skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a true statement. (It's not provable, but we should not expect to be able to prove all true statements)
I thought everything was VPC now? With a default on your account that everything is assigned to unless you create / choose another one.
The opening lines immediately reminded me of this wonderful article about old technology behind energy efficient brick ovens:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140327025219/http://www.lowtec...

(waybackmachine because the official website is down).

There's surprisingly many old and forgotten technologies that are still relevant in terms of energy efficiency. Of course, this particular one is only relevent at industrial scales, but the website has more articles to offer.
If the world were as simple as the statement you made then sure...it isn't.
PPD, advertising most popular app revenue models, e-Commerce makes the most $$$
You get no additional protections regarding quality/returns/refunds when paying by credit card, that you wouldn't have if paying by bitcoin, or cash.

You get the option of pulling the payment back unilaterally, but this is subject to those same consumer protection laws, so the merchant can still come after you if you do so without a valid reason as stipulated by the law.
That isn't a question on syntax, sorry. We'll have to very much disagree if you think this is just syntax. It's a core part of SQL that anyone with advanced SQL skills should at least be aware of.

Syntax would be caring if they put the ORDER BY in front of the GROUP BY.
Show HN: R4FlowEvent – viewDidAppear enhanced
Ermissions required to integrate 10 of the most popular mobile ad SDKs
Logic is very much flawed in the sense that you can't necessarily model reality using logic, and good paradoxes point out examples (for example look at the torturous "solutions" to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox ).
Microsoft was able to demonstrate that they were actually involved in committing the crimes. The court didn't give them the domains so that they could then come up with evidence. They already had the evidence.

Oh nevermind...NSA...M$ is teh suxor...oh mer gurd!!!!
No, the point is to communicate with Google through non-comments in robots.txt.
Like Android, but not Java/XML. Any alternatives?
Android L with the Material design language looks very attractive. But I really dislike the Java/XML combo for development.

So, anyone tried the alt-Java's for coding Android apps: Kotlin, Xtend, Scala etc.

Or even Xamarin or QT/QML.

P.S With ART, I hoped Google were moving away from Java and would bless one of the alt-Java syntaxes and eventually cut-out Java and evolve ART independently. But apparently not.
Ember Fest Tickets – Final Call
More info on these protections here:

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/section75-protect-...
I can give you a really simple operational reason for that: complexity.

Google is somewhere between 50-90% of most sites' search referrals (source: /dev/ass). Add in a handful of other search engines (Bing, DDG, Yahoo, Ask) and you've pretty much got all of it.

They're maybe 10-20% of your crawl traffic though. And possibly a lot less than that.

There are a TON of bots out there. If you're lucky, they just fill your logs and hammer your bandwidth.

If you're not so lucky, they break your site search, overload your servers, and if you're particularly unlucky, they wake you up with 2:30 am pages for two weeks straight.

At which point the simplest way to solve the technical problem, that is, you getting a full night's sleep, is to ban every last fucking bot but Google. Or maybe a handful of the majors.

Now, of course, you're a data-driven operation and you're relying on Google Analytics to tell you who's sending traffic your way. But if you block a search crawler, it's going to stop sending you traffic, so you won't know it's important.

It's a rather similar set of logic that drives people to set email bans on entire CCTLDs or ASN blocks for foreign countries. And if you're a smallish site, it's probably a decent heuristic. And no, it's not just fucking n00bs who do this. Lauren Weinstein who pretty much personally birthed ARPANET at UCLA was bitching on G+ just a week or so back that the new set of unlimited TLDs ICANN were selling were rapidly going into his mailserver blocklists. Because, of course, the early adoptors of such TLDs tend to be spammers, or at least, the early adopters he's likely to hear from.

https://plus.google.com/114753028665775786510/posts/SsgPNHLG...
The Bitcoin scripting language actually does provide a great foundation for payment reversibility and solutions for this do exists. I'm working on one such solution, https://www.bitrated.com/.

