skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When I skip big gatherings of strangers, I’m not just being a little rude to the individual people around me, I’m being uncivil in a larger sense. The more we isolate ourselves from new people, the more isolated and segregated our society is likely to become"

What is the objective justification for calling skipping a gathering of strangers rude? Who is to say that a society where people are more apart won't turn out better, once people get over the antiquated notion that they MUST be connected or they are somehow defective?

"There are many excuses for failing to conduct ourselves with courtesy, for avoiding gatherings and conversations we don’t think we will enjoy, or for just putting on our pajamas and staying home. Too many of them boil down to just that one thing: We care more about ourselves than about the needs of others.

That’s not about introversion. It’s just an ordinary version of selfishness."

Perhaps an many introverts are introverted because they had social interactions that were traumatic, and they don't trust others to reciprocate if they give? Most of the introverts I've gotten to know are exceedingly kind and loyal once they view you as a legitimate human being.
She also recorded the first computer bug, which was a moth stuck in a relay.
From what I've seen it's about 50/50 these days. Most of the monolithic applications still around are legacy J2EE or Ruby on Rails.

People seem to forget that microservices isn't new. It's just SOA all over again.
I believe that in order to be effective an engineer should be able to run the whole application stack on his/her laptop. Microservices seem attractive because each microservice is easier to setup and hack on than on a huge monolith application, but you don't know that it is working until it is integrated with all the other microservices. Thus I end up having to deploy a dozen applications to ensure that my feature is working.

In theory you could avoid the integration hassle if each service is so well defined and "loosely coupled" that I can be assured it will work without having to test with all the other services, but in practice the architecture is never that well defined.
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>You see a lot of mixed-income neighborhoods in Houston - places where people are building $700,000 homes where 80% of the same street are 1000 square foot shacks with people living in them making $20k a year. Luckily for them, their lots are worth half a million dollars. I don't know if this is the result of the lack of zoning, but I don't see this happening in other cities in Texas, so I have to think it's somehow related.

This is a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of thing. If neighborhoods are income-segregated, there is no end to opinion pieces about this awful late-capitalist crypto-apartheid. If neighborhoods are mixed-income, then the hand-wringing is about rich people living behind walls next to a shanty town.
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I believe the term for that is social introvert.
I think VLIW failed because it overestimated how difficult and expensive it was to schedule instructions for a superscalar processor at runtime.
Exactly. That's why I'm putting all my savings/wealth in Bitcoin. It has no maintenance, and it doesn't show off.

Guess yours have the same fate too except you can't really access them.
You can also mix'n'match. Have a monolithic entity that does most of the work, and split out the heavy stuff into it's own microservice which can be independently scaled.

(Sub in any other reason to separate a service for 'heavy stuff' - written in a more appropriate language for the function, etc)
Yes, after that reading I really confirmed (again) about I be introverted. Because I just don't care about myself, so the other possibility would be a contradiction if be True.

And yes... Sometimes the introversion of some people is just about a sick selfishness behavior. Why thinking you feelings is better and superior to others? Why criticism about the bad English of some ones instead try its meaning? Know a language, like Mathematics or Greek is just about opportunities, is not about be smart.

Actually, what you are trying really say each selfishly content whose are you writing in the internet? Why are we trying so hard to just confirm our existing hurting the others? Where is the fun about that? I just don't understand it. :(

This really makes me sad. Thinking about why some people just don't thinks the reason of your "random" feelings and the horrible reasons to hurt the lifestyle of others to justify your own dementia.
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Most Sandbox solutions do their detection inside the VM so can be beaten by these techniques. Good sandboxes do their detection lower in the stack - typically in the CPU using full system emulation. I use Lastline to protect my networks and it does it this way.
How do you reconcile "Every social interaction is a kind of investment" with "I might be in a particularly good mood and actually strike up a conversation"?

Does being in a good mood mean that you will get more upside to the "investment" of small talk? Are you being optimistic that the conversation will be productive (i.e. "maybe I'll learn something interesting or make an important connection"), or does the act of engaging in small talk yield its own reward, dependent on being in the right mood?
The piece they link to on insurance gives a fairly good overview of the pros and cons. If you're 17 with fresh driving licence it's hard to argue with upto 40% off your £1,000+ insurance premium. That many won't be identified as good drivers doesn't matter - they'll all assume they're great, and it must be a mistake when the renewal comes through!

This was telling...

"The popularity of these new-style policies is largely being driven by the youth market: 71% were taken out by motorists under the age of 25, compared with only 3% for over-50s, says Gocompare"

So softening up the new generation to be accepting of telemetry and tracking in many ways. By the time they're making real decisions it's "just normal".

