skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt CoreOS has any meaningful revenue (my guess is they are between $5M and $10M of recurring annual revenue). I also doubt they have a single customer that isn't either A. already a Red Hat customer, or B. too small to be interesting to them.

For $250M Red Hat bought outstanding technology, a strong R&D team with community street cred, and upstream influence in Kubernetes. They know how to monetize these things. They definitely did not buy revenue or customers. In fact they got a great price precisely because CoreOS failed to monetize these things sustainably, and needed a way out. It's a great outcome for the team, and a great match for Red Hat.
I wouldn't get into a deep coma to find out either!
Ask HN: How to become a manager
Hi everyone. I am currently working as senior technical support engineer (L3) and have like 7 years of experience in various fields like Process development, Accessibility web developer, test engineer and support engineer. How do I take next step to become a manager ? is 7 years too short ? should I become team lead first
Net neutrality activist 'throttles' street traffic outside FCC building
> No, Intrinsity acquisition was in 2000, years ahead of Apple's first 64-bit release.

You are off by a decade[0] on the date of the acquisition.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsity
> The entirety of european colonization ( from africa to china ) was mass rape of women

I was with you up until then. European colonisation was about exploiting the natural resources of the Africa and the Orient, not the women.
Sometimes I wonder what the epigenetic effects of porn will be on the long run. The illusion of living in a plentiful environment could have unforeseen consequences over the brain of our children.
So are we turning machine learning into a Euclidean distance calculation [with] many dimensions, with different weights for each dimension?

That’s... not that sexy. But at least it makes sense to anyone with an undergrad degree in CS or math, which is something neural networks never accomplished.
Soviet doesn't necessarily equate to Russian, in the same way that you can be a non-German Nazi...
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IntelliJ is still slow even when I throw 12 cores Xeons at it.

... aside from the fact that I can compile some projects faster than it takes just to start up.

If IntelliJ were a car, it'd be gas guzzling SUV with a hole in the gas tank.
> Users from Japan popularized a kind of emoticon called kaomoji (顔文字; lit. 顔(kao)=face, 文字(moji)=character(s)) that can be understood without tilting one's head to the left.

Interesting. So more accurately, this is a kaomoji.
EDIT: NV always responds really fast to info requests but this one is taking a while. I specifically asked for reference letters with everything else. Who ever filled in the info on the BOE meeting clearly lied. They've had a contract with another state and my guess is unhealthy.

http://purchasing.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/purchasingnvgov/conte...

They want something "cloud ready" yet acquired $600,000 of Oracle cloud licenses (what ever that is)?

"The Department purchased and received Oracle hardware, Oracle Software, Network and security Hardware and Software, and the Oracle Cloud Software. The hardware is located in both the Department's Carson City and Las Vegas (Flamingo) server rooms.
To-date, the purchase cost for hardware and software is $11,408,412.

The cost breakdown is as follows:
1. Oracle Hardware - $3,000,000
2. Oracle Software - $5,900,000
3. Oracle Cloud Subscription - $618,000
4. Security-Network software and hardware - $1,890,412

Total Costs $11,408,412"

http://budget.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/budgetnvgov/content/Meeti...

Page 262. "This is a new contract to provide, design and implement a new system to replace the existing and aging client server application. The modernization of the current system will provide better customer service, reduce transaction processing time, increase speed-to-market of NV DMV products and services, enhance security and reduce system backlog"

Very clever choice of words. I'll bet the board who approved that contract didn't know they signed a contract for nothing.

From their own site:

https://www.techmahindra.com/media/press_releases/TechMahind...

"The solution will be migrated to the Oracle technology stack"

So they are going to migrate 4 years worth of Dynamics customizations (which aren't even working) to the Oracle technology stack. Right. No shit they didn't even show up.
Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
This is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise), it is just code that happens to be owned by Google

Would you mind elaborating on this?
Hanlon's razor? [1]

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

1: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
That's the purpose of magic[1], isn't it? Maybe one day magic tricks will be designed by AI. It'd be funny, since that would gave Arthur C. Clark famous quote ("any sufficiently advanced technology...") a whole new meaning.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(illusion)
I agree that people should be more responsible about what things they choose to post publicly. But networks such as facebook make it really difficult for the average joe (the guy that rock climbs after claiming a back injury) to decipher what is private vs. public. When it's tied to your real-life identity, and potential consequences therein, it should be so simple a toddler could understand.

Either get serious about your privacy on public networks tied to your identity (see facebook privacy checker: https://www.facebook.com/help/443357099140264/ ), only use 100% anonymous public networks (see reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ ) or stick to a 100% private social network, like I've done (see select: https://mailchi.mp/231daaf5ccef/select-03 ).
> - ProjectFI recently lost 99% of LTE coverage in China. T-Mobile cancelled their contract with China Unicom, and Nexus phones do not support the LTE bandwith China Mobile uses. You're stuck on the EDGE network 99% of the time.

