skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, thanks!

There is some case study at the bottom of the Lex[0] page that had a disconnected "Polly" thing that I didn't' quite get, but that makes sense.

And it looks like Lex takes voice as input, although I don't know if you can put your app into a "always listening for trigger word" mode for truly hands-free operation or not. Will have to play with it.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/lex/
I wish they had a demo of Poly on the site. It's pretty bad to have page after page of text about a voice synthesis service and not have "Click here for demo" above the fold in the first page.

I too, am very interested in a domain specific application of lex+domain knowledge+Poly
Tyler Tech is not a rock star outfit. They may think they are, but they are not.

I interviewed with them in 2008, and that remains, to date, the worst interview experience I have ever had. Everything they did before the interview seemed calculated to convince me to withdraw myself from consideration, and everything after seemed calculated to discourage anyone else I knew from applying.

So I felt a little frisson of schadenfreude from reading the article.
“They Went to Sea in a Sieve, They Did”
Hi there!

Stampede looks nice, congrats!

Quick question about the 100x performance claim and the benchmarks in https://www.8kdata.com/blog/announcing-torodb-stampede-1-0-b...:

- I don't see any specs and/or methodology published for any of the benchmarks. I'd like to see some specs for the servers used (especially RAM and what HDD or storage type was used).

- For the 500GB dataset, I assume that it didn't fit in memory, but the 100GB could be "easily" fit in memory. I'd like to see if that's the case, and how does it compare when the dataset is all in memory (I'm anticipating that Mongodb still sucks big time, but it's nice to see a clear apples to apples comparison).

Anyway, kudos for the awesome work!
> they could easily identify all written passwords based on their regex

That seems unlikely.
Why is anything "hate" speech?
Absolutely true when you rely solely on kickstarter for your funding, which is a pretty precarious situation anyway unless what you're doing is simple or inexpensive.
Where have we gone where this cornerstone of legal philosophy [1] is in question?

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone's_formulation
Did we not already have that ability? This just feels like another 'here is another thing trump, like every other president, has access to'. I get it. His tweets are often in bad taste, and now it might be 'unblockable'! But a timely public communication medium might be a great idea used in the correct circumstances. This all just comes off as alarmist to me.
Cool - I'll try to get someone on my team to give you an email.
Or Computer Science, Creative Suite... so many things before I would think of 'Commercially-Supported".
C++ lambdas and Rust closures are very similar as far as I know, the only major difference being that they use explicit capture lists and we don't.
You make a good point, but I think your 60% figure is far too high.
occam's rusted razor!
I agree that dumping an image is not a great idea in the modern world, but the concept(1) dates right back to when emacs was still based on TECO on the PDP-10:
http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/mit_emacs_170_teco_1220/01/i...
(and I suspect the available CPU horsepower back then was such that you pretty much needed to do tricks like this to get quick startup even if you were careful about how much lisp code you ran at startup).

(1) as a part of emacs, that is -- I'd guess that "language runtime takes an image of its pre-initialized state and then just loads that" was used in non-emacs contexts before that.
That's what incognito mode is for. My cellphone provider is Cricket Wireless, and just leaving out the ".com" had Google showing me cards for cricket games for weeks on my Android.

Now I only ever visit Cricket's website in incognito mode.
I want to block my young teen-aged son from hacking into his time-locked win 7 (soon win 10). He already searched the web and found some kind of system restore scheme to reset his password. Next step was to encrypt the hard drive to block rebooting without password.
You are not addressing my point at all, and millions of lines of code (that include a Haskell compiler) do not necessarily make a large software system. If you are building software that is significantly more complex than could be achieved by other, simpler means, or you're building comparable large software systems for significantly cheaper, you'd only do Haskell and the world a great service by collecting and publishing relevant data. Without it, I have no idea how big your systems are, how complex they are compared to other projects, and how costly they are to build and maintain. I have no doubt you're happy with Haskell, but there are plenty of far more mainstream languages that people are happy with. Without any data, we can't make any comparison, so claims of superiority are nothing more than just claims. I find it puzzling that you don't see my reaction as a reasonable one for a marketing campaign that has been going on for nearly two decades, that has so far produced no evidence and negligible adoption. I truly and honestly want to be convinced. I am familiar with the theory of FP (up to about monad transformers, but not profunctor optics) and have programmed in SML. I just don't see any signs whatsoever that adopting Haskell can improve the bottom line significantly enough to be worth the cost and the risk, so the most logical thing to do is to wait and beg people for data.
> Still, impressed with the NYT's ability to push a narrative.

Isn't news narrative? Seems like I am missing what is bad about this article.

Or did you want just the facts? New app call ____ which does ___. Move along you now have all the facts?

