skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always viewed design patterns as a communication tool between programmers. Saying

$('.button .link .pulldown')
.addClass('active')
.on('hover', highlight)
.on('click', doSomething);

is quite a mouthful. But if everyone's familiar with design patterns, then you can just say "Oh, it's a Builder pattern" and everybody knows what you're talking about. Same goes for many, many other situations; familiarity with MVC will go a long way towards understanding angular.js, and familiarity with Chain of Responsibility will teach you about WSGI or Django Middleware, or the State pattern will help you understand trampolines in interpreter implementation.
> So, the modern beverage industry is largely an industry based on curation, blends, and added value. And that's fine. I'm not so sure why people care so much, but it must be because people have this romantic view that their beverages should live up to some farm-to-table ideal.

You don't get to second-guess or rationalize peoples' reasons for buying your products. You can't lie to people and then tell them they shouldn't care you lied to them.

My wife loves Templeton Rye, both because of the taste and because she grew up in a small town in Iowa. Knowing it's made by MGP doesn't change the taste, but knowing its made in Indiana would sure as hell leave a sour taste in her mouth!

From the article:

> “I have purchased hundreds of barrels of rye and bourbon from them,” John Bernasconi admits when asked about the Indiana factory. A principal in the New Mexico company, Bernasconi says that purchasing whiskey from MGP and bottling it is “a means to develop a brand and help fund the next step” of actually distilling a unique product.

Said like the contemptible opportunistic scab he obviously is.
That was a strange article.

Isn't it a self obvious truth that AWS is most appropriate when you need lots of computational resources in bursts?

If you often need many extra servers for a short period of time, then AWS is really good for that. Another thing that AWS provides is some very handy infrastructure APIs like S3, DynamoDB, Eleastic Mapreduce, etc.

For flat usage scenarious, then renting beefy VPSs or physical servers is more cost effective.
There are complicated ways of doing this, but the naïve way is as follows:

First you need a corpus of text that's grammatically correct

Each node in the chain is a word or piece of punctuation. Each word has a certain probability of being followed by every other word in the corpus, including itself. There are a few different ways to start the sentence. One approach is to start from the node for the punctuation mark ".", and only selecting a following node that is not a period, since sentences don't tend to start with punctuation. From there, use a random number generator to pick a following node based on your probability matrix, rinse, repeat.

If you'll notice, there's no guarantee that it will be grammatically correct. There's just some statistical likelihood that it will be.
How Supporting Techdirt Can Help Shift The Debate In Washington DC
Leapmotion autowiring
The only reason I haven't done this myself is MMOs are very expensive to produce, at least the WoW-clone type I envision. WildStar took 7 years to build. I don't have the cachet to ask for 10s of millions for a crazy project and get it. But, please, somebody that does, make this. :)
Go to Israel, copy what they are doing there.
Ah, but it was Amazon selling the product, not the vendor. The vendor claims Amazon revoked the keys so when you try to activate the product it was unusable without using a crack.
Consolidation is a ways off. The large beer producers have acquired a few craft producers in the last few years, but the artisan beverage market will continue to grow in both number of firms and amount of production.

I think it will be at least another 10 years until we start seeing large craft brewers purchasing smaller craft brewers. This has already happened in coffee with Blue Bottle (venture backed) purchasing Tonx Coffee and Handsome Roasters. Artisan Coffee has had ~10 years of growth on Craft Beer.
The Internet and everything in it?
Vegetating the Desert (Qatar/Jordan)
Good for him. Though I was hoping he had actually created an MMO. This is kind of a metaphorical MMO, not a real one.
I totally get that it can be desirable to some. The problem is that sprawling suburbs are not only bad for the environment, they are financially unsustainable with current financing schemes. They will scale back. The nicest ones will stay forever if some are willing to pay for them.
You're welcome! Hope you enjoy the course!
Very interesting!
great

Luca
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Have one million devices constantly streaming a random stream of data to each other; when a device wants to communicate with another it just swaps the random stream for the encrypted stream.

