skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know they do a tiny bit here and there (there was a presentation here at the re:Invent conference about it that I didn't get a chance to attend) but their usage of it internally probably dwarfs those contributions.

It makes business sense even if it's a shitty thing to do. The stronger an open source project is that provides the core functionality that your managed service provides the easier it is for a competitor to build the same thing. Amazon isn't as cutthroat as Oracle but they're certainly much less OSS friendly than many of their competitors.
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They should still work, but we can pretty much forget about firmware updates and phone app updates. The latter is a problem, because when the new generation of phones comes out and suddenly they can't talk to your watch, there ain't gonna be anyone to fix it.

Yes, there is Gadgetbridge, but I doubt they have enough manpower to keep compatibility with every new phone/OS version out there.
I (author of the comment you mention) personally need a 4WD dinosaur burner that will start after being left parked in the snow for a week away from where there's any sort of cell service. But I know that puts me in the minority and I also know don't need that all the time.

I don't see the "shared asset" model working at all. Not clear if it even works at the moment -- Uber's business is mostly cream-skimming the wealthiest users. But a self driving fleet can serve most rural communities as well (at the expense of a lower utilization rate than in urban areas). A car sitting in a driveway most of the time is a very expensive luxury. Most rural communities are less wealthy than most urban areas. A set of self-driving vehicles near by is a lot cheaper than a lot of idle cars.

Electric, and pay-by-the-ride are not panaceas. It's an 80/20 breakdown. I have, at one point, lived a ninety minute drive from the nearest town. I don't see how electric can handle what is really an edge case. I also don't understand the economics of electric utes (pickup trucks).
Why are we applauding Ryan again?

This is a saving face bailout from one of their own investors and a particularly embarrassing one at that given his statements of "I wouldn't consider anything under $100mm" and the pedigree of his investors.

They raised a shit ton of money and built nothing. No real technology, no significant additions to their platform, no development of community. And now the result is an all-stock acquihire from AL, which will amount of a purchase of their users and a one year rental of the same engineers and team that failed to build anything worthwhile.

Raising money at a $22m val from A16Z and selling for less than that - all stock no less - is a failure, and we need to stop lauding it as if it's somehow notable or impressive to take money and waste it.
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Hrmm name collision with Google's previously published XRay function tracing system http://research.google.com/pubs/pub45287.html
Eh I guess you're right, as you're mozillian and as I remembered Yahoo too. But can you help me understand this: I was unsure whether today's Mozilla deal was with Yahoo or Google, so I double-checked before asserting True.

And running firefox with a fresh new profile, I confirm all search sources (awesome bar, in-chrome search box, about:home in-content search box) default to querying Google, not Yahoo.

Is it new to be back to Google? Or maybe it's specific to Nightly builds? (53.0a1 2016-12-01) -- EDIT no, same behavior under 50.0.2 stable. And it's not the OS either, I tried Ubuntu and Windows --. Any idea why, then?
That "new higher level way" is leap seconds. The concept of leap seconds allows us to do date and time calculations in "calendar seconds", and not care about the discrepancy between physical seconds and calendar seconds.

Leap seconds basically add a corrective jump to physical time (what is measured by our super accurate clocks that use physical seconds and not calendar seconds) to match calendar time.

Leap seconds matter if you're doing some scientific or engineering calculation (astronomy, aerospace or whatever) and you need an exact physical time down the fraction of a second between two events that are far apart in the calendar.

They do not enter into everyday calculations, like using time_t seconds to calculate the number of days between two dates.
I contemplated making a game like that. Never got around to it.
Upvoting fellow latin teams.
This was down voted so I upvoted it. It sounds flip but is insightful.
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I know for sure that cities invest in private capital and VC. Otherwise they could never reach their income projections and would have to raise funding. That would mean either higher taxes or lower pensions which both are a no-go so let's just take higher risk.
This is the most dangerous time for our planet
This. Many mobile, or even vehicle (GPS) compasses are not magnetic at all, but are doing point to point math on your GPS coordinates to "determine" your compass heading.
Hahaha, I'm sorry? Maybe elaborate, I don't see this much!
This comment saddens me.

