skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like the classic "OSS is free if you value your time at zero" answer, but I don't think it is wrong.

I think this is the type of tool which I model you as having relatively little need or use for (since you care very strongly about the details and are willing to burn N days on getting e.g. HashiCorp Vault working) and which I would adopt ~instantly rather than trying to again stitch together all of the Ansible scripts required to get Vault working properly.

"So I can give an external Rails contractor all the API keys they need to run the application without also giving them e.g. my payment processor secret key? And I don't have to configure their Macbook to make this happen or explain to them how to use a toolchain to get e.g. passwords out of an encrypted Ansible vault? Done." would be my approximate reaction here.

I'm looking at their integration guide and Vault's side-by-side and trying to model out installing them in a typical boring Rails app. My mental math is "~25 minutes and one deploy, maybe an hour if you want to monkeypatch Rails.secrets" versus "2~3 days, assuming you've already got a well-maintained Ansible All The Things setup running; a capital-P project otherwise."

It's my ambient impression that this would improve secret management at, hmm, 98% of Microconf attendees' shops. My estimate for e.g. software companies which have raised an A round is not lower than 50%.

I would probably be much closer to (my model of) your POV on this matter if I were making the decision on behalf of a company with elevated security requirements or which already had a staffed-up DevOps or security team.
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They need to get this switched over for voice activated Siri, no one in the history of the planet has wanted their hands-free, verbal question answered with a screen full of Bing search results...complete waste.
It's closed source.

> it's just another Disqus.

The main difference is the privacy aspect since I don't track users or serve ads. Disqus' business model depends on collecting user data and monetizing it, unlike mine where I directly charge website owners to embed comments.
Bizarre overuse of emojis in all of Manning's tweets.
> That's not fair.

It's a simple fact that Trump won directly and solely due to anti-democratic features of the US Presidential election system.

> If Trump didn't win a democratic election, then neither did Obama, Bush, Clinton or Washington.

Three of those did not win solely and directly due to anti-democratic features of the then-current system, so while, yes, you could construct standards by which none of them won a “democratic” election, those aren't the standards at issue.

> He apparently won according to the rules that are established.

And, if so, he won a legal election. “Legal” and “democratic” are not the same thing. There are plenty of leaders who have won election under the rules established at the time who no one would argue won a democratic election (for a current and fairly non-controversial example, Pope Francis.)

> The only question is, did he really win according to the established rules, or did he take advantage of foreign power?

That's not only not the only question, but it's not even a question. Whether Trump (potentially illegally) collided with foreign actors in regard to the election is one of the questions that exists, but even if he did, he was unmistakably legally elected: there is no question that he was a Constitutionally-qualified candidate, that the majority of the state-level electors cast ballots for him, and that the Congress accepted, counted, and ratified that result, which is the entirety of what it takes to win by the established rules.

While there are legal questions around Trump and his campaign and administration, the Constitutional validity of his election is not among them.

The questions that concern legitimacy and potential impeachment, while they may be informed by investigation of the legal issues, are ultimately more nuanced and less prior-rule-bound issues of what people are willing to accept.
Exactly, there are two commonly used english indexes, Bing and Google. Yandex has one but they closed their local data center so it has a lot of lag getting to it from the US.

Tsignal [1] claims to be building their own index, which if they are would mean there was a third index to choose from.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/31/deepsearch_tsignal/
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> Say goodbye to videos that auto‑play.
Full of gimmicks, thats why some very basic bugs such as CJK inappropriate line breaking never gets fixed, because those fixes aint going to be attractive for eyes.

They blocked auto play video sounds just because some abusing the video tag? That is just going to push those scammy people finding the other way to annoy their users, such as, playing the audio separately in a audio tag or decoding and playing audio using javascript. Of course they can block those too to make it a even more backward browser, but indie web game makers are going to be suffered from that.
Are the threads started by way of external process, thread started within a C library, or started with an actual Node.js call i can write directly in node.js code and also use to run literally arbitrary node.js code?
Wow now we can look forward to half baked AI implementation for several years and then abandonment like every MS marketing fad.
no, GPUs are vector math engines. To be fair, you can assemble a matrix multiply from vector math, but it is not quite the same. In spirit, GPUs are closer to matrix engines than neuromorphic chips.
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And one wonders why it is impossible for a new search engine to get started :-) When Google started paying over a billion dollars a year to buy search traffic it was pretty clear that it was not going to be possible to grow a new full stack search engine organically.

Now they are over $4B/year buying traffic, its pretty crazy.
> High pressure, low resources (money) => Marketing can do their own thing to reduce pressure on the development team.

