skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some considerations

- budget for bandwidth... esp if you are doing something more than text crud and want to serve it - e.g. image/video

- video is "heavy" and so necessarily takes a lot of compute, ram and storage and can also leverage gpu and pricier instances, depending on what you are trying to do... e.g. understanding video content with opencv/opencl or specific types of drawing like raytracing

- instance limit increases with aws are perfunctory... so i wouldn't consider 40 a limit, certainly don't design anything interesting with that limit in mind

- spot instances can save you a lot and stretch that $100K 1.5x - 4x depending on region, availability zone, and instance type

- unless you've done it before, time is your enemy to get into position to spend that money on something useful... so your monthly budget target range makes sense
Monadic composition of code (like the Result type shown) is semantically equivalent to checked exception handling, except with more syntactic ceremony.

The 'and_then' is a continuation for the happy case, the 'or_else' is a continuation for the catch block. From my reading of the article, there is a mechanical transformation from exception-handling code to the continuation passing compositional style advocated.

Checked exceptions have their problems - and I'm unconvinced on first reading that Rust has not got the same compositional problems without a whole bunch of extra complexity in parametric polymorphism - but the real problem is that most code shouldn't be dealing with errors low down in the stack. Code that makes the happy case verbose and forces you to continuously deal with the error case promotes either of two things: logging and then ignoring errors at a low level, where callers can't control the decisions; or Herculean efforts to transport errors up from deeply nested stacks all the way out, so that error passing code starts to dominate over code that works for a living.
This article purports to have some tools to predict the bubble:

http://www.dce.harvard.edu/professional/blog/how-use-real-es...
I think the guy is great.

As an accountant trying to turn programmer lots of nuggets there.
Train some mad, distributed neural nets or some shit.
Gather image/art data and train a net to determine beauty.
Solve all possible sudokus so the world can finally be free of that junk.
Make cloud-driven instant facial recognition (via social media images) a thing.
Build a huge pi-as-a-service, and use it with pifs (https://github.com/philipl/pifs)

Bonus points: worlds biggest lolcat host.
You need to fix the HN link after the wizard ends.
No, it's like saying "here's $20, you have to use it all today. Or I'll give you $4, half today, half tomorrow".
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4. Get sued for copyright infringement.
Current largest prime: 2^57885161-1

So take random prime numbers larger than 57885161 (such as 57885167), and find a script that can calculate with numbers that high using EC2s server constraints, then see if 2^(large_prime_numb)-1 is prime. Is that the correct method of doing this?

https://www.eff.org/awards/coop/primeclaim-43112609

What are the stats on testing large prime numbers on EC2 instances?
If you live in a small town and are thinking of coming here, still do it! As crazy as it sounds, if you possess a respectful, honest, candid/cool attitude and can speak at a regular tempo and look people in the eye etc. etc., (things I thank a small town upbringing for), then you will do well here.

I always thought the competition would be overwhelming, but if you know what's up, it is actually easier to find a job here since SF is drowning in this 'fresh talent' that is so dangerous to companies not looking for a quick buck, but rather to establish a viable business model.
That would make a splash.
Sounds like Reddit is preparing to eliminate the various types of culture warriors who frequent the site. Will they pick sides or just ban them all?
Is it interfering with your day to day life? (It's affecting your sleep and seems to be causing you mild distress, so "yes".)

You can use techniques like cognitive behaviour therapy to help ease the intrusive thinking.

The Australian website "Mood Gym" is a good quality site that provides computer guided CBT: https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome

Or there are books. I've heard "Mind over Mood" is good.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Over-Mood-Change-Changing/dp/08...

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Over-Mood-Change-Changing/dp/0898...

Or you can go see a therapist. For stuff like this you should specify a very short course - 3 sessions of an hour each - before you start, and make sure that the therapist is focussed on this specific problem.

CBT aims to help you learn your moods and the thoughts that cause them; then to think about your thoughts and the evidence you have for them; and then to think if there is other evidence, and does this new evidence reduce the intensity of the emotion. It's an iterative process.
I do, and I agree, that it is statistically very rare indeed. Living in Maryland (where we've seen much of these CPS shenanigans taking place) perhaps invokes my lizard brain paranoia even more, but just as I have coerced my daughter into the ocean because it is statistically safe, I have also coerced myself into letting her play, unattended, because while my irrational brain tells me that CPS is a potential threat, I have no problems forcing my rational brain to make decisions in spite of it.
In the long run, if we can avoid global cataclysm, we will have to adapt, and re-engineer humanity or hyper-intelligent machines will out compete us.

