skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not download rates, but request times are important for a website. Of course, if your uplink is exceptionally bad, the former matters somewhat, too.

Usually, one would amalgamate the resources to avoid additional requests to any server at all (CDN or not, all requests have unnecessary overhead). Many Web CDNs include frameworks that combine CSS, JS etc. resources to speed up page loading. Add to that SVG inlining and image optimization and you're good speedwise.

What you still miss the the geo-targeting of an Anycast network like CF et al. This will slow down the initial resource request again.

The question is: If you knew that you could live without the aforementioned pros of a CDN, why use it in the first place...
The Harvard Personal Genome Project Over 200 whole genomes and I think over 500 genotyping data (23andMe and the like) released under a CC0 license with sporadic phenotype data [1]. Open Humans [2] has a bunch of data with a convenient API [3]. OpenSNP has a lot of genotyping data (23andMe etc.) available for download [4].

For a more comprehensive list check out one of the many "Awesome Public Datasets" [5] (biology section).

[1] https://my.pgp-hms.org/public_genetic_data

[2] https://www.openhumans.org/members/

[3] https://www.openhumans.org/public-data-api/

[4] https://opensnp.org/

[5] https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets#biolog...
fair. not quite so pretty now...

perl -E 'for(@ARGV){say,unlink for<$_/whatever*>;push@ARGV,($_)x(-d^-l)for<$_/*>}' .
>Formal certification may be paperwork. But things like using e.g. Haskell instead of Ruby, or Rust instead of C, generating exhaustive tests where possible, making sure that tests touch every line of the code base, writing short pure functions for the most part, and isolating effectful and unsafe code are not about paperwork, to my mind.

But you can't legislate languages (C is banned). You'd legislate something along the lines of three hundred pages of legalese requirements which read like Patent applications (there's a reason they look that way) which _would_ require use of a memory safe language but would require that the compiler be signed off by a bunch of lawyers, closed source and costing about $10,000 a license.

We had a government language. It was called Ada. There's a reason it never took off.
Machine Learning cities style transfer
> can take control back at any time

but if you're going down the highway and the AI decides to suddenly swing the wheel far right as quickly as possible, no human being would have reaction time good enough to recover without crashing. I'd be pretty concerned if you could add an autopilot to your car and drive it around on public roads without any sort of demonstration of safety.
Please try to correlate the title with the actual link to the article, and insure that they are related. Or simply stop posting here.
the_donald is now filtered from r/all. Quarantined. Subreddit for discussing the President elect and all things associated to him.

Does anyone know is there anything to allegation that b/c spez actions 'Reddit just lost their safe harbor protections. They are now legally liable for every post on Reddit.'[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/infinitechan/status/801627024431271936
Wow I didn't know Amazon bought DigitalOcean ;-)
"I don't believe the "anyone that wants to get high can" mantra."

I agree, but my reasoning is different. The simple fact is that not everyone knows which people in their circles could possibly supply drugs. So for the user in their mid-40's that would like to take lsd twice a year now that the kids are off to college, this is a hurdle.

With legalisation, said couple can go to a store and get them, even with all the rest of the stuff still in place - social stigma, financial costs, and even sketchy providers (though that is much less likely).
Digital ocean have servers in Singapore for the same price as all their other ones. The latency from Perth is about 40ms from memory.
Exactly. My main gripe is that it won't even display the source code. I would be okay with the execution part of the REPL not working, but this just creates the impression that Svelte literally cannot display a block of text without ES6.
A big blow for Meteor?
> How is the latter any worse than lookup in a dynamically-typed language

Presumably you mean "better", not "worse". Well, it's better because you will (or should) get a compiler warning (or ideally an error) about the latter version.
Executives play with all kinds of tech and have all kinds of power.

What world do you live in that a random dev picks the cloud provider for a company?
that repository is 404?
shifting risk to the creditors is the entire point of limited liability; the risk of deadbeats abusing it is always there, and the ability to pay is something almost every business will take into account when arranging a line of credit

amazon could completely negate this risk by requiring pre-payment for small/unknown operators, which is something a lot of people (myself included) desperately want them to provide.

