skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: AWS budget capping service?
Hello!

I'm working on a new project of mine where I'll be offloading a fair few files to S3/cloudfront. Now I'm a little bit short on cash at the moment and this will be my first proper use of AWS at any kind of scale and I'm a bit hesitant to write them a blank cheque. If something goes wrong or I suddenly get a billion visits then I'd rather be cut off than face runaway thousands in charges.

Trawling through Amazon's forums there are posts as far back as 2006 saying a 'max budget' feature is in the works but then nothing. There are links to third party services that are ether dead or look, ahem, rustic. I was wondering what some of you guys might use to keep tabs on your charges and allows you to cap spending. My initial preference is for a reliable web-based service - I can manage a server myself but I'm not sure I have the skillz to run my own monitoring scripts properly.

Anyone who can help me out will receive a blank cheque in the post...
There are laws, and social mores - but those certainly don't stop people from hacking road signs or removing traffic signals.(1,2) Moreover, unlike spikes on the road, a tampered-with indicator might not be immediately obvious, even in its effects.

Anyway, I finally had a chance to read through the patent; it's enough of a concern that they specifically address it:

"In some embodiments, the data provided by the reference indicator 250 may be encoded or cryptographically signed for security purposes. By providing encoded or cryptographically signed data, the ability for a third party to disrupt the autonomous vehicles may be mitigated."

(1) http://www.google.com/search?q=sign+hacking
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_sign_theft
Yes, I realize that most of our electricity comes from coal, natural gas, and nuclear. However, that fact doesn't preclude the idea of using solar, wind, tidal, and geothermal energy to generate all electricity. It's much more difficult to use these energy sources to power automobiles than it is for trains.
For Startup Employees, Getting Rich Has Never Been More Complicated
I don't mean to be adversarial, but could you provide examples?

>Yeah, that's why the stock market promotes cancerous growth of companies.

I have troubles with this sometimes. I lie awake at night and think about the little I know about finance and economics and I wonder - is this all a zero sum interaction? Abstractly, the earth is a closed system, right?

Of course, value and money are also abstractions and so aren't directly pegged to any physical constants, so maybe in real terms it doesn't matter either.

Anyhow, my understanding is that the narrative I used above works for stock markets and single shareholder companies.

I have a fixed amount of hours/year to invest in my company/enterprise. Let's suppose it's profitable and yields oh 250k in profit/direct wages to you, the single shareholder.

If your total amount of profit remains constant, you're losing money just via diminished purchasing power. Your employees will demand raises, which means you have to raise prices and/or squeeze more productivity out of your company, yadda yadda yadda. If you don't keep growing… you end up finding yourself in a position where you will begin to contract, and it's easier to go down than to go up.
I've seen first hand that even a large "fortune top 10 places to work" silicon-valley company forces IE6 on their staff. You don't have to look very far.

I did see Chrome installed as well so that might be their solution :)
> The idea that Republicans are "compromising" by passing a tax cut really says it all here

You're not paying attention. Obama and the Dems DEMANDED a specific payroll tax cut, which the Repubs provided.
All of the above, and the enormous boomer demographic is hitting the age where eyesight is fading.
I love webfaction. I'm building my app solo and I'm not a linux expert so when the shit hits the fan, they're a good last resort to help me figure out where I screwed up. Great customer service.
> 229A is close to worthless
> This course included gems such as "if you don't know what a derivative is, that is fine".

It also included other gems like debugging models with learning curves, stochastic gradient descent, artificial data and ceiling analysis. I have not come across practical things like these in more mathematically oriented ML books that I have tried reading in the past.

Interestingly, your arrogance is in sharp contrast with the humility of the professor, where he admits in places that he went around using tools for a long time(like SVM) without fully understanding the mathematical details.
Yes, and ARM is everywhere.
You can install both. The new multiarch support builds blahblah:i386 and blahblah (implicitly blahblah:amd64) debs for source packages that have it enabled. Before that, packages that wanted to provide i386 binaries on amd64 wrote their own extra build support, and added a suffix to the binary package names to avoid collisions.

