skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the latency is far from negligible. However, the bandwidth really is impressive. Having userspace as the control plane while keeping the data plane firmly in the kernel has long been the way of things, and this blog post's not-so-subtle message is "your problem is not novel enough to justify the cost of your solution".

To be clear, there is nothing fundamental (to the best of my knowledge) that would prevent Weave implementing a VXLAN backend. It is simply a poor implementation at the moment, and even then, only in this regard. Who knows, maybe Weave's use of a gossip protocol vs flannel's CP etcd could make it more suited to some deployments. Though, that does need to be tested.
Double click, type "20",
double click, type "15",
double click, type "10",
double click, type "35".

(All without typing the actual quotemarks.)

If I had realised earlier that it's (x,y) to (y,x), I could've done it without the keyboard at all.
The point is that by manufacturing Tide, that was in some sense also "facilitating transactions". Where the line is drawn is pretty arbitrary and vague.
My wife, also from Oregon interestingly enough, has an Irish first name spelled in a "black" way (with a 'w' rather than a 'u'). Every now and then, hilarity ensues when she meets someone in person who was obviously expecting someone who looks different.
I have an acquaintance who looks white but was named Mohammed (he is Kurdish). He changed his name to "Michael" because, as he said, "It's easier to say... like for example at the airport."

I agree about referencing the word "nigger", Louis CK has a bit where he says he hates the phrase "the n-word" because, "you still put the word 'nigger' into my head, so it's not like you didn't say it".

But socially one probably has to accept reality, there's a court case about a guy who was fired for saying the word, not using it in a derogatory way but just referring to the word itself.
The only advice I can pass on to the "younger" crew is to simply be prepared. You can do so in two ways, both of which are necessary:

- Stay relatively current but continually grow your knowledge depth. Imagine a full-stack developer who has little awareness of anything new in the past ten years...don't be that person. Complacency for your career will kill your prospects fast. An advantage that you develop over time is that the latest tech is often nothing new, and is instead just a repackaging of prior concepts. Leverage that advantage.

- The "past your 50s" monicker is a moving target. Do not assume that 50 is the threshold that you cross when you have to start dealing with ageism. It will be different for many (it's often much earlier), and you won't see it coming. One day, you'll be relatively dismissed by someone younger than you due to your "age", and you'll think "what the $#@% just happened?"

In the end, I'm still an eager beaver who gets excited at seeing interesting ways to solve engineering problems more effectively than the past. And because of that, I feel like I keep the best parts of what is normally considered a youthful approach.

As always, your mileage may vary.
Oh man. That made me lol.
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Isn't some of this in "economists differ" territory (Krugman and IS/LM, MMT, etc)?
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"Consider that, depending on your racial category, it may be ok for the US state to choke you to death in public."

It is never OK, ever.
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What i usually have done for years is this :

sudo apt-get install python-pygments;
alias ccat='pygmentize'

then :

ccat program.js

ccat loader.rb #etc...
I write code and make more than any PM I've worked for, which I think is normal in my industry and location.
jbob2000, you are hellbanned, that means every comment you've made for the last few weeks has been hidden from this forum.
I'd also appreciate this!
Disclosure: I work for Microsoft

I put together a tutorial on how to create a famo.us (awesome framework for high-perf web apps) and use ManifoldJS to deploy it to several platforms. In this case, iOS.

http://www.davevoyles.com/creating-a-mobile-app-with-famo-us...
Many in the financial services or healthcare industry. Some of those industries have requirements far in excess of both SOX and HIPAA combined due to SEC scrutiny.
Sorting and filtering is pretty much the main functionality of Product Chart. It can be done directly on the smartphone chart:

http://www.productchart.com/smartphones/

The similarity finder is a new addon. I want to find out if "distance based on specs" is an alternative to the usual "customers who bought x also bought y".
That's like saying 'anyone who's opposed to eugenics should pass the "Turing test for mainstream eugenics and racial hygiene" otherwise they're ill-informed'. Which is largely the argument used against opponents at the time (the opponents were ignorant "medieval obscurantists", if religious speaking from "superstition")

My objections to modern economics are as follows:

- utility is an ordinal quantity, not a cardinal one. I can tell you I prefer my soon-to-be-born daughter's first kiss to my sister's cheerful hello, but not by how much (how much "what"? What are the units?).

- the utility function, so widely used, is an unknown function. However mathematics are performed after choosing an arbitrary functional form that has the features desired

But most importantly:

- It assumes utility exists and humans behave accordingly.

