skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too bad they did not differentiate between Create and Overwrite (as far as I can tell) as that is a an important difference (I need to solve scenarios where idempotency is needed - more than 1 worker may create exact same email message due to fault tolerance design, but at least AND at most 1 email should be sent to customer. I was hoping that the s3 filename/key would be the unique identifier and if there was separate notification for overwrite than from create, email could be sent only for create event only.)
Especially the anonymous super rich.

http://m.philanthropy.com/article/Donors-Increasingly-Make-T...
This is probably it to be honest.
how about a risk model that given the evidence predicts/concludes guilty or not. I wonder whether any trial lawyers running something like this.
The ban only applies for the first 2 weeks, then is lifted.
I think this prospecting will create a problem though. If big pharma increasingly prefer to purchase startup biotech companies that have an asset at whatever phase the pharma is looking for, then the only people developing new drugs will be small startups. It reduces the opportunity for assets built for one target to be worked up in another area (e.g. an autoimmune drug to be tried in models of ALS). It also discourages non-risky scientists, as the jobs will increasingly be in volatile companies that leave you wondering if your company card will work when you check into a hotel at a conference.
This -- you have to realize there are two different versions of you. You1 is ambitious and smart and wants to do awesome things. You1 should think things through, actually plan things out, and write things down. At a detailed level!

You2 is super lazy and won't do anything even slightly difficult unless you make it really obvious and clear. You2 needs commit to following You1's plan; this requires discipline, but also a really easy-to-follow plan.
Page is shielded from such investors by a Board of Directors. Presumably they have a better understanding of Google's long-term vision. It's also worth keeping in mind that Google performs extremely well even viewed from short-term metrics.
Like ordering protesting student-teachers to be ridden of by gang members... Making other companies bankrupt through leveraging your OS near-monopoly... Colluding with the SEC to not get criminally charged for your financial fraud... Investing your future memristors... Eradicating Malaria...
Me too, and it'll be interesting to see if/how he deals with what's become of his baby, once a democracy but now a "failed state ruled by warlords". He doesn't strike me as someone who'll turn a blind eye to the mod problems like the outgoing guy did.
Not being able to use redirects = non-starter. The first thing you learn when you work in the advertising industry is not to trust other people's metrics.
It's great for those nasty legacy apps that only work on old unmaintained versions of Rails or old OS Versions etc.

Take all the nastiness and throw it into a box, without needing to contact Ops to reserve memory and provision a VM.

IMO, it's one of the major reasons why Enterprises get so excited about Docker. Legacy app dependency issues are horrible once you get past a certain scale.

VM's are expensive and non-self-service at most orgs since they tie up RAM and licenses.
This is such a strange thing to resign over. For cooler companies like Reddit and more name brand places like Google and Apple, location is not incredibly important for hiring, but it's HUGE for retention.

When you're excited to start a new job it's easy to overlook the commute. Things come into perspective 6 months later when you're wasting up to 1/12 of your life on a bus/train.

I've personally made this mistake and have noticed when interviewing candidates that one of the top reasons they give for wanting to leave their current position is that it's too long of a commute.
Honestly I loathe the place. Not for any of the reasons you just listed. (“scary”? SF??)
Any pill you take to improve your performance or health will have some sort of placebo effect. Whether it has any actual effect over and above placebo requires a double-blind RCT. As far as I'm aware, there is no evidence that it has any effect over placebo, and the science says it shouldn't.

People take all sorts of dubious supplements...
This is a perfect example of how security venerabilities should be disclosed.

• Quickly
• Transparently
• With a fix already in place
"Suburban hellhole?" It's important to realize that many people hate cities, and would much rather live in suburbs. Why are there so many huge suburban areas around (most) large cities in the US?
Unruly has an option to enforce unique rows & columns.
It seems like you're seriously saying that people who are studying computer science lack the ability to tell the difference.

Naming the product something that closely resembles its functionality seems like a great idea for a product. It's still Amazon Lambda, and I think it's very unlikely that people will simply refer to it as "Lambda." If CS students find themselves hopelessly confused by this product name, they are going to have a real hard time tying their own shoes.

