skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most people would surely think

An example of groupthink?

If you haven't studied economics in graduate school, you may not be aware that the field is very different than what is taught in traditional undergraduate economics classes. There are different branches, of course, but the field emphasizes modeling and acceptance of initially-unintuitive results based on careful analysis of system dynamics.

Many people can think through the second-order effects (and beyond) of some policy change. Economists are just one group that has been trained to do so.
I read their post "incident report" too .
Isolation is claimed, but if I understand correctly, HTTP handling is shared between customers. Am I wrong ?

Suppose you're a "bad actor", knowing this is a shared service, wouldn't you look for 0 days in it ?
A carefully crafted exploit has the potential to leak specific content from unaware customers again.

The attack surface is nginx (http://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html) plus each component of each loaded module ...

It would be saner to apply isolation to each element of the cartesian product between customers and services.

The performance (and cost) impact can be mitigated by scheduling resources over a pool of disposable virtual machines (obviously in xen and with iommu protection), but I bet they can develop even better solutions.
landlords gotta landlord, LOL.

They just charge insane rent to the people how actually pay, just like any other insurance scheme, essentially.
Im not sure of your context; but yes an electromagnet is a non-starter here from the get go; dealing with all the mass and power issues, bad spacey thermodynamics.
Meta (since it's too late to edit my original reply):

The sole fact that you commented compelled me to clarify my position and admit that I may indeed have misunderstood the original poster. That is why I am so insistent on actual discussion. My original reaction was, "these people aren't using their words to address mine? Clearly they can't even use their words, so they must be wrong and I must be right." Obviously that reaction isn't rational in this case, but I don't really know what to do about it yet other than to always try to provoke earnest debate.
Of course. But the renter and/or rentee will still be paying less in taxes than people who just own.
Being on any psychoactive chemicals can cause you to lose awareness, especially depressants when it comes to writing with intention.

The other possible aspect is that this post is a starting point for a larger campaign, with this article being an intro of what's to come. However, he could just be ignorant of how to market properly.

Or maybe it's just a personal blog.
Of course it is. The central bank has inflated.
Yeah, 2 GB RAM for ~$3 is amazing, while the mentioned Vultr plan is 512MB for $2.5 and DigitalOcean offers 512MB for $5… Sure, these companies have other advantages (e.g. DigitalOcean has very fast storage) but RAM is so damn valuable if you want to run many services, run software builds, etc.

Unfortunately Scaleway is Linux-only, they use some networked block storage that's not yet supported on FreeBSD apparently. (Needs to be mounted from inside the VM I assume? Damn "cloud" stuff.) Scaleway also used to have no IPv6, I think this might have been resolved though (but one address only IIRC? no /64?)

prgmr is my current choice for personal stuff — 1.25 GB is not as good as 2 GB, but they offer normal Xen VMs with full access — install anything you want. Also the good feeling of supporting a small team of sysadmins instead of a big corporation (esp. vs Amazon/Google, not so much with the other small hosters). The only downside is that they only have US servers, nothing in Europe.
A pretty useful, logical and sensible list. I'd be actually surprised if most SaaS startups were NOT doing this. As a one man show (recently doubled in size to TWO!), I've ticked off nearly everything on here.

One question though - is on the multiple domains bit. Not sure how several separate domains is better than one domain utilising subdomains for API etc.? Intrigued about the 'secret' internal domain thing, and I guess it would apply to larger organisations.

I'd be interested to hear how many startup founders here have a separate internal domain name for back office stuff related to their web offerings.
If it's a comfort at least 200 of those pages are going over libraries that are shipped with dyalog but have nothing to do with the actual language.
Housing isn't a critical issue at all. Housing is large cities is a critical problem.

With the internet and modern transport infrastructure there's no reason to live in a big US metro area like SFO or NYC. The quality of life sucks and the cost of living is outrageous. I can be in midtown Manhattan with a trip about 20 minutes longer than the average Long Island commuter, and live in a bigger, nicer home in a better place that would be possible in the metropolitan area.

