skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"rather than optimizing UX or making customers happy"

as someone who's dabbled a bit w both, I found GCP UI/UX to be far simpler than dealing w AWS
Personally, I've always viewed reddit's approach to moderation as non-interventionist and not as something that necessarily enshrined the ideals of free-speech. That is to say, it all seemed more of a growth-hack than anything else; outsource moderation to individual communities and set a policy of non-intervention so that when people complain to the admins they can say something like "subreddits are owned and operated by users, don't complain to us", this formula scaled very nicely and reddit exploded into the behemoth it is today.

But now that reddit has become something of a cultural focal point on the internet, it's started to draw attention from the media at large and suddenly the operators felt a little embarrassed that they had to defend subreddits such as /r/fatpeoplehate, /r/jailbat, /r/niggers etc. So I imagine they just said "fuck it, it's more trouble than it's worth", and despite a month or two of banhammer-whack-a-mole with fuck-stupid-dictator-sjw-cunt-ellen-mao subreddits, the site continued to flourish, and all the free-speech purists finally woke up to the startling truth that reddit.com was really just an internet startup and not a platform to empower the oppressed masses...

Until they banned another subreddit.
> Like many women married to very wealthy men, she didn’t know much about the family accounts.z

Makes it sound like she married him for the money, but she didn't[0]. While it turns out she really didn't know much about the accounts[1], she help start the businesses that made the money[2].

[0] > Robert Oesterlund wasn’t born rich, either. When Pursglove first met him, on a cruise ship off Helsinki in the ’90s, he ran a struggling flower-import business.

[1] This is truly stupid. In a marriage, a couple should share completely all of this information. Otherwise, do not get married.

[2] > Living in Florida and New York, they started a series of companies. Oesterlund came up with most of the ideas, Pursglove would later state in court filings, and ran the companies day to day. Pursglove hired the employees, trained them and helped manage the offices.
Really? Because slack is IRC with a nicer UI. There are many examples of this.

Executives love slick UIs and flashy dashboards. Executives have a lot of power.
$50K in $100 bills fits in a safety deposit box. Precious metals are even more compact.
I tried to give a meaningful headline here. Sometimes challenging on story posts — feel free to give suggestions of a better one.
This is a silly question, but do they go fully around the ear?

I have bigger ears and a get a lot of discomfort from most headphones. I have a pair of Audio Technica ATH-A900X (with huge cans) at home, but I'm always hunting for a cheaper pair to carry around with me.
Funny thing is that bytecode is actually pretty dense, more dense than x86. But it's that everything else which makes Java images pretty huge.
Skytap also has a good (fast and quick) solution, with all the docker bells and whistles.
Autopilot: an open source driving agent
Agreed. "Programming Satan's Computer" is a good paper on the subject of code running under constant attack.
The problem with that solution is that it's kicking the can down the road for another generation to reset the system once it returns to the gigantism of old. The best solution, the hardest one because it will hurt the most, is to place all ownership of capital in a common trust. No more Bill Gateses. No more George Soroses. Just everyone having a common share in the same pool of capital from which to subsist. This doesn't mean you can't have personal property, it just means you can't plant a flag on some land and declare "I am the king of my own kingdom" as it were.
Because maybe you could debunk it, which nobody managed to do so far.
What magnitude are we talking about? Genuinely curious.
For Aurora, yes. I understand the tradeoff and happy to stay on Aurora. Found this forum post stating that 5.7 compat will come next year
Hah. What about about the egress cost? Getting 100 PB out of AWS is not cheap. (maybe it is cheap in actual cost, but not in what the end user has to pay to AWS cost).
> Every other source will be retired in the face of LED greater efficiency, solid state design, and lower cost.

Efficiency is much less important, if you also pay to heat your home.

That doesn't mean they're superior to LED, but it does change the cost/benefit to make it a little less lopsided! :-)
Not only that, the terms you propose in the pre-nup give your potential wife a very good indication how you value the effort of child-raising and her career that she will give up for you (it's still usually the wife that follows her husband). Then she can also make an informed choice.
My impression is that you are highlighting phoney empathy as a problem. If I'm wrong- I'd love to know it. I agree with that idea. But I'm coming to the realization that empathy is critical and most people do not practice it.

This last election educated me about the number of people who espouse empathy and then follow it up with tantrums about how if you don't also hate $Candidate, then you are a racist sexist homophobe.

It's phony empathy- or empathy when it's not inconvenient that is dangerous. It leads to moral self licensing- where terrible behavior or failure to do something meaningful is justified by the fact that

a) people they disagree with are bad and
b) they did that empathetic sounding tweet that one time

memes should not pop by the way- they're a powerful indicator of the mental self-reliance and thoughtfulness of the speaker. I don't want them to die. I want them to live on so I know who to avoid.
This release of Ember.js integrates the new Glimmer rendering engine and stabilizes a year of work by contributors. It is a backwards compatible drop-in upgrade that should also yield a significant performance bump for many use-cases.