Hence a trivial example of low-latency anonymity achieved through using bandwidth.
I bet it's that subways don't compete for traffic, whereas buses have to deal with all the congestion that cars do, in most cases. If my choices are to Drive Myself (my own music, my own pace, no motion sickness, and no uncomfortable staring at the lady across the aisle from me because hers is the only window I can see out of) versus a bus, I'm likely to take the car. This is compounded by not having to __wait__ for the bus schedule.

Taking the Bus + Train from SF to LA area takes longer than driving, and has more stress. Can I stop to use the bathroom, or will I miss the bus? Not an issue if I am the driver. I realize that's not the same as city driving issues, though.
I'm amused by the downvotes combined with the unwillingness to define "full line".
British guy problems but I thought someone was blogging about a very small financial loss on a game they made. lbs would help.
That's right, you didn't say that. You said there is a "public" and a "private" list. To me this sounds like the "private" one is somehow hidden from the public and cannot be seen which isn't the case.
Yes, but that is a MWS issue not an AWS issue.
You should offer up an SD card image to download.

(No, I'm not going to tweet that at you.)
Was created as ARPANET in the 1960s.
killing people they dont like?
It's important not to confuse the rapid production and reproduction of novelty with innovation.
The Economic Cost of Surveillance
AFAICT, rural small towns are dying down to the minimum needed to support the local economy... it's kind of ugly in some places. :-/

(I used to live in Idaho. Big cities there have 1,000 people)
Hardening the device itself is necessary but encrypted comms are just as important and arguably more pressing and easier to do. One thing at a time.
Ask HN: What are the dimensions you base your product decisions on?
You are a builder, you are dying to build that nice and shiny new idea of yours. How do you evaluate them and manage your backlog of ideas/features/bugfixes?
- Impact
- Cost
- Usability
- Scalability
- PR value
- Simplicity
- Instant revenue
- Long term revenue
- Production quality
- Virality
- Engagement
- Stickiness
- Team votes
- User stories
- Someone's opinion on Twitter
- Appstore ratings
- Following VCs' hot-trends
- Solving your own pain
- Any other or combination of some

Please share your experiences and big wins/mistakes
Thanks everyone!
I learned that no one tells facebook their real age.
My "youngest" friend was a senior when I was a freshman.
Thanks for the report! We scrap down the docker container on each api run - so it shouldn't be a problem.
Twitter Reports Second Quarter 2014 Results
Thanks for the clarification. That's an important distinction.
OKCupid Admits Deliberately Mismatching Singles in Psychological Experiment
Signal makes it much harder to tap your phone and makes mass surveillance extremely difficult, both of which are still important. But you're right that people need to be informed of the risks they still face.
You have two weeks in a lot of countries to return it, I'd exercise that, and pick up the new model.
Again??? How many times are we gonna rehash this? Yeah, we dropped them all over the place until 1970.

Here's a couple:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6419056

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927910
Word. The other day I typed the correct name of an app into the Apple web search box, no hits. Try Google, first hit straight to the app store.

Last month I posted the John Dvorak piece where he suggests Apple should buy themselves some search - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2458892,00.asp ; it features an amusing pic proposing DuckDuckGo http://www9.pcmag.com/media/images/429429-apple-isearch-mock...
Get rid of the TSA. I'll take my $15,000 now.

Seriously though, $15k is a pittance for what they're asking. If they had to employ someone to do that, they'd have to pay them way more than that, and the economic upsides of what they're gunning for are quite substantial. This feels like it's along the lines of holding a logo design contest and paying the winner $25.
That's pretty cool. The markov chain diagrams seem very similar (identical?) to deterministic finite automota. Would it be correct or incorrect to say that a Markov Chain can be thought of as a DFA where the changes in state are determined by probability?
Thought I'd point out a little typo. In your table with sliders for adjusting probabilities of state transitions, the P(B|B) probability reads "P(B|A)".

Edit 1: Also, P(A|B) reads "P(A|A)".

