skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Law reality check:

My wife worked as a legal secretary for a long time and still has friends in various law offices. I have been told that corporate legal departments are reasonable pressure, but law offices (as in "Name, Name, & Name") typically are a dog-eat-dog climb the ladder pressure cooker nightmare with insane hours until you become a partner, if you become partner.

If you don't become partner, it means you need to find another company to work for... and it probably won't be a law office because all the law offices in the area know you didn't make partner.

If you do become partner, the hours go from insane to merely crazy. The dog-eat-dog ladder climb pressure cooker nightmare atmosphere remains unchanged.

Management reality check:

Managers climb the ladder, stagnate, or fall off. When they fall off, they have a hard time back on the management ladder because of of all the competition from other management (the ladder is pyramid shaped, not linear, so it gets narrower as you go up). Stagnation typically results in a layoff when hard times come around again, and hard times always come around again.

In my experience (big corporation), managers do not keep up with technology, so falling back to being technical is very difficult.
edit this sounds like I'm being petty, I apologise, I'm just typing fast.

> docker is a process container not a system container.

Valid. However the difference between docker image and openVZ images is the inclusion of an init system.

> Have to disagree here, primarily because each service should live in each own container, docker is a process container, not a system container. Assemble a system out of several containers, don't mash it all up into one - most people don't seem to get this about docker.

I understand your point,

I much prefer each service having an IP that is registered to DNS. This means that I can hit up service.datacenter.company.com and get a valid service. (using well tested dns load balancing and health checks to remove or re-order individual nodes)

Its wonderfully transparent and doesn't require a special custom service discovery in both the client and service. because like etcd it has the concept of scope you can find local instances trivially. using DCHP you can say connect servicename and let dhcpd set your scope for you.

> None is required. Containers are ephemeral and generally don't need to be migrated, they are simply destroyed and started where needed. Requiring 'hot migration' in the docker universe generally means you are doing it wrong. Not to say that there is no place for that.

This I have to disagree with you. For front end type applications, ones that hold no state, you are correct.

However for anything that requires shared state, or data its a bad thing. Take your standard database cluster ([no]SQL or whatever) of 5 machines. You are running at 80% capacity, and one of your hosts is starting to get overloaded. You can kill a node, start up a warm node on a fresh machine.

However now you are running at 100% capacity, and you now need to take some bandwidth to bring up a node to get back to 80%. Running extra machines for the purpose of allowing CPU load balancing aggrieves me.

I'm not advocating writing apps that cannot be restarted gracefully. I'm also not arguing against ephemeral containers, its more a case of easy load balancing, and disaster migration. Hot migration means that software is genuinely decoupled from the hardware.
>But do you see how without details, it's not possible to give actionable and helpful advice?

You realize this entire thread is giving advice based off of the SAME details? How can it "not be possible" to give advice? Also I hope you realize that the OP is ASKING for advice?

>You are parroting an abstraction that isn't necessarily impactful advice. Certainly most people already know this, and yet this sort of situation is not uncommon.

Take a look at the post rank. Hackernews lifts up posts based on how recent it is, then it orders by karma. I'm number 5 on this entire thread. Here you make an assumption based on lack of facts. The fact that I am number 5 is literally quantitative proof I have a huge consensus. If I have a consensus it means people do NOT agree that I am "parroting an abstraction that isn't necessarily impactful advice"

>The fact is you don't know, because you don't have the relevant experience.

You instruct me not to speak for you, which I CLEARLY did not. Yet you do the exact same thing here? This is a hypocritical statement. How DO YOU KNOW I don't have the relevant experience? You just pulled that fact out of thin air; and in doing so you are parroting an abstraction that isn't necessarily impactful advice. Certainly most people already know this, and yet this sort of situation is not uncommon.

>That's the first part of your advice. The second part is about deciding company ownership, and that's even more irrational, it doesn't really follow or is related to this relationship.

The emotional aspects of the affair will bleed into the business situation, that's a given; it would be irrational to suggest it "doesn't really follow or is related to this relationship"

What your saying is like saying we can't put rapists in prison because the prison cell has nothing to do the with rape. If betraying your friend is a immoral, I am suggesting a moral punishment that will prevent further harm to the victim both from an emotional standpoint and financial. If the OP doesn't take my advice he would be harming his friend EVEN further by causing the team-up to become toxic or muscling his friend out. I am suggesting the most moral, least damaging option, which is utterly and completely rational.
I use Firefox by default with an add-on 'Vertical Tabs'. This moves all tabs away from the top into a narrow sidebar.

