skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually worked for Gateway for a very short stint in one of their stores. I had just left Circuit City, who then went bankrupt, and moved over to Gateway, who then shut down their stores a month after I left. Years later I was doing contract dev work at Best Buy. A lot of the managers there didn't like that story, and looked at me as the bringer of darkness or something.

The POS system at the Gateway stores was identical to the ones used in the call centers (from what I understood). They were absolutely not meant for retail use and were confusing as hell. The one great thing though was that you could sell people on the idea that that they could bring their computers into the store to get worked on and that work would be covered under warranty. And that was true, until they shut the stores down. I felt bad about all of those 3-5 year service plans I sold. At least they weren't as expensive as CC or Best Buy plans.
> Doesn't the qoute state that income inequality is supposed to enact accumulation and growth("give something to aspire to") but instead leads to concentration of political power among the wealthy, who then use that power to further secure their higher income, creating a feedback loop?

That's not how I am reading the quote. It states there is a correlation between a high concentration of political power and income inequality. Thus it seems absurd, even if you don't think the former causes the latter, to believe you can solve the latter through political means.

> And to your point about non-coerced transactions, where does coercion start? Monopolies? Excessive costs? Does Comcast coerce their customers, if they have only no internet as the alternative? Does uber coerce people with surge pricing? And that pharma guy, raising the price of the drug, did he coerce people ? I would tend to say yes in the case of the Comcast monopoly, no in the other cases.

> But it's hard to define exactly where coercion starts.

I think you're having difficulty with those scenarios only because you have not first defined "coercion". Google gives me this definition:

> the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.

To clarify my use of the word, and hopefully not completely distort the use of the word I would like to amend the definition as follows:

> the practice of persuading someone to do something by using violence or threats of violence.

When clearly defined it is clear in all of the scenarios you raised, none of them involve coercion.
A Primer on Repeatable Random Numbers
Fucken Frasier is a nigger.
So? It just means the US has 11x the amount of money stolen, not that it's specific to the US.

And the GDP of the US about 6x that of France, so on that scale the amounts are roughly equivalent.
That's an 'and' not an 'or'
There's a good chance you can see one at your local university or shipyard. The post to which you're replying doesn't use the terms "proven" or "commercial", so let's not move the goalpost. Then we can talk about YC-funded startup UPower, Fluor-owned corporation NuPower, etc. Studying engineering is also a good way to reduce reliance on examples.
Anecdotes are not a valid citation.

Heroin is the most harmful drug, statistically, according to numerous studies.
> the size of the status bar at the top changes between the lock screen and the homescreen

Presumably this is so it's easier to read. It's a nice touch.
Migrating a simple web application from MongoDB to Elasticsearch
Groupon appoints new CEO, forecasts weak 2016
Ditto. I learned how to program Basic and Pascal on my Gateway. It was also the device that I connected my first modem to. First Prodigy, then AOL, then this weird little thing called the World Wide Web.
React + Reflux + Immutable

- React, for obvious reasons.

- Reflux, a simplified Flux architecture.

- Immutable, eliminates the temptation of mutation.

- Write in ES6+, take advantage of the new shorthand syntax and features.

And plan your architecture and convention in advance. You don't want to be discussing tabs vs spaces, 4-char vs 2-char indents, naming components, generic vs specific components, tooling and deployment strategies that midway of development.
To be fair though the iPhone 4S was discontinued in September 2014 whereas the other phones were discontinued much earlier. And from what I've heard the newer iOS versions don't run well on the 4S. Also take into account the fact that most app developers won't bother optimizing for the 4S.
True, this comment was meant for a lot of people (like me), who are asking why Fedora? Most people only know of Ubuntu and probably hate systemd . This is a cool showcase for all of them
Gotta love how mucking around with the boot sector has come back in vogue in -sec circles.
All-New Samsung Galaxy On5 and On7 Launched in India; Exclusively on Flipkart
Samsung listed their new Galaxy models On5 & On7 on their China and India websites. http://www.droidsavvy.com/samsung-galaxy-on5-on7/
Can you provide details about why you think that?
In this case, I think the numbers was simply wrong.
next step, check your calendar for scheduling conflict and suggest the right response, i.e., "i'll be there"/"i can't make it".

further extension, pull out quick answers from other emails, i.e., "what's the sales number this month?" "100M" from another email
> 2. Service provider owns the baseband and root of your phone.

My service provider doesn't own my baseband. They own the SIM I put in my phone, and that likely gives them a lot of access to my device, but I doubt it can be used to perform key or screen logging. (Nexus 4, bought SIM free)
The best way to die is when you have a guaranteed that your next destination is heaven. Otherwise you should at least know that you have prepared for it.
I know I want to die. Not now. But later on. And then I want to be reborn soon there after to continue my works.

