skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is partly why I'm interested in fanless models now, such as the Asus Zenbook (CA/FA line afaik). Do we need moving parts in laptops any more?
Twitter finally has a business model! Who knew that source code hosting would be the killer app?
Docker for Windows relies on Hyper-V
That's why you use multiple providers.
Perhaps it's my poor Dutch, but your link does not say that.
Tay is more a reflection of the interwebs of today, than the culture or values of Microsoft. I think we should be cautious about our conclusions.
Microsoft is still subject of US jurisdiction, having few hosting locations outside US will not change that.

It would be reckless for any non-US government to use any non-local services. (For exactly this reason, governments usually build their own datacentres).
I'm curious if npm's published statistics like "downloads in a day", "downloads in the last month" include copies from a local cache.
As mentioned in the linked blog post, they're using Hyper-V as their hypervisor on Windows (it's a direct counterpart to xhyve on OSX, except entirely built into the OS).

The Docker for Mac and Windows beta does not use VirtualBox on either platform.
75% of Ikea’s Catalog Is Computer Generated Imagery
Perhaps it would be possible to attack this market using a different approach. The classic startup path is approximately --> geeks hammer out MVP product, get some funding and try to grow as quickly as possible, and either go big or fail.

I got this idea after watching the Vice interview with Martin Shkreli (obviously not a role model)[1]

Shkreli made the leap from hedge funds (betting against pharma companies) into becoming the CEO of a pharma company, which apparently does research in addition jacking up the prices of HIV drugs (Shkreli actually gives out chemistry lessons on youtube[2]).

So maybe some geeks could try getting funding, buy up some underappreciated, undervalued but already FDA approved drugs, and using the cashflow to do further research, or develop cool new products or services in the healthcare space instead of the traditional, risky route. (I'm not advocating jacking up the prices of critical lifesaving drugs obviously).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PCb9mnrU1g

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQljHkKuC2I
Why the FB login?

I hit Command-w in the second I saw the FB login without any demo or feature section. Good luck with your bounce rate.
try again, and try doing a hard refresh (i needed to)
I never said I like PHP. I use it daily for work and hate it. I was just refuting something on a factual basis -- PHP's "standard library" is absolutely enormous.
It's not fully mutable. You can't change the code of a particular version, for example. The particular problem with left-pad was that npm is mutable in one way: deleting packages.
How to upgrade to Rails 5
Just add a second dns provider.
"If your dependency tree sucks, that's a personal problem. It's not npm, JavaScript or node's fault. That's like blaming git because you pushed some crappy code."

How is it even remotely similar? In one case it's all your code and in the other it's none of your code.
Docker uses LXC containers. In Linux, these aren't VMs and are light weight user-land separations that use things like cgroups and lots of really special kernel modules for security.

Unfortunately, this means Docker only runs on Linux .. not even Linux...special Docker Kernel Linux (all the features they need are in the stock Kernel tree, but it's still a lot of modules). In Windows/Mac, you still need to run in a virtual machine.

Even with this update...you still need to run in a virtual machine. It's not actually running Docker natively. It can't, even on Mac which has a (not really) *NIX-sh base. You have to then use the docker0 network interface to connect to all your docker containers.

In Linux, you can just go to localhost. I _think_ FreeBSD has native Docker support with some custom kernel modules. I'm not sure...I've only looked at the Readme. I haven't tried it.

So even in Windows/Mac, all your containers do run in one VM (where as with traditional stuff you mentioned, you'd need a VM for each thing). Docker containers are meant to handle one application (that it runs as root within its container as the init process ... cause wtf?). With VMs, you'd typically want some type of configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc.) that sets up apps on each VM/server. With Docker, each app should be its own container and you link the containers together using things like Docker compose or running them on CoreOS or Mesos.

In my work with Docker, I'm not sure how I feel. LXC containers have had a lot of security issues. Right now, Docker doesn't have any blaring security holes and LXC has increased security quite a bit. CoreOS is pretty neat and I wouldn't use docker in production without it or another container manager (the docker command by itself still cannot prune unused images. After a while you get a shit ton of images that just waste space you're not using. CoreOS prunes these at regular intervals. A docker command to do this is still a Github issue. Writing one yourself with docker-py is horribly difficult because of image dependencies).

Oh and images. Docker uses images to build things up like building blocks. That's a whole thing I don't want to go into, but look it up. It's actually kind of interesting and allows for base image updates to fix security issues (although you still need to rebuild your containers against the new images ... I think...I haven't looked into that yet).

Docker is ... interesting. I find it lazy in some ways. I think it's better to build packages (rpms, debs). FPM makes this really easy now. Combine packages with a configuration management solution (haha..yea they all suck. Puppet, Ansible, CFEngine...they're different levels of horrible. Ansible so far has pissed me off the least) and you can have a pretty solid deployment system. In this sense, Docker does kinda make more sense than handling packages. You throw your containers on CoreOS/Mesos and use Consul for environment variables and you can have a pretty smooth system.