It's kind of ironic that we pay people on the other side of the planet to run our IT systems, but the average technology company insists on locating much of its stateside operations in a small number of ridiculously expensive places that increase cost and almost certainly decrease the quality of output. Car companies figured this out 100 years ago.
If you like this movie, I highly recommend the book it's based off of: "The Hoods" by Harry Grey.
The author of the blog starts with the claim that you can't have a rollback button because applications aren't self contained and then at the bottom of the article proceeds to outline parts of how rollback "buttons" in distributed systems are enabled. A rollback button is rarely a "button" and is instead a procedure that was reasoned through in advance of deployment.

Every CM at every large cloud vendor/distributed infrastructure shop has a field asking the operator to detail the rollback procedure which is usually a set of steps that include both turning off new code and fixing up state. Moreover, virtually all large scale distributed systems need to be able to run in mixed mode with old versions and new versions co-existing in different parts of the fleet for hours or days at a time. It's simply not possible to flip from one version to the next in any way that even loosely approximates atomicity at the fleet scale of Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. Any competent distributed systems engineer will think through the upgrade implications... "How does Vnext RPC to/from Vcurrent?", "How will Vcurrent handle changes to central database state made by Vnext?", "How will Vcurrent handle local on-disk state if I need to flip back to it from Vnext on some set of nodes?", and so on. Often such upgrades entail multiple deployments where backward compatibility code is pushed ahead of RPC/state changing code.

Does all that mean there aren't occasional mistakes rendering a planned rollback impossible and the only path forward is to soldier through to V(original + 2)? Of course not. But the author's idea that you should generally plan to soldier through to newer code if things go wrong during deployment as a standard operating procedure betrays a lack of experience and sends a dangerous message. When deployments go off the rails is exactly the time when follow-on mistakes are made - at that point you've got a tense conference call going, the managers/PMs/VPs are asking for ETA for the restored system and the only acceptable reply is "very soon", the engineers are trying to diagnose quickly and may overlook some symptoms of the botched deployment, etc. Even the best engineer is not going to do a great job thinking through all the implications of the remediation they are attempting at that point and the code they're now about to push has almost certainly cut a bunch of corners in QA. That's not a situation I willingly put myself in.
I moved to Windows the second I saw the Linux Subsys... for 3K i built a sick machine, water cooled, expandable to 128 GB of RAM, can add 2 more GPUs if I want and I rock a dual m.2 for the OS... NOTHING apple makes can touch it... and the Trash Can macPro is... laughable now. I still rock an iPhone and the Itunes music match service tho... but Dropbox replaced icloud drive a long time ago. I still like my macbook but that's just because of battery life nowadays.... and I can push a desktop to AppleTV... but that's not for work lol.
Journalists shouldn't be trusted anyway. If you're journalist and you're honest, you're probably in the wrong job.
It is less about truth, more about the process of trying to find it.
Maybe the could just offer a way to download the apps via the internet, and then open some kind of image container and move a file to the Applications folder.
The Zaks book! I remember thinking it was such a weighty tome when I was a child, then being surprised to discover as an adult that it was just a regular sized book.
And then deleting or moving the photo from the desktop afterwards. So, three steps as opposed to one. For a feature (drag n drop) that's all about convenience.
wow, I lol'd... good investigating lol
Oh yes, I'm strictly a Python 2 user (I know, I know).
There's an implementation of a Minesweeper solver in Mozart/Oz too "Playing the Minesweeper with Constraints": https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/minesweeper.pdf
I'm curious why you'd need a specific VPN for a few hours? Get around streaming restrictions?
Thank you for the link to that paper. I've been looking for a casual but comprehensive analysis of the situation for a while. Thank you!
Good providers never overallocate RAM and disk, only CPU.
Colormind: Generate color schemes with deep learning
I've found the best results is to use Slack as a central communications repository, whilst still using other tools for better management. Otherwise Slack itself can still get noisy and distracting if it is the ONLY method of communication.

