skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
david gave a good response.

We actually have TWO options (even simpler right? :)). You can just buy a dedicated instance to run on and it will always be hot and running your code. You have to manage scale for that though.

You can, more interestingly, also use our "dynamic compute" model where we manage scaling and provisioning everything and we only charge you for the time your CPU was running. This is great for folks who have highly elastic workloads.
Keep in mind that you can give up anonymity instead, via cryptographically verifiable voting with confirmation receipts ;) Of course, that opens its own can of worms...
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> Reproducible builds help to verify that the source code in our GitHub repository is the exact source code used to build the compiled Signal APK being distributed through Google Play.

This is huge; it eliminates one of the biggest issues with distributing through third-party app stores.

> Just to head off the inevitable deluge of GPG encrypted emails with dramatic subject lines, we are not doing this in response to any kind of legal threat or presssure. This is just a weekend hack, please don't make us regret it.

I wonder what kinds of mails like these they've received in the past to prompt this disclaimer?
To say that a company with 13% (down from 16%) market share is holding an entire industry back is laughable on it's face. The thing holding web apps back from widespread adoption is the fact that web apps are by and large awful to use, slow, and completely 100% dependent on your Internet connection at all times by their very nature.

I have a strong feeling the future is indeed in web apps, but first they need to stop inventing a Shiny New Thing every 2 months and actually fix some of the crap out there now, and then we need a stable Internet infrastructure upon which to rely on.

Edit: Thought of this later on, ironically enough the only machine I will use any web apps on (and have to actually) is my Macbook, seems to be the only one that can run them in a pleasant way.
Left-pads your entire hard drive*

* Or until the kernel revokes your programming license.
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If we go and terraform Mars, for example, and make it just like Earth, won't Earth be said to have reproduced?
My sincerest apologies, I let him get to me and I shouldn't have.
Meh. Keurig tried the same thing. People cut the lid off a legit pod and taped it on the lid of the refill thingamabob or in the DRM-Keurig machine itself. I accept the challenge!

(I was also facetious. If this isn't an long con April 1st joke, I'll convert all my tech stock into cash next week because I've seen this nonsense in the first bubble...)
Travel most certainly costs money and those events for me are many of my most memorable experiences.
> N.B. The article states that she 'fessed up before accused and promised to pay it back.

The article says, "The board agreed to perform an audit and on March 1, one day after the board gained full access to the nonprofit's bank accounts, Marie Knox, Hacker Dojo's longtime office coordinator, came forward and admitted to misusing the credit card for personal use, Banerjee told the Voice."

While perhaps technically true that she "fessed up before accused", it was at a moment of inevitability, IMO.
IANAL: I don't believe that secret warrants 'trip' one's right to face their accuser, as that is a right for courtroom proceedings, which are significantly different from the warrants about which you speak.
I doubt the Moon-Colony Lobby will have much pull with local governments.
It seems like Microsoft wants to free the developer tools but control the distribution of binaries through the Windows Store. Seems like an intelligent business decision to me.

You can develop Linux or Mac but you're not going to get the same quality tooling (hello Universal Windows App Model).
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The time I spent in meeting discussing this name... :)

Honestly, you're right that we're going to run into fun search engine issues, but Stack Overflow tags should hopefully help.

We opted for making it obvious what our product was doing and Functions was an logical evolution of our WebJobs SDK Functions concept, which is essentially what our product is - this is just a WebJobs SDK-as-a-Service.

Time will tell; I hope we don't have to rebrand someday just to show up in the search engines, but we'll do what we hope is best for the customer.
Or maybe this is a failure of the non-profit system: these charities are not required to make their finances transparent by the government or their funders
To your first question: yes. The load balancers are updated automatically as containers die and come up. To your second, you can deploy to vagrant pretty easilyhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/release-1.2/do.... cloud provider integration has been very community driven, I'm sure the core team would be more than happy to help integration with DO (if there isn't already a bug open and work on going, on mobile right now so can't confirm).
+1. Also goes without saying that Amazon has lots of quality refurb ThinkPads. They're priced accordingly but are solid machines nevertheless.
Same here. Reminds me of this: http://didgoogleshutdown.com/
Come on, let's be serious. "No one really cared about finances" means maybe it's not the end of the world if you bought a new Chromebook for yourself to use at the office without asking if it's cool. There is no world in which regularly flying yourself to Vegas and partying on the organization's dime is kosher or anything other than theft.

> Note also no-charges were pressed

"It noted the board is still working on a plan for Knox to provide restitution for the stolen funds and that, so far, the board has held off on filing criminal charges against Knox."