I dunno. I'm trying to actually like Docker. I've only made fun of it in the past, but now I work for a shop that uses it in production. O_o

:-P
"People try to buy software businesses with “no money down.” (“Will you loan me the entire purchase price of the business? I’ll pay you back over the next 3 years. Promise!”)"

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While I see why you would have run away from that particular structure, I'm curious as to how flexible you might have been from a straight lump sum structure

If I was buy a business like this, willing to accept $X as money down, some % percentage of revenue for Y months, until you were paid Z amount, with some contingencies built in would look pretty attractive

a sellers willingness to agree to terms like that would send a pretty strong signal that they weren't selling a lemon

as a buyer, I'd be willing to commit to a Z price significantly higher than what I'd be willing to commit as a lump sum up front

if the seller believed in the business, (and I guess were able to substantiate that I had enough ability no to drive the business into the ground) it seems like such a structure would net the seller more as well

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I'd love to hear your thoughts about how receptive you might have been to an offer like that
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> Second, you would be surprised at the amount of information even small sample sizes can provide when there is great uncertainty about the true data distribution.

This isn't about sampling error, this is about inverting conditionals while ignoring base rates. This is like saying 'one third of surveyed Somalis in America report living in Minnesota, therefore, one-third of Minnesota is Somalian'. That conclusion doesn't follow, whether you surveyed 10 Somalis or 1000.

That is, there is no reason to expect P(Vancouver purchase|Chinese) = P(Chinese|Vancouver purchase) = 0.33.

If that number happens to be right, it is by coincidence; it only works if you are lucky enough that the relative sizes of Chinese buyers and Vancouver sales are just right. (Specifically, that the size of the Chinese buyer population is identical to the size of Vancouver sales; if there are a million Chinese buyers worldwide and a million Vancouver sales over that same period, and a third of Chinese buyers say they bought in Vancouver, then yes, a third of Vancouver sales will be to Chinese.)

If you knew two of the three variables of global Chinese size/Vancouver sales size/P(Vancouver purchase|Chinese), even if you just had a vague but defensible prior, you could (weakly) estimate the third. But in isolation, each variable means nothing.
I know Red Hat is making a ton of money. But, CoreOS and Docker, are they at the "making a ton of money" stage, or merely well-funded by investors?
In any case, I presented a simple, concrete implementation. Checking is built-in - if the photon goes path with bomb, then I am dead (due to this bomb). If goes the path where is a detector - then I won. No need to create a "checking machine" distinct from the one generating quantum states.
You run your own authoritative DNS servers?
How do you get on with the CPU - is the Core M series much different in practice?
It's my understanding that nearly everyone who went to jail for Watergate was incredibly angry at Nixon for throwing them under the bus and letting them actually do time.

If Nixon was a bigoted racist or just a really bad president, is hard to tell from a guy with a huge ax to grind and waiting 40 years to spill the beans.
I want it to be called citrus, which is what I always read it as....
The resolution is, for any app/startup/business everything is a risk and if you didn't include the edge-case of "What happens if my primary DNS nameserver goes down for my domain?" into account. Is all you can do is blame DO?

If your app goes down do you have failover for that? Or do you blame your devops team?
I have actually had printing fail more frequently on Windows than on Linux. Printers are quirky.
I doubt that was the primary goal... more of a "happy" side effect...
Textbook False-Flag tactic
"We do not know probable cause" could easily become "neural nets are a statistical technique, here's the case law supporting it." This is why AI, as a field, is known as machine learning these days. Not because of substantive changes in content, but primarily due to the complicated and poorly-understood implications of the word "intelligence".
Is that first hand?
I think the problem is in npm and not in the micro-modules.

Writing isomorphic, cross-browser code in a language full of edge-cases, like JavaScript is hard.

Oneline function, but 20 lines of tests and another 20 test environments.

The solution should not come from people that write only front-end JS code. I'm waiting for a response by the libraries that were broken by left-pad.
We feel the pain as well as our platform is unreachable. I'm now using an other DNS server and changed the nameserver in the domain-record. However the DNS propagation is taking some time. What are you doing at the moment as fail-over?
1. You shouldn't encrypt passwords. https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/08/you-wouldnt-base64-a-pass...

2. Blowfish and bcrypt are totally separate, if that's what you meant.

3. It has a 64-bit block size.
I've seen this with my own two eyes. When asked why they removed the unit test they said after they made some rather extensive code changes the tests were failing so they deleted them. Nor was there any trace of irony in their response. When asked didn't they realize that was the whole point of having unit tests they replied that they knew, but they had deadlines to meet and there wasn't enough time. Since controls had been put in place to not ship with failing unit tests but not to check for test coverage they took the easy way out and deleted the tests. I informed management what they had done and thankfully they were relieved of their contract and their consulting company was informed what they had done. I don't know what happened to them after that.

