skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Service Discovery often removes the need for load balancers. Let the clients discover where all the instances of Service X are and build the clients to handle failures to connect to individual instances.
no because it sits on your desk.
That's a different "spec" which may or may not be implemented by any given email provider.
Before the theory happened? I don't follow.

Edit: If you mean that you need to state the theory before you make the observation for the observed data to be valid evidence for or against the theory, you are correct, this is very nearly contrapositive of the scientific method.
Cruise Automation (YC W '14) is hiring engineers to build driverless vehicles
These questions are among the questions that the Buddha refused to answer one way or the other because he considered them distractions from the meditative life.[i]

The real goal of Buddhism is the elimination of suffering in oneself and others and is purposefully silent on the 'big questions.'

[i] http://www.faculty.umb.edu/michael_lafargue/104/204/budd/rdn...
Tweening Custom Shapes and Paths in D3.js
Good question. I think GOOD crud developers are still in high demand and probably will be for some time. As for myself I've been focusing on getting good at building complex user interfaces. Can't go wrong learning React now.
I suggest you use codemill to get a dev to fix it for you .
I was waiting for him to prove a point. I'm still waiting.

There was nothing rigorous about his analysis, while I'm inclined to agree with his hypothesis I just don't see a logical line of reasoning.
Just a few thoughts to add. Living in the Pacific Northwest, home of Starbucks and a bunch more vendors, caffeinism is nearly a way of life. Around here it's pretty easy to find examples of the effects of overdoing caffeine intake, so my comments are based partly on observation as well as "standard" practice.

Caffeine, like all drugs affects people differently and can cause an array of side-effects. , Besides interfering with sleep, a few are worth mentioning.

Caffeine can cause increase in gastric reflux or other GI conditions. Anyone who needs "acid reducers" is well-advised to avoid caffeine. Caffeine is also notorious for increasing anxiety symptoms, those prone to panic attacks may be more vulnerable. Cardiac effects are also a potential issue, as caffeine can contribute to abnormally rapid heart rhythms. Naturally as always mileage varies, universal rules don't really exist.

If a person has such conditions, no harm in reducing or avoiding caffeine for a while. If the problem improves, then you know what to do, if not, well, resolving the problem is going to require at least a bit more investigation.
As SXSW grows, Austin unaffordability dims famed music scene
see upwork and head hunter fees. Also groupon et al. 10% is cheap/norm.
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If they could delay your job starting date like that, what are they going to do with your promotions, raises, etc? Find another job.
A hard lesson in the value of backups. His hard drive could have crapped out (nobody's fault) and he'd be in the same boat.
Well 'points to a connection' is not the same as 'is a special case of', I'm not an expert on this subject, but looking at the conjecture is about the asymptotic distribution of certain patterns in prime numbers. I don't think that an example like the one you are giving is 'related' except in a hand-wavy vague way that anything dealing with prime numbers and patterns is related to everything else dealing with prime numbers and patterns of primes.
Amazon Files Patent to Let You Complete a Payment with a Selfie
Just disabled the service. I do want the option to periodically turn it back on so anything more serious than that isn't on the cards for me.
Programmer and mathematician talking with each other
Programmer: Your mathematical verbiage in that shitty Russell-Whitehead notation is ambiguous. It cannot be verified by a machine. How do we know that it is not just a pile of bullshit?

Mathematician: That will be confirmed by another mathematician.

Programmer: How do we know that this other mathematician is not lying?

Mathematician: That will be ascertained by yet another mathematician.

Programmer: Theory of deception says that your Russell-Whitehead notation is gradually but surely turning you into a colluding gang of liars and impostors. In other words, none of you cannot be trusted. May I ask you: You do not really desire to solve the problem, do you?

