skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people in this thread seem to think this is all about Apple not adding enough revolutionary features or something. But consider this alternate explanation: with years of experience comes a more sophisticated judgement. What used to seem good enough now seems to have obvious flaws, even if it the same as it was before. Lack of control is an example: beginners often don't notice or care much, especially if it feels simpler, but as your needs deepen it becomes more important. Being able to set things up and then not keep touching it is one of those tastes that develop with experience.
The probability of returning to the origin follows a very smooth logarithmic curve for dimensions 3 - 8 [copied values from the mathworld link]

image: http://imgur.com/CL8MXej
I think the best clothing technology for running in the rain has already been invented, and, in fact pre-dates both clothing and technology. :)
It is diluted, indeed. We are poor and many, they are rich an few. It is much easier to maintain coherence between them than between us. They can use mass media and other channels to incite even more conflict and division between the poor to keep them from mounting a meaningful resistance.

I don't think a social change will happen on its own or by revolution, but rather there will be improvements in life quality for the poor as new technology such as the internet and smart phones are made available for the masses at low prices. The standard of living has improved in the last 100 years a lot for everyone, and this trend is going to continue in the future.
My family business website got killed once by a flood.

And many years ago it suffered a truck crash ( the truck crashed on the lamp post right outside the server company building and destroyed the telecom-related wires)
Autodesk to lay off 925 in transition to cloud-based tools
Mongo 3.2 will support joins
If there are invites left, I would like one (email in profile).
You perfectly summarize why I started this project. Although Dribbble & Behance are great for inspiration, sometimes is hard to find specific patterns for your use case.
Was curious about that site, but why do they lock me out until I sign up! Hate that new trend :(
Are they really losing a significant percentage of their customer base due to unreliable software though? I doubt it. I expect that most people who use OS X and care about bugs probably have a negative perception of Windows (whether that's still warranted or not). So that leaves Linux. And as good as desktop Linux has become, it's still not the OS for people who don't want to spend time dealing with strange computer issues. So what's left to switch to?
font-rendering on Windows, in general, is far inferior to font-rendering and aliasing on the Mac

That's because Windows has to deal with so many more differences in hardware. E.g. look at these pixel-level variations in LCD screens. http://www.digitalversus.com/tv-television/screen-technology... I don't understand how it would be possible to support subpixel rendering on some of those. IIRC when I last used Windows (XP?) it let you choose from 8 different schemes. But that still wouldn't nearly be enough!

OS X and IOS can be tweaked to support a much smaller subset of that mess.
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No, Docker defined the open containers spec (runC). appc is something else.
I don't use Windows very much, because I hate using Windows. But what I will give it is that I haven't seen a blue screen in the past decade for any reason short of bad memory, overheating, dead disk. I suspect that a lot of the Windows image problem is that people are free to buy really cheap hardware and fiddle with things they don't understand.
I really wish all the various companies that use 3D modeling and animations software would fund blender (or some other open source 3D app)

Maya and 3dsmax are great and arguably better than blender but it seems like if they pooled their resources they could change that and everyone would be better off for it.
And restricted access to their data + cease-and-desisted anyone who wanted to augment the CL experience. They're still in business because they are shrewd and have the critical mass required to maintain their monopoly, not because they have a killer product.
People seemed to take it as if I was bragging about how many good ideas I have had (parent comment 2 levels up). In reality what I find amazing is that most of my ideas were terrible, solutions looking for a problem, and I'm glad I didn't pursue them.
> Isn't it essential an alternate implementation of the same underlying spec? (appc).

No, appc and open containers are two separate specs. Not to mention that Docker doesn't actually implement the open containers spec (it hooks into libcontainer, which is the body of the implementation of the spec -- runC).
I agree! Exciting, right? :) At risk of showing you something you've already come across:

* https://ipfs.io/

* https://ethereum.org/

* IPFS project lead interviewed at Ethereum conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7VjUKCdfpg
Don't run compass as root.

Don't run anything as root unnecessarily.

(Your problem is likely because you refer to the root namespace as a "host". It is common practice, but leads people to bad conclusions.)
Yes, you are right. Those URLs should be prettier. Thx for your feedback
Needs vary, but here's a brief list of competitors:

* OVH.com — huge, great price point and performance

* Linode.com — also huge, favorite of many developers

* Vultr.com — owned by Choopa (bigger player)

* RamNode.com — doesn't scream "super modern", but reviews are great

There are many others, but those are off the top of my head that correlate with DO.
Ask HN: Looking for a 3rd-party ecosystems as a consultant
Hello HN-ers!

I've been thinking to invest my spare time to build business (side-income ish level) around 3rd-party software/service and am looking for a growing niche SaaS/Software/Platform ecosystem that is small enough for a single person to tackle.

