skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was looking at the DynamoDB costs just to get an idea and I think it'd actually be a lot worse for this scenario:

- Up to 1M writes per minute, or ~16k/second. Obviously they don't operate at full capacity 24x7 but let's assume they do for worst-case planning. That means they need 16k WCU, or $7500/mo.

- Their RCU would obviously be significantly lower, let's say just $500/mo for analysis.

- Storage is going to cost $0.25 per GB-month. Let's say a very small payload of 100 bytes per object + 100 bytes for Indexed overhead. 200 bytes * 1M/minute * 1440 minutes/day = +288 GB/day. By the end of month #1, you're looking at $2,160/mo. By year #1 (105TB) you're spending $26k/mo.

At the end of the day, they're going to need to massively scale down their write throughput and constantly perform rollups/aggregations or they'll go broke if they ever want to simply store the raw/original data using S3 or DynamoDB.

Cost analyses like these make me very hesitant to use S3 or DynamoDB for an operation like in this article. Sure, individual operations are a fraction of a penny, but it grows very quickly.

It seems like it'd be far more sensible to just get a few EC2 instances and run something (cassanda, sqlite, spark, hadoop) locally.
to be fair, they have the rights to do so, apparently. Was a bit shocked Earthbound made the trip due to that one, rumor anyway, having rights to the music and what not expiring.
Keep a string around the battery that, upon removal from the bag, you tie it to your finger. Replace it on the battery when it's replaced in the bag. Also helps when you need to charge the battery.
I'm sure that the labourers had to pay for other taxes too, but man, I'd kill for only 7½% income tax. Right now my total tax burden is about 50%.
I guess I can see the appeal too but luggage is already really expensive. I can't see the point in buying a smart suitcase unless its pretty solid, and the good quality suitcases run several hundred dollars.
not the users. the mayor and city council.
It is interesting that you are gauging my "success" on whether my comment is changing minds about economic theory. Please consider that I explicitly excluded anything else Marx wrote from assent, to reduce the likelihood that anyone would mistake my argument for Fully Automated Luxury Communism or whatever the kids are calling it these days.

I am explicitly arguing that value and wages are not tied to each other, today, with examples.

Generally speaking, we treat the value of labor in accord with the cost of developing a skill. Whether by correlation or accident, this seems to mean we dramatically undervalue softer skills involved in working with other people. (NB: This is related to, but very different than the customer service face front-of-house puts on.) There are kitchens where the entire morale of the restaurant staff rests on the good natured attitude of the dishwasher. That person leaves, and soon afterwards, everybody hates working there, and nobody can figure out why.

I think any sane businessperson knows this, and does agree with me. Most businesspersons also know that everyone in a restaurant is completely replaceable. Right?
People are going to complain about paywalls as long as people keep linking to articles with paywalls, and no amount of rules is going to stop that. Either that needs to be accepted or HN needs to stop allowing paywalled articles to hit the main page.
Mindfulness strikes me as total BS pandering to westerners obsession and reverence for Buddhism and some orientalist kind of ideas.

Don’t kid yourself and buy into all the marketing.
In fact that sort of smuggling goes on all the time with cigarettes and alcohol es with government monopolies, and as various ways of arbitraging different tax regimes.

My point is simply that, if you read contemporary documents, you’ll see that the smugglers, and others, exploited the situation to promote their respective positions. And the whole story is exploited today with the details filed off.

Propaganda is an important part of nation building.
> (this comment was a reponse to the initial comment by chrisseaton which has since been removed.)

I haven't removed any comment at all. The quote you're replying to is still in my comment. And I can't have edited after you posted that comment, because HN doesn't apply comments that have been replied to to be edited.
Marijuana loses its profitability, they can switch to other drugs, guns, smuggling, "coyotes", or legitimate enterprise.

Not disagreeing with your larger point, but the fact of the matter is that it's a lot harder to sell people meth, coke, heroin, etc. than it is to sell people pot.

If coca cola were made illegal, something that is bad for you by many metrics but hardly life destroying, people are not going to switch to hard liquor in the same way.

Kidnapping, hard drugs, smuggling, all of these are sources of income, but they're dwarfed by pot sales. The hope is that the cartels can only maintain the empires they have with a huge money maker like marijuana, and without it, they may get more desperate and expand the worst of their operations, but they will still shrink in their influence, power, geography and labor force.
Gosh Darn Function Pointers
I have tweets out of chronological order 20-30+ tweets down from the top...

I’m assuming it’s different for you because you check Twitter often? In either case the feed is most definitely not in chronological order,
but determined by an opaque, secret algorithm.
Am I the only one who enjoys these mindless toils? I just listen to a podcast or audio book and relax. Domestic duties are great for this. It's almost mediation.
I'm glad I'm not the only one! I thought this was going to be an article that was a philosophical/thought experiment, but nope. The author meant actual light. Pretty disappointed.
Golf is not for everyone, but there is nothing quite like planning a shot in your mind and then executing it.

