skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Focus on the smell.

I dunno, they might need to get close and smell the breath, the smell of cigarettes to this day (from a distance) still makes me crave one, ever so slightly. Even after having quit 13 years ago (I quit in 2003). The only off-putting smell is in ashtrays or their breath/clothing. The actual burning smell though, that gets me to this day.
Inside Google and Microsoft's Race to Catch Amazon in the Trillion-Dollar Cloud
I'd love it if the FCC mandated that the streaming video services provide a common standard that allowed me to, for example, watch Netflix, Amazon, and Apple iTunes, all in one application.

As a consumer, that would be a win.

As a developer, it would create a vibrant marketplace for media applications that simply can't exist today.
IANAL, but, for the _California_ readers, I'm fairly certain a contract with a clause like 'losing all intellectual rights to ANYTHING done/written/created ANYTIME and ANYWHERE' will NEVER hold up in California court, assuming said projects are done with the employee's own time + materials.

...Which is also a strong reason why you should always avoid using/making/doing anything personal on your employer's laptop/equipment.
From Hans Boehm's java program --

"The results are only really meaningful together with a specification of how much memory was used. It is possible to trade memory for better time performance. This benchmark should be run in a 32 MB heap, though we don't currently know how to enforce that uniformly."

For some years, the benchmarks game did show an alternative task where memory was limited -- but only for half-a-dozen language implementations.

Figuring out an appropriate max heap size for each program was too hands-on trial and error.
The economics of this business is just weird. Last year comcast gave me a deal: TV + Internet for much less than the price of internet service alone. A "special deal" for one year. I took it. The year was almost up so I called yesterday to cancel. Turns out I can renew this "special" deal, and it's still cheaper than IP service alone. And the agent said to just call again next year and they'll give it to me again. The TV boxes are in the closet -- the agent said if I returned them they would cancel the deal and I'd pay the list price for IP service.

Ironically Nielsen selected my home as a place to track my "tv" viewing but when I told them we don't watch cable or broadcast they weren't interested. Every three months I have that conversation over again. What's funny is they just announced they had "found a way to track Netflix viewing" -- yet they could have been tracking it the same way they track other TV viewing: by asking people. But they don't. Hmm.

BTW odious as Comcast is (and boy do they plumb the depths) I have to praise them for providing full routable IPv6 to every house. I know in Europe and SE Asia that's old hat, but for the US it's exotic.
I don't know if this is why, but when I work with Docker on Linux, I prefer to use docker-machine's VM layer because that way, I don't need to run docker commands as root.
To add a minor point which might be improved: upon visiting the home page, there is a FOUC - flash of unstyled content; the whole list of news sources can be seen, before the "type writer" JavaScript effect kicks in. Probably can be solved by hiding the text until the effect is loaded.
I think the idea is bad overall. Old versions of Android, still widespread, can't enter emoji either.

Best referral code I've seen is a phone number: that way you know it's not going to spread beyond the inner circle of family and friends of the referrer. (Unless you don't want that, of course.)
Yeah but for every superstar post like this there are thousands of equally upvoted yet ignorant comments that play on the sympathies/bias of HN readers for upvotes.

I wish we had more of the former and less of the latter. I suspect no forum is ever safe from eternal September.
Looks like the writer wrote the article just for himself. It's so specific
You can try Convox. Seems to have all the stuff offered by Heroku, plus you can deploy in your own AWS servers.
Something that Toyota apparently doesn't do; their fuel gauges take over a minute to react fully when you turn on the car after filling the tank.
It probably depends on how incestuous your chosen industry is.

I'm going to guess that Sam went to a "top 10 school" and has only worked in Silicon valley. In this case I'm guessing that this advice seems self evident to him as you tend to run into the same people over and over again.

The financial industry behaves very similarly where all other things being equal, its considered almost a negative if you can't find someone who actually knows a potential hire. This makes it easy to move around but tougher to break in.

I'm not sure if this is good advice or bad advice but it is something that does happen so its best to follow the old advice and make friends/network. It doesn't have to be slimy, it can be as simple as emailing someone on hacker news who made a comment you learned something from to thank them for making it.
Mostly addiction
It's cheap compared to paying an extra 20k/yr in rent or mortgage and property tax.
That was one of the worst example of human relationship I've read from a supposed civilised environment. It's probably a bait article, but dear god how can someone have their head up their ass so hard that the anus became their mouth?
Wow!! I actually have a 20GB instance with Time4VPS, that I had found via an ad on LowEndTalk last year. I think I paid some Euro 9 or something for the WHOLE YEAR!! Other than an annoying glitch that causes the space allocation to drop down to 10GB instead of 20GB at random, it has been working quite well too.

However, I didn't know they had had the 1TB offer - I'll put in a ticket there asking them to let me know if/when it comes up again. Thanks for the info.
While you are correct, everyone has flaws at a similar rate (although I think shortsightedness is related to IQ for whatever reason); the brilliant people are just able to compensate better.