These are fundamental objections to the field. I can talk to an economist about yield curves flipping, but that jumps over the foundational objections: they are projecting complex human behavior onto fairly outdated mathematics. And then making a mess of it.
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Apple trying to get do what Google does faster, than Google doing what Apple does.

In other words: Both Apple and Google in the mobile OS and device space. Both Apple and Google in the (mobile) search space.
GPUs will continue improving. For now, upscaling would still be very good, especially for screen door effect. Though, I have a gtx980 that is just fine pushing incredible frame rates at 4k.
It is absolutely unreasonable. When you say it "works out more often than not" I would ask "For whom?" Many snap judgments based on race lead to the death of unarmed black men and women.

Studies have shown that resumes with black-sounding names get fewer callbacks and we treat black men like white men with a criminal record.

Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?
http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CofLE3q3Qh0
Do you need to set goals if you know what you want already?
No to mention their platform is still far off from what i'd call user friendly. I have to download excel sheets, edit them and upload? Really??
I'm in my 40s and working the same enterprise programming gig since the late 90s. I keep up to date with doing work and learning on the side. I don't want to manage, not do to the people, but the red tape and politics.

I do often wonder if I should leave and get another job before I appear 'too old'. The few interviews I've had over the past couple years my age didn't seem to be an issue, just weren't positions that would work out. At some point, if I choose to really leave or get let go, I'm rather worried that I will appear too old on paper to get my foot in the door, even though the knowledge and experiences should be there.
Is this by the same people as grooveshark.com?

Seems like they have identified what they consider a loophole, that is previewing tracks rather than donlwnloading them for keeps.

Can't see it staying up for long.
Their support folks got back to me - promptly - to say that a) they're still considering whether to provide GUI bindings, and b) that one can call the required Java APIs from Lisp, so GUIs wouldn't be too big a deal anyhow.
Totally agree... and yet, I still stand by my initial statement. :)
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Are generalizations really not allowed? Do we have to handicap our brains?

I actually worked for the progressives and saw campaign analytics first-hand. It was one of the most racist things I've seen.

And it works.
The internet would still exist. Slightly postponed, maybe worse, maybe much better. But it would still exist all the same.
Could you just put the cash in a cardboard box and then say it's important papers or stock certificates? Do they have the right to open it?
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Marsh & McLennan has a market cap of $30B -- though this also includes the Oliver Wyman consulting firm & a couple other subsidiaries
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Precisely.

I suspect the previous commenter has never encountered such a police officer. I have seen how they behave when their authority is challenged.

Right, wrong or otherwise; police officers won't admit to being wrong unless ordered to do so by a superior.
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Also the home and end buttons on the keyboard don't work.
Just for Siri? Finally kick Google/Bing out of iOS/Mac OS? Build better machine learning and AI? I suspect we will learn more at WWDC.
This is what amazes me about white America:

1: 14% of the population is black,

2: 90% of white America have never spoken to a black person let alone have a black friend.

3: So where do their stereotypes come from, rap?, news?, (with regards to height) NBA?

4: They don't like to talk about this and this will be flagged off HN.

It amazes me with so little to no interaction with a group, white America can infer a black persons character and be so confident in doing so.

EDIT:
"In fact, PRRI's data show that a full 75 percent of whites have "entirely white social networks without any minority presence." The same holds true for slightly less than two-thirds of black Americans."

Look at it another way 66% of black people say they do not have a white person in their social network. So roughly 34% of 14% of the population have a person in their social network from the white population. So how the hell can all these white people claim to have all these black friends? How can all these white people know so much about people they don't have meaningful interactions with?
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We're using Zenefits at the current start-up I'm at. It's not half bad. I am only a user so I can't speak for how the entire system works but from my perspective it took all of the annoying HR, payroll and insurance paperwork and put them into a single place where I can always access it, digitally sign it and fill it out / update it. This is the first place where I didn't have to manually sign up or print anything which was great.

It's a valuable service in my opinion and I'm surprised there are not more companies that make this stuff all together. $4.5 billion valuable though? I'm not sure especially since I'm only seeing the user side, not the management side.
Good idea.

However, I was expecting that a Xperia Z1 Compact would be compared with an Xperia Z3 Compact, or at least between similar phones.

It is twice the price and twice the max SD card capacity, but besides that, I think they are quite similar:
http://www.productchart.com/smartphones/4597_vs_4674
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Sony-Xper...

