skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No worries, I think it's good to cover all possibilities rationally, and your feedback helps.

We've gone through the same process, too, and come to a somewhat different conclusion. :) We perceive a gap in the market -- as you mentioned, there are many low-end Postgres hosting places, and a few expensive high end places. All are lacking features that we (personally) want, too, in one way or another.

I think that, at least partially, it comes down to Amazon and Heroku having many other lines of business. Postgres is just not a major priority for them at all. By focusing entirely on Postgres and only Postgres, we can deliver a better experience.

Competing on price is a race to the bottom. I don't want to be wading into a commodity market trying to pick up a million $5 customers. I'd much rather go for the higher end segment where we deliver premium service and features for people who see the value in that and are willing to pay for it.

I'd love to chat with you sometime in more detail about the Postgres idea.. if you're ever in San Francisco, I'll gladly buy you a beer or a coffee!
I think you mean "most software systems", period. :-)
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wrong

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returns ???

even http://howtomakeapapercrane.net/u/paper-origami-crane.jpg fails!!! OK OK maybe the "NO" is correct this time
What do you mean by uniform server design not working out? You mean without locality planning?
Do you just want the neural net, or the tags too? This might not be what you want, but it looks like it could be fun to play with: http://clarifai.com/
Yes, users get full Postgres superuser access. You can freely create/delete/update databases, roles/users, privilige assignments, and so on.
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I am going through it just now. I like not having the further material available, as it makes me try a lot harder to get the solution and not scroll down.

That said, I go some strange syntax error, as its a JavaScript editor, and doesn’t highlight unmatched braces or things like that (useful in JavaScript, as it seems to encourage heavy nesting). Not as nice to learn in as a proper IDE.
This sounds like a great opportunity, if only I didn't start school on the 5th.
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The article tapdanced around the reasoning because it sounds so awful, but torture of civilians is permitted and when the USA does it, its now the greatest most ethical thing evar (although years ago only the bad guys tortured people, at least officially, sometimes thats how you knew they were the bad guys...). And torture in general isn't legal under rules of war. So thats why, at least on paper, we treat enemy soldiers better than our own people.
With regards to definite, I found the tie to "finite" helpful.
Thanks for clearing that up. Assuming the Secure Enclave has a level of security comparable to the Secure Element, it'd be nice if the payment networks would trust it, but they're so notoriously conservative...and understandably want everyone using the same base tech to keep complexity lower.

I think the bulk of my disappointment is that I upgraded to a 5s anticipating I wouldn't be totally shut out of Apple's (at the time rumored) impending launch of a payments product. Oh well, at least we get TouchID auth for apps.
If 3 login attempts invalidate the OTP then you only need a manageable number of different "known modifications" to tell the user through the secure channel to keep this safe. If they can arbitrary brute force you OTP anyway then the OTP isn't really going to be all that useful at 10k possibilities.

That said, hardly any user would be willing to take on such complexity without very strong reason.
But where the birds go when it rains?

Sorry, couldn't resist; but there is a recent and highly relevant one for this: http://xkcd.com/1425/
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Do you have any links or sources?

I too remember something like that, but was under the impression that CAs are still ok.

But of course, judging by the massive downvoting you've gotten, I suppose you're incorrect. I wish those downvoters would explain their viewpoint rather than downvoting...
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Here's what I've observed, as a software programmer. We were supposed to get leisure with increasing economic growth. Instead we get waste and mismanagement.

There's a saying that 90% of work exists to correct other work. In software, that's certainly true. 90% of the work is maintenance, communication overhead, political positioning, and just plain cleaning up messes. 90% of the work is maintenance because almost none of the work is done right the first time.

We fill 8-10 hours, while little gets achieved, because we let The Business dictate terms (you have to use this language in which I could hire 50 mediocre developers tomorrow) and cause this arrangement in which most of the job is cleaning up crap.

So how have we compensated for the increase in productivity? Not by working less. Not by us workers being paid more more (which would, in the long term, given them leverage). Instead, the ones in charge spend this surplus on letting workplaces get monstrously inefficient. Perversely, this isn't great for shareholders but it gives a lot of power to the executives (principal-agent problem). By making work unnecessarily unpleasant, they get status and power over people, which they can use to advance their own causes, and take the lion's share of the profits from the past 35 years of technical growth.
Alright, now I'm confused. Your previous post, the one I replied to, has this:

> the one actually implemented afterwards: feeding hwrng to the pool just like the all other sources.

And now you're saying it's not fed "just like all the other sources".