"Marketing can do their own thing" makes for more work and pressure on the development team. "Why doesn't this work in production?" "Why is this slow in production?"

Nobody gets to skip CI, or work without coordination.
Stability does not imply immutability, but rather established.

In new projects it is common for a method or class to change direction or role as it develops, which may bring with it a refactor of identifier names, parameters, and such. After the class has been used for some time in different contexts these changes happen less and less, hence we call the class stable. A 1.0 release implies this stability.

Third party dependencies are still free to mutate their APIs, but when maintaining a production system you don't want to be mole-whacking API changes every point release.
Certain jobs involve making certain kinds of judgement calls. Acting like the person fulfilling the role is unquestionably immoral and at fault for the fact that people die when nations have conflicts is, at best, naïve.

I was a hippie tree hugger type. I got married at age 19 to another 19 year old. Being a soldier was his dream career, in part because he was very patriotic and loved his country. My twenties were spent being genuinely surprised that some soldiers go to church and they are not all bloodthirsty villains. In fact, most of them fervently want war to not happen because their own lives are at stake.

I am still kind of a hippie tree hugger type. But, I am a pro military hippie these days. "A man of peace must be strong." If you think America would be a kinder gentler nation if we got rid of our military forces entirely, think again. The US would cease to exist. It would be promptly invaded and taken over.

There is a lot of not nice stuff that happens in the world. "Freedom for all" gets paid for in part with the blood of patriots. That is an unfortunate reality.
External threads stabilize regimes. I mean, look at north korea leaning for support towards the US
And was he right? Because he seems to have changed his mind.
NewRelic doesn’t let you add random JS, it only injects their browser monitoring script. Don’t spread fake news.
I like that it feels very declarative and that the imperative extensions are all kind of Ada like.
delete Hadoop so I've got more disk space to run Pandas.

Except when you have ~2000 node cluster that runs 10,000 ETL tasks daily all of which are IO bound, And you cannot "just" uninstall. However during certain periods the same cluster has significant underutilization this opens up possibilities of doing lots of cool stuff for almost zero cost.

I can understand your confusion. Training embedding model on Common Crawl is a toy problem. I recommend you thinl from perspective of a Tech company ideally in a production ML setting to understand the cost tradeoffs that go into making these decisions. Regarding memory locality if the problem is small enough its possible to tune Spark to use fewer or even just one worker with enough amount of memory allocated.

Sending the data over a network during training would be the worst thing you can do there.

When your data itself is in 100s of Terabytes and sharded across multiple racks, often a properly tuned spark pipeline is more reliable and performs well. Again there is a difference between using Common Crawl subset that you manually download filter train etc and in ensuring that models are updated/trained automatically daily across 100s of TB data.
> I'm definitely not a journalist. I think it's reasonable to refer to someone as their actual gender during an actual event

What actual gender? You mean legal sex/gender (which is a form of externally-ascribed gender)?

Or do you mean gender identity and, if so, on what basis do you assess it?
Here's a gray market "business model":

- Hacker H hacks site, injects cryptomining script

- Because H doesn't want other hackers to do the same, he will make the site secure and thereby kind of "maintain" it (in a security sense)

- Because H doesn't want the site to slow down endlessly, he will use cryptomining "as much as possible" while still keeping the site sufficiently responsive (otherwise traffic would go down and net income would decrease in the long run)

End result: a kind of a symbiotic relationship between a gray hat hacker and a standard web content provider.
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Meh it was pretty easy. Due to the fact that there were a limited number of peripherals to begin with, getting a modem hooked up to a serial port pretty much always worked. (first one I had was an Atari XM301 in 1982). By 1991 you could buy an IBM PS/1 in any retail store with included internal 2400 bps modem for about $1200. Related to this, PS/1 models included Prodigy (the sears venture) and Promenade a short-lived effort between IBM and Quantum link (ie what became AOL).
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There is a difference in providing an "electric connection" to each household and providing electricity to the household.I live in a relatively well-off locality and don't have electricity for at least 30 days/year. During monsoons, have to go without electricity for 48 hrs even.

Providing off-grid solar electricity to remote locations is the right way to go. But that is only part of the equation, one has to ensure regular maintenance and battery replacement, especially since these areas will have adverse conditions. It is like the swachh bharat mission, toilets were built for sanitation in villages but they were useless since they didn't have water. Sadly no one gives a thought to this in India, things are built and are useless or they wither in short time due to lack of maintenance.

