skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and by the way, all vessels over a certain size are required (by international maritime law) to have an AIS transponder fitted and enabled.. and there are internet sites which listen and post information, so we can see that Deja Vu is currently marked in Fort Lauderdale

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:386175/mmsi:319642000/imo:1006556/vessel:DEJA_VU

though it seems that it has now been renamed as 'Broadwater'

https://www.fleetmon.com/vessels/broadwater_1006556_25127/

so perhaps has been written out of this story..
People want car ownership; it's built into the culture. The question is at what cost.

I have gotten rid of my car because Uber/Lyft and public transport/biking are SO much cheaper than owning a car. On the order of a few hundred dollars a month (if I had gotten a new car and insurance).

Additionally, I don't spend time parking or with car maintenance nor do I worry about speeding. In addition, I have more time to make or take phone calls on the road, do some light work on a laptop (with a mobile hotspot) or if I'm feeling tired, just nap.

Despite initial concerns, Ubering and Lyfting is simpler, faster, easier and far, far less stressful than driving. This only compounds for longer trips. There is nothing like an hour-long Uber ride where you basically take a nap and wake up when you've reached your destination or just calmly listening to a podcast or watching an online lecture and being able to take notes.

Now, that said, I'm becoming an avid outdoors person and I want a vehicle I can take on trips that can stow my gear. I use a car rental service for this (currently Turo) and that works well but, I wish there was a service that let me borrow my friends' cars but, got a daily insurance rider so that their asset would never be at risk and that I would be in compliance with the law in California that requires all drivers to have insurance. Something like what Google's ridesharing is doing but, for car borrowing.

Put a per-mile fee on there based on IRS mileage, slap a $5 per rental fee for putting all of this together and boom, you have something that would really revolutionize things.
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While I'd love to think that illumos will rise and be great like Solaris was again, after several years I now think that's an incredible long shot.

The death of Solaris may well be a death blow to illumos as well. It sounds like Oracle, the owners of the Solaris code and copyrights, aren't seeing a future for it. That's an incredible vote of no confidence from the very owners of the code. And the positive energy they have put into Solaris at large for years (marketing, sales, staff) will cease.

While I loved Solaris and illumos back in the day, in the end I'm glad I left and switched to Linux and FreeBSD. I'm working on similar technical challenges with much bigger impact. It's been more difficult, but also more rewarding.
I don't think you are right, because nobody has succeeded at the scope you have suggested - never mind local papers, even prestigious publications like TIME are having a very tough time, which I doubt is a "branding/marketing" issue. You are vastly overestimating the "will to pay" for journalism. It's much more likely that local news desks will disappear in favor for a central and smaller product.
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Why does a busy life put a less busy life "to shame"?

I'm not sure if you meant it literally, but I do know a lot of people who do. They literally get offended and defensive if I suggest they have some free time to do something.

But there really isn't anything shameful about successfully budgeting time, just as there isn't anything shameful about having spare money left over from your paycheck. Quite the opposite, actually.
Even if this wasn't a spirited defense of anti-Semitism, the tone of this comment is totally inappropriate for HN.
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Why? It isn't dedicated support. A single support rep could have hundreds of theoretical clients.

Amazon.com manages to have 24/7 chat support and they certainly aren't charging $3K/month. That's just the power of multi-tasking.
Feature requests:

- On back-nav, grab the query from the URL.

- Use window.location.replace() until the text box loses focus, or the list is scrolled, or for a bit of time, or something to indicate that the user has finished typing out a query, and then use window.location.assign()?

Navigating back immediately replaces the query in the url with what's in the textbox making back useless, and the history has a ton of entries (one for each character typed). Without those changes, navigating back is a painful experience, but with them it should be significantly easier.
It seems to be available from Stanford's Lagunita site: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...
you can use this to serve dynamic websites out of CDN, for example github pages, which we talk about as a static site but underneath it is a slow moving database (your git repo)
We use it and it is hotness.
The way you put it, as though all ideas that ever existed only ever had opponents who were illterate and did not have advanced degrees in anything. But the second part sounds fair and will take that to heart
It goes even further back, early 80s at least.
I have wanted to get one of those for the house, but as I said, in the office it's hard to beat a nespresso when the automatic alternative is keurig.
I thought mainstream media was finally going to recommend OpenOffice users to move to LibreOffice.
It does. I'm talking about the fact that the fictional employee we're talking about is most likely non-union in a right to work state, thereby making it easier to fire them (without union intervention).
The argument isn't about who is struggling more, or is more deserving, it is how you might use different policies to help working poor vs the poor who can't even get a job, and how policies that intended to help one might inadvertently hurt the other.
Alternatively, if you don't want the ability and risks associated with being able to scale to solar system size - use a different vendor who isn't focussed on providing that.