Additionally it unblocks other feature work Ember has coming down the pipeline!

For those who haven't been keeping up with Ember or the Glimmer effort, I wrote a list of five things you should know about this release: http://madhatted.com/2016/11/30/5-things-to-know-about-ember... It should be approachable even if you don't know the framework well.

Congrats to all the contributors for making such a difficult change so easy for everyone else to use!
Generally we don't, and really can't, know ahead of time which new work will be invented and done in the future. That is the point of entrepreneurialism, and of a market more broadly. What I'm pointing out is that it has consistently been the case that people have declared that, because they could not imagine what new kinds of work would exist in the future, that therefore automation would throw people into permanent unemployment. This has consistently been mistaken.

Much work could be automated - but automation is not free. Sure, you can imagine all sorts of work being automated away - but is it worth the cost? In what locations? For what applications? All the time or just some of the time?

The most common way of adjusting to automation is not just to add new value to an old "job title", but to move into new fields entirely. A farmer today has very different responsibilities to a farmer a hundred years ago - but there's also far, far fewer people farming at all. Most people who do things that have been automated will do things that simply weren't done before, or were done very little.
I don't understand how they can live on those prices.

I have their 3 euro arm server and have no problem pushing more than a 100 megabit a second from it.
If you guys want to see an example of this in action I made a stupid little demo. You can tweet @AWSCloudNinja a selfie and it will replace your face with a ninja mask.

I'm waiting to post the code until the new boto models are out but it's all in python and lambda functions.

(I work for AWS)
>I think the real story is that it's difficult to have government subsidies for students without putting some form of price controls on the schools. What we see in practice is that the subsidies cost the government (which is fine -- that's what a subsidy is) but the value is being captured by the school, not the student.

Well, uh, yeah, what did people expect? This was a pretty deliberate policy shift. Public higher education used to be funded by per-student block grants at the state level, whose conditions said that tuition and fees had to be kept below some maximum level and could not rise faster than some maximum rate. Now it's mostly funded via subsidized loans.

When you subsidize education-usury instead of education, you get more usury and less education, because that's what you paid for.
I've been using packet.net for a small side project, they do bare metal / single tenant servers but the provisioning is very similar to linode/digital ocean. Their ~$35/mo ($0.05/hr) option is on par with digital ocean's $80/mo offering.
They already announced a year ago that it's something they're working on, but also that they would not provide a timeline.
Amazon seems to be trying to build a 100% proprietary global mainframe that runs everywhere.

Up side: ease of use, ubiquity, big backer, scalability, etc.

Down side: absolute lock-in of everything to Amazon, privacy nightmare, and if Amazon screws up the world grinds to a halt.

I predict their next move to be building their own fiber between all their data centers, effectively creating a proprietary managed Internet that they can defend against DDOS and similar attacks. Then they can also start partnering with ISPs, sidelining the mainstream Internet and pushing their own proprietary one.
Facebook Live is hardly just an 'API', it's the right to use their paid network to stream video to thousands of people in the world simultaneously.

Live streaming gigabytes per second is not cheap, and its not surprising they'd only want to do it from their own app where they can at least show you their ads to try and recoup some of the cost.
You don't even need a jail for that. Just add those lines to the end of /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

Match User pi
AcceptEnv
ForceCommand echo 'To enable SSH, do this and that'

EDIT: added an explicit empty "AcceptEnv".
You should mention that a 648MW solar power plant produces 5.67 TWh/year (648 * 365 * 24). It doesn't seem that unimpressive then.
I wonder if they support speech marks like Ivona, for allowing synchronization of text with audio, useful for text highlighting.
They aren’t, unless you have an instance attached to it.
This is very awesome. Could you add some more thoughts on the tooling and the development workflow? Is it possible to target the Xilinx hardware using only open source (or AWS proprietary) tools? Or is Vivado still required for advanced stuff?
A privilege is a special right reserved for certain people. Making good choices isn't reserved for those who are middle class and above.

No doubt the path to career success is easier for those with parents who made an a collection of smart decisions, as well having made past smart choices.

If I must accept this definition of 'privilege', then we can simply call all outcomes in our life to be a direct result of the amount of 'privilege' we have.

Personally I reject this broad definition of privilege as it strips away peoples need to accept the fact that at the end of the day, they have the ability to make their own choices and develop their own self discipline.

There are world class developers who have arisen from 3rd world country level educations, there are elite athletes in third world countries who have self-coached their way to olympic level performance. Class mobility exists, and stripping away personal responsibility via the process of redefining language does not help anyone except for those who wish to just continue their life without critical introspection.

