skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy the argument that they are exploiting anything - but I do recognize that their community is very overly active but I wouldn't call that exploiting
This might be cynical, but I'm not sure it's possible to have an online community that doesn't function this way, more or less.

I think there's a general law of online communities: so long as there are rules of any kind, there will always be users who push into the gray area (e.g. by finding ways to follow the letter but not the intent), and then keep pushing until stopped(). The moderator is then always left with the choice between punishing only the bad actors (which will be interpreted as selective enforcement or unfair targeting), or changing the rules to make things stricter for everyone (disallowing behavior that wasn't causing problems apart from the bad actors).

() I read once in a parenting guide that children crave boundaries, and tend to escalate bad behavior until punishment occurs in order to establish where the boundaries are. Probably there's an analogy to be made there.
And if they didn't, we might have built a sustainable society faster and invested in sustainable energy sooner. It could have been done in the 80s. I know it's scary to imagine Americans driving on smaller cars and bicycles and public transport like Europeans... but we would survive it :)
They're being coy about it, but [1]:

"As I replied in another interview recently, we have sold in excess of 200 AmigaOne X1000 systems and boards but less than 2000. As for satisfaction, yes we were very pleased with AmigaONE X1000 sales but, due to the high cost and shortage of P.A. Semi CPUs, we took the decision to discontinue manufacturing the Nemo motherboard." (June 2015)

Note that this is not the only AmigaOne's on sale. There are also the ACube SAM boards/computers [2], which are substantially cheaper. They don't really directly compete due to the price gap - in fact, A-Eon apparently contracts ACube for some work (firmware etc.).

Estimating the yearly sales of AmigaOS 4.x machines is thus quite hard, but I'm assuming it's in the low hundreds per year at most.

[1] http://distrita.com/a-eon-interview-about-amigas-future/

[2] http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=7
There's always the simpler explanation to why Google is getting traction:

- Price/performance is better in some/many cases for VMs

- It's easy(ier?) to use

- Clear technical advantage with some of their other services e.g. Load balancers

- Customers prefer when there are multiple companies competing for their business

I get that there are long-term strategies that involve the likes of container services. But just the fact that they are better in some areas will help them get traction. Plus they have a fantastic brand name.
It's pretty clearly explained in Spez's post that it's a loophole, not a bug. The loophole is that there's an override for how sticky posts show in /all, used to elevate topical events -- which was being abused, against the spirit of the override, by pretty much only that one subreddit, for different purposes. There is probably a technical solution to this but it's probably complicated and this bandaid gets the job done for now.

But I think you knew that.
One of the most important stories of the year, on HN for 6 hours, with 11 comments and 105 points. Is everyone already afraid? I always said "I told you so" would ring hollow and have no satisfaction in it, but this is what happens when everyone forgets about our foundational principles and waves injustice away with arguments such as 234dd57d2c8db's.

The constitution is the supreme law of the land, created to protect, not establish, natural rights. As such, such general warrants do not properly satisfy the constitutional requirements our country established.

Actions like this, are the result of the allowed slippage, from both sides of the isle, as prescribed to them by the shadow masters.

We have allowed our true foreign enemies to infiltrate and subvert our system, falsely focus our efforts on foreign boogeymen, all the while our domestic enemies run rampant (often backed, or blackmailed, by foreign ones).

The true, the capable, the already somewhat successful enemies of the constitution don't wear hijabs, they wear business suits and ties.

This is a turning point for America, where we either cower in fear of the coming totalitarian surveillance dystopia, or we speak up and push back. Silence now will be nothing less than acquiescence.

As Hitchens said, the American revolution is the only revolution that still stands a chance.
Fiber lines are someone else's platform. If Comcast was limiting access to huffingtonpost.com it would be their right as its their platform.
I don't think I'm confusing anything.
PicnicHealth (YC S14) Is Hiring a Head of Operations
https://wptavern.com/ryan-hellyers-aws-nightmare-leaked-acce...
> You accept the tyranny before you and laugh at those who resist

There are many who claim tyranny and resist just because they aren't the ones in power. I'm not so sure that just because someone shouts tyranny that we all have to fall in line behind them.
We used to give people with no real experience or portfolio small homework assignments to do - one of them forwarded it to his friend, asking him to complete it for him - but accidentally CCed my boss...
I think they wish they could but are avoiding doing that if they can due to the (much more) immense backlash that would ensue. Which seems, well, reasonable to me.
Ask HN: Did you ever have to push against founders/CEOs having database access?
Amazon hires highly skilled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slaves
Ah yes, laws are definitely the determinate for safety.
This is why texting and driving is illegal everywhere.
"The problem is they aren't their own little community. They actively target, brigade (large group upvoting/downvoting), and intentionally troll other communities with their only goal being to fuck with people and overwhelmingly push their rhetoric."

