skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exciting stuff! This is (very?) similar what with LX branded zones in SmartOS[1][2] -- and, as I've said before[3] -- we want as many other systems as possible take this approach. That said, we also know how long a haul this is, and how detail-intensive it is. So I've got a bunch of questions. ;) First, is the source available? Second, how much of the One Hundred Language Quine Relay[4] runs successfully? (For us, running that sucker to completion was an important early milestone.) Assuming that runs, my next questions are all common apps/programs that we knew to be especially thorny for one reason or another: Go, strace, tcpdump, systemd, etc. Anyway, it's great to see the SmartOS approach so broadly validated by Microsoft -- and hope that they both finish the job and open source it all!

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx

[2] http://us-east.manta.joyent.com/patrick.mooney/public/talks/...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XQUciI-Sc#t=1h7m15s

[4] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
There are lots of products in this space. Pingdom is the gorilla, and there are lots off smaller companies & free services.

What makes this one different?
Using Spark and Zeppelin to Process Big Data on Kubernetes 1.2
Wow. That sure is complex.
Marketing, buy-in, monetizing Skype, and product placement: The field of AI is ridiculously hot. A Chatbot is the least complex AI to build, but it still qualifies as AI. Hence, if you want to join the hype, a chatbot is a reasonable start. With a few regular expressions and if-then rules you too can build Tay.ai (but only MS can get the press for it). Compare to Microsoft PopFly and Silverlight with rich media. [1] It's also possible that Google releases personal assistants for Google Business in the next few months, and MS picked up on that 6 months ago.

Competition: Facebook is building "M", a personal assistant-style personal assistant. Apple has Siri. Google has Google Now. And MS has Cortana.

Technology: Some (Weasel-word, but I don't want to list names) say that computer vision is now solved. Convnets can predict 1000-class problems with the same accuracy as humans. The deep learning field is now eating away at the fields of reinforcement learning, generative art, and NLP. Recent papers show that it is now possible to create a conversational bot without any hand-crafting of rules.

Military/defense: Both the AI/ML industry and academics are in bed with the military complex. We did not study convnets, to aid the blind, no, we studied convnets, so we could detect terrorists at the border or in public transit. The people working on guided missile systems in the previous generation are now working on unmanned aerial drones. People were interested in fooling convnets, not for the hell of it, but because it is dangerous when a turret mistakes a tank for a puppy. For NLP: DARPA and IARPA want better defense and intelligence technology. The systems to suck up all these global communications are in place, but it still relies on old "dumb" tech, like keyword-matching. It is not able to detect sarcasm, 1337-speak, or code words. That is a big driver behind the attempt to evolve NLP: Terrorists do not need encryption, when they can talk about butchering goats and get lost in the noise, and no one is the wiser.

The Turing-test will forever be a moving goal-post. Mimicking intelligence does not seem to be enough to call machines intelligent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly
Its actually kind of interesting that we dont have a literal "standard base" of tools that any OS should supply.

(unless I am missing something)

But it would make sense that certain things should be doable on literally any computer. grep, find, vi, edit, etc... etc... I cant come up with a complete list - but it would be great to start that direction.
Vaxxed: Tribeca festival withdraws MMR film
Sure. It's not an insurmountable problem. ;)
So how do we get it? I have a laptop set to get "Insider" updates but I don't see the feature anywhere obvious.
Torrent time!
1992 F-150. 4.9 straight six. Upgraded to the ZF-5 five-speed from the Mazda which wore out reverse. 300,000 miles strong. Regularly haul 5000lbs of hay with no issues. No plans on retiring it.
> People in Brazil are rioting on the streets right now because the current president gave immunity to the former president, accused of huge corruption and money laundering allegations.

you don't have that right.

Current government was the first to allow the federal police to go after corrupt politicians, even the ones in office.

that triggered a chain reaction that scared a lot of people (since you pointed out, almost everyone in government is corrupt to some level). Those more corrupt powers (e.g. the candidate that lost to the current president was a drug trafficker) started a bogus impeachment protest that hardly represent what is on the streets. You have manifestations pro-impeachment with 500 people, and against impeachment with 20,000 people, then the press only report about the pro-impeachment one.

