skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Samsung Galaxy 3.6", which is an iPod touch style android device. Samsung made several different sizes, but I believe they have all been discontinued.
> K8s does not really work that way. It's huge and it's heavy, and it expects every app to be written it's way.

I disagree. Kubernetes is quite lightweight, and its architecture is nicely modular. The core of Kubernetes is just four daemons. You can also deploy most of its processes on Kubernetes, which greatly eases the operational side.

> and it expects every app to be written it's way.

Kubernetes makes zero assumptions about how an app is written, as long as it can run as a Docker (or rkt) image.

It imposes certain requirements, such as that pods are allocated unique IP addresses and share networking between containers, but that doesn't really impact how apps are written.

> K8s is a trojan for Google Cloud

Doubt it very much. For one, the Kubernetes experience on GCloud (GKE) isn't particularly good at all — the "one click" setup uses the same Salt ball of spaghetti that kube-up.sh uses, the upgrade story isn't great, alpha/beta features are disabled, you can't disable privileged containers, ABAC disabled, the only dashboard is the Kubernetes Dashboard app (which is still a toy), and GCloud still doesn't have internal load balancers. Setting it up from scratch is preferable, even on GCE.

Additionally:

* Kubernetes has excellent support for AWS as well as technologies such as Flannel for running on providers with less flexible networking.

* Google makes a lot of effort to help you to set it up on other providers (also see kube-up).

* Projects like Minikube let you run it locally.

If Kubernetes is a "trojan" of anything, it's to improve the containerization situation generally, because this is an application deployment model where they can compete with AWS, which doesn't have a good container story at all (ECS is pretty awful).
Everything is sold as a service now, even APT Campaigns
The biggest risk to your privacy is your provider getting hacked, not the NSA.
That's where encoding in in RNA would be important, think about just a monotomically incrementing clock tick from one virus generation to the next, two cells would only merge if they had the same clock.

I basically know nothing about what's possible in RNA/DNA, but my understanding is that RNA can be used to adjust DNA, which could essentially increment a clock tick.
City of Bern starts open desktop proof of concept
The how already exists (genetic engineering) but it will probably never be done due to political reasons.
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There's something magical about that correspondence in that it seems to be a Rorschach test for the reader's own perspective. Everyone I've seen talk about it comes away feeling one of the participants was obviously totally wrong and awful.

It's just that readers tend to not agree on whether it was Chomsky or Harris who is the bad guy.
Reports don't get people killed. People (usually, police) shooting other people get people killed. Reporter has no control (unless they specifically and purposely misrepresent the situation, e.g. falsely reporting somebody firing a gun when they have none) over police actions. The police should bear the responsibility for the outcomes, not reporters or online platform or any other factor that did not actually make a decision to pull the trigger.
This one shows it on a more human scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUzHF17UC2g
The mark is so overused, one day it will actually do what it was intended to [0]. I think that is a tragedy. One of the best brands in the world gets destroyed, because it is not actually a brand. Free rider problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany
It resonates with me. I don't think it's just a reference to engineering quality, Germany is more privacy conscious than some other countries. Whether it's the cypherpunk & privacy-tech scene of Berlin, or the awareness of the consequences of surveillance resulting from the GDR days.

Even in little things: like Germans using cash because they don't want to create an electronic credit card trail of where they were, or walking through Munich train station and seeing Snowden in all the news headlines (in 2013), while back home he was getting nowhere near as much news coverage (and certainly not the front page headline).

I don't know if any of this applies to Mailbox.org, but as a marketing phrase it works for me.

[I'm Australian, but an 'aspiring German'.]
Does anyone actually make the conscious decision to avoid curing diseases because of its limited profitability?
Spousal Employment Authorization Document (EAD) is huge. IIRC, H1B spouses (ie, H4Bs) were recently allowed, but only if the H1B holder is applying for legal residency - which can take a while.

In this case, you can get an EAD for your spouse as soon as you get your parole.
Alt text says:

"Contestants in the 2006 Google Global Code Jam stare at their computer screens at Google's New York office Friday, Oct. 27, 2006. One hundred of the best computer coders from around the world compete for prize money and bragging rights. The finalists from 20 countries are flown to New York by Google for the competition. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)"
In case you're not joking: it depends greatly on what country they're coming from. In countries without a strong rule of law, you can be a very bad person without ever being convicted of a criminal offense. And in other countries, good people are given criminal records for things we approve of, such defending human rights or religious freedom.

