skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. It's perfect competition (or something close to it). When you have low barriers to entry for relatively similar goods, enough sellers will enter into the marketplace that you won't be able to profit enough that it'll be worth your time.

You'll still probably be able to make some money, but not enough to merit continued publishing.
You can even execute the rowhammer attack from the loaded javascript: https://github.com/IAIK/rowhammerjs There's no protection against it really. It doesn't matter if you can scan APKs for this behaviour if any app can open a webview with the right page.
Secret Nazi military base discovered by Russian scientists in the Arctic
Thanks! We'll fix it asap.
I like the name
yeh that was one of my favourites too

but thing is, nobody can predict which technologies are more of less likely to take-off, it's a mysterious thing but many smart people poo-pooed the internet, cinema, cars, computers
Regarding packages, you might be interested in
https://github.com/kubernetes/charts

Disclosure: I work on the Kubernetes project at Google.
Done with: https://github.com/zammad/vagrant
Please note: https://github.com/zammad/zammad/issues/280
But you _do_ void the warranty if you break your phone when sitting on it. It's a specific action that does that, and it's not as simple as "only rooting your phone voids the warranty"
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The author mentioned being in a hotel, so I assume he was using their wifi.
Is there any reason to suspect that the same technique wouldn't work to get root on iOS?

Then there's the slight problem of rootless that makes it harder to do a permanent jailbreak, but getting root should be a pretty decent step along the way.
Yes, but most of the mainland countries have multi-party systems. Hell, the parliament of the Netherlands at one point consisted of 16(!) parties.
My point is, given the circumstances, it could very well be a full-on war and that would be legit too. It enters a "proxy war" to protect its large ethnic population in a bordering country -- and this only after the voted-for government of said country was toppled, and pro-fascists got into power who don't particularly like that population.

For once, those are actual legit national "strategic interests", not "the world is ours so we have strategic interests all over the globe and we will crush anyone who steps on them" ones. The USSR used to do those too of course. But Russia is no USSR, and only a specific world player consistently does those the last 20+ years.

Countries that have actually invaded other countries (4 of them in the last 20 years), have countless proxy wars, and leave behind hell holes of civil war and destruction have little basis to criticize. And in general, anybody who criticizes the second case, without criticizing 10 times as strongly the first, is at best a hypocrite.
It may have been a moving average of the last N items.
Jeez, can't remember the last time I saw... well, anything relating to COPPA - it was probably when signing up for a forum in the early 2000s.
Well we can already build them on the moon or mars, but there's not much use to do that at this point. The physics of a space elevator our completely understood, it's "just" finding a strong enough material to build the tether. A star trek transporter is still far out of reach.
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Trump's simply grist for the mill. 24 hours a day is a lot of time to fill. What boggles my mind is that otherwise seemingly intelligent people talk about him as if they have to be "fair" about the stuff he spouts. Information elements with process problems produce bad information. Trump's process is mind-bogglingly bad.

What does anyone mean by "trust the government"? And how does anyone think they could trust Assange more?

It's funny; when the brothers Dulles ran Washington, we were overthrowing governments. But people's trust of the government was at an all-time high. Some of that is just lag but ... what does it mean to "trust the government", anyway?
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How to Choose an Internal Communications App for Your Business
Don't forget Community!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3278596/
No, because you don't want nearby people draining your battery by using your phone as a server.
I think it is a real shame that this effect hasn't been quantified and documented yet. Apple, Google, Steam and other platform owners have all the numbers, but they strategically keep their mouths shut. In fact they do the opposite by pretending there is good money to be made. In my opinion it is very close to fraud. And look how many people are victimized by it... Time for the government to step in to demand transparency.
> The only thing that cares at the application layer is the application code,

True, but...

> it can just say "everything is little endian" and be done with it.

... doesn't quite follow. If you're blitting integers directly, your code will break on either a big- or little-endian boxes. Better to pick a standard encoding and always serialize/deserialize properly whatever that means. That standard encoding may be little-endian (maybe better than big-endian - such systems are overwhelmingly more common on the desktop/server) or may be some packed representation. But ideally you could change the representation without changing application code other than the serialization/deserialization itself (which may well live in a library).
No, your fix will often be reverted by those one or two authors who consider the article "theirs".

If you fix it a second time, including a clear explanation in the commit message, you'll be accused of vandalism.
Read your contract. You don't pay for a "5GB data plan". You pay for a "5GB data plan to be used on your mobile only". Violating your contract is not "free market".
Where are the Eyes?
"Things people writing Things Programmers Assume articles assume..."
I just released PyMoneroWallet, a Python library for the Monero wallet
I use both in concert in several installations. Varnish is so blindingly fast that it is a great addition in virtually any stack :)
> Hertz, Avis et al are not seen as competitors

They aren't: you have to go and fetch the car at their shop, which is very impractical compared to having your car parked on your driveway.

The most radical change with autonomous cars isn't that they drive themselves with passengers in it: it's that they'll drive themselves empty in order to pick up passenger wherever they want, whenever they want. That's what makes not owning a car practical.

> There is no network-effect moat here.

There might not be a natural monopoly, but there is a pretty big critical mass: to reliably serve cars fast enough at predictable prices, a fleet must be pretty large. And whenever you go from city A to city B, you need the operator to be present in both cities.

You're right that everyone's allowed to compete on this new market, including Chevy. Just as Blackberry and Nokia and Microsoft were allowed to compete in the post-iPhone smartphone market. But have they got a critical advantage to help them succeed? They've got plenty of legacy that will be more of an hindrance: dealership networks (that's another thing Tesla is fighting tooth and nail not to get entrapped with), many engineers and engineers-turned-executive who can't let go of a dead culture (ICE, driving as a dangerous-but-exhilarating activity, cars marketed as phallic substitutes), syndicated workers on their assembly chains...

Twice in my career I've seen incumbents lose their market, because it took them too long to embrace inevitable change: Unix workstations killed by Linux on beefed-up PC in the early 00's, and cell phone makers deprecated by iPhone and Android in the late 00's. I'd be surprised if GM and Ford proved smarter and more adaptable that HP or Sun in the good old days, or Nokia and RIM a decade later.

When the paradigm shifts, you're better off with a clean slate than with a legacy.
Is Hurd 2038-safe?
IPFS is vaporware. They are going to launch a token and try to take your money
Hi,

I'd be very interested to hear if you've come across any good documentation on hardening Kubernetes?

From what I've seen so far there's very limited documentation on that when compared to other components like Docker, and the defaults can sometimes not be suitable for a high security environment (e.g. https://raesene.github.io/blog/2016/10/08/Kubernetes-From-Co... )
Arrrrrgh.

Roar.

QNX was cautiously courting the open source concept and venturing in the direction of shared source (with some code already available), when BlackBerry bought them and threw all of that out the window.

Biggest yanked opportunity. D:

Now QNX is all-commercial again, with source only available under a license. And Photon is gone, too: no more self-hosting.

I wish BB would(/could?) do the webOS thing with QNX. That would be amazing. The community would absolutely get Photon up and running again, it would be an alternative to Linux and BSD.

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I've seen lots of potentially usable p2p CDN ideas, from storing data in each visitors browser & using them to serve other visitors said static content, to projects like IPFS where you can have a distributed website. The ultimate problems are static asset storage & distribution, DNS (how'd you make a fault tolerant, censorship resistant DNS solution that is updatable in nearly real time), and any database component that a site may need.

Most of these are solved issues[1], but it breaks down to site operators don't want to put in the extra effort or risk (what if a page has assets not load, or worse, bad assets are loaded), and the apathy of the average user prevents a web of trust or installation of any extra software from occurring unless it is drop dead simple and requires zero maintenance.

As soon as someone can bundle up these technologies in a nice package for both site owners and end users, they'll have a killer solution to improve site reliability & reduce operating expenses (by offloading CDN costs to the end users).

[1] - https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet
Iceland did not "jail their bankers", where do you get your news from?
Show HN: Everything about autogas(LPG/propane) – route planner, stations, safety
It doesn't magically spread computation between cores. It just allows many cores to submit work at the same times. (yeah, I'm really simplifying here)

What that means though is that developers still need to write the code in a way that actually uses all the available cores for graphics. This has not been common so far and it will likely take some time for studios to move to that way of development. Even when multicore CPUs first came out, it took years before games actually started using that hardware properly.

But I don't see any reason for AMD to be much better here. Most CPUs sold by both Intel and AMD have either 4 or 8 cores.
Thanks, that looks extremely useful.
They originated from Sweden's Pirate Party, which to a large part is social liberal (a mix of socialist and advocating individual freedom). While not all "copies" of the party abroad necessarily has adopted the same position, it seems many of them did.
> It is true that with Shopify or similar platforms you aren't able to make backend choices or implement caching like the article has described, and yes it's true that all the themes in the theme store aren't perfectly optimized for page load time -- but the question really is do you want to do any of this stuff yourself?

You're right, that is surely a thing you do not want to do yourself. This is why Baqend does all the browser and CDN caching, TTL estimation, query invalidations and so on automatically.

In terms of the frontend if you do not want to rely on a stock theme - and many larger ecommerce site won't - then you will have to do these optimizations yourself. Fortunately with good tooling available as outlined in the article.

I think Shopify is in fact a great improvement over systems like Magento. But if Shopify is well-enginneered (which I'm convinced of), how do you handle sudden load spikes in the database? Do you reshard and migrate data in real-time? How does Shopify scale the application tier? How can tenants run scalable custom backend code? What happens if a database or server node crashes?

The advantage of Baqend is that its inner workings are published in research papers and blog posts, so people can judge the performance and scalability not only through benchmarks and real-world examples like Thinks but also by looking at the design.

In contrast to Shopify, Baqend is backend-as-a-service which means customers have full freedom on how they design their site or shop. They do not have to live with a server-generated HTML that they cannot change - they can for exmaple easily build a React/Angular single page applications, run server-side JavaScript code, do custom queries, build a native app around the same business logic and APIs, subscribe to websocket-based change streams etc.

While I respect that it took you 10 years to build Shopify, this is usually not an indicator for scalability and a low-latency design. Often such projects end up with solutions like MySQL sharded at application-level, intermingled technology stacks and legacy systems.

Disclaimer: I'm the Baqend CEO and its caching approach is my PhD thesis.
> we could focus on app stores and sandboxes (which modern OSes also have both), instead of rewriting everything on the web.

Show me another way to write end-user applications that are cross platform, and then (if it existed prior to 1995, or even 2005) explain to me why your particular alternative didn't take over the world.

Heck, even standalone desktop and mobile apps are now being built with web technologies (react-native, Electron, etc.) rather than GUI frameworks like wxWidgets.
Thanks! I'll take a look around. There's a lot more than just "apps" at stake here, but again: I'll keep an eye on the progress. We also do a lot with jvm based microservices and the lightbend/play stack which already standardized on DC/OS with conductr. Datatstax enterprise is also of interest to us. A lot of this stuff is already "baked".

There were a lot of little things that made us pick the stack we did - a lot of this is highly specific to our use cases and customer base. We will likely have a k8s version at some point. When that time comes (or if enough customers ask for it) I'll re evaluate what we need on the stack.

Thanks for the links!
"...And in the end it worked."

While I have an idea of what you mean, I'd reexamine that conclusion. It worked for a while. IMO, the Soviet system wasn't sustainable until Khrushchev - Beria and Stalin were constantly trying to figure out when the other was going to murder them.

I think the pathology in play for Lenin and Stalin was akin to eliminationism on a smaller scale - once someone became "othered", they were pretty much destined for one behind the ear.
Uber is exactly like that... or HN, where "positivity" is effectively enforced and swearing triggers immediate action from the comments police

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12708612
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react-native-image-resizer: Resize Local Images with React Native
This is a React Native module that we developed to resize image files (JPEG & PNG). Should be useful for anyone making a React Native app that uploads/display photos coming from the camera (react-native-camera) or the photo library (CameraRoll API from React Native).

It's compatible with iOS and Android and there is an example usage provided too: https://github.com/bamlab/react-native-image-resizer/tree/ma...
This sounds like the absolute perfect thing for me, and I'd never even heard of it!

Just a quick check, you've seen Police Squad, right? The precursor series to The Naked Gun. It's only 6 episodes, which always amazes me when I think of how many moments I love in it.
> those are NOT allowed to film anything facing away from the premises

Makes sense, but any idea how they verify this? Would someone report a camera they think is facing outwards and this would be investigated? Or are there random checks?
The Pirate Party are not going to win the election. They are radical extremists.

Well this is just my opinion, but lets check back next week after the vote.
I.. think we agree? Are you just chiming in to support my position? Because I think that is what I wrote above. That was the point, I tried to answer the GP's 'if you brick it (by flashing it)..' line of reasoning with 'if you brick it (by sitting on it)..' and showing that there is no connection between flashing and bricking in general.
Some of the aspects portrayed in the episode "Nosedive" seem pretty far-fetched and probably are just that, at least for the duration.

But other aspects tangential to the rating system portrayed in the episode are already very much of interest to technology companies as potential future undertakings, with far-reaching consequences. Whether such undertakings have actually been green-lighted as live projects with lots of momentum, is unknown to the public at this time.

On December 29, 2015, Facebook has acquired a patent [1] "that would allow creditors to assess your creditworthiness based on the credit ratings of the people in your social network."

Facebook applied for the patent in 2012 as part of a bundle of
patents it purchased from now-defunct social networking site
Friendster. The patent was first noticed by SmartUpLegal. This is
how the patent describes the invention:
When an individual applies for a loan, the lender examines the
credit ratings of members of the individual’s social network who
are connected to the individual through authorized nodes. If the
average credit rating of these members is at least a minimum
credit score, the lender continues to process the loan
application. Otherwise, the loan application is rejected.

[1] Unites States Patent No. 9,224,213

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

[2] Facebook’s new patent lets lenders reject a loan based on your friends’ credit scores—but don’t freak out

http://qz.com/472751/facebooks-new-patent-lets-lenders-rejec...
With techniques like Lightning Network you can use networks of "payment channels" to effectively compress many transactions into a few, so it isn't impossible. You just won't have everything included directly in the blockchain individually.
Thank you very much for this. My company hire from UpWork but after reading that appalling behaviour, we are considering any alternative.
Charlie Brooker, the author of Black Mirror has had quite a few prescient moments: A previous series had the UK Prime Minister having sex with a pig, a year later it turned out that David Cameron had done something obscene to a pig as part of a college initiation ceremony.

Brooker claimed he was spooked by this coincidence.
It's not just a question about the magnitude of the possible upside or downside though, it's also about how likely they are to occur. If you offer me the opportunity to almost certainly make every day slightly better with the risk of killing me at a rate of once in the current age of the universe I'm going to take it. It's a tiny upside with a massive downside, but it would be irrational not to take it given the chances involved.

Medications absolutely are controlled. That doesn't mean they don't have issues, but are you willing to suggest medications are less controlled than food? I don't need to hope I've washed my medications well enough, nor do I need to ensure I've heated them to at least a certain temperature for a length of time, nor do I need to worry about cross contamination or any such thing. This isn't to say medications are without risk, but compared to produce, meat, or eggs I have a much better idea about what exactly is entering my body when I consume it.

>All I'm saying is that going to the doctor has risks that need to be considered.

I doubt that very much. Are the risks significantly greater than the risk you likely took getting to the doctor in the first place? I'd be shocked.
Why should we trust your opinion more than the polls?
GitLab has built-in support for git-LFS https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binarie...
Preparing IT for the Internet of Things
"America has much more "questionable democratic credentials" than Russia."

This is simply prima facie false. I understand not understanding the context to "invading countries" but really?

There's a really nice book - "A Peace to End All Peace" and it should explain some of what you may object to. Before this round of festivities, the US was unsteady on its feet as the domain of the Cold Warriors.

The 2003 fun was as much about the U.N. process breaking down as anything else.
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I'd say inertia is a large factor but also risk aversion. Bank systems have to be very available (or they attract large fines) and so there's a tendency to stick with things that are proven to be robust even when they have other problems.

The other major problem I've seen is that most banks don't think of themselves as technology companies, and treat IT as an overhead to be minimized, which is absolutely the wrong approach.

This tends to lead to things that save money in the short term (e.g. outsourcing deals) but could well cost money in the longer term, as they make replacing legacy systems harder.
My point was that the only reason to take out a bond in the first place is time value of money: the auto industry needs them for its inventory and input parts. Bond markets seizing up present a problem for this kind of company, because it's possible to be profitable but bankrupt due to cashflow issues if the company cannot roll over its bonds when they fall due.

Bankruptcy causes real destruction of value as inventory is sold at liquidation prices and the concentration of knowledge and organisation that makes a firm valuable in the first place evaporates.
WebSocket connection is failing for me but it's probably because of my workplace's network limitations.

Shame, I was quite excited when I first saw the game :)
While a space elevator is constructable on the moon or mars, making one for earth would needs exotic high tensile strength materials that we don't know how to build.

A launch loop, on the other hand, has many of the benefits of a space elevator; but the nicest feature is that it can be constructed from conventional materials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop
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Well, of course. If you look at the sort of thing ordinary people are interested in, programming is now quite prominent in several respects:

- Every interesting business requires programmers. Uber, AirBnB, Tesla, Facebook, Google -everything that is making headlines- require coders as a key ingredient, rather than as waterboys. That wasn't always the case when I was growing up.

- It's clear for everyone to see that coding jobs pay better than most jobs.

- There's a degree to which coding jobs are interesting which is becoming ever more clear to people. Where jargon was once a sign that you were a nerd, now it's a sign that you're informed on some of the things driving modern society.
Dutch here. We need at least 5 parties to make a government in the next election. Nothing ever changes here because everything has to go through many iterations of compromises if it even wants to leave the negotiation table. I wish we had a system like the USA.
Tips to Turn the Presenter’s Enemy into His Ally
In France there is a similar project called "sous-surveillance" (under-surveillance) that maps cctv using Open Street Map: https://www.sous-surveillance.net/

But the mobile app was not so good, it still can be found here: https://github.com/kernel23/sous-surveillance-mobile
What technique does it use to keep the state consistent over all clients and the server?
Ongoing Note 7 Investigation could delay the S8 Release by weeks