skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realize until the other day that DC isn't even at the point where the US enters the war yet. I've got a long way to go!
All services should eventually be like this. Just as you don't want to deal with provisioning BTUs of air conditioning or watts of power needed for your cloud infrastructure, why should you concern yourself about allocating a certain number of bytes of storage?
Three Body by Cixin Liu.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765377063

Alien, cult, virtual reality propaganda in a communist regime. A fascinating and entertaining book!
It's kinda buried in all the announcements today but before this AWS Lambda could only be used for asynchronous calls. So if you were developing a mobile backend you could only process events asynchronously and had no way other than out of band push notifications to send data back to the client.

Now with Synchronous Invoke you can have a backend for a mobile app live fully on AWS Lambda. The benefit being you pay by the millisecond for compute time used vs having to keep EC2 nodes up and paying for underutilized instances.
Sure there is -- they can make alternatives illegal. Then big companies must accept the government sponsored digital currency, which would make it the only currency viable for mass market (alternatively, no digital currency will be widely adopted).
I was responding to you calling it a cost to remove something from the environment.

That's why I pointed out that it is better for plants to have less deer. It's subjective, but it's possible to believe that shooting a deer is a direct, net benefit to the environment, rather than a cost.
Individually, I would prefer to cause the least amount of pain to an animal as possible for the needed outcome

A large bullet through the heart and lungs is probably not going to be much worse than slaughtering livestock. (This is also why states set minimum caliber for hunting deer -- too small increases the risk of the deer dying too slowly.)

The salient point for me is that the hunting fulfills a need for society and the ecosystem, and if that need subsides, so should the hunting.

This is already the way of things. The number of licenses issued for a given year is the DNR's response to the current state of the deer population.
I'm considering getting the Macbook 2015 as a travel complement to my 15.6" i5 Thinkpad, which runs Ubuntu. I need to do a bit of Apple testing so it would fulfill two uses. But would it be too frustrating for occasional Web-focused software dev? I generally have Chrome loaded with a few tabs, a terminal or two, a database, and the Atom editor, working with a Node stack. I've never really used a Mac before so it's not clear how much overhead the OS has and how it will perform with this CPU.
What's your experience been running it in production? Any gotchas?
This may be different now, but when I used Prediction API a few years ago, I don't remember it having any data analysis tools or multi-class classification. The UI was also pretty lacking. Haven't looked at in a while but perhaps it has gotten better?
I've always used a Clopper-Pearson interval for binomial confidence intervals, but never questioned why (it's the default in ROOT). I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence_... quite useful. Sounds like using Clopper-Pearson is safer than using a Wilson interval .
There's a whole world outside EU and US.
Is it a terrible thing that massive amounts of money can't be promised and taxed? If that kind of lending is in fact good business(I'm not convinced it is) Couldn't the same loan be made through multiple smaller share holders?
I don't think billion dollar loans are a requirement for society to function, or the best option.
I'm not advocating getting rid of the web of trust system - it has a reason to exist. What I am advocating is the burning to a smoking, lifeless crater of the current system of CAs and their mafia-like relationship with their customers. ("Gee, that's a nice website you have there, would be a shame if all your visitors got scary, misleading warnings...")

Let's Encrypt is a great first step towards that. If certs are issued by a known good actor with no perverse incentives, most of the other problems I'm complaining about completely go away, or at least become a lot less problematic, and as a nice side benefit, the Startcoms and the Verisigns of the world get to do something more productive with their time.

As to the expiration, that is a completely arbitrary and bureaucratic distinction, not a practical one. Your domain doesn't stop being owned by you and your private key doesn't lose its qualities just because the date is D+1d.

The entire concept of expiring certs could be removed from the web SSL system with no ill impact.

Look at it this way:

* If the idea was to prevent against key compromise, a rekey would be required - it isn't.

