skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My background is in Cassandra and one company I worked for last year insisted that we use DynamoDB for a project.

Here are a few things that ended up being show stoppers.

1. Both the partition key and the sort key are capped at 1 field. In an attempt to "think Cassandra data model", the ugly workaround was to stringify and concatenate things at the application layer, then parse / split on the other side. This made the code unreadable.

2. DynamoDB-Spark integration is a second-class citizen. (Cassandra-Spark integration is first-class and well-maintained.)

3. The other thing that made code unreadable was the accidental complexity introduced by exception handling / exponential backoff we needed to implement to protect against accidental read capacity underprovisioning.

Although I made repeated pleas to switch to Cassandra, the (non-technical) CEO insisted that we keep using DynamoDB. I'm no longer at that company but I hear they have meanwhile switched to RedShift.
The idea of learning programming commands by rote with no concern as to their English meaning reminds me of how a lot of people working in science learn scientific terms as simple arbitrary identifiers rather than looking at the Latin and Greek roots of the term and understanding the term from those.
For the "easier to read" part I would prefer Chrome's black vs grey url string.

But for phishing .. with all the tricks possible with Unicode lookalikes, I wonder if people are still doing easily visible character exchanges? qoogle instead of google?
I say, citation needed. Who said "Haskell does it perfectly"?

Not to mention the mental overhead of Haskell (which is also not optimal).
You might want The Prisoner's Dilemma, by William Poundstone, and if that intrigues you, Games of Strategy by Dixit and Skeath is a well-known textbook.

Game theory has important effects on economics and marketing, as well as the obvious politics.
> Hacker news is an echo chamber focusing on computer posturing and self-aggrandizement.

I'll also add- it serves as a punching bag for people who can't speak up at their work- they vent their frustrations here by belittling everyone's work.
For one, Godel used the same kind of self-referential statements described in the article ("this proposition is not provable" etc) and used math to create a kind of enumeration of propositions and have the proposition refer to itself.
I don't know about the serverless part, but wasn't this the promise of Diaspora?
>I feel kinda alone on HN, Lobste.rs and LtU in not having in-depth knowledge or opinions on type systems.

Not even 1/10th of HN has that. Tons of business types, lowly JS programmers, designers, sys-admin types, old-school programmers in C/C++, etc around.
Apologies for the confusion, this isn't by me -- I was merely sharing the page and wasn't sure what else to title it than what it had originally. I just posted a note to that effect.
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll get those changes integrated :)
A credit card is insured. I am not sure I can say the same about the mandatory connction between Paypal and my bank account. It is much riskier to use Paypal than to give a stranger your cc number.
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And imply you only have product and color. What about size, price, date, description, rating, etc. It is a "search" url after all.
I can't fathom a reason why "software crackers" don't want to do Cubase and/or Reason though.

The thing is, those "dongle-based protection" have been pirated in the past only in the rare cases where an issue was found in the dongle scheme or keys where leaked, etc. And those don't happen frequently -- whereas any old school copy protection method was broken a few days/weeks at most post release (sometimes even before release, from the demo/alpha versions).

Hasn't happened in 5-10 years for lots of physical key based products, so even if possible again, it's of theoritical and not practical value (we ain't seeing them anytime soon).
You are lucky!

I tried to delete and now I have 3 accounts but none of those I can delete nor login in to.

Facebook is shouting how much users they have.. Reality is opposite.
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... and I love the old Real Magic isn't Magic (etc.) spiel. So much fun and he genuinely seems like a grand old dag (or some shit).
I realize that Perl is no longer all that popular of a programming language, but it had a lot of features along these lines -- you could even program it in Latin!

#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w

use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;

adnota Illud Cribrum Eratothenis

maximum tum val inquementum tum biguttam tum stadium egresso scribe.
vestibulo perlegementum da meo maximo .
maximum tum novumversum egresso scribe.
da II tum maximum conscribementa meis listis.
dum damentum nexto listis decapitamentum fac sic
lista sic hoc tum nextum recidementum cis vannementa da listis.
next tum biguttam tum stadium tum nextum tum novumversum
scribe egresso.
cis
I'm convinced this is how some of the payment gateways make their money.

