skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On GCP, you create a separate Project entity that can have any number of Google Accounts linked to it. In that way, the actions of your personal account don't affect the GCP project (and vice versa).

My understanding from the recent Pixel-orders-account-banning incidents that Google had nuked even marginally related accounts, including gmail accounts whose only relation was being the recovery e-mail for one of the offending accounts. I just read this in one of the articles, so I don't know if it is true, but if so that seems to devalue the possible solution of just linking a number of different Google accounts to your Google Cloud account with owner access to the project. In fact that might be a larger concern if any one of those accounts raises the ire of whatever Google department does the nuking, they might extend the action to all accounts associated through the Google Cloud project. Hopefully not likely, but this stuff worries me.
For nearly all businesses the cost of service hosting is going to be similar to the amount spent on snacks. This seems about as useful as optimizing the brand of cereal you buy.
They didn't build their system for it to work with computers.
Not the comp.text.sgml Frequently Asked Questions List (2002)
That's not testing for math, it's testing for notation.
You're right of course. Nevertheless I think actions speak louder than works. The Republican party is not known for being hesitant or compromising. If they'd actually believe Obama's executive orders to be unconstitutional, they would've done more than complain.

They're not doing more though, so I can only conclude that they're not at all convinced that they're unconstitutional.

To be fair though I have no idea what Trump is thinking, I don't think anybody really does. He might actually believe what he's saying in this instance.
Oh boy /pol is leaking into HN. Anyone have a mop?

Pro Tip: Try not to accuse people making counter-points of being shills.
Bill Clinton was a fan of stoics, so i think you're totally right.
You bring up a good point. Amazon does give you a better "vertical scaling" story. I'll still challenge you on the "breadth" when it comes to EC2 - the philosophy is just very different. Why do you need a "IO optimized instance" if you want just fast disk - that notion just seems very foreign and arbitrarily-constrained on Google Cloud.

You bring up Local SSD. Google's Local SSD is just badass by comparison:

- 680,000 Read and 360,000 Write IOPS included in the cost [0]

- $0.218 per GB per month. Instance cost is separate.

- Again, you can attach these to any instance type (hence the point on fragmentation of instances on EC2)

- AWS goes up to 365,000 Read and 315,000 "First Write" IOPS. Only if you buy an i2.8xlarge [2]

- An i2.8xlarge is $6.82 per hour.

You do the math :)

And someone else did more comparisons here [1]

[0] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance

[1] https://medium.com/google-cloud/new-google-cloud-ssds-have-a...

[2] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/i2-instan...
There are only two notable differences:

1) The highest memory instance on Google is about 200GB, on AWS it's 2TB.

2) Google doesn't have GPU instances yet. They're been announced for 2017.

Other than that, google instances have more options and more flexibility.
Three years of consumption is a drop in the bucket, I'm sorry. If you think that's a big deal you need to get your head checked.

Three years is a blink in time.

If it was fifty years or more you would at least have a case.
The notation is the way you write the name of mathematical concepts.
Logical self-preservation in action.

And it is a telling indictment of the corporate character displayed by Google:

- Exploitable for minor personal convenience ("Use Gmail! Use Gcal! Simple and free!")

- Not to be trusted under any circumstances with important matters ("We can evaporate your existence from the internet for all practical purposes and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.")

Some day, it will become important for us to own our own lives again. And I say this as someone who runs his business on GApps. I'm as guilty as everyone else.
lol it's 2016, we ignore people who have javascript turned off
The Oldest Love Poem in the World
This doesn't match my Haskell workflow at all. Usually, it compiles every small change, with much stubbed out with `undefined` until I get to it. When it doesn't compile, it's surprising and I learn something about the assumptions I've made.
First, it seems very difficult (for a virus) to transmit HIV via vaginal intercourse[1]. Second, most infections appear to start from a single virus,[2] despite the huge genetic diversity of intrapatient HIV that supposedly makes it hard to treat[3]. That means most of the strains found within one person never get transmitted. How do you manage to transmit HIV contaminated fluids but only one infection occurs in the receiving person? Very strange.

Another strange thing, it does not seem all that difficult (relatively) for interspecies transmission to occur:
"Scientists have now documented that the SIV virus has jumped from monkeys or apes into humans at least 13 separate times!"[4]

Perhaps those transmissions are due to self-injury while cutting infected meat, etc. The vagina is tissue that expects the presence of foreign human cells, and so has defenses against them. Anal sex, injections, etc are a different story. To me it sounds like an entire cell gets transmitted.

[1] http://m.jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/191/9/1403.full

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18490657/

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614444/

[4] http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/081101_hivorig...

