skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can buy OCP compatible stuff, promote it, join the mailing list, blog about it, and so on. Otherwise, you can't. It's basically the club of kids who build this kind of hardware stuff (do R&D on infrastructure).

When Facebook started OCP it seemed like an awkward initiative, after all, who would manufacture OCP-compatible stuff, when you can't find anything OCP-compatible at all? (It needs custom racks, for shame! Madness!) But slowly, it turned out, that there are multiple groups working on custom designs, trying to get out of the world of half-assed firmwares, crazy sales calls and useless support vectors associated with traditional vendors.

So initially it only made sense if you had at least a few thousand servers and a team to work on that extra few percentages of efficiency. Nowadays, it seems a much more diverse club. And especially after the network stuff got opened up - the timing with SDN was right anyhow - they seem doomed to succeed.
If that's your entire definition of value, it's overly narrow. Lots of people want things that are directly bad for them. Letting a five-year-old eat candy until his teeth fall out is not providing him a valuable service.

To get back to the original subject, reasonable people can perhaps debate whether the explosion in clickbait articles is "good" or "bad" in whatever sense, but it doesn't follow from that that "value" lies solely in satisfying people's most immediate wants.
Haven't tried HockeyApp. I use Crashlytics Beta now and it's amazing. Literally "press of a button" deployment: no dealing with provisioning profiles, device UUIDs, or any of that garbage. Just build and deploy, and all your testers get the update instantly!
very well put together
Who Is Gaining from Chipotle's Loss?
Here is the actual study: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/E4512.full.pdf

I can't see how this is valid at all. We know that polls give biased results unless you are very careful with the sampling. Here people are self-selecting for a poll (eg via mechanical turk). Then you apply a highly contrived scenario that they are googling about a candidate. Then you ask them a bunch of questions, immediately, and proceed to draw wide ranging conclusions designed to increase your self-importance as much as possible. I mean, seriously, it's worse than useless.

This article is also written as if these findings are earth shattering. After conducting a small, biased, invalid study (Asking people in San Diego about an Australian election? How does that generalize to anything?) and finding a large effect Epstein says 'We did not immediately uncork the Champagne bottle'. Is that how psychology research is conducted? Researchers toasting large implausible effects in small biased samples that have no external validity?

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> If we just normalize everybody's wealth to 1, then all wealth inequality disappears. Problem solved.

You misunderstood the use of the word "normalize". The point of normalization is to change the absolute magnitude but keep the relative magnitudes the same. Perhaps I should be more specific: if you have two values, 6 and 4, which sum to 10, and you'd like to normalize the total to 1, then you multiply each by 1/10 so that you end up with 0.6 and 0.4.

> The evidence doesn't really bear this one out.

Write some code to simulate this. I think you'll find that preferential attachment does in fact create a rich-get-richer phenomenon. For example, take a look at this simulation coded in NetLogo (http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/PreferentialAttac...).
Computational Complexity: David Johnson (1945-2016)
And what about flying from New York to Albany, or flying a quadcopter in your back yard?
I knew someone would argue this point but I couldn't figure out how to correct the original post to be clearer.

"Virtual machine" has come to refer to a specific isolation and security model through, effectively, having a microkernel (the hypervisor) with hardware-accelerated microkernel RPC (hypercalls). But the abstract concept of a virtual machine doesn't require that isolation; it just requires partitioning of resources so that you can treat each partition as its own independent virtual Von Neumann machine.

A DB that pins each of its worker threads to a separate core, has a set amount of non-pageable memory reserved for each thread (and perhaps does SR-IOV to get network frames directly to the right thread) is effectively, in resource allocation terms, four independent virtual Von Neumann machines. Each pinned thread sees no context switches, gets no cache incoherency, suffers no NUMA-based latencies, etc. You've got four little machines, each with their own uncontested memory-bus and network bandwidth, that just happen to share die space (and thus have a cheap IPC fabric between them.)

