skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would really like to see some massive reductions in the operation costs and most importantly, bandwidth costs.

The bandwidth costs are so far out of line with what the network transfer actually costs, it just feels like price fixing between the major cloud players that nobody is drastically reducing those prices, only storage prices.

Charging 5 cents per gigabyte (at their maximum published discount level) is the equivalent to paying $16,000 per month for a 1 gigabit line. This does not count any operation costs either, which could add thousands in cost as well, depending on how you are using S3.

There are several providers that offer a unmetered 1gbps line PLUS a dedicated server for ~600-750/mo.
Providers like OVH offer the bandwidth for as little as 100/month. ( https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/bandwidth-upgrade.x... ) I am just not sure how amazon can justify a 160x price increase over OVH or a 30x increase over dedicated server + transfer.

For the time being, the best bet is to use S3 for your storage and then have a heavily caching non amazon CDN on top of it (like cloudflare) to save the ridiculous bandwidth costs.
If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that "years of SW experience" is a downright shitty indicator of what someone is capable of. Facebook 1.0 was built by a bunch of Harvard undergrads with 0 degrees and 0 work experience. I'd take someone with 90th percentile IQ, a history of delivering professional results regardless of industry, and a drive to become a great SW engineer, over an average engineer with 10 years of SW-experience. Any day of the week.
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https://np.reddit.com/r/AskScienceDiscussion/comments/59otfy...

I could use another brogrammer to verify some of what I'm seeing. I expected I could just mention this to a researcher and be done, but I'm being attacked for mentioning possibilities.

There was a catalyst in 1975 when vaxx rates doubled and kept doubling every 5 years, the graphs reflect that, imho. Other countries data should confirm or deny.
I use Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/), which uses S3. It's true, though, that I only backup a small enough subset of my files, not anywhere close to a complete image. OTOH, it's very easy to use (CLI only), and as secure as it gets.
It's available in the Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BPRBqz...
AppleScript is my first language. When I was 7 years old I learned a little bit of Logo, but I stopped using it. When I was 13, half my life ago, I taught myself AppleScript. Many of my scripts were for iTunes, but I also expanded to scripting my whole OS. I still use it daily.

If there are any comparable programs for Linux, I really want to know. I don't trust Apple's direction, and AppleScript is a killer feature tying me to this platform for now.
Right, but if you want to retrieve some data through their API, how does it work? Normally you open the connection, ask for the data, then receive it and close the connection, does that change if there's a 5+ hour wait between the ask and the receive? Do you just leave the connection open? Provide them with a webhook to call when it's ready? I don't personally care about the answer but I'm pretty sure that's what they were asking.
Everybody agree aspects of it needs to be changed. It was passed hastily while the Democrats had the votes--they even required two Republican defectors. The necessity for change was admitted from day 1.

But there's a difference between change and discarding the whole thing. The _core_ part of Obamacare, particularly wrt fiscal viability of adequate universal coverage, are 1) no pre-existing exclusions, 2) individual mandate, 3) and minimum coverage requirements.

Even Obama agrees that the system of exchanges needs changing. Those and other details, like subsidies and integration with Medicaid and Medicare aren't part of the core calculus. They were part of the political horse trading (among politicians, with the insurance industry, etc) necessary to see any national program passed. If sentiments change than those details can obviously be changed, too.

But if neither of those three things change, you'll still basically have Obamacare, and middle-class independent contractors or people with employer-sponsored policies are unlikely to see substantial changes from the status quo. If any of those three things change, you're likely going to see either a contraction of coverage in both quantity and quality, or ballooning government deficits.

If all people really want to see is the name change, have at it.
I'm surprised so many people are shocked about this.

Has nobody seen what ESPN has become because it's the exact same thing: opinion pieces with no real content because that's what gets more views as it adheres to the lowest common denominator and is much cheaper to produce.

It's also analogous to reality TV taking over television.
I think it surprised a lot of the world outside of America, too.
This is a good change. The stupid former "rate-based" system meant that if you stored a large file (say, 10GB), you'd have had to pay quite a bit of money if you tried to retrieve just that file. After all, you can't control the rate at which you retrieve one file.
Can you share your needs with me so I can pass them along to the S3 team?
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It really depends on the state / region. He promised a lot of things. If I had to pick one of the biggest ones, it would be:

Automation, globalization, and anti-unionization have been pushing down wages for 30+ years. Government policies by both parties seem to do nothing but speed up the process, particularly in globalization. The only thing the Dems had to offer was social safety net, but most people would rather have better paying jobs. The Republicans only offered rhetoric and an extra helping of anti-unionization.

