skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, advertisers need the web - it's rendered nearly all prior advertising and media paradigms obsolete, or at the very least, less cost effective. But the web doesn't need advertising.

So the solution is simple - businesses advertising online that fail to convince users to opt in to paying for their content somehow will lose revenue and die. The free market at work.

>Are people going to switch to a paid version of Facebook? Twitter?

Maybe, maybe not. The web will survive without both, however. But I suspect that enough people would be willing to pay for Facebook, at least, to make it viable. Not viable at its current scale, perhaps, but something is better than nothing.

>Is everyone expected to get Youtube Red?

I honestly believe the answer is yes, eventually, everyone will be expected to get Youtube Red, because paid, licensed content makes more sense for Google than the morass of illegal and non revenue generating fare that is currently the bulk of Youtube content.

>And are we only supposed to look at the few news sources that we can justify the subscription cost for?

That actually sounds like a good idea, given the quality of most news sources. They should have to work harder to earn their bread.
It was the first Gulf War where 24 hr news hype cycle really took off. Wolf Blitzer doing his sports announcer thing over footage of "smart bombs".
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Under the current system, ads are a vector for surveillance, annoyance, and malware, so I block them with no regrets, and help my less nerdy friends do the same. I have no problem with non-annoying and non-tracking ads, like the ones you find in printed magazines and newspapers. I also have no problem with subscriptions. I would only pay for a few, and plenty of sites would probably go out of business if they moved to a subscription model, but that's fine by me. There are too many sites dedicated to pumping out garbage to fill the holes between the ads, instead of writing things that people are willing to pay to read.
Not sure where to start here. Are you suggesting money gained is a proxy for wealth created? It's the product of an imperfect system. Some people add more value than they are paid for, others the inverse. The system heavily favours economic rent extraction via land. Almost all new debt is issued via land.

Quite simply people have figured out it's a rigged game and are piling in, hence the asset bubble and the fallout effecting an entire generation, which perhaps you missed.

I'm not really interested in discussing this with you either as just pointing out things are paid for is just taking the existing system without any question as "correct".
I see few flaws in their approach:

The stack based virtual machine represents instructions as two field structs that are essentially predecoded (and larger in memory) while the register VM uses what boils down to array of words which are then presumably decoded at run time (the paper even contains some kind of argument why the code is represented as array of single-field structs, but completely neglects to mention what would happen if the structs contained some kind of pre-decoded instructions).

The function call mechanism of their stack based VM seems to be essentially modeled after how forth works, which is not how typical stack based VM used in implementation of languages that do not directly expose the VM semantics works. Typical stack based VM (eg. Smalltalk, JVM, CPython...) allocates new argument stack for each function invocation (often using alloca() or such, ie. on native control stack) and does not directly use the VM argument stack to pass parameters and results between functions.
I never heard of anyone using wiki for for current events.

How do you start.
If you care about it being maintained, you should invest the time to check if it is. Maintained code can be crap, unmaintained code can be perfectly usable.

I wish clear markings for the project status were more common, and maybe standardized as a feature in Github, but I'm not sure any mechanism that reminds of "punishment" for the author is a good idea.
If you like tales of the singularity and you haven't read it yet, try Charles Stross's Accelerando. It's a hell of a yarn and has no lack of character.
As long as you're not buying all the disks at once sticking with one manufacturer and brand should be fine. If you're buying 25% of your total inventory every year it'll all be spread out to just a few percent per month.

But when you're buying 100% of your disk inventory at once there's a serious "all eggs in one basket" risk.
I don't see why this is getting downvoted so heavily. OP asked a question and I gave an honest answer. Most people here understand that dynamic languages are a bad choice for big projects so I don't see why that would get downvoted either (even if I were wrong, I believe the rules state that downvoting isn't for things you disagree with, but things that add no value to the discussion).
For historical accuracy: they also used a Sun Microsystems machine to compute the Binary Space Partitioning tree, leaving it crunching overnight (in my recollection it was the e450, but it couldn't have been).
Still no sign of NVMe "RAID" support: http://marc.info/?t=147709622400002&r=1&w=2
Does clang / llvm have anything similar?
I like to think diet pop can fit into this category... but then there's the backlash of "unnatural chemicals" which sceptics believe must obviously be bad for you.
If the market is incapable, it is time for government to step in. We already have innumerable regulations re food safety and content, would it be inconceivable for us to regulate the salt content of potato chips? Or the calorie content of something labeled a "meal deal"?
The web hand may change quite a bit, webpages would load faster, it would be safer (malware would lose an entry vector), many shady practices would cease to exist (Linkfarms, DNS parking, DNS redirect, dark patterns, browser start page and search engine hijacking, click bait, ...), tracking and user profiling would lose justification, centralizing everything in the hands of a few would become expensive, and a few other things.

