skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree - this seems like abuse (especially to do to a child unaware of and not consenting to the lie).

I don't understand how someone could rationalize this to themselves as ethical. I hope the interviewer is just lying.
You have malaria, money, and first-world medical support. Very different thing. Kill the fuckers.
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Bare metal in and of itself doesn't necessitate a long-running "substrate" operating system. Systems like Warewulf^WPerceus^WWarewulf[1] and xcat[2] have made it easy to provision stateless bare-metal hosts with almost docker-image-like filesystem images or "capsules".

Arguably data locality (as a parent-sibling comment suggests) is one reason you'd want to keep the substrate image around for a long time, but even then, there's no reason you have to destroy a data volume when reprovisioning an os volume. (nor do you even need an os volume if you run your substrate from ram).

[1]http://warewulf.lbl.gov/trac/wiki/Documentation
[2]https://xcat.org/
lit-html is relatively short and well documented.

https://github.com/PolymerLabs/lit-html
It seems unethical?
Except that's exactly the expectation people have of news, and Google calls what they do news. It absolutely isn't a category error on the part of consumers when Google puts themselves in the category.
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To some extent, it was - if you look at the earliest versions of Redux, `connect()` and its predecessor forms were indeed being used as a decorator.

However, I personally advise against using `connect()` as a decorator, for several reasons:

- It's still a Stage 2 proposal. Now, the Class Properties syntax isn't final either (currently Stage 3), which the React team (and I) highly recommend using. However, the Class Properties syntax seems to be much more stable, the behavior it's implementing is a lot simpler, and if by chance it happens to change in the future, it should be relatively easy to code-mod (and the React team has said they would release a code-mod if that happens). Meanwhile, the decorators spec has changed several times (including recently), and the Babel plugins have also had to change behavior and implementation over time.

- It obscures the real class definition. The standard advice for testing Redux-connected components is to export the "plain" class separately as a named export, and `export default connect()(MyComponent)`, then import and test the plain version. If you use @connect() as a decorator, the plain version isn't accessible, and testing becomes more difficult.

- Going along with that, I've seen many questions about why defaultProps and propTypes don't work right when @connect() is used, and it's because those get applied to the wrapper component, not the plain component, and thus things don't work the way you would want them to.

I see no advantages to using connect as a decorator. I encourage people to write their mapState functions separately anyway for clarity and testability (instead of inline as an argument to connect), so it's just a matter of moving the line with `connect` elsewhere in the file and changing the syntax slightly.
It wasn't even supposed to happen back then. They basically just did it before anyone could tell them no.
So why are they calling their product Google News? Why not Google Rumors, or Google Gossip? or "Stuff our Algorithms find to be popular or current but may or may not be true"?
You can legally have the right of way, but it will be your estate that says so after a semi truck flattens you and your scooter.
I don't know how it works, but it's an argument that gets made, often by the same people who are now protesting Make. I don't see a major difference between the women who were told to cover up or get out at PAX and Ms. Wu. Both have carved out a niche at the fringes of a tech industry by flaunting their physiques. I understand the arguments for and against celebrating them, but their treatment seems inconsistent.
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Comment by OVH - Thursday, 09 November 2017, 12:44PM

Everything is back up electrically.
We are checking that everything is OK and we are identifying still impacted services/customers.

Comment by OVH - Thursday, 09 November 2017, 13:25PM

Hello,
Two pieces of information,

This morning we had 2 separate incidents that have nothing to do with each other. The first incident impacted our Strasbourg site (SBG) and the 2nd Roubaix (RBX). In SBG we have 3 datacentres in operation and 1 under construction. In RBX, we have 7 datacentres in operation.

SBG:
In SBG we had an electrical problem. Power has been restored and services are being restarted. Some customers are UP and others not yet. If your service is not UP yet, the recovery time is between 5 minutes and 3-4 hours. Our monitoring system allows us to know which customers are still impacted and we are working to fix it.

RBX:
We had a problem on the optical network that allows RBX to be connected with the interconnection points we have in Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, Brussels. The origin of the problem is a software bug on the optical equipment, which caused the configuration to be lost and the connection to be cut from our site in RBX. We handed over the backup of the software configuration as soon as we diagnosed the source of the problem and the DC can be reached again. The incident on RBX is fixed. With the manufacturer, we are looking for the origin of the software bug and also looking to avoid this kind of critical incident.

We are in the process of retrieving the details to provide you with information on the SBG recovery time for all services/customers. Also, we will give all the technical details on the origin of these 2 incidents.

