skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define "application". You can easily have the task be a part of the same codebase and run on a different process or even server. For example, my Django maintenance commands run on a different server, and so do tasks, but they're still part of the same monolithic codebase.
I've always preferred "heroin dealer".

(A few years ago, someone said that social game developers are like heroin dealers and regular game developers are like weed dealers. It's a very apt comparison)
> The author also calls out error reporting as being terrible.

Actually, he never got far enough to see the error reporting tool, Logster.
The tech industry has been guilty of this in the past as well. Example: Nvidia and AMD drivers detected if you were running certain benchmarks or games, and would cheat by downgrading various rendering settings that had minimal effect visually.

Often this was a simple check to get the process's executable name; simply renaming the .exe would get you significantly different perf results.
Just doesn’t feel good
Salton Sea Notes: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s California Travel Journals (1961)
Good luck find actual solid wood (that isn't extremely expensive). Most office furniture that is 'wood' is actually pressed laminate... AKA pressed together recycled paper or cardboard.

We found that out when a desk at work needed to be shortened so they sawed into it and found honeycomb board (which we sell) with laminated paper on the top and bottom coated by vinyl wood grain. That was a $750 desk from Office Depot.

We try to get pine as it's usually the most affordable solid wood, but it's really soft and doesn't hold up. Oak and other hardwoods are usually sourced over seas and not sustainably grown.
You can use something like jasper, which is open source and can run on a raspberry pi. You don't need to have it connected to the Internet at all, you could put your home automation and the pi on its own ethernet, not connected to the rest of the world. There's nothing like an air gap.

If you had multiple microphones it might make sense to have one bulkier computer instead of having a pi in each room, but I haven't looked into how much CPU it takes jasper to listen for its wake-up word.

https://jasperproject.github.io/
True, but another problem for kernel is when something takes too long, which is what I was highlighting in a light hearted manner.

The different return is more like what MS does with the _s routines, though it uses a special length return and flag option.
If they could bang the thing out in a weekend then he can get somebody else to rebuild it. He is the only one among them that can or will sell it to restaurants. He's the only one with any emotional attachment to pushing this very little idea forward.

I think programmers here are assuming "execution" means coding. It really means sales, pitching, customer development. Also product development - refining the features over time. Billy will screw that up for sure.
Does HN not detect duplicates? I submitted the same article 3 minutes before OP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10239985

There's also another submission 15 minutes after OP's submission too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10240106
How has etcd been running for you more recently? One of the things that kept me away was my test run of etcd failed gloriously (twice), and just wasn't stable/resiliant enough for me.
Ozone production at ground level won't reach the upper atmosphere. It is too reactive. So all it's doing is burning people.
NSA/CSS Employees Reaffirm Their Oath to the Constitution
Why the fuck would anyone go to an event where they create a bunch of code and release all rights to it?
I'm not sure the licensing response would work in the case of the code developed over the course of a startup weekend event.

I suspect anyone on the SW "team" could claim ownership of the code and any aspect of the business.

SW trys to avoid these issues during the weekend ..from their FAQ: (http://startupweekend.org/about/firsttimer/)

How do teams address the issue of IP/ownership?
As with any startup, the team decides. Startup Weekend doesn’t support or take part in the signing of any legal documents at the events themselves, and while Mentors with legal backgrounds are often present and able to give general advice, they are not permitted to give specific legal counsel.While it doesn’t hurt to be clear about your individual expectations from the start, we’ve found that teams who don’t spend time addressing this issue until it actually matters (i.e., there is a tangible product to have ownership of) are much more productive and successful than those who do.
Why I Pulled Peace from the App Store
Why exactly would you take 0.5-3% to work for a startup with no money under highly uncertain conditions, when you can take 33-100% of equity to found a startup with no money under highly uncertain conditions?
Is "teh astroturf" meant to conjure the notion that you have a serious point, or is it just low-grade FUD by the classical definition?
Not because of water, but because of other factors. I'm not trying to say that we have to go back to the savannas and live as hunter gatherers. I just think that the more we learn about ourselves, the most likely it looks like we are better off with putting in our bodies only the minimum that's necessary to sustain life.
My grandfather found a parthenogenetic spider and wanted to investigate the possibility that Wolbachia was somehow responsible. Don't think he made much progress though, it was near the end of his life. Here's the article about the spider:
http://www.americanarachnology.org/joa_free/joa_v31_n2/arac-...
Brew an Amazing Cup of Coffee
Ok -- at 40 bps per 20 hours, assuming that their total stake is ~12% (there's 8 of them dividing the whole pie) their vesting schedule is a little short of four months.

