skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I set up Kubernetes on AWS, a staging and a production cluster. Staging had 1 master, 3 worker nodes, Production has 3 masters, 5 worker nodes, with two compute classes (fixed and burst, so pods could be scheduled to what was needed). All of this was on CoreOS, and included independent etcd clusters. So all total, we're talking 18 AWS EC2 instances. I put live users on it, with real traffic and tinkered with it as I learned things from a production workflow.

This was back in mid-2015, which meant figuring out things like how to get overlay networking with AWS's routing, fiddling with AWS's IAM settings, VPC settings, figuring out how to split the nodes across availability zones. This included integrating with AWS AutoScalingGroups to bring up new CoreOS/K8S nodes whenever something goes down. I never got EBS working as a Kubernetes volume type (at the time, you have to add hackish tools into CoreOS to detect unformatted EBS blocks and format them when they get mounted; forget it), but fortunately, used AWS RDS for persistent stores. Persistent storage is something I look forward to trying on GKE.

I could have tried creating CloudFormation scripts but I was making my way through documentation, blog posts, and Github issues to pull it all together. It was worth it when I was done.

I didn't say it was complicated. I said it was a pain in the ass, and it's something that Kubernetes developers have acknowledged and are working on it.
Microsoft's been moving pretty fast and doing some really big moves lately, I'm not sure the implication here is fair.
This sort of thing is why I pretty much only sell things like this locally, in-person, and transact in cash. Buyer gets the chance to check out the item, verify the serial number, and so on. I get the guarantee that if they walk out happy it is a done deal.

No one has been able to improve upon this online. Sure, it can be more convenient to sell online, and for people who sell at volume the cost of fraud may be worth it, but for individuals who occasionally sell desirable items that are likely targets of fraud, selling online is too fraught with risk.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but your premise here looks like a meaningless semantic argument while ignoring why racism is bad to begin with.
There are some efforts, like https://haveibeenpwned.com/. However, personally? I always feel naked dishing out my email(s) in a <form>... Irregardless of HTTPS or HTTP.
After a year they just let it be?
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You don't have to be an asshole to be dangerous though is the point. When you are thinking of hurting someone it's not typically due to malice, hate it's usually because it's a threat and out of self defense. That's a core part of being an animal/living thing, so it would be no different for an AGI.

Defining these values exactly is impossible, which is why solving this problem is so difficult.

I say it's impossible to solve because defining it is impossible. No two groups have the same end goals, so there will be conflict for survival at some point - and that is inherently dangerous to one group.

Even if you programmed an AGI to want humanity to exist, it could determine (probably rightfully) that humanity is the biggest threat to humanity, and just lock us into a pleasure loop as a species. These and many other scenarios have been discussed ad-nausea in which an AGI with human goals ends up giving us what we want and it's not something anyone would ask for, but would give the end result.

Ironically, this is what was described in the first Matrix movie - and if you take it to it's logical extent it makes sense. I'm not even a sci-fi person so it almost pains me to reference sci-fi, but I think it's apt:

Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world. Where none suffered. Where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world would dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution, like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.
What is your stance on the future of AI? Is it something we should be concerned about?
High IQ Countries Have Less Software Piracy
Illegal immigration from Mexico is around net zero. Why should we focus on illegal immigrants when there are so many major issues to solve?
So I guess the real question is, were the other candidates actually compelling? And more compelling? If so, how were they compelling? I think it's a poor argument to say a big chunk of voters basically said "fuck it" to the whole process. What they did say was, well the other candidates are offering us anything compelling to vote for them with; Mr. Trump is. Now, again, maybe the compelling arguments Mr. Trump is giving are totally baseless, racist, ridiculous, and absurd. But, they worked for a majority of voters so far. He's playing politics, and he's winning. He reminds me of about every other politician on either side of the aisle, ever.
The knowledge you claim to be sharing is a little flimsy isn't it? You took an eye test, great results, and the doctor chalked it up as lack of drugs and alcohol. That is an unbelievably broad statement. So broad, I'd argue it's worthless. Do _all_ drugs and alcohol damage your eyes? In what quantities does this damage take place? What about legal drugs? What about genetics? What about diet and exercise? I fail to see any practical knowledge being passed here. That's why I took the liberty to assume ulterior motives for posting.
My POV has been that most of most of our conscious analysis boils down to utilizing a smaller set of basic cognitive tools. (Much like complex software runs on top of hardware with relatively simple interfaces.) If you can isolate and train core cognitive functions then that benefit will hopefully improve everything that utilizes it.

