skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice. I didn't know about terraform, and seems like a very powerful combo... Can anyone comment as to the differences in functionality between ansible AWS playbooks and terraform?

The Segment Stack is a good showcase of best-practices for AWS ... only one thing I didn't understand, why a NAT instance is needed in each subnet? https://github.com/segmentio/stack/blob/master/vpc/main.tf#L... It seems a little wasteful. Couldn't you just allow traffic between the subnets?
These papers also noted the process was theorized as early as the 1990s by scientists examining crystallized proteins. Back then, scientists noticed they only saw water vapor surrounding hydrophobic sections of protein, while liquid water would surround other areas. The researchers proposed that there was some sort of process that enabled the water caught between hydrophobic protein sections to suddenly vaporize.

This seems reasonably obvious, at least in retrospect. Trap a very small number of water molecules in a region where they can't combine with others to form a liquid, and it's reasonable to expect those molecules to simply waft away. A molecule made from two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom weighs much less than the diatomic oxygen molecules in the air, so why wouldn't they displace those molecules?
I don't see any help in protecting auser, if he can see some parts of code and (in case of [L]GPL3 exchange them) but not everything. The "malicous" parts (whatever that means in that context) can still be in the proprietary software parts.
I am the one behind this part of the curriculum, I've been SRE/DevOps for the last past 5 years of my life. The project that the article refers to is about uptime, better uptime means better grade.

We partnered with companies such a PagerDuty, Wavefront so that they have tools to help them keeping their uptime, we are guiding them to put everything in place so that their website/servers never go down. We never call them at 3AM and we actually never call them at all. However we do have challenges where we simulate hardware failure, traffic spike...

Just to make things clear: the goal is not to wake up students are 3 AM but to get them ready for production and this involve being on call and possibly getting paged at 3AM.
Richard Feldman (who works with Evan Czaplicki at NoRedInk) mentioned it in the Elm slack channel.

http://i.imgur.com/pqk9oMl.png

It will definitely be a very different compile target. But Elm really doesn't take any inspiration from Javascript, so I don't think it will change much about the fundamentals of the language. Of course they'll need to add capabilities for concurrency, OTP, etc.
I think the author is confusing two different issues: the problem of disproving solipsism and the problem of proving or disproving dualism. It is not true that we must think of zombies as being absolutely identical to "real people" in order for them to be useful in thinking about dualism. They do not have to do exactly what real people do in a given situation. For example, a civilization of zombies might have speech, might even have philosophy, but would probably not talk about consciousness in any form. The author is right that you can't think of zombies as acting exactly the same as the corresponding human and yet not being conscious, because consciousness is surely a cause as well as an effect (else we wouldn't talk about it, for example). He's wrong that you need to think of them that way in order to bear fruit for dualism.

I can postulate a universe in which my molecules and everyone else's have been precisely duplicated from this universe in physical terms. I can postulate that in that universe there is no such thing as conscious experience; no qualia or whatnot. I can imagine that universe continuing from the moment of duplication onward, proceeding as dictated by the laws of physics. My duplicate in that universe would probably not act exactly as I will, but will certainly act in some way.

Simply the act of postulating, of conceiving, of that kind of zombie universe is enough to strongly suggest that consciousness is something outside of the physical. The zombie universe doesn't have to be identical in behavior, only identical physically. Because what you've now done is to recognize that a universe in which physical objects and laws are the only elements is a universe in which mental (experiential) phenomena are unaccounted for. You can imagine that those mental phenomena magically, mysteriously re-emerge from the physical, but have given absolutely no reason why they should. Therefore you can equally imagine that they don't re-emerge. So whether zombies behave identically with real people or are merely constituted identically with real people, their conceived existence is enough to show that the mental universe—so to speak—is conceptually detached from the physical and therefore a separate domain.
Very cool.

I think I'd love to be able to define which domains open in which contexts so if I click a link that happens to be to something I want in other context ...

But that got me thinking just how effective will this be? If someone sends me a link in fb and I click it. Even if it opens in a new context it seems like it's only a matter of time before all the links are changed to https://destsite.com/path/to/resource#fbtrackingid or something similar which then adds the cookie across contexts?
Uhh, I think you forgot quite a few things on the other direction: false flag operation and takeover of Crimea, creating and sustaining the civil war in East Ukraine, holding several provinces of other countries hostage, hacking into Baltic online elections, ongoing infowar with RT spreading lies and inciting protests (eg the false story of a Russian-German girl being raped by migrants in Germany, even after revealed to be wrong still perpetuated by Russian ministers through TV interviews), funding for extreme right and extreme left wing opposition parties across the EU, regular provocations with submarines and fighter jets, covert operatives planted over decades in the US, Spain and probably more countries, professional astroturfing operations to target EU news sites, ...

Not saying the US isn't absolutely abusing its power, but as a European we take US insanity any time over Putin.

