skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol, if that is the case, it seems strange to make such a polarizing decision about the horizontal rules. You will definitely turn away more readers that find them annoying than you will gain readers who are like "the article content is meh.... but those animated squigglies tho!"
This is something that Richard Stallman and Cory Doctorow have been warning about for some time now... The war against general purpose computing.
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91% of 278 randomly-sampled cases were wrongfully seized. Jesus.

> More troubling, the report found that the pattern of seizures — targeting businesses that had obtained their money legally — was deliberate.

That part is not surprising to me, given how many cases were wrongful, that it was deliberate. There is no oversight, except for occasional investigations like this one.

This will not result in rolling back this power, though. They'll just put "stronger oversight" in place, to make sure the wolves guarding the hen house are on their best behavior.
I seriously doubt that Microsoft is going to ban, oh, just for starters:

* Photoshop
* Illustrator
* Premier
* Avid
* Office
* Visual Studio

etc. etc. Legacy applications are a huge reason for people to use Windows. Blocking themselves off from that rich ecosystem of applications is basically begging people to use a Chromebook.
For something like this, I've no reason to believe small claims court isn't also an effective tool.
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Near the bottom of the lite.twitter.com page it states "Twitter Lite...developed in partnership with Google."
Is this the beginning of a partnership test with google as a sort of test to see how viable twitter would be to be acquired by google? Sort of like a few first dates before considering "corporate marriage"? Hmmm...perhaps my conspiracy theorist cap is on too tight. I wouldn't say that I'm a fan of either of the twitter or G+ platforms, but i can see some business rationale for google absorbing and continuing to run twitter - both the company and the platform. Ah, well.
it's more dieselpunk than cyberpunk tbh. The whole X-punk scene seems to devolve into arbitrary differences between very similar genres.
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14022588
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What is the reason for choosing this model?

I assume that the teams are still using the pre-pipeline jenkins jobs where they have to make the changes on the Jenkins server directly right? If you could switch to Jenkins pipelines with a single master, you could give that same freedom to your dev teams to manage their own build without having to manage a dedicated Jenkins master for each one.
I mean I get that it's your baby and you and whoever else worked on it are super into the style. I'm super not, but why do you care? You've got your statement to make. "That's just, like, your opinion, man, it's not for everybody" still comes off whiny, though.

That said, good call not breaking reader mode, so the less avant garde among us don't have to choose between bouncing and getting a headache. Super-saturated background for unsaturated text? Seriously? I mean, the luminance contrast is good and all, but Jesus. How is this not literally painful for you guys to look at on Apple displays? Even on a Dell it stings.
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The executive compensation disclosures led to greater compensation because the top performers had a baseline from which to be paid and thus required higher wages. At the same time, nobody likes to think they're below average, and thus demanded at least near-average wages. What makes you think that mechanism wouldn't lead to increased wages for laborers?
Not necessarily.

You don't need to move the entire industry off-planet physically to reach a state where there is little industry on-planet and lots of industry off-planet. Tools can be made in space with materials on-hand up there. With those, you can get access to more materials (asteroid mining), and build more tools, more industry, etc.

The only real barrier right now is efficient transportation. Ion drives look poised to solve that problem.
Yeah, that'll happen when hell freezes over. The one thing Microsoft holds above all else is backwards compatibility and this would break that in a million ways.
I'm not disagreeing with you, not at all really, but I will offer a defense of Startup Weekend.

I've participated in 8 or so Startup Weekends, a few as a regular attendee, a few as a mentor, and a few as a community organizer. So, I'm speaking from a position of some experience but admittedly, only within the events I experienced in the mid-Atlantic area.

I've always viewed Startup Weekend as different from a hackathon. IMO, hackathons should be more like what you're describing, developers getting together and hacking on stuff, a fairly technical focus. Whereas I view Startup Weekend as more an entrepreneur networking event. Yes, you're ostensibly there to create a startup in a weekend, but the real point is to meet people outside of your normal circles, other people who have that ambition to create something.

At least, that's how I've always pitched it to developers I encouraged to attend. If you want to have a good weekend, put some effort into picking a good team. The startup idea honestly doesn't matter so much, because it's kind of absurd to think you'll build anything real in a weekend. The startup idea will almost certainly be abandoned after the weekend. So, what really matters is finding a team of people who seem like they'd be fun to work with, people you might enjoy spending an entire weekend with, people you might want to maintain a connection with after the weekend.

