skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you took only 10% of the budget and put it toward treatment and harm reduction, I believe that the problems associated with abuse would plummet. Portugal saw something like 50% decline when they decriminalized.
It's natural, but there are doubts about its safety. In many countries it is still banned. And in countries like the USA it has only been available for a short period of time (after lots of lobbying).
Is it just Amazon's catching up with Azure ML launched last year? (And cutting prices by 80%)

Azure ML also supports R and Python custom code, which can be dropped directly into your workspace.

And this was even before Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics. Amazon ML seems to be less flexible in regards to importing your own models:

Q: Can I export my models out of Amazon Machine Learning?

No.

Q: Can I import existing models into Amazon Machine Learning?

No.

http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/06/16/microsoft-azure-m...

https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/faqs/

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/
The Apple Watch: Half Computer, Half Jewelry, Mostly Magical
I always thought it seemed impossible to make a new virtual world community because of all the energy and time that would go into building all the background graphics. Using Streetview solves the problem. Very cool idea!
I'm reading Measurement currently. It's a great book and if I'd been taught math like this when I was younger I'd be a math major right now.
Thanks for the time-saving description. Osx also has a built-in NFS client.
"How Round is Your Circle" is awesome. I finished that and immediately lost a huge amount of time investigating all the papers referenced by them, and reading on planimeters and measurement theory. I still have to get a copy of "Measurement" by Lockhart though.
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> If consciousness is only a series of states in your brain, does it matter what the order of running that sequence is?

I liked Permutation City, but I regard it as something of a cognitive hazard because it's not obvious which parts are realistic and which parts aren't unless you have a fairly specialized background. The above is something that wouldn't actually work, for the simple reason that the later states depend on the earlier ones, so you can't calculate them without first calculating the earlier states.
Most Intel fabs are in the US, particularly the new ones. Only one Intel fab is in Israel. All but one 14nm Intel fabs are in the US (the exception is in Ireland). The Intel fab in China is 65nm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sit...

AMD is now a fabless company. They contract with other companies that own fabs.
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

One traces the history of computing from inception to roughly 1990, the other feels like it picks it up around 2030. Highly recommend both.
He's not, though I don't agree with him (think it's a him?). Yes, experienced prostitutes can and do charge more. but there is a parallel traffic in vulnerable prostitutes, for whom their pimps charge more because they are young or less willing/able to stand up for themselves.

I'm in favor of legalization, but there is some economic research suggesting that at least in the short term, expansion of the market for prostitution (through decriminalization or legalization) results in a net increase in illegal trafficking, because market sector growth >> the substitution effect (whereby many customers prefer the legal alternative). It's not the simple 'ban it or legalize it' dichotomy that advocates on both sides suggest.
Cannot find it (in N. Virginia)? Is that only me?

(if anyone has the direct link for the console, please share :)
Same here though I've heard that with carbs and sugar, after a week or two without you find you don't crave them anymore. "I've heard" because I've not yet been able to attempt that particular experiment. :)
I missed the joke and the hammock. Had I seen the hammock I would have gotten the joke. I love that talk!
I recently finished predictably irrational by Dan ariely. It's a pretty cool book about how humans think they decide things and how they actually decide things.
No, sugar is bad. It's just that other sweeteners are also bad.

Solution: Stop sweetening everything.
That's a ridiculous and disrespectful position.

The family of the farmer that I described elsewhere in the thread had literally farmed their 500 acre land for nearly 400 years. Their original land grant from a Dutch Patroon called for annual taxes of 2 pigs and 5 bushels of wheat. They did nothing wrong. They have title to the land.

Why is that family's property rights inferior to those of folks building sprawl homes?
>Full time work however is NOT allowed without a working permit.

If you're being paid through an account back home and are working in a villa you've rented, it would be very hard for them to prove you're actually there working full time, would it not?
> Windows is out of the question after seeing what a factory OEM image comes with nowadays. I'm not giving them money and spending 2 days formatting/reinstalling/seeking out drivers on slow Taiwanese servers just to make a half-usable computer. And then, after all that, spend another 2 days installing various adware infested shitware to get a fricking PDF viewer.

Microsoft Signature PCs solve this problem. :)

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Signatur...
... and now that you've posted that, I fully expect a mysterious hardware failure to suddenly manifest....
Fiction: Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens). Dickens' prose is like a sugared donut. Rich and enjoyable in small bites, cloying as a steady diet, so this is heavily interspersed with other reading.

