skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback. We are doing the "t1.micro, m1.small .."translation right now. (Edit : changes pushed)

X axis value seems to be some browser issue. On some browsers it shows up only at reduced zooms. Will fix it.

Also, we are not trying to replace AWS cost calculator. It was more like putting our own dog food out to answer the question, that at what point/usage is the reserved instance better than on demand.
I think that's the day Bing will dominate the search market.
OK, but I would love for those heuristics to focus on assessing the content of the paper, not the reputation of the author, his peers and quotations etc. You can get some vague impression of what's going on in this paper in some 30 minutes, there are many parts that seem strange (he says for 4-stage graphs one can manually verify that his "prooving algorithm" is correct and uses this as an assumption later in his proof), so I would love to hear something about that.
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BitCoin isn't a "threat" to the money issuance monopoly any more than a ton of bricks at the bottom of the ocean is a threat.

What gives money value is demand for the money. Government primes demand by requiring that all payments to the government be made with that money. That is the root of value.

Everything else isn't currency - it's either a barter, a commodity, a ponzi scheme or a scam.
Really? I mean, I would think so, but I see a lot of major insurance plans with very high copays and/or limited to no coverage for annual physicals which would not be the expected behavior of insurance companies felt your annual physical saved them money.
You're arguing semantics. In the Falklands, the ground was British in the first place, and the Argentinians did not occupy the entire island; they repelled an invasion force, and saying that "held ground" is like saying the US has "held ground" from the British since the Revolution. Similarly, Kuwait was friendly territory; I was referring to Iraq.
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maybe he/she was assuming if you are going for heavy reservation you will be using 100% of hours? the other reserved instance pricing changes with hours

havent done a check to see if he was taking into account the discounted hourly price or just adding on on-demand hours...
And the big corporation with too much to lose to feel safe rolling the dice even on a sure thing.
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I know perl (among others) which I really like, but I feel like I have to learn python or ruby to be competitive.
"Could it be, maybe, that your statements reflect the thought of some people that might be denying ecological disasters ?"

That is a nakedly emotionally manipulative reply with no substance. I mean this judgment to apply to your entire post, just quoted the worst part.
I just started going through your tutorials and I have to say I agree with you. Really well done.
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Well, at least people aren't learning English by listening to Howard Cosell.

(Better Off Dead is one of John Cusack's best films, IMO. Even if he hates it.)
Exactly.

I believe there's good money to be made if you find out that P=NP

If you can solve an NP problem in polynomial time you can solve 3-SAT, and if you can solve that you can factor big numbers (even though factorization is 'easier' than NP)

Maybe you can easily reverse hash functions as well with that knowledge.
Heavy utilization reservation is different. See this page http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceS...

Quote from the page above
"
Light and Medium Utilization Reserved Instances also are billed by the instance-hour for the time that instances are in a running state; if you do not run the instance in an hour, there is zero usage charge. Partial instance-hours consumed are billed as full hours. Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances are billed for every hour during the entire Reserved Instance term (which means you’re charged the hourly fee regardless of whether any usage has occurred during an hour). "
I'm a big fan of the open source pyroom[1].
Development has stalled but it's feature complete for me so I don't mind.
FocusWriter also looks good, xplatform & open source [2].

1: http://pyroom.org
2: http://gottcode.org/focuswriter
Number system of some Asian languages (e.g. Chinese) is base 10, so the children can learn Maths easier.
Agreed, and if anything they want people working with .NET even if they don't control it. Their evangelists even encourage use of Mono, MonoTouch, etc. They encourage open sourcing, and it's gradually becoming more and more common to see C# code on GitHub. MVC allows any number of combinations of community-sourced components rather than use EF/Razor/etc.

Meanwhile, we're buying their tools and using their languages in the enterprise, where the real money is. As a .NET developer for a decade now, I'm perfectly happy with the platform and tooling; it's the best of its kind. The OP complains about EF, MVC, and other libraries, but honestly they are some of the best designed platforms out there. There are always some kinks, but who has used Ruby on Rails without having to make some significant workarounds or hacks to get it running? No platform can anticipate everything. Meanwhile, clients need to install only one package to make everything in the stack work. Compare to rubygems.
A quick web prototyping tool with no dependencies above what the browser can run (JS/CSS/HTML).

