skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, just as it is with many SAAS companies at some scale, we do not need care about any specific customer's traffic anymore. Simply because we get so much traffic already from our existing customers, that none of the new customers could generate enough to cause any significant blip on the radar. If a customer comes to us with some specific requirements (like being able to index 100MM documents with some specific response time guarantees), we build dedicated pieces of infrastructure for them, load-test it all and provide those guarantees. All of the others are placed in their own pools which have enough capacity to handle 3-5x of ALL of our current traffic with no issues, so any single customer would not be able to generate enough load to cause problems.

And, as I mentioned in the article, we could always order new boxes for any of our clusters and get them online within a couple hours, so we are able to scale up pretty quickly if needed.
Apache Qpid has a C++ broker if that helps, plus it talks AMQP...

(http://qpid.apache.org/components/cpp-broker/index.html)
"... In fact, this is already happening, in part because programmers increasingly rely on 'self-correcting' code—that is, code that debugs and rewrites itself ..."

What on earth is the author talking about? I've never heard of self-correcting code, certainly never used it, and can't find a reasonable reference to it with a google search. Is he mistakenly referring to "Error-Correcting Code", that is, using redundancy in data storage or transmission to catch and correct for random bit flips?
Love this! A simple solution to a serious pain in the &^%$. Will become one of my goto apps. Thanks guys!
It really bugs me that more people forget that you can use git+ssh on any shared server, if you don't have the Pull-Request/review support, why bother with more?

That said, the project is pretty cool.. it just bugs me a little that people always reach for a full product for small teams with private git needs.
Forthcoming OpenSSL releases, March 19th
I would create 3D WebGL animations for every box type, updated in real time.
Yeah I've seen things like this before. The problem is that any app could register to listen to those addresses, and that opens up an avenue for mis-leading the user. I'm sure Google would not like it if the Bing app started trying to become the handler for google.com URLs. Likewise on iOS anybody can submit an app which listens to the fb:// URL. Overall it seems unsafe.
Is there a way to read it without subscribe or log in?
One thing's for certain, we're going to live in interesting time (the bad kind). A prediction a few decades ago was that if the Gulf Stream stopped, European weather would look much more like America's.

Latitude-wise, Boston is about halfway between Rome and Florence, very slightly south of Dubrovnik (which is used as the sets for Game of Thrones' King's Landing and Qarth), Liverpool is a dead ringer for Edmonton.
Do you have a source on the number of U.S. citizens on the no fly list?

I see a report from 2012 which cites 500 Americans, out of a total 21,000 (https://www.aclu.org/national-security/factsheet-aclus-chall...), and a report from 2014 which cites 47,000 total (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/05/watch-commande...), so I would assume the number of U.S. citizens on the no fly list is at least double the figure you list.
What should a programmer know before making his site public?
Wow, this was a big wake-up call. It's ironic because I am in research and I always did a lot of theory and problem definition up front for whatever I did, but I am now in this "reckless rapid prototyping" phase where if I get some idea I have to try it out RIGHT NOW, stepping back be damned. Ironically it results in getting stuck more than I would have wanted!

I guess this is the fourth tip?

- Step away from the computer
There is a book that tries to chronicle these musical influences: http://www.amazon.com/Sounds-Like-Teen-Spirit-Ripped-Off/dp/.... Its pretty much impossible to come up with a modern pop song that doesn't borrow heavily from other musicians.
Indeed. Eventually it won't even be fine print. They will all do it, and you will have the choice of renting a car or not.
According to the headline (and also economic theory and extensive empirical evidence), rent control hurts renters. On the other hand, Prop 13 does not.

Your argument is that renters shouldn't give up something that hurts them, until another group gives up something unrelated?

