skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After this latest round of price cuts, I'm starting to question whether I even want to reserve instances on the lower end. An m3.medium is about $52/month on demand vs $35/month (amortized over 12 months with a 1-year heavy usage reservation).

In this example, it becomes a question of whether it's worth saving $130'ish a year for the liability that a 1-year m3.medium heavy util reservation represents. At the lower end, that's not a huge amount of liability, but it may be a case where I just don't bother reserving m3.mediums anymore because it's a wash.
I'm guessing Apple will do the same lottery for WWDC this year, that's what they did for Tech Talks a few months ago.
In Response To Google, Amazon Announces Massive Price Cuts For S3, EC2 And RDS
The problem with this is that opinions have various degrees of influence on business decisions.

If FizzBuzzCorp is in the business of building CMSs in PHP, and Bob believes that there is nothing unethical about the diamond business, those two things are far apart enough that you can reasonably trust Bob's opinions on the diamond trade to not influence his decisions as a leader. Even if you think the diamond business is the most awful thing ever, it's extremely unlikely that that Bob's views on the matter will influence the writing of PHP websites, and you can probably overlook it as an employee/customer/investor in FizzBuzzCorp (unless the diamond trade is something you feel really strongly about).

However, every company deals with human beings by nature, and implicitly takes a role in social progress just by virtue of being a part of society.

If Bob has certain beliefs about the nature of the rights that should be afforded to some humans but not others based on things like their gender (or race, or sexual orientation, or other), then the probability that those beliefs will interact with his decisions during his tenure as a leader is pretty high.
>If the community was larger we would have run into less issues.

I'm not so sure that's the case. For example, debian's user base is vastly larger than openbsd's, yet debian has bugs like "all the keys you ever generated are garbage" and openbsd doesn't. The "many eyes" hypothesis is bogus. Bugs are found and fixed more through deliberate effort than just large numbers of people.
For my company, I dont believe its the actually VDI causing me problems, I'm pretty sure its our horrible internal network.
Digital Ocean isn't PCI compliant. http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...

AWS is.
Yes, the canonical reason is because he has a reduced mental capacity, something that can (possibly) even be measured in standardized tests.

Not because he has a different stance on moral issue X.
If he doesn't fully explain his position on why he donated to that campaign, then he remains hard to trust.

He seems to be refusing to state his full position on the reasons behind that donation, other than to ask people to take his word that his reasons are reasonable, while using the fact that people are being rude as a defense not to speak publicly on the subject, which isn't entirely reassuring.

https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/
To put in more westernized chess terms, this would be like beating a 2100Elo master without bishops. Yoshio is a professional and very skilled, but he hasn't won a major tourniquet since 1989. Really not an achievement, its nice to see Computer Go advancing.

A 4 stone handicap between master's is massive. The difference between a 9d (dan) and 1d isn't actually 8 stones. With an 8 stone handicap a 1d will play a 9d off the board (provided both are profession dans not amateur). Source http://www.amazon.com/Kages-Secret-Chronicles-Handicap-Go/dp...

Generally I would say that this should put it around US 2-4d (for US Go Association, or KGS online). Maybe 2k-1d in professional amateur circles. I doubt it work warrant a 1-3p 'professional ranking'.
I know, will be fixing.
Mudslide Map/Photo Overlay, Oso, WA
Hmm, that website is extremely slow for me (on Firefox).
I don't get all the fuss. Bitcoin is being treated as any other currency. If I make a profit buying and selling Euros I also have to pay capital gains tax. What am I missing here?
Now for those without context, that was to match Google Cloud Platform's aggressive offering they announced just yesterday. Now it's Windows Azure's turn I guess.
I think this is the best description, but with a qualification. No mater when you joined the company, if you took no salary and got 'significant' equity, then you could be called a co-founder, especially you helped the company get off the ground or make a significant pivot - like Elon Musk for Tesla.

