skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if this is considered bad practice, but I have uMatrix installed with noscript. I use uMatrix for script blocking and have noscript set to globally allow scripts, with ABE, XSS, clickjacking, etc protection enabled to cover the weak points of uMatrix.
That specific feature reminds everyone of Angular, indeed, but more generally speaking, Vue is a small framework, focused on the UI (vue-view, get it? :)) and if you use it with Vuex, you can end up with a reactive app very similar to one written in React/Redux.
It's a statistical anomaly
I'll admit I was playing devil's advocate with my arguments.

What I was trying to point out is that making a moral defense for EU freedom of movement (as many remainers did) is basically impossible without being a hypocrite. There are, of course, other reasons to defend it.

I find it an uncomfortable fact that almost all modern immigration policies judge people by where they happen to have been born rather than their personal qualities. People have taken issue with me using the word racist (I still think it applies, even if we're not strictly talking about ethnicity), so what's the correct term? Nationality-ist?
Kernighan, Ritchie, Thompson, Aho, Johnson, and other seminal figures at Bell Labs explain why they invented Unix. If I had watched this classic film in 1982, it might have altered the direction of my work in software development.
Why productive?
Maybe Thiel is pulling a Pascal's Wager on Trump winning?
Ask HN: Are there any tech companies in the Bay Area that offer private offices?
I’m wondering if there are any tech companies in the Bay Area that offer private offices to individual non-executive-level employees. I find that I am extremely unproductive in open office workspaces. I can never concentrate due to all the noise and visual distractions. Putting on headphones isn’t an option. Are they any places that offer something like this? Are private offices really such a rarity now?
That's iteresting. I was not aware of such a connotation - to me the term manifest destiny just meant "a destiny that can be clearly seen and that cannot be changed" [1]. Maybe the article's sub-editor was equally ignorant of 19th century US history.

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manifest%20destiny
The Deletion of gcj
Right, as I said, the bombastic claim of the title is hardly true but if you deduct that from the book it does claim the same as you: ordinary people with ordinary lives will break some federal regulations now and then. Peace :)
That's funny. I have never seen the ad, I think, because NoScript blocks it by default, can't imagine this self defeating practice yields any substantial income.
The amount of Redmond's astroturfing is ridiculous. One cannot even install one's appx on one's own machine unless one signs it with a real certificate. Even Sinclair ZX80 could do that. Appx cannot.
Good question! AWS is currently getting a mess for us.

We're facing an auto scaling spot instance bug (it's definitely one) and we're trying since 3 days to contact anybody from them to get our business back on to the road!

We're now forced to sign-up for a paid support plan. Nevertheless, they already breached the SLA of 12 hours, it's really frustrating...

First thought after 5 years of paying them a lot of money to migrate somewhere else (e.g. Google).

It's always ciritcal if you lose your customer contact by implementing strange support barriers to earn 3$ more.

A not anymore happy AWS customer
Postbox 5
I think the author was likely aware of that. YC wants, and will probably get, great power. But with great power comes great responsibility, and the potential to do harm as well as good. YC may succeed in "settling the West" (metaphorically), but at what price? That's one question it has to ask itself.
For instance, git has a notion of staging area (the index) where you collect the changes that go into a commit. In gitless, all changes to tracked files are committed. The index goes a long way towards making nice commits that can be understood by other team members, pass tests, etc.

Similarly, the stash that allows you to save your uncommitted changes before switching branches is also quite worthwhile.
No way. That's a deliberate choice of words and the parallel is actually pretty striking. From Wikipedia:

> In the 19th century, manifest destiny was a widely held belief in the United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America. There are three basic themes to manifest destiny:

The special virtues of the American people and their institutions

The mission of the United States to redeem and remake the west in the image of agrarian America

An irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty
And you give 30% cut from revenue. Nice played.
Doesn't seem true. Sounds like nerdy trash talk.
Moving the first live service to the Platform as a Service for government
Static analysis will require too many permissions because of limitations on the tractability of the analysis (the Halting problem). Instrumenting is more reliable for a minimal set but isn't necessarily complete.
Yeah, they're awesome and everywhere.

The name ORDNING means "order" (as in "the opposite of chaos", not as in "telling someone what to do"), by the way.
Announcing the Hardware Robot Operating System (H-ROS)
It all depends on how you configure it. I use it in 1st party allowed and all others white-listed approach.
Ask HN: Can we train a neural network to write code?
android.permission.BRICK'

I hope that doesn't do what I think it does...
Here’s what the Google Pixel could look like
Sam Altman is an inspiration and a genius. YC is in great hands.
Here's a post that tries to solve the geek vs nerd argument with Science!:
https://slackprop.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/on-geek-versus-ne...