Edit 2: Not trying to be too nitpicky, though. It's a really nice visualization. Really excited about the growing use of d3 to visualize algorithms. Is this inspired by Mike Bostock's post by that title?
tried two images:

http://kephra.de/Dampf/IMG_20140620_133839_800x600.jpg <- an ecigarette, and the classifier thought its a fountain pen. Well thats not bad, I got this joke/question from humans also.

http://kephra.de/pix/Snoopy/thump/IMG_20130822_135928_640x48... <- here it thought its a speed boat ... well my boat is fast, but not a speedboat, but an sailing boat. It offered several more boat types, but not just a plain sailing boat. Interesting here is that the last suggestion of only 1% could be considered right as "dock, dockage, docking facility"

Tried some other images from the lifestyle section of my homepage, but it looks as if the system newer saw a sewing machine before as it gives "Low recognition confidence", and no tags.
Keeping track of passwords
The NRA's Murder Mystery
Again a bit of a tangent, but I wrote an essay on learning math on your own based on my experiences: https://medium.com/@amathstudent/learning-math-on-your-own-3... - perhaps it will help you.
My impression working for a government contractor years ago was that the government had great systems for getting the best price on typewriters, and that these systems more or less guaranteed the purchase of obsolescent computer technology.
I forgot about the part where it's mandatory for search engines to comply with a robots.txt
"Job Guarantee:
If you don't get a job making at least $60,000 within 6 months of graduation, we give you back your money."
via
http://www.galvanize.it/gschoolsanfrancisco
Racial profiling?
Chances are that your colo datacenter is building out an openstack-based cloud offering.

So you build your colo'd private cloud on openstack, and then use their's to handle surges. As your traffic grows, you add your own gear to handle the base line.

But ~200K per month, you're operating at a very different scale from 2k or even 20k. Having a couple of idle servers 23 hours a day is not wasteful at that scale, unless your CIO is Ebeneezer Scrooge.
rm -rf /homelandsecurity/
It's really horrible on the iOS store, less so on Google play.

I am like ranked 100+ on a certain low volume, extremely specific keyword that has approximately 20 actual apps related to that keyword in the store. This keyword is in my apps name. The other 80 are just random games and apps that happen to be more popular and Apple has somehow correlated to my keyword.

It's a free app and I don't advertise. It sucks that people looking for my solution specifically will never even find it. I'm amazed it ever gets downloaded to be honest...

On Google play, they at least take the name of the app vs. search term into account pretty heavily. So if I name an app "Widget Doodad" I will be ranked amongst all of the other apps related to Widget, before non widget related apps show up.
Why hot Holly Hagan is trending today? –
You do realize charitable giving represents hundreds of billions of revenue for non-profits every year ? - and that's excluding religious donations which are likely to represent an even larger amount.
I also received the free $500 credit and decided not to use it because of an on boarding issue.

On the other hand, when Amazon first released EC2, they gave me a $1000 credit to use anyway I wanted, and that I did use.

I really like Google products like GMail, Blogger, and G+ and working at Google the infrastructure was more than wonderful, but for external developers the Google Cloud Platform products really could be a lot better.
What's the story here? Other than Vice's typical tabloid journalism? SJPD has a drone (it' cost them $7k and is something you or I could order online). Furthermore, they have said they have a drone. Thus, completely negating the headline. How is this getting up votes? Certainly not by anyone that read the article. WTF.
The invention: a novel method that enables the enrichment of shareholders at the cost of the progress of mankind.
It could be better if Metro would implement a hub-and-spoke system with buses running within local neighborhoods and trains running longer distances. I worked at Metro for a couple years in the mid-2000s. Hub-and-spoke would come up occasionally but seemed to always get beaten down.
The use of these unmanned drones should be done more frequently. Not only do they protect officers from dangerous, unknown situations, but in man chases or car chases they would be much cheaper to operate than a helicopter.
The United States government practiced involuntary sterilization of Native American women until 1976.