If you post something that doesn't conform to the current left-leaning narrative, you will be down voted by massive amounts of users because of your beliefs.

I don't see much difference than these brigades. Except it's done by 75% of the community, rather than the bottom 1%. A minority subreddit is being discriminated against and blamed for all of the bad behavior on Reddit.

I suppose the CEO isn't all that much different that the people on the alt-right.

"Reddit strives to have a positive community and when you let the trolls run the system"

Yeah, well, if this is really the case and not just a childish political stunt, why are only Trump-related groups targeted?

I'm really tired of a 'positive community' being used an excuse to stifle opposing political opinions. It's becoming really clear that it only has to do with politics based on the abhorrent behavior of site owners and moderators (the CEO purposely altered user comments that he doesn't like. He should have been fired on the spot).

"Reddit (nor Twitter) is under no obligation to be a platform for free speech, and it's completely within their right to dictate who gets to participate and what they're allowed to discuss."

So it's fine for private organizations to discriminate against people simply based on their political beliefs? Do you really want to live in a world where this is accepted?

I find that this is being used an excuse to silence divisive political viewpoints and left-leaning organizations are purging their sites of anyone that disagrees with them.

Most left-leaning media sites have banned all comments for exactly this reason.

Lately, the only sites that are truly free are the right-leaning ones. Fox news, for instance, doesn't ban anyone for merely stating a political opinion...unless you are harassing other users (stating an opinion isn't harassment).

The irony is that people voted Trump because of this behavior by the media (which has slowly been getting worse since the 90s). Continuing to do this will not only create more of a divided nation, but many will be more likely to re-elect Trump.
Downvotes are not citations, but citations are, and when you ask for and receive citations and then pretend they don't exist you get downvoted.

(Admittedly I don't know the order of your downvotes, your edit, and the replies to your comment, but this is a pattern that happens all discussions about that subreddit. "There's no evidence for X" posters maintain their stance by simply ignoring all the evidence that gets readily supplied. It's absolutely infuriating to deal with.)
I know exactly what you mean! I worked for Marriott in support for one of my first jobs and automated myself out of it in about 2 weeks so I could play games on company time. People call in, I push 1-10 and go back to playing while I make small talk on the phone until my scripts executed. :)
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I no longer work at the company, but I used to work at a startup doing IoT devices. Our cloud server didn't stay up to date with security vunerabilities as we should have. Basically letting Mysql get behind in versions. There was also the issue of SSL being forgone in the name of time saving since I was the only one working on infrastructure. The development platform we were using broke on older versions with SSL enabled, so it was thrown into the wind before I had the time to deal with it.

This was due to being inexperienced with the work, too many duties, and a time line that didn't give me the time that I needed to fully understand some topics.

TLDR;
-Security vulnerabilities from version updates
-SSL on some platforms
-Not having a dedicated / experienced individual on staff for dev ops in general
The bandaid was to allow people to filter subs themselves (which is great). Writing code to target a specific community crosses the line
Planting a 1.5 ton of cash? Wouldn't a 100kg do it or even just a bucket of cash?
Eve Dev Diary (October 2016)
Yeah, terrible timing. A CNAME record conflicted with our new SSL cert - renewing the cert forced us off VIP on to SNI (per GAE's deprecation schedule for VIP) and the CNAME we had in place for VIP then prevented DNS from resolving properly - at least that's what I think happened ! (videopixie engineer :)
Seek out support from friends and family you trust, even if its simply emotional support. I had no one to turn to, so even though I've carried on each day, I'm slowly turning into a nihilist. Don't be like me.
By the way if anyone in this community is into solo round the world sailing, the Vendee Globe is currently under way.

It's a fantastic race that happens every four years: all participants have the same type of boat, although newer generation boats are much faster than those a couple of years old, and they have to sail around the world solo and without any external help - so that if something breaks they cant stop somewhere to get a replacement part. Each sailor has a camera and is required to send videos of their journey, which are fantastic to watch if you enjoy this kind of things:

http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/

Videos: http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/web-tv/playlist/104

Real time gps tracking: http://tracking2016.vendeeglobe.org/hp5ip0/
Hey another article at YC frontpage about saying "DO NOT MESS WITH STATE" to scale;

"Shared-memory multithreading really isn’t the future, we thought, and notably absent from all of my prior work was fixing this problem."

I'm thinking about..

Immutability is the way to scale complex systems?

Every system can be implemented as immutable by definition?

We need to look to build new data structures - like Tries - to be Immutable-friendly?

When Immutability doesn't worth it?
The ending of the match in puzzle form on Lichess:

https://en.lichess.org/training/102787
I disagree. I don't think it crosses the line. But that's a value judgment, I guess, so there's not a lot of point arguing it out.

