skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, before I read the article, from the image I thought maybe it was bottles on both sides, and using the sun to evaporate the water in the lower bottle until it reaches the higher bottle, causing it to tip. Thought that was pretty clever! But probably not accurate. Would be beautiful to design a closed system that works well like that however.
Thanks to the kind people who sent me invites! I have accepted one (can't recall who, but thanks again) and will be playing with keybase.io over the next few days, to see how I can use it in my projects. This is definitely something I love about HN, there are almost always people willing to help out. I didn't even expect to achieve anything with my post; I was actually just complaining out loud...
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My sample size is limited, however I've not had an issue. I'm getting > 100megs. latency isn't bad either. 9-10ms between paris and the Midlands in britian, and 6ms to amsterdam

I think it depends on your offering, I understand that different parts of the company (online.net appears to be a subsidiary of OVH) have different specs.

They do have a rather sexy graph though:

https://status.online.net/weathermap/
As a primarily Firefox user on Linux I do agree with you about Firefox mostly following Chromium these days. It seemed like for a long time Chromium was adding in features Firefox had with improved implementations, but now Firefox appears to be lagging. The Firefox extension model did allow for extensions like DownThemAll which I don't think can survive in this generation of extension models.
That's not a usual, or even useful, definition of 'retired'.
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OVH support has its problems.

I've been with OVH for years and my main concern is that my monitoring service reports my server being inaccessible for hours a month. Luckily this isn't a critical server but there's no way I'd use them for an actual business.

Note: The large outage in the middle is actual maintenance. The others are just OVH's network being unresponsive.

http://i.imgur.com/nA3En5Q.png
Will they plan any expansion of their abuse department, alongside?
Pros:

* cheapest 64 bit ARM

* 8GB flash

* onboard GPS

Cons:

* relatively slow cores

* 1GB ram

* no usb3

* no ethernet (100 or 1000)

* no sata

For lightweight desktop/server use, this is a horrible board. The XU4 blows it away on all counts. However, the inclusion of onboard GPS shows more what it was meant for: things that move. Likely battery powered things that move.

The utility of the board comes down to the max and idle power draw. The XU4 is the board to compare the DragonBoard against; it does 2.5W idle and 8W-12W peak. If Qualcomm can beat those by a factor of four or so, then I could see a place for the DragonBoard.
I suspect that any marriage that was destroyed by Facebook was probably not long for this world to begin with.
yes, please! really like to see that
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I hope not. ;P
I hate the term also. It just seems like a product of superlative-driven headline click bait that has infected everything.
Indeed, and submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10247132

The title there was:

Gowers on Terrence Tao's solution
to the Erdős discrepancy problem

The title here started out as:

Maths whizz solves
a master's riddle

I suspect the click-baity title helped this submission get early views and early votes. The other, more factual title was probably just mostly ignored. It would be interesting to know how many click-throughs that earlier submission got.
I have a couple of their 6 euro/mo shit boxes and I couldn't be happier. I use them for hosting a couple of small apps, torrent boxes, and IRC bouncers.

Bandwidth to the US sucks, but I didn't expect much more. 10Mb/s on this low spec machine.
The old Firefox extension model, XUL/XPCOM is definitely a lot more powerful. You can basically access anything and do anything. On the other hand much of it is not documented and you're on your own in figuring out how it works. But they're trying to move people off that model, and onto the Add-on SDK or the chrome model, which is a lot easier to work with, and better documented.
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Are you referring to string-overlap graphs for de novo assembly? In that case, isn't CRISPR addressing another problem?
Why are you conflating a traditional principle of jurisprudence with the right to free speech? These are entirely separate topics.

The point was to publicly challenge the people that work for the surveillance-industrial-complex. That is simply free speech. The other party has the right to yell back if the desire, or to simply leave[1]l.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I fear that a lot of innocents will be hurt because of your support that you give by choosing to let these problems pass without challenge. Why should you expect anything to change when you withhold the necessary feedback necessary to correct bad behavior?

There is a difference between crude or vulgar name-calling/insults and challenging someone with language that is frank, strong, and maybe a bit rude. One is just trying to make people angry and the other is seeking to throw a bucket of cold water onto someone's naive or harmful point of view.[2]

[1] Free speech doesn't guarantee you an audience.

[2] Failure to understand this distinction is why some people perceive Linus Torvalds as being rude and "foul mouthed".
What's AirBnB going to do, go into every small town in the country and try to recruit people into their service? How would that be successful without prior successes in larger, more fluid markets, to grow a reputation, and, just as importantly, raise the money from investors to support those operations.

