skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this and many other writings about microservices are largely concerned with network-based environments, there exists another microservice exemplar specific to the JVM world:

OSGi[0][1]

I mention it mostly to assit those wanting to explore the concept of microservices itself, as opposed to assuming a network transport is always involved. Being JVM specific, "kicking the tires" on it naturally requires that environment. Perhaps, though, some of the writings discussing it would be of benefit to those using other tech stacks.

Of course, OSGi does not preclude distributed processing (and often is employed for such).

0 - https://www.osgi.org/

1 - http://www.theserverside.com/news/1363825/OSGi-for-Beginners
I would add another multiplicative factor: the probability that you have success in what you are trying to achieve, if that probability is near zero you effort will be in vain.
Ask HN: Strategies for porting native code to another OS?
My company has a handful of C++ server applications which run on very old versions of SunOS.

The hardware they're on is fairly ancient and we're struggling to find replacement parts (having to look on eBay...).

Management have decided it's time to get the apps onto modern h/w, and Linux.

We've identified a few "patterns" which modern gcc doesn't like, and we've got a few Perl scripts to run regexes over the codebase for those cases, but it seems like this is going to be a very manual process.

Are there any good methods/techniques/tools for porting C++ apps over to a new platform?

Would it be easier to re-write the applications in a higher-level language?
Samsung Stumbles in Race to Recall Troubled Phones
> Meanwhile, AngelList is adding new ways for people to get into private-company investing. With some 600 startups expected to raise money through the website next year, AngelList said it’s creating a sort of index fund for young companies that will hold shares in 100 to 200 startups. Investors can buy a share of the fund, called the Access Fund, for $100,000 or more.

This could be interesting. I wonder if it will be restricted to accredited investors or offered to the layman?

As always, of course there are no guarantees in startup returns, but spread over that many companies... well, I'm not sure what to expect. I guess it all depends on the returns and how they decide to pick companies. It could be a cool new take on index investing. Then again, I became wary of most things "cool" and "new" in investing.
Her on line course: "Learning how to learn" is the most successful MOOC of all time: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

I really enjoyed following it.
>It seems pretty strange to have contradicting laws

I think you might enjoy:

THE MYTH OF THE RULE OF LAW

http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
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This explains most of these horrible Java libraries: http://product.hubspot.com/blog/bid/7271/premature-flexibili...
There is no "tech side" or "politics side", it's all the same fucking side. You can't create the Internet without vast political consequence. You can't indefinitely extend life without the same. Every human action is steeped in political and social consequence.
Why would it not be absorbed by proportional savings in heating?
What’s in a Hoople?
> the problem is that every government agency is using SSNs as if they are good identifiers

So much this. Especially with all the data breaches knowledge of an SSN has become meaningless. The practice of taking it as an identifier should be outlawed.
It's time people start suing the organizations that enable identity theft by practicing this.
Actually, we pay for GitLab EE.

GitLab's pricing model won a lot of people when GitHub's was ugly for anyone who wanted private repos (single guy at home with 10+ private repos for things like your dot files, etc? $20+ a month, for what likely amounted to under 1MB of disk space).
Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soap, sugar, milk. Ice cream. Children's ice cream.

Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face. A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
Any company can build an electric car and lose money while doing it. The question isn't whether he can build a cool electric car, he clearly can. I really question the position he has put himself in financially.

- He used Tesla stock to secure loans he used to purchase his stake in Solar City, the decision to purchase Solar City is at least in part driven by the fact that Elon Musk IS Tesla, without him at the helm it would be a problem and if he got margin called it would affect Tesla since he would lose a significant amount of his shares. There is no Tesla boardmember/major shareholder that doesn't have a conflict of interest for this issue.

- His companies buy each other's bonds, they're basically just moving money around and building a larger house of cards - if one company goes down at this point I really don't see how it wouldn't have significant reprecussions for the others. This is especially problematic when it comes to Space X which is privately owned and its deep connection to his public companies.

- It seems that if I took a big pile of money in my yard and lit it on fire, Elon would probably want to compete there (and do it better than me). All of his companies are very capital intensive and he is very leveraged at this point and has a lot of people tied to his fate - him not being focused on any one business makes this a bigger problem.

And here's my biggest Elon problem:

- He is a walking PR campaign. Why do we barely know any of the higher level engineers at Space X or Tesla? He is splitting his time between multiple companies, I find it impossible to believe he is involved in every engineering breakthrough at all of these companies and yet I have honestly never once heard him give credit to any of his management or engineering team.

