skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it's just a continuation of the Fallout tradition to promote bullets? In Fallout 2, it was also generally more worthwhile to invest into firearms, and by the end of the game switch to Gauss Rifle/Pistol (and go for aimed shots / critical hits as much as possible). I always felt like energy weapons were there mostly to satisfy people who didn't care that much about stats, and just wanted to see enemies melting down etc.
Its not just ethnic minorities, either. I've been thinking that a possible solution to the rural/urban cultural divide in the US would be to allow the secession of some metro areas from their parent states, forming new city-states in the process.
>Thinking about it (maybe because I am watching a update go as I type), what the heck does this say about how we program?

SELinux is not complex because we program in complex ways, but because we don't know the target program.

For example, (again, nothing against Apache but...) if I want to secure Apache, there's no way for me (as a sysadmin) to tell exactly which files, exactly which syscalls, and exactly which libs does it need to function, and there's no way for me to stay on top of it.

And the same applies to any other complicated software. How to I lock down X? Firefox?

Really, the beauty of a "pledge" like system is that the programmer/PM of the code (which he should understand) should know how to lock it down
Lots of talk about rising sea levels, but did anybody stop to consider it could just be sinking?
It's been a while since I looked into what Git was up to in the latest version.

The release notes mentioned protocol improvements with git-filter that can dramatically speed up git-LFS (the large file storage plugin).

Does anyone know if there are any plans to make git-LFS part of the base instead of an add on?
> From his sitting room in Kalyves, Zombanakis can see the house where he grew up. He says he sometimes struggles to recognize the modern world of investment banking, where traders take home multimillion-pound bonuses and cheat their clients at the drop of a hat.

> “Back then the market was small and run by a few gentlemen,” Zombanakis says. “We took it for granted that gentlemen wouldn’t try to manipulate things like that. But as the market was getting bigger, you couldn’t trust it. You couldn’t control it.

> Banking now is like a prostitution racket run by pimps. There’s just too much money involved.”

This.
Alligators are mostly just fresh water. They can sort of survive brackish / a bit of salt but they're not as versatile as crocs.
I'm convinced RISC-V has a strong future. Tons of momentum, and lots of well-managed projects are building on top of it. Exciting times!
However, if another country moves to you, it makes several things awkward.

There are plenty of exclaves with country borders out there. For instance, here's a bit of Germany inside Switzerland:

https://goo.gl/maps/bw3PwD19JhR2

The village is called Büsingen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen_am_Hochrhein

In United Arab Emirates there is an Omanian exclave called Madha, which in turn contains a UAE exclave called Nahwa:

https://goo.gl/maps/REXtsfb3gHs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahwa

And there's even one third-order enclave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahala_Khagrabari

Dahala Khagrabari is a piece of India, surrounded by Bangladesh, surreounded by India, surrounded by Bangladesh.

And things stay this way because it is quite awkward to change places where people live to belong to another nation - however impractical these exclaves may be.
Fallout 2 is still plenty big even by modern standards. Here's a quick question: how many city locations did it have? If you played a lot, but still can't answer right off the bat, it's probably "big enough".
Cool! Can I ask what your SaaS is?
IANAA (I am not an astrologer), but I have a hunch they'd say it has to with "energy", not light ;)
You've pretty much described my operation, but I still don't see your vision. In fact, there's nothing inherently unapproachable about electronics. I often have an easier time understanding the electrical faults than I do the mechanical ones.

There are still some fairly bare bones new tractors on the market, particularly those that come from the old Eastern Bloc, but I don't know anyone who wants to own one. There is a dealer around, so someone must (perhaps in the compact market?), but they are definitely few and far between. I'm not sure I have ever seen one in person.

Besides, if you're comfortable with maintaining a decades old tractor, why wouldn't you buy an existing one? There are plenty of a good old used tractors on the market that are tried and true. They last a long time and will be far cheaper than anyone could ever make a new one for.

I'm left wondering if you are out of touch with the realities of farming, or are farming in a completely different way to what I am? If the latter, I'd love to know more about your operation.
... because you are auditing all of the upstream image sources ?

seriously ?
I liked this gem in L547:

> The code that we have used for the past 10+ years to cycle 4-element ring buffers turns out to be not quite portable in theoretical world.
You make some great points, but I question a design firm that allows for 'unlimited' number of requests/revisions/brands.
It's implied. The comment mentions code correctness and, per the article, this comes from "the extensive code auditing performed on the base system".
At first I thought, "Oh, these sound effects are kinda cool, to give the video a flair for the dramatic." There's not going to be any noise inside of the vacuum, but the initial sound effects were probably the noises that the contraption would make if it had air to propagate the sound waves.

