skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single browser vendor has exit polling showing websites being broken is one of the top reasons for users changing browser. This isn't some idea, we have solid data that breaking stuff just causes users to move to a browser where the site works.
Unfortunately wealthy foreigners are just going to abuse the hell out of this to drive up real estate prices.
The number doesn't quite work out: you got two years, and if the business can demonstrate passing certain benchmarks (500k funding or (500k revenue and 20% annual growth) or 10 'murican jobs), you get another 3 years. 5 years is enough if your business fails fast, but otherwise it's unlikely to be sufficient for building one (on average).

This is a parole rather than a visa, so it still leaves the question on what's the follow up afterward.
This would make for an interesting scifi plot. A global virus spreads that has multiple parts and people must limit their contact with specific people or risk acquiring components that activate the parts of the virus they carry.
Screw Passive Income, I Want Active Income
I keep reading threads in HN talking about passive income, small side gigs that make money while you sit.

I don't want that. I want to escape my 9-5. Reach financial independence. I don't care about expensive cars, houses with multiple rooms I won't use.

I just want to work for myself and live my life.

How do I do that?

Skill set: Average Developer, understand marketing, SEO, exceptional Project Manager
This is sort of apples and oranges argument, but if you want to look into it from the domain of burglary perspective then you can see that burglary interferes with property that you don't own, whereas taking drugs interferes with your own body - your property. Unless you accept that you can punish people for using their property the way they want, the burglary argument has no basis.
Food is not illegal, drugs are, even if you have a legal supply of money to trade for them. That does punish the addicts by arbitrarily making their behaviors illegal.

If we outlawed you we could turn around and declare you an illegal and use it to justify the law against you. Why won't you just turn yourself in and end the manhunt? With that sort of circular logic in play it becomes obvious that our court system is actually just welfare for people in blue shirts.
Poetically simple code review with Sourcegraph
"If someone broke the law trying to get their next meal they would be prosecuted."

Yet, you can't arrest an obese person for possession of Big Macs. You can't bust them eating a rasher of bacon mid-bite and throw them in a cage.

So, addiction to drugs _is_ a criminal issue. They are not treated in the same way. That needs to change.
Oh Yikes, totally forgot Mailgun is owned by RS. I have a few things using the Mailgun API too. I am hesitant to move to Sendgrid with what happened a couple of weeks ago and how they handled the outrage.

At this point, I may just setup & manage my own box for email again. It is a real PITA but I just don't have a lot of faith in these 3rd party API's anymore.
Nice pictures are definitely important for NASA's public image and well worth the investment. Imagine the moon landing without pictures or recently Cassini without its fantastic Saturn pictures. Nobody would care for NASA.

In theory I know that a lot of other measurements are much more important than pictures but in the end they are what makes me excited about those missions.
+1 for RSS
From my understanding and my own desires, I think the previous comment is looking for a site that will offer a list of book links on HN with parameters to filter/sort the books. That way you can find "most mentioned books in the last year" or "highest karma book links for the last month".
How does LSD induce short-term psychosis but long-term optimism?
Design Doc: MariaDB Service on DC/OS
There is a huge gap between ~600mph vs much lower speeds of electric planes or windmills. As to energy requirements, it's likely fairly low in large part due to the expected altitude of 30,000+ feet. But also because the goal is stabilizing the airflow.

PS: Drag force is velocity ^2; energy lost to drag Drag force * Distance or v^3.
> Not every drug is addictive. Marijuana isn't, not physiologically speaking.

The idea that the qualification "physiologically speaking" actually refers to anything other than an imaginary distinction (as compared to the usual alternative, "psychologically") implicitly requires that there is some element of psychology that is not an effect of the physical configuration of the body (brain or otherwise).
>Anti-psychotics (and benzodiazepines) are bad drugs that make people's mental problems worse.

This is not true. Many people are able to live high functioning lives thanks to anti-psychotics, which are sophisticated drugs that are very effective against psychosis and are the best therapies we currently have [0].

