skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It changes that "he was a sharepoint admin". He was a lot more. He wrote the backup software that was used to distribute drone video/data feeds around the globe. He was a trained offensive security engineer.

He wasn't just a sharepoint admin.
Asking the rich and powerful gatekeepers of the majority news sources of the public to filter content for us in a way they have been relatively reticent to do, mostly out of pure altruism, is asinine. I have no love for Facebook or Google, but the world wouldn't be a better place if they cultivated news for us, at least not for long.
Huh? Why would you blame your car or someone else's car for driving when someone slams into you from behind?

You blame the brakes when they stop braking. The car when it stops driving. Don't blame the car when the people are at fault.

It's hilarious seeing people blame Facebook as if it's some real person trying to trick everyone, when it fact it's just someone using the tool wrongly.. hint: you can use nearly every tool wrong. See: 'Man kills person with knife that is only for cutting bread.'

When you start to blame things like Facebook or Google for doing their job and presenting popular/trending topics, you lose any grasp on the real problem... and that is much uglier, so I don't blame those that do.

Would you stop using bread knives because they cut bread fine, but kill people poorly?
Startups were supposed to make credentials matter less: http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html

But ycombinator itself in lots of ways turned out to be a credential network like an old school law firm. Even including early associates becoming promoted to partners, etc.

But the ycombinator application process itself at least still doesn't rely on much if any credentialism.

"When we were kids I used to annoy my sister by ordering her to do things I knew she was about to do anyway. As credentials are superseded by performance, a similar role is the best former gatekeepers can hope for. "

Maybe that is close to the role Y Combinator has ended up with as it expands. Getting a slice of startups that would be persuing the same thing with or without Y Combinator, in exchange for acting as a credential and signal to investors.

But there is a big peer-network component to it too, which is more similar to universities than to law firms. There are sort of semesters and the startups identify by "class year." Though that probably happens a bit a the bigger law firms too. Entering associates get a network out of it even if they don't go on to make partner and end up in government positions or positions at other firms.
Beautiful! I've been looking for something like this and hadn't heard of Guacamole.

Where I work, it's standard for developers to work using a "cloud desktop", i.e., a remote machine hosted in the cloud that's used for personal development with a very production-like environment [1]. When accompanied by a powerful laptop it's all most engineers need. However, client and server software for various protocols like RDP and VNC on various platforms is still a pain. It'd be great to have a simple and easy way to provide viable remote access built directly into servers -- from any client device with no prior setup. I'm glad to have come across this.

I'm curious how Guacamole's HTML5 rendering compares to solutions like the Ace editor when used to render terminals and text areas. At a high level, it looks like Guacamole is based on RealMint which uses the HTML5 canvas tag, whereas Ace manipulates regular text elements to effect styling. I'll have to experiment with them.

[1] And for that reason I was amused to see the following on the Guacamole home page: "Keep your desktop in the cloud: Desktops accessed through Guacamole need not physically exist. With both Guacamole and a desktop operating system hosted in the cloud, you can combine the convenience of Guacamole with the resilience and flexibility of cloud computing."
I'm afraid I don't follow. Are you referring to something particular? (Sorry for being thick!)
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My brother currently owns a Model S which isn't a bad car by any means, but from what I've seen, it has gone through a terrible QA by Tesla (door panels not placed perfectly, shoddy mechanical door handle breaking, forgetting to re-enable a door after servicing). Considering Tesla is already running into production issues, I hate to see what QA issues the Model 3 will run into.
There are something like half a million Model 3 preorders. They just started production, 200 or 1500 – both are but a rounding error compared to the actual full production rate. (order of 10k/quarter)

It's something like criticizing someone for running 75 feet instead of 400 in the first 45 seconds of their third marathon because they had to re-tie their shoes.
If they are law-abiding, what's the problem?
I think you’re conflating something you like with something that is convenient. You may like to walk several miles to work, as an example, but that is certainly much less convenient than driving to work.

The edge streaming services have in ease and convenience is that you never have to go through any kind of purchase or check-out process to start listening. You simply click the play button. That’s not to say that buying from Bandcamp and other platforms is difficult, but not as easy as clicking or tapping a single button.
It would be nice if their search was actually useful in the mobile app. I can type in a band name verbatim and pages of completely unrelated bands. Not sure if it's as bad in the web app.
As a developer at a company that's trying to shove Lambda down our throats for EVERYTHING...AWS needs to get better at a few key things before Lambda/serverless become viable enough that I'll actually consider integrating them into my services:

1. Permissions are a nightmare. You have to give both users trying to run lambdas and the lambdas' service accounts some crazy permissions sometimes in order to get anything to work. This is especially true with a lot of the "make serverless easy!" libraries out there, which seem to want an IAM user with all sorts of access that's against our normal security policy.