Screens are more wide then tall and for me my vertical space is more valuable. Every line that holds only static info (address bar, open tabs) is not strictly needed at all times, so I want them either to popup (like the menu bar in full screen view) or at least move to the sides ('cheaper' space).

I am somewhat surprised this is not more common opinion.
Bare Metal Cloud for Docker: Packet.net Integrated with ContainerShip
This explains the difference between Docker and normal virtualization technology: https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker
The great command line challenge
It came across my radar via Michael Fogus's Six Works of Computer Science-Fiction[0]. After reading the first chapter, the reasons that people love/loved Forth suddenly make sense. Like Lisp it's full stack - from close to the metal to arcane abstractions.

[0]: But only after the second time it was posted to HN. http://blog.fogus.me/2015/04/27/six-works-of-computer-scienc...
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Oh yes. If this doesn't feel like terrorism now, check back with me when you can't get to websites because exchange points keep having their power stations destroyed or their fiber lines cut.

This has been happening in places like Iraq and the Niger River Delta for a long time; we're just starting to see it in the US now because it takes time for tactics like that to migrate from very serious asymmetric warfare groups to lone wolves in the US.
It's a bit more difficult to write a Scheme in Forth than the other way around, but how about a Logo?

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/tree/master/demos/Loko

I also wrote a browser based VM so you can give it a spin without compiling anything yourself:

http://johnearnest.github.io/Mako.js/?rom=Loko
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Norm Macdonald wrote an extended Twitter poem about the romance of rail travel
You are trolling right? What is Google then? What's the in-depth analysis? Do you consider them some altruistic non-profit that just happens to sell ads in order to fund their "let's improve humanity" efforts?

Take a look at these:

http://bgr.com/2014/02/06/apple-google-microsoft-revenue-sou...

http://www.statista.com/statistics/266471/distribution-of-go...

https://www.wordstream.com/articles/google-earnings

Notice how even last year 89.5% of Google's revenue is straight up advertising. What else would you call them?

Or if you don't buy this argument let's try it by comparison. Is Zappos a shoe store? For sure, they did things differently and focuses on happiness of employees and customer satisfaction, but at the end of the day, they sell shoes. They have an interest in people buying more shoes and if they could, they'd certainly do something to make people buy more shoes. Substitute Google and ads in those two sentences. Just because they spend some minute portion of their profits on other projects doesn't make them anything but an ad company, even if they are a much more innovative ad company than the others you mentioned.
Erm... if it were the mob, I'm not sure changing the cell phone is enough, sounds more like the witness protection program kind of deal. Confrontational or not, I think few know what they'd do in such a situation, and I certainly hope I'll never find out what I'd do.
>Unless you're snapshotting that vagrant box and then deploying that to all your servers somehow, you are building multiple times.

You're also configuring many things in many different potentially complex ways.

The docker method of using environment variables as a configuration hack to get around this is pretty horrible, IMHO. Especially compared to ansible's YAML/jinja2 configuration.
Is the wink-emoticon because Uber deliberately and carefully generates the fewest jobs possible by structuring its workforce as 1099 contractors?
I think this comes down to the difference between banning things that nobody really wants (lead in paint) versus things that people really want (drugs, alcohol). In America, guns are in the second category.

Politicians think encryption is in the first category.

Edit: given how this discussion is going, I think we're back to the idea that encryption should be classified as a weapon in the US and subject to second amendment protection, as the 2nd is much more strongly defended than the 4th or 5th or even the 1st. (This argument obviously doesn't make any sense in the UK, where we should lean on article 1 and 6 ECHR). A country where you can have an AR-15 but not AES-CBC makes no sense, but we have to work with the politics as they are.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2044529/decryption-orders-cou...
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Nice meta question. HackerNews seems like a good choice.
The problem isn't that they aren't changing anything they couldn't do before, namely reading communications, post, telephones etc have always been accessible to the state. The problem is that technology has allowed two things:
a) Secure communications channels the government can't read
b) The state to monitor mass communication in a way even the Stasi couldn't using humans

The notion that you should be able to communicate in a way that your government can't monitor if necessary is a comparatively new one, and one you will find an awful lot of citizens don't agree with.
Noone will give you a valid career advice if you don't know what is that you really want to do. If you are sure of your goals your brain will find a way to get there, if you are not sure, then you need a few "meetings with yourself"

ps: the majority of recruiters doesn't give a damn about your career just because they are busy building their own...and it makes sense.
I think my favourite (rather savage) line from the series was in the Xmas special which went along the lines of "Whether you're busy hanging decorations in London, or busy being decorated for a hanging in the Philippines - it's Christmas!".
> I'm surprised to see this ranking so high on HN. Sex-based difference is the biggest taboo of our time.

