skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear what you're saying, in theory. In practice, a system is always changing – regardless of whether developers are deploying code changes.

Some events (or "changes") I've seen in last year that caused a system to stop running fine:

- analyst ran query that locked reporting DB, which had ripple effects

- integration partner "tweaked" schema of data uploaded to us

- NIC started dropping packets

- growing data made backup software exceed expected window, locking files

- critical security patch released (didn't cause a problem exactly, but did change the system from having no known security holes to having a big one)

On and on. So, yeah, I'm not disputing the idea that changes are often the source of problems. I'm just saying that any moderately complex system is constantly encountering new events whether or not the developers are making changes.

This isn't a rebuttal of your statement so much, as it is rebuttal of a common attitude I see in business folks. A lot of non-technical executives seem to have the mentality that software is "done" after it's built, which is naive IMO.

Active systems require active maintenance. You can avoid a lot of problems with intelligent architecture and robust instrumentation/monitoring, but at the end of the day systems rot and will eventually stop running fine.

And even if your perfectly planned and architected system runs in total isolation on a private server where security isn't a major concern, you'll still build up technical debt if you aren't routinely upgrading major libraries, etc. You'll get to a point where you want to implement some feature, and while there are 3 excellent OSS libraries for your platform to accomplish it, none of them is compatible with your 5 year old version.

You probably know all of this and might even agree with most of it. I just had a visceral reaction to the idea that "a system running just fine will usually continue to run just fine," and felt compelled to respond. :)

Note: most of my experience is with public or enterprise web applications. I imagine other types of systems have other problems.
Strata and Hadoop World: Apache Spot Looks to Tackle Cybersecurity
Yes you can. When the server sends the "official" record of moves made, if the client detects any discrepancy with expected results, it resets the game to a slightly earlier time and replays the "real" moves to reach the current point. All this is done instantaneously, and only at the end is the interface refreshed.
Good catch. As long as we're trading catty design sites, I recommend FYNCT:

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Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx
Twitter lets everyone create their own Moments
It usually means Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
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> There are so many charged buzzwords

Such as? Can you please share your observations, for us other readers to see if we can agree that they actually exist, and if they do, if they are actually as "charged" as you seem to experience them?
And another to monitor whether the logs are being aggregated.

And yet another one to ensure that the log-aggregation-monitoring-service is working.
Ordered 2 of - great write up.

Just pondering - did you disable JTAG on these devices before distributing them?
Why would I choose this over VR?
> Pretending that just because you're old you hold some magical advantage doesn't fly

Experience is not magic, it is not directly a function of age but of duration in the industry. I'm not even tyat old yet, but my experience (aka larger training set) so far allows me to pattern-match/foresee potential disasters way before they appear on radars of more junior devs: and this goes for technology, people and processes.

> No one hires 60 year old coal miners either when there are 20 year olds available

That's because mining coal is physically exerting. I would hire a 60 year old boilermaker before any 20 year old since I don't want things to go boom.

Edit:

> just because they are young, it doesn't mean they can't get shit done.

With experience, you know which shit not to do
He said the perfect squares are the only ones with an odd number of factors, which doesn't make sense to me. 16 for example has 4, 25 has 5, 36 has 4 again, so I'm not sure what he was getting at.
This is cool, can definitely see this getting better over time, it cool to see a new approach to display.
I don't think it's families specifically, it's just commitment in general.

It's certainly possible that a parent could find a way to be away from their kids for 3 months, if they are sufficiently committed. Happens in the military all the time.

My guess is that if a person is not willing or able to figure that out, YC is not interested in them. It's not like it is hard for them to find applicants, and they don't need to be fair or accommodating.

To be clear, this is just my speculation, and I don't think it's the sole reason.
I totally agree. I suppose the parent comment could be referring to customer acquisition or acquiring real world sample image data.
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When this was reported on the bbc radio today Apple was described as iPad and iPhone manufacture Apple. So desktops and laptops old hat now!
Concretely, though, what consequence does this have in that respect? Is there a marginal party she's not going to get invited to because of the loss of rep from this breach? Is there an introduction she's not going to get?

Is there someone who matters to her who will deprive her personally (i.e. not Yahoo) of something due to having remembered this event?
beige is the non-committal of color.
It doesn't defeat the purpose of streaming. You don't have to emulate everything in the game, just everything in your vicinity that can possibly affect what you see and hear.
Concurrency in Ruby 3 with Guilds
But if the employee had long passwords, was his fb account compromised through the use of password reset through SMS then?
I don't think you need to even concede the idea that users are rational actors--there are plenty of reasons why a rational actor would prioritize another factor over security. For example, many people got Yahoo email addresses a long time ago, and built a personal contact list of people who only know their Yahoo email. A rational actor might value keeping in contact with those people over their privacy. That doesn't mean that it's okay to expose that person's data.
Yeah, I saw a bit of that 1970s look. We were house hunting, and we looked at this place. The living room walls were vertical stripes, alternating between bright green carpet (on the walls, remember) and mirrors.

