skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you replied to my comment, I just want to point out that I am not an "advocate" for DNSSEC, neither do I "fetishize" the security of anything.

What I do is to point out that with today's domain validated model, it would make a lot more sense to restrict the validation path to only includes authoritative information about the domain, and to do so in a way that is cryptographically secure.

The fact here is that Verisign can sign anything, today. They can not, however, impact the validation chain that DANE provides.

There are also many millions of use cases where .com does not matter at all.
Well, not like it's a surprise, they've A/B tested it, saw increase in CTR, implemented.
This is what happens when Corporate Strategy = Corporate Development.

All large companies, especially conglomerate tech companies need an active corporate strategy team who monitors divisional progress against strategic goals (i.e. not financial goals).

Of course it's more fun deciding who to buy than actively managing a portfolio of assets/divisions, but if you have no team of strategists working on strategy, then you will inevitably one day find yourself calling: McKinsey, BCG or Bain to come in. And when they do, make no mistake, each firm will be optimizing for short-term wins and commitments for future work--and that's assuming they are provided with deep enough optics to even get that far. Plus, the minute you start seeing well dressed 26 year olds with vendor badges roaming the floors everyone panics and productivity grinds to a halt. Hardly the best way to create value.

There is a better way of doing things Yahoo, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, E-Bay, FB... Any corporate strategist worth his/her salt will tell you that Disney has the dream team. The closest thing closer to tech would be T-Mobile... C-Suite: take notice, look at how Iger and Legere staff their corp strat teams (hint: not everyone comes from I-Banking and Mgmt Consulting), otherwise you may someday find yourself between the same rock and a hard place as Marissa

Disclaimer: I have never worked at Disney or T-Mobile, but am familiar with members of both teams and very familiar with some of the teams in the first list above.
Right. I look down the road when the drive isn't to migrate to Python 3, but from it, to PyGo 1.4. And damn-it, what is this PoGo thing? We had PIP! PIP worked! Why are this tri-ennials continually reinventing stuff we had completing worked out by the early 20's?!
I still want a citation.
So, how is this different from an in memory olap queryable column store like vertipaq?
While our culture is certainly more diverse than Norway's, I absolutely think that there are American values that, while certainly not held by all, do define us as a nation. Among them I would include:

- Pluralism

- A belief in the value of hard work

- A strong commitment to individual rights / individualism

- A certain degree of puritanism

- A belief in American Exceptionalism

- A belief that fairness should always be aspired to

- A fairly strong commitment to market capitalism

- A healthy dose of skepticism that government intervention is the solution to many problems

- A commitment that the "American Dream" is something that we should always strive to make real for everyone
Happy that you like it. All photos used on Foodshot are published under the Creative Commons Zero license, which means they can be used without asking for permission or providing attribution.
Cool, what kind of food site do you work on?
I am doing this as a side project for my main project, a food writing platform called Foodscene, foodscene.co.
That's not the lesson I got from the article. The lesson I got was, "Don't charge money for your side projects." If you write some software as a side project and give it away (as open source, or whatever), you have a much lower level of obligation to support the code. In the worst case you can tell the person complaining to fix it themselves and submit a patch.
Absolutely. Being able to install a -devel package and just get on with things is incredibly important.
That statement carries 0 value without any proof. Backblaze is doing an excellent job documenting their process and shouting 'we are doing 10 times better', 'costs aren't close' and 'far from the state of the art' is pretty lame if you're not willing to back those claims up. I'm a big fan of dropbox but this was below the belt.
There are a few nascent cryptocurrency-based prediction markets on the horizon, Augur being the most well-known. If one of them takes off, it could influence our economy and society in a big way.
This isn't the most useful statistical figure. The heart feature is novel — the increase could be due entirely to folks trying it out. A more meaningful figure would be to look at the folks who have constant favoriting habits (with stars that is) and see how their behavior changed. Personally, I'm more reluctant to heart tweets, as my Twitter account is mostly professional and it feels a bit unprofessional to "heart" a colleague's tweet.
Same here.

I often thought "This is a good tweet... but why should I favorite something on Twitter?!"
The Boolean Trap
"6% increase in likes" can mean a few things in the statistical sense.

* 6% increase compared to the same time last year?

* 6% increase in WoW favorite/like activity?

* 6% increase in the probability that a given user will favorite/tweet a given tweet?

Granted, in all cases, 6% is a lot at Twitter's scale, although depending on the metric used, it may not be proof that the change is unequivocally better.
I think you really got to the heart of what I felt! I don't care about the money or any of those things. Anyone who has already spent 8 years on a MS and a PhD probably knows that!

