skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I much prefer ReQL over SQL. It is much nicer, flows naturally in my opinion and is combine-able. I'm using this combination method in my rethink-miner tool to help me work with data to try and figure it out and I can make generic queries that I can use on top of every other sub-query which is very very nice.
SELECT * FROM Foreign_Corporations fc INNER JOIN Foreign_Corporation_Employees fce ON fc.FCID = fce.FCID WHERE fc.Country IN ('Pakistan', 'Afghanistan', 'Iran')
Anti-games Sen. Leland Yee arrested on bribery, corruption charges
Not exactly what you asked for but I spent about 5 minutes searching.

1. I navigated to http://last.fm/api

2. I immediately found http://www.last.fm/api/feeds

3. From there I found http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/CGamesPlay/recenttrack...

4. I guessed, and found http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/CGamesPlay/recenttrack...

5. The documentation on http://www.last.fm/api/show/user.getRecentTracks includes info on how to fetch scrobbles during a given time period.
It's pretty interesting that there have been no update to the Glacier prices as of yet. I wonder what could a fair point price be ~ 1 cent per TB ?
Personalize Web Apps with Public Data from Anonymous Traffic
The Anaemic Domain Model is no Anti-Pattern, it’s a SOLID design
Continuous Delivery of Windows Azure Cloud Services with AppVeyor CI
You're absolutely correct, Onion.

This is referred to as Uplift Modelling in the direct marketing lit.

To observe if your algo has real world performance, you would want your invite list to include a (blind) holdout set composed of random people sampled from each decile of the entire scored population, meaning [(360/2)/10]=18 should be the bottom 10% of potential founders according to the algo.
There are lots of other options. While they may not all be "cloud" providers, there is a wealth of VPS and dedicated server providers in almost all countries you can name.

I have no idea why you are picking on Hetzner in particular. They offer clearly defined bandwidth packages with their servers (20-50 TB) and charge for overages (0.2 cents per GB).

Hetzner is perhaps not what you would call a premium provider, but their prices are about in line with industry wholesale rates. For example a very high quality provider that competes with Hetzner in their home market charge 0.4 cents per GB and they are happy to deliver any traffic you can serve at that price point.
Astronomers Surprised to Find Asteroid With Rings
Use this invitation link for direct access during the beta > http://beta.backhub.co/ref/5st1vbw1f – As maker of backhub I'm happy about feedback.
They want to retire the m1 hardware. Probably costs more per hour for power to run than the new m3 hardware.
Man, I guess nobody likes even a little humor around here.
I am amazed noone had mentined Dreampress $20/month (includes two VPS files + mysql and uses varinsh cache) which they claim is equal to $500 wordpress.com VIP. I am using it, but I never had the privilege so far to hit more than 100 concurrent users.
Honestly, I think it's a mix of you being too demanding and the company not being sincere. Once the company honeymoon over, you're treated like any other guy no matter how hard you work.

Side note, I wrote a post about this: https://medium.com/maybe-its-fiction/5bac4f20203a
It only happens in dreamland :) option (4). In practical, its a human tendency that after some time either we get irritated by each other or we start finding flaws in any decision taken by the management or vice versa.
OPERA has detected a fourth tau neutrino
Where there are security vulnerabilities, I'd rather it be the NSA exploiting them than someone else. The fact that Huawei support engineers have so much power is much more troubling.
Only use EBS when you absolutely have to, and fail gracefully when EBS fails.
Eve is also a sharded world, the system there just tries to implement transitions are transparent. The abstraction leaks sometimes, though. (Each system in Eve is a shard, and when events in that game happen 'at scale', scaling issues abound.)
‘Candy Crush Saga’ group crashes on New York debut
Omnichannel experiences in eCommerce, pt. 2
Haskeller at IMVU.

I was surprised how fast people were picking up the language when I started

It is way different learning the language surrounded by teachers and a working environment. That was my takeaway.
That is an impressively smart solution really. I don't have instant channel change :(
They are on the list for the next round of testing.
He means stuff like minimize and maximize.
> Equity costs nothing to give out

Only if your company isn't worth anything.
New York Fashion Week: Ma' which colors are we gonna wear on fall?
That only took one day! This competition looks good for the future.
Except it isn't "Liberals vs. Believers" because there are lots of liberals who are christians. And there are christian churches that will marry two people of the same sex. There are lots of people who interpret the bible differently.

So what is happening is certain liberals are bigoted against certain religions that have certain interpretations of their religious texts. Which is a lot different than liberals are bigoted against religion.
Oh dear, that's me.

Top of my shit list is tech which doesn't just creates more problems, it creates extremely damaging problems by replacing stuff that is mistaken for "old fashioned".

