skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I'm supposed to trust my most precious photos to a company run by someone who thought Wedding Crashers was a documentary?
Consul: Distributed service discovery and configuration in Go
There is a bug in the code (IE11?)

If the board has:

4He 4He --
16O 8Be 4He
4He 4He 2H

and you move up then you get

4He 4He 4He
16O 2H 2H
4He 4He --

(The middle 8Be just dissapears.)
It's a bad argument to compare the prices for one service in two distinct countries and then imply that the price difference must be due to regulation. There are a lot of other factors going into the price difference - from fuel prices, car prices, repairs, to taxes and other differentiating factors. Prices also always relate to the average cost of living in the area.

The average earning per km in Berlin is somewhere around or below 1,50 EUR before costs (anecdotal evidences but from a credible source). Nobody really gets rich from that - not even the cab company.
Flight 370-hunting autonomous sub runs Linux
Never seems to be.
So I think here the problem isn't really the datastore, it's more the high-availability and discovery. The main bonus that Consul seems to be providing is maintaining a logical topology of your network without you doing much.

They do this by a using gossip-based protocol and a derivative of paxos called Raft. These two things work together to essentially have the servers that run your various services (whether api or db or cache or whatever) know about EACH OTHER.

The database they use is LMDB, but I think they chose that for lightness -- you could easily replace it with a local instance of cassandra, most likely.

Also, I'm assuming you don't mean switching to a centralized cassandra instance -- why you don't want to do that should be obvious (central point of failure).
When I first started programming, a lot of the licensing rhetoric seemed like much ado about nothing. "Look at all these people squabbling about who's allowed to do what with text! It's text! Sheesh!"

But one quickly realizes that the concept of software license restrictions is a fundamental reason for the strength and momentum of open source software. Therefore, it must be true that a central tenant of being a good developer is to respect software licenses. Not merely respect them to the letter of how they're written, but to respect their spirit as well. If an author wishes you don't do something with their code, then you don't do it. There are plenty of reasons why this should be the case, but the most compelling for me is that it'd be lame to ignore the author's wishes while using their work, even if the author won't ever know about it.

If people are still feeling tempted to lift code, well... Remember that you only get to destroy your reputation once.
Well my own personal perspective is that I'd like to live somewhere that I can do gardening, grow veg[1] and sometimes go for a walk and see some wildlife. I'd also like to live in a place where the average age isn't 40 years older than I am so that I could have some kind of social life without driving for miles (ideally I don't want to drive at all). Which is all very unrealistic, and I'll probably end up living in the middle of nowhere with no social life if I ever have enough money to afford a house.

I don't think it's good for the social makeup of small towns and villages. Healthy communities need people of all ages, not just retirees.

[1] this is kinda possible in a city, but usually costs a fortune. I used to live near allotments in Edinburgh but they were super expensive to rent.
Well at some point they're limited to the rate of organic growth of the internet. If Google gets $X per internet user then they're going to only grow as fast as the internet grows.
Bethesda's not cheap, but most of DC proper is more expensive, and anecdotally (as a DC resident), most DC-resident friends of mine could afford to live in the nicer DC suburbs if they wanted to, but choose to live in the city instead. The population that's the focus of this article isn't deciding between downtown and some Hagerstown or whatnot.
Yeah, I look at my residence as a depreciating asset that consumes time and money. We'll see how the so-called investment aspect works out for people once interest rates start returning to historical norms.
Idea to $5,000/mo in Recurring Revenue in 5 Months – Baremetrics
Semi-related: does anyone know of any good (but still fairly cheap) providers doing Atom C2750/C2758 servers yet?
Daniel, thanks for taking the time to share that. All of those are valid points, and ones I missed.

Your first point about the width is a good catch. For some reason there's only about a 100px range in which this happens, then it's normal in all other browser widths. I'll investigate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)
This is great! The mob seems to make some funky decisions. I'm curious to see what happens when more people join; if the mob gets smarter or if they get worse. Tell you friends and let's find out!
Happy to say I think I was follower #1 on their twitter account and an early customer. It's been the best Stripe analytics tool I've ever used, and I wish them tons of luck going forward. Great work, and props on being so transparent!
The underlying Raft implementation is brand new, and looks much improved on the goraft used by etcd. Very impressed.
I wish I knew. This site seems more interested in telling me about it's wondrous history than giving me a forum of discussion.

Can I get a frontpage? Links to different subforums? A design that isnt from the late 90s?
Edit: Just tested this in Chrome. Some atoms are readioactive. The radioctivity is not visible in IE11.
Complete agreement... A world where Racket was in browsers instead of Javascript would be wonderful.
So was a trillion dollars in fraud.

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said."
Another Big Milestone for Servo: Acid2
Desktop and server pages are now pointing to 14.04 as well:

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
[2] http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server
Actually you can run virtualbox in a headless server using the VBoxManage and VBoxHeadless[1]. I have been using that for years.

