skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably double down, because the alternative is accepting that what Trump was offering genuinely appealed to a large amount of people. That's what the Democrats don't get, that people weren't tricked into voting for Trump but thought/think he's more likely to improve the US and his policies could work.

It's like the situation with the anti Brexit people in the UK. They physically can't picture a situation where people would want Brexit, so they desperately look for a scapegoat.

Either way, there's no scapegoat or trick responsible here. The losing side wasn't offering what people wanted, and the winning side appealed to more people.
What type of architecture are you using? We're starting to set up a distributed backend at http://www.bugdedupe.com, and there don't seem to be a lot of resources out there about how to do it right.
UPS has delivery drones that launch from their trucks
In as much as it's pre-Marxist and pre-Utopian socialism, sure. But if you told a hardline ML that this was socialism they'd probably call you a deviationist or some other buzz word.
Fighting poverty sometimes implies fighting inequality, such as in a zero sum resource struggle. Poor people aren't warren buffet yet.
My favorite story is Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. He got the best futurists money can buy to predict what the near future would be.

They had all sorts of strange interfaces and ideas. Newspapers with screens on them, etc.

It was just 3 years before the iPhone came out...
In the US, there's a bit of pyramid to real-estate commissions and a lot of the recruitment is done by brokers. And even at the sales person level, the commission structure of most company's pays better when an agent sells the listing of another agent in the company so the more agents the better the odds of a better commission.

But coming from the architecture profession, I don't discount encouraging others as a form of self-validation of one's own career choices.
> It does seem that Apple are keen on migrating their users to Linux of late.

Indeed, especially MacOS gamers. Wine on Apple won't be able to play DX11 games (because Apple abandoned OpenGL there), and it's some incentive for them to switch to Linux.
I wonder why it's still the case. Lack of resources to enable HTTPS ? lack of manpower ? ..
I understand your point. We're in a very polarized political environment, and I think it's important to recognize the context buried in questions like "Is the Black Lives Matter movement doing good?" It's suspicious sounding on its face, without any specifics or nuance given. There's a LOT of hatred toward the BLM movement that is completely indefensible (e.g., applauding running over BLM protesters in the street, or accusing them of inciting violence). BLM is not beyond criticism. If you have a something to critique, critique it. On its face, "Is Black Lives Matter doing good?" smells a lot like "I think BLM is bad". And that is likely to be met with an unpleasant response.
How many users of those games are actually playing on Linux? Genuinely curious because I doubt it's more than 10%.
You have the appearance of agency. That agency is mediated and curtailed by a profit-motivated intermediary that ultimately has almost total control.
The most epic Developer humor shirt ever
Listen, I'm with you. Root is special and granting root to ~stuff~ should be something you don't do on a whim.

That said: I question that services should stop working if I have the ability to grant root. Reasons:

1) Maybe I know what I'm doing (honestly .. I consider myself capable and still have cringe while writing this)

2) Your software isn't immediately compromised in its core functionality if _I_ own my _own_ device.

For Netflix, this feels like another failed attempt to close the analog hole. Android Pay and whatever else might try to be your wallet (I'm a huge fan, as you might notice in this thread) should be able to withstand that. Otherwise it's just a crappy payment system.

I can pay stuff from my PC (various operating systems) and I do have root (or the equivalent permissions). I also own - as I stated in my original post - a CC that allows me to spend money freely. I don't know how hard it would be to copy it physically, but you'd be able to strip the core details (name, number, CSC) in a couple seconds/with two pictures.

Why is the CC secure, but a rooted phone isn't. Ignore Netflix, they're brain-dead and content related DRM isn't what I'm going for. I'm asking why random legitimate services refuse to work on a phone, because .. the owner actually seems to own the device?
I do this for "not get annoyed while stracing" reasons, not perf!
Most yogurts play nice with my stomach in moderation. If I eat lots of it then gas city and pain for me.
I think in some cases, definitely.

