skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two of the things I'd love to see is having the image format be:

(1) Open standards (and I'm hearing things moving in that direction)
(2) Content-addressability, so that images can be stored on IPFS.

Point (2) really plays the "packaging" rather than the "containment" aspect. I'm not really thinking about Docker Hub or any proprietary services like that.

There's a project put out by Chef (formerly Opscode) called Omnibus. It allows you to build a monolithic the package, complete with all the library dependencies and such. Chef Server is distributed with that monolithic omnibus. What had happened was that various library dependencies would cause problems with the various systems that needed to come together. It was easier to specify the precise version of the components needed. (But it also put the onus of security fixes on Chef).

That is the real problem that Docker solves. Packaging. It enables a kind of shift in thinking that's difficult to put into words. People say "light-weight containers' or whatever, but none of that really nails the conceptual shift that Docker enables. In about five years, it'll become obvious the way 'cloud' is obvious now, and non-obvious back in 2005.
The comment ordering swings around a lot, especially when the article is fresh

Also when it's a controversial subject like diversity/racism.
Any plans for adding search?
> Being a woman of color who has graduated CS107 is almost like being a unicorn, and that’s pretty f'd up.

The real question is to ask "Why don't more women take CS107?" Only about 20% of the Stanford CS department is female. If I assume that a CS107 class is 100 people (it probably isn't--CS107 is not a beginner class--it has data structures as a prerequisite). 20 are women. Stanford racial data suggest that 7% of it's enrollment are African-American.

That means that you get at best 2 "women of color" per year in CS107.

Even if all of these women pass, you're still looking at 10 out of about 10,000? students, at best.

Her experiences may be completely valid, but this is hardly the fault of CS107 or its teacher.
Explain to us all how you somehow magically know that minorities weren't treated any differently in class, and in life.

Yeah, you don't. We know.

Explain to us all how you somehow magically know that she "hasn't put the work in".

Yeah, you don't. We know.

Your entire statement is bullshit designed to shrug off racism.
These days, I'd bet a very high percentage of n-bombs dropped by white people occur when quoting black comedians, or music. The Chapelle Show alone may well account for a double-digit percentage of it. :-)

Oh, and movies where it's played for laughs. Blazing Saddles, Django Unchained.
Technically yes, but in a way that's so trivial so as to be basically meaningless.
A Neural Network Designs Magic: The Gathering Cards
The useful gist of this report, if any, is as follows:

> Even though I couldn’t accept the notion that my mind’s state might be causing my symptoms, I could accept the idea that by changing the state of my mind I might be able to reduce that pain... [this] shifted my mental model of my condition from my hands are internally damaged to my nervous system and/or circulatory system is functioning in such a way that pain arises in my hands... if my mind was going to improve the circulation/nervous activity in my hands, then it first had to be intimately familiar with what was actually going on there.

> When I had developed sufficient sensitivity, I started to feel like I had the capacity to actually willfully cause the positive energy of the compassion and love to flow directly into my hands. I repurposed all of the suffering, stress and angst that had built up over the course of the condition. I used that energy to generate an intense fervor of unconditional love and a will to get better and projected that down through my arms and into my hands.

> In addition to these intensive meditation sessions, I also started a throughout-the-day practice of being sensitized to my hands. I started to notice that I was very clearly displacing mental and emotional stress down into my hands, just as some of us, when stressed, sit in hunched over postures and collect tension in the upper back and traps.

I have some very mixed feelings about seeing this described as 'hacking'. In my view, there is definitely 'hacking' of a sort going on here, but it is a narrative hacking: we watch the author change the nature of the story he is telling himself in order to compartmentalize his own inner turmoil so that it can be dealt with safely. I am not sure that this is the sort of hacking the author thinks he is discussing. It is not entirely clear what he thinks (in retrospect) was going on. One sees that he never treats his imaginings of psychic phenomena as real, per se, and that he comes to the obvious conclusions (he is directing tension into his own hands in response to emotional stress), but he doesn't entirely admit this, either — eliding, for instance, the core TMS concept of psychogenic muscular tension in favour of 'circulatory system effects' in his description — and he maintains ambiguous language, reporting that "with my new-found sensitivity, I was simply able to stop the flow of stress, just as you can stop scratching an itch after you notice that you are doing so."
tldr; have developers help maintain automation tests
Let's not limit this to Switzerland or even Europe. Many of these same work laws, health care benefits, and actual working public transport, exist in Australia. And I would assume many other countries that decided that Socialism, and some regulation of business, does not lead to a some kind of Communist revolt.

