skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How-i-built-a-weather-decision-engine-or-the-story-of-wearthejacket.com
If you're not familiar with the "long-term" thinking of Bezos, this anecdote from Brad Stone's recent book on Amazon is particularly interesting:

Bezos wanted AWS to be a utility with discount rates, even if that meant losing money in the short term. Willem van Biljon, who worked with Chris Pinkham on EC2 and stayed for a few months after Pinkham quit in 2006, proposed pricing EC2 instances at fifteen cents an hour, a rate that he believed would allow the company to break even on the service. In an S Team meeting before EC2 launched, Bezos unilaterally revised that to ten cents. “You realize you could lose money on that for a long time,” van Biljon told him. “Great,” Bezos said.

Bezos believed his company had a natural advantage in its cost structure and ability to survive in the thin atmosphere of low-margin businesses. Companies like IBM, Microsoft, and Google, he suspected, would hesitate to get into such markets because it would depress their overall profit margins. Bill Miller, the chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management and a major Amazon shareholder, asked Bezos at the time about the profitability prospects for AWS. Bezos predicted they would be good over the long term but said that he didn’t want to repeat “Steve Jobs’s mistake” of pricing the iPhone in a way that was so fantastically profitable that the smartphone market became a magnet for competition.
I was in awe from my home computer on the stream. I remember thinking literally to myself, "What an amazing human being."
You're right that it doesn't prevent intrusions from someone who's focusing on your machine, but doing something unusual that requires extra steps of attackers does usually decrease the likelihood of intrusions, especially from automated means. You're acting like bots frequently portscan when trying to brute force ssh, and I can tell you that they generally don't.

I typically don't bother, and just use fail2ban, but it's silly to say that it doesn't make it more secure. It does, if only marginally. As long as people are aware that it isn't sufficient, and that they still need to use strong passwords and/or public key auth, then there's no problem with saying that this makes things more secure.
If only my blogspammers were that quick on the uptake. I've got moderation turned on, so none of their posts ever see the light of day, and I still get tens of them every day.
This sounds good, there should be more shirts like this around. I'm curious if you are aware of Silverescent fabric, which is much the same idea, and if your have made additional unique improvements?
This may be true, but especially in the case of whistleblowing, where unethical behavior is already suspected/reported, it seems like prudence favors an approach that does not depend on one's rights being respected.
"It’s certainly possible, I agree." - seems pretty reasonable assessment to me.

Also - iPod was a music player. It's competitors were...Music Players. If Apple had only released the Touch, they would have been wiped out by competitors on the music player front - but they stepped up and released the Nano/Shuffle.

It is interesting that Apple doesn't seem to have any interest in releasing any lower end tablets (akin to the Nano/Shuffle) to compete in the TV/WebConsumption market. Their decision not to enter that market has left themselves pretty vulnerable to disruption from below.

The real measure will be if people are actually those tablets in the market that Apple is competing in. We won't know for a couple years - my guess is that Apple is going to regret leaving that opening up for competitors - Tablets can migrate upwards a lot more effectively than underpowered netbooks could impact the Laptop market...
>A better way to do it is to maintain the same admission standards for everybody, but actively seek out more applications from women. It'll indirectly raise the number of women who get admitted, without distorting things in the way that you describe.

Not necessarily and it could certainly lead to distortion due to simple error in evaluation.

If you encourage applicants from an underserved pool, do you believe the average quality of these new applicants from the pool will be equivalent to the average quality prior to the new programs?
I would actually disagree with that, as far as stats go Windows is losing market share. Not extremely fast, but they are.
But the rents in Berlin have also risen fantastically in recent years. Those numbers are about 50% higher than when I moved to the city 7 years ago.
Engineering Taste
Who Made That Coffee Lid?
Very true. So we need to find a way to prevent spam that doesn't involve differentiating between a human and a bot.
Not if Amazon decides to use some of it's free cash to buy back shares...

Share buybacks and dividends are the end game for all public companies. Profits don't mean anything if money isn't being returned to shareholders.

Amazon's generous valuation means that long-term investors think they'll continue to grow, and someday they'll return money to shareholders...
>If we ignore the metro side of things

Yes, absolutely. My start screen is an empty, blue wall with a large tile taking me to the desktop. Despite the start screen I like everything else about the system.
The region of Catalonia has a budget deficit that runs above Spain's average and is also the region with the largest debt outstanding, twice as large as the region behind. From reading the FT, Catalonia is in big trouble, and they had to introduce a tax that taxes bank deposits i.e. double taxing your income. I don't think they are in a very good shape.
This should do the trick.

myframe['myfield'] = myframe['myfield'].dropna().map(float)
Half of the captcha (the illegible nonsense) is the actual test. The other half is usually easy to read; that's the scan from the book. You can actually answer anything for that part and still pass the test, although obviously if you do, you're not helping digitize books.
Epiphany Eyewear smart glasses: http://epiphanyeyewear.com

It's cool because these glasses are stylish enough that they are a fashion item, and have appeared on the runway at New York Fashion Week: https://yougen.tv/video/beddc3d4-784f-40ab-8066-652ac8e3f694...