With one gateway after we switched providers and took the interface out of production we received about 5 fraudulant payments in the month that followed. Someone had hacked the bank's "iframe" service that we did not use and even though we only had the account open for a potential rollback we were still liable for $20 x 5 in fees. It was entirely the bank's fault.
Another thing to consider if you do do this: if tax law changes are made, it could be that the carry forward mechanism no longer works indefinitely, but is capped at a certain amount of tax years before it is permanently lost (e.g. 5, 7, 9).

Just a thought: having a large carry forward tax loss in itself has value, and if it were a sure thing you would get the deduction (e.g. through an IRS revenue ruling), then if I were you I'd probably look for some way to team up with someone. Ethics aside, there are probably ways to help someone else avoid taxes using this loss. Maybe you can make a million dollars, by helping someone else save 5 or 10 million in taxes.
Types aren't just for programming and philosophy. Strongly Typed Neural Networks are also a thing. https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02218
Yeah, because it takes time to get the cars to the US-
Hacker News, Marginal Revolution and the Financial Times. Reddit mostly for leisure, but occasionally also for knowledge and inspiration.

Recently I've tried to make my procrastination more useful, and read random Wikipedia articles instead browsing news sites. Let's see if the habit sticks.
> global warming now renamed climate change

Actually not true, the phrase 'climate change' has been coined more than half a century ago. The idea that there was a rebranding of the phenomenon is false beyond doubt, and actually hurtful to the process of acknowledging we have a big problem.
"Other people do it," by itself, is not a great justification.

It's yet another way to mislead. Just because other misleading schemes exist doesn't mean this isn't also misleading and potentially bad.

As for "How so" ... I didn't think it through. I'll go with "potentially not good," but equally not thought through. Since the subject of the article is URLs as UI, when you send someone a URL to "look at this", what they see is the URL, and in my example the human readable part is "the site" and "a3n", but what they get is nothing to do with a3n.

I can only intuitively start with "that's misleading," and imagine (but not point out) the possibility of "something bad". Maybe something merely annoying like rick-rolling.
In most browsers, they aren't actually plugins in the typical sense. As far as I'm aware, Chrome doesn't allow any other EME modules to be installed, so if a provider wants to work with Chrome they must support Widevine.
HBPowerWall is also good. Australian guy with a 40KwH wall made from old laptop batteries. Lots of good content.
I guess it depends on the definition of "Stands". If it literally means the flag standing up, I guess you're right.
Fravia said, very roughly, that some of the dongle systems were secure, but the implementation by software vendors was often lousy.

I guess they've stopped being lousy at the implementation.
Finding the right name for your startup can have an impact on your success
Dharmesh Shah had a question about NPS and we’ve got an answer
Is there a book on Cirque du Soleil you can recommend?
Virtually no voter appreciates the technical lack of urgency. One large voting bloc would be thinking "Labor has dropped the ball on electricity and must be removed!" and another would excuse a project like this as at least heading in the right direction.

(I'm South Australian.)
Last year, Dharmesh asked an intriguing question about NPS on Inbound.org. After an Year, we got the perfect answer for him and for others.
The only problem here is that now I can make you appear to say anything I want you to say.

http://urlme.me/success/I,%20captbaritone/lick%20goats.jpg

This can get much nastier fast.
Lots of supply and little demand - doing photography is one thing but selling photography is one tough job.

Journalistic photography is slowly moving away from being a profession towards an expensive hobby where you may sell some pictures sometimes, but not enough to earn a living or even cover the hardware.
> currently no one does.

