skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I was using the last version in all machines (some mint, some arch).

I was trying to sync seven machines in three different physical locations, some with slow internet connectivity; only one machine in each location had its syncthing ports open to the internet through NAT. I'm not sure it's a supported use case: syncing in the same LAN generally worked fine, but changes often didn't propagate correctly to other locations; for instance a folder name change sometimes was not propagated to the remote locations, and after some time the machine in which the rename had happened detected that the rest of the machines in the syncthing group had a folder which didn't exist locally (the folder with the old name), and downloaded it from its peers. The result was that the folder was duplicated everywhere, with both the old and the new name.

The same happened sometimes with deletions: sometimes they didn't propagate over LAN boundaries, and this resulted in the deleted files reappearing after some time.

A machine staying "syncing..." forever also happened sometimes, requiring a manual restart of the service. I couldn't reliably reproduce it though.

I like the project and I'm sure if I reported the issues in github they'd have given support. I wish I had the time for properly reporting and investigating, but I really needed a syncing solution I could trust for a small business and I needed it ASAP, so I settled for owncloud (which for the moment has not given me any surprises). I will try to find some time to reproduce the bugs in my personal machines and report them, but I really didn't have the time when I found them.
You don't have to switch to NixOS; you can run the nix package manager on any linux distribution or on OS X.

https://nixos.org/nix/

https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix_on_OS_X

A development team has to standardize on some things. Everyone might use their own text editor, but everyone can't use their own dependency management system.
This could be great for some king of things but maybe annoying because of spammers
Finally some changes for the better! The charm and success of Twitter is probably partly because it is a dead simple concept. But I still wish they add more new features:
http://piks.nl/wordpress/if-i-were-the-ceo-of-twitter/
AWS Case Study: Coinbase
My main complaint with the Economist (as a subscriber) is that it doesn't display it's biases openly - it often presents controversial economic or social positions as settled fact in a neutral style. If you didn't know the subject it was writing on you would think they were presenting the orthodox position.
This year, I read an article in The Economist where they endorsed the opposition candidate (Buhari) for the upcoming Presidential election in Nigeria. The article stated that Buhari had thrice contested before and lost the presidential elections and each time accepted the verdict. But that turned out to be false (and the comments in the article said so but Economist did not update the article). Each time Buhari lost the election, he challenged the results (as he had a right to) all the way to the Supreme Court.
> Publicly accessible email addresses are nearly impossible to manage.

That's hard to believe when many companies offer a support@company.com, twitter, facebook, phone or other means of public contact.

And why would every visitor contact the owner of the website? Have you ever sent email or wanted to send email to Comcast, Microsoft or any other interesting company? I would imagine only a small number of people would ever contact or even want to contact reddit administration (simply because the subreddits are managed by other people). And I'm sure 90% of those who contact reddit could be replied with pre-typed message of "We have no control of the subreddits - please contact the subreddit moderators".
Yeah, I thought the scope was far too limited to be of any use outside of a small (but admittedly significant) area.
It would be nice if the battery had multiple outputs: for example, connect the capacitor to just the starter motor and have a second output for everything else. This way all the lights in the car would not dim during starting (why should the electronics have to deal with brown-outs?). Diodes could be used for the charging current input.
Have you calculated how much money a typical driver would save in fuel due to losing 34 lbs of weight?

I have no idea if this ends up being a significant number, but I think the average driver spends somewhere around $10k in fuel over the expected lifetime of this battery; if cutting down the weight by 1-2% reduces fuel consumption by a comparable amount then Ohm would pay for itself.
It looks like they just put a planning algorithm on top of a deep learning algorithm. I think this ignores the advancements of reinforcement learning. And I don't think this model adds to much. A GA isn't enough to do high level planning, and you need more than just a big neural net to get AGI.
What to do with the scary message? Does this affect the OS version of git or just the version that this Github application uses?

OS X 10.9 and later includes Git, so GitHub Desktop will no longer install Git as part of its command line tools.

The version of Git you have installed through GitHub Desktop is no longer supported. It's recommended that you uninstall it as soon as possible.
Yeah, banning Reddit, Imgur, Twitter, Instagram, Gawker Media, Facebook and Hacker News would probably solve the national debt problem AND world hunger in a few months :-D
Reminded me of MSN Messenger, AIM, Yahoo, ICQ...in 20 years from today I guess we'll have yet another string of service names dominating our signatures and about-me's.
To me it's their pro-every-war stance. Especially Syria. Did we not learn any lesson from Iraq?
The site is very nice, but how does anyone afford houses that expensive in those areas?