Do you have any more info on this?
Here's hoping this fish problem doesnt exist overseas in the UK!
We'd have to work a lot on our golf game to secure that kind of contract.
Preventive Care Saves Money? Sorry, It’s Too Good to Be True
C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013)
How is it that eBay is still around despite being at a later stage of scammer takeover?
Great post, but I take exception on this part:

Commit to values -> I think the last 20 years have shown that Amazon is pretty committed to investing in growth...

In the article, "values" was alluding to something more altruistic or socially aspirational than growth, capitalism, etc. Amazon's image is pretty weak in this area. Especially around employee culture and truly putting the consumer first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind
I really do not understand the appeal of shipping containers as houses.

One thing a shipping container house has going for it: The structure itself is guaranteed to be earthquake proof, assuming you don't cut too many doors or windows. It could sink into liquifaction'ed soil and still be structurally sound.

Of course, the interior finished walls and furnishings may be a problem, the the container itself should survive nearly any size earthquake.
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Yes, but I would say quality is most important in almost all cases. Well, quality being defined as <1% error rate, which isn’t such a high bar.

The most compelling near term applications (NITP etc) use fragmented DNA, and long reads will have no benefit here.

So, yes. Long reads are useful, but you need to have at least reasonable performance in other respects. The same thing has been seen with PacBio, who have not played well in the market, despite having a read length advantage.
I had to:

brew tap caskroom/versions

as well
Apple already provides a hypervisor framework (and has previous experience with Rosetta), it’s not beyond reason that they could solve that issue themselves.
In the US they can tell if it’s a fire or a break in and the security company will call the proper authorities. Some even have panic buttons and yes the police will come. I’ve seen it happen my self.

Why would it be a false alarm?
I really wonder what you are basing this opinion on. The most recent stable release (Oxygen) was released last June, and Eclipse Che, their cloud IDE last October. In Stack Overflow's 2017 Developer 2017, 20% of Web Developers use Eclipse, 25% of Desktop developers use Eclipse, 22% of SysAdmins use Eclipse, and 27% of Data Scientists and Engineers use Eclipse.
Perhaps they incompetently underspecified the battery for the long term needs of their processor, more than a year before the embarrassing insufficient current shutdown effects became painfully obvious, and instead of admitting to the costly blunder, they found a software bandaid they foolishly thought wouldn't bite them in the ass in yet another year.
Correct. In Japan, the term for a picture of a face made of multiple characters is kaomoji (顔文字: "face characters"), not emoji (絵文字: "picture character(s)").

These related words also exist:

スマイリー (sumairii/smiley: could be kaomoji or emoji, I think)

エモーティコン (emoochikon/emoticon)

フェイスマーク (feisumaaku/"face mark").
I think you're right. CoreOS never made the transition from technology and community leader to a sustainable enterprise business. I think Docker has made that transition. They are at a completely different stage than CoreOS and facing vastly different challenges.

For Docker the question is: can they carve out enough of the enterprise IT budget to reach IPO-level revenue growth before either A) their direct competition (Red Hat and Vmware) catches up to them, or B) Big Cloud commoditizes the entire container platform space, eventually nuking the growth of Docker, Red Hat and Vmware alike.
Tether is looking a lot like Liberty Reserve, and that ended in seizure of assets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve#2013_seizure
You can can tell from the auditors report that the RFP or other solicitation was fubar. Many of the deficiencies there are standard contract terms that were probably missing.

It also sounds like the project was getting done on the cheap. The actual dollar figure is buried a bit... it sounds like they got their hands on a big wad of cash and went on a spending spree. I bet they bought a new mainframe, lots of of network crap, etc.

The poor procurement practices led to the state ending up with some two-bit bodyshop that just tried to job out the work. My guess is that the state program side is barebones and some political hack pushed this through.
They could buy AMD and then have license to implement the x86_64 ISA in a similar fashion to how the A-series implement the ARM ISA. Bit far fetched, but not completely implausible.
I'll hijack this thread so everyone gets to see this.

STOP reading Bloomberg for cryptocurrency news! I don't know if they did this on purpose or not to manipulate the market and so some of their rich friends can get in at a cheaper price, but I find it quite unacceptable for a publication such as Bloomberg to mess up the fact that it was posting a two months old story.

But that's not even the worst part. No, the worst part is that they edited the article to change the date but you won't see anywhere that this edit was made, except for this, which you probably wouldn't have noticed anyway:

> Updated on January 31, 2018

I find that extremely unprofessional at the very least, if not malicious/manipulative, as I mentioned above.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7u4fd5/we_a...