[0]http://jop.sagepub.com/content/25/5/567
OK, we updated the title from “Empirical assessment of recent cognitive neuroscience and psychology literature” which was a good edit to begin with!
That math term, "singularity", re-appropriated as a technology hype buzz word, is rooted in a fundamental concept, though, and used to have a specific meaning: unpredictability.

In calculus, when you try to graph a function, and a curve forms a harsh sweep into a vertical line, up or down, if the domain of X is time, a vertical line indicates multiple events happening simultaneously, and we can no longer define the equation as a function, because its results are not predictable.

With a singularity, given a particular input (a moment in time), multiple values are possible.

In terms of Wired Magazine Kurzweil hype, it means multiple novel inventions are being introduced simultaneously (if you were making a graph of inventions over time), and so, because 2 or more new things are happening at the same time, it becomes very hard to predict how people will try to use them, all at once.
Or you could just stop being an idiot.
I wonder if this will mean an influx of capital in the Austin/SA area.
As an aside to your great post, the government's stance is also ridiculous when you consider that the former Prime Minister David Cameron almost certainly took drugs given his affiliation with the Piers Gaveston society[0]...

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate
>And no, “just use autotools” is not a viable answer.

After packaging hundreds of programs for a GNU/Linux distro and dealing with handwritten Makefiles and other so-called autotools replacements: Yes, it is.

If you want someone to be able to build and install your software, just use the Autotools. Yup, they are ugly, but they're still the only set of tools that works acceptably.
What happens when it rains? Wouldn't moisture increase the electrical conductivity of air to the point of defeating such devices, or at least radically increasing the energy required? And if that is true, wouldn't random differences in local moisture at various actuators on different parts of the plane, say while approaching a wet runway, result in randomized effects?
Physicists create large diatomic molecules, may have future in quantum computing
Let's say you're a journalist meeting with a source.

Let's say a certain three letter agency would like to listen to that conversation in real-time if they could.

Let's say the journalist thinks that by setting his phone to flight mode, the radio is off and he can't be maliciously tracked.

Let's say the three letter agency has various means to connect and listen in on phones in real time if it chooses.

This new smartphone case would then be able to confirm to the journalist that the phone is not sending/receiving radio signals.

Now, that might sound like a far-fetched scenario, but bear in mind that Snowden asked reporters meeting with him to put their phones in his fridge to prevent exactly that scenario from playing out.

It is therefore not surprising that he might play a part in developing a case like this.
Fix configure.ac, not configure which is effectively a binary.
A smaller number of companies is still easier to regulate than a larger number.

(note that my reply was detached from a deleted comment where someone asked what the possible use of this information could be)
Just a thought: I wonder if the virus uses some form of redundancy encoding like certain RAID or file XOR systems use. I wonder if RNA/DNA has a checksum or data correction code somewhere?

It would be really neat if this virus does something like that. It might be why the 5th viral component is not required.
How about outlawing cheating on spouses? A lot of people do it, it causes harm to families, so we have to declare a war on cheating.
Thanks, never thought of that.
Rackspace's IaaS offering was never close to what AWS, Azure or even GCE offer.

It was more similar to DigitalOcean or Vultr, who are not really IaaS but VPS providers. I mean, where are the VPCs? the incredibly redundant load balancing? the VPN gateways, etc?

Disclaimer: It has been 2 years since I evaluated RAX's offerings.
Last time I commented on something similar to this[0], the downvotes came in strong and some physician told me I was out of my mind to want drugs legalized. I guess an article that makes the same argument more effectively keeps all the drug warriors from commenting.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067684
The article explains that there is debate over DeCicco's research, but the point that DeCicco is making and is clearly explained in the article is that despite the fact that burning biofuels simply returns CO2 back to the atmosphere that was extracted by the growing corn in the first place is CO2 neutral, there is a significant cost in CO2 emissions in farming, transporting and processing the corn into fuel. It it the total lifecycle of biofuel that DeCicco is studying, and the real debate is if these lifecycle costs exceed the total costs (in emissions) of using gasoline in cars.

