skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL:DR; We are building a service were users can easily spin-up private game servers to play with friends.
Does anybody know about this treasure?
I'll try to advocate for it strongly.

I think that there is already far too much pseudo-intellectualism, cynicism, political sniping and dull rehashing of arguments on this site to begin with. You can pretty much predict where threads about bitcoin, self-driving cars, politics or modern web design are going to go, what sort of arguments will be made, and what counterarguments. One of the problems dang warned about when he discussed killing the regular threads was that regularity breeds low quality. This seems to presume some correlation between novelty and quality that I don't think is really borne out by the content here.

I believe that, while dang was obviously perfectly within his rights to do so, this was one case where he potentially cut off HN's nose to spite its face. Surely, if discussing other people's creative and intellectual efforts is an intellectually valid exercise for Hacker News (which is what commenting on submitted links and articles amounts to) then discussing our own, creative efforts is also valid?
The attacker isn't going to find a collision that is not your password unless you are using a stupidly weak hash algorithm. The only input the attacker is likely to find is the original password and this is assuming it has less than 128bits of entropy.
If you consider a public shooting as terrorism we seem to have a lot of those:
http://shootingtracker.com/wiki/Mass_Shootings_in_2015

Just in 2015 you can look at all of the public shootings. Which ones are the result of terrorism and which ones are just someone going crazy and shooting into a crowd.

Sure white supremacists are a problem, sure they do shootings once in a while. But I look at the list of 2015 shootings and a lot of them are unknown.

Sure they are a hate crime, but can we classify it as terrorism? Is it the same as 9/11, the Boston Marathon Blast, a suicide bomber who blows up at a wedding?

I live in Ferguson where Mike Brown was shot by a white police officer, was the cop racist, was it terrorism that he shot and killed Mike Brown? We've never heard the end of it, even after a grand jury didn't indict the police officer. Were the riots and looting in Ferguson terrorism as well, or was it just criminal activity?

We sort of have a loose definition of what terrorism is and is not. If we consider all public shootings to be terrorism, we have to include them all. Even the ones that keep happening in Ferguson as gangs shoot at each other and that 9 year old girl was killed by a stray bullet.

Is it a hate crime or terrorism, the news media likes to play with terms like that to get more clicks on their website and sell more advertising.
You simply shouldn't combine negativity and dismissiveness in a Show HN comment. You probably should avoid dismissiveness altogether, but this particular mixture is especially toxic here.
shadowd is not against SSH keys in any way. It can serve them as well.

The main point is always having password access for cruicial services, so any given ops engineer can login from almost everywhere. In real life there can be different situations, anecdotal, but at some point of time I have to fix problem via SSH shell from my mobile phone.
Correct, you'll be rating the previous passenger in your Uber's once we have self driving vehicles. Same mechanics will apply.
It’s not that obvious. The site tells you what technologies a site uses—not which programming language. ASP.NET includes a lot of languages.
Fundamentally you need a password in a sealed envelope in a safe in the ops area, so when LDAP is in a hopeless situation, a field tech can be talked over the phone into logging in as root using the sealed envelope to access a new LDAP server, or something.

Also its "easy" to set up insecure ldap or more precisely its easy to not deny insecure ldap connections, but its hard to mess up something like Kerberos to be overly permissive... But it doesn't matter, it just changes the scenario to "kerberos is dead for whatever reason, need root login to fix".
Hydra's OS
Which is news to no one :)
More like a scale-model M1 Abrams.
blueapexdigital.com fetches 5mb of pngs! You might want to optimize that.
But a coal plant spewing radioactive by-products into the air is perfectly kosher, amirite?
This is terrific. His comments about Piaget and topology -- how children master topological ideas first, easily -- is particularly wonderful.

Also: Boy they are smoking a lot!
I did actually, I know police officers are human and capable of error, but this is ridiculous. Why even have your gun loaded when walking into a presentation like this?
>Android is the reason Java is the #1 programming language.

Hardly. Java has been #1 nearly a whole decade before Android even appeared.
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I know it isnt a "technology" in the traditional sense of the word, but i had a front-row view of Interest Rate Curves over the past 15 years. They went from arcane numbers some PhDs calculated at the back of the trading floor, to things Business Analysts started calculating, to things you could calculate with a standard website to things that were completely transparent and commoditized.