Here's what I found on how to support LD_PRELOAD without a $LIB dynamic string token:

Looking at this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/12/msg00300.html it seems you could put a relative path in LD_PRELOAD and count on the linker to use architecture-dependent search paths. I'll also link these two threads for context, though they didn't provide answers: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.user/974 (chatting) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372626 (concatenating the two libs in LD_PRELOAD works, but is noisy).
Hasn't Twitter straight out requested that people not develop more clients? Example article:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_tells_developer...

Open sourcing it would just help people to publish slightly different versions with little effort - which is what they say they don't want...
Get Your War On comes out of retirement to kill SOPA
HJC Chairman Smith says "Google [made] billions by working with rogue websites"
*MixRank (FTFY)
A statement from, actually, Louis CK
I love it when people I perceive to be famous take the time to personally reach out to a couple of thousand people like this, so I thought I'd share for those who didn't opt-in.

Hi. This is LOuie. It seriously is me. Im even going to leave
the O stuipdly capatalized because who would pay an intern to do
that?? Okay so you bought the thing with my fat face on it and
you clicked the button that said i could email you. And i know
that now you are thinking "aw shit. Why'd i let this guy into my
life this way?". Well dont worry. Because i really swear it that
i wont bug you. I will not abuse this privalage of having your
email. You wont hear from me again... Probably, unless i have
something new to offer you. The reason i'm writing now, in the
back of a car taking me to the Tonight Show set, is to let you
know that as of now there is some new and cool stuff on my site,
related to Live at the Beacon Theater. Theres a thing where you
can download and print a dvd box cover and label so you can burn
and make your own dvd of the video. And theres a new option where
you can gift the special to as many people as you want (for 5
bucks each) and they'll get a nice gifty email from you with a
link to the video.

Also, some of you may know, i recently made a statement (that
sounds so dumb. Like i'm the president or something) about how the
video has been doing online. Im pasting it in here below in case
you missed it.

Lastly I'm planning to put some more outtakes of the show on
youtube and i think i will put one on the site that is only
available for free to you folks on this list, who bought the
thing and opted in. But dont hold me to that because really i
just thought of it and typed it.

Okay well please have a happy rest of the year and more happy
years after that. And please even have been happy in your past.
What?

Thanks again for giving me 5 dollars. I bought 3 cokes with it.

Regards. Sincerely, Actually,

Louis
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No idea what you're talking about. The OP's description continually refers to "API's". The apostrophe indicates singular possessive, but the OP intended it as a plural.

- This is one API.
- Those are several APIs.
- This API's REST architecture is easy to use.
- Those APIs' REST architectures are hard to use.
Which reminds me, for two of the three years when the Senate didn't pass a budget, the first two years of Obama's presidency, the House didn't pass a budge either and the Senate didn't even try a vote.

During those two years, the House was controlled by Dems and Dems had 60 votes in the Senate (until Kennedy died). How did the Repubs block things then?
Optimization in the world of 64-bit errors
So.cl
The Multi-Dimensional Analog Literals template in C++ is amazing.
Microsoft to Developers: Sorry About the Whole IE6 Thing, Won't Happen Again
Justin.TV link:

http://www.justin.tv/unearthed365#/w/2248548160
wouldn't say out of touch, just get to your information other ways. More adept users aren't searching they're heading to news sources via links, social networks, etc etc.
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress
Launch of Brand New Secret Santa App
HN is certainly a place to market certain political ideas (e.g. Ron Paul) - if you have a different opinion on these ideas, even if it is entirely sincere and polite, you are still modded into invisibility, as if it were trolling not to wish to vote for Ron Paul.

In this respect, HN is (or has become) just like Reddit.

