skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't sweat it Xuwen. Most people probably didn't notice, but I would email TC and do a re-shoot or photoshop it and replace the pic. I really like the name and branding.

It will probably come down to unbelievable consistency, ease of use / UX and customer service. As long as pricing is reasonable, you can win biz if the aforementioned is awesome. Have you looked into using a provider that uses non-toxic, eco-friendly detergents? Gotta push that hard and can run a premium level for it.
"Separating configuration from use" is the principle, and dependency injection is one of many patterns used to aim for that...
http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html#Separati...
> So, considering a galaxy made entirely out of pure crystalline diamond, would events propagate slower in that galaxy? In other words, does time itself slow down under those circumstances, does it not change?

It doesn't change. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation where electrons travel faster than the speed of light in a specific medium.
Call graphs are pretty standard across most performance tools ...
And don't forget corporate accounting is rarely done in a 'total cost accounting' manner. Estimations and fast heuristics are everywhere.

For example, FTE cost more than contractors. This is a corporate "fact". The long term cost, which is often semi-monetary and the accounting systems don't have a process to calculate this.
Yeah. Everyone I know who has had a good experience with an overseas shop has said "of course, we keep one of our employees over there full time working directly with them, which ends up being kind of expensive"
Most good ideas have precedents. The iPad was not the first tablet by a long shot. Nor was Dropbox the first service to offer syncing and backup. The difference, as here, was in subtle implementation details. But, as here, a small difference in implementation multiplied by a basic human need = great value to users.
We have always been at war with whistleblowers.
Would you say it's one of those things you feel the warm fuzzy feeling with after using it? I've been wanting to give it a try with all the hype surrounding it, but I don't see what it's going to do that provisioning a $10 Digital Ocean server wouldn't (albeit with a little bit of hassle).
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Zimmerman perhaps. We're still not out of that story yet so it may grow bigger with protests, etc., but it's still a US centric story. Deen even more so,

Snowden has gotten a lot more international coverage.
Yeah. It would be kind of bizarre to have a military signals intelligence service where spying on foreign electronic communications was some kind of exceptional activity.

And then international travel became a routine occurrence, and countries made "alliances", and international commerce became one of the most powerful forces driving the global economy, and the Internet arrived, and the kind of black and white world you're imagining went away. No country exists in such a vacuum in the twenty-first century, and a country that respects the basic rights of its own people but completely ignores the rights of others will pay a price for that hostility sooner or later. At least today that price is mostly measured in dollars and not blood as it might have been a few decades ago.

It's sad that a lot of the abuses we've seen and heard about in recent years have to be curtailed through financial pressure and not politicians doing the right thing, but that doesn't make people voting with their wallets any less effective.
Revenue is way up actually.
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No, because the predictors are best at predicting low-frequency data, which leaves just the HF data remaining.
The message isn't for the attackers but for the customers. Tim Cook sneezes and there's 50 different blog posts about his snot; what do you think would happen if an Apple developer site when down with a message that said, "There was a security breach!" and no additional context? Fox News would be running stories about how Russian hackers stole your grandmother's iTunes gift cards.

They played it safe by waiting until they actually knew what happened before releasing any information.
>Nobody is guilty.

>Nobody did anything wrong.

True and true. If I am not mistaken, What we've witnessed from James Clapper and General Alexander, it is legal for representatives from our federal surveillance agencies
to openly lie in a Congressional oversight hearing.

This of course, if fact, is insane, and will only lead into extralegal catastrophe. Learn to read and reread `Clapperspeak'. When you look for it and know a little context, we see how entrenched and truthfully revealing it is:

"And Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Free"

- John 8:32, and the entrances of NSA, Fort Meade, Maryland, and the CIA HQ, Langley, VA

"Arbeit macht frei"

-Auschwitz, and the entrances of other Nazi slave labor camps during World War II
Was there anyone hysterical over that? They prevented him from easily fleeing. I mean they had a dead police officer and a shootout where multiple very loud bombs went off.
Yes, bitcoin is definitely not an appropriate VPS to run a bitcoin trading application from where the bitcoins are stored. Stored bitcoins are one of the most sought after targets since law enforcement generally will not investigate. For most web apps, it's an excellent choice.
Another thing is don't forget that Amazon is a cult of personality. The cult of Bezos. Upper management needs to cater to that cult, and it creates a lot of noise that may or may not be making the product or the company better.

Some of Bezos's urges and reactions are good, some are bad. It's not too much unlike Microsoft.

