skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a problem? If they don't know, there's not much harm. But surely this is part of the learning process. Understanding leads to enlightenment. There's certainly evidence that tons of developers using JavaScript don't know how classes work.
Same, but coming from the hell of Java web applications. They had the opposite problem, too much architecture.
This is a fine reason to use OSTicket or Request Tracker, both of which are free, open source and (with their various dependencies and modules) composed of entirely GPL, BSD and Apache licensed software.

Disregard Zendesk, acquire RT.

RT has been around for 15 years but it's continually developed and kept up to date. It's used by a large percentage of the 50 largest ISPs in the world for their back-end OSS/NOC ticketing.

Wait until they go after everything that's pronounced verbally like Zen. Most people I know if speaking about the Xen hypervisor will say "zen", not pronounce it as if it were a Chinese family name (Chen or how the X in Xiaoming is pronounced).
Had to click on the link because I was trying to figure out why the Royal Air Force was bombing the US Air Force ... Am not familiar with RAF for Red Army Faction.
Education and civic knowledge are key ingredients for self governance. The current 'cool to be ignorant' era is a threat to self governance. I'm afraid we're doomed to suffer the consequences of our ignorance. History continues to repeat itself and I suppose we can take solace knowing that someday we'll realize what we lost and fight to get it back. I just hope that someday we learn it's a lot easier to keep it than it is to lose it and get it back. Then the human race will have truly evolved.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but it's ironic that the article states he also lost his shirt in Bitcoin when mtgox was hacked.
Presumably, if he kept the items for himself, the person who donated would have a case against him. So he has a legal obligation to give the items to someone else, which was created when he received money from the donator.

This seems clearly structured as a sale from Amazon to him, and a sale from him to the donator, with instructions to give it to charity.

If it was his own money the case would be a bit murkier, perhaps.
Says notorious aggregator.... I kind of disagree with Blodget. There are actually several must-read publications. Der Spiegel, the publication interviewing him, is one of them. They publish ground-breaking reporting several times a year. And that distinguishes them from many other news organizations, including Business Insider. So the real question is: How frequently can one publication succeed at being a must-read? And the deeper insight, I suppose, is that the Internet unbundled publications as such, so that now you only have must-read articles that surface in other companies' platforms, like Facebook's news feed...
Amazon Fire 7 $49 – Is this worth hacking?
The Cure
It is already happening. The whole deep learning thing is no joke. They cannot replace human, but can achieve close to or better than human level of performance in certain specific tasks. Before that, close to human performance is never achieved for certain tasks, and largely considered impossible in near future just 5 years ago, like image recognition/playing go/speech recognition.

It is already eliminating jobs, gradually, not overnight but steadily, and this time it is from higher above, say, Wall Street traders.It is very easy to see there is a trend out there, that data + smart algorithms is going to take over a lot decision-making processes, that currently belongs to analyst.

The theoretical limitation of AI is bullshit. We don't get know what intelligence is, how do you think we quantify and draw a line around it?
Did HN cover this article already?
Line rate for 1gbps ethernet is over 1 million PPS, so you can definitely send the packets that fast. No promises the target will be able to respond that fast.

See https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan
Some defunct military bases are still having trouble attracting valuable industrial tenants even after 40 years, example:

Closed as an air force base in 1966 and turned over to the local government, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_County_International_Air...

Closed as an active SAC bomber air force base in 1969, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton-Sherman_Industrial_Air...
No, I'm aware of that. I love Node and npm and UNIX and I use only small single purpose modules and its amazing. But I am effectively a research engineer. And honestly, if you want your company to run on Node, you need to be a research engineer too, because "which infrastructure should we use?" is an open question in the world you describe.

Compare to Rails, where you start of with OK infrastructure by default. That's not better, it just means you can hire a random person off the street and they're on the same page as you. If you want to keep a team of 50 JavaScript developers on the same page you need a really strong culture. Or just say "Use Ember and Express, end of story". But at that point you no longer have the "developer freedom" you correctly cite as the core selling point of Node.

And by "on the same page" I mean "we both have a similar understanding of a sensible default way to transport persist text fields from an HTML form". Put 10 JavaScript programmers in a room and you'll get 8 different approaches.
It took me about an hour to read this whole thing. If you are like me and find the Hiroshima event fascinating, I highly recommend doing this. The piece follows several people who ended up in a park together the night after the bomb, and hauntingly captures the mood of that night and the horrifying physical details of what people went through. I definitely think I'll remember some images from this article for a while.
The first flying car (1959) [video]
Hm. I hear about Slack but have never actually encountered it and have no idea why it is so popular. Perhaps someday its social network will finally connect up with mine and I'll find out why people care.
nmap is a bit of a joke to be fair, it is incredibly slow and there's no amount of fiddling with the settings that'll make it faster (even for simple SYN scans).