USCIS can't really go interview lots of people for each decision to decide who's "good". They mostly have to rely on submitted documents, and there's no document you can submit to provide high confidence you're not a criminal.
Did anybody want this? What does Facebook offer that twitch.tv or YouTube doesn't?
Thanks for the write-up. It does a good job of communicating:

* the joys of contributing to Python

* how time and labor intensive the process can be

* the complexities of dealing with multiple operating systems

* what it is like to be alternately helped or hindered by other developers
You can use this API for that: http://www.retort.us/markov/create?identifier=realDonaldTrum... :)
> This exploit could also be designed to sit idly while the device is in airplane mode

This seems like a rather universal feature :)
I've been using Protonmail for a year now, and I'm very happy with it. I have several domains on it. The mobile apps are decent (I have iOS and Android), and the web app is fine. It's not perfect, but given their limited resources compared to Google I'm quite impressed.
My first android device was one of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Archos-32-3-2-Inch-Internet-Tablet-w...
must have been 6ish years ago, and came with only wifi.
You only need surround one character.
Spotify is a money losing operation that artists already criticize heavily because they make pennies from it (because most users are on the free tier and ad revenue is much smaller than paid subscriptions)[1]. They have deep pocketed competitors for whom music represents an ancillary business. They're on month to month contracts with the major labels who want them to match Apple Music's higher cut [2].

Usually you take the stick over carrot approach when you have some leverage.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/04/taylor-sw...

[2] http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-contract-three...
How is this different from the hepatitis D virus? Hepatitis D isn't complete, and can only propagate if there is a hepatitis B infection. In other words, you can only get hepatitis D if you already have the hepatitis B virus, and then it makes things worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_D
Why should we care about your thoughts on a physicist's thinkpiece about cities?

Because it's all discourse, and it's sometimes interesting to read other people's thoughts, or view something through a different lens.
What does "negative footprint" mean?
I have been using a book called 'the Shenzhen insider's guide' [1] as a reference to help me understand what I need to do to setup something there. There is an entire chapter 'Business in Shenzhen' that lays out the groundwork needed to setup operations in Shenzhen and the different types of entities allowed to do business there. There may be advantages to having a Chinese partner in the setup.

I am currently only at the investigative stage. I will let you know as soon as I know more about bureaucratic obstacles.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Shenzhen-Insiders-Guide-Never-Ever/dp...
Does that limit multiple tabs/windows? I would assume that a browser instance is a collection of multiple window contexts.
"Physics, properly understood, is not a subject taught at schools and university departments; it is a certain way of understanding how processes happen in the world."

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/why-physics-is-not-a-di...
Interesting, and with everything machine learning has been able to do so far, I guess I shouldn't be surprised if machine learning did surpass humans in curating music. But would the machine learning based curation ever present music that's innovative or "different"? I'm curious whether the curation would only present music that meets a certain criteria. And perhaps that's what it'll come down to, and maybe the algorithms will know which set of criteria best align with society at the moment and will choose music that way.
#2 is interesting for university spinoffs, since it'd mean one way for PhD students to stay post-graduation is to get an STTR or SBIR grant for a spinoff company based on their thesis work.
Yep - building out a solution with Mailgun at the moment, and has all the features I need and want. Probably comparatively simple to use Amazon SES, Postmark or Mandrill, but MG's been solid in development.
Realizing a particular conversation as pointless is dismissive if you aren't open to attempting to understand other perspectives.

A religious person telling a scientist that a debate about religion with him would be "pointless" is indeed dismissive. It may end up being pointless to the people making the arguments but not necessarily for the listeners.
Actually if this reclassification moves markets it will not be to due to passive investing. The market will be the same, only the allocation of companies to sectors changes. A truly passive investor don't change his holdings at all, he's already invested in REITs. Of course [1] ETFs that track the financial sector only will sell the REITs (and I'm not sure why do you say this is not a one time event), but its debatable if the ETFs that are used for sector/industry/theme allocation qualify as "passive investing." There will also be consequences for active managers, that may be benchmarked to a particular sector or for some reason might be induced to increase/reduce exposure to REITs (either hard constraints or, as the article says, "they have to close that gap or answer questions.”).

[1] Edit: Actually some fund providers have found an alternative mechanism: State Street Global Advisors will give shares of their new XLRE fund to XLF holders.
Political? Or just money? Obviously politics exist around the way govt spends money, but are you suggesting some more sinister than that?
From the article: A report this past week from investment firm Sanford C. Bernstein, titled “The Silent Road to Serfdom: Why Passive Investing Is Worse than Marxism,”

"serfdom", "Marxism"... Let me guess: Libertarian Party propagandist.
No, but that's a bit of a red herring. You asked for evidence and I gave you some.

And I'm not even saying that your assessment is wrong, just incomplete. That belief (the politicians thinking that drugs are bad) is largely manufactured, and much of the blame can go to Henry J. Anslinger, yet it has not been sufficiently re-examined by governments in the light of new evidence[0]. Is that out of simple stubbornness or laziness? Or is it perhaps that it still serves the purpose of the state to keep these things illegal? Or is it simply that the state is loathe to give up any power once it has taken it, or even that governments move slowly and we just haven't hit the tipping point yet?

