skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like many things that are declarative - you can only do what has been explicitly enabled in the declaration handling logic. This is good and bad. It's good because it restricts what is possible (protecting you slightly more from bad users) and can make learning and using the system easier. But you can't go beyond this. With a non-declarative scheduler you can implement far more interesting (for better or worse) management systems.

One area where we've been seeing some interesting work happening is in stateful services running on top of schedulers. With something like postgres, there is interesting logic that must happen for responsible management beyond just throwing up 3 of them. You need to manage replication carefully. When a node goes down somewhere, you need to react somewhere else in a controlled way. With Mesos, you can write a scheduler that encodes your runbook. With kubernetes, you need a lot more out-of-band stuff.
There's nothing you or I can do about the trend. They put more and more cores into a machine and the same number of disks (current-model Xeon servers have 72 threads and 1 or 2 disks), which guarantees that, at some point, the disk is highly oversubscribed.
New to this stuff, but doesn't abc already cover this same ground? http://abcnotation.com/
i'm confused too. Why are captchas bad? captchas are absolutely neccessary to fight automatic signups by bots. Are you saying just let the bots win?
off-topic, but similar in notion:

Can we have a community rule that every 3rd post doesn't end up with a thread where people hyperbolize how terrible/awful/eyebleeding the design and usability of some web page is and we never get to discussing the content? At times these threads almost becomes indistinguishable from crappy satire and often end up dominating the discussion...and quite often the sites are perfectly fine and somebody just doesn't like the font choice or is trying to read a long form article on their watch or something.
http://hook.io is an open-source microservice platform.

We launched a month before Amazon Lambda, and have better features like full support for streaming HTTP.
Can you explain what you mean?
I guess, but I'd love to see some research into the effects of advertising. I know that some advertising on the web would create barriers to accessibility: http://webaim.org/articles/evaluatingcognitive/#focus
Thanks for the info! I've found the end user documentation to be excellent, but the documentation for actually managing a cluster to be lack luster. This series has been perfect for filling in that gap. Thanks again!
OP posted to a document that was/is modifiable by anyone who can access it - so jerks started messing with it.
If you are interested in a 100% open-source version of Amazon Lambda, you can check out http://hook.io/
Phase IV is an immensely underrated movie.

It always stood out to me as one of the select few MST3K movies that were actually good movies but sufficiently "odd" that they provide excellent fodder for comedy.

Thanks heaps for linking to this!
Empressplay that's good feedback - right now I'm trying to play to the simple idea of "earn points and buy gifts."

You earn points on JellyChip not just by answering surveys, but by performing activites like adding friends, chatting with friends, completing your profile, daily rewards, sharing the gifts bought etc. Surveys are the biggest point earnings but the site's focus is on earning points in a whole manner of ways.

I made an app called Pocket Rice that's done quite well supporting the same notion - it's generated 146,188,800 grains of rice by users playing 1.827 million rounds of trivia. This means users have now fed 7,614 children across Uganda and Nigeria. Basically the entire profits of the app (minus iAP donations to me to keep it running) goes to World Vision who pay and distribute the rice.

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pocket-rice/id666631544?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamesdowni...

It's an interesting concept - the idea of earning an imaginary currency for social good – but I think it’s something unique and special that we can use to make a difference.

I'm trying to take people away from this idea that charity involves gloomy financials, open percentage breakdowns and aenemic organisations that desperately shave the dollar to budget for causes that far outweigh their capabilities.

For-profit organisations can generate charity as well – and I don’t think organisations should feel shy about wanting to incorporate some social good into their profit-making business, no matter what the extent. I think the idea of “charity” can be redefined.

Either way, the points that you do earn on the site you can spend on charitable gifts, which we buy. And that’s kinda it. Let’s make charity fun.

So we'll see how we go with this ethos in JellyChip. Thanks for the feedback though - will bear this in mind as it makes an impact.

James
Thanks empressplay - we've covered everything with our lawyers (well hopefully everything for now).
> fitness trainers for pretty much anyone who wants it

Oh god, yes! I did not realise how much difference it makes. Even just having the time scheduled on the days you'd rather do something else is really helpful. But a person to actually tell you what to do, or just chat with you makes the whole experience N times less boring.
That is an odd, bold claim to make, that exercise doesn't promote weight loss.

I'm at something of a loss to explain how, without changing my diet, but with adding 30-50 miles of cycling (plus a little jogging) a week, I've been losing around 5 pounds a month for the last six months.

