skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Demonstration NATting unikernel
I'm all for more police scrutiny. As a resident of NYC, I've had a few interactions with police that have left me with the impression that probably 50% of them here are ineffective at best, and a net negative at worst. I'm sure there are good, well intentioned police officers here, but I've honestly never encountered one.

However, these stories all involve people who wanted to die getting shot to death by the police because they intentionally posed a danger to them.

I can't really fault officers for shooting a man charging at them with a knife and hatchet. Yes, they could have used nonlethal weapons, and yes they could have responded differently, such as shooting his legs.

These officers should be disciplined and retrained to handle these situations, but this is not Eric Garner or Michael Brown.
There are rumors about a "Surface phone" that will run full Windows. And full Office, etc.
I'm from EU and I don't like it. EU should offer standards of data protection that foreign companies could choose to adhere to, then those companies could advertise to EU citizens that they comply with said EU standards. Same penalties that exist or are proposed now could exist under that model. Maybe even incentivize adoption with modest taxes if you feel really statist. Then EU citizens can choose whether they value these protections or not. Personally, I don't care what Facebook does with data I provided them with freely, but for online purchases I would strongly favor companies who protected my data.
He's forming an 80s metal cover band.
Oh, so kind of like: http://concourse.ci/?
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not sure how yaml is easier than json
also not sure how yaml is easier than python or what not
From what he's saying, it's because of Perl 5's excellent Unicode support.
I'm in the games industry as an indie and... well it's a big place and there are lots of changes going on.

I wouldn't say they pose a danger to anybody who wants to make money making games. There will be no Embrace, Extend, Extinguish scenarios on the horizon which is what I think people mean by dangerous.

Some people think VR is going to be big, but I think it's just a passing fad like 3DTV. The new minecraft stuff will be big, but I don't think World of Warcraft big.

Indie PC games was all about Steam, but everybody is talking about the indie-apocalypse because steam recently got flooded with a lot of titles so nobody is making money there any more.

Similar things are happening in iOS where production values are very high now which means the stakes are very high. It's still very much a lottery.

The consoles are pretty much dead to me personally. I don't know what published think about it all.

Then ofcourse there is the raging debate around free-to-play and premium games on every platform.
> Also Apple makes do with just the integrated Intel graphics, so we don't need NDIVIA either.

No they don't… the 15" MBP has a dedicated GPU, and a good one at that.
And it's always a good argument, especially for a series of standards that have always depended on vendor buy-in to proliferate, rather than solid design. Just because USB-C is the first USB not to absolutely suck, doesn't mean manufacturers ought to fall head over heels to put them in new devices, considering the countless existing devices that use the old, shitty connectors we got stuck with because the standards body couldn't get its act together.
There's plenty of times it still matters. E.g. data coming in on webserver ->

json.loads(foo)
blahblahException foo is bytes not text.

That said I still endorse py3 for new things
Please stop putting words in my mouth or those of Mac fans. I stated a simple fact, but got downvoted, so I gave up. Glad you admitted there was a lack of innovation somewhere though.

> Mac fans would be wetting themselves so hard that a lot of people would drown

@IkmoIkmo How is that for bias?
Study: among 71 top VC firms, 92% of senior investment teams are male, 78% white
It's weird how you keep restating the problem and acting like you've actually described the solution somehow.
With a SSD on the host OS, I really can't tell much of a difference.

Not sure on the battery life, but I've had nothing to complain about as long as I'm careful not to have some random process hogging 100% CPU on either guest or host.
The second sentence goes on to say that the fees they can charge are higher for events happening after that date.
its not infra as code though, its bandaiding as yaml.
so say, your logs are filling the disk, nagios complains.

what you do, is a yaml file that goes and delete some files around when this happens....

.. instead of... fixing logrotate config

i dont know, it feels wrong: as much work, except it also takes setup, new machines, new stuff that can fail, be misconfigured etc.
You can definitely fly in class B in a Cessna. There have been articles on AOPA about this, e.g.:

http://flighttraining.aopa.org/magazine/2013/June/feature-li...

Barry Schiff even wrote an article about flying into LAX in a 172:

http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2014/July/Pilot/...

