skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Docker, and Kubernetes is still a rapidly evolving technology and there are too many horror stories of it crashing and burning in production for it to be worth it, in my view. Databases are not immutable, and even though Docker has persistent volumes it is still new and evolving. If the database breaks in some way, I don't want to have to worry about the new container having a slightly different patch level and that messing up the database. I don't want to have to worry about rebuilding my database cluster to upgrade it.

Google might do some really cool shit with Kubernetes, but they are Google. I don't think using them as a good example for anything but infrastructure on a massive scale is correct. They are years ahead of everyone else, and if they are doing something in production, they have been testing it for years. If shit hits the fan, they have thousands of employees to throw at the problem. GitLab is building a team, and therefore does not have the experience to know these systems inside and out. In my view, using Docker/Kubernetes is adding unnecessary complexity to the database fabric for minimal tradeoffs.

And considering that they are speaking out dedicated database servers, it makes no sense to add a unneeded layer of abstraction when in all likelihood the container will be bound to a node.
Of course. Not to mention the "reality" of QM still has parts open to interpretation.

Just a few years ago people were debating if QM meant the future could change events in the past. In one interpretation that could be true, but further learning has mostly ruled it out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraser
Oh, one more feature request. I'd like to be able to verify the identity of people on Venmo.
Very cool, I was just searching this kind of thing.

I'd like to see if it would be easy to support ReST beside markdown. I'd like to reuse my current files instead of trying to convert them haphazardly...
MapReduce and Flow-based Programming (2013)
Ask HN: How can I better channel my passion towards front-end development?
It's been 6 months since I started my first job at an e-commerce startup.

While I am highly very motivated to learn and use new browser APIs as and when they arrive, and have a good understanding of design (I dabbled as a freelance designer for an year) I find most of my colleagues lacking in knowledge, or in enthusiasm. They would gladly build applications by stitching together off the shelf libraries from github, while I would rather code the same myself, knowing I can write a lighter, more performant version of it which is better suited to our use case. I hate being transactional.

I love developing tooling, improving DX and tweaking page performance, a thankless job that no one else wants to touch.

At times, this feeling of superiority leads to guilt. I understand I am more passionate about open web and it's ever growing possibilities than the average developer, but I'm not sure how I can channel this energy and knowledge the right way?
Is your SaaS ready to invest in marketing automation?
No, please see mo other post, it's good to study crackpots sometimes.
Phrenology is alive and well I see.
One of the contributors of FiveThirtyEight made an observation that, along with this article, has convinced me to start filtering out the news. They were discussing what public policy initiatives we could expect from the incoming administration, and she said that she could not speculate on the subject because Donald Trump's signal-to-noise ratio in his public statements was so low as to render forecasting initiatives impossible.

That's the problem here. The signal-to-noise ratio is too low in the news in general. I've spent the whole last year reading speculation about Clinton's emails, Trump's cabinet picks, and shocking news from "anonymous sources" that turned out to be 99% noise when the final draft of the news came out. Why did I waste so many hours reading baseless speculation masquerading as authoritative information?

I'm not wasting my time on noise anymore.
This ties into what I was talking about above with respect to "heavy algorithmic stuff". Most developers can work with intricate legacy code by adding an if here and there to handle special cases. Very few can recognize that it's encoding a state machine with state transition function Y, and rewrite it. Even then, very few have enough 'attention to detail' to do the rewrite, and NOT lose any legacy functionality. This is an example of what I consider to be 'hard stuff'.
Senior is the new intermediate (a title I haven't seen in ages).

At my last several employers, people would go from associate/junior/entry/whatever directly to senior. Usually within 1-2 years from coming out of college (sometimes 2 years-ish out of coding bootcamp for particularly bright folks).

That meant basically everyone was Senior if they weren't fresh out of school. And then getting to the next step up (which had various names... Lead, Principal, Staff, level 3, whatever), is always excruciatingly hard, because it's where people start expecting more than "We didn't fire you for 2 years" and actually look at performance, and there's no title in between.

I've seen companies promote people to senior from being out of school without internships in just a few months, then need 7-10 years of experience to get to the next level. For anyone who actually cares about career tracks, that seriously kills it.
Yes, SAP doesn't do all the services themselves. It's debatable whether in the context of this discussion the service revenue of the partners should be included for comparing. Regardless, I don't think the point of the ration services:product in their profit is material; that wasn't what I was going for. My point was: when services and product aren't symbiotic, it's a pain to combine them in one business, in non-intuitive ways.
Obligatory: go to http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/ and search for "Sussman attains enlightenment"
One interesting aside is you can see from that even this early in the evolution of what's still a very sparse network, how dense the resources are in California, presaging the eventual concentration of the "internet business" there. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions and such.