So for a random example: if you can go from comfortably holding 5 random objects in your working memory to 8, that's going to manifest itself in a variety of ways.

I wonder if people get different results from these puzzles based on how they approach the puzzle. Maybe they can solve the puzzle by avoiding the cognitive function the puzzle was designed to use and thus they get no/limited benefit.
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We aren't living in a simulation
Here [0] is an interesting article that talks about both sides of this argument. It has examples of studies that have shown real life advantages to these types of brain training. Some examples include increased scores on standardized tests in teenagers and better memory recall in adults 65+

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/can-you-make-your...
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Isaac Newton.

"Let's shove my head into my own ass. NOSQL!" - said by too many young and aspiring developers.

It's a leap backwards to the seventies and DL/1, but without transactions, that's what it is.

Edit:

I have never worked with a system that have blobs of "data" and that's been in production for a while, where that turned out to be a good decision.

Also, data integrity is hard. Building it on your own, is really hard. Most people have trouble getting it right when the hard bits are already provided for them.

SQL isn't perfect, but it's the easy way out 99 times out of 100.
There are several services (including one run by me).

https://canar.io (mine)

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Mine lets you free-form search whereas HaveIBeenPwned is there for searching just e-mail addresses.
US is routinely enbarassed by a more accurate European weather forecast computation. Hurricane Sandy prediction was the glaring example. Part of the Euro prowess is due to better physics. But much of it to a finer model they can compute in real time of a larger computer. Everytime you double the resolution, the computing cost increases 16 times in this 4D computation.
That's a good analogy, but there is an entirely orthogonal dimension: A significant part of out telecom and computing ecosystem was built to be friendly for surveillance. And why not? The US was far in the lead in the surveillance and hacking race.

APTs are showing us that era might be over. Someone might get it into their head that the only way to win is not to play. If computing and telecom rebalance in favor of security from outside hacking and surveillance threats, as we are seeing in OTT communications apps, that will propel a virtuous cycle.
Not that i'm aware of, but using the hypervisor is pretty much the entire point. If you need to use vbox etc then just use docker-machine
Can't have both sides simultaneously, both a marketplace with too many scammers requiring a complicated solution AND A clean marketplace.

Or phrased another way, its like the gun control problem where the only people following the gun control laws are the non-criminals you have no need to fear, and the people who don't play by the rules are the only source of problems.
I have no idea what this product does. I've read the marketing website and that Tutum blog post.

My best guess is that I buy a computer from someone (ecs instance, dedicated box, etc) and then Docker deploys code to it for $7 per month?
Those quotes prove my point. Trump did not say he can't do his job because of his heritage. He said he isn't doing his job, and that he thinks it's because of his heritage.

And there's nothing racist about that conclusion. People do act based on their identity and heritage, and there's nothing wrong with that. If it affects their rulings as a judge, then that's problem, and all Trump has said is that he's not getting fair rulings (subjective, but that is his POV), and that there's an obvious potential conflict of interest.
The irony is that dropout is increasingly and often viewed as unnecessary in recent deep learning work.
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The screenshot doesn't represent a statement on my part. I use Chrome, Edge and Firefox all the time.

I especially enjoy debugging the editor in Edge's F12 Tools, because Edge's debugger is built with the monaco editor ;).
Dreaming can work without images. What are your sleeping dreams like?
This looks awesome! Is there also a places autocomplete API?
for static stuff you can offload to cdn. where is session being stored? if it's on the web server you need to store it on the client or the database. then you can add more webservers. to test scaling at different numbers of users you need to profile your users work and then script it with a something like loadrunner against a test server.
Cool! Looking forward to seeing what you guys got. We seem to have a Cambrian explosion of tools and approaches. It'll also be interesting to see who survives after the die-off.
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Are the objectives of "OpenAI" conflicting with the interests of the startups applying to YC? OpenAI is building their own products/platforms and insights acquired from AI/Robotics startups applying and sharing information about what they're working on might be used as a competitive advantage.

Is there an information firewall between what startups are sharing in the hope of investment and what is shared to advance OpenAI? If there is a firewall, how is it enforced?
Who exactly were the establishment Republican candidates supposed to appeal to?

Trump didn't attract enthusiastic supporters across party lines because they were apathetic jokesters. He may sound insane to you, but to a very large "silent majority" he is the first voice of sanity in a long time.
Gut feelings
Corporate font piracy in the global marketplace
When will we get better at saying what we mean? I don't think this just important when speaking with computers, but also human-to-human interaction.

