skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to the "typical" kinds of builds you'll get with existing services (ie run 'docker build' and 'docker push' for me), we offer a flexible and powerful configuration language: https://cloud.google.com/container-builder/docs/api/build-st...

One of the goals is to make it easy to separate the build-time environment from the run-time environment. eg, keep the JDK out of your deployable.

We do this by letting you choose arbitrary container images to run with your source volume-mounted in. We provide some simple ones, like one that runs the 'docker' CLI, and we take care of authenticated docker pushes to GCR.

But, you can use whatever you like as a builder.
20 Years of Visual Studio: Petzold C
This got me a bit confused. Is the purpose of Co-dnfs to compile apps that run on a GPU? Or does it only itself compile on the GPU for apps than can run on any target architecture?

Other than that the idea of getting using my domain specific Python stuff (and few general libraries) with data processing tools is intriguing.
KiTTY – PuTTY fork, telnet / SSH client for Windows
Uber sues Seattle over law allowing drivers to unionize
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Service discovery by BGP community
I wish Pessimism would have let the snake move outside the constrained bounds. That would have told the player that pessimism may be painting a darker "reality" than what it really is.
Google officially stated that error rate is less than 50%, 95% is just making numbers up based on one or a few videos. When you look at the whole thing, there's still a lot to improve.
When you exercise your SO, you need to pay taxes, based on current price of shares, even if you don't sell them right away.
SO is a joke in Canada.
I have read the JSF standard. I learned a lot from reading it.

However, the JSF project has been reported to have lots of software defects.
Thanks skj.. any plans of supporting containers other than docker ?
Barr has also done a bit of ancient Greece:

http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/letsplayancientgreekpunishme...

Updated, touch-oriented version:

http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/letsplayancientgreekpunishme...
> Are the people dying of heroin overdoses in white rural Ohio starting on heroin

A minor nit, but how many people are overdosing on actual heroin, and how many on eg fentanyl?

> If violence is coming from addicts and not from suppliers, increasing supply isn't going to make those people any less desperate or violent.

The argument is something like: If there's a limited supply the price increases and people turn to crime to get the money. If there's a government supply as part of addiction treatment (and a package of other care) there's reduced need to find funds.
My co-founder and I also went through this program building our company, Chalet. It was a fantastic experience. Everyone at Expa is smart, talented and very interested in helping the Labs companies succeed in whatever they can; similar to how @mikeschmidt describes, it's almost like they are members of your team.

You get a lot of access to and support from the partners. During our first month in the program, at a meeting with Garrett, we actually got some of the best advice and directional support we'd ever received. Without just that meeting, our company would not be the same as it is today.

My co-founder, Michelle Cunningham, also wrote up a short blog post about our experience with the program: https://blog.withchalet.com/chalet-expa-our-take-on-labs-b32...
It's encoding three thousand years of philosophical thought! Frankly it's incredible that a machine is able to do it at all!

... OR IS IT?
Experts have been questioning Singapore numbers for a while now. They are probably not that low and theres plenty of evidence of drug use in the country:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSIN135004

On top of that, how come other countries that have strict drug regulations and intensive prosecution (for example, Thailand) don't show same low rates of consumption?
re: link the container with external containers, that's a bit tricky and generally I think that's a space you should use a "dev" environment for.

We like to be the connection between source and registry, with your dev environment being after the registry.
In fact, it is, because if the pathway to addiction starts with overprescription, deregulation is unlikely to alter the stats: prohibition and black markets aren't gating factors.
Mapping the earth with complex numbers
At this point, anybody offering those terms is well-aware it's not in the employee's best interest. And they don't give a shit. I agree, 90 days is totally ridiculous.
Was just reading about this today. Didn't know it was new.
Ask HN: Is the CS job market tightening?
I have been talking to some people in the industry and it seems the general sentiment is that the CS job market is waning. Is this sentiment true?
Yes, you can. Depending on the organism type, it will shed that dna after some generations though - organisms with useless dna chunks have a slight evolutionary disadvantage.

I imagine impementing some kind of additional checks - e.g. special genes that kill organisms wih a bad checksum of the stored data.
Faster TensorFlow using XLA – TensorFlow, compiled
> Isn't the counterargument to this to point out the Oxycontin abuse epidemic?

I don't see the origins of addiction relevant to arguments about containing current addiction when it moves to the illegal market. But I agree that supply-side targeting when talking about legal industry makes a lot of sense. Being legal, they also have lobbyists, which reduces the impact, same as other legal drug suppliers.

