skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pfsense will never be the same without cmb at the helm. He stuck around when Scott basically stepped away and he led it into a partnership with netgate that led to the new entity. I'm excited though! The project lives on!
Linux is the kernel for Android. Not sure what you are talking about.
The coup didn't succeed.

Not all the military units have given up, and this could still turn into a bloody mess. But the attempt at a quick middle of the night takeover failed.
This is kinda frustrating to see considering the many, many other open data problems I've seen. Sure, it's a typo, but did it deserve its own article? No. There are more important things to discuss.

(Not trying to minimize the work or the problem of the typo, just that it's very in-line with the many other issues I've seen that need to be fixed.)
Indeed. There is a difference between democracy and liberal democracy.
Graphistry co-founder here. We do that every day with nvidia-docker & AWS.

The real challenge is doing this on 100+ GPUs and leveraging multitenancy for an additional 100X+ economy of scale. We're actively working on it, and in my experience, this seems like a classic scheduling area where different domains will want to do it differently. However, even there, it'll end up something like "plugin a new user-level mesos scheduler x", and Nvidia is working on exactly that.

I'll wait for someone at Baidu or the Titan lab to blow up those numbers by another 100-1000X ;-)

Edit: If this sounds like a cool problem, we're leveraging GPU cloud computing and visual graph analytics for event analysis (e.g., core tool for teams in enterprise security). We would love help, esp. on cloud infrastructure or on connecting the eco-system together! Contact build@graphistry.com and we'll figure something out :)
This seems pretty ridiculous, for an enterprise network with 20,000+ end users, where is the incentive to pay $140,000 per month with minimal, if any, increased profit margins using windows 10 over windows 7?
First, apologies for my snippy knee-jerk comment. I should have probably taken more time to compose my thoughts. And congratulations on the platform's popularity (at least as far as I can gather from GitHub stars). It seems that it definitely hits a sweet spot for many people as far as ease-of-use. Additionally, I think it integrates a lot of great ideas, some in combinations that thus far are not quite mainstream.

I think what bothered me is actually best described by the current top comment. "How it works," too, seems like mostly marketing hype, and in my personal experience many of its technical claims regarding novelty or distinction are inaccurate and come across as sanctimonious.

As you may guess from my mentioning Android above, that's the most mainstream system that I think obtains the described level of sandboxing while allowing highly-fine-grained access control when the data is to leave a sandbox. For example, if I share a photo from one app to another, it does not gain access to all photos but rather only the one I selected.

The same-origin policy also springs to mind as a great example of application and data sandboxing by default.

Sandstorm does have very fine-grained defaults, which I think is the best, and of course capabilities are the more feasible AuthZ primitive for distributed system [1].

All in all, I think we have many of the same opinions, and I've seen the success of similar models several times in the past. This is probably a good deal of why I find it frustrating and disingenuous when they're described as novel.

[1] https://youtu.be/2htZv45lvLM?list=PL-XXv-cvA_iBDyz-ba4yDskqM...
How about Bosnia and Herzegovina? They're 51% muslim and have applied to join EU earlier this year.
Where did you read that? Since Apple has yet to commit on H.265, ( Due to Insane patent Licensing payment ), I am hoping they jump onboard with Open Media Alliance.
I'm not sure why you got downvoted. Your comments here are not only valuable to discussion, but are aligned with exactly my experience.
Í'm sexy and I tow it
Check this video out so awesome the same guy who made a music video about his lemon jeep that went viral they gagged him then threatened to sue him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKlJ599778
Way cheaper, and safer.
Ok, so more distros patch it to be a run-time sysctl flag than I thought.

That doesn't change the fact that turning it on (and expecting to not introduce significant vulnerabilities by doing so) is saying "I'm running a significantly different userland than the standard one."
I've been hoping someone packages nylas for it. I've been meaning to look into how to do this.
Another concept that's useful in this context is that of the adjacent possible. Rather than get bogged down in concepts of teleology, realise that for an adaptation to occur, it must be beneficial, or, at the very least, not disadvantageous.

So, from proto-turtle to current evolved state, the shell had to pass through various forms which were adjacent and possible to their progenitor state, and subsequent state.

While the end result wasn't a goal, it had to exist on the possibility path which lead to it. That is, adaptations are path dependent.

