skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what you thought of OpsWorks? I tried it a couple years ago, when it was really new, and it was pretty painful. I'd rather just run Chef myself on regular EC2 instances and Autoscaling Groups. I recall a lot of issues hooking into the OpsWorks lifecycle at the right place, broken Berkshelf support, failures with no good error messages, an even slower build-test-fix cycle than usual, discrepancies between the OpsWorks cookbooks on Github vs what was actually run, and difficulty testing things out in Vagrant first. Has any of that gotten better?
That's new price. Here in .nl the first hit I get from a second hand site is e125 if you buy two. Double what they cost in the US it seems, but still.
Oh, yeah, definitely. I guess I was responding more to the "Rust isn't my favorite language" part of your comment- what would you like a language in that niche to do differently than Rust? Or do you just prefer when you can get away without a C replacement? :)
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Presumably just law enforcement (FBI, DoJ, etc), since they're clearly not listening to either technical experts or software/hardware providers.
Plugging your ears and burying your head in the sand is a pretty effective way of dealing with living in a police state...
Teach them not to trust the state.
It is a question of cognitive load. If you turn wifi off and on you need to _remember_ to turn it on when you are in an "I want to use wifi" zone. If you forget then you end up using your data plan.

You could use a geofencing app to handle turning wifi on/off (say at home and work, etc) but then you are just trading battery issues.

Additionally, at least on android, wifi scanning improves location services. At least for me those are important, specifically when I am not at home or the office.
It is worth mentioning that many developers were left out in the cold even when the cylindrical Mac Pro was originally announced. I care about CPU speeds and storage, not so much about the GPU, so the form factor and dual-GPU architecture of the new Mac Pro was a set of bad tradeoffs. I never wanted to pay for an extra GPU, and the cost of attached Thunderbolt drive arrays is astronomical.

I hope Apple will release a "developer machine": something with tons of CPU power, easily expandable internal storage, and a mid-range single GPU. And for heaven's sake, don't try to make it small, thin, or round. I'd buy it in an instant.
Problem is that she's a Democrat and a liberal on social issues. Is SF going to vote for a right wing social conservative candidate just because Feinstein is bad on crypto?

Same problem exists in "red" states, where conservative politicians can get away with all kinds of corruption and madness because who's going to vote for a baby eating liberal? Basically if your state is very Democrat or very Republican you have single party rule and your politicians are dictators.

The culture war must die if we ever want any meaningful progress on any other kind of issue.
Sure.

> I've been hearing about how East New York, Brooklyn is 'that bad that hard that street' since 1983,

> when I was sixteen years old and heard a NYC felon...

The author quotes some felon he met in 1983, who boasted that his neighborhood, East New York, is "bad," "hard," and "street." The source is proud of the fact that his neighborhood is dangerous ("bad"), difficult to survive in ("hard"), and thoroughly imbued with the "street" culture of youth gangs -- as opposed to an area with a bourgeois or a working class culture, both of which looked down on gangs and gang culture.

The source is proud of the fact that he comes from such an area, as he highly values the sort of mental and physical toughness that mere survival in such an area requires.

> and dope shooter in a halfway facility playing as if he were in prison

The source is a heroin addict who is in a "halfway facility," a residential institution where people who suffer from various mental and physical problems, or who have recently been released from prison, live in a structured and professionally supervised setting, yet still have some access to the mainstream community. They are supposed to be learning the skills necessary to cope and adapt to life in mainstream society.

"Playing as if he were in prison" means the source is acting as though his halfway house were a prison. The halfway house is far less harsh and restrictive than a prison; the author thus says that the source is exaggerating his own degree of toughness by making his condition out to be worse than it actually is.

> calling out and toasting East New York cross streets (Pitkin and Pine)

The source is rapping, namedropping the streets of East New York and praising them, to demonstrate his deep personal connection to the area.

> as if the phrase was a standard thug-life signifier

The author states that the source believes the names of these East New York streets are well known by those in the thug / street gang subculture and connotated with being a valid and authentic thug from a tough area -- though in reality they are not, in the author's opinion, actually such signifiers in that subculture.

>on par with On the gate; On the lock In; Don't reach over my food; You better sleep with one eye open.

The author says the source believes that namedropping these East New York streets is equivalent to uttering these various phrases about prison life, which are supposed to be the authentic signifiers of a genuine thug.

