American cities.

(The problem the article is describing is driven in part by that, in part by the very nature of what people tend to do in their 30s.)

American cities may be bad, and big may equal bad, but those are separate issues.
Chris Granger is charismatic, but not particularly insightful. It would be better if he found a mentor.
The Seif Project
I never lived in a city but I still had friends until I was roughly 30.
Why is it not the best thing to do? Introverts like my wife and me (and it sounds like you too) don't need a ton of extra socializing to get our fill. If you don't feel lonely (and I don't, after a fun work environment and hanging out with my wife), then you shouldn't feel bad about or obligated to change your routine. You aren't a hermit, so enjoy your alone time as much as you want! Don't let someone else's need for more socializing make you feel like everyone should need that.
Wait, I fail to understand how refusing to hire or associate with bigots is an assault on democracy.

It seems to me this is the free market in action. Your labor is worth so much less as a bigot that you are unemployable. Tough shit.

Unless you want to add political beliefs to "protected classes". But it was my understanding that conservatives don't think the government should be involved in mandating voluntary associations.
Why It Matters That Women Do Most of the Housework
But then people may not 'share'. This way they are explicitly instructed.
Or maybe some people value different things than other people
IMO, as you age, you become more self actualized and do not need the validation of peers, acceptance of others becomes less important and you find that you have more confidence to be independent and start to enjoy solitude more. At least that is my experience (fyi, I am 59).
> Relationships (romantic) are primarily sexual affairs.

This is only true for a time when you're young, before you grow and realize what's more important.
If you're making money everything is relaxed. If your strategy is losing money things will be very tense. That's just how it is when you have skin in the game.
Interesting to see Indian techies leaving MNCs to start up their own companies. It's going to get harder to retain good tech talent.
So the 60,265,858 people that voted for Trump are all bigots and could have had no other reason to vote for him. Got it.
Well for one, google voice[0] is free in US (for calls within US, outside US, 1c per min ). You can receive/send messages and calls from the hangouts app, chrome extension, and the website. beware, though, you can't totally replace your phone since some services recognize it as a VoIP number and refuse to take it as a legitimate 2FA.

You do need an existing phone to get a number, which is probably better than giving your CC info to some VoIP service.

And by some, I mean (for me atleast) wells fargo, and azure.

[0]:https://www.google.com/voice
In all seriousness, why not find a job working on web apps or databases that enable climate researchers? Or even wildlife biologists studying the impacts of climate change on biodiversity? There is no shortage of technical challenges in these fields, but there is a dearth of technical expertise to surmount them.
So ... some third-party services implicitly trust the auth data their own apps send them, without verifying the auth data with Facebook/Google/etc. servers from their server-side code.

TL;DR: Some services forgot the "never trust client-sent data!" rule.
How so? I mean, there are logic libraries available for python to be sure. But the "set class and comprehension syntax" are two features only tangentially related to logic programming. Using them alone doesn't get you inference, or even unification.
That last part is key. When i entered my 30s, is when I went from being a loner (I had been a loner all my life, by choice) to being "my calendar is always full" social. Mainly because I started mixing table-top board games and role play in the mix. 2 board game nights and one tabletop RP session a week, all with different people, ensure you see a lot of people. Then every time you see those people, they always end up suggesting extra (often unrelated) things, like going to a movies, a party, going for dinner, etc.

Makes for one busy (and fun!) life.

I do also live smack in the middle of a very densely populated city, right by a primary subway station, so most of my friends live within 15-20 minutes. That doesn't hurt.
Seems to me some geographic map of interested HN posters + contact info might slow and even reverse this 'friendship loss'; HN 'friendship dating' if you will. People posting here already would have a lot in common, and even if an ongoing friendship doesn't eventuate it's always interesting and inspiring talking with others in your field of expertise.
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Ask HN: May I sit in on an interview for an ansible-focused role?
Chris and I are working on our second technical book; rather than the second edition of "The Book of Xen," we are attempting to write something shorter about Ansible.

Thoughts on how I can sit in on a few interviews when I don't intend to take the job without being rude and/or unethical?

I'd also be super interested in hearing from anyone who has recently interviewed for an ansible-based position.
There's a difference between "big" and "sprawled".
I think what they did with the movie was great. It felt totally true to the story even though the plots aren't exactly the same. Even though I knew what I thought would be the twist they still got me.
Not always; NYC is large population-wise, but reasonably compact (on average).

Suburbia makes me sad. The density is so low that you need a car to get anywhere, and everywhere is outside walking distance.
Prolog implementations are still the fastest, most researched, and most practical logic languages out there. I don't know what the alternative would be, besides something fundamentally less powerful, like datalog or sql.

