skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wasn't specifically a manager above me directly, but yeah, of course someone looked bad. other people looked bad directly to the people who were paying us money - our CS team said they kept raising the issue in meetings. just really bad rules - groups of people sitting literally 100 feet from each other not being allowed to talk and fix things.
I suspect they do a good job at a technical level, but they have interests in advertising that are at odds with my privacy interests. I also have no way to know if they are doing Dark Nefarious Things.
Phone support is hard. I did it as a full-time job for about 18 months and still do it regularly as part of my job now. Trying to convince someone who is frustrated, confused, angry or just obstinate to work with you is it's own skill. They are your eyes, ears and hands and it takes a lot more than just being good with the technology, you have to be good at support.
Related, I wrote a blog post on the network latency between Google Compute Engine zones and regions. I'm assuming Cloud Spanner will still have these latencies once multi-region is deployed. Cross-zone latency on GCE is very good though.

https://blog.elasticbyte.net/comparing-bandwidth-prices-and-...
I didn't know people took all the "Wikigroaning" stuff seriously.
It certainly is for some (e.g. me and some people I know). I think quite a few people get pissed off at websites which do not have live content (it's live if it can't be cached; Craigslist content, e.g., can be cached) but require JS just to render the basic text. It doesn't help if those sites also make 100+ requests. And yes, some folks still prefer text-based browsers when possible. :) I do realize the latter make up quite a small percentage only, though...
Subjectively, I've heard many people say exactly what
codingdave said above. I'd say, at a minimum, KSL has a bigger mindshare then CL in the SLC area.
I suspect it is a play on the 0, 1, infinity rule.
"In popular culture" sections almost never add anything, yeah.
His form has 4 fields... Why on earth he would think he needs either Vue or Angular for that I just don't understand.
Definitely unrecoverable. The whole point of the feature is to make it impossible to recover the data once the key is erased, so you can be sure they're not storing a backup anywhere as that would defeat the point.
Hi Quovo,

Same here, just a heads up!

Olivier
Talking about common usage of the kbd tag is kind of difficult given that it's never been commonly used, but personally, this was the only thing I ever saw it used for.
> The Journal’s opinion pages have been a showcase for the intra-right divide over Trump, featuring Trump-sympathetic writers like Bill McGurn alongside anti-Trump columnists such as Bret Stephens. Lasswell appears to be a casualty of that divide, and his dismissal a victory for the pro-Trump faction on the editorial staff.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/conflic...
We started a Devops team at work. After a year there have been 0 Ops hires, it's all Devs.

I think/hope we might see this change soon. Currently there's no real penalty for poor ops. If your customer data gets hacked, there are very few actual penalties, most of the pain is in reputation. I feel like there's been a lot of pressure to have government penalties for poor security practices, especially when so many companies "need" all the user data they can get their hands on.
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When was the era of high royalties where bands got rich and didn't have to perform?
They're the people they should have been taking to months before release. And in all likelihood, they were.

We're at the pointy end, now.
> There are a few ideas that are at play. One is the march of progress seeking to automate everything. The rationale of automation is to improve productivity. But what happens when everything is automatic? I don't see a corollary being played out at the moment.

I don't know! :-D

I don't know what society would look like from a purely technological point of view. From a spiritualist point of view, though, it could either go very well or very badly. When everything is automated, would people have enough time and space to really start asking the really big questions? Or would it accelerate and intensify existential anguish?

> There are a small number of people reaping the benefits, and huge swathes of the population being marginalised and disenfranchised as a result.

Yeah. Arguably, this has already happened.

> The second idea that interests me is this idea of very high technology. It is built upon layer after layer of very clever tech year after year that I wonder how long it would take to start again from scratch if some disaster rendered a large part of one of these layers unusable.

The stuff of sci-fi :-D Among them, alt-history novels (what happens when someone drops into a lower-tech era; you'd have to start from 0 ... literally, 0, as in Arabic numerals).

Open Source Ecology is trying to preserve some of this tech base. I find their aims awesome, though I am not sure how effective it is.

The flip side are things being spoken from well outside the techno-sphere, (for example, shamans and mystics) It is the perspective that the further evolution of human consciousness will, at some point, no longer require a technology or artifacts. Technology seen as the last crutch. The collapse of a high-technic civilization then sets the stage for a removal of that crutch, and humans learn to stand with two feet (so to speak).
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Thanks for sharing this! The notion of archiving "Open Data" due to a change in government still seems odd considering this is factual, time-stamped data.
The problem is not that CL isn't squeezing out every ounce revenue.

