skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenStack Cloud Orchestration Pt I of II – From Manual to Automated Deployment
I wonder if you could replace hydrants with intelligent nodes. They'd still have mechanical openings for fire department hookup, but they'd call have spray caps on permanently, and could be remotely controlled, monitored, and even opened for yearly hydrant flushing without staff venturing out to each hydrant. You could even monitor water pressure through the entire hydrant system.
Also, this can be more helpful for earlier stages of an idea where you may be trying to determine initial steps for implementation, cost, feasibility, etc. You most likely are already at an MVP if you are posting to HN. We are more than willing to sink our teeth in earlier and protect your speed/stealth to market (stealth assuming a paid report).
Article in English: http://www.dw.com/en/german-prosecutors-investigate-internet...
ahachete, I'm not sure if I totally understand your question.

Continuous views are consumers for streams. You can think of them as high throughput real-time materialized views. The source of data for the stream can be practically anything. Logical decoding on the other hand is a producer of streaming data--it's basically a human readable replication log. So you could potentially stream the logically decoded log into PipelineDB and build some continuous views in front of it.
OH my god! I've just had the greatest idea.

It's like UBER for cracking open fire hydrants.

See you all at the next YC pitch-day
I totally agree.

Docker on ECS, with VPC for network and instance isolation, an ELB for load balancing and a Kinesis for log streaming is working extremely well.

Docker is feeling really great here as common tooling between a development system and production system.

Disclaimer: I'm working on a project, Convox, that automates setting up this type of system. https://docs.convox.com/
I'm not sure, it really depends in Microsoft's execution of the vision.

Over the years, if they really make Cortana useful and seamles pdates and systems maintenance the default due to the new "cloud" nature of Windows, they might see a similar adoption or switching pattern as SaaS solutions have seen in business.

At this point most traditional or slow businesses still using licensed software with local IT admins are being outcompeted by more agile competition using SaaS solutions.

Then again, what alternative do corporates have? They could stick to an older version of Windows, and become less competitive (assuming Microsoft pulls it off), or switch to Linux, which is doubtfl for most office workers (though our entire devshop uses now Linux ultrabooks).
> No, it's entirely a violation of your ethics.

Your ethics, perhaps.

> express purpose of denying them income.

No, the "express purpose" is to deny the creator's intent for how to interpret the markup, which has a side effect of denying content. Saying that the "express purpose" is to deny content isn't a fair characterization.
I'd rather see more top women doctors, scientists, lawyers, civi, biomedical and chemical engineers. Not sure what having more women sit in front of a computer screen writing CRUD apps all day does for equality.
Good points. Like I said above, I had added an "off" button to temporarily opt-out of pages. I found that in practice, expecting people to remember to do that was problematic. that's how I landed at encryption.

I used encrypt.js for encryption. I had trouble loading the key form a file and ended up having to hard code a key, which of course defeated the purpose of encrypting everything.

That was where I stopped.
It was, in fact. How did you infer that?
Bar charts should be sorted with the biggest ones at the top. It looks wierd the way it is. And why do all of the Latino parts have a "@" next to them when a "*" is used to reference?
Yeah, I just got an email on it too. (Customers)

I liked that they actually explained what their encryption was versus just letting you guess.

We use them integrated with New Relic, so I'll have to look at what the permissions are there.
> Not nearly as fast as cloud recognition has.

How is that? Desktop systems respond quickly, cloud systems often respond after a second - it takes time for data to do a round-trip over crappy mobile connection. Mobile latency is a big thing.

I agree wrt. Cortana (and Siri, Google Now) - most of the things you use them for will require Internet access. But there are still a lot of things that you could do with voice that shouldn't require a network connection, and we're missing the ability now. Not to mention you have zero customization options for cloud-based recognition. I could make good ol' MS Speech API recognize pretty much anything I wanted it to. No problem making it recognize a limited subset of two languages at the same time. With cloud-based systems, if the voice recognition doesn't like my accent, I'm out of luck.
McKinsey? Goldman? Forget It. More MBAs Opt to Spend Summer at Startups
This is why the discussion can't even happen, and why companies and universities still enforce percentages for underprivileged groups even though it is obvious discrimination (but it's "good" discrimination! Give me a break).

Person 1 says that enforcing a 50 people of type A and 50 people of type B when the number of qualified candidates is 20 and 80 will result in either hiring significantly fewer people in general, or hiring under qualified people of type A. People of type B are being passed over because of their race/gender/ethnicity. This is discrimination.

Person 2 says that implying that anyone of type A could be under qualified is itself discrimination, and this possibility should not be addressed or considered. Nothing can change because the issue cannot be discussed.
Your website indicates its for Delaware C-type corporations based in California. Is that the limitation?
My time to shine! I'm a huge note taking nerd and have tried many many solutions.