It's going to be an interesting (in the apocryphal Chinese curse sense) future.
As the author mentions, it's not that microservices are necessarily bad - just that they're too often used when they're not the appropriate solution for the problem at hand.

I feel as though about 80% of the programming blog posts that breathlessly pontificate about why everything you're doing is wrong and what you should be doing instead would all be better if replaced by a phrase along the lines of "understand the problem you're trying to solve, understand the possible solutions at hand, and pick the one most appropriate for your problem and your circumstances."

Instead, we often see dev teams chasing off after the newest and shiniest options available. And sometimes, the newest and shiniest option is the best one, which is great! But often, it's a far from optimal. However, in an industry where so many companies hire largely on the basis of buzzword compliance, I really don't blame developers at all for choosing the new, hot, and shiny solutions over proven solutions that are better solutions for a wide class of problems.
> “Sorry I’m late,” the T-shirt reads. “I didn’t want to be here.”

I don't want to seem rude, but what usually gets me with such cutesy sayings is that it's wholly trite and unoriginal, and why would you want that on a t-shirt you wear?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Sorry+I%E2%80%99m+late+I+did....

If someone were to show me one of these shirts, and be like, "hey, that's you!", I would kinda feel like... you don't really know who I am. You're just trying to explain something as complex as an introvert's inside life and not doing so well.

So, maybe I do feel for the author of the piece.

I feel also that (as an introvert), it's not that I don't want to hang out with my wonderful friends, it's just that there's something I want to do much, much, more, that just happens to be something I do alone. Tonight, my friends want to go dancing, and I love dancing (and I love my friends), but the weather is nice tomorrow, and riding a bike longer than anyone I know would want to is completely irresistible to me. My hobbies have become so extreme as I'm the only one that now participates in them. Anyone can go drinking and dancing. It's inclusive like that.
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I played through quest for infamy as the thief character (of course) and I'd say it was at least as good as QFG3. Not without faults but worthwhile for any fans of the Coles' games.
A quick response (so forgive the brevity): Let's say worst case, that a quantum computer does not currently exist, but its basic logical operation has been fleshed out to a reasonable extent. Now, what if a practical implementation shows up in the 5-10 yr timeline. The issue is that some quantum computers could, in theory, pose a real threat to many currently used classical encryption systems. QKD + one time pad could provide, in theory if not already also in practice, a reasonable stand-in solution to counter this perceived threat.
I'm glad to see her so honored. For those who have never seen or heard her in action, here is a two minute dose of the Admiral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
For those that might not get the reference: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060523-10/?p=...
Exactly. Good catch.
To help sargun out more, Hopper was an O-7, where naval officer's ranks go from O-1 (ensign) to O-10 (admiral). This rank -- along with O-8 (rear admiral (upper half)) -- was previously called "commodore," and in some other countries still is, as in Commodore Matthew Perry.

e: What was previously commodore was split into the current two rear admiral ranks.
Awesome. Curious to see how it goes! Hope you all have time to write it up as it goes along. :)
I think telephones were plentiful and cheap from about the 1950s on. The technology (at least from a customer perspective) really plateaued from then until the early 90s.
He did spend 28 billion at one point. Which is my point.

It's natural to think of spending in morale term so donations or gifts don't count or relative to income. Which makes finding a reasonable limit on the absolute scale meaningless. Supose he had 10 trillion and spent 1% on a house would a 100 billion be extravagant in that context?
what is your solution? Force people to do business with people/companies against their will?

I'm not sure about America but in the developed world, there are laws against shit like "I didn't hire him because he voted for Reagan"

There are not laws forcing people/companies to do business regardless of their opinions on the behaviour/actions of a company/CEO/etc.

Are you really saying allowing people to boycott things based on their own beliefs is bad?
Well, one could always leave one's private key with a trusted third party. So the public key model can accomodate those who are uncomfortable with the responsibility of keeping their private key secure. The password model however does not allow for allodial title to a secret.
This is great news but I would be a bit cautious about it. I love the idea that stem cell therapy can cure spinal cord injuries but I know for a fact that spinal cord injuries are unpredictable as to what the long term impact will be.

Professionals in the field know that people with these injuries can regain mobility months and years after the accident.

I know of a few extreme cases where individuals were told they would never walk but within a few months were able to walk out of the hospital.There are other more common cases where movement to limbs increased in time.

I point this out not to throw water at the cure but it's a bit premature to celebrate and get people's hopes up without knowing the reality of the treatment.

I love the idea but one person does not prove a cure. I sincerely hope that Kris' improvement continues and that the therapy is as good as it's hoped.

