skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also feel that PH itself has no chance of generating meaningful revenue. That's not to say they don't add value to the users/products that get featured. I feel like if they try to monetize it, what they built will be lost.

I see HN is a combo of PH and very early Digg; with added bonus of better community discussion. What if HN started charging users $20/mo and/or $100 to post. Would it generate meaningful revenue? Would it remain "the same" enough to continue generating that revenue in the future? I don't think so.

That said, I think AL may have some strategery at work. They want to bring early stage companies into their AL network. These often start as just products, so it kind of makes sense, although I don't know if it makes XX million sense
possibly this[1]? Trump encourages Russia to "find the 30,000 emails that are missing."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNa2B5zHfbQ
For anyone wondering why there's so many AWS product announcements: The annual AWS conference re:Invent is going on right now.
Yeah, without revealing too much of our secret sauce (such as it is), that's not as simple as just turning on a feature that we've flagged off in that device. The devices that have that feature run a different OS.
Hey tulsidas, great work on the game, looks great. I'm the author of Hacker Experience (https://hackerexperience.com), an open source RTS MMO location-based hacking simulation. We are open for suggestions and contributions. If you'd like to talk a little bit about these games (I'm a big fan of them) and other stuff, please drop me a line.
Indeed, when I lived in Seattle, I _only_ used public transit, but the Puget Sound's transportation is fantastic. The buses come every 10 minutes, and you can go just about anywhere. They even have a modernized light rail that s all over BART.

The public transit here in the Bay Area is absolutely terrible. Privatized transit means that the people who have deep enough pockets to actually effect change here are completely complacent riding their luxury Van Hools to Hooli.
Car ownership is a pain. There's maintenance and a huge financial outlay for an asset that has a very low (typically less than 5%) utilization rate. The interest rate on the car loan which most people have is higher than that! But right now there's not much alternative except in some big cities.

Sure there are social reasons for car ownership but then again I see kids less and less interested in the car ecosystem. Hell, the mini I bought in 2009 devoted 40% of its manual to the entertainment system, which I consider a good thing.

The shift from cloth production->clothing purchase (many years ago) and from cooking to eating out (more recent) et al demonstrate that people are happy to outsource work when it's convenient and financially beneficial.
Sounds like it may have been sending an (off-by-one, inverted, etc) signal indicating it's on a different track, or moving a different direction or speed, than it was in reality.

While the press release says these were "in addition to the ones it was supposed to emit", it's not hard to imagine that a similar error could happen where the wrong signals were sent in-lieu-of the intended signals, and thus leave trains rolling that should have detected an emergency-stop situation.
I have my doubts as to what can be accomplished with only 51 Senators. Just like with the Democrats in 2008, the Republicans are not as monolithic as they would like you to believe. They face reelection as much as anyone and if they start massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, but obviously won't be able to bring back a manufacturing economy, then I think they'll be facing a tough situation in 2018.
Is this also like avoiding high sodium foods when you have no heart problems?
Yeah - 'young girls with older dudes' is not really so much a thing in SF, though it exists.

There are 20 other reasons to be 'weary' of living in SF that are just easier to grasp, like 'rent'. Also - maybe I'm wrong but when I lived there it felt like 3 guys to every girl. At least the way social networks work because they are so tech-focused.

But materialism is what it is ... so yes, you'll get some negative aspects from having clusters of money.
I see. I kind of wish there was one topic about the conference that had comments about the services; seeing so many individual upvoted posts about each service is a little much for my taste. But that's just my opinion.
Here's how I understood it, in a nutshell:

- SCO decides to sell off it's Unix and becomes Tarantella

- Established Linux vendor Caldera buys the rights to distribute SCO Unix

- Caldera changes its name to SCO and subsequently starts filing lawsuits
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I agree completely. I didn't mean it as a good thing.

If you want to not be infected don't use windows or other systems with prolific AV vendors.
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Can you at least clue us in on why you pasted this seemingly random snippet of code?
Leap seconds is what allows that assumption to work.

Leap seconds exist only in real time, not in historic recorded time.

There are in fact 86400 "calendar seconds" in a day, exactly.

Essentially, when a day is done, we call it 84600, even though it's actually 86400.epsilon.

Only special applications need to know the exact physical number of seconds between two calendar times, rather than the calendar seconds.
indeed! :)
It's cute of them to care about the health of consumers but I'm more concerned about the health of the people that harvest the ingredients.

