skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Which is to say, the private sector very much does have an efficiency advantage when there is a competitive market. Because only then is everyone in that market personally motivated, by the "vice" of greed, to be virtuously efficient. The only exception is what some people call a "monopoly par excellence"; a firm without competitors which nevertheless acts as though it has them.)
'Sandboxing' within single processes would still be necessary, at least (and I suspect at many other levels too, practically). I think it is necessary now, but that is not (yet?) appreciated.

If you haven't seen it already, I and many better educated people recommend http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/ (a pleasant read, even if I don't judge it by comparison with other theses) - focuses on distributed computation and language-level capabilities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff#Large_and_famous_cliffs:

"Considering a truly vertical drop, Mount Thor on Baffin Island in Arctic Canada is often considered the highest at 1370 m (4500 ft) high in total (the top 480 m (1600 ft) is overhanging), and is said to give it the longest vertical drop on Earth at 1,250 m (4,100 ft). However, other cliffs on Baffin Island, such as Polar Sun Spire in the Sam Ford Fjord, or others in remote areas of Greenland may be higher."

I would guess many of those are at heights or in climates that make climbing without gear a no-go because, even assuming you don't need gloves, you would need too much clothing to stay warm.
That's debatable if there is no information to be privy to. Even Feinstein and Pelosi stated publicly there was no smoking gun.
reducing the amygdala would be a win in stress and anxiety management though which would touch all aspects of life.
It's always fascinating to learn how things came about, especially how a war machine is supplied, and how individuals can make such great impacts
Tons of that. Each server was a literal copy of a previous one then modified to fit its new role. So we never got two servers that were the same. They'd have extra junk on them too.

Just basic docker use (or something similar) would have made a HUGE difference. Parts of the department were sent to training but it didn't happen because it would have made him less indispensable.

At one point someone higher up (but not high enough) asked how many servers we had in Amazon and the answer like 10x our physical set.

"And only one of you manages them?"

"On the side, we don't usually have to touch them."

"Then why does it take 4 people for the other servers?"

(Collectively) "Yeah. Why IS that?"

Change control was a big problem too. "Random" changes, things that didn't change at all (even when we could prove it), stuff like that causes SO MANY issues, basically all avoidable.
If your workflow depends on centralization, run your own centralized service. If you can't live without the GUI, Github will even sell you Github Enterprise. Or just run Gitolite or one of the other tools.
Do libertarians really glorify corporations, though? My understanding is that, especially getting towards the anarchist end of things, you really detest state intervention like that.

They love their businesses, but that doesn't translate to state charters.
My hands are sweating non-stop just watching this.
Odd, I can't find this function whatsoever. By the way, Solidity is open source so there are no secrets - go look for yourself: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/search?utf8=%E2%9C%9...

No function as op describes, also no source or reference. Screams FUD, nothing to see here...
But #fefefe isn't black or white? I presume the commenter specifically didn't say greyscale.

EDIT- checked the source:

It looks like imagemagick's 'threshold' [0] command is being used, so everything is max/min/black/white:

https://github.com/firstlookmedia/pdf-redact-tools/pull/23/c...

[0] https://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#...
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just set up a server via webhook that pulls the repo everytime someone pushes to it. When GitHub goes down you can use that server.
In 1998

There's a big difference between what a high-capacity/availability site had to handle in 1998 and 20 years later.

There are also lots of easy criticisms one can level at github, given their uptime and what they've published about their architecture. 'What they're doing is fairly simple' is probably not among them.
I wonder how hard it is to write a proxy from the JS side, and how large the performance penalty would be.

Also, with a relative clean slate, they have a chance to make DOM manipulation transactional finally.
Micro sds don't have data integrity that a cloud service would provide
What about the traditional IO / data locality win of having your processing colocated with your DFS? Is GCS bandwidth that amazing?
If you're reading Hacker News, the developer release notes are probably more up your alley (they do mention this)

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/05/nic59

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/devtools-r...

I subscribe to the blog via RSS.
You are thinking small scale, and public web.

The fact that VAXClusters were already going out of fashion by that time, and the fact of IBM's parallel sysplex existing by that time already negate your point.

previous $employer had built a globally distributed multisite c&c processing system twice by then and were in the process of revamping it for a 3rd.. 1st on mainframes & remote serial compute devices in the 80s, then on unix workstations in the early-mid 90s.

They were by far not alone in dealing with this level of complexity for the time.
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If it's dead then why are you here?
Why do you want to do that? afict, this shouldn't be increasing the attack surface any more than almost any new language feature. Its spec-ed to run in the same VM as JS is currently.
My ISP?

