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With articles like NYT taking the place of an article without a paywall (the front page has limited real estate), all you know is that NYT articles result in crappy discussions because users have difficulty reading the article and rightly complain.

Rather than banning the crappy discussion, why not ban the articles that result in it?
People out to promote one specific site can happen regardless of if the site has a paywall. Someone could always promote one specific ad supported site as well.
Lots of people are frustrated by Google's behavior and half-baked products that they throw together and later abandon. Google is the antithesis of Steve Jobs' famous saying:

I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't
done as the things I have done. Innovation is
saying no to 1,000 things.

But, this is nothing new about Google. Not sure there's much to discuss here.
Show HN: artificial life whole cell project
[1] is a trailer for a project in artificial life. The goal is to create a living artificial cell, based on the chemlambda artificial chemistry.

Everything in the trailer is a recording of a real computation, done with the programs from the chemlambda repository. Everything was run on a regular laptop, then screencasted and trimmed.

The programs are available for playing at the chemlambda github repository [2] where you can also find more info about the research behind this project.

[1] https://vimeo.com/138476341

[2] github.com/chorasimilarity/chemlambda-gui/blob/gh-pages/dynamic/README.md

You think is too far fetched? Then compare with this real recording from Li et. al., “Extended Resolution Structured Illumination Imaging of Endocytic and Cytoskeletal Dynamics,” Science:

[3] https://vimeo.com/136537187
That is awesome! I always assumed only super attractive people made money on Instagram and Vine. Shows what I know about.
The Google scholar approach might work as a format. Official link as the hypertext, publicly accessible link (if available) in the right column. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1273530321270058317...
>though he complained that he was always hungry.

What a miserable way to live. :(
Because it doesn’t work everywhere.
A high percentage of ad spend is direct, meaning there is measurable sales associated with every dollar spent on ads.
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I write a lot about this issue! Compartmentalization is a key aspect of good OPSEC. Trust partitioning, for example.

Consider Tor. Each circuit involves three relays aka ORs aka nodes: entry guard, middle relay and exit relay. An adversary could deanonymize a user by combining information obtained from the three relays used by one of their circuits to some honeypot.

One cannot trust any particular Tor relay to refrain from logging and cooperating with adversaries. However, the Tor design mitigates those risks by using three relays in a chain. An adversary would need logs from all three relays in a circuit.

One can also use nested chains of VPN services. That's far less anonymous than Tor, for many reasons. Tor creates circuits more-or-less randomly, and by default they change at ten-minute intervals. VPN chains, conversely, are typically static. But the bandwidth is much greater.

And then one can use Tor via VPN chains, and route VPNs through Tor. Also, although routing Tor through Tor doesn't work well or do much good, one can proxy through remote desktops on VPS. Latency sucks, but you get used to it.
The govt. began to care for people that had previously been cared for by family members or religious groups. This includes the very poor, the elderly, the disabled, etc. That makes the bulk of it.
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That article on Turkmenistan was awesome. Lebedev does a great job of highlighting the countries!
What is the logic for reciprocity? Isn't it better to treat tourists well, regardless of their own countries' policies? By treating American tourists poorly, do they think those tourists will pressure the US government to relax its border controls?
Getting a really large list of valid residential addresses in the united states is 100% completely trivial.

For example, all the registered voter databases are for sale or free (though generally only allowed to be used for "political purposes", and not "commercial purposes", if you get them from the state themselves).
We can make a list of things that happened around those years...

Women's suffrage in the USA was in 1920, wasn't it? :-p
There are billboards and billboards. It depends on the country, city, culture, etc. how many of them you get. If there are no limits, this is your view on a normal road: http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/ae/8b/d5/z13994926Q,ponad_300tablic_r...

They're not funny / amusing / thought provoking anymore. They're not even readable or recognisable because there's too many of them. The photo title from the link is "300 billboards on a 20km road". And it's a fairly standard thing in Poland for example.
This site has a graph that say 55% of visitors to gaming sites use adblock http://contently.com/strategist/2015/07/10/why-adblockers-sh... . I would assume hacker news visitors would have a similar number. That would be an interesting thing to measure. Someone who gets to the front page of HN should measure what percent of people with a HN referer block ads.

And many ads are paid per view, not per click.
This was exactly what I was looking for. A survey of the available options.

I looked at supercollider before you answered and found the syntax kind of attractive. Sort of scala-ish, though maybe I am misremembering Scala from that one programming test.
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Oh we probably agree more than disagree about the trend, and it's certainly on-topic for HN in the sense that stories about it and debates about it are welcome here in their own context. Choking other threads like weeds is another matter. We've noticed that becoming more of a problem lately, hence this post.
Newton wrote Principia in Latin, not English. Latin being, at the time, the language of what Newton practised, natural philosophy and continuous with theology. There was no such thing as science. Thus, it was perfectly normal for Newton's thought to mature, and the Scholium reflected the progress of his thinking over two decades.

