skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably not for 'power' (does that work?) users, but for people like my mom they're pretty much already gone. They started disappearing for her when iTunes was dumping her music into a directory and she had no idea, to her it was indistinguishable from how Spotify works, so now that everything streams like magic she pays zero attention to files or the idea of files. She thinks in terms of galleries, not image files. If I open some sort of file explorer in front of her, I've just gotten 'techy' on her.

A few years ago when I was doing a help desk job, the sentiment was similar. I asked a user to navigate to a directory on Windows and he stopped me. He said, "Hold it now, I'm not a computer person."

So maybe not 'go away,' but perhaps become increasingly invisible and especially so to average users.
Exactly, let's see if you can land it now.

Though, I understand much of it is composites so it might sound better than it actually works.
Wouldn't put a kink in mine. I'd just carry on as usual. When I write code, I don't release it until it's been cleaned and refactored to my satisfaction. If a micromanaging boss wants to know my progress, the answer is simple. It's not done. He wants to know why, I'll tell him. I'm not happy with X class and I'm cleaning up the methods and reorganizing it. Should only take another hour.

If he starts getting 1984 on me and demanding I cut it short and deploy, then it's time for a closed-door meeting. He might be my boss, but he's not telling me how to do my job.
Silicon Valley's Problem-Solving Bubble
I think it's way too early to see anything, and that's what you're probably missing ( no offense intended ). This shift towards supporting research and long term capital intensive companies is very recent as far as I understand, at most a year, parts of it just in months.

There's finding the companies/research projects, getting them staffed and sustainably funded, and then years if not decades of work before some of these real complex and hard problems are solved.

I'm not saying any of it is going to work but we're just looking at the first steps in this direction. It'll be a few years before anyone is able to really judge whether it's paying off or not. Unfortunately this is beyond most of our ( myself included ) attention spans, so we'll probably feel like nothing is happening. Fortunately it seems like these folks are putting mechanisms in place that will outlast our collective attention and keep the engine running for the long time span these problems will need.

I'm pretty excited about it.
+1 Thanks for commenting, and the offer too!
Author of Vorpal here. You can ask me Qs if you'd like.
I probably should've mentioned that I have been working full-time for around five years, albeit at smaller companies. I do have a side project that I am very passionate about, but I can never seem to find the time or get motivated enough to work on it, unfortunately. I very much appreciate your insight into having side projects, and will definitely put more effort into that.
Seems like most of the valuable content is private. At least I couldn't access any of the lecture pdfs.
Is it 250K per team or globally?
No idea, but I'm sure people had similar thoughts about airplanes when they were experimental. I, for one, am very happy to see bold experiments like this in transportation.
So, they have zero respect for their users' intelligence or preferences.
Product manager for Storage at DO here. I generally avoid comment on these kind of things but given the public statements already out there it is safe to say we are launching storage reasonably soon. If you are truly interested in participating in the beta program, email me at tfrietas@digitalocean.com
I have two friends who work there who enjoy it very much. Good company culture and work/life balance, while still working on interesting products.
where's the part that sucks air out the front and moves it to the back? You know, the whole damn point of the hyperloop.

Right now this is just a fancy maglev.
Because the drone swarm would completely surround the target. Think of them as mobile blitz balloons.
The number of CAS missions carried out is not a measure of the effectiveness of those missions.
Yep, it just didn't occur to me that would allow me to change my location as well.
How'd you get your two customers?

Why is your landing page so disingenuous? There's several things that are lies, given that you only have two customers. "We've gathered heaps of user feedback," "contact the onboarding team," etc.

I think you need a demo.
If I could choose one app I'd love to see on sandstorm, I'd choose https://github.com/cantino/huginn

Or to generalize just a bit, any good app in the category of "automate all the things". With the recent demise of yahoo pipes, I'm not even sure there is a decent hosted service available in this category anymore, unless IFTTT meets your needs.

I think there's likely a lot of overlap between "people who want their own server" and "people who want to set up automations tying together their various devices and services".

I think Sandstorm sits in the sweet spot between "people who are not only professional engineers but also want to spend the time and effort to maintain a personal server" and "people who don't understand technology and/or will just use what their peers use". Power users, basically.

So yeah. Huginn :)
Relatedly, my home insurance company dropped me for being unlucky enough to get burglarized.
So is the F-35. "Possibly susceptible" could apply to just about any modern piece of military equipment.
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>The A10 is still good at CAS that's what it was designed to do.