5 racks in 32 cities as POP. Each POP had 10 Sun Netra T1 1RU boxes behind SLB. All those were a service cache to offload the main DC which had...hum... ~100 or so Sun E450 (4x480Mhz Usparc3, 4GB RAM, 20x4GB or 9GB UltraSCSI3 drives, 2x1G NICs).

There was a cluster filesystem also. We had huge databases, etc.

This is just not that hard today.
This title made me think they had a down round...
I think the mailing address is just in Niwot, but it's really unincorporated Boulder County
It was not a criticism so much as "well, it will be interesting to see what went wrong."

My bet is a human.
Unfortunately, the lines are increasingly blurred. The days when you could separate basic driving mechanics like steering, acceleration and braking from other controls, sensors and remote inputs are fast disappearing into history.
I think this brings up why the red vs blue dichotomy is woefully insufficient when discussing ideology. The "center" right now is neoliberalism, even if nobody wants to call it that, because that is the status quo. Everything people even want to discuss - from social democracy on the left to fascism on the right - fit on that linear plane, but ideologies beyond neoliberalism like anarchism, communism, or socialism don't fit because they start rejecting the premise.
Redundancy provides availability more than reliability.

The odds of GitHub going down and your local copy/instance simultaneously is very low so availability is high.

Reliability is how often GitHub or your local instance goes down.
>removing all FCC rules on Net Neutrality are not going to make any of that stuff better

I'm saying I'm not sure it makes it worse. The current rules seem to make the big 5 as winners at the expense of the ISPs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/is-big-tech-too-p...
I read that question as implying: "it is HR's job to ensure the company does not get successfully sued over personnel-related matters; since company metrics apparently indicated the harassers were businesswise quite valuable, why did you expect HR to accomplish their objective by ousting the (valuable) harassers instead of running interference for the harassers?"
It was a well-discussed idea at the time, so I'm not sure who you're referring to. But Hermann Goering famously discussed it with Gustave Gilbert:

"[...] the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
> fairly simple

mmhmm
Check out Laravel if you're sticking with PHP but interested in a new framework.
Time to start reverse engineering printer firmware :)
Wow, thanks for the resources!
Amazon, Mozilla and others join net neutrality protest
I didn't expect FLAC to be popular for as long as it has been. With just 30-40% savings over PCM, it reminds me of Stacker --which was popular in the days of 40MB hard drives, but abandoned when 100MB became cheap enough.

Maybe I'm old and grumpy. But for me, a RIFF-PCM .wav file is a format that can be parsed and completely understood by a smart high schooler in an afternoon. FLAC however... As an archive format it seems like a hugely complex system with a small payoff.
Fish rots from the head.
Because this one is built with one thing in mind: making it so simple that your mom can use it. Even the combined market cap of all Cryptocurrencies to date still only represents a small fraction of our financial transactions and monetary system (http://virtualrealitytimes.com/2017/05/30/chart-bitcoin-vers...). This is far from mainstream by any means. Nimiqs browser-based approach and clear focus on ease of use brings blockchain technology to everyone, everyday.
As wealth and income disparity grow, there is much more to gain and lose by choosing the right school. It's not about the learning, it's about the network you will have for the rest of your life. Getting this right will grant you access to people wealthy enough to invest in you, people who know people who can get things done and move things along when you hit a wall (politicians/lawyers/doctors/etc). This is probably worth a lot as it all compounds over ones lifetime and translates to advantages even for their children and their children, hence the intense competition.
Ya, that makes sense. Could go either way. Def one of those "not gonna know without looking at the data" situations.
Is there, fundamentally?

Hotmail, Altavista, Yahoo Mail, eBay were all a thing then.. and it wasn't like noone was using them at the time either..

which isn't to say everything hasn't advanced, but in my opinion this isn't really a 'difference in kind'..
My riding school was big on checklisting the bike before every ride: indicators front and back, low beam, high beam, brake light by the lever and the footbrake, horn. Not thrilling either but it's how I found out about my busted horn and busted brake light switch promptly instead of the hard way. In most places riding in traffic is risky enough that it's worth knowing all the bits are working every time.
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Seems safe from copyright to me, it is indeed mostly links.

And seems to surface funny or interesting things based on popularity, like the 55 gallon drums of "personal lube". So, the aggregation has some purpose.

Good luck with it, seems an interesting idea.
I hope wasm becomes the first class citizen and JavaScript becomes just one out of many languages that compiles to it.

JavaScript is not bad at the high level, but at the low level it has been hell for engineers to implement a fast VM. A wasm VM is way easier to implement than a JavaScript VM.
This is different from yesterday's GitHub Major Service Outage.[1]

[1] https://status.github.com/messages
You'd probably like the show Person of Interest written by John Nolan -- Christopher Nolan's (writer and director of Dark Knight trilogy, Intersteller, Inception, etc.) brother.

