skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" the child would not have a way of selling that Ethereum before 2035"

In 'no legal land' it would be easy enough to sell a bunch of 'locked until 2035' etherium - wrapped in another ether contract like a future or something. Much the same way lottery winners who get an annuity instead of a lump sum can then sell that annuity for a lump sum.
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Whether you're spawning your own cluster or using AKS, you still need to setup a build pipeline and have your applications be in a containerizable state. And any configuration like Dockerfiles or Helm charts you can still use. Actually setting the cluster up isn't the big deal (with something like Kops, at least.)
That makes little sense. We've been riding this particular technology called transistors we've stumbled on for the past 60 or so years. Now the technology is mature, and to make serious progress, we have to get lucky again and stumble on another technology. It doesn't just happen on its own.
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> There are simple observations that are consistent with a Round Earth model, but it's pretty difficult to nail things down rigorously and precisely.

It's quite possible to both demonstrate that the Earth is round and get an accurate first-order approximation of its size with tools available 2,000+ years ago.

We know this is possible with certainty because it was actually done 2,000+ years ago, by Eratosthenes.
CastingWords. I've been very happy with them for my purposes. They tend to even get various CamelCase product spellings and the like correct even if I forget to put them in the transcriber notes. I usually get the 6-day $1.50/min service partly because I need the turnaround and partly because, anecdotally, the quality also goes up a bit when you pay for the premium rates. I do maybe a couple dozen 20 minute podcasts a year so the costs are negligible.
For the cost of living, these aren't really as high as I'd thought. Goes to show you that salary doesn't always scale with living expenses. I'm curious what the real world take home is between housing + income tax + general living expenses.

Being paid 150k but paying 3k in rent sounds like a raw deal...
GM is one of the last American companies that still has a union. Hope they don’t use this as an excuse to throw that proud tradition away.
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Or just the general idea of a cloud provider making it easy to run containers. That’s not exactly a left-field idea.
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"Don't settle for common stock"

Unless you're a C-level employee, you're not going to have the choice. And even then you're probably still not going to have a choice except in very rare cases (e.g. Uber's new CEO might have some decent protections). If you're "just" an employee, you're going to get laughed at if you demand anything besides common stock.
Hmm, I think there may be a misunderstanding.

1. I don't disagree with you.

2. I'm not trying to take away funding from PhD students, nor am I trying to make them pay more. I simply advocate for undergraduate students to have a similar advantage like graduate students, e.g. they should be able to take pre-tax income given to them by the college (if they have a job) from their tuition, if they choose.

3. Top programs, like you've listed are funded, which weren't really the examples I were using (better to use small schools, which aren't funded at all).
I liked Pixelmator when I tried it out. However, I do most of my graphics work on a Windows machine, so that means I only really have one choice: Photoshop.
It's more complicated than that. The web is being run by companies that would rather sell you a service than a one time install. Hence the feeling that in 9 out of 10 of those cases the only reason the product only works 'online' is to serve its creators, there is no added value for you the consumer.

I've got a 5 year old 'TomTom', a simple and dedicated navigation device. It beats the pants of all the connected versions out there because it simply always works. I didn't download anything for it, you just switch it on, it takes about 30 seconds to find its bearings (longer in urban canyons) and then you tell it where to go, with pretty much all of Europe covered. User interface is a dream compared to mobile phones and most other in-car navigation systems.

Turn-by-turn voice navigation works and works well. No online service even comes close for that application.

So, whatever the web has shown is that people don't want, at least speaking for myself you can keep your services and give me that download.
""smart", are only as good as they're written"

There are so many things that go into contracts that cannot be articulated in 'code' that this all hardly makes sense.

Employment contracts are long. Comp packages can be complex.

And we all live in countries with employment laws etc. that require these things anyhow.

I don't see any actual real-world cases for Eth contracts just yet.
Meaning not sitting on HN commenting on salaries :)
I suspect the folks tasked with building skynet would actually love the funding it requires to get a machine gun and a lawnmower in the same fiscal year.
It's serving the same function that Mac users can do via virtual desktops ("mission control", formerly "spaces"), you group the related things together even if they're in different apps. This is just doing it in a window instead.

Windows 10 got a similar multiple desktops feature in a previous update, so this seems like a a second layer of doing the same thing. Whether it's better, or if people will use one or the other or both, who knows?

