skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Free Webapp Hosting on Docker Hub
We take it for granted that a web app is deployed to a remote server and delivered over the Internet to a browser. And Docker comes handy to package a web app and deploy it to a server. So, it requires to own a server to host a web app, right? Well, other options exist. Electron (http://electron.atom.io/) offers packaging web apps as desktop apps. But, here is another option. What if a browser can spawn a virtual machine with Linux to run a docker container. Then, a web app can be just published on Docker Hub and a browser will pull it from there. Yes, a browser would require a plugin to do the job. I’ve created a prototype based on Docker Machine and VirtualBox. Also it works with Kitematic if you have it installed. Take a look https://github.com/ihapp/HyperApps
That code won't compile because Greetings is undefined. Hence, you may be running some other program which seg faults.
The quality of Scikit-Learn? It's not bleeding-edge but it's very well tested and documented. Quite good quality.

No one gets fired for using Scikit.
I still think wheat when I hear corn... except corn on the cob, or sweet corn which are maize.
even SpaceX launches cost over 50 million dollars (https://www.google.com/search?q=spacex+launch+cost has a big pullquote to that effect, for example)
If this is the case, I can't agree more. If I'm browsing the web on my mobile and it prompts to download an app (that serves the same content) I opt out every time.

Common offenders include forums, and magazine websites. Their apps are usually horribly executed, and provide no benefit over the web.
I think this is the same problem Google had with Motorola. Sure, Google was playing nice. But the OEMs are afraid how long Google would be playing nice until Google decide to favor it's own phone-making division? Same applies here. How long MS is going to play nice before they decide to favor their own platform. Needless to mention, MS's past history isn't going to help much either.
Can someone explain how the EM drive violates conservation of momentum while radiation pressure does not? In fact it would seem the most obvious way the EM drive works is related to radiation pressure.

I am sure I am missing something do to my lack of understanding in the field, but radiation pressure is based on photons having momentum. The EM drive seems to work by emitting a whole lot of photons in the form of microwaves and having them bounce around inside a chamber shaped a certain way leading to it exerting a net force.
Why the Internet of Things and the Cloud Should Break Up
There's a lot of pump and dumps [1] with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

[1] https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/P...
I work in a 100 person company and we have no dedicated Admin assistant, just a couple employees who act as receptionist, HR, office manager, and part-time admin assistant to the CEO. so 2% of our workforce falls under the "Admin assistant" role. If we didn't have extended office hours that needed two people to cover, we'd probably have only one person in that role.

So while Secretary/Admin Assistants haven't disappeared completely, there aren't as many as there used to be.
Not reading. Someone summarize?
The tricky bit is who cancelled the order I think, Jet uses a "speculative" pricing model as far as I can tell, they think they can get you that price but then will bail if they cannot, see https://jet.com/purchase-terms so if you order something and you think "wow I got a great price on that." and then you get email that the order was cancelled because they couldn't get the purchase to go through, you would be annoyed.
> billboard space.

No, the product being sold is viewers and viewing times.

Which means the highway owner will try to make sure that everyone has to use this highway for their commute, no others, and then the owner will try to make sure people drive slower, so they see more ads.

And I can tell you, Google is definitely #2. Many examples in the past showed that. Like them directly ignoring a law, and then arguing in court "but throwing away all the data we got when we violated that law would mean we’d have to collect it legally, and that would cost millions!" (Compare: Google vs. Federal Republic of Germany: Street View)

Google is definitely not user focused.
That depends on exactly how the column was labeled. Newspapers as corporations endorse the views of their columnists by default. For the view to be attributed soley to the columnist there has to be something calling it out specifically as a personal view.
Sad point you bring up. Agriculture has morphed into agribusiness which consists of large corporations with no personal connection to the land growing Monsanto clones fertilized by ancient guano deposits and ammonium nitrate synthesized from methane. Strange new world we now live in.
You might be interested in this: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/publications/ieee-sp-96-unix...

It's a scheme for Unix process intrusion detection based on principles of a biological immune system.
$45K in 1980, or $130K today.
A Tiny Intro to the Android Activity Lifecycle
I have never, ever, in a decade of ordering from amazon had an order canceled. Never. They even let you order things sometimes that they list as "out of stock" but will be fulfilled when re-stocked and they keep you informed about the progress.

Even "lightning deals" are carefully measured with exact quantities remaining.

With jet, I've already experienced cancels twice and now pretty much don't plan to use them for anything I actually need. They do not have their own stock, they do not have a realtime inventory system with any of their vendors, and apparently either vendors lie to them about available stock or they allow people to order more than what is on hand.