It's definitely not unprecedented, even in this country.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/543.html
Is their private cloud still vmware based or have they finished rolling out the openstack solutions?
Man the text is really well written! Am I right, everyone?
I am also one of the core devs. Actually, none of the Bithub donations go close to being a working wage for any programmer actively working on the repository. We either get paid by grants or are volunteer. Asking us to micromanage Bithub grants for one or two off contributors would only be more work. We went with a "worse is better" strategy with the goal of encouraging people to regularly commit in however they feel comfortable. It's an experiment that we've been pleased with and if you would rather donate to a dev individually just look at who the top contributors are and reach out. We appreciate any support from PRs to Bitcoin to press.
Not the op - but I do have a kid and don't have a car in Wallingford (Seattle) and it's very pleasant. But I don't travel beyond one transfer, and rarely that. And I do use car2go, or hertz, or my bike, if such travel is required.
Everything is on a CDN, but don't I need at least the index.html file hosted on a server where the domain resolves?
Share a link on Twitter
Beautiful. What did you use to create the graphics?
What exactly is your problem?

My .ssh/config file is 4kb, it has 77 HostName entries, it's easily backed up (and if I lose it I wouldn't really cry about it) and it's easy to maintain (every once in a while I add another server).

I'm not saying that this scales to large teams of developers and hundreds or more servers, but at this scale I really see no problems.
Twitter just doubled its revenues
Great answers thanks!
I'm currently locked out of ~4 games I purchased legitimately because they changed my password after a hacker broke into their system and their customer service department can't seem to figure out how to let me back into my account. One of them wasn't even through Origin (it was Steam), but since they have a separate login process once you launch the game, I'm locked out of that as well.

Fuck EA.
Jason Kilar's Vessel Targets Premium Short Form Video
It uses only data
Instagram Launches One-Touch Photo and Video Messaging App Bolt Outside the US
Like the one in the second picture of the article?
The difference here is this part, I think:

> The impact of the crash put it in the "armed" setting. Fortunately -- once again -- it damaged another part of the bomb needed to initiate an explosion.

That's a lot close than "whoops, we dropped one".
Don’t Like Being Experimented On? Then You Better Quit the Internet
So in other words, they tried to follow Amazon's "affiliates" business model but embraced it too hard because they didn't realize that everybody hates the affiliates and only ever buy from them on Amazon because of desperation or accident.
> [A] computer process that enables a single machine to distribute a single information identifier and provide that to multiple “rules of thumb” so that each “rule of thumb” can search different locations using different criteria designed for that location is a major innovation in computer science; it improves the speed and efficiency of the computer and generates more useful results. It is not an abstract idea.

Thanks to Apple, we now have the technology to pass a parameter to multiple functions implementing the same interface. Incredible!
Building a Landing Page for Sales
It's like DRM for your vagina!
So basically OpenWRT + "wol" package + google app engine. Write a google app engine script that takes a 'wake up machine' html form, write a bash script on OpenWRT that queries the script regularly, and run the "wol" client when you get a response. Seems useful.
Talon is now supported. Feel free to make all the cool mailgun api's you want!
Or you could check the official status page[1] and see that there was indeed an outage.

[1] https://status.digitalocean.com/
He could mean net revenue for the retailer as in profit. I don't think these phones would have a margin much greater than $20-$25 ?
Are there actually any image feature detectors and descriptors involved (like blob, edge and texture detectors) or is this solely based on artificial neural networks?
I haven't tried the other way. I would think so, but in practice I cannot confirm.
That revenue number is an increase of 124% over the $139 million revenues from Twitter’s second quarter last year.

So yes, Twitter still posted a $145 million loss, but if we extrapolate (never good business practice, but an interesting thought experiment) and they do the same next year, they will be profitable by 2015.

It's unlikely that will happen, but there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Honestly, I haven't bought an EA sports game in years but I will subscribe to this. And if they do have additional content you can purchase, well they might just squeeze me for more than $30 by the end of the year. :)
This is Bolt, Instagram's new messaging app
Thanks for a very enlightening article. This type of thinking will change the way companies are run.
> The idea of making it illegal to block ads and modify webpages locally <…> I don't even see how that could be enforced.