P.S. The mandatory xkcd link:
https://xkcd.com/747/
Is that the old switcheroo you playing? No need to answer.
This site tracks events across GitHub to generate calming work music
The lazy susan is more south-east Chinese; you can find it everywhere but it's less common outside of the Fujian-Cantonese zone. It's also more common at big banquets in private rooms rather than normal restaurants, where perhaps one or two tables may feature it but others would have different fixtures or designs (smaller, square, rectangle, hotpot or grill-style with a hole in the middle, etc.).
I find it bothersome that basically any app could potentially portscan your network and sell the map.
Personal attacks aren't allowed here. You poison HN by doing so, and we want this place to be better than that. I'm sure you know that.

Please don't create accounts to break the site guidelines with.

Edit: In case anyone is confused, the parent comment has been edited several times. This has crossed into outright abuse, so we're going to ban the account.
What advantage does a A-port have over the current micro ports in a tablet? And now the new C port is slowly gaining more support, I bet the A-port will slowly vanish completely, or am I missing something here?
Things get complicated when one the applications decide to write to the shared data. Do you reflect the changes to the other container? How isolated do you wish to keep them? I mean at one point one should consider if they want to share these underlying resources, perhaps they should just be okay with running them as two processes.
CLI-spinners for the web
Pretty much the template to justify colonialism i.e "The current inhabitants are savages. They would do well with our civilisation and rule of law. We are the exceptional people to do that. If they don't want it... Well we can't have that sort of thing, can we?"

Sometimes it is blatant. See Congo Free State. The nominal justification was to bring civilisation and thus improve lives. Instead the people were enslaved in a state owned and controlled by private enterprise.
LXC/LXD is not fashionable.
Well, I suppose we're still at the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/54481-far-out-in-the-unchart...
Brace yourselves–source code powering potent IoT DDoSes just went public
USB-A port = no fiddly adapters etc.
Show HN: Configi – bloat-free configuration management
I can understand dang's comment. It was just my very first impression and it annoyed me but I agree that it doesn't add any value.

How should the extension work? Maybe a simple blacklist of fonts so the fallback font kicks in?
btrfs is the only file system that's ever lost data on me.
You meant: "Why using your initials is is a bullshit way to fix sexism".
To the Google Cloud Engineers out here : If I use GKE in your Frankfurt, London or Belgium DC, will I be subject to the Patriot Act,potentially allowing US government to look or take over my private data? If that's the case, I still prefer to go through all the big headaches of setting up manually Kubernetes on Swiss or French cloud computing offering, or on my own servers
AVX is a standardized x86 ISE proposed by both Intel and AMD.
Intel implemented AVX support with Ivy Bridge, AMD has implemented it with Bulldozer these 2 platforms are nearly 6 years old, is there an actual reason to drop support for AVX?
I think this would be more convincing if it were less acidic. If you really need to make a negative comparison between Altman and someone else, for example, literally almost anyone would be less distracting than Trump.

I don't have any insider knowledge, but I think YC is structured as a partnership, and I assume the other partners could throw Altman out if he were obviously screwing up.
Managing Google's Data Lake: An Overview of the GOODS System
There's a little company called Microsoft. Word on the street is they are averaging one new data centre a week now. Although a bit behind AWS they are exceptional at copying market leaders and are getting some good traction with folks like Adobe. </end sarcasm>

Seriously, worth a look if you need a solid alternative to AWS.
Intents are the best permissions system.
> If I'm so miserable that I've actively sought

You don't have to be miserable just to look for another job that will pay more.
This is neither here nor there: I'd never read about Sam Altman's sexuality before this article, but when watching him interview Mark Zuckerberg a few weeks ago on the making the future series, it crossed my mind and I wondered if he's gay. Something in the body language. A certain type of light on Sam's face. So reading this, I've loudly exclaimed to myself, "I thought so!"
Making Locality Sensitive Map Reduce Possible [pdf]
I've been working as a web developer for the past 5 or so years and am yet to see one that wasn't taken by senior management and even then it's only 2-4 of them. I don't think real estate companies have many available anymore. I'm sure it's better for them to say "this is a 100 person open-office" than "this fits 50 private offices". This is Australia so YMMV in the states.
The old Opera had javascript per-url white-listing built-in, and the same for the extensions, and I believe that the new Chromium based doesn't.

The Chrome extension also lacks what the old Opera had.
Supporting Dynamic Graph Algorithms for GPU [pdf]
"Your estimates of cost are totally incorrect."

