skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kimsufi is a completely different service to OVH's, even though they are owned by the same company, so you can't really compare the two. Kimsufi is dirt cheap and has a reputation for terrible support.
> cross-platform UI libraries don't really let you fine-tune the UI

I want to be able to fine-tune the UI.
Cuts out at the most interesting point.
Gorilla Glue is another good alternative. It makes fixing ancient treasures a snap.
I wonder about this. I think the need for oversight of multinational corporations sort of requires an international democratic government then. I'm not sure how else you can have democratic oversight outside of a government that assures that it really is democratic and that those they regulate have full force of a law. Appointments from elected heads (ie., UN) only goes so far, because no one really listens to them anyway. What alternatives do we have[0]?

[0] Honest question, I would like to see opinions on this, because it seems like the eventual result of globalism really is a world government.
+1 I got sick of Docker and switched to FreeBSD. Far better experience.
This is such sad entitled crap.

It's Free software, as in, you didn't pay for it.

Not only that but the other commenters on here are just as enfuriating.

I'm not sorry someone made you feel like an idiot, maybe you should try reading more, this system is simple, it's a simple concept, and a simple implementation.

It's really too bad you didn't spend the time to learn a system you wanted to implement, it's too bad you didn't read the release notes before you upgraded.

This is stuff sysadmins are supposed to do, if you want to work in systems level stuff, learn how it works, don't just run upgrades without reading the release notes for your core technology.

Nobody wants to hear this but you need to. Stop treating open source projects like you paid a million dollars for them, they're Free, and yet somehow, like those douche cookies who sue for falling on their ass, people still find a way to make their incompetence someone else's problem.

/soapbox
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There is also a phone number if you feel like talkin shit to a gangsta

http://www.gangsterpartyline.com/
Yes, taxi companies could definitely improve. Many American taxi companies have become completely complacent about any new technology. In DC, they're still struggling to implement credit card payments!
" use tooling available to quickly and easily nuke and rebuild docker hosts on a daily or more frequent basis."

That's like "my car works fine as long as you spray WD-40 into the engine block every 48 hours..."
previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12306562
'there needs to be some pan-national body to settle [...] disputes without turning every little international [trade] issue into a full-on diplomatic dispute'

Exactly.

Suddenly it's ok, if we have arbitration courts with "lesser" countries, but not so much if we feel we could be playing the role that usually a third world country plays.

Some topics are just scapegoat-ish. It becomes impossible to reason with people who are convinced <inser-here> is evil, will be the end of all whats sacred.

Now as international treaties go, the sovereign remains the nation.

Imagine the most evil conspired trade-agreement (as the scapegoaters do), only founded to use it's arbitration courts for extortion. Wouldn't it be much wiser to keep your extortion-weapon sharp and thus use the arbitration court's biased-ness only in rare cases, rather than on a daily basis?
Lubec, Maine, US
nice and amazing.. And it looks like something new shows every month. I like galaxy news!
Naira falls further to 414/dollar
I think Tilda Zero just killed WebFlow
Question out of couriosity: Why whould you davor smt like that over a simple regexp replace? like

const target = 'Get on the Road'
const result = target.replace(/road/i, 'bus')
>Why should it be one rather than the other? What harm or benefit comes from Pluto being called, or not being called, a planet?

It violates everyone's internal model of the word "planet". Everyone knows what a planet is, and the formal definition should try to match our internal models as closely as possible. To do otherwise feels wrong and arbitrary.

>No, because the definition requires that a planet clears its own neighbourhood. Having a nearby technological civilization clean up its neighbourhood for it doesn't cut it.

So now the definition is based on history? We can't determine what is a planet based on just observing it, we have to know how it came to exist in that state? If we ever travel to other solar systems, we will never be able to know whether they are true planets or not. For all we know aliens or other events cleared the orbits before we observed them.

>Dwarf planets, you might say.

Highly misleading. Dwarf implies it's just small, and if it was bigger it would be a regular planet. But the definition isn't based on size.
Violating someone else's property rights is violent. One's exclusive right to their body is a type of property rights. One's right over their body is based on exactly the same principle of appropriating unclaimed natural resources for one's own exclusive use as one's right over what we commonly refer to as property.
^^^This. The tendency for a certain type of software engineer to go around telling everyone else they're doing it wrong reminds me strongly of this scene from Justified: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG4hOjJ9tEs.
Ask HN: Why speakers are counting hands on every conference talk?
I'm wondering what's the purpose of doing that. Maybe there are some speakers which actually use that number to say or not to say something, but I think most of them are doing that without any purpose.
Containers have been around for more than a decade as lxc. I'm saying Docker itself. It's hard to make money when you're running on an open standard that anyone can build tooling around.
Network partitions really do happen! They are often short, but if you can't recover from them, then you shouldn't call yourself a distributed system.

