skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference, to play da, is that both of your points get solved with greater transparency.

Is Linux more secure because everyone (quiet, Gentoo crowd) audits their own source? No, it's more secure because:

Anyone can choose to audit the source with minimal roadblocks.

Anyone who thinks they've found an issue can trumpet it from the rooftops.

Together, this means that even though I might not line-by-line audit my system, I can (with varying levels of paranoia / assurance) obtain a system that I have confidence others have audited. And furthermore, if there are issues found in the future then I can be reasonably sure of hearing about them.

Neither of these benefits is possible with closed source embedded systems.

(Or, from article "Ninety-nine percent of the buyers would never read anything. But out of the 11 million people whose car was cheating, one of them would have found it,” he said. “And Volkswagen would have been caught in 2009, not 2015.”)
I just wonder how quickly Google will be able to nix those ads when people do this anyway and how creeped out people will get.
FTA:

> From a benchmarking point of view, the smaller die size shows a leadership in technology scaling for Samsung.

Almost certainly true.

> On the other hand, for Apple to go through all the trouble of dual-sourcing a custom designed part and launching on day one with both parts, suggests major sourcing problems.

Well... maybe. Or alternatively this is Apple throwing their cash around for long term leverage. They certainly can pay to have the initial design done on two different processes. And having done so, it puts TSMC and Samsung (and GF, who shares Samsung's process and would be an obvious third source) into a terrible bind: Apple can squeeze them with the constant (and credible!) threat of flight to a competitor.

See previous coverage of NVIDIA's rocky relationship with TSMC for an example of something Apple is probably trying to avoid.
I agree that markup is easier to write - it's shorter. And typical html is much messier. But if you wrote html the way you did markdown the difference is much smaller. In fact - look at the OP's text. That article in html would be barely longer.

To summarize: markup is better to read+write. But the difference is almost zero. Anything other than trivial markup is a mess; exceptional layout often impossible (and I value the ability to creatively use layout to get my point across). It doesn't support wysiwym editing (very well). It isn't trivially statically hostable - and if you try it's fragile and flashes uglily. Many flavors exist that are slightly different.

I prefer flexibility, consistency and simplicity over micro-optimizing source readability.
does anyone know how this works? and is there any real pictures out there? the video is a composite, so doesn't actually tell me anything.

Is it auto steroscopic? is it layered oleds?
Here's another interview with him: http://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0
You make it sound like if you're not #1 in your class you'll be living homeless on the street. This is the exact type of exaggeration the article is discussing. There are many things in between Nobel Prize Winner and unemployed.
> The last two large scale projects I've been on have changed from using the term "sprints" to "iterations"

"Iterations" is definitely more appropriate than the Scrum use of "sprint" for each cycle in a continuous cyclical pattern of development.

OTOH, the "sprint" here was not such a cycle, and is actually something for which "sprint" is a better term than "iteration".
You could have the same title as a lessons-learned post about the post-mortem into discovering why the time server for an org was 20 years fast, diving into the machine to discover to their horror that some intern modified the time service to think about years, seasons, and months in a very human perspective.

:p
Victimless Leather
If you don't want Google matching your customer list to individual gmail accounts for targeting, then this service isn't for you. That's kinda the whole point.
LiveJournal all over.
I. Regarding Zero-hours contracts: The UK worker should be thankful they don't have the following US labour "freedoms":

1. "Employment At Will"
2. Privately insured healthcare
3. Exempt employment and no limit on hours per week demands.

American workers are at a significant disadvantage to their first world counterparts.

II. I don't see labour market dynamics changing any time soon for the good of the average worker in a first-world country. There's an army of reserve labour in the African nations, India, Cuba, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and maybe even North Korea.

III. In the best case, living standards in the first world countries will deteriorate and meet the the improving
living standards third world countries in the middle.
In the worst case, there will be war. War brings economic opportunity on a big scale to the world's working population. After the depression in the 30's it took World War II to improve things for the US and UK. Even Germany and Japan recovered nicely.
I don't agree with everything you've said, but I do feel like otto is in danger of being another teetering piece on top of the base-os/virtualbox-os/vagrant(+ansible/chef/puppet)/guest-application tower, which are all leaky abstractions and all cause problems in practice and make debugging complicated. "Accidental complexity" is the right phrase.

