skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deployment has to be easy. Create a new service from scratch, including monitoring, logging, instrumentation, authentication/security, etc, and deploying it to QA/Production with tests has to take minutes from the moment you decide "Hey, I need a service to do this" until it's in prod.

Because individuals may be jumping through dozens of services a day, moving, refactoring, deploying, reverting (when something goes wrong), etc. It has to be friction-free, else you're just wasting your time.

eg: a CLI to create the initial boilerplate, a system that automatically builds a deployable on commit, and something to deploy said deployable nearly instantly (if tests passed). The services are small, so build/tests should be very quick (if you push above 1-5 minutes for an average service, it's too slow to be productive).

Anyone should be able to run your service locally by just cloning the repo and running a command standard across all services. Else having to learn something every time you need to change something will slow you down.

That infrastructure is expensive to build and have it all working together.
Meanwhile, stock buybacks...
> That's an asinine argument, as a tax payer I'm "forced" to subsidise many things I don't personally benefit from.

"There are other bad things, so you can't object to this new bad thing!"

> Ensuring that the next generation of society is well adjusted and participative

How does forcing companies to subsidize people's decision to have children achieve this goal?
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Might I ask what company? Or at least which country? It sounds very nice :)
beyond just the docker environment, you only need to be able to run the service you're working on locally. Anything you don't run local should hit some shared dev/QA infrastructure (which share a db with local). Whatever you use to develop should be able to detect what you have running locally and prefer those when available.

Anything you're not running locally just hits the shared infra.
The only issue I had so far was that Mint wouldn't boot because Windows didn't actually shut down as instructed but went into default quick-boot mode, which made the Windows partition unmountable, which by default causes the Mint boot to fail. No other problems so far.

I had some issues with UEFI during install as well, but it worked out somehow.

Also, it seems that you can still feed the Windows 10 installer a Windows 7 key. I wanted Windows 7 initially, but the computer wouldn't have it.
Sorry, I didn't mean to attack your intelligence or technical competency. Anyone who proposes a new open-source web language/framework has an exceeding amount in both, in my opinion. My complaint is that the gratuitous (and large, when I'm viewing the page on mobile) visuals obfuscate the details.

The premise of the intro is that it is just "simple things" (and the conclusion, "Keep it Small and Simple"). "Simple", to me, would be how invoking "ava" embeds an image of an Ava into the page, a priori. But that is not at all the case and I have to scroll past 3 large headshots of actresses to get to the point. And even then, the utility is unclear.

I don't expect a "quick" introduction to explain everything. But if the article has the time to throw in random photos to gaze upon, then I'm going to be disappointed when I get to the end to see few details explained.
True, but Frondo also has a point. If insurance companies can cherry-pick individuals and refuse to sell to specific individuals where the insurance company is more likely to lose money, that's... not good. It kind of defeats the point of insurance, in fact.

If Obamacare-as-a-block is business they don't want, they shouldn't have to take it. If it's a subset of individuals, I'm less sympathetic.
I agree the greying out of comments is problematic, but I think it also serves an important purpose, and that's to incentivize care in the crafting of your comment. It is the punishment of community norms as much as the negative points are. Unfortunately, community norms have a way of adopting views as well as actions, and we have what you refer to as anti-dissent mode.

Ultimately, the question is whether negatives of people who down vote on disagreement (as opposed to more objective items, such as lack of evidence for assertions or overly personal and/or aggressive comments) outweighs the benefit of a very effective way for the community to self moderate, given there is occasional pushback against subjective down voting when it happens.

The problem will of course seem larger if some of the common community views conflict with your own, and you've been subjected to the consequences of this. This is countered by the human tendency (IMO) to view unexplained negativity as unwarranted. Were you downvoted because your comment was lacking in some regard, or because you stepped into a pet issue of the community. It's easier to believe the second, and while it is the case sometimes, it's hard to tell what is perception and what is reality.
They cite cost as the issue, that only 2600 users represent half of all comments on their entire system.

I don't know how much they are paying for a third party to manage their comment system, but I will bid $500/month to handle those 2600 users comprising half of all comments, or $1000/month for all comments. All inclusive bid. I can get this tiny number of users running on a pretty modest system.

My proposed system will also save money on subpoenas and moderation overhead by not storing ip addresses and not having paid moderation.
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It comes with Office365 too! I'd totally buy this for the added control over home edition, but it looks like Microsoft only sells this license in bulk to big businesses in my region. Then again...it turns out that you can upgrade to enterprise without a valid key [1] and that there are no real penalties for doing this [2]. So, shrug, I guess they don't want my money - and I'm not going to use an OS that turns me into a mineable dataset.

[1] http://www.howtogeek.com/250503/how-to-upgrade-to-windows-10...