An example would be a Shopify developer (Salesforce ecosystem is too big and Wordpress ecosystem is too crowded).

I'm a software developer with some CSS skill (I can hack it but by no means I'm an expert) thus prefer more software development than theme development (but if that's the way to go, I don't mind :)).

Any recommendation? (Oodo ERP... SugarCRM or something...?)

Thanks!
I just uninstall the apps for 15 days in a month.
This is obviously true - you pass through the same amount of water horizontally on the way to your destination, but there's less time for it to fall on you vertically. However, the main problem with running in the rain if you're not careful is that you will spray yourself with water from your shoes. That may or may not get you wetter, but it could also get your clothes dirty. I aim for a short of shuffle-jog. :P
There are a ton of additives that have been in soaps and shampoo that can cause cancer...

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/cancer-dangerous-chem...

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/285641.php

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/breast-cancer-fears...

http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/su...

And I am sure that over time there will be more things in our environments that we are regularly exposed to that will be identified as cancer causing, although it is hard to predict which ones.
Is it really business sense or just being lucky to IPO in a huge bubble?

Did Broadcast.com really create value for the economy that the employees were rewarded for, or were they just on the lucky end of a huge unsustainable wealth transfer from retail investors to startup founders?
For most of the ones that aren't compatible I've found an alternative or monkey patched a method to support python 3 (I'm looking at supervisor -> circus and flask-session -> monkey patch because the author seems to have abandoned it).
If you're not familiar with GS in this context, I'm not interested in helping you in any way.

Please go get worldly.
SolusVM — software that powers the majority of VPS range (I would love to argue how DO isn't anything cloud) provides providers with backups out-of-the-box. It's a matter of them setting it up, and usually almost always is. If it's not, well, you're probably with someone who hasn't an idea what they're doing.
> 2. JNI debug is a bit of pain probably. But Java/Groovy/etc much easier to debug, compared to, say, Python

Woah! How is Java/Groovy/etc easier to debug than Python?? In Python you just add the following line wherever you want to debug:

import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()
LinkedIn is getting absolutely pummeled because of a lousy outlook–again
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Among my peers people usually come from a lower level language to either Python or Ruby but rarely switch from one to the other. What made you switch from Python to Ruby?

Also your book set me on my way with Ruby and Rails. I recommend it at least once a week. Thanks for everything.
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There is a lot of great mobile inspiration out there. For the moment, my focus is on the web patterns.
Discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10985709
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Unfortunately, this being HN, I really can't tell if you are being serious or not.
'Arbitrage' The simultaneous purchase and sale of an asset in order to profit from a difference in the price[0].

They take information that they purchased from their previous company, and also collect information presumably, and sell it. Their profit is based on the difference in that informations value to a different buyer.

A service worker submits background info, how much they are willing to work for, logistics of what they'll do and other info. This is free for homejoy because that person wants to work and this will let them do that.

They take that information and sell it to a buyer. The buyer pays:

cost = [workers specified rate] + [ informations value]

So homejoys profit is presumably something like the value of that information - opex as they likely have no assets.

I am not saying there is anything wrong or unethical about this, just that there are no barriers to entry, high competition and high ability to substitute this for many things. This is sort of like the yelp model, except that yelp, despite some of the hits to its reputation, has a massive data set that is relatively complete and very difficult to replicate now in magnitude and completeness, it is also more broadly useful. While eating out is, to some extent, a luxury, people do need food. So more people, I would baselessly assert, eat out in some capacity on the monthly basis than have their home professionally cleaned.

[0]http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/arbitrage.asp
It sounds like the rates they offer one business will not necessarily be the same as the rates they offer another business.

This is kind of Visa's whole business model - assessing and pricing credit risk. There isn't too much point in learning the rates they offer somebody else.
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Alternatively, you could limit your population of interest to the largest group of people that can all find a route to each other. In practice, this just boils down to excluding "uncontacted/unknown" peoples.

It's a bit different than choosing a percentile to target, and also a bit less arbitrary, in my opinion.

If they're going to be referencing the six degrees of separation theory, what they should really be doing is making the same assumptions that were used in that theory (whatever those were).
Actually, if you run fast enough, you can get wetter because of water projections by you legs/feet. You can end up with a wet back, wet lower legs, and nearly dry front.

As delazeur said lower, this calls for follow-up research!
It seems they found it was actually less legible than the old ones - especially in the inverted color scheme some signs use.

