skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article link points directly to the Habitat demo. For those of us that don't already know what Habitat is, a better place to start might be the about page: https://www.habitat.sh/about/why-habitat/

Habitat seems like an entirely new Chef product to enable what they're calling Application Automation.

Relevant quote:
"[...] automation must travel with the application, rather than be provided by the platform. Everything the application needs, from build dependencies, run-time dependencies, configuration, dynamic topologies, deployment strategies, secrets management, security auditing, and so on belongs with the application, because we're doing it for the application. Runtime and infrastructure layers exist to support the application, but the efficient building, deployment, and management of the application are decoupled from those layers."

Incredibly ambitious.
Seriously, how did you (and everyone else) end up in this mess?

Imagine your printed edition where your editors have no idea what sort of ads are printed in your paper, because it's all added at the printing firm by some shady characters.
Those are all great ideas for a user-friendly ad network. I think that you could add "so the user makes fewer network requests and loads the page faster" as a reason for the option to download a resource pack.

But the key requirement for an ad network is that it makes money. I am optimistic that your system would produce user-friendly sites that would, given good content, eventually develop a positive reputation, earn more traffic, and make more money than their competitors. But that requires long-term vision and user-first business ethics, which most companies are not very good at. At any time, once that reputation and traffic pattern was established, switching to a more aggressive ad network would make the site or ad seller more money. Then it would dip back down as users reacted, but I am not convinced that a sufficient number of businesses would have the wherewithal to see it through.
People have generally not established direct democracies throughout history for a reason. I personally never want to see a direct democracy in the US, because if you want to have your faith in your countrymen destroyed go spend an hour sitting on a bench outside a Walmart and just watch humanity at work.

The vast majority of people are borderline illiterate emotional animals. You don't see or interact with them because they exist in their isolated silos of service work and personally proffered bars and TV stations, but the number of rational informed actors in any given election is in a steep minority.

I don't know the Swiss well, but I'd hope they have a much better culture to support direct democracy than what the US has, because the US would be a disaster. Islam would be banned, Hispanics would be kill on sight, police would be given heavy artillery to demolish drug dens. Whenever any international news of any kind phases the country there would be immediate over-reactionary laws passed to diminish liberty and perpetuate a culture of fear, because that is a large part of what we have now, and giving that animal brain legitimacy on the national stage would be a global catastrophe.
Minecraft takes a big step towards becoming a fully cross-platform game
I just want to add this bit of Finance Theory / Econ 101 to the mix, it's interesting:

Markets function better (or really, they function at all, it's the definition) when prices are what they should be.

Trading on insider information moves prices in the direction that they should be moving. The flaw in the pricing is due to the secret that's being kept, and the secret is being kept to protect insiders, not the public.

So, as a counter example to "the tragedy of the commons", trading on inside information is an example of positive externalities surrounding trades with negative "internalities".
Historically China has fought wars over its borders, there is no obvious reason why they should switch to a US style expeditionary military with world wide ambitions. That the contested islands are uninhabited in that well populated part of the world should tell you enough about the conflict: it is a local squabble over potential resources, decide it in an international court all parties can agree on and stop using it as a reason to wave your carrier dicks around.

Chinese nationalism is based on its historical heritage more than anything else, and certainly is not likely to invade Iraq over rumours of WMD any of these days, nor trash Panama city after breaking up with a Noriega equivalent.
Graphic designer wants to start coding? Help?
Hi everyone,

I'm a graphic designer and illustrator who dabbles in photography too. I want to start learning to code to bolster my skill set and lessen the divide when I end up working with programmers.

Any tips? I have no idea where to begin.

Thanks :)
Petition: Safe the link – anti ancillary copyright aka Link Tax
The quasi-standard protocol to sell a paper vote is photographing the marked ballot inside the booth, before putting it in the box.
Technically 97.113(a)(5) takes care of commercial use where if you can use another service (aircraft radio, maritime radio, broadcast, CB, land mobile, whatever) then you're required to use it, and not use ham radio. Its to maintain the hobby-ness of ham radio.

WRT to your "administrative purposes" 97.219(d)(1) not only permits HTTPS and SSH, but requires it, in order to authenticate, presumably so unidentified or unauthorized people can't reconfigure your transmitter on top of the local air traffic control or something. Under 97.309(b) as long as you don't obscure the meaning you're all good. Obviously accessing administrative URLs is not an obscure meaning. Likewise tunneling a VPN trying to mimic administrative traffic to do illegal file downloading or something would be obscuring meaning.
Probably because they'd need another antenna to support that, and in the age of thin devices, I don't think anyone wants to squeeze an antenna on for a feature very few people would use.
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Yup it would be, and as someone working in the ad tech industry it's most definitely what would happen.
Video Content Marketing Roundup Jun 06 – Jun 13, 2016
On a slightly different wavelength, Peter Korn's "why we make things and why it matters" really hit home to me.
That may be true but it is a smaller problem for Android.

