skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that mean Walter White is the Ultimate Startup CEO? A man so driven by his ego that he puts his entire family in mortal danger, blackmails former business partners, alienates his co-founder and ends up dying alone as a result of his own hubris?

Actually that might be accurate.
Awesome montage video of falling celebrities
Phoenix Real Estate
They're tried for like, a few days now, which proves it can't work!!!
You need to press the play button in the top left corner. The data go as far back as last Friday. I will run an update to get new data at the end of this week again.

Yeah thanks, I am originally from Czech Rep. so I am more excited about hockey.
> Could someone explain the logistics of Docker in a distributed app development scenario?

Docker lets you build an environment (read: put together a bunch of files) for you to run an app in. It also has other features, like reducing space if lots of your apps [on the same host] use the same docker images, and networking stuff.

> My goal is having a team of developers use Docker to have their local development environments match the production environment

You run a container. You use images to distribute files. A Dockerfile is a loose set of instructions to build the images.

The basic idea is that, any single program that you want to be able to run anywhere, you make into a container. You can run it here, you can run it there, you can run it anywhere. The whole "running it anywhere" concept comes from the idea that all of your containers are created based on the same images, so no matter what kind of crazy mix of machines you have, your containers will just work - because you're literally shipping them a micro linux distribution in which to run your application. And since all the applications are running in isolated little identical containers, you can run as many of them as you want, independent of each other, in whatever configuration you want.

You'll have a PSQL container and an App container, and you'll manage them separately, even if they share images - the changes they make get saved off to a temp folder so they don't impact each other. Your environment stays the same only as long as the containers and images you're using are the same.

There will always be differences between development and production. You have to focus on managing those differences so you have confidence that what you're shipping to production actually works. The only thing Docker really does there is make sure the files are basically the same.
Scottsdale Real Estate
More or less. However it's also like journalism in that you shouldn't necessarily hold your breath until it happens.
Is that all he had, though?
Is there any comparison to other days?
Define "ton".

It's not as many as you think. I'd guess it's measured in hundreds? Possibly low-thousands? And not everybody in these courses is a beginner, and they're not all trying land a software engineering job. Of the 3 people I personally know who've enrolled at App Academy et al, 1 is an experienced BE developer who wanted an accelerated immersion class in app development, 1 is a product manager who wants to pick up more programming skills to make him a better startup founder, and one legitimately was a beginner who wanted to land a software engineering job. So far, a couple months after successful completion, she hasn't had any offers yet.
The Onion pretty much covered this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvGCYyZPYPg
Some popular blogs and news sites use facebook as a commenting system. I think it's worse that I can figure out exactly how a real life person feels. Giving someone anonymity makes them feel less significant in my perception of their opinion. By attaching an actual name to the comment, I get a way worse feeling of the education of the general population.
are massive user forums a solved problem?

Reddit still gives error pages to me dozens of times a day.
The same sort of reasoning applies to Bitcoin. Someone has to secure all that Bitcoin mining hardware, and as the effort that goes into mining grows, the energy spent on securing mining hardware will grow. I would also include the cost of producing ever-faster mining hardware; honest miners have to continuously upgrade their equipment just to keep pace with attackers.

Really though, the fact that every single transaction is broadcast and that every single transaction must be verified by the entire network (in theory) is what kills Bitcoin's energy efficiency. Whenever a new mining rig is brought online, the energy efficiency of Bitcoin decreases -- and Bitcoin is designed to incentivize bringing more mining equipment online.
Not only that, there were enormous amounts of risk. Although the writers had Walt and Jesse live through obscenely and overwhelmingly deadly circumstances, these types of events rarely happen. Sure, there's the one-in-a-billion Sgt. York that deftly beats impossible odds.

The real value in this particular analogy is for the author of the original article, not the reader.
Maybe you do need a Steve Jobs around after all to yell at people so that the software is any good.

Apple had one in Scott Forstall and Tim Cook fired him, in the name of furthering "collaboration" at the executive level (whatever that means). IMO that was the singular event that defines Apple in the Tim Cook era.

My take is that Cook intends to coast at Apple until his 10 years are up, managing operations well but not taking any risks, and removing anyone who would take risks. It's an acceptable strategy, but it's just not what we're used to from Apple.

So, like another commenter said, I agree that it's mostly an expectations problem. It's not just that Steve Jobs and Scott Forstall are gone, it's that Apple, under Tim Cook's direction, has made a conscious decision to be a different kind of company.
Can we rule out the FBI?
http://precis.gopagoda.com/ a threaded outbound-link aggregator. It needs a lot of work but i'm hoping to turn it into something cool. Currently incredibly slow because it's on a pagodabox free account and has no caching whatsoever. Also bootstrap and most of the buttons don't do anything still.

also https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/ccb392c399d72efd8b0d a terminally unfinished Hacker News userscript to handle block/unblock/following users.
I just realized this is quite smart. Point for you.
Thank you for your input. A situation "where I am proximal to good developers and expected to be learning SE practices while working as a subject matter expert (SME) to developers" would be the perfect solution for me. It is just difficult to find.

