skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I have a FreeNAS mini. I upgraded and it did not go well. I was worked with someone from iXsystems to get things working again (they are a great company to work with). Everything was fine until the box just rebooted the other day. It came back up fine but I had enough and reverted to 9.10. The funny part was I had ask my contract should I upgrade to the 10.04 release the day before. The answer was strange, "no, I can tell you more tomorrow." Now I know why.

It is brave of a company to just kill something like this and say we got it wrong. Good for them. Thankfully the way FreeNAS works it was simple enough to revert.
There's no shared source license which bans commercial usages but I think the software industry desperately needs one. I'm selling the software and want to enable the user to make modifications for private use and even share those modifications if they so desire = I have to hire a lawyer and hope he comes up with something that stands the test of a trial.

Not giving away something for free (as in freedom) but asking for free legal advice may sound ironic but it's not about the money, it's about having something reliable for a very common use case.
This is a superlatively bad title editorialization.

How do you get "FreeNAS Corral is dead" from the original title "Important announcement regarding FreeNAS Corral" which is about moving FreeNAS Corral back into a technology preview (alpha? beta?) instead of full release. This doesn't mean it is "dead".
> we decided to undergo a thorough engineering review of the product and started to look deeper into the Plan 9 filesystem code, which allows VMs to access the host’s filesystem.

That's interesting. Was it actually based on Plan 9?
You should try to present an argument against the position of your opponents in good faith, against the best version of their argument. Just because someone disagrees with you does not mean they are experiencing "cognitive dissonance". Armchair psychoanalyzing millions of people across the Internet and accusing them of some mental dysfunction because they dared to disagree with you does not paint your argument in a good light.

You seem so upset about entire industries being destroyed -- last I heard industries were fine. Movies are being made and are making money. Music is proliferating everywhere and people are managing to make money. Artists are being screwed out of their money as they have been since decades before the Internet existed. Games, one of the most pirated things in the world are a huge booming industry. Journalism is not dying because of piracy -- has anyone ever pirated a newspaper or magazine? Illegal torrents of copies of the New York Times? What? Histrionics and caps lock don't particularly help your case, explain what you are talking about.

It's certainly possible that the market is simply not an effective driver for artistic creation, especially in a world where art can be copy pasted trivially -- in the past, art has been mostly funded by the state or by wealthy individuals and patrons. Perhaps that model is better.

It's also possible that the "cure" of locking down the Internet, mass surveillance to identify pirates, designing DRM so that machines work against their owners' interests and no longer obey the user is worse than the "disease" of piracy.
Agreed. Netflix will catch up - they can't (or won't want to) continue to pay top dollar for talent & content and be a low cost provider.
I am working from different coworking spaces for some time now. I think they actually (can) have the positives that your dad and others are missing - working alongside motivated people, causual smalltalk, you can make friends. I really like it but it is some luck to find a fitting location.
The problem is they have a monopoly now that there's only 1 or 2 airlines to choose from at each airport. If we had more than 3 or 4 choices, then we could pick alternative airlines and United would cease to exist.

Too late for that now. Get ready for more harsh treatment in the future and lots of increases in fare prices, higher than inflation.
This is what I got when I clicked on the link https://postimg.org/image/6n8pnqidj/

I thought it was some kind of joke or spam post until I scroll down to see this.
https://postimg.org/image/onyt7vbdj/

Not the end when I tried to upload these screenshots to Imgur i received this
https://postimg.org/image/z9g43te8n/
### nnn features

#### Behaviour and navigation

- Detail view (default: disabled) with:

- file type (directory, regular, symlink etc.)

- modification time

- human-readable file size

- current item in reverse video

- number of items in current directory

- full name of currently selected file in 'bar'

- Show details of the currently selected file (stat, file)

- Disk usage analyzer mode (within the same fs, doesn't follow symlinks)

- Directories first (even with sorting)

- Sort numeric names in numeric order

- Case-insensitive alphabetic content listing instead of upper case first

- Key `-` to jump to last visited directory

- Roll over at the first and last entries of a directory (with Up/Down keys)

- Removed navigation restriction with relative paths (and let permissions handle it)

- Sort entries by file size (largest to smallest)

- Shortcut to invoke file name copier (set using environment variable `NNN_COPIER`)

#### File association

- Set `NNN_OPENER` to let a desktop opener handle it all. E.g.:

export NNN_OPENER=xdg-open

export NNN_OPENER=gnome-open

export NNN_OPENER=gvfs-open

- Selective file associations (ignored if `NNN_OPENER` is set):

- Associate plain text files (determined using file) with vi

- Associate common audio and video mimes with mpv

- Associate PDF files with [zathura](https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/)

- Removed `less` as default file opener (there is no universal standalone opener utility)

- You can customize further (see [how to change file associations](#change-file-associations))