I love walking towards my ball, with my clubs clinking together softly and the breeze rustling through the trees. I can shut out the world and just focus on the next shot. It's glorious.

On the other hand, golf is so easily ruined by misogynistic snobs in power carts having temper tantrums about bad shots. I suspect that is most people's experience of golf (that and boredom), which is a shame because it can be such a wonderful experience.
>Right now, BTC is a basically useless asset. You can't buy things with it (without paying more than using dollars). You can't cost-effectively transfer money with it (fees are too high and transaction times are too long). What can you do with it? Sit on it, and hope it goes up. (Which is what I'm doing with the small amount I still hold.)

Illegal activity, dodging capital controls, etc.
Putting public pressure on Emirates, by Airbus's outgoing sales chief: "buy now or you won't be able to buy in the future"

"Mr. Leahy, the Airbus chief operating officer, said on Monday that the A380’s best days were ahead. Passenger traffic is doubling every 15 years, he said, meaning that the original rationale for the model still holds."

They just need to tide it over the lean years.

EDIT: clarified what I meant with "pressure"
> third-party joycons

You don't like first party Nintendo controllers better? I always find first party to be higher quality, even if the third party one is more expensive.
Exactly this. The only difference between Web API and MVC in the .Net world is one returns a JSON payload and the other returns HTML. They both use the same pipeline and architecture.
I couldn't point to anything specific besides general human nature and in my opinion that suggests that if it can be done for a profit it will be done.

So to me it seems highly unlikely that there isn't some flavor of manipulation going on. There are random alt coins with multi-billion dollar market caps. There are fortunes being minted, people are surely manipulating something.

I think the interesting question though is will the world long term become the new manipulated view or will it eventually all just fall part.
Yeah, so dmenu might potentially cover the command input bit but AFAIK it's really just like Enso, QuickSilver, Launchy etc. What I'm thinking of doesn't really index executables per say but allows for the registration of commands.

What I'm thinking of is limited in scope to "commands" that are registered with the component. Maybe dmenu can be bent to this use case; thanks for the link.
I imagine they made that choice with the intention of preventing others from wrestling control from the devs with a libre fork at the early stages of development when they weren't sure just how much money they would make through Patreon. The release cycle favors Patreon subscribers by a week or two. As compatibility rounds out, this will be less of a draw.

It's a little similar to how PJ64 did things for a while with their donor system, except AFAIK PJ64 is still closed source.
I don't think it's constructive to look at this in such a black and white fashion. Limiting speech is permitted and performed for good reason on a vast scale. Yes, there are similarly for good reasons limitations!

Nobody has articulated that this restriction is harmful; nor protected; and certainly not why. By contrast, the harms of the messages limited thusly are rather more clear.

Furthermore, you're trying to draw some really broad analogy, and find that facebook is the government and thus that constitutional protections apply to enforcement by facebook. I mean... that's murky at best - and note that even if this were direct government censureship it's not even clear this would be a bad idea or whether the hypothetical governmental corolloray would be constitutionally prohibited (which is particularly unclear since nobody knows exactly what that might be).

Facebook is excercising disgression in which content to publish to whom, and when. They also happen to make a lot of money like that. So regardless of the original authors rights; it's not at all clear that facebook should be immune from prosecution for publishing prohibited content. In a sense, this new law is still letting them off unreasonably lightly.

I think we as societies still need to figure out what the heck the age of data science means for free speech. I don't think being all fundamentalist about that is going to help, in any case.
The Patreon "subscribers" get updates a week before it is released for free.

Updates are always really good too, something that you would want to have a week early.
Pirate checking in, watched them light up playing tether ball on lone tree.

Father was U2 pilot
I had never heard of what3words before. It's a super cool and potentially incredibly useful idea.

I wonder how they manage altitude (would a cave underground have the same 3 words as the patch of surface above it?).

I also wonder how this is a monetizable product that warrants a company behind it. It seems like it'd be a perfect fit for open source work.

Thanks for letting me know!
I sometimes ignore that when flagging articles. There is no way to say why you flagged something except to comment.

Also I think that is more about comments that are nothing more than saying you flagged something. If a comment is acceptable without the words "flagged" then it should be acceptable with those extra few letters.

I have noticed a lot of quasi press releases and advertisements on the site lately.
Maybe a bit, but a single broken window pane would be far easier to re-seal and protect from fallout than the literal wind sieve that is my house.

