skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real names policy on Google+ was long removed. You can use any pseudonym and don't have to share your real identity. In this respect, it's definitely better than Facebook.
As a Brit, you should appreciate the level of infrastructure you get to enjoy. You are more than welcome to come live in the US with some of the most 'innovative' privately funded infrastructure.

I'd be happy to swap my overpriced RCN internet with TalkTalk or not have to get a new wheel on my bike every year thanks to the pot-holed roads of New York.
but it's not only a salary to cost of living differential. some of these geographically uninspiring places will have to pay a premium to attract people, and compete with areas with greater potential for high quality of life.
Solution: Uber.
Serverless has a very definite meaning to me if I'm tired of administering Linux servers.
Serverless Computing and Machine Learning
> That said, what's happening right now, if we are not careful, will fragment the container ecosystem, and it makes it impossible for single containers to target multiple runtimes.

Not a chance. There is Packer [0] to get rid of all potential lock-in and monopoly. It's a universal image/container creation tool.

- It re-uses your ansible/chef/puppet/shell/whatever scripts for setting up the image.

- It outputs a docker containers, Amazon AMI, Google images, VmWare Images, VirtualBox Images. Whichever you like, with the same configuration.

[0] https://www.packer.io/
I find it kind of strange that there's no mention of the university in Urbana/Champaign.
So instead of going to working, stable alternatives to Docker like SmartOS, people still cling on to it and try everything and anything to save it!

I'll be damned if I understand why someone would continue to cling on to broken software[1] when there is a working alternative. Can someone explain this irrationality in terms which I can understand?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12377457
Don't forget, for most parts of the country, a car too. The fourth guy is being limited by his lack of a vehicle.
Does Mega Civilization change the rules at all other than adding enough materials for more players? Or can you take a subset of the materials and play a game of Advanced Civilization with them?

As much as I enjoy Advanced Civilization, it does take a long time to play; lengthening it even further and getting more people together doesn't really help.
1 bit RAM made from transistors
Not just the Appalachians; any natural barrier between the coast/Piedmont and the place under test will work. But IMO, it's mostly about the settlement pattern in play.

I've found Colin Woodard's "American Nations" to be a pretty good guide. I think this map comes from that:

http://static.businessinsider.com/image/55b273a2371d2211008b...
Sorry for two posts (the other one was unrelated). If anyone has experience with this I have a few questions regarding a particular use case.

How does something like this behave with really large files. Video files in 100s of gigabytes, for example. I'm asking because if one could set up a resilient online (online as in available) storage with fat pipes like this it could be used as a platform to build a centralized video hub for editing. It's another question how much sense would it make over a filesystem though.
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This is the point where Godwin's law comes into effect.
Seriously though, it was legal to own slaves in the US not all that long ago, most people now a days wouldn't say "There is no wrong doing here", just because it was legal.
That's much cleaner than I thought it would be. I was convinced that there was a solution that guaranteed success, since each arrangement of numbers could get mapped to a unique guessing strategy, so if you could make it so that exactly one correct guess per arrangement you're golden. I tried working with a N-wide N-dimensional cube, got it working for N=2, and failed at N=3.
"But humans also “evolved with a very large stick: if you didn’t exercise, you had nothing to eat.” Exercise was mandatory. For many humans today, he points out, there are very few incentives and no penalties."

Not entirely true - in fact further down in the article:

"Furthermore, says HUHS director Paul Barreira, the same surveys show that students’ own sense of health and well-being tracks the amount of exercise they report getting. Those with the most depression and anxiety also get the least exercise. The happiest students get the most."

So the penalties include depression, anxiety, and in future, propensity for heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, etc., etc. So either we haven't evolved enough to consider the penalty of dying young and having a more miserable existence while alive, or is it just that evolution optimizes to the point of reproduction and then doesn't care about much after successfully handing down genes to the next generation?

(Edit: I might also ask, without putting forth a theory or guess, what statistics say about obesity and likelihood of reproduction? If health is poorer than non-obese humans, is there a lesser chance of successful reproduction? If so, shouldn't that be considered the ultimate penalty?)
If employees are having trouble saying "no" to unsafe, unethical, or unlawful projects, then a professional association or union is needed. A professional association can create duty requirements external to a company; it's easier to say no to your boss is have the excuse that "as a member of $ORG, I have follow $ETHICS_RULE".

Alternatively a union can put pressure companies to never ask for certain things or to meet a standard for any privacy issues. Unions are usually seen with hostility in the tech industry, but they are just another tool; a union can be made for specific purposes, and ignore e.g. wage or anything else.
A large part of the specific 'value' of Apple is actually created by the community of Apple users. It is the users who endorse their products to others, it is them who are willing to pay higher prices for Apple-branded products compared to otherwise similar products from other suppliers, it is the users who have - partly in response to Apple marketing, partly due to the large commitment (financially and otherwise) they have towards Apple products - created a virtual community of Apple-aficionados where showing up with anything but Apple will lead to questions, where 'nobody ever got XXXed for choosing Apple'.