What is more interesting? all that seems to be funded by US money. And remember that former and current presidents where the first to forbid american companies to explore Oil in Brazil. It all comes full circle with the article subject.
Then I guess you owe me an apology then, because I haven't been. It just so happens that I've been commenting on relevant stories about iOS Safari bugs.

Pretty horrid really that you assumed such bad faith. I've been commenting on plenty of stories lately, I've hardly been focussed on this one issue. And I've never used a swear word (well, I once used "bloody", but in my culture that's not a swear word).
Probably not what you had in mind, but I found Neal Stephenson's novel Seveneves to be very thought provoking on the subject. I had never thought of inflatables before I read that.
Some tools (docker etc) are typically borne on linux and later (not always) ported to OsX. Nothing you cannot get around with a bit of emulation, of course, but it can be painful at times.

The whole python ecosystem is also better on Linux overall.

Anything strictly desktop-oriented is better on OSX of course.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Microsoft has been trying to extinguish their competition for decades now; what makes you think they're going to be different this time?
It's more complicated than that:

The beta announced a few days back by Docker uses HyperV to boot a Linux kernel to run Linux Docker.

The preview announced around a year ago by Microsoft and Docker is a native Windows implementation of Docker, running on the next Windows OS.

[later]

But...

This new layer should let you run most Linux containers straight on top of the next Windows.

Interesting...
Why Tech Professionals Now Share a Fate with the Working Class
I'll confess ignorance over what exactly the converter does, or how it does it. I don't know anything more than what was announced today. The article says that it converts win32/.net apps into appx packages, and I'd assume that this does encompass 'the meaning that I've laid out'.
Different frameworks provide different pieces, a non exhaustive list:

Front end integrations (Slack, Skype etc)
NLP
Conversation state and context management
Automated knowledge/learning.

etc etc.

I'm in the middle of writing a blog post on this, but https://medium.com/point-nine-news/software-bots-c56aeedcfec... is a good piece to read
In popular usage, pretty much.

I'd object more if it were something like "nuculer" where we're adding in wrong letters to pronounce it wrong, but I really don't care if something is an "app" or a "program".

As far as connotations go, "app" tends to mean a simple single-purpose piece of software, and "program" is an all encompassing legacy blob that takes a dump in 40 different folders because it can't keep its shit together. Not always true, but still what I think of. I tend to use the words that way when the software in question falls into one category or the other.

Will I call Forza an app because it's on the store? Eh, maybe. I'll probably call it a game (does anybody call those "programs"?). Would I call AutoCAD an app if they started distributing it as a UWP package? Less certain. Maybe not. Skype? Absolutely.
Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes

Lots of folks have been interested in how to run common stacks on Kubernetes; this is a great example of how to run a really common scenario (i.e. using your cluster to do Spark processing).
That's a fair point. Easily enforceable by a proper license. One example is ETALAB open data license.
The Japanese bought up US commercial real estate like crazy leading up to 1989. Then they cashed out after the bubble popped. They lost their collective shirt, too, because of the way the timing worked out.
It's just that you made a very specific claim about the nature of environmental risks, that such harms are typically (at their worst) so bad as to be uninsurable.

"typically (at their worst)"?

I'm not even sure what you mean by that. (I have some guesses at what you might be getting at, but they also point to things I didn't say, either).

In order for the environmental damage of industrial disasters to be that bad (above the ~$1 trillion that a reinsurance network could cover), it would also have to be so bad as to justify banning most classes of industrial activity.

(1) I don't agree (nor do I think most people would agree) that all environmental or human disasters have measurable impact (let alone have a dollar value -- even a very high one -- which would suffice to repair or compensate for the loss the incur).

(2) The second half of your statement does not follow from the first.