What is the best interface for computer programming? I have settled on the keyboard with an emacs interpreter for now, but I'm curious if you believe voice, gestures, mouse or touch are or will be better ways of conveying information?
Yes, sure. You should not be using anything but Bcrypt et al for passwords (salt, salt, salt!) – but... Out of curiosity. What if these passwords were SHA-512 hashed (unsalted) rather than SHA1?

Anyone know of comparable articles?
Most of the attacks described in this article are not solved by any of those though right? They protect against hacking one person but if you just do these advanced dictionary attacks you can still crack people with weak passwords.

Maybe I'm missing something?
Yep, have seen it... it seems to not be exactly what was described by the Chinese at ISC or SC last year (their original description being much more in line with a DSP), though there is not much data available. All of the articles I am seeing today are calling it DEC Alpha "like", though the only real source for this seems to be the wikipedia article for the family of processors, with the latest version being in 2013. Dongarra even specifically says in the paper you linked that it was NOT related to the Alpha ISA, so it seems like all of the media articles are incorrect ;)

As for REX, as dnautics said, we've been mostly focused on running raw compute kernels on the current simulated versions (software and FPGA), and for the soon to be in hand silicon (coming this fall)... one of our projects internally is to port the L4 microkernel, and a telecom focused RTOS, but that is as far as our operating systems plans go for the near future. I'd also love to get a Plan 9/inferno demo running on it for fun, but we've got more important work to do at the moment.
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> Love the tech, hate all this marketing runaround.

Just wanted to offer an alternate point of view or maybe some context on this. There was over 70,000 people that signed up for the Docker for Mac & Windows beta. So, using an invite system was more of a self preservation measure, and not waiting to expose tons of people to bugs, as the beta was refined (through roughly twenty iterations). If a bad update rolls out across all these people, that would not be good, as you can imagine. So, much more self preservation measure, and wanting to catching things quickly in smaller batches, than wanting to market to you.

Here is the direct link to download Docker for Mac without a key https://www.docker.com/products/docker#/mac

Disclaimer: Working for Docker but this is my own thought.
I don't understand this "You called me nazi-like so your arguments are invalid" argument. Clearly, in some situations the comparison is apt. Situations in which a potential leader is using the fear of the "other" to gain power is textbook Nazi and/or fascist behavior.
What is your take on the future of our general relationship with technology in the light of the new optimistic view of AI with recent advances in machine learning? I can't help but think we are over-estimating the upside, and under-estimating the problems (social, economic, etc.) much like the massive centralization of the net has had downsides hi-lighted by Snowden and others.
All you've repeated is that they're not the same. You haven't actually given any reasons why this is the case.
ELIZA was around in 1964: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
> I cannot even google this Flatpack thing.

"flatpak", without the 'c'. Also formerly known as "xdg-app".
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Hi Alan,

I have read a lot about you and your work at Xerox.

Do you enjoy travel? What continents have you been to? What's your favorite country outside the US?

How many hours a day did you sleep per day during your most productive research years? Cos i usually wonder how very productive people seem to achieve much more than others within the same 24 hours we all have.

Greetings form Lagos Nigeria.
No, it's not even C++.
"void Direct3DBase::Initialize(CoreWindow^ window)"

That's not C++.
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Flynn co-founder here. Thanks for the question.

We view the work of the Kubernetes (and Mesos, Docker Swarm, and other scheduler projects) team as incredibly valuable to Flynn.

We try to solve problems and create value at a the platform layer. Schedulers are one technology we use, but aren't at the core of the value that we (or most other platforms) deliver. We want to make development and management of production apps simple and invisible. For most users that should mean never needing to know about or interact with a scheduler directly.

We closely monitor progress on the major scheduler projects and look forward to a day when we can utilize one of them in Flynn instead of maintaining our own. As these technologies mature we'll be able to deliver even more value on top of them, while saving users from interacting with lower level components.
X dollar value to get past people trading $1 USB cables until they get the big score of 10 iphones or whatever.
This doesn't make much sense: why would supposedly fraudulent buyers bother with leaving a (public) review with photos of the clay??

This is not only a waste of time and energy but could potentially be harmful to them since it's usually possible to extract clues from a photograph.