The problem with the benevolent dictator at Craigslist is his kingdom is so big and he does nothing to advance it.

It would not be hard to offer minor but relatively simple identity validation for users. Or dabble with the ability to create trust networks or reputation. Or offer basic mechanisms for safe transactional payments. Or an official mobile app that worked well. Or a hundred other things that would improve lives.

There is no question craigslist gets a "job well done" but there is a great argument that if they have a choke hold on the online classifieds market they should offer increased value over time.

Craigslist reminds me of the IRS. Sure, you can fumble your way through filing your taxes with us, but why would you do that when TurboTax can do it better. Except there is no alternative.

I think Craigslist is acting more like the old newspaper classifieds they disrupted if anything.

Despite this article's focus on a couple companies, there are other startups getting major traction in used goods space apart from Facebook.

If CL loses significant market share, I hope they don't go trying then to revamp the site. Because it would only be that much more obvious how much they held back from their users for so long.
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> It's not unreasonable to believe a mail carrier would try to avoid the need to pay out 1000 Euros worth of insurance by not losing said package.

If it costs 1000 Euros to insure a 10,000 Euro package, doesn't that sorta indicate that the chances of something happening to the package are on the order of 1 in 10?
> But don't push notifications basically work over a long lived connection? Of course it's better to have just one long-lived connection to Apple instead of one for every communication App, but in the end if you want real time signalling in a mobile environment you won't get around a long lived connection, don't you?

I think part of the convenience is on the server side. The server also only maintains a single connection to Google/Apple, instead of keeping millions of idle ones.
You're joking, right? What math, algebra 2 math?
Did you look at the form? It's 4 fields. I mean assuming I went to the right page. How much of a summary do you expect?

https://wildermuth.com/contact
You should put "Python" in the title.
I still don't get it: pulls don't merge DAGs, they add objects and move refs (and maybe merge); every time darcs fans say 'patch' (as a collection of related changes) I think, 'oh like a branch?'

This sounds less and less like a tools/implementation thing and more like the default recommended/enforced workflow thing.
I think it's pretty clearly explained in DigitalOcean's docs. They have a public interface and a private interface. The private interface is not Internet routable but is routable by all other instances in the datacenter. I agree that it is a non-starter for me, but it's definitely public.
and so the tickets go to people who are willing to pay the price and enjoy the show, and the market continues to function effectively.
I'd argue that Trump probably doesn't have a clue this even exist, someone else dictated it's archival/removal.
What's an objective reason to hire someone born locally vs someone born abroad? Apart from saying "patriotism", what other advantages does it offer?
Why all the hate for Hangouts? I have used it for five years to build and run my company. There is never an issue with Hangouts unless someone in the meeting has a hardware problem (meanwhile everyone else can handle the meeting). It's fast and easy for anyone to use screenshots or video. If you use YouTube Live Events, you can even have a company meeting with every person joining. We have done these once a week for years for fifteen minutes prior to lunch.

Hangouts has been amazing for us.
The connecting-to-the-cartridge-and-getting-bytes part is how you dump cartridges. The donor would need that to get data off of the carts they have, and once they've got that part, they're 90% of the way to the dumping hardware anyway.
eicnix says here "Droplets are a single-point-of-failure".

I don't see any direct explanation as to how these LBs aren't. It's limited to a single region for backend droplets, and who knows how fragile they are.

Putting up a droplet with caddy/nginx/apache and acting like a reverse proxy, depending on your usecase, could be 75% cheaper than this solution offered.
Does anybody else use LiveScript with React.js? Any pitfalls?
The easiest defence is to temporarily kill all the radios (wifi, bluetooth, LTE) while someone is entering a password.
references "A battle rages for the future of the Web": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13637435
Apparently there already is. It's called Pair Locking, and it's something you can do with Apple's Configurator software. Forensic data dumpers use the same functionality that iTunes uses to talk to the phone, which uses a process called "pairing", and Pair Locking makes it so the device refuses to establish any new pairs.
>I have never yet seen a system that cannot be beat by scalpers, including paperless ticketing, and I find that most venues and artists want to maximize profits and, more importantly, minimize risk anyway.

Say that a tickets market value is $500. What if they charged $500, then gave a $400 rebate after you walk in the door? They would of course limit the number of rebates per person.