At the core, this is a political argument hidden under the shroud of being a linguistics argument.
>That seems pretty high.

That article is quoting BLS statistics[0]. Where are your numbers?

[0]http://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/kinder...
When did you find out about the framework? How did you find out about it?
> Vuvuzela is being developed at MIT CSAIL.

Thanks, this almost makes up for killing Aaron Swartz!
cannabis.

it's incredibly non-toxic, cheap, easy to get, actually legal in some places, easy to confirm that what you bought is what you think it is, and will produce a pleasant and mild high that has some attributes in common with psychedelics (though it isn't a true psychedelic in the classical sense).
It's always been complicated, though. Alexis Ohanion has repeatedly talked about the importance of Reddit as a censorship-free platform and talked up the company as embodying unfettered free speech.

Obviously that's not true, but major figures at the company have said it from the early days up through very recently. And the difference between moderation (in the "no spam, no personal threats, communities enforce their own rules" sense) and administrative speech restrictions is a big and challenging one.

So no, Reddit has never quite been that, but it's been one of their selling points regardless.
> with a contingency that a divorce would occur amicably (the second-most common case).

Is that the second-most-common case? I haven't seen a single amicable divorce amongst my friends and colleagues. The level of nastiness has been different, of course, but it's never been amicable.

Given the profound downsides that I've seen, I think that a prenuptial agreement is mandatory for anyone who chooses to marry in our era. Otherwise you're just going for the standard 'prenup' — and like the standard deduction on your taxes, it just ain't sufficient.
> Would it make sense to combine them into a single index today?

No. You'd have two thousand comments about totally disparate systems to filter though.
Glad to see SVG is an option. The icons are great but icon fonts are dead at my shop (mostly for the reasons Github abandoned them).
I found VHDL much easier than C or verilog, I think it has to do with how your brain is wired.
(Hopefully jeffbarr will read this)

How does one get access to try this out? The article mentions it's available in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) however I checked the RDS tab in us-east-1 and I don't see it listed. Only the MySQL version is available.

The "... you can sign up now for access!" link points to https://pages.awscloud.com/amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-com... but it just redirects to https://aws.amazon.com.
The thing is, most people on HN have better things to do with their time than go around debunking other people's random stuff they found on the internet somewhere.

That said, the principle of "Nobody's debunked it yet, so heck, it might as well be true" probably isn't the best operating maxim to base one's worldviews on.
Chernobyl New Safe Confinement Timelapse [video]
Is anyone using this? It certainly seems pretty cool, but is it significantly better than a quick phone call or the doodle app?
Let's say the government proposed a rule tying Medicare type payments to your BMI (gradated until >30 BMI = no more Medicare pending graduation from a "weight loss bootcamp"). I can pretty much guarantee a huge amount of people would be totally not happy.

I could use similar harsh, if negatively over-generic, logic to justify the rule ("I'm not paying for the health costs of some fat ass who ate so many donuts in their life they're now having a heart attack on my dime!"). But such an approach will probably not solve very much anyways except make a whole lot of people angry. People would probably hold donut-eating parties in protest. :)

One other point. At present, the current state legislative trend on drug-testing "welfare" recipients is mostly limited to TANF, with occasional forays into Medicaid and SNAP. I have seen no proposals targeting SSDI / Social Security or Medicare. There's a reason I said "caste" -- right now, the context is not people in general that are accepting money from the government, but only the "wrong" people that are accepting money from the government.
It's like they saw all these consumers being screwed by ISP and cell provider data caps and astronomical accidental overage fees and went "how do we get in on that action?!"
"Transforming matter to energy" != "burning". According to Wikipedia, you can get about 24-35 MJ/kg by burning coal, which is a tiny tiny tiny fraction of what you can get by magically transforming matter to energy.

(In other words, transforming one kg of matter to energy releases 9*10^16 J of energy, equivalent to burning 2.6 million ton of coal.)

As far as I know, the most physically realistic way of transforming matter to energy involves throwing it into a black hole and capturing the incoming radiation. So... I'll bet it won't be commercially available any time soon.
That would actually be tremendously disruptive! Superb idea.
I tried a few random sentences and some articles paragraphs with both Vitória and Ricardo (Brazilian Portuguese voices) and Ricardo did pretty well. I was impressed, really. Vitória on the other hand was not much better (as in "fluent", with rhythm and right intonation) than other available female voices out there for pt_BR.

EDIT: oh, I had no idea they have used Ivona
It's difficult to come up with a good model for how a billing ceiling would work in software as a service. A good start would be to fully specify what behavior you desire when an account hits its billing limit. Are you expecting everything to keep working like normal while the cloud provider pays the bill for those resources, or are you expecting the provider to fully shut everything down in a way that prevents the accrual of further costs, or something in between?