We are sincerely sorry. We have just experienced 2 simultaneous and independent events that impacted all RBX customers between 8:15 am abd 10:37 am and all SBG customers between 7:15 am and 11:15 am. We are still working on customers who are not UP yet in SBG.
Best, Octave
I think you're sincere, but your post sounds like a pretty good troll. Lightly attacks a wide group of people while not being overly aggressive and doesn't actually make any concrete point (like point out those problems) so it's easy for others to read in it their own opinions and defend it.

http://www.urban75.com/Mag/troll.html
If you have a few minutes please try my very early prototype text game at lab.brlewis.com and let me know if you see similar touch ups needed there.
Morality only applies if it applies bidirectonally, and corporations couldn't give two shits about morality.
The fact that you don't like what they do doesn't mean that they don't accurately report on the information that they receive.
Have heard they are working hard on that, which makes this more surprising to me.
This is rapidly becoming a thought terminating cliche.

Your claim is nonsensical and you linked to an article from a highly politically slanted site whose author doesn't understand much about how bitcoin works.

Yes, I understand that the left does not like sound money and thins that government should be able to inflate as much as it wants (to pay for all those great programs- like bombing brown people).

But this kind of false claim, that is repeated over and over and over again is just not acceptable.

It's a rejection of science to do so.

Also, the opposition to bitcoin on energy grounds is silly-- most bitcoin is mined by renewable excess energy and the system is more cost / energy efficient than the alternative, in my opinion.

Go to venezuela or zimbabwe and see the suffering of people who don't have sound money. Hell, go to a small american town where people are poor because the government has inflated the money away.
Chrome was so much better than IE or firefox when it came out.

While I never saw chrome as better than Firefox, thats just a matter of taste. I dont think the average user's sense of quality had anything to do with its rise. It was a very heavy marketing campaign that if I remember correctly included tv ads, installer links on google owned websites, and even spyware style side installs that came with pop ular programs.

Edit:
~10 years ago I definitely remember having to support users that accidentally installed chrome, and didnt even realize something had changed, except they couldnt use some awful ie only webpage they needed.
Daytime wounds heal more quickly than those suffered at night
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I am curious how they will expose the search indexes they are presumably building to the desktop client users. I almost never use the dropbox website for anything, and primarily use Spotlight to search on my desktop for any file, dropbox or not. I don't really see how their indexing of my files for search can mix into my workflow
> Using .io is unfair to the Chagossian People

> The reason closest to our hearts is the geopolitical background of .io domains which we only learned about recently.

Later in the article:

> Of course, we will make sure to redirect all traffic from *.plan.io appropriately so no existing links will break in the future.

Which to me sounds like they will keep paying for the .io domain for the foreseeable future.
Divide your document into chapters, have one tex file per chapter, plus a driver file that runs the whole document (by \include'ing the individual chapter files).
> I may have been imprecise in terminology, but that's no reason to pearl-clutch about my choice of words.

I think you got your point across fine. Obviously it doesn't look like 'real' work since there's so much power being spent, seemingly unnecessarily. But I think it is easy to underestimate how effectively it can replace the current financial system.

Why do you think wealth can't be generated with digital currency? What part of 'positive-sum satisfaction of human desires' you think current digital system can't satisfy? And I think you're looking at the resources spent on digital currency and the current financial system in a different way. There's no need of people spending lots of time and energy to safe guard big lock rooms.

Banking can move to the digital ecosystem just fine. And it is just in its first iteration.
These pieces are starting to get pretty funny.

`If it keeps growing, it'll be so expensive, it can't possibly work.` Also assumes bitcoin as we know it today is fully immutable, but that isn't the case, and neither is energy production, or technology used to run the whole thing.

But you know what gets tricky, rewriting history in bitcoin's blockchain. `You'd almost have to spin up an alternate time line, and those alternate time lines are expensive, and use a lot of energy, it cant possibly work.`

The value in the future of bitcoin may be that it has a long and very public chain... and that alone is probably enough to hold reasonable utility in the future. Just like silver/gold and other scares things provided utility for quite a while. Only now of course, if it gets too expensive, another slightly different public fork will persist (or several of them).
> Because you can't possibly now what your API consumers use on their side.

Not only do we know exactly what fields the API consumers are using, we also know the types they're expecting. We can make schema refactors fairly safely. That goes a long way towards making the codebase less brittle as a whole
So the problem is the state of the third world. No mosquitoes. Let's fix that instead of killing things. Especially since we are mostly responsible.
Yes. The people who hate bitcoin -- despite all it does for them-- generally are hating it for political reasons.

They may hate sound money, they may worship at the alter of neo-keynsianism and think inflation is necessary (how else will you pay for bombing brown people?)

But they will use the "its anti-environment" claim because that has gotten traction.