It's also interesting to note that the DC area is the #2 (arguably tied with Boston) given how relatively inconsequential that community is now to what we'd consider the tech sector. That was a slow process of course, given that at one point AOL dominated the consumer internet from its offices near Tysons Corner.
The first open source virtual assistant
Cortana will only open links in Edge, so it is forced.
PolyMath Science and Math Tools in Smalltalk
Even in areas of plentiful cheap water, it takes electricity to make chlorine for sanitary treatment, and it takes relatively much larger amounts of energy to successfully process sewage, so when the grid inevitably goes down, war or not, there will be lush supplies of irrigation grade water that will sicken or kill anyone who drinks it.

Food equals water for all practical purposes so higher water costs equals higher food costs. Right when the transportation infrastructure is likely to be overloaded...
> they said, "you'd have to quit and re-apply".

Frankly, that's BS. Employment agreements get amended all the time. You can bet that if it was a change the company decided needed to be made that getting it done wouldn't require them firing everyone and then re-hiring them.

I get the impression you're being blocked by someone who just doesn't want to be bothered, and making a weak excuse is just their easy way out.

You can try an end-run (with the attendant risks). If the agreement itself doesn't contain reusable language providing for amendments, then just keep it simple: draw up a replacement appendix, and stick language at the top that says the list below is added to section X of Document Y attached as appendix B to the employment agreement between $COMPANY and $EMPLOYEE signed on $DATE, copy the format of the signature block at the end of your agreement and send it to the same person who signed your employment contract in the first place for them to sign and return.

IANAL, TINLA, etc., so feel free to get a local labor and employment lawyer to review your agreement and the amendment you've drawn up. Figure on 1-2 billable hours if you have it mostly right.
Link Building 2017: What your mom won’t tell you
The original, 2012 Nexus 7 was particularly bad on that front, a few searches turn up that apparently particularly bad hardware selections were made for the NAND.

Not saying that this means all later products have this issue licked, just that the original Nexus 7 is a known awful case.
Strange entry. Looks like they pumped a lot of fossil fuel generated energy to hydroelectric storage, so they generated more than consumed in the year of this statistic.
I'm not sure he's trolling. For the sake of discussion, are the features you mentioned actually "hard technical work" or is it just work that can be done by anyone with some experience in that field?
I'm not sure how to define "hard technical work" but I would say that it has more to do with the rarity of people capable of solving a problem rather than the time it takes to solve it.
That's not to say Gitlab's work doesn't have value, the only question being if it really falls under the "hard problems" category.
Isn't Musk notorious for blowing way past his self-imposed deadlines?
Does the cat itself count as an observer (or, perhaps, the mechanism that releases the poison based on its measurements)? Does the observer have to be human?

I've always thought is Schrödinger's cat as an argument that you can't mix classic physics and quantum physics.
Well, some indeed try to sneak in what they learnt using Java into Go...
Only looking at this page, I have no clue what this does.

It says...

organize notes and ideas
manage todo-lists
write documentation
write a diary

I can already do these in vim, with text files or markdown files. What is this actually doing, then?

Projects like this really deserve some high-level explanation like "Do you want to do X, but don't like having to do Y? This addresses that."
Is there any reason to think the wavefunction "collapses" rather than simply spreading to the observer? Any explanatory power gained? Or is "collapsing" an illusion caused by the basic fact that no version of you gets to see more than one universe?
Hexagonal Architecture Explained: Part 1
I would not recommend Motorola phones anymore simply because Lenovo has utterly trashed Moto's reputation that they acquired under google for timely OS updates. See for example http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/10/02/wtf-motorola-markete... . One of the first things Lenovo did was to lay off a bunch of Motorola's software engineers. They've adopted a Samsung-style shotgun approach to product design (I don't even know what letter they are on now -- M?).
Telomeres – Too much of a good thing?
I think there was significant effort devoted to making sure there could be some sort of "continuity UK" in the event of that happening; the Trident at-sea deterrent, the PYTHON project, all sorts of subterranean bunkers, and so on. It would clearly be pretty desperate, but there was real money spent on it. A bleak version of "thinking the unthinkable", I suppose.

(http://burlingtonandbeyond.co.uk/wp/part-3/ etc)
Multiformats – Self describing values
Yes, educating people isn't about making them happy. How you feel about the truth is incidental to it being true. It's an interesting measure, when hearing the truth, how often do are you repelled by it :)

So my answer is yes to all the topics you mentioned, if the opposition can prove vaccination is worse than not, then don't flag as spam, but until then, please bump them down the search results page some.