Health Insurance companies, Auto companies, and other big business industries managed to squeeze concessions out of the U.S. that would cause huge protests if they tried to pass them in many other countries around the world. And Americans are so inward looking that they don't even notice the differences.
The Onion's “Trump” explains why America can't look away from his inane campaign
In college, we'ed leave messages on friends whiteboards with runes. Back in '93, there weren't a lot of 'nerd' girls, so it was usually a pretty safe way to hide in plain sight. Much better than a tie on the doorknob. Granted, it wasn't Ultima or LOTR, but Beowulf in the Olde English class that we would cite, because nerdy wasn't cool back then.
Can you comprehend how there are other factors that could effect minority achievement besides your assumption that they're letting in people not smart enough? Does your "consequence" have any backing or did you just make it up?
I didn't know this was possible. Doesn't Zillow still have your number? (or, at the least, the numbers on your comps)
> depression and anxiety are disorders of, basically, an overactive stress response

So one's own thinking patterns, perspective of self, and relation to others has nothing to do with it? Ones upbringing, life situation, and health play no role? it's all just an overactive stress response?

You paint with broad strokes a picture that has much nuance to it.

> looks like you need to regulate the subconscious reactions that lead to release of stress hormones better.

yes, you do. More specifically, your perspectives that cause these, and your management of them when they are knee-jerk. If you just let your behavior and emotions run buck-wild, you're going to end up with self-destructive behavior and be an unhappy camper for it.

I'm an introvert with a lot of social isolation.I am isolated because I isolate myself; not physically, but intellectually and emotionally. I learned this from my parents, and have been trying to change my ways. Part of it IS biological - I am predisposed, but not restricted - to certain kinds of things like depression and anxiety. They are defaults for me, but not locked in.

People like to say "it's a chemical imbalance" about disorders as if that means they should throw their hands up in the air and give up. Which, you can do; but it's a crappy way to go about things.
There are several tech streams converging there. A bigger chunk is the space that Mesos and Kubernetes occupy.

And to be fair, I suspect the Docker folks were thinking less about clustering and orchestration so much as: (1) clustering and orchestration still sucks; (2) people want as good of an experience using docker as they do when spanning across multiple nodes; (3) let's make clustering and orchestration less sucky and use the 'Docker Way'[1]

[1] 'Docker Way' is a pointer to the fuzzy, difficult-to-verbalize thing that Docker enables, namely in packaging.
If you used a spirograph to create art, you would own the copyright. If you created a spirograph that was robot controlled and could automatically create art then nobody would own the copyright. I don't see how an easel count create art on it's own.
If Docker is about packaging, then it's one of the worst package management systems I've ever used. I use Docker for the abstraction over namespaces and cgroups mainly, and get frustrated with the layers of disk images, bad caching system, poor security story, and the weak Dockerfile DSL.
funny how people will come up with any convoluted explanation to avoid the race issue.
> "Black" culture isn't nearly as uniform as some people would like to believe.

I spent a few months in the US a few years ago, and one of the things that bothered me was that in the media, "black culture" and "gangsta culture" were synonymous - nothing to suggest that a black person might be an engineer or a manager or a wise elder or whatever. Whether it was talking heads on TV or a comedy set in a park, someone riffing on "black culture" would be doing gangsta stereotypes. The only time it seemed that blacks were allowed to be something other than "gangsta" in public discourse were if the conversation was specifically about race.
Happens-talk-salaries-Google
In Iceweasel/Firefox you just go to preferences -> content -> advanced, and then tick the box that says "force sites to use my font".
"Everyone" wasn't the literal everyone, "everyone" is the group of people that buy a Windows OS and install another browser. Those people know what a browser is.
Thanks! I tried to make it largely compatible. I'm still working on making the mobile version load real cleanly. Thanks again.
> Like when they say white male. Oh, nevermind that does not qualify because it is against whites and males, so it is ok.

The kindest way to interpret this is that it is your opinion, and if it is, it is wrong. It is not ok to harass white males for being white males. A more likely way to interpret it is that you're putting words into other people's mouths, then sneering at those words.

I feel like this is obvious enough that it's not worth commenting about. Do these wasted words qualify me to downvote you?
> We definitely didn't invent systems biology for drug discovery. But Google didn't invent search engines either

This is a flawed analogy, because Google's success is largely attributable to business model innovation (AdSense), rather than any core technology, such as PageRank. After all, Robin Li published Rankdex two years before Brin/Page published PageRank, and we all know how trivial it is to engineer around software patents.

