skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a little puzzled about the radiator's heat being "free". If it were an electric radiator, it'd consume a substantial amount of electricity to generate a certain amount of heat. The CPU can't be consuming less electricity to generate the same heat. So is this Nerdalize company offsetting Mr. van Waardhuizen's electric cost for this unit? Or what?
Google will celebrate independent software developers that build software with its products and services with two days of tech talks from the company's top technologists at the upcoming Google I/O conference. It's the one conference where developers get better seats at the keynote talks than the press. Google will surprise, delight, and throw a couple of haymakers at its competition.
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I set up my first rails app on Linode about 5 years ago and used to scoff at people that went the "easy" route with Heroku.

Now I'm using Heroku and wonder why I wasted so much time before worrying about disk space, permissions, rotating logs, etc. I definitely get it now.
Well he does have a fancy degree in chemistry and that makes him a scientist!!!
The actual report showing the debunking is quite good! http://web.stanford.edu/~dbroock/broockman_kalla_aronow_lg_i...

This was a relatively high profile paper. I wonder how much slips through in lower impact journals...
Why would there be a car on the right? When you are in the go-straight main traffic lane (or the rightmost main traffic non-turn lane) then any car on the right is in the right turn lane, and is therefore, by definition, turning right, away from you. How would that take you down? I think you are misunderstanding the scenario.
Archivists Find Fragments of an Unfinished Orson Welles Autobiography
"In a world where 2+2 currently equals 5, who are yee enlightened ones to argue different?" Yells a 'modern' day citizen of "success".

For those who feel enlightenment still matters, think deeply... Very deeply about the meaning of this.
I wanted to try Azure a few weeks ago for a small project. But I found the UI to be confusing. Part old and part new ? Trying to match up with the current Windows look (which I am not familiar with) ?

I also had trouble using one of their API's. Got even thrown out very quickly for abusing it. No idea why, just trying to access. Maybe MS does not like my coding style :-) Never had something like that before. Reference to possible explanation page did not work. Faq did not cover it. Still I got an automated email a few days later to congratulate me with using Azure, while actually I was locked out...

But I have no commitment to Windows, so its easy to switch. I normally use DO and AWS and stick with them for now.
Vultr, who have offerings very similar to DO, have a class of VMs called "Storage Series"[1]. In my experience their uptime is similar to DO and their performance is better. Might be of interest to you:

[1] https://www.vultr.com/pricing/
This doesn't seem to be so much 'clipboard hacking' as 'select highjacking'. It's a small distinction, but this attack has been around since before the HTML5 clipboard API, and the actual clipboard API does pop down an allow/deny box, eg like a webcam access does.
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Very little return? I can't imagine a device that I use more or is more personal than my smartphone. I've regretted buying sub-par devices in the past but I've never regretted spending more. I usually hold on for 3 years before I replace a device; that's a long time. It's a long time to have something cheap.
If you have no idea how many people are out there, then you don't have any idea how expensive it would be to produce a false "big" pile of PoW.
With a 600mb dataset you probably don't need batch jobs. You can afford to run ad-hoc reports when they're requested. You can process data as it arrives, streaming it into a structured representation in postgres or similar. You can afford to stop the pipeline when you get an item whose format doesn't match, and investigate, rather than having to tolerate a certain error percentage. You don't need a scheduling framework because if you ever have too many jobs running you can kill a few, you're not going to lose hours of work by doing so. You want metrics but IME hadoop isn't actually very good at that.

If you're doing enough processing that you can't do it on one beefy database server then sure, the concerns that go with that are similar to when you have enough data that you can't handle it on one beefy database server. But most people with 600mb of data don't want or need to do multiple cpu-hours worth of processing on it.
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Huh, it does not in desktop or mobile. What browser/os are you talking about?
It's OVH, the largest hosting provider in Europe. Cheap is their thing.

I have been using RunAbove specifically since October. It's fine. Even the sandbox instances.
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I'm not sure that "present-day citizen" and "the New Republic" are exactly congruent.

The New Republic faces, itself, the central paradox of the Enlightenment humanist's project: if he succeeds, he abolishes himself by converting humanistic literature into accurate naturalistic and scientific description. Having done so, he is out of a job.

Thus the Enlightenment becomes the enemy of the humanist, who must defend his office lest he be pushed around by those awful math nerds.
You're misunderstanding. There are two papers here: LaCour's, which is the original paper, and Green's, which is based on LaCour's.

Green has retracted his paper by way of essentially accusing LaCour of falsifying data. His paper is retracted, fin.

