skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the point is relative to being containerized, where you're deciding ahead of time what needs to be backed up (outside the container) and what doesn't. This leads to backups and restores being easier and more "boring."

It's also counter to one of themes of the post, which suggests by choosing this boring stack, he can just leave it alone for months at a time without touching it (presumably relative to other stacks). You can do that--but it's not like you're not still on duty for making sure these things are still working and happening.

EDIT: For clarity:
You can set up a multi-AZ MySQL database instance on AWS, with whatever backup schedule you want, using a single API command. That is decidedly doing a lot of things under the hood, but I don't care--it gets done, and the backups get made to S3, and I don't have to handle it myself. It even (optionally) does minor updates for me and swaps masters automatically while doing them. To me, this is a great example of "boring."

Now compare that to setting up and maintaining something similar with SQL Server. It doesn't mean I don't have to secure or backup my MySQL database instance--it's just a whole lot more "boring" in the good way.
Foxpro was my first language and I loved it.
Well, maybe not before `yarn` actually installs the dependencies of all projects. It still has bugs where it doesn't install "random" transitive dependencies when using `yarn --prod`. Seems premature to make it part of node.
OpenSSL Blog: TLS 1.3 coming in next release
Right. And that's not always a red-eye flight.
'In a draft paper published last week, Shane Greenstein and his colleagues Feng Zhu and Yuan Gu found that over the years, individuals who edit political articles on Wikipedia seem to grow less biased — their contributions start to contain noticeably fewer ideologically-charged statements.

“We thought this was quite striking,” said Greenstein, a professor at Harvard Business School. “The most slanted Wikipedia editors tend to become more moderate over time.”'

Uh yeah maybe because the people in question grew older? Many of them may have joined wikipedia in their teens or early twenties and like so many others in that age group had quite raical political views and like so many others become more moderate as they mature and learn more about the world.
I am really not into new frameworks, quite the opposite, but this is cool and I can see immediate value of this approach thanks to gif movie on the homepage.

Thank you for making this.
Isn't that the whole point of YCombinator?
-What did the companies that posted on your site have to say about the quality and quantity of candidates?

None of them have contacted me.

-Do they feel it was $50 well spent?

I don't know.

-Did people apply through your site and find jobs so far? Do you have a way of tracking the stats?

A few people wrote in to thank me and tell me they applied jobs. I haven't asked around, and there's no tracking in place.

-What is your future direction of this site? What features do you plan to add?

I want to keep focusing on the UX. Speed and ease of use are the features I care about most. I want the UI to be so good that people feel comfortable looking for a tech job no matter how old they are with the site catering to older geeks as a bonus.

-Oh, and how did the $10 Digital Ocean VPS hold up with the sudden spikes of traffic?

No issues at all. I use Flask-Cache backed by redis, which I'm sure helps a lot.
If someone wants to solve this problem and wants inspiration, look into how Unreal Engine's scripting/networking architecture works. Gamedev and webdev can be very similar at times.
> A friend once asked me to watch a video with her that she was going to display on her computer using Netflix. I declined, saying that Netflix streaming was such an affront to freedom that I could not be party to its use under any circumstances whatsoever.

RMS is a very principled man, but I think he may have misunderstood "Netflix and chill".
Researchers studied the changes to Wikipedia articles and found that in the course of these article's edits the political tone and biases tended to converge toward neutral over time.
Building Bots as a Business (BaaBs) with Jamie Wright of Tatsu
He was aware it was his grandmother's car, he wasn't aware the brake light was out.

I don't know if you've seen elderly people take pills, but they often have poor eyesight coupled with poor motor skills so losing a pill or two is not surprising. We put my elderly dad's pills in a daily pill holder (one for morning pills, one for evening pills) because he had trouble counting them out himself. Though if a pill is taken on demand, like a painkiller, leaving them in the bottle may be more sensible.

As for how it ended up on the passenger's side, I would hope that if grandma is on narcotic painkillers that she's taking them while she is a passenger, not driving.

As for wether or not someone can be convicted for even one small pill, yes, it is possible... for example:

In NJ: Possessing any amount of a schedule I, II, III, or IV CDS incurs a fine of up to $35,000, at least three (and up to five) years in prison, or both. Possessing any amount of a Schedule V CDS incurs a fine of up to $15,000, up to 18 months in prison, or both. Using or being under the influence of any CDS not for the purpose of treating a sickness or injury (as legally prescribed by a licensed physician) incurs a fine of up to $500.

http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal...
As I've grown up, I've realized that "such assertive terms" tend to translate to "I have an unfettered view of the inside of my ass, and I'm positive what everything looks like in here".
...or Java or C# or Scala or Haskell or Rust or OCaml or...