Non-Fiction:

Global Crisis (http://www.amazon.com/Global-Crisis-Climate-Catastrophe-Seve...) Excellent history of the climate disaster known as "the Little Ice", and the social, political and economic disruptions it produced. Due to where the records are best, lots of stuff from China, some from Japan, and various parts of Europe (particularly England) but it takes a genuinely global perspective on a decades-long event that may have reduced the human population of Earth by as much as 1/3. Data rich and extremely well-written, it gives some insight into how humans are apt to respond and adapt in the face of climate change (the first generation or two is not pretty, but new institutions, attitudes and adaptations do come along.)

Loneliness (http://www.amazon.com/Loneliness-Human-Nature-Social-Connect...) Recent science on the effects of social connection and the lack thereof, by one of the premier researchers in the field. Highly recommended for people who are feeling out of the loop (I work at home and recently changed cities, and recognized I was lacking a bit in human contact even for someone who is very comfortable on their own.)

The Civilization of the Middle Ages, Norman Cantor: a somewhat dated by still useful account of medieval civilization, from it's Roman roots to the early Renaissance.

Other recommendation: http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Theorem-TJ-Radcliffe/dp/099375... Speculative fiction with big ideas (the nature of god, the role of science, the universality of evolution) and character-driven action (I am the author, so take the recommendation for what you will.)
Can someone enlighten me about how to read the Foundation series? Do you read them in the order of publication or the chronology of the story?
> Maybe a few companies/startups who have cash in their pocket will use it/try it out

This would be really nice to use at my startup, but its cost prohibitive even on a very large budget.

I am setting up Spark Streaming to handle model creation and updates for recommendations based on what a user interacts with. If I were to even attempt something similar with this AWS service, its $10 for every 1 million predictions which isn't sustainable (not including the costs to create and update the model).

> but the audience is really limited beyond that in my opinion.

Definitely, largely as a result of cost. I would love to not have to worry about Spark in my infrastructure (its another piece...) but at this price the AWS service is just too expensive.
This approach works because the 'real' graphs used are very sparse and the maximum clique size is tiny. (in the examples in the original post, the largest clique size over all the graphs is 6)

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treewidth
Alupis, I support federal government scientists (biologists, chemists, entomologists, etc.), and many of them use Macs. Naturally, there are more Windows PCs than there are Macs, but there are plenty of Macs in our labs.
I would be less worried about that and more worried about cost. I know of two different startups that aren't profitable but would be if they hadn't put their entire platform on amazon services. One of those startups was lucky enough to be acquired but it's going to take them many unprofitable years to migrate away.
Meh. Let me know when useful long term test are actually done on humans and not mice models.
If you need something like EFS today, there is ObjectiveFS (https://ObjectiveFS.com), a posix cloud file system with S3 backend. Disclaimer: I am a co-founder :-)
I can see where you are coming from I think - hunting for pleasure when there are other alternatives is something you aren't sympathetic to.

I sympathize with your view. The thing is, the alternatives to hunting are all crueler than hunting. The dilemma thus becomes choosing between

(a) humans taking pleasure in killing animals (which should bother anyone IMO)

(b) animals suffering more when nature does its thing

Those are admittedly sucky choices but that is the reality at this point in time at least. The modern "solution" is to hide the reality behind some facade that lets us maintain our a more pleasant mental model of our world and our place in it e.g. I don't torture chickens, I get my eggs from the grocery store.
America announce plans to bring ‘freedom and democracy’ to oil-rich Gatwick region
Uber used a classic wall st. move to get where they are: regulatory arbitrage. The law said that you can't pick up passengers that wave you down in the street unless you buy a yellow taxi medallion for $1.5m. But uber said that pressing a button on your phone while standing in the street is not the same as waving your hand at the car so now it's ok.

I've been thinking that if someone can do a similar thing for banking using bitcoin that they can avoid some of the rules and operate for a lot less cost than the existing regulated entities. Unfortunately I have no idea what this would look like.
Strictly speaking, I don't. I think there are better choices than factory farming, and better choices than hunting, but they may not be ready or sustainable currently. If it was purely a choice between cattle, pigs and chicken raised in horrible conditions and hunting, then I would prefer people hunt. But it's not as simple as that, and there are other options on an individual level. They may not be appealing (to me either), but that doesn't mean I think people should be able to ignore the consequences of their actions. This may be a case where the actions are ethically troubling but helpful for society. The problem arises when it becomes less helpful to society, but people feel entitles to continue their prior actions. I think forcing people to confront the ethical portion the entire time helps prevent this, to a degree.
I am not sure why you were downvoted. I'd think it is in Apple's vested interest to actually not treat the older hardware so you buy new one. I am no talking about really old hardware. Example: I have seen my iPhone 5S get substantially slower after update to ios 8+.
Amazon Wants to Replace the Enterprise Data Center
Very early in the research, if I am to just go off the article. First, the article really only addresses saccharin. Second, the healthy volunteer study appears to use max daily acceptable intake, which sounds reasonable at first. The amount, however, is the equivalent of 250 packets of sweet and low:

http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/FoodAdd...
Can you speak to any stale NFS handle problems?