What I see is that even in today's MOOC/highly-connected world, I'm missing out on interacting/working with the brightest minds in the world, who all seem to be currently concentrated in the US. I can only go so far by watching their talks online, reading their research papers or studying their code. I wish to live/work in that environment for at least a few years.

Not everyone can get everything they want, I get that. But then, I see folks who are neither the best nor the brightest nor the most hard working getting to the US by gaming the system and that hurts.

PS: This is from the point-of-view of a foreigner from a less privileged background. There is a whole other gamut of concerns of US citizens about their own jobs, assimilation, social concerns and all that and I am aware of that.
Yeah, it's a little shitty to take money and not maintain something if people are expecting you to.

So tell them upfront you might not maintain it indefinitely.

Moral obligation: satisfied! ️
Wow - that's pretty exciting. Great to see that Twitter is innovating again.
b/c you'll have 1k paying customers sooner or later. if you can't scale, you won't have a viable business. Look, I'm not suggesting to throw away your entire stack. It's very likely that you spend few days, find out the bottle neck and fix it with a scaleable/distributed method. Computing is cheap, and will forever getting cheaper. Paying customers are rare, deserve deep appreciation.
Thanks for the feedback!

We love Rust for a lot of reasons, but couldn't really fit them all in the Readme ;)
I would assume that a good chunk of that initial increased activity has less to do with it being a better name/icon, and more to do with the increased awareness/attention to the feature in general, due to all of the press around the change... Will be more interesting to see the % of new users that make use of it after a few months.
Patterns for scaling CSS
You make fair points. Our disagreement seems to only be about the interpretation of the rules.

>In fact, there is no way that you can differentiate all four possibilities with a single yes/no response; you need at least two.

This is why I would say that the question is actually two questions. Two separate truth values must first be produced, then combined with some operator to make a third (and possibly combined again) value, which is the answer given by the god.

If a god must parse your question down into individual propositions and then answer them in some order to resolve a larger statement, it might stop after the first proposition. I believe it's a valid interpretation of the rules anyway.
Removing the cap would be a boon for employers but would seriously undermine wages for software devs here, I imagine.

India and China each graduate many times more software engineers each year than does the US. Many, perhaps even most, would love to work and stay in the US.

With a massive influx of engineers in a short span of time, I can't see how wages would remain where they are now in areas like NYC and SF. This is probably exactly what the Facebooks et al want, I guess.
Yes. Pretty much everyone I know in such an industry has tunnel-vision on their area and overestimates its importance. They'd end up plastic-wrapping(/suffocating) us to prevent [malware, terrorism, power-grid collapse, etc] if they could - that's their only metric because they spend all day thinking about it.

If you step back and look at terrorism and hacking and traffic fatalities on the same level you can make rational plans to actually help the most people - then assign tasks to the agencies. They certainly can't set their own goals.

So no, I really don't think the NSA has a rational (ie, cost/benefit) balance of attack/defense from our (citizens who want to live long wealthy lives) PoV. It's our job to regulate that.
Flying the Concorde
I have been running multiple instances of the same Go app on multiple servers without it ever crashing for about a year. The current uptime (since the last release) is about 4 months, no issues at all, and very low resource usage.
I always understood "favoriting" to be like "saving" a post in reddit. However, the digestabilibty of tweets are pretty much instantaneous so "saving" them is without merit. So I understood the genesis of "hearting" or "liking" to be very much so a re-branding of a highly adopted UI. Was this move organized before @jack came back to Twitter?
"I have no idea why people think that? Do you?"

Because they had, in fact, just overthrown an oppressive government. I have no idea why you think the founders did not consider that potential outcome. Jefferson even said "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion".

Can you think of another example of the right of the militia to bear arms ever being codified, anywhere in the world? Why would it need to be?

The right is specifically stated as being one of the people's rights. The militia is a reason, not the subject.

If the First Amendment had read "A well educated Legislature, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed" would you argue that only legislators had the right to keep and read books? No, you would not. Nor would anyone else, because that would be a nonsensical interpretation.
Betamax is dead, long live VHS
The good ones mostly do and switch to their client companies so effectively a large portion of the TCS/Wipro/Infosys cadre end up at the right places that pay the most. The bad ones suck it up and stick around. So the offshore companies purposely don't hire the best ones.
The Physics of the Star Wars Trailer's TIE Fighter Formation
What about a closed-source tool whose source and compiled binary had been vetted by mutually-distrusting, qualified parties who themselves used the tool? And provided the binaries and signatures to tools' customers?

Because as I outline here...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/friday_squid_...

...both proprietary and FOSS really come down to you taking other people's word that they reviewed it and they were qualified to do so. So, review and trust in the reviewer(s) are the truly important points. The many eyes argument hasn't held for security for over a decade while a number of closed-source systems survived rigorous evaluation due to good design.