I can say that I use multiple desktops on my Mac all the time and never do on Windows, but that's partly because my Mac is a laptop where screen space is more scarce and the trackpad gestures are very fast.

There's definitely some diminishing returns of more and more layers of grouping. Firefox had a "Tab Groups" thing going for a while that let you toggle between different sets of tabs within one window. Doing something at the window manager level where it's a consistent way of packing more stuff into a window across the OS strikes me as more useful.

I'm not convinced I'd use this instead of multiple desktops though. If I'm single tasking there aren't usually things I want to group with it, and if I'm multitasking I'll typically want the other window to be visible (or at least sometimes visible) alongside the main task.
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Maybe you won't find people in their 60s working in the startup scene, but that doesn't mean they just drop out of their career, which you seem to imply. Most just go to work in established companies. I work with plenty of people over 60.
100 years ago, you would have said "What is this going to sound like when cities have hundreds of whining cars driving around? Are we just going to have to get used to the noise pollution from the cars so people can get their crackerboxes delivered faster?"
There's Affinity Photo, which used to be Mac-only, but has now been available for Windows as well for a while: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/
nah, I asked, it's for the amount reserved, not the amount used. https://twitter.com/nathankpeck/status/935930795864211461
Yes, technically true. You can do some stuff there, but it is somewhat limited. I said I was simplifying some details, this is one of them. It only adds to the confusion. I don't think many people use it. At least not for any really complex use cases (I may be wrong, but that is the extent of my knowledge).

Looking at this I don't see how it can do too much interesting stuff: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script
> How is amazon able to convert an open source product into a proprietary one and then charge for access to it?

Totally no problem with liberal licensed open source software.

This is also the intended behaviour of such licenses.

Also many of those big bad commercial companies contribute back big time to a number of projects. Why? I guess sometimes because devs want to and also because it makes sense business wise so they don’t have to maintain the code themselves.
Filter bubbles alone cannot explain an expanding movement (they can explain solidifying and radicalizing within a fixed-size movement, but not growth of the movement.)
GitScrum is a smart application to agile project management and task management
It really raises the question why anyone would put a software company in the Silicon Valley area. You could get cheaper and more experienced people pretty much anywhere in the world for at least 60 - 70% the price.
> You were doing great until "free". It's not free. It's hard work, using resources of value. There is compulsion, whereby others must sacrifice (under threat) their own wealth & resources to facilitate what is falsely advertised as "free".

Initially yes, it is an expenditure. It would cost tax dollars, which I'm guessing by your tone, is "theft by a gun from state entity". Yes, ive heard the normal libertarian trappings. But this provides guaranteed food. And for those preppers, it's also local production. And it's provided to all.

> You have a right to live, insofar as nobody else may unduly take your life from you. That you live, comes the responsibility to provide for yourself - and suffer the consequences of your choices.

Yes, and the law is equal, in that it bans both the rich and the poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

The rich can afford whatever food they want. The poor cannot. This would provide a buffer for every living person in this country to get healthy food. Where you talk of "Self Actualization" ideals, there's people in this country starving. That itself should be abhorrent and disgusting. But I'm sure you'll have excuses why they should deserve to starve.

> We've seen communism tried time and again. The death tolls & misery are staggering. Many of us will make sure it's not "tried", aka imposed by threat & violence, here; this is not up for debate, and you'd do well to understand why.

Communism has useful tools and ideas. So does capitalism.

Communism's been tried and gets stuck at military dictatorship on its way to stateless egalitarianism, every time. Capitalism goes the other way with large monied interests turning into their own dictatorships. It's not like many of the robber barons enacted company farms and company stores, and kept strikes from happening by violence... Oh, they did. Quite a few were killed by companies and National Guard.

And the big difference that you fail to cede to, is that with computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, we can start changing:

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
--TO--
"To each according to his needs".