I'm not sure how to complete this thought right now, but it comes down to: "Do you feel safe expressing yourself?"

Your "safety" might not be important for the situation, may not be relevant for the situation; safety shouldn't be confused with agreement / support, etc, etc.
Gravitational lensing is another mind blowing thing we do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens
React is a UI library and Falcor is a library for data fetching. They solve different problems
Upspin.io, a framework for naming and sharing files
There are discounts if your instances can be pre-empted: https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/. The pricing isn't variable like EC2 spot instances, however.
Linear algebra is used in even the simplest of games, and almost anything related to cad, computer vision, engineering, ...

If the problem is related to web and databases and crap then there is rarely any linear algebra (heck there are rarely even real numbers) but we didn't go to school to work with databases and web forms did we ;)

Obviously hilbert spaces might not be useful everywhere but for example, anecdotally I did stumble across one interesting problem already in my first year out of university: A drawing program needed to scale a drawn ellipse in one direction, which wasn't necessarily along one of its axes. Q: is the result an ellipse? What are its axes?

A: (I had to ask a friend with better linear algebra skills, which still bugs me): the axes will be given by the eigenvectors of the matrix involved. The math was fairly hairy compared to most other things in a simple drawing program, but it was fun and really rewarding when the math worked.
A quick search seems to indicate that "velvet glove" refers to gentle but persistent persuasion. Evangelicals come to mind (not of the fire and brimstone variety).
So you avoid open source projects, base your opinion on some crappy forum app, and when confronted with the fact that the crappy app in question was in fact from an 'algo interview' company, you write this long winded word salad about text editing on your phone.

You have no freaking clue what you're talking about. I feel sorry for your colleagues, and hope your trip back out of the valley is a pleasant one.
Now when I think about it, Dropbox could still beat them to market by implementing and marketing this type of file addressing with their existing userbase.
Developer creates app for users to text quotes of Donald Trump
Deciding our f8
The problem with software X is that it's far too complex and it doesn't have my favourite feature Y!
As I understand it, historically speaking, the Electoral College was basically created to ensure the preservation of slavery as an institution.

For reference:
http://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery/
God, I want something like iTerm2 for Linux.
Magic Leap acquires 3D division of Dacuda in Zurich
Have you tried this one?

https://sourceforge.net/projects/emacsbinw64/files/release/

It's worked for me fairly well.
Hi, Camlistore author here.

Andrew Gerrand worked with me on Camlistore too and is one of the Upspin authors.

The main difference I see is that Camlistore can model POSIX filesystems for backup and FUSE, but that's not its preferred view of the world. It is perfectly happy modeling a tweet or a "like" on its own, without any name in the world.

Upspin's data model is very much a traditional filesystem.

Also, upspin cared about the interop between different users from day 1 with keyservers etc, whereas for Camlistore that was not the primary design criteria. (We're only starting to work on that now in Camlistore).

But there is some similarity for sure, and Andrew knows both.
Let's say climate change gets absolutely horrific, and we see a 1m rise in sea levels over the course of a pod's 10 year lifespan. So your underwater datacenter pod, originally deployed 200m below the surface, is now at 201m. Somehow I don't think this would be an enormous problem.
We've buried this post so that we can discuss the real thing tomorrow.
It still won't necessarily be degrees that separate the high performers from the low performers.
There aren't many stats on actual Linux usage for cross platform games. The only public data is from Humble Bundles, and it was for indicated usage (i.e. you could select what platform you intend to use the game on while buying).

Even if it's 10% - it's a lot of users.

There was some article, that availability grows gradually. I.e. if too many games will come out for Linux at once, the market will be too flooded with them, which will in turn hurt both developers, and users.
I'll post results here once I get permission to bring those docs into the cloud - they are all mostly private.
MongoDB Atlas: Hosted MongoDB as a Service
This is cool and all, but salt water is basically cancer. If you want to experience first hand entropy at a rapidly accelerated rate, buy a boat and moor it in salt water. With all of the associated repair/maintenance costs and headaches that go with it. Now add electronics and server equipment.

