skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see where you're coming from, but my issue is that Docker itself is LESS portable than the applications it's containerizing! It's creating the very problem it's trying to solve. The task I care about isn't to build and deploy a Docker container. It's to build and deploy my app.

I have a beef with build/deploy systems that have bootstrapping problems. For example I'm hearing from people using Chef that they have to freeze the version of Chef, its dependencies, and the Ruby interpreter (or maybe it was Puppet, I don't use either). To me that is just crazy. My code isn't that picky about the versions it needs, and to introduce a deployment tool like that makes things less stable, not more.

Take for example Python -- in my experience it's almost entirely portable because Linux and Mac. And I imagine the same is with node.js, Ruby, PHP, etc. Almost all C libraries you need are portable too. So in my ideal world you would only use a VM when you actually need it for the OS/CPU architecture. I suspect for a lot of people that would be 50-90% the time without a VM, depending on how you like to develop.

I'm working on a chroot-based build system, which in theory will work on Mac and Linux (but not Windows). It does need to solve a versioning problem. Because stuff isn't as portable between Python 2.6 and Python 2.7 on the same OS as it is between Python 2.7 on two different architectures/OSes.
I would assume a car that has been involved in a crash would stop moving, and not need that cooling any more. Even if there weren't failsafe systems to shut things off.

There's only so much you can do with a punctured lithium ion.
>I fail to see why this cannot co-exist alongside the Stripe alternative library.

It certainly can, anyone is more than welcome to pay for something done by open source software available for free.

>Surely if you're a business of any merit

Just because you're a business doesn't mean you should pay for things that you can do cheaper.

The point is that a decent web developer could recreate that form in 20 minutes with jquery.payment and a little bit of CSS, so why should you pay $300 for the same thing?
just fixed that, thanks for the heads up
This one doesn't last indefinitely, but has a similar trippy feel to it:
http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,1,0,3,2,2,0...
We all hate GoDaddy still, I get it. That said, this is actually a pretty brilliant plan for them to begin to get back into the community's good graces.
I think they are both important. The arbitration policy has been tested in court, and it matters because ICANN controls all .com names like this one.

The trademark policy is important because Canonical owns the trademark, and it outlines specific things which they allow, like criticism, and specific things they do not, like using Ubuntu in a domain name without permission. The conversation is derailed if everyone does not understand that it is specifically use of the logo and domain name that Canonical has objected to. The logo is removed, but the domain name remains. It seems that Canonical might not be able to convince ICANN or the courts that the domain name is in bad faith.

We have seen similar issues before. Debian objected to Christian Marillat using the domain name debian-multimedia, so it was changed to deb-multimedia.
Because security and privacy.

There's a very good reason why your email client doesn't display images by default.

Imagine every major email client allowed using HTML5/CSS3.

One day somebody discovers a bug that allows you to execute random code. Now all you need to deliver a trojan to millions of people is mass-email it.
For those who want to star/watch the project on GitHub:

https://github.com/zurb/ink
The project manager sounds like a dick, but the author also sounds like a push-over. The author had a chance to out the manager as a huge asshole, but based on the post, it seems like he just left silently.
Cars don't explode.
The dominant workflow in docker-land is to ditch the Vagrantfile, use a Dockerfile instead, and sometimes use Vagrant when it helps you get a VM up and running with docker on it (but that Vagrantfile is typically the same across all projects requiring docker).
OmniGraffle 6 for the Mac App Store (upgrade pricing)
Quite possibly, it's a much smaller target relative to the rest of the underbody, but it's actually quite hard to set a gasoline tank on fire.

If your tank was punctured while driving it's quite likely the first you'd know was when you ran out.
According to their website, this is just the name of the parent company that makes Soylent.

"Rosa Labs strives to create innovative nutritional products. Our first product is Soylent."

Doesn't seem like they are ditching the Soylent name for that particular product (I wonder what else they are working on?). For the record, I still like the name quite a bit. I've never understood why a reference to a sci-fi book got under anyones skin (pun not intended).
Bitcoin value breaks $300
I agree, I'm really just arguing technicalities here. The majority of your labor went into acquiring the knowledge, not writing the code in that directory. But that directory still holds value, however minuscule it may be, and it is still being destroyed.

If I deleted that directory I would think "Welp, that was [x]-hours of time well spent," which is where it derives it's value* not from the money I spent on my education.

*That is, of course, if you ascribe to the labor theory of value.
OP Update:
They issued a take down request to Microsoft, which required they fill out a form on specific infringement of the app. I'm actually glad they did this, as Microsoft has a formal process for reinstatement of Windows 8 apps that previously may have infringed, and this way I have a list of things they want changed without having to officially be on the record communicating with them directly (where they could use anything I write against me).

