skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting My Genome Sequencing Done
$70,000 minimum wage
I shut CapitaineFlight. It was a frustration whimper
I don't think that feature creep is a characteristic or symptom of a poorly-architected software system. It's just indicative of immature product/business management or conflicts of interest spanning the entire organization.
You can also be prescribed books.
You certainly have a point, but it can also be said there is a lot that can be done to increase the ability to work on what matters to an individual by reducing outgoings and cutting working hours.

The truth however is that many people don't have a "what matters", a single burning passion or idea. Most want a comfortable life in which they can convince themselves that they are ahead of their peers and they don't lack for anything important. It is incredibly sad to see how much crap some people deal with at work to have these lifestyles.

What matters to me? A very small number of people, a lot of solitude and a lot of learning and playing with my mind. To do this I have a job at a very small company with a custom contract to work just four days a week - for this I have taken a cut in pay of course. As a by-product there are lots of things I can't afford that my "peers" can but the funny thing is they are insistent they can't afford the time to learn the piano or take the long weekend to see their dying parents, they haven't visited the local national parks or escaped the intensive weekend shopping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism
From GNU coreutils:

$ wc -l src/ls.c

4980 src/ls.c

$ wc -l src/cat.c

768 src/cat.c

$ wc -l src/chmod.c

570 src/chmod.c
You'd equip half a city's ambulances with the devices, and track whether use of the Dechoker reduced tracheotomy rates.

A further complication is that the Dechoker would probably only work for solid objects, so emergency responders would have to determine the nature of the airway obstruction before deciding whether to use the Dechoker, or some other method (i.e., another suction device to remove semisolid debris like vomit). So you'd additionally have to track what the nature of the obstruction was and exclude cases where the Dechoker was applied inappropriately, or where the Dechoker was not used and it could have been.
I worked in insurance for over 5 years. Medical records are regulated by HIPAA. Being HIPAA compliant is a pain and most people don't understand medicalese.

But there are metrics you can track that can be medically significant and it doesn't require you to deal with doctor's offices or official medical records.

Why not offer a means to track diet, blood glucose readings for diabetics, and other metrics of that sort? It addresses the domains he was targeting -- people with chronic illness or "optimizers" trying to improve their sports performance -- without getting into dealing directly with official medical records, HIPAA compliance, etc.
"All this has happened before and will happen again"
Hahaha, I totally agree. I've just reached out to them for some feedback. Seems like they've spent a lot of time thinking about this.
Since these fusion reactors generate heat, you still need the steam turbine and generator. So the capital cost ($/watt) can't be noticeably less than oil burners. For weapons, fuel cost hardly matters because it's operating for such short periods. So thermal fusion reactors don't enable rail guns.
Great Leaders Don’t Juggle Priorities
Samsung unveils new ‘Stripe’ batteries
I just wanted to throw into the mix Rancher. Rancher is a more recent comer into the space and still in beta. Rancher focuses on simplicity, flexibility, and pragmatic solutions for Docker based infrastructure. Rancher is different in that it can be deployed in conjunction with all of these systems mentioned or can be ran as a replacement. It includes a scheduler, load balancing, health checks, service discovery, application templating based on compose syntax, storage management, application catalog, upgrade management, github/ldap integration, UI, API, CLI, etc.

Disclaimer: Co-founder of Rancher Labs and chief geeky guy behind Rancher
Star Wars The Force Awakens Alphabet Song for Kids
"Literally" now literally means "figuratively".[1]

Although, to be fair, it's considered an "informal" usage. But still...

[1]: http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/according_to_the_dictionary_...
it's more like "Why would you put multiple process on the same instance instead of just using a monolith app, the overhead for IPC / network isn't worth it if you put every process on the same machine"
Bringing up new containers will always take a finite amount of time.

If all of a cluster is deployed to a single host, and that host dies, then the recovery time is the time needed to reschedule the container elsewhere, load it onto the machine (if not cached), and execute it. This is all downtime, since every instance was lost.

If instances are on more than one host, then even in the case of a single host's failure the application is still available while the failed instance is rescheduled and started.
The same could be said for the majority of financial institution websites. It's ridiculous how insecure and behind the times they are. Behind password restrictions, I'd say the next biggest thing that angers me is that they claim to support two-factor when it's really just "Wish It Was Two-Factor" in the form of so-called "security questions": http://thedailywtf.com/articles/WishItWas-TwoFactor-
Are you familiar with any fusion or fission powered animals?
Treating Psychopaths
NASA's Most Powerful Rocket Ever Passes Critical Test in Journey to Mars
Improve AWS security: protect your keys with ease
I can't recall a sack of Rome by Odoacer, nor can I find after a quick search, but my memory may be lasping here.
FWIW, Odoacer did escape to Ravenna to escape Theoderic and the siege lasted circa 3 years, so it did prove to be a reasonable location from that point of view.
Why a Health Program That Works in America Failed in Britain
What sucks about fundraising
I fully agree. "Do what you love" sounds like survivor bias.
Does Email Marketing Work, What Is Email Marketing?
Obviously, those are monoliths in dire need of decomposition.
I work for a startup bank in the UK (Mondo). Our Go microservices architecture allows us to maintain velocity whilst staying secure.