There's a lot of big talk on HN about being a tough guy negotiator, earning your keep in this harsh Darwinian landscape, looking out for number one, etc. I'd like to meet the person who's negotiated a 4 month vesting schedule with no cliff.

Once you put actual numbers to the proposition, it's instantly obvious that these badass negotiators are suddenly full of shit. Reminds me of being elementary school recess, where everyone's dad was the strongest man in the world, and this one time he picked up a car and lifted it over his head.
For all the condemnation of GSK, it appears that the "harm coding" changed from the original trial because the FDA changed the system they used. And was a major driver for why the AEs were captured in this study and not others.

The other thing to keep in mind is that if this was a pivotal trial study, the FDA had the complete data set yet failed to recognize the increase in suicidal ideation as well.
To be fair the commit time and the authorship time are not the same. You can author something at work and wait to get home to commit it and vice versa.
I went down a similar road with etcd and fleet but abandoned it earlier this summer after testing failure scenarios with etcd. With a cluster of 5 etcd nodes in EC2, I started hard-killing etcd EC2 instances and noticed fleet inconsistency (e.g., nodes being restarted, not able to see the entire fleet).

Can you expand on the etcd growth pains you've been through?
As I understand it you don't get the full tailpipe test unless your vehicle is too old to support the ODBII parameters they look for.
Building a Hacker News Clone Without Writing any Back End Code
Nope, that's on a 64-bit Digital Ocean machine that we provision for you. The only secret sauce in the $99 install is the Mandrill reseller code.
Did you actually read right to the end?

"But in fact, at the time this game was played
there was no specific rule stating that a pawn
had to be promoted to a piece of the same colour!
> I'm not sure the licensing response would work in the case of the code developed over the course of a startup weekend event.

You can always license any code you wrote.

> How do teams address the issue of IP/ownership? As with any startup, the team decides.

That's not how copyright law works.
Gaps in Earnings Stand Out in Release of College Data
They do indeed say the content is free. Of _course_ they are not going to say "do whatever you want with our content". That's not what I said or implied at all.
The Art of Influence
Srthk/EasySQL · GitHub
hmm -- why couldn't everybody on the team (technical and non-technical) claim ownership to any collateral developed over the weekend?
I'm not familiar with the epithet 'toolbag'. I take you're not likening Bobby to a bag of tools. In this context, is toolbag a metaphor for scrotal sac?
Every single industry that can will do this, especially those that make most of its money from a small number of its users.

The interesting part of the article was where they specifically targeted one of their whales. They found out which American football teams he liked and introduced in app items that matched those colors so he would buy them.

Casinos are well known to get as much information about their players as possible, and to get their high rollers to keep coming back.

Retail stores have done the same. (See How target figured out a girl was pregnant [1]).

With technology providing more and more information and indirect insight into our lives, it's only a matter of time until everybody does the same. The only way to prevent it (as best as possible) is simply to not play/not link to facebook/etc.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
Huh, I don't remember that, especially if those were the two different SCOs. The first, the Santa Cruz Operation, was OK ignoring some quality issues, and they are the organization that Microsoft got 25% of through that transaction in 1987. Much later, in 2001, this happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation#Asset_sal...

