skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main question I have is since it uses LXC, which shares the kernel, I can't have Windows running in Docker or even a different Linux distro (presumably unless they happen to have the same Linux kernel)?
I don't believe you need to be a US government organization to use the GovCloud region. I think you just have to be a US corporation or person and pay through the nose. It's only available directly via signing an actual contract, not a la carte like normal AWS services.
I Think I Broke Something: The Story Of Rickrolling Vine
I've written a fair amount of CPU-bound Python code. It quickly turned into CPU-bound Cython code. The most CPU-heavy parts release the GIL. It hasn't really been a problem.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/2...

1945: Japan signs unconditional surrender
> Japanese officials have signed the act of unconditional surrender, finally bringing to an end six years of world war.

> Under the terms of the ceasefire, Japan has agreed to end all hostilities, release all prisoners of war, and comply with the terms of the Potsdam declaration, which confines its sovereignty to the four main islands which make up Japan.

> Under the terms of the ceasefire, Japan has agreed to end all hostilities, release all prisoners of war, and comply with the terms of the Potsdam declaration, which confines its sovereignty to the four main islands which make up Japan.

> It has also agreed to acknowledge the authority of the US supreme commander. Although Emperor Hirohito will be allowed to remain as a symbolic head of state.

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I'm pretty sure the surrender was unconditional and later the Allies announced that the Emperor would keep his position(probably mostly to help ease the occupation)
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> www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-accepts-potsdam-terms-agrees-to-unconditional-surrender

At the behest of two Cabinet members, the emperor summoned and presided over a special meeting of the Council and implored them to consider accepting the terms of the Potsdam Conference, which meant unconditional surrender. "It seems obvious that the nation is no longer able to wage war, and its ability to defend its own shores is doubtful." The Council had been split over the surrender terms; half the members wanted assurances that the emperor would maintain his hereditary and traditional role in a postwar Japan before surrender could be considered. But in light of the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, Nagasaki on August 9, and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, as well as the emperor's own request that the Council "bear the unbearable," it was agreed: Japan would surrender.

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> www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-accepts-potsdam-terms-agrees-to-unconditional-surrender
Read "Schlep Blindness" from PG[1].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
There are two options for Python networking: Twisted, and things that are not Twisted. Guess which one most people pick.

What do you use to package? distutils, setuptools, distribute, distutils2, pkgutils...? How to choose?
An iPhone is never faster than a pro DSLR. From hip to eye, power on and shooting in under a second. There's a reason the power switch is part of the shutter.
Brilliant! What the heck is the point of starting a company if not to improve the lives of others AND yourself?
I really like the concept of Amazon EC2 but it's incredibly expensive and the performance is horrible.
Give me a full 1 gigabits connection, a few ipv4 adresses, all ports open and I'm all good. 90 % of all businesses are okay with this.
The server business is getting too centralized and it's bad for the internet.
Any plans for btrfs ?
Trulia for glass, the future of home search
This is amazing to me. I am from Australia and did my ACL when I was 15, and the cost was around $3000. It was an overnight stay in hospital, the only costs not incurred for the actual surgery and operation were MRI's and physiotherapy. How that could cost 20x the amount in America, I could not possibly fathom.

It is always a struggle for me to understand how health insurance is such a major expense in America, but when relatively routine surgery such as an ACL repair costs that much, things are put into perspective.
I am guessing this was during the reign of Kim Il-sun when the country was apparently faring a bit better, and there were less sanctions etc. Also, did everybody in USA stop consuming sushi during war with Japan? Was it forbidden after the Pearl Harbor?
He probably realized early on that it wasn't in his best interests to, and so just turned that part of his brain off. Curiosity seems like a dangerous thing in North Korea.
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If you compile with /LARGEADDRESSAWARE and run the executable on win7 64 bits, your process has a maximum of 4 gigabytes of ram. I know, I tested it up to 3.6 g. Not bad at all!
JNWSpringAnimation: An excellent spring-based animation library for Mac and iOS
This is a superb point. When the photo is supposed to document the interview the photographer can't be the interviewer. It would be like a news reporter filming themselves.
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Concurrency in Ruby: In search of inspiration
I think eru meant that a majority of Singaporeans are feeling the pinch and sentiments towards foreigners are at an all time low. Mainly due to loss to jobs and housing opportunities to foreigners. Our government however maintained that foreigners are essential to growth and had there been a voting process in this decision there will be ugly results.

However I will not go as to say Singapore is less democratic due to this point.
I don't think they had sushi in the west then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sushi#Appearances_in...