We already have a massive global propaganda campaign spreading leftist views of the environment.

When bitcoin defeats these people, I will be very happy.
Can you give some examples of straight out lies from the Linux camp?
2 is necessary to answer 1 though, so they aren't really separate.

If the cost benefit analysis of the new solution is worse because it has greater risks, then it can't be better than the current solution.
isnt that kind of the premise of Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind?
The alpha version (4.0) is significantly better than the stable version (3.05).
“Modifying nature” is the evolutionary advantage that has allowed the human species to develop.

Drawing a line in the sand seems impossible given our footprint on the globe. Instead, some educated analysis of the benefits and consequences of our decisions seems like the best we can do.

Do you suspect that isn’t being done here?
The control of money is the way society is enslaved. He may not have a complex, but we are all being exploited.
>> I don't think there's a rule on the books for offering right-of-way via body language.

Except for signalling. Hand signals are still permitted, with many jurisdictions still teaching them. Motorcyclists use very casual hand signals, in combination with eye contact. These convey more intention than a sterile blinking light.
Oh. I would love it if they did.
The problem are videogames and MS Office. Nobody change OS if use it.
I wholeheartedly agree. I’ll just mention that this is especially acute in Haskell. Haskell is widely considered to be a language with a steep learning curve, but for experts and experienced ones it is easy to lose track of how advanced the code really is and how obtuse it is to a beginner. The lens library is the best example. I often write extremely concise data structure manipulation code that composes lenses, prisms, getters and traversals, sometimes using (->) other times using Indexed as the profunctor. It’s obvious to me but I’m sometimes told at code review time that it’s too hard to understand.
This comment is pretty disingenuous. It's one thing to create a compelling piece of art; it's another thing entirely to create a platform with no real intention beyond sucking in eyeballs for advertisers.
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OCR is not "hello world" for tensorflow. The entire article is devoted to actually developing the OCR pipeline. They ported the model over to tensorflow as a secondary thing.
I don't think the OP would argue against that point.

Harming nature to the point that it harms humans wouldn't fit into that philosophy.
They don't, though. Their reporting and editorializing of leaks has been inaccurate quite a few times.

That said, there is no evidence indicating the content of their leaks isn't genuine, so it is probably best to look at the leaked content itself rather than the analysis WL writes alongside the leaks.
Most of the people on this site are hard left, and not very much into hacking... there are junior developers and wannabe CEOs with MBAs here. You're not going to find cypherpunks on hacker news, generally.

So, anything that fits the hard left agenda is promoted, without regard to its scientific or technical accuracy, even when it's against the startup ethos that created silicon valley in the first place.
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True, and it may be unavoidable. The human species needs myths and storytelling to form cohesive societies. Make-believe is the cornerstone of money, government, social contract and so on.
In most US states, the police can't force you to provide a physical identification card period. At most, they may be able to compel you to verbally identify yourself, e.g. by providing your name and address.

The idea of being legally required to provide government-issued identification to a law enforcement official under any circumstances is simply verboten in the US.
I wouldn’t feel comfortable with opening and keeping it.

Maybe I would try to deliver it myself if the original recipient was reasonably close.

I know it’s not the most right thing to do, what I suggested, but I really cannot waste my time with customer support. We are talking about the same companies that put you through the pain of bot-agents when you call them.
Got my first star from someone here -- thank you for following me!
I will check it out today, thank you!
When you join a conversation and nobody takes you seriously, maybe it is because everyone else in the conversation has a common understanding. In this case, everyone else in the conversation understands child development and the potential of these videos to cause trauma. It's not on us to prove it to you. Go do some research.
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As a counter-example: we have a receptionist and a dedicated mailroom which is staffed for full business hours. I do imagine it gets nuts around christmas, but it's essentially an office perk / honestly I'd consider it something that should be expected by default - the alternative is, as mentioned, home delivery when you're not home, which is ridiculously ineffective and has problems with theft.
This is the attack vector that works on people who will never read Atlas Shrugged because they read a hit piece in Salon about Ayn Rand. This will keep them out of bitcoin, which I find kinda hilarious.
> In economics jargon, financial services are explicitly defined as not the real economy as an outcome of how "real value" is defined

What century was that? I think financial services fit very well into the proper functioning of the real world. I believe it does provide very 'real' value and I'm ready to disagree with the definition of 'real value'.

>while Bitcoin mining would be defined as real economy since it bottlenecks on an energy input.

Bitcoin mining isn't competing with the wealth transaction part, but the wealth creation part. The wealth transaction part was secured a long time ago and now there are efforts to make it more efficient without dealing with the race for creation - like Lightning Network.
I'll admit I did just skim the article.