No charges yet. They'd first like to see if they can find a way for her to repay them before she's rendered permanently unemployable.
My understanding is that, no, the government cannot compel you to speak falsely or, generally, to do other things you don't want to do.

As I understand it, this is related to the argument that Apple was using vs the FBI recently, that while the FBI could compel Apple to produce things in its possession (like Farook's iCloud backups) it could not compel Apple to do things like produce a custom version of iOS.

IANAL, but, this is mostly based on what I remember reading last year when the whole warrant canary idea first started getting publicized.
Security is completely ignored here. Is a web app controlling your microphone or camera a Good Thing? Maybe yes, maybe no.
Is it merely theoretical? I read a bunch of opinions on the subject last year that definitely left the impression that there was some precedent here.
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The rust project also advocates this method of installing software on their download page. To their defense, however, they do offer gpg signatures for their tarballs, even if you need to dig around for a bit to find them.

Also, anyone suggesting that this method of downloading and installing software is secure due to its use of HTTPS is incredibly reckless.
I've used something similar for talking about complex code examples. You can show only the current line you're talking about, but have a button to expand out the full example. it's pretty great. Excited to give this a try!
I just ran a sample http triggered function after it sat around cold. It took about a second to respond with "hello world" and then under 100ms after that. Purely anecdotal. Your experience will vary, etc. Cold start is kinda par for the course with "serverless" so far. We're trying our best to minimize the time it takes to having NO servers to having a server. I think we've got some great folks on our team working to solve that.

FYI - You can reserve a VM, if you want, but then you're paying until you turn it off. It will always stay hot, though.
It does not require all that other stuff.

Flask requires a lot of other stuff, and most people choose to use it with this other stuff highlighted on the page, but one can very well choose a different set of stuff.

Personally, I don't like the idea, but the term "micro framework" is not meaningless.
It wasn't for an EVSE, but I had to upgrade my electrical service and it was in that ballpark.
We'll have some more templates and end to end samples out soon, as well.
I like these collections:

http://hoaxes.org/aprilfool

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/31/living/april-fools-hoaxes-feat...
I propose that facebook() be put into the public kernel

For the secret* kernel that is known only to us, facebook () should be replaced by hn().
A dynamic script is handling all requests, so there is no "webroot" directory where you can put stuff for them to appear under /
>I wonder what kinds of mails like these they've received in the past to prompt this disclaimer?

I believe he is being a bit tongue-in-cheek. Moxie has previously mentioned his dislike of the typical emails he gets from the type of people that use GPG (http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/gpg-and-me/)
A workaround to the canary is to every month release an affidavit that says that you have not received an NSL last month. The month you receive one you do not release one.
"Embrace, extend, extinguish."
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Honestly you can't go wrong with buying some off craigslist. The same if not better price.
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Uh, that's exactly how canaries work, that's not a workaround.
The NSL could compell you to release an affidavit anyway.
Reading through HN, I can see I'd better clarify: I'm looking for actual recommendations of specific laptops--not "buy a Dell", "Buy a Thinkpad", etc. There are hundreds of each of those kinds, for example. I don't need a brand recommendation.
I'm pretty sure Bill can't run for VP. And the 3rd in line after VP is Speaker of the House (Paul Ryan, IIRC).
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Does anyone know how Quora plans to make money?
Having some trouble getting it working on Windows, which I see you don't currently support (I need to create caravel_config.py to get past the fabmanager installation step). This looks really interesting but I might wait until someone has posted Windows instructions.
Our pricing is either the dedicate App Service pricing which is GA'd already or the new Dynamic tier which is FREE (as in beer) until beginning of May. We'll have pricing come out sometime this month.

You should have at least a GB of disk space to work with.

We don't have a maximum runtime, yet, but we're likely add a "timeout" feature in the near future so you can optionally time it out.
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unicode sigils? yikes!
Good. The web is for documents.

Please keep apps away from it.
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I didn't even think of that, that would explain it.
But what's the alternative? Write your own warehousing database? Likely not. Even AirBnB hasn't done that.

I'm not saying that you wouldn't choose a good open source alternative if it exists. I'm saying that you shouldn't run off and implement something that exists commercially if your only reason is that the commercial thing costs money.
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Your points resonate with me very strongly, but I do have a counter argument.

I work on Google Cloud, where we have both closed-source - BigQuery, open source - Dataproc, and closed source that makes open source rock - Dataflow/Beam. There are merits to each.

BigQuery is serverless and multi-tenant and can't really exist outside of Google Cloud due to its intrinsic dependency on low-level services that don't exist elsewhere (and for the same reasons we couldn't directly externalize Borg, choosing to create an OSS clone in Kubernetes).

