skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read the announcement you get an idea of just how messed up this is.

Quoting: "We overcommitted with our free storage limits and we want to focus on delivering high-value productivity and collaboration experiences that benefit the majority of our users. If we continued with the current offerings, we wouldn’t be able to sustain our growth and deliver the reliable service that you count on."

Quoting further: "We will be actively communicating with our users as these changes start rolling out via email and in-product notifications. These notifications will start at least 90 days before the changes take effect to ensure that you have enough time to act or make changes."

In other words, Microsoft, a $400 billion company with $100 billion of cash in the bank, misled consumers when it said it could provide a service better than Dropbox, a measly startup. It can't sustain its growth, so you get 5gb cloud drive, or about a third the size of a GMail mailbox.

But wait, there's more! You thought you could rely on their cloud offering to backup your data? well, you'll have 90 days to clear that space. Because you can't really get any peace of mind from Microsoft.

I don't understand people who can avoid Microsoft products and services yet still opt to pay to this awful company.
I've heard of these places they have in Japan where you can pay a daily fee to get inside and use the facilities. They consist of:

hot showers

books, movies, wifi that you can use while you're there

soup on tap

vending machines with healthy options

exercise machines

Sounds like a brilliant idea that would benefit homeless people, those in marginal situations where it's not always safe to go home, and so-called "normals" all at once, thus serving everyone so as to prevent a stigma caused by their use.
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It's a great article but I agree with you: to heck with Palantir.
The XML attribute naming in Android general is all over the place. A mix of camel and snake case.
Increases in the prices of goods in a 1:1 fashion with income, especially staples? Creating a dominate telco market where having a phone is necessary (and therefore phone prices will be disproportionately higher?)? These are just some reasonable non-catastrophist concerns, which I'm sure there are a number of.
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I can say for 100% certain that the combination of iTunes Match and Apple Music completely botched about 600 songs in my library.

I restored a backup, turned off Match and Apple Music and obtained a refund. Suffice to say it was the first week of Apple Music but still, it was pretty appalling that my carefully tagged library and artwork were overwritten with zero warning.

Apple do tend to release things a little half baked sometimes - especially when it pertains to cloud services - sadly the customer's data is the casualty which is a shame since it reflects a very cavalier attitude to user data.
This is my experience too. Companies bring in agile consultants to tell them how to release software better. But things never improve, and in two years, they do it over again (but with a different buzzword).

If your company has trouble developing software, the problem has nothing to do with development processes. The problem is always management.
Do you have reason to think they wouldn't be representative?

Your tone makes it sound like you're kind of hostile to the very idea, do you have some personal attachment to the matter?
> My reading suggests that if you were to point a vulnerable version at a repository which is controlled by an attacker, then they could run code as you on your machine.

This threat exists regardless, because git repos usually contain code, which you pull, compile and execute. As you, on your machine.
Submissions due to new features and upgrades are generally discouraged in the guidelines.
Really, throughout the literature it's not that controversial. Doing any amount of research on aid in SSA you see nearly 100% of efforts go poorly in the long term. Most arguments in the other direction have very 'interesting' definitions of success or argue a moral imperative.
Even Gawker writers take PGP-encrypted email these days.
go get is just a mechanism, not the tool. there are other tools build on top of go get that ensure proper versioning.
I want to see what Palantir actually produces. Like does Coca-Cola get a monthly report that says "Hey, you guys should bring back Cherry Cola in Montana for an expected 4% increase in sales" or what? What does $1mil/month actually get you?
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The tennis racket article is very good.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/the-tennis-racket?utm_te...
I do not think prostitution does harm to the same extent smoking does.
BASIC rules. I still remember most of it, and could likely code in it today if I had to.
I'm pretty sure Elon considers himself thoroughly American at this point.

You may find this surprising but there are in fact many foreign born employees working at SpaceX. Some of us even have accents and unusual names to go along with certain cultural quirks.

I don't consider them, or myself, any less American.
You'd need to write the C API yourself. Probably not worth it, unless there's something special you need from this particular library.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ffi.html#calling-rust-code-fr...
Yes, but normally you get to inspect that code before compiling and executing if you wish to.
Before it landed, the most likely scenario was that the rocket was going to crash into the deck and be destroyed. (That's happened several times before.) If they can deal with that, they can deal with the rocket landing safely and then falling over.
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> As a people, we've made the judgment on the tradeoff that we should like the criminal system to behave this way because it's better off to have a thousand guilty men go free than jail an innocent person.

