skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Regardless of whether hypocracy is involved, wanting India and China to avoid the mistakes the West made is entirely reasonable. If nothing else, the US and Europe built coal plants before better technologies were available. India has access to modern natural gas plants, fuel cells, wind, solar, etc if it wants them. No one would suggest that India or China build lots of steam engines, after all.

Building steam engines and maintaining them was more expensive than building fuel based / electric trains. Even the initial cost was less. So the transition was faster and made a lot of economic sense.

Solar energy prices dropped to around parity with coal for the first time this year, hitting 4.34 rupees (about 6 US cents) a kilowatt-hour (kWh), while coal tariffs range usually range in between 3–5 rupees/kWh (about 5–8 US cents). It wasn't possible until April of this year to even consider Solar a viable alternative. With prices dropping (and hopefully continuing to drop until at least 2030) we can now think of installing new power plants backed by solar.

However, what happens to the old coal based power plants that power 20% of Indian populace (that is close to 3/4th of the population of the United States)? It is going to be super expensive to transition those old power plants to solar. Also, what about 24/7 power? Solar power plants don't guarantee 24/7 power. So you can't completely get rid of coal plants anyways. India has to do quite a bit of balancing act to provide energy for it's 1.3 billion and growing population.

It's not as easy as you make it out to be. If that was the case, United States would have already transitioned to 100% clean energy like it did with steam engines in the 19th-20th century.
I'm well familiar with shared & dedicated hosting, and with colocation as a concept - I guess I've just thought of colo as something only big companies with big budgets and lots of servers do. I like the idea of building a single rack server in my apartment for a project, and mailing it away never to worry about it again.

Good points re: abstraction of the deeper system layers though. I guess my position as a frontend developer is that every braincell I spend thinking about things like hardware and memory allocation is one less to spend thinking about the UX of my app. Abstracting layers away is a good thing - except when they leak, which is often...
I use Decentraleyes to help with the CDN issue. It's not much but every little bit helps I think.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/decentraleyes
> This isn't a unique scenario.

And this is exactly why we're running out of publically available IPv4 addresses.
yes the motivation to use cassandra is to get familiarity.
I don't want to be too harsh on the Svelte author. It's a minor inconvenience.

The guy did some incredible work - he wrote all of this code in a week. I'll look at the REPL code to see if there's a simple fix. All the levels of indirection, code generation and bundling may take a while for my non-Rich-Harris brain to sort out.
Huh, that's actually a pretty valid point.

So one detail that I left off was that I actually also teach programming to complete novices in short time frames. It's kind of like a bootcamp but different in a lot of ways. We teach them node because it fits better with our tight schedule.

But if you're not too terribly rushed then sure, that does sound like a good idea.
Or would it potentially increase the supply of Jet A (jet fuel), as less oil needs to be converted to automobile fuel.
Oh, I certainly didn't mean to imply there was a century long effort!

Essentially what I'm contending is whether they ever had a genuine choice prior to 1998, and I'd strongly suggest that the Third Home Rule Bill was that—though, had WW1 not happened, whether it would've avoided most of the bloodshed is inherently unclear, especially given the 1886 Belfast riots and the unwillingness to compromise on what was really all three sides.

As for the political football, there's no denying it was—but that's true of many things in Westminster, both around the turn of the 19th/20th century and today.
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To many of us, money is a tool. You convert time and effort into money, store it, then convert it back into other things when necessary or desired.

To many others, money is a high score.
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Thanks, didn't know about this - now it's next on my kindle queue
Do you have a source? I am curious. http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/xilinx-inc/XCKU040-... this surely is not the right chip then.
In Russia, all high official positions are up for sale. Posts are bought and sold. The amount of money he spent to amass this much during that short career, must've been even bigger.
If you read enough security literature, eventually you'll come across the notion of a "trusted system". And your first impression will be that this is a system which is fully debugged and tested and you can trust it to do its job within specifications.

But you couldn't be more wrong. A trusted system is one which you have to trust. No representations are made about whether you should or not.

Humans are frequently trusted systems.
Is it really though? I haven't had a cable subscription since I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, didn't have one for four years before that, and I have yet to be convinced that I'm actually missing anything - anything I care to watch can be found trivially online (even without piracy, though often you have to sit through ads...) My demand for content hasn't really changed, just my will and desire to put up with bullshit.

I think the only real losers with cord cutting are people who like sports, as they all refuse to get with the times and have ridiculous region locking on all of their content. Luckily I do not suffer from the affliction...
Clarifai's web interface for training with your own images is great, although a little slow — but that could be my computer.

