skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there are some fascinating pictures of Allied troops marching through Vladivostok in 1918. [1] The Red Scare followed that immediately, and wasn't caused by any Russian aggression towards the US. [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force_S...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare
There are projects that scan exit nodes for various heuristics; if they find very bad behavior, they report it to the Tor Project to request a BadExit flag. However, there's no kind of continuum of rankings, just BadExit or not.

My impression from talking to people working on this a few years ago was that they wanted to be a little bit secretive about exactly what they scan for, in order to make it harder for malicious exit operators to anticipate the scans or to distinguish the scans from end-user traffic. There was a suggestion this is an activity that anybody can engage in: if you can think of an attack against Tor users that you know how to detect, you can write your own client that tests for that thing (modifying the path selection algorithm to ensure that you test every exit node!) and then start running your tests. People will be interested in your results.
Snowball Edge – Petabyte-scale data transport with on-board storage and compute
Teachers make over the median wage on average, and work less hours per year as well. How much do we have to pay them in order to encourage them to do their jobs in your opinion?

"The BLS reports that elementary teachers in the U.S. receive an average annual salary of $55,270. Many teachers, including those in New York City, receive their pay at set intervals throughout the course of the year. In other areas, teachers only receive pay when school is in session. The BLS does not gather data relating to hourly wages due to the manner in which most elementary teachers are paid. However, someone working a typical 40-hour work week would have to receive an hourly rate of $26.57 to earn as much as the average elementary teacher over the course of a year."

http://work.chron.com/hourly-wages-teachers-2044.html
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Separate from the question of software liability is the court's responsibility to not make egregious errors.

Historically, courts have been unwilling to assign themselves blame for screwing up. Judicial immunity is untouchable in american case law because it's hard to find a judge willing to rule against it.

The standard of due process is high for 'life and limb' cases but low for misdemeanors & traffic violations. When Fixed discovered that most SF parking tickets are challengeable, SF didn't fix the problem -- they turned off their fax machine to make it harder to challenge tickets. https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/12/fixed-the-app-that-fixes-y...

NYC issued fake parking tickets to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/144197004989/the-nypd-was-sy...

Jurisprudence doesn't have a concept of 'bulk miscarriage of justice'. You could put NSA surveillance in this camp too. There's a star trek line about genocide which says 'we have no law to fit your crime'. That's where we are with petty crimes mishandled in bulk.
Autoscaling of storage at least (up to 64 TB).
Almost sure about that they used ivona. Even name suggest the location of their office Polly -> Poland.
Well...that's game changing.
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Same. I'm sure this will roll out to us all in the coming hours.
Perhaps I'm crazy, but isn't a $5 million contract a bit too low for an overhaul of the California justice software system?

Business-wise there's going to be a lot of things to cut, pushback against government asks for software, and a very skeletal plan for maintenance mode. I sometimes wonder how government models the businesses they do work with, or whether they work as hard as businesses in modelling the other side.
What is the downside of someone having your email address, especially with no other context.

If they have other data on your email address, they don't need your email address to do anything with it. If they don't have other data, then there's no issue.

You're not concerned about people having public access to your twitter handle, why would you be concerned about people having public access to your email address.
This is why, if you do something like this, do it multi-platform. Offer it on Facebook, via your own site, and maybe on some phone platform. That way, you can't be shut down by one vendor, and a vendor may think twice about shutting you down and losing your customers to another platform.
I think the point is that there's a reason they charge you for it instead of letting you hold onto it for free.
That source can't get basic details correct, Trotsky spent about a year in New York not a decade. It doesn't even attempt to prove it's big claims.
> Xilinx UltraScale+ VU9P fabricated using a 16 nm process.

> 64 GiB of ECC-protected memory on a 288-bit wide bus (four DDR4 channels).

> Dedicated PCIe x16 interface to the CPU.