This is contradictory.
When I've tried to use Cython I've not enjoyed it. I feel like I'm invoking a load of barely comprehensible copy and paste magic if I need to use numpy arrays. I imagine it would be possible to understand this stuff, but I need it so rarely that I can't justify learning it. C or C++ feels so much simpler.
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a) Hunger is not an emotional state. It may be an input to one's emotional state but I think that its impact is usually quite weak. b) Overly simplistic example-- do mature adults really have such wide ranging emotions during a conversation over whether there is pizza or not in the fridge?
what does that translate into ram and cpu?

what are you using for your web server?
Agreed. The stock dropped around 7.5%. Although significant, it is not "tumbling".
Anecdotally: Guilty as charged, on both accounts.

I also have a physical stack of unread books, which I'll probably never get around to read now that I have a Kindle, created mostly due to impulse buying on bookstores. Some I also bought again digitally.

I'm now growing my virtual kindle queue, faster than I can read, but with a different approach: I added all my wishlist authors (including cstross, incidentally) to ereaderiq, which notifies me of price drops, and buy 1.99 daily deals or similar range. So far I got very good deals on good titles of Arthur Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson and so on.

So, again, anecdotally, I might buy things that I'll never read, but the amount of titles that I haven't read is bigger than my daily reading time, and after a certain quality threshold, titles seem mostly interchangeable.

I'd guess the best price point is the one just on 'impulse buy'.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=trouble+in+paradise+clojurescript#...
That'd also overlap with 31C3: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Main_Page
Reading correctly, the commenter you replied to posed a question rather than stating any assumptions. You said 'in most american states, "obtained legally" != "legal to archive" != "legal to look at whenever you want" != "legal to share" != "legal to use for any purpose other than that which it was originally obtained for".'

So you seem to be claiming that these are distinct legal categories which affect the admissibility of evidence at trial. I don't think this is true; as far as I am aware, prosecutors and police can freely share information collected in different cases as long as that evidence is all disclosed to the defendant prior to trial (and early enough for the defense to prepare or seek a continuance etc.).

For example, it's legal (per the Supreme Court) to take DNA swabs from arrestees without a warrant even if no charges are brought, and all such DNA evidence is by default loaded into a national database known as CODIS. Your DNA data, according to a majority of the Supreme Court can legally be archived, looked at whenever law enforcement wants, shared, and used for other purposes than that which it was originally obtained for.

http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/dnadatabases.html

So again I ask, do you have something to back up your claim about things being different in 'most american states' or were you just saying you didn't think it worked that way?
Really? So websites just magically sync data? This is news. And here I am messing with databases n shit....
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is this sfw?
MOX an open source movie format for video and film production
In the case of IBM, I think Sam was promoted from sales. I wonder what happened that led to that.
Yes. I wonder if being so incredibly small means that replication is more efficient and intense and is therefore a strong factor behind why it's so virulent.
The sensitivity of the sensor vs angle was pretty close to cos(angle), so it was not very sensitive to light coming in from extreme angles. But the whole process relies on light from everywhere in the scene hitting the sensor all at once, except for the light being blocked by the arm.
That's a nice article. I found the style good, the content interesting.
looks like either a typo or a missed edit of a previous figure: http://imgur.com/FUQru1m
I should clarify ... I wasn't laughing at Jane Goodall but rather at the delivery (and side-bar content) of the TankRiot crew.
Depends. For extract brewing you can easily do it for $100-150 if you bottle the beer(with your biggest expense being a large 5+ gallon kettle), adding another $100-150 if you keg.

Full grain brewing is significantly more expensive (unless you do the "Brew in a Bag" style) simple setups easily put you into the $400+ range. Purpose-built full grain brewing systems setup with pumps, three burners and kettles will set you back $2500-5000 depending upon how nice of a setup you get and the volume (15 gallons to 40 gallons), and that doesn't even include the fermentation equipment which for heated and cooled conicals can be $2000+.

Homebrewing has a very active higher end market which is only getting more active as it becomes easier for individuals to move from hobbyist to professional pico/nano/micro-brewer.
Hi, Database Labs founder here. We indeed are very upfront and transparent -- no hidden costs, and no teaser free tier followed by a massive price jackup once you actually get any significant traction.

Free tiers also invite abuse by shady actors (spammers and so on) and tire-kickers who generate support load but don't ever actually buy anything, which we just don't have the resources to deal with yet, as a small company.

It seems so far that $10 is a reasonably low price point for trying it out that people are willing to give it a shot, and it filters out a lot of the bad actors.. maybe when we're larger, we'll revisit the free tier idea.
This is similar to how people are using the LuaJIT FFI, as a higher-level, garbage-collected C that lets you control data layout in memory.
How Is a Genius Different from a Really Smart Person?
I don't think there's a causal connection between torture policies and tear gas being allowed for crowd control, I think they are both linked to the same cause - that governments are more interested in protecting themselves than the populous, and are perfectly willing to look at their citizens as an enemy.
I don't have numbers, but I'd take a guess that Amazon, with the Kindle, has done a decent job of expanding the market some.