Complaints:
They have copied the POF icon and used it as their own.
This application is passing off that it is an Application from Plentyoffish Media. They use our trademark in their description. Also, the word "Many" in title is clearly a play off of "Plenty Of." We have many other trademarks in many other jurisdictions for this and related trademarks.
Washington city votes to raise minimum wage to $15
I'm going to have to trust the government on this one. Clearly they have the people's best interests in mind. In fact why should they ever let us see anything in the future, it makes us angry and leads to silly arguments. Instead they can simply tell us when the business is complete - signed, a North Korean.
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Prediksi skor Chelsea vs West Brom 9 november 2013 - Ajang Liga Primer Inggris kali ini memang segera memastikan dalam pertemuan dalam tuan rumah Chelsea dalam menjamu lawannya WestBromwich di Stamford Bridge yang dimana merupakan kandang dari Chelsea sendiri di London pada malam hari jam 22 : 00 WIB.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709128
Exactly why would kickstarter be immune from irrationality, instability, or speculation?

On every trade two speculations are made, I don't see how bringing in unsophisticated retail investors would help with regard to price discovery.
The cost of satellites and rocket launches would tend to disagree. They are not cheap. I won't dispute that valuable talent was also developed, but the cost of the hardware is hardly "a rounding error".

The fact that you persist in confusing money with wealth makes me think you haven't really understood my point. Gold is not all that useful by itself, so launching a bunch of gold into space would not be throwing wealth away the way launching an expensive and fancy satellite is.

A Mars mission is not undergrad CS work. It's a serious project. If we deleted all copies of the Linux kernel from the world, have you destroyed wealth? Of course you have.
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Ask HN : What is your feedback on our site's new name and landing page?
Hi, We are currently testing our landing page for the Site that we have developed. The original name of this site was Phoenary but we changed to GemShelf www.gemshelf.com since the former was a little not too clear. GemShelf is a Knowledge Management tool and Collaboration Platform where 1) can store everything in one place (PDFs, Word files, text, photos, audio etc.),(2) search through everything, anytime, anywhere, on any device because it has offline capability (3) can import and export and share information easily, upload photos, smart capture and we're also planning on incorporating OCR technology.

So what do say about the landing page and the new name?
Hyperbole.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/24/godaddys-chief-sopa-su...
Reverse debugging sounds like putting bugs in. We do that every day already.
That is different, although I've seen some in the US include high school (even when they went on to graduate college) if the writer felt the school had some prestige. That would equate to 14-18 years old in the US.

Thanks for the details, good to know about different cultures in case I run into any candidates from the Netherlands.
I agree, that other argument is bad. However, just because an argument is bad does not mean any counterargument must be good. The counterargument presented, that the money spent doesn't matter because it recirculates within the economy afterwards, is also bad.

I agree that this is probably a net gain. But you can't demonstrate that by saying that the money keeps moving within the economy, and you especially can't demonstrate that by holding up destruction of cash as some sort of worst-case scenario for waste.
n.b.

It was time to leave, and the HR lady came to me and said I would have to sign a release letter and send it back within 2 work days (the following Monday was a holiday), otherwise I would not get any of the remaining pay

I'm not familiar with the law in Canada, but I rather suspect that it's similar to America, so a bit of advice for the young and impressionable: virtually no threat to not pay an employee wages is worth taking seriously. Don't sign anything. Say you'll run it by your lawyer. You don't even need to have a lawyer when you say that, but the prospect of your lawyer going to the employment commission and saying "My client was denied wages. Do you need me to say anything else or can we just proceed directly to 'He gets them'?" will generally make them back off.

I mean, as one point among many, your lawyer is going to say "You think he was a consultant? We have written representations from you that he was a FTE, and you treated him as a FTE, for example in attempting to control his working hours. It is materially against his interests to be a consultant, because this implies that you haven't been paying employment taxes on him. That's unfortunate, but it's not our problem, and rather than stick him with the bill for $X,000 in back taxes we're just going to tell the tax authorities that he's been maliciously reclassified and that you're delinquent in your obligations. Given that this will likely trigger an audit and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines for you, how about we just agree to give my client what he has coming to him, and you report an inadvertent paperwork screwup to the tax authority when you pay your fair share?"
FPV "Full scale" Cockpit Ground Station w/42 inch TV.
If we built drones that burrowed underground, who would make the rules?
This is what the parent says:

> The comparisons to the Leaf and Volt are meaningless if none of those vehicles have been in similar accidents. You can't just point to numbers and imply that a lack of reported fires means they're safer.

