skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there is any question about whether or not it is an ad. They identified it as an ad. The conversation seems to be seeking to create a debate around disclosure, and whether it lies solely with the product, or with the the celebrity as well.

I don't think we need to require celebrities to disclose all of their endorsements, financial relationships or tax returns. Hyperbole intended. From a simply practical perspective, if they all did it, it would become meaningless and no different than not doing it. I actually think it lends them some authority because they are paid to endorse something. It implies that their opinion is of value when the endorsement is actually paying for access to their audience while implying some expertise.

I think Howard Stern is a great counterpoint to the Kardashian example. He has as much, or more power in terms of influencing a large audience. Where the Kardashians have proven themselves as simple profiteers (the Kardashian Card being the best example: http://kardashiankard.com/card-fees/), at best, while Stern has shown profound respect for his audience. He sells advertising through his show, but they are clearly identified, and he claims that his personal endorsement are genuine. I believe him.

In the end, I think the Kardashians and others that fall in to the same category are exploiting a mostly young, less discriminating audience. Given enough time they will discredit themselves.

I think trying to police celebrity disclosures is silly, and impractical, while having the potential, as mentioned above, to make it meaningless anyway.
Infrastructure for Deep Learning
> The second is to build out the Certificate Transparency project to the point where the revocation of trust due to a mis-issued certificate is immediate, widespread, and automatic.

I'd love to hear more about this. How would it work?

Lets Encrypt gets a lot of flack because their certs need to renew every three months. I can't imagine why bad actors wouldn't immediately try to swamp any system of revocation with requests.
I won't comment on the specifics of this case, but a more nuanced approach regarding security is preferable because it favours transparency.

If a vendor/CA/whatever knows that they will die if anything comes out, they will bury things like this even deeper.
Xilinx 1, Intel 0 – Big X Scores First in the New Rivalry
Show HN: Social Media via TV
Sentab have created created Sentab TV, a box that allows those who are not au fait with conventional tech and social media to have a platform.

We would really appreciate feedback on the web portal and app we have developed. Our engineering team recently launched an update and we would love for people to test stability, comment on UI etc

www.sentab.com or search Sentab on appstore/googleplay
oh my god! I am totally blow away by this. Thank you for posting this.
Sounds like the Docker container format should be split of into an independent foundation. Because everybody wants to use it but there's no money to be made of it.
Then companies can compete on how to run Docker in production.
Does anyone know of a good resource for learning microservices best practices? We're at a stage at my company where it makes sense to consider the transition from a monolith -- but would love to do the right homework first to avoid some of the pitfalls.
Google discontinues the Chromebook Pixel 2
> Yes, but are there any positive effects of police presence? Does this outweight the negative effects?

Certainly I would agree that police have positive effects as well. Your second question really is the crux of the issue, and I can't answer that.

> So seeing poorly targeted ads tells you that people are suffering? It is the role of corporations to inform you that there are people who have different needs than you?

Suffering was perhaps poor word choice. Obviously it's not the responsibility of some faceless corporation that I be informed about what's going on in the world, but it would be nice if they didn't cut down incidental information the masses might receive so it fits in their little corner of the world.
Yes it's unfortunate that there is already a popular Go project called "micro." The name here is a play on "nano" editor and I had already started the project by the time I saw https://github.com/micro. Oh well, I still like the name.
Where "respond better" means to the aims of the advertiser. The reason they dont "Respond better" to #ad is because the customer is responding in their own best interest, to discount the claims because they know they're biased by the remuneration .

Its not obvious its an advertisement because if it were the responses would be the same.
True, a model which predicts reality will in fact predict reality.

I've never seen any evidence that your hypothesis is true, or even a model that would account for it, but I'm hardly an expert in the field. Assuming this is more than speculation/theoretical nitpicking, do you have citations on the effects you describe?

If your theory is more than just idle speculation, this is a great way for non-racists to engage in house price arbitrage insofar as they wish to consume housing. Do you know of any neighborhoods in NYC where I can exploit this arbitrage?
They are way above the 100K followers tier.

kimkardashian 81.2m followers
kyliejenner 73.4m followers
Author here, To quote from the FAQ:

> Why did you build PGBackup?

> We were tired of constantly configuring a postgres replica for each (small) project. And then being pretty unsure if the backup would still be up-to-date by the time the primary server crashes.

> When talking with other postgres users about backups, we also found that primary and backup servers often run in a single data center or at a single (budget) provider. In effect, exposing these users to non-neglible risk of loosing database+backup.

There's some - obvious - challenges in getting new users to trust you enough to send them their database copy. At the same time, people host very sensitive data at (virtual) budget servers without thinking twice. What do you think?
> to find a new source of unambiguous authority, a method by which the world makes sense.

