skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback! I've found out that a lot of people use this differently and I'm definitely still pivoting into the use case of organization and search and out of "oh this will get to your URLs faster". Thank you though, I'll be editing my description in a bit :P

As for 16, I hover under the limit myself, but I understand if that might seem a bit low and that's fair. I was just experimenting with the idea of freemium and didn't want to have a higher limit and lower it later and have more people upset. I'll be looking to bump up the limit in the future (or possibly remove it, since it might not even be a feature people care about.) In your opinion, what do you think is a reasonable limit to set? (Or is it just unreasonable to limit it at all?)
Sorry, my comparison is our Multi Regional storage (2.6c/GB/month) versus S3 Standard plus Cross-Regional Replication. That's the right comparison (especially for outages like this one).

As to our network pricing, we have a drastically different backbone (we feel its superior, so we charge more). But as you mention CloudFront, the right comparison is probably Google Cloud CDN (https://cloud.google.com/cdn/) which has lower pricing than "raw egress".
>Getting paid to do a job = 'misery' now, apparently

It has always been a misery, even back to biblical times. In fact, having to work for his living was the original punishment for Adam.

Ancient Greeks and Romans, as another example, considered work beneath the dignity of free citizens. Not even Christianism was pro-work for the better part of 2 millennia. Older societies valued the fruits of work, but not work itself as much. Work only became a virtue in modern times because of the protestant-derived work ethic and the Horatio Alger types.

>* Maybe we should all go back to working in the fields from sunrise to sunset and avoid all this 'tedious work' for regular pay, benefits, vacation time, lunch breaks and closing bells.*

You'd be surprised. People work more in tedious cubicles than they did in medieval times (where scholars calculate something like 150+ days of the year devoted to festivities and holidays). Much less stressed, too, especially for those farmers free from feudal lords asking for most of their produce. The life of a farmer in France (and I know of several) is so much better (in vacation time, lunch breaks and closing bells -- and sometimes in pay too) than the average office drone that it's not even funny.

But that's a strawman, anyway, as nobody suggested we get back to the farms.
Funny how suggesting that, say, Twitter is run by a cabal of hard leftists isn't "uncivil", but noting a pretty obvious error in absolutist statements is.
WebAssembly won't give you unlimited power. You will still have the browser sandboxing and security / privacy policies in place. Accessing to the local file system is for instance constrained in the browser for good reasons. WebAssembly apps will be able to do what Web APIs let any page do.
How do you get to the unencrypted data? Do you decrypt to a plain text file? Launch it into Notepad or vi? How do you deal with the temp files the editors create? Do you clear the clipboard after copy and paste the passwords?

I have a GPG file in Emacs, too. Just want to see what flow people use to deal with encrypted passwords.
Any cursory reading of history will reveal that cities are and always have been where humans go to die.

In the past, this was because of disease caused by pre-sanitation density. Today, it is due to below-replacement fertility rates caused by impossible to afford living costs.

So if you consider extinction a form of human suffering, 'traditional walkable cities' fit the bill.
1. Allow limited following of accounts. Right now, when you follow someone, it's either all (default) or nothing (if you mute/unfollow). But in many cases, I'm only interested in a subset of someone's tweets, on certain topics. For example, I'd follow many more scientists if I could just see their tweets on science, but not see their political or personal or sports-related tweets, which add too much noise to my feed. This would also be good for tweeters, as they could freely tweet about anything they like without risk of alienating followers.

Maybe Twitter could use the hashtag system to accomplish this?

2. Make replies work better. Relax the character limit for replies to several hundred characters, make replies threaded, make low-quality replies go away, and high-quality replies float to the top (just like HN). Remove the line noise by having @ and # symbols not show up in the feed. Hashtags and mentions also shouldn't use up any characters. If all this happens, it will become reasonable to have actual conversations on Twitter.

3. Stop showing me duplicate tweets. Once I've seen a tweet, I shouldn't see it again if it's reposted (something many media outlets tend to do frequently).

Actions like this will make Twitter a better experience for regular users, and should help to kickstart growth.

4. Charge whales (those with the most followers, who disproportionately benefit from using Twitter) actual monthly fees.
Then the question still stands.

What I'm getting at is, while QA might be hard I'm sure doing hard things might pay off some way instead of no way at all.
A better analogy would be if hospitals had doctors do o-chem problems during interviews. Who would do better? The student who just took the class, or the doctor who's been practicing for 10 years?

Also, doctors look stuff up all the time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/doctor-google-diagn...
> Twitter has a profit incentive not just to censor content, but to make as much of the content as possible paid ads.

The latter implies the former. I promise, Coca-Cola is never going to advertise on Gab. You're never going to see a paid spot for Budweiser on an 8chan board. There is simply no demand from marketers for prime placement alongside death and rape threats, photos of people outside their homes with crosshairs overlaid, etc.

