jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No one is saying don't speak up.

You're commenting on a post that is about a link that helps people use a web version of Zoom, which by its definition doesn't have the malware issues that people talk about (unless they are breaking sandboxing in the browser which would be pretty major).

What I was replying to was the "no grey area allowed" black and white dying on a hill response to the existence of the tool at all. This is why non technical people roll their eyes at technical folks and ignore us, because so many of us live in this world where we aren't willing to negotiate or hold more than a single thought in our heads at once.

I don't want to use Zoom, I bring up alternatives at my org all the time, and meetings that I control do not use it, and I do not install their binaries on my own devices, instead opting to use the web client when required. But the reality is that I don't get to make that call all the time, and if it's a choice between using Zoom on the web and not communicating at all, then the choice seems pretty clear to me.
Yes, the key is to try to have the less restrictive diet without the food that triggers your symptoms.

About gluten, in my case I found out that it wasn't the problem but fructans.
While there's truth in this, it's irrelevant to their point which was:

> No need for the x and y, really
Looking forward to see SharePoint and WCF on Linux.

Sure Java runs on Linux, that doesn't mean many shops want to build the human skill set to manage those boxes.

As for C++ and server applications, in what languages do you think database servers and similar high performance servers are written on, most of the time?
I know this isn't Reddit, but... virtual hugs
I've been in a similar place raising funds for a makerspace. Sponsorship is a marketing expense for a company and can be accounted for as a cost of doing business. A private donation is hit by income tax and, where I live, depending on the structure VAT.

I used to be 100% against tax deductible contributions to not-for-profits. I've turned 180 on this. Citizens are much better at allocating funds to worthy causes than a central government.

In the case of our Makerspace, we couldn't get any public funding because we didn't fit into a predefined category such as a "sports team", and operating a garage full of tools could be seen as competing with private industry. Somehow there was money available for the lawyers who delivered that opinion to the local government though.
Like the sibling says, Nano doesn't even require proof of stake. It's an impressive design, much more innovative than the average "let's fork Bitcoin" project, but it hasn't been very popular for some reason.

Sending money is instant (as in, sub-second), doesn't require confirmations or mining. It seems too good to be true, but I've read the white paper and can't find a flaw (doesn't mean there aren't any, of course).

My only criticism is that running a validator node isn't incentivized, which might be an issue, but due to the design of the coin you only need people to choose enough different validator that one doesn't have a significant percentage of people on it.
Partially, not everything that is part of EF 6, specially VS designers.

Don't take marketing for the full use in production environments.

Also we can keep doing this game, there are plenty of enterprise tools I can list.

.NET Core is the Python 3 of .NET world.
I suppose you know what you are doing, but high risk of explosion/fire with the fumes, that is why the original container usually have a correct seal, the beer bottles don’t. Twice treacherous:

- For most gases, the stoechiometric proportion is very low (6-9% for methane — won’t ignite well above that) so it’s not like you have to keep a large quantity to be at risk,

- Artist houses and painting schools often burn because rags are kept in a corner and self-ignite.

Maybe not valid for you, maybe I’ve just heard horror stories ;)
I had a similar experience while learning German. Berliners talk very quickly and I'd frequently request "Sprechen Sie langsam, bitte" aka speak slowly please. Unfortunately they'd usually switch to English after that, but when the speaker would stick it out with me I'd come away feeling like I'd gotten a little better with the language.
This, and euthanasia. I fail to understand how a government can dictate whether I choose to live or not.

In France there was a law that punished successful suicides, which is the extreme of such ridicule (disclaimer: I am French)
> A world class pianist makes 25 to 75k per show. Far more than any developer lazy or not.

Even if we picked such an outlier, the bookings would be sparse.

A mediocre SWE in the Bay Area has a paycheck every 2 weeks over the course of decades.

> And someone majoring in math can go as far as someone majoring in engineering

The choice in my personal story was about becoming a professional mathematician, not majoring in math and then getting a job in engineering. The latter in fact is what I did.
Yep. And above it looks like they use IMAP IDLE to watch for new mail in your account, which presumably means they need your real Google password, and don't go through the OAuth stuff (unless Google's IMAP server has an alternate auth method). Deal-breaker for me.

Having access to all of my data... well... Google already has access to all my data, and they were once a startup. Of course, Greplin could get bought by a company with a poor privacy track record. So there's that to consider. I'm not sure that alone would keep me away from the service, but it might.

Sigh... but it is really cool.

EDIT: Neeeeevermind, just saw this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2452068
Not to mention that the site is so broken that here is what I see on the Hacker News Window 8 app:

http://i.imgur.com/tZ3IcwJ.png

The left side is what the app picks up as the text of the article. The right side is the page itself loaded in a browser, after it has finished loading all of the scripts and automatically scrolled itself past some contest thing.