In 2007 when I started building an interest rate curve system for a large asset manager, it cost us about $1.5m to get it up and running and another $200k/yr to maintain/operate. A lot of it was about getting clean data, but there was a lot of model tweaking/testing/maintenance as well.

In 2014 when I left the same Asset Manager, we were able to re-do the same project from scratch with a $100k vendor product. Many quants got rich carefully guarding the creation of "The Curve" and were upset when it became easy to calculate w/o expensive workers. What lead to the commoditization? Several things:
1 - Academic review - lots of papers came out about how to do this. it wasnt patented, it was just a trade secret, but no longer...
2 - Open source, especially QuantLib, which implemented what the papers described
3 - Reference implementations - people outside the industry trying to break in released many reference implementations
4 - Overseas workers - people outside Wall St wanting to break in started doing it for free in hopes of proving their skills
5 - Democratic forums - people on the outside shared knowledge freely, helping unravel the internal trade secrets.
You can't go to sleep in an RV and wake up at a predefined destination.
I'm happy to be rejected by people who are anal retentive about spelling and punctuation. They're 100% not my type. This is especially true because I interact with lots of people whose first language is not English which means "bad" grammar is par for the course. The same people that would reject you for having bad grammar are effectively racists
I think it's frowned upon to include your gender in your post. It put's recruiters in an awkward position, because they're not supposed to know any identifying physical factors about you.
Basically we support launching VM on multiple cloud providers (mainly thanks to jclouds), then we provision a game server via docker container on a vanilla ubuntu 14.04, finally the user can get the IP address of the VM and play.

Game servers are launched with pre-defined configurations, but the user can override the command line flags of the game server and restart it, directly from the control panel.

With this platform, we would also love to help multiplayer indie developers to host and sell their shiny new game server to users.

If there are HN gamers reading this, feel free to suggest any game that you think it should be available.
I don't mean this quite in the 'derogatory' way it's going to sound like, but offshoring is a serious sign of trouble when it comes to commoditization.

If what you're doing as a business can be done for a fifth of the cost in the Philippines, India, etc, then you have a serious clock on your business model before the 'quality, quality, quality!!' argument runs out.

Seen it with a few things now. The biggest flaw that businesses do in this situation is believe in that the quality of the product will continue to outweigh the cost difference. It won't. ;/

By the way, I'm not saying there's inherently something wrong with the quality of work from those nations, I'm speaking strictly about offshore 'hubs' that are set up to purely be a cost-saving. Those type of hubs have a hugely different mentality when it comes to production in my experience.
This is normally the case on HN, but it isn't the case on "Show HN's". The special "Show HN" guidelines were introduced by 'dang in a thread about a year ago; you should track that thread down and read the whole thing for context, or just take my word for it. :)

I don't generally want to be the HN rules police, but this particular rule is a very good one, which took the site some time to be adopted, and I think it's worth speaking up for.
You might take a look at Bokeh (http://bokeh.pydata.org) and either the PyData stack or R (Bokeh can be used from R as well: https://github.com/bokeh/rbokeh). Bokeh inside a Jupyter notebook with widgets and/or emerging "Bokeh Apps" is a powerful application stack. Anaconda is a single download that can help you get started with all the tools (including R): http://continuum.io/downloads

It still requires some coding but it is very powerful. There are a lot of examples in the Bokeh gallery and in examples directory: https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/tree/master/examples .

There are several devs on Bokeh mailing list eager to help and the company behind Bokeh (http://continuum.io) can provide more significant help if you need it.
I don't know if blindsighted is the word. Sure, they certainly weren't on the forefront, and at the time to us in the industry it seemed like they were waaaaay late to the game, but at least for me in retrospect they weren't really that late, and I don't think it made a lick of difference did it?

Missing the boat on the importance of Google and the iPhone, now those were huuuuge mistakes. Was Gates still running the show then?
As a long time user of googles web based terminal (accessed normally through google cloud platform console by listing your VMs and clicking the SSH button):

I love it because I don't need to worry about key management and can access my machines anywhere that has a browser.

However, my few gripes are:

1)when copying text out of the web terminal window that spans multiple lines (on Mac osx chrome), newlines are inserted.

2) ctrl v doesn't work (nano/pico)

3) Ctrl c sometimes doesn't work
Screen shot is so small, can't read the words.

Marvel already has a "Hail Hydra" comic where Hydra took over the world and Nomad somehow traveled there and his counterpart is Captain Hydra. Part of Battleworld and the Secret War.

