skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We switched to GCE because of two main things:

1. Speed. Everything is faster on GCE. From the not-terrible portal, to VM start times, to the machines themselves and storage.[1]

2. Price. Google was a half to a fifth of the price of Azure. Even with an Azure enterprise agreement GCE was far better.

Great job. I didn't think I'd like a Google product, and I came in very biased against Google, but you totally won me and others over thru a flatly superior product.

1: Azure still has an embarrassingly bad SSD story. Even when talking to them they don't seem to realize what a useless offering they have. I guess their plan is to focus on software on top of Azure, cause as IaaS it's simply not competitive.
Cool. I'm not sure if your part of the community already but if it's open source etc you should post it on the Stamford University Liberation Tech mailing list.
I don't get the fascination with "markdown". Even for messaging systems, BBcode ([i]like this[/i]) was easier. Markdown is always fighting with indentation for other purposes.
> So Hillary couldn't or wouldn't have done the same thing?

Its obviously not demonstrable, but perhaps not; while the attacks that were thrown at the effort Clinton spearheaded as First Lady were largely unjustified, and since the style of plan both Clinton and Obama supported (of which the ACA is an instantiation) isn't much like the effort Clinton spearheaded (and is, in fact, more like what a number of insurers proposed in response to that), there were a lot of political negative associations with Clinton and healthcare that Obama didn't have.

> Personally, I think it would have sailed through much more easily had she been in office.

Based on...what, exactly?
I know but I would be very surprised if the DOM model was <postedit>entirely</postedit> responsible for the performance hit.
This is extraordinary! The Zesty team has moved light years in months. Can't believe how much David and Chris have grown in their abilities. I raise a green drink to toast your success.
One of Fred Wilson's partners, Albert Wenger, also penned a post touching on this today[0]. Both are worth reading.

[0] http://continuations.com/post/124069363855/debating-the-gig-...
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It's got an awful lot of users.
Create unique hashes out of anything in JavaScript
You know what? You're right. Defaults are extremely powerful and I haven't thought about that angle. I too would have loved a public, federated and open API for a "read it later" feature but right now we don't have one. The only way to solve this was to build it or bundle some ready made solution. You can ask the Firefox Development team at their mailing list why they chose to bundle Pocket instead of developing a new standard.

As for the submission of data, the same could be said for all search engines. A browser is a communication tool, it sends data around. What we need to make sure is that it sends only the data you consent and only when/if you want.

Now, lets do a little exercise because you might know more then me about alternatives and I am using this thread to learn new things. If we want a "read it later" feature and we can't build our own, what solution you'd rather have instead of pocket? Is there any other service that you're more comfortable with? If you're not using Pocket and it is not sending any data because you're not using it, having that feature present is actually harming you?
Might be worth clarifying that the project is separate from the work of the well known human rights and video NGO called "Witness" (www.witness.org). They make a number of video tools so a user might be confused.
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So obviously I have a huge amount of respect for the team here, and the idea sounds really great - it seems like a path to becoming one of the best in the world and that's obviously hugely appealing.

However, could you address a concern regarding negative hiring signals? I'm concerned that you're going to collect a huge amount of data as I play - and some of it will reflect badly and stop me either ever getting seen by your process for introductions or will lead to your employers throwing me away when you pass me to them.

I guess my question is - does starting without the skills you're looking for mean that while I might have fun and "level up" I'll never get the hiring benefits?

Does a 'bad level' caused by, say, trying "that language/framework/problem space/etc you’ve been meaning to learn" (quote from Patrick's original announcement post) stick out and mean it's game over from the hiring perspective? If I decide to learn Ruby to write some REST API (again, an example referenced in Patrick's announcement) on some level, and my newbie Ruby is rubbish - isn't that going to mean anyone who looks at that thinks I'm rubbish? Sure I had fun and learnt something, did I also stop myself ever getting an intro? You say you'll show them exactly what happened when I implemented that REST API, which is great - but I can't use it to learn some new skill if I want to look good right?

Sorry, this has got a bit long. To summarise - I'm concerned about the clash between on the one hand the claim I can play to learn new things, to get better - but on the other that you'll show employers exactly what I did. Of course the hiring thing is just extra and I can have fun without it, but if I'm interested in the hiring bit how do I experiment with new things without flooding myself with negative signals?

