skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great questions!

1) We boot a CoreOS image over PXE. IPA is built using Docker, exported as a filesystem, and runs in a linux container via systemd-nspawn. It can take config options via command line or kernel command line. The build system is here. [1]

2) It could, yes. Images are downloaded directly from Swift, and both the client and the server has 10gig links. We're also investigating multicast and bittorrent as alternatives for image distribution.

3) Not sure if you mean agent images or OS images... regardless, at Rackspace, each region runs as its own standalone cloud - so there shouldn't be any communication between data centers when provisioning. Does that answer your question?

4) We're working on implementing client certificate checking for communication between IPA and Ironic. The agents also live on an isolated VLAN that is only accessible by Ironic and Swift.

[1] https://github.com/openstack/ironic-python-agent/tree/master...
Android Wear channel on IFTTT
I've been making music with my computer since 1999, and when I was young and dumb I made some remixes using some James Brown samples. I used a sample from "The Payback" which you'll hear in TONS of songs.

Didn't get it cleared.

Got a C&D and my website got taken down.

I'm not saying it's right. I'm saying that if you don't clear your samples, and you're a little guy, this will happen. Don't be surprised when it does.
I don't know how the regulations worked in Istanbul, but they were very common even with the other transit options, and worked very well. I'd go from Kadikoy to Taksim and back late at night and walk or take the taxi for the rest. For 3 bucks (6 lira) they would leave when full, approximately every 5 minutes, and were pretty organized.

This is one of the areas where we could use a better public-private partnership in our cities.
That would be great. Can this easily be automated so companies don't have to do anything and the result is there, helping people?
Maybe, but ed is the standard text editor.
Rails and the Warped Asset Pipeline
Easy. Remove the special exception the EU randomly added to Google and Google only. Laws that are specific to a single company are obviously bullshit.

Then we just end up back in the previous situation where you had to get the site that posted the content to remove it, which had a fairly well defined set of requirements. And tada! Just like that there's no problem anymore.
I’ve Launched A Crowdfunding Project and I Have No Idea What I’m Doing
Do you plan to offer lower-end OnMetal nodes? For example, 16 GB of RAM, a quad-core Xeon E3 processor, and a 256 GB SSD? Presumably you could put several such nodes in one chassis to make that kind of configuration economical.
The ironic thing about calm.com is that it always seems to be nagging you to do stuff.... ><
Ersatz Labs - Pacifica, CA (peninsula, south of San Francisco)

Come work with neural networks and deep learning by the beach. (http://www.ersatzlabs.com)

We're building out our local team and have an opening for a position that is essentially CTO. We're not particularly big on titles, but it's ok if you are. We need someone that can help take our product to the next level and is local to the SF Bay Area.

Qualified candidate: Demonstrable experience with deep learning and neural networks, preferably with applicable PHD. Capable of leading a fast growing team and being involved hands on with building the product. Strong familiarity with python, some C++. Experience managing a software team.

We're offering equity, a salary, and a chance to help turn the world into a data driven technological utopia.

For more information, contact Dave Sullivan at dave@ersatzlabs.com
Not every possible 'improvement' needs to slide down the slippery slope of pretentious frippery, though.

Being able to use the site more easily in mobile is would be an actual improvement. I would also argue that collapsible comments would also serve the site without degrading it. Some typographic tweaks, such as increasing the line-height, would make large text boxes easier to read. And I doubt anyone who has lost a post due to a dead link would consider Hacker News entirely painless.
The pre-built binaries are OSX only but there are instructions for building on Windows and Linux.
I'd love to compare. Any tips?
i would really like to use rust for a project. but i don't know what i can do with it. any ideas? or which project can i join to work with rust?
In an audition, musicians are usually asked to play a mix of prepared and sight-read pieces (though sometimes the sight reading is from standard repertoire, so they may have encountered before). Both are helpful in discerning how qualified the musician is. And sight-reading is incredibly important for most jobs musicians get hired for - in most freelance situations, they'd get a 3 hour rehearsal, or essentially a guided run through of the performance, then they play the gig. So that may not be an accurate analogy, given that writing on the fly isn't part of the programming repertoire - most programmers are allowed to think before they write anything down. Also musician's don't write - performing is very different than writing- so perhaps a composer would be a better analogy.

