skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the skill is that rare, but I think the application of the skill is rare. There tends to be external factors which might lead a person to be angry which seeps into the criticism as rudeness. I think a lot of people can deliver blunt and direct criticism to a stranger in a cool, calm manner. It's dealing with the familiar people that makes it difficult.

I've watched my Dad do it and it also tends to shock the recipient when they expect some anger, etc.
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It's a good bet that, when a young person in a highly-developed country dies and the announcements about them do not give a cause of death, they killed themselves. Given that he was white and had announced an intention to kill himself the night before, it's almost an open-and-shut case.
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They're supposedly coming along quite nicely with the security of containers. Can you run docker containers in userspace? It's been a while since I did much with it, I know LXC can with a fair bit of customization. That would do a lot to help with security, and if you're following good containerization principles you should be able to set a really finnicky IDS that shuts down containers on even the slightest hint of a breach.

> Modern KVM has a comparable density to containers (except for memory)

It does, but the memory can make a big difference if you're running microservices. If I'm guesstimating I'm thinking there's probably about a 200MB difference in memory usage between a good container image and a VM. With microservices that can grow quite a bit. Let's say 4 microservices, needing at least 2 of each for redundancy, you're already looking at a difference of 1.6GB of memory. If you need to massively scale those that's .8GB of memory for every host you add, not including any efficiency gains from applications running on containers rather than VMs (which is going to be largely negligible unless we're talking a massive scale).
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Very sad.

We all owe him a debt of gratitude for the creation of Debian, the most widely used GNU/Linux distribution today.[1]

Does anyone here actually know what happened?

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[1] Ubuntu is based on Debian: https://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros
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Seems like a sane implementation to me. The only change I would make is to change the "update" action to explicitly call "$(MAKE) uninstall" and "$(MAKE) install" so a parallel make invocation won't cause a race condition.
Pretty long post but I like it, thank you for sharing this!
Network visualization: mapping Shakespeare’s tragedies
Eh, @dang, can we get a black bar in Ian's honor, please?
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This is terrible. I met Ian when we worked at the same company for a bit, and he was a great man by my interactions with him. Just heartbreaking to read.

He went on a tirade the other night on Twitter after what he reported was a run-in with the police. The tweets got more incoherent as the evening went on, but it read like he was backing down from suicide. Since the linked release doesn't say that and it looks like he closed his Twitter, I guess we don't really know what went down. He also doesn't seem to have published the promised blog post. What a shame. I wish he'd found the help he was looking for.
In Memoriam: Ian Murdock's Last Tweets
Yup, way easier than expected. Except now they are New Years chocolates. ;-) Thanks for the reply!
I too have suffered from abuse from cops here in the bay area - specifically the city of Alameda, and one cop in particular.

I also suffer from depression, and have struggled with inappropriate thoughts due to my experience with police.

It is sad that he has apparently actually committed suicide - as I would have loved to join him in his fight against state abuse.

I wish I would have had the opportunity to work with / support this effort.
> Before us are rows of cubicles, almost entirely inhabited by bearded, yarmulke-wearing men in crisp white shirts. These are Pikarski's buyers. (About half of C&A Marketing's 150-person staff is Orthodox, though the buyers division is more homogenous. "The buyer that does all the storage products, he's the only guy I let work out of home," Pikarski says. "He's Italian.")

Did that bother anyone else?
I thought Baidu was already the leader by far before Google even stepped in.
>I have a suspicion that I'm being treated unfairly because of my unusual name or even targeted because of a non-standard gender option and/or the way it relates to my looks.

Contact (tech) news publications if you have solid evidence [0] of this. Bad publicity will pressure Facebook more than you'd be able to. They'll run a sexism-in-Tech article centering around Facebook's treatment of non-standard genders and Facebook will reverse whatever issues you're going through in a jiffy.

May as well play the current political climate to your advantage. And I mean the above in a genuine effort to help - as it very much would and I don't see alternatives. Facebook controls Facebook. If they're going to delete your account or treat you unfairly, they will. But not if it means bad press. Give them bad press and your problems with them will go away.

[0] Who am I kidding, if there is even a possibility of it being construed this way.
On an individual level sure, but there is no need to prescribe "acceptable" levels for an entire industry on behalf on everyone else.
Condolences to his family and loved ones. Words can never truly describe the feeling of losing someone this way.
> However, about a year and a half later, he released the open source on Github- and surprise, it's a forked version of Android-x86, where literally only the name has been changed.

