skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no way to replicate S3s full service level at a fraction of the cost. You can store the data pretty cheaply, but you can't replicate the full service level anywhere near as inexpensively. Especially the redundancy, vesioning and durability.
You are expecting too much from Nadella. He is not the kind of CEO who would be brave enough to pursue something before it becomes an obvious success, which will be already too late.
Let's say 5W for 8 hours per day, that's 14 kWh per year.

Last year I paid 17.51 eurocents per kWh, so it would be EUR 2.45 per year for me ($3.37 per year).
The headline is really just a teaser in this case. The meat of the article is more about how autism begins, and how some of the critical developmental steps that lead to autism occur in the womb.

The other conditions (prostate cancer, for example) are much more significantly influenced by events that take place well after birth.
ReScape is picking up where Oculus Rift never went
I had this as a day dream a month ago. Though it would work as in-app currency that I would give to the users and the servers / aws bill would be subsidized by the collective micromining.
I'm not sure where you get that data, but it doesn't match anything I've found in the 27 dates centers we do business in. Storage, versioning, redundancy, durability and geographic availability. That is the core of S3, not just storage.
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Not clear why that instance is green. I think I've seen arrive photos of green stop signs too. The point of my post wasn't too be flippant though: the GP was talking about stop signs being universally red, and that being basis for red labels/buttons. It only takes one example to disprove universality, I showed multiple.

To point of labeling and actions though:

1) I'm proponent of button labels being verbs ("Delete" vs "Yes")
2) Undo-able where possible
One great thing about these new language features is that you don't have to use them. You can run on jdk8 and program as if it was your grandmas vm. This was true for generics and will be true for lambdas etc. As programmers become more advanced they understand the need for the more advanced features and start to adopt them - but they are not strictly required from the start.
well A: its not worth anything unless someone wants to buy it.. and B: you should be making more money
It is specifically about women getting emancipated.

Nigeria is really an oddity. Wonder why the birthrate is that exponential there.
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There are actually no Walmarts in San Francisco. However that doesn't answer the root of your question; there are similar jobs (target, dishwashers, supermarkets, etc). Most would live in the east bay, sunset or South Bay -- about 25 minutes east, west or south of SF, respectively.

As to your first point, 5th Ave is smaller, but also more expensive. SF is bigger, but relatively cheaper. It's a sliding scale; both driven by scarcity of land compared to desirability.
this, a thousand times.
Bank deposits are insured and yes it's a government thingy, but there is nothing that precludes *coin exchanges from setting up a private insurance policy.
Nice effect, and well done, thank you.
Prostate cancer is one of the poster children for the theory "the death rate from cancer is increasing because people have stopped dying of other things before they inevitably get cancer". Far and away the most significant influence on whether you have prostate cancer is whether you have a prostate gland; this is determined in the womb. In the depressing words of my mom's medical school professor, having a prostate gland is sufficient to develop prostate cancer; the prevalence is 100% (of males). The question (assuming what you're really worried about is mortality) is not "do I have prostate cancer?" -- you do. The question is "how badly is my prostate cancer growing?"
Blockchain is readable as this text. Just get a particular date range and check all transfers for that, filter by an amount!
I'm not convinced the greater good was served in this case.

edit as I'm being downvoted rapidly. All I'm saying is that oDesk typically connect a westerner with a developer in somewhere like India who thinks that being paid $3/hour is fantastic, and who's other options for a job are basically hard manual labour.

Obviously I don't know the details of this situation which is why I just said I wasn't convinced.

It seems very plausible to me that the worker really was unable to feed his family after having his account terminated, and it seems like a bit more lenience on the part of oDesk would be more reasonable.

In the western world, if you steal code you expect to get fired. I totally understand that and that's why I just said it wasn't clear-cut to me that the right thing happened here. It might be, but I'm not sure. In the western world if you get fired you have a lot more options.

Maybe situations that involve basically exploiting workers in other countries need a bit more sensitivity. I don't know. Maybe not.

I'd appreciate a discussion instead of just downvoting.
Thank you for posting that! I am not exposed to current research on autism, but I want to know what is happening.

Does that mean that autism can be an evolutionary symptom of trying to balance maximum intelligence (which I assume requires, in layman's terms, a ton of neurons) with robust brain organization and overall brain health?

And do we know if any other species experience autism?
Well I did ask him, it looks like he's pretty religious about it.
A lot of these places will hopefully not become tourist attractions, they exist because of - not despite of - lack of human activity.
Price out the backup solution for that back blaze. Then make the backblaze geograohiclly redundant. Then write the system to keep them in sync. Then add versioning. Then pay for someone to manage it. Now you are getting towards the real cost of that backblaze to replace S3.
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Sorry to break it to you, but you're not looking at a big enough dataset. "Entitled libertarian whining"? Please, spare me your stupid insult.

