skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developers that build products on top of APIs controlled by other companies, particularly recent startups, are routinely abused. The upside of these products is unnaturally clipped due to moral hazard on the part of the API provider. That is, closed APIs incentivize their providers to farm out testing new products based on their data set to others, then reimplement the most successful products themselves, and finally cut off access to the developer because it's now a 'competitor'. This pattern has (allegedly) played out with several of the big closed API providers.

This behavior has a double benefit to the API provider, because it potentially turns would be direct competitors who would otherwise work on an alternative to its core technology if not provided with an API into unpaid new product idea validators that leave the API provider the option of crippling their product at will. That's a lot of competitive advantage, especially in markets dominated by network and first mover effects.

As a developer, it's prudent to be skeptical of closed API providers, because developer time is valuable, and the incentives of API providers and consumers are not aligned.

An API has to be extremely valuable in order to overcome these structural issues, and it appears that developers didn't regard these APIs as sufficiently valuable. So in my mind, the blame for this failure doesn't lie with the developers that failed to use the APIs, but with the company that didn't provide a sufficiently attractive API.
This is why I never want to have kids. I deeply resent being born and being forced to outlive my parents (his point 2).
Maybe it is exactly because I've "wasted" a lot of time on leisure activities so I have quite some fond memories.

Did some nice things professionally, too.
I am not black but I also know what it is to be discriminated. Most of people know it also, it is nearly impossible to belong always to the dominant/majoritarian group.

I grew up in a low-income suburb. When I went to college I was under estimated and segregated. The poors were, for the first time in my life, a minority. I really know how it feels. But I can also say that whinning about it never made my situation better, almost always made it bitter. Some of the rich, once we got to know eachother, included me in their activities. I believe that this can happen in all majority/minority conflicts if both parts are open minded.

The main problem, as I see it, is that majorities don't want to give in anything, and minorities want majorities to give in everything.
Containers implement something not unlike SELinux policies. Networking stuff requires the NET_ADMIN permission, which is not set by default.
For that scenario PouchDB would run in the browser and connect to Sync Gateway using CORS. Of course you'd still have to install Sync Gateway somewhere first, which is more work than outsourcing to a provider like Dropbox, but also more suitable for enterprise deployments.
He stated publicly that he didn't have much if anything to do with the facebook acquisition.
A trap, compared to what? Is plumbing a trap? Is finance a trap? Is hairstyling a trap?
It should be a liberating thought - that you've got nothing to lose, go try something exciting like

white water kayaking,
hike the Pacific Crest Trail,
sail across the ocean,
challenge yourself at a sport, biking, swimming, climbing?
take a safe amount of MDMA and go to a music festival?
listen to some alan watts [1]
try fresh cannabis [ideally from Washington/Colorado/California], and music

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtQf5kSHKhE
I disremember exactly where but I recall once reading that Robert Peel, founder of the London Metropolitan Police, asserted that police should be considered as members of the public who were paid to perform full-time the duties that every citizen should consider their obligation anyway.

One can easily make the self-evident case that we "live in different times" or that the world is more violent now (tell that to the Londoners of 1829) but I think there's a beautiful ideal in the original concept that's since been lost.

As a Brit living in the US the difference in policing as public servant vs. public master is quite striking. Not to say that policing challenges and situational contexts don't differ enormously; I'd hate to get into an "our police is better than your police" 'debate'!
Yeah, I didn't know that, I'm commenting as if I know anything about it, but I don't.

Maybe you should explain that on the site.
Unless of course you had to re-implement most of OS X's graphics framework on Linux, which could take both a lot of time and money.
Another is that Macs have their own raw image convertors, and if you're trying to sync photos to the cloud with raw files, and you want to match images with mac users, you're going to need OS X in the cloud.

If you don't have OS X in the cloud, then you're going to have to write your own raw image converter, and that means you can't sync with the OS X client native raw converter, complicating the workflow...
Totally agree. I feel like I didn't really start to think in large strokes until I hit 30. Maybe I'll feel the same once I'm past 50.
Them registration links :(
OS X does not have NUMA. It has some nice libraries for multi-threading, but that doesn't really matter that much when you're saturating your memory bus because the CPUs are doing too many cross-zone memory requests.
I don't know what (1) refers to, and you're cherry-picking with (2), but the voting records of the Democrats show a largely pro-science bias, and the GOPs have the exact opposite. It's irrelevant that they're doing it for political reasons -- that's the nature of politics.

There are counterexamples, of course. And I'm not happy with the Democrats, for many reasons. But, on science, the alternative is to go back to pre-enlightenment times with the GOPs. And leeches, as a medical cure-all, are probably more harmful than sugar pills.
> Also, "middle of nowhere" as a description is a bit insulting and I don't think most people in a city would like to have oil wells next door. Some things happen away from the coasts.