Also, if I remember right, Bloomberg was one of the first to announce the fake South Korean cryptocurrency "ban", too, along with CNBC, which I believe was the first, and a few others, which may have just tried to "get there first", without actually verifying the story. So I would also say stay away from CNBC, they seem to be even worse, and you can tell from the way they write their headlines (always either in a panic or hype-inducing manner).

Finally, as for Bitfinex and Tether itself, if they got the subpoena since early December, how were they still able to "print so much fake money" in January - unless maybe they can actually back those Tethers. I don't know, but it is an interesting theory:

https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/958427996209074176
I wish code for america would take these kinds of things on. I assume the DMV rules are sufficiently similar that most/all of them could benefit from opensource.

https://www.codeforamerica.org/
Yes, but that’s solveable by buying AMD.
Hospitals aren't charging insurance companies $30 for Tylenol and then paying insurance companies under the table if that's what you're alleging.

That's completely illegal and it's just too noticeable for them to do it large scale.

The OP was making a baseless claim because they didn't know what they were talking about, and you're now grasping at straws supporting their claim for some reason.
If cybersecurity is really the issue here then there are probably dozens, if not hundreds, of other devices manufactured in China posing quite a bigger risk.

Cheap pedometers, drones (including their control apps), straight up USB storage sticks and all the cheap IoT devices like cameras and whatnot are pretty much all manufactured in China.

A smartphone might yield the biggest results, it's among the devices drawing most of the security scrutiny for exactly that reason.

While something like a $5 pedometer isn't even considered an attack vector by the vast majority of people, just like downloading an App by the vendor one bought a cheap drone off, but if I wanted to spread something on a large scale I'd use exactly devices like that (cheap and produced in abundance) instead of using a $400+ smartphone with a rather well-established brand behind it.
Doesn’t this mean that they made an error while designing the hardware, because required power output could not be sustained over a normal battery lifespan?

But the decision process probably favoured shipping and trying to patch around it in software because form always wins over function.

Unsurprised by the lawsuits, sounds like a massive engineering fuckup to me.
Never underestimate the complexity of those projects: I’d bet that the requirements would fill a bookshelf, and simply navigating the hurdles to bid & convince them that you have the resources to deliver would rule out a group of engineers below the triple digit range.

(Yes, that’s not a good way to build things successfully. Welcome to enterprise IT.)
I can only hope that you continued reading. I wanted to give a brief summary/introduction at the top of my comment; I apologize if it came across at too terse to the point of reducing the rest of the comment. While that sentence taken cut from the top looks quite controversial, the contextualized framing, addressed in the greater comment, is not a controversial view among historians in Germany, where the kind of revisionism you've accused me of is illegal.

Why have Germans historians opted to broaden the narrative? I can only imagine. A common story I hear of people growing up in Germany in the 60s, 70s and 80s was that there were a whole list of questions that you weren't allowed to ask your (Grand-)parents. You knew they were in Hitler youth, maybe even in the Wehrmacht or heaven forbid the SS. I do not know about you, but when I was young I asked all kinds of questions. Most of these historians were probably the same, and decided to make their career out of these unanswerable and taboo questions. What we have today, as a result, is a much more complex, nuanced, and complete understanding of the decisions of our grandfathers. This nuance might seem dangerous to you? Should nuance be illegal? Yes, even violence has a context. Perhaps this sense of threat stems from the cultural difference of viewing "Committers of Crime vs Criminals". I won't speculate further.

In closing, it is important to note that what I have provided in my original comment is not revisionist in the sense you seem to be suggesting. The facts are unchanged and undisputed. It is the perspective on the facts that have shifted, with the distance provided by time. I hope we can distinguish between the two, and therefore agree that I was not changing the picture of 1945 (revisionism), but filling in the picture of 1941-45 (contextualizing). There's a sizable difference!
Wow, cool advertisements. I’m glad they made an impression on me.
Prior version of the system used PowerBuilder. That figures.

My fly-by of PowerBuilder 20 years ago made a deep impression. Like, I never wanted to even think about that hunk of garbage again. It's right up there with PeopleSoft. If you're ever offered an opportunity to work with these systems, just run away.

The state didn't know how to buy or develop software then, and it doesn't know how to buy or develop software today.
What does "lives" mean? Can we save conscience when approaching the cold death? What happens at the end of time?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
This is true, and not without good reasons. In places where long-term residents have enough financial and political clout to control their own neighborhoods, they almost universally want to keep density low for better (perceived) quality of life. Visit Palo Alto: the downtown looks like it hasn't changed since the 70's.
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the usual progression is team lead then manager, although every organization is different. Generally you would need to express an interest to your manager that you are interested in management (many people are not interested and for good reason :) ) and then wait for someone up the chain to leave the company. Before that happens you may be able to serve as delegate while your manager is out of the office. If you want things to happen more quickly then you would need to get hired in as a manager at another company which might rquire first getting an MBA or MS degree.
Both Bridenstine and Pelosi are cynical opportunists. It would be the same message for me either way.
Approaches for data preparation
OTL Ventures, an Origin Story
Slight variation: we can sub "shi" for "tsu" for a different look. Also, hiragana "ji", preceded by an extra dakuten mark:

Original: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

s/ツ/シ/:　¯\_(シ)_/¯

s/ツ/゛じ/: ¯\_(゛じ)_/¯
> all the same laws are applicable and fraud is fraud

No, it's not the same when you can use pseudonyms and provide fake data with the intent of deceiving someone.

