skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being right up front: this article smells like an advertising piece. But, taken at face value this desktop environment sounds like a good match because it's both user-friendly and easy for their IT staff to manage, which is not a trivial thing for Linux.

I've had good luck with lightweight Linux DEs too. I have a crappy Compaq CQ56-115DX that I got from the NVIDIA chip settlement a couple years ago. It's got 2GB of RAM and what amounts to a single-core Athlon 64 3200+. Win7 obviously ran like garbage, but a SSD and Lubuntu made it very usable for basic productivity stuff. It was never fast, but it went from painful to usable.

The problem is that Ye Olde Linux Desktop isn't something you could hand to a random student and have them manage by themselves. Having a centralized management system is a very relevant feature there.
Actually it's just life imitating art imitating life
Hey, I looked at Splunk in the last few days as well, but it seems really expensive once you want to get beyond 500MB a day. They don't have an OSS "community" version, do they (?) because I totally feel you on that.

Basically I need ELK, but I need it to be a lot more stable and documented better.
Shame how most of the conversation devolved into licensing rubbish. Almost none of us are qualified to speak on that, leave it to the lawyers - which I assure you Canonical did too.

With that out of the way, ZFS is by far and away the best filesystem for container workloads. Hopefully we will get deeper quota and I/O throttling support soon.

I have been using ZoL in production for many years now thanks mostly to the work of Brian Behelendorf and Richard Yao. So if you find yourselves here thanks for all the work you have put into making ZoL awesome.
Matter of opinion
So funny story -

Pied Piper fooled our crawlbots into thinking it was a real company. Not only that, but it fooled our first line of human research and only got caught when someone who had seen the show before we pushed the update to our platform saw the name and thought "huh... I don't think that's actually a real company."

Our bots index all of their sources as well, and they had fake fundraising press releases and the wonderful Pied Piper website listed as a legit source to warrant including this company in their scrape.

We kept it in our platform as an easter egg for a while.
From memory, it was something about not having a central metadata server combined with needing to talk with each of the nodes to get their idea of "the latest version" of file info. Especially tricky when taking into account edge cases, such as when some nodes are failed/down/etc.

Unfortunately, I don't remember most of the details. It's fallen out of my headspace in the months since I've left. ;)
ZIRP ended in America a few months ago.
The tools essentially causes that to happen (its a bad thing). When someone installs your package (and you don't pin them somehow with something like godeps, path management, http://labix.org/gopkg.in, etc) you recursively retrieve the deps from some source at HEAD and that package is now updated for every other package using that GOPATH.
"However, there is nothing in either license that prevents distributing it in the form of a binary module or in the form of source code."

http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssue

Whether any loadable kernel module can be licensed under a different license than the GPL is still up for debate (even Linus says "sometimes"):

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/copyright.html

(Of course, Ubuntu et al have been doing this for years e.g. with Nvidia or HBA binary blob drivers, so it does appear to be a mostly-settled issue..)
GPL doesn't stop you from linking post installation. See http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssue
Me too. It really is a huge problem.
Not at all. ZFS is not even FOSS anymore.
What are you using? I'd rather run it myself, but like I said ELK was a bit too bleeding edge for me in the stability dept.
I've not worked with the homeless in SF, but I have seen it first hand.

Noone is contesting the infiltration of alcoholism, drugs, etc that is a huge part of the homeless puzzle.

However, it's important to consider that the abuse comes as a result of being on the streets, and the desire to numb against the hardship, or if it was the catalyst that placed the people in that situation. My experience is that it's more the former than the latter.

Call it holier-than-thou, but I've been working with homeless for over 5 years, 2 nights per week. I am sure that SF's situation has its nuances, but I'd be surprised if it was totally different.
"I can't do it to save my life. If I was stranded on a desert island and the only way to get off was to create a pretty UI I would die there,"

Now I understand why Linus isn't too fond of Github!
That's cute, but clearly he is. Linux is a huge complex project that requires a lot of careful delegation through a tree of maintainers.