We are basically beta testing jet for them. And I don't quite get what their business model is, we already have ebay which allows vendors to list products as a third party.
Terry Davis of TempleOS fame commented on this!
That acquisition literally happened in September. The content has been garbage for far longer than two months.
"Unthinkable"
This was title of Redhat's comment on Microsoft-Suse partnership.
I'm scared. So, so, scared...
To the downvoters: may I ask for a reason? Are you saying blindly copying people is a good thing? I don't get it.
It's a nice list of resources for starting. General tools he mentions are both easy to start and are used in practice; also, I like the overview part.

But most importantly - it's not a dump of all possible links, making a daunting list "I will never go through".

Source: I run workshops introducing to ML and Big Data (http://workshops.deepsense.io/, next one in London) and I made a lot of choices converging with this one (Python + scikit-learn, everything in Jupyter Notebook, etc). Also, a lot of links there is already in my delicious list of things I am sending to friends wanting to jump into data science (and many of them were already on the HN main page).

BTW: See also discussion on the same post on DataTau: http://www.datatau.com/item?id=10093
Rubocop as a Teaching Tool
You're free to try both ;)
Policing Software Service Processing – Part 1
Assuming the network isn't overloaded again, and that you don't care about refunds or insurance.
"All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier's policies on pricing and its refusal to convert the journal to an open-access publication that would be free online."

From https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-e..., which is linked in the submission when they mention that all of the academics on the journal resigned.
The "Institute for Scientific Research" that did that study is a big pork-barrel project with exactly zero reputation for quality. I would bet that if you dig, the only reason NASA was associated to the research you link was congresional earmark requiring it.

See http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/washington/08earmarks.html

[Edit: dug a little more]

"Examples of such earmarking, which have prevented NASA from allocating funding to programs that it considered to be most critical, include $15.5 million for the Institute for Scientific Research, in Fairmont, West Virginia"

Source: http://caib1.nasa.gov/events/public_hearings/20030514/transc...
Facebook Aims Its AI at the Game No Computer Can Crack
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10496638
EU data laws for everything are on a similar level to HIPPA.

Today I got an email because a website where I had an account was sold (from one SevenOne subsidary to another one) and they explained who owned it before, who will own it after, and explained to me that I’d have to allow them to copy my account data to the new company, otherwise it would not be transferred and thereby be lost.

That’s how you do it.

When US startups I have accounts with get bought – like WhatsApp – I never got an email asking if they could sell my data to Facebook.
You don't need to use ASP.NET MVC (or even ASP.NET at all) when writing something for the web.

And if you like functional programming, use F#. It's pretty great.
The proven business model: sell at a loss, but make it up in volume.

Proven to go bust, that is.
> cognitive dissonance

Very, very close to what was referring to. As I recall there is a biological reason underpinning effects like cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias (Freudian Denial in general). I could just be remembering things incorrectly and you may have hit the nail on the head.
This reads as another instance of the "curse of the gifted" that many readers here are familiar with and the standard advice is to praise effort not intelligence.

The ideal condition for learning is when you are challenged and things are a bit difficult; not too easy (you get bored) and not too hard (you get discouraged).
Consider that it may not be them that wrote the e-mail as much as their own internal PR department. I've been censored within my own company before and I'm not even an executive, and considering the legal impact of almost every memo sent out, legal teams are constantly reviewing everything a Fortune 500 CEO would be writing out up to and perhaps even including his grocery list to his personal assistants.
Scaling Django: Breaking out not breaking up
If that's the case, why jet and not any other existing platform?

I mean I welcome any competition that brings my cost down as a consumer, but jet so far has been pretty much half-*ssed.
> So political snark is synonymous with making an observation now is it. [sic]

a) you didn't make an observation, you asked a question

b) it was a snarky question

c) they're laying off folks from, according to the article, 'almost every department of the nonprofit organization'

> I mention vote manipulation because it was very apparent that is what igotspam had done.

Or, y'know, thousands of people read HN and some large number of them think that you're off-base.
With all due respect: I don't buy it. That isn't how the technology works. Compilation in particular would never even hit the hypervisor layer regardless of which one you were utilising. It is CPU/memory bound.

The difference between hypervisors for IO is tiny. They're all slower than native, but vary very little between one another. That's why the manufacturers have all almost given up trying to use performance for comparison, and instead argue value adds/management/automation/cost.

If you really found one specific hypervisor slower than another (regardless of which two), I'd want to look at your exact test conditions since that has never been the case for me (everything else being equal). And even the manufacturers don't argue that point much.

There are plenty of reasons to e.g. pick AWS over Azure, but Hyper-V performance is not one of them. That's just FUD.
Tesla Motors  – Third Quarter 2015  Shareholder Letter [pdf]
How Companies Learn Your Secrets (2012)
"Click with the mouse on the background of the main window to show the world menu, then choose Workspace to create a new workspace."

That's from "Pharo By Example." Only, if you download Pharo today, the above description (and the illustration in the book's text) don't match the way Pharo works. As far as I can tell, Workspace is now called "Playground."