I've used their standard/general model for classifying most of the images for the search on my site, and would love to use custom models for various side project ideas I have, but the price is way too much for me ($0.46 per concept, per month).
I was thinking in this very same idea. Awesome, can wait to give it a try.
Three things come to mind right away that seems like contributed to folks pulling the trigger and buying:

1. Pent up good will from using Font Awesome over the past 4 years.

2. The product was something folks actually wanted and the price was a great value.

3. A video that makes folks laugh. Even if just a bit.
Doubtful. Under basic economic theory, as demand goes down, so does price. The petroleum production that shuts down first will tend to be the most expensive production, causing a drop in the average cost, and price (we should see a similar effect in upstream products like crude).

The main way this effect breaks down is if the market shrinks so much that we loose the economy of scale; but it seams unlikely demand will fall far enough for that to occur.
F-Droid is too much of a liability.
http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/11/30/1-million-google-accou...
I was thinking in a very similar idea. Awesome, can wait to give a try.
The Airbnb Open was amazing
Both meebo and bitorrent (the company) made tens of millions through toolbar installs (though their operations were much more legit than this)
You're right. The price going down has, I think, more to do with the effect of fracking in the US. It's getting to the point that the US could be an exporter if it changed its laws.

The effect of petro-states will be much the same, though.
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Aren't those two words synonymous? lol
Probably temporarily. It'll likely cross a point where more synthetic production methods reach economic viability.

The field requires such a great energy density that I suspect only a remarkable breakthrough in energy density for weight would allow a fully electric solution. Hydrogen is also likely out as the storage cells would be under unimaginable stresses.

In the long term it might actually incentivize the creation of moderate/high speed rail lines in the US.
> no non-game software kickstarter that's raised more than $891,989.

I mentioned this in relation to above statement.
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Jet fuel is more similar to Diesel than gasoline. Different oil wells produce varying mixtures of fuels; I would expect 'sweet' (gasoline-rich) crude to decrease in price much more than heavier crudes, as the demand for the latter is likely to persist for longer, though we may also see shifts in the types of fuels being used.
How does this work with same sex roommates in states that allow same sex marriage? Or even simpler, what if a male and female live together as roommates?
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I don't know if some present or future government could be offended by people reading this comic but it shouldn't be a question we even need to ask. If you want to live in a world where surveillance is not the default then the very least you can do is remove the tracking from your own websites.

Thus I applaud the author of this website. And I'm really bored of the dullards who chip away at my freedom saying "but it's only a tiny transgression, what does it matter?"
I very much agree with you.

Another interesting observation is that, on cache-coherent systems, the maximum possible clock rate also tends to go down as soon as more than one socket is used.

> (which are the easy gimmie for slow-and-wide designs)

Nowadays they are more of an historical anecdote, but some time ago Sun created the "niagara" line of barrel processors - a technique that is a form of simultaneous multi-threading, like Hyper-Threading, just with 8-16 threads / core.

These UltraSparc T1, T2, ... processors held quite some throughput benchmarks - but were obviously not feasible and not meant for general purpose use.
> Of the 7.13 billion barrels of total U.S. petroleum product consumption in 2015, 47% was motor gasoline (includes ethanol), 20% was distillate fuel (heating oil and diesel fuel), and 8% was jet fuel, 4% plastics.[1]

Jet fuel is only 8% so if there is less auto usage, probably cheaper initially until supply is constrained due to lower demand. Then, other methods will start to get cheaper like wood to fuel[2].

But overall fuel and heating oil are about 70-80% of all oil use, we still use it for plastics which will be hard to get rid of which are 4% of usage. My guess is initially both jet fuel and plastic production prices will go down when autos are electric, at least initially.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=41&t=6

[2] http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/14/first-commercial-flight...
I do suspect that there is a set of circuit breaker actions that could mitigate runaway bills mostly non-destructively. Stop writes to stateful storage. Stop all inbound/outbound data transfers. Terminate EC2 instances (which as you say wold delete data but that would generally be ephemeral data anyway). Halt tasks like EMR.

On the other hand, based on near-universal industry practice, there doesn't seem to be a huge demand for this. I suspect it may be better for everyone concerned to have heavy-duty users control their costs in various ways and for Amazon to refund money when things go haywire without bringing someone's service down.
>>The latency issue is only present once, the initial page load.

The initial page load is also one of the most important things to optimize for things like, you know, conversion of visitors to paying customers. I've given up on subscribing to new products and services simply because their pages weren't performing well, and I'm sure many others here have done the same.
I'm in the same boat. But certainly we're in the minority in this country for not really caring too much about sports.
Ok, so you categorized the people by whether they read this comic or not. What's the damage?
The X5000 presumably succeeds the X1000 from 2010:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOne_X1000

Are there any sales figures available for that machine? I'd love to know how many people are still buying "Amigas".