Can you articulate why you think that negotiating strategy might lead to optimum outcomes for renters?
I've got a tangential question about efficiency that someone might be able to help with: The perceived wisdom is that capitalist systems result in efficient companies, because they beat the inefficient ones. So for example we have Apple making tons of money because they were better at what they were doing than (most) of their competitors. So the end result of a bunch of competition is an efficient company ... but how efficient was the process of getting to that end result? So for example once you count all the failed competitors in a given market, the bankruptcies, redundancies, people who invested their time and money in failing businesses. Has anyone measured the overall 'efficiency' of a competitive system whittling down the competitors to the viable ones? Is there a name for this concept in economics?

I'm wondering because efficient end result =/= efficient process, and the process itself must have a cost to society etc.
How do you explain the discrepancy between U-6 and the labor force participation rate?
We had reserved instanced and regular ones, we did not see any patterns in stability issues between those. Re: instance types - I do not really remember which instances we were using to be honest. And as for the scaling up and down - we had a hard time keeping it all up as it was, we did not want to spend resources trying to make it work with constantly changing node pools (though I understand, that it would push us to building are more robust infrastructure able to handle random node outages, we had a business to build and wanted to focus on the product instead of creating a perfectly scalable application for an early stage application).
My comment above:

It goes beyond personal use. Odds are you signed an agreement that says "Anything I do using company resources is owned by the company."*
So you have to be careful for any open source work, startup ideas, etc that you may have. Don't do it at work or on your work machine (even at home).
* If your agreement says "everything you do is ours," it's already too late for you. I never sign those contracts.

Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9213831
PHP7 Gains Scalar Type Hints
Can you elaborate why not ?

You can get some cheap dedicated hosting (ex: [1]) for a fraction of the price.

It's so cheap compared to AWS you can order a few spare ones and still come out cheaper than your one beefy AWS instance ?

The only way it doesn't make sense is, if you need to scale up and down very fast ?

[1] 60 euro/month: Quad-Core Haswell, 32 GB (non-ECC) RAM, 240Gb SSD @ https://www.hetzner.de
>Realistically, these cameras costed, what, five dollars? They're being put in cars that cost twenty thousand dollars.

The labour to install these is not an insubstantial cost.
I think I would wait for them to bring it up.
Wow, that is amazing. There is also the very old saint's life Barlaam and Josaphat that is basically a Christianized Buddha story. I think we underestimate how much contact there was between East and West long ago. I recall hearing about communities found in Afghanistan still speaking Greek, probably from Alexander the Great. And before that, Herodotus has many stories of intercourse between Greeks and Persians.
The sample size in underwhelming. One single ring can have travelled that distance in any number of ways.
If you're interested in writing concurrent code worth running, Mike Acton has a nice introduction:

http://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2009/08/roundup...
> But before that the majority of human history has either both parents or both parents and the children (as they are able) helping out to sustain the family.

For most of that history, much of that "helping out to sustain the family" did not mean "working in wage labor".

In two parent homes of, say, the 1950s with one parent working outside the home, the other one was also engaged in work to "sustain the family", it just wasn't work for an outside capitalist that sustained the family through a paycheck.
Rent control doesn't discourage investment in real estate in sf, because crucially, no new construction is rent controlled.
I'd say is a net positive for society that women nowadays are more financially independent compared to the 1960s-1970s. Consider it this way, you're a stay-at-home mom who has decided to focus on her kids in her later 20s, and then you're 40 and divorce happens.

In the happy case your ex-husband and father to your kids still pays for their education and food and relared stuff, but what about you and your own financial needs? Now that you've been out of the work-force for 10+ years you're basically unemployable.
If you ever read the Prose Edda (the Atlakvida or Lay of Atli) or Nibelungenlied (Song of the Nibelungs) and find a mention of Atli or Etzel, that's actually (spoiler) Attila the Hun.
It was a good verdict. If Marvin Gaye's grandkids (or the grandkids of whoever it is that has the rights to that song) can't collect a tax on anything even remotely similar for all of eternity...

Well, maybe Margin Gaye will stop writing songs.