Also, I don't think a vote for Trump is for the GOP or their policies. The GOP was the platform Trump used to get elected (as he slashed and burned their policies). I think the vote was anti-establishment (anti-GOP and anti-Dem). It could be a sign of just how economically desperate many people in the red areas are.

Also, it's very difficult / rare for a party to get a third term in recent history.
Build your own operating system (2011)
offer your service for free at first. People will pay you anyway (without asking) if you do a great job. Then you get one client, then another one, then another. Increase your price along the way while building your portfolio.

How do you get your first lead even for free? Craigslist or find ways of going to events where people aren't technical at all. It'll come.

There's no magic trick you can't make big money without a network in life.
This is really something that needs to be setup/supported at the CloudFront layer (as CloudFlare and other CDNs already do) instead of S3. The danger is that somebody sets an HSTS or other security-related header on their bucket and breaks access for all other customers inadvertently for their customers that fetch from the S3 domain.
Google Scholar is a good starting point.
Tell the CloudFront team to support adding custom HTTP headers to client responses (not the currently supported headers added to the origin requests), such as HSTS. CloudFlare and others already support this.
Thanks Jeff, I just sent you an email:

https://www.fwdeveryone.com/t/QOU4DQDbS8e4tddfI22J0w/s3-prer...

Of course this won't yet show up in Google until we get that nginx proxy stood up or this feature gets implemented. :-)
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Would this be useful in a containerized architecture where everything is run as a container?
Eve helps do that - not in the current version (0.2), but soon your application will be able to interface with a remote server the same way it interfaces with its in-memory data and functions.
I wrote the post after spending all of about 15 minutes learning about this new feature. We did make things simpler.

> AWS if you read this: Please make your offers and your pricing simpler, NEVER more complicated.

I am reading this. We made them simpler. Decide how quickly you need your data, express your need in the request, and that's that. If you read the post you will see that these options encompass three distinct customer use cases.
One of my favorite cases happened on NBC on the election night.

After crying and being distraught for an hour or two, a glimmer of hope arose - after-hours and international stock market was down. And suddenly their demeanor changed, there was a chance again of a tiny victory. They were predicting disaster with the same certainty as they predicted Hillary winning. There was talk of everyone's accounts being wiped out, a lot of "we told you" and so on.

And of course next day stocks went right up and nothing happened.

I just liked it because right after talking how they mispredicted the election so badly, they turned around and predicted something else, which again was quickly shown to be false.

So I do recommend watching the popular news channels, they are a pretty good source of entertainment. Read Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky and it becomes even funnier.
I don't believe humans are logical creatures otherwise learning advanced math would come easy (I'm sure there is a flaw in that type of thinking). Do you happen to be on the autism spectrum?

Unfortunately I'm not driven by logic and I have difficulty maintaining friendships. They are work. It takes a lot of time to build a good friendship. It takes a lot of effort from both parties to regularly check up and see how the other is doing. Scheduling hangouts, etc.
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Fine, but why without overhead? You're not addressing that. Why can't it unify the stack while making things slightly less efficient? It's not as though all of the things we need to do as programmers are constrained by computation resources.
KestrelHttpServer SuperCharged MemoryPoolIterator
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Also amusing to me, this is the same thing people were talking about when Apple moved from the 30 pin connector to lightning.

And Firewire to USB, and VGA to DVI to Displayport to HDMI, and...

I'm just surprised that apple did the thing everyone wanted: switch to a standard. And now bam, nope this is horrible. Its time for usb c, sucks now but it'll pass. Be more worried about usb c incompatibility more than usb c.
> People don't tend to write really huge applications in Lua, but that is more due to the lack of libraries rather than anything else.

We used it to write almost all the game-logic on a few titles. Ran great on all sorts of platforms(this was before LuaJIT). Coroutines are awesome for AI, lets you bundle in all sorts of implicit state easily and concisely.
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Is the top comment in this thread seriously someone claiming that "the telescope is "scriptable" using a (truly ancient) version of JavaScript via a really old implementation"? It's like the author of The Martian united with some oldschool C programmer to create a horror scenario.
The very restricted diet followed for the 10days of the Vipassana retreat might have something to do with these side-effects. Drastically lowering your calorie intake can trigger depression.
In my opinion, Obamacare tackled the wrong end of the problem. It was less a problem of not having insurance than one of uncontrolled billing. When a hospital can get away with charging $53 for a pair of non-sterile gloves [0], there's the problem. And that's just from the first search result -- there are literally dozens and dozens of other examples spanning years.

[0]: http://www.rd.com/health/wellness/wildly-overinflated-hospit...
JavaScript is not AppleScript.

JavaScript is only useful with dozens of libraries imported, and they introduce their own quirky syntax (I'm looking at you, JQuery).

