skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to use Rackspace, but now I'm using AWS. Rackspace was nice, but AWS was a bit better on price (thought the two are priced slightly differently) and a secure setup was quicker on AWS than on Rackspace. I tend to use docs or forums to solve issues I have, so Rackspace's customer support wasn't all that useful compared to whatever Amazon offers.

Since then I've started using a few things like Elastic Beanstalk and continuous deployment, and getting them working on AWS was pretty pain free and easy. I don't think I could do as much on AWS now as I could on Rackspace.

Heroku looks nice but because of price I never tried it. Azure is also tempting to use, but as a non-customer their non-Windows offerings seem to be predictably second-rate.
I was taught this and practice it regularly.

I think it's an attitude thing. As often as I see drivers in my area blowing through red lights and pulling other ridiculous or dangerous stunts every single day, I can only imagine it's due to a lack of care or respect on the drivers' part.
NSA planned to deliver malware through Google Play Store
Absolutely - I'm a huge fan of Lightroom, especially with using a plug-in like Silver FX.

Not sure about the other photographers out there - but I probably on turn to Photoshop for 5% of my shots at most.
Coming from a former super introvert, as sad as it may be, drinking is how I finally learned to be social. It totally forces you to meet and interact with people you otherwise would not. However, I still have my days where I'm 100% done with all of humanity. But, who doesn't?
Why can only one party benefit from a decision or policy?

This sounds like a pretty mutually beneficial arrangement to me.
I'm legitimately interesting: Can you give some examples of what areas you feel Lumia/Windows Phone excel? All Microsoft really drum beat about in the "social" aspects of owning a Windows Phone.

With the near release of Windows 10 (and Windows 10 Mobile) I was thinking about considering Windows Phone again (I haven't given it much thought since Windows Phone 7).
Model-based cross-correlation search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1
Kira Radinsky, the Prophet of the Web
You have to look at center of mass energy, the energy actually available for reactions in a collision. The collisions of ultra-high-energy-cosmic-rays (UHECRs) with air occur at hundreds of TeV center of mass energy. And they may be nucleons, in which case this energy is spread over several nuclei. So assuming that Lorentz symmetry holds (probably the safest assumption in modern physics), 13 TeV is in a similar ball park as UHECR collisions.
http://www.pgadmin.org/

this is a really useful GUI tool for interacting with a postgres database.
I found the same.
All of that said, IaaS is still way too complicated. I'm sure there's room for someone to come along and have an offering that's 10x simpler to manage and use.
On that note, if I were to make one change to the game, it would be to get rid of kick off and kick return. Yeah, it's exciting to watch, but as a player I hate it. It's the most danger you will ever put yourself in on the field. Concussions abound.
Same here, I loved regex101 :)
I'd also toss in ease of correctness if you don't have a really well-known problem with a good test suite: I've seen a number of cases where people developed “tight” C code which gave results which appeared reasonable and then ran it for months before noticing logic errors which would either have been impossible or easier to find in a higher-level language or, particularly, one which had better numeric error handling characteristics.

There is a lot to be said for confirming that you have the right logic and then looking into something like PyPy/Cython/etc. or porting to a lower-level language.
the mobile link was way better on desktop
Digital Ocean here as well.

- The price is great, especially for running small apps, and its very easy to add more resources.

- Support is top notch

- Same as brianwawok, I like being able to build base Linux boxes and not be locked into vendor specific tech
>In the general case, we can't of course, as Turing proved.

Not quite. Turing proved that no single algorithm cannot solve the halting problem for all machines; it has always been trivial to show that we can answer the halting question for many machines we care about, often because they are specifically designed to always halt.

Chaitin elaborated this into a detailed theory of quantified incomputability, showing (roughly) that any N-bit axiomatic system could decide the halting problem only for machines composed of strictly less than N bits of information (Kolmogorov complexity).

So the question is either, depending on your philosophy of mathematics, how we locate ontologically special cases where halting proofs are possible, or how we obtain the information we put into our axioms that allows us to write halting proofs for increasingly complex programs.
Been thinking of doing the "smart" stuff with a tablet and have a phone that lasts a week for calls.
But WE created this system, and most people seem to be quite happy with it. The system is so one sided, it is not even funny. And even within the system, not all top achievers is equal - the world's best surgeon is probably making a fraction of what the world's best boxer or movie star is making.
> Homesteading is an easy way to move in this direction without needing such riches.

