skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are only 9 regions with at least 3 AZs (as required by Aurora design), it's available in 4 of them.
1. Use RI's (like you said) and make sure your utilization is high.

2. Look at any under utilized EC2 instances and make them smaller. If they are very under utilized, consider moving what they do to Lambda, which is very cheap.

3. S3 for everything storage. Only use EBS volumes when you need to.

4. Someone mentioned multiple availability zones and it's a great tip. Turning it on is 2x the price for RDS, and it's probably not needed for anything but critical instances.

5. Make sure unused instances are terminated, not stopped.

6. For very expensive systems, use spot instances to strategically reduces your costs when ec2 instances are cheaper.

7. Try to keep your instance types down to a few types. This will give you fewer headaches when you go to purchased reserved instances.
> How do you explain the iphone x?

Is this related to the "zero changes to a phone and billions would want it" or "mindless sheep angle"?
I'd take the other side of that bet ;)

Anvil's built in "Users" service is incredibly simple and un-magical (user records are just database rows, and you can reimplement vanilla password login in four lines). This makes hacking on it an awful lot easier than some magically injected extension that needs to be configured just so.

(Check out the API: https://anvil.works/doc#users)
Man finds USB stick with Heathrow security plans, Queen’s travel details
The visit would have been around 2011. He had read about Arcosanti in the 70s I believe and was expecting much more vibrancy, much more activity, and especially much more progress than had come to fruition in that time.

I think he came in with excitement and that was confronted by a couple people he met there who were fairly off putting which didn't help matters.

I still think it is a neat idea personally, and put it in league with things like Black Rock City/Burning man where I'm never gonna fault someone for going out and just fucking trying something...but the experience and his reaction (not the place) are still a bit of a joke in our family.
Augmented Reality Contact Lens?
What is there to explain about the iPhone X? It's the best new phone from Apple. If you keep a phone for two years and use it daily, then the hardware costs around $2 / day so it's affordable.

If that's the ecosystem you are in and want a new phone, then that's a pretty reasonable choice.
That isn't even remotely true here in the Midwest, in my experience. Nobody I know has needed 20% down - most have been 5% or so. I got a conventional with 5% down with no problems. It's even easier if you go the FHA first time home buyer route.
I agree with your assessment that a lot of times the business problems have been put into a form that lends itself to exploitation by machine learning. Sometimes a company has a lot of data that's actually useless.

Most of the time, I've found that business people do not understand the value of data. Often I hear, "we have this data set, let's unleash the data scientist on this to tell us something." or "we have this data set but what are the so-whats here?".

I spend a lot of my time explaining that there must first be a business objective, a key question, or hypothesis that can then be understood through data. I cannot take a haystack and find the needle that is interesting to you. And if I do find that needle, many times there are no resulting changes made to our strategy.

I think we're still in a place where the value in a data scientist is not that she knows how to write:
fit <- lm(target ~ ., data = customers)

The value exists when she can take a problem from the business, understand how to find a solution with data, and then convey that back to the business in a meaningful way that allows them to easily understand how they can make changes to positively impact the bottom line.
Thank you! It is very easy to use boxes instead of circles! You only have to change the css border of some classes. Pls feel free to contribute withan issue in Github if you like!
I ended with circle shapes just because a personal interest.
The whole point why you should worry from the beginning is so that you don't have to re-work everything and put a huge risk to the business when you have to do it.
Is it? Under whose laws? And who is allowed to purchase those? No foreigners at all? What is a political ad? There are a lot of problems here.
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If you’re after ultimate privacy and security, look for a service that accepts payment from anonymous services like Bitcoin.

Bitcoin can be tracked, use zcash? . Can't believe mozilla got this wrong.
Never thought of that, something to keep in the very (very) far back of my mind for future usage
Developing transportation beyond oil is a moral imperative.

How long will it take us?

https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/the-moral-technology-6413ca...
By switching to Hetzner GPUs (99 euro/month for a server with an NVIDIA 1080)
Pron, what are the better alternatives / more promising lines of research you keep referring to?
People seem to forget this all the time, even though it's obvious. The Constitution is an atrociously written document, by modern standards of technical writing. The 18th Century predates the modern notion of technically precise writing. Look at Newton's writings, for example.
What's the largest, most complex application running on Anvil today?
Who would financially benefit enough to pay for it though? There's no one big seller of the boxes and the software is free.