I'm on a dual-core Atom with 2GB of RAM and the site lags the entire thing. I mean, it's not as impressive as if it were the latest MacBook like some sites lag on, but still. Pretty shitty.
Have you ever tried to sell a used diamond? :)

Their value drops precipitously. Probably not quite as bad as an iPhone, but pretty close.
Is this correct? Can't they send a C&D for violating their terms of use, which forbids accessing their servers with software?

(On an aside, doesn't their terms of use disqualify access with a browser, or really any piece of software?)
One of my portfolio companies set up shop in Portland, Oregon and managed to convince some of the best developers on the planet (in my opinion) to move there.

Not sure if that would work in Boise or not, but it's doable.
And because he turned out not to be carrying any explosives, he was let go. As above, what would you do if someone set off an explosives detector? Investigations should certainly be conducted politely and respectfully, but at the same time they need to be persistent enough to deal with the attempts of guilty parties to conceal the truth.
Yeah because that's how it works now when a cop says one thing and an accused perp says another and there's no videotape.

Please don't be naïve.
You're right - they didn't make it abundantly clear that the VSS report was 0.43. Regardless, the conversion they made isn't insane when you look at the other VS scores. Plus - watch the videos of other 5 star rated vehicle versus the Model S. It's like the comparison between a 1980s car and one from 2013.
PHP's standard library provides function likes parse_str, headers and setcookie. It provides language constructs such as $_GET, $_POST, $_FILES, $_COOKIES, $_SESSION which are web specific. Its standard library comes geared towards outputting HTML and it provides a FastCGI process manager. I think most importantly, it provides a templating capability (albeit a very poor one), that is geared towards embedding dynamic content in HTML. It is by all means at least an attempt at a web framework.

In what ways does PHP's standard library fall short of Python's? I was never comparing the two. I have always found that both could get the job done, except PHP's uses a very weak naming convention/has none at all.

I was comparing PHP's standard library features with those of Django. Here, Django wins hands down. If you are not familiar with either, I recommend trying reading through their tutorials and seeing which one comes out with a more complete product in which one feels less messy.

Lastly, implying that PHP's standard library is not a framework because it is not built in PHP ("A framework is an abstraction built up USING a programming language, like PHP.") is just plain wrong. If I decided to speed up Django by re-writing every line of its code in C and making it an extension to Python rather than a Python module, without breaking any function signatures, would Django cease being a web framework? What would it become then? What if instead of C I chose Visual Basic, or Common Lisp, or F#, or even PHP (assuming I found a decent way to compile it to a binary)? A framework is collection of code that abstracts certain functionality. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework for further information.

EDIT: I am not at all talking about PHP the language vs Python. The two are different and both have some very interesting features. PHP 5 has grown up to be a pretty interesting general purpose dynamic language. I am specifically talking about using PHP on the web.
That's all I meant. 8 type-able characters is pretty easy to break if you have a couple of grand to invest in GPU's.
My original thought was shot down when I read this:

The Pipeline API is not a data or stream processing engine.
existing schools which have already failed.

I'm sorry but how exactly have those schools failed?

the local politicians are already quite willing to take property from other people (by force) in order to help a university expand:

Expansion plans that take a decade to get government approval doesn't imply "quite willing to take property". Everybody involved plays the situation to their own advantage.
Unit tests and fault injection tests catch a different but overlapping set of errors. Chaos Monkey is a terrific idea and I commend Netflix for implementing it early on. If you're not willing to randomly kill hosts then you're not confident that your distributed system really works.

This excellent paper[1] by James Hamilton (then MS, now AWS) recommends never doing clean shutdowns on applications - just kill them. Unless you have a lot of persistent state to manage this is a great idea. If it takes hours to migrate multiple TB off your storage host, maybe not such a good idea.

1. http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa07/tech/full_papers/hamilton...
Yeah. It's just a Xen VM. I do this every month or so. You just have to make sure that you have a kernel and modules you can boot the image with on your local Xen host. This is pretty easy, you can do it with whatever package manager your distro comes with, or if you created the image on a local Xen machine, you probably already have this. (yum install kernel-xen works on rhel)

It's true that you can't really do this with a live VM, since the AMI on EC2 will be whatever you had on the image before you last booted it. But you can do a ec2-bundle-vol on your live image to create a new AMI, then do your ec2-download-bundle on your new AMI.

