skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with your points, I think the ongoing assumption we can effectively emulate the emotional response of the ones who are actually are affected is starting to really get in the way. The expectation humanity can eliminate all suffering is unreasonable. That expectation is, in my humble option, an inefficiency driven by unreasonable sympathy. When I say "unreasonable" I mean laying blame where it isn't ours to lay. Consider the cost of unbounded empathy.

The Internet, and systems we are building, contributed to the unbounding.

Now the employees...they have a right to feel whatever they want about all this. They are the ones experiencing this, as you so well point out.
> What makes you think this sub-population owns massively more guns in the US?

Research. For instance, Holland has the lowest gun ownership in Western Europe (1.9%).[0]

In the US overall according to Pew, "blacks are only about half as likely as whites to have a firearm in their home (41% vs. 19%)".[1]

Among "secular urban bike riding pot tolerant gay tolerant coastal residents" in the US—let's call them "liberals"—23% of homes have at least one gun. According to the [Pew 2014] survey, "southerners are just about as likely as those living in the Midwest or the West to have a gun at home (38% vs. 35% and 34%, respectively)"[1], (with the exception of the NE, which is about 1/3 lower), so I think it's reasonable to assume that "coastal" liberals in, say, CA (where I live) are around that 20% mark. There's absolutely no way they are at 1.9% like Holland. Even if CA liberals owned guns just at 3.8%, that would still be twice what Holland has.

However, it's most likely that Holland-like people, culturally-speaking (liberal, pot/gay friendly, coastal, like bikes) in the US own guns at approx. a 7-10x greater rate than do people in Holland proper. There's also no dispute that the rate of violent crime is similar among these two populations. (As it turns out, Holland has a higher violent crime rate than other European countries with substantially higher gun ownership, suggesting that higher gun ownership in Europe might contribute to a reduction in violent crime.)

Regarding your suggestion that I'm a racist, I don't think violent crime is a white-black thing in the US (as you suggest), I think it's a cultural thing. Why? Well, if you treat blacks as one "race" from a stats perspective (i.e. if you're a racist), you get rather useless statistics. If instead you divide blacks up culturally—say, into "inner-city African Americans" and "recent immigrants from Africa" among others—you see very different crime statistics as well, i.e. it's not race—being black—that seems to be the controlling factor for violent crime, it's culture. That's why racism is so stupid: the stats just don't indicate that there even is such a thing as "the black race" that you can make meaningful aggregate statements like "violent crime" about.

So. If you treat the US with a broad brush when it comes to violent crime, it's very easy to come to the mistaken belief that "guns" are the problem, or even "a" problem—the stats indicate STRONGLY that guns are not a problem. Instead, cultural (not racial!) propensity towards violent crime is the problem.

That means that if we want to reduce violent crime, reducing gun ownership among "secular urban bike riding pot tolerant gay tolerant coastal residents" by 10x isn't going to make a difference—they're basically non-violent already.

[0] http://www.calgunlaws.com/myths-of-european-gun-laws/

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/15/the-demograp...
Is it the same reason? Doesn't OS X allow you to replace the system bash?

If someone breaks their init with this replacement, Apple can always say "reinstall the OS". But if you're talking about a car that has crashed that's a different PR problem...
Agreed: too many sites peg a CPU core because of either badly behaved ads, or badly behaved JavaScript. I don't mind if it's highly interactive content and I'm, y'know, interacting with it, but when I'm just reading an article or whatever it gets pretty irritating.
I agree with you in regards to r/news moderators acting badly recently, but does reddit or it's users need or want 25 r/The_Donald links on the front page? I don't think so. Reddit has a right to exert some editorial control.
"We updated our findings with the recent improvements in Android M (Marshmallow), and recently released a solution for Android’s USB audio and MIDI challenges, opening a market of 1.1 billion devices for pro audio application creators."

