skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I did not write what I did because I'm unaware that those that make the argument that "it would be cheaper to adapt" never publicly add "... for us", because the argument gets a lot less palatable if you admit that your plan is to let the peoples of the developing world drown or starve to death...
Yes, I mean continuity of technological development. I suspect that the prior millennium’s dark ages are but a pale inkling of how far a civilization can collapse, especially given geological time scales. I also suspect that technological development can plateau for sociological reasons.
Ask HN: The Internet ceased to exist. How would you design it today?
Imagine the internet has gone clean-slate. You can create it from scratch however you like. Meaning there is no TCP/IP, no HTML, no more CSS, no more web browsers.

What would you change? What would you keep?
> which now contains anything we ever have written or ever will write

It's actually possible to demonstrate that this can't be true. You can calculate an upper bound on the number of different states enumerable in this universe. Basically you assume that each elementary particle is a computer operating at a clock rate of the Planck frequency and multiply by the time between the big bang and the heat death of the universe. The number turns out to be surprisingly small, about 2^500 or so. Longer than this (i.e. any longer than a tweet), and this universe is no longer capable of enumerating all the possibilities.
It was taken out after I said it then.
Try using the Incognito Mode in Chrome.

Of course, that will only give you a public view of a profile, but it seems to hide your identity nonetheless.
Great idea! I'll have to add this to my possible retirement plans.
Britain Owes Reparations to Former Colonies
[Digital nomads] The crowdsourced YC application
Wow, that looks incredible!

I haven't tried it yet, but I seriously need to now.
The drop in operating profit from Q1 to Q2 2014 of about 50% (~$100m) made me look into some of their acquisitions being made for AWS.

Might be able to get more clarity into what they are paying for these undisclosed acquisitions prices, assuming their cost for constructing data farms stays relatively constant.

- Peritor (Ops, Mar 2013)

- ClusterK (Apr 2014, $20M-$50M)

- Amiato (NoSQL, May 2014)

- 2lemetry (IoT, Mar 2014)

- Annapurna Labs (Jan 2015, ~$370M)

- AppThwack (Mobile testing, Jul 2015)
But it's still more http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ than http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ it doesn't take much to get a pleasant design for reading.
As of today, crude is back down to $48.70
Thanks, it is extremely difficult make the spelling of nginx. Maybe the author was a fun of jargon Dictionary: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/construction.html
Another example: Switzerland is building the AFAIK still world's longest train tunnel. It casually went from 8 billion estimated in 1992 to 24 billion and it's still not open.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Eisenbahn-Alpentransversa... (German)
Swedish people are not famous for spelling (or for anything else).
You are warmly welcome!
Yeah, and once Twitter is the dominant way to complain at companies, it will stop being useful...
I'm getting mixed signals. In the comment elsewhere you say the original poster linked #14875, but here you refer to #19776. It's also the case that #19776 isn't even a problem, because using "leak" here is a misnomer. The "still reachable" section doesn't indicate memory that was leaked, but memory that could have been freed but that nobody bothered to. And the reason that this isn't a problem is because failing to explicitly free memory during process exit doesn't matter because the act of exiting will free that memory by definition. There's no leak here; the only reason that issue exists is because it makes the valgrind output slightly annoying when run with certain settings. It's a tooling issue, not a language issue.
The graph generated in your link fluctuates wildly between 0.05 and 0.15. Relying on this for inflation adjustments would be catastrophic.
It's only a matter of time before they split AWS from Amazon, just wondering why they're waiting so long.
That's way more significant than I would have expected. Still, 8% of their revenue contributes 36% of their profits. Makes you wonder why they don't run AWS at the same cutthroat prices as their other businesses.
I don't know, whenever I finish a shoot the first thing I do is go home and delete as many of the photos as I can. The ratio of "great photos"/"photos" is so ridiculously small (like < 1%) that you're realistically never going to use most of the photos you shoot anywhere.
Nice, I also like your introduction very much. I think for discussions that go into multiple directions, there should be some overview over the whole discussion to see how the different branches are connected and also a view to focus the branches separately to go into depth and start reading.

