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This is just for hosting. Everything else: the reviews, PRs, bug reports are staying where they are.

I am not sure moving to github as such gives it any advantage if they don't make use of the remaining infrastructure.

The model Rust uses, I think, is the best way to make use of github and it's features.
I think Assange meant "allowed by the powers that be", rather than "allowed by the voters". Which I think is a bunch of paranoid drivel, but then, my opinion of Assange was never very high...
I have developed a new theory about wine and selecting bottles you/I like.

The theory is that pallets for wine develop over time as you drink more, similar to how beer will change. When I was 16, all beer tasted terrible. Then at 19 we 'upgraded' to bud light.

Now 15 years later I drink for taste and I like IPAs,or other non standard pilsner.

For me, I'm a beginner wine drinker so I do not want the complexity of fancy wine. I ask for 'beginner, fruit forward' and not expensive wine and have had amazing results. The problem is that pallets are different so blind taste tests won't solve the problem

In 15 years, I'll probably 'upgrade' again.
Hey eggie5, you mean the point he makes about scale?
Very cool. Thanks for posting this.
You do realise that On the Beach is a completely fictional account of the aftermath of a nuclear war? Fortunately nobody ever stockpiled cobalt salted H-bombs.

Mind you On the Beach is excellent, but not as a documentary on what might happen after a global war.
Yes, although loopback mode for devicemapper is the out of the box configuration for Docker even though Docker themselves doesn't recommend it for production. I had tons of issues w/devicemapper on CentOS 7 (kernel panics causing AWS to mark the host as unhealthy and kill it off) that I was finally only able to resolve by switching to AUFS under Ubuntu 16.04, which has worked pretty well for me. Knock on wood, AUFS has been pretty solid so far.
The piece isn't terrible – the author has found the value of qualitative research. Yay! (I do a bit of that, so I'm biased).

The title however, is wrong. It's more about figuring out how to measure the right things and not missing signal because of bad measures.

Open-ended, qualitative research is good at that because it helps the signal stand out – you can find unknown unknowns and then figure out how to be more systematic in measuring them.
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You might also enjoy:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/you-are-no...
"Incompetence" is a good word.
And depending on the voltage provided it will draw a range of currents.
My rule: Call going to take longer than 2 minutes? Send me an email.

I don't waste my time talking to people when I could be working. Personal preference, I know not everyone will agree with it.
none but I wouldn't call it a more reliable source than quora for something like this.
In their book The Practice of Programming, Kernighan and Pike explain the really important stuff in about 30 pages, chapter 2 in the book. They cover four data structures: array, list, tree and hash table, and two kinds of algorithms: sorting and searching. They say that just these are enough for most common situations. (They use C.)
I think Ballmer is very smart and logical. It is completely crazy to spend so much money to buy a phone even if it doubles as a bad computer. I know many people do it, but IMHO it remains crazy and illogical. How do convince your boss that people will spend so much money in illogical way ?
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Religious reasons, family not wanting that to happen, etc.
Agreed - my point is that I would be rejected from a job in the morning for an inability to write code that I'd be able to write by that afternoon.

They aren't testing whether you can look it up and do it, they're testing whether you have it all loaded into short term memory, on the spot.

Like a lot of people, I'm tired of having to reload it all and essentially retake my data structures exam. A lot of us just don't want to interview anymore. I know that if I need to, I can write a BFS or find all permutations of a set. If the opportunity is good enough, sure, I'll study up and get ready to do this at a whiteboard, but it's boring and unpleasant at this point, and I might not get or want the job, so at this point, I rarely bother.

Tech interviews are a big part of why tech companies are experiencing a "shortage" of applicants. They're hardly the only reason, but I'm pretty convinced they are a reason.
> ... you could use the presence of such obfuscation as a sign there's probably something bad afoot.

So, that "if you have nothing to hide..." argument, basically?
Curious if a description of the algorithm is available.
Here in the US, people seem less certain about the future than they were a year ago.
> the conflict has devastated the Northern Hemisphere, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, killing all life there. Air currents are slowly carrying the fallout south; the only areas still habitable are in the far reaches of the Southern Hemisphere.

So it is global, but not everywhere the same.
This is awesome. Thanks.
There is a theory that organ donors get worse medical attention and have higher mortality rates in hospitals. From what I've seen it doesn't hold up well against the evidence, but it's still within the bounds of what I'd call "reasonable disagreement".
The value proposition (difference) of Hyper is that while other CaaS try to manage your VM cluster, Hyper makes the cluster just go away.
Yeah, it is! I was using it pre-2014 and docker top was available then and the standard way to debug was to set up an ssh server in the container. You only had to google it.
Do they have a commitment to Dyson once they receive their degree?