To be clear, the game sounds awesome. I'm just concerned I'll either screw up by not being world class yet or by trying new things and lose opportunities.
It's not easy to identify the source of a cancer, so when people die of cancer caused by Fukushima, the 'skeptics' will not believe it. Any honest person that doesn't have bananas in his ears can see the massive effect Fukushima has had on oceanic life.
Wonder if there would have been any way to use Neptune to slow the probe? Probably would have been travelling too fast, I'm guessing.
I find "Click to Play" makes for a better browsing experience, and think this is a fine move for Firefox.

Interestingly, Google Chrome recently moved in the opposite direction, and removed support for having Flash off by default and activating with a single click. Instead, they consider Flash to be "important plug-in content". While they allow you to have it off by default, rather than "click to play", they now require that you right click then pull down to "run this plugin" each time you want to activate: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/xPcpRB...

I presume this is because they want to discourage people from having Flash off by default, since this would mean they would miss too many Flash ads. I took this as an opportunity to try out some different browsers, and found that Opera met my needs slightly better than Firefox. If you are looking for an alternative to Firefox or Chrome, or just want to see what's out there, you might want to check it out too: http://www.opera.com/

ps. As an example of the new Google interface strategy, to show all the responses on the Google Chrome Help Forum link above rather than being forced to click on each one, you can press the 'o' key some random number of times until they appear: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gec-answers-f...
As the stocks' demand rises, the price goes up. The price going up will cause others to sell, many have a sell limit set so the trade executes automatically.

The buyers who bought it going up thinking it will keep going, or that the article was valid, are the losers. The price will fall back down once the article is proven to be fraud and those buyers just lost a good amount of basis points.

The ones who held the stock before hand and sold as it reached the peak are the winners.
Linear data is displayed in the top most view and the the interpolated result is displayed simulating a standard sheet paper on the bottom.
Not even working here, maybe I'm tired but ...
Yes, I can see that and I wish it wasn't phrased in that way. That overall idea isn't to give women something else to buy. It's to change societal views by educating young boys and girls about consent, respect, healthy relationships which have been proven to increase empathy and decrease aggression. The wearable is a piece of that - and we think it's a much better solution to pepper spray and other devices which are focused on hurting someone. This tries to buy time, get help from family and friends (which are more likely to be close to you) and call the authorities to quickly get help. We believe that we're not successful until there's no longer a need for these type of products. Thank you for your comment, Nadya.
Are you extending this phrase to Google or are you seriously accusing Microsoft for letting Google use their product?

It really surprises me out of all places HN has users who default to commenting based on a regex of keywords. Doesn't matter the context, does the article have (Windows|Microsoft) let me throw in a comment about embrace, extend, and extinguish and nothing more that adds value to the discussion. It is sad to find out that even Reddit has grown past it.
If that were true only the most desperate would choose uber/airbnb/oDesk etc. I believe that's not true, even though low-value work is cheap, the good/popular ones can sell themselves at the price of their choosing. Isn't that plain free market with the flexibility of working whenever you choose, and a more productive/economic allocation of resources?

Work history is an issue, but i cannot see why it cannot be easily solved with a law that gives these workers the rights to their work history. Will these companies object to that?
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Binding things to the Play API has been an unfortunate compromise for Android; their product partners have not been forthcoming on continued device support, so google has had to bundle more and more as an updatable package rather than as part of the core OS. It's a shame that it's been this way, but in the prisoners dilemma of older device support, LG/Samsung/Etc have chosen to rat many, many times, and Google had to do something.
You stole my idea for "solving" the middle east!
I once heard that while in the United States, 100 years is a long time, in Europe, 100 miles is a long distance.
I think this type of behavior might have a lot to do with it:

http://gothamist.com/2014/06/12/water_fountain_or_dog_bidet....
If you short the stock I believe the dump and subsequent dump would be in your favor.
As a fictional example... The ant thing was verbatim while we were all drinking...

But seriously, go to a club... same thing...
I am curious, did you do a search for the term and other name collisions before you started your project?

From http://witness.org/ : "WITNESS trains and supports activists and citizens around the world to use video safely, ethically, and effectively to expose human rights abuse and fight for human rights change."

They are also on github: https://github.com/witness
Some feedback from a discussion I had after seeing this:

three modes:
1 - immediate life threatening danger, call police (and notify friends/family)
2 - non-immediate, but still notify friends/family
3 - possible danger (just scared) - record everything (remote server), hold for 24 hours before sending to friends/family.

