skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard about this a lot from people I know who work in healthcare. It seems that one could make a successful business simply by hiring a bunch of data scientists to offer analytics and data processing services for healthcare, but what's preventing that? Is there a lack of expertise, funding, too much regulation, or something else?
I could be wrong, but IMO, it most likely comes down to the fact that the admins happen to be human beings and these particular communities are just starting to grate on their nerves. Pages and pages of highly upvoted direct attacks rattled the CEO to the point where he thought it wasn't a completely insane idea to abuse his developer privileges to silently alter user content in an attempt to troll his critics. That is a pretty telling sign of frustration.

Whenever the admins make any changes, a certain sub-section of the site goes completely insane and spams the site with tons of threads about how the site is fucking terrible and how the admins are fucking idiots with the common thread among these rabblerousers being that they always happen to hate a particular group that is ruining the site and destroying the indomitable reddit free speech ethos.
Ah hah, yea i'll be installing Linux. But quality hardware is quality hardware. Appreciate your feedback!
There is an example in the blog post about DigitalGlobe.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabyte...
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It is cost efficiency that has improved dramatically in the last 7 years, not device efficiency. Maybe 7 years ago you bought a module with a 14% sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency and today the same manufacturer would have a 16% efficient panel in the same part of their lineup. That is not a dramatic change. It's certainly not worth the cost of replacing panels that work just fine with this year's model.

You'd pay 75% less per watt of panel capacity today compared to 7 years ago, due to manufacturing improvements up and down the supply chain plus brutal market competition between manufacturers. That is a dramatic change.
> The roads don't glow.

There are those solar roadway people who are hoping to fix that. (I'm not optimistic, though. :) )
Nope, that is the problem that mounts and shared volumes solve.

At that point you can argue there is no point in using a container, but your statement is false.
Allowing untrusted users to run programs is a recipe for disaster. Forcecommand runs its commands using a login shell that gets a lot of information from the connecting user. It wouldn't be the first time someone found an obscure environment variable that turns this into a remote shell.
Generally if you're ready for marriage, the question you should be asking yourself is in the event of death, sickness, and yes divorce, how do I ensure the well being of my spouse and kids?

If you're asking how do I protect myself in the event of divorce, you yourself are not ready for marriage.
There are many lesser-known psychedlics with scarily-low lethal doses. Bromo-dragonfly and some *-NBOMe compounds are a few that killed people recently. High doses of DOC can cause extreme vasoconstriction in extremeties, resulting in necrosis. https://psychonautwiki.org is a good site for investigating health risks.
Most of the LED street lighting and whatnot I've seen has been more directed than what it replaced. Light pollution has improved, generally.

For a while the color temperature was terrible, but cheap and reliable warm phosphors have mostly fixed that.

As for private outdoor lighting, I'm not sure that less cost really affects that. People that made poor lighting choices (too much, too cool, too much spill) don't do it because it's suddenly cheap. They just paid more before. The answer to this is likely some degree of local regulation.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13062880 and marked it off-topic.
I pre-paid for 3 years of service but 1 year in they sent notification that the server farm would moved and I had 30 days to relocate my servers. Was pretty busy at the time so was an inconvenience to move everything, but I did.

Then I get the next months invoice and it's not using my pre-paid services but instead is billing for full CPU usage - no reserved instances.

After emailing support several times they say it's my own fault for not using the correct instance type, even though it's identical to the one I pre-paid for. It may well be my error but it was caused by them since I never asked for my servers to be moved. It's been an expensive and time-wasting experience -- will never use them again.

Am currently evaluating GKE (even more expensive) and DigitalOcean.
what did you use for those benchies? would like to run it.
I'm pretty sure AWS only charges on traffic out.

Edit: just did some research, there are many cases this isn't true
This is a great pair of videos that intuitively explain Diffie-Helman key exchange and then the RSA algorithm in a way that requires no previous knowledge of cryptography:

"Public key cryptography - Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do

"Public Key Cryptography: RSA Encryption Algorithm"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXB-V_Keiu8

Good coverage of the fundamentals before attempting a deeper understanding of PGP specifically.
That's like saying that if I understand the layout of the Ext4 filesystem, I can ask much more educated questions about how to write shell scripts or other kinds of programs to manipulate files in various ways.
Invasive strep outbreak kills 4 Alaska Natives
love can be ... bitter
Yep. I use an Amazon EC2 Linux AMI with nVidia GRID GPU's using CUDA and OpenCV and it works like a charm. Of course it is headless so I tunnel X11 through ssh and use xv to look at the images I am rendering. Saves me from buying hardware. Costs me $0.68 an hour -- well worth it.
The paper was published October 2015: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/vuvuzela:sosp15.pdf

Also, previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10668494
Whoa. Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again.

Instead, please (re-)read the HN guidelines and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
European data centers only though, correct?
> only the high powered ones...

