skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks again for your detailed answer.

Currently I think the simplest way forward for us is to check versions of dependent services in the monitoring health check, so that at least the operators have a simple way to figure out missing dependencies. All other options (blue/green, rolling, ...) require too much infrastructure automation that we don't yet have.

Though it still itches me to write some generic, remote dependency management that's flexible enough to be used in different deployment scenarios and with diverse tools. Maybe later :-)
Superoptimization is not machine learning - it's brute forcing a small problem space to find patterns that can be implemented in compiler. Where did you get that it was machine learning? Unless you consider all back propagation to be 'machine learning'?
My first language is Tamil which is spoken in South India. Tamil is known to be a very ancient language.

The interesting fact is that Tamil has had distinct names for wide range of numbers[1] ranging from 10^21 to fractions as small as 1/2,323,824,530,227,200,000,000

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_numerals#Sanskrit-System

There are people who debate that Tamil is as old/older than Sanskrit. But there is no proof for that claim. But there is more than conclusive proof that these distinct names for these large and small numbers existed in written texts since very long time.

Edit: Grammar, fixed link
Congress didn't make itself immune to insider trading. In fact they recently made it illegal for congressmen to trade based on confidential information.

The reason it wasn't illegal for them before the recent law was because they weren't insiders. Congressmen do not owe a fiduciary duty to third party companies. And they don't owe congress or the government confidentially for stuff they learn on the job.

In fact the whole insider trading rules were not even passed by congress. It's a mix of SEC regulation and essentially federal common law that created insider trading law.

Also congress wasn't really immune. If a congressman payed Tim Cook for Apple info, that would have been illegal.
Hope it works out well for them. I had a horrid time with a local wireless provider in my area. It was based on the motorola canopy (now cambium networks) configuration. They had main antennas on every single water tower in probably a 20-30 mile radius. I live on the edge of the county and there is not much out here. The water tower antenna that I was pointed to was probably servicing a ton of people.

When I first got set up, I was told I would get 8mbs down and 2mbs up for $70 a month. It was unlimited, unmonitored, and a "straight static IP into the internet". For the first 3 months, it was great. I got 8mbs and pings were 80ms. However after those first 3 months things, started to slow down. My antenna was in front of a tree and since it was now spring, the tree was covered in thick leaves. I thought that was the reason for my slow down and I didn't complain. Once winter came again, and all the leaves fell off, there was no difference. My speed was 8mbs, then it was 7mbs, and now it was hanging around 6mbs and I could no longer use my VOIP office phone. I could hear fine, but no one would hear me. And also during the evenings, things were getting worse, with speeds dipping down in the the 4mbs range, even netflix was starting to slow way down. Another year goes by and I am looking at a max speed of 5mbs, but normally it dips down to 1mbs. Another year goes by, and it was even worse, but now pings are up to 100-200 range.

I then noticed after these three years, ATT u-verse DSL was available. I managed to get the business class 6mbs for $50 a month (but I get 7mbs down). I've never been so happy....

In hindsight, I probably should have complained to the customer support, but I really had no faith in them, it felt too much like an over subscription issue and I was afraid that their "fix" would be to just install a 50 foot pool in my yard to put their antenna on which I didn't want.

Other than that, I have always wanted to build my own ISP. But now I don't know if I would do it wireless or not (but that is pretty much the only way...)
According to test engineers at Ericsson, the first iPhone was "a crappy phone" [0]. It routinely dropped calls [1, 2]. It also didn't have 3G or MMS, something most if not all other phones had at the time. But apparently it was good enough, did other things well, and could be updated and replaced. That's a major difference between consumer electronics and cars.

