skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this. Start with something that works, and then show them how they can tweak it and customize it (heck, that's how a lot of us learned web development 20 years ago).

If you don't want to show them games, maybe something like a fractal graphic generator or an N-body simulator might work? Or maybe there's something they're studying in science or social studies or whatnot that you could relate a program to?
This deal is the result of commonly shared desperation. Both companies in the news Flipkart and Walmart are desperate to fight back Amazon's increasing market leadership and their spread. Amazon is growing crazy in India, literally.

But there's more to this. It's actually Walmart who is pushing this deal aggressively as they see it as a chance to tap into the increasingly growing Indian market. In past few years, Walmart did try numerous times to set up their shop here but due to certain FDI regulations they simply couldn't get in. Moreover, it is learned that Walmart (once the deal goes through) will be increasingly looking to expand Flipkart's nascent grocery related business. They want to overhaul the farm-to-customer supply chain and hence current stage of Flipkart and their logistics wing could be a real boon for Walmart. Walmart does have few retail stores in India but they are in JV with a telecom company owner Sunil Bharti Mittal.

On the other side, Flipkart badly needs capital infusion as they are bleeding or burning money at a crazy rate. Whatever edge they had currently in India over Amazon is due to Myntra's apparel sales. Flipkart, technologically speaking is lagging behind Amazon. And this is a real pain which almost all online retailers are facing. The same thing happened with another e-comm company SnapDeal (Also backed by Softbank).

One thing is for sure, to capture the Indian market and dominate it, either of these companies had to adapt quickly to cater to tier 2 and 3 cities of India. Whoever rules these cities and improve on last mile delivery experiences in these cities will rule Indian e-comm.
This heavily depends on the technology involved and on what your preferred career path is. There are technology stacks where in corporate sectors you will only find "paper tigers", with Cisco and MS certifications being the most significant example (although the Cisco's certicication system is surprisingly sane in the sense that it is not gradual).

I somehow thing that I mostly built most of my reputation by mostly ignoring both vendor certifications and academic qualifications, or to frame it better by not ever using such things to land a job or gig.
That's cool, I didnt know they made this style tuner for guitars. They're pretty standard on basses and I've always preferred them to standard guitar tuners.
The email thread is far more interesting/informative. I would argue it would be a better link for the main headline.
They are absolutely negligent for doing so. I wouldn't have made that decision, because in a safety-critical system it's ALWAYS preferable to have a backup system, especially when the system you're working with is unproven software that you don't fully understand. It doesn't matter that the old system would have interfered with the new system, and in fact if the two systems did interfere it would behoove you to understand why. The decision speaks volumes about their engineering culture leading up to this incident.

You can't just call something a safety system. You have to prove that it is a safety system by testing it, which is something that Uber hadn't done before they disabled the existing system.
Constitutional rights and human rights are a completely different beast, best not conflated.

Laws and morality are nest not conflated. But the former is meant to be an approximation and safeguard to the latter.

As you can see owning a gun does not fit that description. Otherwise, is owning a car a human right as well? A computer?

Self defense, self determination, and access to knowledge count as human rights to me. I wouldn't necessarily think that the government should be handing out guns and computers. But if the government starts telling people they can't have the tools for self defense, self determination, and access to knowledge, then I get suspicious.
I think its a useless difference. The baker could say hey doesnt want to bake cakes for "a type of wedding", not against "gay people that wed". The declared intent is irrelevant.
Maybe you were looking at the following, not the followers. I see 222 followers.
I would think there is a way to tell the system some basic rules, so its not completely unsupervised.

Like: Here is a list of all stitches (so it doesn't create its own), and the number of stitches must be correct for dimensions, or something like that. Then you validate all the input data against that, and move on from there.
The only place on the internet I read about Amazon's supposed counterfeit problem is on HackerNews.

I buy everything on Amazon, and I've never had this problem. Do you have any data to back up this claim?
It has a lot of complexity, but only because it does so much.

Thing is, can you point to alternatives which are simpler? I cannot think of any, unless you only have a handful of containers to manage.

Even things like AWS's own ECS become difficult to manage as you grow.
Years ago, I wrote software for what was to be the next generation of Ivy Bells. I was responsible for the real-time operating system and the time/scheduling software. The previous systems had all been coded in 68000 assembler. We were using what was a relatively new language at the time called C. After my tasks were completed, I moved on to a new job and lost contact with the program. It was some years later that I heard about the disclosure but I've always wondered what happened to the system we were building. I imagine it's in that big warehouse where the ark of the covenant is kept.
HN won't let me edit the URL. I guess only a mod can do that.

