skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To make this discussion meaningful, can you cite a case of someone being fired for making non-harassing comments about a coworker's appearance, interesting accent, surprising math talent, or anything else even remotely like the premise you've set up in your comment?
Giving advice about life that cuts right to point is not "blaming the victim". No one was hurt here. We're just pointing out the obvious fact that people spent their time unwisely when they built on top of private platforms.

The right thing to do is consider this a lesson well learned, shut up, eat crow, and get on with your life like an adult, safe in the knowledge that you won't make the same mistake again.

Generally speaking the vast majority of people in this forum have a shockingly bad understanding of how our government, legal, accounting and financial systems work. That infrastructure isn't going anywhere and companies like Twitter exist only because of these formal systems. Learning the details of the relationships between these systems is your responsibility. You can easily be taken advantage of without a knowledgable understanding of the rules of the game. This is no one's fault but your own.
That's a pretty simplistic explanation. There are lots of ways to mess up Lisp in an attempt to enable the style of meta-programming that Kernel supports. What distinguishes Kernel from these other approaches (many of which have been seriously considered in the past) is mostly what you're not able to do in Kernel. That is, the vau construct still allows encapsulation in a useful way. Kernel may have "more things first class" than Lisp, but that's not all that sets it apart.
It also takes us about two years to learn to walk and say stuff that makes sense. The devil knows how many bajillabytes of information a human brain inputs over the course of two years.
Well, money doesn't buy happiness, but it does go a pretty long way toward facilitating it. So I'd say it's unlikely that the status quo of leaving a huge imbalance in some of the most lucrative fields available today wouldn't be worse for women than addressing that imbalance. I can't think of any high paying fields that are dominated by women. And there is a notable difference in average pay between men and women.

I'd agree with your second paragraph, for the most part. It is easy for a program with the right intentions to fall into that trap. It would bear a more in-depth analysis. I think, once started, it would be fairly easy to determine if it is working. If a more equal workforce can't be maintained without an increase in efforts, it probably isn't working. In fact, a sign of it working would be a gradual decrease in the need for it. In other words, if the workforce began to skew the other way, then the program would need to be scaled back to bring things back in line. So, if it worked, it would be self-terminating, and should be designed as such.
Interesting... Yes please. I might also use that code for another project of mine....

Thanks for pointing it out!
What's your opinion of 6LoWPAN?
Google's abandonment of it was a big, big blow. 90% of my contacts are no longer available via XMPP.
Yes, it's just a 10GbE ethernet switch that can encapsulate the traffic in VXLAN headers, so that it can traverse east/west between any of thousands (millions?) of hypervisors without requiring traffic to hairpin to a gateway router and back. The logical networks all exist in an overlay network, so to the customer VMs, you get L2/L3 isolation. But, to the underlying hypervisors, they actually know which vNICs are running on each hypervisor in the cluster, so they can talk directly on a large connected underlay network at 10GbE (x2) line rate.

This is the standard way of distributing traffic in large datacenters. That way you get extremely fast, non-blocking line rate between any two physical hosts in the datacenter, and since the physical hosts know which VMs/containers are running on them, they can pass the traffic directly to the other host if VMs exist in the same L2 network, and even do virtual routing if the VMs exist across L3 boundaries - still a single east/west hop.
I'm not sure the lack of an explanation from the company really means anything here. Most companies, especially the more risk-averse, will not tell you why you were let go unless there are clearly-documented performance milestones that were missed (i.e. not meeting your PIP goals). It's a potential liability, up to and including a lawsuit for wrongful termination, to justify a firing in any recordable way unless they've been exceptionally judicious in documenting cause.
This argument is getting silly, but the closest two could definitely have their heads tilted.
> Give each container host a /96 address and let it assign container IPs from the remaining /32, for up to four billion containers per host.

A /80 for Docker is preferred because it can map 1 to 1 onto the mac address for SLAAC.

see also: https://docs.docker.com/v1.5/articles/networking/#ipv6
That is a very good point, I forgot about that option.

Do you think this will be a realistic option at some point for wide-spread use? The stuff I saw from NVIDIA looked like they think a hybrid approach (voxels are shoveled to the GPU in a octree arrangement to handle ray marching, but the output is traditional triangles) would work best for efficiency reasons.
Also mobile notifications - that's a huge benefit of Slack and an IRC app couldn't (as far as I can see) provide them without maintaining a constant connection.
Wow, ~700 TB/mo? That does sound like a lot.

What kind of site would serve that volume of traffic and not have 56k for operating expenses? I mean, I can think of a few examples like Wikipedia maybe, since they are non-commercial and such, but for a commercial business? Maybe 4chan moves that much without a lot of revenue I would think, or maybe... imgur? but not really sure, I mean, it would seem like they could get that amount easily via ads alone.