How this all escalated to this point is a difficult question to ask and both sides likely bear part of the burden, but for the past~10 years it seems clear to me that it's usually Russia that escalates further. See Crimea.
I have not checked lately, but there have been two major features lacking in Linode that have compelled me to move away to AWS:

1. Managed firewall service, such as AWS Security Groups. I really do not want to have to manage hundreds of iptables scripts.

2. Easy point and click, yet advanced private network management such as AWS VPC. Last I checked, I had to run OpenVPN on top of my Linode setup, which really was not ideal.

Have these things been improved lately on Linode?
sorry about offtopic comment. I just love America too much, hehe. I'll make sure to be more mindful going forward.
Paul Elam.
There are actually regulations limiting the number of stores and their placement in relation to other public buildings like schools.
Yea, people forget how much effort that can be.

I delivered a project last year where if you where to just look at the very simple final product and look at how much it cost you'd accuse us of either incompetence or corruption. However what you won't see are the two more complex prototypes I made according to first the original spec and then the revised spec, all the meetings (with travel time, since they where two towns over and always wanted all the meetings to be held in their offices) it took for the client to eventually realize that they actually wanted something much simpler and the massive efforts of collecting the all the data (in various obscure formats) needed to put together that simple solution.
You can at least look at their build list and get those parts individually, that'll save some money in addition to the installation cost savings.
I don't want to be a negative nancy here, but does anyone have any examples, preferably in the past 10 years, where a company with cool tech was acquired and did even better because of the acquisition? A company which really thrived and wouldn't have without being acquired? Things like Nest make me cynical that the vast majority of acquisitions end up destroying all the value created before the acquisition by the acquiree.

Edit: Android might be an example acquisition success story.
baremetal!
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11898861
I assume you're being glib, but if anyone was wondering this is very untrue. Restrictive zoning laws mean there are many large neighborhoods in Seattle with zero. Most of the shops are concentrated in a few non-residential neighborhoods.
OTP releases by hand
Nietzsche's School Report
I think Lean Startup & Customer Development transformed the way I looked at everything I did as a software engineer. It reignited my inner-entrepreneur as well. Now I'm a data scientist and I work in Finance and I help get others in my company to have that same epiphany.
Two thoughts:

(1) Much of the complexity of the OP's example is due to the fact that the template language they use, Twig, does not abstract HTML. If they would use a higher level templating language, e.g. Jade (http://jade-lang.com/) much of the need to have such things as his proton pattern, would not even arise. Another attempt at a living styleguide generator, http://bedrock.mono.company/ does just that.

(2) The very necessity to discuss atom vs. molecule makes me think that maybe the distinction is not such a good idea after all. Harry Roberts in his ITCSS has just "components" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OKZOV-iLj4 . The other layer that Harry has, "objects", is subsumed under "atoms". This leads to another round of fruitless discussions.
I think that was just sloppy reporting, not King's quote.
When I learned what "epiphany" meant.
Yeah, but if you use containers you have to suffer the indignity of the creat() system call. These seem like the smallest possible objections.
I look forward for a bare metal runtime to become available, so that people see how close Go features are to Oberon and the system programming is actually possible, even if not all goodies from structure package or functions entry points can be controlled in the current //go:..... flags.
SpaceX misses landing on a drone ship in the ocean breaking the company's streak
If you're interested in learning more about the technique that scammer used, the magic search phrase is "cold reading". For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading
> Elixir also follows the Ruby philosophy of hiding as much behind the syntax as possible, whereas Elm tends to be very explicit.

This is not true. While Elixir may not make things as explicit as Elm (I don't know Elm well enough to assert or refute such a statement), the author of Elixir has stated in various occasions that Elixir prefers explicit to implicit.

For instance, in Elixir, unless one explicitly defines a String.Chars protocol for a data structure, string interpolation of that data structure will not compile. In contrast, pretty much everything can be implicitly interpolated in Ruby.

Another example is function calls. In Elixir, if f is not a named function but a variable bound to an anonymous function, you cannot call it by writing something like f(x). Instead, you must put a dot after f and write f.(x) to state clearly that you are calling an anonymous function.
This belongs on HN why?
Indeed. It would be easy to bomb a high-density waiting line at airport security. You could put quite a large bomb in a suitcase and just wheel it in!
This is pretty much spot on what Edward Snowden described for his vision of digital identity.

https://gist.github.com/mnot/382aca0b23b6bf082116
I think it would be more pragmatic to say philosophers should find ways to make unfalsifiable claims falsifiable, and that way the scientists could work on them. But 1) this is actually what scientists already do when confronted with new problems, and 2) the statements rests on pragmatism, which is not mandatory unless of course you are already a scientist.

