skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but's that strongly in the direction of the "Zero Cost" category of microprocessors, isn't it?

An IEEE I think article laid them out nicely into 4 categories:

Zero cost: what you put in microwaves, every cent counts.

Zero power: used to be obscure, the mobile market is of course making it very much less so, although those have elements of:

Zero time: speed is what counts, and plenty are willing to pay a hefty premium for it.

Zero units: say the military needs a CPU for a combat airplane which won't be made in more than 100s of units. Perhaps worth it for the prestige and getting the government to pay you to figure out neat things that might be usable in your bread and butter channels.

One modern example, but not with custom designs so much, is radiation hardened CPUs for space applications, a unit cost of say 100K is rather small in the bill of materials, the cost of failure in the high millions at minimum, could top a billion or billions, e.g. it would be very very bad if the computing subsystem(s) of the James Webb Space Telescope fail on its way to the Earth-Sun L2 point....
That's a long time to be short.

From my trading days, I've learned the importance off only short term trades when betting against a stock.
Stop electing the politicians who appoint cronies?
Thanks for the detailed reply. I appreciate the honest answer.

I have a lot to learn, this much I know.
In terms of what actually directly provides value, it's less data and more social lock-in.

Arguably software is a large driver of the company's value.

This is all pretty much an angles dancing on heads of pins argument, though.
Look, weed makes no money. It never has, really, unless you're a mogul running an international empire.

You can't cut it, it's cheap, and it's much much harder to move around. Straight chemicals are where the billions are made.
People could use Napster just fine, too.
Game over. The internet was fun while it lasted.

Anyone want to start a mesh network startup?
Yeah, good luck with that; regulatory capture has effectively killed any attempt at citizen influence of state and federal agencies. And, in addition to the revolving door at the FCC -- which is uniquely shameless even by iron triangle standards -- Big Cable is excellent at targeting its political donations. They're increasing cable prices faster than inflation, and using the proceeds to hire key FCC officials and donate wads of cash to any politician -- federal, state and even local -- that might be involved in oversight. Your silly little attempt at exercising your rights as an informed citizen doesn't even register.

I would argue that the cable industry is pretty much the perfect example of an industry that should be held at arms' length by its regulators; the entire industry has a history of significant and intentional corruption of the political process, particularly at the local level. It's instructive, if you have the time, to check out the story of Cablevision's efforts to get the cable franchise in Queens in the early 1980s: it's essentially a blueprint for how the industry acts across the board.
Yea, I know the 68040 was late. On the other hand, not having SPARC for example would have been less competition for HP etc to deal with, making this less of a problem.
Seems like rust-http 2.x would work for this purpose. It's subjectively a much more descriptive name than "Teepee", too.
People say: this could hurt startups. Which makes me think: so? Isn't it inherent to startups that they have a competitive disadvantage in areas where expensive infrastructure is required? Isn't it an inherent advantage big businesses have over startups?

Let's take the history of telco monopolies off the table for a minute. Let's say these are purely privately funded networks with no government sanctioned subsidies. Is net neutrality still a good idea? Does't artificially take away an advantage big companies inherently have?
Surprised this didn't get more upvotes. It's great.
Wholeheartedly agree. This really strikes a chord with me, and it's the exactly problem I'm working to make a dent on.

Earlier this year I created a free course called the New Year of Coding [1] with the goal of helping anyone learn what they're doing and, more importantly, why things function in the way they do.

I'm attempting to tackle the problem at a larger scale with my upcoming book, Your First Web App [2], which will walk anyone through the entire process of creating a web app, from start to finish. The goal is for someone to be able to understand all of the pieces, starting with the text editor, the development environment, etc., and gradually working into the actual development, all the way explaining how everything fits together.

It's proven to be a great deal of work so far, but it sure is rewarding getting the "Hey! This is was super helpful! Thanks!" messages.

[1] http://www.alexpcoleman.com/new-year-of-coding/

[2] http://www.alexpcoleman.com/your-first-web-app/
You have made the assumption that the values provided just come from the enclosing scopes. The various packages I found all require an explicit map/dictionary passed in - ie there is nothing unsafe - only named values intended for formatting can be used. (The OP likely didn't show the map/dict because that wasn't relevant to their point.)
the pigs are creating a slow lane, not a fast lane.
Amazon is at least being consistent about leaving out proprietary/locked services. For instance, they don't list Google Play, Xbox Video, or Playstation Video.
The reason I'm a productive member of society now after kicking my 6-year heroin addiction is due to this little known fact, coupled with Australia being surprisingly progressive when it comes to Opiate Replacement Therapy.
Ask HN: How many side-startups do you own? 
How many side-startups (with actual users) do you own? Especially asking folk who have a main startup they run. In your practical experience how much of a distraction is adding one more web app (be it side hack) to your arsenal of internet properties.

