skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are worried about it because they are tired of being sold bullshit.

(That is what I am inferring from their messages, not necessarily my own opinion)
Show HN: Typr.club, realtime gif-based chat rooms
It's a readable .bat file, and all the executable dependencies are either from microsoft (dism, etc) or offer source code and/or hashing.

At some point you have to trust something, whether it be your software or your hardware.

Besides the telemetry stuff, it's not a trust issue. I just don't have a need for any of the packages I remove. I don't need cortana and search, I don't need Windows Defender and it's cloud features, I don't need onedrive, xbox, modern apps, etc. It's my choice, so I remove them.
Hi everyone! I made typr.club as an experiment to build some kind of 'augmented' chat room, where people could transmit their presence, emotions, reactions... by attaching a short video to their text messages.

It works with rooms, you can just create one by appending whatever to the URL. It has some other features like converting all your messages to GIFs (memes alert!!), integrating with Slack and it can send you web push notifications on activity, if you wish to Subscribe to a room. More info/code here: https://github.com/ruiramos/typr.club

Hope you like it, feedback welcome!
I exercise, go for a walk.

I also have a sketch pad where I can work out ideas on paper.
I wonder if the original HN "Heroku is Dead..." title will cost Heroku money / market share in indirect ways.

When I see titles like that (despite the fact that it was intended as sarcasm), I think to myself, e.g., "I bet at least hundreds of people who scrolled past it thought it was sincere, and now they will have this subconscious 'Heroku is Dead... Docker...' thought at times when deploying projects. Maybe they'll even check out Docker. Maybe these hundreds of people will represent a tipping point of sorts for Heroku->Docker migrations, because one of them will write a really great blog post about it, and it will receive thousands of views..." (alternate endings of the same thought continue to be brute-forced for a few moments).

Along the same vein of thinking, back in 2008 I had this "realization" that Google could control the world by simply showing results based on headline titles (e.g., a search for "Obama" during the election could have resulted in articles / results whose titles have words/phrases whose presences are positively correlated to lower or higher stress levels, assumptions, other emotions, etc., resulting in a net positive or negative sentiment, respectively, about the subject of the search query, all while simply scanning the results to determine which one to click).
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I want to love every technique like this (or their more involved cousins like a typography "vertical rhythm" system)... but when it comes time to build sites with some visual and/or layout complexity (for a business client, not a blog that's a relatively simple stream of primarily-text articles), I always wind up with so many exceptions to the rule that I find these catch-all declarations to just be one more thing I'm working around.

For me, the single most useful technique I've discovered in the past few years has been "drop the 'C' in 'CSS'" and instead think in terms of modular components with virtually no cascading or selector nesting. E.g. BEM. Getting over the aesthetic ugliness of "class-itis" in my markup has freed me from a ton of agony trying to reason about why certain elements on the page are being styled a certain way.
And we use git-rebase commonly on public commits without concern. Everyone uses git differently.
My counterargument is that Tomahawk LC (the third generation LCs referenced by parent) are just NP5 and Mellanox just picked up EzChip. I imagine you'll see whitebox competitors targeting large swaths that use ASR9K for the datapath resources it provides (perhaps Mellanox will even build this box).

Others, such as in my particular space, were previously forced to ASR9K or similar for scale reasons (because scaling full tables is hard when you need capacity too), but Broadcom's Jericho chips hit the scale mark with added TCAM, kicking us from $200K-ish/PoP for barely meeting needs to $60K/PoP way over provisioned in the case of NCS5501 or Arista 7280R. Of course, there are caveats to how this works out, but good enough is good enough!

Customer mix is important for margins. SPs, for example, are notorious for getting bottom dollar deals for their scale and ability to play the other side. And sure, they need the feature set of ASR9K. But when the rest of the mix (higher margin) looks around, they see that the scale promises are unnecessary for their operations and move on to lower cost boxes.
Would you expect the state to station a police officer at your vegetable stand to make sure that people follow the honor system?

What's the difference between that and Walmart under-staffing?
Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture [2007]
its quite old now, but I still recommend it as a definite worthwhile listen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
At least locally within your repo, it's actually very hard to lose work completely with git, via any combination of resets or rebases. The reflog (git reflog) stores all the movements of HEAD such that you can recover from almost any mistake as long as you realize you made it.

The fear of rebase seems to always come from its ability to "delete your work", but that fear is almost always unfounded and based on a lack of knowledge on git's internal structures. Of course, one of git's biggest and well recognized faults is that its UI makes no attempt to alleviate those fears.
There's a lot less crime in general in the rural/suburban areas that Walmart was primarily serving 10-20 years ago. And a lot of even those areas have more poverty and petty crime than they did 10-20 years ago, with the local industries and economy taking a huge punch in the face, and meth and opiate abuse spiraling.

