skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the personnel costs? Also, what about the instantaneous bandwidth. If you have huge demand spikes where you need a lot of bandwidth at one time, can your system handle it?
> flaws are actually virtues and that if you don't think so, then you Just Don't Get It.

Hey, that sounds like Go's line. Oh wait ..
That's still slavery, because some fraction of them doesn't want to serve. So if there's any punishment for refusing to serve, or for deserting, then it's slavery. If there's no punishment, or if they're allowed to opt-out, then it's not really conscription.
I'd be interested in that as well. Trying to build something that's geared heavily toward developmental/structural editing, and connecting freelancers with writers. Could I send you an email?
The site is not loading for me, but last time I looked, their github was better: https://github.com/nasa

Edit: Now that I typed this, the site is loading and it looks like they have added more stuff! Regardless, github link is helpful if you are interested.
Oh, then it's great!

I just didn't wanted to have different daemons (server, not client), and having to replace them if I'll want to use Cloud, EE or whatever (or stop using that or replace them with something else, etc).
The Mazda infotainment system can similarly be updated via a USB stick. In the Mazda case, it's JavaScript code running in Opera on top of Linux. The code is written by Johnson Controls. Enterprising hackers (of the good sort) have made available a variety of customizations.
And LSD is of course from Albert Hofmann

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann
This makes no sense - you have X monthly cost of the data and monthly repayments of Y, and if X > Y your outstanding loan will only grow.

You can't sensibly pay for a recurring expense on credit.
ahaha nice -- you can learn more about Igor here: https://github.com/spinnaker/igor/blob/master/README.md
Who said anything about bad?
Generally you're hitting the cheap part of your ops team. The rack and stack, and dc technicians. You start seeing the real savings when you move up to using higher services like managed databases, and analytics engines.
Firefox's autocomplete implementation doesn't insert values until the user sets focus on the input element, so Firefox wasn't vulnerable to the "sniff user info by autocompleting hidden forms" problem that Chrome was.
> The original success of Netflix depended on being the first company with a fixed-price-no-ads streaming business model

Actually, the original success involved putting DVDs in mailboxes.

> I remember being astonished at watching a Netflix movie on my iPhone (when I was still an iPhone user) while riding a train in 2011'ish.

Right, but you're going to be equally astonished in 2017 if you don't get the same level of service from Prime Video, Hulu, HBO GO, YouTube Red, et. al. And in 2019 a YC company will offer a one-click media publishing company that will allow any random joe on the planet to publish a DRM-protected movie available through a world-wide CDN with a pay-per-view payment system.

In 2011 tech was a major differentiator, today not so much. Netflix is moving with the times, that's why they are offering original content instead of being content to provide a good platform to stream other people's IP.

> This answer is in the same category as "Actually, Google is an ads company". That is to say, it makes a plausible case but ultimately wrong.

https://qz.com/607378/were-live-charting-googles-first-alpha... (tl;dr: the overwhelming majority of google's revenue comes from ads)
Don't know why you are getting down voted, this is completely true.
Google Assistant hits more Android devices today
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How did the researchers get this information?
Probably because they would have to support tens of models and tens of millions of vehicles. Big car companies contract their head units out per body style, so one company may design the 2008-2012 head units and another 2013-2016. They likely have wildly different sensors, firmware update formats, etc.

Bigger car companies prefer stability over features and don't design everything in-house like Tesla. Their shareholders also expect them to turn profits, which leads to risk adversion and slower product cycles.
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Alas, despite the title, and my hope that someone could finally help me justify my deep aversion to raw tomatoes, the article provides little enlightenment:

Frankly, the scientific community has been sadly remiss in getting to the bottom of the mystery of why raw tomatoes make some of us gag, despite a few scattered flavor studies.

Oh well. I guess it'll remain a mystery...
You should have done it, and sold it for at least 100M then.
Regarding 'ls', I ran "strace ls" on Linux and didn't see any open on /etc/password; it's important that you run 'ls -l', which should trigger the /etc/password access because it has to map UIDs to usernames.
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The single-socket Xeon E3 that GP mentioned is 69W TDP. The Ryzen 1700 is 65W, while the 1700x and 1800x are 95W. Why do you think the Ryzen box will be a lot less power hungry?
It is partially a reference to http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Intel still has a good edge on single-core performance. And productivity software is about pushing lots of instructions through a single core.
It's already part of their SLA.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/sla/
A lot of the comments in this thread are missing the point. No one cares if you use Snapchat, no one cares if you like Snapchat. The question is how much market space can Snapchat occupy, and will their bets on new technology (VR, drones, etc) work out.
Well this was vindicating, and then frustrating (they still don't know why some people don't like raw tomatoes).
Interesting perspective. What I'm hearing you say is that it's more often a crappy process and poor relationship management that leads to suboptimal results. That's kind of like saying hiring good people and investing in them in always a solid strategy, if you have the resources to do so. If your resources are too tight to hire good people, or you neglect the good people on your team, you're gonna have a bad time. It's hard enough to build good software when your team is capable!
"This article was written hastily, and I don’t want to further improve it. You’re lucky I wrote it. Therefore, I may provide some facts without source links."