That's what oil industry PR wants you to assume.

Los Angeles has over 1,800 active oil wells, one on the grounds of a public high school, one across the street from a hospital: http://www.nileguide.com/destination/blog/los-angeles/2010/0...

http://www.vice.com/video/oil-of-l-a--3

There are thousands more in and around residential areas in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

There is even fracking and waste water dumping going on in the city:

http://www.cafrackfacts.org/fracking-in-california/where-is-...

http://baldwinhillsoilwatch.org/
And you hopefully have learnt from the mistakes Powerbuilder did back in '95, not making them again. So in theory you're ahead of the crowd of today.

Though that means that you have acknowledge that things were not all that great back then as you remember - which seems to get harder as one grows older.
As a founder, that question has merits. As a potential employee, if someone asks me that question, my answer frankly is "I don't know. It is hard to predict the future. I can tell you that whatever time I am with the company, you will see 100% commitment but 10 years is too far out". I have actually used this in a real interview. It is ridiculous to even ask this question to anyone who is worth the money.
Right out of college, I joined a startup and I learned alot. Then I joined a huge financial corporate company as a senior developer and find myself moving into more and more management roles. Having been in both worlds, I conclude that management is a trap, especially in your twenties and thirties.
At this point, Apple should just license OS X for VMWare installations on non-Apple hardware so we can skip all this foolishness.
Now that sounds interesting. I'd love to read about that if you ever do move the idea from paper to production :)
Well, they're fitting 4 sockets and 8 GPUS in the space that's normally used by 4 sockets only.

Also, if you're trying to sync raw images between OS X clients and the cloud, then you're going to need OS X servers in the cloud.

It'll greatly complicate the clients workflow if they can't use their built in raw converters.
Apache Cassandra – use case
This is more of a research PR piece than anything.
I find your attitude the ruder. Users of paid products have the right to complain about stuff like that; it's literally what they paid for. Users of open source projects have no such right: if you know what to do, why not make yourself useful instead of bitching out someone who's volunteered their free time to make your life easier? I have very little patience with armchair pundits myself, if you submit a pull request we can happily have a conversation, but everybody's a critic and some of us are trying to get things done.
With all the talk of negatively being removed from HN, why aren't we removing articles like this? It's so completely biased and negative. It will do nothing but insight flame wars.

"Everyone who denies climate change has the same stirring message,"

Nobody is denying that the climate is actually changing. We are skeptical that a cycle that has happened for 1000 of years is now only being effected by man made contributions.

My issue is that we don't even know how much of it is actually due to cycles, how can we possibly put all of the blame on something man-made.

Weather, which is the first step to climate, can't even be predicted past 2 weeks from the best scientists in the world. How are we now able to predict something that will happen in 50 or 100 years?

I see the same tactics used when I'm buying a car: If we don't give the government more money, we are all going to die a horrible death because the earth will increase a few degrees. This isn't science, it's marketing.

It's also suspect when many forums, which claim to be open and honest, will not allow alternative view points.

I'm also tired of hearing the phrase "settled science". Science is never really settled. When it is, it's called religion.
Would be interesting to see what kind of liability this could open them up to. It had thought that Toronto was a US city, for example.
Wow what a ride! The capsule 'rocketed' off the pad, using only the superdraco thrust.
I am 57 and quite current. I have launched several startups and kept fresh constantly. My current client has me doing lots of leading edge stuff that some of their younger devs couldn't do.

And yet I do feel the ageism. I understand it and I'm not angry about it, but it's real, nonetheless. It's not a good feeling.
A guess: Lenovo is trying to differentiate the experience of using their computers from that of competitors.

When all vendors sell products running the same OS, with essentially the same keyboard, screen, processor, etc., their products become commodities and margins disappear; consumers will buy whatever costs least.

If consumers associate a special experience with your product, you might be able to charge a little more or at least have some brand loyalty.
I was once fascinated by tiny docker images and wanted to have a tiny docker image with a web server.

There was a go web server I dockerized and came under 5MB [1]. But the thttpd image by larsks was an amazing 1MB [2].

[1] https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/chanux/muhttpd/

[2] https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/larsks/thttpd/
If you read the first 3 sentences, 2 are technically completely wrong and the third is a deliberately fake data. That's called FUD.

I'm all for the positive attitude stuff - unless the presentations start like that, I then have no sympathy.

The linked presentation actually claims unikernels are the panacea, by the way. Have you read it?
I thought FB was the internet. Googlebot is just the Kleenex of indexers.
Don't go to meetups.
Don't go to conferences until you have some leverage.
Take the network you have now and find one or two clients that you can provide tremendous value for. Spend a lot of time with them and hone what you have to offer into a very compelling service.

