skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We wrote about how we analyzed our AWS usage https://segment.com/blog/spotting-a-million-dollars-in-your-..., and then some of optimizations we made to cut down costs https://segment.com/blog/the-million-dollar-eng-problem/.
Furthering the other replies, manufacturing is hard.
In a similar vein to the way software devs roll their eyes when a client says: "..It's just a tiny change, it won't take any time", there are so many hidden gotchyas when you're working with physical products.

If you're randomly picking a factory off Alibaba and thinking you've got it nailed, you're very, very wrong.

Furthermore, when you're making physical products, there's no undo button. Some errors cannot be corrected. Didn't plan your mold perfectly?
Oops, the 10k USD and one month that you sunk into your mold .. gone.

Don't have someone on the ground that actually cares about you and your product? You're going to get screwed, even 'unintentionally' - the factory probably won't care that this batch of plastic is grey, not black, but your customers will..

Over the years, I've worked on delivering dozens of physical products projects in China. The biggest rule to learn is ego: when to apply it, and when not to apply it. (And typically, you should very rarely apply it..)
Is less gravity the only difference in being on earth and being on the ISS?
You find ideas by digging for them in the dirt. This observation might be a little more focused towards programmers, however.

Explore spaces where change is rapidly occurring, and build things with those technologies/platforms/markets. You'll encounter problems along the way, be they legal, technical, distribution, etc. Some of those problems will be experienced by others and so you may stumble across a viable market. But you'll only know that by walking down those paths, rather than gazing from afar.
That'd be fine if I could do the trades my banker does for me, but I can't. I know this isn't a problem most people have, but this advice is unimplementable without costing me real money (I'm sure he would advocate lowering the cost basis, although strangely he doesn't say much about that).
Slack is using 282 MB on my system currently [0]. I am only connected to two servers though. I don't consider 282 MB to be awful although it is a lot more than Discord which is only using 100 MB while connected to six servers.

[0]https://i.imgur.com/KiPpaAZ.png
Oh my, if it is valid to compare crypto forks to biological evolution, then I'm left to wonder how awesome humans would have been today if all the great forks didnt get killed off by lousy first-network effects.
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There's a lot of money to be made and it hasn't backfired on them at least yet, they are still dominating online retail and still growing, to my knowledge.

Average Joe on the street doesn't know Amazon has a counterfeit problem or even that third party sellers exist, they just press "buy" without thinking much about it. I know because I talk to Average Joes all the time about it and everyone I've talked to so far is surprised. They are surprised it possible to get counterfeits on Amazon and they are surprised I have the ability to sell on Amazon. So I guess customer education is an issue?

I think their long term plan is to stop selling themselves and turn into a logistic company.
Are you looking for an idea or a “sexy” idea?

You could build an Ecommerce and sell stuff. Spend a few grands on some products and see which one converts the best. Or create the landing of some of your ideas and see if people will leave their info by buying some advertising on Facebook/Google.

A crowded market doesn’t necessarily mean that you have no chance. The key here is positioning your product to make it look different. If you have cash to spend you can actually test a lot of “boring” ideas by differentiating them (e.g. another to-do app that does X or is made for Y).

Even better, which problems do you face daily?
Or more simple way from china

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I use AWS and online.net. I use the latter for 8 core bare metal servers that cost me 16euro a month. AWS for the rest (at work)

We need a couple of things:

1. A nice easy way to distribute load through cheap bare metal providers with peak load taken by cloud. Kubernetes is nearly there.

2. Somebody to build a LCD display that sits in the office and shows the projected cost for cloud deployment at current usage. It's so easy to throw up a 40 node cluster and not think about the cost - especially where I currently work, a government funded project, where the taxpayer will pony up.
Check the specs. It's AMOLED vs OLED. Also check the ppi, brightness etc. It was so embarrassing to watch the keynote when Phil was explaining that it took longer to upgrade to OLED because they had to perfect the technology. I guess that's why they haven't upgrade Mac Pro line for so long either...same with Mac Mini and 4K on Apple TV..they are perfecting it... The truth is that the old LCD was cheaper and now after they upgraded to OLED they bumped the price as well.
OK, so if it's P2P, wouldn't it actually make the plugin users liable for making copyrighted content available (in contrast to simply downloading the stream)?
> If I go to Bob's website while logged in with a VPN, and Bob wants to find me, he first sees that he's getting tons of hits from this IP because thousands of users are sharing this same VPN. So then he uses some kind of fingerprint to figure out my unique user sessions.

Every TCP connection is uniquely represented by (src ip, src port, dst ip, dst port). Bob can provide all four of these, and a timestamp, to the VPN provider. The VPN provider can then resolve that to a specific user if they are logging connections.
Yeah, although the 20 minute reading seems better to me. For one thing, it means everyone in the meeting has actually read the docs. But it also means that it's fresh in everyone's mind when the meeting actually starts.
There are lots of problems you see in practice which are not discussed often....