Which technique do you think that argument is unhelpfully using?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
It is imposed by Google, not the vendor of the broken software.
Hacked Websites Redirect to Porn from PDF / DOC Links
they been saying this for years
Are Checked Bag Prices on Budget Carriers Too Low?
What exactly is win64? The API is still called win32, even if used in a 64-bit executable. Can somebody explain it? Was there a failed win64 API attempt at some point like WinFS and other stuff?
Epictetus' "Enchiridion", the cheap Dover Publications edition, is all many need in getting started with the stoics.
This is how the Harvard Extension School works. Unfortunately, it's backfired on them a little, especially given the staggering admissions process of the other schools in the university, and it's commonly known as "the school that anyone can get into" But passing the first three classes and actually being admitted into the program is very difficult. Most people just use it to take a class or two and leave.
the post office used humans for many years to train OCR models, e.g. zip code readers.

I visited a postal routing facility once in the 90s and saw a long row of metal stationed by about 20 people, 10 to each side. Envelopes passed through on a sort of pneumatic tube-like conveyor, paused in front of a human operator who read a single digit of a zip code, keyed it in and sent the envelope to be read by the next person.
Obscure C++ Features
True, especially with OS X having .app file extensions. I still called them "Applications" more often than not though.
I guess I do misunderstand which ads I'm talking about since I have an ad-free experience.
"C-x C-c... what does that even mean?"
If you want Windows to be Linux users' home, then how isn't it swallowing them and dragging them from an open source environment to a closed source one?

More questions: Will it be backported to Windows 8.1? How does it differ from CoLinux and andLinux?
I imagine that 3) and 5) are hedged by how well Visual Studio is doing.
Interesting - is there an intention to rewrite the whole thing gradually and move away from native? Any reason it's not listed on the React Native site?
> Windows uses drive letters and backslashes, unix has a root filesystem with forward slashes.

Windows also has mountpoints. When I use a Windows system, I pretend that C: is the only drive, and mount external volumes under the root, Unix-style. I then install Cygwin in the C:\ root, creating the illusion of a fairly Unix-ish filesystem layout.
> is it illegal if the bribes are called campaign contributions

no. and yes.

there are donation limits. So what they do, is to create super-PACs and such. which means, lots of little people and companies donate the maximum to the candidate, but all those people and companies all get their money from the same source. So in practice, a single source is brib---donating way more than allowed by law, but legally.
Please distinguish carefully between MSYS and MinGW. MSYS (or MSYS2) programs runs on top of a copylefted compatibility DLL that is suspiciously similar to Cygwin. They must be GPL-compatible. MinGW programs link with MSVCRT. They are compiled by GCC toolchain programs, most of which are MSYS programs.
Don't do this. You will regret installing untracked binaries, sooner or later. The package manager is there to help you. Don't work against it.

Follow the other comments instead. If all you want is the latest version then pin it from unstable, otherwise install from source packages.
Out of curiosity, where are the boundaries of your gray area when it comes to scraping?
Yes, like every other company does today.
microsoft is leveraging FOSS Linux to get Mac users. I think it's a real smart move.

Apple leveraged a form of BSD -nix to get developer mindshare. Now Microsoft is leveraging FOSS Linux to leapfrog Apple. It is a smart move. While OS X isn't bad for -nix-like development, it still involves jumping through hoops and compromises. (Homebrew/Macports)
> Apple is legally a person

it's not government "for the persons"
This. I semi-regularly work from cafe's, etc, and I would never in a million years leave my laptop unattended for any length of time either.
"Resistance Is Futile"
I'm not saying Spotify is a morally bad company for showing these things. It's just my personal taste that creates my own idiosyncratic revulsion... mostly with the advertised playlists.

"No need to stress out. Stay relaxed with these easy, upbeat songs."

"Soul. It's about feeling. It's about authenticity."

"Coffee table jazz. Relax to the sound of jazz."

"Chill hits. New and hot hits for your chill moments."