What was the use case here?

Also, I think that 56k for traffic alone kind of depends on context. I mean, how much does Netflix pay for serving their volume of traffic?

What I'm saying is, isn't 700 TB a month something that would probably be very expensive no matter the context? Just storing 700TB would cost a lot, no?

I'm really curious about your use case here.
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So it makes sense for Dropbox to build it's own infra but it doesn't for Apple.

Also wondering why Apple isn't hosting exclusively with IBM, they seem to have the best geographical coverage.
Correction: If you don't like it, then don't use it for as long as your attempts to raise awareness and propose improvements continue to fail. But don't give up.
There's a way of criticizing that still honors—or at least doesn't trample—the creative spirit in the work being criticized. That's what we're going for here. Substantive criticism is helpful because it adds information. Snarky dismissals merely puff up the criticizer. As long as that's not your intent, your comments are likely to be fine.
It's clear from both the clear contradictions between your statements here and the letter posted _and_ from your lack of any followup here to people that have pointed out these contradictions that you are, unfortunately, stuck with the sucky part of being developer relations for a company that often has to directly piss off developers. I feel for you!
The fact the global population is far too large
Greed/Selfishness
Sendy finally gets an iOS App
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

More population, more pressure on all ressources, more conflicts.

... but, my solution would not be reducing numbers, or birth control, but more and better technology to get more land and ressources available.
Also, rich people are usually not rich on childs, they can't afford to feed. So let's build technology, that makes everyone rich ...
It looks like this was part of the sourceforge purchase made back in January and previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11092219
Okay. I was testing it in C# where it does short circuit, and functions aren't called until the conditions require them to be called. This is also how the Kernel language seems to operate. I have...misgivings about javascript's pre-evaluation of functions.
The paper talks a lot about pushing Linux out of the way in the receive path (including to avoid copies), only to have a demultiplexing thread steer packets once they arrive in userspace. Linux has PACKET_MMAP for a long time and modern linux has RPS, which would seem to exactly duplicate this functionality without the copies or single point of contention (one thread running on one core, vs. N interrupt queues directly waking threads pinned on N cores). Can anyone comment on why they aren't using it?

> Because the NIC is no longer the bottleneck, this figure
shows the upper bound of Maglev throughput with the
current hardware, which is slightly higher than 15Mpps.
In fact, the bottleneck here is the Maglev steering mod-
ule, which will be our focus of optimization when we
switch to 40Gbps NICs in the future

Sounds like they could use RPS
IPv4 reminds me non-Unicode applications from 90s
Or ATM, or frame-relay or IPX, or SNA, or 16bit DOS apps.
All above were gone eventually. SAme going to happen with IPv4, but I guess at slower rate.
It's not just RAM, either. If you measure "energy usage" however your OS allows you to (powertop or OS X's Activity Monitor, etc), Electron-based apps are absolute battery killers.

You'll lose literally hours of battery life simply by running Atom instead of Sublime. It's absurd how little regard Electron devs are showing for end-user resources.
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I would say that even if the developer-friendly stage was behind them (and given how rapidly the web evolves, I don't think that any social-media company should ever consider itself past that stage), the fair thing to do - in my eyes - is to at the very least show some gratitude for the people who helped you get where you are today.

Twitter and Facebook may be Big Corp today, but that wasn't always the case, and a lot of the initial growth that helped them get into the mainstream was due to hobbyists and independent devs that made cool little apps like EmojiTracker that would catch the attention of early adopters that then became the initial users of the platform.

The sad thing is that while Facebook became the generic one-size-fits-all "mom and dad" network (I can't even remember the last time I even used one of their 'apps' or whatever), Twitter really had the potential to evolve into something beyond that, if only it cultivated better relationships with their devs and encouraged people to build on and experiment with the platform.

Oh well. Lets keep an eye out for the next thing, I suppose!
A great company doesn’t care about itself
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Sounds like you should start your own cloud hosting service! I bet you could make a killing.
700TB/mo is about 2Gbps - on the open market that should be under $1000/mo. Netflix's total cost is probably below $0.25/Mbps. $56,000/mo would get you over 100Gbps of committed capacity from any major provider (or a mix).
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That is a key question I have been pondering myself.

One theory of mine (perhaps uninformed; I'm not really a networking expert) is that because of the dynamically configurable nature of their systems, they need to use routers rather than relatively dumb and cheap switches at almost every level - in order to have flexible networking and still maintain isolation between customers.