Thing is, once the PM was informed what they had done we did a couple of sprints where we restored the unit tests (which we still had in our history) and got them passing. They had no idea the consultants were doing such shoddy work in order to meet deadlines. The upside of all this is to this day that PM now actively checks the Jenkins dashboard to see the current state of tests and that no tests have been deleted - and that's for all his projects not just that one particular projects. Now that the story is part of our IT lore the new consultants get the message loud and clear we're not afraid to send them packing.

In the end this turned out to be a good story for us - but wow.
This if exactly the perspective at funding large projects at IBM Research. Interesting that the industry R&D labs fund more like top VCs in that regard.
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That isn't true at all, it's about a lot of things depending on the organization. It can be simultaneously "all about sales", or "all about marketing" or "all about software" or "all about verticals" or "all about data science" or "all about cloud" or "all about in memory databases"....

It's a huge company, it's all about a tremendous number of things depending on where your focus is.
Linux VM of course but not virtual box!
Docker for Windows is built on top of Hyper-V.
This is an implementation of the MIPS Warrior P5600 from Imagination Technologies.
His blog is gone now, but if people had spent 2 minutes reading his writings before he joined the FCC, they wouldn't have been surprised when he was a strong backer of Net Neutrality. The guy is imminently reasonable, made a bunch of money investing in disruptive tech companies, and appears to be an excellent bureaucrat.
What is less worthwhile for a person to think about than the existence of aliens? Sure, solve world hunger, figure out inter-space travel, light-years distant communication mechanisms, prevent cancer, war, poverty.... Last I checked, aliens weren't threatening the continuation of our species, or even leaving the lid up after a visit to the john for that matter.

How did this tinfoil-hat ridiculous article even make it into Hacker news!?
None of the OpenSSL vulnerabilities that were published in the past few years affected its AES implementation.
Put the power in users hands
For the sake of the argument lets say I vendor my code (notice that this is 1.4.2 golang and most vendoring tools were formed around 1.5), This doesn't help a guy that tries today to start a new project on Google AppEngine/Go using Google code. Major functionality is broken in the sense that he can't compile his code. Google Samples (and from official documentation) is broken. How vending helps in that case?
What will discovering one alien race tell us about other aliens? Can we predict anything about the next unknown species discovered on earth?
Previously and better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330587
Thanks; that's helpful though not entirely convincing. Has anyone asked John Ehrlichman (the person quoted) about it?
There's a lot of discussion in the article about AI and improved efficiencies, but I wonder how much is due to real improvement and how much is simply the result of increasing prices and cutting pay, both of which are also cited.
Yeah, just GPG with Keybase and some place to publish the messages.

Trustworthy people wouldn't approve releases automatically... but then, who's trustworthy?

Like Pynchon wrote, paranoia is the garlic of life...
From @DOStatus a minute ago:

"Our engineering team has identified the issue, and are working to resolve connectivity issues to our DNS servers.... http://do.co/status"

https://twitter.com/DOStatus/status/713043871559655424
'self' here is the wider HN community... hence the 'self' regulation.
You're just as equally naive to trust someone with strong industry ties just because they do you a couple of favors in a couple of years. I'll be looking at his entire tenure in that position before I decide that he's the industry's worst nightmare.
I would also add, never sacrifice your health in general for a job. It should be possible to maintain a healthy diet, exercise regimen, sleep schedule, social life, relaxation techniques, and perhaps still have a bit of time for other hobbies.
Twisting light slows it down
Most police are not the kind of police you see on COPS. If COPS imitated real life, most of the episode would be spent filling out paperwork or giving citations.
Who are the customers that are going to leave your SaaS app?
Of course I had to look after that attack on his choice of domain name.

It's explained here: http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b083212130155b748c778508..., and kind of seems to make sense, be somewhat funny, and not match your vague accusations of triteness.
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Building a high-throughput data science machine
Microsoft Surface phone rumours
Eighteen months from now: left-pad announces massive reduction in workforce. 1150 laid off.
F6S to give up to $20B in free services to top startup founders
I think the author messed up a classic "Doomsday argument" [1] style estimate which wouldn't depend upon the distribution. I see no way to recover the attempt, though. (I assume that's what the author was going for, given the precision of the estimate along with the use of 95% and 20% which are almost the standard doomsday argument values: that we're 95% certain that the total number of humans ever is at most 20 times (not 20%) the number that have existed before us.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
Actually, the HN guidelines say that most stories about politics are off-topic, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon (which isn't really the case here). There is a general bias against political posts and discussion here.
Alice and Bob have their quantum fingerprints checked
Nixon on Blacks and Jews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmFnIruDig
Introducing conservative-pad 0.4
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My hyperbole was making fun of your silly statement that your 5 year old computer out performs all the hardware that Apple makes[1]

My phone is more powerful than any PC[2]

I am the richest man in Seattle[3]

> The idea that I could replace my PC with an iPad pro is just plain wrong.

