skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN should have an Events tab
A Events tab for big events or conventions that are live streamed.
Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook ...
Out of no where the pages get flooded with new product or service announcements that I didn't even know where going on. Then I proceed to find the live streaming link.

I know it is on me to know about events I'm interested in but it's hard to keep track of all the events. Plus people might discover new events or conventions that aren't large but do have useful information.
Daily reminder Hacker News is a nat sol board!
That is specifically a design flaw in the AOSP. Right now manufacturers have to integrate their custom device drivers into every new OS build, leading to long delays and fragmentation. The device drivers should be separate, and the OS should expose a stable API and integration points. That way OS upgrades could be pushed out without breaking everything, just like with desktop OSs.
Ask HN: Will Google do something with Ad blockers?
I understand when ad blockers blocks Adsense but I don't like they block Google Analytics. Google must lost huge amount of dollars every day from blocked Adsense Ads. What do you think about it?
I wish:

$20
4GB RAM
2 CPUs

$40
8GB RAM
4 CPUs

Some VPS providers already have similar offerings.
Unfortunately it's not a simple endeavor. (a) For healthcare data specifically, the data is sensitive. You need to follow HIPAA and usually 21 CFR 11 regulations, and you always face potentially high liability in case of breach. (b) In part for that reason, it becomes expensive. Even for non-healthcare biomedical data (research-only data), most academic labs will not or cannot pay outside firms to do the work, regardless of whether it would be done better or faster.
> from India like my Dad was -- with 2 kids got divorced, and his all American white wife

I wonder how much citizenship played into his decision to marry her originally ? In that case he would have been using her for a ticket on the "all american" gravy train.
I don't know about Amazon, but Google does have Cloud Speech API; seems to be what you're looking for:

https://cloud.google.com/speech/
In a way, this might be a good thing -- it substantially weakens their ability to cry "censorship". And provides a space where their drivel can be monitored and tracked: inevitably, we'll see many people connected with the new administration turning up here -- and it will be interesting to see how they expose themselves.
Building a cardboard Eurorack case [video]
All the more motivation for API Providers to publish their specifications so that IDE integrations like this are effective!
The flogiston theory also made predictions that checked.
GPUs in the cloud aren't targeted at gamers. They're targeted at people doing things like running render farms and training deep learning models.
Stop caring about nonsense stuff.

If I were you I will go to an extremely inconvenient experience with my girlfriend, like for example crossing the Atlantic on a small rented yacht or camping for a serious amount of time without the comforts of civilization. I have done this myself and it is extremely useful.

Your priority should be to know the other person as fast as possible, her priorities in life, her deep beliefs(and she doing the same with you). Not what she says about herself but how she is, how she behaves.

With hard experiences it becomes orders of magnitude faster than in normal life, in which acting-faking-posing is possible.

This way you will marry the right person. Even if the relationship breaks you don't need to be enemies. I had a lot of girlfriends in my life and most of them continue being part of me. If they need help I will help them without a doubt, but most of the time they are the ones that help me.

You are seeing a relationship as a liability, but a great relationship is a big asset by itself. It provides much more than the sum of the parts.

By being extremely afraid, you are not living your life in the important stuff, and you are not risking anything, so you are already losing.
> App Engine wasn't evidence of Google being a product company, nor does it exemplify the company's strategy. It was a grassroots project that for years didn't receive much leadership support, but was still allowed to launch and grow.

App Engine was a precursor that came 5 years too early.

The hype about serverless is only starting now.
I take that as validation; the stuff that matters to me isn't on Google's systems and never has been.

I got down-modded pretty badly for my first comment; apparently that was terribly offensive. I don't really care much but it is very telling; the same folks that wail and moan endlessly about having their privacy compromised by Google et al. apparently don't hesitate to make it trivially simple to do so.
Advent of code
I thought someone might say that and considered explaining further, but didn't want to get too bogged down in details to distract from the point.

I don't completely agree with the distinction, even though Stallman is the authority. There's still a lot of GNU code used in most Android installations, and a full Debian install only requires installing and running an app. Maybe GNU-available/Linux would be a better name. Although the default is minimal free software, it's easy to add F-droid and anything else you want, because Linux is still GNU GPL-licensed and and still has the freedoms associated with it (despite restrictive baseband and other software.) So in the context of free software dominating hardware, it's still a good example.
Unless your cost of electricity is so low that resistance heating beats heat pumps and natural gas for long term costs, inefficient lighting is an awful way to heat your space.
Really, a safety critical hard realtime system with control loops on top of Python, a general purpose OS and a CAN-USB adapter?

There are reasons why we have realtime operating systems, deterministic bus systems and dedicated CPUs for these kinds of applications.

