skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty ridiculous claim. I'm clearly not going to convince you of anything, but for anyone following this thread you can read http://www.troubleandstrife.org/new-articles/you-are-killing... for what I found was a level-headed explanation of the divide between trans activists and the so called "TERF"s.
You don't understand, recognizing sex differences leads to industrial-scale mass murder, just like it has in every human society that has ever recognized sex differences. Wake up sheeple!
Personally, I won't consider moving to the Valley because I value my work-life balance and standard of living more than the prestige of my job. It is also too far from both my and my wife's families.

It's a struggle, though, because what I can't seem to get what I want to do professionally either here in Texas or on the East Coast.
Research tends to show the opposite, that CFS patients tend to be over-active (pre-illness) and have "action-prone" personalities.
Sony's Shuhei Yoshida Reacts to the 'Nintendo PlayStation'
Glad you found the way to the discussion. Disclaimer: I'm the author of the article. I hope it's of any use to you.
Oops, I completely missed that, I have no idea how :(

That paper is good, it answers all my questions that the original article left unanswered. My dumb mistake for not reading it properly.
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/
35 Crucial Stats Every B2B Sales Professional Should Know
Motion-triggered RGB LEDs you can attach to any pair of shoes
Would you want anyone besides yourself having
authorized access to your sensory bus?

Banks' Culture novels touch on similar topics. In Excession, a Culture warship comments how the brain-computer interface (in-universe called a "neural lace") is the most effective torture device ever devised. And in Surface Detail, a firefight turns on the fact that Culture warships write their own completely-customized operating systems, with this heterogeneity making hacking attempts more difficult and consequently less successful.
I never said Docker wasn't used at Groupon and just because it is used in some cases, doesn't make my point any less valid. It is going to take a lot more than a few years to take over OpenVZ/Virtuozzo in market share when most of the commodity hosting industry uses it.
One of the interesting points here is that WHOIS, as of RFC 812, catalogued "each individual with a directory on an ARPANET host, who is capable of passing traffic across the ARPANET". That is, it seems that WHOIS used to be contact points for people who ran servers that made up the internet. That makes sense to me.

At some point, it turned into cataloguing domain names, even if those domain names just pointed to things hosted on some other service. I wonder how formal / intentional that change was.
At this point, I'm not sure. If he didn't have a track record of making deliberately misleading statements and admitting that he enjoys goading people into reactions by saying things that are patently offensive, I might take him seriously.
So suppose I know what I want in an easily definable and describable sense. Where does one go to get advise about how the world works with respect to that goal and to bounce ideas for a plan of action off of? Self knowledge is super important, but the Sun Tzu quote about knowing yourself has another half: you also have to know what you're dealing with.

(In my specific case: getting myself into a good position to eventually apply to work in the UK 1-2 years from now, given a current background of 3 years in DevOps and Python web dev)
The big caveat to that, being that you need to make sure whatever proxy marker you're looking at remains correlated even in the treatment setting. It doesn't seem like there would be a good way to do that without running the longterm studies you're trying to avoid. We may be better off basing research on more directly detrimental aspects of aging. e.g. using mobility and mental acuity as end points instead of a biomarker. That way even if a "rejuvenation" therapy which is successful in the short term doesn't extend life, it still provides some benefit.
As mentioned elsewhere, simply pay people to do it. Many will like a bonus paycheck in addition to their entitlement.
Custom-fabricated Teensyduino w/ accelerometer that can distinguish heel/toe impact, USB power (battery clips onto shoelaces), LEDs attach to shoes with velcro. Cycle through preprogrammed light patterns by cycling power.

You may have seen shoes like this before, but these are much easier to tinker with, if you're into that. We're not advertising the kit as programmable, but I'm sure the HN crowd will figure out how to hack it.

On a personal note, there's no big (or small) company behind this project. A group of friends launched it primarily to help sustain our growing Burning Man camp. This is our first foray into manufacturing electronics at any kind of scale, so any help you can provide the project will really make a difference!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1161431643/blinkyshoes
> Is it a good idea to ask recruiters what they are looking for?

No, the average bozo recruiter is a transactionally focused individual. He's a bounty hunter, looking to put butts in seats for a fee. Time is money to him, if he can't qualify you for a match he must move on quickly.

You may of course, run across a rare thoughtful, seasoned recruiter. His profile is that of a relationship builder, he'll likely have some life experience and will gently entertain your career path questions.

Better still, design your own path. Make a daily habit to read the books and blogs of successful people. An excellent place to start, Peter Drucker on Managing Oneself> http://academic.udayton.edu/lawrenceulrich/LeaderArticles/Dr...
Yup. We'll release a chrome plugin shortly that provides the quick gist of whatever page you happen to be on, so as to avoid having to actually go to the site and submit a url. More convenient for the regular user.