> Another thing I think is different about the industries is that while there are tons of food delivery and photo-sharing startups, there's no really effective/disease modifying treatments for common diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, ALS, etc, so I think there's plenty of space for any number of new approaches to be tested in the field.

That's because the bottleneck in tech is (a) identifying problems actually worth solving and (b) a business model that will lead to a sustainable company. Achieving success means creating a business and iterating to a position of dominance. There was never any question regarding the technical feasibility of Airbnb's site or Uber's app. It was (and still is) all about things like whether Airbnb could create trust between hosts and guests, and whether Uber could navigate the regulatory landscape.

The biomedical space could not be more different. Everyone with a half a clue knows that neurodegenerative diseases are a problem. Nobody who knows the industry is questioning that tons of customers for your (potential) product exist, or that they'll pay boatloads of money for a treatment or cure. The gigantic elephant in the room is whether your product works. Nothing else really matters.
Where is that Gibson quote from? I'm intrigued. :)
Some npm requires are indeed painfully slow.

For this reason I have wrote a small, but useful tool called require-time.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/require-time
https://asciinema.org/a/21275
FWIW, when I was very young (and surrounded by adults with various behavioral issues) I concluded that if my brain could influence my thoughts, then my thoughts could influence my brain. i.e., if I worked through something mentally, I could improve my mood or deal with adversity or grief or melancholy or the occasional bout of really bad depression.

That's worked out well for me as a sort of first line of defense, but it has side effects too. I've been seeing a therapist for most of a year now to try to unwind some of it, because unfortunately the same mechanisms that repress something like anxiety also repress love or joy.

And I'd never recommend it to anyone else. For one thing, I haven't even been able to decide for myself if it's just a bunch of self-delusion or not; I'd have no idea how to go about suggesting someone else try it.
I'm kind of the reverse. Went from living in Chicago and commuting within the city out to the Bay Area.

I ended up in Mountain View commuting < 10 min. and 1.2mi away via bike or car which was extremely lucky. Now I moved to Redwood City and I'm 30 min. and ~15.5 miles away, but at least I can take 280.

I definitely hate the longer commute, doubly so because I have to drive and actively focus vs. be on my phone, read a book, etc.

Barring the fact that most of those companies have urban satellite offices, I think I'd probably go to a small suburb with good job opportunities in the surrounding area over a city any day. Every time I drive up to SF, I'm reminded how much of a nightmare city driving/parking are. And I'm also reminded of how insanely safe I feel in the suburbs compared to the city (I'm in one of the nicest parts of RWC so others closer to El Camino/101 might feel differently there).
This oh this. The Chinese market has its own holiday season, why would you compare Q1 to Q2?
Perhaps the parent poster was wryly indicating that he doesn't think that much of Docker. Certainly I think both of you are correct: Docker is about packaging, and it absolutely sucks at that. The only reason that that is not obvious is that Docker is piggybacking on the relatively excellent and well-developed package management of distributions like Debian and Fedora.
I'm going to venture a guess and say this company is GitHub.

Not a bad gig, and honestly if I were you, I'd take it. A degree really isn't that important anyway (for the goals you have, which I assume is to become a great engineer and build top notch products)
The Chinese economy has some problems this year, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple gets hit by that for the rest of the year.
So what's the solution? More affirmative action? Make it taboo to offer a stranger help if they look lost? Make it taboo to make any sort of assumptions about anyone?
cargo cult programming?
It's a pretty jarring revelation. Just two weeks ago, we were skating on the Thames:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11733369/Earth-headi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9869499
My black mother started programming on punchcards.
To live in a society where no one bats an eye that a women is in a CS building.
It is affected by that case though because of the policy and guidelines it spawned.

> “Because copyright law is limited to ‘original intellectual conceptions of the author,’ the Office will refuse to register a claim if it determines that a human being did not create the work,” said the US Copyright Office in its latest compendium of practices published Tuesday. “The Office will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants.”

and

> In new guidance the USCO has ruled that only works created by a human can be copyrighted under US law, which excludes photographs and artwork created by animals or by machines without human intervention.

Source [0]

This feels like it falls into the 'by machines without human intervention.' There's no meaningful contributions from a human.

All that said this will eventually be an issue (hopefully) when machine intelligence actually takes off or human uploads become a viable operation. Though maybe by then we'll be less obsessed with every idea having to have an owner, but that's neither here nor there.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/22/monkey-bus...
The distinction is arbitrary. The only difference between the spirograph and the robot is you are touching the spirograph while it's operating.
> Says who? Where are you getting that information, if you think nobody should talk about their salaries?

