skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After seeing more and more of these "we failed" pieces pop up here, I commend the authors for sharing something so intimate. However, these are starting to strike me as those "everyone gets a trophy" competitions where the goal is sharing the best failure stories and getting a reaffirming pat on the back for things going wrong. I'm of the supposed generation that is labeled with this "we're all winners regardless of what place we finish in the race" mentality, but I don't get it. This is where that stereotype comes from.

This is perfectly exemplified by the "if Keen busts...we'll move on" wording that is pervasive in this. Nevermind the amounts of time, effort and (other people's) money that went into building something, and the jobs and families that count on a paycheck. The whole "we'll just pat ourselves on the back and move on" way of doing business forgets that there are victims and potentially long-reaching impacts for every failure. It can't be that simple and easy to walk away, it really shouldn't be.

People fail, startups fail, etc. all the time. But it's starting to sound like a competition to see who failed the best the more of these I read. It just seems like attention-seeking behavior sometimes, or maybe just slick marketing perhaps to try and boost that falling revenue. Who knows. I mean, it made it to the top of HN, right? Probably got a few thousand eyeballs out of that at the very least for free.

On the other hand, posting about failure and turmoil for a going business concern can't be good for customer retention. If I were a competitor, I'd jump all over this opportunity to lure some of those lucrative clients away by leveraging the fear of investing their time, money and effort into a potentially problem-riddled organization that by-and-large accepts, even embraces, a high rate of failure. Large enterprises don't like hearing about these types of problems with their vendors as they are inherently quite risk averse. Ultimately, I fear that this company, and others that have done the same, will soon realize this but it'll too late to save themselves from a flight of customers. Hey, who knows, prove me wrong.

Anyway, just my opinion. I'm not trying to be negative, but just relaying a different perspective from someone who's been around the industry for some time.
but I remember that being part of the reason why the
'Other OS' feature was removed from the PS3 -
Places/People were buying them up and running Linux on
them because they were such a good deal for the hardware.

Wait, really? The PS3 was outclassed by generic PC hardware pretty quickly, and wasn't much faster than a netbook unless you were writing some seriously multithreaded or PS3 GPU-specific code. I never heard of many people buying them to run Linux and I don't remember any prominent open-source projects that targeted the PS3.

The real danger (for Sony) in opening up their consoles is the risk of piracy. That's a huge attack vector for hackers looking to defeat a console's copy protection scheme(s).

Sony's biggest nightmare is a world where teenagers can easily copy games because, as you say, that's where the real money is.
That depends entirely on how you do it.

If you're upset that there's lousy test coverage, and you respond by complaining, that's not useful. If you respond by making the test suite run faster; creating better mocks; writing docs; making the test results more visible; teaching others how to write (better) tests... that's a different story.

The trouble comes when you think that pointing to a problem is, in and of itself, valuable. We're all surrounded by problems; pointing out one that we likely know about probably isn't useful.
Unfortunately, there's just no competitor big enough to force them to care
I'd be happier if taxes were cut from the bottom up, instead of increased from the top down.
No such problem with plasma/kde. I use it on a 1080p 13' screen and a 4k 13' screen. its in fact much better than windows 10 in that area...
Exactly. A non negligible part of his rant was about proprietary graphic drivers. Free software developers can't do anything about that, and anyway what is the point? Today, if you want to game just use Windows, if you want a fine Linux laptop get one with something like an Haswell with integrated graphics (or maybe Broadwell, still wait a little for Skylakes)

And anyway if you look at what the "competition" sells while being this much critical, you can probably write something at least as long. Even last MS flagship devices running last Windows 10 versions are full of bugs now -- and likewise for major PC vendors like Dell -- so GNU/Linux distributions might as well become attractive just because Windows devices are of terrible quality today :p
It bothers me as much the Paypal Mafia and YC Mafia businesses hiring practices. New/small business hire their friends, people they know and trust.
It's sad that their apps aren't as good as they were years ago. Software is supposed to, you know, get better. Then again, Loren Brichter does set a really high bar.
its not really true. for ex i use Xorg dpi settings and xorg provided font rendering and driven antialiasing.

gui toolkits can override this (and usually propose to), specially for older versions of Xorg that did not support native dpi scaling, antialising, etc.
All sorts of new media experiences open up with more bandwidth. At the beginning it was just HTML. Then everyone was able to get streaming music and streaming video! Youtube was huge leap in people's internet experience was like. Then now with higher upload speeds, we're getting broadcasting services like Twitch. What's next? Maybe streaming game services can finally take hold. Or maybe just completely decentralized computing for all tasks.
I'm not a Trump fan, and despite likely tax hits, his proposal of simplifying the tax code (as many have done before him), getting rid of the IRS (yes jobs lost, but really, I got a certified letter owing $0.51 and they were "too busy with this category to answer. click") would be a positive thing.