Fact: unemployment rates go down when income tax rates go down.
Google IO is not only for programmers though.
Thanks for bringing up csvquote. I wrote it last year, and am happy to hear that other people find it useful.

It is indeed a simple state machine (see https://github.com/dbro/csvquote/blob/master/csvquote.c), and it translates CSV/TSV files into files which follow the spirit of what's described in the original article in this thread.

But instead of using control characters as separators, it uses them INSIDE the quoted fields. This makes it easy to work with the standard UNIX text manipulation tools, which expect tabs and newlines to be the field and record separators.

The motivation for writing the tool was to work with CSV files (usually from Excel) that were hundreds of megabytes. These files came from outside my organization, and often from nontechnical people - so it would have been difficult to get them into a more convenient format. That's the killer feature of the CSV/TSV format: it's readable by the large number of nontechnical information workers, in almost every application they use. I can't think of a file format that is more widely recognized (even if it's not always consistently defined in practice).
In theory, the replayer could be made to rerecord a full memory trace. Running the replayer in gdb would be enough for a single process.
This is not an official PR statement, it's an engineer responding at 11 PM (MLB is based on the east coast) with the information he/she had available. I don't think there's an intent to decieve here, just a mistaken guess of the probabilities involved. Hanlon's razor applies.
Poorly-worded heading! Net gain of one person every 16 seconds while the World Population counter ticks merrily away at around two or three per second!
I don't think there's much chance of Scala "fading" away. If anything Java is increasingly being seen as legacy code.
It's an artifact of budding a standard around what people are already doing.
You could see that you can scroll down to page from the beginning but i somehow expected the animation to take me to those information below step by step. But instead animation started from the beginning again.
EC2 pricing is more in line with other vendors. S3 is silly cheap.
One day Microsoft (msn.com) to be exact hotlinked a small gif from one of my servers. Support did not respond at all to my inquiries to please have it removed (the msn.com homepage had a lot more traffic than I was used to dealing with) so I replaced the gif on my server with the "netscape now" button.

This was at the height of the browser wars.
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Why not link it to the World Community Grid?

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

(although they mention smartphones already)
Neat. I remember it used to be cool when someone hooked up a fridge or fish tank up to the internet.
If Bob truly has the authority to decide that the entire department can be deleted from the database, and if the employee record really does have a dependency on the department, then the correct response is either:
a) Sally's interface has already updated to reflect the fact that the department has been deleted, so she doesn't even have the option to delete anymore
b)(where realtime updating of the interface isn't possible) - when Sally tries to modify the deleted record she is presented with a message stating that the action failed due to the department having been deleted by Bob. Sally can now either undo Bob's delete first (or ask Bob to do it), and then undo her own change.

User confirmation dialogues are a UI smell, in the same way that a module of code stuffed with if statements and flags is a code smell. It's telling you that your design has a fundamental flaw that needs to be fixed in a non-trivial way. Just t hink about the basic question - should red be "delete" or "no". Either way, the question implicitly recognises that this situation is confusing, and that Sally has a good chance of making a mistake. Knowing that her problem has arisen because she clicked on the wrong button ("when it was clearly coloured red!") is not going to make Sally like your software. Make it so that she can fix her error, not so that she doesn't make the error in the first place.
Assuming that what we define as conscientiousness is just the way neurons connect to each other and the content of these neurons then as long as the neurons don't die your conscientiousness, personality, identity should not be altered.

That also means the the brain could be copied and we could be able to preserve people's conscientiousness.

How cool would it be if after you die you would still be able to exist as part of a vast network of interconnected brains able to manipulate virtual reality.

Who need AI when you could just upload yourself :)

Edit: Or you could clone yourself which is where it gets a bit weird since a clone would not be you and left to its own devices it would develop it's own conscientiousness, personality, identity however what would happen if you imprinted your neural pattern onto the clone.

Would that be a new person or just you in a new body.
that's exactly what https://github.com/dbro/csvquote does for commas and newlines both.
Walmart has some office space in San Bruno (engineers). I think the nearest Walmart is about 17.5 miles from SF (specifically, 101 meeting 80) in the outskirts of Oakland.

And actually there are more affordable rooms in commuting distance (BART or car) than it appears from popular opinion online.
I do not think it is that straight forward.

> But will it be the "same person"? Does cold-starting from the same neural network give you the same consciousness or a copy? Does consciousness require some form of continuity that's lost if you lower neural activity beyond a certain level?