I want a news story to give me context and some way to sort out the narrative and do something with the raw data.
Hmm I guess that's something to consider. Thanks.
Rat Park doesn't replicate. I generally agree with the rest of your comment.
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Netflix must be biting their fingers :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11950811
There's a bunch of issues:

- Real, bespoke biomedical analysis is not trivial in effort, cost, or time. There are biomedical analysis systems-in-a-box (look at https://galaxyproject.org), but that's just canned analysis. To make real breakthroughs, you need rigorous analysis that requires years of experience to be able to perform.

- It's easier to get the money to collect the data than it is to effectively steward the data you collect. In a past life, I ran a biomedical research computing facility, and everyone got plenty of money for new sequencers, mass specs, and other fancy instruments. They got plenty of money for collecting all kinds of data. No one would ever add money to their grants to actually STORE the data. They would literally put the data on USB hard drives bought from Best Buy, and left them in file cabinets and on desks. There was absolutely nothing I could do about this, and so I quit.

- Research is balkanized to hell. Even though I ran the scientific computing for 20 research labs, each research lab was its own fiefdom. They could decide to obey or disobey my policies at will, since they controlled their own funding. You can imagine what happened when I proposed turning on quotas (~100TB per lab, to start!). Rather than work with my team to determine how to share resources, people would just jump off my high speed facility, buy a shitty cheap JBOD from Dell for their analysis, and store their archives on shitty cheap USB hard drives from Best Buy. The funniest part was that if the hard drive failed, and the data couldn't be restored, in theory the primary investigators could get into real legal trouble. No one seemed to worry.

There are a few biomedical research institutes that "get" scientific data stewardship - Broad, Scripps, but for the most part, biomedical research computing is a total clusterfuck and I couldn't have gotten out of there fast enough for the way saner land of tech companies.
From https://amazonlightsail.com/docs/

> Data transfer OUT from a Lightsail instance to another Lightsail instance or AWS resource is also free while the private IP address of the instance is used.

It could even be worth it to set Lightsail up as reverse proxy and profit off of very cheap(for AWS) traffic e.g. for S3.
I can't really believe they would allow this. Am I missing something?
Check the license on 'say' before you use it commercially. There are restrictions.
Aren't most music services DRM free these days? iTunes, Amazon, Pandora...
+1 to the normalizing piece. These folks are a few short hops away from ISIS. They've nailed hate-filled ideology, lone-wolf attacks and it's only a matter of time before they organize into something worse. Trump has opened the flood-gates for individuals like this to have a voice.
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Correct. It's not okay to distribute commercial software to folks who have not paid. But Font Awesome Free is completely okay to include in the repo, as it is open source software.

That said, we're letting open source projects use Font Awesome Pro CDN for free so this is hopefully mitigated. We want folks to use Font Awesome Pro, just don't want it distributed. :)
How are you going to spend $1 million without killing the company/project?

People who previously have made icons for free will now want some of the money, and you only have enough for about 10 people for a year.

I've seen too many companies get money and suddenly, instead of being extremely frugal like they used to, because they had to be, start spending money because they can afford it.

And then the company dies.

This happens to lottery winners too.

Do you have plan to avoid it? You should plan to make the $1 million last at least 10 years without earning any additional money except interest.
> Can a simplistic malware fraud generate half a billion dollars of wealth?

Absolutely. Traffic Vance was a great example of this. They installed adware on users computers and advertisers could bid on what sites you wanted your popup ad to display on and their adware would display your popup and charge you the money.

There are shady individuals who bid $10+ for a single popup on a site like StateFarm.com with a fake "rate comparison" and the infected user would assume that the ad was associated with State Farm despite the tiny disclaimer at the bottom.

On a site like CNN a shady weight loss supplement company might have a popup with a fake news story that pushes a misleading negative option subscription that is setup in a way where the infected user assumes it is a CNN story.

The adware itself is designed to be as subtle as possible so that the user is unaware that anything suspicious is going on and views these ads as legitimate.

Traffic Vance has since been renamed several times due to this type of scrutiny, are well past their glory days, and don't push their adware anymore. Despite all of that they are still making millions[1] from all of the people who have downloaded their adware over the past 10 years that still haven't deleted the adware or gotten a new computer.

[1] https://www.propelmedia.com/propel-media-reports-6-1-million...
If you guys are curious about these announcements I'll be recapping them and going into more detail on twitch.tv/aws at 12:30 pacific
I oversimplified. I would say that all three of those should be an option, that one should not consider their education complete till they'd gotten through either university, college, or a trade school. I'm even a huge advocate of apprenticeships. I suppose those could be rolled up into the trade school category. But I believe that leaving university out of that group (only counting college and trade school) ignores a large and important portion of the economy. Also, the liberal arts portion of schooling is important for a citizen.
#MoreTrumpHysteria
ClojureScript and Node on AWS Lambda
That is a rather interesting theory.
Is this the same as the former YC company?
Because flagkilled comments with deep subthreads disrupt the larger conversation; users without 'showdead' can't see what started it. Those threads tend also to veer off topic.
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A quarantine on this stuff is a nice thing for the rest of us in the short term. In the long term it could either be a bad thing because it helps the movement grow, or a good thing because without any opposition to troll within the platform it flames out.
you dont have to listen to those subreddits. dont subscribe to them. dont hang out in /r/all if you cant handle seeing things you disagree with.