You're really not as "locked in" to EC2 as some people think. You can easily pull your images off there, and then install Nimbus or OpenStack or something and run a local cloud. That's what we do at my job.
Sounds like the AWS architecture caused Netflix to write better code ( read: more durable, more fault tolerant ). Less assumptions baked in the code, and it will be easier to port it to a new data center/cloud architecture if AWS doesn't meet their needs.

As Netflix continues to scale, these changes will make managing that growth much easier.

A lot of you seem to take this post as being negative against AWS architecture. I take it more as a good collection of common things that you need to watch out for in distributed environments, specifically the dangers of assumptions within your current infrastructure which may change dramatically as you scale.
I think that good conceptual art is about the interactions among the idea, the work and its participants as much as anything else. That includes people trying to poke holes in an interpretation, and its defenders trying to weasel out of it. There's nothing wrong with that - at its most stripped down, the purpose of a conceptual work is to just be a conversation piece.

Or to put it more succinctly: Oftentimes art's biggest enemy is people making it out to be a bigger deal than it really is.
Agree. I've been looking for something similar to what they made for the SSD chart.
I'm working on converting a fiction ebook to web-based with Pollen and may later launch a fiction magazine using it, although I'm undecided about that technology choice.

I think Pollen's biggest strength is that you can reprogram its markup -- as its documentation puts it, you can attach behavior to tags. I haven't taken much advantage of that yet, but you can do things like create a "TOC" tag that builds a table of contents by inspecting child documents and looking for h1 tags (or looking for, say, "chapter" tags, which you've defined to expand to "<h1 class='chapter'>"), or inspect the contents of paragraphs and subtly shift the first line margin to the left if the first character is a quote mark (which Butterick's Practical Typography does). You could replicate some of that with a template language that allows user-definable tags, but I don't think you could do all of it.

Its biggest weakness, at least for me, has been finding a pleasant workflow. Despite having a built-in web server it feels kind of clunky compared to other static site generators. You're largely on your own for writing a deployment script ("raco pollen clone" is not a valid substitute). The DrRacket IDE is virtually a requirement for Racket programming, but it sucks teabags for editing long prose documents; you'll likely find yourself working in one editor for Racket language files and another for Pollen source. This isn't necessarily a dealbreaker, but it's at the least annoying.
> for serious apps

Like Facebook's Groups app and Ads Manager app, which both use React Native?
Perhaps that VC is of the "If people don't think you are crazy, you aren't thinking big" school

Not that those are necessarily exclusive - he could be nodding his head, thinking "I get it, this guy is crazy"

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/05/naveen-jain-t...
That's what I was thinking!

So here's my suggestion: add some text adventure games. Use emscriptem to convert frotz or something similar to javascript.
good point, but I think it's burst going to be relatively contained. My gut feeling it will not affect much since not many other industries are feeding off it. (I could be completely wrong here)

Tech on other hand is a different beast. It's bigger and a lot of things are feeding off it (real estate and online ads for example). If tech bubble bursts, it's effects can reach a lot further.
My grandpa was always into fishing. I asked him if he ever went fly fishing. He kind of shuddered. "Frustrating?" "That's a word for it"

Told me about a time he worked at a lumber camp in Colorado. The old man there kept a fly rod on the front porch of the cabin. Every day at 5 he would walk down to the stream and catch trout for dinner for the workers.
Biased opinion here (Aerospike CTO and Founder), but you might want to check out open-source Aerospike DB. Like Foundation, it's clustered by default, very very good at SSD / Flash, runs great in cloud deployments, etc.

It's been used in production by big ad houses like AppNexus as well as retailers like SnapDeal. Lots of miles on the code.

Was closed source for years, but went open source about 9 months ago.
I'm currently living about 5km away from Zhujiang in Guangzhou, numbered two in the article.

I'm actually surprised to hear that it was previously a ghost city, it's been a very busy spot since I was first over here around 5 years ago. It's also a little strange to hear it called a "city", it's more of a district in the centre in what was already a very large city.
There is a huge difference between "carnivore", a box the FBI could put on a single network somewhere, and room 641A, six rooms hooked directly into AT&T backbones sniffing all data. There is also a huge difference between passive monitoring at specific points with some sort of criminal investigation, and actively infiltrating US companies and breaking their security to be able to monitor its traffic unimpeded.

It's funny how I was a conspiracy nut when I told people this stuff was happening, and now I have people gaslighting me that everybody knew it was happening all along.
Ah, but is there any avenue for you to speak to them?
Can't comment much on feature parity beyond the fact that Matrix has had most things I need, but Discord is proprietary software and is pretty hostile towards any third-party clients. Wouldn't be a good fit for FOSDEM, imo.
One who needs a good, steady paycheck at a stable company? Just because hiring team doesn't have time to learn/apply a specific piece tech on the job doesn't mean they're low performers or less competent than the interviewee. They can be sufficiently busy with their current jobs and need someone experienced to lay the groundwork for others to run with. People that go and implement stuff when they're already busy usually half arse it. Those people are just creating issues that'll be fully realized months, years later.