I guess I am lucky he wrote this for a pleb like me.
"we have not completely restarted the index subsystem or the placement subsystem in our larger regions for many years."

Yeah... nothing says "resilience" quite like that...
That message board is actually amazingly fast. I do think it is possible to do in a language with automatic memory management, though.
I love all the comments trying to explain that managing your own hardware, storage, network and backup cannot take that much of your time.

Not only it does take a huge amount of time, but it takes so much time that it require multiple dedicated highly-skilled people.

Last but not least, the last article about Gitlab was about a major outage where they had as much as 6 out of 6 backups unusable! The fact that they still exist today is to the sheer luck that there was an unexpected copy made manually before the disaster.

That speaks at length on how that 100 people company is struggling to have the resources and the qualifications it needs to execute (what startup isn't?). Let's not send them on a suicide mission to manage their own hardware on top of everything they already have to achieve. ;)
Mass production would probably have to be more like finding a method to synthesize artificial minerals similar to nephrite, chalcedony, or carbonado.

Perhaps slag wool, basalt fiber wool, ceramic fiber wool, or fiberglass wool, compressed into a felt, then impregnated with a noncrystalline material or polymer? It might not have the same feature size as dental enamel, but anything you make would also need to be economically viable.

Seems like you could replicate the effect cheaply at scale by layering fiberglass cloth, running vertical thread bundles through the layers, and binding the stack into a solid composite with polypropylene.
Yeah indeed. You know who the one person at Amazon is that I'd expect to never fat finger a sensitive command ever ever again? The guy who managed to fat finger S3 on Tuesday. Firing him over this mistake is worse than pointless, it offers absolution to every other developer and system that helped cause this event.
Personally, I wouldn't put too much "trust" in the market cap number. A lot of times at this stage, the investing is rather speculative. We will find out what the market really thinks in a few months.

I imagine people are probably buying the stock in the hopes that this is the next Facebook (which is now roughly 4x the initial day end trade price). There's also, however, the possibility that this might be the next Groupon IPO equivalent (initial market cap at the close: 16.5 billion; current market cap: 2.34 billion, about 20% of the initial opening day price). We'll see.
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The UI/UX for container tabs will be a difficult design challenge. How do you explain to typical users what a contextual identity is and why/when they might want to use one?

I think per-window contextual identities, instead of per-tab, might be a good mental model. It's easy to explain to users that tabs in different windows can't see the same cookies. This is a generalization of Private Browsing window's throwaway context identities today. It's harder to explain that some tabs in the window are in the "Shopping" container and others in the "Personal" container.
The infotainment system in my new Volt beats the pants off the system in my new Mazda. Those are the only two I have direct experience with, but based on a bunch of reviews I read, Ford and GM appear to have the best infotainment systems, at least for the US market, Tesla excluded most likely.

It is however touch screen based. And I'm thankful for CarPlay since Mazda doesn't support CarPlay nor Android Auto and Mazda's UI is awful.
I can see tire and road wear, but I'd expect electric cars to use brakes less than normal cars due to regen.
Hence why UNIX on mobile is a Pyrrhic victory, as iOS, Android, ChromeOS rely on Objective-C, Java and JavaScript runtimes and their respective frameworks, just with good enough support from POSIX, that could be replaced by what is expected from any ANSI C implementation.
Even more significant than societies sort of work as they are is the selection effect, whereby communities set up by and for people who don't like how society works are going to end up composed of people who tend to - at least at the stage of their life they join - be more opinionated about the way things ought to be and/or less capable of assimilating into and succeeding in conventional society. Some of those people are going to be difficult to integrate no matter what social system you devise.
Susan Fowler Rigetti hires employment law firm in response to Uber’s actions
In most enterprises yes. They've got a consistent flat workload 90% of the time. I'm willing to bet gitlab is the exact same way other than a tiny portion of the environment. And, as you mentioned, writing an app from scratch to take advantage of instant scaling is extremely difficult, and sometimes impossible depending on what statefulness is required.
tl;dr We don't know yet.
Just to be clear, this is NOT just a simple UI version of profiles. Containers only separate Cookies, localStorage, indexedDB, HTTP data cache, Image Cache (bug in progress), and other areas supported by originAttributes (See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...)