Blackstone's original quote was 10 guilty men, not 1000, but I digress. The whole point of the legal profession is to serve as a buffer between public opinion and individuals. If we had taken a nationwide vote on OJ, the results wouldn't be "better to have a thousand guilty men go free" but rather "life in prison."

The same rationale applies in the business law context. Cupertino's mayor wants Apple to pay the city $100m: http://fortune.com/2016/05/05/cupertino-mayor-apple-abuses. Not because it's the law, but because public sentiment opposes the growth created by Apple's presence. Should Apple's lawyers advise them to pay more money because it's the "moral" thing to do? And how do we decide which companies to target for ad hoc moral judgment?

And how exactly do we hold lawyers accountable for "moral" rather than "legal" conduct? Do we punish the lawyer who files the complaint to foreclose on a building full of retirees and disabled veterans? What if the new construction on the site will house 10x as many people and create dozens of jobs? Who decides?
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At least they have the decency to tell you who they work for right in their name.
> Just because you're not managing a server doesn't mean it doesn't exist

Of course that's true, but "serverless" implies that you don't have to care about the "server" part of your application -- that is the stuff that isn't related to solving your problem and you probably don't care about anyway.

I like the term as it embodies what PaaS is supposed to be about: not paying a set fee per month for a server that you only use a couple of hours here an there but rather on a usage basis.
While I respect and agree with your sentiment, ignoring reality doesn't make it go away, unfortunately.

When you have parts of the government that are essentially without oversight and that illegally spy on their oversight committees [1]... what do you expect?

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-spyi...
How can these loans be such high risk with low LTV ratio, and backed by a physical asset? If somebody stops paying, can't they simply take possession of their real property to recoup losses?
Will Alden is shaping up to be one of the most connected journalists in startupland. First the Zenefits coverage, and now this, he's done a great job getting lots of great sources at some of the more interesting companies.

Credit to BuzzFeed for building up a pretty solid news team.
How can they ask for such high prices?
With the old appengine console, you just went to one url - appengine.google.com and you found all the links in one place - application, logs, datastore, etc

Since the old appengine console was deprecated, it is difficult to remember the urls for the different services. One has to try and remember multiple urls. It is quite confusing and frustrating.
This is a trend I've noticed. BuzzFeed has had a number of excellent longform pieces recently.
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With a conventional database, the owner can set any value to anything they like.

With a private blockchain (and smart contracts), the owner can't forge values.

For example lets say you want to fake a transfer from client A to client B. In a traditional database, the owner can do that. With a blockchain, the owner can't.
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> Everything was disposed of after use, even Spacelab which had a very short life and completed a specific programme of missions and then burned up.

Skylab, not Spacelab.
Where has this broken down with higher education then? Costs are rising in lock step with the availability of loans.

Monopolies are not the reason that prices rise according to what the market will bear.
How about Eastern Europe? There are some extremely poor, yet relatively educated countries, and due to the Soviet legacy, the majority owns the places they live in.
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Good point that was the wrong term on my part.
The claim you're making has been widely spread but is mistaken. /usr/bin/git is just a wrapper that execs the real git from /Applications/Xcode.app or /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools (depending on what you have installed), and some things will invoke the latter directly anyway; thus removing the wrapper is neither necessary nor sufficient to prevent exposure to the vulnerability.
> (Too many AWS "devops" people protecting their jobs?)

I don't think so. A good while ago GAE was incredibly limiting - it certainly was when I tried it. Python only (maybe also PHP?), forced to use Google Cloud whatever for storage, etc. By comparison, AWS was using MySQL databases and EC2 boxes that let you use whatever language you wanted.

I know things have come a long way since then, but the reputation persists.
found it, in french:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3075319;view=1up...

which matches your bitly link: http://bit.ly/23vLiif ; and the bitly link has a clearer typeface

also, it seems the pdf is the same document.. well done on the results!

one of your other links led me here:

http://www.2iceshs.cyfronet.pl/2ICESHS_Proceedings/Chapter_2...

from there i got the citation:

The meeting was recounted in the Bulletin de la Société française de Philosophie, vol. 22, no. 3, July 1922,
pp. 102–113. It was reprinted in Bergson, Ecrits et Paroles, vol. 3, pp. 497, and in Henri Bergson, ―Discussion
avec Einstein,‖ in Mélanges (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1972).

of which i took the Bulletin de la Société française de Philosophie, vol. 22, no. 3, July 1922,

which led me here:

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000505792

and you can see v17-22(1917-1922) which leads to the above facsimile

you can easily confirm this by searching the text for the quote: Il n’y a donc pas un temps des philosophes ; which will be found on page 107
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I call your bluff on CGAL. What's wrong with a geometry library that can handle exact arithmetic?
Except they aren't: http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/11/9890966/microsoft-onedriv...
This makes me think that Microsoft is having trouble with the Azure storage back end. Maybe it is not as scalable as they would like everybody to believe. Microsoft wants to be "cloud first, mobile first". An key area of that strategy is to get your users to store their information with you. The fact that they are making it less likely for users to store their information with them, is very suggestive that there are deeper underlying issues.
From what I heard, they tried to change it a while ago and were met with severe backlash. Banana Slugs is so much more interesting and disarming than some typical predatory animal. Nobody will ever forget UCSC's mascot.
Can't practically anyone get a student loan? This will pay for schooling, rent and food. Use this to get a job and back on your feet, graduate and you can become a teacher. Drop out and you will be back on your feet. Why don't more homeless people do this? it's free money.
$1 million/month. I think that would make even patio11 blush. :)
They seem to be putting quite a lot of effort into producing actual journalism lately, and I agree it's good (I also enjoyed the tennis piece mentioned).
"it was mainly funded by a German Protestant church, by individual contributions of German and Namibian citizens and by contributions of the German Ministry for Cooperation. The amount paid out per head was N$100 (around US$12)."

-from your link
To hell with Palantir and the people who work for it.

I'd sooner serve fries than contribute to the shit they do.
"Spies Sans Frontières? How CIA-linked Palantir is gaining ground in the aid industry (and why some humanitarians are worried)"

https://www.irinnews.org/special-report/2016/03/07/spies-san...
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The "layout_*" attributes are a bit special in that they are specified on an element, but are provided by the element's container. Rather than affecting the element and its children, such attributes affect the element's relationship with its container/siblings. So in this case, the attribute is "alignSelf", but it is defined and understood by FlexboxLayout rather than the TextView that specifies it.

Perhaps this isn't the best implementation of such namespacing (maybe they could've done something more with xmlns?) but I find the visual and semantic distinction useful when reading and writing layouts.
ReedJessen - thank you so much for your feedback. We are working on freemium options for our customers. It makes sense.
I wouldn't say it glorifies the state above all else but I would point out that even in a private company such as SpaceX the employees tend to be aware of the role government plays within the realm of space exploration.

I choose to view the chants as a showing of pride in the acceptance that despite the hard work being done by the employees at SpaceX, none of this would be possible without the pioneering work of NASA and other governmental research organizations, as well as the myriad of universities that educate our workforce, largely supported by the American taxpayer.
My main questions was why always store the same blocks together, and you definitely answered that.

Interesting approach. It definitely achieves your goal of spreading out the load. I think this can be achieved without making sure you store the blocks always together though, and it might help move towards a less coordinated system.

Here is how I solved the problem:

You can arrange each instance (you call it cell in your post) so it has different pools of storage. Maybe something that might make sense is each machine at the top of each rack is one pool, all the next machines down is another pool, and so on. All replication is always done across a pool. All the machines in a pool are stored to in a round robin fashion at the client. The end user can choose how many pools they want to replicate over.

Abstract each of the machines as a storage unit. Each storage unit actually contains a series of 'slabs' which are largish files (32 gb in size generally), that grow in some large increment and close out when they hit a high watermark. Each write to a machine goes to a different writable slab in a round robin fashion. Each server knows the path and the contents of each slab, and on disk failure all the individual pieces are replicated to another set of open slabs just like the blocks came in fresh (with an exclusion of the slabs that already have a copy). Since all requests are balanced across the pools, and each client has a different round robin list it manages locally the individual pieces are evenly distributed over the other machines in the other pools.

I tried really hard though to optimize for a zero master situation, so my clients handle contacting all the different machines and doing caching and retrying. So it sounds like I had different goals than you guys did, so I'm not surprised your have different trade offs.
It's difficult to sleep in a public library (especially if you look homeless).
> You encounter a computer system. You just can't tell if it's legal to access it or not.

I find this point of view fascinating. Walking down the street, do you have any trouble telling which buildings are legal to access and which are not?

I would posit that there is nothing unclear about the law here. In meat-space, the social norm is clear: you go into other peoples' property only if you have business there, you go in through the front door, and once there, you do only what the owner would want you to do. Otherwise, your entry is illegal. Nobody complains that you can't tell just by looking at a building whether going inside is legal or not.