I first used my Gmail Drafts folder. This was actually really good for a time. Accessible via web or phone, the Gmail app automatically syncs the drafts to any device. However with many notes this gets messy.

I moved to some startup note-taking app after that. I can't remember the name now but it was fairly perfect. Unfortunately they closed down. This was the time I really started lookin triedg and trying many different things.

I settled on plain Markdown files stored on Dropbox. I use the excellent Draft app on Android to edit on my phone, and vim on PC. The only drawback with this, Dropbox's text renderer doesn't do fenced code blocks, so it looks funny on the webpage if I share a note with those.

I have a note-taking nerd friend and he settled on a private git repository.

I've tried Evernote but I hated it.
I'm really having a hard time imagining you're concerned about equality given the username.
It might have been rejected by OSI, but it was used for several years.
Think of it like using a coupon... Why spending $100 dollars on a pair of shoes, when you can use a coupon and save 50%.

Plus America is in a huge amount of debit.

Not saying we couldn't do both ideas though. I wonder which would be more useful.
Can I view the terms of the policy before purchasing?
Oops, it was meant to be:

SELECT <user_id> FROM (SELECT DISTINCT user_id FROM user_actions);

You're absolutely right that both those queries will give the same result. I guess I was trying to motivate the basic problem of finding whether some user exists in a set of users, and `SELECT DISTINCT` is the SQL way of representing a set.

Fixed the post, thanks!
It's the old "Rip off other sites' content, puff up your search ranking, and make show your own ads instead" ploy.

There are also those assholes running "Looking for <software>? Here's a trojaned copy!" sites designed to attack your less-computer-savvy relatives when they try to fix things on their own.
Malware URLs: The service is not working any more
Warren Buffett’s Family Secretly Funded a Birth Control Revolution
cool! Anyone know how well it stays on? I had to stop running/biking with ear buds cause they kept falling out.
Am I the only one lured here by the title thinking about software bug? ;)
I wouldn't trust Google Keep. I used Google Notepad for a while and had great organization, then they shut it down.

Never again, Google. Keep is an easy way to sync our shopping list to my partner and that's it.
One thing about myths - Stephen Ambrose wrote a book "Nothing Like It In The World" about the building of the first transcontinental world. He wrote in the Acknowledgements that:

"I had been taught to regard the railroad builders as the models for Daddy Warbucks. The investors and builders
had made obscene profits which they used to dominate state and national politics to a degree unprecedented before or since. John Robinson's book The Octopus: A History of Construction, Conspiracies, Extortion, about the
way the Big Four ruined California, expressed what I thought and felt. What made the record of the big shots so much worse was that it was the people's money they stole, in the form of government bonds and land. In my view, opposition to the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific (later the Southern Pacific) had led to the Populist Party and then the Progressive Party, political organizations that I regarded as the saviors of America. I wanted nothing to do with those railroad thieves."

However, once he got into it, he realized that about everything he knew about the project was a myth, and finished it with a transformed belief that it was the greatest American achievement of the 19th century.

(It really is a marvelous book, too.)
I am currently trying out Kanboard [1]. Not as slick as Trello but self-hosted and easy to install. Wonder whether anybody else has tried it and what they think about it.

[1] http://kanboard.net/
Not enforcing the same hiring quotas on leadership positions, I see.
Y'all need Markdown
Correct in terms of default templates. Our default templates, which are used by YC companies typically, are designed by attorneys for Delaware C-Corps in California.

We are designed to be able to take in any type of legal document though, including docs you already have from your attorney. So if you're not using the default templates, or you've customized them yourself, that limitation won't apply.
"Misconception: You should have only one process per Docker container!"

as soon as you start treating docker images as anything other that isolated statically compiled executables, you're not going to get the best out of docker.

if you are bundling inits, crons and companion apps into a single container then you need to stop, go back and either re-factor your code, or go to Full on VMs,

why?

because the networking is terrible. There are three great advantages to using real VMs over containers:

o Networking

o Isolation

o hot migration and resource allocation

Networking:

every instance of a service can have its own IP, and can be trivially tied to DNS automatically. scoped service discovery that's only sortof just possible now. however it uses immature tools with limited professional experience to back them up. DNS, DHCP with subdomains means images can be dropped in without any hard work

Isolation:

Its far harder to break out of a VM than it is a container. Especially if you are dealing with persistent storage and need to allow a container to write outside of its own chroot.

Hot migration:

This is killer. Hardware fails. having a cluster that automatically migrates around contention and hardware failure, without the app having to worry is worth many thousands of man hours. Yes making your own clustering system is fun, but its really quite hard to do well. Why bother when the hypervisor can do it for you?

There are three things going for docker:

Configuration library:

There is a rich library of prebuilt images

Baked in fudges:

You can bake in your dirty hack into the container, so long as you script it into your build job, its repeatable.