There's a whole lot to the programming world than disproportionately popular dynamic languages.

What is so great about Lisp that other languages don't have? Macros? Simple syntax? I mean, that's basically it, right?

This is just fanboyism for a language he has nostalgia for. Nothing else.
Oh, sorry, I misread your reply. I didn't know about the non-overnight options in that direction.
> Art has no function.

Can you name an art piece that has no function?
"A friend once asked me to watch a video with her that she was going to display on her computer using Netflix. I declined, saying that Netflix streaming was such an affront to freedom that I could not be party to its use under any circumstances whatsoever."

When you refuse netflix and chill due to ideological conflicts with the key distribution model, just stallman things
Learn to code in Swift directly in your browser
Don't get me started on chasing down NuGet dependency errors. The only difference is there's usually only one option for any given task. We're constantly held back by packages with conflicting references. I'm not jumping everything to Angular 2 just because it's available, but I can build my 1 apps in a fraction of the time it takes to use my old MVC boilerplate.
Except that we seem far more willing to commit drones, rather than manned craft.
After all the replication failures, poor statistics, and more in the social sciences.
I am skeptical of this.
"Wilson seems to have thought the engineers of this accelerator, and the scientists using it to study nature, were like—or as important as—artists."

This implies, to me, that the author seems to have an almost-classist regard for artists (however he may define the term.) We certainly need visionaries in a variety of disciplines. Encouraging visionaries is one thing that "makes [our country] worth defending." Why unnecessarily burden visionaries with pigeonholes not of their choosing? Certainly enlighten them as to their available paths, their strengths ... but please don't discourage someone from being a visionary engineer by declaring that they'll never be as 'important' as an artist.
Where in America Are the Most Online Fraudsters?
Sure, and things like the auto industry are increasingly becoming automated with robotics.

So yes, we can manufacture things. We just can't pay people to do it. Not if we want to afford these nice shiny new things.
Great place to find out how much ammo you have remaining.
What makes it slightly worse are the odds that the space will sit unused for an arbitrary length of time. Down the street from there is a big "space available" sign that three-odd years ago was a decent movie theater; how much money someone has lost from that extended vacancy is a staggering thought. Similarly, over in Central, TT the Bear's closed last year because the property owners raised the rent; it's also now an empty space in one of the highest-value areas of town.

Cambridge is becoming more and more expensive, but at the same time becoming worse managed.
> autonomy is not a key difference

Mobility is.

Active-vs-passive is.
in the event handler you have to manually check if ctrl is being held or if the lmb was pressed or not. Most people forget this which is a shame.
We might once have dreamed that the miracle of cheap, instant communication would knit society together. The reality has been closer to the opposite.

Once again, Douglas Adams turns out to be prophetic.

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

In the sentence before, he also predicted his friend Richard Dawkins' books:

"Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the theme of his best-selling book, Well That About wraps It Up For God.

http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Babel_Fish
Double clicking brings up Apple Pay. Clicking once with a finger that doesn't have TouchID brings up the PIN entry screen.
That's a great list. Im keeping it. Yeah, my 2000-era desktop apps were cross-platform, booted instantly, ran fast on 200MHz, used little of 64MB of RAM, and customized could run stuff like Half-Life. Some of these web sites are barely responsive or performant while using up enough CPU to turn on the fan of my Core Duo 2.
racial or radical?
That's extremely creepy.
Well, someone seems to show up to Boston Haskell every month having used it in industry, and I've used it for a paper on probabilistic modelling in my copious free time.
Well, my thoughts were more along the lines of the malicious software somehow needs to make it onto the infected host and then must be reliably controlled.

How do you write/test scripts which are so reliable to work across all the different types of devices, networks, OS etc which participated in this attack? To infect and control this many devices your code must be rock solid.
What book was that?
That rider doesn't seem that bad. Sure, it's a little specific and wordy, but there's nothing in there that's really cruel.
That's ordering by native speakers. If you count non-natives, English has far more speakers than Spanish (but far less than Mandarin).
I would consider the story plausible. I have heard stories of elderly ladies being fined for DUI after being given the wrong drug by a malpracticing doctor and causing an accident. The courts are not a forgiving place.
Ask HN: What is the future of freedom in Canada?
I'm currently an expat in the US, looking for my next move.

