skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Manhattan is its own city-state. Same with DC.

Yes, I see now that's described on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Nations

That makes sense then I guess. I initially questioned lumping Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island in with New England, but from what I know of those areas, it's probably not a bad choice -- they fit with southern NE as well as most of Maine does.
I think it disfavors new distilleries.
For stuff like that, I use Caffeine (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/caffeine/id411246225?mt=12) to prevent my Mac from sleeping.
I guess I'm okay with this. It seems kind of silly to ship a liquid across half an ocean to the mainland...

Now if I were to discover that the Kona I purchased while in Hawaii was actually brewed on the mainland I'd feel a little miffed...
Could Silicon Valley Become the Next Camden?
The "Letters" numbers shock me, I follow Chad on Twitter, downloaded the game and found it to be very addictive, especially the mechanic of solving the daily word. Chad, I really think there is something there in Letters; it definitely deserves some push.
I have no idea what the OP is talking about. As far as I can understand, the author is saying Amazon (yes, Amazon) is not hard-nosed enough to win a fight with Google and Microsoft.

#1 - "AWS is not the low price provider", "Being low priced is in Amazon’s nature so this will be intensely challenging to them". This is true, but as the market-leader, do they need to be?

#2 - "most of their features are mediocre knock offs of other products". As @ToddMathews said here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8104364), he doesn't list any examples of these superior cloud services. I can't think of any. Sure, ELB is a knock off of HAProxy, but in that sense, Gmail is a knockoff of Postfix.

#3 - "AWS is unbelievably lousy at support", "Support is just not in Amazon’s nature". Really? Compared to whom? In my experience, they have always been one of the best providers of support of any online company.

#4 - "Once you are at $200k / month of spend, it’s cheaper and much more effective to build your own infrastructure". And yet many businesses spend more than $200k PCM. Are they stupid? Or is the author wrong?
Elastic Transcoder is a good example. They don't even support variable bitrate, so you have to choose between huge files and video that looks good for a while until you hit some dark scenes or high contrast sequences that exhibit terrible artifacting.
Yes, I've read it.

It's possible to quibble with how some of the cultural areas are delimited. I would've drawn the lines differently - I think the divisions in Colin Woodard's more recent "American Nations" are more accurate (although also imperfect). The main takeaway is that the USA is incredibly culturally diverse, which is why it's so difficult to get things done on the federal level and why it'd probably be better served by even less centralization in government policy.

I found this book valuable, but for me it was preaching to the choir - it's pretty compatible with my own politics, and meshes with my own experience living in each of California, New York, and Texas.
Those solutions do exist, but to a certain degree the point of this was not to need a phone or Chrome. It is obvious that those are the sanctioned solutions from Google's perspective, but this is an attempt to provide a different option.
I'm not sure, I doubt it, but that doesn't mean there aren't other ways to intercept them.

iOS still sends normal text messages to any device that isn't iOS. I use an Android device for the most part and almost everyone I know uses iOS, which means that even if I'm using TextSecure the message will be delivered as a normal text message, which certainly can be intercepted and stored by Stingray and similar devices.
>Hence, having the standard that all functions get the context always seems excellent because it is no longer something to think or worry about and doesn't increase code length by an unreasonable amount.

how about new paradigm - context-oriented programming :) where, like "this/self" in OOP, ctx is always present. And looking through the posted article Google is somewhat there with context [instance level] kind of inheritance (the context tree)
EFF calls this bill "a real first step because it creates meaningful change to NSA surveillance right now, while paving the way for the public to get more information about what the NSA is doing." They've got a quick analysis of what it does and doesn't do is at [1]

Marcy Wheeler sees it as an improvement over the bill the House passed (which isn't hard) but isn't sure it's an improvement over the status quo. See [2] and [3] for her concerns

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/new-senate-usa-freedom...

[2] http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/07/29/leahy-freedom-act-permi...

[3] http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/07/29/leahy-usa-freedoms-bulk...
so wait -- you ran the regression with lots of factors, and then dropped those you found not to be statistically significant?

I would suggest it's not good practice to drop variables, even if they aren't statistically significant (and what an argument that can become if you test things simultaneously). Particularly if there's any chance they are correlated with other variables. Read Pearl; causality (which is what you're really discussing) is a rat's nest.

