skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data centres makes little difference in this case. You can fit far more storage than what Everpix used comfortably in a half rack (e.g for density I can buy 5U servers storage servers with up to 48 x 4TB drives). In London, that runs me at most about $1k/month per site. Three sites for $3K/month. 400TB worth of off the shelf storage servers would run us ~$1600/month without even shopping around, in leasing cost per location, for ~$8000/month for triple redundancy on top of raid. Then there's bandwidth.

400TB even at the Reduced Redundancy Storage pricing is ~$20k/month up until the price drop. With the price drop it looks like it'll be more like $9300 with RRS, which is actually getting cheap enough that it's worth it in some cases, to avoid having anyone spend their time on managing anything. The gap will increase again once you factor in request pricing and bandwidth, though, as even my standard price list prices for bandwidth would add up to less than the cheapest published bandwidth tier at Amazon with just a tiny little bit of hassle (BGP setup to multihome each sites with 2-3 different transit providers with different coverage - lowers cost by letting you pick a transit deal that does not give full access to the internet at very low cost coupled with a full price full coverage one)

Or I could spend about $12k/month at Hetzner for the same storage + an aggregate stated "guaranteed" bandwidth of about 2Gbps per location at no extra cost. Again, without shopping around. The moment you do more than about 20-30TB transfer/month, Hetzner becomes cheaper than S3 with that setup, and probably at about 50TB+/month it'd take effort to beat them when buying my own transit too.
I have a totally opposite view, I think it's almost certain that there's something very special about mind / consciousness.

For example, notice that the content of your conciouness is the only thing that's certain. Law of physics can change. Or you might wake up from matrix (recursively multiple times). Basically anything can happen. But the fact that you feel good (or bad) at this moment is certain. Mind is something like a window to the physical world.

Also, consciousness is subjective, physics cannot describe it, not even in theory.
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Using fused-multiply-add unless the user has given the compiler option to deviate from strict IEEE754 results would be a compiler bug. I'm pretty sure gcc gets this right -- it will use FMAC on ARM (for instance) only if you pass it the fast-math option.
50 years ago today. Magnitude 9.2.
This requires the installation of some plugin to actually work. They made it sound like it was JS only.
you can switch to the english version by clicking the union jack in the upper right corner ;)
6-7 is not THAT bad. Most modern buildings should be able to handle this relatively fine. In Japan usually nothing recent falls apart until after 7. Anyway, in terms of casualties, it all depends where the epicenter exactly is, and at what time of the day or night the earthquake strikes.
There's no way to know which axiom is "correct", because you can't actually build a physical infinite set.
See my comment elsewhere with some numbers. You can beat S3 even with the new pricing in many cases. With the old pricing its trivial.

With replication to 3 data centres.
Tells me basically nothing about the product. Wants email address.

I see this trend far too often.
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Unintentionally taking penicillin can be quite bad: some people are allergic to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin_drug_reaction
It's been like that for a long time. I'd argue that for mobile devices, you don't really need that much power anyway to make something fun and adapted to the format. The PSP is still selling well in Japan and developers are still making game for it to this day.
No it's not theft, it's conversion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(law)
> As for electricity, lousy developers steal it as well. What's the difference if the stealthy app does what it says and is reasonable about mining?

I can think of at least two differences. First, the developer profits from one but not the other. Second, the developer intended one but not the other.

We evaluate the morality of accidental waste differently from that of deliberate taking for personal gain.
I don't disagree with that, I disagree with how the article was written, I am not defending homeopathy, I am among other things criticizing for example the conflating of the issues you mentioned with manufacturing issues that also happen with normal medicine.
No, I got the analogy, but it fails because only one of the two analogy relationships involves the concept of self, which is quantitatively different from a simple physical process (at the very least, it's an extraordinarily complex physical process that exceeds our current understanding).

But this is clearly flamewar material for a lot of you, so this is my last comment on the matter.
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MtGox certainly benefited from these attacks as it proved the problem is real.

The real question is who was behind these attacks?
Nobody has solved the "problem" of a falling birthrate in a culture where there's easy access to birth control and general overall prosperity in an economic system where children are financial drains rather than financial assets, and they will continue to not solve it because it's not actually a problem?
Japan needs one of these!
Standardly sensible directory system (External/My Music/Lorde/Pure Heroine [2013]/Team.mp3), correct metadata managed by iTunes, including taking out Deluxe from album names, ripper tags from comments/composers. FLACs are in a separate folder, there's very few of them.

