skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have grave doubts about "can't" in most cases. I've picked up & moved 1000 miles on a whim with no job lined up on arrival, and wasn't keen on severing ties in the process - so yes I've a clue about it.

You'd be hard-pressed to find such "can't" cases. Turning on a TV (colloquially speaking) at all is a disqualifying factor. There's a free lending library, there's free Internet access, there's free job-placement services. Suck it up & make it happen, or quit complaining. Never before in history has so much job opportunity been so available to so many so easily; it's not trivial mind you, but the alternative for most who ever lived was to start digging & planting.

I've been following David Hines on Twitter as he documents people & regions you're referring to. A recurring takeaway (which he doesn't intend) is your assertion, which is people choosing to stay in such circumstances because they choose family & familiarity over prosperity. The USA was founded & settled by people who took the "move" imperative seriously; when doing so now takes just a few days' pay and a few hours comfortable transport instead of months of hard covered-wagon travel which was long the norm, I find it hard to sympathize.

Cultures which value status quo over productivity improvement can't thrive.
And that started with the market of students at Harvard. Even if they weren't the ones to ultimately "buy" it in dollars, they did buy with their time and attention. That said, most of the book's advice is geared toward SaaS products.
Why is it not possible to use on RWO?
1) Silly black-person. In the US, "black" means "loser", so if you are successful, you are ipso facto not black. Uh, unless you're an athlete, or other entertainer.

2) I grew up in a prosperous white neighbourhood and spent a lot of time at University of Toronto, as a kid. My dad was a math-teacher and programmer. I recently met a developer -- a young woman of colour at a conference, who came from a stereotypical deprived background. I could barely understand her experiences or the language she used about identity, inclusion, and diversity, because I have never felt excluded. Ambitious, envious at times, but never excluded.

3) I've just realised in the last few months that it's probably harder to be a woman in tech, of whatever skin shade, than to be a 6'3" half-black guy from a scholarly middle-class background. As far as I can tell I've faced no discrimination. I've been sexually harassed once, but it started as a joke and the woman had no power over me. One time outlier. Caveat: I have not sought VC funding, nor have I progressed to leadership roles in someone else's organisation.

4) At one small company I worked at, we were approached to do a TV segment. Two of the four founders are white Africans. The reporter seemed really intent on pushing a rags-to-riches story. The guys had to keep reminding her that they had started the company from their basement while they both had well-paying jobs. They were the sons of a professor. This was really eye-opening with regards to reporters pursuing pre-conceived narratives.
So if I offer a drug that saves someones life, is the value the rest of their life

Yes, yes it is. That's exactly what the UK does. 30K GBP/QALY (quality adjusted life year).

People might not like it, but there are finite resources in this world and prices have to be put on everything, even people's lives.
I don't really follow individual authors, but I'd be interested in being able to follow the market of "books like A Song of Fire and Ice/Fooled by Randomness". The market for related books might be much hotter for you and lead to more conversions, if you could figure out a way to figure out similar books.
I think he was saying he is from the military, not that Nocturne was developed by the military.

I think Nocturne was abandoned long ago. Someone forked and updated it a couple of years ago, but I don't know if it works with Sierra as-is: https://github.com/Daij-Djan/nocturne
Captain401 (YC S15) Is Looking for a Customer Support Representative
Even in mathematics... a robot could fail to prove thousands of theorems in the time it takes for a mathematician to fail with just one.
SBCL compiles to native code.
Trippy. I would consider going. I've been to Cuba (pre detente) and the West Bank. Both experiences were enlightening. I have significantly higher reservations about the government of DPRK and the ethics of visiting, for sure.
As a novice, this was a great informative read. More posts like this on the Internet, please!
This is the best textbook on graphical models, also from Jordan but later (2008): https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/Papers/WaiJor08_F.... It also covers some general theory of variational inference. Source: I worked on PGMs in grad school.
> I don't think electron is the problem, I just think there are some quirks with it that were not yet ironed out.

The problem with electron is not that it has quirks, but that it is chromium "ironed out" to be a GUI toolkit. It's effective, and generally well done, considering that fact, but will continue to be noticeably sluggish as long as it even resembles what it was in the first place.
Intel Puts Two Chips on a Single Package More Efficiently
I use(d) vim and see EMacs as annoying.
What's with the hate for Go?
Well in the wikipedia article you linked "Warmbier traveled to North Korea as a tourist with Young Pioneer Tours".

I would not go to N. Korea, your pretty close to directly funding the regime doing that IMO. Its funny I notice I am born almost the exact same time as Otto, I know its possible that I could have done something that dumb he just got some unlucky results.
How to Build a Product Loved by Millions and Get Acquired by Google: Firebase
He's not complaining that life is so tough, he's saying that there's a sense of meaninglessness is his work.
> this article is on HN because it fits an other narrative.