@dang, can you do the honors sir^
Well, in modern languages, the same concepts are all coming back.

Go has its product types for errors, and Rust uses sum types.

As result you end up with basically the same code as with exceptions, just even more verbose.
Agree totally. I will never buy a car connected to Google. Young geeks with ageism don’t understand why privacy is important before it’s too late.
I usually just play this chord, and then adjust any notes that are off:

E--0--

B--0--

G--9--

D--9--

A--7--

E--0--
Said cynic sounds pitchforky. Even HIPAA tries to work with non-compliant companies to get them compliant before resorting to dishing out their notoriously expensive fines.

At the end of the day, the NTSB isn't in the game of shutting down companies. NTSB would much rather see that self-driving vehicle development is happening safely since the matter of the fact is that it _is_ happening, despite all of its imperfections.
Very Cool! I like the simple no-nonsense UI. What is your goal with the project?
Alexa will work with Cortana
Are you proposing that cloud vendors should do a better job of integrating Kubernetes with underlying infrastructure or are you saying there should be a Kubernetes-only cloud platform? If the former that's clearly desirable; you should be able for instance to set up networking between services without having to worry (much) about how it is implemented.

If the latter, I am not so sure (or else I don't understand your point.) A lot of things don't/won't run well on Kubernetes--database management systems are a good example as well as any legacy application, which includes a lot of Windows OS, so you still have to address those.

More subtly Kubernetes is not going to rewrite the whole world or implement distributed firewalling, network attached storage, VLANs, etc. So you are always going to have a non-K8s layer under there that is more or less foreign to the Kubernetes model. The best you can do is make the layering relatively efficient.
Be careful what you pick.

I've done a couple of projects (book, video course) because the opportunity presented itself. Then, at the end of the projects I either was burnt out on it, or wasn't in a career position to take on consulting around it.

So, nice resume burnisher and proof I can finish something, but not a springboard.
Ask HN: How do I get Chrome sync-like behaviour across browsers?
I'm trying to wean myself off Chrome but I regularly move between 3 computers and I'm really missing the syncing of pretty much everything across devices.

I can figure out how to get bookmark sync cross-browser. But what about history and autocomplete syncing? I find that much more critical than bookmark syncing. I don't tend to bookmark stuff I use regularly as I rely on autocomplete.
This was a result of microsoft's settlement with the DOJ over the anti-trust case. Since then all microsoft docs end in .*x and are simply zipped xml files with an open format.
$1000/day is pretty standard, and might even be low for someone who has the expertise and communication skills required to write a book. Even if that person had not written one.

Companies routinely pay agency rates this high.
Or we ate them to massive multiplication and huge success (chicken, cows, pigs, goats, ducks, turkeys, sheeps...)
Hardly. A baker is free to say they won’t bake a giant swastika cake, or a massive ejaculating penis cake. They’re allowed to pick and choose what they’ll bake, but not who they bake for. If a straight couple wants an ejaculating penis cake, and that offends the baker they don’t have to make it, but they can’t ban the straight couple for being straight. If a guy couple wants a typical wedding cake saying, “Jane and Jill 4 Ever” on it, that’s not something they can reasonably refuse. If Jane and Jill want a swastika cake, they’re shit out of luck.
Pilots are pretty cheap relative to the cost of a trans-Atlantic flight. And you’re going to want some Captain type person even if you don’t need them as a pilot.
Fear of the "Tyranny of the majority" was a specific reason the US adopted the Bill of Rights.
All of my remote contractors invoice me weekly. We just use a shared google spreadsheet that track times on one tab and sums it on another by week.

I actually handle payments via xoom.com -- it is now owned by paypal. It takes a little work to setup a new payee, but once you have paid a person once, you can pay them again very easily.
Yes, those are equally suitable choices as you say. Why are you implying that stopping to play frisbee would have been the more "equally suitable" choice in this situation?
Which makes zero difference, because the statute does not define "proportionate" and does not otherwise constrain the fines. Who is "we" btw? Are you teaming up with others to defend GDPR on HN?
Calling it an "abortion joke" is a politicized headline.

It's a political/protest joke, maybe.

Either way, the glibc documentation is not the ideal place for it.
If additional context is needed: this was in the documentation for the `abort()` function
people can still find what they're doing detestable

Please explain to me the vital public interest at stake in protecting explicit calls for the abandonment of due process and participation in atrocities by law enforcement, and incitements to rape, murder, and other crimes with emphasis on particular ethnic groups as detailed in the mentioned letter (https://lawyerscommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Clar...).