[0] http://www.techsite.io/2015/10/16/ericsson-engineers-thought...
[1] http://www.pencomputing.com/reviews/apple_iphone_3months.htm...
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07...
Yeah but conversely you want to talk the price up before you lock in your short so that you get in at a better price.
To note, he specifically asked for concepts that had "result of different sources of experimental evidence". Those concepts were attempts to explain observation, but did not have strong experimental evidence.
Agreed. Small sample size, but my wife used airbnb twice in london. First time was good (not great, but good). Second was horrible. (no curtain on windows directly facing office buildings, broken shower, no tv, 2 hangers for a 10 day booked stay, etc). Video evidence for everything, and multi-day delays in getting resolutions (everything documented via their platform). Requested a partial refund (no working shower for 4 days?) Response was a resounding no, then threats from the person who was doing the renting that they would post negative reviews of my wife as a renter so no one would rent from us again. Guess what? The owner (and his girlfriend) had several airbnb properties they were renting out, growing a landlording business (without all the pesky regulation). (edit: there were multiple reviews stating how great it was - it was a veritable dump - which is partially ok, but broken shower, no tv, etc - when those are clearly listed amenities - is simply lying. Oh, and if you're going to rent out a room/place via airbnb, please remove moldy/stale food from your refrigerator first)

Contrasting that with a recent nashville visit via airbnb (I didn't book it, but stayed there) - the epitome of the "share my home" aspect that gets played up - notes around the house, everything fresh and tidy, etc).

Forcing just 1 would certainly get back to the roots. Or perhaps a sliding scale - fees go up as you want to list more rooms? The individuals wanting to rent out a spare room get the cheapest fees - the people trying to be the next hilton (sans service and regulation) pay correspondingly higher fees).
Only looked at "Fetch Data" and "Bubbling up thread errors" so far, but they were self-explanatory. I'm betting most of them are like this.
> * That's not what the removed code was doing at all.

All right, what was the removed code doing?

> * That's a 1980s idea of "normal".

That’s why I called it “normal and traditional”.

> * Most programs in the wild do not correctly speak the forking readiness protocol

True enough. But for practical purposes, it’s mostly good enough. And I’d think that it doesn’t matter that much for people running BusyBox with sysvinit.
This is exactly what happen to eBay: eventually, eBay become "crappy Amazon".

If I'm AirBnB I would focus to be real marketplace so AirBnB does not end up as "crappy hotels.com" - but on other hand, eBay did extremely good (if you sold stocks before 2014).
don't be naive, IRC was the simplest solution to a problem 25~ years ago, now systems have changed and things must be thrown away.

that's just the nature of the beast, x.509 is also very old- but old things should be fixed or replaced with better alternatives, slack just fixes a usability problem.. but trades all privacy and freedom for that.

Personally it's not enough, but google has a massive market share because normal people do not consider that their data or freedom has any worth.

at least google is pro-free market in the way that you can extract data out later and migrate, I don't see slack being able to offer that reasonably. (or their incentive to allow it)
Since when are they not? I'd argue the radical majority of all businesses in the US operate morally. Big businesses are an extremely small fraction of all business in the US and the world. Almost all businesses stay in business because they maintain a favorable reputation. Good moral values (like not stealing from or lying to customers) is a per-requisite for most businesses to keep operating.

To the point: companies like Amazon or Comcast != most businesses. They're extreme outliers to put it mildly. Further, Amazon treats its customers extraordinarily well, and operates morally by its customers, which protects their reputation where they believe it counts.

Try opening a small business and aggressively screwing over your customers. You'll quickly discover how business and morality go together. The only time that isn't true, is when a business is protected by scale (which means it'll take longer for their business to collapse), or protected by government-enforced monopoly.
Posted some time ago, a .NET implementation and discussion:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/ilwasm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10162793

I also have to think about the new image file format posted some time ago: FLIF (http://flif.info/). With WebAssembly you could implement this in the browser by just embedding a lib. No need to wait for the vendors to support it.
It is in their schedule for december
http://singa.incubator.apache.org/develop/schedule.html
The game console guys have their act together. Well, Microsoft, anyway. And Apple is doing a great job on the mobile OS side of things. There's also some very interesting hypervisor work coming out of the Windows 10 group.

