skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're a startup and use AWS, and face a competitor that isn't, chance is you're going to be blowing money on infrastructure 2-3 times faster than your competitor. For some companies that won't matter - if e.g. your hosting cost is dwarfed by your development cost - and then it may be worthwhile to pick them.

For others, e.g. if bandwidth is a large part of your cost, picking them will mean your competitors who go with other providers will be able to sell well below your cost and still have a healthy margin.

Avoiding them (and Google Cloud and Azure) is often essential if you want to survive.
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seems to be a bad idea to get domains from strange small countries just because they look cool.
IKEA breathes digital life into dying crafts
Gangnam Style is no longer the most-played video on YouTube
I have been in my day a very heavy user of Windows. What I object to on both Windows and Mac is the whole "store" experience. When my personal computer asks me for a credit card, I find this to be a profoundly uncomfortable experience - whether that's rational or not is a separate question.

So that's why to me it's like Avocado Ice Cream: a choice many people are free to make and enjoy....like the maniacs they are.
Slaves did not build the pyramids: http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-ht...
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> The CLR is quite terrible at small programs, as you're seeing.

Yeah that's a good point, I deliberately chose to do a 'Hello World' app to make it easier to see what the CLR itself was doing, so that there was the bare minimum of non-essential things going on (that would make it harder to see).

But the side-effect is that it does show the CLR in a bad-light, people expect 'Hello World' apps to be a bit 'slimmer'
> Why should he tell you what you should change to get approved? You already said that you had new ideas about how to differentiate your service against Upscribe - why not list these out into a roadmap?

The roadmap suggestion seems like a good idea, but Embedly should tell OP what they'd like to see different because they're the ones who, contrary to previous communications, suddenly have a problem with it, and they should have more respect for the time OP has put into their work. They dismiss it and say they "won't argue" when OP wasn't being remotely argumentative. They say "please submit when you are out of MVP stage" -- what does that even mean, please come back to sell your product, which is tailored to our platform, after you've left the stage that requires making sales?

> At the moment, you're claiming that 'novelty' is the choice of consumers to choose a different product. That's not novelty, that's competition.

They do not make this claim. I think if you read it again carefully, you'll see that they don't.

> ...if you truly believed in what you were doing, then you would put this time in upfront on the product on the speculation that it would be so good, they could not turn you down.

A.) Should every product and company be a grand vision that you "really believe in?" What's wrong with making something that you think is useful and that people will buy and that you'd enjoy building, but which is certainly not going to change the world? What if you can't build your grand vision right now because you lack the skills, funding, and experience -- tough luck, you don't get to try and fail to launch a lemonade stand, you have to mangle an idea you actually care about instead?

B.) Of course they could still turn him down. That is the point. OP wasn't willing to gamble more than an MVP on the whims and wishes of this company.

And clearly, OP had good reason to be conservative.
I lost inches around waist after following this program
Setup a Redis Pub/Sub System in Node.js to Make Communication Between Servers
They've had App Engine for many years. They're the pioneers in this field, if anything.
A strange thing to downvote, considering that the UK government has basically promised exactly this sort of measure.
That may be true, but the only reason they're not increasing their prices is that their prices are insanely high to begin with. E.g. their bandwidth prices are about 40 times as high as what I'd pay if I ever reach the included cap for my servers.
SQL for Data Analysis – Tutorial for Beginners – Ep5 (SQL JOIN)
I'm 100% certain it's obvious Reddit works like this. You're playerhating.
The have periodically been discussions about "opening up" in China. Fore-instance the party where split in the decision to crack down on the Falun Gong movement who also included many party members. Likewise were there some opposition to the violent crack down on Tiananmen square. Hardliners seems to win.
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This community should invest in trampolines because it enjoys jumping so much - especially to conclusions. All of the accusations about the board, its reactions and its alleged coverups are based entirely on hearsay. The victim of the allegations has not come forward publicly to say any of these things about the case or the board. Instead, she went to the board to follow due process and bring justice to her and other women who may have gone through the same. If she entrusted the board, rather than the tabloids or even the police, why don’t we do give them the same chance?

Does no-one understand that the board is in the tricky position of also having to fight of rumours while simultaneously protecting her identity, her case? And why don’t we realise that a man’s life, family and career is at stake. The allegations need to be taken seriously and investigated seriously. If it was an open-and-close case, they probably would have already fired him on the grounds of sexual harassment. But maybe, just maaaaaybe, there are nuances and subtleties to the case that “tech-moron” and we are not privy to! Sorry that you might have to exercise some patience if a man’s life indeed deserves to be crumbled!