> focus on what I think is the core value prop of twitter -- its infrastructure as a broadcast platform.

Yes, but every successful broadcast platform I'm aware of imposes some standards on the content they carry. I'm not sure why you think Twitter needs to break from that model.
Because 'privacy' used to be a thing.
Not to mention you'll get 3-5x better IOPS off a dedicated SSD.

I guess this just boils down again to Amazon not being cost effective enough for my use case in yet another way.
Passing functions and lambdas and closures is not what newbies are learning...That's like saying: "building bridges isn't hard, you just have to learn kinematics and materials science...But you have to learn that anyway.."
Yet if you sum the value of property its very unusual for the net worth of a city to exceed the net worth of its metro area suburbs. Lets explore the concept in detail with automobiles.

Most people buy compact commuter cars, lets say. It really doesn't matter what kind of car is the most expensive car, that probably being sports cars. The price of a Ferrari being a large multiple of the price of a Honda Civic means surprisingly very little, or at least it should...

In 2015 about 300K honda civics were sold for lets say $19K each vs 7664 Ferrari sales for $400K each in the USA.

Yes I understand perfectly that the typical Ferrari sells for $400K and a Civic sells for $19K so apparently market clearing prices for Ferrari's dwarfs prices for Civics by a factor of almost exactly 21. Clearly we should socially engineer all our car laws to greatly encourage Ferrari ownership and all our social signalling memes should revolve around the superiority of Ferrari ownership.

However... 300K Honda Civics at 19K is roughly $5.7B in sales. And Ferrari sales of 7664 cars at $400K is almost exactly $3B. Clearly the marketplace has spoken and Ferraris and Civics are roughly equal in the marketplace and should be equal in the world of memes and social signalling.

But wait, there's 300K civic owners and 7664 ferrari owners. Clearly the socially engineered car laws should favor civics, not ferraris.

The world of property is somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd examples. The first example is simply irrelevant.

Cities have some expensive properties and proportionately no one lives there. I'm well aware that culturally its a huge social mistake to pretend anything or anyone matters other than the big cities, regardless how few live there. Most people want the suburb life that we must be convinced to socially engineer laws to destroy.
Current advertising model of Twitter is not suited for the product. They tried to emulate google and facebook model of ad revenue by programmatically showing the user what might be useful to them and it did not work so well. People developed blind spots for such content. Twitter should really look into micro payments to reward users who increase engagement.

Some of our friends are good at recommending a movie or a restaurant and their opinions matter at a micro level similar to celebrity endorsements matter at a macro level. They would do more of it if they get paid like celebrities do but at a proportional rate. Take the burden out of complicated algorithms to match ad content to users and instead let users do it in between their conversations and pay for the content of their tweets. Make the normal user to be their spokesperson for the product/idea. Twitter is a very good medium for this.

This is native advertising at a whole new level. Financially rewarding users who are influential in their small circle might be difficult to implement. Take the ad money from businesses, local and global and share it with users who say nice and constructive things about their campaign to their followers. It could be as simple as rewarding a user for retweeting a well designed ad. Many users will get creative and make endorsements from their daily lives if it meant their followers liking it. Its like design crowd mixed with advertising. Brands would pay for this model because its driven by results.

Understanding user tweets and matching them to a business campaign and fairly allocating the reward to top/all contributors might be a much harder computer science problem but I think this model of advertising has a potential to work well for twitter. There is so much for user to tweet about. Local restaurants, to movies to their brand loyal purchases etc in exchange their tweets get financial reward based on how many people read them and engage with them.
Rimworld and Prison Architect are practically training for DF. Now that you know you like the style of gameplay you will probably love DF
I have trouble figuring out your point. First paragraph talks about white privilege. Second paragraph disparages multiculturalism.
Again though, you're not applying the proper legal test. The law isn't "who owns the property you're on" or "is the property owned by a business or individual," it's "do you have the 'reasonable expectation of privacy' on that property?" The former may factor into the latter, but it's not as cut-and-dried as your comments would make it seem.

edit: here's some precedent that may suggest you do have expectation of privacy as a passenger in someone else's car, though the scenario is different http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
I never understood the appeal of Dwarf Fortress until a good few hours into my first game I had just finished following a detailed tutorial and was starting to get a hang of the interface. I decided to start work on my first big construction project - a deep pit to keep the regularly attacking trolls away and a gargantuan drawbridge to lead over it. It's probably child's play by any non-noob player's standards, but I was so proud of it. All of the noble dwarves came to the grand opening of the drawbridge - the mayor, the sheriff, the captain of the guard and all of the highest ranking military dwarves in their bright shining armor. They all stood at the base to witness the first lowering of the grand drawbridge. It was lowered and with a mighty crash, flattened the gathered nobles and military elite...Because I had placed it facing the wrong way.