It's cool because you can record two-handed activities such as kayaking: https://yougen.tv/video/9b406d41-8e68-43fc-904f-f12ce688f610...

It's cool because everyone from Miss California https://yougen.tv/video/db0c3dd0-846c-458c-8d53-cd2802b00534...
to my barber https://yougen.tv/video/92f9308b-d6a9-46a4-95f9-39da0700f9cb...
instantly sees the appeal of recording and sharing your memories with your friends
Thanks to you I've read what Obama then said (it's linked above): "Told by the communists that she couldn’t pursue her love of languages, she excelled as a physicist. Asked to spy for the secret police, she refused."

Perfect.
Hmm, I'm not sure I want to tie too much information to my alias publicly, but I guess with enough effort you can piece it together anyway (as far as I'm aware there are not that many open source events in the Netherlands today).

I'm doing some IT study at Fontys. Not a university by Dutch standards, but their english name is "fontys university of applied sciences". In any case, we have one other Linux user in class and one macbook (I consider a Unix lookalike at least a tiny bit better than Windows), and we're an advanced class doing the study in three instead of four years. Some first year students I know (not doing the advanced track) are totally happy using Windows 8 with all the vendor's crap still in place.
My mother (65) never took to computers. I gave her a laptop years ago, but the scary keyboard/trackpad black setup combined with the 60 minute charge (this was 2001) means she never touched it.

When HP had a fire sale, I sent her one and she loves it. I think the interaction model is more friendly for her than the unknowns if a trackpad and windows.
Agreed, it struck me as unique that the author says anything about women. I have seen dozens (if not hundreds) of programming tutorials and that was the first one that said anything about genders. The problem is somewhere else.
Education, plain and simple, has become more and more available to the masses - but I would submit to you that there is just as much violence going on in the world as there ever has been before - just that, we're shielded from most of it in our little Western happyboxes. You don't have to look far in the last decade to discover violent atrocities being enacted on our fellow humans .. you just have to be willing to look at the truth of the situation: violence is being used by those in power in order to stay in power. This is precisely the purpose of the American drone technology, along with every single weapon ever produced in the Western world.

I put to you that the USA has become one of the most violent cultures in the world, precisely because technology has allowed ignorance and hatred to fill in where education has failed. Or, at the very least, where once we educate ourselves, we nevertheless submit to those who would use violence to maintain their power; certainly it seems that the USA is in the grips of the very groups that, were the American people better educated, would never succeed. It is the technology of death - and those who profit from it - who poison the well of human decency, who undermine all education in order to prosper from their heinous endeavours.
Chase Adam at Startup School 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6621215
> It doesn't make sense to blame a free operating system for faulty hardware.

This mindset is toxic because it does not adequately think about the end user. I mean--drivers? What's a driver? Why do I, a user, care that it's difficult for Ubuntu to do something that Windows does? It doesn't work, that's all I care about.
I generally agree, and I tried to make that abundantly clear in my comment. It's not even about having to agree on every topic. There is reasonable doubt that I wouldn't even agree on the topic of surveillance with many libertarian backers.

The troubling thing is when you implicitly lend support to somebody who then turns around and basically backstabs you on the same topic.

On the topic of surveillance, it seems quite likely that some of those libertarian backers would be more than happy to implement their own mass surveillance. They don't object to mass surveillance on principle, they just object to the state doing it. Simply put, it seems quite likely that they are not friends of individual privacy.

Case in point, as discussed elsewhere in this thread: Why are there so many tracking scripts on the stopwatching.us website?

On a personal note: It's interesting that this was my first negative voted comment on HN in a long time.
I'd be interested too! Why not just put up some screenshots on the website? For the time being (and for future readers of this thread), you could just use a temporary URL, such as

goodsense.io/temporary-stuff/screenshots/...
I studied CS/AI at UvA begin 90s and they had those horrible win 3.1 machines (the sysadmin there hated them); a lot of my classmates preferred that over the unix machines. Nice to hear that improved.
That sounds like it should be really. As far as I know, this isn't the case for Dutch, French and Argentinian schools (the ones I have experience with, or know someone that has experience with).
Excellent way to become an arrogant coding cowboy. "My passion is so great so there is nothing anyone can teach me. Just by hacking alone in my basement my innate ability to write efficient and correct code have started to bloom."
Which has the nice feature of being able to watch a directory for .torrent files and automatically starting downloads.
In the Netherlands, there is a vast difference in Linux usage between universities and HBO/MBO schools. At the company I work for, we regularly have interns from a HBO school and virtually none of them ever worked on Linux. We require them to work on Linux for the whole duration of their internship.
No buts. Anyone who justifies any expenditure into technology-of-death over technology-of-life, is simply worshipping death. America would be far less violent if its people had to deal with its delivery on a more personal basis than the current technological means provide..
> For Starcraft fans out there: It's like being broke because of focusing on building SCVs

While I personally play Protoss, I think this is an awesome way of thinking about it. "Keep your money low" is a mantra that you must remember when playing SC2, and I've always been curious how that translates to actual economics.

