skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating topic - yes AWS pricing falls slower than Moore's Law, this reflects the degree of market power shared by few large public cloud providers given the scale needed to compete at the top level. The profit maximizing strategy for each is enjoy rising margins while costs fall and reset prices to a lower level as a pack once costs have fallen so low that it is most profitable to lower the price to serve a larger market (google 'oligopoly' or 'kinked demand' for further clarity).

There was actually a slide addressing this very question used in a Urs Hölzle keynote at Google Cloud Live 3/25/14. It was titled 'but prices are not falling fast enough' and showed 2006-2014 cloud prices falling 6-8% vs. 20-30% improvement in hardware pricing. I included a screenshot in my deep-ish dive I'm developing on the economics of cloud market pricing http://www.stackalpha.com/blog/2015/2/25/cloud-price-wars-th...
I've heard about this before. The person who was telling me about it said that in almost all cases the C-level person they were dealing with would choose the "hairy arm". Had an unintended way of backfiring frequently.
I'm inclined to agree. It's not exactly my cup of tea, but I've always admired businesses that are able to charge one company for removal, then sell those same goods to someone else.

My favorite (though fictional) example of this: http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Harry_King
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I never understand why people include a photo of themselves on their CV.
But you have to be very careful not to overestimate the person, and end up having him command you to invade France. Giving an artificial bad option can be a great move, but it's dangerous.
CryENGINE is now available as Software as a Service model. $10 a month and no royalties
Yes, only the queen, the others get boxed on the head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iS...
I've spent some time there and I can share a first-hand perspective.

It looks like a dump in the pictures, but it's not. It's an active scrapyard. No material stays in Agbogbloshie for very long. Electronics show up, are mined for raw materials in crude fashion, and then the raw material is sold. Unprofitable material like copper cable jackets are burned.

Some of the footage I shot is in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMwLUnd_ydI

The other thing about Agbogbloshie nobody talks about: encircling the scrapyard is a huge repair yard where people fix everything they possibly can. It's only the stuff that can't get fixed and resold that goes to the urban mine.
This comment confuses me. They're currently in the process of building a new systems programming language (http://www.rust-lang.org/) with which to build the next version of Firefox.
But that's in large part because of the FAA. Look no further than the LSA category, which never took off because of the onerous regulatory environment. I think it's much more likely the 40 year old tech is a product of risk-aversion than a lack of money pouring into aviation.
Reminds me of an application that models program states, looking for deadlocks and stuff. The program had a button which made the entire monitor go black until you pressed a key or something. No value or connection to the programs purpose whatsoever. I guess the author added it as an experiment.
v2 uses shared opt object, so using another new utils(opt) will override your previous options.
I remember fantasai working really hard looking at her computer a few years ago (in a coworking space at SF). I asked her what she was working on - and she replied "working on css". I thought she was a front-end dev.

6 months later I realized she was working literally on the css flexbox spec, not writing css for a site!

Glad this flexbox stuff is picking up. people like her put an insane amount of time and effort to make it come out this way.
Yes quite right that is the source of the slide I mention (cited in post itself/not in HN comment).
> but the last two administrations have taken what was unduly hostile (and expensive) logistical capability around the world and turned it into Empire.

The US has been, and acted as, a global empire from the end of WWII, and a basically unrivaled one since the fall of the USSR. It is certainly not either of the most recent two administrations that did that.

> Obama has attacked no less than seven different countries in undeclared wars.

I suspect you are mistakenly applying a "magic words" standard to Congress' Article I power to declare war, but if you don't identify which specific instances you are talking about, I can't really tell how much that explains.
What proportion of modern cars will still be running in 30 years? I suspect it will be less than the proportion of 30 year-old cars that are running now. Some modern cars, I swear, almost feel like disposable items.
Plus, anyone can create a root certificate and install it in their own trust store. You don't need Superfish.