Unlike our descendants, present day humans have the great and rare privilege of enjoying apex predator status. The machine still works for us. And in 2015 the machines are getting really good: inexpensive, intelligent, rapidly evolving and networked.

And so now the primary ambition in my life is to become a god of the intelligent networked machine. To master the machine, subjugate it and make it work for me to improve my material situation.

Arduino, RepRap, CNC, sensors, laser cutters, LEDs, solar photovoltaic, the web. These are the lego blocks with which we can build a new, smarter, more humane world, one where humans are freed and machines toil for us.

Right now I have a RepRap producing parts for a new contraption I built, I have a VPS serving requests 24 hours a day, and in enough iterations my contraption and my VPS will be in communication. The real world, and the virtual, working in concert to improve my comfort, security and material prosperity, and that of others.

"When looms weave themselves human's slavery will end" - Aristotle

We are getting closer. There is so much more to learn, so much more to be done.
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I'm a happy dspam user (most stuff won't reach me), but looked into this one in the past.

Reasons for me not to give it a try:

- Rule based mostly (which I think of as 'SA')

- No db support, as far as I could tell. My dspam keeps everything in a postgresql db and I can easily backup/restore that with all my other stuff (dovecot/postfix virtual users, for example)

- ~Easy~ to integrate into anything. Look for 'how can I make dovecot-antispam integrate with dspam' and that's been done a thousand times (and works nicely). I haven't found a decent number of rspam resources

That said: My whole post basically says that I didn't try it (for reasons that were important to me). Their site looks interesting and in the end I guess I'd love to hear about successful dspam->rspam migrations as well.
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If you do the math, you won't get much more than 4-5k$ in bitcoin...
Perhaps men access certain modes of physical violence (guns?) more easily, but how are the psychological states of murder and suicide related at all? I understand amok/revenge murder-suicides but most suicides aren't that. "Violent crime" doesn't seem like a useful way to carve up reality here.
This extension seems to have been removed from the Chrome Web Store. Hmmmm.
Because that only makes ~1,000$ or less which seems like a huge waste.
You and tptacek are both right, so how about the following to combine your positions:

* Grade 'A' requires AES-GCM and ChaCha20Poly1305
* Allow CBC for 'A' iff it's a last resort option
* Use nginx equivalent of "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;"

CBC would then only be used by clients that don't support AE ciphersuites.
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And go:linkname, go:nointerface, and go:nowritebarrier
You can see the lexer for these here:
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/88c08b06b97296e41fc3069f4a...
I can't imagine having college be the best years of my life. That implies a downhill slope post-college that's just plain depressing on the face of it.

Fortunately, I didn't bother going. Had all the fun, none of the responsibilities, and my life has only gotten better in the decades since that time.
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It feels this article prefers them to be sent to war than to send push requests.
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I've never lived near alligators, but my guess is that the father had, and had a decent understanding about the level of risk involved.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_alligator_attacks...

There had been a grand total of 4 fatal alligator attacks in the USA in the 1980's. It seems to me that the father probably realized that there wasn't actually much danger involved for his boys.

And I think your proposed scenario

> Would it be equally character-building to make them run across a freeway to find a dropped pair of sunglasses?

is a little disproportionate, risk-wise: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/809-456.pdf
"Pedestrian fatalities from all crashes reached a low of 4,763 fatalities in 2000"
As time has gone on, my appreciation for college has only grown. Particularly, it exposed me to non-technical subjects I wouldn't have otherwise studied, and it exposed me to people with interests and backgrounds much different than my own, both which greatly enriched my life. I wouldn't swap that for extra years of hacking away on a laptop -- I can do that for the rest of my life, if I choose.

Also, I had eight roommates one year in college (technically, seven roommates, plus one guy crashing on our couch), and it was truly horrifying.
Is that prize still being offered?

I think it was claimed in 2000, "The $50,000 prize will go to Nayan Hajratwala of Plymouth, Michigan, a participant of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), for the discovery of a two million digit prime number found using the collective power of tens of thousands of computers on the Entropia.com network."

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/big-prime-nets-big-prize
Some studies have shown that having a psychedelic experience (via LSD or Psilocin) can have a significant and lasting positive impact on existential anxiety.

I, for one, can say that LSD cured my depression and seriously alleviated my anxiety.
That would only work if you wanted the organism to always reach a full tank, or near full tank, before taking the action.

I'd wager that's a non-ideal situation. Think about the times you've reached a completely full bladder...not a good position to be in.

