skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN,

I've just launched this small website to offer professional tutoring services on Bitcoin and blockchain technology in general. My selling point is very high quality education. I am not doing evangelism.

The HN crowd might not be my target market, but maybe some of you know potential customers? I bought some LinkedIn advertisements today, which was my first ad experience ever.

Your comments are more than welcome. How does the site look? What could be done better? Is the pricing an issue?

Thank you!
But the consumption is already taxed in Europe: out of that 4 euros, 80 cents goes to France immediately in the form of VAT.
We just rolled out Graylog as well. It's not quite as "console" as Papertrail (I use that as well)... but I prefer it. Few more buttons and nobs to turn, more graphs.

Overall, Graylog is a great "all in one" for collecting, storing, managing and reviewing the logs.
Gads, what a terrible background for an interview.
Feels like real estate. The move to IPv6 could be seen as a socialist land redistribution scheme, since it imposes a cost upon the entire system (by requiring network upgrades) in order to make cheap "real estate" continually available to the masses.
WW3 ISRAEL TO GET 38 MILL OFF BROKE USA
Anecdotally I concur. As I've gotten older beer hangovers have gotten much worse relative to other hangovers.
The Living Computer Museum is working on a 3Mb/s Ethernet gateway. I'm also looking into making one with a BeagleBone (which is why I've been looking at its PRU microcontrollers lately).
This is just a case study of law firm rankings in general. Popular law firm ranking systems use criteria that may not be relevant to your business. When ranking law firms, you should use a custom ranking system.
Boeing’s Humble 737 to replace jumbos for transatlantic flights
>Because they don't see that candidate.

>The important thing to consider in this is that none of these scenarios have anything to do with how qualified the applicant is.

I know this, which is why I kinda of have no faith in these kinds of initiatives (the kinds Elon is inadvertently/or not parading over) since most of effort involved goes into being seen, the people behind the "process" could care less of after such funds have been allocated as to what becomes of them. I've seen enough people do work behinds the scenes (and how far south/delayed projects go after they leave), actually making things happen for those who do go through the "process" in labs/orgs to not really care too deeply about getting through this hurdle that's ultimately meaningless in the scope of the work.

Things are moving forward overall, just a bit slowly than they have to (although I've made more related useful for stuff for others in less time after not working in labs directly anymore).

>The little information I have to go on makes it sound like you did the equivalent of applying for an engineering position at Apple by walking into the nearest Apple store and dropping off your resume.

I've talked about similar issues before on HN (with others also in similar positions with their work in research <-> industry) in more depth with more links and such, so its not really worth going into here.
The Feds will legally soon be able to hack everyone
We start from kops, but tweak it. Kops is great, except it's not integrated into the rest of your VPC etc. as 'old-gregg' suggests.

Or you could hire us, too. We do consulting/kube-as-a-service for folks in AWS/GKE :D (https://www.reactiveops.com).
Thats very much the same approach I take. As long as I can keep learning and expanding what I know, I don't think I will go to wrong.
This is the first I've heard of this - can you elaborate? Is the implication that there exist a fleet of "innocent"-appearing folks carrying vast swaths of money around? Are they identifiable as such?
These guys are sharing their initial dataset, though it seems limited and may be a recruitment gimmick: https://github.com/commaai/research
Ask HN: Any suggestion about server administration tool for solo developer?
Hi to all, I am a solo developer working fulltime for a company.

I am developing a side project that hope to launch before the end of the year. I have basic knowdledge of server administration, let's say just enough to be dangerous :).

I have set up docker-compose configuration for my dev environment with the hope to gain "agility" when I'll need to go in production.

I keep reading that docker is not for production, So I am asking.. what is the best tool for my kind of situation? What should I focus on learning ?
While we're on the topic can anyone recommend a system for rolling out (Java) applications across server farms that doesn't use containers? We have a bunch of shell scripts that are pretty horrible.