There is a huge editorial bias, even if it is not the perennial 'Hacker News favors YC companies in some insidious way' and even if it isn't 100% from PG himself
Is it just a hunch you have? Why specifically 2020? No snark, just wondering if you've read something that indicates they're coming sooner than later. I mean, I want my driverless car in my lifetime :)
I enjoy looking at these trends every year, but what a painfully designed website. Does this really need to be an overkill javascript "Web application" for what can easily be rendered as a few static pages of lists and facts?

And sheesh, look at that huge amount of space wasted by those persistent top and bottom grey and blue bars. My 1280x800 laptop screen is already constrained enough on the Y axis as it is. The site sure does look modern though. </old man web3.0 rant>
There's another side to it too that isn't popular, but IE was in and of itself a standard. When you own 90% of the market, whatever you do is a de facto standard. And I was pretty okay with that up until they decided to stop doing anything innovative with the browser.
Making a UI disappear is much harder than it seems.

(and I don't mean to compare it to the data mining problem, because you just can't)
I will never go back to text mate. Switched a year ago. Sublime will be actively a maintained forever.
How to Design a Home Page That Converts
Show HN: I created Good Shoppr to Fundraise for Urban Community Development
Keep in mind where browser usage statistics come from, in this case, NetApplications. If your not visiting some chosen list of sites you are not counted. Thus IE6 installs used mostly internally or stats from sites that don't really support IE 6 won't end up getting counted properly.
So if my little brother at home gets caught 6 times, is it okay for me to say "wasn't me, t'was my little bro"?
Interesting skepticism, but if you remember 4 years back a guy figured out how to make a torch that is powered by seawater and when off, does not burn skin (he lights up a metal ball in seconds, then turns off the torch and touches the business end).

If you are at sea, no reason why his mechanism cannot create thrust given unlimited supply of fuel.
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The Fine Line Between a Great Product and a Total Failure
First Look From Agneepath : Item Song Chikni Chameli in Ktrina Kaif
Dwolla Instant a 19% APR Credit Line?
Getting windows media components for quicktime helped me.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylan...
http://arclanguage.org/install

Within that .tar file you will find news.arc (which is what HN is), and a how-to-run-news file as well.
Well in JS you could do String.prototype.fnName = function(){}; to add fnName as a method to all strings even if they are already instantiated, is that possible with Python?
Not all 3D printers use hot sticky material.
And those that do usually have some kind of method to push the material out with pressure. It's not a gravity drop.
The horizontal scrolling with touchpad is jumpy and, at times, not even usable. mac w/ chrome 16.0.912.63
Posted an hour ago, with discussion already:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3356543

Earlier submissions include:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1601062 (489 days ago, 77 comments)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032077 (709 days ago, 6 comments)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639707 (188 days ago)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1973151 (374 days ago)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1137752 (663 days ago)

There are probably more.
It has to be in law because it's in our constitution

Yeah I've heard that too, and could well be true. But we're almost 20 years after the X Case, and it's not put into law when a woman can access an abortion. :P
> If I invest 100 dollars in you, I want to receive a percentage back after a certain while. You need to be able to give me 103 dollars back the next year just to beat inflation, i.e. for this to not have been a complete waste of my time.

Yes.

> In real terms, this means you need to grow your business by at least 3% in order to give me that return.

No.

Suppose you want 3%.

You give me $100 and I buy $100 worth of goods which I then sell for $106. I give you $3 (there's your 3%), keep $3. That leave me with $100 to buy goods to do it all again.

Note that this biz doesn't grow at all but it can throw off 3% as long as I can keep buying at $100 and selling at $106.

What about inflation you say? Multiply all the numbers after the initial $100 by your inflation factor the first year and use the updated numbers (and your inflation factor) each subsequent year.
Physicists use lasers to entangle diamonds
So what? Why would I use Dwolla instead of a credit card?
The future of war: Far-out battle tech
Tech entrepreneurs attack SOPA on the eve of markup
I understand that Twitter said they were going to open source their application a very long time ago, but I've found that if I am interested on how they do anything the folks on the official Android irc channel are very helpful. Their initial version of the application used the dashboard interface that google revealed as the future of Android UI but there was absolutely no example code on how to do it until the recent Google I/O application that was open sourced. The people on the IRC channel helped me replicate that very quickly.

