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As someone who has never in his life turned on the TV to watch an athletic competition, not even once, I greet this with the applause and cheers I never directed to the screen for some ball game.

It's not that I mind those who like sports having the opportunity to watch them — that's a-okay — what I mind is that I and those like me have to subsidise them through cable fees, sports stadium taxes, tuition and the visual and attention pollution attendant on major-league and collegiate sports.
Perhaps by the cameraman that filmed them leaving the box?
I think Nomad aims to be similarly flexible in the type of resources it can manage.
Yeah mate, makes sense. I'll just get out and vote. It isn't like there are limited choices, entrenched political ideologies, a significant amount of friction, or a massive power distance relationship between constituents and representatives. America is a Democratish society and there is a pretty high level of dilution between my/societies views and laws.

I vote(just kidding, I don't actually vote but let's accept the hypothetical) for a representative for congress. That gives me the option to have 4 people representing me in ALL of congress, assuming that the people I wanted to win progressed AND that they represent my views broadly enough.

There are 535 people in congress, if we assume my 2 house reps and my 2 senators map my views at a 1:1 ratio (they don't, at all, nor do nearly anyone's in America) then, if you generously round up from .0074, my views are indirectly represented for me and are around 1%.

Luckily, we live in a world where there are lots of great choices for Senators, Representatives and Presedential canidates and absolutely no outside interests interloping on the process. So I vote often. Every year, I don't turn up to the polls and vote to not participate. My single vote not being casts detracts a tiny bit of legitimacy from a system I want to fail, and I can hope for a better future.[0]

[0]Someone on HN articulated this really well, and I would love to find the quote from him/her, but it perfectly summed up my own thoughts.
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The exclamation mark is absolutely what the 'bang' refers to. Or, depending on the microcomputers you grew up with - in particular the BBC B - it can also be rendered as 'pling' or 'ping'.
You're right, of course, I was mentally mixing up Mosaic with Netscape. I blame old age.
normally, founders and VCs have lock-up periods.

If I was a founder/VC, what I would be looking for out of this is not leaving money on the table (as others have mentioned).

The greatest thing for me on IPO day would be to go down by 5% on the public markets instead of popping. That means my company got an appropriate amount of cash by putting shares out onto the public market.
I read a trick about writing everything down you need to get done so you don't get that feeling at night your going to forget to do something in the morning. helps sometimes.
Stop saying "spam" (which means different things to different people) and start saying UBE - unsolicited, bulk, email.

If it's unsolicited, but not bulk, it's okay. If it's solicited (where solicited means "opt in, with a confirmation of that opt in") it's okay. As soon as it's bulk and unsolicited it's spam. And that doesn't change if you hand craft the emails or use a template.
As I said in another thread, racism is a problem in Germany and you can't deny the fact that people in the police force might be racist or biased against certain groups of people. I just think the picture the author paints of the German police force is maybe a bit too harsh, which is why I tried to find a possible explanation. I can absolutely understand his anger though and I do not try to defend the actions of the police here.
I am from Germany. Bavarian police is famous here. They do profiling based on your looks, it is called "Verdachtsunabhängige Personenkontrolle". I have heard plenty of complaints from people living in Bavaria, e.g. wearing dreadlocks means you are virtually guaranteed a number of searches and stops by police per year, without any probable cause or even a crime having happened.

If they did this to the majority of Bavarians, things would change quickly. So therefore my guess...
You might reach out to the mechanical engineering department at a local university. Boise State University has some pretty nice equipment and they offer paid 3D printing services to the public. We have used their services multiple times for prototypes on products we are working on to pretty good success.
"I find it really important to personalize whatever I'm selling to whoever I'm selling it to."

"Here's how to scrape a bunch of emails from AllTop"
It's not absurd at all. For the questionable benefit of the ECU, you get a black box system that may or may not be garbage controlling the primary engine input, that may or may not fail safe. Give me the thing that grandpa designed 75 years ago.

In the olden times, the throttle was controlled by a mechanical device and tensioned springs. The failure characteristics were studied for 150+ years, and the state of the mechanical components could be assessed by visual or physical inspection. The failure scenarios for open throttle are also non-obvious things to workaround. What do you do? Pump the brake? Take the car out of gear? Depress the accelerator to reset? Turn the key? It's a complex decision matrix with life-and-death consequences, and the correct answer will vary by car configuration and vendor.

