skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does relativism have to do with anything? It wasn't mentioned by me or previously in this post. Maybe there is a problem with terms here [1], to me positivism does _not_ posit that there is an underlying truth that we get closer to.

Of course if theories make distinct predictions deciding between them is a matter of physics and not philosophy. But it is a fact that the philosophical idea that all knowledge derives purely from observable phenomena and does not need to describe an underlying reaity that is being measured is cited by Heisenberg as a starting point of his investigation of QM that led to matrix mechanics.

[1] Indeed the SEP says there are no clear distinctions but merely overlaping schools of thought: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-empiricism/
Ask HN: Are you still having issues with AWS SES
We're still experiencing a high error rate with AWS SES
Is there any equivalent to the Bucket Policies that AWS provides (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/example-bucke...). Cloud Storage seems to be limited to relatively simple policies without conditionals. For a few AWS IAM keys I set up a policy that limits write/delete access to a range of IPs (among other things). Something like that doesn't seem possible with what Google offers. Or do I miss something?
Browsers actually did support other languages back then. Remember VBScript? IIRC there was also an attempt to draft Tcl into that role.

In IE world, things were actually even crazier, because the whole scripting story was extensible (via Active Scripting). So you could use Perl, for example...
I think this is where the crux of the disagreement is. They can decline fares for UberX requests and I don't think it counts against them. Normal Uber drivers will get kicked off the system if they decline too many fares but I don't think that applies to Uber Black drivers that get shifted to UberX.
I worry it means "end of browser view source" and frankly concerned this will be (ab)used to implement DRM for information that we can easily view and copy the source now.
If you go to someone's house, do you expect to be recorded there? I'm not a lawyer, in any case :-).
Citation analytics pioneer Eugene Garfield dies
This is why it's important to write code that doesn't depend on only a single service provider. S3 is great. But it's better to set up a Riak cluster on AWS than to actually use S3, if you can.

The only services my team uses directly are EC2 and RDS, and I'm thinking of moving RDS over to EC2 instances.

We are entirely portable. We can move my entire team's infrastructure to a different cloud host really quickly. Our only dependency is a Debian box.

I flipped the switch today and cloned our prod environment, including VPN and security rules, over to a commodity hosting provider.

Change the DNS entry for the services, and we were good to go. We didn't need to do anything because everyone was freaking out about everything else being down. But our internal services were close to unaffected.

At least for my team.

Obviously, we aren't Trello or some of the other big people affected. And we don't have the same needs they do. But setting up the DevOps stuff for my team in the way that I think was correct to begin with (no dependencies other than a Debian box) really shined today. Having a clear and correct deployment strategy on any available hardware platform really worked for us.

Or at least it would have if people weren't so upset about all our other external services being down that they paid no attention to internal services.

Lock-in is bad, mmkay?

If your company is the right size, and it makes sense, do the extra work. It's not that hard to write agnostic scripts that deploy your software, create your database, and build your data from a backup. This can be a big deal when some providers are flipping out.

All-your-junk-in-one-place is really overrated, in my opinion. Be able to rebuild your code and your data at any given point in time. If you don't have that, I don't really know what you have.
Why don't you work really hard, become a CEO like him, then show us how you are in constant contact with peons such as how you used to be.
Yes, I was admittedly over generalizing with my statement regarding open sourcing Borg.
No trolling, just tired of setting up things that just stop working and forcing me to work on a fix. I dont work for a big company with a dev team of 20 people, its just me and customer support. Im close to a burn out as it is, I dont need help with it.
You'll never get all of them, it's true. It's a never ending war.

And you're right-- there's a haircut that's got to happen at twitter. I don't know whether they'll survive it, but it's going to happen either way.

Revenue is driven by usage. Actual usage. They sell eyeballs. They can defraud their customers (the purchasers of said eyeballs), but only for a time. I think, as an article of faith admittedly, that you're better off being straight about it, but I've never piloted a ship that big, so what do I know?
Well a primary reason why health care has been tied to corporate employment in the US is because benefits are not taxed. Tax benefits at the marginal tax rate, and you'll discover that health care won't be quite as tied to employment.
Ability to limit distribution. I'm dropping use of Twitter because I don't want crossover between compartments in life; political rants shouldn't go to business contacts, dark humor shouldn't go to religious contacts, etc.
Space is dangerous. That comes with the territory. I would be very surprised if this ended up being more dangerous than Apollo 8 just given the advances in materials and electronics.
How does Libre Taxi uniquely identify a driver for ratings and kicking them off the system if they are too bad?
> "Unlimited cloud DVR" seems really pointless. Why not just save everything, as it airs, in a central archive that the users can browse at their leisure instead?

