skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because otherwise the dirty peasants will invent rationales for dragging them out into the streets and murdering them.

It isn't always easy to predict when it will happen, but horrifying, deplorable violence seems to be the only way for the lower classes to effectively reduce wealth inequality.

Some people are getting nervous enough to buy land in New Zealand or condo space in hardened apocalypse-survival bunkers. They know whose heads will roll if the guillotines ever get reassembled. They don't actually want to voluntarily give up their wealth, because they know how their peers treat those that don't have it, and because being constantly surrounded by luxuries is addictively awesome.

So we're frequently stuck in the situation where the poor think they're poor because the rich are too rich, and the rich don't care about what the poor think, because they're too busy kite-surfing in warm turquoise waters, buying recreational estates in Kauai, pitching giant museums to major cities, and generally living the good life.

The rich don't actually need to give up their wealth, but they might want to consider paying closer attention to the zeitgeist, and backing off on meddling too obviously in the lives of others at the appropriate times. Just like you might closely monitor the weather on your giant yacht, and make for port whenever a storm is brewing, you monitor the political climate and shelter your wealth when necessary.
> Being set up for success is different than being inherently intelligent.

Sure, but you're arguing against a straw man.

It's simply objectively true that students at elite are on average much smarter than students at other schools, and more ambitious. They're much more likely to have a viable YC application.

In fact, students who get into elite schools but don't attend them still far out-perform students who never got into one.
OpenHAB as a snap
I'm part of the core Nanobox team (https://nanobox.io). Members of our team were instrumental in introducing releases in Elixir and helped to lay the foundation for exrm.

Elixir deploys are currently functional, but we're working with the Elixir community to really fine-tune the process (including hot-code-reloads).

DigitalOcean has been supported for a few months now. AWS support was just released yesterday.
It may be due to downtime earlier today (this being only days after the data loss). Things don't seem to be going well for GitLab right now.
I completely agree with you on the pleasure of using such a well-crafted machine. From the keyboard, to the connectivity, to the overall build-quality and the way in which the designers thought out so many things so well, it makes me sad that that I cannot just swap out its socketed (yes socketed!) single-core processor for something more modern.

You make a good point- I too have been an open-source consumer. Yea I have filed a few bug reports, helped some people experience Linux or switch from IE6 to Firefox, but have not contributed much to these projects time- or money-wise. With things like the Linux kernel, that are suported by the likes of Red Hat and SUSE (which are in turn supported by big businesses), I am not too concerned about their survival. But after reading about the GPG maintainer and now the GNU Octave maintainer being forced to stop their their generous contributions, I realize perhaps I need to be doing more as a user for open-source things I care about being around in the future.
"There's no need for a sales and marketing team for a very well established and entrenched product."

So should I go tell Pepsi and Coke that they're wasting their money?

Plus, while Octave is an established project, there are many projects being started each day. No project comes into being fully established.

"He could make something very easily himself, 1-click to $X a month for some bit of software or service."

Do that, instead of working on his project. Plus, the source is already out there. It's not going away.
What about in communities that are basically closed by custom or by geography? Is how differences arise more important than the actual differences when it comes to talking about breed?

I'm thinking about aboriginal communities, Pygmy peoples, or even groups like the Ashkenazis.
I'll take that challenge. Here's how to do it, with a little bit of sneaky interpretation of 'memory layout':

have an algorithm which takes a large struct S and looks at a subset Sf to determine what to do with S, for some value of Sf use all of S, otherwise skip it. (e.g. when distance between 2 particles < threshold, calculate force).

Now have a very low pass-rate for the filter so that total time ~= time taken to read all of Sf.
Make Sf a single byte and S >= 64 bytes (page size if you really want to beat it).

And now compare array-of-struct vs struct-of-array ;). You should see ~64x performance difference in the assymptotic case.

AoS will use one byte per cacheline read. SoA will use 64 bytes per cacheline. if you're memory bound this will translate to an almost 64x speed difference. There are other ways to achieve the same effect but that is the gist of getting 64x performance. using 1 byte vs 64. if you want to go really crazy, use a single bit and a bitfield array for the SoA. If you use a bitfield the passing chance doesn't have to be that low.

I happened to have to present on AoS vs SoA today so I have a less extreme benchmark to show the difference (~16x because it filters over 32 bit ints)

http://imgur.com/a/HuXFR
Author here (Nick): We've worked on a side project to help authors of blogs or social media to create images for their content. After noticing it can be difficult to find something suitable when writing our own blog posts. Hope to get some feedback from the HN community. I've been a long time reader of HN, but always in the passive form, so now is the time I'm getting active :) Hope to hear from you guys and girls!
This zine also has a print version that you can print and fold and staple. The print version is linked here: http://jvns.ca/zines/#networking-ack.