One short summary of his proposal -- http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/donald-trump-unveils-his-...

I think a pure flat tax would actually be bad for the country implemented immediately, but maybe a gradual rescinding of tax breaks (mortgage, etc -- i use said benefit) might be worth considering.

Wall Street bankers running off pure capital gains is a big problem.
I hope it does and hope the truth will come to light too.

I vote yes.
In both Windows and OSX there are multiple choices for included font rendering libraries, so I'm not sure what the author is on about. There is no "system-level" font renderer on any of the three major OSes, and frankly such a thing doesn't make sense from an engineering standpoint.
I know about libwine but the main reason is... is not as complete as the full Win32 API :)
An interesting argument. With telnet it's easy to argue that it wasn't supposed to allow access, it was just a default and you should have known better. With ssh you have to go pretty far out of your way to allow someone to log in without having a key or password. Sounds like something that would imply authorization.
I'm sure they could find a buyer for it that can.
That's right about the cost. I think it's a good deal compared to something like https://store.pfsense.org/SG-2440/

What do you mean by firewall, exactly? I do nothing extreme, just an pf or iptables ruleset, run dnsmasq, privoxy - those sorts of things. Glad to take some performance benchmarks you can recommend.
Call it a desire/goal/value/utility function/whatever. It's a thing which the AI wants and creates plans to obtain.

This isn't that different than how animals and humans work, as far as we know. We get pleasure from different things, and our brains seek actions which lead to those things.

Creating an AI is only a matter of coming up with really good prediction algorithms. Algorithms that predict the future reward the AI will get from an action. While this is of course a difficult problem, it's not impossible, and we are making a ton of progress on it.

Other models of AI all have similar problems though. At some level you need to program the AI's goals explicitly. Even if that goal is "try to understand what we mean, and do that", you still have to figure out a way of writing that down in code. It's an impossible task.
People who call out such get banned in places like HN.

An open discussion of government corruption and oppression is essentially impossible here.
Do people get fired for making these kind of mistakes?
No idea (I haven't voted here at all), but maybe someone didn't want to make this a long thread naming myriad of NoSQL databases out there?
One of the answers links to https://developer.android.com/google/play/filters.html#uses-... which just says that the API doesn't allow filtering by uses-permission.
"In Memoriam: Ian Murdock (docker.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813524

Some pretty healthy discussions and consolidated information which I can't find elsewhere.
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Maybe because they support attached storage through USB and could reduce complexity by only sourcing, manufactoring, supporting and making solid one bus/controller? What would they possibly gain by supporting ATA devices?
I live in California. I'm not "super rich" but we earn more than $1MM/year.

For every additional dollar I earn, I only get to keep 47 cents of it, just counting _income_ taxes. In reality, only high earners pay taxes. And high-salaried people are getting screwed under Obama's war against the most productive citizens.
Probably not, unless it's one of a series of similar issues. Hiring and training people is expensive, and everyone screws up sometimes.

Firing people for a single mistake is for fast food restaurants, not for billion dollar tech companies.
It's like classic cars or motorcycles or woodworking exclusively with hand tools: it is not the fastest, most efficient, most comfortable, way from point A to point B, but it is a unique experience of its own that is not easy to replicate, even with emulators.

Why would a 1968 Camaro SS be a sought after thing that anyone could want in a world with Tesla? There's no good reason, it just is.

If you do an eBay search, you'll find they are quite sought after. At this point Amigas sell for almost what they sold for new, if they are in very good condition. There is a revived demo scene (just as the C64 has seen a resurgence in recent years), and even new software is being written.

It's not sensible, it's just fun.

Edit: I own a C64, and would likely buy an Amiga, if I came across one in good shape at a reasonable price. I enjoy the old machines. Tinkering with something so simple is a very different experience than tinkering with a modern computer.
The software agent that consumers interact with would have to be responsible for determining the accuracy of ratings.

I suspect that the most important aspect of such a system would be trusted participants: eg, insurance companies, city licensing agencies, etc. If you get one hundred great, but fake, reviews from shell accounts, it would be rather meaningless if your city didn't issue you a license on the blockchain, or you claimed false insurance which was somehow disputed on the same blockchain by the legitimate insurer.
I thought they had a dozen devs on the iOs client. Amazingly.
Debian and Slackware are the two oldest distros still around, beating out Red Hat by roughly a year. They form the inspiration and, in some key ways, the basis of many modern distros, and Debian especially created apt-get and greatly increased the number of people familiar with dependency-tracking package management.

