skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often hear that the best way to use AWS is to host your 24/7 stuff elsewhere and use AWS for the spikes. This makes a lot of sense, but I always wonder what the recommended (ie most cost-effective, especially in regards to bandwidth costs) place to host te 24/7 stuff? For example, moving a ton of data between EC2 and S3 is free (for bandwidth; ignoring requests costs), but moving 10TB out costs $0.12/GB which seems quite costly...

I guess the sweet spot is to use external hosting for your web apps and such and AWS for any large spike-prone batch processing: moving data into S3 is free (though obviously moving data out of wherever else you're hosting probably isn't), use EC2 to process it (possibly on spot instances!) and then move the results (which are much smaller than the raw data for a lot of use cases) back to the 24/7 hosts?

Though my question still remains: where do HNers recommend to host these servers knowing that AWS will be used to pick up the slack and handle irregular/unpredictable workloads?
At this point it seems fairly obvious that Google isn't planning for Google Docs to compete with Excel on features. Rather, they've figured out some ratio of power users to non-power-users (like the oft-repeated claim that 80% of the users only use 20% of the features but in Excel's case I suspect the ratio is even higher) and they've decided to implement only the basic features used by non-power-users.

I'm not sure why Google bothers to have a 'share an idea' forum when they have no intention of implementing the 80% features. It's bound to be a magnet for complaints when feature requests get ignored.
His math is wrong, and the journalist just put it in the title without doing any simple arithmetic.

He makes about $80 a day now, which is $400/week. In flush years, he used to make about $120K. At approximately 2000 work hours per year (in USA), that works out to about $60/hour.

So he makes in a week slightly less than his former daily wage. [updated this -- it said more previously. I can't do math either!]

It's amazing that even a financial publication like Bloomberg has innumerate journalists.
> A job market is where you rent someone's life; then you command them.

This seems like a one-sided and unproductively emotional framing. One could easily flip the emotional bias and say "A job market is where greedy people with skills stubbornly refuse to volunteer their help unless they get paid for it." In fact, I suspect that's exactly how some might characterize the "job market" for independent medical services where the employer is the patient.

Here's my suggestion for a neutral take: a job market is a mechanism where people who are willing to take on responsibilities are paid money by people who would like to delegate responsibilities. The current dynamics of the academic job market (and many other markets for people with conventional liberal arts education) suggest that fewer people want to delegate those responsibilities, and more people are willing to take on those responsibilities. This is not a market-created problem, it is a social problem (i.e. we have somehow encouraged far too many people to invest in educations that don't line up with current and near-future demand for responsibility-delegation).

As to your point about intrinsic antagonism: naturally, in any negotiation there is a zero-sum element on the margin, i.e. while we both benefit we can still argue over how the mutual gains are to be distributed. On the one hand, this is a valid point, and the asymmetry of leverage in this on-the-margin zero-sum negotiation between employers and employees is an excellent theoretical argument for labor regulations and labor unions. On the other hand, framing the labor negotiation as zero sum overall is, I believe, counter to even Marxist [0] analysis of labor relations.

[0] My lay understanding of Marxist labor relation theory is that it argues capital obtains the lion's share of the mutual benefits (or "surplus value") arising from delegation, but it does not argue that the exchange is what we would nowadays call zero-sum on an overall basis.
This comment has nothing to do with the article except for "I hate Google" sentiment, and does a pretty lousy job of it. It seems reasonable to assume you don't need to drive 2 miles to answer your phone, and "Matt Butts" is just juvenile.

And yet it's currently the top comment.
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That's why you have several children as backups.
NeoCities is currently using OVH. We were using Hetzner but we ran into issues when our server was the victim of a DDoS attack, and Hetzner responded by null-routing our server's IP address for a few days. OVH has better DDoS mitigation strategies (supposedly), so that's why we're switching.

I've used AWS before in corporate work, and I have to say I was very unimpressed with it. The prices for what you get are exorbitantly high. I've heard people say "they are affordable for corporate standards", but my reaction to that is just that their previous hosts were even worse about it. Every hosting solution I have had other than AWS has been cheaper.

More importantly to me than price though is the knowledge. I really don't like that AWS is a "black box" of mystery meat. I don't know how most of the systems are implemented under the hood, which means I can't predict what the failure points are and what I'm implementing. The way I would compile capabilities of AWS systems together was through anecdotal information via blog posts. We would have servers fail and be given no explanation as to why. And many of the interfaces are proprietary, which means that moving to an alternative is not an option. Not to mention the APIs are not particularly stellar (a lot of XML). The only options for persistent storage are network drives and local disks that go away on shutdown, which is not a particularly good choice of options.