I live in Texas and my nice modern 2000 SF house is only $190.
Like markdown, 3+ leading spaces.

mov rax, 0xdeadbeef
For me it has a few too many annoying shell quirks for me to use daily (try a ctrl-c inside a psql prompt - always screws up my screen session for some reason...)
With regards to 5, my understanding is that car batteries are as big as they are because of the need to have over-capacity for reliability. Lead acid batteries are actually kind of fragile in the grand scheme of things. Charge controller smarts can trump over-capacity in the right context, however.
Please don't post political horse-race stories to HN.
Modern cars behave like this already (which is a potential problem for the new battery in itself.)
Roskomnadzor (the organization managing the runet blacklist) is known to ban sites for absurd reasons. For example, they added[1] github for a very old text about ridiculous ways to kill oneself (for example, as far as I remember, "sticking two pencils into your nose" and "pressing the Red Button" among them). After github blocked these for Russian ip addresses, the service was restored.

Either way, in this case I'd bet on incompetence rather than political play.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8401784 — relevant HN submission
The appeal of Docker is that containers give you repeatable deployments. Once you have an image, you can deploy it in a well-defined way. But it punts on the question of how you build the image.

Nix provides repeatable deployments at the package level. The destination environment can be a user's environment, a container, a VM, a cloud instance, an NixOS machine, an HTTP server or whatever.

Once you're using nix, I don't see any point in using Docker. If you're running Mesos or something like that, it might be worthwhile to build containers for deployment, but if all you want is your packages on a server, Nix gives you that out of the box.
It may seem nit-picky, but the word "toxin" refers to a harmful substance produced by a living organism (e.g. snake venom). For a synthesized or manufactured chemical that is harmful, "toxicant" or simply toxic chemical is the correct term.
I've had a similar-but-different experience around being taken seriously with my app Complice. I'd be making small talk with other entrepreneurs (often students or whatever) and people would regularly break the ice with, "So what's your idea?"

...and I'm like "idea? I have a business. I make my living off of this idea."
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How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2
Riviera is a recruitment firm, not an investment firm, so I'd assume their data comes from positions they've been hired to fill.
Hey, thanks for the heads up. I don't think it's probably down (I was able to reach it), but probably timed out due to the limits of Heroku's free tier.
> they didn't make it at all clear they were a legitimate Russian government organization.

That would require the current admins to actually look at and consider the response. They could have mailed Putin himself as an attachment and it'd still be sitting in a spam folder...
Wars:newspapers :: batteries:flashlights. It's always been that way.
In 5-20 years we will be able to grow food 30x cheaper in highly efficient bacteria and algae tanks: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/31zo1r/a_future...

Who knows what we will be able to do in 5,000 years. I wouldn't worry about it.
You're probably getting downvoted because a c*4 discharge rate implies over 3 kilowatts continuous draw, which is rather unlikely.

Probably your battery is near dead.

Also F150 pickup trucks are about $60K when loaded with options. Those guys are free spenders compared to commuter car drivers.
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For starters, the news just broke that we're backed by YCombinator for our first phase of the business:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10050481

First we're focusing on making the open-source foundation awesome. Take a look at our GitHub for our current work making the installation easy, builds fast, and supporting all the AWS services and regions that everyone wants:

https://github.com/convox/

The next phase will be commercial support and managed hosting. Reach out to support@convox.com if this is something you or your team are interested in.

Past that, we are carefully studying other successful open-source technology companies. Something like the nginx "open core" could work great for "enterprise" features like role based access control or auditing.
Bayview has a reputation of having extreme amounts of crime. At least, that's my perception as someone who lives in the Bay Area.
If you didn't catch The Economist's biases on a cursory reading of one issue, that's on you. Simply skimming one of the leader opinion pieces and comparing it to, e.g., a Krugman column, should tell you that the authors would come to blows.

Besides, what is an "orthodox" position? Whose?
What's unspoken is that their list is probably all startups.

If you work at established companies, or late stage startups, the total equity package is going to be higher.

That is, I'm pretty sure that if you work for Uber, Twitter, FB, Netflix, etc, you will be making well north of 200k+ a year if you are senior+.
I find that nice pair of in-ear etymotics with their biggest foam tips is the best way to block out noise.

The noise isolation is so strong that I can't even listen to music at higher than half volume without discomfort.
My first hit was a forum post from June 2014, some of the advice is out-of-date: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/business/Cdxw...

This was one of the most helpful posts:

Google has a bias against web designers and seo in the scheme of things. So things that are easy for your clients are not going to be as easy for you.

There are some things that will increase the likelihood of the panel showing (although these are no guarantee by any means)

1- Use Schema formatting for your address information on your site

2- Work to increase your businesses location prominence by getting recognized across the internet, get more citations ( you have very few), links and reviews

3- Build up followers on G+. 100 is a number that I have heard bandied about but quality of followers trumps quantity.