We could containerize, but we dont need that right now.
The problem isn't with the concept of SSNs. The problem is that everyone and their uncle asks you to disclose them yet we still have the delusional idea that they are secret.
It looks like Etsy's security team built this to replace functionality they depended on in Splunk that was missing in Elasticsearch. The slides don't make clear why they moved away from Splunk.
Fear
Then they shouldn't complain about Starbucks paying too little corporate tax. If they want more then raise VAT. It's nigh unavoidable.
Thanks. I simplified the statement.
I don't about "exclusive" but the very first time a "data structures and algorithms" question ever appeared in an interview I had was in the Bay Area, after having spent 10+ years on the east coast. Prior to that interviews focused almost exclusively on design patterns (not just OO, but general architecture), project experience, and language specific questions where appropriate. I've been here a while now so I have no idea what the interview culture outside the Bay Area is like anymore.

This area has a high density of people who conflate academic computer science with software engineering, or who think the latter is some easily learned demi-skill to be looked down on, etc.
Show HN: City Browser, an interface for filtering US cities
Hacker should have asked for immunity prior to disclosing criminal activity.
Anything stopping me from buying one of your $100k shares with an LLC that has multiple members?
BT already has a limited IPv6 rollout in progress[1], but the hardwares a big limiting factor (the early hubs definitely cannot manage it).

[1] http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/08/sky-...
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The best explanation is that they were starting to impinge on sales of the F-150 -- which is probably the most profitable vehicle ever produced by humans.
Do you love your product?
absurd hero worship. I like Elon Musk just fine, but you're fawning over him. How do you propose we nominate "great persons" for your "equation" anyway?
until june 25, 2011, after which it is now random:

https://www.ssa.gov/employer/randomization.html
That's why as a 40+ engineer I am always pushing myself to learn new tech. It's evening here in the UK, and while my kids are sleeping and my wife is catching up on her soap operas, I am just taking time out from learning GraphQL to see what's on here.
For the record, that book and its stories need to be taken with a grain of salt.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/597982078374817794

Not saying Musk's accounts of the events are perfectly truthful either. Great book though!
I had half expected the article to center around the dotnet-onbuild docker containers or something similar... Which for my few tests has been pretty nice... though not everything is docker friendly, or even works outside windows, but with the option there, I'm sure more apps will make the effort to support that type of deployment.
Or a great web site!
Are you seriously suggesting that 46% unrealized gains for a primarily illiquid equity portfolio heading into rate hikes is a good thing?

Unrealized gains are meaningless without liquidity.
That was fantastically thorough. If I still lived in SD I'd ask if you wanted to meet up for a pint. We even share an alma mater (Cal Poly SLO).

I couldn't have put it better myself. And thanks for pointing out that climate change is an issue. I got really, really tired of people saying "gee, this sure is an unusually hot summer. Just like the last one, and the one before that, and the one before that" and yet thinking of climate change as unsettled science. Before weatherspark got rid of their dashboard I could show them that summers in SD ARE definitively hotter than they have been in ages (though there was a hot stretch in the late 70's).
No they aren't. You would need to be qualified for and accepted into the uniformed services to get them. That pretty much disqualifies everyone the article is discussing, unless they have served already.
you should read some Taleb on this subject. ignoring low probability outcomes is not a good risk/success model.
It looks like in Los Angeles this could become a reality soon.
At least for a year:
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-garcetti-co...
Better to die in the gutter quietly I suppose. /s
As US auto makers adjust their manufacturing chains to squeeze more profits out..I wonder if there is not a stock play on US suppliers vs Mexico Suppliers?
NAFTA makes this possible.

But it's hard for me to see (in this case) the advantage of NAFTA for the USA. There are now 675,000 auto jobs in Mexico. The majority of that production is exported to the USA.

How does that help the USA? Do we really make it up in the goods we export to Mexico?
Neglecting social media almost killed our startup
Just as you learned to start counting at 1 like the rest of the world, you can relearn it easy enough. I don't have any problems using Julia's 1 based arrays. I always thought 0 based in high level dynamic languages was silly.
Jesus christ - I am not saying it myself... I am simply stating a FUCKING QUOTE that I recall the head of ALCOA saying to my dad when I was a kid!