The previous tests were brand new Clearview signs beating old-and-faded classic signs -- which seems like an unbelievably embarrassing mistake.
Sequencing the genomes of every individual in a species
To add to this reasoning: [ Remove "Ask me everytime" cookies option](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606655).
I used to have a problem logging onto Facebook, Twitter, and other social medias every few minutes. Even while I was at work. It was really bad. Every time I had a spare second that's immediately where I went.

What I learned in one of my courses where we talked about addictions, is that people with addictive personalities tend to replace one addiction with another. Now, saying this doesn't present it as a positive thing, but it can be.

I started by completely taking these socials medias out of my life for a whole entire month, strictly. I didn't get on a single time to any of them once. And I replaced the addictions with something else. At first I thought maybe games would be good, but it was hard to get on my phone without going to these sites. So what I did is I replaced them with reading. I would take 2 minutes to read a couple pages, read on my ten minute breaks, read on my lunches, etc.

You don't have to do that, although I recommend it, but I would try to replace it with something that didn't have access to it, and then you'll have more control over it.
The house I was renting last year had no insulation, no double glazing, no vapor barrier. No fireplace, and a single heatpump.

Borer all through the walls, and a hopeless design (rotated the wrong way so the kitchen got no sun) didn't help either.

Maybe it's survivors bias, those houses that are 125 years old now tend to be looked after and kept up to date.
> It turns out that all that research suggesting the new font might be more legible was more due to the fact that older, worn signs were being replaced with nice, fresh, clean signs which were, naturally, more legible.

It turns out that all those blog posts suggesting the rewrite might be more performant was more due to the fact that older, spaghetti code was being replaced with nice, fresh, clean code which was, naturally, better structured.
Some of the conclusions come from the Nurses' Health Study. The researchers have enough long term data to establish correlations between diet and certain diseases.
http://www.channing.harvard.edu/nhs/
Strangely I feel like I have the benefit of a lot of this already, only using the Cloud.

Contacts, calendar, email, documents all goes with me. As a developer, git is the transport that does the same. Apps can generally be installed in multiple places.

I often find myself working my laptop in the office, then my desktop at home, picking up right from where I left off.
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Perhaps I'm more forgiving, but it seems easy for someone just thinking "It seems more clear to me, but how do I know for sure? Oh! I'll put them up on a road and see if the accident rates change!".

Only when someone points out to me that the signs they are replacing are probably not new would it become "obvious". (In fact, while I read my first article on this, my internal thought was 'so why isn't this better if it tested so well?', then they mentioned the old signs, and my thought was 'oh, right, that makes sense'.

So embarrassing mistake? No doubt. Unbelievably embarrassing mistake? No way, not with the sadly believable mistakes I've made in the past.
Extreme Sport Athletes Who Tragically Died Early
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Every time I hear one of these Bernie supporters talk, I want to remind them of Obama in '08. We thought Obama would be the guy to save the country this. But reality is a lot more complicated than ideals. It's actually a bit like startups in that sense. You can have all the ideals you want but it doesn't matter a whit without execution.
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Derivative of sigmoid function
I have a private chrome extension wich help me to grab the image & URL quickly for a particular pattern (I have plans to publish this extension). I curate the content from various design inspiration sites I visit daily.

I started this project as a solution to capture and organize web patterns that I like.
How to hack yourself a 3D room camera (2015)
when in reality we live on a planet of finite resources

There's an awful lot of matter and energy in our lightcone, there's no fundamental reason we can't keep growing for millions of years.
The main benefit of running is the fact that you reach your destination faster and have more time to dry. Specifically the thighs (if wearing say jeans) certainly benefit from the extra time. As pointed out by other posters the biggest risk at faster speeds is splashing and I'd add the risk of slipping as well.

The experiment also seems to assume that it'll rain a constant amount. That's reasonable but if it can be expected that the rain will increase (maybe it just started), running becomes even better. Conversely if you somehow know it is more likely to decrease, walking becomes better (as you might even hit a window where it doesn't rain at all that you'd simply miss by running).

I certainly enjoyed this sentence though:

"""
‘optimal’ solutions, cases in which the experimenter assumes strange angles with respect to the ground, are not considered, being awkward to obtain in reality.
"""

Personally, I find the question of "waiting it out" way more intriguing. Murphy seems to let the rain continue endlessly whenever I decide to seek shelter temporarily.
But that also goes the other way around. Your F-35 isn't getting you any kind of air superiority if my drones can drop bombs with impunity.
Do you have a Netgear ProSAFE NMS300? Here you are the exploit to hack it
If you're just now evaluating it, you might not realize the history behind the project. It's more backlash than FUD.. infrastructure people don't like to be jerked around by marketing tactics any more than we already are. At various times each of the storage engines was promoted as the bee's knees LevelDB -> BoltDB -> bz1 -> tsm1. That kind of fumbling speaks for itself. It's strange for a high profile investment (including YC). Founded/funded around the same time contrast historically to FoundationDB.
Look up 'q' on pypi. Thank me later. :)
I'd like an invite too, please.