EDIT:
Another possibility is that the vast majority of these variants found floating free in the blood are non-functional and serve as chaff to confuse the immune system.
The scientists who discover these solutions are my heroes. They spend their lives tangled in these complexities and save actual lives with their work. That's admirable!
I'm not an expert in vaccine development but I believe this could lead to a preventative treatment. Unfortunately, the treatment would probably be very dangerous because unlike smallpox or polio, the human body can't effectively fight HIV and an acute infection almost always turns into a chronic one. If a patient's immune system fails to attack a weakened smallpox strain (the vaccine) and it turns into an acute infection, the risk of life altering side effects is minuscule and more often than not, your immune system will fight off the infection. HIV is different because its only real effect on the body is the destruction of T-cells, which the virus uses to reproduce, and there is no stopping that process only slowing it down. If you take an HIV vaccine developed with this antibody and your immune system fails to learn it (or the strain mutates before it has a chance to, which is a remote but very real possibility with retroviruses), you will eventually develop AIDS or spend a lifetime taking expensive drug cocktails with a long list of serious side effects.

There are tricks to developing vaccines without using the pathogen directly, like constructing a decoy with the relevant surface proteins, but they're unlikely to work with HIV because it's so simple. When an antibody finds its antigen, it signals the immune system to consume the pathogen and learn about it if it hasn't seen the invader before. Since antibodies share a chemical structure (like DNA and RNA, except more complex), cells in the immune system can memorize the antibody and produce it even if it isn't present in our genetic code. This process is one of the most amazing adaptations in the animal kingdom, allowing complex organisms to compete with the microscopic in the evolutionary arms race, but the immune system needs to see the antibody and pathogen in order create mature B-cells, which adapt to bind to the same pathogen as the antibody. HIV is small, simple, and doesn't have many unique features on the viral package (which contains the RNA) so it'll likely be very hard to produce a decoy for the antibody to latch on to.
The 'flexible environment' supports 2.7 and 3.4, and any Python package that works on Debian Linux.

https://cloud.google.com/python/quickstarts
what a load of racist bullshit. So a $8,000 difference in wages in young men is proof that Asians got to where they are today because white people allowed them to?

so other people's respect will put money in my pocket? Damn why did I bother going to college?
Logic in philosophy is used in a lot of fields of humanities and social sciences too. When you have inductions and deductions based on qualitative axioms what you write is going to take a lot of brainpower to understand. A lot of the academic work in those fields takes thousands of words to explain all the thinking behind something that could be broadly explained in a paragraph.
It would be desirable that Google has a decent margin in its GCE operations, otherwise there is a high risk that they cut it back or even shut it down.
THE SHARD, the vertical beauty of London
You need the math required to understand the language in which the current best physical theories are written. It's unknown as yet which mathematical objects will be required for their successors.
> If you push the alt-right to exclusively use their own walled gardens, to concentrate in their own unmoderated, subverted echo chambers, that's when you should be very terrified because that's when you birth actually scary groups.

I feel like I'm justified in being much more terrified when the white nationalists are out in the open, empowered to inflict violence on people because they're confident country has their back.

Like, you can be terrified on an abstract level because you think the anti-nazi politics aren't being performed optimally, we'll be over here fearing for our lives.
The core problem is that we no longer create protocol standards. This has been discussed on Hacker News before, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10256479. Each company creates their own protocol (usually piggybacked over HTTP or WebRTC) and no one agrees to unify or share their details.

The proper way to do this would be to get several companies and the IETF + EFF or GNU (or some other libre organization) together in a room and hash out a protocol standard using RFCs. Then clients can be written to that spec. See HTML, Email, TCP/IP, ad nauseum.

https://www.ietf.org/
But, The owner of Snopes is a registered independent. This basically guarantees that Snopes is unbiased truth.
The same could have been said about heliocentrism.
Ask HN: What happened to the Williams Xjet and why no modern equivalent?
Most folks have neither seen or heard of the Williams Aerial Systems Platform (WASP Xjet), a functional VTOL aircraft abandoned by the US military in the 1980s, purportedly due to lack of practical application. Videos of the vehicle in operation are fascinating, arguably exhibiting a concept at least as appealing as the Wingsuit or Gyroplane - both of which have vigorous followings and aren't cheap to own and operate. Perhaps its role in warfare is impractical, but the Xjet would very practically tempt my hypothetical wallet if it were available. Why has such a neat design fallen into obscurity rather than public domain and recreation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_X-Jet
In my 2nd last job we used Skype and it worked flawlessly. In my last job we used google hangouts and it was never perfect and often problematic.
The manufacturing sector in the US is perfectly happy to automate.

It's not like the countries higher than the US in the measures you list don't have jobs and manufacturing and so on, they just tend to have stronger social safety nets and sane healthcare systems.
"inspired, how to create products that people love" by cagan, his blog on svpg.com is good too.

"Lean startup"

"The hard thing about hard things"
Limited time? If you can't commit to learning tools you need to use as a professional you're just going to get passed over and eventually dismissed as out-of-date.