DeCicco's results seem at first to be counter-intuitive, but my understanding is that it is an energy intensive process to turn corn into fuel. In any case, the debate suggests that the benefit of the ethanol programs is at the least questionable and not going to solve our environmental issues. We need to look somewhere else.

I don't have a lot of hope that US ethanol policy will every be sensible as long as Presidential primary (caucuses) start in Iowa. Every candidate has to promise to keep the program going which keeps Iowa's economy going no matter what science tell us.
Socker:A Go library to simplify use of SSH, support keepalive and multiplexing
It's pretty cool that they're proposing parole rather than an actual visa - I never thought of that possibility, but it seems to fix a lot of policy-related issues, such as visa caps, and allow qualifying entrepreneurs faster entry. Might short-circuit the process and we don't have to wait for politicians to agree that a founder visa makes sense.

Founders also wouldn't have to get a certified LCA or meet minimum wage requirements, which can be pretty costly for a startup and is less relevant in case of founders (who are not taking anyone else's jobs or lowering average wages). And generally founders would probably prefer (and have more to gain from) spending that money to grow the company.

I suspect there are downsides to paroles vs visa (like fewer rights or difficulty obtaining green card/other visa types later maybe?), but this seems like a surprisingly good proposal to fix an acute issue.
Burglary should be illegal because the victim is losing property. Drugs should not be illegal because there is no victim except the person taking them.
Was not HIV said to be like that?
That kind of blows my mind that the US spends that much on health care. Canada spends 217 billion, which is far less per capita, but no one has to worry about paying to see a doctor, or that getting sick will ruin them financially.
I changed the baity, over-general title "The Sad State of Docker" to what the first paragraph of the article says it's actually about.

Generally we moderate HN stories/threads less when a YC startup or YC itself is at issue. But we do still moderate them some, because the standards of the site still apply.

(We haven't done anything here besides this title edit, though, in case anybody is wondering.)
I've just pinged them, thanks.
It looks like this rule would provide the entrepreneur a 5 year stay (2+3 additional if the start-up is doing well), but I don't see any mention of granting a green card, so what would happen to that entrepreneur on year 6?

EDIT: from the medium link posted in another comment by yurisagalov:

> DHS will also publish guidance to clarify when entrepreneurs may self-petition for lawful permanent residence (also known as a “green card”).

EDIT2:

> That entrepreneur will have the confidence of knowing whether she is eligible for the temporary “parole status” pathway, allowing her to start growing her company here right away. Later, she will know under what circumstances she may qualify for the green card pathway, if she is successful in creating jobs for U.S. workers and attracting more capital from U.S. investors, allowing her to become an American over time. (Note that these pathways will likely also be open to "bootstrap" entrepreneurs who are successful in generating revenue from U.S. customers, without needing to rely on external financing.)

(From https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/11/26/entrepreneurs-wan... )
I understand that publicly traded companies are one cornerstone of our economy.

That said, it's depressing to see companies get bought and sold just to move money around, and the people that work in those jobs completely ignored, or just seen as pawns to manipulate for nothing more than the bottom line.

To me, when a company goes from private to public, it's not something to celebrate in the long-term.

The company's focus inevitably seems to go from doing/creating something innovative, to maximizing shareholder value at any expense.

Rackspace was awesome. RIP Rackspace. (I don't know this for a fact, of course... but as others have surmised already, this will likely be just another pump and dump.)
> It goes to show how much energy just deals with drag in the current system.