So "most" is probably okay. with a couple noticeable exceptions:

Android needs to get its shit together. Not letting any old manufacturer write device drivers with jaw-droppingly bad security holes would be a start. I last looked at vendor-provided drivers in 2010 or so and I very much doubt they have improved.

(A while ago I wanted to store a secret on an Android device. And I couldn't do it. Ten year old platform and no effective secure storage; did the ghost of J Edgar Hoover visit Google and threaten them?)

Network equipment manufacturers: Why even bother with a home router when some code monkey stuck a hard-coded password into the firmware? I'd love to be able to inspect the code on the device I'm trusting to keep my network safe. Interesting that DDWRT is under political attack, isn't it?
sounds like an opportunity
> Not sure why I would want to self host what is effectively a phone system.

Because you work in an industry were security matters. Such as banking, healthcare, government, government contracting, or any business with more than a couple hundred folks.

Because you provide support and want to customize / integrate that with rest of your data/systems to provide superior service to customers.
This is a fair point. It's just that in this particular instance, I feel that their actions crossed into the "evil" category -- they dig up PPI on one of their users and plaster it on the site, slandering her in the process. This is different than "creatively" interpreting some piece of regulation or something of the sort. I take your point, though.
By "battle-tested" I meant it has lots of patches/updates to the protocol to protect against certain kinds of attacks. Any new protocol would have to go through the same "battle-testing" before it would be reliable enough.
> should people be looking at AirBnB as a direct replacement for hotels? Obviously that is the operating thesis, but I think a better way to consider AirBnB is as a marketplace for Bed and Breakfast accommodations

I think you're overlooking a very large group of people for whom "hotel" and "bed and breakfast" are fully synonymous terms.
Improving spoken Spanish, learning Cryllic script, post-structural philosophy, contemplating dance lessons. Learning to run without getting tired or dizzy quickly, and trying to learn a better game of tennis but there doesn't seem to be indoor courts where I live and it's rainy season.
> The fact that people who are currently writing secure native binary executables are using an unpopular API seemed incidental and eminently fixable

Agreed. Web Assembly is the solution :)
Desktop:
netflix.com | Your Account | Playback Settings | Uncheck "Play next episode automatically"

Mobile:
Netflix App | Hamburger | Your Account | Playback Settings | Uncheck "Play next episode automatically"
This behaviour is absolutely incredible, probably the most tone-deaf response I've ever seen.
Install/Configure Transmission BitTorrent Client on an OpenWRT Router
The major streets in Oak Park all have bike lanes, the minor streets are narrow enough to make bicycling in the street safe for minors (possibly excepting the streets just off Harlem, North, and Austin, which get abused for traffic bypass), and it's hard to live in Oak Park and be more than a 10-15 minute walk from one or sometimes two CTA train lines.

Evanston is about twice as big as Oak Park is. If you combine Oak Park and adjacent Forest Park, capturing the end of the CTA blue line, I think you get a more reasonable comparison, in which both suburbs fare about equally.

But Oak Park is also very car friendly: residential lots mostly have garages, there are lots every few blocks downtown, and the streets all have convenient metered parking. And, Oak Park's downtown area is far less developed than Evanston's.

It's really tough drawing conclusions about suburbs in Chicago from Oak Park; it's barely a suburb at all. Beverly, on the south side of Chicago, is far more suburban than Oak Park is.
"like watching a train wreck in slow motion" is an expression I've never felt the need to use. Until now.

This is unacceptable behavior from any business.
As minimaxir pointed out, she's not even an employee of Dice.com, she's works at the similarly named video game studio DICE. A legal minefield for Livecoding.tv for sure...
Probably because their wireless equipment is the bottleneck and they are utilizing a mesh network topography which means bottlenecks impact other customers. The article stated that their backhaul uplink was on 70Mbps for the whole island.