Where are all those Softimage professionals now? Crying in a bar, presumably, if they didn't commit to learning other tools.

Your arrogant attitude implies your tools are better, that they will always be better, that there's never a reason to waste time learning other tools. Maybe that works for you, but for many other people they have to swing from one package to another simply to keep a job.

This isn't rich kids with too much time on their hands, rather the opposite: People who's employment isn't guaranteed and they need to be prepared in case opportunity comes along.
They don't get a "receipt" in the traditional sense. They rather get line item level purchase details from most merchants which use something other than the basic hand swipe terminal where you enter the amount to charge manually.
True but, according to some expert opinions I've read, if this thing pans out (and it's looking more and more like it will), that thrust is actually pretty damn good compared to other propellantless engines and not too damn bad compared to even conventional space probe engines.
What isn't true? Once in our history doesn't mean once as in a single host.

There are four major groups of HIV, HIV1 (likely to have originated in a strain of SIV commonly infecting chimpanzees and gorillas) O and M and HIV2 (likely to have originated in a strain of SIV commonly infecting mangabeys) A and B, it's not cleared how many times it independently jumped, what is clear that this was more or less a single temporal event in modern history (cavemen didn't had to worry about HIV or aids, neither did the Romans, and even the bushmen in africa only have been recently infected) and the jump happened between the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries.

SIV doesn't jump species all the time, there are plenty of SIV strains that haven't done so even tho humans were and are in contact with primates that are infected by those strains all the time.

Other immuno suppressing viruses also haven't made the jump from other species to humans.

If you eradicate HIV today with a push of a button there is no guarantee that SIV will make a jump again and turn into HIV, and there is little to no evidence that HIV jumped back to primates or has yet to infect another species.

There is also no conclusive evidence that the four groups of HIV happened to jump species on 4 distinct occasions, could have been 4, could have been 2 could have been 1 could have been 400.
Heck if HIV1C somehow originated in South America and then was introduced to the human population in Africa half of our models can be thrown down the toilet.

What we do know is that this happened 80-140 years ago, why did a virus that infected primates for 50,000 to 2000000 years suddenly jumped species all of a sudden despite the fact that there was just as much if not more cross species interaction during human history is a better question, in fact if it indeed jumped multiple times all within a pretty small time window that would only raise more questions than give any answer.
I couldn't make it through the first sentence of fluff.
The 220Mbits/s is for the m4.large instance, not all the m4 family. The bigger instances get more.

It is with HVM and enhanced networking. You can "wget http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/100MB.zip" and see what speed you get.
I'm not sure what you mean by wait. It really Works For Me (TM) here. I just type im foo in the address bar and it goes straight to Google images search for foo. Same for maps, Wikipedia and some obscure websites which will never be available at DDG :)
Wikipedia: When Demetrius of Phalerum conducted a population census [of Athens] in 317 BC the population was 21,000 free citizens, plus 10,000 resident aliens and 400,000 slaves.
When was Hillary Clinton ever running health policy? Apart from trying to implement 'Clintoncare' early in the Bill Clinton presidency I can not find any record of this.

I agree that insisting that third world countries who are already debtors to first world countries for aid pay huge sums for HIV drugs is problematic at best, but I am not sure why you add Clinton's name into this argument.
I believe the biggest impact to rapport is poor audio, not video.

Even dedicated conferencing rooms have poor quality mic setup (easy to fix) and acoustics (a little harder)

It's testament to the ability of echo cancellation and associated algorithms that these systems are able to make anything work at all -- and in many ways this has masked the problem, preventing attention where it's needed.

I develop a 'conferencing' system for radio broadcasters called cleanfeed.net. It's amazingly basic compared to more general systems, (it basically doesn't do any changes to the audio) and yet the rapport is much greater, even with smart use of basic kit -- you can chat over the top of someone, interject and conversation 'flows'; no video needed.

Of course, this is very much a solution for a certain kind of "advanced" user, but I believe the solution is somewhere in the middle -- too much attention spent on video (not audio) and on software (rather than provisioning the right hardware)
I get up at 5:30, which is already pretty early by anyone's lights except maybe my mom, who's usually up by three. Certainly it's unusual in our profession! I've long since grown accustomed to being the first of my team to arrive at the office.

The real problem for me is wintertime, because then I have to wake up in the dark. That just makes it super hard to get going in the morning.
In my last job we used Skype for Business. Worked decently once we got connected. But invariably it would take 10 minutes for everyone to actually get connected with working audio. And actually we typically only used audio, so didn't even have to worry about video troubles. Still it suffered from people entering "presentation mode".

Agreed on Hangouts.
What do you make of WebRTC?

Is that an attempt to do just what you propose?
Blender does seem more internally consistent than other packages, especially Zbrush.