The body will grow old, frail. It will slowly deteriorate, whereas my mental faculties will still be tied to this body. So let it.

When I leave, I'll tell those around me, "See you soon". Because I will meet them again.

I am a reincarnationalist; not by belief, but by personal proof. I can't prove it scientifically. So there's that.
Of note is that the recent rise in price of Bitcoin is in a large part due to this outflow of money from China. This article totally left that channel out.
We're eagerly awaiting an alternative to LastPass after the recent sale. 1Password is the best on OS X, but really lags everywhere else (Win, Android), but the total lack of support on Linux (for writing) is a non-starter. It'd be great to see something, even a simple CLI app to provide basic password read/write without a GUI. The threads in AgileBits' forums referencing this topic are really depressing. Is there another way to express a "vote" for basic Linux support?
The real potential here is eliminating human interaction. On the sending end machine should auto compose, auto target a mailing list, send it out. On receiving end machine should scan incoming email, compose a response, send it out. That would cover 95% of current email traffic.
You are thinking of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera. Here's an alternate translation:

https://gist.github.com/simonsarris/9980a385af4f4c4d3967
They already do. They partnered with The Bank of America to provide some courses on financial literacy here.https://www.bettermoneyhabits.com/khan-academy-partnership.h...
It's a near-universal practice for several versions of important system software (like operating systems and databases) to be maintained and supported simultaneously. It's unusual for updates to stop entirely as soon as the next major version is released.
In an interview the shareholder explained, “I did not sign the consent form. There was no statement saying that a failure to respond was tantamount to consent. How could it have passed by unanimous consent? I got emails from Theranos asking me to sign. I never did. Nor did I receive information about Theranos’s financial performance or prospects.”

These deals don't need 100% response or signature to get "unanimous consent" - only a majority. That this was highlighted is either sloppy on the part of Forbes or deliberately trying to stir the pot.

As much as we love down in flames stories (for some grotesque reason) I don't think there is much to see here.
> Deactivating: Shadow Copies Startup repair Windows error recovery

> And stopping: Windows Security Center Service Windows Defender Windows Update Service Windows Error Reporting Service and BITS

Won't these actions require administrator privileges? How do the program escalate its privilege if it starts by user clicking on a js file?
Or more optimistically, an unauthorized, unintentional welfare program.

The military industrial complex is not that different in form from the massive public works jobs program many propose to replace it with, except that the latter would also have the side effect of good infrastructure.
Swarm and Kubernetes are definitely competitors.

Swarm is a container manager that automatically starts and stops containers in a cluster using a scheduling algorithm. It implements the Docker API, so it actually acts as a facade that aggregates all the hosts in the pool. So you talk to it just like you would with a single-host Docker install, but when you tell Swarm to start a given container, it will schedule it somewhere in the cluster. Asking Swarm to list the running instances, for example, would list everything running on all the machines.

Kubernetes is also a container manager. The biggest difference is perhaps that it abstracts containers into a few high-level concepts — it's not tightly coupled with Docker and apparently Google plans to support other backends — that map more directly to how applications are deployed in practice. For example, it comes with first-class support for exposing containers as "services" which it can then route traffic to. Kubernetes has a good design, but for various reasons the design feels overly complicated, which is not helped by some of the terminology they've invented (like replication controllers, which aren't program, but a kind of declaration), nor by its somewhat enterprisy documentation.

Kubernetes is also complicated by the fact that every pod must be allocated a public (or at least routable) IP. If you're in a private data center that already has a DHCP server set up, that's a non-issue, but in this day and age, most people probably will need an overlay network. While there are tons of such solutions — Open vSwitch (aka OVS), GRE tunnels, IPsec meshes, OpenVPN, Tinc, Flannel (formerly Rudder), VXLAN, L2TP, etc. — none of them can be called simple. Of course, plain Docker doesn't solve this in any satisfactory way, either, but at least you can be productive with Docker without jumping into the deep end like Kubernetes forces you to do.

Docker Networking is a stab at solving the issue by creating an overlay network through VXLAN, which gives you a Layer 2 overlay network. VXLAN has historically been problematic because it has required multicast UDP, something few cloud providers implement, and I didn't know VXLAN was a mature contender; but apparently the kernel has supported unicast (which cloud providers to support) since at least 2013. If so, that's probably the simplest overlay solution of all the aforementioned.