Which applies as well to technological and enterprise progress. For a company to evolve from some precursor state A to some ultimate state C, it's got to pass through some intermediate set of possiblities, B, B', B", etc. Maintaining corporate solvency, existence, some employee retention, etc., are all necessary. And original intent often isn't the final result.
git clone git://git.suckless.org/st
cloc --quiet st
http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.60
T=0.09s
(45.8 files/s, 56588.2 lines/s)
------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
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C 1 497 253 3654
C/C++ Header 2 40 124 313
make 1 13 2 45
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SUM: 4 550 379 4012
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[ed: Actually, this get even more extreme for the terminal I actually use everyday, sakura[1]:

apt-get source sakura
(cloc sakura)

Gives a total of 2490 lines of code, of which 2380 are C, the rest is CMake, make and Bourne Shell... that is cheating of course, as sakura uses libvte: which clocks in at ~45K lines of C - and a total of ~103K loc all together. Still a far cry from millions of lines of code...

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/sakura
]
Rather a neologism:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=exaptation&yea...

Though the antecedants date to the 19th century:
https://books.google.com/books?id=0WNVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA102&dq=%...
Well, I observed that as Filipinos made more money they tended to stop eating that food, so I don't think they're that into it either. I will admit that the deep fried pigs feet are very tasty though.

If I had to pick one thing Filipinos loved most, it would definitely be fried chicken. They also seem to have a soft spot for spaghetti with an extremely sweet tomato sauce.
Exactly his point. You could just as easily say that Linux is the kernel for Sandstorm.
Why is it an operating system? Looks like owncloud not like linux to me.
:D

We believe in releasing early and often and using feedback to direct development. (Truth be told, this is why the "powerbox" features that we like to talk about a lot aren't totally done yet: user feedback identified many other, more pressing things to improve!)

That said, my dirty secret is that I have a little app that queries HN search every five minutes and gives me a desktop notification whenever Sandstorm is mentioned. :)
Thanks, this is helpful.

I know me, and I am the laziest gardener ever so low-maintenance is about the best perk there could be.
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This article touches on something that has absolutely destroyed architecture and art more generally: the cult of creativity and the new.

This is a very long story, but the short version is that genius is rare, and tradition restrains the mediocre and outright bad, limiting the damage they do and occasionally boosting them up near the genius level. Geniuses who can work without the constraints of tradition, it turns out, can do their thing regardless of the constraints put on them, so it all works out.

Now, this doesn't matter so much in the art world because there we can simply ignore the non-geniuses.

Unfortunately, this is not the case with architecture.
Quantum mechanics (physics) makes lots of testable predictions and has many real world applications. Starting with black body radiation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe
Double slit experiment, Solid state physics, semiconductors.

Mathematical models are not bs.

I think you will need some bs to be successful at sales, but I wouldn't try to use quantum mechanics in sales.
I never got this to work properly.
Thanks, this is helpful!
I don't disagree with you, but the article is talking about restaurants where you would spend a lot of money...not your lunch noodle shop.
@gkya has done a good job of elaborating part of the reason being the Westernisation of Islam.

The EU is a highly Christian dominated place with a "them vs us" mentality. The EU tries to fix the world's problems without ever engaging the world's cultures. It's not about growth, it's about the future of civilisation. It's at a time where we need to be taking down barriers, not putting more up. We may not financially benefit from having Turkey, but it's certainly a step towards empowering the secular Muslims and moving forwards together.
Amazon Mechanical Turkers are educated millennials making less than minimum wage
Fill your bathtub with water in case you lose municipal water supply for a few days. Fill containers if you have them. Good luck. The rest of the world is watching and we hope you all stay safe through this difficult time.
The UI is pretty bad but the commands are extremely powerful. It has commands and plugins to help you find deadlock, list out all system locks in a process, who owns them, layouts of data structures and lots more.
> my dirty secret is that I have a little app that queries HN search every five minutes and gives me a desktop notification whenever Sandstorm is mentioned

I guessed that. You were too good at it. Good job making the name unique haha. Just hope there is no anti-real world sandstorm tech that's developed in the future ;-)

I don't think it's dirty. That's a service itself that other companies would do well to follow by implementing in-house or through investment.

I think many companies do track mentions. Few follow through with real engagement. There is a difference between observing and engaging. In these fast times, I imagine it makes a difference.

Perhaps some users would find this intrusive, and I guess it could be done poorly. I think you set a good example (so far.. ;-) )
Because it's unproductive.

First, in itself.

Second, you're pretty combative about it.

Third, your totally out-of-the-field mention of an Israeli spin, together with the story itself, makes me wary that it looks very much like right-extremist "arguments" are being injected here.
I think the topic was Turkey - honestly I don't know enough about those Countries to make a comment on them. If they're modernised and meet the criteria, then we should certainly look to bring them in slowly. It may be a mistake to rush the process.
Absolutely. The restaurant I used to work at did catering as well, and we made far more profit from catering than from regular service. I don't think that total income was more for catering though.