There are a number of resource types that, simply by existing, will accrue costs. A lot of them, actually. On AWS that includes things like running EC2 instances, EBS volumes, RDS databases and backups, DynamoDB tables, data in S3 buckets, and more. The question is what should happen to these resources upon hitting a billing ceiling?

Should EC2 instances be terminated (which deletes all data on them), DynamoDB tables deleted, S3 data erased, RDS databases deleted? If that was the behavior, it would be an extremely dangerous feature to enable, and could lead to catastrophically bad customer experiences. This is a nonstarter for any serious user.

Conversely, if you expect those resources to continue to exist and continue operating, then that's basically expecting the cloud provider to pay your bill. The provider will then have to recoup those costs from other customers somehow, and so this option sets poor incentives and isn't fair to others. If you expect your account to remain open the following month, you'd have to settle the bill, and we're back to square one.

AWS gives people tools to tackle this problem, such as billing alerts. These can notify you over SMS, email, or programmatically when you hit an "$X this month" billing threshold, and then you can decide what to do. Since these events can be processed programmatically, it's possible to build a system that will automatically take whatever action you'd like AWS to take, such as shutting things down or deleting resources.

If you think all of this through, it's really hard to come up with an approach to billing limits that's fair and a good experience, so I think it's reasonable for cloud providers to give billing threshold alerts while leaving the choice of what to do in the hands of the customer.
Intel already have a compression library as a proof of concept that shows a large benefit. The JVM compiler knows A) how many instructions each method is and B) how CPU hot it is. Just with a compression library, the compiler could identify very hot and very small methods and test them on the FPGA, in parallel to normal execution, and measure the performance difference, and switch to the FPGA if it was beneficial (which may be for <1% of methods). I believe the JVM already has much of the infrastructure to do such parallel method tests.
The Map of Physics (8 minutes)
Open and Post Peer Review:New Trends in Open Access Publications
The two "worst" swearwords that pop into mind both have "u" in them. Meanwhile, the swears with "a" in them seem to be the tamest of the lot.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a FedEx truck filled with hard disks"
Thanks for the heads up
Take a Five
Thanks for this, close call.
The "Ok Google/Google Now" voice interactivity (or whatever the official name is) on Android phones is much better than Amazon's Alexa/Echo. It actually remembers context from sentence to sentence so you can say "What is the population of Chicago" and it will answer. Then you can say, "How long would it take me to drive there?" And it understands that you are still talking about Chicago.

Every interaction with Alexa is command, response, and that really limits what you can do with it.
> Befehl ist Befehl. Blaming management is literally the Nuremberg defence.

This isn't really about shifting blame or absolving responsibility. It is everyone's responsibility to ensure that safety and the public good are put first. If developers don't have the ability to say no to their management because there's no institution backing up that decision then we are to blame.

I know it's a cynical world view but management will trade just about anything for profits and employees will compromise their principles for their livelihood. Hoping that this system of perverse incentives will correct itself internally using only the individual employee's right to resign far too hopeful for my taste.
Fine. Good researchers? Sure, they have to learn the new stuff, and typically they do it on their own, often without exercises or polished texts. Lesson: Such self-teaching is doable, common, and for some careers necessary.

And here at HN, my guess is that 75+% of what the people know that is technical they taught themselves.

So, for yet another programming language, sure, write "Hello World" and get it to work. Then see how that language handles if-then-else and do-while, elementary data types, arrays, trees, objects, functions, memory allocation, threads, locks, exceptional conditions, file I/O, direct access files, interacts with SQL database, gets to TCP/IP, sends Web pages, etc. what libraries and APIs are available, etc. Lots of people at HN have done that for several langages. Can do much the same for undergraduate math such as described in the Princeton materials.
Great point on simplifying the UI being a priority. This takes a lot of coordination and willingness to say "We will drop features A, B and C to make the overall experience easier." This is ultimately both an organizational and cultural issue. Some companies optimize on centralization (historically Apple) while others have a more decentralized "empower the individual" ethos. This article from the same source highlights how Apple's centralized org is core to it's view of product integration. https://stratechery.com/2016/apples-organizational-crossroad...

When dealing with a platform, this user experience coordination becomes much more important. (Think the old Apple ecosystem versus all the crap that came pre-installed on the Wintel systems)
Sure, but that's within safe harbor rules. If they went and moderated content and comments in a non-reactive way, say by banning commenters whose opinions they found incorrect, that would be legal but could jeopardize their safe harbor status.
Here's an example from a German male speaker: http://data.danwin.com/aws-polly-german.mp3
I'm not reasoning anything.

I'm just saying that during the era of 90% 'income tax' for high earners, they would simply declare their income as capital gains. It's just what they did. And what people do.