If you can manage that, you are a people person. Maybe not in the way people often use the term, but you can't do the job without being good at working with people and getting them do the thing you need them to do, and it's hard to do that if you don't on some level value other people.
Why would a company give another company so much power over their hiring practices?

Hiring is an important skill for every successful company and the more you use these centralized services, the more you will be dependent on them.

At some point they will realize this and start calling the shots and because you now have none of the required hiring knowledge, you are stuck.
How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body
From the posts here I can see that Justin's mentality is not remotely unique.

Anyone thinking of moving to SF should simply be shown this thread so they can see what kind of people they will be around all day.

Hey Washington Post, why not write an article about this site. Start with this thread.

Here's a winner https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11127645 (I hope I'm not oppressing him by linking to it)
That's not true at all. http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/08/13/the-michael-phelps-di...

In this case, he's fucking Mr Fusion.

You probably mean something like... train for muscle growth or something or to run (not win) a marathon.
Here it is: RAZER BLADE STEALTH

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-stealth

Only downside is only 8gb ram, otherwise great machine.

Once a 16/32gb version available, it'll be purchased pretty quickly ;)
Spark is built around keeping things in-memory. If there's any workload that can max out a CPU (and surely there must be, otherwise no-one would bother building faster CPUs) then there's probably someone doing it on Spark (linear algebra? monte carlo simulation?). Spark might be a good fit with RDMA (looks like there's some initial work in that direction).
Several of these are on my list of methods with empirical evidence. Geography wasn't. Good to see even more validation. :)
I don't live in the "free country" (I'm guessing you mean the US).

There's more to shorts than this:

http://www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk/linus+andrew.jpg

I'm from Europe and especially during the summer you can see people dressed like this:

http://www.menfashionhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/men-...

Some of them even go to work like this, especially if they don't work directly with customers and their companies don't have business attire requirements.
In HPC/HTC, Lustre is very common, especially in DOE labs. I've never tried to install it, but I don't think my colleagues who have are some kind of special genius.
Four billion people face severe water scarcity
"You" who?

The system can be as rotten as you like, but in any particular case, at some point, someone said, "Let's start cutting corners."
> The guy running my corner grocery store decided to set up a sit-down cafe without getting a city license.

The guy at the corner grocery store isn't discussing my employee's private medical records with me in between slamming down hits on the beer bong.
The point is that those requirements seem redundant.
This Is the Most Amazing Biomimetic Anthropomorphic Robot Hand We've Ever Seen
Cloud load testing vs. internal testing
The Great EMV Fake-Out: No Chip for You
After thinking about it more the concept is interesting, but the main fear I have is that doing it in a web browser with JS is next to impossible to secure. Maybe if vendors got on board...

In general though, pushing auth down to clients in Javascript makes my skin crawl. You're one XSS away from having an attacker no-op your scrypt and return SHA256("secret-attacker-password") on registration. The logical follow-up to that: 'have the server run scrypt the first time' -- but then you've just moved the tough work to user registration, which seems just as exploitable.

I dunno. Safe crypto is hard enough already; I'm not sure pushing it into Javascript on the browser makes it any easier.
"explain why you forgot your password"

I don't know why but that made me laugh.
In lieu of any conclusive evidence that has percolated down to the mainstream news media, I'm just going to operate under the entirely baseless hypothesis that the human body can tolerate any amount of sodium above its absolute minimum required for basic functioning, provided that it is consumed within a certain range of proportions with potassium, calcium, magnesium, and water.

I suspect that the mineral content of seawater diluted to 1.5% salinity (from 3.5%) would have a bit too much sodium, and not enough potassium, but would otherwise be safe to consume in any quantity.