You could blame Walmart for some of the economic woes, but they aren't the ones shuttering the auto plant, or the steel mill, or the shoe shop, or automating the old labor-intensive, natural-resource sectors so they require vastly fewer, more highly skilled people.
is there a tl;dr to this
The premise here is that Wal-mart spends much less on security than other shopping centers like malls and Target.

I haven't seen a lot of news stories about civil rights violations by Target's security guards. Maybe they're under the radar?
No. His definition is correct. If you make the call, it's a library, that it might use threads during that call does not make it a framework. Libraries don't mean you're in full control of everything, they only mean you invoke all interactions and get results back rather than you subclass something and plug a part into a framework. If you have to subclass something, it's a framework.
I guess I'm still not seeing any advantage to using AMP, except as the obvious power-grab. I don't see anything in your statement that couldn't be done by just punishing sites for being bloated and slow, and stating why. Adding another layer onto something to combat complexity is two steps back.

I hate heavy sites probably more than the next guy, but pushing your own standard is the wrong way to go about it, IMO.
as a kid my favorite Super Soaker was the one that had a backpack as the reservoir. It was threaded just like a garden hose, so I would hook the gun up to the hose instead.
Ah, sorry, I'm probably mis-understanding a "squash merge". I thought you meant you have a graph like this:

C -> D -> E
/
A -> B

then you "squash merge"

S------
/ \
A -> B -> F

where S is C + D + E.

Whereas a rebase + (now fast-forward) merge would be

A -> B -> C' -> D' -> E'

and, if squashed during rebase -i or by some other means

A -> B -> S

It seems you're saying a "squash merge" is the last one, I thought it was the second one.
Amazon and Google have almost the exact same language in their ToS for deprecation policies. Also, k8s is open source, so you can at least go somewhere else if you really must.

GCP isn't "Google Labs".
I'm curious: does a new Walmart increase crime, or merely concentrate and redistribute it?

Kind of a tough question, because to define concentration you need some notion of area, and you might just redistribute it across the boundaries you draw. Still, this is probably possible at least for smaller towns.
Thanks. I used the "for cause" a little sloppily. A sales person who misses quota will still be able to get unemployment benefits, while another salesperson who likes to walk around the office without pants will probably not.
That font size declaration stood out as a really clever way to get a 'responsive' page with minimal work.

My one concern is that it might get weird on mobile. Android apps, though maybe not mobile pages, have all kinds of awful problems with any font that isn't a convenient integer multiple of pixel size. I'm curious whether this renders gracefully.
The word that best describes this incredulity is "privilege".
I agree with you, but the original commenter said that you should always interrupt if you have something "constructive" to say. The problem is that one person's constructive input is another's waste of time.
Hey programmers:'let us make ugly apps.
No idea why we need designers.'

Hey designers: 'See, you don't want a programmer touching front end. You have to have creative control. Else they'll make reddit and hacker news UX.'

http://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/3f5416bc-c975-4915-a9d1...
Is there permanence to the chat rooms, or when all participants leave, does it self destruct?
Seems to be just fine (for my use). I wouldn't recommend it to everyone of course. If things break down the road I'll just reinstall. I've been running since initial W10 release without issue however. YMMV.

There are issues such as no more start menu search because of removing cortana. It's all about what you personally need.

Thanks, but it's just a throwaway user name I won't use after this post.
Not quite, VLIW is basically a lock-step architecture. VLIW is much closer to a SIMD/GPU architecture then to a superscalar CPU
I understand that author is trying to make a point about something, but the vitriol which pours out from every sentence of that article is very off putting.

I have seen this attitude quite common among ETC forums.

> .. was part of the Slockit scam… sorry meant to type “team”.

> Stephan “The Tool” Tual:

In fact even when the author was making a good point, he writes this:

> Those Ethtards like to use the “code is law”-argument but they just don’t get it or don’t want to get it.
You didn't even click the link...

The abstract:

"This paper uses a randomized field experiment to identify which start-up characteristics are most important to investors in early stage firms. The experiment randomizes investors’ information sets of fund-raising start-ups. The average investor responds strongly to information about the founding team, but not to firm traction or existing lead investors. We provide suggestive evidence that team is not merely a signal of quality, and that investing based on team information is a rational strategy. Altogether, our results indicate that information about human assets is causally important for the funding of early stage firms, and hence, for entrepreneurial success."
Damn, that's concise and to the point. Thanks.
These days there are workarounds to avoiding a lot of xml configuration in the java ecosystem (although you end up with a decent amount of annotations). Spring boot is a great example of this.
They expire after 2 weeks without any new messages
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"Not to traction" is a wow for me.

