skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is a good example of how good technology gets destroyed by management.

Watching Modula-3 from the outside, I saw DEC Olivetti being acquired by Compaq, followed by HP buying Compaq.

Nowadays their research results at HP Labs still lives on an HPE server that might eventually be turned off one day, leaving those of us that downloaded the papers as the sole owners of such copies. :(

EDIT: For those that might want to get those papers, search for HP labs, DEC and SRC.
I came to the same realization about Vim about a year ago. I've used Sublime and Vim/Nvim extensively, and I've spent at least a few hours in Textmate, Emacs, Spacemacs, Notepad++, VS Code, and Atom as well.

All of those text editors above have some excellent and unique redeeming qualities. But at the end of the day their actual language support tends to be weak.

Now I do Python work in Pycharm, R work in Rstudio, and SQL work in whatever IDE goes with my database engine. I use Nvim as my system $EDITOR but at work I'm using it less and less often. I love it and I'll never give it up, but it's becoming more of a hobby tool than something that helps me get things done.
I don't follow. The alternative to using proprietary software that has proven to be malicious is... to use another proprietary device?

No. The alternative is to install Lineage OS, don't install any Google trash, use F-droid only and a Play Store interface if you have to.
I've always been curious about this as well so thanks for the suggestion.
But how can we trust you to tell the truth about this?
I'm not so sure, it depends a lot of the memory allocator: if the memory allocator decide to defragment your heap when you call it, you'll get a lot of additional latency..
China and surveillance, these two words form a piece of a news, if you change it to other countries, then it's not news. Western media is very objective.
Ever since Lanyrd died I've been waiting for a replacement that was built sustainably and wouldn't disappear in a couple of months or years.

Colloq promises to be exactly that. They recently opened up the platform[0] and run a super interesting blog about everything that's going on behind the scenes.[1] I can't wait to try it!

[0]: https://colloq.io/blog/hey-there-were-here
[1]: https://colloq.io/blog
Exactly! I read it as such as well.

Advertising usually costs 80k.
Based on what I’m finding in “best Google Home Skills” articles, the “store” can only be accessed from mobile:

https://beebom.com/best-google-assistant-skills-actions/

> Just long press on the home button to summon the Google Assistant and then tap on the button at the top-right corner. That should take you to the “Explore” page where you can explore all the skills and actions that Google Assistant has to offer you, categorised into various handy categories.

https://lifehacker.com/the-best-google-assistant-skills-to-u...

> you can find a list in the Google Home app. To find it, tap the menu button in the top left corner, tap “More settings” and then “Services.” Here you’ll find a list of services you can try. Tap one of them to get a description and some sample commands you can use.
Report URI's journey to a permanent redirect
The CFO of a company tells the staff of the company to stop using Excel; the CFOs of several companies tell the staffs of those companies to stop using Excel.
Machine learning and containers
My daughter's on a 4S. Still trucking on.
I have - worked on getting Hyperion FM implemented across ~30 countries fed by about 40 ERP systems.

All outputs were generated by a .Net application generating read-only Excel spreadsheets (which might have 30 tabs and up to 15,000 values on a tab) - was done this way to meet the very complex reporting requirements. All the ~20 report packs in the company were produced with one click in a simple web app.

Ah-hoc querying of Hyperion was done from Excel using the SmartView plugin.
It took me quite a while to really understand the correct assignment of responsibilities to objects and how to refactor them when things got tangled.

I would follow framework conventions, but get lost when leaving them and end up with spaghetti. The code worked, but was hard to maintain and reason about. I've now learned a lot about core OO concepts e.g SOLID, and learned about the role of sequence diagrams in mapping out what each object's role is and it's a totally different experience.

I'd recommend Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz for a great introduction to thinking clearly about objects. Not Ruby specific - that's just the code examples, really. http://www.poodr.com/
Yeah, tinnitus is rough. Hope you find a way forward.
>However, it is "merely" a symptom of the US political system not being sensitive to the citizens' wants and needs.

No. Stop saying this. It completely muddies the water on what's actually going on here. People DID vote for this. They voted for their reps. And they voted for reps of a very particular political bent.

Elections have consequences.

The electorate chose this. Freely and willingly. The electorate being completely unqualified to understand issues ranging from technology to healthcare to economics isn't really a fault of the U.S. political system at this point.

Stop giving the people that vote for these reps (and the President) free passes and address the root issue. They have voted this way for decades and will continue to do so and no amount of changing or tweaking the political system is really going to have any noticeable effect on the policies they will support. The U.S. political system is listening to the electorate. Stop pretending it's not.
You're going to get a very different perspective depending on if you actually lurk lkml or just read when something gets linked by socail media or "news" that needs to wrap it in a hot take to make lookies loos interested in lkml.
This tool recently helped me troubleshoot a bug I was facing and unable to solve due to the lack of Safari's development tools. Here's a link for anyone interested: http://eapen.in/mitmproxy-for-troubleshooting/
Enablers are worse than predators. Paterno can rot in hell.
Database of last words before death penalty
Ever get a morbid curiosity about what it’s like to be on death row? Database of last words of every inmate executed since 1984 in Texas. Sentiment analysis, anyone?