You don't need a folder called "Junk" because they are not cluttering the home screen, they are buried in the app drawer.
Direct democracy is still broken. If I vote wrong I suffer nothing, but I may gain positive feelings.
Germany's interest in certain land masses was based in oil, but that was only one of a suite of rationales. Given the basic nature of the Nazis as a group, it's not likely that was the only reason.

WRT Japan, this was called an embargo in response to the Rape of Nanking.
What are the privacy implications of a service like this? Isn't this as invasive as Omniture's "2o7" analytic service?
Identity is non-transferrable. It's theft all right, albeit with different victim.

Once one of those addicts complains that you're using their ID, you're a toast.
your claim that Apple is copying MS surface puts the rest of this in perspective.
Washington Post Is Latest News Outlet Barred by Trump
Good luck w/ the alternatives.
By producing much better content and analysis then they currently do. The kind of content and analysis that someone is willing to sponsor or pay for or support through other ways. There's no shortage of bloggers, small outlets, and analysts who are doing just fine - no intrusive ads needed.
That's actually par for the course for most VPAID stuff out there, specially the infinite looping kind.
> You're appealing to a need for safety, but where you draw the line is arbitrary. I am only demonstrating that, following the same logic you are using, I draw the line somewhere else which results in a completely different, though absurd, outcome. What is the principle which makes where you drew the line correct and where I drew the line incorrect?

Maybe there is no first-principles answer here (certainly either of the obvious principles-based approaches gives absurd results). Maybe we do just have to weigh up the costs and benefits of individual cases as best as we can.

> You also suggest that because transporting these materials in an unsafe manner is illegal and punishable by a fine, that that is somehow a bigger deterrent to businesses than the threat of a lawsuit. How so, and why is the illegality of it supposed to be a bigger deterrent than a lawsuit?

Leaving it up to lawsuits to enforce public safety doesn't square very well with the limited-liability corporation. Imagine ten companies engaging in dangerous shipping practices, and one of them actually having an incident. If we only fine the one that had the incident, we bankrupt it and don't recover the full public-health cost.
Increasing Google's revenue every quarter is certainly enough of a challenge without a policy of discarding clients.

Don't expect any solution from them. This is something end users (by ad-blocking) or startups (by destroying the market) can do, but not big companies.
The US outspends the next top 20 countries in defense spending combined. But I'm thinking this figure is wrong. If it costs the US $20 billion to build a super carrier, what would the same thing cost for China (which doesn't have to deal with high pension costs and labor?) Probably $5 billion or less.

And if these other countries are spending their money on more effective weapons, where does that leave the US?
You can take a photo of the ballot with the "correct" box marked and then spoil it (eg. by marking all boxes). That's what I'd do if I was coerced to vote for some candidate.
This looks really interesting. Im waiting for 8:30PDT for the full announcement though!

Im curious about how it works under the hood, it seems to solve 'all the problems' ;)

My skepticism comes from some of chefs past product releases, which have seemed rather, half baked.

Products like chef metal (provisioning), pushy (push jobs) or
delivery...

This is in no way negative as I am a long time chef user and fan of chef.
I am strongly against the view of the author.

I see that the majority (or a large portion) of voters are fanatics that vote based on affiliation and fanaticism, not policies nor experience.

Ie. The voting numbers are largely biased towards the political fanatic crowd.

I see online voting as a way to increase the number of ordinary people that vote. Getting the voting population to 80%+ or more is good for democracy. I see this as a positive.

Saying Online voting is a danger to democracy is like saying autonomous cars are a danger to safety.

Yes, if the autonomous system doesn't work and is made with loopholes that allow dangerous stuff, it will pose a danger. But if made to work fail-proof, it will be infinitely better.

There's no point in saying something will not work if your only argument is based on the proposition that it's going to be broken before it's even used.

Sure, an unsafe car is not safe. The only way to make it safe is to make sure it's safe.

The only way "democratic" online voting will work is to make sure it's "democratic".
Just FYI, Statista is a private company. You may be thinking of http://destatis.de/, which is the homepage of the German federal office for statistics.
Containerization is disrupting a lot of their current market, so they need to adapt in some fashion. Given the fact that the only hammer they have at hand is ruby systems automation tooling it is not a big surprise they are aiming at these targets.

Unfortunately, IMHO, the scope is a mile wide and an inch deep in terms of what chef brings to the table here. I can walk down that list and either think immediately of another tool that is dedicated to the specific task or the needs are so slight that a few ansible or bash scripts take care of the need. Sounds like they are aiming to occupy some space in the general "tooling & orchestration" arena, but it will be an uphill climb.
You're going to be hard-pressed now to find a company of any size that doesn't do something of this sort.