I'm stuck using HAML and Bootstrap to throw quick mock-ups together. It's great and works fine but I have to load a pre-processor app (like PrePros or Koala) and HAML can't include elements into templates like header like headers/footers I have to copy/paste into every new template I'm putting together.

I looked into Moustache and Hogan but neither of these offered what I'm after and they were pretty difficult to set up.

I think the Mixture app will solve this when released but I've had issues getting the beta to properly run and it looks pretty bulky for what I need.
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The rainforest's use up almost all of the oxygen that they put out. As far as carbon dioxide they are pretty net zero in the end. It is the Algie blooms that produce the oxygen surplus. While fun to say, rainforest's are not the earth's lungs. But don't take my word for it, checkout either the very good video (or search the transcript for "lungs") http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/earth-from-space.html
It's cool, I like it.

Couple of points, it's a distraction-free writer but I've been quite distracted by a couple of things, somewhat OCD: The Twitter image isn't updated when you update your image on Twitter. It's also cut off at the bottom for me when I view the link.

Also I was curious about the use of 'twimg', from the looks of it this is a service which tracks and sells user data. Care to comment? I have a tracker blocker which seems to take care of it.

Having said all that I love the output and simplicity and I will be using it (provided the uptime is good- it was out earlier, possibly due to HN?).
500 years ago is a hugely artificial point to start your forest comparison. For a fair comparison, you need to go back far enough to reach the peak of pre-Columbian civilization in North America. That civilization was heavily agricultural and cut down plenty of trees to make farmland. Old World diseases subsequently wiped out nearly the entire population, and the subsequent reforestation sucked so much CO2 out of the atmosphere that it may have substantially contributed to the Little Ice Age.

For a proper comparison, you need to look at more like 600-1000 years ago. I don't know what the result of that comparison is, or how accurate it can be given how little is really known about pre-Columbian North America, but that's what you need to look at.

The standard picture of North America being virgin wilderness inhabited by scattered tribes until the arrival of the Europeans is dead wrong. That's how settlers found it, but only because roughly 90% of the population had been killed off by disease not long before.
The heuristics I apply go well beyond the ones given in that post. In this case I have taken on board the fact that so many references are just to his own earlier work, and that work is old enough that it should have made a bigger splash. That's a clear indication that this is not likely to be correct, so I'm looking for mistakes, I'm not looking for deep ideas.

And I'm not finding deep ideas. I spent 10 minutes getting a feel for the approach, and I'll come back when I have another 10 or 15 minutes to spare, but it's really, really not looking good.
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This means they weren't buying the product or technology. They were buying the eyeballs, the audiences. Then they invested what was necessary to sustain growth and keep the eyeballs.
> Unless the situation results in criminal prosecution, when the time comes to use that paper trail nobody will care about it.

That's true. Pointing to your paper trail when the shit hits the fan might actually label you as being uncooperative during a critical project; most likely, the manager doing any personnel "cleanup" will be the same that was responsible during the project (line manager vs. project manager). Besides, if a project is doomed, you are not the only one to notice it, so the fact that you pointed it out does not single you out as especially perceptive.
Is there any plans on making this tool accessible? I'm a screen reader user and the sliders don't appear to work with Firefox and Jaws.
Second the must have. I used it to get back into Python after a while. I was able to go through the rough cuts version on Safari Online and it's amazing. Poses a problem then gives you a straightforward, elegant solutions.
yep same feeling. I was even wondering about buying some stocks
Seeing a grouped list of links all at once is much more convenient than seeing (or missing, most likely) each link individually over the course of a few months.
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I love Python's philosophy. But i always prefer Rails for my web projects. Maybe i'm addicted to Ruby and Rails. Could someone show me the way to be additecd to Python ?
The point is that Google obfuscates their search result links so that they do not include search keywords any more -- if you are interested in knowing the keywords, you [typically] have to pay. If you are just looking to know that the referrer was Google, then yes you can see that. However, this is not really useful information to most people.

