skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
13MP front and rear camera Samsung Galaxy on Max launched
Ok. Let me try again:

> You can get a box with 48TB RAM

Not with AWS. If you don't have AWS as a requirement, go for it.

> i3.16xlarge

An i3.16xlarge still won't hold a 20TB dataset in memory. You are going to see more variance in latency if you have a working dataset too big to fit into memory.

As far as getting superior performance out of an i3.16xlarge, that's fine if you have the expertise and resources to run PG yourself. However you're going to need replication, which will increase that cost. You're going to need failover mechanisms, backup, etc.

We have preferred RDS for Postgres because it gives us something operationally simple. We've found DynamoDB to be even simpler operationally and have more predictable performance. We have frequently considered running a self managed PG instance and have decided against it for our use case.
"AP's robot journalists are writing their own stories now"

https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7939067/ap-journalism-aut...
HN, Recode, TheVerge, Pinterest, SBNation, ESPN.

I guess I like sports? :)
> There are no major non-renewable incumbents left in SA.

AGL operates 8.562 gigawatts of fossil fuel (coal / gas) power plants, and 2.33 gigawatt renewables (hydro / wind / solar).[1]

The 1.28 gigawatt gas fired Torrens Island Power Station in Adelaide is the largest power station in South Australia.[2]

South Australia has 16 operating wind farms with a total installed capacity of about 1.473 gigawatt.[3]

It definitely looking like we'll see, in our lifetimes, a future where wind + storage provides a significant majority of electricity in South Australia. My argument is there's no way this future will also provider cheaper electricity.

Why charge less when you can make people pay more?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGL_Energy#Operations_and_sign...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrens_Island_Power_Station

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_farms_in_South_Au...
How Hackers Steal Your Data (and How to Make It Harder for Them)
Communicate w customers.
If we remembered there was more to the "web" than HTTP, this would be a thing.

I remember Tim had a diagram that showed "links" between all different systems, all addressable by URI/URL.
The term "gambiarra" should always come with its related "bambo", which means floppy, or not solid enough.
On a recent Delta flight the seat back screens were malfunctioning and had to be rebooted several times. The boot was a standard Linux text mode sequence. Debian, iirc. It would get stuck before the graphical interface loaded.
How about generating the html on site (without even signing in), so they could copy it over to their site then? That will mean they will have to come back to the site to generate new html (similar to wufoo). Maybe the paid feature could be creating a paid account to not reenter the data each time. I can't reveal too much regarding the actual widget but I believe is something many businesses will need.
Two things that I always advise new managers when I promote them or hire them.

First, (for new managers) managing people is a completely different skill set from engineering, expect to suck at it when you start and let go of your hard won pride that you developed becoming an awesome software engineer.

One of the "failure" modes of new managers is that they are so uncomfortable doing these new things, and so comfortable in the software engineering role that they find excuses to write code and do development which makes the team wonder why the 'boss' is trying to do their job, and it takes your eye off actual things you should be looking out for and fixing (like team mates getting conflicted, people who are having trouble but not asking for help, etc.)

Second, your success is entirely in your team's hands. It is their ability to do the work and make the deliverable and their production that shows you that you are doing a good job. This is so challenging for people who are used to being on the development team and measuring their success by comparing their "production" to that of the team. Now "they" haven't accomplished anything, but the folks writing code, they built all sorts of cool things to brag about.

So understanding that your success is tied to keeping your team understanding where they need to be, and knocking down any roadblocks in their way, is critical. It's also a different way of thinking for a lot of developers.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14726259 and marked it off-topic.
Class and wealth pretending to be worthy of merit.
So what you need to know is that you are going to be joining a club - i.e the managers at the company.

You have to focus on fit more than anything else.

The first time you do it - its weird - very weird. All your previous ideas of work and work culture will be obfuscated. You'll realize that managers are a class onto their own.

To figure out fit, you mostly need to be able to read someone in about the first minute of meeting them. What do they value? What do they distrust? What will make them feel comfortable with you?

Older managers - probably want to know that you'll do what you're told, keep engineers in line and accept their management philosophy without question.

Newer age managers - you're very flexible and you'll take on a lot of work and you'll be part of the culture and that you worship at their altar - scrum, team velocities, standups and the rest of it.

Most important point: Do not criticize or point out large flaws in their system or process or thinking. (I've done this and have always lost out on the offer.) Focus on fit more that pointing out their errors.

At a low level like yours its probably best focus on showing that you've done a lot of thikning about the regular manager duties and to be as authentic as possible. This leaves to chance of whether they work in the same way but since its your fist time you probably don't have time to prepare anything else.