I think a tl;dr would be that early stage investing is more of a social decision about who and what you want to help than a rational decision ala the mythical "homo economicus."
>other than "Apple has Siri".

And google has Google Now. Amazon has Alexa. I think if you want to be competitive in the OS world, you'll probably need something like this. The real problem is how heavy handed MS is with pushing its features.

>but do you really need to talk to your computer?

On mobile, yes, considering Win10 is also a mobileOS. In desktop mode you would just type in the cortana box if you prefer.

I also imagine there's a larger vision for Cortana. The product is pretty half-assed right now but I could see it being used for a lot of admin functions we're used to via control panel or hotkeys. It would be nice to say, "Cortana switch the display to the wireless projector" or "Cortana, update the nvidia driver."

Remember that scene when Scotty scoffs at the 20th century computer you couldn't talk to in The Voyage Home? Of course we want to talk to our computers. I want to order it around, not hunt and peck through menus and control panels or try to find something with endless swipes. People like to talk and give orders. As technology becomes more featureful, we'll be using a voice a lot more. I know I do already with Google Now on my watch and Alexa at home.
Crime is also the lower than ever so...
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The strangest part of the story to me is that the state charges for each search individually. PA.gov appears to require the creation of an account, so they could save themselves a big chunk of money by charging the customer once a month. I was formerly employed at a portal similar to PA.gov in another state, and this is exactly what we did. I can't think of any good reason to charge by the drink, so it's probably some well-meaning but boneheaded state reg.
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Most likely Target simply has fewer criminals in their customer base.

The simple fact is that any law enforcement will result in some civil rights violations. It's just a statistical inevitability. This is one of the reasons I'm extremely cautious about new regulations; part of the price of a new law is one or two more Eric Garners.
Take a look at Convox for setting up AWS then getting out of the way. It's open source and free aside from the base AWS costs.

Disclaimer: I work at Convox.
I'm happy to not have to import 3 libraries anymore (2 that aren't part of standard library) to see if one date is greater than another or to add few days to a date.
The problem here isn't the expectation of Walmart having a corporate police force, it's the expectation of some Walmart stores to be prioritized in the case of an understaffed police district without paying their fair share for a public service.
No stdout or stdin for robust systems? I disagree.

Yeah, a nicer shell-like language would be cool. I've been thinking about it for a while.

Bash is quirky but it gets a lot of stuff right and once you understand it it can be extremely ergonomic and productive.

And not depending on language run times other than shell can be really glorious in some situations, too...
Release it, then build it
How we know zoning really constrains development and increases prices
Ran into a funny situation with this the other week where IE 10 supports flexbox (sort of), but doesn't support @supports. So that can happen. But if you're OK sequestering "doesn't support @supports" browsers into the non-enhanced experience, it works great.
I'm not too surprised by the result - at the beginning of any new business, all you really have are the initial people on board and the quality of their abilities. What's going on now matters less than the ability of the founders to react and shift as needed.

For the tl;dr crowd, what mattered most to investors is the quality of the founding team. The paper finds that operational abilities and expertise of the founders is important. Relevant paragraph:

"Given the importance of team information, what is the channel through which human
capital information is important for early stage investors? One explanation is that the operational
or technical capabilities of the founding team raise the chance of success, especially in the earlier
stages of a firm’s lifecycle, when experimentation is important. An alternative explanation is that
high quality teams have attractive outside options, and can therefore credibly signal the quality
of the idea. We find evidence that human capital is important at least in part due to the
operational capabilities and expertise of the founders."
> you can easily find stores where the average income of their shopper is $80k/year.

[Citation needed]

I find Walmarts do best in areas with minimal competition. Arlington VA is an expensive area and only the 'poor' go to Walmart which looks grungy and sit's further south. However, if you go to southern VA you can find some Walmart superstores that don't have a lot of completion stock better goods and flat out look cleaner.
College campuses across the country are setup exactly this way already. Similarly with large shopping malls and their rent-a-cops.
It took me years to realize the reason programmers do this is because the tools that "seem cool" make their lives easier at the expense of everything else. This is where the popular traits of "laziness and hubris" become a liability instead of an asset.

More programmers need to embrace the suck.
> I cannot believe I am going to defend Walmart right now, but that's how poor this article is.

I know how you feel. Its completely absurd to blame a corporation that tries to provide very cheap goods for crimes committed against it.

It isn't like they are leaving bottles of prescription painkillers near the exits with no one to watch them. Or anything else that is clearly negligent.

> What's a solution? Walmart's shoplifting is a symptom of social issues elsewhere: Drug usage, poverty, lacking social safety nets, criminal justice reform, and so on. If you want to decrease shoplifting you have to give people something to lose and that's a bigger challenge than hitting Walmart over the head for having to call the cops too much.

