skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A technical-business question: So, all the hardware is ' behind the IC’s firewall' -- that means, in dedicated government data centers, right? And yet "they’ll only pay for what they use."

So... Amazon needs to build out capacity to handle expected demand with servers that can only be used by the IC, but can only charge the IC for the servers it's currently using?

I guess Amazon figures there's enough money in a government contract to be worth it. It's definitely odd for 'cloud' -- ordinarily, the whole reason cloud resources can "scale up or down to meet the need" but still make business sense for the host, is that the resources are aggregated across customers. right? That's sort of what made 'the cloud' possible, resources that could be put on the internet and aggregated across the entire customer base.

I wonder how that's going to end up working out; perhaps there's enough IC business that it ends up aggregating out over individual government customers anyway. (Or will be eventually; $600 million over ten years isn't actually that big, is it?)

Still, with a private cloud necessarily having a smaller use base than the actual 'cloud', it seems kind of predictable that either Amazon will end up with a smaller profit margin (or risk a negative profit margin); or the government will be paying higher rates than the actual cloud; or the government will sometimes find itself maxed out because Amazon was conservative in predicting demand to save money.

Or do I have it all wrong, and these servers will be in Amazon's ordinary data centers, the same place as the rest of AWS, but on some kind of VPN or something? The article doesn't really give us the details (unsurprisingly).
The difference betwen SES and Mandrill? With Mandrill you'll be patronizing a great company with some fantastic folks.

(First used MailChimp in 2003 and they've always been the bomb.)
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As far as I can tell, this is basically gibberish.
Big publishers turn down good authors(more often than usual) and no one bats an eye.
Amazon delays delivery of books from one publisher, just because the publisher's terms were unfair and everybody loses their minds.
European-descended people as a whole don't have a common ethnicity, language, or culture.
I learned more about my town's history by playing Ingress for a week than in 5 years of living here.
Well it just feels quixotic to me to sabre-rattle at some company in a place you have absolutely no jurisdiction over. And to me the real douchebags are the ones selling their parking spaces, so I'd welcome if they were the targets of enforcement. And if busting them does rouse public sympathy, you have to question if what they're doing should really be illegal.

Maybe I also didn't fully understand how this app works. I thought it was one person camping out in their parking spot until the "buyer" arrives. If they are merely selling the information that their spot is now available, it's probably the same in practice, but the essence of it feels subtly different. Law is fascinating like that.
Kind of paints a rather questionable picture about Target and their policies, especially in light of their past FUBAR that put millions of their customers' data in the hands of criminals. You would think, at this point, Target would be prim and proper and squeaky clean.

I hope this guy sues Target. He'll surely get a settlement and our corporate overlord Target will claim no responsibility, but still.
Good points, good discussion!
I'm not convinced that even heat up the sides is actually what cooks want from a pot, certainly not always. I can't say I've ever thought, as I was cooking, what this pot needs is heat distributed up the sides. It also presimably makes the pots heavier, harder to clean, and hotter to handle.
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I had a lot of trouble with Git packfiles when I tried using git-annex - Windows just can't handle directories with hundreds of thousands of tiny files in them.
Incidentally, GPS receivers are typically sensitive down to around -160dBm, or 0.1aW.
Can you link to Max's original post? I feel like I'm missing some context here. Thanks.
Here is a link to the Hack News Comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8022177
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I reviewed one of these a couple years ago for Macworld, and ended up buying one to take on my camping trips.

You don't actually need to charge the power unit in order to use the stove; even if you start with a completely run-down battery, the unit will eventually generate enough electricity to start the fan and achieve maximum efficiency.

Also, it's always seemed to me that the Biolite is designed primarily as a reasonably efficient biomass stove—a role that, in my experience, it fulfills really well, even with wet wood. I've cooked plenty of meals on it, and it's much more convenient to carry around than a propane or white gas stove (as a bonus, you also don't walk around with explosives in your backpack).

The ability to charge devices is a happy byproduct. It's handy when you're cooking up some food and want to power up your phone or GPS receiver. It's probably not as efficient as a solar charges but (a) a solar charger won't cook food, so the Biolite is a convenient multitasker that requires less backpack room, and (b) the solar charger doesn't work at night, when it's cloudy, and so forth.

EDIT: FWIW, I also have a PowerPot, which is mentioned elsewhere in this thread. It's pretty cool, and works well; it's also my preferred charging method when I am not cooking, since I can just fill it with water and leave it on the campfire for as long as I need (the Biolite, on the other hand, needs constant feeding of fuel to continue running).
And optimazation is critical. Most routers have omnidirectional antennas that send the signal in the most useful places[0] and there even are routers that use some fancy aiming algorithm[1].