That's what I noticed...

"Greengrass Core is designed to run on devices that have at least 128 MB of memory and an x86 or ARM CPU running at 1 GHz or better."

Those are beefy specs for IoT.
Programming while sitting on a motorcycle?

https://amazonlightsail.com/features/
I read their slides, and am reading through their paper. How is this different from steganography?

In my understanding, the set of all communiqués between every user and the Vuvuzela network approaches pseudorandom noise, among which the actual conversations are hidden.
Obamacare's Test Kitchen for Payment Experiments Faces an Uncertain Future
Relevant backstory: https://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/trump-supporting-startu...

The NYTimes article is surprisingly charitable, although perhaps ironically.
Actually the thingy is called "openpilot", there is already enough confusion with Tesla calling its thing "autopilot".
Does this mean that ML on FPGA's will be more common? Can someone comment on viability of this? Would there be speedup and if so would it be large enough to warrant rewriting it all in VHDL/Verilog?
Yes this is cool if you're already using FPGAs and yeah, there will be a market for FPGA designers.

But I also think this is FPGAs for the Rest of Us. Suddenly, FPGAs are available without having to buy some development board from Xilinx, install a toolchain, use said (shitty) toolchain ...

Me, I was thinking of FPGAs as being something I'd use down the road a few years, eventually, etc. But instead, I'm looking at this right now. This morning. Waiting for the damn 404 to go away on:

https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga

This reduces the barrier to entry. It also reduces the transaction cost (h/t Ronald Coase).
I get that, but that's after the first TB. For a $5 VPS I'd expect most customers wouldn't go over that.
Can it put fruit hats on kitties?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13069775 (bbc.co.uk URL version)
>Basic rule of thumb-- the bigger the company, the dumber they are... and less likely to care about job applicant experience.

One strong signifier that a company cares little about job applicant experience is requiring you to use BrassRing or a similar recruiting portal. I'm sure BR makes things easier on HR professionals but it's clunky and frustrating for applicants.

The best way I've ever applied for a job online was with a small company that just had a simple list (nothing flashy, basic HTML) of their current job openings with an invitation to submit your resume to their recruiter (who was actually specified by name!). Brutally simple and effective.
A lot of this problem would go away if student loan lenders and educational institutions were required to give students / borrowers a list of median starting incomes for graduates broken down by major, along with examples of typical repayment schedules.
divorce rates among upper income, educated folks is low. . . closer to 10-20% range. . . and to be fair some matches are just plain bad or green card marriages.
Wish we had seen this a few days ago before dropping funds on a human to record for us. I played with several different voices and ran it on a text corpus that we gave to the human, and in some cases I would say this even sounds better.

Computer generated voices feel most robotic when their intonation of a word is abnormal or their pauses between words make the sentence feel choppy. The intonation and natural pauses between words is very good for all of the main voices.

The Japanese voice Mizuki was the most comical addition, since I can't think of a real situation where she would ever actually be used. Mizuki speaks Engarish (the Japanese version of English) beautifully, but any Japanese person who can understand Engarish will also understand English. Also, Mizuki doesn't add the correct vowel ending to all words, e.g. she correctly says "cheezu" for "cheese", but says "steku" instead of "steki" for "steak".
This puts me in mind of Bleak House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House. It sounds like the legal manouvering has entirely consumed the value of the estate.
http://imgur.com/4iGafDz
Indeed. My ex-wife was very much led by other people: her lawyers, her accountant, and later her new husband. Literally nothing she did changed any terms of the divorce-it was all ridiculous; but it cost us both quite a bit of money.

I asked my otherwise-great lawyer a clarifying question about something the other side had said or done and he immediately went on the offensive, which ended up costing some money in response as well. I put the kabosh on that quickly, but I don't think most people would have even thought about it.
I would state the tradeoff very differently.

Amazon gives each team independence. Therefore it is virtually impossible to insist on consistency between what different teams do. Each team makes sense on its own, but the whole can be very, very confusing.

Google has a process that results in much greater internal consistency. It may not be a great UX, but it is consistent. Inside and out.

For small systems, Amazon is going to give a better UX. But for a complex system, I prefer what Google will produce.
OK so good point - as usual looking at real numbers is far more informative... Qatar is way worse, yadda yadda.

That said, the US is a pretty bad yardstick. Another way to look at it would be to say that the average UAE citizen uses 250% of what an Iranian uses, or the average Qatar citizen uses 650% of what an Iranian uses, despite a (very) broadly similar climate and self-sufficient energy production.

