skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using AWS for years, and I think it's great that it's getting to be mature. I'd be cautious about comparing cloud vendors by the number of services they offer though.

As cloud users and developers, we should be pushing for standardization between vendors. I dislike having a huge ecosystem of proprietary cloud products to learn before I can do anything useful with them.

I try to stick to IaaS offerings because it's easier to evade vendor lock-in that way. I'm happy to see Docker taking off, because it gives us a useful abstraction and platform that we can take with us across cloud vendors. (And isn't it interesting that AWS is rolling out their own Docker management platform? I think that's a good thing, but it's also true that AWS has an incentive to compete with more open systems like Kubernetes rather than adopt one.)
The recent submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8641200 might help. That's often used to benchmark machine learning algorithms and run competitions like "Do we Need Hundreds of Classifiers to Solve Real World Classification Problems?" http://jmlr.org/papers/v15/delgado14a.html
I've enjoyed it for almost a week on my tablet. I find it well-regardable.

On a more serious note, it is well-regarded by at least a large number of well-regarded designers and UI people. Material design has kinda swept the blogosphere in designer/UI circles. And, Google don't play when it comes to usable UIs; they put serious resources into figuring out how people interact with their software, so if they say, "This is good enough to be our UI standard for the next several years in every product we ship." then the odds are, it really is pretty good.
For those that don't know it (there are some comments here but not very clear): the writer of this presentation, Jordan Hubbard was a head FreeBSD developer for many years, who then become a head developer of OS X at Apple. He left Apple last year, and is back into FreeBSD work.
> If you are concerned about those attackers, port knocking is barely a speed bump.

is this because you expect this class of attackers to be able to thwart port knocking more or less trivially ?
Is this only about cursive handwriting? Because I'm baffled how people would find handwriting a useless skill. I find taking note by hand much more easy than using a keyboard (maybe if there was a quality note-taking software around, but using some text editor or even Word is a big no-no).

Now of course I often wish I could grep through my handwritten notes, but there some solutions for that (OCR pens).
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What are you going to host? static site or dynamic site, or just a wordpress site? How is the traffic of this site?

Some tools suggested from previous HN discussions:

http://www.hackertoolbox.com/tags/cloud%20hosting

http://www.hackertoolbox.com/tags/email%20hosting
Never Reinventing the Wheel Is Anticompetitive
Well, you can work around it (with no known downsides) by adding:

export MOZ_DISABLE_IMAGE_OPTIMIZE=1

To the top of your ~/.xinitrc file. Kind of surprised PC-BSD doesn't do that for you. Probably should ask them to.
OpenGL originated from the X world, for better or for worse, so I doubt there's much fighting going on. Any modern OpenGL is pretty separate from it however.
It is a good idea but a little late. It this had happened five or ten years ago it could have lead to a standardization of web-browser code. As it stands now, if I wanted the source code to a web-browser I would stick to WebKit or Gecko.
Qt is not even standard C++ . I can't understand how people are double standard'ed and double dealing with problems . just look at what is done by Qt in C++ (whole non-standard Moc's) I am sure if it was from Microsoft (even open source product) whole Internet blaming Microsoft "wtf is this" & "Microsoft every time should disobey standards" and "Microsoft is just crap". how is this work? when we (as open source community) doing something this is good , but If Microsoft done something exactly like this then Microsoft is evil.
I've been asking a lot of people if they know of any "fresh start OSs that have modern minimalist UX" lately - and haven't gotten any good responses. So much that I've been planning on maybe building my own soon. But THIS, this looks like a great beginning! I'm super excited to watch this make progress! Congrats, great job, and keep it up.
> I know a lot of zombie startups that make little to no money, yet they raised seed rounds that will last them 2 years.

Were these zombie startups in YC or Techstars?
This is the -rather interesting, if you ask me- list of differences between Chrome and Chromium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29#Dif...

I see it lacks a mention to the embedded PDF reader which, if I remember correctly, is licensed from Foxit.
Thanks Larry. I think breaking down the info into bits is interesting, it's something we have been looking into for other parts of our site (not news). BTW, weren't you paid to create the first 1000 or so Wikipedia articles?
I'd rather just edit /etc/hosts and/or use a variable.
That's pretty cool. Learn more about the Kindle Paperwhite at http://www.ereadercomparison.co/
Their choices were smart by shareholder standards.
I don't have Android Lollipop and I am really curious , can you explain a little further?
> S3 + Jekyll are out if you need SSL.

Isn't this possible with cloudfront?

https://www.google.com/search?q=s3+website+sshl&ie=utf-8&oe=...
I would lean towards "no" but on technical grounds. In terms of PR/marketing it would be a great move and if Microsoft's recent moves are any indication it is not something behind what the company, today in 2014, would consider.

