skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How different is this to Docker link containers[1] for service discovery?

It seems to me like this is a network layer proposal, while link containers are more about name based discovery at the Docker layer.

[1] http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/use/working_with_links_names...
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I totally agree about the audience coming to expect better; I just don't think it will ever make for a specialized job because as more people write code (or something) as part of their job, so will the number of people who do so within Hollywood and who will quickly lay their hands on the relevant imagery.

I mentioned the example of a sound designer who only does vehicle sounds, because that's my particular line. At one time I thought there would be room for developing and selling big libraries of authentic sounds, and I still make a point of recording as many prop-specific sounds on set as possible. But it's a case of diminishing returns - as long as the library and use of stock sounds on a picture is not completely awful/inappropriate, 'good enough' is the prevailing standard, and you're better off layering and recycling sounds in combination with effects or hiring a foley artist. There's an in-joke among sound designers known as the 'Wilhelm scream' (after the character who first uttered it) which has been dropped into thousands of films by now in bittersweet recognition of the fact that 99.99% of moviegoers won't notice its rampant overuse.
Social Media Experiment (Public Prank)
Honestly, a lot of what you have to say make sense, it does... But then I remember that I still have the emails my wife exchanged almost ten years ago when we first met - and occasionally I do look back at those. And I fall in love with her all over again.

And then there are the random musings from friends who have died or any of a dozen other, slightly less big deal reasons to look back -- and I realize that in fact, those old conversations do matter, to me, often in unpredictable ways.

Your mileage may well vary, but I'd be truly sad if I lost those bits of history. Moreover, I wish I had access to that sort of an archive from my parents or grandparents... So maybe it'll be interesting to my kids. Maybe not. But the thing is, I don't know what's really going to matter and when disk space (on this scale especially) is a so cheap, it seems foolish not to save it.
Reaching the footer could be solved by floating the footer and scrolling the text from behind it. This of course causes problems with having less space onscreen for the content you probably care about, but it is solvable.

Perhaps it could be designed to rise into view if you move the mouse cursor to the bottom of the screen, or in mobile application, perhaps it is visible when scrolling but after a predetermined timeout, it lowers out of view.

Another possibility would be for it to show when you scroll back in the list, like the address bar does with Chrome on Android. It is a little less discoverable, especially since the direction the footer would move is counter-intuitive to the scrolling movement, but once that behavior is seen the first time, I'm willing to bet that it is easily recognized and understood how to bring it up again in the future.

This isn't really a problem with infinite scrolling, but it may be a problem with the implementation.
So how do I view the Q/A? Going to that link just has his bio and an email signup form...

The banner at the top of the page says "See questions and answers below". What am I missing here?
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U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Internet shopping [Newegg] patent case
Thanks for your input :). I'll definitely do some more rigorous testing — so far I've just run a few test suites and gone "looks about the same".
Re: Google--if you use a CNAME for your site on GitHub pages, will your site also show up as name.github.io in google search results?
A New Funding Model for Scientists
He asked wistfully what would happen if Apple had bought it. I answered that pretty much all the big players are motherfuckers that want you to do everything in their sandbox. Now, you may consider Apple's motherfuckery to be more acceptable than Google's, but they still engage in serious acts of motherfuckery.
Does anyone else find this hard to believe? 4.8m SnapChat usernames were released. You can send someone a Snap if you know their username. Why wouldn't a flood of spam follow the release?
Interesting talk , curious about Hack.

PHP is a horrible language with great libraries and a few good features. A lot of successfull projects are written in PHP. The execution model is good enough for some types of apps(blogs,e-shops,...).

As a PHP developer , i'm betting on Python and NodeJS for the future, i dont believe PHP has any real future outside a bunch of popular CMSes. While PHP has excellent libraries (Symfony,Doctrine,...) , Python has very good ones too, and it IS trully multipurpose.

When i first came to Python i did not like its OOP model(no interfaces,...),but Python metaprogramming features are unique and very interesting to learn.

The biggest problem with PHP is its core developers, adding some "feature" is not fixing the language. Removing the bad parts should be the focus of the next PHP versions. It is not.
The way Monsanto's Round Up works is that the genetic modification is actually resistance to a particular potent pesticide. Just having your crops cross-pollinated isn't enough to help you, or to get Monsanto on your case. They sue farmers who also try to take advantage of the situation by using the special pesticide, which would kill non-cross pollinated plants.