The startup bug brings me down really hard and so far my best defense is giving a good idea away soon as I get it.
I believe you could write code to do this, as long as you have amazon credentials on a server at that time in the morning. Did you write your own app, or do you need to hire a consultant to do this?
I didn't, but I can see how my wording was misleading. In my eyes I see the ISP's at odds with the companies which require heavy internet usage. Comcast/Time Warner/Verizon/etc don't like Apple/Netflix/Google. If they had their way, they would impose the pay per site model that we are all afraid of. This obviously won't fly so the ISPs throttle the non-isp media providers until they are willing to pay up (as we are seeing with Netflix especially). As long as this process is more or less transparent to the end user, nobody will make a big deal about it and all parties involved will get something positive out of the deal (besides the consumer).
> Neither of the experiences felt seamless. I had to do way too much work myself.

This is the biggest problem with workout tracking IMO. You worked hard to generate that data through exercising, the device and/or app should be facilitating the data aggregation and meaning w/o the user noticing.

I made TheSquatRack to help fix this issue in the fitness tracking space. It's built upon the notion of workout routines being an analogy to programming, and enabling TSR to be able to execute/run user-made workouts and routines with multi-week progressions, modifications, automatic logging based on what was planned, and more. And naturally, share workouts, templates, routines, and meta-routines in a central searchable database users can browse, add to their training repository, and more.

Technology is moving fast, everyone seems to want to say "look at this data," but there is a lot less "here's what it means, here's common solutions people have found, and here's how to do it". TSR is the first thing I've seen that can work for the first-time gym-goer to elite athlete: giving everyone actional feedback on the data they generate.
This is really neat. I was playing with it on pictures of street signs and buildings and realized that if I select some text and then do ctrl+a it tried to select everything it thought was text...Then I used right click > translate > reprint to see what it thought each thing was.

Here is the picture: http://thesuperslice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/downtown...

And the text outcome - found it most interesting what symbols it thought it recognized:

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Serious question: can the zSeries do full-duplex terminal communications or the modern equivalent?

I first started using EMACS shortly after various IBM systems, and it's hard to express how obnoxious it was to have your keyboard lock while the computer was sending you stuff....

The question is serious because it's not clear to me the use cases of the zSeries including supporting this sort of thing (vs. editing your files on another computer like your PC before submitting them to the mainframe ... but I haven't touched anything in that domain since ... 1978 I think).
Literally: Chrome browser extension replaces literally with figuratively.
I don't plan on shorting to $0. I went short the day after the Whatsapp announcement at $67. Originally planned to cover around $50, but may cover at any point now. They are definitely rolling and investors are enthused in the short term at least
It's going to matter a lot, because consumer internet consumption is shifting inexorably toward mobile, which tends to have data caps. You could blow through the standard 2 GB monthly allotment in a single HD movie streamed to your phone. If suddenly Youtube videos no longer count toward your data allotment, you're much more likely to use Youtube, and not any other competitor which are metered.
Mirrors and Elevators: what is the user problem?
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Absolutely. I understand that cell phones are primarily used for spying and occasionally used for making phone calls. I'm looking for a phone that requires the fewest number of proprietary components in order to function adequately.
Internet archive has a shit ton of movies and videos that are public domain. You can also always Torrent.....
I bought a Fitbit Flex about a month ago. I am totally disappointed.
It has lots of bugs. The sleep tracking (which was the main reason I bought it for) is just a very subjective/guess-like tracking mechanism. I wake up many times during the night but if my arm doesn't move much, according to the device I was sleeping. Not sure how they can improve that part.
Now it simply stopped reporting my sleeps. I tell it I'm going to sleep, then in the morning I tell it I am awake and when I sync the data it has nothing in the sleeping log.
The steps also seem very inaccurate. Sometimes I wake up with hundreds or thousands of steps (maybe I am a sleepwalker?)
I applaud that honesty. Congrats on the acquisition!
> EFi might change this a bit, yet

As far as I can tell the only reason EFI even exists is NIH syndrome. Intel could have just adopted OpenFirmware for x64, and they still should.
Yea, I hope YC for example can talk with them on solutions. sama, what do you think?
> potential partners and acquirers might deal with you as if Microsoft has a first-refusal right for your company.

Would they be correct? ie. does accepting corporate VC investment usually require relinquishing certain rights to the parent company? It seems like a reasonable assumption but a cursory Googling didn't turn up anything meaningful.
Are there to be any regulations to prevent ISPs from artificially degrading delivery of low-priority content providers? Prioritizing content is one thing, but artificially withholding or delaying delivery of content is quite another.
I'd love to spend some time with you if you're seriously interested.

