skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] I am working with a database that has to have a lot of things configured -- one of them is how big the buffers should be, which is a function of how much RAM you have, which in turn depends on the kind of AWS instance my product runs on.

Which has nothing to do with the configuration format itself, it only needs
some knowledge when building config files. It can be achieved as easily with
a simple template (that doesn't understand the config it produces!), only
supplied with information local to the system the config is going to work
under. The easiest way is to build the config from a template on the system
it's going to run, but masterful Puppet with its facts database can do it on
the side of commanding server as well.
Does scoping make every tech project better?
You ignored the second half of my comments, which is that the other $10 billion of their profits are directly dependent on the commercial viability of glyphosate, no matter who sells it.
And then go door by door to 100+ apartments in any one building?
If Spotify's networks are all down, what good would a functioning DNS do?

(And I know it's not that simple, but that's probably the basic reasoning behind it.)
Could you clarify why you think not voting in person is a problem?
If someone sent me an email equivalent to this blog post, my sole recommendation would be ProxMox running OpenVZ. OpenVZ gets you 90% of the way to Docker-style containers without breaking anything for her developers.
The ad makers are people too, for now. One would assume they would get wise of the stigma of having ads plastered on your face and would try to create commercials in different styles and formats that are more subtle/interesting than the banner ads we're all accustomed to.
Literally every single person I know that's voting for Trump (and there's a lot of them) has no problem with same-sex marriage, or any other LGBTQ issue for that matter. The people voting for Trump are the people voting

1. Against corruption

2. For specific values of the Republican party, primarily these three things---in no particular order: (a) lower taxes, less government (b) tighter immigration (c) preservation of conservative culture and the constitution.

I am a bleeding liberal when it comes to almost all social issues. But I share the GOP's principles as they relate to fiscal policy and the boundaries of the government.
There is no absolute threshold it is more a matter of whether or not you could argue that your decisions would have been different had you known about it.

That leaves a lot of legal wiggle room.
Thanks for sharing your story.It's inspiring!
Thanks for taking the time to put together such a lengthy answer detailing how the Apple ecosystem might collapse and providing some guidelines on how they might be measured.

I'll clarify what I meant in my first response. I understood mamon to make this claim[0] (clarified by teh_klev[1]):

If Apple removes the function keys and includes Polaris GPU in the MacBook Pros, it will be the "last nail in [the MacBook Pro's] coffin".

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12799089
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800446

There are lots of vague claims forecasting the demise of this or that without any kinds of specifics. Given a long enough timeline, things do go downhill, so without those specifics, it's easy to claim to be validated.

I'm going to look at your response through that lens. And I'm going to be a pedantic, as that's was my initial intent. If that's not how you interpreted my comment, I won't be offended if you correct me :) And if the pedantics don't interest you, that's fine, too. I'm not going to pursue this thread any further following this comment (though I reserve the right to thank you if you take the time to respond :)

"At some point," -- Validated any time in the future if MacBook Pro sales slip in some way (market share, in comparison with some other product, profit, revenue, units shipped)

"Mac line will be on life support for a few more years, marketshare continuously shrinking until Apple stops updating the product line entirely,"

So, can we measure this as true if Apple no longer releases new personal computers (desktop or laptop) after October 2019? Only MacBook Pros?

"shifting to release only security updates"

Valid if: After October 2019, Apple no longer releases a new major version of macOS (e.g., 10.10, 10.11, 10.12).

"shifting to release only security updates"

it'll stagnate a few more years before Apple stops Mac sales entirely."

Valid if: After October 2022, Apple no longer sells laptops or desktops.

If you'd like to change the values -- or even the statements--, please go ahead. That's really all I'm getting at. Something substantive and measurable.
I doubt any auto dealer's sales person will gamble to let a customer know that he should not buy the car right now and he should wait for later...they have bonuses to collect, and the faster they move old inventory the better bonuses are.
So we launched this today and the core thesis is that the issue most non-tech founders have is not knowing what to build or how tech generally gets built (outside of scrappily testing ideas, of which tech is sometimes, not always, a part).

