skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider Atlassian's Stash: https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash

Similar feature set, but otherwise better in almost every way (and I don't work for Atlassian, just for the record). Some examples:

- Source code is provided when you purchase a license, and you have the right to modify it (just not distribute it). Whether or not Atlassian is still around in 10 years (they probably will be), you'll never be left in the cold with something you can't maintain, or bugs that can't be fixed.

- Pricing is up-front and non-discriminatory. The prices are listed publicly, and you can buy it on your Amex, right now, without ever speaking to a sales team (unless you want to).

- Distributed as an installable application, not an opaque VM like GitHub Enterprise, so you can provision it in any environment, not worry about out-of-date OS components, dealing with an opaque black box you can't administer directly, or any other similar issues.

- Extension API. You (very easily) can write extensions that hook into just about any aspect of Stash, without having to work with an external REST API (unless you want to — it has a REST API, too). Atlassian provides a built-in extension "app store" for both free and commercial extensions, and there are a lot of great free (and open source) extensions out there.
>how can we define aliveness without necessarily referring to the human?

Is there another way to progress in this area, besides gaining a better understanding of how human brains work?
This is slightly off-topic, but I've always wondered: How do startups with a small number of founders set up their boards? I heard talk of boards with 2 founders, 2 VCs, and 1 outside board member; but with a single founder, there's no way to avoid being outvoted. Would there be a "friend of the founder who is trusted to always vote with her" seat to keep the board balance?
I assume it also has to do with his mental state at the time &c &c. All in all this a double-blind randomised control experiment isn't.
One of the really interesting things from article that Atmel is doing here is releasing very low-cost eval boards for the new chips:

http://store.atmel.com/PartDetail.aspx?q=p:10500404;c:100113...

http://store.atmel.com/PartDetail.aspx?q=p:10500392;c:100113...

Also happy to see improved internal RC-oscillator support. I had to jump through some hoops to self-calibrate my project [1] for 9600 baud serial.

If there's one thing I'd ask from Atmel, it's that they release a low-cost, multi-core AVR. Right now there's a lot of timer juggling if you want to do more than one thing at once, and a second core would drastically improve that.

[1] https://github.com/mmastrac/gpsclock/blob/master/displaydriv...
google image search the logo....gives some strange results. I doubt its related.
He says he doesn't want to be 'that pretentious pot critic', but I'd totally sign up for that newsletter.
SYN-ACK which does not get retransmitted, advertises a zero window and does not have options looks like some implementation of SYN cookies. A nice (and useful in some cases) hack but a violation of the TCP spec, which is why it is disabled by default in most places that implement it.
Nicholas Carr’s ‘Glass Cage': Automation Will Hurt Society in Long Run
As a side note, "Agua de Culo," one of the brands offered during the Penn & Teller experiment, translates as "Ass Water."
There are many in this thread who would greatly appreciate tips on how to access the challenges. Any ideas?
Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated
One big benefit is that it provides a way to add flash to systems with no PCIe slots, like blade servers.
Commercial thinking and action (in software development)
True! Apathy is the real issue. Check out this article by Daniel Solove which counters all the arguments people come up with to not protect their data http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127...
Great work! I played around with deis a few months ago and it was the first PaaS I was able to get up and running and actually, you know, deploy an app to!

Couple questions:

1. What about storage? I know you use ceph for the Docker registry, etc. Is that exposed so that apps can somehow use it?

2. When I tried it, performance was kind of lacking (for things like pushing apps and making config changes). Was this just a limitation of my setup (I used 3x2GB DigitalOcean nodes) or something you guys are working out?

Thanks again!
I seem to recall that early Palm devices used run-in-place, but i don't recall if they were able to maintain state if there was a power loss.
> Marijuana is as addictive as potatoes.