They implement this in two ways: (1) If you go directly to google.com and type in your search, the results page uses a # in the url which keeps all the query parameters out of the referrer. (2) Google has used (not sure if they still do/randomly test whether or not to) JavaScript redirects which overwrite the url when a search result is clicked. I'm sure there are other ways for Google to hide the referrer -- plus Google and various browser extensions can turn parts of this on/off however they choose.

It is still possible to wind up with a referrer from a Google search where you can see the search keywords, if for example the search is done using the browser address/search bar, and the JavaScript overwriting result urls is not active (turned off by NoScript, etc.). However, this is not in Google's best business interest (if they can convince people to pay for the info) so I am counting on them trending towards making this the least likely of possible scenarios.
It doesn't always work like that. Sometimes a paper is, after enough trying to understand what's going on, simply nonsense. It can be hard work wading through pages of unmotivated and apparently random definitions, trying to find some sense, only to have it completely fall apart.

There aren't always obvious mistakes. Sometimes it makes sense locally, but not globally. Taking an early assessment can help enormously in avoiding time-wasters.
I don't really understand. If the contents of the drive don't implicate him in anything, why do they need him to decrypt it? If they implicate him in something, why doesn't the Fifth Amendment apply? Seems like these are the only two choices.
What Einstein never believed that things could go faster than light.
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FWIW, that's Jeff Daniels not Jeff Bridges ;)
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I'd like to hear from anyone who kept a paper trail which was, in fact, used as so intended. I'd also like a show of hands where it was kept to no avail.

I've been on a lot of projects. Where a paper trail seemed warranted, those who came to assign blame had already chosen their targets without consulting with them first.
My two cents:

Ask for proper priorization and focus on completing as many features as possible, one after the other. It's far easier to build one feature while maintaining multiple others than to build multiple features at the same time, especially with a lot of legacy code.

If they can't prioritize at this point, insist. Point out that in this situation where everyone is stressed for all the possible reasons, with proper priorization you're far, far more efficient than without. For all you know, you can be done with individual parts within hours if you can safely scratch other, less important features that are also in development, only to take them back up and running the next day as they become in turn the highest priority.

If they still can't prioritize at this point, prioritize yourself.

If you don't know it already, find a customer relationship contact and ask for one of the main timesinks for the users that the product is supposed to solve. Let him describe to you the usecase, or let him point it out to you in the functional specs, and do it from start to finish. This one has to work, and that's your new goal in life. Be proud when it's completed, your grunt work is done. Show it to your boss, and let him know that's what requires integration testing right now. Your new goal in life now, is to make sure that this usecase is viable in production. You will find new issues, encounter new problems, but these are better problems because they are not entirely up to your team, they are the kind of problems that a lot more people can understand since they are not purely dev issues. You will get a ton more help at this point, a ton more understanding, a ton more visibility on the project, and management will be able to make a much more informed decision about the so-called deadline.

The key to proper "failing" of a project is to never let it be a complete failure. Finish a usecase and deliver it, so that at least someone could get added value from what the project committed. This is how the customer & management should prioritize for you: make sure that there are usecases where the product is fully functional from start to finish.
Yeah, I actually went and checked that out after posting. By then though noprocrast had kicked in and I couldn't fix it. I'd append the relevant post here, but somebody already did it to the OP.

So instead I'll complete that footnote:

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

In case there was any doubt, he also says he graduated high school in 2006.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicPsychology/comments/1d0kdf/d...
I wonder if other states will use the bill as a model. I know texas and CA bills are often used by other states as models for drafting legislation.
Right, a couple of choice quotes from the article to demonstrate this:

> "Although there is already a lot of evidence that shows it is possible and has already been accomplished"

> "UFO and the technology behind it should not be subject to speculation. Odds are we have retrieved some of that technology, or manufactured some ourselves."
Can written parental consent be twisted to mean silent consent from not replying to an email? I remember a cookie law in EU that had some harsh consent requirement being turned to mean "silent consent by continue staying on the website". Maybe the act of letting the kid continue go to school was interpreted as consent.
Is Snapbill failing?
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Yes - it's getting harder and harder to pin down exactly what this problem really is, what an example of it is really like, and what's really going on.

I'm sure the author has something in mind. I'm sure it's not well explained, and it might even prove insufficiently explained to be able to assess it properly.

It's looking like it's locally "OK" but globally nonsense.
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> Am I just seeing outliers here?