(I honestly can't find anything saying the Debian people invented dependency-tracking package management. FreeBSD's ports system might predate it. However, Debian brought the idea to more people than FreeBSD was able to.)

Ubuntu still uses Debian packages, like a number of other distros, and Debian has seen other distros rise and fall. Ian Murdock therefore had a direct hand in creating core infrastructure we rely on to this day, whether we know it or not.
It is a very different issue but can be very much in favor of GNU/Linux distribution when they work on a given piece of hardware: they are far more likely to be able to get version N+1 of said distribution than Windows N+1. Now Windows 10 might bring the best of both worlds for the Windows world, but for now it does not work well that much.
I'm long term mentally ill. You don't know what you're talking about.
I wonder what would happen if one of these large internet companies with top engineering talent would fire all their product managers and designers. That's how Google worked back when they had their period of highest innovation.
The top 10% pay over 80% of the federal taxes in the US. This, combined with one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world means they are already paying more than their "fair share".
Driver availability is only a small portion of that list.
Whether or not it's strictly within my job description, I think dealing with things like security vulnerabilities and poor operational practices definitely falls within my ethical duties as someone who claims to be a professional.
In general it just means small crushed gravel. It's usually white or tan. Not sure if it's always a remnant from mining or not. Does a good job on the trail though.
I'm mixed posting on this topic as it has degenerated. RIP Ian, God bless you and your family. I pray that they have peace.

The register reports that he was intoxicated and attempting to break in to a house when the police confronted him and he fought back. He got some medical attention and then something similar happened at a neighboring house on the block and he was detained. I think with someone of this much notoriety, the whole story will come out and I suspect it will be sad. In the mean time, he had kids, his family asked for privacy, I think the conspiracy talk is ghoulish.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_f...
The video suggests the Blu-Ray drive is attached to an AHCI SATA controller. So maybe there was some other legal or technical reason they needed to isolate it from the internal storage.
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I abandoned Neo4j -- and graph databases in general -- years ago because there was no reasonable way to load in several million edges that were not already in a graph database.

Does Neo4j have a better importing story now? I see a blog post from 2014 [1] that makes importing merely a million edges between 500 nodes sound like it's still a terribly difficult operation, giving me the impression that graph databases aren't quite ready for 
big
 medium data yet.

[1] http://jexp.de/blog/2014/06/load-csv-into-neo4j-quickly-and-...

If, for example, I wanted to load an N-Triples file that's approximately the size and shape of DBPedia, can I reasonably do so? What tools should I use to get the job done quickly without descending into a Java nightmare?
You're caught in the middle ground. If you were a billionaire earning hundreds of millions per year you could afford to spend 10 million a year to hire a team of experts to hide all your money in the Caymans.
Love the evenhanded answer, Michelle. And I can't tell you how similar I used to be in that regard. I believed stoutly in a sort of open source management approach and promised myself when I was a youth I would do precisely as you are doing. Over the years I have found it to be suboptimal. Thousands of years' worth of management theory turn out to be a useful precedent. But--and I mean this sincerely--I hope it works for you. Would be a better world, I think, if your way worked best.
For every additional dollar I earn, I only get to keep 47 cents of it, just counting _income_ taxes.

If that were for all taxes, and the marginal rate was still better for lower incomes, I don't think that sounds so bad. Sure, we humans always want to keep more of our hard work for ourselves, but pragmatically speaking I'd be okay if my marginal rate at 7 figures (which I'm nowhere near) was 53% in exchange for the societal stability and upward mobility my taxes could enable.
At least somebody thought it was a good idea: http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/09/military-purchases-2...
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> The PS3 was outclassed by generic PC hardware pretty quickly

I agree here. Running Yellow Dog Linux [0] on my PS3 was a fun weekend project, but it never came close to replacing my dedicated computer. I didn't even notice the update that removed it, which in hindsight could have been pretty bad had I used it more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Dog_Linux
A couple of small nitpicks:

1) lots of market makers hold inventory now. Its a very low margin business these days & folks are looking for any edge. Inventory management & carry risk management is one place people can compete on.

2) while you are right about the FIX naming for updates, how they are implemented is entirely exchange specific. Some are truly atomic, some aren't at all & some are only for lowering we qty of an order. A fairly common task for an HFT programmer is to make an abstraction that does the right thing for updates across exchanges.

Finally, I think a cancel tax is stupid & largely shows a lack of understanding of markets by the people proposing it, but I don't think it will have much of an effect one way or the other on the markets.

I'd say it swings the markets more in favor of the big market makers at the expense of the small ones, but the industry has already largely consolidated so it probably doesn't matter.
> in Washington state, where marijuana's legal.

As long as marijuana is illegal at the Federal level, it isn't legal in any state of the Union.