And that would entail nobody "by threat & violence". Try looking past 1850's political theory. I know I try.
Time is money. It takes time to manage servers/infra - services like this let people make the choice between spending their time or their money managing infra. The category of managed infra is huge and goes beyond Amazon
Every once in a while Amazon must pay a shitload of money to take over the front page of HN. Seriously. At the time of this writing over 25% of the first 60 items on the front page of HN are about official Amazon services and redirect directly to Amazon's websites.
Regarding Spanner, AWS now provides Global Tables for Dynamo DB and a Multi-Master feature for Aurora. Very interesting move. https://venturebeat.com/2017/11/29/aws-cloud-databases-go-se...
> If I may, a rebuttal.

Of course - when it's performing well, it's what this site shines at.

> I see no reason that developer time cannot be optimized in a performance-first methodology

Well clearly it can but it won't be nearly as much of a priority. Just like performance isn't as much of a priority when focusing on developer time. It's not clear what you're specifically rebutting in this section. We're both agreeing that developer-performance will improve significantly less in this model.

And unresponsive text editor gives at most what a 3x slowdown in performance. Very little of a programmer's time is actually inputting text or data. While let's take the other extreme to show a point: Building a distributed transactional relational data driven application from scratch (because our tools weren't built because people would have been optimizing performance of late 90s hw) would be a 1,000x loss of developer productivity.

The scaling factor of productivity just utterly dwarfs human interface performance.

> There is no technological reason why Visual Studio 2017 should not run on a 5 year old laptop, yet that is the state we are in.

True, but almost everyone would rather 2017 VS not run on a 5 year old laptop, then the best available product right now be Visual Studio 2005 era functionality highly optimized so it can still run on a 5 year old laptop.
For our first semester, we use a modified version of "How to Design Programs": http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/ Highly recommended for teaching! I do teach pointers, but in stages — so that students can understand the mutability behavior of Python lists and other objects, we talk about how a Python list variable, for instance, is _really_ storing a memory address of a list. When we move to Go, they actually use pointers, but unlike C's, it's hard to shoot yourself in the foot with Go's pointers. When we finally get to C, pointers seem natural.
"now that the world is on fire and the barbarians are at the gate you have the audacity to come to me for help."

Sorry, couldn't resist :)
Related: I recently came across the "Google AIY Voice Kit for Raspberry Pi" in the Adafruit store: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3602

That, as well as this new "AWS DeepLens", look like interesting kits/toys to try out new on-device and hosted systems for voice processing and computer vision.

Then again, I assume you have to buy these knowing that the hardware will likely cease to work in the next year or two or three... or whenever the hosted aspects change, and AWS and Google move on to their next trend.

Any other similar kits/toys others have found?
That's just one way to make it happen until we get proper support. I wrote to AWS support and they said that they will consider PHP support for AWS lamba as many people have requested it too (did not give me an ETA though).

The funny thing is the response time is quite good despite running it through a NodeJS server that launches a PHP binary (340ms, faster than 98% of the sites as per pingdom[1]).

[1] https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/ex9izm/https://www.lambdaphp.ho...
Intel Atom processor? What a silly choice! A Tegra would be literally 10x faster for machine learning. Why on Earth would anyone choose Atom for this application?

Much better hardware for this application would be an NVIDIA Shield TV box and a USB webcam. 10x the performance for cheaper.
That's rather impressive. Unfortunately, I believe I've made the sacrifice of security for convenience and I may need to reevaluate that sooner than later.
This but with Gold ETFs
An adult is allowed to go to a casino and buy lotto tickets too.
take cost of living esp. housing into account?
If you actually read the docs, it's not Janus-based, it's based on BlazeGraph, which Amazon reportedly acquihired last year.
I haven't really tried batch. But, from initial reading of documentation it didn't look like it supported running docker images. My use case requires running docker images of static site generators and that sort. Will take another look at it.
It will never be reasonable, feasible, or worth discussing that e.g. every day users run a linux only locked down desktop and never use their mobile phones. Every time a privacy topic comes up, there is always someone to come in and say "uninstall windows and OSX, delete all of your social media accounts and block the entire Internet, quit your job that requires you to use these devices and services, run your own mail server, if you REALLY care about privacy you'll essentially stop using the Internet, cut yourself off from all of society and make your devices unusable" -- which can offer advice for people looking to do this but adds little to the discussion around tracking, privacy, data security.

