skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is incredible for fpga users. There is now a market for freelance fpga developers
Though I assume if you have >100PB to store you aren't paying list rates.
Should we be looking at Slack as an example here? Their interface is necessary for people to use it, if your company uses Slack you will have to use their UI/UX. Whereas for AWS, your engineers are more likely to make the call on UI/UX, and not the executives.
Dammit. While researching for some hard stats on this, I performed several Google searches containing the keywords "California divorce". Now I'm already getting divorce ads. Which my spouse might see. Better explain this one now before it becomes self-fulfilling ;) !
TLS solves that problem.
Given that Amazon currently offers this as a service (two different services actually, snowball and snowmobile for exabytes), i wonder what gives?

Is one less informed than the other or what am I missing something? Why such disparity in opinion?
If your school has a mailing list where people send out jobs, subscribe to that and start replying. I had much more success with that than freelancing sites, in fact the only other method that really worked was Craigslist.
While on this topic, does anyone have any experience with DreamCompute (https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/computing)? I was thinking about trying them out, but could not find any reviews/thoughts about them. They seem to offer a lot, for very low prices. Here's more -- https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/217744568-What-...
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Is this even remotely useful FOR YOU? (Save time looking for website templates)
I think from the fact that it was in quotes, "home" just means your default number
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Who even has that much data, outside of Google and Facebook?

I mean - I totally believe there are people that do have that much, I just don't know who they are.

Fake Edit: Film?
This puts DigitalOcean in a tough spot. They aren't going after the top-tier get your hands dirty customers AWS usually caters to, and they aren't going after the no-tech skills audience of godaddy/bluehost/dreamhost etc. So now it becomes a marketing battle for the middle.
If Google released an IDE with tight integration to Google Cloud like Azure + Visual Studio, that's a potential killer app that lowers the perceived switching cost.

If you told me to use Azure two years ago I would've laughed you out of the room. But here I am in 2016, using Azure, using ASP.net + IIS on Visual Studio. that's some powerful shit and currently AWS has cost leadership and perceived switching cost as their edge.

By introducing a layer of learning curve, you lock in your customers but eventually the other guys will race to lower that curve.
I hope that Amazon contributes back to the Presto community.
What IS it about AWS and the opaque naming of their services?! There is a reason this exists: https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
It was whipped together quickly and launched about 5mins ago. it's glitchy, but is the idea even useful/valuable? Would you use it over, say googling for templates/themes if it was ironed out?

Would love feedback? Is it just shit?
Kickstarter considers games a separate category from software, and lumps all games (video games, table top, card games, gaming hardware etc.) into one larger category with subcategories.
Spring Boot if you want to continue going down the Java path.

Personally, haven't found anything that has led me to be more productive than Rails + (Semantic UI or Bootstrap) + jQuery. Server side rendered templates with some light sprinkling of javascript covers 99% of my needs.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say there's some sort of amazon event on today
Are there other similar services out there or is this completely new?

It looks really awesome.

I know this is silly to ask of a cloud company but some kind of offline mode would be really useful for robotics and for the security example. Maybe it could be limited like you request n specific things you want to recognize and it stores the relevant data locally.
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Not exactly, you can't do that kind of calculation. Solar panels work only in full sunlight, and only during the day. When there's cloud coverage, the electricity production goes down drastically. I was giving Topaz solar farm in California as a reference, because it's a solar plant of the same magnitude, in about the same sunlight conditions as India. There's about 3 years of track record for Topaz, and so far its best year (2015), it generated 1.3 TWh/year. We're far from the 5.67 TWh/year that you mention. The best upper limit (theoretical) in a solar farm is about 7 hours of sunlight/day, but that's just the theory. In practice it's always lower.
That profitability is the consequence of regulation. Utilities are generally a government granted monopoly so any failure to provide service (brown or blackouts) comes with huge fines. Last I checked, the fine for a utility in Southern California for a blackout in the LA metro area could be as much as several hundred million dollars. That would wipe out the profitability for the year so the vast majority of utilities in the US own or contract out to "peaker" plants that are on standby but ready to quickly spin up.

If these regulations were updated to require less polluting peaker plants, nuclear might be the only option because the economics are government mandated. I wouldn't be surprised if California started moving this direction by 2050 if it can give up the Nat gas addiction.
> Apple did not "fork" anything, and certainly not OpenBSD. Their core OS (Darwin) was developed by NEXTStep. It reused chunks of the original BSD (from which FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD were all forked at one point or another) mostly for I/O interfaces, but the actual kernel architecture is very different.

