mojoe

I'm sure you're correct, but encryption has never stopped movie villains. Kidnapping and coercion is usually the plot device used

Never underestimate the street value either. I wonder if they have an armed escort for this truck -- the hardware must cost on the order of 10-20 million, and the data itself could be worth many multiples of that. Could make a great heist movie.

I'd love to talk shop with your friends, if they're interested please direct them to the site or have them email me at joe@compellingsciencefiction.com!

This looks cool -- I'm using Python right now, but if I ever use javascript lambdas I'll give this a try.

I'm glad that tools like this exist, I wasn't aware of them, thanks

I'll check this out, thanks!

Thanks, I may take you up on that down the road!

If I was the only person in the organization, that might work fine. However, there are two main drivers of this methodology:

1. I need to allow other people to simultaneously evaluate stories, and a database works well to coordinate multiple people accessing the story queue.

2. Having metadata and stories in dynamo/S3 allows for much more flexible querying of ALL stories, to look for patterns, model the data, etc.

Vendor lock-in is very much a spectrum -- in my case, it's the same amount of work to move my Python lambdas to a self-hosted server now as it would have been when I first decided to use AWS Lambda. The only overhead was figuring out the Amazon documentation, which was a pretty trivial one-time deal.

Have you written anything about this, or can you point me to any resources that might help me avoid pitfalls? I'd appreciate it!

Has anyone used the AWS API Gateway service with lambdas to set up a small backend for a web service? The next thing I'm thinking about setting up is a slush reader with a GUI, and I'm wondering how difficult it will be to pipe binary files from S3 -> Lambda -> API Gateway -> client. It looks like I'll probably need to encode the binaries to base64 on the lambda side, and will need a library for that.

It works really well, and was easy to set up since I use AWS Route 53 for DNS.

the tragedy of the commons

Interestingly, I got a job as a senior data scientist at Oracle via a "who's hiring" post, and I found out later that my hiring manager wasn't aware of it at the time. A contractor at an Oracle acquisition posted that the acquisition had open reqs, and I emailed him. He forwarded my info to a recruiter, who passed me along to the hiring manager. When talking with my manager later, we were both amused to discover that he thought I'd been approached by the recruiter, and didn't know about the HN thread.

My first thought was that it's incredible that these startups exist, when the majority of the US population isn't even willing to eat more vegetables. Then I was curious about how many vegetables Americans eat, and I discovered that there isn't much useful data on the subject. This CDC report says that US adults eat (on average) vegetables 1.6 times per day: http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/downloads/state-indicator-repor.... Not a very useful metric.

I always enjoy seeing stuff like this. While it may not make a ton of economic sense for a guy working at Google, I'm happy to see people fill niche knowledge spaces because they can.

It's interesting that the paperback copies sold the best -- I would guess it's because these books are given as gifts (and bought by parents). If anyone has data on this behavior for fiction I'd be interested to hear it (I publish an online science fiction magazine, compellingsciencefiction.com).

I'd recommend digging in to the raw data from the stackoverflow developer survey, there's some good stuff in there

I would very much appreciate it if someone could explain to me the appeal of this art form. I understand that many people enjoy experiencing it and discussing it, but I don't feel like I have the context to understand why. Is it just the joy of an intellectual exercise wherein there is no right answer? Is it one of those things where people are having fun being a part of something that others don't understand? I would guess it's a mixture of many motivations, and if someone who enjoys this art form is willing to explain it to me I'd be very happy to listen!

I'll certainly try this -- if it catches on it could have some significant global effects (global warming, food production, water usage, etc).

I just hope it digests smoothly. I tried "Beyond Meat" and it gave me some pretty terrible gas. Maybe my microbiota wasn't prepped for it or something.

Looking forward to these types of food technologies being refined.

He was my "academic grandfather" (I did research in Amy Palmer's lab at CU Boulder). The number of applications of the fluorescent proteins he helped develop into research tools is staggering. The article mentions their use in cancer and HIV research, but those are just a couple of applications -- at CU we used fluorescent proteins in combination with the phenomenon of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Förster_resonance_energy_tra...) to measure metal ion concentrations in various parts of the cell (my work was specifically calcium ions in mitochondria) in real-time (we were looking at amyloid precursor proteins to investigate Alzheimer's disease). It's hard to overstate how useful this research tool is. Roger will be missed.

There's a video at the bottom of a blog post that was linked to from this article that does a pretty great job of explaining the subsystem for Linux: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subs...

"Poor musical taste"? What is an objective measure of that?

Pandas is certainly excellent -- be aware of it's NA type promotion behavior before you start designing data analysis programs, however. I learned this the hard way:

http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/gotchas.html#nan...

He said 'password requirements' not 'passwords.' I'm assuming he meant the nonsense wherein "you must have a number, lower and upppercase letter, symbol, and a demon-summoning pentagram in your password."

https://xkcd.com/936/

~12 billion inflation-adjusted, but your point stands.

He mentions that 80+% of his assets are now in startups. Having that much money tied up in assets that have no scheduled exit events seems like a pretty strong argument by itself.

Over the course of the last four months I've been posting about my progress on a new science fiction magazine, and this community has provided fantastic feedback:

Pre-release comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11151062

First issue comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11469135

I'm happy to say that the second issue has now been released! Many magazines don't get past the first issue, and I can say that much of the reason we reached issue 2 is because of the support I received on HN. Thanks for being such an awesome community!

Articles like this are ridiculous, because essentially all they say is "guess what, there are some smart people in X group!" There are smart/hard-working/passionate/etc. people in nearly every group. The question is, what are the ratios?

Sources? I'd be curious to see sample sizes and if this was true for 100% of study participants.

When you say categorically that "Productivity DOES decline because any work that requires concentration is substantially more difficult to perform," you're assuming that the majority of people have a harder time concentrating in an open office environment. Based on my own observations, I don't think that's true of every sub-population.

It would be interesting if a researcher tried to quantify this with volunteers from different companies with differing floor plans.