skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to agree with you. The OP said they clearly violated the notification statute for banking record. Except that statute clearly states a subpoena issued by a valid agency (here a lawyer involved in a case) was a valid reason.

They presented just as poor of an argument against the article as they claim the article itself did.
The way this ought to work is that you have a home server that talks to all your home devices, and can also be reached from the outside world with suitable security. A "cloud" service is unnecessary. Unfortunately, we're not going to get that, unless some carrier such as AT&T or Comcast pushes it.
We would prefer that you humans use the term "its" in the future to denote your total insignificance in the cosmos.
The emergency line should almost never be used. It sounds like you have too many emergencies.
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Co-creator here.
In regards to the first issue, we assume that you have applied Amazon's recommended bucket policy as per https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteAcces.... We do this in case the website being deployed isn't meant to be publicly available.

Re custom frontmatter, with Jekyll we respect the defaults that are set in your config (https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/#front-matter-defaul...). If a post matches a type or path that is specified in a default, we make those fields available in the post. We have come to realize that this feature of Jekyll isn't used as often as it should be (it's really useful) and are working on giving users the ability to add fields to their posts.
I'm sorry... you're working examples of income equality are hippy communes and Amish villages?
One of the things I love to criticize MS for is their "user account control" : gee, looks like you're actually trying to....USE.... your computer for something. You know, actually ...USING...your computer might damage it. Since making a secure platform isn't profitable, we'll just make the screen darker, cause you know, darkness kills the spyware.

See, the signing system doesn't have to be mandated. It could pop up a UAC-like screen but with an actually useful message: this code is known to have malware, we recommend you dont run it. If you absolutely want to, press OK at your own risk.

Another message could say it's completely unsigned, so devs could still write and distribute their own code. But make it free to submit to the "app store" and get reviewed by MS. That would work wonders to improve security across their whole ecosystem, and not force anything down the users' throats.
PKD was, as usual, decades ahead of his time. I guess one can do that when one's mind is invaded by an alien superbeing.
Scant Oversight of Self-Driving Technology
> "So essentially, you are saying that the Internet is doomed to eternal cruft."

No. This is a classic disruption story. While the establishment is smug and comfortable about the accumulated cruft of decades, others are working on the problems they're completely ignoring. Check out my other comments in this thread.
Monopolies. Why don't we have an eyeglass startup?
"nobody thought to write long ago"

Quite a few moreutils involve unbounded buffering of input, I wonder if they were left out of Unix originally due to memory limits.
Pro tip: you're not John Oliver. Stop pretending you are. You realize no one who says that is trying to be a dick, right?
I'm not sure where you are looking but there are tons of options for $30-$100 glasses out there. In fact I got designer brand frames from my optometrist with upgraded lense material and anti scratch and anti glare coatings for less than $500.

Check out places like America's Best, Warby Parker, or http://www.zennioptical.com
> the Internet equivalent of being force-fed melted Jolly Ranchers by the spoonful

I've never heard of being force fed jolly ranchers by the spoonful... not a very relatable analogy
I understand your point that it has to be all-or-nothing, but if you were asked to redesign the UX to make autopilot (as it currently stands) safer, how would you change it?
> The article's also evidence of the temptation to write about yourself, as I suppose that's what you know best. I have seen a lot of successful authors who inject themselves into the narrative.

Great point.

Searching for sentences that include "I", "Me", etc. in your writing is an excellent exercise.

> And I suppose if you can write about outrageous things you do, it probably makes people all the more motivated to read you.

Personally, I think this is just human nature. That is, most people are fascinated (and likely, long to do so themselves) with living an "outrageous" lifestyles
Thing is you can't run Windows natively that way, it has to be a guest operating system. Then you need multiple videocards to pass through, and the guest operating systems require custom drivers at that.

My preferred setup would be Windows native, with macOS (ha) and Linux guests running with GPU acceleration—preferably in a manner that doesn't necessitate multiple videocards.

Too bad Apple is hellbent on locking macOS to Apple hardware. I'd totally license it otherwise.
> I'm glad someone makes money off of my old clothes rather than they go in the trash.

I don't have a problem with that per se, only that it happens under the pretense of charity and that the model exploits economic inequality in a globalized world on the expense of those the "charity" claims to help.

> That's a variation on the broken window fallacy.

I fail to see the connection because the broken window fallacy is about a coherent economic system, not about a global economy where one can make a profit by exploiting inequalities. The proverb says: Give a man a fish and you feed him for the day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Following that idea, I am much more for transfer of knowledge than for transfer of goods. And in extension also for sourcing urgently required products locally (and if required donating to build the required industry) than just sending products.

