skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm re-evaluating k8s again - tried it one or two years ago and hit some roadblocks for my use-case.

Kelsey's tutorial is a bit outdated (Oct 2 2017 with k8s v1.8, v1.11 just got released). Here is a link to the official kubeadm guide for Creating a single master cluster with kubeadm:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-...

It basically is just running

kubeadm init

on a server / VM (after installing docker and kubeadm, of course). Add a pod network add-on (Calico seems to work well, 2 commands to install), remove the mentioned taint and optionally join more worker nodes (also a single kubeadm command). Every step is in the guide, just copy & paste. ;)

Note: This is no production-ready cluster (it has a single master), also you should have some basic understanding of k8s, which the OP provides. I also highly recommend to dig around kubernetes.io/docs - good material there.

I started with kubeadm some days before the release of k8s v1.11, which made some stuff I wrote obsolete, oh well... :) I really like the new kubeadm phase stuff, though.

There is also an official guide for Creating Highly Available Clusters with kubeadm (it's updated for v1.11) which I just went through:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/high-availabili...

I opted for the "stacked masters" approach (run HA etcd right on the k8s master nodes), wrote some ansible tasks to automate to boring stuff like copying configs/certs etc., and am currently (re-)exploring add-ons and advanced functionality (helm, network policies, ingress controller, ceph via helm, ...).

Let's see how far I get this time!
Beautiful, properly documented code.
I personally think devs cross from scrupulous to non-scrupulous somewhere between 'this new version has no new features, but we changed the name of it so buy it again' and' 'we charge in-app for feature x, thanks for buying, but that payment is not enough to justify a free update'
> Sure, but most tech companies will give you them anyways

I've yet to see any private employer in the US that gives employees every public holiday applicable in their jurisdiction; heck even public employers often don't, as federal government doesn't give state holidays in the location and state and local agencies often don't give all federal holidays.
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Steve looking to HTML 5 would seem to "somewhat" confirm it, at least in a sense he was expecting more from the web and the app store largely filled / took that gap.
His point was that openness is highly valued. The way I'd put it is that in SF, it is completely OK to be a nonconformist and to do things your own way.

It's actually hard to be fully aware of the high levels of conformity one finds elsewhere until you have spent 6+ months in SF.

That's not to say that there aren't widespread prejudices held in SF.. the biggest one I have encountered is the belief that people living in "flyover" states are idiots and are less enlightened than those living in SF.

Saying SF is open to nonconformity is not another way of saying SF is "enlightened". It's just an aspect of enlightenment that SF culture does particularly well compared to other parts of the world.

This isn't even necessarily all kinds of nonconformity... it's just some that are rare elsewhere.

If you pick a person at random from anywhere in the US you'll find roughly equivalent levels of enlightenment and judgmental views. What's unique about SF is that being different is way more acceptable than it is elsewhere.

When you live in SF for a while and then go to other major cities and see how people dress it looks like they are all wearing a conformist costume, trying to look acceptable. But acceptable to whom? It's this instinct toward conformity that is so repellent about many areas of the country. The example I used about fashion is just an example, the same exists when it comes to life choices, values, etc.
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As a kid I hated eating insects. I still do - I don't understand how people can.

However, my definition of insects includes crawfish, lobster, urchins etc. They are fancy insects, but I do not see much difference between most seafood and bugs, except the size maybe.

It is socially acceptable to eat seafood. It wasn't always like that. New England had rules against feeding your employees lobster more than once a week!

Give it time, a generation or two, and people will eat bugs. After all, it's just food! What we used to say round my place: it it moves, kill it. If it's dead, cook it, and eat it.
All these wishlists are quite well known, and I agree with many of them. (I really like the butterfly keyboards on the latest 15" MBPs, and the fact that they now have a warrantee extension makes it less of a worry.)

But in the end, I'll never switch, because they're good enough as they are, and the quality/form factor is unbeatable. And macOS is fine and stable for me, with all its warts.
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I went to Cambridge as an undergrad, and indeed I interacted basically exclusively with other undergrads. Now as an adult I'm living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and there are tons of undergrad students on the street, and I basically never interact with them at all (nor go into the the various university buildings that are scattered throughout the town).

But I wouldn't describe that as friction? If anything, it seems the opposite of friction, there are separate groups of people who are smoothly gliding past each other... I guess what I'm wondering is, do you feel there are any concrete problems or inconveniences caused by the town/gown distinction?
Nah. I like it, too. Everything about it on paper says I should hate it, but there's something about it I really enjoy.
You can search the EU transparency register. For some EU lobbying activities participation in the register is mandatory.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/eu-affairs/2...
We've asked you a lot to post substantively and it isn't happening, so we've banned the account. If you'd like to email hn@ycombinator.com and commit to posting according to the guidelines, we can unban you.