Seeing as they're using Ubiquiti equipment, I'm not sure why they are not using of their Gbps setups for the backhaul at least.
It should be logically destroyed; the full path of destruction should be visible to all though.

You have claimed a Straw Man, but in my 20 second analysis, I do not believe you have identified it. (as in, quote the actual text containing the Straw Man)
"Awful" technologies can still be fulfilling.

I mean... Hacker News is pretty "awful."

Maybe the things that you claim make IRC "awful" actually have weird benefits in terms of community. Kind of like how HN is kept intentionally awful, to keep out the losers or whatever.
Kinda off-topic, but I was wondering if anyone can recommend some setup for a CLI based mail client that works with IMAP and Gmail?

I'm on a Mac now.
how very sarcastic of you.

This is the realm of systems administrators, if you can't read a 20 line config file then sure, run slack..

but for a biggish company that values security and publishes NDA's like mine, an IRC server is a better solution.

however, Project Managers fucking -love- emoji and sending word documents across the planet.
I'd think the requirement for Flash would undo any growth hacking.
thanks, goofed
PNaCl is no more a Google-proprietary feature than XMLHttpRequest is a Microsoft-proprietary feature. Anyone else is free to implement it, and then Google would have no more control over the "spec" of PNaCl than Microsoft has control over the evolution of AJAX.
> Anyone can try to become as smart as Buffett, hire away his analysts, and so on.

Anyone can try to schmooze corporate insiders so that they tell you some juicy information. And that seems a lot easier (theoretically and empirically) than becoming Warren Buffett.
Founders of Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Linux, Oracle, Tesla and probably many more have been famous for childish or angry stuff. It's not very uncommon.
can you go back to source code from WebAssembly binary? I dont want a web that serves me obfuscated binary blobs.
> Every single rental I stayed in when traveling around Asia was done by 'power users' or real estate companies with scores of listing throughout the cities.

To some extent this probably reflects what you're looking for. When I investigated airbnb rentals in Shanghai, there were a number of notices to the effect of "because I'm female, it's not convenient for me to have a male guest".
The SEC would say yes. There was an employee who worked at a rail yard who noticed certain visitors and other things and decided to buy the stock. The company was purchased shortly thereafter.

How did a couple of railroad yard workers catch wind of a multibillion-dollar leveraged buyout? The complaint says they suspected something was up when they saw “people dressed in business attire” taking tours of the rail yards. It suggests their curiosity was further piqued by a day-long rail trip the Fortress folks took in a special train car reserved for visitors.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/s-e-c-charges-railroa...
Is he in WilVil? That's the only apartment building I can think of that would be tall enough to conceivably get line of sight to Denver. Of course feel free not to answer if you feel weird about the question (ie. location of your child).
The intersection between food, biological processes in our body, and the consequences that we try to study (disease, illness, obesity, etc) - is wildly complex. It involves very large numbers of moving pieces, that all impact each other, and of which we're still struggling to fully understand any given individual piece all by itself much less all things operating at large scale in tandem.

Fortunately, empirical works wonderfully when it comes to nutrition. We know in vague terms what most foods do to us, while having a limited understanding in more complete scientific terms. We're still in maybe the second inning of understanding the human body fully (eg we're still discovering in basic terms how the immune system links to the brain [1]).

[1] http://io9.com/scientists-discover-a-new-link-between-the-br...
What if you considered the lost "profit" the non-insiders would have made from buying at 100 rather than 105, or 103, or whatever price results from normal speculative activity?
"Reasonable and non-discriminatory" is a technical term, and I think it covers this case. If the company accepts everyone's calls, or everyone who owns more than x% of their stock, or charges you $y/minute, it's fine for them to reveal information that way. Revealing information to individuals that Big Mouth personally decides to go to dinner with is not ok.
people will care when things consume memory when you consider that chrome takes 2G by itself, xcode/VS take on average 2-4G on-top.

everyone thinks memory is free but machines are still shipping with 8G in the mid-high end.
How is Airbnb responsible for rent control evictions? Landlords would get rid of these tenants at any opportunity regardless of whether Airbnb ever existed.
> This is actually a very hard problem to solve.

