skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What if we grow 20x overnight" is basically magical thinking, that's about what it'd take to really cause problems, the odds of it occurring are dirt low. Most of the time it'll lead you to waste money. Certainly not enough to account for nearly that price increase. Especially given that you can still rent dedicated or cloud servers temporarily to accommodate in the event that something like that does happen.

As for personnel, if I had to, I'd hire mostly devops people or pay freelancers for jobs as needed until hitting a limit where you have to dedicate a large portion of someone's time to it and then repeat the math - I fully suspect that this would mean sticking with bare metal. I suspect a 2 or 3 person group dedicating their time to managing only hardware and basic infrastructure for something like Kubernetes could probably handle hundreds of servers without issue. Even if that averages out to an additional cost of $1000 per server per year it'd only be approximately a $80 per server month, nothing like the increase of going to EC2. And renting entire racks gets cheaper than the individual colocation I'm paying for at the moment. It'd surely be interesting
This is incorrect. People did indeed think appendices were just useless throwbacks for a long time, but more recently the medical community recognizes their usefulness. They're basically like a first-level bootloader for the GI system, used to store bacteria in case of a severe illness like cholera or dysentery. It also serves some other immune functions. See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_%28anatomy%29#Functio...
Right now Sweden is a military vacuum. Anyone with a decent army can walk in and take what they want.

This makes the country a path of least resistance. If you are NATO trying to plan for defending the baltic states from Russia, you must plan for stopping them from taking Gotland.

So the first goal of improving Sweden's defense is to make that better.
This is just beautiful: "Standard utilities provide the output in the form of a plain text. For each utility, we actually need a parser of its own."

(More people would probably have read the Unix Haters Handbook if it was as pithy as this.)
>But the fine particles originating from the wear of tires, road surface and brakes will still remain with electric cars.

I've been curious what straws the anti-car people would grasp at once combustion engines are gone.
That's exactly the reason why I, along with my circle of friends, moved to Snapchat.
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In a way it's true, but that could be said about any innovation, any startup: 'Do you really think you have a better way of doing it than what has already been figured out?'

If people followed that principle, there would be no democracy, civil rights, rule of law, women's rights, most religions wouldn't exist, etc. Some of those innovations challenged what had been true for all of human history.
World of WarCraft is probably the best example of this effect. If they'd gone for realism, the game would've looked dated within a year or two, and had its popularity drop a lot faster.

But the cartoony style let them keep going with just minor updates to the graphics for more than a decade. That decision must've made them at least a billion dollars over the last 10 or so years.
The thing is UNIX, by definition, is never going to move beyond its original design, meaning POSIX + C.

Whereas Mac OS, Windows, iOS, Android, ChromeOS have moved into more productive language runtimes, with rich frameworks, improving safety across OS layers, even if they have a few bumps along the way.
I think that most communities (but specifically utopian communities, as the article discusses), like startups, aim for a "non-zero-sum" ideal -- that is, a way of making everybody happy.

But there's something about our existence that screams "zero-sum": there's scarcity in the universe, for one (a lot more hydrogen than lead, for example); there's scarcity in the Earth (a lot more iron than gold); there's scarcity in nature (mates are hard to find, not finding a mate means your genetic material doesn't propagate), heck there's even scarcity in our own lives (if I spend time studying math I won't have time to study music).

IMO failure is driven by this facade of non-zero-sum-ness crumbling and people becoming disillusioned.

So I've tried to change my mentality recently when building (or thinking about) social things. In a zero-sum universe, if someone has a lot of followers, someone else won't have any. If someone gets some benefit, someone else won't.

Socialism vs capitalism is a very weak analogy (the idea of scarcity and winners and losers goes far beyond economics), but I think there's some merit to it.
Oh yeah, we get plenty of them out here in the rural parts. Friggin stupid.

We've got a little '81 tractor that's a 3-cyc 1.4L diesel and if the wind blows the wrong way you definitely don't want to inhale too deeply. I'd love to convert it to Tier IV but there just aren't kits made for it.
> which is like listening only to music by Duran Duran

You say that like it were a bad thing.
That's an interesting point. I've had feature requests I don't agree with. The problem is that one feature may make one person happy, but (say) complicate the UI and thus make another person unhappy. It's a balance between my vision and what people want.
>heroine abuser

I protest this unseemly slander; I'll have you know that I treat women with respect. /s

In answer to your question, A) you can pretty much find a study that says anything you want and B) a considerable number of my high school classmates from lower and lower middle class families did, in fact, fall prey to drug addiction and I know all too well that, had circumstances been just slightly different, I might have joined them. Am I weak? Perhaps, perhaps. But no more so than a great many others.

