skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you even read what I wrote? They offer neither single/dedicated placement, capacity reservation (nor for that matter arch-specific capacity reservation).

Meanwhile thanks for those links - I didn't realize Google, despite having such a youthful billing system already has the mess that is Instance Size Flexibility, they just call it "inferred instance sizes" instead, nor did I realize their discounting scheme is in fact _more complex_ - committed use discounts are mutually exclusive to sustained use discounts.

That's even harder to model upfront than AWS' offering!
What morality was The Odyssey supporting?
I think the big reason they didn't do that, is that the hardware like that just doesn't exist. It'd probably be possible to engineer something that could do it, but the question is what's the cost of doing that vs attempting to throw a head or two at it to recover the data? They looks like they're much more physically substantial/robust compared to modern heads so it might not be as big a deal. If you end up further damaging the media though it might be a bad thing. But the question is, if it's that delicate of media (flaking off, just scratched to hell, etc.) were you ever going to be able to recover it at all anyway?
Heh, I used to drive around in a '67 Galaxy whose light switch would overheat and the headlights would turn off. Almost always on hilly winding rural roads.

Dash cluster going dark is pretty safe in comparison methinks.

Won't even mention the surplus postal jeep's antics...
These do the trick pretty well. Considering the cost could you not install them?

http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/products/textiles-rugs/curtains-bl...
also kdb's k and q languages
Or they’ve been using it for awhile and thought of the problem as the guys posting blatant herbal viagra & work from home scams, not realizing that the spammers weren’t just the bottom feeders any more.
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But the rational fear they once had is no longer justified. The judge on that TV show has no reason to be weary of the contestant's husband at all, it's completely irrational. And anyone that looks at that situation and says, "actually, history shows he's justified in his xenophobia" is making the same irrational mistake.
> everyone please just get the flu vaccine!

There is evidence that the flu vaccine may increase your risk of dying from the flu in future years. I still got it this year, but it's also not at all clear that spending twenty bucks to keep a thing of elderberry extract in the house is a worse option.
I secretly hope your first name is [Eu]Gene.
I think the addendum you linked to is a refinement of the response I linked to. I haven't read the addendum thoroughly yet (I hadn't seen it before), but it seems to be much better than the one I cited. For one thing, he defers nit-picking in favour of going straight into the more important stuff.
> My edit in brackets) You meant towards improving Nylas Mail, not Thunderbird?

No. What I wrote is what I meant.

> it sounds like Nylas was reaching out Mozilla to replace Thunderbird with their re-licensed Nylas Mail

Yes. (But not "replace", necessarily. Replace parts. Merge. Improve.)

> I'm not sure that ever happened

Uh, okay? If you hadn't heard that before, that's... fine. But, I mean, now you have. And I don't know what else to say.

> I'm not sure GPL is a totally suitable license for Mozilla Foundation

You're right; it's not. Thunderbird is MPL. They can't accept GPL contributions and continue to make releases available under MPL. That's why I specifically mentioned how Nylas relicensed their code to one that is compatible (MIT).

> I'm fully agree that upstream Thunderbird could clearly indicate their will to move off Gecko

I didn't say move off Gecko. I said dropping XUL. Moving off Gecko is almost definitely not in plans for the short term, and probably not even in the long term.

This conversation has been excruciating.
> This would be better efficacy than tamiflu.

The company that makes Tamiflu faked the research on its efficacy, so it's not clear that in provides any benefit at all.
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Rolls eyes. 0 or 1 based indexing is one of the smallest thing to worry about in a programming language.
Well, type hints are a relatively new addition to Python and while they are nice, not every code has them and you cannot rely on them 100%. Python in general is a cool language that you can build stuff fast in but is is also extremely dynamic which doesn't make it good for IDE support where you often want to know where stuff is coming from in one click. Large code bases can get very confusing and navigating in a module you don't know is easier with IDE support.

Debugging in Python has gotten very nice but I feel like it's still easier in Java. I'm always very bad at finding examples, sorry :/
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So you're saying the contestant's husband poses an actual legitimate threat to the judge? Or is it just a stereotype he's reacting to?
The Falcon Heavy not only lifts vastly more (it will be the most powerful rocket excepting the Saturn V - which has not been in commission since 1973), but I think understating the scale of price difference is also not really reasonable.

The Falcon Heavy is looking at a cost of around $85 million. The Delta-4 Heavy starts at $400 million. Compare price per kg and it's quite insane. For low earth orbit that's $1,332/kg for a Falcon Heavy and $13,893/kg at the low end pricing for a Delta-4 Heavy. The Falcon 9 weighs in at $2,684/kg.