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html
I agree with you about AAA games, but there are interesting indy games out there like Kerbal Space Program, Factorio, and Rimworld that (unfortunately) take some time to get into compared to casual games.
I'm not sure of the origin, but I was once told a truism that any speccing process, if left long enough, will eventually spec out Excel.
“Just” leaking full source could be enough to destroy a lot of IP-based companies. A lot of companies stay wealthy because their IP is so huge than nobody can afford to develop competitive alternatives anymore (Adobe, Microsoft Office, Salesforce etc). Some of them have actual “secret sauce” that they cannot afford to share (suggestion engines, biotech processes etc). Even a service like Github, which relies on others entrusting their work to them, would take a humongous reputation hit from a leak like that.
>We know that Russia and China will continue to use paid trolls to drive wedge issues right to the heart of the culture warriors.

US based corporations are definitely guilty of astroturfing as well.
> Are our moods are just as affected by combinations of lots of little things like these - smells, hormones, chemicals in the cleaners, hair products etc.

Is that a question? Isn't this well known?
Likely not that much. HuffPost, Business Insider, and others articles can be bought for a few hundred bucks.
It's a fallacy that some writers have called "economism". Basically amounts to blind adherence to Econ 101 principles. There's a whole book on it, I think you can find it https://www.economism.net
I stuck with my feature phone for years, and only had to replace it with a smartphone when I dropped it and broke the screen. There weren't any usable non-smartphone alternatives, so I bit the bullet and got a smartphone. After originally going completely app-crazy and installing just about everything, I'm on my second smartphone now, with ~10 apps installed over the stock LineageOS lineup, and a home screen that looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/6CndpKw.png?1

I only have the most necessary apps installed, such as Firefox, Spotify, Messenger and couple of others, no social media. Google Calendar and Gmail are still there, but I'm working to move to a different email provider and find a different calendar solution.
Cash is not accepted "everywhere." Some examples of places that sometimes don't take cash: Parking garages, airplanes, bus kiosks, vending machines, online stores.

I went to a festival earlier this year and the door tickets were card-only.
I probably use 20-30 apps that support using S3 that I can think of right now. Not all of them are maintained by me or even open source. Other than a proxy, it's impossible for me to change some of them.

In terms of use case: my company has a customer that requires us to locate an instance of our product in Azure, and some of that infrastructure is much easier to move with a compatibility layer.

You might as well ask why there are any standards in software and networking at all, as each new protocol or library isn't THAT difficult to support.
That is the alternative way to achieve the desired outcome. The thing is, to get real competition, we need to have regulation on ISPs as well -- line sharing rules. We used to have line sharing rules for DSL service, and back then we had dozens of competing services and few regions where competition was scarce. Then one day the line sharing rules were dropped and almost overnight we wound up with the situation we have today, with local monopolies or duopolies throughout the country.

Sadly, Pai's proposal does not have any concrete plan for increasing competition, and mostly seems to be based on the false assumption that there is already an ISP market in America (i.e. that Americans can choose among several ISPs). His only proposal so far, separate from the net neutrality rollback, to improve competition is to streamline the process for attaching cables to utility poles, which is not even close to enough to create a competitive ISP market.
I use to suffer from bad head aches, pain from my eyes as well as a throbbing pain. Though it was just from withdrawal from having too much caffeine/sugar and then going cold turkey on them which I was doing in cycles.
It will be interesting to see how well the HomePod will integrate with other devices. I have fiddled some with home automation and unfortunately, working with Apple products has been a miserable experience. I see no role of Apple devices in my or anyone else's setup unless they will open up their devices a bit.

For example, as far as I know, if I want to use Alexa to play something on an Apple TV, I need to use libraries which have reverse engineered the IR remote. Why can't I stream video to a specific URL and be done with it?

If it takes Apple this long to ship a smart speaker, how do they think to keep up with integrating (or producing their own proprietary) building blocks for the smart home vertical? If their devices on the smart home vertical continue to be as closed as the Apple TV, people will be completely locked-in Apple's ability to produce new devices, which certainly hasn't seem to be in their recent past interest.

Chinese companies like Xiaomi have shown far better judgment for the future by implementing MQTT protocols for their devices.

I just think Apple's take as of now is a lost cause if they seek to dominate the space with the same sort of walled-garden approach as they did with apps. Applying gardens to physical devices space as wide as a smart home will take much more effort than it does for software.
> The first is rediculous

So you're saying the same amount of money in 2013 will have the same impact today? I don't think so, market cap is a proxy for this. It's not a good one but it is one.

