skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I recently realized about the cube. In a simulation, or in reality, the configuration of the cube can be completely described by the orientation of the 20 movable pieces. The location of a piece is actually determined by it's orientation.

For example, if you wanted to make a 3d model you might make a bunch of little cubes each centered in their own object space and then translate them to their location in the cube. If you do that, you have to track the orientation AND location of each piece. However, if you center the entire cube at the origin and then place each piece in its place relative to that origin, all "moves" simply rotate a piece around some axis which both changes their orientation AND moves them relative to the cube center. As such, position is redundant information.

I'm not sure how relevant this is, but to me it seems to point to alternative ways of finding a solution via computer.

But this is probably very old news to people who study the cube.
You wouldn't own or display their content, nor would you set their prices (you merely give them the option to collect micropayments from a central wallet). Also, all social media companies already have data on their audience - that's just the way things are.

All publishers with paywalls have massive bounce-rates due to people not wanting to subscribe. This would help them make more money.
Trust & Safety council is in their business interests. Harassment is an existential threat if it chases the big names off their platform.
How can a driver lose $97000?

Not asking in support/opposition of uber. Genuinely curious about what are some ways drivers could get into so much trouble?
EBS data is backed up in multiple redundant ways (using erasure encoding I think).

Local storage is not intended for permanent storage, and is more use at your own risk. That's also why most of the new EC2 instances don't even support local storage.

Availability =/= durability of course
We are starting to see recoveries, our SES emails have mostly gone out and our data synchronization has updated 2 of our 3 feeds. Amazon has posted a message that they expect "improved error rates" in the next 45 minutes.
No, I think Travis has enough bad PR now. He doesn't need to punch down and sue a driver he's already bankrupted
To reinforce your point: The main issue is that the Internet converges to a monopoly of a handful players which control almost everything. The hard evidence for this trend is major international carriers are retreating, while Google, Facebook and Amazon are investing in privately owned undersea cables to sync their content distribution data centres.

In a weird coincidence earlier today, Geoff Huston gave an insightful talk about how these companies are reshaping the Internet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI7rRfNI8u4&t=46m17s
But was the driver right? Did uber black fares drop?
LOL...I just got notice that our status server is down now too! Maybe DO is just a rebranded offshoot of AWS after all... :D
Could be worse, your entire infrastructure could be hosted on Heroku.

You don't use S3 but because they do, your entire infrastructure crumbles.
Let people pay $1/month to raise their limit to 280 characters per message. http://blog.zorinaq.com/revenue-idea-for-twitter-1-per-month... Imagine a heated discussion on Twitter... how many would pay $1/month to be able to communicate their points more clearly?

Preemptive reply: no, nobody reads Twitter over SMS anymore.
> I wish the scripting line would not be crossed and we could stick to JIT-compiled JS or even dialects that can execute closer to the metal (like asm.js). It's just so nice to be able to have all the codes ...

This is addressed in the WASM FAQ:

"Will WebAssembly support View Source on the Web?

Yes! WebAssembly defines a text format to be rendered when developers view the source of a WebAssembly module in any developer tool..." [1]

[1] http://webassembly.org/docs/faq/
I worry about everything Google hosts because they have such a track record of just randomly axing products with no or little warning.
Ask HN: Good resources to learn API design/backend dev with Node and Express?
Preferably books, but they could also be tutorials, blogs, courses, etc.
Here’s everything you need to know about the state of autonomous cars
When even the status page is down, panic.
I feel for them. Imagine, 40 or 50 different engineering teams all responsible for updating their statuses. At this moment on the AWS status page I see random usage of the red, yellow, and green icons, even though all the status updates are "Increased error rates." What that tells me is that there's no unified communication protocol across the teams, or they're not following it. And just imagine what it's like being on the S3 team right now.

I notice even Cloudflare is starting to have problems serving up pages now.
There is the possibility that the wealth of an individual was acquired through voluntary trade. In that case, the person has already done so much good for other people that asking them for philanthropy instead of self-indulgence is renegotiating a deal that has already closed.

In contrast, most governments have acquired massive wealth through taxation of their subjects. Those subjects are less likely to tolerate the burden of taxation without some form of reciprocal obligation by the government, such as the expectation they will feed starving children, or provide for common defense, or ensure the viability of comprehensive health care systems.

The feat of the self-made ultrawealthy individual is magnified by the possibility that they have also paid taxes while accumulating their wealth.

In the case of Musk, he appears to have earned his fortune via normal entrepreneurship and standard business practices. He has contributed to giving us Internet payment services, private orbital launch, electric cars, solar energy production, and a few other things that (presumably) enough people want to make a business of them. The theoretical check on the serial entrepreneur that has achieved escape velocity from the rat race in both figurative and literal senses is starting a new business from old exit money that eventually fails hard.

