skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious if these kinds of setups are also used in other high-freq scenarios.

For instance, I could imagine using techniques like userland network stack and reserving cores exclusively in services like WhatsApp. I think they're currently on a highly customized Erlang stack and are able to handle huge numbers of queries per machine. Any insiders here with a good background story?
> But who rescues someone from Heaven?

Willow Rosenberg?
Very nice, I love the seamless use on mobile gmail.

However, does every interaction result in an immediate status update email, or are they 'chunked' together at all?
It just occurred to me to wonder if onboarding new users is something better handled by a real person rather than a computer program. A person can better spot where a newcomer would have problems. They can also (on average) do a much better job tailoring the onboarding experience than a computer could.

Onboarding is not an optimization problem. it is an AI problem. As in, if you're going to use a computer to do it, it's going to need decent AI to make it work.
I'm having trouble seeing any point to Twitter anymore, other than as a OAuth source. I'm not sure I would sign up for it, if I didn't have an account there.
Am I the only one getting "Server not found"? :(
database replication, elasticsearch, log repositories, headless workers...
It would not give the NSA access to those files because those encrypted files are probably stored on a computer they don't have access to. And seriously, if the NSA wanted access to something they probably can get it anyway. They don't need a truecrypt backdoor, they'll just install monitoring software and wait for you to open it.
Check out BitBalloon [disclaimer, my startup] for an alternative to S3 + Cloudfront.

S3 on it's own actually have very bad latency, and it doesn't give you any good way to do atomic deploys (you just upload one file after the other, so if you deploy fairly often visitors might visit your site in an inconsistent state).

Cloudfront helps on the latency, but invalidating cached assets can take some time.

BitBalloon does atomic deploys, perfect caching headers, HTTPS for custom domains, and more.

Here's our guide on setting up continous deployments for Jekyll sites with BitBalloon:

https://www.bitballoon.com/blog/2013/12/13/continous-deploym...
wisp is a fork of lispyscript but more clojure oriented .
This looks much more comparable to a Parrot than to the deadly helicopter you reference. In general, do manufacturers carry insurance for claims stemming from incidents like sticking one's fingers into whirling blades?
Sigh.

Yes, yes, we know. All of the laws, customs, and cultural traditions in western Europe are much more rational/intelligent/better/whatever than those in America.

The real story, as usual, turns out to be fairly complex. Americans have a very odd and unique history with alcohol. Most notably was the temperance movement [1], which really started all of this hullabaloo. This caused an amendment to our Constitution...something tough to do and even tougher to undo. And yet, eleven years later, it was repealed (thankfully).

But, and here's the big but: To temper the temperance movement (which, by the way, had proven considerable political power), there were these crazy laws that were enacted to limit alcohol buying. The predecessor to the ATF was born [2]. And things like the 3-tier system were created, along with all sorts of bans on homebrewing and whatnot.

Essentially all of the regulations on alcohol have their roots in either the temperance movement or the anti-drunk driving movement (i.e.-MADD), which is a neo-temperance movement. Most of them were political concessions. Anymore, folks have profited tremendously off of artificial supply limitations, and they seek to keep those limitations in place by lobbying (quite effectively) against repeal or reform.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement_in_the_Uni...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Alcohol,_Tobacco,_Fi...
Right? I promise the people I know who work at TJs cannot fucking stop talking about the free shirts.
I agree in chrome this is super hard to read. I like the idea though.
DO pretty much never seems to post anything on their status page unless it affects a lot of their customers -- I've had support tickets with them where they say a problem is affecting "some" customers, but they pretty much never posted it on their status page. Whereas Linode seems to post status problems far more frequently, and pretty much none of the problems listed have ever affected any of my nodes.

Of course, this is all anecdotal, but Linode really does seem to over report on their status page. And DO perhaps under reports.
It'd only take one to justify it. And even zero isn't necessarily a negative outcome. From the point of view of someone whose performance is measured by the number of commercial SQL Server licenses sold, there's no distinction between someone who gets a copy of SQL Server Express and someone who gives up in frustration and grabs a copy of PostgreSQL instead.

To the company there's absolutely a distinction. And to someone who's playing the long game there's absolutely a distinction. But those are red herrings. This decision's probably being made by someone who's got an annual performance review to worry about.
Last time I tried to use the same public key for a second account, GitHub refused.
That simply doesn't work with the definitions in the article. If you are using BS to mean anything that's not taking an exclusively empirical approach to explore exclusively questions of objective fact -- which its pretty clear that some people do -- then, sure, that's tautologically true. But that's a completely different definition than is used in the article, so its not relevant.