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Yes, and in fact he makes it perhaps a bit too explicit that that's what he's doing.
EitR has more to do with known risks whose acknowledgement is inconvenient. It's not a matter of DGAF, but rather, ignoring in the hopes that it will go away, or the risk will fall on another.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/elephant-in-the-room.htm...
Hi Chris, This is a great service for almost 70% of the population who don't know what events are not covered and the fine print gotchas from the insurance companies.

This should be a really helpful service, kudos on the idea.

The only concern I have here is, privacy. Most of the home owners are not comfortable to upload docs that includes their names or property details (easy to know their net worth) from this. Also, how are you managing data security?

Do you have any plans to address these concerns?
Actually, even apps that have been removed from sale by the developer can still be installed by the customer through the previous purchases section of the App Store. (Assuming it's still compatible with the device and version of iOS you're trying to install on.)
I was just within the last hour look at renter's insurance, so I appreciate the goal of the company. It doesn't look like you currently give advice for people comparing different offers - is that something you plan to do?

Also, I didn't understand your description of "returning any unclaimed premium back to customers, keeping a fee instead". Being not too familiar with insurance, can you give an example of how this would work?
I think you have that flipped. 20% of code covers 80%. As you try to get to 100% coverage of all possible scenarios the complexity gets in some cases exponentially harder as all the low hanging fruit is picked
AFAIK, Megaupload did not promote our encourage sharing of licensed content. It just filled that niche better than any other site at the time.

Kim Dotcom may have chosen New Zealand for to evade legal issues, but I see nothing wrong with that. If you don't agree with one nation's laws, that is a perfectly valid reason to live elsewhere. He didn't just run his business there, he lives there.
Given what it takes to turn vegetable mass into something resembling a burger, if it came down to it, I'd rather stick to real vegetables.

I think its fair to say that processed food is generally not very good for you. I don't see why that situation is improved because the food being processed is from a vegan source.
It was Apple's official "sweet solution" for app development on the iPhone.

https://daringfireball.net/2007/06/wwdc_2007_keynote
>Can they really use that many only in good-weather places with perfect roads?

Waymo supposedly processes their lidar signals to detect other cars with reasonable accuracy even in snow/rain(https://youtu.be/UrJ4-AUL4U0?t=9m41s). They only operate in pre-mapped areas so they should be able to follow lanes just fine even if the actual markings are obscured (by weather or by poor maintenance).

This kind of approach (mapping everything beforehand and using lidar for perception) is used by other players as well, and seems the most likely to work for short term level 4. Trying to do everything without the benefits of lidar and high-res maps (what e.g. Tesla are doing) is a more general solution, and cheaper hardware-wise, but will take longer to get right.
My business is not absurdly simple. It's actually pretty complex. We've been respectful of privacy since day 1, although we weren't perfect so we did have to make some updates for GDPR (and I'm glad they were forced on us).

It didn't take long. Couple weeks of work. I did them myself.

Compliance documentation is what's needed: https://twitter.com/Adys/status/1014612906359615490

Edit: Depressing to see people are downvoting real world experience in favour of FUD.
I've been using Kubernetes on Azure and GCE recently and it's absolutely wonderful.

I was able to setup an entire ecosystem from scratch in a week that scales well and can be managed in one location.

When I first looked at Kubernetes, the complicated part was setting it up on a cluster. If you use Kubernetes on GCE, or Azure, you don't have to do that step, everything else is ready to go for you!

- Automatic scaling of your application

- Service discovery

- Secrets and config management

- Logging in one central dashboard

- Able to deploy various complicated, distributed, pieces of software very easily using Helm (Jenkins, Kafka, Grafana + Prometheus)

- Able to add new nodes to the cluster easily

- Health checks and automatic restarts

- Able to deploy any container to your cluster in a really simple way (if you look at Deployments, it's really simple.)

- Switch between cloud providers and still maintain the same workflow.

I won't ever touch Ansible again, I really prefer the Kubernetes way of handling operations (it's like a live organism instead of something you apply changes to.)

Also, the entire argument that you probably don't need Kubernetes because your organization doesn't have 10s, or 100s of nodes just doesn't make sense after using it.

Having a Kubernetes cluster with 3 nodes is 100% worth it, even for rather simple applications in my opinion. The benefits are just way too good.
I have never seen a successful product that failed for any reason, ever. ;)
> Who are you interacting with that acts like this

The majority of the people I interact with - colleagues, customers, hotel staff, restaurant staff...

