skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to agree with you but there is another interpretation: they are clueless.

Suppose management in a firm uncritically contracted the big data revolution meme. Then they believe they are in the position of a city mayor trying to build a bridge and some wiseacre comes along and says they can do it in an afternoon with two pieces of string and a stick of gum. The problem is that the analogy doesn't hold, but they don't know that.
Poker is the canonical example of a hidden-state game and that has already fallen.

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/mystery-ai-just-crushed-best-h...

The list of things that humans do better than computers is getting very short very fast.
Its mission, as I understand it, is to inform people of ways in which coworkers feel hurt or uncomfortable, so that employees may better understand each other. Anything beyond that is driven at an individual level.
It would require a significantly different approach, but good progress is being made in that area as well. Top computers now beat humans at heads-up no limit hold 'em poker, for example: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-fold-huma.... And that game probably has more hidden state than stratego.
Oh look, it's the Rust Evangelism Strike Force at work again.
Well, Vue can use React, can't it? So they kind of co-exist.
How the Biggest Animal on Earth Got So Big
>enable whitelist/blacklist zones via geolocation

This is exactly the approach I took with my password vault application (android only, far less well-known than 1password). I added a location-lock feature that allows the user to store a number of "safe locations" outside of which the vault simply will not decrypt, even if the correct password is entered.

The app also makes it very clear that location lock is enabled and that the user is outside of all "safe zones" and therefore will not unlock. The only way a border agent is getting access is to figure out the GPS coordinate encryption method and adding a new set into the sqlite db or physically driving to one of the safe locations and unlocking it there.
Is mining still a viable path to obtaining bitcoin?
> What the hell is racist about assimilating into the local culture?

Forcing someone to assimilate just because the other person is "not from here" certainly is racist.

> Also, you seem to be very unfamiliar with radical islamic schools in Britain

So what? Radical religious schools are nothing new, in fact they're a price of having religious freedom.

Did you forget the Irish history? Boiled down, religious war. And even today, every major religion has their boneheaded backwards-oriented buffoons which don't shy off from corporeal or capital punishment - the Catholics have Opus Dei (and whatever more is going on in Vatican, but I won't go down that tinfoil hat now), the Jews have the Orthodox movement, Islam the Salafists, and for what it's worth people also kill and maim in the name of Buddhism and Hinduism.
Android and Chrome are different, but most of Google's code lives in a single repository.

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
Donkey Car
Some of the rationale....

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
The blockchain can be used to enrypt the data you generate on a blockchain and entrust the user with a cryptographic token that can be used to generate different tokens that allow others to decrypt specific sets of data, like location tracking.

The tough part about this is that for the user to truly own their data, they must be entrusted with the root keys of their data, and if they lose it, and their backup pass phrase, the data is lost forever.
If you have a large repo, it actually helps you to save storage if you don't need the full history on clone by using shallow clone.

hg is still behind this, AFAI can tell from search. FB has this as an extension. https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hg-experimental/

Is FB fully using hg internally, or both Git and hg, because obviously FB has public repo on Github.
The Stratfor leaks show the US government contracting out the development of astroturfing software.
Which project needs React?
Whoops, I accidentally a word. Thanks!
Beside that, the camera would have to view the subject from the correct angle, so, from the back, most likely position if they're carrying concealed.
That's pretty vague. What defines 'crap', and how does less of it lead to less (effective) terrorism?
Thanks - that sounds perfect for lots of binary history as you never view history on the binaries, only the source files.
Why not TFS?
A naïve utopia that we are being held back from by corporate greed.
Even one 'silly' rejection is enough for me to consider the review process problematic. I've seen the same app pass review many times, and then suddenly it's rejected after a routine bug fix or minor update.

Yes, there's an appeal process, and yes, it's much faster than it used to be. But it has happened enough that I can't confidently predict how long an update might take because of uncertainty with the review process.
Yeah, because today's generation of know-nothing, entitled snowflakes is so much better.
I use the keyboard for everything - but would probably ignore your shortcuts because I already have extensions that let me use the keyboard efficiently in the browser environment.
This article would be great with the title "Apple makes it unnecessarily hard to develop hybrid apps". It's obviously not too convincing on the much larger question of Hybrid vs. Native.
Sorry to hear about your experience. I had the pain of shutting down my business a few years ago. It completely sucks, but it is also a relief.

Did you focus on any cohort or did you just experiment with lots of cohorts hoping one would take off? If you did focus, what if anything did you learn?
"With truly massive keys"

My favorite quote from the paper on that topic is

"Something expensive might nevertheless be useful if it is the least expensive way to achieve the user’s desired security goal"

Post quantum crypto isn't the end of crypto, is the end of the meme that nation-state-proof cryptography is "too cheap to meter" (A nuclear power phrase from the old days)

The pre-quantum landscape is cheap unbreakable algos implemented in easily breakable ways as a part of easily breakable systems, so there's quite a bit of criminal activity going on out there. The post-quantum landscape is very expensive unbreakable algos implemented by professionals because the cost (computational and financial) is large. The involvement of professionals indicates that criminal activity based on breaking crypto implementations is likely to drop.