I don't want Musk to feed starving children on Earth. I want him to feed children on Mars. If he can do that, I will likely throw fistfuls of my money at his face without him having to wave a gun in mine.

But he does seem to be a rather rare breed. Many ultrawealthy people did not accumulate their wealth by fulfilling the wishes of others. If you compare the likes of Musk, Gates, and Buffett with corrupt heads of state (i.e. Vladimir Putin) and monarchs, where the personal wealth is siphoned off from government funds, those are the people who most need some form of theoretical check. Those two classes don't need to be held to the same standard, because there is a vast gulf separating wealth that was earned from wealth that was taken.
I think this is kind of my point, actually...

The monetization Twitter has been able to achieve from this niche content hasn't met expectations and that niche content has also seen stalled growth.

Ephemera is what makes a sport/news/politics-aligned Twitter a much more interest proposition that routes around the negatives of the product and the value proposition on that front.
Your reading of Travis strikes me as wildly optimistic.
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> None is better at security architecture and design than Microsoft

This is an interesting claim; most of what I (and probably most people) think about Microsoft software security is informed by its earlier history, where it was doing pretty badly overall. What has Microsoft been up to lately that's impressed you with their security architecture/design?
I now use the cube as a meditative practice

Holy cow, you've put into words what I've been thinking and practicing. Thank you.
He probably took out a loan to buy a nice car/limo to do Uber Black work. Since the rates dropped, he probably can't make the monthly payments, let alone maintenance and gas.
StatusPage.io survived. Thanks gents.
How can you use Cloudfront to point to multiple buckets? I'm pretty sure each origin needs a path and Cloudfront serves the first path that matches.
I think the answer is maybe.
http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/california-recording-law
Openstack Swift - easy to get setup and reliable. Takes a little expertise but was well worth the investment in learning it!
WebAssembly official logo has been selected
He's not an engineer and likely can't prove it. In the US you need state certification to be qualified as an engineer.
Which is not the point? On Medium you get things like Recommendation, better discoverability. Which would help it get to people who don't read HN.
>7. let people pay to get a checkmark

Isn't (or maybe "wasn't") the intention of the check mark to differentiate legitimate public figures from those who would attempt to create fake profiles and impersonate them? Lately it seems like anyone who has had any sort of notoriety has been getting one, but if you could just pay for it instead that would completely defeat the purpose.
Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken job interview process
It was called Dreamweaver
I am excited to write some Rust in the browser, and have been tinkering with what it might look to have a rust frontend framework with ergonomics comparable to what you might expect in other high level languages. (https://anowell.github.io/quasar/)

That said, I agree that more people will want to work in higher level languages, though I kinda suspect "most" are going to still prefer Javascript for the forseeable future - so I sorta see JS compiling to WASM as inevitable.
To me this illustrates one of the biggest problems we have in america which is the crazy firewall between rich and poor. Kamel wanted to have a serious discussion with Kalanick about how his decisions as CEO were affecting Kamel's life and Kalanick gets upset about this. That's your job! At least it should be. If you can't even handle light criticism from the people you employ, you shouldn't be at the top.
I'm not sure why Tweets and free speech are so closely intertwined in this sort of discussion. Twitter is a for-profit business that isn't profitable. The OP asks what would you do to turn it around (which I'm taking as "make it profitable"). Some suggest better prevention of perceived harassment. My Uber driver has the free speech right to tell me 'my father smells of elderberries,' but if they do it's reasonable to assume I will no longer be riding in Ubers. Consequently, Uber sees it in their interest to try to prevent this sort of occurrence. Nobody tells me 'my father smells of elderberries' on Twitter, but if they did on more than a one-off basis I could see myself no longer enjoying the product, and consequently no longer using it, engaging with it, or promoting it. Twitter would be acting rationally to try to prevent this. So really the question becomes, is the damage to their brand and their user base from perceived harassment greater than the damage to their brand and their user base that would be induced by blocking this perceived harassment. Since one harasser can harass many users I suspect that the benefits would weigh in favor of protecting users from perceived harassment. I use "perceived" repeatedly here because I don't think it matters to the business of Twitter whether it's real or over-sensitivity, the customer is always right.
Random forests to save human lives
Secure Secure Shell – Tips on Securing OpenSSH
Pity the hijackers come from within.

https://stiobhart.net/2017-02-21-disqusting/
The best jokes always have a grain of truth.
Sugar: The Hunt for the Perfect One
The windows version is so outdated it really pisses me off. Especially since you have to use it with Wine if you want 1password on Linux.