The core banking services that actually move money around are isolated from the more "fluffy" customer facing ones that we want to be able to push updates to several times a day. We have to have incredibly rigorous procedures for updating services that control money, if we had a monolithic architecture then these procedures would have to be used even if the change was simply cosmetic.
I think the article is looking at it backwards - techcrunch is not a singular target audience for press releases. A press release is more like throwing spaghetti up on the wall to see what sticks. It is a grab for free marketing, blasted to anyone who might care, with the knowledge that many will ignore it.

Now, if people are writing up direct pitches to this guy and calling it a press release, then they are simply giving it the wrong label, and then his advice may be applicable. Or maybe he gave his article a bad label. Or he only gets crappy press releases. Whichever.

But declaring that the entire mechanism of press releases is outdated just because he doesn't like them... well, he did say that it was all incredibly arrogant.
But VCs are funds, not long term owners. Their goal is an exit, so they can pay off their investors in cash. Their goal is not to become conglomerates or zaibatsu or chaebol. YCombinator is not in the business of becoming the next Samsung.
Or some say the opposite: that the practical development of fusion energy at the NIF and Sandia played a secondary role to weapons research. So they made engineering decisions to probe the limits of fusion physics, rather than making something that works.
What's the cost/benefit of those?
Cod AW/BO3, H1Z1, FIFA 16, Uncharted, Until Dawn, TLOU and Hearthstone
Backronym
I can't take this site seriously with the ad content.
Someone commented this but deleted it because they were getting downvoted:

Land ownership, intellectual property and limited liability ownership of companies by individuals are the basic building blocks of capitalism. I.e., property forms guaranteed by the government. Which one of these are being challenged by unicorn startups, again?

I think this is spot on and deserves repeating.

Unicorn startups are changing the way we utilize capital (Uber=cars and labor, Airbnb=property) but they are not changing the fundamental fabric of capitalism. Our legal framework forms the backbone of our society, and regulation/policy is the tool we use to adjust that foundation. Entrepreneurs and investors respond accordingly.

Uber and AirBNB might hire some lobbyists to change a few minor rules in the hoteling/taxi industry, but the really important variables are the distribution of government spending, scope of and resources committed to regulatory oversight, and the tax code.

The article lacks a comprehensive review of the data and its arguments come across as surface level speculation.
It's much easier for people to be principled when their self-interest is not at stake.

I'm not opposed to peaceful protests. I've been in some myself. I am very much against riots and romanticizing riots as a form of productive protest. Agent provocateurs do exist, but I think it's unreasonable to pretend (as some do) that all riots are due to such.
Review of Stephen Wolfram’s Book a New Kind of Science by Scott Aaronson (2002)
Based on it's shape, it seems the business end of the tube is where the majority of the pressure difference would be created. I suspect that the mask is more to prevent air rushing into the nose/mouth than providing the seal for the suction. With the curved tube extending into the back of the throat, and at the size it seems, I suspect that the soft palate and back of the throat would provide a sufficient seal, with enough pressure applied to the mask and a sharp enough pull on the plunger.

Also, many sailors on industrial boats that I've seen have beards, so I'd suspect that it was a consideration in it's design and probably why the tube is there, instead of just a mask, like the yellow plunger thing.
AppSense 2015 Desktop Experience Study [pdf]
Correct. It is up to the Gods.
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

-- Fred Wilson (also credited to Nassim Taleb)
So I guess once we get time machines, we'll have to worry about immigration from the past?
The original complain was about password boxes not allowing passwords longer than 15 characters. Another common complain is only a few special characters allowed and space is often not on the allowed list. This gets you most of the memorability while still working with the common password box restrictions.
Millennials Say Enterprises Need to Catch Up to Their Desktop User Expectations
11 Years of Ubuntu: Time to Remember the First Version – 4.10 (2004)
People use fat-shaming anyway, and it definitely doesn't work. Maybe for a handful of people at best.
I feel like you're replying to something different than what I said, or at least what I meant to say.

I'm not saying that no business should ever raise money. I'm not saying that some businesses don't need to raise money (maybe even large amounts of it) up front.

I am saying that in any case, the actual raise itself is NOT the goal of the company. You're not successful when you raise a round. You're successful when you've built a profitable, sustainable business that can endure while carrying out whatever your original mission was.