So you have a combo. Taking a whiz is pleasurable, so you do it when you can. But if you get over full, you get a nice zap of discomfort to let you know you're in a danger zone.
Changing my name on my railcard should not be this hard
Unfortunately that prize has already been awarded :(.
would you mind sharing some details about how you are scraping?

I am also trying to build a crawler. The problem is each site has it's own html structure. How do you handle this? Have you written scraping rules for each site? Which is a nightmare to maintain especially when you have lot of sites to crawl.
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I'm EXACTLY RIGHT HERE, right now. Tomorrow is my last day at my current employer of almost 11 years. I moved to this employer from an employer I'd worked for for 16 years before that.

Things at my current employer are changing (tech stack; from open source development to Oracle packaged software). It was time to get out. And it was hard. I got told by one company I interviewed with that even after having an in-person interview that I thought went well, they didn't want to proceed because they did not think I would fit "in a dynamic environment." Which was crap.

Fortunately, I found a place that respects the skill set that those last 2 positions helped me build up. Looking forward to the new opportunity.
Would running a PaaS on top of EC2 be considered "reselling"?
How about an altcoin miner cluster ? :D
It's given out like candy, if not the 100k one you can surely get several thousands worth of credits for server hosting, either on Azure or through Amazon.
You are going to die someday. Billions before you have died, and billions will die. It's part of life.

There, that wasn't so hard!

None of the people that have died wanted to die : The desire to stay alive is an evolutionary gift, your fear of death is natural. Especially while you are so young.

Fear of death is natural! Congratulations, you're a successful biological organism! YAAAAY. Get up and dance!

I see you're very bright, because of your imaginative projections of lifes permutations (although quite dark) - but remember, fear is the burden of imagination, but your intellect can help you bare it.

I grant you that it is entirely possible that a brain haemorrhage will kill you in the night. It's possible a plane will crash into your house and flatten you. Its possible the lottery ticket you got was a winning one. But none of these are very likely. We KNOW that. It's just a numbers game.

Enjoy your life. challenge your imagination to come up with positive outcomes rather than negative ones. Imagine if we could load our brains into a robot and live forever! How do you think a mind would react to different situations if it was 1000 years old and had seen 5 world wars? What conclusions might this mind come to when it meets your 20 year old self now? What would you ask it? If you were that mind, what would you ask yourself?

Dont answer immediately, think for 5 minutes, and when a thought comes into your mind, ask "why did I have that thought", "what does that thought mean with respect to the future", "how can I take this idea further"

let your mind wander, but keep it from getting stuck in darker places. Dark places are fine, but dont dwell.

Joke. Laugh. Humor always emcompasses a wider perspective.

"The beauty of life, is that it repeats" -- David Attenborough
> I’m not sure if the ownership rule is actually helpful in single-threaded contexts, but it at least makes sense in light of Rust’s green-threaded heritage.

It's necessary for prevention of use-after-free. Here's a simple example (which can be translated into the equivalent C++):

let mut vector = vec![
"1".to_owned(),
"2".to_owned(),
"3".to_owned(),
];
for element in vector.iter() {
vector.clear();
println!("{}", element);
}
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Host art projects. Let people render fractals. Render video walkthroughs of highly detailed scenes.
You could calculate the highest-quality rendering ever of the Buddhabrot (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Buddhabro...). The way it's generated makes it impossible to "zoom in". You have to process the whole thing.

To make it really make a splash, you can make a an incredible video by iterating through the parameters of the functions - fractals turn into beautiful videos when you manipulate random parameters. This requires rendering the buddhabrot N times for N frames of video.
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Actually I like the gimmicky ideas. They are usually the most newsworthy.

Is solving all possible sudokus actually possible? I can see that making the tech news rounds. Though I suppose you could just solve them on-demand.
I wrote a blog post about this exact point (why I write). Its still in draft, but a quote:

>I am not going to pick one topic every day and write about something new. I don't want to write something rubbish just for the sake of writing it. I ultimately want to write because I have something to say. It doesn't have to be unique or ground-breaking. What matters is that I want to write about it.

Another quote on that draft is by James Erwin (writer of Rome Sweet Rome) from an AMA:

>if you're going to write, write what you want to write. The odds against any creator are insane. If you're going to devote months of your time, don't let it be for an idea you think will sell. Odds are it won't. Write something you want to write, or need to write. Write for yourself before anyone else. I'd rather read someone who is excited and passionate about what they want to say than someone who's obviously trying to say what they think I want to hear.

I call it the Roman Writer's Manifesto.

