skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OVH has a pretty solid network and are very transparent about peering and utilization.[1] The network is definitely much smaller than Amazon, but never had any problems with their peering, the network seems to have ample capacity (whereas Hetzner had less reliable peering). I have several servers in the OVH network in Europe and I get consistently high speeds for Europe&US, independent of the time I test (don't have much traffic from Asia so can't really test that).

They will offer you better peering if you pay extra, but even then you're paying much less than at AWS for high traffic.

I suspect that AWS makes most profit with bandwidth while other services run with a very low margin.

[1] http://weathermap.ovh.net/
> it's a different world, and it has been different for a very long time, with software and OS/hardware significantly more decoupled.

This argument makes about as much sense for core files as it does for binary executables, which is to say, not very much.
It's zombies from the 1800s. It's some sort of denial of the current state of the world.

US, UK, & australia are all fixated on the 1950s. How good it was then. It should be that good now.

They forget that during that time the US & allies had the only real functioning industry. So obviously with no competitors times were going to be good.

We are all supposed to be digging iron ore & making steel all of a sudden. Damn it all to science. I live just once and who cares about a million years of evolution.

The reason all this is happening is because technologists give control of their knowledge to people who have no knowledge. We allow them to co-opt us to their plans. It's one way to fix things. Get hard assed about handing out technology to idiots. Have a technologist / humanist sort of president. Bill G would be pretty good.
I really don't get why you're downvoted.

It seems like an honest question, which, unfortunately, I can't really answer for you.
Instead of arbritary abuse of power by a despot we are doing the same only with processes and the law but the effect is the same.

Surveillance, secret courts, gag orders, harassment of activists and whisteblowers, no fly lists, militarization of the police, infiltration of dissenters and protest, and dubious relationships with terrorist sponsoring states show things are in a sinister and precarious state.

Our media and human right orgs so quick to turn the spotlight on others remain strangely reticent when it comes to self reflection. There is no frenzy and hysteria and no one is raising the bogey of totalitarianism and campaigning for sanctions.

Our media won't do its job and our instinctive rush to the moral high ground has lulled us in a sense of complacency.

But our moral highground and soft power built over generations is now toast. Every single bit of posturing about human rights by western media, NGOs and government will be met with derision and mockery. It is propaganda.

The use of surveillance both in the private and public sector is a 'gift' from our 'freedom loving' technologists. Ignore these naysayers and colloboraters, often found here. They have posed about freedom and liberty for decades only to suck up to authoritarianism given the slightest opportunity. The only thing they can do now is deny it, diminish it or wave it away making HN the single worst place to have a discussion on privacy and surveillance.
+1 My HyperX Cloud 2's are the only over-ear headset I'll ever use again. Fantastic sound, build quality and comfort.
From Monterey Bay to Europa
Until their clients see the iops of Lightsail's non-local SSDs. Don't know of any other VPS provider that uses network as their only storage. Small boxes will likely not run a memory-only job (they only have 1GB), so I doubt that Lightsail will be used for much more than reverse-proxying traffic from AWS to get huge discounts there.
Material transactions are already, for the most part, reported. This action isn't putting special attention on Bitcoin ceteris paribus. It is bringing it into alignment with U.S. dollar custom and law.
Zero to start with, now business. Business is "ok" - sometimes takes a couple of attempts to get someone who knows what they are talking about.
Depends. If they warn you long before turning on the camera, you decide the exact moment when the camera is turned on, and how it is positioned, and you only have to turn it on once while taking a test, would it be so bad ? Just put your laptop facing a wall, and the personal information you give is your face (which your prospective employer would see at some point anyway) and the color of your walls (big deal !).

It is an invasion of privacy. Is it an unacceptable invasion of privacy for the duration of an interview/test ?
You order a subscription to various channels via cable, satellite, etc.

Shows are run on a schedule, television sets usually include the ability to set recordings for showings. Most people just set it to record the newest episode of every show they want to watch and catch up their shows that way, deleting watched shows as needed. Unless it's a show they are really interested in and obviously you can tune in to the scheduled showing if you remember the time.

The subscriptions you purchase usually include a set amount of local or regional channels (depending on where you live). You can also pick up local channels via an antenna or similar methods.

It's hard to be a sports fan without cable. They have blackouts on games where channels can't display games based on your region.[0] Or not being able to stream certain games online for a multitude of reasons.

[0]https://support.espn.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/What-is-a-Blacko...
Is that a standard?