Maybe it would be a more accurate measure of ability to ask software engineering applicants to read code and explain what it does, or to judge them as you'd judge a composer, by their portfolio.
I don't use social networks, they're lame. I use e-mail. I suppose I could use Google, but it's an inactive account if you're looking for some kind of social aspect on purpose.
"Slut" is a derogatory term, it has connotations and meanings well beyond the most literal definition of "promiscuous person".

Calling Tinder user "sluts" is no more appropriate than calling my Chinese users "chinks", or my gay users "faggots".

It seems intentionally obtuse to pretend that the term doesn't have a gigantic truckload of derogatory connotations behind it.
Show HN: Easily print a page of barcodes
You are all old, nano is the future!

Other than /s, I wanted to say I am also learning emacs after some years of both vim and st2-3 and I really like it. I have still to stick to a cheat sheet to remember common commands but I am on my way to the Stallmanmination
Pizza Shop: We're Being Extorted For Bitcoin. What's a Bitcoin?
Downvoted I see - funny thing is how legal liability is irrelevant when your car has been pushed into an intersection resulting in your death.

You have responsibility to be aware at all times - even if it's not something you're legally responsible for, when you're in the presence of people driving multiple tons of steel at varying rates of speed, it'd be foolish to believe "but it was his fault" will prevent you from bleeding to death.
So, what would you say is the word for a man who uses Tinder often, a word that would make sense to the greatest proportion of people, i.e. not "slut," which you acknowledge is relatively rarely used to refer to men?
> which of these expensive gimmicks, if any, effectively guide user attention and reduce confusion between screens,

I'll give out one hint free: The reptilian (and hence retro-human) mind developed to perceive each room or space as a state apart from the others. We have a second level of cognition which ties nearby rooms together and therefore an innate ability to learn the layout of a building from each room. Consider the predominance of Zelda-style maps in the emotional memory of this generation. Consider the dog who seems to enter every room happy for the first time.

The webspace - in this case, that is to say hyperlinks and pages - ruptures this layout through jump-cutting between nearby spaces. A simple amendment to its construction would "match its impedance" to established mental abilities. And if you continue this metaphor, you'll see additional forms. The typical smartphones' home menus, such as Android, follow this to an extent, but really, it's only the beginning.

Getting distracted by matters such as properly interpolating frames and writing portable GPU code to do this is fun and profitable, but if you want epic design you have to step back and understand the sources of these ideas.
Why didn't the author become a U.S. citizen?

Because immigrants can't just "become US citizens" just like that, like early western European immigrants did in the past: for many people it is just plain impossible, and in any case it often takes way, way longer than the 7 years the author has been in the country.

For instance: for most people under a H1B visa right now (like, presumably, the author), the process to obtain a green card alone might take anywhere from 4 to 12(!) years, depending on circumstances and nationality [2]; if approved at all [3]. Then they need to wait 5 more years to merely apply for citizenship, which is another whole process that itself might take up to a year.

That's a 10 years best case scenario, and doing everything exactly right.

[1] http://www.immihelp.com/greencard/employmentbasedimmigration...

[2] http://www.immihelp.com/visa-bulletin/july-2014.html

[3] In most cases, the process requires the company to prove that the person does a job "no qualified US workers are available or willing to do" by presenting "proof of advertising for the specific position, skill requirements for a particular job, verification of the prevailing wage for a position and the employer's ability to pay". In other cases, it suffices to prove the person is of "exceptional ability", or has an "advanced degree" (masters, PhD or "equivalent" job experience) that is required for their particular job --but the requirements and scrutiny are so onerous that many applicants with higher degrees prefer to go through the former regardless. See [1] and despair.
>It's nearly impossibly to date someone and not sexually harass them in some way

You have horrible relationships if you think this is even remotely true.