Even if that's what they actually do, "unlimited DVR in the cloud" may be a more accessible way of presenting that to an audience familiar with cable TV.
Good posts, thanks. Happy to see them up top.
> You can't fight negativity with negativity. Let the good and positive boil to the top.

How does that work? Someone organizes a hate mob and you're getting tons of horrible messages. How do you “let the good and positive boil to the top”?

That's a huge problem for Twitter because every time someone, usually a woman, is harassed off of the service, other people notice and adjust their actions accordingly whether that is switching to a system, reducing what they post, making their account private, etc. — all of which cuts into the engagement they need to keep the service growing.
free for consumer accounts. paid model for business accounts.
Interesting. They are not TTS like we are accustomed to, they are replicating a specific persons voice with TTS. Listen to the ground-truth recordings at the bottom and then the synthesized versions above. "Fake News" is about to get a lot more compelling when you can make anyone say anything as long as you have some previous recordings of their voice.
OK, that went from uncanny valley to flipping amazing. I could picture the person speaking. An old lady. A young woman. It was hard to picture an algorithm in a machine.

It's amazing that is all boils down to 1s and 0s and some boolean logic.
This is interesting, but gives false negatives on sites behind Cloudflare because it's based on IP ranges.
SyFy has really upped their game in the past year or so. The Expanse, Killjoys, and The Magicians are good TV.
You're unnecessarily constraining your thinking to the present-day Web. WASM fundamentally expands what's feasible in that domain.

For instance, access to the DOM doesn't really matter for game engines like Unity or Unreal, or for lower level libraries like OpenCV, libsass, or libarchive which you might want to use in your web application.

No one is arguing that WebAssembly will completely replace JavaScript, especially not right out of the gate, but it will be used to optimize hot code paths within JS apps, as well as allowing robust, efficient, native libraries to be used directly on the Web. This is more about the pie getting larger than it is about WebAssembly hypothetically crowding out JavaScript.
I believe Twitter's key problem is that they do not take enough product, monetization, and growth risks, either because they are too afraid to, or their org can't execute quickly enough.

1. Pay as much cash as you need to (even if it means laying off a few people) and hire one or two of FB's monetization and growth leaders, preferably away from a team like Instagram. Give them the freedom and resources to grow the team they want.

2. Based on what Twitter has done with the product over the past few years (i.e. not a lot), the product management team is too risk-averse. I would fire them and acquire a few startups to build a more aggressive PM team that knows when to listen to users/metrics and when to ignore them.

3. Partnerships team seems to be great. I would incentivize them to stay.

4. Twitter should invest in experienced engineering management to refocus the team. They have open-sourced four (four!) separate message brokers, and I heard that they had five internally recommended JS frameworks at one point. They should standardize on one boring stack for all new development and move all new development to the cloud.
It's incorrect for things I've checked that I know are on aws but are behind a CDN like fastly or cloudflare. :\
> Uber isn't a charity.

No, but it functions in a society, and shouldn't be under the mistaken belief that it is immune to societal change.

We can all agree that self-driving cars and automation in general are a positive technological development. But what if it results in mass unemployment? It's short sighted to say that Uber only has to seek to maximise profits - it also has an interest in there being a large customer base with money available to use their product. Presumably it would also prefer that those customers are not rioting and trashing vehicles in the street.

This is a mini version of that. Uber has screwed over this driver, and he is justifiably angry about it. "Well, we'd lose market share if we don't do it" is not a winning argument to anyone except other advantaged rich people.
The middle seat typically does this due to the axle running down the center
The commodification of land is antisocial and bad for other economic agents. Euthanasia of the rentier class is good policy all, including the rentier class.
Direct DOM access including manipulation is planned for WebAssembly.

They wanted to progress on the spec and push it out without that, but it's on the roadmap. (Along with GC integration).
I was calculating it for a year - maybe the availability applies to per billing cycle - you may be correct..
does anyone know of good ways to do the opposite, speech to text?
It's a qualifier, bro.
I don't believe there's consensus in this, as philosophy might be the only discipline tasked with defining itself. Still, this is as good an answer as any.
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A software engineer was detained for several hours by U.S. Customs
Home prices. Rents.
Are you certain that's the case? I was under the impression that, while this is true for the normal classes of Uber, the UberX fares for Uber Black drivers do not count against them if they reject the fare and UberX rides are only offered to them if there is not a current Uber Black fare available in the area.
Frank Sinatra Praises Jan Daleys Exceptional Smooth Jazz Music
[RESOLVED] Increased Error Rates for Amazon S3
My experience of support with Google Apps for Business makes me very wary of using anything Google for critical business infra. Google products are nice, but as soon as you hit a problem or edge case, you're on your own in my experience.
> DirectTV Now is $70 a month. They'll probably never compete against streaming only services because they need to be at a pricepoint that doesn't destroy their conventional satellite business.