I wrote this in large part because I love being able to print out zines about my favorite topics ("hey, want to know more about computer networking?! I wrote a small thing you can read about it!!") and give them to people who might not otherwise read about the subject.
One way to do it would be to test each candidate parent dog for the problematic genetics and simply not breed the ones that do have the problems. That isn't any more ominous than breeding in general.

Where it is possible it will also be more effective than culling; it should lead to a population of animals that are free of the problem altogether.
And don't store it on gitlab.
This reminds me of some of the goofy aging snake-oil techniques that audiophile-type guitarists try on their guitars. Putting them in vibrating jigs and stuff. That said, if there's a way to significantly tighten / age / enhance the density or resonance of wood using some kind of technique, that's pretty awesome. Then drink aged liquor before playing on aged guitar. Win-win.
> Though sex between men was a criminal offense ..., there was, as yet, hardly a homosexual identity defined by same-sex desire. Until the early 1950s, a man could have sex with another man without thinking himself in any respect “abnormal”

How do you reconcile the fact that gay sex was a criminal offense with the claim that it wasn't considered abnormal?

This feels like wishful history rewriting.
From the "how does this work"

> How do products trend? What causes a product to trend?
Products are ranked based on the number of users who have recommended the product in the past month (we’re using a rolling 30 days).

Ok so this isn't trending, it's popularity. Typically you want to normalize such that items with evergreen popularity get sifted out and you're left with items growing in popularity.

A marginally better approach might be to look at % of like growth month over month, with some floor of likes so that going from 1 to 100 likes doesn't dominate. This isn't perfect but it should kick google drive, Dropbox, and git out of the list.
For context: The US Broom, Brush, and Mop Manufacturing Industry was $2.8B in 2013 [1]. Not everything is as sexy as launching rockets to outer space, but as long as people derive utility from throwaway pics there will be demand for billions of dollars of web services.

[1] http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130301005429/en/Rese...
Ok, I am calling for a ban on the "maybe there could be a startup that solves the problem?" style comments without at least trying to flesh out how they would actually do that.
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Thanks. We changed the URL to that from http://www.pcworld.com/article/3167594/data-center-cloud/her....
No requirement. But why not try something different if the first version doesn't work well?
> How do you think people got by before they could send pictures of themselves with oversized tongues and dog ears?

Those were dark times indeed.

Some people even had to resort to using physical means of communication, namely paper and ink. To make matters worse, it left open the possibility that the receiver of your communique may not dispose of it properly. I've heard reports of people keeping such "private messages" around for 30, 40, sometimes 50+ years!
The artificial need for ever increasing growth and valuations is so destructive in this town, need to start rethinking some of those attitudes. We just have to hit this weird fake number with no basis in reality, or people's lives get ruined. Why?

I get how capital and return on investment work, but maybe it's time for a different model.
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Eh, it's hardly impossible. My parents have qualified for food stamps at times yet I still had a pretty decent education.
Not in the next month. But that doesn't mean we won't try to make it out sometime this year.
can anyone give a comparable to how much Facebook/Google/Twitter spend on cloud infrastructure per user per year? these numbers are harder to find as they build their own datacenters/staff them/etc.
Cute exploit names AND custom branding/logos, no less!

It's 2017, man. Every little last thing can be bled dry for some sweet, sweet Internet attention. It seems to be one of the most valuable currencies of a new generation of people.
The Penn link links to MIT, bug or feature?
>Top schools attract a disproportionate of intelligent young people.

Top schools scrape off a tiny cohort of the wealthiest and best college-prepped among the smartest. The other 97% of the smartest are, well, not at top schools.
This is definately something I need to look into. Not only would I be able to produce install images but also would have the chance to learn more about what goes into making that ISO file I take for granted. Thanks for posting!
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Good point. We changed the URL to that from http://newatlas.com/dead-sea-scrolls-cave-12/47825/.
And more importantly, how much have you benefited from it? I don't mean in the moral sense, but as in how much of Bitcoin's gains have come from a house of cards with no long-term foundation, and how much from "organic" growth as a currency?
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Hasn anyone implemented IP over QUIC in any VPN product yet?
>It's simply objectively true that students at elite are on average much smarter than students at other schools, and more ambitious.

P(smart | elite school) != P(elite school | smart)
Does that include developing/compiling GE (and GE apps) on Linux/BSD?
Right. I'll remember that next time I'm an infrastructure lead at a company with a 100 million customers ;)

But thanks for pointing out sharding. It can be powerful strategy.
> I don't think there's any reason to get a pure bred dog unless you want to show or breed it yourself

There is one other reason - working dogs. Livestock guardian for example is a job that's very poorly suited for mutts due to the genetic personality traits involved. An LGD with chasing, shepherding, or tracking instincts would be at best worthless, and at worst a danger to your animals.
"It's hard to build solid process, particularly in growth phases." Hard is an understatement, it is insanely difficult.