* If the idea was to re-verify your identity, renewing a cert would be more involved than logging in and pasting a CSR - it isn't. And that goes double when the cert is only for domain validation and doesn't vouch for anything other than the fact that the guy who generated the CSR had access to the server the domain points at when the cert was generated.

Both of these are practical concerns that are completely ignored - so what reasons are left?
I'm currently about a third of the way through Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It's interesting Science Fiction.

In my queue: iWoz, the Google Way and the Lean Startup.

I want to pick up some Terry Pratchett books. Several years back a colleague said, "You're too serious in your reading, go look up this Pratchett fellow..."
Currently reading

* 7 languages in 7 weeks, Bruce A. Tate
* Coders at Work, Peter Seibel
* Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
* Neuromancer, William Gigson

Just finished

* The Island of Doctor Moreau, H G Wells
* Brave new world, Aldous Huxley

Recommend

* The Martian: A Novel, Andy Weir
* Dune, Frank Herbert
* 2001: A space odyssey, Arthur C Clarke
Some naive questions if you don't mind... (I'm really curious about RAC .. my only DB experience has been small MySQL and MS SQL Server clusters).

1) I thought the really high end DBs like to manage their own block storage. Your NFS comment suggests that the database data files were running on an NFS mount, and you had a 10 gig Ethernet connection to the file server.

2) What would you say is the average size of a RAC cluster in (your opinion)? Is 8 considered a small cluster in this realm?

3) DBs have stringent requirements when it comes to operations like sync. Can you actually get ACID in an NFS backed DB?

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity :)
Not at all. The very article linked above says, "India -- $1,000 for virgin, $1-$4 for adult."
Shocker.

Glad I stick with drinking tea, milk and water.

Soda is bad news.
How Fishing Pros Finally Caught George Perry’s Miracle Bass
1/2 of ATM fees should buy you a lottery ticket every time you get hit for $2... it'd placate the masses!
No worries, every constructive feedback is welcome! Although I feel you're a bit harsh on the requires skills section - only c# and JavaScript are listed in the "needs", all the rest is divided between "nice to have" and "bonus".

We are definitely going to consider all the suggestions in this thread, including hiring remote workers and increase our investment to stand out more.

In a way, what is making me doubt the tool is that I haven't received a single application that I could even consider interviewing - just clearly copypasted messages from developers on the other side of the world. I guess I'll see it through when we switch to other candidate search platforms in a few days...
8 Steps to Prepare for Your Apple Watch Purchase Online
As others have already noted, "open kimono" is a business term. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/open-kimono.asp
Great to hear this. Our team uses hackpad for all of our docs. Love the design, and I hope that the community jumping in will accelerate development. I'd love to hack around with hackpad.
>what about those who are financially coerced into it?

You will never get a reply to this point. I've read feminists and non-feminists assert this reality, as you have, for about a year now and never come across an honest engagement with it. One has to begin to suspect unwillingness over inability.
There was also the Vietnam War in progress, training 100s of 1000s of people in armed conflict. And there was the Civil Rights movement and the associated brutal crackdown. In other words, there was violence all around.
If he published because Apple just patched, then I agree. If he published because he said he was going to disclose it at a certain time, then I think it's Apple's fault for dragging their feet. 6 months is an eternity.
Very true. I'm going to remove that line.
2600 Off the Hook - https://www.2600.com/?q=offthehook

Stuff you missed in History Class - http://www.missedinhistory.com/

Alton Brown Podcast - http://altonbrown.com/altonblog/the-alton-browncast-podcast/

Freakonomics Podcast - http://freakonomics.com/radio/freakonomics-radio-podcast-arc...

Philosophy Bites - http://www.philosophybites.com/

The Partially Examined Life - http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/

JavaScript Jabber - http://devchat.tv/js-jabber/
Microsoft Deploys Certificate Reputation
If you are looking at the players as the companies deciding to poach/not-poach then the payoffs look just like the prisoners dilemma.

That just gives you the reason why two companies would want to collude and would have to agree to collude to get the best outcome for both companies.