The US citizen uses 11x more than an Indian, who is only slightly ahead of a North Korean (despite a horrific climate), both of whom are ~3x more than a Bengali.
what does "point your data in S3" mean?
Hey! Motherboard reporter here. Can you provide some evidence of this? You can contact me (anonymously) via OTR lorenzofb@jabber.ccc.de or ricochet:p5mbxsckf3qbmobc
Also via email (PGP: https://keybase.io/lorenzofb/key.asc)
My model was using ideologically different people in competing jurisdictions whose company's products are used by governments and big business for critical stuff. Such reducing subversion risk plus aligning incentives of attack and defense a bit better.

Diverse, hardened OS's & CPU's too. Verified protocol stack. The usual.
This is really cool. Do you think it will be possible to run MongoDB on an FPGA anytime soon?
The more interesting question is what is the source of all this money?

Osterlund has a net worth of $400MM. His company, Xacti, geneated revenues of $75MM per year. The article explains that Xacti "sold banner ads, video games and various other kinds of software, including “toolbars” that promised to clean viruses off your computer or free up space on your hard drive." I don't think the article really explains how this malware could generate such huge amounts of wealth.

The company's website [1] is nothing short of pathetic. The NYT article does mention that Xacti had legal troubles and was investigated for some deceptive marketing practices (like default opt-in credit card charges for trial software). At best, Osterlund is an Internet con artist.

But this still leaves questions in my mind. Can a simplistic malware fraud generate half a billion dollars of wealth? This mystery is compounded with a maze of sophisticated offshore banking structures, which sounds like more than just a way to hide assets from his wife. For example, could these structures have been used for money laundering by organized crime? Was this malware used for criminal activities beyond simply asking customers to enter their credit card numbers and charging them a few dollars?

His wife was allegedly involved in his business, and is trying to get a share of his assets in divorce proceedings. If this money had a darker story behind it, that she knew of, she would have an incentive to leave that out of this NYT story.

[1] http://www.xacti.com
Hi, author here.

1) We use software called Citus[0] which sits on top of Postgres and handles all of the read time sharding logic for us. Citus could handle the write time logic, except we wrote our own logic because we are able to perform several optimizations for our specific use case that don't work in general.

2) Right now, we have a 40 vanilla PostgreSQL instances running on ZFS on Linux and a single Citus master node. We perform writes by sending them directly to the proper vanilla PostgreSQL instance (why we don't use Citus for the write path). We perform reads by sending a vanilla SQL query to the citus master, which will automatically figure out what data it needs from each worker, send queries to fetch all of the data, and then aggregate the results and return them.

3) We wrote our own code for handling resharding and rebalancing different shards across our cluster.

[0] https://www.citusdata.com/
Digital Ocean is in trouble!
that 50% thing is not really true any more. http://bestdivorcelawyer.co/family-law/divorce-rates-higheri...
It also provides 1Tbps of aggregated bandwidth (in form of multiple 40Gbps interfaces).

According to FAQ, billing starts when it leaves AWS DC and ends after data ingestion is complete.

So roughly minimum (list) price (1 day transit one-way) for transferring that 100PB would roughly be: (100PB/1Tbps * 2 + 2 days) * (($0.005/GB * 100PB)/month) ~= 337k. ~$0.00337/GB
In 2015 in the US, installation labor accounted for only 11% of the cost for utility scale fixed tilt PV farms like this one ($0.19 out of $1.77 per watt project costs): http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy15osti/64746.pdf

Land costs were less than 2% ($0.03 per watt).
That's a pretty bad argument to make. I'm not sure why you call the state of TN "one of the densest places on earth", it has a lot of rural farmland and the only population concentrations are in the major cities. It has roughly the area of Florida, not really the largest of states but pretty large in the country. The power-plant is in one of the more rural parts of the state, and the land it uses probably was useless barren land anyway.
Don't worry ;)

Citus users typically have a working set of a few hundred GB or more and run into memory and CPU limitations on a single machine on both the write and the read side.

Provided your data has a natural sharding dimension (e.g. tenant ID in a multi-tenant application), Citus can distribute tables across many servers to scale out memory, CPU and storage. It can also parallelise queries, index creation, aggregations, and deletion across the cluster, and it can horizontally scale out write throughput. This gives you the necessary tools to deal with very large data volumes.

e.g. 500k writes/sec https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/09/22/announcing-citus-m...
Why are a full half of the front-page stories about Amazon?
Isn't that exactly what these studies are doing?

The burden isn't to prove that there are no side-effects, just that their rate and severity are sufficiently low.
Comma.ai is open sourcing their self-driving car project
That is certainly not true for all. I am on the far left, but think centralised systems tend to be brittle. What we are all looking for is a distributed resilient system that maximises some mix of our own happiness and the happiness of others. Capatilism is one such distributed resilient system. I bet that there are others. The "sharing economy" while poorly defined, may be such a system, when married to some kind of collective decision making process.
Statically Checking Web API Requests in Atom
The press release says:

"This AMI includes a set of developer tools that you can use in the AWS Cloud at no charge. You write your FPGA code using VHDL or Verilog and then compile, simulate, and verify it using tools from the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite (you can also use third-party simulators, higher-level language compilers, graphical programming tools, and FPGA IP libraries)."