I also think Startup Weekend is a bit more up front about the focus being the business idea and the pitch, not actually executing on the tech during the weekend. Of course, it can be disheartening when a completely unfeasible idea wins, but that really comes down to the judges. I've often been frustrated by the judging. For example, at one event, one judge was an expert in FinTech; so some decent ideas in that space were shot down as unfeasible, which was probably true. But some equally unfeasible machine learning ideas won, simply because none of the judges had the expertise to evaluate them.

All of that said, there are definitely diminishing returns. After you've attended one or two Startup Weekends, you've probably expanded your circle plenty – and if not, then attending a third probably won't change that. I attended so many, because I found the energy of the event to be invigorating. It felt good to be around so many people who were putting energy into creating something new – yes, often something silly/bad/unfeasible, but they were trying to do something different.

It's similar to how I feel about software conferences. It's good to attend 1 per year, because it's invigorating to be around so many developers who are passionate about technology and the craft of writing software. But as you attend more, there are rapidly diminishing returns. There are only so many ideas you can explore, only so much you can take away. In years I've attended multiple, I often find myself wishing I had just stayed home and spent the 2-4 days doing some other learning activity, e.g., pick an open source tool I use regularly, really dig into it, and try to contribute back.
The distribution of engineering talent in India is hyper-Gaussian at best. Even students coming out of 'premier' college have very little knowledge about their field. There's also a lot of hiring discrimination and people are hired based on the college they went to rather than their caliber. This is changing slowly with startups and new age companies hiring based on parameters other than one an institution's name.
I live in Berlin. Some parts are punk, some parts are cyber, no parts that I know are cyberpunk.
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Went to school in a college town in the US. I always based it on how much alcohol your body should can process, roughly a beer an hour. So if I started drinking at a party four hours ago and had five beers, I figured I was sober enough to go home.

I usually did most of my drinking at the beginning of the night anyway (intentionally so this would be a viable strategy), so I was mostly sobering up at the end.

But there were still plenty of nights where I slept on the host's couch or floor until morning, and a few times where I made poor decisions because I really, really didn't want to have to find other transportation (mostly just getting in the car with people who I couldn't determine if they were sober enough to drive). Taxis really are awful in small towns.
What people are saying is that the web does look like shit, and your website is part of the problem.

Unfortunately for you, the web _is_ for everyone. It's for everyone on HN, it's for people with disabilities, it's for people who have a 32" desktop screen that don't need your shitty hamburger menu and giant font size, it's for people with color blindness, it's for people who want to read the content, not marvel at your silly squiggly lines.

Saying that "my design is not for everyone" in such a dismissive manner is deliberately showing the middle finger to everyone who is outside of your group and people are calling you out on that.

Your submission is objectively ironic, regardless of what YOU think.
Super good questions. I wish I had all the answers and I hope the system unfolds in a such a way that answers will come along the way. That's Agile :)
can a drunk passenger of a drunk driver be penalized as well?
>> Focus on development of human resources.

I would like to tangentially note that NASA couldn't have done what it has done without the post-WWII Operation Paperclip, in which the USA literally stole Germany's rocket scientists.
It could be solved in the first visit, since it's not generally sufficient to say "we had some court order" but they'd have to show a copy of that particular court order to him - assuming that it included the wrong SSN, they could have resolved that it's for the wrong person right then and there without contacting the sherif office.
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> Are recruiters/companies too picky about specific skills?

Most job descriptions are poorly written, unimaginitive, and edited by committee. The resulting qualifications become a wish list of checkboxes for the 'perfect candidate'. Instead of thoughtfully assesing whether or not you have real potential to do the job-- Bozo Recruiters have been reduced to simply comparing your score in their applicant tracking system.

Is it any wonder executive leaders consistently complain they can't find qualified candidates?
SSN = Social Security Number.

Basically, an identification number used by US Citizens.
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Paperspace co-founder here -- happy to discuss our AWS alternative which is focused on affordability, simplicity and performance. Recently, we've had a huge influx of people in moocs offloading their work to our GPUs/cloud. Would love any feedback you have.
Some people want to know what you're saying with minimal extras added in, saying it should fit on a floppy is a way of pointing to this notion.

Alluding to someone being ridiculous because 'floppy disk' isn't very generous to the other person, which is to say you seemed to be missing the point: your site could be more simple and weigh less making it better in the eyes of many on this site.
Not being able to switch nodes pushes you to try and host your own instead. That's what I've done. IMO we should instead be looking at packaging a self-hosted version into a native Windows and Mac app. Run it in the background and everything's done.
> For instance, unique usernames are impossible without a centralized username registry.