Because, if they do, Dyson might actually also have a strong influence over their salary and other forms of compensation and benefits once they do.
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Our experiments with Boost ASIO have shown it to be slow. Has anybody else experienced similar problems?
It depends, if you are interested in writing high performance code, than yes. If you are interested for example in writing your own servers or database code or modifying existing implementation C++ could be handy.
> One container a host...

As said in the post, this was a consequence of Docker failing them when running multiple containers on a host.

> Not using an optimized base os for containers...

On a server that might be possible, but I thought Docker's advantage was providing a reproducible system that can also be run on your dev machine? Sorry, if Docker doesn't run stable on my dev machine, no way I'm trying it.
you know it was just an example in terms of what you might tell a friend over the phone about a coin flip right? i suppose you'd send your friend a huffman tree and then say "1110"
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Yes. Fact of life. More or less every day or so there's an article on the house prices. Lots of parts to the problem - trust me we worry. Not dissimilar to Vancouver or Sydney ...
I guess maybe you're being downvoted for the tone of your comment, but I came here wondering the same thing. Usually we think of communication as secure when messages can be read only by their intended recipients. We don't really get that when we're using the public key infrastructure in modern browsers. I'm not sure how much it matters (I don't mind if the government knows my credit card number), but I don't like the way PKI makes "private communication" sort of ambiguous...
Child oriented ads are especially awful. We let some greedy people massively influence our kids just so they profit. I would ban every kind of marketing oriented to kids and youngs.

If you have something really useful and good for the kids, sell it to their fathers. If you want to scam their money then get out.
Great link, thanks for sharing.
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on the beach is one of the most interesting books I've ever read. I'd strongly recommend the book over the film, as the film doesn't hold up at all. The book, on the other hand, has an intro that sounds eerily similar to our current geo-political situation and does a great job of painting an emotional spectrum for the people awaiting their inevitable doom.
Fantastic resource. Do you have nay more like it? I'm always hungry for stuff like this. :)
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I've not used ArangoDB in any serious way. However, the co-founder and a lead engineer met with me in Seattle this week, and these guys are clearly very, very experienced serious engineers. They wanted to pick my brain about what to focus on regarding changefeeds, since I have experience using changefeeds in production via RethinkDB, and the ArangoDB devs hope to implement some variant of changefeeds soon. I also found out that ArangoDB's functionality is motivated by the founder's decade of experience building custom highly efficient software for companies; e.g., this is why the ArangoDB index is optimized to be entirely in memory. Their devs also have a strong interest in innovating on new algorithms, in addition to implementing known algorithms.
Sure, absolutely, but the title of the linked article is literally "Move over Raspberry Pi, here is a $4, coin-sized, open-source Linux computer", so comparisons to the Raspberry Pi are inevitable.
Tesla says it's unlikely Autopilot used in Indiana crash
One thing that didn't make it into the announcement: using GraphQL in ArangoDB is now even easier:

https://docs.arangodb.com/3.1/Manual/Foxx/GraphQL.html

EDIT: Also there is now a built-in OAuth2 client:

https://docs.arangodb.com/3.1/Manual/Foxx/OAuth2.html
Looks like the US government makes widescale use of Google analytics, so it's hardly inappropriate: https://analytics.usa.gov/
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Former wine store worker here. Was it the case that the Silver Oak bottle probably needed some time to open up?

Still, I agree with your general thrust. I find that my favorite wines, especially per dollar spent, are between $8-20.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12862789
The topic is running containers in production. Why not use a base os designed for that?
It's very likely someone did

const e = new Error('bad stuff happened')
e.name = 'MyError'

without actually creating a MyError class to check with instanceof.
Clothes are also more expensive.
Note that it doesn't use ultrasound, it embeds information in the normal audio in a way that humans are not likely to perceive (psychoacoustic masking).
IMHO the failure of RIM was to copy Apple instead of focusing on their identity: an enterprise friendly phone with a good keyboard.
I wish it was more common for apps to release a free version and a pro version. I'd love to spend more money to get high quality apps, but I'm not comfortable paying for an app without trying it first.
I'm not suggesting that C+P is magic, or a tool that should not be used. Understanding how and why C+P isn't really important. Being careful to only copy tokens or lines that don't introduce bugs (or making sure to modify those lines once you've copied them) IS really important. It's one of the more common ways to accidentally write bad code, and although of course I (like everyone) use C+P as a tool too, I think it is valuable to be aware of the increased risk. It's like driving. You're gonna drive, or someone on your team is, but it's one of the highest likelihood activities for accidental death.
Where I live there is very high competition in the mobile carrier market, and subscriptions are incredibly cheap.

I'm always amazed at how many are actually throwing away money by accepting a 'subsidied' phone which forces you to take a contract 2-3 times as expensive as you would actually need it.