* Inability to send mail though a mail program

* Daily disconnections of VPN service

* Captchas and other verification/friction when using services (eg youtube, amazon etc)

* Some services may believe you are in a different country incorrectly, meaning you have to force them to use the right location, or be happy with it being wrong

* Some services will not work at all (for example purchasing through apple)

* Paid streaming services – like netflix, hbo go and amazon streaming will likely not work at all

* You may not be able to port tunnel traffic inside the VPN

And of course you have to trust the provider. For example PureVPN claims 'no logs' but it seems that isn't the case...

https://betanews.com/2017/10/09/purevpn-logs-fbi/#comments

There is a lot of friction in using a VPN. Which makes the idea, often proposed by technical people that if you are worried about privacy - 'just get a VPN' either naive or disingenuous. That said even with the friction it is worth the cost and hassle IMHO.

In practice you have to have a way to flip on and off VPN on some machines/devices.

There is more discussion on this here...

http://www.toytheory.com/?p=295

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The one thing I am never short of is ideas.

I used to think they'd stop coming but always new ideas come and I write them down in a list now. Too many to execute.

Some good, some probably not so great.

The accepted wisdom is that ideas are worth nothing but I strongly disagree. I think most ideas are worth nothing, but some ideas are incredibly valuable so I don't give my ideas away in case I want to make use of them one day.
The Volta Tensor Cores aren't released yet, and I haven't played with Google's TPUs at all.

But NVidia markets Tensor cores as:

> New Tensor Cores designed specifically for deep learning deliver up to 12x higher peak TFLOP/ss for training, and 6x higher peak TFLOP/s for inference

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/cuda-9-features-r...

I wouldn't be surprised if they were inflating the numbers slightly, as is common in a lot of marketing material.
To the best of my knowledge, you are correct that Democrats do not typically purge the rolls. Their strategy is to get dead people to vote, and to bus people around to vote fraudulently in multiple districts.

Of course both parties cheat at as large a scale as they can get away with. If nothing else, if you really must conceptualize the Democrats as wholly good without a spot of blemish on them, then how can you believe there are no Democrats who consider it a moral imperative to cheat as much as they can to prevent Republicans from getting in? To think that either party is so ethical that they would never consider cheating at all is to require not only a very high bar of ethics, but a very particular bar of ethics to be met... in the world of politics, with control over the largest economy in the history of the world at stake. Are all Democrats really that purely deontologists?
All Kaggle problems aren't created equal. Some look like a train matrix, a single target, and a test matrix.

Others are far more complex and start with much messier data and/or complex formulations.

Examples:

- www.kaggle.com/c/nips-2017-non-targeted-adversarial-attack/
- www.kaggle.com/c/the-allen-ai-science-challenge
Chrome@Android, Firefox@Android, Chrome@Windows - all fail for me.

Just look at the dev console.
This looks really nice. Two issues:

1. Downloading embedded web browswer had been at 0% for a few minutes. At I went to close it, I noticed the counter creep up to 1%. The download is _slow_!

2. Not open source. I cannot trust a proprietary app with my login information to my communication channels.

Once the app is open source, I'll happily give it another try. Thanks!
I hate people who try to impose their personal choices onto other people.
I'm tempted to ask to join your group, but I'm finishing my PhD myself (in the spring), so I'm a bit busy! :)

My most important suggestion is the simplest: Come up with more ideas. Take a look through this guy's posts: https://medium.com/@x0054. Specifically, he set a goal to come up with 10 random ideas a day for a month. They are all over the place in terms of quality and practicality. Some of them are silly; some are outstanding. If you do this for a month (as do each of your partners, individually), you will have close to 1,000 ideas to comb through. Something will rise to the top.

Creativity is a habit. Creativity is a skill.

As for myself, I have several ideas that have risen to the top (out of hundreds) that are definitely money-makers, but I don't (yet) have the resources to pursue by myself. The hardest part for me is to find others who are motivated enough to bootstrap a business! It sounds like you have a good group, though, and for that I congratulate you and wish you luck!
Are you referring to the 15th or 17th amendment? Both of those were put in place before political parties switched their ideologies. The Republican Party of the 1800s was the liberal party, not the conservative beast it is today.
They're saying this was an annular eclipse, not a total eclipse. In my opinion that would be dangerous to stare at, and I'd suggest the burden of proof would be on you if you disagree.
There are a ton of different methods for fingerprinting a user.

Your unscrupulous ad broker or other actor intending on tracking you will be using a combination of these.

Each extra one adds another circle to the Venn diagram narrowing you down.