> If violence is coming from addicts and not from suppliers

Others have mentioned this, but opiate abusers don't get violent when high. Some small percentage sometimes get violent when they run out of money to score. Experiments elsewhere suggest that it is a lot cheaper (in money and in human costs) to contain, (in some way) legalize and (if they want it) help them get clean then clean up after them.
I think it's this: http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

I thought I had read it at some point, but now it doesn't ring a bell. Well, it's on the list now. It starts with Babbage quote and uses phrase "tool of thought" which coincides early computer history books I've been reading.
Sofa So Good: Applying AI to Simplify Your Next Living Room Makeover
Bad: http://www.arngren.net
A new look at the nature of dark matter
You seem to be assuming that property values are rising. The 2008 crash proves that's something you can't count on.
I think you can log into the website with twitter and then go here: https://askwhale.com/add/justinkan
The link in the twitter post didn't work for me.

//edit: but that link might just be a "Greatest hits" thing or something? Idk. I might go steal an iOS test device from one of my coworkers.
> I doubt there is a very high number of fraudulent applicants to companies

The payoff is a $100,000 salary that you can collect for a month or two, of course there are fraudulent applications.

> If someone's been a developer for three years (and didn't get fired for incompetence), then they probably know how to code

I've worked with very capable Ph.Ds with wonderful problem-solving & analytical skills who would write the worst code, and were the worst at accepting feedback because of their extremely visible and objective achievements allowed them to believe they didn't need to improve their coding skills (which had already gotten them so far)
I don't think that's a Monty Python joke.
I really like rocket, and technically you can build and push rkt images right now, though it would require a lot of rocket knowhow.

Briefly, you can run any container image as a build step with this service, including one that builds rocket containers, and including one that pushes them. But, we're not currently offering any direct support for this ability.
It would be helpful to be able to post jobs as "remote" rather than requiring they be posted in an a geo-location.
Are you storing a shadow browser history in localStorage?
Inadequate Testing, and (Over)Confidence: A Tale of Continuous Integration Users [pdf]
Clef 2FA is shutting down
They have an Android engineer position open, so they're not completely ignoring that segment of the market.

https://angel.co/whale-3/jobs/210020-android-engineer
The resulting crackdown did exactly what you said, drove people straight into the open arms of heroin.

Tightening the already tightened restrictions would only worsen the issue.

Diversion, etc cannot be stopped and you might just see a sudden uptick in pharmacy truck heists like the one that happened five or so years ago. Corrupt pharmacists unable to resist the temptation of easy money, etc.

Or worse, heroin continues to spread like wildfire. Heroin has no QC, it's being cut with fentanyl across the country and addicts are dropping like flies. Sicker addicts have been seeking out these OD stories and score from those areas looking for the fentanyl cut H. It's bad and only getting worse, as if the government overcorrected its steering and has now spun out of control. The result is going to be a grisly accident.
See also: Justin Kan's attempt at launching a startup competition on Snapchat: https://justinkan.com/snapchat-pitch-competition-359bf25a44a... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678286)

And the aftermath by the winner of the competion: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-make-20-000-on-snapchat-and-ge...
Did it actually automatically email for you? For me it just popped up a window to compose an email, with some content filled in.

And personally, I thought it was brilliant. I played that level for a solid few minutes trying to figure out what the twist was.
Pessimists consistently assign more accurate estimates on outcomes than optimists.
I don't think it's fair to call people lazy for not reading every line of an exhaustingly-long TOS. Also, it isn't fair to expect every consumer to fully understand the legalese that they are reading if they do decide to read it end to end. "Don't click 'I Agree' if you don't know what you're agreeing to!" is unrealistic.
Child porn case dropped to prevent FBI disclosure
Molleindustria is also worth a look, although they're coming from a slightly different direction. The gospel in eight bits and ten seconds:

http://www.molleindustria.org/runjesusrun/run_jesus_run.html

And "Kosmosis: a communist space shooter is an arcade game from an alternate present where non-degenerated socialist values are hegemonic", and which is more fun than that sounds:

http://www.molleindustria.org/kosmosis/kosmosis.html
Monism: Not exactly. Everything is made of the same substance. Can eat the wall, yourself, or the apple, it's all the same thing.
Zero-F's emblem is a fox, Zero-Fox given!
Interesting, what was your product?
It's been around for a while, just under the radar. The service has backed App Engine Flexible environments for almost a year, it's been GA for months, but this is our first public spotlight.
> That simply distinguishes every successful business ever (with a few lucky exceptions) from the ones that failed because their owners gave up too early.