So basically, buying a copy of Vivado is the minimum. There aren't any open source tools that directly output Xilinx FPGA bitstreams that I know of.
> The whole family has a 18650 flashlight on their bikes

Please make sure the beam is directed if you do this. I've seen many people riding around with lights that are quite blinding to oncoming traffic, especially on dark roads. Sometimes just pointing regular flashlights down can solve this, but not always.

The US hasn't caught on yet, but countries like Germany have mercifully begun to regulate this.
This is neat but I've been on the lookout for a service that takes speech and responds with speech that you can use in a domain-specific app.

Basically, Alexa as a service?

Is there something out there that does this?

For certain things that require hands-free usage, this would be a killer feature.

ex. a workout-app that tells you your next rep and weight, and you can respond with what weight/reps you did to add to your log!
you think he is telling you the whole story?
Similar thing here (except I was trying to be more paranoid).

Tested out the free tier of Amazon, but didn't realize spinning down and spinning up would ding me if they were within an hour.

Even know, when I use it for testing and I'm being fairly careful, I'll get a $3 bill at the end of the month. I was trying to set up alerts, but their alerts and dashboard, while I'm sure super capable, is a bit overwhelming as a new user.
Is it possible to filter out all JS/Framework stuff from the hn feed?

Asking for a friend.
I would suggest you use Node. It is nice not to have to switch mental contexts when switching between backend and frontend code.
Exactly what I thought. This is amazing. FPGA is commonly used in embedded systems to perform application specific tasks and now application developers have access to this power too. I guess many machine learning application might take profit of that power instead of using comparatively very expensive graphics hardware.
Emacs is my primary editor, however Emacs dumper has always been a dumpster fire.

Basically they coded up so much ill-concieved and inefficient Emacs Lisp that the editor would never start up in an acceptable time. Instead of engineering around this (lazy loading services, fixing things, not doing things nobody needs) they had the great idea they could start the editor once and then core dump the in-memory state of a running editor. Then on later editor starts they would map-in the core dump and instantly be in a (somewhat) good state. Fails all kinds of smell tests and really speaks to bad taste having unbounded consequences. It is an idea that should not work and it is only happenstance that it ever worked (and it gets harder and harder as we have things like address layout randomization, file handles, and so on).

[edited "file" -> "fire", sorry! And yes I know lispers always dumped, but they are dumping the C memory environment here- not just their precious Lisp state. They should have had some appreciation for how the C environment actually worked since they decided to use it.]
The benefits aren't entirely clear.

> Many organizations are concerned that once they have moved all their data to the cloud it will be both expensive and time-consuming to retrieve the data if needed. Snowball Edge offers all customers a fast and inexpensive way to transfer large amounts of data both into and out of AWS.

Ingress to S3 is already free, the biggest problem is egress and that's left quite ambiguous. The pricing page points back to S3, which says "it depends". Where exactly does Snowball go within AWS itself? Is it classified as EC2? Is egress to the snowball free if it's in the same region as the data? Can the region be chosen?
Personally, I've seen multiple people close to me with trauma histories (some complex) benefit hugely from EMDR. It deserves to be much more widely known and accessible. Other related (and similarly structured) possibilities include brainspotting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainspotting) and yoga nidra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_nidra).

While I'm greatly in favor of studying and using psychoactive substances to help people heal in their lives, they're at most a supportive component in an overall treatment strategy. Our society's preference to just medicate problems away doesn't solve things over the long term.
There are also many less known VPS providers with truly great deals. I've been using these two:

NodeServ: $1.25/month = 50GB HDD, 512MB RAM, 1 core, 1TB bandwidth, location in Jacksonville.

Host.us: $6/month = 150GB HDD, 6GB RAM, 4 cores, 5.12TB bandwidth, location in Dallas.

Both deals found on LowEndBox.
Perhaps, but at least to the team I was working with at the time, Rollup indicated we shouldn't expect much to change or improve in Ractive. I think Ractive was partially a victim of timing; as Harris himself has said, it has many of the same ideas as React and he may well not have made it if React existed when he began. And it never really seemed to gain much popularity which you kind of need for a project to grow beyond just its creator. I still haven't investigated this new thing, but if it was indeed inspired by Ractive that gives me hope.
I really hope that is sarcasm.
They want to destroy DigitalOcean, so they have to match their pricing. Additional traffic is also $0,09 / GB with Lightsail.
Emily Best on Balancing Artistic Expression and Business, and Diversity in Art
I'm so glad I don't have to only rely on a journalism source across the globe and can count on my local paper to warn me about such things.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Alatimes.com+tyler+technolog...

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