Amazon AWS's "important customers" are not "fallible human beings" who plan to keep their monthly spend under $100. They'd perfectly happily inconvenience thousands of those users in favour of their customers who _do_ need solar system scalability.b(And, to their credit, there's an abundance of stories around of people on typically 2 digit monthly spends who screw up and get a 4 digit bill shock - which Amazon reverse when called up and pleaded with.)

So they built their thing as "default unlimited". Because of course you would in their position - follow the money. When Netfix wants 10,000 more servers - they want it to "just work", not have them need to call support or uncheck some "cost safety" checkbox.

If you need "default cheap", AWS isn't the right tool for you. You can 100% build "default cheap" platforms on AWS if you've got the time/desire (well, down in the "I can ensure I don't go over ~$100/month - it's not real easy to configure AWS to keep costs down in the $5/month class - the monitoring and response system needs about twice that to keep running reliably).

I sometimes don't think people (especially peope who "grew up" in their dev career with "the cloud") understand just what an amazing tool AWS is - and the fact that they make it available to people like me for hobby projects or half-arsed prototype ideas still amazes me. I remember flying halfway round the world with a stack of several hundred meg hard drives in my carry on - catching a cab from the airport to PAIX so I could open up the servers we owned, and add in the drives with photos of 60,000 hotels and a hardened and tested OS upgrade. Buying those 4 servers and the identical local setup for dev/testing, getting them installed at PAIX, and flying from Sydney to California to upgrade them was probably $30+ thousand bucks and 3 months calendar time. Now I can do all that and more with one Ansible script from my laptop - or by pointing and clicking their web interface.

AWS is an _amazing_ tool - talk to some grey-beards about it some time if you don't remember how it used to get done.But the old saying holds: "With great power comes great responsibility." If you don't want to accept the responsibility, use a tool with less power. Don't for a minute think Amazon are going to put a "Ensure I don't spend as much money with AWS as I might otherwise" option in there - if there's _any_ chance of it meaning a deep-pocketed customer _ever_ gets a false positive denial from it. (WHich, now I think about it - makes this new Lightsail thing make so much more sense...)
Where was Datadog's pricing announced?
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It's not just that they threw in a token retired AA couple and token hardworking Asian businesswoman. It's that they think those people will be making, respectively, $180k per year (that's three times the income of a well-off middle/working class person!) and $230k/year (that's maybe 98th percentile). Oh, the poor girl, she has to pay another $2k (1% of her income) in taxes! Call the Red Cross!

It's unimaginable that we're supposed to pity the family which rakes in more than half a mil per year, and almost as much after taxes. $650k is more than plenty of C-suite executives make in a year, and places that dude and his poor wife and four kids in the 99.5th percentile for income.

We're supposed to feel bad for these obscenely wealthy fake people?
This is a decent overview: http://www.nature.com/news/the-quantum-source-of-space-time-... (edit: depending on how much you already know, you may need to skim the early parts)

There was another paper where (IIRC) they flat out derived basics of geometry from entanglement, but I don't remember what it was called. Hopefully someone else knows...
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Its too bad no one has written a tool that keeps the familiar strace cli flags interface and output format but under the hood uses perf/ebpf. If such a tool existed I would be much more likely to reach for that than to fall back to strace.
And so much time getting from thing to thing!

Drop the kids at school by 7:30, go home and shower and eat quick, run downtown to work, pop out for a meeting and get back, stop home and eat, off to grocery store -- well, two actually because neither one has the entire list -- then back, quick nap (timer, 15 min), edit kid's essay draft, keep cats from killing each other, run out and pick up first shift of kids after school, home to let in furnace repair guy, back out to get kid's hair cut, stop to buy batteries and get cash and gas during haircut, pick up second shift after school, back home, do last night's dishes and make dinner, take kid to evening activity (an hour in traffic), swim while he's there, shower at the Y, pick kid up, and home again to eat dinner at 9.