If you say you know tech X, manager wants to hire for tech X to solve a business need, and I'm asked to help interview, I may ask you questions about things I don't know or do myself because it's my professional responsibility to my employer and manager to help them hire a quality candidate. Maybe some people use the interview as a place to be jerks or show off but that's not always true. Personally I'd rather not be involved in the process at all.
I can identify with much of what you wrote, especially surrounding the desire to help others. Noting another comment on how you don't want to deal with the "serious stuff," I'm highly recommending you look into the coaching profession. It sounds to be exactly what you're looking for in terms of training.

In general, therapy is designed to help people who are suffering from mental health and emotional wellness issues. The goal is help these people to baseline. Coaching assumes a baseline level of mental health and emotional wellness, and is designed to move people towards some measurable goal. Advice giving is not a part of either of these professions for good reason.

Consultants and mentors are related professions that ARE about advice-giving. These are wonderful as well, just different.

Also, many kudos for putting yourself out there!! There are tons of people who need and are looking for help.

source: am a coach trained by an ICF (International Coaching Federation) accredited program.
You enter A to B, you choose the driver based on what you wanna pay.
I don't recall any race specific issues in it - last I remember everyone was white, or a computer program.

And they did release it in the past - it isn't a "Song of the South".
Yes, the cracker-thin, pub-cut pizzas. I never liked the pieces in the middle that had no crust to grab a hold of, so I was always battling for one of the edge pieces.
Any ideas for how a problem like that can be solved? User feedback on a closed-source project at massive scale?
If you can create a build process that outputs it's starting point to index.ios.js, I don't see why not.
> Why instead are we seeing massive amounts of unemployment?

In 2010 the unemployment rate in the Eurozone and the US was about the same. Since then in the US it reduced by 2.5% while it grew by 2.5% in the Eurozone.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-us-and-eurozone-unemplo...

The reason for this is the austerity policies forced upon the Eurozone by adherents of a particular economic ideology, whereas the USA had fiscal stimulus, as well as regular fiscal transfers from the richer states on the coasts to the poorer ones in the center and south via the federal budget.

> The fact of the matter is that in many European countries someone who is not working can enjoy the same standard of life as someone who is

The fact of the matter is that in Spain unemployed citizens are looking for food in garbage bins. How many working people do you know who do that?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/world/europe/hunger-on-the...
Yes, although it's hard to make it scale in every case. What you're talking about sounds like the field of program synthesis[1], which uses SMT solvers (among other technologies) to generate code to some specification. I worked on a system[2] that used this sort of technique to optimize code for a weird architecture (GreenArrays' Forth-based chip[3]) and it was certainly much easier to implement than a classical optimizing compiler.

Perhaps the most relevant example project here would be Rosette[4], which is basically a framework for easily writing synthesizers for different tasks. It would let you implement a description of your machine in Scheme (ie write a simple interpreter) and automatically generate a synthesizer for it that could compile programs in your language to formulas in a solver of some sort.

[1]: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bodik/cs294/fa12/Lectures/L1/L1-...

[2]: http://jelv.is/chlorophyll.pdf

[3]: http://www.greenarraychips.com/

[4]: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~emina/rosette/
+1 to SSLScan. Last time I checked though, the Windows builds don't work/support the XML output option. Automating this last year involved capturing STDOUT and regexing...
I was skeptical, but that first link speaks volumes. Interesting theory!
> Leaks of personal information are only painful because the CC processors don't bother much with security.

False, leaks of personal information are possible because every single vendor is required to secure that information since they're the ones collecting it. This has nothing to do with card processors.

> With Bitcoin, you either have to trust a third party to supervise your transactions or have a really solid understanding of the protocol. And you have to be very security conscious to handle more than a few coins.

With dollars, you either have to trust a third party to supervise your transactions and store your wealth. And you have to be very security conscious to handle more than a few thousand dollars if you don't use a bank.

That last statement basically says nothing; with both you either use a third party to store your wealth or you secure it yourself. This is not interesting information.
I'm surprised and delighted as well. But he deserves it. Paco was the extraordinary combination of talent and hard work. He was an extreme outlier in both those things, a technical virtuoso with a musical soul. He was true to his flamenco roots, but he was an innovator as well, playing with countless artists from different genres, and helping flamenco music become popular worldwide.

He was a legend and without a doubt one of the greatest musicians of the century. May he rest in peace.