Which narrative do you think that is?
Intel Will Rely Upon Rivals for Foundry Business
Thats why we have removed per agent pricing and charge only for minutes[1]. After some scale, it might make sense to go for fixed agent rental. But to start of,its better to have no agent pricing.

[1] http://getkookoo.com/getting-saas-pricing-right-pricing-clou...
Paralyzed man uses experimental device to regain hand movements
Intel: “Moore's Law Isn't Slowing Down”
Intel: “Our 10nm will cost less than Rivals”
> Unclean power plants are still vastly more efficient than the most efficient internal combustion engines.

I'm an automotive engineer specializing in hybrid vehicle powertrains. Published and everything.

As of two years ago the only country in the world where the power source makes an EV not worthwhile, well-to-wheel emissions-wise, was India. Every other country in the world has clean enough power production to make EV cars an environmental net positive.

And I believe India's power is getting much cleaner over the next few years, so it may not be the case much longer.
Okay, point taken. You'll only get to see the artificial air-brushed façade of the nightmare.

But, uh, how could a tour of a genuine dystopia actually work any other way? Would a dystopia ever advertise the horrors if its own shortcomings? Could a dystopia adequately prove it's own misery-inducing institutional apparatus to visitors if it tried? And, my god, would you actually want such an experience?

A walking tour of a prison camp? Tour guides that explain how they know they will die incarcerated, and that technically, listening to their words is actively benefiting from slave labor? What if you could go on an actual ride-along with a death squad as they disappear a real, live political dissident?

Wouldn't paying money for the opportunity to wade in and observe someone else's living hell, represent true sadistic voyeurism, when contrasted against the premise of paying to satisfy a morbid curiosity of what they'll let you see of it?
> I've been to Cuba (pre detente)
> and the West Bank

Both of which can conceivably have a net positive impact on the people there.

> DPRK

Not even once.
> Sure, the paper is clearly anti-Trump. My perspective is that this is only really a problem if they fabricate evidence. As long as they're presenting the world as they see it, it's hard to complain.

I mostly agree with that, but it does rub me the wrong way that the New York Times tends to smuggle its views into its reporting, all the while maintaining the false pretense that it is being entirely Objective outside of its opinion pages.

In contrast, The Economist is absolutely anti-Trump, but it makes no pretense to the contrary. It owns the fact that the paper as a whole has a free-market, classically liberal point of view, and as a result it's much easier for me to read The Economist's criticisms of Trump with a straight face. (Not that I have any trouble generating my own criticisms of Trump, mind you.)
RAII, and TSAIC
It seems a lot more plausible to me that privacy technologies can be made accessible to the masses than that policies can be passed which protect the masses. After all the masses are only in this situation because other technologies which were once only accessible to experts became accessible to them. Does the government have a particularly good track record of protecting the little guys in your opinion?
What would be wrong with selling preconfigured routers to solve the problem?

The router could talk to a standard web api to get information to configure itself. The web service behind the scenes could set up and teardown digital ocean droplets as necessary running streisand. The web service IP's wouldn't be blocked because they'd only be used to periodiy get configuration.

So then you buy a non technical person this router, they create an account on the configuration website and as Ron Popeil would say, set it and forget it.
Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped
> Young Pioneer Tours

PLUS, you get a chance for FREE LIFELONG accomodation![0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier
After a litany of increasingly obtuse replies each growing further away from my original point to the extent that you actually attempted to turn my own argument against me, you better believe I'm going to be condescending.

Talk about not adding anything... Good grief, and good night.
Pretty much all decent routers have a built-in VPN. Even old Apple Express routers have the feature.
In earlier versions of ProxMox the openvz vms were called containers and the KVM vms were called vms. So it is pretty confusing overall.

For myself I would point out that Zones, Jails, OpenVZ and LXC , even KVM, all pretend that they are fully separate from the host node OS.

While Docker et al do not pretend this; in fact if you are running Apache on your host system and try to run a Dockerized web server on port 80 the Docker container might refuse to start. The other methods mentioned, can't even determine what they are running under.
Legal threats and disgruntled clients: inside the ‘Uber for private jets’
Twitch introduces Auto quality video
1. The important point to emphasize here is deceleration does not mean that progress isn't happening. It simply means that the groundbreaking progress we witnessed in the first half of the 20th century is not being replicated as quickly anymore.

2. Technological progress is based on the outcomes they bring with them. Easy or hard to achieve -- doesn't matter in terms of this measurement. Insane advancements in physics is not technological progress unless it enables us to vastly improve our existing capabilities to do things as humans.

Thiel argues this by pointing to a tech were all excited about: self-driving cars.