I know I read about 10 times as much (including a few of yours, thank you!) as before getting one, although I'm probably an extreme case because it's slow and expensive to get English-language books here in Italy.

This quote, from upstream in the thread, makes sense to me:

> Removing legacy middlemen is healthy. Skewing producers' bargaining rights is not. Disentangling publishers' rents (the fraction of publishers' profits which come from them being, before Amazon, authors' only choice for distribution) from authors' costs of production (what good authors need to be paid to compensate them for the time, skill and risk which goes into writing) is difficult.

You doubtless have a closer seat to the action and more skin in the game - do you think there is already an effect on authors? To me it seems a bit too early to tell exactly what is happening where, with who, with certainty. I don't see Amazon trying to squeeze so hard that it strangles authors, but I suppose they're big enough they might well do stupid stuff inadvertently.

I think books are great value for what you pay in terms of entertainment, and I'm a pretty fast reader.
I should have toned down that statement. The main disagreement that many people have with Paul Krugman is that he is a central planner, he believes that the state should be an economic actor. That premise is fundamentally flawed.
something like that: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/NC_002549 (I get 21K)
I am curious as to why you recommend avoiding meads? I made a gallon batch (still fermenting though) and it was by far the easiest brew process I have come across. Basically just heat up some water and dump honey in, then transfer to the carboy and add yeast. I think it took all of 20-30 minutes. Scaling up to a 5 gallon batch would add a trivial amount of time. Was it the taste? I tasted it when I transferred to secondary, and it was tolerable (I would compare it to a funky white wine). Or fermentation time (was told that it needs about six months total)?

If time ever became a big constraint for me, I imagine I would just cut my brewing down to a few big beers a year (high gravity or other styles that call for long fermentation) which would keep the carboys full, but would also stretch out the time between brews. And then I would try and mix in some meads or all extract brews.
The big challenge is storage. If you don't treat storage as a first class service and instead make it part of the standard 'atom' your storage requirements grow faster than your compute requirements. And while you get some relief by replacing the storage component with denser ones, you always seem to end up with high priced and under employed compute capabilities going to waste while it provides access to data on some spinning rust.

I was an advocate of variation in the form of 'storage focused' and 'compute focused' atoms but at the time the mantra was 'identical blocks.' Never got much traction on that. The trick is of course mixing nodes the the mesh of services, that aspect of it really benefits from a colloidal solution of resource nodes :-)
My first beer was a 1 gallon batch using a ~$40 kit and normal kitchen supplies. For a "real" 5 gallon all-grain setup, you might spend $250 on equipment (large kettle, burner, wort chiller, bottling or kegging equipment). Then you might want a refrigerator for controlling the fermentation temperature, and maybe another separate one to keep the finished beer at serving temperature. Even with all of this, you're still under $1000.
That's not how it works, according to all the biochemistry text book I've read.

If protein is the blocks for building muscle, carbs are the mortar. You are not gaining loads of muscle without carbs. You just waste a lot of money on protein the body then has to (very inefficiently) convert into carbs. Even if you're young and less than advanced strength, you can only naturally grow 1-2 pounds of muscle tissue a month doing everything perfectly, no matter how much protein you eat.

Great to hear you're getting strong, but I think you'd feel pretty silly if you knew how much more effective you would have been if you ate carbs. You would have grown faster, and not had any more risk of getting fat.

Here's a quick run down of how it really works: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/how-we-get-fat.htm...
No mention of Qt's slots and signals?
I think you'd need something slightly more complex than a "word2vec" since images already have a well defined "word vector" i.e. a pixel. What you want is a "parser" that can take in an image and spit out the significant parts of it? Stanford might have the code up from this paper ( http://machinelearning.wustl.edu/mlpapers/paper_files/ICML20...) up on their site.
Does not recognize Big Bird. I proclaim this to be a failure.
I chose Harvard over a state school, but I was driven primarily by the great research opportunities for undergraduates and the easy access to and funding for those opportunities, not by networking opportunities. I'm very happy with my decision and believe I received a great education in all respects.
Apple.com currently has a self-signed certificate (fixed now)
apple.com currently does not have a valid certificate. Note that I'm accessing the page from Europe, so this is not the issue with China MITM-ing iCloud.
How does that tie in with your admin of the database? What happens when a user changes wal_level or something? Just wondering where you draw the line.
> governments are more interested in protecting themselves than the populous

Be careful using the plural there. The United States government is the only government from a Developed country that does this.

If you want to compare the United States to Developing and Undeveloped countries, go right ahead.
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4740 bytes, actually.

