skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it is hard to argue that, It is much better learning that you shouldn't have designed your rocket with a particular flaw than the alternative.

The alternative is not designing your rocket with the flaw in the first place, using only known and proven technologies, avoiding risks at all cost like gobertment(NASA, ESA) agencies do.

And this is very costly in the long term, because technology does not improve.
Recent research reveals false rumours really do travel faster than the truth l
Might get this wrong
but from my understanding:

PaaS: Platform (as in Server eg used for API) on demand (as in api.something.com/*)

FaaS: Function (as in eg api endpoint) on demand (as in api.something.com/v1/get_latest_posts)

Of course you can create the 2nd with the approaches of the 1st but the from my understanding the main benefit is that you dont have to - as in: you can just take one endpoint and have it managed by something else.
That yields, amusingly, a blank page for me right now.
Update, the coins stolen can't be spent for 27 days and Vitalik (one of the creators of ethereum) is proposing a fork to refund the ether. https://steemit.com/ethereum/@vladislav/critical-update-re-d...
Since serverless is a kind of a PaaS, it offers many of the same benefits. However, unlike Heroku, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, and other traditional PaaSes focused on supporting long running applications and services, serverless frameworks offer a new kind of a platform for running short lived processes and functions, also called microflows.

The distinction between the long running processes and microflows is subtle but important. When started, long running processes wait for an input, execute some code when an input is received, and then continue waiting. In contrast, microflows are started once an input is received, and are terminated by the platform after the code in the microflow finishes executing. One way to describe microflows is to say that they are reactive, in the sense that they react to the incoming data.
Telangana EMCET 2016 Update: Certificate verification starts from 22nd June 2016
it's also about navigating your balloons so they keep forming a connected and reliable mesh, regardless of weather conditions.
Bunch of small racially homogenic nation-states with relatively even income distribution vs. large country where racial and very poor minority shoots itself. Latter also has gang culture. Something most Europeans only see in movies and football matches.

U.S. is pretty unique in many ways.
AFAIK JS is almost completely backwards-compatible. Just ignore all the new stuff you don't really need and focus on the basics.
> I live in a prewar neighbourhood in Montreal. It's dense, beautiful, and loved by locals and tourists alike. If you could clone it and build it elsewhere, it would be worth trillions to cities across North America.

I wonder though, to what extent this is success and love by scarcity.

i.e. if you outlawed oatmeal in 99% of cities, sure there'd be an absolutely booming tourist destination around that 1% of cities which will specialise in artisanal oatmeal. It'd create lots of jobs and become an attractive place to visit for its rich, unique and vibrant food culture, and attract all kinds of wealthy people who have financial and mental bandwidth to care about something like a $25 unique oatmeal recipe. It'll be a clean and wealthy city attracting students, artists and tourists. (I'm exaggerating the effect of oatmeal here haha but you get my point).

And so you may conclude that if you'd clone that, it'd be worth trillions for cities across the country. When in reality, if you'd deregulate oatmeal, there's none of that boom, oatmeal is just oatmeal like it is today, a boring staple of a lot of people's breakfasts that has none of the flair of the city described earlier. Quite a lot of people will eat oatmeal and there'll be a substantial industry behind it sure, but there'd be no particular love or specialness about it.

At scale, it's quite likely that a lot of the old zoning laws just wouldn't work, and were changed (dare say fixed) for a reason. Inevitably some old neighbourhoods of cities which thrived for various reasons (perhaps including, being connected to a larger city with modern zoning laws) may do very well, like pre-war Montreal. But that may also just be survivor-bias. All over Europe there are thousands of old villages with similar old infrastructure, beautiful too, that are just not appealing and where the population is shrinking, and where modern zoning laws could make interesting improvements to public infrastructure.

Lastly I feel people are appealed by some more older building materials and the notion that age correlates with authenticity. It's not that in newer neighbourhoods people are uninterested in living there because the zoning laws create too large or too narrow sidewalks, or too low or too high buildings, it's probably more about a new office made of glass rather than brick isn't appealing to the well to do stereotype hipster, despite there perhaps not being any specification that new buildings can't be made of brick in the zoning laws. But even if you clone an old neighbourhood's style, and build it new, but the tourists you mentioned wouldn't come to such a new place because it's new. In fact they'd be more more interested to visit parts of Montreal that were built under newer zoning laws, than an entirely new city with none of the culture, built similar to Montreal's old zoning laws.

