skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Officially at least - there is a chance that Putin is actually the richest person in the world: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/bill-br...

"He wasn’t saying 50 percent for the Russian government or the presidential administration of Russia, but 50 percent for Vladimir Putin personally. From that moment on, Putin became the biggest oligarch in Russia and the richest man in the world, and my anti-corruption activities would no longer be tolerated."
this is an elephant in the room. most people simply do not produce any useful content. they just auto tweet links or comment on something random and specific that is uninteresting.
Wasn't this basically what people said about Netscape pre-Firefox? That worked out, and ushered in a new age of Internet.

Flash has an immense amount of value built in which cannot be replaced by any of the alternatives. Maintaining and fixing old code isn't as sexy as jumping on the latest competing standard, but it's far more valuable.

Even if we don't continue to develop new features for Flash, it's important to keep it alive so we don't lose the ability to run the wide variety of flash programs which at this point make up a significant portion of Internet culture and history.
Frankly, I'd love if Bill Gates had nearly zero at his death.

How amazing would it be for a man with that much wealth to set some aside for his children, whatever he thinks establishes their life and his duty to them, and then make it his goal to have nothing by the time he dies.

Set up foundations to kill hunger, diseases, etc. But as death approaches and the years drag on, really ramp up the giving.

"Bill Gates: Net worth $0" would make an amazing headstone for a man who spent the latter part of his life giving.
Speed quality cost. Pick two.

These photographs aren't very good. Yes, hundreds or thousands of photos per day is a lot. The difference between a good picture and a really good picture might be hours more setup and post processing.

This is stereotypical Chinese manufacturing tactics being applied to modeling. Cut workers rights, cut quality, setup, safety, compensation, and time to market.

In shear numbers it's impressive but when I see how they doing it, it's a face palm moment
I wonder how many people die because of their smart homes being dependent on some network thing this time around. I'm 80% kidding, I think?
https://github.com/ro31337/awesome-aws-alternatives
You also have to factor in the speed of a resilver and account for the chance of a failure during this at risk window.

A mirror can resilver much faster, and it doesn't significantly affect the vdev performance while doing so. A RAIDZ resilver after a disc replacement can take a significant amount of time, and degrade performance seriously as it thrashes every single disc in the vdev.

Allan Jude and Michael Lucas' books on ZFS have tables describing the tradeoffs of the different possible vdev layouts, and they are worth a read for anyone setting up ZFS storage.
This is one of the problems with recreational drug studies. Its hard to find people who only do one drug and then people who live similar life styles to them but sober. I remember and MDMA study that looked at ravers in Utah because a large number of them were sober to study the effects of MDMA while accounting for the raver lifestyle of staying up for many hours dancing and often dehydrated.
I think we agree in some sense.

> To read a news article?

I refuse to use a native app for this (e.g., Apple News, Flipboard). I love reading my news on the web. In a browser. Where the page is the content and the browser is the convenience. Even better is having Safari's "Reader Mode" enabled constantly so every article is consistently and nicely formatted and I get just the text and links.

> To book a flight?

Same thing for booking a flight, last time I did that was on a web site. With some forms and a few "Next" links to go to the next page until I was done.

It was nice to get the boarding pass in Apple Wallet though and then use that to board.

> To comment on an internet post?

I'm commenting on this post right here in Safari. I wouldn't ever want to use an app for it.

I don't need more "app features" on light web pages. Especially not the ones mentioned in the article.
Do you use lists?
When AWS is having widespread issues half the internet seems to stop working. This looks like a 500 error on the console.

Is there any actual indication of AWS issues beyond one random person's tweet?

edit: Ah, https://twitter.com/ylastic just went on a retweeting tear. Looks like us-east-1?
Holding your money cash is a pretty bad idea... Why wouldn't you invest it.
We saw intermittent errors but it has been fine since the last 10 minutes
Links on DOE? https://www.isixsigma.com/tools-templates/design-of-experime...
In fact Birkenstock just needs to send a cease and desist letter to amazon and that is enough to prove that amazon knew about this policy.
If they lack the ability to isolate inventory originating from untrustworthy sources or adequately manage its supplier relationships, then yes.

This will blow up in their face when a bunch of preschoolers die when a fake iPad charger or battery burns the school down.
The IRS still defines cryptocurrency as a "product", not a security. [1] It is to be treated as such in your taxes. I think that's the best indicator of the state of affairs. They provided detailed guidelines and answer many common questions 2014. [2] That may change but I'm pretty comfortable with not treating it as a security for the moment.