I don't hang out at r/all nor subscribe to subreddit I don't care about.

you just called other peoples views a cesspool of garbage, and youre advocating respect.

I am more concerned about a person's behavior more so than their opinion. I look down on baiting, trolling, harassment, etc.
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> Working with this data is time intensive and expensive and I'm guessing most heathcare companies don't see it as worth the cost.

It's not worth the cost 99% of the time. The only reason we're still making real breakthroughs is because of the research institutes doing basic research on public funding. Even then, they're swinging for the low hanging fruit.
Can someone explain what it is he was trying to do, as in, why did he want such a small batch of LEDs for?
Also if you want to have some fun:

https://domainr.com/
FWIW here is the only data that Signal had available to turn over when requested by the government: https://twitter.com/whispersystems/status/783325788883955713
Ask HN: Is there a place to find all today's AWS announcements?
There are like EIGHT announcements on the front page alone, and it's hard to wrap your head around.

Is there a place where I can keep up to date on everything, especially if there are more announcements to come?
Yup felt the same and can't wait to get a whole bunch of new icons to use in my project.
I would say at least multiple 10Gbit interfaces if you wanted to transfer the data.
Pretty sure the AWS EULA makes you responsible for violating any IPs. I didn't read it, but if it doesn't say so already then their lawyers are crap.
I mean, invite only + downvote/upvote system looks a lot like how you'd create a safe space to me.
> No. You're free to form your own major place of discourse.

No. For a place of discourse to become major requires a large amount of people to be actively involved. I can't just "form my own" because for it to be major other people have to get involved. If I were to form a new place of discourse due to being banned, it would most likely become an echo chamber of other people that have been banned not a major place of discourse.
What sort of transactional support is there? Are Serializable transactions supported?
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> if something rips off your foot, that's not an injury, you simply bleed to death or die of infection

That's a false premise.

Plenty of (four-legged) animals can survive just fine without a leg - in fact, it's often said that animals have a spare leg. Some animals might even gnaw their own leg off it's stuck in something and they can't get it out.
It is an idea that should not work and it is only happenstance that it ever worked

In the 1980s it was a surprisingly common approach. For example most Unix variants had an undump command to turn a core dump into an executable. See https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/support/undump for example. It was also how Microsoft Office file formats were implemented until about a decade ago.

With the hindsight of experience, it is easy to say that it is a bad way to go and won't age well. But back when Emacs went this way, the problems were not as widely understood as they are now.
Wait so you paid around 25k in hopes of raising 35k, were you expecting to raise significantly more?

edit: apparently they paid 15k in hopes of raising 30k, which is still a lot.
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It's two fold. Amazon bandwidth is, I assume, premium tier 1. Where as ovh and scaleway are probably lower tier. Lower tier bandwidth is dirt cheap, like below $0.25 per mbps.

Edit: 3 things, it's also shared among a lot of users that don't use what they can. For everyone using 100mbps there's probably 20 who use less then 1mbps.
Gab appears to be employing unlimited bidirectional voting. This inevitably creates a shout-down chamber, so the network will likely not attract a diverse group of opinions and is nearly guaranteed to become the echo chamber everybody is expecting it to become.

I don't find this to be the new competitor the market is really looking for.
Offering the option to cap expenditures doesn't affect anyone that chooses to not use that feature.
HM Government's Response to Snoopers' Charter Petition
It looks like the FPGA Developer AMI includes Vivado and a license explicitly for use on these platforms (look at the PuTTY screenshot in the blog post; it has a customized MOTD). You just need to set up the license server that Vivado will use and point it to the right license.

So I guess the real question is: what exactly is granted by the Vivado license on these AMIs? Do we get things like SDSoC, SDAccel, etc, and all the libraries? [1] The blog seems to imply you can program these things with OpenCL too (AKA SDAccel), so I'm guessing that these features are all enabled, but details about the included Vivado license in the AMI would be nice.

[1]: https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/vivado.html#buy
Perhaps not for the entire time, but bear in mind that the prices of cryptocurrencies fluctuate and you can spin up the VMs when it is profitable and shut them down when it isn't.
Spy chief adds to warnings of Russian cyber attacks on Germany
Author of the polemic post here! :D

@ranman: You could start by disclosing that you work for AWS ;)

I'll stand by my word. I can present the pricing comparison at reinvent 2017 if you'd like.