I'm just saying, like, my preferred Emacs-based music player (Bongo) never shows this kind of inane, awful, soul-crushing babble.
Microsoft is bringing bots to Skype – and everywhere else
What is a negative comment line?
Co-founder here. The big difference, compared with tools like Pingdom, is that we're operating inside your environment. We can tell you where the failure happened and give you tools to fix it. We're like Pingdom for microservice environments, helping developers know their services, inside or outside the firewall, are working as expected.
the "machine", man
You're conflating declarative and functional. It's declarative, yes. But it's not functional because there are no functions. No inputs, no outputs. It's not a programming language. It's just a config file.
System call emulation...

The end goal of this would be to run Docker containers natively on Windows, right?
I think the unfortunate reality is that we're going to have to go through a major, catastrophic climate change event before the narrative of the American right (which is by far the most vocal denier of climate change) changes and we can start making some progress in reversing it.

I only hope that whatever event(s) trigger this policy change are somewhat reversible. Earth is, ironically, going to be the first testbed for terraforming technology.
I used it to repackage an asp mvc angular app onto mobile. Fairly poor experience, like problems with starting up the emulators, etc. You end up writing a lot of gulp scripts to do the conversion - all manual work. I had to convert from old style csproj app onto Cordova that uses project.json scheme - quite tedious if you ask me.
If this really means that any Debian Packages (.deb) and Redhat (.RPM) and Tarballs will run as an integrated part of Windows 10 this is a very big deal. BASH for the Mac OSX and Linux are robust and integrated with the diversity of software development tool-chains. Cygwin and Unixoid brought Windows very close, but having to recompile tool-chain dependencies keeps Windows out of some development shops. Ubuntu compatibility will open up Windows 10 and make it possible for more developers to use Windows 10 machines.If this really means that any Debian Packages (.deb) and Redhat (.RPM) and Tarballs will run as an integrated part of Windows 10 this is a very big deal. BASH for the Mac OSX and Linux are robust and integrated with the diversity of software development tool-chains. Cygwin and Unixoid brought Windows very close, but having to recompile tool-chain dependencies keeps Windows out of some development shops. Ubuntu compatibility will open up Windows 10 and make it possible for more developers to use Windows 10 machines.
I apologise for the inappropriate callout.
> but you still have to go out of your way to find Android devices that are purely FOSS

This is pedantry, and certainly there's a sliding scale of openness for devices. But unless I'm very mistaken, there are no devices available that even approach 'purely FOSS'. What would such an 'Android' phone even be? No google play services, no google play store, crippled and buggy open GPU drivers, and still a proprietary baseband. Not that I'm happy with this situation it just seems impractical.
What are your unordinary/unusual suggestions for finding a technical co-founder?
I know a similar question has been asked/answer before, but thought I'd ask to help others out.

What is a tried and true way to find a technical co-founder for a start-up you're working on?

Let's say the person has not just an app idea, but a live app in the App Store, a business plan, 10k+ downloads, traction, and revenue.

Although this question has been asked many times before, I'm wondering if you have any unordinary/unusual suggestions.

I appreciate your help and hope others can also benefit from this question too!
Is this part of a patent deal between Microsoft and Canonical? Or why would Canonical help them - that' s the only explanation that makes sense. We all know how it works out for companies sleeping in bed with a huge corporation... either the buy you, do an inside job trojan horse style, or compete against you. (Cyanogen, Nokia, Xamarin, Yahoo, Sun, RedHat, Google, Apple, etc) If they buy Canonical and/or RedHat, I would drop Ubuntu/RedHat in a second and would advise everyone to switch to Debian or another independent community driven distro.
I'd write something about my experiences, but it was all so long ago now that I doubt I remember enough details to make it interesting. Still, something like this would be a fun project to do again in some ways. I've even toyed with the idea of doing something like the guy in this talk, but with an AS/400. The biggest reason I never did, other than the size/power/cooling issues, was the software licensing. I imagine an actual OS/400 license is crazy expensive, and if I just wanted a Linux server on vintage hardware, I would just fire up one of my extensive collection of old Sun SPARC boxes. :-)
How is it a bad idea? It's a step to making Linux a more viable platform for software to target and makes life easier for a subset of application developers who already target Linux. I'm sure there will be a few people who would otherwise switch to Linux entirely and may not now, but I would expect this to do more good than harm to Linux.
>centralized clearing house not tied to any single bank. That's the traditional way to get a combined ledger between mistrustful parties.