Edit: We're about to re-launch Bitrated in about a month, with a new system that's been written from the grounds up. If anyone reading this is interested in seeing what we've been working on and would like to provide some feedback before the public launch, please contact me (email in my profile). </shameless-plug>
This goes back a long ways before QM. Even Newton, observing gravity, concluded that he had no idea why it worked, he could only describe how to numerically model the results of it working.

We've been modeling ever since, hoping that enough pieces of the puzzle come together for a cogent picture to emerge.
This was a classic that I ran across: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/01/single-line-assignment-filled-wi...
The curse of smart people: they look smart but not really smart to realise that they are not smart enough.
All of you pant-shiting bitches...Oh Noes! MS took down a botnet...what's to stop the court from giving my TF2 hosting domain?

Grow up. You guys bitch about malware. You bitch about MS. Mainly you just bitch...and talk about Haskell.

It's boring.
Have you heard of Synthesia?[1]

Works with any (most?) midi keyboards. I use it with an M-Audio ProKeys 88 (weighted keys). It's an awesome program. You can load any .mid file in to it and select the instruments you want to play on keys, and have it display the sheet music along with the note cascade.

I cannot recommend this program enough, and the learning method in general. Synthesia and YouTube videos have been my sole learning method / teaching aid, and in the past 18 months I've learned to play a handful of short pieces well enough to put a huge grin on my face.

1. http://www.synthesiagame.com/

(Edit: speeling and gramma)
Yup. I agree -- I have lots of Apple devices, bought my first Android, and this bug does not make me happy.

I'm not a fanboy for either camp...but I also do want to feel like a vendor is actively trying to lock me in to their hardware forever.

Which will make me less likely to choose an iOS device next time I buy one.
That's not true, it's cheaper for me to buy things on Amazon with Bitcoin via Gyft (3% cashback) than using my credit card (1% cashback) or debit card (nada).
It's still #1 in profits, though.
This is the wikia page of the process
http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/Uncovering_Cicada_Wi...
I'm sorry man, but if your business is predicated on a free dynamic dns provider?

Do I even have to finish that statement?
> And I think the claim that public has more control over government needs to be backed up by some sort of data. Of course, you'd need to define the term "pseudo-government" as well.

For pseudo-gov read "multinational". As far as data goes, I cant think of a principle more well-evidenced. A single person who is not a consumer of a corporation has no influence whatsoever over the decision making of that corporation.

I can go to my local representative and act in my local community (petition, etc.) in which my local representative has a stake and he can do things for me.

The tremendous amount of public shaming the government goes through (compared to private corps) should be evidence enough that there's a considerable amount of public accountability.
Reduce integration test time by 94% by using Ramdisk
Reduce integration test time by 94% by using Ramdisk
Amazing illusions: Water, Sine wave and 24 hertz
Because you're a fucking expert, huh?
Microsoft given control of no-ip domains in temporary restraining order
And I recently setup http://dhcp.io/ - source also on github.
AP Using Robots For Journalism Starting In July
From The Jargon File, Appendix B, “A Portrait of J. Random Hacker”, section “Politics”¹:

[…] Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to […] entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic political ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day.

1) http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/politics.html
Packaging Software at Boxever
Packaging Software at Boxever
To be honest, for some merchants (Amazon) I really don't need my credit card protections and I'd rather get the 2% back.
US book publishers now make more money from online sales than physical stores
Three Tools SMEs Can Use To Boost Cloud-Based Security
You'll Never Be Thor
>It was because of the actions of NoIP themselves, who did not act to prevent abuse by their users

The article of this thread (that is the blog post of NoIP in response to MS's actions) which I'm sure we all read, says that NoIP themselves DID act to prevent abuse. They were not informed of this action by Microsoft.
> the redesigned app switcher ... shows you your recent apps in a sort of card drawer

eugh! I hate the Windows Vista task switcher, the Win+Tab 3D one, and this looks worse that that as I can only see what 4 of those apps are and it looks like there's a 5th at the back.
Lucky you!