I think the tragedy is that people recognize their potential (especially as children) and expect them to perform as if they had none (especially if they develop flaws later in life or are inconsistent and excel in only some circumstances.)
The ideal referral code is a clickable link. It's the same reason domain names are fading: friction from issues like being too easy to mistype, hard to remember, scammers etc.

Most apps let you message or mail a referral link to a friend.
A long time ago I opted out of Google Map's search history.

A few months ago I searched for a business on maps, and had to type the full name. The second time I searched for it, it came up the top suggestion.

I do not trust these "privacy features" since.
Supposedly Reagan was admired by his political colleagues for his ability to genuinely believe in what he was saying. They just had to pretend.
Cool deal. Great work! Any plans to streamline setting up k8s on AWS? I've run into issues with not enough vpcs etc. On GCP it couldn't be easier.
> Yes, but as I recall this is in the future roadmap for consideration/attempt.

Not according to the transactional collector proposal. By not unconditionally tenuring young objects, it sacrifices one of the main benefits of generational GC: bump allocation in the nursery.

> And again, as with everything it's not a silver bullet, as you sacrifice the high cost of promotion (again expensive moving of memory) in order to have very fast allocations while the nursery isn't fragmented or full.

You're questioning the generational hypothesis. Generational GC was invented in 1984. Whether generational GC works is something we've had over 30 years to figure out, and the answer has consistently been a resounding "yes, it works, and works well".

> all things considered I'd rather see some cold hard numbers confirming it.

Again, we have over 30 years of experience. Generational GC is not some new research idea that we have to try to see if it works. The odds that things will be different in Go than in the myriad of other languages that preceded it are incredibly slim.
There are multiple ways to be a "senior" employee.

The first is to be a very experienced individual contributor. Amazing programmer with deep experience, world class designer, sales person who can get to the right person in any org. These people are gold. Hire the best and most experienced you can.

The second way to be senior is to be great at hiring and building organization. These people are very valuable later, and will save you a lot of heart ache. Hiring them early is a mistake in general, because their instinct for solving problems is to hire great people and develop great process rather than to simply solve the problem themselves. For an early stage startup there are too many unknowns and this amounts to premature optimization. Later on this is the a critical skill set.

Inexperienced managers are nearly universally terrible. Inexperienced individual contributors can often make up for it with raw talent, and you gain experience fast at a startup. Therefore early on experience is not at a premium, you should hire primarily for talent above everything else. Later on experience becomes increasingly valuable.

Short version: Hire the best makers you can early even if they're junior, hire the best managers you can later which means more senior folks.
Your comment saddens me and only confirms what I've been suspecting: a lot of people including those working in academia don't take education seriously and do not comprehend the far-reaching repercussions of their actions.

Generally speaking, a person only begins to reach psychological maturity at around 30 years of age. Until that time all incoming ideas generally fall on a fertile ground, as the person is not yet capable of telling bad apples from the good ones apart and can't always discard the wrong ideas. Sometimes it's exactly those ideas that take and derail somebody's life, unnoticeably, one step at a time.
Then what does "vest" mean? Are you conflating options with RSUs?
While I agree with the substance of conclusions in the report, the media's coverage of it -- as well as how it's been publicly discussed by current and former (non-Blair) members of the UK government -- seems to add up to an effort to take a pound of flesh off of Blair in some kind of weirdly tribalistic cathartic exercise for progressives.
> If a handful of early adopters controlled 80% of the IP space, if they were the ones now charging rent to those seeking to utilize that space, would there be such rapid uptake? Would you be happy leasing your IPs from some third party who was simply fortunate enough to be there first and stake a claim?

This is effectively exactly what happened with IP. There are a bunch of (many now-defunct) companies allocated huge portions of the IPv4 space, and they get to sell those addresses to people that need them. It's not ideal, but you can hardly claim that it has hurt adoption.

I think the ownership distribution issue is the least of Bitcoin's problems. There will always be people who are rich for no justifiable reason.
Even without cookies, etc. your browser and computer basically act as a "fingerprint" of sorts anyways. They have your IP address, resolution, OS, browser engine, etc.

To avoid this you could try stripping out the user agent, changing the size of your browser window and using a VPN (I believe that's what the Tor browser basically does, anyways.)
Rio Police Officers to Visitors: 'Welcome to Hell'
Previous discussion when the release was tagged on GitHub late last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12022215
Or more why isn't that bug tamed in some way. It seems that people let it happen, then forget, or move on. Then a new set of people will elect a moron. Etc etc .. There's no memory or structure to control or avoid that "more effectively".
I was curious about this as well:

https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/28
There's a certain amount of work that has to be done for GC, and that work is going to be done somewhere. The question is just what trade-offs you want.