In addition, we'll release the api so that people can build their own tools if they wish.
Someone (Darren Shepherd?) compared Docker to Ajax. It's not a technological breakthrough, it's another kind of breakthrough.

I think it was here [1], but deleted now.

[1] http://ibuildthecloud.tumblr.com/post/63895248725/docker-is-...
Apple Watch Demand Slides Significantly in June as Launch Momentum Wanes
I want to downvote the first paragraph but upvote the second one.

Doesn't Docker also help cause problems like ssh private key reuse? I am sure that there are mitigations, but it's sad to have ways to prevent some activity that the software makes easy to do.
Have the folks at XLABS really achieved 99.92% compression?
What the Hell Has Happened to the Process of Innovation?
This article provides some valid points on the negatives of SV style capitalism. However, I view COOPs are only a partial solution Starting companies is HARD and risky. You need capital and talented folks to man the ship.

The B-Corp concept strikes a good balance but the jury is still out on whether "serving 2 masters" can work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
Ok kill it with fire doesn't work anymore, we'll need to use thermite...
This is well known known effect. S&P rebalances it index through out the year and there are always people trying to predict adds and drops and make some money.

The real diseconomy happens in the Russel indexes. They are rebalanced annually with the methodology for adds/drops announced ahead of time. Various funds that are pegged to Russel are forced to rebalance at this time buying and selling huge baskets in one day. To avoid large stock market movements and capitalize on them traders try to predict the changes to the index and prebuy the rebalance trade. Their actions through the market leading up to the rebalance and agreements to sell the rebalance trade to the Russel pegged funds reduce price swings on the day of the rebalance.

Trading desks that engage in the Russel trade spend the entire year preparing for it, modeling the methodology, acquiring clients for the rebalance trade, and prebuying the trade. Their profit comes from the difference between the closing price (mostly governed by Russel adds/drops) on the day of the trade and the price that they prebought at. Essentially their ability to accurately predict the rebalance add/drops and acquire clients to sell the rebalance trade to. There are desks that make $10s of millions this way on that day. There may be desks that make $100 of millions this way.

PS. I may not have stated it clearly, but funds that are pegged to Russel indexes make agreements with external traders to handle their rebalance trade for them at a fixed bps to the closing price. Traders are able to make money on this because they can take on risk and prebuy the trade; something that the Russel indexed funds can not do.
Heh - perhaps we have stumbled upon a completely asinine, and thus human way to reform the glaciers that are melting?
NOTE I don't want to get into the politics of gun ownership. Just fact seeking.

I was under the impression that the AR-15 is very readily available? Do these not count as assault rifles?
Natural fertilizer is a pile of manure. There's no chance the supply will come close to serving the demand. Also, its already being used (you have to do something with it) and its only mildly useful. Unless you have some political point to make, its always supplemented (read: almost totally surpassed) by ammonia and other carefully calculated amendments. Vs whatever randomly came out of a cows back end.
It may not be your community, but it's definitely mine. Any community has subcommunities, just like any city has neighborhoods.
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage.

It's half-comic-book, half-historical-footnotes. It's a very fun way to look at the early history of computing. You see history as it could have been by reading a comic and you see history as it was by reading footnotes. Both of them are given about an equal amount of space in the book. There are great appendices that describe how the hardware performed arithmetic.
This "force" to work is even stronger if you aim for a Helicopter. Helicopters are so expensive, they force you really hard.
The US clearly hasn't always been aggressively expansionist. It isn't today.

America has had the most powerful military on earth for 70 years, along with a large population. List all of the vast amounts of territory it has annexed using that extraordinary military power. There are endless opportunities to do so, and the US is the sole military with global projection.

Some people point to military bases. Which doesn't work in any regard. A few critical differences being: taxing power on the local population, or vast plunder. Neither of which America is known for. And US military bases around the globe overwhelmingly exist by permission.
The unequal subpixel sizes are due to OLED brightness fade; the blues wear out the fastest, while the reds last the longest:

Does it vary the intensity as it ages? Otherwise, it seems like the displays would start out way too blue before eventually becoming "accurate". (And then going on to become too red, of course.)

Edit: Oh, or maybe having a bigger blue subpixel means they can run the blues with less intensity, thus extending their life?
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People [from] several states away showed up with rifles

What jail sentences for terrorism offences did they recieve? Or were they shot by police? Or were they white people?

(In other countries, you can't just show up to political protests with weapons!)
Configuration files, made available to containers as a read-only mount via the volume flag. No external network or service dependencies that way.