The thing I like about Canada is that it has kind of a rivalry with the US. It wants to show that it's its own country, and doesn't just mimic everything the US does or act like a lapdog to it. This makes me think that once freedom in the US really does completely tank, freedom in Canada may be upheld. What are your thoughts?
> So yeah, if you're dealing with the type of person that runs antivirus, then everything else will probably suck.

/shrug. I don't use Windows, but my understanding is it's fairly common including in server environments. I can't imagine taking money from people and storing their data on a Windows server without it having some kind of malware protection.

> I'm also confused what Windows has to do with an HA DB setup. Or do you mean compared to a cloud service, which has even more complexity, just hidden?

Well part of it is that SQL Server makes it tougher for a "boring stack for my personal projects" because it's pretty expensive if you want that. It just adds on to the "not boring" aspect of it. Admittedly my understanding is that there's nothing "boring" about a redundant relational database on Linux, either.

There are cloud services that help with this (some which manage that complexity, and others which abstract it away from you), but both of those options are probably more "boring" than maintaining your own SQL Server instance.
Hey don't forget super cheap labor in the form of prisoners
>it seems to can expect even more of the same from the next president

This is the saddest thing about this election. Everyone is so distracted by the Trump buffoonery that a Generic Politician (tm) is going to take the reins and continue policies we've been bitter about for years. And most will see this as a "good thing" ("At least it's not Trump!")
The Phone Hackers at Cellebrite Have Had Their Firmware Leaked Online
If you look at Baidu's infrastructure, it's almost like a parallel universe where the names are identical or almost identical to Google's: BFE, GTC, GSLB. And BFS does look a lot like GFS2 aka Colossus.
As someone who has flown in all different classes on all different lengths of flights (my dad is a pilot) I would choose shorter flights over a better seat literally every time except if it is an overnight flight. There's not that much of a difference to me until I try to sleep and then first class is just so much better.
There's tons on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m5...
Investing Made Easy and Empowering
Here is the pre-print:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03031
Joint Operating Environment Report by the Pentagon [pdf]
Ok. Yes its asthetically pleasing. I feel comfortable looking at it. But...

its completely unreasable because all the variable names have been mangled and there is no whire space to organize the blocks. At this point it looks like a puzzle.

If you consider the algorithm an art, I disagree. Algorithms are either more efficient them their predecessors or are efficient for a niche.
How is npm run not os encumbered? It just calls out to the shell. Does it ship with a consistent shell on every platform and use that?
I'm considering buying an Xperia X Compact. It's about the size I think I'd be happy with, Sony devices tend to have great development communities, and Sony itself provides a means to unlock the phone's bootloader, and to compile AOSP for the device.

Of course, it fails in the "cheap" dimension, and also on "size" and "replaceable battery" ones. Still, as far as things that would be considered compact in the current smartphone market, it looks like close to the only option.
Yes, people who listen to a lot will find it really easy to get hundreds of gigabytes of material.
it must be communist way right?
do you do advanced communism like fucking animals?
so you are saying there's a market for a 4k 55" collaborative device that recognizes pen, multi-touch, has a camera and hopefully software that does not suck and integrates with Hangouts / Skype for Business at a lower pricepoint?

Seriously though...I have yet to see the Surface Hub used anywhere apart from MS offices.
So, you're arguing that we should have to risk lives because we'd be less willing to commit them?

That seems like a profoundly misguided argument.
>Prosecutors only have to show that the accused knew the drugs were present and intended to use or control them.

Curious how they established that.
You don't need to care that it works perfectly everywhere. It only needs to work well enough on enough devices to get the effect you want.

5 nines of uptime isn't the goal :)
404. That’s an error.

The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

We're still waiting.
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record labels don't try to partner and monetise sites like Mixcrate.

When it comes to music streaming, with few exceptions record labels do not "partner," they dictate terms. The mere implication that Mixcloud should have any leverage in a negotiation of this type is anathema to the industry.

A large number of folks uploading mixes to Mixcrate would be amateur, making no money from whatever promotional value using a track may give them

The industry doesn't care about the failures of the bedroom DJ.

It's just not a substitute for anything that labels are selling. In fact, the opposite is true, that people are much more likely to go and buy a track because the mix helped them discover it.

Eliminating the thin edge of the wedge of ceding any copyright control is more important. The first rule about the music industry is that being a landowner in copyright country takes precedence over the desires of music fans. There is much lip service designed to counteract this perception, but if you look at the history and actions of the industry its priorities come clear.

