skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Land Ownership

> About 90 percent of the land is communally owned by aiga. The existing tenure law on communal lands prohibits alienation of any real property except freehold land to any person whose blood is less that one-half Samoan. Unless the Governor approves the transfer in writing, it is unlawful for any matai of a Samoan family to alienate any family lands to any person or lease it for any term more than 55 years. ASG estimates that 1.5625 square miles of American Samoa's total area of 76.1 square miles are freehold land.

https://www.doi.gov/oia/islands/american-samoa

You probably don't realize it, but projecting European values and customs onto other peoples is a form of white supremacy. There is nothing universal about the way European countries and their former colonies govern themselves. It is quite reasonable that many non-European people would want to be governed by principles incompatible with ours as Americans.
We run all of our production backend on it at Monzo (we're a bank.) [1]

We first deployed v1.2 nearly 2 years ago, and I can say Kubernetes has made some amazing improvements in that time – in terms of functionality, usability, scalability, and stability. This release continues that trend.

We've invested a lot in it too with things like making sure our etcd clusters backing Kubernetes are really solid [2], and we've even added some of our own features to Kubernetes like allowing CPU throttling to be more configurable to get more predictable >p99 latency from our applications.

We've been through our share of production issues with it (some of which we've posted publicly about in the hope that others can learn more about operating it too [3]), but I don't think there's any way in which we could run an infrastructure as large and complex as ours with so few people without Kubernetes. It's amazing.

[1] https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-bac...

[2] https://monzo.com/blog/2017/11/29/very-robust-etcd/

[3] https://community.monzo.com/t/resolved-current-account-payme...
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It would be appreciated. I've recently been removing all history for my main alias (of which I don't use on HN for this very reason) from the internet.
For myself, social media (Facebook) makes me upset for several reasons. Besides the usual reasons of seeing disturbing news and advertisements, being manipulated by the system, and the creepy feeling of being digitally analyzed for profit, there exists a more serious problem.

I have friends from all over the spectrum, from poor to wealthy, simple to intelligent, young to old. However I find something in almost all of my friend's posts (or reposts) that I highly disagree with (either by fact or opinion), and feel socially compelled not to stand up against their message. I've tried engaging in logical or political conversion with my friends, but it almost always backfires, usually because either a) the conversation is too much for them and they concede, or b) swarms of like-minded bystanders join and dominate via mob-rule. Usually, in neither of these situations does the original poster really consider changing their position.

Topics that I come across that make me cringe could be family who perpetuate crystal healing or conspiracy theories, or co-workers who repost anti-Constitution political rhetoric. How is a moderate Libertarian supposed to survive on social media, ignoring nonsense from their friends and family?
It's not going to be decipherable without some help to point you to what to compare and how to read the charts, but https://arewecompressedyet.com/ contains many such comparisons and is what they use to evaluate branches and features, etc. The Daala team has mostly focused on four metrics, of which PSNR is just one and probably the least valued. PSNR-HVS-M is the "hardest" one, but it also includes SSIM and another SSIM variant.

I'm sure one of the team will chime in shortly pointing to some recent results.
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I think it's fine for Russia to push Brexit. Not familiar enough with the Ukraine/Russia situation to comment.

I don't see how Russia commenting or propagandizing in any way restricts freedom of the press or freedom of speech.
I'm somewhat dubious about the financial aspects, sure you can start offering support services but who wants to do technical support for a living, or advertising, or begging via Patreon.

Money is a good proxy for value, I know the customers who paid for my software today are getting some benefit from it, they wouldn't have put their hand in their wallet otherwise. Every time I get an order I get a warm feeling that goes well beyond the financial reward.

On the other hand some of my worst and most needy "customers" have been those using open source or free tools. Their expectations are high and gratitude low.

As I said I do have some open source projects and they have received contributions, when I add it up though it hasn't paid off.
I appreciate this analogy. Thanks for the input. +1
Does publishing YouTube programming videos and career advice count as social media?
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If I need 1000 software bricks I need for my house, you can’t really convince me to pay a premium for each. Especially since I often have alternative bricks.

Psychology plays an important part in how markets work.
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He uses powerful PCs to do his VQ compression, everything in 1982 was possible but this :) . I think the general technique is probably something like this:

1) cluster all possible 8x8 pixel video blocks by some metric, and pick the 256 most frequent ones.

2) include these into a new charset, or several character sets up to how much memory you want to use, with the most frequent 8x8 pattern occuring.