The news is by definition a daily compendium of outliers. If it happened all the time, it would not be news.
This teacher is as middle America as it comes. I actually went to that school although I had a different teacher for history unfortunately. Some of this is a personality conflict as Mr. Dreyden was always a boat rocking kind of guy. Some of this is ineptitude by the school district. They weren't always the most organized bunch, and certainly not accustomed to the level of scrutiny they have now.

I don't think that the district was looking to harm to any student, but there is definitely a culture of paranoia in that particular town and within the schools. The town is located next to a small city that has had drug and gang problems in the past. As such, they've taken (often misguided) measures for years to try to prevent problems from creeping over the town line. This would be one such attempt.

The real root of many of Batavia and really all of America's internal issues are uneducated attitudes towards drugs and the drug trade. There is a huge black market going on all over the nation because of the drug laws and it fuels petty crime on up to organized crime. It brings about new 'Education' initiatives as well as a focus on school security that makes for untrusted environments. It also makes it quite easy to put children in jail for profit. All the while more and more parents call for more and more laws because they hear horror stories of loosing Junior to a drug habit. These problems will continue to pop up until we change the underlying problem.
Full marks for demonstrating that the AWS pricing schedule can continue to hold surprises :-)
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One word: Rails.
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"Do as you're told" and "Don't talk back" are probably the worst "rules" I've been taught in US grade school. Following that mentality will net you exactly this: a miserable and close-minded life.

DO voice your opinion and professional expertise.

DO make recommendations as to how to salvage or improve a project. Not doing so will not get you anywhere.
This would be so great. It's really difficult to get a good video stream for displaying text, and often the only recourse is to go for super high quality, which is killer if you have limited upload rates.
Not much mention of what the business did... so I went digging. Are you referring to Snapbill.com?
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Almost by definition, yes, I believe you're right. You need some sort of organization with large numbers of people, and politics are just the part that self-organizes.

I think the negative aspects can be controlled better than they are in most large organizations. But most large organizations don't focus on that, to their detriment.
I've had employees try to the "build a better solution" approach behind my back. The big problem with it is that it assumes the person actually has the full picture. In a small project, that may be the case. But often it isn't.

In the case I have in mind, said employee delivered a solution that did in fact do most of what our current solution did very well with little complexity. But it utterly failed to account for the strategies that were in place for future functionality, that placed very different requirements on the platform. As a result his solution was of no value to us.

There was serious discussion about terminating said developer because of the amount of time he'd wasted on that, and the discord it created in the team when he tried to push his "solution" as an alternative to the existing system.

Often the direction is set by managers for good reason: Sharing every bit of detail would paralyse even relatively small organisations.

That's not to say that skunkwork projects like that can't work or be beneficial, but in my experience the odds are high that they will overlook something important. Before doing something like that, the developer should at least put in a lot of effort to try to learn exactly why the current project is the way it is.
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I've been following Dave on outliners for a long while. I haven't made the switch from workflowy yet.

Would be nice if tools like subtask.com would layer nicely on outliners. IE the outline from Fargo could be used to create the mindmap or vice versa. Preferably keeping themselves in sync rather than importing/exporting manually.
And the quote attributed to Einstein ("If you can't explain it to your grandmother, then you don't understand it yourself") also expresses this idea.
Less is not always better ;-)
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I like python so I use Django. I think Django was always on a better path security wise due to some good decisions early on.
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I might be deaf to this. I watched the interview with some girl I never heard of and, although I found her very annoying for several reasons, I couldn't hear the "creaky voice" thing.
Yep. And I think this linguistic influence means way more for programming languages than for natural languages - when thinking or communication to a human you can always "escape the language traps" by thinking visually or drawing/sketching or just showing things, but when you "communicate" with a computer your minds is basically "trapped" in the language (the only escape is being able to think the "domain language" instead, like thinking an algorithm in mathematical language or a business problem in business terms).
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The key word is "look," not act.
Sorry for not looking into it earlier, but our own expertise in UI is limited, will seek help and try to fix it ASAP.
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Possibly, but it depends on the project - the level of investment, and the structure of the company itself. If the project's failure is a threat to the company at large, then it's likely that an internal investigation will take place. The paper trail will help defend you.