I'm pretty sure that almost everyone (private browsing or not) is identifiable through their browsing to at most 2-5 different users.

The EFF has a site that tests your browser for some fingerprints and tells you how unique you are:
https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Another thing I noticed was that Chrome on Android, sends your phone model and software build number as part of the user agent.

If you don't have a popular phone, on a carrier customised rom, and with the other advertising info. You're likely unique.
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Are you open to hearing ideas? I have a couple that I think have value, but lack the bravery and means to pursue them.
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Or, to phrase it differently: PIA outright bought a great number of previously community-run projects, and is concentrating power.

Freenode and Snoonet, two major IRC networks, are now owned by them.
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Serverless / Zappa, hosting my API’s for 10x decrease in monthly costs.

https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa
I am not sure if I can. Setting it up by scratch let me become familiar with some of the underlying mechanisms of how k8s is put together. A part of that is:

https://rocketeer.be/blog/2015/11/kubernetes-from-the-ground...

And although I never ran through Hightower's Kubernetes the Hard Way, it is like that. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

After running through that as a kind of kata, it was easier to infer and troubleshoot things when things go wrong. The transfer-of-learning happens only if you run yourself through these exercises.

I can share some things at a higher level though:

Label selectors are your friend. Master them. They are used everywhere.

Stateless is still easier than stateful. Start with putting stateless workloads in production before ever trying stateful.

If you have the expertise to mix your stateful pods with your stateless pods, make sure you master StatefulSet and things like persistant volume claims.

If you fake stateful pods like I did in production, then Kubernetes does not know how to cleanly shut them down. Automated maintenance involving kubectl cordon and drain no longer function well. You end up having to hand migrate stateful pods from node to node.
I wouldn't think so with fingerprinting, intel ME and individual processor IDs and such.

I was just giving an extreme example for true anonymity now, something we just sort of had on the internet in the 90's.
couldn't you trade on decentralised exchanges where counterparty risk isn't a thing? at least if you're only trading between crypto pairs
I'm upgrading from my iPhone 6+, so in my case 3 years. And it works out to about $1 a day. Which is in the whatever category.

Expensive, sure, but at this point skipping every other generation or every every third generation is fine. The main reason for upgrading is the battery is starting to ghost. Its max charge is 1900mah from its original 2800(ish? i forget exactly)mah.

Call me a sheep if you want but I've tried my friends android phones and even have a nexus tablet. It just doesn't do it for me. Plus getting rid of all my high scores in games is no bueno. I've spent many years in lines perfecting them.
A few weeks back I ran in to the same issue with accidentally making a purchase while connected to PIA. Mine was also flagged and I had to jump through several hoops to prove I made the purchase. It was a pain but I completely understand why that happened and I'm still very happy with PIA.

I will mention that while it doesn't magically fix slow speed issues, they have the ability to report a slow server through the app (on Windows, I can't attest to any others). You just right click the icon in the notification tray and click "Send Slow Speed Complaint." They do add more servers in areas that are overloaded.
More importantly, we know with a high degree of certainty that human global emissions tip the earth's overall carbon output/downtake balance to net output (by a few dozen gigatons, I believe), which the models say is enough to trigger the increase to 400ppm over the past century or so.
There are some (poor, outdated, ineffective) checks and balances on the use of traditional media for political advertising. The new media successfully lobbied to be even excluded from those.
Additionally, a lot of people who are not in this business were surprised about the extent.
What size would be "relatively small" in your measurement? They're certainly smaller than their Bay Area headquarters, so "relatively", they're smaller. But for FB, at least, there are many Seattle-primary teams (ie, teams where all or most members are in Seattle), especially in infrastructure and storage.

I've worked over two years in each of the FB Menlo Park and Seattle offices, and since the move to Seattle, I haven't missed anything from the headquarters (especially once the BBQ place opened).
Ask HN: A16z b2b2c  podcast. Seems to have been deleted
Has anyone downloaded the a16z b2b2c podcast? I listened to it yesterday , but now it looks like it is gone:

https://a16z.com/2017/10/28/b2b2c/

https://player.fm/series/a16z/a16z-podcast-b2b2c-business-models-trick-or-treat

https://soundcloud.com/a16z/b2b2c

It is also gone from Spotify podcasts.
Proof of what? That voting fraud happens? It assuredly happens, as does more generalized election fraud. In my state of Washington there have been confirmed cases of people voting their dead family member's ballot[1]. And in the 2004 Gubernatorial election there were more illegal votes cast than the margin of victory.[2]

Or do you mean that parties fight against efforts to make the voting process more trustworthy? Feel free to search voter id lawsuit in your favorite search engine.

1: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Dead-voted-in-governo...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_gubernatorial_elect...
Certainly. However, there's a difference between keeping scalability in mind, and actually implementing/maintaining a complex database scaling system at the onset of a project.

