skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are kernel zones notably different from VMs (plus integration into the existing "zone" concept)?

Illumos/SmartOS has had KVM support since 2011; Oracle Solaris 11.2 is from 2014.
It makes you wonder if Amazon would be well served to create more of a "Chinese Wall" between the retail operations and AWS. I think there is already some degree of separation, but I think the public zeitgeist still includes the idea that they are tightly intertwined.

It seems to me that trust is a huge element of cloud computing ("There is no cloud, just somebody else's computer") and AWS would be easier to trust if there was no reason to think they would ever try to harm a customer just because they compete with Amazon's retail arm.
I think there's a lot of interest from cities in reclaiming parking, but it would be giving more space for pedestrians and cyclists. The amount of space for cars would remain the same.
All the rain that's fallen over Houston so far, in one massive water drop
Inflation, manipulation by the federal reserve, civil asset forfeiture, bank account seizures. The purchasing power of the US dollar has consistently declined over time. Only a fool would place complete trust in the US government.

Relevant Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/6wo4od/have...
That's not true anymore with Ryzen.
See here (french, but you should be able to read the graphs):
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/959-4/consommation-efficacit...
Neither of these are particularly useful worldviews.

Just do things, observe how they turn out, and then try to do them better. The reason "pivot" has spread throughout the lexicon is because it better describes reality today. What does "failure" even mean, that you ceased to exist when things didn't work out? No, of course not - when things don't work out, you're still here, you go and do something else, hopefully with the benefit of experience.

And similarly, what does it even mean to be "better than they actually are"? As if there's this national ranking scale of people from bad to good? The idea is nonsensical - people have different standards for what constitutes "good", and your only responsibility is to lead a life that you can feel good about by your standards.
Apple said they ran in to thermal issues trying to update the Mac Pro, and they're switching to a new design... perhaps sometime in 2018 or 2019.
Not nearly as elegant of a solution, but I've found that my Pi 3 does a great job of being the 'media box' I've been using my 2nd gen (I think?) Apple TV for. I've been using it with OSMC, wireless keyboard with trackpad, an external hard drive, and an xbox 360 controller. Great little media box. OSMC is dirt simple, I could probably give it to my parents and they'd figure out how to use it pretty quickly.

Of course if I wanted to do computing I'd just use one of the desktop distros.
Women Entrepreneurs Created a Fake Male Cofounder to Dodge Startup Sexism
We are a generation of people who reach 28/29 and chide themselves for still not being millionaire entrepreneurs all the while bragging on instagram about that bowl of pasta we cooked last night all by ourselves. Didn’t even buy premade sauce!
The Value of Believing in Free Will (2008) [pdf]
I agree that Postgres trumps Mongo for most use cases, but if ORM is the answer, you might be asking the wrong question.

I love that Fowler discusses[1] how to avoid ORMs and offers only two possibilities:

> Either you use the relational model in memory, or you don't use it in the database.

He clearly has a blind spot. The correct answer, at least in some cases, is don't use objects in the first place.

[1]: https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/OrmHate.html
>It's only feature is on-chain voting on protocol changes

>It also assumes hard forks are always bad and that everything can be agreed upon with votes

Those two statements are incorrect. If you want to understand what it brings to the table, then you should read the position paper: https://www.tezos.com/static/papers/position_paper.pdf

Or watch a presentation by the lead about Governance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OWxGqbknFQ
Could be a typo, f(g(x)) with g(x)=x/√(1+x²) and f a polynomial makes more sense to me.
One's stubborn tenacity is another's embarrassing coverup.
I'm curious as to how this will interact with things like state-mandated do not call registries. Currently I can register my phone number such that businesses are not permitted to cold-call me; if this were, say, Skype or Hangouts, then I would have to give ScamCo plc my account name and accept a request from them (or vice-versa), but since services like Whatsapp don't have any concept of mutual consent before contact, I don't get to be asked whether I'd like to hear from them.

