skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I like Let's Encrypt and have used it since, but it's nowhere near as full featured of an offering.

Yet.

I think they'll begin offering a non-free service inthe next two years or so. The free DV certs will remain but eventually they'll need actual income (as opposed to donations and/or corporate sponsorhips). EV certs may be one way that heppens, I don't know.

For the longest time, we heard they wouldn't be offering wildcart certificates. Then, I just happened to be looking at their (recently updated) CPS one day (I was working on building out an intenral PKI at the time) and saw mention of issuance of wildcard certificates. They announced those shortly after.

Anyways, like I said, st some point they'll need actual income. I'm not sure what they'll offer in order to do that, though. Maybe EV certs, maybe longer issuance periods after more in-depth organizational verification, maybe some subscription-based "manage all your certs easily" tool, who knows. But I expect them to follow the same "automated == free", "manual intervention/work == not free" business model.
the idea that I could seamlessly move data between python and kdb+ is making me salivate. Please, make this work well and lower the cost-barrier to using kdb+ and I think you'd see this become the defacto "stack" for many database setups.
I'm not sure employment law in Canada, but if you were in the US I would say that this would be a completely fair thing to do. After a quick google search it does look like it is a little bit more difficult for employers to terminate employees and so this may have put them in a tight spot.

It seems to me like you have some leverage that you have with this company and top management does not like this. I would be prepared for them to try to take away this leverage by hiring to fill this skills gap, cross training, etc.

At the end of the day I think you did the right thing. You could have left them in the lurch by giving them two weeks notice and walking, and even then no one will hold that against you. At the end of the day I think any reasonable party will realize you are being fair with them, as long as you continue to deliver high quality work and remain transparent with them.
This article was written in 1994 and its advice seems appropriate. For 1994. In 1993, the SPARCstation ZX had a maximum of 96 MB of memory. So code size was important back then. My iPhone has 2GB of DRAM now. You can get a 4.19TB EC2 instance [1].

Yeah, this might have been wise in 1994 but this is just spectacularly bad advice now.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/14/aws-now-offers-a-virtual-m...
> The open source, free GitHub hosting doesn't need the scaling work Microsoft has done

They might want to fix that sentence. It reads as saying that Github is open source. Perhaps it should read

> The free GitHub hosting that is typically used by open source projects doesn't need the scaling work Microsoft has done
One of the reasons people are switching from Oracle is that the DBA's are so damn expensive.
I've never quite understood why banks still opt for kdb when (a) hiring staff is ridiculously difficult/expensive and (b) there are so many other cheaper alternatives available. They literally have a strangle hold on every eFX desk in London, and I cannot really figure out why!
The Forbes 400 has a self-made score rating the people on its list from 1 to 10, where higher means more self-made.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2014/10/02/the-ne...
https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/list/
I like the way you're thinking. What sort of string would survive baking? I just looked up http://www.4thegrill.com/butchers-twine/ and it says cotton and one-time use. I thought cotton was not used in Europe at the time (though I'm not sure) and I'd guess it'd be expensive at their tech level to not reuse it.
She seems to reverse cause an effect by talking about certain languages as being somehow esoteric or exoteric, and blaming the relative ‘success’ of those languages on those supposed properties.

I think languages tend to go along for the ride with whatever culture happens to speak them, and that if they managed to conquer a lot of territory or do a lot of trading, the language would become more popular. And popular languages have people that study them and write grammars and dictionaries and make the language more accessible.

English is one of the most irregular languages in the world and has a lot of properties that she would classify as esoteric, and that obviously hasn’t had much impact on its success. Turns out that having a massive army is more important than having an easily learned language.

She also at one point jumps from Hittite to Akkadian to demonstrate the development of subordinate clauses, but the languages aren’t related at all — Hittite is Indo-European and Akkadian is Semitic. Then she jumps right to Finnish, which is from yet another unrelated family of languages.
Having worked on GVFS (the GNOME one) in the past... every single time.

Maybe GNOME should start trademarking project names too :/...
From their contributor terms of service on the BAT website[0]:

"For each website receiving votes during a Calculation Period that is not a Brave Publisher by the end of that Calculation Period, the BAT corresponding to its votes will not be distributed at the end of that Calculation Period, and will instead be held in an Uphold omnibus wallet for no less than ninety (90) days thereafter. At that time, the undistributed BAT may be sent to Company’s user growth pool, which is a pool of BAT that Company administers to incentivize use of the Platform (as described more fully in Exhibit B of the BAT Terms of Sale, available at https://basicattentiontoken.org/terms-and-conditions/). But if the website receiving votes becomes a registered Brave Publisher before the corresponding BAT is sent to the user growth pool, that website will receive such BAT as Publisher Contributions in the first Calculation Period following its registration."

