skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really know if the IANA should be managed by an international body, but the fact that Ted Cruz and the President of National Religious Broadcasters are in favor of this bill automatically make me think this bill is trying to prohibit speech or invade privacy. And the fact that "President, Americans for Limited Government" is supporting maintaining government control of the Internet makes it sound like standard right-wing hypocrisy. And the fact they frame the bill as an attack on Obama makes it even more suspect.

If ICANN is intentionally lobbying people like this, it automatically makes me think that it should lose the contract, regardless of the quality of their actual stewardship.
I'm sure some think-tank wrote this bill; thankfully there are Congressmen who can introduce.
Thats interesting. Thats how a friend of mine who's finishing up her major in biology explained it when she told me about how her professors lab got grants.
It's not an empty threat so much as it's an opportunity for them to gouge you later when your product is already highly dependent on their product.
Fonoster is now living in a Kubernetes environment as microservices
Decentralized Web Summit Live Stream – Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, IArchive
The problems were happening at the same time. It's impossible to solve 1 if 2 is happening simultaneously.

Using a registrar that is on separate infrastructure from your DNS host solves both problems.
Global Growth Forecast Again Revised Lower to 2.4%
Having raised chickens when I was a kid, I can tell you that chickens will survive on almost anything organic. They're like little organic waste disposal units. There is a reason that no plants grow where chickens are kept in pens: they eat anything that grows. They'll eat any bugs they can find. I've also seen them eat other chickens that had died of some natural cause.

Chickens usually get fed grain because grain is cheap and plentiful and easy to dispense, but if you give them enough room to roam and vegetation to eat, they will eat it.

We used to throw all our food scraps (bit of bread, fruit, vegetable peelings) in a container and throw it to the chickens at the end of the day. They loved it, and would eat it all. We'd also collect rotting fruit from under the fruit trees and throw it to them. It would all get eaten. I found that pretty much the only thing chickens wouldn't eat were peach pits. Peach pits are way too hard, I guess.

In winter when we didn't have as much of a garden, we'd also let the chickens out of their pen. They'd happily roam around the yard, eating grass and whatever tasty bugs they can find. In the evening, they'd return to their chicken house in their pen and go to sleep. Very convenient.

I've come to the conclusion that chickens would happily eat us if they were large enough.

I believe that chickens are very efficient to raise. If you have enough vegetation around, you don't need to feed them at all.
More details can be found here: http://iupac.org/elements.html
I'm happy to find someone who has a deeper understanding of the issues it tries to solve by being so verbose. While you're here, do you think you can help me understand why Apache2's (and GPL(2,3))'s liability disclaimer clause effectively seems to disclaims just in part? BSD, MIT, ISC, all just disclaim any liabilities caused by the code, whereas GPL and Apache have an exception embedded in the clause, and I cannot make sense of it. Say you publish code under Apache or GPL that is then used by some uninformed who loses data and claims your tool is at fault, now claiming you to be liable as laid out in the sentence about exceptions to the rule. Why would one want that as an open source developer in code they publish but have no paid service contract of any kind in place that would cover liability claims?

From Apache2:

unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate
and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing

This is the bit which is in no form included in BSD, MIT, ISC, and it rubs me the wrong way. I do understand that you're not above the law, but that's for courts to decide, and this bit doesn't seem to help either party (one of the contributors or the damaged license taker (aka user of the code)).

I also don't understand how the following connects to the rest of the clause but other than that I can pretty much make sense of Apache2

even if such Contributor has been advised of the
possibility of such damages.

Why would the contributor be advised of damages the code he's contributing himself or contributing to might do?
Anything *aaS is a perfect candidate for subscription. Most other things aren't. Why should you pay recurring fee for what can easily run on your local machine? On the other hand, the $1 price on AppStore for most apps is ridiculously low.
Cruz never endorsed Trump.
My guess, this prevents DNS poisoning attacks.

Somewhere, somehow, there is critical infrastructure tied to a .gov or .mil [email/web] address.
Damn the Org Chart
Any advice for doing this when you're in the middle of nowhere? I've heard of patio11 doing something similar via skype, but it just seems odd to invite people for coffee via skype or hangouts.
From my understanding, the reason it hasn't been opened yet is to preserve whatever's inside, not so much out of fear for mercury poisoning. For instance, the terracotta army was actually painted before it was excavated [1], but the paint curled and flaked off within minutes of opening the mausoleum, leaving us with a sea of drab stone statues. I think they're just waiting until they have the tech to properly preserve the interior.

[1] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-09/09/content_112783...
Slow down there. First of all, the parent didn't claim to be a genius who had some pre-existing knowledge. Secondly, even if (s)he learned it from John Oliver, how does that make it less a part of parent's knowledge?