The Christphere Reeves foundation has a great area on the subject.

https://www.christopherreeve.org/research/reeve-stem-cell-re...
I don't know of any specific efforts to create an open alternative to Siri, but there are a number of speech-to-text translators and natural-language processors that could be combined to do something similar.

There are a number of sites dedicated to aggregating making data openly available on github (https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets), but projects such as Academic Torrents (http://academictorrents.com/) and Dat (http://dat-data.com/) are also making strides in openly sharing data.

Scaling is probably the biggest issue that you've pointed out, but efforts like BIONIC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) allow community members to donate their computing power to projects that they wish to support. Ethereum (https://www.ethereum.org/) also has potential in this area, but given that the network is mostly centered around distributed consensus, it would be more efficient to use a normal computer in this area.
Once in a while, something really good happens and I have no one to tell about it. In those cases, some typically dormant circuit in my personality lights up and I want to talk. So I'll start the small talk off, but look for an opening to talk about my experience.
That's what unfair dismissal laws are for. Oh right sorry it's America, I thought we were talking about a developed nation for a second there.
I've worked in monoliths, and I've worked with good logically thought out microservices. I'll take the open source microservices model with a good dev team any day of the week.

I can't imagine being in a place where I don't care about how my code runs in production or scales.
I believe that a huge amount of SOA in production wouldn't qualify as microservices - especially enterprise SOA.

Heck, I'd bet a lot of enterprise SOA is just a giant crufty monolith with a bunch of its functionality exposed via service endpoints. I suppose that a pretty decent approach - add endpoints to a monolith. As long as the service interfaces remain the same, you can bust it up into as many medium or micro sized services as are necessary on the back end and the users of your services won't notice the difference.
Give texstudio a try. I find it offers exactly the kind of IDE-style features that I was missing from Emacs and other editors.
I'm an introvert. I've gone to Disneyland alone, for God's sake. And I'm pretty sure that people who saw me there alone thought I was weird.

It was definitely a so what situation.
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It's a hell of a ride.

That said, I'm not entirely sure I'd accept your travel recommendations, at least not uncritically.
Nit: although the 'pedia says rear admiral outranks commodore, in the U.S. Navy the rank is equivalent to commodore in other navies.
Seems odd though, two to six years. If you used it in a few classes during 3 years, I'm not sure I'd even call that 3 years of work experience. And asking for six years is really weird in this context.
True, this isn't even VR. If it only was, then it might finally become more mainstream.
There's clearly a correct answer here: repeal segregation laws. Why on earth is my government forcing lower income families out of neighborhoods they want to live in?
It's true, especially when tired.
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Mylenation is a double edged sword. We see in judo subjects the dramatic increase in reflexes and competetive advantage after substantial practice. On the other hand similar repetition in other areas can lead to difficulty construing other pathways. I also believe mylenation is responsible for the gradual decrease in appreciation of ones favourite songs.

In other words it can make things faster, but limit capacity for change and reduce broader neurological firing.

Sorry I haven't explained it very well - on the run with a phone.

I would strongly encourage a read of Pocket Guide To Interpersonal Neurobiology by Daniel Siegel, who touches on the neurobiology and broader aspects of the impact in an accessible narrative.

The kernel of what I seem to recall driving my original comment was that mylenation occurs at deep levels, during what we call the formative years, but if not adequately developed people can be or become susceptible to various negative psychological traits such as addiction, susceptibility to brainwashing, poor decision making, lack of critical thinking. As Max Planck put it - people don't change their mind to accept an idea, rather people die and everyone that's left just accepts the idea as true. A large part of what he was getting at is, I believe, a direct consequence of mylenation - namely the formation of faster but hard to change pathways in the brain.

I hope that explanation helps.
> I can try to dissuade my boss from putting in the 33rd analytics gizmo on our site, but they are remembering the sales pitch and all that lovely data. If I say no they'll ask someone else in the office, few more times I'll be needing a new job.

If someone does something morally wrong, it is not made morally acceptable by the possibility that someone else might have done it. Justifications that use the kind of reasoning “If I had not done it, someone else would have done it.” come most often from people who might lose something (or not gain something) from doing the morally acceptable thing. I suspect it is just selfishness that makes people cling to such justifications, no matter how weak those are.
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If there's a breaking rate of 10% for all bike shipments, the bikes you shipped would've had a 66% chance of not seeing any bikes broken. I'm pretty sure a large scale bike company would see more issues.
Collapse tends to be a process of knocking out of foundations until something ultimately precipitates the rapid chain-reaction of failure.

In the case of energy, there's much in the dynamic and magnitude which offers itself as a principle mode of failure. And yes, it does fit into the "Reagan's economic warfare" mode.