- `NNN_FALLBACK_OPENER` is the last line of defense:

- If the executable in static file association is missing

- If a file type was not handled in static file association

- This may be the best option to set your desktop opener to

- To enable the desktop file manager key, set `NNN_DE_FILE_MANAGER`. E.g.:

export NNN_DE_FILE_MANAGER=thunar

#### Optimization

- All redundant buffer removal

- All frequently used local chunks now static

- Removed some redundant string allocation and manipulation

- Simplified some roundabout procedures

- Compiler warnings fixed

- strip the final binary
Cool, but why do I need to open a mail program to send a message? I think it would be better to be able to send a direct message from the site and receive more information about the newsletter. How long they exist, how the company will appear in the message and other things.
But that's fair. Facebook started out as a startup and it grew over time and eventually become a tech giant. So should Facebook not respond to a business threat from competitors now? Is Snapchat the only one allowed to implement the feature? That's the tone I am hearing.

Let's be fair. The product team and the developers working on the Stories product did an amazing job. Also, not every well-established players do well trying to replicate / model after its competitors. Google is known to be one of them, when it comes to her attempt to rip FB apart. Several times more massive than Facebook's size and money pool, but Google failed to make a real den in the market. Facebook is one of the few tech giants today capable of engineering execution that can bring business some values. Disclaimer: I have not seen anyone in my circle using Stories on Facebook yet, but on Instagram plenty.

Innovation is competition. Think of the glory 50s - 80s of technical innovations. Something motivates somebody to do something different. Innovation does not necessarily equates to breakthrough. Diversify your product line and product features is innovative.

Let's be real fair here.
Not really, it's equivalent to a product type.
>An innovative, new upshot getting sucked up/ blatantly ripped off by an established player with more muscle, money (and in this case - users) to throw at the problem is not a great incentive for entrepreneurs.

>Consolidation at this level resembles communism more closely than the kind of free market innovation we should be seeing.

An established player pushing out a smaller startup sounds very much like capitalism, not communism. You could maybe argue it is consolidating into a monopoly, but not that it is communism.
That actually sounds like it could run you into legal issues (or worse), depending on your location (ie - access to a computer system without permission; they give you permission to use the app on the phone, but maybe not to use the API directly). YMMV.
I think this is where a lot of remote workers fail to adapt, myself included for a few years. Remote working has its disadvantages but it's not unsolvable. Nowadays, I make it a point to go to local meetups on a consistent basis, which actually allowed me access to social networks far outside the limited network within my company.

What's nice is that it forced me to learn how to make friends outside of typical environments (work, school). It was far easier than I realized, and now I regret not doing it earlier in my life.
How do you deal with cache invalidation? That seems like a potential major security risk.

Caching other microservice's data in general just sounds like a bad idea.
But working from a cafe is still pretty much 'working from home'. It has many of the upsides of working from the non-remote office with the upsides of choosing your environment (e.g. what kind of cafe are you looking for?).
I also peak 1-2 hrs after getting up.
His "permutation city" is directly about cellular automata.
>Some legal experts argue that the resources teachers produce while working for a school district may actually be the property of the school district.

I think as this industry grows, this becomes a huge issue for retention. Some teachers may decide to leave the profession and produce content full time if they can make more money (which isn't hard in some states).
Reposting this thought from the other discussion[0]:

>Third, use the phrase “disagree and commit.” This phrase will save a lot of time. If you have conviction on a particular direction even though there’s no consensus, it’s helpful to say, “Look, I know we disagree on this but will you gamble with me on it? Disagree and commit?” By the time you’re at this point, no one can know the answer for sure, and you’ll probably get a quick yes.

This sounds really powerful but also like it might be open to abuse (for example degenerating into passive agressiveness/half commitment). Does anyone use something similar in their own workplace? Does it work?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14103818
That was my initial thought as well, but looking at it, it seems like he really takes the time to _curate_ it:

rsync --rsh='ssh -p 2020 -i ~/.ssh/host.pem'
--archive --human-readable --progress --verbose
host:/path /target # network transfer

In examples like the above, he appears to have sanitized things to be useful from the perspective of "How do I do X again?" -- very cool.
Your comments in this thread are breaking the HN guidelines. We ban accounts that post uncivilly, so please don't do it again, regardless of how bad another comment may be.

In addition, please don't use HN for political or ideological battle. That's not what it's for; it's for intellectual curiosity and the two things don't go together.
Containers are Linux
Looks like it's already usable?