But the internet? I guess it would be unchanged and unfazed.
Most likely not. The unhealthy components are addictive because they were rare in the ancestral environment, and useful, which is also the reason why they're unhealthy in large quantities.
If all you have is some rote memorization about mathmatics you can use those memorized items to study in your own head. So while you shower or drive you can think about the math you've memorized and develope a deeper understanding.

As you say, memorization can be a useful part of a deeper understanding.
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I recently built some data center processing using SuperMicro Twin-Nodes^2 [0] and MicroBlades [1].

We're setup for 38kw [a] possible gross wattage using the dual-node blades using the Xeon D-1541 [2]. The amazing thing about the D-1541 blades is we get around 100W per server, with 8 hyperthreaded cores, and a 3.84T SSD. With the 6U chassis, you have 28 blades with 2 nodes each - 56 medium sized servers for 5.6kw in 6U - under a kw per RU.

For your 70 some server workloads, I'd recommend using the microblades.

For your higher lever workloads, I think the SuperMicro TwinNode makes sense.

Be very very careful about Ceph hype. Ceph is good at redundancy and throughput, but not at iops, and rados iops are poor. We couldn't get over 60k randrw iops across a 120 OSD cluster with 120 SSDs.

For your NFS server, I'd recommend a large FreeNAS system, put a big brain in it and throw spinning platters.

Datacenters can/will do your 30kw

[0] - https://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/2UTwin2.cfm
[1] - https://www.supermicro.com/products/MicroBlade/
[2] - https://www.supermicro.com/products/MicroBlade/module/MBI-62...
[a] - Although we have 38kw of possible power there, it's practically well under the 27kw we'll get with 4x208v@60A PDUs at 80%.
What kind of framework would you recommend for any size of project.

Python/Django, Scala/Play, Ruby/Rails, GOlang/X, Dart/X,Elixir/Phoenix? ...
Thanks.

Is there a queryable relational database?
craigsmansion sums up my thoughts pretty well. The way the internet works is that the end user is able to interpret and display web content as they see fit. If that's a problem for somebody, they can use something else.

And FWIW I do pay for or donate to several online services that I use often and that provide real value for me. At the same time, it's very unlikely that I'll ever pay to read somebody's blog, twitter, facebook, personal website, etc.

But I'm curious why you wouldn't put web advertising in with spam, tracking, and malware? They're all heavily entwined, AFAICT.
Nowadays once you get past 10 racks or 50kw, you generally only pay for power - the space/cooling/etc is "free" as your limiting rate is power and the vendor's ability to move thermal. You'll likely want a chimney cabinet like the Chatsworth GlobalFrame [1].

[1] - http://www.chatsworth.com/products/cabinet-and-enclosure-sys...
I guess that depends on what you mean by privacy.

I tend to define privacy in terms of an intersection of users' expectations and preferences -- data should be used how users expect it to be used, and those expectations should match their preferences.

For example, a particularly voyeuristic user might truly prefer -- independent of any transactional considerations -- for marketers to know a bunch of intimate information about them. In that admittedly entirely fictional case, the modern web isn't a privacy violation.

My point is that it's possible to use data for a particular purpose without violating users' privacy expectations and preferences. There are both legal and technical mechanisms that enable these sort of use cases.

I think it's fair to say that most people expect and are perfectly OK with google using their email to filter spam and improve search. Therefore, I don't consider those use cases to be privacy violations.

Also, although search and filtering are two huge features GMail, even a GMail without those features would be quite superior to Squirrelmail/Roundcube/Yahoo! accounts with tiny data limits (which really were the alternatives when GMail launched).
I'll have to ask the football teachers (under 5s) because they remember hundreds of kids names, and they remember new names immediately and forever, and there are lots of kids coming and going all throughout the year.
>my point is that you should maintain openness while making it easier to discover good content.

Well, figure that one out and I'm sure you'll make a lot of money. Until that happens though, I'll take a semi-closed Steam ecosystem instead of the alternative.
Great article. Although I wonder why it fails to criticize Trump's side...
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It's coordination problems all the way down. I'd prefer the ability to purchase the products I choose, and suffer the consequences.
Totally disagree. Lots of companies in lending are sleazy but Affirm seems the opposite. They mark-up at the start so you know what you are getting into. As far as I can see, Affirm does not want you to carry a balance and get trapped into the compounding interest nightmare. To be fair, I have not used the service, but this is what I gather from scoping out the company and product usage.
>Mainstream outlets move in lockstep with each other and these are the final, desperate death throes of an outdated and superfluous institution.

So far, non-mainstream outlets have proven a whole lot worse. Call me a small-c conservative, but I'm going to keep supporting civil society over the conspiracy theorists.
Preinstalled ad-blocking would probably decimate what is left of quality media landscape within a few years. I'm quite happy if it requires at least a tiny bit of effort from the user. Some people simply don't mind ads, and we should all be grateful to them.