I am flexible on salary besides junior devs are already making same or more than me as a hardware guy.
It reminds me of this essay, on Breaking Bad and culture:

"But despite these cautionary endings, they don’t sell Scarface and Godfather t-shirts at every tourist shop in Manhattan because people like to remind themselves about the dangers of hubris. Stories and the characters in them are more than lessons, and a narrative’s most ideologically weighty elements don’t map onto a seventh grade worksheet about major themes. Long after we’re done watching we hold moments with us: shot angles and character dynamics, snippets of dialog and unquestioned premises. The point of critically examining cultural objects like Breaking Bad isn’t to place them in categories good or bad, to predict the ending, or even to decode what’s “really” happening; the point is to pay attention to our attention, to look at how it’s being held, on what, and how someone’s making money on it. If pop criticism is to be good for anything, it’s that."

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/walter-white-supremacy/
Blockchain.info is storing a centralized database for Bitcoin. Just not the centralized database... because there's not any official one. They're a value-added replica (via indexing & UI), not a constitutional authority.

(They have some earned authority, by a record of useful service.)
How is UPnP more insecure than having a publicly routable IP address? Assume that the machine running UPnP behind a NAT and the machine with the publicly routable IP both have correctly configured firewalls.
You're not wrong in that there's a lot of questions left unanswered by this post. Where you see 'terrible work environment', though, I see a pretty decent likelihood of 'Lots to do, and also I have no idea how to write a good IT job posting'.

I would have a lot of questions for them, for sure. I've worked as sysadmin for $10/hr with 24/7 on-call (when I was desperate, broke, and nearly homeless), and I'd never go back. That said, if you're the only IT guy… well, obviously you're going to be on-call if something breaks. I would definitely negotiate this up in my contact if I were interviewing for the job.

The interesting thing to me about the potential here is that they already have all of their infrastructure; they have the website, the servers, the CDNs, and whatever else they need to run the site. The job would involve taking over those responsibilities and bringing them in-house. They already have redundancy, monitoring, and distribution taken care of, so you wouldn't be asked to build a new server infrastructure from scratch and take care of it. You might be tasked with bringing it in-house, but that's definitely doable by one person if there's no strict (unreasonable) timeline on it.

As for the wifi: yeah, I wouldn't want to do it either, personally. There's lots of other people who can do it far, far better than I could.

Looking at the PA guys, I'm willing to make a bet that their biggest IT problem is that they don't know what they don't know. Can awful wifi be solved? Presumably, right? But they're dealing with tens of thousands of people. How do you do that? Who do you call?

So, what they need for the wifi example, for example, is someone who can step in and say 'These are the things we don't know and need to learn', or 'these are the questions we need to ask', or 'this is the discussion we need to have' (which ties in with my 'don't know how to write a good tech job post' point above).

One thing I've learned in tech jobs is that having no answers is far, far better than having no questions. Maybe they're trying to hire someone to ask questions.
It's not like those billions will disappear. Selling Snapchat doesn't generate a billion dollars - it just transfers a billion dollars from one party to another. Everything new that Snapchat's founder will be able to do is something that the old holder of dollars won't.
Half A Million Pounds of Metal
Wow that looks interesting.
consumption terror (from everywhere ads) with money people actually don't own. what else could be better right now than focusing people on "important" things in life than protest about banks, injustice, poverty etc.

sad world.
For that matter, having cmder etc in Chocolatey would be nice
I don't think we "implement" capitalism. It just happens, like thermodynamics. The most brutal communist systems of the 20th century had thriving black markets. In America, we ban drugs, and marijuana becomes the biggest cash crop in several states. Capitalism happens as long as two parties can barter in a satisfactory way.

That's why I react so negatively to associating capitalism with morality. It beocmes an excuse.
There are so many logic flaws in your comment that I will just respond to
the ones that stand out(to me anyway).

"Robert isn't breaking any employment laws".

I didn't know we should only voice our disagreement when someone does something illegal. Actually, on second thought, I think doing that would be
somewhat redundant because, well you know, the law has already taken care of that.