If you search for Y Combinator, luckily, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_combinator still shows up on the first page of results, I expect the same will be true for Lambda, so I can confidently say we won't lose a generation of CS students to this faux pas.
You may be giving up too soon here. None of the fruits of Google X's labors have hit mainstream production yet. You'll be able to judge them once they have.
Nice, better than my response. :)
That's not really true. Java linking happens very late, and so invoking methods at polymorphic call sites does have more in common with 'dynamic' languages than you might think. Hotspot has smalltalk roots, and features like inline caching at call sites together with optimistic fast paths, guards, deoptimisation, and other things that would be familiar from, say, a ruby implementation.
Not much at all, and an interesting consequence of this is that manufacturers of high-precision CNC machines have to be very selective about which countries they're willing to sell to, and many of these machines carry GPS trackers and other sensors which will alert the manufacturer and prevent the machine from functioning if somebody tries to move it.[1]

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140109/03060325817/lates...
Development work in the richer countries, yes. In the not so rich countries 1G is still quite normal and a program that's conservative (if using 512M can be called conservative in this case) with RAM is to be appreciated at all times, even when you have lots of it.
The "victim"? Please. She weighed things and decided that a fulltime job right out of the gate was more important than a one-nighter and cheating on her ex. Not justifying the manager and everyone involved in the cover-up but this sounds more like a consenting adults agreement than a poor victim exploitation.
> Why does _anyone_

Some people like puff pieces, or don't spend much time worrying about whether Glorblax got his fair recognition. (Personally, I agree with you)
I can't believe you've not met a bread elitist before. Any European who isn't British or Irish would probably count...

My housemates (in London) are from Palestine, Poland, Romania and Hungary, and in average British terms all count as bread elitists. None can understand why the squashy, tasteless, white bread is popular here, and struggle to understand why people would buy crap bread, of all things!
Seems like the "Obamacare for the internet" line went over well with the right-wing focus groups. Wonder if Twitter and Facebook would like to make a response to this since they were overtly praised in the article.
Deleting the “Delete” Button
Last company I've worked in moved headquarters 6,500 km. Most of the business-critical employees and developers moved with it.

All this drama about relocating office a couple subway stops seems ridiculous.
Fair point. I stepped away and did not have a chance to edit the post to qualify it as legal costs.
https://www.atlantic.net/cloud-hosting/

$0.99/month VPSs now. Not a dedi though of course.
> You didn't say what Resharper does, and why other IDE's need it to be called modern. Is this an advert for Resharper?

It's clear what he meant for everyone who hasn't been living under the rock for the last 10 years. Don't blame him if you are clueless.

> You listed one middling language among 6 top languages. Is this another advert, trying to promote a language by associating it with the oft used ones?

Heh? It's a list of some languages supported by that IDE.

Did you have a bad day, or are you just confused?
I think Viagra was discovered during clinical trials for hypertension. It (and it's fellow PDE5 inhibitors) is used in cardiac care, but the market is larger for "erectile dysfunction". There are certainly programs in big pharma to screen known drugs (that are already deemed safe for humans) in assays aimed at new targets.
Nope, nothing at all like that.
Acorns – Automatically Invest Your Spare Change
Could Kickstarter be an option?
Wow, I swear I was just wondering last night if he was still alive or not, as I was reading about him in Serge Lang's Algebra. Personal coincidence for me.

May we never forget the Grothendieck prime, 57.
Please don't: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9594000/Warning-over-liqui...
This point appears to deflate the whole blog post.
See this article from Der Spiegel [1]. Many methods are outlined - including getting unwitting cooperation (wink wink, it's just for energy / research, we promise [2]) from developed nations - along with the caveat that until the bomb is ready it's best to deny, deny, deny and avoid all the headache.

The article discusses Israel, South Africa, Brazil, Libya, and of course Iran.

That said, being part of the nuclear club means a huge responsibility - assuming you just want influence and don't want to kill somebody, now you've got to make sure nobody messes with your new toy or tries to take it.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-bomb-for-begin...

[2] "Um ... we just want to learn more about submarine propulsion, nothing else. Trust us."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Google Glass come out of X?
For those unfamiliar with the reference
(from http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pdf):

One striking characteristic of Grothendieck’s
mode of thinking is that it seemed to rely so little
on examples. This can be seen in the legend of the
so-called “Grothendieck prime”. In a mathematical
conversation, someone suggested to Grothendieck
that they should consider a particular prime number.
“You mean an actual number?” Grothendieck asked.
The other person replied, yes, an actual prime number.
Grothendieck suggested, “All right, take 57."

But Grothendieck must have known that 57 is not
prime, right? Absolutely not, said David Mumford
of Brown University. “He doesn’t think concretely.”
Linode's is the same. I agree that it's annoying and that the terminology is slightly deceptive.

Any of these "datacenter LANs", though, tend to be fast and free (in terms of bandwidth). We just use a VPN overlay and call it a day.
Reliability is my real question around not only this, but lambda as a whole. I'll need to dig into the docs on that.
3*19=?
> Science takes time, and as humans, we go for the easiest science first. We should not sacrifice safety for speed.

I agree, but it is also a function of money. Pharmaceutical companies often rely on basic research from academia to get pointed in the right direction. As that decreases, there are fewer academics discovering fewer new pathways that pharma can target drugs for.

Additionally, funding is aimed at investigators who are likely to succeed. It is common for a lab to essentially work one grant ahead of funding in order to be sure to deliver.
As for your first point, I think there are two factors that run counter to it.