Those are two separate things:

1. Updated analysis on the latency with regards to Marshmallow.

2. Superpowered USB Audio and MIDI SDK opens a market of 1.1 billion devices.
I'm glad it worked out for you. That's great.

But what would you have done if one of those friends had stopped coming to the office. Or just did bad work. Would you have let them stay on forever or would you eventually have fired them? That's the difference between family and a team.
Interesting topic, tedious article. Paraphrasing:

Q: What's a generative model?

A: Well, we have these neural nets and...

Ugh. I understand the excitement for one's own research but if the point is to make these results accessible to a wider audience then it's important not to get lost in the details, at least not right away. IMO, there's very little here in the way of high-level intuition. If I did not already have a PhD, and some exposure to ML (not my area), I would probably find this article entirely indecipherable. Again, paraphrasing:

Q: OK, so I understand you want to create pictures that resemble real photos. And you really like this DCGAN method, right?

A: Yes! See, it takes 100 random numbers and...

Come on guys. You can do better.
Maybe not us individuals, but I bet if trigger becomes really popular to the point where its rules actually have an impact on the market, then access to that rule database might be worth quite a lot.
You an also manage your Firefox profiles using the about:profiles page.
Why not do smart things such as requiring fire resistant exterior materials?

This seems like yet another issue of baking the solution in to the specification instead of just asking for what you actually need/want.
That's assuming what they do is straight e-mail support. I'm not sure what a happiness hero does but they might be expected to do much more than e-mail support. In many companies the "success manager" role tends to require people with more education and technical background to do in-depth troubleshooting and real customer interaction.
Show HN: A Visual Guide to Graph Traversal Algorithms
That's interesting. How do you brute force all possible Fractran programs when they take natural numbers? Did you have an upper limit like 10,000?
For debugging you can use qemu, and for "hypervisor level orchestration" you can use CloudFormations with AWS.

Maybe I'm missing something?
Well said. I've done the same thing, and fought to make it standard department wide. I'm a dev, I -want- to do the right thing, but sometimes management insists on cutting corners. Fine, but the interest payments on that technical debt should be upon their head.
I'd say no relationships, including family relationships, should be maintained if they aren't in the long-term self-interest of all parties.

In other words, every relationship is a trading relationship, and the currency of the realm isn't always, or even often, monetary in nature.
I make https://weedtraqr.com/ - we are operational in Washington and Oregon - and now apparently compete with MS.

The company Microsoft is working with (Agrisoft) doesn't even operate in WA, or OR yet. And has been sold like two times in the last two years (first to Surna[0] then to Kind[1])

Additionally their "partnership" is really just Agrisoft getting free Azure hosting. The headline is very click-bait.

[0] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/surna-inc-acquires-m...

[1] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kind-financial-acqui...
At the end of the day, most individual investors feel a relationship with the brands and companies they love, and often times they express their support by buying shares. For any individual investor who owns single stock or likes do it themselves, there are very little tools to help you invest responsibly. Trigger is trying to take the emotion out of investing, as the pros do. As a former trader, this is the most important lesson when investing, to set rules, levels and events ahead of time to make your actions more disciplined. We encourage investors to trade via triggers, instead of being driven by fear or greed.
OT: I stopped using Buffer since they've imposed limits on the free accounts. Any suggestions for alternatives?
The Invisible Forces Behind All of Our Decision-Making
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car

aerodynamics on a car taken to the extreme, to the extent that it has cameras and LCDs instead of side/rear view mirrors.
Yeah, I'm getting some rather high latency on my inputs.
Thinking outside of the box with NGINX series – geo command
> Remember, the stock market is just gambling.

That's quite a claim, where's the evidence to back it? There are funds[1] that have consistently beat the market every year for decades, their very existence disproves the gambling hypothesis.

> What do you know that the pros do not?

You're not playing the same game as the pro's so it doesn't really matter. Hedge fund/mutual fund managers are playing with millions/billions of dollars which requires massive liquidity and carefully planned entries and exits over a period of time in order to not move the price too much; that's a completely different game than what a retail investor plays and that means retail investors can chase profits in areas too small for the big guys to play in.