Refine the comparing algorithm and it will be awesome.
Every time a Github down article comes on HN (why do they still come and get upvoted?), this is usually the top comment - centralised server for a DVCS.
He had a huge amount of buy-in/ownership when he was brought on board and certainly had some level of executive decision making. I doubt he just gets a 1099 for $market_wage and goes home. He's swimming in stock and other perks. You don't hire him to sit locked in an office all day and not have say in your organization.
As an MIT alum in my 50s, let me assure you that a specific fundraiser is assigned to target you, personally and individually. "Ugh," indeed.
I'm 40 and feel like my career is almost over. It's a big shock to go on interviews where I'm the oldest person there by 10+ years.
https://github.com/mato/rump-php

http://rumpkernel.org/

https://github.com/rumpkernel/wiki/wiki/Info:-Community

Ask on the mailing list/irc if you need help... its still under development so not completetly obvious yet ;)
of course they can escape it. they just have to change their name. that's what my family did for me, and what i will do for my kids if i have kids. as far as i'm concerned if you have serious professional ambitions in the US, you're being foolish if you keep an 'ethnic' sounding name.

keeping your disadvantageous name and arrogantly shaking your fist at the world to change to suit your political tastes is insane to me.
Maybe it's like grep. `grep asterisk` is different from `cat asterisk |grep`, in that it knows which file it's in and which line number of that file the match is on.
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This is tangential, but if you have an old microwave that you don't mind perhaps getting a bit dirty, you can make ball lightning in the comfort of your own home. Discovered this during my "I wonder what will happen to this when I microwave it!" phase.

1) Take a tealight. Bog standard little candle.

2) Remove the metal casing. Snip the little metal foot off the bottom end of the wick. You now have a little puck of paraffin with a wick in it.

3) Place said candle in a glass tealight holder. Ikea sell 'em for a few pence.

4) Light it. Stick it in the microwave, right in the centre, without the turntable.

5) Engage. Observe with wonder as the paraffin vapour enters a plasma state and hovers in the middle of your microwave, contained by the microwaves.

I dare say this works better in some than others, and perhaps depends on the shape of the standing wave in your microwave, and I make no guarantees as to your or your microwave's safety - but it's a really neat demo, either way.
Why do you mention your age in your job application?
Sorry, yes, you're right - the latency overhead is not negligible (as a percentage, though in absolute terms it seems pretty tolerable).

Is this added latency just VXLAN overhead, or is flannel userspace still involved in per-packet-processing? I'd love to see a test comparing flannel/VXLAN to a manually configured VXLAN tunnel.

(I'm off to read the flannel code...)
I'm the first tweet on their homepage expressing my profound love for Zenefits. Great product, my praise is authentic.

Happy to see they've raised a boatload of capital. I look forward to more product development and additional customer support resources. If I had the means to invest at a $4.5B valuation, I would.
I don't think email is considered confidential by default. Had this recruiter made any confidentiality request, I would have tried my best to honor it. Instead, he seemed more interested in spreading the word that they were entering the search game. Also, Apple has not been exactly hiding their growing interest in search. They rarely let their engineers speak in public, but they were on stage this year at Lucene Revolution giving a number of details about how they are using Solr.
> It's been well demonstrated that economies with gold standard currencies fall apart

Then why were gold and silver considered money for thousands of years if they were so awful and horrible and destroyed everyone's economies? We still use forks and spoons even after the spork was invented, and regular chairs even after beanbag chairs were invented.

Perhaps it was the financial innovations that caused the problems, not the actual money? It's obviously hard to disentangle the two, but the East India Company didn't make up a bunch of gold, they issued a lot of stock. That was the innovation that really enabled things to go nuts. The Great Depression here in the US was the result of tremendous amounts of credit being issued against stocks; people were allowed to buy on margin in absolutely insane ways. Eventually prices went down and the margin calls were made and the whole thing collapsed.

But the gold didn't cause the problem. The problem was the issuance of credit based not on the creditworthiness of the individual or the project but based on the assumed value of the instruments that the credit was being issued to purchase. Blaming the money for not being able to inflate is like blaming the victim for being weak enough that the criminal is able to murder them. It confuses the cause (the criminal) with the outcome (the victim is murdered).
> Those who don't google search are doomed to reinvent..

the duckduckgo team agrees ;)
Author here. Unfortunately, (I've been told), common sense accounting where you look at the hourly cost of the worker vs. the cost of buying a service doesn't work in a startup. To the funding sources, my time looks free and any capital expenses are terrible. Recurring payments to AWS is what they want to see.

Also, in regards to the pixel spike, yes. Needs more checking but I was specifically filtering on "Intel Mac OS X" self-reported user agents. All iPhones and iPads I've seen report themselves as such.
> Why would insurance companies not just scrap the middle man and build their own thing?