[0]:http://superuser.com/questions/99082/direction-of-wifi-anten...

[1]:on mobile so no link and I've only heard about it from my dad.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7753317.
And then there are the 99.99% of us who aren't actually going to the conference, who would like to listen to the live stream.
I did W on Lex for $185/night and got a "fantastic suite" (45-50 square meters) as a spg plat upgrade. That, for NYC, is pretty good IMO.
I just hope that no matter the results they will publish report that will be accessible.

I hate when interesting experiment starts and then if it fails researches do not release reports and reasons it failed.
I have been thinking about my own backups for some time. Do you guys prefer rolling your own setup for full system backup or use services like CrashPlan? Do you guys trust services like S3/Glacier? When backing up your system do you bar specific files from being backed up like GPG/SSH keys, etc.?
Before 2012 (when they launched Mandrill) MailChimp used Amazon SES. http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f7b9ee22124ff6454424dc10...

The Mandrill service is nice, I agree.

Also, MailChimp has a very cool 404 page: http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/transactional-reports-overvi...
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Good points!

You definitely need someone that has product development experience.
But can the batteries cook your dinner?
The API calls return lists of results, which tend to be long enough that it's trivial to read in all new comment and post data from Reddit. I think the maximum limit on the list size is 100 items, so that's up to 3000 comments/minute, which exceeds Reddit's actual post rate.
Yes, it's usually "homework" (i.e., send us your resume and your code sample at the same time). I have a "problem solving" task where I expect you to bang out an algorithm (as opposed to code) for the in-person interview. That's mainly just so I can watch you think out loud.

I can teach you my project's programming language... I don't have time to teach you problem solving basics.
Security Guard Catches a Cop Shoplifting, Turns Him In. Gets Fired for It
It would be pretty easy to have a phone app that notices you're arriving home and sets the lock to open. All that's left for you to do is walk up to your door and knock.

As well, their software learns your habits over time and can be awake when it expects you to arrive.

These tricks and others will improve over time. Enough to where it's more than an acceptable experience for many, if not for you.
After all these years..
Because file sync is not a backup.
Hollywood director: piracy is necessary, and doesn't hurt revenues
Cameras can use batteries too. Moreover phones these days have inbuilt cameras.

You could also use battery power for torch-lights and music players.

Then there are things like GPS trackers, which can be useful after a trip to know where you had been.
That's pretty much inevitable, over a long enough timeline.
Really, I can see some bad assessments in it. #3 and #4 are easily refuted via IE and Xbox. The Bing example in #1 is pretty bad as without Bing they wouldn't have had a partner like Facebook and they would have struggled to find services for Windows phone and tablets.

Also for a article picking on statements from others, statements like "Surface is an attempt to pretend Apple didn’t solve the tablet problem when they introduced the iPad. " seems plain stupid since Android has taken the lead from Apple and I don't think anybody believes the tablet "problem" is solved yet
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A really fun GPS fact is that the signal is so weak by the time it reaches the surface of the Earth that it's about 1000x, or 30dB, quieter than thermal noise. Receivers still extract usable data through long-term correlation, and the fact that GPS is designed so you don't need to reliably recover every bit, or anywhere close.

This, in turn, means that you can realistically use a one-bit ADC in your receiver, because that only amounts to a few more dB of loss. You're already dealing with a system built to overcome massive loss and it can tolerate a little more.
They certainly have much more in common in all these areas than they do with non-Europeans.
> If Jewish people deserve existence (as a group, not individuals), then White people deserve existence as a group.

This makes no sense. Jewish people as a group have a very long shared cultural and religious history. However, the concept of "white people" is a fairly recent cultural and political construct and has changed dramatically over the years--for example, at one point in the United States Irish and Italians were not considered to be white. You can't compare them in the way you (and the Stormfront crowd) are attempting to.

http://www.salon.com/2010/03/23/history_of_white_people_nell...
It sounds like a good idea, but we humans have a way of making any language that is capable of expressing anything like nuance into local, parochial varieties if we spend time living in the language. Pronunciation will shift, elisions and contractions are going to happen, and the perfect match between orthography and pronunciation will evaporate. Sure, you can adjust the spelling to keep up, but whose dialect is the "real" one? Irregularities will creep in. There will be a tendency to push and pull the word order (and long lists of conjugation and declension affixes that may overcome word order difficulties would be a barrier to use). Oh, yeah: about word order... whose do you use? SVO is common among creoles, but that has as much to do with the vocabulary source languages as anything else (even if it can be argued that SVO is the least marked case). If enough people use the new language often enough for it to be a real breaker of barriers, that will be a relatively short-lived phenomenon. If it is merely a lingua franca, it will be about as expressive as a pidgin in most mouths, and pidgins don't say much on paper (or on screen).