You can expose more than a single port to the local OS, so it sounds like your experience is frought with misunderstanding, which can only be characterized as our fault :)

Reach out - nick@docker.com
Which does a good job of proving my case. SUN very much didn't want to provide "less completion for HP" (albeit I very seldom heard a good word for HP-UX).
Shouldn't it be exactly the opposite? Mobile is hugely bandwidth-limited, but you can get a 128GB SD card for ~$75 these days.

The real reason for streaming is that most people don't know in advance what they want to watch, and with TV/movies, generally only watch something once.
> I have trouble considering someone saying that something happened, as "evidence" if there is no other relevant information.

Witness testimony is generally considered an important form of evidence. Obviously, whether there is corroborating (or, OTOH, conflicting) evidence effects the conclusions that one draws, but that's true of any instance of evidence, not just statements.

> If I stand up in the office and claim that I saw personA murder someone, does that suddenly constitute non-zero evidence that personA is a murderer?

Yes, although standing on its own it would be extremely weak evidence.

> If I write a program to randomly generate claims and post them to my Twitter account, is each tweet a non-zero amount of evidence?

No, because that's not an person making a claim of facts about which they assert direct knowledge. Its kind of irrelevant to the present circumstance, given that no one has challenged the authenticity of the source of Horvath's (or of the other participant's) claims here.
What a fancy way of saying we don't live in a functioning republic.
It depends on the corporation investing, I suppose. I brought it up because I saw it happen, but the corporation in question was active in M&A, too.
Can we get the FCC to rule that Bit Torrent is a form of carpool lane and we should get faster access?
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There are a few good ones on GitHub: https://github.com/jm81/ach
At my old company, we manually had someone use ACH Tools to build out these files, upload to the bank's interface, etc.: http://www.achtools.com/HomePage.aspx#!/
It's a problem of how fast. If the Earth's climate slowly changed over thousands of years, we could probably adapt. Fast climatic changes would be a problem as the biosphere would take time to adapt. For example, remove all the ice from Antarctica (and ignoring most of it is currently below sea level and needs to rebound). You'd have a rocky landscape with no soil. Not very useful for growing crops.
Made it to short! Didn't even get past the first column.
I use Vim and there's a plugin just for that: making sure my code is PEP8 compliant.
I usually use a text file or excel spreadsheet to keep track of these things. I've never applied to so many that I couldn't keep track of them in my head.
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And my point is that in the long term this was probably a bad idea.
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The corporate dividend tax paid by individuals tops out at 20% today, so the example total should be $5.20. States usually tax both corporate profits and dividends at 5-10% also, so that's another 10-20% but that's usually deductible against the other taxes. Expect to keep about $4.30 from the $10 profit, if it's distributed as dividends.
These visualizations of popular tech toys expose two gaps
"I have a lot to learn, this much I know."

Then you're already ahead of most individual investors in the market. Hubris will lose you more money than anything else. Ask me how I know. :-) (Wishful thinking comes a close second to hubris, though.)
Money.

There are 100 senators. 34 or so come up for election every two years. Each election is won, 75 - 90% of the time, by the candidate who spends the most. The most expensive campaigns spend about $20M; the tenth most expensive campaign spends about $5M. The margin between D and R in the Senate is 8. Form a SuperPAC and fund it with about $75M.

Ensure the election of a crop of senators who know what the key issues are for their big contributors... and that if they step out of line, they won't be getting those contributions next year.
Too bad there aren't any.
Congrats joe! :)
Download it from whom?
I used to work for an ACH organization in security, as the guy who set up the credentials, submitted the firewall changes, configured the FTP server, created the PGP keys, troubleshoot connectivity, you name it, all this. I know too much about the subject and I would say "its been 5 years I'm sure they have made it better" but after spending those years there, I know that statement is false.

To say it's secure is a stretch, so say it's completely unsecure is also inaccurate. There were multiple improvements I recommended to the service, but I think I only got 1 or 2 approved. Lets just say this, the front door is secure, but the once you're inside, its not so great. It's not incompetency, its just we (the security guys) are always fighting an uphill battle against change.

Also, I could tell you worst stories about other services all the banks use that would make anyone cringe worst than this, some simple cross bank privilege escalation, oh yeah and the developers said thats not really going to happen... I resigned within a month of that.
Our enterprise on-premise software package runs on Mongo, before it used to run on relational dbmses. Here's why we changed:

- flexible document schema reduces migration complexity greatly, really important when we have our software deployed on many customers sites.
- flexible schema is also important to our product because we support custom forms and fields.
- the ability to store and search nested data
- replication is easy to setup
- easy to maintain, good export formats
- no dependence on customer's DBAs
- no more frustrating explain-plan debugging of underperformant joins
- text search (simple yet useful)
- regex support
- fast, up to 3x faster than SQL based engines for our use cases.
- works well as a cache
- decent also as a work queue with tailable capped collections.

