skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"User job requests kick off a bidding process by the machines in the cluster. Based on the received bids the engine assigns the job to a machine." yeah.. superficially that sounds very similar to mesos.

another system that can do cluster wide containerization and orchestration across clouds/baremetal is juju.

The end goal for all seems to be in utilization efficiency and ease of management at scale of a host of application topologies.
For comparison, it's triple the pay of the Prime Minister.
Yes sure you had IRA, ETA in Spain. Although they were making regular appearance in the media, that was not a daily drivel.

Suddenly 9/11 and everything any government in the world does not sanctify is labelled terrorism, and adequate action as demonstrated by the US is required. Break a window during protest: terrorism, complain loudly about stuff: suspected terrorist.

You cannot deny that since 9/11 lot of freedom have been given up in the name of fighting terrorism ? How is it that Spain/UK with active terrorist movement did not have those laws before ? How is it that we are dead scarred of this "muslim terrorist leaving in a cave in Afganistan/Syria/Irak/ next target", but we were fine living next-door to our homemade ones ?

Long before 9/11, I travelled with bottle of wine from spain to the uk and bottle of whisky to spain from the uk. Both when the IRA and ETA were active.
Nowadays, it is not possible in case some terr'ist muslim (sorry no racism, but that's the current media scapegoat) want to "blow our freedom away".
"For critical fixes HP will continue to make available 'Critical Fix' Firmware." [for out of warranty systems] - https://twitter.com/HPChannelUK/status/432823844718387200
Ask HN: what are the best ways to learn algorithms and data structes?
I have recently started learning to program and have fiddled with some simple c programs Like calculator,matrix addition etc from a c textbook. but I am not able to understand how those programs are written. I know most part of the syntax but if anybody asks me to write a program to do x I don't know how to do it. I learnt that its essential to know algorithms in order to write good programs.how do I get started with it?I am fully determined to become proficient in programming and willing to put in the required effort.how do I go from my present state to a situation where I will be able to write awesome programs.?I have made fabrice bellard my idol.:-) anybody willing to mentor me over email? give me some suggestions.
I'd think the greater natural abundance of silicon, coupled with the lower toxicity vs an arsenic compound, would make such a move unlikely in deployments that don't require maximum power output for a given area (satellites, for example).
Nice feature, I should implement it :)
Use subdomain on any known websites like http://anonymous.wordpress.com ?
> Now eudev as explained during FOSDEM of 2013 was only started because they didn't understand plus they wanted to understand C. There hasn't been any progress. Further, the packaging of udev in Gentoo caused some bad assumption.

shrug, maybe, links? https://lwn.net/Articles/529314/

> Merging of udev and systemd had loads of advantages,

does it? http://www.mail-archive.com/systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop....

> but if you bring up eudev again, I'm guessing you're missing out on 12 months of explanations (I attended the eudev presentation at IIRC FOSDEM 2013). Greg (the kernel dev) mentioned during FOSDEM 2014 that he still follows eudev development and there is not much going on. Sometimes bugfixes for bugs introduced by eudev.

not surprised, i wouldn't be surprised if the project was dead already. i said the reason it was forked not the reason they maintain it or did i?

> Regarding most of your other replies: Please explain properly what you mean. "Unix Philosophy" could mean anything for you. I'm more than willing to discuss, but that's impossible if I don't understand you.

sorry, isn't that written in my post? also, sorry, since everyone seems to be sensible to the words unix philosophy even though we're still chaining, and composing those very utilities to this date. forget that word.

make it good design. modular, composable, well abstracted(but not too abstracted software).

EDIT: also, sorry, i didn't mean to start a rant page on systemd here. i use it on my archlinux, and i'm quite happy there. but I stopped using gnome a long time ago. not only that, i also stopped using gnome components, even though for a long time i was using gnome-session with awesome after going down the tiling wm route.
I wonder if this is real. It'd be easy to run this system for a few days recording enough video data to be able to just play it back to people without them noticing. It also solves nicely the scaling problem (if you and 1000 other users connect to the real aquarium at the same time, what are the chances that you're going to feed the fish today?) and any potential availability/maintenance issues (you can just flush the fish down the drain and call it a day; no one will be any the wiser, and you save money on fish food).
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point taken, sorry. mimicing mac osx's behavior is not really the same as the implications of my post
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Maybe it's not an original idea, and if someone wants to try it again, they could learn from studying the last time its been tried. Maybe? Maybe?
Sort of like comments on the code beneath our feet. Chuggers are physical spam. Computer world is part of real world now I suppose.
HP's Vice President of HP Servers Support Technology Services received a beating in the comments for the announcement: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Technical-Support-Services-Blog...
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Cool! I was actually thinking of trying to make something exactly like this to as a learn-Javascript project.