People can think it's legal. People, even law officers, can act as if it's legal. However, all it takes is one Federal case and all of a sudden the law against it actually matters, and on that day saying it's legal in your state won't amount to diddly squat.

State-level legalization efforts are like straw polls: A way to see which way the hot air is blowing. A way to see what the public as a whole thinks of marijuana laws. They are not, however, as binding as people seem to imagine.
It would seem like fixing that problem directly rather than using a roundabout system of taxing corporations, which comes with its own set of problems, would be the better way to go about things.
It feels like most commenters on this thread have not read past the first page of that list, because the discussion ends at "my hardware works" or "my hardware doesn't work". There's much more on that list and imho everybody who cares about Linux should probably read past the first page.
I'm all for people working to improve their body, and there are many good reasons to weight-lift, but the idea that an average person might rationally choose to weight-lift in order to reduce their day to day struggle with putting strollers in cars and bringing boxes up from the basement is really just absurd. If your objective is to encounter the limits of your strength less often, paying for membership to a gym and going there multiples times a week to exert maximum effort in moving objects so heavy you can only pick them up a few times at once is clearly not the thing to do.
Also fails with a hosts file based block... which means if their ad partners are down for any reason, you can't view their site. Interesting choice.
s/police/violent criminals/gi

Unfortunately there's no possibility of legal justice if you're jumped by the largest gang.
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There is no justification for SWAT teams being used to chase down non violent suspects. It is just part of the over militarization and RAMBO mentality of too many police forces. When the cops kill more Americans than terrorist it screams "you have a problem".

This article from the Atlanta Journal and Constitution shows just how out of control policing has become, http://www.ajc.com/news/news/georgians-shot-police-unarmed-o...
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Its very doubtful that Wayland will happen in 2016.

I'm not sure it does anything to solve real GNU/Linux problems for consumer and/or workstation devices. At least not without breaking everything else far more. The idea to let all applications render all their pixels without any further system integration is just completely insane when you see the future of GUI computing and interactions. Work on higher/sideway layers should be absolute priority, and X should be considered good enough until then (at least when you are not maintaining it, but that is a completely different story).
The article itself mentions the drug tests used in the field coming up as positive for cocaine through just air exposure.

Here is another that confirms the same thing happens upon air exposure to certain methamphetamine and marijuana field tests[0].

Point is that this abysmal false positive rate is that it's too convenient and the incentives are too high when it comes to maintaining an inexpensive shield for officer error / instant probable cause compared to court costs.

[0] https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/02/jolly-ranchers...
Sure there are. They add complexity and weight and failure conditions. There's also a difference between lock and place and lock at an exact position.
> I'm not "super rich"

Annual Income:	1,000,000

Your percentile is:	99.9%
Tech Coast Angels are the real deal, but reality is not on your side. It's like living in Mountain View and asking why you don't have you pick of mobile lighting crews or craft services.
Sure and it's a problem the military has been dealing with for decades. I'm going to assume they understand the calculus and some effective countermeasures.
The challenge of a "flat tax" is defining "income". It's not as easy as you think, and basic intuitive "fairness" will result in a lot of income being excluded. Given that today's graduated tax system results in top-earners paying lower percentages, a "flat" tax will surely be worse.

As for getting rid of the IRS, who will collect, administer, and audit the flat tax?
Perhaps, but its moot. Taxing corporations does not fix this problem (since money spent on yachts is treated as expenses and not taxed as income) and eliminating corporate income tax would not change this.

In fact, eliminating corporate income tax would discourage this, since it makes alternatives (namely taking a profit and reinvesting in the business) cheaper.
Tax "Simplification" will only happen if it's a massive giveaway to the wealthiest individuals and corporations. In any other case, it will be vigorously opposed by the most politically powerful individuals.

A wish for simplification is nice; but in reality, it simply won't happen unless it comes at the expense of people like us (the top end of the working class).
Check out wkup.org and see if there's one near you. I don't know your age, it's aimed mostly at young people, but not too young either (I'm 35) and the groups are diverse and each have their own take (they're not always quite zen Buddhism in a strict sense, though).
To complement other answers, it seems a 3-phase AC induction motor has good torque at w=0. Also, in theory it's power consumption should be 0, but of course there's the non-negligible resistance of the winding and other losses, but the EMF will still be small, so P=VI is small.
Odds that this brand new account is getting a million cash: basically zero.

Anybody who's getting a million cash is probably getting many millions through lower-tax vehicles (e.g. equity), and over the course of a decade has a much much lower effective tax rate.
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If they own more than 80% of wealth then paying over 80% of the taxes is exactly fair.
> In reality, only high earners pay taxes.

What do you mean by this?