There are ways to use cold water for cooling without submersing things. Many of the buildings in downtown Toronto (including the 151 Front IX point and datacenter) are cooled from deep lake loop cooling/heat exchange: https://www.google.com/search?q=toronto+deep+lake+cooling&ie...
Actually, it's more that it's the best Kepler class part. Maxwell, unfortunately, doesn't have full-speed double precision, locking out an entire (important) segment of the market. As I said in another thread, we'll have P100s and so on as soon as we can.
Space suits have ar-conditioning units so astronauts don't die of overheating. This is how hard is to radiate heat to space.
As much as I'm not a fan of some of Dell's dodgy multinational practices, I have respect for them pushing mainstream adoption of pre-installed Ubuntu.

I tried to persuade a UK company Novatech that offers computers without an OS to go one step further and offer Linux. They liked the idea, but the support overhead wasn't worth it for them.
"We switched to something that completely doesn't match our use case. Then whined about it."
Shower Thoughts
We do not know if GJ 1132b has oxygen in it's atmosphere, or even if actually has an atmosphere. Just that it's possible, and that if it does, we'll be able to detect in the future.

From the abstract of the Nature paper:

"Receiving 19 times more stellar radiation than the Earth, the planet is too hot to be habitable but is cool enough to support a substantial atmosphere, one that has probably been considerably depleted of hydrogen. Because the host star is nearby and only 21 per cent the radius of the Sun, existing and upcoming telescopes will be able to observe the composition and dynamics of the planetary atmosphere."

Emphasis on "cool enough to support" (not supports) and "probably been" (not has), and "will be able to observe" (not has observed).

http://news.mit.edu/2015/new-earth-sized-exoplanet-1111

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_1132_b

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v527/n7577/full/nature1...
> Who likes atlassian software?

I do, and have been using it since Atlassian was a tiny startup.

Don't know any project management software as flexible and powerful, with integration with enterprise source control and bug tracking systems as Jira.

I really don't have any reason to suggest anything else.
I thought they were fast because x86 has multiple register files, enough for kernel space and user space to have their own, so that entry/exit to system calls doesn't require flushing registers to L1 (in the common case).

If that's true, then one test where you have a single process spinning into and out of a single syscall will have very different performance characteristics than a test where you have more processes than processor cores, because context switches flush the TLB.

Somebody who knows actual things about x86 and so forth please tell me if I'm spouting 90s-era comp sci architecture textbook stuff that no longer applies.
I don't deny those have been used against the left. (Although some terms, like shill, aren't left or right wing, and godless could describe an atheist whether conservative or liberal.)

The difference is cadence. Do conservatives label virtually all our opponents with slurs? No. But the inverse is true: the left almost invariably labels its opponents with SIXHIRB.

For example, go to FoxNews.com and find articles about leftists. Is there name calling? How often?

Now do the same on HuffingtonPost.com and find articles about conservatives. Is there name calling? How often?
Unfortunately, even Dell don't offer Linux on every model.
I read one blog post about detecting an (already known) exoplanet just using a telephoto lens and a DSLR. So it's definitely affordable!
How does one politely decline a handshake due to religious reasons?
Just to throw this out there as another possible optimization, if you find that you're putting a big fat library into every function, one possibility is to run the library as its own lambda function. You'll be slowed down a bit by the network but it might be made up for by not having to constantly initialize the same thing.
Ask HN: What's your workflow on your computer?
A big problem is that the Linux world loves to fragment itself.

There is no "Linux" to bundle. You have to pick a distro.

On the surface all major distros look like a good choice, but for unclear reasons they're all incompatible with each other despite doing the same things in the same ways.

For techies it doesn't matter because they can get any distro to work if one works. But it matters a lot for non-techies because things like tribal knowledge and even packages are all incompatible.
> To metals. Not so much to plastics.