> what is more interesting is that a variety of traditional control mechanisms appear to be ineffective at stopping the two voluntary parties from interacting whereas for banking and brokerages they are sufficient.

Fraud is not two voluntary parties interacting, it's one party stealing someone's money without their consent

> but how would you even enforce a law requiring specific criteria for an ICO when an anonymous 14 year old kid anywhere in the world can do it in 20 minutes??!

Admittedly I'm not sure, but my off the cuff thought is that you seize assets and prevent cashing out. Any wallet associated with a dubious ICO could be tracked and anyone that facilitates transactions for them could be targeted. If an exchange facilitates their cashing out they will have their assets seized; if a tumbling service receives assets from those wallets they will be subject to criminal action; if a bank facilitates a cash out they will be banned from participating in the US financial system etc.

Honestly at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. At this rate ICOs will either be outright banned or anyone with half a brain will stay far away from them and the hype will die out.
Yeah Adobe sure had a lot of magic to show in that conference.
Unsurprisingly, the work was outsourced to an Indian company, "Tech Mahindra".

Nothing against Indians as a people, but Indian outsourcing companies are known for the terrible product quality.
Reference counting gc?
So your definition of "modern text editor" == "built on a web browser"?

I certainly wouldn't consider any of those toys to be more modern than vim, sublime, emacs, etc. Newer maybe, but not more modern.
I can't speak for anyone else, but my own interest in shipping container houses is that you can literally ship your own house somewhere else for a reasonable sum. Then you have it trucked to a remote location somewhere with a bunch of supplies and you're good to live there for a while.

If you're just using it as a prebuilt structure for a permanent dwelling then prefab would make much more sense.
Hey, wow. Amazing. Congratulations. You solved the problem. Right here on Hacker News.
Great stuff, and awesome to see this coming from Google (and in Rust instead of Go). Interesting historical note: The author of Sublime Text left Google to work on it by himself when he couldn't get it approved as a 20% project.
Aadhaar in India is far worse.

99% of the data has leaked multiple times already. It also seems to sport all the classic signs of an amateur project. Post facto design changes, unauthenticated mails, unprofessional mobile apps, leaky access to all of the data irrespective of your need, terrible code (same hard coded passwords for everyone), cludgy design increments making the problems worse while not acknowledging existing issues, logical errors (like beign unable to reset passwords if you have lost mobile device) and the deaths of people unable to access hospitals and food in some areas, Police cases against people reporting on vulnerabilities, ... ...

It's a kafkaesque nightmare and I am surprised no one mentions it on HN much. Probably because it's a slow motion train wreck.

I am not sure how the Indian courts are even going to justify continuing with the system anymore given the absolutely callous handling of the data thus far by their Aadhaar agency.

In the end, India's aadhaar is actually not a government project, it is a private project run by a bunch of companies run by some ex infosys top shots who have time and again proven to only look after their own interests.
The new trend is to allow people to build mini houses in the backyard. It started as a movement to convert garages or sheds into inlaw apartments, but as more one and two family homes turn into rentals, the reality is that it’s just another way for a landlord to squeeze a few more sheckles out of the lot.

Containers are appealing because they are cheap and can be lifted in by crane. The real estate guys are pushing for them, and in my city we’re fighting proposals to modify the zoning to allow them.
I don’t think that making criticisms personal like that accomplished anything useful. The fact that a large number of other people agree with his decisions suggests that it’s not “being lazy” and more balancing different goals. It would be far more productive to understand those pressures rather than simply assuming the worst.
I’m guessing it’s actually the humans that cost $$$ not some source code.
For the Alfred users out there, this [1] workflow gives you this and a handful of other kaomoji with a single chord

[1]: https://github.com/luxflux/alfred-workflows
Who makes most of their computing devices? A person who customizes the heck out of their hardware or software, or a person who uses their devices as delivered from the manufacturer?
It makes more sense that learned behavior and can be inherited by offspring rather than random mutations producing complex advantageous behavior but exciting to hear that it's been replicated.

I wonder if offspring of older parents possess an advantage of possibly having more learned behavior passed down.
That reward needs to be sold to pay for the infrastructure costs of running that node which comes from increasing the supply of your cryptocurrency which decreases the value of each cryptocurrency token.