Isn't it possible that the story is rather this:

- bad buyer 1 buys a phone, takes the phone out of the case, replaces it with clay, re-seals the box and returns it, claiming he didn't even open it

- seller restocks the package without verifying it

- good buyer 2 buys what they think is an iPhone and turns out to be a box full of clay, is upset and leaves a review
I use a ShutIt script:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit-home-server/blob/master/S...

it's platform independent and automates the install of everything I need.
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I teach SQL to my journalism students. Example exercise:

http://2015.padjo.org/tutorials/sql-walks/exploring-wsj-medi...

My main reason for teaching it was that it was a skill that helped me immensely as a journalist, in terms of being able to do data analysis. Because I learned it relatively late in my career, I thought it'd be hard for the students but most of them are able to get it.

Even though I use relatively little SQL in my day to day work, it's my favorite thing to teach to novices. First, it has a similar data model to spreadsheets, so it feels like a natural progression. Secondly, for many students, this is the first time that they'll have done "real" programming and the first time that they learn how to tell a computer to do something rather than learn how to use a computer. In Excel, for example, you double click a file and the entire thing opens. With SQL, you're required to not just specify the database and table, but also each and every column...it's annoying at first, but then you realize that there is power in being explicit.

The main advantage of teaching SQL over, say R, as a first language is that SQL's declarative syntax is easy to follow AND you can do most of what you need with a limited subset of the language...for instance, I don't have to teach variables and loops and functions...which is good because I don't even know how to really do those in SQL (just haven't had the need when I can work from R or Pandas).

When a beginner student fucks up a basic Python script, there are any number of reasons for the failure that is beyond the student's expected knowledge. When a novice student fucks up a SQL query...it's easier to blame the mistake on the student (e.g. Misspelling of names/syntax)
It's hard in this area not to say anything controversial.

I agree there is no plan.

Personally I believe we need to go back to first principals on the subject of governance. What does a government of the future look like? I appreciate that's a bit of an ask but my view is that the specter of civil conflict looms large over Europe, less so the United States. Since we're going to get change, we might as well have some productive alternatives in mind.

Let us not forget that we're members of the same tribe.
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I find it kind of sad that we can fall all over ourselves declaring how some white judges are totally biased against minorities (or biased in favor of other rich white people... like the judge in the recent Stanford rape case) and that is just fine. But flip the script and suggest that a hispanic judge could possibly be biased against a person that has been quoted (and/or misquoted) as saying unkind things against certain other hispanics and that is racist. I guess that only makes sense if you buy into the "only white people can be racist" philosophy. I believe anyone can be racist. I believe anyone can be prejudiced. I believe it is entirely possible that the judge in the Trump University case could be biased (he is a human after all). I don't believe suggesting it as a theory is racist.
As Cloudflare continues to grow their POP footprint, the frequency of issues has also gone up.

When I say issues, I mean "something, somewhere in the world is broken". More POPs and more peers means more outages. This is probably especially true for their POPs in less developed regions of the world.

Cloudflare also has a team monitoring for issues and it's usually pretty easy for them to work around the issues that come up. Their design makes it so that even the loss of an entire POP isn't a big deal.

As their service continues to get better and more reliable, their status page will actually look like it's getting worse and worse. But that's because they are being open and transparent about day-to-day operational details.
Taken in context that quote is not very shocking and certainly wasn't racist. Moreover he clarified his remarks the very next day. Trump's remarks about the judge are racist in any context and he repeated them for several days. It's rather disingenuous to compare this to Trump and suggest that it's even in the same league as what Trump said.
Dear Alan,

What do you think about EAST paradigm which tries to revamp the original spirit of OOP you stated ?

Do you think that the machine learning community suffer from the syndrome of "normal considered harmful". Like using vendor hardware instance of designing their own (FPGA for instance)
He surrounds himself with so much noise that it's impossible to know what his true stances are. I used to think he'd pivot and display his intelligence and marketing savvy after winning the nomination, but it's been a few weeks now and he's only dug himself into deeper holes. So now I just think he's a lucky idiot with no clearly reasoned policy positions. Ultimately I think other foreign leaders would walk all over him by playing his ego, and we'd be a weaker country for it.
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Weren't these nanotubes the new asbestos?
No. You cannot effectively use the techniques you can use against SHA/MD5 to attack the three I mentioned.

SHA and MD5 can be calculated entirely in a CPU's registers without having to rely on RAM. Bcrypt for example requires the use of a matrix as part of its calculation, slowing down the process. A GPU has so few channels from the processor to memory that it cannot be effectively done in parallel.

All one has to do with Bcrypt is just adjust the difficulty and any advances in GPU technology or whatever can be nullified.