Unfortunately, a lot of things in "startup culture" these days emphasize fund-raising in such a way as to suggest that the raise itself is The Most Important Thing. I think that's an unhealthy mindset for everybody involved.
I can always spot someone who has amassed so much money that they're not worried about it. They say things like, "Follow your passion and don't worry about money."
Why Adobe Got Rid of Employee Performance Reviews
What is the threshold number of computers past which using this stuff is worth the tradeoff in complexity?
Direct link to their 2015 Desktop Experience Study (pdf)

http://www.appsense.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/AppSense-...
As with most epigrams this is cute, pithy, unintentionally smug, and conveys no actionable information.
These dang democrats done banned Ben Carson from google man!

https://www.google.com/search?q=Ben+Сarѕоn
Rancher looks really good. I'm going to try it out - can you guys add a launch guide for Rancher OS on DigitalOcean?

Also, I want to make a plugin/service that's dependent on what you've build solely for the pun "Huevos RancherOS"
Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10394993
No, it's not "cheating."

The title of my link says 'single-shot'. The underlying Nature article at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v516/n7529/full/nature1... says "Here we demonstrate a two-dimensional dynamic imaging technique, compressed ultrafast photography (CUP), which can capture non-repetitive time-evolving events at up to 10^11 frames per second"
Glowing Plant (YC S14) clears final technical milestone
I wonder how many times Edward Snowden has been asked about whether or not he happened to stumble across The Truth behind ${CONSPIRACY}. Since he (or whomever on his behalf) got a Twitter account, I can't imagine no one has ever asked.
Nuclear power isn't solar power even by that definition.
I agree that they intend to refer to "being raised" but that's not even in the sentence. Unless I'm looking at the wrong sentence?
It isn't your computer anymore. The device no longer trusts YOU and will not obey you. It obeys its owners: The corporation that made it.

Therefor your point is moot. It isn't your device, so you aren't throwing out anything you own.
Absolutely. It is a requirement for a modern software engineer to be able to write well.
Several. Improved multiple file search, an an API so that multiple plugins can annotate the gutter at the same time, etc.
The Chinese could do that, but they'd be wrong. ‘French A’ and ‘English A’ have undiverged continuity with ‘Roman A’. Chinese writing is neither descended from Roman nor an alphabet.
I don't feel comfortable telling anyone's community what they should or shouldn't do, but only in the airless vacuum of an Internet message board is it controversial to suggest that they should not respond by throwing chairs through the windows of restaurants during dinner service.
You can achieve this by hashing all the possible combinations that you could ask for with a salt and store those.
ElixirScript, providing the ability to write JavaScript in Elixir
Good point. What's your email address?
The thing to keep in mind is a minority of software developers are actually working on software with actual customers.

So when you don't have customers you get to anti-pattern and navel-gaze, because then, at least people are doing something.
Nothing wrong with a little bit of accidental nostalgia now and then.
None whatsoever,

I'm still in my intensive study of the Manhattan Project and one thing that's very clear is that the "try everything that looks like it might work to make sure at least one will" had a great benefit in building the insanely scaled K-25 gaseous diffusion plant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-25). This allowed us to easily build reactors and all sorts of things with enriched uranium. With that good an ecosystem, where does thorium fit in?

Ah, here's a theory: the U.K. didn't know how well we'd done in finding uranium sources. So early on, besides just trying it out, wasn't it posited as an alternative to U-235 if we ran low on it? And I've read on Wikipedia that some thermonuclear primaries were/are U-235 implosion designs; if that's advantageous, alternates to U-235 for power reactors could be useful.

And skimming this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United... and finding this http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Uk/UKFacility.html confirms that it took a long time for the U.K. to enrich uranium, especially to militiarily useful levels (HEU) and amounts, 1954 and 1957 respectively, long after the 1952 creation of successful H-bombs.

But I still can't find or think of anything that supports the bald assertion in the article (which I did break down and read), which tells me the author is grossly ignorant of the most basics of the subject, and I strongly suspect the whole article is highly suspect, putting a spin on events that's not in the least supportable by reality, there are plenty of tells, including extremely limited quoting of the documents which are supposed to reveal all this.
Accenture also got rid of annual performance reviews and rankings recently[1].

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/07/...
That is definitely it. I've been playing guitar for years and when some friends tell me how I was born to play because I'm talented, I tell them it's not like this. It actually makes me feel bad. It diminishes all the time that I spent practicing to get better, trying to learn new things, listening and improving my playing.

It's the same thing for almost everything you decide to do, if you take the needed amount of time to practice something every single day, eventually you will get really good at it.
You need to spend a lot of time tweaking font hinting to make a font that looks good at low res without smoothing. Designers don't bother anymore.
> You've got to respect the man for his attention to detail (...) fully creating multiple language families for instance

These things are related, but in the exact opposite way from what you're suggesting.