For example, we use Trello for feature planning and tracking marketing activities etc., but have Trello post to a specific channel in Slack also.

Additionally, we use Intercom + Helpscout for customer support, and have those posting to a support Slack channel as well. Then there are the various Amazon reporting and deployment services which also post log messages to Slack.

In a nutshell, I can jump on Slack to check the overall 'big picture' view of my SaaS, but not have things get lost in the noise.
I run a few medium sized side projects (x-xxx million pv/month). I can never use a per-GB-cost CDN solution, and all of my sites require protection up to L7.
> A lot of the demand is driven simply by the fact that the city is a magnet for people from all over the country.

So what's your theory about why Toronto has seen 20%+ YoY appreciation? Why now?
What's the point of cheap housing if people are going to spend all the money that is saved into unneeded new electronic devices or new cars?
RamNode does too.
The movie stands up to repeat viewings fairly close one after the other. The full cut plays with time and nostalgia in a way that deepens your appreciation of it in a second viewing. I think it can stand to be viewed in two halves - the cuts between eras make natural breaks.

It's my favourite movie, for the visual storytelling in particular.
And of course, Android (Cyanogenmod had it in 2010 or so)
If you'll look even further back in the Mac OS history, you'll see that they didn't really care about developers back then. Their entire focus was media and publishing with education on the side. I think it hurt them in the long run as they've always lagged behind with software and gaming and they only managed to make some headway in the PC market when they devoted resources towards making life easier for developers.

I've always liked Mac OS better than Windows and even though Windows 10 is finally a usable system for development, I still don't trust Microsoft. I've been burned too many times with a promising system that then gets hobbled by ORMs adding their own Adware and other BS, by Microsoft caving into the bean counters and hobbling their systems in order to fight Chinese piracy, and by some C-suite managers bright idea that they should to waste resources on some "Synergy" play instead of just making the OS, and other products, better.

At the core, you still have an ecosystem where the people making the computers can't make enough money on their own because Microsoft and the chip makers are squeezing them. Which makes for a sorry experience in the long run, even if Apple has its own problems.
He is saying that women don't need careers to increase their status, but men do. It's more or less implying that women gain value in American society from their looks, rather than their contributions to society.

Is it sexist? Is it true? Is it a different story in China?
Slack is not free of the problem whatsoever:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/04/hacking-slack-accou...

http://www.businessinsider.com/slacks-security-breach-may-be...

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3123727/collaboration/th...
I tried it and it looks good to me, my only concern was how will be the session name collision is handled?
>Giving us an odd cloud first strategy seems more suited for a phone or severely storage constrained devices.

What "odd cloud first strategy"? Cloud is just ANOTHER option, not a "first" or privileged one. To the point that Apple also includes a whole new local filesystem (in beta) with Sierra.

>Seem to remember that most of that conversation was of ZFS. They even got a long way into the ZFS port before abandoning.

Oracle bought Sun and poisoned the area with patents and threats.

>It's funny, if Apple had not significantly reduced the Wh of MBP batteries in the latest generation we could easily have had both.

No, we really couldn't. At best we'd have a 10% or so larger battery space. The impact of RAM (there whether you use 32GB or fewer for a task or not) is much larger.
It's actually not hard to do. In theory, a single PCR reaction with only two primers could copy the entire data set in a few hours.
Honestly, I agree with you on all this. Just because I don't think it's too wild today, doesn't mean I love the trend.

We need to double down on education, support the creation of new businesses, make massive steps forward in terms of transit networks and reduce the future need for high "demand" side in Toronto. If we invest in other areas now (that is not to say we don't invest in TO any less), it's possible that a more sustainable growth curve for TO will come to exist.