It is not unusual for me to hear from folks that they spent 6+ months building a performant and sizable, say Presto cluster. Then there's continuous management, tinkering, configuration, and optimization projects. I hear this from companies that one would consider sophisticated technologically.

By contrast, 40% of all of BigQuery's Petabyte customers scale to these levels without ever talking to us. We just find them on consumption reports. On multiple occasions we've had "surprise" load tests of millions of rows per second streamed into BigQuery, and it just works. BigQuery is also HA out of the box at no additional cost, which is a great luxury.

So sometimes if you need to scale analytics to Petabytes, the option is to just consume a managed and cost-effective service, or tinker with OSS, where there are significant operational tradeoffs. On the other hand, as you said, you build pride and culture. It's also far from an automatic shoo-in that OSS gives you better TCO (against the old closed-source guard, yes, but not so much BQ). Thus, the relationship between company size and value of technology can invert at higher levels.

With all that, I'd love to see a Caravel-BQ plugin :)

(PS. Kudos to Druid for introducing a Streaming ingest. BigQuery also sees value in Streaming ingest, GA-ing our own Streaming API in March of 2015, and Kudos to Airflow).
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Or somebody who has access to their servers, which are AWS.

I would be shocked if NSA didn't get a secret court order to get AWS access.
My bank pays me back for all ATM fees, even ones in other countries.

(I use Schwab, mostly because my "equity awards" were there and I don't need a physical bank.)
It originally said "Linux runs great on Macs!" Not sure why it was edited.
There are laws to penalize leaks if the leak is caused by misconduct like not following safety protocol or not built with safety measure. But the penalty is so lightweight corps just ignore. There are too many drilling leaks every day, so what? $250,000 fine? Fuck that. Easy money and it is the practice of energy company to sub-contract the drilling so fault will never end up on them. Sub-contractors sub-contract and more sub-contract. Yeah, a merge sort, but penalty never bubble up. Also, there aren't enough human resource available to do inspection.
They can force you to lie? They can force speech? I thought it was a crime to make a false affidavit no matter the reasons.
I got asked a lot of questions about how we're built today and so I'm adding this comment for historical purposes.

We're built around WebJobs SDK and App Service, so much of the core work was done already and I had a plan in the works for a few months to bring Node support (I'm a Node.js nerd) to WebJobs. WebJobs has been and is increasingly popular, so it was a no brainer for our team to go and expand and promote it. It was still a lot of work to deliver a WebJobsSDK-as-a-service, but we knew we had a solid core and a great PaaS platform before we even got started.
I am in Florida now and my clients are in California. My time zone has changed, but they now get better service from me because I can sleep until 12 and it's only 9 for them.

Changing time zones might be a viable option.
The realtime ingestion is interesting especially if I can still batch import. When processing machine data, I've found that a quantity of sources come in chunks (logfiles written out every 24 hours for exmaple) but the eventual aim is to migrate to realtime (i.e.: a data point every n seconds/minutes/etc. where you instantly consume that data point) streaming.

If this transition is easy without reworking infrastructure, the solution is far more attractive.
Thanks. I'd like to add this one, which came out with today's edition of The Economist.The Economist | Chinese politics: Beware the cult of Xi http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21695881-xi-jinping-st...
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Interesting choice of cryptos. My latest client isn't letting us use anything besides GCM right now.
The Dell XPS 15 is one of the nicest PC laptops available. Thin, light, powerful and available with a 4k display. Linux support is apparently very good, with the caveat that there's an Optimus graphics chipset.

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-15-9550-laptop/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus
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In the name of safety, citizen.
So Functions could be treated as an opinionated, lightweight microservice framework, and thus you could compare it to other microservice frameworks like Service Fabric. Service Fabric is great for so many reasons. It can handle large, heavy duty applications. Functions is great for the opposite reasons, small & lightweight. You should be writing Functions like you'd write a unix tool; it should to one thing and do it well.

Cory is in the middle of a great talk where he helps "demystify" these services. (Which I can't find a link to right now...)
Can someone who downvoted me explain the flaw in my argument?
Moreover. The state, as an actor, should simply generate constant stream of NSL requests to trip as many canaries as possible. They have the time and resources. This would basically nullify the effectiveness of canaries as a concept.

"Hey George, did you hear Reddit has a canary now too. Ok, add it to the list. Pick a user there and issue an NSL. And don't forget about Google and FB this month as well, they are about to reset theirs".

Putting oneself in the shoes of such an actor this is a rational approach to take.
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Your first paragraph makes no sense - you haven't established how Google Analytics is malware.

I'm sorry, but that's like saying "Trees are weapons of mass destruction", then providing no evidence for that statement.