(Also worth noting, the X1000 had a dual-core CPU, but AmigaOS can only use one core. RISC OS (the ex-Acorn OS) has a similar problem when running on later Raspberry Pi devices.)
Sadly a lot of people don't use the `async` attribute for script tags. We can still load fonts over CDNs, even using Cloudfront or Cloudflare for caching.

> Then there's other annoyances, like the alignment of the text, pictures, and other content suddenly shifting about, because the font has changed, or the JS from one CDN finally finished processing and decided that, no, actually, pictures should go over there.

This is because the scripts and css are so large that it takes time for the browser to render all the rules set by that site. This can easily be optimized with the right tools or throwing out dead code, even only fetching code specific to that web page. Most developers just `script` tags into their head as well and this _kills_ loading of pages more than anything (unless your css file is thousands of lines).

CDNs are meant for distributing across the globe, you're hosting your own assets without a CDN in the middle and the site is still slow, you're optimizing in the wrong place.
> As for Japanese, the kana alphabet can be transcribed to Alphabet without information loss

Not quite true in reverse - lead and read, for example, would have the same kana but are different in english. That said, yeah I totally agree, there is nothing wrong with using the alphabet if you are mindful that there is a different phonetic 'mapping.'
Interesting. BTW (if credible) this would seem to be pretty candid revelation for a government-affiliated organ like RBTH to make:

According to Gazeta.ru (in Russian), the colonel lost his “protection” after the recent senior reshuffle at the FSB’s economic security department: The influential patrons he used to have there were removed, which allowed the FSB and the Investigative Committee to move in on the colonel.
The recent market conditions are more a consequence of changes in supply than in demand.

I heard someone refer to something called the "Economist effect", where an article in the Economist about a particular trend signals its end.

Sure enough: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-30/opec-said...

e: word order
They will eventually. Keep in mind, AWS itself was launched about a decade ago and they've been filling out the offering ever since. If or when the growth from new product lines slows, they will focus on the user experience, at which point they will pick off the most symbiotic third party product and replace it with their own version.
Anybody know whether it is kosher to use Rekognition (or comparable Google/Azure/Clarify solutions) as a source of "supervised" data to bootstrap your own in-house ML models? I'm pretty sure the TOS would frown upon that, but it would beat manually tagging your own datasets, plus its hard/impossible for them to enforce.

EDIT: in retrospect, the pricing means its probably not economically viable.
I'm 52 and I don't have the attention span to sit through a commercial break. That's what the ff button on the DVR is for.

The new TCM-Criterion streaming service gets us one step closer to not needing the cable tv service any more.
Web components and polymer solve this problem "completly" by full encapsulation.

With some css preprocessing + vulcanizing you can even use separate js/css files from your component templates if that is your thing - they can get inlined in the build process.
I signed up, was put on the waiting list, received my invite a couple days later.
You don't wear a cape?
If the price go down, people will travel more, increasing the demand and the price of oil.

It's self-stabilizing.
Funny that the same people who want to be able to say anything under free speech regardless of who it hurts, or how hateful, are the same ones who would take away citizenship from protesters who would burn the flag as a form of speech.
I've skimmed the link, but I'm still a little unclear: Why not what?
Not like we didn't change the channel during commercials back in the day anyways!
Hipsters will soon be.
My bank account says otherwise.

I have a $30/mo Internet bill and a $30/mo phone bill. Both get me unlimited Internet at good bandwidth, so I just watch a metric ton of YouTube, Twitch, etc. I've never had any other monthly telecom service.
This post and half the comments are killing me on conflating "third party javascript" with "CDN".
Hence why I say "less slow" and not faster. There is nothing fast when it comes to EBS volumes :D
> but if you're going down the highway and the AI decides to suddenly swing the wheel far right as quickly as possible, no human being would have reaction time good enough to recover without crashing

"The EPS controller in the car limits the torque to a very small amount, so regardless of the message, the controller cannot jerk the wheel" [1]

[1] https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/SAFETY.md
> if some present or future government could be offended by people reading this comic

That makes zero sense. Sorry, not buying that argument.

I'm talking about this particular comic, not some political manifesto.
Is the refining process flexible enough to do that? I was under the impression that refining is more of a separation process so the amount of each petroleum product you get is already determined by the petroleum you have before you even start the process.
Geohot’s startup Comma.ai open-sources its self-driving car technology
Thanks for seeing the question for what it was--a question. You are right that things are not black and white, and might be hard to put a value on. A homemaker certainly contributes value to the relationship. How does the value of that get determined? That's what I'm really curious about as I think it is anything but black and white.