Maybe we disagree on how addictive potatoes are? Marijuana is fairly addictive, with about 9% of users becoming addicted.[1]

Alcohol's quite addictive too. I don't know whether it's more or less so than marijuana. But with alcohol, we have what we have. If I were designing policy and we didn't have the drinking culture that we do, I'd be hoping we wouldn't end up here.

All I'm saying is this: it's actually a bad thing if lots more people end up smoking lots more weed. It's bad in two ways. One, it's bad intrinsically, because I do think that smoking weed three or four times a week demotivates you and keeps you from getting your shit done. Two, we need to learn how to legalise drugs without use increasing massively, because we've got a lot more drugs to legalise.

[1] Number pulled from the summary here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/05/marijuana-much-more-tha... , citing research here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3371269/ . I haven't read the paper, but I do trust this blog a lot.
rancher is a bit different. It's based on lower-level APIs which allow your containers to hook into a certain cloud-provider features like Amazon's EBS, ELBs and VPCs. Deis uses the docker engine to ship and run applications, providing an easy developer workflow. We're similar to other PaaS solutions like Dokku[1], Flynn[2], and Cloud Foundry[3].

[1]: https://github.com/progrium/dokku

[2]: https://flynn.io/

[3]: http://cloudfoundry.org/
1) I think its smart to cool down prior to having a conversation about the bonus. Approaching this tactfully will be important.

2) I'd absolutely call them out on this embarrassingly small bonus if only to establish that you're not going to take insults (which this is) laying down.

3) I'd probably not even bother fighting over the 4k annual bonus. I don't know what your current salary is but I'd imagine framing the argument as "I'm a RoR developer now" vs "I'm an under-rewarded support engineer" will be much more lucrative and any anchoring to the latter would only hurt that negotiation. I'd also keep in mind this bonus incident when negotiating your future role/salary/bonus structure with the company.

4) If they don't want to compensate you for your work, milk them for this experience since it sounds like a significant promotion in terms of responsibility and then run like mad to the next opportunity as soon as you find it (and you should start looking shortly if #3 doesn't play out favorably).

Good luck!
Presumably the outside board members described by Sam Altman do not make a financial investment but, regardless, someone who has made an investment already has an incentive; they would be just an incentived with or without a board seat.
it should have been. that's much more important than just saying "having a good board is good".
Currently we're using the facebook integration as it's easier to populate the profiles of the users. It also ensures that the photos aren't inappropriate and its more likely that people are honest about being male or female.
Why You Don’t Have Enough Time (And How to Have More)
Wow, I watched that show as a kid too! For an anime series with an actual airborne aircraft carrier, see Star Blazers. In my memory all these old shows have blurred together, as if from another life time: BotP, Star Blazers, Robotech, Voltron. I'm sure they must have borrowed a lot from each other.
I'm a big fan of Linode but I see Linode isn't amongst the supported cloud providers. Is there some fundamental issue here or is it just lack of time / resources to develop support?
Net Neutrality Debate: Access and Costs Are Top Issues
The Self Attribution Fallacy (2011)
There's no way to easily verify how companies are actually calculatign the displayed ratings, and I doubt the average user would care or be savvy enough to find out. I assume it's a given most services see the input ratings as a personal indicator modulated by how reliable/benevolant/... each user is. Reddit votes, for example, are fairly nonlinear and visibility priority is even more complicated.
Taylor Swift’s Stand on Royalties Draws a Rebuttal from Spotify
The integrated advertising content feels really jarring in written form, in a way that it doesn't in the audio.
Google Chromecast Adds Games
While we're offtopic, may I ask why "board control" has been conflated with "we need someone who will help the company"?

It seems like the value of a board member is their role with the company, not their control over the company. Those seem like two distinct concepts, and you only want to deal with the former.

Why can't founders give people equity stakes on par with what a "board member" would receive, while giving them no voting power within the company? Is this a case of "In theory that would work, but in practice you wouldn't get the benefits an actual board member would bring"? If so, why is that?

