skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me get this straight, right now AWS is billing me $270/mo for 3TB of bandwidth on my autoscaling web servers. With LightSail, I can get that same bandwidth, plus storage and instances for $15/mo?

In total, I'm spending about $15,000/yr on AWS, and someone spending $5/mo gets their bandwidth 18x cheaper than me? Shouldn't it be the other way around, and I should be the one with the discount?

I get enough headaches dealing with reserved instances, and trying to buy them at the correct time of the year to line up with price drops. Now, I need to consider dumping my autoscaling groups, EC2 web servers, and moving them to LightSail? Why not just give us a fair price on bandwidth, instead of more complications?
SEC Criticizes Tesla Over ‘Tailored’ Accounting
Wait a minute. Liability insurance is not for you, it's for all the other road users. The rest of the world won't put up with you being uncollectible when you cause damage with your vehicle, yet meanwhile reaping all the benefits.
I doubt much. Aurora looks more like those engines running on an EFS disk than a major rewrite of the storage engines themselves.

They need to disable some features to make concurrent readers on the same network disk work. I'm sure it's harder than I'm making it sound, but I don't think it's a new storage engine beyond the disk level.
it's also ridiculously rare and hard to find (requires well connected sources or pretty complicated darknet/btc/dropsite setup).

in addition to that, you're talking about a white powder drug where the effective dose is in the milligrams range. confirming purity and appropriateness of dose is stuff that requires a lot of experience. this is not beginner stuff.
I appreciate you taking the time to write this.

I disagree with the original author- but your position is intriguing. It sounds like you place some kind of moral value on empathy. e.g. Empathy exists somewhere on the good to not good continuum.

To me, empathy is like a telescope- neither good nor bad, it's just a way for reducing assumptions and trying to consume information- in this case- trying to understand another person's point of view without applying the filter of my own prejudices & beliefs. It never would have occurred to me that empathy is used for good or evil. I use it as a way of reducing assumptions.
Compare it to automotive engineering.

Cars are designed with an assumption that they will be sometimes mishandled, tipped over, crashed into things, run into bodies of water, set on fire, etc. In these circumstances cars should behave as to best preserve humans' safety, both inside (passengers) and outside (pedestrians).

This leads to some serious design decisions on deeper level, e.g. making the engine go under the rest of the car on a frontal collision, adding a structural cage around the passenger compartment, etc.

Deeply defensive programming methodologies also exist, from using safer languages and formally proven algorithms to pen-testing the completed setup. Their adoption just costs effort and time, that is, money.
I look forward to the day I'll be allowed to use ttk (tcl/tk) compiled to WASM instead of html/css to build interfaces.
It's a kickstarter goal, it doesn't have to be all of your funding and why not set the goal low?

Think of it more like a minimum to make the effort worthwhile. If you can get $30k on kickstarter you can probably get a lot more from other channels.

What value do you get from setting a high goal?
A "platform company" would provide a platform to its users. Unless I misunderstand your comment you say that Google has an internal platform that it uses to build products for customers, which is something different.
So basically yes. ToroDB creates columns and tables on the fly. All the added columns are nullable, so the ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN is an almost free operation in PostgreSQL.

Sure, sparse tables are created. This is not a problem since nulls in PostgreSQL are quite cheap (they require no or a few bytes of storage per record).

Even if there is a high cardinality of optional fields, we have not seen in real cases that the number of columns goes beyond a few hundred. And that's perfectly manageable by PostgreSQL :)

There might be some pathological, degraded use cases. But we have found none of them on real datasets.
Thanks! I'll check out Play
>The reasonable solution is to educate high school students on the affordable options of in-state universities and community college.

When the in-state flagship university costs $25k/year to attend, it's not very reasonable.
> "He understood deeply how to delight them, because he had spent significant time with them. That’s what it takes to be empathetic"

A vastly underappreciated truth of empathy
In a way, this is a good step toward people writing applications that are good conversationally. Alexa does a good job of voice recognition but I agree that "conversations" are mostly about remembering the right wizard's incantation to make Alexa do something useful. Watching the (very simplified) demo, it's easy to see the seed of writing a useful digital assistant/Star Trek computer there but obviously someone(s) have a whole lot of work to do before we get anywhere near there.
Just wait till this gets combined with Lambda.
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Yes, India is also building many Russian Nuclear reactors. Because of sanctions India is stuck with Gen2 reactors and they are upgrading them to the latest. As an net energy deficit country, India's energy policy is both realistic and future focused. Its not perfect but it is hitting all the right notes, balancing short-term and long-term.
This site can’t be reached

I guess I google virtual private servers
When we would roll out additional datacenters for our video delivery network, we shipped new storage to old DCs, loaded, then shipped to new DCs.