As opposed to what? What were people expecting here?
Aren't trigger warnings a bit daft? How on earth are you supposed to reasonably account for a universe of possible scenarios that might "trigger" someone.

By the way I say this fully aware that I am privileged to not suffer from, well, whatever triggers actually do to people... ("Feel bad" is all I can figure)
Agreed. It's pretty trivial to overwhelm a Redis instance. For ad serving scenarios at high traffic scenarios Aerospike is really where it's at.
The declassified NRO documents are here: http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/MOL.html
And the IT industry is a rather small part of the overall job market. So therefore any discussion about the workplace that ignores everything that isn't IT is virtually useless?
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This is quite unconvincing: the evolutionary advantage of, let's say, all animals the size of lemurs, having human level intelligence is such that pressure to find this rewiring would have been unprecedented.

I think more data and research is needed here. My feeling is that when a few dozen of such cases are closely studied, interesting patterns will emerge.

It is surprising that these cases exhibit high IQ and no immediate signs of dysfunction, but it would be absolutely extraordinary if no patterns of difference vs. typical brain were found at all.
Does it bother anyone else that the three customer reviews on the product page all give five stars, and all three reviewers received the product for free in exchange for an 'unbiased' review? (And that fact is only visible if you click each 'see more' link at the end of the truncated review). I just have a hard time believing this practice doesn't create bias, even if unintentional.

I'm finding I have to work harder to parse meaning out of Amazon reviews than I did a few years ago. I don't see how this benefits Amazon, but I also don't see them doing much to fix it.
Hopefully there will be further opportunities to fight against state abuse in the coming days.
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A snarky post with little data analysis and processing inspired by another snarky post with little data analysis and processing does not make a right.
For the sad details, click: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803924
I saw this apparent response:

Chih-Wei,

We have repeatedly said, including in emails (both before and) following this that went unresponsive to afterwards, that we wanted to collaborate and contribute. We simply were not willing to pay money up front to do so.

You will be free to take any improvements we make to Console OS on GitHub and integrate them upstream. We didn't go to all this effort to make a bunch of empty device trees, and call it a day.

If you want to discuss this further, with a path to resolving it - my door is open.

But this list is not the place to do it. Continuing to repeat the same points here, only slows my ability to lead our team to deliver - attempting to stop a legitimate fork by these means, will not succeed.

Edit: Fix formatting
Tell that to tencent, weibo, baidu, youku...
The point is that is it not a good thing, especially in the case I'm having difficulty reproducing the results.
This started at least 20 years ago. I remember my dad complaining when I was a pre-teen about how everything was moving towards disposable or recurring-fee models, and you couldn't buy anything that was built to last and hold onto it for a lifetime anymore.

It's kinda ironic - during the Bush II presidency everyone was talking about the "ownership society", but the trend today has been toward the "renters' society", where consumers own nothing, the means of production are increasingly centralized in a few specialized producers, and everybody pays out of pocket for momentary needs. It's accelerating, too: car ownership => leases => Uber, suburban homes => urban apartments, vacation homes => timeshares => prepackaged "experiences", careers => gig economy, pay for printers => pay for ink, books => the Internet, videos & DVDs => Netflix, CDs => Spotify, exercise bikes => gym membership, building companies to last => hitting quarterly numbers.

I wonder sometimes why consumers put up with it, but most seem to actually prefer renting things for the short term rather than buying them for the long term. It's like the time preferences of society have compressed radically, and where people would used to think about investing in things that last for 30 years, they now focus on what they need in the next 30 minutes.
Nothing at all, but I'm sure the target consumer for one doesn't post on HN.
Dang, thanks.
Jews stick together. One of reasons for their resilience and business success. Unsurprising he brought a lot of his own in on the business. They do that in upper-ranks in my area, too.

Now, you probably won't see the media report on racist hiring practices in Jewish companies as quickly as they do anti-Semitism. ;)
Amazingly beautiful people, all of them. Love the Keen team and truly hope they find whatever success they are seeking. <3
A shared database of passwords. Pretty nice app - of questionable legality, alas.