God HNers...

I in no way gave any bias in the relaying of said quote.

I cant find him online, but this is his son (Jr.) with whom I used to work with when I was a teen: http://perkinswill.com/people/john-haymaker.html
Yes, indeed, i was agreeing with the parent. I should have perhaps made that clearer.
They no longer issue SSNs that way. Since 2011 it is now completely random.
I think ruby/rails are right there after java.
Definitely. You've got bankers robbing the public for trillions, and wars of questionable effectiveness costing five trillion over the last decade or so, and then you've got Elon taking very large personal risks in technology that could potentially have great positive impact on humanity, and yet he gets the same level of hate in the press.
Why do languages die?
"And the south isn't bigoted in the ways many people assume."

Only if there was some sort of a "survey" on people's attitudes in different parts of the country. Perhaps people with competing ideologies would represent one side or another and then the general public would decide to pick one of those choices to represent the majority view from that area. This way we'd actually know what a majority of the population in a given state/region believes.

Of course it would suck for the reputation of a certain part of the country where bigoted, white supremacist people keep getting the majority votes year after year, decade after decade. But I guess that reputation would be well deserved if those representatives keep winning so consistently for so long a time.
Amelia Earhart didn't die in a plane crash, investigator says
And Zen Internet
That's fairly normal these days. The combination of ipv6 + cgnat for ipv4 (carried over the v6) is called DS-Lite[0]. ISPs in asian countries have been doing that for years now european and american ISPs have been ramping it up recently too.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6333
> why isn't any other medical benefit made free and literally forced upon you like fluoride is???

Iodization of edible salt is commonly either mandated or subsidized by government, so fluoridation of water isn't the only intervention of its kind.
Crafting effective Microservices in Python
For those in the UK or with access to BBC iPlayer, Panorama just broadcast this reportage programme on fixed odds betting terminals which briefly mentions how they exploit brain chemistry in gambling addicts.

http://bbc.in/2cRJ9j0

It also speculates why there are suddenly so many betting shops clustering in UK high streets.

Spoiler: it's because the number of terminals per shop is legally limited and the bookies want to get a large number in a small area.
BULLSHIT!

I can damn well see when a issue has been entered in a bug tracker and when the bug has finally been marked fixed with the commit listed in the bug tracker..

So can everyone else including managers
I learned to read French with the book French for Reading. Perhaps the German version would help you. https://smile.amazon.com/German-Reading-Second-John-Wendel/d...
Node scales pretty well in my experience, out of the box performance on a single instance is pretty good... The down side is you need to factor in scaling sooner, as running multi-process takes some of the same techniques as scaling mutli-server... It just means if you need a scalable app, that you need to bring those bits in sooner, as opposed to starting off with single-server in mind... Of course, as I said single instance runs very well.
Distelli. It'll be a direct translation of your shell scripts to their format. I've had a great experience with them.
Ansible. It isn't perfect, but is far better than shell scripts for application deployment.
> Instead of microservices, I split my projects in tons of libraries and think of them as products, enforcing a well thought of and consistent api (usage api, not http one). I call that an atomized monolith.

There's already a term for that: modularity.
Note that a secondhand IP address costs $10 to buy, not $10/month.

IMO Postel's allocation of IP addresses can be rationalized from a capitalist viewpoint as a form of homesteading. Some people end up with windfall profits three decades later, but it's a small price to pay for a peacefully functioning market. Owning a $100M asset that's underutilized is already an economic incentive to free up addresses (just don't tell my company); a Georgist property tax on IP addresses would provide even more incentive but it would also likely cause a revolt.

Since there are going to be 4B devices on the Internet soon if not already, talking about "there would never have been a need for IPv6" seems to imply the existence of an address-less underclass.
Type Systems: Structural vs. Nominal Typing Explained
> at the end of the day, it inherits the attributes, methods and behavior, of the "muscle" class

Really, it inherits from the general "biological system" class, of which "muscle" is the common subclass referenced, since it's the one most people have familiarity in utilizing.