Voting machines that undermine the accountability and transparency of democratic elections, public transport chip cards that violate privacy in a way the Stasi could only dream of, that sort of thing.
I should have made it clear, thanks for pointing it out. I guess this was in the wake of Google Cloud Platform pricing going down yesterday?
Well, you break your services out onto stateless and stateful machines. After that, you make sure that each of your stateful services is resilient to individual node failure. I prefer to believe that if you can't roll your entire infrastructure over to new nodes monthly then you're unprepared for the eventual outage of a stateful service.

Most databases have replication but you need to make sure that the characteristics of how the database handles a node failure are well understood. Worst case you use EBS, put your state on it, snapshot it regularly, and ship those snapshots to another region because when EBS fails it fails hard.

Also, logs make every machine stateful. Use something like logstash to centralize that state.
If someone figures out how to make it as easy as going online, entering your debit card number, and supplying a Bitcoin address to send to, I could see Bitcoin gaining momentum.
I first wrote geosynchronous and approximately geostationary, then decided it was too cumbersome. What sort of magnitude does the analemma have? Also is the effect amplified by it being a "bent pipe"?

Even if it isn't intentional, in scenarios such as measuring a Doppler shift I can see how it can be a useful tool. Almost analogous to microsaccades we make with our eyes.
If you're comparing within generations, he's probably talking about the Su-27 and MiG-29. Kinematically, those two platforms are probably able to match or exceed the F-15 and F-16 in at least some flight regimes. Remember that when Boyd applied his design principles, they were set up to design planes that could defeat any current designs - the performance characteristics of the Flanker and Fulcrum were not really known at the time.

If you're comparing across generations, I think it's pretty fair to assume that many of the 5th generation fighters are likely kinematically better than either the F-15 or F-16 in dog-fighting engagements. You can hear a US Airforce talk that includes a discussion about engaging F-22s in dog fighting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKEa-R37PeU. Wanna skip to 7:50 or so, but the whole thing is pretty interesting if you're into that type of thing
300% is still 300%.
Clojure is not a 10x improve to over java, full stop. It's not even close, and I've done a project at my day job in clojure, it's my favorite language.
I think this is a fairly typical scenario. The "honeymoon" period as you call it is the phase when everything thing is new and you are learning quite a bit in this new environment. Meeting new people, learning new processes, dealing with new problems. After a couple of years you've become the cog in the machine and little new is left to learn -- it becomes routine allowing you more time to pay more attention to management decisions without actually being in their shoes.

Just like any relationship that fizzles out after the initial honeymoon phase when you're learning about each other, it becomes your responsibility to keep things interesting. Take initiative on starting new projects, look for needs and innovate from within the company (being an entrepreneur doesn't always mean you have to start a new company), and most importantly always keep you manager in the loop.
Exactly - how can I run a database server without EBS?
Early Redfin employees say they are getting duped out of shares
What if you have 100 TB?

I would quibble over 25k a year..
Google I/O 2014
Don't be shrill. They "lost their moral compass" because they fired someone who violated a clear policy and wanted to make it clear to all employees that such behavior is unexpected? Give me a break.

You are right that professional execution of unconscionable policies is itself unconscionable. But this isn't that. It's just illegal. There are degrees. Whether current Google recruiters should be blacklisted from further jobs for enforcing a policy that they should-have-known-better about is an interesting question that I don't see anyone asking... because the tone of this article engenders polarized arguments, not reasoned debate.

Lastly, I couldn't disagree more with your assertion that "sometimes readers... need to be spoon-fed." That's not your job, nor the press' job. I do not not not want anyone's interpretation of the facts mixed with reporting of the facts. Save the paternalism for your kids.
Varnish Cache Invalidation with Fastly Surrogate Keys
How We Built ClickShareLove at YesGraph's 1st Hackathon
While not the best solution, you can call Amazon, speak to someone to have your "surprise" bill mitigated.

This is 1st hand information from a AWS Rep I once dated.
> The point is that generally people in management can be assumed to be doing their best. Despite what hacker news and TechCrunch try to convince you, running a company is a job just the same as building an engineering system.

Your analogy is excellent, but you don't follow through with it all the way. I don't think it's fair to say managers are generally doing the best job they can any more than it's fair to say that systems are engineered as well as they can be. Most software is buggy and barely serviceable, and I don't doubt that is true for management as well.

I'm not in the same camp as engineers who think management is worthless, mind you. Indeed, my experience with engineering teams has taught me that good management is worth it's weight in gold. But it's also scarce.
Wow, I was not aware that Go programs had gotten this good. That is excellent news. No a bunch of new papers to add to my list to read.
sent you an email just now!
Crazy Stone got 4 stones handicap, I think. It wasn't a level playing field yet.
Lawsuit claims nest thermostats fail to save/ correctly measure temperature
It might have been enough for them to keep investor interest [new round of funding] and continue. It wouldn't have put them in the black.

https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence/blob/master/...