As for Compose, it's a small tool that can start a bunch of Docker containers listed in a YAML file. It's unrelated to Swarm, but can work with it. It was designed for development and testing, to make it easy to get a multi-container app running; there's no "master" daemon that does any provisioning or anything like that. You just use the "compose" tool with that one config file, and it will start all the containers mentioned in the file. While its usefulness is limited right now (for example, you can't ensure that two containers run on the same host, unlike Kubernetes with its pods), the Docker guys are working on making it more mature for production use.
The latter half of the 19th century up to WW1 was the USA's longest sustained period of high growth and high economic mobility. No central bank. Moderate deflation was the norm. According to the likes of Paul Krugman Americans should have been eating dirt and living in caves by 1913, but the exact opposite happened. Growth that the Keynesian technocrats have yet to match.

Except even then, government intervention in money fixed a certain price ratio of gold and silver. When that ratio no longer reflected the real market prices, chaos predictably appeared in the banking system. Go back over the history of the late 19th century panics and you'll notice one metal was fleeing the country and causing a lot of controversy. That's a government price control at work, not unfettered capitalism. The Federal Reserve Act was the wrong solution.

And yet even with the Fed, there's the stubborn little fact of the crash of 1920 -- bigger than that of 1929 -- and the rapid recovery that followed. The Fed, Congress and the Presidency did basically nothing and it was over in 18 months. So judging from the objective facts laying before us, it looks like the central planners perform best when they avoid central planning.
That's a secret service project:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/06/03/th...
"IQ" is roughly[1] based on the linguistic parts of the brain. At least Chomsky can find no evolutionary justification for language.

A more modern reading is that better communications does have evolutionary advantages.

[1] The Stanford-Binet was developed to figure out who carried the radio in fire teams for WWII.
I went with Arch for over a year, and 'pacman -Syu' was one of my biggest fears, as when rebooting I didn't know what package was going to get messed up.

How did you work around that ?
DoorDash (YC S13) is hiring. Come build the future of on-demand delivery
No, it does matter.

Price isn't some abstract thing. It's based on cost, and that which you've got to give up to get something. The entire price system of modern civilisation is predicated on a "cost" of energy that's merely an access cost -- how much it takes to prise it from the ground. Not a replacement cost.

So our price system is predicated on widely and directly utilisable energy sources that offer 30:1 to 100:1 return on cost -- or Energy Return on Invested Energy (EROEI). That's actually down from the 100:1 to 400:1 values earlier oil and coal deposits offered. And too: I can burn coal in a stove in my house, and power or heat systems with oil ranging from fingertip size to 80 MW+ ship engines. We can argue about nuclear energy's abundance or practicality, but there's no arguing over its implementation scale: it's complex, large, and cannot directly power hand-tools, remote-controlled or piloted aircraft, and is only just barely viable for marine propulsion in noncommercial uses (the commercial shipping experiments for nuclear were failures).

Nuclear also presents risks at some different scales than we're usually given to discuss. Though arguably fossil fuel's CO2 problem is a similar example ... but that's not exactly going swimmingly at a global or even national political level.

And even if nuclear does address those issues, it still doesn't give you a portable, safe, convenient liquid fuel, which is what most quotidian applications want for. You can make your own liquid hydrocarbons, but that is expensive, raises the energy cost about 80x above what it is today (you return ~50% of your investment instead of multiplying it 40-fold), and hasn't been demonstrated at the scales we've become accustomed to.
https://blog.docker.com/2015/11/docker-multi-host-networking...
http://www.container42.com/2015/10/30/docker-networking-rebo...

vxlan (overlay) and bridge, depending:

"Docker ships with 2 drivers:

bridge -- This driver provides the same sort of networking via veth bridge devices that prior versions of docker use, it is the default.
overlay -- Not to be confused with the "overlay" storage driver (thanks overlayfs), this driver provides native multi-host networking for docker clusters. When using swarm, this is the default driver."
Well, Corning sold the brand name Pyrex around 2000. A post-2000 Pyrex item may not have the same composition as the Corning product you're more familiar with.
The existence of central planning anywhere in Western financial systems is even more insulting. After watching the examples of our good neighbors to the East you'd think we would have learned our lesson by now.
This company's sketchiness is like an onion - you can keep peeling layer after layer...
Hyperbole. In actuality, the money isn't "missing", it's just not feasible to track down and total up every expenditure from the top all the way down to the money spent to fill a pothole in some remote military base. For example,

https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-the-pentagon-cannot-track-...
> Thus maximizing money flows in the current economy only maximizes cooperation where otherwise it would not happen, not cooperation in general, and you run the risk of optimizing for behaviors that people are actively against (and don't want to cooperate), while penalizing behaviors that people like (where they would cooperate for very little.)