I expect it also won't be too long before marketing execs start clamouring to be allowed to use "rich text" and images, and we'll all get to start receiving dodgy Javascript through Whatsapp. Ho hum.
Same thing you are - racking Mac Minis and crossing my fingers Apple will provide a hardware update in the not-too-distant future. And to get the Mac Mini to work in that environment isn't cheap by the time you get the enclosures, redundant networking, power connections, etc. Add in the need to run copies of MacOS in VMs to support multiple Xcode/iOS build combinations and I need a machine with a LOT more oomph. Heck, we've even started eyeing Mac Pros but are concerned they're being discontinued and aren't well-suited for rack mounting at all.
Rails out of the box is ready to build a production ready project. These are for when developer preferences diverge from the out of the box rails defaults. I love RSpec and I always set that up when I start a new Rails/Ruby project. If you do consulting work, you definitely make new apps frequently and having your favorite things ready to go is a plus. Thoughtbot has a project called suspenders that includes their preferences for new apps.
> The term "self-care" gets thrown around a lot these days, and is often used to describe getting enough sleep and exercise, eating clean, maybe throwing in some meditation for good measure. And yes, all of those things are good and helpful for keeping your mind and body on track. But we want to offer a more expansive definition. Self-care is about harnessing your energy for productive good.

Chalk up another life-improvement method being co-opted by neoliberal ideology, similar to the wholehearted embrace and corruption of mindfulness by corporations who want to extract as much value from their employees as possible[0]. Life is about so, so much more than productivity optimization.

[0] http://www.salon.com/2015/09/27/corporate_mindfulness_is_bul...
Same usage here. I desperately want a faster Mac build box. My CEO keeps asking me how we can make it faster and the only answer is, "switch to a hackintosh" =(
> The thing with the users collection is that I need to be able to add any arbitrary attribute to the user document so I can't really use a table with a schema.

You could put the attributes that all users share (username, email address, maybe hashed password) in a table, and then have a jsonb or hstore field for the rest of the attributes. That way you can still programmatically access the elements, and even build indexes over them.

But if you have no real reason to change DB, don't.
Stellar Consensus Protocol:

https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pd...

https://www.stellar.org/blog/stellar-consensus-protocol-proo...
I thought of this too, but it might be a bit more taxing on an old CPU to do excess multiplication than a simple XOR and test.
If they were all different companies, eventually consumer data would be commoditized and they would sell that data to each other anyway.
House flippers triggered the housing market crash, not poor subprime borrowers
Thanks for the link to the issue. I was wondering why the post was talking about function call overhead instead of being able to inline it.
never run into trucks, they're very unfriendly
WhatsApp is missing out in a big way. In Brazil almost every business has a whatsapp number.

Where are the tools to make using whatsApp easier for a business? The fact that I still need my phone around to use the webclient just sucks. Telegram doesn't need it, why does whatsapp?
While the article obliquely makes reference to this, I wonder if this is somewhat similar to the "birthday" problem in statistics. Any given person has ~1 in 365 chance of being born on a particular day. Yet, if you have 30 people in a room, there is a greater than 50 percent chance that at least one PAIR has the same birthday. Given the hundreds of cities (thousands?) in the US that may be affected by a flood, it's actually quite likely that at least one of them could have a pretty high probability of experiencing one in 500 chance of something each year. I haven't run the numbers, of course, but we're looking at Houston in isolation - it needs to be seen in the broader context of all possible cities. We're focusing on the individual probability of Houston having this improbable string of events, rather than looking at Houston only being the city that experienced this phenomenon.

Of course, the "once in 500 years flood" may also be an inaccurate probability as well, but if its not, then I'm not surprised this is happening SOMEWHERE.
Elusive Majorana Particle Takes Major Step Towards Quantum Computing
I'm not going to do that. If they're not interested in me I don't see any reason to persuade them. I would rather date people who are enthusiastic about dating me.