If you were angry enough to write a blog post, you could've also looked into decompiling the code and seeing how they do it yourself. If you use dex2jar:

http://code.google.com/p/dex2jar/

you can see that the view you're discussing is a custom ListView they made called RefreshableListView which actually does extend ListView so it is technically a ListView.
I met Ilya when he was in the Madison, WI area and we've communicated a few times since then. Very smart and helpful.

Good luck!
IBahn, supplier of hotel Internet services, denies breach
So what specifically in this crunching is so specific that Google has an advantage?
Very few people say that "Apple invented X", especially in geek sites. What we DO say however, and are most often correct, is that "Apple popularized X", "Apple finally made the first version of X that masses of people want to use and use", "Apple finally got X right", etc...
If the author is reading this.

AtheOS wasn't a linux distro. It was written from scratch as a hobby OS based on POSIX.

Archlinux was based on Linux from scratch and took some inspiration from crux to keep things simple (I was one of the first volunteers that helped with arch).
I looked at this and thought "Oh cool! I wonder where Gentoo fits into this."

It took me a while to think how to find it, but I eventually got there by looking up what year it was first released and scrolling down that column.
> I think SQL behaves this way

Yes. It's also how NaNs are supposed to work according to IEEE-754.

The only reason why it can be strange in javascript is that it's pretty common to encounter nans in JS as the language tries very hard not to throw errors and likes nans a lot (so `parseInt('foo')` returns NaN instead of `null` or an error), whereas it's very rare in other languages. Pretty much all languages have nans, and all nans behave this way. Here it is in Python:

>>> float('nan')
nan
>>> float('nan') == float('nan')
False
>>> float('nan') != float('nan')
True
>>> a = float('nan')
>>> a == a
False
>>> import decimal
>>> decimal.Decimal('NaN')
Decimal('NaN')
>>> decimal.Decimal('NaN') == decimal.Decimal('NaN')
False
>>> a = decimal.Decimal('NaN')
>>> a == a
False

edit: now that I think about it, there is a difference: in SQL, all operations involving `NULL` (including comparisons) return `NULL`, so `NULL = NULL` => `NULL` and `NULL != NULL` => `NULL`.
How DC Decided To Regulate The Internet To Protect Hollywood From Innovating
Siri very much has an interface -- it's just not the graphical part. The voice interface is still an interface, and still needs to be designed as naturally and nicely as possibly.
They didn't merely tidy it up, they added hardware support and needlessly broke the version people already had that worked without it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3215420
This is a huge argument for shared data libraries where you can enforce the rules of your data in a single place. Not always possible (business-wise) to implement but it is nearly always worth pushing for.
I can't think of any reason a consumer would benefit from this over a credit or debit card. Except maybe if they regularly overdraft and prefer a $5 fee to whatever their bank charges.
Educational institutions using certain testing software from a textbook publishers will probably block updates also. The problem is that, like a lot of enterprise software, the testing sites are fairly fragile and don't react well to changes in browsers. After getting into a situation where students couldn't take tests do to an update, most system admins curse at the sky and then block updates until given the go ahead. It sucks, but the book publishers make poor software.

// ok - just to head off all the switch testing, books, etc. comments - none of those are options. certification testing sites are kinda non-negotiable
Sometimes I wonder how movie studios (and music labels) make money. I watch DVD quality new releases, as well as old movies, via sites such as Putlocker or Megaupload through 1channel.ch. I think they should simply partners with such sites and figure a way to make money with them. These guys won't stop their business.
Is Your Company New to Open Source? Here's Where to Start
> I'm not naive enough to assume that the "greater good" argument is at the heart of what Bill Gates is doing.