The government has to prosecute religious cons already. Suppose you say, "Come to my church. Start praying and donating, the lord will take care of your cancer" Lies like these are misleading and dangerous. People can die from them. You can be prosecuted for making them. So, we ought not allow them to be promoted to our citizenry. If a religion wants to make that statement, make them prove their claim with a study that meets the standard.
Giphys and rewarded video ads. We are a gaming company so you can see where our priorities lie!
VPNs, privacy and anonymity
tl;dr: Sensationalist but unconvincing.

This is because of statements like made here:

>“But global warming would be over.” Why? “Because CO2 production would stop with the destruction of civilization.” Man-made climate change, and the drought conditions that come with it, would cease.

I find this is just ignoring reality. CO2 content in atmosphere is the result of a balance in the world. It's a result of processes that bring more CO2 there, and process that remove it.

There's plenty of CO2 production that happens without civilization. And almost all of CO2 removal is not the result of civilization. The balance is not quite solid, but it is there.

The man-made climate change is about changing that balance (and the balance with some other gasses like methane). Annual man-made CO2 emissions are however only a small portion of the total CO2 currently in atmosphere, and of total CO2 removed. Even if civilization wouldn't make any CO2 emissions, the CO2 content of atmosphere would not go to zero.

For CO2 levels in atmosphere, there is an annual fluctuation of about 3–9 ppm which is negatively correlated with the Northern Hemisphere's growing season. [1]

Thus, a far more important factor in the CO2 balance of Earth after a nuclear winter would be how vegetation and seawater plankton survive. If large areas of forests were destroyed, and if seas would be poisoned, then the conversion of CO2 to oxygen and absorption of carbon to plankton would change drastically. The impact of that would be vastly larger than the CO2 output of any human industries.

Climate change would not be over because of lack of civilizsation; climate change would be unpredictable because we wouldn't know what are all the things that blew up in the air and what impact they have.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmo...
My impression was the Google uses both approaches, so I don't think they are at any disadvantage here.

I also don't think precisely mapping each road is going to be a difficult problem if you enlist a huge network of cars contributing data. The problem is highly parallelizable.
Newer versions of Excel will warn the user of possible file corruption if they try to open an .html file that has been renamed to .xls. The file can still be opened but the warning is bothersome.
The UK real estate tax ("council tax") is ridiculously small even at the highest levels. Even if I was in a multi-million pound property, the maximum I'd ever pay would be £3.5K annually, and for most houses it's less than half that.
Direct link:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241
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> 'They care about next week's pay check.'

And whose fault do you think that is... There can be no talk of the will of the people when they are beholden to the coercion of the elites through structured economic insecurity.
Not just in the home; it's especially bad in social environments like the office where there is this unspoken expectation that you should indulge in the treats that coworkers bring in.
I disagree because the post appears to be an email harvesting page with nothing to play with or try out. The questions the the OP asks are a survey about subscribing to email lists not the product.
The Road was either a super volcano, or meteor impact, given the scale, and description of things.
A study completed by Annett and company makes a strong argument that improving latency beyond 50ms will have diminishing returns.

https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~wfb/publications/C-2014-GI-L...
But vacri, none of our minds create such worthless inanities! Historians will pore over our thoughts enchanted as if by beautiful snowflakes.

;o)
Also, The Book Of Eli.
How Worrying Can Actually Make You Sick
The article was more click bait than science. Pretty disappointing coming from NPR.
These articles don't seem to be news at all. I've seen this all the time on social media recently, many people seem to have lost the ability of distinguishing between news stories and opinion pieces/editorials. :(
Seneca Curve / Cliff is the concept that the higher the technology level, the more horizontal the growth curve and the more vertical the decline curve. The decline rate of frack'd well is pretty staggering. I'd have to look it up to be sure but I'm pretty sure we've passed the point where the majority of wells that have been frack'd are now no longer producing. Same story with horizontal drilling decades ago etc. If we're not at the technology level today where the decline rate could be extremely sharp, we're certainly working toward it via ever higher technology in that field.
If you would like, contact me via my email. I think we have some issues in common.
And don't want to reveal the number of ugly hacks they have implemented to get things working in the first place.

the reason Linux drivers are a "mess" is that the hardware they are trying to support are a mess, and said mess is papered over in Windows by the OEM drivers.
This basically allows you to create links between files like in a wiki, and to use some form of markup in them.

