skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides the faux-security of this offer this is the first "real" public cloud offer Deutsche Telekom does. Well, they don't - they have to partner up. A couple of months ago they already announced to partner with Huawei to build a public cloud (in late 2016, no further details), now they are renting out space for Microsoft (in early 2016), like Equinix does in Frankfurt for Amazon AWS.

Deutsche Telekom is still owned by the Federal Republic (31% iirc) so one could argue that most substancial decisions, like preventing FTTH, undermining net neutrality and the lack of innovation, is either accepted or even enforced by the biggest single shareholder.

Or it's just another sign, that politics should get out of the business as they are not qualified and not independent enough to control their stakes in corporations which also includes a technological perspective for the foreseeable future to secure the business.

Deutsche Telekom has no such perspective in its home country business, only the US mobile business keeps growing. At home, Deutsche Telekom is just fighting an rearguard battle. Whatsapp killed SMS, Skype killed Voice, AWS kills the mid/large enterprise datacenter outsourcing business, margins fall, jobs got cut. Venture Capital business "T-Venture" failed, was shut down, only some SV investments will be made in the future, no focus on local/German startups anymore.

Even their marketing department has no clue about "that cloud thingy", releasing official media materials like:

"Cyber Security in German: Hackers need to stay out"
https://www.telekom.com/static/-/106374/2/Foto-04_850x550-bi

and more: https://www.telekom.com/medien/bild-ton-und-infografiken/fot...

It's a shame that Germany has no investor person like Carl Icahn who is able to force the management to deal with the consequences: Shutting down/selling dying T-Systems, selling T-Mobile USA, revamping local access business to make money and stay competitive.
It seems to me that flagging a submission should result in an admin review, not in an automatic reduction in the submission's points.
I care about the Earth and climate change.

However I think those of us with rational, logical minds might have reservations about a group of scientists who can be so sure that the earth is warming and that human activities are the definite cause of it.

So most of us might be a little quiet on the issue of climate change since we're not positive that human activity is definitely the cause of it and temperatures are definitely going to rise 2 degrees (C) causing all kinds of calamaties.

I think this explains why you don't wee more votes, comments and tweets about it from engineers/developers.

I think we should definitely reduce emissions, I think the policies being pursued are justified and smart to do just in case this theory is accurate.

My problem is scientists saying that without doubt human activities are definitely causing the global temperatures to rise. At this point in time with the data we have how can we be sure. It needs more study/data.

I'm definitely not saying that's an excuse for inaction. Reduce emissions now just be careful about over stating what we really know for sure.

I think a more scientific approach would be to say that our data is pointing in that direction we need to reduce emissions now just in case, here are our finding and our data. We welcome other theories and review of our data and we are going to collect more and more data to track this trend and determine if our theory is accurate.

The Earth goes through climate cycles/changes over time. Ice Ages, warm periods, little ice age, etc. And all of these changes/cycles previously were independent of humans or human activity.

I'm not saying humans are not the cause of it, I'm just saying lets hold off on saying they definitely are, collect more data/and more accurate data, be open with the data and work together, be open to new theories, then determine what is really happening while reducing emissions at the same time.

Also there is a possible solar minimum coming that might cause a 30 to 40 year little ice age. Maybe that will give us some time to develop some break through technologies that nearly eliminates the need for using fossil fuels while avoiding the predictions of increased hurricanes, sea levels rising, etc if temperatures would rise.

Most of all improve, perfect and invent green energy sources so we can eliminate most emissions.

The Earth is amazing, lets take care of it.
The GPU issue is a good one. Every desktop system my friends have has two GPUs in it: one built into the processor that no one ever uses, and one they add separately so that they can play any games. AMD at least has half-decent GPUs built into their CPUs, but their CPUs are only half-decent anyway. Meanwhile, Intel refuses to license any Thunderbolt external GPU docks or anything of the sort, despite how popular they would be with laptop-toting would-be gamers, because they want to promote their own, awful GPUs instead.

Likewise the core count issue. Jeff Atwood's recent blog post[1] about how Android JS performance has stagnated because Android SoC single-core performance hasn't improved in years blew me away, but in retrospect it makes sense; it's presumably more engineering work to design a faster CPU core than it is to just put more of the onto a die and call it a day.