I think #3 could be one of your best use cases:
A lot of people don't like walking to their car alone at night, or through a dark alley, or meeting someone on a first date. But they also don't want to stream that to their friends/family for no real reason. This gives them time to stop/erase content where nothing happens. In the case where something does happen, evidence is still maintained even if the phone is knocked/dropped out of their hand immediately, or whatever. You could also have a quicker way to "upgrade" to #1 in this mode, in case the threat turns more immediate and the user still has time/thought process to act.
> The name "Eddystone" might sound a little weird, but Google says it's named after the Eddystone Lighthouse in the UK

Damnit Google! Naming things after light-houses is our "thing"![1][2][3][4] :-)

All joking aside this sounds like a pretty cool project. And anything that helps keep as much IoT infrastructure open-source as possible, is a Good Thing in our book. I'm actually really hoping this catches on and displaces iBeacon as much as possible.

[1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy/

[2]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick/

[3]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Heceta/

[4]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Hatteras/
That would take a while to get there.
I was using an N4 for over two years... I had the random shutdown/reboot issues as well. When Google nix'd their value lines last year when I was ready for a new phone, I waited a while, and finally bought an NVidia Shield 8" tablet, and a OnePlus One phone. Probably the closest things to heir apparent to the N4/N7 devices.

I have friends who have been happy with Moto G and Blu Studio phones on the lower end.
Perhaps we're not really disagreeing about anything. I know, and have already agreed, that the U.S. can and does engage in so-called "strategic communications" overseas. This surely encompasses influencing the messages that reach targeted populations overseas in furtherance of certain strategic aims. I also agree that the U.S. might try to take down certain sites in particularly extreme cases (such as the U.S.'s targeting of ISIS forums that you allege).

What I strongly object to, however, is the equivalence you are suggesting between U.S. "strategic communications" and China's pervasive Internet censorship, both as a matter of raw degree, and also taking into account the different circumstances in which the two countries exercise these capabilities. When asking whether there is some sort of moral equivalence to be drawn between the Chinese and U.S. programs, the question to ask is when do the countries exercise their capabilities, not whether they have these technical capabilities, or whether they are sometimes used.

And I still don't see that you've provided any credible evidence that the two are comparable in these terms. (Though maybe we agree here too -- you say "I don't think its right to compare to China" but if this is true, I really don't know why your comments are relevant commentary on this article.) I certainly don't disagree that the U.S. and Chinese programs are likely similar "from a technical perspective," but I don't think the technical perspective is the perspective that should interest people here.
“I just need a developer to build it.”

"I'll do the thinking around here" - I've never seen those situations end well.
coconut oil and a b vitamin - works wonders for energy. But sometimes your brain needs a break - give it one. There are times when I don't want to do a darn thing, and I have to fight the feelings of guilt that come with that. But, why feel guilty? Are we meant to be productive 24/7?
The RISC-V activity is very interesting. I particularly love that they did a 1.4GHz core on 48nm SOI and are working on 28nm level. This knocks out some of the early, hard work of getting competitive hardware at an advanced process node. I'd like to see two things in this work: microprogrammed variant with an assembly or HLL to microcode compiler; tagged variant like SAFE/CHERI processors with IO/MMU that seemlessly adds & removes tags during DMA. That would be way better for security-critical applications than most of what's out there. Multi-core would help, too.

Meanwhile, Gaisler's SPARC cores are commercial, open-source, customizable, support up to 4 cores in Leon4, integrated with most necessary I.P., and can leverage the SPARC ecosystem. Anyone trying to do an open processor can get quite the head-start with that. A few academic and commercial works are already using it. Plus, the SPARC architecture is open as such that you only pay around $100 for the right to use its name.

So, Gaisler's SPARC cores with eASIC's Nextreme seems to be the best way to rapidly get something going. The long-term bet is RISC-V and they could do well copying Gaisler's easy customization strategy. Might be doing that already with their CPU generator, etc: I just read the Rocket paper so far. The solutions built with one can include a way to transition to the other over time.
The web has become an application delivery platform, like it or not. While there are arguments against forcing DRM on consumers, for video production workflows and project management, DRM is a necessity. I'm assuming you've worked with private Github repos with access control, right? Same idea.
The ToS concerns have been raised repeatedly on moz-governance.

We have been told not to worry about it, everything is probably fine. Probably. One guy is going to check, sometime.

Edit:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.governance/2...
Gaudíte, gaudíte, christus es natus?
My daughter is doing informal apprenticeship toward being a chef, working as a line cook under a famous chef. It's a better learning experience than culinary school, and she's getting paid rather than paying for it!
Great points and great blog too. Paradoxically I think what's missing is more manned space exploration - people have a genuine interest in seeing other planets and knowing about space in general, but this interest is tempered by the painful awareness that that we will never get to visit them, so that it's like being on an island with a tall tower and a great telescope (through which we can see enticing other places) but no way of building a boat.

