skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Docker:

* Provides a command line interface to manage containers (containers being, essentially, linux kernel namespaces, groups and a union file system, all brought together).

* Each app needs to provide its own auth.

* You need some orchestration in place to deploy and manage your apps.

* Ultimately, it requires _technical work_ to spin up applications.

Sandstorm:

* Provides a web interface for:

* Fetching/installing packaged apps.

* Exporting data, so you can trivially move hosts.

* Unified authentication: you log in once, and then you can access any app.

* Apps only take up server resources while you have a tab open.

* _Uses_ containers behind the scenes, but that's not the selling point.

A metaphor: you can think of Docker as being a bare bones OS, and Sandstorm as being that OS _plus_ a unified app store. As a non-technical software user, that app store makes the OS accessible to me - with a couple taps, I can have all sorts of new tools installed and ready to be used, all without ever considering memory models, network firewall rules, command line invocations, etc.

So, if you're a writing software and you need the flexibility of orchestrating containers, firewalls, auth, etc, then Docker is what you want. If instead, you just want to be able to edit documents, send emails, read your RSS feeds, etc, then you want to click a couple buttons and have your apps ready to go - you don't really care _how_ it's implemented, you just want your apps.
> "... the school buys every student their own internet domain name. The school even became an official reseller of domain names in order to facilitate the process."

The next step is to improve discovery of these indie sites:

indie search engine based on Common Crawl
cross-linked webrings/blogrolls
ad-hoc directories (e.g. awesome-* lists on github)
integration with social bookmarking
> A particular thing that I've found really odd is that I have trouble getting a text response from my siblings, even though I know they have their phones on them and are constantly snapchatting, or whatever. I text a lot, but maybe get one response for every 5-10 texts I send.

This is a function of you being their sibling. I'm 27, my sister is 20, we both chat and snapchat and are difficult to distinguish from teenagers in that regard. But the rate/speed of reply for texts (and other messages) goes in this order and falls exponentially: 1. Besties, 2. Girlfriend/Boyfriend, 3. Siblings, 4. Friends, 5. Acquaintances, 6. Parents, 7. Strangers
Well that's disingenuous. You specifically brought up that the GPL is a non-coercive agent for freedom. Now that we've demonstrated that it is coercive, you moved your fence posts.

You're really tied up in the the history of liberty and freedom, and act like it the matter is all tied up and resolved. But very little could be further from the truth!

Even more important, you keep attempting to draw parallels to enlightenment thought on freedom, when the modern thought on the matter has come a long way since then and to anybody who seriously studies all of the eras of liberal thinking, the GPL is not a particularly interesting or conforming philosophy.

It parallels totalitarian philosophies far more easily than any democratic of liberal thinking on the matter. A country based around the kind of self-perpetuation at all costs kind of philosophy the GPL is built around would be a dystopia.
I have an eleventh grade daughter. Some of the accepted norms for her peer group that have surprised me are:

Email is just for school and ecommerce. She told me that one of her friends sent her a super long text about a crisis she was having. I said, wait, a super long text? Why didn't she send an email. Laughter ensued. Nobody uses email to communicate with friends, silly Daddy. I guess that's how you get to > 3000 sms per month.

Facebook is out. She feels like hers is the last grade to use it in any appreciable way, and even for them they mostly use it to manage events. Few of the freshmen use Facebook.
In other news, Easel is a thing that exists.
Indeed. This doesn't leave an awful lot of room for profit. A prison is supposed to be a profitable business, what do people think this is? A service to society?
> If an explanation fit all current observations and predicted future experiments why is it not correct?

In order for anything to count as a "future experiment" with respect to something that takes as long as evolution does, the predicted phenomena would have to occur at least thousands of years from now, and you would have to control for all the socio-economic-cultural-political differences between now and then. Which would begin to sound like an impossible task, even you embarked on a millennia-long research project, because humanity is quickly approaching (and may already have gone beyond) the point where technology overtakes evolution.