Could you talk about how you made this a little? Really appreciate it.
I love platitudinous bosses. They never level up.
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He's a crook who'll do and say just about anything for his personal enrichment and self-aggrandization.
This is one of the fundamental ideas behind deliberate practice. You need to work right at the edge of your experience level. If you continue to work well inside your comfort level, you won't push your expertise out into new areas. If you try to move too far outside your expertise too fast, you won't have the foundation to support yourself; you'll flounder and get discouraged.
Don't forget the Egyptian Obelisk standing in the middle of the Vatican. Obelisks are a tribute to the Egyptian Sun god Ra, they are also a phallus symbol read Shaft of Baal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk
Picture proof
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vatican_Piazza_San_Pietro_...

Really tired of central banks and banks stealing 97% of the peoples wealth through inflation of FIAT currency backed by nothing than debt out of nothing. Here is a graph of median income vs GDP(average income), note that it diverges in the 1975, when by coincidence the dollar was decoupled from the gold by Nixon.
http://lanekenworthy.net/2008/09/03/slow-income-growth-for-m...
Maybe you can convince your manager to tackle this more rationally and let people purposely learn because they do it anyway: They experiment, over-engineer, try the latest hype with their actual moneymaker products, making the work day less dull, upholding self-esteem and preserving skills (market value). It's not professional but people are not robots.
Promoting a political or ideological cause is the corner stone of exercising democratic rights if it is not done by violent means. If that is a reason for detention, then you are no longer in a democracy.
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Things we can't compute
Upvoted, I strongly agree. Sure there were many acts of terror committed in the past, but I remember we started using the label terrorist in my country after 9/11. We used to call people like IRA bombers, etc. zamachowiec (Polish for assassin, but covers suicide bombings and similar stuff), guerilla warriors, etc. but everyone suddenly became terrorist after the Towers fell.
Besides the technical measures in the other comments, there are a bunch of other tricks that might be useful. (Please don't take this as advice, but just as a thought experiment! If I were writing a spy novel, these are some things my characters would do.)

Find a homeless person, and ask him/her to register a bank account in exchange for some cash or a meal. Use that account to set up your website anonymously. You'll find that you need to dirten money if running such an operation - reverse laundering or taking "clean" money and putting it untracably into the business. Such a proxy account is a vital ingredient.

Don't rely on Tor alone. It might be completely subverted, you wouldn't know until it's too late. Buy access to a botnet and route your stuff over it.

Have multiple servers. If you have one single server, its easy to trace. Either by brute force: the ISPs disconnect/slow down 50% of customers for a split second, depending on wheter your site went down or not they know in which half you are, repeat until they find you. There are much more sophisticated techniques that don't require active interference. But if you have at least two or three identical servers at different locations, it makes it a lot harder to catch you. Don't forget tamper-proofing your servers.

Have trustworthy accomplices. Generally, the less people you tell what you are doing, the better. But if you have a close circle of people you can really trust, it becomes much easier to pull this off. You can work from multiple locations, give each other alibis, etc..

Build fake personas. Don't just take a pseudonym, but create fake identities. Keep records on their interests, their motivations, what you disclosed about them. The purpose is to throw investigators off. You should be aware of techniques used by them, such as behavioral analysis, stilistic analysis, etc.. Working with accomplices can help alot in creating these fake identities and concealing your own (e.g. writing style).

Go somewhere safe. If possible, move your servers, or even yourself, somewhere where what you are doing is not punishable, or the authorities can be bribed.

This list could go on for ever... I'm not sure how practical many of these ideas are, but one thing is clear, you'll need a certain amount of "criminal energy" to pull this off - no matter whether your intentions are criminal or not. (Disclaimer: I'm too pussy to actually have done any of the above, so it may or may not work :-))
Haskell will give you REPL-driven development and strong typechecking (an optional one in the last haskell compiler).

BTW, Go is not that strongly typed. It seems Google engineers don't like strongly typed languages.
Many interviewers simply can't get past the power-trip of interviews. This turns the interview into an awkward tightrope of appearing smart/dependable without being intimidating.
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Can you tell us a bit about how you managed your list? How often did you send out emails, and what kind of topics did you cover? Thanks!
To be honest though, the UK has been beyond laughable for a few years on this now.