SQL only gets you so far. For example, you can't do something as straight forward as logic based arithmetic in SQL.
And the non-technical side.

Liability: who is liable when the car kills a pedestrian?

Driver engagement: How do you safely transition from automatic control to manual control.

Maintenance: Will the manufacturer be obligated to provide software updates for the life of the vehicle? Even if that vehicle is 20 years old? Even if newer software is 10x less likely to kill a pedestrian?

Cost: Are the costs one-time or will there be a maintenance fee?

Licensing: Does the manufacture have the right to disable functionality after the purchase? Do they have a right to your data? Can they sell that to your insurer?

Regulation: Who certifies systems? How do they test them? When is a system "good enough?"

All of these things sound trivial compared to the technical challenges but it's these kinds of non-technical challenges that killed the small-airplane market in the US and are still unresolved 65 years later.
Very few people are able to become friends with someone on command. It doesn't work that way, making friends is something that 'just happens'.

I have to note that I'm everything but social. Social activities are so exhausting for me that I often end up actively repelling people. But I still have no trouble making friends and it happens more often than I'd like, even friends I can talk to about everything, not limits.

If you want somebody to hang out with and just talk about stuff, that's pretty easy. Look for the group/scene that shares your hobby and interests and communicates on your wavelength. It's easy to talk about your interests and they will listen.

However, if you are looking for someone to talk to on a deeper level, that's more involved but I think it's not _that_ hard. Try to be honest with someone who resonates with you and talks on your wavelength. Tell something about yourself that you normally wouldn't; chances are they will respond with something personal too. Before you know it, you've found a good friend. It takes time though.

Sorry if I made it sound too easy, I'm just relaying my experiences. But I'm pretty sure that you should never ever try to force friendship, it doesn't work. Try and error is key here.
(lol) do they usually give such? I'd love to know what happened here.
Apparently only dead people.
Coffee houses solved this since the 1600's, not every solution needs an app. The solution probably involves the opposite: put down your phone in public places and engage people.

I've made most of my friend/circle by going to the same coffeehouse consistently.
While it may read as an advertisement, I see that as a warning.

Keep separate phone numbers to maintain separate profiles (ex: one for healthcare, one for banks, one for social medias). Don't give your permanent phone number. Don't share the number between class of services.

And above all, don't give other people number!!

Fun thing: the other day, I was asked my phone number at my family doctor. I gave a cellphone number. Then they asked for an "emergy contact" phone number.

My answer: 911. They insisted. So I explained that in case of emergency, I want them to call 911. Seriously, don't try to call anyone else.

Their answer: but what if we really need to reach you?

My answer: I already gave you my cellphone number. Call me on my cellphone if you really need to reach me.
I don't know, my microwave flashes "Enjoy your meal" every time it's done heating something and I like that little touch.
Pretty cool example of Lisp's capabilities.

When trying to create feeds from webpages in the real-world, there are plenty of pitfalls involved, for example: handling JavaScript content, graceful retries, bypass IP blocks, throttle & rate-limit requests, accessing public social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google) etc.

At Feedity (https://feedity.com), we've developed our own little system over the years using .NET (C#) and node.js, with a bunch of tweaks and optimizations, for generating custom feeds from public webpages.
What I see here is an inability to deal with the ish. Pull yourself up by the balls dude.
> Not true.

Wrong. (You're blunt? I'm blunt. That's OK.)

Poster said "one of the benefits", not "the primary driver of", and it absolutely is one of the benefits of a relationship. If you're not top of your partner's list (and vice versa) then you're not partners, you're just a mutual booty call.
Beck fed lies and hate to incite an angry mob

Specific examples?
All I can say is that, based only on the comment (I don't know you at all, of course) you may be missing out on literally the best things in life. I don't think I've seen a long-term relationship that matches your description, I haven't read an expert describe them that way, and I don't think it would be healthy or tenable. Sex drives, for example, diminish as people age; and IME relationships primarily focused on sex don't last to become long-term ones. Another way of looking at it is that long-term relationships with prostitutes would fit your description.

Sex is great and valuable; it's probably necessary at certain points in the relationship; but it's certainly not sufficient or the most important thing. Love, intimacy and human bonding are far more rewarding and valuable (and all enhanced by positive sex). As another easy example, beyond a doubt anyone I know with kids would give up sex before they gave up their child; it wouldn't be a close decision - it would be offensive to suggest otherwise to them.

EDIT: I omitted a very valuable reason for long term relationships: To have someone to care for, for whom you matter. I believe research (and plenty of anecdotal examples) shows that, lacking this benefit, isolated people feel like they don't really exist.
Play Nethack.