That's wrong. Apple pulled in and integrated a lot of code from FreeBSD itself to modernize NeXTStep.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Myths:

> most userland utilities and the C library on OS X are derived from FreeBSD versions

> The XNU kernel used on OS X includes a few subsystems from (older versions of) FreeBSD, but is mostly an independent implementation.
matching handles were long gone, but I was able to get the exact name + inc at the end, which is good enough.
This is the way to go. I use a small Bullet Journal that I can carry in my pocket every day. I found Field Notes were expensive, so I use a Fold Journal (http://www.foldjournal.com). They are similar, have dot grid paper, and are way cheaper.
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Vuvuzela seems great except your anonymity is guaranteed by a set of high availability and capacity servers.

Those servers need to independently operated and resistant to global compromise.

We don't really have a good template for a system like this. We have centralized HA systems and decentralized high churn systems like Bittorrent and Tor.

I've been intrigued by the observation that forthcoming "proof of stake" blockchain systems have very similar requirements in terms of availability and capacity to anonymous messaging systems. I wonder if we can use the nodes in a PoS system to bootstrap an anonymity system like Vuvuzela.
Scott Chacon's videos are priceless. (He's the co-author of the git book.) They explain exactly how git works internally in the simplest terms possible. Either or both of these:

Introduction to Git - talk by Scott Chacon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbLVvrb2-fY

Introduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDR433b0HJY

The latter is newer but a bit longer.

Don't be fooled by the video names, these are introductions to the internals not just the interface.
Switzerland wants nothing to do with Snowden
I just ran a few of my IP's through http://www.anti-abuse.org/multi-rbl-check/ and didn't get any hits. It's likely luck of the draw.

That said, you have to ask them to remove their port 25 throttle and set rDNS: https://aws.amazon.com/forms/ec2-email-limit-rdns-request
To avoid confusion, they should have used the term "pure functional programming" or even "typed pure functional programming".

That's what was used when I started learning FP, which was maybe three or four years ago. There was FP, and then purity was a secondary characteristic. Haskell was pure and typed, but that didn't make other languages not FP, when they still had all the same basic tools and the same idiomatic focus on composition of functions over mutable state and imperative logic. No, you didn't need a special magic word to allow you to have side-effects like I/O, and most also allowed for mutability (even Scheme had set! after all), but they are first and foremost functional languages. In many ways, Haskell was and still kind of is the odd one out, not counting experiemental academic languages like Idris and Coq.

This wasn't even a controversial statement just a few years ago. But as Haskell has been more and more in vogue, there's this weird fixation on redefining the window of what "FP" is to only refer to, well, Haskell. And it's very clearly what the LC list is all about, because so many of the concepts described are both largely unique to Haskell and it's closest relatives, and unnecessary to do practical, everyday work in a vast majority of FP languages.

And ultimately, attitudes like that hurt the whole field. In trying to fix Haskell's image problem by brute force, they wind up damning the larger domain in the process.
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It was just announced at a press-release this morning.

- Hardware: https://github.com/commaai/neo

- Software: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot
You clearly did not watch the video. I don't care what your cohort of "alt-right" kids are up to or what outmoded lessons you vainly try to impress upon them. There are real, living, breathing, human beings who now feel empowered to throw out the Nazi salute, single out Jews and Muslims, and claim that America was created by and for white europeans. This isn't some false-flag rabble-rousing propaganda. This is a danger to the foundation of our society. Ignore it at your (and my) peril.
I'm curious about ricochet, but not excited about a service that is integrated with Tor...I've heard a lot of things recently about Tor's insecurity. If this new thing is better about protecting users (as it seems it might be), then I'd definitely stay away from something interfacing with Tor.
Another great reason to have an ad blocker.
Great blog !!

Some questions -

1. Is the sharding logic (based on customer) written in the application or is it somewhere else ?

2. How does your PG cluster look like ? How is the read/write workflow ?

3. Is there a way to rebalance the tables after adding nodes to the PG cluster ?
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I think apple had really stopped caring about the high end professionals. The real shot over the bow was the nerfing of Final Cut.

The middle ground user is probably far more profitable and less of a headache for them.
I only mean to support the idea that research of plant / fungus based substances shouldn't be zero.