As a species we can do a better job at running companies!
Oh my god. So every thing that a republican introduces defacto must be defeated by the democrat? This is exactly what's wrong with your so called democracy. The house it too big and the egos can't rise enough to engender real debate, so the debate moves to a hidden back rooms of a few key power brokers polarized to clear opposites. What a broken system of thought and argument.
Hey now, why isn't there a platform where people can get in-kind crowdfunding for campaigns? Just like open source projects get a lot more help in terms of man-hours than money, so could people from the tech community running for office.
My rates are in the same ballpark as the person above, I have a small number of regular clients, I try not to work more than 30 hours a week. I could work more if I wanted to. Instead, I'm working on side-projects that are more fun, and some of them could turn into businesses eventually.

My take-home pay is higher than it was working 50+ hours for salary at the hotshot San Francisco success story where I was working last year -- and I don't even have Bay Area clients, at the moment. People in Oregon and Washington are paying me this well.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

Whistleblowers are frequently viewed by people who disagree with them as whiners, complainers, disgruntled people with axes to grind, and frequently they are all those things, often with nothing more than circumstantial or spurious claims.

Not everyone's a Snowden.
That seems like wishful thinking. Nerds don't run for office. They're not interested and mostly busy doing other stuff. Spending Valley lobby dollars might buy our industry a timeshare in a politician, but "our" rep won't have any more respect for nerds than anybody else in Washington.
wow. ironically, that's the most eloquent political statement on whistleblowers I can recall reading.
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I think part of it would be formulating goals. If you have a process that can very rapidly sum numbers, it ranks lower than one that is incapable of that speed, but can decide that summing numbers is a means to accomplish that goal.
From what I remember, it was a 17 year old kid who built and ran the site, and it was his first time ever handling financial transactions (there was another bitcoin-related hacking around the same time, so I might be confusing them.) It was a recipe for disaster.
imagine you could read your RSS feeds on your TV...
At that point, you should be using S3 or something similar.
I was countering the notion that premium services don't do this.

Also, Match.com isn't a premium service. Real personalized match-making and concierge service (they'll take care of everything involving the first few dates) is a premium service and the pricing starts at $10,000 and only goes up from there. If you want to join up with a premium matchmaker, you need to have a phone call and at least an hour consult. If you want to quit, you need to call in---there's no automation at all.

For another example....

When you hire a corporate lawyer, it takes a phone call to engage their services, or cancel their services. Their goal isn't to make the threshold to complete an action easy, their goal is to be the best representation your money can buy.

If you go to LegalZoom.com for your incorporation services, it ought to be expected that you can cancel with a click of a button.
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These founders merely did what I advise every startup to do, build something for which they are initial market. So essentially you're complaining that the founders are members of the demographic group that they are. But that seems unfair; they can't help that.
I don't understand this response at all. "Businesses provide services to people that require those services and have the money to pay for them? Living in a densely-populated area gives you access to such niche services even though they wouldn't work where I live? Madness!"

I'm sure that living in Peoria is a fine choice, but you can't expect the world's startups to cater to you there. And that's OK.
It's strangely hard to do, but I'll go ahead and admit I found the first couple chapters incredibly dull and put this book down.
It's limited to state criminal statutes. Compliance with the criminal statutes of every state in which a company does business generally has only an incidental effect on business, because as a practical matter state criminal statutes that directly burden interstate commerce are striken down for violating the dormant commerce clause.

Let me give you a concrete example. Say California makes it a crime to possess cheese produced outside California. That's an impermissible burdening of interstate commerce--an economic regulation (import ban) disguised as a criminal law. However, if you're a cheese producer from Wisconsin doing business in California, you still have to abide by California's other criminal laws, even though its a burden on you to ensure compliance with both California and Wisconsin criminal statutes.

In other words, the purpose of the commerce power is to allow Congress to impose uniform economic regulation, to prevent states from putting up trade barriers, etc. The purpose is not to ease the "burden" of complying with the criminal statutes of 50 different states. The states are entitled to have their own criminal laws and enforce them against those who do business in their state, as long as those laws aren't just a cover for prejudicing out of state businesses.

Again, I think it's stupid. We should just abolish the states and turn them into administrative districts. But to the extent that we don't entertain that idea, we have to accept the fact that the pain of complying with 50 different ideas of what criminal law should be exists by design.
No, I didn't extrapolate past what 'DannyBee said.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733520
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Francis claimed he knew the three reasons why Startups really fail and claimed that Startups almost never fail due to "not building something people want". Thats rejecting product/market fit. This contradicts years of advice from people who have been there: Blank, pmarca, Ries, even pg, etc. This requires a heck of a lot more evidence than an incoherent essay for a magazine. Hence, broscience.