I can't help but think that what the DevOps world really needs isn't another thin layer of magic trying to shellac over the issues of everything below it, but rather to have a hard think and rebuild everything from the ground up with more appropriate primitives. Sort of like what NixOS is trying to do (haven't used it, so can't attest to how successful it has been).
Does anybody here post regularly on Medium? Can anyone name off the top of their heads their favorite writers on Medium? Would anybody pay for Medium?

I like Medium as a platform but there doesn't seem to be much beyond the occasional interesting essay or startup humblebrag puff piece about why culture is more than free donuts or whatever.

My problem with Medium is there is no way of establishing a reputation for quality. If everyone can post there then you're gonna run into some garbage, no matter what the sorting algorithm says are the "hot" stories. So without site wide quality control all it'll take are a few bad articles to bring down the perceived average quality.

So then what's in it for the writers? Build up an audience on a convenient, erm, Medium, then...leave? How else will they make money?
They raise the baseline for the lowercase keyboard, which I find very very bothersome. It seems as though they try to center the baseline-median area, rather than just stick with the baseline from the uppercase keyboard.

I accidentally misattributed some dislike for this to dislike for the San Francisco font; after I realized a bit more what was going on I'm slightly more comfortable with the font.
Yeah, it's comically insane that a company like that would not bend over backwards to appease its customers. First, make sure travelers have a place to stay. Second, treat all parties as innocent (unless it's chronic). Third, try to sort out what happened in an empathetic manner.
To be fair to him, Google drove Dodgeball straight into the ground.

To be mean to him: Deciding to split Foursquare into Yelp-lite and a shitty social network was a terrible, terrible idea.
I think the Terraform/Nomad/Otto hierarchy is supposed to be like this:

- Terraform defines that you have X servers with certain specs.
- Otto defines that those servers are running Docker or whatever.
- Nomad defines that your application is running in X containers in your infrastructure.

So, it's a layered approach (Infrastructure -> System -> Application), akin to the layers of your network. Each one is isolated enough to not worry about the others. At least, that's how I'm hoping this all shakes out :)
You're correct. That is a much more buzzwordy way to say they combined a bunch of PDFs in two days.

The real point both of you are touching on is the surprising part of this story has nothing to do with the technology. It's perfectly reasonable to have accomplished a prototype like this in two days. The big thing here is in how they overcame the entirely non-technical obstacles to do it.

I think there's probably two main things they did right:

* They selected an achievable project with immediate high impact on the organization's day to day work.

* They had the reputation, credibility and positioning required to make sure that their project didn't get bogged down by procedure or requirements imposed by external forces.

As it turns out, these two things are some of the most important ingredients for affecting change with software and are relevant to nearly all teams. Many teams only get one of the two. Sometimes you get none.
Yes, but the issue with Java 8 is that it requires new bytecode commands (mostly related to handling lambdas and method references) and is thus not compatible with older JVMs.

There is a project that patches Java 8 bytecode and replaces all lambda invocations and method references with anonymous class instantiations. It's called RetroLambda and lets Android devs use Java 8 lambdas in their code. It does open a whole new pit of issues though.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303...

Wealth is increasingly concentrated in the highest brackets. The delta between someone in the top 5% and the top 1% has increased markedly. Competition for that 1% slot has increased dramatically. Tenure-track positions now have thousands of applicants.

In tech, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. made tens of thousands of millionaires. Google made, say, thousands. Facebook made, say, hundreds. Instagram made ten. (I exaggerate for comic effect.)

I don't entirely disagree with the authors general point: kids are extremely shielded today, but I don't think he is properly sympathetic to the context in which kids (and parents) find themselves in. To the point of a comical lack of self-awareness. (In fairness this is an article in psychologytoday.)
That's not trolling at all. I work at Gilt. We're always cited as one of the biggest Scala proponents. I still think the analogy to C++ is adapt.

C++ is a great language. Scala is a great language. Both are huge and require knowing which parts to work with.
The kerbal planets are already so big that there is nothing interesting on 99% of the surface area of them. There are mods to make them "full sized", but they don't make the planets less interesting than they were otherwise.

Really the planet size in that game is about game balance.
"Found successful startup (Blogger)"

Speaking of Blogger...what's hapened to it? Wordpress, Tumblr and Medium are perhaps the three most popular blog platforms. Blogger, however, seems to have completely fallen off the radar. If you go to blogger.com, you don't even get a landing page for the service, just a Google sign-in. This gives me the impression that Google doesn't want to promote it or encourage new sign-ups. Perhaps they don't know what to do with it? Or perhaps they'd like to retire the service but can't because of all the sites and users that currently exist?
As with several other comments in this thread, I think your worries about are exaggerated and even wrong.