Evolution of the regular type at least has billions of years' worth of fossil records to compensate for its lack of predictions for the future. The only thing EP has going for it, on the other hand, is a bunch of surveys, small-N experiments, and beloved-by-Cosmopolitan stereotypes about the contemporary courting behavior of affluent, predominantly white college students. That's like analyzing a tub of ice cream and then making bold claims about the fate of the Antarctic ice cap.
How did you find an agreement for your SAaS product?
Did you hire a lawyer? Is there an open source one that I can use? I assume most of this stuff is pretty boilerplate.
I don't think you can find a lot of sane individuals who believe women aren't humans.
Perhaps I'm lucky, I haven't found internal coding styles to need _any_ enforcement, in my experience people find it inherently valuable.
With fast-mutating creatures your thousands of generations might only be months...
Desktop apps won't have a "comeback" for a lot of us. There have always been questions about the viability of these sorts of online services. So we did the smart thing, and never put our data and apps at risk to begin with. We have nothing to come back to, since we never left in the first place.
In the belly of the beast: Jack Henry Abbot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Belly_of_the_Beast
This looks great, would buy if it was in the Android Play store. :(
Because Apple have their own Nitro JavaScript engine, so why would they use Google's V8?

Node isn't JavaScript. If you want packages/modules use CommonJS, AMD, or Harmony.
Track iPhone6 UPS Shipment
You can track your iPhone shipment by going to UPS and instead of tracking by number, choose track by reference and type your phone number in there (the one tied to your order)

http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track?loc=en_US
Surely the reason such tech isn't already in place is because such communications are being recorded/monitored?

Couldn't you easily locate devices using triangulation and hand-held receivers? Indeed you could probably just have a device at the door of each cell, and in other places, that told you when a communication on the right frequency was being made.
The mentions of obesity and diabetes are written as direct causal relationships. To rearrange their quote without changing the meaning:

"because low-calorie sweeteners do not have an effect on
appetite, blood glucose levels or weight gain, they are not
associated with an increased risk of obesity and diabetes"

Essentially, this says "if (no effect) then (no risk caused by effects)". As long as it's true that low-calorie sweeteners themselves don't have an effect on appetite, blood glucose levels, or weight gain then they're free to make the above implication. However, the statement is only a partial truth and has no bearing on the study under discussion.

If they wanted to directly respond to the study, they wouldn't keep quoting old studies which didn't attempt to investigate the results of the new research; they should instead say that they will study it and attempt to replicate the results, then issue a statement once they've understood the full implications. Of course, that wouldn't be a strong defensive statement of their vested interest so they of course can't say that.
https://www.cbinsights.com/ is in this space.

Also useful: analysis of potential conflict between investment & VC portfolios.

Edit: comparison: http://www.quora.com/How-do-CB-Insights-PrivCo-DataFox-Owler...
or if you're committed to the bit, play it coy and deny it in a way that makes it obvious you're lying.
$2200 for the Othermill and $2500 for the Nomad for what amount to hobbyist machines seems way too high, especially for being unable to cut steel, and having such limited tool sizes. I'd also venture a guess that the speeds for cutting aluminum are pretty slow, and you're probably taking very thin passes.

For $3900, you can get a proper mill with a retrofit kit, controller and software:

Mill: http://www.grizzly.com/products/Drill-Mill-with-Stand/G0704

Retrofit Kit: http://www.grizzly.com/products/Mini-Mill-Retrofit-Kit-Compa...

This will cut steel, accepts tools up to 7/8", has a 1HP spindle motor, a much larger work volume, higher feedrates, etc.

I realize that there are plenty of applications that can be satisfied with wood and plastic, but making precise metal parts are really the killer app of CNC Mills.
> His favourite "show" is a Youtube channel hosted by a 6-7 year old kid that builds lego and plays video games.

Would you mind sharing that link? I've got some kids who would be interested.
In what ways were you hoping it would be fundamentally different?
Having a database of venture information is a first step, and the easy part.