Needless to say, testing this hypothesis on humans might raise a few ethical concerns. Finding enough people who already drink nothing but diluted seawater to claim significance might also prove difficult.
Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
I feel like this article deserves needs a second act. I think the author is acting under the assumption that hyper-masculinity is somehow wrong, but it is never stated in the article.
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Well the benefit I initially see is more jobs and with a side note of hopefully a cleaner code base.

There are not too many perl companies that have been founded in the last 10 years. And I am finding more and more that companies that are older than 10 years old and are using perl, that this usually means they haven't changed a dang thing in their architecture or web dev process since 1998.

Which means I get to deal with CGI spaghetti, 6+ second page load times (so count ajax anything out), and the world's worse use of javascript. I've had good experiences with newer perl companies with short contract work, but these older ones are killing me and I'm pretty bummed about it as you can tell. I've worked hard to learn best practices and modern web dev styles, none of which I can use at the older places.
I agree, but most consumers probably see them as harmful, and many consumers are dissatisfied with state-sanctioned monopolies on taxi service. The actual effect doesn't matter to the consumer, only the perceived one.
Except that, taking VC money at high valuations is a huge factor in options open to the CEO and/or founders. All that money comes with a lot of obligations, hyper-growth being the biggest one of them. VC money and valuations are absolutely part of this equation.
"No negative impacts on health" is a bold claim. If you eat nothing but rice (with salt[1] and herbs) for months, you'll end up with a number of vitamin deficiencies. You'll also end up critically deficient in certain amino acids eventually, because rice does not provide a complete protein profile. Weight is not the only factor in overall health.

I'll point out that Atkins makes similar claims for a fat-heavy diet. In essence, they claim that if you cut carbs entirely, you can eat as much as you want. In reality, people on Atkins tend to just eat less because the diet gets so monotonous.

[1] I misread initially and thought you said no salt. Sorry about the confusion there.
> That seems unfair. Shkreli made the news for doing things that would have a tangible effect on peoples lives, and doing those things with a smile.

As I said in my post in this thread, journalists (keypressers) have it in for us. That's why we're "coders," "techies," and now "tech bros" in their articles. They probably resent the fact that low social status geeks are making more money than them, even if few us are actually rich.

To hell with these keypressers. Never, ever lift a finger to help them. They are our enemy.
I do believe that ATL (Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport) is the busiest airport in the world, and has been so for quite some time. Dubai, indeed, is not.
> Which is exactly what people like him don't allow.

How did you come to that conclusion?
Surely there will be a 737 pilot in the ATC frequency. Anywhere!
Windows 10 adds a lot of value to the DoD. Better 2F authentication, better biometrics, stronger centralised control (e.g. Device Guard, all this[0]), VBS[1], and all of the improvements they missed in 8 & 8.1 (e.g. secure boot, improved Bitlocker, improved GPO/AD integration, improved security focused compiler technology, etc).

Plus the Enterprise LTSB branch is almost DESIGNED for the DoD (in fact I'd put money on governments being the primary target for even having a LTSB branch).

A lot of the complaints/criticism of Windows 10 doesn't apply to the LTSB as it has most of Microsoft's services stripped out from the get-go.

[0] https://blogs.windows.com/business/2014/10/22/windows-10-sec...

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt601297(v=vs.85...
Some true words.

The programming language has really nothing to do with the quality of a developer. A new language is learned quickly, software engineering skills not.
How predictive analytics can improve app performance
Here are some examples using frpjs: http://moonbug.in/frpjs-examples/
While this guy maybe went about saying it wrong, he has a point. There really is no other place on Earth that puts up with the level of homelessness we see here in the Bay Area. New York, Boston, Chicago, none have anywhere near this many homeless people. All over Europe, there are few homeless people.

It's really a specifically Bay Area, or maybe a West Coast problem. It's utterly out of control. It's complex, it's hard to solve, it involves many many factors. But at the end of the day, it's still true that Bay Area natives are completely oblivious to just how ridiculous the homeless problem is, here. It's the first thing EVERYONE notices when they visit here, and we all just ignore it like it's normal.

