skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the Democrats are so much better on science...
Of course they do. If they lie and say it smells like marijuana.
I'm not sure I even understand the problem that weave and Docker bridging/NAT solves for real world cases. IP allocation for containers isn't a problem for most networks, is it? Certainly AWS can give you up to 8 IPs per instance, and every datacenter I've ever worked in can give you even more, if you ask. All you have to do is spin up additional virtual NICs with virtual MACs and use DHCP to assign IP addresses to them.

Or is there something fundamental that I don't understand? Please edify me.
>nothing will erase the prejudice against certain names in the next 50 years.

Why the pessimism? Race relations have come on a decently long way in the last 50 years.

I don't think anyone's saying that it's wrong for someone to change their name to avoid prejudice. The point is that no-one should be expected to change their name for this reason.
Linky-link: https://github.com/narup/PubKit
> They couldn't exist otherwise.

Policing in other western countries indicates otherwise. For example, if police were held personally liable, as a strict matter of law, for the cost of their mistakes (just as individuals in the private sector bear the cost of their mistakes), they would tend to act more responsibly. Britain is an example of this.
> How is the money wasted given the large production and downward price pressure on energy?

The latter is exactly what causes the former to be wasted. If demand drops (or even merely does not rise as quickly as expected), then the price drops. If you were relying on high prices when you made your decision to invest more money to increase capacity, then what previously looked like a good idea may now be a bad one.

When your break-even price is $60 to $65/barrel and prices fall below that, your net return is negative. But the best part is you don't even get to stop producing. The costs for most oil sources must be paid largely up-front, and your marginal cost may be only $20 to $30/barrel. So when oil drops to $50/barrel, you can choose between continuing to produce at a loss of $10 to $15/barrel over the life of the well, or stop producing and suffer a much, much larger loss. That keeps supply high and prices low.

One oil source that does not have large up-front costs is fracking. Or, more exactly, fracking sites only last 18 months or so before production slows to a trickle, so you have a much smaller time horizon to recoup up-front costs. So the amount of fracking will very likely decline quickly. But viewed from an economy-wide standpoint, there was still plenty of malinvestment here: drilling equipment rental, trucking, rail, etc., require large capital outlays but carried high prices when oil prices and thus demand was high. As demand drops, they may not be worth the amount invested in them.
I am a part of an existing community (http://www.worldvista.org) but am constantly looking for ways to strengthen the community. Thank you for the insight in this article.
Skepticism is often good, though in this case, unwarranted. Here you go:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/16/howthefbicreat...

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/25/isis-material-...

That this keeps happening is well documented. Just read some of the criminal complaints filed by the FBI themselves: the truth is out there, Scully ;)
Foreman Provision: A Comfortable Resource Management Tool for Foreman
You're conflating the background check with extra-legal justice. They're not the same. The issue of re-introduction of convicts who have served their sentences is a problem of the State as the State is one who does the punishing.
Traditional economic logic says that bond prices have an inverse relationship with interest rates. That means if you buy bonds now, and interest rates shoot up, the underlying price/value of that bond will plummet. This is especially bad if you have callable bonds, because the bond holder can call them at any time, forcing you to essentially receive the value of the bond at the time of the call - even if the price/value has plummeted due to increasing interest rates.

Be cautious investing in bonds, and if you do, you might consider holding them to maturity if interest rates go up and prices/value goes down (and hope they don't get called).

I personally think it's a scary time - interest rates going up will have an effect on prices of bonds, stocks, and more. So while you earn more interest if you own fixed income assets, the value of those assets decreases and you can get stuck.