Don't want compacting? You'll pay for it in allocation.

Don't want pausing? You'll pay for it in application threads.
OpenSSH now also supports external authorized_key handling via AuthorizedKeysCommand, and thus simple integration with LDAP:

https://github.com/AndriiGrytsenko/openssh-ldap-publickey
Perhaps offering some sort of crowdsourced funding mechanism and a reputation system would go a long way toward correcting some of these incentives?

For example, giving authors / organizations a Bitcoin address where they can receive funds from individuals / organizations who want to support their research.

Also, awarding reputation to authors based on the level of peer review their research has successfully undergone (number of peers, level of rigor, etc.), and conversely awarding reputation and funding to those who perform peer reviews. Allowing users to contribute to a peer review fund for individual articles or in general.

All that to say this is very exciting and opens up a lot of new possibilities.
I personally have experienced two problems with experienced people in the early days:

1) The last company I worked at started out with an experienced founder/CEO and a few entry-level people (including me). The company was in the heavily-regulated and very conservative health benefits space, and we were attempting to do something pretty radical. Things were going great.

After raising the series A, they brought in a bunch of executives who had been very successful working at more traditional healthcare companies. Those people immediately started executing the playbook they already knew which meant our startup went from being agile and disruptive to basically being a smaller version of all the existing companies in the industry. It didn't go well.

2) After that, I co-founded my own company. We're bootstrapped so it took a while before we could hire people, but when we did start hiring, there was a big difference between the entry-level people vs. the more experienced people we hired. This is almost entirely my fault, but here's what happened: I knew the entry-level people would need guidance and mentorship, so I invested heavily in onboarding them, making sure they understand the mission, and so on. With the experienced people (who I already knew well) I trusted them to know what needed to be done and do it, so I didn't spend nearly as much time trying to align them with the goals of the company. Big shock: that didn't work out very well for some of those experienced hires.

Once again, this is my fault, not necessarily a problem with hiring experienced people in general, but it doesn't change the fact that our entry-level hires have all worked out great while the experienced hires were much more hit-or-miss.

I have no idea if that's what sama is talking about, but I definitely nodded my head a bit when I read his advice.
Please keep in mind that Amazon is running a variant of content-id and may
mistakenly think that your files are infringing someones rights:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/4j7wex/any_plex_users...
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4j5fsi/after_s...
[Dr. TLA+ Series] Paxos
What is lead enrichment?
Comcast's network is, I believe, an IPv6 system with a bunch of terminals and a set of servers at the core like some big enterprise network.

If my cable tech was correct, the cable box is such a thin client that every button press on the remote is processed remotely rather than on the cable box.

Considering a packet can circumnavigate the planet faster than their goddamn cableboxes will register a button press, I tend to believe it.
That's because you're screen is rotated the wrong way. Looks like this site was designed for the most common user, who is on mobile and has a lot more vertical real estate than horizontal.

That's not a material problem really. It's just this site.
> Without savings/investments you cannot produce goods or services.

Savings \neq investments. It's been said that one reason the U.S. economy hasn't picked up as much as we'd like in the past few years is that gun-shy banks and corporations were sitting cash instead of investing it.

In theory the optimal economic policy is one that balances (1) creating incentives for investment against (2) encouraging demand for the products of that investment. The latter isn't a given, by the way: The "if you build it, they will come" notion that demand will always exist --- and, therefore, supply-side incentives for investors are supposedly all that's needed --- rests on the "no problem, we'll just assume we have a can opener" assumption that Homo economicus normally behaves rationally, with a view to optimizing his or her economic position. Those assumptions have been widely and, it seems to me, justly criticized (as the author of the post seems to agree).
Pardon? No one, Jehovah's Witness schoolchildren or otherwise, can be legally compelled to say the pledge of allegiance, stand for the national anthem, or salute the flag. If you know of an instance of this occurring the ACLU would like to hear from you. Or have the rules on this changed when I wasn't looking?
>> the problem is the political difficulty of clearly stating the facts

> Source?

Gitmo, The iraq war, backing of Israel,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_documents_leak
You don't need to be using Inbox for Google Now to have the appointment and tracking information parsed out. That's a setting in Google Now separate from the Inbox app. (I don't use Inbox but get those in Now)
A Microservices Reference Architecture
When I read this,I was verifying each point against the last startup I worked with and they don't follow many of the points discussed when I was there.But they have a very good seed funding.The thing going against them may be is growth.They are from 4 (including me) to 25+ (excluding me)employees in less than 6 months with no senior person in the team.One main Founder was trying to do micro management and delegating tasks poorly with poor communications.They have fired many people than I can imagine.And I am still hopeful that they succeed as my friend is still with them. I still think they may succeed as they are growing. I was ok with everything except the firing part!.This is an operational heavy business and not technical.
Santa Susana is notorious for a dangerously cavalier attitude about chemical safety. For years they burned toxic chemical waste in open pits. They filled barrels and shot them with rifles until they exploded. One person was killed in 1994. They disposed of sodium coated parts by letting them burn in the same open-air pits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory#...
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-201406...
>Cable providers are monopolies.