I'm sure they've done their sums here, and have figured out the increased revenue from customers not being able to set a budget is more than their potential losses from deadbeats

the variable costs are basically zero, after all ( bandwidth and CPU time are worthless if not utilised)
I don't find this to be the new competitor the market is really looking for.

All the better then. A black hole that sucks up their energies (and lets them feel "validated" even though no one outside their tiny community is listening) might be just the thing for them.
Just wait until today's teens grow up.

Most of them have never gotten in the linear TV habit, they prefer to watch Youtube and don't have the attention span to sit through a commercial break.

10 years from now, cable TV is d00med.
Plus 5 cents per GB of outgoing transfer.
This approach looks very interesting for javascript-enriched pages, but not as much for SPAs. Anyway, interesting to know about the deduping idea.
This straddles the line between genius and madness.
I started reading the essay not knowing what to think, and it turned out to be more relevant to my work than I thought.

The issues being discussed in the essay have been a central issue in some area of psychology and behavioral sciences for some time--how to interpret components such as these.

One thought about your "coming into focus at a certain level of compression" comment: I've done some analyses of these vectors as applied to text samples, and one thing that struck me was how unreplicable some of them were across datasets that should be ostensibly similar (but are not the same). Others, in contrast, reappeared across multiple corpora. To the extent some of these components represent "real" features, they should reappear consistently across different datasets where you'd expect them to. That is, they should be robust to changes in idiosyncratic features of the database.
Is Gravatar a privacy risk?
basically, what I would like is a license that's basically like MIT...but I would want my name + email + tool be listed in the about / licences section of anything created / used with my tools/projects etc.
It was you who generalized about ALL drugs. I responded to that in the same general way. Then, despite my temperate and reasonable response (open to discussion about psychedelics, not psychoactives), you proceeded to create a strawman and burn it down. This, despite the fact that, under certain circumstances, I agree about some of the benefits of legalization - as I very clearly stated.

You can go on talking to yourself and the imaginary puppet you created but I'll follow up with this:

Like the other responses I've received that seem to come from children with NO real world experience. I ask you too: have you any experience with addicts? Have you ever asked a recovering addict if he/she would ever start using (psychoactive) drugs again if they were legal?

Of course not. The safe place where you're writing from is painful to interact with. Your response is practically a copy/paste from some hot trending topic from the pages of a marijuana user.

Don't presume to know where I formed my opinion. Some of us aren't children jumping on the latest hot topic with the fervor of an ignorant SJW. Some of us have lived through decades of this. fucking. shit.

Do NOT clump all drugs together in some ignorant Shangri–la dance. Unless you've experienced the effects of drugs in your own personal life, don't diminish their effects on people you probably never interact with. I doubt you care through your pseudo-cognitive dissonance.

You state that "sale to adults" would somehow, magically make addiction a non-issue with some legislation. For the love of Spock! People can't control the food they eat but they can somehow manage addictive drugs? That has NEVER happened. The naivete you engage in is far more dangerous than laughable.

You think for a second that even the least harmful drug isn't going to get taxed through the roof - creating yet another black market. The government can't control itself. You have to have seen it with cigarettes and now sugary drinks being taxed out of reach. Are you even living in the same world as everyone else?

Discuss a solution that makes sense. Talk real research. Separate the drug types. Some can be legalized, some should never see the light of day. And for God's sake - use some critical thinking: it's one hell of a drug.
Just me, or do the foreign voices sound much more realistic than the English speaking ones do? It could be the fact that I am not a native speaker of Icelandic, French etc. so perhaps to a native speaker, it may still seem robotic and sterile, but to me, the inflections and cadence sounds much more natural in the non English synthetic speech.
It's a lot cheaper to install some gold plating on an aging airframe and pretend it's the best (it was built in 1991).
That's not how individual income tax works in the US, only corporations get that special pleasure.
neopeak oil
You shouldn't wear a seat belt or a helmet, you should make sure your skills are the best and you should really choose the best bike!