Scanning every single TCP port on a host will require 65536 packets, those packets will all be about 40 bytes in size. That's only 2.6 megabytes, so on a 100Mbit link that should take around 200ms to send.

This is a pretty trivial exercise to implement yourself, but for pre-existing tools you can look at masscan and zmap. However, these will not provide the version detection nmap does.
Our “No Asshole” Rule (2014)
The people who do satellite SIGINT for non-five-eyes nations don't need to be told this, they already know. For listening to geostationary satellites it's fairly basic criteria, simply, be in a low population area that is RF quiet. The parabolic dish antennas at 9 meters+ are very, very directional.
Police Nationwide Are Secretly Exploiting Intrusive Technologies
the placebo (and nocebo) effect is a hell of a thing
Hello! I love my Ringplus! Feel free to say Hi : https://social.ringplus.net/profile/33/subhobroto

> The future of phone service is free.

For Ringplus, yes. For other providers, perhaps inexpensive enough to be considered "free".
> ... curious why solnik didn't mention Sequel ...

From the article:

> It would be unfair not to mention that Sequel showed up already around the same time and till this day it’s being used way less than ActiveRecord despite being a superior solution.
Seems like virtual functions leave you more vulnerable to instruction cache misses. Large enough blocks of code combined with bad branch prediction can leave you all sorts of bad performance here.
For the most part, facebook, twitter and sms. Trying to get people I know IRL to check their emails is a battle I lost about five years ago. If we're talking intra-company, then it's slack, hipchat, Yammer, google hangouts, trello, jira and whatever wiki system or wordpress is in use at the company I'm currently working for.

Email for me, as I alluded to in my previous comment, is mostly about interacting with automated systems. If I need to reset a password, I'll get an email with a link. My car insurance company and web host will occasionally email me asking me for payment. Google emails me to let me know I've logged in using a computer it doesn't recognize (like my phone).
The organizational and operational structure seem risky enough. Then, they build it on a digital currency.

Are there any similar corporate experiments out there? For a long time, I've wanted to buy into something like this but with state-backed currency.
Good point (upvoted), I would edit my comment but it is too late for that. My comment was a little snarky, but my greater point is that I don't like the excessive moderation culture that has developed there. Sure clear out the junk and spam, trim the paths and clear the weeds. But don't insist on a literal interpretation of excessively pedantic guidelines when the content is clearly of high quality and is being strongly upvoted as a reflection of that.
CA is a case study for two generations of one-party rule.
Without immigration, the US population would have peaked in the 1970s and our economy would be much worse off. We replaced our reducing replacement rate with an increasing immigration rate.

When you have more people wanting stuff, prices rise and jobs create themselves to meet this need. With a declining population, you have fewer people wanting stuff, so prices go down.
Your case seems to fit nicely with "Typical C++ Bullshit" by Mike Acton (and any of his Data Oriented Design talks).

https://macton.smugmug.com/Other/2008-07-15-by-Eye-Fi/n-xmKD...
The topup fees go straight to your account balance minus the taxes.

You are able to use that balance for any overages.

They did start charging upgrade fees for a few promotions but that is often 0 too.
Hello! I love my Ringplus! Feel free to say Hi : https://social.ringplus.net/profile/33/subhobroto
I don't know where you got this idea, the NRQZ encompasses a huge area and people most definitely do have microwave ovens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q...

You think that nobody in a city the size of Harrisonburg VA has a microwave?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisonburg,_Virginia

It's within a 1 mile radius of the radio astronomy dish that petrol engined cars (spark plugs) and emitters like microwaves are banned.

You can install licensed point to point microwave radio and VHF/UHF radio systems, etc in the NRQZ, you just need to go through a coordination process.

https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/interference-protect...
Those simple interfaces make programming enjoyable and don't break, so...

It's enjoyable until you want to do something else rather than the default behaviour.

Yes, you are in fact using the features of Rails when you use Rails. Is this actually a problem?

Yes, it's terrible architecture. Your business logic should know nothing about what framework it's sitting in or which database it's connected to.
I really enjoy Julia, and I see such amazing potential from it but I talk to so many people who hate it, or complain about it. I know most people haven't had the pleasure (/s) of programming in MATLAB and so some of decisions might not make sense, but that aside it's a damn good language.

I really see Julia 'winning' in the longevity sense, but it makes me nervous sometimes seeing people misunderstand that. Do you think that similar misunderstandings have prevented Chapel and company from a more widespread success?

Also, Erlang is fairly successful. According to Wikipedia, Chapel was started in 2009, and Erlang was around back then too, what does Chapel provide that obsoletes Erlang? What problem does DARPA think that Chapel/x10/etc could solve that Erlang couldn't?
[NYU Law Conf] Tyranny of the Algorithm? Predictive Analytics and Human Rights
Even though I agree with you here (I still use Wheezy, personally and
professionally), most projects don't target that old releases, so they build
mainly for modern mainstream (Debian/Ubuntu and Red Hat/CentOS), which means
systemd.