Homesteading is a great way to work significantly harder for a lower standard of living.

> Your math/programming skills will help immensely if you want to build and automate everything yourself

Your math/programming skills will help a lot more by helping you exchange your labor for money, which you can then exchange for food, clothing, and shelter. Your average developer salary can buy you more and better food and goods than you can make yourself in a cabin in the woods.

If you prefer to spend 30 minutes a day collecting $6.00 worth of eggs and milk, that's a lifestyle choice, not a financial one.
I'm skeptical that the CLI can do everything I'd want, but here goes. Is it as easy to use as phpMyAdmin when I want to:

- Change the sort order? (PMA: Click a column. CLI: Edit your query to add an ORDER BY clause?)

- Edit a value? (PMA: Double-click and edit. CLI: Check the primary key and write an UPDATE query? Hope not to make a typo when writing the key.)

- Look up the row corresponding to a foreign key? (PMA: click it. CLI: write a SELECT query?)

- View the extreme values of a result set? I.e. I run a query which returns 200 results, and I want to look at the first few and the last few. (PMA: home and end. CLI: scroll?)
Tor 0.2.6.8 is released
Here are the changes in this version:

Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
authorities should upgrade.

o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
- Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
on tor-0.2.6.3-alpha.

o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
- Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
on 0.2.1.6-alpha.

o Minor features (geoip):
- Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
- Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
Country database.

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Agreed. These plays already exist. If anything, this change will make the red zone play more interesting.
Going the other direction (from pure software engineering to data science), a great resource I found is a book called "Think Stats": http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/. The book is available as a free PDF download in addition to the print version.

The book covers statistics concepts by prompting the reader to explore a large dataset with Python, writing statistical functions along the way. A lot of it is fairly basic, but it's a good primer.
The main benefit optical interconnects aim to provide is not about the speed with which photons propagate, which as you point out is not all that much faster than electrons in copper, but it is about bandwidth.

Propagation speed of course affects latency, which as you point out is already running up against relativistic limits, but the physics of photonics vs. electronics affects the maximum bandwidth achievable in a modulated digital signal. At a high level, one issue is that the capacitance and inductance present in copper limit the ability of discrete pulses to remain discrete voltage levels that still are distinguishable between logical high and logical low when modulated at a very high frequency due to the capacitance of the wire which effectively blurs the pulses together as they propagate. The other fundamental issue with electronic interconnects is the issue of shot noise, which for information theoretic reasons can further limit the theoretical maximum bandwidth logical high/low voltages in copper. Photonics does not have these limitations, but as you say, is still a very long way off from practical application. It is important to point out, though, that the motivation (unlike the article's slightly clickbaity title) is not speed but bandwidth.
Judging from here [1], it looks like it's "unavailable"... does that mean it's maybe reserved?

[1] http://www.ownit.nyc/register
Well then I'd rather just have a password
I would never get closer than a car's length away from the driver in front of me if I was driving 60 mph; why should I act any differently when I'm driving 30 mph? Speed is trivial - the gap must be maintained so drivers have the opportunity to react to cars around them without having to make any drastic changes in speed.
Examples at the top is better because experienced users who already know what the tool can do will find what they need regardless of where it's placed, but beginners need to have the barrier to entry lowered. It's not uncommon to open the document, not see what you need, and close it and go looking elsewhere. It's the same reason you put a useful description of your product on its landing page instead of nestled inside subdirectories.

I guess I shouldn't have mentioned the people who never touch command-line tools. It's the people who almost-never do who are more convertible. Anyway, there's a marked difference between an easy way to run code on the command line, and a special-purpose tool with special-purpose syntax. Those non-advanced users are the ones who would benefit from having something with easily composable parts. (this is the same argument for building lots of small CLI tools and then composing them together, taken further?)

I wager lots of amateur web developers can manage their way around basic JavaScript. It used to be people started coding with shell hacking so they were forced to learn the bizarre tool suite. Now they probably start with web development [citation needed].
I remember this, and actually thought the same thing. It led me to do some research and I came across a pretty interesting page on the topic of smoothing out waves of traffic. It's an old site and I was just able to re-find it just now, but perhaps you will find it interesting:

http://trafficwaves.org/trafexp.html
Moral hazards are real things.