There's also an implicit assumption you're making that the women I've talked to about this are women I'm trying to date. That's not usually the case.
Increase the total value of the loan contract to cover the value of the lockout device. Add a clause saying that you'll pay for the return of the lockout device. If they don't return the vehicle for removal of the lockout device, you keep the extra $200 or whatever and it makes little difference to you.
I've been writing http://taoofmac.com for around 15 years. I'm pretty much dead set on macOS for at least 50% of what I do :)
even more terrible is not using it and coming across as an ass in your comment
I actually wanted a fast atan2 about 3 years ago in Java and held a small competition to see what people could come up with [1]. In plain old java, it looks like it performed very well, I would expect it outperformed what they did in the post using LUTs. My methodology for micro benchmarks was pretty awful back then, so there's reason for error. The fastest was just 3 branches and a memory lookup.

[1] http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/extremely-fast-atan2/36467...
Yes, this works well!

http://jsbin.com/xepefubuyu/2/edit?js,output
The Heinlein prediction of Crazy Years and "barter-only hamburgers" is a bit later to come around than originally projected, but the curve does not seem totally wrong ...
> There's also an implicit assumption you're making that the women I've talked to about this are women I'm trying to date. That's not usually the case.

Yeah, that was part of my potential insult.

I'm married with a kid, and most of my friends are paired up, so this topic rarely comes up for me. Thanks for letting me pick your brain.
Regarding #1, you could post it to some site like JustPaste.it (no affiliation, just found it via Google) and tweet the link. Chirr App itself could publish it on its servers and tweet the link with a single button.

#2 and #3, fair enough, though both of them sound like anti-features (spam, and fast soundbites over longer explanations) to me.
This is kind of a ridiculous statement given the massive popularity of NoSQL DBs like Cassandra, Redis, and Lucene.

Not to mention what you described seems like a perfectly reasonable architectural evolution. Are we all really expecting to make a single decision on a DB for the entirety of an app's life? It makes a lot of sense to use a flexible db schema while the data takes shape in an app's infancy, then solidify things with a more structured database schema further down the line. If you're abstracting things away in ORMs anyway, it might not even be that painful if you're just switching out DB drivers.
Look at the root cause. Humans are driven by the exact forces that caused evolution. Those forces are to gather resources and maintain social dominance. Anything other than that will never be a force that shapes the world.

"Not being fully clear about their means" is just a manifestation or symptom of someone's quest to acquire more resources. I repeat that you must look at the root force and not the symptom.
I guess stuff like this is the heart and soul of geekery "Look! I wrote a tool to use Imgur image descriptions as a very slow and unreliable filesystem!", but this just seems like a perfect example of why the ability to do a thing isn't necessarily a reason to do that thing.

Twitter threads are objectively terrible - they are hard to post, hard to read and hard to share; not because of some technical limitation, but because the people who built the tool designed it to resist being used in that way.

As long as there's a million places you can post text that's over 140 characters and then link to it from Twitter, this will remain a bad idea - because it's a misuse of a tool that makes it harder to use for both the creator and the consumer, while ignoring that there are trivial ways to avoid the problem entirely.
Cue discussion on the works of Tabeb, and what a horrible job humans do at predicting the frequency of rare events.
Show HN: Crypto-trader
Nobody notices the 500yr events that happen in the middle of nowhere.
I...uh...love those folks. <3
See Aly's top-level comment re: patches and download numbers.
"[B]uilding a native application for each platform was untenable for our size at the time. As a result, we...developed an in house versions (sic) of Firebase, RxJS, and React."

Something tells me that shipping a macOS app, a Windows app, and a decent web client would've been easier than what they did. So what's the real story? Did the scope of the project keep getting bigger, and they stayed the course due to loss aversion?
Sneak peek of 4 awesome hrs of #container troubleshooting with bencerillo
Contact your local school board and state education agency. The schools I have taught at still have these classes (automobile mechanics, applied physics, etc) because parents fight for them.