Of course going into space is so expensive and so few of us would make the cut as astronauts that hardly anyone realistically expects to become a space explorer, but we would like to live vicariously through other space explorers, but this isn't possible if our explorers never go anywhere. I think the reason people get so wrapped up in the story of the Mars rovers and the Rosetta/Philae mission was that those probes are the most relateable things since people walked on the Moon in the 1970s.

Really, I think we should be doing manned Moon missions regularly. People point out that there's nothing on the Moon that we want, which is sort of true (although we've learned so much since the last time we went that we should reconsider that angle) but that's a dreadfully consumerist mindset. The Moon is a (relatively) accessible destination that we could use as a proving ground for interplanetary exploration techniques. But more importantly, making regular visits or having a permanent outpost there gives people something to project their imaginations onto (including their political and technological imagination). I have a small collection of old newspapers and my favorite is one published the day after the first Moon landing with the simple headline 'Men on Moon'. Reading it still gives me a shiver of excitement, followed by disappointment that we abandoned Moon exploration by the mid 1970s.

One often-forgotten detail of the Moon landing was that at the time there was a Russian observer spacecraft orbiting the Moon, and it dropped down to within 10 miles of the surface at the time of the landing (presumably to observe what the Americans were up to). I saw Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Charlie Rose last week and he was joking that his favorite daydream is meeting the Chinese President at a conference and persuading him to leak a fake memo saying China aims to land a man on Mars, which would galvanize the American body politic back into serious investment in space. Sad but true.
I ll give you one. You can republish email content from the fashion industry and affiliatize every outgoing link via Viglink or Skimlinks. Take your time to select expensive brands, do some basic SEOing, encourage social share, force visitors to give you their email addresss when they get on a deals page before clicking through. Twice a year you will have a brand send you a take down. It will take you some time to get some traffic but you will hit $300 per month eventually.

If you were willing to spend some time in curating the homepage then you could do even better.
I'm not sure if I'm on track, but I think Match.com's acquisitions are of the kind I'm a little sad to see, "competitor squash" kind. A lot of acquisitions are cool. EG, Google bought youtube and they run it well. You might not agree with everything, but it's hard to say youtube suffered. Google just wanted to get into video and youtube knew how to do it right.

BWhen FB buy instagram or match.com buy everyone, it feels like an unfair avenue of competition. I'm not sure if "fair" or "competition" are the right words, but hopefully my point gets across.

Part of the issue is (ironically) well illustrated by OKcupid's blog post.^ In it, they basically said that paid dating sites work worse, because they are paid. It's a fun pick-a-fight blog, so read it if you're interested. Implied (IMO) is that a massive dating site can be run with much lower revenue and be better for users. Doesn't matter if they were right.

OKcupid had a working unique, effective model and their product was different. Then Tinder do it a totally different way and we have more diversity. The difference are cultural, not just a different feature-set. I think that's awesome. But, one business model generates way more money. The others are profitable too and can actually do their job perfectly well (OKcupid anyway) with less revenue. There's no inherent reason not to continue existing and letting a thousand (or like six) flower bloom.

The problem is that removing company A as a threat is worth more (in dollars) to company B than company A costs. So company B buys OKcupid, Tinder, POF and anything else. The wheels of the market are removing choice.

OKcupid still exists. It's fine, but it's doesn't have the same cultural uniqueness. They removed that blog post, for example.

^http://static.izs.me/why-you-should-never-pay-for-online-dat...
Doesn't Uber ban you if you don't accept almost all fares?

The problem with this models is that you're not really an independent contractor - you're simply on-demand casual labour.

The Internet element makes it unnecessary to stand outside the factory gates every morning, which is certainly a benefit.

But all the obligations remain one way. You have to accept the work, but if you decide to take time out you can be "fired" from the system without notice, at will, at random, and with zero come-back against the "employer."
Your claim is sweeping because you're taking the results from one particular case study and extrapolating it out into a generic claim. It's overly simplistic because you're not acknowedging the reality that these conditions could change or may not be applicable in other situations (assuming there were no flaws in the underlying case study analysis to begin with).

Edit: this comment was made in response to toomuchtodo's comment prior to editing stating their claim was neither sweeping nor overly simplistic
Unless you're outside of their jurisdiction.
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No Oort cloud? :(
"How about listening to Helen Caldicott who is an MD and pediatrician"

That would be the same one who (absurdly) claimed that the space shuttle had destroyed 10% of the earth's ozone layer?

The only thing she's "deeply knowledgeable" about is how to incite panic.