Its likely that Hollywood style multiple levels of crypto will soon exist. The days of being able to keep the NSA out of your wifi access point will be over unless you're willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money. However, for a very modest expense it'll still be possible to keep your neighbor off your wifi, wide open to nation states, sure. But my wifi leaching neighbor is a more realistic adversary than the entire NSA.
He is not talking about a pure web app, he actually explicitly said _hybrid_

Hybrid definition:
a thing made by combining two different elements; a mixture.

Using a cordova plugin to tap into native code while developing with web standards is a hybrid approach.
Android is in a separate repo.
You are thinking of Google.
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Who? What?

Ah whatever
More or less:

- Availability of tools

- Familiarity of developers (both current and potential)
Contradictions like being a popular icon while at the same time supporting child abuse if I remember right.

Checked it again, and yup:

“I read the NAMBLA [Bulletin] fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I’ve ever found. I think before you start judging what NAMBLA is about, expose yourself to it and see what it is really about. What the issues they are really talking about, and deal with what’s really there rather than this demonized notion of guys running about trying to screw little boys. I would have been so much happier as an adolescent if NAMBLA had been around when I was 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.” — Samuel R. Delany, June 25, 1994.
why dog biscuit supposed be that bad that eating them would be a punishment? After all dogs are mammals like us and have pretty similar biology, tastes, nutritional requirements (with the exceptions for some things which are dangerous to them like chocolate, garlic, raisins, xylitol, etc). Though given the Catholic mindset - holier than thou top of the God's creation - the priests and the likes of course would fancy themselves as highly entitled higher beings.
HPE Updates Its Flash Portfolio for a Broader Range of Customers
Wasn't aware of that. Reddit thread (2011):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/fhdlp/minecraft_...
simply shroud your firearm in a piece of cloth like the hitmen in gangster movies.
The author is right to highlight the adoption of specific vertical solutions to replace Excel by business as they grow, because "the Excel workflow becomes unwieldy and burdensome". That's because Excel based solutions have to be operated manually on the desktop. Vertical solutions can tick over on cloud servers with minimal manual ops. But those considerations ignore the factors that drive Excel's persistent use. Excel enables end users to solve problems for themselves, without reference to vendorware, SaaS offerings or their own IT dept. And that enables business agility. Ergo Excel will never be completely displaced by the new solutions that the author identifies.
Update on Trending – Facebook Newsroom
I have always wondered how they deal with acquisitions and sales. I guess a single system makes sense there too.
Just pointing it out, but Envoy is a key piece of Istio (as I understand it).
Drug Is First to Treat Cancer Based on Genetics, Not Location
So? Hipster is one of many "uniforms" a person can choose to put on. It's a big symbolic difference when the person chooses it themselves versus when they're told how to look by their employer. Wearing a suit to work generally implies the latter (and that's not an unreasonable conclusion to draw, since it still works that way in a lot of fields outside of tech, and worked that way historically).

Certainly at my workplace I see all kinds dress styles.
Artificial Intelligence and Drones Help Combat Poaching in Africa – News Center
You've repeatedly posted uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to HN. Doing that will get your account banned, so please stop doing that.
What Makes a Great Place to Work for All? – Fortune.com
Do you plan on open sourcing any part of the site?
IBM Releases New Open DBaaS Toolkit on IBM Power Systems – SD Times
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from ups.com
The WannaCry Attack, a Reality Check for IT – StorageCraft
The 6 Most Surprising, Important Inventions from World War I
Google and Facebook lobbyists try to stop new online privacy protections
Every place has only one executive branch. That does not make everybody there share the same goals.

You have a structural problem within your country, because the FBI should be clearly working towards arresting the NSA people, for example.
VR panic: virtual reality's side effects could cause moral outrage UK
Very well put. From what I see this is like moving hysterix from the sidecar level to the network level. No need for applications to care of even know about leveraging the circuit-breaking. Very excited to try it out!
A Sprint Story Chapter Three: Decision Day and the Disciples of Deliberation
You could point them to clearinghouses like CharityNavigator [0] (which is probably US-centric) that rate the charities on things like how much of their donations go to administration.

The short of it is that one can donate to Oxfam, Save the Children or Medecins san Frontieres and remain confident that >95% of funds raised go to direct relief efforts.

[0]https://www.charitynavigator.org/
What are your thoughts on implementing something more general like linux's FUSE[1] instead? A general Virtual Filesystem driver in Windows could be used for a wide range of things and means you don't just have a single-purpose driver sitting around.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SMC-M...