> It's doubly hard to break up with someone and not sexually harass them in some way.

And even worse break ups.

That or you don't know what sexual harassment is which I'm thinking is far more likely.

>it's almost impossible to draw the line between sexual harassment and break-up banter.

No its not.
Early Days on Street View
You had all my sympathy until you wrote "fucking hosers".
I'd say that open source qualifies as a public work.
Ask HN: Will SnapChat and Tinder survive in the long run?
Are they just popular for the moment until something new comes along? Or is there a valuable business that can be built in the long-run? Both?
Whats especially troubling is that this is spilling over to other countries now. I always felt that despite having relatively lax laws in regards to the internet, russia is starting to turn into a seriously unfriendly place for the internet. Being a expat in moscow makes it especially awkward as I have tasted the koolaid on the 'free' side.
A really important (I think) point with regards to all the comparisons to Go and other similar languages that pop up in every Rust post:

Many seem to think that only Rust is suitable for kernelspace but are questioning whether Go or Rust is more suitable in userspace. A Go library will work in a Go process (due to the need for (shared) GC in the runtime, among other things), whereas a Rust library that avoids GC (which is idiomatic Rust) will (I think!) be able to expose an interface akin to a C library (similar calling conventions, internal data type layout like C, etc), making it usable from practically any language with C-FFI.

Personally, this is one of the things I look forward to the most. We can create drop-in replacements for C libraries, creating a safer (but just as fast) world one library at a time. And if so desired, all the functionality will be available to anything that can interface with C. Even Go. Your Go libs are stuck in Go's universe. Your Rust libs can be made available to anything that can bind to C.

Go eats the C/C++/Python/Ruby cake from the top, but it just can't go all the way to the bottom. Rust can eat the cake from the very bottom (bare metal/kernelspace and up), but just like Go, the sky's the limit - and for many reasons, like e.g. even better constraints on shared data than Go has, I personally believe it will go even "higher".

My two cents. And as always: More knowledgeable Rust people, if I'm wrong, please correct me.
The law imposes a penalty if an appropriate request is not honored, but does not, as I understand, do so if an inappropriate request is honored. It therefore encourages exactly the behavior Google is taking, because erring on the side of taking things down is the legally safe approach.

The DMCA notice/counternotice arrangement has a similar but more subtle effect, because while it is superficially symmetric, the situation of the parties with respect to it is asymmetric in a way which results in the one side systematically being privileged.
Another interesting comparison from the github repo[1] is the proportions of lines that it took in each language.

[1] https://github.com/jesusfv/Comparison-Programming-Languages-...
What are the negative connotations? I thought the only reason it was considered a bad term was purely because it was considered bad 60 years ago for a woman to be promiscuous. I.e. The insult was calling them promiscuous.
Very common in Russia also, the vans usually put the number of the official route on the window, so you'd know exactly the route that's going to be taken. Wish they had this Sydney, but the government is anal on taxing and regulating people. So no micro businesses for Sydney :(
I have the same issue after installing the extension. Disabling it and the error message is not showing anymore, it's definitely coming from this extension.
agreed. With a seed investment, why not just use standard convertible note docs or the YC Safe notes? Did the lawyers really help?
I bet the cockroach brains are much less varied than ours, i.e., the variance of intelligence in a random sample population of cockroaches is much smaller than it would be in a random sample of human beings.

