skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience is mainly from 8-bit CPUs, but unless you can afford one IRQ per bit, won't you just be busy waiting at 320 MHz instead? Performance tends to be less of a problem than the fact that you can't do anything else at the same time.
It's not exactly free money because Amazon will surely reserve that IP for your use at any time. By sitting on Static IPs you are using AWS resources. Yes, operationally it costs them nothing, but there is an opportunity cost.
Ask HN: How do you choose TLD?
Sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

And a giant backdoor with purposefully vague language in their privacy policy to let them sell data.

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

"We provide personal information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures."
There are tail wagging dog problems.

Is the purpose of an economic system to generate the largest pile of capital and damn those obnoxious humans for getting in the way or expecting a quality life or even expecting to survive? Whats important is the piles of money in themselves.

Or is the purpose of an economic system to make people happy... or happy enough, anyway?

The French Revolution can be looked at on a large scale of trying to run a sem-industrial pre-industrial nation using an agricultural medieval economic operating system. It simply didn't work anymore and the population was suffering horribly from it. Trying to do the wrong, old fashioned thing harder, mostly resulted in making people even unhappier and more guillotine chops in the end. Likewise if the capitalist system means almost everyone is going to be very poor, very angry, and very desperate, then trying to do more of the same old thing that screwed everything up is just going to result in the guillotines being busier sooner this time around.

Not so much OPs post, but I see a lot of free floating condescension on HN along the lines of, well, I guess people with an IQ below 120 just won't be participating in the economy anymore. Oh they had the misfortune of being born in the wrong geographic area? Their parents weren't rich, too bad. Should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. Won't happen to me. As for them, well all thats certain is it sure sucks to be them! However realize that historically "it sucks to be them" for only a certain integrated quantity of suck and time, before heads start filling baskets and things are much worse in the short term and staggeringly better in the long term.

No man has ever watched his child starve and die, thinking to himself, well, it was for the maximal efficient allocation of capital, so its OK, in fact here's my other kid, if it'll only help boost the DJIA some more.
I like ThreadItJS[1], it's basically a mini HN.

About 100-200LOC to implement, does recursive views, xhr, routing, dynamic state tree, and the server periodically responds w/ errors (on purpose) to force you to implement loading and error states.

[1](http://threaditjs.com/)
It's quite true.

Though income tax rates after the war were quite high - it was for a very small group, and actual receipts were not as high.

'The 1%' do not generate a lot of income, they generate capital gains, which is why a 90% 'income tax' rate wouldn't have the effect you might think.

Moreover, in a climate wherein there actually is a 90% income tax rate, every wealthy person that can afford an accountant (i.e. all of them) would find ways around this. They'll simply take almost no income, and use other vehicles instead, i.e. sale of shares, royalties etc..
Given the popularity of various photo/video manipulation applications on mobile, I'm surprised by Facebook's decision here. If Prisma had gotten a bump in traction with this, every other video/photo app would be immediately clamoring to add FB Live Streaming to their product. In a year, sending live video to FB would be as common a feature as sending photos to Instagram.

Who gives a shit about cannibalizing live video filters, a feature that had no need for existing other than to create parity with Snapchat's filters, when you could give your pet platform, live video which drives massive ad-revenue, the appearance of ubiquity?
Amazon usually bill in arrears (no idea about Lightsail). In the general case even, it doesn't matter. What you owe Amazon is independent of whether your card allows the charge or not. You can run out of top-up VISA card credit but you may still end up owing Amazon money.

This applies to any other provider, too. What you owe the provider is what you contracted to pay the provider (eg. by consuming services, or clicking the "upgrade" button in a web interface). It is independent of them actually taking the money.
In "On Killing" [0], the author argued that WWI troops consistently aimed over the heads of their enemies, in order to avoid ever actually killing someone.

This tendency obviously ran counter to the goals of the generals, so after WWII the military devised ways to make the soldiers comfortable with aiming at people.

That's just to say - even among active-duty soldiers, there is a spectrum of those willing to kill or not.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-S...
Digital Ocean's pricing has remained the same since 2013.

It'd be nice if they bumped the $20 plan to 3GB RAM (or go full Linode at 4GB)
I can almost feel the pucker over at DigitalOcean, Linode, etc. It may not be a better product, but that doesn't necessarily matter, given the brand power.
I guess this will be a game changer for FPGA-mineable digital currencies. Maybe not for Bitcoin, because people have invested heavily into dedicated mining hardware, but I'm interested to see what it'll do for the smaller altcoins.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/7/5076166/the-internet-archi...
I'm worried about Docker living up to its valuation, and I haven't seen the business model that will meet the expectation of their valuation long-term yet.