Maybe I'm wrong (I'm a user of Zenefits but only from the employee side) but Zenefits seems to bring all of the disparate services (generic HR forms, payroll, insurance) together in a single place with flexible insurance coverage. If an insurance company did this I don't think they could offer as much unless they're going to branch services out. Plus this let's a company switch out insurance providers without changing services.
They made it worse for me. Gonna have to filter through more toys to buy stuff for family.
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It's a motivator. Counsel gets paid much more to bring a suit than to smack sense into in its client.
I'm 59 and based in New England. I worry about this all the time. But so far, the worry has been a bigger problem than the reality: I've left stable employment situations to start up my own things, thinking that was my best insurance against hypothetical age discrimination.
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>I imagine there would also be strong push-back from academics averse to outside contributors (at least for big changes).

No, not really. "We" academics get cliquey because of the intellectual prerequisites to our work, not because we're trying to form a closed conspiracy for domination of the academic world. If someone can demonstrate findings but has unusual institutional affiliations, we'll give them exactly our normal treatment (ie: skepticism in proportion to how thoroughly they're proving our hypotheses wrong, mixed with enthusiasm for having something interesting to talk about).
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Yes, but you should expect that economists who differ understand the rationale behind different approaches. At least everyone should have understanding of classical form of monetarism before they start to depart from it.
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I agree. I find video games less compelling now than I did as a teenager primarily because my work feels a lot more interesting and engaging than school did.
What rights did women not have in 1788 that you would want them to have? They couldn't vote, but voting isn't a right. They could own property, for example.

Once married, they became basically legally merged with their husband, but I'm not sure what it would mean to share a household in 1788 and not have joint ownership of things.

update: In fact, they would have been covered by all of the bill of rights, including 9 and 10, which we are not covered by today and which are really the most important ones. So I think I was probably right in my original statement, even including women. I mean, I'm not an expert on femininity in the 18th century, though.

update2: And you want to know what my omission says about me? It says that I think of people as people, rather than dividing them up by gender. I am not a feminist---I believe in equal rights for all people, not priviliges and special treatment for women.
Ok. So why is it legal for insurance companies to increase price for young drivers, but not for men* (*at least in some countries)? Both groups cause more accidents than average,but it's legal to "stereotype" against one group but not the other? To anyone shouting that it's not "stereotyping" but true statistic, then I would reply that it's also true that Jamaal is mostly used by black men, therefore the probability of someone with that name being black is very high, and not a stereotype, but merely an observation.
I used to work at a company that had no fixed hours... I usually spent at least 10 hours a day on the weekdays and often stopped in on the weekends and there was usually at least a smattering of people there, and collaboration and morale were both high. They really got it right on that one. Then investors started courting the company, and management started telling people they wanted butts in seats at 9:30am. Well as soon as 5:30 rolls around it became a ghost town.
>90% of white America have never spoken to a black person let alone have a black friend.

Are you being serious? Citation needed.
No it doesnt. And the presentation is not very accurate. Rump kernel is a proper unikernel (based on the proven NetBSD kernel) but actually running as a library operating system, in the same address space as the single application it is linked to. You compile and link the kernel library and application into a single elf file. OSv is a single address space too, it just tries to pretend to look more like a normal OS. I think Drawbridge is a proper unikernel too. So the examples in the slides are simply wrong.

PS no idea who downvoted you, there is really no point in mentioning it.
The problem I have with valuations is that they're supposed to somehow reflect what somebody might pay to buy the company. But because of the hamfisted way they're calculated they seem to be so huge or so small (depending on the case) that they're essentially meaningless.

For example, here's a company operating in an ultra-competitive space, from a fairly interchangeable position (middle-man) that has a supposed value on the market that's 225x what they expect to bring in in revenue during 2015. And they're losing 5x their projected revenue in customer acquisition costs (yeah yeah, growth stage and all that). "Valuation" as a term is clearly divorced from actual business realities.

People who claim to be smarter than I will say "but the investors figure the company's market position in through their N-round investment terms". So what do I know?
You hire him because he's been writing 3d graphics code for longer than literally anyone else on the planet.
So, your overall question is a good one, but #2 is a howler. The reported statistic I've seen is that 40% of Americans say they don't have a close friend of a different race. But I'm confident that 99% of white Americans have spoken to a black person.

Except for a few states like Vermont, most states and most cities have significant black populations. See, for instance: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-diverse-cities-.... Even in spite of that segregation, people do talk to each other (they may not live on the same block, but they do eventually meet each other).

Do you live in the US? If you don't, please do try to get basic facts about us right. Our country has a lot of problems, but you can't understand them without having a basic factual grasp of our demographics.