The author believes this is not true and the source is exaggerating the degree to which he is an authentic thug, and moreover that the source is deluded into believing that others will accept his ENY street namedropping as the equivalent of uttering these standardized prison phrases in terms of proving authentic affinity for the thug subculture.
Did Putin annex South Ossetia? He didn't. Georgia returned to status quo. The reaction of the West was completely different back then.
So long as Congress micromanages stamp prices, the postal service can never be fairly expected to meet its obligations without losing money. Personally I'd be happy to let the price of mailing a letter double or more. The service provided is incredible when you think about what's involved. Getting a letter from your _house_ to nearly any address in the entire country in a few days at most is worth a lot more than 47 cents.
So this hands the entire security software market to overseas companies...?
I like Tumblr, but Flickr these days is nothing special. It was wonderful and way ahead of all its competitors back in the day, but now the functionality and interface it offers are table stakes. They let it languish for way too long, it should have become what Instagram is.
The accuracy is better if you maintain the same distance from the mic when you try several times in a row. If the distance is significantly different between 2 tries then you might get odd results. The recorded voice has to be used as a reference only. The pitch doesn't matter, I'd say don't speak too fast or too slow either and you'll be fine.
Well, that depends on how the non-charity money is used. If that 40 cents on dollar is used to effectively raise another 3 dollars, then it is still worth it. In other words, would you still feel OK with contributing to an advertising campaign that ends up getting other people to contribute to a charity fund that they normally wouldn't?
Sorry, but Uber Isn’t Conspiring to Fix Ridesharing Prices
You can change your Last Name to "<LastName> (<status>)". Lots of people at my Org do this.
Uhh that's not Marshmallow behaviour. I think the top comment on the Google ProductForums thread has the answer, it's a 3rd party app problem: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!mydiscussions/nexus...
A natural counterpart to the magnétophone that plays audio tape (which itself probably derives from gramophone).

Forced frenchified words that come to mind would be couriel for email, and mot-dièse (literally "sharp word") for "hash tag", when both English terms already are in common use.
If this passed, I would appreciate a determined stance to make the government's technology experience difficult. No more smartphones. Google and Bing refusing traffic to government IP blocks. No more Windows updates past whatever Microsoft has already agreed to by contract.

Obviously there's no financial incentive for any of this.
I was disappointed that the landing page wasn't personalized as a demonstration
How much does the USPS make from first class mail these days? I find it somewhat strange that people are bringing up the fact that e-mail has killed old-fashioned letters while ignoring the fact that online shopping has led to a dramatic increase in the number of parcels shipped. Is the profit margin on parcel delivery really that much lower than that of mail? If so, then how are FedEx and UPS able to make a go of it?
Welcome to long-form journalism. Me, I prefer the tldr first, then the details.
thanks! Do let me know if any particular feature will make it more helpful
I think one easy way would be explaining the NSA's other job—ensuring COMSEC for the government, military, and "essential" industrial players. Requiring "breakable" crypto everywhere would mean 'the terrorists win' in a very literal sense—the same sense in which the break of Enigma was a key part of Germany's loss in WWI.

But, of course, the government won't have to use breakable crypto; only the citizenry will be beholden to that requirement. So instead, it will merely be those 'essential' industrial players, now constantly finding their foreign rivals to have the upper hand in trade negotiations and to seemingly predict their moves.

I think that's the key here: broken crypto, on a large scale, doesn't just mean a panopticon; it also means whoever's using it will inevitably suffer large-scale economic stagnation. Standardizing on breakable crypto is equivalent to making laws with large loopholes to allow industrial espionage into the country.

If you want to scare people into defending crypto, point out that it's the shield on the arm of the negotiators who sign things like the TPP agreement. Small business owners—even if they themselves have no trade secrets to protect—will be directly affected by whether crypto can protect the secrets of their industry from their foreign equivalents. (Your local {sports clothing, christmas ornament, office furniture} industry recently take a nosedive? Maybe someone was cornered into a bad deal because all your local supply-chain logistics were plain on the table to China, but theirs were a mystery to us.) And small business owners are a pretty good voting bloc.
What does a modern developer do now? Bear with this or an MBP? Cross compile?
You guys should add a search text box, so you can search for specific companies.
What would be considered a come back for them? Is it even possible to define that?

Over the years they've had decent income, they have great traffic numbers, they have all these things that seem to indicate success inside the echo chamber. Now they've got a shit brand, the brand is right there with AOL. They aren't going to have google or facebook numbers though, I don't know that I'd expect any other company to match those though.

It's just a game now, tons of people are envious of their traffic. they've probably got some great properties as well, sports, finance and fantasy sports seem to be universally enjoyed. Someone just wants to steal it for as cheap as possible.
False dichotomy.

