skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying something like '...they have very poor engineers working for them.' is pretty unfounded, and naive. It's easy to say that having 1700 services is overkill from our point of view, but we don't know the complete architecture, problems being solved and environment that they operate in.

One thing to possibly consider is that once you have set up tooling for a platform; logging, request tracing, alerting, orchestration, common libraries, standards and deployment. Deploying and operating new services becomes relatively straight forward.

Saying that, 1700 is a lot, which makes me intrigued to see inside uber.
I'm not arguing that smartphone was a huge step forward, just saying that it was only a matter of "when" and "who" not "if". Also, as for mobile web boom, I think the introduction of 3g was the key factor, there was only so much you could do with GPRS/WAP..
I must be missing something - if the tunnel is only on the PC, and outwards it's just ipv4, how does the router know to route it back without some fkrwrding configuration?
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This has nothing to do with data collection or any other crazy conspiracy theories you are trying to peddle such as Open AI being intentionally excluded etc.

Hell half of your comment does not even makes any sense.

Allowing OpenAI to do "Data audit" LOL are you seriously high on drugs. Do you know what OpenAI is or does?? Nothing with Auditing!

And yet this is the most upvoted comment in this thread along with second one where people have another set of crazy theories about Apple being "magically" superior.
You have seen a few projects and different teams. A few years of practical experience is necessary.
It was always free to develop. You needed an paid developer account in order to sign apps to adhoc install it on your phone to test it. This is now free.

Still need a paid developer account in order to publish to the App Store.
I think for non-DNS experts (like me) it's important to know that in DNS terminology, the notation "tld." is used to donate top-level domains. (Note the trailing period)

So ".localhost." means "every domain within the 'localhost' tld", not "every domain that contains the string 'localhost'".
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Where do you live? Is it Odluvai Gorge? The reason humans don't all live in Africa and in fact have colonized almost every inhabitable corner of the planet is because as a species overall we don't think like that. In fact it's the reason we as a species still exist. Life naturally expands to colonize new environments. That's essential because environmental change is inevitable whether it's climate change, volcanic activity, excessive predation or disease. Diversity of location, genetics and culture are essential tools of species survival.

Diversity in every way possible is in our Genes. Even within our own cultures, if it's possible for people to live a certain way you're highly likely to find at least some people living that way. Some of these ways of living seem pathalogical. Travelling people, isolationist survivalists, even homeless people but if civilization were to collapse, as it has many times in many places in the past, some of these people would be superbly adapted to survive it or even thrive.

For any given place, eventually catastrophe is almost inevitable. We are all the descendants of people who survived some catastrophe or other by moving out before it struck. All of us. In fact that's true of every surviving species on Earth. It's a strategy that works. Let's keep doing it.
Since Indiehackers has now changed the URL of the Ministry of Testing logo, breaking it in the parent post (it's still on the Indiehackers page, with a new URL), here it is on Imgur, alongside the Ministry of Sound logo:

http://i.imgur.com/qsfhevt.png
Modern machine learning depends heavily on data. If you have 100x the data, your algorithm is going to outperform a superior algorithm in most cases, because the data is the source of the intelligence.

It's a big, scary barrier for startups, for innovation, and we're running the risk of creating data superpowers that can't be competed with. Some algorithms don't perform well until they have a threshold of data. When that threshold is attainable only by a company with XXX million users, you inherently get a system where only those companies can innovate on the most cutting edge in machine learning.

That's a bad thing for us, especially if we find those companies turning against us. Did Google start putting a liberal spin on search results to try to influence the election? We don't know! But we do know that they are using their position to manipulate ISIS recruitment, which means they aren't afraid to get their hands dirty with this kind of stuff. THERE IS NO OVERSIGHT! And you aren't going to get a search engine that can come close to competing with Google unless you can find a way to match their data volume before you have something competitive. It's a massive barrier.

Facebook is enjoying the same sort of entrenchment. I've switched away from Facebook, and now I've lost touch with a lot of friends. They are my friends, why can't I export them? Why can't I export the data that belongs to me, and use it in some open-source format that allows me to reap the benefits of all the work that I spent tracking them down inside of Facebook's private garden?

As a society, we need to start addressing these things, or we are going to end up with Internet giants that we don't have the means to get rid of, and that aren't at risk of being out-competed.
Agreed, this looks like a pretty good evolution on plain (open)sshd now.

Still does seem to sit at a somewhat uncomfortable place between being an augmented ssh that's easier to manage, and a completely separate auth/authz solution (in some ways a little like installing saltstack or puppet etc, which essentially grants a daemon arbitrary/root privileges and ability to do configuration changes on the "outside" of the unix user/group-framework).