Furthermore, the use of "plain-old" was a way of indicating that this is a new method but an old process; eg, it's not legally any different from normal asset seizure.

Finally, and most importantly, I don't see any bias or why you even call it that.
I believe Sen. Ted Cruz not only didn't endorse Donald Trump (up until now) but was also Trump's fiercest opponent and critic in the primaries.
Not despised. I think they're likely sympathetic to their plight, at least on the surface.
This comment[1] suggests that the product does not work with an actual bank card, only prepaid cards, which boggles the mind.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11865494
Ehang 184 Passenger Drone Approved by Nevada for Testing
I didn't check all the other licenses on that page for copyleft/liberal, but assuming it's just GPL2,GPL3,LGPL2,LGPL3, it didn't look like the absolute sum would dominate, but these statistics are necessarily precise anyway because many projects are not under a consistent single license, so...
Without advocating either way, right now both are (afaik) fairly synonymous with the US government and its military. I could see how they'd consider it harmful if a foreign actor (or anybody, really) creates, e.g., sssa.gov which steals your information.
Forced? You can enable and disable it in every repo's settings.
Modern CSS Anti Patterns
Sure, there's a continuum of refactoring, from trivial to complete re-write.

Any time the data schema(s) change, you need to migrate. I'll bet that even when sticking with the same database flavor you'll need to migrate a handful of times over the first few months. Requirements change, blah, blah. After the first couple migrations, you refactor to make that less painful. Eventually it might get to the point that your persistence layer is fairly abstracted and you can change databases without ripping apart everything else. Doesn't happen with every project, but sometimes.
Given their age, it's unlikely they'd both die at the same time and be unable to open source it. Unless they dig in the wrong place in their backyard, I suppose.
Her campaign tried to specifically pitch "Bernie Bro" stories to journalists. Shameless.

In 2008 her campaign didn't play up gender, but definitely forced the race issue - the Muslim claims, the Reverend Wright allegations, etc.
Meh, "Science advances one funeral at a time", today is no different than it ever really was. Nice thing about science, though, is that it does advance and one funeral at a time is relatively quick, as compared to religions, governments, and DMV lines.
There is also the whole NPM-ish attempts at using things like publication frequency and number of references to gauge the ROI on research, and therefore the performance of the scientists involved.

All this runs smack into Cambell's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell's_law
One is a parasite on anyone who would dare innovate, and the other is trying to avoid overpaying taxes.
Agreed. But I also think that as one of the admins you should refrain from explicit judgement on comments and leave that to the community.
How would I go about finding a lawyer with startup experience to help me as an individual? Should I expect to pay large amounts of cash for this?
> Blogging like it's 1999

> 3. It's written in JavaScript and runs under Node.js.
Good! There should be a bias against new things until the new things are proven to be correct.

Optimizing science based on "what do people who want to get tenure want" seems like a great way to be bad at science.
My advice to you would be to be less self-obsessed. It will be important for you and your happiness to come to terms with how little you matter and how unimportant you are to the world. No one cares what you did in university - that was another life.

This should bring you comfort.
Precisely. I don't have a position on whether or not this arrangement is ideal, but I do wish the discussion about it could remain precise.
>After all, she held off on supporting LGBTQ rights until it >was extremely politically dangerous for her not to do so.

She was supportive of most LGBTQ rights except same sex marriage. Same as Obama. Same sex marriage is here because the courts pushed it through. It lost time after time at the ballot box. While most of HN is probably in favor of it most Americans are not on HN and not directly involved in tech. HN tends to be liberal/libertarian types.
If you get to the point of sniffing, then a slightly better option might be to suffix all your foreign keys with something like 'key' or 'ID'. Or use slugs for everything.

Or you could initialize all your tables with the first primary key being 2^32 and only lose one quarter billionth of your legal keyspace.
I agree with this. I like being able to know that a site is trustworthy based on it having a .gov domain name.
It doesn't matter if the DNS service is up or down - the point is that you cannot change your domain's DNS service without access to your registrar's console.

So effectively, the registrar being up is the only thing that matters and there's nothing you can do about it.

You're betting on the fact that by using 2 services, they won't be down at the same time which might add some reliability, although most registrars aren't hosting their console sites on the same network as their DNS servers anyway so the odds of it happening are about the same. You were just caught in a bad situation.
Oh. I had no idea why they did this. That makes sense. I guess I just figured it was so easy to PROPERLY clone and stamp a card, that it didn't cross my mind..
Agree, I have no problem with this. By not limiting these to government uses and ownership, you are only opening the door for malicious websites to fool users...
I don't know, it seems to me that at least a few in the core swift team are well known C++ hackers. For example, in addition to Chris Lattner of LLVM fame, David Abrahams, which I believe is still the lead in charge of Swift standard library, was a founding member of Boost and, relevant to this post, (co-)author of Boost.Iterator. Doug Gregor which is also part of swift core team, is also a prominent ex-Booster.