I agree the more important issue is as you say; the legal and moral aspects are what they are because of the fact that employees are being treated as resources or pawns. But that means that we are happy to see a prisoners dilemma dynamic here, it means that there has to be some type of collusion to make this dynamic happen. Collusion is explicit and detectable. Much better than the various other types of exploitative dynamics that are emergent.
Please expand on this a little.
Ask HN: I have no goal and I don't know what to do next
I can't explain you how I'm spending day and night but something is wrong with me. I read lots of articles about web designing, programming and hacking but that's about it. What do I do with this knowledge? I've no goal it seems. I learned about computers on my own (via Google actually). Friends and family consult with me before purchasing a new computer/laptop/smartphone or if something goes wrong with their devices. I've been listed in Microsoft Hall of fame for privately disclosing a bug but the reality is the bug was damn easy. People know me as a great hacker in my society but the reality is that I still don't know many things about hacking. I'm 20+ but no job yet. I did a bachelors degree in CS but couldn't pass all the subjects. So, it's like I don't have any degree. And due to it I've been rejected from 100s of interviews. I just don't want to sit idle like this any more. I feel like I'm doing nothing. I'm completely depressed. Please guide me to the right path.
"The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield (good read if you want to learn how to quit procrastinating!)

"The Greatest Salesman on Earth" by Og Mandino

"The Zahir" by Paolo Coelho is about challenging tradition, highly recommend.

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

When I was in high school-
"The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho
But these are very different business cases - retail banking and institutional investing have very different customers, practices, regulations, etc. So why not make these be different companies?
If I can jump in... I'm a third of the way through Hyperion, and it's very interesting. It's Science Fiction that causes one to think.

Atlas Shrugged is an important intellectual work whether you agree with the philosophy or not. It's a long slog, but worth reading to understand the people who follow it. It will just take a long long time. I read it when I was doing regular coast to coast flights.

The Demon Haunted World is vintage Sagan. Very well worth readying, though as an HN member it's probably preaching to the choir.
Kik Says It’s Weighing Options, Including Selling Itself
He said it's $7 where he lives; he didn't say he lives in New York.
yeah, I learned this very quickly when I started skiing.. lean back when you feel like you're going too fast and it's out of control time. I overcame that instinct very quickly!
I struggled with Don Quixote. After 100 pages or so I just felt like I was missing something. It was as if the story was just repeating itself. Did you get to the end? Did it get better?
So one unintended consequence of SpaceX is that we might end up with missiles that can land, wait, and relaunch themselves when needed.
How was it not good for him? Sure, Oliver poked fun at him, but contextualizing the leaks in terms of "Can the government look at my penis" will probably reach more people than the way they've been presented so far.
The Importance of Being Experience First
1) Putting everything in /usr/local is far less secure as that means its world writable (oh, my version of bash just overwrote yours, and I added some extra patches ;) ). If it's just in the user's home directory, it's all running as the same user, which is far FAR less secure, now you don't even need privilege escalation to access everything, it's already owned by the same user. Also good luck running anything on standard ports like that. As far as stability, anything that could realistically affect stability can't be installed or run as an unprivileged user anyways. All that being said, with yaourt and makepkg, you can do the same thing, I'm sure there's ways for other systems. Also userland doesn't mean what you think it means.

2 ) You have yet to show why that's a good thing, but https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=git so what?

3) makepkg has a really nice Bash DSL (probably lost on you) (and also a load of really nice docs)

4) You have indeed mentioned that everywhere, but don't seem to realize that generally software that can hang your "Linux distros on the next boot by doing a simple "apt-get update"" can't be installed or (directly) run as a non-privileged user. Have fun with your grub install in /home, let me know how that hangs on the next boot. Also I wasn't aware that updating a package list modified anything but the package list, but hey, if you say so.