In all honesty, I see more consistent whining about 'feminism taking over' than I do actual gender politics in day-to-day HN.
Which ones? Not saying I doubt you just generally interested :)
How many nontechnical users use github? Although there are plenty of developers with a minimal understanding of security as well
I don't think any of them get up to 75 feet high, that's probably the principal difference. Many of them last well into July, though, so I wouldn't yet say that the Boston one will last longer.

Salt content is probably also a significant factor. At least here in Ottawa the roads are very heavily salted. You need to salt much heavier to melt ice at -30C than at -10C.
Hands-free Tinder uses your heartbeat to decide ‘hot or not’
"Assemble a system out of several containers, don't mash it all up into one - most people don't seem to get this about docker."

Care to elaborate on this? Do you use the linking system described here? https://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockerlinks/

I mean, your various containers still communicate over IP, right? Just a private IP network within the host, rather than outside?

(Obviously I've never used Docker.)
"Michael S. Rogers, the director of the N.S.A., has proposed that technology companies be required to create a digital key that could unlock encrypted communications, but divide and secure the key into pieces so that no one person or government agency could use it alone."

Conveniently, Microsoft has a patent on just that. http://www.google.com/patents/US8891772

Michael S. Rogers should disclose any financial interest he may have in Microsoft. Or does he have something to hide?
If you look at some of the pictures they've got very heavy bulldozers pushing snow up the hill and excavators moving it around. It would have gotten heavily compacted as the bulldozer drove across it. It's probably more ice than snow at this point.
Spotify to Apple Music Playlist
I'm not sure who's doing the harassing: http://terfisaslur.com
You seem to be using the word "random" rather frivolously
This was, IIRC, on HN recently http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/

very very detailed log about the computing efforts at Columbia (among others) since the 19th. Interesting because it's an insider insider point of view, I believe it has less bias and distortion than other historical documents.
Some aspects of gender expression are social constructs, but certainly hard-coded gender identity is real. This is a spectrum, and there are many people who don't identify as either gender, but somewhere between. You don't have to be a TERF to say that something as vague as "science ability" can't possibly be measurably linked to sex or gender. (one of my children is transmasculine, but he also likes to paint his nails and wear glitter. we refuse to assign him any sort of gender expression box, and still respect that he is a boy).
Academics have approximately zero power. This is the craziest conspiracy theory I've seen in a while, because it's just so obviously wrong. Oh yes, college professors need to be kept in check because otherwise they'll go out and kill all the Jews. WTF?
Relevant older, harsher piece

http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/the-vertically-integrated-r...
Schools. Communication in a subway. Communication in a car. Encrypted conversation between two people in a public place. Etc.

Personally, I find this project really interesting.
Many good sources mentioned already.

In addition, these, and most importantly where they lead you according to your interests. "Use the links, Luke."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_technology

E. W. Dijkstra Archive http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

There are academic disciplines and degree programs in the history of science and subsets of science, with different subset emphasis depending on where you go and who is there.

http://hssonline.org/about/
That is a spectacular quote, and really embodies the impetus of the American people to not only blame excessively when things go wrong, but to place blame in a manner which absolves all parties of any (perceived) responsibility.
Is this going to make Sublime Text mini maps possible for webpages?
> people who voluntarily give information to third parties have "no reasonable expectation of privacy"

Well, under the law in many countries, that is not the case. For example, Facebook may not give any of your data to advertisers if you live in the EU. Similar situations exist in New Zealandish law.
Thanks for the insight--bullet #4 is a one to focus on I think. Too often managers ask for updates or call status meetings, only detracting from the real work that needs to get done. This is especially painful if the manager doesn't understand the technical aspects of the work, and is less considerate because of it.
As I have read this thread, I keep coming back to how we measure competence and ability.

For example, at one point in history our IQ tests included questions based on baseball rules. So someone taking the test that didn't know the rules of baseball couldn't do well – regardless of their mathematical or logical ability, i.e. what the question was supposedly measuring.

Along those lines, I would strongly:

- recommend listening to the Hanselminutes episode on Women in Technology in the Muslim World (http://hanselminutes.com/203/women-in-technology-in-the-musl...)

- remind people that the first programmer was Ada Lovelace, and computers used to be actual people and mostly female (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer) & suggest reading some of the reasons this changed (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programmin...)

