skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would assume the smaller images would also result in a smaller memory footprint for running the images and a general reduction in time of starting images. You seem to know a lot of about Docker, is that a wrong assumption?

The scale which I'm discussing is in the order of at least several hundred docker images per second. Previous attempts at making this work involved keep a warm elastic pool of Dockers. I'm working with at least 11 environments, ( which all have separate dependency requirements ).

Instead of trying to manage a very large pool of Dockers, I opted for a smaller pool with several larger servers to scale the microservices vertically ( using tools like chroot to help try to isolate each service per silo ).

My main issue with using Docker for this was the bulk of the containers. Startup time, RAM consumption, and the size of the images were all causing me issues.
De jure you are correct re community management. But in the context of a person who has a history of stirring drama, stopping said person in his tracks is probably the better decision.
Also wanted to say thank you for not doing it. Filezilla and Sourceforge both completely lost me as a user instantly by trying to pull that crap.
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That's a pretty lofty claim. Remember, Fabrice Bellard is french which makes FFmpeg and QEMU[0] french-born software as well ;)

[0] and some other less prominent stuff: http://bellard.org
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I'm curious why the author chose to include separate C files instead of just compiling and linking multiple object files.
I made Trunk as an Evernote alternative. It's open-source and web-based, using Markdown to store notes. It might be too simple for your needs however.

You can try it at http://trytrunk.com/ or get the source at https://github.com/timdavies/trunk
I was thinking of building something like this, a lightweight IR engine. IR is designed to be exceptionally crappy for a direct interpretation, so I was thinking of converting it to an intermediate stack-based machine first (and then do an indirect threading).
> Currently our node servers run behind nginx, which has effectively managed http->https redirect,

I'm considering trying https://caddyserver.com/ for that as it has LE automation built in (though you might find there are similarly easy integration options for nginx too). I like the idea of dealing with SSL via reverse proxy and not needing anything in my application code to care.
Holy shit, people still use Quicktime? Apologies for my OS X / iOS ignorance, but I haven't seen that in years on Windows / Linux.
I think this an industry that needs disruption. I actually have one such headache right now as I write this.

I just can't stand most of the fragrances that come with air-fresheners, detergents, wet wipes, bathing soap, etc. I am thus forced to only use one particular type of bathing soap that is fragrance free. Unfortunately, one side effect of the same soap is that it makes my skin feel very dry. The dryness, therefore, induces occasional flare-ups of eczema. Well, at least, I can stand that and not the constant headaches. At any given time, you will find me having anti-histamines and pain-killers in my pocket, just in case.

Fortunately, I live in a country where we can afford house-helps. We actually have two of such people helping us wiht the daily household chores and we pay both above the minimum wage in our country. The monthly minimum wage, here, surprisingly is less than $100. I therefore do not have to do any sort of laundry and cleaning.

Still, while I cannot quantify the proportion of people of affected by this problem, I still believe there is a need for fragrance free products out there. If I had the resources, I would certainly have started such a business.

On the other hand, I can stand quite a number of many other types of scents. Well, I realize people are different.
VLC has been one of the best bets for a video player and I've used it for years. I've never contributed before though, so I'll gladly do it for their 15th year.
The prevailing attitude on Wall Street is that there is no such thing as predatory behavior. Or rather, that predation is part of the market ecosystem and to be viewed in a value-neutral light. People used to say that any offer to buy or sell provides a service to the market by adding information about price. But now everyone, not just expert traders, has to acknowledge that most modern operations that are mature in their use of math actually seek to add disinformation to the market. I would suggest a yet more sophisticated view is that multiple sources of randomness should be better for the market than fewer. As you can see superficially in the article about Light Pool, attempting to limit the entropy in this pool does not help make the pool more "fair" or "rational". It would be better, as in more sustainable, for dark pools and electronic markets as a whole to refrain from dictating what is an acceptable algorithm.

Many people read Flash Boys and applaud the notion of a rate-limited or otherwise restricted exchange platform that removes the advantage of network proximity for low latency info. I think we will find in another decade that exchanges built on this principle introduce a host of other inefficiencies, both time- and information- based arbitrage strategies that appear unfair to some market participants.
Yeah and another good thing I like about Python, it doesn't force you to do object oriented. A beginner doesn't really need this. Its like if you begin with C, you'll have to deal with pointers early, and that means understanding things like memory, stack and heap allocations, safety, etc... Way too much for a new coder.
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Just to nitpick it is more important to be the corresponding author. While there is often a fight over who gets to be the primary author (i.e. the junior person who did all the work), it is nothing compared to the fights that go on between the PIs as to who will be the corresponding author. Grants and millions of dollars are at stake in these fights.
In Luxembourg you should also have a low capital limited company by now.