Mathematician: True. We like things to be this way. There is simply no problem, and that is why all of us strive to find a job at the NSA. As I told you already, the problem that you are talking about, is just an illusion.
Let's All Pull Together: Team of ΜTug Microrobots Pulls a Car
Can anyone explain to me why she shouldn't have to take her hat off? How many accommodations are we willing to make "for religious reasons"?
Haha, who am I to argue with a story like that?
Why my device is not supported by distributions
D3-path – what is it good for?
oh nice. Saw the kefit suggestion above by someone else but don't get along with dairy so will give the other two a try. Will shop bought sauerkraut work? e.g. In a glass.
> But if you meet a kid who is a little intimidated by the thought of learning coding, but loves playing Minecraft, then you're really going to tell them to stop playing Minecraft and use some weird GNU programs?

I'm not going to tell them to stop playing, no; that's not going to work.

What I am going to do in that situation is explain what free software is, its social benefits, and the problems with proprietary software. I'll introduce him/her to a free operating system like GNU/Linux and introduce him/her to the world of free software. Maybe hack a few programs, and show him/her how transparent the operating system is.

Hopefully then he/she will continue to explore that. If not, that's unfortunate, but hopefully it provides some benefit.

By allowing children to grow up without recognizing proprietary software, you are setting them up to be okay with a world where sharing is a privilage, companies and developers are in control of everything they do. Companies make effort to lock in children and get them dependent on their software---e.g. Windows providing their software gratis to educational institutions. Free software in this case serves a broader social cause.

You might argue that this is teaching them reality. Yes, that's a reality that others permitted to happen. The goal is to _change_ that.

https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-schools.html
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Sea Level Rise Is Predictable. It Will Be Anything from Bad to Awful
What you're describing isn't crazy, it's how any other entity besides a bank must operate. If a friend asks to borrow $50, I have to open up my wallet and give him $50 from it (or deny the loan). I can't keep the $50 in my wallet, promise to not spend it, and print out a shiny new $50 bill to give him!

Banks were given this privilege because they were highly regulated, essentially just extensions of the Federal Reserve itself. Of course over time they argued this was unfair and chipped away at the regulation, while still retaining the privileges.

Given how much is at stake, I don't see anything changing until it all falls apart. Easy creation of money directly supports the Federal Reserve's mission of overstimulating the economy through artificially forcing inflation. The proceeds aren't just skimmed by a countable corrupt cabal, they're funding the entirety of several industries!
JOE has pop-up terminal emulators: hit F1 - F4 to bring up one of four terminals, or flip between them (like Alt-Fn on Linux). It's nice, you don't have to exit the editor to read a man page. But there is more...

JOE tracks the current directory of each of these emulators, so they are great for navigation: use cd and grep to find something to edit, then type 'joe filename' within the terminal emulator to replace the terminal emulator with the requested file.

Also you can play games with regions and the compiler and grep parsers. This, from one of the terminal emulators:

parse grep -n main *.c

will find all of the .c files containing main, mark the grep command's output as a region, and use the editor's grep parser to load the list of file locations into the editor. So then you can step forwards or backwards through the locations with Esc = and Esc - as you would step through compiler error messages.

(Use 'parserr' instead of 'parse' to parse compiler error messages: type 'parserr make')

You can control the editor by writing programs which send editor macros to JOE: just echo Esc { macro } to the editor. JOE runs a shell startup file /etc/joe/shell.sh to provide some aliases. 'joe' and 'parse' are two of the aliases from shell.sh.
>I almost overlooked this article because I got turned off by the opening description in base 10, as there is a lot of math trivia out there that is specific to base 10 which holds little general significance.

If a high school science insight seems to be able to "shoot down" a new scientific discovery, chances are what the discovery says has not really been understood properly.

The property they discovered is orthogonal to numeric base.
To start with, the article it titled "The Problems of Intergalactic Travel and Jewish Continuity", not "Solution to the Problem of Intergalactic Travel".

Then whoever gave the title (which is often the editor and not the author) doesn't have a sense of scale. Travel to Alpha Centauri is intersteller travel, not intergalactic travel, that is, 4 light years compared to 70,000.