(I'm using uMatrix and try to allow all non-terrible ads on quality sites)
I don't think that they care about tampermonkey/greasemonkey... a very small minority would be using it...
Thank goodness someone said it.

Perhaps I don't understand the problem domain, but I don't understand why CephFS is being considered for this task. You're trying to treat your entire set of files across all repos as a single filesystem, but that's an entirely incorrect assumption. The I/O activity on one repo/user does not affect the I/O activity of an entirely different user. Skip the one filesystem idea, shard based on user/location/whatever.

I'd appreciate any comments explaining why I'm wrong, because this doesn't seem to be a productive design to me.
I politely disagree on the 10GBaseT. I built out hundreds of nodes with TOR 10G using Arista switches and it worked great.
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I've been using win10 for a while now, love it, never used contara.
I disagree. With over 300 servers in AWS, you can almost certainly build a redundant data center with hardware at less than 60% of the costing assuming 3 year depreciation.

Arista and Cisco shouldn't cost top dollar; though anyone buying EMC or Netapp for any new build should have their union card revoked. FreeNAS ftw uber alles.

Source: Did it twice.
I used a similar program (same algorithm, I believe), when I was taking my first abstract algebra course.

It really didn't help, unfortunately.
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> and sound like "we couldn't figure out how to make it work for us so it must be impossible".

It sounded more just like "we couldn't figure out how to make it work for us", which is a perfectly plausible position.

The author just stated that React didn't work for them, not that it's "impossible to use React" as you are implying.

From the article:

> I guess this level of strictness and purity is something that may be useful when you have 1000 devs in your company [...] But most of companies have far smaller dev teams and other goals than Facebook.
Not to ruin my own chances, but New Zealand is apparently quite welcoming to a high-skilled professional.

I mean, yes, you then have to live in a boringly peaceful country on the other side of the world from anything exciting. But right now, that means you're on the other side of the world from anything "exciting".
> We all had Midnight Commander on floppies

I'm sure it was Norton Commander at the time ;)
Having designed and run colo data centers for many years my rule of thumb for calculating this for customers was to use the vendors tools if available or take 80% of power supply rating. Keep in mind that most servers will have a peak load during initial power on as the fans and components come online and run through testing. If a rack ever comes up on a single channel and the circuits are not rated right that breaker will just pop right back offline and you'll have to bring it up by unplugging servers and bringing them up in sets. Also most breakers are only rated at 80% load so you have to de-rate them for your load. So, e.g., a 20amp x 208 3 phase circuit really only has 8KW of constant power draw available.
They were using NeXT. id was all next at the time of DOOM.

The best way to track id's tech stack is to look at their level design tools:

-DoomEd (not the one you're thinking of - it never made it beyond id) was for NeXT

-QuakeEd - It was for NeXT: You can grab the code at http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/QuakeEd/source.html. If someone has the know-how, they might be able to update it for GNUSTEP or OSX, but it's useless in its current form.

-QE4 (QuakeEd v4) - id's internal Quake 2 editor. It marks the shift from NeXT to WinNT. https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-2-Tools

-Q3Radiant - Robert Duffy got sick of the bad parts of QE4, and modified it into QERadiant. It was all GPLed, anyways. Then he got hired (I think) by id - QERadiant formed the base for Quake 3's level editing environment - Q3Radiant.

GTKRadiant - GTKRadiant was (and still is) maintained by Timothee Besset, who was also responsible for the Quake3 linux ports. It was a (soft) fork of Q3Radiant made engine-independent, and was also based on GTK, so it could support Mac and Linux. It was dual-licensed by id (it was an internal project - god knows why) until the rest of Q3 opened up. It's also the only editor on this list still in active development (as is its fork, NetRadiant).

Who knows what they're using internally now: id has closed their doors since the acquisition.
I never understood why it's ok to tax alcohol, and keep the price of sucrose high for Cuban-American farmers, but anti-freedom to tax it's cousin fructose.
> People bring their religions in here without facts and end up at the top of threads

Only popular religions ;)

I agree. I pointed out that your statement "You can only install extensions from their store" is incorrect for Chrome. Thank you for adding information about Edge.
Here's the front page for English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
When scientists want to engineer healthy food to be healthier and more inexpensive--a.k.a. genetic modification--they are met with superstition and FUD.
What about the media? I know hating them is kinda in fashion, but do you think the world will be a better place without NYT / WSJ /Guardian?