I know folks who are on Founder Board of Advisors. They work/provide guidance for sub-1% equity and no salary. They would never be called 'co-founders'
Barely usable? I'd hardly call it that. I find it very usable. I don't quite like the alt+tab default functionality, but barely usable is really a stretch. I find it a very productive environment with no extensions whatsoever.

That said, I do use a few extensions, and I'm exploring writing ones as well. The fact that extensions are written in javascript is really nice (or awful, depending on how you feel about javascript). The built in debugger/console looking glass (type ALT+F2, then lg, the press enter) is very helpful, and window identification/selection is very simple. Being able to extend the environment in a relatively easy way with a scripting language is a big win in my book

ymmv, but I find it to be a nice environment. I'm not 100% satisfied, but I'm far more satisfied with it than, say, OSX or Windows, and slightly more satisfied with it than Unity or KDE.
"In fact the things that make Haskell better are probably difficult to appreciate by a lot of younger programmers who are using relatively new languages and frameworks like Node and Rails"

Are you reading this stuff? I'm not going to talk to you if you're just being a dick. I know you can read, so stop being obtuse. Come up with something, quick.
BlackBerry sued software chief to stop him leaving for Apple
Nothing is secure by default, even Django and Rails. You can always shoot yourself in the foot, if you don't know the basics about security.

This is why the solution isn't relying on your framework, but on your competence.
A new way to present [video]
The typical CEO response would've been to lie about a change in position and then state the same policies as he already outlined. I don't agree with the man's personal stance on same-sex marriage but he never brought it to the work place - others did.

Integrity is higher on my values list than many of the tech and community connections he can bring to the table. I would also disagree with his personal beliefs in being a snake-handler (if he was one) but would find no issue with his leadership ability as long as he didn't bring those beliefs to the organization.
He probably has the title of Ring Bearer.
And you do what for loadbalancing?
i apologize for that last comment. that was uncharacteristically pithy of me.
Consider this scenario (which is extremely common):

Public access to a SQL database. Input isn't properly sanitized while building some complicated query. $badnick executes a SQL injection. Luckily, the database user from the public site only has SELECT privileges (yay SOA or something). This is an extremely common enterprise situation.

The attacker can dump data (like password hashes), but in an HMAC'd password setup, cannot actually gain access to modify or login as a user via brute-forcing. They cannot pivot the user account to access to another system. The attacker must find a different hole to gain access to the app/login server.
Let's see if this works.

WebPageTest.org – Dulles,VA	Result URL	WebPageTest.org – Miami, FL	Result URL	WebPageTest.org – Denver, CO	Result URL	WebPageTest.org –Los Angeles, CA	Result URL
1.894s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_6C_J3P/	2.035s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_DQ_HF4/	2.381s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_66_H6X/	1.648s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_JY_GRT/
0.850s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140304_FV_6XQ/	0.961s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140304_RG_6Z9/	1.056s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140304_MH_6ZH/	0.665s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140304_RN_70Y/
1.245s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_XW_J0Q/	0.950s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_KG_HW9/	1.419s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_N8_J39/	0.924s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_Z1_J7G/
0.940s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_QR_JT7/	1.208s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_XH_JJ0/	1.229s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_ER_JE6/	0.671s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_DW_JB9/
0.642s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_0K_JYE/	1.174s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_CB_K2X/	1.721s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_1Q_K61/	0.981s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_A8_KNH/
1.073s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_NR_M5G/	1.327s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_RM_M1H/	1.682s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_5P_KVQ/	1.353s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_ED_KPJ/
0.732s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_C4_M93/
0.725s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_1W_MGX/
1.216s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_9Q_MKK/

0.812s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_X5_NH5/	1.235s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_RX_NJ1/	1.060s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_ND_NP4/	1.080s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140217_C1_NV3/
0.924s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140218_91_HS4/	1.083s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140218_MA_HSG/	1.460s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140218_B3_HTE/	0.748s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140218_VB_HW8/
0.616s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140219_EE_RAE/	1.021s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140219_CV_S2J/	1.516s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140219_HH_SKQ/	1.116s	http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140219_28_SV6/

EDIT: nope. That's was supposed to be a table of the webpagetest.org results :/ its 3am here and I need to get some sleep and be awake again in a few hours. I will have to get back to you on a nicer formatted version.
Most of the development for this game took about 2-3 weeks. The momentum drift is just part of the game, but I may adjust it based on more feedback.
> Is being against same-sex marriage ok as a personal opinion just because we're in the transition period?