So I'm not entirely convinced you can just clone it and get great results. Just thinking out loud.
Creator of Ethereum suggests hard fork to recover The DAO ether
Serverless Reference Architectures with AWS Lambda
It looks like the developers are proposing a soft fork to block certain transactions, followed by a hard fork to allow retrieval of funds.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oiqj7/critical_u...
If it takes a vast majority of participants to agree, then not really. It's decentralized, not 100% immutable. Will get harder as it gets larger but at this stage it is good to still have the ability.
My employer uses Trinet for payroll and health insurance. In theory it's a good idea, but for some reason they only offer terrible health plans in my state. It was so bad I opted to buy health insurance on the open market, despite it coming from post-taxed income.
They are debugging it right now. The ultimate bug bounty program.
What kind of evil genius devised a term that suggests peer-to-peer, to describe something that relies more than ever before on central services and authorities?

It feels like "intellectual property" all over again —which suggests the rules used for rival goods can be used for ideas, hence ignoring the difference between moving and copying.
Citations give a ranking of how often work is mentioned, but not how valuable the work is. For example " Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children" , otherwise known as "Vaccines Cause Autism" has (according to google scholar) over 2000 citations, but is known to be wrong and based on bad science.
Let's just say that adding 'and in a court of law I'll claim I made it all up' doesn't do much to add credence.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure you're more than welcome here but HN is kind of skeptical and if you are anonymous and start making grandiose claims about conversations between the execs of the largest companies in the IT space at some point in time expect some pushback ;)
I mean 'predicting' in the general sense of needing to arrange the details in advance, which is a necessary requirement on any real-time system.

.

EDIT: to all the responses objecting to what I'm saying

- I'm aware of the details you are talking about, and I believe you are reading much more into what I'm saying than I have actually said.

- do you deny that the brain has to set in motion the muscular activities in advance?

- you seem to all be working on a very narrow notion of what predicting means - that it must be some explicit calculation of coordinates.
With this type of architecture, aren't you creating latency by separating out the "backend" from the database? In the traditional approach the backend server and database are in the same datacenter, but it seems that's often not the case in FaaS approach, what are the ramifications of that?
AngularJS vs. jQuery
A noise builder that make you feel like you know all the cool places to hang out
Even if you are at home.
> Would you prefer Windows?

I would prefer sgi IRIX 6.5, but that's dead.
In the absence of IRIX, illumos and SmartOS are the next best thing, so that is my next preference.

> Because that's where the world was heading in the 90s.
> History happened, and what it shows is that Linux arose at a time when EVERYONE thought that Windows was going to steal Unix's throne.

Not everyone. I went through the entire '90's using Sun SPARC, sgi, hp PA-RISC and Commodore Amiga computers, and neither did Sun Microsystems. Didn't touch an intel-based PC until 2002, when I put together my first one, and even my current intel based PC runs Solaris 10.

Sun Microsystems was the only company which refused to bow, and continued developing Solaris. And while we know that eventually that company died, the OS lives on, and is being very actively developed, with new features added, and new technology invented.

> It's amazing you have such negativity about a piece of software.

You would also have it if your telephone rang with priority 1 incidents at two o' clock in the morning because Linux has a problem which I would not have had if I were using SmartOS. Then you'd have bonus negativity when you'd have to log into a crisis bridge and explain to a whole bunch of angry managers (who don't understand a thing about their decision to use Linux) that the application broke because Linux killed the service when it ran out of memory and oh by the way the data is also corrupted because the filesystem is a design from the '90's of the past century. And no I cannot find out why the application ran out of memory because the OS is locked up and when I reset it, I cannot get a core dump for analisys because I do not have adequate tools for that on Linux.

Computers and UNIX are my life calling, and since I am passionate about them, I spend extraordinary amounts of time working on them and researching them. Even what little free / spare time I have, I spend doing computer research and system engineering. So when according to my research and experience, something as inferior as GNU/Linux starts to push out a better solution just because of ignorance, it is only logical I have developed an intense hatred of it. It is messing with something I hold very dear, illumos and SmartOS - it's messing with UNIX.

And when I cannot find any SmartOS jobs where I live because every single ad says Linux-blah-blah Linux, you bet I hate it even more, since working on it, I get to experience first hand just how bad Linux is. When I'm forced to suffer because I am ordered to use Linux, and have problems I would not have if I had been on SmartOS, it's becomes personal, and it also becomes not just personal, but professional.

At home I have SmartOS and do not have a single issue I have at work, because I am using a different OS, a better one, and I love every microsecond developing on it and using it.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to do some more software engineering. On GNU/Linux.
I assume that this is the same issue that plagues the (mostly younger portion of the) dev community these days: there is a LOT of code out there that is simply not visible to us in the way that an NPM module is visible.

There is so much app code and systems code that none of us will ever see, and that is absolutely by design. It is not intended to be seen, and it is the majority of code written to date. It is fire-walled and private and intended only for those who paid for it.