I find it odd that the idea of terminating an automated publication service is considered a greater moral ill than the idea of committing the egregious human rights violations which would have a far greater impact on the liberty of the target populations. Perhaps we could establish a calculus of social ills? I'm really anxious to know how many rapes, enslavements, and murders it takes to outweigh the injustice of someone suffering an impediment to publication of content inciting such acts.
If you are deploying anything that's not a static website, you are going to have to learn a lot more concepts than these.

You do not have to use CoreOS, you do not need PXE boot. That's one of the possible ways.

What you do need is a handful of containers, and an overlay network. Which, if you do not want to manage, you can sign up for something like Google Cloud and let them manage it for you.
I disagree. Neither one of those links actually show the 'joke' that was removed.
I was having dinner with a buddy last week, and we were discussing the issue, as he lives in Mar Vista and I live in Beverly Grove (just recently having moved from Santa Monica). It's become a remarkable problem for the city, and it's hard to convey the impact if you don't live here.

One thing I wondered was how we properly incentivize the city to take steps to manage the situation. Right now, the city brings in $6B in annual revenue (almost 25% of its budget) in property taxes. Despite the remarkable climb in homelessness, property tax revenue continues to climb, because property values are seemingly skyrocketing despite the issue.

As an example, I live on a street where one half of a 100 year old duplex would run > $1M, with dozens of homeless people living within a hundred yards of my house. It's not uncommon for one to walk up and down the street, ringing doorbells asking for assistance, or harassing you as you walk down the street. Never mind the piles of trash & excrement left on the street. I've learned not to drive down the alleyway that runs perpendicular to my street, as it's not uncommon to have people sleep in the middle of the road.

If property values were sinking because of the issue (which in a normal housing market would happen because of safety concerns), the city would be more well incentivized to come up with solutions. But, outside of just citizen complaints, city hall doesn't really have any skin in the game.

Now, you could say, "You're part of the problem. If people like you are willing to move there, you cause the property values to rise." Well, yep, you're right. However, I WANT the city to solve this problem responsibly, and moving away doesn't help me be a part of this solution. I'm hopeful that the sales tax we self-imposed to raise funds to address the issue begin to help, but I'm mostly unimpressed with the changes thus far.
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Check out also VMware's container service extension (CSE) on Github. CSE makes it easy to pop up clusters on vCloud Director, which is the VMware cloud stack used by a lot of service providers.

Disclaimer: I work on CSE and use it for K8s dev/test. It's really handy.

https://github.com/vmware/container-service-extension
Is there a mirror somewhere? Sourceware seems to be getting HN'd
Important piece of the puzzle (as of April 2017):

Google Cloud Platform encrypts customer content stored at rest, without any action from the customer, using one or more encryption mechanisms, with the following exceptions.

- Serial console logs from virtual machines in Google Compute Engine; this is currently being remediated

- Core dumps written to local drives, when a process fails unexpectedly; this is currently being remediated

- Debugging logs written to local disk; this is currently being remediated

- Temporary files used by storage systems; this is currently being remediated

- Some logs that may include customer content as well as customer metadata; this is planned for remediation

This data is still protected extensively by the rest of Google’s security infrastructure, and in almost all cases still protected by storage-level encryption.
Closest I've got was Spinnaker. Support for K8s was very hit and miss (some concepts did not translate properly), but it is getting much better now.
How do you feel about the freedom to go on living? It seems like that is a prerequisite for exercising freedom of speech, no?
Wasn’t the case about a gay wedding cake? That makes disentangling the what and for whom very difficult.
Or... make Jay walking punishable by death, and autonomous cars won't need to stop, or even look for random pedestrians.
This is true for startups new and old.

At Datica (where I work), we started in 2014 with a bespoke container orchestration layer. This powered our HITRUST certified Platform. Think Heroku for regulated industries (like Healthcare). After years of hardship trying to keep up with the market we finally decided to go all in on K8s.

Kubernetes gives us the flexibility and community to focus on the compliance and security layer, while not having to build a Platform in house. Until now, no other open source solution had given us this type of flexibility. We're still working toward a GA release, but the speed at which we've been able to move has been incredible.
"If you would like me to change it, it is up to you to convince me to change my decision."