I think a graph can really help to get an overview as it can capture more information about how posts are connected. Also, maybe "reply" is not the only relation which occurs in a discussion. What do you think about a graph-based model?
Can't speak for the original poster but I'd say, without exaggeration, that in relation to what it could be, given its inputs, LinkedIn is the worst website I've ever used.

Even if you consider the number of design dark patterns used and deliberate content obfuscation to be justifiable from a business perspective, they manage to screw up things they don't have an excuse for. The jobs board has an abundance of jobs, unrivalled data to match people with them, and yet shows me very few, with very poor relevance, and big, shiny logos in lieu of a decent headline. LinkedIn Groups was the clunkiest discussion service I've ever seen (although they seem to have tightened it up a bit) which must be part of the reason why article spam vastly exceeds anyone's desire to have significant discussions in there. The UI feels cheap, tacky and glossy and my browser feels like it's choking on the infinite scroll. Even the part of the site which is well executed also happens to be the repository of the world's dullest linkbait...
He followed that with "for example." The Bay Area is one of the largest metros in the US, it's not an awful example. And he also said "many cities," not "most." I think you took snippets to present this in the worst way possible. Be charitable.
Dear Unicorn, Exit Please
Absolute bullshit....
Here are some of my thoughts on your questions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9938332

Valve is solving walking into walls by showing you a holodeck-like barrier inside the headset, so something like that could work with moving objects like kids or the dog over time too. Still, you are quite disconnected from the world that's actually around you.

In terms of making technology more human, I see VR as a stepping stone to Augmented Reality, which will eventually allow us to interact with our hands and instead of being in another world, you'll see things brought into your own world. That is an improvement over a screen too.

But VR can also transport you to places you've never been through 360 video, which is a powerful opportunity to create empathy through journalism and documentaries that can help us better understand how people live halfway across the world. I'm rather excited for that.

While any technology has the potential to further divide or distract us, VR has made me feel things that no other technology has even come close to feeling.
I'm doing the same, except the picks are realistically going to be separated into four and five stars later, where there will probably only be one five-star photo, maybe two if I'm super lucky. The four-star ones may go on Instagram, or they usually just go to the great storage in the sky.
I would highly recommend looking at the
doug engelbart institute website[1]. There are a lot of very interesting ideas both about technology and about human behavior.

I started a project[2] to try and understand these ideas and it has been a very enlightening journey.

Also a better formatted version of Augmenting Human Intellect can be found here[3]

[1]http://dougengelbart.org/

[2]https://github.com/smarks159/hyperdocument-system-wiki

[3]http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html
Lands, at least the better ones, are also borrowing at zero/slightly negative yields:
http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/en/bonds/lfa+f+b+bayern+is+r2...

This happens not (only) because it is safer to keep piles of German bonds than piles of EUR, but because of the unorthodox ECB monetary policy. We certainly live in some very interesting times.
On those timescales mass extinction events (asteroid, supervolcano etc.) become rather probable, which I guess could be what GP was trying to say.
Hanford is a disaster of never-before-seen proportions in the US.. It's going to take decades as well as hundreds of billions of dollars to clean the site. From reading about how the waste was handled there (dumped down deep unlined holes in the flood plane), radioactive tumbleweeds are not the least bit surprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site#Cleanup_era
This man's been dating a crowdsourced Internet girlfriend for the last 3 months
Given some of the pessimism in comments about this idea, a certain XKCD comes to mind - https://xkcd.com/1497/

I'd be really interested to see one of these in Toronto
There's no reason to confine "class" to just mean C++/Java style inheritance, just because it was used that way first.

Besides, most people used prototype based inheritance in this exact manner, so it's good to codify and give a concrete implementation, instead of 200 ad-hoc remakes of the same thing.

Third, people still get all the prototypal flexibility anyway if they want it.
Twitter is perfect for celebrities, they don't need another network.