Partner's in NY at work til late, but this is a very typical day of no-research-accomplished-whatsoever, and really I ought to fit in "make tomorrow's dinner" later tonight because tomorrow looks too full already.
For context, here's population http://i.imgur.com/mcA2hWa.jpg.

Kind of obvious, but a lot of infrastructure (esp. for resource extraction) is far away from centers of population.
I agree, it's tough to come up with anything stands alone as even halfway credible.

Most of it is persuasive only if you already hold a particular set of beliefs. For example, if you are a conservative Christian (I am not) showing that Podesta participates in (arguably) Satanic rituals is credible evidence that he more likely to abuse children. Is it "evidence" that his brother has risqué art depicting children on his walls? Yes, if you believe that only a pedophile would possess such art, or condone someone else's possession of such. I believe these conclusions are wrong, but are logical within a particular moral framework (that I don't share). So without knowing your beliefs, I may not be able to come up with anything that you view as credible.

For me, I find the NYT's portrayal of Alefantis as "just a pizza store owner" to be sufficiently disingenuous to be of note. Regular pizza store owners don't get listed as one of GQ's 50 Most Powerful People in DC. Alefantis was the romantic partner of David Brock (the founder of Correct the Record) and was a losing co-defendant with Brock in a lawsuit characterized as "blackmail". If you start with suspicions about someone, and then later find that someone has been successfully sued another party threatening to "spill the beans", I think this is weak but credible evidence that your suspicions may be justified.

There are leaked Stratfor emails where Pizza appears to be the name of one of their projects: https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/13/1326067_testing-the-pi..., https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/13/1319020_pushing-pizza-.... This lends credibility to the idea that "pizza" might be a code word in emails like this: https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23757. Personally, I read this as testament to the quality of New Haven's apizza (http://www.eater.com/2014/3/18/6264277/the-definitive-guide-...) but I can see why someone not familiar with foodie culture would have trouble taking Clinton's response literally.

Last, I think that the discovery of prior accusations of Podesta's involvement in pedophilia is relevant. A year before his death, Andrew Breitbart tweeted that Podesta was a "world class underage sex slave op cover-upperer": https://twitter.com/AndrewBreitbart/status/33636278100561920. As an accusation without proof, it means very little, but if an independent path leads to the same conclusion, it becomes stronger. Still weak, still circumstantial, but if the discovery was truly independent, it seems like enough of a coincidence to justify looking closer.

But yeah, I find all the evidence to be weak and circumstantial. With a different set of beliefs/prejudices -- or if you have a strong intuition for the power of confirmation bias -- coincidence is the best explanation. But I think it's worth trying to understand why a subset of people genuinely do find the evidence to be credible, even if it's not.
For anyone needing a minimal effort prerendering solution (server side render for most JS frameworks), i.e. the use case described by Jeff - I made https://www.prerender.cloud/

(you could use the prerendercloud npm middleware from the lambda edge)
Well similar to SWF it looks like they provide the infrastructure for tracking the state changes and the input/output data at each step so you can:

(1) Quickly get a visual overview of all your executions

(2) See how many workflows failed

(3) Drill down and see which specific step failed and the data that might have triggered the failure

(4) re-run specific workflows

It provides built in error handling, retries/backoff, and parallelization. These are all things you could code yourself, but at some point you would have built a workflow system. Not to mention that the infrastructure of the workflow system itself is managed for you, so you don't have to worry about that going down. You can write workflows that execute over days, weeks or months and not worry about what happens if your server goes down.

It would also come in handy for mutli-language workflows. If your were interacting with a variety of third party APIs that had SDKs in different languages, you could quickly string together a Python Lambda, Java Lambda and some .NET code that used the long polling API.

It would be nice if it integrated seamlessly with Cloudwatch and X-Ray to provide a unified view of logging and tracing right from the same interface.