So if you donate money to a content creator that hasn't signed up to be a Brave publisher (and in doing so, agreed to Uphold's ToS), your donation will go to the "User Growth Pool". From their regular ToS:

"Once the User Growth Fund is exhausted, it will be discontinued, and no new BAT will be created for or transferred to the User Growth Fund"

So who knows where your donations will go if the content creator doesn't sign up to receive them.

[0] https://basicattentiontoken.org/contributor-terms-of-service...
Is inequality a feature or a bug of capitalism? Seems like the general thinking is that its a feature in-so-much as it encourages innovation, entrepreneurship, etc. It seems like it becomes a bug when it reaches a level in which it creates a positive feedback loop of more inequality.

As with anything, i've noticed the discussion is really about how much, not should it exist at all. Almost every debate in American politics is painted as black and white, whereas the actual debate is where we fall on a spectrum. It seems like everyone disagrees so much, but really I think we are haggling over a slight deviation to the right or to the left and because we have to talk about everything in such black and white terms, the real discussion gets lost. We all agree on much more than we disagree on.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Avoiding%20Startup%20Tarpits%2...

Original posting, 180+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15519190
Trump and Brexit are the result of people with too much money making terrible decisions for the rest of us. They're not evidence that rich people should have more power.

But incidentally, someone's ability to make a lot of money (or worse: inherit it) doesn't imply that they have any preferential ability to spend it in a way that benefits society. And when someone has the unchecked power to spend massive sums of money on themselves in ridiculous and frivolous ways, it's pretty clear that they have too much power. Because whoever should be making those decisions should certainly not be doing that.

Bill Gates rented a yacht for $5M/week. How is this not a clear waste? How much suffering could have been avoided at that cost? At least put it in some kind of public trust where such behavior can be properly considered corruption.
I just finished the process. To verify a site, you upload a file to the site, or add a DNS record, and then you can access your BAT. I don't know how you can withdraw, though.

EDIT: Oh, wait, they make you register a wallet on a site called uphold.com, which will just send the tokens to your Ether wallet or convert them to another cryptocurrency or pay you to your bank. You do have to register for KYC after $1000 worth of income, they say.
Yes. More generally, it should be "the sort of thing you can imagine investing a career in". Does anyone really plan to invest a career in building expertise in Golang (for instance), outside of the small group of people who actually work on the language itself?

(Being a PL design & implementation expert --- not "having very good taste in PLs"! --- seems like a defensible position in the market, except perhaps that there are a lot of people who want to work on compilers and you're competing with a healthy pipeline of them.)
I have come to believe that scale encourages mediocrity. The financial incentive in scaling is to produce more output, as fast as possible, even if the quality of output is low.

They make money by virtue of number of users rather than quality of the product.

This explains why FB sucks so bad and still makes a lot of money.
Reading it verbatim isn’t necessary for everyone

A “paper trail” back to the contents of our gadgets that can be audited, and some people would no doubt, would be much better than

“Fu society we own it all.”

Open source is the means of production today. Let’s keep it that way.
In theory you could automate the process of removing unwanted permissions in another app store. For example, if some game on the google app store wants the camera but doesn't need it, a "safe app store" could download its code and remove the camera permissions and any potential calls to functions which read from the camera. (They could be replaced with blank stubs or even a fake video like a rickroll). Same principle for address book (just provide fake/randomly generated people, etc).

Obviously not everyone would use the safe version because of the network effect of Google's play store. But for anyone who becomes aware of the "safe app store" and is aware of privacy risks, they'll almost certainly chose to download their apps from there.
The Pentagon has released sexual assault data for all its installations in all
Except they won't:

"Where does my contribution go if a publisher/website is not part of this program yet?

When there is about $100.00 USD in BAT for a specific publisher, from all contributors, Brave makes three attempts to complete the publisher verification process. We will hold unclaimed funds for a minimum of 90 days, after which it will be added to the UGP (User Growth Pool)."

https://brave.com/faq-payments/#formal-terms-conditions
Just for a balanced outlook, you might listen to Freakonomics' interview of Charles Koch: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-...
Yeah. How is someone 'not the same' individual after they do something you consider 'morally questionable'? If someone's a sociopath or neo Nazi or what not, it'd probably be more helpful to tie them to their own words.

That said, this may work a bit better than removing the checkmark for something they said on the actual site. In those cases, the affected person could simply say their account's been hacked and have no one really be any the wiser.
I'd say it's more about convenience. Not having to open your phone/PC to play music, videos, search, etc.

There's a learning curve to the features and ideal audio conditions. Not great initially. But I work remotely and it's quite useful for timing breaks & lunches, reminders, music, and broadcasting.