Also, since were treating it as a product, I view contributing to Ether based ICO's as not a sale of my "product" since the product is still the same, just tied to a smart contract. I see it the same as buying a physical product and then exchanging it for another physical product at the same store. I don't incur taxes when I exchange.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/irs-virtual-currency-guidan...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf
You could buy "experiences" - a massage or haircut. Or food.

Maybe my definition is off but the fact these physically don't last long makes them seem less material.
> > Undefined means : the compiler can omit this case and assume it never happens.

> That's not the whole picture though. The standard actually says that anything can happen in undefined cases.

Well, that's right the standard says the compiler can do anything they want, including erasing all data from your hard drive or summoning a demon in your nose [1], but in practice I've never seen any compiler attempt such things.

What compilers usually do with UB is assuming it will never happen and use this invariant as an optimization hint.

[1] : http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html
React Native under the hood uses Obj-C to bridge to native Cocoa frameworks. For example when you uses a <View> tag in JavaScript, it ends up calling iOS UIView.
Seems like Spain gets a large chunk of the entries due to the geographic phenomenon on a long plain w/o anything to block the horizon plus high peaks on either side of the plain which adds to the horizon
>they still continue to sell it

That's how they make money. 8 out of 10 people won't report or can't spot a fake product. They are playing odds here.
> But there still is no web app on macOS or iOS that feels good, consistent and integrated in the same way that a good native app feels.

Part of that though is because they _don't_ allow PWAs. Contrast that with Android, where it's now entirely possible to make a PWA so deeply integrated into the OS that the average user can't even tell it's not a native app: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/02/integrating-progressive-we...
I'll just recycle a comment from a few days ago, it's (un)surprisingly fitting:

"You know the rule, Apple ALWAYS gets a pass. No matter what they do, no matter how bad they treat their customers, no matter how awful their "upgrades" are, no matter how non-configurable and locked-in their products get over time, no matter the lack of innovation for the past 5 years, they always get a pass. Deal with it, that Jobs residue works its magic for a loooooong time."
Apple supporting PWA (Progressive Web Apps) is hugely important because it enables a future where web apps can natively support browser, Mac/Windows/Linux desktop, and mobile iPhone/Android/Windows native mobile with a single codebase of open technologies.

Why after over 30 years of experiencing cross platform "write once run anywhere* technologies do developers still think that's the best user experience? Yes it makes life easier for the developer but it's rarely best for the user.
Most places have real property taxes (and to a lesser extent, adverse possession laws) that act as a beneficial (to society) drag on infinite holding periods of land. That tends to be a tax on the current (improved) value of the land, where others have made an argument that a tax on unimproved value would work differently (in some ways better, in some ways worse).

My apologies on the prior post; I meant to imply that buying unimproved land in the "right" place is a great long-term investment.
Curious, what part of education? I've found a few UK people I enjoy following (once I learned the UK education lingo).
How does one start to raise money from SoftBank??
I'm personally more than a little impressed on his anti malaria work.
That would be unofficially.

Nobody has managed to prove Putin is sitting on the claimed wealth and Putin / his circle has denied it. I seriously doubt anyone is going to step forward with the evidence necessary to prove it, for obvious reasons.
Isn't he trying to compete with SpaceX in some sense?
Thanks I forgot about that. Now I can use cognitive dissonance to believe I am helping space flight progress and continue to feel good about my prime subscription!
At my company we are seeing issues in us-east-1 involving KMS and EC2.
Not saying problems don't exist. Just trying to be realistic. Shouting about how everything has gone to hell and the country has become a joke can also be a dangerous theme feeding populist movements. Let's focus on what's actually broken.
Probably a PC term for "dick waving contest"
The article does not take into account race size - it plotted 100th finisher times by year, which is not the same as plotting 100th finisher times by # of participants.
Seems like "dreams" in the broad tech community have done pretty well on the whole. This whole site is kinda dedicated to them.

Conversely, have you thought about all the third world disease deaths the guy's money has prevented?

To be clear: I was in the anti-MS camp from way back when that means "OS/2" instead of Linux. I was no fan, and still don't use their software for anything meaningful. But "dreams destroyed" is a bit much.
This is a fork of the Dropbox code as the original is not maintained by them anymore.
I'm not sure you understand the situation, which is surprising with how much time you spend talking about it - is this willful? - Oracle (And Sun before them) do not hold all of the copyrights involved. Some of them are held by third parties.

The CDDL was written to be as permissive as possible within the boundaries they are held to by these third parties.

