skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But then again my wife are trying to delay any interactive screen time as long as possible.

See, interactive screen time I don't mind at all. It's the passive screen time—YouTube, Paw Patrol, or even when my wife watches football during football season—that I have a problem with. As long as my kids are thinking and responding to what they're watching, I'm okay with it.
I hope that it takes less than 5 years to get a Linux touch screen app that lets me mark up PDFs and take handwritten notes.
Contractor charged with leaking classified NSA info on Russian hacking
Only for a direct ascent architecture. There are lots of Earth orbit assembly missions that would be possible and not terribly expensive to pull off (at least for a lunar flyby style mission).
One of the best critiques of the Nature Methods article was in the Wired piece, pulling it out here for quick reference:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/31/tro...

Derek Lowe is an awesome writer about these kinds of issues. He highlights some of the best of criticisms out there, notably that it's not clear whether the increased rate of apparent mutation and the striking amount of mutations shared between the two treated animals was due to the "experimental" animals being siblings, but the "control" animal being more distantly related. This article isn't the final word by far, and I think the authors didn't claim it to be either. They wanted to put a concern out there for the scientific community to investigate, as well they should, and the community will figure this out.

Remember though, CRISPR is by definition a mutagen. It does create rather substantial disruption in DNA structure (double stranded breaks), and relies on intrinsic DNA repair processes to affect the desired end result. This is likely to be a somewhat noisy process, and we shouldn't be terribly surprised if unexpected changes do occur. Indeed the scientific community is well aware of these limitations, and I think the more popular press shouldn't sell CRISPR as equivalent to programming DNA in the same way we write computer programs.
Your comment is ironic considering RPython is (to oversimplify) nice syntactic sugar around C, and it is transpiled and then compiled with a normal C compiler.

So one could argue that pypy is just as much optimisation by "rewriting it in C".
The exercise (ocean swim) isn't new. I've been doing it for years.

And yes - it does help enormously (e.g to get the blood really flowing well) - as long as I get the start time, duration, intensity and intervals about right. I tend to swim only until just after the point that I reach peak performance.

Also, (for me) it isn't just about carb cutting - it's about timing.

If I eat a medium bowl of white rice at a breakfast, then I tend to feel worse afterwards and I put on (some) weight. If think that the blood gets thicker and stickier as blood sugar rises and so blood flow gets worse.

If I eat the same medium bowl of white rice after my swim then I don't seem to put on weight, but it does help avoid a next day energy crash. I also paid it with 5g of Creatine Monohydrate (before the swim) and the combination seems to have reversed my middle-age loss of muscle.

What doesn't work for me is vigorous early morning exercise fueled by caffeine. Again for me, that is the route to over -training and a long bout of fatigue.

YMMV. Listen to your body.
So "not a minority" means you're a white man?
Heck, even the cost of creating and maintaining documentation for the services has to be enormous. The first time I worked with the AWS IoT services I was extremely impressed by the breadth, depth, and quality of the documentation, and it all seemed up-to-date: the screenshots showed the same interfaces I was seeing, and even documentation on small features or use-cases seemed to be accurate and current.

When you put it all together, you're not paying for bandwidth, you're paying for the power and convenience of a robust, high-quality, high-availability solution that provides extraordinary benefits when looked at holistically.
The real problem seems to arise not from name confusion, but email confusion; I don't even think the person my friend was having the biggest problem had the same first name, just the same initial. Imagine if, for example, your email was duaraglia57@gmail and there was someone who had duaraglia57@yahoo but kept typing gmail accidentally, and you get the picture. Far too many sites fail to validate a correct email address in all aspects.
But December?

5 months is long enough for Amazon to "reverse engineer" the tweeter design and launch version 2. And that's assuming they haven't been working on it already.
Still no multiuser capabilities. Truly disappointing.

Not upgrading. Not interested.
With correct pricing (3-year commitment), you're actually looking at about $8k/yr/server difference, for 64-core servers. If you're at the point where your workload requires ~12 64-core servers, that difference will net you $100k, which you can spend on the ops staffer.
Or just try working on not being so self-conscious. I'm pretty sure most people really do not care about how often you use the restroom.
Looks perfectly fine on Safari for macOS as well as Safari for iPhone.

Maybe you just have a crap internet connection and can't download the video animations?
What's your threshold for significance on image decoding speed? I bet making it 4x slower would be negligible in the vast majority of cases.

The computational power you need for image decoding is extremely narrow and easy to make safe. You need some mathematical operations and some loops. You don't need any APIs or data structures. Mask off all the pointers and you can have have a provably safe interpeter/compiler that runs pretty fast.
At smaller sizes too. If you just have one server, it's unlikely that the slower response time will loose you 3000 dollars per month which is the savings of dedicated service versus aws. Many small businesses run on leased hardware with on site support. Rackspace for instance made their fortune in that sector.
Not necessarily. Map/Set is a counterexample. There’s no substitute for the JIT knowing how to reason about the internal aliasing properties of your hash table implementation.