I mean, you get 90% of what having a modern hypervisor-managed VM gives you just by using processes in the first place (as opposed to the old "single shared address space" model of the Apple II and IBM PC, where things like TSRs made sense.) But in the decades since the invention of the "process" concept, we've gone past the original conception of a "process" as its own virtual machine, and optimized for multi-user, heavily-multiprocessing time-sharing workloads where context switches are frequent, memory bandwidth is shared, IO hardware is shared (and thus has its access linearized through the kernel), etc. We've realized that most people don't need to be allocated a circuit, so scheduling packets will do; that most people don't need memory reservations, so an OOM killer will do; that most people don't write hard real-time software, so context switching will do; etc. (And we've even given up on the address-space isolation, with threads and other shared-memory IPCisms.)

Most of what we use hypervisor-managed VM setups for today is simply to enforce the resource partitioning that Operating Systems gave up on, so that we can have "processes" that actually do give us resource guarantees. If you're an ops person and you don't know what workload you're going to be running but want that enforcement there anyway, hypervisor-based VM management makes perfect sense. On the other hand, if you as the developer get to design your entire "embedded system" or "appliance" or "service" of OS+app yourself, you can throw out the hypervisor and get your VM model from the OS itself, by teaching your app to tweak the OS in all sorts of places ala Snabb Switch.

Either way, the goal is to partition your machine into several smaller independent ones that never have to wait in a queue behind one-another. You can get that from an OS, or from a hypervisor; but what you get is virtual Von Neumann machines either way.
As much as I would love to imagine some powerful people intentionally influencing search results on a big scale, Google and Facebook and Twitter have no real way to make money from it. I would argue that it would only drive people away. I am sure that it happens to a certain degree, look at the marketing of Bernie Sanders on reddit, but a much bigger influence is your social circle and your source of new information. Social media mirrors people's attitude. If you see new tweets about an issue you don't particularly care for, there's a good chance that people you follow do care. It's basic psychology that you befriend people who share your views and interests. If all of your friends tweet or like or show interest in something then twitter will assume you do too. Twitter makes money from user engagement and so it's logical to show you things that your friends agree with because chances are you will too. I think a real issue is the lack of a source of unbiased information. Relevant information and information you agree with are very different things.
Make the Zeus image tall and skinny. Then make it short and wide. Then make it square.
Apollo: The data stack for modern apps
Maybe in general, Java 8 generated bytecode won't run on earlier JVMs, but a lot of shops are still on Java 6/7. (Allegedly.)
Any comments on who put this together, or their long term goals?
Igualmente. También vivo en el extranjero (Canada), pero estoy totalmente dispuesto a apoyar en cualquier iniciativa de este tipo.
Or they could diversify and invest in more projects with smaller sums, couldn't they? Would probably require more people to manage the increase of investments.
Went through the SQL injection demo, and it recommends parametrized queries. Excellent.

EDIT:

Joined with Github, went through the password handling section, then saw this:

http://i.imgur.com/H4h5FUY.png

No no no no NO! Do NOT use SHA256 for passwords.

https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/02/how-safely-store-password...

https://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

PBKDF2-SHA256 with 100k or more iterations? Okay, fine.

SHA256 the cryptographic hash function not designed for password storage? Bad advice.
Curious what you mean by other channels, are you talking about email, etc or do you mean integrating data on organic activity as well? (we do both but mostly via just reading UTM tags/referrers).

I do want to build a more comprehensive marketing site, we just have been time constrained on all sides and building out features has taken priority :)

Thanks for the feedback re: privacy policy, etc.
Otoy lets developers run the best graphics software (CUDA) across platforms
Who said anything about demand? This is what I meant when I said you were defining "value" in narrowly economic terms.
Music: "play song/album/artist"

PIctures: "show me pictures from May 3, 2007"

Phone: "call <person> mobile"
Oh god. This article is so fucking disappointing.