I haven't had any security issues it 10+ years, often without ad blocking. And I'm more afraid of an internet that is only Facebook, Amazon and Breitbart and what it will do to the civil society.
you want 2*N Power feeds where N = 1 or 2. I recommend ServerTech PDUs. You'll want to factor in the maximum load, but with the amount of servers and power you're doing, you should be able to negotiate metered power at under $250/kW/month. Give them a commit that's 1/3 of your TDW/reportd power load, and then pay for what you use.
That is certainly true but my argument aimed at a different point. Assume something used to cost $100 and people were willing to pay $100 for it. If you manage to produce the same thing for $10, you should pass this increased efficiency on to the customer so that the society is better of, not capture the difference making only you rich. But I may have made a mistake in my reasoning and am currently rethinking the argument.
I use this to justify blocking all emails from corporate at work.
Diet soda is not healthy. At the very best it's ideally neutral, neither unhealthy or healthy.

However, some research has been coming out lately that suggests diet soda (more specifically artificial sweeteners) may have various negative effects on health. Nothing conclusive but enough to make me avoid artificial sweeteners entirely.
Probably because the people that read the intercept already think poorly of trump, and the article had a word limit
+1. As tempting as it is to say "oh this server only needs full power when it boots" this may come back to bite you. As you grow usage in CPU and Disk, the power used by the server will increase substantially.
Eh, as far as I know none of the conditions the article describes have changed significantly or at all since 2013.
note that you can get around the 80% breaker limit by having your DC hardwire the power, if you have enough scale to have them do this for you.
Puff piece. Yes, Nvidia dominates at the moment, but as many have said, this could easily change with a resurgent AMD. They have made all the right moves, IMHO, since Lisa Su took over:

0. Finally paying attention to software part of equation : hardware for compute has always been very good

1. drivers are now excellent

2. whole line of GCN devices (since 2012) are supported and still optimized, unlike notorious Nvidia nerfing of older cards

3. Has x86 license - if Zen is a success, can build high-bandwidth fabric between CPU and GPU, unmatchable by nVidia except on exotic Power8 arch.

4. new project focusing on HPC on Linux

5. they keep pushing OpenCL, which will win over Nvidia-only CUDA

6. New tools to semi-automatically port CUDA code to run on their hardware.

Well, here's hoping AMD gives them a run for their money in 2016 </fanboy>
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I dunno. I do know when I'll actually start criticizing him for it: when he stops making new content, and providing interesting insights (his return to the DOOM mapping field earlier this year, after much deliberation, was awarded the rare 11th Cacoward - the annual Doom community awards for excellence in Doom mapping).
This kind of thing scares me. As someone who lost 70 pounds eating bacon and eggs for six months, and eating about 5x the recommended daily amount of salt that whole time, I'm worried the government stepping in will make all our food taste like cardboard.

Sugar is the enemy, but so often fat and salt are demonized when in a proper diet these aren't unhealthy at all.
You could also say the opposite about every Washington Post article released since the election.
It's not a backlash, it's science. See e.g.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/

While there's no conclusive proof diet soda definitely causes weight gain, there's absolutely no evidence at all that it helps with weight loss.

Sugary or not, there's no rational basis for considering sodas of any variety "healthy."
In this scenario WebAssembly is analogous to bytecode, which is also less debuggable and modifiable than the Java source
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I don't believe we know enough about nutrition (or we'll ever know enough) to make these sort of policies.

We know humans both survive and thrive on widely different diets.
Pretty sure Bitcoin works best for the people who got in early.

anon4this1: I bought 5800 bitcoins mostly for around $5 back in 2011ish [...] I'm up 15,400% in 5 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13093895
Problem is, paid lobbyists have the patience and insidiousness to sabotage regulation time and again (and have done so). Which isn't so much an argument against government regulation as an argument that the current system is rather broken.
interesting. do you know if the "in the news" selection is generated or curated?
The WSJ and Pepsi mention " Quaker oatmeal, Naked juice and Sabra hummus" as "good for you" foods.

I've never tried Sabra hummus, but the others are super sugary. A couple years ago I made a conscious attempt to eat less salt and sugar, and once you do so it's amazing how much sugar you notice added to virtually every processed food you'll find at a grocery store.

Cooking food from scratch is basically the only way to have control over your diet.
Wikileaks has done plenty to discredit itself. MSNBC shouldn't have done this but let's not pretend WL is a bastion of credibility.
as soon as you become his bitch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana#/media/File:Daikatan...
Seems like he didn't directly address property ownership (or did I miss it?) I was expecting to see some mention of Henry George, and becoming rich by owning land:

http://qz.com/169767/the-century-old-solution-to-end-san-fra...
Are you sure it's not one of your other extensions? It works fine with Firefox Nightly and uBlock Origin on Windows 10.
In my view this headline is analogous to "Philip Morris wants to sell running gear, consumers want tobacco." Well duh, of course selling human catnip is more profitable, but you're giving your customers diabetes and heart disease.