But, as the video went on, the sounds effects just go more and more ridiculous. An alarm sound as the object is sent down a tube?! And the coup de grace was the lawn mower sound effect at the very end as the object was wheeled away.
I got an apartment a few kilometers away. It's on the outskirts of Maastricht and to properly enter Belgium, you need to cross the Maas first (or Meuse I think the article called it?). Everyone there speaks Dutch, works in Maastricht, shops in Maastricht... It's the same city but officially you're in a different country. And so I'll be missing out on 291 euros a month in rent subsidies... But it was the only thing available and reasonably priced so better than nothing. I just wish they'd swap more land where it makes sense :/
Freeboard looks neat. Do you know if the github code is all you need to get started? I'd like to make a little personal dashboard that displays my agenda for today from my calendar, a live feed from a webcam on my LAN, a clock, and maybe the current weather conditions. I don't want to subscribe to a service and I don't want the dashboard accessible from anywhere but the LAN. Is Freeboard something I could use?
Why is humanity still pumping unsustainable levels of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere when all the science points to that being a road that leads to catastrophic consequences which we can't predict?
a) Having redundant copies of data in different locations and legal jurisdictions is a great thing. Didn't they have a fire at their office a few years ago that destroyed a bunch of equipment? But why Canada and not someplace in Europe or Asia, for example? Having it in a location that's so completely friendly with the US government like Canada might not be an advantage if you're concerned they'll go after you for political reasons. Hell, put it in the Philippines or something: if the US ever goes after them, they'll be tickled for an opportunity to embarrass the US.

b) If you're scared of guys like Trump having too much power to shut down the internet, don't let the government take it just because your guy happens to have the power. Generalizing a bit here, but the Right tolerated gross government expansion of all aspects of society when Bush was in charge and then got hysterical when Obama took over as they were concerned about him abusing it. Now the Left is freaking out about all of the power that Trump will have. When will both sides learn that no government should be left untrusted with unchecked power?

c) Has Trump threatened to go after sites like the internet archive in any special way? I don't think he has any significant relevance here. I think they're invoking Trump because a lot of people are overly hysterical about him right now and it probably makes it easier for them to raise money. If I was running any kind of charity right now, essentially saying "Trump is bad, give us money" would be a great message for a nice boost.
It's true, but containers are much easier to play with if your distro doesn't come with sane presets (Debian, for one)
Yeah, but choosing to move to another country just isn't the same as the country changing under your feet against your will.
Contracts for Creative Professionals
It has (pretty bad) RS232 routines in ROM, which bit-bang across some of its GPIOs (of which there are 10 or so on the User Port).

Other than that, it has its serial peripheral bus, used mostly for printers & disk drives. There were also device sharing & custom networking hubs which sit on that bus.

The ROMs supported a notion of general byte streams and could do simple redirection. It had that stream support for tape, keyboard, screen, RS232, and "device on the serial bus" built-in. Obviously, newer 3rd party hardware can support Wifi/Ethernet in various forms, and software can drive IP over existing links (like SLIP over RS232 adapters).

Oh, it also had a few hardware serial shift lines intended for the serial peripheral bus, but those never got used for that purpose (until the C128) and mostly sit unused.
Yes, Caesar's Legion and the NCR-BoS war (and, albeit through heavy changes, Joshua Graham) came from VB.

My statement was intended to convey that most of the underlying plot did not come from VB; just a number of particularly meaty bones, rather than the spine.
See, Ronald Reagan was right!
Linus uses the Dell XPS 13, or so I hear. I like mine. The devel version has Ubuntu preinstalled.
Is anyone using a log management tool in conjunction with Grafana? I.e. if you see something anomalous or see an alert triggered, how do you investigate what's going on?
Applying Open Source to Rocket Landings
I disagree: this sort of operation that seems safe is some of the most deceptive code to write... there's always the risk of reading a little bit more than intended or incrementing a pointer a little too far and hitting undefined behaviour. (There is in fact a bug (or two) in the type punning `read_u64` code, fortunately just a correctness one, but the small amount of code in that function is enough to obscure it, let alone the long sequence of copy-pasted `unsafe` code that makes up the main algorithm.)

It is definitely a red flag for a function that just reads some bytes to be entirely wrapped in an unsafe block, and I don't think it makes sense to defend it while also saying that the Rust community discourages gratuitous use of `unsafe`. The whole point of Rust is the "experts know what they're doing" argument doesn't work in practice, and people shouldn't get a free pass for large amounts of seemingly undocumented and unjustified `unsafe` just because they have some prominent projects.
"Formerly..."
Is there a valid reason for using microservice unless you have 1000+ engineers working on a product?

The microservice argument is compelling to begin with but shifts the separation of concern to the extreme, to the point that you now have intra service level delegation bubbling up with complexity.

Suddenly, fetching a blog post now involves multiple context switching than something written in RoR deployed on beantstalk.