I don't have this accessible by the internet or anything like that, just shared on home wifi, and make up short (~1 day) playlists for my phone, or CDs for older cars.
Not necessarily, I personally have a disease that was treated better before 1970 than it is today.
If you are to blame homeopathy for the death of Steve Jobs, might I remind you that he was the person who chose to pursue such quackery?

Personally if you were to ask me about his death, i'd blame the cancer for killing him, not the 'science' he investigated in an effort to fix the problem.
"obfuscation" here is anything from leaking so little data that you could compensate by "just" going a step up in key length for the encrypted data, and ranging down to so poorly hidden a bored teenager could break it depending on how many bits you effectively "chop off", and other trickery.

Frankly I think the problem with NSA-proofing it, though, is that while you can certainly take pleasure in driving up their costs, if you make it impossible for them to simply eavesdrop or break your encryption, the only thing you've really achieved is to make them prioritise other attacks, like capturing copies of all the mail before it reaches your servers. Large amounts of that traffic will be entirely unencrypted anyway, since many of the sites people exchange e-mail with still don't support SSL/TLS.
In some respects it's Google's model too. They gave away Google Apps free to small businesses for years as they pursued Microsoft's Exchange Server market. At first Google Apps was free for up to 100 users, then 50, then 10. Now they charge $5 per user per month for new plans. Legacy pricing is grandfathered so they didn't really piss anybody off in the process, but it seems pretty clear the strategy was to subsidize the product and accumulate market share.
Less power means longer battery life, and it doesn't matter as long as the games are fun. The game being fun is much more important than how new the processor is.
But these ingredients aren't bulkers. I'll collect some examples next time I see some.
Your last statement is only true until it isn't.

(Imagine a device that projects some unknown field at you and can predictably manipulate your subjective experience; it must have a sufficiently complete model of your consciousness and it is difficult to say much more than it is unlikely to be possible)
To everyone commenting on the insanity of homeopathy and how it has no scientific basis (which I don't believe it does), I'd point out that surely it's just a form of placebo -and placebos have been scientifically proven to work, even when you know about them [1].

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_mead_the_magic_of_the_placebo
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No, but they removed it lickety split :)
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I am waiting for the moment where those people realize that a lot of food contains salicylates, acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin) among them. Just by habit of nature.

I lived with a person that had an intolerance (sometimes called "asprine intolerance") and it is basically impossible to keep your diet free from that.[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylate_intolerance#Treatmen...
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I think he appreciated my willingness to sometimes be a horrible, horrible person for the sake of the business. :)
The result depends on the number of multiplications, and hence roundings, that are done.
Sure, but that can happen to an individual with any substance - I might take any given medicine that I haven't had before and turn out to be viciously allergic. But if I take a homeopathic 'remedy' that contains an antibiotic previously usable to treat, say, E. coli, and have no noticeable reaction to it, then I just silently create a new strain of E. coli in my gut that happens to now be immune to the antibiotic, just itching to be caught by someone else when I forget to scrub my hands thoroughly... nothing bad happens to the individual, but the species suffers for my gullibility.
>I disagree that he was being exploited.

LOL, keep telling yourself that. Having a 'lower cost of living' doesn't excuse paying a software developer a much lower rate than the rest of the world.
Your much better off virtualizing Mac OS X locally. With small tweaks, you can even do this with VMware on Windows.
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Well, the patent doesn't help anyone but Apple, actually.
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Thanks, after reading the page I couldn't tell what this even was. Is it a library to do bittorrent in the browser, and if so what is Backbone a dependency for that? Using Backbone makes me think it's a UI, but there's nothing on the page to indicate that.
The idea is that they are as good as placebos (which are proven to be useful in some cases) so they are actually somewhat useful.

While I think that "real" placebos would be better for this than de facto placebos with bullshit pseudoscience attached to them, it's still not completely stupid to reimburse them if they do provide the same level of relief as active medicine through placebo effect.

Of course they're not effective at killing bacteria, but there are some domains in which placebos have their place.

Edit - to be clear, the reason given for reimbursing them is explicitely that they are good as placebos, they are not claimed by the French social security to be useful as active medicine.
But the average age of a house in japan is not even close to the average age of many San Francisco homes...
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I remember that a significant part — up to a fifth, I would say — of the researchers and lecturers whose seminars I followed in the late 80s in France, either did not hold a doctorate or used to publish a big thing only once in a while but were nonetheless respected by their peers for their knowledge and commitment to science, and enjoyed secure academic positions. Nowadays, surviving in the academy without a PhD (or even, in countries like Germany, without the higher "habilitation") and without abiding to the "publish or perish" rule has become increasingly unrealistic.