With catering, you only have to pay for the staff you need, when you need them. You also often don't have to pay for the venue, or only have to pay for renting furniture etc.

Part of the profitability also comes from the fact that you're already paying for the kitchen, and often the venue (if it's hosted at the restaurant after hours), so you're essentially removed 30% of the cost.
For massive take-off, Sandstorm is almost-there with making everyone's online world de-centralized.

It's solved half of the problem beautifully -- it's very easy, once setup, to launch any new app on your server.

The other half of the problem is moving of server/data. Right now, either you use their self hosted instance of sandstorm, or setup your own server. There's the hassle of keeping track of data/server. There's pseudo-centralization happening here, given the difficulty of changing compute or storage by a layperson.

However, if sandstorm had built in federated storage (either based on bittorrent filesystem or any other p2p storage), then I no longer worry about losing my data. I simply move my domain to a new "server-provider" or use the main project's own service, and then at a later date can spin up my own compute, or use another provider, and point them to my data on the p2p/federated storage.
You can talk about GTR to someone without the use of mathematics and explain to them that time moves differently at different speeds, and that gravity effects time.

You cannot do that with quantum mechanics without bringing in a "probability wave", or a hypothesis that "maybe energy levels of systems are discrete", which anyone would agree doesn't make any sense by itself.
I'll try;
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I guess now we get to find out if King Nadella can extract a tax from his subjects.

To me, Windows (and MacOS) are so relatively set that I could go without upgrades for a long time. I don't see how these are services...
Great!

What about inter-company services? Inter-division? I think your "team:service = 1:N" model above is exactly what happens in many places, and exactly what you seemed to react so strongly to.

It isn't exactly uncommon for a data ownership to be aligned with team structure.

There are trade-off with all approaches, but I think your initial ("Good Lord, I sure hope that's not true.") comment is an overreaction.
I'm from Arizona, but I love that NC vinegar sauce!
The citation refers to the existence of tones. The rest of the quoted text is from the author's observations as a language student.

Tones don't provide an extra layer of communication, they're part of the natural pronunciation. Fluent speakers think about tones about as much as English speakers think about long/short vowels.

Even with that aside, the author's idea that tones can be a natural mnemonic device of sorts has some logical problems. Yes, one might use tones as an additional memory anchor, but you'd still need to memorize the actual number along with the "tune", and you could do the same in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ

Given the number 5316742918 (typical length of a phone number), you'd need to consciously go back and digit-by-digit take note of the tones. If you convert and hum the "tune", it'd go something like this: u--\--\\u-- or, numerically, 31141144311.*

This requires conscious effort to convert and memorize already, but now we have no way to convert back to the original value as the tune could refer to any of 442,368 different numbers.

*Tones map to digits as follows:

1: 1, 3, 7, 8

3: 5, 9

4: 2, 4, 6
A model you can talk about without mathematics. Which doesn't need mathematics to form an intuition about.

STR and GTR are perfect examples of models which you can help even a layman develop an intuitive understanding of by just talking to them, without mathematics.
>.."Consider the cases of steak frites and carne asada. They both involve cooking a fairly high-quality cut of meat over high heat, and they’re both dishes whose origins are foreign to America."

One of the biggest differences here, but not mentioned, is Parisian as well and "Peking" cuisine is "imperial" or dynastic. Many other cuisines have more rustic heritage, i.e. "peasant" food. Yes, ultimately Parisian and "Peking" cooking can trace back to peasant origins, but many were refined in imperial palaces --thus the prestige. Mexican, British, Russian food is quite squarely in the "peasant" bracket.
The debugger that is available in JetBrain's CLion IDE provides a good chunk of the IntelliJ IDEA debugger interface for C/C++. Likewise, AppCode does the same for Objective-C. They wrap around LLDB.
IMO "Fight Club" subplot was a lazy idea, executed poorly.
Hi ph0rque, could you discuss (or did I miss it on your site?) roughly how much food / fish this produces? Thanks!
Android sandboxes apps, but it does not sandbox documents within apps. For example, when I use the gmail app to connect to both personal and work email, there is nothing stopping an exploit that lands in my personal inbox from reading all my work email. Similarly, same-origin policy generally divides apps (in the form of domains), but not documents -- if I have two Google Docs, and someone XSS's one of them, they can read and infect the other.

Of course, on a phone (or a single user's browser), you usually have only one user, which makes it less clear why apps should be internally partitioned. On the server side, the traditional model is multi-tenancy, where all of Google's billions of users are potentially hitting the same server containers (modulo geography-based load-balancing).