I'm guessing you've never experienced the joys of owning a 30 to 40 ft sized, completely non metal (fiberglass hull) sailboat kept in salt water, with all of the great fun of paying to haul it and have the marine growth scaped off, pressure washed, double or triple coat bottom paint re-applied, etc. Just because it's not metal doesn't mean it doesn't attract the category of what the maritime industry lumps together as "marine fouling".
It’s “GNU\NT 10.0”.
What advantages does it offer over PuTTY?
> Therefore the main blocker wasn't the bad advocacy or anything of the sort, but the old and crooked stranglehold of MS on manufacturers. The only way to seriously increase Linux desktop adoption is for availability of Linux pre-installed computers to significantly rise.

Plenty of companies have tried offering Linux pre-installed and almost all of them have failed for various reasons. The main reason is that people don't buy them. Either they are perceived as being too hard to use, or they don't easily run the business software or games that users typically want, or buyers are confused by Linux having 157 variants, or they are happy with Windows, or whatever.

The other reason is that manufacturers can make money selling Windows PCs but can't make money selling Linux machines, partly because of the extra costs of hardware qualification, drivers, increased stock control, accounting, book-keeping and advertising costs, and massively increased support costs... unless support is either denied or sold separately as an ongoing cost.

Of course, Linux is getting a free ride on the back of Microsoft's compatibility work. If you are using Linux then you are benefiting hugely from the cost of parts being driven down by Windows PC sales. (Apple switched to Intel partly to gain the same benefits.)

> MS use their heavy leverage of Windows pricing to prevent that.

One of the settlement terms in the anti-trust case was that Microsoft was not allowed to do deals on Windows pricing, so that all the leading OEMs were on a level playing field.

This settlement ran for roughly a decade. Did you see a huge rise in Linux PC shipments? No. The only real difference was that it pushed up the average price of Windows and made Microsoft more profitable.
So, why do you attribute the institutionalized sexism of divorce proceedings to what the "radical left promotes"?
Uprooting is harder than it seems too. House and property valuations plummet shortly after the company propping up a "company town" departs. Finding a potential home buyer in a dying town becomes quite difficult, for adults, leaving becomes equivalent to walking away from everything, including a mortgage.
At least the binaries are authenticode signed now, so checking they are legit is just a right click away.
I think it was critical of the language style guide's language style outside of its criticisms of classics, but then somehow finds the real issue is the meaninglessness of words in the common-folk language of Trump compared to the eloquent (yet also straight-forward) language style Obama.

In other words, I'm confused too.
I take the recruiter's call just to get market information. Who is hiring? What are they paying? What's the market for someone like me? Or someone I may want to hire? Who is doing interesting work?

For better or worse, the "Mass hire smart people" is the most efficient way for these large companies to recruit. It's very good for ensuring universal standards of quality. But it suboptimal for specialists like the OP.
Oh the nightmares of using ClearQuest back in early 2000's.
From my early reading, this isn't quite as distributed as it relies on a directory server and email for identification.
What protocol does this use or does it require a specific application? Is it HTTP or something else? If I wanted to use Upspin to host files for my biddle project (https://github.com/prettydiff/biddle) how would I retrieve those files?
Damn. Well said.
Hmm, that page refers to an embargo on the entire paper, not to the publication or dissemination of crucial findings. I'm not sure it completely applies.
> There is a reason Dropbox does so well, its simple and doesn't require you do any manual fiddling

Cue someone linking to that that HN chain of messages about how Dropbox just won't work.
Sure. vi, grep, and bash are all great tools, and you can do amazing software dev work using them - but that doesn't mean things like IntelliJ aren't also great. My Groovy/Grails devs think I'm some sort of Wizard when I pull out grep and pipe things to awk then pipe that to a Perl one liner, but I watch them using their IDE and think "Wow, that's _so_ cool!" as well...