This is another propaganda BS by the government. BJP will have to upgrade their techniques, otherwise the mountain of propaganda that they have built will cave in on themselves.
well just wanted to say that the conversion between ribbon caused a lot of people problems.
especially the older personal really dislikes office 2007+ upwards.
basically I barely use any office software and I'm on mac where Microsoft Office is basically bloat software. And for my needs, LibreOffice/The Mac stuff or just a text editor is most of the time's more than enough.
Outlook is actually a pretty good product on Windows, however on Mac it is as good/bad as the built-in mail app. (actually it share's a lot with it, i.e. account's go over apple exchange integration and search uses spotlight and so on).
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> 1. Please make sure you support all languages (utf-8).

I'll need to cross check, but I think with the default settings, it's currently supported.

> 2. Some public forums want anonymous posts that they can check and allow manually but still need to know who it came from (newspapers in Sweden does this a lot). Usually requires entering an email adress every time and a checkbox "I prefer to be anonymous".

Good idea, I'll add support for anonymous posting with appropriate moderation policies to prevent spam/abuse.

Thanks for the feedback.
That was a great 'free' PR boost for them actually, which less informed people take as Apple's great stand on privacy. Apple helped FBI in every possible way for months in their investigation (had also unlocked dozens of phones for them before), even gladly gave away the suspect's iCloud data (so much for customer privacy). It's only when FBI made their next request (to create a backdoor/loophole in brute-force unlocking) public instead of private, when Tim Cook 'had to' show they cared about users' privacy. [0][1]

[0] "Apple had asked the F.B.I. to issue its application for the tool under seal. But the government made it public, prompting Mr. Cook to go into bunker mode to draft a response" : https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/technology/how-tim-cook-b...

[1] : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-20/the-behin...
There are more mundane ends to Amazon possible.

1. If shareholders turn on the company for some reason, it could cause a chain reaction as the margins are so thin and operations costs growing.

Normal tech companies are more insulated from these kinds of problems as they don't require physical assets like traditional companies and take extremely healthy margins.

Amazon is balanced on a knife's edge, financially.

2. Actions by the US government could also be a threat worth considering as Amazon is a monopoly now. It currently is thought to not hurt the consumer. At the same time, the value in Amazon is the thought that they could 'turn on the profit faucet anytime' but when that happens, they'll almost certainly not be good for the consumer.

3. Jeff Bezos is also a single point of failure. He's amazing but probably still mortal. Amazon might not weather his absence well.
Is this because Apple is so bad, or just that Google is so much better than everyone else? I’ve never used physical satnav units, but how do they compare to Apples offerings?
It's been locked for two weeks, has been closed for 8 months, is something Google is aware of and has been discussed for months.

Your title is click bait. There's nothing new going on here
The biggest change for us was SSDs coming down in price.

Whereas before I might need four read slaves to ensure that at peak load I'm handling all my transactions within X ms, now I can guarantee it on one server.

More importantly, in our industry where we're vastly more write-constrained than read-constrained and we're faced with e.g. MySQL not being able to easily spread writes over multiple servers simply, the appeal of something like MongoDB or Cassandra with built-in sharding and rebalancing to spread out both reads and writes sounds very appealing.

And again, I can move from a giant complicated, expensive, heat-producing multi-disk raid10 to a pair of SSDs in RAID1 (or better) and easily meet my iops requirements.

Without being able to upgrade to SSDs I think we would have been looking into other systems like Cassandra a lot sooner, but right now we can pretty easily throw some money at the problem and it goes away.
Hi, I would really like some way to add recurring events. Also, tasks should have a description capability that would be displayed on hover/click. Also, why can't I add colors clicking on the task itself, but only on the subtask? That's inconvenient when coming from Google Keep.
If you addressed those points, I would consider trying it out for more that 5 minutes.
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But let's be real, the graphics of prodigy were not really up to the task of showcasing products.
nb: the graphics of prodigy were a semi-standardized limited color pallette vector graphics system called NAPLPS. Benefit was that it was extremely low bandwidth, the limitation was that it had no way to handle bitmap graphics (like GIF). By 1994, prodigy just became an http provider (on top of the existing service).
> https://pingtype.github.io

> I have no idea how to turn my Chinese-learning data into a practical business.

A couple of suggestions:

1) Find someone learning Chinese who's physically near you (so you can be in the same room) but who you don't know personally, e.g. someone at a meetup. Open your site, and give them your laptop and observe what they do. (Don't ask them questions, until they get stuck and ask for help. Just observe.)

2) Try to answer these questions:

- What do you have now (data and/or functionality)?

- To what people could those be useful?

- In which contexts?

- What else would they need in order to get started using this?