So...the question is...well, why should we assume that the problem is underreporting...that it's just Tesla's that are getting all the attention? That's not even true:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/business/tsunami-reveals-d...

> DETROIT — Nissan inadvertently gained some valuable insight into the durability of its electric car, the Leaf, when about two dozen of them were destroyed in the tsunami that ravaged Japan in March.
>
> None of the cars caught fire, and their batteries remained fully intact, shielded by an airtight steel exoskeleton and two other layers of protection that surround the 660-pound packs.

“Considering how they were tossed around and crushed, we think that is a very good indication of the safety performance of that vehicle,” said Bob Yakushi, the director of product safety for Nissan North America.

Nissan’s decision to encase the Leaf’s battery in steel may help explain why federal safety regulators investigating postcrash fire risks in the Chevrolet Volt do not have the same concerns about the Leaf. General Motors packages the Volt’s battery cells on a T-shaped steel tray with a plastic cover.
You might want to consider looking at Linkedin, or the best way is to check within your network first.
A mid-range gaming PC that's ready to play out of the box for $400 is nothing to slouch at.

Also, keep in mind that the original launch titles for the Xbox 360 looked like this:

http://ve3dmedia.ign.com/ve3d/image/article/655/655564/perfe...

Launch titles are generally either carry-over concepts from earlier consoles and/or are drastically rushed to hit a very hard deadline, the titles hitting in the next couple of years will up the ante significantly.

That aside, I'm personally looking forward to next Friday quite a bit, as my preordered PS4 from Amazon is supposed to be arriving that day and having played around with some of the games already I'm really looking forward to more time with Killzone, Knack and Assassin's Creed 4.

FWIW, I'm one of those gamers who was a huge fan of the Xbox, mostly due to Live as a multiplayer platform, but I'm looking much more forward to the PS4 than the Xbox One, in fact I have no immediate plans to buy a One, though I'm sure I'll probably buy one eventually (much like I bought a PS3 eventually, but that wasn't until this year).
Still no support for getUserMedia as far as I can tell.
I'm seeing a pattern, a cycle between hubris and humility.

When Nintendo ruled, Sony broke in by courting game developers. Then, they became arrogant, and made the best hardware they could, they was difficult to use. Thus, Microsoft won, simply because it was easier for developers. It was then amazing to see how arrogant they had become with the xboxone trying to squeeze everyone, in every way - similar to how they removed the ability to cancel xbox live online.

What Microsoft didn't realize is that they didn't win - Sony lost, by shooting themselves in the foot. But in this generation, if PS4 is easy to develop for, cheaper, more powerful, and not trying to squeeze every cent and control every aspect... things will be different.

Of course, Microsoft will see their mistake and adjust (as they've done many times). But while they can drop prices and relax controls, it may be difficult to make their console more powerful.
Also, next year, mobile devices should reach GPU parity with last gen consoles... and with their faster iteration cycle, match PS4/xboxone three years after that. (unlike CPUs, GPUs scale really well).
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The average car is 11.4 years old [0].. the average Tesla is still practically brand new. Not really an apples-to-apples comparison.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20130806/RETAIL/130809922#
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Your points make sense. The only factor is that Tesla gets a TON more media attention, so we're more likely to hear about it.
I'd rather pay a decent company good money than give GoDaddy my name and email.

A short list of reasons I refuse to use GoDaddy and actively encourage people to get away from them:

* Sexist advertising.

* The founder has repeatedly gone to Africa to kill elephants.

* They actively supported SOPA

* The founder expressed support for torture in Guantanamo Bay

* The customer support is a nightmare at best

* Hosting is inconsistent, slow, and of general poor quality.

* Constantly trying to upsell you the customer

* Godaddy mocks developers in its advertising
GoDaddy should give free domain registrations to all the small businesses and individuals they've taken advantage of over the years. Their website is still deliberately confusing to trick less than tech-savy customers into spending more than they need to.
Six Day Water Fast Made Me A New Man
I wonder whether it has something to do with the way you would drive a Tesla vs how you would drive a Volt/Leaf.

I'm not saying that the Tesla is necessarily better performing, just that two different types of people are the likely owners.

NB: Just pondering.
This story is unfortunate spin for two reasons. The minor reason is Wired appears to be completely speculating when they state, "Could Spark Federal Inquiry".

The second and really much larger reason this article is spin is that they are painting this as a major issue without giving enough information to quantify it. I try to quantify it in this comment and the results are the opposite of how Wired is spinning this issue. Here's what they said:

While there are an average of 150,000 car fires in the U.S. each year, with only 19,000 Model S sedans on the road, having three vehicles catch fire in six weeks has garnered plenty of attention.

