skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The failure of the Mars Climate Orbiter usually stars in hallway discussions on types or notation. This article shows a long chain of failures far more subtle than the punchline to which it's relegated. Design failures in the beginning led to untracked course translation during what was supposed to be rotation-only maneuvers. The infamous units of thrust issue between JPL (newtons) and Lockheed (pounds force) was certainly an issue, but from the article it doesn't seem to be the primary cause of failure. And finally management defaulting to an everything-is-ok attitude and ignoring the nervous input of the navigators meant that when evidence was building that something was wrong, it was ignored.
When I heard about AMP, I didn't get warm fuzzies. I didn't exactly know how or why, but something told me that the main benefactor with this technology was Google, not the user, and certainly not the content provider.

I can make pages faster without AMP by stripping the needless bloat and using a proper CDN. Why do I need this tech again, besides the artificial goad of page rank?
I was referring specifically to this:

> The 'actual problem' seems to be in the selection/delegation process.
Studying the Internet Censorship in South Korea
Better than any of these: R plotting with rpy2.
I personally see elm + phoenix becoming the next mega stack. They are both very elegant, and performance-wise there's hardly anything better.
matplotlib: The 800-pound gorilla — and like most 800-pound gorillas, this one should probably be avoided unless you genuinely need its power...

Hmm, I never even considered that matplotlib was some sort of high-end powertool. At least not when using the old-fashioned MATLABish API. If the advantage of the competition is that they are supposed to be easier to use, then I will stick with matplotlib.
A Tesla road trip on the Autobahn: Being part of the future
It's up to you to make your containers bloated or keep them slim. You can use the alpine versions of the official Dockerhub images. Python on Alpine is 30 MB (vs 267 MB for the debian one). https://hub.docker.com/r/library/python/tags/

You can create containers that are just a few MB with compiled languages like Go (5 MB). https://www.iron.io/microcontainers-tiny-portable-containers...

From the article: "Rather than starting with everything but the kitchen sink, start with the bare minimum and add dependencies on an as needed basis."
> We are doing a fairly large Elm app right now. And especially the refactoring reasons and static type system are appealing to us when you work in a team.

Do you miss this in the backend with Elixir?
Jail had no marketing hook. It's a very negative word. I'd guess that's Probably the major reason.
Weak virtualization often lacking security, resource metering/prioritizing/quotas. Hurray, zombie Docker instances needs a whole VM reboot yet again, still not fixed in several years. But look how fast I can deploy millions of containers without SELinux, monitoring, HIDS, SDN, billing, live migration, backup/restore/DR/data lifecycling and all the other things we just pretend to ignore when throwing away sensible production VMs on Type 1 hypervisors devopsec.
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How to find deleted texts?
How one young startup is disrupting the P2P lending market
A quick public service announcement from the UK: prepare yourself mentally for when you receive the news that Trump has won. It's a blow that you'll want to ease.

None of your friends are ignorant racist xenophobes. Nor is anybody in this forum or on the bits of facebook and twitter that you follow and therefore regard as "everybody."

But more than half the people are. And as England learned recently, when everybody votes, the majority tends to win.
I still use docker-compose in development even with k8s in production. I recommend you checkout kdm (recently released in k8s 1.4) which will help you setup a cluster on a single node in less than 5 minutes.

As for time investment, k8s is kind of an all-in-one solution. It will take care of rolling updates, container restarts, monitoring so you won't have to roll your own solution. It will definitely improve your workflow. Kubernetes also takes advantage of declarative configuration files so it's super easy to bring up a new cluster somewhere else by just applying your config files again.

Also, Kubernetes is a good investment because it's not tied completely to Docker. Whatever container technology reigns supreme in the future should work with k8s no matter what.
A Look into Chile’s innovative startup government
Keeping your fingers wet will also prevent the mechanism from working.
I hadn't seen SCION, but just read through the FAQ and skimmed some of the Apr 2016 whitepaper. It doesn't appear to address centralization. For example from their literature: "SCION only assumes that a few top-tier ISPs in the isolation domain are trusted..."
Sounds like it's trying to solve many problems, but centralization isn't one of them.

I wish them well, it's good to have lots of people working on this from all angles.
Very interesting. Growing trees "leaf-wise" is more intuitive in my opinion.

That said, I don't see a single equation on that page. Is there an Arxiv paper or something behind this?
http://www.pitofwar.com is an online browser game I created that targets a niche audience who likes strategy/simulation/text heavy style games.

EMAIL LISTS

When I first launched I had two email lists I used. The first was an email list I had laying around from an older game I had created many years prior. The second email list I stumbled upon for an old game with some similar mechanics to the game I was creating. I composed two sets of emails and sent them out to the lists. For the list of my old players I re-introduced myself and told them about the game. For the second list I started the email off with a sentence that said something along the lines of "this is a one time email, I will not email you again unsolicited. You are receiving this email because you may be interested in a game I've just created...". Those two emails got me my first 200 players.