Aside from having to add Latin to the scientific cannon alongside German and English and Russian, the direction in which Newton's thinking evolved is disruptive in the context of contemporary science's self image...none of which is surprising given Kuhn's work.
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Turkmenistan is a very closed country so only realistic scenario is buying tickets in their local ticket office.

And the site was probably made for a checklist.

But you know what, now their site at least provides some kind of working form! http://www.turkmenairlines.org/index.php/ru/2011-06-10-09-40...
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Done. It's terrible. In its own repo so I can have pull requests that add extra sites.

Hit the "Raw" button on https://github.com/voltagex/hackernews-paywalltag/blob/maste... - linking directly is not a good user experience for anyone using GreaseMonkey
Enormous military spending makes up the bulk that is not (at least theoretically) paid for by the SS trust fund.
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The usual complaint on HN is that it is too easy to rapidly consume AWS resources. The usual solution proposed is low initial limits or caps.

You can't have it both ways.

I suggest making that limits request, then retesting and reposting; otherwise, you've sold this benchmark short.
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I did not include Yaroze since it required a special PSX.
A coke is ~10% of your daily calorie needs.* It's not that exercise is ineffective it's junk food has stupid high calorie counts plus it's easy to digest. On top of that most Americans have an incredibly lazy lifestyle. If your extremely active and stick with actual food eating enough can feel like a chore.

PS: A coke is also 8 to 24 oz which is a fairly wide range.
The more these questions get into legal areas the less I can help you. YC's lawyers are charming, but moderation of this site has pretty much failed if we have to resort to asking them things.

But let me take a crack at this. No, pasting the full text of an article directly into the thread is not a good workaround. First, it gums up the thread. Second, obvious copyright issues.

Therefore, if there's a standard workaround like "incognito window", "turn cookies off", or "google the article title", the way to help people is to teach them that. If none of those things work, linking to a different way to read the content (such as a Google cache link or an archive link) is probably ok. Beyond that my crystal ball gets cloudy.
It may well be so that companies will run their private clouds on the colocated servers. What wins in that case?
A can of coke contains about 155 calories. An average person can do practically anything which is reasonably considered exercise for 30 minutes and burn that off: http://www.health.harvard.edu/diet-and-weight-loss/calories-...

Hardly "incredible".

Research has shown that diet is more critical than activity in the occurrence of obesity, but that doesn't been that activity doesn't matter at all.
Hey pedalpete, yes I'm really trying to build a social network. It's at the most basic state but there are a number of social elements I would consider 'social networking' (profiles, friend requests, chat). 'Social networking for social good' is referenced on our social media and help center - hope that helps.

All good about not being enticed to sign up! Thanks for the feedback though - will take it on board.
If only O_STREAMING had made it to the kernel... https://lwn.net/Articles/12100/
They are very beautiful when dry. However, navigating these steps when there is water is not easy -- they get very slippery when the water level goes down but algae is still present in the supposedly drier steps. A cylindrical design where the steps go around the well with sealable openings may provide similar benefit with little maintenance overhead.
Done: https://github.com/voltagex/hackernews-paywalltag/blob/maste... - click "Raw" and install it with GreaseMonkey
I wrote a user script so you don't have to.
I'm literally flying through the internet. This is way too cool.

Arrow keys and WASD move you around.
When the state only thinks about money, people will turn into objects. The population will start to see other humans less valuable than their dinner table and will do their best to exploit them. If you go to China you will see beautiful landscapes, the lineage of one of the most advanced cultures and you will see the pain and the loneliness of its inhabitants. The rest of the world didn't cure the infection in time and now has grown to necrosis at the point that sociopathy it's the norm rather than the exception.
Seems inevitable. CPMs drop, buyers get desperate, ad units get invasive. Consumers hate invasive. Ad blockers emerge as a relevant biz category, so there's money to be made.

To Apple, by allowing ad blockers (and other Safari filters I presume), they can deliver better experience on those gross websites, and make a little money for a new category of apps (similar to the keyboard app stuff). Conveniently, this hurts web-based publishers, but hey, it's what the users are screaming for, and everybody else does it.

Developers think: oh great, something new to sell. Apple does want us to have control! And to think it only took 9 years.

Publishers, seeing a progressive drop in numbers, must explore other models. Apple News will probably feature micropayments of some kind which would be very convenient.