The point is the tech scene can't even get their representatives to represent them in their core issues. Belief in elections mattering is akin to belief in the tooth fairy or Santa Claus.
If the defense can't afford it and therefore doesn't use it, it becomes less likely the prosecution will use it then too.

That's exceptionally unlikely, I think. The prosecution's job is to win, whatever the cost--that appears to be the current mode of operation in the US, anyways.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't hold your breath. It's sad that they are lagging so far behind on internal updates, but at this point I think they care more about how it looks then performance. I'm just hoping they don't ruin the Macbook Pro next.
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Perhaps you're right, though the last time I went apartment hunting in that general area I did not find anything in stuy town that was in my price range (1BRs there were 3k+), and I ended up about 16 blocks due south from the south east corner of stuy town (in the last remaining grimy/non-gentrified part of the LES, though of course my presence was a sign of its "up and coming" status...).

I ended up getting priced out of that apartment (well, they jacked my rent and I was tired of paying that much for an essentially shitty, though somewhat spacious, apartment) and moved to a brand new building in queens.
Maybe he had a low trash threshold ;)
> Over the period of the following 6 months, text captchas appeared to be gradually “phased out”, with the image captcha now being the default type returned, as these captchas are harder for humans to solve despite being solvable by bots [3, 4].

This is so true. When I first go an image captcha, it took me 3 minutes to learn how to solve it. I had JavaScript disabled so I did not realize I had to do 3 pages to complete the challenge (after two, I reloaded and got a new route thanks to tor the page since I though i message up). Also I'm not sure what to click when there is a partial match, is that still a match? And don't even get me started with solving signs (in my first challenge I had to tell apart different kind of signs that were in the image). Is a no trespassing sign still a traffic sign? What about if it is a sign but I don't know which kind of sign (due to domain knowledge – especially when they're foreign signs).
Another problem is that they require you to understand the language the challenge is in. You can still solve a text captcha if you don't speak any English.

I wish there was a way to force text captchas
That tiredness is why it's called a War.

It's a fight few want to be involved in, and without mass involvement it will be lost. The repercussions of losing are a huge step backwards for privacy and security.

The lawmakers are failing to ideate properly.

They seem to be requesting what they need from an investigatorial perspective, but combining that need with another request for how that need should be fulfilled.

We technologists need to help bridge the gap of their need and how they can accomplish it. That would be: to set expectations of the im-/possibility of meeting their need.

Do that. Generate statements on what reality is for encryption. Don't get distracted by the frustration of seeing "ignorant lawmakers" do their thing. Help them ideate, shape the conversation, and win the war.
I've thought about this quite a bit, and think the tech community is going about this wrong. The public doesn't like being told it can't be done, but I can't explain why, because it's too complicated.

Even though we know it's impossible, we should disregard that and lay out common sense tenants that such system would require, even if it can't be feasibly built. We could then base our arguments on those tenants, and those are public fights I think could be won, because its things non technical people could understand.

For instance, one tenant could be any key escrow system must be open source. We can't base it off keeping the code secret, as then if the code is ever stolen or leaked, the whole system is compromised.

If you can win those arguments, and it just happens such a system can't be built due to the laws of mathematics, you then fall back to arguing which tenants you should break, and ideally breaking any of the tenants would be unpalatable.
Pretty much every startup is forced to work under those conditions. Microsoft and Apple grew up in the shadow of the IBM monopoly, and Apple was almost killed by it. PayPal was a feature of EBay's, with 90+% of their users being EBay sellers. Google and Facebook grew up under the IE monopoly - Microsoft had total control over the channel to their users. Twitter's product was copied by Facebook a couple months after it came out.

Big companies aren't in the habit of leaving virgin territory where new startups can take root, and every startup needs users.

The startups that succeed are the ones who make their userbase passionate enough to resist the initial competition from the big company who they're sharecropping on, long enough to build footholds on other competing platforms that'll give them leverage.
Most definitely this.

For example. hire someone to call every single estate agent in your area, promoting your service. Just make sure they don't speak to the receptionist - aim for the decision maker.

There must be Linkedin groups on this subject that you can join. What about Estate Agent conferences? There are definitely offline magazines that you could think about advertising in.

If it's any like Australia then most estate agents are franchises who license out their software, so you could target a head office of a franchise and white label your software.

Google Ads don't seem like a great acquisition channel for you unless you can figure out exactly what decision makers at EA are searching for.

This could be worth a read for ideas on which channels could work for you.

https://medium.com/swlh/the-19-channels-you-can-use-to-get-t...