I am FAR from fancy, nor am I an expert in anything, so don't mistake my tone, but I have never shown any of my programmer friends and acquaintances anything that I work on every day: they are all about Rails and JavaScript, and I work on enterprise .NET apps, diving deep into SQL every day. What I do is completely hidden from them, both because they can't imagine anything outside of their precious Ruby Gems and NPM dependencies, and because I have signed NDA's that could ruin my career if I broke the rules. My point is, I've worked as a professional app dev for 2.5 years and I have never built anything that was intended for general consumption, and I know for a fact that many of us, maybe the majority of us, do the same sort of thing.

None of this is to say that there are vast, massive, infrastructure-critical Haskell code bases out there in the rarified upper echelons of coding society. But of there were, most of us would probably never know about it, at least not first-hand.
Let it roll.

Few in the industrialized world if anyone really gives a shite (1). Lots of well-fed educated westerners would lose sleep if "free" economy is coughing but don't really care about this. Run away capitalism creating the problem in the first place is also -ehm- the reason why mostly leftists seem to get it. Not that this helps. It just makes the whole thing even more partizan.

Sad truth is the guys that are really screwed (so far and at the foreseeable future) by this are not exactly HN commentators. To them this might mean drought and death next year but to us -fat cats- this apparently means a danger to economic development. We simply do not have our asses on the line (yet) - which is why we can talk this to death but do _nothing_ to really prevent it. We might wake up when we start losing relatives due to 50C heat waves. Who knows.

And even then, if we get it, who would actually do something? We -at a global scale- have been terrible at resolving much simpler crises. Want an example? Ebola virus was stopped last minute. Zika virus is on the loose and is gonna get worse (because Olympic games will go on at the epicenter despite hundreds academics calling for delaying them). If nobody makes money out of it nobody cares. Our whole system is simply dancing to that music.

So - let it roll babe.

1. <brutally honest mode on> Including my fat ass. </brutally honest mode>
Why I Prefer Merge Over Rebase
As far as attacks go, this seems to fall more within the "for the lolz" category, than an actual attempt to draw money. If they had kept it reasonable, say a couple of hundred thousands worth, this would probably have gone unnoticed for a long time (maybe long enough for the 27 day payout window to expire).
The sql module needs other aspects of the server set up to function (e.g. the KV layer). You are free to browse the code at https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach if you want a more in-depth look.
If you were on AWS, I would expect the Lamdba fn to be running in the same datacenter as the backing dynamodb table, or at least in the same region. dynamodb response times are pretty good - typically under 10 milliseconds.
Fonts have a feature called ligatures, where you can take two or more letters and turn them into one glyph. You usually use them to improve readability but since there aren't any rules around what the 'combined' glyph looks like, people sometimes do things like change all instances of one word with another. In this case they're blacking out certain words.

It's really a job for natural language parsing, but the effort is commendable.
You're forgetting Premium Economy which more providers offer now too. It's a facsimile of business class of old, so no lie flat bed, but you get lots more leg room, wider seat, priority boarding (after 1st and Business) and a better meal.
many countries in Europe with similar population densities can manage low rates of mass shooting homicide

True...

via gun control laws

... but this is unproven I think. Europe also has much better social security and mental health care, to name just a few confounding factors.
The Open Science Company Manifesto
Please create an episode about creating custom functions, especially aggregation functions using PL/pgSQL
Does the child DAO inherit the parent's code? If so, the money could be drained right back.
For the vast majority of the earths history there has been no ice at the poles.

We are coming out of an ice-age currently which is why there are still some remnants left.
> It's mostly hire someone as cheap as possible to install xyz on a rented dedicated box and forget about it.

You can say that again!! I routinely come across job postings such as 'Setup my server for $10 to $30' floating about at various freelance tech marketplaces.

Hell, when starting out as a freelancer a couple of years ago, I took up some jobs like that myself, to - so to say - test the waters. I still take up such jobs, but at (much) higher rates and per my experience, most of the clients do not have the foggiest so far as security is concerned.
Serious questions: Is this a crime? Should it be?
Isn't that basically measuring which side has more hashing power? It's not obvious to me why that necessarily represents "the majority of ethereum holders". Or am I missing a mechanism?
> (The soft fork) will later be followed up by a hard fork which will give token holders the ability to recover their ether.

Does this mean that transactions are going to be rolled back?

If so, are they planning to do this everytime a vulnerability is exploited? Is The DAO too big to fail?
22% of their stuff are happiness heroes [0] !!! WTF !!!!!!