Does that gel with your personal experience?
> I will never understand why this is such a point of contention on HN

Because people keep trying to disguise penny-pinching stinginess as "collaboration" when it's proven time and time again that it doesn't work.
Aliexpress.com or eBay.com are your friends. Free shipping from China usually at aliexpress.com
I mean this just became law. Shouldn't we wait a bit for things to shake out before taking such hardliner stances?
There are far better arguments to make than "good lord, the women and children!"
The form and function aren't replicable. When you work on a cintiq, the cintiq is on your table and you often have to keep looking up and down at the screen on your monitor. It's not the optimal way to work. The engineering is in the hinge and the form factor. You're not the target market if you want a beastly computer that can run a bunch of games. It's the same people who use a cintiq and an iMac that they're targeting. It's not just looks. It's having the thinnest panel with high color accuracy. It's having novel interaction paradigms with a dial. This isn't a desktop built for someone who builds their own computers. It's for the person who uses illustrator and photoshop daily and works on an iMac and a cintiq.
I was surprised at how relatively cheap the prices are. A 48"x72" oil painting for $279 base is at least half of what I would have expected. Pushes me to want to make a purchase before the prices inevitably have to climb as demand overtakes the scarcity on the production side.
On a higher level, software is part of the supply chain. The only difference is that the vendor is a internal business unit.
The person's search should be shareable as a search token instead of JSON.
SMS: Your nuclear missile is running low on (Hydrazine) press your Amazon Dash button to purchase $1M of replacement barrels and have it shipped to your silo today!

SMS: Your warhead is getting old. Purchase a new Uranium cartridge from HP for $100M dollars.
They're still making those crazy designs in Asia.

You'll have to import them.
Sure. I don't like kanban.el much.

After a lot of though, I had a little epiphany. Vanilla org-mode is great as a kanban as long as you don't try to visualize it as a table. One should use an outline instead. org-mode is an extension of outline-mode, so this should not be surprising.

Then everything is simple. Create custom states (I have TODO, PROG, WAIT & DONE). Agenda commands show you summarized views of the kanban. You can customize stuff with a bit of elisp, but org-mode as it is works great.

Note the outline version of a kanban is still 2D, as a table, but strictly more powerful (as you can nest tasks, add text) which would be next to impossible in a table.
Companies that take their customer's privacy seriously should be lauded, not condemned.

Depends on whether the activity they're engaging is legal or not.
$129 is pretty cheap nowadays, you can get a Google Home for that price.
> What is the motivation and benefit for running containers without docker?

I believe that Docker bet the company on the wrong business model. Therefore knowing that you can run containers without Docker can be desirable, as it gives you options in case Docker turns out to be not viable.

Docker made it easy to build and run containers from the command line. This technology was released at the right time and in the right place. And it got huge traction. Docker used this traction to get a very large amount of VC capital. Therefore they now need to show a very large return.

How do you go about achieving that large return? A common way to do this is to use one piece of technology that is popular as an anchor to lock customers into an entire stack. And then you monetize the stack, which is easier as it has higher value. The technology in this case is the container runtime, and the stack would be an full enterprise grade container orchestration system.

This strategy worked for others. Microsoft was a master in this. VMware as well, and so is Oracle. The reason I believe it will not work for Docker is:

1. The anchor technology is open source. Microsoft managed their lock-in via Windows, VMware via ESX, Oracle via their DB. It worked because those are proprietary. In the open source world you can just take Docker.

2. Even though the technology is open source, you can still try the ecosystem approach where you exploit certain network effects attached to your distribution of the code that protect you (e.g. vendor certifications). This is what worked for Red Hat. In my view it is unlikely to work for Docker. I don't think certifications are required as most container apps today are not vendor apps. And I would not know what else they could use.

3. For orchestration solution they are engineering against Google's Kubernetes. With all respect for Docker, this is going to be very hard as Google has a huge amount of experience in this area.

4. Due to Docker's need to protect their business model, there is no true community in the sense that there is an open exchange of ideas. The docker agenda prevails over technical decision making (like: should you have a docker daemon? Should Swarm be part of the Docker Engine?). Contrast that with Kubernetes which run in a very open manner by Google. This is why OpenStack got the traction, and why Eucalyptus and CloudStack died off. OpenStack had the most open community.

All of this can lead, IMHO, to a situation where Docker will not succeed in delivering Swarm as they see it. Kubernetes will become the default container orchestration system, and Docker is relegated to a small place in the stack. This situation would make it hard for Docker to justify their valuation.
It's 1999 all over again. Welcome to the .com bubble 2.0.
Method count forces multidex insanely early into
development and for people who want the best UX that
alone is a show stopper.

That's a complete non-problem. Minimal overhead of Scala is 30kB (see http://scala-android.org/) and it doesn't grow much larger even after dragging in the collections API. Every single of Google's Android compat shims is way larger.

Here is a data point from a small example app written in multiple languages: https://github.com/SidneyXu/AndroidDemoIn4Languages

If you need multidex (you probably don't), it's a single setting away.

Very slow compiles (contrary to what you claim).

After saving in my IDE, the plugin has incrementally compiled, ProGuarded, dexed and deployed the app to my phone before I can even grab it. That's pretty fast in my book.

testQuick is also amazing as it runs only the tests that have failed, haven't run before or depended on code you just changed: http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.12.4/docs/Detailed-Topics/Testing...