I'm old-school, deeply entrenched into the Unix "do one small thing well" philosophy. But there's no string of terminal command line tools that's going to do all the things Jira does for the entire group of people in a typical business that use Jira.

(I find it quite amusing when devs here discover/get-shown for the first time that SourceTree is - underneath - pretty just typing git commands into a terminal for them!)
In case it's not clear, this project is in its very early stage of development. There's a ton of work to do to get it into the hands of non-technical users.

From the readme: "Upspin has rough edges, and is not yet suitable for non-technical users."
How nature created consciousness – and our brains became minds
From Vim to Visual Studio Code
Kudos to you for asking this question. I was under the same impression that it was an official Google product but the repos didn't show any sign of this.
Can't have people watching two streams on the same computer. Common sense or something.
Though marine fouling is primarily of concern for fiberglass boats because it massively increases drag which admittedly is less of an issue for a datacenter. It's still an issue for the pods as mentioned in the article, but I'd expect it to be less grave than on a boat.
Yeah that was one of the many reasons it was a terrible idea. :)
Is anybody else using firefox having crashes caused by this webpage?
Indeed that's the one that I used. For some reason, even just moving the cursor around the buffer was extremely unresponsive, it would take seconds for it to register a cursor movement. I'll have to figure out if it's some package I'm using.
Anti-trust case revealed, that MS threatened manufacturers to raise Windows price, if they'd sell computers without an OS. That's another indicator of such blackmail. I don't think the court did anything about that.

If all would have been clean deals wise, there wouldn't have been such a mess of Windows tax and never ending tying problem.
The "official" one:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#windows
This is ridiculous. Data centers contain thousands of racks like the single rack shown in the demo "pod" and they all require hands-on human maintenance from time to time. This becomes quite a bit harder when your server rack is in a sealed steel tube on the seafloor.

Splitting the data center into thousands of "pods" will also greatly increase the cost of cabling and connectors for power and data distribution (we're talking $100 per connector here) and the number of cable failures will skyrocket. Did you know that fish like to chew on submarine cables? Unless you get steel-armored cables, which are defended against "fishbite"...
Yes and no.

I think that the lead or "surgeon" (to quote The Mythical Man Month) in charge of any app or service development project should be well trained. Anyone who brings in a junior developer (anyone without a CS degree or equivalent, or less than 5 years of professional experience) to lead a project is asking for trouble.

But I think that average developers don't need the full training any more than a nurse needs to have a full medical degree. There are certainly things that I don't want to have to do, and while I might be able to do them better in some way than a more junior developer, they just don't matter enough.

It is a Catch-22, though: Just having a CS degree and five years of experience doesn't make a developer competent. I'd love to see some kind of certification to help separate the wheat from the chaff, so that non-experts could distinguish a top developer from a mid-tier developer.

But none of the certifications I'm aware of do anything aside from test that you've memorized the right buzzwords associated with a particular technology, and as such having such a cert is almost useless.

So yes, I'm arguing for certifications despite the fact that I view certifications as useless. If we had good certifications, maybe we could help establish a better way to distinguish developer skills. Would love to see that, but I admit it's selfishly motivated: I'm really good at programming and technical tests, so any such regimen I'd likely end up with the highest ratings, except if domain-specific knowledge was required.
I don't use PuTTY either for the same reasons as you, but I do continue to use Pageant. I use a mix of Windows and Linux tools and I only really want to enter my SSH cert credentials at start-up. So I still end up installing it.

I also use Bitvise for tunneling on the Windows side as well.
I see the makings of a great story. In 300 years, treasure hunters search for a lost data-center that drifted away in a storm.
We use the local isp and get a fibre line to the chai wallah. We help do the kyc, installation and whatever else is necessary.

Tokens are physical and work exactly the way you describe. Pay cash, get wifi.
The iterm image support is pretty simple (just a VT100-style command wrapped around a base64 encoded png). Maybe somebody can implement it for gnome/vte or something, and see if there's any traction.