If you try to fight against advertisers and privacy-invading trackers and malware alone you will always lose. They are huge companies. They bribe your computer manufacturers to auto-install malware. They infect your operating systems. They have CAs. They have millions to spend on thousands of brilliant engineers who will work around anything you come up with to attack your security and privacy. An answer must be feasible for almost everybody so that we can all enact it collectively, technical or not, or it is no answer at all.
Yeah, I'm a mid level developer and my salary isn't even on the chart! I feel like I make pretty good money and live pretty a pretty cushy life.
Quite often I'll move the mouse pointer out of the way of what I'm reading. So my mouse pointer will be "hovering", but not over anything I'm interested in at all.
Can someone explain to me in lamens terms what a graph database is?
I completely understand that. I answered more or less the same question on Reddit yesterday and I hope it can bring some value here too:

In the same way that Bitcoin allows people to send money to each other without having to trust the other person, you can do computation without having to trust a centralized party to do that computation. And it doesn't have to be "computing" in the way you might think about it; it can be tracking, storing and securing information (generally a hash of that information) with some logic around it (who can append, payments, vote on things, etc.).

I wrote a blog post about some potential use cases. Most of which are realized only with smart contracts. Some are pretty "out there," but in the end it up to the innovators of the world to decide what we can or cannot do with this.

http://www.gjermundbjaanes.com/the-blockchain-innovation-par...
I'd agree, and even in Python, we end up talking about how some variables store "memory addresses," to explain the sometimes confusing behavior of variables bound to mutable objects. What's less essential is understanding all the ways that (C's) pointers can bite you: pointer arithmetic that results in invalid addresses, use after free, dereferencing uninitialized pointers, returning a pointer to a local variable from a function, and so on.
It is really AWS Extract Money From Customer's CFOs service
With Photoshop being so sluggish recently I'm willing to try anything.

Just a few minutes in with Pixelmator Pro and I can see myself using this quite a bit – even just the little things like creating a new file and setting canvas dimensions, this takes ages on Photoshop now.

Although, I hate the native color picker. Being able to paste in hex values is important to me – bringing in a Photoshop or Sketch-like color picker would be much appreciated.
Depends on the license, doesn’t it? I’m not a licensing expert, but my understanding is GPLv2 / copy left licensing means that if you create a derivative product, you need to open source the new code along with the dependencies.

Seems like a management interface is a clear cut derivative product. Where’s the source code?

Or perhaps amazon does consider licensing and only builds on top of, eg Apache licensed projects?
It's because of the re:Invent conference and all their announcements.
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It also makes it difficult to auto-re-invite everyone to the new event. Or make event series.
For me, the most exciting aspect of this product is that they don't require attribution[1]. All the other translation services I looked at[2] required the service's name and/or logo to be part of the UI where the call to the translation service is triggered or where translated text is shown. That makes it a non-starter for many use-cases where you don't want to pollute your product with free ad space for someone else (even though you're already paying for the service!)

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/translate/faqs/

[2]: Google, Microsoft, Yandex
My question is not about why someone would pay for the service. It’s about where amazon got the right to charge for it without open sourcing their derivative work.

To be clear, it’s not the hosting of open source applications I see as the problem, but the closed source management/orchestration software built on top of it.
"It's impressive that both languages are able to [efficiently/effectively] accommodate other programming paradigms while remaining pretty much the same under the hood."
A drone large enough to ship a package will kill you when it falls down for whatever reason.

I don't see this whole concept working simply due to (re)liability.
I see them a lot along the 3rd St corridor. Recently saw one almost come to a complete stop at a green light on 3rd in Dogpatch, before the driver took over and gunned the gas pedal.
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I'll give the Affinity products a chance when they fix bone-headed missing features - like a way to change the ruler origin. This is a particularly egregious omission in Affinity Designer. They have been promising this non-optional feature for almost 2 years now.
Do all the containers I launch run in an EC2 VM that’s isolated for my account? Or does Fargate somehow provide the security isolation without being a VM?
I've been happy with Pixelmator ... I suppose I can't blame them for wanting to continue to monetize their product. Seems like the app store doesn't have a way to have paid upgrades (e.g. v2 to v3). However it probably means the existing Pixelmator probably won't get any new updates aside from fixes.

I also would like to see what's different/new in the Pro version, but I'll probably upgrade anyway.
Very nice. I actually hadn't realized Tensilica wasn't an Espressif technology. That would definitely be sweet if they switched to RISC-V