The android, iphone, and osx apps are so clean and awesome, and then everyone else just gets crap that's 2 versions behind.
Bishop Berkeley's response to Newton might qualify. Newton had something useful but Berkeley showed he hadn't proved anything. It wasn't until Cauchy (?) proved things rigorously that calculus was on a solid footing.
You may have missed the joke (such things are hard to judge by the medium of text). The parent was implying that the complexity of Dwarf Fortress will grow to the point of sentience of the dwarfs themselves.
IMHO pricing per user / per month works well when clients are early and/or small startups, once the client has 50, 100, 200 employees then they must move out of these services because they get too expensive.

From the app from the article: 40$ per user / per month
- 10 people startup => 5k a year
- 100 people startup => 50k a year

When it becomes too expensive you only have a few options:
- keep the heavy users in and remove other people from the service
- have a shared user for people that don't use the service that often (If identity is important, who did what, then this becomes confusing)
- move away from this solution, consider competitors

SaaS companies should consider medium to large companies and think about pricing caps, light agent roles, etc.

For example: the first 100 actions are free for each user, after that one simple fee is applied of 40 per month / per user. I don't know what is a proper solution yet.
Also, philosophy has been dogged since Descartes with the self-imposed goal of providing a "foundation" for all knowledge enterprises (e.g. science, math) — by attempting to, put crudely, solve the mind-body problem and legitimatize that our thoughts and connection to the world are valid.
or was it? dun dun
Yes, the only way a server can die is from non-raided disks.
Amazon - order tracking
A guess: to push people to register. For several reasons: (1) they are judged on that every quarter; (2) a hypothesis that this makes the experience better for users, and hence more likely to contribute to MAUs; (3) a hypothesis this improves ad targeting.
The top answer is extremely wrong.
they kind of suggest to do that though, at the end of point 7
EBS is incredibly expensive and slow, not really a good solution. It'd be nice if they offered a better local storage option.
My experience is 13 years of trying really hard to do the right thing within a sinking ship. Yes, we where young and inexperienced; and yes the foundation of the system was built using what turned out to be the worst turds in Delphi; and yes, I agree that it's possible to build better software in Delphi. But no, really; enough is enough; unless you're absolutely forced to, I see no advantages in choosing Delphi these days.
I think that knowing the most common edge case(s) will cause 80% of the bugs means you can solve (or design around) the most common issues and move on.
Does Travis have the temperament to lead this company to a public offering? Given how much baggage he has and how responsible he is for Uber's current sexist culture, I hope investors give keeping Travis on some thinking. Responsibility for a terrible culture that shields sexist management starts at the top.
Inside of a private car with the windows up isn't public.

I don't know whether California is a two-party consent state, and the specifics of what that requires are different state to state anyway.
YouTube TV is Google's live TV service
This is driven by the argument that drivers are not employees. He has no vested interest in the drivers circumstances.
Otherwise they should at least be providing customers their data back.
Look up 'Star Citizen' and marvel/despair.
Thank you, I hope you still enjoy tickers after you downloaded it :)

You can contact me via mail: app@tickers.cc
Switching to a MacBook maybe.
Yeah it was a bit odd for me too, coming from PHP and node land. Most of the editing should be done in the experience editor.. which is fairly WYSIWYG in context editing. Concrete5 still does that part of it better. Sitecore has a lot of engagement value scoring and content a/b testing built into it.
It seems to me a few people fit their jobs/environment others don't. The few who fit are productive, those who aren't where they are supposed to be are not. We should be discussing how to help people learn what environment/job works for them and empowering them, instead of trying to focus on the mythical 10x programmer.
Don't get me wrong some programmers are very talented (and thus more productive), but I think this is due in great part to their ability to add value in a particular setting.

A 10x games programmer in a small studio could easily become a 0.1x web dev in a big web dev team.
Those 'after me the deluge (French saying)' people are the worst. Same as rich people fucking up the globe but massively buying 'escape hatches' in New Zealand. If you're that kind of person, you should be burned at the stake.
The BlackBerry KeyOne resurrects the keyboard with style
For people maybe, but now that twitter is at scale it might not be for someone who cares about their brand
Major browsers to begin shipping WebAssembly on-by-default
YouTube launches YouTube TV, its live TV streaming service
Jeff Dean's Setup
Shouldn't you consider the same, that your group is a set of outliers? Comparing anecdotes will get us nowhere.
As far as he is concerned drivers are not humans.
Sorry, for any product on GCP, there is a 1 year deprecation policy. GCP isn't going anywhere. See the comment about Snap and Diane Greene's involvement (she is an Alphabet board member).

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud Platform
Just looked at the apimonitor; kinda' shocked at a) how I've never come across it before, and b) how thorough it is.