Speed:

yes there is less overhead. but lets be honest, how often have you hit up against VM speed issues that were down to your machine using too much CPU/memory? (if you're on AWS, no, you've not. AWS is dogshit slow, and expensive.)

Everything else, like immutable builds, easy dev environments et al, can be achieved already, and without much work.
Indeed. It's apparently a little-known fact that this even applies to rental cars, even though the rental car companies do their best to not tell you this.

The wikipedia page even mentions this: "Although frequently not explicitly stated, US car rental companies are required by respective state law to provide minimal liability coverage, except in California, where the driver is solely responsible."

Of course, minimal liability is only good if you have no assets whatsoever...
Reminds me of JG Ballard's Billenium where an overcrowded world has people living in three point five square meter rooms that were subdivided out of any space possible. Basically a world where to get more space you had to get married and marriage required three children, all furthering the population density problems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billennium_%28short_story%29
This seems like it's pursuing skin-deep diversity. Diversity of thought is much more interesting to me, and probably much more apt to drive profits than this.
>Who wanted that for desktop computers or laptops?

I did. Linux and OSX are still available for whoever wants them. You can stick with Windows 7 if you want, that's just fine. I like Cortana. I like my software knowing what I like and what I'm interested in. It makes my life easier, which is what computers were invented for.

I can see why some people might not, and to be fair I use Linux on my work laptop because the work I do demands it. I would never put my client data on a Windows machine.

But like I can see your side of the argument, you have to be able to see that some other people want personalization and learning and all that. Pandora and Apple Music are both heavily tailored that way. Google Now on your phone knows everything you do. Netflix can find videos for you to watch based on what you've watched before. Amazon will recommend purchases to you based on what you like. Hell, half the people on this site build these systems. You know how many machine learning articles there are on the front page every week?

So who wanted that? I did. And so did several million other people. For the people who don't want it, I mean it's not even really opt-out. They ask you up front do you want the default or do you want to pick your own privacy settings. If you still don't trust it, Windows 7, OSX, and Linux are right there, just a click away.
Could be useful.

But... I'm wondering why this is tech news. Is now every service, but done on a computer, suddenly tech news?

(If so, then I predict this will become a boring place, because there are a gazillion services out there that can be computerized.)
I think coverage by the mile or the hour for primary drivers would be of interest to a lot of car owners in US urban areas. An existing player, Metro Mile, markets their product as pay-per-mile, but the majority of the cost actually comes from a fixed per-month fee. Of course that might be because what I want makes no actuarial sense...
Any plans on supporting Google Drive? I think it's more common for companies to keep documents there nowadays than in Dropbox, at least in the companies I'm working with.
That's not it - at least, not for me. I'm an introvert, too.
> you obviously don't have kids

"kids" should never have administrative privileges on the system (up to the point they can burn a CD - then they can have admin privileges because with enough googling they can do it themselves). And you might want to install a sandbox type program - http://alternativeto.net/software/deep-freeze/?license=free
This is an excellent bug report. Filed!
Looks like a really great idea guys, best of luck. I'll definitely be a customer.
As an late professionally diagnosed (diagnosed at 21, now 26) Aspie (Aspergers Syndrome) who also contributed to Wikipedia for a long while. This gentleman's story really resonates with me. Even the tale regarding someone noticing it in me.

I for my whole life until I was around 16-17 thought everyone felt the way I did, constant cramps in limbs, hatred of social situations, brain constantly racing, extreme attention to detail. But I have since realised that is not the case. I used to love to build websites at home despite my mum not allowing the internet. So I ran my own internet of sorts that I would update with news and facts from memory. I would read these articles back and also print them out so I could read them when we went on bus journeys or I stayed at my nans. I created networks of fake people who emailed and messaged each other through an application I developed. This may sound lonely but it wasn't to me. I moved away from tech to gaming just trying to fit in at school and work for many years until painful myalgia/dyspraxia (common I've found in aspergers sufferers) forced me to leave. Now these many years on I am slowly making inroads and doing the things I love (I am making a site that will contain drawings of every single room I have been in since I was a toddler, remembering each room is my special skill (I shall have to remember that to tell my Psych lady)) but felt I shouldn't be doing. I have wanted to become active on the hacker news site for a few years yet was always to scared and anxious to join yet I couldn't ignore this post. I understand imposters syndrome is fairly common in tech and I have seen many people mention it. I feel like an imposter as a human at times so it feels super uncomfortable even considering anything else. Anyway thanks for reading.

(A little thought, the colours on this site are so bright for my eyes which are more sensitive than most I know, perhaps a second colour option may be useful)
Ironically, one of my final projects was a personal organizer/notepad in C# that was going to be awesome... until I realized just having a tab open in Sublime Text was just as good. So now I just have a ton of text files on my laptop about random things.
Great to see this launched at last. Congratulations guys! Good luck.
Oh wow. This will make a great nightmare.
I'm interested in more about the sustainability of this project: what's paying the bills now, and what's going to ensure the bills are payed in the future?