That said... IMHO, the raising of interest rates... I think really needs to start happening before the artificially low rates creates a different kind of animal altogether.
It is not a disaster. Its possible to build a performant and easy networking solution for containers. Except the vendors are in a hurry to get some hacky software out that takes back the clock 20 years.
Modern JavaScript libraries: the isomorphic way – Algolia blog
This Quadcopter Is Fucking Tiny Man
Yeah the Samsung Gear VR was like a mobile consumer version of the DK2. The Rift (CV1) will be a definite improvement over the Samsung Gear VR in terms of tracking, audio, and resolution (resolution hasn't been released yet but it is assumed).
When I look for software engineering jobs there's a fairly healthy distribution of languages.

...but I'm over here in the UK. Where are you looking?
For reference, this is the URL of the actual post (as opposed to the current URL to the year/month entries):

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/04/30/mit-alumni-in-...
I actually find GA's UI pretty good. Much better than Flurry analytics for example.
Building on OSX seems like it must add a ton of complexity to your workflow, despite getting access to some of Apple's GPU-optimized image code.

Then again, it's often cheaper to throw silicon at problems than people. If you have in-house expertise in Apple's graphics libraries, that might be cheaper than hiring someone who could write the whole thing to run under a lower-cost Linux solution.

Alternatively, OS X might give you automatic access to patent licenses for some of the more expensive image formats.

Have they ever blogged about why they've gone down this path?
It's focused on Postgres and Redshift SQL. We'll be expanding this out to other SQL databases for future versions. Will add that to the landing page!
But that will only pan out if they've established an entrenched position in the market using human drivers.

A lot can happen in 5 years - I am not expecting self-driving cars to be a mass-market reality before then, if only due to the speed of legislation.
I purchased the app because it's a problem that I've always hoped I'd find a solution for. However, I feel like I'm missing something fundamental...

1. Import .png file[1] that I'd like to convert to a vector image.

2. Click "Vectorize"

...and the resulting output is a black square.

I tried a couple of other .png and .jpeg files of different icons that I had and I'm getting the same result. After that I opened up Photoshop and converted the original icon from RGB to Greyscale and then exported it I tried again -- same outcome as the first attempt.

Definitely not a great first experience.

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[1] https://nubits.com/sites/all/themes/nubits/assets/img/home/h...
> So unless your religion says that suicides are punished

Most of them do in one form or another, especially the Abrahamic tree.
Congrats to Greg on everything he's accomplished! Stripe has always chosen to think different about culture and organization, and as a result have built one of the most interesting companies around. Greg is a huge part of what makes that work.
On the Clothing of Emperors: A Rant about 21.co and the Future of Bitcoin Mining
They didn't offer it, really; new signups had been closed for a long time now.
send me an email sergiotapia@outlook.com
> the community will soon be managing most of it

I see this as an awesome thing and as a horrible thing at the same time. Color me interested, ha.
Hi Jeff - if there was a single solution that fit all requirements, then that would be obvious :) However, experience has pointed out that there are differing sets of requirements. Some folks may need the flexibility (say disjunct fabrics) that encap provides, while others need the scale (say 1000's or 10K's of servers) or simplicity (those sort-of go hand-in-hand) that a non-encap data-path provides.

The big question that a system architect needs to ask, if they are designing a system at scale is not "should I use this technique" but "do I NEED to use this technique." We can always add more complexity and technology/layers than we need because we "may need it" in the future, and we almost always end up with a jinga tower when we are done.

So, when laying out your infrastructure, be sure to know what your actual requirements are, and don't add a lot of extraneous capabilities that you have to maintain and trouble-shoot later.
We buy Lenovo. Its great hardware. We put in a custom image. The default image is a nightmare. I can't stress how terrible their applications are, even by the low standards of OEM default Windows apps.

I hope Win10 brings in more control from MS. The status quo really sucks.
I still would recommend stopping before opening, if only to avoid accidentally triggering the redundant failsafe switch which shorts out the power and blows the fuse.

Could you elaborate further on the design of this failsafe and what, specifically, triggers it? Do all microwave ovens have it?
You'd want one with a pilot light, not the now omnipresent electronic/spark ignition.
Do you agree that this is their strategy? If you regulate us then we will leave.
You speak as if SSL/TLS hasn't been a rat's nest of problems.