Wikipedia was pretty unhelpful but there don't seem to be many western references until the 1950s and it probably wasn't popular until the 80s when Japanese culture started getting big.
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Actually, there's some number of items that are new enough that they're dupes, but after a certain period, they can be resubmitted.
I am saying 'you cannot protest without applying for a permission'. And I am not talking about gathering of hundreds of people, even 3-4 people cannot protest unless they have been permitted by the government. You said that 'most of what I have written is false'. Let me ask you - which court cases have been won by Newspapers and opposition parties against the government. Straits times reported back in 1990s that Prime minister Goh may be taking directions from then ex-prime minister Lee Kuan Yew and they were sued and had to pay hefty sum of money, even though even the hardcore PAP loyalists will agree that he may indeed be taking directions from LKY. But, Straits times could not gather sufficient evidence to support the claim and had to suffer (and since then it hardly publishes anything that criticises the government.)
Free Python ebook: Bayesian Methods for Hackers
"We don't allow Glassware content that contains nudity"

So no VR assistance for surgeons, reference material for medical students, art museum guides, medical journals, ....
Thanks for the link.

We have several 48GB machines ordered directly from SL, even after so called discount from SL's sales, we need to pay around $5xx per month.
I have done both building your own data center and running the whole enterprise on AWS. I like AWS better. Some folks have hinted at it here but the ability to spin up a node rapidly is a huge game changer. Ya, you could accomplish some of this with open source and your own hardware but the flexibility will pale in comparison to what you get from Amazon. A year ago, I was all on board the OpenStack train. I think it is great by way of keeping Amazon honest and therefore keeping prices in check. I'd still pay a premium for Amazon over a public OpenStack or a roll-your-own solution.
http://shops.com.py

A platform for web shops build with Java and MongoDB. The frontend is Spanish but the backend is easily translatable (German already done) and multi-currency. I would sell the site or pair with somebody who knows how to market it.
In ordinary politics, everything is collapsed into "good" or "bad" and taken as a lump sum. Sides are formed largely by historical accident and their policy mix varies from year to year. However, everything the other team does is bad, everything my team does is good.

You can, if you wish, choose to think about these matters as if policies matter individually and collectively; rather than simply saying Team A Good, Team B Evil.

So, for example, I admire Singapore's relatively low taxes and business-friendly administration.

I can fear and detest their stultifying social policies.

See? That wasn't so hard.

I like that Australia has one of the best records of reform from the 80s through the 90s. And I hate that it basically stopped in the early 2000s.

See? That wasn't so hard.
That's not entirely accurate either. If you buy a heavy reserved instance you have to pay for every hour, whether or not you use it, for the length of the reservation. So, it's technically still per-hour billing at a discounted rate, but you gain absolutely nothing by shutting down a machine.
It's easy to say 'Oh sure, I work for the Evil Empire, but my division makes interesting things which people actually quite like...'

...but then you've got to be prepared to take it on the chin when someone says, "Yes, but that whole company is Evil, which, kind of by association includes you."

When you work for someone, their reputation does, absolutely, 100% reflect on you personally regardless of what your role in the company is (to some degree, obviously).

Just food for thought.

If you don't like it, don't work for people you don't want your personal reputation associated with.
Considering Amazon offers an entire pricing tier around 24/7 utilization (heavy reserved instances), it's probably safe to say that EC2 is no longer purely elastic.
Good question - I do, always, and so far no-one has had a problem with it.

Of course, there's an element of judgement in deciding what meetings are worth recording or not. I'm doing a PhD, so typically I only record meetings where information is being presented (of which I have a lot), but not those which exist exclusively for making decisions or whatever.
Exactly. AirBnB and Uber (Stockholm) come to mind too.
You know we can't have any intelligent debate once you accuse someone of being a racist [1]. Since when does a geographic distinction become an ethnic one?

> Most of the "defenders" of Singapore here are probably white immigrants. Like me.

Ah..the old expat pissing contest. I didn't accuse anyone of being a wumao, only that they were using the same "relevance fallacy" techniques. If that hurts, then "ouch," but calling me a racist is just immature.

> It just sounds like that because I'm unfavorably comparing what you (probably) assume to be a Democracy - the United States with Singapore.

No, it sounds like that because you love to eat red herrings. If we are talking about Singapore, keep it there, otherwise you are just committing one fallacy after the other.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law
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Or just get the screen for $249 and install yourself:

http://www.makershed.com/Pixel_Qi_display_p/mkpq01.htm

I installed one on a Lenovo Ideapad S10-2. It was OK, but not nearly as easy on the eyes as an E Ink screen.
Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
For those who were interested in reading the urban explorers article, like I was: http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201303/urban-expl...
In Singapore I fear this much less: http://rt.com/usa/mortgage-fargo-wells-syldor-964/

Swings and roundabouts. Both societies have their horrible points, and infringe on people's liberties in horrific ways.