With OVH, I get a server. I know what a server is, how to back it up, and what its fail points are. If OVH does something I don't agree with, I can move to another company and have exactly the same environment.

I'm not saying AWS is useless (again, I've used it for corporate environments before), but it's hard to justify the high cost when you're on a budget, especially when you can't even determine if the tradeoff is worth it.
Here's my personal anecdote:

When I was working as a consultant I literally doubled my rates in the space of two years by simply not caring if I lost any gigs because of it and that was staring with a hourly rate of 3 figures.

At the time I was following the advice I had picked up from other consultants - never leave money on the table. I had enough money in the bank to retire indefinitely, but instead of simply walking away my aim was take as big a cut of the pile as I could get it.

Five years later I was sick as hell of the work, so I did walk away but the opportunities in that niche were rapidly fading by that point. There was probably less than a year's worth of work left anyway.
Yes, this is a more succinct phrasing of what I meant. :)
Talking with our account manager, he mentions that the 1-year term is what most people go for anyway - you won't get caught short with long-term price drops, and you have more flexibility when business demands change. Overprovisioned capacity is less painful when there's only 6 months left rather than 30 months...
I don't think it is like walking into a private home because the door is unlocked... this is more like someone walking into a store, looking around, and then getting in trouble for looking at a specific display shelf that was in the back corner. The shelf wasn't labeled as off limits, you just were wondering around where you were supposed to and happen to see it. The store can't get mad and say "well yeah, but we put it in the back corner where most people don't go... and we put sensitive stuff back there! How dare you look at it!"

Well it was right in the same store you invited me in to! There was no sign or lock or anything saying not to look at the shelf.

This was a PUBLIC website... you are supposed to be able to visit it. If you make a request to a server without providing authentication and it returns data, that is not your fault. That is what you are SUPPOSED to do to servers. If it asks for authentication and tells you you are unauthorized, but you brute force the password or find an exploit, then THAT is a crime. There was not authentication in this case.
I'm interested in your critique, but I don't see any research-based evidence in your comment that disproves the claims made in the article.

Will you elaborate on your comment and provide links to show why the author's statistical analysis is flawed?
> Develop a XrossMediaBar like UI

What's wrong with Big Picture? It's very usable and has replaced XBMC as the primary interface on my HTPC. It's already almost as functional as any console or media center's interface, all it really needs is a system settings area.
I may have not formulated that as subtle as I meant, since English is not my primary language. So my apologies for that. I do not wish him dead. I mean that I'll fight for him in this case since it's important for society, but since he's such an awful person I would lose all interest in him after he's out of court.

Read it as a figure of speech, since we technology people always speak about people who might get hit by a bus when thinking about the future of products.
Interesting analysis. There is another analysis from Quartz: 0 for phone business, 1.2 billion for BBM and enterprise infrastructure, 2.8b cash, 1b for patent portfolio.

http://qz.com/127441/cheat-sheet-here-are-the-bits-of-blackb...
Vessel launches mobile A/B testing platform after 10 million SDK installs
Valve, at one point, came out to say they had no plans to support linux.

Now they don't just support linux, they're using it to stage a mini coup against microsoft.
I was gonna write something longer, but I decided against it. What I wanted to say is: I'm in my 16th year of school, so to speak. Going to some kind of learning institution for such a long time might seem like a continuation of childhood, but I don't know: since I started university I've had no one but myself to blame for any of my academic achievements. When it comes down to it, all I'm left with is my brains, an exam paper and the cold student identification number written on that exam paper. I guess at least in some ways, I would say that I've learnt some self discipline.
Dead drops, whoever had this idea is smart
> Or is it like walking into someone's private home because they left the door open? Or merely unlocked?

It's more like if you were to walk into a retail establishment where the employees left the door unlocked after heading home for the day.

You can't buy anything because the cash register is locked, and taking something would clearly be stealing, but if sign posted says "we're open", can you be faulted for looking around?
Just to add another data point, we've been using a 4GB cloud server in the Dallas datacenter for 9 months now and it has been solid. (Solid meaning works as expected, no outages/problems.)

Maybe we lucked out with who else is sharing the hardware.
I use unroll.me and that way I only see one daily digest of my LinkedIn emails and any other spammy things I signed up for at some point for some reason unbeknownst to me now.
Why does dropbox obfuscate their client code?
If dropbox is a backup application then their job is to protect the files on the server, which is already gated by authentication. So why do they have to obfuscate their client code? Shouldn't that be straightforward to write? It has so many competitors already.
Fair enough. However, while this makes sense for Historians, it doesn't make sense for academia as a whole, nor does it take into account that the fact we can't afford so many Historians is directly because each generation since the boomers is experiencing a worse standard of living than their parents.