If these users decide that the Apple has lost its sheen, once they refrain from buying mobile phone cases with holes cut in them to show the branding, Apple will quickly find out they are essentially no different from companies like HP or Dell. Their profits will start resembling those of the rest of the industry, their stock price will sink to something resembling their P/E ratio and they will have to compete on a more level playing field.

This is why this letter somewhat puzzles me. They were caught using a tax avoidance scheme, clear and simple. They try to talk their way out if this but fail to show anything that would legitimize their actions. This does not sit well with European Apple users and as such it has the potential to damage Apple's reputation - and with that its value - in this market. They stand to lose more than they gained by avoiding those taxes in the first place.
this reminds me of something I made once that was basically exactly this, but included a button you could click that would run, more or less

window.location = "data:text/html," + document.documentElement.outerHTML

functioning as a kind of lame save button
You still need to provision the Kubernetes/Docker servers? You still need Anisble/Puppet for that part.

There aren't a lot of "Here's an API to throw up your containers and provision IPs" services out there. I see that Amazon has one (I avoid Amazon; they're the new Wal-Mart), but no one else really. I mean DigitalOcean provides CoreOS, so in theory you can provision one of those droplets and toss up some containers, but there's not a real API for "use this endpoint to deploy your container."

In the corporate world, yes .. we have dev ops teams to try out and create provisioning systems to throw up Mesos or CoreOS or OpenStack clusters. Once they're up and your devs are using them, they're lower maintenance that provisioning individual servers for individual services. For home devs, it'd be nice to have a plug an forget for docker containers (other than Amazon).

The other thing I still don't get about Docker: storage. MySQL containers have instructions for mounting volumes, but it doesn't feel like there's a good, standard way to handle storage. I'm sure that makes it more versatile, but like I said previously: plug and forget for home devs and startups. You want a databases as a service, get ready to shell out $80/month minimum for Amazon RDS or create a set of scripts around your docker containers that ensure you have slaves and/or backups.
I wonder how many people are interested in them for their ostensive purpose, which was to have a non-centralized currency for regular, every-day transactions.

It seems that they're mostly currently being used for speculative investments (not a particularly good use for a currency) or for black market transactions.
You would have to provision for the maximal capacity all over your network. Given that most people only utilize their channel 1% of the time, this is a huge waste!

Agreed, everybody loves the idea of fixed allocation, but never seem to consider how much that costs. If you could buy overprovisioned 25mbps @ $50/mo, or fixed allocation 25mbps @ $5,000/mo, which do you think most people would go for...
It's probably an advantage for California but it's far from clear how major a factor it is in why Silicon Valley developed the way it did. My understanding is that the law that's the basis for non-competes not being generally enforceable has been in place for a very long time (1800s). Yet, Silicon Valley was fruit orchards while other areas of the country were the centers for developing computers and creating much of the technology behind the early Internet.
I guess it is https://asciinema.org but their samples have centered full screen. Maybe a CSS issue here.

I'm not sure about the point either. Maybe if you embedded a small player it would be zoomed out and fullscreen would show the native style.
Well, perhaps, but unlike some altcoins, monero actually provides real utility over bitcoin. Ring signatures [1] make for better anonymity and fungibility of the currency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero_(cryptocurrency)#Privac...
"the doctors apparently believe them to be useful enough to be ethical"

I don't think ethics works that way. Just because something is very useful doesn't necessarily mean that it's ethical.

Nuclear weapons are a case in point. Few will deny that they're very useful and effective weapons, but many believe their use to be unethical, no matter how useful they are.

Chemical and biological weapons, and cluster bombs are other similar examples.
Why not?

Rigid adherence to rules without consideration of what's going on doesn't usually end up with a better place.
Once I have a private cloud running in my house I'll head in that direction, but need to get around to seriously upgrading my networking environment and building out a new NAS. :)

Edit: Not sure why'd you want unique unguessable prefixes, the data is accessed with the key. I actually encode timestamp information into my backup names for easy display.
Clever, but why? Notepad.exe, TextEdit.app, Gedit, nano are all already there - and do save if you want to after. TextEdit will even just let you quit and come back without saving and the draft is there. Leave the browser sometimes man!
Stanford?
If you had ever set this up - a separate server to rotate/clean old tarsnap backups - I'd be curious how you deal with tarsnap local cache getting out of date. tarsnap fsck on every run?
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Ask HN: Root login/Ansible best practices?
Hi HN,

I've been developing a few server deployment playbooks with Ansible lately, but the playbooks use the root user by default. I've always felt that root logins are "dangerous" and should be avoided so I have a "bootstrap" playbook to create a different privileged (but non-root) user and disable root login. All subsequent playbooks can then use the non-privileged user.