What a quaint boogey man this "Search Engine Manipulation Effect" is. It even has it's own obscure little acronym, SEME, to appear more relevant.

I learned about the subtle effects of advertising by the time I was in fourth grade, and certainly understood how to ignore them by middle school.

Back when special holographic foil comic book covers and trading cards were new, I had already figured out that all of these "collectibles" were mass-produced, and would never wind up as valuable as, say Action Comics Issue#1, despite so many claims otherwise. This was something you could kind of figure out on your own. If your were easily amused by shiny objects though, you might not arrive at the same conclusion.

Meanwhile anyone could figure out that the influence of single frame inserts in movies was as potent and realistic as the subliminal messaging in John Carpenter's Sci-fi movie, THEY LIVE.

So too, with Search Engines.

Figure if a fourth grader can figure out the shenanigans of opinion and belief influence in advertising, and unravel the bullshit of religion before high school ends, then this other newer form of bullshit is similarly debunked by comparable intellects. If you're so stupid that you buy into bullshit, without multiple channels of factual verification, you're your own worst enemy.

Okay, okay, maybe this is good reading material for an elementary school classroom assignment, focused on current events. Sure, why not?

I was hoping this would be about technological manifestations of psychic telepathy through malicious use of functional MRI systems.

Bah!
Microsoft isn't a huge Debian fan, they just chose it because our (Cumulus) distribution is based on Debian, and so our patches are against it.

Porting them to another distribution would be work.
If you use the letsencrypt python client with "certonly --webroot", it will never touch your config files at all. You can add "-n" to make everything non-interactive and command line-only.

If you use letsencrypt with "certonly --apache" (or --nginx, when the nginx plugin is released) it will make only transient changes to your config in order to obtain the cert, and then restore it to the original state before exiting.

If you use letsencrypt with "run" (which is the default command) it will make config changes if those appear to be necessary for installing the cert.

One challenge we've had is how to design the command line interface to ensure that the users who want maximum automation get it, and the users who want maximum manual control also get that. Both set of behaviour are available.
And yes, it was quite a hacky hack to make it work!
(Serious question) But there's no law requiring tires to be able to be inflated by the consumer, is there?
Obama claimed to want transparency. His actions suggest the opposite
Valuations are out of whack. They are smarter to sit back and let the unsustainable ventures die out and then invest in the viable ones after things level out.

I mean, even a touch screen toaster that costs $1,500 got invested in. Who is going to pay $1500 for a touch screen toaster? http://www.juneoven.com
Chemistry isn't even fully expressible using naive graph structures (atoms = vertices, bonds = edges), for example, eta-2 metal-pi bonds where the chemical bond is between an atom and another bond.
Totally agree with you.

I'm also really surprised that the political leanings of corporate leaders is of such importance these days.

It's like holding every single employee of Enron culpable for the actions of Ken Lay et al.
I think the old internet still exists. Despite how terrible things have gotten in some aspects, you can still freely share ideas, data, and opinions. Yes, it makes me sad that we are forcing archaic meat-space ideas onto the internet, but, in many ways, the "core idea" of the internet moves around them.

I agree that in many ways the internet looks sad compared to what it was, but I don't think hope is lost.
value = street price - net negative externalities

The negative externalities you mention are much more a result of prohibition than of the drug itself. But under current law I'll give you that they're real, though simple policy fixes would largely eliminate them.

The negative externalities to which I'm referring are primarily the addictive nature constraining the users' future choice, and the chance of an early death resulting from overdose (though that is arguably a result of prohibition as well).
They may not even have to target their message. If a platform's users already have a bias (and this seems to be the case[0]), then they can display the "go vote" message globally and have the desired affect. All while waving the public good PR flag.

This assumes the platform's wishes aligns with their users, but this may be self-fulfilling.

[0] http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/politics-fact-sheet/
Uber's many scandals are affecting recruitment at every level
Sunshine. Invest. Rainbows. Unicorns.

Heat. Fire. Cash burn. Bears.