That's not really true. The A-10 was designed to destroy tanks in Europe. CAS was always a secondary role.

>If you have air superiority you need a good bomb truck a lot more useful than a stealth fighter.

If that's the argument then the right thing to do is retire the A-10 and reactivate some B-1s.

>What were the other 80% of CAS missions carried out by? What % of aircraft deployed were A10s? That 20% figure needs more to back it up.

>Eighty percent of CAS missions in Iraq and Afghanistan have been conducted not by the A-10, but by an array of other aircraft, including AC-130’s, F-15E’s, F-16’s, MQ-1’, B-52’s, and yes, the B-1.

http://blogs.cfr.org/davidson/2014/05/20/if-the-air-force-ha...

The thrust of the article is correct. The reason people don't want to see the A-10 retired is the Air Force doesn't have a lot of credibility when it comes to CAS.

I used to have a link to a chart with percentages, but I can't find it.
From what you write it appears that you are referring to a "big" yet new (aka Startup) company. It is not unusual for promises being made and endlessly deferred.

Look outside of your company to build up a network of allies. There is a variety of opportunities, so you need only make an effort to get out there and socialise.

The fact that your peers are promoted from around you suggests that you might be showing you negativity at work. You might want to consider that the same negativity could be making it harder to cultivate friendships.
Sounds like the book might have been Inside the Soviet Army:

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

http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/index.html
Great info, presented in a nice way. I could not imagine my high school self being the slight bit interested in it. I wish that wasn't the case, because I could've been Mark Zuckerberg had I been interested in CS in high school during the late 1990's/early 2000's.
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Where is my boi reversing and exploiting?
That's more or less true for sensor projects. The transducer is the area of research, with an Arduino or other simple backend to allow them to focus on the transducer. This is not necessarily the way a commercial product would be done, but it's great for researchers who want to focus on their area of academic focus.
You've been paying them for hosting prior to this announcement. You apparently find the cost to be reasonable enough for the value they deliver. What's changed? Customer satisfaction withstanding, they can do whatever they want with their profits.
Does nuclear fusion count as a "hard problem"?

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/14/y-combinator-and-mithril-in...
I see a lot of people assert that, but I don't see any reason to believe it's true. Targeting pods and guided bombs make "low and slow" attacks unnecessarily risky, and the plane is too slow to get on station in emergencies.
The alternative for many choices in life can be worse than death.

A new drug that harms your nervous system or starts an auto-immune disorder could be a real bummer.
The grass is greener... Report back on whether your new service is faster than DB.
For those who want to make simpler Node CLIs, check out meow[1].

[1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/meow
I agree! We plan to port Huginn just as soon as we have the infrastructure in place so that it is able to request permission to talk to the various external servers that it wants to talk to -- which will be pretty soon now. :)
Anyone else suspect Hyperloop is a transport technology destined for use off-planet where it wouldn't be plausible to pave roads everywhere, where there isn't sufficient atmosphere to support flight nor oceans to float boats?

Evacuating the tubes would be far easier on the moon or on Mars.
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DefenseOne has a pretty terrifying bug where the page reloads with a frequency of about 2-3 Hz ...
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Unnecessarily harsh. Some people love coding more. :)
>[you] neglected that you were eating a luxury item the whole time.

Well I did include bread and cheese in the list as well.

I could also have included eggs, and most vegetables.
You have two choices on privacy: encrypt at the client (that means no web sharing from random machines), or be vulnerable to spying.
The Jeep remote hack exploit puts the lie to the idea that old-world automotive companies are serious about software security.
You can't teleport. Scan it locally and provide VR at other locations.
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First you need to prove that it can move before you work out what it can move.
https://youtu.be/ZXsQAXx_ao0
I read the OPs concern as saying: as a non-YC DO customer, he doesn't like the fact he is providing revenue to a company that is giving services away (the same he pays for) to a group of companies that doesn't include his, and may even be a competitor.
Aircraft have triple redundant systems and they still fail from time to time. When the autopilot detects an anomaly it sounds an alarm and disengages thus forcing the pilots to rapidly assimilate the abnormal conditions and take corrective action. In many cases they fail to do so and the plane crashes. A case in point was the Air France disaster over the Atlantic a couple of years ago.

I'm not holding my breath waiting for the big car makers to build self-driving cars that are better than current aircraft. And human car drivers are even less trained than pilots.
works fine for me in incognito without any shibboleth login (but my ip is also @cmu)
I've filed tickets about their status page before, especially on the stupid green-checkmark-with-i.