The piece considers that the only solution is a generation ship, which leads to a new set of problems.

Food is one. It says "There’s sunlight in most of outer space, so algae could be grown on the collected sweat and urine from the humans." That rang alarm bells. Outside of the solar system, the "sunlight" is really "starlight". It's not possible to support people on sun/starlight at that distance.

Back of the envelope calculation: "Average annual solar radiation arriving at the top of the Earth's atmosphere is roughly 1366 W/m2." Which means at 1 light year away (63,241 AU), or 1/4th of the way to Alpha Centauri, the energy density is 1366/63241/63241 = 0.34 µW/m2.

Basal metabolism is 100 W, so assuming impossible pure energy conversion, each person needs about 300 sq. kilometers of collection area to provide enough energy.

The second one is, how do can it have a stable social system across multiple generations? One professor made the observation "So far as I know, they’re the only group of people who, for thousands of years, have managed to hand down their traditions intact to each new generation."

That's another alarm bell. An astrobiologist likely knows little about anthropology. Buddhism, Confucianism, and Zoroastrianism also have passed down traditions 'intact to each new generation', even to the present. Parts of the Vedas are 3,000 years old. Surely we need to look at multiple such systems to see what they have in common, rather than doing what the author of this piece does and examine only the Jewish rabbinic tradition.

It then correctly points out that a stable culture isn't enough. But it does so with at best a lay understanding of gravity. "The real problem is that after the first two hours, after the ship leaves the gravitational pull of the earth from that moment on, everyone, for all generations, will live in a weightless environment."

Why "two hours"? Will the ship boost for two hours? The most meaningful definition for the 'gravitational pull of the earth' is to be within the Hill sphere of ~1.5 million km. Basic physics says that ship needs to pull about 6 gravities to do that. And why won't the generation ship spin in order to maintain gravity? We know that long-term zero gee is not good for the body.

Since this piece isn't meaningfully about the science, I conclude it's more likely written to promote or at least maintain a sort of exceptionalism about the Jewish faith.
Yet another step toward the surveillance state.
> Actions are different from brain state

I think it would be fair to say that actions are a result of brain state, but not all brain states result in actions.

> Are their brain states that shouldn't be allowed?

Seems you've gone for a more philosophical angle. Of course your secret heat of hearts is yours and yours alone. We don't yet have the technology to decipher your thoughts, and even if/when we do we probably(hopefully) won't police them.

In a more practical sense, when policing your own thoughts there certainly are thought patterns and by extension brain states that you should avoid because they have negative side-effects. Some examples are OCD, depression etc. For these there are medications and therapies designed to help correct aberrant brain states.
AWD assures you always have traction, tracking means steering, therefore AWD means you retain steering in bad conditions. If you move to a snowy area the majority of vehicles have either AWD or 4WD, the few that don't NEED snow tires just to make it work.

AWD used to be questionable because of the price and fuel economy, but these days thanks to computer controls, it is close to 1 MpG, and the price has come down to within a thousand dollars of a non-AWD vehicle (in fact several manufacturers do 1-1.5K AWD upgrades).
I use Elfeed on Emacs, which is just beautiful. It also provides a web interface, but I didn't use it yet.
I've been working on something similar but decided to go with Kafka as the message bus because I want the messages to persist. This allows for more error recovery solutions and auditing. Still having all that data around also allows me to come up with new ideas to use that days after the fact.
Wonder if I'll be able to use LXC/LXD on "plain" Debian, and be able to avoid Ubuntu.
But if the Fed and economists do that, people embrace the conclusions as scientific :p
I was more hinting at the idea that places that are "safe" for one group of people (often white middle-class people) are incredibly unsafe for other groups of people.

If safe/unsafe is dependant on who you are, then calling a place "safe" or even "safer" needs lots of provisos.

