skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh yeah. See below... it is sort of a religion. I really do tell most people to wear hiking boots for the reasons you and your parent commented cited though. I just felt like I should say if someone was in really good shape (like, really good) they can get away with less.

I decided to do a little research to see if I could find any actual studies. Didn't find anything. Some interesting data about military using combat boots vs. running shoes in PT, but that is pretty different from rooty/rocky/slipper trails like the AT. I am gonna have to say anyone that feels too strongly about one or the other should proceed with caution because there is no real evidence one way or another, just religious camps. :)
>> 120+ containers on 12 hosts

it is virtually irrelevant what you use to run and operate this sort of cluster. it gets tricky when you pass 100 nodes and even trickier when you get to 1000+ nodes in a non-linear fashion. Docker certainly has issues that are pretty severe when you are in the financial space and not a big deal if you are running a popular blog like medium.com for example.
I wouldn't lay the blame solely on the fact that Java is a compiled language. The loop is way faster both in iOS with their simulator and even with C# on Windows Phone/UWP, even though all those platforms use compiled languages as well. Like everything else with Android, the build process is a bit of a convoluted rube goldberg machine and compilation is just one of many steps that eat time.

Also, check out Xamarin Workbooks for a good demo of how developing with a compiled language can actually be interactive.
> I would love to see something like the Flutter Engine[1] written in Rust, which is a layer tree that runs in an OpenGL context and includes text rendering, shape drawing, gesture recognition, scroll layers, a layout engine, etc. – all components necessary for modern mobile app development.

WebRender and Servo together contain all of these.
PGP is, supposedly, "Pretty Good Privacy". Code signing has nothing to do with privacy.

It's true that PGP is a very good code signing system, but saying that sounds like an endorsement of PGP as a privacy system. (And there are plenty of other good code signing systems, from TUF to Authenticode to signify.)
Ethereum has amazing features and development, and there is definately a LOT more activity in the ethereum development space vs bitcoin. Ethereum makes me anxious as an investment because it has no defined long term monetary policy, and initially ether were labelled the "fuel" of ethereum rather than being a commodity currency.

Bitcoin OTOH has a monetary policy incredibly clearly defined by a jesus-like figure who has now disappeared. Inflation is fixed and total supply is set at 21 million. Even if some group decided they wanted to change this there are enough people who are committed to 21 million that they will just maintain whatever fork still enacts satoshis original monetary policy. This is non-negotiable and results in a truly inflation-proof currency.
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Just a test: https://txt.fyi/+/18d9428d/
We have no clue whatsoever? Hmmmmmm.
Nest thermostats and apps that fiddle with the charge rate of your Tesla or Bolt don't require changing electrical meters.
You're a few degrees more technical than their target demo I'd imagine. For my sister getting her jewellery business going, she was going to pay a local guy $1,250 to stand up a digitalocean droplet and build a custom site for her, I told her about squarespace and shopify - that was that.
Size of your infra would he helpful.
This is why mobile devs get paid more ;)
>There's a lot of defensiveness in your response, which is understandable given how charged a lot of these conversations can get. I've intentionally phrased the questions to allow for disagreement on whether these topics should even be a concern.

You're right, and I appreciate your phrasing. However, I feel very strongly about this, because I feel these policies hurt everyone, from the people in the majority they directly disadvantage to the minority groups they are supposed to advance.

>As for discarding your opinion, I wouldn't be asking for it if my intent was to discard it.

Could you say the same of every other person likely to view this thread? The same ideology that leads people to inject identity politics into everything is also the one that leads people to discard opinions if they're not from the "right" people. Everyone who isn't a complete minority has absolutely no incentive to tell people what demographic they belong to.

>As for the rest, it looks like it boils down for you that any disparity that currently exists is fine.

I wouldn't say this is true, but part of my dismissive attitude comes from the linked article, which suggests that people should change their hiring practices to move closer to their ideal of a "diverse" company, where all demographics have equal representation. I don't believe this ideal has value, and I believe trying to attain it is discriminatory and harmful to society at large. That doesn't mean all disparities should not be corrected, just that their correction should not involve rigging zero-sum games such as job admittance or university acceptance in favor of their demographic. Instead I am in favor of solutions further down the line, where the actual problem exists, such as increased school funding and better teachers so that these people have a better chance of getting into college and succeeding once they get there.
> Any script kiddy can modify any electron application (The code is in freaking text files!).

And what's so bad about that?

The copyright law of the EU even was written with the intention that someday everyone would have the source code to everything, and everyone — even your grandparents — could modify any application, because the source would be in freaking text files!
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There are already approaches in this direction e.g. such as providing a standardized experimental hardware-software interface with Antha [1]. The complexity of the problems in questions (biological domain, biophysical, biochemical) is daunting - we do not understand many things, "there is plenty of room at the bottom".