There are only four nucleotides ("letters") in RNA. You can encode them with two bits.
Just made a short (about 3 minutes each) youtube test on a MB Air 2014 (HTML5, full HD, fullscreen).

Result: There was a 3 Watts (roughly) difference favoring safari.
The word "shit" is used throughout, and there are some thumb-sized images of animal manure. Wasn't sure that warranted a NSFW tag, but be warned.
it's ok, it's apparently just a horse manure
As Django developer for over 6 years, sorry guys I don't see the benefits of hacking the framework in this case. I know so many people love django out there and try to apply it as much as they can. When you think you go with the-easy-thing, you're going to make it harder.

BTW, depending on the purpose, I will go with another frameworks, even another languages.
Caffe (and other frameworks) provide exactly this. It's basically:

1) To setup, load a pre-trained AlexNet/Overfeat/other architecture model (e.g. trained on ILSVRC2012)

2) To get a vector from an image, run a forward pass on the images, and extract the activations at a given layer (e.g. fc7) as the output vector.

http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/gathered/examples/feature_ex... is a step-by-step walkthrough.

There's a lot of mystique around deep learning and these kind of problems, but it's not _that_ difficult to use these tools.
The name seems to have been ideally chosen to cause confusion between it and the existing R language.
Its illegal in war because of a fear of miscalculation, not because of its effects: i.e. a soldier may call in a retaliatory strike proportional to chemical weapons because its difficult to tell the difference between tear gas and something more lethal in the heat of battle.
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>> "... or keep 'em distracted with shiny baubles and insipid passive entertainment."

Panem et circenses. Hardly a new trick, and truer now than ever.
I agree. I've had a few troubles with Om, and while dnolen and the community have been super helpful on IRC and lists, there are some basic things that I personally felt trapped by.

- The inability to cleanly have om components co-exist with a static template, rather than having to render the entire thing using sablono or om/goog is one. The rationale is that multiple roots aren't good for you, but the alternative is to render your entire template within clojurescript code which can be a pain if you're working with someone who thinks in html/css.

- The API for IResolve is currently in super early alpha, and while there are some examples [1], one of the the recommended solutions [2] is to use NativeStore or Derive, which seems overkill for simpler use cases such as mine.

(It isn't my intention to be overtly critical of a great library - I like it a lot. I've used it to some extent and faced a bunch of issues, which I hope will get resolved over time as the APIs and design become more stable.)

[1] https://github.com/swannodette/om/blob/master/examples/two_l...
[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojurescript/WCz57-...
I think the real benefit of that sort of solution would be to put the blame squarely upon the shoulders of the outdated sites in question without the browser vendors worrying about losing customers (A win/win?). It's an opportunity to inform users about the major security flaws on sites like Citibank and put some pressure on them to take this sort of security flaw seriously.
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That's an interesting comparison, because under the hood Cython and LuaJIT FFI could hardly be more different.

Cython is an optimizing Python (+ extensions) -> C compiler.

LuaJIT FFI is a library for Lua. It doesn't change the language at all (there are none of Cython's optional annotations), there is no build-time tool or need to run a C compiler.

But I can see how they could serve some of the same use cases.
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a) Fair, although I think the author's justification for describing it as such is reasonable. b) Sure, but I don't think maturity is the point. I think the point is to establish a way of thinking about emotions—which I suppose might be more useful the less mature a person you're dealing with.
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Totally not what I was expecting!

What would be very cool would be some kind of trigger app where you leave your phone in a tree for an hour, and it takes pictures of all the birds that come within range.

Detecting whether a given image has a bird in it, while certainly difficult and "interesting" from a CS point of view, is not very interesting from a user perspective? (Photographers can always tag their images when they submit them).
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i have a small cnc machine. i wonder if i can adapt the model to be cut out from that.
Something the article doesn't touch on in its pursuit of a smaller image - when you run "apt-get install" or "apt-get upgrade" you should do "&& apt-get clean" in the same RUN command.

This will remove the .debs apt just downloaded and installed that are being cached in /var/cache/apt/archives, saving you a little disk space.
38 kilobits = 4.7 kB, but yes.

Here's the complete genome of the pandemic strain (scroll down a bit):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KJ660346

Here's the paper sequencing it. ([edit]: I just realized the New Yorker article is largely about this exact paper -- I commented before reading, sorry). Note that five of the authors died before publication; there's a short tribute accompanying it.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6202/1369.full

http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/08/ebolas-heavy-toll-...

Here's another phylogeny of this strain, including github repo:

http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/phylogenetic-anal...
Ah the magic of apple... Just bend the universe to your will...

I promise it will take years before Android apps are all made 64 bit.
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