This is Zooko's triangle and was squared by blockchains. Namecoin (2011), BNS (the Blockstack Name System, 2014), and now a bunch of other fully-decentralized naming systems can give you unique usernames. Recently, Ethereum tried launching ENS and ran into some security issues and will likely re-launch soon.
Wait - AWS has a service to generate wild card Certs that can be attached to ELB?

Did not realise this was a thing
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There are reasons Nintendo has burned a ton of goodwill to the point where it made the difference in my not buying a Switch. But buying a game on one console generation and having it work on the next has rarely been the norm. Nintendo did decide at one point to pour a lot of separate money into developing the Wii U game for the Switch as well. There's a lot going on behind the scenes to make a game work on multiple consoles. And unfortunately when you buy a copy digitally you also lose the ability to sell or trade it, so I never do that.

I had the opposite experience with Apple. My iPhone 3 got unacceptably slow when the next major version of the OS came out. There were games/apps I couldn't use anymore unless I wanted to do a factory reset to the older OS. That was after only 2 years. I got off the platform a long time ago and haven't had that problem since.
Only for retro. You won't be emulating a Wii in a browser (yet).
Do we really know it was the court/sheriff who messed up in the first place? Maybe the actual defendant also had a BofA account, and the mixup was entirely by BofA. (Maybe not - I just don't see a means we have to distinguish, from afar).
>are all for naught when that asteroid hits.

Hiding in space from an asteroid strike is a bad plan. Earth during an impact winter is still much much more habitable than anywhere else in the solar system.
And just like that, a new generation of hackers was born.
lagos has guys that walk the streets w their pet hyenas
Yeah, emulators should switch to Linux, and MS should get lost ;)
This Twitter lite seems to ignore lists completely. I like it, but lists are a killer feature for me.
Didn't NeWS have its own issues? It lost to X11 for a reason...

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix2000/invitedtalks/...
I think you're definitely winning on price- provided you plan to run things continuously for that time period. The AWS GPU instances are probably not aimed at you though.

It's far more likely to be aimed at the Master's student in ML who has this new awesome model but it takes goddamn forever to train on his laptop and he just needs 3 days of time with a big-ass GPU instance.

He spins up the instances, runs his model, spins it down and is out what, $100 maybe? That fits into his limited budget.

Additional benefit: if I buy a kickass GPU, I'm going to reduce my overall productivity in research because now I can finally play some of these hot new games on full graphics!
What does it matter? You bought a licence to play for example Zelda Breath of the Wild. You should be able to play it on any hardware.
lots of vegans around these days
Do you remember the days when it was hard to get Linux on a machine? When I started using it a majority of modems didn't have Linux drivers, so your average PC user could not get on the internet with Linux unless they very carefully selected a replacement. Then the same issue repeated itself with WiFi drivers in the following decade.

We are at the mercy of hardware vendors to run open source OSes - they can giveth and they can taketh away.

Imagine a future where most hardware you can buy only loads signed kernels and bootloaders. That's not a totally theoretical outcome. It came pretty close to happening during the Windows 8 cycle.
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was about to post a link. Minix is great.
Judges are supposed to be non-partisan, but in reality a small number of decisions come down to what basically amounts to personal preference. There are sometimes laws and decisions supporting both sides of the argument and the judge is allowed to pick, as long as they can back it up with prior rulings or laws supporting their decision. Once the judge picks, that sets a precedent for future judges to rule the same way since judges tend to value a stable set of rulings and rarely overturn previous decisions (after all the appeals are settled out, of course) unless something major has changed since then.

So if a particular ruling comes down to personal preference and a judge personally leans conservative, they'll likely rule in a conservative fashion on those small number of cases. If they lean liberal, they'll likely rule in a liberal fashion. You often see this in Supreme Court decisions where the justices are split along political lines, with the conservative justices ruling for the conservative side of the argument and the liberal justices ruling for the liberal side.

That being said, the political stance of most lower judges doesn't matter as they have little impact on case law and few opportunities to make political decisions in their job.
The 'About' page is a dictionary definition of the word 'Lineage': http://lineageos.org/about/

Wow
A/B testing is exactly what has turned the web into a horrible soup of click bait.