1) The FDA already regulates what companies can say about their drugs. If there is no evidence your drug is effective, the FDA could certainly stop you from saying there is.

2) Without efficacy data, insurance companies won't pay much. To be honest, I would bet insurance companies wouldn't cover such drugs at all. It would be entirely on the patient to cover the costs.

Taking my second point further, if you can't charge a premium for your drug, I doubt pharma companies would even develop drugs they can't prove are efficacious. Gathering efficacy data takes a lot of money, but so does safety data. If you can save 50% on clinical trial costs, but only charge 10% the price, it's a losing proposition.
I can say firsthand that company location is a much bigger deal than you'd imagine. Some people don't care, but others are extremely opinionated about it.
We use Twilio and OpenVBX for our phone solution. It works good plus let's us automate a bunch of things, including text messages and calls etc.
Wouldn't that be kind of unnecessary, when it's not too tough to write an SQS-reactive client?

Starting with S3 fills a gap as there is AFAIK otherwise no way to start processing based on changes to S3, without writing a rather wasteful program to list the resources, maintain state, and hunt for differences.
When its history shows otherwise.
yeah it was an awsome magazine, tech , prog news.

I miss it.
I'm not arguing they will not be able to tell the difference... I'm arguing it will cause confusion at some point, and maybe that's a negative externality of naming this product "Lambda." Nobody said "lose a generation of CS students."

And, as I've noticed in the past, searching for "y combinator" + any language name will often keep useful results away until you finally block this site. I'm not sure if this is still comprehensively true, but it seemed so to me at one point. So there is a very real impact on search results that can happen.
the anonymous veneer can just be used to make the donator seem even more selfless and impressive:

http://youtu.be/gqncCjxGqGw
BS. Just do a guest blog post and the traffic will come
From reading about Stuxnet, I believe they also have something involving IP address pings and feedback.
I don't think that transformation has really happened in the public imagination at large, but perhaps it has in the bay area. Sure, the public imagination is somewhat taken with some of technology's successful figures, like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin and Larry Page, but successful business-people have always been admired, regardless of whether their background is in finance or marketing or management or engineering or programming.
I don't know enough about DRACO, but I would argue that pharma companies have already kicked the tires and passed on it.

I know a few people that work in pharma business development and they scour academic labs for anything of value. For whatever reason, they don't believe that DRACO as value, at least right now.

In the meantime, if it's as promising as you say, academic labs shouldn't have trouble getting funding to further develop it.
56.999~
Only downside I found with GLM is it is dog slow when built without optimisations, making debugging painful, and as it is a header only library you can't compile an optimised version for debugging purposes. I'm not aware of any libraries that solve this problem though, while still remaining as fast when fully optimised. I did consider trying to create a custom recompiled header built with full optimisations but I never got around to investigating it as an option...
> computer scientists seem to have transformed in public imagination from quiet nerds to celebrity saviors of mankind.

The people I'm around seem to still view programmers/computer scientists as awkward nerds, but now they're awkward nerds who you can make money off of.
Ask HN: Historical Web Traffic data
I am trying to do some analysis of a bunch of company websites (like Shutterstock, RingCentral etc) and am trying to find traffic data for these companies since 2000. Does anyone know of any such data sources (free or paid)?
Not really, common to refer to Private IP's as "private IP address space" as per RFC 1918(IPv4)/RFC 4193(IPv6).

If a user of the service is wanting to get on board, it is their responsibility to ensure what they think is accurate or not.
No C++11 features? Especially move constructor and assignment operator.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Come on people, sense of humor and all? If you don't agree, just leave it unvoted.
The irony of a scientific paper dissecting the popularity of "Socially Awkward Penguin" is thick.
So true. And the essence of networking
I tweeted that it's a PITA to transcoded uploaded media yesterday and today AWS solve the problem!

I HAVE THE POWER

https://twitter.com/kaihendry/status/532783437225025537
Peltzman addresses this point in his book, again using statistics from before and after 1962, and found the "effective" mandate did not significantly improve the percentage of new drugs that turned out well, it just halved the absolute number.

I have suggested that the FDA offer an "effective" endorsement that a company could go through the approval process to get. The carrot for the company would be that only legally consenting adults could receive drugs without the endorsement, and they'd have to specifically sign a contract saying they understood that the FDA did not endorse it as effective. A further carrot would be that they'd be immunized from liability lawsuits for endorsed drugs.
Ken Thompson had already invented UNIX and C when Google hired him.
"cool, fun, sexy"?
It's a disgusting place with a corrupted government and 40 years old development policy and an even older infrastructure. Fun, sexy? How about not being able to find a single coffee shop open after 9:30PM on a freaking Saturday near Market St?