It was an interesting look... for maybe five minutes. To live in for a decade? Not so much. We passed.
I'm a little confused on why these other 2FA approaches are seen as more secure. Is it simply because the port transfer process can happen?
Amazon Australia Expansion Set to Shake Up JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman
Which is interesting because what originally turned me off Futurama when it first aired (and I was the right age to watch it at that time) was that it seemed like they went for the easy jokes a little too quickly, and not only that, they shoved them in your face by referencing the fact that they made a joke right then and there.

It took a few viewings before I understood there were also jokes at a deeper level, but at first blush it's the anti-Simpsons.
I wish I had a mentor like him.

I’ve no formal CS background. When I started off learning fundamental programming concepts, I chose Python as my first language and during the honeymoon period I felt as if I was going to learn the art inside out in no time. I had no idea what was going on under the hood and was stupid enough not to give it a thought. Then, after some fiddling around with Python, I started wondering if something was amiss. The computer I was using was running Windows and I was under the impression that Linux was only for seasoned programmers and not for an aspiring programmer like me. I was all on my own and somehow my intuition told me the proprietary OS was unduly restrictive and I felt locked up with no leeway at all. After consulting some Linux communities, I thought it’s about time I wiped Windows and tried a couple Linux distros and freed myself. First I learned the command line, then C and then I went back to Python and that’s when it all made sense.
True, there are always tradeoffs. This particular tradeoff doesn't bother me because I can always get a copy of a particular file if I need to, e.g. if Netflix pulls down a show I like.
The RMB and Yuan seem like good longterm investments IMO despite the current volatility in Chinese markets. The one thing however that is concerning is China's abilities to counter US attempts to devalue and destabilize their currency, much like what occurred to the Euro in the collapse of '08. During the time preceding, the Euro was a great contender, not so much anymore. Also the collapse of the Yen spurned by American economic manipulation.

One noticeable difference to add is Japan and the EU are US military dependents and therefore by logic also US economic dependents. The Chinese are not. Not sure how that would value in calculations, but it is a significant factor.
don't ever mess with my scrolling experience
Not with their type of government they won't.
In edge cases, yes, certain would-be compatibility issues on Apple's side will get worked out before release. But that's part of why beta programs exist in the first place - vendors are supposed to test their products with the beta OS, and file bugs as they encounter them!

You make it sound as if Apple is re-architecting the audio system with each beta update. But all that happens long before an OS hits beta: Apple's betas are by and large feature-frozen. There's simply no excuse for a major vendor like Steinberg or Native Instruments to delay testing until there are literally computers already shipping that will not reliably run their software.
Amazon on the hunt for warehousing in Australia
I think an interesting question is - more desirable to what end? To what end are these youths toiling? How, after millenia of evidence to the contrary indicating that experience is valuable, are we to believe that somehow magically it is not valuable? What if the end to which the young are applying themselves (or being applied) is not in fact of any value? Historically young inexperienced men have been considered entirely disposable. Perhaps now they are being disposed of in a different way?
The irony is that beige became the painting itself, because of the media-driven trend towards overwhelming interior neutrality, spurred by the idea that it added concrete value to our asset-houses. What's new is that people are looking at their homes as an asset instead of as a place to live. Instead of making it suit their personalities, they're trying to appeal to a (possibly nonexistent) market.
If you think it takes the power of the state to cause trouble, you're not imaginative enough. If you need convincing, just download your information from all the sites you visit (I know FB and google provide an easy way to do this), send it to me, and I'll help you understand the problem.
Yes you are right, but in this case we have a central server farm AND clients can time out. The server can drop the vector clock of all connected clients for tick X once all clents receive tick X updates or time out for tick X.
So adjust the market.

There's a worthwhile conversation to be had about the corporate liability shield, and whether A) major security/privacy breaches should have some sort of ruinously high statutory damage award rather than requiring people to prove how they were harmed, and B) more suits -- not just over breaches -- should be able to pierce the corporation's protective structure and cause personal liability for corporate officers who make careless or overly-short-term decisions.

Adjusting the incentive structure of the market in which companies operate could do a lot.
On the other hand, it was hilarious when Lisa was down because all the Simpsons were idiots and then it turned out that all the Simpson men were idiots but the women were quite successful. Very unexpected, which leads to great humor.
Pepe the Frog designated a hate symbol by ADL
This article gives more details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12599232
Affinity Designer [1] will offer a similar feature [2] in the next build, currently in beta [3].

