skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my current job, we're basically using Docker as a sort of package manager and deployment script runner. Our containers are very fat, things are installed with apt. One of them has GCC in it but I'm not sure why. One installs Node and runs a few js scripts during the build process, then never runs it again but keeps it around. It's obviously wrong, but I think it's just a new set of bad ideas that this software has allowed people to have.
How do bathroom doors fit into this?

In your utopia, if you ask me a question, do I have to answer honestly? That people would always want to answer honestly is not a satisfying answer.
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I assume that this is what's going to happen. While I'm a bit nervous about this whole "10,000 char" thing, it would totally destroy their current user experience and make Twitter unreadable if they actually implemented it in your feed.

Still, I don't quite know if I like that idea. I guess we'll see.
Well, to be fair, Netflix STILL switches subtitle language when I cross the border making me stuck with german subtitles on everything even though I'd prefer english :/
Bonus: "VR legs" have been shown to carry over into meatspace. As in, there are VR users reporting "I can read in the car for the first time!" But, it takes a lot of slow, careful build-up to do well.

Conversely, if someone has bad experiences and tries to power-through them anyway repeatedly, it can build up an aversion similar to a "bad tequila night" and ruin VR for that person permanently.

Thanks for making Doom! :)
Sadly this leads to tragedy of the commons type of situation, best example being TVs version of what people want (ghost hunting shows on discovery "science", etc).
At least they now let you view movies by basic category in the embedded clients, as opposed to whichever dynamic lists they decided to promote that day. Baby steps, I guess.

I'm with you that I'd like to sort/filter by rating, though I also recognize that tends to cause a snowball effect where you're either popular early or never watched at all.
wow, reading your comment, one would believe we were in the decade prior the iPhone years, where the carriers were trying to take control of all content, giving priority and exclusive access to their own content and services. Another decade later, the same temptation has survived. If history repeats itself: it will fail. Let's wish ourselves good luck!
Most of the industrial revolution has been about replacing mindless physical labor with machines. The unemployed humans (or their children, typically) were given new jobs as "knowledge workers." In other words, jobs which required thought as the principal skill. Now thinking is being done by machines. So where will the new jobs come from?
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Maybe this will give all the not-Harrison Fords a better chance. A lot of the A list is about hiring tried and true great actors... but you can get 80% of Harrison Ford for much less than 80% of his current asking price.

Much like making music, filming technology is already commoditized at the entry level... it's distribution costs that remain high (hard to reach a large audience without massive ad $$, known actors, and an established publisher). Netflix would seriously disrupt that, boosting "indie" film making in the same way that Spotify / youtube / myspace / etc seriously boosted non-mainstream music. We still have A-list musicians but the long tail is seeing far more success than before.
The prosecution of the many outweighs the justice for the few?
After hearing the news clicked on the notification centre and saw this: http://cl.ly/2O26070b3z0S -- NFLX +9,31%

It got me thinking how does this work? Surely people working at Netflix knew that this was coming. Are they allowed to buy stocks with such insider knowledge? Are they buying?

Even someone like me with zero knowledge in stock markets would assume this will have a positive impact on the stock price.
> To generalize and say that tasers are dangerous does not take into account the entire picture of events or situation at hand. It's not the taser itself that is dangerous it is the situation the individual has placed themselves in that causes the danger.

That's misleading. If a taser is dangerous in the "vast majority of cases" in which it is used, then its use is dangerous. Doesn't matter if it's safe in situations where it isn't used.
It's surely anecdotal, however I have a hard time believing most of Europe, in particular the UK, has more mentally ill and/or drug addicts who are more prone to this kind of behavior than the general populace. You also have a variety of high profile examples of cop-killing in the US that play into this kneejerk reactionary arms race on the part of police.
The "n USB ports" is truly weird, considering that separate ports more often than not share controllers, so the bandwidth would be shared anyways (correct me if i'm wrong).

Maybe the number of ports is for power, obviating the need to bundle a region-specific mains adapter? In that case, a powered USB hub would be fine, a passive one wouldn't.
Anti-refugee mood is on the surge in Norway. The government just appointed the previous agriculture minister from the far-right party as immigration minister and she recently proposes a slew of tough immigration rules, promised to be the strictest in Europe, for the newcomers.[1]

There are many Norwegians who hate these two guys in Norway :) Take a look at the comment section.[2]

1. http://www.nrk.no/norge/_-vi-kommer-til-a-fa-en-asylpolitikk...

2. http://www.nettavisen.no/na24/tjener-to-millioner-i-maneden-...
canistream.it is you? Or you mean you reimplemented it?

I do use that site quite a bit. It's very useful.
Read the Directive. It only prohibits Netflix from not providing service based on the nationality or place of residence of the recipient, if the service is available to the public at large in that country. It does not force you to provide a service to the whole EU.