I think that is one of a very few universals out there, and yet I think very many people are willing to admit it to themselves.
The solution for big banks is the orderly failure. Things like bail-in, where a bank is required to be able to go through a flash chapter-11 process over a week end. Or the "living will", basically the bank preparing a contingency plan in advance if it needs to wind down its activity.

In the CA world, I would assume this would require a standard protocol across CA to request, renew and transfer certificates from CA providers automatically. A sort of commercial version of the ACME protocol. But that requires lots of infrastructure change not just on the CA side, all servers would have to be updated.

This is long overdue anyway. It is currently way too complex to request, install and keep updated a certificate. And there isn't enough competition in this market.
Born to Rest
That is exactly the problem. Linux containerisation is done by building tooling that uses kernel-level features. You don't need a start-up with millions in VC funding to implement the basic feature-set. At the other end of the complexity scale, both flatpak and systemd-nspawn are more specialist containerisation tools, which are each largely the product of just one person.
OKRs Are Old News – Introducing Goal Science Thinking – First Round Review
Think about how you'd like to solve a problem. Then ask one of your more seasoned peers to talk through it with you. "Lisa, I'm working through the XYZ changes and I'd like a second pair of eyes on my planned solution. Do you have a few minutes to go over it?"
Well, they're about a decade ahead of everyone else, at least. It's not about if you feel "tired", it just is. If you don't like it try to learn from them and do better.
You can be contrarian about it but full stack includes assembly.
I've seen 'sol' used to refer to the period of a solar day on Mars, which is about forty minutes longer than ours here on Earth. You still have to convert, but at least it's clear (ish?) that conversion is required without having to look at the context.
Basically it's like count. Maybe they get a little more sophisticated and filter out spammy likes from that number. Without Instagram supporting links on posts, it's about the best you can do.

Some accounts also change their bio URL to whatever their sponsor wants for 24 hours etc and say "click my bio link for more". Obviously that's more trackable.
5 CI/CD Strategies for Faster Software Deployments and Better Automation
I was comparing call-by-value with non-strict evaluation strategies like call-by-name and call-by-need.
What if you buy a derelict property (MySpace?) for a bargain at auction then make billions after you bring it back to prominence. Are you to saying you should be punished for your low acquisition cost?
OS X/Keydnap spreads via signed Transmission application
> You can certainly fix the ruby compiler so that monkey-patching is fast, and you don't have to deoptimize for this sort of thing.

Do you have a concrete idea for how to support monkey patching without deoptimisation and have it be fast? If you do, congratulations it's a major breakthrough in language research and you should write a paper.
yes, I too know how to write vacuous PR. You don't need sequencers to protect astronaut health - Sequencing for medical tech on earth is barely valuable. At best, you might be able to identify a particular type of cancer, and treat it better - if you filled your precious cargo with a bunch of different anticancer pharmaceuticals.

As for using a DNA sequencer to identify DNA-based life forms beyond Earth: that's one of the stupidest ideas that Craig Venter has ever proposed. We have zero prior data saying that alien life contains DNA. Instead, you'd use basic chemistry techniques first.

Nothing is worth "any money". We have finite budgets. Sequencers provide only marginal scientific data.
Tesseract is sadly, quite out of date. If you would like help implementing Deep Learning models for OCR let me know.
Architect with ALS designs a residence he can control with just blinks
If one is marketing a product and the ad/product doesnt interest me, then one needs a more compelling ad/product. Ploys to game my psyche are simply (imo immoral) manipulations in order to extract more value without giving any more value. That is, by using these games you're attracting your worst customers-- the ones who may not otherwise want you, who will pay nonetheless and when the psychological manipulation subsides will be most likely to regret and complain about what they received for the money.
And look, how they immediately dispatched an army of downvoting trolls to hide your comment!
Looks like Eddy Nigg was recently attending the cabforum minutes: https://cabforum.org/2016/06/09/2016-06-09-minutes/
Hume actually says why this kind of thing happens. Any one person or entity can be shown to not have complete knowledge of the world with a simple example. Proving you actually know something completely is instead a hard inductive proof likely to fail.

Most modern physics fails this proof as it cannot show convincingly that it is the only true version of physics. And that is quite rigid, well tested and proven knowledge about the world...
"Luxembourg is like the delaware of Europe,"

But most taxes in the US are Federal.

In Europe they are effectively 'state level' - making the problem worse for Europe than for state-by-state tax competition in the US.