5) If you Arrogant folks (can't even say mac folks, most are reasonable) had any sense of functionality (software or otherwise) to begin with, your OS wouldn't be primarily relegated to a status symbol, so the fact that you're one of the dozens of people repeating the same "we don't need to learn more than one shiny button" doesn't surprise me in the least, because you guys wouldn't recognize better functionality if it pulled up to you in a bus like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmYrWXhFf4c

Sorry, got a little angry there, I dont hate mac folk, just arrogant folk from any camp and I recognize the appeal of and need for good design (which brew is not)
Don't worry, my company uses plenty of Macs, and they're plenty upset. As does the U.S. government. I wouldn't count on this "oh, we're just not going to backport the update" sticking around. Unless they want to loose all of their government and commercial sales.
Aspartame (Nutrasweet) is pretty controversial in how it got approved by the FDA.

See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robbie-gennet/donald-rumsfeld-...

When I was 8 years old, I started having grand mal seizures and my parents noted a strong correlation between drinking a Diet Coke and having a seizure. When they eliminated it from my diet, my seizures declined. Fortunately I stopped having seizures around 12 years of age. But given my experience, I continue to avoid all artificial sweeteners.

I know sources like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame#Safety_and_approval_... claim that it is safe... and I agree that for most people it is probably okay in moderation. But based on my experience and the history of how Aspartame (Nutrasweet) got approved, I have serious doubts about its safety.
We use it to share filesystems into QEMU/KVM VMs, so far zero issues, but it's not a performance-constrained use case.

I do have some plans to do benchmarks for another use case that's more performance intensive, but it's buried in my backlog right now.
OT but does anyone know how OSX bluetooth keyboards work? I thought I had BT disabled and a prompt popped up on hotel wi-fi asking me to enter the code for (not my) keyboard
A.M. Train Ride - Creative Thinkering

- Just okay

P.M. Train Ride - Counter Hack Reloaded

- so far so good. a little dated but a good intro to security.

Audiobook - 48 Laws of Power

- I love the history lessons in it. Very engaging. You don't have to be power-hungry to read it.

Digital Book at work - The Art of Software Security Assessment

- Just started, I will let you know next month.
Ya. I'm wondering how you'd back say a PostgreSQL instance over nfs? It is just different needs that require different solutions.
This :

" Interestingly, the blog post also includes details on testing that the company has done with various other Linux distros on the XPS-13, including Fedora and Debian. [...] this time around Dell has provided quick run-downs on how to get the XPS-13 working with a few alternate distros—including recommendations for kernel choices and BIOS revisions to load. "

I'm really happy Dell decided to continue down this route. They make good hardware (I love my XPS12) and their Linux support is slowly becomming best-in-class.
It's generally not a good idea to imply that the people you'll be asking money from don't know what they're doing or are doing it wrong.

From your lists of questions, yes, I'd say they're doing it wrong. But their questions are their questions, and you don't get to determine what they care about. It's their problem that they miss out on the next unicorn; just thank them for their time and move on to the next investor.
> EDI becomes Vendor X's bastardization of EDI that only resembles EDI at a glance from a non-technical person.

Having spent much of the last decade dealing with systems dealing with EDI in healthcare, I have to say I suspect that largely happens with X-12 EDI standards (at least, the HIPAA mandated ones in healthcare, its possible others are different) because they only resemble suitable technical standards for the intended business domain at a glance from a person unfamiliar with either technology, the business domain, or, ideally, both. (And, on top of that, they are interdependent, each standard is non-free, the standard packaging of all the mandated standards doesn't include the basic standards underlying all of them that they rely on, and even with all the X-12 standards each of them relies on, by reference, dozens of other non-free, third-party standards, for many of which the X-12 standard provides only a postal address for the third-party source.)
Alternately, we could end up with something like the Angelnets from Orion's Arm.
Does anyone have any thoughts how Xylitol or Erythritol might fare under a study like this? They're currently my go to sweeteners. I'm not sure why they're not more popular.
I'm a software engineer in Thailand who is working on a startup while doing some part-time consulting.