ONLINE FORUMS

After that I found some gaming forums and asked the mods if it would be ok if I posted a message about Pit of War and they were cool about it and said go ahead. That style of marketing grew the player base again. I had a friend who was the mod for a high traffic web master forum and he made a post in their "off topic" section that helped get some more traction.

TWITTER

He also knew a handful of folks with a good number of Twitter followers and asked them if they'd make a tweet about Pit of War and they were kind of enough to do that for free to help me out.

PAID ADS

I tried Facebook ads a number of years ago and they weren't very effective, however, I'm told they are much better now. I may try them again in the near future. I then turned to cpmstar which is an ad network dedicated to games. This proved to be very good with the CPA (Cost per Action - which in my case is someone clicking on the ad and then signing up for the game) being much lower than the LTV for a player gained through this channel so I focused on that for awhile. CPA prices have gone up a lot since I started and there are many more games out there competing for the same eyeballs so this channel has started to wane but is still acceptable.

DEVIANTART & FACEBOOK

Using DeviantArt and Facebook I would upload some of the art from the game which would get shares and more eyeballs which helped increase exposure and player count.

WORD OF MOUTH

I asked my friends and family to try the game out and if they liked it to please share it with people they think might like it as well.

Hard to pick a best because each channel contributed. Having said that, the initial email lists and paid advertising via cpmstar were crucial for the success of the game I believe.
Navinder Sarao to Be Extradited to the US, Faces Up to 380 Years in Jail
Not really - Linux package management systems do exactly that.

The magic - if there is any - is to combine it all together; separation, discovery, relatively easy packaging and dependencies.
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Thanks for that. I'll take a look tomorrow.
Seems to me like whichever "state party" this was didn't consider the implications behind their actions. Wikileaks has released insurance files in the past, and I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't, automatically or not, trigger a dead man's switch for more leaks.

If you're a state party trying to prevent leaks, silencing Julian is probably the worst way to go about it. It would be arcane not to think of this scenario and plan for it.
I agree with #1, but #2 is often used to defend under investment in a project. 15 years ago it might have been an adequate solution, but the lack of adequate maintenance and improvement is what makes legacy today.

I'm also amazed at what some people consider a "functional system". Frequent downtime and developer/support intervention is not what I'd consider functional, but for many business it is.
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In the two party system that we have, when you propose "running the other way," you're actually asking people to vote for Trump instead. Donald does not even meet the bar for semi-decent human being, let alone presidential candidate. It doesn't matter what your concerns are with Clintons' politics or potentially shady dealings, they pale in comparison to the alternative. I would love to move to a parliamentary or multi-party system where we have more choices than between Clinton and a human dumpster fire, but this is the hand we have.

I've purposefully written this comment to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't think your comment through, rather than that you support Trump and also missed the minimum requirements for human decency. Unfortunately, this election was never about politics. It's been a battle between decent humans and hateful cowards. As a result, it is important to call out anybody who attempts to normalize Trump's behavior and treat him as a viable candidate.
I'll bite: p-values attempt to measure "Given the null hypothesis, what is the probability that we obtain a more extreme result than we actually did?". What we actually want is "What is the probability of the null hypothesis given the data?". If we are to use p-values successfully to determine truth, then by Bayes we must use prior probabilities somewhere. Discovering p=0.01 is not very helpful when your prior probability was 0.001.
Rodger Stone (who may have back-channel communications with Wikileaks staff [0]) shared two tweets suggesting that this might be US backed action. Note these tweets are still unconfirmed. At time of writing I have not yet seen this information corroborated elsewhere.

1) "John Kerry has threatened the Ecuadorian President with "grave consequences for Equador" if Assange is not silenced @StoneColdTruth" [1]

2) "Reports the Brits storm the Ecuadorian Embassy tonite while Kerry demands the UK revoke their diplomatic status so Assange can be seized" [2]

It really does make me wonder what documents Wikileaks might have that could make US diplomats so riled up.

[0] http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/roger-stone-back-chann...

[1] https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/787858612844695552

[2] https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/787863160149598208
There's nothing wrong with guessing an answer. What's horrifying is that the students actually try to solve it mathematically rather than just making up a guess. And they stick with it even if the results are unreasonable (one student guessed 625, for instance.) According to the article the students didn't even try ask the teacher if the question was misprinted or something.
It's a Long Read, an in-depth article (split into chapters!) about an incident that happened a while ago & how the company has been dealing with its aftermath over that time. It's the sort of article that used to sell on the Kindle store as a "Kindle Single" for 99c.