This is the problem with projects like this; and, believe me, I have been at least somewhat interested in Smalltalk for years. When I download something and come across the above by Page 3 or so, I just expect a lot of extra little frustrations that I don't need, and that turns me off to the rest of it. Smalltalk is different enough to begin with. I don't need extra aggravation.
The rationalists I know in real life tend to be acutely aware that they are still biased in many ways, and would probably laugh at the sentence fragment "successfully suppressed or outgrew [an] emotion". Maybe we know completely different people who affiliate with the word "rationality".
Could Tesla Become the Google of the Internet of Things?
Founders from MIT with a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food
> Sometimes 'smart code' is not necessarily better

I would argue that it's usually not, especially in large and long lived projects. “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program”.
I love this part of the article, it's incredibly important to remember this:

"The web is the greatest entrepreneurial platform ever invented. Lowest barriers of entry, greatest human reach ever. I love the web. Permission-less, grand reach, diversity of implementation. Don’t believe this imaginary wall of access of money. It isn’t there."
Fullstack Academy is hiring instructors to redefine CS education
>If they didn't mean to change the status quo, they wouldn't have introduced a bill.

Just strictly on this point, sometimes bills (or parts of bills) are introduced to clarify existing law. It may be a matter of subtle semantics, but this is often what is meant when it is claimed that a bill will not change the law.
So it looks like somebody here is relying on Verizon Fios to handle their business mail?

That's just stupid. Run your mail servers in house, or find a hosted service that provides business-class feature sets and control.
It's hard to get a job, therefore I steal?

Sorry, I don't buy it. We don't know exactly the details of how these scams are happening or who is conscious of what they're doing. However, whoever does control the details of setting up on AWS can certainly make a living wage elsewhere.

Stealing is not acceptable within any society. We are all human beings, we share this earth, let's share not steal.
In my experience, the editorial staff has a disproportionate impact on the quality of a journal. And having them all leave does two things, one jump starts a new journal with a lot of credibility with the field, and two really inhibits people in the field from wanting to work on the "former" journal because these people made such a public stand against its immorality.
Smart Wireless Router Eero Gains FCC Approval, but Delays Product
It's not NASA, the organization, that has released a vetted, reviewed technical paper about this. This article is based on the casual communications of a NASA scientist, who works for EagleWorks, and has been communicating with a community of interested persons via the NasaSpaceFlights.com forums.

Indeed, NASA is annoyed with the continued press from this, and has prohibited any press releases from being released without proper NASA vetting.

The clickbaity online media, however, is more than willing to take a forum posting by a "NASA scientist" as NASA proper.

I have nothing but respect for the work being done by EagleWorks and Paul March, but this is not a NASA communication.
You should try to get out of your bubble every once and a while.

The world does not consist of software developers in the vast majority of places. There is a reason why truck/delivery drivers are the most prolific jobs, because it takes a lot of moving shit around to get you your stuff when you want it. I think it will be interesting to see what happens in the future when trucks will drive themselves at least on long hauls, which just commoditizes the last mile delivery even more. There is really trouble down the road because it is not like software can absorb millions of people, the very core purpose of software is an anathema to scaling up to support a retrained workforce of millions.
Would be wonderful if they started a trend.
Oh come on, Ireland has been the fastest growing country in Europe for the last few years. This government has done a pretty good job considering the circumstances. Would you rather they had gone the Greek route for example?
If they want to run a website where you "might" get something at a great price, that's fine - but they have to advertise it that way and instead of a "buy" or "checkout" button, they need to say "I feel lucky, maybe they will ship me this, but maybe not"

If they were straight up about it with good communication, that's fine then. But they cannot pretend to be as good as amazon when they are not even a shadow of amazon.
well, i'm definitely not educated on the terminology, particularly when it comes to economics. i guess we could clear out a lot of the misunderstanding here as soon as we sort the terms out ;)

so, just IMO, a perfectly rational actor should be emotionless, at least on the matter at hand. any kind of emotional tendency would skew their reasoning.

to add to what you said more above, about those fruitful discussions: i would bet that the people you had those fruitful discussions with have had another common characteristic. namely, they did not have much personal stake in the issue you were discussing. when people approach a discussion with only a desire to learn and improve their opinions, they can indeed have a quality discussion.

ultimately, i don't believe such neat separation of rational and irrational can ever work (aside from sometimes being a useful approximation). which is why i asked those silly questions - how can a rational actor want something, without wanting it? i find the concept very contradictory, borderline useless.

edit - i think i have to back down a bit, or maybe just clarify, dunno. i maybe get what you meant. people that appreciate rationality will tend to be better discussion partners even if they are personally affected. but it will be much harder...
The only "bitcoin" that can succeed is the one that is originated from a sovereign state. For then it has the monopoly and can enforce its taxing power that is what ultimately gives value to fiat currency.
Maybe I should have added the 3 of us are still employed in companies. So we are in a somewhat comfortable position. we are already making a little bit of money that compensate for the administrative and infrastructure costs (which are ridiculously low at the moment).