They have built a great open source product, but now that there has been a collective shift to understanding the benefits of containers, the docker runtime + container format will/should be commoditized by infrastructure companies (Google, RedHat, MS etc).

So where is the value-add of Docker the company going to come from?

edit: s/evaluation/valuation
Or imagine if they just bundled a flat rate in the service? You're effectively specifying a burst policy.
Layoffs Continue at Cyanogen Inc., Seattle Office to Shut Down by Year-End
Android could let me add a specific source so I don't have all-or-nothing security.

For example, I only wish to install apps from HumbleBundle and F-Droid (in addition to the default play store). Any other APK that lands on my system is still untrustworthy.

Of course, this would probably require additional signature on the APK, since I think all 3rd party sources are just providing raw APKs.
Server-side :

- Node.js is great if you like JS. It couples really well with MongoDB (see MEAN stack).

- Play Framework is quite nice if you want to stick to Java.

Client-side :

- React is...well you tried it.

- Vue.js is great.
It is not that RAII is non-obvious after you've worked with it. It is that you can read through how the language works somewhere like http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/, start producing software, and not realize that you have to do RAII. You can even, as Google did, have experienced and competent people write a large and well-structured program and then only belatedly realize that you can't use certain features because they didn't structure the program right.

There is a lot of that in C++. If you get everything right, then wonderful. If you don't, then that is a problem.

On implementation bugs, I have found implementation bugs in lots of languages. But not generally as things that I stumble over while proceeding with what seems to me like it should be the obvious thing to try.

With C++ it isn't like that. I gave you an example where there is a disagreement between compilers. But, for example, what happens if I supply an ordering method that isn't consistent? In other languages I get stuff sorted slightly inconsistently. In C++ I get a core dump. Good luck figuring out why.

On the complaint that you have about Java, that falls in the category of things that I expect to have to deal with. Part of my mental model for a language has to be the memory management rules. C++ lets you set up whatever you want. Perl does deterministic destructors but therefore can't collect circular data structures without help. Java has true garbage collection so it collects circular data structures, but it can't guarantee that they are collected in a timely way. JavaScript does true garbage collection now, but back in the IE 4.0/5.0 days they separately collected garbage for native objects and JavaScript objects with the result that garbage never got collected if there was a cycle between native and JavaScript objects.

This is one of the basic facts that I know that I have to understand about any language I work with. It is like pass by value vs pass by reference, or the scoping rules. I immediately look for it, understand it, and then am not surprised at the consequences. I see other people use the language for a while without trying to understand that. I understand their pain. But I'm not caught by surprise.

However C++ keeps finding new ways to surprise me. In the past I reserved it for cases where I need to implement an algorithm and squeeze and order or two new magnitudes of precise memory layout and performance beyond what is available in scripting languages. I've resolved that the next time I need that, I'll try a new language. My past experiences with C++ haven't been worth it.
Did you see https://github.com/crocodilejs/font-awesome-assets? Not sure if we are OK to have the icons there - the licensing is confusing - we're not really distributing them.
I got stuck part way through. "She packed the laptop and documents, left her suitcase near the front door and went for one last walk on their beach." then a couple of lines later "When she opened her suitcase at the security line, there was no laptop. No paperwork. It was all gone."

But then the subject changes, timeline changes and I can't find what ever happened to the laptop.
A quick look at the pricing shows these are plagued by the same problems as DO's offerings: only RAM scales linearly with price, while CPU, storage, and data transfer do not.

Linode and OVH, while not as prestigious as AWS and DO, offer much more fair pricing when you need more resources.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. How about criminal penalties for false arrest due to bugs?

To be serious this is a catastrophic failure. We can not deprive people of there freedom because of a glitch. This system doesn't have fail safes.
I don't see anything disruptive here. I already have roughly the same cost/benefit with Linode.
A bit of bikeshedding on the code you linked:

Why are you commenting out code? If you delete it, it will still be in your git history. If you have some reason to leave it in, document why and wrap it with a `if false {}` or `if debug {}` instead. That way autoformatters will not destroy your code and the compiler makes sure your code keeps compiling.

Leaving a line empty between statements helps structuring code. Putting an empty line after each statement makes the code as unstructured as without.
Wish this was more obvious. Signed up only to find out during creation that this was the case. Was hoping to see how the Seoul location routing was as I'm looking for a cheap VPS with low Asia-EU latency (ie not across the US).
You can deploy PCIe with switches over distance and keep the GPUs in an external enclosure:

http://www.dolphinics.com/products/pent-dxseries-dxs410.html

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-c410x/pd

*there are newer/better/faster versions of the above available, just two examples I had handy as my guess of how to make this happen. I'm confident that even if AWS is doing something similar it's being done on customized hardware.
What are these "various" ways you're talking about?