We definitely don't claim that the capability model is new, and I'm happy to acknowledge that many research systems based on a strong capability model implement something like Sandstorm's fine-grained containerization. Mark Miller, one of the (probably, "the") foremost researchers on capability-based security is an advisor to the Sandstorm project -- you'll see him listed on the Team page. Marc Steigler -- who I believe invented the word "Powerbox" -- is also a friend, as are Tyler Close (Waterken), Norm Hardy (KeyKOS), Alan Karp, etc.

The thing is, though, CapDesk and KeyKOS never made it beyond being research systems -- proving a point, but not widely used in the real world. Also, they predated the "cloud services" era.

I would still like to know if there are other examples of server-side fine-grained containerization that I'm missing.
Best Defense Mechanism ever
Who cares what you believe in?
GDB mostly works for x86. I used to swear at GDB many times daily when using it to debug an embedded ARM target with openocd a few years ago.

Very frustrating when it crashes just as you've got the target into the state where you think your bug will trigger. And then GDB repeats the performance reliably for you... On those days you end up resorting to a lot of creative thinking.
Somehow I'm not able to edit, but I wanted to add: the situation seems be under control, coupists mostly arrested, soon it'll all be cool I guess (based in Istanbul).
Sure. I wasn't arguing that millions of lines of code are necessary for a terminal. Thanks for the pointer to Sakura though! I quite like it and I might have to give it a try :)
Remember that each bit doubles the space. You would need 50,000 processors with 350 terabytes of memory each to hit 64 bits.

Then again, super computers aren't really running the same architecture as the rest of us.
FWIW, it's straightforward to see how this could be accomplished with Sandstorm's model, since user data is very clearly divided into grains (app instances / documents) with clear owners, and these grains can easily be transferred between servers. Today, you can click "download backup" to get a zip, then upload it to some other server, and end up with exactly the same grain reproduced there. We plan to streamline this further, to allow mass transfers and synchronizing grains between servers. It's a major goal for us that it should be trivial to move between hosts, so that you're never stuck with a host that you don't like.
This is not only evident mid-tier lunch establishments, but also in pricey restaurants in those countries too (not the exorbitantly priced restaurants, but the ones middle and upper middle go out for a good meal at the weekend. For the most part round tables are found in spacious "banquet" style restaurants (you may find others who have that too, but by and large, most have tables for two, four and a few sixes).

Cheap places just have long foldable picnic style tables with benches where anyone can sit anywhere.
I'm excited. Today was the first time I tried Sandstorm via their demo serivce, and I must say that I am genuinely surprised and impressed with the level of polish. One click gave me a private gitlab, a collaborative document editor, and even a running instance of browserquest!

This level of polish might just be what it takes to get the masses to host their own digital services. I'm strongly considering setting a sandstorm server up for my family.

One question promptly and prominently pops to mind: Given the focus on non-technical users, How does sandstorm mitigate issues that are caused by NAT and NAT traversal?
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> This may not sound that bad - after all, they're just a service provider, right? - but let's put this in context for a moment. Currently, CloudFlare essentially controls 11% of the 10k biggest websites, over 8% of the 100k biggest websites (source), and almost 5% of sites on the entire web (source). According to their own numbers from 2012(!), they had more traffic than several of the most popular sites and services on earth combined, and almost half the traffic of Facebook. It has only grown since. And unlike every other backbone provider and mitigation provider, they can read your traffic in plaintext, TLS or not.

https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/cdn/

Amazon and Akamai are both larger providers than Cloudflare. Akamai also can function similarly to the criticism leveled against Cloudflare (i.e. No TLS to the edge, so it can be meddled with.)

Tbh, I'd be more worried about Amazon's position on that pie than Cloudflare since its comparable to Google's.

https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings/comScore-Releases...

Its rarely healthy for any market to have a majority owned by a single player, even if Tech tends to generate winner-take-most situations in the marketplace.
I am not seeing the importance of those facts. It's like implying that the Denver Broncos are less worthy of a team because no one from the team is from Denver.
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So does this mean Bill Ackman has failed?

Referring to his short selling strategy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11095715
The majority of politics on HN is about tech or politics impact on tech, or new (and often quite strange!) economic theories and experiments.

Do you know how the flagging system works? Normal users get the right to flag and/or vouch for stories periodically, after they have been on the site a while. The details of what stays on the front page isn't publicly known, but it is a combination of comments and upvotes vs flags vs vouches.

So if there is a lot to say about a topic, it is more likely to stay on the front page.

The Turkish attempted coup made the front page (which of course isn't US or Anglo-centric). I think that is mostly because it is an unfolding situation and people have new things to say about it.

(I have flagging rights at the moment. I didn't flag it, but I rarely flag things.)
Why is shiny rock more real than pretty paper? It's all a collective hallucination