We can't have that.
I had to do that for a recent trip to Las Vegas, and in all honesty, that was the worst experience I've ever had with renting a car. Terrible voice quality, terrible video quality, extremely awkward, difficulty holding a handset while also trying to fish my driver license and credit card from my wallet and slide them through the reader.

I would rather have waited in line for another twenty minutes and dealt with a live human being than go through that atrocity. They even had two people just standing around to direct customers to the stupid video terminals. Just put them behind the counter and make them normal clerks!
They already told you. "a large swath of the lower/middle class was forced to move to the suburbs". Read.
Really? What drugs did Sir Tim Berners-Lee do when he created the World Wide Web?
agreed. we have a prototype of that feature using three.js to give you a 3D look at your packaging.
>Let's be clear: It's wrong in all scenarios.

You are attempting to measure the objective truth inherent in some model. Be careful with this (or at least be explicit about it).

Newtonian mechanics is pretty accurate to an astonishing degree[0]. To call it "wrong in all scenarios" is saying that because it is wrong in one scale, it is wrong in another. At which point every physics theory we have is "wrong in all scenarios". The standard model can't predict or talk about planck level physics, and thus, it is "wrong in all scenarios". GR can't talk about quantum gravity and thus is "wrong in all scenarios". Hell, the Schrödinger equation is "wrong in all scenarios".

If you believe in a fundamental truth inherent in some equation or model of some system, that is fine. But I think that is far from an accepted point of view.

[0]http://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwash/sites/www.npl.washingt...
Interesting. Don't most of the ecommerce-as-a-service companies offer an API these days, or am I mistaken? How would this be different if they do? The pricing model?
Investors that want to build
Google Identity Toolkit accepts 1 character long passwords
> - "The computer only does what it is literally instructed to do. What do you literally want to do? What are you literally instructing the computer right now?"

I feel like after you really know a system you almost start thinking only in terms of its components. "Hmm I want to do X...somehow I just automatically thought to modify function Y and call it in module Z."
This is cool, but I do use my 'frequently visited sites' a lot. I'd definitely use this if it were in the background (or had some option to toggle visible the frequent sites/search box)
Terry Pratchett will 'live on in the clacks' thanks to fans' programming code
In one picture:

https://urbanful.org/2014/12/12/swedish-artist-captures-impo...
Just out of curiosity, how do you model crashes with an assumption of "efficient and rational" markets?
"teaming with polarized opinions"
I'm not sure if that's a pun or a typo, but I sincerely appreciated it either way.

This article was a good read.
Not everyone has the happy circumstance to work with the "latest and greatest" stack.
Here is something to increase your sample size: https://www.academia.edu/1722281/Islamic_Coin_Hoards_and_the...
Really? I didn't know that. I thought anything that could be photographed or videotaped while standing on public access land is fair game.. i.e. if I stand on the sidewalk and take a photo of you inside your house.
Better solution: Instead of the app delivery mechanism (the OS) being outside of the web, put it INSIDE.

Proof of concept: https://www.urdesk.net
Funds Run by Robots Now Account for $400B
Or, the FBINSAGOV(I don't even like to use any buzz words casually) told them to install the cameras? Anyway, all this cheap technology is bitting us in the ass? O.K. the
government can track you in a rental car--so will the Hackers?

I used to think the only way of protesting was not using the particular product, but that's not happening. Homedepot takes my picture when I buy a bolt.(BTY--it's Internsl theft. Treat your employees better and everyone up to the store managers will stop stealing?)

My only form of protection is filming them too. In this case, I'm just talking about cops. I use front and rear cameras on my vechicles. When walking I bring a smart phone and make sure I have the video app accessible.
Freedom of the Press: Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm (1945)
> the hypothesis that there is no information in the past history of share prices which can be used to predict the future

A belief in that hypothesis strikes me as particularly delusional. The strongest indicator of what a share price will be at `t+1` is what the share price is at `t+0`. Why would anyone delude themselves otherwise?