If I was forced to use microservice architecture I would not try to deploy it myself instead using Azure Fabric because breaking a monolithic framework codebase itself is such a monumental task especially when you are dealing with legacy code.

I feel as if microservice is the "blockchain" of backend architecture space where it's actively solving problems that isn't there. Much like moving to a cryptographic linked-list with decentralized consensus creates ton of drama, splitting services into as many pieces as possible seems like asking for trouble.
Interesting. So my takeaway from that is that they weren't really up front with getting consent and opt-in for it, and that it is still legal and valid if they were to have gotten that?
I feel like on the LGBT issue, you might be falling into an echo chamber trap. If you have some campaign points that support your claim, I'd be happy to hear them. Points for consideration, particularly as far as campaign messaging goes:

-He had Peter Thiel speak at the RNC

-During his speech at the RNC he talked about defending LGBT rights and said that it felt good to say that at a Republican gathering and get cheers. Think about that. He has the Republican party cheering for gays. I never thought I'd see the day.

-When asked about the bathroom row in N.C. he said he doesn't care what bathroom people use.

-He said if Caitlin Jenner visits Trump Tower, she can use any bathroom she wants.

Mike Pence is an obvious appeal to the Republican base. I think it's important to keep in mind the the VP tends to not be all that important. Unless the president dies. If you got any friends planning a Trump assassination, remind them of that :)

I'd also like to point out that there's a decent chance his stance on this isn't a contrivance (though it might be). The LGBT population isn't considered part of the Republican base, and generally they either ignore or campaign against gays. In a lot of ways, being as openly pro-gay was probably considered a risk by establishment Republicans.
I think there might be a 'purist' strain here on HN.

Most complex/serious web-apps use frameworks as a given. There's just too much to have to do without them, though it depends on what you're trying to do, surely.

HN itself probably doesn't use a framework.
Every form of interstellar travel I'm aware of requires lots and lots of energy -- it seems hard to imagine a source of energy that's capable of being transported between star systems that's not dwarfed by the energy used to transport it.
State of Serverless Survey Results
I still don't quite understand:

"The method is 'analogue' in the sense that it is not like Shor's algorithm, which is programmable in a quantum computer following the gate model. Instead, it is the measurement of a carefully set quantum system that provides the answer."

Isn't the gate model _also_ a carefully set quantum system, the measurement of which provides the answer? Can someone shed some light on this please?
To have been on the maintainer sides of the OSS tools, your statement is untrue.

The OSS tools costs a fortune in human to maintain them, and another fortune in hardware to run it.
> Democracy doesn't feel like democracy when people with your culture (political party, part of the country, etc.) lose power

In fact, that is exactly what democracy feels like! People have different preferences (as they always do) and so they take a vote, majority wins. It happens on every level, from national declarations of war to a bunch of people deciding on which movie to watch. And it has a very long track record of people dealing with it with no problem.

Every election in history on every level has had a loser. I know that personally: I didn't get to see the movie I wanted on Friday.

What is undemocratic is treating losing like a catastrophe or failure of the system - that is the system. That is democracy.
At work, we've been using a new JS framework paired with server-less infrastructure for the past 9 months. It's barely production stable, so it's been painful, but hey look at our fancy new framework.

When I started a new side project, I wanted to get an MVP out as quickly as possible. I opted for PHP/MySQL, and development time felt like lightning. It was so refreshing.

I plan on rebuilding the code base, now that the side project is making money, and perhaps I can use newer tech for that, but quite happy sticking with PHP for MVPs.
Interesting that their "What is Kontena" doesn't actually tell you what it is:

> Kontena is an open source container & microservices platform designed for software developers. It is easy to set up, use and maintain. The platform has all essential features built-in so there is no need to spend time tinkering with it. That means you can focus on what matters most – your software.

Replacing "all essential features" with a list of the actual features would be a good idea in my opinion
Nope, no response at all.
Yes, I need a logo, but do I need this logo? I haven't seen it yet.
I definitely agree with this. So many products force a SaaS model when it doesn't fit the business. I find it especially when spas and massage services push a yearly subscription for discounts (not even units) on services. It doesn't make any sense.
Yes, the fact that calling conventions changed with prototypes in a way that was incompatible with and could not be duplicated by the existing calling conventions was a mistake.

I wrote a little about a very similar case with Objective-C and the default 'id' argument and return type here: http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/03/cargo-cult-typing-or-obje...
One game that actually did tackle this all the way was Arcanum.

For those who don't remember, what these guys did was make a seeded map generator that filled all those thousand square miles of real-world space between pre-designed locations with something appropriate. And you could literally leave a location, but just keep going without switching to the fast-travel "world map" - and if you went for long enough in the right direction, you'd get somewhere else. But, world size being to scale, you'd literally have to walk hours or days.

Consequently, when in fast travel, if you ran into some randomly generated monsters, the battle map would actually be that exact part of the generated world map. If you happened to run into something else again in the same spot (or close enough), you'd see the same map.