Yes. The jury's out on gay marriage still. We all know what the verdict will be, and people who don't support it will be carried along kicking and screaming, but it's still ok socially to oppose gay marriage.

That said, it was a stupid move on Mozilla's part. I'm sure he'll be great for the company, but now their masthead practically reads "We hate gays!"
Don't take it too literal. I was just voicing my disagreement :)
>As a CEO, you live, breathe and sleep for the company

You'd be surprised. That's just a myth we have, to justify crazy salaries.

In fact, there have been tons of CEOs with golden parachutes who could not give a flying duck for the company that hired them. Nokia's recent-ish management comes to mind.
Interesting story. I spent a lot of free time in the late 1970s and early 1980s working on my Go playing program Honninbo Warrior (played poorly, but was the first commercial Go playing product).

The new Monte Carlo search technique (used by Crazy Stone) basically blows all previous approaches out of the water. I bought the "Championship Go" app for my android phone, it uses Monte Carlo, and plays well.
And as a side effect, if you are relying on lots of data files provided by other people, you inevitably end up with a library 57,000 parsers, 55,000 of which are for different, slightly broken CSV files.
Don't want to sound rude, but to me this is just a nice collection of labels to slap at anyone who disagrees with one's opinion on a tech subject.

I personally prefer to just ignore "haters", but critics are more than welcome!
Brendan Eich has now publicly committed to...

1. Include LGBT individuals in making decisions regarding discrimination and inclusivity.

2. Continue health benefits for same-sex partners.

3. Uphold anti-discrimination policies.

4. Create new initiatives to reach out to those who feel marginalized.

5. Support an initialize for bringing under-represented people (including LGBT individuals) into tech.

And apparently he is committing to all these things despite holding a personal belief that marriage should be restricted to heterosexual couples.

I admit my perspective on this may be limited due to being a white, heterosexual male, but...

Why is having Brendan Eich's personal approval more important than having his support? Why does it matter what he believes internally if all his external actions are supportive?

We use products and services from numerous tech companies every day, never even asking how their CEOs feel about LGBT issues or what actions they take to be inclusive. But now people are upset because one of the few CEOs to make such a strong public statement of support for LGBT issues (I can't think of another one who has even made any statement at all) doesn't personally support homosexual marriages? It's bizarre. Why is silence (from other CEOs) better than a stated willingness to support people even if he disagrees with what they are doing personally?
Am I reading this right that the new pricing is going to be 3 cents per GB and the old pricing was 8.5 cents per GB? 2.8x drop in price! Wow!
I usually Look at it for a few seconds and then think about what I want to do in there in my Brain.
But the thing people are needlessly concerned about with EBS is full datacenter failure. Which is just as much a problem for those EC2 instances. Synchronous replication to another data center is a massive performance killer.
The essay your talking about interest me. To be precise, I'm interested in knowing your point of view regarding the viability of a social network which database is stored in DHT.

edit: in my point of view, marketplace is just another social network.
I am an idealistic sucker who feels that the more people create the more people can be inspired to create. So I don't think this will stop me.

Oculus VR talked a lot about how it was going to be an open platform. A place where people could make what they wanted. What seems to be a big part of the concern for most people is that Facebook will aggressively tie the hardware to their platform in order to regain that 400 million cash that they laid down.

A lot of the people who got one wanted to do VR projects on it that they could conceivably sell to many platforms. Maybe make some cool worlds that they could share with others and maybe make a little bit of money off of down the road.