Clearly you haven't done enough research. Have you looked at the ethereum token (ERC20: https://theethereum.wiki/w/index.php/ERC20_Token_Standard) launch contracts? They raise large amounts of money (its actually scary!) and securely and transparently tokens are distributed to participants. These tokens can then represent anything (really anything) from stock (blockchain capital etc), to voting rights in the organisation (districtOx), to a utility token (golem, basic attention token) to allow use for what ever protocol is being developed.

There already are private secure voting systems being researched. Here for example: https://github.com/stonecoldpat/anonymousvoting ZK-snarks is used to ensure privacy.

You can see some of the other applications here: https://dapps.ethercasts.com/ (most of these are just fun ideas, but you don't have to look far to see the potential in them).

There is real utility to Ethereum, it is just very very young as a technology, and all the issues of scalability etc are a work in progress. But if you want to use the trust-less and secure computational power to execute your code (smart contract) you need to buy Ether first. Is that a Ponzi? I think you are unfairly grouping ethereum in the same category as a large number coins that very much are ponzis.
It might not make business sense but surely that should be up to the owners of the company. If they really like ski trips why not?

Is your suggestion to ban decisions that have disparate impact in terms of race or gender?
DJI is locking down its drones against a growing army of DIY hackers
> I find it distasteful. I get it - people died, you don't have to show me their bodies to get your point across.

For many people seeing photos sends across very different emotions than reading words.
In general the problem with hydropower is, that it is the best energy source if you have the location. Therefore the good locations were developed early on, Hoover dam in the 1930ies, Aswan dam in the 1960ies, and now we are left with marginal locations. In a way we already reached peak hydro.
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It's just my personal opinion, but I think these photos are poor quality. Many of them were not in focus and post-processing was used to make them look better. And that's based on the really small versions available. So I don't think it's surprising they were not accepted by some newspapers (especially that we don't know the asking price).

Still, it's great that the author decided to share them for free. They have great value even without being top quality - it's just that many publications want to keep the photos quality top notch.
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Just before that last step, I believe there were 50-100 bids to provide the battery solution. Tesla may not have been a local bid, but I'd say there are other advantages in Musk even visiting Adelaide - made world news, might inspire business confidence, etc.

Tesla's battery guy said they could solve SA's power woes within 100 days. Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes tweeted Elon: "how serious are you about this bet? If I can make the $ happen (& politics), can you guarantee the 100MW in 100 days?"

Elon replied: "Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free. That serious enough for you?"

Mike's response: "legend! ️ You’re on mate. Give me 7 days to try sort out politics & funding. DM me a quote for approx 100MW cost - mates rates!"
There is a Lua module which will do LetsEncrypt automatically for any domain in an nginx instance.
Reality abides.
Many undercover films are made by people who have the landowners permission to be on the property.

And isn't trespass a civil law thing, rather than a criminal law thing? So this law created a criminal component that could be charged.
Thanks for the advice! Security is definitely a big angle here - not only do dependency updates often include patches for known vulnerabilities, they're also the least likely to be affected by future vulnerabilities.

We wrote a blog post about it here: https://dependabot.com/blog/the-latest-dependency-version-is...
>I don't believe non-textual names have any place in programming. I have used Haskell and it is an unmitigated disaster.

And yet millions of programmers use && and not and, || and not or, { } and not begin, end, down to things like => to mean bound-closure in JS, with no issue at all.
The site opens a second tab with a scamy ad. I'm from Argentina, so I get the translated version.

Approximate translation: "Your system is damages. Your files will be deleted in 213 seconds. Press "Update" to install the new version."

> Alerta de Sistema

> Su sistema operativo Windows está dañado*

[...]

> Advertencia: Su copia de seguridad actual de Windows está dañada y obsoleta. Esto hará que los archivos de todo el sistema se borren automáticamente en: 213 segundos.

> Imprescindible: Haga clic en la tecla "actualizar" que verá abajo para instalar la versión más reciente del softwate para analizarlo y evitar que sus archivos se borren.
Booyakasha! :)
A couple that haven't yet been mentioned:

American Scientist (distinct from Scientific American) [https://www.americanscientist.org/] for science, engineering and technology.