From friends, offers I've received, and offers I've given.

It's not that I don't think anybody should talk about their salaries. It's that we shouldn't have "open" salaries—nobody should be compelled to reveal their salary, particularly in an "anonymous" way.
Ask HN: How to Find Technical Talent for Virtual Reality Application
We are working on a VR based Android App, and we are looking to hire someone with technical background and passion in Virtual Reality(Unity3D, Game Engine, Shaders, Artifial Intelligence stuff) But it is so hard to find developers in this domain. Tried Angellist and some VR forums but in vain. Does anyone know or can refer anyone in this space?
Any help would be appreciated.
clustering and orchestration still sucks

I don't see that changing until we get proper single-system imaging, location transparency, process and IPC migration, process checkpointing and RPC-based servers for representing network and local resources as objects (be they file-based or other) in our mainstream systems.

These things only really caught on in the HPC and scientific computing spaces, where you've had distributed task managers and workload balancers like HTCondor and MOSIX for decades. They've also been research interests in systems like Amoeba and Sprite, but sans that, not much.

The likes of Mesos, the Mesosphere ecosystem with Marathon and Chronos, and Docker Swarm bring only the primitive parts of the whole picture. Some other stuff they can half-ass by (ab)using file system features like subvolumes, but overall I don't see them improving on all the suck.
If I write a computer program (say a Processing sketch) that generates an image, who owns the copyright to the image?
In that case, the commenter who started this whole discussion of whether or not the researchers' behavior was in the wrong should've also educated him/herself before making phone calls to law enforcement agencies based on the claims of a WiReD article.

Or is basing one's statements on the subject matter alone only valid when you happen to agree with it?
> which we can't actually prove because we don't talk about pay.

Just because salaries aren't public doesn't mean you can't get any salary information. Just go on a few interviews, set up an auction, and see what you can get.

> It's a bit like telling someone that you're giving them $100 in a box, but not to open the box, because if you open it, it'll turn into $20.

It's a cute analogy, but the more complete version would include a box market, where other people with insight into the box market are interested in buying the box I've been given. In such a scenario, I could shop around my box to see what it's actually worth without having to open it up.
Omnibus is a step backwards. Every monolithic Omnibus package has its own copy of each dependency, so you end up with duplicated binaries. You can no longer patch a library system-wide, you have to figure out which Omnibus packages have the library and rebuild it with the patched version. Package management was invented to deduplicate files across the system, and people seem to have given up on that.

You say that Docker solves this problem, but it doesn't really. Sure, it creates isolated runtime environments that avoid the clashes you described, but it only further obscures the problem of system-wide deduplication of dependencies. The real solution here is better package managers, such as GNU Guix, that can easily handle multiple programs on the same machine that require different versions of the same dependencies whilst also deduplicating common files system-wide. Once such a foundation is in place, a container system no longer needs to deal with disk images, it can just bind-mount the needed software builds from the host into the container thereby deduplicating files across all containers, too.

Omnibus and Docker are papering over problems, not solving them.
Responding to a Hacker News discussion about the article based in information from the article seems quite reasonable. Perhaps it does not deserve phrases like "saying stupid, reckless things". Could you step back for a moment and consider how YOU want others to perceive YOUR postings? I, for one, am a big fan of civil discourse on HN.
Is that a fresh summer breeze blowing through my hair? Or is it a sinister micro-hurricane?
I was curious, so I checked different distros. Debian-based distros set `without-password`, and others use the default `no`.

* Arch Linux (openssh-6.9p1-1): #PermitRootLogin no
* CentOS 7 (openssh-server 6.6.1p1-12.el7_1): #PermitRootLogin yes
* Debian 8.1 (openssh-server 1:6.7p1-5): PermitRootLogin without-password
* Fedora 22 (openssh-server 6.9p1-2.fc22): #PermitRootLogin yes
* openSUSE 13.2 (openssh 6.6p1-5.1.3): #PermitRootLogin yes
* Ubuntu 14.04.2 (openssh-server 1:6.6p1-2ubuntu1): PermitRootLogin without-password
* Ubuntu 15.04 (openssh-server 1:6.7p1-5ubuntu1): PermitRootLogin without-password
Don't read too much into the "security clearance" part; I worked at LM and having that level of security clearance is pretty standard for any project.
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