And that still doesn't change the fact that most programmers produce shitty
packages, if any, so every time I use somebody's software I need to package it
myself to have it properly built.
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We expect Alphabet’s share price to go down by 75%…

Alphabet consists of a group of companies that are not necessarily affected by ad dollars - no ?

edit - i guess it includes google also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.#Structure
In the past, when I have tried to submit an article that had already been covered, I was redirected to the old discussion, but now I was able to post it, so I don't know. Perhaps it was covered and URLs differ slightly.
Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11626967

The general consensus was that the author of the report didn't really understand what they were talking about.
This is not a bubble.
I'm not aware of a significant source of revenue for them other than ads
Nice library!

Note: there's a small bug in the first example. Css output sets 'color' while the scss used 'background'.
Hey HN,

I started HelpSite.io because I was tired of choosing between always reinventing the wheel when it came to building out a support center website manually, or having to use a bulky tool like Zendesk that focuses on a million different features, when all I care about is the hosted knowledge base software.

A few nice things:

* Really fast search, powered by Algolia

* An intelligent contact form that auto-suggests articles

* A generous free plan which even supports custom domains (via CNAME).

https://helpsite.io

I'd love to hear feedback and would be happy to answer any questions!
Here's an awesome, well funded idea that didn't work - the AvroCar. A true flying saucer powered by three jet engines, it was built for the U.S. Army in 1959.

But it didn't quite fly. It could hover, and move around like a hovercraft, but didn't have enough lift to get out of ground effect. It was also unstable. One of the prototypes was brought to NASA Ames in Silicon Valley (it wasn't called that yet) and spent a lot of time in the big wind tunnel. It turned out that, although there are some theoretical advantages to disk-shaped aircraft, the negatives outweigh the positives as the disk gets bigger.

Around the same time, the U.S. Army was testing the UH-1 Huey helicopter, which worked, carried more payload, and was far more useful. So they canned the AvroCar program and bought many thousands of Hueys. That was the end of military flying saucers.

(The National Archives has posted good, full-length high-resolution copies of the original films.[1][2][3] Short AvroCar clips have been around for years, but they'd usually been through broadcast TV or VHS, with heavy loss of detail. Amusingly, the earliest film was classified SECRET, the second one was marked OFFICIAL USE ONLY, and by the third one, there's no classification.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMF99kJGLQc
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdSo31A9j_I
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opD86VZSWpo
How to Draw a 2010 Mazda Miata
These Zen Buddhist Koans Will Open Your Mind
Java and C# are of course equally boring

And they're the ones who don't write medium posts daily whining about how their frameworks are the worst in the world.

It's boring, it works, it scales.
Did I say it is fun? The average japanese is poor because the government policies are robbing him, not because of my comment.
DragonFlyBSD and Wayland
What won't be inevitable is whether those disasters are worse than what would have happened otherwise. People are already running out of drinking water! Contemporary western morals put the environment first at all costs, even ahead of human life. That's only a position you can take after your humans already have a good quality of life. Developing countries still need to improve on nature to help their people.

Would you instead like to return the Colorado river to its original course where it dumped most of its water into the sea, leaving desert all around it? Never have built all the many canals around the world? Just crammed all people into the few naturally fertile areas and left the rest as a giant eco-tourism park for the wealthy?
> We are living through the latest stages of the online advertising bubble, as available high-quality ad space is shrinking, leading to a decline ad space quality, and a decline of ad efficiency.

I don't understand how it's a bubble since the decline has been steady over the last few years. A bubble is spectacular, not gradual. A bubble expands and then suddenly and unexpectedly pops. A bubble ends in a steep and surprising decline. All of the trends here with fraud and growing use of ad-blocking software have been on the horizon for a very long time.

It doesn't sound like a bubble, but talking about "bubbles" gets lots of clicks.
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Newer/Modern: Kotlin, Rust, Go, Nim, Elixir, Racket, Swift, Julia, Crystal, Idris, Red, and Elm.

Older: C, Python, Scheme, Lua, Lisp, Haskell, Clojure, C#, and Scala.
Right, but if prices go down, then people can pay less for them and they don't need to earn a lot in their jobs, everything fits and we're as good as in the other scenario.
‘Negro,’ ‘Oriental’ and ‘Indian’ to Be Scrubbed from All Federal Laws
> I started calling online advertising a bubble in 2008.

Then maybe it's time to quit punditry; that was 8 years ago and the online advertising market has grown 2.5x since.

> I made “The Advertising Bubble” a chapter in The Intention Economy in 2012.

The online advertising market has grown 30% since.