I sometimes fly from YYJ (class C) and they're quite adept at fitting the Cessnas in between the 737s and dash-8s. There's no low-level class B here in Canada (only above 12500ft), but the Vancouver class C terminal zone is probably equivalent to the class B around SFO.
I'm really in love with dokku:

https://github.com/progrium/dokku/

so I signed up for the mailing list based on that alone. I would've put out a bit more information up front myself, but I guess if you've got enough whuffie, you can be a tad handwavey for a while.
I would never want to use Perl at my day job, but I also wouldn't want to live in a programming universe where Perl didn't exist. Perl is a place where the pure joy of coding thrives.
> That said, suicide by cop is a real thing

A lot of people shot and killed by US police have tiny weapons - little itty bitty 3" blades.

Suicide by cop is a thing in the US where police are quick to kill civilians. The fact that the US doesn't accurately count people killed by police is weird and baffling.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/08/ar...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-p...

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-shocking-extent-of...
Interesting, thanks for the links.
I wasn't really trying to argue, they said they didn't understand the point.
Regarding #5, that simply just doesn't make sense. There are "best agents" who spend most of their time buying and selling in homes in the 250K-500K range because they have a knack for doing it efficiently and in volume. It is a huge mistake to think that just because an agent only deals in "luxury homes" that they are a better or more capable agent than one who does volume in lower-priced homes.

As well, buyers and sellers in the luxury market are also more challenging to deal with because of very specific parameters and various exceptions that make doing deals more specialized (i.e. it is more difficult to compare House A to House B when both are $2.5MM each).
> There are quite a few Perl shops in LA writing new code

These include Broadbean (in Irvine) and ZipRecruiter in central LA.
I can't really fault officers for shooting a man charging at them with a knife and hatchet. Yes, they could have used nonlethal weapons

There are no effective ones. Heck, handguns fail frequently enough to stop such attacks; some adversaries who don't get hit in the CNS only stop attacking after sufficient blood loss.

Shooting in the legs is for movies. Besides still being lethal force (especially if a femoral artery is hit), a small, often moving a lot more than the torso target is subpar at best. If lethal force is justified, then shooting at the center of mass is the only reasonable policy, maybe followed up by attempts to hit the head (CNS).

(NYC police, BTW, have some of the worse firearms training in the country. Turns out there are consequences to extinguishing your firearms culture.)
I remember reading that in pre-iPhone Japan, this was a big selling point for new phones - that they were puzzles to solve.
Paul Graham was talking about something that sounded like either a distributed compiler or search/computing engine in 2008 at PyCon[9] and it can be argued it is something like the decentralized computing trend happening now. He said it would be "a byword for impossible" The thing about google is that, like Microsoft, it is a highly diversified company that does one thing and that is dangeroud. Peter Theil calls it a monopoly, maybe I would be a bit more delicate. Google and Microsoft have a ton of different products but each company really only sells 1 thing, a utility.

Microsoft was a BASIC interpreter for the Altair, and google was that for the web. For the reasons addressed in PG's article Microsoft is Dead, it is evident that needs change but utilities usually don't. If you read What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of? after this article, it is super short and basically says, the burden of proof is on you to not miss the next big idea.

So much crazy shit is happening now it is difficult to say what will kill google. This essay was in 07', but it was too eary or too obvious, as he closes with. If 4 things killed google I would say they are:

hardware: Hardware is definitely important, and we can argue about how and what context, but google doesn't build any. All their infrastructure, while massive, will be deprecated.

privacy:"Don't be evil" is !== "Be Good".

Advertising: Advertising is going to be A LOT less valuable, and the places it will be valuable have banned google.

Decentralized Tech: No idea what the interim search engines will look like but it will be __________ then Artificial Intelligence. I think it is private search, where you buy computational resources and algorithims from a network but supply the seed data for your preferences and retain them. Probably BTC/PGP will replace DNS and you will send or lease your own googlebot and people will sell distributed search algorithims. While Chrome and the v8 engine make a pretty good google bot, people don't really trust google anymore which is why microsoft lost. No idea what it looks like, but it feels like someone is building it now.

[0]http://www.paulgraham.com/altair.html

[9]If you know what I am talking about, and you know what he means by saying the name for it is "a byword for the impossible", I have been trying to figure out what he meant for ages.
https://i.imgur.com/UUEDKYA.jpg
Ex StreetEasy dev here (from a long time back). Is this buying or renting? If it is renting then I would agree with you, the market is so commoditized in NYC for renting that the current broker structure doesn't make sense.
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I think that is the point behind the repost. MS seems almost rising from the ashes like a Phoenix.