Yes, realism and awareness are important. But, the reasons they are so important right now are the complacencies and narcissistic ideologies that have inhibited the nation's prosperity.
Free as in beer; not speech.
That ratio explains a lot.
If you've got the patience, https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4085#note-95 is the ruby-core discussion. It really does boil down to "Matz says so."
I do need to drive 2 miles to answer my phone, really. Don't get me started on AT&T and Verizon or the Nigeria-class broadband service in the US. Cell service sort works in mid-tier cities like Rochester, NY, but go to Greenwich Village or Beverly Hills and try getting a signal.

When I talk to people in China or India or Australia or Germany, I get a good connection, but when I talk to people in Encino or Boston I have to repeat half of what I say because their connections keep dropping out.

Calling him Matt Butts gives me once chance in ten that his team of flying monkeys won't see a reference to his name and ban all my web sites and every web site that links to my web sites (except for Wikipedia)

And it's not just "I hate Google", I used to love Google. I've just watched how Google's ecosystem has wrecked the web. So many topics are dominated by old crappy web sites (talked about in Hacker News today) and these sites have an incentive NOT to improve because if you make any radical change in your web site, there's a high risk that your rankings will tank.

In the meantime, if you want make a good site, there's a high risk you'll build it and nobody will come.

If the comment above has gotten a lot of votes it's because a lot of people feel the same way. I think tomorrow I am calling my broker and selling GOOG short.
There are many students who have a choice between a state school and a private school, or an Ivy League school and a top school near their home, or an engineering degree and an arts degree.

I think a detailed study of career outcomes and cost of schooling is incredibly valuable. Your suit analogy is flawed. Students invest in a program and later earn money in their chosen career. In your suit example, the ignoramus already has a job and then chooses to buy an unnecessary suit.

There are many subtleties to an analysis like this. You mention choice of work experience. I would add that the calculation of lifetime earnings is also suspect since far fewer people went to college 30 years ago than today. But please don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. We should look at studies like this.
> I don't watch the show, so I can't say for sure, but its possible that the way the laugh track is mixed makes it more obvious than other shows, such as 90s sitcoms.

Chuck Lorre, the producer for the show, is really ticked off at people who say that BBT has a laugh track, and has been very adamant that it does not.
May not be normally distributed, but follow a power law (fatter tail)
You've just described one of my biggest problems w/ outsourcing mail, etc.

Really, downtime isn't a big deal (to an extent, of course) because most people realize that "shit happens" and there will be the occasional downtime regardless of who's handling mail.

The problem is that you are, in effect, helpless in these situations. Like you mentioned, you can at least keep your customers updated when it's a problem with your own machines. When you've outsourced it to someone else, you're at their mercy, so to speak.

"What's wrong with the mail system?" "I dunno." "When do you think it will be fixed?" "I dunno." "Today? Tomorrow? Next week?" "I dunno."
I've always thought the place open source can really shine in the gaming world is in the tools developers use to make games. An open source alternative to something like Unity could go a long way, I think.
Poor article from the BBC. Minecraft has not added the data to the game, a third party created the world. Here is a link to the third party blog post that talks more about the world and contains a download: http://blog.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/2013/09/minecraft-creating-... http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecraf...
Even ignoring outsourcing, jobs are going to disappear forever regardless. The entire premise of automation (really, of the industrial revolution) is that fewer people end up with jobs (and those jobs may or may not be more demanding).

Lots Detroit autoworkers lost their jobs to robots (lots more to outsourcing), and robot creators hired people (though almost surely not the same people...) However they almost certainly did not hire as many people as lost their jobs. Another industry happened to boom and perhaps did create as many new jobs as were lost (but again, almost certainly not hiring the same people) but those jobs were not born from automation in Detroit.

The common response to "dem robots are takin' our jobs!" is "No they aren't, robots create more jobs!", but while that may comfort some people it does not seem to be the reality. Sometimes more jobs are created, sometimes lots of new jobs are created, but there is no inherent relationship between jobs lost to automation and jobs created.

The more appropriate response is, "Yes they did, we call that progress. You are on the losing side of history if you get in its way, so be light on your feet." It is more appropriate because, although not very empathetic, it is more accurate.
1. SteamOS

2. Steambox

3. It looks like two sets of wheels from side on. Gaben is giving us all A NEW CAR!!!
My parents gave me total freedom at 14, and thanks to that I created my first company at age 15, traveled around the world, start paying my own bills and now that I'm 17 I am totally independent living on my own rented apartment.
So it all depends on the freedom you give to your sons to actually start building their own way.
> * Surface 2 loses the low-density screen. I enjoy that low-density has been deprecated.