There is so much misdirected bullshit being thrown around. As a woman who has gone through the painful process of accusing a man of sexual harassment, I heard about this incident and thought, poor lady, whoever she is. Her case being spoken about like this, speculations being made about her allegations. Can we, if not for the sake of due process and fairness, at least hold our wagging tongues for her sake?

Assuming her allegations are true, if we are sincere in supporting her and women like her, then the real enemy here is sexual harassment in the workplace; the real enemy is the predator at Ushahidi who did this. Our allies in this case are the board who can hold him responsible, make an example of him. The board of Ushahidi is who we should be showing support to as they navigate this delicate process and investigate these serious accusations. Again, remember that the victim in this case entrusted them, so we should too. Until she comes forward and says they are victim blaming, victim shaming, covering up or doing anything untowards the process, again - hold your wagging tongues.

To start from the position of holding them as the enemy and assuming their evil intentions is a reflection of some personal vendettas in this tech-startup-Ke-entrepreneur community, not a reflection of what any of the Ushahidi board members have stood for - do you know any of them personally? The 3 that I know: Erik and Kobia have daughters and not once have I even heard a vulgar word come out of their mouths towards, let alone towards women, neither could I imagine it; Juliana Rotich has been such an exemplary ambassador of African women in the tech space. These are people of integrity who have worked hard to build this community and are probably losing sleep over the thought of something so horrible happening under their noses. Stop and remind yourself that this case is about the victim(s) and perpetrator(s) of sexual harassment, not about Phares, Angani, Ory or Erik.
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When I started that post I used the DEBUG build because I (mistakenly) thought that was the only was to get the pdb symbols, but I was wrong about that.

I think that I'll update the post with RELEASE mode screenshots, because having DEBUG ones just confuses things. Very few people (no-one?) will be running a DEBUG version of the CLR in real-world situations, so it's a bit confusing to use it.
ccTLDs are loosers? Not according to their increasing registration figures.
Not peeved at all. Actually I find the persnickety language-lawyering far more irksome.

It is even specifically incorrect to claim that AWS lambda functions always run on servers; they have at least three distinct execution environments, one of which is IoT devices via AWS Greengrass another being inside the Cloudfront CDN. It's also a stretch to suggest that the primary execution environment for AWS Lambda is a server device; that is not AFAIK specified anywhere.

So, although the term itself may annoy you, the counter-claim that "it must be servers" is a demonstrably false assumption.
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Hello. We are Winkler. We believe facilitating trusted health information to patients AND healthcare providers help to have meaningful dialog. Connecting individuals will improve the quality of life for people. We want to help society by enabling those involved in healthcare to work together effortlessly. Thus, we aspire to empower healthcare institutions in realizing true patient centered care. By building bridges. By connecting the dots. And by working together. That’s why we’ve created Winq. Winq is an online platform that empowers healthcare experts. From patients to healthcare providers: everyone has their share in the decision making process when discussion treatment options. Winq helps patients and healthcare providers thrive by starting conversations. Enabling them to make the right decision, together.

See job page; https://angel.co/winklercompany/jobs

Contact; r.debruine@winklercompany.org

http://www.winklercompany.org/
I wanted lambda for a bulk data processing task that would have been a nice use of it, but the 5 minute max on a process wasn't going to work for my use case. Maybe someday I'll find a use for it
a feature, that saved my ass after i forgot my phone in the rain (yeah, not smart).

I'm torn between the insecurity of the cloud and being thankful that all accounts could be restored with ease.
Computing whether a pixel is filled requires computing its winding number, which depends on every path before it on the scanline. This is not a problem for a sequential algorithm, since you compute winding numbers as you go, but it is a problem if you want to fill every pixel in parallel.
A mesh network can be wireless ;-)
I don't understand these comments, you have no idea what F* provides for this project to work, but yet you can somehow perceive that rust would be a good language for this project. Really?
Windows has built on the premise of multi-threading and a filesystem with rich semantics, not as yet another UNIX clone.
25 years windows here. I suspect it is some variety of Stockholm syndrome or the fact that several years of "problem attrition" as I call it numbs you to the fact that it isn't a routine thing facing weird issues every day. These are accepted as the norm in windows development teams.

The hilarious thing is the occasional thing I get which is "what do you mean it only too ten minutes?" because people are trained to think that certain things take at least a day and then subconsciously avoid doing them because they don't want to have to explain where that time is going.

I'm going to write a book on this one day.

