skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You say that like it's a bad thing, but it's a big reason I like Switzerland. Life's too short to be ashamed of who you are.

Really man? So people like you do exist in 2015?
The way around that is to get the vendor (IBM, Dell or whomever) to CERTIFY the hardware for the Linux distribution of your choice. That guarantees that the HW vendor will make sure that drivers are available. You can get your hw vendor to do that if you're in the process of doing a hardware refresh and will be buying new systems, e.g "I will be buying these systems from <insert alternative vendor> because they are certified with <insert distribution name and version> and you are not".

If a system is not certified then you are relying on Linux developers making it work - they may do so, but are often hindered by drivers or small tweaks to hardware. As importantly, making a whole system work is fully is considerably different to making a specific component work.
Creator of Empire here. Empire and Convox are kinda like brothers and sisters, both really similar in implementation and philosophy. There's a couple of subtle differences, like how Empire expects that you've already built a Docker image somehow, whereas Convox can just take some code and do it for you (hosts it's own docker registry). Convox also supports streaming logs, which is pretty awesome (although, coming soon to Empire too :)). Convox is a little more reliant on AWS, whereas Empire was designed to be able to work with other backends like Kubernetes for example (not implemented yet). I would say, use which ever one best suites your needs, they're both great, and like David said, we talk a lot and share ideas back and forth.
> Hahahahah fuck off

Please, no comments like this on HN, regardless of how wrong Ayn Rand was.
I moved there from NYC and couldn't last a year. It's deathly boring to live there.
Most do, and there are instructions at the top of each thread about it.
(Background: I'm a Usenet user from the late 80's to early naughties, did outsourcing at netaxs as newsread.com, then ran readnews.com from 2004-1024).

Usenet is still around but mostly for binaries. The market's of pretty stable size, dominated by a few large wholesale players.

My take on what happened with text groups is that the S/N ratio just went to hell. In the 90s the problem was spam, but in the 2000s the problem was too many loudmouths who wanted to hear themselves talk drowning out the useful experts.

Like some of the other folks commenting, I've been pissed as hell at the PHPBB/vbulleting monstrosities. My original plan with readnews was to try to build a great web UI for discussion, but we got distracted by wholesale customers wanting service - and front-end is not my area of expertise.

For folks looking for something modern with promise, the news is good with discourse and a few others coming up. Would love to see something distributed, but if really distributed I suspect we'd see binaries and/or commercial spam and/or people with nothing interesting to say dominate - just like Usenet...
Thanks for the input. Google's offerings are really picking up steam. We've been in touch with Google and are excited about expanding onto their infrastructure in the future.
Just got back from a family reunion and my relations' kids were glued to their tablets playing mindless games and watching YouTube unattended for 4 hour spells and more day after day. It was so depressing, all these boring consumer drones in the making.

My kids get 1 hour of screen time a day, max (until they decide to become coders, and then the cap is lifted. :)
Yup @spotman this is the general way,but to try to think for an successful exit from beginning, is what I'm talking about.
In my opinion,I'm not seeking multimillion dollars acquisition, I'm seeking a more less and more fast as steps on up stairs,to get cash to but into more stronger startup and bootstrap on that cash.
Thanks Eric!

+1 Check out Convox and Empire. See which one works best for you.
So you're essentially agreeing with the point that the rich countries (western and northern Europe) can afford to live like this, while the poor countries of Europe suffer through crisis after crisis because they can't afford the social programs their richer neighbors have.
http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2012/06/haruki-murakami-bing...
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exactly, when they make the leap to learning how computers work, the game changes :)
Websockets? That means the Reddit bot will be listening from a webpage? Is that how Reddit bots operate? I'm confused, I thought Reddit bots would be a normal computer process, listening/polling for content and making HTTP calls to the API, nothing from a web browser. Someone please explain it to me!
I always like these things, but what is the difference between this and https://hypothes.is/, for example?
Hey! Creator of Empire here. The demo stack we provide isn't suitable for production use as you found out already. Empire can definitely be deployed in a production ready manor where you can have internal and external services, which is how we have it setup at Remind. The docs are a little lacking right now unfortunately, but we'll be improving this in the future.

We actually have a production ready example stack using our stack provisioning tool called stacker: https://github.com/remind101/stacker/pull/43.
I don't think trolling. I'm just saying I like being busy. I don't want hour and half lunches at the cafe. I don't want 6 weeks a year off. I like working, I like making stuff and I like making money. I like resting too. I rest especially well when I'm tired from work. It's a good feeling.
Empathy

The book Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan the best book I know. It describes scientifically studied exercises of the mind that you can do by yourself. It will boost your empathy much higher than anything I've experienced (or read about on Sciencedaily). It explains the science too and you can look it up. One thing though, reading the book is part 1, part 2 is performing the exercises. If you won't perform the exercises, then reading the book has not much of a purpose.