The only overage charge I see is for data transfer. This isn't ideal, I'll grant you, but it's not the same as "various".
Thank you, was looking for this.
Checking your email address in such sites looks like a great way to collect email addresses
> but there is an opportunity cost

Is there?
Yet, this is the same cost on EC2 for the first 10TB, except you don't get 1TB for free with EC2.

So essentially you're getting $90 worth of egress traffic for $5. It's even more obvious now that EC2 egress pricing is ridiculous.
Yes, a gmail address that I use for nothing other than to access the Play Store.

I don't use it to send or receive emails and I don't use any other google products or services.

Anything I actually sign up for uses one of my other three paid services.

At this point I'm tempted to start using Raccoon;

http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon
They advertise a 99.95% EC2 SLA. Does that mean that an instance in a single AZ can go down anytime for any length of time?
It takes a lot of research on candlepowerforum or budgetlightforum to start to get an idea of what features you like and what's important to you. I've found the best quality, smallest, most efficient flashlights are from Zebralight. http://www.zebralight.com/ I've got about 30 flashlights, and the 5 Zebralights are my favorite by far.
The New Intel: How Nvidia Went from Powering Video Games to Revolutionizing AI
Those icons are Font Awesome 4.7, which is completely open source so you can do almost whatever you want with them.

Font Awesome 5 will have a Free and Pro version. The Free version will be completely open source and you can use it however you like. The Pro version will have 2500-ish more icons and an SVG framework. Pro is the only one to worry about for distribution. :)
The approach to MOOCs should be done differently:

1) The courses should be VIGOROUS and SELF-PACED (no quarter, semester).

2) Billed on a monthly subscription.

Students are short-sighted:

1) They can load up on more classes concurrently.

2) Spend more time on hard courses and breeze through on easy ones.

3) Have access to more courses and not be constrained by univ. budget or professor availability.

Basically, the students get more for their money in the near term. At some point, the tuition will flatten out and potentially increase access to those who could not previously afford to attend.
Is that repo going to be made public? It looks to be private right now.
My Ph.D. was from a world class private university in the US East! Before my Ph.D. I taught math at Indiana University and computer science at Georgetown University. After my Ph.D., I taught applied math and computing at Ohio State University.

I never had any desire to be a college professor. I took the Ohio slot to be better able to care for my wife during her long illness.
Heroku? They've basically just a usability shell on top of AWS.
OVH is testing Altera chips - ALTERA Arria 10 GX 1150 FPGA Chip

https://www.runabove.com/FPGAaaS.xml
There are alternative services for pretty much everything Google offers.
I want to try out Google, but they need to make it easier to try it out. I have petabytes of data in S3 that I would need to move first (at least some of it).
Impressive performance, even compared against a Mongo shard with 3 nodes!
Can you email me? niftylettuce@gmail.com <3333 keep up the kick ass work. I'm launching a crowdfunding campaign of my own thanks to your inspiration.
_NOW_ things are getting really interesting!
One of our engineer's recently floated up the idea of using ToroDB Stampede for replacing our MongoDB -> PostgreSQL ETL, since it's merely a set of Python scripts parsing JSON into tables.

Have you seen use cases of Stampede being implemented on existing databases/schemas, rather than an entirely new DB?
The article alludes to the fact the caretaker or the older gentleman removed the laptop and documents, or someone else in the employ of the husband.
Does this enable remote render farms? That would be huge for independent animation studios.
disclaimer: I am not a security expert. Reader beware!

If you're using ssh-agent, maybe you could bind-mount your host's $(dirname $SSH_AUTH_SOCK) into the container, and then set the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable to point at it when you run the Docker container. That way you're not even sharing the private key with the container.

I imagine you could do the same with gpg-agent, too.
Do on-ear headphones carry a negative connotation? I wear them because earbuds make my ears hurt after a while.
CNNs in general excel at infering/decoding "context" from the vectors, so it makes sense to use them for language. But yes, there are cases where they don't make sense/just add complexity.
They say on the FAQ:

>For every Lightsail plan you use, we charge you the fixed hourly price, up to the maximum monthly plan cost.

Wording implies the monthly pricing is a 'maximum' price.
I plan on making it pretty open (ssh access over usb) and release the toolchain etc. that I use, but we don't have the resources to officially support third-party applications.