I am shocked at how fragile etcd is in this way. I was hoping docker swarm was better, but I'm not surprised (alas) to find out that it has the same problem.

I'm about ready to build my own solution, because I know a way to do it that will be really robust in the face of partitions (and it doesn't use RAFT, you probably should not be using RAFT, I've seen lots of complaints about zookeeper too. I've done this before in other contexts so I know how to make it work, but so have others so why are people who don't know how to make it work reinventing the wheel all the time?)
A-Frame
> For the past few centuries humanism has seen the human heart as the supreme source of authority not merely in politics but in every other field of activity. From infancy we are bombarded with a barrage of humanist slogans counselling us: “Listen to yourself, be true to yourself, trust yourself, follow your heart, do what feels good.”

I'm just reading a book by Norbert Elias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Elias), who, when writing about his theory of the "civilizing process", stated exactly the contrary. More exactly, he's saying that we only listened to our hearts/true self/passions back when we were "un-civilized", like in the Middle Ages, but after the State monopolized the use of force and the collecting of taxes and after the "société de cour" formed people had to suppress their passions/heart and had to "rationalize" their external actions.
You can see that in a negative light: in some cases--especially polarizing issues, it does sort of send us into our two camps (best example: the brexit threads). However, it also requires that when one suggests something against the grain, the poster must act civilly and present their argument in the least abrasive way possible. Typically, I find that even when people disagree, such posters are voted up anyway, and it ensures that the signal-to-noise ratio remains high, as it does here relative to almost every other comment section on the net.
We have not seen any serious DDoS attacks, apart from the ones we created through our own heavy load testing. UDP attacks are not really a problem, since the servers are only accessible by Fastly over TCP using a combination of SSL authentication and IP whitelisting.
In September of 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, the "New York Times" reported that three million Jews were going to be "immediately removed" from Poland and were likely going to be "exterminat[ed]."

IBM's reaction? An internal memo saying that, due to that "situation", they really needed to step up production on high-speed alphabetizing equipment. (Source: CNet)
Nothing can ever explain the "hard problem" of consciousness. It's nonscientific nonsense that's totally disconnected from reality.
I don't think that's seriously what he's saying. You've over-interpreted to project the "logical" extreme of the POV expressed on the author. This is a trope in online debate that needs to die.
F. W. Lawvere is the author of _Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories_, and known for his work in Category Theory.
Interesting. It's unclear to me if it's even possible outside of very rare circumstances that a country would want to cease trade with another country because their laws didn't align well. What would the incentive be to stop illicit or otherwise mutually beneficial trade when one party was conducting part of their trade unfairly?

It does seem that the previously mentioned economic imperialism is what the ISDS/trade agreements are, but it's not entirely clear how a more voluntary system would, in the end, be much different.

Maybe that kind of homogenization is inevitable if you have well-ruled trade between sovereign entities.
No Javascript, sorry.
The app is free, no pay-to-unlock features. I think the IAP packages are for additional templates which are really not necessary at all. If I need a similar record for the same site I just duplicate then modify, it's actually easier than templates. The only limit that I found is there is no Android version.
The number of machines you need to run a service is not really a linear function of your traffic. If you have a mostly static website that can be heavily cached/cdn'd, you can easily scale to thousands of requests a second with a small server footprint. I expect that's true of many of the top 100 sites as measured by visitors (like Quantcast does).

But if you need to store a lot of data, or need to look up data with very low latency, or do CPU-intensive work for every request, you will end up with a lot more servers. (The other thing to consider is that SaSS companies can easily deal with more traffic than even the largest web sites, because they tend to aggregate traffic from many websites; Quantcast, for example, where I used to work, got hundreds of thousands of requests per second to its measurement endpoint.)
One sentence with a tangential reference. Whoop-dee-doo. This is not good for an article about how Facebook is closing the web. The print edition won't even include a link due to technical reasons.

The comparison to Thiel may be fair if a comparison was made in the article. Instead we get this:

Interestingly, Thiel is also a member of Facebook’s board of directors.

Super-convincing.

Actually, parent post is far more convincing than the article, which seems to think that illegal speech somehow deserves first amendment protection.
I don't know, but this Yegge essay is one of my favorites ever: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
Wire offers APK download from wire.com/download and working on making notifications work without Google too.
No CSS or Javascript. Sorry.
Can != should
This could be awesome for a slingshot manuever on the way to alpha cent, right.