Both truth telling and lying (both of which the article distinguishes from BS), as defined in the article, are quite possible in domains where the questions aren't subject to scientific exploration. Whether those domains are meaningful is a philosophical question orthogonal to the truth/lie/BS distinction that the article makes, though.
I don't like this. What is the business of a government in regulating the resolution of whatever form of imagery???

If it can be seen from the sky, or from the street, it's public. Planes, satellites, drones, whatever - you should be free to take pics and sell them if you want.

Fortunately, digital camera didn't exist where such kind of laws had been passed, or there would have been similar stupid restrictions (imagine google streetview with n-times 640x480 pics crafted together, or worse - a law restricting the resolution of the reconstructed google streetview you can view on your screen!)
FWIW, I am in the same situation as you, but I did perform the kernel upgrade and it was quick and painless..
everything looks good on our end. Try again
Was broken when I checked earlier, seems to be fixed.
Eve: The Most Thrilling Boring Game in the Universe
I am pretty sure age is only a protected class over fifty-five (somewhere around there). People can legally discriminate against young people.
This is also 100% the reason I ordered one.

I've spent quite a deal of time thinking about how you make a 3D interface actually work for usability, and its interesting to see some of those ideas implemented in this example (allowing 3D views to either pop out in the workspace, or be pushed back into their own world).
Are they actually making any money? Every time I see their headlines these days, it's "Instacart raised $X" and not "Instacart earned $Y." Don't you have to eventually make money to pay back those VCs?
Congrats Instacart!
I love Instacart. I have two comments about this raise.

1. I hope they use some of it to hire more shoppers. It is increasingly common to log in at 10am and see no available delivery times until the next day.

2. "The company makes its money through the delivery fees." That is disingenuous. They appear to make significant margin on grocery items. It's fine - I'm willing to pay for it - but I think they consistently gloss over this fact.

That said, I've been a huge champion of them to my friends and family, and I'll continue to be. Congrats on the growth.
Why GR?
This is Google using the power of their private network. A single IP routed to your closest data center which can be done because your traffic enters their network at the closest POP and they can then route internally. Currently, you have to do this using anycast DNS – Google is making this a really simple product to get completely automated geographic redundancy/local serving of content. Dyn charge a lot for this product.

Softlayer has a similar product called Global IP where traffic enters their extensive network at the local POP. You can then reroute the IP to any of your servers but it’s not load balanced and is really just another IP. Still a good product which we use to power all our services for automated failover. But Google just one-upped them.

Think AWS elastic IP, but Softlayer allow you to route to any server in any DC. And Google allow you to automatically route to a pool of servers in a location closest to the user.
This explains why this type of thread which is otherwise unrelated to technology is so popular.
There are plenty of western European states with very similar laws. For example, all the Scandinavian states have varying levels of government monopolies for the distribution of harder liquor, which in Sweden translates to "anything more than 3.5% ABV".

Not that this makes any more sense in Europe though. In Finland, it's a national pastime to make booze runs across to Estonia, where alcohol is far cheaper. Since both countries are in the EU, there's very little Finland can do about it (free trade and all that), and there's even judicial precedent that importing a minivan stacked full of vodka falls under "personal use" if you happen to have a wedding or birthday party coming up.
Thanks! :)

Had a few complaints about the font, working on adding customization in the next version.
Big Brother at work may be no bad thing
This may get lost near the bottom, but instead of analysing what or why you are in your situation, here are a couple of concrete suggestions:

1. Go and volunteer with redbrick.org. You can conceivably fill two half days of your weekend doing something good, often with other people who are flying solo.

2. Try rock climbing. Take the intro to climbing class at a local gym (there is one in Sunnyvale and a few in San Francisco). It's extremely social, and you always have something to talk about (rock climbing)

3. Go to a meetup.com group of interest. Try something that you are into, and something you aren't. But it will get you out of the house.

If these kinds of social activities fill you with forboding, that's fine, but people are very open and welcoming and this may give you a building block.

Good luck.
Your suggestion to add this to an existing unit might well be the idea behind their cheap "3D print" option. They won't suggest that we do this, because they don't want to support the integration, but it looks like they aren't really trying to prevent it.
The only reason I use clojurescript over other js lisps is core.async. What is Ki's take on this?
People seem to pay money for both private eye and stratfor. It's just a case of making them (a bit more) mass marketable.

Obviously this is easier said than done :)
Exactly one pixel of that custom scrollbar is clickable on my Mac (Chrome). Thanks.
We debated over this, we want to group multiple together (waiting a bit before sending the update to see if any others come in), but people love the "instant feedback" of the update coming right away.