Edit: For clarification - I'm not saying it's impossible. I just personally can't see any obvious beneficiary. Would welcome any suggestions though.
Seriously, though, getting people to sign up to help implement your renegade ideas is kind of the definition of charisma (as in Max Weber) and gurus and cults are just a little further down that road...
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Out of those three, I only use Google. I still consider the 'net - and I do mean the internet, not 'the web' as that is but a part of the constellation - to be a useful resource with near-unlimited potential. I shun Facebook like the plague and Amazon is not on my radar in any way, due in part to the fact that I'm not in north-America while Amazon is still mostly targeted at that part of the world. As such any thought of these three having fundamentally transformed the web falls flat for me as they just simply failed to do so in my world. I don't deny that these companies - especially Facebook - have an unhealthy amount of influence over many people's outlook on the world around them and that they have the potential to cause great damage - again pointing at Facebook as the main risk factor due to their rather obvious lack of political neutrality - but for now I just see them as big companies intent on carving out as much of the web as they can.
I don't think you should drop an "idea" just because the space is crowded or commoditized so long as the problem in the space has not been "solved."

Consider that there were many search engines before Google and many social networks before Facebook and so on.

All spaces are crowded but there is still lots of room for improvement. Even a simple todo app doesn't do quite all the things everyone needs. You can imagine super versions of a todo that automatically uses your calendar to allocate time to the tasks. Then when people want to meet with you, it show you options that are spaced so you have time for your tasks and then analyzes the tasks you do and don't get done, and notices what the differences and then allocates the right time for the right task (morning for creative, night for braindead, lunch for meetings) or whatever.

The problems are the same problems. Just look at the current solutions and you can see they are lacking. Then the question is, can you find a good way to solve them. (You code up the above solution and simply doesn't work, for example. )
Depends on your starting point. One could take an ethical point of view, and argue the baseline is public domain. Compared to that, copyleft does restrict one's ability to put further restrictions.

Permissive zealots argue that such a restriction is unacceptable, on the grounds that any restriction is unacceptable. Apparently they don't even approve of the insurance policy that prevents the very restrictions they say they loath.

The present thread has the same structure. Someone says it's unacceptable for an entity (not even a person!) to restrict one's freedom of speech with no recourse, and the moral equivalent of the Permissive Zealot snaps that forbidding that power to forbid is unacceptable, "because freedom".

Do libertarians realise that permission without ability means nothing?
* Ad-hoc tasks likely without immediate dates: Any.do

* Long term notes without tasks or deliverable dates: OneNote

* Short term notes pending a permanent home: Apple's IOS Notes

* Dated tasks: Google Calendar
It's a quarter-mile, but yeah it's awful.
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Interesting. The producers in China operate in a more capitalist market than in the U.S. In some ways this has created an entrepreneurial class in China of high innovation, instead of rentiers owning a market. That said, whatever your feeling on patents and IP, stealing someone's brand name crosses a real line, even in the most capitalistic ideology
Definitely not. Your previous comment (he still publishes vs participates in journalistic debates) makes a lot of sense. I'm saying that, personally, I haven't found a way to bring my values to these conversations in the public space that doesn't feel awkward, so I focus on sharing the talks/posts of those I agree with who do share that identity. Not to put words in your mouth, but perhaps you feel as I sometimes do that our right as people to participate in this public debate is being challenged or questioned on our identity alone. As much as I'd like to argue that isn't a basis for exclusion, there is something to consider in it. It's a hypothetical for me, a reality for others. That gives me pause. It doesn't mean the other person's interpretation is one I must or should adopt, but it seems unwise to form opinions that exclude their experience when talking about the rules that should govern society. The poster above pointed out that in Alan's case, those points of view weren't really even in the market without him and the British invasion. That's context I hadn't considered here. I was curious to see what the holes in my viewpoint were and that's certainly one.
Although this handout mentions high school, it's a 30-page document with both high school and K-5 material, and these goals are for all levels. The top of page two says:

"Essential Student Outcome: Completing a culminating assignment in which they 'teach back' and make well-informed school funding recommendations to those in power (e.g. church, school board, legislator)."
My very HN username is based around this idea of building a simple app and throwing it on the App Store and making 10 dollars per day, rinse and repeat..
This is the kind of articles i cross my fingers to find in HN. This is a landmark application and it's great to be able to look inside the decisions required for it's successful creation.
Your own links say that it happens, but then hand wave it away as not significant.

Your [1]:

>However, in only 26 cases was there a conviction or a guilty plea by the citizen.

From your [2]:

>n the state of Washington, for example, six cases of double voting and nineteen instances of individuals voting in the name of the dead yielded twenty-five fraudulent votes

From your [3]:

>Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.

I'm not saying it's widespread, but I suspect that there have been local elections where the outcome was changed due to fraudulent votes. The question is do we care that each fraudulent vote voids the vote of a legitimate voter? And if something such as voter ID requirements were in place, would that have any value? Would requiring states to cross check their voter registration have any value?

As an aside, people seem to enjoy comparing the US to places like Canada and Germany on many different things, health care, progressive tax rates, commitment to green policies, immigration, etc. yet surprisingly no one ever says brings up voter ID, which both of those countries require.
Thanks but this is by far not limited to small FPGA hobby projects.