In other words, you don't have to beat the big guys, you're not fishing in the same pond nor playing the same game. Retail investors can enter and exit trades instantly without having to worry about liquidity or slippage, two concerns that dominate the big guys strategies. When you're small, you're nimble in a way the big guys can't be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
1Password rocks! Really smooth UI.
Risky South Pole mission: retrieve sick scientists from research station
crontab is the easiest part. It's the integration to the moving targets that are social media APIs that you are paying for.
$4,000 would barely cover business-class airfare between SF<->Berlin for one employee. Not to mention accommodations, event space, meals and entertainment.
I really like the transparency and accountability.

Two questions: Why are the two loans necessary? And, how does a loan get counted as savings?

> Leo and I are committing $100k each in the form of a loan at the lowest possible interest rate, with repayment only when Buffer reaches a healthy financial position. Savings: $200,000.
Show HN: Onboard new hires like a boss
Inspired by HN posts like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10890032 we set out to make an onboarding platform that helps teams design and implement effective onboarding workflows.

I'm reaching out to the HN community for feedback on our private beta. I'd really like to connect with those that have struggled with onboarding in the past to see if our tool can help.

If you're interested in trying the product, tweet at me on twitter @raykanani :)

Product link http://www.qrtrmstr.com/
Hang on - proteins folding "unpredictably" as per a prion is not evidence of solving of NP completeness in that "problem". Also, while prions might do that, it's not clear to me that there is much evidence that their folding is "unpredictable" in any rigorous way. Can you cite a reference?
That store uses GreenBits
I've both layed people off and been laid off.

I have a pretty good idea of what both sides feel like.

Both sides suck. Really bad. It hurts like hell. Probably worse to be layed off than do the laying off.
My rule is this : if I have equity then I am family. No equity, I am just an employee.
That's too bad, but glad I read the comments. It's becoming pretty rare to see a product "launch" without having an app for both sides
This is a great step in the right direction -- though it is not enough. Different identities would still be going through the same IP (not much one can do about that). But some things that can be solved are NOT addressed with containers:

- everything panopticlick uses (fonts list, plugin lists, timezone, agent, etc.)

- everything panopticlick doesn't use, but the bad guys do (aa font signatures, ...)

- plugin abuse - e.g., Flash 'cookies', Silverlight 'isolated storage', Java JNLP properties

- see EverCookie[0] for more things that have been known to occur in the wild (and remember it is outdated). the article mentions cache is not shared, but e.g. HSTS pinning is. evercookie easily pierces through this system.

Since 2005 or so, I have had different users for different purposes; Not sure how well it works on Windows these days (it used to not work at all back in 2005) - but on Linux, it's just a "sux - otheruser" or "sudo -u otheruser" command away, and it is well isolated on the web side[1]

[0] https://samy.pl/evercookie/

[1] Full X11 isolation requires a lot more effort - but luckily it seems that recent browsers don't let websites abuse that
I feel like Erlang-based unikernels are an extremely compelling alternative to traditional UNIX deployments. Immutable systems with safe hot swap and excellent debugging tools like `observer` and `debugger`.
How many times do I have to get annoyed at my kid for waking up in the middle of the night before you're OK with me kicking him out of the house? Keep in mind that he is currently 11 months old...
The worst thing is that we can't stop it when it will be too late. This doesn't work like a switch. Even if we would drastically cut all CO2 emission those levels would not drop in our lifetimes.
The point seemed pretty clear to me from reading the article: The author is questioning whether zoning laws actually reflect what we want in a city, given that they would prevent well-liked places such as Somerville from having been built the way they are.
It's too bad that when paperless voting machines first started to become common, no one foresaw the possibility that unauditable voting machines might be subject to malicious tampering.
Whitepages.com has a "associated with" that contains all sorts of relatives without social media accounts or Internet access and that's just public. Your name probably ended up in an obituary at some point in time They scammer surely has access to the paid private databases, same as the PIs and background check companies use. You know those "verify your identity" questions you get asked when opening a bank account or something? Those "what was your car payment for your 2005 Toyota Corolla" questions? One of them asked me who I knew and one of the choices was my ex. How we got linked in a database is beyond me. We never shared an address, bank account, credit card, last name, nothing. We weren't even all that serious. There's so much info out there in databases. No need to jump to totally unfounded conclusions.
"Buffer may have thought it was different, but that flow-chart of how they decided who to layoff was entirely about how an employee can help the company, not how the layoff would affect the employee."