Does anyone know whether this is likely to be a plug-in card? and can I buy one to plug in to a local machine for testing?
Audio examples are available here: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/
Consistency Models of Cloud Storage Services (AWS, Google, Rackspace, )
I own one of those small shops so I'm not unsympathetic but few other industries get away with 'as-is' disclaimers,

Can you imagine it in the automotive,aeronautical, transport etc?

The present system is a pass the parcel of blame with no one taking any responsibility, tonnes of shit, insecure systems written and designed poorly.

Eventually something will give.
On the other hand, you get to piggyback on their existing success and popularity.
Okay, so you're sure there's a million dollars in Box B. Why not grab A as well?
Creator of McDonald's flagship sandwich, the Big Mac, dies
It seems to me the exact same service existed already, by picking a stack on Bitnami's website, and single-click-launching it on AWS.
The price structure is clearer on Lightsail though.
But they can still live on VPNs and not the open internet. Requests from outside can be blocked. Sure an external router or DNS server might go down but the internal network would be intact. The routing can even be updated on internal routers. People can invite others to the network, and the whole invitation system can be throttled. Byebye DDOS
私の考えは君と異なります。

I disagree entirely. ローマ字 is a terrible trap for beginners and it does affect their pronunciation. It is why so many people struggle with the Japanese "r" and つ. It is why people pronounce "せんぱい" incorrectly. Do you see it romanized as "senpai" or "sempai"? Both of those differ greatly for beginners. It is why they learn 言う incorrectly. It is always romanized "iu" though it is pronounced "yuu" and unless you are told or are listening to how natives say it, you will learn it wrong.

Should ようこ be romanized as "yoko", "youko", or "yōko"? Would you read any of these differently from one another? The answer should be "yes" because よこ is not equivalent to ようこ but in some romanizations you will see them be equivalent.

It's a big wake up call when you visit Japan and realize you're completely illiterate outside of English signs (if you are in 京都 or 東京). If you did not study Kana you will not be able to read anything. My first recommendation for learners is to learn Kana and completely abandon romanizations entirely.

E: Speaking of 東京. Is it romanized "Tokyo" or "Toukyou"? Which of these do you think most people, including learners, see it as? Can you see how they end up pronouncing it incorrectly because of how it is romanized?
I frankly don't care what further squirming you feel like doing to convince yourself you have a novel idea

Excuse me, but where ever did I say that I had a novel idea? I merely pointed out that 1) I wasn't talking about exactly what you thought I was talking about (and after 4 iterations, you still don't get that) and 2) you went and attributed to me a bad idea I had explicitly disavowed in the 1st place.

Actually I was so annoyed by your insult that I had to look you up Peter.

You're clearly a real class act and a careful reader.
They mention Gone Home in this, and I would highly recommend it. The writing is the best I've seen in a game, especially if you're into punk 90's riot grrrl stuff.
Amazon lets you set a cost limit in your account. Look it up.
Actually it's MORE private
Making the backend of Alexa and offering it to users is a killer feature. I have toyed with the idea of making an app with a voice interface. I was able to make an alexa app and looking at the preview pictures it looks similar.
That'd be quite witty of them. Polly would normally map to being a parrot, repeating whatever was told to it.
To those young-uns worried that asking for a pre-nup might upset your potential future wife: it's much better to see what kind of personality she has in a controversial situation now rather than 2, 5, 10 years down the road. Sometimes it is only under stress where a person reveals their true personality, and believe me you are going to encounter stress during marriage.
This is premature optimization. The California divorce regime is "community property", that is anything not covered under a prenuptial agreement is divided 50/50. A visit to a men's rights website will unearth horror stories of abusive alimony decrees but these anecdotes are unrepresentative outliers.

A prenuptial agreement would safeguard you more than attempting to hide money overseas. Another safeguard would be to marry a person who wouldn't be eligible for alimony due to preexisting income.

