skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a similar app [0] that's so incredibly popular at universities here in Germany right now that even mainstream media wrote about it already. I'm actually surprised how good the moderation works there, messages that gather more than 5 downvotes are immediately removed so the self-moderation works quite well. How are you dealing with that (I don't see any up/downvote/report buttons)?

[0] https://jodel-app.com/
Well, yes, because for one thing, Kubernetes (if done correctly) provides HA/failover that did not previously exist.
Tesla likes to talk about "one pedal driving" (due to the strong regenerative braking) and they need adapters to connect to non-Tesla charging stations, so it would not be without precedent!
Show HN: Y18n – Bare-bones JavaScript internationalization
3 tips for overcoming the fact that you are not Steve Jobs
Maybe add a few zeroes since we're talking about an automotive product.
My bank still does this, and someone else said Citi does too.
This is only about website analytics and not nearly as general as the title suggests.
> Instead, we should focus on the web’s strengths: simplicity, URLs and reach.

How does new browser feature X prevent a developer from doing any of these things?

> Being forced to work around IE6’s issues required quite a bit of creativity, and although not every solution stood the test of time (most libraries and frameworks from that era, for instance), it still made the creative juices flow.

'Tools' are bad except when they are used to work around stagnant browsers, I guess?
Yes, recently, Java actually became usable for a lot of seemingly native apps.

And it does this a lot better than the browser.
Steve drops prototype car in swimming pool. Bubbles come out.

Those are air bubbles. That means there's space in there. Make it smaller!
Docker solves a problem that most people don't have. It's not a PaaS, rather, it's (some of) the building blocks to create your own PaaS. Most folks don't need that. Most folks want to put files on a server and start a process. For those folks, Docker in the raw ends up being a whole lot of confusing & unnecessary scaffolding.
A strong engineering case can be made for "Look, if you installed a Brinks safe for a year, experienced no employee theft, and then had an Evil Hacker come in and swipe $10k from you, you got excellent ROI. Your insurance will inevitably pay the claim. We'll reimburse them. They won't cancel your policy. 998 similarly situated stores lost nothing; the last one had someone crash a pickup truck through the window and winch the safe away. Terrible thing, that, but that's why we're all insured."

You don't buy a safe so that you'll never get robbed. Banks don't have that as a desirable security posture! [+] You buy a safe to cheaply decrease the total cost of theft.

[+] Fun fact: average bank robbery costs the bank only $8k or so in lost cash. This is one of the many reasons why every bank in the country has In The Event Of A Bank Robbery Don't Try To Be A Hero Seriously It's Pocket Lint in their training about it.
Salesforce Retro Website – November 28, 1999
Now might be a good time to remember about how Goldman Sachs "helped" Dragon. See NYTimes article: "Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/business/goldman-sachs-and...
I think this is the key:

> The moratorium would hit Chrome much harder than it would the other browsers, since it’s Google that is proposing most of the new features nowadays. That may not be entirely fair, but it’s an unavoidable consequence of Chrome’s current position as the top browser — not only in market share, but also in supported features. Also, the fact that Google’s documentation ranges from lousy to non-existent doesn’t help its case.

I think the title and a lot of the rhetoric is misleading, really. It's not so much "stop pushing the web forward" as it is "stop letting Google decide where forward is and leaving everyone else to either ratify it or be irrelevant." And, uh, good luck with that. I mean it. I would love to see that happen, but I don't see how to get there.
Intel and Micron – new 3D memory architecture
Looks like you can download a beta:

http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=6&note=2693

I lack the environment to experiment with it, but that's already a wild hell of a lot more than certain other high promise CPU projects provide.
I used to work as a penetration tester, and one of our clients hired us to perform a "custom application" assessment. I can't give specific details (for obvious NDA-related reasons), but this application was a large device that interfaced with mission-critical hardware -- and ran Windows XP embedded.

They'd done a pretty good job securing the OS and device itself: we couldn't actually connect it to any networks, so network penetration testing was difficult, and there were no USB ports or CD drives. Unfortunately for them, they did leave an archaic port open on the back of the device. Now, this wasn't a USB port or anything, but (with certain difficult-to-source adaptors) we were able to get an external 3.5" floppy drive hooked up -- through which we could (slowly) load arbitrary executables, and take over the device.

When we explained this finding, the client told us that certain customers of theirs required this port for proprietary communication, and that they couldn't remove it from production. The end result was that for every production run of this device that wasn't going to one of those edge-case customers, epoxy was manually applied to close off the port.

