skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see several people criticize microservices here. We've been doing it for about 6 years and are extremely happy with it.

A core principle which a lot of people and articles ignore, though, is reusability. I bring this up on HN every time there's a discussion about microservices, yet I've never seen any discussion about it.

Essentially, you build out the backend to act as a library for your front end. So we have login, storage, analytics, reporting, logging, data integrations, various forms of messaging, business-structural stuff, etc. etc. all bundled up as separate services. The front ends just use these services to build a coherent product. The front end is the monolith: The microservices are the cloud.

For example, let's say I wanted to create a new product called "Hacker News". I'd use our storage service to store links and comments. I'd use the login service to let users log in. I'd use our messaging service to send notifications about things like verifying your email or send password resets. I'd use our analytics backend to emit events for reporting. And so on. I could easily build the whole thing without writing a single line of backend code, and without setting up a new cluster, because every backend service has been designed with multitenancy from the start.

This ability to piggyback on a platform of services where I think the real utility of microservices lies. Everything else — fine-grained scalability, smaller surface for tests, language-independence, swappable implementations, etc. etc. — are secondary to that.
Funny when it started as a GPS tracking webapp.
Sure, some people are exploring the approach. This does not mean it works.
Are you saying that was a result of the Japanese internment camps?
CareSkore (YC W16) is hiring for multiple positions
In fact, the more I think about this, the more fucked-up it seems. The investors have given you the illusion of owning part of this company, but it's a mirage. You have no way to benefit from that equity. You have no authority, you control no budget, you're paid a pittance, and the only way you can monetize your ostensible share of the company is by dying!

You've been taken, and it doesn't sound like there's anything you can do about it (IANAL; maybe you should consult one, but I'm not optimistic they can do anything for you).

As I said: time to chew your leg off and get free.
To be fair to Zakarin, the finish is substantially steeper than the section Peter was on, and he had just spent the 30 minutes on the rivet to get the stage win.
It is not my responsibility to teach you basic American history. But here's some things to get you started.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/white-fl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Migration_(Africa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_African-Americ...

Read them or don't, I don't really care, but if you want to be less ignorant of how this developed these are useful starting points.
Almost certainly not. Except for, say, powering auxiliary electronics, concentrations of solar power are far too low for on-vehicle collection.

Put the panels alongside the road. Not on the vehicles. Not on solar freaking roadways, which are the stupidest idea since stupid. But in medians, on extant construction, and in concentrated high-insolation solar farms (deserts, etc.).

We're going to need one hell of a lot of panels.
The issue isn't moral agency.

Being a moral agent doesn't stop you from being unfairly accosted—or killed—by law enforcement.

Being a moral agent doesn't mean you don't get death threats for trying to enroll your children in better public schools.

Being a black moral agent is actually likely to get you in more trouble— not less.

Blacks seeking there own betterment find roadblocks in every direction each step of the way.
Tesla and SpaceX are specifically "Hard" technology... Most tech startups are Soft(ware). See: Uber

SpaceX market share (Tesla too for that matter) will NEVER have a "hockey stick" growth chart... The tech is too hard
Why is this a strange choice? Isn't most of the kernel GPL? (and thus, a non-GPL component can't link to the GPL part, as that would be a violation of the GPL, would it not?)
The Fillmore became a black neighborhood directly after the Japanese population was interned. I think it's reasonable to think there's a link there.
On the flip side, republicans try to sabotage the functioning of many agencies so that they can then complain that the private sector would be a better fit. This has been their MO towards the Post Office for longer than I've been alive, and have been diligently working to undermine social security in the hopes that may be privatized as well. It's the 'starve the beast' strategy on a larger scale.
It's not a question of intelligence, but of attention. Few crashes are caused by wrong inferences; most are caused by lapses in attention or impaired judgement. Computer systems do not necessarily suffer from those.
I don't trust the government to manipulate the free market efficiently. It's comprised of hapless morons who don't know what they're doing and whose favor is for sale to the highest bidder. Case in point are the tremendous number of bankrupt alternative energy companies built upon favorable treatment by the government. Market intervention doesn't suddenly become justifiable simply because the outcome of advancing the sustainability agenda is positive.
The solution was specific to that subproblem. The left/right-offset cameras were for the sole purpose of providing examples of what it would look like if the car was deviating off path. The same trick would not work for any other problems. Can you think of similar camera data augmentation tricks for obstacle detection, drivable path segmentation, bicyclist signaling/intention, pedestrian detection, and so on?
Put the text files in a Dropbox dir. Now you can edit them on your phone.
I'd love to learn more.
Can you please share the story you're on about?
Random side note... Recognized your name, we use your TOML go package in a bunch of our tools. Thanks and keep up the great work!
So what should white people have done/what should they do, to not be guilty of these terrible social sins that appear to be their fault no matter what actions they take?
That's not true. Other automakers existed before Ford; he had automotive competition.