Also, while its hard to pin down libertarianism, there is a lot of conflation between libertarianism and anarchism online. There is nothing un-libertarian about what Monsanto does. Classic libertarians believe in property rights and contractual rights. Monsanto's legal actions largely rely on a web of contracts. There is nothing about classic libertarianism that is inconsistent with patents as property rights. Indeed, patents are a basically libertarian response to the neoclassical economic problem of free riding. The libertarian preference for addressing market failures is the creation of property rights. In this context, its more consistent with classical libertarianism for Monsanto to get property rights in its Round Up Ready seeds, and thus make the money that bankrolls their billions of dollars in annual research, than for say the government to spend that money to do basic research.
The AMA is in the Disqus comments
IMO, Nest appeals to the people for whom it does the least amount of good: engineers.

Engineers and technical people tend to analyze things like their energy bill already. They also tend to love gadgets.

A couple of parts of Nest that aren't usually factored in are the convenience factor of using your favorite device to control the thermostat remotely and the cost of your current programmable thermostat. If new home owners choose Nest instead of another thermostat they only have to save $150 to make it worth it. And they can factor in convenience.

Another words, it's not a crazy idea to pay a little extra for one these especially if you haven't already been analyzing your energy usage.
> One of the nicest features of The Unarchiver is it’s ability to delete zip files after they’ve been opened, so you you only need to click the file once, rather than unzipping it, and going back and deleting all the original zip files off your desktop.

This reminds me... why isn't there a Windows archive-extractor program with this behavior? I tried to search for it a while ago, but it seemed like every app developer who had the suggestion presented to them hated it.
Alicia Fuentes F 48 Walton Street, line 433

There's no Walton Street under streets. Same for a few others I checked. What gives?
Google’s acquisition of Nest leads to a lot of questions
This is the most useful thing I've heard this (short) year. I've always been looking for a way to make readline globally default to vi mode. Thanks for that.
Ask HN: Meeting Larry and Sergey at Google
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657026 :

"it makes me want to fucking rage out and fly a plane into Mountain View......
land, get off that plane, take a cab, and have a polite but blunt
conversation with the founders about how to fix their company."

Would this be actually possible and how would it be done?
> since 1983, [Randall Beer] became a neuroscience prof and mentions his BASIC LISP on his homepage

> http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdbeer/

Just wanted to say thanks for linking to this fine chap. He seems to have a cross-section of interests such that I can really relate to and draw from. In particular, some people here might be interested about the intersection of cellular automata theory and (what it has to say about) cognition, autonomous systems, etc. (see e.g. [1, 2]) This is one of his approaches to understanding dynamic systems and how coordinated bahaviour can arise in them. See his publication list, too. [3]

Apparently formal treatments / approaches to autopoiesis have been developed for quite some time (currently recommended books seem to be from e.g. 1980 and onward.) Interesting indeed! :)

[1]: http://pubs.cogs.indiana.edu/pubspdf/34233/34233_varela.pdf

[2]: http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdbeer/Papers/Beer2014.pdf

[3]: http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdbeer/pubs.html
Ah - that makes more sense. I have Disqus comments blocked.
I am reminded of recovery specialist http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hardberger
That would make p̶s̶y̶c̶h̶o̶p̶a̶t̶h̶s sociopaths pretty much the créme de la créme, which doesn't come as a surprise, given their prominence among the world most grisly killers.
Thanks for the feedback
Glass is actually designed in a way where it's completely out of your line of sight, and just on the outskirts of your field of view. DriveSafe works in the background, monitoring things like your blink rate and head tilt to determine if you're falling asleep, all with the screen being off so as to not be distracting.
These conversations aren't ephemeral and disposable, they are your life, and you want to save them forever.

Yes they are, and no I don't. I highly doubt JWZ carries a portable recorder to immortalize all his in-person conversations; I certainly don't, even though recording people (for movies) is what I do for a living. Funnily enough, far more of my important memories involve real-life conversations than exchanges on IRC/Facebook/HN.

Yeah,. it's good to have a method of backing this stuff up if you do need it, eg for business communications or any number of other use cases. But most digital chatter is eminently disposable I wish there was a way to have emails expire and self-destruct automatically, so that things like time-sensitive sales offers would quietly vanish once the actionable date had passed unless I made some special effort to retain them.
> this is pretty much the societal expectation for professional work

This alone almost entirely explains, to me, the negative birth rate in Japan. For people at optimum reproductive age (18-35), there's just no time.
Google purchase NEST to become the next home OS?
Fair point. More benchmarks need to happen before it's obvious this is really a win. A real application would be nice. I'm biased because I worked on a similar idea myself and I've been waiting for this to come. I think it's a potential win now for running on public clouds.

However, as Docker PaaS gains popularity, that may be a better alternative. Only benchmarks will tell :)
Pretty much although the exact order was:
1) "holy crap that's a ton of money."
2) "well, good for the Nest guys."
3) "too bad, it looked like a good product."
4) "I wonder why Apple didn't buy them."

