skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had to choose who to believe, some rando at EFF or Dave Aitel, I believe Dave Aitel.
Good point. The PC I'm referring to is running Windows 10 Pro.
The workaround is to buy a Kubota or a Lamborghini or another equally suitable brand without the knee capping. Is this not a reasonable market-forces-problem-solving perspective?

Also, just to belabor the point, once a person purchases the John Deere under First Sale Doctrine they are completely entitled to replacing the computer with a third-party controller. Thus, that's Fair Use of the vehicle one purchased. Legally, in this context, John Deere can not claim that DRM was circumvented because the rights were terminated upon sale of the physical item.
The key to this article at a macroscopic level is the willingness to quit when the manager or culture are unwilling to adapt to your fewer hours proposition. We can positively change the industry for everyone by uniformly following this guidanace.
https://youtu.be/P0q4o58pKwA
Exactly. I expected "hard way" to be using your local box without any external cloud provided service.
> Remember, a company is merely comprised of the people within it.

Not really. Software companies are like that. They are the exception to the general rule that companies are composed of people plus things like factories, equipment, patents, trade secrets, inventory, real estate, global supply chains, and dealer networks for service and support.

Making cars, even regular ones, is hard and Uber has never really done anything like it.
Similar story, I was in Barcelona, and if you walk around the beach at night, you see dodgy-looking immigrants that will approach you and quietly ask if you want a cold beer.

See, it's illegal for stores to sell alcohol past a certain hour, so these guys provide a valuable service. However, I was with a friend who wanted to smoke some weed instead, so he went and asked one of the guys "do you have any weed?"

The guy looked horrified and quickly blurted out "No, no, only beer! You can't get that stuff!" before moving along.

It just struck me as funny that they would dodgily sell you illegal beer but that they would be righteously indignant at weed. "That, sir, is where I draw the line of illegality!"
Ask HN: Companies Encouraging Work/Life Balance
On the back of the discussion around the "Less Stress, More Productivity" article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12320188), I'm curious which companies actively work to keep their employees on < 40 hours a week?

Please include company name, website, and any other details you'd like to include (why you try to work shorter hours, what's your experience with hiring/retention, are you hiring currently, etc).
Maybe his comment “I will not join the looting of the very people I was hired to protect.” explains that.
I agree there is not a great difference in the places I am mostly (SF and LA) but I think Uber was smart to bring on a lot of cheap capital the past few years.
People have tried, but I've always been "paranoid" about keeping my online and offline social lives separated; it was clear a long time ago that "living open" was absolutely insane.
For Kubernetes the easy way checkout this blog post on the work going on upstream for "self-hosted" Kubernetes: https://coreos.com/blog/self-hosted-kubernetes.html
Here is the whistle-blower's opinion piece on FT-
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b43d2d96-652a-11e6-8310-ecf0bddad2...

Although I need the money now more than ever, I will not join the looting of the very people I was hired to protect. I never intended to turn a job in risk management into a crusade, but after suffering at the hands of the Deutsche executives I will not join them simply because I cannot beat them.

I request that my share of the award be given to Deutsche and its stakeholders, and the award money clawed back from the bonuses paid to the Deutsche executives, especially the former top SEC attorneys.

I would then be happy to collect any award for which I am eligible.
No, it doesn't change the fact that losing Central Valley production will reduce supply and increase consumer prices.

To extent that either of the factors mentioned is an actual subsidy (the labor one doesn't seem to be -- nor is it necessarily a differentiator from alternative production areas -- but the water one might be), that may mean that the reduced public cost of the subsidy may to some extent offset the increased sticker price of the no-longer-subsidized goods
> Fiber