Re: your Ireland comment - yes - I see your point, but the issue here is not Ireland having a 'lower tax rate' of 12.5% - rather than they allowed Apple to have 'special privileges' thereby paying next to nothing, right?
Seeing a service like this makes me wonder if Postgres could support encrypted replication. That would allow using a service like this to provide reliable backup without having to trust it with customer data.
You are right!
IT is going to kill itself with the pressure it puts its engineers. I for one stopped worrying and taking low end positions such as tech support / customer support instead of my experience in software developement. If I apply for a job nowadays they want me to do tech and business operations along with software engineering, and I hate taking homework home so I choose low level positions since I don't want to die of a stroke and have more time for myself
SEC and Revolving Doors: Q&A with Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Rejected Award
Telia also attached a condition that you had to promise to be nice on the internet and not practice "näthat"(net hate). Not joking either, they were then very unresponsive to criticism and questioning of their stance on net neutrality.
> A dedicated, virtual server that runs your postgres version in replica mode. It continuously receives changes from your primary database server, becoming an off-site backup.

This isn't an offsite backup. This an offsite replica that will faithfully replicate a "DELETE FROM account WHERE true".

Marrying that with a scheduled logical pg_dump and/or physical pg_basebackup that runs against the local copy (for performance and not impacting the master) would create a true offsite backup.

Until then, it's just one more place that will get wiped out when the source data is accidentally destroyed.
The US has tons of inter-state tax competition; federal taxes just comprise the base rate, not the total taxation rate. State governments fall all over themselves to offer special incentives for companies to come in. Or stay, in some cases - a local employer has been here almost 80 years, yet the state and local governments still feel they need a massive multimillion dollar tax break or they'll pick up and leave.
at least one company want's this cpu [1], (but since one of the reimplementors of the superH architecture, or whatever you want to call them, works there - as CEO in fact - , take it with a huge grain of salt).

since you seem to know about the power consumption, can you please share some numbers about the power consumption of the jcore cpu (on a comparable process to other cpu's build for IoT devices, usb controllers etc)?

jcore is not intended to be a replacement for the main cpu, so this would be really interesting to me, and would save me from asking on the mailing list. ;P

[1] http://se-instruments.com/press_releases/sei-adopts-open-sou...
Apple Must Pay Billions for Tax Breaks in Ireland, E.U. Orders
Another awesome one for the collection! It would be interesting to compare this and the RC car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AR2-OHCxsQ

r/WatchMachinesLearn
Indeed.

With regards to science, it seems like at least young people respect it, so we're going to have progress in that sense.

Unfortunately, philosophy doesn't produce life-changing tech or neat gadgets, so reading philosophy that would change one's outlook on politics, ethics or epistemology is ignored.
To produce high quality code you need to change your mindset. No tools will help you if you don't know how to use them. Also you cant simply "pass the buck" (so to speak) to tools and expect greatness. TANSTAFL.

I wrote a blog post about this not too long ago: http://ortask.com/why-your-mindset-might-be-setting-your-sof...
With the idea that knowledge is an act of remembering, consciousness is a matter of matter, and gods/natures role in creating, seems to me that humans creating concious AI would potentially create that third era of modernity.
Do you expect us to open the port on public interface?
And kilo[1] is 28k but it doesn't have as many features. Also a "keyboard" vs "keystroke" editor, editors built before ginormous keyboards became ubiquitous use various keystrokes for commands, ones that came to exist in an assumed presence of a ginormous keyboard use special keys for commands. (example, if the only way to move the cursor up in your editor is the cursor up arrow key, you are a "keyboard" based editor. Not that either choice is better or worse just something I find an interesting distinction.

[1] https://github.com/antirez/kilo
There are also ignorant assumptions that are or aren't generally accepted. As in by many people. These we call society.
Americans are less trusting than ever before. That could also make us poor
It is true that is it partly about class and stereotypes, but the Tiny House people have thought about this much more than you seem to think (I'm currently designing one). Here are some counterpoints.

Beyond class, the other major reason for Tiny Houses appearance is acceptance in local communities. If they look nice, people and the law tend to leave them alone. Also it is nice to be nice for appearances sake.

Because they don't move that much they often get wide permits and skirt the trailer or put it onto a pad such that it appears to be a small house rather than a something on a trailer.

http://imgur.com/a/Dv8xE

I should say also this perception that Tiny Houses are, well, Tiny, is not quite accurate.

Some of them are very small, 200 sq ft. Many of the new builds for living full time are easily 500 sq ft if you include the loft space.

In America that may be still very small but in many countries such as mine, that is actually larger than many townhouses most people live in.

As for later discovering that they need more space, that is not something that scares Tiny House people. They already built a small house, constructing other modules to do other things doesn't scare them much.

It is difficult to overstate how much less expensive they are than the traditional housing route. 50% of the cost of building in the West is paperwork. That is half off the most expensive item most people buy in their lives.

The main hiccup is about Land. This is solved in different ways, I intend to buy mine.

Most Tiny Housers spend money on quality materials. I've worked in construction before and know that most 'modern' builds won't last much longer than a 30 year mortgage due to cutting corners, substandard materials and an overall lack of attention to detail. I fully expect my TH to last at least 50 years, probably longer, be constructed from state of the art materials, and still be 1/4 of the cost of the average house in my area (excluding land).