Maybe there are few people who would actually bring enough value to your company where it makes sense to offer them a board seat. If there are few, then they can demand a board seat. And maybe that's why voting power goes along with their positive effect: It's part of the deal. But I'm just wildly guessing, and it'd be great to hear from someone with insights about the actual reasons one can't simply give up an equity stake and expect to receive help on par with an actual board member.
Landing a spacecraft on a comet
> I would be willing to wager that new models of laptops in 2020 with spinning disk will be uncommon

How about more like 2015. You're already forgetting MacbookAir/Chromebook/Ultrabook crowd are slowly taking over (which have no spinning disks).
A Framework for Representing Knowledge (1974)
Nice! I love teespring, maybe now I can finally build something using their data.
That's why there are two separate methods on this class - Add (at the end) and Set (anywhere). Both outperform the corresponding ImmutableList<T>, according to the article.
Agreed. Criminalizing antagonism would provide dirt on just about everyone. Hell, half of YouTube [commenters] would be prosecutable.

Not all wrongful doings ought be illegal.
Hmmm.... This doesn't seem to line up with what Gnome said [0]:

> It was almost inconceivable to us that Groupon, with over $2.5 billion in annual revenue, a full legal team and a huge engineering staff would not have heard of the GNOME project, found our trademark registration using a casual search, or even found our website, but we nevertheless got in touch with them and asked them to pick another name. Not only did Groupon refuse, but it has now filed even more trademark applications (the full list of applications they filed can be found here [1], here [2] and here). To use the GNOME name for a proprietary software product that is antithetical to the fundamental ideas of the GNOME community, the free software community and the GNU project is outrageous.

Yet Groupon says:

> We’ve been communicating with the Gnome Foundation for months to try to come to a mutually satisfactory resolution, including alternative branding options, and we’re happy to continue those conversations. And if we can’t come up with a resolution, we’ll be glad to look for another name.

If we take the Gnome post as fact it appears Groupon thought they could get away with this then when they saw the (potential) backlash they backed away from their position. This may not be the case but I'm much more inclined to believe Gnome over Groupon

[0] https://www.gnome.org/groupon/

[1] http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86200190%0A86200193%0A8620...

[2] http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86287930%0A86287935%0A8628...

[3] http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86441913%0A86441922%0A8644...
Are you sure the blood sample was handled correctly? Vitamin D tests are cheap to do nowadays but most doctors have no idea that they have to immediately enclose the sample in darkness or it will be tainted. Vitamin D decomposes(?) in sunlight.

I was tested deficient by one ignorant doctor, then another tested again and everything was fine. The second one told me about it. It is a pain to google so I cannot find proper sources in English.
I'm interested in hearing pros/cons of Deis vs Kubernetes.

The primary disadvantage I can see for Deis is that it can only deploy single Docker containers (vs Kubernetes pods). Given the Heroku-style setup it makes sense, but it is limiting for more complex applications.

On the other hand, the simplicity of Deis is attractive. I kind of wish I could use it, but I feel like it just isn't feasible for a full suite of microservices + dependencies.

Regardless, congrats on 1.0!
Aren't there plenty of other PCIe ram-cards ?

Like http://ddrdrive.com/ ?

I didn't think there was any shortage of these kind of devices - especially given their common use in ZFS workloads as a SLOG.
Weapons Directed by Robots, Not Humans, Raise Ethical Questions
Same here. Also, when at a restaurant squeeze a lemon (or lime) wedge into your water to help handle odd tastes.

I would avoid dropping the wedge into the water since you have no idea if the rind is clean.
I think you are misunderstanding the way corporations are organized. All corporations must have a board of directors, and the board of directors is the ultimate top level decision making entity within the corporation. The board is always in control. Shareholders have the ability to periodically vote on directors, but that is basically the extent of their power. Shareholders have no right to influence day to day operations of the corporation. So, if you are a founder and want to assure control of the board, you must maintain a majority of voting class shares, otherwise large investors could vote in their own directors who can do whatever they want (like replacing the founder as the CEO).
Openfolio and Coinbase bring something that Bitcoin needs: transparency
I've been in a store when one of the Revel iPad terminals couldn't get online. highly annoying. Don't traditional POS rely on the telephone lines? Usually more reliable than my ISP, that's for sure.
Assuming the black striped continue forever for "prime mod 1260", does this mean we can quickly weed out non prime numbers?
A change set is a set of changes.