I'm sick of it too, though I hope for a compassionate solution, on the other side of it, if I had run out of money and was living on the streets, I would most likely leave the Bay Area on foot and head for some place that isn't the most expensive city in the fucking country. I mean, is it surprising people can't afford places to live, here?

I don't know what the solution is, but after living here for 18 years and seeing the problem only get worse, not better, I completely agree something has to change, here.
Is DevOps culture an all or nothing proposition?
That's really wild. Here in the U.S., the industry does a bit of that in terms of short orders. The rest I don't recall being big issues. Companies do whatever is good for business then use lawyers for the rest. ;)
Userland software doesn't work unless it can use system calls provided by the Linux kernel either.
I worked with a GlusterFS deployment in production about 2 years ago, and it was such a nightmare that I both feel compelled to write about it and never touch anything made by that team ever again.

It was the whole shebang: Kernel panics, inconsistent views, data loss, very slow performance, split-brain problems all the time. Our set up IIRC was very simple: two bricks in a replicated volume. It worked so poorly that we had to take it out of production. Some of our experience can be explained by GlusterFS performing poorly under network partitions, but nothing could justify kernel panics. It blew my mind that Redhat acquired that company and product.

Edit: I hope there's been a big improvement to the reliability and performance of GlusterFS. Can anyone with more recent experience running it in production comment?
Who was just told (perhaps falsely) that we beat expectations!
No. 71% of San Francisco's homeless population once lived in the city: http://sfist.com/2016/02/11/71_of_sf_homeless_once_had_homes...

"Seventy-one percent (71%) of respondents reported they were living in San Francisco at the time they most recently became homeless, an increase from 61% in 2013. Of those, nearly half (49%) had lived in San Francisco for 10 years or more. Eleven percent (11%) had lived in San Francisco for less than one year."

What are these "development reasons?" Airbnb? Property owners have had no issue knocking down buildings in places like the Mission to build high-rent properties in their place. There is ample opportunity to satisfy demand for low-to-middle income housing by building upwards which developers choose to ignore in favor of satisfying the rich.
For at least a decade people have been using that route and have had (at least internal) legal opinions supporting it.
Show HN: Using IBM Watson's Speech-To-Text API to Make Automated Supercuts
We changed the linkbaity title to the subtitle.

Submitters: the HN guidelines ask you not to use the article title when it is misleading or linkbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I asked Medium about this. They replied, "if you don't have your Twitter/Facebook account connected to your Medium account, you won't be able to sign in at all. You'll need to contact us to regain access to your account. If you don't want this to happen, please do not use an email address you think you won't be using in the future."
>Do the math, and you'll see how ridiculous is that.

It's $4444 per person per month. Why is that ridiculous? They need to employ people to manage the program as well as run shelters, pay rents, etc. $4444 is not so high that it's obviously too much.
> 3. Well if the alternative is going out of business and resulting in a valuation of 0 for everybody involved, almost any alternative is better. I see it not as a call to give up on being a "home run" but as a call to batten down the hatches, hunker down, weather the storm, and then adapt as circumstances change.

VCs hate having "zombies" in their portfolio though, no? So I'd expect them to encourage companies to keep going for it, and may the strongest survive.
Definitely. Microsoft doesn't see commercial value in supporting, eg, a SPARC version, especially when it won't run existing x86 apps. It'd be a huge lost cost in development just to make one.

ReactOS isn't driven by the same market forces. Anybody with enough determination can port it to SPARC and fly away :)

Windows NT 4 supported x86, MIPS, PowerPC, and Alpha. All but one were dropped with Windows 2000... and it wasn't until XP that non-x86 returned (initially IA-64, and x86_64 in three more years after initial release).
Also, I would be REALLY pissed if I lived in a town where I had to struggle to make rent on a place I don't own every month, and the city is giving away free permanent houses to folks who don't have jobs or pay rent... I mean, I want homeless people to have homes, but if they're getting one for free and the economy continues to have housing prices way out of the reach of someone like me, I would be fucking pissed.
Ask HN: Developers, would you read a productivity book?
I've amassed a large list of tips, tricks and techniques for more productive development. I'm considering organizing them and turning them into a short book-- is this something that you would read?
> I'm shooting from the hip here because I haven't read the whole spec

I think it would be good if you did. An attacker can send a challenge to the user, and even get it back after signing, but it would be useless simply because each login would have a different challenge. A Man-in-the-Middle attack is possible, however.

