skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the end of the day, we're just doing data transformations, that's it

That's kind of the thing though. REST doesn't do transformations. It just does CRUD of resources.

For me, when designing an application, I will think, "is representational state transfer the only thing this application will ever need to do?" If the answer is "no" then REST seems like a poor model to build around. I've never answered "yes" to that question. (That said, I spent many years mindlessly building REST apps before I started asking myself that).

Per CQRS etc., that's right. It's a tool. Use it when appropriate. Don't use it when not. (That said, the scare factor of that article is a bit high--I've had very little trouble with it since switching to it as my go-to update pattern about five years ago. Also note Martin Fowler has changed his mind on several topics lately, such as the Rich vs Anemic domain model, away from OOP and toward a more FP viewpoint. CQRS is certainly the more FP model here.)
Slightly off-topic or meta but still: the layout, CSS styles, fonts, colors and contrast on this blog (article) are just PERFECT. Rare occurrence.
Couldn't agree more, my friend.

What will be even scarier and chilling is when they find a way to either fine, imprison, sue us for libel, or impugn us for pointing out their crimes using our freedom of speech! :)
Guessing this will kill Phaxio. Compare the pricing:

https://www.twilio.com/fax/pricing

https://www.phaxio.com/pricing/
Or you could have an actual moderation system a la Slashdot, instead of reddit-style voting. Though to be fair, voting here does seem to be be used as more of a moderation mechanism than an agree/disagree button.
Yeah, without data on how other people perceive podcasts, the author is just inadvertently revealing their own perceptions. I've never thought of listening to podcasts as highbrow, and they've gone through a very particular set of experiences if they do.
The link says this is related to the repeal of the FCC ruling, I fail to see that connection, however. What in the repealed rules prevented them from installing spyware on your phone? They already seemed to have the ability to do that.
Fantastic! I'll send you an email shortly.
Sure. How much are employer health plans in the US? Employer NI is 13% of the salary over £152 per week, so for an employee on £25000 per year, the employer has to fork out about another £2000 on top.

Almost all companies have a pension scheme too which are usually something like matched contributions - the employee contributes X% of their salary, and the employer contributes an additional X% of their salary up to some threshold (usually 5-10%).

Starting salary for any graduate job is about that in the UK, and most of Europe too. I suppose that the cost of upping and moving is significant enough to put people off. Plus, the difficulty in getting a visa is likely a major factor.
It already happened, so probably not.
FLAVOR: Desktop
HEADLINE: Useful default calendar
DESCRIPTION: Make the default calendar useful by adding the ability to (easily) sync with Google, Exchange calendars; show and add meetings from the tray. Bonus points for actionable previews.
I've had to use fax to verify my identity in NYC when setting up a Con Edison account (electricity). I had no way of sending a fax physically so resorted to using some shit online service that tricked me and kept charging me every month after sending the original single page I needed. Horrible experience.
Ah right, I wasn't aware of that.
I love WaPo. I hate Jared Kushner and Donald Trump. But this article begins with the attitude that I often find among laypeople who still put Apple on a pedestal: a bizarre combination of misinformation and elitism.

> The computer was a recent-model Mac, but when I turned it on, it was inexplicably running Windows.

> “So he was basically using a $2,500 desktop as a monitor?” I said. The IT guy shrugged.

> On the other hand, why did the newspaper’s owner need a $2,500 monitor? How was it anything but a vanity object?

As anyone with the most basic understanding of computer hardware knows, this is completely wrong.

Also, as long ago as 2012, The Verge acknowledged wrote an article titled, "MacBook Air with Windows 7 review: the ultrabook to rule them all?"[1]

1. http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/10/2787484/macbook-air-with-w...
Riddles, Logic Puzzles, and Brain Teasers
- Flavor: Desktop

- Headline: Rolling mesa, drm & kernel updates

- Description: mesa is moving at rapid pace and it's improving a lot. Because versions are locked you might find yourself 6-8 months behind current stable and thats MASSIVE. That's why padoka/oibaf PPAs are so popular - but only among the more tech savvy users - the rest just look at the sad state of Linux gaming..
Yes. I'm not skeptical that fax is safer than email. I'm skeptical that it's safe.

I see all sorts of things I shouldn't see when searching the pile of papers on the fax machine at a large company for my fax.
It's not that much of a grey area. The ATF has published regulations that require the fire control control pocket be created before a lower receiver is legally considered a firearm. The people who have gotten in trouble here have created lowers where the fire control pocket has been started in some way. In one example, a company created a "biscuit" of one color plastic in the shape that needed to be milled out and then shot the rest of the lower around that biscuit. The ATF argued that the fire control pocket was created in this process and the end user was just removing a plug that was inserted into that pocket. In other cases, the manufacturers made index markings showing where to mill things out.