With that added variance, the implications of 'everyone having an equal say' are profound.
The "hot news" doctrine is mostly dead these days.[1] And at worst, it delays wide-spread dissemination of news for a day, rather than suppress it outright.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/hot-news-doctrine-surv...
A re-usable questionnaire populated by…. spreadsheet?
All sarcasm aside, Bitcoin is becoming more and more centralized everyday.
> keep my presentations congruent with no out-of-place elements

For god's sake, this. If a demo is full of "ignore that", "don't look at that", "yeah we're going to change that", the demo is a failure.
Wait, I thought Segway inventor died after driving a Segway off a cliff. Not trolling.
Supreme Court Upholds Little Caesar’s Right to Feed Christian Employees to Lions
I'd urge Aurora Chiste to use this as a galvanizing opportunity to work for good in places of the world other than silicon valley. US needs to learn the lesson, here, clearly. But until then don't be bitter, let this painful separation become an opportunity to guide you to something much, much better, somewhere else.
The point of these type of interview questions is to see how well you can reason and communicate. It is not to see if you know how to solve that specific problem, and if an interviewer is using it like that then they are not a very good interviewer. A standardized test does not substitute for actually talking to someone while they solve a problem and seeing that they can think logically and communicate those thoughts.

It is more about the communication aspect of the question, not about getting to the answer. Because communication is a lot more important in business...even tech business...than you seem to think it is.
Which is why the EU version of Google has complied with the EU court.
Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_the...
I just re-ran benchmarks using wrk instead of ab and I'm getting 16k req/s instead of 2k. Very strange.
An Ubuntu mention is warrantied, given that in the very next paragraph the author dismisses Atrix as not having any worthwhile apps running. Ubuntu, on the other hand, is a fully-fledged desktop and can't be dismissed as a toy this way.
ATS can also do that.
How Church Sales Reflect the Shifting American Demographic
Well, the US can accept all kinds of people, but isn't it quite clear that it wants to let in only those three major groups (with some tiny exceptions) ?

The current USA policies seem quite clear - it wants to expel anyone who wants to live and work there but pretends to be a short-term visitor. Try saying "I want to live and work in USA" in your visa application - you won't get a visa. According to the current immigration laws, if you want to do so, then you've "outstayed your welcome on the road" already before entering USA.

The whole point of these laws wasn't to get people like her to 'follow a proper procedure' where a mistake can be forgiven; the intended goal actually was to detect people like her and get them out.

One can definitely argue that the goal is evil (IMHO it is) and should be changed; but these policies aren't stupid, they're doing what they're designed to do.
Jool – stateful NAT64 for Linux
avoiding too many forward looking statements

As a general principle we will add more form factors.

For your specific example hardware, that kind of specification could be achieved using the Open Compute Micro Servers / Server Card designs, instead of the full-on 2 processor windmill designs:

http://www.opencompute.org/assets/motherboardandserverdesign...

As you make smaller servers, things like HA-Networking become a higher portion of the cost too, so it might be more feasible if we dropped the 2x10g Bond and went to a single 10g port for example, would losing the HA networking but having those kinds of specs be interesting to you?
Even if it's money related. Carrying physical cash around with you is convenient, but not as secure as storing it in a bank.
Apple once thought carrying your life (your Mac OS X home directory) was a good idea when they publicly announced "Home on iPod". They quickly reversed course. I assume the failure rates of the iPod's spinning hard disks were a contributing factor.

I think this could only work if you had great backup with the cloud.

"Your iPod wasn’t designed to be used as a startup drive for long periods of time. When the tiny hard drive inside the device spins for hours on end—as it can if you boot from it—the player heats up enough to make your palms sweat. Since there’s no way for the heat to vent, as it would on a hard drive in your computer, you risk tragedy." - Macworld.
This is a natural consequence of forcing an editor into the browser. Everything about Atom just seems so unneccessary to me.

What's compelling about Atom that draws people in, compared to Sublime or even vim (my editor of choice)?
How are you defining intelligence? And how would you measure variance of intelligence across cockroaches in a way that is relevant to a way that you measure intelligence across humans?
> (I think!)