[2] http://www.howtogeek.com/244678/you-dont-need-a-product-key-...
I would argue that taxis are usually recognized by color and not brand.
Assuming you're trolling, but at the risk of feeding:

Someone who posts "Sir your magazine and Hillary Clinton are tools of Israel and should be killed by Hamas, God willing", on all every story about the State Department, or "Oh $WRITER I see you live in DC and went to $COLLEGE, maybe I'll come pay a visit to the next alumni event and teach you some respect for $COUNTRY" isn't the target user for a major American publication. It doesn't want those kind of abhorrent sentiments to live alongside its brand on its website, and is under no obligation to give voice to their ideas.

They're an exceedingly small percent of total readers (when they're even real readers), but a much larger percent of online commenters, hence the problem in the first place.

Even in the non-bot non-astroturfing case, the people who make those comments may be actual readers (although they're exceedingly unlikely to be paying subscribers), but they definitely fall into the bucket of 'can be filtered out, to no appreciable loss'.

They're users in the sense that the website is free, and anybody can be a user, but not in the sense that the publication has a duty to them, in exchange for their money or attention.
Supras quit being Celica based in 1986, while the ones people covet are from the 90's.
It's far easier to manipulate systems than it is to accurately reflect either your typical reader viewpoint, or an intelligent and informed viewpoint. This is a classic failing of any democratic system, election balloting included.

Early "democratic" systems were often anything but -- about 14% of Athens' citizens could vote, and about 6% of the US at the time of George Washington's election. There are arguments for a broader electorate, but they come with distinct problems.

Vote brigading in particular is a standing issue on almost all online moderation systems. Some sort of trust cascade might help. It's what, say, the US electoral college was meant to provide initially, though how much of that function remains (and how it might manifest) is rather in question.

As for Snowden, a counterpoint is that some people see this as an issue which requires constant reminding. Advertising and propaganda both work through repitition, and sometimes the truth gets a chance for that as well. There's certainly enough repeat traffic on other topics at HN. (Though yes, many of those get beat down in the submission queue.)
Competition is very important. Government provides free education. Is there a case for private educational institutes ? Surely yes there is. Catholic schools, schools focused on gifted children, schools focused on differently-able children etc. that diversity is important in all spheres of life.

Also, please note that when you use words like "government provided insurance" the word insurance can mean something totally different under government just the way we have learned that government's definitions of "traitor", "whistleblower", "sex offender" are different from what common sense might tell us.

If only government provides insurance government also ends up deciding what health services we can use or not use. For example Liberals might say "sex change surgery" is essential procedure and force tax-payers pay for it. Conservatives on other hand might say any health issues occurring because of anal sex will not be covered.

I think one big problem is that American's who support single payer system fail to see that "healthcare" is a lose term and under the "single payer" that definition might change to suite the payer instead of consumers.

I really like this news item : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0e3-EvpDwM
https://neuromama.com/get/web/pig-14

thats what i got
I'm in a similar boat. I bought my child a cheap PC, it came with Windows 10, and it took a lot of careful configuration to turn off all the tracking and advertising. Then it kept nagging to update Windows 10 (what we used to call a service pack), never mind that it kept scheduling to do it overnight, would reboot and fail. Finally, I got it to download and install the latest win10, and as noted by others, it was essentially an entire re-install of the OS.

But here's where it got nasty: the user data was kept, but all of the privacy settings and default apps were reset. Actually not reset, it made you go through the OS configuration screens where it always suggests the default (share all user and browsing information with MS). The configuration was so full of dark patterns: the default is a single button on the screen, but the non default settings are accessed through an underlined link that is not very descriptive. Or turning off tracking is labeled advanced and opens another window.

This was the real scary part to me: if you are not a savvy user and know to turn off these things, Win 10 defaults will track everything you do, including your browsing activity ("to provide suggestions"). These basic privacy settings should not be hiding behind dark patterns.
"Americans have long prided themselves on their ability to see the world for what it is, as opposed to what someone says it is or what most people happen to believe."
Ahahahahahaha, maybe this delusion is the root of the problem.
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One case that immediately springs to mind is a network monitoring system exposed to the Internet in order to provide a live "status" page, either for the staff, users, or the public. That system would have SNMP access to the ASA firewalls (which are otherwise normally well-protected).

Gaining access to that public host would then grant you RCE to the protected internal firewall.

If the public host were hosted, say, at AWS/DO/etc., and used a VPN for access to those internal network devices, you've just gained access to the internal network itself.

(Note also that a) SNMP uses UDP and b) community strings, v1 and v2c at least, are plain-text. SNMPv3 has a bit more protection but it's not as widely used.)
Another fun one for me is when the web experience mysteriously pegs a CPU core. Seems to happen every couple days.
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I've had consistent, unrestricted access to google/facebook/videos from 1989, all over China, using a tmobile sim card registered in another country.