As an aside Google prefers location based businesses to NOT use a profile photo for their business. They prefer a shot of your store front or perhaps an interior shot.

Also be sure that you are in compliance with Google's naming rules offline and on. You have some keywords in your name which might or might not be in violation depending on how you are legally named, how you are known in the market place, how you answer the phone etc

So it looks like an algorithmic thing, not something you would sign up for.

Also, this help page was suggested, it has a lot of suggestions: https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177?hl=en

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Edit: This forum post suggests making sure Wikipedia is up-to-date, as that's one of the Knowledge Panel's sources: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/business/JsEL...
We layed out for about 45 min last night and only saw one, but it was pretty huge and amazing. It even had a slight orange glow. It still doesn't beat the one from 2 years ago but it was good.
That's not how it works. By design, there is still plenty of capacity left in the battery when the car's computer shuts down the accessories.

The accessory draw is enough to lower the (indicated) terminal voltage from about 12.6 volts to about 12.0 in 15-30 minutes, depending on what accessories are actually turned on.
Chernobyl made a lot larger part of the planet uninhabitable than Fukushima did.
This is for the "IT 1%ers", those Bay Area/SV kids that make middle 6 digits 2 years out of college. The rest of the world has to make do.
Hillary Clinton Vies to Be the First Emoji President
As long as they are changing stuff I'd like to see Twitter move from counting the total number of characters in a @username to having them count instead as only a small fixed number (say 2 characters) in a similar fashion to how URLs no matter how long or short count as 22 characters. This would put all users on an equal footing and could potentially decrease the number of hacking attempts on those accounts with the shortest usernames (which is apparently a problem).
Even if the code can't break out, be aware of other issues of non-fully virtualized multi-tenancy:

https://www.cs.unc.edu/~reiter/papers/2014/CCS1.pdf
You could see that as "false advertising", but considering they link to the Apple TOS they're not really hiding everything.

And actually, merely adding features doesn't seem to be forbidden as long as the features you add are not "inconsistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application as submitted to the App Store"

So let's say you release a file manager and later, surprise! It's also a SNES emulator! Well, then yes, I can see that against the TOS. But if you're just making improvements to your app, I don't see a problem.
Agreeing to serve an Error 451[1] page to Russian IP addresses, for the offending content in question only, would be a cute resolution to all this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
Just how specifically does it identify its findings? Will it just say "this looks like a common buffer overflow/format string bug/etc." or can it say things like "this embeds openssl 0.9.8q, which is horribly insecure"?
So aside from what's been said, I can get this for $200
http://www.batteryspace.com/Powerizer-LiFePO4-Battery-12V-15... and it has 50% more storage than what is being advertised. What's the difference? The supercapacitors?
So, nix actually tries to solve the problem of "what are your dependencies, how are they declared, how are interdependent parts related to each other?" where docker just goes "screw it. nobody's ever going to be able to tame this tangle. let's just throw it all in behind an os container and let it do what it wants"

I've recently nixified the (really very complicated) deployment of our main webapp at work and I now have the entire setup of the webapp defined in about 5 .nix files. That's a really relaxing place to be in (compared to how things were before).
A) That $3500 figure (I've seen $3200) is across all SF neighborhoods, and the various neighborhoods experience enough variation to render a median figure less than useful for planning.

B) Anecdotally, many people do take roommate, especially junior engineers (early- to mid-twenties) at least to start with. The reality of living in an expensive city is that you will have to make certain accommodations to your lifestyle if you also want to enjoy the benefits of city living.

Living in the city isn't for everyone, but I think most people are aware that the tradeoff on commute is that you get a shorter one if you take a smaller house.
Possibly, but it would seem to nonetheless also demonstrate why regulation also doesn't work in practice.

From the article.
"...THE FEDERAL TOXIC SUBSTANCES Control Act requires companies that work with chemicals to report to the Environmental Protection Agency any evidence they find that shows or even suggests that they are harmful..."

What many people don't realize, is that EPA and FDA rely on the trust of the private industry to submit accurate test data. This was the same issue with Vioxx.

People don't know to test also because they assume these agencies are protecting them. If property rights had more of a role, then there would be a greater call for testing and likely there would be more testing services available due to demand.

From article.
"... If these polluters were ever forced to clean up the chemical, which has been detected by the EPA 716 times across water systems in 29 states, and in some areas may be present at dangerous levels, the costs could be astronomical..."

I doubt this will happen, since the regulatory agencies attempt to prevent harm to the industry. A proponent of property rights would have no issue with the companies paying for every bit of damages and cleanup no matter how much damage is done to the business even if it must be shutdown.

Another example of EPA being aware of a problem and siding with industry against the individual
http://www.ewg.org/research/free-pass-oil-and-gas/oil-and-ga...