Things like:

"Also, people can join your session via terminal assuming they have Teleport installed and running. They just have to run:

> tsh --proxy=teleport.example.com join 7645d523-60cb-436d-b732-99c5df14b7c4

!!! tip "NOTE": For this to work, both of you must have proper user mappings allowing you access db under the same OS user." (my emphasis)

I don't really see this as a big problem -- but I'd prefer a tool that basically magically took care of generating short-lived user-certificates for ssh (and it does indeed look like teleport does this now, in a rather nice and well-documented[1] manner) -- but I'd like to keep the user-database in some sane place, like ldap, especially as long as teleport use is still subject to pam/unix user/group in addition to internal user/authorizations.

I also don't particularly like having to use password login (even with two-factor) - but I suppose one could either a) wrap the web bit in ssl client auth (but now you need two CAs, one for ssh certs and one for x509) - or better (for my use-case) create a daemon that works as a ssh daemon and can be configured for normal ssh access (set of known keys, limit access to internal network/whitelisted IPs) -- that can be used for initial auth. Or maybe just replace the current web auth with a specialized ssh daemon that uses standard ssh+two-factor login (something like[2]).

All that said, I really like the look of this project in its current state, and I'll strongly consider using it over setting up a "bare" (open)ssh CA system.

[1] https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/blob/master/docs/a...

[2] Note, I'm not a great fan of the google auth pam module, but have successfully tested using OAUTH -- and it works well both with pre-generated passwords or google auth or similar TOTP-apps. An added benefit is that it can also be enabled for sudo/su elevation, rather than just relying on password for that.

See eg: https://jonarcher.info/2015/07/hardening-ssh-with-otp-for-2-...

and/or:
http://spod.cx/blog/two-factor-ssh-auth-with-pam_oath-google...

Incidentally my fight with OATH/pam/various python tools to generate qr-codes allowed me to overcome the seemingly insurmountable challenge of pairing the standard Google Authenticator App with the Star Wars: Old Republic TOTP secret in order to enable 2-factor login. It appears that makes me a member of a rather select club of swtor-players....
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My experience of Switzerland is similar.

Things are very much done according to a formula. If you're an enterprise looking for a Java developer, only a guy whose CV says "Java" will do. C# is some other planet. I think it's a Germanic thing, they expect very specific qualifications. I remember meeting a guy who had a degree as a food chemist. I asked him what jobs he was after, and he said ... food chemist.

There is a startup scene in Zurich though. The tax rate is low, and people seem to have enough savings to give it a go, at least some of the young ones. It's not a huge number of people, but the Swiss are going about it in their own way, with a number "technoparks" and such. It's somewhat cosmopolitan in its outlook; people compare themselves to other startups around the world. Reasonable pay for such small firms, too. Came across more than one 6 figure job.

Salaries are high, but stuff is expensive, too. Daycare for a kid, at a public nursery, is CHF30K a year (USD is in the ballpark of CHF). I've met a number of Swiss people who'd like to have more kids, but it's just a lot of money to pay. A quite ordinary family meal at a restaurant can be 100. Buying the food from a supermarket ain't cheap, either.

I sometimes wonder whether GDP measurement is problematic. Quality of life doesn't feel like it's all that different between various industrialized countries, but the figures suggest they are. If stuff is expensive, that makes GDP higher. So a guy eating a $1 potato is enjoying a lower quality of life than a guy who paid $2 for his. This has implications for wastage, particularly when it has to do with large organisations such as government. Burn more money, get higher GDP. Tax rate also has implications. There's probably more black market business going on in certain countries, which also contributes to general welfare. But of course that doesn't go into official accounts, or at least it's quite hard to guess how much it is. Low tax places like Switzerland are more likely to have more stuff going through official accounts.
The exact same thing holds for Google Search. They have not generated any product that brings as much cash as search ads (not even close) -- and that's since 1998 or so.

Google Docs, Google +, Google Glass (lol) etc never went anywhere much, revenue wise, and even Android is mostly a loss as far as Google is concerned, even including licenses and mobile ads (makes a good buck for Samsung though).

> The market is nearing saturation, and competitive pressures will erode margins.

They serve the top end of the market (neither feature phones, not "just give me some smartphone free with the contract") where there are not much competitive pressures and they've been milking more profit than all Android shops combined at that. Besides, that we have been kept hearing since 2008 when Android appeared, and it hasn't even happened in the desktop/laptop space (the sell 5-10% of PCs and get 45% of the PC profits).
I reckon it'll be less than a day before this network bogs down due to the sheer volume of Instagram photos of lattes.
Leadership and mentoring. When they can write great documentation (without prompting) and http://softwareleadweekly.com/ becomes their favourite weekly read. When they come to you with improvements outside of the technical domain on how to improve shop and even better when it's just a side chat about what they have already improved and what went well, what didn't and what they learned (self-awareness). When they stop treating promotions like mechanical checkboxes.
Is this "free" Wi-fi used to track the physical location of wifi enabled phones, like many other public wifi networks?