As for Linux issues, the ONLY issue I've had this year so far is duplicity consuming too much RAM and crashing on a filesystem with tens of thousands of inodes used. This was a relatively easy fix as well. A two line python change. I haven't submitted it yet as a patch because they patched it upstream already when someone else fixed it. Just waiting for it to trickle down to the vendor's repos.
From kaftans to Kubernetes – how open source took over the world
I have a surface pro 4 but no account or cc info. I deactivated most of that stuff.

WSL is cool, but frankly the built in hypervisor is better.
Amazon AI Designed to Create Phone Cases Goes Hilariously Wrong
Linux on mac will always have shorter battery live. That's mostly because of Apple proprietary code required for power management.
Programming won't be automated, or it already has been
Introducing npx: an npm package runner – Kat Marchán – Medium
Circa 2009, there was a blog that detailed the lie that Ushahidi is. I don't know where it disappeared to. One brave victim has decided to break the silence. The hypocrisy of Ushahidi is that the victim is being shamed and silenced at all costs by an organization that receives funding to champion the truth.
I wonder what the route is in the brain? This is similar to the claims we hear about MCT oil.
I just spent the last 6 weeks in Beijing and Shanghai (currently in Shanghai) and I have run into several places that don't even accept cash anymore, and only accept WeChat Pay or Alipay.
I downvoted your initial post because, even if I don't think information restriction is right, I don't think it's on the same moral level as slavery.

And additionally, modern archeologists don't believe the workers constructing the pyramids were slaves as such. They were citizens working for the state. In some theories, the arrangement is arguably a form of slavery, but I think we'd usually call the arrangement serfdom, and consider it differently in a historical context.

And I downvoted your subsequent posts because I always downvote people complaining about downvotes. It's offtopic, and usually pointless.
Writing something is like writing something. what an insight.
I can saturate my 100Mb/s internet connection on Wifi so you'd be missing out on 2/3 of the speed there. It's useful for backups to be able to do even more than that as the local network is even faster. But you can probably get away with just ~30Mbps for most uses.
> there is nothing especially performant about D3D11.

Not in D3D11 itself, but due to it being the prevalent API, drivers are optimized for it. See https://medium.com/layerth/benchmarks-dota-2-streaming-feat-... for example.

> FYI, "bytecode shaders" have nothing to do with shader performance. They have some impact on initial parse time, but little else.

You're right, it shouldn't make that much of a difference, but I think driver/compiler optimizations for HLSL (and lack thereof for GLSL) is one of the reasons, games are faster on Windows using the AMD driver than Mesa. It also plays a role that most ports are using HLSL to GLSL translators.

There definitely are cases where the open source driver outperforms the proprietary Linux driver. But I haven't seen a case where a game runs faster on Linux than on Windows with AMD hardware.
When it will come down to the last 1000 people on this planet, 400 will be arguing about whether or not humans really have a bad impact on this planet; 50 will be trying to lord it over the rest, using another gullible 150 as muscle; 200 will be looking for ways to turn a profit out of the situation; and the rest will weeping somewhere in a corner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
Note that the title does not state that genetic code does not predict anything useful. Rather that zipcode is a significantly bigger factor, dwarfing variance seen by genetic code alone.

I have no idea if that is true, but that is one way of reading the title without disregarding all the work done with genetics.
These were already the promises of "the Cloud" until everyone started calling their Raspberry Pis at home a "cloud".

Now the same thing has got another stupid name: Serverless. I wonder what the same stuff will be called two years from now.
> Trump's 100 day ultimatum to China regarding trade deficit

What is this ultimatum and why would China actually care or do anything about it?
It certainly doesn't have a very good filesystem though. NTFS is horrible on lots of small files due to MFT contention. Even arguing with fstool for a bit doesn't improve it. Check out 50k files on Linux/OSX: 2 mins.. check out 50k files on windows ... 14 mins.

And that's both SSD backed.
Many people at Cloudflare (including myself, Matthew, Justin and others) monitor Twitter, HN and other forums carefully and reply quickly to folks.

Personally, I run a script that emails me for every HN comment that mentions Cloudflare and use Tweetdeck to monitor @cloudflare/cloudflare mentions.
Yes, i expected it to be something akin to a peer 2 peer client, where one user hosts it for another.
Stopped reading when AWS showed up.
I think the latter would be prohibitively expensive. Like, $2000.
isn't sequencing genomes expensive though? what if they could have 90% of predictive power for the price of a filled out zipcode instead of requiring everybody to do lab tests?
Build an OctaPi [cluster of 8 Raspberry Pis]
PSA: filesystem performance in WSL isn't great, but it's absolutely fantastic under windows' hyperv hypervisor.