I think malware will have a tough time getting a private key out of what is a device that is entirely separate from your computer, is a hardware security module and therefore has no writable memory. It is not possible to steal the private key, barring some catastrophic failures.

I don't think you understand what a challenge even is, if you think "listening" to it helps at all.
As an outsider: In what ways is the show in-accurate?

[i ask for innaccuracies as i think they will be fewer than "accuracies"]
Hustle and cash flow: 11 rappers in venture capital
That would be AWESOME, but will never happen.
Perhaps, but that Bedouin hospitality is part of the self-identity of most Arab groups, I believe. (source, was married to a Palestinian from Kuwait for several years and was exposed to a variety of Arab cultures in U.S.)
> If you read your article, SF only offers tickets to people to return home.

They offer tickets if someone will take care of the homeless person. In practice, we see homeless refugees from San Francisco showing up in Turlock and Modesto, given free tickets, and still being homeless just in a different place.
There's no need to wait:
https://github.com/Xantier/nerd-stack
Too much ambition is bad?
A great voice of reason amid all the news of inflated valuations and scandal.

Keeping it real since day one.
On a related note. Git is obviously an extremely powerful program that would arguably be very simple to understand if the interface weren't so complex and (at times) counter intuitive.
Nice correlation study, but I'm really skeptical of any causation inference that might be possible. I mean, if the software gets to the point where it can identify the next Jeff Skilling[1] then great, but I doubt such surface level data has a lot of predictive potential.

I do find it kind of funny that the article cites the study mentioning 'negative' type emotional states aligned with ~9% profit boost, when one of the most interesting 'tells' in the Enron case was when Jeff Skilling got really bitchy at an analyst who was probing him hard on some difficult questions. The disgust was holding up a facade in that instance, and I don't doubt dishonesty might be a factor in the emotional state of others.

>“Fear is widely recognized as a powerful motivator. Thus it is not surprising to find that a CEO who appears fearful under interrogation is perceived by the market as a CEO who will work harder to increase firm value,” said the paper, which was co-authored by Steve Ferris of the University of Central Missouri and Ali Akansu and Yanjia Sun of New Jersey Institute of Technology.

This is a quite optimistic view of what one's behaviors might result in when driven by fear. I'm fairly confident fear of failure drives a lot of fraud. It sure seems a familiar story...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling
Brand new software that-- and this seems to be missed in the wider discussion-- may be impossible to produce. It may not be possibly for Apple to comply. For instance, you can't install firmware on a locked phone.
"According to a paper published by the CDFI Fund, the average profit margin for the supermarket industry was 1.9 percent in 2010. The profit margin varies by sub-classification. According to analysis of Yahoo! Finance data, the average net profit margin for publicly traded US-based grocery stores for 2012 is close to 2010's 1.9 percent average. Sagework's research shows that privately owned grocers had average profit margins of 2 percent in 2010 and only 1 percent in 2011." http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/profit-margin-supermarket-...

Upmarket you can get ~3.5 to 6 percent which helps boost the average to 1.9, but for bulk goods 1% is not actually bad.

PS: Natural and organic food markets have some of the highest profit margins. For example, in 2012 Whole Food's net profit margin was 3.79 percent and Fresh Market's was 5.58 percent. Traditional grocery stores have net profit margins ranging from 1.96 percent for Harris Teeter and 1.91 percent for Kroger's to 1.77 percent for Safeway.