3) Now encode each frame by 'quantizing' an 8x8 block into its character code. You want to minimize overall perceptual error, so choosing the optimal charset tile patterns and optimal tiling can be done with many optimization techniques (monto carlo, genetic algorithms, etc)

But basically, you're 'dithering' the frame down to characters in a font, and the font character patterns must be chosen optimally to fit the whole video. There's some leeway in this because you can change the font every scanline or 8 scanlines, so it is possible to go beyond a max of 256 unique tiles per frame, you could also switch fonts between different parts of the video.

A given full screen would be 40x25 characters, so you'd need to decode/write about 1000 characters per frame. At 10fps, you need to decode about 10k per second. The c64 executes about 20k cycles per frame, and the time to load/store from memory is going to be at least 9 cycles, 13 if you use indirect addressing. That gives you enough time to barely write 1500 bytes per frame, so this is right at the limit of what the C64 can do. You decompression has to be essentially a table lookup, and minimally a loop if I've estimated the bounds correct. (I'm going by 20 year old memory :) )
Moscow State University's most recent codec comparison included subjective evaluations of image quality:

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-New...
Instagram for business. The rest is not needed in my life.
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Whoa, I hadn't considered this at all. This opens a huge can of worms.

How could this even be enforced? If something like the GDPR gave you the ability to request that your data be deleted, would that extend to learned data?

In my opinion, there's no way they could make FB delete that kind of data. How would you even know they had it? It's not like FB would throw out entire trained models or attempt to retrain with everyone else's data, that would never make economic sense.

Could someone with more knowledge of the current data protection laws comment about how|if this is addressed? To me it seems like companies could just process all your data into some derivative and then delete the original data to stay compliant.
Funny thing is that 20 years ago all the history and economics text books when I was at school were talking about growth and how it was going to stop soon.

But since the politicians invented mass immigration that conversation has seemingly disappeared.

Politicians have engineered a massive ethnic and cultural shift inside their own countries without asking anyone just to keep infinite growth going, which doesn't sound like it'll work long term and has resulted in the rise of the right.

It's pretty insane what they've done, apparently a 1/3 of all children today in the UK have at least one immigrant parent.
Plain HTTP is fine if we send it over an encrypted connection. Hmm... I wonder if we could use TLS for that?

;)
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Companies that succeed are driven by burning vision, not by day-to-day operation people.

They are not mutually exclusive; thinking that they are is a recipe for failure.
Basecamp is doing quite well despite open sourcing their framwork Ruby on Rails.

Don't forget, the vast majority of open source is paid for by companies.
We've been using CoreDNS for a bit now, and it's much better than KubeDNS. We found that KubeDNS would time out and drop requests from time to time. No such issues with CoreDNS. Would recommend (at least from a reliability standpoint).
They should send them to poorer countries
Is there an easy way to get a single-node production-ready Kubernetes instance? I'd like to start using the Auto DevOps features that GitLab is adding, but all the tutorials I can find either have you installing minikube on your laptop or setting up a high-availability cluster with at least 3 hosts. Right now I'm using CoreOS and managing Docker containers with systemd and shell scripts, which works all right but is tedious and kind of hard to keep track of. I don't have anything that needs to autoscale or fail over or do high availability, I just want something that integrates nicely and makes it easy to deploy containers.

EDIT: I should have clarified, I want to self-host this on our internal VMWare cluster, rather than run it on GKE.
Exactly! It's the aggregated selfishness and greed of many individuals that ruins it for all. "No single raindrop believes it is responsible for the flood."
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In the UK the cost of building materials has been soaring over the last couple of years.
Ask HN: Selling your product before it exists?
Has anyone here made an effort to sell their SaaS app before they have built it? My idea is to work backwards by building a customer base first, then the product so that 0 time is wasted on building a product that nobody wants. I plan on offering a 50% discount as an incentive to those who sign up early before the product is built. If you have made or attempted to make presales, how successful was this approach in your experience?
If you have the wrong amount, consistency or distribution of mortar, the jig won't fix it.

If you have the right amount, consistency and distribution of mortar, the jig won't do anything :)
I think it would make a lot of people's day to see a huge number of folks had actually extricated themselves from FB today.

Have you done it yet?
But not using Facebook gives a +80% score too right? I mean, only a terrorist cares about his privacy. I have nothing to hide. :|
This isn't really a response though; you're just being more specific about what you think is wrong, but not why it should be wrong.

"Cambridge Analytica illegally deployed foreign workers to American campaigns"

Why is it (or should it be) wrong for a non-US-citizen to advise members of a US campaign?
"The PROBLEM is that corrupt politicians ... lost it all"

That's hardly unique. It's the expected result when you let the government hold on to money for the future, rather than a bank.