The sense in which consciousness is used in the comment does not have a commonly held definition to my knowledge.

I would be surprised if the poster is using a personal rigorous definition of consciousness in the comment. I have not see a rigorous well defined definition of consciousness when paired with any question along the lines of "But will it be the same person?

I would say it could fall into:

"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

in the commenting guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Though it is more of classic for using ill defined words and concepts that people nonetheless hold near and dear.

Though think it is a good police to only down vote a comment like that if the full conversation by the poster continued to use ill defined concepts rather then refining them through out the conversation.
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Teleconferencing is currently very possible, including video to video or voice to voice, but this hasn't stopped people travelling around. I am not so sure that VR will suddenly be the thing to take off in this regard; if people aren't happy sat in front of a camera for a meeting, will they be happy wearing a headset?
Pursuing adoption of free and open source software in governments
That's no clock,but a ticking time-bomb!
They do this across all their services and had been doing so for years. They really want you to use their (shitty) browser. I don't blame them though, it's just irritating to see people praise them as a "good" corporation that does no unnecessary evil.
Nintendo's Virtual Boy was never about AR... what are they talking about?
Monster Dam Is About To Slow The Rotation Of The Earth
> man ascii

Just sayin'
Yes, but very few PC owners will download & run songs.exe executable to listen to several songs available at youtube.
That would require a live feed of births and deaths, which I don't think exists. The site is probably based on projections from census data.
If you meet some additional criteria (mentioned on the page as well). Also many of the countries were added just recently (2008).
I started my company single-handedly even though people said it couldn't be done.

It's a scientific laboratory where I needed to continue a tradition of building labs, in this case assaying international petro/chemical commodities in a more reliable high-stakes way than well-funded research labs of major multinationals can usually come up with.
And they are using teams led by chemists or engineers having advanced degrees which I do not have.

I always took comfort that I was making more scientific progress than I would have been able to make If I had a PhD at Exxon, Shell, DuPont, or places like that.
Plus I own my own technology.

I did not want to stay by myself, I started to build a staff but the business was ruined by natural disaster, then I was back on my own like I was the first few years.
I decided not to give up completely, only give up on expansion which would have required capital anyway, so I just worked in the ruins ever since, developed techniques to profit far more per job than the competition, and the best years eventually came.
That is how I completed the survival process then.

There was no initial sign that it was sustainable, but on my own again I never had any turnover like there was at my employers where my operational advantages occasionally had escaped the lab and been adopted by commercial competitors worldwide.
So I have been fearless ever since, eventually inventing something new every day.

Later, what really hurt was a death in the family where I had to leave town for too long a time.

In a one-man business, if you are not there, there is usually no money being made.

Now I plan to make a comeback starting with just me again, but I've seen this coming, and over the last few years have identified members for an awesome team whose trust has now been well established, and can tap them individually as needed.

It's not easy but you can do it,
as long as you are capable of outperforming an actual team whenever needed.
Does anyone have more insight on this?
Can we slow down or fasten the rotation of Earth by current Human technology/processes?
Well not criminals obviously. Only people who have been convicted are criminals. ;-) There are no criminals on Wall Street either.
I think that is partially true, but it is partially because the design is bad for most peoples use. The comments in the link describe the follies of the CE/C button - one only clears the last input, one clears everything and they are easily confused. Pressing multiple times ensures you can actually start over like you wanted to do. This is also the reason I press them more than once - to make sure that I can start over when I want to, not after I have messed up.
I've never been before; this will (hopefully) be my first time, but my excuse is that I can combine in with some geeky sightseeing in the US.
Didn't he get rejected and have to re-apply with Arash?
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No, that's not the point. The point is, when a company gets funding from Kickstarter, they are selling something more than just the Kickstarter rewards. They are selling an intangible good - a vision of the future. If that company fails to try to deliver that future, then it's a rip-off. Your attitude is like I tell you "hey I bought these trainers that were advertised as hard wearing but they fell apart after a week" and you reply "well you didn't buy a stake in the trainer company, so you've got no right to complain".
I'm working on a clone of a relatively simple but very fun mobile puzzle game. I'm creating it for Android using libgdx. It's my first serious attempt at making an Android app, and it's coming along nicely. This weekend I'll be trying to fix the scaling and cropping for different resolutions, which is something I ran into just trying to test my game on my own phone.
Hey, don't take it too bad. If you say anything negative about certain topics you will get downvotes. It's mostly because people not in love with certain topics have learned to just leave them alone and it's left a big echo chamber where anything positive will be upvoted and anything negative will be downvoted.