You are correct. The third production deployment of Rust is a Ruby gem written in Rust.
Can anyone suggest a better title? The submitted title was "Cockroaches can count and do integer division". That seems overly editorialized, which is why we reverted to the article title. But you're right, that one is misleading.
I think Lifehacker editors read a variety of blogs, so if you appear in one of those, you probably have a better chance of getting noticed. It's been a while, but probably smaller blogs that are focused on new companies - KillerStartups, MakeUseOf, ProgrammableWeb, that sort of thing. You can also try emailing them (tips@lifehacker), but I imagine that they don't read all of those.
Had the same reaction, this poor bastard must get that a lot..
Yup - dolmus in Turkey, sherut in Israel, servees in Jordan/Egypt - these are common throughout the Middle East, usually using very similar models of vans. A common experience I've had in all three countries is waiting near the start of a route for enough people to arrive to make it worth the driver's gas to head off.
> i don't what i can do with it. any ideas?

Well, like any turing-complete language, technically anything, though Rust tends to be lower-level than most.

What kinds of programming do you like to do?
Some of them are cool, especially the shorter ones — like .mom, .music, .wiki

But then you have ones like .photography and .international — seems 12+ letters just for the domain name extension seems overboard.

And then you have the completely absurd ones like .blackfriday — I don’t even begin to understand that one.

It’s really going to come down to the masses and how they are received by them. Confusion about a gTLD vs a .com may not even be an issue because SO many people just type stuff into Google. Yes, every time.

I think the shorter ones will take off faster, but xenophobia.international does have a bit of a ring to it though
The same negative connotation of "faggot" and "chink" - i.e., that being promiscuous/Chinese/gay/etc is intrinsically bad.

I can't speak for the whole world, but in North America at least I've never seen the word "slut" used in everyday speech that wasn't intended to be derogatory.

Side note: "purely because it was considered bad 60 years ago for a woman to be promiscuous"

I don't think that's 60 years ago, I'm pretty sure that's still today. Maybe not as bad, but the general perception of promiscuous women is still deeply negative.
That last 10%... same reason I keep going back to emacs after trying a half dozen other editors that more or less promised to be "the one".
Typing text at the end of a 1000-line file seems to be laggier with the React-based editor enabled.
The Truth About Tinder and Women Is Even Worse Than You Think
Want To Go Viral? 7 Things To Do Now To Be Ready
Examining Company news section of the cyc website is way more interesting that the article: http://www.cyc.com/media-coverage

And here is how that page looked in 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20031204204518/http://www.cyc.com...

Quite a few of the publications are missing from most recent one. It is also worth noting that news page link was broken from 2003 until recently.
I'll try. Thanks
A Cheat Sheet for HTTP Libraries in C++
There's a Canadian startup that I think is doing something pretty similar: http://www.etalim.com/
Six Californias
Maybe intelligence isn't the right word? As I understood m52go's comment, it's more like smaller brains -> less variations of "mind state" (as in state machines)? Hence less "variance of intelligence".

Of course, I have no idea how a brain works, and it's unlikely that it's anything like a computer.
Readers who are interested in this kind of thing may be interested in the new book by Svante Pääbo, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes.[1] Pääbo was the first researcher to figure out how to sequence DNA from ancient human beings, starting with Egyptian mummies and eventually leading to the complete sequencing of Neanderthal nuclear genomes.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Svante-P%C3%A4%C3%A4bo/e/B00GJ9XR7O/
I'm not a fan of Product Hunt because it's an echo chamber personified. It's what happened to Quora, and I don't think that strategy will work twice.

Here here. I think Product Hunt is interesting to look at once in a while to see what others think is hot, but I hate the closed nature of it. There's no obvious way to get selected to make submissions or comments.

In fact, when I read Carlos Bueno's post on QZ, the first thing I thought of was Product Hunt--an echo chamber of like-minded folks with their own exclusive club on who gets to submit which startup; and not only just submit, but even comment! It's a fantastic article worth reading:

The next thing Silicon Valley needs to disrupt big time: its own culture

http://qz.com/225782/the-next-thing-silicon-valley-needs-to-...

Someone's created a "product hunt-like" subreddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/producthunt) that I think is actually a better idea: Anyone can up-vote a submission, anyone can comment, and moderators can separate the wheat from the chaff. Too bad it's not more popular.

EDIT: Fixed typo