Most important: when you find the channel that works for you then put all your focus onto that channel until it's run dry.
No. Again, my comments were about the article, not the community. I did not say the community should or should not do anything at all.

See my other comments in this thread for a fuller explanation.
If you've ever read The Mythical Man Month, one of the key parts of a software project is coherence of vision.

If everybody is picking at little pieces of code for review at random, that sort of thing is near impossible to achieve.
Ditto. I still use the old Mac Pro as my main workstation, and really wish Apple would just release a new pro tower. For the love of god do not merge it with the iMac.
But not only 1 USB C.
From what I've seen it's a mixture of Macbook Pro or running a Linux desktop - probably largely depends on what you're actually making.
> I find it funny how Parisians almost twist themselves in knots to over-pronounce every written letter of every word. It's almost as if it references the _written_ word more than the spoken one.

While in my opinion it's generally true that in France (and not especially in Paris) the written language constitutes the reference more than it does Québec, I think you might be slightly biased here:

Nobody in France would pronounce the final "t" in "tout" or the "i" in "envoie" for example :)
The rest of the thread disagrees with that assessment. (I don't know what's going on either, but I expected to find clarity in that thread, but instead found lots of people reporting this behavior. The original poster turned off all third party apps, and reported it still happened.)
I really like the goal of this project.

I don't have many ideas that would help get it circulating. Maybe look for smaller communities that source a lot of supplies locally and launch pilot programs there. You could get the whole community on-board since you could be injecting a significant amount of money into a small economy.

Convenience and lack of transaction fees could be an incentive to spend. Sending USD to friends and family typically involve waiting periods, transaction fees and inconvenient processes (cheques, email money transfers). Of course, Venmo and Paypal have improved this in recent years.

Combining the above two ideas, you can launch in communities outside the U.S. where financial inclusion is limited. There are many places where the majority of people don't have bank accounts. They already lack the advantages of credit/debit cards, paypal, etc. They may not have enough assets to make opening a bank account worthwhile. Granting people there basic income and GD accounts could solve both these problems. Plus, by choosing a location with a smaller economy and lower cost of living, you could have a more pronounced effect with the same amount of investment. You could team up with a charity that already gives money to these communities.

Maybe create a service for merchants where they could spend their GD. Some kind of customer loyalty program that pays out rewards in GD, or an advertising service that lets merchants advertise to people with GD accounts.

Honestly, getting a new currency into regular circulation seems like a really hard problem.

Good luck!
I use a Mac Mini from the times it was still upgradable. Put in 2 SSDs and maxed the RAM — cheap and convenient.
Crypto == Math. Full stop.

All thoughts on civil liberties aside, it's sad that these officials don't even realize that what they're asking for is (or will hopefully shortly be) impossible for companies to do.

Then the real fighting will start. I'm sure Congress sees this proposal as a middle-ground between DOJ desires and freedom/privacy, but once it dawns on them that things like "no knowledge" encryption are really what it says on the tin, they will feel backed into a corner, with the only visible choices being something asinine like, criminalize encryption or ... give up?

Maybe that's something for this community to start thinking about, if we want to have a constructive say in this whole mess. Come up with a way to frame the "Give up" option in a better light, so Congress can point to it and tell the DOJ "look we did X for you", while still not outlawing encryption.
How embedded was "semi-embedded"? I ask because I'm on a project for which we had discussed using Erlang or Elixir but decided the VM overhead was too high to support all our uses.
Even more so--"It's like forcing everything sent by mail to be sent in a transparent envelope and then publishing in the news every route that mailmen take and the easiest points where to intercept them."

Laws dictating how to/not to encrypt things make news really quickly so it takes even takes out all the fun in security research.
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Fully agree. Even Boston, which is a generally walkable and mixed-use city by US standards, has its monuments to 60s/70s urban planning like the Brutalist monstrosity that is City Hall and its generally vacant windswept surrounding brick footprint.

One of the problems has been that when cityscapes were planned, commercial activity has often been seen as this impure thing involving people making money on public space. While you don't want to just give developers and retail/restaurants a free ride, they have to be part of the mix or you end up with these sterile spaces that no one wants to be a part of.
This bill covers anyone who does things with data or makes something that touches data.

If you make paper shredders, you are covered under this bill.

If you handle data, you need to make sure things like your fire suppression system doesn't damage it.

The bill does not care how the data is rendered unreadable to law enforcement. It only cares that you provide them with a readable copy if it was rendered unreadable by anything even remotely in your control.