I started consulting in the last few months, and my biggest client has recently had to delay payment because they don't have enough money. I've also been applying to a few gigs on gun.io, and one proposal was accepted, but they've just pulled out. They need some more time to scope out the idea before starting development.

Living overseas is awesome if you have a stable job or a lot of savings, but it can be pretty terrifying otherwise. So I'm in a bit of a jam at the moment, and would like to ask for your help with finding a one-off or part-time gig to stay afloat. I've already tried most of the remote job sites [1].

I'm a Rails developer with over 5 years of experience and I'm competent with front-end development, most JavaScript frameworks, and DevOps. I also have 6 months of full-time experience with iOS development, in Swift and Objective-C. One other thing is that I really enjoy debugging, and am pretty good at tracking down difficult bugs. If you or one of your developers are stuck on anything, I'd be happy to take a look. No payment until it's fixed.

My rate is $150 per hour, and is not negotiable. I can usually commit to 20 hours per week, but I will be available for full-time work (up to 60 hours per week) over the next few weeks.

Please leave a comment if you have any advice. If you would like to get in touch and view my GitHub profile, then please send me an email at needaremotegig@gmail.com

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Nullability Annotations in the Parse SDKs
Denying the chinese access to Intel chips for their flagship supercomputing facility only promotes indigenous Chinese chip manufacturing. Given that there's no reason why Chinese chip design and manufacturing could not match and/or exceed western designs, this choice potentially accelerates the rate at which Western dominance over high tech goods is eroded.

Furthermore, by denying Intel chips in such a high profile manner, this will likely cause all sorts of antagonization, and reduce the ability to pressure/guide Chinese growth and development in directions that are more beneficial for American/Western interests.
Have you read Ken Follet?
Do you want to learn more or earn more?
It's an optimization. Virtual methods that don't dereference this (by not accessing any non static member variables for example) don't have to check if this is null. For example,

class Example {
public:
static bool do_it;
virtual void do_it_if() {
if (g_do_it) return;

/* otherwise do something that dereferences this... */
}
};

void test1() {
Example::do_it = false;
static_cast<Example *>(NULL)->do_it_if();
}

void test2() {
Example::do_it = true;
static_cast<Example *>(NULL)->do_it_if();
}

In the above code, only test2 crashes (clang 6.0). If crashing was defined behavior you would need an extra check in the code generated for do_it_if.

EDIT:

Also, it's worth explaining why test1 works even though do_it_if is virtual. Since there aren't any methods that override do_it_if, the virtual method lookup can be elided and you don't have to dereference this to find the vtable. If do_it_if had been overridden and the runtime type was unknown, you would need to dereference this to lookup do_it_if in the vtable, which would segfault in both tests.
This is actually a very good idea that is needed by many startups. The question is, is there anything that is like this now? who are your competitors? What substitutes do people resort to because it doesn't exist yet?
Did they basically just put a wrapper around VW[1] ?

[1] https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit
It probably has nothing to do with it, but as I was reading your post it sounded very similar to the typical Hegelian approach to history and societies.
Top Five Empty Promises by Comcast (over Proposed Merger)
It could but that's the wrong perspective. In "free" system that respects private choice, what can and cannot be achieved isn't as important as what deciders decide on.

A large bank will perform risk analyses and consult with their data and math people, consult their legal people, consult their insurance people, and will choose what they think is best.

So your option can be totally feasible and never chosen by a large bank- a similar fate to many new technically feasible ideas.

But then again, if you were a large entity, would you prefer to be indebted to one large entity, or a thousand small ones? All things equal, I'd rather owe 1 person 1000$ than 1000 people 1$, and I imagine their lawyers and insurance people agree.
Except that your one EC2 instance is a single point of failure, from instance through host through availability zone, and that providing reliable, multi-node NFS is hard (even with GlusterFS).

And you have to resize your block devices to store more stuff.

And...

And...

:-)
Pretty sweet little feature.
The reality is that most of the data in the world is dirty and the victor will be the one who can eat that for breakfast.