[1]: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html
In the bug thread linked in above, it's mentioned that it will be fixed in Debian and then included in an SRU (Stable Release Update) for Ubuntu 14.04.

Does that mean July 24th or might it be earlier, do you know?
Probably has something to do with the 3D acceleration Unity needs.

In my case (MacBook Air 2013 with 8GB of RAM I run Ubuntu 12.04.4 without a problem).
Agreed. There's plenty of people leaving around Greater London who only commute for work. A place like Wimbledon might be a solid 40 minutes trip out of London (at the end of a tube line) but if you live there, there's everything you want nearby and you don't have to go anywhere else to find a nice little town that you can walk about and enjoy yourself in.

A suburb that isn't a place where you can actually live - there's a name for that in french, we call them cités dortoirs - dormitory towns. No one wants to live there.
We have an open position. Contact this gentleman:

http://omrf.org/research-faculty/scientists/wren-jonathan-d/

The brief research blurb doesn't specifically mention aging, but we in fact have heavy collaborations with:

https://www.oumedicine.com/ROCA

and the position is funded by them.

In general however, if you are really interested in aging research you should just bite the bullet and get a PhD. It's necessary to have independence.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-parliamen...

Germany is still undecided on this matter today. While I (strongly) suspect Merkel would attempt to be decent about this, according to this article, even she has to play politics first:

"His testimony, [Merkel] continues, 'will continue to deepen anti-American sentiment in Germany and elsewhere in Europe' ... Partly for that reason, Merkel decided early on not to grant Snowden asylum in Germany. Her fear of a clash with the US is just as great as her concern over a potentially divisive domestic political debate."

And later:

"[Extradition], though, is an impossibility from the perspective of Merkel's conservatives. 'Were Snowden to come to Germany,' says conservative domestic policy spokesman Stephan Mayer, 'then the government, in my opinion, would be required to accede to the legally unobjectionable extradition request from the US.' A final decision in this hypothetical could ultimately lie with the judiciary."
This is how it was always going to go.

Dropbox's core business is unsustainable, and they can't compete long-term with rivals like Google and Apple.

They're flailing in all directions at the moment; pushing for the enterprise/government market with the appointment of Condoleezza Rice, now burning a load of money acquiring businesses offering tangential services, in the hope they can diversify their business model.

It won't work. Acquisitions like this never go to plan, and they are almost always a waste of money.
Thomas Piketty used bad math in "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"
Would you mind following up on this, specifically what lesson are they learning?
Gitweb mirror, if you're interested in the changes rather than dramatic commit messages: http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-src/log/lib/li...
This looks very cool and the list of people involved is very impressive. I can see it being useful for apps with web and mobile clients.

What I found to be missing is some comparison to JMS. I can see many differences but also some commonalities. Especially since JMS implementations have some support for slow message consumers [1].

At my previous work we dealt with lots of live data from monitoring and in order to cope with slow consumers we started to look into conflation. Would be interesting to see if this project includes conflation support in the API.

[1] http://activemq.apache.org/slow-consumer-handling.html
I think this has come up before when that video was posted here but when you consider buying vs renting you really need to do the calculations for your specific situation that should be the only take away from that video. Taken as general advice that you should always rent and never buy it's pretty horrible just as the opposite is horrible advice in general.

It's pretty easy to get a rough idea of what is better in your area using a rent vs buy calculator the New York Times has a good one...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...
Yeah. I grew up in the DC suburbs, and even with a kid there's no way I'm moving back. I'd rather live in a smaller, cheaper city than spend all day in the car.
100%. Photos are here to stay while most startups are not. As much as I hate saying it,being a start-up founder myself, I'd go for Google, Yahoo, Amazon or a more backup-oriented startup.
Brown University's Maurice Herlihy Wins Notable Book, 2013
"...she now pays $3,500 in rent, but she has a four-bedroom, 2,400-square-foot bungalow with its own laundry and a balcony overlooking the beach."

UK: That is less than half what I pay for a 2 bedroom house a couple of miles out of the centre of a provincial city. This house is what people in the US would call 'rent controlled'. Commercial rents twice to three times as much. Housing cost is ridiculous in UK but no-one seems to want to acknowledge that.

Those 500 square feet railway apartments. What are they like? I wouldn't mind one of those!
There's also the aspect of customer expectations. At Linode's price point I feel like no matter the size of my VPS, I am allowed to have the expectation of a certain level of support. If they were to take too long to address a ticket or fix an issue I would be more inclined to make a stink about it versus a provider that is providing me with a VPS for what turns out to be $3.00 a month!
xubuntu is now out also: http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/
In English in America they're "bedroom communities." Just a place to sleep. (The metaphors run deep on that one.)
That's great for you, but it doesn't tell us much about whether it's better to own or rent on average. Your testimony is like someone saying they bought one stock that's up 20%, so stocks must be better than bonds.