I think kweinber was kidding, though.
Through the Web of Trust:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/

http://www.rubin.ch/pgp/weboftrust.en.html

Essentially: with cryptography, you aren't concerned about the transport, you're concerned about the crypto.

Signatures of the source or binaries will tell you if they've been changed.

Signatures on keys will tell you who trusts those keys. If someone you trust trusts a key, then you have a transitive trust of a key. This does mean, though, trusting people not to sign bogus keys.

In TLS/SSL, you have a hierarchical trust. Your session (and its contents) are encrypted and authenticated by the host key, which is signed by the CA's key. The theory is that we can trust CAs. Practice shows otherwise.

It's not cryptographically viable to fake a signature (of a key or data), though if someone manages to lose control of their private key, that's possible. PGP/GPG doesn't handle expired keys well.

But the upshot is that HTTP transport of PuTTY is fine from an integrity standpoint, so long as you verify the binary and signatures. And if you don't mind others being able to see what you're fetching as you're fetching it (the only real benefit to HTTPS in this case).

Even an MITM rewrite of data isn't a critical issue since you can catch that in PGP validation.
They're still calling the color display "e-paper", which in the case of the original Pebble meant a Sharp Memory LCD display (which, while a high-contrast LCD, looked nothing like the e-ink displays in e-readers.)

Based on the appearance of the display, it looks a lot like the color transflective displays found on older portable Nintendo game systems, so I'm guessing it's relative of those.
Huawei Plans Big Push to Sell Its Phones, Wearable Devices in U.S
Show HN: CloudBoost.io: Search, Store, Sync Data with One Simple SDK
Trying Zurb Foundation
Here are some counter points "Why Node and Scala will dry up: Go will drink their milkshake:" https://vimeo.com/64716826
> Dawn will not come this close to its permanent partner again for six weeks. Well before then, it will be taken firmly and forever into Ceres’ gentle gravitational hold.

<3 For some reason I love this excerpt. It humanizes the scientific voyage.
Swift: Madness of Generic Integer
FYI, they mention that if you back the Time + Time Steel (@$400), they ship them separately "so you don't have to wait". I might end up doing that >:D
phillipwalton keeps a list of flexbox implementation bugs here: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs

Hopefully the day will soon come when I don’t have to refer to it.
So what is a brand?
Then you simply complement him on how "courageous" his decision is.
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Well, you should be saying that there isn't a very large difference. Or maybe there is, but in the opposite way that you are suggesting. The US has the same motivation (proven by the leaks and media reports) of spying on people. More, they are willing to spy on the whole world population (as much as they can get), which the Chinese have little interest in doing it seems. And they have, much more than the Chinese:

- the technical capabilities to implement those policies

- the global presence to interfere in all communications worldwide

- the political influence to force it in lots of places

- the money to implement those policies

Of all that, the Chinese can only dream. The only thing the Chinese have is a huge market that western companies want to tap, and that is what the Chinese government wants to use to get a foothold into your routers.

But, in comparison to what the US wants and can do, this is peanuts.
I'm a backer of the Pebble Time and received this announcement as a Kickstarter project update. In pebble's own words, they call it a smartstrap.

Introducing Pebble smartstraps

We believe your smartwatch should help you accomplish more every day.

When we started Pebble, we opened up the platform and invited the software
developer community to build remarkable experiences for Pebblers everywhere.

Looking at all the amazing things our developers have created over the last 2 years,
we decided to open the platform once more...only this time, for hardware developers.

Have you ever wanted to go for a run without your phone and still track your speed
and distance? How about a Pebble watch with a battery life of more than a week?
What about a NFC chip for payments, keyless car remote, or a pollution sensor?

Rather than trying to shove every sensor and doohickey into the Pebble Time, we decided
to keep the watch simple and functional and give our incredible maker and developer community the opportunity to build from there.
Up until now, if you wanted it all you had to compromise…on battery life, size, design or feature set. Not anymore.