I think Hydra is using a modified GNU/Linux distro with their own custom GUI interface. I think Hydra hires hackers to write it for them and recruits them to secure it so SHIELD can't break into it. They recruit from the anti-corporate types who don't trust the US government and there seems to be plenty of those in the MCU. Skye was one of those before she joined SHIELD, and now she is Daisy aka Quake.
It's all about priorities. For me no matter how hot is someone, a single stupid phase is a turn-off. And a clever phase can make me intrigued, even if the visual site is less than perfect. (keyword: sapiosexual)

But I get that for some others (most?) it's all about the looks.
Interesting. But I cannot stop thinking of http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
It is an established market.

In the Linux world, for instance, there are all kinds of tools for managing server farms.

Windows includes all sorts of management APIs which can be accessed through COM and .NET, so you can write scripts in some language like VB.net or F# to automate tasks.

There may be an opportunity there but it is going to be something specific.
The social responsibility of a private company is actually very straightforward. It is to make a decent product, which does what it says it will, and isn’t dangerous in any unexpected way. It is to charge a fair price. It is to honour its contracts. And it is to pay its staff and suppliers on time – and, within reason, to pay its taxes promptly as well. If it can do all of those things, and do them well, it is already making a hugely responsible contribution to society.

While I do agree with this premise, I also believe that most, especially here in the US, would recoil from a company that declares a limited CSR. The common mentality would probably be: "Those fatcats should be using a sliver of their mountains of money to help humanity!"

What's interesting is that once you've popularized, formalized and then legislated CSR... what would would have is a set of regulations. In my view, the pressure on corporations to bullshit CSR has everything to do with our collective absence-of-faith in regulations/public sector: "The government will just screw the system up even more if they take more money. But this sneaker company is super amazing at making sneakers: surely some of that ingenuity will translate into the betterment of our society!"

Needless to say, smartness in one area is not smartness in all, and the person who is focused on business is not necessarily going to deploy her or his best efforts on doing what is essentially the government's job.

Summarized by Larry Ellison (I can't believe I'm quoting him):

"A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others."
Capturing users' ssh keys
Right, ovh is fine as long as you don't need their support
Often, the only way to know what's wrong with server/software is to login through IPMI and see it while it's still alive. Reboot will lost that information. Don't see exactly how enabling root password login at physical/IMPI console will increase attack surface (not SSH).

Regarding authentication backend I've already tried to address that vision. Unable to become root when auth backend offline/unreachable/misconfigured is significantly worse than having local shadow which is always works.
> or you can choose to be synthesized into a virtual world - however those alternative endings are commercial and require a paid subscription to maintain.

This one's interesting....if they could just lop off your body and keep your head alive (pump blood cleaned from a machine) and plugged into a VR machine, I could live with that I think.
no,this is not that simple. Ya scrapping is there but that's bit complicated.
Euphoria was used in Star Wars Unleashed. It actually looked much much better than the rag dolls demonstrated in the tech demo.

Use the force to levitate a storm trooper as he grabs his buddy only for both to be smashed to the wall. :)
http://8px.co/
Sure. My basic point though is that, given high utilization, $15/hour doesn't really change the economics of ordering a car on demand though. It still makes sense in the cities where it already makes sense unless services like Uber are already being blocked for regulatory reasons.
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I have the same question. I can ssh into all vps instances already...
It's worth noting that recovery outcomes for schizophrenia are dramatically better in the developing world compared to the developed world, where schizophrenia is treated like a medical disease and schizophrenics are horrible pariahs who are made to wander the street and eat trash (at least this is the case in the US). See http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/4... e.g., amongst many other studies establishing this trend.
I bet you will do anything – including degrading yourself (such as imitating the inanities of the group) – just to not be seen as a spoilsport at parties.
Not all solvers are available, GPU solver's aren't, FLEX and APEX are also currently not available.
FLEX source won't be released as far as i can tell APEX will be released in some form or another in the future.
The basic CPU solvers are there, but the license doesn't really allows you to modify them anyhow.
Bill Gates wrote a book in 1995 entitled "The Road Ahead" that barely mentioned the Internet and especially the World Wide Web. Microsoft was definitely behind the ball on the Internet revolution.
I'll call it oversimplification. It very error-prone and very difficult to automate. Of course, you can always tell your ops engineer to run something like `xargs -n1 -I{} ssh {} echo ... \| chpasswd < hosts.list` manually, but we are talking about automatisation of routine tasks, not "solving" them by shell scripts.
"The same people that would reject you for having bad grammar are effectively racists."