If they did it competently, there is no reason they couldn't implement their own crypto encapsulation.

As far as why they rolled their own... have you ever actually tried to use IPSec? It's a usability nightmare. It's also problematic in containers due to container permission issues. I suppose they could have used DSSL (datagram SSL) but that'd probably add more overhead than what they did.

I see little real world evidence that this "let the pros handle it" attitude toward crypto is helping.
Works great with Apache CouchDB, PouchDB, Cloudant, etc. The mobile libraries and Sync Gateway all use the CouchDB sync protocol.

We built Sync Gateway because the Apache CouchDB access control model wasn't fine grained enough for most apps, so it adds a data routing function to control sync access. (See link downthread).

Thanks for the feedback about simplicity. Our next release makes the Sync Gateway default config a lot more beginner friendly and even today we ship with a dev mode that uses a tiny embedded database instead of a Couchbase Server cluster for storage.
Especially if they were expecting a black... uomen.
Let's say you have a widget that you want to control via a web interface. A Pi is an easy way to interface between the web and lower level hardware (via GPIO). Startup time is the time from when you plug in power for your widget until you can control your widget from the web.
This crashes my mobile (webview based) web browser.
I'd be interested in this, too. I love OS X as a desktop, but always find it fascinating when such a polished "prosumer" solution that generates so much profit turns out to be also the best bang-for-the-buck in a large deployment such as this -- despite the costs of designing your own rack solution!
Isnt this ridiculously expensive? Couldn't you achieve the same thing using cheaper PCs?
A Digital Single Market for Europe
Well it's not really a question of policy, but there is no way to inject analytics on the Play Store other than link it with GA. And there is no way to have analytics on the App Store other than iTunesConnect Analytics.
Certainly anything that's not a core Google product you should think hard about using. I got burned when they shut down Checkout. They gave me six months notice on that, which was just barely enough to replace shopping cart, order management, and payment processing. The first two I now have in house, so no one can turn them off.

At least this one's fairly easy to fix, but I think there will be plenty of people unpleasantly surprised on 3 Aug.
How does it compare to http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ ?
5 Security and Compliance Issues and How to Approach Them
Docker vs. the container world: Techies rally around CoreOS
At least religions like Buddhism don't punish you for an eternal afterlife. At worst it's just "bad karma".
Because everyone's freebasing and edging profits thinking they can get out quickly enough right before they loose consciousness.
Code Inflation (code grows exponentially) [pdf]
"We Make Shitty Software... With Bugs!", [0]

best slogan ever

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Videotext
Using a high-temperature-resistant glass sphere with an opening on one end can protect the roof of the microwave oven if it doesn't have a standing wave that would keep the plasma localized. Most glass probably can't withstand prolonged heating from the plasma, so don't run it for long.
The Voice app on iOS went for years without an update, but it was updated fairly recently to match iOS 7 aesthetics.

I think the plan with Voice is to keep the functionality, but move it into the Hangouts product/app.
The argument is that a breezy afterlife is not guaranteed, so killing yourself isn't necessarily an escape from pain.
As someone that's from Wichita, I can say that the market is very small in terms of utilization. Most of the people who could afford Uber either own a car or have sufficient access to public transit to their satisfaction. The rest of us slobs who have to nickle/dime our wages are stuck with less than optimal transportation regardless of Uber's presence in the state or not. Basically, Wichita and other Kansas cities are huge for their population. Wichita along is about 8x7 miles if I remember right. And this excludes suburbs and outlying communities in and out of the county. KCMO is a bit more packed in from what I remember, but not by much. So, for Uber and its drivers to make money they'd need a relatively steady volume of riders to and from places of work and shopping. In Wichita, that's pretty hard to sustain since our employment centers are split up between downtown and East/West Wichita (Cessna, Spirit, Hawker-Beech, and etc). The rest of the employers are along the northside but they're not exactly high wage payers (Does Coleman do any work out there anymore aside from the gas bottling plant?). All in all, Wichita would suck for Uber regulations or no.
Google, Red Hat, and VMware Announce Support for Docker Rival CoreOS
Django Performance: 4 Simple Things
>For example, just last night I played a game of Supreme Commander.