From that, it looks like their loss over 26 months was ~$300,000. Their total AWS costs was less than $400,000 over the same period.

Downloading 1 GB = 4x the cost of the S3 storage at the reduced prices. If everything is viewed once [doubtful], that is 4x the price of the S3 storage. Given that ti would be impossible to reduce the total cost by even 50%, let alone the 75% they'd need to break approximately even.

I didn't see S3 broken out specifically anywhere which is why I'm just making an educated guess. :/
RUMOR: Playstation 4 emulation of PS1/2 games is on its way
I've got about ten extensions running, most of them I feel makes sense aren't in the base.

The one exception is one modifying alt-tab behavior so it doesn't group programs on different workspaces together. Honestly, that's the one behavior I cannot understand exists in the first place, makes navigating by keyboard nigh impossible.
They will write them in FORTH and they will like it!
Apparently you don't know yesod[1].

[1] http://yesodweb.com
It's scary to think that a third of the internet relies on any one company's backbone products, regardless of the country that company calls home. Way too many eggs in one basket, but much easier for the humans involved compared to having a ton of different manufacturers who would have their own individual issues. Find an exploit once, employ it (most) everywhere (appropriation of old Java tagline).
strength difference between pro 1 dan and pro 9 dan is only about 2 stones
My apologies, didn't know humor was considered destructive on HN. =| There goes my excitement for the price drop. =(

edit: do I get my one point back if I delete it or am I permanently shamed?
Could be just what I'm looking for. I'm currently using a text file which isn't really ideal. Will you support CSV? And it's free; you don't make money from our data, right?
Oh, whatever. What I really want is a teleporter, this is the next best thing.
It's productive to me. I've tried Unity some times already and can't get used to it and at the moment I'm on Gnome Classic because of an issue when upgrading and I'm missing Gnome 3, so maybe each person has their preferences?
Party like a Rover at California Academy of Sciences
> We like domain expertise, but empirically it's not critical.

That's quite a statement. Companies like AirBnB are exceptions, not rules. If you look at most of the top tech IPOs in 2013, which is as legitimate a way as any of identifying companies that have actually delivered liquidity to employees, there's domain expertise everywhere. Examples:

Veeva - founder was previously at salesforce.com, PeopleSoft, IBM

Marketo - founders hailed from Epiphany

FireEye - founded by a former Sun Microsystems engineer

Zulily - founded by Blue Nile execs

Tableau Software - founded by university researchers who specialized in data visualization

Rocket Fuel - founders all worked in ads at Yahoo

RingCentral - founder previously sold a software
communications company to Motorola

Pretending that you can spot the next Mark Zuckerberg or Brian Chesky is a fool's errand if you're a prospective startup employee. Domain expertise doesn't guarantee success, but it is more likely to minimize certain risks, particularly those around market fit and sales.

> It's rare for a startup to succeed without making money for the employees though.

A founder who owns 4% of a $1 billion company gets a $40 million pay day when his company goes public. And chances are he's going to be receiving more equity if he's still a member of the management team. An employee who owns .01% of a $1 billion company gets a $100,000 bonus when his company goes public. Even if you own .1%, you won't net $1 million after taxes. This is not the type of "making money" many early startup employees are after.

Simply put, the idea that owning a smaller piece of a bigger pie is better than owning a bigger piece of a smaller pie doesn't stand up to scrutiny in Silicon Valley because most startups don't go public at billion-dollar valuations and the vast majority of M&A deals are under $50 million. The odds that you are going to work at Facebook in 2006 or AirBnB in 2009 are not very high.

Heck, the odds are that you won't even get an exit, so why not work for (or with) somebody who isn't figuring things out for the first time?
For those of you who are as confused as I was about why he's being so defensive about LGBT issues, here's context:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/gay-firefox-develope...
They just announced the new pricing [0]. It's much cheaper, but still about 2x the price of the WorkSpaces. The only difference I can see is the local storage: 4 GB SSD on EC2 vs. 50 GB on WorkSpaces. I have to assume WorkSpaces is using a spinning HDD in that case.

[0] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/effective-april-2014/
Yea any intelligent bill limiting needs to be done with context into what each instance is doing. It's possible for them to implement something that can handle that, using tags and such, but I would rather they spent that time improving reliability infrastructure.

It's not terribly difficult to implement one's own bill limiting system using the API.
I love the elegance of ReQL and how well it works in dynamic languages, but I still can't figure out a good way to port that lambda syntax used in python into the Java driver.
Thanks - I still like the saying, though I'm not sure how to correct it now.