somehow reminded about opening pages of Cryptonomicon describing an alternative to centralized clearing house. I think that the new block-chain tech being developed by the banks would look and feel surprisingly pretty much the same as the one described by NS :)
So many of these will be replicated by free open source libraries. Thus I am not sure that most these services are that defensible in terms of pricing, if there is a premium over AWS base costs.
After Oracle bought Sun. It was never a part of Solaris 11. I don't know if it's still part of Solaris 10 or not, but even if it is, it's only barely usable.

But it's alive and well (and awesome) in SmartOS, with active work going on to merge it into OmniOS, and eventually will be upstreamed to illumos-gate.
My work uses symlinks to avoid re-downloading 3rd party libraries in different Perforce branches.
Crypto in iOS: Choose your destiny (Infographic)
> WebKit runs on Windows.

WebKit != Safari or Chrome or anything else.

Safari has quirks that you cannot experience without using Safari itself, which you still cannot run without a Mac. When you've wasted hours trying to track down one of these issues and realise it's a Safari quirk you'll understand my annoyance.

> It's not Apple's task to package it nicely for you.

I'm not sure where you get this idea from given that it contradicts the article: "Safari Technology Preview is a standalone application that can be used side-by-side with Safari or other web browsers... It’s a great way to test upcoming WebKit features and give feedback to the people building them when it’s most useful." I'm pointing out my opinion that they cannot meaningfully achieve that result without a Windows implementation.
I mean this stuff: http://i.imgur.com/qb36KVA.png
Looks like he got it running on a Altera DE2-115 board, which has these specs:

114,480 logic elements (LEs)
3,888 Embedded memory (Kbits)
266 Embedded 18 x 18 multipliers
4 General-purpose PLLs
528 User I/Os

[1]: http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=E...
I'm not surprised that they collect data, I'm just wondering what these framework providers are competing for in this space.
It seems like everyone conflates the term monitoring with metrics, so instead of spending a lot of words in our messaging trying to redefine it, we felt it's more straight foward to frame everything around health checks. Hope that answers your question.
Finally the year of the linux desktop then
When biology meets ideology
The NTFS limit is 32768 wchars, though the standard Win32 API doesn't really expose it very well... fingers crossed they used it!
There's no Surface Pro equivalent for OSX (the iPad Pro not running a real OS is too bad), and Mac machines are crazy expensive for what's inside. At least, that's why I switched.
How was the performance? Was it close to Native for your users?
It was filesystem-level corruption in Lustre. The underlying disk arrays and other hardware have comprehensive redundancy.
Your first point describes me exactly (and many other developers I know). I grew up a Windows user, and switched to OS X because of the unix-like command line environment that more closely matched the servers I was working with in my job environments.

I would most likely switch back to Windows as my primary/only machine (because I also like to play video games sometimes) if I had the same kind of unix-like command line environment that I get in OS X.

Right now I basically need 2 computers at home to meet all my needs, but this would allow me to reduce it to one, so I could get a much better one (instead of the 2 mid-range ones I have now).
I think it's more of a collect everything now, and we can sort it later. NLP would be the first guess for me too.
Thank you a lot. I'll try Tumbleweed.
Like Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Sandy? Or the streets of Miami flooding? I don't think anything is going to change a denier's minds if they don't want to. We just have to try and fix it without them.
> "NT is the only major OS I know of that has always had personality subsystems."

In what way is a "subsystem" different than a "library" or a "process" or a "driver" (if it runs in kernel space)?

Any process can use the native API. What's special about a "subsystem"?