VC. Lower valuation. More Power. Liquidation preference, contentment.

Entrepreneur. Panic. Sellout. Fantasy. Donkey, bulls, credit card.

VC. Rich. Beach. Downturn, Upturn, Cycle. Ratchet, racehorse.

Ramen, caviar, yacht, walk, laugh, cry.
I agree with that, I would love to see an ARM server chip with a full ECC memory path. However I note that ECC memory subsystems are "well understood" from a hardware perspective so one of the teams working on ARM processors will no doubt apply that to their version and we'll if there is more demand than just the two of us :-)
I guess so. Problem is we have a deluge if service companies and very few product companies that actually do good work (originality, technically, etc).

I guess I do need to improve my credibility, but I have shipped apps with several thousands of paying customers and supported it 24x7.

I guess I'll probably get a decent job or just go ahead and bootstrap my idea. The allure of SV seemed too strong until I realized that ship has sailed. Everybody who isn't at a top startup are bailing due to CoL issues.

Thanks for your input btw.
Wait, what? VCs' valuation of their money exceeds their faith in your "unicorn" startup idea? Ohhhhhh nooooooooooo
> Squawks 4415 or 4415

Typo?
This is true. It's also true that I can access service manuals for BMW and Audi.

However, I cannot access the service manuals for Tesla. Because I don't live in Massachusetts. Does that seem right to you?

They even make sure to verify your address by mail to make sure you really do live in Massachusetts before they grant access.
You have no idea why people use drugs, so don't even try.

"When it comes to boredom users though, it's hard to come up with a solution besides punishment."

Wow. Why should 'bored' people who use drugs need punishment?
I think most readonable people get this. However, it is the SUV problem.

If you don't need an SUV you don't get one. However it is convenient to have at times and the downside is may be worth it. Also, they provide you with better protection...from all the other people who buy SUVs and this increase average tonnage on the road.

Networks are inherent in every business and the world is global.

I am not saying don't think about VC money, but there is no reason to suspect you can't get decent alignment. It is mapped pretty well to the success/need of the company. Smart helpful investors will be there (along with dumb money) for revenue positive companies.
If you'd like something simpler than both, have a look at: https://pressly.github.io/sup
Best thing you can do is submit it and not care if it's popular or not - at best you will get thousands of visitors, many of whom will be disinterested if they came for <content> not <product>, and then it'll be over within a day or two at the most. That leaves ~99.5% of 2016 unaccounted for!
I have pretty extensive experience using Salt very deeply, and while it's good, I recommend it only with some pretty severe reservations.

First is that management of the master is still a big, big pain point. Unless something's changed in the last few months, you can't meaningfully cluster a salt master. Minion keys must be accepted on each master in turn. Auto-accepting minion keys is risky as hell, too. Master signing keys sound like a great idea until you realize that it means you can't bootstrap a minion sui generis.

My other big problem with salt is that Salt formulas are really popular, but are _completely_ uncomposeable. Time and time again I found places where the action of a formula needed to depend on data that existed elsewhere in the pillar, but pillars can't be parameterized with pillar data (obviously). They're also not versioned at all, so occasionally breaking changes are merged in (I myself am personally guilty of doing this). The idea is a decent one ("separate the data from the code!"), but they end up being a real headache in a complex environment.

There are a few other, more minor, issues I had with Salt, but really my main beef is that Salt is an extraordinarily effective footgun. If you try to avoid writing "salt scripts" (think: Ansible playbooks), it's very, very easy to end up with a really messy dependency tree, crazy templates, etc. Yes, I know that discipline matters, but people aren't perfect.
Pussies.
Government-sponsored is totally different than government-led. China has the latter in terms of their search engine.
is it also agent-less?
I wish there was a modern cross platform gui library with gpu acceleration (like QtQuick) with a permissive / non *GPL license.
Or you know, you do it like Apple. You make no comment whatsoever, keep the software and let the rumor machine keep you on top of tech news sites.
Silicon Valley’s Exodus Begins
He doesn't say that, though. "Wasn't done at my request" means that if it was done, he didn't order it; it neither confirms nor denies that it actually happened. Musk is being cagey; it's possible that he didn't yet know exactly what had occurred or who had ordered it.