2. Networking is equally nightmarish. We operate with lots of VPCs connected to on-premise hardware and network infrastructure via DirectConnects, and the only path out to the internet is through our corporate data center (again, security requirements). Most Lambda-centric tools seem not to like this arrangement, and often barf when there isn't an internet gateway attached to the VPC. Moreover, especially in development environments we use relatively small subnets, which Lambda can consume nearly instantly if a large volume of requests come through. Finally, there's some secret sauce to running Lambdas in VPCs that I still don't quite have down-it seems to only work half the time.

3. If the future of compute is serverless, then Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and whatever half-baked monstrosity Azure has cooked up are going to have to get together and define a common runtime for these environments. I refuse to invest in serverless until I know that I can run the same code on minikube on my laptop as I can in <insert cloud provider here> because vendor lock in is real and will bite you in the ass one day.

/rant

With reference to this article specifically, please, please chop off my hands and pull out my eyeballs if cloud computing becomes yet another workflow engine. I though we killed those off in the 90s.
And as the very last sentence of my second paragraph says, "just because it's the best doesn't mean it's necessarily good". Your original post says "it is extremely odd to say they are not good sources".
10-20 years?! Holy Cow! Other than huge software projects (like Word or Mac OS - and even then...) is there really software that still has that kind of maintenance window? I've worked for a Fortune 150 company for nearly 2 decades. There is not a single piece of software at the company that has not been rewritten from scratch (usually due to business changes) at least once every 10 years. I can't even imagine something that would still be useful after 10 years (honestly, even 5 years seems like a stretch). Just think - software written 20 years ago would have been written when the WWW was still soiling its diapers.
Does his motivations make it any less terrorizing for the victims?
The popularity of tech is almost entirely shaped by marketing, something which is Microsoft's weak spot.
Right, except he was also a trained offensive security engineer and wrote code still used extensively in the NSA/CIA operations. (EpicShelter)

He wasn't just a sharepoint admin.
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> You've simply restated the problem. Why not contribute to the discussion?

I'm sorry, but I've already asked a direct question and do not consider it a restatement of the problem.
Blogspam of

https://www.oru.se/english/news/a-brisk-walk-instead-of-sitt...
The more I think about it, the more I realize that what I really object to is the clickbait headlines, since they cause me to use up my five free WaPo articles very quickly each month, only to be disappointed that the articles do not actually live up to the bait offered by the headline.

But I agree that the concept of a paywall is not necessarily evil. FWIW the sites I do pay for all have paywalled content.
Definitely a bad title.
> I would see your point more clearly if miners really were wasting energy–using energy to calculate hashes that weren't financially valuable–but I don't see that happening right now.

For every river you pollute I'll print another $10 bill and hand it to you. Clearly this isn't wasteful because it's financially valuable. /s

This logic doesn't hold up to reason.
> The edge streaming services have in ease and convenience is that you never have to go through any kind of purchase or check-out process to start listening. You simply click the play button.

In my experience, that's the case with most albums on Bandcamp as well. Only some of them require you to pay, to be able to stream all tracks (in addition to downloading after paying, which is the base service).

Try it out: https://danielamosboots.bandcamp.com/album/neverhood-songs-d...

Also, I find ability to back up music that I bought a major convenience, especially in case when the store you bought it from shuts down (and you lose access to the music that remained in the store only).
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At the time, they were the most sophisticated, most lethal weapons ever made. Yet they were not limited.
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There have been many votes on PR statehood, and the people of PR have always voted to remain a territory. I don't know enough about this to form a strong opinion, so I'd be interested to hear from PR residents as to why statehood has been a hard sell historically. I've always assumed it was a reaction against additional taxation but I don't know.

Morally, I don't think it matters in this case- whether it's a state or a territory or a sovereign government, the US (along with everyone else in a position to help) should be helping Puerto Rico as much as possible. It's just something I've never understood, and sadly it might be a factor in the current tragedy.
They found explosives and chemicals to make more at his home: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-03/las-vegas-shooting-gun...