But it still happens, albeit at the margins. I have been working myself as a scientist in the academy for the last twenty years and even held assistant professorship positions in prestigious universities in Germany for almost ten years without a PhD and without much publications. In my case, that was most of the time due to a combination of factors: 1) the need for an outsider in the lab (particularly to avoid conflicts over scarce tenured professorship positions) 2) being able to teach and research topics for which more than one person would have been needed otherwise 3) being (a little) known in the field, and known as eccentric but proficient at the job.

Funding is certainly an issue. You do need an academic affiliation (at least a formal one) to apply for grants. But I do not feel I have been less successful in securing funding from European and German research funds than colleagues with PhDs and habilitations and lots of publications. As soon as past projects were successfully completed, it has never been a big issue. The real problem is that in my field only fashionable and pointless projects are being funded lately.

As a consequence, I have come to carry my research almost completely independently. Coding and data analysis for private corporations and casual teaching at the university pay the bills. From time to time, I still rely on academic grants to fund field research. My wife and I work together and we have a very spartan way of life, dedicated to science and study.

Doing science at the margins of the academy implies its share of abnegation, is certainly viewed as bizarre by many but it happens. Although I do not complain, I won't recommend it either.
It's always good to see Android users enjoying their freedom from Apple's tyranny.
This Robert Harper, indeed:

http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/the-holy-tri...

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~gds/PLMW/harper-plmw13-talk.pdf

Types are propositions! Programs are mappings! Computation is proof!

These are the truths of this world! Submit to those truths, you webdevs in human clothing ;-)!

(I'm always hoping someone will catch the obscure references I throw into my comments, but alas.)
Perhaps you'd like to to tell us about FP on the Mill.
It's getting popular. The other day, my wife and I were looking for some teething gel. All we could find was homeopathic ("contains no benzocaine!") shit. Including products from brands I previously considered reputable.
"notice that the content of your conciouness is the only thing that's certain".

Tell that to someone with multiple personalities. Tell that to someone who has brain injuries reducing them to a vegetable. Trauma applied to the brain directly and (to an extent) predictably causes changes to the consciousness, making its contents anything but certain.
I see this happen once in a while, and I've always believed that this is how they can keep the whole scam running - put some real medicine in them, so that it does have a beneficial effect, and the users will continue to preach about its efficacy. Add just enough to have a real effect, but e.g. not to all batches, so you don't (easily) get caught.
Today, perhaps and most likely in all but a few cases. That doesn't preclude a shift or evolution of platforms to more efficiently provide that capability as a built in.
Why? It's like that with all jobs, it's how the market works. Not to mention the fact that he works online and can accept jobs all over the world - in other words he can charge what he wants.
Penicillin allergy is different. It's not just "oh I feel a bit unwell for a few days", it's fatal. And penicillin is not a common substance.
Hm, in our kernel, when we need to do floating point, we just set a flag on the thread control block which preserves the floating registers on context switch, and then do our floating point operations. Maybe there is some API abstraction hiding the messy details :).
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Redirects me to the DE page as well (and it shouldn't), pretty strange bug.
They don't have a product. They want to build one. Thats the difference and pretty smart in that market.
Yeah, I have the exact same thing. I actually hate April 1st for this exact reason. I try to stay off all forums even, just to avoid confusion.
I think .66 is substantially too low. Iyama Yuta is well over 50% against any professional in Japan, and while Ishida is still competitive in Japan, he's not a title contender anymore. So I'd wager that Iyama is at least a 66% favorite against Ishida, and Iyama is himself not 50-50 against the absolute top players (40-60 perhaps, maybe worse).
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I have this vague sense of unease about this...
Semineb.
> Kind of feel like a bit of a jackass now

Wait, why do /you/ feel like a jackass?
Well, I was going for a stress on words, rather than a logical statement. But, I upvoted you because I like tautologies!
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Author here! I've created a page with a button so you can see how it functions: http://altreus.github.io/colourblind/index.html

HTH HAND
i'm with you are on this one as well. i'm tried of seeing these "startup" sites that basically show you nothing of the product yet want you to trust them with your email address. how do i know there is even a product behind this site? this could all be an elaborate attempt at email harvesting a niche group.
I think "Yes" should be "green". The question is clear... green reminds me of the traffic ligths, green means "go on" or "go ahead".
Maybe "yes" and "delete" shouldn't be in the same button because it seems that "yes" has a positive meaning (green) and "delete" a negative/alert meaning (red), that is why (maybe)you got this paradox... Hope that was helpful.
They are terrible at explaining what it is.

Can I download torrents directly in the browser? Is it an UI to some underlying service? Can I seed with pure JS?
It looks like Backbone is used for the event model
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Current Monte Carlo programs have major problems taking advantage of increased processing power, so your major assumption is flawed. I don't have a citation at hand, but there has been discussion of this on the computer go mailing list.