Science has not yet decided whether it will on its own recognizance retract LaCour's paper.
Analyse Asia 31: The Asymco Trilogy Wit Horace Dediu Part 1
Back.io: Object-relational back ends as easy as JSFiddle
I was getting stoked about the Witcher 3 when I got some free time. All this talk is making me think twice about the game and not about my AMD card.
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No, having children was my choice. I'm speaking more about the assumption that the OP had with living a higher standard as the alternative to what s/he was doing and that you could live comfortably off of $30k/year.

I feel like most of the statements about how much someone can live off of, should be preceded by whether they're single and what part of the world they're living in..
What a completely worthless process.
Lack of Liferay' community and documentation is well compensated by much higher pay that average Wordpress/PHP developer can pull.
Fibre Channel is better than Ethernet
These are very common in the UK around large cities, and in my experience they work really well. As long as there's sufficient threat of enforcement (speed cameras), people stick to the speed and the whole mass of cars move along at a reasonable speed. Compared to the horrible 80 mph, 5 mph, 80 mph, 5 mph thing you get when everyone absolutely guns it to the next slowdown they're brilliant.
Synopsis: Horace Dediu, current fellow of the Clayton Christensen Institute and founder of Asymco.com joined us for an epic and insightful discussion focusing on few key interesting topics: (a) new market disruption theories, (b) Apple in China and the luxury market and (c) the Japanese automotive industry and how it shapes up against disruption from Tesla, Uber and Apple. In the first of the trilogy, Horace discussed the origins of Asymco.com and also why he has used Apple as the lens to understand innovation and technology disruption. We also traced back to other Apple-like companies in the past such as Sony in Asia, and look at how Apple and Pixar has displayed a different kind of “DNA” against innovative companies in the past. Last but not least, we discussed the evolution and future of Google and where it might lead them to.
Regexbuddy can be run on a Mac using Wine.
Any time my friends and I talk about traffic, someone mentions that scene. :)
Interesting, somehow I just instinctively moused over the text when I first visited the page. Another example of the subjectivity of UX and need for UI to be explicit and versatile I guess.
> One more reason to upgrade to [...]

One more reason to downgrade to text-based downloads?
+1 for Particle Adventure.

I wish more things were taught that way!
They delicately avoid describing the image itself, other than "an obscene image favoured by internet pranksters". I thought goatse was out of fashion these days, but perhaps it's a different one I'm not thinking of?
It's worth clarifying that I do believe photonic computers are incredibly exciting. I was just a little annoyed at how the news report appeared to focus on the wrong attributes. I have little doubt that the researcher interviewed spoke at length about the subject, but there's an incredible challenge involved in boiling this kind of information down to a 60 second news spot.

I guess that's what it takes to keep people excited about science though. Not everyone is going to be interested in the nitty gritty.
One year with the Surface Pro 3: The best computer I have ever owned
The traffic between datacenters would be significantly slower and more costly, though. Besides, S3 is not a replacement for a real drive.
I love the Azure command line tools, but the admin portal last time I tried (Christmas 2013/2014) was 500ing, 404ing, and every other code all the time. It never affected anything since we used the command line tools, but there was a bunch of UI errors that never should have made it into production.
AWS currently and for the last ~4 years. We have also placed more than a dozen clients into AWS.

We have used SoftLayer, Peak10, Google and Azure at different times while testing things out. SoftLayer we actually ran some processes in for about a year.

I recently had posted on HN about services like DigitalOcean because there are ways for us to save money using those types of services, or even Heroku. In the end the ecosystem, ease of use, reliability (when architected right) and flexibility of AWS is still just too powerful for us. The costs are not the cheapest way we could do something, but when you factor in the minimal amount of man hours we spend on infrastructure compared to what we could be, I think it is a good deal. We try not to get too ingrained to AWS only features, and where we do we will hide their implementation so we can switch them out if ever needed. I also classify them differently too, for example, DynamoDB or MySQL (via RDS) wouldn't be something I'd try to wrap, it is your database and could be used from anywhere so you aren't really locked into AWS as much as your database there. But something like SQS, we used but wrapped, and eventually moved to RabbitMQ with very little extra effort.

I have had to use AWS support a few times, and they have been AMAZINGLY helpful. And for non-critical things they usually answer forum posts pretty quick too. AWS isn't a panacea with no issues, but for my money its the best thing going right now. And they are constantly releasing new things and tweaking things, not everything is for the better, but for the most part it is.
How do you handle the case where the load generator runs out of resources (ie, file handlers, tcp sockets, network interface throughput, etc.) before it is able to generate sufficient load to test the server?
"If you're a thin, attractive student at an Ivy league university, you get a free Apple suite of hardware, continually renewed until you've finished your studies!"