Of course not everybody can go this route but it beats being homeless or paying a mortgage for decades. Besides, as a geek it is fun to find out how things work, it is an education.
Interesting, having heard on how many fishes die from their origin to the moment they are placed in some aquarium, I always thought that a giant amount should be captured and it should have some impact on the natural population.

I won't discuss whether those captured fish have a fair treatment during transportation, in the aquariums, etc. But it's interesting to know that the ones that are captured ate those that probably would die in a short time in the nature, anyway.
Kubernetes deployments are as high level as you can get while still having anything to do with actual operational environments. You don't have to use the lower level constructs if you don't want to. If you don't understand what either is doing, you're not going to be able to operate it anyway, and all of these still require operators.
>in ancient Egypt ... there are writings about how "the youth do not write properly these days, and the world is going to the dogs soon. Everything was better during my childhood." Look it up.

When people claim something dubious and back it up with "look it up" and no further sources, I reach for my gun. Most of those supposed ancient quotes about youth are modern nonsense, and as Google returns no results for your particular quote (and "going to the dogs" is a 16th century English idiom anyway) I'm going to go with "you made it up". Please don't make things up and exhort people to "look it up".
BEREC Launches Net Neutrality Guidelines
Sorry to contradict you, but that genuinely was NASA's plan, not just von Braun's:

http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-road-to-mars-961235/?al...

> Washington-savvy Webb stepped down in 1969. Tom Paine, an entirely different kind of NASA chief, replaced him. Pain, a Washington neophyte with little grasp of politics, let vision be his guide as he set out to define NASA's post-Apollo goals. He liked the audacity of a plan that Mueller's office had outlined for NASA. Evolved from JAG work, Mueller's Integrated Program Plan saw a space base in Earth orbit, a moon base, and humans on Mars—all by 1982. [...]

> In September 1969, President Nixon's Space Task Group endorsed the NASA plan, but with reservations. NASA formed an agency-wide team to begin implementation. But Nixon ignored the task group's recommendations, opting instead to funnel NASA's budget toward building the space shuttle.
>Paid $75k to Love a Brand on Instagram – Is It an Ad?

Why the question? The answer is yes. It is an ad, and worse...
> It's the only contract you can enter into under 18 and you can never declare bankruptcy on them.

Please stop repeating this myth. It is, in fact, possible to discharge student loans in bankruptcy. (It is particularly difficult to do so compared to other forms of debt, but there is an enormous difference between that and "you can never declare bankruptcy on them.")

See, e.g., http://www.studentloanborrowerassistance.org/bankruptcy/
I like the article. Another commenter here gave a good example with the Android phones overloaded with notifications. I'm going to illustrate the right way with communications embedded into non-communication products.

There were older, desktop apps that made modal dialogs appear that blocked you from doing anything if you had an update, message, whatever. I later saw that turn into a dedicated box with significant chunk of screen. At least I could do other things. Later, there was a menu or window somewhere that could be opened with the notifications being smaller instead of the message itself. Later, on Xbox Live, they made the notifications pop up in top-center of screen with very little info in them. They also let me turn them off with a one-button method of checking if anything happened in-game. A further enhancement of this might be replacing the popup with a distinct, mellow, sound effect that blends into in-game sounds in such a way to stand out but not jolt a person out of the game. Not just preserving the mood of one but also not say masking sound of enemy footsteps.

So, in just that one area, things have improved remarkably from the time when developers said, "We're going to shove this in their faces and force them to pay attention." I'd love to see more such improvements across the board leading to calmer software.
Kontena Offers a Kubernetes Alternative That Promises to Be Easier to Deploy
Thanks for this. That would be an ideal scenario for me as well (it's even mentioned in the FAQ).

It's technically rather challenging, but when enough users would ask for it, I know putting some resources into it might be viable.
It's not useful though. You can't take Docker "laptop containers" and use them in production. It's at best a development tool, at worst creating yet another environment to support and to have test differences in.
>A Docker distro of Kubernetes would do very well in enterprise on-prem or private cloud environments. They already have a great developer experience. Companies will pay for support on both.

Some early data here: https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/720686568671940608
In particular, this was a sequencer that doesn't work particularly well even on Earth...
Very often, marketing material and the language used for for that is a good indicator on whether a particular service knows their stuff, or if they appear to peddle fluff... :)

We're all doomed then! Asides from LetsEncrypt, most CA web pages are full of marketing fluff :)

I've just been reading through the mailing list discussion, and from that I agree with you completely, WoSign looks pretty incompetent in their responses. If I had a WoSign certificate, I'd definitely be looking around to get an alternative now. However, that's a bit late for 'people power' to force CAs to act better.