All of the energy used during cruise flight (straight and level, accelerated) goes to drag.
We couldn't take the Orlando shooter's guns away but we can put a poor girl in the psych ward and dose her up on mood-altering drugs for her own good.
OK, so they're "disclosed" in the sense that "the information (in packet form) is released onto a public network". But that's potential discovery if someone is paying very close attention. And the point of a zero-day is that nobody's paying attention to that specifically, because nobody knows to do so yet. So, yes, somebody could have a packet capture of it, along with a billion other packets.

So you're using "disclosure" here in a very restricted sense. It more normally means something more like "sending an email to the vendor" or "making a press release".
"it will take several years to get this kind of system right."

That's definitely true.

I don't think it was a matter of "ooops, we just didn't care enough"."

In the article, they said that's whst happen. Little to no attention paid to problem. No QA person. Problems mounted. I don't why people keep speculating on causes when article itself said it was negligence they're correcting. That's also why Im countering all comments to the contrary.

Re RAMcloud paper. I might have missed it. Will look it up. Thanks.
I think few have grasped how much of future output will be machine generated from existing work, and yet rather than violate copyright, almost be a necessity to ensure a copyright somewhere is not broken.
I love Linus' no bullshit attitude. Sure, he can be an asshole, but at least he is honest about what he thinks. I agree with his position on this subject as well.
The use of the term microkernel has stronger connotations than just having a bigger part of the system in userland. The intent was to have the minimum possible functionality in the kernel.

At the extreme this meant just resource allocation and messaging between processes. I would say that it then becomes a matter of opinion how much more one can add to the kernel before it stops being a microkernel.

The advantage of a microkernel is that it should be able to be made more robust and secure than its more monolithic cousins as the code that is, in principle, capable of taking out the whole system is small and slow moving. On that basis, saying that Linux is not considered a microkernel is a fairly safe statement.

Where I believe general purpose microkernels have struggled is in the performance of the messaging (often because of the increased access checking). More targeted uses have been successful. Probably the standout one being QNX which has been used extensively in the embedded space.
website owner here: odd, what configuration of firefox gives you that warning. When I connect with a recent OS X version, it seems to work okay.
The overall cost of the war on drugs spending is much higher, I believe. Prisons, people who grow up in crime-ridden neighborhoods and never get a real education, broken families and so on. The societal cost is much higher.
> The US Federal Government spends about 8.5 billion dollars on prisons (which are all government-owned as far as I know),

They are not; the justice department only just announced that it would begin phasing out the use of private prisons.
But isn't price still an issue with those new aircraft?

I've thought many times about trying to get my pilots license but have always been dissuaded by the thought that the only general aviation plane I can imagine being able to afford would be from the 1970's or earlier. If they're well maintained they seem to last forever. What's the incentive to spend many times more money for aircraft with those newer, cleaner engines, especially for beginning pilots? Would something like a "cash for clunkers" program for airplanes be feasible?
Probably by the time it gets good enough to be useful to them it will be good enough to replace them.
Realtime Wind Map of the World
Totally relate. I deleted Twitter from my phone and just use it either through the browser on my phone or whenever I have a moment to open Tweetdeck. My issue was notifications and the ENDLESS scroll - https://medium.com/@kavbojka/how-i-made-twitter-manageable-f...
OpenShift - you can get some instances for free

Cloudatcost - One time fee. The instance is laggy sometimes, but it's gotten better since they launched and I only paid ~$20 (after coupon) a couple years ago so not a terrible value.

self-host! - Since I like tinkering with bare metal, I have a server in my home that I CDN through CloudFlare. CloudFlare is mostly to shield my ip address and make it less obvious I'm hosting a server (inbound is HTTPS using CloudFlare origin certificates). Currently have a server that just runs Docker containers, but might try Xen.
Why You Don't Want a Nice Boss
The next logical question is why is this case better than putting their phones in the fridge?
There's always Amazon SES when looking for cheap, low-volume transactional email, but it's always a headache to setup.
Or one of these Faraday Cage bags. I wonder if anyone has independently tested these for emissions leakage.

https://www.amazon.com/Faraday-EMP-BLACKOUT®-Prepping-Smartp...
You can use all the legal definitions you want (which, btw, I already knew all about exempt vs non-exempt employees). When did I say "salaried" was a "legally meaningful designation of employment"? No one I know uses "exempt" in casual conversation to describe what kind of employee they are. It's always "hourly" or "salaried" (or "on salary").