Will Australian police need warrants to query this network for location data?

Can the NSA access the location data from this network through the 5 eyes network?

"The model works by providing free access in exchange for users’ personal and behavioral data, which are then used to target ads to them."

http://theconversation.com/the-heavy-price-we-pay-for-free-w...
Then it shall finally be the year of windows on mobiles.
What's the purpose of this initiative? Sharing technology? Hardly. The goal is probably to shape the discourse on AI and its implications on society and the individual in a way that's favorable for these companies. In other words, they will try to preempt, counter, and suppress criticism of their business models, i.e. the AI exploitation of user data in the service of advertisers and others. It's pretty obvious why Apple is not on board. They have previously taken the position that user data should be left alone and therefore pose a threat to Google, Facebook et al. whose financial success is solely built on the extraction of information from users. This has nothing to do with Apple falling behind technologically.
If I squint my eyes (or brain) really hard I can just about believe that zero day exploits could exist for a printer cartridge.

But then I just arrive at the conclusion that if you didn't add DRM and try to make cartridges "smart" there wouldn't even be a security vector...
That's also my experience. "Senior" is little more than a random title in most companies I worked for. It can be someone in their early twenties who just happened to have worked for 2 years on one product, even if it's their first job. It's frustrating at first to join a new company as someone who is older and has many more years of experience, then you remind yourself it's just a random title and try not to get hung up over it. Like many symbols of status, it's a pretty empty shell.

If someone like Donald Knuth would be forced due to economic circumstances to join a trendy web start-up, he'd be a junior working under a twenty-something senior with little more than some Javascript and MongoDB knowledge. The whole thing's silly, really.
While I agree that it wasn't created for 'baby devs', wasn't the primary reason for Node.js' creation that Ryan Dahl wanted an async ecosystem/platform, and javascript had the 'advantage' of not already being used server-side, so there would be no confusion over sync/async libraries/modules?

At least that's what I recall from reading/watching the initial videos back when it was released. At the very least I've never heard the 'same language front and back' argument until later on in Node's life.

But perhaps I misremember?
You just made me think about a few issues:
1. wouldn't these five be a cute quasi monopoly? (is pentapoly a word?)
2. isn't it brilliant how "they" - including many others, like Musk - make a big fuss about AI that is mostly already open and published, while what we should worry about is data?
3. is there any hope for an open society when most of us nerds - who are supposed to be all rebellious, undergroundy, security aware etc - with a lot of power to build the future can't wait to run into the arms of these big guys? We could use more @dhh type opinions.
If you're poor and black, it's a crime a and should be sternly punished, if you're rich and white, it's youthful experimentation and should be glossed over.

Easy.
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Not in France though :-)
look for people in your local meetup groups.
Bear in mind that Lyle believed in "starvation mode" 10-17 years ago; I believe he mentions it in his first book. He was also a firm believer in strict caloric arithmetic and that microbiome didn't matter. His content is only as good as the current scientific literature is, and that has changed a lot in the past 20 years.
"Prime" is relative – the Baltic sea is rather cold and the only reason I sometimes go there is because it's just about two hours and 30 Euros away. When I have more than a weekend, a flight to the Mediterranean is preferred. Plus this is on a island and that'd be another hour or so (ferry or detour).

Berlin is probably the only city for which it's a somewhat attractive destination, but I don't see the rich people here going for it. Flying to italy take only a bit longer, or, if it needs to be close, there are quite a few opulent estates from the 16th to early-20th century within an hour of the city center, quite often with direct access to one of the many lakes.
Eh...: "Armor accepts configuration in JSON format, command-line option -c can be used to specify a config file, e.g. armor -c config.json."

Ok, it might be better than Apache's mongrel mix of not-quite and SGML/XML dialect -- but I'd much rather see something like YAML than having to write JSON by hand. I suppose I should just write a compiler (or use one, I'm sure simple YAML maps pretty well 1:1 to simple JSON).
That's really weird and not what I remember being written back in the day when flash was invented. There is no 'flash' (optical erase process using UV) to go with flash memory, the erasure is electrical.

The 'eWeek' article that that paragraph was sourced from doesn't contain any explanation of why the association between the two was made, maybe early 'flash' memory did have an optical erase process?

Here is the quora link for the question why 'flash' is called 'flash':

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-flash-memory-called-so

Which is apparently sourced from a book about FPGA's, not directly accessible but roughly what I remember being written about flash at the time it came out.

http://www.linfo.org/flash_memory.html

Gives a similar definition.

Optically erasable memories existed but I'm not aware of any that have erasure times < several 10's of seconds in ideal conditions and minutes in more practical settings, certainly nothing in the sub second range that would justify the term 'flash'.