The ridiculous positions taken by posters here are indicative of how engineering fail like this happens.
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Or call them Nazis to their face if you want to go on a fun ride :-)
> - sabotaging competition, at some point even hiring people to do it and providing them with burner iPhones and credit cards

They were trying to sign drivers on competitor services up to Uber. They weren't sabotaging anything and were taking legitimate rides, just promoting Uber while taking them.
We attempted to use ECS for a while before ultimately switching to Kubernetes. While its tight, built-in integration with AWS's Elastic Load Balancers and Auto-Scaling Groups made it fit well in the AWS ecosystem, we found that there wasn't enough visibility into the system. Containers would be stopped without notification or logging and not restarted.

We've found the Kubernetes primitives to be the easiest and most straight-forward to work with while still providing a very powerful API around which to wrap all sorts of custom tooling.
Yes, we should all test our software better. But let's look at the cost/benefit here for a second.

Back in the days when "system" was a reasonable font choice, fixing a bug after shipping would take weeks, months, or years, and could cost $10^4 to $10^8. You might have had to pull actual boxes off actual shelves somewhere!

In this story as it actually happened, the bug was fixed and the fix was deployed in a single day, at the cost of a few laughs.

I'm sure they tested on Windows when they added Segoe to the list, so the problem is that they didn't test again after fiddling with other fonts that they (incorrectly) thought would be irrelevant to Windows. And remember, nothing was broken in a way that a machine would notice, so automated acceptance tests wouldn't have caught this regression.

I think it's worth considering the possibility that this is a story of Medium acting more or less in their economic interest (maybe even in the economic interest of their users?) rather than a story of a bunch of hipsters with a hilariously broken QC policy.
Mind if you share the University you went to?

I'm a Post Grad from Gatech myself, and from what I've seen this wasn't the norm.

Also, I wonder how different the pay/career options are for a PhD in industry vs. having a Masters in the same field.
Liked computer science in college because most of the grade was code not tests.
I agree. I might have stated my point too strongly.

I just think that going Open Source won't magically fix things. ShellShock and Heartbleed were out there for many years before someone reported on them, with (AFAIR) evidence of those holes being exploited by malicious actors. Trying to force a switch to Open Source won't improve situation very much, while requiring a serious overhaul of how the entire world does business. It doesn't seem to be worth it without introducing additional ways to fix the software creation and testing process.
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This is specifically a way to email writers of (tech) blogs, craft a pitch for them, then email them in a personalized way at scale.

I'd argue that the people we're pitching want to be pitched - it's actually a part of their job. We're just doing it at scale as a way to save a lot of time.

> Is it okay to find users from Craigslist to tell them about your startup too?

I know you're joking about this, but I'm pretty sure Airbnb would have failed without doing exactly that.

At the end of the day the ethical line is one you need to draw yourself. But IMO if the people you're emailing expect to and are OK with receiving email pitches from you you're well on the "ethical" side of the scenario.

Ask (almost) any reporter: They want to be pitched.
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"If no one was sentenced for cases where drugs crimes were the most serious offense, then 85% of black state prisoners would still be imprisoned. So, that wouldn't solve the problem of black "mass incarceration" in US state prisons."

This is a gross misunderstanding of the war on drugs that only takes into account the percentage of people who are in prison simply for drug charges. There is a lot more drug-related crime that would not exist if no one was imprisoned for drug crimes anymore so the statistic is simply useless.
One can hope that Skip Bayless and Stephen A Smith are part of this. I kid, I kid, but seriously there's a large amount of sports fans looking for alternative sports news.
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I can think of the technical feasibility and would look at being a CoFounder
Couple of problems with this article:

1. The atomic bomb didn't end the war with Japan; an impending Russian invasion did. Japan preferred surrendering to America first while they still had some bargaining power left (plus they hated the Russians). Dropping a couple of big bombs on some secondary cities was nothing compared to the devastation of major metropolitan centers from the firebombing campaign.