I also spoke as someone who helped lead a startup past Series B prior to an epic crater. Product/market fit was mistake #1. I could argue Francis' reason #2 played a role in not keeping the corpse animated - we had serious company-building problems, for example.

I don't know Francis and don't mean to be cruel, but I had to tell it like it is: I had a flashback to my days reading long screeds on bodybuilding.com. The article was well-intended and had some glimmers of good writing. It just felt like a let down for such a provocative headline, length (time commitment), and that someone with clearly good observational skills seems to miss key gaps in his world view.

As Orwell would say, "To see what is in front of one's nose is a constant struggle." We all have that struggle,
But not all of us write for online magazines :-)
that's great if you're really, really certain that your definition of a "feature" is one that the customer will accept. A few years ago I was working for a consulting firm that had this bad habit of pitching something, and the customer would somehow think they were getting something much much bigger than what we promised, and we'd either end up working for free or the client would end up angry and walk away.
The depressing thing here is that it is going to a wrong direction. Instead of working to reduce the intervention of the politicians in the private affairs, what would inevitably happen is more money spent on lobbying, more laws bought by these money and more politicians and and government functionaries having their services to offer for sale. Instead of government getting smaller, the government will get bigger - and this would be paid by exactly the businesses who suffered from the expansion of the government. They just will pay so the other guys would suffer instead of them, now that they have enough money to play the game.
Irrespective of what we both think, I didn't call you, or intended for that matter, dishonest.

KDE, Gnome, XFCE4, LXDE, etc. are available on all distributions but Unity is only available on Ubuntu. There is definitely something fishy here.
But then, you get to take responsibility for that entire stack. This is a bad thing.

Remember PHP register globals? Rails 2.x? Perl 4? I'd bet a lot of lazy devs would still be using those if they could just wrap it all up into a container and say "run this!" That's what commercial products do. And they're much worse for security as a result.

Fundamentally, I'd say the solution is to automate testing and installation. Make it extremely easy for a dev to test app A against a matrix of language implementations B, C, D, databases E, F, G, and OS platforms H, I, J. Make it easy to make packages that install natively on each platform, with the built-in package management tools. FPM and similar help with this. Nearly every platform will allow you to create your own package repos. Better tools = better code = more flexibility = less ecosystem dependency

Containerization as a logical separation for security (ala chroot/jails before it) makes sense, but doing it so you can shove your whole OS fork in there and then fail to maintain it seems foolhardy and myopic.
Exactly that was my point. It was only 20 year ago. It was declassified as munition it can be reclassified as munitions pretty easily as well.

> Before taking the claims at face value it's good to do a bit of background research.

It also good to read and understand the whole comment before replying. I didn't say it is illegal (in US, it is in other countries) I said it is not an unreasonably hard step to take.
This is a simple discovery, but an important one. Change.gov was the President's official transition website, and included a vision for his presidency. It's a central piece of the historical record of the US, and they yanked it from the Internet.

It doesn't matter whether or not the Administration was trying to remove something specific: taking down the content at Change.gov is un-American and un-Internet.
You know, ending the mass surveilling would be a huge achievement on its own (probably by repealing the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act) - but what I'd really like is to get so much support from the people and the Congress, to eventually impeach him. Now that would remain in history, and would teach future presidents a lesson about overextending themselves with the spying. Obviously people like Alexander, Clapper and Holder would be gone in the next second, too, and the FISA Court disbanded.
Feels like they're targeting the hobby-box market. I picked up the 16gb model because I think it will make my life a bit easier by moving most of my virtual machines away from home. For the price, the hardware necessary is about $500, which is roughly 26 months of paying OVH.
That might still be worth it for everyone involved. The process of vetting good engineers and designers from overseas is very difficult, and potentially very expensive
The UK is well within "US legal jurisdication", officially or non-officially. Didn't you guys join and start wars together??
The milk man was a great idea during time where fewer people had cars, and milk wasn't so well pasteurized that a single gallon can last a month without going bad.
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I could literally type for days about the benefits of docker over a $10 digital ocean server, but no one would read it.

What I will say is this. If you're writing a trivial application that you and only you will ever need to work with, in an environment completely controlled by you, and you have a recipe that works - you're right, Docker probably isn't for you.