I was wondering what best practices are in this regard, with root login and automated deployment/configuration management tools. It'll be interesting to hear your thoughts! Thanks.
What the parent poster was asking - since this link is a single-post page, is what you're expecting to fill the space.

On the main stream, you have multiple columns of data. On a single post, what should be to either side?

Probably nothing.
HN is like Leslie Knope and has an opinion about everything :-)

Jokes aside, I agree with your comment.
Bringing it back? Is it no longer offered?
Can You Learn to Draw Realistic Portraits in One Month?
Riak CS is another one:

https://github.com/basho/riak_cs
perform better how? the failures are in marketing and brand stuff. after all, google+ is really a me-too product reminiscent of late 90s/early 2000s microsoft. Facebook, for all it's faults pretty much spread word of mouth. everything about google+ seems forced.
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Anybody else find the photo of the russian dog grafted onto the back for another disturbing?
I don't have source for you other than I went to Purdue, but I believe the 25% number for research dollars. You have Purdue, Indiana, Ohio State, Michigan, and many other research universities in the Midwest. Did you know that because both Purdue and Indiana are such powerhouses for biotech research that Indiana is one of the best places in the US to start a biotech company? As for a source, I did biotech research during my graduate studies at Purdue.

Honestly I am glad to hear a VC finally say that Silicon Valley isn't necessarily the best place to start a tech company. The reality is it depends. Maybe SV is the best place and maybe it isn't.
Have you BEEN to Kansas City? I got sent there for work meetings once and I have to admit I dreaded it - but it's got lots going for it, with lots of great cultural history (Jazz!) and some awesome food (BBQ!) and some really interesting places downtown. The people I met there were a whole lot more genuinely nice than most Bay Area folks, too.

YMMV obviously, but if you dismiss most of the rest of the continent as "geographically uninspiring" you're going to miss out on a lot.
I had no idea that certain classes of sites have default penalties ascribed to them here, very cool. Thanks for the explanation!
To some extent, yes. Ring signatures effectively make transactions more difficult to trace. Large exchanges of value will likely be much easier to trace given their rarity over time.
The 198 solution has the same problem. F cannot tell if the light is on because it was originally on, or G preceded F and the light started off. You're always going to be susceptible to off-by-one errors.
I think these days we should by default think of storing blobs of data (like video files) in storage systems like S3 or the alternatives, and that ordinary filesystems should be thought of as a special case where you want to attach storage to an individual computer.

Edit: I'm going to elaborate, because people are calling me naïve. Full disclosure: I work at a cloud provider on a storage team.

For most people and applications, you simply don't get good value for your money by using filesystems and hard drives directly. We've tried to make things more reliable and durable with backup policies, RAID, and ZFS but the fact is all of these things come with operational and capital expenditures that compare unfavorably with common cloud storage options. There are some good technical reasons why cloud storage is better: basically technologies like RAID and ZFS are attempts to make each layer of your storage stack completely durable and available, but this approach is not competitive with the way cloud storage is typically implemented, which is to build a reliable distributed service on top of cheap hardware. Consider RAID 1, for example. This gives you N+1 redundancy at the drive level for an individual computer. This worked in the 1990s but drives are bigger and RAID failure modes suck with larger drives—it's worrying how common it is to see errors when rebuilding a degraded RAID array, and at N+1 that means that your data is lost from that computer. Essentially, with modern drive sizes (4+ TB seems pretty common these days) a RAID 1 array should always be considered N+0 instead of N+1.

Cloud storage is implemented much more intelligently. If you have distributed storage, you can simply spread files across computers in different DCs and use error correction codes to increase the redundancy. You can get more nines of durability and availability for less money this way. You end up with something like 33% overhead on disk space instead of 300% overhead, and you're also off the hook for a big chunk of your capacity planning and various other operational expenditures.

These days I would consider starting from "this file is in cloud storage, and we have a local cache" rather than "this file is in local storage, but we have a cloud backup". That's really all I'm saying.