I consider this sort of optimization to be an inaccurate threat model, focused on outliers rather than the expected case. The expected case in California or any other state would be that the marriage would survive if not flourish (the most common case for upper-middle-class marriages), with a contingency that a divorce would occur amicably (the second-most common case). Screening for contentious attitudes is part of the due diligence of dating.

(only on HN would I ever expect to post something like this instead of the common-sense "find the right spouse and work on your marriage and you won't have to worry about this issue")
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-report-bad-relays
Thanks for the writeup, broke it down nicely
They don't sound great to me. I was hoping to build a service around this, but hearing the quality there.. meh. Cheaper to use `say`.

It'd be tolerable to hear a voice-interface with this, but it'd be maddening to try to listen to a book this way.
is Aurora different from https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/ ?
The terrible IOPS performance on AWS is the biggest downside for me.

All competitors seem to outstrip AWS on this. Do they have some legacy infrastructure that is just too big too upgrade to something more modern, or is this "on purpose"?
Because the model is so different there would be no benefit.
Scientists shrink electron gun to matchbox size
I should have been more clear. I was referring to storage auto-scaling. Aurora gives you access to up to 64TB of disk billed in 10GB increments. You don't need to preallocate and manage the scaling of your disk as you do with RDS.
Can anyone recommend a book, long article or tutorial on deep learning? I'm not in the field but interested in what particular advances have been made that deep learning is suddenly so much more attractive than regular neural networks etc were back in the 00's.
This looks very neat. I'm someone who deals with a lot of plaintext data from a variety of sources, and so I find using ack/grep and csvkit to be efficient enough for my purposes of exploration. I love using SQL and SQLite but rarely do it for "fun" -- that is, I'll use it when I've committed to building a project, but not for exploration. This seems like it could lighten the friction quite a bit.

If anyone from AWS is here: how is this used internally at Amazon?
AWS Snowmobile – Massive Exabyte-Scale Data Transfer Service
You still need a mechanism for peer discovery.
Illinois Blockchain Initiative: Sweeping Policy and Plan to Attract Innovators
Even if it does, this can easily sell for $10k+.
A lot of people, myself included, don't seriously consider Linode anymore given their security problems (March 2012, 2013) and infrastructure problems (Dec-Jan 2015-16).
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He is probably including alimony into his reasoning. I think it's still over-the-top.
Greengrass – Ubiquitous, Real-World Computing
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I would like to try out google cloud due to its lower costs, but don't trust them with my data--partially perception I know. Also Amazon has never failed me over the last 15 years I've been doing business with them, so I'll probably continue despite the clunkiness of their products.
Blackberry android phones does this. They patch phones the same day google nexus is patched or even earlier for beta program users. Still no one is buying them
Relevant article regarding border controversies around Crimea

https://www.gislounge.com/cartographers-respond-border-chang...

> Johnson noted that in the United States, most map making companies take the lead from the State Department in determining when to update border changes on their maps.
Numerous anecdotal horror stories I have heard from several friends in real life, as well as stories in the newspaper/internet.
> I'm actually very slightly surprised to hear that there's no non-game software kickstarter that's raised more than $891,989.

I'm not that surprised, big parts of crowdfunding are excitement, interesting stretch goals and goodies (for higher tiers to increase the average pledge[0]), these are relatively easy for games: the audience is huge, it gets excited quickly (though it can turn on a dime) and values collectibles and "achievements".

Even more so for something which basically only targets web developers.

[0] Hex and Camelot Unchained have both raised over 2 million with half the backers of FA5.
Infinitely scalable[1] Postgres? Yes please!

[1]: For all practical purposes for mortals.
"appears to be female - 100%"
"does not have a beard - 99.2%"
:D
I think part of the reason that utilities can get away with this is the fact that the maximum bill you are likely to run up is generally 2x-3x your normal bill. This doesn't well for Amazon because your actual bill can be orders of magnitude larger than what you expect.
Well, yes. If you're saying anything important at all, make sure to say it multiple times from opposing viewpoints. Your best argument will carry the day anyway.