It also allows quick access to it and some form of file management (eg. When renaming a file)

I think it is also able to export to a real wiki platform.
[Screencast] Mail Previews and Templates
It's interesting to compare this with the push for functional + immutable design systems, which leads to a similar result: writing programs that operate as "nextstate = f(state,inputs)"
So I am going to try putting a few sets of strong magnets in my gutters just before my down pipes and inspecting them every few months.
> With Trump elected

> could mean the end of the non-proliferation treaties

So could the US running out of money/power.
Overcommunicate. Even when things are going wrong.
You also need to enable macros for Word "viruses" to work, but somehow they do…

IMHO, this increases the attack surface of browsers by a fair amount to little practical gain. But then I'm not impressed with the "browsers are all you need" mentality, so I'm a bit biased.
Drug users aren't measuring out micrograms from a vial of pure medication. It'll be in a solution or pill form.
> "It changed our understanding because it means antibiotic resistance didn't evolve in the clinic through our use. The resistance is hardwired," she says.

But if that was true wouldn't bacteria always have been resistant to these "natural" antibiotics (the majority of those that we use, according to this article) and this they never would have been effective in the first place? And if that's true, how was this built-in resistance suddenly switched on to the extent that scientists are now talking about a future where bacteria we could easily treat a few decades ago will be unstoppable? I think either I'm missing some important details, or this article is.
Well the demonstrations with looting I've seen were in Brussels, Rijsel, Paris and a few smaller cities. There's plenty of places in Rotterdam that you shouldn't go, more if you're female.

As for the refugee problem, I was last in Paris, and let me tell you, it's an African and pretty much all male refugee problem there. I've seen the same people in Brussels, though in better circumstances.
It could be 3 years or 30 years says Chris Urmson, depending on what you're talking about.

Elon Musk's predictions are consistently unreliable.
Those lush lands might just be rumours, and people are trying to find them but just finding more desert.

Or those lush lands are highly desirable, and thus heavily fortified.
Curious about how the audio was produced and if it was built to scratch your own itch.

Also if it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Ask HN: Open source/free alternative to Zendesk?
Does anyone have a suggestion to an open source or free alternative to Zendesk for support issue ticket tracking?
You can gain insight into human problems by noting that these sources of bias all pertain to natural intelligence as well.
It all looks very impressive, but why all the funky curves?
I thought the idea is to create a magnetic field to contain a plasma. Could that not be done with a torus of circular cross-section? Instead we see a very complex undulating torus, what's the reason for that?
The fact that you're asking this question on Hacker News leaves little doubt in my mind that you and your team are not prepared for this (running bare metal).

I read the entire article, and while you talked about having a backup system (in a single server, no less!) that can restore your dataset in a reasonable amount of time, you have no capability for disaster recovery. What happens when a plumbing leak in the datacenter causes water to dump into your server racks? How long did it take you to acquire servers, build the racks and get them ready for you to host customer data? Can your business withstand that amount of downtime (days, weeks, months?) and still operate?

These questions are the ones you need to be asking.

In other words, double your budget because you'll need a DR site in another datacenter.
Show them how to do it themselves, and teach them "why" I do things the way I do them. I write resumes for clients and do them in Google Docs, and I invite the client into the doc from the very start. They can actually watch (in real-time, if so inclined) the work being done at all stages in the process.

Lots of them will ask why a certain decision was made that seemed unusual, and sometimes the dialogue gets into some rather detailed nuances of how readers interpret bits of information and how it's delivered. I came to resume writing after ~20 years in recruiting, so I am able to provide insight into what the audience for their resume is thinking.

Clients say they like the collaborative approach and appreciate that they learn things that they can apply next time (and not have to pay for the service again).
Repackaging reports and press releases (without attribution!) is major problem in news everywhere.
> "Solar" is just nuclear on the sun.

Which comes with the desirable property of solving the problem of radioactive waste storage, as waste is stored in a very convenient place far away from any human dwelling.
Generic company sysadmin.

I have a rotating list of power user tips. I'll pick one to show someone during a trouble call (provided no one is in a huge hurry). It has to be something cool that I can demonstrate/teach in seconds. Examples:

Snipping tool. Rather than writing down error codes.

Windows key + start typing the program name. Rather than navigating the start menu.

Piles of excel tricks. (everyone loves excel)

The big thing is knowing your audience. People enjoy participating in something, not just being shown things they can never accomplish. If you make it something they can't understand it will just make them feel stupid or frustrated.
Iirc, Intel shipped custom CPUs to Apple for the Macbook Air. Once those CPUs became more generally available other brands followed suit quite quickly.

This has been a repeating pattern with Apple since the iPod success fattened their wallet. They would routinely single out parts they wanted, and then basically order the factory capacity for that year in one go.

Palm/HP execs lamented this fact when they unveiled the Pre 3 and Touchpad, as they often wanted to use the same parts but found Apple had gotten there before them.
Agree with this, a non retina resolution monitor just looks unfocussed to me next to a MBPro screen.