Still, it's about a Linux desktop system.
The FBI never even examined the server themselves, just took the word of a campaign affiliated and funded company. Not credible.
Off-topic, but: is there a name for sites/finds like these?

I'm not quite sure what to call them, but these kinds of web 1.0 pages with primary or secondary sources tend to do really well on HN. Obviously because they have interesting information, but maybe because they give the impression of being a hidden gem? Like a weird-smelling laminated book in the corner of your library, or listening to your grandpa talk about something that happened before you.

The internet used to be a cool way to discover these kinds of pages, sorts of relics of history of all types of neato media.
There seems to be evidence that the Clinton emails released by Wikileaks were edited before release. This would conflict with their stated goals and I think is what's hurting their credibility the most right now.
Yes, I believe you believe in such an "I", as do I and I assume everyone on the planet. But I also (to quote Dennett) say things like "the thermostat wants to keep the temperature between 20 and 22 degrees". It has no wont or desire but it's a handy fiction.

You only point to your head due to modern science; Aristotle thought the brain was for cooling the blood as the ancient Greeks thought the soul was in the liver, hence Prometheus' punishment (although ψυχή was literally "breath" -- cf "atman"). Plenty of cultures thought it in the heart, as do we talk of the heart or gut or generative organs making decisions -- certainly we feel the tough decisions there.

Could it be those with extensive amputations of gut and an articial heart could be "less human" in a broader sense than just mass?

But you seem awfully sure there is consciousness. Perhaps there is no such thing and you only think there is? It seems like a handy mechanism for your genes to use to propagate themselves.

The homunculus model, while popular, isn't particularly insightful and is, recursively, useless.
C++ and Python are the two languages I am most experienced with because they were both a part of my undergrad CS curriculum. Full disclosure, I actually prefer programming in C++. I like compiled languages and strongly-typed languages. But forget that I said that. For your first programming language, I would hands-down recommend learning Python.

Python was the first programming language I learned and it was also the language that was used to introduce me to a lot of key ideas in programming. It is much easier to understand than most programming languages for an inexperienced person. What's more is that Python is also widely used in a variety of academic and industry applications and no one will scoff at a cool Python project. I have used it in everything from building failure-tolerant distributed file systems to working in natural language processing.

Bonus Unsolicited advice- Don't worry too much about which language you should learn after Python for now. Once you have gotten your programming basics down with Python, then I would revisit which languages and/or libraries are worth pursuing next based on what areas of CS you're finding yourself interested in. The skills and tools worth mastering are whichever ones allow you to work on projects that you're excited about. If you happen to be more excited about making money than anything else, then simply look up what languages are very popular with companies that are hiring. Not my style, but if it's yours then so be it.

Good Luck! Have fun!
I was curious -- it's actually worth reading.

"We have therefore decided to match what we paid for .io domains in the past with donations to the Chagos Conservation Trust and the UK Chagos Support Association. We will continue to do so every year - as long as we will have our .io domain (or the Chagossians start receiving their fair share of the domain business)."

I don't fault them for keeping their .io considering the downsides of not doing so.
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With good open APIs and conversion standards (eg Pandoc), you can have the best of both worlds. It’s all there for the hacking!
Oh come on. We should be charitable in our discussions. The comment clearly mentions that there are some useful applications, which cover the censorship and collapsing government use-cases. The important thing to recognize is that the large majority of people don't have these use-cases. This means that BTC becomes a niche system rather than supplanting world banking.

It isn't my energy being spent, but it is CO2 that harms our planet. Until we have zero-emissions energy I think it is reasonable to criticize systems as energy-inefficient.
Too bad ICANN't failed to do what they should have done: eliminate all limits on TLDs.

There's no reason domains shouldn't end with any string... except of course that wouldn't allow ICANN to rip everyone off for hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
Nooooo....

The title needs to be changed to, "Human in truck, backs up and hits vehicle (self-driving)" ?

Because that's what happened. A human caused a wreck. Doesn't seem as scare-mongery now, eh?

A persistent vision system, like 360 radar would have been fully aware of a vehicle at any direction, and would have not hit them. A human on the other hand.....
Why should we eradicate malaria? Or small pox? Surely they've had just as much impact on the world's ecosystem as mosquitoes.
> "the ancients" were seen to possess great wisdom

Correctly. The moderns are mostly fools with aspirin.
Speaking of questionable TLDs: does anyone know what happened to Togo's .tg registry? I see that there are bunch of SSL certificates revoked due to "registry problems" [1] this month, but I haven't seen any news or warnings about it.

I imagine the registrar just doesn't check for names that would be nice targets, but it would be nice to know for sure.

1: https://crt.sh/mozilla-onecrl