skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. The number of customers moving to production on Docker is quickly growing.

Feel free to check the detailed customer use cases here:
http://dchq.co/customers.html

Here's a great article on how ProLeads moved from Heroku to Docker leveraging DCHQ for application management:
http://stackshare.io/proleads/how-we-moved-from-heroku-to-co...
+1, though I can't remember the last time.
I have come to understand this brutal sentencing structure, or at least some of the reasoning. It appears to be the "other side" of the question "how many guilty men should go free for how many innocent men"? The strength of the punishment is proportional to how hard it is to convict with certainty. The aggressive sentencing is greatly exaggerated to form a disincentive for all the men we cannot convict.

Justice strikes me of an area where humans tend to reason intuitively. It's also an area that is extremely difficult to measure in any quantitative way. I would be highly interested in understanding what drives existing criminals--my own intuition tells me these sentences are not very preventative, but allow for the illusion of making progress against crime, particularly violent crime. (These people are monsters! Thank god they're gone for life, or the dangerous part of their life.)
Well, I won't be using "Nomi" or recommending them to my friends anytime soon, so good luck to them and their business model.
Why would you think they are nuts? Hormone disrupters in certain plastics and can liners are a real problem, backed by science.
(Not a physicist) So what's the result of applying Feynman's axioms to the analysis of whatever gedanken experiment that lead Einstein to special relativity? Does it further enlighten whatever paradox existed that required a resolution via special relativity?
Obama wants to retire outdated government systems
Read Vitrivius's De Architectura, specifically the part on building aqueducts. It's basically a manual for "So the Emperor told you to build a city from scratch…"

As a random aside, he also includes a proof that the water level mechanism he prefers works even though the Earth is a (roughly) spherical object and not a flat plane.
Better stock up on Bismuth.
Re. Czech Republic -- nothing has changed, in the sense that drinking tap water was perfectly safe ten years ago, as it is now.

I suppose that demonstrates the dangers of your "ask some local" approach :)

Though the safety of tap water in CZ is well known, and has been well known for decades, and any local would tell you as much. So I'm not sure where that came from. Perhaps some temporary local incident?

Even Google may be a safer source of information on tap water quality.
This was a fun and well-written book.
GHOSTS CAUGHT ON TAPE 2016 Compilation HD
I'd venture a guess that many more politicians in Congress and elsewhere are aware of how stupid drug prohibition is than will publicly admit it. Remember, a lot of them are genuine intellectuals, with some of the sharpest young policy experts in the country working for them. Politics is the art of the possible, and ending drug prohibition is a political nonstarter right now.

Unfortunately, the weed legalization movement has been succeeding with the "weed isn't that bad for you" message, which is a half-truth that will undermine further liberalization, and has failed to shift the debate regarding the War on Drugs overall.

The good arguments for ending the drug war, which the general public is not aware of, are: 1) Prohibition empowers violent criminal organizations domestically and internationally, 2) People should be free to put whatever they want in their own body and earn the consequences, and 3) Prohibition of popular drugs puts otherwise law-abiding people in contact with the criminal underworld.

Try this at home. Tell your friends "I think all drugs should be legal". My experience is that you're going to get strong disagreement from the vast majority of people, even the more liberally-minded ones. Decades of propaganda have been effective.
Most people supported the invasion of Iraq [0] but I wouldn't say it was the voters that led the US to war.

[0]: http://www.gallup.com/poll/8038/seventytwo-percent-americans...
Whoa, that was a surprisingly interesting thread. (Not so much the console part, but the other questions he answered.)
OP might not have enough karma to answer their own question.
From another poster

"Nassim Taleb taught me that the absence of known danger is not the same as safety."
That would work IMO, yes.

An interrupted session isn't a big deal if it's an infrequent occurrence and they can just login again.

I think an improved solution in this vein would be a tool that would let you sanity check the config before reloading.
Link to the paper: http://web.mit.edu/svnh/www/homepage/Publications_files/Norm...
I'm interested as well! Please add my email as well. Thanks!
Plants can be cloned easily, but the leaf and stem patterns don't match exactly. Those are generated by a statistical process and can be simulated with an L-system.

The human genome is only about 3.2GB. All the fine detail can't be in there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
this is awesome. this is why i read the comments before the content. (and I mean this whole thread) thanks
You could have your client look up the sender at gravatar?
> I think the point being made here is that "what your application needs" is often something you chose your way into, and can choose your way back out of

I think that while this may be true for many requirements, consistency is among the least flexible ones. Besides, losing consistency usually makes your system more complicated, not less. Weak consistency has some real benefits (latency in some cases, tolerance for more failure modes), but simplicity is not usually one of them.

> In other words: if you set out to create Bitcoin in 1998, you might end up running into distributed consensus problems that are difficult enough that you decide to "solve an easier problem"—such that you end up creating Paypal instead.