One does not have to see that in any ideological way: Just publish all numbers, show me that it's more cost-effective to send assembled products to a place and I won't object. But the article just showed that we again failed to run the numbers, thereby wasting money and potentially harming the local economy in the target country.
> The worst part about Google for me is the level of incivility. This is what, the 4th time a senior exec has to call people out and tell them to behave on memegen? And it's only getting worse.

What does this mean?
Here's one area where I think some government regulation is going to be called for. If nothing else, it should be mandated that one can "disconnect" and still have the device function to consumers expectations. That should apply to everything from watches to cars.
I'm imagining a future war where there will be robots bombing robots trying to dig underneath other robots while AIs try cracking each other as well as the robots.

All the while, the Humans on either end of the battlefield will be participating in the war as if playing a game. I'm not sure if I want to picture the poor suckers mixed in the middle.
I started working on an embeddable, byte-compiled dialect of Standard ML after coming to the realization that Lua with types (as I conceive of it) is extremely similar to ML, but I've had to put it on the backburner for now. But, I agree: a typed language that can be used as an embeddable extension/scripting language would be cool.
When it comes to finding a decent terminal emulator for Windows: mintty is the terminal you get when you use Git Bash, right? Because in my experience it's better than ConEmu.

ConEmu makes a staggering number of off-by-one errors in putting characters on the screen when I ssh into a Linux machine and use tmux. Vertical separators end up jagged, things that are supposed to fit the width of the screen end up wrapping, my Vim status line says "IISUAL", and so on. But mintty gets tmux right.
Of course you aren't going to read 1,000s of wpm! Unless you're some kind of savant. BUT... if you are a slow reader, reading below 200 wpm, then you can definitely learn to read faster. And even increasing your speed to 400 wpm would be absolutely life-changing. As the author of Reading with the Right Brain, and Speed Reading Practice, I have seen many people turn their reading from drudgery to enjoyment. From a word-by-word slog, to a mental movie playing in their head.
You seem to have read enough FT to reach that conclusion. In my case, since FT didn't let me read enough articles free, I didn't realise its value (assuming it is valuable), so I don't pay for it. Catch-22.

The Economist and NYT, by contrast, have loose enough paywalls that I've read enough articles to conclude that they are both high-quality sources.
Yes, absolutely. We ran a four month experiment on GCE--we built an off-site logging cluster fluentd+Elasticsearch+Kibana. The performance was decent but the cost of RAM and disk are way higher.

I will tell you that the economics are most definitely not there. This is a common misconception amongst the HN crowd in general--that public cloud infra is cheaper. For small footprints, public cloud makes sense but once you get into the larger footprints (300+ instances), it's far cheaper to lease dedicated hardware or DIY in colocation. We're running on approximately 40 dedicated rackmount servers for Openstack and 6 for Kubernetes. To get the equivalent amount of disk and RAM, we would pay 2-3x at AWS or GCE. We could probably cut our cost by an additional 30% by moving what we have to colo but we would lose some flexibility and would have to take on additional headcount.

From a maintainability standpoint, GCE makes Kubernetes easy which is a good thing if you've never run it before. It's not that hard to run it yourself, though. A senior-level systems engineer will be a Kube master after about two months of use. Just guessing, I think it takes about 1/4 of an engineer-week to support our Kube cluster for a week. I think we could grow our cluster 20x without a significant workload increase for our ops team.

We are in the process of automating the last few manual aspects of our Kubernetes infra: load balancing and monitoring. We're building these in the style that we've built the rest of our pipeline: YAML files in a project repo. Simply drop your Datadog-style monitoring/metrics config and your load balancer spec in your project's Github repo and the deployment pipeline will build out your monitoring, metrics, and LB automatically for you.
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If it isn't connected to Internet how is it going to have new features. How is it going to take advantage of machine learning?
I also like PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance by Gregory Smith.
Primo Levi and Paul Celan are both excellent, excellent writers. Any one who wants to learn about the Holocaust should read Levi's "If This Is a Man" and "The Truce". And Paul Celan's poem "Todesfuge" is one of the most moving writings from a survivor:

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

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

I don't know anything better. They will change your life.
Certainly there are high-quality commercial testing appliances for precise performance and correctness figures. For example, https://www.ixiacom.com/products/ixanvl
the ORM is built on top of the expression language, and the entire design is that Core expression units are fed into ORM functions that consume them. So there is no separation between a Core SQL construct and the ability to use it in the ORM. In earlier versions there were some limitations here and there moving from Core to ORM as far as how result sets could be constructed, but on the SELECT side all of those are ancient history. My talk at http://www.sqlalchemy.org/library.html#handcodedapplications... is entirely about translating from SQL to the ORM and focuses on a problem that uses a window function.
It completely spoils you. My team got to do an Openstack cluster migration this month and there was definitely some grousing. The workflow of traditional private clouds is just so tedious and flaky. We could grow our Kubernetes cluster 10x without hiring any additional engineers for the ops team.
I am shocked to find this not on the front page.
By sheltering tailors, everyone else in the economy pays a higher price and is thereby worse off. It's a net loss. Might as well go around smashing windows so the local glaziers can make money.
I'm not sure what you mean by "the wing part of the country". I haven't heard that colloquialism before.
I'm a religious person, but I don't think "demonic possession" has any place in any type of mental illness classification. Proving the existence of God is impossible. Proving the existence of demons and/or evil spirits is tantamount to proving the existence of God.
Is it possible that this Doctor has witnessed demonic possession? Yes. But more likely, the person just has severe mental problems. There is no evidence of it other than anecdotal evidence, and it is unscientific to just throw your arms up and say "dang, that's hard to explain, must be an evil spirit".
This is awesome stuff. If you fullscreened MobaXTerm and autohide the Windows taskbar then what are the problematic points vs running a linux/i3wm natively? Do certain keystrokes get intercepts by Windows regardless? You mention Firefox have you tried Chrome/Chromium in i3wm? Can you play a HTML5 youtube video?

Thanks for writing it up, interesting stuff! - An i3 user
Plastic recycling was a platic-industry PR campaign to make consimers more friendly to buying plastic by assuaging their feelings of guilt. Now it's embedded in our culture as a received truth.
Hubris and Stupidity
vidir and vipe are two of my favorite commands from moreutils.
Thanks, Tim. Y'all have been awesome. Thanks for the quick response to GH issues and Slack questions. I hope that we can speak at a conference someday and tell the world about how much more fun and easy Kubernetes made our jobs.
I think that's Warby Parker. They're few years in now, but their low-cost acetate frames are pretty much the norm.
Could be great. Couple things some obvious I'd guess:

Can run the code... but, not the tests, which would make in-place refactors considerably easier.

Clicking Gear for settings doesn't go back to edit window when you're done and you click the Gear again, which is how I first tried to get back to the editor.

No place to set "license" specifically for each piece (and maybe a default in your account settings) making it impossible to take the code and use it without opening Pandora's box.

So little there, and all six days ago... you could grab examples from open source projects and put them in, if you could do that while obeying the license on the code (which comes back to at least showing the license, and maybe also linking to the URL for that piece of code or project).

As this is ultimately "one piece of code with several examples of another piece of code to replace it" despite it being for refactoring, you can imagine it'll be used for "this was a bug, this is the fixed version." Might be useful to provide specific support for that somewhere down the line.
Quality Paper (not 5th generation cardboard) is energy-efficient to recycle
I see your point, but there is a good deal of hypocrisy in the way this kind international "trade" is viewed.

Giving away second hand clothes to developing countries is indistinguishable from "dumping", a trade practice which more developed countries (including the U.S) frequently take trade action against.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
TLDR they like-and-then-UNLIKE the offending post, sending a signal to FB's algorithms.
In the USA, most people today try on lenses until they find one that fits. Where do you use a laser to measure the eye?
You're making things really hard on yourself. Boot your nodes with CoreOS and it provides almost everything you need (except Kubernetes itself) out-of-the-box. It all works really well together and you get automatic updates, too. I can't imagine trying to run the cluster we run on Ubuntu, trying to roll my own Docker/etc/flannel installs.
also known as the "God of the Gaps", or in this case, perhaps, the "Devil of the Gaps".
Did you create this account just to promote Microsoft products?
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It's news, but certainly not tech related.
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This is the sort of comment that violates the Principle of Charity (which we're about to add to the HN guidelines). You can construct that provocative an interpretation of tptacek's comment if you choose to—you can construct any interpretation of anything—but it doesn't come close to being the strongest plausible reading of what he said, and that's the only one you should be responding to here.

http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html

If you don't want to comment in that spirit, please don't comment. It diminishes mutual respect.
Mozilla shouldn't copy Chrome's permission prompt for extensions
>you can't run Windows natively that way, it has to be a guest operating system. Then you need multiple videocards to pass through, and the guest operating systems require custom drivers at that.