An object is totally unspecified.

I know what a repository is when I work with version control. I've been using version control for years and I never was confused about what the repository was.

What the fuck is a ``ref''?

Git's shit.
Deis supports custom providers.

http://deis.readthedocs.org/en/rtfd-org/components/provider/
I looked at some numbers for Michigan. Hunters take ~400,000 deer each year, while there are ~50,000 vehicle-deer accidents (I guess the majority of the collisions kill the deer).

I haven't found a convenient source for predators. There are wolves, and coyotes, bobcats and bears. I guess bobcats, coyotes and bears mostly don't go after adults, but they can have a big impact on the number of fawns.
Show HN: EverydayCarry.com
1) It is factually incorrect to state that the rest of the world is light years ahead of us in broadband access. Connecting speeds in the US are faster than all but a handful of other countries most of which are very small & dense (like South Korea). See: http://www.akamai.com/dl/akamai/akamai-soti-q413.pdf?WT.mc_i...

Perhaps this misunderstanding of the current state of reality is leading you to reach incorrect conclusions.
Transported to Paradise, but Needing More
> I would avoid dropping the wedge into the water since you have no idea if the rind is clean.

Why are you eating there if you can't trust them to provide clean food?
"However, I wonder how the modern UNIX OS will work with a system like this without block devices at all."

I don't think that's how it works - I think you get a special driver that presents the fast-storage-in-dimm-slot as a block device. So you still have a block device, it's just faster.

Right ?
> All in all, I'm curious what a solution to the privacy issue would look like that would satisfy your criteria. Any proposals?

No server other than a gateway at the house. Peer-to-peer sync.

If centralized servers are required, perhaps someday we'll have the keying/trust infrastructure necessary to deploy sandboxed code that can't be introspected externally, e.g., using Intel SGX.
Great talk on multi-device design by Luke Wróblewski
Il bet that the choice of language has no impact on success.
I was wondering that, myself. The magic number seems to be 210. (1260 is 210 * 6)
The article likened the job to food critics, none of which is double-blind, randomized, or performed with the scientific method.

For a local newspaper in Denver, an article that says "Go down to ye ol mary pub, and get this nug its the bomb" will be relevant for most who read it.

If you read it online from Flordia, and then buy the "same" Lemon Skunk from your street dealer in Orlando, of course you are going to end up with a different product...
The very low cost evaluation boards almost make up for not providing DIP packages.
"milli lightsecond" doesn't work on OSX unfortunately (under 10.6 at least). One value which does work is "3 c-millisecond".

(I learned this by reading the /usr/share/misc/units.lib file and finding the lightyear definition: "c-yr")
Well at the interface level it has to look like memory since it's attached to a memory bus. But that does not mean it looks like a single large DIMM. There is no way in the DRAM protocol to delay a transaction while data is read from the flash chips into the buffer, so you need a protocol on top of the simple memory model.

"nvDIMMs" on the other hand do look like and are as fast as plain memory. Disadvantage is that they are not big.
This is pretty great! We've put a lot of work into text for our HTML5 game development, yet our canvas-rendered text is still quite limited in functionality. Using a library like this is going to save us loads of time and really open things up for us.
4 hours for 5MB? Wow...
Hi ascorbic. Thanks for pointing us in the direction of the FCA, it’s good to get as many opinions on this as possible. Yes, we have consulted a lawyer specialising in English financial services regulation, as well as closely reading the FSMA Act 2000. I agree that bitcoin isn’t a ‘no-rules’ money, but I disagree that there is no difference in the requirements. This is because bitcoin and other digital currencies are not specified investments under FSMA (the relevant section of FSMA is 22). In our opinion it would be good for digital currencies if they were a specified investment, but currently they are not, and therefore they are not subject to the same regulations as cash or other traditional financial instruments. If you think I’m wrong please push back. This is an important point to clarify not just for us but other businesses in this space.
You'll also notice that between the black stripes, there is a somewhat denser white stripe. A while back, I calculated the number of primes in those white stripes, and the number was a good bit higher than the over all average.
Yeah, that's one thing that irked me here. I imagine that Adafruit and/or Sparkfun and/or Chinese resellers on eBay will fill the void and we'll end up with a dip-like breadboard.