The fact is that the common American has far more than anyone has in the past, and even the poor aren't fairing too badly, according to the US Census as reported here [1]

Your comments about vanishing upward mobility are very much debatable. There's plenty of reason to think that mobility hasn't changed. [2]

Perhaps even more surprising to some, while the middle class may indeed be shrinking, statistics show that this is happening by squeezing them up toward higher incomes [3] (this doesn't contradict #2, since it's a difference in counting income ranges versus n-tile demographics)

It's really not such an awful world out here. Some people just seem to want us to think so.

[1] http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/16/are-there-really-40-millio...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/business/upward-mobility-h...

[3] https://www.aei.org/publication/yes-the-middle-class-has-bee...

EDIT : in para #1 I said "Senate" when I meant "Census"
I agree. The ability to discuss paragraphs individually is fun but it seems the unwritten rule is to keep discussion there to a minimum or else it clutters your work.
I've gone to foreign countries without any kind of booking at all. Just walked door to door until I found a suitable hostel. No big deal.

If you want a guaranteed excellent hassle-free experience, pay $300 a night to stay at a nice hotel. AirBnB is not for you.
The amount of armchair condescension on HN is appalling.

According to the reddit AMA, NASA does do some amount of sterilization before going to Mars, it is enough to justify the exploratory mission. More sterilization would probably take more man hours, more $$$, which would delay the mission to account for an (estimated) low probability of finding water. It seems like they've chosen to iterate instead of getting it perfect the first time, something we're all familiar with.

"The rovers have been sterilized for their particular landing sites where there's been no evidence of present day liquid water. To go to the RSL rovers will be required to be sterilized to a higher level. We also take samples of microbes that might be on the spacecraft before they're launched, so we can compare with any future discoveries. -RZ" [1]

Apart from that,
"These features are on steep slopes, so our present rovers would not be able to climb up to them.-RZ" [2]

They will be working on moving further. Let's congratulate them for this wonderful major accomplishment at least.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3mq1wl/were_nasa_mars...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3mq1wl/were_nasa_mars...
It seems that my ISP is poisoning my Internet connection once again :(

Error building dev environment: Get https://checkpoint-api.hashicorp
.com/v1/check/vagrant?arch=amd64&os=linux&signature=&version=: x509:
certificate is valid for www.example.com, not checkpoint-api.hashicorp.com
https://checkpoint-api.hashicorp.com/v1/check/packer
?arch=amd64&os=linux&signature=&version=
Aside from using HT when they gave out free credits, their rates have been consistently more expensive than a comparable hotel on Priceline Express and Hotwire.
"Presumably something will be worked out as the reality comes nearer."

One would hope so. I must point out that private space travel was entirely out of the question with NASA for many years. It's only been very recently that the idea has started to catch on -- and it's not universally lauded across the agency. Gotta wonder what kind of obstacles we're currently setting up (perhaps without fully realizing it) for anything beyond LEO.
Apakau makes your API calls 10X faster
No, the students are indeed hypersensitive and they (and you) have a grossly distorted perception of the impact of objectively minor setbacks.

Getting a C on a paper won't ruin anyone's life, nor for that matter would failing an entire course (which is basically impossible to do these days anyway, unless you willfully refuse to even try).

Such academic hiccups are not catastrophic and the proper response is not for a student to raise holy hell about how unfair the world is and how the professor smells bad and how they should totally be given a special exemption to re-do things until they get the grade they desire.

Failure should be received as a signal that a student needs to work harder or change something in the way they're approaching their education. Nothing more.

(And obviously the state of the economy has nothing to do with why a grown adult would feel the need to seek counseling because someone called them a bad name or they saw a mouse.)
I was a huge fan of /war-is-boring (and could name a bunch of authors), but they moved to their own dedicated site with crappy liveleak-esque ads.

C'est la vie.
Plus one for "adopt the metric system". There have been past attempts to do so, but I think it's a lost cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...
No problem for that.
Are you ready to pay to have that? Because stuff like that does not come cheap. Quite sure we can find some numbers on the Internet, probably you are not the first people in the world to think of implementing aerospace regulation in the automotive business :-). I am pretty sure in an industry where saving 12$ / unit (trough some improvement for example) is considered a GIGANTIC gain, applying some super strict aerospace standards will take the car prices to unacceptable levels.
I agree, in spirit. Setting up an app server, a web server, a MySQL database, or a cron job is pretty easy once you get the hang of it. There are a lot of complex sysadmin tasks -- running a BIND server, an email server, a Cassandra cluster, etc. -- but that's not what the majority of developers are doing.
Medium is for people who think they are insightful because they see other people using Medium, but they actually aren't insightful at all.