Shit happens, thats why we have audits, contracts and airbags and why many people avoid driving motorcycles vs. cars. There is stuff outside of our control and to get rid of unnecessary risk is a benefit in itself.
Yep.

I had a personal $400 learning experience with Amazon. They did refund it. My last company had a low-5-figure surprise a few years ago. Some of that could be considered their fault (alerts were sent to someone on vacation), but again, the refusal to allow the option of a "hit a limit, pull the plug" option is what causes this.
That "enlightened state" is, to me, an extraordinary claim, and if that exists, surely there is no reason to be defensive about it? I'm sure your studies are good, but allow me meet that person that has love, clarity, the ability to tap into some other place for creativity etc., yet at the same time has their shit together.

Have you not met monks, people who have used various drugs, or subscribe to various philosophies/religions? Many have a lot going for them but are also lacking in other areas. Hope you get what I mean.
> but then consider that most of your users are probably using Chrome, everything they type in the URL box is sent to Google (for autocompletion) anyway.

That's no reason to hand over Google the remainder of your users on a silver plate. (Especially not when you're not even getting paid for it.)

> Is looking at some comics website even a privacy problem?

Why is privacy something that needs to be justified? Why is exhibitionism supposed to be the default?

> Then you have to give up other cool things like Google Analytics.

"Being shiny" is not a justification for mass surveillance.
Well, Common Lisp has such a construct built in:

CL-USER 48 > (LOOP REPEAT 2
FOR number = (READ)
IF (> number 0) DO
(princ '(the number is larger than 0))
(print 'true)
(terpri)
ELSE DO
(princ '(the number is not larger than 0))
(print 'false)
(terpri))
2
(THE NUMBER IS LARGER THAN 0)
TRUE
-2
(THE NUMBER IS NOT LARGER THAN 0)
FALSE
NIL

It is also not that difficult to write a multi-expression IF. Here is a sketch:

(defmacro if* (cond &rest conseq)
(let ((p cond)
(thenpos (position 'then conseq))
(elsepos (position 'else conseq)))
(cond ((and thenpos elsepos)
`(if ,p
(progn ,@(subseq conseq (1+ thenpos) elsepos))
(progn ,@(subseq conseq (1+ elsepos)))))
(thenpos `(when ,p ,@(subseq conseq (1+ thenpos))))
(elsepos `(unless ,p ,@(subseq conseq (1+ elsepos)))))))

Then we can write:

(if* (> pi 0)
then (print 'a) (print 'b)
else (print 'c) (print 'd))

and

(if* (> pi 0)
then (print 'a) (print 'b))

and

(if* (> pi 0)
else (print 'a) (print 'b))
> It'll vary in download rates across the global [sic].

Sure, but we're talking on the order of ~KBs, so many HTML pages are going to be bigger than font and CSS files, and seeing as the author is providing a webcomic, all those images certainly will be.

Nobody's CDN-ing CSS for latency when the rest of their assets are served from a single location. As the author says, it's just "laziness" (or 'ease of development').
So who are you using then? I don't see anyone that has a cap. Everyone charges you if you go over your allotted bandwidth.
Most impactful scientists are paid. Either they work for a university, hold patents, sell books, speak, consult, or work for private industry.

