skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as java vs R. Java is very common, and has a large number of libraries for building things like servers, and interfaces. It is probably faster computation wise as well. However if computation speed is not a major concern, and you are doing mostly statistic works, then switching to something you are not familiar with is probably not a good idea. Use the right tool depending on what you want. There is a reason so many statistics people use R / python, and not c.
Nice post!

Would be great if you could post some total latency numbers from client to server and back, as in my experience API Gateway is extremely slow (AWS employees admit as much in their forums). Another problem is that once the Lambda is 'warmed up', if you have scaling needs beyond the 1 container it's allocated then you again have a 'cold start latency' problem. Interested to see whether this had an effect on your setup also (and as a side note, I'm extremely impressed with the potential for Lambda and serverless, but it still doesn't seem ready for prime time IMO).
You can add storage by expanding the lsyncd droplet(remote) or by using Block Storage(local) on your web droplets and expanding that.

I have found this to be more cost effective than anything else I have tried.
Skylake doesn't have AVX512. Still those two 256 bit ALUs do take a lot of space an at least partially explain the size difference.
Was .NET part of the anti-competitive ploy to run Java into the ground ?

Cheers.
If you have a super secret algorithm that you want to keep safe an okay programmer could make some server code to run it pretty easily (the protocol part, cant comment on your algorithm). Then you would write a GUI interface program in whatever language you want for the desktop that calls out to the server over TCP or something for the processing.
Compare the 1c per minute to the staff cost of meetings and it's not even pocket change. It's like a 1% tax on meetings.

To get a $1k meeting bill with $100k fully loaded avg participant cost or about $50/hr (way too low in metros, but let's be conservative), that's 1600+ meeting hours or about $80k/mo in staff costs.

(I see you do mention this but I wanted to call it out).

I think an interesting way to look at it is, if it can make your meetings one minute shorter than what you do now, you'll actually save.
I believe that, too. However the intermediary step will be audio not video (similar to the movie 'her') because of the less obtrusive user interface.
Munich mulls dropping Linux, returning to Windows 10
Interesting that you pay per user per month. I wonder how it works for occasional and one-off users.

Eg if you want a vendor to join your team's chat or you use it to talk to clients.
The Mac App Store is now a full 5 years old. If 5 years in developers abandoning it see their revenue go up, that looks a lot more like persistent stagnation and decline for the store.

Mobile app stores post-iPhone just took off. There was no 'slowly at first' phase, in the sense that they had an uncertain future. They went gang busters from the start. But we're past theorising about how the first 5 years of the Mac App Store might go. They've gone. It really doesn't look good and I don't see any signs it might improve any time soon. A few people appreciate the convenience, but as this case study shows it's not enough to make an economic difference to developers. Steam killed it, but the Mac App Store is completely stalled.
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You're suggesting the only people who don't eat dogs, are Muslims?

Are you high or is this some kind of weird troll?
12" may be too small to show stuff to other people sitting around a table, or too uncomfortable on their eyes.
> Amazon Chime is a communications service that transforms online meetings with a secure, easy-to-use application that you can trust.

- Amazon, PRISM partner
Lync is shockingly bad. You'd think that after 45 years of sending text to each other over networks this would be a solved problem by now.
No Linux. Buh-Bye
"Those who can tell the future of technology, we call Futurists. Those who can tell when a technology will reach the market? We call them Billionaires."
If R doesn't have the tools to offer a UI, how can I stick to R? Aren't I forced into a new language?
...and it gets millions of hits a month, and is a regular on HN.

Proving that all that bloat and styling (on other sites) is a complete waste of time if there's no value in your content.

Dan focuses on just the content, and it's worked, very very well.
Old client will be turned off in a month or so.
There are other mechanisms that can also help ameliorate the challenges of intermittent ("non-dispatchable") power generation:

- Long-range (generally, DC) power transmission lines. China is investing heavily here.

- Similarly, inter-grid connections. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Amigas_SuperStation - Superconductors!

- Diversified renewables. Solar works on the stifling windless summer days; wind works on those nasty drifting snow winter nights.

- Dispatched demand. For example, industrial facilities can be incentified to shut down power-hungry processes on days with less available electricity, in exchange for cheaper electricity on other days.

- Of course, 'peaker' natural gas turbines. A surprising number of gas power plants are used less than 10% of the time...
I am trying to hide the results of a professor (whom with I am working) that allows future stock price to be predicted from the input. That's only a concern before the research is published. Perhaps I am overthinking protecting my code? Am I?
It's called living above your means and be a society expectations freak. Also sometimes referred to as "1st world problems"
Why would it be a point against it? I generally think my government being in control of its communication infrastructure is a good thing.
Oh. I guess for a moment I forgot I was not on reddit. Sorry about that.
Trying to change what words mean is a lousy way to achieve your goals.
We used Outlook communicator and it wasn't that bad. There were some glitches sometimes but overall it was workable.
I honestly don't know much about the R library system. You could probably make a GUI in python pretty easily. Then write a basic server program that runs your R code when you get a processing request. The python app would then call the server which would run your R script. Depends on the domain of your project though really.
Geeks venture into Goldman Sachs' world of big deals and egos
This a thousand of times.