Tolkien was, first and foremost, a linguist. Language was his passion, and he was of the opinion that, e.g., Esperanto was much more of a dead language than Latin or Ancient Greek are, because Esperanto doesn't have a culture to call its own, whereas Latin and Ancient Greek have a wealth of culture attached to them, and, therefore, a life of their own.

Elvish and dwarfish weren't invented to give Middle Earth more detail. Middle Earth was invented so that the languages would be, in a sense, alive.
Nice to have another 'full stack' language.

Lots more info in https://github.com/bryanjos/elixirscript/blob/master/FAQ.md, including Elixir processes, which may be implemented with ES7 generators: https://github.com/bryanjos/elixirscript/issues/99
So how is your startup doing after all this press? Grasswire's Alexa ranking of 135,000 is nothing special. No amount of good press will work if the basic product isn't good.
Chris Ware, the Art of Comics No. 2
>You say this implies causation... I have my doubts in any sense of the word implies.

Couples divorcing people their partner got fat on margarine?

Besides that's not the best way to check correlation charts. You first have to remove bias components influencing both curves, e.g. the mere act that both are rising over time.

When you do that, do they still match each other, e.g. following increases and decreases? I very much doubt so. So this plot doesn't actually show correlation -- just that both "increase" over time in a similar way.

The same kind of "same plot trends" happens or every set of things that e.g. both have an exponential growth curve -- but it's not correlation unless both change consistently as the other changes.
The abstract notion of a service has nothing to do with an execution model. It simply means a well defined interface to some meaningful unit of functionality.

Properly designed, the execution model is orthogonal and the service itself doesn't care if it's invoked in-process or not. It delegates that to some other manager, which probably has a service interface of its own.

It's about sane abstract system boundaries, not mapping to real world facilities.
Death and Working Out
Why is it obvious? These are the exact questions that nutritionists are trying to answer without the benefit of being able to force people to eat what they want to test because they're in a Nazi death camp.

Do you know, for example, that poor Japanese in the navy used to just eat rice. Nothing else. Just plain rice:

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/eating-too-much-rice-almost...

Some had to be forced to eat protein by chopping it up into the rice.

Or that someone did a twinkie diet and it worked:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.profes...
How will this impact people? Many of those local sellers already are very poor. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that families are starving as a consequence. For example, thousands of farmers in India are committing suicide per year, apparently due to economic conditions.
> But it seems like it would be nice if code editors warned about text outside ascii. You usually only want that in strings and comments.

That's somewhat language dependent, though its true for most uses of most popular languages.
Adobe Type Manager on the Mac created raster system fonts from postscript fonts. So you could sort of argue that case.
>I think the idea is that if you legalize games of chance and have them run by the state, the rules are at least fair and there is some level of oversight that prevents people from being completely taken advantage of.

In California the mob "numbers racket" had a better payout (as a percentage of ticket sales) than the state lottery does.
May be we shouldn't time cap it. May 'until' they prove themselves would be more appropriate.
You're misinterpreting. The amount of light that hits the animal is not enough, it takes a much larger area covered with plants.
Yes, Dallas and Austin are nothing like Texas' Hollywood persona. BTW ping me -- I live in Downtown Dallas too.
TL;DR: doing the work for me has the most chances of being in my media
Facebook’s “Trending” algorithm makes me ashamed
It's a hard problem. Huge efforts are going into getting medical records into some machine-usable form without making medical care worse or overloading doctors. That alone is hard. Doing it across multiple providers is very hard. The business plan seemed to be "do cool app", and then magically the huge back-end problem somehow gets solved.

Jim Clark, the founder of SGI, tried to do this in 1995, with Healtheon.[1] After several failures but a successful IPO (dot-com boom) which raised $40 million, the business pivoted into medical billing, and is now Emdeon, which does about half the commercial medical/insurance billing in the US.

So bailing out at the seed round was a good idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healtheon
I was replying to a comment that ended with "If performance of technology is the only metric that matters to you, then yes, microservices are probably a horrible idea". I figured that it'd be more effective to make my point without bringing performance into the discussion.
Beavers do not devour trees at random, the mostly kill dead or dying trees which is very important for the forest.

Bullshit. Not only is that contradicted by my very direct and personal observation of their targets, it obviously contradicts their use of bark as food.
This is why Keeper uses zero-knowledge encryption. Our CTO, Craig Lurey, wrote more about data leakage here: https://blog.keepersecurity.com/tech/2015/10/23/dont-be-leak... We're assisting any adversely affect customers who are interested in migrating to Keeper and offering 50% off worldwide (except 5 countries). Just shoot a note to sales@keepersecurity.com
> it's not a far jump to say that these codes could be established and maintained by independent groups like IEEE rather than the specific city and state authorities.

It's a bit of a jump. The "independent" groups are not independent but are run by the inudstry being regulated, and will act accordingly. Government is responsible to its citizens.
Pretty good reading on this topic - https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t...
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