Also, when you plot the value of the coefficients, I would suggest ordering them by abs(coef) * stddev(var). This may not matter much for you since it looks like most of your variables are indicator variables, but it's still good practice.

edit: oh, hi, you're the Aline that wrote this? Thanks for the interesting analysis.
'we' in this case means cloudflare, where jgc is employed
Easy, abolish the TSA
sorry for asking, but just to rule one thing out, you did tell facebook your actual age, right?
This was an awesome post and I really enjoyed it. I hope to see more data driven analysis like this in the future. I actually try to respond to every recruiter email I get, even if they are obviously generic (though I have my limits). My one goal is for them to give me a number. I typically thank them, ask them how they found me (specifically what keywords they searched for, etc) and what the salary ranges are for the position. I usually frame it to "ensure I am staying market competitive". I'd say 50% of the time I get the dodge one way or the other, 40% of the time they are paying below what I'd expect to be paid for the position, and 10% is what I'd expect. Only one time was I surprised by the salaries thrown out and those were positions in NYC. That said, I'm going to get a little cynical, so be warned.

Keeping salaries secret has been a huge tool wielded by hiring managers and HR in order to suppress salaries for a very long time, especially with the way engineers are typically pigeon holed in to broad titles. I don't see that changing any time soon, as much as I'd like too. It'd solve a number of problems for our profession if that were so. I'd be interested to see what the differences are from the initial offer when reaching out and what the official offer is if a candidate accepts.

I'm guessing most businesses that use this platform have figured out the optimal number to get responses from recruiting emails and then used any leverage they can get in order to discount the engineers skills and experiences in order to get them in to a lower salary. Unfortunately engineers are notoriously bad negotiators and we start to buy in to their arguments and end up accepting bad deals and we don't realize it.

But, this is definitely a step in the right direction.
Do you want to crowdfund your idea?
I was the same but rather than 3ds Max I downloaded Bryce 3D. I spent so much time planning out and rendering what seemed like amazing landscapes. Oh those were the days.
I can also vouch for LightPaper. The live preview is useful to check whether I messed up with my Markdown formatting somewhere.

http://clockworkengine.com/lightpaper-mac/
that's glib nonsense

0. Are you sure you didn't just misunderstand what was being said?

there is essentially no evidence that actions are unaffected by beliefs and viewpoints

1. I don't know how you got that from what I wrote. I was responding to a post that specifically refers to "unacceptable viewpoints", not unacceptable actions. It's the refusal to make a distinction at all that is unsettling, especially when it's being described as the proper heuristic for determining whether someone is above scrutiny or not.

and that's precisely what you're asking us to uncritically accept

2. I'm not asking you to uncritically accept anything. I'm stating my personal unwillingness to uncritically accept the notion that thinking the wrong thing or having a minority point of view ought to itself a punishable offense. A person's merit is not the sum of the popularity of his beliefs.
Good lecture on Markov models:

https://class.coursera.org/modelthinking-006/lecture/60
In addition to caw's list:

* Disable all modules/extensions on the web-server you aren't using (e.g. don't need PHP? Disable it). This more often have exploits than the web-servers themselves.

* Automate patching and updates (this can be done on both Linux and Windows fairly easily)

I'd also mirror fnom's suggestion. Why not just use something like S3? I just entered details for a basic site on S3 and the calculator suggests it would cost less than $1/month(!). That's with 10-20,000 requests, 1 GB of low redundancy storage, and 1 GB in each direction for data.
Show HN: Speed, trajectory, type, and game context of every MLB pitch in 2014
I just want to add to the answer that we like other services and use more than one in the list. We just don't see any of them meeting our needs to quickly trade and provide mechanism for large order sizes. Plus, wiring money becomes expensive very fast.
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OP here. Notes:

. Wasn't quite sure if this fit Show HN's guidelines[1]. Yes, it's something we built that people can try out (both getting the dataset together, which took a lot of work, and Statwing itself). But no, it's not a fundamentally new product (i.e., Statwing isn't new). Open to feedback on whether this counts as a Show HN.

. A few uninteresting technical notes about the dataset: http://blog.statwing.com/every-mlb-pitch-thrown-in-2014/

. Here I am, so I'd love to answer questions, take feedback, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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http://i.imgur.com/UCPWdBq.png

I was not confusing automated emails with direct contact from Linode support. I fully understand and can appreciate the need to be a "nice neighbor" in a shared environment but what baffles me is:

1) Linode doesn't have the capability to actually enforce any sort of quota or limit. It's 2014, there's been numerous advancements in the area of virtualized servers in the past decade. cgroups is a very easy way that works across xen, kvm and lxc.

2) Linode doesn't publish these arbitrary limits nor give guidance on which node size comes with what acceptable usage levels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_saecula_saeculorum : "The saeculum in Roman antiquity was the potential maximal human lifespan, or roughly a century"
A statistical programming language that makes heavy use of NaNs.

It's a lonely world, and whenever I see hints, I secretly hope the person is an R user.
Excellent visualization!
Thanks. Yeah, I do too... I'm not sure how to push it. I just need a financier :)
Ray Kurzweil, one of the fathers of speech recognition, talks in his book How to Create a Mind about his use of "Hidden Markov Models" as a breakthrough in speech recognition work. I believe Kurzweil used his HMM's to recognize the flow of sounds and speech patterns as words, so it's not exactly the same as what Swiftkey does with word prediction, but it's safe to safe Markov chains have an important place in language modeling.