In the case of blogging, though, yeah, the US has it better.
I'm the naive one here, but is "Go using Go to build itself" much like what Paul Graham talks about re LISP?
Hey WSJ, go fuck yourself.
> You don't share the same stories with your peers that you would with your grandma.

Turns out there's quite a lot that we do.
You have to remember Facebook's scale.

These "increasingly common" anecdotes are from the same demographic of people.

Facebook is used by 1.15 BILLION people. Think about that for a second. It's an absolutely staggering number and they're adding MILLIONS of new users every single day.

Do you think the people in Africa, South America, Iceland, and even China, are going to have the same experiences as the person writing this article?
The best internship I ever had was before I switched my career path to computer science; it was an accounts internship at a small (~10 FTEs, ~10 freelancers) advertising firm. It was unpaid besides a small meal & transportation stipend.

The atmosphere was very similar to what you'd expect from a small tech firm: friendly, low-key atmosphere, lots of nicknames, lot of small fun free things. My mentor (I don't really know what his actual title was. I just called him Joel.) explained to me that there were two parts of what I was doing:

1. Fake work (his words, not mine.) He said that there would be downtime, and that I should spend it as productively as possible; if that meant taking on some grunt work for a neglecting client, good. If that meant browsing the internet, fine. It was my time, and he said he trusted me enough to assume that if I wanted to spend my summer on Reddit then I would have done so from my couch.

2. Real work. Joel explained that the difference between an intern and a junior employee was usually a piece of paper and a few months of experience and little else; as such, he explained that I'd be given a certain level of autonomy. I had mistakenly assumed this to mean "you can go to meetings and you can go down the street for coffee": what this meant was "you are expected to meet and converse with clients on your own."

I fondly remember sitting across the table from a small bakery looking to open its third store, poring over market research and possible online advertising. That summer I was referred to as a 'social media guru', a term which I realize is sort of toxic but I was so proud of this place that had made me feel valuable. That summer I was given a taste of what the industry was like, not by attending flashy events or getting a bunch of branded apparel but by doing the work that someone would do. There's a lot of talk in the tech sphere about auto-didacticism, but what I learned in that internship could never be found in a book or on Coursera.

(Ironically: one of the pieces of 'fake work' that I gobbled up was maintenance of a bunch of WordPress sites that needed maintenance. Instead of using the firm's usual web design guy, who charged $200/hr for basic HTML & CSS work that even I could do, I convinced one of the partners to just let me do it instead. I had so much fun I decided to take a few CS classes for kicks, and then somehow I ended up with a Computer Science major.)
> Similarly with backups: on App Engine, data integrity is gauranteed so backups are really not required.

How would you have dealt with a data corrupting code bug? If you don't have real backups, wouldn't those screw you?

> I ended up coming up with a simple cron task that takes a full dump of the database every hour and copies it to a "permanent" storage device. In the event of catastrophic failure, I should be able to spin up a new instance, copy my image to it and get the last hour's backup copied over in fairly short order. The main issue is the fact that I sleep for ~8 hours a day and work for ~8 hours a day, meaning it could be some time between when a problem occurs and I'm aware of it.

If you are just keeping the latest backup, you are still vulnerable to data corrupting code bugs. Generally for this kind of application you'll want to keep several backups, from several different times. Say, hourly backups going back 24 hours, then daily backups going back a week, and so on. The details depend on what kind of data you are storing and how important it is to your users that you can recover from data corruption.
Sure, but the whole thing is predicated on the 20ms slowdown coming from a slow machine, not network latency. And that's a pretty good assumption. Due to RAM limitations and abysmal performance, I could maybe push 15 concurrent requests on a c1.medium running a Rails app in Passenger with a non-CoW Ruby. Forking is terribly slow on EC2. An m1.small was out of the question.
Kim Jong-il reveled in his enjoyment of sushi!? Does that strike anyone else as just ... distasteful, even by his standards? That would be like Japan opening up a McDonald's right where one of the A-bombs went off.
I would imagine for a lot of people, they don't need that type of granularity when spinning up and shutting down a server instance. Unless you have some automation to spin up new instances as load increases for short bursts, I could see people working on a schedule that is across a few days.
Doesn't matter if you think they're shallow. I care about these people. I want to know more about them and I want to stay connected with them in hopes that we cross paths again some day (for those that I don't live near).
I ruptured my left ACL during the final year of our college during a cultural fest (in India). It was a complete tear and required surgery to return to normal knee movement (Instability due to knee cartilages tears/injuries suck, and lead to further secondary injuries).