That might be an interesting research, prototyping or simulation platform. But nothing you want to have on a real public road.
You don't get to be the kind of person who has $400 million by writing huge checks to make people go away.
They depend on cheap computing in the sense that they only pay for what they use and don't have upfront capex costs but I don't think thats what GP means. Google initially grew by filling data centers with commodity consumer computers instead of "enterprise-grade" servers and now they have cheap computing in the form of ASICs and highly customized/integrated general purpose servers.
It's great to see the utterence/intent/slot model to be available outside of Alexa. It's been easy to work with so far in Alexa. And you see a similar model from Nuance with Mix, though Mix seems to be stuck in beta.

Lex looks alot like Alexa though the setup flow is a bit different. Also has prompts for each slot needed. That's nice.
I never made any claims regarding that "source" - I just read that recently while researching Trotsky. I posted it here to get feedback, that's all.
A review of the privacy options currently available to users [pdf]
If you want to stick to Java, look into servlets and JSPs. For databases, almost any will do, but I like Postgres. As for database API, use whichever JPA implementation that comes with the server you're using.

Sometimes, bare Java EE is good enough.
Recently Github crippled (unfortunately) the Search function so that you can't search something in all the repositories at once (if you try it says that you "Must include at least one user, organization, or repository").

I used to use it to find out how other people use different library functions in the wild and it helped me to find good code examples many times in the past (especially when there were no documentation on the API). I wonder if there is any other code searching service with comparable coverage and quality.
as a long time Google user, I find it pretty ironic to use consistency and Google in the same sentence. If consistency exists internally at Google, none of it made in to their products unfortunately.
You're right, lack of standardization and portability is a major problem. I would not personally choose IBM due to the pricing model and previous bad experiences. Google, Microsoft, and Facebook (and a bunch of startups) have all built or acquired conversational services very much like Lex. None of them is a clear winner at this point in my opinion.
Immediately thought about this "solution" to bandwith overage charges as well. Would not be surprised if it ended up getting you disabled for abuse or going against the TOC, etc.
Mapping and Quantifying Political Information Warfare
This is awesome. Very interested in Aurelia at the moment. How long have you been using Aurelia and how comfortable do you feel with it? I'm coming from an Angular and Vue background. Anything that might give me a hard time picking it up?
I am starting out as a programmer and I will appreciate if you will visit mysite
Estimation is key on a Kickstarter. We've got a team of 4 of the best designers and developers I've ever worked with who can deliver beautiful, usable products on time.

It's the highest compliment I can pay them professionally.
Reminds me of Snow Crash.

> Because shortly after he gets into Port Sherman, the wheels on his motorcycle lock up - the spokes become rigid - and the ride gets very bumpy. A couple of seconds after that, the entire bike goes dead, becomes an inert chunk of metal. Not even the engine works. He looks down into the flat screen on top of the fuel tank, wanting to get a status report, but it's just showing snow. The bios has crashed. Asherah's possessed his bike.
steganography is a concept;
vuvuzela is an implementation of that concept
I see.

Google should log other signatures such as device id, ip, network, region where the request coming from and use those data as additional layer of security in the backend to help id the folks/org behind hack.
I ported undump from Emacs to GNU Make once!

I was working in an organization that developed a big network switch, with a large C++ application running on it whose non-recursive Makefile took 30 seconds just to load and parse all of the include makefiles throughout the tree, before actually building anything.

Half a minute of waiting just waiting for that second that it then takes to recompile a single .cpp to a single .o and link everything.

I got tired and added a "make --dump" option which used the GNU Emacs undump code to dump an image of make with all the rules loaded from the Makefile. Then "make --restart" would instantly fire off the incremental rebuilds. (Of course, any changes to the makefiles or generated dependency makefiles required a new --dump to be taken to have an accurate rule tree.)

Another idea would be just to add a darn REPL to make, so you can keep it running and just re-evaluate the rule tree.
I agree. That sounds like a more-or-less standard divorce.

> Alimony. Ok, maybe he could have gotten out of this.

Even if the wife lost her job months before the divorce, she should still be required to seek work and/or agree to stipulate a particular income for herself from which spousal support would be calculated.
Their gross profit in 2015 was 35 billion. Google's was 46. The difference in final profit comes down to how much they reinvest in R&D and future growth. I'd call that the same league.
Maybe it's just me, but almost every office I've visited in the past 8 years has been mostly laptop-driven for 99% of their staff.

Do you mind telling what industry you work in, that you a) use a desktop and b) aren't afforded a laptop as well?
How can one wisely use $ 900K to maintain an open source icons rendering in a font format?

This seems to me as a total waste of money.

Too much money will ruin creativity processes, and so it did in most of the cases I have observed.
How do you bet on a future like this occurring?

You build it.

how do you ensure that your part of the capital won't be obsoleted?