Not the most elegant solution, but I guess it worked!
I was expecting something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nB...

but USB sticks are probably a little less suspicious than crow bars.
Algorithms from the book
Yep. Using only apple electricity, driving only on apple roads unless you root your car. And when a part costing 0.02$ burns you will have to buy a new one.
Not necessarily. If you're in a microservice architecture, it can be very attractive to "docker run" all the services you're developing against on your development VM.

Relying on Puppet (as with prod) means development VM setup/change time is measured in hours. My company's Puppet catalog takes 15 minutes to compile, 6 hours to run. Entire days of developer productivity are lost trying to get development VMs working. Docker would make that instantaneous. It's also very hard to manage and synchronize data (i.e. test fixtures) across all those services. With Docker you could have a consistent set of data in the actual images and revert to it at will.
Intel's new storage chip is 1,000 times faster than flash memory
Create your own working environment: sound generator with “tons” of combinations
> If everyone has a level playing field from an information access perspective, you cease to have functioning markets of exchange. The essential point of business is information arbitrage...

This is a brilliant insight!

Still, we are in a sufficiently connected world that the balance is shifting from businesses having the higher value information about the cost to deliver a service and the consumer having immediate access to information about competitors and the relative value being offered. The cost of that information for consumers is diminishing and creating new market opportunities (i.e. an uber driver knowing where to go to find a paying customer...which greatly expanded the actual market size.)

All this is to say... That while businesses thrive on information assymetry, those that can find a way to even the playing field will expand markets and create much bigger opportunity than those that try to sell the information for ads or subscriptions.

The users post is a clear monetization path for soundcloud. Sell the downloads and own a piece of the transaction... Like uber does and like Google is trying to do with their buy buttons and comparison ads.
Thanks!
Well, I've read this book multiple times.
It doesn't answer my question (unfortunately), plus, most of the book is about B2B. I wonder about B2C...
> Readers subscribe to a federation of publishers for, say, 10 or 20 dollars a month. They now get to consume as much as they want on those sites.

Federation isn't a very catchy name. Maybe you can think of it as a bunch of strings, all wound together. Like a cord, or... or like a Cable! Yeah, call it "Cable".
They do, and it's pretty cool: https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections
Sounds like a 68060 in FPGA. Sounds like I need to dig out my FPGA boards.
What happens when Photoshop goes too far?
Stripe aside, is there typically a charge for failed ACH transactions?
This seems to be an appeal more to the W3C and browser developers than it is to the rest of us. He's not asking us to stop, in fact, he's asking us to double down and make use of the standards that we already have.
I agree, but that's not the point.

The point is that some -- perhaps many -- people want to distinguish between smartphone apps and traditional programs, and that's one way to do it.

It would be nice if there was a better way, but I don't know of one.

Incidentally, it's a distinction that people also make between "universal apps" (written for Windows Runtime) and desktop programs (written to the Win32 API) even when they do the same job on the same Windows 8 or Windows 10 PC.
> If this is your advice then you shouldn't give advice.

Stop with the blaming statements.
Microsoft is silently preparing your PC for Windows 10
Can I Dockerize Windows?
The Death of Patient Zero
> Users do not care about cross-platform compatibility, at all.

I've heard that some users have both a phone and a laptop.
NTSB reveals cause of Virgin Galactic’s deadly SpaceShipTwo crash
If it's an album worth having, yes. But those are rare. Why pay $20 and wait two days to rip a single song that you want to listen to?

There are also people who thought the telephone would never take off because telegrams were a richer experience.
I think the author missed orchestration. docker-swarm/docker-machine is still not production ready and kubernetes is too damn complicated to setup outside GCE
With salaries of over $100k available to programmers, I'd say the opportunity cost of a startup venture is pretty high. It takes years of determination and time for a startup to pay off, and most do not.
> The New York Times (which I pay for), is making some money off its paywall, but still a lot more through digital advertising experiences, which mean it's limited in what it can truly say.