As a dev env I run CentOS on hyperv and putty into it, and map the drive with dokan+winsshfs, and it's just as performant as Linux/Mac on the same hardware
So, what do you expect a successful PR firm to do?
* Conditions were clear. The pilot landing would likely have seen the aircraft on the ground in plenty of time to go around.

* Conditions were clear. The pilot landing would have an increasing probability of noticing their mistake from lights on the runway and taxiway as they got closer to landing.

* After being alerted that the pilot landing could see lights on what they thought was the runway, the ATC would likely have paid closer attention to the various tools available to them to see the location and heading of the aircraft.

And finally, the one factor that happened to be the first of these to happen:

* Multiple pilots looking directly toward the oncoming aircraft, one of whom alerted ATC.

Just because this happened first doesn't mean the other things failed or wouldn't have happened.
So what we need is a VPN that looks like https traffic or is https forbidden in China too? Is anyone working on this?

After a quick read it's apparent that even the most sophisticated defences are going to be open to the one endpoint having loads of data against it. It would need lots of different "real" IP connections and my guess peer to peer would be difficult too.

Statistics and machine learning will always be good enough to evade attempts I can think of here.
It's really not. I suggest you sit down over the next couple of weeks of your life and tot up the time spend on trivial issues that shouldn't exist. That Visual Studio hang or crash that kills your entire debug rig that took you an hour to get a test case up for, that windows update notification that pops up, that windows defender notification that tells you it has nothing to report, that hour wondering why outlook has suddenly stopped talking to exchange etc.
> * The debug DLLs of coreclr.dll and clrjit.dll are 4x bigger than the release DLLs.
> * The debug versions allocate more at runtime.

Yeah, that's a good point. I'm going to update the post with RELEASE mode values, so that it's a better representation of a real app.

> On my computer I'm seeing something like 98MB commited, 8MB private, and 14MB working set. The committed number is not useful, as it a lot of DLLs get loaded in that only have a few functions in them called. The most charitable metric would be private work setting, which is 4MB.

The more I dug into this, the more I came to the conclusion that there is no one number that reflects the memory usage of an application, as you say, you almost always need to look at several values.

It's a good job VMMap exists as it makes it really easy to see the different values, I especially like that it detects the GC Heap as a separate category.
WiFi can do without a wire where it matters.

A server cannot do anything without being a server.
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Yeah I recently read about thermodynamics and understand it needs a way to push heat away otherwise the gradient will lower.

I also read about people plugging water circuit on top to tranfer heat into a hot water container, it's probably useful for a hot shower..
FWIW, I have been able to access imap.googlemail.com from all Chinese networks I have tried so far. However, the first few times, Google blocked the attempt and I had to use a VPN to log into my Google account and whitelist the access.

This highlights another issue that makes internet access in China inconvenient: Many websites flag Chinese IP addresses by default, presumably because they couldn't handle the spam otherwise.
Because server has become a synonym for "Ubuntu pet machine that developers SSH into to paste random commands from Stack Overflow". People who do that are the target audience of "serverless".
Recursive Thinking
"The 3 that I know: Erik and Kobia have daughters and not once have I even heard a vulgar word come out of their mouths towards, let alone towards women, neither could I imagine it;"

Fallacy of Fallacies. Just because they have daughters or are married to "Women" or don't swear means what, that they have automatically done the right thing? Let them do the right thing now and fire the sex pest.
Do you know that nice little HN poster child, AirBnB? They bootstrapped themselves using exactly the same strategy, with Craigslist in lieu of Reddit (they also used to call it "hustling"). You might now boycott them, too.
> The biggest battle I have is with operations teams who require that you don't have administrative privileges on windows dev machines.

Fortunately I do not have this battle. But if I did, I would simply tell operations boss that unless my developers get admin access in their dev environment, they have to have staff dedicated to my team, ready 24/7/365 to serve them. Weekends, holidays, christmas - all the time, no exceptions.
> api gateway typically does not introduce latencies

I haven't checked my function thoroughly yet, but I think API gateway introduce quite a bit of latency (at least in my case). My maximum invocation time is 600ms, according to AWS Lambda monitoring tool, but network request takes around 1s (checked in chrome dev tools).

Also, worht noting is that my code is hosted in the us-east region and I'm based in Europe. I'm not sure how much latency this introduce.
Why, go straight to the New York Times, and push their BS articles and interviews through them, like every respectable PR company does!