There are far better ways to improve your productivity.
Such clauses are basically impossible to enforce in the US. It's called 'Prior Restraint' and courts look extremely poorly on it. You can forbid people from lots of things, but forbidding them from saying certain things? You can do that if you are the government yourself... and basically no one else.
Raspberry Pi 3 Clone Offers Allwinner H2, H3, or H5 SoCs for $9 to $29
That's the ARC. The ARC max size will default to (at least on FreeBSD) total ram -1GB[1]. Because the ARC is read cache it will shrink if the system needs more memory. Unused ram is wasted ram.

[1]https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/zfs-advanced.html
I think the problem there, is that you then basically wind up with Git on the backend and an SVN-like layer over the front. Which seems a bit silly. SVN is a very robust project that works really well. Why not add git-like porcelain to SVN if you're gonna force devs to have an network connection so they don't have to download a giant git working directory.

Smart people are working on all this, so I'm sure there are reasons, but in the all the instances where I've had to interact with a monorepo, it was because the tech debt was too high to pay off to break it apart, not because it was better.

And if you're indebted to the point where you have no point in paying it off, you damn well better have leveraged assets against it (i.e. a cash cow of a business, like MS Word or Facebook)
Sure, but those are the trade-offs. You don't get the reward without taking on a bit of risk.

It's a little ironic to hear talk like this, since around here I hear a lot of "sorry your coal mining job is going away, but you need to get with the times and train for something relevant". Same thing applies here. If you pick a programming specialization that eventually falls out of favor, buck up and learn a new one. Maybe that'll mean a pay cut for a bit as you ramp up, but that's just how it works.
I've also been using Nightly since about 2 months ago, when I noticed how fast it became. However, it does have its share of glitches. For instance switching between tabs with C-S-Tab, doesn't take me to the previous tab, but jumps seemingly at random (this doesn't always happen but it does happen often enough to be annoying).
It is not "ok" to spy on adults. It simply doesn't elicit a feeling of disgust in most people.
It makes sense because a lot of social media sites and search engines seem to reward 'quantity' more than quality, with those who post content on a regular basis doing better than those who don't.

Unfortunately, that means the 'best' way to become popular in the media business is to throw quality out of the window and try and write as much shallow, junk as possible to cash in on the latest news trends and social media fads.
We’d end up tossing fewer gadgets if we required they run open-source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15721911
I've been using a combination of automute (chrome) and scriptblock (also chrome) to make browsing the web tolerable again.

The first takes care of anything autoplaying on a whitelisted domain, and the second allows me to whitelist the javascript that plays the videos.
Hmmm...

​[ec2-user@ip-10-0-1-56 ~]$ sudo ping -f 10.0.1.111
PING 10.0.1.111 (10.0.1.111) 56(84) bytes of data.
.^C
--- 10.0.1.111 ping statistics ---
115480 packets transmitted, 115479 received, 0% packet loss, time 5385ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.037/0.039/0.226/0.008 ms, ipg/ewma 0.046/0.040 ms
Maybe you're wrong about (b)?

Sure, I could cobble something about as fast and functional out of postgres, C, awk, and a bunch of other things, but it'd certainly cost more just in developer time than kdb.
I'm surprised the words "capital gains" are not mentioned at all in the article. It's already well known that the richest of the 1% did not get there purely through a high wage/salary.

Some might blame loose monetary policy for providing easy money for the 1% in the USA (if you can borrow money and speculate for free, why not, after all), but if that's the case Japan really stands out; they've been QE'ing since their '80s bubble popped and they've managed to keep a relatively good Gini coefficient relative to the rest of the developed world (they're more egalitarian than their East Asian peers). You'd think that having two lost decades with your economy stuck in neutral, the Japanese 1% would just leave their country in the dust.
It would indeed, although FUSE has the virtue of simplicity, and it would be nice not to sacrifice that.
Scrapy and Jsoup are best combinations
There's also the popularity factor... not many care(d) about TFS. I would refrain from calling most pieces of technology a "failure", git especially.

When your screwdriver does a bad job at pounding nails, you're doing it wrong.
Imagine advertising FORTRAN as a developer-friendly language with fast compilation times! I'm sure the Go folks are using this metric because it's compatible with their goals, which aren't everyone's.
The ‘truth’ is that you do not have a clear understanding how smart contracts work. All elements can be verified and validated against open source code using the contract’s Bytecode and a contract verification tool like etherscan.

I agree, this is a nonstandard legal structure but that doesn't mean it wouldn't work. As I understand, the OP’s goal is to raise money to buy a home, and securitize with an ownership in the home in the event OP cannot pay back what he/she borrows. He/she also wishes to offer funders the ability to liquidate/trade their token.

You're right, the owner could sell the house and keep 100% of the proceeds, ignoring the token holders. She would then be in default, the smart contract would automatically execute the legal document, and the new owners could then sue the original owner. You could even set up a listener on the contract to monitor the public record for sales of the specific property to automatically trigger the 'default' function in the contract.