They are probably still able to legally be offered as courses (states usually don't remove entire course from state standards. The just go unupdated). School boards like to remove these courses because they are expensive (among other reasons) and on paper they look unpopular (hard safety caps mean a 15 person shop class looks unpopular compared to a 45 student overfilled history class).

Schools and school boards are parts of the government most susceptible to public pressure.

As a teacher, I want parents and community members to lobby their local schools. They don't listen to teachers but they buckle to parent complaints[1]. Please use your "complaining" powers for good.

[1]Unfortunately, schools can have a bad habit of viewing all parent contact as "complaints" or "whining."
It took a little while (say 1.5ish year from when they realized it was causing issues). According to MongoDB's CTO, this was because they couldn't quickly move their early users from the behavior they were used to.
Speed Up Your Website with HTTP/2
Show HN: Flexible and lightweight React Native component for UITableView
My email server is running on a cheap dedicated machine, with SPF and DKIM (and SSL) correctly set up, and which is only used to send my own email (no mass mailing, etc.). In many years of using this as my email system, I recall only two cases where my email was rejected: by a university, which required manual whitelisting; and by GMail once for an incomprehensible reason. Of course greylisting (delaying for a few hours the first time) is frequent, but that's fine. So I wouldn't say the picture is as grim as you suggest.

Maybe there were more cases where my mail got lost because of excessive filtering on other providers and where I didn't notice it, but there comes a point where I don't care and I can just blame the recipient if they use a provider which silently ignores some incoming mail...
I prefer the Air over the Pro. Hands down.
Dexter: the robotic arm to end scarcity
>We live in a capitalist society.

Always a solid cop-out for allowing bad things to continue
Rails is productive out of the box. The author has different preferences for some defaults and some plugins that require config. This is common for a consultancy to have a project like this so their rails apps are consistent around non-default add-ons and preferences.
Contrary to what the article states, elevated levels of lactic acid per say do not cause acidification. In fact, the increase in lactic acid correlates to but is not the causation of acidosis.
According to Robergs (2004) [1], it is the hydrolysis of ATP outside of the mitochondria (ATP produced in glycolysis) that increases the concentration of H+ and lowers pH.
Yet, still, if the concentration of lactate increases it's a good indicator of acidosis from oxygen deficiency.

[1]
Biochemistry of exercise-induced metabolic acidosis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15308499

Note: During low oxygen levels in tissue, metabolism becomes anaerobic -> lactic acid is produced. Lactic acid <-> lactate + H+.
The other side of the coin is that Ethereum has a well-funded foundation behind its software and business development, making it easier for established companies to interface with on various levels...
> the startup overhead of an SQL system is a myth.

It's also a myth that devs choose NoSQL over SQL because "SQL is too hard."
Hey there! Short answer is: No. Long answer is: It's a high-runner on our task list, no ETAs, but we're aware there's a need!
Whatever they charge for it.

I'd say $3000 max.
I use Safari's Reader mode to get rid of this stuff and modal dialog pop-ups asking me to subscribe or whatever they're asking. I also use Firefox Focus to remove ads on iOS or Adblock for Safari on desktop.
Raspberry Pi based thin client optimized for VMware Blast Extreme
Unfortunately, the support for managing code-signing in Fastlane isn't quite fully-baked, and it can get messy. It's still really useful, though, if you have to deal with iOS builds.
If there was a way to get all of the comments to show inline per their thread on the main page that would be helpful.

Having to click a link, go to another page, have that page jump around on you and still need to click another link to show the replies is pretty terrible.

Here's a GIF of my gripe: http://imgur.com/a/35YJs
Russia's Vnesheconombank Unveils Blockchain Research Centre
Perhaps screen sizes was a bad example of fragmentation (though, because the range is so much wider than on iOS, keyboard avoiding stuff can be unpleasant). Better examples would be subtle device-specific bugs. Like, off the top of my head, touch handling being handled differently for views on the Galaxy S5, making side swiping impossible. I can't confirm if that's RN specific or not, but I do know that I spent tens of hours on Android specific bugs that just were not present on iOS.