I especially think it was acceptable because it solves the urgent problem with a quick solution, whereas a technical solution would take a lot longer, and I do strongly believe that the problem was very urgent.
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The latter part of the interviews do exactly that with a work simulation. Very cool.
That... that's your evidence that Google are a bunch of racists? Because they want to know how well applicants did in college?

Okay, then. Good luck with the lawsuits.
Go Magnie Go!
For anyone else wondering what "Midori" is, it looks like it was an internal Microsoft research project:

http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/
Securing the Internet of Things
Not sure why you got down voted, I feel the same way. I read what I was sure was 3/4 of it only to realize it was about 1/8 but I'm definitely going to save it and finish.

I'm slightly (very?) jealous that I am not so passionate about any part of software as the author. I am interested in lots of areas but no one piece of the puzzle draws me and its bittersweet sometimes to read the thoughts of someone who seems so passionate about their field.
I don't think it's as bad of a format if you just change the premise to a remote hire or something. You need to do a lot more communicating. But there is really no way to be totally sure about someone.

I also find it mildly insulting that essentially i'm interviewing for a job I don't know i'm going to have, as if I had no choice in what I do, or my choice was irrelevant. If I get hired for a Perl job, don't put me on a Java team, because I hate Java. They could also just skip certain interviews by asking if I have any interest in X team in the future, or if I have any experience with it.

I will say I did appreciate and enjoy my own experience with Amazon - two phone interviews, possibly some code sample, and an in-person. Really nice people. Just an unfortunate waste of time, especially for the interviewers.
Sorry, 'serge', but I am gonna call out things the president-elect says - such as that three million people voted illegally in the last election - as what they are: grade A bullshit.
>> How is this different than if a person were watching you during an interview?

It's different because they're recording you, not to mention they're doing it by installing spyware on your computer. That's not what a person does when they watch you, unless they're watching you through a camera.
You could pair https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-voice-service with https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit
When I was taking exams at university I am certain the professor could monitor my eye and mouth movements. I could also of course be seen at all times as well as any sounds I made were heard .
How is this different?
> (I'm not sure how this [accessing other tabs] works with Chrome's sandbox, though).

Just fine. The "tabs" permission is a blanket perm across all tabs in all windows. Extensions run at a higher level of trust than Joe Random Blog's JS and accordingly have access to more powerful APIs.
Since 2003, MLB determines home field advantage in the World Series by the winner of the All–Star Game. Not same but similar.
Thanks, this is super helpful! I'm curious what other startups go through and how they juggle the business pressure with building something that is secure... or don't.
For those who only started following these issues recently, standing arguments have been used for years to dismiss lawsuits against warrantless domestic surveillance. Basically, the court says that you can't sue a government agency for illegally wiretapping you unless you had evidence that they were actually wiretapping you. Which you obviously didn't, because such programs are classified and the wiretapper isn't going to volunteer that information. But since you can't prove that your rights are being violated, you don't get to bring a lawsuit.
Right, that's kinda what I was expecting. But that also explains why it was a mistake to adopt this model for Emacs, or at least to stick with it for so long (to clarify, I specifically mean full process dumps, not Lisp world dumps) - it's a different world, and it has been different for a very long time, with software and OS/hardware significantly more decoupled.
I put my cape away years ago. But duty may call again...
Lawsuite is coming for sexual harassment and verbal abuse say the employee now. :)
Do you have any references / examples of people underestimating the effort of working with snowball?

I've actually only heard positive things about snowball. I would be very interested in negative feedback.

(I work for amazon)
AROS does run on ARM. As for AmigaOS 4.x I don't think Hyperion have the resources, and they're very dependent on their hardware partners bearing part of the cost.

The only problem with PPC from an Amiga point of view is that most of the SOCs are targetting networking and automotive markets and similar embedded use rather than desktops (total PPC sales in terms of number of chips is still in a similar region to x86 sales; revenue per unit is way lower, though). It's not like people will buy these machines looking for top end performance, and the OS is still incredibly light weight, but if you pay for it you can still get PPC chips that perform very well.

But AmigaOne's are an very expensive hobby for most people who buy them, not bought to be cost effective.

More comparable to the FireBee you have a multitude of M68k accelerators and FPGA Amiga reimplementations that are much cheaper.

There's been various discussions about trying to run AmigaOS or AROS on ColdFire like the FireBee too. Problem is people would expect to run their old binary-only software, and AFAIK the ColdFire can't trap all the unimplemented instruction combinations fully, so it'd require "fun" hacks (e.g. dynamic translation; I think it probably could be done reasonably easily for AmigaOS, but finding someone with both the time and the skills is another matter) so the Amiga community focus has been on FPGAs.
A lot of interesting geophysics in the unpredictable need for leap seconds. I mention Google's "smearing" approach here:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/the-leap-second-becau...
No wonder marriage is a shit deal. If love is the only thing uniting us, in a fall out, love should be the only thing that is lost.
That is certainly a path I considered. However, having to setup either of those is not exactly trivial. And not something I care to do for a user application.
STAT – a standardized format for your acceptance tests
The vote totals aren't anything like any other subreddit has been. They were also using the pinning in a way no other subreddit did.