[1] https://www.antha-lang.org/
I did a scatter plot of all of them and there's a bit of a trend, but for the most part it's just a mess:

http://mikeash.com/tmp/screenshot_19EB61AA-4DD0-4258-A5D5-A8...

For some reason their two tables don't include the same cities, and the numbers don't quite match up. Doing the same thing from the first table, which includes more cities, produces this:

http://mikeash.com/tmp/screenshot_C047DD43-3029-47E5-901C-9E...

There is a bit of an upward trend there, but it looks pretty uncorrelated to be.
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Suppose I have an idea through work at a company.

I try to submit this patent through the company. But the company's patent board rejects the idea, thinking its insignificant.

In this case, Can I still submit the same idea when I leave the company? (Because this idea was developed with the company's resource during work time.)

Thanks.
Just watched the piece... didn't see any "hateful" things being yelled. Can you point out which statements you meant? What exactly is your definition of hateful? If you are personally a staffer of or one of the 5 million members of the NRA, I guess I could see how you find Oliver's rhetoric harsh... but hateful? And if you're not, why do you take personal offense on the NRA's behalf?
Legalization of drugs is "successful" in that it's a lot better than jailing people, but addiction is still a huge problem for society. If someone really wants to get high, there's not much we can do to stop them, and that's an acceptable consequence of drug legalization. But what we can stop is someone in a lot of pain who buys way too much Oxycodone and gets addicted because they didn't understand the risks. Right now, they'd have to go see a doctor first, who could prescribe an appropriate amount and/or recommend less dangerous treatment options.

When I talk about unlicensed doctor's offices, I don't mean someone posing as an MD, I mean a well-meaning individual opening a cheap clinic and offering medical advice for non-emergency issues. Or maybe more likely, WebMD adding links to order drugs on their results pages. Why go to the doctor if you can just look up your symptoms in 5 minutes and have pills arrive at your door the next day?
As if there hasn't already been 3x (and more) margin trading for the last three years? From my first search attempt:

http://www.coindesk.com/okcoin-international-markets-margin-...
Difficulty doesn't make things 'sacred' unless you're obsessed & delusional. It would be difficult to stand on one-leg for 40 hours but it would also be pointless & stupid, not 'sacred'.
This. Bringhurst's fantastic "Elements of Typographical Style" is still relevant.
Size of your infra would he helpful to know.
> And if you actually want people to drink less soda, stop subsidizing the production of corn syrup.

Eliminate all sugar subsidies would have better health outcomes. Big Sugar is a real lobbying force to reckon with in US politics. Considering how damaging sugar is to the US healthcare system's overall affordability that all US citizens pay for, I'm not opposed to an instantaneous elimination of the subsidies, and let the chips of the attendant unemployment associated with Big Sugar fall where they may. Those subsidies come with a horrendous long tail of consequences.
I am interested and have the cycles. What issues should be started with?
> no database

Where is the data being stored then? Some kind of key value store or filesystem maybe?
For anyone following this thread but not the other one, my reply, wherein I continue not to see much correlation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13716999
The rule isn't that HN must be apolitical, it's that accounts should not use HN primarily for politics. That's a necessary rule, otherwise the site will drown in flames.

Yes, commenters here show up with all sorts of opinions and competing (often bad) ideas. HN is divided because society is divided. Presumably the same divisions would show up in any large-enough sample. The question is what do we do given these divisions, since we can't eliminate them.
I wish uBlock knew how to block those. Sadly, I'm not sure you could write software that could blocking those without blocking useful things like a login prompt that pops up if you leave your session idle.

I suppose it could be done via whitelist or blacklist.
Ditto, and over that period memory has become even cheaper.

I sort of wonder if we'll see a 100% RAM, large memory laptop soon that boots from an SD-card or in a cryptographically secure fashion over 4G wireless networks, aggressively disables RAM for power saving and suspends well.
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Why is this a big deal? Bill Atkinson, for example, who worked on the original Mac, is still writing software.

https://realm.io/news/writing-software-to-make-a-difference/

He's got an app in the App Store, and he's trying to build a little business:

http://www.billatkinson.com/aboutPhotoCard.html
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LEDs were expensive.

From my experience, its "grassroot" old guys who just don't like the new "color" of LEDs. True, LEDs were invented decades ago, but the "proper color" ("Warm White") wasn't really available until recently.

Now that LEDs are the proper color for internal homes, people are beginning to use them. They're still far more expensive than incandescent bulbs, so a lot of people (who don't run the calcs on their electricity bill) still prefer the older bulbs.
Although both of us discuss wide geographical areas, I don't think there's any actual connection between that article and my comment.
> In the US, a hospital would be stupid to make an app like this. Why would you want less foot amputations?