Ultimately any thought can be advanced with further thinking because concepts and ideas are progressive. Our mind is an incredible machine, and for anyone to feel thinking is only for philosophers is truly doing themselves a disservice. We all need to learn to think harder. And our "philosophers" need to find ways to teach how to think better and harder and newer thoughts. What anyone thinks or thought of in the past is more history than philosophy.
Microsoft has always been far more progressive on social issues than most corporations. They were a huge supporter of the gay marriage movement here in Washington State a few years ago, and that was before Nadella was CEO.
Always loved Tumblr as a porn site and I am not kidding. I found Tumblr's porn blog far excellent in quality than was ad infested, pop-up opening porn websites.
How about running your own experiment with TV before bed vs no screen time x hours before bed? If you get enough data, you'll have accurate short-term results relative to your own children.

Lots of "experts" will tell you no screen time before bed is the way to go, but I am not aware of any scientific evidence.
Or Angel Raich! https://www.oyez.org/cases/2004/03-1454

"The question presented in this case is whether the power vested in Congress by Article I, §8, of the Constitution '[t]o make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution' its authority to 'regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States' includes the power to prohibit the local cultivation and use of marijuana in compliance with California law." (The answer is 'yes.')
Can someone explain why these rump kernels can not be run on AWS if deferpanic has Xen as a target? AWS is Xen-based. I understand that there currently isn't a target for Docker so that takes Google Cloud out of the equation. The following two statement seem to be contradictory:

Can I use Google Cloud or AWS?
You could - although you won’t write much more than a toy app - not until things are changed.

DeferPanic offers managed services for both public and private cloud environments and it's platform targets KVM, Xen, bare metal, and ESX.

Perhaps that falls under the "unfit"statement about these Cloud provider but that seem pretty nebulous for a such a technical discussion.
Twenty nine and three quarters :)

I don't think there's any need to add an adjective to it unless the intention is to convey ~"too young; naive; inexperienced" as seems the case here. They could simply say e.g. "John Doe, 29, [...]".
VMware’s Photon OS 1.0 Now Available
See the discussion about that post over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10953766
In theory everything OpenAI does will be available on GitHub or in some comparable form: that's the point of the organization. That's why it's called Open AI. So that we can all share the benefits, instead of just Google having it for themselves. Because we all know that's who's hording the AI progress.
> Sure, but again when you want to verify an algorithm, it may use lots of black boxes, but the algorithm you are actually verifying is a white box. That algorithm is not a function; if it were, then you're not verifying the how just stating the what. The how of whatever it is that you actually want to verify (not the black boxes you're using) is a state machine. Other ways of thinking about it include, say, process calculi, lambda calculus etc., but at the point of verifying that, considering it a function is the one thing you cannot do, because that would be assuming what you're trying to prove.

Well a function is necessarily a function (if we enforce purity and totality at the language level). Presumably what we want to verify is that its output has certain properties, or that certain relations between input and output hold. But that seems like very much the kind of thing we can approach in the same way we'd analyse a mathematical function.
a colombian friend was a victim of similar scam. they called her and claimed they had kidnapped her brother. she was about US$2k short
Actually you can whitelist. Right click the lock next to the url you want to whitelist, you'll see all KINDS of things to allow or block.
I would imagine the CPAN Testers stuff is adaptable enough.

http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-Harness%203.36;os=l...
But not anymore, because decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court are binding on all lower state and federal courts in the U.S.
This is a bizarre position. Do you consider all the prep work to be unimportant. Or are you just saying this for the sake of pointing out a misleading technicality?
Indeed. Remember, AWS started as Amazon providing infrastructure as a service to internal projects, so individual teams and projects wouldn't have to go buy a bunch of hardware and ops staff in order to build products. Amazon itself is the biggest customer AWS has.

Thanks to economies of scale, it's worthwhile for Amazon to develop new features as full-scale products, which leads to truly amazing things like Lambda. No one in their right mind would develop Lambda in-house, but for AWS, it makes a ton of sense.
Isn't it more costly to administer and provide financial aid rather than set n courses as free?
trust me, no matter how you slice it, it's a shitload of effort. that is exactly how AWS makes a ton of money. they make hard things easy (and expensive).

do you want the pain, or do you want the money, that's the basic proposition here. when you start looking at 25, 50, 150k/month of savings by doing stuff yourself, the choice becomes much clearer. in many cases i've seen, you could theoretically hire an entire team to take care of the stuff that AWS does for you, and still come out ahead.
There must be 1000s of places along train tracks in the US alone where a strategically-placed derailing device[1] could wreak the same, if not more, terror. I'm unconvinced planes pose a greater risk to life loss and that is the point IMO.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derail
Indeed. But it's then up to you to choose which is more convenient to you: gridlock in your private bubble, or getting places with the rest of the public.
You are assuming that our only options are "x86 hardware ring-0" or "Linux system call interface." Both are crufty in their own ways, but more importantly, neither of these was designed to be this. The right answer might be an interface that is designed with containerization in mind.
Scala.js has react[1] which combined with diode[2] (influenced by elm) creates a powerful framework for developing new generation of web apps. There's also a GraphQL implementation called Sangria[3].