However, the interview seems to suggest that "write everything down" is the way to solve this problem and was what allowed for all their growth and success. So the solid process they have built is to write everything down, which they obviously didn't do or they wouldn't have had a 7 layer disaster recovery failure.
Hold on, in a comparison between Vonnegut and Twain it ended up being Vonnegut who came off as too cynical? I've had the exact opposite reaction. Twain is borderline unreadable at points due to what seems like a near crippling cynicism just barely holding back from becoming outright whining.
Right now the only thing people are selecting for is wanting to breed and ability to provide for one's family. Sometimes. A study of who fucks who would be really interesting, but kind of useless because what would you do with the information?
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Clearances are run on the parent animals. In the case of hip displaysia, we have adult x-rays sent to OFA for grading - signs of the condition don't usually manifest until the dog is fully grown.

For pups, we have a refund/buyback policy for animals that do manifest such conditions. We have on occasion "adopted back" dogs that the owner could no longer care for, and we've never had a problem finding them a new home.

We did acquire one dog that received an OFA "Fair" hip rating (as opposed to "Good" or "Excellent"), and she simply didn't breed. She lived a long and happy life among the rest of the pack.
>These schools are actually some of the most affordable in the country due to their extremely generous financial aid. Poor families pay nothing and even middle class families have minimal contributions.

Except they do not lower the admissions requirements for poor kid that attended sub-par secondary schools. These are the exact kids that would be excluded admissions (in most cases) because third rate secondary school prep does not compare to the prep a student obtains at Phillips Exeter Academy.
Relativity Whiskey is doing a similar thing (not the same process, just speed-aging): https://www.relativity-whiskey.com

I've had it, and it's very convincing. I'm not an expert by any means, but I doubt I would be able to tell it apart from truly aged whiskey.
I doubt they actually care about the mining, but they certainly could shut it down if they wanted to. I mean, it's China. It's not exactly difficult to locate the miners either - look for the building using 400 MW that doesn't have any steel or widgets coming out.

But I think the parent's point was that, if the Chinese exchanges were shut down, that could have a big impact on price if the hypothesis is true that most bitcoin activity is evading Chinese capital controls. If the hit was big enough it might push mining into unprofitability. This is all speculation, but not impossible.
Correct. Erlang's Cowboy webserver can be included as part of the code base and is actually a built in part of the Phoenix framework.

For what it's worth though, that doesn't mean you shouldn't use nginx. It's easier to configure, very fast, faster than Cowboy for static file serving and small enough that it's usually a good idea to setup nginx as a reverse proxy in front of cowboy. Just let it handle the static files and ssl.

Cowboy can do all of these things, but one of the many lessons of Elixir is that just because you can doesn't mean you should. :-)
It's worth noting that Mt. Gox started with blocking fiat withdrawals first. That was a situation of insolvency; this is the heavy hand of government. Apples and Oranges.
> How do you reconcile the fact that gay sex was a criminal offense with the claim that it wasn't considered abnormal?

Just because something is illegal doesn't mean people consider it abnormal. (I agree with you that it feels historically revisionist, but I don't agree with your argument.)

For instance, smoking marijuana isn't considered "abnormal" by many folks. And yet it is a serious federal criminal offense in the US, punishable by significant jail time.
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Last I checked a year ago, GitLab had just 80 employees. So, it's now doubled. That is quite some growth. More often than not growing companies just collect lots of employees and then a startup comes and beats them...
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If it's fundable, then what would it actually do?

Presumably we're past the point where anything with a .com in the name gets showered in VC money.
They try to match the resolution to your bandwidth. Sometimes that's the right solution, but not always. When the playback stalls right at the big reveal it can be painful, but that doesn't mean I want to watch the minecraft edition of the movie the whole time
If this had been a conclusion reached as a result of careful analysis, then I'd be interested. Relying on people to taste-test a difference is just a broadly pointless exercise I think, and doesn't really prove the conclusion the headline is selling.
The reason most of the time RDBMS are a fit most of the time is because majority of data is inherently relational. It seems that the problem for people with using relational databases is that there's a learning curve to use it. This makes NoSQL much more appealing at first, but once you start using document store and unless your data is trivial (everything can be referenced with a single key) you will realize how hard it is. Sure, NoSQL is easy because you don't have schemas, relations, transactions etc, but because it doesn't have all of that now you have to implement this in your application which is not an easy task.