The Cliff Notes version is that sales at Chipotle are down 30% - but if you're looking for "news" or "Cliff Notes", this isn't the kind of article you would be interested in.
No sorry, no idea. But I do know that the farmers are less affected by the food shortage since they have what they need on their land. The increased crime rate is a problem for everyone of course.
Hugely agree - this feels like a dark pattern callback to one of the early web's uglier constructs.

I mean - running a "we'll host your page for you in exchange for injecting a toolbar" service isn't necessarily an evil thing to do. But there's no reason to opt people into it just because they're tying to perform well on mobile.
If your app is a compiled go binary (so, it runs anywhere) why do you need a container?

The whole point of containerisation is to group installed dependencies (as opposed to installable dependencies like with a regular deb or rpm package) and configuration into a 'black box'.

If your binary is already a single-file distribution, why lump it in with the crapfest that is docker?
Doesn't help. As long as European stocks are being traded the transactions are taxed.
You might like LeechBlock:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock/

I really like it, I just haven't come around to configuring it yet...
> It comes down to the pride and/or obligation that employees feel to keep the place clean

From the article, quoting a Chipotle worker:

"Why do we earn almost the same as McDonald’s workers when the care we put in is 20 times what they do?"
Of course, I know that.

I still don't understand why you're suggesting journalists have a status different to that of Tom from down the street.

From whence doth their rights come forth?

I think most of the population puts journalists somewhere between rat catchers and dog walkers. Somebody has to do it I suppose but I don't like them putting on great airs.
Well, it does help them -- it promotes their content ahead of those without AMP, and it still allows ads to be served from an approved ad network of the author's choosing [1].

As I wrote before, it's "more of a mutually-consented handholding with small amounts of arm-twisting" [2].

[1] https://www.ampproject.org/docs/reference/components/amp-ad#...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12299230
Do you believe parapsychology exists? That's essentially not falsifiable by adding the clause "you have to believe it for it to work".
Except if their employers need people maintaining the legacy systems using the legacy technology. Then having people there who know nothing else is highly beneficial, since they're unlikely to quit.
> do they not grasp that being unable to explain the cause of the illnesses keeps people away?

Well, yeah. I'm sure they do grasp that. They also grasp that there's no way of knowing what caused it, and that lying would be immoral and unwise.

> I'd feel far more comfortable with Chipotle if they could definitively say, "It appears uncooked cilantro in our rice was harboring E. coli; we've changed how we prepare that item and believe the problem is fixed."

The reality is that it was some bit of fresh produce, it could have happened to anyone, it does happen to everyone (McDs, Burger King, KFC, etc have all had E. coli outbreaks, and will again), and they've made some changes to reduce the risk, but not to zero because no kitchen in the world, private or corporate, has a zero risk of food-borne illnesses.

> What if people aren't sick from bacteria in the food

Then you'd see a radically different pattern of infections.
Y Combinator has no problem with partner Peter Thiel funding Donald Trump
Well, I guess that's one way for a state actor to confirm the leaks are real...
These hand-wavy explanations that constantly avoids explaining how things work at low level are not adequate.

Here's short explanation for developers even with moderate understanding of how OSes work:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16047306/how-is-docker-di...
Ever tried on a glass table ?
If that state party is Ecuador, I'll laugh out loud.
There is livecoding.tv also. (I'm not related with the project).
I try to burn the candle from all five ends.

> * I'm tired/fried and not able to think clearly

Keep up with your health - eating well, exercise, and sleep are all things I could do better at myself. Taking some breaks, too, can help - a walk to the coffee shop (I don't even drink coffee!) can clear the mind, or give you a chance to chat with coworkers (if you invite them along). Sometimes they'll bring a fresh perspective to your problem, and sometimes their problems give you a break from your own.

While I hate exercising for the sake of it, I've gotten pretty good at walking to lunch - especially if it's with coworkers.

> * ...

A lot of these seem to fall under a general category of task management. Breaking things down into smaller steps, prioritizing - or just plain picking one specific thing to work on - getting external feedback or prototyping... lots of stuff out there, different things seem to work for different people.

Most recently, I'm thinking of going back to TDD just for the sake of really helping push the "break things down into smaller steps" angle. Failing tests? Pick the one on the top of the list and fix it. No failing tests? Add a test that fails. Indecision paralysis for what test to add? Make even a poor choice if necessary, and refactor later. Perfection is the enemy of good enough.

> Anyone else find they procrastinate for reasons another than a habitual need to check e.g. reddit/HN?

It's usually not even that I want to check reddit/HN, it's that I'm unmotivated to work on whatever I'm procrastinating on. At work, this isn't a problem - I'm motivated to earn my pay, contribute to the team, generally get things done and kick ass. The problem for me is at home.