The fortress didn't last too long after that. I tried my best to clean things up, making a nice new dining hall and brewery, but the remaining dwarves took it pretty hard - one of them ended up losing his mind while drunk and slaughtered most of the rest in the great dining hall, the rest died of disease because nobody wanted to clean up the mess. I was so proud of my towering (and first!) fortress, and I lost it all because of one stupid mistake, but it's definitely the most fun I've ever had losing a game.
> In Win32 code, you still have persistent windows with child "windows" (UI controls/widgets) on them, that have UI-specific internal state (such as text, position, links to their own child windows, etc.) that is different and separate from your application's state (variables, data structures).

I don't get it. This is a property of every UI toolkit. In other words, this goes for the web as well. In the underlying structures, all data exists independently of your application.

If you mean that there's libraries for the web (angular 1) that make it easy to pretend this isn't true, that the contents of your variables are really on screen, similar libraries exist for windows apps as well. Hell, all of those database things like Access, in a way, have just this concept (the language/tooling pretends that the form field for field X IS field X, through bidirectional synchronization).

Also, except for windows 3.0 apps, nobody ever called things like SetWindowText themselves.

Persistence, and the lack of options to turn it off is one the of major pain points with the web as a platform. Even canvas is persistent, which makes no sense at all to me.

And for me at least, there's two huge differences. On windows, very big apps could work together and be open a dozen at a time. A dozen of single-page-app tabs will, on the other hand, slow my Xeon-backed chrome to a crawl. Secondly, I have never seen any webapps that approach the complexity of normal windows apps. The most complex web apps currently are things like Google Docs, and the average is something like a webform. How many years of the web platform do we need to conclude that it has found some way to prevent feature-full applications from being written ?

I've developed plenty of applications for both windows desktop and for the web, and it's pretty clear to me: the web enforces extremely complex methods of doing things. Markup, javascript, RPC (can be HTTP), other language, another data language is the default layer. Adding a single field to a single record type requires knowing HTML, JavaScript, HTTP (how to use HTTP and encode stuff in it), and then backend language (let's say Java), then SQL. ALL of them need to be modified to just modify a record type.

The web is extremely lacking in performance, and is far, far more complex than it needs to be.

"Worse is better" ... Indeed.
I actively interviewed job candidates while my wife went through her licensing process to be a doctor.

A doctor's job interview spends no time making sure that a doctor is competent. Why? Because the licensing process does that.

The most frustrating part of interviewing a software engineer job candidate is that a degree doesn't show that the candidate is competent. Thus, we need to waste our time on imperfect ways to verify competence when instead we should be selling the organization and judging team fit.

IMO, we need some kind of licensing process where, as an industry, we agree on a way to judge that someone is a competent software engineer.
No reason to assume, they are listed at the bottom of the blog post:

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/02/finally-live-tv-made-...
You got your orders of magnitude wrong ;)

99.9964583 = 100 - 153/(30*24*60)
99.6458333 = 100 * (1 - 153/(30*24*60))
Right person, wrong time, wrong approach.

Kalanick was off the clock, clearly on his way home and in a social setting. The driver could have really capitalized on the moment. He could have opened a productive and respectful conversation by saying he was a very early driver and had some feedback - good and bad - asking to sit down at a more appropriate time. That had far more likelihood of achieving any progress.

But maybe he didn't want progress. Maybe he just wanted the satisfaction of venting to the CEO.
Call me unimaginative but what would most folks do with a $99 soap bar computer?
That's the last thing I'd like to see.
Apple’s upending the iPhone with a $1000 model
"Disclosure: I don't work for google but have an upcoming interview there."

Disclosure: I took a tour there one time and have used google.

EDIT: I realized that I was being mean, but why was that disclaimer relevant?
We just got hunted crowdraising
Glad to hear it! Got some really good episodes on the way with John O'Nolan from Ghost and Nathan Barry from ConvertKit. Can't wait to get those released in mid-to-late March.
Ah thanks!

@dang: Update the link to the blog post as it actually has information about the offering rather than just an email sign up box.
"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? It also seems to mean that you can't rewind channels you weren't watching, that you manually have to record stuff yourself. Really backwards of Google if my assumptions are correct.

It seems weird that Google aren't able to create/negotiate something relevant for today. All the things I talked about are becoming common for normal TV providers in Norway.
WikiLeaks spokesman quietly steps out of the spotlight
> - Fix trending topic spam. Seriously, how is this so bad? Free advice: for every trending topic a tweet mentions over 1 in a single tweet, the probability that it's spam asymptotically approaches 1.

At the very least, the topic attribution should be divided into separate buckets, the way search engines tried(do?) with meta-tags.
Yep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_paradox
How is/was NPAPI a non-event? So many things were built with that!
I'm guessing there's no way to sign up for this and not have Google keep track of my TV habits.
> Please. don't. do. this.