Banks are bound by laws designed to prevent these kind of problems. Governments are not.
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What Solomon is doing, walking away from the company he helped create, is probably one of the hardest decisions an entrepreneur may need to take. Good luck with everything!
+1 for "regular" Ceph. Don't bother with that rook stuff. Just setup a regular Ceph cluster and go. Kubernetes handles its stuff and a (much more reliable and stable) Ceph cluster handles blocks and files.
Still doesn't make any sense. Is "The democratic voting of two countries was manipulated using social media, it puts at risk our rights, and freedoms." a problem or is "The democratic voting of two countries was illegally manipulated using social media, it puts at risk our rights, and freedoms." a problem?
I feel like we should be doing a better job educating people on what a healthy relationship with the media should look like. If a headline can ruin someone’s day that says to me that the affected person doesn’t understand that media companies profit from outrage. This isn’t even a Facebook problem, it’s an independent thought problem. Don’t let the media tell you what to worry about.
> I am more looking forward to future release. The current version is mostly a bitstream freeze.

It's not even a bitstream freeze. This 'release' was put out by the marking folks, and wasn't even discussed with people on the AOM list (I'm part of AOM via VideoLAN). The bitstream remains under development.

Near as I can tell this is just a PR piece before NAB.
Good image formats for movie frames aren't necessarily good for stand-alone still images though...
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>It might well reclassify them as defense.

>At worst, it puts them in perspective.

The context is "For China to be considered an enemy it ought to have done something." Defense of any form obviously satisfies this requirement. You are only arguing semantics.

But in Taiwan, China is the bully, and the US defends peace.

>the US for example would easily give away California to Mexico

The US controls California. If we lost it, it would be ridiculous to spend 70 years threatening war against anyone who suggested we should admit it.

>Taiwanese are settlers from China

Americans are settlers from England.
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I don't think I have ever once in my life seen someone in the grocery store that I want to have a fun chat with. Excluding potential dates haha.
I assume it depends on the need but an orchestration could represent a bunch of microservice apps for a single larger project. This is making me think... can you nest orchestrations?
No, but it has been added to VLC git master (cf. changelog [1]) as an experimental feature using libaom.

[1] https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=H...
I'd be willing to work with you as I have built a googleplay music version of this a while ago. https://github.com/fergyfresh/setlist-on-a-playlist

I took it a step further to make a playlist out of the bands most recent setlist, so its similar, but not the same. It's currently just a cli that allows you to make a playlist on your google play music based on a band's most recent setlist, provided it was posted on setlist.fm. Most of the bands that I listen to have the setlist.fm posted basically the same night of the show.

Would love to help, leverage, or even refactor some of your stuff so that we could use virtually any music playing platform to do this.
I believe that you need at least 500 karma in order to downvote on HN.
If you can go back in time, join me in 2013 and you can enjoy the ride for a few years, too. I'm sorry to say that I don't think you'll get the same experience in 2018.
If you prefer substitute 'principles, concepts, methods, and metacognitive skills' for 'tools'. Try not to get hung up on the precise labels. Factual knowledge is only a small part of what we are talking about here.

The 'critics' have an entirely different toolset from 'practitioners'. Even their factual knowledge is of a different type, grounded in a different context, and not easily comparable. Likewise it doesn't make much sense to compare their 'accomplishments': criticism is its own valuable discipline with different goals.
The audience reaction was great. It reminds me of a similar audience reaction in this video of motion kernel de-blurring in Adobe Photoshop from 2011 (at about 1:17 in the video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xxjiQ...

Audience: "No way!" and "That's impossible!" and "How did it do that?"
I suspect this is EXACTLY why Cambridge Analytica is located in the UK, and EXACTLY why, they promoted the Brexit campaign: so that they would be exempt from EU privacy laws.
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Foreign entities should be able to say their piece, but doing so in a way that hides the source crosses a line, as they are likely to be acting in their own interests and not the interests of the country in question.

FWIW, I'd say the same about domestic campaigning - you should be able to track it back to its source.
Yes, it is. Accepting de facto control is important to ensuring a lasting peace. There will always be another objection. De facto control justifies the status of Tibet, Hawai'i, Israel, Catalonia etc.
Just want to point anyone looking to test their own VPN to https://ipleak.net/. That's been my go-to, and it seems more comprehensive than the linked service.
I think anything is fair game that was reasonably doable back in 1983.

Cartridges have been used from the beginning, at first they were just 16 kB. Games have been released in cartridge format from 8 to 512 kB.

It's really impressive to be able to include any type of decompression when total budget per sample is just 21 clock cycles on a system where one instruction takes 2 to 8 clocks.

So I think you're underrating the achievement here.
Sure. In most of the Western world, Universal Suffrage came only after World War 1. Till then there were generally barriers of class, race or gender on who could vote.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage
So it's essentially preference when it comes to orchestration. Thanks. :thumbs_up:
I really don't think coining the term 10x did anything to help developers or the state of development, and likewise here.
So a 3,500 word piece that written over a 6 month period is suspect because a single vendor was omitted from the piece during? Right. It sounds like you definitely naive about both how the editorial process and how journalism works.
So more regulation is a solution? I mean I see what you are getting at. But this is definitly not the direction we as humanity should go.