Good design needs strong opinions.
Yeah, but this looks like shit on purpose. The article's complaining about pages that look like shit by accident. Totally different, don't you know.
Sounds like you would be better off putting the logic in separate function of a global library that you can then call in different stages for different conditions: https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/shared-libraries/
I can only imagine from their apparent course that they'll lock out Win32 apps at some point and only allow installation/execution of software from the Windows store (and maybe some "partners", i.e. some companies that are too big to just lock out, like Valve, although they would probably have to pay a "fee" to have access to the Win10 audience).

Blocking of Win32 apps/apps not from the Windows Store already exists today [0], although who knows how long until it is not "voluntary" anymore. The text in the message from the linked article kind of gives one of the future "reasons" Microsoft will probably use in the future for this kind of shit away ("Limiting installations to apps from the Store helps to keep your PC safe and reliable").

This development presents a VERY slippery slope.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/windo...
webrtc works fine. Rendezvous servers are a minimal cost, they're not involved beyond the setup, and you can run your own fairly easily.

I'd argue it works better than sockets, especially for gaming, since there's no need to mess around with NAT.
Hey hows Potsdam? Sounds like it hasn't changed in the decade since I was there. Not that I expected it to.
Interesting - if this is not buggy as hell, it'll be a good life extender of my Z3 Compact
I wrote one back in 1984-85 that I called QEdit, and have been using and updating it ever since.
I'd pay a bit to use twitter. What I'm concerned about is that I'd like something comparable to "reddit gold" - a means to pay for other people to use twitter so they can continue to post there for my and others' benefit.
>All other methods still exist.

Still is the operative word.

When people complained about UEFI preventing people from running their OS of choice, Microsoft mandated that x86 OEMs make it possible for users to unlock their systems.

Fast forward to today, microsoft no longer mandates user control on x86-based systems.

It's a slippery slope I'd rather not ride.
> a heat pump can put even 400W of heat in a room for every 100W of electricity

You mean it will transfer heat from the outside of the house to the inside? Over here we have the more traditional halogen space heaters (or central heating, with oil).
And then your laptop gets stolen and everything's gone.
I have been researching along these same lines for a while now as well, ad-hoc/mesh network messaging. My use case would be an amateur radio mesh network. For a while, I was investigating running matrix.org servers on raspberry pis, connected to a mesh network without internet. And that does work, the closest I've come to a great solution.

But I had never heard of scuttlebut until now. This looks even more ideal. In amateur radio, everyone self identifies with their call sign, this follows the same model.

For amateur radio, there is a restriction against encryption (intent to obscure or hide the message), but the public messages would be fine. Private messages (being encrypted for only those the right keys) might be a legal issue, so for a legit amateur radio deployment, the client would have to disable that (or at least operators would have to be educated that private messages may violate fcc rules).
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It's not clear to me that it's the bank's fault. The court must've done some kind of discovery to send the bank a garnish order. So was the bank lazy and just took money from a similar named account without checking the details?
Or did the court identify the wrong defendant and issue a garnish order for the wrong person?
Over at howl.io we've been working on another Lua/moonscript based editor. Incidentally it used scintilla as well until we switched to an in-house engine called aullar. The author wrote a blog post about it: https://howl.io/blog/2016/05/26/introducing-aullar.html
> extreme lack in readability.

understatement of the year.
That's only possible with what SSB Handbook calls a "global singleton". That's what I meant with "centralized username registry", which SSB does not have.
Well, for an in-depth understanding you will ultimately have to read the academic papers on specific DHT algorithms, but you don't have to be an academic to read academic papers, no? Besides that there are the usual resources for higher-level overview or gleaning some details: wikipedia, protocol specifications, toy implementations on github, stack overflow, various blog posts/articles that can be found via google.

But a DHT is usually just a low-level building block in more complex p2p systems. As its name says it's simply a distributed hash table. A data structure on a network. It just gives you a distributed key-value pair store where the values are often required to be small. In itself it doesn't give you trust, two-way communication, discovery or anything like that. Those are often either tacked on as ad-hoc features, handled by separate protocols or require some tricky cryptography.
The wording on that is misleading, you insure the satellite AND launch and then measured things in terms of launch cost. Industry has ~95% success rate so insurance is limited to around 10% of total costs or basically nobody would use it.

Further, insuring a 5% risk to a 200m satellite and a 100m launch vs a 200m satellite and a 50m launch at 10% failure rate would not be 2x because the payout is 50m less. Also, if the numbers get overly lopsided SpaceX would offer insurance for it's customers at close to the actual risk adjusted costs.
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