It's most likely Fidel.
I'd humbly suggest that two mods worry about something more critical to the integrity of an online community than tone.
The Soviets put a nuclear reactor in orbit!?
The problem is that you get counter down-votes for those explanations and that quickly turns into flame wars. As is it now everyone free to comment on why they downvote someone. I can see it being useful to not allow making too many downvotes for one person for one day. This way knowing that your downvotes are limited you could spend them wisely.
He was whistleblowing on Deustche bank taking advantage of their shareholders, and in turn is being paid out of a fine that they had to pay (which, of course, comes from the shareholders themselves not the accused execs) so it's a bit of a perverse incentive for him. The rest of us can stand jaw-dropped at turning down a massive sum of money, but bravo to him for pointing this out with his (seemingly selfless) action here.
Ask HN: Show off your weekend project
What's the coolest thing you've built in a single weekend? I find that the more weekends it takes me to finish a project, the less likely I am to finish it, so I'm interested in what people have managed to squeeze into a weekend.

Links to the deployed project or code are appreciated!
So Plugins2 and Connect are different?

Like there's no one JIRA API via REST or something?

Thanks for the reply and the links. Really appreciate it!
People always target the wrong aspects when it comes to promotion of apps. Websites and twitter accounts won't do much of anything to grow your app.

+60% of all app downloads are through app store search. You need to be extremely diligent in optimising your keywords for both App Store and Google Play. Products like sensor tower give you great tools to research high traffic/low difficulty keywords. Then it's a matter of trial and error.

Better search results equals more downloads, more downloads equals high ranking, high ranking equals more visibility. People are not going out of their way to view app 'landing pages' I can tell you that.
The CoreOS team has worked a ton to improve the baremetal installation experience for Kubernetes. You can read more about it here:

https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/kubernetes-on-bare...

And the installation flow that builds on top of that for Tectonic:

https://tectonic.com/blog/tectonic-1-3-release.html
I appreciate you pointing this out, because it's a very spurious attitude. It is ridiculous, and thank you for explaining why you see it that way.
There is a documentary called "Chuck Norris vs. Communism" on Netflix about this.
Ask HN: Do you have on online business you'd like to sell?
Hello,
Wanted to see who is looking to sell their web-based business.
Please describe the business in general terms (don't have to disclose URL etc if you don't want to), and list yearly profit, revenue, traffic, and growth, and reason for sale.
The Spectrum Auction: How Economists Saved the Day
PCVARK plays dirty
Maybe it made sense at the time to make the function final to make it run a little bit faster ?
This is framework code where some aggressive optimizations can be justified.
It also made sense to limit what people could do with this function .. it was not intented to be hacked around.

Finally, it was not a memory leak but a big increase in memory useage.

It is kinda sad that we still have to support API < 21 phones and IMO that's the real issue here.
I set up a K8S cluster from scratch using the CoreOS tutorials and several other articles (like Kubernetes From the Ground Up series).

What's missing is this:

1. Architecture for your specific needs. This is a design process and not easily condensed into a tutorial. It still requires critical thinking on the part of the designer.

2. How the different components fit together and why they matter.

For (1) to be commoditized, there needs to be sufficient number of installs where people try different things and come up with a best practices that the community discovers. There are not enough of that for that to take place.

For example, I put brought up a production cluster on AWS. I also had to decide how this was all going to interact with AWS VPS and availability zones. How do I get AWS ELB to talk to the cluster? The automated scripts are only the starting point because they assume a certain setup, and I wanted to know what the consequences of those are. This is where the consultants and systems design comes in.

On the other hand, Kesley Hightower probably has a lot of that knowledge in his head. By getting it out there, I think more people will try this, understand the principles, and collectively, we'll start seeing these best practices emerge. Maybe Hightower will eventually write a book.

In the meantime, if you want to know how to design and deploy a custom setup, you do need to know the building blocks, how they are put together, and how you can compose them in a way for specific use-cases. It's no different than choosing a framework, like Rails or Phoenix, and then learning how to compose things that the framework offers you in order to do what you need to do. You get that knowledge from playing with it and experimenting.