It is impossible for Oracle to release a version of the license that is GPL compatible without completely removing all of these third party components they do not hold the copyright to.
It's less about whether they can technically handle the scale (they clearly can), but more about enterprises that are going to have typical enterprise demands - security policies, encryption at rest, whitelabeling, maybe even on-premise installs. On top of that, enterprises typically aren't self service, you need to have a pretty large sales team to effectively sell to the enterprise.
This mirrors my view as well. Using the browser as a terrible, partially functional app server as though it were some kind of gimpy VM is one of the worst things to have happened in this industry.

Building what should be simple dynamic websites as native apps is as bad. Many things that are "appified" seem to me to be too complicated when developed as web apps and have too simplistic a use case when developed as native ones for mobile.
Or you could do some kind of middle-ground like what Chrome is planning, where the user can only be prompted to enable notifications after they've reached some specific level of engagement with the site they're using: https://github.com/WICG/interventions/issues/49#issuecomment...
You can now fund your Abra wallet with your American Express Card
And that was such a great experience with Java applets....
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Can't find a permalink, but I had this notification in our AWS console:

> Beginning at Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:53:00 GMT, some instances are experiencing elevated packet loss in the us-east-1a Availability Zone. We are now investigating this issue.

Some of our instances weren't reachable for about 10 minutes.
same here, our systems running in US East are behaving weird
> Almost all of ZoL is under "CDDL 1.0 or later"

Actually no, it is not.
I wouldn't imagine .NET experience would be a negative at Microsoft. In fact .NET seems to main language used by a lot of large companies UK.

In fact some biggest e-commerce sites and well funded startups(JustEat, Purplebricks) in the UK use .NET.

These sorts of companies tend use things like DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing which a lot of developers at "local" companies don't really use.
I did the same thing using a HifiBerry-Hat (used the Pi as a Mopidy server before, but I like the Bluetooth setup better for UI reasons).

If you're using BlueZ and Pulseaudio, it comes down to a couple of simple config entries (google for Linux Bluetooth A2DP Sink).

I used a RPi 2 with a USB Dongle for the Bluetooth though, so I can't vouch for the internal Bluetooth of the RPi 3.
There used to be one distributed w/ the Flash IDE; but I'm not sure if it was ever distributed stand alone.
If you have critical systems completely reliant on the cloud, then that's just darwin awards in action
What drives the popularity of a framework has very little to do with merit. RoR is still the right choice for lots of apps, and makes millions of dollars for lots of companies, no trendy frontend framework required.

JS-heavy frontends and JVM microservices can end up being antipatterns from a user perspective. Increased engineering costs and decreased battety life are not strong selling points. When implemented poorly, SPAs and microservices are scarcely better than make-work for developers.

Most of the time, you should just use Rails and be done with it.
If you're going to compare to a Mac, it's better to look at the higher end Chromebooks like the Pixel 2, HP Chromebook 13, and Samsung Chromebook Pro. They all have screens with pixel density and quality that's on par with the 15" MacBook Pro I have.
This is wonderful news for humanity, in the long term. Bezos is dedicated to expanding humanity into the solar system in a more sensible way than Musk is. O'Neil cylinders are really the way to go for a lot of reasons, and that's the vision that Bezos is dedicated to. More money for that is fantastic.

I just wish there was a Bezos/Gates-level billionaire who care as much about life extension via SENS. That's the only thing of equal importance I can think of that needs long term vision and financial support.
I worked with 1366x768 for years and don't really think it's THAT bad.
Depends on your resources for prep. Poor kids have less resources for that than rich kids, so they ultimately select for richer candidates.
There was definitely an issue. Around 25% of our servers in one availability zone of us-east-1 fell off the network for 15 minutes or so, starting around 13:47 GMT. They're back now.

During this time period, we were also unable to access the console (500 errors).
I think a shift from apparently grotesque capitalist of the worst sort (embrace-extend-extinguish, FUD, anti-competitive practices, abuse of monopoly and on and on) to a philanthropist of a decent middle-ground sort who still extends his power through philanthropy (such as working to be in the position to dictate education policy and education-related technology through Foundation funding — despite not deserving any say in that field) merits at best a form of respect that remains less than "utter".
We're using serverless-chrome for the headless-chrome-on-aws-lambda part. https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome

If you're interested in how serverless-chrome works, I wrote an article on how to get headless chrome running on AWS Lambda from scratch here: https://medium.com/@marco.luethy/running-headless-chrome-on-...
So if you go to the mall, and in the mall a seller sold a counterfeit item, then you believe the Mall will be shutdown, not just the individual store in the mall?