Language style encourages constructs that cause GC
spikes, closures are not low overhead

Google has official recommendations on what to avoid in Java. You can follow the same rules and be fine. Closures have the same overhead as if they were written in Java.

SDK dependencies automatically meaning what? The thing AS
does for imports from AppCompat and co?

No. SDKs (and NDKs) are treated like every other dependency, which means the plugin resolves, downloads, installs and manages them automatically (see https://github.com/scala-android/sbt-android#usage). This is especially useful if you work for multiple clients that have different SDK requirements.
No need to write wrappers around Gradle scripts to run https://developer.android.com/studio/intro/update.html.
No need for setup instructions if you hand the project to a colleague.

Better instant run?

Protify existed before Google released Instant Run and is therefore more stable and mature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJLLyua0bYA
It's so seamless that people use it for live-coding Android apps.

...

And then you have goodies like typed resources: http://scala-android.org/tips_and_tricks-typed_resources/

Or the automated Gradle config import which means you don't need to do configure anything except adding the plugin: https://github.com/scala-android/sbt-android/blob/master/GRA...
Everyone is born creative, but it is educated out of us at school
Back in 2010 I worked at a startup that ended up pivoting to a regional Groupon clone. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but the company ended up going under a year later.

What I remember most vividly was trying to come up with a good name. LivingSocial was starting to get traction and we wanted to differentiate ourselves from them. The conversation went like:

Boss: What's the opposite of LivingSocial?
Me: I dunno, DyingAlone?
The UK certainly has some weird laws, but that sounds...of dubious validity. Like roughly the equivalent of "not for individual resale"; a contractual matter between the supplier and the merchant, not something that could even theoretically be enforced on any buyer.
let pixel_of_point po sz p =
(int_of_float((p.x-.po.x)/.sz.x*.float_of_int(size_x())),
int_of_float((p.y-.po.y)/.sz.y*.float_of_int(size_x())));;

Shouldn't it be `size_y' in the last line?
In a lisp-1:

(define inc (lambda (n) (+ n 1)))

When referring to `inc` (assuming no shadowing in a different scope), `inc` refers to a function object, we can do:

(define g (lambda (f) (f 3))
(g inc) ;; yields 4

In a lisp2, it won't work the same way:

* (defun inc (n) (+ 1 n))
* (defun g (f) (f 3))
; in: DEFUN G
; (SB-INT:NAMED-LAMBDA G
; (F)
; (BLOCK G (F 3)))
;
; caught STYLE-WARNING:
; The variable F is defined but never used.
; in: DEFUN G
; (F 3)
;
; caught STYLE-WARNING:
; undefined function: F
;
; compilation unit finished
; Undefined function:
; F
; caught 2 STYLE-WARNING conditions

Instead we can define it like:

* (defun g (f) (apply f '(3))) ;; specifying the parameters as a list
* (g 'inc) ;; get the symbol for inc, as a variable it has no binding
4
* (g inc)
debugger invoked on a UNBOUND-VARIABLE in thread
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10028F6AF3}>:
The variable INC is unbound.

There are some benefits, though it's been so long since I've used either Scheme or Common Lisp that I can't clearly articulate why, but I recall at the time preferring lisp2 (or lispN, really).
If you apply zero-trust (as you are here), then its also _impossible_ to assure all those attributes are present in the current voting system.
So I see no harm in attempting to solve for "better" or even "equal but more convenient" than the current. -Which does not technically rule out _some form_ of internet voting.
Unfortunately, I don't. But I plan to write one soon.
Can anyone recommend a good place to learn more about this field of network security? I'd really appreciate!
They release Some Of Those Crazy Designs In Asia
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I have ADHD too. Have you looked into fidget toys? They dramatically cut down on my toe-tapping and fidgeting. Also the incidence of distracting fidgeting goes down when I'm at a good level of meds+therapy.

I might also add that (this obviously depends on local laws but) you can see if there's any disability protections you can take advantage of. Where your company can work with you to help you work better, or at worst, at least, not fire you just over a disability.
In the case of a DNS amplification attack (like this one), a malicious host can cause much more traffic than it can itself supply.
You're right! I did fail to expressly address the second half of your comment. Please accept my apologies for this egregious oversight.

The other half of your comment suffers from the same flaw. The source you provide has high-level numbers, but it doesn't show how much of that is actually glyphosate-related. You're free to assume it's 100%, but it may not be maximally wise to expect everyone else to make the same leap of logic.