That’s why we created Pebble smartstraps. It’s simple: straps can now contain
electronics and sensors to interface directly with apps running on Pebble Time.
Also the Missile Gap:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap
Brazil releases 'good' mosquitoes to fight dengue fever
Calling prototype functions directly from the constructor function instead on the objects doesn't make much sense. So I'm not sure how to value the results.
I'm working on a major redesign right now and working heavily with Flexbox. Between all the prefixes and the display: table fallbacks I'm using for old IE, there's a lot to manage.

Autoprefixer's value really becomes obvious when dealing with Flexbox. Flexbox is unique because it's not just vendor prefixes, but two previous specs that you need to manage. I really couldn't build a large site without it.
Not deployed in combat (or at least didn't reach the stage of combat).

The mission itself was a failure.
Founder here :

Value Props :

#1 - We have one API, that automatically detects how you query your data, and how you store and depending on it, We store your data into Redis, mongo, elastic search , orient db, etc.

#2 - You don't have to learn any of these, all you have to do is play around with a simple SDK.

#3 - You don't want to manage your data in multiple db's which most of the big guys do. As an indie developer you have the power of what big guys have. For ex : Stackoverflow uses Redis + ElasticSearch + SQL. We don't expect an indie to learn all of these.

#4 - Query time is theoretically fast, because we leverage multiple db's at once.
Thanks for the remark
The FCC's Net Neutrality Victory Is Anything But
The "hairy arm" in this case isn't an alternate version, it's an obvious error added to the design so that the manager can tell you to remove it.

Though I've definitely also heard of people making a deliberately terrible alternate design and having a client pick it.
> Though they provide RSA and DSA signatures how would I verify the signatures themselves?

Ideally, it goes something like this --

1. Start with the master keys. Download them from their website & import them into your keyring.

2. Fetch signatures for those keys from some key servers. (E.g. gpg --recv-keys 6A93B34E).

3. Examine the signatures (E.g. gpg --list-sigs 6A93B34E). Do you trust anybody in that list to have verified the ownership of the keys?

If "yes", then import the release keys and verify that _they_ have been signed by the master keys. You can use the release keys to verify the downloaded binary.

If "no", then you might recurse down those keys to see if you know anyone who signed any of _them_. At this point, you'll need to consider very carefully what your trust policy is going to be.
There was a similar story, that I can't now find a source for, of an advertising company that regularly added a 'helicopter' into their customer quotes for video shots. As well as being superfluous it was massively expensive. So the customers say 'we don't need a helicopter', strike that out and feel good that they've done their cost cutting. The rest of the plan makes it through unscathed.
Under the hood, it seems [1] to be based on the excellent LocalForage project from Mozilla [2]. It would be nice to acknowledge that on the website somewhere.

[1]: https://github.com/Irrelon/ForerunnerDB/blob/master/package....

[2]: https://github.com/mozilla/localForage
Just Jesus
Moreover, they don't really adhere to their own license: http://cdn.plyr.io/1.0.19/plyr.js doesn't reproduce the copyright notice despite being a redistribution in binary (or source???) form. If you just copy&paste that file into your own project you are in violation of their license.

On the upside, likely nobody cares. I doubt anybody has ever been sued over violating the BSD license.
The “fuck me once” rule
Inline Styles are the Future
I worked at a deli during college, and people did this same type of thing on slices. By default, I'd always pick a pretty thin slice. Most people really like thinly sliced meats. The first thing you do is slice once and show them the slice, making sure it fits what they wanted. 99% of the time, people would say "thinner," I would pretend to fiddle with the knob, slice the same thickness, and they'd say "perfect!"

I think it gives them some sort of feeling of control and ownership over what is happening.
You should try betali.st as well
Better information on the actual site: http://www.coelux.com/
>I think we might do it through the Outreach Programme for Women.