Cable video isn't anymore. There is typically one hardware cable company, two national satellite companies, two online streaming cable provides (SlingTv and PS-Vue), and many times a IPTV providers using telecom lines (Verizon or AT&T).

I have a hell of a lot more choice in video tv than I do for say web search engines. Should google and bing be forced to provide searches over an API?
Any advice on setting the top three goals for your startup? Do founders actually create "SMART" goals or are they more general like "growth"?
LDAP/AD is neither insecure nor obsolete.

Using a 3rd-party cloud-based service to manage server authentication, SSH keys, et al, seems insanely insecure however -- especially when your alternative is simply running LDAP locally.
"If CSV would stick to commas ... then even such overly simple heuristics would've sufficed, wouldn't it?"
ZeroTier 6PLANE addressing for Docker IPv6 backplane networks
That's pretty neat.

Nutrition seems difficult to study because there are so many biological mechanisms at play, but we can get a rough picture at the macro level.

Of course someone always blows findings out of proportion and decides to take things to an extreme.
Use their VPS. Not oversold. Latest CPU. ECC RAM. RAID storage. Was $3/m with their 30% off promo recently. Put a single service on a single VPS. Order a few extra. Will make testing things much easier.
Better is the enemy of good.

My grandma already has trouble finding characters like # on her keyboard, I can't wait till I have to spend time on the phone with her guiding her to the emoji she needs.

Does anyone know what the state is of screen readers, braille readers, and other accessibility tools when it comes to emoji?
Precisely, and this is what is so often missed in these discussions. Most of the time, when you see claims of GC silver bullets, there's some hidden downside that's being papered over. Latency wins (i.e. "max pause time" or whatnot) tend to be throughput losses. Less copying results in more fragmentation. Value types can result in more copying, reducing performance over pointer indirections through nursery allocations. And so forth.
>> What/who does "GP" refer to?

Grandparent. Two posts up the hierarchy from the person who used the term "GP".
My only complaint with the VM layer is it's harder to have faster iterations with local development. I know this isn't the documented way to develop with kubernetes but I often use containers with -v $PWD:/app to test things interactively
Oh, that verge article is exactly a month old. Pretty sure I saw it near the top at that time.
My mom just bought a new phone and asks why it's still too slow and clunky like her old one. I found out she likes to click Buzzfeed-esque links from Facebook and most of those sites slow the device to a crawl because of the massive amounts of Javascript running.

People care about the downstream effects, they don't know the how or why, but they care.
> its dangerous to short the incumbants on the thesis that new tech will immediately replace them, the old guard can be very sticky.

Helpful. I keep waiting for electronically quoted options structures to eliminate the brokers, but it doesn't appear to be happening. The WTI options chart in the middle of the article shows them holding firm.
Was shocked to see that your durability (27 9s) was so much higher than what S3 claims (11 9s), while also charging less for storage and bandwidth than S3 would. Amazing!

I would be curious to see how much of your verification architecture is shared with someone like Backblaze, but I assume the only way to learn that would be to work for both companies to compare :)

Would Dropbox ever share hard drive reliability stats similar to what Backblaze does?

Sorry for all the questions in one comment! Not affiliated with either Dropbox or Backblaze, just an infrastructure wonk.
> As a means to 'store wealth' - not really. There are 100 other things that make more sense than bitcoin.

Not much. Wealth storage medium has to be rare (with predictable rarity), easily divisible, easily transferable, easily verifiable against forgery. Bitcoin fits the bill perfectly. It's hard to invent better medium of storage.

> As a 'medium of exchange' - it will never be a common currency so it has no real value there.

It _is_ a common currency _now_. I earn my living in Bitcoin. I can spent it easily through BTC-linked debit cards. Today morning I bought a pack of milk with such card, and it was debited in BTC. In the country I live in, some municipal payments and bills can be paid by Bitcoin _directly_.

> The only real advantage of Bitcoin is total privacy

Bitcoin is 100% transparent. All transactions and balances are visible to everyone. When the money source is established, it almost impossible to "launder" it, as it is fully trackable. As of now, there is almost zero privacy (not that it is a good thing). You still can buy Bitcoins for cash in some dark alleys, but the price will be worse, and amounts are limited. Whatever privacy protections Bitcoin had in its beginnings, now almost completely eliminated. It is tax collectors' dream.
Well that's sad. The day my TiVo stops working is the day I cut the cord.
In telescope photos it's often caused by diffraction off the 'spider' that holds optical elements in the centre of the telescope's barrel.