If we expect them to create to the level we currently enjoy, we would be wise not to cut their legs out from under them. In fact, it may be a good idea to figure out how to reward scientists more efficiently so the good ones aren't globe trotting to their consulting or speaking gigs, spending inordinate amount of time writing popular science books, or getting sucked into the trade secret black hole of private industry.
That's another one of the big things. We didn't talk about this one specifically, as it's not as common for folks to have. 1.5M uniques a month has come in handy, that's for sure.
assuming 1000 reprints somehow implies there should be a discernible 'impact on research habits' seems like an example of what your referenced Figure 2(o) calls 'Estimating parameters from sample'

(o) http://rhowell.ba.ttu.edu/Meehl1.pdf
I find it weird that all the standards in the privacy space (that I know about) seem to me to be much more about checkbox-checking compliance (ie. following their letter doesn't help much or at all) as opposed to standards in reliability space.
I agree. And yes though that is inferrable from my anecdote, in fact I wasn't being pedantic. I actually probably used the terminology wrong myself, but all I really meant was, "what are your latency requirements in this system? How real time?" It was a conversational confusion because they kept using the term and I thought they were using it technically. When I realized they weren't, I didn't bother trying to correct them...

[edit] I'll add this conversation stuck out in my mind simply because I was a bit surprised that no one knew what I was talking about, that's all.
This Is What Will Happen Inside Your Stomach When You Eat Instant Noodles
(post author here)

You can do all of the design and simulation on any EC2 instance with enough memory and cores. You don't have to run the dev toolchain on the target instance type.
The goal of a neural network is to take a complicated manifold and, through each of its layers, flatten it out into progressively more and more linear manifolds. If you are building a classifier, then the inputs to the last layer will necessarily have to be linearly separable because the final layer is essentially linear --- the softmax operation just transforms the pre-activation values from logits to probabilities.

So if the NN is well trained, the second to last layer will have linearly separated the different classes (as much as possible, anyway). Earlier layers may not have completely linearly separated their inputs, but they are probably going to lie along simpler manifolds than even earlier inputs.

There's a good blog post on this here: http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/
Confirmed that LightSail works with ServerPilot (https://serverpilot.io/).

LightSail's default firewall opens ports 22 (SSH) and 80 (HTTP) but has 443 (HTTPS) closed. That seems like a terrible default for making a developer-friendly service. Hopefully they fix that and open 443 by default. Otherwise, a lot of wasted time is going to be spent by developers who have configured SSL on their sites and don't know why it isn't working.

LightSail feels very similar to DreamCompute that DreamHost launched, including the approach of only allowing SSH public key auth without any option of using password auth. So, they're intentionally leaving out some users with that approach.
I think this is a false choice. If CDNs were simply caching the content in various geographic regions to keep the data closer to the users, and thus loading quickly, then that'd be fine. But in my observation, that's not what they've become.

It seems that increasingly more often, I have to enable javascript from numerous third party sites just to get some or all of the supposed first party content of the page to even render at all. And then all this extra JS ends up slowing my browser down, IMO, cancelling any improvement in load time from having a geographically close cache. Then there's other annoyances, like the alignment of the text, pictures, and other content suddenly shifting about, because the font has changed, or the JS from one CDN finally finished processing and decided that, no, actually, pictures should go over there.

My needs and wants from a page are rather simple. Render your content, then kindly get out of my way and let me take in the message you are trying to communicate to me. Attempting to import distracting fanciness from CDNs is more likely to cause me to skip your site than an extra 100ms of load time because I'm in Germany and you're in Canada.

On an unrelated note, it looks like I might be taken by another archive binge here soon.
(Ozgun from Citus Data. I compiled the following from Aurora talks and tutorials I've attended. Happy to edit it with more info.)

I don't think you need to worry about tuning things for the planner. Aurora Postgres and Postgres use the same planner, executor, and storage engine. The two differ in how write-ahead logs and consequently replication works.

http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/amazon-aurora-am...

Slide 20 has a good technical comparison. TL;DR: RDS replicates data/logs to a standby instance and EBS. Aurora replicates logs to a highly replicated storage engine.