JavaScript can't "do shell script" (even PHP can do exec).

JavaScript can't read and write files.

JavaScript can't read the selection in one program, pull data from another program, and merge it in with something on the clipboard to piece together what you're actually wanting.

JavaScript can't handle unicode to my satisfaction. Even escaping strings is a pain. AppleScript's string manipulation is so clean. Regex that would be very complicated to put together without a trip to StackOverflow is translated into something super easy ("every word of last paragraph").
That Wikipedia page said nothing about infants willing themselves to death.
This. I've advised on 30+ PE deals involving software companies this past year. Definitely worth looking into if you're a profitable mid market SaaS company.
>Miner centralization is still a huge issue for Bitcoin.

That's a fair call, there is a little too much faith in the large pools being "rational" participants.
With S3 Standard essentially getting S3 Standard - Infrequent Access storage pricing, where does that leave the latter?
This is incorrect. Goldman Sachs received $10B which they repaid.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-04-14-tarp...
7 of those 8 states (exception, Illinois) have strongly Republican state legislatures. I'm not sure what the particular causes for the inflation in each state are, and I'd bet they vary. But I also suspect the correlation is telling to some degree.
Because most polls showed Hillary winning or winning by a landslide.
Low enrollment is not because of ability to pay tuition for low income. Many poor people don't enroll because they didn't have encouragement from family or they had other obligations (e.g. taking care of family members).
1x$70 at OVH, 3x10GBP at Feral, 2x$5 + $20 at Vultr. OVH is mostly used for transcoding, Feral for storage and Vultr for my own blog and misc stuff as well as an active job I'm working on.
Thunderbolt display was also a massive 'glitch' in the lineup. It still has the old original Magsafe power on it which hasn't shipped on Macs for years! To mitigate this they've been shipping an adapter in the box since then. Crazy! http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/13/apple-including-free-mag...
What is the mechanism that makes it cheaper to take longer getting data out? Is it that they save money on a lower-throughput interface to the storage? Is it simply just market segmentation?
I doubt you're going to get a more favorable response here than you did there.
Yeah, but Jobs did that when the company was in steep decline and genuinely at risk of failing. The current Apple is in a very different place financially.
Why didn't they vote for any of these in the last 8 years?
More of a saturating 1-bit counter really.
Yes, the final election result wasn't terribly surprising given polling. Trump was reported to have a very nonzero chance of winning the electoral college all along (although there weren't many reports of him having a > 50% chance), and all polls had the popular vote being very close.

But what was surprising, all along, to people from all sorts of echo chambers (including, I think, Trump himself) was that Trump had this support in the first place. He was the goofball candidate in the primaries. Mitt Romney, the previous Republican nominee, called him a "phony" and a "fraud," and said, "He's playing the American public for suckers." Imagine McCain saying that about Romney, or Kerry about Obama! He dominated the news cycle for months with indiscretions and mistakes. He lost the debates, by any metric in which you care about actual policy discussed at the debates. Republicans were quite worried about him dooming the party. It was clear months before November that he was a realistic candidate who would win about half of the popular vote, but the fact that we got to that point was surprising.
quite a stretch to call them decent. They knew what the product was and what it was used for.
Yeah, thats correct. The some (most?) of the first series (merced) of itaniums had hardware to help accelerate the emulation of x86 instructions. I don't know about the later iterations of it though as I've only run OpenVMS on the later ones and not Windows.
So they have a bunch of incompatible plans? When do they plan on doing all of the negotiation required to settle on one, when ACA is already gone? That's going to be a disaster for the millions of Americans on an ACA plan.
The placebo works on the caregivers not the baby.

Parents rate their children as hyperactive after consuming sugar, no matter if the "sugar" is actually just red colored water. It's perception that's changed.
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I run dozens of small side projects off a $10/mo DigitalOcean server. I do not mind paying that absurdly low amount.
I've long been interested in an investment company that had a variable cut that was directly based on the customers' preferences. Ultimately you'd want the managers incentives based on the fees to be exactly aligned with the customers' needs, which means that different fee structures are needed for different kinds of customers.

Basically the hedge fund fee structure extended. So someone who wanted more risk would give a higher cut of fees for higher gains and a lower cut of fees for lower gains, and vice versa. The average expected value to the manager should be a constant percentage of assets, but the distribution changes for each customer.

One cool thing that naturally falls out of this idea is negative fees: if someone is risk averse enough, then the incentives require the manager to lose money if the customer loses, which causes the manager to be risk averse as well for those funds.