Hasn't worked yet.
You can use the _ signifier to mark imports as optional during development: use

import _ "net"

Make sure you don't check such lines of code in to your repo, because there is a concrete benefit to having the language enforce this import strictness.

But the person who would check in code with unused _ imports, would probably abuse a hypothetical "allow unused imports" flag in production. Go is probably not for that person.
I had a similar experience when I worked for a startup. Not the kind of place you want to work at anyways... best of luck to ya!
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The test track is too short to get up to full speed so the compressors wouldn't provide any functionality at this scale.
The F-35 is so expensive too few can be built and none will be risked in combat, and if they were lost in combat, they could not be replaced.

I have no idea what the next major conflict might look like, and nobody else does, either. (WW1 and WW2 both showed large swings in fortunes with even minor technological improvements.) But it's hard to see how the F-35 could play a role in it.
"In an approved Accelerator, Incubator or VC fund" so not so awesome for independent folks.
Not to mention the top reason I dropped Dropbox: with Condolezza Rice on the board I feel they are a bit too chummy with the government and the NSA.
Andrew want to ping you about our tech non-profit in Miami. can you email me brian at refreshmiami . com
Yeah but I don't type "I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you"
How I wish the US had more trains!
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I think it is funny to hear the objections of all the armchair scientists and commentators. I'm sure glad we have people like you who can see straight to the problems with the Hyperloop that no one has ever thought of. You're right. Let's just give up on this whole idea :|
Right, but isn't this only referring killing old immune system cells, but the treatment in this article is referring killing old cells throughout the entire body?
Can someone tell me what problem it solves that other architectures don't? All I see is a lot of buzzwords and very little technical details on why it is better...
Right but then what's the point. That you can run a maglev in a tunnel?
They don't think it will stay on the leash, they believe it has no interest in devouring them. Why would it turn against a powerful ally?
I'm prepared to live with (or not) the consequences of any genomic self-hacking I undertake.
Pancake sorting and the burnt pancake problem
It's not uncommon for founders to sell their company. Even Paul Graham (who created Hacker News) has done it:

In 1996, Graham and Robert Morris founded Viaweb, the first application service provider (ASP). Viaweb's software, originally written mostly in Common Lisp, allowed users to make their own Internet stores. In the summer of 1998 Viaweb was sold to Yahoo! for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at $49.6 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_%28computer_progra...
Switching Email Client's is HOT Switch when you Import over to Mailbird
We have gathered heaps of feedback from the two customers, but I take your point. Landing page should be written by someone who knows what they are doing :)

I had two separate unrelated customers ask for almost exactly the same system after not being able to find an existing solution that meet their needs.

Thanks for replying!
The most recent issue that affected me was when all EC2 instances in VPCs couldn't connect to S3. At all.

It wasn't indicated on the status page until after it was fixed. And it was indicated as a green check in a sea of green checks. With a small "i" in the corner to represent the outage.

I love AWS. It's not without fault but overall I think it's been well architected, well documented, and well implemented.

But the status page has got to be the ultimate example of what not to do.
For them to surround the target they have to catch up with it first. Not gonna happen if the drones cannot exceed the speed and altitude of the airplane they want to intercept.
The President can get hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding and on-line contributions to promote their agenda.
You make an excellent point.

Wind and solar can capture more $fiat per MWh if they purchase Tesla stationary storage and can deliver firm dispatchability (that premium for reliable generation you mention).

Natural gas will make a fine stopgap until we have enough battery storage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatchable_generation
As a founder, I've got sales guys cold calling and emailing me all day long. They are usually new, and completely disconnected from the realities that a startup founder faces. They also generally lack the authority to make decisions, so the call always ends up as a waste of time.
Reminds me of the super battleships built prior to WW2. Too expensive to risk in combat, and highly vulnerable to cheap stringbag airplanes.
It's definitely a similar theme. I think the Law isn't quite right, though. Posting the wrong answer might be the easiest way to get the right answer, but I don't think it's the best, even from a purely selfish view. But maybe that's just me being idealistic.
Why not just take a few more specialized classes, such as distributed systems (and obviously a couple more)? What advantage would taking this class have over more traditional routes?
Something along the lines of a hyper loop is the kind of shower thought anyone would have while they're stuck in traffic. "What if we just made super fast tunnels to get us places so I don't have to sit here and deal with this shit right now." Only in this case it was Elon Musk having the thought.
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If you want to send mail as a peer (i.e. without using a smart host / relay) you need to be able to connect outbound on port 25, which some providers block.
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This was literally blasphemy in the UK, so not sure what you're point is?
I see you didn't like my zinger. I have a pistol permit, but I don't see any need to carry a gun. It's just not something I worry about.
Right, and not the Grand Canyon State.