If you stick to an 80% where the fire control pocket has not been started and you select a lower that requires a separate jig to mill, you'll be fine.
> Hacker who hacked no-one

Okay, what did they do, then?

> Made software abused by hackers

Oh, that's unfortunate. It was just a legitimate exploit tool, right?

> RAT

Okay, that's a potentially legitimate type of software—

> advertised on HackForums

…the case pretty much writes itself. Nobody who has heard of that site can claim with a straight face that software marketed there has innocent intent.

The article is sympathetic and argues the author had innocent intentions. Perhaps that's the case, but the problem is that it would be very difficult to persuade people of that, given that someone who in truth did have malintent might act exactly the same (e.g. the disclaimers attached to other such hacking tools).
By the way, this is the attitude that causes diversity issues. "The rich ore is Stanford CS grads who worked at Google and Facebook, so why should I recruit anywhere else?"
Maybe it depends on the topic? I'm not seeing the same numbers for other types of posts.
>Many years ago TLC (before it degraded into trash) ...

That's an understatement. In fact, the comparison is actually unfair to trash.

>... an excellent show called "The Operation" where it would show EVERYTHING that happened during a medical procedure ...

I don't see why TLC couldn't air a similar show today. They could just focus on the human element, which is to say drama that's either completely scripted and/or manufactured via editing in post.

Gore would be completely off the table though. The average viewer just wouldn't be able to enjoy their super-sized soft drink watching that.

>It was incredible to watch and very educational.

Network executives at Discovery have most likely since instituted an organization-wide ban of the word "educational" on general principle.
You use HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's an abuse of this site and we ban accounts that do it (irrespective of their politics).

HN is for gratifying intellectual curiosity, not for smiting enemies. Enemy-smiting will take over if we let it, so we have to draw a line, and the line we've arrived at is this: occasional political commentary is ok, using the site primarily for that purpose is not.

If you find that HN gratifies your intellectual curiosity about a range of things and you'd like to engage with the community about those things, great! That is the intended use of the site. If you don't find that, or if you're too interested in your causes to care about anything else, then HN is not the internet forum you need. Either way, please adjust your use of this place so we can preserve it for what it's for.
That's an excellent point!
The Pentagon Still Doesn’t Encrypt Its Emails
One question I asked that turned me off from pursuing an MBA was "what happens when the MBA pool becomes as saturated as the <liberal arts degree> pool?" What other degree can one get besides an MBA to demonstrate success at business? How can one manage a social network that large at the minimum level required to get referrals to jobs. What will happen to wages?

When I started thinking long term, I realized that people everything an MBA teaches you can be learned online and through a few books. Excel modeling, financial analysis, case studies, it's all readily available.

And I came to the unfortunate conclusion that one doesn't need an education to teach you how to be a good manager. Good managers are competent in both the technical skills required of their subordinates and also in the interpersonal skills required to communicate and understand their subordinates. So the question for me became how do I learn technical skills? And the solution was to study technical fields.

We're at the start of a transition period, where companies no longer outsource their leadership to individuals with alphabet soup after their name. As innovation and expansion occur more rapidly, people left asking "is it better to be the technical or the non-technical co-founder" will lose to technical founders with a desire to lead.
Same with the Galaxy S7.
I also have faith that Google won't accidentally expose my data to the entire internet - or at least, they'll only fall to vulnerabilities that affect everyone.

Verizon's ethics aside, I have no real trust in their competence to keep data to themselves. I've dealt with their website, I've read the stories of people getting their accounts hijacked because Verizon can't handle verification right, and all the rest. I don't want a side channel to track my downloads, location, and god knows what else because I expect it'll be compromised far faster.
SMS Inbox is brilliant! Congrats for being successful with it.

Your suggestion to focus on a platform is also great, I hadn't thought about it. Stripe is soon going to launch in Brazil too, so there will probably be many low-hanging opportunities there. Thank you for going the extra mile :)
Um... what were the actual events in Pizzagate? It was all about interpreting "codes" in Podesta emails. There was literally no allegation anywhere of an actual concrete event; certainly nothing close to "90% real". Are you being serious?
So... photoshop?
Congrats and a big "thanks" are also due for SES, for having the brass to put what I'm sure is a spendy piece of hardware on top of Elon's latest comic book science experiment.
The Bucket - KFC
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B06XY51MFS
The same would go for RubyGems, but these are a Debian issue. Not sure how Ubuntu could untangle that.
> If you think of users as a resource, then updating them is a PUT to /users/{id}. Fine, they can update their info.

That sounds a lot more like a user profile resource than a user resource.

> But you also need a way to change their password. That's a different entrypoint.

Or, if you have a user resource rather than separate profile I and password resources, all partial updates could go to the same resource as PATCHes.

> Where does it go?

If you spend a lot of time thinking about that, you probably aren't doing REST.

> Is it a PUT or a POST?