disclaimer: I'm a dev at NYT.
comment: As a dev at the Times in the Data Science and Engineering department, I am privy to all of our data, aware of our ad-services integrations and relationships with our advertisers, in contact with marketing and, most germane to the discussion, allowed to sit in on editorial decision-making discussions (sometimes). I can honestly say that this part of the OP's post is very far from the reality of how decisions are made here. In fact, the newsroom, while increasingly aware of a controlled set of analytics, works almost completely without concern for the financial aspects of the company. Even if a reporter wants to see analytics regarding an article he/she wrote, or a report on aggregated article performance, that information is only in the purview of an editor and, even then, limited to data that intentionally exclude information that might lead to 'click-bait' articles. While this might change over time, I can assure you that it will be very very controlled and that the newsroom has stronger veto power than marketing and advertising. I have never witnessed a scenario where an article is pushed or pulled based on what an advertiser wants and I can't fathom how that would happen. Hopefully, this will assuage the OP's fears that the news we print is somehow at the whims of our advertisers.
Can I sing a few praises for the ghetto for a minute? It had more features. It was friendlier to non-developers because of things like Flash. It had more features. You could directly port native code through things like ActiveX (which we are now only recently getting back through ASM.js, with performance within an order of magnitude). It had more... you know where I'm going with this. The problem with that paradigm is the rise of resource-constrained mobile devices and security issues. But I'm unconvinced that the new paradigm won't just regrow the security issues and the performance problems as the features catch up.
I had no idea you could do this sort of stuff, it honestly scares me a bit, but is cool, kudos.

FWIW you can get away with a lot from sh with the help of perl (arbitrary syscalls) and debuggers (like gdb, breakpoint and change return values or just call any function). In solaris it's particularly easy with truss and the p* commands.
Pick a person, any person. Put together all of the data and metadata that can be legally acquired. Strip out the context and put it in front of a judge. Get a search warrant. Hoover up everything else.

With enough information, anybody can be demonized. Can the presumption of innocence even exist in the age of information?
> [U]s, the technologists, the so-called innovators. Where are our innovative powers to come up with alternate busniness models?

Well, we're technologists. Our innovative powers are good for coming up with technological solutions, but this is a business and social problem. Our ability to solve those problems are no better than anyone else's—worse, probably, given our focus on problems with very different constraints.
Where's the evidence that Docker isn't succeeding widely in production? In the past week alone I've talked to a dozen or so companies who are all using it in production.
> Within a few years, video games will be generating photo-realistic feature films on demand

Games are struggling to match the offline renderings of 14 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaI7ZPA9I1c - in particular pay attention to the lightning and textures, less so the animations. Especially those off in the distance, something that games continue to struggle with in a big way.

Photo-realistic video games are very, very far off. Significantly the costs required to achieve high-end graphics these days are astronomical.
As far as logs go, you should just be doing network logging with Docker to either a syslog server or something like LogStash or Splunk. If you are big enough to have a genuine need for containers, you also are big enough for a centralized logging system.

At the end of the day, you have to view it as building a reliable system that performs a function. Docker is one tool you can use to do that. Virtual machines are another tool. They don't solve all the problems you describe, nor are they intended to. If you're a tiny startup, you can just go the AWS route, but that leaves you beholden to AWS and their pricing. That's fine early on, but eventually you'll want to go full-stack for one reason or another.
Isn't that like gazillion years old? But k cool anyway..
There are valid arguments to be made about object-oriented programming not being a hammer fit for every nail, particularly in regards to game programming. It's easy to caught up in a trap of organically forcing too much hierarchy and structure onto a project while still in the planning stages. You can tell the awkward, haphazard results of an OOP library that was built on the principle of "whatever the developer thought was a good idea at the time" versus one that was actually engineered - it's the difference between reading a novel in the latter case and a rambling screed in the former.

Unfortunately, I think Casey tends to take his dislike for OOP a bit far, and rather than arguing against using OOP badly, or using it where it isn't really the best option, he seems to reject it in its entirety. There are situations in which it works, and ways to make it work well.

Watching the handmade hero stream archives on youtube, i find it useful to read the comments (one of the few times you should read the comments on youtube) where clearly intelligent and competent programmers call him out on his curmudgeonly bs time and again.

Of course, he's a much better programmer than I am, and he has shipped a game and I have not, so I will listen to most of what he has to say, but when things like const being useless come up I just have to roll my eyes.

I think that this is less a "movement" and more a "group of people unable to take Casey Muratori's personal opinions with the necessary grain of salt."
She actually convinced me to save my likes using https://github.com/013/Soundcloud-Downloader, whose author used exactly this process to determine how to download the mp3s.
"If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and -- importantly -- accept the consequences of his actions. He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers -- not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime. Right now, he's running away from the consequences of his actions."

Horseshit. He's been in effective exile for longer than Martin Luther King, Jr spent in jail, totaled over his entire life. What are the odds that Snowden is facing the same order of magnitude in terms of explicit punishment?

Moreover, when MLK received a sentence of 6 months hard labor following the Greensboro sit-ins, JFK and RFK intervened to get him released early.