But that doesn't make parent's quote wrong.
To be clear, some chemotherapies are mustard gas derivatives. Others act similarly (disrupting DNA), but work through other mechanisms.

Treanda (bendamustine) is a great example of a nitrogen mustard that is still used in chemotherapy today. They've modified it a bit so it has better pharmacodynamics, but it's very similar to mustard gas!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendamustine
Where are the luddites when you need them?
Perhaps many of us are living in "another world", but I haven't seen a computer in the wild running Windows in the last ~6 months. I've been working in a few different co-working spaces in that time - mostly the startup crowd, I suppose, which heavily tilts towards Mac and Linux.

Certainly PG isn't the only one who doesn't see very many Windows computers, and I think this has probably been increasingly true over the last ~9 years since this piece was written.
Reading Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering" is probably a good idea. It covers security as a system, instead of concentrating just on encryption.

PDF of the first and second editions available at [ https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html ]
Actually that link doesn't even link properly to the Surface Bookj page now, which means anyone new reading these comments won't get the context, seeing as all they'll find via the link is Surface Pro devices.
It's an interesting view, and in some ways it is correct.

The Microsoft of the early 2000s is dead, and we have have (imo) a new Microsoft which is again producing some very interesting bits of technology and have evolved Windows into something, which whilst not necessarily better, is certainly more fitting for how we use technology today.
A blade that small is entirely capable of delivering a mortal wound (and normal concealed body armor is little hindrance to edged weapons), and are you aware of the Tueller Drill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill ?
Yeah I have a ton of respect for the guy due to the things he's created but this post was devoid of meaning and the video was douchy

He complains about the direction a startup might be forced to take due to a need to satisfy investors or business needs. He mentions wanting to design and build things for the sake of innovation and not profits... Sounds like academia to me.

You can't just "build cool shit" for no reason. Ya gotta keep the lights on somehow.
Ask HN: Is there a method for finding the optimal kerning?
So I've had this question for a while now and a recent article about Google's new logo re-piqued my curiosity. Is there a commonly used method for determining with some amount of consistency an athletically pleasing kerning, or is the process completely subjective? It seems like it should be possible to build a formula that takes into account the area of the characters positive and negative shapes, the arch length of the character's border, maybe the color and opacity, or some combination of those things. Does something like this exist?
Yeah, OSX has like 8% market share at best. A person paying attention would be more surprised seeing a Mac.
My vote is for Facebook.
Spot on - the wife/partner carrying the family is the biggest issue in my daily 4hr commute. Also an issue is just not able to be there in an emergency. For example, my wife locked herself out of the house yesterday and fortunately her parents who are close have a spare key. But children or pets get sick/injured and you really need to be close and that is always a worry.
The merger of these threads really takes away the scope of the announcements made and the different discussions being had. The editorializing and changing of URL really alters the environment for conversation in a way that's not healthy and hurts the scope of these things. Then the second highest comment on the thread becomes about the design layout on the page.

So be it if Microsoft/Apple/Google/Android/Amazon/Uber is on the front page multiple times...
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That's really cute.

I hope, however, that you can understand from the POV of somebody who keeps being driven off ruby by ruby being too much work, that "you could make it less work by first porting all the perl5 libraries that make perl5 OO more pleasant" isn't really a convincing solution :)
OS X market share can be 0% if your sample is a corporate office, or it can be 100% if you're in a startup space, a university class, etc. It really really depends on the context and your surroundings. Some people will be surprised by Windows, some by Mac. I think that PG probably assumes that the people he is around are building the future, and therefore, when he doesn't see Windows, he makes a connection there.
Sure, but there are also an awful lot of developers using Sublime for good reason.
They own PV-WAVE, a sister language to IDL.
Is he? I see a lot of MacBooks and tablets of non-Microsoft origin these days. Half the ThinkPads I see aren't running Windows...

When you talk development, its almost always on Linux or OSX, and deployed to a Linux server.

MS still holds on to a few markets, and still makes money and does cool things, but they're just not dominant anymore...
I am personally excited about what Microsoft is doing with Visual Studio, MVC (Orchard, .NET), Surface, MS Band, Win10, and Azure. They continue to innovate and improve their products.... What more can consumers and programmers ask for?
It's not really a dotcom 2.0 until your parents' retirement is heavily dependent on unicorn valuations. If the "bubble" were to burst now the implications for the broader economy are nothing like what they were 15 years ago.
I don't think that there's such a thing as the optimal kerning. Whilst there are a bunch of rules and guidelines you should follow [1], it's quite a subjective process.