I don't think that the design problems behind Bitcoin are any easier than distributed consensus, which, BTW, is not necessary for quite a few consistency levels.
Are github issues indexed as well as blog entries by search engine?
Yeah, you're just absolutely completely wrong. Sanders, Trump, Gary Johnson and more.
I'm sure he meant total alkalinity, which is a measure of buffering ability (ability to resist changes to pH).

http://www.vanislewater.com/what-total-alkalinity-swimming-p...
I do this with my blog. Every time I discover something unexpected or google something and don't get a good answer I like to write a blog post with that search term as the title and the solution to the problem.

Helps both commit the information to memory and help others in the future. Who said blogging had to be long form posts anyway?
I'm sorry if I "seem upset", I don't work there or anything.

My main point is just that the article content "those employees who were in our office are now in company-paid co-working space" is pretty different from the headline "we're ditching the office completely".
Five years ago.
If there are an infinite number of stars in an infinitely large universe that is infinitely old, how is the nuclear fuel finite?

Help me here.
A close friend was an entrepreneur and evangelist in this space. I looked into it around 2008 and could not justify a significant level of concern relative to other risks. (Although "nuts" may be too strong...should say, "excessively worried".)

If you know otherwise, please post a link.
I wouldn't trust that link. The end of the article contains a pitch for a dietary supplement, which is a giant red flag to me. The fact that the sidebar lists conspiracy theories such as "Obama is a sleeper agent" and "San Bernadino was a false-flag" is basically guilt by association.
That is a very good point.

However, programming, while a valuable skill in and of itself, sacrificing more fundamental academics in order to make room for it isn't the way to go.
YouTube Video and Audio Downloader https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-video...
I just was recently offered a day a week work from home just for the same reasons you mentioned. I may capitalize on that soon. I think it was a smart suggestion and believe it saves both me and the employer in a number of ways. Less liability insurance? Not sure, but if I happen to be less at risk and I get my work done, then it's a win-win in my book.
Actually just a low tech method. Asked my wife who is on Board of Homeowners Association (HOA) to find out if HOA has done any testing in the past or would consider sending incoming city water supply samples for testing annually.
Driver ID J039532 'Joe', a set of learning algorithms, has been licensed to drive multiple vehicles at once from both in vehicle computers and 'his' data-center based 'home'.

Out of the 1000s of instances of Joe running around, in the wild, a handful have gotten into situations where he has had points penalized against his license following existing state law. Joe exceeds his points limit and his license is suspended after 2 days.

... This could be interesting.
He should have refused to apply the sentence.

So the sentence potentially gets overturned on appeal, great. The appellate judges should refuse to apply the sentence.

So they get overturned on appeal to the Supreme Court, great. The Supreme Court should refuse to apply the sentence. Or, I guess they can spend their time overturning thousands of decisions per year.

Burn it down.

https://popehat.com/2013/12/23/burn-the-fucking-system-to-th...
The main reason I prefer a lighter bike is for when I need to carry it up some stairs or something like that. For most everyday riding I don't think weight matters much.
Not a big fan of "we need more of X demographic in Y field" stuff but if I were giving a talk of this nature I would try to cover these points:

1) What the field involves - in this case I would say problem solving. Give some examples of the problems one solves when programming.

2) Cool things about the field - I would try to show a few examples of the wide range of things you can do with programming, and how it can amplify your ability in whatever field you are interested in.

3) The economics - oh btw it pays well on average compared to many other fields. This should be a last point but it is important.

Just expose them to what the field is and you will have done a great service. No need to hard sell it.
Sanders, who I assume you're referring to, only supports decriminalization of marijuana. I'll still be staying at home on voting day.
What are the applications for this?
Quoting from a slightly older Fierce Wireless article that delves into some of the details of Starry's fixed wireless millimeter spectrum play as outlined by CEO Chet Kanojia:

"[Cellular carriers] have more money than God, so I'm not sure that's a good area for us anyways." Then you start looking at spectrum at 24 GHz and above, and there are plenty of challenges, but the 37 GHz range might be the sweet spot for Starry.

To be clear, "we're really smart people, but we're not that good," he said. "We took a tremendous short cut, which we think is the right strategic short cut." The company didn't develop its own radios; it's using 802.11ac MIMO radios off the shelf, having figured out a way to convert them to a higher frequency band without causing distortion, he said.

[1] http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/att-verizon-other-c...
> I'm not arguing that we shouldn't do anything. I'm arguing that the presentation of the data is at best meaningless and at worst downright harmful.

What do you think should be done to make progress that's better than Google's proposal? Personally I think encouraging all senders to adopt DKIM, transport layer TLS, DMARC, SPF, etc. by displaying auth results from those protocols in the UI is a good first step. It's similar to the push for HTTPS on the web.