Having said all of that, while I'm glad I do have a good foundation for Kubernetes, if I want to use it in production, I'm probably just going to use GKE.
Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins with Photos from Facebook
In general I agree with you but I am pretty sure there are people who can work at high performance much longer than other people can do. Some people also need only 3 hours of sleep where others need 8 or more. I think it's genetic in the same way some people can run 100 m in 11 seconds without training where others need 14 seconds and will never get even close to 11 even if they train.

If you don't have that "talent" for long work hours it's probably counterproductive to force yourself into something you just can't do.
The ride-sharing hype train ran out of investors. I struggle to think of a company who would want to buy Lyft. The most interesting one which comes to mind is Didi Chuxing.

Though given how much money they wasted competing with Uber in China and then buying Uber out of China; I don't think Didi has much cash left (or interest) to buy Lyft in order to compete with Uber on US soil - They probably just want to bury the hatchet with Uber and each plow their own fields.

I don't think Uber would buy Lyft for several reasons:
- Uber started cutting back on spending - Probably not the best time for acquisitions.
- Such an acquisition could raise antitrust issues.
- Uber knows that there aren't many potential buyers for Lyft - Uber may be tempted to just wait it out and let Lyft go out of business - Then Uber can pick up most of Lyft's old customers for free.

I would not want to be a Lyft employee right now; especially not the kind who has stock options.
Is this blogs CSS messed up for anyone else? The font selection makes it almost illegible.
>if your enemy does use nuclear weapons on you for any reason, is it then still rational to stick to your strategy?

Yup. If you're the kind of agent that wouldn't stick to your strategy of retaliation, then that changes the best strategies for other players in a way that harms you.

Interestingly, there's a significant amount of "removing the steering wheel" going on in terms of nuclear strategy. I remember reading that British nuclear submarine commanders would have a sealed envelope, to be opened and read only in case nuclear war destroys the British Government. It contains one of four orders - retaliate with nuclear weapons, do not retaliate, try to place yourself under American command, or to use your own judgement.

The very interesting part is that it convinces others that nuking London might automatically mean that they get hit back, but does not obligate Britain to actually making nuclear war worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
If you like namedtuples, you'll love attrs. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/attrs/16.0.0
We've opensourced our setup: http://www.jorgecastro.org/2016/07/29/ubuntu-kubernetes-v1-d...
When i get home I'm going to interrogate your code to find the bug in mine... I hope. Although the data source I had was much bigger than 6GB :P

I don't know if many existing ray tracers, but if you want to build one give me a shout. Rendering spheres with height maps and volumetric covering is am evening or weekend project from scratch once you know what you doing :)
I look at 1201 and 512 as intertwined. Either both exist and balance each other out, but taking away one or the other seems genuinely unfair to me.

My perspectives tick off both camps, Content & Tech, because I see both of them using the same dirty playbooks and hiding their motives behind talk of "artists" or "customers" or whatnot.
Completely agree, some threads feel like people are talking in the same voice. The feeling is that you are not reading the conversation but some sort of badly ordered essay. Absence of avatars is also the one to blame for this but it also has a good effect that you don't judge written comments by the picture next to it.
I didn't actually down vote, but yes, I expect to see money from social security and Medicaid. I also see my parents retiring and using the money I'm contributing right now. I really don't feel like my money is being lit on fire in this case and he didn't make any argument to convince me I should.
There is a ton of work going on upstream to make Kubernetes easier to install and manage in production environments.

A big chunk of that work is what is being called "Self-Hosted Kubernetes". The idea is that once you bring up a single machine running a Kubelet you can bootstrap the other services that make up a Kubernetes cluster from there. You can learn more about that here: https://coreos.com/blog/self-hosted-kubernetes.html

As far as TLS there is ongoing work upstream to add a CSR system for the "agents" called Kubelets. This will allow people to automate the TLS setup and simplify the management. Details are tracked here: https://github.com/kubernetes/features/issues/43

Also, there are more discussions happening to improve the first install experience. https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30361#issuecom...
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30360