You'll notice this by seeing that in non-Haskell threads, critical remarks about Haskell are upvoted, while in 'Haskell threads' such as this one where an echo chamber forms, anything critical about Haskell will be downvoted. It's an interesting behavior, but it says a lot more about certain cliques than it does about HN.

Don't worry about it too much and get on with actually using practical tools to solve real problems and leave the echo chamber in their own peaceful world. Everyone is much better off.
You do know implicit conversions are marked by underlines, (both in IDEA and Eclipse) right?
Monochromacy is somewhere around 1 in 10 million. Typical red-green color blindness won't have a problem with the shades chosen.
Actually, the post you responded to specifically argued that the universality (= every country, not necessarily every sign) of red stop signs makes red a good color for warning dialogs. That argument doesn't require that all stop signs be red everywhere, it requires that red stop signs be typical everywhere, which they are. The only non-red stop signs described by wikipedia are several decades old.

As to the topic, I agree that the "yes" doesn't belong on the buttons, and have no particular opinion on undo vs no-undo.
Every hospital I have worked at has a crash team. It is comprised of several people with various skills, all trained to a high level. They most definitely specialise in resuscitation. However they are not always called, aren't always fast enough, and can't be everywhere.
Glad to see another successful startup which uses Scala :)
http://engineering.klout.com/
Why not make an app that uses your phone during charging at night to mine coins for charity?
"He’s a computer expert, so everything he does is worked out just with numbers, and so I have taken on as my next task to translate what he did into equations"

Just numbers.
I hope we see a price reduction for the 100gb @ $10/month account, for something closer to $5/month
Misery has more to teach us than happiness does
It is now 2014. The world doesn't use ASCII, you will still need escaping for binary or misformatted data, and overall the idea of mapping control characters and text into one space is dead and dusted. Don't do it, don't let other people do it, use a reasonable library that handles the bazillion edge cases safely if you need to parse or write CSV and its ilk.
Please do not randomly change buttons. Thats the worst idea ever. Where does this guy do his research?
If you're talking about tool availability and production readiness then I think Scala has the advantage over Kotlin. By the time Kotlin reaches a similar level of maturity, how many features will it have that haven't found their way into Java?

(I don't think Scala's a thousand-year language, but I think Kotlin drops too much of what makes it good; I'd look to the likes of Ermine as a potential future replacement. But more to the point, Scala is production-ready today - I know because I use it in production)
It seems that everyone has their own opinion of how alt+tab should work. Personally, I have the AlternateTab extension[0] installed, which has a configuration option to allow switching between windows within a single workspace, rather than across all workspaces. There's also several other similar extensions, each implementing their own behaviour depending on what you want.
Hey don't be the white person complaining about racism or the man complaining about sexism. If young people weren't getting a shot in the tech industry because of discrimination then I'd be a tad more sensitive to your protestations. But as it is, you're irrationally sticking your head in the sand. If you don't think that learn things and come to new insights that take years to develop then there's nothing I can say to convince you. But if you stick with it for a while, come back to me in 10 years and let's do a code review on what you wrote today and then we'll discuss if you still think I'm ageist for saying there are particular lessons learned through experience.
The first time he applied it was with an test prep idea, if I recall PG correctly, and he was rejected.

The second time he applied with Dropbox, he was accepted. After being accepted, he got Arash to join him.

It seems to me that about every batch there is a single founder. But they tend to find co-founders after acceptance.
In Haskell, typeclasses are special-cased and you can only have one implementation for a given type. In Scala, typeclasses arise naturally as a pattern out of more primitive building blocks, and are "just another type" that you can pass around and manipulate in ordinary ways.
On US Mac keyboards, # is Shift-3. On UK Mac keyboards Shift-3 is the Pound (Sterling) sign. # becomes Alt-3 and is unlabelled on the keyboard.

In the past, I've bought US Mac keyboards just for the #, or switched the keyboard layout in software to US.
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As a game developer, I find the comparison to 3D movies to be naive. There's a world of difference between passively consuming TV content and actively consuming gaming content.

To find a good analogy, I'd actually look back to the first 3D accelerated cards. They were expensive, had bad compatibility (remember Glide?), often required a weird piggyback on a 2D accelerator to work.

But hard core games bought them, because the experience you got was so much better than what came before. You better believe the same people won't mind plugging some goggles in.

If VR can pull that off, it's going to be huge. But it has to be a life changing experience the first time you put the goggles on. Like going from a Nokia to an iPhone. There's no room for incrementalism here. And half of that is going to come from the initial software - what use is Voodoo without QuakeGL?
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