Don't do what specifically ?
and why not ?
and what should I do instead ?

All of these answers are missing in your comment.

WhatsApp is doing something quite similar - displaying a small search icon.
When you click on it - the search box expands to 100% (with animation, of course) and the keyboard input pops up.
I like the idea.

Using `s/foo/bar/f` for a `git commit --fixup` of the last commit who modify this change (only if part of the current PR)
I agree. I felt the article painted a far worse picture than the video justified. You have to love a camera, the only unimpeachable witness there is.

IMO the most incriminating thing in this video Travis did is that cornball shimmying in the back seat.
I doubt the effort will gain them significantly more customers. If they charge $35 for 10 channels, but you can get 1 channel for $5, most people will see the 10 for $35 as a better deal. Unless their per channel price were equal to (bundle price)/(number of channels in bundle), then very few people would go that route.
more: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/where-is-webassembly-now-a...

"With this, developers can start shipping WebAssembly code. For earlier versions of browsers, developers can send down an asm.js version of the code. Because asm.js is a subset of JavaScript, any JS engine can run it. With Emscripten, you can compile the same app to both WebAssembly and asm.js.Even in the initial release, WebAssembly will be fast. But it should get even faster in the future, through a combination of fixes and new features."
>I also ask 10,000 foot questions. "Say you're wanting to build a new app that behaves like Instagram. What's your hosting platform, your technology stack, and explain why?".

Please forgive the uncomfortable question but isn't that a tacit admission that many developers' role consists of simply gluing together libraries and frameworks built by better engineers who actually do know how fundamental algorithms, etc. work?
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I have a beginner level interest in philosophy of mind. I can attempt to add some information on how "...and today we're seeing philosophy of mind turn to neuroscience." is very wrong.

Neuroscience studies various structures and mechanisms of nervous system and brain. Even when they seemingly discuss 'consciousness', they tend to simply mean 'awareness'. I think most are generally familiar with other aspects of neuroscience.

In phil. of mind there are categories of consciousness or lack thereof, though Phenomenal Consciousness is more popular area of study (experiential side of consciousness). One of the key subject in Philosophy of mind try to show whether mind can possibly be physical (ex readable article: http://organizations.utep.edu/Portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf), can mind be described computationally? (ex paper: http://consc.net/papers/rock.html) Phi. of mind also studies accesses of consciousness, study methods on how to go about studying contents of consciousness etc.

I've talked to neuroscientist who despise philosophers talking about conciseness and claim their ideas are silly or can be ignored. There has also been cases where big name neuroscientist proposed silly ideas about mind that philosophers wouldn't begin to consider.

In short they study different things.
> I do think the confidence intervals/prediction intervals should be accessible and should probably be adjustable (e.g. 99%, 95%, 80%).

Definitely, this is arguably the most important feature.
What would those tools look like exactly? If you tell your 50,000 followers where I live and that what I really need is a bullet in the head, what does the tool do? Hide it from my feed? Super. When the armed militia appears on my lawn, at least I will have been spared the stress of reading about it first, I guess.

That's a serious question. What anti-abuse tools do you think they should deploy that don't actually prevent people from posting or seeing the abuse?
> Coming soon. Get on the list to find out when YouTube TV launches where you live.

Why the f* internet content still depends on where I live in 2017.
They qualify this to an extent:

> broadly the point of philosophy

> In extremely simplistic historical terms

It doesn't mean that all areas have been proven, or that they all will be.

It is often that topics of philosophy have generated real outcomes, it may very well seem that philosophy -> real world outcome.

And consider the forum. It's not as if this is a university course in philosophy.

You seem to have found one thing to nitpick and ignored the rest of the response. Respectfully, I suggest you hang the ax back up, and stop pushing the pedal on the stone.
I pay a premium to live in the centre of a European city, along with many others -- there are families, couples, single, working and retired people. The quaint building that stood on this site was demolished in the 1950s, but about half the street still qualifies.

Possibly this is the first time any part of my behaviour has been described as "ethnic".
Does anyone have an example on how to get the SDL2 to compile using WebAssembly?
It's a little outdated now, but this post details our pipeline: https://hearthsim.info/blog/how-we-process-replays/
"That’s right. It was all within six months from May till December (1995) that it was Mocha and then LiveScript. And then in early December, Netscape and Sun did a license agreement and it became JavaScript. And the idea was to make it a complementary scripting language to go with Java, with the compiled language."

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2653798/application-develop...
Interesting, I did not realise that.

I honestly don't know how the finances of different parts of the NHS are run (Hospitals, Primary Care Trusts, it's just jargon to me), has it ever been closer to the Canadian system than it is now?