skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy shit, thank you. I wrote a tool to mute a game automatically when I backgrounded the window and was extremely annoyed when I found out that I had to work with COM in C++. I knew absolutely 0 COM and had to clobber together example code until I got something that barely worked and crashed randomly. I figured C# had good COM integration and could do it but just couldn't quite figure out how.
Except that smoking rates have dropped to one third of their 1965 levels. If this tax gets those kinds of results, I think the pro alternative energy community would be ecstatic
True, but those aren't included in this analysis.
I have no shame... I would love an invite if you're not exhausted already.

Best of luck with this thing you're building. I haven't been excited about any tech stuff in ages. This is really cool.
Looks pretty useful, thanks.
fsargent loves that if you're logged in, the linked keybase web page says...
I wonder if you could just place a tax on premium gas, the type that fancy cars take - so that it minimises any potential affect on low-income households.
New energy technology will benefit from an increased price of oil. Freeing up private investment dollars is the key. As for the government, considering the deficits I don't imagine such a tax would really free up much budget.

Whether such a law can be passed is an entirely separate question from whether it's a good idea. And it is a good idea.
holy shit. that's a 30% tax at current prices.

We have recently seen 110/barrel so consumers could easily deal with it. But given the elasticity of demand for something like oil, this will negatively affect the oil glut recovery by slowing demand.

Speaking as an Alaskan where our entire economy is driven by oil, our government is running a HUGE multi billion dollar defecit due to revenue shortfalls stemming from oil prices. We would like to see increased demand for oil to burn through the supply glut quickly to get prices back to at least $70 per barrel. Regardless of Obama's plan it's going to take years and years to get back there if ever.

The real issue is our state government can't afford to operate without levying any new taxes on the general population. The cost of living here is already astronomically high, plus we've been in a recession since 2012, and a tax like this is not going to help our situation at all.

give it a few years and alaska may look like a ghost town. The fact that I am a programmer who works on federal stuff, my position is not really in jeopardy but the majority of my friends are engineers who depend on oil and gas. Worst case scenario I can take a remote job and probably get a raise for doing so. Maybe then I'll be able to afford a house up here haha.

Bottom line is the USA now produces as much oil as Saudi Arabia (albeit with more than double the operating costs). We are much larger than they are and far more diversified, so as a nation we are able to withstand this sort of thing but if you examine places like Texas, Alaska, North Dakota, Oklahoma etc this oil price situation is going to financially destroy hundreds of thousands of people and dramatically affect millions of us. Gas prices also are somewhat less elastic when sliding left on the supply demand graph. so even though prices are 1/4 what they were, we're only seeing gas prices at 1/2 the rate they were. This means there is not as much of a benefit to consumers as you would think from these prices.

Worth it? who knows. No matter what alaska is in a world of shit.
Here's what we need to do to get support for a carbon tax: don't make it a tax.

Add $x to each unit of carbon and put it in a fund that the federal government has no access to. Then, at the end of each year, empty the fund completely by sending checks to each citizen.
Do we have to do this again? Seems every year we go through the exact. Same. Thing.
Would love to hear from any HN readers who are into electronic music :-)
When I read about sales taxes and arbitrary taxes on commodities I think just like you have said.

If he wants a tax that doesn't hit consumers he should just raise federal corporate taxes.

In fact, removing subsidies would be a good start.
Whenever a company stops communicating frequently and candidly with its core user base (even if they are free tier users), then you know they are suffering from systemic issues internally and probably are or will be on the decline.
Would love an invite please. Thank you.
Thanks, after finding a ZIP code they actually serve (94117), I saw that they charge a flat $5 processing fee on top, regardless of the cleaners rate or # of hours. I assume they charge that for all follow-up cleaner visits too.
> If you have that level of hardware I don't know why you're running out of memory.

Did you folks fix the "oops, I accidentally selected too much and OOMed the machine" crash that was supposed to be resolved by the new query planner in .10? That was my immediate showstopper for InfluxDB for a very high-volume infrastructure, because I didn't feel like proxying InfluxDB just to enforce chunking, and the mere existence of the bug gave me pause. I hit that in 24 hours and shelved the system in 48.

Even pre-1.0, I'm not encouraged when I have to "work around" pretty obvious oversights in reliability, so I put you back on the back burner to give you time to mature and transitioned back to a Kappa-style architecture for my needs. I might still use InfluxDB for low-volume aggregations out of my stream processing, but it's for sure out of the hot path for the foreseeable future.
So slightly tangental but keybase has been around for a few years now, right? I haven't been able to figure it out but are they only afloat due to investment funds? Do they have any monetization plans? I setup a profile but I'm curious what the company ends up turning into. Perhaps the money made from providing paid upgrades to this filesystem can give them enough profit?
Did you get any decent action out of the API? I spent 2 hours tonight poking at it... Pretty certain I'm doing everything correctly, but I'm getting 403's and no usable errors.
previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11030739
I do understand the part where they terminated and killed of the VMs. I do not, at all, understand why they deleted the backups. How can the CEO sit in his chair and make that decision? If he didn't and he doesn't know, why is he still in that chair?