And perhaps RN was the culprit for some of these things. But definitely not all.
> /r/CryptoCurrency/

Potentially the worst source one can provide. Cryptocurrency buzzwords aren't an argument against the USD
What a silly thing to get mad about.
Point of order: The right to own slaves was just the right to own property, the slaves were just declassified as property. There are very few instances where rights have changed based on how you describe, because the societal inertia is incredibly hard to overcome. That being said, I do agree with everything you're saying.
Ditto. My new NAS has HGST drives because of Backblaze.
That's an impressive amount of water to drop anywhere.

An xkcd 'what-if' article explores what would happen if a storm were to release all its water in a single drop like this.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/12/
The purpose of ARCore is for high-end Android devices to be competitive with the iPhone technologically, not to get on 2 billion devices, at least not now.

Therefore it's fine that they get only 5% to start. I assume it's going to turn into 10%, then 20% quickly. For some perspective the iPhone only has about 15% market share globally.
Yeah, I had considered doing the same. Unfortunately, BackBlaze still doesn't offer a Linux client for their backup offering. :(
almost every app has a way of sending a message to another user, which could technically be a competitor to Messenger
I upvoted you because you were needlessly sincere. Thanks.
Do you run items in CL that return to an emacs buffer?
Like say, slime-eval/run? Or are these just run in the repl itself and displayed there? Been toying with making some async stuff run via swank/slime and then display in emacs in a custom mode and buffer.
> to end scarcity

huh?
Staples (UK) didn't allow me to set up a business account because my company didn't have a landline number.
What part don't you believe?
You can buy a Lego differential gear to keep as a desk toy: https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Technic-Differential-connectors-...
Inside the Massive 711M Record Onliner Spambot Dump
The challenge of unconstrained voice queries
A lot of people use uber because parking is horrible at their destination and public transit doesn't work. If uber doesn't exist then they would of drove. How many cars is that one uber car replacing in that case?
Obscure sequential IDs through reversable transformation
Fort Bend County Judge Robert Hebert stated that Hurricane Harvey is more like a 800-year event, as quoted from the statement from Monday, reported by the same newspaper WaPo[1]

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/2...
Yes - I feel the article's interpretation is a little overblown and social network refers to more of a Facebook competitor than anything else.

Github for instance uses GraphQL and they have a 'social' element since there are users who can post on forums and message each other. Does the author believe Github is infringing the patent? I feel that would be taking it too far. It would be interesting to hear Github's view on the article
Are you going to provide any reasoning for your 'woke' economic views? It's well understood that a deflationary currency decreases investment incentives.
Agree 100%! I also find it weird that you can only be signed in to one web client at a time, and your phone MUST be connected to the internet for it to work. Telegram also has a really great developer experience while WhatsApp is locked down. Hopefully biz verification is the first of many new product features. I know making big changes with as many users as they have is really hard, but I would love to see some momentum.
Does using them for "art" - by which I mean, inside jokes - count?

* widgetsex.com

* cannedgoat.com

I've also got a few that I'm reserving for my child that won't be used until she figures out what she wants to do with them - and given that she's currently at "point, scream, put it in my mouth" stage, that's going to be awhile.
While I think the infographics of that article are pretty accurate, I believe that this article doesn't benefit from the recent focus on income inequality and the massive schism of the 1% of the 1% from the other 99.99% of the population.

I agree that expectations are a little unrealistic, particularly with anyone born after the early 90s, but also for many born after the late 70s.

However the quality of life, slack time, and slack resources for happiness that other generations did experience during periods of prosperity are measurably lacking today.

It is not unrealistic to feel unhappy about this; but what continues to amaze me is how ignorantly and emotionally many vote. Blatantly ignoring candidates who's platforms are arguably better able to deliver successful change in favor of candidates who sell them an easy bubble of illusions.