We’ll keep working on more optimizations for ES-6 so there will be more counter examples.
About 2-3x. I'm a big fan of cloud computing in general (and AWS in particular as the clear leader, IMO) and helped lead our transition out of colos and into AWS, but the egress charges is the biggest area of AWS that I feel is egregiously over-priced.

Fortunately, it's relatively easy to locate some of your very high egress services outside of AWS. I discourage that for casual optimization, but when you get to Netflix/20 scale, that makes sense to trifle with.
> Seriously? No true scotsman... err investor... would imply that the stock market is risk-free.

...

> But the argument is that investing passively in a well-diversified index shifts most of that risk away from total loss--as in your examples--and into more manageable risks, e.g. waiting for the market to recover.

So you're saying that the only risk is that you might have to wait a few years to see your money again. That's plain and simply not true. The risk is that you can lose all of your money. It's spelled out in every prospectus, just like it spells out that things like turnover costs are not accounted for in any marketing you've received.

> By the way, I'm interested to know what you propose I do with, say, an unexpected year-end bonus. Put it in a bank account earning -2% real interest?

My advice is don't put money in places you don't understand. When people give you the impression that there's no downside to a particular investment they don't understand it either. If all you understand is that a savings account won't lose money, then put it in a savings account, but remember that FDIC is limited insurance.
Those are interesting links but they don't support your assertion that Microsoft's big envy is for the kind of ad targeting data FB and google posses. The only related content I saw were the mentions of Cortana, and Cortana is not just a terrible way to chase advertising dollars, it's actually a way to unseat Google's dominance in tech precisely because it breaks the viability of advertising as a business.

Google's entire business is built around selling the presentation of unwanted information around the organic content you want. That works great in a visual medium where the extra information requires no more of your time and only minimally more of your attention. Alexa and Cortana and Siri shift that interaction to audio where it becomes incredibly difficult to insert even a tiny fraction of the surrounding ad content search engines used to deliver visually. Alexa and Cortana and Siri break google's business model because they break the ability to spam customers with ancillary information, and they can do that because neither Amazon nor Apple nor Microsoft derive the bulk of their revenues from ad sales. This is a battle of business models, not a quest for the other guy's business model.

So yes, Microsoft is building Cortana, and no, Cortana isn't about becoming an advertising powerhouse it's about blocking their two ad-fueled competitors (the best discussion I'm aware of of google's efforts to fight back against this agent-driven threat to their ad-based business model is [0] )

[0] https://stratechery.com/2016/google-and-the-limits-of-strate...
I disagree strongly with this. Before all these cloud providers websites were not noticeably less reliable than they are now. I was around back when Apache and CGI was all there was, even then uptime was so good that it was rare to hit a website that was down.

There's a lot of koolaid being thrown around by the companies with cloud to sell. Unfortunately these also happen to be the big "market leaders" so it's hard to deny what they're saying and get taken seriously.

It's like six sigma, agile, or stack ranking. The big guys are doing it so it must be the right thing to do... Right? Until everyone realized it's mostly a ploy to make money selling books and conference tickets, or in this case rent out a bunch of excess capacity for huge profit.

I disagree with reliability as well. Most of my bare metal and colocated machines have uptime of many years. Most AWS VM's die after a year or two. With the cloud you have to worry a lot more about fault tolerance whereas with dedicated equipment simple offline backups are often enough to meet any reasonable SLA.
Or, you know, it could be a cultural difference and not a sign of anything negative.

*Not saying you precluded that. Just adding another reason to have a higher threshold for being rude.
Funny how women are never pushing to equalize the "diversity problem" in things like garbage truck driver, or oil rig worker.

It's an amazing coincidence that the only push for "equalization" is for kush jobs that pay well and allow you to sit on your ass in an air conditioned room.

Where is the feminist outrage at the lack of women working on oil rigs or in alaska as a crab fishermen?
> This says it all to me, Apple tends to themselves rather than the group. One thing that should be concerning for the majority.

>

> I was hoping for Apple to switch it up this year with start of their new backend for Safari, rather I don't expect it to turn out as I have wished.

Works fine in Chrome.
?? I see a ton of Apple watches. It's like, the only watch that ever looked appealing.... I agree with your "being the fastest slug..." comment, but I'm not really sure what is to be expected here? In their market segment they are by far the top seller. They have a device that does a ton of stuff, looks nice, and integrates with devices like iPhone. What else are we expecting here?