Even damn Netflix preserves data for 10 months. Deleting backups is making 100% sure that the customer doesn't come back to you. It's amazingly stupid.

Unless you're as smart and as big as Google, use the damn phone. Don't use the word automated at all. It's not automated if one fool made a decision and another one wrote the script.
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blorp blorp! no one carrrrrrrrrres...

*cough!*
I like this idea, but the pedant in me is annoyed that they chose an apple LED Cinema/Thunderbolt Display lookalike for their promo images.

This display is one of the few mainstream monitors one can not just plug an HDMI cable into.

It is easy to go MiniDP/DP/Thunderbolt -> HDMI but not the other way around.

Using anything but a display port source on it requires an expensive adapter.
Same. I deleted my facebook account shortly after being talked into creating it. I learned way too much about my friends and lost respect for many of them. I've never had a twitter account. I have a dumb throw away phone registered to an obviously bogus name. For email, I just dump everything from a domain into a text file and parse out the subjects. Very little makes it into that mail server.
In fairness though that assumption is almost always true regardless.
Is the text ingest engine usable with TCP yet? UDP is a bit weird for this when I may care greatly about whether my server is successfully feeding a stream of lines too influxdb.
Same wrong advices were about cholesterol and saturated fat.
I read it as the US redirecting 40% of imports to TPP countries. Even if China produces the cheapest widgets, someone buying 100 widgets needs to buy 40 of them elsewhere.
Historical evidence isn't enough?
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The google trick no longer works for paywall bypass.

Its not just me: http://digiday.com/publishers/wall-street-journal-paywall-go...
Point me to some of your code and I bet it would benefit from well placed regions.
No, that's reasonable. Thank you for clarifying, especially the distinction regarding GitLab being self-hostable and open-source. Apologies if my comment came off as accusatory, I really did find it funny—as in peculiar—because I have seen people have a bias towards the quality of open-source software even though the closed-source alternative is opaque.
I have tried every iphone since the iphone 3. I always sell it on ebay 3 months later. Usually it's because of the battery issues. My new 6s is the one exception. Everyone is talking about how much the suck even with more revenue and a better product.
The main reason to redirect to one or the other is to have a canonical URL scheme for search engines.
I wish they would be happy to service accounts like mine at $100/month. I prune all the time to stay on my grandfathered plan and not get bumped to $300/month. That said, we are moving most of our private repos which do not require outside collaborators to our self-hosted gitlab. Bonus -- gitlab comes with CI! -- another product I can skip paying XXX/month for. Lest you think we free ride, we've made substantial contributions to gitlab through our paid open source internships.
No, I did not notice that. And that's because glassdoor is such a whiney bitch-fest that being on that site sucks even harder than wading through the dogshit on linked in.

Here's your average glassdoor post:

Weh! Weh weh weh weh weh! Mih mih mih! Boo hoo! Poopy!

Besides, every one knows that a good PR department will just spam the living shit out of a site like that, and bury negative posts. It's glassdoor's entire business model. And that's certainly something any a-list website can afford to do. All it costs is a handlful for copy editors and some thirdworld developer salaries.
IIRC, Docker has used content-addressable storage for layers for a very long time (in the form of filesystem directories whose names looked like md5 hashes). I'm not sure what's changed. Maybe just the hash function?
There is a great build tool for Kotlin called Kobalt. It is quick, simple, and levrages all of the available maven packages.

Other than being MUCH faster to compile than Scala, kotlin is also much easier to read.

Also, Quasar is fantastic.
It worked for me clicking through the 'web' link on HN (which does the Google search) then clicking the top result.
Yeah, and tomorrow your advice will be back to being wrong.
Github has (or at least had, last I checked) one of the best application security teams in America, at least for the kinds of applications Github builds, and is also pretty well engaged with third-party pentesters.

It is unlikely that Gitlab has endured the kind of scrutiny Github's code has.
Can I connect a SQL data source? Btw, I am a happy user of another JetBrains product - DataGrip. Just wish DataGrip was online and shareable with my colleagues and had charting and graphing built-in..
Nothing in git is dangerous except push. This book advocates pushing quite often, making its title pretty accurate.