I'm not buying a VR headset in 2016 to play a game from 2007.
I want to make one edit, I should have said "need the flexibility" instead of "may need the flexibility". Both the scale and the flexibility can be hard requirements. I don't want folks to think that I am saying that scale trumps flexibility/disjunct fabrics. They both are equal, if that is the environment that you operate in. Again, full disclosure, I'm with the project calico team.
Interesting:

"Software too can grow exponentially fast, especially after an initial prototype is created. For example, each Mars lander that NASA launched in the past four de- cades used more code than all the missions before it combined. We can see the same effect in just about every other application domain.”
I think I'm coming to grasps with this too. I'm over 30 and have spent most of my life building large desktop applications in C/C++. I want to eventually work remote, and looking at what's out there, there are very few opportunities with someone with my skillset. It's all modern frameworks and languages. So, I'm spending some of my own time learning some of this stuff.
I'm really surprised by your comments about Crescent Bay. I used a DK2 and a Crescent Bay back to back, and literally could not tell the difference aside from the headphones. Both were horribly screen-doory-y and pixel-y.
No, he (like most of us) types `f` and the browser autocompletes.
(I'm the blog post's author.)

Concretely, it means we emailed everyone by hand with a Datastore API app that had a non-trivial number of users and offered to help. (If anyone didn't get an email, you might only have a couple test users, but feel free to reach out to us yourself.)

With most developers who respond, we're digging into their data model and trying to suggest alternatives (possibly files in Dropbox or possibly alternative services like Parse and Firebase).
Collectively, I think they are, a bit. My main science beef with the left is pandering to anti-GMO hysteria, but OTOH I do support labeling for GMO content. Do you have other examples in mind?
Zero Rating and the Open Internet
As I said in my other comment, I'm really surprised by this. When I tried a DK2 and a CB back to back, I couldn't tell a difference (and not in a good way, they were both extremely screendoor-y and pixel-y) other than the headphones.
Gmail progressed; it progressed so far people probably wouldn't like it if it was changed out from under them (like with New Coke) so they called the progression Inbox instead.
But regular people do buy Tide without asking questions, don't they? They just walk into some shop they found on the street and hand over the money.
This is interesting -- they actually manage to get greater density out of this setup than many traditional rack mount systems offer.

And to those questioning "Why would you use such expensive systems when commodity hardware is just as fast at half the price?" I would reply that the Mac Pro isn't all that expensive compared to most rack mount servers. If you're talking about a difference of $2000 per server, even across a full rack you're talking less than $100k depreciated over 5 years.

Though Apple is sorely lacking a datacenter-capable rack mount solution. I've always felt they should just partner with system builders like HP or SuperMicro to build a "supported" OS X (e.g. certified hardware / drivers, management backplane, etc.) configuration for the datacenter market. It's kind of against the Apple way, but if this is a market they remotely care about, channel sales is the way to go.
Isn't there an intelligence listening post near the observatory that would also be affected by EMI?
>Couldn't you achieve the same thing using cheaper PCs?