ToS states: "User, a person using application Wifič, by adding Wifi agrees that he is owner of this Wifi."

App itself is built around violating this (voting whether the owner has entered the correct password? Riiiight).
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Keep these 2 points in mind: (1) unlike previous police states, this one is machine mediated and pervasive. There will be no place to hide and it is hard to see how it will be dismantled once in place. (2) our children are growing up in a culture that no longer reflects the traditional values held sacred in the West.
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What a tragic loss.

His recent twitter history shows his apparent motivation:

* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:le7oSCj...

* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:umvcoAj...
Except that performing network scans, even on your own network, is illegal in many countries.

Even in countries where this is legal, providers cannot take the risk of running a scan that could possibly crash a customer application, or they could be sued for that.
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Unfortunately, I do not think that you may legally share the works. Their terms of service currently say:

1.2 You may solely for private, educational, personal, scientific, or research purposes access, browse, view, display, search, download and print the Content.

1.3 You may not: [...] re-distribute, reproduce, or transmit the Content by any means including electronic (e. g., via e-mail) nor post it on their personal or public websites or on public networks...

So while you may have the copy of the book legally, it seems unlikely that you can give it to your students. There's always a chance that what they're saying isn't legally enforceable (see non compete agreements), but I don't think that's the case here. I'm not a lawyer, so I can't say for sure.
> the Linux distro he created which is the basis for Ubuntu

I'm sure this sounds as vinyl scratching to a lot of ears

Debian stands on its own, though that statement is correct
It's pretty clear from the context that the author finds 2 9s of reliability unacceptable.
Great, now "candor" will become a loaded word like "disruptive innovation" or "agile."
What if the actual problem is that we build systems and processes that rely on the unsustainable idea of privacy and the wishful ability to keep secrets? Do people not see that this makes everything more fragile and likely to break?

I think you have that backwards. Privacy is a protection from the massive amount of failure states otherwise present in systems by refusing them information to operate on.

Can we build systems and processes that can protect that information from all known incentives and motivations (both commercial and socially driven). And accommodate for all unforeseen ones, in a society that already doesn't have a single set of harmonious goals?
Ian was one of the kindest folks I've ever met. The tweets leading up to his death are troubling and I hope we get some answers http://pastebin.com/yk8bgru5
Completely ignore amazon reviews.

They are mostly bogus these days.

Unless you can find 3 star reviews, I usually read those.
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Please let's not dig up links or make speculations about what happened.

He was the founder of the Debian project, let's remember him for that or other contributions he's made to the tech community.

Debian has grown to be one of the most well known and popular Linux distribution, used in production, in the cloud, as the base for SteamOS, Ubuntu and other projects. It is and was a major part of what made Linux popular.
Found a copy of the odd tweets, sounds like he was going through something awful. Hopefully this will bring attention to how we help people experiencing mental health issues.
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My heart goes out to his friends and family. The pain he was in must have been unbearable. I'm so sad that he felt this was the best way to find peace. It's a great loss to the community. hugs
Too lazy, but here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/7UfVQIL.png
I would tell you to just turn Ghostery off but I'll just be nice this time:

http://pastebin.com/gpEeEtpE

You used to read everything as terminal text back in the day, right? This one scrolls and renders better. ;)
But then it's equally consistent to say that C doesn't allow side-effects because the whole program is reified.
What traditional values would those be? Could you clarify, because your second point depepnds largely on the generation within which you were born.
The brash ones are usually fronting. Give 'em enough rope and help diligently when they fail. You need them and they need you.

We are all arrayed against the Dark Lord Entropy - humility and "measure twice, cut once" are nearly always in order.

And show your work.
Let's be specific. Orthodox Jews.

It's basically an society-accepted fanatical cult.

I bet none of those 150 were women, they wouldn't be tolerated to work together, or pray together, etc.
My thoughts go to his friends and family. I don't want to speculate on what happened I don't think it is the time right now. Thanks for all your contribution Ian Murdock.
Thanks :)
Looks really interesting! I will have a look at it when I have a minute!
My master thesis is probably next summer. So I'm looking around for possible subjects at the moment :)
I say maybe not doing that. If someone really, really wants to gawk, let them search for it.
> [dead] “I'm committing suicide tonight”

Seems a tad insensitive...
A legitimate fork is only legitimate if the rationale for it is legitimate.