Edit: Doug was of course also the principal author of the failed C++11 Concepts proposal
Wired is for newbies. For a real trip one should try OMNI and Creative Computing.
' "Net Neutrality" is Obamacare for the Internet'
-- Ted Cruz

https://twitter.com/sentedcruz/status/531834493922189313
But this is exactly what made me switch, windows was preventing me from accessing my sound card directly in order to record a remote interview.

I use Linux regularly to record and edit audio, it's free , it works, and I dont have to worry my OS is active reducing the functionality of my equipment.
Asyncronous RL in Tensorflow and Keras and OpenAI's Gym
It significantly decreases the attack surface, since most of the connection will be encrypted inside CloudFare's network or over HTTPs. Should be a clear win for most cases.
A way to use React but without JS, like with swift?
> After that it was extra complicated which made platforms like PHP have crappy implementations, I guess.

If the implementations are bad, the specification may be not simple enough.
I mean... do you really want to have to guess whether congress.gov is run by the government, or some random country which decided to sell of .gov TLDs for extra cash?

Or, potentially more deceptively to consumers, "healthcare.gov", etc.
I Fell in Love with You Quietly
I agree with the others. You can host a dynamic site on digitalocean for half the cost.
Not a laywer, I'm just picking nits. It seems to me when you pip install a package, you are saying "download <this thing> and run its setup.py file". What if requests did something you didn't like, something simple like write a new directory or change the name of a certain file. Could you sue over that? Where is the distinction?
Meh... ;-)

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
I think I already feel that way to a strong degree. As I mentioned in my post, I dislike laurel-resting and want to be judged based on talent and work ethic, aspects that have earned me far more praise through my efforts than anything from my university accomplishments. But at the same time, succeeding and winning fellowships and awards in difficult university programs still is at least some degree of evidence of skill and grit, and it's reasonable to be disappointed if others choose to wholly discount it.

As for not mattering in the grand scheme of things, yes of course, that much has been obvious since I was a teenager. I liked a certain Robin Hanson quote when someone replied to his post called "Impatient Idealism" -- at which point he says, "News flash: you are just one of seven billion, so you aren’t going to personally make much difference. The world will have nearly as many problems worth solving then as now, with or without your help." [0]

That quote has been often on my mind at least since 2012 when I first read it.

[0] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/11/a-young-idealist-respo...
Obliviously more expensive car will have more expensive parts. If this will be relative to car value then Toyota 5k to 30k and BMV 17k to 60k will be much closer. In the same time US cars are clearly rubbish.
The Stuarts – Great Fire of London 1666
As the video mentions, people have been sued for App Store and Steam as well.

Google, and Apple and Valve, can send their own lawyers to defend these clients, but since there are dozens of cases, it will be quite expensive. They can maybe sue these trolls for tortous interference, but that may not stick.

So they can't do much.
I'd find it more enjoyable if I could remember what pieces the abstract shapes represent.
Subscriptions are immoral, but not for those reasons. It's an immoral business model because its success is based on bilking people -- cheating them into paying for 'service' when they don't want to.

The mechanism is simple: the slight inconvenience of cancellation prevents a huge number of users from cancelling as soon as they want to.

This is why getting your customers to set up automated and recurring payments is the pot of gold everybody wants (not just in software).

You don't have to intend to bilk people if you do subscriptions; it's inherent in your business model.

Try putting a confirmation screen in your app that makes the user press "Renew" each month before the app charges them again. That would move you toward the moral end of the spectrum, but it would gut your sales.

A $2 per month subscription, even if totally unneeded, is not something most busy people can find the time to deal with cancelling. Pretty soon a year has gone by and your "service" has provided zero value to them but you've ripped them off for $24.

(For clarity: I don't mean you personally, and also I do work in subscription-based software. I just don't have any illusions about it and it makes me feel icky.)
I like the idea of game apps as a service - I'd love to be able to get a steady stream of games/updates for games I play regularly... I know I've gotten way more out of, say, Carcassonne than I feel I've paid, and that's for the game that has incremental IAP/DLC (as opposed to P2W which I avoid like the plague).