My biggest concern for sqlite WAS that it is only embedded and not clients server which is a problem if I have more process trying to access it.

I solved it writing a Redis modules that embed sqlite [1] so you get a client server sqlite for all your relational/ACID need and redis for everything else.

[1]: https://github.com/redbeardlab/redisql
Another issue: If the software is to be sold as a yearly subscription, is it easier to run this remotely or can I actually sell an .exe that expires after a year?
We do not use a regular rack mounted blade, we have our own proprietary system that does not primarily use air to cool.
It's completely quiet :)
I have an older MBP. Hunting down processes and especially tabs in Safari or Chrome that cause the CPU to spike and to drain the batteries becomes a daily routine. A routine I don't like.

Is there a program that watches excessive CPU usage and battery drain over time, warns me and points me directly to the possible culprit and advices me to take action. For example to close a specific tab in Safari. I would even let the program automatically close Safari tabs for certain websites.

The goal would be to optimise battery usage in the most user friendly way.
That is exactly what I thought when I read the words "secure" and "trust". If it is not open source it is neither secure nor should anybody trust it. The word used in Britain to describe a statement like that is bollocks.
Impossible to edit your birthday in a Yahoo account
It's out of Google "other". Accounted along with Cloud all under Diane Greene.

Also, modern GVC is fucking amazing.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13625508
Exactly we only use fiber, 10Gbps per house
Inspired by the link, I created:

https://sknsri.github.io/advice-by-kurosawa/
>natively integrates with the entire AWS stack

I'm not sure I see the utility in this, as Amazon resources and group chat don't really have a lot of overlap, at least for me. What would you need "integrated" into the new AWS Chat that couldn't be accomplished with a chatbot and Slack?
We are getting to a large number of posts for a HN thread. An actual conversation system would be easier if you have more questions. Email me at "anthracitelight@gmail.com" if you want to enter a chatroom.
Package it an upload to the windows store?
You need a manager doing a good job to answer that question.
But then a new question arises...
Operating Systems: From 0 to 1
so time to open source the whole thing? what a nice birthday present that would be! :)
If you're looking at it this way, that every single stream is managed, then yes, you're right. I rather think that we develop only the water sources that make the most sense and leave the rest be.

This way we could talk about the incredible amounts of gold that is diluted in oceans that we could harvest "anytime" [0]. It's around 21x more than humans mined in the whole history.

[0] http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/gold.html
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We have a system to dump heat in the summer, and Dutch summers are sucky enough to not really make this a problem...
Has this been substantiated? To my knowledge Amazon denies being a part of PRISM and the only thing a quick search reveals is that denial and Snowden criticizing Amazon for not being HTTPS by default on some of their endpoints.
Depends on your situation. In non-Euclidean geometry (such as on the surface of a sphere, which the Earth approximately is), it's not as simple as taking a straight line between two lines.

Also look at Manhattan/taxicab geometry. When you can only move along one axis at a time, you usually can't move in a straight line between two points.

Both of these situations have common applications in the real world. For example, in mapping and navigation.
It can/should tell everyone at the start and tell you specifically when it's time to say bye. Depending on the time of the next meeting you could opt to join that one late... obviously triple booked will never work.
I don't really understand.

"There would have been up to 11% more computer science jobs at wages up to 5% higher"

How would the industry have created 11% more jobs? Are foreigners so efficient that they can handle multiple job roles?
At a guess stemming from ignorance of Elasticsearch, I'm going to assume you'd join PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch like that in situations where you need to perform more complex analysis over the queries to provide results, is this correct? I've seen this particular architecture before and my biggest question was whether or not it was a piece that could be eliminated.

For, say, a tag-based search system (think any forum or booru-style imageboard), is Elasticsearch completely overkill?

I realise I could probably just google it™, but it's a lot easier to understand a product's strengths when they're put in a situational context.
Have you looked into Xeon Phi? They have up to 288 threads. With a 256 thread Xeon we got good speed ups using up to 128 threads with Folding@home's latest GROMACS core (0xa7). With higher thread counts it failed to improve. In the long-run massively parallel CPUs could outpace GPUs precisely because of their flexibility.

Note that the 0xa7 core also uses 256 AVX. That's multiple CPU threads and vector instructions.
/me turns up the snark.

Equating John Graham-Cumming to a random engineer has, on HN at least, about the same weight as equating PG to a financially succesful blogger. The statement is factually accurate but deliberately ignores the wider context.