They say "Parts of our technology are built using OS X’s graphics frameworks, which offer high quality output and excellent performance". So they couldn't achieve the "same thing" in the sense of running their software on racked computers, because it won't run on PCs, and if you're thinking about expense you'd have to consider the cost of making the software run equivalently well on PCs.
When I was a young man, a slightly older associate told me that "programming is a trap". What he meant is that if you are relatively smart, you can get a CS degree, get good at it, and go earn a fantastic income right out of school. I heard the words. I understood the words. I agreed with the words. Even now, 30 years later, I keep asking "is this a trap that I choose to remain in?" I still love programming, but it is a trap in that I've not, for a long time, seriously tried doing anything else. So for me it has been 30 years of regular retooling, and likely another 20 years of the same. Unless I decide to open the trap and leave.
All discussed in the article:

"Parts of our technology are built using OS X’s graphics frameworks, which offer high quality output and excellent performance... Building on OS X technologies means we’re dependent on Apple hardware for this part of the service, but we aren’t necessarily limited to Mac Minis."
Of the MIT/Stanford software engineers I have known a long time and know what's become of them: one (60-ish now) had a fairly lucrative late career segment doing web search at Yahoo and is now retired; one (same age) is still working, doing Big Data consulting; one (late 50s) was in a two-career couple with two or three kids and is now retired; another (mid 50s) made enough in the stock market and miscellaneous other ventures to semi-retire, though he still does a little consulting; another (56) is happily in business for himself selling iOS apps; and I (57) am still working as a tech lead for HP Fortify.

I think the lesson is, if you're careful with your money in your 30s and 40s, you won't necessarily have to work into your 50s if you don't want to. Alternatively, take good care of yourself and keep learning new stuff, and you can be productive well into your 50s and beyond. But if you don't do either of those things, you may have a problem.
I used Google Checkout for payment processing, shopping cart, and order management. Having all that in one package was nice during development. It was a really bad day when I heard I had only six months to replace all that.
Thoughts on Squarespace
I'm not a developer. I'm a digital marketer, who like many marketers, run my own independent marketing blog that get's a lot of traffic. www.JamesHarperMedia.com

I'm currently hosting on WordPress, hosting GoDaddy, (I know not a great mix). I'm thinking about switching to Squarespace currently. Any smarter people on here have any thoughts, advice, two sense?

Thanks,
James
"how about" means i am proposing enforcement. i am well aware that it is lacking.
Macaroons are probably more interesting to people who don't already have a CapTP-like capability framework to build on. While you could express sturdy refs and live refs in terms of Macaroons, you can also express all sorts of things with less-than-ideal security properties too. There's a very nice conceptual purity to object capability systems like Cap'n Proto.

That said, Sandstorm is doing some pretty impressive mappings of capabilities to web applications. Really interesting work!
Ahh gotcha.. Makes sense.
When Security Conflicts with UX, Who Wins?
I'm pretty sure this is a rephrasing of a much older, well known principle in psychology (they cover it in undergrad), that work satisfaction is a function of: autonomy, feedback and variety.

In other words: people want to control how they do work, and feel they have some flexibility. They want to recieve prompt feedback so they understand when they're doing well or badly. And they want to encounter a variety of challenges.

Gamification is just building a tight feedback loop and providing sufficient variety. Autonomy is much harder to automate, because it seems to be the opposite of building an 'on-rails' experience guaranteed to please someone.
Ever since the new mac pros came out, I was curious how they were going to solve the rack problem with the crazy round design. Especially in regards to cooling.
Why globalisation is failing, and what to do about it
It's more related to the chromatic aberration, where the correction is not perfect (esp when not correctly configured) and using only one color avoid the issue. Of course the best choice is green, in resolution and brightness.
Unreal Engine 4.8 Preview 1 is available
Reminds me of a tube amp.
What have you done that makes you feel satisfied with your life? Just curious. I'm 37 and feel like I'm just getting started. Keep in mind that I have wasted very little time. Always working on some project here or there. Right now I'm planning my next fourty years. So it really makes me wonder how you can feel you are done.
Hope it helps! Meaningful use is a great topic to build community around because it's so complex
They certainly seem to be. I'm no fan of the party, but the Democrats are at least basically sane on the science front as far as I can tell. What major Democratic figures have repeatedly denied basic scientific facts in front of a national audience?
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