In what world is a Jaguar a "medium" end car? The high end Jaguars extend into Maserati territory.

If Tesla wants to be better than a Maserati or Jaguar, they need to observe how much nicer the interiors of those cars are. Consumer Reports doesn't care about that above a certain level of basic competence, but a Maserati or Jaguar buyer does.
I can't figure out what you're trying to say. You think it's bad he wrote it himself, or good? Are you saying his writing it himself was a mistake, or wasn't? And it does or doesn't sound formal enough? It needs rigor and doesn't have it, or it does have it?
The "fundamental attribution error" is a symptom of the very issue it itself is trying to solve: too much thinking. Thinking about why we think too much won't get us closer to a solution.

The fundamental problem is believing every thought that pops into your mind. We do that when we're not conscious of thought. Whether a compulsive thought concerns "internal characteristics of a person" or "external factors of a situation" is not relevant.
Toronto Style... Mass transit.
That's the user's fault then.
Any real reason why JSONB shouldn’t support those operators? (Does it do something else with them?)
So what should white people have done in the past/what should they do in the future, to not be guilty of these terrible social sins that appear to be their fault no matter what actions they take?
Wikipedia is actually a pretty good jumping-off point here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillmore_District,_San_Francis...
2.27 shipped http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Safety-Razor-Complete-Men-Sha...

vs 32 shipped https://www.amazon.com/VIKINGS-Double-Swedish-Platinum-Manli...

they look like roughly the same thing to me.

the other style, for under 3 shipped. http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Vintage-Retro-Useful-Durable-...
To paraphrase The Onion,

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only City Where This Regularly Happens
Theranos is back with support
Honest question: are any of the large European cities seeing the "white flight" phenomenon with the influx of poor middle eastern and african immigrants?
Home Remedies for Head Lice
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12115327
The motivation of people can vary a lot. For a big part of the world, the price of digital content is just not realistic at all.

For other people, like me, it's the lack of a reliable, convenient, well done solution. I won't touch iTunes with a 50 feet pole. All the on demand services I've tried have a limited catalog, reliability problems, stupid policies, try to push a bunch of stuff down my throat.

The torrent flow is perfect. Type the name of almost anything, wait 5-15min for it to download. Quality is amazing, no commercials, no bullshit.

I would gladly pay $100/month if I could go to IMDB and have a one click, 1080p download button on everything. Seriously.

> it will be in better quality than the torrent which was ripped off some TV broadcast and re-compressed

Sorry to say, but that is very out of touch.
I think you're misunderstanding. No one is saying that "you are responsible for what has happened in Flint and Detroit."

We are saying that racism is one of the driving engines—if not THE driving engine—of these processes.

EDIT: And being blind to that perpetuates the problems!
So you will let perfect get in the way of better?
I'm curious whether anyone had ever tried implementing a pure userspace solution (without a kernel driver) by basically exposing the underlying FS as a CIFS share on some random local port. Obviously, that would be slower, but for many applications that doesn't matter much - while the ability to install and run without administrator privileges would be valuable.
In a sentence? They need to do something to help.

In a larger sense: they should recognize that the entire American society was splintered a long time ago by racism and it never un-splintered. A metric fuck-ton of work needs to be done to rehabilitate the communities and whole socioeconomic strata that have been affected by this. It will probably take 20-50 years to undo, just because so many people have this "It's not my fault, so fuck it, I don't need to do anything" attitude.

Societies do not self-heal.
I'm guessing I share an office with your brother then.
In Europe (not sure about the rest of the world) the newspapers printed numerical codes along with each TV listing. If you typed that into the VCR it would populate the start and end times for you, possibly the channel as well?

edit: the system I used was VideoPlus+, it looks like similar systems were used elsewhere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_recorder_scheduling_code
How do ciphers (like RSA) change plaintext into numeric digits for computing?
Most Hydrogen is generated from natural gas today and for the foreseeable future... It's no more an alternative source than Electricity, probably less, because we don't have Nuclear Hydrogen plants.
Google "Sony Rootkit DLC"
That looks like a very similar pattern that I've seen commonly used in Go. It makes for very clear code and explicit error handling. I kind of like it for the clarity, even if it isn't "elegant" or concise.
2016-07-21 08:19 Journal format

Picked up from jrnl.sh. One text file per year. Single-line title starts with timestamp. No specific daily routine, just making an entry whenever I want to take notes. Usually plans or work log for personal projects.
I assume they're referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Copy_Protection
Now play Resident Evil with such setup ;)
TVs and VCRs were considerably more expensive. One of the biggest use cases was compromising with family members or housemates.
There are Nepotism conflicts between the boards of the two companies... Not a plan? If anything, it swings/stinks too far to the other side. IMHO...