They never needed twitter. The relationship is largely the other way around.
Try attic, you'll thank me.
Yeah, I had the same question. Starbucks will likely watch to see if this is successful, and if they are will either acquire them or release their own version with MANY more advantages on their side.

Don't get me wrong, I love seeing folks try to compete against entrenched businesses, but there isn't really any sort of major proprietary "moat" here.
Can you sublet?
>If it's truly a standard, there should be no other options.

That has never been the case with most standards. No see why start now. If it's a standard, it should just be present to all engines, and (but not necessarily) the most popular option.

Nothing about it being a standard necessitates it should be "the only option".

>Instead, this sets the stage for lots of OOPish JS which feels very different from a lot of existing code out there

Quite the opposite. This sets the stage for finally having code that looks THE FUCKING SAME as other code.

Instead of 200 ad-hoc implementations of the same exact OOP pattern -- which is what we have now.
Robots- III
You can't have it both ways. "in the meantime" there will also be cases where $6 an hour would have made the difference between having a job and not having one.
Sorry, but can you explain this in layman terms?
Why would they? Amazon is a platform company.
That's the keybindings to use. For example when emacs mode is selected, you can use C-a to jump to home or C-e to jump to the end of the line.

If it is changed to Vi mode then you can hit escape to go to normal mode and then use '0' to jump home or '$' to jump to the end etc.
No need to be sorry :) Personally I'm fine with those types of responses because I'm more interested in the information and not its presentation. However, with that specific question a great answer would also include "why" (why Go uses a different operator there).

The intent ("let me show you how") is definitely good, but it was lost in delivery. It turned out to be like a joke without a setup. Without the missing context it just looks like a non-answer to a simple question.
One of the managers got fired for incompetence, then sued and won over a million euro for being fired without good reason.

Yes, they got a little fat off of it..
I think you'd remember when you get the bill.
A nation is never too deep in debt to host a sports event (or take part in a war)...
Wasn't it obvious?
Yeah. This gentleman (http://zoomcaffe.com/) lasted at the Mountain View Caltrain station for a few weeks before he got kicked out (so I heard). It was very welcome.

I actually found a reddit thread about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1wcg6f/caltrain_tr... .
As someone fortunate enough to be living in a major Australian city, I am perplexed by Starbucks [1]. It didn't catch on here as we already had something better.

One of my favourite cafes is run out of a re-purposed electrical closet in the CBD, with a few nearby tables. They have good coffee. You don't need much space.

Wheelys seems like a pretty reasonable idea. Good stuff!

[1] http://munchies.vice.com/articles/this-is-why-australians-ha...
I'm waiting for Amazon Prime to start bundling server time.
I know a lot of people who intend to take that route but few actually get around to it. Like filing photos into albums in the olden days, "sort, tag, and cull" is perpetually on the to-do list, so photos just pile up instead.

However, the regular people I know (i.e. people who aren't photography enthusiasts) shoot far less than the terabyte/year he mentions, by orders of magnitude. For one, regular people don't shoot RAW, and a typical consumer-level digital camera, shooting JPG, produces photos around 3-4MB each. Even if you shoot 2000-3000 photos a year, you're talking on the order of 10 gigs, not 1000 gigs.
I like it when people say N-GINGKS.
I assume they can infer from order volume and replenishment, mapped against cashflow and supposed inventory turns, whether someone is selling their approved products. From there, they can audit franchisees with unusual patterns.

Example: My revenues are strong, yet my orders from Wheelys are suspiciously low relative to what sort of inventory you'd expect me to be turning. Red flag.
It is not a technological problem, but only an ethical-problem for ethical-people. Like millions of social networks or cloud infrastructures, don't forget of nsa.
Bluemix has a big opportunity here as Heroku has been aggressively kicking out freeloaders lately. My company pays Heroku a lot of money in large part because the developers know how to work with it, but I won't use it for any of my personal play stuff anymore.
Amazon retailer still have competitors coming behind their back, albeit at a distance, but Walmart & co. is nothing to sneeze at.