Essentially, if you live in a country and you then travel to another EU country where Netflix is available, they can't deny you service just because you don't live there.
I want netflix partner with local translators who already have a lot of tv series translated in a local language, I live in US but sometimes I like watching tv series/movies in russian translation, I really want netflix to have their content available in more languages.
> I was surprised to discover that Oculus have dropped support for Linux and OSX, at least for the time being.

The graphic driver situation is abysmal for both. With Linux, you might as well not even bother with modern AMD cards. They've done a terrible job the last few years, often eschewing such things as a change log that shows what this random update you're downloading does.

NVIDIA is much better on Linux overall, but even they have got a lot of limitations and quirks. Performance is much better than AMD, as long as you don't use the open source drivers.

On Mac, the drivers are crazy out of date and seem to be very tied to specific Mac OS releases. I don't know whether to be irate with Apple or NVIDIA/AMD. Linux benchmarks better on many games than Mac OS. Phoronix runs these periodically if you wanted to see some numbers.
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I think the most frustrating part was that I explained we had tried Scrum and adapted it for our team's needs. We weren't anti-Scrum, we just found a way to make it work for us. I was then told "[Company] is a Scrum company. We all use Scrum as it is" and was brushed off. Same Scrum leader would yell at the operations team for failing to complete sprints in time when servers fell over, and other nastiness that becomes the priority when you work in a position where you prioritize server health and function over new builds and features.

The other Scrum leader we had was pretty great, but, unfortunately, was not the one assigned to my team.

Sorry if this borders on ranting. I really enjoyed working for that company, but it was a rough time toward the end of duration there. Apparently I have lingering frustrations, especially since I'm still friendly with many on the ops team. :)
Not knowing that what you are doing is illegal is not a defense for you, true. But when a cop arrests you for doing something they believe is illegal but in fact is legal, you are not allowed to resists arrest. You must allow yourself to get arrested (and searched) and then explain later, at the precinct. You'll lose a few hours, people will be worried about you, you might lose your job, and the police don't owe you anything, because cops do not have to know the law. Only prosecutors are supposed to know the law, and then only if a judge is willing to shame the prosecutor (not a given).
What about message content? Is that passed directly through or stored on your servers as well?
> If I've authed with you, it does not mean I want you to message me through Facebook.

That's the reason I never ever do any auth with FB. Platform can be turned off.
On a related note, if only for context & scale, Netflix fits in about 100TB - small enough they actually give away entire copies, server included, to ISPs. http://gizmodo.com/this-box-can-hold-an-entire-netflix-15925...
I honestly don't remember a time when that was true, and I'm pretty sure I joined the service sometime near rollout.

They've had a handful of times where bigger-name movies burst in based on some deal or the other (Starz being the original big one, but there've been others since) but by and large Netflix has always been indie + back catalog as far as I've experienced it in the US.
Whiteness is the common thread
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People always overestimate technological progress at the short time, and underestimate it at the long time. (Somebody else said that, don't remember who.)

On what time-frame are you make those claims?
Looking at the registration page[1], shows two computers with two configurations each:

RAM 24GB 32GB 500GB
Endless Mini 1G $79 $99*
Endless 2G $189* $229*
* Wi-Fi, Bluetooth

If this actually ships, I might buy one. This fits in with my desire to see a computer replace the long forgotten 8-bit price range[2]. Much like Apple PR's foolish Newton claims of handwriting recognition, I don't care for their "internet optional" advertising. A good reminder of just how much text in books and pictures you can put in gigabytes would be fine since I think people forget or never knew.

I would probably order quite a few for the local library.

1) https://endlessm.com/registration/

2) Sinclair for under $100 specifically
Finally, I get to try Netflix, I thought. I signed up for the HD plan, I went to my playback settings, changed quality to high and decided to watch Pacific Rim.

http://i.imgur.com/LKEcMDo.png

Let's just say, it doesn't look like Netflix will be successful to convert me to streaming.
There seems to be a cohort of people who believe that policemen's lives are essentially forfeit, and thus any level of mortal risk to them is reasonable.
> We need energy storage in the terawatts... we are close to half a megawatt.

Does she mean megawatt-hours? Or the rate at which energy can be transferred into their tanks? Power = energy / time, and watts are a unit of power, not energy.
> I feel like logrotate, cron, etc, are worth having inside container no?

It depends. If you are treating the container as a mini virtual system, then sure.

There is no need for logrotate if you are writing logs to stdout and letting the container system handle shipping then somewhere.

There's no need for cron in the container if you have a separate system for running scheduled tasks - somehing like Chronos.
This is pretty interesting.

It's possible that people might confuse this bit...

> The performance of SCMs means that systems must no longer "hide" them via caching and data reduction in order to achieve high throughput.

...in the original article with your mention of caching; by "cache coherency," I assume you're referring that your addon (card?) can introspect into the CPU cache? That's pretty awesome if that's what's happening.