Kubernetes is really focused on not just making it easy to install. Which is the trivial scripting part, as you point out. But, to make Kubernetes easy to manage over the lifecycle of the cluster. Which is where work like self-hosted, TLS bootstrap, etc start to come in.
DRM doesn't solve copyright circumvention at all. Accessibility to content is what does that.
I don't know if this is an Oregon thing or national, but I believe that employers are required to give employees a paid 15 minute break for every 4 hours of work. So, at least a paid half hour break per 8 hour day is mandatory.
I agree there is perverse incentive for open source companies to do this if their business model depends on support. Freely after Upton Sinclair: It is difficult to get a person to document something, when his salary depends upon his not documenting it!
Not exactly what you said but similar search result can be done in two steps by jeviz.com.

1-) Choose sort by Most Reviews, which is an sort option Amazon generally hides

2-) From Average Customer Review choose 4 stars and & up

this will sort all products that are 4 or above stars but in most reviews order.
Realize – Go build system with file watchers, live reload and output streams
> Yeah, you did in arguing that just because some Murders happen doesn't negate the utility of a law, but you've conflated Copyright which is a Civil matter in trying to discuss freedoms in a grand philosophical sense.

You seem to confuse analogy with equivalency, as well as failing to recognize that, like homicide, there are both civil and criminal remedies for violation of copyright; neither is a purely civil or purely criminal matter.
>Since Apple is both, this is a non-issue.

I would argue that it is kind of an issue for consumers and third party developers when you can't install/publish apps without Apple's approval.

If you consider that an iDevice is like a game console, this is fine, if you consider it like a generic computer, this is a big limitation.
Show HN: My chat app using Redux and Angular 2
A quick scan of history shows the same thing (for example, I saw jwt.io submitted more than once, so I suspect this is a strategy)
Uh both America and Asia are out of view by default for me, and NZ has to be scrolled to just like those continents.
Antitrust[1] is good for getting the subtle details right while still having a dramatic plot for Hollywood. I quite liked War Games[2] as well.

[1] http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/

[2] http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/
Scientists Create Life That Reads a New Language in the Letters of DNA
The technology targets the wealthy people who were taking advantage of the markets.
OPDS for dummies? There is the Mobileread wiki (http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/OPDS) which gives some pointers to catalogs and software, but it doesn't really explain all that much.

What OPDS enables you to do is gain access to a collection from any OPDS client device. To test it you can just install an OPDS-compatible reader on a phone or tablet or some such device and point it at an OPDS catalog. If you install FBreader (for Android) you'll find a number of OPDS catalogues pre-configured for your perusal, it is also possible (and easy) to add your own. You'll be able to browse the catalog, search for publications (something which I have not implemented in my Owncloud/Nextcloud tools yet due to the (IMnsHO) lacking search infrastructure in Owncloud) and download publications to the device. So yes, in this way it works just like a feed reader, which makes sense as it is based on the same technology (RSS and Atom).

Kindle does, as far as I know, not support OPDS - I don't have one so I can not try. I do know that it has a (rudimentary) browser so that might be an option to get access to publications on a 'personal cloud server'. In the case of OPDS Catalog you can just point the browser at the library root in the Owncloud/Nextcloud 'Files' app to see the same files as those which are served through the OPDS feed, bar any filtering done on the latter (it can be configured to show only certain types of files and/or to skip certain patterns). You will not see the metadata which OPDS Catalog has collected on those publications, once Nextcloud matures I'll see if it is feasible to implement this as an addition to the Files app.

Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/) is able to convert publications on the fly to a format understood by (unmodified= Kindle devices. It also contains a server which publishes in both OPDS as well as HTML, the latter would be useable on a Kindle. I think Calibre does a good job on the conversions but it is rather overweight and overly complex to use as a server. Of course there are other options, check that Mobileread wiki I linked to for some examples.
Yours was the comment that made me understand how the spread economics described elsewhere in this thread worked, thanks for that. The average price increase in the absence of the HFT bids was the part that made it click.
This advice needs to be interpreted the right way: don't butt your head against walls.