Does anyone know how to calculate that?
Shouldn't this be a solved problem?
The nonsense that looms in this story's wake is sickening. I couldn't even finish the article. It's nothing more than an attention-grabber. Funding comes from public support, so as long as astronomers and writers capture the imagination and attention/awareness of the public, i.e. looking up, the more relevant and important the `dry` research underneath will appear in Congress, or to those overseeing grants, etc.
I agree that being swallowed up from the bottom is our main risk. Which is why, above, I said I talk about this a lot internally.

> And doing so is still easier than bearing the cognitive burden of learning CF!

Right, the incremental cost seems small. A bit here, a bit there. And actually, it's a lot of fun to roll your own. You know it, you can push it in any direction and so on.

The flipside, and this is where Pivotal and other CF distributors are making money, is that it turns into a nightmare pretty quickly.
A lot of big companies are perfectly happy to pay someone else to build their platform.

Before I transferred to Cloud R&D, I was in Pivotal Labs. I got to see several hand-rolled platforms. Some of them were terrible. Some were ingenious. And all of them were millstones. That experience is pretty much what turned me into the annoying pest I am now.

We're at an interesting moment. Right now, writing your own platform seems reasonable -- even attractive -- to lots of people. In maybe 5-10 years, it won't be a thing that many people do any more. These days, for most projects, most engineers don't consider first writing an OS, or a database, or a web server, or a programming language, or an ORM, or a graphics library and on and on. Those are all well-served. Once upon a time it was a competitive advantage to roll your own; these days it just doesn't enter anyone's thinking.

There will be between 1 and 3 platforms that everyone has settled on, with a handful of outliers that people tinker with. My expectation is that Kubernetes will slowly morph from an orchestrator and be progressively extended into a full platform. Docker are clearly doing likewise. I think Cloud Foundry will be one of the three, simply because it's the first and most mature full platform already available for big companies to deploy.

Doesn't mean we can't have some of our lunch eaten.
I haven't read the Orsinia works, but I enjoyed Le Guin's first three Earthsea books a lot (haven't read the others yet). They tend to be fairly personal stories about individuals coming to terms with their personal failing's and trying to find balance. The world is also interesting, it feels varied and lived in (she also has an enjoyable take on the ancient unknowable horror trope).

Here's a enjoyable (to me, at least) short story of hers that you can read online (neither in the Earthsea or Orsinia setting):

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-island-of-the-...
Exactly. That's how the clothing company could use the name after the film with the same name was released.
That's what's sucks about data: it's pretty ephemeral. I have some code I wrote when I was little but only the good stuff. I wish I had the crap code and the code I wrote when I was learning so I could see what 12 and 13 year old me was really like.
Additionally - curation. I do to specialty shops because I want to have a conversation with a knowledgable salesperson about what I intend to do and what will best serve that need. Sure, many products don't need this level of personal interaction (for example, the headphone example) - but if I were, for instance, starting up an interest in white water kayaking then I would certainly want someone to talk through my goals, gear, etc.
It's just a draft though. If you don't hit send, clearly it's not in a "database".
How are you handling licensing? Are you using the commercial version of PyQt? I've been thinking of distributing some apps I've built but I don't want to make them GPL (I don't mind using MIT or BSD though).
CDN is NOT only for static content. Minimally Cacheable, or catchable based on cookie value, content can be cached on a CDN. Also running ALL traffic through a CDN (like CloudFlare or Akamai) allows you to do traffic optimization, FEO, DDOS protection, and much more.
Kubernetes seems very unwieldy and hard to wrap my head around. Swarm seems straightforward and easy to figure out how to configure.

Let's give it a try and see if I can find a good tutorial for kubernetes to do what I want. (I haven't tried this experiment in a couple months, since before nomad and swarm got my interest.)

-----

Ok, I'm back. I went to kubernetes.io. there' "give it a try" has me creating a google account and getting set up on google container engine. Due to standard issue google account hassles, I quickly got mired in quicksand having nothing to do with kubernetes.

I have no interest in google container engine. Let me set it up using vagrant, or my own VPSes, or as a demo locally, whatever, I'll set up virtual boxes.

They lost me there.
Can go as bad as 50km off in a country with good infrastructure (United Kingdom).
Yeah setup time is great. However, it seems that the number of commands required for stability with docker swarm -> ∞
How does this compare to something like Laravel Forge[0]? Is it just that Forge focuses on PHP?

[0] https://forge.laravel.com
> - Python 3 is the default for new projects

What teams are using Python at Facebook now? So far job requirements seem to be mainly C++ and PHP.

Do they use Cython to speed up? What about PyPy?
China is paying Russia about a bit more than $10 billion a year for that deal. Even if some of that money is going for weapons, the US is still doing much more in total arms sales than Russia.

I'm not sure why I bothered responding, because I'm sure you'll reply with something about how they are really paying much more than that under the table (even though no reputable news sources have reported on it).