Ryan may be "in the circle" now, but it's not like he had a rich VC uncle. It's not nepotism; he had no connections when he started out. Product Hunt didn't succeed because he's "in the circle", he's "in the circle" because Product Hunt succeeded.

Ryan is one of the nicest, most genuine person I've met, and he worked hard to get where he is. He built a great team and a product that people love. My company is where it is in large part to PH, and I'm thankful they exist.

(More: https://medium.com/@rrhoover/from-rejection-to-product-hunt-...)
AWS live stream from re:Invent 2016  12:30 PM PST
I disagree, you're painting people with too broad a brush. Many of my colleagues drink a Coke once or twice a week when we go out to lunch as a team, and they aren't drinking two just because they now order a Zero instead. This is a real reduction in sugar consumption.

Similarly, people also drive more recklessly when using seatbelts, but they still save lives.
Intelligent Invitations; Delivered via Text350+ Votes on Producthunt. AMA
A quickie take can be found on LX zones in this slideshare deck, also by bcantrill http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx

Big fan of Solaris and zones, though at the moment using a mix of other technologies.

One thing I did notice about Solaris at least in the Linux 2.6.x days: Solaris is amazing at handling low-memory situations. Once I logged into a server that was swapping continuously via SSH and had about 2MB RAM left over - it was still somewhat response; while under Linux of that era it would have bogged down under the same situation.
The No Pricing Manifesto
> Password only ssh logins

Dear lord, this still happens? :)
Crazy long working hours. Work/life balance will make you a better human being... but it will also make you a better programmer (https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/11/10/work-life-balance-so...).
Quantifying Civilization by Information Content
Show HN: Epoxy – Airbnb’s View Architecture on Android
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Just setting

a { text-decoration: none, color: [something else] }

would go along way. I think that's all thats needed.
We don't get a higher standard of living. We're able to buy more stuff per unit, that's true. But, our trading partners buy less stuff per unit. This is very important given that we live in a global economy, and that's not going to change. So we're selling less stuff, meaning that companies make less money. Companies making less money produce less stuff or send jobs overseas to try and bring costs down. That means they're employing fewer US workers.

This effect is compounded by the fact that our companies are competing against companies from other nations, whose goods are now cheaper to buy, making them more attractive than US goods.
It's absurd that you think PH was doing anywhere close to that revenue.

The sale price to me is baffling, even if it was stock. You're not buying revenue, you're not buying valuable technology IP, and you're sure as hell not buying a world-class team that innovated and built some rocketship product.

So how do you explain it? Maybe the fact that it was bought by one of their investors is a start..
> that anyone could easily see they had no chance of ever meeting

sigh. I hope one day people would stop being so cocksure around an industry that has always proven otherwise. I mean, yes, SV does have a slew of absurd valuations based on non-existent business models but doesn't the past success of some of these ventures imply that it can actually work? And all those obvious facts are just "hindsight bias" at work?
Ok, ignoring all the other Trump stuff in the post for the moment, I'm confused about something. At the end, he claims to be shadowbanned on Twitter, yet a quick check of his twitter account shows his last tweet was 4 hours ago, and he has visible tweets for every day for as far back as I bothered to check. (about a week)

Am I missing something?
(I WORK FOR AWS)(Thanks for fixing the time OP!)

I'll be talking about all the updates from the past 2 days and we might have some special guests. Yesterday werner showed up randomly... unscripted... and it was a little nerve wracking.

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Navigating the Agile Landscape
>Now your $1K DDOS bill is a $1K AWS credit.

Nice!

>Hardly any better.

...what?
Yup. Lots of superglue. Never again.
You verify it with a formal recognizer that was generated from the official grammar. Traditionally this would have been e.g. a yacc/bison parser written from the specification's BNF. Today, parser combinators such as hammer[1] are probably easier to use (it has nicer bit-level support).