Why? Their part of AT&T, if they reinforce AT&T's fixed wired and mobile value proposition more than enough to make up for the satellite business, there's no reason AT&T couldn't accept that cost. As it is, they are already competing with other AT&T offerings.
Architecture of Riot Messaging Service
I was calculating it for a year - maybe the availability applies to per billing cycle.. I am still not able to understand your math - mind explaining
Doesn't google api work for you ? I thought it worked perfect
Did you know that decorators can't be Tree Shaken in Angular?
> apparently the Twitter creators were inspired by the way police and emergency services use radio, so terseness was an aesthetic choice.

It'd be interesting to see a Twitter clone where people could only communicate in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code (i.e. a code + its predefined strongly-typed parameters.)
They disclosed the cloudflare issue after cloudflare confirmed that the issue was resolved (no additional data was being leaked). The fact that data existed from before then wouldn't have changed at any point for anyone who simply said, "No, we're keeping this random data that could be valuable".
Local channel content (even when the network content is available) are something missing on many OTT services, so it makes sense to highlight that as a selling point.
Why would you write so many sentences to simply say that you couldn't finish a great novel? There's nothing wrong with The Princess Bride... but it's for children.

Try reading it again. It's worth it, I assure you. It's vastly better than any of the film adaptations or the musical.
That's a great compromise solution!
Bacteria that can live for decades and kill 70% of infected humans (2016)
Yes. Here's the announcement: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/2017...
Not true at all. France is almost totally de-industrialised. The rare products which do not come from China and similar Asian countries come from Maghreb or Italy/Germany/Belgium, the few Western European countries which kept some kind of industry.

For example, the textile industry was quickly wiped out in just a handful of years, recently (about 10 years ago).

Industry represents only 10% of French GDP. For neighbouring countries, it is 12% in Spain, 14% in Italy (that's the average in EU) and... 20% in Germany!

That's the country of Alcatel, the company that decided to become "a company with no factory" 15 years ago. It's like an exceptional moment worth a celebration when you discover a "Made in France" behind a product.
Depends on how good you're talking. Chrome supports the SpeechRecognition API.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog...
Ask HN: 25% of the most popular HN stories were posted in the last 9 days
5 of the 20 all time most popular HN stories were posted in the last 9 days. Has the HN readership grown dramatically in the past couple weeks or this just an anomaly?

Top 20 HN posts of all time:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=&query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story

The five posts in question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707547
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747414
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673
- noise

- too little green

- dogshit all over the place

- traffic

- price of accomodation

- impossible to get in or out of the city at certain times of the day

- measurably increasing street violence / drug trade while I lived there (28 years give or take)

- not knowing your neighbors even after years of living next to each other

My 'sweet spot' is just outside a major city. That way I get all the advantages without the disadvantages.
So those downvoting me think there is nothing wrong with having a reporter stalked, allowing your female employees to be treated like dogs... stealing your competitors IP... snubbing your nose at the law to put robot cars on the road that could kill people all for the sake of winning .. this and other horrible behavior is perfectly fine and that's why your downvoting me?
I think point was that you shouldn't replicate but just deploy to both.
"My intent is not to defend Kalanick, but I do instinctually defend free markets."

Even when said "free markets" cause people extreme hardship?
Spot on.

And good luck getting accurate documentation.
Your numbers are still off for a year.

99.9997089 = 100 - 153/(365*24*60)
99.9708904 = 100 - 100*153/(365*24*60)

The formula is 100% minus 100% times downtime/time in month/year.

153 is the number of minutes they were down going off the reported updates at https://status.aws.amazon.com/ - 11:35AM PST was when they fixed the status page, 2:08PM PST was when S3 was fully back online. (And 153 is underestimating it, because there were errors going on for long before they fixed the status page, but I don't have timestamps on that.)
>(Before that, you guys didn't at all have your shit together when it came to customer support)

Sounds like it basically coincides with Diane Greene coming on board to run the show -- which is great news for all of us with increased competition on not just the technical front but also support (which is often the deal maker/breaker)
Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'You Will See Us Do More in the Pro Area'
Honestly, if you're a big service that millions of people use, you should not put all your eggs in a single basket and should probably use a mix, in case one of the clouds goes down like in this case.
how does this stack up against wavenet?
Or a lot of connections to a shared pile of cloud-hosted data, more likely, with "DVR" as just a UI metaphor.
The HMAC credential that you'd use with the S3-compatible GCS API, also called the "XML API", does need to be associated with a Google account, but it doesn't need to be the main account of the developer. It can be any Google user account. I suggest creating a separate account and granting it only the permissions it needs. It'd be nice if service accounts (aka robot accounts) could be given HMAC credentials, that's not supported. Service accounts can, however, sign URLs with RSA keys.