Any real world class metropolis like Hongkong, Shanghai, Tokyo or New York would blow SF out of the water in the "cool, fun, sexy" department.
here is a 4x4 that naively seems like it should be a legal solution, but isnt:

1010
1010
0101
0101

same number of 0s as 1s per row
same number of 0s as 1s per col
no rows or cols with run of 3 of same value

edit: oh - "no two rows are the same". fail. disregard this. must have clicked past that in the tutorial.
Yeah.. Not sure if the root cause was ever determined but at my previous job we had issues with Xen guests shutting down but the blkback device would go D and never quit. This would prevent the VM from starting because the LV was busy. lvm commands would freeze. And of course the system would end up needing a hard reboot because the lvm teardown scripts would not complete on shutdown due to the busy device. Good times :|
You could use S3 versioning to distinguish the two operations.
Why the Reddit CEO stepped down
why have not European and Asian drug manufacturers been able to capitalize on this American regulatory shortcoming

Drug regulations are quite uniform among Western nations. For more reading google "ICH"... International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use....
Net Neutrality Is Just a Symptom
The official press release doesn't mention anything about an endowment either: http://amturing.acm.org/prize-news.cfm

(In the current environment, to get interest of $1m a year would require a very large endowment - something like $30m+ - and you'd think that would be mentioned prominently.)
Well a Nobel prize is awarded for the significance of the breakthrough, and the Turing award is more for the significance of the person. I think it would be good to have an award in computer science that celebrated and validated breakthroughs (though it doesn't have to be the Turing award).
I think this stuff is actually pretty interesting, it's programmer tools UX!

I use emacs and various command line tools. Tabs don't give me problems. FWIW.
The example is stupid and sensationalist, those stations are the two closest at 260 metres apart, or about two train lengths.

Like many European cities, paying by cash is being phased out. It's annoying for visitors, but London is ahead here: Oyster cards are refundable, let the user go overdrawn (into the deposit), and contactless credit/debit cards are accepted.

The actual Zone 1 fare is £2.20. A central zone Berlin ticket is €2.60. Copenhagen ~£2.60. Munich €2.60.
How do you manage to say both of those things at once?

He caused it, but he's not to blame?

I mean if you want to talk about other systemic factors then fine. But otherwise your request is nonsensical.
As I said, I have no idea if this is what is happening, it would just fit in with the pattern of "weird" caching that I've heard HN uses - I mention Arc only because some of the caching is related to eliminating closures kept around for things like user sessions IIRC[0], though I assume any Lisp would lead to similar optimizations.

[0] It appears this is not the case with the vote caching from staff comments in this thread.
Grothendieck's comments on creativity have been very important in my life, especially the following quote (in translation from the French):

"To state it in slightly different terms: in those critical years [roughly from age 17 to 20] I learned how to be alone."

"This formulation doesn't really capture my meaning. I didn't, in any literal sense learn to be alone, for the simple reason that this knowledge had never been unlearned during my childhood. It is a basic capacity in all of us from the day of our birth. However these 3 years of work in isolation, when I was thrown onto my own resources, following guidelines which I myself had spontaneously invented, instilled in me a strong degree of confidence, unassuming yet enduring, in my ability to do mathematics, which owes nothing to any consensus or to the fashions which pass as law...."

"By this I mean to say: to reach out in my own way to the things I wished to learn, rather than relying on the notions of the consensus, overt or tacit, coming from a more or less extended clan of which I found myself a member, or which for any other reason laid claim to be taken as an authority. This silent consensus had informed me, both at the lyé and at the university, that one shouldn't bother worrying about what was really meant when using a term like "volume", which was "obviously self-evident", "generally known", "unproblematic", etc. I'd gone over their heads, almost as a matter of course, even as Lesbesgue himself had, several decades before, gone over their heads. It is in this gesture of "going beyond", to be something in oneself rather than the pawn of a consensus, the refusal to stay within a rigid circle that others have drawn around one - it is in this solitary act that one finds true creativity. All others things follow as a matter of course."

Very late in his life, Grothendieck asked for people to cease re-publishing his work, even brief excerpts. (See: http://sbseminar.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/grothendiecks-lett... ) So I have mixed feelings about quoting the above. But I do so in the hope that it can help others as it has helped me.
While one thing's for sure, I am blacklisting him from my company.
Audio of segment hints at more?

http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/marketplace/segments...
The aspects that struck me the most about this article was how passionately political his parents were. Moving around Europe in an effort to outright escape/support various political factions. In fact, much of their apparent political views and the people they were supporting seemed to be one vast pool of contradictions (as most European politics were in those days -- thus World War II). And it gave me a possible picture of why Alexandre may have used mathematics as an escape from the ferocious world he grew up around until maybe he became disenchanted with the idea of having any part of this same world at all? I also remember reading about him partaking in anti-nuclear rallies a while back. Idk, just my small take away. :)