In other words, culture can strongly impact both perceptions of ability and measurements of ability, as well as impacting the equitable training and opportunity that people are afforded. I suspect that most differences in most fields are not actual sex differences (i.e. biological), but in fact are social differences based on gender (i.e. cultural based on a person's gender identity).
You've got it backwards. This hack was referencing the previously-existing Max Headroom TV show, commercial, etc.
Curses! Someone mentioned the ZX Spectrum manuals. Now I am morally obliged to link to the amazing paintings used on the cover.

http://www.alisoneldred.com/imageJohnHarris-Prints-2-2064.ht...
Tossup or tossoff? Microsoft gets in on the booming casual meetups space
True. But take a look at the context of the english language and the situation. Usually when one uses the word "steal" in the context of "stealing a girlfriend" it usually is more inline with the meaning: "seduction/betrayal" then it is with the literal definition you are referring to which is "theft."

So lets make the logical leap here, which usage of the word "stealing" am I referring to? "Theft" or "seduction/betrayal"? What do you think? If it's too challenging to figure out I'll just tell you the answer: "Theft." I am literally suggesting that we call the police because a burglar has stolen another persons' girlfriend.

Also: adults are just kids with money.
Max Headroom was indeed once a revolutionary, subversive figure. But then he sold out to the man and starting pimping Coke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgm5GUo8o7I
I was thinking the same thing: particulate matter is helping it stay together longer. Pykrete is hard to melt too.
Yeah I don't find their data convincing really. Ignoring that they have a biased sample to work from, and not knowing how the app works (do users elect when to tell their mood to the app? does the app ask? this could be a source of bias certainly), it is hard for me to look at these graphs and say wow. I'd imagine there are a number of confounding variables not being controlled for here. Life events that have nothing to do with sleep, etc? I'd be curious to see if that sort of thing was considered.

There is no statistical analysis happening here. This is just a presentation of what appear to me to be dubious looking graphs. I'm not convinced of any of this.

Additionally at the bottom of the page: "For the sleep analysis, we looked only at moods logged within 3 hours of the user waking up to reflect the impact of the user’s last sleep on the user’s mood."

That certainly introduces a lot of uncertainty.
I don't think you have any idea of the scale of the mound. 74 feet tall over an area of 4 acres. Filtering that would cost at least tens of millions of dollars.

And no need to sprinkle charcoal. Snow mounds quickly turn black once they start melting. There's always a little bit of dirt mixed in with the snow, which becomes concentrated as the snow melts.
What are the actual technical specifications? I haven't seen a mention yet of what the processor is, for example.
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Not only governments do excessive excesses. In some places the government's caring hand might not be very present, in which case criminals being the only dispensers of firearms has some interesting (and predictable) consequences.
I'll echo the Computer History Museum suggestion. If you're in the Bay Area and haven't paid it a visit, it's well worth your time. Books are nice and all, but sometimes seeing the physical artifacts give things a nice perspective.
What they really need to do (I live here) is triage.

When the snow piles up, people should be on notice that not all of it will be cleared. Major roads should be cleared for 2 lanes. Smaller streets, one lane. And the T should be kept fully operational. But the panicky response with front end loaders is the reason those snow piles are so full of debris and gross stuff.
They do that with Canadian snow mounds too. Do they do it as much, though? Probably not.
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> there should be no surprise when you see gender disparities across different occupations.

On the one hand, anyone that ignores/denies the influence of different hormones [1] on body and mind is simply ignorant. On the other hand you can question how relevant hormones can be to a deeply cultural concept as 'career choice'. On the one hand tiny differences can accumulate over a lifetime, but on the other hand tiny differences can also cancel out and its hard to say what it will add up to via so many layers of indirection.

Accepting the existence and influence of physical differences does not imply having to accept all cultural differences. Some may indeed result unavoidably from the physical differences, while others may be impossible to link to physical differences.

Given differences in the relation between men and women, and career preferences, across cultures, I suspect the distribution of men and women over careers is often dominated by contingent cultural factors. I definitely believe this is the case for STEM careers.

[1] As an example of an undeniable physical difference, not the defining difference
We currently have a free-floating chrome application which looks like a detached sidebar. The problem is our customers want to see it all the time and don't want it to go behind or on top of the browser. As far as I know, there's no good way to "dock" it to the side of a screen and prevent other applications from using that space.
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That site is lies and propaganda run by a hate group.

"TERF" is no more of a slur than "Neo-Nazi" or "rapist", and all those groups are the scum of the earth.

There is no moral difference between a TERF and a member of Stormfront or a known rapist.
I don't think we pile it so high, though I have never worked in whichever civil service branch handles snow so it is only based on life-experience.

I have never seen a pile so high, we have many smaller piles scattered throughout our cities: every parking lot has one, the parking lane of most roads becomes places for snow piles, just outside of town you can see fields of small piles. The snow that is actually removed from the roads, I assume they spread that out into smaller piles as well.

Those pictures of loaders on top of huge piles of snow seems particularly dangerous.