There are other homeowners who have lost money, and some others who are doing even better than you. Individual stories don't tell us about aggregates.
From the release notes:

"Hardware support - ARM multiplatform support has been added, enabling you to build a single ARM kernel image that can boot across multiple hardware platforms. Additionally, the ARM64 and Power architectures are now fully supported. "

Really? Can you do openstack with ARM/Power? what do you mean by "fully supported", does it mean ARM/Power/x86 all have the same set of packages? it has not been the case in the past.
Pretty fucky that some things just disappear.
Google Analytics Now Lets You Track Web And App Data In A Single View
I wrote this article as a resource for people, like cash-strapped founders and students, who have a higher purpose in life but temporarily cannot afford to attend events due to lack of money or the proper contacts.

How is making another photo-sharing app a "higher purpose in life"?
There's towns like that in the U.S. I used my car about once a month in the New York suburbs 20 miles north of Manhattan. All those little towns are on the train line, and have walkable downtowns where you can get whatever you need.
Putting The Many Pieces Back Together After The Death Of Your Co-Founder
Right, this observation amounts to "people who are all in similar situations say similar things". Whoop-de-doo.
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2014
Are there loads of trolls or do I not see in what universe it is a good strategy to send the enemy to a block we almost own?
Collaborative gaming has a lot of promise, but so far it's been implemented poorly.

You need to allow gamers to create small teams, and allow them to talk with one another to discuss strategy. Then they decide on a move.

Someone make chess using the above.
Six Months After Acquisition, Magnify Rebrands And Relaunches As Waywire
Ubuntu Trusty Tahr Released
I still prefer OVH.com
http://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-classic.xml

for $7 you get:
2 cores
2GB RAM

for 10$ you get:
3 cores
4GB RAM

They don't have SSD, but SSD doesn't do everything, I prefer more ram.

EDIT: If some of you don't know OVH, it's because its new in America, but its not some cheap company, it's a European company that is very successful there. And just recently created a datacenter in North America. (I used to live in France, and have known them for some years).
Executives salaries are always a hot topic in certain countries, not to much in the US though. Swiss people got so upset there is an entire movement limiting the CEO salaries to something sane. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/11/15/swiss-outra... I guess it would be good to put a cap on exec compensation, it is just simply unfair to other workers especially given the poor performance...
There are several reasons I can think of:

1. Qemu supports more architectures, such as running ARM or MIPS code on x86 hardware.

2. Server use. It works with KVM, Xen, Virt-manager, etc; it plays nice with the ecosystem on GNU/Linux. I know my VPS is using Qemu as part of their stack.

3. That last point also means that improvements to KVM and whatnot also improve Qemu.

4. If you are a "freetard", these days VirtualBox uses non-free code in the BIOS. Qemu can be used totally free.

5. As petty as it sounds: It was around first, and people stick with what they know (this is the principle reason I use Qemu).
QEMU/KVM are the default virtualization used in OpenStack [1], for one. I also use it on my laptop to host guests because of how much Virtual Box sucks under Linux [2], as others have mentioned.

[1] https://www.openstack.org/

[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317
Consul really solves a large problem for most SaaS companies who run or plan to run a Hybrid Cloud, Multi-cloud, or Multi-data center environment
Six Clicks: Linux Mint tips and tricks
I think people have the wrong idea viewing a home solely as an investment. It is indeed a form of investment that you get the benefit of living in. Sure if you look at the amount of money I put into a home vs the amount of money I could invest in S&P 500 it is then a terrible investment. But there is a tangible result here where I am able to live in a home and do whatever I want to my home while as a small side effect I have an investment.
Tencent's QQ and Wechat IM services have been doing this for a long while, both are very popular. Nice catch up FB.
Startup sales: Selling visions vs. reality
Sold did a good job on this... See "What was Sold?"

http://www.usesold.com
The wife and I are moving to Baltimore this fall. The 45 minute Amtrak ride to work will be more convenient than commuting in from Great Falls, Vienna, or Reston, which can easily take an hour+ each way, despite being only ~10 miles from the city.
Very very very happy Picturelife user here. Your S3 support is the icing on the cake — but please charge me a flat fee for using your software with my own storage. I want to pay for this great storage but your pricing model only prices on usage.