Chih-Wei is not only refuting your stated rationale, but is offering an additional 64% of your budget, to merely prove that your past statements are true. It's hard to imagine that increasing your budget by 64% would have the net effect of "slowing your ability to lead your team to deliver," if you merely do what you claimed you previously wanted to do and were prepared to do.

Since your past statements included disparaging remarks about Chih-Wei, if you fail to meet his challenge - or rationally explain why you cannot or will not rise to it - it makes you look like a libelous and incompetent sack of crap.

Just my personal opinion.
I don't think it's a racist hiring practice, it's religious nepotism. Mormons and scientologists often stick together in the same way (and really probably any small group of people very closely connected; immigrants often initially do the same thing in a new country as well).
Great article with a stellar business model. This guy's scheme is literally "give the people what they want!" Need more of this kind of thinking in software. Unfortunately, lock-in techniques will likely prevent it from working in many places it's needed most.
Politicians/regulators can never be encryption utopians because they always seek more power. However, widespread adoption of secure encryption [0] could turn proposals to ban it from being seriously "debated", to the equivalent of that state senator who wanted to legislate pi = 3. "Physics drives finance drives politics", and all that.

[0] Obviously without centralized database MITM, using software not distributed by a centralized entity that can be easily controlled as you point out.
dude! you should update that page! i actually understood what you said!
Which countries and under which laws?

Which T&Cs do not have a blanket clause to indemnify the hosting company in such situations? If I accidentally reboot the virtualisation host, can my company be sued for making the application "crash"?
Ghostery is not the best idea if you're looking for privacy, because it comes from the ad industry. Consider independents like uBlock, Privacy Badger, etc.
Not a very suitable analogy because an animal brain was in fact optimized for mobility for hundreds of millions of years.

The real difference in desktop vs. laptop is lack of optimization for expandability, for use of standardized components, for ease of physical access for upgrades.

Now that I wrote previous paragraph, it leads me to question whether these 'no-brain' cases may be less fit for future rewiring?

For instance, being transplanted in a different culuture, different language, different field e.g. physical work or arts or social work instead of intellectual or from arts of physical work to social or intellectual work?
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> If you get a well-formed XML file that has -7 as a social security number, that is not something that your domain has to deal with.

Agreed. That's a type/format problem. But if, for whatever reason, the domain should process social security numbers that starts with 9 differently that should not be outside of the domain by all means. That is your business rule, you should "trap it" in the domain.

> where correctness is at a premium

The correctness of both are the same. The programming effort and the performance between those differ, but it's never a correctness trade-off.

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But instead of arguing back and forth, let me give you a problem that I had to deal with before:

Suppose that to have an entity with a state X there must already exist in the system an entity with state Y. Also, to have an entity with state Y there must already exist in the system an entity with state X.

How do you solve this deadlock "the chicken or the egg" problem if you never allow invalid entities to exist?

If you do allow invalid entities it's pretty simple: you instantiate both and handles both, together, to the domain.
They already haven't delivered anything.

The only thing they have after a kickstarter where they called android-x86 and other such projects garbage and inefficient is... a fork of android-x86, where the only change is the removal of copyrights, names, and a find-replace of androidx86 -> consoleos.

I think the initial (non-subredditdrama) thread is here - https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3y840w/console_os_...
I disagree. It seems he might have died fighting for a cause. We might do well to serve his memory by thinking about and understanding his cause. To do otherwise would be to admit that we can change nothing.
Ask HN: Technology-first startup, can these work?
I find myself in the position of having started a startup with underlying technology first, and looking for problems and markets second. Perhaps it's better to call it a project than a startup, but I find myself doing it full-time.

Current status is that I've identified potential value-added use cases, put together a rough business plan, and I'm trying to raise money for a higher fidelity prototype (currently have a lower fidelity proof-of-concept). Domain is in robotics.

What do you guys think of this situation? The majority of feedback I've received (friends, colleagues, etc) don't think that technology-first is a viable approach. Gotta start with a specific customer solving a specific problem. OTOH, I'd like to use this platform to create add-ons to serve customers and market segments, analogous to making software for a hardware platform.

Thoughts and advice much appreciated.
1 9 is terrible (1 month down!). 2 9s is ok (4 days down) for a lumbering IT dinosaur, terrible for any SV company.