Each cut in price opens up possibilities that were not there before. Make it $1/kg and that'd be rather self evident, but each price decline opens up the doors for companies and individuals who previously were only being held back by price.
> once a rocket is more than a meter off the ground, it's either going to space or exploding

Unless you're a Grasshopper!
Wow, I found it fascinating to read such a detailed description of the architecture of a running business! Is anyone else aware of similar blog posts from other companies?
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Wait, are you seriously saying that Grendel and his mother have no moral valence in the context of Beowulf? As far as the Odyssey is concerned, Athena (Odysseus' patroness and mentor) is literally the god of wisdom and justice. If that's not at least some indication that what he's doing is justified, I don't know what is.
You can even use it to make a great pie crust

https://www.cooksillustrated.com/articles/37-foolproof-pie-d...
Our marketing is currently geared towards teams, so our pricing starts at 12k USD/yr for a 10 user subscription. We haven't yet rolled out official individual pricing so I don't want to jump the gun here by announcing prematurely, but if you start a free trial and mention you're seeking a single user, we can discuss further via email.
Social networking IS the Internet in many ways. It’s been a natural extension of the Internet since the early days of forums and things like IRC.

To say social networking is a failed experiment is to say that the Internet is a failed experiment - nonsense.

Now I think what you mean to say is that you don’t like the UX of algorithmic feeds and firehose-style content/advertising. That’s fair.

But to write off social networking as a concept? That’s silly. The internet is so powerful because it is social.
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The pseudocode in the article is a curious touch. I wonder where they're going with this. You've gotta love the convenient 'when' statement.
If the writers are any good, the white walkers will also turn out not to be clearly bad.
> It's one of the biggest reasons not to use Python IMO. No other popular language has this issue.

No other popular language struggles with issues of backwards incompatibility? That's a huge exaggeration.

> Difficult to distribute standalone programs. You end up having to bundle an interpreter which is a pain.

I guess then you generally prefer not to use interpreted languages?

> So many programs include python interpreters you end up with insane path issues...

How is that? There's usually a system Python which system programs should reference explicitly if they care. If you code up a Python program without being careful about its dependencies, then yeah you're asking for trouble. But that's true of any program, whether it needs to locate an interpreter or be compiled against a shared library.

None of the pain points you mention are inherently specific to Python. But maybe Python's huge success and ubiquity trick people into conflating general software development issues with Python issues; rather like how people start confusing popular brand names with actual products (e.g. Band-Aids).
Who else was hoping to see some Perl scripts running in a shell on the dash of the Delorean..
Is there a tool that would create a notebook from the command-line?
Are you just trying to goad me or do you seriously not know? The famous Greek virtues: courage, justice, temperance, prudence.
> The code comparison between CloudFormation’s abysmal JSON formatting and Terraform’s DSL is a bit disingenuous.
CloudFormation has supported YAML for at least a year or two now, and it’s leagues more readable and compact, not to mention maintainable—you can even add comments to your code with YAML (something that is impossible with the old JSON format).

There are also decent tools atop CloudFormation for using an actual programming language instead of whatever HCL wants you to think it is. The Cfer[0] project that I contribute to (and use as the underpinnings for the Auster[1] cloud workflow tooling) is the thinnest possible wrapper around CloudFormation that we could come up with. But it just by existing lets us do things like...y'know...if statements and loops...without breaking our backs. Code reuse is better than whatevery module reuse, too; I wrote a gem, which this reminds me that I need to open source, that lets me roll out a standardized three-tier network of varying size (important because AWS tends to work best with /24 subnets but hey, you might want more than three of them per tier) without really thinking about it too hard.

(Back when Terraform was new, I tried writing a halfway decent DSL on top of it; turns out "it's really just JSON under the hood" was untrue and no testing had been done on that path. I assume it has since. But HCL still exists, and HCL is still pretty awful.)

I would say not to use Terraform if you're using only AWS, because Terraform has a nice habit of hosing your state when you look at it funny and I've had it literally regress to the point of making states in version X unreadable in version X+1. But those issues are separate from the clunky DSL.

[0] - https://github.com/seanedwards/cfer

[1] - https://github.com/eropple/auster
And Don Knuth's first publication [1].

[1] The Potrzebie system of weights and measures. MAD Magazine 1(33), pp. 36–37, June, 1957.
I have a hard time imagining how such a law could be enforced though.
Oh, I know the other ad networks used to do this since forever. But Google's ad network used to pretend to be better. It started way back when they initially served text-only ads, which were perceived by many users as much more pleasant (and even more likely to click) than distracting banner ads (let alone animated ones).

Most people (that care about this kind of thing) already knew that many of the other ad networks allowed this sort of thing. The more shady, the more likely.