Again, maybe there's something in that 48-page thread that proves me wrong. I'm fine with that. But it makes no sense to swallow the article's simplified interpretation without first doing the homework.
> Most web scraping is illegal in the United States.

Got a source on that? Google scrapes all the time. This is how they index all the pages it discovers.

The only real scenario I recall is 3tap vs craigslist but they just kept scraping craigslist even after they banned their IP addresses with multiple proxies.

Then there are airplane ticket websites scraping each other and getting into hot waters.

Having said that it's not a clear cut definition as you'd like to put it. CFAA ruling was only because craigslist felt directly threatened by Padmapper which relied on 3taps.
Your argument is (in my opinion) naively individualistic.

You argue that someone's actions should not create any obligations for support. But that denies the interconnected nature of society. If someone gets injured and is unable to work, and has the misfortune of living in the United States (as opposed to Canada or Australia) then he cost of fixing them may be unbearable, meaning that a potential useful human life has now been subjected to the sidelines, rendering them unable to contribute to society. Thus we have a responsibility to provide safety nets to restore them to health and a functional member of society.

In the same way, addiction and substance abuse damage otherwise useful members of society. Not everyone will fall so far from the tree, but we have a responsibility to provide the institutions necessary to try and get them back on track. When you're talking about illegal drugs, the best way to do this would be through funnelling taxation revenue from sale of previously illegal drugs into rehab and outreach programs (as with THC sales in the Netherlands, where 99% of hard drug users are linked in with social services).
Cannabis is not physically addicting, and if the person is psychologically addicted then it will be that person's environment which will be the culprit.
I'm not sure what you mean by "self-redistribution". I at first assumed you meant economic "market forces" as opposed to government intervention. If that's true, then those market forces are almost entirely rich-get-richer. Sure, there's the "creative destruction" as some fortunes are lost, but that's actually part of the driving force for inequality -- that's what forces capital-owners to seek growth as opposed to allowing them to stay static.
But we do. Alcohol and nicotine are taxed.
Consider this attack:

1) copy paste from from any random site to a StackExchange comment
2) report the original site for scraping StackExchange
3) lulz
Awesome. I just sent you a message. Thank you!
That valuation seems so far away from reality. A huge bet on coworking spaces as the future.
Ask HN: What is the difference between a closure and an object?
Reading PG's criticism about OOP, he mentions that if he ever really needed objects, he'd use an array of closures instead. When I read this I knew little about what closures were, so intrigued I read up I them.

Now I can't figure out how they're different, except how a language might implement them.

So what is the conceptual and practical difference between the two?
And therefore one's mother's last name is even more public than a "maiden name".
> - Running against more than around 3k hosts will somehow consume all 60GB of RAM and trigger the oom-killer

Have you looked at Salt (salt stack)?
Inventing Game of Life
> Anybody rooting a car is betting both their life and those of the people they encounter on their technical skill.

Yes?

So is every guy who pops his trunk and starts working on the car? And people have been doing that since the very beginning. This isn't anything new.
> there is pressure to grow fast, but it comes from the investors and not from the market per-se

I don't even think the pressure comes from the investors per-se, it comes from the capital investments you make which necessitated the funding. Excess staff, buildings, tools, etc, all have ongoing costs and also depreciate in value. You are by definition building out excess capacity based on a growths model. If sales don't keep up, you become insolvent.
It seems to me like a big difference between multi-core CPUs and conventional networked systems is the expectation of reliability. For example, when a CPU core randomly fails, you don't expect the CPU as a whole to continue operating, do you?
startups.co is promoting them https://www.startups.co/articles/five-tips-for-startups-pitc...