I don't know why they haven't already done it.
It all comes down to why you want to write software. If you want to be paid for writing software, then doing it on your own time and contributing to an MIT licensed project is NOT the way to go.

On the other hand, if your goal is to have your software used by as many people as possible, then MIT licensed may be the way to go. In my case, the piece of software that I wrote that runs in the most places (measured in the billions) is probably the IJG JPEG library that was very liberally licensed and consequently found its way into all sorts of devices... Yes, I wrote the code back in 1991 but it still gives me a kick to know how often it is used!
Lane splitting is legal in California.

But honestly, how does this reduce congestion? My experience is that these motorcycles often dart between cars causing drivers to swerve slightly and tap their brakes.

I would argue this makes congestion worse as it causes more cautious drivers to brake (sometimes abruptly) and almost always slow down.

Finally, it is important to consider that as a vehicle, most of us are not looking for you and make small changes from left to right while in our lanes. It is not a goal of mine to accommodate motorcycle riders while driving. Splitter beware.

I'm all for sharing the road-- be we all need to subject to the same rules.
Letter to a Fired Founder
...and then she makes an inverter from two of them:

http://hackaday.com/2010/03/10/jeri-makes-integrated-circuit...
New 'deep learning' technique enables robot mastery of skill via trial and error
Unlikely; the limiting factor is already distance - poor scaling from interconnects (wires) already means that we can't have all that much global state. This might increase the amount of state we can have, but unless you can fit gigabytes into a single chip you won't be eliminating the multi level memory hierarchy.

Like right now the L1 cache will have latencies of 1 or 2 cycles, and the L2 cache 15; this is due to the overheads of cache coherency protocols, moving the data around the chip; it's not that the memory's slower, it's all SRAM.

They are probably referring to enterprise workloads. Here you have large working sets (so caches are less useful) and you want maximum throughput. Clever multithreading (finegrained) can reduce effective latency by scheduling many (32?) processes at the same time, executing an instruction from each in round-robin fashion (see Sun Niagara). In that case, you can sometimes dump the L1 cache, and you would be able to get rid of the memory hierarchy.

There's also probably a benefit wrt hard drives/secondary storage; you can obviously make system storage very fast, which might improve random access times considerably. BUT this is probably not going to be transformative; it'll improve certain types of accesses, but current algorithms are already very highly tuned to spatial and temporal locality of reference. Furthermore, you'll still see these structures win out, because they can take advantage of hardware prefetching more easily.
Exactly. "When Borland changed their name, many thought they had gone out of business."
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Impressive :) thank you for that.
Are there plans for either an OS X or Linux version?
It's not in their poll for new features, but VR support would make this so much more interesting.
This is my biggest "pet-peeve". It seriously pisses me off! What makes it worse, in Iowa, half the time there ARE NO CARS in the lane to the right. They're just retarded and drive in the left lane.
YES! Everyone should try this. Sometimes I can get lost in it for hours, just floating around the galaxies...

It's so cool that everything you see, every little star in each Galaxy you can zoom into and check out. Check the simulated atmosphere of every planet, check the rough surfaces of every little asteroid. All procedurally generated and very mind blowing.
More interesting would be a computer that moves at relativistic speeds or is placed in a deep gravity well. At light speed or in a black hole the computer would seem to make any computation instantly.
A Strategy for Divisible Content Creation
Just wanted to chime in and give my recommendation for regex101.com that parent links to. This is by far the best regex "composer" I have ever used, on or offline.
Well, my system runs nothing but sendmail, lighttpd (with no modules or features) and sshd. That's it. So there's not much to lock down.

sshd is hidden behind port knocking, for what that's worth. (No, I do not want to have a religious argument about port knocking this morning)

The real key to the simplicity and security of my setup is email over SSH with a console client. Not only does that remove oceans of attack surface, but it also means you can read email without the emails themselves traversing the network. I guess the characters go over SSH, but that's not quite the same thing...
Linux is increasingly become more 'appliance-like' and I think the steps taken here are actually positive. Too many shops flat-out ignore the OS compoment of the stack. This will at least force integrators to think about the OS more.

For what it's worth, this is just SmartOS re-implemented in Linux (though lacking certain features of SmartOS), and funded by Google with apparently more flexibility on where you can run this.

I personally cannot wait for the day when I am able to treat Linux like a dumb appliance everywhere, running atop more purpose-built systems.
The visualizations are not showing actual mountain shapes. Instead they are showing the envelope of surface area as a function of height. For example, for the Diamond shape mountains, the base of the mountain is very steep and so has almost no relative surface area. The graphic is correspondingly skinny at the bottom.