:)
Vehicle miles driven went down during that time period. Additionally, there was an increase in the sale of more efficient vehicles, so people indeed did buy less gas.
ossreality 5 hours ago [dead]

Apparently no one else has been paying an ounce of attention... And you get downvoted for it. The HN way!
https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/19474
Least of all you're forced to go through their DNS server which doesn't support TCP.
Boy, this is absolutely going to fuck people. Because I bet a bunch of people are going to run Go containers in 1.10 engine. And guess what happens when you send a Go app a DNS response, in UDP format, that is larger than 4096 bytes?
You get a panic and crash! Woohoo! And yes, there are DNS servers that incorrectly throw out UDP DNS responses larger than 4096 bytes.
Can't wait for my containers to fail because of fucking Docker putting a DNS service in Engine. Unacceptable. Docker should've realized they needed to think about this stuff all-the-why shykes was too busy picking fights with people as Kubernetes encroached on what he saw as "his" territory.
There's a reason that everyone is very excited about the rkt announcement today. Particularly amongst some Kubernetes users...
(In the interest of not tainting the waters, I do NOT work for Google)
It only seems bad to those in business of pushing out IPOs. To everyone else, it appears as a market correction.
The Pro line is rarely upgraded, you can get a Razer laptop with better specs, for a similar price, but you'll have to trade out the silver for black and a stupid logo. Otherwise...eh, the Pro line is less than impressive these days. I honestly think the iPad Mini and iPhone are their only superior devices now. Of course all they need is the iPhone, that's basically their only real money maker.
Also, don't live near a major highway or in smoggy city.
It worked for me. I clicked on web then clicked on the top link.

Here's the content of the article: http://pastebin.com/n0gRHa60
"This person who used to be your peer is now your manager."

Welcome to reality, GitHubbers. Not sure how else you expect a 500+ person company to run itself.
Just give me the multi-million dollar logo contract so I may give you the snake-oil design document which justifies my multi-million dollar fee for the snake-oil design document!
When India’s Pied Piper was short of cash, the founders operated from a car
dalke, thank you so much for a such detailed feedback. I really like it. And I kind of agree with a lot of points. I will think how I can cover them in the near future!

> One of my issues with TDD is the 'refactor' step, which is supposed to take place during green. One of the refactor transformations is "Substitute Algorithm." I've always thought that was a huge loophole as the appropriate tests for a new algorithm can be quite different than the tests for the existing algorithm, but TDD says not to worry about that.

I think in this case, I would write new test suite for new algorithm, and then replace both old test suite and old implementation in one step. In case, when tests suite can be shared, it makes sense to re-use it.

> That issue is applicable here, as #3 really is a "Substitute Algorithm" refactor of #2. It could have started with the previous sort test cases, and shown how refactor the algorithm in the TDD framework rather than redo the code from scratch. So far I haven't actually seen any of the TDD example walkthroughs do it, at least with a non-trivial example like sorting, so showing this might also be enlightening or at least novel.

I would like to research if that is possible. If it is, I will make an episode for that.

> A test case goal should be to convince people that the code works. The test cases here aren't enough. For example, there is no test for when values are equal, and I don't recall the spec saying duplicate values were disallowed. This is important because some broken sort implementations might get into a loop for this case.

Thank you for catching this, I wasn't focusing enough on this point.

> If this were implemented in Python then there's a maximum recursion depth. I think the worst case for this quicksort implementation is if the input is sorted. So I would want to try sorting 100,000 sorted to feel more comfortable. This sort of error analysis must be part of TDD, but it doesn't really fit into the red/green test cycle because it's a test you write when you expect the code to pass, not fail.

This can, actually, fit in red/green cycle. By writing a test that creates a worst case scenario of 100,000 sorted elements. And see it fail with stack overflow. And then fix it by randomizing element that is used for partitioning. WDYT?

> Also, from an API perspective, if the input is the empty list then this code returns the original list, otherwise it returns a new list. I would prefer to always get a new list, so I have a better idea of ownership.

Thanks for pointing this too. Next time I would add specific tests for that. In that case, it is reasonable to check it for empty, one-element and N-element array.

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Now that I think about that, I will make an episode #4 or #5 a re-visit of #3 - with all these problems pointed out and fixed ;)
Marathon 0.15 Released: better stability, more metrics, and improved webui
GitHub: identity crisis
Same here. Would love an alpha invite.
The reliance on the stock markets is mostly a phenomena of the English speaking countries. It is supported by aspects of law, some of which go back to English Common Law, and most of which were shaped by the evolution of that law during the 20th century, especially as the law related to debt, fraud, and financial transparency.

Most developed countries take a different approach. In both Germany and France, and also in Japan, it is common for businesses to rely on close relationships with banks to get the financing they need.

Because of all this, I object to the tone of this paragraph, which makes it sound as if there is no way forward for business, except for the stock market:

"Why take it public ? Because the stock market was a source of cash that could help you grow. It was a marketing and validation opportunity that told customers and prospects you had arrived. It was a liquidity opportunity that while not guaranteed, if you could continue to grow the company over the long haul, would value your company at a multiple of earnings and allow me, my investors (many who were close friends) and my employees to increase our net-worth and cash holdings."