I read that chart differently, they are retaining their longest tenure staff in each area without regard for ability. Seems a lot more "family" like to me.
I have mixed emotions with Buffer's shtick. On the one hand there's something fresh and unique about it. On the other, I think: just put your heads down and get to work serving customers!

I'm guessing the main benefit of the open-ness is marketing. I doubt it helps the company much beyond that.
Hate story of husband and wife
No, it's actually not.

Cassandra is not columnar db. It means if you need all user_id from your table Cassandra will scan all your data (e.g. 10PB) on disks. But ClickHouse will only scan 1 column file (e.g. 10GB).

ClickHouse is Russian Kudu.
>The 1/2 loaf probably costs 3/4 of what a full loaf does.

Correct. I'm not going to pay more for less which is why I end up throwing away surplus. I hate being wasteful of food - but I hate being wasteful of my money (and my time) even more.

In addition to that, in the U.S your size options are "buy a whole loaf" or "buy a different brand of whole loaf". Bread comes pre-packaged in a twist-tied (or clip-on) bag as a whole loaf. Unless you visit a bakery or the grocery store you visit has a bakery section.
^^^THIS is an absolutely great comment. I realise this isn't the major thrust of it, but it's the single best description of what containerisation is, and what problem it solves, that I've ever seen.
Well, I am apparently massively underpaid.

And I have to commute to work. Lose-lose.
Costa Coffee funny customers
New paper claims that the EM Drive doesn't defy Newton's 3rd law after all
The argument isn't about building code (e.g. safety standards) but more so zoning about neighborhood character. The author's point is that the type of higher density housing that actually makes up Somerville could not be built under current zoning laws even if safe and allowed under modern building code.

Now, it's entirely possible the dataset the author is using to justify his position actually covers things that are safety issues.
At my company we had non-technical staff that had to update a YAML file to post editorial content to the homepage and mobile apps. For an engineer, IT person, etc, this is trivial. Not so for other people. I had to spend so much time supporting this I replaced it with Contentful (an API-based CMS). These are the kind of pain points that companies like Buffer try to solve.
a-saleh is correct. Regarding Go and Elixir, I think Ruby / Python seem them and think "wow, I can program in a familiar style and I get performance and concurrency!" Haskell etc. people look at them and think "this smells."
I suspect that the performance of a unikernel on a hypervisor vs an application on a POSIX system is somewhat analogous to the performance of hardware RAID vs ZFS. The performance of the abstraction used in the former is inherently worse than the performance of the abstraction used in the latter. The example of memory partitioning gives the latter a price/performance advantage and it is not the only one. I would be happy to be proven wrong though.
That was just a joke. I think haberman is spot on that both x86 and Unix are crufty in their own ways and thus cruftiness isn't a good metric to judge these abstractions on.
Not OP, but deferpanic is pretty invested in the Go ecosystem according to their past HN posts.
People would if the cost was sufficiently defrayed -- this is just a financial instrument problem.

That might make the first reuse flight unprofitable for SpaceX, but not as unprofitable as one with no payload.
Synthesizing a Plucked String Sound with the Karplus-Strong Algorithm
More recently:

"Aiming for first reflight in Sept/Oct." as of June 7th.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/740296489532948480
I think the problem you are facing is that you have made some pretty outlandish claims with some basis in fact but also with some embellishments as to your role in all this and that HN has a whole pile of old timers on board many of who might have been present as other parties to those very same happenings. Likely they have long ago figured out who you really are.