Edit: I would also add that most projects I've seen tend to undergo one or more large refactors / redesigns before growing to a size where complex DB scaling is needed. This is, of course, speaking from the perspective of a small startup or pet project. If you're writing a new feature for an existing product where you can assume that it'll have lots of users, then you would obviously build scaling right from the start.
>which brought water up from the river to the settlements on top of the mesa

They pumped water uphill?
You dont find ideas, ideas find you.

It happens when you do some work and suddenly need some tool that could "do this or that" but all you find is complicated solutions or no solution at all
"Keysight took appropriate and responsible steps to protect the company archives"

"This is a time to begin healing, not assigning blame.”

-Keysight Technologies spokesman Jeff Weber
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True. Countries with lax emissions laws arbitrage environmental damage in exchange for short-term profits.

When we import goods from these countries, we too arbitrage environmental damage for short-term profits.

Since the environment is global, a filthy and polluted river or smokestack in China is harmful to all of us in the US, even if we are not directly drinking out of it or breathing it in.

I think all products made from imported parts should contain disclosure about what environmental harm was created in the manufacture of the parts. I'm not loyal to American manufacturing in the least, but it's silly to pretend that there is fair competition when a product manufactured in the US must comply with extensive environmental regs that the Chinese product does not.
I'm curious to pick your brain about this. What is a better concept to describe the idea that "if a trade occurs, it is Good?" I agree STV does contain real insights about the nature of trading, but there's some ideological extrapolation that transforms obviously correct things like marginal diminishing utility to "justifying every trade as it occurs as inexorably good"

See also: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
The thing with AWS is that you have to first measure your costs in order to reduce them - which isn't always obvious before the bill arrives.

What are some of the big frustrations people have found when it comes to monitoring these costs?
SoftBank calling off talks to merge Sprint, T-Mobile
Intersection Observers: the beginning
I think that the ideological shift toward hating/resenting foreign people is a bigger problem than the fraud inflicted on some consumers due to the practice, yes.
The iOS TV app has an API to consume for finding out where you can stream given titles?
..I can get a VM and a public IP..

This is true. There are also a lot more people using the internet that you can get to. Taking it even further you don't even need a virtual machine or IP to do most of things people were doing back then with a regular machine. You could just use facebook.

I disagree with you on what this aggregates to. Controlling the path of least resistance as FB and Google do in online media (or just media if we project out somewhat) is a lot like controlling the medium entirely. This is (as I said above) not new in media but it is new in online media. In old media a small group controlled most of it. Now in online media, a few people do the same.

I'm not saying why even bother. I am saying (echoing the article in saying) that we're moving into a world where ordinary innovation and competition is simply not going to move these beasts from their entrenched position, not easily.

BTW, you can also start your own TV news show. Cameras are cheaper than ever. Doing a radio show (online obviously) is genuinely accessible since podcasting is still a largely open medium. That doesn't negate the point that entrenched incumbents dominate the market, structurally. HTTP is not how you get the content of your VM & IP to people. FB & Google is.
The problem is you're looking for easy stuff to do. Here's four ideas I just thought of:

1) Write software that uses machine learning to search for tornados in doppler radar signal returns
2) Write software that manages inpatient health care, orders, prescriptions, labs, etc
3) Write software that uses machine learning to route network packets faster
4) Use machine learning to control an engine's ECU to maximize fuel economy or power via valve timing, spark degrees/timing, fuel/air mixture, injection timing, compression ratio, etc
> You know you can use CSS and JS for that?

No, I didn't. Thanks. /s

There are many cases it's more convenient updating SVG using React.
These exercises will be a lot more fruitful to read through if the author can acknowledge the contrived nature of these attempts and provide a real-world advantageous use case of the techniques outlined
Maybe this should be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15588380 which is a very theoretical and low-level paper on the language.
There are not many technical articles that are in addition well-written. I think the market would be small but I would like to read biographies about people Jobs, Gates or others but from a technical perspective.
> CBS hiding Star Trek behind their proprietary $10/month service is going to kill Star Trek, because the intended audience sees it as a bullshit cash grab.

Interestingly, that seems to be US (and I think Canada) only. The rest of us get the new episode on Netflix every Monday. The new one should be ready by now.

Of course, if I want to actually watch it in 1080p I still have to resort to piracy, because Netflix doesn't want to offer anything over 720p if you use a free operating system and browser even if you have the HD-and-two-screens subscription. The reason they don't really give but hint at is that the DRM available on free software isn't good enough, and I might be tempted to go and upload the 1080p video on some pirate site. So to watch it in 1080p I have to go to a pirate site and get it there, where it's already available (of course). Makes sense.
Since Touch ID only works for me maybe 40-60% of the time, yes, it's worth it for me personally.