2. The UK's primary worry was that the USA would once again become isolationist like it usually does, which would leave the UK alone to contend with a very powerful neighbor that could push them around now that Germany was divided and France essentially impotent. The H bomb was simply a demonstration of how powerful (and thus influential) a nation could get. The UK's "special relationship" with America is a diplomatic consequence of this worry.
I have this theory that coding boot camps are an attempt at further increasing the wage gap. Globalization has brought down developer prices, but the quality dropped too far below what was needed.

How can we reduce costs without having to pay market rates? We'll hire someone with less experience than a college graduate in the field of web development!

Since most websites are nothing that difficult to implement, we can offer courses on teaching people basically how to build these apps, and then hire them at these companies! The employee is happy to be making more than they were (which was either nothing because their previous job has become irrelevant or less because the floor for software development is so high), and the employer is happy to be employing cheap labor.

My guess is the net effect can only be negative. If the business scales, it will need more talented engineers to help with that scale, and either keep these boot camp engineers to do the simple tasks or fire them for failing to continue to provide value. Or the business can't scale because the developers aren't talented enough to scale these apps, and they can't hire talented engineers because they refuse to pay market rates for quality workers. The third scenario I see is that it becomes a Mythical Man-month problem, where companies just decide that high quality engineers at these types of businesses simply aren't worth it, and would rather have a cadre of low cost boot campers, making the demand for quality software engineers drop, save for a few specialized roles.
HN: Has anyone here worked significantly with SmartOS and its associated tools? I love the idea of a Zones/ZFS-backed container OS, but their documentation looks very sloppy. Does anyone here have extensive experience with it (who's not Bryan Cantrill - your BSDNow podcast interview is what got me looking)
Signing drivers wasn't the problem - ordering and cancelling rides en masse was. That's why people doing this were provided with burner phones and credit cards.
Pricing is important. You might make 100000x the sales of a 0.99 app than you do of a 10.00 app. I closed the tab when I saw the price you'd set, and just forgot about the subject. Sublime integration just isn't worth that much money. Yet.
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I'm not sure I follow you. The legal system is outside of the free market.
One more thing worth mentioning with fleet is that you can schedule anything systemd can handle. This means you can have it schedule timers, for example, and if the machine your timer runs on dies, fleet will re-schedule the timer on another machine.

For fleet a timer is just another systemd unit - there's no special support for them -, so you get a simple "cluster wide cron" pretty much for free.

Fleet works fairly well, though it does have some minor maturity issues (I've gotten it into weird states when machines have left the cluster abruptly and rejoined where e.g. it refuses to schedule some unit afterwards; solution: change the name of the unit) . No idea ho well it'll scale in larger deployments.
This would be leading the US? I don't see any mentions of any other part of the world, and the EU is generally better about this stuff (as I understand things, at least).
This is not the same talk. The "what's wrong with deep learning" talk was given in CVPR 2015. The slides linked in this HN post was presented in BayLearn: Bay Area Machine Learning Symposium.
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> took 1.1 million working hours to assemble ... Wendelstein 7-X’s bizarrely shaped components must be put together with millimeter precision. All welding was computer controlled and monitored with laser scanners.

Sounds like a large 3d printer could really help make this more economical, assuming that all of the required materials could be printed.
I haven't, but note you can use ZFS with Docker today.
I'm glad you understand that corruption is not exclusive to societies with government now.

Safety certification businesses competing with each other will become a function of publicity above all else, who can market and present themselves in the best way over which certificate authority actually is most stringent.

Individuals generally do not have the time or skill to evaluate which safety certification meets their own values (and if in fact their own values are even sensible and rational!).

This is why it's generally better (note: not perfect) to trust this function to a government who probably will do a better job and can be more trusted of it than a for profit institution that has conflict of interest baked into their entire model.
I think that kind of scenario is inevitable if we carry on the way we are.
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> The temptation here is going to be to send a mass email blast. Fight that temptation. Even if it takes us a couple days to pore through and send out 500 really good, personalized emails, it will be worth it. I promise.
Where is the expectation that things have to happen .. perhaps a 4 month testing period is a good sign.
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You do if you're running an internal paas or DCOS, and a large number of bigger organisations (eg Google...) do because of bin-packing saves on hardware costs.