It's not difficult to solve. It's just that nobody considers it to be a problem that deserves being solved. If the challenge was in solving it, surely people would at least be talking about its existence.

> How exactly do you propose we create a decentralized and extensible platform that can be improved without leading to competition.

- The protagonist: Semantic web

- The antagonist: Privacy

We need more semantics and less privacy. Together, we can create a more efficient communication platform. That's the base of the platform.

Then, all we need is a predicate-orientated UI, intents as contracts, and IoT sensors.

All of this has been known for decades. One would need to live under a rock not to know this. How we got where we are today really is a mystery.
Are you familiar with physical internet infrastructure pricing, or are you just assuming? I don't think access is priced as bandwidth. I used to work at a small business isp and that was not how physical access was priced, particularly over relatively bandwidth limited physical connections. Though perhaps you work in the industry?
Dear boulos: I'm saying this to you but it is a general message to the Google Cloud division.

I'm an early GAE adopter, still running a system in it to this day. I've seen your kind come and go many times. Sometimes it's a well-placed engineer, sometimes a technically capable and empowered support rep, an evangelist, something. These people show up in the community, they're empathetic, responsive and openly talk about what goes on behind the scenes. Sometimes they blog (http://ikaisays.com) and go much deeper than the docs ever would. They make you think "google really is different."

And then they disappear. And then there's crickets for a while, maybe some corporate types putting out fires and helpfully pointing everyone at the issue tracker. And then it repeats. Consistency in communication matters a lot, especially when your users are putting their livelihoods in your hands.
Spurious Correlations
Slightly unrelated: I host interesting folk in NYC for free.
Have you considered trying out Couchsurfing instead?
Will it will become a YC problem with all the bad PR.
According to Wikipedia he "is best known for co-presenting the BBC TV show Top Gear", not punching a producer.
Nutrition is an especially crude science with nothing approaching scientific theory, and a lot of disagreement. FDA recommendations like the food pyramid that recommend altering fats/carbs are the result of political consensus as much as science, and there are many counter-examples to the idea of high carbs / low fats in the diets of different peoples of the world.
Yea I guess I find it just a matter of reference and practice.
GitXiv – Collaborative Open Computer Science
Good to see this project making progress, but I don't see a changelog. What's new?
And Cuban hackers everywhere chuckle at the unfortunate slang cuss word chosen as the name of this project... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Singa
Dunkin' has always been more famous for its coffee than its doughnuts. People in New England can argue over who has the best doughnut but nobody argues about who has the best coffee.
No, but one of the goals of WebAssembly is to have a textual representation, so in theory you could still View Source. Not sure how that'll work out in practice, though.
Good catch.

The vitriol was spelt LIIVECODING now it has been corrected to LIVECODING - wow, just wow.
Maybe their sysadmin got replaced by a cron job.
Stop Wasting Time on A/B Tests That Don't Matter (2014)
If IRC were good enough to handle the needs of small software company communication

No one's arguing against using it for your company. Ok, the article is for some reason, but that doesn't invalidate the main point.
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10439301

especially https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10439844
Like andrew, the premise is misleading: any worthwhile, in-memory database inverts the memory cache and RAM situation because the whole point is to be in memory. They all typically have a way of storing that data in secondary storage over time. Solo [1], for instance, can do 700,000 transactions a second on a 32-core machine with data regularly saved to the disk.

Now, the strategy they use is interesting. I'd just rather see an apples-to-apples comparison of it against DB's like FoundationDB, F1 RDBMS, and others doing high-performance w/ strong consistency. The more modern stuff, that is. MySQL and its performance are quite dated.

[1] http://db.csail.mit.edu/pubs/silo.pdf
Not that it matters, but BeOS never ran on 680x0.