It is known for certain that the number is not 100%, because Monsanto is known to have revenue-generating businesses outside of glyphosate.
I can buy a cintiq for my workstation - hell I would love to buy the screen from this separately.
I got dinged in a thread the other day for writing my own JSON parser, so i'm not sure i should confess to also having written enough of an ASN.1 parser to deal with certain PEM key formats:

https://github.com/pivotal/cf-env/blob/master/src/main/java/...
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All the office or mixed office/high cube environments I've worked in were pretty open office environments. You wanted to talk to someone, you wandered over. Standard was open door to office unless there was some reason to close it. So, yeah, cost aside I'm not sure I buy more collaboration etc. with open plans.
Hopefully the delay is a chance for the product designers to go back to the drawing board.

I simply cannot fathom why anyone would want to own a pair.
Gaia made no sense. Especially evident nowadays with global warming. It showed lack of depth and lack of exploration of the topic. I also noticed numerous mistakes in the novels, sentences cut off, misspellings, etc...Didn't notice that with the earlier stories. There could be various reasons for that.
Ask the Door man
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Because software is a half-visible moving target, that's why.
If ford and Toyota were marketing their vehicles to people that for the most part had substandard access to gas, or gas fluctuated enough that they were caught paying higher prices based on the time of day, they may very well have come out with accessories to deal with this, such as standard equipment tow-hitches on all cars and small gas trailers, so you could plan a trip to the gas station that might be a ways away, and for when gas is cheap.

We don't generally have that problem in the US thought, and places where that might be useful are dwarfed by the markets it's not at that point, so it doesn't make sense. Otherwise, yes, that would be a big missed market opportunity for car companies. A chance to sell more stuff, and put it all under the same financing.

That is, the difference between Tesla and the ICE automakers is that one of them has a resource (fuel) distribution problem that was already solved a long time ago, and one doesn't. That necessitates different strategies.
What are the odds they just cancel the product? I haven't seen much excitement for them (since they're pricey and can be so easily lost), and if they're having trouble making them, I could see them just cancelling them and going back to the drawing board.
I wonder, if there are no such places that aren't religious in some way, could that be evidence that it is impossible to sustain such places without having some sort of religious foundation to them?
I'm no fan of open plans in general but that sounds truly horrifying.
How do your Insta stories compare in terms of views and view-through-rate? (I am in the same situation as a content creator on YouTube using Insta/Snap on the side)
Maybe theyre Pay Sucks?
Yeah, I've run high margin deals before and even those aren't really worthwhile. For it to be successful you have to be fairly sophisticated with your methodology, and most small business owners (the people who tend to use Groupon the most) just aren't that sophisticated in their setup.
For a city like San Francisco, only a fraction of what is in the ground is mapped. The only reasonable option is many places is to dig up the ground and look at what you're working with.

Even in the area I live in, ripping up the streets is how it's done. I've only seen horizontal boring machines deployed a few times around here. Maybe they're used a lot and I don't notice them because I don't have to drive around them, but I do keep a eye open for them in the wild. I considered renting or buying one for a project and was impressed how cheap they are, but the benefit of burying things versus the price - no contest.

What I learned, though, is there are eBay-like markets for TBMs and it seems most people buy one with so many hours on it, use it for a project, and sell it +so many hours. I didn't find the thriving rental market I expected.
> But virtually every successful company is run the opposite way

Because every company is run the opposite way. The subset that comprises the successful ones ends up grouped in with the open-office sadists by default.
In 2015 I paid app engine about $1700 or ~$130/month or a bit over $4/day. I could probably get that down another dollar or so a day if I did some optimization and cleanup work, but I haven't cared.
It's the name of the binary for Visual Studio Code.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux
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Digital Rights Ireland files challenge to EU-US data pact
Bullshit hype IS an argument in and of itself and if we can't speak plainly how can we speak honestly?
If votes could be updated until the polls close, wouldn't that resolve the issue? You could simply vote in front of your husband/partner/group and change it later when you're in private.

This would rely on having is no method to determine how your vote has been cast, before or after the election. But this should be a feature of any online voting system.
All of the AirBnBs I've stayed in were like this (New York(upstate-ish), and Colorado (Denver & Boulder)).

The place in Boulder was a rental property before AirBnB existed, and actually had a license, the place in Denver appeared to be built specifically for renting on AirBnB (as were both of its immediate neighbors).
In any languages with multiple namespaces, anything inhabiting some non-primary namespace (i.e., not the matrix containing normal variables) feel second class. Emphasis "feel", and hence "awkward" over "technically limiting".

Additionally, it makes the transition to lambda calculus more difficult to grok, which somewhat hinders understanding. It's pretty trivial to make some simple rewrite rules from (most of) Scheme to lambda calculus: it's a two-hour project at most. Doing this for CL is much less intuitive/elegant, possibly making it more difficult for those with that sort of theoretical background.
You are delusional if you think Thiel is bribing politicians and HRC/DNC is not. Have you not seen the videos? Top DNC staffers were fired. People are going to jail.