The space of acronyms/abbreviations is quite cluttered.
I think that's fair to point out, but it's an order of magnitude difference (especially in the context of the other comp'd services YC companies get in their first year or two).
Even if the Hyperloop is only ever used to move cargo, replacing cross-continental trains, it would still be a very big win.
If you want to run your own LXC or Docker you might need a custom kernel to enable aufs.
>Believe it or not, the F-35 is built to save costs in the long term.

Any cost savings have been annihilated by hideous budget overruns. The F-35 will be a money-loser without exception.

All this is aside from the fact that saving money on something that doesn't fucking work is pretty asinine.

Can they fire the gun yet without crashing the system?

Can the pilots actually use the VR helmet without getting motion sickness?

Has a smaller helmet been made so that the pilot doesn't get stuck against the inside of the canopy trying to look over his/her shoulder?
Whose datacenter are they in? This is the second time in less than two weeks that they've suffered a power-related issue. My company is in 4 different sites around the world and we've never lost power ever - and, if one circuit did go out, we'd still be up and running because all of our servers have redundant power supplies on separate infeed circuits.
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What was the 'usual manner'?
does the snappy in snappydata inspired/referred from "snappy compression"
Yeah, they gloss over it but at its heart, keeping mission-critical servers in a single datacenter with no redundancy is among the most common and amateur infrastructure failures. Many would expect a company like GitHub to have anticipated and prevented it. GitHub should have a process to ensure that all services are redundant before they get pushed to production.
What creative at did the NFL provide? The broadcast itself can be copyrighted by the broadcasters, as they have creative input on the angle and camera to use plus the commentation. So how did the NFL get ownership? Did they force the broadcasters to give up their rights in return to broadcast it?
HN has a monthly "Who Is Hiring" post [1], made by the automated "whoishiring" hn user account [2] and you can always find the most recent post through the 'submitted' link [3]. Many of the companies listing available jobs also list available/potential internships. Also, some mention visa (H1B or similar) info.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012044

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
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Huh, I wonder if the status page is in fact based on any automated monitoring at all, or just manual updates? I guess probably automated monitoring, just not very good automated monitoring.
I've been doing some into to linux/web development workshops at my hackerspace lately, would you guys every be interested in sponsoring one with some DO credits? (Like the first month free or something?).

Also, I have some bad feedback for you (sorry). We ran a workshop last night, and during the workshop, everybody signed up for an account (about 15 people at once). Presumably because we were all connecting from the same place, people started getting "fraud alert" (or whatever you guys were calling it) problems, and had to do additional steps to verify their accounts.

One guy actually had somebody asking for his passport (wat?), and then for links to his social media profiles. That seems EXTREMELY skeezy. It also ground the workshop more-or-less to a halt.

Is there somebody that I can talk to in advance next time so that the same thing doesn't happen again?
Great response! I can totally understand the feeling.

We do work with a number of other incubators. DO itself is an alumni of TechStars. We have some stuff in the works with 500 Startups. We're definitely interested in working with other incubators as well. If you're involved with one, feel free to reach out to me at asb@digitalocean.com I'll make sure to get you to the right folks at DO.

If you're not in an incubator, check out the link I shared below. There's still a lot our customer success team can do for you.
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Not sure any of that stuff would work to stop an F-35. You want something more like low frequency radar and S-400s.
This was developed more than 30 years ago by the CISRO here in Australia. What they did is made antibodies against fat cells surface proteins. When injected into an animal the animal lost the fat cells all over their body if injected into a vein and just locally if inject into fat tissue.

I don’t know whatever came of the technology, but I always thought it would be very popular if applied to humans.
Great article.

Think the thing about the kids from upper income families is extremely interesting.

Points out that they are more concerned with generating (and earning) capital income as opposed to labor income.

Just about what side of the divide you end up on...
> Private networking is a joke

> 1. Your private IP addresses are accessible by everyone in the same datacenter.

This is also the case at Linode. Besides AWS VPC, are there VPS providers that give your hosts their own private VLAN?
It's very "non-standard" -- that's not what the submission port (587/TCP) -- not "subscription port" -- is for.
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They bought parse at a time when Facebook was struggling to do mobile right. Parse had the talent. That was my initial thought when the acquisition went down.