On which, a couple more observations.

1. There are those who claim "economic warfare" isn't, and cannot, be a thing. I have words for such people, which generally aren't welcomed on HN. I also have references to comprehensive policy books on the topic of economic warfare: Yuan-Li Wu, Economic Warfare (1952), http://www.worldcat.org/title/economic-warfare/oclc/330856&r...

2. There are those who claim that trying to defeat other nations through energy policy and markets is absurd. Alex Epstein, a particularly exemplary case of idiot, is one such. The USSR-oil case really seals the argument against his assertion. I've noted this previously elsewhere.
You underestimate the complexity of malware these days.

Obfuscated to hell, encrypted blocks, tons of loops and rabbit holes that can lead you to dead ends, in addition to malware being more of a bootstrap these days than a self contained application which means it will download additional modules based on the configuration of the machine it has infected and what the mothership tells it to do.

While this might be considered anecdotal I've seen malware that would detect a VM and not disable itself but would pretty bog standard run of the mill post infection modules and perform pretty bog standard post infection tasks (registry entries, auto-run, register a service etc.).

These things are intended to "fool" the researcher into both not understanding the malware and missing its purpose completely and to create false signatures for the file paths, registry entries and binaries all while thinking they've done a great job and call it a day.

The checks that malware does is way beyond simply looking for the usual signs it goes way above dmidecode or systeminfo | grep "insert_hypervisor_name_here".

I've seen malware trying to do a full dump of the bios, access the TPM, try to call various API's that won't really work well in a VM like directx 11, try to get DMA access to various devices, do some timing analysis on IRQ stuff, access the SUPERIO/BIOS functionality for controlling the fans and check if it can control them and what effects it has on the thermals, enumerate how many USB devices are connected pretty much anything you can think off.

So overall I'm pretty amused by the fact that "counting the amount of documents" is considered a "novel evasion technique", it might not even be an evasion technique but just a simple check if this PC is worth infecting or not.
I've seen quite a few cryptolockers infect a machine and only encrypt everything once a certain milestone of "valuable documents" has been reached, some really nasty/cynical ones wait for dates like holidays etc. and wait until you fill your machine with 1000's of photos, or wait for the end of the financial year and wait for you to fill it with tax returns and accounting docs.

P.S.
The cream of the crop isn't malware that is designed to attack users/endpoints, but malware designed to attack servers, so in this case you have to be able to come up with a pretty clever heuristic and or statistical models to figure out if you are running in a researcher's VM or inside a valid target ;)
1. X that is a good idea for solving problem P appears on the tech scene

2. People who have problem P pick up X and say good things about X

3. People, usually junior devs, read blog post about X. They start treating X as solution to every problem they encounter and ofter take it to the extreme.

4. After realizing it's not helping, they blame X and write posts like this.

You can replace X by many things, starting from methodologies like microservices or TDD, ending on things like nosql databases.
What a great idea, but this really feels like the kind of thing they should have kept quiet about.
Very possible. Median real wage growth (inflation adjusted) have been sluggish post recession, and considering the explosive rise in wages in certain knowledge sectors, that must be offset by negative real wage growth sectors elsewhere.
"Speaking to an Amazon Echo-like device while sitting on my couch makes a lot more sense than using a web browser. Will we ever be able to do that without going through somebody’s proprietary silo like Amazon’s or Apple’s?"

Depends. Since the whole point of these systems seems to be precisely to filter your needs through those silos, so they can feed you 'content' and stuff, there'd have to be some compelling use case for an open-source alternative.
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It's not about transferred information fidelity, it's about short feedback loops, the ability to interrupt, and the knowledge (on both sides) of attention.

Since concise and clear statements can be made in both media, the difference is entirely in the limitations of the transport medium, and written text lacks all of the characteristics I earlier mentioned.
Martin Fowler, as usual, wrote something foundational, deeper et better balanced, years before this article and many other. martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
I know a few years ago there was some amount of skepticism on whether the Dwave machines were atually quantum computers. Has that skepticism been put to rest? Can anyone comment?

edit: I missed the comment below regarding the designation "universal" quantum computer. I guess that was the crux of the skeptic argument?
Generally people don't look twice at you. Unless you were dressed weird or something, they probably didn't try to determine whether you were there with someone or not, because it's too high a cognitive load to apply for everyone you see at Disneyland.

Or, in gaming speak: You're at the center of your minimap, but not at anyone else's.
> An open protocol can also lead to an inconsistent user experience.

No more so than a proprietary protocol. All the IM clients and apps are different, just like all the email clients.

What matters is that I should be able to just get anybody's IM address and message them with my client and service of choice.