A number of these people have also worked with the Facebook platform to make apps and games. They found it difficult and maddening when Facebook would suddenly make changes to how people found their apps or games.

So TL;DR is no it won't for me but I would love some FB stock for backing them! :)
No, absolutely nobody ever said that. The only con of a laser measure is the price (compared to a foldable analog one), but apart from that (and for the purpose of measuring rooms and buildings), a laser measure is superior in every way.
I use a combination of GoDaddy and Gandi.net for registration (and I may have one really old domain still hanging around that's with Register.com, not sure).

Hosting is Rackspace, mainly due to their acquisition of Slicehost. I thought we might move once the acquisition went through, but so far Rackspace has been fine, and I'm not in any particular hurry to leave, even though I expect we could find cheaper services if we put some effort in.
I'm pretty sure, as with Bitcoins, you would pay tax on $50:

see http://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/09/forex-taxation...
Lottery goes from April 8 - April 10th.
A four stone handicap in Go is way less than a four piece handicap in chess.

Also, Crazy Stone is 6d on KGS.
HL7 used in healthcare is similar.

Just grabbing the first few segments from the example message in the wiki article:

MSH|^~\&|MegaReg|XYZHospC|SuperOE|XYZImgCtr|20060529090131-0500||ADT^A01^ADT_A01|01052901|P|2.5
EVN||200605290901||||200605290900
PID|||56782445^^^UAReg^PI||KLEINSAMPLE^BARRY^Q^JR||19620910|M||2028-9^^HL70005^RA99113^^XYZ|260 GOODWIN CREST DRIVE^^BIRMINGHAM^AL^35209^^M~NICKELL’S PICKLES^10000 W 100TH AVE^BIRMINGHAM^AL^35200^^O

The delimiters are defined at the beginning of the opening MSH (message header) segment. HL7 is zero-indexed, but your zero index is always the segment label, so it's easy for non-technical people to count naturally to get the field identifier without having to explain counting n-1 to them.

The one exception to that is the MSH segment. Things get a little screwier there because the first instance of the field delimiter is also counted as a full field in the spec, so it tends to trip people up. So even though "^~\&" above looks like it should be MSH.1, it's actually MSH.2, etc.

The delimiters used in the wiki example are the most common you encounter, but some systems do things differently because reasons. The primary HIS at my hospital uses colons and semicolons, for example (and I want to poke out my eyes with ice picks every time I have to look at the messages coming from it as a result). But since it's all defined right in the message header, it's trivial to convert between delimiters when you need/want to.

Either way, this is how the vast majority of electronic medical records are transmitted today.
Would we have the same controversy if Brendan voted Tea Party (but only privately)? If he were against abortion? If he didn't believe NASA needed a bigger budget (or that it did, if you lean the other way)?

Yes. Yes. Yes.

This is America in 2014. If somebody holds a politically incorrect position, they must be destroyed: their employer must be named, shamed, and pressured to fire that person. If that person runs a company, that company must be destroyed: it must be boycotted, attacked with FUD, and besmirched.

It's not right, but that's apparently what our culture has descended to.

Am I wrong? Many of the responses here on HN and elsewhere online about this topic over the last 24 hours indicate that I am not.
Sounds like an opportunity for an app ..
Unfortunately (from the perspective of a songwriter), a lot of people will take that as wink-wink nudge-nudge. Anyway, a non-profit streaming service that is voluntarily populated only by indie artists that control their own licensing terms (in exchange for revenue share) would a good thing.
Thank you very much. Really glad to see they decided to make this a mod tool on an as needed basis rather than site-wide.

Have a great day.
Odd...

"This page has been blocked from accessing your microphone."

I don't have headphones on, and I see no other indication as to why they'd want to access my mic. Weird.
Kickstarter has never been about pre-ordering a product. It's about supporting a business; the gifts are simply incentives to invest certain amounts. That some companies treat them as pre-orders has no impact of the actual goal of kickstarter campaigns - getting money to fund an activity.