The 1.5X screen of the Surface 2 is definitely better than its old 1X screen, but will that be competitive with the 2X screens in other tablets (Android and Apple) at the same or lower price points?
Most major engines, such as Unreal/UDK, already allow export to Linux and consoles, so what the console supports isn't the limiting factor it was when everyone had to code directly to the metal.
Windows RT already has a full version of the .NET 4.5 Runtime for ARM. If you disable the Microsoft signature check, existing .NET apps do just run. A wasted opportunity - they don't want competition for their new App Store.. I wouldn't be surprised if RT was actually sold at a loss hoping to make up sales via apps like Xbox or razor blades.
That's not why this is a shame. This is a shame because given the same Gemfile, bundler and rubygems do different things.
83% off the best capacitive stylus pen combo
Isn't RSX (Reality Simulator) was just a name for nvidia graphic chipset in PS3? Oh wait, it is.

PS3 used libGCM and PSGL, which is pretty much OpenGL ES 1.1 + Nvidia Cg. Don't forget the fact that OpenGL ES isn't OpenGL.

XBox never used DirectX neither, because why would you need such abstraction if all of your target market has the exact same hardware inside? (I'm omitting fact that guy above compared Direct X and OpenGL which is retarded). It used something similar, but not the same.

So RTFM or STFU.
a "mathematical representation of" is exactly what a "digital image" is.
> You can't be unauthorized if there is no authorization.

This is really the main point to me and I'm really confused as to how the law doesn't agree with this. How can you claim unauthorized access to something when there are no systems in place to grant or deny authorization? Comparing this to walking into someone's home who left the door unlocked (as someone in this thread has done) is bogus to me. Private property is private property and social norms (as well as the law) dictate that you don't just stroll into someone's home even if the door is open. The internet does not work that way and never has.
Ah right, thanks for pointing that out :)
LinkedIn has been a great way for me to build clients and put myself out there. I routinely get inquiries from my portfolio. I just recently landed a new client through LinkedIn. I'll keep it for now.
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The problem with this kind of advice and the fairly overly confident advice over here at HN is the individual, in my view, should not pay a terrible amount big attention, sure read and think about but this kind of thing applies in aggregate. For you, things could be very different because of various situations, opportunities, etc. You could sit and ready stories of upset adjuncts or you could just be tenacious keep jabbing and find a way.

Sure, in aggregate, let's mourn the professoriate.

But for you, don't buy into the hype too much .., you don't need every job, just one that makes you happy.

This applies to most of lamentations of job markets.
Absolutely. Its history stings no less for some, however.
Yeah that's the immediate counter analogy to what I'm suggesting.

I think the way I would go about arguing against it is that people on the street/sidewalk have no expectation of privacy. There are literally no access controls of any kind. Anyone can walk on the street; billionaires and homeless alike. There are no societal conventions that privacy is assured on the street and if you end up in someone else's picture it's your fault, not theirs.

Houses are not the street. They are private property. We do have a reasonable expectation of privacy there (NSA notwithstanding) and a part of privacy is access control. So the right of the owner of a house to control access to his house is fairly well understood and accepted even in the case where a house might be unlocked or a door left open.

The real question is this: Is the internet like the street or a house? The answer, in my opinion, is that "it depends" because websites can act both ways depending on how they are designed and implemented.

HN is basically a street in that it has no access controls to view content. Very nearly every page on HN can be accessed by the public (linked to or not) without being logged in. The URL of your comment is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6434945 for which I didn't have to type in a password. What about comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6434944 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6434946? Should they be "protected" by virtue of them not being displayed on the webpage right now?

My credit union's website is a bit of public street and a lot of house. I can view their promotional materials without any authorization but in order to get to the good stuff I have to enter both a username and a password, then pass a captcha. That is an access control.

What is the case with the AT&T website? Did they do anything to secure the content with a technological access control like a username/password? Did they filter the service such that the webservice would only return an email address if it was accessed by the same MAC address of the iPad that was sold to the customer? No, they did none of these things. Their only "access control" was a user-agent string which isn't guaranteed ANYWHERE to be accurate.

EDIT: changed a couple of words
I have no information of the case at hand, but that could the reason why the prosecutor went for hacking charges instead of harassment.
FYI, you can quickly and easily toggle between "private"/"personalized" results and "global" results, right on the search page, by clicking the toggle button with the person and the globe to the top-right of the search results:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2410479?hl=en