jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The great thing about his lectures is hearing high-level physics being explained in the voice of a Brooklyn taxi driver. Always annoyed me that Asimov moderated his accent for public consumption.
You're still better than I am. I've heard of the latter three, I've never used a single one, and I still find it very difficult to understand what the core of the second one (Mesos) actually is because it's so shrouded in buzzwords and vague descriptions.

All I got was that it's some sort of userspace microkernel geared around abstracting the computing resources of machines (nodes) in categories like CPU/RAM/disk and expose them programmatically through a cluster-wide API. The master daemon makes resource offers to a slave daemon, which in turn runs ported applications (be it Hadoop, Jenkins, ElasticSearch or whatever) called Mesos frameworks that have to be ported to this Scheduler/Executor paradigm (sort of like a cluster resource-level MapReduce, I presume?) in order to perform Tasks.

Mesosphere is the whole stack as an integrated OS. Marathon is pretty easy to understand - it's an init system/framework supervisor that operates on a higher level of abstraction than simple OS processes.

But yeah, it's a pretty tangled mess.
It's nice to see pedantry validated, occasionally.

Still, this will invariably lead to a few arguments behind closed doors:

- "We should obviously standardize on single quotes, since they're shorter than double quotes and save more space!"

- "Our site serves up dozens of pageviews a day – let's spend the next week scrubbing our markup for consistency!"

- "If you're using mixed quotes in your markup, you're Doing It Wrong!"
Yes I agree with your points. On our 1U boxes we run 8 drives in RAID6. On our 2U boxes we run 22 drives in RAID6 + 2 hot spares. So we use a similar approach in having hot spares on the bigger boxes.

As pointed out in the article, using distributed block storage means you need a pretty high performance storage network and low latency is just as important as high bandwidth.

We already have a physically separated storage network that runs in parallel to our public network. This is used primarily for drive traffic over iSCSI. We have a standard gigabit redundant network for this. As a physically separated network it means we don't get data integrity issues caused by DOS for example.

Moving to distributed block storage will mean we will upgrade our storage back-end to either 10Gbps Ethernet or Infiniband. The advantage of Infiniband is that as a cloud provider we will have essentially a large grid which is what Infiniband is meant for. We can also use 40Gbps per port so with dual networking can go up to 80Gbps relatively cost effectively. Just as important is the super low latency. Suffice to say we are ahead of the software on this one :-)

I think its important to point out that as storage moves to these sorts of systems it will be come increasing difficult to replicate such a setup in a redundant fashion on dedicated hardware. As a cloud provider we spread the cost over many customers.

Best wishes,

Patrick, CEO, CloudSigma
To start:

For the rule of 90: http://www.mnpera.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={079559...

For salary increased this year and over last ten: http://teacherportal.com/salary/Minnesota-teacher-salary
They are almost certainly doing this; question is whether they will file it.

FB's noise around this feels very out of character, even for something that's devolved into a personal conflict. They may be truly scared of the update.
I would add US sponsorship of opioid addiction, police violence, lax firearm laws.
When there are more people who want to do a job, than there are slots for doing that job, no matter what the economic system you have to do one of three things:

1) pay lower wages until some of the people leave the profession

2) use some kind of essentially random (even if theoretically bureaucratic or administrative) method to assign those slots to people; for example, you can only do this job if your parents happen to be people in the industry

3) vicious back-stabbing politics and sharp elbows, as people who want those jobs suck up to the ones who get to choose who gets them

4) conditions (other than wages) in that profession get so bad that people become dispirited and drop out

You also see this in certain areas of academia, or in the music industry, or many other fields. There can be combinations of these methods, of course.

The best way around this conundrum (that I know of), is to do this as an avocation rather than a vocation. For example, the many people who have composed music, written novels, etc. on the side while earning their money in other ways. It's not a perfect method, but it's the best (least soul-eating) way I know of.
Surely, some of it was also political theatre to give the US administration a win in the region (Mission Accomplished, all over again) in exchange for the sale of advanced weapons systems. Just my two cents.
Exactly. When will the world come to its senses on abortion and realize it's the basic human right of a pregnant person to abort a pregnancy they don't want?
Super frickn cool! I was dying for this feature.
I've never heard of Prof. Mary Wootters before. I wonder if there's any relation to Prof. William Wootters. Neither mentions that in their biography but it's not a terribly common name, and both seem to work at the intersection of physics and information theory.
Are people involved with a "satellite news channel" not journalists too?
Following to the local news story:

> Other travelers KVUE talked to say they empathize with
> Hirschkind, but the law is the law.

Huh? That's such a fucking cop-out.