During the great Icelandic banking crisis, the UK government used anti-terrorism laws to seize assets held by Icelandic banks. I quipped at the time that maybe they were worried about the assets being used to buy lumber for longships from Norway and wealthy bankers going a-Viking again. They might furthermore give the folks up in Orkney ideas and what then? Lose Caithness and Sutherland? That's an existential threat there....

If it was legal to use anti-terrorism laws in that case against a foreign entity far removed from any real terrorist activity (moreso than, say, the British-owned HSBC), then it is hard to see how antiterrorism laws wouldn't be perfectly legal here or anywhere else. Maybe they can start arresting people for drinking tea suspiciously.
You should try the "wall feature" http://drp.io/wall/Rwaa (NSFW) ;)
Oh, well if it was legal, then it's all okay, right? I mean, of course the law is always right. The law is always right, right? Right?!

Oh god, the world is coming apart at the seams.
4 million in retail, that's excluding Steam and other digital distribution platforms. I know a lot of gamers, but none of them buy games in retail.
So if you become jaded about perpetual Talk wars, edit reverts, pissing contests about who is really the expert or what is really notable, and decide that you just don't want to work with those cliquy self-appointed arbiters of what is right and fair, then you're evil?

Are there degrees of evil? If you used to contribute before your underwear burned away, are you less evil?

Do you start off good (when you first find wikipedia) and become evil by leeching?

Or is it the exposure to the dirty secrets of its inner workings that make you evil? With good arising from joining the fight against those machinations?

How is this category notable, BTB?
That applies to every politician (bringing home a kitchen knife set from the store, if the "dangerous material" part of the statement is significant).
Take this as a start: http://grugq.github.io/presentations/Keynote_The_Grugq_-_OPS...
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Why does anyone allow their labor to be resold at such a high profit to someone else? If someone will pay £400/day for your services then you ought to receive the bulk of that yourself.
You snipped a quite important part there:
> ...knowingly carrying material, the release of which would endanger people’s lives”...
Colour me unsurprised - the courts have long shown that if political embarrassment is an issue, they are completely supine.
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And the Labour governments before Thatcher sold arms to South Africa.
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I see a lot of folks suggesting that the ruling is somehow evidence of intergovernmental pressure or elsewise improper.

Is that just based on how you'd like the case to have turned out, or is there some greater level of familiarity with the laws and jurisprudence of NZ than I'd have expected at HN? Is it possible that the warrant was ok and that the initial ruling was in error?

At any rate, according to the article there seems to be another court which can hear an appeal, so it may not be entirely decided yet.
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I guess I'm not the only one in the intersection of HN readers and MR readers.
Exactly. I was expecting to read about the rising costs of developing quality AAA games and how even well received games failed to recoup their cost.

Instead, I read a story of a guy who wants to do something else, and decided that the best way to do that is to fire most of his employees. Quite frankly, I'm surprised this is even legal. Handing over the group seems like a much more sensible plan.
Looks cool. Fills a different need to app.io. However, not sure I'd want to ask a client to go to 'fuckitstreamit.com'.
I did not know that programming had been influenced so directly by white papers, and by Dijkstra himself (even Firefox autocorrection knows him!). I had heard about his reaction to GOTOs but it seemed more of a rant than an actual proposal. In the case of call frame, we see that research have had a direct impact on the design of programming languages. In a way, it makes sense as researchers were the ones who programmed most, at the time.
We didn't look into it too closely. mtr would have told us but we didn't go into it. They did tell us that if we upgraded our servers and switched data centers, we would get better peering. But we opted at that point to move off and go with Hetzner instead because we weren't at a point at the time when their higher end servers would have made sense.
That's exactly how imgur started though.
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Unless things changed in the last 5 years or so, your numbers are way off base.

Last game I worked it was around 100 dev people where 30% was software development, and from those 30% maybe 20% were tooling support.
Another silly article to my collection: http://linkbaiters.tumblr.com/post/77169841950/it-consultant...

Civil Servant?