Yes - I'm painfully aware that I just used the halo effect as a weapon. But the fact is that provenance and pedigree matter.
We should make a clear difference here between any App Store and a computer App store. Sure, people will not care much when it's a computer app store, since they have long experience in installing programs without it. But when it comes to smartphone/tablet app stores, not being in one of them means your program is dead.
PostgreSQL is pretty unique as an RDBMS in its ability to do multi-facet weighted search over disparate types including geographical information as part of a single index query (due to GiST indices): there is a reason why the GIS community has essentially standardized around PostgreSQL (via PostGIS); I do not think it works to use experience from SQL Server to comment on PostgreSQL for this use case.
I took a picture of a sculpture of 4 men staring down at the Louvre. It's on my flickr marked CCBY. Some magazine in the UK wanted to use it for free and they wanted me to sign an indemnification clause. I have no idea what the legal ramifications or licensing issues there with pictures of things in the Louvre so no, I wasn't about to sign. Certainly not for $0

Separately I thought one point of CCBY to me was NOT having to have them contact me to use the images I post.

It did cross my mind that it might have been a scam. Get me to sign, claim breach, take my money. (probably not but it did cross my mind)
It’s not clear how much the “hand abacus” pictured, with its sliding counters in grooves, was used in practice. Most calculations in Roman times were probably done with a free-form counting board with some kind of tokens (for instance “calculi”, i.e. pebbles). We don’t have a lot of surviving evidence though, since a wood/cloth/drawing-on-the-ground counting board with pebbles for counters isn’t exactly the most permanent artifact.

The way such counting boards worked in Europe in the Middle Ages was to put pebbles on horizontal lines representing powers of ten, or in the spaces between the lines representing five times some power of ten. The Roman ones probably weren’t too different.
SNI doesn't work on Windows XP.

"Who still use Windows XP?" I hear you ask?

Just under 10% of all users[1]. Enough to make SNI problematic. In a few years time, we'll be OK, but not right now.

---

[1] https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...
That sounds like it is very high engagement and requires presence. I get something similar riding a bike in traffic, which is logically stupid but experientially great.
I absolutely love the startupish way aws launches new services. They have the whole "landing page" and marketing pitch class A, but the product is alpha if being nice.

There's long, long way to go for this thing to compete with hangout, zoom, or anything else out there.

Source: I've just tried it out, chatting with myself on native app + 2 browsers.
Barfs.

Sorry, Lync/Skype for Business has been awful for us.

I'll be fair and state that I don't if it is Microsoft's or our tech teams fault.
I've heard finance-types use "secular" to mean "long-term" (as opposed to "non-religious")
Define "most".

Edit: I don't mean to take away from your point that Hindu mathematicians contrubuted a significant amount, but I think the word most here is misleading.
When it comes to the actual experience of life, we're very much alone; and to expect anyone else to take away our loneliness is asking too much.

Sounds to me like he hasn't met the right people yet.
That system is not distributed, the system is centralized and the heat is distributed. We are a completely distributed system. This brings numerous economical advantages in terms of total investment required to roll out or scale up. We believe our way is superior to a heat network. Nonetheless the fact that the heat is reused can only be applauded.
Jiu Jitsu is very concept oriented to boot. Strategy and understanding run deep. Honestly it would surprise me if jiu jitsu black belts weren't intellectually on the level of chess masters (obviously translated into the physical domain).
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I must say I've been really disappointed with how often it crashes outright or has major rendering issues during screen sharing. When it works it's really convenient but 20% of meetings with screen share involved seem to have an issue. I really think quality is life or death for these products. If my company weren't a tight Microsoft partner I really doubt we'd be using it.

WebEx wasn't as convenient but at least it worked correctly the vast majority of the time.
programmer, amsterdam/netherlands, 600 eur (about $635) however because of the really really stupid laws in the Netherlands most companies will not hire a contractor directly, so there are lots of recruitment companies acting as a middleman taking at least 15 eur an hour ( every hour for the duration of the gig)
Think of exponentiation of some number 'a' as in-between its integer powers: 'a^1.5' is kind-of half-way between 'a' and 'a^2'.

If you plot all the integer powers of 'a', they all belong to a curve and the exponential simply fills-in the gaps for non-integer exponents.

Now, there are many possible ways to fill the gaps but the exponential does it so that a^m * a^n = a^{m+n} holds even for non-integer numbers m and n.

Similarly, if you take integer powers of a complex number, they all lie on some curve and the exponential fills-in the gaps, again turning sums into products. The same works with matrices, and so on.
A rift in the NTP world
Let’s say that what you wrote holds true. Who should we trust then, when it comes to security advice?
Captain of crush gets recommended fairly often. Rice buckets would likely not be bad for straight hypertrophy which you could turn around with some recruitment into straight strength.
Amazon Chime – Unified Communications Service
My co-workers raised a note that H1B no longer relevant so much for the purpose described in headline.