IE is not a stand alone browser. IE is built on top of dozens of different Windows components. In order for IE to be open sourced you would have to open source a large chunk of Windows itself, the two aren't that inseparable.

You could definitely open source the UI, but the UI in IE is fairly light weight, most of the actual useful stuff is not within it and providing the UI source would likely not really offer much.

Another useful question to ask is, let's say they do open source all of the components, then what? Windows enforces Microsoft signing and other checks on internal components for security reasons. So if you compiled a new copy of e.g. http.sys you likely couldn't install it anyway.

Plus they'd have to audit the heck out of the code before doing so for IP issues. It would be very easy for every patent troll to point at lines within IE's code and then sue.
I think it's possible, but it becomes less and less likely with the depth of the latches.

Supposing your keyboard key input was latched by a flop and you pressed the key at the exact right moment you could violate the timings of the flop and have it end up in a metastable state.

That's why you usually put a bunch of delay flops when sampling such a signal in the hope that you'll manage to have a stable signal down the line, however that doesn't remove the problem altogether, it just makes the probability of the problem happening very low.
Whatever, I give it at most two years before some other study directly contradicts this one (just as this one directly contradicts conventional wisdom based on other studies which themselves contradicted the generally-accepted status quo before them).

Nutritional science is just insane.
I don't think it would make sense to start shipping this package in operating systems before public cert issuance starts, which is currently expected to be around next summer. It would be fairly confusing to web developers to be encouraged by the OS to run the client, only to have it immediately inform them that there are no CAs yet able to issue certs to them!
IIRC that would sometimes lead to weird glitches like images with repeating static patterns, though perhaps those bugs have been fixed as well.
Ask yourself a few simple questions.

Do You want to start a company in a similar field in the next 4 years?

If you loose this job will you be looking in a similar or same field?

Lastly it's quite possible this Non-Compete agreement could lock you out of finding a new job for the next 4 years.

P.S. Don't listen to anyone who tells you they are unenforceable; that isn't the point. You have to hire a Lawyer to defend yourself and that costs money; and only if you win can you recoup that cost.
I think he's a troll.
Not necessarily. Because the underlying rendering engine of both Safari and Chrome are open source, there exists a pool of software developers outside the company that are familiar with code. This means that there are people that these companies can hire who would be productive from day one. You cannot say this about Microsoft. How many people are familiar with the inner workings of trident outside of Microsoft?
Finding extremely clean, tested, and accurate "Reference" quality
datasets intended for verification and calibration purposes can
be painfully difficult. Making a claim that your data is "correct" and
usable for validation is a fairly bold move, and few are willing to go
that far.

I believe that NIST is your best bet for finding reliable "Reference"
datasets. In the distant past (i.e. around 2000), NIST made various
"Special Databases" available. Some of them may be useful for the kinds
of things you mentioned. The information on this FTP server is ancient
and crufty, but might help in some way.

ftp://sequoyah.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/databases/catalog.txt

Also check the "README" files in the various directories. Though they
are not the complete databases, there's some sample data available:

ftp://sequoyah.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/databases/data/

I simply don't know if NIST still has reference datasets like the old
"Special Databases" that they used to provide, so I think your best bet
is to contact them and ask.
Huh, sounds kind of like probabilistic primality testing! (We can specify the probability of getting a false positive in the primality test and make it as low as we want, though it's still always formally possible to have false positives.)
Poll: Code Quality Your iOS App vs. Your Android App
If your company maintains roughly identical iOS and Android apps, is one app's code quality/architecture noticeably better than the other?
I don't know any games besides chess and tic tac toe where a bot have been able to beat a good player ...
Ask HN: Where should I go on my Hacker Tourism Vacation?
I am setting out on a cross country trip from Washington DC to San Francisco. Like many here, I love the article Mother Earth Mother Board ( http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html )and I have always wanted to have my own Hacker Tourist adventure.I would love to get recommendations from a community that has taught me so much about so many things.

So far, I have visited the production facility of an antenna tower fabricator. On my way to Chattanooga I will be stopping at a few of the towers they have built. After that I am heading to Kansas City MO.

I want to hit as many places as possible, and I'd like to go from the basic construction of infrastructure to the 'last mile' of service delivery.
If you polled them well (that is randomly)

It's not random. They were "sixteen overweight/obese men and women 30-66 years old, with a BMI between 27–50 kg/m2".
I'm well aware of the physics of the situation. It's my day job. I'm just telling you that NASA hasn't said anything false. The common meaning of "the state of the photon" is exactly as I described above, and it certainly does change. Your discussion of "underlying reality" is besides my point, since those words don't appear in the original article.