Some hopefully relevant questions from someone totally unfamiliar with this particular area:

- The original article mentioned "RAM emulation" (to put it crudely) as "unstable." Do you have any comment on this?

- Do you happen to have any performance figures you can release?

- From the blog article and video I get the idea that this is POWER-specific. :) Are you aware of any alternative offerings for x86 that offer similar performance?

- What does this thing (I have no idea if it's a card, a module...) look like? Being able to see "the thing" is generally really cool :)

My last question about POWER8 in general is arguably both on- and off-topic and might be a question for a different team, but do you know...

a) if/when POWER8 will manage to escape from the datacenter and become accessible to developers in the hobbyist/student sector? My understanding is that the architecture as it stands at the moment requires lots of different components that unavoidably require a lot of space; are you aware of any scaling-down efforts to produce (even (E)ATX-sized) POWER8 SBCs people can play with?

b) if/when full-scale POWER8 systems will be available in the style of Heroku/OpenShift, both of which have free tiers that allow for entry-level poking? I understand that RunAbove provided something along these lines with (1-?) POWER system(s), but that dried up some time ago, and I'm not aware of any replacements.

All in all, this Flash system looks pretty cool, and I can definitely say I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall for a day in your office, what with getting to play with 40TB of Flash (SSDs...?) - wow. :D
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This is somewhat dangerous way of looking at things and will lead you to believe kittens are more important than math.
Neptune’s Navy (2007)
Obviously you have completely missed the point.

> Here's a gedankenexperiment for you: I instantaneously and permanently disable every car and car manufactory, thereby reducing all traffic fatalities to zero. Did I make driving safer?

You certainly would have done an effective job of executing a 'war on car fatalities' which is what the harryh was claiming was demonstrated by the chart he posted.

While I agree that driving is safer than it used to be, the chart harryh posted doesn't actually show that. it just shows that driving is safer per mile.

Analogous to the point that cbr made: Without changing any of the risks of driving, I could make driving safer per mile by hiring a million drivers to drive 10MPH on a closed track year round.

While the above point is rather tongue-in-cheek, I do suspect that a significant part of the drop indicated in harryh's chart is due to changing driving patterns, particularly the increase in freeway driving.

I don't think eliminating all driving would be a good way to reduce traffic deaths (because it all of the other consequences that would have). However, if we had spent more effort in trying to reduce unnecessary and high-risk driving we would see a larger reduction in traffic deaths. This includes solutions like walkable cities, adequate public transit, and higher penalties for drivers engaged in risky behavior that cause fatalities. Focusing purely on deaths per mile excludes those types of interventions. Thus you can't use that measure to claim a 'war on car fatalities'.
My sense is this is only true today because OS kernels are ridiculously slow relative to what the hardware can achieve.

Most of my recent designs treat RAM as if it were (what we used to considered to be) disks, i.e. all computation and in-process data is in cache exclusively, and "going to RAM" requires the use of a B-tree-like structure to amortize the cost.

For example, once you've opened a RAM page line on a normal four-channel Xeon server, you can read the entire 4KB page in about the same time it takes to read one byte, switch pages, and then read another byte. (Of course, you can't do that either since the entire cache line will be filled, but the overall point still stands.)

The situation we're in today with RAM is pretty much the identical situation with the disks of yore. Anyway…interesting article nonetheless.
If you think that's not much, think of the difference in taxes between the US and northern Europe.
Heh, I almost never test in IE, so I expect the reverse. Let me know what errors you're seeing via the game's feedback form.
The purpose of Amazon Prime Video is to get you to sign up for Prime and then order stuff on Amazon. It only makes sense for them to be where Amazon actually delivers stuff quickly via Prime.

The purpose of Netflix is to provide entertainment. It makes sense for them to be everywhere.

I doubt we'll see Amazon PV around the world anytime soon -- it doesn't make sense for them to spend on the global licensing costs since it won't boost Prime subscriptions.
Perhaps it depends with what services you use it?
Personally I've only ever used it with Apple's iCloud's mail service which worked great but didn't support custom domains. I also used it as a POP client for Gmail (mostly because Google's IMAP support initially was horrible and their tags didn't play well with IMAP folders back then).
I can say though that FastMail's IMAP service works flawlessly for me, and so does the mail.app client for it.

Yes, Airmail is still supported, but IMHO its UI suffers from severe feature creep. I also found it never reliably notified me that account passwords needed to be changed. I used it against MS Outlook, and whenever the password on the backend needed to be changed after 60 days, Airmail would simply sit there and not receive any new emails.
Oh come on, this is a guy who poorly disguises a press release about a restructuring of his finances as a letter to his daughter.

It's much more likely that Zuckerberg realizes his company is overvalued, and that he needs to acquire a massive amount of users to make up for that gap.