What club is Apple TV joining? The successful product club?
May I ask why you want to retrieve it? Wouldn't you just leave it there, and download only the conclusions?
Ha! I read your comment as: Chrome had tail calls first, but they were all but guaranteed. I was confused, but once I parsed your sentence that way there was no going back.

I am now in agreement with everything you said. Thanks for clarifying.
It's also worth noting that Digital Ocean gives you half the amount of RAM that Linode[0] and Vultr[1] offer for the same price point.

[0] https://www.linode.com/pricing
[1] https://www.vultr.com/pricing/
Ask HN: How do you combine social life and programming?
I didn't continue my journey to actually become a developer, because of the image i had of a programmers life.

The view i had and somewhat still have of a programmers life would look a lot like:

- No spare time to go outside and have fun, as we seem to be addictive and time flies by.

- which results into less friends

- Just no time to be actually happy or just not having the consciousness of time as it just passes by while sitting behind a desk

The list goes on and on...

However i now have mixed feelings... as i want to spend my time actually learning languages, but i also want to be socially
active and just be happy.

How do you guys combine these two?
Sometimes I use an unlicensed Jetbrains product - it closes automatically after 30 minutes of action
In the first paragraph of your response, you've already gone far beyond the bounds of any reasonable discussion. The rest of your post is answered in my response elsewhere in the thread, and I'm done putting energy into this discussion.
I don't think the remark about antifa was meant to be taken literally. Of course, no one will put it in the job description.

Do you think it's easy to be supportive of the current US president, supportive of Brexit and sceptical of climate alarmism while working in tech (or in academia, for that matter)? I do not find it easy at all.
It's per-device/per card, so your Amex gets a different number on your iPhone, watch, and MacBook, as will your visa.
Also, employees? These are services that are actively maintained and developed."Alternative 1 – Colocation in a Data Center" doesn't include the 100k/yr you'll have to pay an engineer to manage that hardware.
Well you're not comparing to AWS without ops, you're comparing to hiring someone for non-AWS vs managing AWS on your own. Outsourced ops know your systems. They have contracted guarantees. They can manage your own systems, hosted systems or even AWS. Using not-AWS saves you enough to pay for that.
It is well-known that Apple uses Omniture (acquired by Adobe, aka SiteCatalyst, aka 2o7.net, etc.).

As in 192.168.0.2o7.net. Remember, "SWF" stands for Small Web File. Yes, they actually tried to get users to swallow this when Shockwave Flash started to be used in devious ways, such as to track users.

Omniture's business is third party tracking cookies similar to Google Analytics or KISSmetrics. Not sure and don't care whether Flash is used so much anymore. If too young to rememeber search and ye shall find information about "permanent, Flash cookies" that could not be removed.

Apple is not saying "We will not engage with companies selling third party tracking cookie services." Clearly they are not opposed to third party tracking cookies in principle.

Instead they are announcing some change to their browser. Wow, exciting. It is not clear what exactly this announcement accomplishes for users. Probably nothing. If you are trying to avoid ads and tracking, popular browsers (without extensions, etc.) are not your friends.
Nope you have a number for the person that provides the service and you can call her/him. Unless you are at several million per month spend at AWS have fun getting a hold of someone when sh#t hits the fan.
would a scale streaming customer really pay that much?
> Whether or not Trump actively colluded with Russia to affect election results, he's still behaving abnormally about the issue. I mean, if you step back and look at this

Agree 100%. The coverup could be worse than the crime.

I'm subscribing to the theory that there was contact between Russian-linked individuals (Assange, undercover intelligence) and tertiary members of the campaign (Roger Stone, Carter Page), and the Trump inner circle was unaware.

Trump's actions make more sense if you consider the possibility of more minor crimes committed by the Trump Organization in the casino and real estate business.
> Disagree. There's no false advertising here

I don't see any claims about false advertising. Just complaints about one aspect of the service being very overpriced. Sounds like you consider it worth it for your application, and that's great. But it is simply not priced appropriately for a lot of services, which naturally go elsewhere.

It seems obvious to me that bandwidth is Azon's proxy measure for "utility". Lots of companies do this - Oracle uses core-count as a proxy for the "utility" you get from their software, for example. But like any proxy for a different variable, it is going to be wrong; sometimes a little, sometimes a lot.

And you hardly need to be a "BIG" company to choose something other than cloud hosting. My last two looked at and rejected them. Neither qualify as even medium-sized. Both are extremely cost-aware. Running our own data centers is cost-competitive at my current gig and was much, much cheaper at the last, which was very bandwidth-heavy.
we should compromise and call it ES15, it's the "twenty" in the middle that makes it so awkward
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It's generic good advice but some people need it more than others.

Large companies may be a problem though. The interview process is generic and you probably won't meet your direct manager; you're just evaluating a somewhat random sample of people. But asking to meet them later (before accepting the offer) might work.
I don't think it's unreasonable to use the term to refer to non-physical harm. I'm certainly not equating it to violence.