What we plan to do is have the first update come instantly, but then any subsequent ones would get grouped together. That way you still get the instant feedback 90% of the time but at the same time you don't get flooded if someone decides to do a lot of changes in a short time.
I always thought what you need is instead a kind of body model.

So you have things which are attached to your head, things which follow position relative to your body, and things which follow your absolute position in the world.

Most people would work in body-space, and maybe have several different overlays they switch between for that.

On top of that, you probably need the concept of the private, shared and public objects in all these spaces - you can interact or allow people into a limited view of your 3D environment.
If we vote to provide higher education, then it is.
It's routing traffic to a pool of Compute Engine instances: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/ht...
> I don't get why in our day and age anyone would care about meaningless titles like this.

Because they are not meaningless. They may be to you, and that's fine.But they mean a lot to a lot of people. Your views are not common.
Putting aside entirely the fact that the cost of education in the US is rising at an unhealthy rate, and has been for some time, largely due to profit-driven education, about half of our national budget goes to wars.

THAT is what is collapsing our government's finances. Sending young people off to die, largely protecting corporate interests, and when they return not only can they not afford education, but they have a 1+ year waiting list for basic health care.
What's more concerning is that I canceled my Evernote account a few weeks back, they still keep my email and other information stored.
Licenses become valuable property when they become scarce. In every US municipality I'm aware of, the supply for both liquor licenses and Taxi medallions is tightly restricted. When you simply cannot get a new license by applying to the appropriate authority, it begins to make sense to pay tens of thousands of dollars to adopt an existing license.
It doesn't specifically. But asian males are in general shyer and less attractive.
Awesome! I am glad that you help to normalize people in those positions. I definitely agree that better role models is one of the biggest things we can do and ultimately is the best solution, albeit one that will mostly effect the long-term.

I am a little confused about your first paragraph. I agree that it is patronizing to decide what some else should choose for a career and I hope that I didn't give that impression. Similarly, societal pressure does come largely from individual actions, but I don't think that it is wrong to identify problematic individual actions. Of course we should help those who are bigoted to understand the hurt that they are causing. It's an application of the golden rule (one statement of which is "don't do unto others as you would not have done unto yourself"), and so individual choices which cause harm to others should be overruled.

Note - obviously this is a simplification and it is often difficult to determine what choices will hurt whom and to whose benefit. The world isn't black and white and I acknowledge that.
"Right now, Starbucks baristas are on strike in Chile, where they make less per hour than the price of a cup of coffee."
Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, vol 2 [1], not surprisingly, gives a thorough discussion of the balanced ternary system.

The solution for a nice brainteaser can be found quickly once one thinks about balanced trinary, here it is: "Using a balance scale, what is the minimum number of wheights needed to weigh any whole number of grams up to 40g?"

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Art-Computer-Programming-Volume-Seminu...
maybe a hotlink to the def in future articles. this comment got a dozen upvotes fyi
One thing I wish I had with gists is the ability to drag & drop images into (markdown) documents like you can do when writing issues, comments or such on the site proper. There are quite a few people who like using Gist as a simple writing platform (me included), but ironically all the other places to write text on GitHub work better for that due to the ease of image uploading & embedding in them.

Now that I think of it, Markdown preview would also be quite nice to have for Gist. That's yet another thing the site proper has over Gist for writing. It seems that there's even the ability to preview .md files in your repo when editing them in the browser (though you can't upload images here either), that would be great to have for Gist too.
It was, afaik, and we still put Fusion I/O cards into [some of] their racks.
The one effect I really really want is when you switch from 2D -> 3D mode with the Goggles I kind of want the 2D desktop to do the laser activation effect from Tron Legacy.
Europe and South Korea will develop 5G together
> With minor advertising and effort, I have more inbound work requests than I can personally take on.

I'm very much interested in moving more towards contract-based employment, so I would love to hear more about the mechanics of getting off the ground, and any recommendations for advertising my services etc.
There should be a basic level of business knowledge required to participate in these discussions.
Yeah no kidding why is that I wonder...
I didn't mean different classes of prep, but different quality. You would be surprised how much test prep gives detrimental guidance. I had to unteach a lot of poor or dated suggestions.

And I should note I did this for free... Not party of a program or company.
Coordinating Microservices – Playing Well with Others
Here's the ISOC landing page: http://www.internetsociety.org/your-digital-footprint
CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs... they are so different, it's hard to say they ever could be programmed uniformly.
> Credit cards are the equivelant of saying 'i only want american customers and everybody else can go to hell'. Let's just hope your bussiness is viable enough in just the US to be this ignorant.

In the UK I do as much online shopping as possible on my credit card. I get the added protection of the Consumer Credit Act[1], and prizes![2]

[1] http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/section-75...