"Use headless chromium with capybara and selenium webdriver - today!" -- March 30th

http://blog.faraday.io/headless-chromium-with-capybara-and-s...
I believe both platforms will thrive because they target different audiences. Most people seem to prefer Instagram for their "professional" persona while keeping Snapchat for their "real" self. This is credit to Snapchat's "silly and fun" interface and brand in comparison to Instagram's more minimalistic one. Furthermore, Instagram will always have some pull due to its network effects.
I believe Go would also be an approved language for internal development.
What actually drives the gender pay gap?
"I don't think people are arguing for only one framework is allowed"

Read the post I replied to. It advocates requiring a single framework.

Yes I am worse off because the framework sucks but there is no incentive for it to improve because everyone is forced to use it. I would love an approved list as you suggest because at least that would allow some choice, but even better than that would be working at a place that trusted me as an engineer to make those decisions myself.
Andrew at Mixergy did an awesome podcast on a similar site just recently. I highly recommend listening to it, the co-founders are incredible.

https://mixergy.com/interviews/flipped-lifestyle-with-shane-...
Yes, the FSF has long warned that weakening copyright may also weaken or endanger copyleft.
Commented on linked comment. I think it boils down to a strong trust base where everyone has the best intentions in mind
Totally in agreement here. I think this is actually a much bigger deal than anyone imagines.

It shows that even if you create a HUGE new thing, you're probably going to get killed by the big ones. There is no competing anymore - you either assimilate through acquisition or get squeezed to death on the back end because the incumbents have the cash, data and talent.

So what the hell is venture supposed to do in this landscape? I'm genuinely curious. If the goal of venture money is to build IPO level companies - not one off acquisitions - then what is the move here?

I even remarked as such a few days ago: https://twitter.com/AndrewKemendo/status/851840701214208002
That would be similar to an intersection type (https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....), but due to the way Go works, it cannot contain duplicates, and it doesn't work for structs. Union type is "it can be one of these types", and you can then access only fields/methods that all of those types share (unless you cast them of course). The naming can be a bit counter-intuitive.
While I was like this, some engineering classes scheduled quizzes in the morning. Skipping these were detrimental to my grades. With the benefit of hindsight, my behaviour of skipping morning classes was incredibly stupid, but at the time made perfect sense from my limited worldview.
In an alternate universe Instagram never got bought by Facebook, so Snap never had room to grow.

But, then again, in same alternate universe YouTube never got bought by Google, so Facebook never had room to grow.

Think alternate universes don't make sense?

Does this one does?
As long as you're meeting your guarantees, is raw performance a concern in a hard real-time system?
Ask HN: How do you pay your international employees
I used to work in call centers. The job has almost nothing to do with helping customers.

Your manager will tell you the customer is the top priority, you will be told that the only person more important is you: the direct contact with the valuable customers.

Then he will publicly berate you for 15 minutes if your average handle time deviates from the last hour.

Your type of call is a golden goose. I get to "resolve" it and end it in 25 seconds which means I can take a 4 minute bathroom break instead of a 3 minute one.
I'm fascinated by the downvote someone gave the parent, because I've never heard anyone complain about the resolution on the HoloLens after using it. If you're still in the thread and are able to discuss the scenarios where resolution was a problem, you have me curious.
Which is actually a suggestion tsa gives out. Just make sure it's completely frozen. Any floating water won't be allowed. Aka drink the melt.
There's a wire about being sensed by lots of persons. Be it loud, or up on stage ..

As if it's so easy to get shut down, whenever someone manages to stay there, it's a strong signal for the group. A sign of correct interpretation above each everyone and thus someone to follow ?
Odd to see Bezos cite number of Oscars & Emmies as a measure of competence, as opposed to revenue. A lot of movies that win awards aren't particularly good investments.
Yes, I really do think you need to say more. I'm certainly not convinced by the appeal of a 24/365 Apple Store...
Like inverting binary trees
It's always funny to me when people assume that sleep works the same for everyone or that it is as simple as scheduling something on a calendar. Neither are true.
I wonder how much of this is Instagram stealing Snapchat's userbase and how much is it simply converting its existing userbase over to using Snapchat's new innovative features.

If Instagram has more users than Snapchat, saying "Instagram's Snapchat feature has more users than Snapchat" isn't really as significant as it sounds, and doesn't necessarily represent any erosion of their userbase or threaten their growth.

Of course their userbases are not mutually exclusive, but I do get the impression there's a rough demographic separation.
themselves?

you're all idiots.
I had not heard of skyscanner. Thanks!
I got global entry. Few bucks more and it covers me when I travel outside the states.
No, each microservice does one thing.

Yes, they could have provided an orchestrating microservice.

But they did a good job. Tech issues microservice should not have knowledge of other departments.
If you're not fit or live in a hilly area then you can buy an electric bike to avoid sweating.
But they do...with Hulu Plus already. ($8 vs $12)
Hoping and celebrating if a country "goes to shit" breaks HN's rule against incivility. Please don't comment like this here.
> An innovative, new upshot getting sucked up/ blatantly ripped off by an established player with more muscle, money (and in this case - users) to throw at the problem is not a great incentive for entrepreneurs.