Welcome to the club!
The article stops just short of implying a causal connection between what school you go to and whether you're going to "found a unicorn" but come on! Maybe, just maybe, could it be that this deserves a little deeper look? Perhaps people who have the opportunity to go to one of these top schools have that opportunity because of some other structural advantage that also provides them the opportunity to found a unicorn? Like, maybe, I dunno, existing family wealth and connections? Just a wild guess with no research into it...
Modern compiler implementation in ML and Engineering a compiler are the two best all round books I've seen.
The former also contains so useful information (not much, but useful) about implementation the runtime (e.g. Intro to garbage collection)

Personally, I only find the backend (Optimization) interesting: Steven Muchnick's Advanced compiler design and implementation, is the only book that I know of that is mainly focused on optimization. It is literally a encyclopedia of optimizations.
http://thesunmagazine.org/
Adams - killed three

Aguayo - killed one, tried to kill another

Alcala - unknown, eight known

Aldana - killed one

None of these are "a criminal with dozens of murders". When you said that, you were mocking the efforts of people trying to stop capital punishment. In truth, most people asking governors for stays of execution are not 'fixated on the tragedy of the criminal over the dozens they killed', because a) none of these criminals did that; and b) it's a false dichotomy to say that they're not concerned about the victims. Basically, you're strawmanning in order to make your point emotively rather than with reasoned arguments.
Trespassing is illegal. I don't think that's what the judge ruled on. If someone trespasses, they should be penalized for trespassing.

Ag-gag laws are usually pretty different - they basically constitute prior constraint of free speech.
at least part of what i was getting at is that this statement is true not only for English, but also for French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.

while it's less true for Russian, it's true to some extent because Russian and greek share many roots, especially for technical language, and loan-words are prominent features of the language.
No True Scotsman...

I like the drawings. Cute, positive and informative.

Superficial way to judge the content, too.
> At the very least you should consider the possibility that your theories on economics are not right, [...]

Of course always consider the possibility that my hypothesis to might be wrong. But I thank you for that advise and will keep it it mind.

> [..] and that forcibly redistributing huge amounts of privately owned income and savings in order to spur hyper-consumerism may cause severe negative unintended consequences.

I think you misunderstand the premise of UBI. UBI is not intended to allow for hyper-consumerism. It's purpose is to guarantee a basic standard of living.

> With the exception of oil-rich Norway, Scandinavian countries have been economically stagnant since they adopted large-scale welfare programs in the late 1960s.

What makes you think that the Scandinavian countries have been economically stagnant?

> Just like the US and other advanced economies that shifted massively to the social democratic economic model [...]

I really don't see the US as an example of a massive shift to a social democratic model. The USA has no socialized health care, has no socialized retirement scheme, very limited public education, no socialized child care and certainly no socialized care for the elderly. I could go on, but really; the U.S. of A. is no social democracy.

And yes; wages in the US have stagnated as well!

> and have seen more market oriented economies close the massive gap that used to exist between them and Scandinavian countries in life expectancy, quality of life, per capita wealth and per capita income.

If we consider the U.S. as an example of a more market-oriented economy, I don't see them closing that gap. Be it health care, life expectancy, median standard of living, quality of life or gross national happiness - the U.S. of A. seriously lags in all these areas.

Happy to hear your thoughts!
Why do Android Phones slow down over time? And how to fix it?
Your own attitude towards life or criminals is not something worth considering when seriously pondering this question.

Society is a collection of individuals; everyone has different opinions and feelings on almost anything: at least when we discuss such sensible matters, we should rationalize our arguments, stripping any trace of subjectivity.

> I don't understand the great value placed on human life.

Coming to the case, you may not value your life very much, but we can't say the same for the criminal who is facing a death sentence.
Personally, I don't feel empathy for some criminals who consciously perpetrated atrocious crimes; I literally fail to care for them. Nevertheless, I can objectively understand that in a civilized country any human must be granted some undeniable rights.

> I see no reason not to put down humans who have malfunctioned.

Humans do not malfunction. Humans err, whether deliberately or not. They must have the right to redeem themselves. And even if they refused to, putting them to death would still be a miserable solution: it wouldn't mitigate the crime, nor would provide justice -- and I mean justice, not revenge. Indeed, it would be itself a crime.

Edit: typos and form
Any recommendations for a Lisp IDE outside of Emacs?

Also, aren't there any other OSS or free Lisp IDEs outside of Emacs? Or are they all crap?
> the original logic seems to have been lost

I don't know, Google reader is still not up. What logic is lost?

> Hangouts wasn't discontinued

It is abandoned, which is worse than dicontinued. No new features, some features have been removed. Apparently it's "enterprise" focused now.