I'm not terribly fond of using environment variables for configuration, personally. That method requires either a startup shim or development work to make your program aware of the variables, and your container manager has to have access to all configuration values for the services it starts up.
First of all, assault rifles are not on the open market in the U.S. and haven't been for quite some time.

U.S. armed violence has a lot more to it than the availability of weapons; statistics are easy to misinterpret as well, since they're really just the proportion of violent crimes that are committed with one particular tool.

Here in Canada, we have higher instance of violence with knives, but unsurprisingly almost the same proportion of violence with guns, despite fairly hefty controls.

The U.S. really just seems to have more violent crime in general than many other countries, and my understanding is that this has been true since well before anyone else had harsh restrictions on the legal ownership and use of firearms.

> I have read some arguments about private protection against excessive government excesses, but I don't really buy it.

The theme of the article is these excesses; if you're not making the connection here, you're never going to make it. Also, incidentally, that's the reason it's in the constitution; I hear that it's an important document over there, but what would I know?

The other good reason for widespread private ownership of firearms is protection against occupation by an invading force, which history has shown to be an unpopular tactic; though perhaps this is not comparable. IIRC the imperial Japanese even stated this as why they weren't interested in occupying U.S. soil.
Oh yes, the dominant ideology of academia is the same as that of the state, which is why academics universally agree that anthropogenic global warming is real while the government can't even agree on whether climate is changing at all, let alone the cause. This must be why universities are chronically underfunded and professors are constantly scrambling for their next research grant. This must be why roughly nobody in the top levels of government has so much as a PhD. The tight link between the two explains why governments persist in outlawing drugs even though research shows it's more effective to legalize them. I could go on, but I think you get the idea.

Looks to me like Lenin graduated from university but didn't go anywhere near an advanced degree. I'm not sure which Nazis you're referring to but I'm not aware of a particularly large number of university professors among the ranks of the top Nazis.
OOC, what do you want to do professionally?
Ask HN: List of Computer terminology/Ideas that I absolutely need to know
Lately I started treating computers and computer science a little more seriously and I started learning basic programming as well, but I feel like something is missing. I have absolutely no idea how computers actually work and I've found out that I actually don't understand a lot of terms that figure in my materials. Could you help me out?
Is there a compatible browser list?

Found it on github:

IE10+
Latest Stable: Firefox, Chrome, Safari
iOS 6+
I highly recommend Jimmy Maher's Digital Antiquarian blog at http://www.filfre.net/

The focus is mainly on computer games from the late 70s (and currently up to the late 80s), but that includes general posts about personal computers like the Apple ][, TRS-80, Commodore 64 and Amiga and the personalities behind them, on programming languages like Forth and the various tricks and inventions required to get complex games to run on very restrained hardware. It's all very readable, meticulously researched and quite in-depth.
Docker is a cute little tool that gives people who aren't that great at Linux the illusion that they know what they're doing. Throw in the use of some "Container" semantics and people become convinced it's that easy (and secure) to abstract away the containers from the kernel.

But it's not, at least in my experience; not to mention that as of now, anything running Docker in production (probably a bad idea) is wide open to the OpenSSL security flaw in versions of 1.0.1 and 1.0.2, despite the knowledge of this issue being out there for at least a few days.

Docker's currently "open" issue on github: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/1601

Other references: https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2015-July... http://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2015/04/14/as-a-goat-im-...
Yeah, I wish we would stop pushing for assault weapons bans and instead push for a similar sort of safety and usage training, psychological and temperament screening, waiting period, and background checks that a police officer might go through before they are presented with a gun and a badge (that may even be an opportunity to re-think the sort of training we give our police!).

It would be costly, but that sort of licensing, even if done rather clumsily, would make it far more difficult for the wrong people to acquire weapons, while staying in line with the 2nd amendment and preserving gun ownership by law abiding citizens.

Oddly, the NRA seems more even more opposed to licensing than they are on restricting magazine capacity. Maybe they agree that it would be [too] effective!
OK, but the gulf between that and "there is some genetic differences between the sexes" is still so large that you'd need a powerful telescope to see from one to the other.
That is not how statistics works. This is how you reverse a conditional probability (Bayes's Rule):

P(B|A) = P(A|B) * P(B) / P(A)

If A is "female" and ~A is "male", and B is "good engineer", then what we know , including ancestor post's assumption, is this:

P(A|B) = 0.4 (the population of known-good engineers is 40% female)
P(A) = 0.5 (the population as a whole is 50% female)

We can further assume, arbitrarily, that P(B) = 0.02 (one in every fifty people make good engineers). So the likelihood that a person is a good engineer given that they are female is P(B|A).