> http://avc.com/2017/02/the-end-of-the-level-playing-field/

These two things aren't the same. The former is complaining about larger companies copying features (where no legislation exists) and the latter is complaining about incurring legislation that impedes competition.

So what do you want? Legislation or not? You can't have both.

> is not a great incentive for entrepreneurs.

There are plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs to create new technologies, but the gold rush for creating the next big social app may indeed be over.
All of you arguing with rwmj seem to have missed over a decade of research and deployed software in real-time embedded. Here's one product from 2005 whose company is well known in those circles:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050307005203/en/Aoni...

The first was in 2003 according to IBM work trying to improve on it in 2007:

http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-bacon/F...

I haven't checked on multicore research in a while. A quick Google implies that they're either there or part of the way there for one project on JamaicaVM:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221032857_Concurren...

So, yeah, you can do deterministic, hard-real-time GC's. They've been done since 2003 with products shipping since about 2005 for use in safety-critical applications. The DO-178B stuff in particular requires high rigour in how software is designed, coded, analyzed, and tested. That an implementation passed that indicates it can be built with high confidence. Research continues on them. Use in FOSS or popular embedded? Almost nothing.
There is an oligopoly in politics called Democrats and Republicans, and they've created, by law, many barriers to entry for any competing parties, let alone casting aside either party.

Disruption in this vast market is difficult. Millenials and Xers will have to team up and work cooperatively. The baby boomers have gotten Democrats and Republicans to pander to them, there is no possible way those parties go away if baby boomers have any say about it.

As to why there are two parties, it's central to how the government is configured. No runoffs, range or preference voting, means that you get punished when voting for fringe candidates, because there's a very good chance the ideological opposite will win as a result of choosing a 3rd party candidate. Majoritarian democracies like the U.K. parliamentary system tend to have only two big parties, where consensual democracies like Switzerland and Germany have many parties represented in their legislatures. The U.S. is a hybrid, but the voting mechanism results in pretty much a two party system.
Article seems to have little relation to the title.
Games programmers are notoriously poorly paid, are they not? More fuel for the GP's fire, I think. :)
CSS2 has the concept of paged layouts: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/page.html
Most of us don't even want "channels": we want specific shows. If you still want to call a bundle of shows a "channel", that's fine, but you should curate it a lot differently than the cable model of "channel", but the natural term in cord-cutting world for a bundle of shows seems to be more "app" or "site".

As a long time cord cutter, I can't tell you how many conversations the answer from me to "What channel is it on?" was legitimately Hulu or Netflix or Amazon.
That 70% idea comes from Colin Powell I believe. Of course it probably isn't his originally. http://govleaders.org/powell.htm
The Women’s Petition Against Coffee of 1674
I always feel like LHR security checks do their best to keep the lines moving and have a neutral or even friendly manner. I find the process to be of about the same format and duration as other airports I've passed through in ME and East Asia.
The UI is scrapped and the underlying technology found to be unusable for further development.
So your argument is that monopolies are illegal? hahaha go back to wikipedia you're regurgitating some media version of a Microsoft case that you never read yourself
'Pushing out' by using superior innovation/market advantages? Or by currying favor with the governments of the world? In effect, creating that monopolistic structure.

FB is very clearly in the latter camp. That is communism.
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It also doesn't help that most cities and towns in North America aren't designed with high standards of bike safety. I live in one of the biggest cities on the continent and our council has taken DECADES to implement bike lanes downtown despite the rise in population and car usage.
Trudeau Unveils Bill Legalizing Recreational Marijuana in Canada
I don't understand the hate for overbooking flights. Most of the time, I don't care at all about the system where flights are overbooked, because most of the time I don't get bumped. When they do overbook a flight and I've blocked out more time than I need for travel, I can make a few hundred dollars (not bad even in vouchers since I usually tend to fly the same route with the same airlines frequently enough) for the inconvenience and it's voluntary and cleared through a bidding process, meaning that usually the person who gets bumped is the person who is least inconvenienced by it.

It's a pretty low cost to customers (I've never met anyone who was unhappy that they got bumped, because the kind of people who don't want to get bumped don't opt-in) and it actually delivers returns in the form of lower ticket prices, since if they were underutilizing the space in the planes, it would be more costly to operate.

It seems to me that the problem with this situation was not overbooking, it was that for whatever reason they did not use the generally well-received bidding system to allow the people who were going to be bumped to select themselves. On a full plane, what are the chances that you can't find 4 people willing to give up their seats for $1000 (or even less)?
I was bored so I went to the book store, I bought and read the book Founders at Work (twice), was looking for similar books online, found the essays of PG, landed somehow on HN. True story.