So, would you trusted a rigorously built and evaluated system with closed source if you trusted the reviewers and could verify you had same thing? And, if not, why do you trust/use OSS that's made by people with varying competence with no proof of qualified review?
I think the phrase "favorite" was to be read as "things that are my favorite" -- it was never used by the userbase as a bookmarking mechanism.
Crypton: A framework for creating zero-knowledge mobile and desktop applications
A week in, could easily be attributed to the Hawthorne effect; [0] if the trend continues after a month or longer, might be worth talking about.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Apple Music for Android released
Support is super hard to scale. The best way is to design your product so well that you rarely need to answer calls/emails.
The post itself makes the same points.
Well, that, and the fact that you have a huge number of people that are going to try it for a bit, and then forget about it. I'd like to see the numbers over the next six months.
Seven More Languages: Julia Day Three
I use favs/likes with IFTTT to save twitter links to other services.
There's one legitimate complaint here ("governments control TLDs"), and one observation masquerading as a complaint ("CloudFlare want more business"), against a background of really sloppy thinking. Let's pick it apart:

* DNS TLD operator trust is replacing CA trust. This is specious off the bat since so many CAs rely on the DNS for verifying the origin of a request. Fundamentally, if you control a domain you can get a CA-signed certificate for any label under it. In other words certificate trust is already, implicitly, DNS trust. Even HPKP+HSTS won't save you when the adversary is a state actor and controls DNS, controls a CA, and controls the network.

If you think most targets will cry foul and invoke the Internet Death Penalty upon detecting a violated CA, you're dreaming. Most targets don't even know what a certficate is.

I would be looking for an entirely different trust framework rather than muttering about two that are nearly congruent.

* Server-based validation is a problem. Why? Whether it's a locally running validating recursive resolver, or a validating library you link to your own software, or 8.8.8.8, in every case you're choosing to trust someone else's code and the mechanism by which you invoke it. The only absolute way to resolve this issue is audit/write the validation code yourself.

I.e., this isn't an emergent property of DNSSEC, it's just browser authors being lazy. (See also: lack of SRV record support in HTTP/2).

* DNSSEC doesn't help _me_ with _my_ security issues. Well, for that kind of universal claim we only need one counterexample to make it false. I'm happy to provide one: distribution and validation of my SSH host keys.
The paper: https://crypton.io/crypton.pdf

The website: https://crypton.io/
I agree with the parent poster. If you had a separate loosely coupled Stripe importer system you could process those Stripe event streams into the required aggregates via a queue. That way you save your precious web server resources for processing real-time web requests without the performance hit. We churned off BareMetrics because of those server and performance issues a while back.
That's exactly what I was thinking.

Is their study of "using betting to accurately predict whether studies are reproducible" also reproducible?

A very interesting question about stats and studies.

Even the p-value of 0.01 seems SUPER strong, but in reality, falls apart in many cases.
Went through the same thing years ago. We weighed all the paperwork submitted and it was just shy of 5 pounds.
Sure, that would make sense if they only had personnel in the datacenter once a month, but: "we replace about 10 drives every day" [1].

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...
Kaspersky Says IoT Industry 'Not Mature'; Reports Chromecast Vulnerability
That's assuming the tweet is only text. I had used it to quickly bookmark links within tweets, but opening them and saving them to Instapaper honestly works better.
I think assuming it wasn't used as a bookmarking mechanism is being a bit shortsighted. Myself and many others in my circles used it as a bookmarking tool as well as to show support of something someone said.
I actually come back to a lot of saved Reddit posts, particularly ones on programming subreddits where I can't easily read the article or mess with the code on my phone.
Apple TV Tech Talks
Hmm, maybe I was being tone deaf?

I've repeatedly tried to state in subsequent children in this thread that it seems as though Backblaze made the right set of tradeoffs given their previous gen, and their time to recoup their investment in this, etc.

I was also (somewhat selfishly, I suppose?) trying to tap into the excitement of a group of readers who where thinking about big storage, and let them know that the possibilities were even great given greater investment.

The responses I've been getting (including yours) lead me to believe that my comment is being seen as a slight against the set of tradeoffs that Backblaze has made, and that really wasn't how I intended it.

Edit: I do disagree about it providing zero value, though. We've had a good subsequent exploratory discussion about ways to optimize storage density and (to some degree) cost. And I hope we're not at the point where everything said on the internet demands "proof"; I'm not sure a blog post would provide that, either!
It has the normal peripherals, I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, Timers, etc.... The linked document isn't the datasheet, its just a description of the core.

Its also 8KB SRAM, 33MHz.... far away from RPi territory.
Your difficulty comes because it's now a matter of case law. Ongoing and undecided case law. So make sure "case law" is in your search. (Note European law, etc, is VERY different.)