I'm a professional FPGA consultant, Xilinx Alliance Program Associate Partner, working on serious FPGA projects for all kinds of applications. Defence, medical, telecom, space, industrial, things like that. And I've been using airhdl in many of them.

During the past 8 years, I've worked on dozens of FPGA projects in many different teams. Guess how many of them were using automatic register generation? Zero.

This is why I created airhdl; because we all have better things to do than hand-code register files.

My bet was that if I removed all barriers of entry, then developers would come. That's why it's web-based: nothing to install, nothing to license, no IT person to ask permission for, runs on any platform. That's why it has a GUI: no XML or RDL hacking required. And that's why it's free: so you can start using it right away, no purchase order required.
I think the goal is less to target racial groups directly, but rather to target those who are less likely to have the desire, the knowledge, or the resources to rectify the issue.

This tends to target the poorest Americans -- either those who can't afford to take time away from work to get the documents required to re-register or those who simply would give up after finding out they are not registered.
Crypto currency evolution, dammit!
I have many good ideas and domains to match.

contact me at HN AT opendomain dot org
Is there an AliExpress vs. Amazon vs. Ebay shopping comparison site?

If not I was thinking that might be a good side project.
family/friends are also causing traffic. Why do they deserve priority access?
Wouldn't counterfeiters scrape that database for legitimate UUID's? You could allow consumers to "claim" a UUID as theirs (and when I get a product with the same UUID, I can assume it's a dupe), but that requires every consumer to actually do this...
Good point, I didn't know that. I've not been on the internet much before 2006 or so, and have been using ad blockers for as long as I can remember. Just that in my mind, they're currently clearly labeled. I never saw the chart in the post you linked, that's very interesting. Thanks for linking!
What you should really do is also sell anvil in a form that makes it possible to host on premise or in AWS or somewhere else. Even if you charge a 1000$for that people would pay up. You don’t need to open source everything but you can sell the compiled c files instead with installations and support guidelines. I would love to use it but if I cannot control the infrastructure I feel my hands are tied.
This design-first approach is the hallmark of many successful products. It is the rare engineer who can say "I had to change code that I had labored over" with such equanimity. Excellent read!

"The ability for Dan and I to work as a team was crucial. While he could've written the program, the fact that he wasn't gave him the freedom to focus on what the program should do rather than how to do it. I could appreciate his reasons and would eventually accept that I had to change code that I had labored over. We were able to find ways to take advantage of the limited space available for the program in deciding what features to include or not include."
I didn't realize there was much of a difference beyond a third-party hosting and maintaining the VPN or not.
MacBook Pro, early 2015, 8GB of RAM.
Prolog variables are metavariables, if you use them as such.

?- abstract_type(lambda(f, lambda(g, apply(f, g))), Typ).
Typ = [_G947, _G948]^ ((_G947->_G948)->_G947->_G948) .

?- abstract_type(lambda(f, lambda(g, apply(f, g))), Typ), apply_type(Typ, a, Ta), apply_type(Ta, b, Tab), apply_type(Typ, c, Tc), apply_type(Tc, d, Tcd).
Typ = [_G1179, _G1180]^ ((_G1179->_G1180)->_G1179->_G1180),
Ta = [_G1213]^ ((a->_G1213)->a->_G1213),
Tab = ((a->b)->a->b),
Tc = [_G1251]^ ((c->_G1251)->c->_G1251),
Tcd = ((c->d)->c->d) .

Note how both Tab and Tcd arise from instantiating the same schema Typ, which is unchanged.

To avoid binding variables in the schema, you just make sure to only instantiate instances (copies) of the schema:

abstract_type(Term, Typ) :-
type(Term, [], T), % type/3 defined by parent
term_variables(T, Vars),
Typ = Vars^T.

apply_type(Typ, Arg, Result) :-
copy_term(Typ, TypCopy),
TypCopy = Vars^T,
Vars = [Arg | RemainingVars],
( RemainingVars = []
-> Result = T
; Result = RemainingVars^T ).
Can you explain your research using only the ten hundred most common words?
This is great.

I would suggest giving shows an ID though. Looking at the docs, it looks like I have to search every time and just hope the show is still returned in the search and the results are in the same order every query.

something like a /show/{id} or similar.
Real-time 3D graphics over VNC sounds painful.
I hate how people think this kind of garbage is worse than maintaining your own stack...
It looks really simple but I do not have any experience on that.
Buy your own hardware. Esp for dev work having your own rack in the office really is cheap and its kinda nice. The other benefit is it limits the budget to what we have, rather than allowing anyone to create more servers...
Sorry that's what I meant.
Even better, with Mullvad you can now use WireGuard instead of OpenVPN, for considerably better performance and possibly better security. I've configured my EdgeRouter Lite to route all wifi traffic on my default home network through WireGuard for a couple of weeks and it has worked very well.

https://www.mullvad.net/blog/2017/9/27/wireguard-future/
This looks really nice, reminds me of what you could do with Visual Basic for creating GUIs, and I really liked that experience (though I did very little of it).