Of course this is a "break glass in case of emergency" type countermeasure, probably most useful in a nominally liberal state that starts to drift away from civil rights.
Marry someone who isn't dependent on your income and doesn't want to be. Get a prenup so it stays that way. End of story.
Altice Plans Fiber Upgrade That Could Leave Rivals in the Dust
Does this include the full set of json/jsonb features and benefits of GIN indexes?
Leaseweb is in Amsterdam.
Announcing AWS Snowmobile: exabyte-scale data transport
I wonder why they pulled the Ivona text2speech android app. I'm still happily using it. It's quite comfortable to listen to articles in pocket while on the train (and to keep listening while changing trains).

edit: ah it was just the german version that is not available any more, english one seems to be still the store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ivona.tts
Maxing Out the Biggest Hidden Corporate Benefit
the kind of problem the free market could solve

Yet the free market doesn't solve this problem.
Completely agree with all of this and it has to be addressed soon.
Storing state in Dom and reading from it could be dangerous. It's very easy to force layouts when you don't need. Frameworks like react and preact essentially do this. Abstract updating the view in a performant manner. Preact is 3kb. Magnitudes smaller than React.
My word, no!

When you go trawling in the swamp of uncanonical information, you actually have to perform the filtering work yourself. If you're not interested in judging sources yourself, by all means stick to the Economist! It's not that bad.

Yes, Schiff's role is relatively minor. But that's also a far cry from "nothing to see here, move along, the October Revolution is purely a product of the legitimate revolutionary aspirations of the Russian workers and peasants."

Unless you're actually concerned with whether the problem is the Jooze, or this one guy Schiff, or whatever, the larger and broader point that the Bolsheviks had strong support from influential East Coast circles is basically correct and extremely relevant. It's easy to use a small factual error to disguise this broader and more interesting truth.

When you're filtering water from a swamp, the fact that the swamp has moose turds in it shouldn't bother you that much. Of course it has moose turds. It's a swamp. That's why you brought your filter. I do wish there was a better source of water, but there really isn't.

The Russian Revolution is a remarkable event in history because almost everyone who has written about it since WWII has followed what's essentially the mainstream American or Soviet lines (which are not at all that different). You simply can't get out of this box without going into the swamp. Harvard University Press is not publishing any Czarist accounts of 1917 by Czarist history professors.
Short video of it driving into re:Invent:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BNcbFS0jD7J/
No need for multi AZ. Faster, more cost effective. Downtime of less than a minute in the event of a crash. Geographically distributed storage that autoscales up to 64TB.
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.org - Non-profit organization

.io - Fancy tech company
Similar experience here. In grad school I forgot to shut down an 8 core instance I was doing data analysis on and it ended up costing $400 before I noticed it.

It would be great if when entering your CC information, they let you set a default monthly cap for all your projects, to be overridden at the project level if you suddenly need to spend more.
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We want cleaner approach in writing code. We like inferno and riot, but we choose Svelte. Results have been amazing.
Yup. More of these providers need to have Central US datacenters instead of on the coasts. Linode's Dallas DC has been pretty good in terms of latency to both coasts.
> Salaries flat out quickly

What other professions besides lawyers or doctors regularly have a 3 or 4x range for salaries of people more or less with the same job description?
>As others have point it out, if people are still making things and providing services, and there are markets in which people exchanges those goods and services, that's still capitalism.

Capitalism: the means of production are controlled by private individuals, and operated by wage-laborers, to accumulate profit.

Anything other than that is not capitalism. Personal trade and markets in goods preexisted capitalism by thousands of years. They will probably survive well after capitalism is dead and gone, if anyone at all is alive at that point.