Foreign Affairs [https://www.foreignaffairs.com/] for international relations and politics.

although I actually switched back to reading these (and others) in ink-on-paper format, which I've found helps me focus much better.

EDIT: Also, Philosophy Now [https://philosophynow.org/] for more abstract ideas.

These are bimonthly publications, and all worth paying money for.
Play the Pentagon-Funded Video Game That Predates Pong
> only one program can listen on myip:80.

That isn't true anymore, at least on Linux, thanks to SO_REUSEPORT
What are sites like agorize.com,listing startup challenges , online  hackathons
I'm sorry, I personally find a great deal of peace in Buddhist writings, but let's not start taking artistic philosophical language and equating it with scientific observation.

The microcosm and the macrocosm are vastly different with one exhibiting quantum behaviors and the other mostly influenced by gravity.

The experience of yogi's or Buddhists of a removal of psychological barriers that separate subjective experience into a personal and extra-personal world are just that. Changes to subjective experience. That means a change in brain state. It doesn't imply some kind of magic that changes the observed world.

Because things seem alike in imagery or language doesn't even remotely mean they are alike in observation.

What you are saying isn't unlike someone equating the Bohr model of the atom with a solar system. They do look alike in illustrations, after all. The problem is that solar systems don't look like atoms and they are vastly different "things".
Thanks!

Adding new languages is as easy as the package manager makes it... which is normally still quite hard! The core logic for Dependabot is open-source here, including all the language-specific logic for Ruby, JS and PHP, and a starter (lots of work still required) for Python: https://github.com/gocardless/bump-core.

For the app itself, we used Ruby (because we'd built the original core gem, which was https://github.com/gocardless/bump, in Ruby at a work hackathon years ago).

Costs under £50 a month to keep running at the moment, creating about 2,000 PRs a month. We could really do with getting it into the GitHub marketplace so we can start charging people and cover those costs!
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An aggregator composed of other news aggregators. As a concept it is great, but it will never come close to platforms like reddit. It's like newspapers, most of them just buy the news from agencies then complain about the decline of the (traditional) industry. An aggregator without curation will be so redundant and boring...

Instead look at those places that have something special and make you come back. They all have some differentiating factor. The WSJ from time to time produces high quality non-redundant content. The comments or content produced by users on HN and reddit are sometimes better than the news elsewhere.

Curation and the user base confer a site personality. This is why places like HN or reddit are so popular. Reddit offers a very high degree of segmentation to users through subreddit subscriptions. This allows users with perhaps very different personalities to get along by only focusing on things they have in common. Not only that, it incentives users to create, share and enjoy content together.

Y combinator has a true commitment to provide a simple platform to a user niche they are interested in. In contrast to the laissez faire curation approach of reddit, the strategy of HN is not as broad but for this specific niche is of higher quality. Although sometimes HN is used for Y combinator's purposes, they don't abuse it and many times the interests are aligned with most of their user base.
> i want DRM to be a difficult and cumbersome stack to use

Exactly. Even flash plugins are too easy, really, so long as flash is ubiquitous. NOW would be the time to hit it, as flash is less common (almost completely absent on mobile) and silverlight is deprecated.

Imagine if Apple and Microsoft and Real had agreed on an easy and ubiquitous plugin framework for music DRM.

We would still be dealing with near-universal DRM for music today.
Had to look who Fravia is (or was) -- interesting stuff.
Look into pantheism if you ever have the time.
When you buy through redfin, they pay you part of the commission they receive.

For instance, in my neighborhood, there is a house listed for $294,000. Redfin states you would receive a refund of $904 if you bought the property through them. It doesn't scale linearly, so a $395,000 house has a $1,785 refund, nearly twice as much. It also differs by market. These are in Boston and thus are probably lower than other markets because here it is a 2.5+2.5 split rather than the 3+3 in most markets.
Flash and Silverlight were low friction. And both are deprecated or unavailable on a lot of players now.