GOOG's MSFTian sprawl may be what ends up killing them. This would have been a great fit for Apple ages ago when they could have bought it for cheap, especially given the ex-Apple guys and the Store placement. I guess at these lofty prices they can build better from scratch.
Like jbigelow76 mentions the AMA happened in the Disqus comments. I didn't realize some people might disable it, so I'll make sure to show them a message asking them to enable it.
Great Companies Don’t Have an Exit Strategy
> When a thought is on the top of my mind, writing a blog post about it is hard. Sending a <=140 character message about it is easy.

Now that you know this, why not write short, 1 or 2 sentence blog posts? There's nothing preventing that.
Google Buys Nest
I cannot for the life of me understand why the Huawei Ascend P1 is faster than the newer Nexus 4. As soon as I upgrade Android to 4.4(Which was a huge hassle) the phone is perfect, it's thin and light and OLD and I just want to toss my stupid Nexus 4 away.

It has something to do with the screen latency and bunch of other factors.
If you can recover the iPhone backup files that iTunes created from the hard drive (such as via an external enclosure like unepipe mentions), you should be able to recover the messages contained within. Messages are stored in a SQLite DB within the backup (this is how jwz's script reads them).

Looks like iTunes on XP stores backups at this path: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\. That's the directory you need to recover from the hard drive.
What you meant to say was that nest isn't run by idiots that are stupid enough to turn down a 3 billion dollar offer.
Yeah, you've got to be really careful about cynicism. It's very easy to venture into David Icke territory.

I can't help but feel that this is a funded attempt to subvert power away from OPEC nations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC

If so, could be to help these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(oil_companies)

It says in this article:http://ow.ly/syrfO
"Google is a widely-known proponent of “green” energy, promoting low-power data centres and clean grid-based power whenever possible."

Excluding "It is good for mankind & the Earth", Why is it important to 'reduce' in western nations, when so many developing/upcoming/industrial/manufacturing/oil nations are laughing at this policy?

Something's up. And it isn't share price. Sorry for my conspiracy feelings -My instinct tells me there will be comments about being overly-conspiratorial (If so, this will suggest my instincts are correct), but I'm more than worried about my children's children and their future.

For some reason in these Austere times, there's a squeeze going on which is being driven by more than you and I are presently being told.
> And I fall income with her all over again.

Glorious, glorious (auto-correct) typos! :)
Innovation in finding sucker investors?
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I mean that these bugs only solve the "break out of the sandbox" issue. They do not get your code on to the machine to exploit.

In other words these flaws are the equivalent of "I can upload code, how do I get to shell access to the java account".
PSA: It is not 1999, please don't use neon green text on a black background as your color scheme for text.
I just said that I do take them seriously! What I mean is that their system and the logic embodied within the tax code has about the same amount of sensibility as PHP.
Amazing. I propose Archaea for betas.
You can get a Nest thermostat for $150 if you get a rebate.
Being "tied" to Facebook is the best thing that can happen to PHP. I stopped taking PHP core devs seriously since the PHP6 fiasco. PHP is doomed with these guys, trust me, no matter how much effort is put into Doctrine, Laravele ,Symfony or other libs.

At some point , every big open source project team must make tough choices to make the project "future proof". Python team did it, Ruby is doing it,NodeJS will to be compliant with ES6 modules.

They did not.
Microsoft is hiring a UX Designer
A Markov Chain trained with H.P. Lovecraft and the Bible
How about Robert Hooke drinking mercury. You know, for science.

http://www.strangescience.net/hooke.htm

> It may have been in response to the constant pressure from the society (and himself) that the experimentalist Hooke performed plenty of experiments on his own body. Many of his adventures in self-experimentation were dangerous; almost all of them were pretty disgusting. At various times, he medicated himself with botanical purgatives, botanical emetics, mercury, steel filings, tobacco, absinthe, and mineral water so foul that he found ammonium chloride preferable to it. Hooke obsessed over getting a good night's sleep and clearing out his lethargic digestive system. He often found his home remedies violently effective. He authored a recipe for turning pee into phosphorus salts, including an intermediate step of letting the effluvia sit "till it putrify and breed Worms."
Haven't you heard? Lots of people use browsers. Google it, you'll be amazed.
Docker links are only valid on a single machine. This proposal operates at the cluster level and allows for much higher availability for the services.

edit: I'm wrong.
>Maybe a lot of it is a lack of confidence that my ideas are worthwhile.

Or that you simply have high standards for what you "publish", and prefer to be an expert on a topic before sounding off about it. Nothing wrong with that.
PHP is a server-side language as you might now, so you are not replacing anything of it with Angular for the frontend, that's just an addition.
I would've been surprised if Apple had bought them. They strike me as a highly NIH outfit.
It's not cheating, it just doesn't really help you. There's a lot of noise. You have to use grep, sed, etc. to find the text that's actually important.
Simbase: a A vector similarity database
I saw that Jason went remote recently. Any particular reason so many devs are going remote? Is it people making individual decisions or the company providing new incentives to do so? My impression when you were at 55 was that most devs worked at the office (I've been at Fog Creek since a little before you guys moved. Hi!).
That's incorrect. Everything which makes this proposal suitable for clustering also works for links with the ambassador pattern. The difference is in how the local discovery is implemented (retrieve a local IP address and port vs. hardcoded loopback IP and port).
"No discernible Impact" on preventing acts of terrorism.