I think communication would be enhanced here if the visualizations were supplemented with idealized cross-section illustrations of how a typical mountain of each type would look. That is what the pictures of the actual mountains are supposed to convey but they don't really. In this case, a "stick figure" drawing of each mountain type would do a much better job.
I took a really hard look at OCaml a year ago, as I was running into performance issues with python. Lack of multicore support made me give up on it.

Now that Rust is around and supporting multicore, that's probably where I'll be investing my time.

I'd love to hear feedback from people who have used both Rust and OCaml.
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Function application in OCaml is eager.

However, implementing laziness is trivially accomplished.
Moto G is just about the cheapest smartphone you can buy, in USA at least. Moto G 2 has autofocus with tap to choose control point.
Absolutely. A 2.4 micron beam splitter is a hell of an achievement. I don't know what the next closest is in size, but the vast majority of beam splitters I'm familiar with are measured in millimeters. I'm sure there are others doing work on miniaturization, but 2.4 micron would seem like genuine landmark progress.

What we need next is a practical photonic transistor at these scales!
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Ask HN: What's your backup setup? Manual or Automated?
>Moto E image taken from its review on The Guardian

That link back to the Guardian gives him any rights to use the image. In fact he's probably making it easier for the rights holder to track him down now that he has linked to the page.

Not that I think the Guardian would care... but still. Don't use other peoples images without permission.
Strong words that should be reflected on equally.
Cute but "Big Data" is really just data that's not in the building and isn't feasible to just move around from one machine to another in your department.
I use psql exclusively but I think those are good questions and I'd love to see someone give you an answer. Personally I don't feel much friction using psql even for "exploration", but I can see how a GUI would let you more easily follow data from one table to another.

EDIT: I've just barely tried it, but it looks like you could say `\g |vim -` (with a csv plugin) or `\g |csvlook` (not great) and then browse/sort/aggregate the data from there. You probably need to change the output formatting though, because it looks like \g doesn't automatically give you something easy to parse. I have a feeling an interactive command-line CSV reader (less(1) for csv files) would be really useful to a lot of people, but I don't know of anything like that. csvkit isn't interactive as far as I know. csvtool dies on big files. Any alternatives? It would be the perfect thing to combine with \g.

EDIT EDIT: Or just \pset pager and you don't need \g at all. . . .
This is a fundamental technology that will be core to social VR. I really hope they nail it.
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You can lane split in California.
For some reason the email you get sent when you sign up for the early-access program also trips Thunderbird's scam warning feature (in addition to the form being submitted over HTTP, despite the site being served over HTTPS). I wonder if that's because the message contains the string "Hi Friend"?
Philosophy is essentially a fandom. If they're geeks they'll love the details and drama.

Philosophy does develop the mind but not in an interesting or useful way even from a philosophical point of view. Beyond Wittgenstein's take on philosophy as therapy is Zizek's (implicit) take on philosophy as entertainment.

Zizek is right.

So promote philosophy as fun rather than useful and geeky rather than literary and you won't go far wrong.
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The camera is amazing, and then the postprocessing instagrams it hell? What's the point?
Banality of Evil? Come on. Equating SIGINT programs to protect America's interest with the Nazi party is really shrill. I'm no NSA defender, but I believe nations have the right to SIGINT programs to protect their interests. The real question is what implementations and limitations are acceptable.

>These documents are interchangeable with some plumbing and heating supply chain company

Efficiency is universal. Powerpoint-like presentations work in the corporate structure. Memos, emails, etc are used for a reason. Look at Al Qaeda's job application form, its bizarrely corporate. Or how Osama Bin Laden's bookshelf is straight out of a HN reading list. Or how drug dealers hire Ivy League finance guys to run operations that, if you didn't know the product, would assume it was some boring commodity widget being sold.

There's no James Bond-ish school of super technology or unique processes. Whatever management fads are popular in the business world work their way into government, and that includes intelligence, military, space programs, etc. I'm always a little surprised at how cheap looking every NASA press conference is and how many technical issues they always seem to have (mic issues, streaming issues, etc). If there's really a balality of evil, I'd say that's just a subset of the banality of all bureaucracies.

If anything, unique organizations that are successful tend to be extremely rare. Startup culture and other 'progressive organizations' just end up being 'office lite' until they go mainstream/IPO/whatever then they fully embrace becoming a regular office. The only non-trivial organization I can think that is successful and has a unique structure is probably Valve, with its fascinating flat management style.

edit: downvotes for suggesting that maybe the NSA shouldn't be compared to the party that gassed 6 million people solely for their ethnicity? Grow up, HN.
It's simply anti-intellectualism. It's part of the fabric of contemporary American culture that's being exported all over the world.

Not sure there's an easy path out from this. Reading, education, book clubs may help. "Useful" must be released from the confines of just "Useful for the market economy".