Usually it makes sense to pick a task and finish it before going home. If you stop just because its 5pm, you waste time re-orienting yourself the next day. Worse, you can get into the clock-watching habit.

BUT, if at 4.55 pm, you realise there was some nasty wrinkle in the task and you need to rethink it or go back and do a big prepartory refactor, then you should go home and look at it with fresh eyes in the morning.
Selam, Hakan.
I would be very happy if you can help as I don't even speak German. Thank you keep in touch.
> healthcare can't be mass produced

It certainly is for livestock.
> We get to do it because we're humans, and the other species aren't.

Beavers get to do a little ecological engineering now and again.
On the Demise of Gawker.com: Unsparing, Satiric and Brutal: The Two-Way
I can think of one way doing it. Maybe if its implemented anonymously with several different reasons of multi-choice boxes. Somewhat the way you report youtube-video abuse. Then attach those votes on why the comment got downvoted to be visible when it's clicked on item id, with appropriate chart presented.
Windows 10 update breaks webcam MJPEG and H.264 capture
>the motivation [for building fallout shelters] had never made much sense to me, since in most cases the supplies would only have been sufficient to last a few weeks or so, while the deadly radioactive fallout from numerous Soviet thermonuclear strikes on our urban centers would have been long-lasting.

Uh, fallout is only deadly for a few weeks or so even after thousands of nuclear weapons are used on a country.

The radioactive elements produced in a nuclear explosion are very different from those produced in a nuclear power plant: the latter can stay deadly for years.

The reason fallout shelters were so popular during the Cold War is that they're a cost effective way of avoiding a major cause of death during a nuclear war.
Perhaps I'm an extreme edge case, but I'm a counter-example to economic status.
Maybe it's righteous indignation, or maybe they don't know your friend isn't an undercover cop.
> SNAP-10A, a Soviet nuclear reactor

SNAP-10A is a US nuclear reactor (the only US one launched, apparently), though the Soviets have launched bunches (just not that one.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A
What about ion engines? I'm extremely not sure I have this math right but NEXT claims 4190 second ISP [0]. Plugging that into the rocket equation I get:

iss_mass = 419600
sep_isp = 4190
delta_v = 5748
htv_payload = 3310
falcon_launch_cost = 62000000
total_mass = iss_mass * math.exp(delta_v / (9.8 * sep_isp))
fuel_load = total_mass - iss_mass
dragon_launches = math.floor(fuel_load / htv_payload)
total_cost = dragon_launches * falcon_launch_cost

I get:

Total vehicle mass: 482,646.89 kg
Fuel to add: 63,046.89 kg
Dragon 2 launches: 19
Total cost: $1,178,000,000.00

Not what you'd call cheap but at least in the realm of the possible. I'm assuming the ISS' solar panels (~120 kW [1]) is sufficient to power the thruster, that a dragon launch costs no more than a falcon launch (certainly false), and that the ion engine is already on board the station.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEXT_(ion_thruster)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_system_of_the_International_Space_Station
AirBnb vs HomeAway is bigger than 2:1. [1]

Xiaomi is a cell phone manufacturer, in an established industry.

In the social space, Facebook towers over Pinterest, Snapchat, Instagram, etc.

Zenefits is indeed in a competitive space. It's in B2B, where crushing the competition is harder because of lock-in.

Theranos may have a value of zero.

Shopping cart companies (Flipkart, Snapdeal, Alibaba) tend to be nation-oriented, so you have to look at them country by country.

Slack and Atlassan do seem to be in the 2:1 range. Again, B2B with lock-in.

[1] http://fortune.com/2014/03/12/growing-quietly-in-airbnbs-sha...
Man’s paralyzed hand moves again 18 months after surgery
I built a Pokemon Go map and anonymous chat over a weekend couple of months ago. I ended up hating the project because it kept getting rejected by Apple for a whole week and when it went through there were already ton of similar apps.

Either way I released the code if anyone is interested: It's Swift with Firebase backend

https://github.com/kingreza/Social-Go