Just google – the_donald upvote script – to get an idea. Several tools were released for users to upvote or downvote everything targeting a subreddit or user. It's a sort of grassroots vote manipulation scheme.
Why not just put a second laptop on your desk?
What's odd is that GCP does have a marketplace for third-party integrations through their "Cloud Launcher" [1] UI, where the products are either free prefabs (e.g. start N number of Cassandra nodes) or paid, managed VMs.

But there's nobody there that offers managed PostgreSQL (unless you could Postgres Enterprise, which is a single node that runs an odd "enterprise" version of PostgreSQL; no replication!). In fact, most of the solutions there aren't managed at all.

The whole thing seems rather half-hearted.

[1] https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher
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That's actually why my group of friends all tag each others faces on Facebook as the other. Rather than not posting our faces, Facebook auto tags me as random people now (most often my wife).
Man 'cured' of prostate cancer by shocking tumour to death with testosterone
New Details Suggest Rogue Government Agent Deleted Evidence in Silk Road Case
That's very easily caught by googling candidates' answers.
Nobody are forcing anyone to buy these. And I very much doubt Trevor Dickinson is making much money from A-Eon. It's pretty clear he's doing this as an expensive hobby.

Those that can't afford these have plenty of cheaper alternatives to choose from, ranging from AROS on a wide range of platforms, to classic AmigaOS or AROS in emulators, MorphOS on old Macs, classic AmigaOS on upgraded classics or FPGA reimplementations, to SAM AmigaOne boards from ACube.
The fiber example is one of the big reason regulating broadband as a utility was important. It prevents this exact scenario
Maybe I should've included this but older versions are not much different from the new one and the more older ones go for dirt cheap compared to the new one.

Here's a 4th edition used book for $13.95

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-Design-4th-Edition-Ciletti-M...

But yeah, the publishing industry is in a pretty bad shape (for students/consumers)
I think financial ruin was the reason not data loss.
I'd like to see tiebreaks first in soccer.

Yasser Seirawan had an interesting suggestion. Make championship matches 13 games, not 12, with the challenger getting white 7 times and the defending champion getting white 6 times, and with the championing retaining the title in the case of a 6.5 - 6.5 tie.

One nice thing about Seirawan's suggestion is that it does not involve rapid or blitz. Many people don't like the idea that the world championship of classical chess might be decided by rapid or blitz games. (There are separate championships for rapid and blitz, held annually).

As computers get better and better at chess, I wonder if it might become reasonable someday to use computer evaluations to break ties? There has been work on using computer evaluations to measure how accurate and strong chess players are. Computer scientist and IM Ken Regan has done a lot in this area, both in the context of trying to determine how strong past players actually were, and in the context of trying to determine when someone is using a computer to cheat.

For instance, in this match Carlsen had winning positions in some of the drawn games, but was not able to convert. I don't think that in any of the drawn games Karjakin ever had a winning position. I suspect that if polled, most GMs would say that Carlsen outplayed Karjakin during the classical portion of the match. With computers, that could be put on an objective basis.

Svidler is an interesting commentator. He has a quick and sharp wit. During one of the earlier games, when Eric Hansen was co-commentator [1], they were talking about IM Lawrence Trent (Fabiano Caruana's manager). I didn't catch all of it as I was listening while working, but apparently Carlsen was playing an opening line or something that Trent doesn't think is good. Hansen said something like "I wouldn't want to be Lawrence Trent, betting against Magnus Carlsen". Svidler immediately shot back, "That sentence was too long".

[1] This was on chess24.com. Svidler and Hansen were commenting for them, not for the official broadcast. For the later part of the match, the chess24 commentary was Svidler and German GM Jan Gustafsson. Both the Svidler/Hansen and the Svidler/Gustafsson pairings were quite good.
FYI I'm guessing you might be able to compress that data to 5-10% of its size with h265. Feel free to Shoot me an email if you want some pointers.
What about Vultr?
The point is that "All AI will call X father" is a claim that someone like him would make. That was the entire point.

My point is about the how the article is titled and written not the researcher.
Given that the Amazon cloud is such a huge consumer of Intel's X86 processors, even using Amazon-tailored Xeon's, it's surprising that Amazon chose Xilinx over the Intel-owned Altera.

These Xilinx 16nm Virtex FPGA's are beasts, but Altera has some compelling choices as well. Perhaps some of the hardened IP in the Xilinx tipped the scales, such as the H.265 encode/decode, 100G EMAC, PCI-E Gen 4?
What's the non-inept way to stop cheating on the test? They can't ask the applicant to walk into their neighborhood Faraday cage.