Honest question time: if it isn't the exercise, what is it?
Tought so, but now it says it's "too popular" and some features have been disabled, so it should be "solved" -- I definitely didn't see anything weird in the document.
You really suck at reading comprehension. Please stop with this nonsense, it has no bearing whatsoever to any of my comments.
I installed it, but why is my console filled with debug output?
FYI: To view it without the 'suggestions' just go to the right and change your own mode to view. Then the stupid changes other are suggesting wont show.
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Location info is too valuable even for Google, just got tempted to dark patterns.
Ask HN: Founders of large tech companies that work from home
I have a minor fascination with some of these huge companies that were founded by brilliant minds that didn't like to leave the house.

I first started thinking about this because of Larry Ellison.

I recently also learned that Stephen Wolfram also liked to work from home, and nocturnally no less. He spent hours on the phone.

I believe Richard Branson has worked this way for some time as well.

Are there any lesser known examples of huge tech companies whose leader isn't ever physically at their "campus"?
A lot of off topic comments would be better served being made into full-blown blog posts (even if the author has no blog otherwise; one-off pages like Gists work fine for this) and then submitted. If HN wants to talk about the topic, the submitted page will get voted up like any other article, and discussion will ensue.
Before even bringing in synthesis, my biggest request would be more control flow (beyond the goto).

Loops, if statement, variables and incrementers. Maybe a "key change" we can up X semi-tones after a keychange keyword without rewriting the notes.
I wouldn't say "never". Let's say you have a local file with 1e6 words. The file can be updated at some point. Your service gets a word in a request and needs to return "is this word in the list".

Do you really want to read the file every time at request comes in? No, you're going to read it once and store it in an indexed set for quick lookup. You just cached a local data file.

It's about the benefit vs. not caching. Not about local/remote.
Snap - I use d.vader@deathstar.mil with the Pentagon's address.

In the interest of client-friendliness I also use Disney addresses, with names such as Ms. Sleeping Beauty. So with my test data stuff would get delivered by DHL to fictional people in these places with people signing parcels.

I use real addresses so I can check postage rates are correct. It would be really useful for me if there was a standardised list of test addresses used across industry and in the media. Doubly so if you had test code that worked on such a known list of test cases, adding address records for 'customers' without having to enter one's own test data.
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I imagine it depends on the person, as well. I lost 22 lbs ages ago, and I can't say I'm hungry. If anything, I still overeat, I just don't go completely overboard on candy and other junk.

The biggest problem is changing your habits, not so much your food. For example, if I'm home, I'll eat properly, but if I go out with friends we'll end up getting a burger at some point.
Pivotal Web Services (which is like BlueMix, Cloud Foundry based, and you can run your own as it is open source) http://run.pivotal.io
I don't agree with the moderation decision, but given what this site is 'supposed' to be I suggest you step up your game.
Sure they look similar but that doesn't imply one stole from the other, for all we know Google created this internally as part of their zillions of a/b tests years before. Google is also extremely rich and their logo is one of the most visible on the planet meaning stealing from someone would inevitably be worse than simply paying the guy for it.
Oh very interesting indeed, when using strace, or sysdig I notice many daemonized threaded programs calling gettimeofday() frequently, it's good to know in Linux it doesn't incur a context switch with the vdso architecture.
You're right.

It's kind of like the time I met with this guy named Ted. He just didn't like to listen to critiques even though there was some validity to them.

I'm like that Ted guy right who just doesn't want to listen to the critiquer (my mom), and I realize that.
Cannot agree with him more, on every words from this post. Using just the publication score as the measurement on the scientific research is actually killing the entire field.
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Your example is quite valid, and I would probably implement something similar to solve the same problem. But it's not a cache. Caches can miss. Caches have a replacement policy. If it contains the complete, authoritative copy of the data, it's a memory-backed data store.
There is Lattice, http://lattice.cf which is single-tenant Cloud Foundry. You can get it up via Vagrant or Terraform.

The underlying scheduler, Diego, has some interesting constructs, like supporting Windows, Docker, and buildpack-built containers (aka. droplets).
vs other users of advertisement? Its not that it doesn't "work" its that its an arms race. If your competitor does it, then you will lose if you don't do it as well.

So, the size of your marketing department is more related to the size of your competitors department, than any actual effectiveness. Which is another way of reinforcing monopolistic consolidation. A large competitor likely can significantly outspend a smaller one with advertising dollars, which just goes to cement its position in the market.
I mean, I agree with you that Stockholm isn't the greatest city in the world to live in, nor Oslo, but they're not exactly filled to the brim with human misery, either.
I'd love if anyone can point me to community site for DIY Bio / garage materials hacking.

I have an idea for a hobby project that involves building a robot to mix small amounts of (safe, non-biological) liquids... need to be able to dispense 0.1ml to 10ml range, but very precisely.