Everyone getting off-chops on drugs all the time is clearly a bad idea. But evem most drug and alcohol users self-regulate, so there's that.
Google now has "Custom Machine Types" https://cloud.google.com/custom-machine-types/
That's exactly the reason I wouldn't sign-up for something "free" when I was required to give away my credit card details.
Awesome.
What I want in addition, is for others to never know Vuvuzela has been downloaded, installed, or used.
That has implications up and down the stack of course.
But otherwise, this knowledge is enough to flag users of privacy protecting technology.
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No. You're free to form your own major place of discourse.
Tritium has a half-life of only 12 years.

Which is fine for my Luminox watch, but not fine for a wizard's staff.

Also, the light is pretty weak. You can only see it in a dark environment. Again, that's fine for a watch.
This isn't true, you still need a read replica if you want it to failover under a minute. Otherwise it'll try to create another DB.
Again, I answered this for you last week. Both Standard Chartered Bank and Barclays have many millions of lines of very successful production Haskell code. Both codebases are solving complex problems not solved at other banks and both make extensive use of types and purity. We do not regard pure functional programming as "aesthetics".
It's great to see so much competition in this space. This initial offering looks limited in its ability to handle more complex branching and context building but hopefully it will evolve. I'm also a little surprised at the pricing given that Google and Facebook offer comparable services for free.
My preferred solution is actually to force the original beneficiaries of the debt origination to carry a "lowest priority" fraction of it for the duration of the loan - somewhere from 5-20% should be sufficient. Once schools need to carry responsibility for the full repayment of the student loans, they'll have an incentive to minimize the size of the loans.
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You could run Javascript on the server back in 1996.

Netscape Enterprise Server supported Javascript as a server-side language, similar to VBScript or PHP. They called it Livewire.
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648 megawatts is peak capacity. A fixed-tilt solar PV farm in a good location, like Topaz Solar Farm (and presumably this one) can output 27% of peak capacity averaged over a whole year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz_Solar_Farm

You'd actually expect something like 648 * 365 * 24 * .27 = 1.5 TWh/year.
Does this mean we're seeing the end of days where I upload a resume, click submit, and then get presented with an entirely new form to manually type everything already present on my resume? Can we finally kill the Taleo job application?

Didn't read the article, I just saw "HR" and "Digital Age" and had an involuntary conniption...
Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Why not use your own score card? I would think someone would be more impressed by a savvy, honest answer that talks about the business than just a size comparison. But what do I know!
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Or was making a joke, "What's Upcloud?" "Oh, not much, what's up with you?"
Software projects that have significant impact on public safety/well being are a relatively rare kind. You can easily apply additional policies on them - and indeed this is what is being done (see airplane software, medical software etc.).

But will you really call your union because your manager forces you to skip writing unit tests for each and every class you write? Having in mind you are just churning out some crappy e-commerce website?

Completely another thing is that you might be careful with your code, the third party components you are using are more lax. This is well recognized e.g. in medical software where any third party code must identified and held to the same standards as the software you write.

It is very difficult to say who is to blame for creating a certain software bugs. Is it the person that configures the software, becuase he chose invalid config parameters? Is it the intern that wrote invalid piece of parsing code? Is it the system architect who put wrong data into the specification?

For any given piece of software there are many people responsible in various ways for its creation. In such contexts you cannot be blaming individual persons especially that their intentions might be good. Even very careful programmers will make bugs.
Google also offers this as a service;

I've work on high performance networking file transfers. my experience is that most people who move data get very low utilization compared to the actual throughput of the network. People typically use one TCP connection, one process. high performance data transfers use thousands of TCP connections and thousands of processes.

Many other people underestimate the time/labor effort of dealing with a snowball.
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$1.49 per device per year is very expensive for what amounts to library that is designed for vendor lock-in. In a market where there is a drive to push down the cost of devices, $7.50 (5 years) over the lifetime of the device is a substantial cost. And, unfortunately, it won't run on all your devices, only the high-powered ones, so you have to solve the problem on your own anyway for a full breadth of devices.
This comes rather fast on the heels of Yahoo releasing their NSFW source code
Still, if they made similar terabyte-scale service but using drones, I'd try it just for the heck of it.
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> Pressure needs to come from users, but also from developers

It needs to come from government especially. It's a basic function of government to protect the public

> How would we react if this story was about a plane crash or a nuclear accident caused by negligence?