Oh, and NOT let Kevin O'leary win the PC leadership.
The operative clause there is "should be built in". And of course I can say "should be" because it has been for years now. Literally just yesterday magsafe saved my computer from being thrown off the desk. The regressions in overall user experience with this latest MBP mean that I'm no longer willing to pay Apple the premium that I've been paying them.
UAE is very safe for tourists and citizens. UAE is also a very small country <10 million people.

The UAE makes one thing very clear from the age of traders centuries ago. "UAE is not your country" you are only visiting or you are earning a living. If you don't like anything go back to your home country at any time. Don't try to change them. No politics, don't speak against state or religion etc. There are also some norms which are very relaxed compared to other countries in that area.

Source: I was never a citizen, born in UAE and grew up there. I have lots of family there who never had problems. I left after I got a tech job in Europe. might return some day.
Here's a Google Trends link: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=welfare%...
The blurb about the company at the end of this article made me wince:

> Skyliner is an AWS platform for continuous delivery. We’re trying to build a straight jacket that you can wear to stop hitting yourself in the face.

I'm usually one of those guys with an instinctive distaste for marketing, but it seems like this is one startup that badly needs some professional help in the way they talk to potential customers...
Those guys were let go. They didn't spend hundreds of days in detention like the North Korea link, or get stabbed to death like the Russian article.
Robots are wealth creators and taxing them is illogical
So is Lisbon
Consider the alternatives to the index fund:
1. Pick individual stocks and directly buy those. (A lot less diversification and a lot more hands-on management required.)
2. Hire a stock broker to invest for you. This is like #1 except now you are at the mercy of someone else whose interests you cannot be guaranteed to align with you.
3. Managed investment fund. Funds are diversified based on the discretion of the funds manager. Big fees are required for the privilege of having one pick stocks to buy and sell for the portfolio.
4. Real estate. Good investment but exceedingly high initial capital requirements.
5. Commodities - gold, silver, oil, pork bellies, etc. Less diversity of investment and specialist knowledge of the commodity are required.

Index funds are low cost to run, have a low capital requirement, require little to no active management, are highly-diversified, and get a fairly good rate of return. As a default option of 'do nothing and some money comes in', that's hard to compete with.
dev ops is hard!
Have you thought about all the outcomes that will be caused by this policy? Because one obvious one is old people and poor families being kicked out of homes because they can't afford the tax. I guess we can just increase taxes even further to pay for their safety net which will result in them living in nice beautiful public housing.
> I want the possibility to dual boot or share drives with other operating systems, I don't need a new proprietary filesystem.

Then you're in luck. APFS isn't proprietary, as Apple's website claims that "Apple plans to document and publish the APFS volume format specification when Apple File System is released for macOS in 2017." So there will be nothing preventing drivers from being written for other operating systems, though of course it will require someone to actually do the work. In return you get a FS that improves on HFS+ in reliability, performance, and features (volumes). If there is enough interest I imagine it might even compete with btrfs for use as a root volume for Linux installations… though there probably won't be.

You may criticize Apple for not open sourcing their implementation of APFS, though I'm holding out hope they will do so eventually. An open source implementation would definitely be useful as a starting point for drivers for other operating systems, but to be fair, it would still require someone to spend the time to port it. Apple's HFS+ driver is open source as part of xnu, but Linux hfsplus doesn't support journaling which was added in 2002. That's not Apple's fault.
If there are Waterloo grads looking for less than 80k for their first job (and they're not idiots), send them my way. I currently have 7 open developer positions I'm struggling to fill (and i'm more than happy to pay market rates for any level of experience!)
Thankfully HN is not a VPN discussion site, so I have the freedom to say this:

The VPN market is completely artificial. You can completely sidestep all the inflation by getting your own VPS or server. I've found this is tons cheaper, and you have complete control over the hosting provider. I can recommend Feral or UrDN myself; I've heard very good things about both, they are worth your time checking out. I also have good but limited personal experience with Contabo; they generally have admirably high CPU and network load tolerance, but they are in Germany. For 100.00% assurance find somewhere in Switzerland.