If you, like me, work with a huge product suite with many buildtime and runtime dependencies (services and applications), with many different runtime configurations, where even automated installation can take up to 15-20 minutes because of the sheer amount of work that's going on, there's a massive massive amount of efficiency to be gained in the dev/test/release/packaging process, let alone the massive amount of efficiency to be gained by the ops team in working in foreign environments.

There are certainly lots of other use cases (PaaS/SaaS are easy,) and those are valuable business building tools, but less interesting to me personally.
So his supporters are right. He does keep his promises.

...

By slowly removing the ones he hasn't kept from the list.
What about the "change we can believe in"?
Alexander is an extremely powerful, dangerous man. His removal should first priority.
I'm curious. What's un-American about it?

I can see the whole "un-internet" aspect, becuase after all "cool urls don't change", but un-American?
What I notice about all your examples is that they are stack problems that an application could not, on its own, have fixed. In the current model, each part of the stack has an independent lifecycle, creating shear points and hidden security flaws.

If the application can control the whole stack, then the application author can fix it.

Automating test and install just puts you back where you started: with a gigantic test matrix that will impose non-trivial drag on the whole application's development.

And it's not necessary. It's just ... not. necessary.
And that is why you fail.
It sounds like you should have moved from MySQL to PostgreSQL instead of switching hosting providers.
Here's how I got my best client:

I was having lunch with a former colleague, and his cell phone rang. It was his boss "help! Two of our programmers just quit! Do you know anyone who could start, like, tomorrow??"
Thanks bluz! I def will be checking out mandrill!
That's not entirely accurate. Many experiments were useless, notably Mengele's, but some data collected remains useful (though not necessarily used) to this day. There were results by others that were applicable, usually regarding weapon development and exposure to elements.

And while we're on the topic, the US experimented on their interned populace as well, though with less intent to harm, as did the Japanese (referenced by GP).
- save taxpayers dollars : looks like this was rejected just yesterday by the Congress. Who cares about taxpayers dollars anyway?
- whistleblower laws : did Obama ever do anything in that regard apart from public speeches as a candidate?
- abuse of authority : Obama himself clearly abused authority in the Snowden case in what he said and in the threats he placed on the guy.
- full access to court and due process: yeah, isn't Obama the one who agrees to keep secret court secret in the first place, and protect them from monitoring ?

"Yes We Can". Nothing more to say.
Unrelated: Why are people familiar with Hacker News (e.g. the Docker folks) still using slideshare.net? That site feels like it's stuck around 2005. I thought everyone here knew about http://slid.es by now -- its UX is far superior.
It is necessary if you don't share the platform of choice with the developer.

Everyone who is running OS X, BSD, Illumos, Cygwin, and basically every non-Linux OS would take issue with your necessity argument.

I also note that you didn't mention the problem of security issues in bundled dependencies, which is the far more serious issue.
I would be happy if LibreOffice didn't add a single feature for the next year and did the following:

* Improved MS Office Interoperability

* Fixed bugs

* Reduced memory usage/improved performance

In fact, those are the primary reasons my company abandoned our plans to migrate from MSO to LO. I have filed several bug reports with both the AO/LO teams on issues such with incorrectly importing NetSuite generated Excel documents for our sales team. Most of the bugs were validated, opened, and then ignored for the past year.
Open-source licenses aren't some kind of restraint that lawyers use to chain down free software. They're the carefully-crafted wings that enable a free-software ecosystem to fly at all.

Without the licenses free software doesn't get more free. It just dies. Everybody runs away from it. Copyright law is clear: It belongs to the original author, and without a clear transfer of rights, nobody dares to reuse it except in secret. It's technically risky even to read it, lest you establish evidence that will later be used against you in a copyright suit. And it's risky to offer the original author a patch without an explicit disclaimer of warranty - after all, the author owns and controls the code, and the fact that the codebase looked like comedy on Tuesday doesn't mean it won't be part of a nuclear power plant by Friday night.

(Of course, when the lawsuit happens you'll probably be able to argue that the use of your patch in a nuclear power plant wasn't authorized. But that argument may have to be made to a jury, by a lawyer that is costing you a lot of money.)
Amazingly compact too, the whole system code fit in 9k of memory and ran circles around AppleSoft performance-wise, despite having 3D wireframe graphics and bit mapped fonts.
How much would you have to charge to be able to fly to the USA every 2 months and meet with clients?
Too bad people save pages offline. That does not go unnoticed nowadays.