P(B|A) = 0.4 * 0.02 / 0.5 = 0.016
P(B|~A) = 0.6 * 0.02 / 0.5 = 0.024

What we learn from this is that sex is not a good screening criterion for finding good engineers. You realize an advantage of only 0.8%, not 60%.
Some designer remote job sites list non-remote or freelance jobs. Not this one
> Politicians think encryption is in the first category.

This -- until people realise that their online banking is not secure without encryption. That puts it firmly into the second category for many people.

(It's my experience that people are more worried about their money than their dick pics.)
That's right, the US was born with those states. They weren't aggressively annexed as a simple matter of controlling foreign territory or anything.
Thanks! The personalization can work with any traffic source. Email newsletters and Facebook ad campaigns are other examples.
Perhaps one of the more practical uses was figuring out how to scale storage performance when I was at NetApp. Since processors had stopped scaling like they had been in 2001 their CTO challenged me to scale storage performance in terms of IOs per second and total available capacity, without improving the speed of the processors.

The challenge there ended up localized around a couple of really hard sub-problems. One was that Netapp's storage model was file based (rather than block based) and so part of the problem was scaling the operation of a file state machine, and the other serious sub-problem was the creating a reliable way to keeping protocol/process state that was in "flight" in order to recover from failures. Working backwards led to what I ended up calling the "three layer cake" model which split the storage stack into parts that were loosely coherent and tightly coherent.
I'm sure the author in your link had some good points, but they may have been overshadowed by all of the article's vitriol.
I find this is done universally. Every time some shooting or similar disaster occurs, the actual perpetrator is among the last to take the blame. It's the video games, it's the music, it's the toxic culture of masculinity, it's the pharmaceutical drugs, or it's the Zionist media poisoning our children with Judeo-Bolshevist propaganda.

The obsession is with the "one single cause", but more importantly the opportunity for every demagogue to revel in vilifying their preferred scapegoats. Nothing gets fixed, and people wonder why.
How the Tech Press Forces a Narrative on Companies it Covers
Spiral into control
Gitcolony enterprise released
> "What jail sentences for terrorism offences did they recieve? Or were they shot by police?"

I think you know the answer to that. The answer is kind of my point, isn't it?

These people are dangerous to push around because they have guns. They realize this. They are not going to relinquish that leverage without a fight.
I'd start by checking out something like CompTIA's A+ materials, if you want to understand the hardware components. Same for networking (Net+). They'll give you a basic understanding as to what's going on--they're not a deep dive by any means. But they may prove useful. You may also take a look at something like hackr.io, which has a ton of resources.
One meaning of "responsible" is basically synonymous with blame, but that's not the only meaning, or even the primary one.

If some random litters on my lawn and then walks away, they are to blame for the mess, but I am responsible for cleaning it up because it's my lawn.

As another example, there are plenty of American citizens who argued fervently against the Iraq war, so they aren't to blame for it, but they are responsible for paying the debts that result from it.

You and I are not necessarily to blame for the sexism and misogyny in the tech industry. But personally, I want the industry to be a welcoming place for everybody with technical skill, not just dude with thick skins. So I am taking my share of responsibility for my professional community. Would you like to help?
Given that procreation requires one man and one woman to participate, it's going to be really hard to practice eugenics based on genetic differences between the sexes.
Part of the difficulty is that if none of the people at point B has gotten there by going through point A, it is going to be hard for them to know your challenges.

For example, if a history major from a small liberal-arts college asks me how to get into DevOps, my answer is going into be affected by my having been able to spend several years hanging around SIPB, which is basically MIT's DevOps club. Maybe they can do the same, but it would be pretty expensive.
NO.
Hoax.
of course, you loose the "identical image" as soon as you build again or run the dockerfile.
Ask HN: Whats the best skill to learn for tech world?
Question guys, I am a business graduate but I want to learn a skill or maybe fluent in a particular program so I can add value to a company or startup in the Valley. I am self taught graphic design and I've been thinking about UI/UX design but any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
SlowmoJS
It's not that they are wrong. The problem with "friends and family" is that the last group you'll want to take advice from is a democracy.

If you reach specific people, carefully selected to ask specific questions, you'll get useful answers. If you go away asking people at random, you'll get answers that can not be used even as a popularity pool.
Faking upvotes, no. But that wouldn't be necessary if they had an actual communication channel in place ahead of time. Which they would if they really understood the value of the community and what it takes to manage it.
They are a little... harsh there. It's hard to get through all the negativity, especially when you are looking for a job.
Hackers was a fun read but I don't think it's really an answer to the original question asking about computing history and expressing a concern that our field has a short memory. The OP's complaint was that most history stops at Turing and everything in Hackers is about MIT post-Turing.
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