> The effect is exactly comparable to how much value will disappear.

Yes but it will be shouldered by many more coins and many more dollars.

> I honestly don’t know what you’re trying to argue in the last paragraph.

You can compare the 600 mn mtgox impact using either of the two proxies, liquidity will give you a view of what will happen in the short-term, market cap will give you a glimpse of what will happen after the initial shockwave went through the orderbooks.

PS: It's "ridiculous" not rediculous.
A few of us in my office bought several years ago. It went up 50% and then dropped dramatically. We've talked about how seeing it drop and then forgetting about it for a few years probably stopped us from bailing whenever it's peaked and trough-ed since.
> Why would you not want this?

You don't want your machine to start crashing after installing the latest kernel. Or at least, that's the golden rule of Linux development.

If phones start crashing after installing the latest Android update, people won't see this as a security/stability improvement. They'll simply see the new version as buggy and of poor quality.
If an assertion does not hold, you have a real problem. The kernel has in-memory data corruption. Either from buggy code, bad memory, solar radiation, etc.

So if that assertion is in the file system, maybe your kernel should die before it corrupts your data permanently.
SWIFT 4, Review the new. Part 2
I use a free EC2 micro instance and a custom Node-based SSG, and it feels snappy and is always up: https://sdegutis.com source: https://github.com/sdegutis/sdegutis.com
>If you regulate away advertising supported sites/services, you're discriminating against lower socioeconomic groups.

It seems to be the opposite to me. Such massive influence by advertisers means only those with the most money get heard in the media.
UK water firms admit using divining rods to find leaks and pipes
The point is that the trade-offs usually come down in favor of using GitHub Enterprise (or whatever other well-regarded, trusted enterprise system). The availabilty and uptime are your own, because it’s self-hosted, like git. The data integrity is also your own. The security is better than probably any other VCS interface over git, with the possible exception of GitLab, and almost certainly better than what an organization could come up with on their own if it’s not their core competency. Unless you’re literally using straight git, GitHub Enterprise (or again, whatever other competitor) usually enhances team productivity. The attack surface is larger than git, sure, but the rational solution to that would really be to use no interface over git, because GitHub Enterprise is as safe as they come.

I think you’ve misinterpreted people’s reactions. It’s not at all controversial to use other companies’ services for your most sensitive assets, it’s your opinion that appears controversial to them. If you’re in control of your own servers, what remains is to trust GitHub Enterprise not to literally phone home your source code or to enable remote code execution on your own server. There are myriad information security policies and compliance methodologies for compartmentalizing, quantifying sharing that risk.

For what it’s worth, having personally performed security assessments for over 50 different companies across the gamut of size/maturity, nearly all of them use a centralized VCS hosted or produced by GitHub or Bitbucket (and nowadays, occasionally GitLab too).
And in many cases the model Apple enforces is not particularly generalisable. For example, the Apple TV content search model only allows for TV shows to consist of x seasons of y episodes. The BBC hasn't been able to provide comprehensive metadata because many shows (such as soaps and current affairs, or un-numbered specials etc.) don't fit into this model.
The Nationalist's Delusion
I would argue that many of the large extensions, plug-ins, and packages are already their own programming languages. For example you don't just "learn Python", you can "learn Django".
Oh it's not, I was more or less just commenting on the level of bad press they get.
Which freedoms are in practice giving up? The freedom to run Apps that could circumvent the protections put in place to protect your privacy and data?
That's smoke and mirrors. What guarantees you that Apple isn't collecting your location right now? It's proprietary software, so you wouldn't know, and it's perfectly within the terms of their EULA. You're just gonna trust that they don't (even though they are a business and that can potentially make them more money)? Or are you gonna know your phone isn't spying in you by installing free software on your device?
Just imagine it is some obscure paper currency that you put into your safe.
I'm with you on Friedman, and Rose's railroading of guests, but you lost me at Terry Gross. She always prefers to talk about why her guests felt a certain way and how that might have affected their work, rather than their interesting work itself. The only time I can listen to her show is when there is a guest host. After all, she does get good guests.
I don't think this is fair.

Checking my monitoring logs I have 26 minutes of downtime attributable to Netlify since 03 March 2017. That's about 99.994% uptime.

If I attribute every single outage. That is 43 minutes since 03 March 2017, though some of those were not Netlify errors, but even so, if we are uncharitable/inaccurate and attribute them to Netlify that works out to 99.98% uptime.

Not bad for a free service.

They're also very transparent about service issues:

https://netlifystatus.com/

And support is very responsive. I recently talked to them about deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for instance, or providing the option to force TLS 1.2 if users desired. They were quick to respond and helpful.