AWS have about ... zero competition where they are right now. Google CLoud, Azure and the like are not doing quite the same thing just yet.
Maybe they should split the retail business from Amazon instead.
As someone who went from zero to puking in < 5 minutes playing Mirror's Edge, I am super worried about VR.

I have been dreaming of true VR and AR for ages, and as current tech begins to be consumer ready (and affordable) I long for the day I can fully immerse myself. But my motion sickness makes me worry that it will be a new frontier I am entirely locked out of :(

Do you happen to know of any places in the Bay Area where one can go to try these various devices and experiences for free to get a sense of this? I simply can't justify spending the money unless I know with great confidence I won't puke after short usage.
For a second I thought I was on reddit.
I just got back from a trip in Vietnam, I made my way from North to South in just three weeks so my sample size is pretty small, but I pretty much agree with you although the bros/backpackers are definitely not limited to Ho Chi Minh City. Hanoi was my favorite place, it's a crazy yet charming city where you can't escape the green of the jungle - I've never experienced anything else like it. I will definitely go back, it's one of my favorite places on the planet. The only caveat for me is in fact the smell of pollution, as mentioned in the article.
I keep looking at it debating all the issues I see with this product. But then I keep wanting to buy one...

Hrmmmmmmmmmm
On it, thanks. Just made some SSL changes, clearly missed this one. :(
Hey Look, Amazon Actually Turned a Profit
> Assuming random distribution, there's probably thousand fold amount of off plane planets.

For a star like ours with a single Earth-size planet at 1AU, the odds of observing a transit are 0.47%. There is a page devoted to this question which gives some idea of the variables involved: http://certificate.ulo.ucl.ac.uk/modules/year_one/NASA_Keple...
Another example among many: Greece hosting the 2004 Olympics turned out not to be a great financial decision.
I'll ask the uncomfortable question: How conscious are you of how this tech will be abused as a pure advertising medium and how annoying and ugly this potentially will be for users? And how concerned are you by that? Popups were useful once upon a time.

OT: the scrolling hijack for the animation in the middle of your site is really annoying.
That doesn't make sense. AWS allows Amazon (the retail store) to go very deep into the red and the entire company could still be afloat. There's no reason to distance yourself from the most profitable part of your company.
If Starbucks is smart they will let people sit there all day!

The only reason I drink Starbuck's overpriced bitter coffee is because they have been kind to Anyone who walks through their door.

They have allowed anyone(including the homeles) to use their restrooms. Although I think that's starting to change? Watch it Starbucks--some of us notice those Managers who take their job too seriously, like its their bathroom.

I go to Starbucks because of the welcoming environment--period. I don't like anything they serve. I could go to the coffee shop across the street(the Coffee Something), but I remember the time they asked my friend to leave. (He looked homeless, but was worth a few million dollars.)

I will never forget that day, "You get outa here, you don't spend money!" He was actually one of their better customers, but this particular day, the owner was filling in for a employee. He never went back. My friend easily spent $4/ day, and he was there 4-5 days a week. RIP--RBB.
I wish I knew. My last background check was through HireRight, and the only reason I know they have automated systems set up with different employers and agencies is because one of the systems screwed up and needed manual verification.

It might be what Checkr is sitting on top of.
One can only imagine how much Ticketmaster is salivating over this.

>"You mean we can charge insane ticket prices and fees for virtual attendance, with no physical cap on how many people can attend?! Shutup and take my money"
-Random Ticketmaster Exec
You're right about the idea, but a few hours is way too short, because of how the Human body tolerance to strong accelerations.

Assuming an acceleration of 10 m/s^2 (similar to Earth's gravity), it will takes roughly one year to accelerate to a speed close to the speed of light were relativistic effects occurs, and you will need one more year to decelerate.
Assuming you have time and knowledge to do it.
Assuming you own the domain or at least are able to access to its DNS records.
Assuming you can use SNI (and all your visitors too) or have your own IPv4 address.
Assuming $40 is free...