This could get quite expensive if you have to pay Cisco/Juniper for this. If this is true Google will have quite an edge with their software defined networking here, I would guess.
Their CDN interconnect lowers that pricing to ~$0.04/Gb (US).
"Each file is broken into chunks and encrypted by iCloud using AES-128 and a key derived from each chunk’s contents that utilizes SHA-256. The keys, and the file’s metadata, are stored by Apple in the user’s iCloud account. The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage services, such as Amazon S3 and Windows Azure." (https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf)

Although your IP address and some other connection metadata will be known to Google.
> it could be that the function of the page can take any number equal or greater than 2 arguments (and a b c)

It can. That is what line 5 is for. If eval returns true, $and? is applied to the rest of the arguments, aka cdr.
Hi, I wrote the Wired article in question. I hadn't heard about IRCv3, but it does sound like it would plug some of the holes in IRC that Slack users complain about. It wouldn't really have been a good fit for this article, since I was mostly focused on the two Slack-alikes with most traction, at least according to Black Duck's data (an imperfect measure to be sure) and IRCv3. As for why I didn't mention IRC in general, well, I alluded to it in the first sentence, but as many other people have mentioned, IRC just doesn't hold a lot of appeal in the business world, for various reasons.
Yes, for sure. But have a set suite of meals that they can make affordably, and rotate through those.
>> The statement was descriptive, not prescriptive.

It's a statement of opinion that declares a strongly held view with the clear intent to influence the views of others.

Frex, when theists say that God forbids premarital sex, they don't only say it because they believe it to be true, they say it because they wish you to adhere to their own beliefs.
Ha! I wasn't aiming for that. I was thinking more along the lines of "understanding the real world requirements, and having a mental model complete enough to see where the success and error cases would lead you".
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It's funny because this happened today:

http://sf.eater.com/2016/3/16/11247194/pascal-rigo-leaves-mu...

Especially this:

"I just did not share anymore their strategy for growth and their ‘vision’ for the future," Rigo wrote to Eater in an email.

The translation is: the food sucks.
>The films that he was "reminded of" all happened to be directed by women

Well yes that's my point? I'm saying that on seeing that comment he thinks "Films by women? Oh that reminds me of X, Y and Z! They should be on the list too!"
Yeah, it's just that the subjects women tend to dominate pay less than the subjects men tend to dominate. Go figure.

By the way, read this http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/b... and tell me again that women are not handicapped simply by being women. Or maybe women on average simply do not make an effort to succeed unless they can somehow hide that they are women?
This appears similar to the "virtual filesystem" SQLite uses for testing[1], except of course this one is open source and easily reusable, since it exposes a regular filesystem interface via FUSE. This is fantastic news for every database (or, ahem, application that saves files), and a very good sign for ScyllaDB, since they are literally breaking new ground in reliability testing. You can bet this will turn up problems in at least a few other databases.

FWIW, I asked for something like this a while back on HN.[2] Maybe someone saw it :) Thanks!

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9729225
Old (veeeeeeery old) substance dev here.

They are not AMD based (have a look here indeed https://github.com/substance/substance/blob/master/browser.j...) and about jQuery I’m pretty sure you can wrap it up as a Web Component pretty easily.
> I think I can say this is mostly wrong.

There are 3 sentences in my comment. What specific claim do you consider to be wrong and what is your evidence?
When pricing a value-add you want to price it linearly, with a volume discount, but such that after the volume discount the line is still steeper than the base cost curve. That way growing customers feel like they are getting a deal vs small fish, and are incentivized to use as much as they need, but you still drive your margins towards what the market will bear, provided your volume is growing. That curve will eventually squeeze out some of your biggest customers, but you can avoid this by cutting deals for them, e.g. Google with Apple.
I feel the same. I wonder whether this moral sludge we live in is how the world always has been and always will be, so all the stories about moral values are just notable exceptions. How to raise children who would care for other people, for moral values when we do not? Where do we find better parents, better teachers? How do we move towards a society based on actual people instead of the fakes of a human most of us are?
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Previous discussion on HN of the mail app Sparrow and their approach in complying with LGPL on iOS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4302517

May be helpful to you.
"Because you only pay for the compute resources used during the migration process, a terabyte-sized database can be migrated for as little as $3."

The above is quoted from an email I received from them regarding the service this afternoon.

Note: using continuous replication and adding logging Dashboards to your links will also increase the cost. I seem to recall seeing the dashboards are $3 a piece after the first 3 or something silly like that and then data costs on top of that. My cost so far don't match that though.

I'm guess-estimating my DMS cost are going to be about $30 if the $6.48 I've spent in the last 7 days during setup and configuration time averages out.
That is still about $13/Mbps, or 26x transit pricing.
Eh, probably just sitting on a USB key on Tim Cook's desk with a Post-It note attached saying "DO NOT LOSE".