[1] https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-state-of-javascript-on-andr...
I invest in dividend-paying stocks, typically a mix of "dogs of the Dow" (3-5%) and high yield REITs (10-15%). For the past 4 years I have averaged 11% returns on my portfolio.
The iPad Pro is an overpriced tablet for all the people who bought overpriced MacBook Pros. I think Apple still knows their target audience :-)
Is this for writing tests against? Won't the tests fail if this service is not available? If you need a static response why not save it as a file and have a local temp server respond?
Keeping an eye on university campuses will probably help to determine whether laptops will go away or not. Workplaces move slow and tend to stick with whatever is currently working, but each freshman year at uni gives an opportunity to see where trends are going. Laptops have been pretty much a requirement for all incoming freshmen over the past 15 years, if more students are switching exclusively to tablets, that might reflect into the general population as well over time.
I think that was a perfectly valid change, frankly. Acting like a full time employee and claiming the tax and pay perks of a contractor was obviously not the intent of the law.
Tips and tricks for Ansible
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes.

Yep! The IPTables work, service endpoints based on labels and the built in rolling-update functionality is what makes this possible. No agents or service discovery required!
Arch has a lot of good info https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pro_Audio

And the raspberry pi wiki has info that if relevant for any linux audio hardware http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/raspberrypi
Your points are well-taken, but I would expect academics to be the only demographic more likely than governments to compromise a well-designed security system.

Although I suppose the academics I mean aren't undergrads..
Great theme! Are there any disadvantages to using Disqus as a commenting system?
> This year, we gave each member of The Forbes 400 a score on a scale from 1 to 10 — a 1 indicating the fortune was completely inherited, while a 10 was for a Horatio Alger-esque journey. We also did the analysis for every 10 years going back to 1984. Looking at the numbers over time, the data lead us to an interesting insight: in 1984, less than half of people on The Forbes 400 were self-made; today, 69% of the 400 created their own fortunes. [0]

If upward mobility to achieve great wealth is your concern, surely this means we're heading in the right direction. I don't think the system is rigged towards benefiting those with already great wealth, but markets have expanded and entrepreneurship has a bigger upside than it has in the past. You don't have to take the analysis I quoted at face value, but just take a look at the richest Americans. No Vanderbilts, Rockefellers or Carnegies.

My opinion may not be popular, but I find it encouraging to think that so few can create such great wealth in today's society, even if the odds are against me creating such wealth. In many cases, that means that a product or service one person creates can benefit a large number of people and make you very wealthy. And I personally benefit from many of the products and services that were created by this generation of the wealthy individuals.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2014/10/02/the-new...
The Statistical Dominance of Dr. Seuss
Yes. I'm in the UHH too :-) Bottom of p. 211.
Haha, alright!
If you're coding for low latency not only do you need to tune your system you want to learn jackd and use jackd library for your app https://github.com/jackaudio/jackaudio.github.com/wiki
Many AP's have the ability to operate outside of their proper bands and above the stated power limits too. Existence of a feature doesn't make its usage legal.

The legal principle here is remarkably clear cut.

Are you willfully interfering with another user of the band? Yes? You're breaking the law.

The method used to accomplish the interference isn't germane to the question of whether you're interfering or not.
Philosophers Don’t Get Much Respect, but Their Earnings Don’t Suck
Well TOR is also funded by taxpayer money...
and yet some hn users were questionning wether russia was the worst with hiring an army of trolls on the basis that "Kremlin propaganda wants you to believe: everybody is lying, we are no different. No it's not."
> It is not necessary to acknowledge or even to know that you are behaving as part of some esoteric motivation, for it to be either a true or at least useful model. For example, think of "selfish gene" type explanation of reproductive / behavioral biology. That is a useful model for thinking about behavior even if the parties themselves talk about courtly love, religious morality, etc.

Very good point.

To give an example- oil companies advocate for the continued use of fossil fuels, because it is in their financial interest to do so. At the same time the employees of those companies have an interest to not screw up the planet completely for their own children and grandchildren. It's not as if those people are part of some dark conspiracy to destroy the environment, but they do seem to be trapped by the forces of the economy into which they have to participate.

Basically, you don't really need an "esoteric motivation" to have totally evil behaviour. You just need to be at the wrong position in the wrong organisation.
I use jekyll but since I've been learning Go I have wanted to use Hugo which seems to have a lot of nice features. Middleman seems to have the most features though.

Still, it's nice that jekyll doesn't require much work to deploy to github.
I love Apple and all but they'd have to somehow make it easier then Venmo, because it would be pretty hard to convince my non-tech friends AGAIN to move away from something that works so well
They can all be accomplished by utilizing MailChimp:
- Emails signups
- Contact form
That's quite the story. Fragments were already out there but to see all the pieces laid out end-to-end makes it a lot more serious than what I'd figured out so far.

Makes you wonder why they did not stop when they were ahead.
Sadly, there is some truth to it.
> "Except that increases the cost of doing business even further."