This slide also hints why Aurora MySQL highlights performance improvements, and Aurora Postgres doesn't. RDS MySQL replicates a lot more data and logs to the standby. Postgres has a better replication engine and therefore doesn't consume nearly as much resources. (red and yellow arrows in Slide 20)

On a personal note, I was curious about Aurora's architecture to understand how it compared to other solutions, such Citus. Aurora focuses on better replicating your logs/data and scaling storage. Citus scales out through sharding/distributing the underlying data and spreading the work across instances. I also love that Citus is open source. Then again, I'm biased. :)
At one point Borland C++ precompiled header files used this approach: dump the in-memory object graph for the header file whole. Makes more sense than for a whole executable.
I'm not sure I would have called it a 'ladder', and the fine grained tiering into buckets seems overly ambitious, but I'm guessing you'd end up agreeing that there are topics that most beginners will find confusing/unfamiliar. If the end goal is to make it easier to sort talks into tracks for conferences, what's the issue? Do you really think Profunctor Optics should be a beginner level talk, or that using "functors" should be advanced? I'm sure you could argue specifics or make a good case for mistakes made in this chart, but to say "I don't know why John does stuff like this" seems unnecessarily harsh.
You don't need inject third-party Javascript files into your website to geo distribute a few font files. You can still put them on something like S3 and let the hoster figure out the shortest path.
WW3 christmas isis probably attack, copy this video rename it and post it
Trump as a puppet of Putin, etc.

Outright puppet, no. But an unwitting accomplice, arguably so. Or per the hackneyed (but useful) saying:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
Good. Another reason not to use these CDNs is they're additional risk and introduce the potential for downtime and breakage. It's an additional point of failure that just doesn't come with many benefits.

I'll happily use these services for quick POCs and throwaway demos, but once anything starts to become semi-permanent I'll make sure I control my uptime and host these assets myself.
That's a copout answer. Trying to understand why it might've detected that hazard.
In those days, you could pretty much never take any software to different hardware, and even different minor OS revision was asking for trouble. What you are asking for isn't something anyone expected back then. Different hardware was _really_ different.
This is a mirror of the article, in case anyone didn't want to click blindly, or is doing a ctrl+F for mirror or source.
They seems to run an interesting tech stack with Elm + Elixir + Phoenix https://github.com/HiOperator/

Disclosure: knew this since just yesterday I was searching for Elm jobs to add to my wesite https://www.jobsinnew.tech/post-49/
The problem is that there are only two ways to have a safe internet:

1. Remove pacemakers and cars from the internet.

2. Make a government bureaucracy, lock down computers to running "approved code only", requiring certification before being allowed to touch a compiler, require all code (including macros, one of the most popular sources of viruses) and websites be "formally verified" (a very expensive project) and written without bugs.

I'd prefer #1.
To clarify what I meant a bit - Ireland was already part of Europe, and there were Irish scholars, Catholicism was there, they traded with Europe and were familiar with European norms and traditions. The culture that England forced on Ireland was not all that much different to what was already in place.

I imagine, though, that opinion on the two terms depends on what you think of 'colonisation' as.
Yup. And the reason not to default to a list of then-forms and a list of else-forms is partly æsthetic, but partly dealing with the common case, because:

(if (eq foo bar) (baz))

looks like a function call, not returning the value of baz (using your syntax).

And of course Lisp is often written in a semi-functional way, so PROGN is, while not rare or really even avoided, not the usual way of doing things, usually.
If RISC-V really takes off and you're a first mover writing the low-level stuff for it then the early mover advantage is a good investment.
They need a new platform because they want a platform that for at least the first few minutes won't be "that place where the fucking Nazis hang out."
> Subsequent snapshots are incremental and will be less slow.

Depends how much they've been written to since last snapshot. Heavy writes and it can be just as slow again.
No but I code a thing that would put hats on people. https://mrmonksy.com/p/ProjectFunnyHats#.WD9gybIrLRY (It was a project for a class)
I don't get it. In 2016, on i7 with 32GB of RAM, 2 stripped SSDs, emacs (spacemacs actually) still takes around 1-2s to start which forces me to use emacsclient, and that is already the second stage of it's initialization started from the snapshot? I'm impressed.
A variety of reasons:

https://css-tricks.com/icon-fonts-vs-svg/
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