I think its a simple numbers thing. Lets say one household in Kittanning is interested in working with AirBnB. For the sake of argument and easy numbers, let's say a household is the platonic 4 people, that's 0.1% of the population. In New York, assuming the same percentage of people that would be willing to be AirBnB rentals and the same household size, that's almost 8500 possible units available for rent.
IIRC, back in the early 1900's, it was commonly known that tech companies should pay higher dividends than longstanding blue chip companies. Why? Because they were much more likely to have short lifespans. The newer the company, the more active the sector, the more turnover in the sector, the more likely the company will get replaced by something else. Somehow people seem to have forgotten this lesson. We now have tech companies like Sun or Groupon that go their entire lifecyle without paying out profits to investors.

That said, the strategy of not paying out profits makes sense for the investors and the founders. The founders will make more money by talking up how much long-term potential the company has, how it is going to be the next 100-year company. Then when they get the $10 billion valuation, the founder can take some money off the table. That is probably a better deal for the founder than getting a $1 billion valuation and just paying out dividends.

The question is, who will end up holding the bag. As much as I loved Dropbox when it came out, I switched off of it recently. I'm not sure what the future is for it in five, ten years. If you are techie, you want something with end-to-end encryption. If you are a normal user, you'll just go with whatever is bundled with your operating system or bundled with applications you use (iCloud, one drive, google drive).
I wasn't aware of that, thank you. I haven't used an Android phone in a while.
Yup, it's just back online.
>They are an order of magnitude better than the public railway

Order of magnitude more expensive, maybe. Better? No.
One reason I didn't jump into buying an ad blocker was because I knew there could be some free ones coming in. Another reason was because I knew there could be some compromises that the makers of the ad blockers would make "in good faith" on behalf of their users (which could also be a sellout or seen as a sellout).

I'm glad I didn't buy Crystal. I would've been frustrated enough to request a refund from Apple if I did.
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Or like in the air refueling. Self driving e-cars will probably be able to connect to each other while still driving and sell energy to each other.
The worst part is, all those systems (we can't say clients anymore) don't even try to standardize anything. Which is understandable, because they feel like they're improving the usability situation. All they do is provide bridges to other solutions, but that's not helping on the protocol side.
I saw Neil deGrasse Tyson "on tour" on Thursday, and this was one of his rants in his presentation:

* Lunar eclipses are very common. They happen at least every 2 years. Every decade or so, they happen 4 times in two years.

* The term "supermoon" is a painful over exaggeration, since the visible difference between it and the average moon is tiny.

So yeah, enjoy the eclipse, but in the end it's the media trying to make news. :)
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Sickening.
You might like https://sandstorm.io/. Among other things it seeks to bring capability-based security to the mainstream.
I really feel like fabric is much more natural. If you know Python, then fabric is wonderful to work with. I'm very familiar with Python and learning ansibles way of doing things just doesn't seem appealing to me.

Am I missing anything from ansible that I can't do with fabric?
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> iPhones while they're on the bus

Writing books on iphones? Seriously, that's neither beneficial nor effective -- smartphones might be changing the world but certainly not because it's helping people write books.

> A third of divorce filings in the United States contain the word Facebook.

Do you have a link for this statistic? Do 90% of divorce filings also contain the word `cheated`? And would they have contained `journal` or `letter` 70 years ago in as much as they cite email or cellphones? The medium of expression is changing but that's not the same as `world-changing` not to say they aren't linked, but surely divorce is a terrible example.
I don't have that issue and never have. But my impulse control is often poor - it's pretty freaking awful. Luckily for me it just means I tend to say too much, although this can have devastating consequences.
> Why block them?

Because the web becomes unusable with those "helpful" cookie notices when I actually do block cookies browser-side.

Those "TRUSTe" JavaScript solutions are the worst. They fade the whole page to black, then take whole seconds to load and make the browser sluggish.
Just ask the user on first execution if small ads that don't use a lot of bandwidth and that don't track the user should be allowed and leave that as an option in settings. The app could also provide a link to an example site for the user to see what the ad would look like. With iOS 9, it's also easier for the user to get back to the application after viewing the example site/page.

I do commend Deck ads for having no cookies, no JavaScript, no counting clicks, etc. It's not a model for the entire web since many marketers want insights and statistics on users, but it definitely works quite well and is used on several popular sites.
I don't see how you're replying to my core point, which is that getting "totally convinced" is a function of the intuitive mind, and the intuitive mind will be totally convinced of anything that is consistent.

Could you help me understand the difference between "totally convincing" and proving? If you are "totally convinced" of something, isn't that a p=1.0?