"Machine Gun with rotary action. Fires imitation shells with great force and precision".

Sounds like a fantastic toy.
Uber Death Watch
> Before the move to Git, in Source Depot, it was spread across 40+ depots and we had a tool to manage operations that spanned them.
> Great, we agree these tips are compensation for content being offered through WeChat,

Yes, like Amazon physical goods

> If I want to sell to iPhone/Ipad Apple customers through the App store is the only time I need to pay.

They are not doing that
Not likely. The training of the neural nets adjusts for induced randomness. Witness the high quality AIs for poker or backgammon, where winning a single game isn't needed for the bigger multi-game win.

I expect StarCraft will be the next professionally played game to experience destruction at the hands of AI. Then it will be clear that "fog of war" doesn't matter much in the decision tree from a probabilistic perspective.

The irony being that faced with a "fog of war" maybe you do want to underestimate your opponent because then, if you end up surviving, you can claim brilliant insight and leadership which bolsters the short-term position, even though in fact you simply were lucky. So in the open-ended problem of tactical maneuvering in business or war, AI might not have an advantage any time soon.
Iirc his younger brother's company does something closer to YC.
World's Biggest Aircraft Nails Critical Test Flight
This is all correct. Also, we'd notice someone grabbing the whole 300GB whether it's in 40 SD depots or a single Git repo.
Brazil since 2010.
AlphaGo already won the first game, which 5 years ago would have been considered impossible. It is basically over. Google can pour an order of magnitude more computing power at the algorithm to boost its performance if they choose too.
There is a lot to like about this move. Microservices and service mesh's are certainly an interesting area right now...and this represents a big push from some big players.
Introducing Istio – The Application Service Mesh Moves to the Platform
I don't game. So I am looking for answers from a programmer's perspective. :-)
It could easily be lower than 16% too. Much lower.
Good UX doesn't mean holding your hand. I think Vim has pretty great UX -- it's been my daily $EDITOR for years. Is there a steep learning curve? Sure.

Often with tools like Vim, Git, etc. there is a dependency on the end user taking the time to learn, absorb and understand the documentation for the tool.

> It requires good, consistent context, clear boundaries between expected and unexpected operations (why can you checkout during rebase, for example?), and discoverability.

I think git really excels here. Why wouldn't you want to be able to checkout during a rebase?

To me, UX is ultimately about the long tail -- if I am using this tool for a hundred hours a week, am I helped or hindered by it? For too many tools society embraces, it's the latter.

UX and HCI is about so much more than just sitting an untrained person in front of a keyboard.
How does a mono-repo company manage open sourcing a single part of their infrastructure if things are in one large repo?
For example, if everything lived in one repo, how does Facebook manage open sourcing React?
Or if I personally wanted to switch to one private mono-repo, how would I share individual projects easily?
Hate to appeal to authority, but tptacek has addressed this many times previously, citing going market price differentials between FF and chrome bugs.

The security model of Chrome lends itself to far fewer serious vulnerabilities than in FF.

I do agree with you that rewriting the entire browser in a safe language like Rust would be a significant shift in the security situation.
Nit: Go's game state isn't just defined by the board state and whose turn it is, but also by the history of all prior board states (which would still be public knowledge).
It gives them a large stake in a company that is both currently successful and in a position to be a leader in new markets (automotive and data centers were mentioned in the article).

It's hard to imagine a scenario where Nvidia is out of business in the next 5 years and very easy to imagine one where they are applying their accrued chipmaking expertise to other areas for a marginal advantage.
yet another startup I only hear about when they are shutting down.
Right - very much my point.

https://youtu.be/VKHFZBUTA4k
I work at Google and I don't think I've ever seen an employee wear a suit to work, maybe a blazer but definitely no ties. People who are at a certain level of leadership and above seem to wear button down shirts most of the time, usually with jeans.

The only time I saw people in formal attire was at a masquerade-themed holiday party.
Adding any kind of electronic firing control mechanism to a service pistol is a non-starter for a bunch of reasons:

MTBF: Even small guns produce recoil, which over time will damage or degrade any electronics built into the firing mechanism.

Security: if a "computer" of whatever complexity is controlling the firing of the gun it presents surface area both for attacks and bugs.

Rank and file acceptance: No officer will want to go into the field with a service weapon fitted with "safety restrictions" or "casualty reduction mechanisms" other than the trigger safety.
Poetry jobs are getting lost to outsourcing [1].

[1] http://watleyreview.com/2003/111103-2.html
So? Why is that surprising?
By design, yes. There are not (yet) implementations on other OSes.
ICML 2017 accepted papers
I agree -- energy use is a shamefully under-exmained performance metric.