I.e., Containers do NOT protect against some lower-level privacy vulnerabilities like plugin enumeration or history-sniffing that are mitigated more by using entirely separate profiles.
Evolution is never clean.
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It's so amazing how much shit people are (apparently) willing to eat (or maybe simply have no clue about due to lack of education due to lack of money).

I know of more than 1 study which has proven serious adverse health effects for people living near traffic axis. It's so obvious: constant noise keeps your stress level high 24 hours a day, and air pollution adds damage to the brain, lungs, cardiovascular system, etc.
And now they've released OSS drivers, it's action now, not just talk.
I'm really glad to see I'm not alone haha. The first part of the article read like my childhood.
I wonder why the original comment you responded to got flagged. I read it and it was one of the best comments?
I dunno. Go anywhere in the world and look at how billionaires and Presidents get around. Do they catch buses or do they choose to get around in private, possibly chauffeured, vehicles?

(Let me just pre-empt someone's example of some billionaire somewhere who loves catching buses, I'm sure there's one out there somewhere.)
"We really are using a 1970s era operating system well past its sell-by date. We get a lot done, and we have fun, but let's face it, the fundamental design of Unix is older than many of the readers of Slashdot, while lots of different, great ideas about computing and networks have been developed in the last 30 years. Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy."

Rob Pike 2004, https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-p...
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i have a question about facebook api and cover photo. it seems we can't change cover photos via api, is it possible to do this via browser automation? or is there anyway to do this automatically?
As someone who worked for an IT vendor with certification and as someone who was part of the certification team at another place, I can assure you that you're right.

The certification is more for the organization/unit and the people working do not realize what they are for. Another thing that usually becomes a problem is the rigidity of the certification. Saying you need X, Y and Z documented is easy, but it doesn't work for projects that maybe don't have Y. So people make up documentation and process just to be compliant, this soon becomes a hinderance to the work.
At this point people either abandon the process or follow it and the work suffers.
> Millions of Jews followed Moses into the Sinai desert to built an intentional community over 3,000 year ago and the project is still going today

That absolutely did not happen. If anything like the Exodus as written happened -- and there are plenty of reasons to doubt that it did -- it didn't involve millions of people, a number which the Bible doesn't even claim and which would be implausible for the Hebrew population in Egypt at the time.
Because some people are ignorant and paranoid? I'm fairly sure those are qualities that span all walks of life. You're arguing against straw men, here, and while it's fun to destroy straw men at some point you need to move away from the fringes and start to tackle arguments that have some actual substance.
Sandstorm gets a security review
Cool. This is why I love HN :)

I'll make sure my soon-to-be MD girlfriend reads it too
If we ever try to make healthcare a non-profit industry, then sure.
AWS partitions its services into isolated regions. This is great for reducing blast radius. Unfortunately, us-east-1 has many times more load than any other region. This means that scaling problems hit us-east-1 before any other region, and affect the largest slice of customers.

The lesson is that partitioning your service into isolated regions is not enough. You need to partition your load evenly, too. I can think of several ways to accomplish this:

1. Adjust pricing to incentivize customers to move load away from overloaded regions. Amazon has historically done the opposite of this by offering cheaper prices in us-east-1.

2. Calculate a good default region for each customer and show that in all documentation, in the AWS console, and in code examples.

3. Provide tools to help customers choose the right region for their service. Example: http://www.cloudping.info/ (shameless plug).

4. Split the large regions into isolated partitions and allocate customers evenly across them. For example, split us-east-1 into 10 different isolated partitions. Each customer is assigned to a particular partition when they create their account. When they use services, they will use the instances of the services from their assigned partition.
Yes, I need both of those. When I'm commuting, I don't want to carry both a tablet and a game console. I'll choose one that can do what I need (so in this case, an iPad).
Maybe more like --force-with-lease
Ask HN: Got font?
Hi HN, I saw a new (to me) font that I liked recently, on someone's blog. (I would mention it, but do not want that to influence any of the answers.) That made me think of asking this question: What fonts do you like, and use, on your site or blog? I should mention that I don't know much about typography.

Thanks in advance for all the replies.
We are also hard at work supporting add-on authors porting to WebExtension APIs. I'm especially trying to help Privacy & Security add-on authors.
I find the silver bullet method to be most effective here.
Most trucks on the road should be Tier IV and using DPF + DEF. I think they mandated it as a requirement for all semi trucks a few years back as well.