I've used NFS at home and have had NFS file handle problems but IIRC that was only when there were problems like kernel faults or network partitions.

However several of my colleagues at work have many NFS horror stories and are adamant that NFS does not scale well.

Is NFS stability at scale simply a function of your underlying network and infrastructure stability in your opinion?
Right -- Don't judge a book by it's cover. Turns out most people are lousy resume writers. But often there's a subtle sign to dig deeper. You can find those hidden diamonds during a quick 15-30 minute Skype/Phone screen.
I was just thinking this.. "sounds like the F-111 all over again"
I think it's more like the difference between taking a bus vs driving yourself.
It's entirely possible that this is just sloppy science journalism, but the distinction the SA article mentions sounds a bit ridiculous.

"In the Israeli experiment, 10-week-old mice were fed a daily dose of aspartame, sucralose or saccharin. Another cluster of mice were given water laced with one of two natural sugars, glucose or sucrose.

After 11 weeks, the mice receiving sugar were doing fine, whereas the mice fed artificial sweeteners had abnormally high blood sugar (glucose) levels, an indication that their tissues were having difficulty absorbing glucose from the blood. "

So you feed group B sugar, and group A things that are not sugar, and then you put both groups through a glucose challenge, administering a calibrated amount of sugar, and group A's blood sugar spikes higher than group B's, which is not acclimated to metabolizing sugar. This is not surprising.

I suppose I'd need to read the journal article later when I have time, to be sure. There are a lot of things that look like interesting correlations in tests like this that actually aren't, when you control for all of the variables, and consider the short-term and long-term adaptations the body makes.
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Is anyone suggesting that? It is widely considered best practice to back your databases by SSDs.
Ahh. I see it now. I thought that might be the case but wasn't sure. Thanks for responding!
>You might just have a knack for it even without formal training.

Nah, I've attempted some real math with a tutor, I'm quite bad at math and proofs :)

No skill or background needed with such things for Haskell.
This is great and necessary, because Jison is a big undocumented mess. That's why I stopped using it and started using PEG: http://pegjs.org/
Wow, that's half the price of the same certificates they sell on their main namecheap.com domain. But they are both Namecheap sites? Why would they sell for less on a different label? Really makes me lose confidence in them even after having been a mostly satisfied customer on their main domain for years. Turns out they have been ripping me off!
Can you add an option to sort by companies that are offering internships as well?
These threads always make me happy. Old books and new.

Currently I'm reading book three of the "Kefahuchi Tract" trilogy by M. John Harrison. It's like a cross between Donnie Darko and Neuromancer. Just surreal enough to be fun, without losing me completely, and some really amazing writing. [1]

[1] http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/future-without-nostalgia
Most of them say the same things with minor variations, though I don't think it's worth doing a comprehensive survey for a HN comment. What can I say, I'm nerdy enough to read these things to satisfy my own curiosity.
Note that the F-35 is already barking up this tree.
What is the reasoning for turning off JS? Is it about security? You would probably be better off running your browser inside a VM, if that's your worry.
How does this make it harder to move out of AWS?

If anything, their use of NFSv4 means there are plenty of competitive offerings if you decide that performance, security, or physical access constraints dictate migrating off their service.

If you don't want to manage your own Linux/BSD/etc. NFS infrastructure, Oracle, Netapp, and EMC will all happily sell you a storage appliance that supports it. I don't see much lock-in here.
> "It happens quite a lot. The catch is that the whole thing end-to-end is secret, with the result being that you don't hear about it at all."

That's not a catch, that's an unfalsifiable statement. Here's another way to end your comment for which there is a lot more evidence:

All we really hear about on the outside are the big screwups. All the normal screwups and marginal successes are silent.

Here's a great article on just how crappy the record of these secret organizations is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-...
I think one of the most important things to keep in mind when reading articles like this is the old mantra that "correlation does not equal causation". I'm always a bit skeptical when studies show partially successful statistics.

I've done a lot of research on the subject at hand, and I still believe that consuming real sugar is orders of magnitudes worse than using sweeteners.
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Not necessarily. IIRC, pNFS is an optional feature of NFSv4.1, so they might not have implemented that flavor. If they had, I'm pretty sure they'd be advertising it. They're not shy.
I don't think very many people (if any) are arguing that Bitcoin should go away, or that it's inherently bad. People are just saying that the likelihood of Bitcoin actually gaining large scale adoption as a currency is incredibly low, because of its nature.
I believe EBS was the right building block at the right time, and I'll still use it over EFS in the majority of my deployment designs.