Bitcoin survived long enough to become within a reasonable approximation of self-sustaining... is Ethereum basically someone spending their early-adopter Bitcoin collection as runway?

Edit: found this blogpost - https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/03/14/ethereum-the-first-year...

My TL,DR: Ethereum development is under a non-profit initially 'VC-funded(-ish)' (with Bitcoin) vs. how Bitcoin itself was organically 'bootstrapped'.
Yep, that's our next integration. I didn't realize how popular it was until I started talking to companies either, so we're seeing the same thing.
Finally a Worthy Competitor to Google Street View
The Hidden Reason Behind Seattle's Skyrocketing Housing Costs
We had speech recognition back in the 1990s on computers less powerful than a Raspberry Pi V1. We're talking 200-400mhz 32-bit Intel boxes. So yes, the cloud dependency is very dubious.

If leveraging a lot of data allows for better speech recognition, why can't your computer access a remote speech recognition data set that stores and shares the results of its machine learning algorithms rather than uploading actual audio data? Instead of sending actual audio, send and receive very non-personalized non-specific derived model data to/from a repository somewhere (or even peer to peer).
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9977399
> This is, cryptographically speaking, a stretch.

Not only that, this transforms any symmetric-key encryption scheme into a public-key encryption scheme---share the obfuscated "white-box" code as the public-key for encryption, and use the deobfuscated code for decryption. (The recent cryptographic obfuscation breakthroughs should also be able to do something close to this, but at a ludicrous computational cost, and who knows what the security of it actually is.)

The news in this paper is the semi-automation of the attacks using side-channel techniques. I wonder how this would fare with a white-box cipher that used standard DPA countermeasures. I suppose that in the white-box setting there is no guarantee of good randomness, so by zeroing the randomness source similar attacks as this paper's could be mounted.
If it is similar to the Rooney Rule, no. The bar is the same, just required to consider a minority candidate.

I personally find tangible monetary value in employees with diverse backgrounds but I don't lower my bar. I just slightly discount sameness and slightly appreciate difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule
I am curious to understand how you guys decided on the pricing model? If I am basically using a template for Contractor Agreements, Sales Contracts, etc. what is keeping me from using the same template again. Unless I am missing something here. I see there are integrations with HelloSign to make the process automated.
>What a scumbag

I wouldn't say it's his fault. He's not doing it for charity, sure, but it's not his fault that the prices are insane. He's not forcing people to live there.

People double their money where I live renting places for $350/bed. People either can't afford a whole place to themselves or don't want to risk the hassle of renting an entire place and subleasing it, so they rent, realizing their combined rent is making a profit for the owner. It's just arbitrage.

> He leases the bungalow from a Chinese venture capitalist for about $6,800

That is just insane.
Not everyone is hiding from the NSA.
Cool thanks! Would love to hear back from you once you've had a chance to use it and hear what you like and don't like. One thing that's been awesome about going through YC is really learning to take feedback from users. Give us a shout any time at founders@ironcladapp.com
Water cooling from Antec, it fits into regular desktop case. Under load it makes sound like hoover. Some cheap RAM, some motherboard for $200, 500 Watt PSU.
I use it for IDE (Scala compiler is slow).

No problem with stability, it ran a few times over weekend at full load. Maximal temperature about 90C. I have put quite high voltage. Over summer it goes down to 4.8GHz.
I had the opportunity to collect and work with similar data during grad school. I love the fact that these guys use a DC-3; very cool. We used a sled.
1) Telling me to get laid has no place on this forum or in polite society. I have lived plenty. This is relevant: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

2) Relationships between people are also a study in information arbitrage as the power dynamics between two individuals are never equal unless both parties have intentionally decided to make them equal.

3) If you think the world of business is governed by some other form of arbitrage, please put your theory forward. If you think the world is not governed by arbitrage, please tell me what governs the world.

It is not reductionist, it is an attempt at distillation. Reductionist would be to ignore the pertinent facts of the discussion.
National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) is the initiative within the DOE.
Come on. This is not like Cancer research. Its a solved problem.
A FEW?

Games that run on OSX and Linux are the exception. Granted, there are now very high quality offers unheard of in the past (Kerbal Space Program, to mention one).

If you are on OSX, you have access to a bigger selection of games (Elite: Dangerous, for instance, or EVE Online - both using Wine). On Linux, good luck. Steam improved things a little, but it's still an oasis in the wasteland.

AAA games are still mostly locked to Windows.
Windows is a consumer operating system. You and I may know the "right" way to use it, but mother-in-laws don't like passwords, kids like Minecraft, and kids = chaos.
Originally discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9734305 but this is the actual paper, which was just published.
Its my SJW troll username. Seems to work.