My Uncle died a few years ago when a tree fell on him while working in his back yard. While trying to stabilize him, a doctor put in a request to have a surgeon amputate his leg to prevent complications once he was stabilized. My uncle died that day, and a day later a surgeon and anesthesiologist came to amputate his leg. When he wasn't found in his hospital room, they went down to the morgue, amputated his leg there, and billed the insurance company for the procedure... including the cost of anesthetizing the dead man.

Ridiculous stories like this abound in the American system of healthcare.
signal the app exists and is much more used than already than pgp ever was. it's a different story that i don't recommend it myself, only the protocol.
If it's 3rd party SSD, have you enabled TRIM? I had to do that for my old Mac Mini, made big difference. (2015 MBP of course has factory-installed SSD, but maybe this helps someone else.)

http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/29/use-trimforce-trim-ssd-mac-os...
I noticed this phenomenon recently when reading a variety of articles on evolutionary programming techniques. Each paper would present its benchmarks in comparison to other techniques, which were also described in other papers. Often, a paper would say "we could not reproduce the results in X paper."
well, there are bunch of services which make it easy (e.g. xoom.com) and allow tracking of transactions and verification of transfers etc.
The default distro is Container Optimised OS: https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/. It's derived from Chromium OS, which means we can take advantage of the team who build images for the many devices which use it, and the security response infrastructure around it.

With 'docker info' on a node you can see we use OverlayFS, which seems a popular choice in the community also: http://burkelibbey.s3.amazonaws.com/dockercon-fs.pdf
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Some markdown features aren't working, like code blocks and newlines (by ending a line in double-spaces). Also, unknown routes don't 404 nicely; they just hit the Apache default.
I prefer reading books, so I can jump to where I'm interested in.

For videos, I have to concentrate the whole time, which is tiring.
How does this one not die?
I'm inclined to agree. The Republican party the last few cycles has just become the party of NO, no to this policy, no to that law, undo, remove, etc. etc. They don't seem to have any ideas to show except to destroy everything the Democrats do, good and bad.

Trump was the last straw for me. I voted McCain and Romney but Trump was just too far into the deep end (that and Mitch McConnell has been one of the most obstructionist politicians in American history).
joyent has done some rather dark magic to run Linux containers on an illumos/solaris/smartos/whatever-they-call-it cluster; e.g. https://docs.joyent.com/public-cloud/api-access/docker
Sorry, you picked the wrong book to start with. Its blurb page says: 'If you're a traditional .NET developer used to C# and Visual Basic, discovering F# will be a revelation that will change how you code.... Break free of that old school of programming.'

Try Pickering & Eason's Beginning F# 4.0; its intro has a 'Who Is This Book For?' section, which says: 'This book is aimed primarily at IT professionals.... A working knowledge of the .NET framework ... would be nice, but it's not necessary.'
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>Sorry, let me be clear: If an interesting result is published, people will go to the trouble. Most results are of limited interest and mediocre.

If it's in a journal, it is interesting. Journal editors will require "interesting" as a prerequisite to publishing a paper. Papers do get rejected for "valid work but not interesting".

If journals are publishing papers that are of limited interest, then there is a serious problem with the state of science.

I'm not trying to pick hairs. One way or other, there is a real problem - either journals are not being the appropriate gatekeepers (by allowing uninteresting studies), or most interesting studies are not being replicated.
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Unless you actually need to send email with Signal, or want to be anonymous, since Signal uses your phone number.
If you're a customer and you're interested in either of the first two, please ping me an e-mail.

GitHub's lmctfy README states "We are not actively developing lmctfy further and have moved our efforts to libcontainer."
If I had to guess, from a quick poke about:

You POST your uploaded doc to 'do.php', which renders into an html file and puts it on disk, which is served by Apache. That's about as simple as you can get. Let the web server do what it does best (serve files).
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You've intentionally reduced PGP to your narrow use case. PGP/GPG will also sign and not just encrypt. If you're going to debate the subject do so honestly.
On forward secrecy, at

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22...

I just saw:

> In cryptography, forward secrecy (FS; also known as perfect forward secrecy) is a property of secure communication protocols in which compromise of long-term keys does not compromise past session keys. Forward secrecy protects past sessions against future compromises of secret keys or passwords.

Okay.
Ironically, I've known women who've wanted to drop out of tech culture because of the massive push for "inclusion" and "diversity". Nobody wants to be a diversity hire, and nobody likes seeing people propped up beyond their ability because of their gender or race. A lot of these people just want to be treated normally, and you don't get that by giving people special treatment.
Hmm, time to move to Fastmail completely.
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A preview option would be nice but otherwise I like how simple it is.
I do a huge chunk of my development with physical devices. It would just be nice to have a quick and reliable emulator as a fallback for those times when you don't want to carry a development device, or when attaching it to your machine would be awkward, risky, or horrifically dorky looking.
Such a proud day for our country back in November when we had these two "fine" people running against each other for the highest office in the land.