My current thinking is hooking up syringes with one way valves (one going to the supply, one going to the output) ... and a linear actuator or screw drive to move the plunger back and forth-- so on the pull stroke the syringe would fill from the reservoir and on the push stroke it would fill the output.

But I figure there might be an off the shelf solution for something like this that's hacker friendly.
In a world where children are as competent as they think they are, the system should let confident children have a shot (they don't need much funding anyway).

More seriously you're taking the analogy a bit too literally. It's about time spent using competency vs. time spent signalling competency. The latter should be nowhere near a majority.
I was hoping for a little more on Systemd
Military spending is only 3-5% of GDP while total government spending has gone up from 10% of GDP to over 35%. The vast majority of the increase is not military spending.
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Dunno about OMN, but Lilypond seems to have quarter tone support: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation-big... (third staff down)
If you open the .ps file in a text editor, you'll notice that it's hand-written and has a neatly tweakable table of spells at the end, after the layout code for them. It also makes the recursive shield heraldry recursively.
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That's the wrong takeaway from that point. It's a good thing that upper middle class people today can't afford to have lower class people do domestic services for them. It's an indication that lower class people can make a lot more money doing non-domestic work.

Although the task rabbit economy is pushing us back in that (wrong) direction.
Why does it have to be this way or that way? Are the only two ways really down and...down? I have a hard time believing that to be true.
Please don't point to dups where there was no discussion. It wastes people's time clicking on them.
> By that definition, anything outside of one's immediate focus and interests is "cognitive pollution."

If also has to bring you no value as it acts to distract you.

> As forms of advertising go, I can't think of many which are less disruptive, or easier to simply ignore, than billboards.

Each billboard is less disruptive, but a hundred can cry for your attention at once.
For many students, the answer is "to get a visa to move to a first-world country".

If you're a smart first-worlder, there's many careers more lucrative than scientific research, so you'd only go into it because of passion. But if you're a smart third-worlder, a scientific career is often your best shot at emigrating to a rich country, so it becomes rational to do it whether you're passionate or not.
I've noticed that a few research professors have struggled to teach courses. It's not a problem of being unable to convey the information (since CS is conference-heavy in publications, you can't become a good researcher without getting good at presenting), but rather that they can't write do homework assignments or tests very well.
Where? I admit I haven't read the entire thing (as it got boring fast) but a search on a couple of the pages doesn't turn up the word Lilypond?
Perhaps you should learn something from Kuhn and consider that attachment to your pet paradigm is holding you back.

When a scientist wants to build up the self-image of science they do the exact opposite of what you're suggesting. They use Newton as an example to prove that science is superior to the other disciplines he also practiced but bore no fruit.
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Writing a blog and writing a book are two different things.

Her blog she slowed down in her entries, she just stopped making them. She just wasn't into writing as much as she used to be, she started to hate it.

A blog article can be short or long, books are made up of chapters and you have to organize them to make sense. You have to correct grammar mistakes, you have to fix formatting problems and other stuff so it passes the auto vetter process of self-publishing sites or the publisher software.

A blog just takes text input you type into it, you don't have to worry about formatting and other stuff, if you made grammar mistakes most people won't notice it.

I've tried writing books myself, it is very hard. Writing a blog is much easier to do.

I think she just ran out of material to write about as well. Originally her blog got her fired from her job because she wrote about coworkers.
Perhaps a peristaltic pump[1], with the rollers spaced appropriately to achieve the minimum incremental amount?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristaltic_pump
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Exercise clearly helps, but it all comes down to energy balance. You can eat less, or increase calories burned through exercise to generally get the scale heading in the right direction. The problem some people have is when exercise increases their appetite to the point where they continue consuming too many calories.

I looked at the article that OP referred to. It's main critique is using exercise instead of diet as a weight loss tactic. The point was that you don't need exercise to maintain a healthy weight as long as the energy balance is there.

On one end of the spectrum, athletes in certain sports can maintain a lean physique while eating insane quantities of calories. On the other end, maintaining a healthy bodyfat is possible in the absence of exercise by nutrition alone.

Exercise comes with its own set of benefits independent of bodyfat, and it sounds like you have chosen to meet your energy balance by increasing calories burned instead of decreasing caloric intake, but it's not the only strategy that can have success.