"The law is the law. If the law says that the political elite are allowed to rape and pillage the peons, then you can't argue with that. It's the law. I empathize with peons that are raped and pillaged, but the laws are created by a higher power, and they are right (and just) just due to their very existence."
If you have separate monitors for your PC/Mac, check out: http://synergy-foss.org/ - it's a software keyboard/mouse switcher. I have my PC and Mac Mini hooked up such that I can just copy something on my PC, move my mouse over to OSX and paste it. It's really awesome though the software took a LOT of configuring (on the OSX-side) to get everything right.
Suffering from a case of empty-nest syndrome (daughter is away for the holidays) so I am entertaining myself with this little problem.

I first installed TruCrypt and created a 100MB file inside of Dropbox with AES-Serpent-Twofish encryption.

Then I mounted the file as a volume, then installed Pidgin Portable on the volume.

Everything seems to work fine, and is self contained.
- persistent logging [in dropbox]

- encrypted logging [log files are inside the pidgin directory, inside the encrypted volume]

- the ability to turn off logging for a specific conversation [OTR pidgin/adium plugin]

- the ability to edit / delete parts of log files and have those changes eventually reflect to all other machines, Dropbox-style [can edit log files which are stored as html, if needed]

- multi-service (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, perhaps IRC too?) [yup]

Key management is the only issue, as I have never used TruCrypt before, I will leave that as an exercise for the OP.
why is this topic grey?
> It really seems like they're throwing good money after bad.

When making rich people richer is the primary goal, it all makes sense.
When you have the superiority the US sports, it's not hard to win a war. It becomes a question of what you're willing to do to win it.

The US is one of the only countries in history to have to deal with that question. Defeat Iran? Easy: nukes, or a never-ending bombing campaign that leaves nothing left standing. Throughout most of history, the problem with defeating an enemy wasn't a question of: well, but can we do it without killing too many people.

North Korea's army is worthless. They're extraordinarily backwards, poorly trained, and with mediocre equipment. The problem would be the guerrilla warfare part, much like Vietnam.

Iraq had one of the largest armies as well, and the world watched in shock as the US trivially dismantled it. The US would dismantle the standing North Korean military very quickly, it would be the next stage of the fight that would be terrible.

If the US had a reason to really want to topple North Korea, the easy thing to do would be to make a deal with China: they get Taiwan tomorrow morning, and they allow North Korea to collapse, don't get involved if the US fights a war with North Korea, etc. China would make that deal in a heartbeat.

The biggest problem in fighting a war with North Korea, as everyone knows, is the damage that would be done to South Korea.
I don't think everyone knew everyone else very well in ancient cities like Rome, Athens and many others. Certainly more people historically lived in villages, but cities have been around for millenia and even in villages people were more intimate with their family than everyone else.
I'm very happy to see this article and more people taking this mindset.

Many people don't even know the context or the original quote. And many times I've seen discussions about improving a piece of code shot down by a single incantation of this Knuth. It's sad.
>the best antidote against the anthropogenic origins of animal invasions is wildlife education. If more people understood that raccoons do not make good pets, no matter how adorable, Japan might not be in the unfortunate position in which they now find themselves

Not a particularly good solution in a world without time travel.
I think you may be interpreting his words too literally, which is funny, as this whole thing is about people misinterpreting him. I believe the quote in question was hyperbole, and the intention was (a) to lighten things up with a little chuckle, and (b) to demonstrate that he strongly disagrees with people who believe women are inferior.

If you give the author the benefit of the doubt, then I think you'll find him to be a painfully nice person, and he really doesn't deserve your (or anyone else's) anger.
Personally, I would rather than Hollywood produce more $10 million movies that return $12 million.
While I seem to have negligently exaggerated on the exclusivity of the iPhone 4's resolution independence, the spirit of the article is still there and the points are still valid. iOS's implementation of resolution independence is the best and most standardized implementation that exists.
No, that's just because P(X=x)*P(Y=y) = P(Z²=(x²+y²)).

I think you could do a reasonable job by dividing first into two hemispheres, then into six(?) triangular sectors each, then recursively into four subsectors each. This would give log4(510 Mkm²/2/6/100 m^2) = 19.3 recursions, or 43 bits to reach a 100m² accuracy, assuming it really does divide nicely. Won't be square, though. Then you'd have to decide whether to use the remaining 5 bits on a checksum, or to allow arbitrary precision. Or I suppose you could add a checksum there, and interpret any further bytes as unchecked precision.

I wonder if six subsectors are required in the first phase to construct the voronoi cells. The triangular scheme should work fine with four, which seems more elegant.
im at panera bread and this cartoon made me laugh really hard to the point people were looking at me funny. thank you, I needed that laugh :).
I listened to said NPR programme and the guy speculated the resources might have been known all along, but only now did the (high) price of these minerals and the (low) cost of their extraction make them more attractive.