Because nothing says "I'm for gender equality" quite like a "boys not allowed!" sign.
Are these real resumes? I can see a resume with the headline - "Sustainability Intrapreneur". What's the point of writing such buzzwords in resumes?
This page (https://developer.getpebble.com/smartstraps/, linked in the blog post) has a little bit more detail.

There's not much details yet on the API, which is likely only for "is connected" or "start this app", but my guess is that most of the work is left up to the hardware developer, a la most hardware dev. Not so much API calls but straight reading IO pins. I'd pick up an Arduino for an idea of what you'd be getting into.
In Shanghai there's a brand of milk, Ubest, that comes in 500 mL, 950 mL, and 1350 mL containers. The best price per mL is always the 950 mL size. This always bugs me -- what's the point of buying larger sizes if it's not cheaper?
Unity3D about to announce “game-changing technologies” at GDC
We just lost the server, did you test our backups recently? oooops
The FinTech Investment Landscape (white Paper)
I had purchased 2 coins and was very excited to get it - up till the point where they asked for my social security number.

There is no reason why they need that information. And even if they did - their website looks like it was created in a total of 5 minutes.
Classic case of pot calling the kettle black. Perhaps they consider themselves to beyond all the rules like they are in their own country. Given the standards they have set for themselves, they have to expect and deal with other countries trying to do the same.
In Europe, it is generally the norm to include a photo of yourself on the CV... Never seen that in the US.

However given this site is called "VisualCV" (emphasis on visual), I can see why people posting on there would want to include photos, in addition to the nice graphics and stuff.
I don't get it. Why would you care about the performance of your module boilerplate?
If it's of any interest, you can read Ronald Jordan's Court of Appeals judgment here:

http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWCA/...

For what it's worth, mention's made of books being marked.

As an aside, I find it quite incredible that the police office brought in to calculate Jordan's earnings did so on the basis that Jordan was paying his thieves 60% of face value. Sixty percent! I'd be kinda surprised if it was as high as twenty!
Google shares gRPC as alternative to REST for microservices
Yeah I agree. Rob Ewaschuk at google has an excellent document called something like "my philosophy on monitoring". It's fresh in my mind because I've been using it as a kind of social proof for improvements I've been making in the monitoring of our application.

Symptom vs cause based monitoring he calls it and I find the terminology works really well.

He doesn't mention what you allude to - this approach works very nicely alongside teams who's development practices see them iterate on features.
So usually the point in a database is a central location to keep data, so you don't pass various excels around. Or you might want the rich querying ability of SQL to produce detailed reports.

What is the point in a browser based NoSQL database? Browser persistence?
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> So, based on a little experimentation, it seems like "align-items" and "align-content" behave identically, except that "align-items" is only used when there is one row of boxes and "align-content" is only used when there are multiple rows.

> why do these two separate properties exist?

Because they don't behave identically: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
It's completely down right now, showing varnish errors.
GNU Octave has done SoCiS a few times. And we prefer the synonym "free software" for what we do instead of "open source".

If you're into maths and C++ and perhaps Matlab, look for us.
I note that the job titles are not correctly sorted by alpha under their respect starting letters.
While that's correct, it's a global shift in the perception of building websites.

10 years ago when most CMS weren't that flexible and extensible the majority of the websites were built from scratch, or with custom frameworks; the repository of available libraries or extensions wasn't there and people had to build everything from the ground.

Nowadays there are plenty of tools and services for free, and business owners with no technical experience start to compare free, cheap and custom. Networks such as Wix or Squarespace make it possible to build something that makes sense for a client, and the alternative is way too expensive.