I still like to "trifurcate" the storage into objects, local disposable, and local volumes. Having durable local volumes still makes sense in a lot of scenarios.
Or Weka.
Right, in this specific case it's awkward to mention both 95% (confidence) and 95% (lower bound) in the same sentence.

It could have been clearer if I used different values.
> I've done a lot of research on the subject at hand, and I still believe that consuming real sugar is orders of magnitudes worse than using sweeteners.

For the gut, or in general? If for the gut, please expand.
Well, there is also snuff, and then you have gore which is legal and acceptable even though I don't see big differences from stuff involving children, and then you have drawings/cgi that are illegal in many locations but not all, and then you have stuff involving animals, and then you have the underage but almost adult sexting, and then you have things like porn involving ivory or leather (if using an animal is bad, why is using part of its carcass acceptable).

But beyond all that, the morals of the issue change over time and do not factor into an argument of feasibility (even things that are 'almost universally immoral' have a very large market, one large enough that it makes me question the 'almost universal' part of the sentiment).
I just finished reading John Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" for the the third time, and for the third time I was completely enthralled from beginning to end.
odd, none of my NES/SNES/Genesis games came with the license you mentioned. perhaps you can help me out with that?
Physicists show 'quantum freezing phenomenon' is universal
Using Lambda has been a really fun experience. The abstraction takes a lot of cognitive load off the developer, which I found valuable. The biggest challenge I had was around logging. The CloudWatch web interface for Lambda events was definitely not my favorite...
Amazon is the only company other than Apple that consistently thought leads and innovates ahead of other companies and open source.
But there are large powerful companies who have managed to grow and deliver Uber like services (credit cards, online booking etc) without sidestepping regulations (cf Addison Lee)

If the argument is "licensing taxis costs so much that all the profit is driven out, and we have to avoid licensing in order to make our profits" then surely small inefficient taxis would make even less profit than giant, well funded, efficient companies like Uber? So I think the argument is dubious.

I will happily admit I don't know enough about the details of Ubers practises, and would be interested in knowing more, such as driver and car checks, fleet numbers during different times of day / week, variations across cities etc.
I think order of publication. The last books were a sort of prequel and written accordingly.

Amazing series!
This does not combat anything. The prostitute is trying to sell something to someone. Making it illegal for the customer to buy something from the prostitute does not solve anything. In fact, it discourages the customer from entering into the exchange.

There is a reason that a person chooses to be a prostitute. You may not agree with that person's decision, but criminalizing one party of the exchange doesn't change the prostitute's available choices. In many cases, prostitution is the only way to finance drug addiction, because of drug prohibition. You can criminalize any party -- the prostituted or the customer -- and it doesn't address the root issue, it only suppresses it.
I find it interesting to consider valuations for the two costs in allowing the chips to be used.

Intel chip revenue, and future business growth = +X

Security concerns, and future security concerns = -Y

I really wonder what the value of X-Y is, i.e., what's the net benefit? It's hard to reason about as a member of the public without inside information. Y is particularly opaque in this case.

Also I really think the narrative of China versus or competing with the US is overcooked. It's my feeling that both countries have far more pressing domestic and regional concerns than each other, and could stand to benefit far more from mutual strength than from any adversity. I guess the narrative makes for compelling reading tho, on both sides, for public consumption. Maybe similar to how the West vs Russia narrative of the Cold War promoted scientific activity.

I just think the world's substantially moved on from such binary narratives, because as countries have developed and strengthened economic relationships, they actually have less to worry about in terms of conflict with each other. Then again, I guess a lot of what happens is opaque to reasoning about form the outside.

So perhaps this is not a US vs China thing at all. Maybe there's some other strategy at play.
Cities don't need to expand outward. They can expand upward. Farms can't.
They are great, but he seems to be really struggling with writing the third book. :(
"Does homebrew do any isolation when building from source? Chroots, separate process namespaces, etc."

No. This is why they install as the user. "For security", you see.

I agree that non-root installs are a useful feature for some scenarios. But, the problem with that for servers is you need to be able to start all of your services as different users. That's really not optional. How you get there doesn't really matter, to me, but dpkg and RPM have long had it solved.

I've looked at Guix and Nix, and find them neat. I'm kind of a package management nerd (and I judge all operating systems by their package management story...Windows and Mac OS X are unacceptable, most modern Linuxes are pretty pretty good, FreeBSD is getting better). I'm not sure I'm willing to make all of the tradeoffs and move onto such a foreign system layout, but it's on my radar.
I'm currently maintaining a custom PEGjs grammar along with a custom CodeMirror mode for syntax highlighting and autocomplete.

This would be a dream if happened (with PEGjs and CodeMirror instead of Jison and ACE), but it is probably too difficult. I think it is easier to write a new Javascript text editor which bases itself on PEGjs.