Capitalism itself, though, is teetering now as it did in 1930. There were ways to save it then: break up overlarge firms, enforce competition with the hand of the state, use the welfare state to prop up the working class's standard of living. Frankly, I think those can still work, but it's also much more desirable to shift to codetermination, socialized finance, and worker cooperatives in the first place.
AWS already has two other ways of hosting Docker containers: EC2 Container Service [1] and Elastic Beanstalk [2].

Container service apparently "provides more fine-grained control and access to a wider set of use cases" compared to Beanstalk.

What's the difference of this third option? If you are new to AWS and/or Docker, how do you know which to choose?

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/...
[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/creat...
And yep, it's literally a truck that they back up to your datacenter. They say you can transfer an exabyte of data into the cloud in six months using ten of these things.
if the reason they want you to leave is relationship based (i.e. people don't like you, but you still do your job effectively) then firing isn't really an option due to legal ramifications, PIPs can be though, but not always.
CPython 3.6 has a frame evaluation api, specifically for JIT integration

Pyston is the only CPython JIT currently however
> US and Europe's path to prosperity went through Coal and to demand Indians and Chinese sacrifice while not making any thing substantial themselves (i.e. in US and Europe) is hypocrisy.

Regardless of whether hypocracy is involved, wanting India and China to avoid the mistakes the West made is entirely reasonable. If nothing else, the US and Europe built coal plants before better technologies were available. India has access to modern natural gas plants, fuel cells, wind, solar, etc if it wants them. No one would suggest that India or China build lots of steam engines, after all.
Very smart move from Amazon.

The main advantage of Amazon LightSail over DigitalOcean are: built-in firewall (instead of messing with iptables), managed database with AWS RDS, and using S3 with a low latency and no networking cost.
Running 10M PostgreSQL Indexes in Production (And Counting)
> LEDs are only twice as efficient as traditional bulbs?

I didn't see that claim in the article, but I thought these two paragraphs were wonderfully specific:

One quantity that characterizes a lighting source is the so-called luminous efficiency, which takes into account the response of the human eye. Whereas the luminous efficiency of conventional incandescent lights is between 2 and 3 percent, that of fluorescents (including CFLs) is between 7 and 15 percent, and that of most commercial LEDs between 5 and 20 percent, the new two-stage incandescents could reach efficiencies as high as 40 percent, the team says.

The first proof-of-concept units made by the team do not yet reach that level, achieving about 6.6 percent efficiency. But even that preliminary result matches the efficiency of some of today’s CFLs and LEDs, they point out. And it is already a threefold improvement over the efficiency of today’s incandescents.

Which details in that do you question?
Hey David,

Would you consider open-sourcing the JavaScript component apps if the $1 mil stretch goal isn't reached? Even as a pro backer, I want as many eyes (and contributions!) on said components as possible.
Any ideas why the effect system may be deprecated in favour of the state machine/indexed monads system? To me, they seem to be fulfilling two different requirements: algebraic effects let us call 'operations' in an expression by writing placeholder values, track the usage of such operations in the type, and plug in the implementation afterwards. For example, we can write "print" as a placeholder, give it a "StdOut" effect type, and provide a production implementation which writes to the program's stdout, a test implementation which produces a normal String value for us to check, a remote implementation which writes to a WebSocket, etc.

The state machine stuff seems to mostly be concerned with using types to keep track of state, in terms of which actions are available or unavailable, e.g. you can't close a file unless it's open, you can't read from a file unless it's open, you can't run an expression unless it closes all of its files, etc.

There's certainly overlap, but I'm not sure whether one subsumes the other.
I'm assuming that art therapy is grounded in a scientific understanding of psychotherapy. You don't need to be a professional scientific researcher to practice science.

I realize that my wording was ambiguous so I'm sorry for that.
When a system upgrade gets you arrested
Well, they at least know my email address and my interest for android phones. Am I only one thinking that It is so easy to sell the whole list to a Chinese manufacturer ?
said this below as well, but relationship issues aren't always PIP worthy if the person does their job well enough outside of being unlikeable.