> GTalk is basically Hangouts, with with improvements

Wrong. Read up about this tiny thing called federation. Hangouts is a small, walled-garden subset of gtalk. And even hangouts is deprecated now (at least for consumers). Now if you're a consumer and want to use a google service for chat, you have allo. Allo is a dumbed down subset of hangouts. No multi-device support, no web app, no voice, no sms integration, no video. It has stickers though. Guess some people are fine with that. I'm not.
Serendipity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity
What is it? There's no explanation of what it is in the website, although there is a whitepaper, documentation, a tutorial and a description of the protocol.

From the whitepaper Abstract:

"A peer-to-peer cloud storage network implementing client-side encryption would allow users to transfer and share data without reliance on a third party storage provider. The removal of central controls would mitigate most traditional data failures and outages, as well as significantly increase security, privacy, and data control. Peer-to-peer networks are generally unfeasible for production storage systems, as data availability is a function of popularity, rather than utility. We propose a solution in the form of a challenge-response verification system coupled with direct payments. In this way we can periodically check data integrity, and offer rewards to peers maintaining data. We further propose that in order to secure such a system, participants must have complete anonymity in regard to both communication and payments."
If you'd like to learn system administration, visit http://www.sabok.org and http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/training-program-to-make-a-...

As for the tools you mention see https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/linux-performance-analys...
Sorry that probably sounded confusing - I was being pedantic in my description. In the article I explain that I want private areas on my desktop for watching chat and alert activity hence the crop of my desktop :)
Hold up: this is a rule that is a few months old and has never actually been implemented.

Trump does not want to implement it.

So it changes absolutely nothing except a counterfactual future in which it helps create more jobs.

I don't think it's a good idea to not implement it - it would allow an additional 2,940 entrepreneurs into the US each year - but important to note it changes no existing policy.
Hah, it's usually a power outlet that I plug my USB adapter into.
> Just resist naming anything an 'entity'. ;)

Unless, of course, it has semantic meaning in your domain, such as when creating an Entity Component System.
Maybe if you don't want any good employees
Definitely truth here. My son's high school has an average ACT of 25. He was homeschooled thru 7th grade, and he scored a 34 composite at the beginning of his junior year... and I know it is more to due with his homeschooling and fundamentals learned through it than his high school teachers.
What are people using Ethereum for though.

Outside of trading it between each other based on price speculation, is there a real world thing that isn't a prototype that people are using as part of the smart contract system?
>After normalizing the data, MIT produces 1 unicorn per 1,200 yearly enrolled student, while UoC produces 1 unicorn per 13,900 yearly enrolled student. By this list, MIT students are 10x more likely to found a unicorn compared to UoC students but are ranked lower in this list.

For this to be a fair criticism you would have to look only at the respective Colleges of Engineering for each UC, rather than the undergrad aggregate. MIT is a STEM focused university, with a far narrower list of majors than UC. Naturally that would lead to higher rates overall.
The Lisp Works page is kind of cute, but in bad way as far as marketing goes, at least in my opinion.

The IDE screenshots for Windows show off Windows XP.
Pretty much everyone I know that does lisp uses Emacs + SLIME.
Somewhat related: why every project out there that wants to appear as serious has to publish a "whitepaper", which is basically any gibberish you want in a PDF format?

(Not saying ORC is gibberish at all, but I do have seem the most simple and stupid ideas written in tech projects whitepapers over the last years.)

Why can't a project write all it wants in HTML pages, with links, clickable topics, separated pages, images, code snippets, examples etc., everything that could make it better to read and understand?
I'm reading "Magic Realized", poetry on life and love and the joys and (occasionally) horrors thereof. https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Realized-Other-Poems-Spirit/dp/... (My Amazon review: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2RYIB3JA891TW/ref=cm_cr_rdp_p...)
I'm talking about the "preview" usually at the bottom left of the browser when you hover a link. By using a Javascript event handler on the link you can override what happens.

Google does that for instance, if you hover on top of a search result it'll look like a direct like to the website, however if you look at the HTML source it looks something like this:

<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/test" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','2','AFQjCNHdfeYp_b4PzYbkDh9qequUqhrOQw','','0ahUKEwjmkPK0qfrUAhVD2hoKHSc9DG0QFggwMAE','','',event)">test - Wiktionary</a>

So even though the href goes to wikipedia in this case if I click the link the browser goes to a google page that then redirects me.

You can see the real URL by right-clicking on the link and then hovering again, it causes the "onmousedown" code to run and replace the href by the real value.

Duckduckgo uses a "click" event handler instead. As far as I can't tell Bing doesn't do anything and directly links the target website, which is odd. I may be missing something.
Film short about Von Neumann and the first computer at Princeton (1966)
Technically, these problems also exist with cloud providers, but we more or less trust them because of their reputation.

Perhaps a digitally signed NDA could be verified by a smart contract? Then, to prove the NDA was breached, a quick court case (standardized NDA) leads to a published ruling that the digital contract can check.