The differentiation of "muscle" from other "biological system" classes is entirely unrelated to the "use-it-or-lose-it" feature, however, and your subclassing is inappropriate.

While this seems like being pedantic, I'd argue it's important to know when we're using a member to exemplify a class versus when we're talking about the definition of a class.

The same use-it-or-lose-it applies to everything from lung capacity to stomach size to hormone production by organs, and is a good principle to know about how biology works. The emphasis on "muscle" as the class (rather than an exemplifying member) hides this underlying truth about all biological systems -- that they dynamically adapt to efficiency.
Thanks. She is OK but still has limited motion in her wrist and occasional pain.
Is this for real? I understand people want their caffeine hit but toothpaste seem a bit overboard.

If you can't live without it, why not just buy the pills and take a pill each day. https://www.amazon.com/Natrol-Caffeine-200mg-Tablets-100-Cou...

Careful, caffeine can be fatal. I'm surprised it's not regulated.
> If code is decoupled enough that it can be separated into independent processes communicating over a network, that creates additional freedom into how the components can be deployed to (real or virtual) hardware, which is itself a kind of decoupling.

It also introduces additional failure modes.
Use caps lock as a language switch
In Mark Manson's new book[0] he talks about how humans can excel at very few things, often barely one, and that "being a good person" for lack of a better phrase counts as one. It seems obvious in hindsight, but struck me because I hadn't thought of it that way before.

(The book is incredible, by the way. I've already read it twice, just like Derek Sivers. Recommend it highly.)

[0]: https://markmanson.net/books/subtle-art
The last time I checked node it was 0.12.* . How did it become 6.* in a couple years time?
> Our toothpaste gives you a quick caffeine boost that works as soon as you start brushing, even faster than coffee.

I read that caffeine in coffee form takes 15-20 min to be felt by the user. I'm curious how the toothpaste form works on the spot.
One good route to more senior / management roles is to be an architect. The problem with that though, is your spend more time with your node in microsoft powerpoint, then you do in an IDE.
Not an actual requirement, but a practical one. As in, if an eligible veteran applies they will get hired over you. I don't know what positions you have applied for, or how they compare to the positions the people I know applied for. One guy had a long string of "Eligible, Not Referred" rejections, or did until USAJobs was redesigned and they got flushed with the old database.
They adopted a different versioning system.
At present, the lab is studying the dynamics of bubbles and the Marangoni effect as they relate to the quality of beer foam, separating crude oil from water and the creation of unwanted bubbles in drug formulations, which can reduce the efficacy of a drug therapy.
As part of my tool - https://touchingbase.io - I offer something similar to this where our algorithm determines who you should get back in touch with. If anyone's interested, I'd be happy to show a demo.
There are plenty of people running Kubernetes on bare-metal. There are a number of resources out there for PXE-booting a Kubernetes cluster on bare-metal.

Might be time to take a closer look ;).
Like toothpaste? You actually think it's easier/cheaper to put it in the entire water supply vs handing out some free toothpaste?
$600,000 for a house in California sounds pretty cheap to me too. That's the price of an apartment in Toronto and even senior software developers here are lucky to clear US$80,000 a year.
Lived in Boulder County for 15 years until I got married and moved south of Denver.

Boulder itself has ALWAYS been expensive (even when I was in college in the early 90s) for housing. If you're serious about relocating, look at some less insane, but very close communities that the majority of the "Boulderites" live in:

NORTH:
- Longmont
- Gunbarrel

EAST:
- Louisville
- Lafayette
- Erie

SOUTHEAST-ish:
- Broomfield
- Westminster
- Northglenn
- Thornton

You can have a "reasonable" commute, and a less insane house price in those areas. They are all bedroom communities for the area... Personally, I lived in Louisville and Lafayette at least half of my time in the county (the other in Boulder proper, renting, always).