"The best you can do to show your disapproval as a great developer is to not apply"

What a misguided and cynical opinion! No. What we can do, is to expose unethical and exploitative
tactics, in order to protect the younger, and by extension, the more naive candidates.
They post all of their job posts on LinkedIn, and then they tweet them to a hundred thousand people, and have them retweeted to millions. LinkedIn is just a place for them to put the text they want to show people.
I agree that ML or data science would be feasible. I am working on data science/machine learning as well, I have taken classes from coursera and trying to work on it on the side. As I mentioned above, my progress is slow as most of my time is spent on my day job. It is hard to tell if I am on the right track without working in the field. Thank you for your suggestions.
> I hate to defend the guy when he's set off my fraud detector alarms so much, but thermoelectric converters are what, less than 10% efficient?

Wait -- the input power requirement is intended to run a heater, not provide electricity. And I should never have mentioned thermoelectric converters, that only complicates the discussion with no benefit.

Because the input power is needed to run a "immersion heater" according to the linked page, and because the output power is heat, this whole account quickly unravels.

> He would need some kind of steam-driven turbine to achieve the efficiency needed to provide net power.

No problem, there are plenty of those available. But the claims in the "fact sheet" are obviously false. If he really had a working unit that developed a megawatt using dozens of smaller units working in parallel, then why doesn't he just start one small unit with a tiny power kick, then use that unit to start four additional units, four to 16, ad infinitum, like a logical design. But Rossi hasn't bothered to think this deeply. The reason? He's not really going to build it. And the reason for that is it cannot be built.
Every human is different, but yes I believe that's too much. If he had said, "I exercise 5 days a week, take 1 week off every 3 months and 2 consecutive weeks off per year." Then that is different. But he said he runs a 5k EVERY SINGLE DAY, and that is far too much abuse for a human body. The most insidious symptom of overtraining syndrome is a compulsive need to exercise.

If this individual is overtrained, his body will find a way to stop him. He will become ill from immune suppression or injured from the constant stress that never fully heals, or too depressed to exercise at all.

Body builders have a saying something like, "Muscles are made in the bedroom and the kitchen."
I can see where you are coming from, but how could you word that to be technically correct, succinct (not a full blown lecture on what bitcoin is), and not leave yourself open to giving people that impression?

Bitcoin isn't the simplest concept around. Unless you are in the business of packaging up bitcoin for non-technical consumers, I think it is reasonable to expect your users to bring some knowledge about bitcoin to the table.
In fairness, I don't ever recall hearing anyone say "iTunes sure is a fine piece of software"
You could just add protein powder?
I'd recommend using a thick client. I'm not sure how you use HN plain on a mobile
I think you can also use Yubikey :

http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/
20.1fps, 2008 Macbook unibody, Chrome. Not using much CPU so seems to be doing GPU stuff.
A Register VM for Guile
HN actually stands for Holman News
It already reached $1000: last week on btcchina (world's largest bitcoin exchange) http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=75
Not smart enough?
When you're the only person charged with any technical issues? I would say yes (in my experience). In most cases, though, there's not really a lot of issues that need taken care of, and I doubt they have a sufficiently complicated infrastructure that things would break often enough for this to be a problem (unless, in the course of doing your job, you make things worse).
Ok that's the (easy) thing I was missing. Instead of using the main logrotate.conf (that includes logrotate.d/*), use a fully separate logrotate.conf. Thanks.
I was of a split opinion. I think the girl empowerment thing was great, but I also respect his wish not to have his work used commercially. At the end of the day, it's fair use, but unethical, but all they need to do be be ethical and respect his last wishes is remove the obvious references to their product at the end when the TV is turned on and the product name is aired. They should just edit out that short part.
"Disappointing from the inventor of Shamir's Secret Sharing and differential cryptanalysis."

Indeed, as I was reading the post I thought to myself "it couldn't be that Shamir, could it?" Oh.
If you haven't seen Breaking Bad then you really need to avoid any discussion topics about it. The ending has been widely discussed pretty much everywhere (including other places in this discussion, though comically not in the article itself)
Ask HN: Interview about building website without a portfolio
I just got off the phone with someone who needs a website built for their company. On thursday, I am meeting with them in person. The guy on the phone said it was to discuss what needs to be done, talk about how much I charge, and to show him some stuff I've built.

It's that last part that has me worried.I've built a handful of toy websites, a couple of wordpress sites for family/friends, but from his description over the phone, he wants a lot more than that. I don't actually have any evidence that I can get the job done, although I'm quite confident in my abilities.

How would you approach this situation?
Google Makes Talking To Your Computer Slightly Less Crazy
The Penultimate Hackapaloozathon: Electric Boogaloo
I missed the part where they took it off the market.
AFAIK LTE brings added licensing costs (and requires a different chip) so it might not be as cheap if it does appear
Start your online business idea in 50 minutes
New exploit kit Atrax boasts Tor Connectivity, Bitcoin Extraction
There's nothing wrong with adding a partner. The family farm adds (and loses) partners every generation. Having an extra partner can be great, and it's perfectly reasonable to prefer a partner to an employee. (Or vice versa.) If what you really want is a partner, then you'll be a lot happier if you find a partner and treat him as such.