One thing I really don't like about it is how the free pricing level doesn't have authentication. Seems like I can't really build a toy project that I then "graduate" to a real app. Or maybe the plan is that you build it as a private app as a toy and then start paying $45/mo when you want to make it public and have auth?

I feel like if the free level was limited by something else, like database size or something?

I can understand why they want to drive people to revenue-generation. Just seems like a feature that hurts more than it helps, by keeping people from even trying it?
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So, how much it costs than? I'm genuinely interested because I've heard figures in the range of several cents up to $40.
You claim that there are a significant number of fraudulent votes happening. The corollary of what you're attesting to is that Kris Kobach and many other folks responsible for enforcement of the laws are utterly and completely incompetent.

I don't have time to track down where I did the math, but even being very generous with the claims of fraud (assuming that they're wildly overstating) and assuming that Kansas being full of those Fine Upstanding Conservative Religious Citizens had only half the fraud rate of the country as a whole, that means that Kobach's office was unable to find basically ANY of the tens of thousands of Kansans voting fraudulently.

This is a situation that holds true when you look at the other places where there are widespread claims of voter fraud and the people making those claims. Sure there are a few cases (e.g. Ann Coulter's fraudulent registration, a few voters who voted in multiple places including at least one non-citizen, etc.) but not very many.

As for Kobach, he actually got 4 convictions in 2016 (for elections in 2010 - 2014): http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article75545277.html

Looking at a different state, seems that Washington State is a hotbed of fraud - the state has identified 72 cases of suspected vote fraud in the 2016 election. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/...
Thanks for the kind words and directions.
I was replying to the idea that the parable demonstrates those points for someone who doesn't already agree. (And that's not the SVT you're describing, but the SVT plus some ancillary claims that I agree are flawed -- see the last paragraphs of my other reply.)
It's funny they pejoratively described the housing developments as beige, when all the pictures of Arcosanti are... beige concrete.
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Consider me cynical, but I think it's far more likely, given Amazon's power, that the company convinces their consumers that counterfeits are "status quo".

US consumers exist for their masters, not the other way around. Where else will they go to buy?
Like many I'd be afraid for to much tie-in with this system. If I could export my code is a way that it's usable and based on open source libs, I have the liberty to extend it beyond what Anvil's limitations.

But now I'd probably still take the upfront cost to get a bigger app started without tie-ing in with a service. For rapid prototyping it seems awesome!
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It really took 13.8 billion years for the Earth to come to the point we're now. 3 billion years life on Earth uses the energy of Sun, only a small part remained stored in the Earth's crust. Two billion years of cyanobacteria work (using the energy of the Sun!) was needed only to produce enough oxygen in the atmosphere to enable more complex life. The next billion of years the complex life bound the carbon from the CO2 (chemically not small achievement at all) and the complex environment interaction stored it in the earth crust. The humanity used a significant part of that stored energy in just 100 years. But it is really the product of billions of years of living organisms simply living. Their goal was never to be efficient. We efficiently used up already hundred millions of years of that work (and work of the environment which allowed for the carbon to remain in the crust). That is really a "once in billions of years" event for us. We burned a lot of it carelessly fast, a lot of it simply "because it's cheap." We're still "drunk" and deny.

How much of energy is actually produced at the moment in solar plants? How much area do they need? How much is achievable? That's why I'm comparing your (wrong) estimate with the attitude like "I see the golden ring on my finger, I can get it easy, just go in the shop and buy it, now it's 'just' an Olympic pool of gold with which I can 'solve' the problem, see, it's easy." No.
Apparently I should stop using gitlab.com By choosing to not shard your data you have basically put a cap on scalability... or at least one which will be reached faster than if you were to decide to shard.
I would highly recommend "Jump Start Your Brain" by Doug Hill. On page 88 there is a "Eureka" formula you can use to generate ideas. (#of good ideas = ((number of stimuli)^(diversity))/fear) Once you have an idea, just pull the trigger and start working on it. It sounds like you have a lot already, but are holding yourself back for some reason. Just take some action! Pick something.
> if their influence is either unprecedented

It is. That's the entire point of the "filter bubble" argument that is coming up some 8-10 years old now.
I disagree that a "kaggle problem" style problem is trivially easy, but I strongly agree with the sentiment that dealing with unstructured data is often a much bigger, deeper, and broader problem than the choice of a particular algorithm or ensemble of them.

The ability to efficiently and effectively derive insights from such data is scarce.