Honestly, if Hillary was the best we could do for an opposing candidate, then maybe we deserve Trump, if not someone much worse.
Never realized how uncomfortable it is to read a paragraph of monospaced font text, even though I read 1000s of lines of code in monospaced font without any issues.
> or filesystem maybe

For text files?! Get outta town ;)
Please work on typography.
"It is unquestionably a better encrypted messaging system than PGP." You're going to have to back that up. In no way is Signal more secure or private than PGP. Signal is simply easier to use for a very small use case, text messaging.
Details matter at Amazon scale as they say. I have used Docker ever since it was beta, it never made it to our production systems though. LXD looks pretty promising, unprivileged containers, no container service and so on. When I have more time I will investigate how to roll it on CentOS.
They almost certainly own the IP if you produced it during the course of your employment activities. That they give it zero value is too bad, but may mean they'll be amenable to license it to you.
I know who you are. I used Impulse for a long time. Kudos on that. I've had three accounts, the first one when dA launched, but then when I became an admin I created http://johnedgar.deviantart.com and deleted the old one, and then when I started working on other aspects of the community I created http://neom.deviantart.com.
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Trying to figure out what the name of a service is called. The service allows you to sign up and create pages with documentation and also javascript that has access to npm modules and automatically visualizes the returned json data
I like how simple and easy this is to use. At what point would costs of hosting something like this become too much?
By far the majority of it's use is to escape currency controls in fiat currencies. Mostly from China.
Protonmail uses PGP............
>I have always suspected that, but I've never heard anyone be that open about it.

Yes, they'll just say they expect their peers to be competent enough to reproduce, and a paper shouldn't be filled with such trivialities.

To get the real answer, talk to their grad students. Especially those who are aspiring for academic careers. They tend to be quite frank on why they will act like their advisors.

Oh, and citing a whole book for optimization - that kind of thing is quite common. "We numerically solved this complex PDE using the method of X" and then just give a reference to a textbook. But usually the algorithm to implement is sensitive to tiny details (e.g. techniques to ensure tiny errors don't grow to big ones, etc).
You can't ssh to the master with GKE, but you can check the nodes (as mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13715358.)
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>Similarly, a Bitcoin ETF is "specifically designed" to track Bitcoin's volatility for traders who want to speculate on movements of BTC.

Except the Bitcoin ETF isn't leveraged like the example ETF. To borrow a term from your linked article, "It’s a wolf in wolf’s clothing." The example ETF is designed to be volatile, it is clear up front, and anyone investing knows it. The Bitcoin ETF isn't designed to be volatile, it just is because of the volatility of Bitcoin. If the Bitcoin ETF is marketed as a buy and hold type investment, then the volatility is a problem.
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Used 4GB DDR3 sticks based on 2Gbit DDR3 are not that hard to find.
Tesla is selling a lot more Powerpack (industrial or grid scale storage) than Powerwall (home storage.)
Totally agree. Especially about #2, 3. (I assume #1 as well, but have no evidence beyond what I would expect to have happened given how I know they were developed)

These are features that run intentionally counter to modern economics.

It is deflationary because strong currencies displace weak ones: Any individual person will want to hold value in a currency that's deflationary; they get greater value from it the longer they hold it. Is that good for the 'economy'? It's a matter of study. But it's the only thing out there that's deflationary (even gold is currently 2%/yr inflation by newly-mined metal). The fact that Etherium chose not to have this is a nod to the economic theories against deflationary currencies. It will help them with economists and politicians, but it works against them in adoption by individuals.

And it works for everyone the exact same way regardless of circumstances. It makes no social judgements. It has no bias. It runs by the rules. Good people can use it for good things. Bad people can use it for bad things. Rich people. Poor people. Oppressed people. Free people. The fact that Etherium broke their own rules makes them flexible in adversity, but it also makes them untruthworthy. Sure a network could always vote to change the rules, but having a culture of doing so means eventually someone with real power (guns and politicians) will make you change it their way.

While both those might help 'mainstream' adoption, mainstream already has money and electronic transfer systems. It'll be easier for them to fix the 3-day hold period with some new laws about 'you must trust X' than to literally move people off the dollar.

Bitcoin is a direct and overt competitor with the world order of money. Etherium is in a tough middle ground; not quite getting the best of either.
Can anyone comment on whether its safe to run ceph inside docker?
A recent one: Lisp (ECL) with QML integration: https://gitlab.com/eql/EQL5/wikis/home (see QML link: direct Lisp function calls from QML, examples of QML generation from Lisp).