If there were no government laws penalizing this outcome and regulations preventing it, I'd be horrified.
almost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant_problem
Makes me really sad to read that old piece with so many things I thought myself. When will we commit to these ideas ? defense-only, profit-less, transparency ?
Also note retirement accounts are subject to being split for divorce, but they are protected from lawsuit. So loading up your 401k will prevent you being sued and having your assets taken.
There's no reason why capital gains couldn't be taxed at the same rates as income.
Infrastructure as code. Use the API the build machines from scratch on demand.

It can be a very powerful model if done well, or done poorly cost a lot for less performance.

I use Hetzner myself for my large projects but the machines were configured using the same scripts I practiced over and over again on DO.
Yeah, you're right, that would be confusing.
Comparing theoretical efficiency of new design for incandescent lighting with commercially available LEDs does not make sense, as theoretical efficiency of white LEDs is also around 40%. I'll consider incandescents once the efficiency of commercially available ones reaches the efficiency of commercially available leds. I bet $100 that it will not happen in next 10 years.
Don't forget, GCE VMs also support per-minute pricing while EC2 is still per-hour (don't think that changed in the past few months, happy to be corrected). many users spin up a VM, use it for 20 minutes, then kill it (all the data remains in persistent disk).
Does aws offer a speech recognition service too?
Yeah, that happens when you prioritize buying sequencers and building genome centers while pretending that analysts grow on trees.

The post-docs and graduate students who do the heavy lifting on all of these projects don't make a living wage.

They can't raise a family, buy a house, or save for the future. The people in charge made them indentured servants and now those leaders are going to reap the whirlwind.
Yes, they fit around my ears nicely. I've always been uncomfortable with the padding touching my ears the way you describe. I'm pretty picky, but I've found the HyperX headset to be way more comfortable than some other, very expensive headsets that I've tried. I've had them for almost two years now and they've been very durable as well.
Are you saying it's impossible to write quality code?

There is high-assurance software these days.
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>This sounds plausible and I want it to be true but I have doubts that every phoneme of every world language can be discriminated by adults after the early-childhood language acquisition.

It's almost trivial if you're trained to listen rather than decode. Opera singers can achieve perfect pronunciation of languages they don't comprehend at all, through the use of IPA. The words are absolutely meaningless to them, they're just very precisely recreating a certain set of sounds. Their musical listening skills transfer directly into pronunciation.

If you can learn to sing Sygyt as an adult, I think you can cope with a couple of tricky phonemes in a foreign language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_14pb2i6Sc

Like OP, I think that the comparison with visual art is very apt. Most people see on a functional level, identifying objects rather than seeing their literal forms. As a result, they tend to draw the abstract idea of a thing rather than the literal appearance of a thing. Learning to draw involves unlearning that windows are rectangular, that chairs have legs of equal length, that a soccer ball is spherical.

If we're primed to pay attention to one thing, it vastly diminishes our ability to recognise other things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNF9QNEQLA
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Define legible, or rather, what were your frustrations with your previous company? I have worked with many Rails apps, some at very large scale, and never found them illegible in situations where the developers 1. conformed to best practices, 2. did not try to write Ruby like a C-derivative, and 3. were using rails for CRUD apps vs. trying to wing something mostly made for CRUD into doing something it probably shouldn't have.
I agree.

I am currently using Linode, but would move to AWS if they offer a cap. 2 years ago I signed up for the free AWS and forgot about it (didn't use it at all). Ended up costing ~60$ before I found out and since then I've avoided it.
Hearing Chomsky speak about anything coats an intellectual/abstract ring to it. Coming from an old time high rank military officer feels a lot different to me.
My question is why does no one talk about prgmr?
I have my reservations about this code. I am a long time free software developer so it is hard to say it but it seems clear to me that a single entity (from a legal perspective) has to "own" the self-driving car software.

In the future bits of a self-driving car system may get open-sourced the way Facebook Open Compute has emerged in data centers, but first the proprietary implementations will need to pave the way in the legal world.

It's not all bad news, though: I'd love to see a free software project that converted my lawn mower into a self-driving lawn mower...
Here's a great Rails learning resource:

https://www.railstutorial.org
Banks didn't generally make any promises about the future values of houses.
AWS has fallen flat in the past with cross-service initiatives. Tagging and IAM keys come to mind. I haven't personally used Google much but from what I hear their stuff is a bit more cohesive..

This new Org stuff might be a recent exception though; I haven't read through it all and tested it to know. Hopefully.