[0] The book to read is "Chasing the Scream: the first and last days of the war on drugs".
Sure... the underlying cause though isn't because of policy or issues though, it's trust in the agencies creating the policies, mandating them and enforcing them.

If we trusted them to adequately safeguard our information, and not to misuse it, then none of this would be an issue. But they've broken trust many times over and once that horse has bolted, you can't just close the stable door and expect people to just trust you again - especially not when you keep getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar, get caught lying about it or using smoke and mirrors to sidestep the consequences and then coming back and saying don't worry, not only can we be trusted with the cookie jar, but we must be the ones safeguarding you from the cookies because they make you fat. So it's for the good of everyone. Meanwhile, they're just sitting their eating the cookies. It's always a land grab for more cookies.

You wouldn't trust your six year old with that kind of behavior, you certainly shouldn't trust a Government agency that acts the same way.
Sun hardware is expensive junk, but a bad disk controller that lies to ZFS about sync status is definitely in the risk model.
> Am I missing something obvious here?

The obvious thing you are missing is that "There is a <insert ethnicity> man walking around the neighborhood." without any further identifying characteristics is completely useless information as to "crime and safety" and can lead to both false positives and race-based alarmism.

If you actually see a suspicious person round the neighborhood, helpful information will be to describe how they look in more complete detail, and what is it about their appearance or behavior that causes you to think they are a crime and safety concern.
...they can simply operate their Apple Music service at a loss. Forever.

The keyword is "forever" or at least for the next decade or two. It applies to Apple but not Spotify.
agreed. quite skeptical that snowden is anything other than a PR stunt for an otherwise interesting/useful project that requires hardware development expertise
Or "man peering into black cars".
The reporter does carry some blame, for assuming that a black person is automatically suspicious.
I get a bad feeling about everyone in this space operating at a massive loss in an attempt to force the competition out of business by attrition. It seems like the domestic equivalent of dumping. I'm not informed enough to make a strong judgment on it, but it doesn't seem like healthy competition.
Why Are You in Business? Knowing Can Determine Success
So you're saying someone is "wired" to proactively seek out illegal substance to get addicted to it then?

As for "legal drugs" vs. street - you're not seriously comparing the Desoxyn dosage some kid with add would get prescribed to him with a dosage a user would smoke are you?
I think we need more of these types of companies, or at least more competitors in this realm. I've also heard so many good things about FastMail too. We need more mail providers who are:
* trustworthy
* secure
* reasonably priced
* etc.

If running my own mail server was not so laborious and headache-inducing, i'd love to move away from google for apps/domain. I have no functional complaints of google; i am happy with their performance without a doubt. Its just that, as every day passes, I keep getting creeped out; its the "ick" factor. And for me it started well before the Snowden disclosures.
I'm using it in chromium in app mode, with the Streamkeys extension for global hotkey and media key support. Notifications seem to work, but I've got them disabled.

They could release an electron app, but I believe it'd be an identical experience.

I'm on a desktop so I don't care about offline support, perhaps that's the feature that removes the web version from consideration for some people.
IIUC the utility is that github or someone could use the arrival of stars to predict which repos are likely to attract more future stars. This could be used for ranking up-and-coming new repos worth attention.
That VC money is given to Spotify on the expectation that eventually Spotify will stop operating at a loss. Otherwise there is no reason to give them money at all.

If and when that expectation no longer holds, the money will stop.
So where does Apollo Global sit on this spectrum of PE vulture <-> turnaround ?
NuDB: A Fast Key/Value Store for SSDs (C++, Open Source)
Hi, I work at Ripple and we've just gotten done putting some
finishing touches on a new open source key/value database
written in C++. Its called NuDB, and its got these features:

* Header-only, C++11

* For SSDs or high-IOPS devices

* Low memory footprint, zero caches!

* Performance independent of growth!

* Insert-only (no update or delete)

* Data size up to 2^32-1

* Database size up to 2^64-1

* Fault tolerant (uses a rollback file)

* Concurrent, fast reads

This database keeps the SAME performance no
matter how big the data set grows!

We were using RocksDB which was fairly good but as the size
of our distributed ledger grew, the performance started to
go down. Some investigation showed that RocksDB allocates
memory to cache the various bloom filters and indexes that
it needs to implement the log-structured merge algorithm.

We took a step back and said, if we're going to have an
insert-only database that is huge (hundreds of terabytes),
with a random access pattern (keys uniformly random
distributed, for when the key is a cryptographic digest
like SHA256 of the data), then no amount of RAM for caches
is going to help.