I've read a ton about motivation for tips and tricks with limited success. Although I have had some luck with the concept of "precommitment" as a form of generating extrinsic motivation - in the form of weekly bets with coworkers, for things we'd plan to do over the weekend. Fail to meet your commitments? Owe your buddy a coffee ;). Bonus points: It really forces me to realize just how bad I am at task duration estimation. Fortunately (?) so are my coworkers.

I've also noticed that, as a means of distraction, for me the internet seems to be particularly insidious. It's an infinite stream of content, where there's always something new. I've had some minor success with playing games instead. More enjoyable, and much more finite - both in the sense that games can be completed, and in the sense that I'll eventually get properly bored, at which point I'll be much more motivated to do something productive.
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Not likely. Mice have accuracy of 400-1200 dots per inch (DPI). A motor's shaft is a small fraction of an inch, and mice can lose track on occasion.
You are correct in that the rhetoric used regarding Bush was in retrospect overheated, though it cannot be forgotten that George W. Bush is a literal-not-fictional war criminal by most reasonable readings of international law; Bush was by no means even a mediocre politician but ranks comfortably in the bottom ten of American presidents, ever. He earned every drop of rancor he got.

Trump is a difference of kind, not degree. He is an overt white supremacist and anti-Semite (and not in the "don't agree with Israel, AIPAC says you're an anti-Semite" fashion but the actual, "happy to imply that Jews secretly run the world" anti-Semite position). He has admitted to sexual assault on tape and tries to discredit those with claims against him by implying that the women in question are too ugly to assault. He is actively attempting to undermine trust in American elections by claiming that all of the polls are lying and that the only way he can lose is that the election is rigged. He is the venal id of the reactionary right and he is different from anything that came before. These are not things that have been done even by Republicans. They are not merely things that can be waved away with muddy gray-fallacy middle-ground thinking; that Trump's candidacy is credible in the face of the literal daily drop of another crime or another attempt to undermine the electoral system in which he is participating is an incipient threat to that system.

This is not a game of Internet gotcha-fallacy where victory goes to the first person who can quote a bit of Latin they don't understand, but it's not an "ad hominem attack" in the first place. It is a moral argument to character. People aren't saying that arguments made by to Trump or Trump's supporters are invalid because they're blisteringly incurious, profoundly ignorant, sexist, white-supremacist assholes, they're saying that Trump and Trump's supporters are abjectly terrifying and blisteringly unqualified to be anywhere near the levers of power to a degree heretofore unseen because they are blisteringly incurious, profoundly ignorant, sexist, white-supremacist assholes. What they are is why the argument is made.
As a former "left-anarchist" I'm familiar with this sort of story. We had similar stories of left-anarchist utopias from (1) pirates (2) partisans in the Spanish civil war and (3) various "workers collectives" throughout history. None of them lasted and most collapsed due to internal problems not being crushed by the nation state.

What has been shown to work in the long run, is Western democracy.
I'm kind of sad that from the email over 2 years ago:

"1. Set 7 is out and, if you finished Set 6, you'll be getting Set 8 (Elliptic Curve) sometime in the next few weeks."

Oh well, 2 years later I can still do them :)
Don't underestimate the ability of intelligence agencies to lack it ...
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Isn't something roughly like this the premise of Stephen Baxter's manifold trilogy? Idk, it's been awhile...
The vast majority of stock trades are just trades between two parties (neither of which is the company) that believe different things about the stock. I agree that HFT doesn't generate much value, but by this metric, neither do any transactions besides IPOs.
Hug of death :-(
Working on getting Cloudflare up
I doubt it's back channels (Wikileaks has repudiated that before: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782963650579529730).

Rather I'm guessing it's just speculation based on fact the John Kerry is currently visiting the UK.
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> given their expense I won't be back

I wonder if that's part of the company's problem, that the E-Coli incident just gave people a reason to rethink their habits? I used to eat a lot at a similar burrito restaurant in Australia, but something happened to make me realize I was paying twice as much for a meal there than I would at Subway, and for all the burrito restaurant's "healthy food" claims I was starting to put on weight, so I stopped eating there.
> can you imagine if every site that linked to yours had a bar at the top of your page that said "back to facebook" or "back to wikipedia"?

I saw a site do this yesterday. It was so noticeable because I only permit same-origin JavaScript and the whole site broke (most actually work).

Then I realised there is an intermediary providing this service:

http://linkis.com/

It is the worst of all things.
Plans and procedures are only as good as the managers and employees who implement and abide by them... or fail to.

My favorite fast-burger chain used to be Carl's Jr. Then, one day, I noticed an employee dip her hands into a bucket oddly situated on the counter behind the registers. Over time, I realized that the same bucket was always there, and employees would dip their hands in there when coming in from outside, the restroom, etc.

I then realized that they were doing this in lieu of washing their hands with running water.

I never went back.

The other two Carl's Jr. in the area are gone now, after decades of operation in their locations.
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