Kern Type [2] is an interesting game to play which allows you to compare your kerning against that of a typographer. It's a fun way to burn a few minutes and learn a bit about kerning.

[1] https://99designs.com/designer-blog/2014/01/20/11-kerning-ti...

[2] http://type.method.ac/
Well, unfortunately this post has been flagged a few times I think. Weirdly, I would have expected to see the "vouch" button show up that was recently added, but I don't see it. Is it not implemented yet, or maybe I don't have access to vouch?
Agree, but the problem is that even short term is at least a decade and probably a major crisis before we will find a new solution to how to deal with that. And so a lot of people are going to find themselves without jobs without anyway to get a new one, my parents for instance and most probably myself at one point too.
I didn't have a choice, this is what all of my coworkers have as well. Some of them found it so hard to work with that they used their own money to buy a Macbook then gave it to the company so they could use it for their job.

My last job, I had a Thinkpad T520, which was just as thick but a bit lighter and smaller footprint. At home I have a T420, again same thickness but slightly smaller footprint yet. I'm no stranger to Thinkpads. I hope I don't ever have to use another.

Even IBM is disillusioned by the Thinkpads. They created the damn thing and they're abandoning it for Macbooks: http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/5/9099451/ibm-apple-enterpris...
Microsoft's retail store chain flounders in stark contrast to busy Apple Stores
I work for IBM. Yes, IBM choosing to buy Macbooks over Thinkpads is a pretty bold sign.

What do you think I meant by "my company was built on Thinkpads"?
Probably. "Looks like gibberish. Base 64 decode it. Still looks like gibberish. Must be random bytes." Never mind that random bytes are not likely to all be ascii letters and numbers.
I agree with you on this. I think me and my co- actively waited for the oppurunity.
Yeah,I agree with that for sure. My stat was just overall - for desktop computers and laptops, which are admittedly on the decline.
This is the explanation we were given as employees: That the federal government helped us meet our contractual obligations to our policy holders. And, that we would have to work very hard to pay back the taxpayers.
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I switched from a Macbook Pro to a Dell XPS in mid 2012.

I was a long time MacBook Pro user I went though three MBP models from 2006 to 2012. I switched mostly because I was frustrated with short comings of OS X. I wanted to make sure I got a good Laptop with first class Linux support so went with XPS, which had the best specs on market at time.

Pretty happy with it. The Trackpad had issues. When I first bought Laptop I had to compile my own custom kernel to get two finger scrolling working(has long since been mainlined). But quality was comparable to Macbook's quality. I have had no issues with either the keyboard or the display certainly nothing like you have mentioned...

The fan is starting to die in it now but it has lasted 3 years of heavy use about on par with lifespan of my old Macs. I'll probably pick up a new laptop in post Christmas sales I'll likely go with Dell again.
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They've changed - new QFF accounts are something like 10 or 12 digits long. (I'm 7 digits myself.)
A lot (most?) Windows 'installations' come in the form of legacy computers that haven't been upgraded in nearly a decade, or corporate boxes that are basically just terminals running MS Office...

When you're talking new personal devices, its mostly a mix of various tablets (non-MS), OSX, ChromeOS and Windows ultrabooks...
For renting yes, buying is different I know. But I can still find many places myself and don't need an agent for that.

The best agents are really "only" good because they know of the good apartments it's not that the actual broker part itself requires some sort of special skills.

There is a reason why everyone who has the funds turn to buying real-estate.
it is the san francisco bubble.

they also think there is a starbucks every 30ft all around the world. and that everyone has unlimited data plans for hundreds of dollar a month like they have running water.

dream on, SF.
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He's referring to the cost to become licensed as a professional Realtor, at which point you can sell your own home.
It could. But the last two properties we bought were purchased through an agent before they were listed on MLS. I've discovered that there is a pre-sales lag between properties being put under contract and being listed on MLS. Agents call and find out what hasn't been listed yet. It worked out great for us in the last two purchases. But it may also not be typical.
Re-read their post. I think you probably didn't understand their point. :)
It's easy to get lost in your own bubble.