One variable is extremely easy to quantify, and the other much less so.
You should be able to opt out of OBA ads by clicking on the AdChoices icon at the top of your display ads a little "play button", typically. Another, possibly less effective, way to do this is to clear your cookies. Then the "ad networks" will have to find another way to identify you and stitch your cookies together.
Not bad at all honestly. Golang comes with a built-in templating engine that was easy enough to convince me not to look for a better one. Routing is simple, especially if you're using the Gorilla toolkit's mux package. Figuring out how to work with database calls were tricky when I first started out because I was used to Django abstracting that part away from me, but eventually I really got the hang of it.

I would argue that the tricky part is session's and middleware. When I first attempted to build a golang web app that required session cookies I got so discouraged that I just swore them off and went with JSON web tokens instead. It also took me a while to wrap my head around the concept of clean middleware.

I would say it was rewarding in the end though, because I learned about some low-level concepts typically abstracted away by the framework I was working with. It's fun to know about these things.
Fair enough. But people did experiments like

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/twitter-user-replaces-white-...

that show how same speech applied from opposite angles produces different results vis-a-vis being banned.
Because the CIA sends spies out into the field - that's what they do. Many large American corporations have offices overseas, often some of the 'workers' are CIA, they use sales jobs etc. as cover. Esp. in the Middle East.

The NSA does not have agents out in the field as we understand it. The NSA is mostly nerds, crypto, tech. They're not spies or agents.

But the author's claims of being seduced by an NSA (or even CIA) 'honeytrap' are not corroborated in any way by anyone. Given that he's on record as claiming he can 'transform' himself into a Puma (I mean literally), well, his credibility is a little too 'off' to accept uncorroborated stories.
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Of course, there's also the opposite scenario "So here we were, having the best sales day in our history, and suddenly Amazon pulled the plug on our servers because we went over our authorized limit! We lost 5-figures of sales that day. Sure, they sent us warnings, but the alerts went to someone on vacation... but why wouldn't they let us exceed the limit for a bit before they pull the plug"
Yes.

> You can also use Rekognition to compare faces and to see if a given image contains any one of a number of faces that you have asked it to recognize.
Alimony is also known as 'spousal support'. It's a completely different payment independent from child support. You can only get alimony if your married.

Child support can come up if your married or not and is based on how many children you have and your income levels. Your income can be imputed, which means your still on the hook even though you don't have that income level anymore. Child support is based on custody, which is a major reason why they turn very nasty in the USA/Canada.

It also sounds like they have a 3rd payment requirement in paying the mortgage. I don't know if that is voluntary or court ordered.

So this guy is paying

1. Spousal support
2. Child support
3. A mortgage

I can see him in that case paying out more than %60 of his income and possibly going in debt or living in his car to cover the shortage.
Many Internet users in the US use Comcast. What if they implemented some kind of packet inspection, applying your principles you should have no issue with that.
I love the Amiga, but this seems a little too much; for a computer that will cost € 2.299,00, consisting of 'old' hardware.
At least last I checked, Azure offers this.
I suspect you are right. Now that I think of it, I actually recall hearing a podcast on this (Planet Money? Freakonomics?) where they dissected the statement around women only earning something like $.75/dollar compared to men. I believe they found that if you looked at earnings before having a child, they were equal, and that the reduced earnings came from taking time off or sacrificing workload (and presumably total contribution) for flexibility. This then resulted in not advancing as rapidly as say, someone putting in twice the hours, or who did not take several years off and thus has that many more years career experience, despite being the same age.
'Tax breaks' are offered to all sorts of industries.

Almost all entertainment in Canada for example, is done nearly tax free. Pharma, energy, small business etc. etc..
> Tell someone to "just make a choice" when they work paycheck to paycheck.

Wow, way to miss the point entirely. They are making a choice. Doing something they hate to remain getting paid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

Once you start thinking that you have no choice, that life is against you, it becomes self perpetuating. You don't tell people "just make a choice" you make it very clear that they're already making the choice. They're the ones with agency.

Sure their choices have consequences, but all choices do. Ultimately they're in charge of their destiny, unless of course they're slaves and prisoners. No matter what you think/say about Amazon, if you're a software dev at Amazon, you are nowhere near a slave or prisoner.

If you think you have no control over your destiny, you're destined to get stuck in the same rut and experience the same mistakes and pitfalls over and over again.
> Is looking at some comics website even a privacy problem? Let's say google finds out your user X looks at your website. What possible damage can they do?

What if they look at something politically unpopular, something that favors unpopular group or ideas? Those can be in comics. How about socially embarrassing things? They also determine you are in a certain place at a certain time. It is standard practice for governments to use those things to persecute people; there is no reason to think it will suddenly cease. I'm talking about western governments too - the U.S. government tried to embarrass and blackmail Martin Luther King; arguably it interfered in the recent election. Is there a reason governments would have changed?