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

I imagine there are many personality types who only behave because it would cost them too much to misbehave. My gut feeling is that this is probably 80% of the population.
Yeah!

Is that actually feasible?
I have the same phone, and I'm getting nowhere near what everyone else is reporting here. I wonder if my battery is shot :\
Have you tried pgAdmin: http://www.pgadmin.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9577336

A discussion a day ago. Hydrogen is a plugin for atom that allows for interaction with Jupyter.
Unfortunately, we have renewed our ICANN accreditation
True - meditation means different things to different people. It's obvious the author is referring to the "mindfulness" version though and is trying to do so in simple-as-possible guide form so as not to distract with all the depth and nuance you allude to. I think most people get that there are many different types of meditation. I appreciate the article's simplicity because when I was a once a beginner all I seemed to be able to find was less than simple school-specific (Zen, Shambala, etc) instruction. The problem with the school-specific teachings, IMHO, is that they are all mindfullness-oriented, yet each adds their own special ritual and ceremony which as a beginner you mistake as being essential. At least for me, I've converged on an intentionally Occam's razor style approach aimed at stripping the non-essential. The coolest thing about Bhudda's story to me is he just sort of figured it all out for himself and said each of us should do the same. I've figured out for myself, for example, that it is not necessary at all to sit cross-legged. It makes no difference for me yet standard teachings always strongly encourage it to the point that you feel like you are "doing it wrong" if you don't. Teachers will even say, "if you can't sit cross-legged it's ok..." but when everybody in the group is doing otherwise, the overwhelming signal is it is actually not ok.

I guess one thing I'm saying is the kind of folks drawn to try meditation are often the same kind of folks who will willingly dive down rabbit holes investigating the differences between the schools and entertaining themselves with koans, etc. all the while distracting themselves from actually getting started with the meditation itself. Can confirm; was one of these people. That's why I'd caution against trying to raise awareness of all this complexity to the beginners this guide is intended for.
The worker can refuse to work overtime.
Maybe at a startup or possibly some big names in SV.
Millions exposed by latest health insurer hack
I think Azure gets a bad reputation in this community from the old "Microsoft = bad" bias that a lot of us have. However, if you are in a Windows stack and/or a corporate developer (and that is a large but quiet percentage of developers) it really seems like the best solution. Also the variety of services they provide under one umbrella is neck and neck with Amazon for best in the industry.
But not released yet? I clicked the link saw that I could only get it through an early access release program.
You sort-of can do that with Postgres.

The "nice" option is to tune "fsync", "synchronous_commit" and "wal_sync_method" in postgresql.conf

If your overall write load is low enough that you will catch up over reasonable amounts of time, the really dirty method is to set up replication (internally on a single server if you like) and put the master on a ram disk. If your server crashes, just copy the slaves data directory and remove the recovery.conf file, and you'll lose only whatever hadn't been replicated.

But in terms of time investment in solving this, it's likely going to be cheaper to just stick an SSD in there.
> one which had better numeric error handling characteristics

Which language do you suggest which matches this?

I don't know many people who use the language "numeric error handling characteristic" but I know the benefit of already having good written high-level primitives (or libraries).
The Nexus line is good. I would own one right now if Google had updated the Nexus 5 instead of releasing the Nexus 6 (too big) and letting the 5 rot.

Keep in mind the 5 was released in Oct 2013, and did have a handful of issues at the time that they could have since fixed but haven't.

Instead wound up with a Z3 (5.2" instead of 6"). 5.2-5.3" is about as big as I'll ever go with a phone, bigger and you feel it in your pocket (I've owned a Samsung Note that I felt was bigger than I'd like).
It's not a straw man, it's a description of the rule that was actually violated by windows.

In the absence of documentation saying otherwise, I would expect the calls to be serialized, and one to happen entirely before the other.

Now if they each did two writes at about the same time, it's no longer the OS's problem if the threads interlace badly.
Linode. Support is great, service is great, pricing is good, and seems less "cowboyish" than Digital Ocean and others.
If you read the report, the retraction letter was sent to Science, presumably by email, on May 19, 2015.

I'm okay with Science giving some due process here. Contacting the primary author and other parties, the peer reviewers, discussing it with their editorial staff, and so on. The world isn't going to end because Science hasn't yet made a decision on May 21 about something sent to them on May 19. The odds are exceedingly high that a retraction will be issued.