He's not just a random crazy person that bought a gun and went on a spree, there was a lot of planning involved, so he's probably a terrorist of some sort.
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To be fair, most of San Francisco is not like this.
This terrorist was a law abiding citizen until yesterday.

If your law abiding neighbor is building bombs in his garage, is that a problem?
> please chop off my hands and pull out my eyeballs if cloud computing becomes yet another workflow engine

I'll second that.

Moreover, I'm not sure who the author of this article imagines will fix all of these busted building blocks when some ill formatted or out of bounds data starts arriving from one of these IoT devices, not to mention non-standards compliant data.
In special cases. It's not nearly as reliable. There are a lot of ways to get poor performance out of such JIT compilers, and writing performant code for them is a bit of a black art that varies from version to version. Just read a little about the "fun" people have had with V8 over the years.
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Does the streaming services have finally started to pay artists ? Musicians always complained they received almost nothing from streaming... Looks like everybody is winning except the artist...
Google and Facebook were in it for the general good? ..i never knew
Didn't work for me, I have about ~2700 stars though.
Worth it? I doubt it.
Cassette is such an interesting medium. Bands, fans and labels have told me they like it because it's analog not digital, portable (unlike vinyl), cheap and quick to manufacture (vinyl isn't economical for small runs or quick turnarounds between recording and tour, which small bands need).

But if you started designing a medium around these requirements from scratch today, would you design a cassette?
Because Haskell isn't used in the same domains as Erlang, and hot patching full Haskell semantics either isn't needed, or the program is likely already using a DSL for the parts needing well defined dynamism, like the Yi editor, and so hot patching the runtime isn't needed.
WSJ content management system might be print-first and Web-secondary.
We find that it saves at least 30 minutes for most parts, since it automatically configures the symbols, defines their electrical characteristics, completes the symbol-to-footprint mappings, and links them to verified footprints.

That being said, InstaBuild is just a small feature of SnapEDA, a website used by over 60,000 registered electrical engineers around the world to download ready-to-use symbols and footprints. Our goal is that InstaBuild will become obsolete as our database or ready-to-use models becomes comprehensive.

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If you include enough in your definition of side effect, everything must have a side effect. Otherwise you wouldn’t be doing it. A pure function that adds two numbers and returns the result has left your system in a different state than it was in before it ran.

Data binding has side effects and the implementation of the thing doing the binding may cause things to happen, may cause some state to change. But I still wouldn’t consider the declarative data binding itself to have side effects.
It strikes terror (in the sense of _fear_) into the victims there and then all the same, sure. I was talking about whether or not it constitutes _terrorism_, though. I mean, it's terrorism if the purpose is to spread fear in a way that will further some cause, but not every killing is terrorism, right?
So you're saying Amazon is no different -- they'll try and take on nearly every industry, but will really only have one core competence in 20 years?
Likely difficult to find proof or definitive examples of it happening, but Intelligence Services Act 1994[0] states:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/13/section/3

> [GCHQ shall] monitor or interfere with electromagnetic, acoustic and other emissions and any equipment producing such emissions and to obtain and provide information derived from or related to such emissions or equipment and from encrypted material; [... said functions] shall be exercisable [...] in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom in relation to the actions or intentions of persons outside the British Islands

There's very similar language for SIS.

[0] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/13/section/3
The abridged timeline has an amusing series of trips to the hard drive shredder and deleting texts daily.
Loony white dude. Sounds like a 'murican terrorist to me.
Because any of these law-abiding people owning a gun could snap some day and go rogue? I'd say that's a really good reason to reduce the guns availability.
Just wondering - How is Uber claiming to be non-complicit in this? The report is damning on Levandowski's behavior. But Uber to hire him in spite of all this is surprising at best.

At this point, it doesn't matter if they took Waymo's files or not, just the appearance of something like this to happen reflects poorly on them.
Perspectives and Opportunities for New Data Dialects
This is interesting because the music business is usually the canary in the coal mine for other entertainment businesses. It's the first to change because it is lower bandwidth than films for instance so we see what happens in music before film, television, etc.
The Scribd post (by Gawker, Gawker lives!) calls it a Due Diligence Report but that's not a phrase used anywhere in the document. Due diligence is something you'd do before making a decision. Investigation is what you do afterwards. Indeed Project Unicorn Investigation is what the document calls itself.

Mods: you might want to overrule the post and retitle the post as Project Unicorn Investigation.

In fact, I'd love to see the due diligence report for Uber buying Otto.