Performing the necessary statistics is the hard part.
Further, when Equal introduced saccharin and sucralose packets a few years back, it produced them in exactly the same color as Sweet n Low and Splenda, meaning that consumers can continue to just reach for the pink packet or yellow packet to get what they expect. There was some question about trademark infringement, I recall from somewhere. So, yeah, in the US, "pink" means saccharin.
The greatest factors that determine the course of evolution are (1) how likely you are to get laid and (2) how likely your offspring are to get laid.

Since it's already difficult enough to produce falsifiable conjectures about an aspect of human psychology (sex/gender) that is directly related to those factors, it's not surprising that most EP researchers haven't even bothered to branch out into less closely related things.
Police radar gun that shows if you're texting?
San Francisco has recently passed the Fair Chance ordinance - http://sfgsa.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=12136 - a step towards limiting disclosure of previous convictions.
it is still Bing.
Briliant! That link to the video of a young Grant Mitchell promoting Kellogg's breakfast cereal is worth its weight in Golden Grahams!

The folded faces are amazing too of course. Love that they convinced him to turn himself into a...
Unfortunately, fast-mutating creatures tend not to have much of a psychology.
Their Deck demo is broken :/
This is awesome, I can't wait for this to go into print, so I can pay you for your work! But in the meantime, many thanks for writing this.
I'm not sure, I think I was hoping that the guy who gave us Cap'n Proto would come up with a novel and awesome approach tocontainerization. :)

But to come up with some differentiation aspects: was it using Linux containers or lower-level virtualization? (it's using containers). Did it provide a powerful new way to automatically containerize an app? (it's not automatic)
Oculus VR, a leap into education for Facebook?
> 90% of participants just try to open a web-browser and type in "what is the IP address of google"

Oh god.
I would really suggest purchasing a good book about it. From my point of view, I would go for "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition" from Jon Erickson which goes in depth about how to crack programs using gdb and other tools. It's really a wonderful book if you want to learn more about the world of cracking in general, and it doesn't require much prior security experience.

Quick link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-The-Art-Exploitation-Edition/d...
You don't need to own a 3D printer for that, you can just use a 3rd party service to print one for you.
"Except for rent." I LOL'd.
Bummer this wasn't planned on from the start, seems like this type of app is well suited for one of the many cross-platform tools.

No doubt that iOS is the bigger market, but Android is still plenty big and there is a dearth of well designed apps so I think it can still be rewarding.

Anyways, count me as another eagerly awaiting an Android port. Signed up on the website mailing list.

Cheers.
One of the fundamental premises of simulated annealing is this "looking backwards" approach. It's for the sake of the sanity of the implementor. How do you modify scalar values that determine a random process in such a way that the outcome does not exceed some error condition? You can't (in general), that's why you turned to annealing in the first place. You were unable to control error bounds. Instead, you make a completely random guess and only accept it if it's within the current "acceptable" range. This is easy to implement and gives suprisigly good results.
You may be thinking of the statics stuff being done with GHC 7.10.
In the U.S.? Not much. Some, such as Loïc Wacquant, don't really see a distinction between being in prison and not for some people:

> The 'hyperghetto' constitutes the fourth stage in the development of 'peculiar institutions', following (sequentially) slavery, Jim Crow, and the early ghettos. According to him, the ghetto and the prison are for all practical purposes indistinguishable, reinforcing each other to ensure the exclusion of African-Americans from general society, with governmental encouragement.

There are some attempts at what is called 'restorative justice' in certain situations in certain places, but the idea of prison as being rehabilitative is not on the mind of the public.
>It's funny they are showcasing Mail - does anyone actually use the desktop mail client? I thought that's been dead since 2003?

Were did you get that idea? Extrapolating your personal usage habits?

Mail.app is one of the most frequently used OS X programs. From 30+ Mac users I know, most of them use Mail.