You're not selling me a utility — you're selling me your fantastic product. Let me pay for it!
Each client writes to a "suggestions" node in the Firebase with their suggestion. Each client also listens for changes to that "suggestions" node to show you how many people have voted on a particular square. Firebase internally does all the work to send the changes on the "suggestions" node to every client. I also have a single host computer (not a server, just my laptop next to me), which goes through all the suggestions once the timer runs out and makes a move for the current team. This move is written to the Firebase and every client is notified by Firebase that the move has been made. They each update their own UI and the process starts over.
Eventually Glancee [1] see the light! Congrats guys ;)

[1] http://www.glancee.com
That would make a way better and smarter game. But for 5 minutes of fun, this unstructured style is probably the way to go. I don't think this Show HN is intended to become the next Starcraft.
Every gun-owning person I've known who did kill himself actually didn't use a gun (sample set of maybe 5?)
I believe that's the major reason. (Based solely on my anecdotal evidence.) Most young folks I know don't want to be car-dependent.

They often cite gas prices as the primary reason. Gas is already expensive, and the young people I know expect prices to go much, much higher.

Some of them also mention exercise as a reason.
the worse is people piling onto a middle square when it allows the other other team to go anywhere if the middle is already won
This is really awesome, distributed system techniques in the real world. I'm really jealous of what they've managed to build.

I was planning to make a tool like this (smaller scale, one machine), and this will certainly serve as a good guide on how to do it right (or whether I should even bother at all).

I can't find a trace of a standard/included slick web interface for managing the clusters and agents -- are they leaving this up to a 3rd party (by just providing the HTTP API and seeing what people will do with it)? Is that a good idea?
Arch. But I've also had virtualbox crash on Debian testing. It's a mess.
I live in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, about 30 miles from the center. I have a local group of friends that I get together with on a weekly basis. But this feature seems like it might help me see my city-based friends on a more regular basis. Times that I drive into the city, or fly to other metro areas for conferences and meetings, I'd love to know if I have FB friends nearby to meet up with.
Digital Display Startup Enplug Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round
Well, this is awfully disappointing. I'm in the process of migrating my stuff off of Dropbox due to the Dr. Rice issue (only problem is a lot of apps use it as their sole syncing service); I have no desire to move gigabytes of photos into Dropbox's control.
Young adults don't spend time in their houses. I'd rather have a 2 bedroom apartment within walking distance of several restaurants and bars than a house in the suburbs, even if they were the same rent.

The suburbs are made for single families - a shrinking demographic, even among homeowners.
> Can anyone talk about how well a Macbook Pro copes with the UEFI version of Ubuntu?

I don't know if this is still a case, but I was unable to use the proprietary nvidia drivers booting in pure UEFI mode (not BIOS compatible mode). I know that they've done a tone of UEFI work in grub/linux since then, so it's possible that this is no longer an issue.
Why we shouldn't trust markets with our civic life
If you generate income from it by renting it out.
> Just so you know this isn't totally partisan

I've never even been to America, and I know fellow hackers who have also cancelled their Dropbox account over this. The Iraq war and American surveillance are not partisan topics. I'll be advising against Dropbox (and their new acquisitions) wherever I have the chance/influence.
Ha! Thanks -- love that you're asking to pay for it. For now our custom S3 support is a gift. In the future we may change that (and grandfather folks in). In any case, thanks for being a fan.
Slap defers execution
I'm not well versed in SF, but whats going on there is whats going on in Chicago. Due to a few factors like migration back into the city and gentrification, rent values have gone up pretty high in Chicago and much higher in SF. Renters are seeing rates that they simply cannot afford in the long run. Meanwhile, homeowners are seeing the value of their homes go up. Its a win for the owners and a loss for the renters.

The decision to own isn't a static one. Its a relationship between what a house costs and what renting costs and when its appropriate to make the move. On top of that, one needs to worry about what happens in 20-30 years. I'll be retired with a paid off home and a low property tax load due to a senior exemption. Lifelong renters will still need to pay full rent until their dying day. This can affect when or even if you retire.
Basically means to deceive/lie to people.
Wouldn't a centralized Cassandra cluster be reliable enough to meet that need?

I've never had a cluster completely collapse on me unless things were already screwed up enough that Service Discovery was ultimately useless since nothing else would work.

It just seems to me that losing your datastore makes your services unusable...at which point 'discovering them' isn't really the issue. Instead, everyone wants to introduce another datastore you need to rely on that its loss == can't find anyone. Even if your services themselves are still functional.
Just beat this game. Nice spin on things.
Ubuntu online tour
Impressive from a perspective of science, but also deeply unsettling to me. It's clearly only a matter of time before a human clone is created.
Not sure why you would question my mental health over simply wanting to consume a quick, easy, and healthy meal.

Why is that crazy?
It's great to see how photo storage solutions get faster, prettier and cheaper. Now it's time to make them smarter. Most people I know feel swamped with photos as there are no decent tools to clear this photo-mess.
Well said. I also have a feeling that many of the younger people who are staying in these well-heeled suburbs are either living with their parents or have been given their childhood homes as their parents move away in retirement.
Not having to drive back home from bars and restaurants is a big deal too. In the city I can meet up with some friends, get a meal and have a few drinks, then still get home safely. No designated drivers required.