And Caldera, which renamed itself in the next year to The SCO Group, got all of the original SCO's assets but Tarantella. Not sure what happened with Microsoft's ownership of the original SCO, but I don't remember through the years of SCO v. The World that Microsoft had a large ownership stake ... which would have been major.

Instead, per http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/halloween10.html and my memory of Groklaw ..., well, here's ESR's first summation paragraph:

There you have it. At least a third of SCO's entire market capitalization, and their entire current cash reserves, is payoffs funnelled from Microsoft. Their 10Qs reveal that every other line of cash inflow is statistical noise by comparison. The brave new SCOsource business model is now clear: sue your customers, shill for Microsoft, kite your stock, and pray you stay out of jail.

I also seem to remember some Microsoft related deal involving the purchase of Novell SUSE? licenses, although now I can't remember if The SCO Group directly benefited from it.

Microsoft earned this part of its bad reputation, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who's purchases from the company in part ended with Windows XP prior to that (of course, it helped that Vista was long delayed and awful). Supporting Microsoft back then was unconscionable.
Or $4 for a shower curtain.
OBD-II tracks emissions data as well. http://ctemissions.com/test-procedures/what-is-obd
The problem isn't showing up for me, but cached version:

http://web.archive.org/web/20150918165831/http://3.bp.blogsp...

White to play and mate in one.
What about non-technical users who require firmware updates for bug fixes or new features? You can have a physical button, but if the network has been owned in some way, pressing the button could still lead to malicious firmware being installed.

I could see this easily coupled with some social engineering. Control the network and then email users saying that an important update is needed.
> "I first encountered this position in June 1937 [...]"

OT remark: Jesus. I work with the elderly, mostly. I would love to have her clarity of thought if and when I reach her age. I've heard before that playing chess retains hair loss and mental deterioration, especially in the elderly.
ca doesn't even do smog checks on newer vehicles (i believe 5 years, not sure though).

i haven't done one in over a decade because i lease my cars as a business expense.

also, ca has 'test-only' smog centers which do not perform repairs - if you fail there, you have to get your car tested and repaired somewhere else.

needless to say ca highly incentivizes you to buy new clean cars. it quickly becomes very expensive to fix an old, polluting car under this regime. imagine how fast the bills can pile up if the first or second fix doesn't work. with new econo class cars available for ~$100/month on finance or lease, it doesn't really make sense to keep an old clunker around unless it's a collectible.
A large corporation...acting unethically? Say it ain't so! This is why regulations exist in the first place, because you can't trust companies to act ethnically on their own. Their job is to maximize profit, and the invisible hand only works on money.
What a useless shell of information... a blog post packaged as a web site.
The URLs are slightly different, this post uses:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/business/volkswagen-is-ord...

Your submission uses:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/business/volkswagen-is-ord...
I don't quite understand how the car can known it's getting an emissions test. I thought you just pulled up and revved the engine. Or do they plug the computer in nowadays?
Although I have no direct knowledge, it feels like there is something going on behind the scenes forcing this reaction. If I had to guess, I would point the finger at Ghostery causing this. Lifehacker wrote¹ that Ghostery sells some data to marketers, so perhaps the approach taken with the app interferes with Ghostery's model and they were not willing to continue allowing access to their rule list. Alternatively Ghostery saw the success of the app and now wants to launch their own and shut off access to the data.

*edit- He just said he is handing the app over to Ghostery on twitter. Very interesting.

¹ http://lifehacker.com/ad-blocking-extension-ghostery-actuall...
> Interestingly, Bitcoin does not fit neatly into either of Wikipedia's categories of money,

Those two categories that were discussed upthreads are not exhaustive. Non-commodity, non-representative, non-government money existed long before bitcoin -- probably the best known fairly modern example is in Local Exchange Trading Systems and variations on those, which use units of accounts that (while they are often denominated in fiat currencies -- largely to simplify use and tax compliance for users) are neither the fiat currency they are denominated in (if they are denominated in one) nor backed by that currency in the sense that representational money is (in that no issuing entity promises to exchange them for the currency, even if the members of the system agree to treat them as equivalent to the fiat currency in exchange) -- and some variations intentionally divorce their units from the fiat currency entirely.
> Manhattan Project was a pretty valuable idea

Not really. Both the German and Japanese at the time had same idea. They failed to execute.
There is, post market monitoring.
First True-Scale Solar System Model Shows How Tiny We Are
It does to a point.