(I have more detailed thoughts on this that this margin is too small to contain; feel free to email me for some disorganized elaboration on the above.)
Congrats to all the students and recent grads out there.
~$27/month

* ~1k request/second

* https://www.scaleway.com

* 8 + 8 + 2 = 18GB RAM

Tips: Use cheap hosting and build HA into it, server die all the time.
It's kind of funny when Feral hosting (I know I've been mentioning them a lot but trust me I'm in no way affiliated with them, I'm just satisfied customer, though they have trouble now with OVH) offers 2TB + 10Gbps unlimited bandwidth connection (it is unlimited, I abused it as much as I could with no warnings or anything) for 120 british pounds per year. That's good enough for me for mass storage of non-important data like Movies, Music, TV series, etc., that I convert then serve to users.
Take a look at Netlify (disclaimer, I'm a co-founder), you'll get redirects, built-in prerendering, automated deployments, custom headers, etc. All with full cache-ability on our CDN.

https://www.netlify.com
> For some values of "better". For me, not plugging in and needing to carrying around wires is always better.

Ha! I don't believe it for a second. The other day my iPhone went from 100% to dead in less than an hour - in airplane mode using only the music app and strava.
Not sure why I was flagged. Any ideas? Seems excessively narrow minded on the part of those who did the flagging.

Anyways... I see there is a tier missing between the consumer of such model and Eve. That tier is of the Assemblers (a light version of the traditional "Developer") who will take requirements to modify an Eve app to the liking of the given consumer. They (the Assembler)( could also put out different versions of the app that fit the most requested use cases.

I think the thing that the Eve developers are missing (from their mental model) is that the "essential complexity" of a given task is irreducible and is often more than someone who is not an algorithmic thinker can handle. This is different than the "incidental complexity" which Eve might reduce greatly.
It works for anything static, but anything dynamic needs to go on a server or Lambda (or possibly the API gateway).
Or eggs and omelettes...
My kid is now very happy with my 6P too :-)
Let's be honest here: it's about children. The only difference between men and women that would substantially effect insurance coverage rates are prenatal care and birth.

But few men are willing to come out and plainly state that they aren't interested in subsidizing prenatal care. When you say it aloud it just sounds so obviously wrong, whether or not you're asexual, homosexual, or infertile. And it's especially hypocritical for the anti-abortion set.

It's like the argument that childless property taxpayers shouldn't have to subsidize public schools. People just rely on vague handwaving about fairness and risk allocation. And, FWIW, it's also like arguing that taxes paid by pacifists shouldn't support the military. Even most liberals understand that it's a ridiculous assertion as a practical matter.
In MA my family premium is climbing from $950 to $1600/month. And this is with high deductibles, so if we want to actually see a doctor it will be out of pocket.
The material is available in both French and English. The videos have English subtitles. There is no language difficulty.
Federalism is a perfectly good system for distributing sovereignty within a shared security arrangement so as to avoid the wars that naturally erupt between perfectly soverign states. Unfortunately we have spent the past 100 years eroding local and state sovereignty by treating national politics as the only place where meaningful government happens.

Devolution is a much saner path than sessesion.
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A google search turns up this website that claims to have voter lists by political district, party affiliation, gender, ethnicity, wealth, among other things.

http://www.completecampaigns.com/voter-lists-online.asp
Why isn't anyone considering that within the margin of error, the polls were correct? Isn't the confidence interval +/- a few percentage points anyways??
That's two of us, 5,999,999,998 to go
"Free" countries are getting less and less free every day.
I downvoted you for using 'brogrammer' and for pushing bunk science.

Correlation Z:
Rates of cancer have increased at the same time as the number of articles claiming vaccines cause autism have increased.
What does the delay line do?
There are large number of people who have seen faults with the examinations as well as conclusions and most certainly the implementations.

> is the international community declaring that this is the case.

Politicians not the people themselves.
I like the caption: "Liberty Writers News founders Paris Wade, left, and Ben Goldman work at their apartment in Long Beach, Calif., on Nov. 14, 2016. Stuart Palley For The Washington Post"

It flows like a single sentence.
Sadly, at least for Trump, i think it came down to

1 party loyalty

2 identity politics

3 active voter suppression in key states

4 The Electoral College, which was designed to prevent this exact thing (demagoguery)

#1 & #2 are discussed in
"Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)"
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691169446

#2 also discussed in
"The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (Chicago Studies in American Politics)" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022634911X

#3 and other dirty tricks discussed in "Ratfked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy" https://www.amazon.com/Ratf-ked-Behind-Americas-Democracy/dp...

and

"The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/110190576X
Did the author give a 99.9% chance to Clinton? If not, I fail to see how that is relevant.

Also, Nate Silvers gave Trump a 30% chance of winning. There were plenty of pundits who saw Trump as a possibility.
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