I'm also guessing that they routinely send out to Kinko's to get copies of the source code / signing key printed out for backup.

(sarcasm)
> If an employer has decided to fire you, then you’ve not only failed at your job, you’ve failed as a human being.

That was me, being a hateful little shitbird. Reading that is like seeing myself in a photo of a lynching, gleefully pointing at the victim.

There's no excuse for posting like that, and I am ashamed for hurting you and kicking you when you were down.

I hope the next time I'm tempted to post like that, someone serves me up a knuckle sandwich before I hit the 'add comment' button.

I'm sorry.
Google's exact ToR (top of rack) switch code isn't available, but you can buy a switch from any number of network gear vendors (Arista, Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, HP, etc), that can do VXLAN encapsulation and send the traffic over a leaf/spine network that covers thousands of racks.
By not driving the optimal route, you’re causing traffic jams
Ask HN: What's with the micro/tiny/minimal libraries trend?
I've been seeing more and more libraries brag about how small they are. I get the impression that these libraries are more like a proof-of-concept, or they provide a very tiny subset of features that other libraries do, but developers put a trendy spin on that fact by calling it "micro" or "minimalist", or noting how large the size is when zipped. Is this view too cynical, or is there really something to be proud of here?
Wow, you're correct. I did not know that. Fun!
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I wonder to what extent intelligence is just brute arithmetic and not sophisticated interconnections. Our neurons and cortical structure are really good at packing as many neurons as possible into a skull and training them on living experience as early as possible relative to the developmental timeline of the brain.
Eh, they somehow managed to keep the horrible shuttle around for way too long, and now they are going to have something even worse
It's just sad
(Especially considering the contributions of JPL - the most successful parts of nasa activities)
All is forgiven. :) Thanks.
Large networks like Level3, Cogent, Telia, etc all use big-iron routers (Cisco/Juniper) and will sell you traffic for under $1/Mbps.
For something like this I usually like to see a demo before I invest time in trying it out but the demo link is broken... Seems like something I might want to explore though!!
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We started to use Slack in our company but it wasn't adopted by most of the people. Desktop version requires too much resources and it was unacceptable. We backed to Skype again. Has anyone ever had same experience?
The "global mean temperature" is a statistical construct. It doesn't actually exist as a thing that can kill animals and plants. They only get to experience actual temperatures, and are clearly able to adapt to rapid changes in actual temperatures.
I think their point is that open standards are good for user experience. Can you imagine if each browser implemented their own hypertext format instead of html? Or Stylesheet language beside css? Or they used their own application protocol instead of http? Or if email wasn't federated; Can you imagine not being able to send emails between networks, so nodamage@gmail.com couldn't email smadge@myuniversity.edu? No matter how good the user experience of these nonstandard protocols and formats were, the user would suffer.
> 700TB/mo is about 2Gbps - on the open market that should be under $1000/mo

Is that a fixed-cost sustained pipe though? I was under the impression that (at least at the backbone level) those contracts got more costly the closer to full that your pipe was.
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That's still very expensive. Wholesale rates for bandwidth are a fraction of a penny per GB.
Update from one of the demo authors:

"The Adam demo runs in 1440p at 30fps on a GTX 980, by the way :) See it running real-time at the Unity booth at GDC!"

https://twitter.com/robertcupisz/status/710160351568986112

So it's very likely that the YouTube video was rendered with far better hardware.
Sorry, I can not cite a specific case of someone getting fired for one of those things.

Edit: The only thing I can think of is "dongle-gate" but that is likely to just go off into a tangent about what is or is not "non-harassing" and I kind of suspect we won't agree on that either so that is not going to be very productive.
They (Level3, Cogent, Telia) don't have millions of ports though...
Image hosting community site - notably without shady popup/layer/scam ads, which probably was the reason for the relatively small income. For a two person team that only worked part time on it, it still made good money.

The total dataset was just about 3TB, so storing it was not an issue.
I can clearly Google Cloud winning the Cloud industry. It's only a matter of time and not a matter of if. Cases like this and Spotify, will make the shift happen sooner than rather.
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SV is the dominant market for funding. NYC is credible but still not ideal (and some of the best NYC firms do a lot of investments outside NYC). It's a power law distribution...SFBA, then NYC and London a lot lower down, then a long way down with a few places (LA, Seattle, Israel, Beijing/Shanghai for Chinese companies, etc.) punctuating the cliff. And indeed, the terms I've seen from non-SFBA investors are invariably far shittier than anything from SF...valuations are sometimes comparable, but lots of stupid hair on non-SFBA deals, and the bad non-SFBA investors are way way worse than the bad-SFBA investors.

VC terms have gotten less bad over the past 15y, at least among the best firms.