Seriously, go to Detroit or one of these other afflicted areas and walk around. Many of these people are already on public assistance programs. If you survive the experience, come back and see if you can manage to still say to me with a straight face that people will find their own productive purpose in life given UBI.
Not following. Can you reduce it to chimp level for slowpokes like me?
ITT: I don't have a Visa card, how can they be worth $1T?
More importantly than any of that, to capture any revenue you need to have a business model where you actually bill something!

RedHat has OpenShift and support contracts.

Google/AWS bill the usage directly, and get returns on other products you use.

Docker didn't have much to sell.
Part of that has to do with systemic defects in (our) culture in the US.

* We don't have /good/, /usable/, public transit that can replace vehicle use (outside of some high-density urban cores).
* We don't encourage sufficient building of housing /near jobs/ to reduce the need for commuting long distances.
* We don't encourage the building of family capacity housing in those same areas. (Again, to increase competition, decrease rent and increase more civilly minded communities in those areas.)
* The tax code and civic involvement that exist favor NIMBY, instead of targeting the future potential of an area (a corrective tax would be based on the /potential value/ of given land and what could be built on it, rather than it's current use).
>this is a rather absurd statement

For something like a buy/skip recommendation, sure. But open-world systems-based games take a lot of time to dig into.

Like if you asked me if Skyrim was an above average game in the first few hours, I'd say 'sure' but as time went on the broken systems kept becoming more and more obvious and painful. My opinion turned to 'just average' after 30 hours or so.
That person works at Amazon, they don't need a GoFundMe.
This is a really, really cool project. Some fun quotes:

> In fact, selfie goes one step further by implementing microkernel functionality as part of the emulator and a hypervisor that can run as part of the emulator, on top of the emulator, and even on top of itself, all with the same code.

> The design of the compiler is inspired by the Oberon compiler of Professor Niklaus Wirth from ETH Zurich. The design of the selfie microkernel is inspired by microkernels of Professor Jochen Liedtke from University of Karlsruhe.

As someone who is vaguely trying to learn more about / get involved in kernel development, the easiest place to start figuring things out is in simpler kernels like this or Minix. (Then followed by OpenBSD. Then later on NetBSD / FreeBSD. Then much, much further, Linux. [Haven't spent time looking into Illumos yet but it's on the list.]) But I haven't actually been able to contribute much more than ports to any of these yet.
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From hacking directly on DNA in the lab to full scale factory production, every aspect of our work is facilitated and accelerated by software and hardware automation. Our tools integrate the activities of scientists, engineers, and industrial robots to enable the rapid optimization of genetic designs and laboratory processes.

Among the tools we have developed are a CAD/CAM system for genetic engineering: a compiler toolchain whose target architecture is life itself. This stack physically integrates high level genetic modules into microbial hosts. We also derive novel strains through random mutagenesis and directed evolution. Using our custom control platform, we then subject these experimental organisms to high throughput performance screening in our state-of-the-art robot labs.

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We're looking for full stack developers to help build (mostly) web based tools for facilitating all aspects of the scientific and engineering process. Our stack is primarily Javascript (React, JQuery), Python (Pyramid), and Postgres, with a fair amount of F# and a bit of legacy PHP. Right now we're looking for developers with at least 5+ years of industry (software, not necessarily biotech) experience.

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We all have been there.

I remember removing a 10gig port channel (by a typo) on a regional switch. That was in 2012.
The horror.
Note that Google and Facebook have effectively the same level of founder control, albeit with different implementation details. Google even had to issue a new share class in 2014 so that the company could issue more shares without the founders giving up voting control. Snap's approach seems like a more robust long-term way of telling investors that they don't have a say in things.
To the Docker guys/gals around here

- I'd be more comfortable using Docker if we had alternative runtimes, Docker being just one (maybe primus-inter-pares) among them; I'm aware of runC but don't know if Docker images are realistically portable (after all, Docker with its quarterly release and only 1 year enterprise support seems relative immature still)

- I'm not 100% sure on the legal situation re: distributing Linux and GNU userland binaries along with non-F/OSS commercial software; the practice of running eg `apt-get` and fetch the base OS userland on first start (and to a lesser degree, using union'd file systems, though I like that part actually), for me, has the smell of circumventing implied GPL conditions (but IANAL)

- in that light, I'd like a characterization of Docker vs. basic built-in POSIX/Linux/FreeBSD chroot jails

- the permissions story (must start as root, effective UID in container typically not resolvable with /etc/passwd) is suboptimal
Understood -- I'm not a hiring manager, just trying to get the word out for an open position on my team.