Every window in our house (save two) are the jalousie type common in older homes in Hawaii. [1]

[1] https://modernize.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/jalousie-wi...
This is all very good advice. It costs me nothing to recognize my privilege as I endorse it.

edit: My story is about developing the opportunities to leave several different mediocre bosses, sometimes more than once! It really did work out for me, even when I made the decision to go back to the devil I knew.

All of these mediocre bosses were well-intentioned former engineers and I have no lingering ill will toward any of them. The part I left out of the story, is that behind the scenes in all of this, was the layer of management above and around them. I was incredibly fortunate that a Voltron had sort of built itself around me. Other engineers I barely got to know, noticed my work. The executive overseeing the departments at both companies paid attention to what his reports were doing. He didn't want to listen to me lament every possible bit I ever might have to twiddle, but he was a significant guiding force in my career for years before I even realized it.

It is possible to develop relationships like this, through good faith efforts. But I honestly don't know how I would pass along any advice about this, other than by being as honest as possible about what happened in my life. Essentially: Look Around.
Generally - the "willful, illegal transportation of migrants into another country".

If you're interested in reading more into how cartels operate, I'd highly recommend the book Narconomics by Tom Wainwright - https://www.amazon.com/Narconomics-How-Run-Drug-Cartel-ebook...

Editing in an excerpt from Chapter 9: Diversifying into New Markets: “The basic option is to sneak over the frontier with a guide on foot, hoping to avoid the US Border Patrol’s sentries. For those with deeper pockets, or without the stamina to wade through rivers or cross deserts and mountains, there is a luxury option: crossing “in the line,” meaning walking up to the immigration desk with fake documents. Coyotes buy a secondhand visa, and make the client up to look like the person in the photo. A guide surreptitiously directs the migrant to whichever line is moving fastest—a sign that the person on duty is giving the documents only a cursory check. No detail is overlooked: the coyotes even put souvenirs in their clients’ bags to make them look like day-trippers.”

Excerpt From: Tom Wainwright. “Narconomics.” iBooks.
New supported Puppet modules make Kubernetes deployments easier
After my uncle sold his chain of Byte Shop computer stores, he started a business selling Apple ][+ clones to the Soviet Union. He told me he traded them for lumber -- this was after the olympics and I guess the vodka boycott was stillin effect.
In the MtGox case, the exchange was (allegedly) fraudulently buying BTC with cash that didn't exist, which could theoretically continue for as long as they have enough cash on hand to satisfy withdrawal requests. IANAL but in the US that sounds like blatant wire fraud at the very least; I'm not sure about the relevant Japanese law.
Nettime – networked cultures, politics, and tactics
No citation unfortunately. My friend who runs a dispensary told me.
"abuses of power and nasty behavior" ... "produce things like"... how is this "question" supposed to be addressable?

how would you defend the historical abuses of power and nasty behavior by government? there's a lot more democide to answer for than there are murders by malign corporations.
A price list like this should be mandatory for all doctors.
You're missing a catchy name, a logo and a dedicated URL.
Generally yes, but I have yet to hear a single positive thing about the joycons. Word on the street is they're cheap and unreliable and the exact opposite of ergonomic. The usual Nintendo approach of throwing decades of controller design research out the window.

If you watched their E3 presentation, it was entirely focused on how awesome the controllers were. They got significantly more attention than any other aspect of the console. This was the first major sign that something was wrong. It seemed almost like they were trying to convince themselves of the controller's quality and usefulness.

I've also heard that there are issues with the controllers working correctly when a cellphone sits between them and the console, and this is pretty major considering a mobile phone is more or less required for online multiplayer.

I will hold back until something better appears, unless it seems like that just isn't going to happen.
A single dialog box is meaningless, as any UX designer (and IT professional) knows.
Open-Sourcing GraphCMS
People looking to hedge futures contracts
I like to use A380 as an analogy when a team works to perfect a product, adds lots of features, rewrites it a few times with the latest most buzzword-compliant technology, tests it until it is absolutely perfect, and ships it. ... Only to find out by that time the market has moved on and nobody wants to buy that kind of a thing anymore.

Pretty sure that's a common theme for companies which end up on https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
But the smaller planes are more efficient and scale better.
How so? From what this (very brief) articles says, "Chinese authorities will also target individuals and companies that provide [...] settlement [...] services"

No matter what protocol and software is used, at some point, people will want to convert cryptocurrency to/from yuan. This cannot be done anonymously -- the options are face-to-face or via traditional banking system. In either case, it is pretty easy for authorities for find and arrest the relevant people.

I bet less than a hundred people arrested will be enough to scare everyone else so that all major exchanges will get closed.
I believe Paddle (https://paddle.com) has hosted payment forms which can be used for one-time or subscription purchases, with additional forms to e.g. update card info for particular a subscription.
Except "why does Snell's law over a continuous gradient effect the path of shortest time?" is equivalent to asking "why is the universe quantum?"