So we're comparing free with $4K or $20K which wasn't quite the case many years ago. The other market - large and scalable or enterprise products - has Java, .NET, Ruby and Python as the main tools and clients - naturally - have different expectations.
AFAIK the only current reason to wait is IE compatibility. Anybody know of a shim?
It's not broken in the "regularly kills people" sense, which is good. It is broken in the "inefficient and capacity limited" sense, which means flights cost more, have fewer departures when demand is highest, and we are still stuck with human air traffic controllers doing the most stressful aspects of the job, causing high turnover and, when they walk out on strike, airport shutdowns.
Is the call to console.log really there in the benchmarked version 3?
MongoDB 3.0
Tips and Tricks of Managing Millennials
Am I missing something? This company is a Real Estate Agent masquerading as a "startup"
Indeed, the car/mechanic analogy is quite flawed. The driver is the user of the car, the mechanic isn't. Whereas the developer is also a user of the computer in the most fundamental ways. People who don't know how to use computers are merely along for the ride. Someone without a driver's license might have a tremendous benefit from a car. A lot of the time they even have a say in deciding where to go (especially if they pay), but ultimately it's the person behind the wheel that's calling the shots.

And for people who spend their whole working life riding around in cars (as so many do with computers) it's well worth the trouble and effort to get a driver's license and get that extra bit of autonomy. The same should be true of computing.
API Integration in Python
Funny how she mentions dogs.

In Dutch it is a common expression to say something like "And then of course he has to pee on it a bit". (Hij moet daar nog even een plasje over doen) to indicate exactly this behaviour.
This looks quite nice, but the cost seems to be prohibitive for all but the highest end customers. Let's face it, if you can afford a $65k+ light fixture, then you probably won't be settling for an apartment that is in some dingy back alley, which would necessitate this fixture in the first place. The video mentioned uses of gyms and hospitals won't see this for years. Private art galleries perhaps sooner, but I wonder if paintings exposed to this light face the same issues as paintings exposed to real sunlight, degradation-wise.

That said, anybody have any suggestions for natural sunlight-like lights that aren't in this same $10k+ price range? Placebo or not, having nice light available makes for a better working environment.
Sigh, this again... I'll reply, against my better judgement.

Boys are plenty allowed everywhere else. They're allowed in GSoC, just as the girls are. However, the gender inequality is already staggering in favour of boys. Having a tiny programme with 40 female students allowed instead of the hundreds (thousands?) of mostly boys in GSoC does not mean that the horrible women are out to destroy all manhood.

Or in the words of HN favourite Julia Evans, "women-only spaces are a hack":

https://medium.com/@b0rk/women-only-spaces-are-a-hack-a548c1...
Engineers discover strongest natural material
How to Run ASP.NET 5 Beta 3 or GoLang on a Raspberry Pi 2
I completely agree with you. You are not alone.

More importantly, the feedback from the designs is worse than ordinary layouts.
Which businesses provide the best customer service? See the awarded companies
The epic rise and fall of Fab.com is finally complete
Depends on the culture. Some will even put their marital status on there - someone who is single has much more time to dedicate to a company compared to someone with a partner and kids at home.
The Ethereum Launch Process
Moving somewhat slowly is fine, but 40 years (going on 50) may be excessive. And as long as it adds hassle and expense to air travel, it means people will be more likely to drive and in turn to get in car accidents. (Of course, those lives aren't on the FAA scorecard, so they obviously don't matter. They probably don't even fly first class. </snark>)

And it would be very handy in a variety of cases for "one air traffic control center to take over for another with the flip of a switch".
Sure, I'm just saying it would be less straightforward than mitmproxy. I wonder if there are tools to hook into whatever SSL library is being used (OpenSSL?) and intercept traffic before it gets encrypted and after it gets decrypted? (probably using LD_PRELOAD, like tsocks)
Yes. That is where the term comes from... but it encompasses the practice of using an intentionally "wrong" option.

From the linked article:

"FREASE: Exactly. And it's funny I'm saying this but yeah. You know, it happens. Everybody does it. Like, for example, I worked with - 10 years ago - I worked - we did these logos for a famous musician. And they had a lot of people working for them and a lot of voices. And after working with them for a couple weeks, we realized that they hated the color blue. So if we showed them three logos, we would show the ones we loved. And then, we'd do one that they wanted, but we'd put it in the color blue."