I also expect a more seamless integration with AWS Batch at some point. Could be useful for chaining together multiple independently maintained batch processes (video conversion, resizing, publish to youtube).

I personally use SWF for a 10 step e-commerce workflow that calls multiple API. It works great, but I could have developed it much more quickly using Step Functions if it were available at the time.
I don't understand how people constantly miss the most obvious solution to keeping a community grounded: charge an entry fee.
Not trying to nitpick, but at least a tiny sliver of this data is misleading: the Amtrak stations markers include locations that are definitely not passenger rail stations. For example, the map shows a half-dozen dots on the southwest Washington state coast, but the only western Washington passenger rail service is up and down I-5, and then eastbound from there.
Maybe when it initially shipped, but unless somebody has been absolutely ignoring all the last 6 years of updates, the version of IE that comes with Win7 is very much TLS1.2 compatible.
Well apart from the 1-bit multi-GPU SGD (which isn't totally free unfortunately), the main thing is BrainScript (formerly the Network Description Language). This is a DSL that lets you define the neural network as a computational network (which is what it is) but also lets you trivially make it recurrent by using `x = PreviousValue(y)` and `x = FutureValue(y)`. CNTK then works out which subset of the network is recurrent and only unwraps that bit.

Other systems like Torch and Tensorflow generally only provide pre-defined recurrent layers, like LSTM and GRU. If you want to make your own you have to deal with a gaping hole in the documentation, and extremely hacky ways of defining recurrence which I honestly never worked out. CNTK makes it trivial.
As a non-scientist this sounds pretty huge to me, but what actually are these new elements? The article doesn't elaborate.

They're all in a similar numeric range, but are these entirely new elements, or other elements recategorised?
I think it was quite obviously meant to be figurative.
GRPC requires http2 which is only supported by ALB and not ELB. Our services are mostly GRPC so lack of ALB means we can't use k8s out of ths box on AWS if that adds any fuel to the fire.
Then buy one from goodwill or borrow one? Most people over 50 still have them. You have to buy/do a lot more annoying shit during a job search. I have clothes that are solely for job interviews and I have to replace them if I want to start interviewing again since I gained weight. Complaining about spending a dollar on a calculator is like complaining you have to buy paper to print your resume on.
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I'm happy to have more usable hostnames for my periodic table-themed Customer sites. I was holding off because "Ununtrium" didn't have a very good ring to it.
The risk of over-abstraction and false assumptions on technical debt
Before the rise of the Internet, traditional media like magazines and newspapers got the majority of their revenue from advertising. It's nice when people pay money to subscribe but it wasn't enough then. It's probably not enough now.
A better question would be, "How often are people on a budget the target of a budget DDOS attack?" I think we've long since entered the era where DDOS attacks don't have to be "serious" to be massive.
Can't find a direct non-paywall link, but here's the discussion with links: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/wall-street-journal...

(A bit suspicious now; none of them have direct links to the article.)
If you're going to write this comment, you should apologize to the commenter who you made fun of with your (((books))) from the (((Hoover Institution))) snark, because you've just agreed with them. Meanwhile, (((conspiracy theories))) are a real thing, while a general belief that the Hoover Institution is anti-Semitic is neither in evidence on this thread nor, really, a thing at all.
It's in active development. We would love PRs that are aligned, what areas are you looking to contribute in?
the BSD feature you mention was added to linux 6 months later.

When I say something is "better", I mean "I've looked at the data, and integrated over a wide range of parameters".

I'm still waiting to hear about a magical BSD feature that is better. That hasn't happened in about 10 years, hence my statement.
We've looked at Airflow. Two main things why we went with Luigi are

* time-based and dependency-based scheduling do not mix well in our experience, if you try to do both at the same time you end up with a very complicated execution model. Luigi is much simpler, it is basically a makefile. To handle time one can just add dummy dependencies where "exists()" function returns true if now()>X, and/or just run the whole thing by cron.

* We heavily use dynamic dependencies in Luigi, where one job decides how many childs to spawn and what parameters to use at run time. Makes it easy to do e.g. mapreduce style jobs purely in Luigi.
And Stackdriver is Zipkin compatible, which is awesome. X-Ray doesn't seem to support Zipkin nor Opentrace which is limiting.