I had to differ my surgery for a couple of months since we had our final exams and I had to walk with a brace and avoid injury-causing activities. The surgery at one of the leading hospitals in the country cost me around ~$3000 and was completely covered by my Health Insurance, the care I received was exceptional and I could see why "Medical tourism" to India is on the raise. The costs are mostly around 1/10 of what any procedure costs elsewhere.

P.S. Incidentally, I had a freak accident a few days back and I'm positive I tore one (or many) of my ligaments in the other knee, and I had just started training to run a marathon within the next year :( (Lady luck hates my knees)
The hybrid technology you mentioned came from Voxel, which was looking really good before the company was acquired by Internap. Now, it seems like the service has gone downhill: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1213599
Elsewhere in the story the translator had a Dominican passport. It seems likely they traveled using forged documents and first, to Japan. Kind of like how Americans go to Mexico in order to get to Cuba and vice versa.
Thanks. I read the article, but completely blocked out that blue box. There's so much hawking of eBooks and such that I skip over that stuff now.
> while censorship and control over the American media

You seem awful fixated on the USA. If you're trying to make Singapore sound nice, try setting your sights on a well run humanitarian country and discuss the parallels, don't talk about how the USA is bad too.

> I hate the proposal, of course. Plain and simple.

> It still doesn't make PAP a fascist dictatorship or a police state

Depends. Mention gay people, lviing in Singapore, in a positive light, on your website in defiance of the law (assuming it passes) and see what they do. That's a better test than you assuring us it's just fine.

But, at that, the basic intent is repressive and undemocratic. I think it is dictatorial for a government to restrict what their citizens can see, read, or hear because without informed consent people can't knowingly consent to being governed. That this is attempted - and not immediately responded to as attempted treason - is a sign a government already views its citizens as its property.

If you'd set your sights a bit (err, a lot) higher than the USA you might find some countries or organizations or at least ideals worthy of respect and emulation.
Sounds like it: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/wiki/Docker-0.4.0-release...
This is an American website with a predominantly American audience. I'd have thought this made the reason for the comparison fairly obvious.
Well the guy who created Javascript (Brendan Eich) currently works at Mozilla as the chief technology officer so they have a bigger claim on it than anyone else.
"You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you."
Thanks. I actually thought there was a bug. The paywall isn't obvious.
Thanks. I'm usually signed in so I don't notice the paywall.
The WSJ experience for a nonsubscriber is highly aggravating...
Scaling up/down is usually for CPU-bound jobs. EC2 has a bad cost/CPU workload ratio when compared to a provider like Linode. You really have to bank on the hourly billing (as the article touched on) to make the cost it worthwhile.
Great read...truly enjoyed it.
Had ACL repaired privately as a Canadian and the total cost was around $7000
Do the small ec2 instances have the same performance problems as the micros? I just told my boss the other day I wasnt comfortable usings micros in production. Surely the smalls perform better?
"Netflix doesn't really care about operations costs."

Considering that they're a publicly traded company, they have a fiduciary duty to watch all costs. Though server costs don't compare in relation to media licensing, I'm sure they pay some attention.
I look at this a little differently, Im not going to opine on the character of the CEO or his employees.

Besides raw economic factors and the trend-happy game industry, I think its worth it to ask:

What on earth are we building? And why are we building it?

Its OK to build games we all need entertainment. Nothing wrong with that. But Zynga games were obsessive click factories which were as far as anyone can tell designed to be addictive.

As an engineer, I have worked at places that had so called "projects" designed to "get more clicks".

That may include a lot of web shops. Usually for ad revenue. But if you think about that from an engineering perspective, what a woeful, sad day it is to have your boss come to you with that mission.

Its the day you realize that what you built has no real value to the user, and is a self serving mechanism to get meaningless clicks out of your robot users.

In the old days we made software that people wanted to use and we didnt care how many times they clicked on a cow.

Or on an ad.
Another perspective:

My nontechnical boss doesn't know about the 20ms difference (thinks her computer is slow?) but an outage is visible like the difference between day and night.
Writers have to feed their families somehow...
A friend of mine once told me that someone who knows Javascript inside out knows how to do things in jQuery with bare javascript.
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I don't think they had sushi in the west then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sushi#Appearances_in...

Wikipedia was pretty unhelpful but there don't seem to be many western references until the 1950s and it probably wasn't popular until the 80s when Japanese culture started getting big.

The term "sushi" does seem to skyrocket around 1980: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sushi
We know that liability is a non-factor, because in states with capped liability, health care costs have not responded.