Maybe that would hold true if execution prices are never revealed (not even to the participants of a trade), but prices are streamed out constantly and are exactly what traders are interested in (how else can they measure their 'gains' and 'losses'?).
Be a cloud storage tycoon with Google Nearline
This really is the best scenario for AWS (and Azure is also heading this direction somewhat). We spend pennies on the dollar in utilization fees on their services vs what it would cost to implement, maintain, support and scale equivalent services on top of compute.

And to your point somewhere else in here, it is a hell of a thing to try and move away from that platform. Yeah, it's super easy to beat EC2 on cost of compute resources, but really if you're running everything yourself on top of compute at AWS then you're doing it wrong.
Unless somebody's producing ads, why would he insist on having the video "inline like on the desktop" on the small screen of the mobile phone?
It's not exactly carless, but IIRC the article mentioned 56% of Manhattanites don't own a car. Plus they have a massive influx of work commuters, of whom I'm guessing a vast majority don't drive. So it definitely does work, at least to some extent and when the conditions are right.

I thought cabbies made more than that when you count in tips, but you might be right. Living in a city that's not very well served by cabs, I don't use them much because when I call for one they only show up 50% of the time, and give very poor information about time-to-pickup. I like to imagine that the "car cloud" would be much better about both of those, and hence more useful. But that may just be wishful thinking.
One problem with front-end development at the moment is that there are such a ridiculously large number of ways of doing things, such an incredible rate of churn, that there is this sense that you have to say something to justify whatever choices you've made. Perhaps because the actual arguments for choosing, say, Webpack over Browserify really aren't very strong (perhaps both are great solutions to the same problem; perhaps neither are perfect solutions and will be superseded in another six months!), there is a tendency to resort to an emotional and dismissive argument, the so-called "smack talk" mentioned in this article.

Certainly it's frustrating for any front-end developer who has invested his time in learning Grunt only to find out he should now be using Gulp, or Broccoli, or make(1)...
Poland jumped to my mind as well, but at least there is some public pushback on the issue within European states and in the European Union. [1] The United States government itself, and the Middle Eastern countries that are on their "friends list" have been quiet about it, as far as I've seen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#Europe...
Also, your close button on the signup popup doesn't seem to work on Firefox.
There is never a time where torture is acceptable, for revenge, for information, for anything. To do otherwise means you are taking into your own hands the humanity of others, to play god. And that would make you a monster.
Prop 13 means carrying costs can be extraordinarily low.
Unfortunately, most programmer positions do not require you to be great at what you do, or passionate. In fact, being either of those things may be a disadvantage. Most programming is just doing stuff that isn't really all that interesting, but it needs to get done.

There are also a lot of interesting meaningful problems that desperately need to be solved by creative, capable people, and if your job is to work on one of those, then great, but for many programmers, those kinds of problems are the ones we work on on our own time, if we're so inclined. I think it's strange that the article didn't make a distinction between code-for-work and code-for-fun.
I can't believe the hubris of the tech industry. I bet no one even considers the danger that their ECC RAM becomes self-aware.
New housing in sf is not rent controlled.
Hype article with FUD
Tiny SBC Runs Android and Linux on Snapdragon 410
Uber Investor: The Bay Area Bubble Will Pop This Year
Programming will probably look entirely different from what it looks like now in two decades, but I doubt it will be entirely replaced as a profession in that time. If it has, the singularity will have been started and everything will be entirely different anyways.
Pew Finds One-Third of Americans Have Made Privacy Changes, Post-Snowden
PHP Scalar Type Hinting RFC Accepted
"2-3 serious outages a week" with EC2?? Details, please.
Some knew, but most didn't appreciate the risk correctly. Of course they knew about the idea of black swan events, but 2008 was not a black swan event. It was caused by a rather mild dip in real estate prices and a rather mild amount of mortgage defaults.