If I recall correctly, there was an actual paper written applying Starcraft economics to "real world" econ. Wonder if I can find it..
I don't think there will be an epic crash in London any time soon, if ever. There is no excess supply, no overbuilding. It's completely unlike the Spanish or Irish property market in that regard.

London property prices will decline if and when London loses its role as an important financial center. Maybe if the UK leaves the EU, Singapore's gravitational pull increases, or some important regulatory changes take place.
The lycra thing is important. When you've only got keep fitters in lycra riding bikes, it seems to de-normalise it for everyone else.
However, he doesn't want to continue these programs unless they are constitutional...This may be a part of a gradual wind down of the war on terror.

Obama has expanded the war on terror to several new countries, and oversees assassinations by drone regularly. He may talk convincingly about civil rights, but he has overseen the expansion of a system denying people those rights, and I have no doubt he is completely aware of just how pervasive and unconstitutional these surveillance programs are but has no intention of changing them, just as he has no intention of winding down the war on terror (as shown by his actions, not his words).
Mind uploading
I'm fairly convinced that Gopher is technology that shouldn't really have been abandoned .. and maybe we'll see a return to such tools in the future?
> EDIT 26/10/13: I felt it important to only compare 2nd generation JVM languages. IMO it’s not fair to include the Java language itself because it dwarfs adoption of 2nd gen languages due to its omnipresence in the industry for over 20 years.

The article has just been edited with the above note.

I think the lead by Groovy from 2009 to last year should be ignored because job ads for Groovy programmers want them to use it as well as Java, but those for Scala programmers want them to use it instead of Java.
Genius! love it!
No, it isn't. The Internet as a whole might be, but FB isn't. It's the equivalent of a particular shop that happens to be contiguous to the market square, but is still private property.

The telephone network was also largely private property, but its use was deemed important and ubiquitous enough that telephone companies were required to act as common carriers.

The modern "walled garden" web sites are becoming the only place where one can reliably communicate with all of their friends and family, and thus the only opportunity one has to exercise their free speech rights. Facebook, essentially, should belong to the public inasmuch as Facebook strives to become indispensable to the public.
Perhaps, but it's a tough sell to get someone to ride a £2k electric bike instead of buying a car.
Thank you for the interest! Right now, x-plane basically is the only player in the flight sim market (MS has officially stated they've left - though I doubt it's for good, FlightGear is the only other flight sim worth mentioning, and it's nowhere near as good/accurate as what I need), which, as you (indirectly) pointed out, is troublesome - the market is ripe for disruption. I'm aiming to at least provide healthy competition to increase the quality of all flight simulators (I'm also applying to get into this next YC batch... hopefully I'll get an interview. I doubt I'll get in, because lack of a cofounder).

I actually just wrote a script to generate an atom feed for this (I mean, I have some updates which are on my main index page, but, that's not a way to easily enable people to follow me...), so you can follow my little self-generated atom feed at http://younata.com/feed.atom right now, it's just a single post that links to my above comment, but I'll try to write at least once a week.

By the way, the datestamps on that feed are in UTC, which is localtime for my server.

Feel free to send me an email so I can notify you when I have a prototype. My email is listed in my profile.
Why so much for international Shipping?
Seems a lot to me for such a little package
Oh, man. My previous experience in building simulators is a spaceflight simulator I wrote at the beginning of the year, because space, life is easy and I didn't have to really write hard numerical computing code. This is easily the most challenging thing I've ever written (but it's also easily the most fun thing I've ever written).

Good look getting into writing physics simulations!
True; but it's still not a case of the account holder's free speech rights being infringed, because the account holder doesn't have a free speech right to use FB's resources in the first place. If the police were trying to keep him from posting to his own blog on a domain that he owned himself, that would be different.

The same argument could be made that a telephone customer should have to build their own network and assemble their own telephone receivers if they want to communicate with someone or say something that the phone company doesn't like.
They ran out of room to expand and now they're regional monopolies, and can gouge their customers with impunity. Was that your point?
Amazon, Apple and the beauty of low margins
Philosophically, programmers can do anyones job, as long as that person is willing to describe it in a way that it can be abstracted properly.