1) The equivalent instances are cheaper on Google.

2) Automatic discount is significantly superior and more customer friendly that reserved instances.

3) Google is faster or more flexible, usually both. That means that when you have specifications to achieve (IOPS/bandwidth/SSD), AWS has to get severely over-provisioned compared to Google cloud.

1 + 2 + 3 = https://thehftguy.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/aws-vs-gce-pri... the actual difference I expect on the bills depending on the type of workload ;)
When you buy comprehensive insurance (or any other-than-liability) it is for your benefit, and sometimes also for your lender's.
This is the NY Times best attempt at deflecting the criticism they've been getting post-election.

"We might have screwed up but look at what those guys are doing!!!"
I see what you mean, but it still seems like cancer resistance is a bit "overengineered" relative to what you'd expect from selection pressures. If typical cancer onset were e.g. at age 50 rather than 70, I don't imagine that having much selective relevance in the human ancestral environment, as you'd have raised child-bearing children at that point (and you probably can barely carry your own weight at that point, metaphorically speaking).

OTOH, cancer rate is probably superlinear with respect to error rate, so a small loss of cell instruction robustness corresponds to a disproportionately shorter lifespan.
Docker should not do such things, they should stick to their core things and not try to create 10000 things. I know they need to make money, but that is actually the wrong way.
OverEncrypt: going beyond LetsEncrypt's HTTPS security defaults
Yeah, in C++ you can sort of get away without explicit capture of all variables too by doing [=] or [&]. Though I suppose it's still explicit in a way, just saves the need to list everything.
What about UI? Are you forced to do layout in code, or are you able to load in Xibs or Storyboards?
Or an Echo Chamber ;)
https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench
Interestingly, the couple might not be worth anything near $400M, and they haven't yet cracked the trust.

If I had to guess, I'd assume that everything was bought on credit, and the true net worth is somewhere south of $40M.
~50% divorce rate is dated information, it's much lower and decreasing [0]. There's also the fact that the divorce rate amongst the college-educated (which I assume includes the software developer in question) has always been much lower. Something else that throws off divorce statistics is serial divorcers, a significant cadre who have divorced two or more times.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/the-divorce-surge-i...
If you're dealing with a dealer a bit more upscale than a street pusher, he will have a money back guarantee. It's in his interest since his reputation is everything.
BuyVM offer non-shared cores at a cheaper rate than either Linode or DO.

https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices

(No affiliation, happy customer with minimal downtime for ~5 years now.)
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Very cool. Thank you for the answers.
Politico founders launch new media company
God a neomacs written in a faster, more modern lisp would be a dream.
Because censorship isn't a bad thing and absolute free speech isn't a good thing.

The owners of a platform have a social responsibility to curate it.
Why is the core of Emacs still written in C? Is it just fear of trying to rewrite it from the ground up in Lisp, or is there something fundamental to the architecture that makes Lisp unsuitable?
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Wow. That traffic is almost 50 times more expensive than at hosters of dedicated servers, or when you buy it directly from Tier 1 or Tier 2 networks.

Hetzner charges 1.36€ per Terabyte of traffic, and with most servers, gives you 10-20TB included.

I’ve heard people talk about the ridiculous traffic costs of AWS, but this is an entirely new dimension of expensive.
Disabling the docker hub certainly is.
In practice "self describing" doesn't mean the hardware completely describes everything about itself. It only needs to describe enough that the OS can load the right driver and the driver can locate the hardware address, interrupts and so on. After that the complexity resides in the driver itself. PCI has been doing this sort of thing successfully for two decades, so we know it's possible. ACPI has been doing the same thing for power management, clocks, power zones, suspend etc, again for something like two decades.
Electric Lightwave of Vancouver sold in $1.4B deal
> as it will be undoubtedly obvious whether a monitor is in-fact powered or not by just looking at it.

Will it? Is the screen dark because it's off (janitor bumped it at night), because my laptop didn't wake up when I docked it, or because I forgot to plug the cable back in after fooling with an SBC on that monitor yesterday?

The power light makes the state of the monitor obvious, and so does an image displaying on it. The light's useful for the edge cases when there isn't an image being displayed.
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Perhaps. Personally if I drew the graph, I would put MDMA and cannabis closer together in terms of physical harm. I think they are dangerous in different ways and it's difficult to say which is more dangerous in absolute terms.

Like you say, if you are careful and informed, you can avoid lots of the dangers of MDMA with responsible use. It's difficult to smoke pot and not do some damage to your lungs, no matter how careful you are. Vaporizers not withstanding, but vaping was probably not considered in the graph.
I read your other comment too. That whole situation breaks my brain. How can you do meaningful long term research if you're not aggregating data?

> I couldn't have gotten out of there fast enough for the way saner land of tech companies.

You know you have a problem when tech companies seem saner in comparison.