If they really wanted to they could stop using child slave labour.
You may not notice the taste difference, but what I think other posters are saying is that the change in mass will be noticeable?

Let's say that we've got a 100 gram candy bar, and 60 grams of that candy bar is sugar. Now, reduce the amount sugar in the candy bar by 40%, bringing it down to 36 grams of sugar. Wouldn't the 24 gram loss of sugar mean a 24 gram loss of mass in the candy bar? And wouldn't that decrease in mass of candy bar be noticeable?
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Tangentially, there's a funny Easter Egg in strace – with some trial and error, you can get it to strace its own pid.

$ strace -p 957 strace: I'm sorry, I can't let you do that, Dave.
Yes, fair enough, there were a lot of problems with it. The issue is I think Trump is opposed not just to the detail of the proposed deal, but to multilateral deals in general, presumably because he feels it means the US is bound by globalist institutions. But the US or Europe, or Japan, or any of the other countries involved in these deals, cannot accomplish a goal of preventing something like this on their own. They have to join together, and joining together means being bound by jointly created rules. In order to meet these goals, the US has to accept a role not just as a leader but also as one member among many (a role commensurate with a population and economy perhaps 15-30% of the total rather than as a hegemon talking to a minor ally).
Do you have anything for an entry level?
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Why isn't this a blog post? I gave up reading after the first tweet because it's in such a horrible format.
No need to accuse anyone of shilling. When there's a surge like this (as others have pointed out) it typically corresponds to major events like conferences or major releases.

Additionally, while this is tied to re:Invent, other situations like this are where I see post A, that leads me to article B, I post it. Now there are two related posts. A dozen people do the same thing, readers of the front page are already primed to be interested in that topic, so we get a bunch of correlated content just by the way HN and social link sharing systems work.
You can't justify theft like that.
Interesting but only if it doesn't have starting delays like Java.
Google Earth Timelapse updated
People probably wouldn't go there for full charges, but 20 minutes to go from a few percent to 20% to get home? Yeah, I see that happening.
Those are the comments I come here for. I was reading this and dreaded the lock-in. Thanks for pointing out sane alternatives!
> we're not

Caught them, Amazon trying to take over HN. All Hands, Abandon Ship.
Where _is_ this evidence? I've actually read some of the articles and everyone seems to make vague references to "mountains" of evidence, but there doesn't seem to be any. I read your comment, I read your article, I still can't find anything apart from "its all there in the emails!"

Here's one article with surprisingly good grammar - http://therightstuff.biz/2016/11/27/pizzagate-2/. His evidence? NYT and WaPo are defending a pizza shop owner. Why would they stake their credibility on defending an insignificant pizza shop owner? Clearly there must be something afoot! Add it to the mountain of evidence!

Right now, I'm putting you on the spot. Come up with something even halfway credible.
I've always used smit (or smitty) to do an initial configuration, then hit F6 to get the actual commands that get executed, and script the rest from there.
Really? You don't have a tiny, hard to read filter bar on the left side?
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That is higher than I expected considering I only publish new content every few weeks on average.
Not really. Now your $1K DDOS bill is a $1K AWS credit. Hardly any better.

AWS desperately needs a way to turn off pay-by-use services through billing alerts. I don't believe this is possible right now.
It's always done that, except for the few glory decades after the great depression (and the needed a world war to jumpstart)
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Tesla doesn't count as an established manufacturer in this context. And the i8 is a hybrid, not a pure electric car. In any case, I don't think the original statement was meant to be absolute, just pointing out a trend.
OK, but if this is "slimy" and "almost fraud" then who is the person being screwed over?

The investors??

I feel like if you are going to call something almost fraud you have to point to a group of people being actually damaged.
I was never able to get on board the 3D printing hype train for one very simple reason: who wants more plastic doodads cluttering up their life? I could never imagine anything I would actually want to own or use which could feasibly be created with a 3D printer.
BeOS was really amazing. You could encode video from two video capture cards at the same time on a 600Mhz P3. You could turn off a processor in a multi-cpu system.