If I were in your position I'd use a couple of months to do some Swift development, and a couple to do some Android development using Android Studio. Might be worth trying out something for Google Glass and/or Oculus Rift if you have the necessary hardware. Or maybe grab a programmable quadcopter and give that a go?

Don't forget to consider learning about some other disciplines too, never know where things will take you :) or are you totally set on spending your time on programming?
Make Your Own Spending Chart
This here explains why they can't move to other languages overnight:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N3XyVkAP8nmWjASz8L_Ojjnj...

They basically need to rewrite Android from scratch, and then find a way to make all old Java apps compatible with the new Android, too, but I'm guessing that should be easier with ART available.
GM recalls 8.4 million more vehicles in North America
France’s BNP Paribas to pay $8.9 billion to U.S. for sanctions violations
I wonder what the gender-split is? I've received numerous friend-requests on facebook from "Hot teenagers", often with messages professing their undying love for me.

I've just mentally filed them away as romance-scams, rather than harassment..
>> You get no additional protections regarding quality/returns/refunds when paying by credit card, that you wouldn't have if paying by bitcoin, or cash.

I'm sorry, this is just not true here in the UK (which is what I originally said, it's not the same everywhere), you get assurances from another party in case the merchant disappears, goes bust or just finds a way not to play ball.

This goes well beyond chargebacks and can include things like the CC company being on the hook for repair charges etc. if the goods are not up to scratch, long after the original transaction.

If you need further information then try looking up Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act. It's all in there and there are loads of consumers' rights guides on the net that will give you the layman's interpretation of the law.

Yes, chargebacks are the usual method a CC company uses in a variety of circumstances, but that doesn't change the validity of my statement - in some places some payment methods will get you a whole load of extra rights compared to BTC or cash.
Twitter Buys TapCommerce, a Mobile Advertising Startup
>The problem with this lies in the nature of most service sector jobs - they require physical proximity to those people being served. Contrast this with manufacturing jobs, where a factory can be set up in a remote town (or on the other side of the world, which is precisely why they no longer exist in America in large numbers) and the products shipped en masse to consumers.

The service sector jobs I have experience with; technical support, can often be done from anywhere.

Of course, having done tech support both in person and over the phone/email, I can tell you that the experience is vastly better for all involved when you are there physically. Besides the fact that it's quite often technically easier to solve the actual problem, the customer is way less likely to get crazy abusive to someone who is physically there and obviously, you know, a human being.

So... okay, point taken. I hadn't thought about that, but having remote tech support is often one of those choices where you optimize for price at the cost of good service. I guess that's the idea behind apple's "tech support in the store" model.

I remember during the first dot-com, shortly after I was promoted out of phone support, hearing the boss talk about how he wanted to do a startup for 'high end tech support' that would send people out in person to set up your internet, rather than making you talk on the phone with us.

>Unfortunately, in America, our zoning laws/NIMBYism and poor public transit have made it extremely difficult for service sector workers to cheaply and efficiently serve the burgeoning upper middle class.

I think we have a negative feedback loop here. The rich don't want public transit near them because they don't want the poor near them, because they aren't used to in-person service jobs. Now, I think most of this is the fact that most middle-class Americans are super weird about class. I mean, that's not to say that the British aren't super weird about class, but they are weird about class that allows the middle/upper classes to acknowledge the existence of the lower classes. The American middle and upper classes want to pretend that the lower classes don't exist, and plan their cities accordingly.

The thing is that we now have this purposely useless public transit infrastructure, which makes it really difficult to rehabilitate the idea of more in-person service jobs.
I was trying to enjoy the company of a friend and his friend turned out to be an Apple executive and had a lot of passive things to say about the fact that I had an android phone. the gist was it was too big, not many apps, and other nitpicking stuff. I couldn't help but think... well gee just try another smaller android phone, but I wanted to just eat dinner and ignored his snide comments. They're definitely obsessed from the top down.