A financial services "startup" in sz manages to run a VPN with some sort of official permission. Not sure what sort of connections made this possible...
> I agree the greying out of comments is problematic, but I think it also serves an important purpose, and that's to incentivize care in the crafting of your comment.

Sure, I'd grant that as intent, but where this falls down is that it instead incentivizes me to just not be a part of the community. Why would I put care and work into a comment if I'm going to be rewarded by the time invested becoming essentially worthless? Arguably, silencing someone because they diverged from "community norms" is slightly hostile; I have a hard time believing your position that a community is served well by being built atop hostile moderation. You might build a community, but it might be a much smaller, much less desirable community. (I don't know.) It's also a weird incentive to throw down, as you allude to, because "acceptable opinion" and "acceptable comment" are extremely conflated. So now one finds oneself writing comments that contain acceptable opinions, which is the care in crafting that you're describing.

Look, the opinion of HN from outside and the opinion of HN from inside are wildly different. I think this community tells itself things about civility, moderation, and so on; your comment sounds good, for example! It's just slightly off-base and overlooks some consequences, and it's not obviously wrong because we're within HN discussing it.

> Were you downvoted because your comment was lacking in some regard, or because you stepped into a pet issue of the community. It's easier to believe the second, and while it is the case sometimes, it's hard to tell what is perception and what is reality.

Careful; this is lightly making the case that I'm unable to discern the difference and therefore off-base for criticizing a real issue. I can't prove this to you, but trust me when I say that I can tell when I've "earned" the downvotes. And I do, occasionally.

(And, were I less civil, I'd use colorful four-letter words to describe community "norms," as I'd hope any hacker would. I didn't become a hacker because I cared about normality.)
But they're not three entirely different concepts. Regular-capital-X, the random variable, is the object. Italic-X is its range, and lowercase-x is often something like an iterator over that range.

It might be a little clunky in isolation, but it lets you talk about multiple random variables and their properties in a fairly compact way.

You could write X, codomain(X), and possibleValue(X), but this would be pretty verbose.
Yes. Regardless of equal equity, having a dominant player in the management team is highly valuable.
Reuters (and everyone else) aped it from CRN.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the SNMP community string sent in plain text? If that's the case (and it certainly used to be the case), and someone compromised the LAN they could theoretically sniff the community string and use this exploit to own the appliance.

SNMPv3 supporters different, more secure, authentication methods but a lot or organisations continue to use SNMPv2 because it is a simpler more streamlined setup.

Plus the appliances support different user levels, so you'd still potentially be able to use this to escalate access.
I'm doing that right now.
Former stack: .NET (14 years)
New stack: node-react-flux-mongo-postgres
I can count over a dozen easily, off the top of my head, without even looking into our customer database. I'm certain I'm not alone.
Total workforce is around ~73000.
I just checked RockAuto. They basically only had brake parts. Pads are an off the shelf item that fit stuff from the big three as well as imports. I'd wager that front and rear calipers from one of those apps works or could be made to work. Caliper rebuild kits would be easier. Control arms are probably Tesla specific and CVs likely are as well. Knowing how important leveraging off the shelf tech is to a company of Tesla's size I'd bet that CVs are Tesla specific but are simply an assembly of components from other apps. Wheel bearings aren't listed but I bet you could go to a pick-n-pull junkyard and find one. It would be stupid not to use an off the shelf bearing in their case. Bolt pattern is 5x120mm. I don't know if it's a true 120. A bunch of GM stuff used 120.7mm (not enough that it won't fit in a pinch but enough that you're going to be stretching the studs a tiny bit and all the people who think only dealers are qualified to rotate tires and change oil will complain). I wouldn't be surprised if they Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V'd everything outside the knuckle from a GM vehicle (it's not patent infringement if they're off the shelf parts) and designed their own knuckles.
He/she said a whole rack of servers. I actually took 30 servers of 2TB each and rounded up to 100. With 12TB per server it will already be over that.
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This year the public schools in my area have started requiring all visitors drivers license be scanned with a "SafeVisitor" system before being allowed access to any school. This system runs some type of background check and probably logs your access to the building. As a bit of a privacy and civil liberty nut, this strikes me as over the top and perhaps illegal. Do schools have the right to run a background check without my permission to gain access to my child at school? I am fine with showing my ID to a human to verify my identity. Just wondering the legality of this. I know this is not a legal forum, so if there's a better place to ask let me know.

note: this is not for volunteers (they have a different check).

http://www.safevisitorsolutions.com/safevisitor/
I think I'm not understanding what it does, but why does it cost $9/mo/site to serve some static content? Isn't that basically free nowadays?