That isn't sardony. There are many startups/VCs who use Medium solely because they want to be "thought-leaders" unironically. As a result, the quality of Medium posts is highly variable.
The two Detroits: a city both collapsing and gentrifying at the same time
Mostly the argument expressed by others here: it would be too boring and it will encourage the further production of things like No Man's Sky that will ultimately fail to satisfy because the number of hedons per game frame is very low, and the huge/infinite world aspect only makes it harder to increase the density. Outerra is pretty cool for what it is, but I don't see it as the basis for a new Second Life or even an MMORPG. Perhaps there's potential for something on the scale of Dwarf Fortress like populating the planet with billions of unique agents with history, or as an interface to the real world via data collected from the IoT tracking the geometry and movement of every interesting thing on the planet.
True, any malloc (or new) and any free (or delete) is non-deterministic (unless you're using a placement allocator). But GC isn't better, because the new still has the same non-determinism, Also, the GC has to do more work than a programmer-controlled delete (walking data structures for liveness, or something approximately equally expensive), and tends to do both the walking and the deletes in bursts. But...

> java creates lots of garbage, C/C++ does not.

Properly written C/C++ does not. Badly written C/C++ creates garbage (leaks memory), and it can never be recovered, because there's no GC. The solution isn't GC, though - it's to pay more attention to who owns the memory.
Another way to look at it is that using multiple suppliers and multiple designs allows them to shorten the production time window before launch. That allows them to use more time for design while curtailing their suppliers' ability to leak info about the parts.
I think Ev is pretty clear about how this is different than Blogger. You may not buy it, but I appreciate his thinking, and find it very interesting. From https://medium.com/the-story/medium-is-not-a-publishing-tool...:

> Understanding Blogger as we did at the time — as a software tool for creating and publishing web sites — we found ourselves in the race many software makers know well: Add features, get more users. Competitor adds more features, lose users. (Marketing and others factors have some effect, depending on the market. In blogging, that was minimal.)

(skipping a few paragraphs)

> Chris Dixon had a great post a while back — Come for the tool, stay for the network — describing how, unlike Twitter, some platforms started out with tool value and transitioned into network value (which, ultimately, became a much bigger part of the equation, such is the case with Instagram). We had an inkling of this and were just getting started on the network piece of Blogger when I left 10+ years ago. It’s not that Blogger immediately suffered. Its ease-of-use continued to attract users in the tens of millions for many years. (According to Compete, blogspot.com had 63M visitors just this March.) But it was a pretty big missed opportunity for Google. (Don’t worry, they’ve done fine.)

> It will not surprise you that these observations reveal a lot about what we’re trying to do with Medium. We started out by building a great tool for writing. And it’s not even the editor itself that created the main value. It was the fact that you could easily write and share a story without the setup, overhead, or commitment level of starting a blog. It’s clear that there are many more people who occasionally have valuable perspectives to share than there are people who want to be “bloggers.” These people love writing on Medium, even if they see it as just a tool to create a nice page to point people to from Twitter.

> However, that’s not the point. Or, at least, that’s not the end. In the last few months, we’ve shifted more of our attention on the product side from creating tool value to creating network value. What does this mean? Obviously, one form of that value is distribution. And there’s no doubt that something published on Medium has a higher likelihood to find an audience than the same thing published on an untrafficked island on the web.

I think that makes sense. You can use Blogger or Wordpress or whatever to create a blog, but the difficult part is getting traction. Similarly to how Github is not only a place to host your .git repo, but also a "network" for finding/distributing those repos, Medium is not only a place to host your content, but a place to find and distribute that content.
It is also shown to decrease the information density (w.r.t. the actual subject matter) of a video. So you have engaged viewers watching a video of less substance... Reevaluate what you are optimizing for.
It's really a brilliant model: a magazine with unpaid writers. Get everyone to write high quality articles for nothing, then curate and monetize.
Hah, I'm glad you mentioned War-is-boring because they're literally the only section I remembered by name and, same, once they were off doing their own thing, I didn't follow. I imagine we're not the only ones.
I can't think of anyone I religiously read on Medium, but I find interesting and insightful stuff that happens to have been written on Medium all the time.

Actually, I think that's kind of the point.