Sources:

"Can't outrun a bad diet"
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/15/967
Depends on where you're a tourist from. Coming from Australia, the visa was an auto-approved electronic thing. I arrived in LA, had a queue of about 3 people at customs, had a piece of paper stapled into my passport, and that was ripped out when I exited. The only way it could have been smoother was no visa required at all, or fewer people in the customs queue (not that 3 is something to complain about)

In the middle of my journey, I crossed the border at Nogales for an afternoon's shopping - this was at the peak of 'swine flu' and people scared of the border drug wars, so there were few palefaces (few = my companion and I, no others). Entry into Mexico was literally a turnstile. Entry back into the US? I went to present my passport and was just waved through.

Ironically the only "border trouble" I had in the US was crossing Texas, at a border checkpoint 100 miles inland, where a shouty man screamed at me for daring to have my passport in the trunk of the car... made me pull off to the side and wait for him to finish screaming at other people.
> "The Capitalist project" has failed

Did you actually read what was written? It hasn't failed. It's failing to produce for Capitalist themselves in terms of profits. Capitalism has succeeded. But that means the journey is at its end. There is no going back, there is only going forward. And forward does not look like the present or the past.

The cost of production is going up while the profits are going down.

As a web person it's not hard for me to see. No one wants to pay for web development but want all the features. Technology enables this to some extent but there are limits to what can be done. The product has to be perfect and has to be free or nearly free. etc. etc. Sooner or later I will fail to deliver on expectations.

http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/users/f/felwell/www/Theorists/Ess...
> I'd love if anyone can point me to community site for DIY Bio / garage materials hacking.

https://groups.google.com/group/diybio
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His take on the U.S. is fascinating too.
Author did not cover DragonflyBSD's svc(8) which nobody seems to know about. It's not a full blown init system, but something you would use like daemontools. I could see this turned into an init system with significant benefits by doing so.

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=svc&section...
The Nat. Neurosci. paper lists author contributions at the bottom (Gariépy is J.F.G).

> S.W.C.C and M.L.P. designed the research and wrote the paper. S.W.C.C. and J.F.G. performed the research and S.W.C.C analyzed the data.
The article doesn't actually tell you how to get Bill Gates to talk about you or your business and promises more parts to the article.

It uses a picture that Bill Gates took for a Reddit AMA and Photoshopped it so the Reddit Alien Snoo is out of the cardboard picture and Worldjunction.com is added in there instead. I sort of smell some sort of scam there.

It is almost like they are trying to tell you how to use social engineering to get Bill Gates and people like him to mention your name and your company. You'd be better off spending your own time promoting your own name and business by doing good things that get attention than hope to get Bill gates to mention you.
I wonder what the effect of this phenomenon will be on India's famously low divorce rate. And if the divorce rate does increase, will it increase for both arranged and non-arranged marriages at the same pace?

Can young people make better choices than their parents? Or has the divorce rate been so low because parents had a bigger stake in mediating to save face?
Is North Korea not that hard to get into? I always assumed it was hard (until recently) because of how often NK is in the (US) news.
> For the general population not trying to optimize performance in a specific sport,

Therein lies the solution. Pick a sport you enjoy, do it as many times a week as your schedule permits, but bend your schedule so it's at least twice.

Voila, 2+ hours of strenuous exercise per week.
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I have visited many of the places mentioned in the article. In terms of architecture they are beautiful but now all the places are in bad shape. The government and local population make no interest in saving the history.
There's wide latitude on how much to spend on those three.
It once did.

Most consumer debt was tax deductible. I believe it changed in the 1970s.
Not hard. There are tours you can join.
And I'm pretty sure that significant numbers of people approach meeting and mating with more sincerity than bullshit.

You may be right. But that doesn't contradict what I said. I'm not saying we approach that, or anything else, with complete bullshit. I'm saying we all (or close to all) approach it with some bullshit. Perhaps not even consciously, but we're all trying to sell ourselves, make ourselves look more desirable, etc. in various ways.

Killing the mating competition, or even lower level violence, is very relatively rare these days.]

"Relatively" in this context is ill-defined, but I'd be curious to see the numbers on how many murders/assaults/etc. ultimately involve jealousy over romantic/sexual partners, infidelity, cuckolding, etc.
The password policy includes not sharing it at the drop of a hat.
Advertising can also be helpful -- it is possible to develop a new product which is useful while not being intrinsically viral. Advertising makes it possible to have such a product actually exist and benefit people.

But impression or persuasion based advertising is generally unhelpful or actively harmful.

I recently ran across a fascinating (and scarily dystopian) take on the future of that sort of advertising: http://escapepod.org/2013/05/16/ep396-dead-merchandise/
Best way to organize and share thousands of photos?
I'm working with a customer who has thousands of old historic photos that he wants to share with the world. He would like to find the people either in the photo, or relatives who may want the photos for family keepsake.

How could my customer organize thousands of different photo shoots, and help his clients find their specific photo?

Thank you for any help!