There are other games that I play all the time where I'd be happy to pay a bit every mo/yr to ensure content/fixes keep flowing.
As an international user, it is in my opinion fantastic that the White House is attempting to cede control of key internet infrastructure. Why should a single country act as the custodians of a global service?
Shouldn't this risk be mitigated with authorization rules? Or do we assume we are delivering pages without any type of auth first?
Total Wireless offers a plan with unlimited talk and text and 5GB of data for $35 on Verizon's network. It is throttled at 5Mbps, but if you use little enough data to make Fi worthwhile I don't think that will be an issue for you.
The "original" Wired was written by people well outside mainstream journalism. It was OK for a news piece to be quirky or obscure. When it was taken over by "Encorpera" it changed greatly.
The app technical architecture is still pretty minimal. I’ve been running only 2 models. One for identifying the food. One for giving a scale if the food is greasy or lean. Coupled to average calorie database, a small algorithm is then able to do basic calorie estimation. The model to identify food can identify between 97 different foods. The greasiness/leanness model is still pretty raw. It has only been trained only on around 500 images.
> I've said it before and I'll say it again: prevent this kind of garbage from happing without consequence by mandating docked wages/pension benefits to pay for all or part of lawsuit damages. Change the incentives and people will change themselves.

I'm less certain. It seems to me that this will only push the incentive further up the chain, such that the system refuses to ever find wrongdoing or even allow lawsuits to go forward.

A simpler and more elegant solution is to simply remove "criminal justice" as being part of the responsibility of the state. In my estimation, this will come at no cost whatsoever to safety, while also increasing quality of life for most people.
> The people hurt the most are always the innocent non-combatant civilians.

That isn't true now anyway?

I don't advocate for anything, all I know is if the current trend continues, like every other free society that has gone down this same road, It will end very badly and then will improve for a generation or so.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson
Radley Balko has been writing about asset forfeiture for about a decade. He has done more to bring this issue to the medias attention than John Oliver has. It is completely unfair to claim that no one knew what was going until someone famous began to popularize it more.

Not that there is anything wrong with John Oliver hopping on the band wagon, that's good thing.
Ask HN: Is web development Not using Elm indulgent?
Thesis: Web development NOT using Elm (elm-lang.org) is indulgent.

The idea I'm having is that by using JS+HTML+CSS+<BACKEND{JS, Python, Go, ...}>[+SQL] instead of just Elm I'm prioritizing my complexity fetish over real-world cost/benefit breakdown.

I don't like Elm in the same way I like Python, for example, but I cannot make a case to myself for NOT using it. Anybody got reasons?﻿
> It doesn't matter if the DNS service is up or down - the point is that you cannot change your domain's DNS service without access to your registrar's console.

True!

> most registrars aren't hosting their console sites on the same network as their DNS servers.

As a customer you have no ability to judge this. DNSimple was either hosting them on the same infrastructure or the DDoS was targeting both. I can't speak to what they do now, since this article is almost two years old.

By using one service for both components you're betting on the fact that they're doing the right things behind the scenes. IMO that is not a safe bet. For zero added monetary cost and effectively zero added management cost you can double your ability to weather that specific type of storm.
Regardless, the amount of compensation required to eek out a minimal living for myself in the high cost-of-living areas where the jobs are plus send money home to cover the extra labor we'll have to pay for to handle the family situation when I am physically not there add up to something in the range of what I earned before, so it is an amount that is needed, not merely hoped for.

Further, I had two other jobs before the really destructive one, and was paid at the same level in those jobs. In hindsight, choosing to leave those jobs over mild issues was a mistake, but everyone encouraged me to do it at the time. I asked every question under the sun when going through the hiring process with the third place, and absolutely nothing stood out to me as a red flag that would have indicated just how bad it was.
I think the story of "Boatmurdered" is my favorite. A friend described it as "pee-your-pants funny".

http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/
We'll see how Apples interface will look like. With a centralized marketplace like this they have a perfect opportunity to build interfaces to work against this, the question is if they will. (e.g. nice overviews, options for time-limits, notifications for not-used subscriptions, ...)
Solaris did (does?) this - "this package contains installation scripts which run as superuser" or words to that effect. Unfortunately I never found a owa to inspect the scripts directly so it wasn't all that helpful.
But who is Goon Swarm?
I don't see how people come up with crazy numbers like this. Honda sells a shit ton of cars, and it's market cap is 50Billion..

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:HMC

Toyota is 175 Billion with all the cars they call

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATM&ei=PqtYV8GCFOGqiQ...
Toyota's market cap is 200B

VW is at 90B

Ford is 53B

GM is at 45 B

Hyundai is 30B

Roughly speaking he is predicting that not only will Tesla become the largest automotive company by valuation, but that it will be as large as all the others combined.

I'm skeptical.
Google Plans to One-Up Apple's New Subscription Revenue Sharing
This is where I follow up my earlier post to make it crystal clear that it was tongue-in-cheek, not meant to be taken as advice, encouragement or incitement to violence, and that I would personally consider it very, very wrong for someone to confront patent trolls by flattening them with uparmored construction equipment Killdozer-style, taking them out with a deer rifle Texas-style, or pulling up alongside their cars on the highway and attaching limpet mines, Mossad-style.

Under no circumstances should anyone do any of those things, because that would be wrong.

(And, more seriously, I hope you never have a good excuse to try.)