Bilingualism (or multilingualism) isn't the problem, especially if the languages are acquired early. It's keeping a "standard language" (that's worthy of the name) standard. If people use it, it will change, and those changes will be local (geographically regional, or the internet equivalent). Artificial grammars are just about as real as Bishop Lowth's version of English grammar; a heavily-used constructed language will drift toward a grammar that actually makes human sense, with all of the quirks and foibles that implies. It doesn't take long for the divergence to become significant. A couple-three decades, and you'll have distinct dialects. A couple-three centuries, and they stop being completely mutually comprehensible. A little more time and you'll be looking around for the wreckage of the tower.
I assume you're talking about 802.11n MIMO beamforming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamforming
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"On the internet it's so easy to get sucked into an echo chamber and completely cloister oneself in some belief system or another."

This being posted on Hacker News is pretty breathtaking :-)
Really neat game. It's made with LibGDX, so I figured it was only a matter of time before it ended up on iOS too.
Definitely to some extent, but I think the cruft would have a much smaller effect. Much of it was dead code - commented out, whole files not actually compiled, code ifdefed out, or bits of code only compiled on platforms that nobody has used this decade etc. It was making maintainability a nightmare and making it a lot harder to find bugs, but I don't think it would have had a huge performance impact.
It's not a battle. I won't do it. I never do it. I would name my table `user` or [user] or "user". I'm a big boy.
I always like to see new ways to plug security holes. Thank you for making this
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The problem with this post (as well as the previous ones) is that there are no details. How did he force himself? Was there sexual penetration? Was she incapacitated in some form? What is wrong or different from reality that Max posted (e.g. did he lie about only kissing)?

Without details, Max cannot defend himself and it's really hard to see this as nothing more than a baseless accusation; whether or not it really happened.
I'm currently working on a very similar product within a greater product offering. Any chance you're available for freelance work, bravo22?
I don't have much experience with the Windows model, but if I'm understanding you correctly . . .

ELF does support load-time relocation, as appears to be done under Windows if two base addresses conflict. That just isn't the standard way of doing things, for several reasons.

First, load-time relocation imposes a cost at startup (whereas PIC imposes a smaller cost throughout the lifetime of the process). I'm given to understand that, back in the day, the startup delay for programs using large shared libraries could be quite noticeable.

Second, load-time relocation reduces in-memory text section sharing in the case where relocation is performed. If your goal in using shared libraries is saving RAM, this is a problem.

Third, it's a matter of inertia. Originally, UNIX shared libraries (a.out format) were built with a static, non-relocatable base address. Library authors had to coordinate via a central authority to ensure compatibility. PIC seemed like a good way to get as far away from that problem as possible - or so I understand.

Indirection through the GOT/PLT also serves another purpose, even in load-time relocation code - it enables replacing a symbol in one shared library with a symbol from another (eg via LD_PRELOAD). Though that's more of a side benefit than a justification.
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The keywords are called that because they are few and known. Their key-ness is what distinguishes them.
The team would likely decide to do it my way if they need a convention. But, if I can read their caps, they can read my no caps.
Unfortunately not but there are many product development companies out there that can help you.
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I really dislike the conversion from text/numerals to graphics in this and many other redesigns. It turn web-scraping of the page from a trivial process into a view-the-source trial and error one. Given the primary audience of this site is hackers, I'd suggest we're more inclined to favour the accessibility of data over the superficial gloss of a new design.
Ask HN: Python SOA framework
Is there any framework in Python that can be used to build a SOA architecture around an AMQP broker ? or is it best to roll out a custom one using an AMQP library?
has anyone seen Ingress sourced data show up in Google Maps? Is it already happening or is it only a matter of time? What would be most useful?
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Additional fun fact: "[GPS receivers] being specially designed to employ anti-jam features (e.g. null steering antenna or electronically steerable antenna) to function in an environment of active or passive countermeasures" are MTCR category II dual-use missile related export-restricted components.

http://www.mtcr.info/english/MTCR-April2011-Technical-Annex....

MTCR is also why GPS receivers will refuse to provide navigation information if you're flying too high or moving too fast.
How does the end-to-end efficiency of an electrical generating plant connected to an induction cooker compare to the combustion efficiency of a small, cheap gas burner and the thermal transfer efficiency of sticking a pot above the flame?

Some random googling shows total efficiency for gas is around 25-30%. Induction outperforms it by a comfortable margin, in that case, even ignoring the possibility that some of your electricity comes from renewables.
What happened to all the applications and services for outsourcing HR departments in terms of payroll, benefits, ect.? -- thought there were a bunch more than Workday and ZenPayroll?