Combine the clear guidelines of a standard NDA with a proper court adjudicating the more complex disputes, and you have the foundation for a strong reputation system for Eth-cloud services. Is reputation already a thing in the Ethereum network?
The answer is they don't fit well together. `perf-tools` is probably the most complete tool when it comes to number of performance counters, which be aggregated. However it is not well composable or extensible - so you have to use it as it is. I also find the code hard to read. `bcc` and `lttng` try to make things by creating a more usable API. They partially reuse the kernel part of `perf` (aka `perf_events`) and also add their own kernel modules to provide new functionality.
As discussed previously [1], this is good given how unattractive the visa rules were in the first place :

> From the article:

> "To qualify for the rule, entrepreneurs would have to meet high standards. A foreigner must demonstrate that he or she will contribute to economic growth or job creation and show that a reputable investor has put at least $250,000 into the company. Under this rule, they can stay in the U.S. for 30 months, with the possibility of a 30-month extension. They cannot apply for a green card during this period."

> This sounds like a pretty lame visa. How are you supposed to build a startup if you only have 30 months to do so? Why would investors risk $250k if the founder may be deported in 30 months? What happens after the extension period?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14606478
http://www.ted.com. It's pretty hit and miss, but I've gotten a ton of inspiration and knowledge from this website since 2008.
Presumably you have seen those vacuum things that pump the mulch out?
They do all the motorway berms with them here. Take care you don't go too thick with the mulch as it burns very well and when fresh gets very hot. It's midwinter here and the inside of a pile was too hot to comfortably touch last week.
What it was like to be a telephone operator (1979)
They also likely acquire a lot of amazing connections at those schools.
Ask HN: Name good examples of Modern C++ usage
Hi folks,

I'm basically looking into making the transition from a C++98 world into what is supposed to be Modern C++.

Since that is a rather opinionated field I'd love to see a few real world examples. Shoot links to your favourite Open Source project :-)
I guess I'm not worth my salt.
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This seems likely to me. Apparently the office staff and HR teams are down to 1 person each. Previously it was about 10-15 people.
I often find the stoic approach ("don't have external expectations") as one, which makes me less stressed and able to make better decisions. On the other hand I try to aim high and achieve more. So it's basically this subtle tension between both, what works best for me. Choosing only one option probably would make me either lazy and stagnating, or stressed and miserable.
yes. sometimes i wonder... is the magnitude of the suffering that refugees are trying to escape so great that its just lost on people? its impossible to relate to for some people like me. the fact that i was shaken by watching these war videos is evidence of this, perhaps. so maybe some of us just dont empathize at all because the truth is too painful. then its easier to say there will be lots of problems so lets just not bother. i guess its incumbent on all of us to remind each other what i think the truth is.
Crucial Q for new programmers: do you feel invited in?
Oh yeah I see that now. I was thinking that was all done in the scene devoted to privacy but that makes sense. Thanks!
That is true, bare minimum you'd need to translate the stdlib, and at that point you're translating identifiers, which means you might as well go for translating everything as shown in the Excel example.
In addition, the agency is expected to start the formal process to eliminate the rule. A USCIS spokesperson said the rule is "under review."
You’re overdoing it a tad, but let’s just imagine you had a number of that “evil person”. Why would you call him/her and tell he/she did all that? Wouldn’t it be pointless?

Seriously though, I’m not saying I have all the answers but let me ask a simple question. Why would the country with the biggest military industrial complex in the world be involved in the regions all over the world, especially on the other half of the planet? You don’t see soldiers from Bashkiria hanging out in your yard.
Interesting, does anyone know how this is related to storj.io?
Please, it would be great if you could hook me up with one!

Email: filip.miletic at me.com
GMR-2 issues allow #satellite communications decryption in near real-time
vim + slimv is a pretty good combo, if you're used to vim. Also, although it won't give you the "full lisp experience", using something like parinfer or paredit in Atom will make editing lisp more pleasant.
Thanks for the guidance, I'll take a look.
Portuguese guy here.

The 'desenrascanço' culture in Portugal has two sides to it, because on one hand people do appreciate the art of finding quick hacks on the fly ('desenrasques'), but on the other it just overlooks thorough planning and design.
If people are interested in listening to signals I'd recommend checking out the ELF to VLF bands. You can, in most cases, build a receiver that operates directly on your system's sound card. These lower frequencies largely present an antenna building challenge but there's lots of interesting things down at those frequencies. Submarines, hams, and space weather.

The HF to EHF bands are fun but the lower frequencies, which are mostly ignored, are just as much of a gold mine for fun projects.
It is absolutely not the case that Europe has less problems with racism than the United States. Racism is a very real problem throughout pretty much all of Europe.