3) Try out some other Chinese learning tools (ChinesePod, Popup Chinese, Decipher Chinese, Chairman's Bao, ...) and, for each one, make notes on paper about each thing that happens after you first visit the site (or open the app). That will help you understand onboarding flows.

My email is in my profile if you'd like to discuss in detail. I'm in Beijing, so same time zone as Taiwan.
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The bug report identifies the linked article as "fake news" - to me, it looks more like a parody site, and a few sentences made me smile, as I recognized familiar behavior in some of my online friends.

Nevertheless, the problem is real, but I don't think it's possible to fix in AMP.
I have heard of malware that does more or less the same: exploit a vulnerability, but patch it as soon as it has access to prevent others from exploiting it too.

While your plan makes sense, I can see a future where there are two big gray-market parties left that use the equipment under their control to attack the other party, and not mine crypto...
Yes I understand and am sympathetic with you on the specific case. However I see a strong risk of this attitude spreading to infect public discourse more widely. As is now happening with I believe potentially catastrophic consequences. I am suggesting that shelving individual judgements, at least as a default, in the interests of a healthy polity might usually be the wiser course. The risks of public civility breaking down usually seem to me to be more significant than the risks of the likes of Kissenger getting an occasional airing.

Kissenger may not (and does not in my view) 'deserve' any respect. But the concept of debate being a means of dealing with conflict to be preferred over more primitive recourses does.
I live in Delhi and during peek summer time (April to June) 3-4 hour power cuts are routine, sometimes due to load shedding and sometimes due to faults. But that's not the horrible part since we have battery backup (known as Inverters) that can provide power for 6-8 hours. The horrible part is that during nighttime the voltage goes as low as 160 volts and the frequency drops too, as a result most critical cooling devices like fridges and ACs don't function at all. As more and more people in a locality install voltage regulators or stabilizers, they draw large currents and trip the transformers, sometimes dozens of times in an hour.

I've also spent several years in tier two cities, where 8-10 hour power cuts are part of normal life and smaller towns where a failure can cause week-long power cut. I know with surety that large parts of the National Capital Region (NCR) have massive power cuts. Housing societies and businesses run large diesel generators charging 3-4x the normal rate and causing immense pollution.

This is only half the story, the story of low power supply. Then there is power theft. I don't have exact figures but when I used to go to the billing office for paying our meager bill of a few hundred rupees, I saw pending bills of hundred of thousands rupees. People hadn't paid their bills for decades. Occasionally there would be raids and the defaulters' power would be disconnected, then they would hook up to the power lines illegally for some time and then get the connections back under some amnesty scheme.

It remains to be seen where the power to 'electrify' all households come from and who'll actually foot the bill for the 'free' connections and the lifetime free electricity.
I doubt anybody will ever see this response, but about the Hoverboard, here it is:

Hoverboards are originally from China [1] however, most of us have likely learned about them from Kickstarter etc. I think the users of HN would agree that "invention is never a sudden thing". The process for hoverboards has been iterative, of course. I have heard claims of having commercial hoverboards as much as five years before they became household names in the US.

[1] https://youtu.be/SGJ5cZnoodY?t=33m52s
Have you used Apple Maps recently? It's not that bad anymore. Just because they had bad press about it 5 years ago doesn't mean the product is still stuck in 2012.
> Apple's App Store revenues are lower because they limit how apps can identify users.

I think this is less about privacy and more about control. Only Apple apps are allowed to track Apple users.
But can we do that in am efficient manner?
Unless you just package it and let youtube do the actual streaming. Imagine creating "cat-videos.com" and embedding all the youtube videos into the site but providing a better UI for browsing them.
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> The thing is ORMs have made writing easy queries easy and hard queries possible since at the very least 2005 with Rails,

Contrary to the hype it created, Rails was not ground breaking.

We were using ORMs with Rails like concepts and scaffolding in 1999, based on Tcl, our own mod_tcl and several DB bindings to Oracle, Informix, DB2, MS SQL Server, Sybase SQL Server, running on top of Windows NT/2000, Aix, HP-UX and Solaris.

An in-house application server which shared many design ideas with AOLserver, designed in 1995.
I wrote a self-hosted alternative:

* https://github.com/skx/e-comments/

You can see the demo-page here:

* https://tweaked.io/guide/demo/
Gendarmerie is indeed part of the military in France. You mainly see them in rural areas/villages while regular cops are found in urban areas. When national service was still compulsory, young people could even choose to do it as a gendarme.
Try it with infernojs it has basically the same structure as react but is supposedly much higher performance this might be a great demo for react versus inferno performance if you find significantly better inferno performance for what is basically the same code on your end.