IMO, they need to stop whining and give users what they want, a cheaper phone. That could have stopped android years ago, instead they just sued and became indignant. As if that helps. You want to talk about a bubble. I fear the day when apple's revenue drops. I sort of want them to stop bitching and do something, because that day won't be pretty.
First Woman to be Promoted to Four Star Admiral in the US Navy
Show HN: Calloud – Let your visits call you from your website
I think the order is particularly unfair to no-ip - it was made ex parte on Microsoft's application (i.e. without no-ip being informed or having a chance to respond).

The complaint claims that no-ip could have implemented Response Policy Zone in response to a report by Cisco; assuming the 'report' they are talking about is this Cisco blog post: http://blogs.cisco.com/security/dynamic-detection-of-malicio..., Microsoft has misunderstood the blog post, as the post is suggesting that resolvers could use RPZ to not resolve malicious (or any) DDNS addresses, not that no-ip could use it to magically stop all malicious users.

It is scary that this was granted - many other businesses could be severely disrupted if courts let things like this through.
What's more likely? That quantum interference appears because many worlds perpetually exist, or because they seem to exist but somehow don't, or because they sometimes briefly come into existence, hang around for a bit and then randomly collapse breaking all sorts of laws (Liouville thereom, CPT invariance etc.)?

Many Worlds is much tidier than all the alternatives.hh
Is Bitcoin security worth $1B?
YotaPhone and Pocketbook Cover Reader, which one you prefer to have?
YotaPhone and Pocketbook Cover Reader, which one you prefer to have?
It seems that the YotaPhone is a phone with two screens,front screen is a normal HD screen, and the back is an E-ink screen, will be useful when you read books.
And for the Pocketbook Cover Reader is basically a second screen for the Samsung Galaxy S4.
Then, which one you prefer to have?
I agree with the author by 100%. What a beautiful article. The experiences described almost perfectly match my own experiences at Google and they were one of the reasons I left. (I assume the author is talking about Google here)
If there's one thing to add it would be that: Some smart people (especially the insecure kind) prefer pre-chewed answers by supposedly smarter or more senior people over their own scrutiny if the two disagree. I have seen this countless times.
In fact I have met surprisingly few people at Google that have actually displayed critical and unbiased thinking when it came to the project they worked on or Google in general. This made the whole workplace feel a bit cult-like.
That certainly explains why there are so many iOS exclusives. Here I was blaming the Android platform or foolish developers, when in fact Apple's aggressive business practices were -- at least partially -- to blame.

Also serves as a reminder what we, both as devs and users, gave up when we put ourselves at the mercy of approximately 2.5 app store operators. There's no need to remind me what we gained, I'm aware. The question is rather if we can get a system that combines the best of both worlds.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7969824.
Windows 9 rumors: Microsoft backing away from the Metro world
Super interesting. If I did the math right, a 3year heavy reserved t2.micro instance comes out to $4.48/mo, which is cost competitive with Digital Ocean. The proof will come in the benchmarks, but this may become my preferred hosting solution.
Please don't comment unless you have something to contribute other than an unsupported opinion.

Payment processors like bitpay put cash right into bank accounts, and people at newegg will likely never even deal with a single bitcoin themselves.

If you're sorry a business has found another way to make money with little effort, you're probably not the audience for this forum.
Hot Woman Sexy Prank in Public | Naughty Pranks
Great. So, when can customers expect their money to be protected after they convert their savings into bitcoin, without trusting their coins to a third party service like Coinbase, and without spending a solid week learning how to safely store their coins themselves?

This is exactly a "schlep blindness" problem that a startup could be solving. Deliver a turnkey solution for consumers to store their own coins. Don't make them learn a labyrinthian set of rules, or worry about what's dangerous or what isn't. Protect consumers, and bitcoin adoption will follow. Large-scale bitcoin adoption can't occur until bitcoin is made safe.