Of course, this made game design somewhat awkward, because if you knew the precise locations of things (they even used latitude/longtitude for map coordinates!), you could just go there right away - unless there was some choke point on the map that you couldn't avoid and that would require direct interaction (like, say, a lone bridge over a river with a bandit collecting toll from any passers-by). And the game was actually designed around that possibility!

The problem with all this is that it's a gargantuan effort to maintain a giant sandbox that most players will just ignore, or possibly never even discover.
Cool!. Does anybody know if there's a generic tool for using a smartphone in a similar way as the Mac TouchBar? I know there are some apps to create a virtual keyboards, but those are very limited.
Plowing, planting, fertilizer and picking can be done within inches. A farmer can now plan on the contours of the land and the tractor can steer. This allows for higher yields and better land usage.

Not to say that plowing, etc isn't exciting work, but with the tractor doing most of the work, you can rock out to tunes in your AC environment. When they install the GPS steering, there is a free minifridge. :-)
I have the same problem with the word dépôt it will render as dpt instead.
> Much like moving to a cryptographic linked-list with decentralized consensus creates ton of drama, splitting services into as many pieces as possible seems like asking for trouble.

But it's not about splitting it in as many services as possible. There's also nothing saying you can't live in a hybrid state, you don't need to go 100%. There's plenty of orgs that run a monolith and little by little break out components they need to. Or sometimes build something new as a microservice for other reasons (like the framework/language of the monolith is limiting them to solve a use case) and hook that up to their monolith.
Considered Harmful essays considered harmful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744916
Phaser 2.6.2 to be the last official release
Yes, but not as much as you'd think. Tractors are very simple, very rugged devices built to be run all day in a punishing environment. It's not surprising that many 50+ year-old ones are still running.

Old ones are little more than engine, transmission and maybe hydraulics.
How to launch your own form of money
From the question itself: "Your crew gets to vote on how the gold is divided up."

If you're a pirate captain and you've allowed this to happen on a ship you supposedly command, you deserve your fate.
All vendors provide discount if you negotiate. ;)

$15 * 500 hosts = $7500 per month.

If you think it's expensive, I can only advise you to check how much the hardware will costs on EC2 to run the free tools, plus how much work it will take to get the 8 different and independent OSS tools to work not only alone but integrate together, plus how much additional work and maintenance to keep it working without hiccups (war story: there is nothing worse than a monitoring tool that is less reliable than the thing it monitors).
> Aren't there other ways of bypassing it with a running machine?

The key element here is that you don't need to be a local admin, just a regular user who has restart permissions.
Using Docker to Build a Cross-Platform CLI
Illinois and Missouri need to do this after years of floods and the New Madrid earthquake have left enclaves on the wrong side of the river in several places.
What kind of volume are you sending into Influx? It crashed on me probably 5 times a day with only 100 requests per second.
For microservices based architectures, things like OpenTracing can go a long way in de-cluttering the clusterfuck. Of course, it requires developers being up to speed on distributed tracing, which isn't the case across the board. http://opentracing.io
It looks like it has potential to generate income I think you will find buyers.

EDIT: your project is awesome - I just quit my job and got a client to start contracting in February and I would love to use it, please continue. :) It looks like something I'd pay monthly for. Since we're in negotiation I'm going to suggest a price of $5 per month to anchor you down. :)
So with Canada's history of blowing away archived history, thats one of the last places I would have picked.
Its actually quite a good question I think, because it makes you think about the maths of the situation.
Ah.

I wasn't trying to blame MS, only referencing that this kind of situation had already happened in the computer industry.

I think they knew what they were doing. They didn't clamp down because that would have kept prices higher and hurt sales, just like your example of dictating a minimum amount of RAM that's too low to be actually usable. They could have gone higher but must have figured the extra $$$ would be better than the $ lost due to reputation issues.
Blood, Sweat, and Dialogue Trees: How Games Writing Has Evolved
Maybe they didn't want a legal precedent that you aren't an adult till 21?
Embedded software can be very tightly written, with large sections of code written in assembly to save a few instructions, and other portions of code loaded into RAM for faster execution.

There are also quite a few programmers who couldn't 'cut it' in web programming, and went over to embedded, where they wreak havoc on small low-cost devices, and another group of programmers who somehow 'fell into' embedded programming many years ago, and have not updated their skills since.
Show HN: Building a Black Mirror 'Nosedive' rating app in a couple of hours
Stop Trying to Save the World
Show HN: ChatBot to manage your bookmarks
But that's the thing - Fallout wasn't supposed to be dark. The entire setting is firmly and blatantly tongue in cheek, starting with the very fundamental "nuclearpunk" premise.
AI Can Predict Future Criminals Based on Facial Features
Why not? The servers don't know what physical keys you are pressing.