Before you ask, it would be the responsibility of the lender to verify the code in the contract actually does this, but it's totally possible.
That's the theme I'm seeing in a lot of the other posts: "technology X has been out for like 3 years, and it hasn't changed the world, it's a failure!"
as i see it:

"unbiased" is, if hearing is given to a position, it is either not represented with favor or disfavor, or any expressions of favor and disfavor are combined in such quantity that there is no obvious position with respect to (un)favor.

"objective" is, if hearing is given to a position, it is discussed in terms of empirical data that persists regardless of subjective views or interpretations.

"balance" coverage is giving hearing to all positions, no matter how idiotic or inane. "balance" is giving nazis and jews equal airtime to argue their views on whether the holocaust is a good idea. "balance" is rapists and rape victims debating the merits of rape.
Salary - it shows confidence and usually the ones with salary range published is above market.
I think only distinguished engineers get that outright at amazon of which there are only like 10-15.

However, I bet most principal engineers and up who have been here 3+ years are hitting that lately with how good our stock is doing and that amazon pays higher ups mostly in RSU's.
Here in the UK, we gave every 11-year-old in the country a Cortex M0+ dev board. Because that's how we roll, yo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Bit
David Stockton's been pounding this for a long time, he pointed out that Toys R'Us was the first canary to fall. His point is, cheap credit has allowed many unhealthy businesses to keep sputtering along for a long time without making changes.

Granted, Stockton is kind of a gold bug, and former Reagan budget director trickle down fan, but he's reformed on the debt issue and taxes now, and has been basically predicting an apocalypse once central banks start cleaning up their balance sheets and tightening interest rates.
J.B. Hunt, Wal-Mart climb aboard Tesla's electric truck
Git LFS' Achilles' heel is pruning old data.

I made a stupid decision to use git-lfs to track a pre-initialized Docker database image (using LFS to store initial_data.sql.bz2). Now I have to live with few dozen gigabytes of the past I don't really need (it's a small database).

I know I can rewrite the history and then find something to garbage collect unreferenced blobs (haven't investigated it). The repo allows doing so as it only keeps those dumps, the Dockerfile and a pair of small shell scripts. And, most importantly, it has only 2 users - me and my CI. If it would be large assets and lots of code, checked out and worked on by a large team - I guess, rewriting the history isn't an option.

Storage is cheap, but still...
But there are source control systems designed around that centralized use case. Lots of them. One of which Microsoft owns.

Why spend so much effort bashing a distributed peg into a centralized hole?
Yes, I should have made it clear that Java the language is not inherently terrible. And the JVM itself is really quite nifty. It is unfortunately the infection of Java codebases (literally all of them I have seen with the sole exception of short Processing sketches made for graphical effects) with a mindset of design patterns as lego bricks used to build applications. Java did have a rough start though, there was clearly an edict at Sun to invent a nomenclature which deviated from any terminology commonly used by Microsoft which operated only to its detriment.
> English is one of the most irregular languages in the world

I would be surprised if you could find any reputable linguistics expert who agrees with this statement.
which means nothing, e.g. by loc your changestats are order of magnitude higher than mine
Ask HN: What can we do to defend net-neutrality?
With the upcoming vote in december things are dire. What can we as a community do to defend the internet?
Isn't it the left that has aggressively pushed politics into the workplace under the guise of fair treatment and equality?
I don’t see why that is necessary. If a lender were willing to take the risk, which is admittedly significant, there is no reason the ledger would need to be a legal document. The legal document would be referenced in the contract, with a pdf copy held in escrow on ipfs or something similar.
Nothing I've seen indicates that's even remotely close to the truth. He wants power to be concentrated with him.
No one is arguing that Thiel's pamphlet is fully grounded in sound reasoning, facts, etc.

As you outline, he is thoroughly confused.

He proposes evasive techniques for libertarians like him, like seasteading, to escape and build the perfect society - I guess with no voting rights for anyone but cool dudes like him.

I took your comment as genuine, not some bullshit attempt to deflect through focus on some minute detail. Hope I am not wrong.
Only numbers 8 through 10 are what any reasonable person might consider even remotely "self made" and lumping "middle-class background" and "upper-class background" into 8 (so that Mark Zuckerberg could be considered 8 instead of 7) is a stretch.

Any credible list of "self-made this" or "successful entrepreneur that" should include a disclosure of parental wealth.
Don't get it (yet) if you're looking to achieve some kind of ROI on it. They're still toys for now.

Probably the main thing I can do faster with Alexa than other things is check the weather, which I do maybe once or twice a day. Things like turning lights on and off I can do faster by just walking to the appropriate switches. Otherwise I just use it as a speaker for playing music.