Yes, but there's a tradeoff at play here between what's best for companies and what's best for the citizens of each of the countries. If a law protects the will of the citizens but also hinders companies then so be it. Company profits are not the be-all and end-all.
The mechanics are incorrect but he has the general idea of the benefit banks accrue from each additional deposited dollar.
Always nice to see works striving for minimalism. Years ago I was also looking for a simple theme, bumped into Scribble, and forked into Klotter (swedish for scribble).

Source: https://github.com/blogandreineculaucom/blogandreineculaucom...

Theme live at: http://blog.andreineculau.com (blog content not so much alive)
Big chunks of this just seem to be copy and pasted from various wikipedia articles.

http://www.campbellmgold.com/ appears to be some kind of quackery archive. From the front page:

You may not know it, but you already have the power to change any
aspect of your life - Health, Wealth, Success, Longevity, and
Transformation, etc.

How? - Just relax, flow with the program your choice, visualise,
and let your subconscious mind, the 4th Dimensional You,
attract/create all that you want into your life.

"If you visualise it, you can realise it!"

Our Hypnosis, Subliminal, and Empowerment programs are downloaded
in MP3 format and can be played on your computer, or copied to a
CD, MP3 Player, DVD, or Tape, etc.
Haskell is actually great for writing certain types of web services. You can get close to C-level speed, but with the security and correctness guarantees of strong static type checking. Obviously it has its own warts (performance optimization requires a certain amount of black magic), but in a lot of cases it Just Works™ and does so much faster and more reliably than a typical dynamic language.
I'm not sure that CMU needs a warrant to collect the data passing over TOR. It certainly violates my ethical principles but perhaps the threshold is lower for others?
I don't think so. The FCC law in question, from my reading, specifically mentions malicious interference, but says nothing about building materials.

Nobody has ever been prosecuted for their choice of paint on their private property.
Here, cleanse your palette with some architectural masterpieces that only LA could produce:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_Observatory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheats_Goldstein_Residence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Building

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stahl_House

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records_Building

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Columbia_Building
The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library
> we input so much energy into sustaining our meat habit

Well, the energy alone wouldn't really be a problem if we were using green energy. The Sun provides more than enough energy for all sorts of human endeavours. At the same time, I absolutely agree that much of the current production and delivery system, food and otherwise, is inefficient. Efficiency is an important matter, but alone it's probably not enough to curb global warming in the long run, especially not if the population keeps growing.

As you might have guessed, I eat meat. The funny thing is, I don't do it for taste reasons. I do it because it's cheap protein that works well with my digestive system. For some reason, I can't consume more than 15g fibre per day without problems, and I've tried for months at a time before to see if I would simply adjust, but that didn't happen. If there were affordable, safe (no mercury or other contaminants), and quick-to-prepare plant-based food that went well with my body, I would certainly be on it. So far I haven't found such a thing. One of the most peculiar aspects of all this is that I constantly hear about how efficient plant-based foods are supposed to be in terms of production, yet plant based protein (without high fibre) is never cheap. It's always more expensive than meat/egg/milk based protein. How is it that plants are so expensive when they're supposed to be so efficient? Without that efficiency being seen by the consumer, it's unreasonable to expect everyone to switch.

On the topic of changes in the system, I personally would prefer the government-based approach where essential technologies for green energy were at least subsidised enough that they were on-par with fossil fuels. The problem is that companies might take advantage of the subsidies to increase their own profit margin, which is why I suggested that the production be fully socialised, so that profit doesn't get placed at higher priority than the environment. Moreover, there would be no unreasonable burden on individuals, as would be the case to expect everyone to simply buy a Tesla.
here's a good National geographic article on Parcak I linked on Monday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10536440
It doesn't matter the MTU setting on your end for WAN and ISP / interlink grade networks is meaningless they don't use Ethernet, FDDI frame size is 4500 (ATM is about double that) bytes (minus what ever overhead, but usually 4200 and change) ISP/WAN routers don't care about how many mbit/s they transfer but how many packets they route at per given unit of time, as packets get packed into a single frame the smaller the packet the more packets they can transfer each frame.

Also from a more high level point of view if you think about it the small packets are the most critical ones and they are at least as far as responsiveness goes DNS is limited to 512bytes over UDP, TCP 3-way handshake packets are tiny and those are the packets that need to get to and back from their destination as fast as possible, delays in data transfers means slower speeds, delays of handshakes mean that your application can fail or hang.
Other important traffic such as VOIP[0] also uses very small packet sizes for this same reason most critical services need to transfer very little data (per given unit of time) but need to update data as frequently as possible to provide the illusion of real time and to mask the latency, same goes for other things like online/multi-player gaming and so on and on and on.
Pretty much if you want your service to be as responsive as possible limit your packet size to the smallest size possible and increase your PPS this will ensure that your packets get quicker to their destination.
[0]VOIP Packet Sizes http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice/voice-qualit...