At meaningful volumes, literally months faster than using tier 1 backbone, and a fraction of the cost as well.
0-day exploit for Firefox/tor on windows
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Also check out http://www.bitfusion.io (no affiliation)
thanks for the detailed explanation. I have a similar structure of splitting things into different files.

The only difference is I keep most everything on Dropbox Paper. Really love the markdown editing and ability to add images.

Monthly Plan
- daily time blocks and a master tasks list

Active Project Notes
- I keep a page with a section for every project I'm working on. I'll take log as much as I can, especially any problems I fix. Screenshots and the code markups help in case the issue arises again.

Documentation
- The nice thing about Paper is that it serves as a great knowledge sharing platform. So our team will document as much as we can in here. Much better than our previous solution (Dokuwiki). I liked Dokuwiki but other people in our company didn't fully understand the syntax. It's also much easier to add photos and add data tables in Paper.

Then individual files for more specific things I want to keep track of (movies to watch, places to visit, etc..)

I use Evernote for dumping in anything I'm mildly curious about or might be valuable in my development work. But anything of more value and curation will go into Paper.
It works for some students. Indeed, some people say that the larger purpose of a good college education is not to learn the material but to teach yourself to learn that material and more for the rest of your life.
Reserve few ports and connect to random IP address until you've found a node. Works only for IPv4, though.
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Another ToroDB developer here! What you say is one of the things we always repeat: is it really necesary to reinvent the wheel? relational databases have been here since several decades and they have improved from then!
You guys are awesome. Can't wait to see Grafana 4.0 on hosted graphite.
I like the idea of not remaining trapped in the frontend framework (angular really bothers me for some reason). Others recommend backbone too so I'll check it out.
New ECDLP record
> Maybe not for Bitcoin, because people have invested heavily into dedicated mining hardware

The thing is, it seems like people always invest heavily into dedicated hardware when using FPGAs. I'll be interested to see what people actually end up using this service for.
I gave you an example last week, which you are conveniently ignoring. We have millions of lines of Haskell code at Standard Chartered bank. The type safety and purity have helped us build a more reliable and maintainable codebase compared to previous efforts. Ultimately the language is just a tool. If you are not interested in type safety, purity or expressivity then it isn't the tool for you.
Well, world history is full of conspiracy facts, so, there's nothing wrong with that being in the title. Conspiracy theories, when founded on facts, are also fine. We can't know most of the facts so you suggest people should stop thinking and creating theories?! Debunk with verifiable facts instead of labeling - that's the only right thing to do.
People focus too much on the husband and wife when making this risk assessment.

They forget that the incentives for lawyers in family court are REALLY screwed up, and definitely not on the side of "dividing assets reasonably and fairly."
That compression library offloads compression to a dedicated FPGA implementation of the compression algorithm, not a translated version of the same code that runs on the CPU.

Approaches do exist to automatically translate some types of code to run on an FPGA, though.
Well, searching for a possible causation chain is the more interesting part; just showing that two things are correlated is of limited value. Of course you're right that the correct approach is to look independently for the causes of both things.
Yeah, the point is that you should need to buy any hardware even for development, which is the biggest win to me!
DRM also provides more legal protections to the content providers when someone breaks it.
They also probably have the http://news.ycombinator.com referrer, among other things.
I worked with Rails briefly in my previous company and found a working product nearly unmanageable.

Any tips on keeping the codebase legible?
I noticed the Brazilian Portuguese voice examples have URLs with the word "hola" (Spanish), and the text starts with Olá (more formal, used in Portugal, whereas Brazilians prefer the informal Oi).

https://d0.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Polly/pt_br_vitor...

Unfortunately, I agree with Mizza regarding the quality.
I agree. Ractive is very cool, and with a little luck could have been the hotness that vue.js has developed into.
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I don't have that much experience with ECS, but it's a lot different than just having a remote docker host or docker swarm. You can't use docker-compose to just automagically spin up a project. I think they have their own yaml format that's similar to docker-compose V1 files, but it's cumbersome to not know what is and isn't supported and what amazon specific features you need to use, etc.

If you're new to AWS but know Docker (like me) then Docker for AWS seems like a winner.
Realm mobile database for React Native
I see.

This is an interesting problem, and I would think one that a lot of people are experiencing.