So if you are seeing unusual issues, get in touch with them, even if you're a free user they'll still talk to you.
Facebook (still) lets housing advertisers exclude users by race
I'd consider gamified things like facebook as 'games', the patterns employed are the same as those skinner box things.
I mostly agree, but fake news is what people do. When you create a new communication channel, the one thing you can be assured is that when it gets popular, fake news will come to it.

It was not created by the Internet, it will not go away. People communicate mostly gossip and propaganda, the only way out is changing people.
I've been working on a spreadsheet which is more amenable to embedding in programs (compiling to an IR which can be translated to high level languages or [eventually] compiler IRs like those of LLVM or GCC). I worked at a company where months were spent recreating models from a spreadsheet produced by subject matter experts, and this was a major cost.

A spreadsheet optimized for integration into software build processes would probably create more than a billion dollars of real value every year with even limited adoption.

While it may be true that Excel is overused, I believe that the spreadsheet is chronically underused as a model for software development.
Taking advantage of loopholes and keeping it secret is still wrong. They should be publicizing the loopholes and trying to get the law changed.

You can't say "it's the law that needs to be changed" while avoiding doing anything to change the law.

The big tech companies should have tax transparency reports explaining what they do and why it's legal.
Microsoft Confirms Surface Book 2 Battery Can Discharge Even When Plugged In
I think that git is quite good, but I don't like the notion of 'squashing commits': when you squash commits you loose history!
I would prefer to have a "fold/folder" of commits which could be manipulated as 'one commit' but would instead be a set of commit and you could look inside the folder if you need the full history.
> I'm only paying my ISP so much money because there are no other options (thanks to net neutrality).

No. This is thanks to you living under a monopoly, which seems to be a natural
equilibrium state for infrastructure. Net neutrality has nothing to do with
monopoly holder extracting as much as they can get away with. You would see
exactly the same if you were getting your water from mostly unregulated
private company.
Creating the Best Environment for DevOps Transformation in The…
>[aaaand this only if you completely ignore Americas contemporaneous relationship with the Contras, and who was behind that fiasco].

Yeah, I don't think most people (esp those who actually vote thinking that huge changes will happen to make their lives better by electing someone else and are on the fence) will look at some random smear piece on Their Candidate™ through this lens. If only we covered more of US historical/present foreign policy (and the perspective of the different powers/peoples at the time on issues) in public schools, though one would suspect that if lecture notes were posted online, some may get labeled as fake news, nor that the dog and pony show would have become what it is…

>Republicans gladly swallow things about candidates for the sake of their party that Democrats refuse to.

I think that in the most recent presidential election, it was the case that the DNC was already swallowing clinton, and had no space for sanders except to use him to attract those who couldn't swallow clinton, to swallow clinton.
>did not change them in any substantial way. They did, however, make many things cheaper, faster, easier, more accessible and more affordable.

These last 2 sentences seem contradictory.

While they may not have created the exploitation of human psychology, they have definitely amplified it like never before which seems substantial to me.
I've been surprised how many commercial, closed-source projects have opted for Github in recent years. While I would probably prefer to self-host (Gitlab, or similar) in order to reduce dependencies, I do see the benefits. Having recently worked at an organisation hosting exclusively on Github, it made collaboration with remote contractors and third parties very straightforward and helped eliminate much of the maintenance burden on our small team.
The perverse game you wouldn't be able to win or lose, regardless of your actions - and your examples prove that it's not the case.
Because, in the extreme, accuracy without precision doesn't tell you a damn thing.
I agree. Excel files prolly should not be distributed using the same method as a freshly-out-of-the-ditto-machine dictaphone memo from 1967.

And the premise that things have changed enough to warrant reevaluating worn out business processes like Mr. Bell's here is true enough.

But dumping a tool because some out of touch C-level tool says so is a recipe for huge traction loss.

I mean ... people that use nail-guns for a living still have to use hammers.
A quick google search suggests that China currently has about 20 million cameras, so the UK is actually not far behind.

Given the population, there are actually more cameras per UK citizen than there are per Chinese citizen.
When I consulted at a health insurance company (a Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee with 1000 employees, 200 IT staff) about 10 years ago, I was absolutely horrified that the system of record for health care plan data was Excel spreadsheets. They had staff who would update the claims processing system based on thousands of spreadsheets. When you called customer service, the CSR app would auto-open the member's plan information XLS file to the CSR rep. It got the job done - but it was the wrong tool for the job.

We recommended they implement a PDM (product data management) system - it would have saved them millions of dollars (considering they had a staff of 20 whose sole job was to update the claims processing system by hand based on these spreadsheets.) Unfortunately when the 2008 financial crisis happened, management balked at the initial outlay. It's quite possible they're still using Excel to this day.