[1] https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/

[2] https://vimeo.com/169816724

[3] https://affinity.serif.com/forum/index.php?/topic/22644-affi...
> It blows my mind that even The Simpsons has become a target of gender bias accusations.

Yes, that is the point of these sorts of conversations: to blow your mind. That's where bias lives.
Why Would Anyone Want a One-Way Ticket to Mars?
Antetype reminds me two tools which are based on SVG/HTML elements:

1. Macaw - http://macaw.co/

2. Google Web Designer - https://www.google.com/webdesigner/

But Antetype provides way better solution for managing padding/margins and moving elements. Thank you for sharing.
> It's not as simple as just being in existence. There's
> alot of 'trust' to it too, Countries could easily
> diversify against the USD on their reserve baskets. The
> CNY isn't a significant proportion of any basket
> because of the lack of trust & free liquidity with it.

I'm not quite sure what you're referring to here. What are countries' "reserve baskets"?

Central banks hold bonds as assets on their balance sheet, not medium of exchange. These assets are what the medium of exchange is issued against in the first place. I'm arguing that it is not possible for foreign central banks to just choose to switch out US Treasury bonds with Chinese government bonds, because the Chinese bonds have terrible liquidity -- and bond liquidity isn't particularly good in times of crisis to begin with.
I demand now an analysis of the gender bias in Gilmore girls, Gossip girl and Pretty litte liars.
HN guidelines list appropriate content as ~ "anything of interest to hackers".

If you think this article detracts from the site rather than enrich it, use the "flag" option.
These natural events are rare enough that, to me, they don't create a sense of urgency that we need to get off the planet in the next decade.

This is the big question to me... when is the right time to go? If we wait 50 years, wouldn't the technological progress make such an endeavor cheaper, safer?

And the counterpoint is, well... it's been 50 years since apollo and still we don't have the ability to get to mars, so if there's nothing driving the technology then it doesn't just magically happen, and there's nothing to say that it will magically happen in another fifty years either.

To me, it's not the natural extinction events that are driving this, but the thinking that there is a short window of perhaps 200 years between technological enlightenment (particularly in nuclear and biological engineering) where the risk of self-annihilition is considerably increased, and the only way to decrease it is to add the redundancy.

To be sure, we will not achieve redundancy during the first decades or even perhaps centuries of this colonization. I think that terraforming needs to happen first
Phrasing aside, it's a legitimate question. I've worked at a really really large web behemoth serving orders of magnitude more users and many many unique and disparate products (as opposed to a handful products that Uber serves). If I counted all of their production related services, I'm not sure they'd amount to anywhere close to 1700. Now I know "microservices" is the new hotness, but surely there are limits to human cognition that limit the total number of moving pieces any team can manage without maintaining a constant state of crisis.

It'll be interesting to know the number of people oncall at any given time and the number of prod alerts per hour/day/week.
Only one person at a time can use a VR headset, and they can get a bit cumbersome.
May I ask exactly how the garlic is treated and exactly what olives you are eating?
Crash Dump Necromancy
I'm not a big fan of regulation, but it feels like there is very little _internal_ motivation for a place like Yahoo to take security seriously.

Not sure what the solution is, but unless there is a financial reason to create, I don't think we'll see much change.
Only 27% of Employees Believe in Their Company’s Values
Being able to adjust flow direction, padding, etc. and then perpetuate those changes across multiple elements makes me more likely to experiment.

That's exactly my point. It makes you more likely to experiment in that way and less likely to experiment in other ways. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I think it's one reason why designers and design tools don't focus on automatic layout as much.
Yep. "Move fast and break things" is immature and inappropriate for anything that purports to be reliable. It's fine for toys like social apps, but for serious actual grown-up applications it's a juvenile hindrance.
I just do it with python, you can dynamically modify anything in a resource pretty easily with the pyyaml module.
They're pretty terrible at it. Whenever I get something shipped by amazon courier, I know it's down to about 50% chance of delivery. "Package was handed to a resident." Yeah, so where is it? "Ask a neighbor." Yeah, right, in a building with 100 residents I'm going to go door to door asking about my package. The "good" days are when they leave it on the sidewalk outside (in a city!) and I notice it's there before anybody else does.
Bid/ask spread on the price of selling/buying bitcoin for dollars.
While the previous aircraft were downed by MANPADS or AA, the AN-26 in question was flying at an altitude only reachable by a SAM. At the bottom of this article [1] is a good overview of the shot-down aircraft over east Ukraine in 2014.