Is it a replacement or a new resource? Largely, that depends on your domain model, and models under which either answer (or PATCH) make sense. As long as the definitions of your resource representations tell what operations are supported, and what they mean, for endpoints represented by the relevant link relations, it really doesn't matter all that much.

> The REST model tries to present a facade that everything is a "resource". In my experience, as apps get bigger, more and more things start not quite fitting that model.

I can't imagine how anything could fail to fit the model, unless you assume (as REST does not) that resources must be completely independent so that an action on one resource has no effects on the state of other resources.
> you are in fact the one that's torturing the data until it tells you what you want.

If a journalist issues a press article claiming "Women earn less than men", he/she's the one who extracted a story out of the statistics, and they ought to be very well justified to say that, because such titles create outrage against men. And I'm just cross-checking the title against the own source of the article and it already shows huge weaknesses.

I reckon that -24% (raw average), -2.4% (on equal jobs), +8% (for big cities) or +15% (in NYC/Atlanta) are figures that are up for discussion, but that is exactly my point: All of this analysis should be in the journalist's investigation (and eventually cross-checked by a scientific) before warranting the claim that women are underpaid.

> there's 3 female graduates for every 2 male graduates in these areas in that demographic

That is another concerning problem that isn't taken very seriously either: Since we've helped help women reach males' wage levels, shouldn't we help men reach females' education levels? Shouldn't that make the headlines too?
>>That's a very convenient and self-congratulatory view of things. Science denialism happens on both the left and the right.

Sure, but the left treats its science deniers with equal levels of disdain and does its best to marginalize them. The right cheers its science deniers on and elects them to government positions.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Disable Bluetooth on startup

- DESCRIPTION: Bluetooth is turned on when Ubuntu starts and people are struggling to deactivate bluetooth on system startup.
For further references check this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/67758/how-can-i-deactivate-bl...
Remember, a primary focus on MBA's is getting to
positions of power...

Now you're projecting! For every power-hungry poorly-managing CEO-wannabe MBA, there's someone who just wants to know how to administer a business well. A MBA is a (but certainly not the or the only) path to accomplishing that.
This is damn disgraceful (and that's about as respectable a comment I can make about it). The same atrocious behavior happens in Britain and commonwealth countries with Crown Copyright.

For the life of me, why do we put up with this nonsense? We ought to be rioting in the streets over it until fixed.

(It's little wonder our democracies are in such big trouble when so few of the citizenry actually care about atrocities committed against democracy by 'The State'.)
I would put it differently. I think the episemological divide (or at least one of them) is between pre- and post-Hegelian views. Post-Hegel, real truth (in the old sense) is gone, and all that's left is a repeated cycle of dialectic.

What we're left with is that "truth" is only true within a society or group; I can have my truth that's true for me, and demand that you respect it. (I was going to say that this is what we're left with on part of the left, but on reflection the behavior you're complaining about on the right fits this pattern as well.)
Unity 5.6 is now available and completes the Unity 5 cycle
I appreciate having more options with css but I do think css grids is coming too fast and it's going to contribute to developer confusion.

Most developers are still getting used to flexbox and now there is something new to learn.
I had a minor operation and watched it. As you said, it's a really strange feeling. You can feel the tugs, but it's muted and there's no pain. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Then when I had a major operation I asked for local anaesthetic, but they tented things up and refused to let me watch. :(
'Unified Communications'
It'd be nice to integrate SMS, MMS, RCS notifications. Similar to PushBullet. Would most likely require an android client.
Corporate ethics aside, this scares me because I don't trust its security. Android has vulnerabilities, but they're regularly discovered and patched. A Verizon-made side channel gathering all the same stuff? That sounds like it'll bleed data to anyone and everyone and not get patched on anything like a responsible schedule.
Glad you were able to dodge that one. They've ruined a lot of lives and families in the Midwest, where, incredibly, they still are treated as a legitimate business.
New York Post is a tabloid. Please don't cite them to support arguments about journalistic integrity.
Under federal law, they can be bought and sold like any other gun.

The issue is that you need a federal firearms manufacturing license to be in the business of manufacturing firearms. The occasional sale of homemade firearms you no longer want is legal as long as it's infrequent and you're not manufacturing the weapons to make money.
Danger aside, I think the psychological revelations that have come out of this phenomenon are fascinating. We are surely all on some spectrum of mental soundness, and likewise are all vulnerable to some channels of psychological manipulation. What's shocking is just how many can be manipulated and the extremes to which they are. You'd probably never guess that someone you know or work closely with scrolls through InfoWars, or whatever the radical left equivalent is, during couch-time after work. Hell, maybe it's you...
>That's not true at all where the act is done in an official capacity and inures to the benefit of the acquired firm.