Hidden Markov Models:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Markov_model

Kurzweil's Book (He goes into more detail on speech recognition as well as a slew of other topics):
http://www.howtocreateamind.com/
What possible definition of "craft", as understood by a reasonable person, could possible make "small batch heirloom spirits handcrafted in New Mexico." not outright lying when the spirits were not created in a small batch, or in New Mexico?

Ditto “ultra small batch bourbon” not being part of a small batch, or “first bourbon produced in Southern California since Prohibition.” where the bourbon is not produced in Southern California?

Ditto "They brag that they focus their “complete attention on executing each step of the distillation process.”", when they themselves don't pay any actual attention to any steps of the distilling process.

But hey, if you're fine with companies misleading as many people who read the common usage of English words into the English words they read, as much as they like, providing their wording can possibly be read, if you squint hard enough, in one very precise way that isn't quite lying, well, I suppose you'll get the companies and the advertising that you deserve.

As for me, I'm glad that over here we have the ASA.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_Standards_Authorit...
(See "noteworthy rulings" for some sweet wins for sanity.)
I just bought one last week. I hate it when that happens.
While the concept and dynamics are looking pretty great so far, I really have a hard time with the design/art! Like the level selection screen design looks really "amateur". White halo with cyan lines in between is probably the worst part for me :P
You mean like Benromach and BenRiach?

It's maybe a little tricky to see the entrepreneurial activity in Scotch whiskey at a distance, because there are so many silent distillery sites throughout the country. People gut and rehab mothballed distilleries rather than build new ones. But the Benromach distillery, for instance, is entirely new on the inside; and it was started by a Scotch retailer.
LOL! http://i.imgur.com/Xs3GrGk.png
The EU has quite strong laws regarding the naming and labeling of wines. A Champagne bottle is not only a sparkling wine coming from France, but from the specific Champagne region, from a limited types of grapes grown in that region and obtained using a specific fermentation process. There is also a limit on the cultivated surface and the number of bottles produced each year. As the "champagne" name is renowned, this keeps the prices very high for the whole process. As I remember, only the right to cultivate a couple of acres of vineyard in the Champagne region can cost up to $1M - not including the actual land and vines. (in the EU the vineyards are regulated, you cannot just plant 100 acres of vineyard wherever you want, you have to obtain a kind of license to be able to cultivate wine grapes, and this license is given only for specific types of grapes depending on the region).
Holy shit, you're definitely going to have to explain that graphic at the end. I looked at it for over a minute and I've absolutely no idea what it's supposed to represent or even what kind of chart it is or what the axes are.
Very interesting. I'll be following this. My research is actually in designing and understanding lithium-ion anodes.

If you're curious, the material I'm using consists of an all-carbon anode with crystalline and amorphous domains. It performs about the same as current state of the art Li-ion battery anodes; however, the cost of manufacturing is incredibly cheap since the composite material is derived from low-cost plant matter (lignin). Plus, it lasts for many more charge-discharge cycles (well, there's actually a trade-off between capacity and cycling performance; you have to pick a middle-ground).

I'm performing reactive molecular dynamics simulations on computational models of these new composite systems to try and understand why they have such high performance. It's pretty cool work really.
The adage "those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it" comes to mind when I read this article.

If you simply write off the GoF patterns then you're likely to spend a lot of time creating inferior solutions to common problems. You are less likely to recognize a common problem when you see one. At the same time, people who just see the GoF patterns as some sort of bible will implement things in a ridiculously complicated way because they're trying to use as many patterns as possible.

Basically they're just tools to have in your tool chest. You have to learn how and when to use them.
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We're getting the same thing. I don't care how cheap it is or how nice the customer service is, but if they are not up 99% of the time they will not be my web host.
Rackspace's support is indeed fantastic, however their product is significantly more friction-ful to use (I'm currently at a company that has purchased a Rackspace Private Cloud, and uses it in conjunction with their public cloud). It works as advertised, kinda-sorta and with a whole lot of spit, duct-tape, and prayer, but I'd much rather use Amazon's system and deal with one support ticket every other quarter, than the weekly support ticket(s) using Rackspace's product seems to require.
You probably can't say what Templeton says honestly.
> If I need computer repair services, then looking through advertisements for shops that can offer that service is not a detriment to me, or a distraction.

I don't really understand the part about "looking through advertisements". If you're actually doing a web search, what you're looking at is a list of web search results, not ads. Any ad that is inserted in that list is there by virtue of that shop having paid for that privilege, which does not necessarily mean it's relevant; it just means that its ranking got artificially boosted.