There are always options.
This is what I use. Other players include Puppet, Salt, and Chef
Seems like it, especially the KPCB Fellowship. Have a friend applying to the Facebook Product Manager rotational and she has recruited +20 current Facebook employees to recommend her.

The pressure is on.
I'm reading over the diff and this is a very interesting 9 line changelog.
I already knew about this, but it always blows my mind when I see it. Composite was magic. Dark magic, but still magic. Life is a lot easier today for us in film and video though, I would not like to go back except for nostalgia.
> "have you seen this question before" interviewing

I suspect that this was meant to refer to interview questions with an "Aha!" answer, that are unlikely to be answered correctly by people who don't already know the answer.

For example, I think, "How would you detect a cycle in a linked list?" is a bad question because, if the candidate implements Floyd's algorithm on the whiteboard, the likely assumption is that they remembered it, not that they came up with it on the spot.
What a great interview. Thanks for linking to it!
BRIN Indexes in Postgres 9.5
Assange agrees to serve prison term if Obama pardons C. Manning
A bunch of folks unhappy with Joyent's progress on node forked it into io.js, they had an aggressive release schedule, and then when the 2 project reunited, they chose to use io.js's versioning. (io was at 3.3; the new unified release was 4.0)
JetBrains' Rider is looking really good in private beta, too. The last e-mail they sent out mentioned that the public preview version will be out soon.
The question was directed at the speaker of the quote, I was only asking you because I assumed your recapitulation of it meant you believed it. If you didn't, my apologies.
As the market expands out into the dustier corners of the Modernist landscape and requires provenance for previously low-valued artists we'll see many more articles like this.
To me, it seems to refute the argument in the article: that AI has to have some kind of "will" in order to be dangerous. Because AI doesn't "desire" to take over the world, it can't harm us. I believe The paperclip example shows that isn't the case.
I believe the humanity moves on its way naturally anyway, those trying desperately to move mountains are simply wasting their lives here on Earth. A balanced way is a key to everything.
Thats a good point.

As i mentioned - this is NOT my thinking - I am literally quoting the head of the largest aluminum processing conglomerate in the WORLD on what he said to my dad.

People seem to be confusing his comments with my own... I have no opinion!

You should hear some of the fucking quote I have of John Herrington (sec. dept energy under reagan)....
I dislike Go intensely, but nothing else currently fits its niche as well.

For a large or complex codebase, I nominate Cloud Foundry. About 1.5M SLOC of Go (1.8M LOC) in the main cloudfoundry repos[0]. Almost all new development is in Go.

There's still about 370KSLOC (470K LOC) of Ruby. Eventually most of it will be replaced, which will drive that Go codebase up a lot.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal. Lots of my colleagues wrote most of that Go. I for one pity them, but they seem to have enjoyed it.

[0] https://www.openhub.net/p/cloudfoundry
Both mind hacks work or fail, depending on the person and their habits.
I pick my battles - I think a lot of the time I do choose to take the bold move but I'm also aware that just being self-aware of censorship and chilling effects doesn't keep me safe from the psychological impact of those efforts.

What is freedom anyway? Any attachment to external systems threatens it in my opinion. You work through the systems you're attached to and they limit you - for example - me posting my thoughts on HN or reddit is nearly pointless yet a lot of us a spend significant amounts of time chatting back and forth, thinking we're accomplishing something significant - so we're content with that and less likely to spread our message in ways that might have more impact.

I start to laugh at myself when I blame big corporations and shady nations for the mess we're in - but this is a system we ALL buy into. Blaming a corporation is like yelling at an inanimate object when you stub your toe on it. I gave up my smartphone - that's a tiny first step towards taking your privacy back - yet who here would actually do that?

just a thought though.
Not that guy, but I feel good in the morning.
> Do they eliminate based on degree?

Public sector work sometimes does, but lots of times has "or equivalent experience", and much more often than private sector work has clear and objective definitions of what is the "equivalent" alternative for particular purposes.
dang it i just installed 6.5 this morning