There are people who install "delete-pipes" though, and they should be taken out back and made to inhale what they spew.
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Please don't post trollish comments on HN. I don't like it when you do that.
Are you suggesting we take their behavior for granted? Positive behavior needs to be praised – it's part of how society influences its members.
> more brake dust

Since they use regenerative braking, doesn't that reduce this?
Unless you mean elsewhere than on Earth. That would also put different pressures on it too.
re: "ls -l" understood. I ran "ls -ld ."
I think a big part of it, at least for me, is the mucoid layer around the seeds. If I seed raw tomatoes, they go down fine. But those seeds: it's like eating someone else's boogers.
> I would never approve a production system as expansive as Gitlab's to only have two databases in a cluster. That is asking for trouble, and any {sys,db}admin worth their salt will tell you the same. As soon as you need to do anything on one database, you've just lost your cluster policy.

I do agree with you it reflects poorly on GitLab for only having a primary and replica, with broken backups.

BUT, they are a startup, and they need to be laser focused on growing the company and securing funding for the next quarter so they can keep the lights on.

This kind of pants on fire growth in a startup often (always?) comes at the cost of redundancy and best practices. If you stop to make your platform bulletproof instead of the new features you promised customers/investors, you die.

I'm not saying this is an excuse for them to permanently shrug off making their platform more redundant and engaging in best practices. But, as with many startups, they're focused on delivering features as fast as possible to grow their user base.

I think, and hope, that their recent outage has been the experience they needed to prioritize their shift toward more redundancy and best practices.
Never said I agree with that. It was a stupid decision on the part of the CBP officer. But what I am saying is that a person with security clearance should expect further scrutiny when travelling abroad or arriving on US soil. Part of the job I guess.
Brake regeneration is a large part of the braking force for many EVs when the brake pedal is pressed, so the brake pads in some EV cars are actually smaller than their gas siblings.

Brake regeneration also avoids using the brake pedal altogether in many cases because an EV slows down significantly when the gas pedal is released.

With electric power, smaller brake pads, and less need to use them, I'm surprised the article believes there is only a 1% reduction in overall particle pollution for EV's vs. gas cars.

Plus, a typical EV is a small and modern 0-2 year old car compared to the gas vehicles out there, such as a 7-year-old, inefficient, v8 engine SUV.
> Lessons learned elsewhere are stupid until Linus finally understands them and then they're obvious.

I think you're suffering from selection bias.
Good feature for Facebook to adopt in their app. Even though you can save the photo and upload it.
Because she is unfortunately incorrect. Just because I support her doesn't mean I can't be factually objective. It sounds like some sort of miscommunication.

Here is the official statement from Uber:

"The law firm Perkins Coie is looking into the specific allegations raised by Susan. They will report into Eric Holder, who is responsible for the overall investigation into Uber's workplace practices. To be clear: they are investigating Susan's claims, not Susan personally."

In an email from one of our lawyers, she specifically mentions that Uber has been in constant contact with Susan's lawyers so this was a surprise. And that Uber of course doesn't hold Susan to blame for anything.
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Much appreciated for the feedback! The project certainly is in the infant stages. I'll take a look at the mobile styles and see what adjustments can be made there. I am relying heavily on system fonts for the most universal support which may be causing some variances.
It's 'foreword'. And I think some of the rants inside are even better than this.
Hmmm, do you have to walk or bike to the train? If you carry that much stuff around, I guess a car would be better. I've been simplifying what I carry around, I can read better on an iPad anyways.
I hated raw tomatoes, and then I had a proper heirloom tomato which made me realize it's actually that most mass-produced tomatoes are terrible
Actually it has. The Joy-Con have to connected when rebooting to resolve the issue.
A lot of that kind of thing is available closer into metro Boston. But I'm out past any real suburbs and the small cities that are closer to me aren't the sort of places where people Uber and get Whole Foods deliveries.
Except the structure of society has shown to be extremely unstable, even over relatively short timeframes. In just the past few generations we had two major wars that rocked the world, and drastic changed the societies of many countries.

Modern society is not a compelling example of a stable local maxima that has survived the eons, it's a seemingly calm period for our portion of a historically chaotic system.
Oh my god yes. That and various other operating systems I can think of that I had the misfortune to develop on. Thankfully they died out long ago.
Ah, I'm not familiar with dtrace so I guess I missed that in your comment. Thanks for the clarification.
That valuation is predicated on the assumption that the younger generation that uses the service will continue to use it in their 30s.
This language obviously wasn't run by a lawyer or anything. "Revoked passport" is really not a thing that the US is capable of doing to citizens of other countries. They also get the name of CBP wrong.

What a weirdly sloppy and threatening contract.
The Exodus is not a historically accurate account and archeological evidence doesn't support it.
Yes, yes they are. You are only currently paying about 40% of what each ride actually costs, overall.
This really stretches the imagination- not that his phone had malware, but that it was the source of the leaks.