I guess my question is "what does Netlify do that GitHub pages doesn't"?
That's a great book.
The collection features work from the likes of Mies van der Rohe, Bertrand Goldberg, Marcel Breuer, and Bauhaus-founder Walter Gropius himself...

It's unfortunate that this article doesn't take a moment to call out that Gropius stole a huge number of those photographs from Lucia Moholy: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/photo-credit-negatives...
Hey Ifx, the saying is "double-edged sword" not "double blade sword" [0]. Just letting you know in case English is not your native language. Personally when I am learning other languages I love to be corrected. Feel free to ignore this - you have the right to say the idiom any way you please.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/double-edged_sword
Indeed. Obamacare-as-a-block was specifically designed to try to eliminate this cherry picking of individuals. But it's turning out that the solution might not be adequate because insurance companies are choosing to just abandon the whole block. That's what I meant with my "closely related" comment above.

And if the Obamacare exchanges don't work, that's no good either!

As I said elsewhere, the economics of health care are very challenging.
“I always thought the brain was mostly hard-wired,” said the study’s senior author, Dr. Rafael Yuste, a neuroscience professor at Columbia University. “But then I saw the results and said ‘Holy moly, this whole thing is plastic.’ We’re dealing with a plastic computer that’s constantly learning and changing.”

Is this quote being taken out of context or do many neuroscience researchers really think the brain is some sort of static thing? Basic life experience would seem to tell me that this isn't the case. I'm assuming they just mean they haven't been able to observe this reprogramming ability, or do they really think the brain is some sort of immutable object?
I live in Amsterdam and indeed I see them all the time. They are all white, however vs many other Teslas people have so I see no problem there.

Moreover, in many countries taxis have a specific colour, and I personally never liked white for my own car because it would look like a taxi :-)
Getting a CVE on your resume isn't bad either.
tracker1 has a sibling thread with an alternate formulation that achieves this but still has the label as a parent of the checkbox:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12307236
Yeah. I want a Humble MITPress bundle. And if fiction's your thing, the MIT Coop accross the street is matched only by Pandemonium Books and Games, and the Harvard Coop, one and two T stops away respectively.

...wait a minute. Lisp was for the large part developed at MIT. The Boston transit system is the T. In lisp, the symbol for truth is T. Coincedence? Probably.
Thanks for a better explanation! Still have some questions:

I don't run my own client, but use the browser proxies. So what is happening then, service workers? Or you have to have the client in order to actually post to the website? Such that there is file access to mutate the local files or do SQLite stuff?

How does sync/merging those .json files work then? This is what I thought git was for. The peer just sends the edits to the local files they have made out to the other peers with git.
OS X 10.11 broke USB support on Macs.

USB used to just work. Now it stops working after you connect ten or so devices - which is not a common thing, but not unusual in music studios. And external USB hubs only work if they have a specific generic name in the firmware ID.

Apparently if you hack your own kexts you can get it working again, kind of.

>At this point I'm disappointed by every system I use.

This. The Win 10 situation is beyond horrific. I would never have imagined that MS would set itself up for a class action suit like this. I know people who have had their PCs trashed by this forced upgrade, and they're really not happy about it.

But the alternatives are not great. Linux and OS X are both in similar "kind of works, mostly, except when not" states.

Consumer OS reliability and design has become an embarrassment for the entire industry.
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The dry run flag didn't trigger the hooks, didn't think about the --test-cert flag, would've been helpful! Thanks
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It solves the problem for me, I guess. I won't be commenting anywhere you have to log in to facebook because I don't want them tracking me all over the web.

While a facebook account gives some legitimacy, I also like sites where you can post anonymously or at least pseudonymously.
> Driving the quickest 4 door sedan ever made: $0

Unlikely. The Cadillac CTS-V crushes the track while Tesla gets heat-throttled. Based on the track numbers I've looked up (IE: Laguna Seca lap times), the CTS-V is superior by over 10-seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TcCuzaRFIw

https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/model-s-laguna-seca-la...

CTS-V is a larger vehicle with approximately the same weight as the Tesla S. They even made a Station-wagon version of the CTS-V (didn't sell very well).

I'm not really a car enthusiast, but I know that there are plenty of cars in the ~$70,000 range that crush the Tesla S on the track. Until Tesla can manage to not overheat and then throttle their batteries after the first two turns... it isn't really going to deserve a "quickest car" definition.

I mean yeah, its fast. But... its like... $35,000 Hot-hatch fast. Not CTS-V Sedan fast. Certainly not supercar fast. All that weight and the thermal-throttling really hurt Tesla times.

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In fact, based on the laptimes on that forum post, any $35,000 hatchback (even the 4-door FRONT-wheel drive Ford Focus ST) beat Tesla's laptimes on Laguna Seca. I'm sure the better built Focus RS crushes the Tesla.
At a cost of memory.