> There is no experiment Bob can perform on his photon that will reveal to him whether or not Alice has measured her photon or not (note that this remains true EVEN AFTER he has received Alice's bits).

I'm not sure what you mean here, but a reasonable interpretation of your words would be false. You consider a situation where Bob has received bits from Alice even when she might not have actually made a measurement. If so then I guess you're saying that Alice just makes these up? If so, then Bob can certainly check to see if Alice has actually made the measurement she claims to have by making a local measurement on his photon, and this can result in an outcome that lets Bob definitively determine that Alice is lying to him. [Of course, sometimes Bob's result agrees with Alice's claimed bits; in this case, Alice has simply guessed correctly for what she will end up receiving in her (now fully determined) experiment.]
When a company founder resigns, investors should head for the exit too
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My PhD adviser's rule of thumb with pie charts: don't use pie charts.
"Autonomous spaceport drone ship”
Microsoft is an entity with some of the deepest understanding of computer science on earth. Unlike the more recent, more trendy companies, this company's very roots are in programming languages, and to the extent that any complex technology (the browser in this case) would be open sourced by it, we should encourage it whole-heartedly. Yes Microsoft is late to the open source party, but let's encourage it to open up more of the most experienced coding technology available to the planet. In general, I cannot be anything less than impressed with the new Microsoft, from open sourcing.NET, to Babylon.js, to free Office on Mobile, to a better command line experience in Windows 10. Yet with all these recent moves I also cannot fail to remember that the definitive C compilers and MASM drove the entire x86 industry, and that experience is invaluable.

This company is a new company, and I personally am paying a lot of attention to it having been a hater for a long time. The latest IE is a decent effort if you leave out Bing (which remains awful) and open sourcing it should be encouraged and applauded if it were to occur. As much as I love Firefox, IE is in my experience a far more stable and credible long term competitor to Chrome. For an example of some of the unsung quality behind IE, it is the ONLY browser that sends SVGs to a printer as vectors and not a screen-raster rendering. This is a small detail but points, to me, to the underlying quality that IE represents. For other Microsoft doubters: typescript, or the almost single-handed effort that Microsoft has put in to defeating large botnets.
This is entirely reasonable. Return on human capital is a valid investment metric for people who contribute time rather than money.
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Change is not the same as progress. A lot of people are against change, for reasons both good and bad. I'm not familiar with the arguments over directory setup, but I'd almost bet money on them centering around tradition.

Personally, I think the various flavors of directory setup are already so divergent that tradition no longer holds massive value, but that's not something to be proud of.
Isn't that the purpose of http://en.wikinews.org/? What will this site do right that Wikinews doesn't?
You can see it sort-of in use at the start of this AT&T commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEp6ca9Ppks
Also, isn't it harmful to divert effort that could be going into WikiNews to a different project? WikiNews already struggles from a lack of editors. Is this substantially different in some way?
What about Wikinews? It is a Wikimedia project and does collaborative community written articles. http://www.wikinews.org/

It is bothering me that I have to even sign up to view anything on Infobitt.com. That already is sending me away since I refuse to blindly sign up for any service.
How important is it that this study had no control (and thus no randomisation or blinding) and had a small sample size, and that some of the authors have written books about this diet?
TicTacToe can be easily played to a draw, unconditionally. Optimal play is simple, even for humans and optimal play leads to a draw.
Many pieces in Wired seem that way these days. :-/
Well, originally thought was valid. If we eat something, there must be more of it in body. Of course, now we see that body is more complicated in case of SFA, but generally assumption works for other cases.

If a cat entered a house, you generally might expect that cat should be inside the house. The reality, as we see, is more complex than that, but generally assumption works, and worked for most of the cases.

I just want to say that please don't blame scientists and policy makers. Everyone's smart after the fact.
This looks interesting. I'm familiar with the basics of investing, but have never gotten into quantitative analysis. Does anyone know of a good starting point (book, online course, anything)?
I primarily have heard reactions to how buggy the OS is. I haven't heard many complaints about the design concepts.
You don't need to convince me systemd is doing it wrong! I'm in the process of switching to FreeBSD because I don't want the default system to contain something that hasn't been well tested. (Yes, it's a stupid thing, but I've been toying with switching for other reasons and this kind of made me do it :) I've also drunk the jails kool-aid for my next project.)

The "systemd concept", from what I understand (and is by no means specific to systemd), is to have a smarter init system for starting processes in order and better process management. Additionally, all the IPC "stuff" that's been happening and being touted reminds me a lot of microkernels where you could write small, simple services that do a single thing over a common, programmatic interface. Systemd however feels much too integrated and makes no effort to make it easy to swap components.