Be realized they couldn't compete with Windows, so they wanted to sell dual-boot boxes. But the Microsoft EULA for OEMs banned that (similar to OHA and Google not allowing Google-Android manufactures to create Amazon-Fire products).
Pebble Core has a chance to survive as long as the hardware specs are released, because it's supposed to run vanilla, pure Android 5.
I doubt they'd have code for that if only a small minority of users will use it. Hardening something takes a lot of effort, and it's probably not worth the work to have two different sandbox techniques just so that users without AV can have a better one.
That's totally different. Government vs Business. First one forces you to pay for things you don't asked for in the first place. The latter is optional, as no one has the right to force you buy their stuff/services.
I like how the Australians call layoffs "being made redundant"
Again I don't disagree. I acknowledge the very likely truth in the claims. I get why it pisses people off. I'm a founder, I want distribution as much as the next person and being bootstrapped I know it's less likely for me than for someone who sold 20% of their company to someone with connections. Those facts just doesn't disqualify PH as a source of interesting things to look at for me. For clarity though I've spend a grand total of like 4 hours on PH in my life[0], I just don't have that much time to waste.

HN has super voters. There's also a trait that your account can be tagged with which makes content that you share less likely to get to the front page (all votes on your content count as some percentage of a "real" vote). That attribute is usually added to non-insiders whose content often makes it to the front page.

I don't think they do it out of malice. They are design decisions in service of amplifying/dampening some desirable/undesirable effect. It doesn't make the creators evil, it just means that they have goals, metrics or influences other than the purity of their voting mechanisms. Community sites are super fucking hard and the people who have built successful ones have my respect.

0. https://twitter.com/wewals/status/798759401892941826
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$400 billion worth e-commerce to be traded on Indian Govt. eMarketplace
Where's the source code? :)
Is Hacker News the only source of the offers?
> On the other hand dark chocolate lovers eat chocolate slowly allowing it to melt in the mouth.

In fairness there's no other way to enjoy really dark chocolate, masticating a piece (let alone multiple) yields no taste and a completely dry and powdery mouth, it's not enjoyable.
I suppose you would watch the world burn.
Are there better terms to use than "strong" and "weak" when it comes to this stuff? One of the problems with using those is the emotional impact of those words. A Strong currency makes your goods more expensive for people around the world, so you'd want to Weaken it. But nobody wants to say, "I want to weaken our currency." People want a Strong currency. It sounds good. "We're strong."
A lot of great ideas come from collaborations between people.

Thinking Fast and Slow was written by one man but he talks about the great walks he took with his friend which he claims was the best work he ever did.

A married couple figured out X-rays and revolutionized medicine.

Jobs and Wozniak revolutionized computing.

It takes two to tango... very few people are alone in their ventures. The most successful people are those who can surround themselves well.
I recall a podcast interview Ryan Hoover gave some time ago, where he said (if I'm recalling this correctly) that he wouldn't consider offers to sell under $100M, and his goal was 1B or greater.

Even if you don't believe this, unquestionably you have to say it in order to get venture money.
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We have been using this architecture for containerized batch processing for more than a year:

http://tech.adroll.com/blog/data/2015/09/22/data-pipelines-d...

It is very convenient to be able to define any jobs as Docker containers, using the best language for the task, and define dependencies between their inputs and output explicitly, not being tied to any particular paradigm like MapReduce.

I am more than happy to let AWS handle plumbing for this instead of having to maintain and operate our custom solution.
Progress resupply ship malfunctions, crashes in Siberia
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Mystery solved: their just-updated docs indicate .NET Core.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/12/aws-lambd...
I'd buy beef jerky if it wasn't soaked in corn syrup. I examined every brand, and they all soak it.

Even bread has so much syrup it tastes like cake to me.

I'd buy more chocolate if it was less sweet.
Re #3: I'm confident that they won't offer that OotB, but they'll very likely have SNS integration, which could be translated into a Slack or HipChat message via Lambda. Depends on how much work you want to put in.
Huh. Why do JPEG files support comments?

(I mean, that's what this comes down to, right? Both formats support comments, and starting a comment in one is a valid start for the other, so you can interleave them and do whatever you like.)
One of the contributers here:

GEM is at the first step towards true data modeling where it makes the mappings process very accessible. For someone coming from a SQL background, mappings in Elasticsearch are interesting because of it's nature of being both a search engine and a data store suited for aggregations.

Would love it to eventually have some intelligence and heuristics built in, like recommending what data types to choose, data normalization patterns.
That's a good thing; no reason why Steam should be able to read my private keys!
"white dudes connected to VCs"

It's not about race. It's about class. The "connected" part is what matters, not the "white dude" part.

Your average 99%er white dude does not get funded in Silicon Valley. He gets asked where he "summers" and then walks out confused.

What matters in Silicon Valley is being wealthy and having attended the right school. Being connected matters more than anything.

The only thing that makes it somewhat meritocratic is that real success is undeniable and even unconnected people can find ways to succeed without help.