The thinking was to write a new key/value store that implements
a hash table but on disk. Every lookup for an item would
require on average, only a single I/O to read the block from
the key file (and subsequent I/O to read the value). This
is by no means novel, there are other implementations that
do this such as Berkeley DB, Sparkey, et. al. But we believe
we have invented something new, in the treatment of full buckets,
that is performing spectacularly in our production Ripple
environment, and we'd like to share it with you:

https://github.com/vinniefalco/NuDB
Anyone else think Apple is fighting a petty war? Spotify is a solid product and instead of spending energy, money and time fighting them, they could acquire them and take on more ambitious fights.
My startup will focus on building walls. I believe this is a burgeoning market.
Here’s What $4.3B Gets You in Today’s Market
For anyone else wondering:

ex·co·ri·ate

verb

censure or criticize severely.
That's true, their desktop client is just a Chrome wrapper. I still use it and like it more than Spotify. Other than Discover weekly, I've enjoyed Google Play's recommendations more, and the ability to upload 20,000 of your own songs to stream anywhere is a huge bonus.
It's just, "How business is done" and it's rarely if ever questioned.
With timed exclusives they can also capture some amount of revenue from conversion of free trial users into "forgot to unsubscribe" users.

They got me with Coloring Book a few months ago. It wasn't available elsewhere, so I signed up for the free trial. Well before the free trial was over Coloring Book appeared on Spotify (my preferred platform). I prompt forgot about Apple Music until I saw a bill in my inbox. I then couldn't figure out how to unsub without googling the process, it's certainly not readily available as an option in-app (although that just might be the way Apple sometimes tends to obfuscate through streamlining).
Where are you seeing that? I'm seeing:

>Safari on OS X supports WebDriver, which lets you automate web-content testing. It provides a set of interfaces to manipulate DOM elements and control the browser’s behavior. You can enable Remote Automation in the Develop menu and then launch the server using /usr/bin/safaridriver. For information about library integrations as they become available, see the information about Selenium WebDriver.

Notably, the "on OS X" bit. (Shouldn't that be on macOS? I thought "OS X" was done for!) Equally, you obviously can't launch the server using /usr/bin/safaridriver on iOS.
Sitting in traffic jams is officially bad for you
It looks like you can buy the pens in New Zealand and ship them to the US for about US$100, maybe a little less if you ship several at a time. Not great pricing but better than US pricing.
Thanks! They even use the same 15% which I just made up.

IMHO. A hard limit would be better since it is still and abuse of the program even if it is within the law. The spirit of the program is also about bringing diversity (national origin as well as occupation)
> I'm not embarrassing myself.

Making blanket statements with numbers that in no way reflect reality doesn't embarrass you? Making statements about other people's life experiences from a position of clear ignorance of how the system works doesn't embarrass you?

I'm honestly concerned for you at that point because you remind me of that family friend my parents had that lived out in the desert and believed in conspiracy theories because he "felt" they were real.

> There is a lot of research literature that makes me pretty convinced that the way Americans raise their kids has gotten worse. We are, as a society, overprotective.

I'm waiting for your evidence that the risk is less than 0.0036% as you previously stated you "felt" it was.

> That's what I think.

I care about facts that can be reinforced by actual evidence on some level. You clearly do not have any in regards to the topic at hand.

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The rest of it is a tangent about your opinion on "solutions" that are, ultimately, irrelevant, unless you have evidence you've succeeded with these tactics on some level politically. Do you have such evidence?

Are you even aware the burden of proof is a preponderance of evidence in many states (for instance NY?) Or that they allow hearsay which is little more than gossip?

http://www.jdbar.com/Articles/Child-Neglect/child-neglect.ht...

> For a disposition hearing, evidence need only be material and relevant, meaning that hearsay is permitted. In addition, any new facts occurring up to the date of the dispositional hearing may be considered by the court at a dispositional hearing.

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Look, if you can't back up BOTH of your opinions with clear citations showing it is true you need to stop.
Markov chains aren't really relevant here - they're a way to generate random but "seemingly plausible" data - but yes, there is a way to fool the type of convolutional neural networks used in image recognition. Paper here:

http://www.evolvingai.org/fooling
>The assumption on Hacker News is that a buyout/acquisition === failing

Their market cap was over $10BB a few years ago, and they were purchased for less than half of that. Something went wrong; what do you suppose that was?
Why do you need a desktop client? I used Play Music for over a year just using the web client.

That has worked better for me than Spotify's desktop client, which while is nice is extremely buggy.
Why should I care what wcummings reckons about what physicists think about cities?

Because smart people with different backgrounds talking together provide interesting insights, unless you simply dismiss them immediately with out listening.
It appears, it has the same issue as H-1B visas. At least in my opinion.

If your business fails and you invested 5 years of your life, you are kicked out of the country and have to move your family and everything back to wherever you came from. This big uncertainty of the future is, in my opinion, a huge negative of both H1B and this parole.
Currently attempting to do this. Marketing and getting to those first few customers is the hardest part, even though I already built a functional full stack web application.