Network Time Protocol Best Current Practices
draft-ietf-ntp-bcp-02

1. Introduction

NTP Version 4 (NTPv4) has been widely used since its publication as
RFC 5905 [RFC5905]. This documentation is a collection of Best
Practices from across the NTP community.
That's what I meant. The results show that the DO box is fast enough, but a slow result doesn't indicate that you can't saturate traffic. It's really hard to test without real-world traffic, haven't found a reliable way to do so yet.
[Let's crowd-source] Compiled Programming Languages by Wishlist Features
Would you like to help me gather data on my list of "Compiled Programming Languages by Wishlist Features"?

(Feel free to add more "wishlist" features and languages, as well as add in or update details. Please add comments on the cells with your name, email and link to source ... which will help validate data, and to attribute contributions).﻿

The background is that I've long been looking for a productive and performant general-purpose compiled programming language, that can stand up to at least the majority of tasks I would use a language for, while being something safer and more productive than pure C.

I understand that no single language might match all one's requirements, but that is why I felt this kind of list would make sense ... then maybe I could identify two or three languages to learn and use, for the different use cases where they shine the most.
Is all the content fully licensed or are they playing fast and loose with international copyright law?
If anyone was disrespectful in that occasion, it was Magnus. He refused to talk in the flash interview, went immediately to the press conference, and had to wait 90 seconds or so before deciding to leave because Karjakin was still in the flash interview Magnus had refused.
I'm not sure if I understand correctly. I assume that the trains are in service the majority of the day. Wouldn't that make it very hard to correlate activity of a single train to the outages?
Tell that to Google

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/11/15/google-to-c...
>"not knowing what you want, or not being honest with yourself about it" problem

That's an accurate characterization. I want to find something really interesting and I haven't gotten there yet.

Thanks for your response. It gives me something to think about to help get closer to a resolution.
Well, maybe they should? Don't really see how else you're going to figure out why a line of code is as fast/slow as it is.
One thing to also take into understanding, for the heavily negotiated games like American football, baseball, and basketball, less revenue from TV contracts will certainly affect future negotiations with their respective player unions. It will be curious when that profitability number is crossed and how the leagues adopt to it. They can only squeeze broadcasters and fans so much.
AWS Re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton [video]
They're hosted by github, does the main site load for you?
Amazon will truck your massive piles of data to the cloud with an 18-wheeler
the local channels tend to be affiliates of the biggies like NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox. We tend to refer to that as "Network TV". Bigger cities likely have more variance, but I"m not too familiar.

The local channels sell advertising to local businesses, while also showing ads from the national network.

Blackouts are (i think) specific to sports, and I'm not too familiar with them.
I can only speak for my own experience, but it has saved my wallet a couple of times in the past few years. The spending limit is advertised fairly explicitly just that: a customizable limit on your monthly spending [1]. If it doesn't work as intended and you end up with a bill larger than the limit you set up, you'd have a rock-solid case for disputing the extra charge.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/spending-limits/
As per TFA, they did say that the only data they had on hand were from the trains that broke down, so it would have been impossible to even detect the "rogue train" from a simple analysis of the data they had. Though it also said SMRT was slowly extracting the train logs from the incidents so I'm sure they would have gone with that if their preliminary analysis yielded nothing.
To give one example, there is a lot of people in rural communities who aren't on the grid e.g. Tiny House or RV communities.

For most of those people, it is a choice between using natural gas and/or solar. A lot of them power fridges and airconditioning equipment using gas. Others use solar/wind and lead acid batteries to power their appliances.

One of Velkess's products is aimed at being a drop-in replacement for lead acid batteries.

So; the causality is that low oil/gas prices damage demand for solar/wind, which then indirectly affects people choosing to pay for lead-acid battery setups or a product like this flywheel.

Personally I believe this would be way overthinking the market. This is a problem with analytical people sometimes.

I think lots of people will purchase a flywheel battery merely because it is cool and different. I would purchase one partly for that reason, and because I believe a flywheel would (or has the potential to) last much longer than the alternatives.

I also think a lot of greenie-weenies are uncomfortable with using lead-acid batteries for their storage as part of the renewable energy paradigm they prefer. There are health risks associated with them also, which environmentalists are going to be particularly paranoid about.
H.Baker text on linear (lisp) was yet another mind bending piece from him. Greatly recommended.
The phrase "cesium-decay" was a rather inadequate shortcut. I was thinking of the excited state "decaying" back to the ground state, but you are right, it was not the right word.

The metric field in GTR is defined by the distribution of matter. So starting with GTR, to make another shortcut, we had to take the distribution of matter into account when "converting" from one set of coordinates (measurements) to another. In other words, the space of "transfer functions" from one set of measurements to another is already quite rich.