I am told "the minimum salary is $65k", and peterebailey's comment links to a spreadsheet listing the actual salaries of myself and all of my colleagues (as we are public employees). Hopefully that is sufficient.
> Even acounting for hype

Impossible. Dragon Age: Inquisition was universally praised in its first couple weeks, but if you ask the same people now? Meh.

It's remarkable how many games look very different with the perspective of a month or two.
What OS would be analogous to the Honda in your example? OpenBSD? Plan9?

Not Linux, surely. That would be more like the Suzuki, but it used to be an older bike so they left the carburetor in there and next year someone will add an electric motor too.
Complexity does not correlate to value. All my friends use Snapchat and no one uses Facebook.
to me this all sounds like a company with little revenue and no focus and too much money that they are just trying everything to see what sticks to get them to bigger revenue
You really haven't answered it, though. It's very nonsensical. If you want to see "who's in" and develop for your paying customers, then should you not let people become paying customers so you can develop for them?

Your logic seems to work if you were not allowing trials, but only paying... THEN you would have only paying customers... its your gig, but I think its been a while since i've seen something this strange in software... and its telling that you're having to post the link to your answer so often in these comments. It simply makes no sense, and seems to be serving to drive people away or make them doubt your intentions.
Why do you think that if you don't use a cloud service you have to own hardware?
You don't have to do it.

Dedicated server providers will manage your hardware, that's it.
Like most social networks, getting value from it depends on following high-quality content creators. Mark Suster is a good one on Snapchat.
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Thanks for that. Found it and enabled it.

privacy.firstparty.isolate
How does that differ from many other religions? The Mormons, for example?
It does if I am logged in on a company laptop and they control access to that laptop. (This is hypothetical in this case, I happen to know that the particular company I work at does not have any backdoors on my laptop).
Facebook uses a `--clowntown` flag to let people do things without normal checks. [0]

[0] https://www.quora.com/When-people-who-work-at-Facebook-say-c...
RE: meat.

My experience has shown me that over time, someone will get away with as much as you let them. I.e. 50% of grocery store fish is not even the fish on the label.

So just because things are OK right now in the meat department.. take off regulations and wait 5 years, and someone will undercut by sneaking dog meat into ground beef, and then some people will die from it, and we will be sad and pass more regulations again.

I WANT freedom and less regulations. I do not trust for profit actors to deliver that for me.
It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.

Btw why are the Linux and Mac versions both 21mb but the Windows version is only 1mb? Magic? I'm gonna assume magic.

Also: it doesn't seem to use Electron! Cool! But wait, it uses Python + Qt instead?
One format for all use cases? Databases (passwd,group...), single-word files, key-value(-list?) files, rc files for a thousand programs?

Great idea! We should use XML for that...
Heck, in 1969 there wasn't even CP/M that MS-DOS was modelled after.

Heck, in 1969 there wasn't even RT-11 that CP/M was modelled after.

There was a brand new OS/8 that RT-11 was modelled after.
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what data?
The Morris West [1] book, The Navigator, is an interesting read in this connection. A mixed group of people, headed by a charismatic and larger-than-life Prof., Gunnar Thorkild, of mixed ancestry (white + Polynesian), set out in a ship from Hawaii, using a secret map, to find a lost Polynesian island known to the ancient navigators - guided by an aged Polynesian relative (grandfather?) of Thorkild. They end up finding it, but during a storm, which wrecks their ship on the outer reef of the island. The rest of the book is about how they manage their lives there, their trials and tribulations (interestingly, the latter more due to human nature than nature :). (It's sort of an adult Robinson Crusoe type story with some differences.) Some sub-plots within the overall story. A pretty good read, IMO, and carries some lessons too, about leadership, human strengths and frailty, etc., including about facing death with dignity.
> And yesterday on eBay, 22 pairs of Spectacles were sold, with one pair went for $229 and 2 others went for $200 each...

Snapchat isn't making any additional money from the Spectacles resellers though.
Santa monica or venice. Not northridge.
I thought the value of social networks was mostly in following your friends?
"A slave is property."

Yes, and so are citizens of a state.

"Inherent to slavery is some form of dehumanization."