Illuminate me.
Ah, the ultimate luxury... There is a long discussion on the benefits of private offices in Peopleware, which says that Microsoft has them (although this was 1999): http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67825.Peopleware

Recently, I heard of the "cave and commons" approach, which sounds more like it could be adopted by hip startups: https://hbr.org/2013/03/give-workers-the-power-to-choose-cav...
"Altman, who will personally oversee this initiative, believes [Startup School] is the fastest, easiest way to bring ten thousand new founders a year into the network."

In the YC scenario, once its network hits a certain size it ceases to become a useful network and is just the world.
AES-NI and AVX were proposed by AMD and Intel at the same time, and were introduced in the same generation of CPUs.
I have a strong feeling that they are interconnected.
Whoa...so she basically tried to blackmail you into declining the counteroffer? What the hell?
I continue to be impressed by the quality of The New Yorker's reporting. This is so far above and beyond most media coverage about Altman and YC.
This is the New Yorker. They mean exactly what they're implying, at least to a couple levels down.
Musk strikes me as an imaginative but a very rational person who deeply thinks about stuff, so this is confusing to me.

His argument that our world is most likely a simulation does seem logical given our current knowledge. However, breaking out of the simulation is completely another matter, more in line with Hollywood thinking than with anything that scientists can be engaged to do, at least currently.
I also have the same predicament as you, I simply _cannot_ focus in open office environments and I'm not even sure why so I can't curb the problem. I'm not sure if it's a feeling of being watched, or a feeling of uncertainty in my surroundings... or even if it's the possibility of being surprised/interrupted from behind.

Eitherway, I'm trying to push the idea of working from home- people aren't very receptive but after I've shown them I'm a good worker they'll be surprised when I finally get my wish and suddenly become significantly more productive.

the alternative of course is smaller offices for 3-6 people, I've only seen that in one place in my professional life and that was Nokia R&D in Helsinki where isolating teams was necessary for security reasons.

That was actually really nice.
"The missing circuit in my brain, the circuit that would make me care what people think about me, is a real gift."

I think that circuit exists and is functioning quite well. It seems to me there's a lot of glory embedded in YC's plans.
Surely it's up to the business leasing the premises to do the fit out?
Things Not to do when embedding a web server
Also the uptime on my kimsufi is 530 days, you're unlikely to get that with a VPS, or 'cloud instance'.
As far as I understand, the Doppler shift can't be used to measure the distances of the stars in the Milky Way, but it is used to estimate the distance of the farthest galaxies, billions of light years away from the Milky Way. My other post here has the links about the parallax, the method that measures the actual distances of the stars around us. And then there's the Cosmic distance ladder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder

which includes the methods you described.
And in terms of networking, I argued to Firefox OS that the standard Android/iOS style system-wide link-layer oriented network permissions are insane, and could be done better: https://bug945047.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=84072... This is well supported by smilliken's top two permissions statistics posted below, and nitrogen's point: "I find it bothersome that basically any app could potentially portscan your network and sell the map."
Security things in Linux v4.7
I use Mercurial as a client for git, using the hg-git extension. It works absolutely fine for my use case (small numbers of developers on github, mostly). There are a few rough edges when you want to do things that git doesn't like, like moving tags, and the bidirectional branch<->bookmark syncing isn't quite as robust as it should be, but it saves me having to touch git at all.
Could you support that with references?
I work in an office of 12 and it's a reasonable number.
My gaydar had already told me, but I did not know he was out. I'm guessing it's not easy at all being an openly gay VC within this small community in the Valley. Kudos to Sam, I already had a great respect for him; much more now. I hope he can disrupt minorities and bigotry too.
If you are located in North America, I would suggest looking at Storm On Demand [1] (the unmanaged offering of LiquidWeb).

They offer more bare services than AWS but they provide:

- Virtual Machines with many configurations available (on shared host or dedicated host)

- Private Cloud

- Private LAN with close to sub-millisecond latency

- Automated backup, snapshots

- API

- Load Balancer

- CDN (backed by Akamai)

- Block Storage (but I found it too slow for our needs)

- Different levels of managed hosting

LiquidWeb has even more options, but you usually need to pay for managed hosting (they throw in tons of free bandwidth though).

Support is really good: of course you sometimes end up speaking with someone who is clueless or overworked, but it is extremely rare and most support people are knowledgeable, helpful, and quick. We migrated a legacy VM with old cpanel and drupal sites and even though Drupal is not in their main expertise, they optimized the heck out of the configs and the sites are running twice as fast as before on weaker hardware.