It's clear to reasonable people that neither the USSR, nor Japan destroyed the US economy. China will not destroy the US economy either.

This fear of China is caused by inappropriately extrapolating current trends, i.e., China is growing at 7% per year, and this rate will continue unabated despite that fact that historically GDP growth rate always declines as a country becomes developed.

As to your earlier assertions about super computers, those numbers are close to meaningless.

The UAE has the world's tallest building, should we be afraid of that?

If the UK wanted to build the world's fastest super computer, they could. If the US wanted to we could. It's just a dick measuring contest that is primarily a function of how much money a country currently wants to spend on building them.

The only thing faster super computers prove is that they are simply worth more to China than they are to us. They are massively behind us in nuclear capability, so the ability to conduct simulated nuclear testing is more valuable to them. The PR win is also correspondingly more valuable to them.
> They more or less ignored the file sync issue of Docker for Mac

Which particular problem? The crappy performance/CPU usage one(s), or something else? Having used various different approaches (docker in vmware linux/virtualbox), the d4m (osxfs?) one seemed to be the least broken for general dev stuff.

Hopefully not more issues I need to keep a lookout for.
"There's no such thing as fundamental nature of existence."

Of course there is. Or are you suggesting that there is not a reality?

There are models with more explanatory power that others. Those models map better to reality ergo they are more fundamental.

Otherwise, what it means to say that a model is better than other, if not that is more close to what really there is out there?
If it is such high quality now why did Detroit become the largest city ever to file for bankruptcy in 2013, even after the $17.4 billion bailout to GM and Chrysler in 2008?

How is that "vastly better"?

We're talking about production not the product. and that isnt complicated. Asian markets have an abundundant supply of highly skilled labour. western markets do not.

furthermore. that isnt a surpise. its policy.
Do you mean headphones, or in-ear phones? Many brick & mortar shops will let you try on headphones in a demo area setup for that purpose. Bose has their own demo tables they provide to some stores for the purpose of demonstrating their noise cancelling headphones, amongst other products. [That's how I got hooked - the store let me plug in my own phone into their demo unit, so I could see how they sounded on my own favorite songs.]

I don't know of anywhere that will let you try earbud headphones, for hygiene reasons.
Why don't you just ignore people like this? There's a whole thread about technical issues upthread, and you respond to some random guys emotional problems?

If there is a problem with the way the Docker open source project is run, it is with the amount of small but serious bugs that affect subsets of your users. This is probably due to you guys overextending.

Responding that you are saddened by this guys issue with his perception of the 'culture' in your team is just craziness. No one will be helped by this. The only thing that will help is showing that you guys are running a tight ship. Maybe hire an extra person on two to maintain your GH issue garden and proceed with making Docker the successful business we all believe it can be.
> there is no such thing

Why?
I love the concept. However the variability in budget sizes due to changing tax payer whims strikes me as a challenge for administrators to plan for.

Eg. How do you set multi year goals when there is an annual 5% variability due to this program?
That was what I meant. In my area at least, the longest power outage in the last 15 years was about 18 hours.
Windows 10 is one year old
The getter/setter problem is solved very nicely by C#. You can change a field to a property at any time without changing the rest of the code, and a lot of the use cases for get/set can be handled compactly like public int X{get; private set;} instead of having to have 2 variables.
Tolerance and half-life are related but not the same.

A person may have low tolerance/high sensitivity (due to fewer adenosine receptors) but metabolize quickly.

I actually find I have high sensitivity and metabolize slowly, which is why it's important I don't have coffee after mid-afternoon.

My bet is that long half-life/slow metabolism increases predilection for addiction (due to longer duration of exposure), but that's just a guess.
QVar, yes. Thank you.
Y'all have thoroughly convinced me to disregard Powerwalls :)
Yes, journald would definitely be superior, conceptually, to just writing to plain files. I can't help you there, though, as I've never tried setting it up.

(As an aside, I don't understand why more Unix software doesn't consistently use syslog() — we already have a good, standard, abstract logging interface which can be implemented however you want on the host. The syslog protocol is awful, but the syslog() call should be reliable.)

As for kube-up: It's a nice way to bootstrap, but it's an opaque setup that doesn't give you full control over your boxes, or of upgrades. I believe it's idempotent, but I wouldn't trust it to my production environment. Personally, I set up K8s from scratch on AWS via Salt + Debian/Ubuntu packages from Kismatic, and I recommend this approach. I have a Github repo that I'm planning to make semi-generic and public. Email me if you're interested.
>And using public fields in a non trivial project is a sure receipt for disaster.

Why, though? Surely it's the programmers' job to access what they need and leave alone what the don't. As someone else said, Python has no concept of public/private and it works okay.
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