No, even a free certificate doesn't mean that deploying ssl is free.
Correct, but as they said Amazon's retail revenue gets poured back into R&D and other projects, while AWS is left to generate profits. It's a bit like an insurance policy. AWS is definitely Amazon's most profitable "spinoff" product, besides the Kindle I can't really think of anything else they've made so far that has been that successful.
Why did BLAST not work for you? In the comments here you keep mentioning memory, but we've never had that be the bottleneck (and we use BLAST for things much larger than the human genome).

I'm really concerned that the team behind a bioinformatics tool is talking about searching sequences without even a mention of BLAST. It should have been solution #1!
"Let then eat Quinoa"
Sorry about that, was trying to correct the "They'll go out of business" or "They don't really mean unlimited" comments about our business.

We definitely do not support unlimited RAW uploads, and we do recompress videos for streaming (at insanely high quality, though!). Stay tuned on RAW.

Additionally, we limit photos (JPEG, GIF, PNG) to 150MB or 210 Megapixels apiece, and videos to 20 minutes and 3GB. Those have continued to grow over time as additional devices demand them, and I expect that trend to continue.

[1] http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93278-what-...
Portland will devour Wheelys.
Hello. I've just ran into the problem of the reboot loop on my Mazda and have an appointment with the dealership on Tuesday. Could you specify how you fixed this issue yourself?
Haha, probably. But I've been calling it "N.G.I.N.X." for waaaay too long. :P
Uh oh. I didn't realize you were actually on HN. Apologies if my other spiel seems too harsh.

Perhaps the better sounding term would be "engineering practices" rather than "industry practices". If it's a hobby, you still want to get a good result out of your effort. That principle in industry still applies to the hobbyist IMO.

The signal names issue that alain94040 mentioned was just an example of one problem with the code.

Assuming the desired result is to get running on an fpga, I think you need to take a step back for a second and look at the target environment you want to run on and plan out how it will all work.
Happy for you logicrime.
"Why pay a fleet of taxi drivers if the company can build cars that drive themselves?" -- Jeff Holden, Uber.

Wonder how the drivers feel about being an expendable part of the business plan? New cars take capital so it will take time and I've yet to see people pay to be driven by robot drivers.
The idiot who, in railway carriages,
Scribbles on window panes,
We only suffer
To ride on a buffer
In Parliamentary trains.

— W. S. Gilbert, "The Mikado"
We support 4K uploads today, but don't yet offer playback or streaming at greater than 1080p. (We will recompress your 4K to high-bitrate 1080p).

I think it's safe to say we will support 4K sometime in the future, but that's pending customer demand, which we're just not seeing huge amounts of.
Wheelys implicitly depends on vendors violating zoning/permitting regulations. Starbucks can't get involved with those brand/legal risks, unless Wheelys and similar companies lead to a new regulatory environment (a la Uber) where Starbucks can then enter the market or acquire Wheelys.
I'm a US citizen (ông Tây) who lived in Saigon (legally) for ~12 years (2001-13) and spent time in Ha Noi and all I can say is that Saigon and Ha Noi are really different.

It seemed that people who loved Ha Noi did not care for Saigon and visa versa.

You seem to be in the Ha Noi group.

Saigon is a worthy place to visit full of people from different parts of Vietnam and around the world. It is culturally unique.
It may very well be that this iteration does not solve those challenges.

But if you look 5-10 years out, I wouldn't be entirely surprised to see drastically miniaturized components, perhaps a headband of sorts, a Glass-like eyepiece with a projector, maybe contact lenses, or something that provides a strong level of immersion without hiding the face.

In terms of recording the space, the Kinect is able to determine an astonishing amount about a physical space that I imagine would go hand in hand with this.
Probably more like promises of cushy industry jobs if the FDA employees make the "right" decision to not upset the apple cart.
SEPTA IT vendor for papal passes gets $500K a year