The OP's link after .html: ?_r=0

Your link after .html: ?module=Notification&version=BreakingNews&region=FixedTop&action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=50913528&pgtype=Homepage

The 3rd link after .html: ?referrer=

In this case, while the links may lead to the same article, they are NOT the SAME link.

edited: to make url differences more visible
What do you use as replacement for Active Directory?

Which OS do you deploy on thin clients (ChromeOS, Android, Ubuntu/RedHat Linux)?
This sort of behaviour suggests to me that it would be desirable to have tracker-blocking software for phones/tablets. A user-configurable firewall.

We have browser ad-blockers; I want something that works system-wide.
> Why exactly would you take 0.5-3% to work for a startup with no money under highly uncertain conditions

Because you believe in the team, the idea and the opportunity.

> when you can take 33-100% of equity to found a startup with no money under highly uncertain conditions

Those who can, will.

But this guy wants to do neither. He wants 0.4% for 20 hours, and then he wants to walk away and let someone else build up the value of the company. Assuming his total stake is ~12%, that's equivalent to a demand for a 4 month vesting schedule with no cliff, for what? A weekend?

He doesn't want to found a startup -- he wants to spend one weekend building a shitty prototype. He's not talking about being there when the thing goes live, fixing the broken deployment, troubleshooting the errors -- you know, the actual work which keeps the customers satisfied. He's talking about writing a model one time, and letting someone else take all the risk.
Yeah, you can, but that's more of an issue when proving "Does my employer own my work or do I?" For the startup weekend case, time doesn't matter, you only need to prove authorship - and while a git commit that says "Bobby Boyd <rboyd@gmail.com>" doesn't necessarily mean Bobby Boyd wrote it, that plus Bobby Boyd saying he wrote it, plus a GitHub log showing that the authorship attribution hasn't been tampered with, is pretty good evidence that he wrote it. If Billy NoLastName had written it, why didn't he claim credit for it when he pushed it?
I see - it was something of a half baked thought but in my defense I wasn't trying to suggest that I thought the head was automatically deployed to production ... Deployed to testing round 1 ... N is still a "deployment" isn't it ...? The shared boilerplate for how that magic works in a scaleable way for so many different projects must be quite complex and itself hard to test ...
I think arbitrage may be referring to human milk, because humans are, you know, mammals.
Running on L4 family's work is one option I suggested to QubesOS team years ago. Nice to see someone trying. It will tricky with seL4 as they have embedded focus and QubesOS is a desktop OS. I'm sure the requirements, obstacles, and fixes will make for enlightening reading for anyone doing similar projects.
I have used Franz Lisp on VMS that had been built using Eunice. I guess the Eunice userland may have been installed somewhere on the VAX but I don't remember finding it.
Exactly so, but a survival suit is intended to be a dry suit (when used properly) so the mechanism is not identical. However, when water does get inside, it heats up, gets held in place by your regular clothing underneath, and then the suit acts like a hybrid.
> You can always license any code you wrote.

No you can't ...not if someone else has a claim on the work you do. I can't put "copyright <my name>" on the code I write at work ... its "copyright <my company>"

EDIT: re license vs copyright : I also can't just unilaterally decide what license I use for code I write at my company. I think its reasonable to think the same would hold true given that FAQ item.

> That's not how copyright law works.