Eeproms (electrically erasable eproms) already existed well before 'flash' came along and flash is an improvement in speed on those, not a re-vamp of the optically erasable eproms.

It would be interesting to contact Toshiba to see if that quote from the inventor of flash memory can be substantiated and how to determine what the association with photography is if it does not refer to optical erasure.
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> I notice Musk's ISRU plan is to mine ice; I do wonder how he's going to do that, as it won't be easy.

Load up the icy dirt into a chamber using a digger, heat it up and precipitate out the water vapor. The only potential problem is separating out other volatiles, but fractionation is pretty basic tech.
I was responding to the association with computer science.

In terms of companies, here's a few of the best known I'm aware of:

An old infamous one:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

And a couple of major international ones:

* Logitech (founded in Apples, Vaud)

* STMicroelectronics (headquartered in Geneva; though it was a merger of a French and an Italian company)

And a new but still quite well known security hardware one:

* Silent Circle (security hardened smartphones)

But as other have pointed out, in software/hardware Switzerland is doing best in R&D, not least because of the high salaries, and a lot of CS grads will also end up going into jobs in companies that are not necessarily hardware/software companies but that need a lot of CS talent (e.g. banks, high tech manufacturing).
Here is the RT equivalent news: https://www.rt.com/politics/359851-newspaper-forecasts-all-e...
I don't see any statistics on arrests for marijuana possession and sale. Of course, legalization must reduce arrests for possession. But comparison with property crime would be interesting. And I presume that there will be long-term social and economic benefits of keeping people out of the criminal-justice system.
Upstart also had inscrutable crashing bugs, kind of like what this article describes about systemd, and it didn't even do as much.
An example of suing a diplomat/state without foreign policy considerations: an Indian diplomat was sued for underpaying her domestic help. In response, India promptly sued spouses of American diplomats for tax evasion, illegal imports and fraud.

Quoting from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devyani_Khobragade_incident

"Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha called for the arrest of same-sex companions of US diplomats, citing the Supreme Court of India's recent upholding of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.[72][73] The Indian government asked US consular officers posted in India to return all identity cards.[7][6]

On December 17, 2013, Delhi Police removed security barricades on the road outside the US Embassy in New Delhi, citing need for improvement of traffic flow in that area.[74] India has demanded an unconditional apology from the US government[74] and asked the details of the salaries of all domestic help, gardeners and other staff employed by US consulates in India to check for inconsistency or frauds.[74] India moved to block perks such as alcohol and food imports at concessional rates, for embassy employees.[75] With new restrictions, U.S. Embassy Vehicles will not be immune to traffic violations, the restrictions also requires the embassy not to hold 'Commercial Activities' in its premises.[76] Indian income tax and immigration authorities are investigating allegations of work-permit, visa and income tax fraud at the American Embassy School.[77][78][79]"
I've looked into automated services and have always ended up just hiring someone overseas for cheap from a place like https://upwork.com to do the transcription.

I've had success creating videos as training materials hat very specifically go over how I want the task done and exactly how I want the resulting text file to look.
I guess the "future" locations on the map [1] will be turned on by the end of this year?

Not exactly great, for example there's almost nothing planned along Swanston Street.

[1] https://www.vic.gov.au/wifi/find.html
Salaries are high and daycare is expensive deliberately, or so I've heard. It's a cultural decision - they want women to stay at home with the children and raise them, so the salaries are calibrated to be high enough for a nuclear family. That's why you get things like schools sending children home at lunchtime or on Wednesday afternoons: the school schedules are deliberately set up to be incompatible with working hours, in order to reinforce traditional family setups.

Food is expensive in Switzerland partly because it imports a lot and the surrounding countries know that the Swiss are rich and thus not very price sensitive. I read somewhere that exactly the same kilo of parma ham that costs 10 EUR in Italy can cost 50 EUR in Switzerland simply due to being charged different amounts by the supplier. This is not helped by the fact that the domestic supermarkets have what amounts to a duopoly between Co-op and Migros, with other brands like Denner being owned by one of the big two. There's little price competition.

GDP is a disastrous statistic almost everywhere, not just in Switzerland. Politicians single minded focus on it is a classic case of "what you can't measure you can't manage" being harmful. The biggest problem is that GDP is trivially pumped by government borrowing and spending, hence the endless circular arguments in Europe about austerity and whether governments should try to spend their way to growth. It doesn't work - governments ideas for productive investments rarely go beyond roads and railways - but it can appear to work in the short run as spending splurges feed directly into the GDP.
Looks like this is already happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12601471
"nothing changed" is wrong. They expect to have crime rate lower in few years?? How many jobs was added with this?plenty...
How many money they made?
plenty...