Similarly, when you transfer from one measurement of time to another, the "transfer function" is also quite rich. If you want to convert precisely from atomic clock to earth movements, you have to take into account interaction with many planets and other celestial bodies. So again, this transfer function is rather "arbitrary".

My point here is that the laws of physics are no less good or less precise when expressed in years than they are when expressed in oscillations of Cs-133 atoms. Some physical systems, e.g. atomic interactions, will be easier to describe relative to Cs-133. But others (e.g. meteorology) are expressed much more simply if you base them on celestial movements.

If the transfer function between, say, radiocarbon dating and cesium clocks can be practically anything, what tells us that the transfer function between light densities and matter densities can safely be assumed to be practically an identity?

And if it's not an identity, then why should the laws of gravity as expressed using light distributions match the laws of gravity as expressed using matter distribution? I think this is an oversimplification that we need to get rid of.

Hope I'm making more sense to you ;-)
> this describes compilers for all modern languages

Yes, this is the current trend. And the results don't really justify the cost:

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps2015/proceedings/KPS_201...

http://proebsting.cs.arizona.edu/law.html

Which is why I (roughly) agree with Daniel Bernstein's polemic "The Death of Optimizing Compilers" https://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/slides-djb-20150416-a4.pdf

(I frequently make code 10x to 1000x or more faster, and compilers' contributions to that total tend to be fairly minimal, though larger than zero and usually worthwhile. But not worth the current shenanigans and not worth having no idea how the code is going to turn out)
Pick one possible advantage ("should be denominated in British Pounds") and discard all obvious disadvantages (energy costs, rent)?
Came here to say exactly this. It's rare for me to be so motivated by design to comment on it - I wanted to read more posts just because it was so beautiful to look at!

Arguably missing a link the homepage/post overview at the top, perhaps I just expect this too much from convention.
Thanks.

Isn't it possible to give a "coefficients" vector with large enough values so that computations with 64 bits would overflow too? I don't doubt the code works in practice, because the range of values are reasonable. However this is not explicit, just looking at the code. I'd prefer if the actual domains were being made obvious. Right now, 12, 32 and 64 feel like magic numbers in the code.
Still don't understand why people use $80 vps. You can get at least 2 dedicated servers with each way more performance for that. Vps make sense if you need low performance or quick resizing, but I doubt that's what most $80 instances are used for. Don't see how they make sense financially..
How much power this thing will draw?

Right now, I guess, 1 GFLOP is about 0.5-1W of power. This means that 130PFLOPS computer will draw 75-130MW, definitely even more.

It can be a problem.
Yeah, poor rich people, being taxed to death. How can they afford their gold iPhones now?
Not knowing anything else about you, it seems like the NSA or other intelligence agency would be something to consider. Or a private intelligence/security company.

I have no idea how to go about it or where, but some kind of skills and interest assessment might be helpful, if you haven't figured out what you're interested in.

I've mostly drifted, with some success, since I got out of the Navy in 1981. My first job was a technical-ish desk job at a shipbuilder, generally related to my enlisted job in the Navy. While there I discovered I liked programming, got a BSCS, and then "drifted" from good CS job to good CS job ever since. I've just done what the man had on his todo list.
> What country do you live in that's solved the healthcare and unemployment problem?

What has unemployment to do here? Are you saying that with no taxes, there is no unemployment? (for reference, I live in France)

> how is that "pay[ing] for their part"?

This is exactly paying for their part: everybody feel their effort as the same as their neighbor. And if you're about to say that poor people are abusing that and stay poor on purpose: find me a poor person that refuses a billion dollar if you offer them. Or even who refuses to earn more than currently, for the matter.
I hope they do a followup about what kind of problem they found in PV46.

I suspect that someone flipped the switch away from "More Magic" :)

http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html
Compare disk performance before you switch. You could be severely disappointed if you have disk heavy applications (which is very likely with small vps)
Not really, I believe the article states that 95% of the outages could be attributed to the single faulty train. That's a really big effect. Correlating traincar activity to outages will only NOT work when the traincar is active on the same track all the time, which it clearly isn't
Will 'Analytics on the Edge' Be the Future of Big Data?
Lowe's articles have the delightful quality of bringing in people who don't understand the chemistry, and making them feel like they're part of something.

I never got into o-chem, and I certainly don't know anything about excited groups that want to blow off some steam and relax. But I can read Lowe's posts and feel like I'm in on the joke, and that's pretty rewarding in and of itself.
I think plastics have been produced mostly from natural gas rather than oil for many years. Ethane & methane are an easier starting point for making polyethylene et al than the varied hydrocarbons in oil.
Thanks for pointing that out. Seems like a weird decision given that they have the underlying product in many regions.
Why JMAP is needed to replace IMAP
> > so got a peddle.