I need to think about this VERY HARD. I've never seen it put that way before.
Put it on an iPhone and it will shatter. Guaranteed.
127-Year-Old U.S. Aluminum Industry Collapses Under China's Weight
Certainly not. I quite enjoy the features I get from having my data run through a lot of systems. However, you don't need to be a Luddite to recognize that sometimes some users of data (like sometimes Google) aren't as responsible or considerate of the privacy implications of their actions as they should be.

When their primary financial incentive is user engagement to sell ads, I have a hard time believing that the latter doesn't influence the use of my data as much as the former.

I still use a variety of Google products all the time, but when they're training machines to understand the meaning of my emails, I begin to think perhaps that's beyond my comfort zone. I think that machine learning has tremendous things to offer society, but I'm not sure I'm super excited about a company using smartish machines to pull meaning and context from my emails so that we can save some percentage of users 10 seconds when they reply to something. I get that in most cases this isn't ever going to have a practical effect, but I would be a lot more comfortable if our society's data stewards were less blase about that side of things.
Sure and the inspector general is being purposely obtuse about factors like that.
Pyrex will shatter if you take it out of a blistering hot oven and pour cold water on it (e.g. to let stuck on food soak).
How is that a citation proving that heroin is controllable if only the heroin was pure? Overdoses happen even with pure heroin.

Also, I assumed "citation" would infer that a reputable book or scholarly white paper should be referenced, not a very short newspaper article.

Though, we both seem to be unwavering in our views, so I am cool with stopping this back and forth. :)
Pretty sure Monty Python answered this question definitively... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLctf4o6feQ
This link is basically what Socketplane was working on when they got acquired: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/8951

Basically integrating OVS APIs into Docker so it could use more mature networking code as well as VXLAN forwarding. VXLAN is basically IP encapsulation (a 16-bit ID) that the networking industry has standardized on. It more or less allows for L2 over L3 links. I like to think of it as the next Spanning Tree.

So the unwieldy part is the weight OVS brings as well as the VXLAN encapsulation in software - both of which have momentum towards being more lightweight.
for real amusement :

http://ww2.cfo.com/auditing/2015/05/pentagon-watchdog-approv...

"The Pentagon is the only federal agency that has not complied with a 1992 law that requires annual audits of all government departments. In 2009, Congress gave the department until 2017 to be audit-ready."

I mean we're talking about $600B/year un-auditable even in principle. Of course one can't say that DOD is negligent or non-responsive or not taking necessary actions - after all the DOD did create the "Office of Audit Readiness" which now manages the plans for achieving that readiness ... sometime after 2017 according to their recent updates.

for further amusement:

http://www.gao.gov/highrisk/dod_financial_management/why_did...

I like this one - "lack of ability to maintain documentation to support transactions." and their plans&promises to buy ERP. That really puts them on track for audit readiness ... in the next century. And after all of that you're asking about meager $800M :)

And of course it is hard not to laugh seeing the Congress trying to threaten the DOD with not letting the DOD buy new toys :

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/327

"For failing to obtain an audit for fiscal years after FY2017, the bill [...] prohibits DOD from using funds for certain weapons, weapons systems, or platforms being acquired as a major defense acquisition program."

It is so real and so scary! That should show them real good! :)
I have to side with the modern man here. I don't think that there's anything that makes death "okay", or makes one death better than the other.

Even this thread is not exactly the discussion of death, just people wanting to avoid pain while they are alive. Once you're not - every damn death is the same.
And yet another's idea of a slippery slope, sliding towards chaos and the downfall of society. I personally think this is a good idea, but it's pretty clear to me that that's not a universally-held opinion.
Any system with rules that can be gamed is not going to work in China.

Case in point: http://world.time.com/2013/04/29/why-chinese-couples-are-div...
I rely upon 1pw on iOS and Mac, so I was really happy with the Windows Store version of 1pw.

It is billed as a work-in-progress, but on my terribly limited HP Stream 7 tablet (Windows 10), 1Password is no less stable than any of the other apps.

I suspected that Windows development has been delayed by the need to support iOS MDM (mobile device management) for businesses. And here we are!

I also suspect that Microsoft changes in development options - particularly "Universal apps" via HTML and Javascript - moved too fast for an indie developer to follow, at least over the past 18 months.
Ditto. Mine was a 486 DX/33 with a 512K Western Digital video card and 500Mb hard drive. Around 1991.
Faraday sack designed to carry $1MM
One of the better ones I've heard is that John Maynard Keynes took delivery of a grain contract while running the Chest Fund of King's College Cambridge. Not having any better place to store the grain, he filled up the college's chapel with it, leading a reverend to remark "Mr. Keynes must believe that God is some sort of enormous chicken."