Yeah but that requires work and blaming corporations is in vogue.
Here is an open source React Native app that I recently did for The Andy Warhol Museum: https://github.com/CMP-Studio/TheWarholOutLoud. (Some of it's more complex features: Floor and region detection through BLE beacons and an audio player that slowly learns preferences and rearranges content.) React Native targets native views instead of the DOM, but other then that it's conceptually and technically very similar to React and should serve as a example of a complex app using React ideas.
The use of "today" there has me curious, has any relevant Google product ever run on Kubernetes? I was under the impression that Kubernetes was a productized descendant of Borg (which is what Google has always run everything relevant on).
This is the interview in which Julian Assange may or may not imply this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp7FkLBRpKg
> BEM

I'm partial to rscss (http://rscss.io) although that's another "technique" that doesn't seem to be used a lot in the wild. Just makes sense to me.
Paying $0.21 to serve 30k pageviews over an hour is expensive.

Paying $0.21 to serve 30k pageviews over a month is dirt cheap.

He did the latter, stop comparing to the former. The smallest VPS you can get is 10$/month.
I can assure you most H1-B employees would be scared to mess with a good thing. Unless they are well experienced with H1-B or their job offer is quality w/ promises of an immigration lawyer taking care of it.
if you mean using the swarm token, that relies on a third party service which might or might not be available at any point in the future. and won't work on a private network iirc
There's a saying that a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. It's dual is that a comathematician is a device for turning cotheorems into ffee.
How do you handle databases in that configuration?
I’m not entirely sure what you were trying to demonstrate, but clearly the result of datetime.now() changes between the two invocations (it has microsecond precision).

Try:

>>> from datetime import datetime, timedelta
>>> now = datetime.now()
>>> now - (now + timedelta(days=1))
datetime.timedelta(-1)
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I think that suggests that the initial concept and the product that eventually follows will eventually diverge. More emphasis is put on the people steering the ship when you need to change direction, and if I had to guess, investors presume that a change of direction is very likely to happen.
The brain would need to leverage quantum effects to achieve hyper-computation. Otherwise it follows the same rules as other turing machines. Here's a quote from Scott Arronson:

"Indeed, I see no evidence, from neuroscience or any other field, that the cognitive information processing done by the brain is anything but classical." -- http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1951

Notably this is from a post discussing quantum effects as a potential explanation for consciousness. There's still no evidence for that either. Also, if true, it would only sit atop a classical cognitive process which acted as a turing machine. That or a horde of tiny turing machines.
For the example in question its an internal company tool, so can't link it. Its about 20k loc, excluding css (etc.). Most of the app's i've been working on (for work or side projects) are in the 10k-100k area. My general stance on it is there's a difference between a static content site and an application -- if its the latter your almost always going to be better off going with something like React.
In my experience I've found little correlation between pedigree and quality. This isn't a randomized study, but my experience for 30 years working for and founding (sometimes random) startups. The school one goes to and the companies one has on their resume do not mark a great employee or founder. Talent or ability and willingness to work hard and take responsibility are important.

At the same time, there are a lot of companies that fail into success-- where the market is right and the funding is sufficient that they can make mistake after mistake and still end up being successful.

So I think the part of the abstract that claims that this is "rational" to fund based on pedigree is confusing correlation for causation-- if people with pedigree but no ability tend to get a lot more funding than people with the same lack of ability but no pedigree, obviously more of them are going to be more successful. And the people with ability whether they have pedigree or not, may be more successful overall, but this study isn't controlling for that. (and it's hard to identify ability, that's for sure.)
This mantra gets repeated on HN and elsewhere quite often, but it is factually incorrect if only from the fact that poverty guidelines have definitely not kept up with the cost of housing and healthcare.

You could argue that people in poverty live in places where housing is dirt cheap, but those places have almost no jobs and especially no jobs for people with criminal records.
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Having somebody visible near the store entrance so that you're not a complete magnet for crime that creates taxpayer expense.. not exactly Eric Garner.
Measuring quality of a person is very difficult in a resume. I don't think that investors are able to identify quality people really easily. So I'm assuming they are making assumptions based on pedigree (eg: went to stanford, worked at amazon therefore must have high ability!)
Personalization: The Impact on Ecommerce Customer Experience
Yeah, and I assume there are limits to the indifference to traction too. If you stumble in reeking of pot and looking like you haven't bathed in a week but you have 300% CMGR I imagine something might still happen.
> I pine for the days of yore when the Unix Philosophy was strong and pure, and every program did one thing well, and only one.

Unless you are over fifty years old, you never experienced this.

Rob Pike said it best: "Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl."

Perl being a thing in 1995...