Was he convinced? Or was the change made against his wishes?
The basic premise to human rights is that they should be inalienable. Every human needs food, water, shelter. Furthermore, things like freedom and education are indeed human rights as well. Owning a gun is not a human right. No one needs a gun (well, discounting those in conflict zones maybe?) to live, or sustain themselves
Just about everyone I know has a car mount. Used to be they required all sorts of extensive setup/install. Now however you have that mounts that you can get for 2 for $8 on Amazon.
No, but they've never had the extraterritorial reach being claimed by the EU within the GDPR either.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17015644
I think this is it [0]? Has it been changed since this discussion, or was it not removed? I honestly don't get the joke.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Aborting-...
Depends on the type/size of dog, and the quality of life you provide. For a small dog, $30 a month for food might provide quality food. For my dog (a 60+ lbs lab/pit mix), $30 would be horrible quality. Flea/Tick/Worm/etc medication is ~$10-15 a month. Treats, an antler every now and then, etc. starts to add up.
I'd have recommended putting that in the title. ;)

"Walmart launched a whole redesign of their site"

I signed in really quick, and my main original peeve with Walmart's site, the frustration of getting to my personal lists, is gone. It's very easy to find now, right where I expected it to be. So big +1 there.

On the other hand, I removed something from a list, and it slid away. And then I realized later it was still on the list. In actually, it had slid away to a confirm removal option, that I wasn't expecting (Amazon removes on one click but allows you to undo it), but since I navigated away instead of clicking Remove a second time, it didn't remove it. I found this unintuitive.
LWN covers the topic: "Who controls glibc?"[0] (accessible to non-subscribers in two weeks).

[0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/753646/
Disclosure: I'm a Brit.

I wish you all the best and if the concept piccy on your web site is close to reality then we'll see little delta winged flying needles in the skies.

Could you give us a very rough idea of say London to New York fare on this thing?
Why don't you use something like Kops? It will create (and manage) the cluster for you.
The return of inhalable vitamins
6+a*x, a->0

same but different:

6+x/a, a->infinity

imho constant is a special case of linear
A few dozen erases for testing are inconsequential. They are meant to be used.

Old chips are rated for 10k erases. Newer is 100k+. Only the most ancient parts have lower wear limits and nobody designs them into new products. The 10k parts are all going EOL now.
There sees to be a related lwn entry: https://lwn.net/Articles/753646/

Not a subscriber here (considering becoming one now) but I would be grateful if anyone shared a subscriber link.
If I buy a smartphone on amazon, guess what they try to sell to me next? I'm constantly disappointed by tech giants ability to do their job: selling things to me. They don't even need these fancy machine intelligence stuff. A "switch case" could make bettere recomendations than the state of the art. But the highlight in recomentdation business is still: buyers who bought x also looked into y.
The Nazi party was banned in 1923, and the ban was lifted in 1925.

So, not really.
It’s incredible that they think this kind of steaming “content” is worth $40 a month!
> Here the clear assholes are Google and Facebook.

And the obvious problem for some people is that think they need their services and so there's no door to show them.
That's it. It's a stupid joke.
Every time that xkcd strip gets posted people treat it like it's a conversation ender - but all it is saying is people don't have to roll over for assholes.

Really? The way I see it used most often, I see it as a call to have a soft totalitarianism of social media mediated social approval. That's not the kind of society I want, and it's not a free society. When the mainstream of society was homophobic, a soft totalitarianism of social approval was one of the major forms that oppression took.

Don't confuse, "don't have to roll over for assholes," with, "it's my duty to be an asshole." No, either way, it's just being an asshole. In a free society, we should have the right to be an asshole, but in a great society, the majority of people should be convinced that being excellent to one and all is where it's at. Likewise, no country should roll over to military aggressors, but that shouldn't be conflated with some notion that it's then one country's duty to preempt all other military aggression by conquering everyone.

It's the live and let live society which is the best.
Google of course has the decryption keys, another important piece is their policy on looking at data themselves.
It wasn’t an unusual or offensive cake, so it really doesn’t. It’s not as though the couple asked for a cake, but “make it extra gay!”
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Autonomous cars have an advantage here compared to even the best human drivers - a persistent 360 degree awareness of the surrounding.

If an object appears on the road, the autonomous vehicle can easily calculate whether it's safe to steer left, or right, or hit the breaks. A human will make a roughly random choice.
This system could have been used as a backup and almost certainly would have prevented this death. There is no logical explanation for defending their disabling of this production grade system that we know works in favor of their alpha at best grade system that they knew did not always work. Not having a backup system, other than a human which is a poor backup system, seems grossly negligent and reckless. Why couldn't the existing system work as a backup for the new system? Until uber provides a compelling reason, disabling the old system can only be viewed as knowing, reckless endangerment that led to manslaughter that could have and should have been prevented.
I don't really get this "joke" but man do I hate the trend of removing any personality from code. Programming used to be FUN and a way to express yourself. Easter eggs exemplified this. Now its cold and business only.
If he or she does have some good ideas later, that real-world industry experience might come in handy.