If you are suggesting Uber instructed the Otto founder to steal the tech and set up his own shop to be acquired...then, yes Uber would be liable, and while that may be the theme of the case, if there were any real evidence theft of IP was done as an official act of Uber this would already be settled.

An employer is generally liable for the acts of its employees done in their official capacity (respondiate superior) the employer will not be liable for criminal acts of its employees. That is unless you can find smoking gun evidence the employer instructed the employee to commit the act, otherwise legally criminal acts are outside the scope of official employment and employers are not liable...the same is true of an acquisition, whereas Otto would have expressly stated they own all IP and have authority to sell the same, which would be a breach and potentially void/invalidate the entire acquisition. Either way, If Uber is infringing IP they can be enjoined, but unless it can be shown Uber instructed the Otto founders to steal the IP or knew it was stolen I think they would be indemnified, assuming that's what occurred.
It was about $1k. I am not sure whether it's covered by insurance or not but I didn't try.
What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
Most everything in capitalist societies is based on economics. If you consider less accidents and fatalities due to self driving cars as an inevitability, then you should consider insurance premiums to reflect that once they're out in the general population. Given enough level 4-5 autonomous vehicles on the roads, you can also eventually expect premiums for non-autonomous vehicles to rise. Then you'll see a shift towards them that continues exponentially.

Thinking the shift towards autonomous vehicles happens linearly is a mistake.
There is Ubuntu Phone. There were also several devices. Here is the source for one of them: https://github.com/bq/aquaris-E4.5
Awesome project.

How does the system find and classifies the event?
Interesting that it's deterministic. I can get it to play the same game again and again. Why is this not the case with more advanced chess engines?

Edit: Apparently single-threaded stockfish is deterministic. Maybe my experience with non-deterministic chess engines just has to do with the handicapping related to providing easier levels of play.
Overhauling API docs with GoCardless
Anything with a prominent opinion present throughout the piece is more an "article" than "news" anyway, but yes, propaganda nonetheless.
Perhaps you're right - though Flash developers had to adjust.

Ad tech really needs to go.
I didn't get it for the purpose at the time, but my PrivateInternetAccess (PIA) account seems to be getting more useful because of this.

unfortunately a lot of abuse is performed via PIA so some sites (especially financial and forums) block PIA ip's.
"We are living through a great flowering of the podcast industry, whose province of iTunes is something like a frontier boomtown right now, teeming with hastily erected new storefronts. The podcast form has been around since about 2004—it is kissing cousins with the iPod, in that way—but it was only in 2014 that the idea struck gold."

Uhhh... what?

https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=podcas...

A re-flowering perhaps, looking at the trend's rise since 2014 - but certainly not as popular as it was around 2005-2006.
There are other 80% complete frames available and have been for a long time. The most popular are the AR-15 and 1911. It seems like the line is fairly well established. There are other issues like felons and other people who can't have a gun using this to get around the background checks that can lead to raids and questions about the makers of these billets but in general if you can own a gun you're perfectly safe to buy an 80% billet and machine it out yourself.

Are you talking about the CNC shop that was trying to act like just starting or touching the machine was enough to count as their customers manufacturing the lower instead of the company? That's a whole other issue with just what does it mean for a person to have manufactured the weapon and I'm pretty comfortable saying that company was well on the wrong side of that line.

For most 80%s they're pretty clearly not a gun because there's absolutely no way to use this [1] without modification and assemble it into a gun. This basic design has been around for a looong time.

[1] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0218/5770/products/DSC0545...

Edit: found a pretty in depth Q&A with the ATF about 80% lowers that defines and clears up a lot of things like exactly what would make an incomplete lower count as a firearm: https://www.ammoland.com/2014/11/atf-answers-questions-on-80...
Its news coverage is inarguably center-right (since it caters to a primarily business audience), but its opinion pieces are quite liberal.
CNN feeding the debate questions, in advance, to one campaign but not the other? Or do you not count CNN as mainstream?
not only you :)
I don't read webcomics, and somehow I don't think people like gwern who write long-form content do it for the ad revenue. And even if there are ads on the website, if they respect the DNT header, AdNauseam won't auto-click them.

(I'm not sure what the tipping anecdote is supposed to mean, but I don't understand why US customers put up with tipping either, the business is responsible for it's operating budget, and there is no legitimate reason to bother the customer with it.)
One of my favorite UX problems - click on a photo and watch it get smaller.
This article requires further data to corroborate it's claim. For example, there needs to be a delineation between companies run by founders and non-founders. MBAs are almost never founders, they are hired. Therefore, their analysis should control for founder-run companies. By the time you hire a MBA as CEO, most of the growth has already occurred, the original management team has left to cash out their equity, etc.

In fact, oftentimes, MBAs are hired to solve a major problem, usually of growth. Why else would the founder leave? What founder leaves in the middle of a growth spurt? Often it's when the founder has reached the limits of their abilities that a MBA is called in.