Google wasn't like that. And this gained them a lot of goodwill, for providing a good clean ad network without all the dancing monkey scams. They just did the tracking with their own scripts, providing a dashboard/control panel with stats to the advertisers.

I'm really curious since when they started allowing 3rd party scripts to be included in their ads. And I am not at all surprised if the "big announcement" of this feature was kind of a quiet affair. Because this is the first time I hear Google Ads allows this and I'm just,... yeah. Surprised? Disappointed? Mostly just very pissed off.

I was already blocking most ads, but if you ever expect me to whitelist anything ever again, you better host the ad yourself and not use a 3rd party network, because apparently all of them are scum. Funny detail: if you host the ad yourself you don't even need to ask me to whitelist it, because most adblockers simply don't block these things as they are not distinguishable from a thumbnail link to an external domain :)
There is no mechanisms of action, unlike flu shots.
A couple of links:

"Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans" by Stanislaw Lem: https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm

"Radical Detours - A Situationist Reading of Philip K. Dick", a master's thesis by Andrew Raba: http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1006...
I think this decision makes sense, especially from a support perspective.

I understand that Wayland is good and working for a large number of users in Fedora. however I'd be inclined to think that Canonical may choose to go Wayland in 18.10 at the earliest giving them most of the cycle to 20.04 to work out the kinks, likewise we can hope for improvements in GPU support along the way.
To be honest, you can be pretty damn awful as a writer and still become successful if you write what people want to hear. Lots of terrible books sell really well because they were well marketed and offered people a sort of escapism that they wanted at any cost. And if you want a non book example, well just look at many news sites. From those fake news pages complained about in the election to all matter of niche ones and even mainstream publications, there are quite a few utterly terrible stories that have become hugely popular simply because they published at the right time and got the interest of an audience who wanted to hear exactly that.
Christianity is about good and evil, but I don't think it's about good people vs bad people
The letter to Wired was the main response, the 'Errors in "The Curse of Xanadu"' document was the detailed addendum to that which (I'm 98% sure) was the target of the now-dead http://xanadu.net/wolfsbane link (yes).
> For ads it makes a certain amount of sense... you can put animations in the ads that are driven by JS, or make the ads interactive.

Does nobody remember that Google Ads actually got popular first because they didn't allow for this kind of crap?
Closed hardware has what advantages? I can see forcing consumers onto one platform has advantages (as well as disadvantages) but closed hardware by itself has no advantages I can see.
Pure grain alcohol, such as Everclear, will generally do those jobs better. I make limoncello with Everclear, which does a much better job of extracting oils and flavors than regular vodka. And it does the job much faster, especially if you have access to 190 proof. Of course you have to dilute down to the proper strength when the extraction is complete.
This should probably point to the original announcement from Canonical: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2018/01/26/bionic-beaver-18-04-l...
Just tried to sign up and I got an error on form submission. Looks interesting!
What I'd like to know is what is the difference between paying an influencer to tweet about your product with their account vs paying Devumi to tweet about your product with their accounts?

Is the first any more legitimate?
It looks cool, but I don't really want to wait half a minute for it to do anything.

$ time curl cs.marlboro.college
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="https://cs.marlboro.college /">here</a>.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at cs.marlboro.college Port 80</address>
</body></html>

real	0m0.269s
user	0m0.004s
sys	0m0.005s

$ time http cs.marlboro.college
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 321
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:04:17 GMT
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Location: https://cs.marlboro.college/
Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="https://cs.marlboro.college/">here</a>.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at cs.marlboro.college Port 80</address>
</body></html>

real	0m30.553s
user	0m0.437s
sys	0m0.052s
They can splice some of that into my genome.
Um, actually a landlord. And yes, we definitely do credit checks.
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As a student I would often walk home in the middle if the night, bright as day.

Pretty weird when taking summer holidays in southern Europe, and it gets dark like 8 or so in the evening.
This is the spearmint paper, describes how bayesian search algorithms can be parallelized in practice. There was also a very gentle introduction to bayesian optimization, I think it's one of the referenced papers. Cannot seem to find it right now.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.2944.pdf
Is that you, Adam Ferris?
Haha nice Markov Chain going there
Placebo's work even when people know they are taking one.[1]

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...
One of the possible contributing factors to the 1918 influence death rate was the use of aspirin to treat patients. It was put under the “can’t hurt” bucket.

While something harmless like a food product seems like a harmless enough recommendation, remember aspirin is a chemical equivalent to white willow bark tea.

Edit: a sample source for increased influence mortality with salicylate therapy

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/9/1405/301441
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Well, in the US, you can get capital one's 1.5% cash back credit card with no annual fee, and citi has a 2% card. That's basically free money for substituting that for your debit card and spending what you were going to spend anyway. Amex has a card that gives you 6% back on groceries on the first 6k with a (iirc) $95 fee; that's a solid win for most people with families and even couples that pay bay area grocery prices.