We estimate that the company should earn around 25k € every month so we could quit our jobs but again our costs are very low so far.

I'm not sure to properly understand your question here ; you want to have a side business so you can concentrate on your main startup?

Anyway, good luck with your business(es)!
Rubinius Analyst – Know Your App
My first prebuilt was a Gateway Intel Pentium II 400Mhz. It had a decent gaming card (AGP) and a Soundblaster sound card. Oh the days when I used to game on that PC. Then I got gutsy and built my own, haven't looked back since. I remember the Gateway sat on the wayside until I took it out and put in a Pentium III 400Mhz CPU on there, marginally faster than the Pentium II. I doubled the RAM, added a new HDD, and gave it away to a friend. It served my friend well.

All that to say, I miss that old Gateway PC.
Yeah, $0.5B to experiment with that :)
The Correct Title is:

"Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley Leaves Company Because Of Diversity"
Not a bad cable - wasn't it failing to account for relativistic effects in the GPS satellites used for time/location reference?
Anyone have statistics for number of starvation deaths in 1915 in the U.S.?
I believe that the next evolution in startups is full recognition of this fact. Costs are practically zero for building viable SaaS products. Great developers are everywhere. This isn't just over optimism, it's largely true. What will that mean for startups and capital? My prediction is we will see new models, more "startup factories," etc. Interesting times.
So, I'm being down voted for stating a relevant fact? I was asked not to reveal this by my source.
One unintended side effect of automated trucks may be pushing more long-haul freight to rail. Fuel and driver's salary are the biggest expenses in operating a truck -- remove the driver's salary and fuel becomes the dominant expense. Right now, rail is around 4 times more efficient than trucks, so if fuel is your dominant expense, moving to rail makes more sense.

Of course, self-driving trucks could help with truck fuel efficiency by driving at a more fuel-efficient speed, and they may be deemed safe enough to haul more trailers behind a single truck. Though whether or not human drivers (even if their cars drive themselves) will put up with a 4 trailer 40mph truck on the freeway is a different question.
i'm suggesting "purely rational" prohibits the existence of emotion, otherwise we're dealing with a contradiction. sorry, i already replied to the peer comment to yours, maybe you can reply there?..
Video of an 'incident' ought to do it. With logs tying the perp to one of these groups.
For disagreement, probably with the final line.
Note how RedHat didn't say that: if you read the actual article (despite being from InfoWorld):

> InfoWorld: Microsoft has a close business relationship with Suse Linux. That seems to be Microsoft's Linux of choice, and the company doesn't seem interested in having the same kind of partnership with Red Hat. Is that a problem for Red Hat?

> Jim Whitehurst: We'd be happy to work on interoperability with Microsoft or anyone else.

So yeah, Microsoft made a specific choice to partner with SuSE. RH said "whatever". Three years later, an agreement was finally struck between the two.

Did RH "come around"? Or did MS finally recognize SuSE is a losing proposition? You don't know and I don't know, but implying one side took action without having any proof for it is, well, spin.
This? https://twitter.com/StartupLJackson/status/63963265474104115...

"Startup L. Jackson ‏@StartupLJackson Sep 4

[Startup L. Jackson Retweeted Ced]

How to make your team completely ineffective.

Treat communication & collaboration w hostility.

Done."
Interesting! Some cursory research shows that CBD isn't psychoactive, and it actually counteracts some effects of THC.

It does probably decrease anxiety, though, which could make socializing easier and more enjoyable. I'd say that makes it a "social drug" in the same way that an SSRI can be a social drug for some people.

Sources:

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/medical-marijuana-epilepsy/

http://www.truthonpot.com/2014/09/24/5-differences-between-c...

http://www.canorml.org/cbd.html
I know a guy who may have independently come up with the same or a similar result. He's been keeping it under wraps because he's not a mathematician and hasn't proved it, just come up with the method.

I've advised him to upload his results somewhere as soon as possible because he's been working on this for several years. I'll be very interested to see how their methods differ.
Momentum and Special Relativity don't conflict. Momentum is modified with a Lorentz Factor which for a particle with mass runs to infinity as the speed approaches the speed of light.

For electromagnetic radiation like light the momentum is a function of the energy, not the velocity.
The map clearly shows that software developers are the most common job in at least 3 states, so that is my point. Your attitude about me needing to get out of my bubble is unwarranted. I am referring directly to the map in this article.
> he argues that criminals and terrorists" don't use normal communication channels...

Of course they probably do use normal communication channels, just not for the command and control of their activities.