It's their network and their resources, so they get to make the rules.

If you don't like their rules, don't access personal accounts from work.

My employer has also implemented zscalar, but I never accessed things like my bank account, credit card accounts, social media accounts, etc. from work even before they did that.
FCC net neutrality rule upheld on appeal
DC Circuit affirms FCC can reclassify broadband as telecom service
I agree, in principle. But reading over this document, the changes can be made in an incremental fashion. And with far less impact than switching to using C++ just for these (assuming equivalents exist) features.
The 4th law of programming language comparisons
Nice article, will try!
Each what2words is supposed to correspond to a ~3 (or is it 9) by 3 metre square.
It's a one way trap-door.
Larval Eloquent like models for ElasticSearch
I am hoping that was the intention of the statement; not wanting to build something because of interests doesn't mean the knowledge to build it doesn't exist.
First of all, in America, we don't have a democracy. Democracy is mob rule. We have the appearance of a Constitutional republic.

Voting in the USA and who gets the votes is done by an electoral college. For the most part we don't have a direct vote. Where people vote for a person & that vote actually counts.

I believe this current form of voting in the USA is the real danger. It allows votes to be moved to another candidate because the electoral college made that decision with no input from the voters

We need to remove the voting system out of the hands of private corporations

We need to have a non-profit (open source GNU style) voting system that utilizes some kind of verifiable voting method, that would reduce the risk of fraud (block-chain like system). Maybe a decentralize like BitTorrent like platform

We need to reject the current electoral college system and make every vote count

Our country is in trouble and we don't even know it yet.
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This appears to take a similar approach as plan 9.
It is a matter of degree. Anyone can carry a cell phone into a voting booth to photograph their ballot. And we already have voting by mail in many jurisdictions.
I would like to try that out - if you're ok sharing?
This post says there are 53,632 unique songs. 15,503 refers to the number of unique artists.
> I'm highly suspicious of using an algorithm to score phrases by how close to natural language they are without a proof of security.

To clarify, all the phrases to be scored represent the same random data. They are just more or less difficult to remember. The natural-language algorithm is just there to help you find one that is easy to remember, and is not security critical. The algorithm is assumed to be known to be known to the attacker in any case.
They are genuine questions.

It seems to me that it's pointless to discuss product development without considering the customers of that product, so I'm trying to elicit discussion of that specific topic.
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The article indirectly addresses that in the last paragraph: paper is something everyone understands.

I'm all for improving processes with technology but I'll have to admit that even though I've been neck deep in Software development for 2 decades, the block-chain solutions require a fair amount of mental work for me. They may be good but I don't readily understand them. And I can guarantee you that my parents don't.

This brings up the problem of having a solution that only a few experts know how it works. It's a hard sell on the rest of the population to have them trust these "certified voting technology experts" that would have to be in place.
Mind you, HTML5 allows for advertisers to do a lot of resource-hogging crap too, and not directly sandboxed like flash was / is.
I've spent months working on the video players for all the brands for one of the largest media companies in the world.

I did plenty unpleasant work for them, like building a clean redesign, agonizing over page load speeds, and then filling up the page with multi-megabyte tracking tools and every possible ad under sun (which would not only ruin the design, but often inexplicably and randomly break the page because of really, really shitty code).

All that work was pleasant compared to the horror of working on the video player though, and I felt bad for the full-timers who were usually put on 'bug-fixing' duty while we contractors got to work on the cool projects...
The Town with No Poverty: 1974 study on guaranteed minimum income
Typically the headphone cable was used as the FM antenna. That has it's own set of problems, but it doesn't make the device bigger.
The Antikythera mechanism is still revealing its secrets
Show HN: How to Deploy a Website with a Custom Domain Using Cosmic JS
A Simple Explanation of How Image Recognition Works
You can photograph it, then spoil it before putting it in the box.
Glad you like it! This guys write a lot about Android related stuff, they have mostly senior dev's.
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

"If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then."
I don't know how lucrative and / or effective it is, but a lot of high quality websites united in using The DECK, an ad network without a lot of bells and whistles. Since it's been around for quite some time, I guess they're doing well.

The ad network I'm proposing will never be as large as Google is right now. If it's a small network that only connects entrepeneurs with solid long-term visions, I am fine with that. I don't believe in unicorns anyway.