It's much easier to bring workers on L visa - they have even less opportunity to skip jobs or aruge for a raise than H1B holders, and there's no lottery and no limits. Just bring as much people on L as possible.

As far as I know, Microsoft did this with Canada long ago. They hire you and relocate to Canada, then after a year they make L visa for you and toss over the border to Redmond.
Interesting conclusion:

"Would you advise young people to put their talents at the service of the NSA?"

"I am an advocate of infiltration: joining the ranks of those working and coming out through the ranks of the administration of that agency, whatever the agency may be: the CIA, the FBI, whatever. As long as you preserve your character and integrity, you do the right thing, and that is what we need: people doing the right thing. It's the only way to change things, in the end. The other way is to come from the outside and put them in jail".
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So what are you meant to do about it? Of course there are reasons why I do things. But so what?
This is the first time that I've heard Amazon really call out AWS as a name brand in a non aws-dashboard oriented product (maybe they have already in the past?) Are Chime user identities AWS IAM users under the hood?

AWS as a more consumer-facing platform probably has a long climb ahead of it but it could be quite helpful for Amazon to differentiate from their many product misses released under the Amazon name.
This looks awesome; I'm regularly told that Amazon is a horrendous place to work yet they seem to be producing great software and interesting startup type concepts all the while. Not sure how they do it? AWS is a bit of a mess, maybe it's just there that is problematic...
Nice to hear, it is tough but we believe we have figured out how to do it effectively. Took a while and quite some prototypes/concepts to make it work.
Aeons ago, when I created a Yahoo account, I was privacy mad, and I deliberately set a birthday of Jan 1st 1900.

It's caused me no end of problems since - luckily I never use my Yahoo account for anything anymore, and nor should you.

The sooner we purge Yahoo from the nets the better, imho.
Have you read Snowden's Leaks? All of the major tech companies have been on board for a long time (and that was years ago). How can you believe that a giant like Amazon will somehow magically not be part of it? It's time for the country to sharpen its critical thinking skills.
Do you sell your software in windows store? what was your experience?
In the few factories I have worked the power hungry processes cannot be stopped on demand (eg. one day notice), as it would waste products, it would mess up minimum stockpile lean manufacturing, as the process cannot be interrupted, it could often damage equipment, and usually restarting these processes is very expensive in terms of energy (eg. Reheating a kiln)

The renewables are simply not predictable enough for this, that is why nuclear, an later fusion power will have its place in the energy mix in the foreseeable future.
Super expensive dial-in rates. $0.214 per minute in India is basically twice the ISD calling rate.
That's a fair point actually. Does the fact that signal is open source and based on phone numbers change that though? Seems that as long as you have access to the phone network you have access to the signal network...
Everything else aside, I am surprised/impressed to see that Amazon has the '.aws' top level domain! Does that mean they will be now branding all their AWS infrastructure under this domain?
Cant wait for the new round of MBPs. This one just seems like a catastrophe... I can deal with the butterfly keyboard, anemic CPUs, and USB-c and even the outrageous price. Just not all as a package!
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The Chime app for Android is very invasive. Instead of asking for permissions as they are needed it asks you to give up everything immediately.
Thanks! I have been using webjobs for a while and found the experience a bit scattered and subpar(especially the scheduling). Hopefully azure functions are better in this regard.
So they'll release a 15" version of the 12" soon enough. The point still stands: if Apple is the only ones making Macs, they need to cater to those who would prefer workstations or gaming rigs as the highest end "Pro" market. If it needs a separate graphics card, it's not for Excel...
I haven't tried MICs personally, but AFAIK you need vectorization to match current Pascal generation GPU performance with Knight's landing -> which is where my comment applies. I don't doubt that you can get good speedups when this applies to your code already, but if you start from naive CPU code you'll have a lot of work to do, which IMO is similar to the work needed to port to GPGPU.
Sharing screen with Zoom takes a decent amount of CPU, compared to just talking, which eats only about 5-10% from my experience.
Feel like many think this is the only use of H-1B. They don't ever hear about how the best employees at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook are also H-1B's.
I'd say the big difference is that Apple weren't "inventing" the whole thing. It would have been perfectly possible for Nokia to have built something similar, but they didn't for what seemed to them solid commercial reasons.

Apple's big contribution was smashing into a broken market that didn't serve its consumers.
No more cheap labor for SV to exploit.
For our intranet's collection of tens of thousands of pages, results come back in a fraction of a second. Accuracy seems as good as the ten-year-old Google Mini Search Appliance that it replaced, but I had to write a good chunk of SQL. I weigh whether the terms are in the web address, title, or just the body, and also the number of backlinks. This took making a few tables, views, and SQL functions, as well as a daily cron job.