Seems like an area of opportunity to make docker images a lot more flexible.
Honestly I've gotten so much value from Font Awesome over the years that it was great to finally support the project – I have a feeling others felt the same way.
PCA meets the Renormalization Group
Great that you're excited about the SVGs! We wanted to add more formats so as many folks as possible could use them. For a lot of folks, icon fonts are the way to go. But other folks want SVG. We get that, so we're adding them!
Panana
That was an absolutely hilarious "demo." I know it was for real but it was still the sort of thing that makes you just shake your head and laugh. I don't want to be the one paying the S3 bill afterwards though :-)
Really appreciate the kind words!
I'm not sure if Google's commercial products are as bad as their consumer-facing offerings, but if we can't get someone on the phone when a support issue arises then we'd never consider using them for any cloud services.
I think that's a product vs platform issue, especially having to prefix everything with the application. since you are building your own product, you get to avoid the routing problem entirely.
FBI to gain expanded hacking powers as SMDH Act fails
Thanks for the detailed reply :)
I'm a little iffy with Rails myself.
Thanks I appreciate the good advice
He's not talking about taxation. He's saying, "Before you institute a draft and force healthy young men into poverty, suffering, mental disorders and death, force the people who profit from such action into exactly the same situation (e.g. max salary of whatever the soldier's max salary is, production at bare costs, etc)." He's making the point that war would suddenly cease to be an option, because only the poor and powerless can be conscripted. If you started conscripting everyone in the same way, the rich and powerful would stop any such war from occurring in order to avoid such pains.
I just use gaffers tape. Edit and if you need to see the light sometimes the I make a flap by folding it over so it covers it up but some parts are not sticky.
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Indeed, MongoDB BI connector v1 was based on PostgreSQL. However, they used 9.4's foreign data wrappers and since those could not push down query clauses, the connector itself introduced a significant performance degradation (on top of MongoDB's current performance difference when compared to Stampede/PostgreSQL).
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I couldn't agree more. All the 'let's listen to the other side' comments are sickening. No one with a brain wants to listen to the other side spew their racist, sexist, hateful beliefs. I think people that suggest that are so stupid, they are part of the problem and are encouraging hate in the name of 'tolerance'. Some people and actions should never be tolerated. I hope the people that do tolerate such hate and stupidity realize that they are not only not part of the solution, they are part of the problem.
I don't think everyone needs to be perfectly rational, but news of a big hack like this combined with a marketing campaign could reasonably help.
There's no such thing as harmless software any more. Our devices are too interconnected and we are too reliant upon them. Failure modes can cascade in unpredictable ways. "Harmless" systems often contain potentially harmful data; highly sensitive systems often share network resources with IoT junk.

Some semi-hypothetical scenarios:

A data leak in an appointment management app allows an abusive ex-partner to track down and kill their victim.

Mobile malware spread by an in-game advertising network causes a massive DDoS of the cellular network. Some areas are left without cell coverage for several hours while operators scramble to reconfigure their base station equipment; thousands of 911 calls go unanswered until service is resumed.

Poor encryption in a chat app allows an oppressive regime to identify, surveil and "disappear" human rights activists.

A bug in an integrated logistics management system causes some parcels to be tagged with the wrong attributes. A consignment of temperature-sensitive medicine is inadvertently shipped in an unrefrigerated container; the mistake goes unnoticed until patients start dying, because the "smart" temperature sensor inside the package thought that the shipment was safe to transport at ambient temperatures.

A disreputable dating app is hacked and the names of the users published, leading to several suicides.

A wifi-enabled printer is connected to the secure side of a hospital network by an unwitting member of staff. The printer is pwned, bringing down the entire network for 36 hours. Two ICU patients die as a result of preventable errors, because their medical records were unavailable.

Several models of aftermarket in-car entertainment units are pwned due to an unpatched vulnerability in Android. The units are connected to the CAN-bus in order to use the media controls on the steering wheel. The poorly-written malware intermittently floods the CAN-bus with malformed packets, causing sudden failures of the braking system in several cars.

I could go on ad nauseum.
> To hide metadata, messages are routed through multiple servers, and each server adds noise. This makes the metadata incomprehensible, even to powerful nation-state adversaries.

I'm interested to learn more about these servers. Can anyone host one? How are they discovered/networked? Personally I'm still more inclined to stick with Ricochet.IM since it piggybacks Tor so there are already tons of servers out there.
You're exactly right. Honestly, we were going to make FA5 anyway. Was time.
I definitely agree that the most difficult part of learning something new especially something as esoteric as FP is knowing where to start and then where to go from there. I also benefited from and highly recommend functional-programming-jargon(https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon).
I definitely agree on your critique of the bandwidth claims, but the gist I got from that article was that custom instances outcompete AWS's reserved instances on price - i.e. per CPU and per GB memory, GCloud is cheaper.

Is that not true?
I suspect you're right. I wonder if that's part of the reason why they claim a lower performance improvement of 2x over "standard" pgsql installations rather than the 5x improvement of Aurora/MySQL over standard MySQL installations.