That was from the SW weekend FAQ.
But I think that FAQ holds weight -- just like my statement above. If the rules for the weekend are the "team decides" you can't just go claiming ownership of stuff you did for the team.
> Then there's the academic problem: the monoamine hypothesis (the underlying theory behind the actions and use of SSRIs etc) is at best a crude approximation with precious little in vivo data to support ideas that are known to be inaccurate and incomplete.

The monoamine hypothesis of depression (the idea that all depressions are directly attributable to negative alterations in monoamine dynamics) has been known to be inadequate for a decade or two now in the scientific community. The idea that researchers are still operating on this basis is totally false at this point, but anti-pharma crusaders still hold it up as a convenient straw-man because it's so easy to discredit now using (ironically enough) all of the latest research that the scientific community actually uses for our current understanding of depression.

We're all very well aware that depression isn't caused by "low serotonin levels" or other such completely wrong marketing-speak of the 90s. In fact, there are quite a few very promising anti-depressants in the pipeline and stage III clinical trials that don't directly manipulate monoaminergic systems at all.

Finally, your suggestion that the monoamine hypothesis is the theory behind the actions of SSRIs is completely false. We've known for a very long time that the therapeutic effects of SSRIs lag the near-immediate alterations of monoaminergic. You can't equate discrediting the monoaminergic hypothesis of depression with discrediting SSRIs.
Just like sports, even stiffer fine and ruined reputation on being caught cheating.

Just like sports, companies will still cheat. When punishment doesn't work, the answer is rarely more punishment.
The urls are different for the one you submitted and OPs. Generally if you can remove extra query string params in the submission it helps the filter / deduper work better.
Anything like this for IIS that shows client compatibility?

The only configuration tool I know of is https://www.nartac.com/Products/IISCrypto/.
The technical debt of petrol engines is becoming apparent.
I meant dedicated team. Most places run shared ops teams. Every place I've seen that runs a "big Hadoop" deployment also has a dedicated "Hadoop team" to go with it.

It's pretty easy to build a 2PB storage system on Ceph that the average group of sysadmins can run.
Haha, maybe? I'll give it a try? Yeah, it kinda does!?
i had to do a smog test for my 1 year anniversary of owning a new car. it is a 2015 model from a different manufacturer, acura, in my case, and it was visual inspection only. i asked the guy, because i'm used to having actual measurements performed each time. if a car is new enough then they only do a visual inspection. i don't know the details of how "new enough" is determined, though.

i've seen this also when having fire extinguishers inspected; ones that are only a year or so old are also only visually inspected only.
Sorry, I just can't buy into the dripping sarcasm of emphasizing that it's only a forum. Yeah, it's a forum. Forums are big software applications. It's not unreasonable to distribute the forum backend with Docker.
I'm presenting arguments based on what the author says, and you're presenting arguments based on the title and embedded quotes. All one has to do is read the piece. It's really not that hard!
Yeah, plug in OBD-II reader, get result back.

Some emissions places also do the tube-up-tailpipe check, but the car could adjust exhaust output if it has an active OBD-II connection.
Yeah, it's so surprising that Microsoft didn't implement the "Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface" (which was just for web browses) or other interfaces that weren't build for Windows.
Why FirstRound Capital just made their biggest bet on a Healthcare Startup
I'm not saying they wouldn't be nice, but they would certainly encourage SIMD antipatterns.
"The" native quality is complete brain-computer merging.

Brain-computer direct communication is close but not quite there.

It's not 100% until your thoughts are completely merged with the computer's. Your thought can't be called your own anymore, and it can't be called the computer's thought. At this point, you and the machine have become one, and latency has been reduced to zero.
We published etcd 2.x earlier this year, and it is super stable in current stage. We run harsh failure injection tests on it all the time, and the cluster could survive well. You could check https://coreos.com/blog/new-functional-testing-in-etcd/ for more details.
Newer cars tend to have more relaxed testing requirements... in many places cars don't even require smog checks for the first five years.
It is truly amazing how similar this is to the descolada in Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead

Quite a visionary that man.