The cash comes out of some admixture of the people still using their debit cards, idiots who borrow money from the credit card companies at 20% annually, and the card companies merchant fees.
Is there any good sequence of moocs to let an engineer go from mostly-forgotten high school biology and chemistry to understanding the cutting edge of aging research?
Nothing stops the developers of--let's say--XFWM4 to create a Wayland version that is identical to Xorg's.
I’ll just add that it wasn’t a technological limitation - providers were simply profiting by selling every additional MB at hefty prices. When GMail appeared, it broke their business model... but there are still providers selling ridiculously low amounts of space for a lot of money, usually to people who don’t really know anything about the internet.
Malwarebytes is consuming large amounts of RAM
The New York Times can graph and identify bots, and other publications / bloggers have been able to identify networks of them. Supposedly, the best and brightest get recruited by companies like Twitter and Facebook, but for some reason they're incapable of identifying and shutting these things down?

What is all the hubbub about machine learning, and things like neural networks, if they aren't being actively employed by the tech giants?

There's only a couple possible scenarios I can come up with for why this continues to occur:

1) The best and the brightest actually don't work for any of these companies; they're just constantly trying to catch up to teams of developers more highly skilled than them. They are bright, and decent, but ultimately mostly average.

2) The developers in these companies are on par with those who can graph and identify these networks of malicious and fake content makers, but they just don't care because # == $.

3) The companies actually have their head so far in the sand that they don't have the technology, or the resources, to combat this.

I find it hard to believe that people outside of the ecosystem of these companies have more skill, knowledge, or capabilities (1). It also pains me to think that hundreds of millions or billions of dollars simply cannot run a company that can combat this (3).

So that seems to leave complacency (2), which is disturbing and definitely should send up more red flags about whether we should be giving these networks any attention at all.

I'd love to hear other possibilities or maybe more information to back up any of the other scenarios.
I think your points make sense, but at the same time I would also hesitate to risk destroying a relationship with a friend. So maybe I'd prefer a stranger.
Existing Data proves he is right. One needs to research deeper into this.
He designed a system that, to this day, is still more in the realm of science than engineering. Systems are full of nth-order effects that have to be discovered and worked around in some practical way.

From what I've read of the Autodesk days, he wasn't even on site. Whether he's a programmer or not is immaterial. You've got to birth your own baby. That's just how it works.
Yeah, it's really annoying.

I find that :reloadall helps my sanity a lot if I'm navigating through lots of already open tabs, and I've just about got used to using <C-Tab> rather than gT.

We're trying to extend web-extensions to get around the limitations [1], but progress is slow.

[1] https://github.com/cmcaine/keyboard-api
Sorry to reply on this thread but I wasn't sure how to contact you otherwise. Thank you for your comments regarding my landing page copy. I think you are right, and I was assuming my bad experiences were what others would experience. I revised my page based on your feedback. So thanks.
Interesting article, thanks for sharing. It seems Gingerich mainly focuses on how a shift occurs -- he makes a strong critique of the supposed crisis in Ptolemic astronomy that was the precursor to Copernicus and instead argues for that broader sociocultural developments enabled the change in cosmological perspective.

For me, the concept of paradigms themselves was the most fundamental part of the book. Gingerich doesn't seem to take issue with this, at least not in this article.
Forgive the self promotion but I'm building a subscription video site - http://stackleap.com/ - to teach people how to build and deploy to AWS infrastructure.

The difference between StackLeap and sites like acloud.guru is that I'm focussing on the day to day stuff rather than high level concepts you need to know to pass the certification exams.

I'm hoping to launch a beta in the next few weeks.
As a person who might point out a fallacious argument on the internet, what do you see as a more useful alternative?

From my perspective it's not so much about the structure of a debate as it is about excluding that which is not true - which is, of course, not to say that the conclusion itself must be false (though if I cannot formulate a coherent/valid argument, I suppose that doesn't bode well...)
While I agree with your point about the keyboard, I'm not actually sure that's what EWD was on about. He famously thought people should be learning to program without actually using a computer. My reading of the letter is that the complaint is about needing a computer at all.
That is a misconception and has been debunked (same goes for reading in dim light), I been a kid like that and I basically spend all day since the last 15y in front of a computer and I have near perfect eye sight. The "screen time" is not at fault per se if you get enough outside time. The reason is not just any "sunlight exposure" but it is about UV radiation that is important for the development of the eye.
As a coder I like multi-line string, but as a compiler or data format designer I find they can complicate error handling and parsing of long files.