Now, how exactly did you arrive at this conclusion? This just might be one of the most, if not the most, ridiculous statements I've ever seen on here.
I can't tell whether this is sarcasm or just delightful irony.
Not in this case. The "last mile" of freight distribution currently needs trucks (just imagine a city full of freight train tracks), and if these trucks could operate on their own, the likelihood of truck-bicyclist accidents alone could drop massively - not to mention the massive reduction in freight costs because the most expensive part (the human) is eliminated.
You're right it some respects, but wrong in others. The person who really cares about their car's performance is just going to buy a high emission car and constantly pollute. If you allow drivers to have different driving modes then those gas guzzlers might be enticed to buy a more environmentally friendly car and leave it in low emissions mode for their day-to-day driving and put it in performance mode when they want it.

Hell you could put a green odometer in it and give a tax break proportional to the percent of miles driven in green mode to encourage it's use.

Trying to force car enthusiasts to give up performance will just drive them to older cars which don't have crippling software or dangerous hacks to bypass the restrictions.
I never realised that "speaking English as a first language" was a race.
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Thanks for valuable note about README, it's certanly needed to be explained.

But, I hope, I describe point about LDAP and stuff in replies to other discussion members comments.
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Air travel won't be snuffed out by annoying security, but possibly by restrictions to the oil supply. Air travel is one area where we won't have viable alternatives to oil based fuels for a long time.
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The future is sometimes surprising, sometimes very much so, and that is one big source of prediction error. It would take a transcendent genius to have imagined the full potential of computers back in 1900, for example, let alone everything else.

Additionally, predictions of the future often lean either toward optimistic or pessimistic, rather than in between. But this is more complicated than it seems because a big part of the underlying mechanism is comfort. People make optimistic predictions that seem comfortable to them, and they make pessimistic predictions based on what seems uncomfortable. But comfort is not immutable, it changes depending on familiarity. The internet is uncomfortable to some and comfortable to others, as was the automobile and the telephone. When trains and automobiles first came about they were scary to a lot of people, partly for legitimate reasons and partly for not. Eventually most people became comfortable with such things.

But even so, there's no new technology that doesn't come with down-sides, and it can often be difficult to imagine people of the future accepting new kinds of problems, sometimes even very severe problems. Nothing is perfect though, and people often have a blind spot for the problems of the things they are currently familiar and comfortable with and they don't see how getting rid of those problems makes the new problems more than worth the trade. Imagining multiple cycles of trade-offs and trade-ups from technology to technology is a very difficult thing to do.

And too, as you say, the impact of technology on society and then society on technology is even more difficult to grasp. This goes along with pg's essay about "what you can't say". If you can't say such things now you certainly can't talk about them in the context of the future.
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You should reverse the question and look for barriers to entry.
Smoking: he died from throat cancer, aged 62, and according to Wikipedia: "cigarette smokers have a lifetime increased risk for head and neck cancers that is 5- to 25-fold increased over the general population."
I like to use the wrong tool for the job
It's easy to tell when someone's first language is english, and they're lazy, or when it's not, and they're making honest mistakes because they're used to another language. With a little bit of experiences, even dyslexia is easily identified.
Interesting points, in particular one about "false growth mindsets": A person has a fixed mindset about their capability to have a growth mindset, ie. they feel inadequate for having a fixed mindset, and know that having a growth mindset is good, and are worried about their own ability to have a growth mindset, and so say they have a growth mindset to avoid feeling like they aren't worthy (which is a sign of having a fixed mindset in an area).
This is a big deal for high school students. They can use a school-issued laptop, but they can't install custom software (like an ssh client), so sites like Cloud9 provide access to something that would otherwise by inaccessible to them.

Source: I'm a high school teacher at just such a school.
Ask HN: What's the least expensive VM you can buy in the cloud?
I'm looking to setup a proxy in the cloud (with Squid) and for that I need a very cheap VM. I was looking at the t2.micro from AWS, but is there something even cheaper than that?

Thanks!
I can't tell whether they meant side or sight.
The "sapiosexual" designation is ridiculous. I find it impossible to believe everyone claiming it is sexually attracted to say, Stephen Hawking.