I can't see how any of these trends can be reversed, unless micropayments on the open web somehow caught on. With Bitcoin's endless drama that seems unlikely. Can you see any other conclusion?
User interfaces that don't provide breadcrumbs, back buttons, wizard-steps, or a means to "get back" to an initial state are said to evoke the Zeigarnik effect.
Kubernetes is very much still under development. Most of the work up to 1.0 has gone into refinement of the API, rather than stability. For instance, HA is only now being seriously worked on - and if your API server goes down and you need to start it on another host, if you don't have an external reconvergence mechanism you have to restart every kubelet so they can point to the new one.

Mesos is much more mature, but is more low-level, and schedulers like Aurora or Marathon do not give you the same service abstraction, but they have many features not currently present in Kubernetes. But, in return for being more low-level, you can run things that are simply impossible in a declarative system like Kubernetes. Personally I see Kubernetes-on-Mesos as being a really bright future choice, but like pretty much anything other than Marathon/Aurora on Mesos, it's pretty nascent.
And let me guess, since "The Capitalist project" has failed we're going to go back to those successes of the 20th century that caused so much human misery.
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Just speculating: Maybe making sure that if a discussion about border controls comes up in the US, enough people know how bad it is to go through them themselves and vote against them?
I read some scribbling by some nerd working on distributed systems. The problem he mentioned is when you take a task and parallelize it, and then hand off the pieces to a bunch of workers, you aren't done until the last worker finishes. In that case long tail latencies can bite you rather hard. If 99 out of a hundred workers finish their bit in 50-100us and one of them stalls out for 10ms, you gained nothing over a single worker.
Gladwell is definitely hand-wavy. I think this article's most compelling point is that Gladwell apparently did not ask a person of Korean culture to interpret the copilot's speech. In particular, one wonders, were the copilot's warning of adverse weather put lightly? Or did Gladwell misinterpret this man's usage of English language + Korean culture which, while seemingly more polite, may have different signals for urgency?

I work in Taiwan and disagreeing with the boss, while unpopular everywhere, is certainly less tolerated here than my experience in the west (east coast US). So Gladwell's story is compelling and built on a known difference in cultures. Yet, as usual, he is missing some facts to make his case.

The real question is, how is the airline performing now after the culture change brought in by the "western professor" as noted in the above comment by malkia? Are they still operating with his suggestions and have they been operating more smoothly? How do employees there feel about the change?
Userscript to tag paywalled posts
This may not be worth a post, but a number of people in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 want some kind of tagging for potentially paywalled posts. Pull requests are welcome.
for those of us that fail to jump thru hoops to work around the paywall, the paywall is the content ... it's not off-topic at all
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Not on first load. The cache needs to be populated somehow.

I agree that it's a special case, but it's one we shouldn't just ignore.
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> nutritionist, who gave him a diet plan.

> Some months later, he went back to the nutritionist for a checkup, and the nutritionist was shocked that he'd actually followed her plan

"I didn't mean it! You know usually it's just a formality. But, uh, keep up the good work."
I've lost a couple dozen pounds through dieting and now am in the keeping it off phase. It's hard because it's not like making progress toward a goal, it's just being hungry all the time. I was less healthy but more happy when I just ate delicious pastry all day long. It's hard to maintain.
Depends on what you want. A friend of mine told me he had come to terms with being overweight - he said he preferred being overweight over what it took to be slim.

My father enjoyed his life, and preferred the benefits of being slim.
His talent is not just limited to travelling: http://www.blog.sanasecurities.com/stock-talk-with-albert-po...

Here's a Daily Mail link, with photos: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-299015...

Obviously possessed of good genes - and, perhaps, a supply of hair dye - going by the North Korea photo! According to his website, he was there in 2010, at the age of 73.
So is it acceptable to post separate threads about the topic of paywalls, then? Because if so, please make that explicit. At the very least, I did not get that impression, and reading through this thread it would appear I am not alone. And - assuming it is acceptable - how? Ask HN does not seem appropriate. Tell HN does not seem appropriate. HN doesn't generally have discussion threads on their own right. We are being told that other threads are not appropriate. The HN guidelines say "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation)." So where is appropriate, then?

Also, the reason why said discussions are starting to "choke other threads like weeds" is because it is rather hard to have a discussion about something when one has to resort to increasingly-complex and quasi-legal methods (if not downright illegal in some places) just to read the content people are trying to have a discussion about.
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In Ontario it's not that much better sadly.
Google Cloud - Google Dataflow, Certain App Engine APIs

IBM Bluemix - IBM Workload Scheduler, RabbitMQ (this is weak, but similar functionality can be achieved)

Microsoft Azure - Apache Storm (generally available now)
I'm not sure how configurable userscripts are, but I'd love to add this.