From the datasheet, it looks like they've explicitly dedicated those four extra pins to I/O, so I imagine this means there will never be a DIP equivalent. Is a sign that DIP packages are on the way out?
I am not sure I see the point in implementing MapReduce when most of the current work seems to be in generalising MapReduce - i.e. Apache Spark and YARN. Is there any reasoning behind this?
I have search history disabled in my Google account settings. I guess that probably disables the login for me as well. I search for Python related stuff dozens of times a day.
Hi, I'm also a maintainer :) to answer your questions:

1) we expose ceph in the router, so your apps could use it. This will have to be managed by you however as we don't have a user story for plugging apps into backing services asides from `deis config:set`[1]... Yet.

2) Performance is still something we're working on. When you deploy an application using a Heroku buildpack[2], your app is compiled into a container which sits on top of Heroku's cedar stack, which is around 800MB[3]. It's a beefy stack so fleet will take some time deploying that image. This should only occur the first time it's scheduled onto a new host as future images will just use the cache for that image, significantly speeding up deployment times. If you deploy an app using a Dockerfile and it's been optimized correctly (we have an app sitting under 5MB for test purposes)[4], deployment times should be very speedy.

Hope that answers your question!

[1]: https://github.com/deis/deis/issues/231

[2]: http://docs.deis.io/en/latest/using_deis/using-buildpacks/

[3]: https://github.com/progrium/cedarish

[4]: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/deis/example-go/
Is this the beginning of another sasser/codered worm?
Not the overall deer population, but around the margins, on the edges of settlements. Seems like it could make a difference there.
> Very neat. Btrfs is a practical choice. Looks like the Go http server listens for both changes and jobs?

Right now pfs is just a file system so servers only listen for changes. However longterm this is going to be the case because submitting a job is actually going to be implemented as making a commit in the file system that tells pfs which data to run the job over and the container to use to do so.

> Could you tell me about the advantages git semantics add to MapReduce?

One is that it gives you an audit log which is very useful for debugging. I often find myself with data in HDFS that doesn't look like what I expect it to and wish that I know what process changed it.

Another killer feature is that it removes the distinction between stream processing and static MapReduce. Since our file system is commit based we think of MapReduce as an operation over a stream of commits rather than a static set of files. When more commits come in you can recompute your job for only the changes.

> Last, how does Pfs choose to distribute data across containers?

Right now pfs uses a simple static hashing algorithm based on filename. This probably isn't going to work for production deployments. We're planning to improve it soon.

> You've inspired me to put up an Unbounce page. Let's talk ZFS soon!

Yes please.
Especially for first time founders, not inviting an investor to sit on your board when you raise is a mistake. I can speak from personal experience here. The many upsides of an outside board member (mentorship, a cadence to the business, outside perspective, pattern recognition, real investor buy-in) outweigh the few downsides (loss of control, investment of time in board management).

It's an especially insidious mistake for founders, because not giving up control (i.e. not giving up any board seats) seems like a victory during fundraising, and you only see the downsides when things start to turn sour.

Here's another great post about the value of outside board members: http://allthingsd.com/20130927/the-value-of-a-board-at-the-s...
I've been in an Apple store where their customized iPod Touches (or iPhones?) POS terminals couldn't get online. Irony of ironies.