In my experience, I got to amazing levels of empathy by doing these exercises. I felt like I had godlike skills. My intuition could immediately signal me if a woman liked me (first time ever in my life). Two months later I was in a relationship. I could spot feelings that my friends had that they were not aware of.

There are some caveats though, which goes for any book that will be presented here. The moment I stopped practicing, my level got down a bit above baseline before I started. So most structural gains are hard to keep, which goes for any trained skill. Another downside is that everything you see has a bigger impact on you. So when you'd go to an action movie, you'd feel like you're right in it. When you look at a rose you feel like you're a rose, that sort of thing. When you drink one sip of alcohol you feel the effect of it already on your perception in very subtle ways (that might be a good thing though).

Some final thoughts: I believe books train deliberation aka the slow system. Exercises, mental or physical, train the fast system. Checkout Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. I believe it's a useful approximation to how thinking works. Also, while empathy is a big component in becoming better, it's not the only component.
Let me make a post about training empathy.

The book Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan is one of the best books I know. It describes scientifically validated practices of the mind that you an do by yourself that will boost your empathy and other parts of your emotional intelligence. So reading the book is part 1, part 2 is performing the exercises.

In my experience I got to amazing levels of empathy by doing these exercises. I felt like I had godlike skills. My intuition could immediately signal me if a woman liked me (I was single at the time). I could spot feelings that my friends had that they were not aware off. I could feel subtle emotional cues in my own face very consciously.

But the moment I started to stop practicing, my level got down a bit above baseline before I started, so structural gains are hard to keep. It goes about the same rate as any other skill, e.g. if you never play guitar anymore then five years from now you'll be a lot worse in playing guitar. Another downside is that everything you see has a bigger impact on you. So when you'd go to an action movie, you'd feel like you're right in it. When you look at a rose you feel like you're a rose, that sort of thing. When you drink one sip of alcohol you feel the effect of it already on your perception in very subtle ways.

The reason I stopped these practices is because I didn't know how to combine it with studying, which is a real cognitive endeavour, while this is being very aware of how your visceral sensations of your body feel. That's why I'm going back at it after I graduate and seek a way to combine cognition with being very aware of the feelings in my body.

One final thing: I believe books train deliberation aka the slow system. Exercises, mental or physical, train the fast system. Checkout Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. I believe it's a useful approximation myself to how thinking works.
The top 0.1% are the SuperPAC contributors and they control the entire debate. "Democracy" in America is about who has the most money.
"Canonical didn't make Unity to innovate for the user as much as it did to have a unified interface that could run [across all platforms".

Sorry, but simplifying and clarifying the interface for users absolutely is a goal for unity: "innovation for the user". All the user-testing showed that general users (ie non-developers-or-techies) found many aspects of the Linux user-experience too complex. So a lot of time was spent simplifying all sorts of aspects of Ubuntu so that it could be used by more general users. I know because I saw user-interface report after report. Furthermore, having a single user-experience across your different classes is trying to be user-centric. It's true that since there were three code-bases 'unifying' to one base was a key goal at an engineering level.

That doesn't deny your point that Unity is less suited to users who prefer the traditional Linux window manager experience e.g focus-follow-mouse.
As is always the case, these comparisons are almost always ideologically biased nonsense.

What I am saying is that you can't compare two countries with such dissimilar profiles without examining and making sense of a lot of data. And you certainly can't conclude that one has a great work culture and the other does not.

Just a few data points...

Population
US 320,000,000
CH 8,000,000

Employment among 15 to 65 year old population:
US 67%
CH 80%

Tourism (arrivals):
US 60,000,000
CH 8,600,000 (yes, more people visit than live there)

Employment
US 123 million
CH 4.2 million

Number of businesses
US 18,200,000
CH 160,000

Number of billionaires
US 615
CH 29

Foreign aid (given to other countries)
US 30,154,000,000 (it's actually double this number if grants and loans included)
CH 2,295,000,000

GDP
US 18,125,000,000,000
CH 688,000,000,000

Tax revenue:
US 3,001,721,000
CH 217,900,000

Deficit/Surplus
US -648,805,000
CH 3,400,000

National Debt
US 18,540,448,667,000 (58,437 per capita; 106% of GDP)
CH 1,610,897,000,000 (154,063 per capita; 229% of GDP)

It's interesting to see that the debt to gdp ratio is CH is astronomically high. Three times that of the US with a GDP that is 26 TIMES smaller. While the budget is balanced right now it seems that a huge amount of debt has been piled-up, perhaps to support the standard of living? This is conjecture on my part, I don't know.

Clearly in the US we can do a lot better. And we do this by voting the right people into office. We are at a point where fiscal responsibility isn't an interesting concept but rather a requirement for survival. What we have been doing is not sustainable in the long term, not even close. So, tax and spend needs to go out the window. And no, we can't fix it by taxing the rich.