*http://decknetwork.net/
The older I get the more I realize that all of these get insert attribute here quick methods are just gimmicks. The best way to achieve something is with discipline and perseverance. It may not be flashy but it pays off in the end. Stuff takes time, that shouldn't really be a bad thing.
Do you appraciate this site of photos on face?
React Native library for creating chat UIs
If it's digital, software can be written to verify it. Or even vote on your behalf, asking you only for the credentials.
My takeaway from the article is that carrier vulnerability is increasing from low cost, high range missiles. As the article mentioned, they only need a few hits. Carriers are a big target, and from the sounds of it potential nation-state enemies have adopted anti-carrier naval doctrines based on small signature boats with high damage output.

Carriers seem to be highly effective in uncontested waters, allowing force projection anywhere in the world. The article is saying that carriers are becoming less relevant when contested by a prepared enemy.
> Such technology can make the phone or other device appear smarter because it anticipates the types of activities people want to do.

Currently all the attempts I seen to anticipate what I want make applications far more annoying (do you want to send this email to your mother as well?). Its kind of like an uncanny valley. An application that truly could anticipate my needs would be good, but when it tries to anticipate and gets it wrong, it becomes worse than the application that doesn't try and silently waits for me to give it instructions.
> They want to measure everything, everything!

They can learn to live without spying on everything (this means no javascript), or they can learn to deal with more and more people installing an adblocker. Wanting something doesn't mean they get it.
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It's kind of stupid, but when I tried out Apple Music, the lack of Last.fm integration really bugged me and I soon switched back to Spotify. Now I understand why :-D
You are dismissive of "attracting developers" as motive. That has always been a marketing ploy of the open source camp as an alternative to a fully open philosophy i.e. information wants to be free.
Eircodes were created that way so that people wouldn't have to change their address at all. Which could be a politically difficult thing. Politicians choose the thing that made their life easier and stopped complaints.
For the same reasons we are still stuck with android phones with 32GB instead of 256GB, "cloud, cloud, stream, stream, consume, consume".

... but don't stock, share, publish, modify or really speak freely? (ok I'll go get my coffee ;-)
That documentary was really interesting and beautifully shot.

I refer a whole bunch of stuff towards shopify since I get inquiries about building e-commerce stuff all the time where they have some money but not enough to make it worth doing a bespoke solution and frankly unless they want to drop serious money your platform is always going to be better.

I'm over in the UK and I saw a talk a while back by one of the shopify guys (Keir Whitaker iirc, it was a couple of years ago) that was superbly well done which made me look at the platform.
> Is there any possible token-based authentication scheme that is both stateless (ie. no round trip to the database on every call) AND invalidate-able?

SPKI (RFC 2692/2693) solved this in 1999, with its timed CRLs. Exactly one CRL is valid for any given period of time: when a token (= certificate) is received, it is invalid if it is referenced in the CRL, and valid otherwise.
Apple’s Biggest Reveals WWDC: From Start to 2016
Yeah, that part was missing from the article. It looks like it phishes the user into installing the ransomeware app, but they have to download the app before that happens.

I'm assuming that a user would be browsing the web on their TV and some website has abused the schema for installing apps through the smartTV app store.
It's also illegal to become a cat burglar and pull a mission:impossible-style break in to alter votes after they have been cast.

it's very cynical and defeatist to argue that we should never try any solution that is not 100% perfect.
Is anybody anywhere working in "human level intelligence"?

People like to talk about it, but I doubt any serious researcher claims to be solving it. It's a non-specified problem, I can't even imagine what a paper on it would look like. How would you know you achieved it?

In practice AI is those concrete problems. And the fact that they often stop being AI after solved is a real PR problem for the researchers.
(LogRocket team member here) Thanks for pointing this out. We added a privacy policy to the homepage: https://logrocket.io/privacy/.
> I don't have a huge liquid emergency fund.

The Emergency Fund is a top priority. That will alleviate much of the stress on your job search. Can you get creative on building that up? Cut expenses, take on a side-project for additional revenue?

Meanwhile, suggest you start attending meet-ups and conferences in the space you want to work. Connecting with new people often opens hidden opportunities.
Can you please provide a link to that claim?
No, it's not. The paper system allows you to spoil the vote after taking the picture. You can't do that with the digital system.
Pixel Density, Demystified
Time to delete my LinkedIn account, or otherwise corrupt its contents before MS swallows it all. Microsoft doesn't have the right to my intellectual property.
> Are you suggesting that the US will initiate nuclear war?

Initiating a nuclear war after a nation state starts taking out your aircraft carriers is not entirely unexpected. Nuclear or not, the response would be amazingly serious.
Anyone can carry a cell phone into a voting booth to photograph their ballot.

And then they can spoil the ballot before putting it in the box. Not so with this digital system.

And we already have voting by mail in many jurisdictions.

Which I'm also against, except possibly for emigrants.
I've often wondered why something better than AX.25 hasn't taken off yet(and wanted to build something better).

Will look into this for sure. Thanks for the link.
Yes. All is done to attract more developers to the universal windows platform