Since no market can grow forever, at some point there will be a dip in the industry. Maybe in less than five years, maybe in ten years. And when it finally happens, this kind of pundit will be telling us "they had called it correctly, before anyone else".
I just want online advertising to at least be better than trying to sell me a toaster after I literally just purchased a toaster. I only need one toaster.
Last time I checked, most of Alphabet's revenue, like 90%+ came from ad dollars.

The others (Fiber, Nest, etc) are mostly losing money.
SPOILERSSSSSSS

It's not even about evolution. Imagine if the 7 eves weren't playing some weird genetic metagame, but instead had one over-arching problem to solve.

The main dilemma of the Pingers was how to survive underwater, and they had as much technology (if not more, there's more submarines in existence than ISS modules). They also had tons of food (think of how many whales died, and how long whale fall ecosystems last). And a nice natural shield consisting of the ocean.

If the Aidans could bring back the Neanderthal, then the Pingers probably started their experiments early and often.
It's ok... But I think we really want a more comprehensive solution. Anonymous record types are really what we want.
A couple days ago Shane Smith said in an interview, "I don't think it's any secret that you're going to see a bloodbath in the next 12 months in digital or mobile or terrestrial because what's happening it's all brand money. This is why people are moving to subcription-based things. What brands are moving to are finding an audience."

I have no idea what he's even trying to say, but it sounds ominous.

http://digiday.com/publishers/shane-smith-vice-media-intervi...
Especially true if there are more than 2 codebases interacting with the same database table.
Pundits need to put a firm date on their prediction.
Question should not be how well it is documented, but why it is not well documented.
I bought a new expensive GPU on newegg and now every other week newegg sends me emails about new deals for graphics cards. In what market does that behavior make sense? Most pc gamers probably buy a graphics card once every two years at most unless they're filthy rich.
If someone keeps making the same prediction for 8 years, and it doesn't happen, and it still hasn't happened and the report the new post is based on is pretty much nonsense (just basic maths: trying to compare growth rates of ad spending vs increase in sales without noting the obvious thing that the increase in ad sales is sustainable so long as it brings in more money than it takes) then maybe it's time to update your priors.
There was a passage where they had rigged the robots to pick out debris from the ice.

I think they would eventually be able to pick out the hotter bits out of the ice as well.
>Then maybe it's time to quit punditry; that was 8 years ago and the online advertising market has grown 2.5x since.

Isn't the very nature of bubbles to get inflated? 2.5x or more?

The main difference compared to a solid venture is not that they see growth (that's what they do best!), or for how many years they see growth, but that it's an inflated (hence "bubble") growth that can (and eventually will) disappear overnight.

A non-bubble industry will also see growth, and will also see decline. But it will not see a huge sudden drop from hero to zero, unless something extraordinary happens (e.g. a war, alien invasion, etc).
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Clearly there's an obligation to use the funds for a specific purpose, but that doesn't mean the donor is buying that food, anymore than a donor to Doctors Without Borders is employing MDs.

Unless the donors are choosing the specific items to be purchased and the specific recipients, I don't see how it can be considered that they have bought anything.
This is an excellent post that anyone thinking about Hiroshima should read.

This post by the same author also makes a convincing argument that the beginning of the firebombing campaign against Japan with the bombing of Tokyo (in which more people died than at Hiroshima) was the unnoticed ethical turning point.

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/08/06/hiroshima-at-67-th...
Sure, until you find yourself in a deflationary spiral and the economy screeches to a halt. Why would you buy a house if you know that next year it will be cheaper? Who would finance a mortgage in a deflationary environment?
You wear one if you're sick. So that you don't get other people sick basically.

Contrast with my experience in Sydney, where catching the bus during flu season is bloody hazardous. Being coughed and sneezed on gets old quickly, so I totally understand the surgical mask thing; it's a basic courtesy.
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> No matter how we handle "users", we are going to need to do all 6 things in the list the author presented.

I think maybe your broader thesis is we almost always need all 6 things. And if that's true for you then Rails is a good tool for you.

If we only ever need one out of the 6 things at a time then ActiveRecord is only adding extra complexity for us.

I think OP is basically saying I usually only need one or two and that they'd rather not have the extra layer of indirection... "save(andValidate)" is fine for them. They don't need the orchestration abilities that the declarative "afterSave(validate)" step affords.

DHH's suppress really is a good example. If you are calling save(andValidate) everywhere, you can't really do something like suppress(), because your validation logic is disbursed.

My opinion, and I think maybe OP would agree, is that there's usually a nice, composeable way to get the same problem solved, without resorting to a giant engine that understands all the different parts. But that's just an empirical assertion on our part. Obviously your mileage will vary.
Exactly this. How is Amazon smart enough to know I have viewed item X yet not that I have just finally bought it? They should have some "oh, he bought it, let's switch" flag.
Brilliant comment ha ha