Regulation can and will just lead to information bubbles and yet again giving the power in the wrong hands, but in that case a central authority instead of a open market.
I don't use social media. I have a Google+ account to share photos (and nothing else) with my family, but the bugs make that harder and harder, so I'll have to abandon it. (Any suggestions?)
Workers who switch from teaching jobs to non-teaching jobs see their salaries typically go down. https://www.heritage.org/education/report/assessing-the-comp....

Teachers only look relatively underpaid if you lump all college graduates together and look at average salaries. That number is heavily skewed, because many of our executives and professionals (bankers, doctors, lawyers, programmers) are paid multiples more than in Europe. That just means those people are paid too much, not that teachers are paid too little.
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Both are critical. You have a goal and then you make progress. Neither is enough on its own.
Or 3) convince the other side's believers to stay home
Received more answers than I anticipated. Thanks for the explanations my fellow tech peeps.
Does this mean that Docker as a company is stable enough to function without one of its co-founders? Or does that mean that VC is taking it over?
This is what gets me! I really wish they would talk about why the LIDAR didn't notice her. Was it off? Was it malfunctioning? Was there some other issue there? I've been puzzled about how it didn't see her!
You're saying that when I was a kid, some 30 or 40 years ago, public sector employees were paid better than private sector employees?
> Can the Ninth Circuit itself petition the Supreme Court to intervene and stop the Federal Circuit from making a hash of Ninth Circuit law?

Technically, this doesn't have any effect on 9th Circuit law because CAFC decisions applying (and I use that term loosely, here) a particular Circuit’s law do not form new binding precedent for courts in that circuit (or even precedent binding on the CAFC itself in future cases applying the same law.)

But, no, the Ninth Circuit can't intervene that way, though tension between Ninth Circuit precedent and a decision, even if non-binding on other courts, in the CAFC presents an issue similar to a conflict between circuits that would ordinarily seem to weigh in favor of the Supreme Court taking the case on appeal, since avoiding effectively having different systems of federsl law applied to different cases is one reason the Supreme Court exercised it's discretion to hear appeals. It seems certain that Google will appeal this.
Find a good, up-to-date reference manual for the language and read through it a couple of times. Then do a lot of data processing exercises.
The GDPR also requires personal information be removed from backups, or at least after a backup is restored (eg: restoring from backup does not negate the original Right To Be Forgotten request).

So while you can remove some of that info yourself, I don't think that can be seen as fulfilling GDPR requirements.

Disclaimer: I am neither a lawyer nor GDPR expert.
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But who is preventing them from watching the road? If a driver is so confused by notifications or popups on a tiny screen occupying probably < 5% of their field of view, I think they should put the phone upside down and rely on audio.
I was curious as well and I think I figured it out:

https://books.google.com/books?id=e_tKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA87&lpg=P...

American Samoa has laws that say that only American Samoans can own land or be a member of their local government. What the 14th Amendment may give them in terms of US citizenship, the 14th Amendment takes away with regard to these exclusionary laws.
This isn't much different from our outlook on executive orders: People cheered when Obama passed executive orders to get around legislative gridlock, now people are upset about Trump passing executive orders that repeal them or implement his own policies.

People don't generally get upset about power that works in their favor. It takes someone using the power against them before they realize how important it is for that power to have limits.
I don't think Docker is too complicated; instead, I think a lot of companies misunderstand the benefit of containers aside from "my application boots faster"
Ask HN: How would you work offline on a bus ( or plane, or train )?
Currently i spend 1.5 hours ( but, it could go up to 6 hours if it rains hard enough ) commuting to work, and another 1.5 back to home. I take my old dell notebook and my headphones with me, and during this time i am basically offline ( sometimes a bit of 3g or gprs connectivity is available, but not reliably ) and keep data sync'ed over rsync and ssh to my VPS when i am at the office or at home.
I use the (linux) notebook for programming on my side projects while on the road, so, all documentation needed must be available locally on my SSD.
I would like to ask how would you do it ?
Which tools would you choose ? How would you set them up ?...
Any suggestions to ease my life ( other than "change to a job closer to home" ) and make this commuting a more productive time ?
401Ks and IRAs are good for retirement if and only if the economy doesn't collapse. 2008 saw +50% of the DOW's value "go away". Some individual retirement portfolios lost more.
Companies will probably start assigning us all badges soon like in game achievements/levels.

100x 200x gives me an idea for terrible clicker game.