How do you know when to give up though? I've developed a great product, spent 4 years working on it and still only make enough to cover hosting bills. I'm toying with the idea of Throwing in the towel, but I'm plagued with "what ifs".
Yes, about 10 years ago for a company that was in the financial risk management space.

We were going for a matlab like language but R and Octave weren't deemed ready. For those of you who are already objecting in your head, I'll grant you that I'm not sure we made a good choice here but this was the early 2000s:(

What we were after was a vectorized language that would let you write your quant formulas without having to write loops.

For instance, if you wanted to run say Black Scholes over multiple expiry dates and multiple underlying prices you could pass in a vector of dates and vector of strikes to your model and it would return a grid of results for the permutations of values.

Since this is pretty processor intensive we also had language features for splitting your calculations over multiple machines in your datacenter.

All of this has since been comoditized, but when we started most of this wasn't present.

The company ended up being the calculation engine for calculating risk metrics like VaR for several large banks being acquired by a large financial company, so in that sense it was a success.

The downside of writing our own language was that quants weren't thrilled about having to learn a new language that wasn't a really transferable skill as quants tend to move around from company to company alot.

So the fact that we wrote a language ended up being a barrier to adoption. it also meant that we did a lot of consulting with the banks to get the initial modesl setup, which was good for providing income, but bad in the sense that our good quants soon became our clients good quants.
Shape diversity is often a requirement that is specified but not needed. It comes down to a flexibility vs quality and bandwidth tradeoff. From the looks of it, a different mold could be swapped out in the vehicle. How many molds would one need? Kitchen, School, Light Manufacturing, House 2-4 bedroom, etc.

3d printed parts are great because of zero RE costs, but quality is reduced and cost is high for a single part. Some economics hold for this technique as well.

I see both having broad applicability.
Given how easy it is these days for a developer to make €50k (e.g. by contracting on a day rate fee for a company), there really is no need to eat noodles for years. You do work for 6 months, save up €50k, and live frugally (but not crazy frugal) for a while.
A Link Between Autism and Addiction
He sat me down for three days to interview me what the product(s) did (there were three of them: webcam, rtslave and webpay), made an A4 sheet with notes about market, product, USPs and features. Then each of those became a little brochure and a web-page to go with it.

He then found out where our potential customers hung out and started a conversation with them, asked if he could mail them an information package and when given permission did so.

Everything looked pretty spiffy (for the time), website and documentation linked up in a very recognizable way (a little family of buttons with a common theme adapted for each product).

before Marco:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961229205008/http://mattheij.nl...

After:

http://web.archive.org/web/19980507122555/http://mattheij.nl...

I don't have any samples of that documentation any more, but it's long ago.

Essentially Marco 'packaged' the product in a way that made sense to potential users, where I was totally relying on happy customers telling other potential customers (which worked, but I failed to recognize that many of our customers saw our product as their competitive edge and they would rather keep that to themselves).

Interesting turn to the story: we still work together.
>States have since cracked down on prescription opioid abuse, creating drug-monitoring programmes and arresting unscrupulous doctors.

So if you look at the chart, when they started doing this, heroin overdoses skyrocketed while pill overdoses stayed about the same. They doubled the deaths with their crackdown solution, as if that has ever worked.
Singapore is a very small and extremely centralized city-state. America is an enormous country with a long history of decentralized governments. I imagine very few dealers or addicts can slip the net in such a small place, not so much for America, perhaps.

And all of that relies on the assumption that Singapore's way is the best method that we as a culture (and to a greater degree as a species) can hope to accomplish. In my opinion, Singapore's drug policy is lacking in nuance.
rkt supports running Docker Images[1], Open Container Initiative (OCI) Images[2], and appc images.

So, any container image this system builds will run under rkt.

rkt is explicitly designed as a container engine not as a container build system. And this is because build and execute are largely separate concerns. And it leaves the door open for new build systems as demonstrated here by Google.

[1] https://coreos.com/rkt/docs/latest/running-docker-images.htm...

[2] https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/issues/126#issu...
I'm going to comment here with a plug for the March For Science, on April 22.

Why?

Because the opioid epidemic started with a simple matter of scientists not being allowed to science.

Purdue Pharmaceuticals marketed oxycontin as a drug that lasts for 12 hours.

The evidence indicated it only lasted for 8.

If Purdue's scientists were allowed to act on the evidence, i.e. to be actual scientists, the whole world would have known this years ago. People prescribed oxycontin would have been told to plan for 8 hours of relief, not 12.

Instead, hundreds of thousands of patients were subjected to 4 hours of pain a day, and they sought relief with other drugs, including illegal ones. And the epidemic began.