I'll take your word on that. But that isn't true for all PC users. I have a pretty beefy machine, not the latest and greatest, but a hex-core, 12gb, 960gtx and dual 30" monitors, which I use wholly for gaming. Youtubing, videoing, etc, have all moved to my ipad+appletv, and with my PS4, I finally feel like I have a console that provides a real crisp gaming experience. So I'm ready to no longer maintain my $2k PC, and switch to something like a SteamMachine.

[1] if you exclude the MacPro.

[2] made before the year 2000

[3] if you exclude the people that have more money than I do.
>`left-pad.io` is 100% REST-compliant as defined by some guy on Hacker News with
maximal opinions and minimal evidence.

Wonderful
Could you expand on it a bit?
On the contrary, I said he was the reason why everything was put in motion in the first place. If anything I questioned his initial motives. If you follow politics you'd know what was the mood in the WH right after Obama lost the senate and how he felt the need to reassert himself. A lot of good has come from that.
Well, for that, obviously you have to also buy a printer.
Now they are downvoting everyone commented here. Pathetic!
There's no question that he was a bigoted racist. The question is whether he created the war on drugs to criminalize black activists and the left.

edit: for example, he was against abortion, but he thought there should be an exception for rape and interracial parentage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/us/politics/24nixon.html
Interface would probably be nice for a Reddit client.
Interesting to see that at least one of the Mirage unikernel hackers (avsm) has been working on this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11352594

I imagine a lot of this work will also be useful for developers wanting to test all sorts of unikernels on their Mac and Windows machines.
Your puns aren't far behind. As I said, if you follow politics you'd know what was the mood in the WH right after Obama lost the senate and how he felt the need to reassert himself. A lot of good has come from that.
I think hearing from a reasonable person is better than just getting a Cease & Desist letter.
Well, one test would be to look at how the law has been applied since it was instituted. Has the law been used to target mostly leftists and minorities?
Ask people who work at Uber about "surge seating" or what time dinner is served!
Times like this makes you realize the difference betweeen good clients and bad clients. Yes, they have a right to be upset but claims like "could be losing thousands of dollars" is mostly exagerrated due to their frustration.
This is pretty good advice and I've had some personal success with it, my problem is I get anxious over really minor situations.

Simple conversations with people, too many people being in a room, stuff that I really don't need to be amped for, I just don't want to feel like I should run away as fast as my sprinter sticks will go.
Tony Fadell's struggle to build Nest
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As I recall the majority of passengers on the Concorde flights were businesspeople, the pricing made it prohibitive to regular consumers. But yes, to me it would be a cool experience to save the pennies and get a ticket.
It seems like the thing to do would be for the community to build up a single set of commonly used functions. Having one authoritative package would make that package CDN-friendly, which should cut down on the bytes-downloaded problem; and if it becomes popular enough, it could eventually be bundled with browsers or rolled into the standard for the language itself.

You could call it a "standard library."
garbage_stain is only refuting a very small part of the entire website. Imagine the amount of effort to properly refute the entire website addressing each BS point.
The Farallons are a pretty intense little outcropping just off the coast. Doesn't make it any more appealing that it's a mecca for Great Whites.
If we discovered other aliens we'd have a sample size of two at least, which would enable us to say something a little more meaningful about the distribution of life in the universe.

As far as discovering species on Earth: we have many data points there so it's much easier to make meaningful predictions.

So far we don't even know for certain that there is other life in our galaxy. For all we know life may occur at a rate of, say, once per galaxy per billion years, and then only survive long enough to evolve to any significant level of complexity 10-20% of the time. Personally I doubt it's that low, but we have no evidence for either side of the argument. It amounts to just intuition at this point.
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ever since yahoo's activities concerning china and political dissenters [1] (though this isn't the only reason to dislike them), i've never engaged with their services. i admit to a bit of schadenfreude when coming across news of any troubles they face.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Yahoo!#Outing_of_...
But what about a bot, particularly one that is powered by the type of AI that is complex enough to make its own inferences and form its own conclusions based on the data presented, rather than being fed a bunch of rules?

That bot then figures out that, in aggregate, we're all a bunch of assholes, then something something Skynet.
So this sounds similar to Pivotal's Greenplum which is also open source, can anyone compare the two?
They treat corporate employees (not drivers) fairly well, according to friends who work there. I'd be interested in hearing if you have experience to the contrary.
Thanks for your feedback!

I'm working on the about us page. I'll add it soon.