Once you do that, then focus on a slightly larger client or network that is connected to your accounts.

It's a grind. There's no shortcut.
YC for one.
"It was only then that I realized something: my death wasn’t just about me. It would completely destroy the lives of those I cared most about. I imagined my mom, who had no part in creating my thesis mess, suffering until her dying day, blaming herself."

I'm sorry, but that consideration just doesn't help. If the pain (or emptiness) is so strong that you just want everything to stop, this consideration is absolutely worthless and unimportant.
Seems like you could have gotten higher density going vertical instead of horizontal. It would have been 50% taller (6U instead of 4U) but it could have held 100% more Mac Pros.

A Mac Pro is 9.9 inches tall and 6.6 inches in diameter. 9.9 / 1.75 = 5.65 and 6.6 / 1.75 = 3.77 https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/
It's common, but not correct.
I own a DK2 and have demoed Crescent Bay several times this year and have a hard time believing this. Which demos were screen door-y to you on the CB? i.e. which specific scenes... please be specific.
Announcing my journeymanship
Why do I need to take any action to securely deply Docker containers? Why aren't they secure by default. What I should need to study is how to run them insecurely, should I have that need. Secure should be the default mode.
if you don't care about cool technology (nothing against Ghost), I will say it is hard to beat wordpress in terms of blogging. It literally is so simple to get started and even manage.
In your case, you could look into setting up a Wordpress Multi-site network and quickly manage all the blogs from one dashboard.
Yeah sure. I'm not sure what the difficulty is, when I say "facilitate a transaction" I mean that there is a party with minority interest in the transaction (it ends up with just a fee) and that it does business with 2 (or more) other parties (that are presumably transferring an amount greater than the fee).

That is a pretty normal use of the word facilitate (involving an action in the middle of the other parties).

In the case of Proctor and Gamble, they end up with whatever price they charge for the Tide when they first sell it and (AFAIK) don't buy any of it. They do business only as a seller and keep their profits.

So sure, the existence of bottles of Tide does in fact make it possible to use bottles of Tide to transfer value. It does not however implicate Proctor and Gamble as a party to each of those transactions. In the case of a company that makes a business out of receiving value from one party and transferring it to another, they are naturally implicated in every single transaction that they participate in.
I am going to read your comment as "you should be able to use the off-the-shelf drivers for HBase for Python" (I have elided the "3" as no one uses Python 3: that must have been a typo for "2" ;P). The "APIs" that Google describes as being compatible with are for Java, not the network: "To access Cloud Bigtable, you use a customized version of the Apache HBase 1.0.1 Java client.". So, no: it seems like if you are not using Java you will need to pull apart their customized Java SDK and build your own driver.
While there is some overlap with the new mobile portion of LispWorks 7, mocl isn't in the same league. Allegro CL would be the proper competitor to LispWorks.
My name is Tyrel, I run into this a lot of the time as well.

I'm from New Hampshire, which has a very small black population (less than 2% I believe). It was always awkward when girlfriend's parents would make a big deal about "Oh my god you're dating a black man?" when they would tell their parents my name.

Another story is when I was in college, I joined a fraternity. The only black member at the time was disappointed, when we met he said, "Aw man, I thought you were black!"

My last story also is from college. I moved into a dorm where I had a black room mate named Jared. People would confuse him for me, and vice versa, a lot if they hadn't met either of us, but needed something from us. Saying to me "Is Tyrel around? Oh I thought you were Jared..." and the opposite to him I presume.

Over all, I don't have many problems with my name, but I do wish it wasn't people's first impression of me. I try to put my face as my avatar on everything, hoping that people aren't discriminating against my name when they do research on me, but that they discriminate for my abilities.
Many interviewers have asked me that question.

I generally reply openly about my ten-year plan, I promise that it's going to change, and I restate how large a challenge it is to maintain excitement and interest at their company for the next ten years of my life.
No, but there are hell realms in Buddhist mythology, which can be the result of 'bad karma'. They're not eternal, but they don't sound particularly pleasant either.
(I'm the datacenter manager at imgix and wrote this post)

From a pure hardware perspective, I would love to move this part of the service to Linux systems with GPUs. I spent some time evaluating this before we committed to the Mac Pro solution -- built some prototype hardware and did a cost analysis. It just wasn't the right move, because of the engineering cost for us. OS X's graphics pipeline is really strong, and we've built a lot of cool things with it. There is no analog whatsoever on Linux -- we would have to commit a lot of resources to re-build what we already have, and it would in the best scenario not be a customer-visible change. As a lean startup, we have to be ruthless with the work do: if it doesn't move the needle for our customers, it's probably not the right thing to do right now.