The OS itself is pretty standard Linux distro, but I might end up just using Debian. I also plan to try to mainline as many of the drivers we use as possible.

One of the issues I personally want to solve is the lack of a hackable e-paper device.
> There really aren't that many people who need to throw a beam for half a kilometre or light up a football stadium with a flashlight.

And for most people, a product that can do that is substantially worse than one that can't. If you want a flashlight to play tag, walk the dog, or wander your house in a power outage, you probably can't use a dive-strength light.

We're finally hitting the point where even modest, internal-battery flashlights can be so powerful that they're painful to look at, and for most people you don't want to go any brighter than that.
the russian civil war had multiple competing factions with a bevy of foreign influences onto each....

a little "funding" has an impact that works out to be a wash, considering that most of the combatants in the war had obsolete weapons, no organization, no food, no logistic chain, no cold weather gear, no education, etc...
It's a lot easier these days. Still takes buying a couple different options so you can get the color right, but they're consistent.
what's the state of the JavaScript backend? I do frontend and I'd really love to write some code in idris
Some of the intriguing books appearing in the video:

* https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sparse-distributed-memory

* https://www.amazon.com/Fluid-Concepts-Creative-Analogies-Fun...

* https://www.amazon.com/Theater-Consciousness-Workspace-Mind/...
Setup Android Projects in Gitlab CI
This is exactly it. 5-6 years ago (I think), I signed up for an aws account under the "free" or educational or something tier. AWS was newish at the time, and I wanted to learn about it.

Via some accidental clicking in the control panel (trying to get an IP address for the instance, I think?) I ended up getting a bill from them for over $100. Which, to me at the time, was a huge amount of money.

It put me off of AWS forever. I don't ever want something that tells me how much they're going to charge me after I have already given them my credit card information.

edit: they did credit me back when I complained, but that doesn't matter. The risk to me wasn't/isn't worth it.
I was very shrug-y about this new non-framework until you pointed out it was a Rich Harris project. Definitely interested now...
Why exactly did you choose to move to a framework that, according to it's commit history, had its first commit 15 days ago?

Why are people porting apps to a framework that is a few days old?

I find it very difficult to believe that your app, with it's 50% size decrease, has any more complexity than a todo app.

Just, why?
Apple Purges Breitbart News App from iTunes Store
On a side note, any site like HN for data systems, BI, dashboards?

Edit. To be clear I mean forums where business intelligence, data science, dashboard folks hang out. I work with Tableau and they have a big community, I am looking for sites less tableau centric...
The Next Phase for Project Vaani
Sounds good!

I played with Idris quite a bit in the early days. I started spending more time in Coq around the time Idris gained its proof search mechanisms (I'm still not sure how they work!), but Idris has always been a more 'realistic' language for development (as opposed to proof engineering).

I think I spoiled myself with dependent types, as all of my Haskell projects seem to hit a wall which dependent types can trivially solve (e.g. calculating a type or a TypeRep based on incoming JSON data)
SendGrid Announces Series D
Polish is a great example of this. It looks like someone just mashed on the keyboard. There is a Polish mma fighter named Joanna Jedrzejczyk and no one has any clue how to say her last name.
Those topics seem somewhat interesting in the abstract, but I would hope that they are more than just opinion pieces, and include real world examples.

In your intro post you definitely have the focus clearly on real world examples of how the advice plays out in practice. Compare:

Why you should choose a traditional relational database as the main back-end of your web application, instead of an object store (e.g. Mongo)

vs.

Why it made sense choosing Swarm over Kubernetes for our application

There is a big difference between "you should do X" articles and "Why we decided to do X (and how it worked out)" articles.
Traffic is the big item that can add additional charges:

> Data transfer overages above the free allowance are charged at $0.09/GB.

On the $5 instance the second TB (at $90) is 18 times as expensive as the instance itself with the first TB included.
Whats new in Git 2.11?
The Rhythm of Food
How many of those buildings had regular lights on them before?
Curious, why don't you compare with known "non-cloud" hosting companies too, that provide vps services, like ovh, hetzner, leaseweb, etc.?

EDIT: Anyone cares to explain his reasons behind a downvote?
It's not; there are additional possible outbound bandwidth overage costs, and they are not insignificant.
They changed the way Glacier retrieval costs work a little over a week ago to help address this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10230937
I'm unfamiliar with both of these events and just recently started using DO, do you have links?
This is a real shame. Dim red lights are the hallmark of standby/warning for good reason - they're non-distracting and comfortable to have lots of. It's a real shame that blue took over when it's probably the worst color available.

And as an aside, having a light that turns on to tell you when a product is off/asleep is just offensively bad design.