Even if you see it as 0% financing, in my quick calculations it always worked out to be more expensive than just buying the phone outright.
People do this because they get some value like looking at cat pictures in exchange and to some extend certainly also because they misjudge the value they receive as compared to the value they give away. If you only track users and don't provide some value in exchange, then nobody should opt in. And the value probably also has to be immediate to some extend, just promising to provide better services in a year after analyzing the data will probably not convince many to opt in.
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Interesting! A relevant topic ("Hyper is Docker Done the Right Way" by TheNewStack) came up in HN first page as well.

Is it how Docker should have been designed to embrace production in the first place?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12873089
> Unless you've got a lot of spare time on your hands, it's never a good idea to adopt unfamiliar tools where they're not needed.

That's so broad, it's meaningless. Nothing is ever "needed". Given enough time, you could run everything on a stack limited to technology released before 1995. And without "adopting unfamiliar tools", they'll remain unfamiliar forever.
There isn't yet any benchmark result for this from ArangoDB.

However, we already adjusted our Java driver to use VelocyPack instead of JSON internally and VelocyStream for the client-server communication. This has led to quite some performance improvements in the YCSB benchmarks we ran. But to be fair, some of those are also due to some other refactoring work for the driver.

So it's still a to-do to run a proper benchmark for this soon.
Ask HN: Ideas for a subtopic of “Open Source” (academic paper / scholary work)
Hey HN Community, I need your help and ideas. I have to write an academic paper (not quite sure if that's the correct word). It should be around 10 pages long, but that doesn't matter now.
The main topic is "Open Source" and I need a "subtopic". The goal is to show risks, opportunities,... One subtopic could be "Chances and risks of open source operating systems". Just to give you an idea :)

Hopefully you guys can give me some ideas!

Cheers!
There is also Matrix (matrix.org), an open standard for decentralized communications. Our goal is to let all apps talk to each other - including Slack, Mattermost, and Microsoft Teams!

Check it out using any Matrix-enabled app: https://matrix.to/#/#matrix:matrix.org
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I guess I'm spoiled. I get the wine I really want by living in Portugal.

There's so much good wine here that even the cheap stuff is good quality (we're talking $3 for a bottle). Unfortunately, I've found myself slightly allergic to reds (unless I only have a single glass) so a lot of the local market is off-limits thus I stick to white and 'green' (sweet wine).

I know of some local places here in Lisbon where a small glass of red is 75 cents. The best are Porto's wine 'caves', though, where one can try some really great varieties - five for 12 bucks. Great value for the quality and with prices that don't break the bank, it's of course possible to explore more of what the national market has to offer.
I wonder, what might be a suitable set of books to read before TAOCP?

Might this one suffice: Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (Knuth et.al.)
I think self driving cars might make public transport much more viable, by increasing the effective range of stations.

An entire sprawling suburb could be served by a single station, with people taking self-driving taxi rides from their doorstep (timed to allow a short transfer) and then getting in another taxi to get to their destination. It would be almost as convenient, but people wouldn't be wasting tonnes of road space for the bulk of their journey.

A service like Uber (or possibly Google maps) could even offer integrated tickets for the whole journey.
I can't account for Germany but from Canada it is more expensive but quality of fresh fruit and Veges is way better. Our standard of eating increased markedly moving back.
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If your religion forbids saving or improving the lives of others with organs you're done with, please consider alternatives.
In Poland getting paid to study certain topics is quite popular. Very often companies will approach universities to open sponsored track. This happens when they're giving up on hiring and instead trying to raise the generation of people who know their industry. It happened on my university -- that's how we got "energy engineering" for several power plants around my city.
This song brings more calm to me than Weightless did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX_jySkFIK4
i've had the same thoughts. I think the future might be hyper-visors hosting operating systems of all types, each one serving a singular purpose for which is configured to serve most optimally.
The article mentions that the study "...may hold clues for a better understanding of future superstorms that could cripple modern technological infrastructure on Earth,...".

What kind of crippling of modern tech infrastructure are we talking about? Electrical interference? Radiation overdose that leads to... data loss? Could someone more familiar with the topic enlighten me?
This is also the bane of powerpoint presentations. Many TVs only support 4:2:0, so red on black text quickly becomes an smudgey mess.
It's based on roasting/burning it, the same reason why meat is cancer-causing. That's also why Swedish snus probably isn't cancer causing, because instead of being roasted, the tobacco is steam pasteurized.

I can't imagine that cigarettes would work with steamed leaves.

edit: And you'd have to vape the steamed leaf cigarettes, of course.
Though the Netscape Mariner debacle probably didn't help either.
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> However, since its release it’s evolved into a manager of all your front-end code (either intentionally or by the community’s will).