Well there's your problem. That's the cheap knockoff brand.
Data Internship – for all who are starting a data science career
Right I overlooked this. That makes it more meaningful to do the analysis as in the article. I stand corrected.
Europe will get refugees regardless of its need for them, in the same way that we got climate change without needing it.

What we're debating is not the "if", it's what to do with them. The most endorsed answer thus far seems to be letting them drown in the Mediterranean Sea.
But it's reality. Climate scientists ARE arguing. They know it's very important & yet most people don't think so. My own mother is very progressive, but somehow fails to see the urgency of the situation.

Most people do not understand science one bit. And yet they are living in one great big ball of science.
Yeah I though about that when writing it. I don't know.

What I do know is I used to wear a Tissot T-Touch which has a compass, and it doesn't work everywhere. Not in underground car parks, and certainly not on airplanes.

Maybe it's specific to the Tissot, I'm not sure.
Things are likely going to be a lot less regulated in the UK in 5 years. I'd guess that's why Google is increasing it's presence.
> Smear is a workaround for those who care about phase alignment but don't care about frequency error. ... and who don't need to exchange times with anyone else. This last point reduces the set to no one, since it can't extend to everyone (some parties care a lot more about frequency error than phase error!).

I don't quite understand that point. E.g. the typical web server doesn't have much of a need to exchange precise time with others. HTTP, TLS, ... require timestamps, timestamps are shown to users occasionally, but as long as they are roughly right that is enough. As long as all internal systems work off the same standard it is fine. Which seems to be the reasoning under which Google choose to use it, even though one might argue that with their cloud offerings they are not as insular.
Great! We are looking forward to hear from your experience! Open a ticket on github or email us if you find problems or do you think there is something we can improve!
The poorest often pay the proportion of their income they can least afford to lose in taxes: A person who makes a million a year paying 50% is more able to afford it than a person making $10000 a year and paying 10%, because there's a nonzero floor to the cost of living. Learn some about diminishing marginal utility. (Also note that you need to consider all taxes, not just income taxes, when considering tax burden.)
Adding Basic Authentication to Screenly OSE
Thanks. Didn't know this one. Great read and highly entertaining.
Speaking of Hume, I rather enjoyed this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/how-davi...
It's funny, because I never realized TV in Europe had those differences (and I watched some of it)

Cable is basically subscription TV (like Virgin Media in the UK and some countries, Canal+ in France, in Germany they have KabelDeutschland, UPC in the Netherlands, SKY via sattelite, etc)

Network is a channel basically (BBC might also be considered a network since it's a collection of channels with the same owner, but you have France 1/2, etc, ARD, ZDF, ProSieben in Germany, SkyNews in the UK)

The difference in the US/Canada (and other countries in the American continent) is that usually you have some local programming (State/Province/City level). So you usually have a local news program dealing with, for example, State News (this also happens in Brazil and some other LATAM countries). And you bet the local low-quality ads happen everywhere (but not necessarily go to the TV)
> How many companies could have done that? Fitbit is getting a bargain, if that team is still intact.

There's been an exodus from Pebble for months now. Our team already picked up a few competent people. :( Sad because I really like Pebble's products.
same as me, when replacing server.py with the new one, the GUI does not show any credentials dialog to log in it

any ideas?
Lenovo anuncia o Android 7.0 para o seu principal smartphone
Also, the race this year is especially interesting as the two first racers are still within miles of each other, even after having sailed for about 10 000 nautical miles (11 000 miles, or 18 000 kilometers)!

The navy actually just met both of them on yesterday https://twitter.com/VendeeGlobe/status/804057688866856960/vi...
> do my work and take my laptop (which i also code for fun on)

Sure, that makes sense - from the way you said you only worked 9-5 I took that to mean you were talking about a work computer.
But in the context of ec2, downtime must occur in two AZ at the same time to count IIRC. There is no single AZ SLA.
CDN is common enough technique which should be standardized in browsers. HTML should include link to resource hosted by site and its checksum. Now browser can easily use cached resource from any other site with the same checksum or just download it from site.

There are 2 reasons to use CDN. First is caching (different sites using the same resource from the same CDN will download it only once), second is speed (some browsers restrict connection count to the same domain, so hosting resources on a different domains might improve download time). Caching is better solved by using checksum as a key, instead of URL. Speed with HTTP/2 is not an issue, because there's only one TCP connection. The only advantage of CDN might be geographically distributed servers, so user from China would download resource from China server instead of US server. I don't see easy and elegant way to solve it, but I'm not sure it should be solved at all, HTTP/2 pushing resources should be enough.