That last one is the worst for me. I don't think he's a great person and it's annoying seeing everyone fawning over him like he's Elon Kardashian for tech people. The fact an almost universal complaint at his companies is that people are undercompensated and overworked further reinforces my personal opinion he doesn't value the work of other people.
They aren't wrong. Regarding the comments and images in the linked article, there's a key point made there that's fundamentally wrong. Let me pick out a quote:

"We all get how pixels basically work. A computer divides a display into squares, and each square can be assigned one RGB value at a time. The total squares supported by the hardware is the device’s “resolution.” This square grid is the smallest possible subdivision of detail available to an artist."

This is the bit that's fundamentally wrong. Pixels are not squares. And never have been. They are "point samples". The fact that "magnified" pixel art displayed here compounds the error by displaying big squares rather than using an appropriate reconstruction filter doesn't help correct the misconception.

Here's a link to a classic paper on the topic: http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
I think you have drawn an incorrect inference from that text.

Raskin, the founder of the Macintosh project at Apple, was a visiting scholar at Stanford for a year. He and others in the AI lab "were tightly intermixed with the people at PARC" (Quoting http://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/interview... ).

I believe he knew what a Starlike WIMP user interface entailed.

He also "explained the details and rationale of the work at PARC to Atkinson, Jobs and others. PARCs philosophy was therefore well known at Apple [before Jobs' famous visit]". - http://www.digibarn.com/friends/jef-raskin/writings/holes.ht... .
> Not because one is in agreeance with the alleged "racial" distinctions

That's what I said, the word is being used with a different/wider meaning and not with that narrower original meaning.

> (in the mind of the racist)

I doubt the attackers thought of the Polish person as of a different "race" as in the biological meaning of that word. Same thing, shift of meaning of the word.
> apparently an email submission is just not ok despite having co authored in this area and currently designing BCI related hardware and software in the open in my free time

I'm not sure of the specifics, but this comes across as very entitled and narcissistic, but I assume that's most likely a case of misinterpretation of your point . That said, if they have a submission process, expect to go through it. It's entirely possibly they get a ton of useless submissions and inquiries through email, and part of their process is to ignore those. If an applicant can't be bothered to go through the initial steps to get onto the short list for consideration, why should they think that's a good candidate to be throwing money at, regardless of their resume?
Yes, it does, and yes, that is correct.

Lawyers can drop clients with cases that they think are losers and refuse to take them to trial. And, very, very often, before or directly after closing arguments, if the writing is on the wall, a case settles.

Additionally, what sorts of cases are we talking about? Insurance defense? Toxic torts? Data breach?

The 'winnability' of these cases varies highly. There are many, many law firms who's entire business model is built entirely only on taking no-brainer winning cases. Think injury lawyers. They may - perversely - have very low winning percentages, because 90-95% of their cases settle, and only the real squeakers get to trial.

Let's look at the inverse. Do you really need Quinn Emmanuel or Gibson Dunn if you have a slam-dunk case? Or do you need the best litigators around when your case is a total coin-toss? And, in that event, is it an example of bad lawyering if your crack-team loses because they are pushing the bounds of appellate advocacy?

The idea of judging 'law firms' without further taxonomic distinction, generally, by trial disposition is just - it is frankly idiotic.
Putting win percentages on gambling games is about as effective as putting lung cancer warnings on cigarettes.

Casinos don't care that they ruin some people, just like big tobacco doesn't care if most of their customers eventually die from their product, so long as the money changes hands first.
>> I don't think that ageism isn't a problem, I guess I just haven't seen it.

It can be difficult to see it for what it is because its most common form is as a bias, which can be very difficult to discern, even within ourselves. ( Daniel Kahneman and many others have done amazing work about unconscious / barely conscious biases ). I never saw it when I was younger because I didn't think about it; I didn't even know that it was something I should be thinking about.

I'm somewhat ashamed to admit, but I've felt it myself. I remember when I was still very young, maybe 20 years ago, we had a "much older" guy join my team at work. At first, I felt a pretty strong internal resistance to working with him, never mind that he was brilliant and deeply experienced... he didn't even play videogames! But he was funny too, and he taught me a hell of a lot. He managed to give me advice that really helped my career, plus he knew tons about money and credit and investments.

It took me quite a few years to realize that the 'internal resistance' I felt was solely due to his age. It's a good thing my Mom taught me to respect my elders. Those lessons have served me well.
I think it's funny to see the "all" term be thrown about so much - yes, I'm sure volume wise it's significant but across the model lines, it's really just - wait for it - two models.

Oh wow, the Fiesta!