[2] http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/best-credit-ca...
File size I imagine. Typically, a PNG will be 4 or 5x the size of a low/mid quality jpg. 31kb vs 150kb when you're delivering a bazillion pages makes a difference if you don't have the bandwidth.

Granted, that seems quaint nowadays, but maybe MS doesn't give two shits about making sure the blogs have the bandwidth and resources they need for nicer looking graphics.
Yep, extremely disingenuous. One time they left the receipt in the bag and let me assure you that there are huge markups being taken...
I think just borrowing the book yourself is overall better then lending or exchanging. It removes all the pressure from her and makes subsequent interaction easier.
I also live in Europe and I've had no problem paying Linode with a debit card.
I'm new to linode. What is their outgoing bandwidth policy?

I mean, is it possible to automatically set up a throttle, to avoid charges when going over 2TB? (or do I have to fiddle with iptables to find a way to do that).

Also, do you know if it's possible to get a /48 IPv6?

On https://library.linode.com/networking/ipv6 they only mention /56

I'd hate to run a HE tunnelbroker just because they don't support that :-/ (I love HE.net and tunnelbroker.net, but it would just be wasteful)

EDIT: /48 make running multiple VPNs very easy - that's lazy, but IPv6 are not scarce resources!

EDIT2: just got an answer - they can't do /48 :-(
Nice tricks! The most relevant for me however would be the idea of categorizing _posts and _data folder, never knew about that! Neat. Thanks!
Exactly. How will wee poor, oppressed male programmers survive as only 80 or 90% of the field?

For those wondering about the weird "betafication" thing, I recommend reading this fine blog: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/

It's a trope of the self-anointed "men's rights" crowd, from people who are in a continual hysteria about how society is stopping them from being proper alpha males. Never quite getting that passive-aggressive anonymous-coward Internet message board comments are not how chimpanzee males work out their dominance issues.
Shit, déjà Vu. Is it y2k again? If not, what are these guys doing differently from the Y2K grocery services?

EDIT: since Adredreseen Horrowitz invested, I assume it's likely not a repeat from Y2k, and I'm really interested in what they're doing differrently
You should try Canada's laws for a while. Some of the highest taxes on alcohol in the world, almost no province allows drinking outside homes or licensed establishments (so be prepared for a $300+ fine for having wine at a picnic). All of this managed through archaic licensing systems run by bureaucratic power-tripping morons.
I think it's pretty obvious that Instacart's exit strategy is to make some great technology that either Amazon or Google will buy-out.

There is no way they will survive as a company long-term trying to compete against either of those two. It's a low-margin business with expensive, labor-intensive components that won't scale efficiently over time. They just need enough money to last long enough to convince Amazon or Google to buy them at a premium so that the investors make their 10x.
Strange launches new web app for chatting anonymously
When It's Time To Walk Away
Congrats Woz! Hope you made out like a bandit, old chap. ;)
In addition to having similar liquor license quotas, British Columbians pay a markup of 123% for wine and 170% for spirits. Our provincial liquor board generates $1.2B per year from a population of only 4.5 million people. There are different dynamics here as we have public health insurance. Liquor and tobacco sin taxes are a form of pre-payment on future healthcare expenses of heavy consumers.
why not just change it to a better default font? It's cool, btw.
I guess you kinda answered my question, I was intrigued because the why Whapsy section said it was different from the others, so I wanted to see that visually, how it was different, but your saying it's mostly the same on the outside, still sounds cool.
Not the best strategy in my opinion.
Strange lets you talk strange anonymously
Here's the key take-away:

> "Fusion-io ... has reported a loss for five quarters in a row."

This is why the stock was down so low, and why they were willing to take the offer. You run a business at a loss long enough and your board starts thinking about other 'strategic options' including selling to competitors with big pockets.
There is no easy answer to this; it all depends on playing the cards that you have got and trying to mitigate the things that make you not outgoing.

A lot of things make for being outgoing. In my case, I realized very early on that people hate making plans and organizing shit. I on the other hand, can suck it up and do it. This plays in my favor in that I get to meet a lot of people (friends bring friends) within my comfort zone. Also, host parties.

On the talking thing, for me, I used to overthink conversations. I still do on occasion. However, one thing that helped a lot was improv. When you realize the power of random statements that build on top of each other and create something amazing, you chill the fuck out and realize that the first thing you say doesn't matter that much. And also build a tough skin; because for every person who was OK with you as a quiet mouse, there will be someone else who absolutely detests you now that you have an opinion. Fuck em. Your job in life is to figure out the amazing beautiful people who you can have an amazing connection with.