If so, though, hopefully there's a silver lining of faster incorporation of new pgsql features into the Aurora/PG service.
So, it is basically the EC2 "t" family with a simpler (but almost equal) pricing and simpler administration.

t2.nano = $5
t2.micro = $10
t2.small = $20
t2.medium = $40
t2.large = $80
that's not a very accurate way of phrasing it. in some scales it's considered similar in abuse potential but that is extremely different than physical harm.

both are considered medium for abuse potential. cannabis is so non-toxic it doesn't even chart for physical harm. mdma is medium toxic, especially with sustained use.
Luckily, the infrastructure is so inconsistent, you never know what you're going to get.
How easy is it to build a full web app with Golang (I'm talking backend + views here)? I have used Go for some small projects where I only built a REST API using Go's default http library but never for something bigger.
This reminds me of rfc1149 - A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers - https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
What makes you think you represent a significant portion of the community here? I've seen much less impactful stuff like website design attracting a lot of energy for virtually no reason, for example. And here we're discussing serious stuff, which is aligned with the OP. If you don't care, spend your time in the thousand other threads.
You do have them to yourself, as long as you don't use them.

T2 instances work on a credit system, where you are allocated X credits per minute. If you use less than you're allocated, you will rack up hours of CPU time (there is some cap). You can see the credits in the AWS dashboard.

Problem is, that buffer you have is also the delay between when you start doing too much work and when you find out you're doing too much work because the instance isn't responding. And it's the delay between when you fix the problem and your balance goes back to "normal".

I recently hosted my personal tree of Fast-Growing-Programming-Language on a T2, and "accidentally" became the #1 google search result for the entire long-tail of every stack trace and every error message. Took me awhile to piece together what was wrong.
This is great IMO. I was incredibly dismayed to hear they were canceling the Comma One without any further action, without even attempting to work with regulators. This seems like the culmination of that - now the responsibility for safety is in the hands of individual users/developers and not on Comma, which is what got them in trouble in the first place.

Now that this is open source though, I wonder what their next project will be?
It was distributed among around 115,000 people. That it was illegal doesn't make it any less valuable -- in fact, it might make it more valuable, since it was a rebellion against unjust, culture-destroying copyright law.

The Internet Archive worked closely with What.cd to archive the metadata that was painstakingly maintained there. They may even have snatched the perfect FLACs, and are shipping them offshore, so they can be made available when and if the US allows things to enter the public domain again.
So disappointed this is not called AWS Station Wagon.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
Yes it does it's called A New Hope.
There seems to be some disagreement with my assertion:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/07/do...

These other reports, CNN claims they do it for both sides ...

http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-wikileaks-update-did-dnc-help...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/democrats-n...
Aurora is more expensive, more so on the high-end, so it's not entirely clear that it is the best choice for all applications:

db.r3.8xlarge:
RDS Aurora $4.640/h, RDS MySQL $3.780/h, RDS PostgreSQL $3.980/h
Re-stating the facts of the case for the comments:

- This is a post-processing app. If you're familiar with Instagram, the mechanics are the same: you either use the basic built-in camera, or select an existing photo. Then, you choose a filter, tune the filter, and after some processing, your result is ready.

- The finished image can be saved on the device, or exported directly to Instagram or Facebook.

- Recently, their camera gained a new button, to livestream to Facebook instead. The filters can be changed at any time during the broadcast.

- Facebook has revoked their API access to this livestream feature.

- Facebook is indeed working on style transfer for live video [1].

So this wasn't the case of a third-party app depending on a big platform's APIs and playing within their own walled garden. Rather, it's a related, but different case of betting on the tech instead of the community [2], effectively being a free tech demo and hoping to attract investor interest.

While this may still work, the concept was quickly copied, -- in some cases, deliberately, like in the case of VK's Vinci [3]. In addition, the Prisma founder's previous employer, Mail.ru, released the similar app Artisto soon after, which worked on videos before Prisma did.

[1] https://code.facebook.com/posts/196146247499076
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/prisma-labs-app-profile-inter...
[3] https://www.technohacker.com/vkontakte-launched-its-prisma-c...
I'm not seeing that in the FAQ. In my reading it pointedly leaves open the possibility of incurring AWS egress charges when transferring to LightSail.
Red Hat has a vested interest in the failure of Docker. So... It's up to you if you want to continue using (or trusting!) any "Docker" software released by Red Hat.
I think Blair almost certainly would have backed this. The other day I rediscovered this article from 2008 about councils using RIPA to catch people littering and flytipping:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-counc...

> The Tories condemned the latest figures as further evidence that the law had become a "snooper's charter". "Under Labour, the rights and liberties of law-abiding citizens are being eroded through plans for ID cards, sinister microchip spies in bins and abuse of anti-terror laws by councils," said Eric Pickles, the party's communities spokesman.

Strange reading nowadays. I wonder what Eric Pickles makes of it all.
Below is the correct link to sign up for the preview of the PostgreSQL compatible edition of Amazon Aurora; we are fixing the link in Jeff Barr's blog post now, and thanks for letting us know!

https://pages.awscloud.com/amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-com...