Not everybody has switched to webmail (or wants to).

I personally use it with a Gmail account.
Here's the simplest and most convincing argument I've heard to not dismiss evo psych.

The development of male features in foetuses is triggered by a massive release of testosterone. The second stage of gendered differentiation, puberty, is similarly driven by the release of sex hormones in both men and women. Noticeably, adolescent boys with a malfunctioning endocrine system do not display typical male features (lowered voice, facial hair, etc), lesser tendency to masculine psychology (like risk taking and aggression), and don't develop sex drive (straight or gay) unless they start taking injections for life. It should be uncontroversial to say that sex and gender differences, both physiological and psychological, are tied to hormones.

Next up, the brain: the most complex and expensive organ we have, a complex system of feedback loops, again driven and regulated by secretions of hormones and peptides and so on. To say that evolutionary psychology is false and just anecdotes, you'd have to argue that, despite all the other visible changes that sex hormones make, somehow, the brain is entirely unaffected by all of that. That gender is mostly (or as some claim, entirely) a social construct, determined by something as subtle as a tone of voice or the presence of 'patriarchal gender roles'. Even though studies show children and teenagers are more affected by their peers' behaviours and attitudes than their parents'. Even though there is no culture where gender roles are truly swapped, and the 'Norwegian Gender Paradox' remains true.

Not only does the science show nature plays a significant role in the "nature vs nurture" debate on sex and gender, but policies based on denying it have failed to work.

I'm not an evo psychologist, or a biologist either. But it seems a lot more reasonable to me than what's coming from the supposed equality camp.
Which might be a useful tool to attract candidates, but not to select them. (Compare exploratory data analysis.)
It's not difficult to get your hands on real sassafras and sarsaparilla. If you're in the right part of the country, the stuff literally grows on trees. If not, it's still definitely possible to find in local herb and spice stores (I've found it at Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco). There's no shortage of online recipes to make your own root beer.
Search for EvanTube. To be clear, they're clearly making quite a bit of money from it - it's not all innocent kid making his own videos just for fun (my son does enjoy those kind of videos too) - unsurprisingly since it's effectively hours after hours of toy / videogame advertising, and they have a fairly professional setup.

My son, though, interestingly doesn't often ask for any of the stuff he showcases, though he does ask me to help build home-grown versions of some of the lego. And it got him into Minecraft.

My son now wants his own YouTube channel (lucky me - I've been put in charge of getting the technical side sorted out), and his own Minecraft server, and Evan is by far his favourite "celebrity". And this is the most professionally produced YouTube channel he watches. In general he seems to care more about watching a kid around his age that he can relate to than how professional the video is (e.g. he actively dislikes a lot of the adults doing toy / videogame review videos)
> There's a lot of weird things that I notice many people do (including myself) related to metrics like this. I'm 24, and a lot of my friends use Snapchat; however, they've switched to using the personal stories over sending actual messages. I really don't like this, mainly because you can see who has viewed your story. And there's a sense of anxiety where you don't want to look at other people's stories if they don't look at yours. So I just avoid it altogether.

Really? I never got that feeling. While I do check to see who looked at my story, I always figured people who didn't check either don't use Snapchat on a daily basis or just didn't have the time to see it within the window. I do get your anxiety when it comes to FB's likes or IG's hearts but since Snapchat doesn't have that and is so ephemeral, I don't get any of that.
I've put a couple of things on Thingiverse, including a lens mount design:

https://support.thingiverse.com/thing:330812

Someday I need to clean up a bunch of other things and figure out what the cool kids are using to share designs instead of thingiverse now that Makerbot is kind of shunned by large portions of the open 3d printer community.

I print parts for my cameras in ABS which is pretty strong and has a nice side benefit in that if it ever does fail, it fails in a slow stretchy sort of way as opposed to just exploding like PLA plastic does.

I'm not sure what type of plastic the pieces you've held are but there's a really wide range of available materials ranging from really brittle to really strong (also with various degrees of heat tolerance in the end part).