Anyway, bad choice of words. In retrospect "safe is a relative thing" gets closer to what I mean.
> So perhaps I've made it clearer as to why C is less popular now

C is "not popular" (that's relative) because C is verbose, practical C is ugly and just dangerous if not in expert hands. I'm not a fan of Go but Go doesn't have C memory management problems. The complexity of C development is also in the tooling, Cmake, make, autotools , autogen and co ... imagine you're a beginer today , you need to write a server . It's like 4 lines in Go then you just type Go build.

With C you'd have to install the proper library, then choose a build tool, then learn another language like make , then learn m4 macros ; then learn to do proper memory management , ... it takes way more than a day to get started, it takes months ... C lacks of a lot of modern features such as namespaces, simple string support, ... C isn't going away, Linux kernel is written in C so it will always be a dependency but explaining why C is the last choice when developing applications is pretty easy.

Try writing a JSON api in pure C backed by a NoSQL db , then try the same with Go or Rust. You might be an C expert so ask someone that is a noob in software development to do the same, from scratch and watch the amount of time it takes to do so. Now give him Go to write the exact same thing ...
NewsBlur is open-source with cloud options. Feedly wastes too much screen real estate, NewsBlur has an AI option to prioritise articles based on your taste.
Interest rates NEED to go up now. The housing market in many major cities is a disaster. Toronto seems to have a bubble of epic proportion. You can buy a million dollar home at 3K a month. As home buyers, our jaws are on the floor. It is absolutely unfair what has happened to people of my generation. We just had a kid and I'm just sad how bad of a situation we are in wrt housing.
This is a reasonable point of view, if you ask me. They are having a "private mode" conversation in a public forum, essentially?
Ask HN: Largest physical open source projects?
I know rLoop right now is one. They're a really large(300+member) group with members from around the globe, which originated on Reddit to work towards creating the next hyperloop pod. (rloop.org)

Are there any other large, open source projects that you know of that are working on something physical? I know I've read about a few in the past but can seem to find those articles again. Hoping someone here has heard of some.

P.S... rLoop is also in the process of raising money if there are any kind souls out there. Their Indiegogo campaign offers some pretty sweet rewards like naming right of the pod and the boosters and being able to dress their driver (a dummy).
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-build-rloop-s-pod-for-spacex-hyperloop-comp#/
You know the meaning of "simple", angry man?
> The point is that any theory made after events are observed cannot use the events it is explaining as evidence that it is correct.

That's complete nonsense. Theories are almost always made after collecting observations.

They may be confirmed using future observations, or by statistical analysis, however.
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multiplexer or multiplexor (ˈmʌltɪˌplɛksə)

noun

(computing) a device that enables the simultaneous transmission of several messages or signals over one communications channel
I use vnc on X (with twm) for persistent sessions and sharing. The benefit is that you can run a web browser on it.
Whether the critics are aware of how central banking works, central banks are losing credibility.

They've tried everything in Japan & Europe, getting governments trillions into debt, and now they want to go negative interest rates. Clearly what they did before didn't work, and now they are trying something else. They're shooting in the dark and unknowingly killing the economy. It doesn't take a genius to figure out people will just keep cash at home if you impose negative interest rates, and by keeping cash away from banks, reduce the reserves banks hold, and the money they can lend, reducing the money supply, exacerbating the deflation the NIRP was supposed to fight in the first place.[1]

There's no fraud and no lie, except for the fact central bankers operate on economic models detached from reality. The only lie is claiming to know more than they do.

The policies the Japanese central bank tried to impose to lower the value of the Yen in the past few months, only raised it. https://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=USDJPY=X&t=3m&l=on&z=l&q...

"Central bank impotency" heading your way.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/japanese-seeking-a-place-to-stas...
I'm going to have to agree with ska's other comment[0] and say that it's knowing the difference between good design and optimization. Being able to design a performant system means choosing designs which are inherently fast. Squeezing the last few percent out of bubble sort makes no sense when you should have gone with, say, insertion sort in the first place.