Programmers are unique in the world, in a philosophical sense, in that the skills and techniques of programming can be applied to any human subject, and seriously productive results can be attained. Computers are an "infinity machine" in that any single subject that a human being can describe, using words, can be in some way supported by computerization.

So if you think an organization is broken, programming can often-times fix it. Good programming, which encodes the domain-specific knowledge of the organization, can be applied to any particular role in human existence - including that of management. In that sense, programmers are able to operate exterior to any organization - and must, in fact, if they wish to deliver a productive result - and apply their skills to that organization in order to improve it.

Programmers who have worked professionally in any industry have an intuitive understanding of this fact, and its strengths.

So I would put it to you that its not Stockholm Syndrome you're observing, but rather this simple fact: Programmers > Managers. (Well, Programmers who deliver working systems, that is..)
Always nice to have a simple alternative now that uTorrent is dead (well, as the product/app it once was anyway).

Looking briefly at the code, it appears to be c++ (which is fine) -- but also entirely without tests? Or did I miss something?
I gave a linux pc to my coworker, for her kids, and they have been using it for a while to do homework. They have some issues now and then, but it works pretty smoothly. The computer is really old - a Sempron with a couple gigs of RAM.
Why Doesn’t Medical Care Get Better When Doctors Rest More?
A comparison with respect to available tools for debugging etc.?
#blog100 which is not a "project" but the idea is to produce 100 blog posts in 100 days. Hopefully will it increase traffic to my real projects.
> Is there a gender bias to most technical explanations? If so, how does it work, and how is this different?

There is a possible answer to this. I'm just thinking out loud here, but hear me out.

There is a huge gender gap when it comes to programming, as we are all well aware of. A lot of tutorials (even some of the more basic ones, I struggled a lot when trying to move on from "hello world", and "Animal -> Dog" style OOP into actual programming, and this tutorial seems to address that (I've not read it yet, so I hold my judgement).

If those two assumptions hold, then it could be argued that: due to the gender gap, we can assume that females who are starting from scratch may not have the base knowledge for "regular" tutorials to fit them properly.

Now: This may not be true. And usually I'm the first to argue that gender, race, etc. should have no impact on technical writing and knowledge sharing. However, nearly every other tutorial in the worlds body of knowledge is written gender neutral, and the gender gap remains.

That statement could be said to be conflating two issues; Somehow I don't feel like tutorial writing is the missing link to fix the gender gap in our industry. But it was interesting to think about, for me at least.
V8 isn't exactly slow though: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...
> you certainly seem to believe all these stereotypes about women being less capable than men in the computer area, you just happen to be in strong denial about it.

I certainly don't think that follows from what he has written at all.

While I can certainly appreciate your objective point, and even agree with it, you're making the same mistake you're accusing the writer of: generalisation based on limited information, at least in my opinion.

I think the section is misguided, and conflating two points (the gender gap in programming is unlikely to be because of the lack of "female targeted" tutorials). But I am not so sure it follows that the author is misogynistic.
IDEs and Stockholm syndrome.
My in-laws, 60+, have been running Ubuntu on their old Macbooks for a few years now. They've never once complained about it, and everything Just Plain Works - internet browsing, email, youtube, office-apps.

For us, at least, the year of the Linux Desktop was two years ago. Its been a very productive release from the dual hegemonies of both Apple and Microsoft ..
One Weird Kernel Trick
The killer app is gvim and ctags.
25 and no time to learn something new? You're doing life wrong.
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Chase Adam at Startup School 2013
600-800 per bedroom/month? (Ie: 1200-1600 for a 2 bedroom apartment)? Or did you mean something else?
Amazon only has around 10 more years before 3d printing starts to kill retail. Beware.
On the other hand, the POTUS is at least supposed to look powerful in the eyes of the citizens. By recognizing that he doesn't know (and can't know) what's going on, he is announcing to the world that he is a puppet and that the POTUS is nothing but a servant to higher interests.

Bad move by the puppet masters.
My experience runs 100% opposite to yours: I got a new Macbook Pro, installed Ubuntu on it, and have been running it just fine alongside OSX for months now, with no issues. In fact its running so well that I no longer need my Linux workstation PC, which I .. might .. just turn into a Steambox..
Ask HN: Real examples of price of PaaS vs. IaaS?
I am sure there are many people here on the Hacker News with experience with both PaaS and IaaS (vm's/physical machines in the cloud) for hosting of server applications.

Since the pricing models of all these services out there can be really complex (e.g. AWS) to use for a prediction of your future expenses, it will be awesome if you would like to share an example of your experience, in which you moved from PaaS to IaaS or the other way around and how did your bills changed, accordingly.

Thanks.
Thats not your fault, its Brothers. Not all printers are going to work in Linux, simply because most printer manufacturers only support Windows.