Really?

because that is what Amazon is, an online shopping mall
Can someone explain the difference between progressive web apps and webRTC? Are they related, or completely separate technologies? I just heard about them around the same time, and it seems like they have some things in common.
Yeah it's a mess when you recommend duo/authy not clear TOTP or internal system. It's a second factor but not the one that's worth implementing: basic link to email has same security and costs $0
How does this have anything to do with OP? The circumstances are completely different.
And for every coin that tries to solve different issues with Bitcoin (or I'd also argue tries to apply the tech to a specific problem using block chain, i.e. smart contracts, storage, scientific research, etc), there's 20+ "me too!" copycat coins. Basically like everything that exists ever (games, movies, music, books, apps, businesses, etc).
A significant portion of Gates' wealth comes not from his Microsoft stock, but through his investment arm, Cascade Investment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Investment
Jira and Heroku seemed to have had issues due to this
I think this is such an important distinction that we should build it into web standards.

A site should label itself as either a "plain site" or a "web app". "Sites" may only use a limited subset and amount of javascript (perhaps none?!). Browsers, search engines, and plugins can treat plain sites and web apps differently.
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I used the very first version of the Raspberry Pi model B. I bought one when they became available years ago and then never did anything with it. If the Pi 3 comes with a bluetooth chip built-in then you will just need to do some software configuration. There are three servers to configure: bluez, udev, and pulseaudio. I used the following gist as a guide, but didn't follow every step exactly:

https://gist.github.com/oleq/24e09112b07464acbda1

Hope this helps!
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fwiw, this method doesn't seem to predict the list very well

as its not a list of just the highest peaks in the world

longest sightlines also depend on the surrounding topography that blocks or doesn't block a sightline

this seems to account for the numerous Spanish entries on the list, where the large Spanish plain with high peaks on either side, enables you to see from 1 peak to the other, w/o anything on the plain blocking your view
Ethernet over USB, FTP/SCP/SMB?
I think people are misreading my purpose. Your response comes closest:

>If you do the statistical significance test correctly, you won't be able to show the new process better by taking lots of samples for it, since the variance of the old measurements dominates the uncertainty. (I think, haven't done the math to show it.)

Higher sample size means lower variance:

https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat414/node/167
I've been working at my first software dev job for a few months now. I sat down at work today and, for the first time, I had to launch and configure an EC2 instance. Of course, within the first few minutes of getting started AWS starts having issues.
Sometimes I, too, pine for the days of "hyperlinks, text and images"-only web. So I turn off Javascript.

You can too, if that's how you want to consume the web. That's the beauty of it - it allows for that by design.

What I don't like is the position you are taking that "because I only want to consume the web that way, the Web itself should be hamstrung to my limited view of how it should work." There is no good reason - when the capability exists - that the Web as a platform should be chaste with things like Offline-first and even push messages (which IMHO are a big privacy win over the current mode of getting updates about things you're interested in, because you can't ungive someone your email address but you can easily turn off notification channels.) "Because that's not the way I want to consume the web" is not a good enough reason to deny the rest of us who want to see the Web continue as a modern and relevant platform. If you feel like shouting "get off my lawn" at the kids using those things, just flip off JS.
hmm don't think the moon is on Earth but I like the idea. Might be tricky getting the oil to there though
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Interesting - I use both those services in us-east-1 and have not experienced issues. https://status.aws.amazon.com/ also shows a sea of green, although I'm not sure this page is even functional, because even when I know AWS has been having issues it's a sea of green.
I have a nomination for the most concentrated private cash stockpile: a Russian police colonel kept 131 Million USD in an apartment.[1]
[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-14/russians-...
Well, maybe your dream didn't get destroyed. But bill gates and Microsoft's business practices killed real businesses. This is not my imagination, please read up the history. Those entepreuners dreams were destroyed by an unethical company. Maybe you don't think it's a big deal because winners take it all and can define what is good for the world?
they've been saying that since 1997
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Tbf, yubikey neo has much more features than feitian epass.
So you can swim in it in your money bin.
Which AZ?
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I cant entirely decide if I find that graph [1] more impressive or terrifying. Look at the time scale and the speed at which Bezos' net worth increased, while starting at the already insane point of 30 B.

[1] https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iVJAUVVd7l0...
The grandparent poster stated that they don't want to encapsulate stuff in UDP.
Now imagine if you could do all of that faster and offline, while still avoiding the need to install a native app. That's something PWAs would enable.