Income tax + social security is approx. 1/3, so for each 1k net invoiced (excl VAT) and paid in salary, you'll receive ~667

In addition, interest rate payments on loans are tax-deductible. Locals speak French, German, English and Portuguese (and Luxemburgish of course).

My second choice would be Estonia but maybe only because I don't know Ireland that well.
Co-Founder here, happy to answer any questions.

Some of you might know this from last year when we put the idea out there with a wonderfully unpronounceable name http://www.thecaravanserai.co ...
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I prefer browserify because of its emphasis on node compatibility, first and foremost. I think this narrower scope is a strength because as a result, browserify is super simple to use, works without config, and has a surprisingly small, readable implementation. Seriously, read the browserify source.
Actually, "cloning" doesn't sound easy at all. :)
This is a fantastic idea! After this manual process of recognizing and highlighting the object, you'd have a really great dataset to train machine learning algorithms on!
One big change was VLC switching to use mplayer's libass rather than their own (buggy, quite likely to the extent of allowing remote code execution) ass parser. These days VLC mostly seems alright, though it'll take a while for it to gain my trust.
NL offers R&D tax credit - http://english.rvo.nl/subsidies-programmes/wbso-rd-tax-credi...

Don't know about the other part.
I think a lot of people don't realise there was an internet before the www , i remember using gopher to access the digital city of amsterdam back in my student years ...
Yes - the limit order book mechanism was designed as an automation of open outcry. It was not designed to cope with illusory liquidity from eg quote stuffing or market makers quoting away from top of book then pulling orders when TOB trades.
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> It's vary rare that a graduating mechanical engineer can weld, for example

Funnily enough, the software engineers from my university (U of Auckland) are all taught how to weld, because all engineering students are (were?) sent to the technical college across the road for a short machine-shop course.

I'd say it was useful for the mechanical engineers and related disciplines, maybe civil engineering, but for most of us it was a bit of a non sequitur (though interesting to some.)
Avoiding all this pain sounds like a great idea for a startup.
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What bothers me are the crashes. A crash probably translates into an arbitrary code execution when a malicious file exploits it.

I've seen files that mplayer won't play that VLC will (though I've seen more of the opposite), but when mplayer can't parse a file it tends to simply not play it rather than crashing. So I'm not going to use VLC on files from the untrusted internet.
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Manukau Institute of Technology in New Zealand is commonly called MIT.
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After 1 year and 14 days I finally released my (Nth) product. Here's a review/article/video about it http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/22/snapper-2-screenshot...

It's kind of 'niche' in who can use it, but I've got quite a lot of dedicated users.
OS-specific things are OS-specific. ffmpeg (the primary backend decoder used by VLC and many other OS projects) is a great cross-platform library that can play most things, but you need some kind of platform-specific wrapper (e.g. ffdshow on windows) to hook it into the OS' native services and make it available inside other apps.
Removed repo because I chose.
Google is not an AI company. Google is a "knowledge" company. (Most of AI-like stuff from Google is actually a software that extracts relevant knowledge from a big database.)

Google makes money from that crazy amount of information they have available, albeit we must admit that thus far, they haven't been able to turn a real business from most of it: the real profitable way they use that knowledge is to serve us ads.
Yeah, and sentience is a completely made up human thing by which we differentiate betweem ourselves and other non-human animals.

What people want to see is artificial general intelligence, currently that is not possible.

Does running human software on biological hardware make it sentient, or would the same be true on other forms of hardware?

That hardware is just doing what it's been told to.
You are right. It is a complex issue.
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Questioning Google's motives re the push to HTTPS
If taxes are the main priority, Malta seems like a good choice: http://www.fbsmalta.com/malta-tax-structures/malta-company-t...
If, tomorrow, Slack decided to close and there is no other app to read your conversation history; then you are locked out of this history.

That's just one point.
Yet another reminder that the Internet of Things is a security nightmare
I was going to say uber locksmithing but the uber method for fee calculation would but their fees way higher. :-)
Sorry to go off topic here, but can you give an example of a number that isn't interesting?
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If you're on a blog, for example, what is on page 1? The very first post ever, or the very latest post? The numbers don't help unless you know what the numbers mean.
Basically to avoid polluting symbol namespace without having to have very long function names. Also it gives the compiler a good chance of inlining without having to resort to LTO.