Best as I can figure is be the one that builds the machines taking over.
Jacob Schiff and his clique were most of what Wall St. was at that time.
I know that the fake news narrative is popular right now, and maybe it's just me, but do you think maybe you might be a little biased here?

How is it not censorship when somebody actively monitors what is posted on Twitter and makes a judgement on whether or not that post is appropriate? What is appropriate and how does free speech equate to that in your mind?
You are missing the big picture here. The key phrase is: "risk management". Anything that your are doing (or NOT doing) have inherent risks. You should manage those risks.

If risk realises you will be losing money (in various ways, including litigation) or other assets (such as reputation, talented people, market share etc.). You can lower your exposure to the risk generally by spending money on it. You can hire more devs, testers, enact better policies, increase auditing etc. You can even buy insurance.

What you are advocating for is myopic. You should decrease your risk exposure in a way that is most efficient. It may be with better software, but often this isn't the case.

What the public can and should do is to work on the other part of the equation: make the failure more costly. You should "make them pay" - literally. If you could go to out of business or to prison because the software you have delivered is faulty, you will really make sure it isn't. Simple as that.

EDIT: a few recent banking regulations are good examples. In general various regulators have demanded that the international banks setup demonstrably independent local companies with appointed heads that are criminally responsible for misdeeds done those local companies. Putting in prisons few developers isn't goint to fix anything - the company will simply hire another few. Threatening the people in power is the way to go.
Where do you see that? To me it looks like bandwidth is plan-wide. For example, from the FAQ: "If you delete your instance early and create another one, the free data transfer allowance is shared between the two instances."
Pairing Lex with Polly should get you there.

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/
Echo/Google Home Infinite Loop [video]
Seems fairly comparable to the way it's done in C++11 lambdas.
That wasn't the point of my post.

My point was that, no matter how you fudge the numbers, it's impossible to chalk up bad divorces as outliers. Outliers are defined as 3 standard deviations from the mean in a normal distribution, so the parent was implying that bad divorces occur at a rate of 0.1% or less--which is off by at least one order of magnitude.
The whole "everybody drives jacked up SUVs" thing we have here makes it worse.
What would an American Renaissance look like?
Stop spamming us with links to your blog (7 in the last 2 days).
I am not ignoring anything. On the contrary: You yourself have said that the kind of software you write isn't any bigger or more complex than similar software written in more mainstream languages, and that you have no evidence of significant bottom line benefit (except claim that your software is more maintainable, but without any metrics). I never claimed that Haskell can't be used to write simple software as well as other languages, or even marginally better (for some definition of better). But the commenter I responded to claimed that those advanced abstractions are analogous to building materials that are used to build much bigger buildings than those possible without them. You have not even made that claim.

No one is interested in type-safety or purity for their own sake (except for aesthetic reasons). I'm interested in better, cheaper software. If Haskell's purity (there are simpler languages with similar type systems) provides that then there should be evidence of that before the claim is made. You have not provided any such evidence, and even implied that you're not even carefully collecting metrics that can be used to construct such evidence.
I see Rust mentioned exponentially more here on HN lately and it has definitely peaked my interest as a 2nd year CS student. As soon as I get some free time, I'll give rust a try!
Trump Will Get Power to Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages to All Americans
It's pretty easy to automate an email harvester.

Then again just <firstname><lastname>@(gmail|yahoo|hotmail).com works for a lot of people.
When you say the power of the Emacs platform, do you mean it's flexibility and speed?

I'll definitely check it out.
Can we stop normalizing scum like Richard B. Spencer and the alt right? Many would consider me "far right", I have nothing in common with that filth...

Also, nice to see the market filling the need for a censor-less social platform. Let them be hateful idiots over in the corner, it's their right.
Google launches App Maker
>This, I think, overestimates how much most users currently care about security.

The media has failed to inform the lay public about this issue. Users could be made to care about security with the right messaging. Your average user may not understand OS updates but the issue can be phrased simply in terms of product defects which the manufacturer refuses to fix and that put their personal info at risk.
I think you misunderstood the post. What are you testing when you post your aws honey token to a public repo? This is meant for intrusion detection.
That's not what "Safe Space" means? There's nothing stopping anybody from going on Gab and virulently disagreeing with everyone there or intentionally offending certain users.

Still, impressed with the NYT's ability to push a narrative.
Your VCS should really make it quite easy to go back through version history. If it's not doing that, that's a separate problem.