Making DRM harder for the end user is the only effective push-back. It worked for music. It's working for e-Books. It would have worked for movies... if it wasn't for this.
No, it was always 100 days or free.

"Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free. That serious enough for you?"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/840032197637685249
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After Google bought FeedBurner then killed Google Reader, I launched a FeedBurner replacement [0] complete with FeedBurner stats import and all.

I figured Google would kill FB soon enough, the writing was on the wall: killed Adsense integration, broken stats, halted development, disabled new cnames for a while, disbanded the team, etc.

I liked to think even one big client from FB (cough CNN cough) switching over after Google finally killed the plug would be worth it. They never did. It's been years now and FB still languishes neglected, but it seems that it is fated to die by attrition and nothing more.

[0]: http://feedsnap.com/
Ethereum had no "solid" value proposition in 2014, and EOS doesn't have one now. You're overstating its proven value. We can share our opinions on the respective projects, but that's different from a demonstrable value proposition.
Very nice, but could have used higher resolution.
Blockchain != crypto currency.

There are quite a few private blockchains that are now running in the financial and healthcare industries at a pretty large pilot programmes that are very functional and bring destinct advantages.
The real estate business, especially in Canada is essentially the mafia.
> It's working for e-Books.

How is it working for ebooks, when the leading vendor has introduced more severe DRM?
Slightly more secure, since you can have multiple A records on a domain and your domain verification should really check them all.

It's more fair to say HTTPS is basically as secure as DNS. If someone hijacks your DNS for 5 minutes they can have a TLS cert from LetsEncrypt for your domain for 90 days
It'd probably work to prefix the name of the author before the title, so something like "Kainoa Little: No One Would Buy My Photos, So Here They Are For Free: Mosul 2017".
Right?! and redux is a baby-monster comparing to Relay that demands developer to actually modify the server's graphQL API in order to comply with the odd requirements.
Easy to Build Fallout Shelter, 1961
I'm still confused. Is this anything beyond another opt-in botnet at it's core?
Who shouldn't get the money and power? The incumbent power generators or the politicians?
This is what OP project is, no?

Two people see cool sideproject in Go, his thoughts "damn this looks good, I need to learn Go", my thoughts "Whyyy you do this in Go and not D? Simplistic Go has no strong sides here! Why nobody promotes my favourite language with things like this, it deserves hype no less!"
Depends also on what job I guess?
Earlier this year I downloaded a season of a TV show I wanted to catch up on, into Google Play on my tablet. A few weeks later I was on a plane, and finally had a chance to watch them. Google Play had blithely decided to save space (possibly prompted by the OS) and had removed my downloads.

If they weren't DRMed I would have just downloaded them into space I control and there would have been none of this "oh he's not interested" BS guessing.

I deal with this kind of bovine exhaust regularly.

So, hell, no, DRM has NOT IN ANY WAY been good for me. ANYTHING that makes DRM less viable is an absolute good. Period.
>During the past decade, the Federal Reserve has created 4 trillion dollars out of thin air in an attempt to prop up the economy.

During the 1840's to 1860's we created billions of dollars out of thin air by mining gold from the ground in California. Fiat currency saves us the digging.

Money is not a static "thing" that definitely exists. Markets need liquidity. QE has provided that liquidity as the vast majority of capital in our society has become locked up by the top 1%. If anything, they could increase the flow of QE because of how low inflation is right now.
>I can't manage to read this entire thing, not just because it is long, but because it is so sneering.

Sometimes, though, people deserve to be sneered at.

>Study after study after study indicates that diet, exercise and lifestyle have measurable impacts on morbidity and a long list of serious, often deadly, conditions.

And TFA is not concerned with those (the "obese masses), but with ridiculous obsessions of already fit and healthy people.

>But if you actually try to advocate that people attend to their health first and foremost by eating right, exercising and making good lifestyle choices, you are some crazy weirdo

Beyond a certain line, yes.
Netflix chooses to use DRM. That's completely on them.