> Maybe they treat you differently because of your accent? Maybe they actually want to talk to you because of the novelty.

Huh, hadn't considered that. I'll try putting on an American accent next time, see if that holds them off ;)
they're not included, but employment contracts tend to be written as X days off + all bank/public holidays (as employers generally close their offices on bank/public holidays)

the guarantee of 5.6 weeks paid holiday doesn't guarantee when they are taken, as long as you receive at least 5.6

I've always received 6.6 weeks, some of which my employers request I take on bank/public holidays.

the other big difference is in the UK I've never even heard of anyone even feeling remotely pressured into not taking their full entitlement (in fear of being labelled a slacker)
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Huh. They brought back Listen...

Maybe next year they'll resurrect Reader :(
If you're willing to risk jail, disrupting traffic is ridiculously easy, self-driving cars or not.
> Even on sunny days with cloudless skies, the air carries a voltage of around 100 volts for every meter above the ground.

This is interesting. Is there any way we could use a tethered balloon as a power generation system to harvest this energy?
I would agree that coding is no replacement for literacy. However, I see coding as more than a lucrative trade. I think it is increasingly a way of reasoning about data, not just a set of techniques for manipulating data. I think the ability to code is starting to weave itself deeply into the analytic mindset. If you can't write code, you are limited in your ability to be creative with data. In this sense, it is similar to literacy - you don't just write up your topic after you understand it, you develop understanding through writing. Similarly, you don't do your coding after you understand your data, you understand your data by interacting with it - and these days, that involves increasingly sophisticated coding skill.

It is a different kind of coding that software engineering, to be sure, and there will be a grey area between data work and actual coding. But based on what I'm starting to see (I work regularly with academics who struggle with this), it is reasonable to call their analytical work a kind of coding - in fact, I'm not sure there's any other way to describe it. I'm starting to see the amount of R, Python, or other languages analysts need to write to truly dig into complex data, to the point where you can really get insight into it. We can debate where the line between coding and mere analysis starts and ends, but what I'm seeing ventures well into the territory where it is most accurate to call it coding.
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As a personal anecdote:

Community college where I grew up was basically an extended high school. The quality of everything from the instructors to the students to the material being taught was extraordinarily sub-par compared to the college I went to (admittedly, a top 10 CS school). Perhaps it was lower quality than even the high school I went to.

I know because I took a couple of community college courses in high school (and over college summers) for some easy college credit to transfer out to my 4-yr university.

There were a few shining stars who had no other option but to go to community college (they would later transfer out). However, the vast majority were people who were largely uninterested in learning but knew enough to know that they need more credentials than "high school graduate" to have a shot at a career.

It's unfortunate but that was the reality in my hometown.
Why is this a competition and quest for superiority?

The US is very different from its founding principles, priorities, and government structure. Comparing on just the basis of healthcare costs reduces these complex differences to simple sound bytes and obliterates any nuance.

This is not healthy for discussion.
Some highlights: Most of this research is on college students who are currently in the context of institution-regulated learning. Spaced testing and information retrieval improves later retrieval even for items that people believe they have already learned. Massing (including cramming) helps, but more learning is achieved in the same amount of time by interleaving -- alternating between material. For example, the French mathematics curriculum with algebra and geometry learned in alternating weeks over two years, probably works better than American curriculum of one year of geometry and a different year of algebra. Similarly, the semester system probably produces more learning that the quarter system, and intensive blocks of one course taught in 3 weeks is probably worst for students.
Perceptions of how easy things are guide perceptions of learning success, but difficulty is desirable, because it is correlated with more learning.
People under-estimate how much they will learn when they invest time on studying and under-estimate how much they forget over time.
Guessing at an answer before learning the answer improves learning.
People can self-teach to the test: preparing themselves to succeed on certification exams or interview questions without learning material well.
Americans (and others?) overestimate the role of individual learning ability differences and underestimate the role of cultural, family, and formal instruction on how to learn.
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I don't understand your question. What do you mean by "binary"?

In any case, I'm saying that the so-called "Placebo Effect" is activated by the patient's belief that they will heal, which is created by the "story" told and acted out by the people around them. The word "placebo" has no inherent effect, nor does the pill, it's all a kind of hypnotic suggestion that activates a somewhat mysterious ability of people to heal themselves.

The GP said, "Presumably the placebo effect is stronger when patients do not realise they are getting placebos."

This reflects a common misconception, usually born out of the "fact" that "fake pills can't cure you".

But it turns out that this "fact" in, in fact, not true. Fake pills can cure some people some of the time. This fact is as established as a fact can be, over and over again, in thousands of studies and cases.