Status one year ago:
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2014/07/14/supreme-courts-latest-p...

An update:
"When the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided CLS Bank v. Alice Corporation, all the important questions that we thought might be answered remained completely and totally unanswered. There were only 10 judges who sat on the en banc tribunal and no more than 5 judges signed on to any one opinion."
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/01/09/a-software-patent-setba...

A more comprehensive list of cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_patent_case_...

Wish I had better news for you.
Introducing Six Colors Subscriptions
printf :-/
We had a similarly absurd experience with fingerprints.

Would you believe that the NY State Police aren't a certified fingerprinting service for INS? (or at least they weren't 20 years ago)

My wife had her prints done by the state police, but Immigration rejected them on that basis. Instead, we had to drive an hour to a camera shop that had the appropriate certification, where the clerk - an Indian immigrant himself, by appearance - took her fingerprints.

It boggles the mind that they'd prefer a clerk in a camera store rather than the state police. It seems clear that the goal isn't proper documentation or security or anything like that, but more along the lines of collecting certification fees and perpetuating the bureacracy.
The problem is the Berne convention explicitly forbids requiring registration for a work to enjoy the benefits of copyright. The USA ratified this convention in 1989.

However, I agree with you. There needs to be some mechanism pushing back on copyright holders encouraging them to let their works revert to the public domain. A nominal fee at regular intervals would go a long way to encouraging this. However, perhaps something more aggressive is needed. Since the advocates of increased copyright duration often phrase their argument in terms of "intellectual property", perhaps a copyright property tax would be more appropriate.

"OK Disney, you can keep the mouse out of the public domain, but that will be $50M/yr."
Jonathan Haidt on What a Great University Should Be
And people being forced to go to browsers that may have stopped getting security fixes even earlier is worse. It's not like you can simply ban an OS version from the Internet.
Linux.Encoder.1: We Are Accept Only Bitcoins (ransomware)
Urbit language tutorial, chapter 1
>> Because you will spend more than two decades just to 'settle down' with a house and family, this if you start at an average age of 25-30. You will be 50 to just settle in

True if living in bay area or NY. Housing is not very expensive elsewhere. Hell, it is cheaper
(for what you get) than most cities in India.

>> Haven't suffered for 13 years like you do. But have worked for short periods of time in the US. I can attest to this. And I understand what you are going through.

Hey, it's not all bad. It is one side of a coin. On the positive side I have a large bookshelf, reading stuff in all that time!

>> Seriously? If you have to come to a new country to learn or else you can't then coming to US will barely help you. You should learn and do new things where ever you are.

Um. I learn most things by myself - from books. I think there is a lot of value in working with really smart people. It has expanded my perspective.
Firmware upgrade doesn't necessarily need internal SRAM, it just needs to be able to execute out of one bank FLASH while writing the upgraded one.
Its perfectly workable and bulletproof-able with this setup.
They are solving the worlds problems. Where would we be without them?
I think he meant that clang won't be targeting XP systems anymore, even when cross compilling.
This was literally just a reskin. I'm all for Twitter succeeding, but classifying this as an innovation stretches the term til it snaps.
"why not just do away with the cap?"

Because there are far, far too many low wage foreign programmers driving down wages already.

Why not abolish the program entirely? That's far more palatable.
> The reason? According to Weil, “It’s easier to understand.”

We aren't comparing apples to apples. It is a different button with different meaning.

The barrier to my "liking" something is substantially lower than my "favoriting" it. I understand both, but I'll do more of one than another.

The real question is what the goal is and whether user are getting more value from more likes versus fewer favorites.

Are my interactions 6% more engaging? Does the quantity of interactions cover the decrease in quality of meaning?

Subjectively, I don't feel like it. Favorites had more meaning to me than Facebook likes precisely because there was a higher bar. They've diluted the meaning of a term and are, unsurprisingly, seeing people use it more often.
I want to know if it is at the expense of retweets. I'll say what I thought before: Like vs. Retweet is now confusing (and I think detrimental to what Twitter probably wants which is retweets since those increase engagement). They should have renamed Retweet to like (people on other social networks expect likes to show up on their friend's feeds), and either dropped favorite altogether --or-- just make it a little bookmark icon! Like/Bookmark makes way more sense to me than Retweet/Like.
Probably just a casual/unofficial title he grants himself for telling us with some manner of advance notice.
> Because Paul's dream of open immigration for startup employees is a giant negative externality for the rest of us.

How is that? The more talented, hard-working people, the merrier!

Also, by "us", you are not referring to "those of us on HN", but "those of us on HN who had the good sense to have been born in the US", correct?

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy