skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, Go's type system is so bad that it nullifies all the benefits it brings to the table. I'd rather have no type system than Go's type system, but why even ponder that if I can have everything? With JS I can start out with dynamic types, then switch to static types if the need arises (typescript, flow), fully or partially. Oh, and both of those have really good generics btw.

And we have async/await too now, which means async code can also look almost the same as sync code. So I would still choose JS over both Python and Go (at least for that particular use case). mypy still has long ways to go before its anywhere near TS or Flow.
> I wished I could come up with a 'white mirror' alternative where all our tech is used for good but it wouldn't be nearly as believable.

Why? Imagine:

Everyone on Earth, if they have a problem, can be connected to a handful of people who already had that problem and offer friendly advice free of charge. Where that advice is tied to purchases or revenues, the network of people facilitating this experience will take a cut.

If you want to do something, say, plant some tomatoes, you can ask an AI how to do it in a way that has a high probability of success. If you are willing to follow a set of specified terms (specific production standards, etc), the AI will offer you financing and a guaranteed buyer for the product. Extend this to every form of production. Pre-financed contractors are available to take over processes you'd rather not do, or to mentor you in processes you want to learn.

Imagine every neighborhood, every culture, every regional cuisine, every micro-ecology, every species and family all has a hive of autonomous micro-corporations surrounding it, helping keep those cultures alive, keeping participants solvent and supporting its economy. Imagine people who are sick of the vanilla-ifying and globalization of culture have an alternative supported by a federation of tiny businesses powered by decentralized software... businesses that never could have existed in the "Minimum 10 Head Count Million Dollar Market Cap" business development physics of today, but are trivially financed by autonomous HR AIs with micropayment accounts.

Right now the systems we have to do these two things are imperfect, but I believe this is the future the internet/open source/open culture/non-profit/DIY/decentralization/blockchain crowd is driving toward. I welcome anyone who thinks these three goals are impossible. But imagine that we can get there. What would we do with such technologies? I think the ramifications are fascinating.

What if there are 400 million forest rangers roving the planet relocating endangered species to nearby biomes where they can survive for a few more decades?

What if the stories of the poor and the out-of-touch-with-production-culture can be told and shared, instead of being locked out of the media financing landscape?

What if the people whose home cooking you love to eat could just cook all day and live off the money?

What if you could get paid to take care of any sick person you wanted, because they're worth more to the economy healthy?

To me, there are so many beautiful uses of technology that I am certain we will get to. Black Mirror is spot-on in its worries. But I'm chock full of equivalent hopes.
Yes, I think this attack has brought to everyone's attention that many companies have gone away from what used to be the extremely common practice of having your authoritative DNS serving shared across multiple DNS hosting providers. This would have addressed the issue... and we're seeing that by the end of the day many of these sites have gone to having multiple providers.
Do you have corporate issued/managed anti-virus, threat detection, disk encryption, VPN, fileservers and managed printers? If so, your kids are well equipped for life in the corporate IT world.
> "smart policy solution that works for the the people, not the powerful"

This is so duplicitous. AirBnB is a for profit company. They have zero skin in the game in terms of exposure to and responsibility for lowered quality of life, apartment hoarding, rental increase, etc.

disclosure: a "New Yorker" since 1989.
It's Friday. Story/short write up appreciated
What about going away for work? I don't have a spare bedroom (uh, there aren't many of those in NYC), but I do travel quite a bit.

I get the gist of the law and wholeheartedly support it. I just wish there were a way for it to be a bit more targeted (say, a days/year stipulation).
That's fine, so long as your attitude toward it doesn't perpetuate female body shaming nor prevent my retina from being exposed to the female anatomy because of some misguided belief that the naked female breast constitutes pornography outside the scope of medicine and breast-feeding.
true. but the cgroup match and namespaces require apriori configuration. I want something that will warn me when a new process is trying to dial out.
Okay, but let's see if the governments or the petulant children win. You know which thread you're in, right?
Great, another government overreach. Hopefully someone finds a clever solution around it that protects this peaceful and voluntary economic activity.
I use google and have chosen to give up a lot of my privacy to use their services.

One thing I was never willing to do though, and I had an instant emotional reaction to not doing, was allowing them access to all my email.

They can have my GPS coordinates at all times, my web search history, etc, but they can't get into the inner workings of my life and my thoughts.

So back before I had any real use for it I just registered myname@myfirstandlastname.com and used that for my email address. It felt like a natural move. It does bother me still that a lot of the people I email do use gmail, so google still ends up siphoning of a lot of the contents of my email.

I see a lot of people talking about FastMail instead of GMail, but I don't know why more geeks don't register their own domain name which has several advantages (including looking better and more professional). The one downside is that mail search sucks. I'd love to get some decent search without giving up privacy somehow.
Assuming the person you're subletting to isn't living in NYC
Sure. Yala is a social media scheduling bot that knows the best time to post your content.

https://www.yalabot.com

Shared it here on HN today as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12760549
Nightmare Machine – Horror imagery generated by deep learning
There are laws in New York City that say (with good reason) that you can't just turn your home into a hotel. New York is simply enforcing the law.

If Airbnb really has the public support they claim then it should be easy to change the law. The reality is a lot (likely vast majority) of New Yorkers really don't want the status quo to change. The politicians know this and hence why they took this path.
Also it's pretty dusty, so doing a controlled burn all the way down (like SpaceX does on Earth) kicks up a huge dust cloud which settles on all your nice solar panels.
Sure it wouldnt work for an extended time. I'm just thinking that in an unpredictable situation, a few hours might be all you need to diffuse it. For example suppose someone claims they have evidence of some crazy shit happening at the polling places, and the only thing that can be done is to for Patriots to seize the equipment at the polling places before the globalists can cover their tracks.
Guetzli – Google's new “zopfli-like” JPEG encoder
If you were middle-class or poor in 1978 and happened to own some property in California, you most likely did well.
We don't know yet, but the attack very easily could have been coming from a botnet of devices entirely inside the US. Geographic borders don't matter much at all for the Internet.
Truly. I'd truly hope there is a mass rebellion before we ever get anywhere close to that. Luckily we still have adblockers and mute buttons. And lastly enough redundancy that many people can go elsewhere if you can't use adblockers or mute.
The idea of running a decently sized corporation without AD is a non-starter. Fileshares alone would be unmanageable. I'm not talking a 50 person shop, I'm talking an enterprise with multiple locations and several thousand desktops. As much as I dislike having to use and manage Windows when it comes up, AD is an essential tool.
Ironically, Henry George came up with the land tax because of his experiences in the Bay Area as a journalist. And the situation has only gotten worse since.
I wish I could pay Mozilla to host my custom domain e-mail, encrypted files and any other services they could offer
> I'd prefer a market solution - fix the supply of water at the correct level

You don't see any problems with this statement?
If you live in the US (where NYC is), you can also tell the government who can stay with you per the third amendment. Therefore, they don't have more authority than you, just different authority.

It's probably good that they do. I may not agree with this particular exercise of authority, but I'd like to be able to do something about it if my neighbor decides to build bombs in his spare room.
Prohibiting some Air Bnb listings. Which were already illegal.

Mine would still be just fine.
I hear they'll make an exception for veterans. You have to house soldiers. Says so right in the constitution. ;)
Luckily, our executives haven't sipped from the Sharepoint well...
Two things are worse than ghosting:

1. A company ghosts and the comes back months after (when you already took another offer) and says: "wassup, you still down for that thing?"

2. A company ghosts and comes back a month and a half later saying "oh btw we hired a guy". Yeah thanks I figured it out.
NASA was going to provide the landing technology, but the funding was cut.
I'm with you, to some extent. As a libertarian-minded person, I wish there were a way you could opt out of funding space exploration missions and other expensive projects that you might not agree with. If there were, I might be able to avail myself of the same choices when it comes to funding things that I disagree with, such as massive social engineering projects and trillion-dollar wars of choice.

But as a flawed, selfish person, I also wish there were a way to make sure that you and your descendants never see any benefits from the research you thought wasn't worthwhile.
Dyn can't figure out how to fix it because they can't get to stack overflow! :D
Have a look at a map. Geographic boundaries surrounding an 8 million person population is why NYC real estate is so expensive.
How does this compare to mozjpeg [1] ?

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg
Looks like I misread.
All of our Macs authenticate with AD. Pretty simple, especially since the last two versions back. We even have our Linux systems authenticate via AD using Quest. That can work with macOS as well, but we haven't found a need to use it.
Actually it's mostly because NYC is a very very popular place to live. It's also because a lot of people with too much money are buying condos in NYC as an investment. Removing zoning laws will not change these things.
You depend on a state (or an entity functionally equivalent to it) to enforce any conceivable definition you have of property.
Agree 100%. I think that the city of New York has no business putting limitations on how a property (that you own) can be used and leased. If you have a community/association that's making those rules, fine... that's fair. It's fair because you agree to their terms prior to purchasing the property. If you rent a property and the lease explicitly disallows subletting, fine. That's fair too. Rules and laws should be granular, specific to their locality, rather than vast sweeping blankets.

I'm also in favor of zoning for residential and business, that makes sense. But there's a big difference between someone operating a high foot-traffic business out of their home, and seeing an occasional stranger walk into a residence every other day or so.

If there are no specific rules that a localized community has agreed on, then Airbnb should be fair game. Why should the municipal government make the rules?
That's just a guess.
We partly do that at Wormhole. I say partly because you still have to be able to access one of our addresses. Port of last resort is 443/TCP, so it works on lots of tricky networks out there.

The idea is that all your IOT stuff establishes a connection to this server, creating an encrypted network between them. You then add your control servers to that network and job done.
You devices don't need any inbound access to talk to each other. All the connections are outbound, so no ports to open on your firewall and no risk.

You could do this by yourself, but we take that hassle out of your hands. Happy to help with custom deployments too outside our main service; it's a great way of learning our customers' needs.

It's hard though to have your exact setup as a service, it implies incoming VPN connections to the site where you deploy your IOT and a VPN server of sorts.

Our main focus was remote teams and devs having to use remote servers, however IOT might be a killer use here.

https://wormhole.network
One of the reasons why Route53 is good is because they give different nameservers to each hosted zone - unless you choose to use a branded record-set.

I've seen them be hit by dDos attacks in the past, but never had any significant impact.

(I wrap Route53 and handle storing DNS records in a git repository over at https://dns-api.com/ Adding support for other backends is my current priority to allow more redundancy.)
After reading the article, I think it would be appropriate to mark it as "sponsored".
>They are fundamentally very difficult to fix in light of the non-updateability of many of these devices

as you proved, fixing the situation by fixing the devices wouldn't be a feasible approach. The traffic from those devices is carried by ISPs and this is there this traffic should be stopped. To me the situation reminds about email spam. We didn't get rid of spammers, instead the email traffic is analyzed and dealt with accordingly. I'm sure that ISPs easily see the patterns of such massive DDoS attacks and could just drop (or throttle down into oblivion, like 100s times down) the participating traffic.
Walmart isn't even close to market control, so what's the reasoning there? Just too big for you personally?
I've seen a lot of blurry and Contradictory discussions on this. Some people argue by computer simulation is that it's exactly what most think. In that some outside observer has intentionally created a simulation in a computer.

However on the other side is that it's more like a binary finite system or tree falls in the wood type understanding of the universe. Sorta like the double slit experiment.

That there are finite precision to certain things and not infinitely small deltas. And that certain parts of universe appear to be approximated until more closely observed.

Id personally more likely believe the 2nd one as some kind of weird universe reality optimizer before I'd believe the former.
Hard? No, but that's an undeniably worse process.
Kill Bill – Dwolla integration
+1 for fastmail. lots of domains to choose from and i also use my own personal domain for email
>To be clear, you view individual employees asking if a user is using a product in a way coherent with the company's views and needs as proto-fascism? What about this is fascistic?

We're not talking about a guy who's trying to set up a porn business here. This is political speech. It would be one thing if Facebook banned all political speech, but it doesn't.

These are people who want to suppress speech by people who don't share their politics. I understand the impulse, but I think as a society the minimum we can ask of anyone in a position of power (commercial or governmental) is they suppress that impulse.
Google paid licencing fees to Stanford for pagerank in the form of stock. http://www.ipnav.com/blog/google-algorithm-earns-337-million...
rapid unschedualed disassembly event.
That's unlikely. Talking like this you're hiring someone to be a co-founder.
Getting Started Authoring Helm Charts
I noticed some issues. Didn't even think it was a dns or major thing until this and now I see the other issues too. Craziness!
And then he popped up in the White House Briefing Room today:

http://wgntv.com/2016/10/21/bill-murray-crashes-white-house-...
It can also be a problem in business apps where developers don't consider the restrictions on a network.

I have regularly seen apps link to third party social network libraries synchronously. The problem is that corporations will routinely block things like Twitter. You have to wait for the connection to timeout because the domain is blocked.

Also http connections are often closed prematurely by proxies and firewalls and can take seconds to restablish. Apps will often lack sufficiently robust keep-alive so the user will suddenly have an unreposive site.
But even if it were, the creator of the botnet would first have to gain control and then issue a command, right? How would either of those things be possible from outside if there was no connection into the US?
Its not the government imposing these restrictions, its your neighbors. If there were no government for them to impose them through, they'd use other institutions, or else just the threat of violence. You can imagine a government-free future all you want, but you're talking about a non-collectivist future, which is absurd.
This is close to what Inwant to build for my own personal CRM - something that just says "you last contacted person X 22 days ago".

Somehow I can then overlay tagging for projects but it seems doable
No, but the anecdotes of thousands of other Macbook Pro users does. If you're going to say that the MBP is a bad laptop based on that one thing, then you're going to have to rule out every other laptop manufacturer on earth, as they've all had issues with specific models.
There are many ways! The ones used by myself, my friends, and my family when moving to The Big City and looking for a job/permanent housing included:

1. Couch surfing with friends/family.
2. Youth hostels / YMCA.
3. Renting a terrible apartment cheap, sight-unseen,
breaking the lease early when better options became
available.
4. The Daughters of Divine Charity, et al, run boarding
houses.
5. Rent a place in the outer boroughs, Jersey, Yonkers,
etc, take the train in until you find something
closer.
6. Walk around until you see "room for rent" signs.
7. Check papers, Craiglist for roommates (*actual* room
sharing -- a number of people I know started off
renting a *bed*, not even a bed*room*.)
Show HN: View others web history as TV show
Right, this was my point. Hosting "status.domain.com" doesn't help much when it's "domain.com" that's having the problem. I think today's event will make a lot of companies consider this a bit more.
It also shows that trying to dictate the shape of the market from above is folly
Then get yourself a Patreon, and good luck!
Sometimes I'll reply to two related posts in one email. Might be that gits ability to merge threads would be a bonus vs the usual idea of representing threads as trees.
You should have seen these apts. Not fancy. You're right I'm not working at Taco Bell, but you almost certainly make more money than I do. I was able to live a multi-city life on a shoestring budget thanks to a narrow window provided by AirBnb. I'm disappointed others may not have that opportunity.
I would skim these to select something basic and then try to experiment with a real system with those documents as a guide/reference.

Try to actually learn one level at a time.

That is my approach right now. I have read a lot but without being 100% on the fundamentals it mostly goes over my head so I am backing up. I plan to try Tensorflow examples also but I expect it will be pretty shaky until my high-level practical surface knowledge can meet in the middle with my fundamental knowledge if I can keep progressing.
FastMail has incredibly good domain name configuration for custom domains. I just set it up this week. The problem is most users don't have the skill or time to manage a well-maintained email service. I'd like to, but the risk of losing important email is too critical to risk. (Even making the cutover to FastMail, I was super nervous!) And unlike Google, FastMail has a strong privacy strategy.

But what I did do, about a year ago, was move my email usage over to an address at my own domain, which was then forwarded to Gmail. By lessening the references to my Gmail account, it made it easy to switch elsewhere. ...I just repointed my domain to FastMail's email service.

And because I control the domain name people send email to me on, it's easy for me to move it again in the future if I have a problem with FastMail or find something better.
This is the big complaint here in the Austin area. There's a huge flux of people into this area, and a significant portion is coming from CA. Many of the locals feel that the CA emigrants didn't learn their lesson; they don't realize that the reason they needed to leave was because of those very policies, and so stupidly begin to make the same mistakes here, pushing to create the same situation.
As a New Yorker I agree with you completely.

We the "people" who are not the "powerful" are getting pushed further away from the center each year chasing afforadable housing. Pretty soon we'll end up in Jersey or Long Island.
Every hotel has a lobby except for AirBnB ;)
Thanks Look really interesting.
It wasn't possible then either.
Yes and on Sunday as well. https://www.sfmta.com/maps/parking-meter-locations-and-rates
>They only source under-represented candidates via outbound recruiting efforts.

Is this not a violation of the equal opportunity act?
"fails to impress gamers". And here I was seeing a ton of people impressed in different subreddits last night. Anecdotal evidence is at its tricks again.
laying off 1% of the workforce every 6 months for 2 years is crushing. The good people quit, morale is wretched. layoffs hurt. Usually coworkers are likeable if not friends, and they're suddenly screwed.

I don't know if it's good recession advice, but if a company has to make cuts, it's way way better do a little too much very quickly. It's weird for a month then things start getting back together.

I've never worked anywhere where upper management didn't take 50% pay cuts with layoffs. (i'm sure they were restored in 6 months or whenever the business restabilized). Actually that announcement probably kept a lot of people from just leaving after the layoff.
Brings home just how easy it can be to break out of an air-gapped computer.
I'm here to say that you're not alone even when downvoted.

My grand-uncle (brother of grandmother) was always 'strange' for all my family, for the entire life, because he had some ideas unavailable to mere mortals that live their cooking-eating-relaxing lives. But when we spoke in his room full of books and maps, I was surprised how many things he knew and did. He spoke on 6 (iirc) languages and traveled a lot on ex-ussr territory. In last years he suffered a stroke and became helpless for some time and cannot speak with usual speed. Ofc family members took care of him, but now that they are stronger and faster thinking, they can laugh on his intents and not take his wishes seriously, saying he is dumb. It's all about cooking-eating now. Though recently one day he just went to train station, bought a ticket a met his friend in other city (800km). He returned succesfully. He is not an idiot, I visited him after disease and he is still my grand-uncle, the same mindset, just very slow speaking and thinking. Others don't give a fck. No, they treat him with care, but never seriously. That's hell.

Now, dear reader (not to kahrkunne, he already knows it), after you read that, I beg you, please stop supporting that awful attitude to a human being* who lived his life and now wants to spend his worth as he wants. Do not put your nose into his business, because there is a chance that your comfortable-cooking-eating mind just cannot understand what life is about.