It loosely follows this premise of multiple AGIs going head-to-head against each other as one is used for "good" and the other for "evil" by their respective creators.

I think it's a great show. Very interesting.
I really am curious now how a corporation-free economy operates. None of the fundamentals (investors, controlling interest, stocks and shares) seem beyond the scope of basic contract law.

Corporate charters seem most like copyright. If its there, you might as well use it to your own advantage, and you might as well expand it everywhere you can get away with since its using the power of the state to your advantage.
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Two feature requests that would make this a killer app for me (yes, I would pay):

1. Import names from Facebook (is this included if I had used Fb to register?)

2. Generate random individual to reach out to, weighted or sorted by when I last contacted them.
Could they narrow down to any printers of that brand bought with cash in the country and request surveillance footage? Then build a shortlist from there. I imagine cash purchases of printers would be fairly rare and help limit the list.

Buying a printer second-hand with cash might cover this situation.

Burner printers...
Have you tried compiling? I was wondering if there was any performance improvements on that portion.
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Yes. You connect and sync to the Nimiq Network through your browser and run Block mining inside your browser. No installation necessary.
Most items of ours that have a production dependency on GitHub actually point at a simpler (and much stupider) mirror. When commits are made pushes are mirrored to those repos. These repos can even be naively replicated since git's nature allows for this.

If you _need_ Github to be up, mirror it. If your build or deployment tools _need_ Github to be up, and you _need_ them to be always available make simple dumb mirrors.

Also make sure your tools don't lock on only one item.
The future is here, it's just unevenly distributed.

Someone is doing all of the kinds of work necessary to verify that the servers are up, being useful, and nominally working the way the previous deployment did, but not everyone has the tools yet to do that (especially the last one).

We need a compete and complementary tool chain that everyone can use, and so far a lot of these are still business differentiators (i.e., proprietary)
The Great Suspender developer account hacked, extension pulled from Chrome Store
What languages and platforms do you know?
Don't use UpWork or similar. The rates are low even for a teenager.

The best projects and rates are through your network.

Family friends, businesses your family uses like you mention.

So start asking around who needs a website or web application. Those will be your best gigs, projects and clients.

Look for ways to setup recurring revenue. Maybe a business needs a website offer to build them a basic website, maintenance, hosting, backups and updates for $99/mo set it up with Stripe or Paypal recurring payments. Increase the cost as pages grow. Offer to include once monthly limited updates, usually clients will only update a page every month or so but you can adjust pricing accordingly.

Or if you build a web application for a client offer a maintenance plan that includes hosting, maintenance, database backups, etc.

This podcast has some great information to start building your own products and apps.

Startupsfortherestofus.com

And like others have mentioned patio11 has tons of great info.

Good luck.
Thanks.

It hovered around 60% until 1970, and then increased, hitting about 67% in 2000. I'm guessing that reflected increasing paid employment of women, at least in part. Since 2000, it's dropped, plateauing at around 66% until 2008, and then plateauing at around 63% since 2012.
I just realized something.

- Office IT maintenance all hate printers

- I'm sure you've gaped at the control software that came with the little $40 inkjet you bought (or had to use) at some point

- Even the creator of MINIX cited "buggy printer drivers" as his rationale behind prferring nanokernel architecture (all drivers run in userspace) instead of monolithic approach (all drivers run in ring 0; printer driver sits next to crypto keyring).

So. Printers are terrible.

Remember Brinks' fireproof safes that were absolutely rock-solid but were running fully unpatched WinXP and had a USB port on the side of the keypad for "security updates"? Hackable with a keyboard stuffer that looked like a flash drive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961024

I remember reading (somewhere) a conclusion that went along the lines of, Brinks are awesome at making safes - and this safe was truly amazing - but they weren't a software company, to a profound extent.

It's clear to me that printer companies are similarly really, really bad at software design too.

So, reverse-engineering the firmware to figure out what things printers are doing use probably wouldn't be all too difficult.

The printer companies were told to write the code, not write it perfectly and make it impossible to unravel as well.

Of course, if anyone actually take a crack at this (excuse the pun) that'll make things change a bit, but printer firmware is probably at the "open sesame in a big way" stage right now, and the printer industry is huge and slow to change, which suggests reverse engineering could remain trivial for a little while, even with publishing.
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It's obviously possible to manage very large projects stored in Git repos with no dependency on a site like GitHub at all. Just look at what Git was designed for, after all.