As another option, you can continue using the XML API and switch out only the auth piece to Google's OAuth system while changing nothing else.

There's a lot more detail available at: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/migrating

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud Storage.
Yeah, we're not asking him.
There was never any reason to spend that kind of money. It was worth going to the moon once to see what was there, but I have yet to see anybody articulate a reason to go back that doesn't rely on soaring rhetoric and implausible money-making schemes.
Soundcloud was earlier, just some tracks but interestingly not all.
AWS internal lingo calls this the "green-i"
> If you can't afford to use dynamically allocated memory at all, then there's nothing special about STL, you need to avoid all libraries that call malloc().

I think the idea (as seen in traditional high-performance C++ code) is to be very aware of allocations. Dynamic memory allocation is slow; sometimes, the slowest part of one's code. So it's fine to use a library that calls malloc() behind your back for small, occasional allocations (whether that library is the STL or libc or any of your other dependencies), but not in your inner loops, and not for your multi-GB data structures. Instead, manage your own buffers, size them right from the beginning using application-specific logic, realloc exponentially if you need to (but hopefully you don't need to), and use placement new to construct your objects in your buffer in a way to optimize access locality.
I don't know whether we need unions or not - but until we do, Uber can hardly be faulted for playing the free market. The CEO has a board to answer to and they care about maximizing profits, like any other for profit organization.
And who is the one person you should really believe in/work for? That's right, that's you.
A new (old school) way of saying that "The Gods" are messing with us. The Matrix is 1998. Shadow Run (which describes an early Maxtrix-like system called "The Matrix") is 1989. To say that we live in a world that is composed of rules defined by another (outside) world should be obvious at this point. Whether you consider the "controlling" world to be outside or inside is irrelevant all that matters is that we cannot describe or predict the behaviors of that world with any rules defined by this one. Any observation of that world is basically just Magic. Donald Trump winning the election was not magic... Hillary Clinton just failed to motivate liberals who were all bitter about here campaigns treatment of Sanders. In the Oscars someone didn't err on the side of caution when they saw something wasn't right they just blurted out the result that they wanted to see - no magic. Superbowl - a team just choked - not magical at all.

BTW, black holes are magic. If they worked the way that physicist describe you would be killed just by looking at them.
If they refuse too many UberX fares, they'll be dumped. I'm sure Uber will argue that doesn't qualify as "forced," but it does to me.
Yes, but Flash Player updates are always pushed as separate items from the Cumulative Update. They are much less likely to push an out-of-band CU, especially when it sounds like they botched their last CU.
> Preemptive reply: no, nobody reads Twitter over SMS anymore.

And RCS is being deployed. Eventually the character limit will be irrelevant anyway.
Off topic - I recommend this site. Breadth and depth in terms of the article types. And the design is kind of weird, but I do dig it.
I believe that it will, within my lifetime, become illegal to drive your own vehicle on public roads.

I don't think that's going to happen. It might happen on some roads, in order to reduce congestion or whatever, but there's no reason to ban human drivers in general.

That's because "autopilots" can run in passive/safety mode, ready to take over and prevent you doing anything really stupid. This is already starting to happen, in fact, with AEB to be installed in all new cars by 2022.
I would - just for sports. My family subscribes to Netflix, HBO, Hulu (with Showtime), and YouTube Red and I still don't get live sports. I'd drop Hulu+Showtime (~$17) and YouTube Red (~$10). I'll be paying more, but then I'll get all NBCSN and Fox Sports which covers most of the motorsports I'm interested in.
> you can make anyone say anything as long as you have some previous recordings of their voice.

That's not what this is doing. They're simply resynthesizing exactly what the person said, in the same voice. It's essentially cheating because they can use the real person's inflection. Generating correct inflection is the hardest part of speech synthesis because doing it perfectly requires a complete understanding of the meaning of the text.

The top two are representative of what it sounds like when doing true text to speech. The middle five are just resynthesis of a clip saying the exact same thing. And even in that case, it doesn't always sound good. The fourth one is practically unintelligible. But it's interesting because it demonstrates an upper bound on the quality of the voice synthesis possible with their system given perfect inflection as input.

To clarify, this is cool work, the real-time aspect sounds great, and I'm sure it will lead to even more impressive results in the future. But I don't want people to think that all of the clips on this page represent their current text-to-speech quality.
Charge celebrities (anyone who has above a certain volume of users) to use twitter.

Provide additional analytics as a paid service for marketing. Charge for add-on services (like delayed/periodic publishing etc, running polls, etc).
Word, like anyone expected Billy boy to be in favor of giving money to simple folks for nothing.
The everyday man should not be investing in individual stocks like this. They should be parking their money in low cost indexes[1].

[1] http://seekingalpha.com/article/4049862-investment-advice-wa...
Not if you want a UI.