Look, I'm being glib but until Ford decides to move its true cash-cows like the F-150 out of the country, I'm more inclined to deal with the nature of globalization in manufacturing in rational ways. Calling the move "inherently bad" is not my perspective. I remember when it seemed like Ford couldn't design and build their way out of the dark ages, and then, lo and behold, their European operations provided some much needed quality and design and production guidance and it stabilized a large section of their global footprint. Global companies have global concerns!
> You can use postgres for the 99% of your app that's CRUDy and, I dunno, cassandra for the 1% where it makes sense. It's difficult (although not impossible) to do that cleanly within a monolith.

That sounds exactly like the last two apps I have worked on. Django / Flak based with Redis for caching. Suddenly they sound like trendy hybrid micro-service apps.
How to handle errors in minified JavaScript (for Rails applications)
I'm fairly sure i've heard this answer and it would be after that falcon 1 launch that would have bankrupted the company if it blew up.
Rob Eisenberg (Aurelia's creator) is hired by Microsoft
Found it.

> Now the police dreams that one look at the gigantic map on the office wall should suffice at any given moment to establish who is related to whom and in what degree of intimacy; and, theoretically, this dream is not unrealizable although its technical execution is bound to be somewhat difficult. If this map really did exist, not even memory would stand in the way of the totalitarian claim to domination; such a map might make it possible to obliterate people without any traces, as if they had never existed at all.

-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
The real issue is that our devices discharge much too quickly, and take too long to recharge.

By increasing battery capacity, improving the efficiency of our devices, and lowering charging time, the inconvenience of charging during the middle of the day when heavy use is likely simply wouldn't happen nearly as much.
My latest hack is to return to paper and pencil. After going paperless about a decade ago, re-wiring these particular neural pathways is quite an obstacle in itself. But in terms of retention and creative flow it is unparalleled. I bring it up because I think the foundation for the memorization and repetition feedback cycle begins with elementary school lessons in handwriting, cursive, the alphabet and spelling. And then onto basic arithmetic and mathematics. The idea that "digital native" students would eschew hours of rote hand writing practice altogether puts humanity in danger of losing something elemental.
Care to elaborate on the methodology for how you pick companies? Does AngelList act like its own VC internally?
Same thing at SUNY Polytechnic (previously SUNYIT). Its been a few years since I left but when I was there all hardwired devices had a public IP address.
Is this really a phenomenon that is exclusive to Bay Area companies though?
> While not all cases go to trial, it is important to know what your chances would be at trial with that particular firm.

Read above to my last reply.

This is really a poor way to think about law firms.

Is the firm a toxic tort firm? Is it an appellate advocacy firm? Is it maritime law? Is it an intellectual property dispute? A business dispute?

Win percentages are totally meaningless without more information, including client-positive settlement rates.

This metric is totally useless.
Do they excel under the current one?
ever try a recruitment agency?
This is one of the reasons we (the U.S.) have judges and an appeals process. The legislature can then also act to clarify the laws such that they work in harmony or repeal one of the conflicting ones.
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
- François-René de Chateaubriand

I think that the so-called "work/life balance" is different for different people at different stages of life. This quote reminds me to pursue my vision of excellence as guided by my stage in life.
Or that neither won.
Haven't we moved on from pretending SSNs are secret or useful in any way? Now there's two factor authentication ("what's your favorite color?"), etc.

When I read that The Hackers have my SSN again I'm not really that worried having lost count.

But if we had a Federally issued Secure ID, when (not if) that got hacked I would worry a lot.
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Thank you for your insight. I'm starting a web app in Java and I'm trying to find a suitable framework. Play was my first choice, but it look like there's so much magic behind the scenes.

I'll probably pick Spring. What's the book that you suggest?

Also, what do you think of Spring Boot?
If I feel groggy in the morning, I'm also going to stick with the proven solution of going to bed at a more reasonable time the previous evening. But di and I are in the minority on this, I think. There is definitely a market for people who want to get higher, faster, when the double-shot of espresso doesn't quite do the trick any more, and when crushing up a caffeine pill in a coffee grinder before consuming the raw powder is still a bit too much.

So cheers to all you stimulant addicts out there for your new market option. You no longer need to ask a compounding pharmacist to do this sort of thing for you--unless, of course, there are other over-the-counter drugs you might want to take every morning, in imprecisely measured doses.
Naijafixer – Covering Your Webcam Could Safe You from Being Hacked – Naijafixer
Wonder if US auto workers took a page from French workers would US mfgs move production so glibly.
When they do, they need to apply for a US Social Security number.
You may be interested in this: https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-249.html
I didn't say otherwise. It's absolutely clear that ideas in Macintosh were inspired by PARC, just like ideas at PARC were inspired by SRI.