The problem was that models assumed some risks were uncorrelated and in 2008 they became highly correlated.

A lot of major wall street institutions got destroyed by it.
Indeed, I'm saying the period of the 1950s up until recently was an _anomaly_ that allowed one parent to work for wages while the other stayed at home to manage the home while the children had relatively little responsibility compared to thousands of years previous.
Adding to your insight, I've gone cycling on Lincoln and Wilshire (LA) and noted the lack of sheer terror at the thought of being killed at any possible second.

(Also sarcasm. I broke ribs and had a driver who wasn't paying attention nearly flatten me at a red light)
Government interference in the free exchange of goods between free individuals causes problems? Why is anyone surprised?
@apple and @google could start domain registrar service for the "AppWeb"
"We" is not a who, but rather a "what" - namely, a useful indication of poor thinking.
Wait Till the NEXT One Bill Gates on Vista, 2007
A few observations:

- from your configurator, it's not 100% clear where each bit of info from the Text form goes on the box and if they're optional or not

- the sample boxes on your site appear to show a mark only logo, no text (judging from its side placement on LaunchBox and Mini boxes). in this particular case, it makes sense that a Brand/Company/Product name at the very least would have to be additionally printed.

1) What happens when a user insists on printing a more complex logo containing both a mark and text typeset in their preferred typeface?

- It is enough to just upload a flattened vectorised file and simply leave the Brand Name and/or Tagline field(s) empty?

2) What file types do you accept for the logo?
Oh thank goodness. We should be celebrating the end of NPAPI
Could you use the words "hysterics" or "hysterical" a few more times? You didn't quite hit the once/paragraph ratio I was really hoping to see...

EDIT: In seriousness, so much of the "climate skepticism" I see around here is so overloaded with this kind of hyperbolic dismissal of positions that assume or support it, that it's hard to engage with them, rather than just downvote for destructive (or at least non-contributory) tone. You might try being easier to engage with, and see if that changes how your points are received...
Already submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9214464
Those weren't outages for a specific instance. But from the whole pool of instances we were running 2-3 would have networking issues, random unexplained hangs requiring an instance restart, huge CPU performance drops, IO hangs, etc, etc.
How can you make 2 and 2 = 5?
Considering that records only go back a few hundred years, all a headline like this does is sell digital newsprint. It is absolutely useless and has nothing to do with the hoax of global warming. It is a data point with little meaning and only slight newsworthyness.
I live in San Mateo.

In my building, rent has increased from $1800 to $2550 in the last 2.5 years; that necessitates $18k more in pretax income to service.
Wow, my opinion of the editing process at the New York Review of Books has just dropped, by a lot. It's not just that it's a bizarre claim, but that it's also stated so matter-of-factly. Honestly, the writer probably talked to a coder friend who uses an IDE, and the way the coder described auto-completion and type-checking extensions sounded very much like "self-correcting" code.

No matter what you think of difficulties of the Turing halting problem, I'd say that writers depend --and can benefit -- far more on "self-correcting" writing (particularly auto-correct) than programmers do on self-correcting code.
this is a very broad, top down look at the problems that are being solved but I want to know a bottom up, an specific detail or the problems that is good to tackle.

>ML in stock market

I know this is used here but what exactly? Mine tweets to predict stock prices with a contrarian strategy? Computer vision on stock charts to apply technical analysis trading system? Mine historical volatility of options on futures?

It would be great if there was some simple business or SaaS I can execute using machine learning.

But say you have a website now with 'We use ML to solve X". Then the next bigger challenge, convincing a business to fork over their data for the sake of machine learning without previous experience. Or do you have to work for free in the beginning to build credentials? 'Hey if you hand over your patient data at your ER, we'll figure the waiting time out, never done this before with another ER so we'll do it for free?'

I guess I'm interested in the applying entrepreneurial and business approach to solve an actual real world problem that is in demand using ML.
Any chance of being able to login with GitHub/BitBucket?