Uptime is excellent: as opposed to Google or Amazon, they do everything in their power to keep the physical host and the VMs up and connected. In other words, they have a single host SLA (Amazon and Google's SLA only applies for multi-AZ outages if I remember correctly). They also built their own datacenters and are not collocating or renting someone else's datacenter.

Performance of their SSD VMs is better than Linode's and DO's VMs in our internal benchmarks.

If you need more than a few VMs, contacting Sales is a really good idea because they can make you some interesting offers.

The main downside for us is that they are located in central US so latency is not ideal for our eastern Canada customer base.

FWIW, we moved all our VMs from Linode to Storm because we lost confidence in Linode (DDOS, security, lack of transparency) even though the ratio performance/cost/reliability (in Newark, before the DDOS incident) was impossible to beat.

[1] https://www.stormondemand.com/
i think i've heard of the ideal of commons + private/quiet space too, if i recall that option is mentioned in peopleware too.

(anecdote: i am currently sitting in low cubicles in the middle of a huge open plan space, with a couple of neighbouring developers, we're surrounded by about two rings of people whose jobs involve talking all day. this is okay for days that descend into endless meetings / firefighting, but pretty nightmarish for work that involves thinking hard about anything)
Sharing Authorization Cookies Between ASP.NET 4.x and ASP.NET Core 1.0
Did anyone even read the article? They're opening the tech corridor in Canada due to Canada's "friendlier immigration policies" so they can import more workers from China and India, not to spread the difference. They complain about not enough tech grads from US universities, but the reality is they don't want to pay for them.

It is far cheaper and easier to import their labour force or offshore more jobs than it is to try to hire and pay "qualified tech grads" in the US.

The tech corridor has nothing to do with a tech corridor per say, and more to do with Canada's lax immigration policies. They used up whatever h1b they were alotted in the US and now want to use Canada's more lax immigration equivalent.
Golden quote:

"Launching a startup in 2016 is akin to assembling an alt-rock band in 1996 or protesting the Vietnam War in 1971—an act of youthful rebellion gone conformist."
For most apps, can't you just keep the config files on e.g. dropbox?
That same confusing document also lists 'Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)' as a feature that doesn't exist on Pro. Is having Hyper-V sufficient? What actually is the 'App-V' feature listed? (It comes in a 'management' section, so it is unclear if it is about managing apps or just letting them run in the first place).

Still very confusing...
I did a quick search of the site and couldn't find any information on pricing.

Is it one of those things where if you have to ask, it's too expensive for you?
I am using a few dedicated servers and Rancher (container platform). This way it is magnitudes cheaper than AWS and probably as easy to use. You can also avoid "cloud lock-in" when you start like this.
What about using the post-kitkat Storage Access Framework and adopting the user-granted permission to access removable storage? That is, once your user manually grants access to a file or directory (in android 7) using the file/directory picker built into Android, your app can keep that permission for later and use it whenever it wants.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/document...

They also made a video explaining how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C28pvd2plBA

Info about scoped directory access in Android 7.0:

https://developer.android.com/training/articles/scoped-direc...

Incidentally I didn't see READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE or WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE in the list.
Yes. Nim can be used for system libraries, server and client side applications and runs on small microcontrollers.
So you never paid for their support or had interaction with a account manager?

Sounds like you had blind trust on your "partner" instead of building connection and paying at least for business support.
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zFK8UNR...
GCJ was deemed obsolete in 2010, amazing that it was still around until now...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3032727/java-jre-vs-gcj

Did anyone used GCJ for something in production?
I think Google Cloud Platform looks solid. Their alternative to EC2 is Google Compute Engine.

If you want stuff taken care of for you, Google App Engine is great. I'll note that I haven't deployed anything to production, only played around with it for fun. The flexible environment is still in beta, so it doesn't provide any SLAs. For a large serious production project that's a big factor to consider. If it's a small app, I think the "magic" is worth it. But I've only hacked together toy node APIs for SPAs.

For data storage, Cloud Datastore looks great. If it seemed to fit my problem, I'd probably go with that. The big problem with that is vendor lock-in. It has an emulator for testing and development. If you had to migrate away from it, I think AppScale [0] has an open source alternative, but I'm unable to vouch for its quality. If I were creating a serious long-term project, a Postgres instance on RDS would probably be my other choice. Google has Cloud SQL, but my experience with MySQL hasn't been as pleasant as with Postgres. I don't know how they compare "at scale".

In my job we use AWS in production, and I've slowly learned my way around it. I'd say I'm still a total beginner with AWS. Although I've only used GCP "for fun", from my limited experience and my perspective as an application developer, it seems more easily approachable / accessible.

[0] https://github.com/AppScale/appscale