The differences are huge and, while it might feels good to write a blog post trashing the US, the reality is that nobody --blog post writers and people posting comments on HN-- ever seems to want to take a few hours to throw numbers up on a spreadsheet, build some economic models and try to understand the underlying data. That's where the truth lies. Not in how we feel. That's all bullshit. Everybody feels great just before a tsunami. Yet, the earthquake that triggers it has been building-up underground for years, for decades or centuries. What matters are the numbers. Most everything else is complete nonsense.

I'd like someone to explain the impact of a per-capita debt of over $150K and 229% of GDP on the People's Republic of Switzerland. A house of cards looks great until the reality that is happens to be a house of cards has to be confronted.

Don't argue with me with feelings or ideology. Put numbers up on a spreadsheet and figure it first.

In the end, we are all bailing water in one way or the other. And a lot of what's going on points very solidly at China, in more ways than one.
What about IBM Bluemix?
If you are really interested, have a look at Pharo. If not, yes, it is dead.

A warning though. Smalltalk is seriously mind-bending for those who come from more routine languages/environments.
Cool product! This is fairly unrelated but since you've open-sourced your code (thanks!) I was just browsing around the 'cli' project and saw heaps of the following:

if err != nil {
stdcli.Error(err)
return
}

Is this idiomatic Go? It's just sprinkled everywhere and makes it hard to follow logic at a glance.
For a great explanation of the enclaves and exclaves described in the article, you might like to check out this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtLxZiiuaXs

The visual aids definitely help.
Windows 10 doesn't present the "diagnostic and usage data" option during setup. It' also impossible to switch off in anything but Win 10 Enterprise.

It also doesn't present the fact it's doing P2P Windows Update. And the setting to disable this is hidden away in a sub sub menu
"The simplicity of Heroku.
The power of AWS."

The privacy of "?". Was waiting for this part since it was included in the title.
I'm actually 44 years old. But sometimes I feel like I'm still in my early 20's. I credit it to staying interested and staying moving.

I'm not single either. I have a great girlfriend I've lived with for over 10 years.

I don't have kids and only a few close friends, so you did hit that part correctly.
Explicit error handling is part of Go. It's pretty common to see lots of conditionals in a Go codebase.
Looks awesome! It might be just what we need for a project we're working on at my company. :-)

Do you perhaps have a writeup or something about the convox architecture? (Which AWS services it uses, how etc)
Agreed. Having grown up in LA the valley is really boring. I guess that's how we get so much done.
Can you grow a human one too?
Wrong time man. Gotta wait for another decade.
Could someone familiar with Convox give us a brief answer to the question "how is this different from the myriad DevOps tools that Amazon provides for AWS?"
Corporate Accelerators are expanding rapidly
So it's not sexist if men and women are different, as long as it's "immune system functions" and not "statistical behaviors at work"?

How did you arrive at the distinction?
Good point. Any suggestions?
Could I murder someone there, and no nation/state 'could' prosecute me?

Not an actual plan, mind you, just curious if there's some form of international law that ultimately covers these places.
As far as I can tell, libav is the one with the rules and multiple developers. And now ffmpeg is the one with no rules and zero developers?
I don't mind high quality brands advertisement being displayed on pirate and even porn websites.

What I do mind is "one magic trick to lose fat" advertisement displayed on most popular, high quality websites.
How to hack?
How to hack an instagram? help me
I'd like to hear more about how the transition was accomplished. Which platforms are no longer supported for example?
Also, peace means more than just "not going to war".

For example, when video cameras got so small and cheap and power-conserving that they could be stuffed into every cellphone and worn by police officers, it kicked off a transformation of race relations and the topic of deadly police force in the United States. I think this particular change is only beginning to pick up steam, and will be a major force for domestic peace in the years ahead.
It’s time for the Uber of air travel
We don't yet, unfortunately, but we will add one soon.

If you'd like to see for yourself you can install it and then check the Resources tab on your CloudFormation page in the AWS web console to inspect everything it created.

https://docs.convox.com/docs/getting-started-with-convox

You can uninstall when you're done to avoid paying for the AWS resources if you're not ready to use it yet.

https://docs.convox.com/docs/uninstall-convox
Self driving cars are the solution to a lot of things if your physical condition (age, other health issues) prevents you from driving in our car-centered culture.

As our population ages, this will be an ever greater problem. Loss of mobility has economic consequences beyond the specific people it happens to.

More efficient city transport - you have my vote. But there's a growing population cohort for which self-driving cars may be really helpful.
We did this two years ago, then pivoted. Look at www.shopreply.com. It's a tough one.
Somewhere in this amazing 1967 documentary, McLuhan defines the global village as "everybody minding everybody else's business". It's astonishing how much he got right.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/this_is_marshall_mcluhan
These are great saws. The founder originally just wanted to sell his safety device to table saw manufacturers. He had no takers so he started his own company.