This pops up everywhere in JS-land. Someone writes a small tool that does one thing well, and all of a sudden there is some barf-sandwich plugin system with 300k unmaintained plugins and documentation scattered across readmes, wikis, and blog posts. It ends up sucking all of your energy, because it never does 100% of what you want, but it gets to a good 70% before you install some other tool that does the remaining 30% and because it doesn't play nice with everything else it breaks the former. It's exhausting.

IMO, this is what happens when you take the unix philosophy too far. Maybe sometimes a monolith that solves multiple cross-cutting concerns is warranted. I mean, if all the community wants to do with your small tool that does one thing well is to take it and turn it into a shitty underdesigned monolith, why not just plan on it being a monolith from the beginning?
Facebook wants to start selling TV ads – on TVs – via Apple TV and Roku boxes
Completely. In fact whenever regulators are involved (for example on anti money laundering), any black box model is a no go, precisely due to that inexplicability.
You must be from Australia.
But at some point doesn't one need to think at the granularity level of clusters? In other words, there are natural limits to how big the hosting environment can grow, at which point performance and efficiency with respect to network topology and other host-system factors (in the broadest senses, e.g. at the level of data centers and the tech-pieces from which they're built) must be considered.

For reasons of convenience, in the case of some (many?) applications, perhaps those considerations can be ignored and the "container fabric" can simply be thought of as perfectly homogeneous, is that the idea? And if one grows beyond the point where that simplifying assumption doesn't hold, then it's time to switch to an architecture where clustering is explicitly addressed?
I'm curious how well that would work? I think it would be awkward to deploy a secret key to a (difficult-to-configure) home device and then keep that secret key secure. It worries me that your IoT device might claim to use HTTPS but actually depend on a private key that had been compromised.
Interesting finding.
Do you have any further info on why it was slow, and on which platforms? thx!
I was hoping this would be a guide to tweaking the linux wine. This does sound neat though, kind of like the paint mixing machines at department stores with a personality test on top. I wonder how far this could go, maybe something could suggest different ingredients based on your mood, and what mood you want to be in. Or maybe even using various biometrics to determine your overall "state" and the best way to alter it.... Just Friday afternoon musings.
I'm not a developer of Stan, but I know many of them and I'm a fan of the project in general.
..combat biases

Think about the implications of that at a deeper, rather than superficial, level. There's consequences for everything.
off the topic, but what made you curious about Sanskrit?
It is amazing how much apparently unrelated information can sway out impressions of the taste of a product, hence the infamous "dyed white wine described as you would a red by experts" experiment - the visual cue can have a massive effect on how the wine tasting experience was reported.

Another classic example is many people not being able to distinguish between the small of parmesan and vomit, how they rate the smell of either being affected by what they are told it is (in this case the key molecules that the nose picks up on are the same, or at least similar enough to activate the same receptors, so the subconscious bias caused by other verbal or environmental cues is enough to sway the perception one way or the other).

The results of such priming experiments are notoriously varied though - reproduction is often unreliable.
> Is there a way to have proportional representation for a single person elected office?

No. (Well maybe runoff voting would be a slight improvement.)

My point was that with proportional voting, you get more than two viable parties in the parliament, and thus the whole political landscape will be different. And more than two parties will be putting forward their presidential candidates, too.
Does anyone use any of these ideas day to day? That's not to knock it, I'm genuinely curious.
I believe most folk are worried, and the media has been referring to it as a "housing crisis". Notably the price increase has been limited to Auckland though (and Queenstown, but Queenstown is the NZ equivalent of Aspen, Colorado; which is to say it's a bit of a millionaire's club).

Unfortunately the currently in power government has done a lot to court this outcome, and so has mostly been avoiding doing anything about it. I think they did recently step in to make it harder for Chinese investors to purchase property in NZ though.
Well, I am sure given enough time I will likely find some ways to get good enough results out of it.

The quality of end product will be mostly determined by quality of base wines. But the problem is that wine is multidimensional => say you want sweeter wine for which they use Muscadet. This wine is not just sweet, you are also adding whole set of new tastes to the mix: there will be some acidity and different set of smell.

Will this taste good? I don't know, you might get lucky and find good recipe or you might mix some weird combination. The thing is that taking 100 ml of light body wine and 100 ml of heavy body wine will not give you 200 ml of medium body.

Anyway, I think they will get enough customers just for novelty of it and some wines might even taste good.
In general this is usually true, but simple non-switching regulators are quite common in electronics. They burn the excess energy as heat. In return the power supply has almost no ripple.
When do you think requisitions for internship positions will open up? I saw them last year, was hoping to apply this year. : )

Thanks!
> A crack has been detected in the Earth's magnetic shield, which allowed deadly cosmic ray particles to seep through into the atmosphere.

Deadly in general or deadly this time? If this time, how deadly?