1. https://github.com/japgolly/scalajs-react

2. https://github.com/ochrons/diode

3. http://sangria-graphql.org
Very cool. This is an academic project? Can you talk at all about the tools you're using?
Stockfighter's Jailbreak CTF trainer is live
Any links re: Chinese requirements or hardware with nerfed crypto?
The biggest thing I've noticed is that terraform doesn't, out of the box, have any way of bringing in your existing resources, and sharing the [tfstate file] that has the current state of your world is its own challenge. The ec2 module of ansible has `count_tag`, and that was exactly what I wanted: "I want this many boxes that are identified by these tags."

Played with an external tool call [terraforming] that creates a terraform setup from your existing boxes, but that, too, was way more than I wanted.

Terraform is a very neat tool, but learning the AWS ecosystem _and_ this third-party tool that has its own very strong set of best practices was too much for me. If you're experienced, and especially if you're already using CloudFormation heavily, you can probably get a lot of mileage out of terraform.

Doing a quick search to make sure I'm not crazy, it looks like terraform 0.7 will start to support importing, so that's something: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/581

[tfstate file]: https://www.terraform.io/docs/state/remote

[terraforming]: https://github.com/dtan4/terraforming
Not 365, but 360?
Similarly I have heard that the tracking required for medical marijuana in DC is cumbersome and dispensaries are mostly using hacky custom Windows software. Might even be Access based.
Well, there's an Add-on to prevent the latter:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clean-links/
I started a project in this vein a while ago:

https://github.com/nbeaver/mimetype-menagerie

It organizes files by mimetype. It's not complete, but it might be a good starting point.

You can also look at the testcase folder for afl-fuzz, which includes archives, images, and even an H264 compressed video:

https://github.com/arisada/afl-fuzz/tree/master/testcases
JavaScript in the Enterprise
We have pretty tight control over their access. They do not have their own phones nor tablets. We have a family iPad. We let them watch educational television in the evenings 2-3 nights a week (Thomas the train, Calliou, Magic Schoolbus, etc). We have a bunch of educational games on the iPad (ex: pettson's inventions) which they can play a couple times a week.

We dont play regular video games whatsoever.
Well, the answer is "it depends". Lots of acquisitions become features. Others succeed after a rebranding, so it's hard to tease out what qualifies as "thriving".

Off the top of my head examples:

* Google Maps (Where 2 Technologies)

* Siri (Siri Inc)

* Visio (Visio Inc)

* Firefox (born of post-acquisition AoL money)
Yeah. The right thing is hosting providers offering Java application servers or equivalent. Unfortunately there are political and commercial reasons that's not happening.

Still, there are worse container/host interfaces. It could be the full suite of POSIX system calls.
It's a little bigger than a deck of 50 punch cards.
it is fake!!!
free masons might spread this crap because they are scared of my blog
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There used to be a service at myresolver.info, which worked by redirecting to a unique hostname and associating the two requests at the backend. That supported any combination of (IPv4, IPv6) x (DNS, HTTP).

This approach (listen on a /96 and encode the resolver's IPv4 address into the HTTP server's IPv6 address) can be stateless, but it only works for the special case of IPv4 DNS and IPv6 HTTP.
The author of this post gives the impression of being unaware of potential color fringe artifacts that crop up with subpixel rendering. The real design crime is allowing a property like this (or WebKit, for that matter) to ignore the user's operating system's preferred font smoothing method.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/06/30/screen-tim...
Subsequently: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30
I belong to a generation that had to pay for its tools.

My first Turbo Pascal for Windows was bought after a few months of saving. Same with other tools.

Even open source, I used to pay for the Walnut Creek CD-Roms.

Nowadays I still buy software tools and do occasional donations.

So I cannot understand how the millenials expect to get their tools for free on one side, but then complain that unless they are selling services or SaaS software no one pays them.
I feel like pre-30 valuation is the new company metric in SV.
RoR is chronically known for having issues with a maintenance of projects in a long term, so using this comparison is a very weak defense of PHP.
> why a NAT instance is needed in each subnet?

I don't think it's strictly needed, but it's best practice because instances in each AZ remain independent from failures in other AZs. Were the AZ with the single NAT to go down, then instances in the other AZs wouldn't be able to communicate outside the VPC (ie. to the rest of the internet)

There's also a side benefit of much lower latency using a NAT in the same AZ vs going across AZ (unscientific benchmark is 0.1ms in same AZ vs 0.3ms across AZ)
I'm excited to see what comes of this, but the combo of secrecy and hyperbole around it have me very skeptical.
Looks like http://www.graphviz.org/