If you can at least provide some salient evidence to substantiate what otherwise seems to make no sense, we can try to understand your point. As it stands, I'm sorry, but you just come off as a bit tin-foil...

With regards to your second point - let's say I have a supermarket rewards card - every time I make a purchase, they track it. Do I have an issue with it? Nope, not really - I'm buying the damn products from them, why should I care if they know what I'm buying from them. I'm sure if they really wanted, they could compare the credit card receipts against store takings - this just simplifies the process for them.

Or say I drive a car, and I go through a toll-gate - do I care that the toll-gate company knows my daily trips, or when I like to travel?

(Maybe they'll send an email going, we notice you like driving during peak hours, have you considered driving at these times.)

Nope - I'm already paying to go through their toll-gate, if I didn't want them to know I drove through their toll-gate, I just wouldn't take that toll road.

Likewise with Google Analytics - it's used by a website, to track visitors to its own website - if you don't want them seeing you visit their website, don't visit it.

As I said earlier, your IP address is already sent every time you hit the web-server - this just helps them parse and graph that data into pretty charts.

Would you complain if you found out a website had Apache access logs of your visit? Would you jump up and down, yelling it was an invasion of your privacy?

If you don't want a website knowing you visited their website - don't visit them. I'm sorry if it seems harsh - but of all the reasons to hate on an open-source project like Atom, this seems like an incredibly petty and baseless one.
They have more guns than you do. They can compel you to do pretty much whatever.
Sure, they can force you to keep the old one up.

But can they force you to put up a new one?
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Yes, but they still could have been accompanied by gag orders despite not being a NSL. There are several categories of administrative subpoenas which can have them, and which could have been plausibly used in my case - the financial ones, for example, due to the Bitcoin/money laundering nexus.
I used to suffer from this problem. I still do, but not as much. Two main techniques I use: 1)I quickly get to a point where I can do something creative in the field of interest. Then the urge to keep my "baby" alive takes over. 2)I get my friends involved if possible, so that the urge not to let them down also takes over. Problem with 2 is that sometimes the friend cares less about the field than you.
It wouldn't matter. The US constitution prohibits laws that criminalize earlier actions that were legal when committed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
I appreciate your evidence-based response. I was providing shorthand, but you should familiarize yourself, for instance, on Mosaddegh's use of emergency powers after his reinstatement. If you would prefer to review this history in a less heuristically-based fashion, I can recommend The Persian Puzzle, which explores the full complexity of local politics in great detail, including Soviet participation in Iran as well. Among the other things that it includes is a great breakdown of how Khomeini manipulated the levers of influence to gather power in 1979, and how he was particularly anti-American in outlook even among those populations that were predisposed to look unfavorably on the U.S.

Also, implicit in your criticism, such as it is, is the notion that the chanting is representational of the Iranian population. It is not; most of the country has lived for long enough under the 'revolutionary' rule of the IRGC that they are actually more disposed towards the West than you might think.

Regardless, you asked why the U.S. was tilted towards Saudi in its conflict with Iran, and I was trying to provide a summary: that is an outgrowth of regional balance-of-power politics as much as anything else.
The entire premise of the canary, and this discussion, is that you cannot (currently, legally) be compelled to lie, you can merely be compelled to not tell the truth.

If they could, we would not be observing any changes in warrant canaries, ever.
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> Developers have a real, well-documented resistance to paying for things

This is why you never try to target developers and if you do, you have to make sure the initial cost to use it is negligible. This is what Atlassian does very well, with their pricing structure.

In the past, I developed in house tools for massive Enterprise companies and the common theme has always been, we can do it better and cheaper. Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's not. I noticed this trend slowly tapering off before I left to start my startup and this was due to the availability of better open source solutions.

Technical people always overestimate what they are capable of, present company included, and if you are set on selling to developers, you have to make sure the barrier to use is negligible. By at least trying, they will either come to the conclusion that what you have created is a piece of shit or they realize it's not worth their time and effort to duplicate/maintain.
https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Li... (Royalty Free)

https://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission#principles (Web for All, Web on Everything)
I'm discussing the photographs that are in the linked article. Am I supposed to not see the juxtaposition between a complaint about the global warming effects of a methane release, and the guy who is depicted in front of his Rolls Royce, in front of his 3-car garage, on one of the many culs-de-sac in the space filling graph of an unwalkable carscape? Am I supposed to feel like Charles Chow gives one flying handshake about global warming?

Part of me feels like the Times is doing a subtle, sly job here, and part of me feels like they missed the whole story.
I have waited 4 years for this moment. I can hardly believe it's finally happening. Cheers.