Configuring OpenVPN (or SoftEther if that floats your boat) yourself also lets you remove the server-sent default route stuff, which makes the process of configuring your own local routing setup a little more elegant. (It also teaches you a lot!)

There's also the massive benefit that because the VPN machine itself is (presumably) just a Linux box, you can run Tor, Freenet, Tox, etc etc on the machine, and benefit from that connectivity everywhere - while completely moving those traffic profiles away from yourself. Win!

Also: it's VERY easy to only run specific applications over the VPN link. I did this for a friend running FreeBSD a few months ago using two FIBs.
At first it seemed to me to be expensive for a little not really practical house to live in. Then I figured out this is a tech demo and PR stunt and not an attempt to make affordable housing for people to live in.

I wonder how this compare to a yurt or straw bale construction.
That is a very interesting idea. I've seen power sockets with USB-A ports. When we move to USB-C, that same port could actually identify itself as a dock, offering both power and Ethernet.
I want to say ctrl+q is an exit command from within the application (graceful shutdown) whereas alt+f4 is more of a system level halt for whatever is in focus (hard reset).
Toronto has been the economic and immigration centre of Canada for 20 years. Why has there suddenly been an inflection point in the rate of price growth in the last 2-3 years? [1] What about Toronto's economic fundamentals (i.e. the capacity of Torontonians to pay for housing) has changed in that period?

Don't get me wrong, there are definitely organic factors that contribute to the price growth in Toronto. But those cannot account for >15% year-over-year growth.

[1] http://www.torontohomes-for-sale.com/4a_custpage_2578.html
> The models used in undergraduate physics classes, or even to high school physics are not statistical.

You are correct insofar as they are not presented as being statistical. But in reality, they are. Ohm's law is a good example. Resistors in reality do not have the exact resistance specified on the package, but rather are constructed within a certain tolerance, so that the final behavior of the circuit will be, again, a distribution. This would be an example of measurement error. The quantum effects also exist, as Intel will affirm as they are trying to build very small transistors, and the behavior of such transistors is probabilistic.

> Maybe the public, but not the actual scientists...

Ehh, I'm an "actual scientist". I work in bioinformatics & medical research. I don't care about what the public thinks for the purposes of this conversation. Even actual scientists will sometimes use this shorthand if the error is small enough, which is fine by me.

> At a certain point we stop worrying...but there is no practical purpose.

You're right. When we talk about the error rate in predicting planetary orbits, there is no practical purpose. My only point in my original reply was that the "exact" is a special case and a simplification of the statistical model, which is ubiquitous. If we are wanting to be technically correct, however, I stand by my assertion that all physical laws are inherently statistical.

I think we don't really disagree. This all started because you asserted there are phenomena which are "not statistical in nature", which I disagree with at a pedantic level.
Is there a good entry-level article or video explaining planetary magnetics? I'm an aerospace engineer and I struggle with the difference between magnetospheres, magnetotails, magnetosheaths, magnetopauses and Magneto's psychological struggles.
Snapshot your current running instance and create a new $2.50/month server using that snapshot.

Works fine, I just moved a site from $5 to $2.50 without issues.
Caffeine (and other stimulants) help squeeze dopamine out of its hiding places in my brain. This greatly improves my calm and concentration.
For context, it was removed from this chart of privacy-respecting email services: https://prxbx.com/email/
>Since Apple and Microsoft categorically refuse to implement any of the many featureful existing filesystems, one is stuck with archaic NTFS (with no file permissions) or FAT (with less than 4gb files) to keep data.

xFAT which I already mentioned is supported and doesn't have a 4GB limitation. You can have up to 128 pebibytes (which should be enough for everybody: that's ~144 petabytes).