It also won't always be competitive. Sometimes cloud storage is more expensive than regular filesystems, depending on how you're using it. If you're a big company you can sometimes amortize the costs of doing it yourself better. That's all I mean by "default"—I'm going to put my data in cloud storage unless I have a compelling reason to store it some other way.
This looks nice, thanks.
When Google Wave was released, I tried it for a personal chat and came away confused and not getting how to use it effectively. Later on, while chatting with a few team members regularly on IRC (some of them being long running discussions), I realized the genius of Google Wave and thought it could've helped our chats and discussions a lot. It was way ahead of its time but was unfortunately shutdown.
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Essential design trends, August 2016
Skinner boxes are from the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
Investigating Google Adwords Click Fraud
I beg to differ. North Texas is still one of the most important hubs for the telecom and gaming industries in the country.
Have you tried Sacred[1]? It definitely doesn't answer the "infrastructure for deep learning" challenge but it is helpful for understanding what experiments have been run/where did this model come from (including what version of the code/parameters produced it)

[1] https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred
And another good example is ceph+radosgw.
This also tracks with lower obesity rates in cities and other places where walking is a fact of life.

I didn't actually think there was anything informative about the article. It was just a prominent name stuck on what we already knew intuitively.
you may find this interesting: https://medium.com/@JBramVB/the-rejection-of-the-human-condi... I discuss my thoughts on some of these things. would love to hear any opposing or agreeing views you have.
"Apple did nothing wrong" does not follow from "Apple did nothing illegal".
Glad to hear it. This is the beauty of Hacker News. I, and others I am sure, would like to hear how things proceed. If you can update us at some point I'd appreciate it. I think it would help those in a similar position, and perhaps managers as well.
Those penalties are less direct, however. It makes it harder for people to draw the immediate correlation between the two. Hunger drove a sufficient level of fitness to obtain food to satisfy hunger (not in the sense of encouraging the person to do push-ups, but it encouraged them to literally move and obtain sustenance, ideally before they were too weak to do so). Unhappiness doesn't lead to movement until thought and reason are applied to recognize the causal or correlative nature of unfitness and poor mental health.
Not in any way that was pertinent.
If these really are top grads, they should be able to do math. And if they do the math, they will find that the cost of living and tax situation is such that they will net less money living in California than they would in, say, Austin Texas.

I did the math. I got offers from some prominent bay area startups. They are constantly recruiting me, but none of them can offer a competitive deal on salary (and don't get me started on their "stock options" packages.)

You seem to be projecting your aspirations/desires or preferences and assuming that is the case for everyone else. I do understand that for your first job working for someone like Amazon seems glamorous, but once you've put in a couple years there (and Amazon is a particularly abusive hellhole for engineers) that wears off.

The top talent is not swayed by "name brands" but by places where they can really be innovative.

I can imagine the top MBAs from Midwest universities DO want to go work for these "name brands" because it pads you their resumes nicely.

But hackers? Hackers want to hack. They want to be on the cutting edge.

And that's no longer silicon valley. Hasn't been for awhile. It's just nobody told the people who live in silicon valley, apparently.
Whatever you do, don't fat-finger ctrl-w or similar. :(
I think that mentality may change as people start coming to the realization that it will soon no longer be necessary or even possible to "scale up quick and capture market share" based on a theory of disruption. The gold rush of the internet will soon come to a halt, especially as people start realizing that you no longer need to sell a pound of flesh and the rights to your first and second born child to VC in order to build great, quality companies.

Depending on who wins out this general election, we will possibly see a rather ironic shift that will not only undermine the hegemony of Silicon Valley, but will also make staffing startups with low cost talent from all over the globe far more feasible. I've been telling Silicon Valley for a while now, be careful what you wish for, because it's easy to lose sight of the real world from within a rose colored bubble.

I have a feeling that as/if globalism were to expand and consolidate power and control, it also broadens, dilutes, and devalues "labor" on a global scale as you start feeling the effects of globalism that clothing makers, furniture makers, auto makers, etc. have all felt before you. The only thing that is keeping the tech industry enslaved to Silicon Valley, is the dependence on their VC masters, as you so well described. Once that is no longer a benefit or necessary or an advantage, what keeps people in Silicon Valley?
I see it more as market segmentation between enterprise and SMB development needs. Although honestly, for the companies that appear to feel it might be worth the effort to fork Docker, there are already other options: at the point it makes sense to fork Docker, building a different solution on LXC is not much further away.
The numbers Yahoo Finance provides are in thousands, so that's $53.4bn in Earnings Before Interest and Taxes and $13.9bn in Income Tax Expense.

Regardless, that's their global financial accounting. It doesn't detail out the EU revenue/taxes in particular. The article linked discusses that specifically. That's where the 0.005% number comes from.
‘The Market Is Saturated’: Brooklyn’s Rental Boom May Turn into a Glut
> So now we are in a place in the web where browser users get the crappy UX experience

The new Wells Fargo site is almost a parody of this. It's like trying to use a website in the crappy Xcode iPhone simulator.
Because the point of language is to communicate, and if you've communicated effectively then you're done. What is the history you were referring to? Does using "it" offend some people, or something?