Imagine someone with an illness and who has never heard the word "placebo" or anything about it. Maybe you two are stuck on a deserted island. The point is, you can pick up a bit of bark or shell or a pebble or something, wave your hand over it and mumble some magic words, and tell them with total conviction that it has a good chance of curing them... because it's true.

So my first point is that it doesn't directly matter whether people know they're getting a fake pill or not, it depends on what they've been led to believe about the efficacy of fake pills. Anything that lends credibility (ability to believe) to the possibility of healing for the patient can be expected to "amplify" the "effect".

My second point, which I think you're asking about, is that the whole healing is done by the "story" engendering belief which then somehow activates the patient's own ability to heal, and that this is a kind of hypnosis, or at least related to hypnosis. Because, again, there's no magic in the word "placebo" either to strengthen or weaken the "placebo effect" and "fake pills can't cure you". Right? So it has to be "all in your head".

I mean what would you call it if I told you a story and gave you a piece of candy and your illness cured itself? Is that not hypnosis?

There's a joke people tell to disparage "alternative medicine": If it works, it's just called "medicine".

My third point is that this should happen for the "Placebo Effect"! The power of theater-- of storytelling and the mind --to engage healing should form a third pillar of medicine along with Biochemistry and Surgery.
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Why not? The only reason for "why not?" is "because I want to bias the drawing process", which is not a good reason.
Right, I was thinking specifically of a number of apps that were never updated and won't run on newer devices.
My Vizio replaced its built-in, vanilla Chromecast capability with a conventional “smart tv” interface that I didn’t want. And to be able to use that, they force you to accept a TOS that includes monitoring.

Worse, I couldn’t tell it to stop connecting to my WiFi after all this happened. I had to ban the TV from my LAN and change the WiFi credentials.

I spent a lot of money on that TV, only to have it go rogue on me.
Electric field (in this case the ambient e-field of 100-300 V/m without clouds; up to a dozen or so kV/m when you're under a thunderstorm) does not imply power. Cf. static electricity.
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Unfortunately, part of the blame is Apple's for not having a clean upgrade pricing solution. You can do it with app bundles but it's a hack.
You missed the point: sui generis, this kind of review... its a kind of thing. it belongs in a set. The observations relate to the set, the general properties of the set. Thats why we're allowed to make them. Does he know the author? no. Does the author display all the tropes which conform to members of the set? Yes.
I haven't looked for work on the price/demand relationship here, but it's also worth noting that price reductions may not just purely be a matter of cutting costs and passing those on at a static ridership and profit level. There are likely to be some price points that profoundly change user behavior

To give an example, my favorite coffee shop is about 7 minutes (+wait) from my apartment by car either way, and around 18-26 minutes (+wait) by bus (shorter there, longer back). Without a ride pass and with tip, it's probably around $7-8 to Uber this one way, vs. $1.25 for the bus.

At this price, I'll usually only Uber if heat or rain make getting to and from the bus miserable. I have a ride pass atm that knocks this down to around $6-7 with tip, which makes me marginally more likely to take Uber, but it isn't my default. I took the bus this past Sunday morning, planning to get some open source work done, but I'd forgotten my laptop wasn't in my bag. The time/sweat cost of the bus round trip and the money cost of the Uber round trip were high enough that I just sat and read a book instead.

I'm not sure exactly where, but somewhere between ~$2-5 total, I'd probably default to taking Uber both ways. Down at the low end of that range, I even would've gone back for the forgotten laptop.
Why do you feel you are changing careers? It seems like you are just changing your speciality in software engineering.
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So, when advertising agencies run A/B tests, they don't publish the result in scientific journals. They just use the data internally along with art direction and relationship/political factors to make advertising decisions.

This isn't an open source field with a handy guide. This is a 'knowledge through experience' field. You learn from those people, not through academic research or Google search.

In fact, a good advertiser can instantly find holes in published research based on the many variables that a paper doesn't take into account, but an advertiser is already familiar with. "Brand value correlates with celebrity status... but inversely with the celebrity nationality.. with a correlation with the accent.. but also with season of the year.. except when using this font... and based on president's party" etc.. All these variables may have a nonlinear relationship.

To get a good introduction to what you're dealing with, just watch "Mad Men".
Having lived there and now living in a cheaper real estate market I am grateful for having lived there, where I could not afford a house. I am now no longer interested in owning residential real estate no matter where I go!
> Some people say it will be like sushi in 20 years. I am really optimistic that it may be a lot faster

This outlook does not seem realistic. 20 years ago I remember watching a news segment on Australian TV about how eating bugs was the future. The people they interviewed were mostly grossed out. I don't think much has changed. I think it's more likely that you'll see people take up a more vegetarian diet if meat starts to become scarce.