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l3bXAv8JE5RB9siMq36-...
Why? That knowledge for instance is crucial to decisions of how much fuel to take on board of intercontinental aircraft.
Please talk about database views, both regular and materialized. When they are best used, strengths and weaknesses. Compare composing a combined query out of CTE's and sub-queries.
Yes! We have several 100% TypeScript applications and we've found TSLint to be invaluable for maintaining code quality - http://palantir.github.io/tslint/

You can ban the `any` type along with lots of other rules. You can also write your own custom rules, or implimnet rulesets by 3rd parties like Microsoft: https://github.com/Microsoft/tslint-microsoft-contrib and ESLint: https://github.com/buzinas/tslint-eslint-rules
How Much Does It Cost to Develop a Game with Unity 3D?
I'd love to hear a 'honest trailers' style reading of things like this:

"Marketing Copy without the Marketing Wank"

- I think that example couple be better in a few places, but it is instructive how little actual content it contains, and how none of that content is at all informative.
Tragically, it doesn't redact the most of Jobsian of words 'Boom!'
And USD are used for all kinds of illegal things; solutions include restricting paper transactions to $100 units of currency (so that large amounts of currency are bulky and heavy) and all kinds of restrictions on transactions over $10,000.
Fla. Rep. seeks to ban federal-elected officials from dialing for dollars
Mobile Advertising Trends for 2016
Maybe initially, but that `any` type really defeats the purpose of having types in the first place. Where I work we have several 100% TS apps and we've banned the `any` type except for very rare exceptions. It's always better to define a type so that it can be easily used elsewhere, and it also helps prevent typos.
I expected some actual 3D fractals (or rather, some shapes with 3 < dimensions < 4) such as a Sperpinski or Menger Sponge: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge
Apple tells developers all apps must connect securely to servers
In the Netherlands, to get a drivers license you need schooling (often 20 or more lessons of an hour), a written theoretical exam (of the rules and when you should break and when you are (not) allowed to drive etc), and a practical exam with a trained examinator (is that the word?) working at CBR. If you succeed, you can go to the city hall and request a license, which you receive in 1 to 2 weeks. Total costs: 2000 or more euros, taking months. It is really too easy in the US and A.
GOV.UK Verify
WTF because of the name or WTF because of the number?
Crosspost to reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oiqj7/critical_u...
Isn't there something like a "Bestandsschutz" for buildings? I couldn't find a fitting translation, it basically means, if you got a legal permit for building something and the rules are changing, your building is still legal. Which means that a town can only change the building code for the future, not for the past.

On a side note, somewhere I heard or read that many US cities and town don't allow mixed use zoning, so that a building can used commercial and residential. Something which is very common in German town, especially in downtown areas, you have a lot of stores in the ground level and above that are flats.
If the author is reading this, I wish he'd do this for copy-pasted text too. I tried pasting some text from Apple's website, and it did nothing.
Its really hard to read with the scroll jacking. From what i read i can interpret this article as "You should use it because Laravel is a young, far from mature, copy of Rails in PHP". Does not sell very well to me ;)
Detecting Incognito Mode and Using It in Google Tag Manage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11921900
Sure, it's designed to be faster to boot up, but Heroku could optimize their startup time.
Ditto about the annoyance. Never thought about editing the bookmarklet... I'm going to do that now!
Congratulations! A month after the first real test of the "distributed", "safe" cryptocurrency featuring "enforcable" contracts, it turns out it's none of this.
Brexit voters almost twice as likely to disbelieve in manmade climate change
Agreed; it was always surprising to me that advocating for the violation of the constitution, allegedly the "highest law of the land", is not considered treason. Doubly so from someone who, as you said, swore to defend that constitution.
RuboCop is what most Ruby projects use.
Are you aware of http://postgrest.com/?
I don't think they're going to roll back transactions but rather build in the functionality to "give token holders the ability to recover their ether".
What would a global warming increase of 1.5C be like?
Can someone eli5 what DAO and ethereum are?
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Microsoft is teaming up with a marijuana software company
You're right, this can't happen every time.

If users truly want to embrace the decentralization then I see issues with the Ethereum maintainers doing very centralized and specific fixes to solve individual problems.

DAO != ETH, but I see how this is an act of self-preservation due to the amount of stakes the maintainers have themselves in ETH.
> In the 90's we had message queues. In the 00's we had service busses. Today we have API gateways. All they do is route requests - they're all the same thing.

On AWS, you have options a message queues (SQS), busses (SNS), API gateways, and load balancers (ELB). i.e. many of the existing proven patterns are still around, and you can choose which one is best for the particular circumstance. And that indicates that while they have similarities, they're not exactly the same thing.

I can see cases where a design of "API gateway -> lambda fn -> database" is performant, simple and very cost effective. particularly where the function is very simple and load is low or varies a lot. That won't be everything though.

I don't understand why you think that "Direct access to the database" is always bad. Someone has to access that database directly, on behalf of everyone else who is insulated from it. A lambda fn may not be worse than a web app for that role. But if it is inadvisable, then it can use the same indirect requests that a web app would.