Whether the topic is history or pseudohistory, words like "true", "false", "prove" and "disprove" really don't belong. Those words are fine in casual conversation, but they can't be part of the thinking of a serious person.
> How did those go down and what happened after you wrote them (both from the community & potential clients)?

Quite some people felt betrayed and were angry. Thing is, though, what I wrote was simply provable true. Backed up with numbers and such.
So, I could conteract with "well, then show me what facts are wrong".

For myself, I felt relieved and a little sad. Sad that I could not achieve what I worked so hard for: to make Drupal the best framework for developers to build CMSes with.

The realisation that this was not going to happen, made me angry too. Untill the moment that I realised that pushing Drupal into a direction "it" did not want to go was frustrating. But also that, instead of turning Drupal into a Rails, I'd rather use Rails instead: why spend energy turning it into a framework that already exists, and that I can use today, without spending that energy. (I believe this mechanism is one of the greatest threats to WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and many other PHP-frameworks: once people grow into better programmers, they often simply leave, instead of pulling their framework up with them, to higher levels).
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Right. And that confusion is probably fueled by the existence of smart (invalid html swallowing) parsers mainly used in scraping, like beautiful soup and nokogiri.
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online.net is the biggest competitor of OVH!
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The 'better health care' fallacy died in 1990 after the Soviet collapsed!

Have you ever seen the hospitals 'normal people' go?

It is depressing not only because of resources but total lack of incentive for all workers ( nurses and doctors alike)

Same goes for their education system. It was second to none until the collapse. Now? ..OMG!!!

Please never ever think that the castro's did anything other than whatever it takes to stay in power. Their own people can rot in hell, they couldn't care less.
What is the power draw like at idle and load?
So it was the same guy who came up with Ctrl+Alt+Del.
I disagree. As a professor at Stanford, she's teaching the future rulers of the world how to rule. At Dropbox, she's showing up to board meetings and taking a salary.
Looks like it's simhash: http://www.titouangalopin.com/blog/2014-05-29-simhash
I'm aware of it. I know that Kenton Varda has spoke in support of capabilities before and I appreciate said viewpoint. I have not studied Sandstorm deep enough to know whether it's really a security tool. I'm under the impression that its main goal is to enable easy self-hosting of server-side applications.
The mechanism of the correlation may be subtle. There is the obvious example of the person diagnosed with cancer who then retires. But there may be another pattern: I lead a no-audition church band with musicians in their 70's. Twice, players have quit the band, saying that it "isn't fun anymore." It was hard to play their instrument. Everything was annoying. They were then diagnosed with their cancer several months later. So another pattern may be that the worker feels chronically crappy before their illness is diagnosed, and considers retirement just because getting up the morning is very unpleasant.
Sales people aren't negotiating their salary, which is usually pretty basic. They're negotiating their OTE (on target earnings) and EP (earnings potential). Their comp package will vary from year to year, but a hotshot that makes $1m a year by blowing out their quota consistently will want accelerators and the like in their comp, whereas the company will want proof they have done it before.

The only way to prove your past sales performance beyond references (who will often lie) is to share proof of earnings.
Genetically modified rice (golden rice) is a propaganda tool that can't change anything (you can't cure malnutrition due to poverty with genetically modified anything), so bad example.

What offends me about the claims is the difference between what could be done and what is done. In 1999 we learned via Napster of a fundamentally new type of entity, the digital good. This was an item with zero marginal cost - it literally costs nothing to reproduce on margin.

This fact should be fundamentally changing the world. A new type of economy is possible now, one that goes beyond capitalism, one where wealth can be shared instantly across the planet and multiplied infinitely the moment it is created.

This revolution was shot in the face by the DMCA and various other efforts, and that brilliant energy channeled instead into making a panopticon to allow better ad targeting.

Facebook did not change anything; Facebook is squatting on the corpse of real change.
> I like to think it's faster than Perl or Python, but I cannot say for sure.

It is. I implemented an assembly language parser with pyparsing. It worked okay but the function call overhead with a combinator-based parser handling both the lexing and grammar was murder. I replaced it with regexes and got a 6x speedup. Not something I would do with a complex grammar though. Native code would obviously blow this away in speed but it is fast enough now.
I see that it uses Wiring, but I'd be interested what the minimum requirements are for a compatible implementation. For example, would it be possible to implement it without some serious bit hacking on an ATtiny? (For example, ATtiny2313 has 128 bytes of RAM -- bytes, not kilobytes.) I see that the source code has plenty of comments, but a specification be much more readable in a separate Markdown file or (GitHub) wiki page.
Excellent list, thanks for sharing
We do. Big highways without enough pedestrian bridges have a horrible effect on pedestrians and bikes, basically cutting towns and cities in half. I currently work just north of a 6-lane toll road, and it's a reasonable bike commute. I used to work just south of it, and it was a much worse commute, because there are no pedestrian bridges or small quiet roads crossing it, only a few busy arterial roads, full of drivers already in highway mode, trying to dive for an exit ramp, not thinking about pedestrians or bikes.
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Actually I have never quit a boss, I have always quit a company. If the culture is good at a company and I generally enjoy the atmosphere and other co-workers, I will try to find an opportunity to change bosses or address the problem head-on. Now if the entire company culture sucks and I don't see myself happy in the company then I will quit.