Sites like Mixcrate closing down kills two revenue streams for labels

What revenue? People don't spend money on this stuff for a few reasons, one of which is because DJ mixes are so numerous, and another is "because they can't." The tracklists that would provide the names of songs for a listener to purchase currently have extremely low coverage, partially due to the litigiousness of the industry. The industry also resists the idea of having universal identification codes (cf. ISRC) that would make any of this more practical.

2) a direct licensing model.

These are rare, and you have to be Pandora-sized to get them from the BigN cartel.
It's powerful and elegant, as he puts it. I happen to agree.

It does not mean that other programming languages do not have merits though.

Also, is it really "nostalgia" if the language is still in use? Some dialects, even more so.
Fabric's Crashlytics now segments crashes by new and engaged users
Is there any solution to this other than in-depth VR?
If you're going to do log processing, it means you've got data to process. And I haven't worked with AWS since 3 years ago, but in general external bandwidth is expensive, which is why you want to keep everything in the same data center where bandwidth is free and where you have no latency.
This looks like a very organized project with well defined goals, both of which are points that will help it succeed.

It seems there's a bit of a trend back toward compiled languages (Go, Rust, Swift) that don't rely on the JVM or .NET CLR to run. I think that these are all great languages, though I almost wish for something like a better, more modern, cross-platform COM to easily share libraries among the languages.

I've only had to work with COM very, very occasionally though. If I'd had to work with it for any extended period of time, I probably wouldn't be wishing for it, or anything like it. Perhaps sharing functionality between languages is better accomplished by separate services communicating via something like 0MQ.
>Why not, once the digital age started, the price of storing records has dropped dramatically.

How come your default is "why not"? Shouldn't there be a justification for indefinitely storing these types of records? And "might commit a crime in the future" doesn't qualify.

Yes it's cheap to store them. So what?
exponents are resolved first
It's only unstable because the version of V8 is marked as unstable. Newer versions of V8 have async/await as stable. TSC member jasnell has stated if things go smoothly, we can see async/await stable in a minor version release of v7.
ZCash looks like a promising tool to prevent civil forfeiture and legalized theft.

It is interesting how the same (or similar) technologies that have made cash rare, and allowed tracking of transactions and spending, may subsequently enable radical anonymity.

P.S. I hope to see an investment market based on anonymous cryptocurrency one day; it would allow many people who currently lack access to investment markets or funding to prosper.
I have been following Rust's push into server-side development and can tell it is still green. There is a great foundation with the hyper library but quite a bit of fragmentation with frameworks and the async side of things.

It will be interesting to see where swift goes with all this. I know Rust has a lot of traction now with cross-platform support and language features, but I think swift is poised to offer a much different experience for server-side development.
I'm a little confused about the benefits of server side rendering. I thought the point of these js UI frameworks was to make the client do a bunch of the work? Can anyone give me some of the upsides? Thanks!
In terms of growing the state and creating opportunities for large corporations to make billions of dollars while subjugating a population, I'd say it is overwhelmingly successful.
"Internet Points" are a strange thing.

This is the 4th article that people have submitted from my blog in the last hour, evidently hoping to score some points off the success of the other thing I have on the front page and thus be able to... well... there must be some benefit I'm not aware of.

But sure. It's fun to watch, and I'm happy for the traffic. Here's a link to the original discussion for this article, which actually turns out to be one of the first things that put Hacker News on to my radar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184930

It's also one of my personal favorites, so it's nice to see it get some renewed love.
Yes, indeed. Thanks, fixed.
It sounds great in theory, but if you aren't careful, you will come back with less motivation and skills than you had before you left.

I lived in Asia for a few years as a digital nomad of sorts. My only means of income was freelance software development.

It only worked for me because I have excellent discipline, but most expats I met had a lifestyle of: drinking, partying, smoking weed, and not doing everything possible to not have a regular job. The long-term expats (more that 5 years) were a pretty miserable bunch a well.

While this is fun, it's a rude awakening when you have to come back to the real world and actually make a living and you have been left in the dust. I know a few people that had to move back in with their parents because they couldn't find work after their travel experience.

..and involving your kids? A bad idea. Many governments do not offer you the same protections and rights that you have in the USA. It's hard enough with couples, nearly impossible with kids.
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Oracle Algo-Trading Robot Scam Software
What about torrent, mplayer & chill (with `M-X doctor`).
It also resonates with me.

I play with all sorts of programming languages, specially on those long winter nights.

When it comes to production code it is all about the Java and .NET stacks, with some C++ only when there is a need to integrate some sort of native library, or call the respective VM APIs.

Even then I can usually sort it out with JNA, P/Invoke and RCW.