So this is comparing two data sets:

A: % of Tesla Vehicles that catch fire. Dividing 3 by 19,000 leads to a fire incidence rate of 0.0158%.

B: % of all vehicles that catch fire. For this data set, Wired helpfully tells you the numerator of 150,000 vehicles catch fire in the U.S. but completely leaves out the denominator.

Without giving the complete information for data set B, it's difficult to determine if Tesla's fire incidence rate is out of the ordinary and warrants the speculation of, "Could Spark Federal Inquiry". So in an attempt to find the denominator, I discovered:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unite...

Overall, there were an estimated 254.4 million registered passenger vehicles in the United States according to a 2007 DOT study

Seems reasonable to use this as the denominator. If anything, since not every registered car is regularly driven, it is likely a high estimate and therefore understates the percentage.

But calculating it, 150,000 divided by 254,400,000 equals a fire incidence rate of 0.059% for data set B. So the average passenger vehicle catches fire 3.73 times as often as a Tesla Model S. Now, caveats:

This is comparing an annual number (0.059%) for some other time period. Without thinking much about it, you might believe there is weight to Wired's assertion that this is "3 vehicle fires in 6 weeks". The Model S has been driving on the road for much longer than 6 weeks. In fact, retail deliveries started about a year and a half ago. While technically accurate, to frame the data as "3 fires in 6 weeks" is misleading due to cherry picking data.
It's a pretty good plan if people STILL don't heed the advice of others to stay the fuck away.

Even if you ignore the whole SOPA mess, and the scumbag CEO, and the shady marketing techniques, all in all you still end up with shit service, which is the thing you're trying to buy.
San Diego Gets in Your Face With New Mobile Identification System
Maybe no one person has the expertise to analyze a sample of this malware in its entirety. But treating malware samples like weapons to hide (to be even disassembled only in maximum isolation?), somehow seems similar to the line of thought taken by commercial software vendors who think distributing binaries without source makes them more secure (okay maybe that's a stretch).

But my main point is - viruses (and other forms of malware) aren't actual biological viruses necessitating strict containment. They're code and we CAN understand them. More access means publicly accessible countermeasures are likely to develop faster. And yes - some people will take advantage of this by adapting the techniques employed therein for evil. I think it's worth the risk to try to understand it.

And yeah, don't just run it on your machine directly in a debugger of course. That's likely to be containment enough.
Sell an outcome, not your deliverables, tools, processes or skills
Top Networking Trends of 2013: The Good, The Bad
Not sure if I need to recalibrate my sarcasm detector, but their gas tanks sure seem to:

https://www.google.com/search?q=car+fire&tbm=isch
Thee is always some rational for curtailing freedom. For example, some people want to prevent me from lying down on the ground, just because some cars want to use the space to go places.

The line must be drawn somewhere. We all draw it at our own front door for example.

I think the problem is that shared spaces are usually created and governed by coercion rather than by mutual agreement governed by a contract.

When you have a contract with your neighbors, the rules are in the contract. To change it requires mutual agreement. The contract can also end. I think this is a more appropriate arrangement than forcing people to live a certain way.

If your neighborhood wants nudity and crack cocaine and bike only trails instead of car traffic, that should be your business. People that want those things can move to these neighborhoods. And those that don't can avoid them.

This seems like more freedom than we currently allow. Freedom to do and freedom to avoid. Good fences make good neighbors and this just seems like a logical extension of that.
You Were Fired.

When you have contractor status, are brought into a meeting where they say you are underperforming, not committed, and turn deaf ears on however you try to justify yourself... and you end up leaving the company... you may have been fired.

The biggest mistakes you made was a) still being a contractor b) not asking for severance if you would opt of of claiming unemployment on them.
HTML email allows an unreasonable level of deception. How does your mail client render this?

<a href="http://evil.host">http://trustworthy.host</a>

If you can't get your message across in a plain text email, you may want to reconsider whether your intent is to mislead.
Treaties start off with private negotiations for the same reason that any negotiation is private--so that the representatives can work on ideas and compromises in a free way. If they are able to arrive at a good deal, then they can present it together.

This is how corporate mergers are done, for example. Managers meet to work out the deal, then present it to shareholders.

It's also how all significant legislation gets started--Congressional staff meet to negotiate, then a bill gets introduced with cosponsors.

The main thing to understand is that this is the beginning of a process, not the entire process. There will be plenty of opportunity for public comment. The Korea FTA, for example, spent over 3 years in public comment after negotiations concluded.
Last time I dug a sprinkler line in my yard I had to call about half a dozen people to get permission (water, power, gas, phone, etc). I can only imagine.