It's plenty bizarre that electricity follows the path of least resistance, light the shortest path, etc.
Seattle and Vancouver aren't really comparable because even though they're both building dramatically more multi-unit buildings than in previous decades, what they're building isn't the same.

For various reasons Seattle builds almost entirely purpose built rental apartments and nearly no condos. In Vancouver it's the reverse.

Seattle now has a 5% vacancy rate whereas Vancouver has sub 1%, despite the fact that Vancouver has multi unit construction at all time highs (33k at the moment).

It's a deeply complex problem and there's more to it than just building more. Clearly what Vancouver is building is not the right product to increase vacancy.
If you follow @FakeUnitedJeff (United CEO parody account, but obviously an insider), he said this today:

"I predict Airbus will abandon the A380 soon and the type will phase out of non-Mideast 3 as they hit their first major maintenance check or lease end."

Worth nothing that the first A380 to enter passenger service just finished its 10-year lease to Singapore Airlines. SA chose to return the plane.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-08/parked-in...
Smartphones are nightmarish enough in an actual emergency-- try unlocking your phone and calling 911 when you've got blood all over your hands, or you're actively sinking in a submerged vehicle in a dark and frozen lake. Or if fluids get into the TFT, good luck getting the screen to stay on long enough for you to press anything at all.

There are better ways. Government has the money to arm police with grenade launchers and MRAPs. The telcos have no end of cash from mobile data exploitation.

Nobody is suffering except the people. Spend the money. Fix the goddamn infrastructure.
Centrally controlled, eh? Can't wait to see the first fleet attack that disables (or worse) tens of thousands of cars on the road.
Censys subdomain finder
There is an important distinction however with regards to exercising the so-called "private copy rights" — at least in the case of European law, I cannot speak about other regions — which is that the source of the data you copy must be licit. Which means that your private copy right allows you to copy the ROM from a cartridge that you bought, but not copy the data from a torrent since (presumably) the uploader had no right to put it there.

Post-scriptum : read that for a better understanding of why it matters where the bytes came from, even if they are identical and should make no difference from a computer science point of view : http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
The Tether 'situation' worries me most. As far as I can tell Kraken is the only exchange that even allows tether to fiat trade, and that's just the first thing about the whole story that worries me.
my fault, un-edited.
Demystifying How to Buy and Sell CryptoCurrencies
That is one of the cars that fits my criteria, along with one of the models that BMW has out (i3, is it?). The problem I have is the styling, they are styled to look different than a regular sedan (also I didn't really care for the ride, the Volt felt like driving a lower end model). The thing I like about the Fusion is that it is a regular car model, that has hybrid and plugin as options (kind of like picking different sized ICE engines). The thing that I really like about the Fusion Hybrid is that it really feels nice to drive -- smooth, kind of like a magic carpet (I'd imagine that a Tesla feels similar).

Ideally, I'd like to see this for nearly all manufacture models -- electrification added to existing lines, instead of whole new designs.
This is the CVE:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-3765

And this is Lenovo's page on the issue:

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len-16095
Machine Learning and the Bane of Romanization
Actual map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Inland_C...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Customs_Line
I think it's an important reminder that markets need some level of transparency to function. And perhaps that relatively simple regulation (like a requirement to publish the prices -- or in other areas the first sale doctrine) might be the best regulation where feasible....
I agree. It was confusing to say "synthetic". What I meant was something like "food ingredients that would otherwise be present only in trace quantities".

What's problematic is how "Generally Recognized as Safe" (GRAS) has been redefined. Instead of "something that's historically been in food, and hasn't injured people", it's become "anything that isn't clearly toxic in short-term testing".
There is liability for lying in ads, but the ruling was that no reasonable person could watch that ad and conclude they were seriously offering a Harrier Jet.

And there is liability for lying in reporting news.
> The existence of mechanisms that bypass authentication or authorization are unacceptable to Lenovo and do not follow Lenovo product security or industry practices

What about their own installation of spyware like Superfish[1] or even harder to remove UEFI malware[2]? Apparently they are OK with doing it, when they do it themselves.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039870
Article says:

..that price would include everything from airfare to the organization's only facility..

Their own pricing disclaimer says otherwise:

Lodging and travel expenses are not included in the price of the procedures.

There seems to be a huge host of pricing disclaimers for every procedure, such as pre-screening and MRIs not included, etc. thus making the article's claim that "the all-inclusive price for every operation is listed on the website" to be false.
Show HN: XBRLStudio, a Windows 10 app for consuming financial data
I thought "responsible disclosure" was a marketing term..?
No need for an app even, I read that (some?) german emergency call centers use a service that will send the caller a text with a link to a website that will then use the browser's geolocation API.