Edit: GOT IT, thanks!
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I would love an invite too (email in profile)
Just checked profile, email was not found. Took a guess though and sent an invite to the email listed at: https://github.com/stepvhen

If that's the wrong email then let me know where to send it.
The original source has slightly more information: https://www.transportation.gov/fastlane/fonts-and-highway-sa...

“After more than a decade of analysis, we learned that retro-reflective sign sheeting materials that direct a vehicle’s headlamp beams back to the observer were the primary determining factor in improved nighttime visibility and legibility.”
this is interesting, and I overlooked it completely but it is fundamentally important. Uber, Lyft and AirBnB are probably the best known sharing economy companies. While you could make the point that each house homejoy cleans is different, and to the worker they go to different locations, but to the user this is a service commodity.

While, like apples or coffee vary in quality, if they are at a certain bar it doesn't matter. To a user a clean house is pretty similar so really the only thing that matters is how I value cleanliness. I can even do it myself in a pinch. So the reputation almost has no value for a commodity product.

You either trust homejoy/homeaglow or you trust someone else, but the result is nearly the same and managing this is not complex because you need almost the same thing everytime. So if you independently find someone to do it, you can just have them do the same thing repeatedly.

Ride and homesharing provide the same service in different places and contexts and they provide the complex coordination of scheduling and market making on the fly. Diverting a moving vehicle to pick up a person in a different location than their last ride and bringing them to a location they have never been before.

Airbnb provides people with different schedules to coordinate buying and selling space in differing locations with a degree of trust and efficiency. You get a different product from airbnb every time.

Homejoy does not provide a distinct service from either the market, or itself.

really good point.

not sure what the service equivalent of a commodity is.
I don't think they launched anything. I think its just shiny new pages. CyberSource has been around since 1994.

It's not useless if you have a merchant account.
im not sure if we are talking the same thing here. I'm talking about systemd inside a container (as pid 1). I think that's the part that's not working.

Every few days someone comes up with a new run script for docker (baseimage "my_init", etc). I personally use supervisord. Since systemd is already universal, might as well use that.

Somebody posted this yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11019143

Im already running my containers on a debian host with systemd - so that is ok. Overlayfs is still causing some problems though.
ho no, 4 downvotes, my life is over... Downvoters understood what it is important for me obviously :D
This is conceptual nonsense. From the article:

> The central banks of Europe and Japan discover that it is impossible to stave off deflation by debasing their currencies when everybody is playing the same game

> A more dovish Fed and a weaker dollar is a bitter-sweet turn for the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank as they try to push down their currencies to stave off deflation. Their task has become even harder.

It's apparently a common mistake, but while it's certainly true that the yen and the dollar can't mutually weaken against each other, it's not at all true that they can't both weaken at the same time. If oil is $31 / barrel and you want it to be $50 / barrel, the price of a barrel of oil in yen is not relevant to that.

Inflation and deflation are not measured in exchange rates.
Oh, nothing on its own in that tiny example. In practice, it's just a component that could be used in a larger application and can be easily tied into the same rendering and state trees.
No they haven't. On the 'Steve Jobs' versions of OS X updates never needed a restart, such versions as Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. The only exception was on major updates where a DVD was required for the update.

They even used to use that it used to do this to bash windows.

The 'Steve Jobs' OS X versions were very refined. Somewhere around Lion everything went downhill. Mountain Lion's flaws were slowly more pronounced.

It also used to be than a new OS X version used to be faster despite it running on the same hardware. Its hard to say if this has changed.
We use git with lfs for our game. It has on occasion been a bit of a pain, however perforce is too...unfortunately there isn't a really great solution atm, just a bunch of more or less flawed ones.
This. I use LinkedIn all the time to identify who in my network is connected to the person I'm trying to reach.
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Well presumably it's not your job to do that sort of thing, but it becomes a bit more embarrassing when it is.
The main model I am aware of is the Pareto distribution, which would have constant inequality.
Yes, I use LinkedIn all the time to figure out who in my network knows someone else, so that I can background check someone before I walk into a meeting or ask for them to send a backchannel recommendation. Not for hiring, but for various other kinds of business deals. I don't use it at all for the social network stuff--I find that a complete waste of time. As a network map + living resume of people I'm meeting with it's fantastic.
There are many ways to set up a revenue neutral carbon tax, but if all the revenue is distributed back to citizens equally, Microsoft pays the tax, but does not get a refund.

Businesses that are large carbon emitters have to raise their prices, and the market cares about CO2 a little bit more.