So instead, I've spent some time (and engaged with partners like Racklive) to get the Mac Pros to be as operationally acceptable as possible. This rack design and the chassis we designed go a long way towards achieving that goal. Airflow is taken care of, and the rack hits my power quota almost exactly (at full load). Cabling and networking and host layout follow our patterns from our conventional server racks. USB and HDMI ports on the front allow me to easily use a crash cart.

The lack of IPMI is my biggest operational headache. We have individual power outlet control and can install the OS over the network, so that's something at least.

The OS itself is also challenging. I'm not a fan of launchd. Finding legitimate information about how to do something on OS X is pretty tough, given that most of the discussions are focused around desktop users (who may be prone to pass on theories of how things work rather than facts). We've gotten it to a point where things work pretty well -- we disable a lot of services, run our apps out of circus, use the same config management system as on Linux, and so forth. We treat the Macs as individual worker units, so they're basically a GPU connected to a network card from the perspective of our stack.
DynamoDB does not directly correlate to Cloud Bigtable, it would be more akin to Cloud Datastore (which I don't think has a minimum and has a free tier)
Scale or Die: How We Made Gruveo Scalable
The New Stock Market: Sense and Nonsense
Snake returns for modern smartphones but can it swallow Candy Crush Saga?
I see the same thing, but feel much more optimistic about it: it's not, in my mind, that tech is effectively fashion, but rather that there are "futurist" ideas that tech keeps trying and which keep not getting adoption, because it's not their time yet—the state of the art isn't there to make the experience for the average consumer (or the average developer) justify the costs.

An example of what I mean: the Apple Newton, and then 10 years later the Palm Pilot, and then 10 years later Windows CE and flip-phones supporting J2ME, and then 10 years later touchscreen phones and tablets. There have been four generations of "mobile app developers", but only the latest generation has seen any traction for their apps. This time the idea stuck; it will stay around, rather than coming around again.

If something like Paypal's prototype service (beaming money from one Palm Pilot to another) were set in this "revolution" of mobile instead of that one, it would be much more successful.
The website claims that you must use their customized version of the Java HBase client library: it does not claim it is network compatible, and seems to state it is API compatible with the Java API (but then describes numerous subtle differences).

> To access Cloud Bigtable, you use a customized version of the Apache HBase 1.0.1 Java client.
I am 55 and have been programming computers since 1975 when I was 15 years old. Do the math, I have been programming now for 40 years. Recently, I had a conversation with someone else about this topic and I told them that I have never been so excited about my career, the field of computer science, and most importantly the opportunities that exist today in the field of technology. The excitement surrounding too many topics to list is amazing. I only hope and wish that I am able to stay healthy and continue programming to the day I die.
It's really kind of mind-boggling that Apple makes and sells the Pro, which can be upgraded to a really nice high performance GPU workstation, but then doesn't sell the same hardware in rack mountable forms for clusterable computing.

I'm sure they've performed some kind of market analysis for this, but there's enough differences between OSX and Linux solutions that for people who use HPC solutions (a growing market) a cleaner path from OSX to HPC would be very helpful.
The motion of individual air particles, which is the first step to aerodynamics, can't even be predicted past a couple of nanoseconds. How are we now able to predict something that will happen in minutes or hours?

There may be good arguments to be made against the idea of anthropogenic climate change. But if there are, Republicans aren't making them, and neither are you.

Unfortunately, most people have a hard time distinguishing "your arguments are bad" from "you are wrong."

It looks like the "skeptic" position is also wrong, but the fundamental problem is that it's based on irrationality.
NUMA is irrelevant anyway because there are currently no multi-socket OS X machines. Multiple cores on the same package share a memory controller.
Here it is for pre-order!
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Language-Invention-Horse-Lords-Wor...

He told me it covered the essentials of language construction as far as his methodology goes, but I think it offers some insight into the development of other major and not-so-well-known conlangs as well.
From Wiktionary:

Singularly, "guy" is a colloquialism for "male". Plurally, "guy" is a gender-neutral colloquialism for "everybody", or "people".

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guy
A syntax highlighting pager might be more useful to me. cat is a tool that I only use for plumbing, and I rarely want coloring control codes anywhere but stdout.
Wow, learn something new everyday. I thought everyone who did image processing and cared about performance used NVidia cards for the CUDA libraries. I never knew apple [GPU image libraries](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Graphi...) made AMD a competitive choice.

It is much more expensive, though a lot less engineering work, than buying some used Tesla's on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m5...

or even brand new
How Airbnb Rewrote Its Recruiting Playbook
I'm getting the how, just not the why