> DKIM authentication is in no way an attestation that it was sent by its sender.

Google didn't mention DKIM in the blog post we're discussing. Are you referring to a related effort? The blog post was about encryption in transit with TLS.

> I'm arguing that the presentation of the data is at best meaningless and at worst downright harmful.

Google's DKIM solution is as close as one can reasonably get given modern technology. If I send a DKIM-signed email from example.com that passes validation, then it means the following is true: I sent an email through a server managed by the domain owner, that had access to the DKIM key and chose to sign my email. It's not authenticating a person, but it's authenticating that the domain's mail servers sent the message. The attestation is at the domain level, not the sender level. This attestation is still useful though: if the domain owner did not want to allow you to send email from jcranmer@example.com, then it would not accept that email from you or DKIM sign it.
> Since the anti-gun lobby cannot outlaw them completely they tack on automatic sentence multipliers

I rarely hear anyone say they want to outlaw guns completely, but perhaps that was meant as hyperbole? In any case, do you have some evidence that the multipliers were a reaction to difficulties in regulating guns?

Most Americans believe guns should be regulated more stringently; I would guess that they believe these laws are just, not a political trick. Also, at least sometimes American law more stringently punishes crimes committed with any weapon, guns or otherwise, than crimes committed without one.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
So if I had to call in to the IRS and I had to wait on hold forever, would it be because this service is already tying up the lines ahead of me?

I'm totally okay with Task Rabbit/On Demand type scenarios where I pay someone to dial in and wait for me and then patch me in when someone is ready to talk- but the fact that this has bots already sitting in the queue pushing me back is irksome.

What does this do to the IRS call center metrics when the queued bot just disconnects because someone answered and there was no paying customer to be matched to the answer?

It just sounds like another case where someone is gaming the public system for private benefit...
Where does the average person find RO water?
> Default to not drink from taps directly

Why?? Tap water is highly regulated, and 1000 times cheaper than bottled water. It does not produce tons of plastic waste (much of which is not recycled). It does not leach possible carcinogens like BPA, DEHA, or BBP. Furthermore, much of the bottled water comes from municipal tap water!

The Mayo Clinic says that tap water and bottled water are about equally safe. If you can't trust top-notch doctors, who can you trust?

This myth about bottled water being better needs to stop.

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100310/why-t...

[2] http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-he...
Like almost everything the government does that's stupid on its face, mandatory minimums were a reaction to a different problem. Voters were angry because there were wide disparities in sentencing, and it seemed some judges were wont to give out light sentences no matter how heinous the crime. It's probably not unreasonable to say "If you kill someone, you should serve at least this amount of time regardless of circumstances."

It's also not unreasonable to think large disparities in sentencing are fundamentally unfair. The amount of jail time you get is supposed to depend on what you did and not which judge presided over your sentencing.

But along the way mandatory minimums became a way for politicians to project the "tough on crime" image. You'd have a news article about a guy who just got out of jail killing an eight year old in a botched drug deal, then the next day Senator Simpleton is there at a press conference announcing a new bill to add 25 years to everybody caught with a gun at a drug deal.

It's virtually impossible for any politician to stand up at that time and say "That seems like an awfully long sentence for being in possession of a firearm."
"Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved." Is in all of the files. It's hardly imprudent to call it Google's.

If it's not Google's, it's nobody's.

Could go for "Google publishes Ion, a cross-platform OpenGL abstraction."
Where are in you located? Is it really cold in the winter and hot in the summer ;-)

I liked living in Tucson where ther are lots of ranches but no jobs; that was a long time ago though.
Be careful with these mistakes when building recommendation systems in R
git diff --no-prefix
Cern's LHC recreates the ‘primordial soup’ that began the universe
Um ... it doesn't work exactly like that. If you leave your phone's WiFi turned on, you and your friends will be using Nomi sometime soon (so exciting, amiright?)! You see, the store/eatery/prison/airline/casino/whatever just puts the Nomi WiFi access point on their premises, and when you come in your phone tries to connect to it, and BLAMO, it harvests your MAC address. Now they have a unique identifier for 'you' (your phone's MAC), and they can keep track of how many times you go into the place, where else you like to go, what sections you like to browse (just a few more of the gadgets scattered in the store), if you've been to their marketing events, etc. etc. etc. Oh hey, since it harvests your MAC address, they can also tell who manufactured your phone. 'you' have an apple phone? Sweet! We've got ourselves a (probably) high-end customer.