On the other hand, if you're not looking at a web search, then you're probably doing some other kind of research on computer repair services, such as looking at reviews, blog posts and such. In that context, ads are being displayed based on the context of what you're viewing, as determined by a computer algorithm, but you're already actively looking for human recommendations, so ads won't benefit you either.

The way I see it, ads fall into two categories: 1) artificially boosting the search engine rankings and 2) do-you-want-fries-with-that offers based on what you're currently doing. Most of the time, that doesn't seem to add any special value to the consumers.

The only situation I can think of that might be helpful is when you're not already looking for a solution to some problem and an ad suggests something you didn't even know existed. For example, you're looking at cooking recipes and an ad shows up for a kitchen gadget that would really help you cut down the preparation time in half. Even then, the rational choice would not be do go buy that particular gadget, but to do some research on gadgets of that type in general and choose the best one.

All in all, I agree with GP: ads are neither information, nor decoration, but an obstruction.
Just a slight correction: FTL had a very successful kickstarter which generated tons of marketing and hype before launch - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64409699/ftl-faster-tha...

Bastion was also published by Warner Brothers so it had some significant weight behind it.
Yup. And clicking the image there goes to fanpageanalytics.com, which seems to be a parked domain? There's only one page and it's completely irrelevant to anything.

His blog says he was almost sued by Facebook, but for making a site to crawl Facebook's graph. Obviously he's not being sued by Facebook for creating the image because the image is everywhere, but only as a ridiculously tiny version.
You're taking the sentence out of context. Here's the entire paragraph you quoted:

"Here’s what he means. The way suburban development usually works is that a town lays the pipes, plumbing, and infrastructure for housing development—often getting big loans from the government to do so—and soon after a developer appears and offers to build homes on it. Developers usually fund most of the cost of the infrastructure because they make their money back from the sale of the homes. The short-term cost to the city or town, therefore, is very low: it gets a cash infusion from whichever entity fronted the costs, and the city gets to keep all the revenue from property taxes. The thinking is that either taxes will cover the maintenance costs, or the city will keep growing and generate enough future cash ﬂow to cover the obligations. But the tax revenue at low suburban densities isn’t nearly enough to pay the bills; in Marohn’s estimation, property taxes at suburban densities bring in anywhere from 4 cents to 65 cents for every dollar of liability. Most suburban municipalities, he says, are therefore unable to pay the maintenance costs of their infrastructure, let alone replace things when they inevitably wear out after twenty to twenty-ﬁve years. The only way to survive is to keep growing or take on more debt, or both. “It is a ridiculously unproductive system,” he says."

Taken in context, the quoted sentence is specifically talking about the development/expansion of a town beyond its current financial means. In other words, the town builds out its infrastructure and is banking on an influx of new homeowners (taxpayers) to help with the maintenance of the infrastructure. When that doesn't happen, that's when the tax revenue/liabilities ratio dips below 1.

Also, if you go to the Strong Towns[1] website that Charles Marohn helped start and read the Mission Statement and their Quantification of a Strong Town, nowhere does it talk about population density or converting suburbs/towns into cities.

[1] http://www.strongtowns.org/
Didn't give me results at all to the three images I uploaded. Might be broken.
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What consolidation are you referring to? From what I can see in Chicago, the trend is in the other direction.
It doesn't really need a "summary" though. Maybe you could add something to the conversation? Like "Oh, I didn't know libturbo was that slow" or "I'm glad Cloudflare is contributing back to the project."
After playing for the last 20 minutes, I agree, undo would get in the way.
"Status" whiskey drinkers are often surprised at how many of their favorite brands roll up to giant beverage conglomerates. The best whiskeys in the world almost to a one are traceable to giant corporations.
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Er, no.

My droplets are up. Never went down today.

Also, please don't post that things are down here on HN. This is not a support forum. Not for DO, not for AWS.
those are certainly some of the benefits, while the cons being equalizing your product advantage, getting distracted, and a few more.

I guess the question is under what circumstances do you think the pros outweight the cons ?
I wouldn't say "what is wrong". I mean, the patterns stand on their own merit: they provide a recipes for solving commonly recurring program design problems in Java, C++ and their ilk. "What is wrong" is making a religion out of them: elevating these patterns to an overly important status, as if they are some important generalities in software engineering, if not in fact computer science or even mathematics.
Well, a publisher or submitting to the major mobile gaming sites, like TouchArcade.

Speaking of, have you made any threads in the Touch Arcade forums? I've seen several apps get their initial exposure by just posting and asking for feedback.
Then again, the actual capital of Texas is Austin, so it's not that far from reality.
People bring up Stranahans a lot in discussions like these, and I have the same thought. It's interesting and impressive what they've done, but the end result is inferior to major label bourbon.

If you're in SFBA and you want unique, independent rye, Old Potrero (an Anchor product) is a pretty good bet.