Thiel argues the original invention of the car was still a bigger innovation.

electricity -> cars -> airplanes -> rockets -> space travel

radio -> tv

laundry machines -> dishwashers

antibiotics -> vaccines

^^^All first 3/4 of 20th century. Self-driving cars would be merely a close match to any one of them. For the next 50 years to match what we saw in the start of the 20th century, we are going to need at least 4 or 5 other technological revolutions in the world of atoms for the comparison to be even similar.
That's because it cheats!

Arabic script has three layers:

1. The base forms (rasm) denote groups of consonants.

2. Then dots distinguish individual consonants (e.g. B, T, TH, Y and N have the same basic form but have different arrangements of dots).

3. Finally, diacritics - loops and dashes - are used to denote vowels.

When Arabic is fully laden with vowel markings, the result is visually noisy. So usually vowel markings are left out.

But without vowels, it is impossible to tell how a word is pronounced if you don't already know. It's a really heavy price to pay for any advantage in reading speed.
It's a shame that as a society we have so many of our brightest minds devoted to relatively meaningless work when they could be working on things that they not only want to work on, but are better for humanity.

I don't have trouble focusing on my work when I'm in a good company. The problem is that if I take a look at the grand scheme of things and think about the that I'm devoting the majority of my waking hours to coding apps that would get done regardless of whether or not I existed (this space is largely zero sum in that there are more than enough developers to go around), it's kind of depressing. I'd rather be devoting my life to solving the meaningful problems in the world that not enough people are working on (eg. like what Elon Musk is doing).

On another note, it surprises me that long breaks from work (eg. sabbaticals) aren't more common. Doing the same thing every weekday gets repetitive and draining.
your link accidentally included the >

Also thanks, uninstalled flux due to annoyance at lack of full customizability over schedules and hue ranges. ended up finding a more general 'display output' modifier, I'll look into this one though.
I know this is your baby and all, but how high was your team (high as a kite?) when they thought sending every line of code to your server was a good idea?

Seriously, could just send the object type being "autocompleted"along with the other object types in the same file and gotten better results without the privacy backlash.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13981184
What are combinators?

Go parse some zalgo with your 4 per iteration algorithm. I'll be there, waiting and laughing.

C string handling is not elegant, nor does it fit the realities of the world.
I loled. What do you do for money?
Plenty of things that would be educational are both illegal and unethical.

Related: https://thechirurgeonsapprentice.com/2015/05/04/robert-hooke...
So why is this necessarily bad? My understanding is that the Congress repealed a fiat control by the executive branch. They can now, if they are are so inclined, enshrine in law, a more durable medium than agency policy, a freer Internet. Let's assume that the Republicans don't. Let's also assume that they make local municipal Internet or competition harder. The Democrats could get elected in 2018 at which point they could enshrine privacy. How is limiting the executive branch bad?
> I think it's also ignorant to generalize it as "one that popularised and enforced abolition world wide," given that it was one of the largest slave-trading entities of its time.

Doesn't that make it all the more impressive? That they were a leader in abolishing something they were profiting from?
But does the individual have any chance of winning the battle without at least some policy on their side?
> Driving electric cars instead of hybrids in areas where the electricity is primarily derived from unclean sources is not better than hybrids for the environment.

As of two years ago the only country where that was the case was India. Right before that, South Africa and China both became clean enough for EVs to be an environmental net positive.

Power produced in the US is some of the cleanest in the world, and getting cleaner every day as coal plants are decommissioned. We are well above the environmental net benefit line.

> Driving electric cars instead of hybrids in areas where the electricity is primarily derived from unclean sources is not better than hybrids for the environment.

There are no longer significant areas where this is the case. Even most coal markets in the US are clean enough (not sure what will happen with new de-regulations). The US, on average, is by far clean enough.

Source: I'm a hybrid vehicle powertrain engineer
Restoration revealed 1920s roulette table was rigged
The point is that your precious tourist dollars go towards supporting an oppressive regime so that you can view their citizens in zoo-like conditions. It's a disgusting choice to make.
Minor point, in a well functioning Democracy the self interest is the people. I don't think we have that right now.
Point taken, I made a mistake, but I think you're so focused on picking apart the comment that you've ignored the meat of it. That's ok, I said my piece and expected it to be downvoted - and it was.
What needs to happen is for VC and other sources of investment to stop chasing easy wins and realize huge money can be made by moving more out into the world of atoms.
There's a flip side to this argument that creative people have screwed everyone else over as well. The intoduction of in perpetuity copyright is, what I believe, to be one of the most harmful things we have done to hurt those wanting to enter a creativity based field and also us as a society that supports creativity. Our history and our culture is seized for corporate interests, and on the surface people are fine with it.