Welcome to the future :(
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies [pdf]
It used to be that we got all Hetch Hetchy water in the south bay. Since the California drought hit, they have started getting creative with where they pull water from. Some homebrewers that I talk to say that the water chemistry changes periodically, even over the course of a week. It matters for homebrewing because things like the calcium salts present in the water can change the pH of the wort. So I wouldn't assume that just because you tested the water once, that you know what it will always be like.
You are absolutely correct, the schedulers never preempt a process in the classical sense, but from an Erlang code perspective, the system behaves as if it would be preemptive. The schedulers are actually running a byte code interpreter and the interpreter will switch processes once a certain number of reductions is reached (or the code yields). This breaks down when running native code in the form of NIFs - it is entirely possible to block a scheduler indefinitely while running native code.
Can the GST apply to something purchased overseas? Especially weird because we have a tourist refund scheme where tourists can get the GST refunded when the leave the country.
> I can't help but wonder...how many real-world businesses could benefit from the same type of invasive tracking that online businesses seem to think they have a right to subject us with?
> For some reason, though, we don't allow that sort of privacy violation in our actual lives.
> However, most real-world businesses manage to do quite well even with our rude dismissals of their desire to track us.

Are you sure you're not being tracked? There are technologies like Prism[1] that allow stores to track people, where they go, how long they stay there, etc. On the lower-tech side, point cards[2] are also used to track purchasing habits.

[1] https://prism.com/

[2] http://consumerist.com/2012/02/17/target-figures-out-teen-gi...
everybody's jiggling! argh!
Dependents: For every person that depends on your income (kids, husbands, wives,
significant others, grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc.) we add an extra $3,000
per year in salary.

That's not kosher. You're not even technically supposed to ask if your employee has kids or is married.
As per HN guidelines, "please submit the original source".

In this case, the original source is easy to find from the URL in the top corner of the tweeted image:

http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Demographi...

The chart in the tweet is the third chart on this page.
> Importantly, the M.I.T. team demonstrated that the speech and music circuits are in different parts of the brain’s sprawling auditory cortex, where all sound signals are interpreted, and that each is largely deaf to the other’s sonic cues, although there is some overlap when it comes to responding to songs with lyrics.

I've long had a pet-theory that music with voices in it interrupts my train of thought (especially while programming) in a way that instrumental/electronic music avoids.

Of course, if unnamed scientists discover that listening to voices is completely separate from writing text, that'd be evidence against it.
most consumers want analytics, profiling, retargeting and tracking?

The only time I've heard "normal folks" talk about these sorts of things, its about how creepy they are, never once about "how that great ad was exactly what they wanted". Thats assuming any awareness on their part at all.

Silent ignorance/indifference isn't consent, apporval or desire. People who pretend it is are almost certainly making self serving arguements.
It's an interesting-looking font. I wish they would show samples of its zero.

I really like Input, which is free (as opposed to Operator which is $199) and has several nice options for alternate letterforms, including three different zeros.

http://input.fontbureau.com/
For those of us who ride road bikes, yes sub 20lb makes a big difference. My Fiancee's road bike with Sora components is just under 19lbs and that's pretty basic as far as a road bike goes.

It gets a lot more expensive once you go sub 14lbs, and very very expensive sub 10.5lbs or so. (20k+)
>Most Americans believe guns should be regulated more stringently...

I don't see any evidence this is true on a national basis. The answer to this kind of question depends almost entirely on how you ask it.

Most states seem to be moving in the other direction, loosening restrictions on where and when you can carry a gun legally.
Self-hosted Piwik is _probably_ privacy compliant for most people. But it's a steaming pile of shite. Try Snowplow Analytics instead and host that yourself.
dwiel a few comments up seems to have found a "relevant" use for them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11065611

"I've been trying to find a simple dataset of music to experiment with and this is perfect. Thanks!"
I'm doing QA on a replacement for a VB6 / Access application for a large and slow-moving utility company. Funny thing is that the consultants building the app on the hot, super-awesome BPM platform move at the same pace, and each build includes more bugs and fewer new features to test than the last.
Who's that? ANSI or ISO or someone else?

I skimmed the Wikipedia article and didn't notice any mention of removing the initialism. I did find a note that the original language standard did define the "es queue el" pronunciation, but since no one is standards compliant anyway, I think I'll still stick with "sequel" (:
There is a subtle and nuanced difference between simply owning the IP for something, and endorsing it as an officially supported product.
Is this the beginning of algorithmic personhood, then?
This is great idea. I always had other way to keep my learnings at a single place, for which I have used Anki tool. At times, down the line I open my Anki tool and see those flash cards on how much I really remember. This was very fun to me and also at the same time very good learning.

Git looks to be an awesome idea. Thanks for your efforts.
Wow, I'm surprised the legal world is catching up to this so quickly. You would think that the law would be a larger barrier than it has been so far.
Out of curiosity -- how was I supposed to read your original comment?

What I saw was the OP saying "I saved time commuting, all good" (doh). Then you came in with "no way you could pay me to give up family time", which sounds extremely... extreme.

If that wasn't the core of your message, what was?

What are the absurd assumptions?