My next door neighbor lost 4 of his fingers in a table saw accident. I believe in personal responsibility but losing 4 fingers on your dominant hand is a pretty high price to pay for a mistake particularly when a viable safety technology is available.

Yet there was huge opposition to adopting this technology in table saws.

The Colbert Report on Saw Stop
http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/hgxqxc/people-who-are-... stop
What's the difference?

Work. Bees don't do it.
Can you document that for me, and for HN?
This seems to be the wrong link --- it has nothing to do with porn sites but is rather a site about an upcoming movie on drugs ...
I bet corruption will remain. But it's my understanding its been drastically reduced.

No positive news of China gets upvoted in America though, because we are burned that they are winning the trade war.
Is it really still a thing to lash out at m$ft as the root of all evil? More importantly, is an article that calls p2p technology an 'ethical armaggedon' good for anything other than laughter?
Like China's "One Belt, One Road"?
Was it overly optimistic of me to assume it was a joke?
Apple, BMW in courtship with an eye on car collaboration
True, listening to music and drinking alone at bars happens a lot. Not sure I remember any nightclubs.
We're most familiar with OpsWorks. The main difference is simplicity. Convox doesn't require you to think much about infrastructure or write big JSON config files. We want the developer experience to be very app-focused like Heroku.
You're welcome! Please contact us if you have more questions.
Iran city hits suffocating heat index of 165 degrees, near world record
You really should look at Squeak as well. http://squeak.org/

Pharo is a great implementation of Smalltalk, but Squeak has moved the Smalltalk ideas forward into new territory.
The "deviant-art-like-but-good" bit is probably referring to pixiv, a popular Japanese art site.

You're not going to live anywhere near a comfortable life in Tokyo on 2 million JPY a year, much less 1 million JPY a year. Convenience store workers here make around 950 yen/hr depending on what shift you're working on.

Assuming you find somewhere super cheap and livable (we're talking slightly larger than a single bed, maybe not even including a bathroom) for 50000 yen/mo, that's already 600,000 yen/yr on housing alone. You can see that there's not much left over for utilities, food, transportation, clothes, medical, etc... and we're not even talking taxes and luxuries.
More and more with each passing year, thanks to the overuse of the term and the shifting of its definition. I don't hate people of other races. That used to be good enough. Now, I have to ignore the race of the men who raped my sister. I have to ignore the race of the men who beat my uncle until he slipped into a coma. I can't point out that black on white violent crime is several orders of magnitude larger than white on black violent crime.

And since I can't do any of that without being called a racist anyway, there's very little reason for me not to embrace the term with which I was branded.
Inheriting Money
Anybody here who inherited money or is planning to inherit money from your parents/family ?
> Arguing that Windows and OSX have a "better" user experience is like arguing that cars with automatic transitions yield a "better" driving experience than cars with manual transmissions. In each case, the better interface is determined not by objective analysis but by the user's priorities.

I disagree. I believe you're saying that a more terminal focused interface is deemed better by some people's priorities and therefore could be said to give a good user experience whereas someone who doesn't value or want to touch the terminal would think Mac and Windows have better user experiences. But that's such a tiny variable in the overall user experience that I don't buy it though with my comment I wasn't specific enough and it did kinda sound like I was only calling out terminal vs terminal.

I think Linux has a lot of room to improve as far as usability goes; I just don't think that the comment I originally replied to is in anyway accurate in that any mistakes from Microsoft could open the door for Linux.
When online security is literally a roll of the dice, which dice do you use?
Android Watchface Generator Made into Web Tool
I love how hilarious yet informational it is.
That one hasn't been on our radar, but we'll definitely check it out.
How is this a private cloud if it's running on AWS which is most certainly a public cloud? I don't mean to take away from the product but I find the messaging to be odd.
Very cool, thanks so much for your hard work!
One of the great things about stuff like Convox and Empire is that, because they're built on existing stable technologies and utilize AWS managed services, you're basically asking if ELB, EC2 and ECS can scale. The most unstable component in all of this is probably Docker. In our experience running it in production at scale, it's faults have been pretty minor (things like push/pull being agonizingly slow) and failure modes get taken care of by ECS managing desired state well.
As someone who uses FFMPEG heavily in a professional capacity, I really wish the various community leaders and contributors could come together and build better tools for everyone-- as opposed to the current status quo where both sides seem to spend a majority of their time attacking or defending each other.

It's like a "great filter" in the growth of open source projects, so many get ripped apart by their own internal power struggles, but those few that can make it past these hurdles really do shine.
The title was changed. It previously said something along the lines of "Launch a private Heroku"