http://fortune.com/2016/06/22/tesla-elon-musk-solarcity/
David Hall has been my boss for the past 10 years. I have worked a little on some of these projects over the years but I work for the oil & gas part of the company that was sold to Schlumberger. David has lots of ideas, many I have helped him kill quickly. Some are great though and have lead to major innovations in diamond technology, oil & gas drilling, and a growing number of other fields.
Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml (MOOC)
A future for semis which have a 4-8 km off-grid range, and operate largely as self-assembling intermodal train rigs for long-distance transport, either on existing railcars or with a streamlined wheelset mechanism, might work.

I agree that the power densities for long-haul, BEV trucking simply don't make sense, even with platooning technologies. Intermittent fast-charge stations plus catenaries, with off-grid battery capabilities, would be a possibility however.

Another option would be for always (or nearly-always) tracked operation, with what's effectively a cargo-streetcar function within cities and suburbs, and traditional rail off.

Functions such as field-to-depot transport would almost certainly still require fueled vehicles.
Does the technology behind this system do any classical parsing work? Or is it mostly seeing implicit structure via embeddings?
So you're telling me there's a chance...
I for one applaud the honest quality of what he released. I much prefer this to something polished to a glossy finish by a PR department.
He should have written it with more formality and more rigor. Tesla is a public company and there is already a perception among investors that this is a facade. Musk needs to reposition Tesla as less of a personal experiment/quest and more of a legitimate enterprise that acknowledges its fiduciary duty to its shareholders. Tone and communication are very important in this regard. This release failed to adopt a tone and style of communication commensurate with the severity of Tesla's present situation. Instead, it feels like Musk is treating Tesla as he might a startup. In short, he's being facetious. I doubt the stock will plummet as a result of this, but it was certainly a missed opportunity to reassure investors.
It is weird to read people write about microservices (or some other tech fad) as if it is this otherworldly thing that requires instruction and training. So many words dedicated to describing the supposedly bad old days!

All this stuff is just another aspect in the life of a practitioner of computing. A proper expert should see these things not as a fad, but as a collection of techniques that can be added or subtracted to at will depending on the prevailing need. It's silly to declare any of these fads dead or alive, they're just simply techniques that ...people... have bundled together under a common label
For rates of process and cost improvement with scale, look to J. Doyne Farmer's work, and particularly Wright's Law (Moore's Law is a special case, and less accurate), which looks at cost improvements with volume increase through learning functions.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/test-and-measurem...

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1263107

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

http://www.santafe.edu/research/working-papers/abstract/0650...
>DVD correctly handled will last forever while a VHS degrade over time, especially when you play it often

True, but a mangled VHS can be still be recovered. The analog nature of the degradation means that VHS is still somewhat usuable, whereas damaged DVDs are often useless.

For many people there is also a huge nostalgia factor at play.
Even google(with boston dynamics?)
I don't buy it. Another study showed a net loss:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140416/04183626928/paten...

It's humorous that they trot out the definition of innovation:
"make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas or products"
A patent explicitly forbids you to make changes on something already established. Want to make an innovation on a processor that already exists? Sorry, patent! You'll have to wait nearly 2 decades to make your innovation.

Plus it just doesn't pass the smell test. They're basically claiming that if companies spent billions of more dollars on innovation instead of patent litigation we would have less innovation!?

The j-core open processor and RISC-V instruction set are only possible because of patents that expired. Imagine what web development would be like if someone had patented using xmlhttprequest to update the DOM and info in the DOM. Would innovation have increased or lagged?

Patents quite literally create monopolies. If monopolies are so good, why does anti-trust exist? I think it's quite obvious that patents stifle innovation. Oh yes, they may provide a legal method for people to rent-seek, and make lots of money through extraction, but they definitely slow the rate of innovation.
On Flask vs Django:

> Flask is a “microframework” for Python, and is an excellent choice for building smaller applications, APIs, and web services.

> Flask is default choice for any Python web application that isn’t a good fit for Django.

Not very helpful. What is the threshold between "smaller" and larger applications? What makes an app not "a good fit for Django"? I've never found clear answers to these questions, mostly just vague opinion. This Hitchhiker's Guide, a self-proclaimed opinionated guide, could really take off if it got some opinion and backed it up with real rationale.
This is what AGPL fixes, BTW. That's why many web based tools are under AGPL.
Same. And my tactic over the years is removing pages (I prefer actual writing to anything electronic. I like nice pens and good paper).

Write honestly, review periodically, and discard what's really just mental or psychological dead-weight. It's surprising how much of that, once on paper, can be just let go and be done with.