It's not out of the question that the engines could be tweaked to improve their performance more with better/more hardware, but right now, they have disappointing results.
I suppose it depends on the idea of what consciousness (in terms of what constitutes the self, rather than state of alertness) is - if one considers it to be just an emergent effect of neuronal activity, then that would fit by definition.
The important point is that choosing to not have a smartphone is a totally valid way to "address [one's] problems" in order to "live a normal life," and I think it's uncharitable to dismiss it as some kind of escapism or isolation.

I mean, come on — preferring a low-tech phone is not like fleeing to an uninhabited island. To use my (perhaps silly) analogy, it's more like choosing not to keep any booze at home. Or to leave home without a hip flask. ;)

Think about how weird it is that you would consider not having a smartphone as equivalent to "locking oneself up somewhere." Almost nobody had a smartphone until 2008.
What I get out of lean start-up is almost like being a kickstarter consulting company first. Get several early adopters build what they want then focus on making them really happy. At that point you need to figure out how to market to others in the segment cost effectively.
Seriously. Generally I don't get freaked out about the dynamic nature of language, but in a technical/computing context real time means something specific & web socket libraries aren't it.
But "listed on the label" is not the same as "contained in the pill" when it comes to homoeopathy. Could you also check how much of the active ingredient is actually present in the pill? ;)
3 years is a loooooong time for the internet. I am going to put a note on my calendar to post this again in 3 years.
What is the median age of an active HN account anyway?
I just skimmed the article but I didn't see any mention that the company was being punished for this. As someone allergic to penicillin that's quite concerning. I'd never take homeopathic remedies but not only was this a stupid abuse of antibiotics it could hurt people.
Out of interest, which disease is this?
I think the word just has two different meanings, like "hacker". It's kind of schizophrenic.

Edit: Although I admit that I very much associate the "rt" suffix with the "runs in deterministic time" kind of realtime.
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Like a webring?
Placebos can change your attitude but cannot cure anything. You may feel better but in reality nothing has changed other than the feeling.
I'm the project manager for BigBlueButton. Our goal is to provide remote students a high-quality on-line learning experience. Building an open source web conferencing system is no small task, but it is very satisfying.

I noticed in their 'about us' they stated "That’s why we built dozeo". Funny, I thought they built dozeo using BigBlueButton :-).

Want to try another demo? We're adding webRTC audio to BigBlueButton. Check out http://webrtc.blindsidenetworks.com/.
http://famo.us Has a nice YouTube clip of someone's personal site that looks quite impressive.... why is that not one of the demos? Is the video a fake?
Well the ingredient listed is black, and the pill (actually it was a liquid) was pitch black.
There are sporadic reports about development on the KGS account for Google+.
Agreed. An app which does not rely on RTOS/kernel can hardly qualify for "real-time".
OpenSSH is in Kernel Normal Form (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=style&section=9) which doesn't have any qualms about it.

Specifically it says : "When declaring variables in functions, declare them sorted by size (largest to smallest), then in alphabetical order; multiple ones per line are okay."
Nice.. that's one of reasons the first thing I do after a fresh install in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

AllowUsers myuser
PermitRootLogin no

(yes I still use a password)
I actually believe the construction in Japan are much more reliable than construction in San Francisco.

The earthquake risk is everywhere in Japan, so that's a major point that all construction rules take into account. Those rules are revised regularly, getting stricter as technology permits it. A good chunk of the property owners fees go into renovation to make the building earthquake-safe, and an building decreases in value as it gets older because people know it won't be as strong in case of an earthquake.

On the other hand earthquake is not a problem in most places in US, even California doesn't compare to Japan in terms of earthquake risks - outside the Bay Area. So the whole country isn't thinking in terms of earthquake protection, and that makes a difference.

So San Francisco will certainly do much better than Turkey or Haiti, but I don't think it will resist as well as Tokyo.
I've had somewhat the opposite experience - I left academia (math) and am very happy to do programming for a living on so-called mundane CRUD apps.

Academia suffocates you with its processes, and the tendency of it to zombify young academics to thinking that high abstraction is the only way to go in life is in itself horrible.

In the end, I'm happy doing what I do. Mathematics was a fun challenge, but I never viewed myself as just a mathematician - I have a deep thinking highly adaptable mind that is geared to solve problems, not just be a specialist.
Hmm, you ever been to India? Alot of developers there are forced into development by their families and don't get paid much while taking care of not only their immediate family but their retired father and his family. Granted what he did was wrong, I do understand this developer's plight. 10K people per square mile is alot of competition where good work is.