That coupled with a hatred for rich people, the '1%' as you call them, and the fact that almost every major development in computing - according to you - in the last 20 years had your hand in it makes it hard to believe anything you say.

Maybe just stick to the facts, leave out the embellishments. For instance 'your time at NeXT' was just a single year but if we're to believe your comments then you were the guy that singlehandedly saved NeXT, Apple, Linux and Oracle to boot and if it weren't for a small glitch in your thinking we might have had global internet some years earlier.

It seems a bit much for one person, even if they've been quite active, Forrest Gump was fiction, not a biography.
What are Happiness Heros? Customer service or HR?
What open source columnar storage do you use for 100 trillion records? It's very impressive.
You're focussing on a nit. The situation is not "the neighbourhood is generally fine, but would need some tweaks for the fire code"

The situation is: it's impossible to build a neighbourhood resembling somerville under current zoning laws.

I live in a prewar neighbourhood in Montreal. It's dense, beautiful, and loved by locals and tourists alike. If you could clone it and build it elsewhere, it would be worth trillions to cities across North America.

But it's illegal to build, because the streets are too narrow, there isn't enough parking, there is a mix of residential buildings and businesses, the buildings aren't set back far enough, and so on.
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do you have integration with IB ?
The insurance companies which insure commercial telecom satellite launches are EXTREMELY risk averse - I would be surprised if you see a commercial launch in any of the first eight re-uses of first stages. Government/science payload/R&D, yes. LEO or geostationary transfer orbit commercial, no.

edit: you might see a commercial flight with a never-flown-before prototype commercial satellite bus (example: like a geostationary bus the size of a boeing 702 with a novel never before tested type of ion propulsion stationkeeping system, or a new battery system, or something else weird).
Linux Sucks 2016
> Never before had an ancient manuscript alluded to Jesus’s being married.

yeah, because the church tried to suppress the gospels: thomas, mary, judas, and 30+ others; that contained contrarian views to their goals

one goal being the subordinate status of women

the gospel of mary sits blatantly in the face christian doctrine:

Chapter 9(o)

1) When Mary had said this, she fell silent, since it was to this point that the Savior had spoken with her.

2) But Andrew answered and said to the brethren, Say what you wish to say about what she has said. I at least do not believe that the Savior said this. For certainly these teachings are strange ideas.

3) Peter answered and spoke concerning these same things.

4) He questioned them about the Savior: Did He really speak privately with a woman and not openly to us? Are we to turn about and all listen to her? Did He prefer her to us?

5) Then Mary wept and said to Peter, My brother Peter, what do you think? Do you think that I have thought this up myself in my heart, or that I am lying about the Savior?

6) Levi answered and said to Peter, Peter you have always been hot tempered.

7) Now I see you contending against the woman like the adversaries.

8) But if the Savior made her worthy, who are you indeed to reject her? Surely the Savior knows her very well.

9) That is why He loved her more than us. Rather let us be ashamed and put on the perfect Man, and separate as He commanded us and preach the gospel, not laying down any other rule or other law beyond what the Savior said.

10) And when they heard this they began to go forth to proclaim and to preach.

(o) http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelmary.html
My first thought was that once trigger has enough users, some people might pay to get access to the rule database. That way you could predict what trigger is going to do under certain circumstances, or maybe what needs to happen for certain outcomes.
Perhaps true, in a real super rational techy view of the world, as long as by long term you mean the entire life of all the family members.

But not a particularly useful observation, just as the concept that "giving to charity is an act of selfishness, since people only only do it to feel better about themselves" might be true but is not useful.
Wikimedia to US: Don't fix what isn't broken in copyright law
Just for the record (because it's interesting), it was Pillsbury who bought Burger King, not Hormel. Same applies, though.