Our biggest complain: the lack of transactions combined with data denormalization pitfalls is a PITA to work around in code.

Overall just a great db for when you need a flexible schema.
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Is insurance provided for book loans? I know some people keep public library books forever and just renew them, how is this issue addressed?
"We have always admired them from afar, especially their dedication to craft and their commitment to their B Corp certification."

We have admired their B-corp certification? Is this a joke? It reads like satire, but I can't imagine anyone actually writing this on an acquisition announcement.
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>>>Sometimes I wake up with hundreds or thousands of steps (maybe I am a sleepwalker?)

It actually sounds like either it's not going into "sleep mode" correctly or it's coming out of it for some reason. I have a flex and eventually got into the habit of checking as I approach sleep that it's still on sleep mode.

If it does come in and out of sleep mode without action on your part, that sounds like a defective device.
Typing just "X to Y" usually works for me.
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No... 3rd parties like cybersource act just like banks from the perspective of the network and can initiate transactions. They pay big money to the financial institutions for this level of access... But from a dev perspective they provide a defacto standard for transactions across many institutions and networks
It's also an evidence backed way of saying it. Which is quite useful.
If you want to listen to the tracks: http://netcat.bandcamp.com/

This music is very enjoyable. I'm working to it right now.
I basically had the same problem with my Fitbit and Fuelband. I wrote a similar article/rant about this awhile back: https://medium.com/p/4dfd99a584d1

It's nuts how much manual stuff you have to do in order to get any use out of these things. These apps should be smart enough to know when I'm running and when I'm walking, when I'm sleeping and when I'm just sitting around. The hints are there. It's just a matter of capturing them.

Annoying.
I had high hopes for this, as I sometimes need to manually transcribe serial numbers from customers' screenshots.

However, it seems to confuse letter O and number 0.
Since serial numbers are not English words, I'm not sure how you would solve this unless you had a lookup for commonly used web fonts.
My favorite thing was that I supposedly walk 200+ steps while brushing my teeth. Nope. Again, we are all beta testers. It's like as if we'd be driving cars that routinely fall apart every 50 miles -- and claim we drove 500 miles.
>I recently saw a photo that demonstrated that Facebook has an 8/1 content ratio

I've also seen similar polls that show that what people _think_ are ads on Facebook aren't really ads per se ... just content from pages they had liked. And in general this might not hold for everyone, due to the newsfeed algorithm -- if I'm more engaged with my friends' posts than pages' posts, I tend to see more of the former than the latter (which is what happens when I visit FB.)
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You could run for office. Would you appoint cronies?
There's also a very detailed tutorial on writing a toy compiler with Haskell and LLVM on this site:

http://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/
Just so we're clear here, your band was not on the wrist holding the toothbrush, correct? hehe.
Streaming is seen, by many content creators, as a way to fight piracy.
We use CloudFormation to do this, but I thought beanstalk had similar cloudwatch metrics to scale with.

We don't use chef/puppet/ansible/salt in production or any code deploy stuff. Basically use your provisioning tool of choice to setup an instance like you would a local vm, deploy your code, then package that all up as an AMI.

When the server spins up there is some minor config that gets set depending on the zone it is in and we are off to the races. Takes about 2 minutes to fully register with ELB and start serving traffic.

Each step you remove from a new instance to become 'ready' decreases your load time and lets you run at higher margins so you arent stuck with a Cloudwatch alert of 30% cpu -> scale up because it takes 20 minutes for chef to config the server, git to deploy code, run whatever compilation of assets/configs, then finally register with ELB

Downside of course is you are always making AMIs to do a new push.

If you follow semver, you could add a small step to handle a pull of your latest .PATCH version so you are only creating AMIs for MAJOR.MINOR. Or if you prefer only doing MAJOR ami creations

tldr: reduce # of steps a new instance has to take in order to start handling traffic = higher cloudwatch thresholds = more server utilization = cheaper bill and faster scaling!
I'm currently playing with docker and wonders : how does that tech fits with things like chef/puppet/saltstack ( its conf part) ?
Is it going to make all those technologies pointless ?
Might be too late to chime in but not enough people know this:

Much of south Texas is shanty towns and illegal settlements, because immigration won't check documents until you are about 100 miles from the border. These people are largely ignored by the US population and not counted in census.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia_(United_States)#Publi...
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Where's Genachowski when you need him... Oh, he's stuck in the revolving door.