Once you have the right algorithms, data structures, and system architecture in place and working, it's going to be fast enough and you can choose to spend time optimizing only where absolutely necessary. Even then, you should default to getting order of magnitude better performance via a better design rather than tweaking inefficiencies.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11284817
Other people thought that way I believe, hence the existence of dtach and dvtm. The nice argument is that by decoupling the two functionalities, you get two very tiny binaries instead of one quite ~larger tmux.
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rLoop Website: http://www.rloop.org

Campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-build-rloop-s-pod-fo...
This is madness.

I've actually had the "opposite" problem. Ever since Win10 came out, my Win7 machine doesn't bother announcing when updates are available. I have to remember to install them myself ever "patch Tuesday".

But I repeat: this is madness. What kind of a psycho update mechanism would try to install an new OS behind your back?
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On Windows I was rather successful with developing C apps with msys2 which comes with a Posix envirronment and pacman package manager. Most source that use posix compliant apis compile on windows and mingw provides a few handy adapters. It's obviously not going to run docker containers but it's really handy, I was successful compiling quite a lot of c projects from scratch, including some Gtk3 apps.
> The worst part of this is that if you can't get internet, you can't even download new drivers to try and debug the problem.

I have a friend who made a slipstream installer of XP that was the barebones base installer... plus 696 network drivers. I think it was 696, may have been 676. He'd found a package of "every XP network driver ever". Anyway, "This iso will install XP that can get you connected to download everything else..." made for a very useful bit of kit.
So I wonder if a similar pattern is observable for Prime_i and Prime_i+n with some n > 1?
Wring.io, 0.11 released
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This isn't "fail" so much as it is acknowledging that neither you nor your customers will know what they like until they have something to play with.
I am very interested in this subject but I was unable to finish watching these videos. The background music is incredibly distracting. I have a name for that kind of music, I call it Silicon Valley Music because it is the kind of music used in a lot of startup product videos. The narrator voice style is also pretty much the same that is used in those. I wanted to like these videos but I did not feel that they had any value what so ever. With all of these kinds of videos, I feel like the producers want the audience to feel bliss or learning but that they never actually deliver on that so instead it seems insincere and underhanded.
Awesome point.

With all of the talking about anonymity, crypto, etc, which are all ephemeral things, one of the strongest things that you have going for you as a US resident is an object inside the perimeter of your home.
I am, yes. My visibility has shifted depending on different orgs I've been in (I've been in orgs where I'm entirely disconnected from the PR side of things, and in others where I get regular mails from the marketing teams); I read some of the links on the search you provided but they seem to denote "what I'd expect", a worst case where a vendor goes too far in accomplishing a PR objective, and while it's plausible that this is ongoing (as you say, I CERTAINLY don't know what totally distinct marketing teams on contract are doing) I'd note one thing: That in the well documented occurrences in the past, it's typically been the more "standard" sort of native advertising dark patterns that are becoming prevalent. I don't say this to excuse it in the least; but to say that I tend to see "patterns" even in the more questionable actions of a given entity, and even when I looked more deeply in said googling I didn't find many concrete occurrences of that sort of truly grassroots astroturfing. Enough accusations to raise an eyebrow for sure; but I'd point out a few things on that as well: in some of the well documented cases, MS has come forward and accepted accountability for the occurrence. While this could absolutely be a post-factum face saving, the cost/benefit of enacting those sorts of campaigns seems misaligned, at least to my eyes, that I'd be hard pressed to think of any of the Marketing/PR people I've met taking that sort of risk.

Again, there could certainly be degrees of separation, and as you accurately state I can't in any way speak on that. My main goal was just to speak to the best intentions and actions of the peers I've had the opportunity and privilege to work with.
I can't even imagine.

Did you guys get into custom network hardware or still a Juniper/Cisco shop?
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