If, on the other hand, you do not really want a partner, you should be honest with yourself about what you are looking for. Maybe you really want two or three employees. Maybe you need one full time employee and a few part time employees. Maybe you need some combination of employees and contractors, who can respond to extraordinary problems and then go away when there is no work to do. (IT tends to have a problem with the latter. It's like expecting the cleaning staff to do plumbing just because you don't have enough plumbing jobs to keep a plumber on staff, and they both work with bathrooms.)

To sum it up with a bit of sexist humor, if what you need is a wife, either find a wife or hire a cook, a maid, an accountant, and a mistress. Don't hire a cook and expect him to sleep with you and do your taxes.
How to get More Facebook Likes
I knew I had to leave when I was asking why X benefit was so bad and HR's response was "well we work on video games" as if that helped the situation.
Funny how one of the world's largest companies can be both so powerful and yet so stupid and impotent against a sea of penises.
> Yes, there are still rules and regulations they operate under, but this does not mean that they are not free.

Under rules and regulations, an enterprise is not free to allocate its capital at it desires, produce the products it desires, market them in the way it desires, and sell them to who it desires.

The degree to which that is true depends on the scope of the rules and regulations. If the only one is that there is a 5% income tax, the enterprise loses 5% of its freedom to allocate its capital. In reality, in our mixed economy, companies operate under many, many restrictions. In areas like finance and telecom, we have full-on regulatory monopolies: an enterprise has no freedom without permission, and new permissions are not being granted.

I am fully aware that academic economists consistently define things according to non-essentials, and the only thing I can do is reject that. A "free enterprise" must mean what the words "free" and "enterprise" mean in the English language. Anything else is a barrier to rational thinking.

If economists want a word for an enterprise that can "do whatever it wants, but still operates under rules and regulations," they (properly) have to make a new word for it, not re-use existing words that mean something different.

Actually, though, there already is a word for that: a "contradiction." An enterprise cannot be free and not-free.

Unfortunately, many academic economists want to "earn" their bread and butter by peddling contradictions to students and the public, and they deserve the very highest moral condemnation for it.

Why? Because that kind of behavior leads to recessions (such as the perma-recession we are currently in), depressions, and the rise of authoritarianism (fascism being one example from recent history). It leads to suffering and mass-killing.

Source: Reality.

To the degree that you are a victim of this, you should rethink your views. To the degree that you are a perpetrator (if at all), you should be ashamed of yourself.
META-NOTE: I wouldn't worry overmuch about downvotes. I often fat-finger downvote when using my phone, for instance.
As a dark matter developer, I'll tell you why I'm not more public:

I don't have enough time to maintain a decent blog. I could maintain a shitty one, but what's the point of that?

Join a community? I barely have enough time for HN as it is!

Stack Overflow? I contribute sometimes, but once again, it comes down to time. If you have the time, I applaud your contributions. As for me, I'll settle for answering maybe one question a month.

New tech? Sure, that's cool. But I really need to get my software to a working state, and that won't happen if I keep changing the technologies. I'd rather wait for a front runner to emerge before joining in.

Twiiter? No thanks. I get enough aggravation from email.

Meetups & conferences? I've gone to a few, but I've found that I can gain a far deeper understanding of a particular language/technology/paradigm through online articles or books.

About the only thing I leave any kind of footprint with is github, because coding is one creative outlet I can't live without.
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Which seems like a pretty big fail.
A sales guy at his best (or worst, depending on how you look at it)
Good question. I imagine the incidence of shopping/consumerism-related deaths and injuries is a lot lower for the rest of the year, but it would be interesting to get some numbers.
Maybe they should search for [Nn][^A-z]?[Ss][^A-z]?[Aa] instead ;)
> This makes it sound like its conscious or something. There's no paradox here

IANAP, but I don't quite get the intuition behind the difference here. I thought the whole point of decoherence is that the quantum superposition collapses into an eigenstate?
Assuming there's enough work across all four that needs doing.

Keep in mind, all of these tasks are already being done by somebody. It's possible that the majority of the tasks will be additional projects (e.g. set up an office fileserver to optimize the art workflow, automate common tasks, fix minor bugs in the CMS, etc).

My point is: there's a ton of things we don't know about this job either; for example, their 'we're not going to pay you lots' could mean $100k instead of $120k, which would be fine by me for living in Seattle, but the way people are complaining about it makes it sound like it's $35k/yr and you have to buy your own office equipment.