Did you hear about the guy who took his macbook into an Apple store for some routine repairs, and one of their employees made off with his 15 BTC? The employee hooked his harddrive up to a different computer, scanned it for a "wallet.dat" file, saw it was unencrypted, and robbed him. Was it dumb of this customer not to be using encryption? Yes. On the other hand, was it dumb of him to be storing so much wealth in bitcoin right now, given how easy it is to lose your money? Objectively, yes.

This isn't an insurmountable problem, but people have to start working on it in order to solve it.
A Search Engine for the Era of Apps
As I pointed out elsewhere in the thread, making analogies to physical media is just as flawed as the "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaigns.

A physical library is either getting their newspapers by asking/paying the newspaper company to deliver them, asking citizens to donate them, or collecting them from already delivered newspapers. If the IA was just piggybacking on user activity (by caching and storing things from a user's browser cache after they visit a page) then I'd have far less of a concern with them. If we're so attached to physical metaphors, this would be equivalent to the librarian running around outside the newspaper's printing room and snatching newspapers from the bundles as the company's employees loaded them onto trucks.
The rest of the stack. Spend some time with layers 3&4 and you won't regret it. It was the most boring class I has in school and I use it every day. Read this book: http://goo.gl/ZGifKa (Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol.1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture (4th Edition)).

Knowing how TCP/IP works will give you an edge over other devs for understanding data movement and endear you to the IT/network/security folks (who do you favors).
this is no different from a google voice widget being placed on your website, and its free.
Microsoft Darkens 4MM Sites in Malware Fight
We apologize for 'Yo'
Microsoft Cybercrime Shutdown Hit Users Says DDNS Provider
As zorked noticed, these are HVM only, which is why I didn't see the option for my paravirtual AMI's.

I've never used anything but paravirtual, so I'm kinda stumped as to why this is.
Five most interesting automotive innovations.
No matter which one of these you choose, I'd recommend working on real (preferably open source) projects and putting them on Github so that you have something to show when you apply for jobs after 10 months.
Your source is a link to a story which sources some random bitcoin news blog which sources...nothing but their own claim that they were told that. Every other news source references it or doesn't give a source for the claim. This is common in bitcoin reporting. One blog makes something up, misunderstands something, or makes a mistake and the rest report it as fact.
Newspaper circulation: How far it's fallen and how far it's got to fall
Quantifying Mobile Habits
Playing With Parallel Computing and Graph
Where Are Today’s Engineering Heroes?
Ecstasy and water poisoning are related. Ecstasy makes users extremely thirsty. Water poisoning related deaths at raves have been reported. About 6 L is enough to put a lot of people in a very dangerous place.
I will surely look into other things too.

I have found myself getting more and more into health, nutrition, yoga and meditation the last years. So the dream would be to somehow combine it.
Except when that happens with credit cards you're protected from loss so it doesn't matter as a consumer.
> The T2 instances use Hardware Virtualization (HVM) in order to get the best possible performance from the underlying CPU and you will need to use an HVM AMI.

I've always used paravirtual AMI's, as I understood that gets the best performance for a Linux box.

Given that I try to use the same self-baked base AMI's for various purposes (and instance sizes), I would either have to mix and match or switch everything to HVM. However, I have no clue what the practical consequences of that would be.

Can anybody enlighten me?
These ones have specified baseline performance, and even that shouldn't be too much slower than the maximum performance on the instances they are replacing. So that plus the accumulation of credits over the entire day rather than a much smaller period for the old micro should make things much better.
Introduction to OKR – Objectives and Key Results
That assumes that Digital Ocean doesn't improve their offering via a hardware upgrade or price discount in the next 3 years.
You're ignoring the cost of acquiring bitcoins in that 3%.

Also cheaper still to buy gift cards via raise, cardpool, giftcardgranny, hundreds of other results for "discount gift cards" which are 3%-6% off AND get your 1% cash back.
And we will always have Grace Hopper.