The only time you would want to use large packets is pretty much when you can have a buffer, this means that you need to handle less packets per second which lowers CPU consumption (across the entire path) so video streaming and such can use pretty much as large of an MTU as they want unless they start getting fragments.
She is definitely an outlier. I would venture to guess that the success rate of trust fund babies in business is about on par with the success rate of inner city kids. They both lack the proper incentives to succeed, but in dramatically different ways.
Really appreciate this thoughtful response (and the respectful tone). Thank you!
Thanks! Amusing trivia - everyone on the development team got to be an NPC in the game, meaning the character looked like them. I joined late, so every character was taken except for a cyclops named Iskander.

So the cyclops looks like me, but with one big eye.

http://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Iskander
Apple's major advantage over Venmo and others is that they don't need to make money off the payment service. They can give this away for free, because they really care about the device margin. And using geo+TouchID would make for a very secure service, minimizing fraud problems that competitors would have to deal with.

Apple's in a unique position to make this happen. And yes, it could be bad news for Square.
when i was using unity 2D the downside was that you cant really leverage the engine basics such as gravity for 2D top down games. is it still the case?
This still astounds me.

I'm Australian but also hold a US account. The difference in ease between the two is insane. I cannot believe how difficult it is to simply wire money from a US bank account. In Australia, you can make a free transfer entirely from web/app and it will be received, often the next day.

It's no wonder why Paypal/Venmo are so huge in the US...
Interesting.

In general: What would be the best approach towards having a part of the website static (main part), and only the blog/press part being regenerated?

Does Hugo/Pelican/Jekyll/Hakyll etc handle this kind of functionality?

As an alternative, what would be a good light weight CMS these days (ideally in Python)?
Was anyone else surprised that a $500mm house is still built with cheap plywood and such? I mean, I get that every penny counts, but surely it would only increase the cost of the building by 0.1% if they used nothing but first grade cabinet plywood everywhere or better still, didn't use any plywood.
Man I wish the paren management stuff for vim didn't suck.
I've only met, or overheard one wealthy man give proper credit to his families wealth(money, access to power, access to good attorneys, the best schools, the best loans, the best business advisors, etc.), reguarding the fortune they amassed, and that was George Sorows. George said in numerious interviews, 'I owe everything to my father. With out him, and his money, I wouldn't have anything.' I'm paraphrasing. The rest of the rich boys always leave out the inside help they received in critical points in their career, or climb to the top.

I guess what I'm saying is they all want the world to think they made their own money. All are modern day Horiatio Algiers?

So, I don't buy Forbes figures; "There’s no doubt that entrepreneurship is thriving globally. Fully 1,191 members of the list are self-made billionaires, while just 230 inherited their wealth. Another 405 inherited at least a portion but are still working to increase their fortunes."

Exactly how did Forbes come up with these numbers? I quickly looked at the list, and I buy the athletes didn't have much help, but the rest; I wouldn't bet on it. They had a lot of unseen help. Yea, you can always find a few exceptions, but I bet it's less than 10 individuals.
You effectively can't, because "but the Constitution" is not a method of legal operation in the United States. At that point, you indeed do have a legitimate breakdown in governance. I expect such a situation would cause the kind of crisis that destroys a government.

(I'm not saying I am describing something that is good. I prefer to live in the world of the descriptive when it comes to legal matters, rather than the prescriptive. There are things I want very much to see changed--but I recognize that the process that exists isn't going away.)
I wouldn't claim that philosophy is not relevant, I would claim that our current batch of philosophers are. I'm a philosopher in as much a sense as it matters to this question, and I don't need others' approval to reach a conclusion. I'm not trying to run a popularity contest, after all.

>What does "one that works" mean?

It means it is both consistent with reality and useful.

>There's no reason why only brain states that have occurred would be relevant.

The reason those ones are relevant is because those are the only ones available for analysis. Those are the brains that determine what "human" currently means. We could evolve into toads in 100B years, but you'd hardly aspire to create a toad brain and call it a good human brain.

>I think it would be uncontroversial to claim that there are an infinity of such hypothetical situations, and each model of morality can deal with them differently, ergo you get an infinity of possible models.

You are confusing the multitude of possible moralities with the multitude of counterfactuals they model. More importantly, you or forgetting that we are only concerned with relevant moralities and relevant counterfactuals, and that we have to make our developments incrementally, and in finite time, which massively constrains the possibilities.

There are an infinite number of ways to skin a cat, but that doesn't mean we can't have a useful notion of the "right way" to do it.
the quoted text foreshadows the argument about visual fields. I'm not saying that the brain isn't important, just that it cannot solely explain our conscious experience. This alone is sufficient to defeat materialism.