I've used mostly moleskines for their range and availability, particularly the hard covers. Those all now have huge sections of sliced out pages so I'm trying their Valence line where every page is perforated.
I already gave up on filing bug reports for MS products years ago for this exact reason.

This is not a case of it's fixed in x, or you should upgrade to y, it is neglect plain and simple.

I asked about this exact issue when they did an AMA in the SQL Server subreddit a while back, and I shit you not the response was that 'for a few years the team didn't have a lot of resources'... That's right, MS doesn't have the resources to properly support and develop SQL Server and the surrounding development tools.

They were also encouraging everyone to vote on the connect items, as they were using vote count as the priority indicator for addressing issues. No intake triage, just get enough votes and maybe then they'll think about fixing some bugs.

I simply don't use their tools any more where I can avoid it, and where I can't I'm looking for longer term replacement plans.
Critical bug enabling attackers to circumvent the Little Snitch network filter
Good history ofreverse engineering nature thou.
I don't know about you, but I am responsible for my own actions. I don't need a hug from Whitey or anyone else to know the difference between right and wrong, or hard work versus sloth. If you do, I feel bad for you son. I choose the action, I choose the consequence, same as pretty much anything else on this planet.
Sorry, but solar space harvesting is a post Asteroid Mining kind of tech... Not really "Synergy" for few Decades. (and acceptance of Nuclear space propulsion)

Come to think of it, if you can transfer the energy... Just put the reactors in space?
Does google collect high velocity data like tesla's? I heard that the google self driving car was limited to 25mph in the areas where they tested it, and so their data may only be reflective of that.
But they aren't sharing their accident data...
At some point we will need to take an active part in regulating the planet's weather and various climates. Orbiting solar panels on orbits that pass between us and the sun, that can be selectively turned edge on, or perpendicular, to the sun, would let us control solar influx to particular surface regions, limiting energy input in specific places while also harvesting that energy and enabling us to put it to use as needed without increasing total energy/heat input.
More electric vehicles will get on the road when there is a realistic economic rationale to buy them. Without the subsidy, an $80,000 car that can only go 200 miles is a lot less appealing.
I think ClojureScript could benefit my team as both a productivity and performance boost. But convincing a large team to switch to a lisp is pretty much never going to happen. I might as well try to get everyone to switch to dvorak keyboards while I'm at it.
Waze is just where people are going...the data tesla collects could be from sensors like a front-facing camera, radar, 360 degree ultrasonic sensors, etc.
Causality is inverted. The harm was done in electing to use non-free, proprietary, single-player data formats. I've been watching that error be made for 30+ years now.

Don't lock yourself in to that crap in the first place.

Consider the pain an educational expense.
But 7 hours of development and 1.5 hours of workout per day still burnt me out :/
By measure of "Hard" technology... Uber is just software.

Electric Cars and Reusable rockets are engineering marvels, not nifty software. That's difficult.
But the problem is you really do need a "paredit" for your editor when developing in Clojure. It's a double whammy for beginners, and a huge one at that. Pretty much every other language ever is perfectly editable in everyone's editor as it exists today.
This code was written 5 years ago, and back then the trim function was different.
A great place to look for a Mormon view on what Zion will be like, at least in principle, is a book called The Enoch Letters written by Neal Maxwell, a LDS apostle. It is written in the style of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. It a quick read and I found it to be quite interesting.
And the same can be said about the digital version. You can use it in ways that you can't use a physical one. Which is better is completely a matter of preference, IMO.

Physical: It's pleasant, intuitive, and the tactile aspects change as you go through the book. Page layout and the feel of flipping through the book can be nice mnemonic devices.

Digital: I can carry a few thousand books on my pocket, put copies on all my devices, do full text searches, follow hyperlinks in the document, etc.
Me too. At this point in my career I've worked very closely with more than 100 programmers for long periods of time, and only one of them would I classify as being overly interested in fads. To the contrary, I give a ton of credit to the vast majority of programmers as always being pragmatic about the problem at hand.

I think the problem lies more in the PR, advocacy and conference circuits where there's an incentive and agenda to present things as silver bullets. It mirrors a greater problem in public discourse that everything has become so polarized that nuanced debate is drowned out by noisy, confident blowhards.
The product isn't solar panels, it's energy. With a huge fleet of electric cars needing to be charged in major metros, where is the electricity coming from?

What if you also have a massive deployment of solar panels on top of existing real estate, that you essentially don't have to pay rent for?

When Teslas are autonomous, and owners are using them to make money by giving other people rides. How are these cars getting charged? And that energy doesn't come for free. Tesla will have their hand in every piece of transportation.
I wonder if anyone has done the math on total cost savings for Google and how it will impact their earnings/stock price.