Very neat, thanks.
Ask HN: Have you recently declined to travel to US because CBP privacy invasion?
Maybe the World Needs a Narrow State
Now what kind of business choose to remain down for 2 hours plus during the peak business hours?

Seems cloud computing still has a lot to learn.
And those kids who couldn't care less probably have never used Linux or a single board computer.
Because C# is awesome. The most intuitive OO language I have ever used.
> If you can't even handle light criticism from the people you employ, you shouldn't be at the top.

I ask this in all seriousness: what qualities make for a good leader assuming the ideals of capitalism? I understand many people here will say they would prefer to work for a moral leader who can handle criticism and adapt to make sure his employees are taken care of, but do those leaders perform better at growing companies quickly? I guess what I'm asking is for data - are assholes more likely to be successful CEOs? Or maybe they're better at the early stages when growing a company, or perhaps they're better at the later stages when a company needs to deal with regulations, or maybe they're always the worst. What data is there for this apart from anecdotes?
I'm ... fare-ly ... certain certain this law does not apply to recordings for security purposes in a place of business; the vehicle being the place of business of the Uber driver.

EDIT: Er, scratch that. Didn't realize there was audio attached. I think audio might be the incriminating factor in the two party consent thing. I mostly just wanted to make a bad pun.
Introduce channels to reduce noise and focus content.
If Trump did this he'd be doing exactly what Paul Ryan and other Republican Trump allies have been promising not to do, so while it would be nice to imagine Trump is an actual populist who might take some cues from former aggressive populists, it's quite unlikely that we'll see him do that.
There is no such thing as a minor browser fork. And my whole point was to not pick a side, it was to make the browser more flexible so it worked for more cases, not less.

Every non-Microsoft browser vendor used to cry themselves to sleep at night from days fighting against vendor lock-ins and corruption of standards. They certainly care if it all goes south.

I suppose people don't want easier browsers because they imagine they are easy enough and can't imagine something better. At least I hope that's the reason, and not that they fear change, or are indifferent to the needs of people other than themselves and prefer to design for that alone.

There's no way in hell I'm crazy enough to make a browser, though. I'd rather run for elected office, or eat an entire Volkswagen Golf.
We used it for security reasons, as we didn't want the guests to have a network link to the host. I know, I know.
@EMcardiac (Badass south african doc)
@EMNerd_ (Great research commentaries)
@M_Lin (Program director at UCSF, posts lots of clinical pearls)

My favorites though are docs I know from away rotations and the wards. They aren't famous, but their opinions especially matter to me.

Also follow @medicalaxioms
That's just begging the question.

OK, so you've found a buyer; what's the buyer to do to turn Twitter around?
Can't agree with this. Buckets in eu-west-1 are fine
> quantum theory / relativity / Heisenberg == positivism (If I don't see it (e.g. electron orbitals) it doesn't exist)

Wow, that is such a non-sequitur that it casts doubt on the whole thing.
Their Orange County/Tustin location is the only one left in California, apparently. I built my "graduation present" PC with parts from there in 2008. They've apparently got about 2 dozen locations around the country, along with the web store.
Status page is lit up like a Christmas tree! Looks like AWS finally found the myriad non-green icons.
So S3's been down for at least 3 hours. Does AWS break this year's S3 durability & reliability promise of eleven 9s by now? [1][2]

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/details/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_c...
While I agree that was a horrific outage for us, there's a big difference between no external connectivity for a few minutes (note: internal IPs still worked fine, as did access to APIs through that mechanism) and "ALL instances in ALL regions went down".

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and wouldn't want to be an incident responder at AWS today...)
Only limited impact to Aiven services due to service migration capability http://help.aiven.io/announcements/aiven-customer-notice-aws...
Mankind divided wasn't finished and had 1 month DLC $12 and then another $12 recently. Game is rumoured never to be finished.
A bit of a tangential point: last week there was a post here about Facebook "changing the rules" and a significant number of small businesses disappearing as a result. Whether or not Uber's black car reimbursement really did change, it strikes me that drivers probably made business decisions (e.g. car purchases) based on Uber's initial reimbursement and are now seeing the rules change and grossing far fewer profits than expected (and prices still have a ways to go).

One can argue that these small business owners / contractors should have had the foresight not to do business on someone else's platform, but this strikes me as a bit Malthusian. Going through bankruptcy is no small price to pay for this lesson. Hopefully the next Facebook or Uber will have to promise some degree of stability (the same way I am very wary of working with SaaS startups), but I'm not optimistic - there's a fool born every minute.
I keep reading this and going, "Literally every person in the US thinks it's complicated if they think about it at all. Everyone knew."

It's just such a strange thing to say.