Subsidizing a walled-garden version of the Internet where users can only use Facebook in developing countries makes strategic sense for the company.

Facebook doesn't care about "free internet", they care about building their business, and this "free basics" program makes that patently obvious. I don't blame them or necessarily think it's a bad thing , but the propaganda associated with it is ridiculous.
Look at the bad karma rain down from people who don't like hearing the truth.
This decade brings something new, communication is mostly done through devices, this wasn't possible before and this type of communication has a very narrow channel and a lot of information like body gestures, eye contact etc are lost.
Or, more directly, poker.
Nice list, but I'd prefer if all the text were not links. It makes accidental clicks frequent and is just bad practice in general.
More background on it: http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections...

A visualization tool: http://publicdomain.nypl.org/pd-visualization/
Yeah, a few tens of seconds is all I'm talking about too. We may differ mostly in terminology.

Typically when someone says "we're a little stuck on how to do X" someone else chimes in with how to do it. No big (or small) list of questions to discuss.

If the meeting is done right, the team is not bored, and what's discussed is interesting to the whole team, since we collectively own the code base.

I've definitely met those loner programmers. I might even have been a little like that a long time ago. They can do great work, but need to be kept out of my agile teams.

The way to get people to talk about the work is to pair program. I'm not interested in working solo programming.
No, the reason the writer won't be buying a Rift is exactly that. A PS4 was purchased to avoid paying more for a PC and that couch playing was desired. That is the answer to the statement in the headline.

But what you said was also stated, but that's about people other than the writer.
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I like Eben Moglen's and Mishi Choudhary's take on this situation:

Faced with the dawning public recognition that this
so-called philanthropy is nothing but an attempt to buy
the de-anonymised packets of the Indian poor at a bulk
rate, breaking their security in the process of
destroying their privacy, Facebook has no alternative
but to change the subject.

http://indianexpress.com/article/blogs/mark-zuckerberg-nobly...
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This is a list of startups. Orbitz is far from a startup.
Had my first kid last year, at 45. My wife is 35. I love that little guy more than anything else I've ever loved. Every day I look forward to coming home and seeing his big smile.

Yes, if your wife/girlfriend is around 35, the window is starting to close, but more and more women are having kids well into their 30's and early 40's.
The big breakthrough with the Rift CV1 / HTC Vive is a system to track headsets and peripherals in 3D space, allowing for
probably <20Tb once you standardize on fullhd h.265 and drop the rest. Afaik netflix keeps copies in wide range of resolutions and codecs for bw/platform scaling.
Correct, Agile is a development process. As for needing tools, at least scrum doesn't need anything more than pen and paper to generate its artifacts: 2 lists (backlogs) and a chart (burndown).
For some sources on Harrison Ford

Variety claims 10 - 20 million
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/harrison-ford-star-wars-pa...

Sydney Morning Herald had an article says that it would be $34 million if it breaks $1 billion gross earnings (which is likely).
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/star-wars-the-for...
DFS sites do have novice games and ones with limited entries per account, however. You can choose to enter these.
Not according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical#How_bi...
If I had to guess she's talking in terms of each individual tank/unit set-up. So, one tank has a capacity or power rating of 500kW (capacity in the sense of the way a utility refers to size/ability of generating units). This link[1] possibly covers some of the confusing terminology here, and why it is that way.

EDIT: Scrolling to the bottom of their homepage[2] explains it, their system components are independent of each other.

[1] https://gigaom.com/2012/01/04/how-to-compare-energy-storage-...

[2] http://www.lightsail.com/
Humanity have a long and distinct history of fighting against gravity.
Sounds like multiple caches are an obvious solution. No code in the OS needs access to the user code or data cache, and vice versa.

Smart cache management might be one of Intel's goals for the Altera buyout.
Dell's 4K OLED monitor outshines its new PCs
I tend to agree with you. I do think that the common sense "don't be a dick" shouldn't need to be explicitly expressed as a rule we all follow. But it should also be common sense not to put your hands near a spinning metal blade, but we have those warnings on lawnmowers. I think where a CoC provides it value is defining the procedures for when the CoC is violated, which it no doubt will be.
Meanwhile, Brazilian Government is discussing how to tax Netflix (more than it already does indirectly).
I can't speak for op but I agree with them and can explain why I feel that way.

I believe most humans are inherently not evil even if they don't agree with me. They want to make the world a better place, and they are simply pursuing an agenda that accomplishes that in their eyes.

I don't have any evidence that most people aren't evil, but in my day to day interactions I have yet to meet someone who I believe is sincerely evil. I'm sure they're out there, I just have faith that there's a lot more of the rest of us.

Should you fault someone for being the change they want to see in the world? (For the record I'm opposed to Free Basics)
How would you classify Groupon, then? They went public 4 years ago.
I don't know, I think a "whilst loop" would be kind of charming.