(I'm wasting my time here)
hey coob, 'iostream.io' also leads to the same site. We registered this second domain for this exact reason.
Sir Simon Jenkins is an ex-editor of The Times. I wonder to what extent he speaks for the British establishment.
I think that's a much more simpler way as the approach with App Engine, posted some days ago here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7252435
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For me, http://piweekly.net, http://embedsysweekly.com and of course http://llvmweekly.org (which I author).
Funny that it's a site for mobile streaming but the site isn't very responsive.
Real buttons are cool.
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Please be a decent person and put a nsfw tag on that
whats wrong with sf2 ?
Damn it HN! I am going to have to wait for this to hit page 3 before the queue gets small enough again.
A motherboard doesn't target a particular operating system for the most part, it targets a set of standard interfaces. If a motherboard is capable of booting Windows 7 it should be fine booting Windows 8 as well. In practice these interfaces have bugs, your motherboard probably has dozens if not hundreds of obscure bugs which violate specifications like ACPI causing sleep not to work right or similar issues. Often times these bugs are just for corner cases that weren't exposed in development with a particular OS and a different OS might depend on a particular part of whatever spec that the BIOS implementation doesn't quite get right. It can very well work fine the way XP does things but not the way Vista does but this would still obviously be a defect in the BIOS.

One interesting case many years ago was a particular motherboard that had broken ACPI support only in Linux so suspend wouldn't work. The motherboard would explicitly look for if the computer was running Linux and if it was it would hand it a mangled ACPI table that didn't work. The fix was to actually delete any code specific to Linux and have it give the Linux kernel the same ACPI table it would give to Windows and it suddenly worked perfectly. Obviously that's a problem with the BIOS and even though it said it implemented ACPI it didn't implement it properly. It worked fine for Windows but not Linux. You can certainly get more obscure problems going from one Windows version to another as well.
ahh yes, exactly what the world needs. another excuse for servers to not have the latest patches and service packs. as if it wasn't already bad enough.
What it's going to do is decrease the resale value of off-lease HP server hardware, which will lead to higher leasing costs, which will push businesses to buy elsewhere...
> Most projects are not that difficult and uber-tech as founders like to think

This requires a certain amount of intellectual humility; as founders would have to acknowledge that it is likely they are not changing the world (they're coloring by number using last week's cool framework), and they don't need the best engineers.
$500k salary exclusive of stock options is not unheard of. This type of engineer probably built the mission critical system a company is relying upon.
Great, now I'm hungry again.
Ant-terrorism laws have been used by local councils to spy on parents to make sure they lived at addresses they say they lived at for the purpose of primary school (5-10years of age) applications.

Anti-terror laws have been used way beyond their original intentions for a long time in the UK. In this case the original proponent of the legislation has come out and said excactly that.

Will it change anything? Nope.
I seem to remember "anarchist" being used for "someone using violence to further their view", so in that sense the situation is maybe better now.
Marine barracks in Beruit, first World Trade Center bombing, Khobar Towers, Embassies in Africa, the USS Cole. I'm sure i've missed some.
There's a difference between "seeing parallels" and the UK being anywhere close to East Germany.

Miranda was carrying classified files relating to UK intelligence gathering out of the country. You would have been stopped at the border for that at any point in the last 100 years. Almost any country in the world would do that.

I would question how many would then have a court system of the calibre of England and Wales' to allow the individual to appeal against it. The courts have repeatedly struck down bits of government anti-terror legislation, S44 being the most notorious.
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> Let's say that these intimidation techniques make Brian give up journalism. Maybe he becomes too scared to write.

Advocates against anonymity do not get this. I guess they think the bad guys get arrested and the good guys have nothing to hide (asymptotically). They do not consider that the world is not black-and-white and that you may need to protect against technically lawful people.

Other than that, I did not know Krebs (but I had heard about this successful battle against spam) and it makes me want to know more. The website hackerfactor.com has a nice design and have potentially interesting content.
Just compare it to Django

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7262595
the UK has historically been an outlier when it comes to both press freedoms and anti-terror policies.

Yup. Don't forget Northern Ireland. They went heavy handed there. Did it work? Nope.
For live demos, I use Airplay to mirror the display to an AppleTV. For online demos, I use an app like AirServer or Reflector that make my laptop an Airplay-receiver and then share my desktop/screen over G+ hangout.

I highly recommend adding the "Fingertips" Cocoapod to your project and it will highlight finger presses and taps when it detects you are using an external display. You just need to replace your UIWindow with MBFingerTipWindow.
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There's been a change since the late 90s away from practising barristers being MPs. It used to be that barristers would be in court in the morning, see problems with legislation, and go to Westminster in the afternoon to fix them.

Now of course the media, and parties that never had many barristers in them, demand MPs work "full time" - which means there is far less legal expertise available in drafting and scrutinising legislation.

That's why things like the Terrorism Act happen. The name gets politicians to vote for it, but the contents is overlooked and full of powers that are not scoped to terrorism investigations.
Or even just walk away from your desk for a while. If you can't because your employer is looking for an ass on a seat then start looking into more challenging, and rewarding, employment. Don't just be bored at your desk, up skill.
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