Science is important, yo.
Love this. I think early on I had the same idea as the commenter above—that 2-3 years without results is the anomaly and means it's time to move on.

Hopefully we can tell more stories to show that two years really should be your minimum commitment to just get traction.
> I honestly think the 90 day exercise is totally ludicrous in the startup world. I think that should be a major negotiation point with anybody who is joining a startup. They should just insist on it no matter what.

Unfortunately, while the number of options, salary, holiday, etc are relatively easy for a company to change, I think changing the contracts around exercising for a single employee is a change large and complicated enough that companies are unlikely to do it.
Show HN: A golang lib for specs and pricing information about EC2 instance types
Your portfolio sais "I can plot public data in colour". It should say "I understand and can apply in practice a couple multivariate modelling techniques". Learn until you understand why we don't blog about single decision trees.
> Utilitarianism

Trolley problem.
End-To-End Crypto: File Storage
4 Years is getting to the point of having to admit defeat, though there are examples of companies that hit their stride that late or even later. The biggest - and most important to me - indicator is if there is a trend or if it is flatlining. If there is a trend and you have the stamina keep going, if it is flatlining or even declining it might be the point to throw the towel in, but first have a chat with some other people to see if they can spot something obvious (but not obvious to you!) that you might do to improve things.
I do the same, using mailgun to forward them to my usual account. Thou the day i will actually have to send / reply to e.g. customer support with one of those mail addresses will be annoying. Any suggestions on that part?
tl;dr: You can get rid of pretty much everything except email. Even remove the password requirement because most users don't return. We did something like this ages ago and it was quite successful, although I am not legally brave enough to omit the password requirement.
> and obviously I do not include them in my resume

You remove the experiences you have and wonder why your resume doesn't pass a screening test? Must seem quite empty.
If you're 40, you have ( or should have) nearly a couple of decades of hard-won experience in building software, working within organizations to get things done, and subject matter expertise in the types of projects you worked on [0]. That should show up both in your resume / work history and in the more challenging projects you're able to take on.

Don't try to compete with younger people based on number of hours or cost; that is a game you are guaranteed to lose.

[0] Conversely, if you don't have those things, now is the time to start stepping up to the plate and acquiring them. The best of the younger people you are competing with are already working hard at doing so.
I think we'd need more evidence of that before just assuming it. Some number of people with current addictions would not have developed a habit if they hadn't been supplied by their doctor. Sure, there are also folks out there with habits that "doctor shopped" or whatever, but we aren't talking about those.

Now, if "deregulation" as used above means "stocking next to aspirin at CVS", then sure. But that's not what's being discussed. Haven't done a study of it, but I'm pretty sure Denmark doesn't have many folks heading signing up as addicts to experiment.
I'm on the gulf coast, and we just had a high-profile prosecution of a doctor running a pill mill.

What if this whole mess isn't so much a technical problem to be solved as much as it is our system functioning under its own perverse incentives? Other countries don't have this problem.

In my own area of expertise, I have seen so many non-solutions force-fed to the customer when an actual solution is not as profitable. It is not hard to believe that medicine operates similarly.
Did it myself. I'm sure it wasn't precisely accurate, but, good enough: just go down to the breaker panel, switch off each circuit there, then turn on each circuit individually with its usual devices connected. In the case of appliances like the fridge, stove/oven, clothes dryer, run the device with a normal load. With the water heater, I just ran hot water until it kicked on.

Then observe change at meter, write it down, and do some math.

As an added benefit, I got to verify and one case relabel the circuits.
People with pain deserve treatment for that pain.

For people with short term pain, or who are at the end of life, opioids can be a good choice.

For people with long term pain opioids can, rarely, be a good choice, if other things have been tried first, and if there's a careful package of care.

Most people with long term pain need variations of / combinations of:

1) Access to evidence based pain management specialist clinics

2) Graded strength building exercise (for musculo-skeletal, not for nerve)

3) Medication that isn't opioids

Giving opioids to people with long term pain isn't a good way of controlling their pain (they develop a tolerance) and risks severe harm (on top of addiction).

Here's a website from the English Faculty of Pain Medicine, which is part of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. They explain it far better than I can.

http://www.fpm.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-aware
Tech's apology tour
Out of curiosity - what do you think a guy that is hired to make that software to work on your mom computer would do more than help her install said software, even if through a remote session?
If you need it to be really simple django and customising the admin. Have done this for a simple ticketing system and had something surprisingly stable in about 8 hours work.
Well, it seemed interesting and I suspected it would result in 42, however else it would do its work :)
Perhaps that's one way t frame the Question.