There is no guarantee that even if a kickstarter campaign is successful you'll get "what you paid for". A company following through with its kickstarter incentives is a bonus, not the end goal.

Relevant to this particular discussion, do you think that Marcus Pearson really gave $10,000 just to receive a dev kit?
Now I know why the soap in the toilets is not getting refiled.
This sums up my career. We should grab a beer and bitch about work. That's what most of my colleagues do to cope.
I implement laziness "manually" all the time in Objective-C.

For example, imagine something happens which invalidates a property which must be calculated (say, a bounding box for a graphical object).

Instead of immediately recomputing it, just set it to nil, and only recompute it the next time the property is actually accessed.

This way you can harmlessly invalidate it multiple times without doing a potentially expensive calculation (which just gets thrown out by subsequent invalidations).
This sort of question, in fact the entire uproar, presumes that Brendan Eich is a hateful bigoted person with an agenda, or at least that he has some kind of dangerous impulse we should worry about. Do you think his stomach turns when he's around gay people? I don't believe it for a moment. If anything he probably just feels afraid that someone's going to attack him and accuse him of bigotry.

Homophobia and opposition to gay marriage are in my opinion completely different issues, even if they involve many of the same people. We can't automatically hold someone accountable for both.
If the book is "Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War" by Robert Coram, then I've also read it.

It's very easy to over state what Boyd did. As in, what he did in reality was so fantastic and unbelievable that it's very easy to attribute additional not fully truthful aspects to him.

Unfortunately, can't really talk about the YF-16's combat potential as a dog fighter all that much. But what I can say is that if you apply Boyd's earlier work (E-M theory and E-M charts) to the the YF-16, then its very likely that you -can- compare the various airplanes. While it's certainly true that the YF-16 could perform the buttonhook turn to significant advantage in a wide variety of situations (the buttonhook turn is used when being pursued. By initiating a ridiculous tight turn, you could dump enough velocity to cause the opponent to overshoot, and then MOST importantly, the YF-16 had the thrust-weight ratio required to rapidly regain the energy it had just lost and allow it to reengage), it's quite likely that either the MiG-29 or Su-27 could have beat it in other regimes. For example, look at how the F-4 (a terrible dog fighter) was able to find advantageous engagements against generally aerodynamically superior MiGs during Vietnam (aided by Boyd's E-M work).

It should also be pointed out that amongst the things that the Air Force forced onto the F-16 was a much better radar. Nearly all the major changes made to the production aircraft degraded its talents as a dogfighter (as you point out) while vastly increasing its flexibility and its ability to engage at long-range - decisions which in retrospect were massively beneficial. The biggest thing to ding the USAF with is that they did not sufficiently increase wing area to compensate for the mass increase. In other words, Boyd's vision of where air combat was heading wasn't really spot on.

Also, credit should go to where it belongs. Boyd did not design the YF-16 by himself. The rest of the "Fighter Mafia" deserve just as much credit, as well as the designers at General Dynamics.
I feel like a may be missing something, but don't these taxes only apply for people who cashing out to a USD? You can still buy things with Bitcoin (as a currency) directly and not pay any taxes to the US government. 1 BTC is still worth 1 BTC.
How much bandwidth are you using? I'd wonder if they throttle you at some point. I'm sure they're not expecting people to use that whole TB.
No, Mozilla would not appoint someone to CEO who donated $1000 towards a campaign on banning interracial marriage. However, not very long ago that was an acceptable, even common, personal opinion and people who publicly held it were appointed CEO without any qualms.

So yes, being against same-sex marriage is still OK as a personal opinion and does not stand in the way of being appointed CEO. The facts are your answer.

You are assuming that this change will be the same as that change. However, that is something history will show and that you cannot speed up by asking questions that only time will tell the answer to. This change is not yet the same as that change and consequently that change cannot yet be used as an argument for how to behave towards this change.
Why do they need microphone access?