Some people resist this clear social norm in cyber-space. They want to posit a "right to tinker" or a "right to explore." It is that resistance that creates uncertainty, not the law.
Whatever you do, please don't discontinue Plottable.js
Lithium makes up ~11% of a pack, according to this source. Anode and cathode materials together incur around three times as much cost.
https://www.quora.com/How-will-Tesla-deal-with-the-rising-co...
I believe I've made this comment before - Google App Engine is good and quickly allows you to get a proof of concept off the ground. But the documentation SUCKs big time - the language is obtuse, the documentation is repeated in multiple places (meaning different paths to documentation explaining the same thing in different ways), and it is not uncommon to find that the documentation is not current.
> By what other means would it encourage automation at all? Or is that not an intention or benefit at all?

Its not really intended to encourage automation, from what I've seen from most proponents; the relation to automation is that automation is happening now, and expected to continue with or without UBI. Proponents of UBI (particularly on the left) see this trend as a significant contributor to declining real wages for most workers, with the gains from the growth of the economy going to a relatively narrow set of elite workers and, even moreso, a much narrower set of capitalists. They see UBI as a means of compensating for the harm most workers experience in this, redistributing some of the net gain so that the aggregate gain that these changes contribute to benefits everyone. Productivity increases don't need to be encouraged, they inherently produce their own reward.
Agreed; GAE's initial feature set was not great, and I think some of that launch stink unfortunately still sticks. As a counterpoint, you see lots and lots of love on HN for Heroku, which is a PaaS in much the same vein as GAE.
100k at Facebook is what you get straight out of undergraduate (and that's on the low end, if you don't negotiate).
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Could a publicly traded newspaper company legally allow its employees to use end-to-end encryption? I would guess not, given the email retention requirements in Sarbanes-Oxley.

Some companies even block webmail providers to ensure only the centrally-archived corporate mail server can be used for company business.
How about make it private + opt-out (where opt out is used in conjunction with straw polls to determine whether an audit is necessary?)
What major power companies or private organization are doing this? (besides as a tax write-off)? None that I know of sunny climate or not. Even when they are, most aren't in these climates so wake me up when solar comes there in this fashion.
Recently there was one liner linked here on how to dramatically improve Angular's speed. Would help that new console too :)
BBC is not an acronym because you pronounce it as a series of letters not as a synthetic word. I think.
I have never heard of a homeless services center that would not count sleeping in a van as homeless.
The only difference I can tell between SIP and something like SELinux is that SIP enforces filesystem security for any binary that isn't specifically signed by Apple themselves (Which means any Apple signed programs will happily install stuff to /usr/bin), whereas on SELinux the user has a tad more control over the Access Control System, which can either be a good or bad thing depending on the situation.
But you don't get to do that with the updated git from Apple any more than the original.
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I have always loved these kinds of games.
How I miss writing "spiders" to crawl the internet for the best prices :)
I think you misunderstood my remark. I don't sleep in the library. I get most of my work done at a library. I am medically handicapped and this substantially interferes with my ability to be productive. But finding a place to work mostly boils down to making sure I have access to a decent public library.

I sleep in a tent. I blog about that.
The Solar Designer prophile was a fun read:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ooAUeTlzdU

here's a quick demo of one of their products

edit: this is 2012, likely way out of date
>I want to see what Palantir actually produces.

SAR. Suspicious Activity Report. If you don't know what "fusion center" is - https://www.palantir.com/wp-assets/media/capabilities-perspe...
>Beethoven wrote music from the 17th-18th century, and Brahms in the 18th. That's essentially modern music, when the comparison is with the 11th century. It's recorded on paper, and we can reproduce it easily.

Totally wrong. It wasn't recorded electronically, and you needed a whole orchestra of highly skilled musicians to reproduce it. Your average guy on the street in 1885 did not have this. Your average guy on the street in 1985, however, could just turn on his Sony Walkman and listen to a cassette tape of whatever music he wanted to, or to FM radio. This makes the music industry entirely different. The ability to record sound and play it back on a mechanical (or electronic) device without any musicians changed everything, and brought music to the masses in a way they never had access to it before. Before this, the average person either had to pay to attend a concert (probably not a frequent occurrence, just like attending concerts isn't exactly a daily activity for people today), or maybe he had his own (not very high-end) instrument and tried to play some things by himself or with some friends. That's an entirely different culture than one where people can listen to professional musicians play music at almost any time or place thanks to stereos, headphones, etc.
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I got the "info" email a few days back. I thought I had some storage because I'm paying for my Hotmail account (I use it daily as it's my oldest remaining email account, and it's my "Microsoft Single Sign On" account), but apparently that offer has been rescinded.

I, too wonder how long the Bing "award" data is good for. If that were to go away I'd have to move a bunch of data. maybe I should just pony up for Office 365.
You should take another look, as we literally rewrote most of the documentation in the last few weeks.