However, I'd say one of the biggest practical problems with most of the popular DVCS tools is still that they don't also have a simple, out-of-the-box way to set up a centralised repo. As you say, using Git+SSH works up to a point, but it's still irritating and somewhat time-consuming to set up if you work with a lot of projects that might each have different contributors. Last time I checked, none of the main alternatives was any better.
I believe you are referring to this Nautilus article

http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-wor...
Indeed. I don't think I even heard of the C10K Problem until '03 and it was still unsolved. Now we have servers doing multiples of that much traffic on off the shelf equipment.
I always figured that was a big part of why QR codes didn't take off in the US (irony: Apple just added support in iOS 11).

Even so, I'm kind of surprised that NFC hasn't come up with more interesting use cases than easy pairing and as a mode/location switch to mark you're at home/work.
> everyone else chose the bag of bytes approach.

Sequence of bytes. "spiroagnew.txt" and "xtt.growapenis" are not the same filename.
Have you seen a MicroSD die before your eyes, failing writes, then reads? I did several times.

A RAID array of MicroSDs, or maybe other flash devices, could be more reasonable reliability-wise, but it would be anything but a sleek consumer device.

OTOH, Apple is selling the "experience", the polish and automagic features. Maybe iCloud integration leaves a lot to be desired, it still beats a dongle 99% of the time.

(Disclaimer: Android user since Android 1.x.)
My dad used to say the same about fighter pilots (he was one).
There's still time!
Agree. Hotmail IIRC had 9K or so servers. Yahoo had even more.

I think doing this at scale is simpler today because the networking is simpler, i.e., IP fabrics and VMs and containers. If you are building something today and want to use Layer2 I question your santiy.
Not enacting Title 2 does nothing. It doesn't give Comcast, AT&T, or any other company any power they don't already have. Net Neutrality is currently an argument against status quo as I understand it.
>I'd define true net neutrality quite simply as delivering the same performance to all traffic regardless of source or content of that traffic.

That requires bending the laws of physics to implement. Google fiber will always be able to deliver Youtube content faster than anyone else, the speed of light being what it is and all....or perhaps you are suggesting they should be forced to house their servers in Comcast Data Centers?

>QoS and other more complicated traffic engineering mechanisms are widely implemented and seems kind of hard to get rid of.

Its more than just that. The entire communications infrastructure -- not just internet but nearly all form of comms -- embed within themselves the notion of over-subscription. The phone company, internet ISP, postal service all have more potential demand than they have available bandwidth. QoS must be implemented otherwise these services would simply collapse.

Moreover, If I pay for 1Gb internet and you pay for dial-up is that "neutral"? Is it legal for me to pay you extra to route my VOIP traffic with priority? Or should that be banned?

NN was a very very clever name for a political regulatory move. Unfortunately when people try to get to the task of defining it they uncover that its basically a solution in search of a problem.
You'll note Reddit do not ask for or claim any copyright there - just a license to use whatever you publish there in specific (though very broad) ways.
Check out the blog if you prefer to read about it

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/devtools-r...
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Apple sort of does something like this using BTLE on the 4th gen Apple TV as part of setup. It's kind of nice.

But the idea of having it in headphone and routers and printers and other things? I can get behind that. Easy pairing is a use case that makes a ton of sense.
But all of this was happening before, and it's still happening all the time: people getting arrested (some even convicted) just because they looked like someone else, bureaucrats refusing to issue documents to people because of some paperwork mistake, etc. My uncle had at one point to prove to police that he's still alive in order to get a new driving license, because someone with the similar ID number died, and they accidentally marked him as deceased. These kinds of errors always existed, and probably will always exist, just that before they were always caused by human factor, and now we have technology related errors too.
Anecdotally, I'm on Telus in Western Canada and I do have ipv6. 10/10 on that test.
> then some automated script will tell the cluster to pull from Github

GitHub isn't a deployment tool. It's a source control tool. Keep your deployment artifacts somewhere else (e.g. S3/GCS) more durable so you can still deploy/rollback during a GH outage.
If you don't like incumbent internet companies then not having net neutrality will ensure that no competitors ever displace them.
Yeah I think there is. This is what wikipedia says Altavista

"As of 1998, it used 20 multi-processor machines using DEC's 64-bit Alpha processor. Together, the back-end machines had 130 GB of RAM and 500 GB of hard disk drive space, and received 13 million queries every day"

There are probably more read-only queries to gists per day than that.
Damasio reviews evidence that people that lose the ability to feel certain emotions make worse decisions. It seemingly simply doesn't occur to them to not do dangerous things and there are cases where it leads to systematically bad decisions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_marker_hypothesis
Even basic biological research has this problem. Anyone remember CRISPR? The press ran with all sorts of analogies about laser-like precision to reprogram genomes. Turns out it's not as laser-like as the press made it out to be.

Really the problem is writers and journalists who are not domain experts trying to explain this stuff to laypeople. There is no requirement for story writers to have been mathematicians or biologists when it comes to popularizing so you end up with half-truths and outright lies.