To me multiple anecdotes signify a small uncontrolled, non random sample set, that you really shouldn't use to draw conclusions.
Another happy Arch user here. I hope people stop harping on the GNOME team, at this point it should be clear to some end users that the gnome-shell interface has come together. 3.8 and 3.10 are beautiful once you install extensions the act of which could not be easier and browsing new extensions is kind of fun. The dev team has had terrible communication problems and I get pissed off when they remove stuff like transparency in gnome-terminal, but extensions often replace missing features (compiz wobble for example). Over time my Arch linux installs have become something I can show my friends and be proud of, this is in no small part thanks to Gnome developers. I wish more distros were able to experience bleeding edge gnome-shell and hopefully as time goes on they will. Also, when Debian stable users get moved to 3.8 and their transparent shell goes away hopefully someone like me or the above poster will be there to say, "grab the xcfe4-terminal and trust the developers decision to deprecate what they claim was unmaintainable code."
Scala Lift
No Ceres?
Sounds like you are a great candidate to start something yourself, and implement all the things you remember about optimal management. Is there a reason you haven't tried to start something yourself (just to be clear, I'm assuming that as a developer, you have made enough money to pay off any unsecured debt, and have the option of freelancing for side income if necessary).
I hope this causes services such as Tarsnap to reduce their prices. Doing a full off-site backup, including pictures, is still pricey.
This. Don't get me wrong, O'Reilly do have some well written books but I find that Manning is only second to Springer in quality.
I am an android developer with low-end hardware(2gb ram and core 2 due cpu). I can do every work in eclipse with ease.

But when i tried IntelliJ-based android studio, it pretty much stucked in every five minutes and even crashed a lot.
after struggling for 2-3 weeks i went back to eclipse.

and it still works great.
Can it stitch together much larger captures? eg: a building exterior and interior?
The problem with CSV is that it looks so simple that nobody ever uses a real library to do it—they just roll their own. So you end up with a million implementations that are all buggy in various different ways. If you receive a CSV formatted file you can never be sure if it's actually good, valid CSV, or some invalid crap from that some programmer that reinvented the wheel because it was "so easy".
I know its not an official driver, but I maintain the Community Java driver here[1]. If its missing something you would need feel free to open an issue and I can add it for you. I have been using RethinkDB with java for a few projects and it works well enough for me.

https://github.com/dkhenry/rethinkjava
I think Cassandra is what all the big guys use. Apple, Netflix, etc.
You should stay in prison for a few days before you suggest it so casually.
i'm really not one of those baying for his head, but didn't that just kind of read like 'but some of my best friends are black!'?
It's one thing getting spied on by the US government, but one would hope they'd use something more sophisticated than Hotmail to move the information around.
Last Bletchley Park codebreaker Jerry Roberts dies, aged 93
I love market competition. :)
Looks cool! I'd recommend adding a simple flame thruster animation behind the spaceship to indicate how fast you're travelling.
The most striking thing to me is that they seem to be aggressively motivating people to longer reservations. For RDS they only dropped prices for on-demand (which is still expensive) and 3 year, heavy utilization instances.
Would Leap Motion or Kinect be able to do something like this? They basically detect physical objects in space so shouldn't they be able to 3D map a space? I know the current Leap device has a limited view area but I understand that's just a design decision for that particular device.
Nothing in the post indicates he's reversed his stance on prohibiting his gay employees from marrying.
This made me laugh -
".. or to meet IT requirements to not have company data on end user devices"

Ya, just put it on Amazon's servers instead. That's way better.
Amazon RDS Price Reduction -40%
Thanks for the great feedback! If you're speaking at a meetup, let me know (mike@rethinkdb.com) -- we'd be happy to send over T-shirts (and stickers, etc.), as well as spread the word about the event.
Porno troll told to go back under bridge
You can, and I do. The difficulty is catching yourself in time before you are drawn into the conflict. It's amazing when you see it happening "from the outside" and you realize how much time you were formerly wasting by participating in what are, in the end, usually pointless arguments.

Disengage, then say "let me know by XX:YY when you make a decision" and find something else to work on. Truly liberating.
> Since they are invisible, how do you find if you have entered a wrong character?

od -c
To quote ESR, "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." For me that truism underlies the passion that gets all good hackers into designing and implementing software. It's the very linchpin of what makes a good software engineer. Someone who's driven to build something, even if its yet-another X. It's "the bug" that I expect to see in any half-decent job candidate for an entry-level position.

Dismissing that seems, to me, tantamount to taking all the fun out of programming.

That being said, I do find atom kind of silly.
No, it didn't read like that at all.
Nice looking UI and very easy to use. Just signed up. Can't imagine I'll remember to check this site often, will there be any email notifications?
Two things.

First, if its fear they're trying to spread, it's working. No way I'd ever use a Huawei device, ever.

Secondly, do you think a nuclear arms race in the middle east would be a good thing??
You actually can do this yourself quite readily, through use of CloudWatch billing metrics (which can be broken down by individual service). Define some alarms based on billing thresholds, and perform automated scaling actions in response.

AWS can't exactly do this for you, as explained by previous commenters, but they do give you the basic features you'd need for implementing it.