My complaint is about the assertion that "[Jobs] was inspired to base the user interfaces of the Lisa and Macintosh systems on Xerox's ideas", when the inspiration came before that visit, and was not due to Jobs.
Not sure if you're sarcastic. If not, what does Communism have to do with anything?
A movie quote.
Brushing before breakfast seems like a weird idea to me. The mint flavor of the toothpaste would ruin the flavor of what I'd eat and I would need to brush again after.

Did all of HN stop eating breakfast after this post?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11753668
Well, if you're okay with putting excess amounts of chemicals on your skin that are targeting your teeth although you may get enough from green tea, I'm not, and many others aren't either. I bought a chlorine filter for my shower, and all my dandruff and skin itching issues have disappeared, so, call it a conspiracy theory or whatever, but you can't beat the facts.
Misleading statistics about household incomes in USA
The iPhone 7 Plus won't be available in Apple Stores this Friday
Humans are social creatures. We try to find success by imitating people we know, or that we've heard about.

So harsh punishments can be effective. If people see that breaking a law usually results in bad outcomes then they'll often adjust their behaviour.
It's a Dr. Strangelove reference.[1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4XhhTF7vRM
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If your formula is simple enough, listing it on the box might be good marketing.

I really like the idea of caffeinated toothpaste. It is simple & brilliant and I hope you succeed with this.
Ask HN: Anything Like Kapa99 but for Ghostwriting?
Hi,

Kapa99 is a service which provides (nearly) unlimited graphic design tasks for a monthly fee.

Does anyone know of & can recommend a similar service but for ghostwriting? Like for twitter &/or blogs, etc.
Being honest, it is extremely hard to get people to sign up for something where they get penalized for inaction.
An "index fund" for early stage fund is extremely interesting.

Given their transparency to investments it's a very good combination.
Working for me. Looks like Archive.is has it already too: http://archive.is/yhSBN
The political segment of the US that would like Social Security to just be ended is statistically equivalent to zero people.
Yep. & at least in this case, the FDA involvement may have good reason. Fluoride is a poison, and detrimental effects manifest themselves in much lower dosages than caffeine.

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/814774-overview
The Mediterranean Valley would have been hella deep.
It's a simple non-solution as noise is not coming only from the fan. Yes, you're reducing one that's easy to eliminate, but the problem still exists.
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916)
Depends where you live. We spend more of the year running AC here.
ALLVM – deliver all software in a virtual instruction set
"I've never implemented monolith properly, so you should avoid them."
The income is not evenly distributed.
I fail to see how this is technology or startup related, and therefore appropriate to HN. Seems more political/financial so not a good choice for HN (especially frontpage).

(edit: for the downvoters... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
but do what you must.)
I would go further and say the culture fit thing is pretty much only for discrimination. It's what you say when you don't like the person but don't want to admit they can do the job. These days, if I talked to a coworker about a candidate and they gave me that line I would be I very suspicious.

The only thing that matters is if the candidate can do the job and get along with people. Everyone talking about "would I want to have a beer with this person" can fuck off.

I have seen the culture fit thing outside the bay, though.
Just because some areas of the law have changes in the regulations doesn't mean that the overall amount of regulation isn't increasing.

Consider that the tax code[1] in 1984 was 26,000 pages long. By 1995 it was 40,000 pages. And by 2013 it was 70,000 pages.

1. http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations...
The website you link to could use some proofreading as the grammar may lead potential users to confusion.
To that I agree. I wasn't talking so much about startups.
Admittedly a CEO(quite often a founder) there plays a much more instrumental role.
> Investors can buy a share of the fund, called the Access Fund, for $100,000 or more.

This is really interesting to me, but I wish it were at a $10k level. That would be a no-brainer shift for me to move some money going into Vanguard into this, but I'm in that weird spot where I'm not rich enough to have $100k to toss around but am maxing out a Roth IRA and looking for more upside.
Everyone has their own roadblocks when it comes to learning. Looking at my understanding of programming I realize I have put too much an effort on self-study (rote memorization) and not enough emphasis on interaction (especially with people).

As a child I was always able to memorize something- whether it be classical music, or formulas. However, the deeper connections in learning that allow you to proceed outside of your box come from something else. True understanding is greater than the sum of it's parts.

I like the adage- see one, do one, teach one. Memorization is a requisite for all of them, but true understanding and mastery comes when you're able to take abstract concepts and impart them to other people.

No matter where you are the easiest way to benchmark your competency is to share it with someone else. They don't even need to be an expert, after all- it doesn't take a air traffic controller to see that a plane's landing gear isn't down.
What is your ideas for these domain names?
Hey there,
What are your ideas of a website for domains like :
Allures.net
And
Urls24.com

It will be really nice to share some useful ideas,thanks
Your twitter / fb link is wrong