I, for one, think that sounds excellent. For a workstation, I would much rather host everything on a simple Linux distro with focus on security and privacy, and keep Windows in VMs where I can manage it a little better. And the Windows Subsystem for Linux will run in there perfectly if I need it.

Also, multiple video cards are only necessary if your guest needs that GPU power. Considering that having 2 video cards these days is surprisingly common (Intel on-board + separate video card), I'm wondering about the feasibility of easily switching between shared video (eg. when your laptop is on battery) and separate GPU passthru (eg. when you're plugged into your epic 16-monitor setup).
You missed the rest of the paragraph though: "If you’ve used them, you know that they’re not as nice as the applications available in macOS and Windows."

I used Thunderbird for about 10 years on my Mac laptop and every time I tried to switch to Apple Mail (or anything else) I quickly switched back. But the truth is, I have used Linux on my primary desktop PC for about 15 years now and can honestly say that it is a very pleasant experience.

I would agree that for a long time OpenOffice had compatibility issues (often no worse than trying to open an Office document on a Mac) but those days are long gone.

As a software developer and general techie, I believe that Free Software is important for my profession and for the public at large. For me, even if Linux was less convenient (which it is not - today anyway...it was more challenging, say, a decade ago) I would use it because I have serious concerns some of how Apple and Microsoft treat developers and the Free Software movement.
I can't imagine running Kubernetes without CoreOS. You guys make everything so easy for us (Revinate). Our systems infra workload for the CoreOS/Kubernetes cluster is a tiny fraction of what we spend on our Openstack gear.
I just want to second the postgres docs, they're excellent.

They are complete, comprehensive, and well worth your time.
That 20-yr-old article packs in more opinions as facts then the best modern blogs. Impressive.
I'd just add a disclaimer about the newsletter to what he's already doing. I don't like email marketing either, but it works ridiculously well. No marketer would do what you're suggesting.
Weeee let's all ride this train down hill

Edit; Holy moly. gp got killed. I've had my fun. Don't nuke him for one dumb comment.
To John-David Dalton ( Lodash Creator)
Hopefully it won't be as bad for Linkedin employess as it was for Nokia employees.
Certain "extras" run up the cost of lenses. Options like self-darkening on UV exposure, low-reflection and anti-scratch coatings. UV coatings can add to the cost, but are probably unnecessary since most polymer lenses are inherently UV-absorbing.

Also, "no-line" bifocal versions cost more, as well as high-refraction materials that reduce lens weight and thickness.

Frames also vary in quality and durability. The glasses I'm wearing now are using frames > 20 years old. Of titanium construction they've outlasted other frames made of less robust materials or marginally engineered.

Don't know if on-line suppliers offer these options at lower cost. I suppose there's some risk of lenses being off-spec with any optician, an experience I've had several times over the years. The last set of lenses made for me had to be redone twice.

Getting lenses from a local shop likely costs more, but having someone to complain to directly face-to-face has a value of its own.
And do you pay for either of those?
I'm sure CoreOS is nice, but we're currently on Ubuntu, and I'm trying to reduce the number of unknown factors and new technologies that we're bringing into the mix. Ubuntu is not the issue here. (FWIW, you don't need Flannel on AWS.)
> Most companies, like Oracle - would have put this product behind a wall of idiot sales people and obfuscation.

This can be really important. I've often had conversations that went something like:

"How much will this cost to run?"

"On AWS, $76US/month plus something under $5/month in bandwidth"

"How much if we run it no Telstra's cloud"

"No idea - the webste says 'call your account manager'".

"Have you called them?"

"No. I don't have a Telstra account manager. Let me know if you want to sort that out - or if we should just get it all running this morning on Amazon."
If you have some specific follow-up questions I'd be more than glad to answer. A general overview could get pretty lengthy. :)
It would be great to see the long term results as compared to buying less risky assets, like treasuries. It's not a question of whether the market's returns are positive over the long run, but whether they are positive enough to justify the additional risk.
Talking about books, I'd say PostgreSQL Server Programming is especially worth to look at, because extensibility is the very thing where PostgreSQL shines.
Just out of narcissistic curiosity, I would be interested to know where you got the design inspiration from. It looks super similar to one of my services, although you have executed it with more polish!
In order: yes, yes, not externally, not anymore, not anymore, no, not really but they'd like you to think so, no, not anymore, lol what no, not anymore (but damn fess up about the Armenian genocide already).
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