The point was that basically every place I've ever worked on a salary, you were expected to work at least 40 hours a week (that's the minimum). Yes, legally they are required to pay you your salary if you work less than 40 hours in a week. However, if you tried to get away with just working 35 hours, pretty much every place I've ever worked would call you on it, and if you didn't adjust you'd lose your job. They may not use "not working enough hours" as your reason for termination (they'd probably say something like "not getting enough work done"), but the real reason would be because you weren't putting in your 40.

So you can say "In the US, exempt employees are remunerated irrespective of how many hours a week they work.", and that is technically true, but the practical side of it is, if you don't work the minimum number of hours your employer expects, you won't have a job, so you'll stop getting paid at all.

There is a case where "In the US, exempt employees are remunerated irrespective of how many hours a week they work." is practically relevant -- when you work more than 40 hours a week. You will not be paid more for working more than 40 hours in a week. It's one of the downsides of being a salaried employee. But you put up with it because almost all of the higher paying jobs in the US are salaried positions.

While it is technically true that a salaried employee working 35 hours a week and taking an hourly lunch is not getting a "paid lunch", that is the way most people I know would describe it. People are geared to think of the work week as being 40 hours or more, and I'm sure that's why they'd describe 35 hours of actual work a week (with hour lunch breaks) as a salaried position with a "paid lunch".

Like I said originally, perhaps this is regional. I've only worked in the Midwest, but as far as I can tell, this is the way everyone I know perceives it.
This is a bad sign. I hope its not another sign of a bubble.
> drone size vehicle

How big is "drone size"?

https://www.amazon.com/DJI-Phantom-Aerial-Drone-Quadcopter/d...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_RQ-4_Global_H...
ElasticBeanstalk streamlines things greatly, and when it works everything is pretty nice. When it fails, though... for instance, just a few days ago, one of the containers failed with an OOM error. For some reason--still unclear--the ECS and/or Docker daemons weren't able to start new containers to replace them, leaving the instance broken for hours. Auto-scaling groups will mitigate this, but it's still unnerving.

Still, I'm liking many aspects our tools. Using Docker with Rocker (https://github.com/grammarly/rocker/) has greatly sped-up CI builds by caching results when the source hasn't changed (especially important in multi-language shops; the Python guys don't want to wait on the Java code to build every time.) Just upload a tagged image to ECR, generate an "application version" referencing those images, and deploy via the Slack bot ("@bula deploy develop develop-XXX-e83fc3bd").
Rackspace's problem is this: they are not really a hosting business. They are a Managed services business. They USED to be a hosting business, but it turned out that their real value add was in running clouds for companies that couldn't do it themselves. My guess is that the real reason they sought this is that the hosting business is not going to grow, and they don't want to invest in it. Instead, they are going to transition into becoming a managed services provider for Openstack private clouds (customer premises or equinix), Azure and AzureStack, and AWS.

Many enterprises are not making the transition to Cloud cleanly, and Rackspace is positioning themselves as the premier services provider to deploy, manage, and monitor cloud usage for many organizations.
Sportpesa's Shadowy Bulgarian Backers Are Betting Big on Football in Kenya
Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
DLL Suite – Fix DLL Missing Errors
Ok, off tangent a bit, but if you randomly sample mosquitoes, those mosquitos have limited flight range, and you find things about the blood meals they have eaten. Are you at risk of invading the privacy of people who live near the mosquitoes?
I was affected by this - I lost some credit that I had remaining from the Github Student Pack due to it expiring with relatively short notice. If I open a support ticket, will I be able to ask to get that credit back?