Eventually I might do some "make dist" thing that just concats it all into one amalgamation file similar to projects like Sqlite and Duktape.
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Wow that great!
In my case, before the Internet there was "the programming & shareware magazines". They usually included a CD with lots of freeware, shareware and some open source too (that's how I got DJGPP or POV, for example).

And you needed friends, because it was impossible to buy all the interesting magazines every month, so CD-ROM trading was a thing back then.
Another vote, catches so many errors and if decide to refactor you can pretty much just follow the compiler errors till it compiles.
Germany does have the UG (haftungsbeschränkt) for this very reason.
By far my favorite VLC feature is when it picks subtitles automatically when they are named the same as the original video file. :)
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If I was paging through 10 items at a time, and noticed that there were 10 pages, I'd assume there was only 91-100 items and if I knew there was actual 103 I'd be more likely to think the site was broken than to look at the bottom of the last page of results for them.
Type all the things
Free-to-use science-based food-wine pairing technology
We changed the URL to that from http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/26.
You are welcome !

BTW if you are a Portuguese citizen you can register your company in a easier way, from this page: https://e-estonia.com/component/e-business-register/

Finally if you want to open a company in estonia you will need a physical address, fortunately the government is aware of this hurdle, and in it's website suggest an handful of providers: https://e-residency.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205207022-...

The one with the nicer website is LeapIN, that has very affordable prices...
The technology helps people have a far better dining experience with wine, by guiding them to the best 'paired' wine, whether white or red is preferred.

It drastically simplifies the process of getting to the perfect wine recommendation, in just a few seconds directly at Delipair.com

The solution was built by fusing science and technology, leading to the creation of a proprietary algorithm.

You have to paste in the recipe you're interested in, to get the wine recommendations.

The site is not selling anything - pairings are currently free for consumers.

User feedback appreciated and will be garnered from comments.
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With two kids under 4 I sometimes don't have time to respond to my Mum's email, let alone the OP's :-o.
"I’m not giving them the holiday either. They would have to come on the holiday with me – and that isn’t happening unless we’re both in a saddle together on the horse."
Brace yourself. RT SugarBox is finally here
excited to see recently added support[1] of dns search domains in musl (and therefore Alpine).

[1] http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=3d6e2e477ced37...
I think a major factor in this decision that should not be forgotten is language.

We have a German UG that is a wholly owned subsidiary of a UK Ltd. My co-founder speaks German but without this it would have been extremely complicated to setup and operate the German company.
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Pusher is a multi-tenant distributed system that allows our customers to deliver billions of messages to their connected users. We operate at massive scale, and this informs and affects everything we do. We're profitable and growing sustainably.

Our engineering team is based in London. We are looking for engineers who want to work on interesting problems in a production environment, and take responsibility for the real-world operation of a large and increasingly distributed system.

Our software stack is built around Linux, Ruby, Haskell, Go, Node.JS, Redis, MySQL, Git, Puppet and Ansible.

We are currently hiring:

Platform Engineers to continue improving and scaling our core real-time infrastructure: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/52789

Mobile Product Engineers to work on improving our mobile libraries on both iOS and Android, and demonstrating what Pusher can do for mobile end users: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/114508

A Head of Support to help us provide an (even more) amazing experience to our customers: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/159095
No, and all scientists want everyone to find insights and come closer to truth.

But the reality is that both the career advancement and funding for further experiments is almost entirely based on the number of publications in prestigious journals.

And effort put into collecting data is not by itself publishable: you must add analysis, and very often analysis that successfully confirms a new hypothesis or invalidates previous beliefs to publish. Journals prefer to publish exciting results, and "we ran experiment X, and found no significant effects" is usually rejected.

Fixing this is desperately needed, but so far nobody has come up with a solution that would actually fix this.

A middle ground would be to require data publication after a certain time period. For example, NASA and ESA release original data 6-12 months after collection. Releasing original data together with the paper also works.
Annoyingly though UG doesn't have the same respect as GMBH amongst German corporate, so if you do a lot of business in Germany it often worth capitalising it anyhow.
I've incorporated in the UK but I kind of wonder if I made the right choice. It's a fantastic country, but one thing that bothers me and that I discovered too late - only a few weeks ago - is privacy. This is a real one, pay attention to it.

Basically, private companies are as public as american public companies. It's ok to have disclosures to make to the government, but here you also have to disclose your financials to the general public.