A more concrete implementation that might work well if people are uncomfortable dealing with money in this way: give away goodies valued at the difference at the door. eg everyone get the album, a T-shirt, 2 free drink tickets, etc...
Programming is an analytic process, gathering requirements, understanding or creating a process, and translating that into the language that computers understand. Only the last bit is likely to be made simpler for non-programmers in the near future. So "programming" is a skill on its own, rather like "management".
You might want to take your data analysis one step farther and actually check how many cars are for sale on KSL.com. Compared to the 1,951 on Salt Lake's Craigslist, KSL.com has over 12,000. (over 67,000 if you include the dealership ads).
I was wondering recently if you could use Wireguard VPN networking to overlay your own encrypted network at Digital Ocean.
>I wonder how effective it would be to drop calorie intake past the age of say 60 years

This space is crippled with pseudo-science, but I think the idea is that there could be irrecoverable damage done by that time, and that your old self simply won't heal as well. But I'll bet starting at 60 beats never starting.
I get your point, and attitude such as "lol who needs ops, developers can do it" can lead to really shitty situations indeed.

On the other hand, you have developers / small teams who are just trying to get things off the ground and want some basic redundancy and other benefits of load balancing. That's the primary audience of such service, in my opinion.
Sure, you can just spin up HAProxy and even a very basic configuration might do the job. But it's one more thing to learn and maintain, often one more thing to train people to work with, etc. The same can be said about other popular managed services, including Amazon S3, RDS etc. It's a decision you have to make.

So I truly understand your position but I don't think that such sarcastic attitude actually helps anyone.
Did you take into account your extra energy requirements in the winter? Your body has to keep you warm and this uses energy. It would be interesting to have an app or wearable that could help you keep up with intake based off of your environment (e.g. yesterday you walked n+10 miles and it was cold, you should eat more today than normal).
How is that any different than just backing up to iCloud and restoring it to a new device?
Shouldn't that be spelled New Journalism?
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I find most of Ted's posts to be exactly that. He doesn't post daily but frequently enough that's it worth visiting regularly.

That and all the great updates on OpenBSD development!
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It sounds good, but I don't get it from the brief description. I'm interested in hearing more.

Especially this line makes me wonder:

> No one has solved automated SEO because SEO is a software problem

I thought SEO is a content and linking problem, not a software problem. I'm somewhat disillusioned after having lost keyword rankings to competitors with far inferior content software (hundreds of HTTP requests, 20s load time, MBs worth of junk) vs. my highly optimized website that loads in milliseconds even without AMP.
There is a huge difference between a 50%+ calorie deficit and a 17% calorie deficit.

The two aren't comparable.
I didn't downvote you. It is important to note though that the Spanner project isn't related to MySQL and there is some discussion of that in a the stories around Spanner. It would nominally compete directly with Oracle's flagship database product.
I agree... yuck.

I do think if you take a step back and squint a little bit you can sense their design lacks a bit of contrast, but the black header bar is an ugly fix.
What does this mean, exactly?

I get social media is how the results of journalism get distributed, but what funds the journalism itself if traditional news/media companies go out of business? Is twitter or facebook going to fund investigative journalists? What's the business model for a company looking to pay people to research and write about things if 'social media is the new journalism'? Do we rely on non-profits/donations?

Or are you proposing we'll get all our news in a decentralized manner via people posting what's going on around them?
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because we keep giving up more and more control to a single Ad company.
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EDIT: Looks like Jason Scott is aware of the WH.gov dump and has offered to ingest at the Internet Archive: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/831585297003458560
This is cool, I was looking a library which would help me with CRUD and paging data recently and there weren't a lot of great options. So I started working on a library which ended up looking kind of similar to this.

One of the goals I've had is to stay encapsulated and not force any decision on the developer for the request library like redux-query does. I also try to avoid touching their data.

It isn't quite flushed out all the way, and needs more test, but I've started using it and enjoyed the way it works.

I'd love any feedback if anyone wanted to check it out,
https://github.com/SpinGo/crudux
Aurora only supports single master.
Take it from someone who had to consume as many calories as possible for medical reasons [1]: nothing beats custard for boosting your daily calorie intake. A single glass is almost 1000 calories, and you can learn to chug it pretty easily.

[1] I have a chronic autoimmune digestive disease, at one point I couldn't eat enough to keep from dropping weight, was in hospital with intravenous nutrition etc.; I'm pretty much OK now after surgery and new kick-ass meds.
Why does that make you livid? Did you think you don't have to obey any laws simply because you're at a border? I guarantee you it's still a felony to murder someone there, so why would lying to a federal agent be any different?
odd... we had directv, and the last year, we'd downgraded to the most basic service. we'd 'upgrade' for 3 hours to watch a sports game 2x per month - were prorated for those days - and would 'downgrade' right after the game. So... basic service for 28 days, prorated 'higher package' price for 3 days. worked fine all done from their website. Usually needed to do it at least 5 minutes before the game.
Title should be "Why I moved [my contact form] to Vue.js from Angular 2".

I was expecting an insightful discussion about both frameworks. Turns out he was using Angular 2 for literally a single contact form. I thought Wildermuth was above blatant clickbait.
It amuses me that nearly every comment in this thread advances the same theory that the article discards as inaccurate: that the artists had never seen an elephant and were working from description only. It notes that the accuracy does not seem to improve when there is a real, local elephant they can use as a model.

The article irritatingly answers its own question mainly by saying, "we don't know why", but suggests that medieval artists may have been less interested in realism than in convention and what the art communicated symbolically. That seems reasonable to me. Compare medieval babies: http://www.vox.com/2015/7/8/8908825/ugly-medieval-babies

This seems like a strange thing for an artist to do, but if you think about it, we do it, too. Here are some representations in modern entertainment dominated by convention rather than realism: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect
I read this (possibly wrongly) to be a proxy for "unencumbered page load speed" which is a feature that many users value beyond the 1% who care about noscript.
> and that it is indeed coercive to give someone or class only a choice between forcing to sell their labour or to rely upon the charity of others or death.

That is nature. Consume or die. Since one can only consume what is produced (or windfallen), one must produce (or scavenge windfalls) or die. In a society one can escape this iron law of nature through charity or trade.

None of this descends from private property. These are laws of nature.
So does Cloud Spanner replace the existing Google Cloud SQL offering [1]? What are the pros/cons of each?

[1] https://cloud.google.com/sql/
If by 'valley' you mean the Chattahoochee valley -- which ain't much of a valley but Valley, Alabama is named after it -- then I'll cop a plea since Valley ain't that far away.

Old habits die hard and a few years ago, my BASIC background showed its head. I was writing a kludgomatic and the example code for the key library call needed to make it work allocated an array[10000] and I was like, that will use up all the memory and be slow. It didn't and it wasn't because of Moore's Law type effects.

Last year I was fooling around with RPi's and I bought a box of ten 16GB microSD's for about $50. That's 160GB of solid state storage for about what I paid for my first box of 3.5" DD DS disks.

Worrying about software bloat is a nice problem to have. It means one has options...and compute and leisure and is willing to give up YouTube and NetFlix
I don't think it's possible to find one single organisation that has an entirely neutral perspective. By and large I find NYT reporting to be very accurate, but it's only healthy to seek out other publications from time to time. That's where the "10 free articles" model comes in useful - the bulk of my reading is through NYT, but I can "lightly graze" on other sources throughout the month.

Another option is Blendle, which lets you pay per article. I don't know how many news orgs they have so far, though.
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> It's found success in being the antithesis of a AAA game, which is usually beautiful but shallow.

Funny i should come across this claim, as reading the ebook collection of the filfre.net blog i came across a similar notion from Richard Garriott of all people.

http://www.filfre.net/2015/07/the-14-deadly-sins-of-graphic-...

"Each time you get one of those major technology influxes, the quality of the graphics goes way up but the gameplay goes back to the simplest again because the bells and whistles have become so much cooler that you don’t need any depth. However, to compete with that [technologically pioneering title] you have to add depth, and to compete with that you have to add more depth, etc., until the next big technological advancement, when everything resets again back to that lowest common denominator of gameplay."

And i think we can see this also in how over the years the sound and graphics staff of a games company has ballooned, while the number of programmers have remained largely the same.
You may as well ask why doesn't a genius out there topple the Trump administration or why did no one topple Stalin? It's unclear that power structures are so vulnerable to even the best-laid plans.
Heck, when I was in school of CS degree, some people from literature undergraduate went straight to CS graduate programs without too much a pain.

Tuned out programming never really required much math background, it is the level brain teaser that programming posed is as much as math education. So anyone who's has survived math advanced degree would take program like piece of cake, but it doesn't mean people from non-STEM background is hopeless to master data science.

Yet it's a joke to refer data science without referencing to advanced math concept. Albeit significant domain knowledge, data science is not just business analysis aided with spreadsheet. Modelling is an essential part of.