I, personally, have a more cynical and conspiratorial view of things: I think the U.S. intelligence cooked up the trillion figure in order to wane the production of opium for at least a decade, by promising Afghans a better bounty and a reason to form national unity. Mineral extraction is an expensive undertaking that can't be done by stealth mobile units in friendly pockets; the whole country has to come together.

What strengthens my suspicion is the U.S's willingness to announce this "finding", despite the possibility of undermining its presence there. The Taliban can always say the Americans knew about this all along and have fabricated excuses to invade us.

$50 on longbet, with a 10 year maturity :-)
The person apparently knows about the mvc pattern thoug. There's a controller in there!

Still deserves death, though
I don't think it could support it could support SMP since it would require on chip support, which isn't there now.

Also, the cache coherence traffic/noise at 512 cpus would be serious problem anyway.
Good resource. I've asked a few people on the list.

(I wish more the people on the list had clearer Twitter bios. Reminds me to clean mine up.)
Underwater drilling doesn't really supply a whole lot of energy but does bring a ton of risk. Aside from people who think shouting "drill baby drill" repeatedly is an energy policy, nobody really thinks it's the future.

The ultimate solution is getting past oil, by giving real funding to sustainable energy projects. Europe and China are going to kick our ass at this unless we step it up.
Gina Trapani
The lottery is different from that. The red flag being raised when you don't get a green card is mainly because your previous application process's issues still exist. For example, if you are scamming the system on a fake asylum request, you are unlikely to get a green card next time around even if you apply through an employment based system. The lottery is a randomized draw.

Source: I applied for the lottery three times. In the middle of this, I moved to the U.S. on a visa, switched visas, finally got the lottery and got a gc.
Well I'll just go let all those victims of harassment know that it doesn't matter how they feel, hyperventilator has overridden them.
> I wonder what crime they believe that Miranda might have committed?

Breach of The Official Secrets Act[1]. Although I think the investigation is probably focused more on Greenwald (and The Guardian) than Miranda.

[1] http://www.yourrights.org.uk/yourrights/right-of-free-expres...
> "information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism"

In a hilarious twist, they find the US Government is committing an act of terrorism by monitoring the communications of every single British citizen. </sarcasm>
Kind of depends on what you're trying to build/achieve, wouldn't you say? It sounds like you're not trying to build a large business, instead it sounds like you're looking for a hobby, which is perfectly fine.

But, if you were trying to build a viable business, you can't have a business without revenue, and you can't really have revenue without traction.
If the experiments on monkeys would lead to a medicine that would improve life of millions, would you still ban it "for the sake of humanity"? Ethics sure have its place, but it must not hinder the vital progress. Today you save monkey from being "treated unethically", tomorrow you die with the same monkey from unstudied disease.
Sorry if that came off as condescension. That wasn't the intent. I just found the link rather interesting. (And I'll admit I do tend to be rather pedantic, so apologies.)
After all the discussions HN has had on this topic, I'm still waiting for someone to pop up with "Yeah, I've been doing this for two years now and I'd never go back." So far the stories have all been in agreement... "it sort of kind of worked for maybe a month or twoish (with rare people sticking somewhat longer), then I hit a wall because I was ever so slightly bumped off the schedule and I just fell apart. Also in hindsight I realize that I wasn't doing as well as I thought I was at the time."

So far I'm not seeing any concrete evidence that the general idea of polyphasic sleep is anything but wishful thinking. I recognize that anecdotes are not data, but after a while the complete lack of even anecdotes of success, after the number of people trying it publicly, is itself evidence of a sort.

"Biphasic", or "afternoon naps", by comparison, are indeed quite natural, though I'm not sure I've seen that much convincing evidence that night sleep+naps is universally better or worse than just night sleep. Individual differences are probably swamping any attempt to make sweeping declarations. Personally I do a lot of "just listen to my body" here and over the years and various growth and health stages I've swung all around on what I seem to need.
It bugs me that the numerical for-loop in Terra has identical syntax to Lua's, but different semantics. Especially since you are encouraged to mix Lua and Terra code in the same file. Even something like:

for i = 0, < 10 do --[[ ... ]] end

...and throwing a compile error if you omit the <, though arguably ugly and weird, would still have been preferable I think.
A more apt comparison would be that in 20 years it's discovered that all baseball caps of the previous decade had the NSA's brain scanners in them, which NewEra denies the whole time.
In technology circles a company that is only surviving because the ecosystem is holding them up is already dead. I watched Sun put DEC there, and it pained me to see Sun get put into the same place by folks like Dell and HP.
My guess is the firewall functionality will stay as long as IPv4 and thus NAT remain relevant. Once IPv4 has faded into obscurity, we'll see the advent of IPv6-only routers that are really only dumb routers ... and wireless access points.
Thanks, I updated the title.

SFTPGo supports virtual quota and bandwidth throttling too. I think they are hard to implement using OpenSSH.