Why would that be naive? Hasn't Gates essentially committed to devoting his entire fortune to the greater good?
No, he did not. He mentioned GUIs in another part of his comment --and then went on to comment on the AI interface:

"""Google has shown us time and time again that big data isn't an advantage in creating graphical user interfaces. My sense is that the problems in an AI interface involve just as much design and interface expertise as they do data expertise""".
Open source definitely will not save the planet, but the ideas behind Free Software might.
What about the ones they list? Merchants having to pay a lot to process your money makes things more expensive. That affects you.
White House Iraq page: Fascinating scrolling layer effects
>Sure. When I say growth, I mean "make more money this year than you did the year before".

If I understand tomkarlo's point correctly, he's saying that you don't have to make more money year to year in order to have a viable business. Rather, you simply need to keep expenses low enough to manage a respectable profit for your investors. That profit need not necessarily grow year to year for investors to find it worth holding.

Of course, valuations will be made completely differently for such a company, but that doesn't mean they can't exist.
I laughed at the 10 seconds opening and closing the editor part, try zero seconds, that's more like what vim does.
The best we can hope for is that high consumer adoption rates will force many more sites to drop IE6 support which might spur companies to finally test and upgrade.

It won't, if my experience is anything to go by.

I believe most of the 'IE6 only' apps are not 'on the internet' but in-house only applications.

Ours certainly are.
Percolate Brews $1.5 Million to Help Brands Create Content for Social Web
That's not a JavaScript feature; it's part of the IEEE 754 standard for floating point numbers. NaNs are unordered. Every language that provides standard floating point numbers does it that way.
Presumably based on the wording of the patent, the QR code just contains a URL from which to fetch the actually instructions for the car. Thus I would assume there are security measures built into the instruction retrieval, SSL or some other authentication/encryption scheme. Thus simply changing the QR code wouldn't allow forged instructions to be sent to the car, you'd have to break the security on the data link.
> I would go with _very_ slow.

Yup. Here's a chart to put IE6 v IE8 v IE10 javascript engine into perspective:
http://goo.gl/3ACqo
Thank you. Argg requires a silverlight install too. I'll bite the bullet
> They could raise sales taxes

When transaction taxes become too high, they're evaded as well.

For example, post-prohibition bootlegging in the US lasted as long as the booze tax was "high enough" relative to production cost.

We already have folks smuggling cigarettes in the US to evade taxes. And, in high tax states, some merchants don't collect sales tax.

No, a VAT doesn't stop this - smuggling and off the books manufacture isn't VAT-taxed. (Yes, you may get the VAT on the inputs, but not on any of the downstream value.)
Chaffetz has been really good on civil liberties in general.
Actually, it's in the process of getting worse!
Install IE6-IE9 virtual machines on OSX and Linux using one liner script
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Make sure to scroll the page (wheel or arrow keys) rather than page up/down.
I honestly don't understand the argument.

The post-Infoseek apocalypse: why search when you can visit slashdot.org directly, and use Quake 2 instead of searching for first person shooters?
Is this meant to imply that the U.S. is not an oppressive nation?

I'm sorry, but the U.S. Government has absolutely no problem emulating oppressive nations, and in fact has been a global leader in sponsoring oppression for decades.
1. You need a logo/branding. The header looks like a stock WP template.

2. The footer is good.

3. The main content area needs work. I'd remove the social stuff from there, you already have it in your footer.

4. Where is your call to action? Those two categories in your main content area should be large buttons with a bgcolor that makes them pop a bit.

5. It's a tough sell for me with Meetup.com, I'd start doing some active promotion on there by signing up for tech groups or emailing the leaders to see if they would be interested in listing themselves on your site (or you do it for them).

6. You already know my general location (guestimate), so show me example meetups straight from your main page and list my location. Urge me to change. You already got me on your site, sell me. Don't make me click through another page, I already lost interest. I want to see value add when I hit your page. I want to know you have content pertinent to me.
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"If we can't get the definition of domestic internet site right then we're not ready for prime time." Chaffetz