Say, modifying page source acquires questionable legal status (like port scanning or jailbreaking) and is removed from every major browser. Sadly, to me personally this doesn't seem too unlikely to happen in near future.
$200k that is insane, it is cheaper to go width own hardware long before that.

The server room we have at our office have had max 5 hours of total down time since 2011 And we have moved our entire office under that period. I will try to estimate our general costs in EUR.

Inital costs for servers, switches, cooling, Racks UPS 150K

Replacement of servers every 3-4 years 60K/3 = 20K

Internet line = 10K a year

Electricity = 2K a year

Consulting cost for hardware maintenance = 10K

Old servers we put those in an a room a bit away and use them for backups/failsafe.

That is about 50K a year.

Counting in initial costs and just cause is is till almost nothing compared to 200K a month, I would say that switching to self hosting is financially beneficial when getting to about 10K a month with 3party hosting.
I will be the negative guy here, down-vote if you will.

What kind of profit did you expect? As a game app consumer I only buy the very best (original and/or polished) apps in their respective categories. E.g. Leo's Fortune, FTL, Limbo, Icebreaker, Reaper would be very easy purchases for me. You can see those games had _a lot_ of effort put into. In my subjective, blatant and impolite opinion your apps could be more of the cause of the over-saturation problem rather than victims. Saying that, I have nothing to show myself so far :).
Yes, that's exactly what it is. There's nothing more to it.
Regulator Rules McDonald's Is a 'Joint Employer'
Does Google also have the "lousy at support" problem? Their DNA has always favored algorithmic approaches that scale vs. human contact which doesn't. I remember hearing horror stories when they first came on the scene.
Peerlyst raises $3M to build out social net and application for IT pros
I used it to successfully donate $5 without issue. Changing the dollar amount seemed to work for me.
I agree that their AWS support needs a lot of improvement, and there are others in the industry (rackspace, peer one) who are better. But I disagree with the OP's assertion that Amazon is inherently incapable of providing good customer service in any of its markets.
#2 always was what impressed me most about AWS. When I was trying out Digital Ocean, I had to hack together my own scripts to set up the equivalent of cloudfront, auto-scaling, and elastic load balancing. I realized just how important those seemingly small infrastructure tools are when they "just work".
rm -rf /securitytheater/ && make realisticExpectations
Even further reason not to post it here!
Cascadia the idea appears to be growing in the Seattle region.

Can't say I entirely disagree: the PNW does have a definite bent to its culture (I've lived in PNW^H^H^HCascadia for about a year now - loving it so far).
Fair enough, thank you very much for working on such an awesome and important project.

After looking at that specific developers commit history it seems like he does commit a ton all over the place, these were just the last few and immediately drew my attention.
I read the book when it came out and found it thought-provoking enough to remember it 33 years later. If you're only familiar with part of North America, it's a good look at how different various regions are. It's probably too dated now for me to recommend it.

I found Garreau's other book "Edge City" to have more impact on my views in the long run, and I'd recommend it.
Thanks. We edited the title to make it less linkbaity.
The catch is that you no longer have the physical copy of the game or the game data on disk. When this service goes away or your account is removed, no more games. You will be completely dependent upon EA, just like they want you to be.
I spent 6 month developing a game in my spare time:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/polar-turtles/id892249118?ls...

3 weeks after the launch the game sold 6 copies and made 8,95$. I sent out 51 promo codes to various review sites but only 8 of them got redeemed.

I can already guess how impossible it is to enter the iOS gaming market.
Twitter Skyrockets After Reporting Q2 Revenue of $312M, Profit $0.02 Per Share
Yeah what the police really need is a relatively cheap and scalable way to see into my property for no reason. At least conventional fly overs have a cost that prohibits constant sky surveillance
You are thinking short term.
hit the edit button
Go on, sue all the people publishing stuff in the public domain. Because surely you can magically re-license it under your own copyright and sue them.
Here is cool generator that demonstrates this in action: http://projects.haykranen.nl/markov/demo/
A wheel like this on a road bike is going to cause hell with my Strava rankings :-(