No. The definition of a slave (first hit on google) is "a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them." In ancient times, people who lost wars may have been subjugated as slaves, but there was no pretense that they were less human. I think you might be thinking of racial slavery, which was inspired by a belief that other races were subhumans.

"being somehow below the ruling class"

Even ordinary citizens, who may be able to vote and do all that fun civic stuff, may still be below the ruling class. As Lysander Spooner said, "A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."

> "but you have remedies, such as renouncing your citizenship"

But for US expatriation, you will have to pay an exit tax as well as continue to pay income taxes, so no you aren't able to be free of bondage. Getting to pick from a new master on a different tax farm doesn't mean you are not a slave.

> "leaving for an area not governed by a state"

If there were such a place, then pretty soon, some state will likely come in and claim you for their tax revenue. Considering that states make this threat means that your relationship with them is not voluntary. Also, the "you are free to leave" argument doesn't take into account the fact that you never voluntarily entered into a relationship with them to begin with. It doesn't mean you were not a slave while under bondage. Effective slave masters realized that by giving their subjects some freedoms, that they were better off. But just because you have some freedoms again doesn't mean that you are not a slave. You are still the legal property of the state and forced to obey them in matters which the state desires you to obey.
> My citation of popularity was to defend conscription from exactly the kind of reasoning you describe: "No one really cares about national sovereignty and it's just a few suicidal wackjobs whose quixotic desires shouldn't impinge on the lives of us normal people."

I'm not the OP. And that 'reasoning' is a gross perversion of what was said.

The OP didn't say no one cares. My reading of his comment was that no one should care. The OP also expresses his lack of care for such a situation.

> it's just a few suicidal wackjobs whose quixotic desires shouldn't impinge on the lives of us normal people

No one has said this, either.

> Surely you're not against universal suffrage!

The people who can't vote on the matter are the teenagers being conscripted. When the law was passed for their conscription, they were too young to vote. I hope that's adequately clear now.
i'm absolutely stunned as everyone on HN has been going berserk over uber's bro-behavior. but when Palantir executes hitlerian policies, not a peep is to be heard. Oh well, that's America for you. I'm not excusing Uber's culture, but one person feeling uncomfortable for a second is absolutely nothing compared to this massive miscarriage of justice that is literally tearing and ruining families. Where is the proportional outrage?
Not very helpful.

This is in their timeline: "Lenses launch on Snapchat. Users barf rainbows for the first time".

I feel even more confused.
My theory is that many immigrants, mainly Chinese and Indian, study very hard to get into these companies. So they expect the same level of effort from everyone else. It's not even expectation, it may be that someone who has obviously studied a lot resonates better.

There is also a subculture of nepotism or low standards that is allowing in people who don't care or can even code at all and may even cheat by saying they did some large complex project.

So this problem and solution combination creates this other problem.
Ask HN: You know a place for talking about recruitment and interview experiences?
Hey there,

I'm a self-taught web developer and after reading through Programmers are confessing their coding sins to protest a broken job interview process (https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/5wwdkf/programmers_are_confessing_their_coding_sins_to/) subreddit I'm curious if you guys know any place (slack community, forum, etc.) where developers are talking about recruitment & interviews experiences, tips and tricks for interviews and these kind of topics.

Thanks!
Alin R.
My understanding is that people don't like the "mealy" taste of many supermarket tomatoes. The reason they develop this taste is that they are picked prematurely so they can ripen in transit. Tomatoes are meant to ripen on the vine, hence why some are great and others are not.
"Taking into account the numerous mistakes of UNIX. However, no one raises Plan 9 on a pedestal."

Suckless and cat-v.org would disagree. I'd also disagree since I'm a huge fan of plan9port.
I see the Windows version is a 1MB download and the Mac & Linux are 21MB, so I was surprised to ready Python and Qt are involved. I take it the Windows setup is a downloader?
You can see why technology advances less fast in these matters from this attitude. It's borne of experience, true, but real machines are less profitable in every way, so people do the capitalist thing and follow the profit margin. Google has a margin, after paying obscene salaries to its engineers, of over 40%. Sales cycles are 10-1000x faster, except for larger companies who negotiate - but the larger companies have lots more money.

Agriculture is the oldest and most essential part of civilization. However, that means we know the most about it, and therefore it is among the most unprofitable parts of it.
Heh. That reminds me of the article from last year that Apple was distributing many Unix programs as a single binary.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/04/17/unprotected/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11517894