Maybe it's just me, but I find it an eyesore to have large blobs of commented out code laying around even for a short period (not to mention the odds of me remembering to delete them are close to nil).
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13068068.
In USSR, it was "workers' and peasants' councils" from the get go (so those not belonging to these two categories were excluded). And the real power was always in the hands of Sovnarkom. So I would say that USSR never really had council democracy other than in name - just like most "democratic people's republics" out there aren't democratic.
Apache Drill might have been a better basis if they wanted to build a "query everything easily" based on an existing project.
> Aurora is more expensive, more so on the high-end, so it's not entirely clear that it is the best choice for all applications:

> db.r3.8xlarge: RDS Aurora $4.640/h, RDS MySQL $3.780/h, RDS PostgreSQL $3.980/h

Based on your numbers the difference in pricing between Aurora and Postgres ($4.64 - $3.98) x 24 * 30 = $475/mo. To the company using a db.r3.8xlarge, which has 32-cores and 244 GB of RAM, that's not even a rounding error.
I think answering this question is a big part of selling the world on a tech-progressive future. Are we selling with a handful of robot-inventing billionaires surrounded by masses of poor? Sometimes it sounds like it. But what I think many people in tech mean to be selling is a world of universal wealth where automation leads to both capital and free time for everyone. But that world doesn't have a name or any details yet.
Forensic DNA Phenotyping
Yes, I remember building Emacs in the late 1980's and watching the final dump. I guess 30 years later hardware hasn't improved enough to avoid this? People are building editors in JavaScript today. Perhaps the Emacs Lisp engine needs to be tuned a little more? That Guile Emacs has been decades in the making...
I'd also recommend https://www.erowid.org/ .
Given my experience with rust I imagine a rust specific framework would probably be the best. I imagine something like react/flux would play nicely with ownership and borrowing.

Cool to see its possible to do objective c without everything being unsafe though!
This comes back to how software is designed and built. On it's own a single bad weld should never endanger a bridge, but we accept a single mistake can bring down software. At it's core that's why software fails so often AND that's what we need to fix.
Thanks very much. I've been using it for a few months now, various closed source projects and finally found a good idea to open-source and demonstrate what I've learned.

Coming from Angular 1.x is a very natural progression (and TypeScript makes you wonder how you survived with ES5...). I briefly tried Vue and was not at all keen on shoving logic & presentation markup all in one file.

The only thing I've found troublesome is how spread the modules are. The router, the templating, etc is all separate from the framework - which is obviously good design but leaves you to piece together the bits you actually need yourself. Other than that the standard things like DI, Routing, Custom elements, are all implemented to an amazing standard by the Aurelia team.
Does this set or allow the user to set a cost ceiling? Probably not. Just based on transfer (network) costs, Amazon Lightsail includes this caveat:

Some types of data transfer in excess of data transfer included in your plan is subject to overage charges. Please see the FAQ for details.
> Unfortunately it's not a simple endeavor.

The HIPAA and other regulations aren't any more annoying than any other modern programming practices these days. As for liability in the case of a breach, that's what E&O insurance is for. It does raise the barrier of entry a little, but it's not by any means prohibitive.

I think the bigger issue is what format this data is in. Most medical and medical records data is in a variety of proprietary, non-open and difficult to integrate technologies. One look at HL7 is usually enough to send a programmer back into the loving embrace of anything else.

Working with this data is time intensive and expensive and I'm guessing most heathcare companies don't see it as worth the cost.
What is the TV list you get access to?
If you live in a society that does not hear your voice, there are ways to make that voice heard as long as the society remains free. Eventually, over time, that voice might resonate with others. Black people were not a majority when integration happened (not saying it solved all problems, but it was a step). But their plea for fairer treatment resonated with the majority and progress was made.

As soon as you abandon democracy because the majority doesn't represent you, you are surrendering your ability to be heard. When you throw out democracy, the majority doesn't disappear and become magically replaced with someone who does represent you. In most cases, a strongman with the backing of extremists in the military will end up filling that vacuum. And that person won't care about anybody's voices except his or her own.
Write a some JS for a userscript?
You're describing IBM Watson Health. Many other major consultancies have similar analytics offerings for the healthcare sector.
Show HN: A growable array in C
Could you comment on how that would work?

I'm trying to imagine how I would hide that I downloaded an app on a phone using the appstore (unless you want this to end up like PGP, which is used by the crypto community and no one else because of the perceived complications vis-a-vis implementation.)
I didn't realize that they have direct connections. The AWS data center down the street (Virginia) is directly connected to some google cloud datacenter? Sorry - I'm generally ignorant of datacenter technology.

So a back of envelope calculation says that it would take around 10 days to transfer 100 PiB over Gigabit ethernet. When you say immense, do you mean faster than that?
Sounds like it needs the neovim treatment: neomacs.
What Trump's Secretary of Transportation Could Mean for Uber and Lyft
I think the point was that Amazon's customer service is awful, compared to smaller, much more nimble companies where you can get a technical person on the line and get much more personalized service from someone in the US.