For the next release I'm working on Git support so that you can host git repo over ssh with virtual accounts, quota, bandwidth throttling. I think this could be an interesting feature too
What kind of broken logic can conclude that this is the extent of my “scope” from what I said? An easier conclusion to arrive at is that I figure it’s one of the few memes we probably have in common, and chose it because memes are an excellent source of connotations.
I'm an open book! Ask any question that you would like!

Here's the thing - all of this info is out there (largely in other HN threads on this topic) and I'm nothing special in my field-of-knowledge ;)

I'm confident if people fully prevented my "abuse" they'd start to block actual users... simple as that.
Because there are structural incentives for people involved to make money from it nefariously - so they will inevitably.
As long as they use it to reduce wait times at the DMV and invest it in technological improvements.. I don't think I have a problem with it. They own my information anyway, the government compels me to give them my info, so if they're using it wisely... more power to them.
Why do we need apps with local scope if the aim is to meet in person anyway? Can't we just build clubs/pubs for singles only, with one age group per day of week and security to keep things safe and gender ratios balanced? There's even a good, well-tested monetisation scheme that doesn't have an effect on quality of matches...
Another option is the use of API keys that are separated into two types -- partners and end-users. The partner API keys would be bound to a particular end-point (e.g., the IP address of the web server) while the end-user API key could be used from anywhere (e.g., from a mobile device).
His post links to a post on the Cultured Code website. He is dissecting their post.
I'm not sure what you get for $50/month, but I had an ebook site a few years ago, and I wrote a custom script that automatically watermarked the PDF with the PayPal email address of the buyer. It was just plain PHP so I could host it on my $6/month unlimited domain shared hosting along with 50 other sites I had there, making the cost negligible.
My 2 year old son love this not surprised to see this many downloads!
Apple didn't say "SDK and copy-paste coming soon" and then take two years to not deliver them.
Interesting find. It seems to have been left to collect dust. Last changes are about 3 years ago.
How is this on topic?

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Once one has power, what do they need understanding for? From our perspective, we would like the powerful to use their power wisely. From the perspective of someone with power, they are very unlikely to consider themselves unwise and in need of more understanding. And who is going to tell someone with power that they are unwise and lack understanding?
Yeah, I agree. We live in frameworks built upon other frameworks sorta world. We do not learn how to code, we learn how to use specific frameworks that will get replaced by a fancier one 2 years later.

That, and most package repository browsers have statistics and people are racing. How many times has it been downloaded? How many projects use it? How many stars did it get?

The more one liners you submit as a package, the better, it seems, as well.
The trick used in the US is that if you do not offer this information you get a ridiculously short legal-minimum warranty.
> color actually matters and demonstrates a serious commitment to avoiding groupthink

This statement is based on the racist assumption that skin color makes you think differently. A middle class Asian person who went to college at Stanford is going to think identically to a white middle class person who went to college. A white person who grew up dirt poor and self taught online is going to be vastly different from either.
If those traits are valued at that company, that seems like a perfect reason to ask that question then. Better to identify the misalignment in values early, and if it means a candidate walks out, so much the better for avoiding either party wasting the other's time.
One thing I wish this mentioned in the "Ugly" section is how allowing Javascript, and to some extent using XML, creates security issues, such as potential XSS (because of javscript), XXE (because of XML), etc. You can avoid vulnerabilities if you're careful. But you have to be careful, and know what to look out for.

> Instead you compile it into an PDF (which is also a horrible format and badly bloated, but well)

Yeah... PDF might actually be worse in some ways (and it can have javascript too). With SVG, it isn't too hard to be able to use a subset of SVG to generate images. With PDF though, just making a valid, useful PDF is pretty complicated and requires a decent understanding of the spec (which is big). Being able to properly render any valid PDF is probably even worse.
Sadly, no. Statins have been successful at preventing Nth heart attacks, N>1, with some evidence of preventing first heart attacks in people badly at risk, i.e. already with heart disease. It is far from clear how that works.

Vendors have eagerly sought for any hint of evidence of preventing heart disease, or anything else, for decades, and have come up empty. That does not stop physicians from prescribing statins for slightly elevated cholesterol. Pharmaceutical companies love drugs like statins that don't cure anything, so you have to take them every month, forever. They have proven very skilled at manipulating the opinions of medical doctors, e.g. scandalously in the case recent case of opioids.

Making your liver ignore signals to produce the cholesterol your body needs to function is a very bad idea, on par with irradiating your thymus gland when it becomes enlarged (which was done, and recently! Your thymus gland is part of your immune system, enlarged when it is working.)
I was trained out of my grandmother’s accent in elementary school, because my teachers knew that biases against it would hinder me later in life. It’s a shame. If I can claim to have any wit, she’s the influence that deserves most of the credit.