An example case in Canada where property rights did work
http://environment.probeinternational.org/1993/07/17/how-the...

This is a good reference on the history of environmental policy. In an interesting section here, the book states how property rights in the US were purposely weakened to allow for pollution.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqRjI6JcgrMC&lpg=PA127&pg=...

What I would like to see is a return to stronger enforcement of property rights by default and supplemented as necessary by agency regulation.
"The worse the better": I'd rather government banned whole internet except kremlin.ru and everyone and their dog learned how to use proxies and vpns.

Other than that, as I noted in the other comment thread, I wouldn't read too much into this event. Roskomnadzor is a ridiculously stupid organization, I doubt they even knew reddit is a Big Deal in the West.
Why an app developer stopped coding and started marketing
I noticed the same thing. The salaries are about 1.3-1.5x mine, but a quick search on Trulia shows rent prices 2.4x mine. Seems like a losing deal.
You rather blithely move between talking about "San Francisco" and "the bay area," but they're different, and the ultra-high rents are much more a San Francisco thing than a bay area thing.
Did they clear the Golden Gate Bridge?
I'm sure most hardcore Linux users would consider using a GUI to use git would be embarrassing / insulting TBF.

I mean git add, git commit, and git push/pull is 95% of what you'd do with git and it's not rocket science.
Heroku is down
JFYI, LiveJournal, Github and many other sites are already doing this.

Edit: Slight correction, Github responds with HTTP 200 and a "banned by your government" stub, lj.rossia.org does the same (shows the 451 code in their message though) and livejournal uses 404 code for the "banned by your government" stub. I figure it's because it's not yet in the http standard or something.
Thanks. We can talk at any time.
And that's why you base decisions on facts rather than emotions. Nuclear power is safe, and only getting safer as time goes on. The Fukushima plant was 40 years old, not state of the art (even when it was built). It does not reflect the nuclear industry as a whole, just some very bad decisions from people who knew better.

All the deaths at Fukushima (18,500) were from the tsunami itself. Nobody got radiation poisoning, and there is only a modest increase in cancer risks [1].

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/28/us-japan-nuclear-c...

But experts said the overall risk was small. The radiation exposure means about 1.25 out of every 100 girls in the area could develop thyroid cancer over their lifetime, instead of the natural rate of about 0.75 percent.

edit: Nobody vote this up anymore, I'm at 1337 points and I'd like to keep it there
Much nicer, thanks!
A rent to revenue ratio of 15% is crazy for most companies, and downright insane for a startup that doesn't have anywhere near enough revenue to cover payroll.

For comparison, according to Cushman & Wakefield, law firms, many of which have space in expensive buildings with prestigious addresses, spent about 6% of gross revenue on their real estate in 2014.

I hope the investors who are funding these kinds of startups have some exposure to real estate funds that own commercial space in the Bay Area because that's where a lot of their money is going.
Can you imagine Oracle's Romanian sales team trying to explain it to their customers?

https://translate.google.com/?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&client=tw-ob#ro...
I've used both Kubernetes and ECS. In my opinion, both of those are still pretty raw for developers. There's a lot of generating configuration files (which need to be understood) and configuration that's best left to a DevOps team. Want to setup an ECS cluster? You have to understand VPC, EC2, IAM, CloudFormation etc. Google's situation is a little better, but there's still a lot to understand and some weirdness around connecting that cluster to a cloud MySQL database.

If you look at what Convox is shooting for, its sensible defaults. Developers should be able to put together a docker-compose.yml file that describes their infrastructure services and deploy that into some stack that can figure it out. They just need to know a few convox commands without having to understand the bajillion pieces in the AWS stack that would have to be put together manually.

At the very least, convox will force all of these other clustering tools to simplify and think more about the developer experience, which is a net win for the entire ecosystem.
It's tough! As a company we're trying to make it cheaper by refunding half of our commission back to the buyer [0]. If you're doing an FHA loan, that can be almost 50% of the down payment. We can also help with the purchase of low income housing if you qualify [1]. We're actually thinking about building some tools to make this inventory more accessible. You might also try checking out our cheekily named list of fixer-uppers, Shitty Listings [2]. As you'll notice, a "fixer-upper" near the California coast can still be pretty pricy but I think there's just a fundamental supply constraint. Incidentally, that's most likely why real estate has been a lasting and valuable asset class.

[0]: https://www.openlistings.co/our-commission-refund
[1]: http://sf-moh.org/index.aspx?page=262
[2]: http://www.shittylistings.com/
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SF and the bay area in general have done an astonishingly bad job of updating mass transit to handle growth. I used to live in NY and thought the MTA was stupid and short sighted, but since moving here, they come off as geniuses compared to BART etc.
Because the Xcode icon uses a carpentry motif (blueprint and hammer, for crying out loud!) to do the same.