I'm also sort-of shocked that almost all the major distros just switched within a year or two of each other. Especially distros like RH and Debian (yes I know systemd is deved at RH) who bill themselves as "stable."

So there is nothing wrong with wanting a better init system and a common IPC platform, but that doesn't mean systemd is the best we can do.
You are right.. I'm wrong.

I used it from 3.4-8.. nice to see that they addressed my problem with the new package manager.
What I find troublesome with journald is that they ignored everything that was done before in the log signing space. There has been some research done, even an RFC published. They implemented their own solution incompatible with everything else. Any questions about their design was met with, at best, indifference.

Since then rsyslog gained a log signing solution, sadly incompatible, but which at least to my eyes look a bit more conservative in design. We don't really have any second opinions on journald. That would be fine if it was just a hobby project, but I find it problematic to include by default in stable enterprise distributions.
What's the monitoring program on the far right? It looks like it's running in a terminal as well, but I don't recognize it.
Florence Nightingale invented the pie chart to be able to convey medical data visually in a time before other visual devices were invented. They still serve a role, but an argument against them today is that representing two dimensional data in three dimensions can be misleading (such as w/surface area).
In Ireland, Amazon bought a Tesco distribution centre [0] for AWS. Tesco vacated it for another building [1] which has one of the largest floor spaces in Europe.

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=53.293772&lon=-6.349669&z=...
http://www.punchconsulting.com/our-projects/logistics/tesco-...
While it was semi-promotional, they offered him it as a sort of compensation. Should a company not be allowed to give out their products for free for compensation?
> Well, originally thought was valid. If we eat something, there must be more of it in body.

Sadly we replaced saturated fats (eg butter) with trans-fats (eg margerine). We know that trans-fats are terrible. That possibly caused some confusion. We knew people we still having heart attacks, we just thought that they were the group still eating saturated fats.
they need to at least make it cross-platform.
> massively over provisioning just to support their peak loads during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Not really true. As part of an annual capacity planning exercise each team was required to plan and scale for holiday peaks. Infrastructure is not "free" and each team has to optimize for good performance at an affordable cost.

> All that spare capacity became AWS.

Not true, never was. I regularly reviewed and provided feedback on the original narrative document for AWS. While I don't have a copy handy, I am absolutely certain that the document was focused on providing infrastructure services to developers.

> I bet their utilization rates aren't any different today ...quite possibly worse.

I don't have access to those numbers, and have no permission to share them even if I did. Your thought model for utilization needs to take the EC2 Spot Market in to account. Savvy users of EC2 have learned to optimize their large-scale compute jobs and their bidding process to gain access to what would otherwise be (to your point) underutilized capacity.

The recent "Gojira" run by Cycle Computing (details at http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/cycle-computing-sof... ) is a great example of how the Spot Market can be used to great advantage by clever developers.
Sorry but that's an old, tired argument that only occasionally gets aired these days. Running a pre-processor as part of the build process does not mean that Qt is not standard C++. Also, if you knew anything about the history of Microsoft you'd know they deserve all the stick they get for their abuse of standards - 'embrace and extend' was their philosophy, it sounds innocuous but the effects weren't.
Glad to see the scene is still alive and well. Back when it was picking up I made a Ruby client to one of the server based BWAPI clients, I built a really neat Ruby API to it too. Unfortunately I invested so much time at that point the actual 'AI' I made just 6-pooled the opponent, in just 44 lines though[1]!

Lately the release of mruby made me think maybe I should try again :) (mruby seriously reduces the amount of effort required in getting Ruby to talk to BWAPI.)

1] https://github.com/d-snp/RProxyBot/blob/master/basic_ai.rb
I think this is bound to happen in the next five years. There is no longer a competitive advantage in keeping IE closed sourced.
Well, if you build enough to be safe against just about everything, your build will lose against any build which is properly executed. If you play the numbers and just have set builds which counter the most popular builds you might face, the human will pretty quickly figure out what the AI is doing and adapt their own build.

One of the most common and basic techniques in Starcraft is to bait another player into thinking you are doing a certain popular build, and then do something theoretically inferior but which requires a wildly different response.

Know your opponent is going to have turrets up at 5:30 on the clock? New build! Hits at 5:25! Have the AI use builds which have their turrets at (x-2) minutes just in case? Well, that's going to be an awful build against almost everything.

As shown in one example in the paper, even when the AI was extremely lucky and hard-countered the human's build, the human was able to adapt, respond, and win handily.

Since even the top humans are able to trick each other in these manners, you'd basically need general/strong AI to be able to compete.
[Same person, lost password for the previous throwaway]

Hiring GvR is better than nothing, but still a very long way from a "deep-pocketed multinational funding Python development".
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