But that was never the end goal of bulk metadata collection. Terrorism was the merely the excuse to invoke those powers.
The end goal is and always has been, to give the U.S Govt unfettered access to all communications of it citizens for whatever purposes it desires without having to go thru the legal process (not even the ridiculously permissive FISA court).

Prediction - They will use every excuse in the book to hold onto this capability.
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The value to asteroids, is that they're already in space. No need to lift the materials out of a gravity well.
Seems like Disqus was a pretty poor choice for comments on this. I don't find them easy to read, they take ages to load, and worst of all they apparently dropped several of the guest's comments!

If this is going to become a regular thing, Betalist, I would recommend a proper comments system. Disqus is OK for blogs but if you intend to have a high value conversation then it's a bad choice, IMO.
IMO the best quantisation tools are bright183 (proprietary, by Epic for Unreal shared palettes) and neuquant. Wu unfortunately suffers from banding artifacts very badly for a low amount of colours with dithering off, the banding after applying bright looks much more acceptable.

More code to research: http://web.archive.org/web/20041010190217/http://www.geociti...
Show HN: Better way to share your series of thoughts on Twitter
Yes I did with my grandma until she passed a year and a half ago. I have about 2 of these letters but thats enough for me.
The good arguments for static typing are much different than "I'm a bad programmer".

Google "Theorems for free". One of the most life-altering CS papers I've read. :-)
I'm not trying to say you're wrong, or that your opinions are invalid, but not everyone is going to click through to every commenter's profile. When one's own company is the subject of a story, it's good form to identify potential conflicts of interest in each and every thread. As I've been told over and over again in the ethics training I have to take every year, it's important to reduce even the appearance of trying to mislead people about anything to do with the company. Does Google not require such training?
Most of my texts and facebook messages are about organizing things and referencing them saves me tremendous hassle on a regular basis.
Cool, awesome, great point. I tried Googling for your implementation and couldn't find it. Could you drop a link?
This is a fundamental lack of understanding about what an exit strategy is. It is not about the CEO exiting. Private companies are a very illiquid investment. An exit strategy is something that exists to help inform investors about how they will eventually realize their gains. If a company intends to stay private forever and simply pay a dividend to investors, it may not be interesting for certain types of investors.

By definition, therefore, an IPO is an exit. It is an opportunity for an investor to get his or her money out of your particular company. Most great companies—depending on how you define them—actually have gone through some sort of exit event as defined this way, and all savvy investors will want to know how they can realize their gains if you are successful.
All this talk about formal type theory, but where are the references to the relevant studies? Where's the data? The few studies[1][2][3][4] I've found are inconclusive one way or the other and none of them focus on error rates. I found another conversation about how to go about studying error rate in dynamically vs statically typed languages, but all I really found was this article studying the affect of hair style on language design[5].

[1] http://pleiad.dcc.uchile.cl/papers/2012/kleinschmagerAl-icpc... - maintainability

[2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2047861&CFID=399382397&CFT... - development time

[3] https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590n/10au/hanen... - development time, take 2

[4] http://pleiad.dcc.uchile.cl/papers/2012/mayerAl-oopsla2012.p... - usability

[5] http://z.caudate.me/language-hair-and-popularity/
Awesome. Can't wait to read through all the comments!
Thank you so much for doing this!
That certainly seems preferable, but I guess "localhost" has the advantage of always being there (which is what you want for a service discovery bootstrap mechanism)

I believe Docker is guaranteed to have the docker0 interface[1] available, but perhaps the proposed mechanism doesn't want to tie itself to Docker so tightly?

[1] http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/use/networking/
Finally a tech company with enough good sense to realize that if you get a buyout offer that starts will "b" and ends with "illions", you take the money!
This assumes you never talk about anything that actually matters. Having personal relationships and having fun are important, and technology can get in the way when overused, but if your conversations all have no lasting value you're missing out.
iTerm2 would be a lot better if they brought back the side dock. The system they replaced it with requires you to type out domain names to find them in the list. Way too difficult to use.
Yeah I totally agree, tbh I actually thought that article was a satire when I started reading it.
Exactly. Everybody always talks about getting VC funded, but there are plenty of good money-making businesses that a VC wouldn't touch but that could be great for a smaller investor. Usually these businesses charge for their products and have demonstrated that people are willing to pay.