Many don't, of course...
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This was discussed in my economics of competition class this morning. Happy to answer questions.
the whole city? How cool is that! #dreamingofgoingbacktogroningen
both lost? I would argue both are winners in this case. The company isn't exactly LV or Hermes of shoes. This type of publicity does more good than harm. As for the designer, it looks like he has done ok for himself too. There is no denying that he has a talent.
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All of those things are symptoms of the real problem; the professional sports organizations (NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB). These guys call all the shots regarding who gets to see what and when and how much it costs. I've never seen the LA Kings play because I live on the east coast and the NHL doesn't allow their games to be broadcast here. They are greedy and restrictive and the primary cause of sport broadcast woes.

I have another bone to pick with them as well. They've chopped up professional sports and sold it to the advertisers. Fucking everything in a sports game has a company's logo on it. I went to a baseball game the other day and Home Hardware was sponsoring the field clean up crew. Are you kidding me? The fucking field janitors are wearing logos now? They ran out of things to stick ads on so literally anyone involved in the game in any capacity is wearing a logo. Baseball has turned into a thin excuse to serve ads to people.
Probably the most beautiful mechanical pencil made. What do you think?
Isn't it time for an oversight agency that looks at code quality within safety-critical systems? The FDA forces oversight of drugs that less than 100,000 people a year will take. Yet there is no agency looking into the software quality of a car management system that millions of people will drive with every day.
Public domain is for copyrights, isn't it? Patents are always public. That's their whole point.
I suspect that he may actually have been singled out for his hair style (dreadlocks, if this photo is correct [0]), not his skin color. Now, this would _also_ be stupid and inappropriate, but it fits with the cliché, maybe due to Bob Marley or whatever.

[0] http://en.solarswing.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/portret_d...
It works.

The feeling I have is more of a "I've done so little today and there's still so much to do, I can't go to sleep yet".
Cookies and fingerprinting tell me that the same browser is coming back to my website, but I don't care about the browser I care about the user. As a user if I go to a website on my work machine, my home machine, and my phone then I'd like my data to be available on each.

I don't have strong opinions on OAuth or any other federated identity solution, I just think it's a specious claim to say that just because a system doesn't care about who a user is then that system doesn't care about the uniqueness of that user.
"Single-shot compressed ultrafast photography at one hundred billion frames per second" - http://www.cnet.com/news/worlds-fastest-2d-camera-can-captur...
Absolutely! We're actively working on this here at Mesosphere, in partnership with Google.
You can check out the project at https://github.com/mesosphere/kubernetes-mesos

You might also be interested in a talk I gave at the Kubernetes launch in August about our work coming the two: https://youtu.be/aXcdHwQ5GgQ
I'm familiar with 12-factor apps, but there are some use cases (usually involving existing / 3rd party software) where it's not really feasible. One thing I like about plain LXC is that you can keep state if you want to. Of course making it HA is a whole other story. :)

It looks like k8s has a way to handle volumes, so maybe I'll have to play with that.
Electricity travels at about one third the speed of light. That would make a hard limit. Both shutter and data transfer speed.
Are the positive ones the "bigger" ones?

EDIT: From the linked Wikipedia entry: "Because of the much greater distance to ground, the positively charged region can develop considerably larger levels of charge and voltages than the negative charge regions in the lower part of the cloud."
Sorry, it was my first post on HackNews. You can read more goolooking version here https://angel.co/loyalty-customer-finance/blog/5051
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We took the inspiration from Markus Kayser who built the solar sinter :) One of my favorite projects.

http://www.markuskayser.com/work/solarsinter/
At least one reason some countries have much higher incarceration rates than others is that they have much higher crime rates than others: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/images/11217607.0002.206-.... The murder rate in the U.S. has been 5-10x higher than in the U.K. since 1900, long before private prisons or the drug war or the other things people blame for crime in the U.S.

The shocking thing about incarceration rates in the U.S. is not just the fact that it quadrupled from 1960 to 1995, it's that even with that increase, the growth in incarceration didn't catch up to the growth in violent crime until about 1998.
As of five years ago, less than 10%: http://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-u.s.s-g...