There is an alternate way to interpret the changes of law and finance during the last 25 years: that the USA is converging toward a model that has similarities to that used in other developed countries. There is nothing wrong with this trend. There may a lot of positives to this trend. Merely focusing on the end of the old system by no means proves that the new system is bad.
Are you decrying a lack of sympathy for oil companies in a measure that has the ultimate goal of killing them? Or just pointing out that oil companies will be opposed to anything that threatens them, be it natural market pressure or regulators?
That incentivizes making babies for profit.

Also, that is a tax, as much as Social Security is a tax+redistribution program. It is sort of a reverse paygo, though, committing a spending program for all new tax dollars.
You know what was awesome about $4 gasoline? $3.75 heating oil.
There's some confusion here, because the bcrypt algorithm people recommend, is unrelated to this Blowfish encryption tool. The product's page suggests it is a long dead project.

http://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/

That it used ECB seems to have come up on their mailing list in 2003.

http://sourceforge.net/p/bcrypt/mailman/message/108247/
It should if you clear your wsj.com cookies.
If setup properly, marathon-lb works great with Marathon 0.14. I use it with Mesos 0.26 and it works fine, but I'm testing the blue green deployment feature of it
That would be counterproductive. A lot of the more efficient engines require premium too because they use the higher compression to get decent performance out of a smaller package. So it would end up discouraging people to get more environmentally friendly engines.
"Hey, Mom, are we going to visit grandma and grandpa for Christmas this year?" "Sorry, sweetie, gas is too expensive. We can't go this year."

"Honey, are we going to finally take a vacation this year?" "Sorry, sweetheart, I just don't think we can afford it. It would cost too much to make the trip."

"Hey, Mom, can I sign up for the traveling baseball team this summer?" "I'm sorry, dear, we can't afford all that extra driving every week."

"Dad, can I apply for that job on the other side of town?"
"Sorry, son, I can't afford to drive you back and forth to work every day on top of all the other driving I have to do."

"Son, can you drive me to my chemo treatments in Big City this month?" "I'm sorry, Dad, but I can't afford to drive that extra 500 miles a week."

Those are just the kinds of issues that come up as a direct result. The increased cost of everything in the economy means that everything from eating out, to going to the movies, to getting the braces that your 14-year-old needs becomes more difficult for the average American.

The question is, what kind of person wants other people to remain in poverty, and why?
I disappeared because I can't spend all evening responding to every person on the internet that may be having trouble with our software. An offer to SSH into a system that isn't running Influx and trying to troubleshoot some ambiguous problem isn't direct.

We have people that have given us useful troubleshooting information that we've helped (and have helped us improve InfluxDB). Constructive criticism with an offer to help us improve is the best.

While I'd love to trace down every problem for everyone on the internet, my time on this planet is limited.

As for your concerns about if it scales, we'll try to put out more benchmarks and test code over the coming weeks. For reference, we built a tool for stress testing that you can see here:

https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/tree/master/cmd/influ...

You'll have to make your own decisions.
Hi, also would love an invite, thanks! (email in profile)
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It's a "fuck you" to the oil industry, but the oil industry isn't exactly filled with Obama supporters anyway, and besides, he's never seeking election again.

It'd be pretty hard to get it through Congress, but it could potentially work, given that both the tech & financial industries have made some pretty big investments in renewable energy and their power is rising while the oil industry's power is declining.
If you found something else that works for you, that's great. I'm sorry that InfluxDB didn't work for you when you tried it, but we'll continue to improve and build. My feeling is that this release is a significant milestone in our evolution. We'll see how people react over the coming weeks after actually using it.
So tax consumption at the pump progressively. Your first 10 galls are taxed normally, then progressively add more tax every whole gallon above that.

Poor people will buy in 10- gallon instances, less poor people won't bother and will just fill it up.

Or tax on displacement at the DMV. Anything from this year on above 1.3 liters gets taxed progressively more so that gas gas-sippers pay relatively little and gas guzzlers pay lots more at the DMV (registration).

[edit] fixed word usage.
I'd love an invite too!

(email in profile)
Yeah, and have them twiddling their thumbs while there's no product to test?
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A tax on consumers is fine if it's used to guide people away from consumption of that product. We do that for Tobacco, for example.

The less oil the world uses, the better.
If oil is close to perfectly competitive, how does OPEC control prices by adjusting supply?
You might find this unfair, but if you're using an introductory card for your normal purchases, you're being financially stupid.

Myriad higher tier cards offer many rewards that you're actually paying for anyway on marked up costs of items merchants have to charge to pay card processing fees. So I would say, yes, you deserve a low credit rating.