You can read the entire draft on github (https://github.com/captn3m0/captn3m0.github.com/blob/master/...)
Made a new video. A new clip from a bicycle ride, in which the hyperlapse is very good. And the old clip, showing the case with too much cropping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0jNJBZP1QA
The house manager Nathon Gunn is not having a good day...
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Yeah, this is gross and sexist. It's insulting to women, but it's also insulting to the programmers.

I'd be a insulted if my manager hired ANYONE as an "official encourager" for my position. Praise means very little to me when it's someone's job to give it.

Quality employees who take pride in their work want the respect of people they respect. A good leader has the respect of their co-workers, earned through competence, and takes time to praise good work. This position should already be handled by someone the programmers look up to.

If they're lacking people worth respecting who can give praise they have much bigger problems that a supreme beauty can fix.
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I said in the same breath that I fail to see any downsides that the release of this data could cause. Perhaps my views change with additional thoughts and ideas, which is why I asked for yours.
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> Some people need to use Rust in places where exceptions aren't allowed (because the unwind tables and cleanup code are too big). Those people include virtually all browser vendors and game developers.

Kernel developers is another good example.
Because humans are many times irrational and lazy.
You could make something that let other people spawn instances in your cloud (e.g. via Cloud Formation). For instance, take <random open source project not available in AWS>, and let people easily spawn clusters of that. In this way you can run your beta phase for free, test, then set the price to the public.
I don't really see the semantic distinction between checked exceptions and Either / Result style return values with monadic composition of code. There's a large difference in syntactic overhead, and there are some implications in how costs appear to be apportioned, but they are more or less isomorphic after exception-style has been converted to continuation passing style.

Map, fold etc. work just fine with typed exceptions if you parameterize map, fold etc. by the exception type. The problem comes with runtime polymorphism; runtime polymorphism is a firewall to static type flow. Runtime polymorphism is also fairly popular with Java developers.

(Note that e.g. a monadic map is implicitly parameterized by the "exception" type via a type argument of the return type (Either, Result, whatever you like) of the transform passed in.)
How old? How long has she been blind? How does she feel about it? What does she want in life?

Your best approach should depend on the answers to those questions. Maybe, the best solution is to forgot email and web pages (for now, or maybe even completely (1)) and give her a good way to listen to spoken books.

Contact an expert, for example ONCE if you are Spanish.

(1) that may sound harsh and also sort-of is but it may be the best solution. For example, if she is mentally old and hasn't used computers much, it may be years for her to learn to use a computer. Years that she could have been listening to spoken books, relearning to go shopping, make tea or cook meals, etc.
I agree it's a worthwhile goal, but perhaps one that's better tackled from a different direction...

Instead of asking how to make programming more accessible, why not ask... What would an evolved Excel look like?

Take cell-based formulas for example. For all their benefits, there are a few obvious issues with cell formulas in Excel.

First, it's not always obvious where they are. You can have formulas all over an Excel spreadsheet and it's not easy to tell at a glance where they are, so you don't know what parts of your spreadsheets are static and which parts are dynamic.

Second, formulas can become unwieldy very quickly. Whilst Excel formulas are very Lisp-like, the lack of user-defined functions within Excel (you can do it other ways) means you often have large nested functions or resort to suboptimal methods like storing intermediate steps of a calculation in other cells to keep the formulas manageable. The language constructs aren't designed to enable semantically-rich yet succinct formulas, though occasionally there are useful tricks to extend beyond what is immediately obvious (such as the ways SUMPRODUCT has been twisted beyond its original purpose). You want to encourage elegant creativity, rather than relying on arcane tricks.

Lastly, plenty of scope to improve performance.

All three of these issues above are very much solvable, would allow non-professional-programmers a far nicer tool to work with, whilst unlocking more of their creativity and the potential of the machines they're using. Seems like it would also be a reasonable base for further research into improving the accessibility of programming, as you could learn which concepts stick in people's heads and which ones don't.
I'd never heard of Common Crawl before but it looks like an awesome project! Keep up the good work!
The problem is that admitting science is flawed means that people will propose astrology or alkaline diets or antivaccinationism as alternatives.

So yes, let's all embrace that science is flawed and then work together to fix science, and not pretend that Christianity or traditional vitalism are better alternatives to science.
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Interesting, this is the exact premise of "Wool"

http://www.amazon.com/Wool-Hugh-Howey/dp/1476733953/ref=sr_1...
It looks odd how Bing customer support emphasis on "Patience":

Thank you for your remarkable patience. Have a nice day.

We understand how important this is for you and we appreciate your continued patience as we endeavor to resolve this matter