I don't really want to write RES for HackerNews, but it's an interesting project for the last week of my holidays.
"negative externality".. "It's cognitive pollution".. "imposing those cognitive loads on everyone else", "life experience is degraded by seeing a billboard"

I'm seeing some BS here..a lot of hyperbolic, pseudo-psychology BS.
> But, in return for being more low-level, you can run things that are simply impossible in a declarative system like Kubernetes.

Can you give an example? I know next to nothing about Mesos, Aurora, or Marathon.
What about http://sci-hub.org/ ?
I've been there on business 3 times in the 2010-2011 timeframe. It is fairly straightforward to get in on a business visa if you have an invitation letter from a company in the Kingdom - in my case one of the local telecom companies.
What information does OMN contained that isn't preserved in sheet music already? I was looking at OCR tools a few months back and found OpenOMR which expresses the MIDI instruction with all of these properties.
Eh, I don't mind them. They serve a purpose, even if they tend to be misused.
Accept your fate from the hn authority...just like at your job
I'm not sure that it's not possible for top rate researches to teach at attached universities if they care to. There's plenty of professionals who work in the commercial world and teach a class or two a semester because they love it but hate working in the academic world -- I work with two PhDs who do exactly that.

Anecdotally, many of the worst teachers I had were researchers in their field. It was clear that they wanted to just research in their field and teaching was something the school forced them into doing and they did the bare minimum.
I took some friends on a sightseeing tour of the country last Fall - one of the most memorable sights was Chand Baori (Abhaneri), about 2/3 of the way between Agra and Jaipur. The place was absolutely stunning, and it had maybe 3 visitors in the two hours while we were there.

It can only be stopped at if traveling by car, and while it's a tad more treacherous than plane/train, it's the only way I'll travel between the two cities if I have the time. You'll get to experience some amazing scenery along the way, and it cost no more than $100 for the journey in a large A/C car!
A colleague of mine had quit smoking 20 years earlier. I asked him if he still felt the urge to smoke. He laughed and said it was a daily struggle.

He fell off the wagon and resumed smoking some months later.

Beating these kinds of things is a lifelong struggle. I wish you the best in your endeavor.
For a great, accessible intro talk on this topic, check out Geoffrey West's "On Complexity":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFVSvAr7Wc
You can't. After 911 USA has scrapped airport transfers without passport control, which is pretty unique by world standards.

For example, most of cheaper flights from Mexico to Russia (and rest of the world in general) are via USA. That means USA gets to decide who gets into Mexico and who doesn't.
Taskman sorts differently. Top sorts by the most recent active process, while taskman sorts by the process that has used the most CPU on average lately.
My main resource is probably time. I read all the documentation when Kubernetes was first announced, and reread it when they were coming up to 1.0. I've also been following the proposals and issues a little. I've also got a clone of the codebase and read bits to make sure I'm understanding what goes on.

But yeah, it's a really fast moving project with a lot of moving parts, and I'm still not on top of everything!
“No one should travel who does not desire hardship, trouble, tribulation and risk of death.”

c'mmon, this is 2015!
I don't need IMDB to know what that is, and I'm not even wearing sunglasses!
Please stop with the vandalism.
When I visited one of these in Agra last Fall, I assumed it to be either a bath or an aquarium to keep exotic animals. Some had so many tiny windows and grills, I thought they might be designed to use as laundry places. It's interesting that all of these were simply wells.
I don't really know what the alternatives are. I'm hoping by the end of this series to convince at least myself that it's reasonably to run for personal projects.
In that example, I'm pretty sure forgoing containers and mlock would result in similar performance while using less memory. Process startup time would also be significantly improved. (If there's such high contention for disk I/O, reading 20GB on startup is going to take a very long time.)

The kernel's page cache eviction strategy is smarter than naïve LRU. On the first read, a page is placed in the inactive file list. If it's read again, it's moved to the active file list. Pages in the inactive file list are purged before the active file list.[1] So large sequential reads may cause disk contention, but they won't massacre the file cache.

This I/O situation isn't uncommon. Consumer systems also have big batch jobs that can pollute file caches: large copies, rsyncs, backup software (Déjà Dup, Time Machine, etc). They don't solve this with containers, limits, and mlock()ing. Some programs add a couple calls to fadvise(), using the FADV_NOREUSE or FADV_DONTNEED flags.[2] But for the most part, doing nothing yields excellent performance. Operating systems are pretty good at their job.

1. https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand...

2. This is handy for applications like bittorrent, where multiple reads of the same page are possible, but caching isn't desired.