[1] http://airheadsfly.com/2014/07/15/ukraine-latest-an-26-downi...
You're Leaking Profits in the Most Unobvious of Places
Two people can use two VR headsets
It doesn't scale as you need to share the number across different services. To be completely decoupled you'd need to have 1 number per account all bundled into one sim card. I don't think this is something you can setup with current services and phone software.
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Facebook must ban abusive content, says German Justice Minister Maas
No concern. All the multi-national corps use it. Even Microsoft.
I use no-salt, but not as a salt substitute. I just add it to water and coffee. Not enough to taste.
If roadways are Non-Places, one solution is to minimize them (denser transit). Another interesting solution might be to Turn Them Into Places. For example, a commuter train with quietcars, wifi, and meeting spaces/dining car becomes a Place where you can do business while also commuting to a different Place.

What are concepts that do something similar to a highway of cars? Self-driving cars, seats that face each other, etc come to mind.
Can you please share your warrior diet experience? I am also on a warrior diet for the past 2-3 months (should have tracked better) and I like it so far. I am concerned about any long-term negative side effects.
Despite them doing their best to cover it up with quick editing and cherry picked angles, it's clear this has very low depth resolution and foggy picture quality.

If this only uses light, how would it deal with occlusion? It would be impossible to put a dark object in front of a lighter one, right?
I enter ketosis for roughly a month or less every half a year or so. The main selling point for me is lowering body fat from my normal bulking diet that consists of 2-4 liters of milk per day.

But every time it surprises me as I end up able to stay focused for hours without interruption. It does not produce any kind of magic cognitive power but the simple fact that there is no preemptive signal going on my brain telling me to stop whatever I'm doing to eat something makes me really productive.

Out of ketosis I can get a similar effect by drinking some brands of energetic beverages but it only works for a limited amount of time and don't stack up very well: if I drink too much caffeine I end up anxious.
Perhaps there's little documentation _because_ it has a poor format.
Yes and ignores the multi-device climate where the designs ultimately will live. Makes me think the pixel-perfect prototype is creating a bit of a fiction. Of course most good designers keep that in mind, but I agree that it's really disappointing that more tools aren't built to have a responsive canvas where you can play with sizing and set how the design responds. The answer I hear is to get to HTML prototypes as soon as possible, but it's not as fast to "sketch" in that medium (thus frameworks like bootstrap), so I think potential ideas are left unexplored.
> They make mistakes here and people will die.

The same problem exists for every person who enters a vehicle. That very same risk is why there is an economic incentive to do this in the first place. If they succeed far fewer people will die. And it will drive down the costs of commerce improving the quality of life for everyone.

So I take issue when the default perspective is pessimism and dismissiveness. This site is so hostile to founders who aren't doing totally safe projects or gasp those who get millions of dollars without publicly launched products.

Maybe this is just a self-selecting audience of bored pessimistic people who have time to spend commenting on their vague notions of other peoples projects on HN while the optimistic bunch is too busy building their own interesting stuff.

I find Otto a particularly interesting case because they've been pretty quiet with the contents of their tech, so we have very little idea of what they have accomplished yet other than partnering with Volvo and having lots of $$ in the bank. But I'm sure most people here would be fine commenting dismissively just off the headlines they read without really knowing any specific details of the project or the people behind it.
Yeah, on Linux, the system call interface is the supported interface for interacting with the kernel. Of course we are going to use it since 1) it's supported, 2) it's stable, more stable than e.g. glibc has ever been, not to mention we're not locked to a particular libc vendor, it just works on embedded systems which don't use glibc, 3) it allows us to make system calls without going through all the cgo machinery and without having to switch stacks.

On Solaris, the system call interface is not a supported public interface, so I made the Solaris port use libc through cgo.

Solaris made the decision that the supported public interface is through libc. That's a fine decision to make if you are the sole vendor of libc. But, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with different operating systems making different decisions.

On Linux we use the Linux rules, and on Solaris we use the Solaris rules.

I will tell you this though, having done numerous Go ports and having written many Go compiler targets several times, it's much, much simpler to port Go if your target is something that allows static executables and making system calls.

Having done linux/arm64 and solaris/sparc64, I know exactly how much harder is one versus the other.
> And so I started talking to the pharmaceutical companies saying, 'You know, would you make this stuff?' And they basically weren't interested.

How many?

Which ones?

All of them or some or most of them?

So maybe a big name isn't interested.

There are tons of companies who make generics who would probably welcome the opportunity to market a concoction like this or at least entertain the idea.
awful pacing in video, 70% of time is headlines 10% is something else, 20% actual device, and even that is cut in super small sequences. instant ADD
This is the beauty of the show...I would watch the shows over and over again on tape as a child without getting 80% of the jokes. Now I watch the old ones with my fiancé and I laugh louder and more frequently in my late 20s.
- until that's _all_ there is.