Are you claiming that fear of ostracizing isn't in the same general category as the without-violence-but-convincing threat of violence? I don't see how you can honestly say they aren't both in the category of severe. (I've personally dealt with both.) There doesn't have to be any equivalence for my objection to stand. The factual, even physiological truth, is that both of these are highly emotionally severe and stressful. Any activism that cares about its moral compass needs to be very wary if it finds it's only accomplishing a doppelganger of its goals through such emotionally severe and threatening means. Something is just if it appeals to people's inner sense of justice. Accepting a facsimile of that because you can make people fearful enough to play along -- something is very wrong here!

But given a limited amount of time and energy with which to change the world, I don't see that as very high on the list of priorities.

The real trick is to be able to really change the world, instead of having it change you into one of the villains. Civilization has started to figure out that violent coercion only leads to destructive cycles. Our culture now needs to also start making the same realization about short-of-violent coercion.
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What happens to someone who lets the taxes build up but needs to sell (medical bills, say)? This screams of unintended consequences where the state taxes a windfall from someone forced to sell.
None of that was ever any fun. I think unless you actually care about the game or system as a physical artifact, emulation's the better way to go.
When we account for cost of,

1) remote hands

2) network switches

3) hardware components you'll need for redundancy, I've personally replaced network cards because fans burned out or HDDs because of usual failure rate.

4) when I'm done using a n1-highcpu-32 I stop using it and not pay for it, or when I need 5 of those for 2 hours I provision them and stop when I'm done running a workload.

5) upgrades to hardware or additional hardware, intel released skylake, should I buy those and try to sell my Haswell on eBay?

I'm not sure it becomes a simple price of server + colo cost comparison.

With GCP (I use daily), AWS (I used to use) or Azure, what I'm paying for is someone else to focus on things like colo leases, capacity expansion, redundancy, physical security and provide higher order services - load balancers, BigTable/BigQuery, CloudSQL/RDS, GKE, DataProc.

This allows me to run all of infra as close to capacity as possible while avoiding any wasted cycles

However I do miss going to data centers and hear my machines hum and blink, that is quite the feeling.
> note that we're moving to boringssl in the upcoming OSes

Could you give more details on these plans?
I am not a woman, a person of colour or of fluid sexuality or identity, so disregard my comment if it so pleases you, but the older I get the more I seem to want the exact things you are looking for. A little formality seems like it might be a wonderful thing and I won't have to pretend I care about the owner's bitching new Tesla. I work in tech currently and tend to dress in shorts and a Tshirt, which is comfortable I grant you. It would be a small price to pay to havw to be overly cordial with only my team members amd not trip over scooters strewn about, if it meant I had to wear a button up and slacks. ... Christ I sound like a curmudgeon, but I do think some general personal bounderies would keep people's socio-political views from peeking out in an inappropriate arena, including my own. It sets a tone.
> The money isn't sitting around doing nothing; in the meantime it's invested in a safe portfolio which attempts to grow it. Imagine a hedge fund for just one LP.

Right... how does that make it any different?

Apple's not a finance company, or at least they weren't until they wound up with so much cash they had no actual present business needs for. If you're a hardware/software company that has so much extra money (billions) that you become your own 'hedge fund' to have something to do with it... yeah, you've got a lot of extra money. How much extra money? More than 500x the annual budget of Mozilla, yup.
there's a sweet spot, obviously if you go too low you're talking about barely autonomous people
Aye. Even ignoring per-project issues, there are so many compounding factors in these language shootouts as well - although I would be interested in seeing one comparing, say, "comparable" JavaScript vs TypeScript projects. But it's hard to nail down all the compounding factors.

Give me a static typing system that requires no effort on my part (e.g. is entirely inferred, negligible build time penalties, etc.) and has zero false positives (e.g. every type error reported by it is an actual bug to fix) and you'll have a very hard time convincing me this could be anything but a good thing, even on the most TDD driven of projects. It's basically a free lunch.

The question then, is not if static typing conceptually is a good thing, but which static typing systems (if any) make satisfactory tradeoffs - and thus are more beneficial than not.

With the rise of larger codebases and hard to exhaustively test things like multithreaded, multiprocess, and multinode code, I only find myself moving more and more towards static analysis (including static typing) on top of dynamic approaches (not just TDD, but various assertions, telemetry, logging, fuzzing, chaos monkeys, etc.)
TV presents an interesting example of quantity versus quality. British networks tend to commission very short compared to American networks. For example, the British version of The Office had a total of 14 episodes, versus 201 episodes for the American version.

Quantity is clearly more directly profitable, but quality seems to be disproportionately influential. British broadcasters have remarkable success in exporting programmes and formats internationally.