This puts all of the recognizing/parsing code in the same location. It also verifies the entire input at the same time, before the results are passed back to the main program. You get clean valid/invalid check of the entire input.

For a very good discussion of why formal recognizers are important (and why, if possible, it's important to design transport formats and protocols that are deterministic context-free or simpler[2]), see Meredith and Sergey's talk[3] at 28c3.

[1] https://github.com/abiggerhammer/hammer/

[2] http://www.langsec.org/occupy/

[3] https://media.ccc.de/v/28c3-4763-en-the_science_of_insecurit...
> I guess it's probably not outright fraud

"Once you eliminate the impossible..."
Amazon Re:Invent New Products and Services
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's a common misconception that trees store a really large amount of carbon, usually it is dwarved by the carbon associated with the soil where the trees grows. Over generations, in particular in a rainforest, enormous amounts of carbon are put into the soil, and burning down the forest doesn't just release the carbon from the trees, but many times that number from the soil. Regrow the trees, and you only recapture a fraction of what is released. I imagine you're going to get a similar effect from permafrost melting.
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Status 500... did somebody hack it?

Edit/spez: nevermind, it's back
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> I don't think that in any of the drawn games Karjakin ever had a winning position.

Karjakin had a winning position in game 9, but did not find the key move Qc4. He analyzed this line, but did not see Bg8 and thought it's not winning.
>> We needed a solution that could move our 100 PB archive but could not find one until now with AWS Snowmobile.

Around this time last year BackBlaze had 200PB of customer backups. They described storing it on 54,675 hard drives across 1,215 Storage Pods

So imagine 600 storage pods or half of BackBlaze's entire operation, for just one customer. Insane.
No Rust support, what is even more unexpected.
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First time I am encountering his writing. I am hooked now. What delightful writing about an esoteric topic.
> FreeBSD

Why not OpenBSD? I'm not an advocate of either; I'm trying to learn more about their usefulness in real world applications.
Interesting, thanks for your perspective!
Conversations don't normally occur via blog posts...
The entire conversation here is about cakes and pastry. No sensible 'Western' recipe tells you add spoons of sugar to a steak or a mushroom soup.
Hetzner has this for quite a while now.
Can you say more about how Workramp is for start-ups and how it grows? The TC article had more than what I could find on the website about how onboarding leads to goals, leads to performance evaluation--but giving those tools to the SMB market would be huge. I had them when I worked at Deloitte, I'd love to have them at my current start-up.
How? Sensor fusion with a gyroscope will help transient problems, like walking past some iron rebar, but would have to drift back to the magnetometer's reading if in a long-term situation. Using the GPS as a compass is pretty sketchy, too, AFAIK. Is there some smarter trick?
And Factorio for that matter
I have a fun memory of a lab in high school, must have been sophomore chem... Mix sodium bicarbonate and hydrochloric acid, it bubbles a lot, precipitate NaCl (table salt) out of the result. My lab partner and I finished that in about 3 minutes.

And then, fueled by boredom, we started hunting for other bases and acids to mix... for science! Everything is going well until the teacher races over, grabs the beaker and practically throws it under a hood. I can't remember the precise inputs, but the resulting gas was _noxious_.
Applications Programmer
But some are still trying to keep it alive: https://www.haiku-os.org/
You appear to be assuming that the credit applies after they charge your card, which is not what it reads as to me. The process sounds like "$1k line item for traffic -> $1k credit -> $0 charged to card".

Additionally: you can totally set up CloudWatch Alarms for billing events, it's one of the categories they provide out-of-the-box, and alarms can trigger notifications, lambdas, SQS, etc. So you can totally wire alarm -> lambda and have lambda spin down the thing costing you the money.
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Introducing the AxiDraw V3
A Singular Christmas: Automatic statistical distillation of 100s of xmas songs
SurfaceBook or a Thinkpad would be my vote.