"In October 1960 Atlanta student leaders convinced King to participate in a sit-in at Rich’s, a local department store. King and about 300 students were arrested. The students were later released, but King remained in jail while Georgia ofﬁcials determined whether his sit-in arrest violated parole conditions King had received a month earlier after driving with a suspended license. After being sentenced to six months of hard labor at Georgia State Prison at Reidsville, presidential hopeful John F. Kennedy and his campaign manager and brother, Robert Kennedy, helped secure King’s release. Their intervention in the case helped contribute to Kennedy’s narrow victory over Richard Nixon in the presidential election."

http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encycloped...

But apparently MLK doesn't know how to do civil disobedience, and the Obama administration would rather identify with his captors than with JFK.

Finally, speaking of "the consequences" as if they're something natural and not something the Obama administration has direct and unilateral control over is disingenuous. If Obama issued a pardon, Snowden will have received all of the punishment the law requires. Snowden is not demanding a pardon - he is facing punishment (albeit not the ridiculously overwrought punishment you had in mind). We are demanding he be pardoned.
At that pricing, I'm curious if it makes sense to put blobs in the database rather than S3. Any thoughts?
I watched a few of the rescues, and they were all of kids falling out of their floaties and seemingly unable to swim at all. What does it look like when an able swimmer encounters trouble? Would it look the same as the drowning response kicks in?

Also, how do you differentiate the drowning response from someone that's just bad at treading water and floats low in the water? They might both be bobbing just in and out of the water, but one of them can just transition to floating on their back and the other is trying to not drown. (I haven't swam in forever and don't know if I can even swim anymore, but I was reminded of childhood swimming lesson tests.)
Laser measurement systems. e.g. http://ptd.leica-geosystems.com/en/Total-Stations-TPS_4207.h...
Sleepwalking into a Monoculture and Lock-In with Linux Containers
Gamify your Git with Git achievements
5 Black Hat Presentations I Don’t Want to Miss (and Neither Do You)
Yeah...the i960mx was a missed opportunity. It was certainly oversold as "Intels RISC replacement for x86" (it was never going to be that in the real world), but it would have been interesting to see how far it would have gone if the decision hadn't been "we'll just neuter the little bastard and try and recoup some development dollars by using it as an embedded processor".
The research isn't about the culinary desirability of cooking with the various oils, it is about the amounts of some unhealthy compounds that are generated. That statement is made in that context, not in the context of whether extra virgin olive oil is desirable in a culinary sense.
> They are also trying to lead the charge in allowing people to invest in private companies through investment vehicles that look similar to funds( ie pooled capital that they raise and invest for share holders).

I was just reading in another thread about how a new hypothetical tech crash wouldn't be as bad as the dot com crash for precisely the reason that all these new, 'over-valued' companies are private rather than public. In this context, isn't this kind of investment vehicle dangerous?

(I don't pretend to understand this kind of thing and would be glad to be made a little wiser.)
We should not forget about GS, Greece and the EU....
Yes, doing the same thing here as well. Still using docker to streamline deployments though, but one docker container/role per instance, no "orchestration" for containers (baked AMIs, ASGs).
>everyone remembers the first half of that quote: "information wants to be free..." //

You appear to have the quote wrong and the intent of the quote wrong too?

Wikipedia has it as from Stewart Brand, supporting the freeing of information:

>"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other." (Brand 1984, via Wikipedia) //

It's saying that information is valuable and so in a way it should be expensive but as we now have ways of distributing that information for little cost we can make the information free-libre and virtually free-gratis. Some people want to make the information expensive, so they alone can profit; others want to make the information free so that all of mankind can benefit.

>That is to say, it's hard for me to tell people to give up the information which is, in effect, their livelihood. //

To me all of this, and the way industrialisation is heading, leads to a need to re-evaluate the structure of society and the way we process and share resources (physical and otherwise). But that's not a reason not to go there, unless you wish to retain the current system where - as you note - it benefits a small minority to keep useful information from others.

Stallman apparently puts it this way:

>"I believe that all generally useful information should be free. By 'free' I am not referring to price, but rather to the freedom to copy the information and to adapt it to one's own uses... When information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is receiving." (Stallman, Comp. Sec. Conf 1990) //
Node, Express, ReactJS, AWS – a case study in architecture
Huffman revisited
The Kubernetes master does support high availability.

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/relea...
OK, sorry about that ;-)

The problem with early adopters is that they are not a mass market, and also, they probably tend to be fickle. Yes, they are a market, and if you are a startup, may be your only market. However, they are not the mainstream mass market ("main street"), which is where the money is.

Moore's book was, as you know, about crossing the (apparent) chasm between the early adopter market and the mass market.
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