I've used the lens adapters quite extensively and haven't had anything fail yet and some of the lenses I use with them are large old lens designs from the late 70s which tend to be quite heavy.
Do you hapen to know if the search is simply delegated to Bing or is it the Bing engine running against a different index (yahoo's) ?
Great! After this discussion, it's clearer to me that Sandstorm is "user-friendly [Docker]/[containers for web-apps]".

I think I was misled when Kenton repeatedly pointed out how, with Sandstorm, disappearing SaaS wouldn't be a problem. This implied that there was a relatively an easy way to take an existing web-app and turn it into a Sandstorm App. I now realize how naive that impression was, as making a Sandstorm App actually requires adapting the webapp to Sandstorm, which requires development work and access to the source code.

Which, as someone who is perfectly able to rev up a virtual server and install some web-app, including configuring it to use some shared auth backend, isn't as groundbreaking as I hoped for.

Sandstorm is a great value proposition for the reasons you cite, just not the amazing unicorn I unrealistically expected.
>'What is being done to help prisoners rehabilitate and break out of this loop?'

Not much that I'm aware of. Being "tough on crime" is still pretty popular depending on political affiliation, Joe "Concentration Camp" Arpaio is still a sheriff and GEO is up 15% YTD [1].

However, there's been a fair amount of recent coverage around stepping back from some of the policies that got us here [2] so there's reason to be hopeful.

1: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AGEO&ei=5BgaVMjANtOQ8...

2: http://www.vox.com/2014/9/12/6139819/bill-clinton-violent-cr...
The article, ironically, posits a"just so story" about the popularity of EP being related to economic conditions. I couldn't discern any good arguments against the discipline, she just seems upset that its findings contradict her personally held dogmas.
Kitchen counter bio hacking
Yet, you find individuals and groups who don't treat them like humans.

...oh! Ipso facto: they aren't sane. :)
What would the programming equivalent of pulling wire be?
“Before prison gangs showed up,” he says, “you survived in prison by following something called ‘the convict code.’ ”

There is a great book by a Polish-American sociologist Marek Kamiński[1] describing the convict code in Polish prisons, Games Prisoners Play[2]. It's based on his personal experience (he ended up in prison as an anticommunist dissident in the 80s) and tries to explain the prison culture from game theory perspective. Which is a fine premise but what makes it a great read is the long, intricate process of initiation he went through as a fresh prisoner.

It's also not nearly as brutal. There are no gangs, there's only this one inner culture. Actually, some of the initiation games were kind of clever.

In one they threw him under the bunk and two of his cell mates where kicking him (or poking with a broom, something like that) while the third was yelling "gear up" or "gear down". He broke a comb he had in his pocket and screamed like it was a bone at which point they stopped but what they were looking for was for him to say "put it in neutral".

[1] http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4931

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Games-Prisoners-Play-Tragicomic-Worlds...
Accelerating materials property predictions using machine learning
The Slaver’s Objectivity
It is pretty much never going to be printed. The book has to remain available for free and never for profit according to the deal I've taken internally with Heroku to work on it.

The only way it gets printed is if Heroku decides it feels like allocating time and resources getting this printed by working with a publisher, which is way outside our usual line of work there.

I don't see the incentive for the corporation to do this, financially or otherwise.
nice and educational.
Mass purge of ex-Nokia MS staffers looms
Airbnb Will Collect Taxes in San Francisco Starting Next Month
To think of all that Dremel's destroyed, now, it can create.
Transmit on the Mac is updated. I doubt they don't care -- this is more likely a problem of limited resources.
I'm disappointed to see that like many build systems, they're inventing their own backend instead of just using Ninja (http://martine.github.io/ninja/)
I'd like to see a social news site that costs something like $25-50 to join. Enough to keep out kids, spammers, and trolls, but not enough to keep out serious adults.
Pick: Find time to make things happen