Being able to control your creative work so you can realize profit from it is a good thing because it should give you incentive to do more. We must also understand this isn't some inherent right that ideas/thoughts are owned as property, it's a relatively new concept in history, but society has allowed this as after some time these works should provide a benefit back to society. When creative works are never released back to society, part of that contract is broken. While corporate profiteers can bribe our law makers to license our culture, people inherently know this is wrong. This is why you're seeing this insistance that creativity is free, and this causes harm to those wanting to enter the field as you haven't yet sold your thoughts in to corporate ownership to be packaged and push out as pablum creativity.

If the idea of allowing thoughts to be copyrighted was to encourage more creative works (this was the original intent). Why do we allow copyright to be passed from generation to generation as if it's the family broach?
Seems cool, good job. I look forward to seeing more of your platform.

DAW plugins are usually pretty hard to write and maintain, but maybe it'd be cool to have a "send selected tracks to sawtooth and share" type flow.
That's an absurd assertion.
As a lowly user¹: linux containers are more like gaffer tape around namespaces and cgroups than something like lego. You want real memory usage in your cgroup? let's mount some fuse filesystem: https://github.com/lxc/lxcfs - https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-4781...

We have to gaffer tape with AppArmor and SELinux to fix all the holes the kernel doesn't care about: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/config/apparmor/conta...

Solaris Zones are more designed and an evolution from FreeBSD Jails. Okay, the military likely paid for that: https://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/overview_of_solaris_ke...

Maybe it's Deathstar vs. Lego. But I assume you can survive a lot longer in a Deathstar in vacuum than in your Lego spaceship hardened by gaffa tape.

1: I have uttermost respect for anyone working on this stuff. No offense, but as a user sometimes a lack of design and implementation of bigger concepts (not as in more code, but better design, more secure) in the Linux world is sad. It's probably the only way to move forward but you could read on @grsecurity Twitter years ago that this idea is going to be a fun ride full of security bugs. There might be a better way?
interesting. i guess it's certainly possible, thinking about it, to spend that much. I may just be lucky (so far) that I've not needed that much.
I'm pretty sure you can do this with a router running DDWRT or OpenWRT.
All behind NAT to make it securr
It feels like Ms Frazelle's essay ends abruptly. I was looking forward to the other use cases of non-Linux containers.

I think most people are considering these OS-level virtualization systems for the same or or very similar use cases: familiar, scalable, performant and maintainable general purpose computing. Linux containers win because Linux won. Linux didn't have to be designed for OS virt. People have been patient as long as they've continued to see progress -- and be able to rely on hardware virt. Containers are a great example of where even with all of the diverse stakeholders of Linux, the community continues to be adaptive and create a better and better system at a consistent pace in and around the kernel.

That my $job - 2, Joyent, re-booted Lx-branded zones to make Linux applications run on illumos (descendent of OpenSolaris) is more than a "can't beat them join them strategy" as it allows their Triton (OSS) users full access, not only to Linux API and toolchains, but to the Docker APIs and image ecosystem and has been an environment for their own continued participation in micro services evolution.

Although Joyent adds an additional flavor, it targets the same scalable, performant and maintainable cloud/IaaS/PaaS-ish use case. In hindsight, it's crazy that I worked at three companies in a row in this space, Piston Cloud, Joyent, Apcera, and each time I didn't think I'd be competing against my former company, but each time the business models as a result of the ecosystems shifted. Thankfully with $job I'm now a consumer of all of the awesome innovations in this space.
I don't think anyone in the container dev community thinks that containers means LXC only. Even back in 2013, docker's front end api was designed to support other runtimes such as VMs and chroot. Perhaps this is a marketing story gone awry?
Ask HN: How do you(developers) manage to be productive at open office plans?
A year back when I joined my company, I was so excited as it was my first open office environment. I loved the colourful couches, engaging people. But when it came to coding, slowly it led to distractions, frustrations and lack of productivity.
Wealthy CEO?
The $10M Lawsuit That Hinges on an Oxford Comma
TLDR

>To be fair, we thought it was pretty easy after our first year making f.lux (Night Shift today looks a whole lot like our first version). We figured we'd solved the blue light problem and that there just wasn't much left to do. We couldn't have been more wrong. Every person has individual needs, and those needs are different based on your sensitivity to light, your own chronobiology (imagine early birds and night owls), your own schedule, and other factors too. Those needs change across seasons, and over your lifetime. Today our approach is different: we are working every day to understand how light affects human biology, not strictly sleep, and we are constantly applying what we learn to updates and new features for f.lux.
iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out
Pretty sure this is all snake oil — both f.lux and Night Shift. I don't doubt that blue light affects our brains. But I see no evidence that color filter software has any impact.

If the issue is the number of blue photons per square millimeter of our retinas, why isn't it being discussed as such? This means screen brightness and distance from your face would have a much bigger impact than a color filter.

I personally think the f.lux team knows this and that's why their FAQ is devoid of any questions about effectiveness.

FWIW the only person I've known to use f.lux is an insomniac who barely ever sleeps and is always tired.