The down-side is that most people don't appreciate this, instead they just bitch about right click to select and give up.
How to use decimal with mongodb and .NET C#
I would guess that the car couldn't predict the direction the joggers were moving in. They could be jogging towards the road. We as humans would know that they were running along the road because we see their backs but not necessarily from extrapolating their movement
You don't mind.

However statistics say that most of the accidents happen at the beginning or towards the end of the trip. There are environmental reasons (city vs. sub-urbs vs. cross-country) and there are human reasons.
Reading through Tesla blogs and watching this video, my understanding is the self driving hardware is cameras and ultrasonic sensors.

Does the lack of lidar not scare anyone else?

Also, Out of curiosity, does anyone know how a Tesla behaves if you point ultrasonic transducers in the same frequency at it? Do they have special modulation to avoid tampering in this manner? I imagine you could confuse the car into thinking there are barriers it can't see.
"For the ordinary person everything is a blessing or a curse, for the warrior there are only challenges."
Again, that is technically recoverable , not probable or proved (1P/2P estimates) which takes into acccount if it can be done profitably. It is a big deal, but even if all was economically recoverable at current prices (almost certainly not the case) it still would be only 7 months of global consumption.
I don't have any experience with GCE but I do have a lot of experience with AWS. What does an email id have to do with your cloud resources? "We now don't delete any email ids" implies you are worried about the same happening again. This makes me wonder why you don't confidently know what an ID is associated with so when you delete you are confident about not breaking anything else.
I dunno, I'd have thought the major difference there is tense. It's an ordeal while it's happening; it's an adventure once it's over.
That's the list of alpha CLI commands, and is only related to an alpha service in that it won't outpace it.

Most alpha services do not yet have gcloud support.
Agreed that quality audio is key. But poor, stuttering video can really be distracting. In Locus we will typically just stop a video stream before allowing the stuttering experience.
What a clever way to promote that app.

Instead of making a post about his app like "We made an app that solves X, Y and Z", which probably wouldn't receive much attention, he made a post about the problems instead then casually just mentioned that his app solved the problems.

Smart, I'll probably try that in the future.
That's just because your brain has seen it so many time it's been rewired to be bored of it.
AWS Elasticsearch has kibana built in when you spin up your ES instances.
If it is cheaper to extract than the Arctic oil, it's enough to shift investment for a period of years. This action only lasts for 5 years.
> stoic

> Someone who does not give a shit about the stupid things in this world that most people care so much about. Stoics do have emotions, but only for the things in this world that really matter.

Best definition I've seen of 'stoic' yet :)
There is a strict common language to express it. The speaker used that language (except for the nonstandard replacement of brackets with square brackets, which was apparently clearly pointed out at the start). The problems start when you speak in plain English: then you get things like everyone using different definitions of continuity and thinking everyone else is just spouting nonsense until someone comes up with epsilon-deltas.
Gay couples procreate the same way many straight people do. Sperm or egg donors, surrogates or adoption. Before marriage equality many states didn't recognize two party adoptions. Which left gay families in precarious positions.
Yes, agreed! You'd think most of the CS people in a room listening to a Lamport lecture, of all things, would've at some point in their education taken a theory of computation or similar course. The notation Lamport was asking about is already taught by page 7 of chapter 0 in Sipser [1].

[1. https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Micha...]
Yeah. I've attempted an experiment that disabled echo cancellation and required everyone to have a dedicated mic and headset. The difference is truly spectacular when people's voices don't cut out due to cancellation or suppression of the audio stream in the service of eliminating feedback.

It's much more like you're in a room with folks.

Unfortunately it's asking a lot of users of traditional video conferencing software that everyone have their own mic and headset -- but it really would be a much better experience.
Thanks. (we did try the other method too)
In many ways the building is a monument to privacy - the kind of twisted privacy where the state can keep whatever it wants secret, but a citizens life is rigorously documented and explorable.

It's the kind of relationship you expect between a newly enrolled soldier and their drill sergeant, not between a citizen and their government.
Why would that make it the worst? The IO monad isn't some dirty thing. Imperative programming in Haskell can be a wonderful experience even compared to traditional imperative languages. I use the "imperative" term lightly here.
Reminds me of Shapely from William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy

"He was discovered by the AIDS industry when he had already been HIV-positive for twelve years. His strain of HIV was notpathogenic but was able to kill the lethal strain of HIV. By isolating his mutant strain of HIV it was possible to develop an AIDS vaccine."
Poll: do you disable mic or webcam on your laptop?
I've noticed many security experts and powerful people using tape to cover their cameras on their laptops.

I wonder how common this is in the wider world. Do you take more or less extensive measures?
Yes, I cover my webcam with tape
Yes, I otherwise physically disconnect/disable my webcam
Yes, I use software switches to turn off my webcam
Yes, I cover my microphone with tape