Your characterization of Science "standing by what they printed no matter what" is a gross distortion of the facts here, as Science has done no such thing.
Duh. They do. Not doing that is the same as not revealing, say, a microbe that would be useful for wiping out some disfavored population, or, worse still, genetically engineering such a microbe. The people who make and sell exploits to governments are no better than freelance biologists weaponizing microbes.

It is hypocritical of them to rattle on about "cyber terror" and conduct their own cyber war with the same weapons.
On my first contract job I was paid a daily rate. An occasional 9th or 10th hour a day didn't bother me and I wouldn't say anything about it, but the days got longer and more regularly so I started to fill in my time sheet for 1.5 days.

The finance guy reminded me that I was on a daily rate and would be paid per calendar day of work, and it wasn't possible to get more than 1x the rate.

So I started to claim a days work every time I got a call on the weekend. Someone calls me on the weekend and I say "hit reset" or "send me an email and i'll fix it on monday"? I worked. I'm claiming my daily rate.

Those days were begrudgingly paid and I suspect it all evened out in the end.
Why netlify and not S3 + CloudFront?
What does the raw data that generates these renders look like, or do their dashboards literally spit out images that look like that? I'm guessing their instrumentation can roughly figure out what energy/size/charge of particle is where, but the how just seems like magic to me.
We have a few 480GB ones, and yes, they are stupid fast - we're getting 1GB/sec writes easily. You can get multiple TB now if you can afford it (can't justify it for our uses...)
for those who tl:dr... this ^^^
Microsoft Azure

+ Admin portal is good

+ Git Deploy to "Websites" is slick with no setup (builds binaries)

+ NodeJS / C#

+ Azure Integration in Visual Studio

+ Aggressive pricing

The other reason is there are other services that I can use if I don't want to build my own.
Just because economists suck doesn't mean that you should listen to someone that admittedly knows nothing about economics sprout economic theories :)
You can pick up an unlocked lg g2 for $150 at best buy depending on carrier. It is an older phone, but I have been really happy with it.
You could always use the DDP library [1] ("REST for websockets") for realtime transfer. It's separate from the "core" Meteor package (a collection of packages, really).

There's also a list of libraries for other languages that communicate with Meteor via DDP. [2]

[1] https://www.meteor.com/ddp
[2] http://meteorpedia.com/read/DDP_Clients
John McCarthy – Elephant 2000: A Programming Language Based on Speech Acts [pdf]
California is the worst about this and if that's where you live may be giving you a false impression of the US as a whole. It's probably because in California, 18-wheelers are required to stick to the right lane and have a lower speed limit (55 instead of 65). That's not true in most other states.

I, too, have noticed that people here tend to just pick a lane (usually the left one to avoid trucks) and stick to it no matter the speed they're going. However, my experience in the other two states I've lived in (Florida, Indiana) and the other 35+ states I've visited, is that most people in the US know that the left lane is for passing and are somewhat more considerate about this.

Drivers have trouble merging in all 50 states, though. Half the people merge as soon as possible, thinking it's more polite to merge sooner rather than later (or just not wanting to fight for an opening or get angry looks from people who believe merging early is better), and half the people merge as late as possible, attempting to do the zipper merge which is actually the most efficient means of merging and what everyone should do.
I use RunAbove[1] usually. Mostly because it's nearby (low latency), based on OpenStack (opensource and all the tools works ootb), and inexpensive.

[1] https://www.runabove.com/
Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison
More than just mobile: How we created our own responsive grid system
So why don't you do the part time thing and let her chase her career dreams?
I wonder too. I suppose we'll have to bring about said change ;)
You should write up and share what you did. I'm sure others would be interested.
Unless something has changed in the last couple years, no we do not have the right to refuse overtime in Nova Scotia.

Overtime is mandated at 1.5x normal hourly wage, but that doesn't kick in until you reach 48 hours, there are also exceptions, which include programmers. However, the minimum wage act still applies, which means you're only entitled to 1.5x minimum wage for every hour you work above 48 hours a week.
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They do get discounts on Apple hardware from Apple of around 10% though (we did at my university at least).
If your end users at least know how to edit Markdown (or HTML/CSS), try October CMS.

If they aren't, I apologize because I don't got a recommendation for you.