Basically with a simple Google Search anyone can know your turnover, your board minutes, but even - more shockingly - your balance sheet, your MONEY IN THE BANK (are you kidding me ?) and the amount you paid yourself as a director among many other things. I find this shocking for companies that are supposed to be private.

After research I've found this is due to European Regulations so it will likely be the same - or quickly be the same - no matter where you go in Europe.

For this very reason, I'd say that if you value privacy, the best place to incorporate a European Web startup is in the US. I'm gutted because I was more than happy to pay my taxes here, this is just a shame.

Then it will of course depends on your focus and your specifics. For me, I am not after exposive growth and investors money, so controlling my disclosures and my image is key to make serious deals with big clients / partners.

I hope my perspective can be somehow useful for you.
Train control is not super complicated, it has been deployed in various forms in Europe for decades. Rail infrastructure providers offer turn-key solutions based on common standards like ETCS. It is expensive due to a lot of hardware that needs to be deployed, but that's it.

Even countries like China with their CTCS use it on modern rail lines.

One of the problems is that you can't really use GPS for location awareness because it can be down without notice and is not available in tunnels. Maybe that restriction will be lifted one day. But there are proven solutions, the US is just too stingy to buy them.
Read up on the history of the CIA please.
I've recently started a project to write an automation server in Python. It's still early days, so I'd be interested to hear what features you'd like to see?
I'm aiming for easy extend-ability at moment - drop a module into a directory, reference it by name in the configuration file, done.
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To take advantage of R&D though your staff need to be contractors or UK employees, so more difficult if you already have a workforce elsewhere.
What question does this answer?
Same is true in Sweden. Just visit allabolag.se
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Dude, this is what I've been building for a while now. this is awesome! Thanks!
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Just make sure, you check for hidden fees by such company forming operators.
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Take a good lawyer, accountant. I am French and created two companies in UK (Ltd) and one in Germany (GmbH). In theory, UK was better, in practice, because I live in Germany, the GmbH is more convenient. Also, a lot of your optimisations are dependent on your products. Are you selling software (licenses), consulting or goods? Are you doing import from outside of the EU? Sometimes, depending on your product, a country which is normally not "interesting" turns out to be a great place if you setup more than one company and split who is getting the money for what (here I have software licensing and development in mind).

At the end you need the details to be able to find the good answer, because for taxes, it is always a question of details.
Agree that Product Hunt is not intended as a marketing channel, although it can capture some early adopters.
The main benefit for startups is that they can expect feedback on their product, and should set their expectations accordingly.
The human mind isn't software so you're missing the point.
The popular understanding of "AI" should really be rebranded as "Synthetic Thought"
Are all of those really crapware? Maybe you can hand-pick some useful utilities and bundle with default unchecked (checkbox) install option?
I suspect the title was meant a brutalist play itself, but we've mollified it for you.
I assume that it is because QuickTime is using your GPU to decode the h.264 but VLC isn't.

There is support for hardware accelerated h.264 decoding in VLC; you just need to enable it. I think the option is in Input and Codecs tab in the preferences.
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Same in Norway. Just visit brreg.no and for added convenience proff.no
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Many of us felt Flash Boys got it wrong; Levine is careful not to be too critical of his colleague but certainly gives that impression. (The "Shilling for the buy side" article that was posted here shortly after it came out covers much of the criticism).
Unfortunately, being incorporated in Malta just screams "shady business" - at least here in Slovenia where such companies belonging to questionable characters are constantly in the news.
Translation: they want to have freedom to discriminate people. That's just not very nice.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7305224.
In principle you are right, but precision is an issue: the train control system needs to know the position in the centimeter range. Counting wheel revolutions is notoriously unprecise because as the wheels wear down, they rotate faster.

Public transportation is furthermore not an area of "hey I know, I just ask on Stackoverflow for an algorithm that counteracts the wear on the wheels". They do extremely conservative and defensive programming there (I once upon a time read the source code of one of the leading ETCS systems) in extremely restricted and conservative hardware (embedded 8080's in the 2000's) where the production process is audited and nailed down for everything (CF cards costing hundreds of $ for 128MB).

Absolutely nothing is trivial there - the usual answer for an improvement idea would be a resounding "no way!". They are mortally afraid of the law of unintended consequences there.
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> Are concession stands the flagship product of movie theaters?

Actually, yeah. I worked in cinema (as a projectionist) before getting into tech, and the management definitely saw the food counter as more important than the movies being shown.

The place was run like a fast-food restaurant.