Xcode and Instruments has some solid tools for monitoring this, but if he's a developer who refuses to learn Xcode anyway, he's not using these tools.
As the greatest story of childhood ever shows us, the most important aspects of childhood are terror and humiliation.

In all seriousness, people who had a little hardship when young are much better equipped to handle real hardship when it comes along. And even if real hardship never comes along, they are better equipped to sacrifice to improve themselves. We've made a huge mistake in making it too easy on our kids, and I'm saying this as a parent who's done the same thing, to a large extent.
This just seems like the exact opposite of "Do one thing; and do it well".
While your statements aren't wrong, there are other large companies that are doing this type of thing. AT&T for example is running incubators and is on the order of magnitude of size as SoftBank.
I am afraid that burden of proof is still on you. The habit of throwing in an accusation and suggesting that your opponents go and look for proof, became too widespread.
This + Termux saved my life a few times :D
> Can anyone offer a good reason why I should stop worrying?

There will always be a shiny new tool, no matter which one you choose. Good products can be built in any of them (even Knockout which I loved too). Most of the frontend fatigue is just paradox of choice. For me what works to reduce paradox of choice is knowing that good architecture and clean code is much more important than the selected framework. Most of them have a lot of documentation, examples, so we should focus on creating good products, and again, most of them can be used to created high quality web apps.
Is it possible to checkout (if not build) something like Windows 3.11 or NT 4?
This is part of the OS.
This was a very interesting point. It sounds like there are some serious architectural limitations on Windows, and this makes me believe the same might be true for the NT kernel, and that MS might not be interested in doing heavy refactoring of it.

I'm not a frequent Windows user, or a Windows dev at all. Does anyone know of any consequences that MS's decision might mean, if this hypothesis is true?
With difficulty.

No, seriously, that's the answer.
I live in the south, it is perfectly legal and socially acceptable to carry a handgun, concealed or open. Something like this could add context to a situation, but sounding an alarm because of a handgun present sounds like a bit much.
It is if your goal is to control (or at least influence) the Internet zeitgeist without appearing to...
I don't know whether or not they have the right - do they have the right to read some sealed-up documents in your briefcase? Whatever your answer to that question is, it should probably be the same answer to the e-mail question. All these trick arguments about "oh but the e-mail's not actually on my phone, it's in the cloud!" don't hold water for me; it's information you're bringing into the country. Either it's subject to search or it isn't.
16% false positive is hilariously bad, especially given how rare actual handguns will be.

This headline shouldn't be tolerated here.
Appreciate your sharing this perspective. Some folks, like @jdormit (on a different thread) indicated an upside in some cases, and an overall net benefit. I wonder if this could just be an issue of magnitude of ADHD? That is, perhaps severe ADHD is more likely to be net negative, whereas mild/moderate ADHD could go either way?

I am certainly aware that the media like to tell feel-good stories, and that this is part of the reason for the positive coverage of dyslexia, ADHD, and other conditions.
The pack file size for a full clone is 187GB. The 300GB is the working directory. We did not import the history of the code base, so the current repo only has about 5 months of history. As others have called out, there are a lot of assets in the repo that don't compress.
Disagree. It's super easy to narrow it down to a handful of people and make assumptions about who it was.

Especially since it sounds like the stories are personal, you can just figure what team the victim is on and narrow down the list of possible offenders to a few. Usually there are details: senior/junior, married/unmarried, old/young, manager, direct report, colleagues, etc, etc.

You can figure it out... Not in all cases, but most of the time I'm sure it's easy to figure out...
Connecting Intercom and Slack with a Serverless Webhook
> Excel enables end users to solve problems for themselves, without reference to vendorware, SaaS offerings or their own IT dept.

Only because, largely for cargo cult reasons, many IT departments prohibit other tools that may be more suitable for the task but allow Excel, even when Excel and the other tool have similar profiles in whatever aspect (often security) is the normal basis for the policy.
A lot of common security measures can be defeated with modest technical skill and diligence. Fortunately for the police and the public, the vast majority of armed criminals are not even modestly technically skilled and diligent. They're largely fools with poor impulse control. If you are smart enough to spot weaknesses in security measures and implement workarounds, you probably already have a job with better long term prospects than "bank stickup guy."

There are some criminals that get rich from armed robbery, but your typical armed bank robber has a short and none-too-lucrative career:

http://www.businessinsider.com/people-are-robbing-banks-in-r...

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/04/26/bank_robbers...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/04/where-...
All of your hats are made of inferior cheese.
Introduction to Continuous Integration with JHipster
Versus grumpy old person pessimism? Don't pretend to know my convictions.
my wife, who's chinese, says its because china wanted to protected its own market. i'm sure censorship was a part of it, but think of 1 billion viewers and how much money that'd generate. the government decided that money should stay and circulate in china instead of going outside to google