Getting a full list of those would be particularly useful.
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However, it's extremely inefficient to move that heat from a burner to a pot by just sticking the pot above the burner. It's much more efficient to, say, heat your house by burning stuff locally than it is to use electricity, but the heat transfer losses are huge for flames and cookware, so induction wins out.
Rather than WiFi built into the device, why not using something like ZigBee (what the Nest Protect uses to talk between devices) to connect to a small WiFi enabled plug that fits into an electrical outlet?

Would this work?

If the battery life is still a problem then I wouldn't have a problem with having a detachable module for the Nest that can be removed once a week and manually recharged.
Man, saurik, you need a vacation. You need to not have to think about Cydia, or the community, or maybe even computers at all for at least a week or so.

You're talking about how all of these developments in the community wear on you, and how you view maintaining all this stuff in part as an obligation. I could be reading all this wrong, but I get the impression that dedicating so much of your life to Cydia is going to burn you out eventually, abrasive community or not. You just sound tired.

I feel like letting the project sit for a week or so while you take a break and get away from it all may actually be worth it in the long run. You sure as hell deserve it.
> And don't wait 10 years to accuse someone.

This is a lot easier said than done. There is still a lot of stigma around rape victims today, especially when the rape victims aren't female.

Statistically most rapes in the military are committed against males. Most of these rapes aren't reported.
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> Random question for dang, why the 'hn=true' cgi arg?

The submitter added it to get around the dupe detector. The article was previously posted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8028073). Since the previous post had no discussion, and wasn't killed by flags or by a moderator, the repost is ok.
Because in SL, they can be the person that they really want to be in the real world.
* Paid services advertise. OSS projects generally don't.

* Paid services usually have customer support. OSS projects generally don't.

* Paid services have nice on-ramping videos and nice installers. OSS projects have config files, install procedures, tutorials, scattered blog posts, FAQs, mail lists, etc.

* In the end, it is all about how much work you're going to do yourself. You can't do it all.
It would be exponentially less efficient, as the simulation algorithm used represents and operates on all 2^n possible quantum states of n qubits.

If you know nothing about QM, imagine the classical analogue: a classical CPU simulator with exactly one (say) 32-bit register, which, instead of being represented as 32 bits, is represented as 2^32 bits, exactly one of which is set to 1; the only way to determine which bit this is is to scan the entire array.
Same thing with the Mig-21 radar, and I presume other fighters. If they powered it up on the ground, bird would drop.

During WWII, soldiers would stand in front of the radar to keep warm. This was before health and safety.
Shameless plug; a while ago I wrote a very similar library [1] using CUDA. Unlike this library, it does not allow for a sparse representation of the state vector; but for maximally entangled states it's pretty efficient (as fast as memory allows). I've tested it up to 28 qubits. But fair warning; it's very much undocumented and a toy.

[1] http://hub.darcs.net/squirrel/quantum
Even today, only the superstar authors actually earn any decent money from their writing.

You're absolutely right that we need to find a way to provide people food, shelter, and health care. It's true today and it will be true in the future. And it's true for everyone, not just superstar authors.

Publishers will continue to have a role as curators of information, but they're going to have to change their business model. Instead of profiting through the sale and distribution of information, they'll have to earn money by selling their editing and curating services.

Amazon will be fine. They'll always find products to sell. It just might not be books or movies or other forms of information.

Edit: People already are less willing to put the work into creating great literature. Being a writer is not a reliable way to earn a living. Imagine how much creative potential we might unlock with something like a basic income.
The European diaspora has more than 2000 years of shared religion, language and culture.

This is far more significant than some trivia about the word "White" that is making the rounds in progressive circles.
I feel like Minecraft came close. Interestingly enough, Minecraft has similar features to a lot of MUDs (focus on player-defined and player-modified environments, lack of focus on graphics, fantasy tropes, some programmability, a game centered around navigation).
> People aren't going to share patches via email to each other.

Why not?
Very interesting demo. It reminds me of Microsoft Australia's work with on(X)... but this is closer to code completion on steroids.
> That's like demanding access to software source code.

No it isn't. It's like demanding a copy of master for a CD or DVD.
People are jumping to his defense because of one thing: She isn't providing any details. We don't even know what the nature of sexual assault happened, how it happened, and even when it happened. This isn't to say that a sexual assault didn't happen. However, how can anyone defend themselves from an accusation with no details? Her response doesn't even counter any of the details in Max's response. (i.e. Was kissing the sexual assault in question?)
Hah, apparently Prodigy got in a bit of trouble over STAGE.DAT.

https://www.google.com/search?q=stage.dat+inurl%3Atextfiles....
Mac osx because I like imac hardware and linux-y feel of it.
... can I bear your love-child?