Amazon is a poor example, that has nothing to do with a specific individual who is horrible at interviewing. That is a rating on the entire company as a whole.

No offense, but I think you are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. If I were looking for a job, and I would say that this probably applies to most people, I will research openings, research the company if I am not familiar with it, try to find people within my network who either work there or have friends/family that work there, and get a general overview. I will look at sites like Glassdoor that provide a candid look into most companies from the employees angle. Yes, the people I am going to work with are important, but I am going to judge that based on my interview and own personal interactions. Who I like and get along with is going to be completely different than who you like and get along with. And while there may be similarities between the two groups of people, in the end there is always some difference. I, personally, would never base my decision to work at a company off of a single interaction with a single person. It could be the interviewer is having a bad day or you as an interviewee are having a bad day.

To me I think you are going to run into a critical issue of the people doing the majority of the rating will be the ones who had poor interviews in general or didn't get hired. They are looking to vent their frustration. I would bet that you would find companies like Google or Microsoft that would skew towards bad interviews, because the people that would do the majority of the rating would have found the interview process challenging.
This reminds me there was a push for a 451 error that would represent censorship. Whatever happened to that?

https://boingboing.net/2012/06/13/error-code-451-an-http-err...
Great read and interesting discussion. Reminder of how good HN has been over the years.

The idea of "institutional learned helplessness" is a useful one. There is a French term which I will mangle instead of google: 'Deformation professionelle' - built in blind spots which come from having T shaped expertise...

I've been part of a hiring team for a sysops person and found this of interest:

http://www.heavybit.com/library/video/2015-02-24-charity-maj...

Overall the talk is ok - the point which stuck with me was the idea that you should look for a sense of institutional helplessness and filter for it when you hire Ops folks.

The speaker also said to look for folks with 'strong opinions which are lightly held' - a double edged sword.

In a devops role there is an internal debate. Should I press point "x" ahead on principle? Or should i hold off and wait on the business/product requirements. Thinking slow and waiting on a full discussion of requirements before charging forth into battle can be seen as good process or passivity...

At work we wre having a discussion on where and how to involve QA processes in the build/deploy process. Devops took the stance - "this is a business decision - we will implement it as product sees fit" and we got push back for being too passive.

But this is a trivial example. I guess the bigger issues which inspire a "What can i do about it?" response. Recent readings on surveillance state and corporate interests (ie Bruce Schneier, etc) make me vacillate between deep, helpless feelings we are FUBAR to learning about constructive things like gpg, tor, etc
That's a rather blithe and shallow criticism of Facebook and Twitter. I could easily complain about email because of spam, but it would totally disregard its usefulness and impact. (As for Candy Crush invites and annoying selfies, Facebook actually provides tools to deal with those problems. RTFM?)

Facebook in particular has allowed me to keep in touch with a much larger social circle. It has made it easier to meet people, establish friendships, maintain distance relationships, and keep in touch with more of my extended family. It allows me to plan events quickly and on short notice, and get quick feed back on who will be attending. It helps me learn about new events or activities that I otherwise might have missed.
Reports like this are great for embarrassing NVIDIA. But the problem is that this paper is already out of date, for embarrassing NVIDIA is the best way to get them to address deficiencies like this. This is mostly already fixed:

https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks

Check out the huge speedup between cuDNN(R2) and cuDNN(R3). Also, while there is some fantastic ML and DNN expertise at Facebook, there are only a few GPU experts there.

In contrast, NVIDIA is swarming with them. I would place my bets going forward on cuDNN. NVIDIA has bet the farm on deep learning at the expense of other problem domains. This is great for ML experts who want to add GPU support to their algorithms, and not so great for general HPC* (but then HPC just isn't as sexy as deep learning, now is it?).

*For example, cuBLAS perf has serious issues and cliffs on Maxwell GPUs. Sigh...
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"The super-efficient LED panels, made by Philips specifically for the Edge, require such a trickle of electricity they can be powered using the same cables that carry data for the Internet."

Power-over-ethernet, for anyone trying to figure out what kind of cables they were talking about.
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