Another thing (which often overlooked) is that because relational database typically matches data model better your data will take less of space than when stored in NoSQL.
With Postgres there's also the extensibility.

I learned this myself, we had a database that stored mapping of IP to a zip code and latitude/longitude to a zip code. The database was on MongoDB, but it wasn't too big (~30GB) the thing is that to maintain a performance all of the data needed to fit in RAM.

I was a bit curious and decided to see how Postgres would deal with this. So I loaded ip4r extension (to store IP ranges) and PostGIS to enable lookups on latitude/longitude. All the data fit in ~600MB, and with proper indexes postgres returned all queries instantly (sub milisecond).

The Mongo was running on 3 c3.4xlarge instances, but postgres would be fine on smallest available one and would still be able to cache whole database in RAM.
You can't make the argument that a mutt is universally better than a pure bred either. A mutt is a random assortment of components some of which are not ideal for life in human society or what you want in your particular pet.

Temperament is the most problematic because you can get a bad mix of drives and intelligence.

I think the question is whether what you get by picking the components is worth the cost? You won't answer that question with anecdata from a farcical comedy video. IMO the video does a lousy job of making any kind of useful point. I suppose it's good for awareness.

The video makes the exact mistake I warned about. You can't conflate what bad breeders do with what the outcome would be if all breeders were forced to conform to better standards or you find a breeder who breeds the way you want it done.

Straight from the video, breeders breed parents and children and siblings. It's sadly common that it will have happened at some point with many breeders. It's also insane and if you buy from a breeder that does that you have done something wrong.

If someone has some well thought out research comparing the outcomes of a known strong set of well bred dogs from a breed designed to be functional (for some definition) to a set of mixed dogs then we might have a way to quantify exactly what the cost is. Anything else is conjecture.

There are other strong arguments to be made for adoption and mixed breeds. Possibly for people unable to muster the expertise to find a breeder. I still think it's conjecture, but at least more reasonable sounding.

Some of those arguments apply to human breeding, but try having that conversation ;-)
Floating point errors accumulate quite quickly when dt is small it could be a smoothing function.
> To me this means male sexual preference is holistic, meaning if you pass as a woman, but have a penis, you may attract many straight males, who would gag at the idea of a well toned and very masculine male.

Hm... I'm generally attracted to (some) people who look like women, but that's just an assumption, open to change/dispute. I'm pretty sure I'd equally gag at the sight of that "pretty lady"'s penis...
Nope, 'twas exactly what I expected.
"design, build, maintain, utilize, or provide access to a Federal database of geospatial information"

From my perspective that says they cannot even create the data, let alone give anyone access to it.
I think with this release things have come full circle for me. I was part of the team that 5 years ago built Keywhiz at Square, starting the whole "secrets should be files exposed as an in-memory filesystem" thing.

Building it a second time was interesting. One of the biggest reasons why Keywhiz didn't go anywhere was the fact that it is incredibly hard to setup, and requires you to bring your own PKI. This time we didn't make that mistake and integrated directly into Swarm, which is the right place for it to live, and turns setting up your own PKI into a one-liner.

Anyway, AMA.

Disclosure: I work on the Docker Security team
Buying Rackspace to run your infrastructure on? That makes no sense. Customers are using those servers, you'd have to kick them all off in order to reprovision them for your own use.

Otherwise, you'd still have to buy new hardware under the Rackspace moniker.
The math here is awkward to visualise because the numbers are multiplying, but does your $5-6 for 2017 overall require them to be above Facebook's current $7.16 in at least Q4 '17? That seems really ambitious, but I might be reading this wrong. For reference, could you give a ballpark of where you see Facebook's $/user for 2017?
Stanford takes care of tuition for families under $125k of assets, but even that means the upper middle classes will spend tons because they'll fall out of that range.
Personally, not a fan of how a readme-less repository just has an entirely useless main page. I much prefer having the file view a'la github on that page. That's the main UX complaint for me. Still use gitlab bunches.

Main complaint overall is the incredibly sluggish git push speed.
> didn't do anything particularly more wrong than anyone else?

This is almost completely on their admin staff, maybe other people aren't willing to say it, but I will. Test your backups. Or at least make sure they're non-zero in size. It should really be Operations 101.

Whether you do this automatically or manually by setting a reminder on your calendar once a week or even month, doesn't matter. Something this simple would have solved their entire issue. I do this and we run a much smaller shop than GitLab. Heck, if we were larger I'd have hot spare database servers in another datacenter in case the primary got nuked by disk failure, network outages or mistakes.
I'd never seen this before. This is fucking great. Much better than the parent post. Thanks for sharing it!
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